Learn how to run the WEG CFW300 variable frequency drive in remote mode only with this brief hands on live tutorial. This is the best VFD, with a super low cost, but with high end features like Dynamic Braking, Fire Mode, PID, 65,000A SCCR, Zero Stack foot print, Multi-Speed, etc and is even cULus listed!
The WEG CFW300 drive defaults to LOCAL mode. What if you want it to default to REMOTE mode? We'll show you how to do that in this video, but first, let's reset the drive to factory default se we are all starting at the same place. If we look at parameter 220, which is the parameter that selects how the local and remote modes are selected, we see it defaults to always local. To force it into REMOTE mode you simply set it to a 1. I'm just using the free WPS software as a quick lookup guide here – it's not connected to the drive, so let's use the drive's built-in HMI keypad to set parameter 220 to a 1 to get us into REMOTE mode. Now the drive will power up in REMOTE mode and if you don't change the other factory defaults, that means you will no longer be able to start the drive from the HMI keypad. Why is that? Well, because the remote configuration defaults to run stop being controlled by a digital input – not the drive's HMI Keypad. And the reference frequency defaults to being controlled by an analog input – again, not the drive's built in HMI/Keypad. I have this potentiometer wired to the drive's analog input and this switch connected to digital input 1 which if we look in parameter 263 we see it defaults to Run Stop control. Exactly what we want. So, if I flip the switch to RUN, and vary the potentiometer, sure enough the drive responds. And since all the parameter values we needed were the factory default values, we didn't have to change any parameters after we changed to remote mode to use this digital and analog input. Now could we change REMOTE modes run stop and frequency control to be controlled by the Drive's HMI Keypad? Sure! If I bring up the free WPS software and search for Remote I see that Remote run stop is controlled by parameter 227 and to change it to being controlled by the HMI I just need to change it to a 0. I also see the remote reference frequency source is controlled by parameter 222 and that a 0 will change that to HMI control. So, we need to change both of these to a zero. Again, I'm just using the free WPS software as a quick way to look up parameters, so let's go over to the drive, scroll to parameter 222 and change it to a zero, then scroll to parameter 227 and change it to a zero. I'm still in Remote mode, we haven't changed that, but now we can control the drive from the keypad and if we scrll all the way down to parameter two – which is the frequency for the drive – we can change the frequency from the keypad … and we can't control the drive from the digital input or the analog input. Exactly what we expect. Perfect. One side note – I didn't need to change the motor parameters for this video, but you will need to do that, so here are the basic parameters you will probably want to look at. Check out the quick start videos to learn more about getting up and running with the basic parameters. And here's a list of the parameters we used in this video. Click here to learn more about the WEG CFW300 variable frequency drive. Click here to learn about AutomationDirect's free award-winning support options and click here to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you will be notified when we publish new videos.


The Chick Charms® Fringed Frosting Hens & Chicks are a white cobweb succulent with green leaves that have lime green edges sometimes. The cobweb part is different on these because instead of just growing in the center of the plant, the threads grow all the way around the plants. The cobwebs actually have nothing to do with spiders, the plants grow those to help retain moisture and help the plants survive even the driest conditions.
Plant these hens and chicks in retaining walls, rock gardens or even in garden planters. We recommend buying several different types to grow together and create beautiful color combinations in your maintenance free garden!


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Genetic Clues to Cancer's Spread
Sequencing the genomes of both healthy and cancer cells from the same patient hints at how cancer metastasizes.
by Emily Singer
Scientists have identified genetic clues to how a tumor spreads throughout the body. Understanding the genetic aberrations that enable the metastasis of cancers could help scientists design better prognostic tests and more effective treatments.
Transplanting tumors: When cancer cells from a breast cancer patient are implanted into a mouse, the cells quickly grow and spread. In this image, the pink cells are human tumor cells, while the purple cells are from the mouse. Researchers are using this technique to study the progression of human cancers.
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In the research, the scientists compared the genome sequence of a breast cancer patient with that of both her primary tumor and cancer cells that had spread to her brain. It is just one of two published papers comparing the genomic differences between a primary and metastatic tumor from the same patient, a challenging endeavor but one that allows scientists to track the cancer's evolution. "A patient's tumor is a living thing changing all the time," says Matthew Ellis, an oncologist and scientist at Washington University, in St. Louis, and one of the study's authors. "We've never been able to track that completely."
Cancer results when healthy cells acquire a combination of genetic mutations that allow them to grow out of control. Scientists have identified a number of mutations that increase the risk of cancer, as well as predict its prognosis and its likelihood of responding to certain treatments. But much less is known about the genetic mistakes that enable tumor progression, especially metastasis. The new research, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, "emphasizes that you can gain a lot from looking at the evolution of a cancer over time," says Sam Aparicio, Canada Research Chair in molecular oncology, who was not involved in the study.
The researchers used sequencing technology from Illumina, a genomics company in San Diego, to analyze DNA from the patient's healthy cells, from the primary tumor prior to treatment, and from the brain metastasis. They found 48 mutations unique to cancer cells, but very few mutations were unique to the metastatic brain tumor. Instead, the major difference between the two tumor types was the relative frequency of the individual mutations in each tissue sample. Twenty of the 48 mutations occurred occasionally in cells in the primary tumor but were quite common in the metastatic tumor, suggesting that a small cohort of cells present in the primary tumor drove the cancer's spread. "It's as if a small subset of cells broke off from the primary tumor, circulated through blood, found a new home in the brain, and began to grow wildly and out of control," says Richard Wilson, director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University and a senior author of the paper.
While researchers still need to determine which of these mutations are true drivers of metastasis and which are merely carrier mutations that don't affect the cells, they have identified some interesting candidates. For example, the patient had normal versions of a gene called CTNNA1, which has been linked to cells' ability to stick to each other. But both tumors samples had a large deletion knocking out both copies of the gene, an occurrence that was particularly common in the metastatic cells. This mutation might allow cancer cells to break free of the primary tumor and spread through the bloodstream.
In addition to studying tumor samples from the patient, researchers implanted some of her tumor tissue into a mouse with a compromised immune system. This approach, called a xenograft, is often used to study the properties of human cancers. Just as in the patient, the cancer cells quickly multiplied and spread. When the team sequenced DNA from these cells, they found it had a similar genetic profile to that of the metastatic tumor samples. "It was a big surprise to see so many similarities between the xenograft and the metastatic genome," says Elaine Mardis, codirector of the Genome Center. Both cancers originated from the same primary tumor and seemed to evolve in similar ways, despite growing in completely different environments. "This is just one case and we need to study more, but this does look like an interesting model for studying metastatic cancer," she says. If the findings are confirmed more broadly, drug developers can use this system to test new treatments on human tumor cells, knowing that the cells behave similarly in the mouse and in the human body.
Mardis, Wilson, and others aim to sequence hundreds of cancer genomes over the next year. "The capacity for sequencing instruments has been on a dramatic uptick," says Mardis. "The biggest challenge now is, how do you do multigenome analysis, for example comparing 20 to 50 genomes at the same time from a carefully defined phenotype like drug resistance?" The researchers hope that studying this volume of DNA will give broader insight into cancer genomics, letting them identify key metabolic or signaling pathways that are affected in cancer and which might be good targets for new therapeutics.
Emily Singer

