Cruising is of course is a fabulous way to vacation, however; magnify the fun by cruising with friends. September 2017, was a great vacation with friends aboard the MSC Divina to the Western Caribbean. The highlights of cruising with friends include the memorable moments dining together each morning in the Lido café and in the restaurant each night. It's a lot of fun to eat pizza at midnight and solved the problems of the world with friends. You really get to know your friends better in such a relaxed, carefree environment.
Cruising with friends develops a camaraderie unique in the vacation industry, because everyone is on the same ship, experiencing the wonderful entertainment, service and ports. Our teenagers had a wonderful time swimming in the pools and the pizza at night. On this cruise aboard the MSC Divina, there were three couple who were experiencing their FIRST CRUISE, and it was a thrill to look through their eyes and watch as they see the ship for the first time and go to sea for the first time. Diner on the MSC Divina is truly special with fabulous cuisine and finely-tuned service by the wait staff. Dinning on a cruise ship is different than at a land-based restaurant because there are more staff taking care of each table than just a waiter, with the water steward, wine steward, waiter, assistant waiter, Maître D' and sometimes the Chef or Food & Beverage Manager even makes an occasional visit to your table. In many cases dinning in the main dinning room is like eating at a five-star land-based restaurant, which often takes passengers by surprise, not expecting such fancy white-gloved service. There are usually two formal nights in the dinning room during a seven-night cruise, typically the Captain's welcome aboard dinner the second night of the cruise, and then the Farewell Gala dinner on the last night.
Comments from our first-time cruisers include many descriptive words like: fantastic, amazing, incredible, first-class, wow, and other very positive impressions. After working in the cruise industry for 25 + years, a common scenario with couples is that the women are the ones that want to cruise, while the men are dragging their feet, but what's interesting is that after the cruise, it's the men not wanting to leave and they are first-in-line to plan the next cruise. Further observation of this phenomenon is the women tend to want to cruise for romantic reasons, and men are thrilled that their women are so happy and the cruise line and staff take care of planning all the activities, dinning, entertainment, ports, and each couple can just relax and go with the flow.
Below is a video from the September 2017 cruise aboard the MSC Divina. Watch the video and be sure to COMMENT | SHARE | LIKE the video with your friends and family. If you want to cruise with a great group of people, we have another exception cruise event scheduled for November 4th, 2018 that you are more than welcome to join us on. We will be cruising aboard the World's largest cruise ship the Oasis of the Seas with Royal Caribbean.
The next time you plan a cruise vacation, look into Luggage Forward, which is company that will pick up your heavy luggage and deliver it to your ship or hotel. No need to drag your heavy luggage to the airport and hope the airlines don't loose your bag.


The themes or themata (Greek: θέματα, thémata, singular: θέμα, théma) were the main administrative divisions of the middle Byzantine Empire. They were established in the mid-7th century in the aftermath of the Slavic invasion of the Balkans and Muslim conquests of parts of Byzantine territory, and replaced the earlier provincial system established by Diocletian and Constantine the Great. In their origin, the first themes were created from the areas of encampment of the field armies of the East Roman army, and their names corresponded to the military units that had existed in those areas. The theme system reached its apogee in the 9th and 10th centuries, as older themes were split up and the conquest of territory resulted in the creation of new ones. The original theme system underwent significant changes in the 11th and 12th centuries, but the term remained in use as a provincial and financial circumscription until the very end of the Empire.


Defective Takata Airbag Death Toll Rises to 8 in U.S.
Dec 29, 2015 By Peterson & Associates, P.C.
Another life has been claimed by a faulty Takata airbag, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The news comes on the heels of a massive penalty issued by the NTHSA against the Japanese manufacturer last month.
A 13-year-old boy was killed in a car accident on July 22 while driving in a relative's 2001 Honda Accord near Pittsburgh. The NHTSA just learned of the death when they received a letter from the victim's family's attorney in December.
Although details of the accident have not been released by police, the NHTSA investigated and found that the airbag inflator caused the death. They will be conducting an inspection of the vehicle for further confirmation.
Honda stated that it repeatedly sent recall notices to the vehicle's owner, including a letter mailed a day before the fatal crash.
The use of ammonium nitrate gas as a propellant in the airbag inflators is the primary culprit. At high temperatures and in humid conditions, the inflators can rupture when triggered, shooting shrapnel-like metal shards into the air at high speeds.
More than 30 million vehicles from 11 different automakers have been recalled as a result of the dangerous inflators, making it the largest product recall in history. In November, the NHTSA also issued its biggest civil penalty ever, ordering Takata to speed up the recall and repair process or face $200 million in fines.
To date, about 27 percent of the autos under recall have been repaired. To check if your car is under recall, visit the NHTSA's VIN-look-up webpage.
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Blindspot: The Complete First Season will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD on 3rd October 2016 via Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
Starring Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander, Blindspot is created by Martin Gero (The L.A. Complex) and Berlanti Productions (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl). Blindspot: The Complete First Season features all 23 episodes plus loads of bonus material, including new featurettes, commentaries and deleted scenes from nearly every episode of the show's first season.
Blindspot tells the story of a beautiful woman (Jaimie Alexander, Thor: The Dark World, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), who is found naked in Times Square, with her body completely covered in cryptic, intricate tattoos. With no memories of her past, and clueless about her own identity this Jane Doe ignites the attention of the FBI, when it's discovered that one of her mysterious tattoos bears the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller (Sullivan Stapleton, Strike Back, 300: Rise of an Empire).
As Weller and his teammates at the FBI begin to investigate the mysterious map of Jane Doe's strange tattoos, they are drawn into a high-stakes underworld that twists and turns through a labyrinth of secrets and revelations. The information they uncover, might ultimately change the world.


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Ewa Dilling-Ostrowska (ur. 11 kwietnia 1934 we Lwowie, zm. 16 czerwca 2012) – polska lekarka-neurolożka, prof. dr hab., wykładowczyni Akademii Medycznej w Gdańsku.

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W 1957 uzyskała dyplom lekarza medycyny na Akademii Medycznej w Gdańsku, w 1960 - specjalizację I stopnia z neurologii, w 1964 - II stopnia z neurologii dziecięcej. Od października 1964 była asystentką, od 1965 - starszą asystentką Kliniki Chorób Nerwowych AMG. W marcu 1965 obroniła pracę doktorską pt. Analiza wrodzonych zaburzeń mowy i próba wyjaśnienia. W 1970 awansowała na adiunktkę Kliniki Chorób Nerwowych. W kwietniu 1974 habilitowała się na podstawie pracy
przyczyny ich powstawania Symptomatologia zaburzeń afatycznych w zależności od stopnia dojrzałości układu nerwowego. W tym samym roku objęła funkcję zastępcy kierownika Kliniki
Neurologii Rozwojowej AM w Gdańsku. W październiku 1977 wraz z uzyskaniem stopnia docenta została jej kierowniczką. Tytuł profesorski otrzymała w 1998. Prowadziła wykłady w Podyplomowym Studium Logopedycznym Instytutu Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. W 1979 przebywała na stażu naukowym w Klinice Neuropsychiatrii Dziecięcej w Berlinie-Lichtenbergu. Wizytowała również ośrodki neurologii dziecięcej w Holandii, Czechosłowacji, Węgrzech i Austrii. Współorganizowała XIII Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Neurologicznego i II Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Neurologów Dziecięcych. W 1987 wzięła udział w III Światowym Kongresie Dysleksji w Chanii na Krecie. W pracy naukowej zajmowała się przede wszystkim afazją i problemami jej rehabilitacji, a także bólom głowy u dzieci, a zwłaszcza migreną dziecięcą. W 1988 prowadziła wspólne badania chorych na podostre stwardniające zapalenie mózgu z naukowcami z Duluth w USA.

W latach 1991-1995 pełniła funkcję wiceprzewodniczącej Polskiego Towarzystwa Neurologów Dziecięcych, od 1978 do 1983 - wiceprzewodniczącej Sekcji Neurologii Rozwojowej przy  Zarządzie Głównym Polskiego Towarzystwa Neurologicznego. Od 1971 do 1981 była sekretarzem Komisji Neurologii Rozwojowej Komitetu Nauk Neurologicznych PAN. W 1992 została  zastępcą redaktora naczelnego "Neurologii Dziecięcej". Od 1996 należała do redakcji kolegium redakcyjnego "Medical Science Monitor".

