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China to reform bank deposit rates pricing regime, set new ceilings-sources
Reuters | Posted: June 9, 2021, 2:34 a.m. | Updated: June 9, 2021, 5 a.m. | 1 Min Read
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China plans to reform the way banks calculate deposit rates, setting new ceilings of up to 75 basis points above the benchmark rate for some lenders, sources said.
Authorities plan to allow banks to set upper limits on deposit rates by adding basis points to the benchmark rate, a shift from the current practice of multiplying the benchmark rate, the sources said.
All banks will be allowed to add up to 20 basis points (bps) to the benchmark rate on demand deposits and small Chinese banks and foreign banks will be permitted to add up to 75 bps to the benchmark rate on time deposit rates, they said.
Under the new pricing methods, the ceiling on the one-year fixed deposit rate will remain unchanged, at 2.25%, while the ceiling on fixed deposit rates over one year will be lowered, the sources added.
The move will help promote interest rate liberalisation and help slightly lower banks' funding costs, they said. It was not clear when the change would take effect.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.
In October 2015, the PBOC scrapped the ceiling on bank deposit rates, which are still constrained by its window guidance and pricing mechanism. The PBOC has kept the benchmark deposit rate unchanged at 1.5% since then.
(Reporting by Steven Bian, Xiangming Hou, Hongwei Li and Kevin Yao; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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Incremental innovation is often downplayed as the poorer cousin of disruptive innovation, but it is in fact equally, if not more, important to organisations. While of course disruptive innovations have their place, labouring under the notion that every ideation session will yield a eureka-moment or greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread invention will leave you with a skewed sense of the value of innovation.
Rather than aiming for these disruptive innovations that come infrequently, many organisations would be better placed to invest their time, money and energy into fostering incremental innovation as part of their daily organisational culture. "How do we do that?" - we hear you cry. Here are two important things you should know about incremental innovation if you are going to make it a staple of your business strategy.
According to a Forbes article by Sunil Thomas, member of Forbes New York Business Council, the cost of innovation can often be prohibitive. As an antidote to this, adopting an incremental approach to innovation can yield more cost-effective results than always aiming for the big breakthroughs.
This can be applied to a range of industries and is not just relevant to the CPG industry. Whatever your product or service, making incremental, manageable changes will ensure sustainability in the long term, without the risk and cost involved in disruptive innovation.
The terms startup and incremental may sound oxymoronic, but this is simply because we have become accustomed to discussing startups only in relation to disruption. The language we use to discuss startup culture is problematic in fostering this view, with terms like angel investment and venture capital leading us to think that all innovations need heavenly input or cowboy-like adventurism.
This demonstrates that, while all these brands eventually disrupted and dominated their marketplace, the initial concept was not plucked from thin air. By remembering this when inside and outside forces alike are pushing for a big win, your organisation will be better able to maintain its incremental innovation course and deliver meaningful results.
Large or small, startup or established brand, incremental innovation can be employed to create viable ideas and solutions to existing problems that not only improve process and efficiency, but could turn out to be the next big breakthrough. Rather than always chasing the big wins, organisations would do well to reassess their approach to innovation and embrace the results that incremental innovation can bring.


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Joey Zanaboni: Baseballs Most Entertaining Personality
Anthony Raimondi | Apr 24, 2019 2:34 pm | Apr 12, 2021 2:36 pm
Baseball is widely considered a boring sport. The games slow pace tends to be bad for television. As the MLB continues to lose viewership, they need answers. One unorthodox answer could be Joey Zanaboni, the play-by-play man for the Division II University of West Florida Argos.
Zanaboni is one of the most interesting personalities baseball has ever seen.
If you don't trust my claim, just watch his YouTube highlights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kAFl13CowI
His energetic personality brings out the child in all of us. He's different, fun, and what baseball needs. Here are some of his classic sayings. "Living in the Gap like an overzealous clothing store employee." "Doing glovework like he's building a business on Etsy." "Defense hotter than a shingles outbreak at a Longhorn Steakhouse." "Recycling him like the cornstarch utensils at a PETA staff mixer"
However, Zanaboni's comedic outlook on baseball has a purpose.
I want to be the first real millennial sports announcer who reflects the endless optimism, relentless anxiety and glorious randomness of this generation.
We were raised on iPhones and smart toilets and Family Guy. Mine is not a toast to the world as it was, but as it is. #LCRR pic.twitter.com/Y5fZGUrd4l
— Joey Zanaboni (@joey_zana) March 4, 2019
He uses his platform and the game of baseball to spread optimism, "relentless anxiety and glorious randomness of this generation." Someone hire this man. The game of baseball is characterized by random fun, and so are these guys calls.
For The Win describes Zanaboni style of call perfectly. "This feels like what Monday Night Football was hoping for when it put comedian Dennis Miller in the booth so many years ago. Zanaboni's quips sound like they're pre-scripted, but — unlike Miller's on football — they're genuinely funny, they're accessible, and they highlight the announcer's earnest appreciation for the sport."
We can only hope broadcast networks look into hiring Zanaboni because baseball can benefit from a jolt of energy.
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You can hear the listening on Old Man Luedecke's new album, Domestic Eccentric. You can hear the cabin in the snowy Nova Scotia woods where it was recorded. On their third collaboration, you can hear the beautiful conversation between Old Man Luedecke and Tim O'Brien, two like-minded artists in love with folk and roots music, playing at the height of their powers.
"You can't fake a work of heart," Luedecke sings in "The Girl in the Pearl Earring," the second song on Domestic Eccentric, and the assured confidence of that line, the assertion of a straightforward truth, is the guiding principle behind the entire album. Old Man Luedecke is the real thing, a modern-day people's poet and traveling bard and balladeer. He's played around the world to a loving and increasing fan base, and won two Juno awards in the process. Tim O'Brien is a multiple grammy-winning roots multi-instrumentalist whose solo work and collaborations have made him one of the most respected American players working today. The two last worked together on Luedecke's 2012 release, Tender is the Night, which was nominated for a Juno, listed for the Polaris Prize and won Album of the Year at the East Coast Music Awards.
Not since Loudon Wainwright III has anyone written so honestly, so openly, or with such aching tenderness and good humour about family life. "Saving up for date night so we can have our fight" "The Early Days". But Luedecke has always insisted on a solid poetic heft in the way he uses words, and highly personal stories are what have always connected him to the universal in his audience. Recording with Tim O'Brien in an intimate setting at home has yielded an album where the songs take the starring role.
Calling to mind the powerful force at the heart of other musical vocal pairings: The Milk Carton Kids, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Tony Rice and Ricky Skaggs, or even Tim O'Brien and his work with Darrell Scott, the combination of Old Man Luedecke's highly personal songs and infectious old-time banjo and guitar, and Tim O'Brien's mastery of bluegrass harmony, guitars, mandolin, bouzouki, and fiddle adds up to much more than a simple sum of parts.
Devarrow is the moniker of Graham Ereaux, a singer-songwriter who blends simple folk with sophisticated pop to create music which reflects an upbringing in Moncton, New Brunswick and a subsequent half decade of traveling. In 2015, Devarrow self-released The Great Escape, a collection of eleven songs written in a leaky-roofed apartment while living in Vancouver for a winter. To support the release, Devarrow toured Canada extensively as a one-man-band in 2015 and 2016, focusing on creating an energetic, captivating and intimate live show performed in the raconteur style. Gaining recognition in the maritimes – including an ECMA nomination – Devarrow moved back East to Halifax, Nova Scotia where he now resides. With a refined focus on lyrics and arrangement, Devarrow is currently working on a new album.
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IN WHICH THE AUTHOR TREATS OF LOVERS IN GENERAL.
[Illustration: A]All lovers are absurd and ridiculous. The passion which spiritualises woman makes man a fool. Nothing can be more amusing than to observe a bashful lover in company where the object of his affections is present. He is the very picture of confusion and distress, looking like a man who has lost something, and knows not where to seek for it. His eyes wander from the carpet to the ceiling; at one moment he is engaged in counting the panes in the window, and the next in watching the discursive flights of a blue-bottle round the apartment. But while he appears anxiously seeking for some object on which to fix his attention, he carefully avoids looking towards his innamorata; and should their eyes meet by chance, his cheeks assume the tint of the beet-root or the turnip, and his manifest embarrassment betrays his secret to the most inexperienced persons. In order to recover his confidence, he shifts his seat, which seems suddenly to have shot forth as many pins as the back of a hedgehog; but in doing so he places the leg of his chair on the toe of a gouty, cross old uncle, or on the tail of a favourite lap-dog, and, besides creating an awful fracas, succeeds in making inveterate enemies of the two brutes for the remainder of their lives.
There are some lovers, who show their love by their affected indifference, and appear smitten by any woman except the one whom they are devoted to. This is an ingenious stratagem; but in general it is so badly managed, that it is more easily seen through than a cobweb. Lastly, there are a select few, who evince their tender regard by perpetual bickerings and quarrels. This method will frequently mislead inquisitive aunts and guardians; but it should only be attempted by a man who has full confidence in his own powers.