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Speech from Proceedings of the Seventh Annual New York Conference
Invasive Species — Intrusive Regulation
Robert J. Smith
President, Center for Private Conservation, Washington, D.C.
Thank you. I'd like to thank Carol once again for the heroic efforts she has undertaken for the last decade putting on these conferences. They are very, very important. Not only have they always been good conferences and national conferences, but now they are about the only conference we have. Some of the other groups, for whatever reasons, have come on hard times, and it is hard to find a leader of a group or an organization who has the energy to keep going year after year in the face of continuous defeats, or seemingly continuous defeats. That's one reason some of our organizations in the past have burned out. I thank God that Carol is still doing this. Also, this is the first one of Carol's conferences that I have been at when she has actually had lovely weather. Whether it's spring or fall, she always has snow, and so it is nice to fly in at a green time.
One of the things that comes up all the time, and which a lot of people talked about this morning, was the whole issue of land ownership and how much we are losing it. One of the things that seemingly is a surprise is that we really don't know how much land in America is owned by the government at all levels. You would think that would be an easy thing to find out. All we have are rough estimates. The feds don't even know how much land they have. They used to brag about federal land ownership in the old days. There is a massive book that many of you may have seen called One Third of the Nation, where they bragged about the fact that the Department of the Interior owned 33 percent of the country. Now that there is a property rights movement and people don't like to have their land taken away, they don't talk about that much anymore. They say, well, maybe 20 percent or something like that, and say it very softly. But, despite the fact that the amount of land that's owned by the Department of the Interior and the feds has decreased over the years—largely that is because of the settlement of the land issues in Alaska—, government still owns massive amounts of lands and it is still constantly climbing. We know for certain that it's at least 42 percent of all the land in America that's owned by government-federal government, state government, county governments, and municipal governments. And it may be as high as 45 percent. Nobody really knows. What we are trying to do, and we hope that all of you can write your congressmen and senators, too, we are trying to see if we can finally force or get enough powerful Republican Congressmen and Senators to force the GAO to do the full study that is necessary.
You cannot have a free society without people owning their own land and their own property. Yet, every year we are pushing closer to that point where 50 percent, half the land, in America, will be owned by the government. One of the things that also came up in an early talk was the whole issue of the Greens deciding to use less than fee acquisition—don't condemn land because they can't afford to pay for all the land they wanted. They came up with the idea of massive use of regulatory takings, of using the police power so it would be so common just to regulate somebody's land that everybody would accept it and they'd say, well, we didn't take your land. All we did is regulate it and say you can't use it to harm somebody else.
In effect, the first talk I gave here at Carol's conference—I think at her first conference—was about the efforts that took place in 1970 at the Council on Environmental Quality under President Richard Nixon when Bill Riley, who later became head of the EPA under Bush, was Chairman. (Former President Bush who took us down to Rio who tried to get us into all the international treaties.) Bill Riley and a whole bunch of his very liberal, very anti-property rights attorney buddies from a law firm he had been with in Chicago did a number of studies. One was called "The Takings Issue." In that study, they said things like "private property rights are a quaint anachronism" which a modern advanced society cannot afford. One of the things they dealt with in the study is that they talked deliberately, page after page, about how to shift away from condemning land, from actually taking lands and having to pay for this, to taking land through regulations, inverse condemnation, regulatory takings, and so on.
As you have seen, as we developed a whole range of environmental law in this country, the Endangered Species Act, wetlands law, and so on, they don't take your land. They just say you can't use it and if you use it you will be fined a hundred thousand dollars and go to jail for a year, or the like. So then you go to court or whatever, and they say, well, we didn't take your land. You still own the land. You still have the deed for it, you know, sitting in the bank, and so forth. You still get all the pleasures of land ownership, like paying taxes. You just can't use it. And that is one of the situations we have and we have found no way, really, to handle that.
Even under the current Bush Administration, land acquisition is still going on, for whatever reason. In June of this year, we had a very encouraging meeting in one way and disappointing one in another way. Gail Norton, Secretary of the Interior, met with a number of the free market conservative types in Washington, DC. She pointed out in her talk to us all, as we sat around a big, long conference table, that, well, you know, we are doing a lot to try to protect private property. We have actually reduced the budget for land acquisition. Later, when there was a little reception, I went up to her and said, well, with all due respect, Secretary Norton, I heard your national telecast this morning in which you were talking to people all around the country about the new Bush initiative on using conservation as a tool for the Endangered Species Act. I said to her, you pointed out a new $97 million program that is supposedly at the heart of Bush's new approach, which will not use regulation, but will work voluntarily, using voluntary conservation. Yet, almost every single program that they announced in that $97 million was a program to acquire land for the government. They just shifted that money from a program that said land acquisition into money that said voluntary conservation. I said I didn't want to rain on your parade or anything, but this is something that needs to be addressed. I mean, we have a hard time believing what the government is telling us when these things are going on. She said, well, you know, that was forced on us. That was already in the budget, or something like that. Well, we are three years in this administration. She said wait till next year, so we will see next year. But it's not stopping. It is still going on.
One thing that I wanted to say quickly is that a couple of people asked about the Healthy Forest Restoration Act. As you know, the Act passed the House of Representatives in May quite handily by 67 votes, which is a landslide in Congress these days. There was a big story in the Washington Post the other day about the fact that bill after bill rarely passes; so you are lucky to pass with one vote. Forty-two Democrats went in on it. The Healthy Forest Restoration Bill was before the Senate and until very recently there were not 60 votes in the Senate to get it through past the Democrats' filibuster. They may have that right now. There is time on the Senate floor on Monday, and they may be able to get the bill up.
But one thing you really need to watch. The Greens are arguing all the time, which makes common sense to lots of people, to people who don't live in the woods, is the Greens are saying that you don't have to worry about the forests. You don't have to go thin out the forests or the wild lands or so on because they are fine. They are doing fine despite the fact that we have a hundred years of history to say that they are not, and that is the source of the problem. We haven't managed these forests. We've let them just build up with dead wood and turn into tinder for huge, catastrophic fires. The Greens won't let us do anything about that, to thin that out. They're saying this is just a payoff to big industry, to International Paper or whatever. All you need to do, they argued, when I debated on CNN with somebody from Greenpeace, is thin 200 feet of trees around a community, and then you save the community. It is fireproof.
Well, if you are in New York City, that probably stands true. Because if there are no trees there, they can't burn down and so you've solved the problem. What most people don't know is that, when there is a wall of fire, one of these 500,000-acre big fires that comes roaring down on you, there is a process in fires where they are so big, so intense, with a 300-feet high wall of flame that creates a fire storm, it is constantly throwing fire embers, limbs, and so on—flaming limbs—way ahead of the fire. That's called spotting. In a big fire, you will have spotting going on 2, 3, 4, 5 miles in front of the wall of fire. Yet the Greens are selling the nation, or trying desperately and being pretty successful, that all you have to do is cut down 200 feet of trees around a town and that will solve it, when the fire can naturally jump five miles or more. So we will see what happens on that.
What I am supposed to talk about is invasive species, something many of you may not have heard about. This is the next big threat to private property rights. Any of you who have had any problems with wetlands or any of you who have had any problems particularly with endangered species, should realize that this will make the Endangered Species Act look like absolute and total child's play. The reason for that, is what are invasive species? Well, actually an invasive species is a species that your neighbor doesn't like, or a college professor doesn't like, or a Green doesn't like, or a bureaucrat doesn't like, and it becomes a more dangerous, invasive species the more power those particular people have.
Supposedly, invasive species were intended to be things that were truly invasive. They would come in and take over the landscape and suddenly, instead of having, you know, daisies and this clover and that flower and whatever, you would have all kudzu or all leafy spurge or something. They are supposed to be noxious and they are supposed to be harmful. Well, noxious and harmful, all these things are very relative terms. Noxious to whom or what? Harmful to whom or what? Basically, it also includes for the hardcore and the purist in the argument anything that is an alien species-anything that's non-native. Anything that is non-indigenous to the United States or in whatever area you're in. This can include animals, plants, foods, insects, diseases. I mean, typical things. We've had problems with some of them.
We've had the Dutch elm disease, where a disease came over and killed all the elm trees. Those of you who are my age probably remember growing up in towns in the northeastern United States where you had those magnificent green tunnels of giant elms over the streets. They're all gone. That's what a truly harmful invasive species can do.
We brought over English sparrows and starlings and introduced them in this country. They took over. Because they nest in cavities and don't migrate, they took over nesting holes for birds like the bluebirds, and bluebird populations has plummeted in this country, as have other birds that depend on nesting in holes and cannot make their own, like a woodpecker. Those populations were declining and declining until groups like the North American Bluebird Society stepped up to put up nesting houses, artificial houses, for them. But invasive species can do all kinds of harm like that.
