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Central Queensland community calls for expulsion of US coal company from United Nations signatory list
Central Queensland locals have labelled American insurance giant Liberty Mutual a hypocrite for continuing with plans to build a polluting coal mine at Baralaba South, despite the company having just joined a United Nations-sponsored responsible investment program.
At the same time, locals have labelled a recent so-called round of community consultation by the company a "farce" because Liberty Mutual staff refused to meet with Save the Dawson members.
The Save the Dawson group, an alliance of farmers, Baralaba townspeople, and members of the Woorabinda Aboriginal community, oppose the Baralaba South coal mine because it threatens to pollute the Dawson River - thereby risking the communities' drinking water supplies. The mine, if built, would also increase the risk of localised flooding and destroy strategic cropping land.
Save The Dawson Group member and Jiman (Yee-man) and Gooreng Gooreng man Douglas Graham said, "Water has always been sacred to us - for more than 60,000 years we have survived because we have always had water.
"What is happening with Liberty Mutual here is happening everywhere in this country.
"As First Nations people we never had to confront this issue before colonisation. It is impacting on our future and it is impacting on the future of all Australians. Liberty Mutual needs to go somewhere else."
The recent moves by Liberty Mutual come after Baralaba residents voted overwhelmingly to reject the Baralaba South proposal, with a community survey showing 97.2 percent of respondents oppose the mine, and 99.6 percent favour reforms to better protect strategic cropping land in Queensland.
Save the Dawson group chairman and Baralaba grazier Brett Coombe said Liberty Mutual's decision to join the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) was a classic example of greenwashing by a major corporation.
"Plans by Liberty Mutual to build this coal mine at Baralaba South directly contradict the environmental, social and governance principles the company says it is committed to upholding by joining this UN program," he said.
"The company's recent farcical attempts at community consultation further prove Liberty Mutual says one thing on the world stage, and does the complete opposite on the ground in small regional communities like ours.
"We are calling for a meeting with Liberty Mutual Insurance chief investment officer Neeti Bhalla Johnson so we can explain to her why locals are overwhelmingly opposed to this destructive coal mine plan."
It's not the first time Liberty Mutual has been labelled a hypocrite either.
In June this year, the company withdrew support for the Adani Carmichael mine after introducing a climate change policy, but has continued with plans for the greenfield Baralaba South coal mine.
Paul Stephenson, whose family has farmed next to the proposed mine's coal dump near Moura for three generations, said Liberty Mutual's behaviour was appalling.
"If Liberty Mutual genuinely accepts the UN Principles for Responsible Investment, it must cancel the proposed Baralaba South project immediately," he said.
"We believe it is appropriate for the UN PRI to seriously consider expulsion of Liberty Mutual from its signatory list if the company continues to refuse to meet with impacted local communities, and if it continues to proceed with this destructive proposal to build a new coal mine.
"Moving ahead with this proposed coal mine would lead to potential human rights violations, the violation of rights of First Nations peoples, serious negative impacts on environmental, social and governance issues, and would drive worse climate change and global warming.
"All of these impacts would constitute potential violations of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, and we urge the UN PRI to seriously look at the behavior of this company and whether it meets the criteria to remain a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment."
If built, the Baralaba South greenfield, multi-seam, open-cut coal mine, would produce up to 5 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of run-of-mine coal for 30-40 years.
The mine's location would be approximately 12km south of Baralaba, between Mt Ramsay and the Dawson River within a Mining Lease of 2 214 hectares which covers strategic cropping land. The mine is planned to be built 500m from the Dawson River on a floodplain where the river spreads to 11km wide during floods.
The proposed project requires 900 million litres of water per annum, for washing coal, dust suppression and other mine activities.
Dom Geiger published this page in Media Releases 2021-01-06 10:51:31 +1100


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Q: ffmpeg partially concat meets sample rate issue I use ffmpeg concat to merge multiple ts files, I use following command
ffmpeg -y -f concat -i filelist.txt -c copy test.mkv

all ts files' path is put in filelist.txt, it runs well, but now my requirement changed, I want to merge those files partially, for example, the length of every file in filelist.txt is 1 minute, but I only want to merge first 7 seconds in every file, so I checked ffmpeg doc and use following setting in filelist.txt
file 'file1.ts'
inpoint 00:00:00.000
outpoint 00:00:07.000
file 'file2.ts'
inpoint 00:00:00.000
outpoint 00:00:07.000
...

when running above command, ffmpeg gives following errors
 [matroska @ 03eb10a0] Error parsing AAC extradata, unable to determine samplerate.
    Error writing trailer of test.mkv: Invalid argumentframe=    0 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 Lsize= 1kB time=00:00:00.00 bitrate=N/A speed=N/A
    video:0kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: unknown
    Output file is empty, nothing was encoded (check -ss / -t / -frames parameters if used)

I guess the error is caused by those ts files (unable to determine samplerate?) rather than command line error, but my question is Currently if there is a way or some ffmpeg command flags to suppress this error and just merge those ts files without reencoding,or if source ts file contains samplerate problem, you just can not partially merge them, Thanks!
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I tried my last question about ffmpeg's suggestion from Gyan(ffmpeg meets unknow timestamps error), merge to mp4 but not mkv, strangely "Error parsing AAC extradata" error info really disappear, but still error : "Output file is empty, nothing was encoded (check -ss / -t / -frames parameters if used)", Does that mean such source ts files can not be merged partially without re-encoding? Anyone else more suggestions?

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Q: Cannot instantiate abstract class and cannot convert argument 1 from 'const size_t' to 'const BDictionary &' Errors I am using Visual Studio 2017 as instructed for this project.
I have received four errors for my program that I have been researching for a couple of days and no matter what I have done, I cannot get these errors to disappear.
I have tried making multiple constructors in BDictionary, I have checked all function names and there are no typos, and I have gone over this code with other people and compared their versions to see why it is getting these errors.  I am only worried about getting it to run at this point as I can figure out what functions do not work from there.  Any and all help would be appreciated.
bagtestmain.cpp -This file cannot be changed
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include "ABag.h"
#include "BDictionary.h"

using namespace std;

const size_t DICTIONARY_SIZE = 20;

void PauseScreen(); //Used to pause screen output

/*
* Tests BDictionary with int and string objects only.
*/
int main(int argc, char** argv) {

    cout << "Student Name -- CSIS 215 Programming Assignment 1 -- Bag Dictionary" << endl << endl;

    BDictionary<int, string> myIntStrDict(DICTIONARY_SIZE);
//Error C2259 'BDictionary<int,std::string>': cannot instantiate abstract class 27

//Error C2664   'BDictionary<int,std::string>::BDictionary(const BDictionary<int,std::string> &)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'const size_t' to 'const BDictionary<int,std::string> &'  27

    BDictionary<string, int> myStrIntDict(DICTIONARY_SIZE);
//Error C2259   'BDictionary<std::string,int>': cannot instantiate abstract class   28

//Error C2664   'BDictionary<std::string,int>::BDictionary(const BDictionary<std::string,int> &)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'const size_t' to 'const BDictionary<std::string,int> &'  28

I included the two errors that are with each line.
ABag.h
#ifndef ABAG_H
#define ABAG_H