Była odznaczona Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (2001), Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi (1984), Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej, Medalem za Zasługi dla Gdańska (1975), Medalem z okazji 50-lecia AMG (1995) i Medal im. Profesor Zofii Majewskiej "Za pracę i wielki wkład w rozwój neurologii dziecięcej w Polsce" (1996).

Autorka m.in. podręcznika Zespoły bólowe w neurologii dziecięcej i poradnika Bóle głowy (z Anną Olszewską).

Pochowana na cmentarzu katolickim w Sopocie (kwatera G2-9-10).

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Bibliografia
 Profesor Ewa Dilling-Ostrowska 1934–2012.

Absolwenci Akademii Medycznej w Gdańsku
Polscy neurolodzy
Wykładowcy Gdańskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego
Ludzie urodzeni we Lwowie
Odznaczeni Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi (Polska Ludowa)
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (III Rzeczpospolita)
Odznaczeni Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
Urodzeni w 1934
Zmarli w 2012
Polscy nefrolodzy
Pochowani na Cmentarzu katolickim w Sopocie

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After months of hype, London-based producer Jon Gooch, better known as Feed Me, has released his latest EP on mau5trap. Existential Crisis marks the producer's on mau5trap since 2013, and the wait was worth it.
Feed Me has been busy in 2017, appearing on tour with deadmau5 this spring while finishing up the new EP. The Canadian producer even premiered the EP's title track on his BBC Radio 1 residency earlier this month.
Existential Crisis is an otherworldly experience, highlighted by flaring electro house melodies and heavy-hitting bass. The collection is a masterpiece and is incredible to listen to from start to finish — not unexpected, given the level of respect Feed Me has garnered within the electronic community. It flows seamlessly through different facets of Feed Me's talents, from electro to dubstep and everything in between.
[The EP] encompasses five pieces of music and artwork. In coming back to mau5trap to release, time feels like a flat circle in a positive way, and it's exciting to work again with such a unique label that stands for individualism. It's music to dance and forget about things for a short time while the world burns around us. It served as a precursor to touring with Joel on the lotsofshowsinarow tour, where I extended how I perform live and got constantly inspired by new music, new technology and new artistic opportunity. I find it important to constantly deconstruct, re-evaluate or reinvent myself or my surroundings, so with this EP and tour complete I take lessons and begin the next crisis.


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RIBCHESTER will bid to bounce back to winning ways in the Prix de Moulin at Chantilly on Sunday.
Trainer Richard Fahey had suggested he would be giving his stable star a break following his Sussex Stakes defeat but Ribchester is reported to be bouncing at home.
"He's not letting me give him a holiday," Fahey told www.godolphin.com.
"He's in such great order, we'll take him racing again this weekend, in Paris.
"When he came back from Goodwood, I thought a little break would do him good. I put him on the treadmill for eight days, but he kept telling me he wanted to get back racing again.
"He's a horse, who never blows (after races). I've never trained one like him.
"I thought he probably had a hard race at Goodwood, but he's come out of the Sussex so well physically. The ground won't be a problem -- It is currently soft, and it could get softer.
"But, also, he's broken a track record, so he is at home on ground that is quick, too."


It really takes a certain type of courage to have a secondary relationship as one's primary. There are very few people who are capable of having that kind of situation. Geoff knows that John is my primary relationship, that John will always come first in everything I do or decide. There aren't many personalities strong enough to be in such a situation and still know that they are of great worth and value to the one they love. Both Charlie and Cera have primary relationships, so they understand and need for the secondary relationship to remain secondary, but Geoff is in a very different position and I have been very impressed with what he takes from it and what he doesn't need from it.
It's really hard to keep competitiveness out of it, to keep the territory and possessiveness that sometimes characterize romantic relationships completely clear. Mark tried, very hard, to make it work all those years ago, but I have a feeling that he sometimes succumbed to the feeling of being second-best. So I'm glad that he found someone that really could make him primary in their life.
What makes this different is that Geoff has a very clear vision of where he wants to go, what he wants to do, and how a primary relationship does not fit within that framework as well as all the reasons why a secondary relationship fits those all much better. Also, for all that he wishes to stay independent, that doesn't mean indifferent, and therein lies all the difference. He really wants me to have the stable base of my family, work, and present relations and celebrates those as things that make me happier. He was also very clear that he wouldn't have gotten involved with me if he couldn't "give me back" when things were done.
In some ways this whole relationship has really woken me up to things that I haven't really looked at for a while. It's making me look at everything in my life again, with new reason and new outlooks. What's really good about this beginning is that it really is helping me find all the everyday beauty and wonder that I do have. Just the joy of being able to hug John whenever I want to, have lunch, talk with him face-to-face on an everyday basis seems so much more valuable because I can't with Geoff. Being able to thump Fezzik whenever I come home and hug his furry bulk is really cool, especially when reflected against Geoff's chosen aspect of a mean, junkyard Dog with a soft spot for his chosen person. The silk Tiger over my mantle has new meaning against Geoff's way of seeing me. My own realizations of who and what I am and what I'm capable of are all been turned over anew and made bright by the attention and thought.
I guess this is why I will probably always fall in love, even as I grow old and there is so much more to turn over, so much more to evaluate. Sometimes I think the reason it is so much more easy for young folks to fall in love is that they have so much less experience, memory, and bad habits to overturn, evaluate, and match up with to their new love. Not that I'm 'old' by any sense, but I certainly feel a good measure older than when I got involved with Mark and am finally of the opinion that I'm probably better off for having tried that first.
Geoff was suitably contrite about Friday and apologized nicely. I also apologized for not giving him any direct communication about what was going on with my physical condition. What is really great about all that is I think that after the apologies were accepted and acknowledged that they really do stand for a learning attempt for the future. I think I will be better about telling him when I am in sad shape, and he will realize, more often, that it is a possibility and not take it as something he did wrong.
The day at work wasn't as bad as I had feared it would be. I managed to finish a few small jobs, that really made me feel better. I also did some extensive research on a problem that looks to be harder than we can fix in the time we have. It is always good to be able to find the cause of problems. Finally I found an annoying problem that should be easy to fix.
The entire group went out to lunch because we just hired a new member of the group, and he was Chinese. It turns out there is a Chinese restaurant that a Chinese person actually recommended to Bob the last time he came to visit, the whole group of us wanted to try the food there. So the whole gang of us went to China Gourmet, asked for the Chinese menu, and then ordered a good dozen dishes. Sadly, John couldn't come with us because he had a dentist appointment, and it took two months to get it so he couldn't move it easily. The food was really good, not quite at the level of the best restaurants I've ever eaten at, but good enough to be comfort food for me and good enough that I really enjoyed everything we had. The spicy things were spicy, the sour things were sour, and the entire meal was very enjoyable. Everyone liked it, too, so I think that the whole group will be going here more often. Especially when Bob visits. It certainly is significantly closer than Denver.
I felt pretty good about the day, but it wasn't until 7 that John was able to come home. So I was fairly tired by the time we got home. I wasn't up to cooking, and we both wanted to ride the bicycle, so John thought up the plan. I rode first, and when I got off the bicycle he called the local delivery pizza place and bought hot chicken wings and a small pizza. Delivery didn't happen until John almost finished riding his bike ride, so the timing was nearly perfect.
Between mental and physical exertion sleep was easy.


For the first part of his talk, Nguyen, who attended UC Berkeley for both his undergraduate and graduate studies, discussed his time studying English and ethnic studies as an undergraduate and his journey to becoming an author. The rest of the event was comprised of a Q&A between Nguyen and English students in attendance.
For Nguyen, the realm of academia provided the opportunity to study higher-level theory but, as he soon found, the way in which academic thought is communicated is inaccessible to the general public. He explained that this is a conflict perennially discussed and considered in disciplines including ethnic studies, and that such a discourse directly impacts vulnerable communities outside of academia.
Nguyen recalled taking a graduate seminar taught by English professor Genaro Padilla on the topic of immigrants and border crossings. He explained that this politicized topic, which is very relevant today, was one portion of his academic studies that he wanted to make more accessible through his writing.
So Nguyen founded his current blog, diaCRITICS, centered on the arts and culture of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Diaspora. This blog, which solicits writing from Asian authors and serves as a platform for Nguyen's unrestrained writing, was the venue in which he found intellectual freedom.
On diaCRITICS, Nguyen is free to write op-eds, longform essays and whatever he feels creatively inclined to produce. After some time, the alumnus found himself indulging in a knack for satire and humor that he never knew he had.
In response to Nguyen's discussion of discourse with the public, one student in the audience asked whether he feels that responding to hate mail and engaging with criticism is productive.
And the answer was decidedly yes from Nguyen, who said he believes that engaging with "everything from stupid to smart" and "from hateful to critical" is helpful because it forces him to confront his own assumptions.
Malini Ramaiyer covers culture and diversity. Contact her at [email protected]. Tweet her at @malinisramaiyer.