Most of our crops, for that matter, are non-native. Wheat is non-native in the United States. Potatoes are non-native. Oranges are non-native. One of the biggest sources of money for most of the mid-western states and for protecting wildlife and habitat and so on is the annual hunting for ring-necked pheasants. Ring-necked pheasant is non-native; it was introduced. The brown trout that many of you have caught was introduced from Germany.
When you get down to things like ornamentals or things you use in your lawn, one of the things that the Greens absolutely hate, it is near the top of the list they have, is something called tall fescue. Tall fescue is the major turf grass in the United States. There is tall fescue growing on the White House lawn. But that's "evil." The hardcore in the Greens, once they get the power from the Invasive Species Agency, that's one of the things they want to have eliminated. That's near the top of their list.
They also want to get rid of something else that some of you may know of. There is this plant called crown vetch. In fact, one of the people I hoped was going to be here is Fred Grau; you know him from the Alliance for America. His family is one of the major breeders of crown vetch in this country, and what it is used for is that it grows fast and it stays relatively low on the ground and it stops erosion. You put it in the highway mediums, along banks, you put it in cornfields in between the rows of corn and it keeps down weeds. You don't have to go through and till all the time to keep down the weeds so there is no erosion and loss of the topsoil. You don't have to spray herbicides on the ground to kill weeds, because the crown vetch is there. The State of Pennsylvania made crown vetch the official conservation plant of the State of Pennsylvania. This was back before invasive species legislation became the trendy politically correct thing to do. Now they want to get rid of crown vetch. They don't want to use it anymore. They want to dig up where they put it in highways and so on.
Then you have the plants like kudzu, killer kudzu, that supposedly has destroyed the South and the zebra mussels, which have supposedly destroyed the Great Lakes. They have caused some problems, but they can be controlled and are controlled when people try. There are other things that are a potential threat. You may have heard of something called the Indian brown tree snake, which eats anything in its path. It's been introduced to some of the Pacific islands, particularly in Samoa and Guam, and so on, and it has caused seven species of ground-nesting birds that can't fly or barely fly to actually go extinct from the face of the Earth. Everywhere you go there are brown tree snakes. They are shorting out wires and electricity. They are getting into houses and eating babies and so on. I remember the hearing that they had in Congress at the end of April, where the U.S. Representative from Samoa, when she found out that there was a billion dollars a year in federal budgets all ready to take care of the problem of invasive species, she said, where on earth is it going? Why don't you bring some of it over here and kill our destructive snakes that are causing endangered species to go extinct?
That's one of the questions. Where is the money going? What's behind all this? Now, you notice that when something is really a problem, like when you hear there is an outbreak of Mediterranean fruit flies that is really going to harm the agricultural industry, the citrus industry, the next morning the feds are up in a helicopter spraying the hell out of the whole county with Malathion. They say we are going to stop this now. We are going to take care of and solve the problem. If you don't like it, sue us.
You may remember that last summer they had the problem that made all the television in this country; this monster from hell, the Chinese northern snakehead fish, that was found in some quarries in Maryland and that can get out and crawl around and go to the next pond or next lake and eat everything and take over the country. Well, there is already power, the government already has the power, to handle this. That is what APHIS [Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service] is in the Department of Agriculture, to stop harmful things from coming in. That's why they inspect things and ask if you have been on a farm, did you bring back any plants and so on when you enter the country. Well, Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, used her existing authority, her power to ban snakehead fish. Boom! That's it. Possession is against the law. Importing is against the law. Eating is against the law, and so on. Take care of it. Do it. And don't start, we don't need to start, any massive new programs.
The other thing that is very interesting in this whole talk is you get into all kinds of philosophical aspects of this because things spread naturally, anyhow. Non-natives become natives, because wind blows them somewhere or a hurricane blows a bird to a new place and suddenly it starts nesting there and storms carry things. Wind draft carries all kinds of zillions of little spiders up thousands of feet in the air. They will get carried 7,000 miles around the world and land somewhere. Floating vegetation, mats of vegetation going from the mainland of South America and out to the Caribbean Islands actually carried snakes and animals, alive on them. That's how they got on there. Air currents…Birds eat seeds and then deposit the seeds in another country or pick up a seed on a feather when they are wintering in Argentina and then their next landfall is the United States and that seed gets started here. It is a natural process that goes on all the time.
One thing that is interesting where the Greens and people in particular have backed off on doing anything about a problem at all of an invasive species is with West Nile disease. I hope you notice what is going on with the West Nile disease. There is a way to get rid of that vector and that is to spray mosquitoes or spray marshes, but the Greens have argued and successfully fought it, particularly here in New York State. They say no, no, no, we don't have to go out and use poisons on this because after all, this is a direct quote, all West Nile disease really does is it only kills older people and children and people who have immune deficiencies. That's all it does, they say, so it's not a problem so let's not spray Mother Nature.
In the really hard core of the non-native, invasive species, group that are already out there, are some who actually want to stop things from moving from different states in the United States. They hate what Lady Bird Johnson did with her national wildflower program and planting wild flowers. Many of you have driven down the highways and highway medians and so on, and, you know, some states in the Midwest have planted black-eyed Susans from Maryland along the highway in Illinois. Well, they don't belong there. God didn't put them there and those have to be removed. Same thing with Texas bluebonnets. They have to be moved out. We have taken rainbow trout and introduced them in various places. There are salmon from the Pacific Coast that are in the Great Lakes and are a thriving fishing industry, but they will have to be removed if the Greens gain the power they want to do what they want.
And, finally, a couple of things on the unbelievable cost of this. One of the reasons people use non-natives is because you can breed them in nurseries and so on and make them much more efficient so they grow faster and particularly so you can get much better germination. Lots of the native grasses and native wild flowers are pretty hard to germinate. They have to go through stages; they have to be chilled in refrigerators for so many months before you can put them on the ground and they will germinate and so on. You can produce things in nurseries that will solve those problems. If we move away from non-natives, there is only so much money every year in the transportation budget for highways, and one of the big things they always have with highways is what they are going to do about erosion and hillsides and cliff faces and the medians. They are now going to have to start putting natives only in those kinds of areas. It is going to vastly increase the amount of money that is spent just on vegetation, and, of course, that is going to be less money that is going to go to make highways safer—to make turns safer, put in less steep banks, and so on.
Another area where this is causing massive problems is in all the huge wild fires across the West. Those of you who know Tucson understand where the terrible 85,000-acre fire was this summer that burned up the old growth forest on top of the mountains there. After you burn down an area like the Catalina Mountains, now it is nothing but bare rock and bare soils. In fact, in mountains you don't have much soil, very little soil. It has taken thousands of years since the Ice Age to come. As soon as the summer monsoons come and the winter rains come, it washes it all off and you're never going to get trees back on those mountains. So one of the things they try to do is they have a program called the BAER teams. It stands for "burned area emergency reclamation." They fly over with helicopters and drop seeds down, grass seeds, fast-growing grass seeds, hoping they can stop the erosion and stabilize the area before the rains come. Well, they had a huge fight this summer out there when the BAER team was ready to go in on the Forest Service lands in the Coronado National Forest outside of Tucson to re-seed the area, because one of the ecologists who works for what is euphemistically called the U.S. Geological Survey—it's really the biological survey—said, oh, you can't do that, even though they were already buying the seed. They were forced to buy at outrageous prices certified 99.9 percent weed-free natural grasses to seed, to make sure that in nature you don't get a weed out there. This guy pointed out that for the 99.9 percent—he said, I worked on the Sierra Grande fire, the Los Alamos fire, and we found out that if you use that formula, if you don't have 100 percent pure, you are getting as many as 2 million invasive non-native cheat grass seeds for every 200 tons you drop. The guy with the Forest Service said, well, what do you want us to do? Nothing? And just let all the soil and everything disappear so we never have any vegetation again? That's the kind of things you get into.
This is not a problem if it is just a bunch of Greens having a list. In 1999 President Clinton issued an executive order on invasive species. Well, executive orders, what do they do? We saw what the executive order on the taking of private property did. I mean it was a good idea. It didn't really do much. Same thing with Clinton's executive order. What it did do is create something called a National Invasive Species Council, that happens to be one of the reasons there is no money to do anything about the invasive weeds out there. They put out all these fantastic expensive multi-colored booklets and so on that cost a fortune. They, also, by the way, have conferences all over the place to study the problem of invasive species and, you know, they love to have those conferences in February in the Yucatan or Key West or some place that get terribly expensive.
As the woman who is head of this, Lori Williams, wrote, "Invasive species are everywhere." That is the problem. That is a scare technique, but that is also true and that is the problem, because invasive species are everywhere. There is probably not a single acre, a single area of private property anywhere in the nation, probably even in your own lawns, that does not have invasive species on it.