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Russia resorts to hypersonic missiles in Ukraine as China urges de-escalation
A general view of market Barabashovo after a fire caused by shelling, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 19, 2022. REUTERS/Oleksandr Lapshyn
Russia has upped the ante in Ukraine and is now claiming again to have used hypersonic missiles that go more than two miles per second. This comes after things on the ground just weren't going according to plan for Russian forces, with many saying that Russia underestimated Ukraine's defense. With this, experts think that there will likely be far more civilian casualties than before.
Almost every major world democracy has condemned the actions of Russia, but India stands somewhat apart from the crowd. Because of its massive ties to the Russian defense industry, India argues that it needs to buy weapons from Russia to fend off its Asian neighbor China.
And speaking of China – President Biden and President Xi had a meeting on Friday that one diplomat described as "extraordinarily frank." Afterward, though, the top Chinese envoy to the US said that China would do everything it could to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine.
"I would not see it as a game changer. I think the reason that [Putin is] resorting to using these types of weapons is because he's trying to reestablish some momentum," US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
When asked if China would condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the top Chinese envoy to the US responded by saying, "Don't be naive, condemnation doesn't solve the problem. I would be surprised if Russia will back down by condemnation." Instead, he said, China would continue to encourage peace talks.


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Op de eerste dag waren er Nederlandse records voor Moniek Nijhuis op de 50 m school en Ranomi Kromowidjojo op de 50 m rugslag. Joeri Verlinden miste het Nederlands record op de 100 m vlinderslag op een honderdste en de WK-limiet op zestien honderdste seconde. Op de 100 m vlinderslag bij de vrouwen voldeden Marleen Veldhuis en Inge Dekker aan de kwalificatie-eis, Veldhuis deed dat ook op de 50 m vrij evenals Hinkelien Schreuder. De Amerikaan Randall Bal verbrak het Wereldrecord op de 50 m rugslag.

Dag 2
De tweede dag leverde drie nationale records op. Lia Dekker, het zusje van Inge, verbeterde het stokoude record op de 200 m schoolslag. Job Kienhuis verbeterde twee records in één race, 800 en 1500 m vrije slag. WK-limieten waren er op de 100 m vrij bij de vrouwen voor Marleen Veldhuis, Ranomi Kromowidjojo en Femke Heemskerk en op de 50 m vlinder voor Veldhuis en Hinkelien Schreuder.

Dag 3
De slotdag bracht weer twee nationale records op de klokken, Lia Dekker zorgde opnieuw voor een Nederlands record nu op de 100 m school. Op diezelfde afstand bij de mannen zette Lennart Stekelenburg een nieuw nationaal record neer waarmee hij zich tevens als eerste man kwalificeerde voor het WK. Een WK-limiet was er ook voor Femke Heemskerk op de 200 m vrije slag. Bij de mannen miste Sebastiaan Verschuren op tweehonderdste de WK-limiet op dezelfde afstand. De Amerikaan Randall Bal benaderde het wereldrecord op de 100 m rugslag op vijf honderdste.

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 NR = Nederlands record
 Q = Voldaan aan de WK kwalificatie eis

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Did a Video Game Company Once Sue Viacom For Ruining the Star Trek Franchise?
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far.
TV URBAN LEGEND: A video game company once sued Viacom for, in effect, ruining the Star Trek franchise.
As we have seen numerous times over the years, there is a delicate balance between artistic freedom and the more commercial aspects of show business. One of the more shocking examples was when CBS wouldn't continue with Cagney and Lacey unless one of the leads was replaced with a more "feminine" actress. However, even more on point with today's legend is the strange situation that ended up with the legendary Neil Young being sued by his own record company for breach of contract because they claimed that he was intentionally not making "commercial" music. Think, then, about what if you were a company whose products were based on another company's artistic output and you, too, felt that their output was not commercial. What do you do? That was the basis for the video game company Activision actually suing Viacom over "ruining" the Star Trek franchise.
In 1998, the video game company Activision, well known for their video games based on famous licenses like Star Wars, Marvel Comics and James Bond, acquired a ten-year license to produce video games based on the Star Trek franchise, which was owned by the media conglomerate Viacom (which owned Paramount, the owners of the Star Trek franchise). At the time, there were two popular Star Trek TV series on the air, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. In addition, the most recent Star Trek film, Star Trek: First Contact, had been a major hit.
Just five years later, though, in 2003, Activision canceled the contract and sued Viacom for millions of dollars.
At the heart of their case was that they felt that Viacom had mishandled the Star Trek media franchise to the point where the property was no longer popular enough to sustain video games sales high enough for it to be commercial viable for Activision to keep making Star Trek video games (and their lack of Star Trek product period made it difficult for Activision to mine the material for games). As noted, when they first signed the deal, there were two popular TV series, a hit movie and plans to make another movie. When they canceled in 2003, there was only one Star Trek television series and there were no plans for another Star Trek film after the 2002 box office disappointment, Star Trek: Nemesis. Activision actually wanted monetary damages for their lost sales with their previous video games, as they believed it was the fault of Viacom and the Star Trek franchise that the games did not sell.
Activision went after Viacom hard in their complaint, claiming that:
through its actions and inactions, Viacom has let the once proud 'Star Trek' franchise stagnate and decay. Viacom has released only one 'Star Trek' movie since entering into agreement with Activision and has recently informed Activision it has no current plans for further 'Star Trek' films. Viacom also has allowed two 'Star Trek' television series to go off the air and the remaining series suffers from weak ratings. Viacom also frustrated Activision's efforts to coordinate the development and marketing of its games with Viacom's development and marketing of its new movies and television series.
Viacom, naturally, argued that this was simply the case of a company regretting a contract and trying to weasel their way out of an agreed-upon deal.
The case continued until 2005, where the matter was settled between Activision and Viacom. The monetary side of things was negligible, but it seems like Activision got their main wish out of the suit, which was to end their agreement. Viacom and Activision stated that they would continue to work together, though, on other projects, and they have in the years since.
Amusingly enough, after the debut of the hit Star Trek film reboot by J.J. Abrams, there was yet another Star Trek video game controversy, as the 2013 release of Star Trek: The Video Game (which was developed by Digital Extremes and co-published by Bandai Namco Games and Paramount Pictures) did not go over so well, leading Abrams to even speak on the topic:
The last game, which was obviously a big disappointment to me, was something that we were actually involved in from the very beginning and then we sort of realized it was not going in a place where we were going to get what we wanted, so we dropped out and they continued to do it despite… y'know.
To me the video game could have been something that actually really benefited the series and was an exciting, fun game with great gameplay and instead it was not and was something that I think, for me emotionally it hurt, 'cos we were working our asses off making the movie and then this game came out and it got, this isn't even my opinion, it got universally panned and I think that it was something without question that didn't help the movie and arguably hurt it.
The disappointment eventually led Abrams into getting into the video game business himself.
Anyhow, the legend is…
STATUS: True
Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is bcronin@legendsrevealed.com.
Tags: Activision, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Viacom
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not a gullible melon farmer on May 13th, 2016 at 8:48 am
Lookup Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury, on YT.