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Q: How to rename downloaded youtube playlist via youtube-dl I have already downloaded a YouTube playlist, I didn't think of renaming it while downloading.
Now, I need to rename all the videos as per playlist numbering. I found this to do so
 youtube-dl -o "%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" <playlist_link>

But it will download the playlist again which I don't want. So I tried to use the different options like --skip-download without success. I read the youtube-dl -h to find a solution, but I can't seem to find. I am stuck in here any help is very much appreciated.

A: I don't think youtube-dl has an option for renaming while downloading. You can use Flash Renamer or something similar after the downloading has completed, it is very easy and useful.

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It's great to hear two new songs from Ciarán + Katy, live in the studio for our January podcast. Lovely people and talented musicians, we hope you enjoy these haunting tracks. First up is 'All My Fire' (at 16'08 minutes) and then later in the show, 'Is that all there is?' (at 45'30 minutes).
Ciarán + Katy are a singer/guitar duet from Glasgow. An intimate sound of natural singing and delicate guitar playing draws closely from Folk music but with highlights of Country and Jazz.


The Sixers want to and need to add talent. Their biggest hole is at power forward, where they crave somebody capable of scoring on the block. The Sixers can also use a perimeter shooter and a backup point guard.
But the $11 million that team president Ed Stefanski has to spend on free agency or use in a trade, as well as the 16th pick in the draft, might not be enough to address all three areas. One option is to forget about the shooter -- at least for now -- and hope that current Sixers Rodney Carney, Lou Williams and Willie Green can pick up the slack. Another is to consider acquiring a disgruntled player, such as the Knicks' Zach Randolph, in an effort to get a good financial deal. Randolph, who is on the trading block as New York switches to a running style, could only cost the Sixers a player with a lesser salary, since they are $11 million below the salary cap.
"There's no question you have to make changes," Stefanski said. "People shy away from changes; I don't. I think changes are good."
On the other hand, one of the reasons the Sixers were a surprise playoff qualifier was team chemistry. The players all got along and felt they had an equal say in everything, which was a big change from the 10-and-a-half years that Allen Iverson was a Sixer. Adding a star or high-maintenance player could jeopardize the chemistry.
"It's always something you have to think about," Stefanski said. "You never know when you make change what's going to happen with the chemistry. The chemistry this year was terrific. We hit the perfect storm on how this all came together from where everyone thought we were going to be to where we ended up."
SEASON HIGHLIGHT: Beating the NBA-leading Celtics 95-90 on March 24 in Beantown. That come-from-behind victory gave the young Sixers a big confidence boost in a month that also featured road wins over the Suns and Pistons as well as a home victory over the Spurs.
TURNING POINT: A five-game winning streak -- all at home -- going into the All-Star break got the Sixers started on a 19-5 stretch that turned them from a lottery team to a playoff team in the Eastern Conference. They dispatched three losing teams, the Wizards and the Mavericks to begin establishing a home-court advantage that produced 12 victories in 13 games at the Wachovia Center.


Supporting Pages: Four pages containing maps, cross sections, block diagrams, etc. support the Acadian orogeny. They are all linked together, and to appropriate places in the main and detail pages, but are listed here for convenience.
Many interesting things happen during deposition of the Catskill clastic wedge. But always one thing we want to do is reconstruct a picture of what the world looked like if we could have stood there at that ancient place and looked around. We explore three case studies to capture the flavor of the environments in the Mid-Atlantic during the Acadian.
Storms in the Foreland Basin.
The Foreknobs formation contains the shelf deposits of the clastic wedge. It is filled with thousands of sandstone beds stacked on on top of the other, like the ones to the left, containing hummocky sequences, each one the result of a storm, like a hurricane or, on our modern Atlantic coast, a "nor'easter". Thousands of sandstones means thousands of storms, but just how frequent is that? Do all these sandstone deposits laid out one after the other in the rock record imply that this was a continuously roiled up and riled coastline being pounded incessantly with storms, and little else happening in between?
To get an answer to this we can use storms on a modern shelf as a model. For reasons that will become clear below, the modern Atlantic coast is not necessarily a good model for the Catskill, but it is familiar to most of us and will give some idea of what we might expect.
Every year there is a hurricane season, and anywhere from a few to a few dozen hurricanes are born and wander their way across the oceans. But as most of us know, any one spot of coastline does not feel the impact of all these storms. Indeed, a spot of coast may go for a decade, or many decades, without having any significant storms attack it (like the Carolina Outer Banks recently).
So, what is being deposited on the shelf during all these quiet years? Practically nothing, or perhaps a few millimeters of mud washed down with the rivers. But, then comes the big storm that just happens to hit this particular spot on the coast. The wind howls and waves crash with great energy, ripping and eroding the sand, transporting some of it offshore. And there the waves work the sand beds into sandbars with hummocky sequences, the signature of a storm deposit. And then all goes quiet again for another decade, or more.
The point is, even though there are many storms each year any one spot of coast receives a major storm infrequently. And the major storms probably crossed any one point on this Devonian Foreknobs shelf no more frequently than they cross the Atlantic shelf today. Yet it is possible to be fooled when looking at an outcrop of rock; sandstone after sandstone seems to point to storm after storm, as indeed it does, but the outcrop skews our sense of time. Each sandstone is probably the result of at most only a few day of strong wave action, while the shale in between represents years of slow, quiet accumulation. And most days of the year produce no rock record at all. The geologic record is, in fact, mostly gaps.
So, now imagine the sea to the west in the Devonian being pounded occasionally by large storms. But it is not quite that simple.
The second thing we observe about the clastic wedge is the transition from the Foreknobs shelf to the Hampshire meandering river (environmental map). Normally, a transition from a marine environment to a river environment is marked by a beach environment. Just look all up and down the Atlantic coastline today; beaches everywhere.
And we all know what beaches look like; lots of clean, white sand. And, we know well what beaches look like in the stratigraphic record, lots of clean white sandstone, containing other features distinctive of beaches. There are a number of beaches in the Virginia record: the Antietam, Tuscarora, and Oriskany are all beach deposits.
But when we walk across this shelf (Foreknobs) to terrestrial (Hampshire) transition anywhere in the clastic wedge there is no beach sand to be found. A beach is clearly absent.
What does it mean, "the beach is absent?" If there is no beach, what is there? What the record tells us is that if you could have stood on that Devonian shoreline what you would see is - mud, a muddy shoreline. Instead of the sandy beach we are used to it would perhaps be more like the edge of a quiet pond, and probably covered with lots of low vegetation. The left picture, for example, is the shoreline preserved near Spruce Knob, West Virginia. The red silts/shales to the right are the muddy shoreline. The sandstone to the left is an offshore sandbar. Below these units the record is dominantly marine, and above terrestrial. No deposits at this outcrop have sand beach features.
What does a muddy shoreline tell us about the Devonian coastline? Most of us are familiar with the beach, and most of the time what we see are waves. Lots of waves. It is the constant beating of all this wave energy on the coast that works and reworks the sediment brought down by the rivers, sorting out the mud, and leaving on the shore - the sand. The mud in the meantime drifts off shore where it settles out in the quieter water of the shelf.
And it is not that the sand is just absent in the Devonian; offshore on the shelf, in the Foreknobs formation, are many sandbars (click above picture for enlargement and discussion). What all this tells us is that this coastline received very little wave action. It was still and calm most days of the year. Yes, occasionally a major storm impinged on the coast, the hummocky sandstones in the Foreknobs tells us that, but most of the time it was very quiet.
What kind of coast receives little or no wave action? Either one in which no winds blow at all, or one in which the winds blow preferentially from the land toward the sea. We saw in the paleoclimatic reconstruction on the main page that because of the way the Acadian mountains were position relative to the trade winds, that winds likely blew preferentially from land to sea. No waves, no washing of the sediment; no washing of the sediment, no beach sands - a muddy shoreline.
There is one final intriguing mystery associated with all this we want to explore. Perhaps the strangest thing about the mid-late Devonian is what happened out in the Kaskaskia epicontinental sea. Spread across large regions of the continent is a thin (10's of feet), black shale best known as the Chattanooga (but in other places the Albany shale, Cleveland shale, etc.). This shale, when fresh, is the blackest black you can imagine, and where it weathers out it is encrusted with white and yellow salts. And when you walk across pieces of it laying on the ground it often crunches like parchment. What is more the Chattanooga has very high concentrations of uranium, as well as phosphorous. A uniquely distinctive formation.
The Chattanooga has all the earmarks of a very deep water deposit, but that just does not make sense. First of all it is just too widespread across the continent, and we know continents float relatively high on the mantle. Even at the height of the Kaskaskia the water was probably not that deep. Besides both below and above the Chattanooga are shallow water deposits, carbonates, in fact.
So, what is required to get a formation such as the Chattanooga are stagnant conditions, lasting about 20 million years, developing in shallow water, across most of a continent.
Normally what keeps a shallow bottom well oxygenated are lots of currents generated by strong waves. And that is the key to the puzzle, for if we look at the "Old Red" map we see just off the coast of the Acadian mountains the doldrums of the equatorial region. The doldrums are well known as a place of few winds and great calm. No winds, no waves; no waves, no strong currents; no strong currents, stagnant bottom. And the way the Old Red continent is positioned these conditions would have been very wide spread across North America.
But what about the uranium and other salts? Where do they come from? Actually, it is not that difficult. There exist today, and no doubt in the past, bacteria that scavenge dissolved uranium out of sea water. Just because the bottom of the Kaskaskia is stagnant does not mean the surface is, and in the tropical sun all kinds of algae and bacteria would have thrived there. The uranium-scavenging bacteria concentrate the uranium in their cells, and when they die they sink to the bottom. Because the conditions are so stagnant the normal decay processes are arrested and the uranium just sits there. And because the shale accumulates very slowly, and there is so little of it, the uranium and other salts accumulating over a few 10's of million years become highly concentrated. Similar processes are occurring in the Black Sea today, and there is one ancient example where uranium became concentrated enough to reach critical mass and begin a chain reaction; a natural nuclear reactor.
To paraphrase, often times the world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Further details on this event.
Fossils and life during this time.
Go to Virginia Geology Home Page.
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Lumpkin's Jail, also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a holding facility, or slave jail, located in Richmond, Virginia, just three blocks from the state capitol building. More than five dozen firms traded in enslaved human beings within blocks of Richmond's Wall Street (now 15th Street) between 14th and 18th Streets between the 1830s and the end of the American Civil War. Its final and most notorious owner, Robert Lumpkin, bought and sold slaves throughout the South for well over twenty years, and Lumpkin's Jail became Richmond's largest slave-holding facility.