Endangered species are another thing. Look at the problem we have with the Endangered Species Act. Very few people have endangered species on their land and yet it has been a monster, a nightmare, a horror. It has caused all kinds of problems. If they do start, which they are leaning to, all kinds of legislation coming every year, more and more, aiming toward starting a national invasive species program, an agency, just like the Office of Endangered Species. It will go around, and one of the things they are going to do, of course, is going to find invasive species on your lawn, in your yard, in your garden, and so on, and then you're going to be forced to solve the problem. Do you think the government is going to pay you to do it, or the Green groups? No, you are going to have to do it. It is going to become the worst possible nightmare we have. This woman Lori Williams is a well-spoken and very radical green.
They have something else that is interesting. You can find out and get copies of this by contacting the National Invasive Species Council in Washington, D.C. They have a National Invasive Species Advisory Committee, and as you might imagine, it is mainly radical Greens and radical academics. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is on there. The group that is trying to reintroduce wolves in every state in America, those of you from Maine may know one man who was a major problem everywhere; he is on this committee. The Center for Marine Conservation was a group that prevented the creation of sea turtle farms to save them. The Nature Conservancy and Environmental Defense Fund and on and on, all kind of academics. Then, what is also interesting is you often find that there are some industry groups that see they have a way of making some money. Monsanto is on this committee. Why? Because Monsanto makes Roundup, and the more bad plants you can find, the more weeds that get put on an official list, the better Monsanto sales and stock is going to do. Also the Weed Management Services, Inc., is on there and, of course, their model ought to be the more the merrier, the more things they can get on there the better.
Again, this was just something that was an executive order. Well, lo and behold, to our surprise the first week of February this year there is a group that meets in Washington once a month that holds the Ford Environmental Policy Group Luncheon, where think tank types and dissident types and so on get together to discuss environmental issues. All of a sudden, out of the blue, scheduled for February 18, the Ford Environmental Policy Group meeting was a program on invasive species, the threat of invasive species, with two of the leading people from the United States Department of the Interior, one from the Department of Agriculture, and one from NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]. Well, thank God we had a blizzard that day and so this thing got postponed until April 3. Then we had time to tell people about it and get people there and get people on our side who know what's wrong with this. Again they had the same crowd from Interior, from Ag, from NOAA. There were also people there who were not speaking, from the Justice Department, from CEQ. To show you what the Bush Administration has been doing on this issue, working behind the scenes, at this meeting the Greens were there for the first time ever. Keep in mind that this is usually just a bunch of right-wing policy nerds in Washington, DC, people like me and Andrew Langer and so on who go to this meeting and nobody else even knows about it. Well, there were green Senate staffers. The Director of the United Nations Environment Program for North America and her top aide were there. This must have been talked about at the highest levels behind the scenes and nobody even knew that this was going on. And, the person who represents the government on this and talks about the looming catastrophe is a person some of you may remember from ESA days, Jim Tate, James A. Tate. He is the science advisor to the Secretary of Interior Gale Norton. He sits about four desks down from her in the office next to her. He is pushing this whole agenda and telling her how wonderful this is, and that we have to do something about this. He used to be in the Office of Endangered Species and then he went to the U.S. Senate, helped Senator Kempthorne draft his ESA bill which had no protection for private property rights, no compensation for "takings," and so on. He has been involved in all of this, and Tate said, and then testified a couple weeks later, saying, "America is under siege." This is the whole thing. I mean this is our people saying, that America is under siege.
All kinds of bills have been introduced in the House and Senate to control terrestrial invasive species, aquatic invasive species, and many of these are being pushed by conservative and western Congressmen and Senators. One of the things is they don't quite know what they are doing. They think they are going to help farmers and ranchers soak the taxpayers to get rid of obnoxious weeds on the rancher's land, and they are naive enough to think, or the ranchers are, oh sure, we'll just get the taxpayers to clean up our land and there won't be any catches to it. There won't be a Catch-22. Nobody will regulate our lands. They will just come and clean up all the stuff on our lands.
Thank God for Richard Pombo, who is now chairman of the House of Resources Committee, and was the keynote speaker, I think, at Carol's first conference, who immediately had oversight hearings on the whole issue of invasive species on April 29. That is something you might want to find. You can get that on the web. We were able out of the 20 witnesses to get three good witnesses. Ray Arnett, some of you may know. He was Reagan's Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Fred Grau, the breeder-grower of crown vetch, and Jim Bears, who used to work in the Department of the Interior and is a real eagle on state's rights issues. What was interesting here, they gave great talks, and the main thing they said, the real thing that we are trying to do now on this, is we can't stop this flood of legislation. It is probably too late, but before we pass a major program including an agency, at the very beginning we have to go in and put in one little title, one little section, that says nothing in this act will permit the taking of private property or the loss of the use of private property without full and just compensation. Get it in at the beginning. So, as Ray Arnett said, we all thought when we passed the ESA 30 years ago, we were just saving the eagles. We didn't realize it was going to prevent me as a farmer from taking my own water out of my own irrigation ditch on my own land and putting it on my own crops or I'd be fined $100,000 or go to jail for a year because there was an endangered something-or-other there. He said that the only time you can fix that is at the beginning.
The frightening thing, the thing we don't know, and you people with the Farm Bureau here and so on should be aware of, is that also on that hearing the American Farm Bureau Federation testified and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association testified. Neither of them said in their written testimony one word about protecting property rights or takings compensation. Even though we had sent people, Jim Beers and Fred Grau had gone and talked to the person who was writing the testimony for the Farm Bureau and had tried the Cattlemen's. The woman from the Cattlemen's Association would not even meet with them in advance, would not meet with them at any time whatsoever. Now, thank God, one thing I can say, at least Bill Pauli, the president of the California Farm Bureau, who presented the testimony for the National Farm Bureau, followed immediately after Ray Arnett. Ray Arnett kept talking about protecting our constitutional property rights, we can't allow land to be taken again. I must give Bill Pauli credit. He changed his oral testimony and said things that were not in his written testimony. He said, whatever we do, we must protect private property. If there is the "taking" of private property, there must be compensation. We need to clean up noxious weeds and invasive weeds, but we need to protect our constitutional property rights at the same time. Then we called him, and I called the person who wrote his speech. While there is still the two-week period, I asked, would you please take that oral testimony and put it officially into the written testimony so it stands forever in the written testimony before the United States Congress? They refused to do that.. I argued with an attorney of the American Farm Bureau, who is a really good guy. Why can't you do it? He said, well, it's not necessary. It doesn't say they are going to take property. Well, it didn't say they were going to take property with the ESA. You think the government is going to tell you that? We have a clause in our official booklet bylaws that says…Yeah, but that is not part of the law or the bill that is going to be passed. Why can't you just add one line and say there must be compensation. We never got anywhere.
Anyhow, this is where we are headed. This is something you really need to look at, and it is also going to be enormously expensive to do anything about this. After the meeting Rep. Pombo, we asked Pombo what he thought. Pombo is somewhat aware of this issue. He said, yeah, I've got tall fescue and I've got clovers, all non-natives, on my grazing pastures out here in Tracy, California. He said, I did go to a native plant company to ask how much it would cost to plant native grasses in there, and they said it would cost me $5,000 per acre. These are the kinds of things, because you can't just order these things. You have to hire hippies to go out through the woods and find a native plant and knock the seeds into a bag and hope they all get in and then treat them properly and chill them properly and all this kind of stuff. It's going to be unbelievable.
Just to sum up the philosophy of where this is coming from—it is all part of the stuff that man, particularly white men are evil. We have to go back before 1492, return America to conditions of 1492, because everything was fine then. One of the people who testified at Pombo's hearings was a leading conservation biologist from the Bishop Museum in Hawaii, and he said, you know, it is terrible, Mr. Chairman. Over the last 200 years 10,000 non-native invasive species have invaded Hawaii and are a threat to the native flora and fauna of Hawaii. Now even Pombo, as sharp as he is, didn't really get quite what was wrong with that. We sat around and talked, he and I, and Arnett for awhile. I said there is no native flora of Hawaii, Congressman. Hawaii came from bare volcanic rocks that came out of the ocean. Every single thing that lives and grows on that is an invasive non-native species that got there one way or another. You notice, when he made his cut off line—200 years ago when the whites arrived. He didn't say a word about the Polynesians who came in their canoes and introduced pigs and dogs and rats and everything and caused all kinds of species to go away.
This is a new philosophy, and if the Greens get what they want, if they get this program started, they'll have an official Office of Invasive Species or Invasive Species Program so they can take all the things they dislike, whether it is crown vetch or whatever, and put them on the list and then start eradicating them, and that is going to mean an end to your private property. Thank you.