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In May 2007, Mr Bacciottini purchased three barns and five acres of land on Snape Hall estate in Suffolk for £575,000. One barn had been converted into a cottage some time before 2007, planning permission having been granted for this purpose in 1974. Mr Bacciottini hoped to develop the other two barns.
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The view of the judge who heard the case, His Honour Judge Simon Barker QC, was of the view that the application was not independent of the solicitors' negligence and did not arise independently as part and parcel of Mr Bacciottini planning applications. As a result, Mr Bacciottini was awarded nominal damages only of £250.
Whilst Mr Bacciottini did acquire a property that was less valuable initially (because of the planning restriction), he was able to remedy the position easily and cheaply. In that context, an award of £100,000 could be regarded as a windfall for him and the court's decision can be seen as being a sensible one.
I'm often told by potential claimants that their claim is straightforward, and I have no doubt that most genuinely believe that to be the case. Mr Bacciottini's claim, in which the solicitors admitted negligence and the experts agreed the property he bought was worth less than he paid, had some of the hallmarks of a good claim. However, it failed on what many would call a 'technical' point.
The reality is that professional negligence claims are often not as straightforward as clients assume, as Mr Bacciottini's claim illustrates.
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Growth impacts county school system
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, October 18, 2005
The city of Alabaster recently added more than 90 acres of land to its city limits destined for residential use. What will be the impact of such growth on the Shelby County School System?
The land was annexed following a series of special meetings held Tuesday, Oct. 11 for Cedar Lane LLC off Smokey Road in Alabaster.
According to developers Trace McNeely of Pelham and Kenneth Carter of Montevallo, that land will be for residential use.
While the city of Alabaster has contracted for a study to see if it would be feasible to operate its own school system, no final results of that report has been received to date, according to city attorney Greg Morris.
As of the first month of the 2005-06 school year, Alabaster Schools including Creek View Elementary, Meadow View Elementary, Thompson High School, Thompson Intermediate School and Thompson Middle School had a combined enrollment of 5,574 students.
Another area of growth strain for the school system is Chelsea.
In September, construction began on Chelsea Park Elementary School.
Chelsea Park Elementary is the last school to date for which the Shelby County Board of Education had leverage funds to build.
Even with the construction of the new school, Shelby County School Superintendent Evan Major said that would not do away with the need for the old Chelsea Elementary building.
Instead he said that building would be used to house middle and elementary students.
Major also said as the school system continues to grow, there would be a need for more school facilities.
Major said two years ago the school system developed a five-year $150 million capital outlay plan to build school facilities.
A tax increase that was to be the basis of funding for the plan, referred to by Major, was defeated by Shelby County voters, however.
Today, Major said, &8220;The system is no closer to finding the funding for that construction.
During a recent work session, it was reported that the school system is growing at a rate quicker than expected.
Major said when Chelsea Park Elementary opens its doors, Chelsea Elementary will become Chelsea Intermediate School.
He said Chelsea fourth and fifth graders will remain in the old elementary School building.
Mt. Laurel, the next newest school constructed in the county, will be reduced to kindergarten through third grades, and fourth and fifth graders from there will be transferred to Chelsea Intermediate, in the former Chelsea Elementary facility.
&uot;It's all about growth,&uot; Major said


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MedWatch Today: Kerman High Students Get Hands-On Medical Experience
Med Watch Today
by: Connie Tran
Posted: May 27, 2020 / 07:07 PM PDT / Updated: May 27, 2020 / 07:08 PM PDT
Not only are medical occupations in high demand, but many find it to be very rewarding. To encourage more interest in healthcare careers, Kerman High School provides a one-of-a-kind, hands-on healthcare experience for students and Community Regional Medical Center is helping to support and grow the program.
Gerry Villa is a registered nurse and the ROP instructor for the Medical Careers Program at Kerman High. She said, "Medical programs are hard to get up and going. Equipment costs are high and it's hard to get support and get speakers out into a rural area. And through the support of community, they've not only stepped up and supported my program with some amazing donations of equipment, but they've also sent me some amazing guest speakers that continue to be a daily partnership with them."
Gerry began the program last year and says the partnership with Community Regional really helped student interest, as enrollment almost tripled in just it's second year.
"I'm already having students who are in my introductory classes talking about, 'Miss Villa, how do we go about getting into your ROP class or are you going to have room for us?' and it just speaks to how big healthcare is and what an interest there is for students," said Gerry.
Eber Garcia is a senior at Kerman High and is in the program. He would be the first in his family to pursue a career in medicine.
Eber stated, "So, I came into this class knowing I already wanted to be in the medical field. I just didn't know which profession I wanted to do, so after coming to this class and learning about the different jobs in the medical field, I really lean towards becoming a primary care doctor, because I know, especially here in California we're in a shortage."
The medical careers program gives students a chance to work with equipment and provides hands-on experience.
"So we did a field trip to the hospital and we learned just about all the different positions at the hospital and how if you really want to be in the hospital there are different entry level jobs you can get. So, I think learning about those entry level jobs was really helpful," said Eber.
And the program also offers students guidance to pursue a field outside of a hospital setting.
John Center is also a student in the medical careers program. He said, "I took a different route than everybody else, so I plan on becoming a deep sea or navy deep sea dive medical technician to try and help the divers in the United States Navy. Also I want to be a diver, since I'm interested in mechanics, it's a good way to be mechanically inclined as well as medically. I was actually in a dental office working with MDs and it was actually really cool applying my knowledge, soft skills, which I thought, no those aren't going to be useful, but they actually come in so handy when you're talking to patients."
Robyn Gonzales is the vice president of Ambulatory & Post Acute Services for Community Regional Medical Center. She said, "People aren't aware of the variety of jobs that we have at Community Medical Centers and in the healthcare field in general."
And so, the incentive for Community Regional to help foster interest was an easy one.
"We have these Community benefit dollars and I thought, what a great opportunity for both of us because we have so many positions that go unfilled. I think, you know, we need to bring them here, we need to show them what we have, what the career opportunities are. There's a whole variety of positions that require a whole variety of skill sets and education levels," continued Robyn.
The goal of programs like these is to keep students engaged and provide as much experience as possible to get them ready for the real world.
Robyn said, "So they're just so wanting to learn and want to better themselves and get education. Eventually with the goal of taking care of themselves and their families, right. So that's what it's all about for us and that's why we're doing it and why it's so important."
Gerry ended, "i'm trying to provide things in this program that not every other program is going to provide. I want to continue to spark the kids' interests in the medical profession. And so, while not everything I teach they'll be ready to use when they walk out the door, it will give them that drive or that incentive to learn more about it and pursue those careers they're dying to do."
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MedWatch Today: Terry's House Special, Home for Hope and Healing
by Connie Tran / Jan 13, 2021
Having a sick loved one in the hospital can be stressful. The last thing you want to think about is where you're going to stay at the end of the night or what you're going to eat. That's where Terry's House steps in, so families who are going through a difficult time, have one less thing to worry about.
Ana Borba called Terry's House her home for about a month in 2018, when her mother was being treated for cancer at Community Regional Medical Center.
MedWatch Today: Terry's House Special, Kinser Coelho 10-Year Update
Terry's House is a home away from home for families of patients - patients who are fighting for their lives or receiving care across the street at Community Regional Medical Center.
The house opened it's doors on January 11, 2011. We could not be more proud of those who helped build Terry's House, and we thank all those who give, so Terry's House can continue to be there for families day after day.
MedWatch Today: Terry's House Special, Why I Give to Terry's House
Terry's House holds such a special place in many people's hearts.
Jeff Kroeker was one of the folks who helped physically build this beautiful building, and Dr. Anand Rajani is a pediatrician in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Community Regional Medical Center - both share why they give to Terry's House and why they hope others will too.