History

Robert Lumpkin purchased three lots on Wall Street in Shockoe Bottom (named for nearby Shockoe Creek) on November 27, 1844, for roughly six thousand dollars. Although named after Lumpkin, the property had two previous owners, and the holding facility already existed. Thomas Lumpkin was also involved in the slave trade at the Birch Alley facility in Richmond. Not only the largest slave trader in Richmond at the time, Lumpkin became known for cruelty, publicly beating or torturing those who tried to escape. The "whipping room" inside the jail allowed slaves to be fastened by their wrists and ankles to iron rings while lying on the floor, and flogged. Four other lots on Wall Street (now 15th Street) contained slave jails; the area was collectively referred to as Lumpkin's Alley.

Lumpkin's Jail complex actually contained four separate buildings: Lumpkin's residence, a guest house, a kitchen/bar and the "slave pen".  The two-story brick slave pen was approximately forty feet long. The bottom floor was the main jail area, and typically temporarily held men, women and children who were fit to be sold to plantation owners or other slave traders. The jail featured "barred windows, high fences, chained gates opening to the rutted streets, and all seen and smelled through a film of cooking smoke and stench of human excrement." At times filled by so many slaves that they were virtually on top of one another, sometimes crammed into one room or floor and lacking toilets and outside access other than a small window. Slaves at the jail often died of disease or starvation, if not from beatings and torture.  The nearby market with ready canal and railroad access was used as a slave market, or auctions were held in nearby hotels. Slaves were groomed, fed, and dressed up to be sold at auction, then pushed onto a boat or train to their next destination.

Robert Lumpkin

"He was both an evil man and a family man."  Robert Lumpkin, known for his cruelty and mistreatment of slaves, would eventually marry a light-skinned slave that he had purchased: Mary. At the time of their marriage, he was 27 years her senior. He fathered five children with Mary, seeing to it that they had the best treatment and education, including sending two of his daughters to finishing school. Before the Civil War ended, he sent his wife and children to Pennsylvania to avoid being sold back into slavery to pay off his debts. When Lumpkin died in late 1866, he left all of his property and land to Mary, who by then was legally allowed to accept it.

Postwar reuse

In April 1865 the Union Army captured Richmond, and all slaves were emancipated. In 1867, Mary Lumpkin leased the land to Nathaniel Colver, a Baptist minister looking for a place to establish a theological  seminary for freedmen. The National Theological Institute, which would come to be called The Colver Institute in 1869, later called Richmond Theological Seminary, and finally Virginia Union University, used the buildings for three years, so the land once colloquially called "the Devil's half acre" became "God's half acre".

Work was begun on demolishing Lumpkin's jail on March 10, 1888, according to various newspapers. Richmond Iron Works was eventually built over the original foundation. Today, the Interstate 95 embankment, as well as and a parking lot for university students cover the area.
In the mid-2000s archeologists began excavating the site, digging fourteen feet into the earth before finding the jailhouse foundation. Constant saturation from the adjacent Shockoe Creek restricted aerobic bacteria which normally break down organic matter. Archeologists thus found artifacts, including clothes, shoes, toys, and books, although no whipping rings, iron bars or other artifacts typically associated with slavery remained.

Inmates

Over the twenty years, the Lumpkin Jail was in operation, thousands of slaves passed through the complex. The most famous inmate was Anthony Burns, who had escaped slavery in Virginia, but was arrested in Boston and tried under the Fugitive Slave Law. Though many lobbied for his release, he was sent back to Lumpkin's Jail and held for four more months until abolitionists raised sufficient funds to buy his freedom. Once freed, he returned to the North and became a pastor, but died shortly thereafter at the age of 28.

References

External links
The Story Of Mary Lumpkin, The Formerly Enslaved Woman Who Liberated A Slave Jail And Turned It Into An HBCU, By Genevieve Carlton | Checked By Cara Johnson, Published September 6, 2022
 My Heart Went Right Down–The Devil's Half Acre And The Richmond Slave Trade, The Uncommon Wealth, Library of Virginia, Published December 15, 2014
 "God made me a man- not a slave": The Arrest of Anthony Burns, Boston African American National Historic Site, National Park Service

Archaeological sites in Virginia
Buildings and structures in Richmond, Virginia
Slave pens
African-American history in Richmond, Virginia
History of slavery in Virginia
African-American historic places
American slave traders
Demolished buildings and structures in Virginia


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I will pray with you.
Brother Michael, My prayers are with you for your healing recovery.
Praying for ya Mike. Hope you feel better soon.
(999.5) 91:6.2 Prayer is not a technique for curing real and organic diseases, but it has contributed enormously to the enjoyment of abundant health and to the cure of numerous mental, emotional, and nervous ailments. And even in actual bacterial disease, prayer has many times added to the efficacy of other remedial procedures. Prayer has turned many an irritable and complaining invalid into a paragon of patience and made him an inspiration to all other human sufferers.
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Gay and Light is an interview of my parents in their home about Mr. Humphries, a character in the British comedy Are You Being Served? As a family we watched Are You Being Served? The main question I ask during the interview is if they worried that their impressionable son watched a gay character? Watching my parents describe… ⊕
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd on their Last Cruise
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd on their Last Cruise adds a new scene to the James Bond film Diamond's Are Forever, Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are the killers hired by Erns Stavro Blofeld to advance his plan and to kill Mr. Bond. After Blofeld has been killed, Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd still remain with their work to kill Mr. Bond with… ⊕
1978-1991 uses both Jeffery Dahmer and Freddie Mercury to open the conversation about AIDS/HIV. In 1991, Dahmer was captured after his murderous rampage killed 17 men in Milwaukee. Dahmer was used in the media as a manifestation of the AIDS epidemic. Mercury passed away in 1991 due to bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS. As a… ⊕
100 Stories About My Grandmother
2008, colour
My work explores ideas around narrative, histories, and the intangible nature of truth. 100 Stories About My Grandmother uses narratives of others to construct a picture of my grandmother, and will deconstruct notions of family and how they work. The group that I will be using to provide the stories of their grandmothers is… ⊕
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use Sylius\Bundle\FlowBundle\Process\Step\ActionResult;
use Sylius\Component\Core\Model\CustomerInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Core\Model\OrderInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Core\Model\UserInterface;
use Sylius\Component\Core\OrderCheckoutStates;
use Sylius\Component\Core\OrderCheckoutTransitions;
use Sylius\Component\Core\SyliusCheckoutEvents;
use Sylius\Component\Resource\Event\ResourceEvent;
use Sylius\Component\Resource\Model\ResourceInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