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New Jersey school district reinstates COVID-19 mask mandate
A school district in northern New Jersey reinstated its mask mandate against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).
Passaic Public Schools (PPS) made the announcement through a letter penned by School Superintendent Sandra Diodonet. PPS is in charge of about 14,000 students enrolled in 17 schools within New Jersey's Passaic County.
"Effective Dec. 21, 2022, all employees, pre-K through grade 12 students and visitors are required to wear face coverings in all district facilities, school grounds and buses," Diodonet's letter stated. "When Passaic County is in the moderate or below range, the mask mandate will be lifted."
According to the superintendent, mask mandates will be in place "during periods of a high activity level" based on guidelines published by the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH). "We will continue to monitor the NJDOH COVID-19 Activity Level Report for the most current information," she added.
Many local residents slammed the return of mask mandates at PPS. Maud Maron, a former congressional candidate under the Democratic Party, was among them.
"This is anti-science, anti-child and just plain cruel," she tweeted in reply to PPS. "Shame on 'educators' who impose restrictions on children's learning, socialization and joy just because they can."
Parents Defending Education (PDE), a group opposing COVID-19 rules for schools and the teaching of critical race theory in classrooms, also opposed the decision.
"For two years, parents witnessed the detrimental social effects that masks had on their children's lives. [These] included difficulty building relationships with others because of an inability to read facial expressions, as well as generalized anxiety regarding crowds and proximity to others," the group said in a statement. PDE also mentioned "the impact on educational achievement, such as reading and language comprehension problems" that arose from mask mandates on children.
"Families are still dealing with the fallout from these policies, and will be doing so for years to come. For [school] districts across the country to yet again unilaterally impose mask mandates on suffering children defies logic. Different families have different levels of risk tolerance, and should anyone desire to have their children masked, they should be free to do so – but certainly not mandated."
Philly school district also reinstates mask mandates
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy lifted the statewide mask mandate back in March. He recently told a local news outlet that he does not foresee any mask-wearing orders in the Garden State "unless something drastically changes."
"I think people should just use their common sense. If you're not feeling well – certainly, if you test positive – take yourself off the field. That, to me, remains the right, sensible advice," he said.
"We don't want to mandate things that we can't enforce, and I don't think the market is going to bear that."
Meanwhile, the City of Brotherly Love's school district announced the return of mask mandates for a period of 10 days. It cited the "triple threat" of COVID-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as a reason for students to mask up.
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) announced on Dec. 14 that all K-12 students will be required to wear face coverings in classrooms and hallways from Jan. 3 to Jan. 13, 2023 – the first 10 days of school following the winter break. While the period actually spans 11 days, Jan. 8 is not included in the count as it falls on a Sunday. (Related: Philadelphia to require face masks in public schools for 10 days following winter break.)
"In an effort to be proactive in supporting healthy environments and maintaining in-person learning following students and staff returning from winter break, the [SDP] will implement mandatory masking," school district officials said in a press release.
SDP Superintendent Tony Watlington confirmed the mask mandate at a press conference. He described the decision as a "proactive measure" to prevent the spread of COVID-19, given that many "will be involved in quite a few social gatherings over the next few weeks."
Head over to CampusInsanity.com for more stories about school districts reinstating mask mandates.
Watch Paterson, New Jersey Mayor Andre Sayegh discuss possible mask mandates and virtual learning for the city's students below.
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3. Define the factors of production and how they relate to the production possibilities model. Use the model to discuss efficiency.
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Отто Герман фон Ло́ссов (; , Хуф — , Мюнхен) — немецкий офицер, генерал-лейтенант.