#include "book.h"
#include "bagADT.h"
#include <string>
#include <stdlib.h>

template <typename E>
class ABag : public Bag<E> {
private:
    int position, capacity;
    const int max = 10;
    E* data;
public:

    // constructors/destructor
    ABag()
    {
        max = defaultSize;
        capacity = position = 0;
        data = new E[max];
    }

    ~ABag()
    {
        delete[] data;
    }

    // Insert a new item into the bag -- return false if fails and true if
    // successful
    bool addItem(const E& item)
    {
        if (bagCapacity < 10)
        {
            position++;
            data[position]; //incorrect
            capacity++;
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

    // Looks for 'item' in the bag and if found updates 'item' with the
    // bag value and returns true.  Otherwise 'item' is left unchanged
    // and the method returns false.
    bool remove(E& item)
    {
        if (position == -1) // check if bag is full
        {
            return false;
        }
        else
        {
            for (int i = position; i >= 0; i--) // loop through each object top to bottom
            {
                if (data[i] == item) // if the values are equal, then return the item
                {
                    item = data[i];
                    position--;
                    for (int j = i; j <= position; j++)
                    {
                        data[j] = data[j + 1]; // shift down the objects on top
                    }
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
    }

    // Removes the top record from the bag, puts it in returnValue, and
    // returns true if the bag is not empty.  If the bag is empty the
    // function returns false and returnValue remains unchanged.
    bool removeTop(E& returnValue)
    {
        if (inspectTop(returnValue))
        {
            return false;
        }

        position--; //return
        return true;
    }

    // Finds the record using returnValue and if the record is found updates
    // returnValue based on the contents of the bag and returns true.  If the
    // record is not found the function returns false.  Works just like remove()
    // except that the found record is not removed from the bag.
    bool find(E& returnValue) const
    {
        if (position == -1)
        {
            return false;
        }
        else
        {
            for (int i = position; i >= 0; i--) // loops through objects and returns value
            {
                if (data[i] == returnValue)
                {
                    returnValue = data[i]; // returns the KVpair found
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    // Inspect the top of the bag.  If the bag is empty return
    // false and leave 'item' unchanged; otherwise, return true and update
    // 'item' with the contents of the bag.
    bool inspectTop(E& item) const
    {
        if (position == -1)
        {
            return false;
        }
        else
        {
            item = data[position];
            return true;
        }
    }

    // empties the bag
    void emptyBag()
    {
        position = -1; // Moves the position down to -1, in a sense removing the elements
    }

    // use the += operator to add an item to the bag
    bool operator+=(const E& addend)
    {
        return addItem(addend); // No need to rewrite addItem, just call it from here
    }

    // get the size of the bag
    int size() const
    {
        return position + 1; // returns the actual size
    }

    // get the capacity of the bag
    int bagCapacity() const
    {
        return capacity;
    }
    // bag methods: addItem, remove, operator+=, size, etc.
};

#endif  /* ABAG_H */

BDictionary.h
#ifndef BDICTIONARY_H
#define BDICTIONARY_H

#include "ABag.h"
#include "dictionaryADT.h"
#include "kvpair.h"
#include "book.h"
#include <string>

using namespace std;

template <typename Key, typename E>
class BDictionary : public Dictionary<int, string>{
public:

    // constructors/destructor
    BDictionary()
    {
        max = defaultSize;
        capacity = -1;
        position = -1;
        dictionary = new E[max];
    }          // Default constructor

    BDictionary(const Key& k, const Key& e)
    {
        max = defaultSize;
        capacity = position = 0;
    }

    ~BDictionary()
    {
        delete[] data.
    } // Base destructor

    // Reinitialize dictionary
    void clear()
    {
        dictionary->emptyBag(); // Calls ABag's emptyBag
    }

    // Insert a record
    // k: The key for the record being inserted.
    // e: The record being inserted.
    // Return true if insert is successful and false otherwise
    bool insert(const Key& k, const E& e)
    {
        KVpair<int, string> item(k, e);
        if (dictionary->addItem(item))
        {
            return true;

        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

    // Looks for a record using the key and if found does the following:
    // - updates the E& rtnVal
    // - removes the record from the dictionary
    // - returns true
    // If the record is not found the function returns false.
    bool remove(const Key& k, const E& rtnVal)
    {
        KVpair<int, string> item(k, rtnVal);
        if (dictionary->remove(item))
        {
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

    // Takes an arbitrary record from the dictionary and does the following:
    // - updates the E& returnValue
    // - removes the record from the dictionary
    // - returns true
    // If the dictionary is empty the function returns false.
    bool removeAny(E& returnValue)
    {
        /*Key* k;
        k = new Key();
        KVpair<Key, E> fill(*k, returnValue);
        if (dictionary->removeTop(fill)) // Use of removeTop since we can delete ANY arbitrary element
        {
            returnValue = fill.value();
            delete k;
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            delete k;
            return false;
        }*/
        KVpair<int, string> item(0, "");
        if (dictionary->removeTop(item))
        {
            //cout << "REMOVEANY: Removed key " << item.key() << ", which contained the value " << item.value() << endl;
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

    // Looks for a record using the key and if found does the following:
    // - updates the E& returnValue
    // - returns true
    // If the record is not found the function returns false.
    bool find(const Key& k, E& returnValue) const
    {
        KVpair<int, string> item(k, returnValue);
        if (dictionary->find(item))
        {
            //std::cout << "FIND: The value at key " << item.key() << " is " << item.value() << endl;
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

    // Return the number of records in the dictionary.
    int size()
    {
        return dictionary->size(); // calls size function from ABag
    }

    // methods: clear, insert, remove, removeAny, find, size, etc.

private:
    //Pointer to a ABag object.  You'll need to instantiate the bag in your constructor:
    // dictionary = new ABag<KVpair<Key, E>>(size) or something similar depending on how
    // you've implemented your ABag constructor(s).
    //This pointer gives you access to the bag which stores your data and provides the
    //functions you need to build your dictionary.
    ABag<KVpair<int, string>>* dictionary;
    int capacity, position;
    const size_t max;
};