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 * @author Paweł Jędrzejewski <pawel@sylius.org>
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Ortiz on Dominican trainer, shoulder
Posted by Chris Forsberg, Boston.com Staff February 21, 2009 08:49 AM
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- David Ortiz spent five minutes answering questions this morning about his relationship with Angel Presinal, amid reports that Major League Baseball investigators want to talk with Alex Rodriguez about his work with the Dominican trainer.
The Globe's Amalie Benjamin provides the full transcript.
Asked about his ties to Presinal, Ortiz said: "I gotta tell you, we had this facility, five minutes away from my house and he's one of the guys that trains everybody. That's what everybody does. It's in the center of the city, right in the middle where everybody lives, like an Olympics place where everybody goes to workout, do hitting, running, and other stuff."
Ortiz stressed he had worked with Presinal, but the trainer never pushed him toward steroids.
"I've known him for a long time," said Ortiz. "All I know from him is how to keep our bodies ready; working out, teaching how to do the right exercises and things like that. He's not just teaching baseball players, he has a guy who runs marathon, a volleyball player, basketball player, everybody. He's been doing that for years. All I know is we all work out with him as a group of guys that want to be ready in spring training. And that's about it."
The New York Daily News reported Friday that Presinal had a longstanding relationship with Rodriguez and accompanied him for the entire 2007 season as well as earlier in his career, when he played for the Texas Rangers. According to the Daily News' sources, Presinal stayed in the same hotels as A-Rod but in a separate room with Rodriguez's cousin Yuri Sucart, who A-Rod said was his source for steroids during his years with Texas (2001-03).
After the session, Ortiz was asked about his ailing shoulder, which kept him off the practice fields the past two days.
"It's better," said Ortiz, who was sporting an ice pack on his left shoulder. Asked if he would hit today, Ortiz said he would.
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4 Blood Donors
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11 Surgery
2 Brain and Spinal Surgery
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78 Systematic Review
1. Back to base pairs: What is the genetic risk for red bloodcell alloimmunization?
Gerritsma JJ, Oomen I, Meinderts S, van der Schoot CE, Biemond BJ, van der Bom JG, Fijnvandraat K
Blood reviews. 2021;:100794
Red blood cell (RBC) alloimmunization is a serious complication of blood transfusions, challenging selection of compatible units for future transfusions. Genetic characteristics may be associated with the risk of RBC alloimmunization and may therefore serve to identify high-risk patients. The aim of this systematic review was to summarize the available evidence on genetic risk factors for RBC alloimmunization. Electronic databases were searched up to April 2020 for studies (Search terms included transfusion, alloimmunization and genetic). A total of 2581 alloimmunized cases and 26,558 controls were derived from 24 studies. The alleles that were most frequently studied and that demonstrated significant associations in a meta-analysis with alloimmunization to the Duffy(a) antigen were HLA-DRB1*04 (Odds Ratio 7.80 (95%CI 4.57-13.33)), HLA-DRB1*15 (OR 3.76 (95%CI 2.14-6.59)), and HLA-DRB1*03 (OR 0.12 (95%CI 0.05-0.29)). Furthermore, significant associations with anti-K formation was found for the alleles HLA-DRB1*10 (OR 2.64 (95%CI 1.41-4.95)), HLA*DRB1*11 (OR 2.11, (95%CI 1.34-3.32)), and HLA-DRB1*13 (OR 1.71 (95%CI 1.26-2.33)). Overall, the available evidence was of moderate to low quality, hampering interpretation of reported results. There is an urgent need for high quality evidence on genetic risk factors for RBC alloimmunization.
2. Liberal blood transfusion strategies and associated infection in orthopedic patients: A meta-analysis
Wang Y, Chen J, Yang Z, Liu Y
Medicine. 2021;100(10):e24430
OBJECTIVE It remains unclear whether transfusion strategies during orthopedic surgery and infection are related. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether liberal blood transfusion strategies contribute to infection risk in orthopedic patients by analyzing randomized controlled trials (RCTs). METHODS RCTs with liberal versus restrictive red blood cell (RBC) transfusion strategies were identified by searching PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from their inception to July 2019. Ten studies with infections as outcomes were included in the final analysis. According to the Jadad scale, all studies were considered to be of high quality. RESULTS Ten trials involving 3938 participants were included in this study. The pooled risk ratio (RR) for the association between liberal transfusion strategy and infection was 1.34 (95% confidence intervals [CI], 0.94-1.90; P = .106). The sensitivity analysis indicated unstable results, and no significant publication bias was observed. CONCLUSION This pooled analysis of RCTs demonstrates that liberal transfusion strategies in orthopedic patients result in a nonsignificant increase in infections compared with more restrictive strategies. The conclusions are mainly based on retrospective studies and should not be considered as recommendation before they are supported by larger scale and well-designed RCTs.
3. Calcium Channel Blockers in Conjunction with Standard Iron-Chelating Agents for β-Thalassemia Major: Systematic Literature Search
Alali MA, Alanazi KMA, Alsayil SN, Omari Z, Shaaban A
Hemoglobin. 2021;:1-7
Thalassemia is a genetic mutation of the α- or β-globin chains that lead to defective erythropoiesis. This study aimed to collect evidences from all published studies that investigated the clinical effectiveness of calcium channel blockers (CCBs) in conjunction with chelation therapy for reducing iron overload in patients with thalassemia. A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Virtual Health Library. Original studies reporting the use of CCBs in patients with thalassemia were included for meta-analysis. A total of five randomized studies including 210 patients were included with a follow-up period of 3-12 months. There was no significant difference between amlodipine and control groups in increasing the heart T2* magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [mean difference (MD) 95% confidence interval (95% CI) = -1.9 (-4.4 to 0.5), p = 0.119] or reducing the liver iron concentration [MD 95% CI = -0.046 (-0.325 to 0.2), p = 0.746]. Although there were no serious adverse events reported in the included trials, further studies are recommended to strengthen our findings.
4. Red blood cell transfusions and the survival in patients with cancer undergoing curative surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Petrelli F, Ghidini M, Ghidini A, Sgroi G, Vavassori I, Petrò D, Cabiddu M, Aiolfi A, Bonitta G, Zaniboni A, et al
Surgery today. 2021
Allogenic red blood cell transfusions exert a potential detrimental effect on the survival when delivered to cancer patients undergoing surgery with curative intent. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the association between perioperative allogenic red blood cell transfusions and risk of death as well as relapse after surgery for localized solid tumors. PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and EMBASE were searched from inception to March 2019 for studies reporting the outcome of patients receiving transfusions during radical surgery for non-metastatic cancer. Risk of death and relapse were pooled to provide an adjusted hazard ratio with a 95% confidence interval [hazard ratio (HR) (95% confidence interval {CI})]. Mortality and relapse associated with perioperative transfusion due to cancer surgery were evaluated among participants (n = 123 studies). Overall, RBC transfusions were associated with an increased risk of death [HR = 1.50 (95% CI 1.42-1.57), p < 0.01] and relapse [HR = 1.36 (95% CI 1.26-1.46), p < 0.01]. The survival was reduced even in cancer at early stages [HR = 1.45 (1.36-1.55), p < 0.01]. In cancer patients undergoing surgery, red blood cell transfusions reduced the survival and increased the risk of relapse. Transfusions based on patients' blood management policy should be performed by applying a more restrictive policy, and the planned preoperative administration of iron, if necessary, should be pursued.
Cancer patients requiring intra- or perioperative blood transfusion for curative surgery (123 studies, n= 184,190).
Systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the association between perioperative allogenic red blood cell transfusions and risk of death as well as relapse after surgery.
Overall, red blood cell transfusions were associated with an increased risk of death [HR = 1.50 ] and relapse [HR = 1.36]. The survival was reduced even in cancer at early stages [HR = 1.45].
5. Amlodipine as adjuvant therapy to current chelating agents for reducing iron overload in thalassaemia major: a systematic review, meta-analysis and simulation of future studies
Elfaituri MK, Ghozy S, Ebied A, Morra ME, Hassan OG, Alhusseiny A, Abbas AS, Sherif NA, Fernandes JL, Huy NT
Vox sanguinis. 2021
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Iron overload in thalassaemia is a crucial prognostic factor and a major cause of death due to heart failure or arrhythmia. Therefore, previous research has recommended amlodipine as an auxiliary treatment to current chelating agents for reducing iron overload in thalassaemia patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS A systematic review and meta-analysis of the results of three randomized clinical trials evaluating the use of amlodipine in thalassaemia patients through 12 databases were carried out. RESULTS Our final cohort included 130 patients. Insignificant difference in decreasing liver iron concentrations was found between amlodipine and control groups {weighted mean difference = -0·2, [95% confidence interval = (-0·55-0·15), P = 0·26]}. As regards serum ferritin, our analysis also showed no significant difference in serum ferritin between amlodipine and control groups {weighted mean difference [95% confidence interval = -0·16 (-0·51-0·19), P = 0·36]}. Similarly, there was insignificant difference in cardiac T2* between amlodipine and control groups {weighted mean difference [95% confidence interval = 0·34 (-0·01-0·69), P = 0·06]}. CONCLUSIONS Despite the growing evidence supporting the role of amlodipine in reducing iron overload in thalassaemia patients, our meta-analysis did not find that evidence collectively significant. The results of our simulation suggest that when more data are available, a meta-analysis with more randomized clinical trials could provide more conclusive insights.
6. Blood product transfusion and lung transplant outcomes: A systematic review
Klapper JA, Hicks AC, Ledbetter L, Poisson J, Hartwig MG, Hashmi N, Welsby I, Bottiger BA
Clinical transplantation. 2021
The perioperative transfusion of blood products has long been linked to development of acute lung injury and associated with mortality across both medical and surgical patient populations. The need for blood product transfusion during and after lung transplantation is common and, in many instances, unavoidable. However, this practice may potentially be modifiable. In this systematic review, we explore and summarize what is known regarding the impact of blood product transfusion on outcomes following lung transplantation, highlighting the most recent work in this area. Overall, the majority of the literature consists of single center retrospective analyses or the work of multicenter working groups referencing the same database. In the end, there are a number of remaining questions regarding blood product transfusion and their downstream effects on graft function and survival. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
7. Blood transfusions may adversely affect survival outcomes of patients with lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Cho S, Park J, Lee M, Lee D, Choi H, Gim G, Kim L, Kang CY, Oh Y, Viveiros P, et al
Translational lung cancer research. 2021;10(4):1700-1710
BACKGROUND Despite common use in clinical practice, the impact of blood transfusions on prognosis among patients with lung cancer remains unclear. The purpose of the current study is to perform an updated systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the influence of blood transfusions on survival outcomes of lung cancer patients. METHODS We searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and Ovid MEDLINE for publications illustrating the association between blood transfusions and prognosis among people with lung cancer from inception to November 2019. Overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) were the outcomes of interest. Pooled hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were computed using the random-effects model. Study heterogeneity was evaluated with the I(2) test. Publication bias was explored via funnel plot and trim-and-fill analyses. RESULTS We included 23 cohort studies with 12,175 patients (3,027 cases and 9,148 controls) for meta-analysis. Among these records, 22 studies investigated the effect of perioperative transfusions, while one examined that of transfusions during chemotherapy. Two studies suggested the possible dose-dependent effect in accordance with the number of transfused units. In pooled analyses, blood transfusions deleteriously influenced both OS (HR=1.35, 95% CI: 1.14-1.61, P<0.001, I(2)=0%) and DFS (HR=1.46, 95% CI: 1.15-1.86, P=0.001, I(2)=0%) of people with lung cancer. No evidence of significant publication bias was detected in funnel plot and trim-and-fill analyses (OS: HR=1.26, 95% CI: 1.07-1.49, P=0.006; DFS: HR=1.35, 95% CI: 1.08-1.69, P=0.008). CONCLUSIONS Blood transfusions were associated with decreased survival of patients with lung cancer.
8. Errors in adult trauma resuscitation: a systematic review
Nikouline A, Quirion A, Jung JJ, Nolan B
Cjem. 2021
INTRODUCTION Trauma resuscitation at dedicated trauma centers typically consist of ad-hoc teams performing critical tasks in a time-limited manner. This creates a high stakes environment apt or avoidable errors. Reporting of errors in trauma resuscitation is generally center-dependent and lacks common terminology. METHODS We conducted a systematic review by searching Ovid Medline, Scopus and Embase from inception to February 24, 2021 for errors in adult trauma resuscitation. English studies published after 2001 were included. Studies were assessed by two independent reviewers for meeting inclusion/exclusion criteria. Errors were characterized from the included studies and a summary table was developed. Our review was prospectively registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) (CRD42020152875). RESULTS The literature search retrieved 4658 articles with 26 meeting eligibility criteria. Errors were identified by morbidity and mortality rounds or other committee in 62%, missed injuries on tertiary assessment or radiology review in 12%, deviations from algorithmic guidelines in 12% or predefined for chest tube complications, critical incident reporting, aspiration or delays in care. In total there were 39 unique error types identified and divided into 9 categories including Emergency Medical Services handover, airway, assessment of injuries, patient monitoring and access, transfusion/blood related, management of injuries, team communication/dynamics, procedure error and disposition. CONCLUSIONS Overall, our systematic review identified 39 unique error types in trauma resuscitation. Identifying these errors is imperative in developing systems for improvement of trauma care.
9. Impact of perioperative blood transfusions on oncologic outcomes after radical cystectomy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative studies
Uysal D, Egen L, Grilli M, Wessels F, Lenhart M, Michel MS, Kriegmair MC, Kowalewski KF
Surgical oncology. 2021;38:101592
This study aimed at systematically analyzing and evaluating the impact of perioperative blood transfusions (PBT) on oncologic outcomes of patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. This systematic review follows the recommendations of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews and Interventions and was conducted in line with the PRISMA statement and the AMSTAR II criteria. A comprehensive database search was performed based on the PICO criteria. Two independent reviewers performed all screening steps and quality assessment. Risk of bias and certainty in evidence were assessed with the Newcastle Ottawa Scale for non-randomized trials and the GRADE approach. Of 1123 identified studies 20 were eligible for qualitative analysis and 15 for quantitative analysis reporting on 21,915 patients. Receiving a PBT was associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality (hazard ratio (HR) [95% confidence interval (CI)]: 1.29 [1.18, 1.40]; p < 0.001), cancer-specific mortality (HR [CI]: 1.27 [1.15; 1.41]; p < 0.001) and disease recurrence (HR [CI]: 1.22 [1.12; 1.34]; p < 0.001). Subgroup analysis of transfusion timing revealed a significantly increased risk of mortality with intraoperative or combined intra- and postoperative transfusions compared to postoperative transfusion only for all three outcomes (p < 0.001). Leukocyte-depletion was associated with increased all-cause mortality, but not cancer-specific mortality. The administration of PBT negatively impacts oncological outcomes after radical cystectomy. Therefore, careful treatment indication and strict adherence to transfusion guidelines is encouraged in order to avoid adverse effects during the perioperative course.
10. Feeding Practices and Effects on Transfusion-Associated Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Premature Neonates
Killion E
Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. 2021
BACKGROUND Red blood cell (RBC) transfusions have been implicated in the development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in premature infants. Some evidence exists to support that withholding feedings during transfusion reduces the risk of subsequent NEC development. PURPOSE To review the most recent literature on this topic to determine best evidence-based practice regarding withholding or not withholding feedings during RBC transfusions. METHODS/SEARCH STRATEGY Four databases were searched using keywords and MeSH terms including "necrotizing enterocolitis," "NEC," "NPO," and "transfusion," with specifications limiting the search to articles published in the last 10 years and limiting the population to neonates. FINDINGS Four studies did not demonstrate a reduction in transfusion-associated necrotizing enterocolitis (TANEC) with the implementation of feeding protocols during packed red blood cell (PRBC) transfusions. One study concluded that it could not confirm the benefit of withholding feeds during transfusion to reduce the risk of TANEC. A 2020 randomized controlled trial (RCT) found no difference in splanchnic oxygenation when enteral feeds are withheld, continued, or restricted during a PRBC transfusion. Holding feedings during PRBC transfusions did not result in adverse nutritional outcomes. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE To determine best evidence-based practice surrounding feeding protocols during RBC transfusions in very low-birth-weight and premature infants less than 37 weeks' gestation. IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH It is recommended that large, multicentered, adequately powered RCTs be conducted in this area. Individual institutions should standardize their practice to improve quality, safety, and patient outcomes.
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On Thursday, Refinery29 published an article announcing that Olivier Rousteing, the head of Balmain, "isn't just paying lip service" to diversity in fashion. How do we know? Well, Balmain now has three CGI models, two of which are not white. I would like to point out that all of them are not human.
Each of these models reportedly has their own personality. Margot is French—again, reportedly. Zhi has short hair—that much I can confirm—and modeled after David Bowie. But I literally no idea what that means.
"Being unique is really important because everyone has their own personality," says Rousteing. That's nice. In our increasingly image-driven society, it is nice that our advertisements mirror demographic shifts in our real world and feature people of color. But it would also be nice if the fashion industry employed more women who are black, Asian, Latinx, or generally not white. It would be nice if those women were paid living wages for their labor. I am assuming, but I truly have no idea, that Margot, Shudu, and Zhi do not get paid.


