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'The curve is flattening': Germany reports signs that Covid-19 resurgence is easing
AFP/The Local - [email protected] • 12 Nov, 2020 Updated Thu 12 Nov 2020 13:06 CEST
Germany is seeing tentative signs that a surge in coronavirus infections may be easing, the head of the country's disease control agency RKI said Thursday. But the situation is still serious.
"What makes me cautiously optimistic is the fact that the number of cases is currently no longer rising so steeply," RKI chief Lothar Wieler said at a press conference on Thursday.
"The curve is flattening," he added. However, the incidence of infections is still increasing practically all over Germany and the situation remains serious, he said.
The reasons for the flattening of the curve are still unclear, according to the RKI. It is possible that the stricter measures imposed for the month of November are beginning to take effect.
It is also possible, however, that laboratory capacities are exhausted and that the number is therefore no longer rising strongly. "We do not yet know whether this is a stable development," said Wieler.
"But this shows we are not helpless against this virus" and that restrictions such as social distancing and mask wearing can help halt the march of Covid-19, he said.
READ ALSO: Germany sees 'signs of change' in coronavirus situation
'We must prevent the situation from deteriorating'
On Thursday Germany reported 21,866 new infections over the last 24 hours, according to RKI data. This is around 3,400 more new infections than the day before, when almost 18,500 new cases of infection were recorded.
But the key reproduction figure has fallen below 1 to 0.89, meaning that 100 people are infecting 89 others – a sign that the new cases are falling.
While new infections might be starting to slow, the Robert Koch Institute chief said the situation could worsen in the coming weeks in hospitals, which may "reach their limits".
A sign urging people to wear a mask in Erfurt, Thuringia. Photo: DPA
"We must prevent the situation from deteriorating," he said, stressing Germany's aim is to bring infection numbers down to a level that the healthcare system can cope with.
READ ALSO: How close is Germany to receiving a Covid-19 vaccination?
Wieler urged Germans to keep social contacts to a minimum, saying the measures would still be necessary even if there is a vaccine because it will take time to roll out the jabs.
Germany reimposed tough measures this month to help slow the outbreak, with restaurants, bars, leisure and cultural centres closing.
'A long time'
Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to hold a new round of talks with regional leaders of Germany's 16 states on Monday to take stock of the situation and examine if the restrictions should be maintained or toughened.
Taking questions during a citizens' dialogue, Merkel told a Bavarian hotel manager that if people behaved "reasonably,... we might have a chance" of slowly re-opening in December.
But the veteran leader has also begun managing Germans' expectations for Christmas, saying that she could foresee small family gatherings but no lavish parties.
Health Minister Jens Spahn said it was clear that the Christmas festive season would be accompanied by restrictions.
The virus "takes a long time to brake," he told regional radio RBB.
"Even if we managed to bring the numbers down now, it doesn't mean that people can just get going everywhere again in December or January."
"Partying over Christmas like nothing is going on won't work," he warned.
For the Health Minister, parties with more than 10 people this winter are not on if Germany wants to keep the pandemic under control.
With an eye on rising infections in schools, several German states have mooted the idea of lengthening the Christmas vacation to keep the population home and break the chain of transmission.
Merkel has warned that only when 60 to 70 percent of the population has achieved immunity can Covid-19 be deemed to have been "more or less overcome".
READ ALSO: Pandemic will 'keep us busy all winter', warns Merkel
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The Last Exorcism Part II
The Last Exorcism Part II ditches the found footage format for relatively earnest but deadly tedious psychological terror that devolves into hokum anyways.
The Last Exorcism Part II Ratings & Reviews Explanation
The Last Exorcism Part II Photos
Continuing where the first film left off, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is found terrified and alone in rural Louisiana. Back in the relative safety of New Orleans, Nell realizes that she can't remember entire portions of the previous months only that she is the last surviving member of her family. Just as Nell begins the difficult process of starting a new life, the evil force that once possessed her is back with other, unimaginably horrific plans that mean her last exorcism was just the beginning. (c) CBS Films
PG-13 (for horror violence, terror and brief language)
Horror, Mystery & Suspense
Ed Gass-Donnelly
Damien Chazelle, Ed Gass-Donnelly
Mar 1, 2013 wide
Ashley Bell
as Nell Sweetzer
as Gwen
Spencer Treat Clark
as Chris
Louis Herthum
as Louis
as Calder
Tarra Riggs
as Cecile
Andrew Sensenig
Muse Watson
as Frank Merle
Erica Michelle
as Daphne
Boyana Balta
as Lily
Julian Garner
as Pastor
Sharice Williams
as Mo
Ashlynn Ross
Diva Tyler
News & Interviews for The Last Exorcism Part II
Critics Consensus: Jack the Giant Slayer is Fee-Fie-Fokay
Critic Reviews for The Last Exorcism Part II
A movie that doesn't go for the spectacular but slowly and surely a dullness pervades.
Jun 7, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
By the time the kamikaze crows start dive-bombing the church windows, and the shape-shifting demon appears in a hoody and a Venetian carnival mask, the whole thing has degenerated into a mumbo jumbo gumbo.
Nigel Floyd
It's a bit disconcerting seeing the words "Part II" here.
The movie bellyflops abysmally in its second half.
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
An inventive Satanic shocker, which is much more than we expected.
Martyn Conterio
A generally effective sequel.
Mar 6, 2013 | Full Review…
Dennis Harvey
Manages to replace pretty much everything good about the original with a string of horror movie cliches. This is a film that serves very little purpose, except perhaps to milk a few more bucks out of unsuspecting movie goers.
Apr 9, 2019 | Rating: D | Full Review…
Micheal Compton
It's like a protracted teen drama with a low-budget supernatural showdown tacked on the end.
Sep 5, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Metro (UK)
An earnest and well-made character-based horror flick that's simply not all that interesting.
Aug 24, 2015 | Full Review…
Scott Weinberg
TheHorrorShow
...belongs alongside the horror genre's myriad of other needless sequels...
Nov 24, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
Not a single aspect of this film suggests that anyone involved in the production cared.
Feb 20, 2014 | Rating: D- | Full Review…
Christopher Runyon
What do you call those guys who paint themselves silver and then stand still like statues? This has one of those. A threatening one. So, if that sounds up your alley...
Jul 28, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
Simon Miraudo
Audience Reviews for The Last Exorcism Part II
Putting aside how absurd a sequel to something called "The Last" anything sounds, here is my review of The Last Exorcism Part II: The film is not entirely without merits. There's a couple of seriously great visuals. The opening sequence is quite a strong scene and setup (despite this though, it is promptly dropped all together). Ashley Bell in the leas role has proved herself a more than capable character actor, and the effects quality (while not great) has taken a step up since the previous instalment. Aaaaand that's about every nice thing I can bring myself to say. Even before the mentions of salt lines and Croatoan I felt that it played out almost like an episode of Supernatural that's overly long and has intensely boring characters. Beyond links like this it still feels like an episode of a TV show. One that the events of which were initially meant to be crammed into the final five minutes of the penultimate episode for the season, but the show-runners realised that they were going to be an episode short for what they were commissioned to produce so the then had to stretch it out with fuller bullshit to make it into a full episode. Except that it's even worse, 'cause this isn't a twenty, thirty, forty or even fifty minute episode of something, it's a full hour and a half of crap, the previous "episode" of which we left behind three years ago. It was offensive to devotees of the original (if any besides me exist, if not then at least to me). And it brought nothing off even remote interest to any potential newcomers. I can understand dropping the found footage format of the first film, that way lies Paranormal Activity, and avoiding any similarities with that stream of garbage is always a good plan. But beyond that, all change is bad change, and almost all events of the predecessor are unceremoniously cast aside. I kept looking at the time while watching this and thinking to myself, "Wow it's a quarter of the way through and it's still just tension building", then "a third of the way through and it's still just tension building?" then half, then two thirds, then so and so forth until I got to the stage where there was nine minutes left and I realised that it wasn't "tension" at all, it was just lazy disjointed events that Botko and Gurland seem to think constitutes an actual film. I am a huge fan of suspense. Huge. But this was not suspense I felt, it was boredom. The payoff for which was a couple of seconds of poorly shot but semi-cool lead up to a potential third film the series doesn't deserve. So Part II? It was, truly awful. But it still in no way effects my opinion of the film this is a sequel to. The Last Exorcism, was, and remains a solid and original piece of cinema. 22% -Gimly
Gimly M Super Reviewer
Even worse than the first. Just terrible.
Erin C Super Reviewer
This supernatural horror is the sequel of The Last Exorcism which makes it after last... which makes the previous one not last, but this one is last... or there will be another one which will make those both titles obsolete, and the third one will be last... sorry - I could not resist! This film is co-written and directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, and Ashley Bell is in her old role in this continuation of the events from the 2010 movie with the same name (without part II). Compared to its predecessor, it is not presented in a found footage format, and it is not as appealing to the audience, except the repeated excellent performance of Ashley Bell. The story doesn't help you get involved and most of the time raises more questions than it answers. Somehow, the ending was left open, and until then most of the movie was filled with horror clichés with no motivation to go for real imaginative scares. Some parts were on the edge, but most of the time everything was familiar and there are no surprises - this part was not at all as ambitious as its predecetor. Effects were not bad, but, again, I wished for something exciting... and there was nothing at the end. Just an average horror which is far from what should be associated with the name Exorcism, regarding the quality!
Panta O Super Reviewer
* This sequel is a complete waste of time. It picks up with Nell at a safe house in New Orleans, and the demon comes back for her. It isn't in POV like the first movie, and honestly doesn't have any real scary/creepy moments too it. Hell, they don't really address much of anything from the events of the first movie. It as is someone said "make a sequel!" so they rushed it and didn't put any creativity into it. The said "we'll just have Nell movie and forget everyone else." By the end, it isn't shocking or anything, your just ready for it to be over. Kind of boring, and after re-watching the first one, I thought they could have done so much more with it than what they did. They did leave it open for a third, but really, who would want to see it after this? Skip it, and just stick to the first one.
Everett J Super Reviewer
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2017 Portuguese Slasher by José Pedro Lopes.
THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS is a 2017 Portuguese slasher film directed by José Pedro Lopes. There's plenty of gore and a lot to like about this film. There's also a lot more to question in terms of the film's overall direction; leaving it as something more to be desired.
The 2017 Brooklyn Horror Festival has come and gone. This was actually my first time attending the festival. The overall vibe of the venue was one of excitement. I was among that excited bunch, as I had heard quite a bit of hype surrounding that particular day's premier: THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS, a Portuguese slasher film directed by José Pedro Lopes.
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THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS takes place in a fictional forest somewhere in or around Portugal. That forest is known locally as a place where "lost souls" go to commit suicide. The film stars Daniela Love as Carolina, a young woman who apparently visits the forest frequently. Her co-star for at least 1/3 of the film is Jorge Mota as Ricardo, a father still grief stricken over the loss of his daughter Irene (portrayed by Lilia Lopes). Carolina and Ricardo meet one another at, presumably, the darkest point of each others lives. Both are intent on committing suicide, meeting in the forest seemingly by way of a chance encounter.
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Should I see THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS?
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The Idiotic Shipping Hall of Shame and a Call to Online Retailers
Adam Frucci
Yesterday, I asked you guys to send in pictures of examples of wasteful shipping habits from online retailers that you've bought things from. You came through in spades. When you see just one example of Dell sending a flash drive in a box big enough for a laptop you think it's an amusing fluke or a mistake; but when you see this many, you know it's a pattern. Take a look at the Hall of Shame below, and then let's figure out how to change this lousy practice.
WalMart.com and NewEgg Join Dell in the Irresponsible Shipping Hall of Shame
Yesterday, I showed you how Dell irresponsibly ships tiny flash drives in gigantic boxes, giving…
As I said before, the problem with shipping tiny objects in large boxes has very little to do with the extra cardboard included in the box, which is easily recyclable. While sometimes these boxes are full of Styrofoam peanuts or some other environment-raping material, the real damage being done by this shipping method is in the transit itself.
When a company like Dell or Amazon is shipping out thousands of small objects in large boxes every day, it takes up room on UPS and FedEx trucks. Clearly, many more trucks need to be on the road, consuming gas and pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, to get these to where they need to go. If padded mailers or more appropriately sized boxes were used, it would allow for many more to fit in each truck, cutting down on the greenhouse gases emitted every day by shipping companies.
What we need are promises from online retailers that they'll start being smarter about how they send things. I don't expect there to be a perfectly sized box for every item you sell; it's never going to be perfect. But with electronics getting smaller and smaller, it just makes sense to have small boxes on hand that can fit things like thumb drives, memory, cables, CDs and other such products. Oftentimes, padded mailers can be used for items unlikely to be damaged during transit, such as thumb drives.
Who will be the first retailer to make a strong commitment to responsible shipping? One that will take this problem seriously and not just provide lip service while they continue to fill gas-guzzling UPS trucks with boxes that are 90% empty? It's a problem that demands attention. Even if it's not the most glamorous or exciting thing in the world, having a company who ships as many things as Amazon or Dell commit to a more responsible practice would have a serious impact on the amount of gas being consumed and CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere. Let's make this happen.
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Never heard of Hollywood Dave Stann? Well, to blackjack players he's a god. Known for his flamboyant hair and combative attitude at the table, Stann recently transformed into a student of poker (after getting tired of being thrown out of casinos) and has had some big scores in the past year. Ante Up's Chris Cosenza was happy to see Stann sit next to him on a break at the WSOP, and they chatted about his struggles as a banned blackjack player, being Annie Duke's pupil and how Black Friday wrecked his world.
You gained prominence as a world-class blackjack player, but then you became a poker player. Why? I can't really play blackjack anymore. I'm friends with Annie Duke, and at the time we were doing the Ultimate Blackjack Tour, so I decided I would trade blackjack and poker lessons with her. She went on to win a decent amount in blackjack, but I more than made up for that. I made a ton more in poker so I got the better end of that deal for sure (laughs). … You know you can't play blackjack anymore when you go to a continent that you've never been to and you check into a hotel you've never been at and they're meeting you in the lobby and telling you that you can't play.
What's the best piece of poker advice Annie ever gave you? You respect certain things like position and the math, which doesn't necessarily mean you can't still be a complete maniac. It's pure theory. So she might have given me her theory but she didn't give me her playbook in terms of how she might play certain hands. So I guess if there's one piece of advice I got from her that I incorporated into my own game it's to never lose sight of the fundamentals, but within that you can make your game as wide or as tight as you want it to be.
I like having this slow-control edge over time with the limit mixed game. I just slipped into playing with two or three razz regulars there, not the best players, and for a couple of years I must've played like three or four tables a day heads-up for just hundreds of thousands of hands of razz. And there are so many multilevels of weird bluffs and semibluffs and things that people don't even realize. … People tend to think of it as this boring game. … But because people haven't really delved into it there's such a sick edge you can get over time in that game that makes you almost unbeatable. I just wish it was more popular.
How did the online shutdown affect you? It really affected me. Aside from having my (UB.net) contract ripped up because I'm an American player, I was also working behind the scenes with UB to develop their tournament blackjack platform, which they had for years but were doing nothing with.
About eight or nine months before Black Friday they finally said, "All right, Dave, transform this; remake this." We were two weeks away from relaunching, in my opinion, the coolest (site); weekly, monthly, guarantees, huge events, satellites into monster events, tons of promotion.
The press releases were written, the website content was all rewritten and ready to be refreshed at the push of a button. We were that close and all the affiliates were all lined up. So for me it was like nine months of serious behind-the-scenes work and I have nothing to show for it.


