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Book reviews by librarians at the Park Hill Branch, Denver Public Library
By Paul Beatty
Punctuated by blistering satire, Paul Beatty's novel The Sellout is the story of an unnamed, pot-smoking urban farmer in Los Angeles who, by a tragic series of events, becomes the owner of a willing slave. The ensuing court case ends up going all the way to the Supreme Court. With this very prescient social commentary, Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize since its inception in 1969. The Sellout is hilarious and at times feels like the best stand-up from Dave Chappelle, Richard Pryor or Chris Rock.
ADULT NON- FICTION
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
By Tal Ben-Shahar
Everyone can be happier. Happiness is focusing on enjoying the journey of life, setting meaningful challenges for yourself and treasuring your loved ones. Tal Ben-Shahar offers "Time-In" sections for deeper reflection as well as more in-depth exercises to explore your thoughts as they arise during the reading. Ben-Shara's examples have charming names like the hamburger principle, the lasagna principle, the drowning model and the lovemaking model. This book is recommended for anyone who is interested in the meaning of happiness, the role of happiness in our lives and ways to increase it. If you are interested in doing Experiments in Happiness, be sure to check out the program series at the library in March on Friday afternoons.
By Nicola Yoon
You never know what your day will hold. With scant hours to prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica, Natasha unexpectedly meets and falls in love with Daniel, a young man striving not to let his own immigrant parents down. Alternating perspectives from each of them give the novel a wide appeal and you will fall in love with the characters as they fall in love with each other. Both bittersweet and hopeful, the lyrical writing style weaves a romantic and moving tale that will especially appeal to fans of Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell.
Daniel Finds a Poem
By Micha Archer
This story begins with Daniel noticing a sign in the park announcing a Poetry in the Park event on Sunday. Daniel wonders, "What is poetry?" Each day of the week he asks a different animal what poetry is and receives a descriptive reply. Each animal's idea of poetry is different than the others, but all are beautiful. Spider says that poetry is "morning dew when it glistens." Squirrel, says it is "when crisp leaves crunch." By Sunday Daniel combines his animal friends' interpretations of poetry and creates a lovely poem. A beautiful book that shows that poetry is all around you. Recommended for preschool through second grade.


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Gazoo before surgery with is missing left eye and loud pant causing respiratory problems. Gazoo was pulled from the Downey Shelter. His left eye had some kind of trauma to it and was not completely removed and his lid needed to be sewn shut. He also had a very dangerous breathing problem and trouble panting to loose his heat on hot days. He had an elongated palate that needed to be shortened.
Once in surgery we found that he also had very large tonsils that needed to be removed so he had his palate shortened, a tonsillectomy and his left eye removed and sewn shut by Dr. Sebestyen at Veterinary Surgical Specialists.
August 2015 Mr. Dapple came to us with a large benign chest mass that we needed to have removed along with a mouth full of rotting teeth. His mass was removed by Dr. Caylor at All Pets Veterinary Hospital and he also received a dental with 8 extractions.
After Surgery - Mr. Dapple recovered nicely and continues to look for his forever home.
Armstrong Before: June 2015 Armstrong needed a neuter and while under anesthesia we had his double row of teeth removed.
Armstrong came to us as a stray with waaaay to many teeth in his mouth. Dr. Caylor at All Pets Vet helped Armstrong out with his beautiful smile to help prepare him for his final destination..... a home. Armstrong was adopted in July of 2015!
February 2015 ~ This is Irma a beautiful Poodle Mix.
2015 - Chewy was a mess when he was turned into the Harbor Shelter. What a difference a 'Spa Day' makes.
Chewy was groomed by the wonderful ladies at the Harbor Shelter in San Pedro prior to us pulling him out of the shelter.
Update - March 2015 - Louie has officially been adopted! He came in weighing 58.2lbs and left weighing 78.6 lbs. He will travel to northern California where he will call San Francisco his home. His adoptive family has visited him twice at our facility during his treatment. Thank you Julia & Joseph!