#endif  /* BDICTIONARY_H */


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The next morning shop manager Jordy and his crew went right to work on my A/C install. It was great to see the Ward family (company owners) again and it wasn't long before Bill Ward had me talking with potential customers about our Hallmark.
After a second night at Hallmark I made the 6+ hour drive to Ridgeway State Park. What a difference between last year and this year. Last year my friend Dee Willis and I were the only ones able to make the trip. This year 6 fellow photographers came making us a group of 8. Last year the fall color was peaking to past while this year the color was just coming on; we got to see it progress throughout the week. As we did last year Dee and I camped at Ridgway State Park while others in our group stayed in hotels in Ourey, Colorado.
Camp at Ridgway State Park. Nice campground with roomy sites.
The San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado are a fascinating, beautiful and historic place. Following are notes, individual photos and galleries on what I experienced. As usual click on a photo or gallery photo to enlarge it, once enlarged roll over a photo for any description and use the left and right arrows to navigate through a gallery.
Located on Red Mountain Pass at the top the Million Dollar Highway this lake is quite beautiful. If you are lucky, early in the morning it will be calm. We had hoped to shoot the eastern-facing slope as the sun lit it up. I saw ripples on the far side of the lake and said to myself "We're done here.". Sure enough within 10 minutes the lake was covered with wind-driven ripples.
Ironton is a fascinating ghost town but as a whole I wasn't as inspired by it this year as I was last year aside from this bit of fall in a tattered window screen.
On the road up to Molas Pass there's a beautiful mountain stream. Unfortunately to get the best shots one must navigate slippery, unstable rocks to get out into the stream. Fortunately disaster was averted this day.
It's hard to go to Silverton and not shoot the train. While some of us were shooting the mountain stream the rest of the group had gone ahead to Silverton. We met at the Brown Bear Cafe for lunch. Those wanting to shoot the train were disappointed as it was running late. After lunch Dee and I headed out to return to camp. Dee remembered there is a siding for the train to turn around behind the town visitor's center. It turned out to be the perfect spot to shoot the train.
Dallas Divide is considered the best place in the area to shoot sunrise; however, on this day we decided to go against prevailing thought and shoot it at sunset.
The next morning brought us back to Dallas Divide of course.
From Dallas Divide we moved down to nearby county roads to see what we could discover.
While shooting color and mountains we saw a 4 beautiful horses behind a fence. We walked over to shoot them and a lady came over from a group of tents on the other side of the field. It turns out she and her husband own the license for fall horse packing hunting trips in that part of the national forest. She introduced us to the horses by name. One laid down and couldn't care less about us. Two others were mildly interested in us. Then there was Ranger who was all about the attention and seemed to understand exactly what he was doing in posing for us.
We drove out Last Dollar Road in search of good sunset scenes. Weather moved in and we found ourselves at 9,100 ft. elevation with wind and rain. I did manage a photo of aspens in buttery evening light that pleased me.
For me the most memorable parts of this day were moody morning light and Camp Bird Mine Road in the evening.
In the afternoon I knew it was precipitating as I could hear it on the roof of the camper. Dee called and said "Mike look out your window! Quick!" I managed to get a snapshot with my iPhone of the beautiful scene.
Deer moving through my campsite in the snow.
Plans were made to meet our friends staying in Ourey at Dallas Divide for sunrise. Before dawn Dee and I headed out from camp into thick fog in Ridgway; an aftereffect of the previous day's weather. Shooting sunrise didn't look promising; perhaps coffee followed by a late morning shoot? We climbed the grade up to Dallas Divide and were shocked when suddenly we were above the fog.
To finish out the morning we headed to Last Dollar Road. I was looking forward to a large aspen grove the road passes through.
A few of our group had already left due to work and other commitments. We had come to the final day for all but Dee and I. The consensus was a second trip to Crystal Lake for sunrise. Dee and I would meet the rest of the group there. When we arrived it was cloudy, cold and windy. A suggestion to move on to a hot breakfast at the Brown Bear Cafe in Silverton was well received. On the way to breakfast Dee said: "Where should we go today Mike?" I said: "It's gotta be Animas Forks".
Animas Forks, is a ghost town located in the mountains above Silverton at over 11,000 ft. It is in an area full of Colorado mining history.
Around the corner and up the road from Animas Forks are the remains of the Frisco Mill. Still quite impressive it must have been really something in its hey-day.
While we were in Animas Forks Dee talked with a lady passing through who is part of a team restoring the Sound Democrat Mill. Dee had never heard of it. We had the time so off we went. It turned out to be a worthwhile trip though on a very rough, high clearance, 4WD road. The Sound Democrat Mill sits at over 12,000 ft elevation near the head of Placer Gulch with surrounding ridges and peaks towering over the mill and this time of the year snow!
All that remained after our day immersed in Colorado mining history was a final dinner together in Ourey.
For the next day Dee and I agreed sleeping in and an evening shoot would be a good idea - and it was. We headed out in the late afternoon looking for color in an area that would allow a choice of shooting the Cimarron Range or the Sneffel Range.
It was a great trip; fun to spend time with old friends and meet new friends. Much thanks to Dee Willis for excellent planning and guiding. I know it was a lot of work.


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New Land Rover Discovery
Land Rover's new Discovery arrives in showrooms next week giving customers the first opportunity to test the most versatile SUV on sale today on Irish roads.
Gerard O'Farrell, Managing Director Jaguar Land Rover Ireland said, "We are delighted to announce the arrival of the new Discovery at Land Rover retailers across the country. The New Discovery is set to broaden its well-established appeal in the large premium SUV market.
" It does everything its predecessor does and more. With increased efficiency, improved versatility and clever technology for the whole family it is sure to attract new customers to the Land Rover brand."
Since its star-studded reveal at Packington Hall, Solihull in September when the new Discovery was unveiled against a Guinness World Record-breaking Lego backdrop, the new Discovery was previewed in Dublin, Cork, and Galway before Christmas. New and existing customers were invited to see the ground-breaking new model for the first time.
Since then, customers have been able to experience the new Discovery though a Virtual Reality experience in retailer showrooms, but now, customers can see, touch and drive Ireland's most anticipated SUV. With a starting price of €57,815 customers can experience the 'seven wonders' of Discovery:
1. The Magnificent Seven: every seat is the best seat in the house
Flexible interior provides seven full-sized adult seats
2. A much loved member of the family: keeping you safe for the last 26 years
Semi-autonomous safety technology provides the family peace of mind
Premium interior combines leading design with durable, high-quality materials and space for the whole family
3. King of the hill: unstoppable on all surfaces, all terrains and in all weathers
Land Rover's full-sized SUV architecture delivers world-beating all-terrain capability
Lightweight aluminium construction saves 480kg, delivering enhanced efficiency and CO2 emissions from 171g/km
Super clean Ingenium family grows with adoption of 240PS, four-cylinder diesel engine with 500Nm of torque
Towing king: best-in-class 3,500kg towing capacity and semi-autonomous Advanced Tow Assist take the stress out of difficult reversing manoeuvres
4. British creativity: designed with charm & sophistication loved by the world
Design retains key Discovery family cues, adding optimised proportions and sophisticated surfaces
5. Storage addiction: discover the space for everything
Up to 2,406 litres of luggage space with seven seats and clever storage for 21st century family essentials
6. Connects every generation: Ingenious features that make life easier
Digital Discovery equipped with up to nine USB ports, four 12-volt charging points and an in-car 3G WiFi hotspot for up to eight devices
7. After the roads end: reaching threatened habitats and vulnerable people
New Discovery will continue Land Rover's work in humanitarian aid and conservation projects around the world.
Since 1948 Land Rover has been manufacturing authentic 4x4s that represent true 'breadth of capability' across the model range. Discovery, Discovery Sport, Range Rover Sport, Range Rover and Range Rover Evoque each define the world's SUV sectors.

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Hey ho, there! Our very own Repeater recently sat down and explored the path of The Doctor using a medium not used nearly often enough, as far as we're concerned – action figures! Enjoy!
Oh LORD! It is exhausting! 50!? HA! Every. Single. One. LOL. Your commentary is cracking me up! Scottish! = automatically better of course! mmmmmmm …. Matt Smith. He was quirky and funny and clumsy = perfect Doctor. poor Colin Baker. Paul laughing in the background!!! Beauty! My 5 inch Peter Capldi.. that sounds vaguely dirty Ben! Wow! That kiss was so HAWT! JOHN HURT!!!!!!! JOHN HURT!!!!! JOHN FREAKING HURT! ACTION FIGURE! MUST HAVE!!!!! Tom Baker was my first too… YOUR FAULT SIR! The George Lazenby of Doctor Who.. ahahahahahaha. YOu are not right and I adore you! Beautifully done.