Since graduating from Solent University in 2004, Ricky has gathered a wealth of knowledge and understanding about the body and musculoskeletal system. He worked for many years as Personal Trainer, a Fitness Instructor and a Swimming Teacher. He currently works as a Sports Coach and a Clinical Sport & Remedial Massage therapist and has now joined Jonathan at his clinic based at the University of Southampton.
Ricky studied at the London School of Sports Massage and graduated with an ISRM / BTEC (Level 5) Professional Diploma in Clinical Sport & Remedial Massage Therapy, allowing him to work to the highest level within the industry.
Ricky has had a passion for sport and the body since his youth when he swam competitively for his county and went on to be selected to join the National swimming squad. He has used his knowledge and experience to advise others in the field of sport and fitness, including health and nutrition. Through his experience and training, Ricky has learnt about the importance of massage therapies for rehabilitation and performance enhancement in competitive and recreational sports.
Ricky has developed an array of skills and techniques to effectively treat a wide range of patients, from elite athletes with sporting injuries to people from all walks of life with postural imbalances and soft tissue injuries. Ricky is highly professional and the quality and care he provides ensures the patients are as comfortable as possible while promoting quick and effective recovery to any injury scenario.
In his spare time, Ricky enjoys keeping fit and healthy, he always makes time for family and friends and gets a great deal of pleasure in entertaining people. He has travelled to many beautiful countries, dived with sharks, done a sky dive, bungee jump and worked on a ski season.
Many years ago, after a fall from a horse, I was treated by a Sports Masseur who worked with Atletico Madrid football club and he had his own 'cabinet' of physiotherapy. He was the best I have known – until now! Thank you Ricky! You really found the source of the problem!