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Q: Keep getting Uncaught TypeError: Object(...) is not a function when using useHistory I'm trying to use useHistory from react router dom and I keep getting the error Object(...) is not a function. I tried updating react and react router but I still get the same error. Just writing const history = useHistory() creates the error. Can someone please help me?
These are my dependencies:
"react": "^18.0.0-rc.0-next-fe905f152-20220107",
"react-dom": "^18.0.0-rc.0-next-fe905f152-20220107",
"react-helmet": "6.0.0-beta",
"react-intl": "2.8.0",
"react-redux": "^7.2.6",
"react-router-dom": "5.0.0",
"redux": "4.0.1",
"redux-saga": "1.0.2"

import React from 'react';
import { useDispatch } from 'react-redux';
import { useHistory } from 'react-router-dom';
import { addTodo } from './actions';
import TodoForm from './todoForm';

export default function NewTodo() {
  const dispatch = useDispatch();
  const history = useHistory();

  function add(todo) {
    dispatch(addTodo(todo));
    history.push('/');
  }

  return (

New to do!

        <TodoForm save={add} />

  );
}

import React from 'react';
import { BrowserRouter, Switch, Route, NavLink } from 'react-router-dom';
import NewTodo from 'containers/NewTodo/index';
import HomePage from 'containers/HomePage/Loadable';
import NotFoundPage from 'containers/NotFoundPage/Loadable';

import GlobalStyle from '../../global-styles';

export default function App() {
  return (

      <BrowserRouter>

          <NavLink exact to='/'>To Dos</NavLink>
          <NavLink exact to='/new'>Add a To Do</NavLink>

      <Switch>
        <Route exact path="/new" component={NewTodo} />
        <Route exact path="/" component={HomePage} />
        <Route component={NotFoundPage} />
      </Switch>
      <GlobalStyle />
      </BrowserRouter>

  );
}

A: It appears as though you've locked your app to react-router-dom v5.0.0 specifically:
"react-router-dom": "5.0.0",

The useHistory React hook was added in v5.1.0 though. Here's the related blog post regarding the release.
Bump the installed version to at least v5.1.0.
npm un -s react-router-dom
npm i -s react-router-dom@5.1.0

If you just want the latest v5 then npm i -s react-router-dom@5 is also likely sufficient.