The 21st Century Engagement & Communication Skills series continues with the second installment, focusing on Conflict Resolution & Mediation.
Effectively managing challenging situations – including the use of reflective listening, strategies for defusing or depersonalizing, etc.
The registration deadline is 10 am on Monday, April 22. A CE certificate will be provided by SUNY Adirondack. Complete the registration or copy and paste this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/58558W2 into your browser.
Please register by or before 10 am Monday, April 22. Once the classes fill, we will begin a waitlist.
You will receive an email reminder about a week before the session with the date, time, and location — and to provide directions. Should your schedule change and you are unable to attend, contact Erica at efreudenberger@sals.edu so we can make the spot available to other participants. Thank you!
SALS committed the matching funds required to secure this considerable grant from SUNY Adirondack in order to offer the free, multiple workshops on a range of topics to its 34 member libraries. We look forward to supporting your professional development through this series of workshops and encourage you to take advantage of these opportunities to convene, develop, and advance your skills in critical areas, learn from each other, and strive to apply these strategies and concepts in the workplace in collaboration with your colleagues, directors, trustees, and SALS.


We pedal out of the alpine-chic ski bum town of San Martin de Los Andes at 1pm. We exchange a small hi-five in the supermarket carpark on the way out, congratulating ourselves for such an 'early' departure. Usually, we aim to leave towns at 10am and roll out at 4pm, and so a lunchtime getaway is a real triumph.
Pedalling away from traffic, restaurants and cafés we wind our way around the shores of Lago Lácar, just as the mercury tips 38 degrees celsius. At this temperature, Faye is like a pig in poop because despite being a redhead, she absolutely adores the heat. I on the other hand reach optimum heat-appreciation at around 27 degrees. Anything more than that I feel is just plain unnecessary. Excessive heat for me means sweating out all available bodily salts and a requirement to drink gallons of water, water which I must of course carry on my bike. See? Unnecessary.
'It's so hot!!!' Says Faye, plugging away on her pedals behind me.
'I know, It's so hot! Too hot!! I'm dying here.
'I'll remind you of that when it's too hot to sleep tonight and you're lying in pools of your own sweat' I retort – a vain attempt on my part to dampen her chipper approach to what I consider to be fiery hell-like conditions.
We stop at a few lakeside 'miradors' (lookouts) of which there are plenty on a road that is leading us through the 'seven lakes' region. A region where there are, wait for it… six lakes. I'm kidding, there's seven. On the fourth lookout we begin to note a slight shift in the skies. Dark, bulbous clouds have gathered on the horizon. Looking back towards San Martin, I can see that it is now caked in what looks like from here to be a fine grey mist, but I know must mean a deluge in town.
'Eeeek. I hope that doesn't head our way…' says Faye, pointing at the ominous cloud-wall of black and grey.
'Nah, we'll be fine.' says I, optimistic (read: deluded) as always.
Thirty minutes later we begin to feel the light pitter patter of raindrops on our shoulders. Thunder rumbles overhead and there's a flash of lightening in the mountains in front of us.
'Woah! Did you see that?! SO COOOOLLL!!!' I shout at Faye.
'I don't like it!' she yells back. Poor Faye-Bomb. She is like a household pet when it comes to storms. She would far rather be inside snuggled up next to the fire than dancing with potential lightning death.
The rain gets a little heavier and, seeing as how Faye is in a strappy vest and I am in a t-shirt, we decide to pull over to put our rain jackets on, which (of course) are at the bottom of both our panniers. The storm sees it's chance. It spots two stupid optimistic, englanders scantily clad, rummaging around in their panniers with the contents strewn across the grassy verge and it strikes, with vengeance. The heavens open and we are soaked to the skin within a minute. At least we both just about manage to get our jackets on before the hail starts.
'Awwww! Ouch! Ow!' I yelp, as the first few ice bullets make contact with my rather shocked body.
This is no ordinary hail, this is marble sized, evil Patagonian hail. It feels worse, far worse, than the time I went paint balling and decided to go 'over the top' of the Blue team's trench. A block of ice thuds into the back of my neck, another onto my hand, a third on my thigh and Faye and I can begin dancing like cats on a hot tin roof.
'Where are you going???' she yells as I begin a dart across the road.
I spot a roadside shrine with a corrugated metal roof and we scamper across towards it, ditch our bikes most unceremoniously at the roadside and take cover under the shrine. It is bedlam. Passing cars have also stopped and are seeking shelter from the hail by driving onto the verge and under trees as it smashes mercilessly onto their windshields.
For twenty minutes we stand under our flimsy metal roof, any conversation drowned out by the deafening sound of ice colliding with metal just inches above our head. The hail gets harder, and the balls grow larger until the whole road is carpeted in white marbles. Both of us begin to shiver – the icy rain has now made it through to our base layers and reached our skin.
There's a bright flash of lightening, swiftly followed by a loud rumble of thunder, which seems to be right overhead.
'Errr Anna…!' Faye hollars at me.
'Here will do!' It's not the most glamorous spot, right next to the road, but for tonight: it's paradise.
And so we dance around a little more in the rain, wrestling with tents and pegs and poles before crawling into our makeshift homes and peeling off layers of sodden clothing. We both get tucked up in our sleeping bags and listen to the thunder rage on. The excitement seems to have taken its toll because what was supposed to be a little nap before dinner, turns into us both falling asleep for the night at 6pm. An adventurer's bedtime by all accounts.


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What do you call two words that sound the same, but have different meanings?
And the answer: homophones.
Two words that sound the same, but have different meanings, are considered homophones. For example, in the sentence, "He bought flour to bake bread, and put flowers in a vase," the words flour and flowers sound the same, but they're spelled differently and have different meanings.
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Not all homophones are the same. Two words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings are a type of homophone called a homonym. For example, "knead" and "need" are homonyms as well as homophones.
Homophones can further be classified as homographs and heterographs. Homographs are words that are spelled the same way, could be pronounced differently, and have different meanings. "Time to take a bow," and "Can you tie this bow for me?" are examples of homographs. Words that are spelled differently and pronounced the same way (e.g., "flour" and "flower") are heterographs.
There are also heteronyms, which are words that are spelled the same, but pronounced differently and have different meanings. For example, "This sad movie is making him tear up" and "Tear up this document for me" are heteronyms.
Finally, then there are oronyms. These are phrases that are often grouped with homophones because the words in question sound the same, but have different meanings and are often not identical. "World peace" and "whirled peas" are examples of oronyms.
And now, a joke:
What did the chess piece say before bed?
Knight, knight.