It's no secret that one of the perks of working for a women's lifestyle publication is having access to the "beauty closet." This could be an actual closet, or a space the size of an entire New York City studio apartment, or just a bunch of shelves fully stocked with samples of the newest makeup and skin-care products that you're able to try…for free.
The beauty closet is a lot of little girls' and boys' dreams, and I get it. I grew up in a family predominately of women, each of whom possesses her own form of Midwest glamour. One thing they all share, though, is an affinity for lipsticks, blushes, foundations, concealers, and eyeshadows. Let's put it this way: I have more than one Mary Kay consultant in my family tree. Yet, I've never really worn makeup myself. And until recently, I believed it was for the reason most people are quick to offer: "You don't need it." A compliment? Sure. A cop-out? Most definitely. The real reason I don't wear makeup is that, until now, it's never existed in my skin tone.
But there's still a long way to go. Many brands have only relatively recently come around to the idea of throwing more shades into the mix. It started, as so many good things do, with Rihanna. Last September, with the introduction of Fenty Beauty, she ushered in a generation of 40 shades. Ahead of this, there were certainly brands with robust ranges, but sometimes the shade offerings were patchy and often they fell toward the ends of the spectrum (if that), leaving everyone in between without many options. This is especially true in clean beauty where small R&D budgets often allow for only limited hues; however, strides are being made. Annie Lawless, founder of Lawless Beauty, for instance, recently debuted a set of 20 well-plotted, representative foundations.
And even with double the shades, that's not always the case: It can still feel like 50 shades of beige, a tell-tale sign that a brand has jumped on the buzz bandwagon without really thinking about the problem they're trying to fix. When you create a collection that's got a majority of options at one end of the skin-tone spectrum and a handful at the other, what about all the people in between?
For this reason, "foundations have become an area where beauty brands declare their principles," says Linda Wells, founder of the new beauty brand Flesh and former editor-in-chief and founding editor of Allure magazine. And that means whatever the number, shades have to work for all and not just some.
It's something that I've thought about a lot lately. I've loved watching makeup magic happen, since I was a kid, even from the sidelines. But part of me, I can admit, has always felt excluded from the fun. The "honey" hues I had growing up just didn't cut it. So, in my own way, I've had skin in the game around recent developments. I mean this figuratively, but also literally. For example, recently, a brand sent over an extensive line of new foundations (in, you guessed it, 40 shades) and I found myself, for the first time, sitting on the floor of the beauty closet with my fellow editors swatching instead of watching.
Of the dozens of bottles, only a handful of colors weren't some iteration of beige, and I immediately started to feel uncomfortable. While I was silently scanning, I saw one of my co-workers stick out her hand so that our beauty editor could yay or nay her selection. It blended in completely: She couldn't see any difference between where her skin ended and the foundation began. I understood that this was the goal, and started looking for a shade that would give me a similar satisfaction…I didn't find it.
I certainly felt lost that day while I was wiping foundation off my face that left me looking less and less like myself. And as I walked the bottle back to the beauty closet, I could feel an all-too-familiar sense of acceptance settling in. Acceptance that a hue for my skin tone, actually didn't exist—but I refuse to believe this cannot change.
And fortunately for me, I have allies who refuse to believe this, either. One of them is my beauty editor, who after witnessing this all unfold took me on a field trip to Sephora to see how much actual progress has been made in terms of shade inclusivity. I was hesitant to pump any more foundations onto the back of my hand at first, but with encouragement, I found five-plus hues that work on my skin tone. I can't relay how powerful of a feeling it was to dab makeup onto my skin and have it work for me. I might not wear it every day, but knowing those hues are out there gives me the ability to uncap the next-level confidence and self-assurance that I saw build up my mom, my sister, my friends, and, now, finally me. Makeup junkie in the making? You might say, it runs in the family.
Here's a makeup artist's advice for finding a foundation shade at the drugstore and here's what's up with sheer foundations.