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Lizzo Loves You Like She Loves Herself
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TYRELL HAMPTON
Your favorite viral singer/flutist/rapper/twerker is here to change music forever with her power-packed new album, Cuz I Love You.
By Jaya Saxena
Photography by Tyrell Hampton
Lizzo has been here for a while. She's dropped albums. Her songs are all over the big and small screens. She's worked with legends. She's opened for Sleater-Kinney on tour. She's gone viral. It's just that now, today, Lizzo's finally on the cusp of actual mainstream stardom; you couldn't ignore her if you tried.
Even if you haven't actively listened to one of her songs, you've likely heard one of the Detroit-born artist's collaborations with Big Freedia and Speedy Ortiz and Missy Elliott. Or you've seen one of her many widely shared Twitter videos in which she's effervescently dunking on her haters for thinking she can't play flute, or sageing her apartment, or twerking in front of some Hot Cheetos. Or you've seen her on late-night TV. Or you've heard her in a Weight Watchers commercial. Hell, on a recent trip to India, I heard the opening twinkle of "Good as Hell" about a dozen times a day, as it was the soundtrack to a Bumble ad campaign starring Priyanka Chopra. She's freaking everywhere.
And why would you want to ignore her? There's a reason she's become so popular, and that's because she's uninhibited—no-hangups-about-it awesome. Her hits are endlessly catchy. She's an incredible performer. She overflows with charm. She's unabashedly horny. There's nothing not to love, and in many ways her fame seems inevitable. Yes, of course Lizzo is here.
But with that presence comes a lot of expectations, especially as her brand crystalizes into one of girl power, fun, and body positivity. "I'm realizing very quickly that every single one of these people want that good-energy Lizzo moment," she says in the GQ studios in early April, fresh from a day of other professional engagements in New York that started at 5 a.m. "And that's just not human." She's at the precipice of true fame with her new album, Cuz I Love You (out today), and her natural energy and extroversion (she is perhaps a textbook extrovert, saying, "Walking into the room I might have been tired, but as soon as I get to sit down with you, I get an energy from the fact that you actually care and you're a human being") might mean fans expect her to be "on" 24/7. But don't worry: If anything, Lizzo is a professional.
It's easy to see how her persona developed. Firstly, Lizzo just wants this, to the point that even when she tried doing other things, they just turned into performance. "I was the fucking Statue of Liberty lady for Liberty Taxes," she recalls, "but I looked so good that the owners were like, 'You can't just stand out here and spin...you have to be our ambassador.'" Lizzo, born Melissa Jefferson, began rapping as a teenager in Texas before moving to Minneapolis, forming the rap group The Chalice and later releasing her first solo record, Lizzobangers. "I guess you could call it ambition, but you know, I definitely have to do music."
Secondly, Lizzo knows that her particular brand of body/black/girl power positivity is something that is deeply needed. In an interview with The New York Times, she says that she "made a commitment to feel-good music," largely because it was the music she needed to hear. Hits like "Good as Hell" and "Truth Hurts" position her as a fairy godmother of chutzpah, infusing listeners with the confidence to ditch their shitty boyfriends, love their bodies, and do what they want (and in that particular way that black women become avatars of confidence and feminism to non-black women). Look at her Twitter, and under every post there's a torrent of "yass queens" and gifs of women flipping their hair and prayer-hands emoji. Her DMs, she says, are full of people pouring their hearts out to her about their problems and the way her songs have helped them find their own confidence. She's a savior.
But if you listen to more than just the slick beats and the hooky choruses, Lizzo's music tells a deeper story. She raps and sings about anxiety, about heartbreak, about her father's death. In her song "1 Deep," she talks about her rocky relationship with her mother: "I stopped talking to my mama for three months / No eye contact during lunch / Wasn't nothing else around us but mountains and trees / And my guilty worthless screams, 'What was wrong with me?'" She is not always a bombastic, positive person, and even when she is on songs like "Good as Hell," there's a layer of sadness to it, the difference between telling your friend she's beautiful and deserves better and telling it to yourself in the mirror.
Confidence is still her strong suit; Lizzo says she has a strong foundation of self-worth, regardless of outside validation. But on Cuz I Love You, she's also trying to empower her own vulnerability. It's born out of the latest cycle of her life: dealing with the beginnings of fame and shifting relationships. "I think this chapter is brave, way more brave and way more vulnerable for me. And it's exciting to explore vulnerability, because I'm known as being this, like, uber-confident woman and this body-positive, almost like bombastic, braggadocious bitch," she says. "And I'm still that, but I'm also exploring and showing a side of myself that people don't really get to see."
Hence crying is a theme on the record. She's crying because she loves you, and later she cries like a girl. She's as defiant as ever, rapping about self-love and her beautiful body, but the sad times are as obvious a part of her narrative as the good ones. On "Heaven Help Me," she sings, "If love ain't dead Imma kill it, 'cause it's killin' me." On the particularly heartbreaking "Jerome," she sings about coming to terms with him not being right for her, even though there's so much about him to love. "The fact is I'm leaving, so just let me have this," she wails. She's saying a lot of goodbyes and letting herself feel everything that comes with that, with the knowledge that it's all for the best. It's what Audre Lorde meant by self-care all along: a radical act of self-preservation in a society that doesn't support black women.
Lizzo doesn't love to dwell on negativity, but some of the vulnerability of the new album was born out of a crisis. "I had a really bad mental episode," says Lizzo, one that hit as she was about to go on tour. She was about to go onstage, but minutes before, she found herself a mess in the bathroom. And though she picked herself up and went on stage, "I didn't feel better after that. And that was scary. Music always saved me." So she took stock of her relationships—how they had changed now that so many of her friends had become her employees. She took a look at how her mother and sister moving with her to Los Angeles changed their family dynamic. She asked herself why she didn't feel comfortable opening up to the people she loved. She went to therapy. "I think I started scooping out a lot of my defense mechanisms, and I started exposing myself and being more vulnerable and honest," she said. "I'm really learning about how to be vulnerable, but also not defenseless."
One way Lizzo has done that is to open herself up to the spiritual unknown by communicating with her father, and others, through a medium, whom she also recently took on a vacation to Jamaica because they're friends now. Before that, she'd shunned reading tarot cards and such. "I don't like anyone telling me my destiny," she says. The cards themselves seemed to know that—she tells a story of getting her tarot read once, where the tarot reader pulled a blank card and told her that it only comes up for people who already know their destiny. "And I was like, 'Well, what did I tell you, bitch? You can't tell me what to do.'"
But then the medium, Lisa, came into her life through her sister, and Lizzo started processing some things she hadn't been able to before. "She helped me come to terms with losing somebody like my dad, and realizing that I didn't lose him," she said. "All the people who loved you in life, they still love you forever, and I kind of use that love to get rid of a lot of the fears that I've had." Because if you can't really lose people, you have to make sure those who are around you are quality, a lesson that's good for anyone to learn, but particularly someone whose star is rising and who has seen an uptick in people who are dying for her to be their sassy best friend.