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What is an Imprint?
An imprint, or "impressum," is a summary of the contact information and information related to copyrights of a business. It's the legally mandated statement for websites, books, newspapers, and other publications that explains ownership and authorship.
Germany is best known for requiring an "impressum" although Switzerland and Austria have similar laws.
The name "impressum" translates awkwardly to English as "imprint" or "impression."
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Pax East 2022
Potionomics is a management sim that might just cast a spell on you
Magic's in the air.
Voracious Games
Jess Reyes
Voracious Games mixes resource management with a relationship sim in its first game, Potionomics. These types of games typically center on a cafe or farm, but this time, it's a potion shop.
A witch named Sylvia has moved to Rafta to take over her deceased uncle's debt-ridden potion business. Little did she know, it's actually a rundown place without many materials or much prestige. Thankfully, she makes friends with the townspeople fast, and soon cultivates a decent number of customers. Turns out Rafta's full of magical entrepreneurs and adventurers!
Xseed Games, a publisher with a reputation for publishing cozy games like Rune Factory 5, is backing the game. If you want a cozy game with a focus on characters and economics (hence the name), this one's worth keeping an eye on.
Potionomics isn't overflowing with mechanics — it has a few that it explains well without feeling overwhelming. Your main goal is to efficiently manage your time and make as much money as possible with high-quality potions and people skills (a.k.a. haggling). There are only six time slots during the day and some potions take longer to brew than others. In short, you'll need to mind how long potions take to make and sell the ones that are ready before closing time.
The more high-quality, diverse materials you have, the more options you have to make money and produce higher-quality products. You need to acquire the tools for more valuable potions (multiple cauldrons, for example) and then sell them at the highest price possible. Well, if you don't let customers bully you.
Bargaining is a whole other aspect of the game. Mixing potions and selling them fills the same niche that a cafe, restaurant, or farming sim might because of the similarity to making items and selling them. However, bargaining raises the stakes for how much money you make and adds a layer of a strategy game to an otherwise straightforward game. Potionomics is labeled as a "deckbuilder" for a reason.
Rafta's colorful in more than one way. Voracious Games
At the start, players can only choose from a hand of three cards while haggling with a customer. These cards can have a variety of abilities from raising the customer's interest in your item to bracing yourself for any complaints that a customer might raise in response to your bargain. As Sylvia meets new characters and gains more experience, she will eventually unlock other strategies that might give her the upper hand in a bargain.
Then, there's friendship and, potentially, romance. Sylvia converses with many characters from shopkeepers to heroes. Befriending them raises the perks they give you, like receiving a discount on potion ingredients or other cards for your haggling deck. These friendships work similarly to support levels in Fire Emblem – the closer you are, the more perks (or more valuable perks) you receive from the character in question. It might not be a power-up, but it will help your business somehow.
Quinn is done with your shit. Voracious Games
Also, you can apparently date one of ten viable bachelors and bachelorettes. Whoever the player chooses as their romantic partner won't make a difference when it comes to perks. Skin colors, sexualities, and other qualities are also reasonably represented in the game.
Not to mention the characters themselves don't fail to impress. Each one felt unique both in personality and appearance, enough that it's likely one of them will please any given player. Sylvia herself is an energetic go-getter that makes it easy to upgrade the shop and befriend the townspeople. There's Quinn the witch, a sleepy-eyed girl who has that bored goth gf vibe, a brave, friendly hero named Mint who can add some muscle to your strategy, and the list goes on.
Potionomics is Voracious Games' first game as a studio. However, its developers' experience has paid off with a clean, charming demo. If you're curious about Xseed Games' other PAX indies, also check out Melon Journey: Bittersweet Melodies and Deadcraft.
Potionomics will launch on PC in fall 2022. You can wishlist it on Steam now.
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Bird-watch by kayak on this special tour, partnered with the Maine Audubon Society.
Join us for amazing bird-watching by kayak, a unique wildlife viewing adventure.
After a brief demonstration where you'll learn basic strokes and techniques for paddling a two-person tandem kayak, our experienced guides will lead you on a leisurely paddle around scenic Casco Bay. You'll experience rocky islands and quiet coves, plus visit birding destinations unreachable by land. Along the tour, a trained naturalist from Maine Audubon will share insights and in-depth interpretive information about the birds spotted along the tour. Birds commonly observed on Casco Bay include common eider, osprey, double-crested cormorant and common tern.
All necessary kayaking equipment is included.
Maine Audubon members receive a 20% discount on this tour. To take advantage of this special offer and help protect Maine's wildlife and threatened habitats, become a member today at maineaudubon.org/join or call 207-781-2330, ext. 232.


Summary: This course provides pediatric dentists and others from pediatric dentistry with an overview of the most current, clinically useful topics available in contemporary journals. Lecturers will discuss advances in the diagnosis and treatment of primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs. The objectives for the course are designed to expand upon, reinforce and give additional points of view to the participant's selections of journal readings.


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Wireless earphones as inexpensive hearing aids
Some commercial earbuds can perform as well as hearing aids. The result, presented on November 15 in the journal iScience, could help a large proportion of people with hearing loss access more affordable sound amplification devices.
Hearing loss has broad health impacts, but professional hearing aids are expensive and require multiple visits to otolaryngologists and audiologists for tuning. These factors lead to major barriers for many to access professional hearing aids. One estimate suggests nearly 75% of people with hearing loss in the United States do not use hearing aids.
"There's also a social stigma associated with hearing aids," says Yen-fu Cheng, the study's corresponding author and an otolaryngologist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. "Many patients are reluctant to wear them because they don't want to appear old. So, we started exploring if there are more accessible alternatives."
Apple came out with a feature called "Live Listen" in 2016 that allows people to use its wireless earphones, AirPods, and iPhone for sound amplification. The feature makes AirPods functionally similar to a personal sound amplification product, which is designed for people with normal hearing for certain occasions like birdwatching.
Cheng and his team wanted to investigate whether AirPods, which are widely available devices, can serve as alternative hearing aids. The team compared Airpods 2 and AirPods Pro -- the model with a noise canceling feature -- with a type of premium hearing aids and a basic pair of hearing aids. The premium hearing aids cost $10,000, and the basic type cost $1,500. Both models of AirPods are significantly cheaper than hearing aids, with AirPods 2 costing $129 and AirPods Pro costing $249. Notably, AirPods Pro met four out of five technology standards for hearing aids.
The team tested the four devices with 21 participants with mild to moderate hearing loss. The researchers read a short sentence, such as "the electricity bills went up recently," to participants, who were asked to repeat their words verbatim wearing the devices. They found AirPods Pro performed similarly well compared with basic hearing aids in a quiet environment and is slightly inferior to premium hearing aids. AirPods 2, while having the lowest performance among the four, helped participants hear more clearly compared with wearing no hearing aids.
In a noisy environment, AirPods Pro showed comparable performance to premium hearing aids when the noises came from the lateral direction of the participant. But when the noises came from the front of the participants, both AirPods models failed to help participants hear better.
"Two reasons may account for the difference between the two scenarios," says Ying-Hui Lai, the study's co-author and a bioengineer at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taipei. "It may relate to the trajectories soundwaves travel with, as well as the advanced signal processing algorithm by premium hearing aids. This finding will hopefully inspire engineers to design hearing aids and personal sound amplification products that are more sensitive in certain directions." He adds that AirPods Pro appears to perform better than AirPods 2, likely because of its noise-canceling feature.
"Globally, the wireless earphone market is growing rapidly. Some companies are interested in exploring the possibility of designing earbuds with sound amplification features. Our study proves that the idea is plausible," Lai says.
As a clinician, Cheng says persuading patients to use hearing aids is often challenging. "These wireless earbuds are of course not perfect, but they would be a good starting point for many patients who don't have access to professional hearing aids. They will see an increase in quality of life even with these earbuds." Cheng says.
This work is supported by Veterans General Hospitals and University System of Taiwan Joint Research Program, and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105436
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Q: How to Use stankevich-python puppet module? I am writing a puppet manifest file to install python libraries through pip install.
This python module is installed on the server, link shown below https://forge.puppetlabs.com/stankevich/python
I've installed the module by doing
puppet module install stankevich-python