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namespace Sentient\Cms\Data\Metadata\Query;

use Doctrine\Common\Annotations\Annotation;
use Doctrine\Common\Annotations\Reader;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
use Sentient\Data\Metadata\Query\GetEntityNameQuery;
use Sentient\Data\Metadata\QueryInterface;

/**
 * Class GetCmsEntitySlugQuery
 * @package Sentient\Cms\Data\Metadata\Query
 */
class GetCmsEntitySlugQuery implements QueryInterface {

	/**
	 * @var GetCmsEntityQuery
	 */
	protected $reader;

	/**
	 * @var \Sentient\Data\Metadata\Query\GetEntityNameQuery
	 */
	protected $entityNameQuery;

	/**
	 * @param Reader $reader
	 * @param GetEntityNameQuery $entityNameQuery
	 */
	public function __construct(
		Reader $reader,
		GetEntityNameQuery $entityNameQuery
	) {
		$this->reader = $reader;
		$this->entityNameQuery = $entityNameQuery;
	}

	/**
	 * {@inheritdoc}
	 */
	public function getName() {
		return 'getCmsEntitySlug';
	}

	/**
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	public function getResult(ClassMetadata $classMetadata, array $options = []) {
		$cmsEntity = $this->reader->getClassAnnotation(
			$classMetadata->getReflectionClass(),
			'Sentient\\Cms\\Data\\Metadata\\Annotation\\CmsEntity'
		);
		if(!empty($cmsEntity->slug)) {
			return $cmsEntity->slug;
		}
		return $this->entityNameQuery->getResult($classMetadata);
	}

}

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A Will is a valuable and flexible legal document that can carry out your wishes regarding the distribution of your assets after your death. It also dictates who you want to handle your affairs, after you die, and can designate a guardian for minor children as well.
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Due to the uniqueness of each case, wills and trusts need to be tailored to meet specific needs and circumstances of each client and require the help of experienced estate planning attorneys to achieve desired results.
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Announcing Starfinder, a New Interactive Alexa Game
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The first three episodes of Starfinder are available starting now. The Starfinder skill for Alexa is a multi-part interactive audio adventure game that transports players to a futuristic science-fantasy world where they can make decisions to advance and influence the outcome of the story just by using their voice. By simply saying "Alexa, play the Starfinder game," customers can play one of the most captivating audio games available on Alexa-enabled devices today. Paizo, the team responsible for the popular Starfinder tabletop game, and Amazon collaborated to reimagine the game for Alexa. Pre-existing fans of the roleplaying game will enjoy this new extension of the familiar world, but previous experience with source material is not required.
Starfinder features an exceptional voice cast of 13 actors, including Nathan Fillion (The Rookie, Castle, and Firefly) and Laura Bailey (The Last of Us Part II). Casting was led by Audible Studios– featuring some of their most popular performers, with almost 2,000 audiobook performances between them. Starfinder's script exceeds 745 pages and took a combined 125 hours in the studio to record all of the possible twists and turns, resulting in up to 13 hours of gameplay.
The free-to-play pilot episode of Starfinder, "Scoundrels in the Spike," debuted in December 2019 and was well-received by Alexa users, with a 4.6/5 stars rating. "I love this game!!! The narration is wonderful, and the sound effects are on point. The voice acting is like watching a movie. I can't wait for the rest of the game to come out!" said an Amazon customer in a review following the debut of the pilot.
"The Starfinder skill for Alexa is a great example of how audio and voice-enabled experiences can create immersive and ambient entertainment," says VP of Amazon Entertainment Devices and Services Marc Whitten, "We are thrilled with how incredible sci-fi storytellers and amazing voice talent bring this interactive adventure to life."
In today's stay-at-home culture, voice and smart speakers are quickly becoming an integral part of people's lives. Engagement on Alexa has nearly quadrupled over the last two years, with more than 100,000 Alexa skills available to date. With more and more customers embracing voice, Starfinder is launching at an ideal time, and Alexa provides a unique vehicle for this form of entertainment.
The pilot and episodes 1 to 3 of Starfinder are now available on any Alexa-enabled device, including Amazon Echo, Fire TV, and the Alexa mobile app (explore more Alexa-enabled devices here); players have numerous access points to the game and can resume playing whenever, wherever. Episodes 4 to 6 will be available in October. The pilot is free to play, and customers can purchase each episode for £1.99 or the full season for £9.99.
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Denis Umbertovich Valdez Perez (; born 26 February 1979 in Moscow) is a former Russian football player.