Lizzo is fighting to stay real, and to not fake any of those feel-good Lizzo moments, which she knows is the only way for her life to stay sustainable. But she also jokes about the future. In five years, she envisions herself on Lizzo Island. It's a magical place full of fresh coconuts, compost-based waste systems, and aloe vera baths. "All of the men have very large penises, and all of the women are bad bitches," she says. If anyone can build it, it's her.
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Climate models are aggressively making clouds "brighter" as the planet warms. This may be causing models to underestimate how much global warming will occur due to increasing carbon dioxide. The research appears in the April 8 edition of Science.
These results add to a growing body of evidence (link is external) that the stabilizing cloud feedback at mid- to high latitudes in climate models is overstated. Moreover, several recent studies have concluded that other important cloud feedback also are likely to exacerbate warming rather than dampen it. These include amplifying feedback from increases in cloud top altitude (link is external) and from decreases in the coverage of subtropical low clouds (link is external).
How much global average temperature eventually will rise depends on the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS), which relates atmospheric CO2 concentration to atmospheric temperature. For decades, ECS has been estimated to be between 2.0° and 4.6°C, with much of that uncertainty owing to the difficulty of establishing the effects of clouds on Earth's energy budget. Tan et al. used satellite observations to constrain the radiative impact of mixed phase clouds. They conclude that ECS could be between 5.0° and 5.3°C—higher than suggested by most global climate models.
Global climate model (GCM) estimates of the equilibrium global mean surface temperature response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2, measured by the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), range from 2.0° to 4.6°C. Clouds are among the leading causes of this uncertainty. Here we show that the ECS can be up to 1.3°C higher in simulations where mixed-phase clouds consisting of ice crystals and supercooled liquid droplets are constrained by global satellite observations. The higher ECS estimates are directly linked to a weakened cloud-phase feedback arising from a decreased cloud glaciation rate in a warmer climate. We point out the need for realistic representations of the supercooled liquid fraction in mixed-phase clouds in GCMs, given the sensitivity of the ECS to the cloud-phase feedback.
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Justin Boland - The indie hip hop game
Justin Boland, AKA Wombaticus Rex, AKA Humpasaur Jones, AKA
Thirtyseven, is a rapper, philosopher, and independent record producer
who is just as likely to spend a year researching the technologies of
bioremediation as he is to relentlessly educate the hip hop industry
on DIY promotion & marketing from his blog, Audible Hype. He is a founder
of the independent hip hop label, World Around Records,
and his most recent work is published there as Algorhythms.
I talked to him about identity, avatars, independent hip hop, and the
industry at large...
What's it like being a white, nature-loving, long-hair
hippy playing the hip hop game? Do you find acceptance or has it been
a challenge to bring your ideas into the scene? Or does acceptance
even matter?
Well, it's been awesome. And yes, acceptance definitely matters. We
don't fetishize being "outsiders" and we hold ourselves to high
technical standards on all our projects. I am into emceeing as an art
form, and I would rather listen to Big Daddy Kane rap about shooting
people than a mediocre rapper doing a "conscious" verse with a really
good message. I absolutely don't rap about normal anything, but I do
push myself to make every verse the tightest possible puzzle box it
can be. There's an international community of obsessive writers like
that, and that's definitely the peer group I'm aiming to impress, no
matter what they look like or talk about. We're all engaged in the
same war against the alphabet.
In 2010, because of artists like Apathy, El-P, and Edan, being white
is not a liability at all. As for being a hippie/hick hybrid from
Vermont, that's actually a huge advantage because I'm different by
default. I don't have to figure out a new angle to get people's
attention, I can just walk onstage and be myself.
Nam Satya Hai (S.maharba Remix) by Algorhythms
You've released a number of projects under various names.
Would you talk a little about these projects and your aliases? Do your
avatars embody & express your art in some way?
I suppose they do, man. They definitely embody the fact that my
interests are intense and short-lived, that I tend to give all my
content away for free, and there's also a strong whiff of the stubborn
stupidity I'm known for. I've made music as Wombaticus Rex, as Humpasaur Jones, and as Algorhythms,
as well as way, way too much other stuff. I'm somewhere between 50%
and 90% of DJ
Multiple Sex Partners, depending on the vintage. The
Hump Jones project was dangerously stupid, I was really pushing
the Total Sexual Freedom meme past legally safe boundaries there,
although I will probably still publish the book, Human Sexuality
for Filthy Apes, that I was preparing for that. It makes me sound
like more of a perv than I am, but that entire project was borne out
of a single joke instructional song about anal sex. In retrospect, it
was good, loving advice and I stand by it, so perhaps it was not a
joke track after all?
My avatars also reflect a copyleft mentality. Algorhythms is a project I
really believe is my best work to date, and it's also the
collaboration that led to the creation of World Around Records in the
first place. It's also legally impossible to build a business around.
Even within hip hop, there's another NY based producer named
Algorhythm. Like I said, though: stubborn and stupid. We will continue
to release our best material under that name regardless.
From a business perspective, do I regret not building all my music
around a single consistent name? Absolutely, yes. Doesn't matter at
all, though, because that's what happened and I think I'm in a much
more interesting position now. The funniest part is that none of the
names I mentioned are even what I call myself onstage: I've been
rapping as "Thirtyseven" since I was 16. So my actual gig is what I'm
the least known for. This small anaecdote sums up my life quite
nicely.
You've built an independent label, World Around Records.
What was your motivation to create the label? Why now? Who are the
artists on your roster you're most excited about?
It's absurd, isn't it? It's so dumb to start a label. That's
definitely part of the appeal, for both myself and Dr. Quandary.
Record labels are going through an extinction level event and we
decided to start up a new one with basically zero money. It's been
working out great, too.
In reality, we're a promotional platform for a like-minded group of
independent musicians. The live band on our roster, dumate, is very successful in
Madison and 100% run their own operation. Our newest addition, the
Swiss producer & instrumentalist Naturetone,
has a totally self-contained process where he just gives us the
finished product, artwork and all, and it's more impressive every
time. My job is to run around the internet waving my arms and yelling
about how awesome those guys are. There's more dignified ways to put
it, but that's what it is.
Ekbat
de Sebat by Dr. Quandary
Our navigation system is the feedback loop between my bullshit
detector and Dr. Quandary's aesthetic 6th sense. We're definitely
proving our case that good music can drive a business model without
treating fans like "targets." Last month, the UK producer s. maharba
released a vinyl collector's edition of his "S/T" beat tape and he did
an experiment. Right on the
landing page where he's selling the vinyl, he's giving away the
entire album for free digitally. Despite this, he sold out 100
pre-order packages and he's about to run out of the 2nd printing now,
too. So we had a lot of doubts since 2007, but this year has been a
breakthrough. We've just been watching it work, week after week.