Here is the manifest file I created in my sites.pp
class { 'python' :
    version           => 'system',
    pip               => 'present'
}
python::pip { 'reportlab' :
    pkgname         => 'reportlab',
    ensure          => latest,
}

Errors on my agent state that 'python' resource could not be found
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: {"message":"Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Could not find declared class python at /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/manifests/site.pp:6:1 on node dev1","issue_kind":"RUNTIME_ERROR","stacktrace":["Warning: The 'stacktrace' property is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Puppet. For security reasons, stacktraces are not returned with Puppet HTTP Error responses."]}

However, I've verified my module is there,
$ puppet module list
/home/ubuntu/.puppetlabs/etc/code/modules
├── puppetlabs-stdlib (v4.16.0)
├── stahnma-epel (v1.2.2)
└── stankevich-python (v1.18.2)

Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

A: My bad. I need to run
puppet module install stankevich-python

in root, which I didn't. After doing that it works.


Meg Munn: The UK continually insists that human rights are fully respected by all parties in Somalia and has joined its international partners in clearly saying so in UN Security Council Resolutions, Communiques of the Somalia International Contact Group and Resolutions of the UN Human Rights Council.
The UK fully supports both the UN Security Council Resolution 1814, unanimously adopted on 15 May 2008, and the EU General Affairs and External Relations Council Conclusions, adopted on 26 May, in support of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, including the Independent Expert for Somalia, and encourage them to undertake a fact-finding and assessment mission to Somalia to address the human rights situation.
Meg Munn: My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has discussed ongoing Ugandan troop deployment to the African Union mission to Somalia with President Museveni. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and my noble Friend the Minister for Africa, Lord Malloch-Brown, have also raised deployment to the mission with Ghana and Nigeria.
Mr. Jim Murphy: The UK is not currently providing financial or logistical support to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1816 (2008), although we provide financial assistance in support of the African Union mission in Somalia (about £8 million in the last financial year). The EU General Affairs and External Relations Council of 16 June welcomed the unanimous adoption of the resolution and asked that all possible options are considered on how best to contribute to the implementation of the resolution. We will continue to work with our international partners to tackle the issue of piracy. The prevention of global conflict, which includes piracy, is a key foreign policy objective for the Government.
Dr. Howells: Sri Lanka is ranked at 156 out of 169 entries in the Reporters Sans Frontières Worldwide Press Freedom Index. We are concerned about a growing number of attacks and about incidents of intimidation against journalists. Our high commissioner in Colombo raised a number of these cases and the wider issue of media freedom with the Sri Lankan government earlier this month.
Meg Munn: The North and South Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) Commissions lead on DDR in Sudan with international support from the UN Integrated DDR Unit (UNIDDRU). The UK works closely with the Governments in the North and South, and the UN on DDR, and provides support for capacity building and reintegration expertise in the North and South DDR Commissions and in the UNIDDRU. The parties have agreed a national DDR plan and reintegration policy which provides DDR support for 182,900 ex-combatants, equally split between north and south, over four years. This will be a complex and expensive process requiring commitment from both the Government of National Unity and the international community.
Meg Munn: We are aware of reports of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks in southern Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic which have had a detrimental effect on security in those countries.
The Juba peace process has, over the past two years, increased peace and security in northern Uganda and the surrounding region. The draft Final Peace Agreement between the Ugandan Government and the LRA represents a considerable achievement. The Government have called for it to be signed as soon as possible while recognising that full implementation will depend on the agreement of all parties.
Meg Munn [holding answer 19 June 2008]: Government officials continue to attend all meetings that deal with the preparations for the Durban Review Conference. The most recent discussions have focused on practical arrangements and procedures for the Review Conference, rather than on substance.
Meg Munn [holding answer 20 June 2008]: The EU Common Position consists of a travel ban and asset freeze on Robert Mugabe and 130 people associated with his regime, most of whom are members of ZANU-PF. Targeted measures are designed to impact on the regime, not on the general population of Zimbabwe. Consistent with this, there are no EU or UK specific economic sanctions that prevent British companies from trading in Zimbabwe.
Mr. Douglas Alexander: The Department for Education (DoE) in Helmand collects information on education in Helmand. While data collection has improved recently, historical data are incomplete.
According to the DoE, there are currently 224 registered schools in Helmand, 29 of them secondary schools. There is one teacher-training college, one agricultural college and one technical college. However, only around 50 of these schools are open and active, three of them secondary schools.
There are no figures for Garmsir, Dishu, Kaneshin, Kajaki or Washir districts.
Where schools have closed due to the security situation in Helmand, it is common for informal education to run out of houses or in mosques. Some communities have been seeking to formalise such arrangements as outreach classes connected to hub schools in accordance with the National Strategy for Education, allowing the use of the formal curriculum and textbooks.
Mr. Douglas Alexander: There has been no general research commissioned on this subject. However, a study has been carried out on ecosystems and poverty alleviation in South Asia. This was completed in April 2008. Under the Sustainable Development Dialogue with China, we will be carrying out a joint research project with the Chinese on how to achieve sustainable long-distance fisheries.
Mr. Douglas Alexander: DFID is supporting action on HIV and AIDS through its country programmes in Burma, Cambodia, China, Indonesia and Vietnam. In Burma, DFID is contributing funds through a £20 million contribution to a $100 million joint donor health fund, which includes support to activities in line with the national strategic plan for HIV prevention, treatment and care. In Cambodia, DFID has provided £15.6 million over five years to support the Government of Cambodia's response to HIV and AIDS, and £7.1 million for support to condom social marketing, which is aimed at improving condom use among high risk groups. In China, DFID is providing £30 million over four and a half years to help the Government of China's national HIV and AIDS programme. This is part of a £92 million programme that is also supported by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. In Indonesia, DFID has contributed £25 million over three years through the Indonesia Partnership Fund, which supports a National Action Framework on HIV and AIDS. In Vietnam, DFID is contributing £17 million over five years in a joint HIV prevention programme with Norway.
Mr. Douglas Alexander: The Department for International Development (DFID) is supporting a £2.5 million regional Save the Children programme to work against the trafficking and exploitation of migrant and vulnerable children. The programme operates in six countries in south-east Asia: Thailand, China, Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Vietnam. The goal of the programme is to ensure that effective mechanisms are established to protect vulnerable in-country and cross-border migrant children from harm, abuse, and exploitation, particularly trafficking. Models of child protection systems are being developed and promoted for the children most at risk as a result of in-country and cross-border migration.
Mr. Douglas Alexander: A 250-strong Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-United Nations (UN) assessment team is currently in country working alongside the UN, INGOs and government to carry out needs assessments in cyclone-affected areas. Their first report is expected on 24 June, and this will provide us with information about reconstruction requirements. We are aware that there are likely to be significant longer-term reconstruction needs and will consider options for assisting with reconstruction. But our current focus is on responding to the immediate humanitarian effects and needs for relief and early recovery.
£2,550,000 is planned for 2008-09.
This does not include wider dedicated support for HIV, reproductive health and maternal mortality reduction.