Биография
Отто фон Лоссов — представитель дворянского рода, сын ландрата Оскара фон Лоссова. Обучался в баварском кадетском корпусе и в 1886 году в звании фенриха поступил на службу в гвардейский пехотный полк баварской армии. В 1888 году получил звание лейтенанта, в 1892 году был назначен адъютантом окружного командования в Розенхайме. В 1895—1898 годах Лоссов учился в военной академии, в 1899 году был командирован для прохождения службы в генеральном штабе, в 1900 году перешёл на должность адъютанта 2-й Восточноазиатской пехотной бригады и принимал участие в подавлении Ихэтуаньского восстания.

В 1901 году Лоссов вернулся в Баварию, в следующем году получил капитанское звание и до 1904 года служил при генеральном штабе 1-го армейского корпуса. Следующие два года Лоссов служил командиром роты в своём полку, а затем вернулся на службу в генеральный штаб. В звании майора в 1908 году Лоссов был направлен на службу в генеральном штабе в Берлине. С 1911 года подполковник Лоссов служил военным советником при генеральном штабе турецкой армии и принимал участие в Балканских войнах.

В Первую мировую войну Лоссов возглавил генеральный штаб 1-го резервного корпуса на Западном фронте, затем служил военным атташе в союзнической Турции. После войны Лоссов служил в рейхсвере и командовал пехотной школой в Мюнхене. В 1921 году Лоссов был назначен командующим 7-м военным округом. Поддерживал тесные связи с генеральным комиссаром Густавом фон Карром и открыто симпатизировал Гитлеру и НСДАП.

Имперское правительство Веймарской республики поручило Лоссову закрыть запрещённую им газету Völkischer Beobachter, но Лоссов не выполнил приказ, за что Ханс фон Сект предложил ему подать в отставку. Лоссов отказался уйти в отставку добровольно, и 19 октября 1923 года лишился всех должностей по решению Фридриха Эберта и Секта.

В ходе Пивного путча 8 ноября 1923 года Лоссов был задержан Гитлером в «Бюргербройкеллере» вместе с Густавом фон Каром и начальником баварской полиции Гансом фон Зейсером.

После выхода на пенсию в 1924 году, Лоссов на некоторое время уехал в Турцию, а затем вернулся в Мюнхен, где и умер 25 ноября 1938 года.

Литература
 Othmar Hackl: Die Bayerische Kriegsakademie (1867—1914). C.H. Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, München 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8. S. 514.

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 Биография
 Биография

Генерал-лейтенанты (Германская империя)
Военные атташе Германии
Политики Баварии
Военные Османской империи
Военачальники Первой мировой войны (Германия)
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Das Ophthalmometer (auch Keratometer) ist ein Instrument zur Messung der Oberflächenkrümmung der Hornhaut (lateinisch Cornea) des Auges sowie zur Bestimmung der Hornhautverläufe (Keratometrie). Das 1851 von Hermann von Helmholtz entwickelte Messgerät erlaubt das Vermessen des virtuellen Bildes und somit einen Rückschluss auf die Krümmung der spiegelnden Fläche. Dabei wird ein beleuchtetes Objekt in einem bekannten Abstand aufgestellt und die Reflexion der Hornhaut beobachtet.

Diese Messmethode findet gegenwärtig vorrangig in der Augenoptik bei der Anpassung von Kontaktlinsen Anwendung, wobei das Ophthalmometer vermehrt durch seine Weiterentwicklung, das Videokeratometer (Keratograf, Videokeratograf), ersetzt wird.