What are your thoughts on the current state of hip hop? Who
are the names you think are doing the most to evolve the art & the
scene?
Hip hop is amazing and pretty much always has been. I've never
understood the arguments about it being dead or needing to be saved.
Hip hop is completely un-killable and there's hundreds of innovative
and excellent albums coming out every single year. How hip hop gets
presented in the media is something completely separate, that just
represents who's getting corporate funding that year.
I have an increasingly bad habit of going off on people who complain
about hip hop, but it's exactly like when a guy sits down at a bar and
starts complaining about women. That's got nothing to do with women
and everything to do with the guy's own failures. Everyone should know
about Jay Electronica in 2010. Everyone should know that the city of
Detroit has been producing some of the best hip hop on Earth, from
Royce to Elzhi to Invincible to Black Milk to the criminally
under-rated Majestik Legend. Hip hop is on a long run of incredible
albums. Roc Marciano, Diamond District, Tanya Morgan, Brother Ali,
Termanology, Aesop Rock, Mos Def, Little Brother, Strange Fruit
Project, I could fill a month of your life with front-to-back classic
albums that came out in the last 5 years. There's so much out there,
it's just not being spoon-fed to Americans by mainstream media.
My focus in on the emcees, and there's a LOT of writers who are really
pushing me to work harder these days. Freddie Gibbs, from Gary,
Indiana. Blu, Nocando and Fashawn from LA. One of my all-time favorite
rappers is Motion Man, he's way too obscure. Most of my favorites are
like that -- The Loyalists, Alaskan Fishermen, Witness from
Philadelphia. There's older guys who have made comebacks and are still
among the best living, like Kool G Rap and Canibus. I can see how
people get burned out on the business, but I could never get burned
out on the artform. It's amazing that there's still so much room for
creativity with such a simple recipe and so much competition.
Side note: being dedicated to craftsmanship can be bad for business.
We have turned down 99% of the rappers who want to work with us.
How has the industry changed, particularly with respect to
independent artists & labels and emerging distribution
channels?
Best decade ever. I feel really grateful, looking back, that I
discovered Marshall McLuhan before I got into this business, because
he was the best possible guide. It's beyond spooky how far ahead of
his time that maniac was. When it comes to huge, multi-billion dollar
industries being disrupted by technology, I really think the saga of
the music industry will go down as the most entertaining example in
history. Or at least, until the Personal Force Field app takes out the
law enforcement bubble in 2019...that will be even better.
In the past 5 years, probably 90% of what I learned became obsolete. I
really studied up on the music industry, and now in 2010 almost none
of that matters. The only numbers we need to focus on are internal.
The only asset that we have is our community of fans. We're creating
unique space, so instead of modeling what "The Industry" is doing, now
we're focused on communication and experiments. We're big believers in
the Bandcamp platform, we've started working with Fairtilizer, and
thanks to the coding talent of Charles Choiniere, we've also got a
custom CMS and music management system built into the World Around
Records website. That's been a huge advantage. For any curious tech
heads, he built it with Django, a mutation of the Python language.
Artists have to be in control of their own data, their own music
players, their own email list. Getting 100,000 downloads means nothing
if you don't know who those people are. I think about this daily, and
I write about the music business more or less full time for Audible Hype. I guess I should
refer folks there instead of giving a 23 paragraph lecture.
by J Dante x Man Mantis
What are your hopes and dreams for WAR and your own work?
There's nothing normal or healthy about day jobs. First and foremost,
I want to end the tyranny of Day Jobs for our entire roster. So
centralized success is not really the end goal here, with the actual
World Around platform, our goal is sustainability. It's not a charity.
I study business design like I study rap verses and having worked in
marketing and ghostwriting and copywriting, I know exactly what kind
of business I don't want to be. I was growing up in Vermont when Ben
& Jerry's, the great hippie capitalism success story, sold out and
absolutely killed the company right in front of us. I don't want
anyone on our roster to be dependent on us, this has to be a
collective and this has to be about mutual respect. I'm guessing that
only comes from mutual success, if it's going to mean anything.
I don't think any of us want to be rich, we just want to make music,
all day. Food in the fridge, functioning living space, no wasted time.
Whenever our resident philosopher Louis
Mackey gets a week of free space, he'll come back with an album's
worth of amazing material. I want to unleash that for everyone on the
team, that's our version of spiritual ascension in 2012.
Personally, I want to break one record in particular this year: Dr.
Quandary's debut album, Beyond All Spheres of Force and Matter. I
think it's the high water mark for World Around quality and I think
it's got a universal appeal since it's huge, cinematic and distinctly
Eastern-sound instrumental hip hop. He carved out something
exceptional, so my big business goal is to push an independent release
onto the national stage...but first we need to fund
the vinyl.
Long term, I want to make a lot of money to fund a concept that's been
on my mind since 2000 or so. Me and Dr. Quandary want to make "World
Around" into a sort of international recording equipment aid
organization, seek out talent in Asia, Africa, India and Latin
American nations, find the future Lee Perry/Leo Chess figures who will
do great things with it, and basically give them a studio. I want to
learn and be inspired from outside of the great American echo chamber.
We're both interested in solar and portable tech, and we're both huge
Tinariwen and Ali Farka Toure fans. I'm still obsessed by the concept
that a radio station in the middle of the Sahara could have brought me
such life-changing music, years later, on the other side of the
planet. Humans mostly exaggerate everything, but I don't think we
can over-estimate the power of music.
What's your personal message to the world that you try to
express through your art?
This planet is on fire and everyone is asleep. I'm uncomfortably
conscious of the fact way too many hippies took the signal "Find the
Others" to mean "hang out with like-minded white people." I want to
relax people and I want to make them uncomfortable, preferably at the
same time. Yes, you can do it...no, you cannot keep lying to yourself
every day. I talk about getting free of belief systems a lot, but I
have to confess, I am an Anarchist fundamentalist. I believe we are
all completely free at any given moment and free choice is like oxygen
or gravity or time itself, totally pervasive, and pointless to argue
about. The only question is what we do with it, now.
I'm here to be part of the next big global movement. I am here to
watch closely, work hard, and make the moves that I can. That's a big
reason I stopped doing "clever" battle rap and pop culture references
-- I'm trying to force myself to have a bigger horizon. The future of
hip hop is global because reality already is global. Ghandi
saw it and so did Malcolm X, any real peace and freedom movement has
to be bigger than borders. It already is, too, our choice now is how
we can either get involved, or justify ignoring it. American media
loves to gloat about the reach and power of American culture, but the
most important point, to me, is this. An international blockbuster
like Independence Day gets translated into dozens of other languages,
but everybody, around the world, listens to Tupac and Biggie in English.
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Q: Detect user logged on a computer using Java I want to develop an Java application that can detect the user logged on a Window Domain. These credentials are going to be used to logging on the Java application.
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A: System.getProperty("user.name")