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Britain At War Team Produce WWI Commemorative Edition
February 2, 2014 June 18, 2020 Jonny Mardling	0 Comments	'first world war', 'great war', 'world war one', wwi
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the team at Britain at War Magazine have produced a 132 page highly illustrated special edition.
There had never been such an outpouring of national pride, of unqualified patriotism. Every level of society embraced the cause and offered up its sons and husbands. That cause was war. Germany had to be stopped.
Few could ever have imagined the consequences of the decision to declare war on Germany. A great clash of armies was expected with one conclusive battle to decide the fate of Europe; no-one anticipated four years of global warfare that would cost the lives of millions of soldiers and civilians. It changed the world forever.
It seems hard to equate all this with the shooting of an Austrian Archduke in a city more than 1,200 miles away in a city scarcely heard of in Britain. Yet within weeks Britain and its Empire was at war.
If the rush to arms of the young men of Britain was unprecedented, it was matched by those in Australia and New Zealand and Canada. From across the Empire thousands responded to the call to arms. Soon the women too would take their place in the hospitals at home and abroad; in the factories and the fields.
As well as inducing social change, the war drove innovation. Aircraft filled the skies, super-dreadnaughts menaced the oceans, tanks rumbled across the fields; gas drifted over the trenches.
It was those trenches that stretched across northern France and Belgium, for which the First World War has become synonymous. From these Kitchener's New Army went "over the top" to destruction during the Battle of the Somme and found themselves waterlogged at Ypres where the men were up to their necks in "muck and bullets". Such were the conditions the soldiers often had to live and fight in, the men found expression in some of the most graphic poems ever penned. Others, just a few, whose minds could no longer take the terror, were branded cowards and were shot at dawn.
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class ApplicationImpl;
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namespace web_view {

class Frame;
class FrameDevToolsAgent;
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class HTMLMessageEvent;
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  void Find(const mojo::String& search_text, bool forward_direction) override;
  void StopFinding() override;
  void GoBack() override;
  void GoForward() override;

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  void OnWindowDestroyed(mus::Window* window) override;

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};