His father is from Spain and his mother is from Russia.

References

1979 births
Living people
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Footballers from Moscow
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Skin cancer is the commonest type of cancer in Australia, with Perth having one of the highest rates of diagnosis overall.
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can develop from the skin cells that give your skin colour (melanocytes). While most moles or freckles are safe, some moles may begin to change shape or colour, potentially resulting in melanoma.
The main cause of melanoma is ultraviolet exposure, either from the sun or from artificial sources of ultraviolet radiation (e.g. sunbeds). Considering many Perth people spend significant amounts of time outside, it's strongly recommended to get any suspicious moles or freckles examined as soon as possible by a skin cancer specialist.
Dr. David Colbert is a Specialist Plastic Surgeon with an interest in melanoma treatment. He is a member of the Western Australian Kirkbride Melanoma Advisory Service, which provides treatment advice to people in Perth with melanoma.
Melanoma can grow quickly if left untreated, and therefore needs to be removed as early as possible.
Your general practitioner or dermatologist may have already done a sample of the area (skin biopsy) to confirm that the lesion is melanoma.
Once this is confirmed a wider excision of the area is recommended to reduce the risk of melanoma recurring or spreading.
The exact nature of your operation will depend on the type, size, and location of the melanoma.
Smaller melanoma skin cancers may be removed under local anaesthesia (with you awake) and as day surgery, meaning you can go home the same day. The lesion is removed and sent to pathology laboratory for analysis, the incision is closed with sutures, with a dressing applied.
Larger melanoma skin cancers may be removed under local anaesthesia with some sedation, or sometimes under general anaesthesia (with you asleep). The lesion is removed and sent to pathology laboratory for analysis. Depending on the thickness of your melanoma lesion a sample of the lymph nodes (sentinel node biopsy) may be indicated. If the wound is too big to close directly with sutures then it may be reconstructed with a skin graft or flap. If any of these treatments are necessary then Dr Colbert will be discuss them with you before your operation.
Regular follow up is essential to assess for any recurrence or spread of the melanoma, and also to diagnose any other new melanoma lesions.
Scarring after melanoma surgery is a common question asked by patients in Perth.
While there will be a scar from where the melanoma was removed, as a plastic surgeon Dr Colbert will always aim to minimise scarring by using precise surgical techniques and by placing scars where they will be hidden.
Delayed wound healing: skin grafts may not completely 'take', resulting in further dressings being required until they heal.
Incomplete excision: there is a small risk (less than 1 in 20) that the lesion is incompletely excised at the time of surgery, resulting in further surgery being recommended.
Melanoma skin cancer surgery is like any surgical procedures in that it carries risks - therefore before having any operation you should always speak to an appropriately qualified health practitioner about these potential risks.
Costs associated with melanoma surgery in Perth can be confusing. To help make things clearer we have listed the the following fees that make up the final cost.
To arrange to speak to Dr Colbert about skin cancer surgery please contact our friendly office staff.