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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 21225
Date: 04-MAY-1954
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator: RAF College
Registration: WK568
Location: Punchbowl Lane, 2 miles NW of Boston, Lincolnshire - United Kingdom
Phase: En route
Departure airport: RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire (EGYD)
On 04/05/1954 Chipmunk T.10 WK 568 stalled while low flying, and dived into the ground 2 miles north-west of Boston, Lincolnshire, killing the pilot, who was flying solo training flight from Cranwell. Per a report in the "Boston Standard" "60 Years Ago" column (7 May 2014):
"...a 19-year-old RAF Cranwell Cadet died after the aircraft he was flying solo in crashed into a field off Punchbowl Lane in Boston. The cadet, from London, was piloting a single engined Chipmunk Trainer aircraft when it came down in a field of peas and caught fire"
Struck Off Charge 01/06/1954 as CAT 5(S)
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100 - WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain 1983 p.68)
2. http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/local/archives
3. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=343
4. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK
18-Jun-2008 13:21 JINX Added
07-May-2014 19:38 Dr. John Smith Updated [Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]


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Q: angular material mat-dialog getting can't I am calling a mat-dialog which call the angular service to get the data to bind to the UI. I have an interface as followed
export interface ViewModel {
  computations: ComputationData;
  explanation: Explanation;
  comments: string;
  requireMoreInformation: boolean;
}

I added the service call in the constructor and also tested in ngOnInit
Constructor(private myService: MyService) {
  this.myService.getData().subscribe(data => {
    if (data) {
      this.viewModelData = data;
      this.loadData();
    }
  }
}

When I bring up the mat-dialog popup, I hit F12 and see that many of the objects which I use to bind to the UI are getting this type of message

Cannot read property 'titles' of undefined

I started adding the following to the constructor and there are many to instantiate
this.viewModelData.computations = {} as ComputationData;
this.viewModelData.explanation = {} as Explanation;

In my regular components, I never have to initialize my property. I just needed to instantiate the object as this.viewModelData = []; When I get the data from the service, I set all the values and bind to the UI.
I places some breakpoints and noticed that the UI binding was being called before the data arrived back from the service.
Is there a way to bind to the UI after I get the data?

A: You could expose the view model data as an observable and use the async pipe but that might be complicated.
You could also hide the content of the dialog with an ngIf that is gated whether or not viewModelData is null or undefined.  You could even have it display a spinner when viewModelData isn't loaded.
Those are the methods that jump to mind but what you are describing is pretty normal.  You mention you've been able to get away with it so far but you also mention...
this.viewModelData = [];
If your data is an array then you probably have an ngFor in your view which simply has zero elements.  This is doing the same thing as a wrapping *ngIf.  You don't actually have any view elements trying to grab bits of view model data until your view model is initialized.

A: Even if you don't see performance issues in your own testing, in an asynchronous environment, you cannot always predict when data might be delayed.
Generally, I gate all my displays by checking if the object is defined using ngIf. If it's not defined, I display a component that shows some type of loading message or animated graphic (or both).
The alternative is that you fetch the data before you load the dialog, but even in that situation, you may have to display some type of loading message.