}  // namespace web_view

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A Closer Look at the Management of Advanced Testicular Cancer
Topolsky, David MD
Oncology Times: May 5, 2018 - Volume 40 - Issue 9 - p 1,10-11
doi: 10.1097/01.COT.0000533686.86874.d2
Risk Stratification
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Testicular germ cell cancer remains one of the most curable solid tumors with an overall survival of over 95 percent. In 2017, there were an estimated 8,850 new cases and 400 deaths resulting from germ cell tumors in the U.S. (CA Cancer J Clin 2018;68:7).
Like most solid tumors, initial prognosis and treatment decisions are primarily based on histology and stage. Testicular cancer staging uses the TNM system as well as serum tumor marker status with overall stages ranging from 0 to IIIC (AJCC Cancer Staging Manuel, Eighth Edition: Springer, NY:727).
Pathologically they are divided into pure seminoma and non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCT). Based on these two criteria, testicular cancer can be divided into early and advanced groups. Generally speaking, advanced testicular germ cell tumors can be defined as:
Spread to retroperitoneal nodes (if greater than 2 cm) or any other location (IIb/c or III)
Persistence of abnormal tumor markers post orchiectomy if cN0M0 (Is)
Primary mediastinal or retroperitoneal location
Selected stage IIa seminomas not treated with radiation or IIa NSGCT not treated with retroperitoneal node dissection
Recurrence following initial cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy
Patients who are considered to have advanced disease should then be risk stratified based on the International Germ Cell Cancer Collaborative Group (IGCCCG), which is based on histology (seminoma vs. NSGCT); primary site (testicular/retroperitoneal vs. mediastinal); metastatic sites of involvement (lung and/or nodes vs. other visceral sites); and tumor marker level on day one of systemic therapy and after initial orchiectomy.
This separates advanced seminomas into good and intermediate and NSGCT into good, intermediate, and poor risks groups. This stratification, using clinical data collected from 1975 thru 1990, resulted in distinct prognostic groups with 5-year progression-free survival/overall survival (PFS/OS) of 88/91 percent, 75/79 percent, and 41/48 percent for good, intermediate, and poor risk groups respectively (J Clin Oncol 1997;15:594).
Reassessment of the IGCCCG risk stratification system has been reviewed given the changes in treatment and supportive care over the past 25 years with the recognition that there has been improvement in outcome over that time, especially in the intermediate and poor risk groups (Ann of Oncol 2018;29(2):347-351). Investigators are currently evaluating additional prognostic factors to better define the intermediate and poor risk groups, which may lead to different treatment strategies for these patients (Clin Genitourin Cancer 2017;15(2):306-312.e3). Under the guidance of the Global Germ Cell Cancer Group, there is a planned IGCCCG update initiative underway.
Indiana University recently reported a reevaluation of the IGCCCG risk stratification using their single institution data from 1998 thru 2014, confirming its ongoing validity noting an improvement in all groups, but was most profound for the intermediate and poor risk groups (Ann Oncol 2018;29(2):341-346). Despite this improvement, the poor risk group continued to have a relatively low 5-year PFS/OS of 54/73 percent versus 97/90 percent for the good risk group. It was suggested that the improvement in outcome over the different time frames was a result of multiple factors, including uniform use of cisplatin/etoposide-based chemotherapy, improved supportive care, aggressive post-chemotherapy surgical resection of residual lesions, and treatment at a large volume center with extensive experience with this patient population.
Initial systemic treatment for advanced testicular germ cell cancer patients is primarily determined by the risk stratification status as opposed to histology. Cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy is clearly the treatment of choice for all patients; for good risk patients, bleomycin/etoposide/cisplatin (BEP) or etoposide/cisplatin (EP) are the options almost exclusively used. This was confirmed by Feldman in a MEDLINE and Cochrane Database review which showed at least a 90 percent durable complete response with either three cycles of BEP or four cycles of EP (JAMA 2008;299(6):672-684).
For this group of patients we use BEP x three cycles and reserve EP x four cycles for patients with impaired pulmonary function, are at high risk to develop pulmonary symptoms, or who have lifestyles that even small decreases in pulmonary function would be likely to result in a large impact on quality of life.
In intermediate and high-risk patients, it is clear that more aggressive systemic therapy is needed to maximize both disease-free survival (DFS) and OS. BEP remains the most common regimen used, but four cycles as opposed to three are clearly needed (Eur Urol 2015;68(6):1054-1068). An alternate regimen of etoposide/ifosfamide/cisplatin (VIP) has also been shown to be effective in this group of patients (Cancer 2003;97(8):1869-1875). Like EP in good risk patients, VIP is most commonly used in patients who have a relative contraindication to bleomycin secondary to the presence of, or with a high risk from, developing pulmonary disease.
Because poor risk patients still have a relatively low rate of durable complete responses to either BEP or VIP for four cycles, other treatment options need to be found. The combination of paclitaxel/ifosfamide/cisplatin (TIP) was reported to show an excellent response rate (80% with 68% CR/12% PR negative) and estimated 3-year DFS/OS (72/91%) in intermediate and poor risk patients as first-line therapy (J Clin Oncol 2016;34(21);2478-2483). A TIP versus BEP clinical trial is planned (NCT01873326), but is not yet accruing patients.
Another avenue to improve response in these patients is to identify the subset of patients who will not do well with standard BEP x four cycles. The GETUG 13 trial evaluated the rate of tumor marker decline following the first dose of BEP and then randomized those with an unfavorable decline to three additional cycles of BEP versus a dose-dense regimen including paclitaxel, cisplatin, etoposide, oxaliplatin, ifosfamide, and bleomycin. There was an improvement in 5-year PFS but not in OS in this trial (J Clin Oncol 2016; doi:10.1200/JCO.2016.34.15_suppl.4504).
The other patients in the advanced testicular group are those who have primary cisplatin refractory disease (progression on or relapse within 4 weeks of completion) or relapsed disease (recurrent disease following CR occurring at least 4 weeks post completion of previous treatment). Initial early-stage patients who are chemotherapy-naïve should be treated as described above or considered for retroperitoneal lymph node dissection if appropriate.
Those recurring following previous cisplatin-based therapy should be considered for potentially curative salvage systemic treatment. One option is a second cisplatin containing regime usually using alternate drugs not used in the initial treatment commonly VIP (J Clin Oncol 1986;4(4):528-536), TIP (JClin Oncol 2005;23(27):6549-6555), or VeIP (vinblastine/ifosfamide/cisplatin) (J Clin Oncol 1998;16(7):2500-2504). The other strategy is high-dose chemotherapy (HDC), usually carboplatin/etoposide and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) either up-front or following a variable number of standard-dose cycles of platinum-based therapy.
While it is not clear if one of these approaches is superior in relapsed disease, in patients with refractory disease standard-dose chemotherapy is rarely curative. There is only one randomized trial directly comparing standard dose versus HDC and autologous HSCT which did not show a difference in ORR, event-free survival, or 3-year OS in the two arms (Ann Oncol 2005;16(7):1152-1159). In this trial, all patients received initial standard-dose chemotherapy and only those that responded were eligible for HSCT.
Lorch, et al (J Clin Oncol 2011;29(16):2178-2184), presented a retrospective analysis using an international database from 38 centers including 1,594 patients who were stratified into five prognostic groups from very low to very high risk (J Clin Oncol 2010;28(33):4906-4911). Patients totaling 773 received standard-dose chemotherapy and 821 received HDC; there was a statistically significant improvement in PFS and OS in all but the very low risk group noted.
Conversely, a retrospective review of 59 studies reported by Petrelli, et al, which included 1,781 patients treated with standard dose and 2,447 with high-dose therapy failed to show a difference in outcome based on treatment (Med Oncol 2017;34(8):133). Currently, the TIGER Trial (NCT02375204), an international collaborative study comparing standard dose combination versus high dose chemotherapy with HSCT in relapsed and refractory germ cell tumors is underway and will hopefully answer this question.
For patients who do not achieve a CR or relapse following initial salvage the prognosis is poor, with this group accounting for the majority of the deaths secondary to germ cell cancer. These patients are rarely if ever cured so the use of single agent chemotherapy with activity for palliation can be used in patients with poor performance status. Drugs that fit this category include oxaliplatin, gemcitabine, and paclitaxel, which have been reported in phase II trials to have objective response rates of 10-35 percent but with rare complete responses reported. Newer single agent chemotherapies being evaluated include irinotecan and cabazitaxel (Exp Rev Anticancer Ther 2018;18(4):389-397).
In patients that continue to have adequate organ function and good performance status combination chemotherapy, most commonly gemcitabine/oxaliplatin/paclitaxel (GOP) has been reported having an objective response rate of 51 percent with an occasional CR (Ann Oncol 2008;19(3):448-453). If HSCT has not been utilized, it can be considered in appropriate patients, and in a retrospective study by Einhorn, et al, they did report 45 percent of patients receiving transplant as third-line therapy were disease free during the follow-up period (N Engl J Med 2007;357(4):340-348).
Finally, new and novel agents are needed for this small subset of patients. Several molecularly targeted therapies have been and continue to be evaluated in this setting.
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibition have so far failed to result in meaningful responses (Exp Rev Anticancer Ther 2018;18(4):389-397). Interestingly CD30 protein is found on embryonal cells and some seminoma cells. Necchi, et al, presented at ASCO 2016 the preliminary results of a phase II trial of brentuximab vendotin showing high response rates in the first nine patients, but they were of short duration (J Clin Oncol 2016; doi:10.1200/jco.2016.34.2_suppl.480).
The first prospective trial of unselected patients given the PD-1 drug pembrolizumab has failed to show any response in 12 patients (Ann Oncol 2018;29(1):209-214). Presently there is interest and activity in evaluating other potential targets including EGFR, mTOR, MAPK, RAS, BRAF, MEK, and PARP in this population.
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Indiana Voter Database "Riddled With Errors" Including 1,000s Of Dead Voters And Duplicate Registrations
For years the political elites, backed by funding from George Soros, have fought common sense voter ID laws as blatant attempts of racist right wingers to suppress the votes of minority and low-income citizens. These same people tirelessly argue that there is no evidence of voter fraud despite the mountain of facts that keeps piling up the contrary. The latest evidence comes from Indiana, where CBS points out that the state's voter registration database, like many others around the country, are "riddled with errors" including 1,000s of duplicate registrations and dead voters.
A data analysis firm hired by a voter registration group said on Tuesday that Indiana's voter database is riddled with errors, including thousands of people over the age of 110 who would likely be deceased but are still on the registration list.
TargetSmart conducted a review of the state voter file maintained by Republican Secretary of State Connie Lawson's office on behalf of Patriot Majority, a voter registration group with deep ties to the Democratic Party that says it was trying to register black voters in Indiana. Patriot Majority has been the focal point of a state police probe of possible voter fraud. The group said the discovery of numerous problems in the voter database does not necessarily mean this was the result of fraud.
TargetSmart said it also found 837,000 voters with out-of-date addresses when compared to the United States Postal Service address database, or roughly one-in-five of all Indiana registered voters. The review found 4,556 duplicate registrations, 3,000 records without dates of birth and 31 records of registered voters who are too young to cast a ballot. More than 2,500 people on the rolls were listed over the age of 110.
Meanwhile, Christian Adams, former Voting Section Attorney at the US Department of Justice under George Bush, recently highlighted on Fox News the inexplicable reluctance of politicians to clean up the voter roles.
"Dead people are voting and it's something this administration does not want to do anything about. They must like it. They must like who they are voting for… Now we have four million, four million Steve, ineligible and dead voters on American voter rolls according to the Pew Charitable Trust."
As we've noted before, according to research conducted by the Pew Center in 2012, the capacity for voter fraud across the U.S. is substantial with nearly 2mm dead people found to be registered and nearly 3mm people registered in multiple states.
Approximately 24 million—one of every eight—voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate
More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters
Approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state
But something tells us, no matter how many of these types of situations emerge over and over, that U.S. citizens, and common sense for that matter, will never prevail in the war against George Soros and the simple political narrative that voter I.D. laws and other practical solutions are somehow racist and/or disenfranchise low-income voters.