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Bastille are embracing the Doom Days
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Published: 1:28 pm, June 14, 2019Words: Abigail Firth. Photos: Sarah Louise Bennett.
Dork's sitting in a 'trendy' pizzeria in Hackney, looking for something other than craft beer to drink, with Dan Smith and Kyle Simmons 'out of' Bastille. It's the first time all day that they've been able to put their phones down, after spending even the seconds between photo shoot takes typing up content for their single, 'Joy', and new album announcements.
It might seem ironic then, that the title-track from their upcoming third album, 'Doom Days', released just a week prior, details phone addiction, with Dan singing: "I think I'm addicted to my phone, my scrolling horror show." In just over two minutes, the track rattles through topics – fake news, social media, ignorance – and instrumentals, acting as a blurb for the rest of the album.
It's been three years since Bastille last put out a full-length (2016's 'Wild World'), and while writing for 'Doom Days' began back at the start of last year, the title-track was written and recorded in three days before their album deadline. The first proper introduction to this new era is a side of Bastille that might have been missed by casual listeners on previous records. Though dealing with serious topics through the magic of pop songwriting is nothing new when it comes to Bastille's bangers – just look at 'The Currents', 'Warmth', 'Snakes' or basically anything else from 'Wild World', if you're in need of a good example – it hasn't been nearly as direct as on 'Doom Days'.
"It's quite different," says Dan. "I think perhaps the singles we've released before don't show the breadth of what we do on our albums and mixtapes, so it was exciting for us to be able to put it out. It's also a song that starts on the acoustic guitar and ends up as a full rave. It sort of shows in one song, it takes you through the sonics of a tune like '4AM' to 'Million Pieces' via quite a lot of song topics."
They've always been a band who want to do pop differently. When they scored their first proper hit in 2013, it was about "ashy corpses years and years after the aftermath of a volcano, two dead people frozen in one position saying 'fuck me I'm bored'." Their songwriting is offbeat, and it's something that resonates with their diehard fans, now maybe they hope listeners outside of their tight-knit fan community will take note.
"That's maybe something that's been overlooked," Dan states. "We thought it'd be interesting to be direct and say stuff not a lot of other people are saying. People on the internet talk about it all the time but it's not necessarily in pop music, and it felt important to us to get to say all that stuff in a song that we love. Structurally it's really weird, and thematically, it's pretty odd."
Releasing 'Doom Days' brings us back to the universe Bastille started setting up over a year ago, when they released 'Quarter Past Midnight'. The first single, and first track of this album came with a music video where Dan shaves his head, obvs a clear indicator that a pop star is about to begin a new era. But a lot happened in that time that set back the release of 'Doom Days'.
"We always try and make it quick, but it always just ends up being about three years," notes Kyle. "As much as we try and change it, it just seems that that's how long it takes to get it all together properly."
"It's harder to release albums these days and have people give a fuck or even notice"
The recording of 'Doom Days' was the longest they'd all been in one place in over five years. It was made in One Eyed Jack's, a studio they'd built in South London that's also home to Dan's record label, which lent a hand when they wanted other voices on certain songs too.
"We wanted it to feel like a night out with a cast of characters and to use different sounds and feels and different voices to bring that to life," Dan says.
"And to bring the same voices in at different points of the album," Kyle adds, "so on different songs, it's still kind of 'oh yeah her from earlier on', that sort of stuff."
The album recording began in the first few months of 2018, but it wasn't long before the boys were on tour with a full orchestra and choir, which changed their perspective on what a third Bastille album would sound like.
"It was amazing and inspiring getting to be on a couple of tour buses with a bunch of musicians who come from a different place, musically, than we do," says Dan. "It made us want to bring some of that into the record, and having the tour to sort of step back from the album made us reassess things a bit.
"Our intentions initially were to do something quite quick - have a short album that would represent a short period in our lives and move onto the next thing. In the whole process taking a lot longer, we wanted to stop and make sure we said exactly what we wanted with the record. If it was gonna be something that's taken technically three years, it needed to feel relevant to us now, and that's why it was important for us to add 'Doom Days' onto the album."
So those choirs made their way onto the record, along with some new songs. Some tracks were taken off, and Dan took time out to write songs for other people, one of those being the global smash 'Happier' with producer Marshmello. 'Doom Days' also ended up being held behind so it got its own moment to shine, away from worldwide hits (they've got it hard these pop stars, you know), off-cycle tours and mixtape releases.
"'Happier' came along because it was a song for somebody else, that turned into a song for us, and it's the first time we've ever really done that. That was an interesting experience," says Dan.
"We're always working on new stuff; you just have to be adaptable and try to enjoy it. It's harder to release albums these days and have people give a fuck or even notice. We wanted to make sure if we put this much time and effort and love into something, that we're really excited about and proud of, that it would come out at a time where it wasn't overshadowed by other stuff that we were doing."
"'Happier' was us saying, let's write a fucking massive pop song"
In taking a little longer with the album process, 'Doom Days' has a little more creative meat on its bones. They've got a whole host of visual stuff based around the world of the album coming up, and of course, there's already been the tour.
"The album was supposed to be out last year. That makes sense, right?" Dan mentions. Yep, makes sense. The 'Still Avoiding Tomorrow' tour at the start of this year introduced fans to this new universe and the central concept of 'Doom Days' – a house party amidst the apocalypse – but also gave room for both the band and the fans to celebrate the mixtapes too.
"We wanted to represent 'Doom Days' in spirit and visually, and via dropping a new song, '4AM', and a kind of alternative version of 'Million Pieces' and to play a bunch of songs off the mixtape that we'll probably never play again."
"It's also nice to give the mixtape its own space," Kyle adds, "because they're normally just for fun and a bit throwaway in the spectrum of things, but it was nice to let it have its space, while also setting up for the new album."
Dan continues: "I guess as we have been lucky enough to continue doing this, we realised more and more that we wanted to treat each tour as its own separate, self-contained thing - both for people that come to the shows and for us. For it to feel fresh and exciting and for it to feel like its own self-contained, artistic thing."
Of course, a lot has changed in the world outside of pop since the release of 'Wild World' too, and Bastille know that. They're conscious of it, and it's the reason 'Doom Days' exists.
"'Happier' is an example of us writing a relationship song very directly," Dan says. "That was us saying, 'Let's write a fucking massive pop song', and luckily it did well. And I can say this in retrospect, but it was almost like an exercise in writing a big pop song to show to ourselves that we can, and show to other people that we can do that, we're choosing not to. That's why it's important to us to write an album like 'Doom Days' that's quite conceptual and strange in places."
The way music and politics integrate has changed, especially following the aftermath of events like the Manchester attacks in 2017. It's something Bastille had their own experience with when they performed at Germany's Rock AM Ring festival the day after it was evacuated for a bomb threat, during their 'Wild World' tour, where the show was built around panic and paranoia – so 'Doom Days' takes on a different perspective, pushing for hope and escapism.
"It's interesting for us. When we released 'Wild World', on the eve of Brexit and Trump being elected, the second track on our album was a fuck you to Nigel Farage and Donald Trump. I remember at the time people were saying, 'Oh no one's really talking about politics', and we were there on the side lines like, ummm, we are.
"It's always complicated with politics and music," Dan ponders. "Politics is a bit too specific of a term because it's more just y'know, things outside of your own life. I think when people are trying to make money out of music they don't wanna offend anybody and that's always really tricky, but also music itself is a form of escapism. It should be cathartic, so not everyone wants to have a political opinion rammed down their throat. We're really aware of that."
"With this album, part of our desire to make something about escapism was, having toured 'Wild World' for a few years, we wanted to step away from those serious topics for a minute, but I guess we've tripped back into them. It's been really interesting over the last few years as things have gotten more bizarre and more turbulent to see that people want to talk more openly and clearly about what they think, and hopefully, that's not isolating for people.
"It's interesting, with the mainstreaming of grime, which is fucking incredible, it's a space where people are much more open to being really honest and really direct and a bit more political, and that's amazing. In pop music, maybe just cos there's less space for as many lyrics, it's harder to sing some of those things. That's why we wanted to treat 'Doom Days' as kind of a rap tune with loads of verses that just rolled on so we could say as much as we possibly could."
Having a concept to convey all of these ideas made it possible for the band to squash this many different themes and styles of music into eleven tracks. The first half of the record deals with escapism and running away from reality, which can also be read as the start of the night out. 'Doom Days' signals the turning point, the darkest hours, both metaphorically and literally within the story, and everything after that feels euphoric and hopeful.
"It's very much a British house party, rave, 90s, gritty album"
"We wanted the album to feel really diverse but incredibly cohesive in terms of what it's about, and have little inward looking Easter eggs. That really sums it up," Dan says of the concept. "Initially, we started out wanting to make a completely escapist, euphoric, like almost like retro rave record, and you can hear some of that in some of the breaks in a bunch of the tracks, but inevitably it deviated from that and became a much more wide-reaching record."
And that story of partying through the apocalypse isn't limited to a literal apocalypse. It can mean what you want it to mean. Those themes of social crises are grounded by personal stories.
"The intention was to make something that was kind of naïve in its desire to escape reality, but ultimately, like in life, the realities of relationship breakdowns and things happening in the news, they seep in. That desire to be completely naïve and escapist is ultimately borderline impossible, and we wanted to reflect that in the album as well."
As the record goes on, each song flips between looking outwards and inwards. 'Divide' tells the story of stopping someone getting in an Uber because you don't want them to leave, while, as Dan says, gestures towards his own feelings about Britain leaving the EU. 'Million Pieces' is a euphoric anthem that details wanting to stop discussing the news at a party. 'Those Nights' is as much about a one-night stand as it about needing human connection in times of crisis. 'Joy' is the celebratory closer about receiving a phone call that brings back a little hope. And the party that's going on throughout the record isn't the boys out on the town; it's a grubby British house party that ends on the kitchen floor.
"You wanna feel like the conversations are happening with three people sitting in an empty bathtub at three in the morning," Dan says. "I've been banging on about it being this apocalyptic party record for a while, and I just wanted to make very clear that it's not a hip-hop, EDM, US, popping bottles kinda party, it's very much a British house party, rave, 90s, gritty album. Because ultimately, being completely honest, we're in a band, but that's not our life. Even when we're on tour, we're hanging out with each other."
The release of 'Doom Days' is nowhere near where the story of it ends, though. There are more songs to come after the album ("hopefully"). There are five videos ready to go, with the promise of more visuals.
"Because of the concept of the album and how all of the songs are connected, it's a lot easier to grasp the sort of imagery for each of the songs," Kyle explains. "It's all roughly from the same palette, the same area, so it's easier to get that unification of them visually and sonically."
"On 'Doom Days'," Dan adds, "it's the first time I've ever sung to camera, which felt really weird. Obviously, that's not a big deal to anyone apart from us, but that felt quite weird. 'Those Nights', we wanted it to feel like a slightly more artistic statement; one of the videos we made was like a violent comedy. We just wanted to fuck around and try new things and push ourselves. And the video for 'Joy' is unlike anything we've ever done and will hopefully be really funny and effective."
There's another tour coming, a club nights tour that's already sold out, where Bastille will play tiny venues in towns outside of the usual touring circuit, complete with old school rave flyers as the tour posters. There's an experiential theatre piece that'll launch the album and culminate with them playing the album live in full.
"We've worked with a writer on an experiential launch event for our album, where it's basically a binaural sound 25-minute play that's an interpretation of the night out of the album, told from the perspective of three different characters," Dan explains.
"So you'll go into a room, there'll be props and actors and performers and projections, and you'll be wearing a pair of headphones, and you have three options. It's kind of like a silent disco, but with a narrative. You can choose whose version of events you want to hear and flick between them or choose one and go with it. We just wanted it to be this collective but individual experience, to sort of riff off the record, and expand on the world of it a bit, and try something new that we've never done before."
They've had a lot of fun with this album cycle so far, and as it all unravels, it's clear how thankful Bastille are to be able to create such immersive albums and experiences that are lapped up by legions of fans.
"We wanted to do something special and unique and a bit weird. We're so lucky that we get to make albums, but we're also really lucky that we get to make music videos and we want the worlds of the records we make to be as detailed as possible.
"I guess you've got to just assume that most people aren't ever gonna hear about those things but hopefully our fans will. The 800-1000 people that get to go into those shows will hopefully have an amazing time, and it'll be a one-off experience that will never be replicated. We just wanna make it as interesting and special as possible. At a time where music is coming in waves every week, it's important to, for us and our fans, commemorate this album because it could come and go in a flash."
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Vital Signs: Umbilically Speaking, Good Things For Those Who Wait
KERA | By Sam Baker
Published August 19, 2013 at 2:13 PM CDT
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Doctors usually clamp and cut the umbilical cord less than a minute after childbirth. But a study recently published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews suggests waiting longer would benefit a newborn. Dr. Sheri Puffer, an Ob-Gyn with Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, explains why in this edition of KERA's series Vital Signs.
Three Options To Consider About the Umbilical Cord
1. Doctors typically clamp and sever the cord less than a minute after childbirth. Results of the study suggest waiting longer – even as long three minutes – allows more blood to move from the placenta and helps boost iron stores and hemoglobin levels in newborns. However, the delay can lead to jaundice in some cases.
2. Some parents "bank" or store the cord blood for future use. The fetal stem cells have no disease ("clean cells", says Dr. Puffer) and can be used to treat various genetic disorders that affect the blood and immune system, leukemia and certain cancers, and some inherited disorders of body chemistry.
3. Doctors until recently discarded the cord, but research shows the cord tissue contain Mesenchymal Stem Cells (different from those found in cord blood), which have the potential for treating many diseases and for development into many types of connective tissue.
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Mandalay es un famoso poema escrito por Rudyard Kipling, escrito y publicado en 1890 y primero recopilado en la colección Barrack Room Ballads (Baladas de Barracón), publicada en 1892.