Ein Vorläufer heutiger Ophthalmometer war das Astigmatometer von Émile Javal.

Weblinks

 Normenausschuß Feinmechanik und Optik (NAFuO): DIN NA 027 Ophthalmische Instrumente – Ophthalmometer, DIN EN ISO 10343.

Diagnostisches Hilfsmittel in der Augenheilkunde
Augenoptik
Diagnostikgerät
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Doug Field, a former Apple engineer who jumped to Tesla in 2013 and eventually oversaw production of the Tesla Model 3, is back at Apple, where he's working with the team in charge of Apple's self-driving-car program.
Field rejoined Bob Mansfield, who is leading Apple's Project Titan, the tech journalist John Gruber and Reuters reported late Thursday night.
Project Titan has shown signs of life in recent weeks, despite earlier rumours that the division was flailing.
Doug Field, a former Apple engineering executive who recently oversaw production of Tesla's Model 3 sedan, has returned to Apple to work with Bob Mansfield, who is leading Apple's self-driving-car program, Project Titan.
Field worked in Apple's Mac division in 2013 before going to Tesla. He stepped away from the electric-car maker in May, and Tesla officially announced his departure in July.
The tech correspondent John Gruber and Reuters reported Field's new role at Apple late Thursday night.
Apple was also building prototypes and had requirements for power, battery system, and "drivetrain suspension mounts," according to the affidavit.
Perhaps the biggest hint was that some 5,000 employees were given access to information about "the Project," as it's described in the affidavit. Previous estimates pegged the number at about 1,000.


One more monetary definition is that the key factors that separate the non-profit field from others are their returns formation. They don't obtain the mainstream of the revenue from the sale of goods in the marketplace, however from the charities from the volunteers and supporters (Alatrista, J., and Arrowsmith, J. 2004). These organizations might be working with the objective of any of the fields like religion, education, charity, sports, science, literary or the deterrence of brutality to animals and children. Although, the NPOs which were analyzed in this research were global foundations and were exist worldwide. As NPOs with minimal administrative arrangement like smaller sporting foundations don't operate dynamically and incessantly with the enthusiasm and retaining of their members that is why it is of greater significance to do research on non-profit organizations that might be in necessity of upgrades in these fields.


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Die Pacific Aria ist ein 1994 in Dienst gestelltes Kreuzfahrtschiff, welches bis 2020 von der Reederei P&O Cruises Australia betrieben wurde. Sie wurde ursprünglich bis 2015 als Ryndam für die Holland-America Line eingesetzt. Seit 2020 heißt sie Aegean Goddess.

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Die Ryndam entstand unter der Baunummer 5883 in der Werft von Fincantieri in Monfalcone und lief am 1. November 1993 vom Stapel. Nach der Ablieferung an die Holland-America Line am 9. September 1994 brach sie am 20. Oktober 1994 zu ihrer Jungfernfahrt auf. Das Schiff gehört der aus insgesamt vier Einheiten bestehenden Statendam-Klasse an, die auch als S-Klasse bezeichnet wird.

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2019 verkaufte Carnival Corporation das Schiff an Cruise & Maritime Voyages. Es sollte im Mai 2021 übergeben werden, in Ida Pfeiffer umbenannt werden und die Astor bei der Tochtergesellschaft Transocean Kreuzfahrten ersetzen. Jedoch meldete Cruise & Maritime Voyages im Juli 2020 Insolvenz an. Daraufhin verkaufte Carnival Corporation das Schiff an Ealgepower Shipping, Tochtergesellschaft der griechischen Seajets Group, welche das Schiff im November 2020 übernahm. Das Schiff wurde daraufhin in Aegean Goddess umbenannt. Seajets hatte bereits zuvor mit der Aegean Myth und der Aegean Majesty zwei Schwesterschiffe der Aegean Goddess übernommen.

Verkauf an Celestyal Cruises
Im Februar 2023 wurde bekannt, dass der chinesische Anbieter für Flusskreuzfahrten Victoria Cruise Lines die Aegean Goddess und ihr Schwesterschiff Aegean Majesty für Kreuzfahrten mit Kabinen zur Langzeitmiete einsetzen wolle. Kurz darauf gab jedoch die zypriotische Reederei Celestyal Cruises den Erwerb des Schiffes bekannt, das zukünftig als Celestyal Journey eingesetzt werden soll.

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 Infos zum Schiff auf der Website von P&O Cruises Australia
 Eintrag zum Schiff auf faktaomfartyg.se (schwedisch)

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Kreuzfahrtschiff
Passagierschiff (Niederlande)
Passagierschiff (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Schiff mit dieselelektrischem Antrieb
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Schiff (Holland-America Line)