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Ефим Григорьевич Коцен (1902, местечко Дуниловичи Дуниловического района Полоцкой области — 1972, Москва) — партийный и хозяйственный работник, секретарь Ивановского Промышленного обкома ВКП (б), первый секретарь Ярославского горкома ВКП (б).

Из еврейской семьи. Участник Гражданской войны. Член ВКП (б) с 1919 года. Окончил в 1927 году Коммунистический университет имени Я. М. Свердлова. Работал секретарем Ивановского Промышленного обкома ВКП (б), а также первым секретарем Ярославского горкома ВКП (б) в 1933 году (сентябрь-ноябрь).

Во время Второй мировой войны в Красной Армии: комиссар штаба 130-й стрелковой дивизии, заместитель командира дивизии; начальник политического отдела 129-й стрелковой дивизии, заместитель командира дивизии; начальник политотдела 129-й Орловской Краснознаменной стрелковой дивизии. Закончил войну майором.

Работал начальником отдела рабочих кадров управления кадров и учебных заведений министерства транспортного строительства (Москва).

Похоронен на Новодевичьем кладбище (колумбарий).

Награды, звания
 Награждён тремя орденами Красного Знамени, орденом Отечественной войны 1 степени. Подполковник.
 За успешную работу на транспортном строительстве награждён двумя орденами «Знак Почёта» и медалью «За трудовую доблесть». Кроме того имеет 7 памятных и юбилейных медалей.
 7 марта 1969 года Коцену присвоено звание «Почётный гражданин Залегощенского района».

Сочинения
 О партийно-массовой работе на текстильных предприятиях. — М.; Иваново: Партиздат, 1932. — 16 с.
 Дать 3 миллиона тонн торфа в 1933 году: Перер. стенограмма речи т. Коцена на Совещании хозяйственников 28 сент. 1932 г. — М.; Иваново: Партиздат, 1932 (Иваново: [тип. «Красный Октябрь»]). — 16 с.
 Победить на лесном фронте Речь на Обл. совещании треугольников леспромхозов ИПО. — М.; Иваново: тип. «Красный Октябрь», 1932. — 22 с.
 Большевистскими темпами выполнить промфинплан ИПО. — М.; Иваново: Партиздат, 1932 (Ив.-Вознесенск: тип. «Красн. Октябрь»). — 39 c.
 Выполнить качественные показатели 1933 года в текстильной промышленности ИПО: [Доклад т. Коцена на Обл. слете участников конкурса ткачей и подмастерьев]. — М.; Иваново: Партиздат, 1933 (Иваново: газ.-журн. комбинат изд-ва «Раб. край»). — 32 с.
 Конкурсом бригад торфяников выполнить план 1933 года. — Иваново: Партиздат, 1933 (газ.-журн. комбинат изд-ва «Раб. край»). — 9 с.

Участники Гражданской войны в России (красные)
Похороненные на Новодевичьем кладбище
Первые секретари Ярославского горкома КПСС
Секретари Ивановского обкома КПСС


Discussion in 'Night, InfraRed, and UltraViolet Photography' started by Desert Rat, Aug 12, 2009.
Really nice. I shoot in cemeteries often but in B&W. I'm thinking on converting my D-80 to IR, but not sure yet if I dare.
Very nice Eric, the statues came out very well. The next to last image is well done and really stands out against the sky.
Another great series, like them all, but really love the feeling the last image conveys.
Good series, I like the first picture the best.
They all look very nice, I especially like the last one. Seems very very eerie and mysterious.
Great shots! Cems in IR look cool!
Howdy Eric, Another great series, like them all, but really love the feeling the last image conveys.


It has been five years since Ekene's son (Uchenna who he named after his late dad) was given birth to and not even for once did Franklin failed to give Ekene the monthly allowance he promised him.
Ekene has been happy lately because he is very sure that he will be settled soon since he has completed his eight years of learning trade.
One evening, Ekene was in his room when their maid came to call him telling him that his master wants to see him.
Peter: I believe you know why I sent for you?
Peter: Since you don't know let me tell you why. Ekene you are suppose to learn trade with me for eight years right?
Peter: And now you have learned the trade for eight years which means am now suppose to settle you but that won't be happening.
Ekene: Why sir? Have I done anything wrong to you for the past eight years?
Kate: What did he do that is far worst?
Peter: Will you shut up your mouth there or did I even asked you to talk?
Kate: Why are you accusing this boy wrongly or is any of your money missing?
Peter: *trying to avoid answering his wife question* Kate if you think am accusing him wrongly then ask him if he doesn't have a baby mama and also ask him if he didn't steal N70,000 from me to pay for his baby mama's hospital bills.
Kate: What do you mean by Ekene having a baby mama?
Kate: *turning to face Ekene* Is it true that you have a baby mama?
Peter: You are lying and you know what? Am sick and tired of all your lies. First you impregnated a girl, then you stole from me and if that was not enough, you have the guts to lie with my master's name so now I want you to get out of my house this very minute.
Peter left them in the sitting room and went to his bedroom. Kate gave some money to Ekene and told him to leave just like Peter had earlier said but not without promising to talk to her husband.
Ekene left the house to Ifeoma's house.
Peter: He settled me because I played my cards well. He never got to find out that I stole a lot from him.
Peter: Right thing which is?
Kate: So you are trying to accuse me of infidelity just because am advising you to do the right thing which is for you to settle Ekene.
Now I even want you to tell me how you were able to find out about Ekene's baby mama.
Peter: The hospital where the baby mama put to birth belongs to my friend and he was the person that told me everything.
Peter replied his wife with "God won't fight for him because I did the right thing" and the left the bedroom for his wife.


The US yield curve has inverted. But that doesn't mean the economy is staring at a recession.
Trump's concerns about an imminent slowdown in the US may not be misplaced, as yield-curve inversion — a key indicator — suggests. But it's still too early to ring alarm bells.
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building is reflected in a puddle as Indian pedestrians walk past in Mumbai on September 19, 2013.


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FYI: Ponte roma jersey is a heavyweight jersey ideal for making sweatshirts and dresses, it is also a great beginners fabric as it is a stable jersey that won't stretch out of shape or move about too much when cutting and sewing. Just remember to use a stretch stitch or if your machine doesn't have one a long narrow zig zag is perfect.
This Floral Design Embossed ponte roma jersey has a sumptuous texture ideal for those of you who crave subtle details on your clothes. Available in Black or Navy, I think it would make a stunning Coco top. This pattern is a great intro to sewing with jerseys if you've not tried before.
Our Flocked Ponte Roma features a luxurious black velvet damask design on a grey marl background. This would make a brilliant Ebony dress it has just the right amount of swing and would be easy to dress up or down.
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Oh hello Sparkle Terry Jersey! This kind of fabric is just screaming to be dressed up, add a frill (or 2) with the Kyoto sweater and wear your sparkle on your flounce, like any fashion forward girl should be doing this season.
This large scale Checked Ponte Roma would be warm and cuddly made into a large oversize coat. Try the Sapporo Cocoon coat for a hug you can wear.


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Tina Fey, Amy Poehler to Host 2021 Golden Globes
by Sherman Wong
in Entertaiment
The announcement was made by NBC Entertainment Chairman Paul Telegdy during the network's day at the Television Critics Association Tour in Pasadena, Calif. on Saturday.
ARE YOU EXCITED to see Tina Fey and Amy Poehler back at the hosts? The SNL alums have hosted the Globes as a pair three times before, from 2013 to 2015.
"There are no two funnier people anywhere", said Poehler, who introduced herself with the name of an NBC publicist who was to have opened the network's daylong presentation about its programming.
"There's no denying that Tina and Amy's comedic chemistry is infectious", said Lorenzo Soria, president of the HFPA.
News of their involvement will inevitably be seen as a coup for producer Dick Clark Productions, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and longtime partner NBC, particularly at a time when major award shows have struggled to line up hosts.
This year's Golden Globes ceremony were hosted by Ricky Gervais, and averaged 18.3 million total viewers and a 4.3 demo rating, down 2 and 17 percent from last year to hit eight- and 12-year lows for the ceremony.
Poehler and Fey have previously earned a warmer reception for their comedic approach. They've also won at the awards - Fey twice for her role on "30 Rock", and Poehler once for her work on "Parks and Recreation".
The date for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be announced at a later time.
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