Mandalay, el título del poema, hace referencia a la antigua capital de la independiente Birmania, luego colonia británica entre los años 1885 a 1947. El primer verso habla de la Antigua Pagoda Moulmein, Moulmein es la forma inglesa del nombre Mawlamyine. El protagonista es un soldado "cockney" de clase trabajadora, de regreso en la Londres gris y restrictiva, que recuerda la época en la cual se sintió feliz junto a una chica birmana, ahora inalcanzablemente lejos.

Canción
El texto de Kipling fue adaptado para la canción "On the Road to Mandalay" por Oley Speaks, popularizada en el álbum Come Fly with Me por Frank Sinatra. La canción utiliza solamente el primer y último verso del poema, en el estribillo. La familia Kipling puso objeciones a la versión de Sinatra. Cuando el álbum fue distribuido en el Imperio Británico, se remplazó "On the Road to Mandalay" con "Chicago". Sinatra cantó la canción en Australia, en 1959, y relató las objeciones de la Familia Kipling para con la canción.

Texto completo del poema

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say:
"Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!"
                    Come you back to Mandalay,
                    Where the old Flotilla lay:
                    Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay?
                    On the road to Mandalay,
                    Where the flyin'-fishes play,
                    An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green,
An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat — jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen,
An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot,
An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot:
                    Bloomin' idol made o'mud —
                    Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd —
                    Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud!
                    On the road to Mandalay . . .

When the mist was on the rice-fields an' the sun was droppin' slow,
She'd git 'er little banjo an' she'd sing "Kulla-lo-lo!"
With 'er arm upon my shoulder an' 'er cheek agin' my cheek
We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin' teak.
                    Elephints a-pilin' teak
                    In the sludgy, squdgy creek,
                    Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak!
                    On the road to Mandalay . . .

But that's all shove be'ind me — long ago an' fur away,
An' there ain't no 'busses runnin' from the Bank to Mandalay;
An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London what the ten-year soldier tells:
"If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else."
                    No! you won't 'eed nothin' else
                    But them spicy garlic smells,
                    An' the sunshine an' the palm-trees an' the tinkly temple-bells;
                    On the road to Mandalay . . .

I am sick o' wastin' leather on these gritty pavin'-stones,
An' the blasted Henglish drizzle wakes the fever in my bones;
Tho' I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand,
An' they talks a lot o' lovin', but wot do they understand?
                    Beefy face an' grubby 'and —
                    Law! wot do they understand?
                    I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
                    On the road to Mandalay . . .

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst;
For the temple-bells are callin', an' it's there that I would be —
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at the sea;
                    On the road to Mandalay,
                    Where the old Flotilla lay,
                    With our sick beneath the awnings when we went to Mandalay!
                    On the road to Mandalay,
                    Where the flyin'-fishes play,
                    An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

Al pie de la pagoda de Moulmein, mirando perezosamente el mar,
se sienta una muchacha birmana y piensa en mi.
El viento en las palmeras, las campanas de los templos lo dicen:
"Vuelve, soldado inglés, regresa a Mandalay".
Regresa a Mandalay,
donde estaba la flota:
¿no oyes chapotear los remos desde Rangún a Mandalay?
Por el camino
juegan los peces voladores
y el amanecer llega de la China, como un trueno, cruzando la Bahía.

Llevaba un sombrerito verde y enaguas amarillas,
y se llamaba igual que la reina de Saba.
La primera vez que la vi fumaba un enorme cigarro
y malgastaba besos sobre el altar de un ídolo,
un ídolo de arcilla
al que llamaban Buda.
Vaya si se acordó de ningún ídolo cuando yo la besé,
en Mandalay...

Y cuando había niebla sobre los arrozales y se ponía el sol,
ella sacaba una especie de banjo pequeñito y cantaba.
O abrazados, mejilla con mejilla,
mirábamos los barcos de vapor,
los elefantes apilando troncos de teca
en el muelle fangoso,
en un silencio tan abrumador que daba miedo hablar.
En Mandalay...

Pero eso quedó atrás, hace ya mucho tiempo,
y no van autobuses del Bank a Mandalay.
En Londres he aprendido eso que dicen los soldados más viejos:
si has oído la llamada del Este, ya no puedes pensar en otra cosa.
Ya no piensas en nada
sino en esos olores a picante y especias,
y en el sol, las plameras y los templos.
En Mandalay...

Me aburre gastar suela sobre los adoquines
y esta llovizna inglesa me produce reuma.
Y aunque salgo con criadas de toda la ciudad
que hablan mucho de amor, qué sabrán ellas,
con esas caras gordas y mugrientas,
qué sabrán, comparadas
con la que tengo en una tierra más limpia y verde
y que, como su tierra, es más dulce y esbelta. En Mandalay...