A: If you need to domain name, you can use this :
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A: Note: System.getProperty("user.name") will only work if the user launches the application.  If the program is run by System or an application like LANDesk, then the user will come out as "SYSTEM" (under domain "NT AUTHORITY").
In which case, the second solution using NTSystem will return the correct results.


During 1975–2008, a total of 132 cases of dura mater graft-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (dCJD), a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by replicating, transmissible prion proteins, had been identified in Japan and accounted for >60% of patients worldwide with dCJD. This relatively high number of cases was most likely related to the increased use in Japan of the primary vehicle of transmission, Lyodura brand cadaveric grafts produced before May 1987, when the manufacturer changed its production process to reduce the risk for prion transmission.
During 2008–2017, an additional 22 dCJD patients, with onset from 1985 through 2016, were identified in Japan, resulting in 154 dCJD patients in Japan. No new dCJD patient whose surgery occurred after 1993 has been identified. However, the latency period is now known to be at least 30 years and because of the known potential for even longer latency periods for prion diseases, this outbreak is likely to continue.
The dCJD outbreak underscores the importance of strict screening of donors, appropriate record keeping, avoidance of comingling of grafts, and ideally, the use of validated sterilization procedures whenever dura mater grafts are manufactured. The long latency (decades) of human prion diseases can pose challenges to the detection of new sources of infection and highlights the need to recognize prion disease outbreaks and implement preventive measures as early as possible.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that, according to the most well accepted hypothesis (1), is caused by replicating, transmissible, abnormal forms of a host-encoded prion protein (prions). Most CJD cases occur spontaneously (sporadic CJD) or are inherited (genetic CJD). Iatrogenic CJD can occur after exposure to prion-contaminated instruments or products in medical/surgical settings. Cadaveric dura mater graft–associated CJD (dCJD) accounts for a common form of iatrogenic CJD. This report summarizes the epidemiologic features of 154 cases of dCJD identified in Japan during 1975–2017; these cases account for >60% of dCJD cases reported worldwide (1,2). The unusually high prevalence of dCJD in Japan was first reported in 1997 (3). In 2008, a single brand of graft (Lyodura [B. Braun Melsungen AG, Melsungen, Germany]), frequently used as a patch in neurosurgical procedures, was identified as the probable vehicle of transmission (4). No international recall of the implicated Lyodura occurred, the product had a relatively long shelf life, and the grafts were used frequently in Japanese patients with non–life-threatening conditions (4,5). Since 2008, additional cases have been ascertained, reflecting the identification of previously missed cases and the occurrence of new cases with longer latency periods (interval from exposure to symptom onset) for dCJD (up to 30 years), underscoring the importance of maintaining surveillance for dCJD.
In 1996, after the first report of variant CJD (the human prion disease caused by the agent of bovine spongiform encepathalopathy ["mad cow disease"]) in the United Kingdom (6), the nongovernmental Japanese CJD Surveillance Committee (J-CJDSC), with support from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, conducted a preliminary nationwide mail survey to identify cases of human prion disease in Japan; since 1999, J-CJDSC has maintained a national CJD registry (7). J-CJDSC members investigate each reported suspected CJD case in cooperation with CJD specialists in each prefecture. The methods for identifying dCJD cases in Japan have been described previously (5,7,8). All identified CJD cases, including cases of dCJD, are entered into the J-CJDSC database, which contains demographic and clinical information, including a detailed history of any surgical procedures and international travel and CJD laboratory test results (including cerebrospinal fluid analyses and genetic testing) (7).
Among 829 identified physician-diagnosed cases of CJD during 1979–May 1996, a total of 43 (5%) patients had received a dura mater graft as part of a surgical procedure (typically a patch during neurosurgery); 41 (95%) of these dCJD patients had received a Lyodura graft (3). A 1987 U.S. investigation of a dCJD case found that Lyodura produced before May 1987 carried an unusually high risk for dCJD because of the contamination-prone method of production (9,10); after that report, the manufacturer reported revising its collection and processing procedures to reduce the CJD transmission risk.
By 2008, a total of 132 dCJD cases had been reported in Japan, and among 120 (91%), Lyodura was identified as the probable vehicle of transmission; the graft brand for the other 12 dCJD patients was unknown (4). By the end of 2017, the J-CJDSC database included 154 patients with dCJD, including an additional 22 patients identified since the last report (4).
Among 154 dCJD patients, receipt of a Lyodura graft was documented in 140 (91%); the brand of dural graft received by 14 patients was not identified. The most common medical conditions for which patients received the cadaveric dura mater grafts were brain tumors (including meningioma) (69; 45%), facial palsy or trigeminal neuralgia (26; 17%), and brain hemorrhage (25; 16%). Less common conditions included intracranial aneurysm (10; 6%), unspecified anomalies (eight; 5%), intracranial hematoma (seven; 5%), trauma (seven; 5%), and other (two; 1%). The median age at symptom onset among dCJD patients was 58 years (range = 15–81 years; mean = 56 years); 89 (58%) patients were female. All patients had received their dura mater graft during 1975–1993 (Figure 1) (Figure 2), and dates of illness onset ranged from 1985 to 2016.
Although the shelf life of Lyodura established by the manufacturer was 5 years, three dCJD patients had surgical procedures in 1993, at least 6 years after the company had changed their collection and processing procedures. J-CJDSC determined that all three patients had received a Lyodura graft, and that at least one of the grafts was processed before 1987, and had therefore expired (the processing date of the second and third patients' grafts are unknown). Eleven (7%) dCJD patients identified by J-CJDSC received grafts during 1988–1993 (Figure 2), including eight during 1988–1991, indicating that they might have received unexpired Lyodura produced before the company changed its processing procedures in 1987. In 1997, a case occurred in a patient with a history of two neurosurgical procedures in 1991. Investigation by J-CJDSC revealed that the patient had received a graft produced before 1987 during the first procedure. None of the dCJD cases identified to date received a dural graft after 1993.
In Japan, it is estimated that 20,000 persons received a Lyodura graft each year during 1983–1987, approximately 50 times more than the estimated number of U.S. recipients (4). During this period, 123 Japanese patients who subsequently developed dCJD had surgical procedures, including 114 (93%) who had documentation of receipt of a Lyodura graft (the graft brand of the other nine patients was unknown), indicating that the risk for developing dCJD within 30 years of receiving a Lyodura graft in Japan was at least one per 877 (i.e., 114 dCJD cases per 100,000 Lyodura graft recipients). In this analysis, both the median and mean intervals from receipt of dural graft to illness onset (latency period) were 13 years (range = 1–30 years) (Figure 3). Since the update in 2008, 11 of the 22 newly reported dCJD cases have had latency periods exceeding 24 years, the longest interval reported in 2008 (4) (Figure 3). In three of these 11 cases, the latency period was 30 years, the longest reported to date.
A comprehensive 2012 global summary of dCJD cases by country (2) reported that 142 (62%) of 228 cases of dCJD described worldwide occurred in Japan, and that at least one dCJD case was reported from 20 other countries. In the United States, four cases attributed to dura mater grafts have been identified; three were linked to a Lyodura graft produced before 1987, and one to a different commercially produced cadaveric dura mater graft. Lyodura grafts produced before 1987 were widely distributed to many countries, but most frequently to Japan.
During the U.S. investigation of the first Lyodura-associated CJD case in 1987 (9,10), investigators learned that the company mixed dura from multiple donors during batch processing of single lots and sterilized the grafts with gamma irradiation, a procedure that does not inactivate prions (10). A Lyodura representative also reported that the company did not maintain records identifying donors, so they could not be traced. Lyodura was only available to U.S. hospitals by mail if ordered from a non-U.S. distributor because the manufacturer did not produce the product for distribution in the United States.
Owing to Lyodura's 5-year shelf life, it is likely that the eight dCJD patients in Japan who received Lyodura during 1988–1991 received grafts produced before the company changed its processing procedures in 1987. In addition, the three patients who received a graft in 1993 all received Lyodura grafts, one of which was documented to be an expired graft processed before 1987.
Age at onset of dCJD depends on the patient's age at receipt of a dural graft and the latency period. Although the latency period varies among patients, currently available data indicate that the upper limit is at least 30 years, which is longer than has been reported previously (4). The most recently diagnosed case, for example, occurred in a patient who received Lyodura during surgery for a craniopharyngioma in 1985 at age 27 years and developed dCJD 30 years later in 2015.
The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations related to ascertainment of dCJD cases. First, because it is possible that dCJD patients with an unknown brand of dural graft did, in fact, receive Lyodura, it is likely that one dCJD case per 877 Lyodura recipients is an underestimate of the proportion of dCJD patients with Lyodura-related CJD. Second, the risk for a Lyodura-related CJD infection among dural graft recipients is unknown because many infected patients likely died from other causes before developing CJD. Third, additional dCJD cases related to receipt of Lyodura might still occur. The increased use of Lyodura in Japan is the most likely reason for the unusually high number of dCJD cases in Japan (4), although only estimates of the numbers of recipients in Japan and other countries, including the United States, are available. Finally, the medical conditions for which dura mater grafts were used in Japan differed from those in other countries (5): patients with dCJD in Japan more frequently received dura mater grafts for non–life-threatening conditions than did patients in other countries (5).
The cases described in this report indicate that recipients of prion-contaminated grafts could remain at risk for CJD for at least 30 years after receiving grafts. Given the known potential for even longer latency periods for prion diseases, this outbreak is expected to continue. The dCJD cases underscore the importance of establishing measures to eliminate or greatly reduce the possibility of CJD transmissions (e.g., strict donor screening, appropriate record keeping, prevention of cross-contaminations, and ideally, the use of validated sterilization methods) whenever human tissues, particularly of cadaveric origin, might be used to treat other patients. In addition, a system of human disease surveillance to detect the possible emergence of new sources of prion disease transmissions is needed. Furthermore, physicians maintaining a high index of suspicion for unusual prion disease cases, as well as a system of human disease surveillance to detect the emergence of new sources of prion disease transmissions, is needed to enable the prevention of infections Finally, maintaining surveillance for CJD in Japan is important to better assess the impact of the outbreak of dCJD and to identify additional cases.
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.
Corresponding author: Ryusuke Ae, shirouae@jichi.ac.jp, +81-285-58-7338.
1Division of Public Health, Center for Community Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Japan; 2Department of Neurology and Neurobiology of Aging, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan; 3Department of Neurology, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan; 4Prion and Public Health Office, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC.
The figure above is a bar graph showing the number of cases of dura mater graft–associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (total = 154), by year of neurosurgical procedure and year of symptom onset, in Japan during 1975–2017.
* Among 154 dura mater graft procedures, the brand was documented as Lyodura in 140 (91%).
† The manufacturer of Lyodura reported that it revised its collection and processing procedures in May 1987 to reduce the risk for CJD contamination; the recommended shelf life for Lyodura was 5 years.
The figure above is a combination bar chart and line graph showing the number and cumulative number of surgical procedures linked to cases of dura mater graft-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, by year of surgical procedure, in Japan during 1975–1993.
* Median = 13 years; range = 1–30 years.
The figure above is a histogram showing the number cases of dura mater graft–associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (total = 154), by the interval, in years, from surgical procedure to illness onset, in Japan during 1975–2017.
Suggested citation for this article: Ae R, Hamaguchi T, Nakamura Y, et al. Update: Dura Mater Graft–Associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease — Japan, 1975–2017. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2018;67:274–278. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6709a3External.