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Almost every patient has at least one haploidentical relative. But until recently, [haploidentical transplant] carried excessive risk.
HLA-haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation can be performed safely, yield good outcomes, and greatly expand the number of patients with hematologic malignancies who can be treated with stem cell transplant, studies presented at the 2013 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting suggested.
A major obstacle to success with allogeneic bone marrow transplant has been the frequent lack of suitable matched donors. Only one-quarter of siblings will be an HLA-match, and there is only a 50% chance overall—and much lower for African Americans and ethnic minorities—of finding a matched unrelated donor. Time is also a factor: It can take months to coordinate an unrelated transplant.
When a fully matched donor is not available, reduced-intensity bone marrow transplants using haploidentical, or half-matched, related donors can be safe and effective even in elderly patients, ASH presentations suggested.
These have included an increased risk of graft rejection and of graft-vs-host disease. Reduced-intensity regimens have made them safer, and further advances in safety and efficacy are being achieved through novel approaches, investigators reported at the ASH meeting.
Investigators retrospectively evaluated 273 patients aged 50 to 75 with various hematologic malignancies who received a nonmyeloablative related haploidentical bone marrow transplant with post-transplant high-dose cyclophosphamide (50 mg/kg either once on day 3 or twice on days 3 and 4) plus mycophenolate mofetil and tacrolimus for graft-vs-host disease prophylaxis.
She called post-transplant cyclophosphamide a "major advance" that renders haploidentical bone marrow transplant "safe and effective" and allows for outpatient treatment.
Median time to neutrophil recovery was 16 days and to platelets ≥ 20,000 was 26 days. Risk of acute graft-vs-host disease was low (32% for all grades and 3% for grade 3/4), as was risk for chronic graft-vs-host disease (12% at 1 year). The 1-year relapse rate was 37%, and at 6 months, the nonrelapse mortality rate was 11%.
By age, outcomes were comparable at a median follow-up of 2.1 years. Two-year progression free survival was 39% for patients aged 50 to 59, 36% for those aged 60 to 69 and 39% for those aged 70 to 75. Estimated 2-year overall survival was 51%, 56%, and 44%, respectively.
"Of 27 patients aged 70 to 75, there were four nonrelapse deaths (15%), nine relapses (33%) and 14 patients alive without relapse (52%) at a median of 11 months after [bone marrow transplant]," Dr. Kasamon said. Nonrelapse mortality was not significantly different among the three age groups.
"These results underscore that a reduced-intensity, related haploidentical transplant should be considered a very reasonable treatment option for suitable patients—up to at least age 75—who require a transplant," Dr. Kasamon suggested. In most cases, Johns Hopkins no longer searches for a matched unrelated donor for patients with a relative who is a potential haplolid donor.
Alice Bertaina, MD, of the Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome, and colleagues selectively removed those cells that are most likely to trigger donor cells to attack recipient cells.
"We recently developed a new method of graft manipulation based on the physical removal of alpha/beta–positive T cells and CD19-positive B cells, which permits us to leave mature natural killer (NK) cells and gamma/delta–positive T cells in the graft," she said. NK and gamma/delta–positive T cells help prevent relapse and protect against infection.
Their study included 50 children (median age, 10) with acute lymphoblastic or acute myeloid leukemia with a parent serving as the haploidentical donor. The donor's blood was filtered through a column where magnetic microbeads captured and separated the T cells to be retained from those slated for elimination. Patients underwent a myeloablative regimen, with or without total-body irradiation, and received anti–thymocyte globulin and rituximab (Rituxan).
With a median follow-up of 18 months (range, 6–36 months), the cumulative incidence of transplant-related mortality was only 4%, the relapse rate was just 19%, and the leukemia-free survival rate was 77%, rising to 80% in the subset of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
The incidence of acute graft-vs-host disease was 26%, and no child developed gut or liver acute disease. Only two patients developed skin-limited chronic graft-vs-host disease. The cumulative infection rate was 53%, Dr. Bertaina reported.
Sustained primary engraftment occurred in all patients, and median time to reach an absolute neutrophil count > 0.5 × 109/L and platelet count > 50 × 109/L was 13 days and 11 days, respectively. Chimerism at engraftment was 100%.
Dr. Bertaina predicted that using this approach, more patients will receive transplants and fewer will die during the procurement of an unrelated donor.
Disclosure: Drs. Kasamon, Bertaina, and Cooper reported no potential conflicts of interest.
1. Kasamon YL, Prince G, Bolanos-Meade J, et al: Encouraging outcomes in older patients following nonmyeloablative haploidentical BMT with high-dose post-transplantation cyclophosphamide. 2013 ASH Annual Meeting. Abstract 158. Presented December 7, 2013.
2. Bertaina A, Pagliara D, Pende D, et al: Removal of alpha/beta+ T cells and of CD19+ B cells from the graft translates into rapid engraftment, absence of visceral graft-versus-host disease and low transplant-related mortality in children with acute leukemia given HLA-haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 2013 ASH Annual Meeting. Abstract 157. Presented December 7, 2013.


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Chelsea hopes of finishing fourth in the English Premier League have been dealt a blow after The Blues were defeated 2-0 by Liverpool at Anfield this afternoon.
Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah got the goals in the second half as the hosts returned to the English Premier League summit.
The first half produced very little in the way of goalmouth action. Salah had an early chance for Liverpool after getting on the end of a Mane cross while Eden Hazard fired Chelsea's only shot on target of the first half straight at home keeper Alisson.
The match came to the boil early in the second half when Jordan Henderson crossed for Mane to head the ball home and break the deadlock for the home side.
Matters quickly got worse for Maurizio Sarri's men when three minutes later, Salah struck a wonderful effort from range which flew past Blues keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga into the back of the net, a Goal of the Season contender.
Hazard then saw an effort rattle the post as Chelsea searched for a way back into the match before the same player forced a save from Alisson with a close range strike.
Liverpool had further chances to extend their two-goal lead but Trent Alexander-Arnold, Roberto Firmino and Mane were all unable to beat Arrizabalaga with their efforts. Those missed opportunities did not matter though as The Reds won the match 2-0.
Chelsea are back in action on Thursday evening when Slavia Prague are the visitors to Stamford Bridge in the UEFA Europa League.


With the recent ascent of the right wing, we have seen a new wave of pink-washing and white nationalism. This has had a number of consequences for the LGBTQI* community, ranging from attempts to homogenisation under the banner of "one nation" to the re-emergence of conservative hypermasculine and -feminine stereotypes. For this reason, our fifth volume of Gender Questions has two sections. The first is a special focus on trans* subjectivities, while the second is a more general section. What we aimed to address in the first section are ways in which we can think through, reconceptualise and practise new forms of resistance, affect and gender education in a world with increasing biopolitical measures and necropolitical effects. We wanted to focus on trans* communities because trans* people continue to be some of the most marginalised within and outside of the LGBTQI* community; and have recently seen some of their rights revoked as a direct result of right-wing populism.


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The British National Cyclo-cross Championships are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other cyclo-cross  events in the country to show their status as national champion. The champion's stripes can be combined into a sponsored rider's team kit design for this purpose.

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Women

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National cyclo-cross championships
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Annual sporting events in the United Kingdom


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On Thursday, the National Organization for Black County Officials (NOBCO) kicked off their 34th Annual Economic Development Conference at the Greenbelt Marriott in Greenbelt, Maryland. Leaders from as far as California convened in Prince George's County to launch a 4-day discussion about how policies and initiatives can be collectively implemented to serve and improve each leaders' respective municipality. On hand to welcome NOBCO to Prince George's County were County Council member Andrea Harrison and the Prince George's County Economic Development Corporation (EDC) President and Chief 'Excitement' Officer, Jim Coleman.
The National Organization of Black County Officials is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. Founded in 1982, its mission is to provide resources to empower and transform communities. Participants in the NOBCO Economic Development Conference are members of the National Association of Black County Officials which connects African American elected officials from around the United States. Prince George's County Council member Andrea Harrison is a long-time active member of NOBCO and was pleased that its Economic Development Conference is taking place in Prince George's County.
Th 34th annual NOBCO Economic Development Conference is a chance for members from across America to get together and talk specifically about Economic Development policies and strategies that have worked in various local communities. Honorable Roy Charles Brooks, Chairman of the NOBCO Board, expressed his hope that, while in Prince George's County, each member will hear something that they can take home and implement in their communities for the benefit of the people they serve.
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This news release includes statements that constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our ability to expand our presence in certain markets, future sales growth, continued improvements in our financial results,and implementation of new distribution channels. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Jim Gaynor, President & CEO
Donald O. Retreage, Jr., CFO
Tel: 407-382-4003 x329
Jordan Darrow
Darrow Associates
SOURCE: LightPath Technologies, Inc.


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