Llevadme a cualquier sitio más al este de Suez, donde lo mejor y lo peor se igualan,
donde no hay mandamientos y hay sed de hombres.
Las campanas del templo están llamándome
allí, junto a la vieja pagoda junto al mar,
en Mandalay,
donde estaba la flota
con los enfermos bajo la toldilla, cuando íbamos de vuelta a Mandalay.
Por el camino juegan
los peces voladores
y el amanecer llega de la China, como un trueno, cruzando la Bahía.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Poemas de Rudyard Kipling


A plan to create uniform e-procurement processes across the EU has won "considerable support", the European Commission (EC) has said.
Publishing the responses to its e-procurement consultation, the EC found 53 per cent were in favour of making standardised e-procurement mandatory at an EU level, while 42 per cent were opposed to the idea. The remainder did not choose either option.
The publication of the 77 responses to the consultation, which ran from October 2010 until 31January this year, also revealed that almost 60 per cent who submitted comments consider "overcoming inertia and fear" to be the biggest barrier to the take-up of e-procurement and to cross-border participation in online buying. Other barriers were the "lack of standards" and "onerous technical requirements".
The EC is now calling for e-procurement specialists to join an expert group on e-tendering. It hopes that by bringing together experts in the design and implementation of e-purchasing systems, it can develop a blueprint for common solutions for the electronic submission of offers by the end of 2012. The deadline for applications is 30 September.
The EC will also start to monitor the use of e-purchasing across member states to promote good practice. It is currently tendering for an organisation to carry out such a study. The commission believes a lack of information on e-procurement development hampers its adoption, and hopes the research will help policy-makers at EU and national governments assess progress in this area.
* Meanwhile, in response to EU plans to modernise public buying rules, the Cabinet Office has said the UK government strongly agrees with the commission's comment on the need for streamlined and flexible procurement procedures. But it warned that the consultation covers many topical issues and "there is a significant danger that, in attempting to address so many, complexity will be added to the rules, which would be the opposite of the overall aim of simplification".
The UK government is pressing for greater clarity on what can be regarded as "relevant to the subject matter of the contract" in order to reduce burdens and risk by providing greater legal certainty for purchasers.
It also said revisions to EU public purchasing policy should focus on reducing "lengthy and burdensome" buying processes that add cost to business, provide more flexibility for purchasers to follow best practice and aid access to public procurement by small and medium-sized businesses (if non-discriminatory and consistent with a value-for-money approach).


The Benetech team has just bid goodbye to VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, who is moving on to his next adventure. A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech's social mission since he joined us over four years ago. As we are getting ready to welcome a new VP of Engineering, I'd like to acknowledge and thank Gerardo for his many contributions and their lasting impact on the lives of the people we serve.


Jake and Tom Trbojevic, dubbed as 'players of the future', are currently enjoying a little taste of what lies ahead for them in the NSW Blues colours.
Named in the NSW Blues squad for Origin III as Development Players on Monday, Manly's 'Blues Brothers' flew to Coffs Harbour on Tuesday to gain valuable experience training with the NSW team ahead of next Wednesday's Origin match in Sydney.
Manly Coach and former Blues Assistant, Trent Barrett, said it was an amazing opportunity for Jake and Tom.
"It is probably unlikely they are going to get a game (on Wednesday) but they are players of the future,'' Barrett said.
With long serving Manly Captain Jamie Lyon retiring at the end of this season, Barrett had little hesitation in handing the captaincy role to Jake when Lyon was injured for the match against the Gold Coast Titans.
Again, it was a pointer to the 'future' at Manly.
"Jake just leads by example. He is a player everyone respects in our club. I like the qualities Jake has right throughout our whole squad,'' Barrett said after the Titans match.
Manly centre Dylan Walker, a Blues development player last year before playing in the first two Origins this season, congratulated the Trbojevic brothers.
"To see them get called up and to get to train with the (NSW) boys is an experience for them,'' Walker said.
Following the camp with the Blues, the Trbojevic brothers will return to training to prepare for Manly's vital home match against the NZ Warriors at nib Stadium, Perth, on Saturday, July 16.


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Tips for Avoiding Dangerous DUI Drivers
Share April 1, 2016 | Category: Blog, DUI
In an investigation conducted, and reported, by the Naples Daily News on March 13, 2016 titled "Free Flee – How Florida's Deadly Drunken Drivers Hit the Road," investigators found that between a fatal crash and the eventual arrest on DUI manslaughter charges, at least 50 suspects were arrested on new charges.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) estimates that about one third of all drivers arrested or convicted of DUI each year are repeat offenders.
Nearly four years ago, according to Jeff Rosen Reports for NBC News on March 18, 2016, a Colorado woman was driving to the gym when a drunk driver who had half a dozen prior DUIs slammed into her from behind at 45 mph. The drunk driver never hit the brakes, and the woman's life was changed forever.
CDC (Centers for Disease Control) statistics show that 50 to 75 percent of convicted drunk drivers continue to drive on a suspended license.
Every day, says the FBI, almost 300,000 people drive drunk, yet only 4,000 are caught by police. The FBI further reports that in 45 cases across Florida from Miami to the Panhandle, DUI manslaughter suspects have evaded capture for years. Some of the reasons for this are that about half of them were not U.S. citizens or did not have a driver's license, according to state crash and driving records.
How to avoid being the victim of a drunk driver?
MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) says that at any given point we potentially share the roads with 2 million people with three or more drunk driving offenses. MADD offers the following telltale signs of how to recognize someone who may be an impaired driver:
Speeding or driving too slowly, or driving at inconsistent speeds.
Swerving and frequently changing lanes, as well as making unusually wide turns.
Passing dangerously.
Nearly missing another vehicle, pedestrian or obstacle.
Disregarding traffic signals and signs.
Failing to signal turns or lane changes.
Driving with no lights at night.
Driving too close to the center line or too close to the shoulder of the road.
Making abrupt or illegal turns.
You do not want to share the road with a driver matching the above description. Here are some ways to defend yourself against drunk drivers from the HoustonTx.gov "Safety on the Road - Keep Your Distance from Drunk Drivers":
Report suspected drunk or drugged drivers to the nearest law enforcement agency by citizen band radio or cellular phone, or stop and call the police. They will need a description of the vehicle, the license number, the location, and the direction the vehicle is headed.
If you are behind a potentially drunk or drugged driver, maintain a safe following distance. Do not try to pass because the driver may try to swerve into the passing lane.
If you are in front of a drunk driver and fear he might involve you in an accident, turn right at the first safe intersection. Let the driver pass and return to your route.
Pull over to the right and stop if the driver is approaching your vehicle. Avoid a head-on collision by sounding your horn or flashing your lights if you have time.
Prevention Efforts
Twelve states, including Florida, mandate ignition interlock devices on vehicles if a driver hits a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 percent. The installation of ignition interlocks is shown to reduce re-arrest rates by about 64 percent. Sixteen states require in-car breathalyzers for all first-time offenders whose blood-alcohol level is above 0.08 percent, and eight states require the devices after a second DUI conviction, according to The Knoxville Sentinel.
"DUI accidents change lives. If you or a loved one has been involved in an accident, contact the experienced DUI accident team at Spivey Law Firm, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.A.," said Hurt By Drunk Driver Attorney, Randall Spivey.


Call it coincidental timing or a shrewdly calculated media release, but the BC Lions posted the results of a survey that suggest the football club is the team of choice for sports fans in the province of British Columbia.
With Seahawks fever gripping the lower mainland ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl, the survey says that football is growing in popularity in BC and that the Lions come out on top. 30% of BC residents surveyed said they are hard-core or regular fans of the Lions, while 21% indicated the Seahawks were their team of choice.
Clearly football has a solid following in the province and it continues to grow. 51% of the fans surveyed claimed to be hard-core or regular fans of football, a higher number than the 40% the Canucks garnered, or the Vancouver Whitecaps at 15%. Of course that number includes both CFL and NFL fans, but the fact that football came out on top has to be encouraging for the Lions.
The release of the survey results were well timed. The cities of Vancouver and Victoria raised 12th man flags earlier in the day, an honour that to my knowledge as never been bestowed on the Lions or Whitecaps. The city of Surrey also raised a flag in tribute to our NFL neighbours, but at least did so in tandem with a BC Lions flag. Fitting since Surrey is the city the Lions call home for their practice facility.
It's disappointing that these cities would make such a show of support for a team that doesn't play in our country, our province, or our city. The BC Lions have won six Grey Cup championships for this region, yet they can't even garner a parade when they bring home the hardware. The last big parade this city saw for a sports team was in 1979, when the Whitecaps won the NASL's Soccer Bowl.
The Lions have hosted two recent Grey Cups, both times bringing massive revenues to the city and its local hotels and businesses, yet they don't seem to warrant the same support of a team in another country that doesn't even play here.
It's time to change that. It's time for our governments to get behind local teams and encourage the support they deserve. The Lions are constantly in the community, and that doesn't stop in the offseason. There are very few days that players who are in town are not at a function for sick kids, talking on the subject of violence against women, bullying or various other initiatives. The Lions give back to this community in many ways.
And this doesn't apply to just the Lions. The Whitecaps, Vancouver Canadians, Vancouver Giants, Vancouver Stealth all deserve the same treatment. It shouldn't be reserved for the flavour of the day or a method to get votes, tourism dollars and publicity from rabid Seahawks fans.
Of course the Lions have to do their part in terms of marketing to capitalize on this popularity of the sport. Their work in amateur football in this province has been outstanding. The Orange Helmet Awards, the creation of the late Bob Ackles, have raised over $750,000 for amateur football over the 12 year history of the event.
But it's time to take pride in the teams in our own backyard. For what they provide for our communities and our province, it's the least we can do.


Background: The Breast Cancer Campaign Gap analysis (2013) established breast cancer research priorities without specific focus on surgical research nor the role of surgeons. The majority of breast cancer patients encounter a surgeon at diagnosis or during treatment, thus surgical involvement in design and delivery of high-quality research to improve patient care is critical. This review aims to identify opportunities and priorities for breast surgical research to complement the previous gap analysis.
Methods: Research-active breast surgeons met and identified topic areas for breast surgical research which mapped to the patient pathway. These included diagnosis, neoadjuvant treatment, surgery, adjuvant therapy and special groups (e.g. risk-reducing surgery). Section leads were identified based on research interests with invited input from experts in specific areas, supported by consultation with the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS) membership and Independent Cancer Patients' Voice (ICPV). The document was iteratively modified until participants were satisfied that key priorities for surgical research were clear.
Results: Key research gaps were identified for each topic area including: (1) issues surrounding overdiagnosis and treatment; (2) optimising selection for neoadjuvant therapies and subsequent surgery; (3) reducing re-operation rates for breast conserving surgery; (4) generating evidence for the clinical and cost-effectiveness of breast reconstruction and mechanisms for evaluating novel interventions; (5) determining optimal axillary management, especially post-neoadjuvant treatment; (6) defining and standardising indications for risk-reducing surgery. Strategies for resolving these knowledge gaps are proposed.
Conclusions: Surgeons are ideally placed for a central role in breast cancer research and should foster a culture of engagement and participation in research to benefit patients and the NHS. Development of infrastructure and surgical research capacity together with appropriate allocation of research funding will be needed to successfully address the key clinical and translational research gaps highlighted in this analysis within the next two decades.
Cutress, Ramsey, McIntosh, Stuart A., Potter, Shelley, Goyal, Amit, Kirwan, Cliona C., Harvey, James, Francis, Adele, Carmichael, Amtul R., Vidya, Raghaven, Vaidya, Jayant S., Fairbrother, Patricia, Benson, John and Reed, Malcolm W.R. (2018) Opportunities and priorities for breast surgical research. The Lancet Oncology, 19 (10), e521-e533. (doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30511-4).


Readers have been asking whether the new surroundings for NBC5's news anchors are the planned revamp noted in a previous unclebarky.com post or a temporary fix until the makeover is completely finished.
Brian Hocker, vice president of programming for the Fort Worth-based station, says that this is it.
"You're seeing our newly modified set," Hocker said in an email reply Wednesday. "As with all set changes, there may be some minor tweaking in the days ahead as we settle into newscasts."
The bottom left shot generally is used to open newscasts and as a bridge in and out of commercial breaks. Bottom right shows the new look for single anchor readings. On top is a more panoramic shot used during sports anchor Newy Scruggs' brief nightly mini-chat with news anchors Brian Curtis and Meredith Land.
It's a pretty basic look, all in all. But it's not off-putting. Now if WFAA8 could at last rid itself of that fuzz guitar music that bridges breaks in its newscasts. It's long outlived whatever heyday it might have had.
Hocker also re-confirmed that NBC5 still plans to relocate from the only home it's ever had at 3900 Barnett St. in Fort Worth to the Centreport office park south of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. "But the details are still being finalized," he said.


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Das Refugio de Vida Silvestre El Zarza befindet sich im Südosten von Ecuador. Das 36,96 km² große Schutzgebiet wurde am 26. Juni 2006 mittels Acuerdo Interministerial N° 77 sowie dem Registro Oficial Nº 314 vom 17. Juli 2006 eingerichtet.

Lage
Das Refugio de Vida Silvestre El Zarza befindet sich im Nordosten der Provinz Zamora Chinchipe. Das in Höhen von  bis  gelegene Schutzgebiet erstreckt sich über einen Teil der Cordillera del Cóndor unweit der peruanischen Grenze. Die Ortschaft El Zarza befindet sich nahe der südlichen Schutzgebietsgrenze.

Ökologie
Das Schutzgebiet dient dem Schutz eines Nebelwalds sowie einer Páramo-Landschaft. Das Gebiet weist eine hohe Biodiversität auf. In den tieferen Lagen leben Klammeraffen, der Jaguar, der Flachlandtapir und der Puma, in den höheren Lagen der Brillenbär, Nachtaffen sowie die endemische Anden-Opossummaus.

Infrastruktur
Das Schutzgebiet ist schwer zugänglich und besitzt keine touristische Infrastruktur. Der Zugang ist wissenschaftlichen Forschungsarbeiten vorbehalten und bedarf der Genehmigung durch das Umweltministerium.

Einzelnachweise

Schutzgebiet (Umwelt- und Naturschutz) in Ecuador
Schutzgebiet (Umwelt- und Naturschutz) in Südamerika
Provinz Zamora Chinchipe