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Q: How To run react native application in ios without dev options and shake device or without packager? I already followed these document ,but still its not working.
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/running-on-device
and also first time application freeze and stuck ,user can not actions on screen.
I have Login Screen ,
after login screen there is home screen.
when i came home screen after login.
First time application freeze and not happens any actions,but when remove application from recent then open application its working fine.

A: Open XCode and go to Product -> Scheme -> Edit Scheme. Select Run tab and set the Build Configuration to Release. Shake menu and packager are only accesible in debug mode.
Afterwards you can build via XCode or with the command react-native run-ios --configuration Release
Read the official RN documentation for further information.

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Info: Ending theme of Korean - Japanese drama "The Secret Message" starring TOP of BIGBANG and Japanese actress Ueno Juri.
Give me the strength to get up.
Hello my friend, Mr. Heartache.
How many times have we met?
Did you gain some weight? You look a bit older.
Nostalgia hits me. You were always right by my side. You helped me grow up.
Now I need you just like before. How can I pick myself up?
Let me grab you a drink. We've got all night to talk about our lives.
You were always right by my side. You helped me grow up.
Now I need you just like before. How can I pick myself up.


Two separate senior apartment developments are being proposed in the city of Oconomowoc.
CITY OF OCONOMOWOC - A number of residents are opposing two senior housing development proposals.
Both projects are in the early stages and will need several public hearings and approvals from the plan commission and common council before any development takes place.
One of the developments, a three-story building with 64 assisted living and memory care apartments, is being proposed by Matter Development at 1101 S. Silver Lake St.
A second phase with four single-story buildings, totaling 16 apartments, for seniors who can live independently, may also be considered by Matter.
The 6.7-acre site is next to Paganica Golf Course and used to be the home of the YMCA and Lake Country Lutheran High School.
Several residents spoke out in opposition to the development at the March 14 plan commission meeting.
"A high-density project such as this seems completely out of character for this area, and there's nothing similar up and down this street or this neighborhood of that nature," resident Bill Davis said.
Later in the meeting, the commission recommended rezoning the site from Institutional/Public to High-Density Residential.
"I'm looking forward to this public-private partnership as the city guides us through approvals and we continue to work closely with the city to study the redevelopment of this currently tax-exempt parcel, bringing it onto the tax rolls with what we believe is a perfect use for the site," said Aaron Matter, Matter Development managing director and founder.
Another senior apartment development a number of residents spoke out against is proposed at N55 W36909 Lisbon Road, immediately west of the Oconomowoc Golf Club.
The 21.2-acre site would be developed by Presbyterian Homes and Services and feature 158 apartments.
The development, known as Towner Crest, would provide multiple housing options, including 120 apartments for seniors who can live independently. Those apartments would be in a four-story building.
Several residents were concerned about traffic on Lisbon Road.
"Lisbon Road is east and west," resident Joan Schubarth said. "You're dealing with early morning sun and afternoon sun. Even if these seniors are home by 4:30 in the winter, we'll have the glare and all that. That's not safe for them. Also, our traffic density off of Lisbon has been growing exponentially. Even though there are no sidewalks, people by nature want to take walks."
The organization is nonprofit, but City Planner Jason Gallo said the St. Paul-based Presbyterian Homes agreed to a payment in lieu of taxes.
"They will pay their fair share of taxes to the city," Gallo said.
Both issues were expected to go before the common council on Tuesday, March 20.


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December 15, 2014 11:03am PT by Eriq Gardner
Adult Film Industry Loses Appeal Over Los Angeles' Condom Law
"We deal in good faith with the girls, and we expect the girls to deal in good faith with us," says Mark Spiegler, photographed Aug. 30 with, from left, clients Asa Akira, Andy San Dimas and Kristina Rose. "So there's no shady dealing." Back to Hollywood & Sex (What's Hot)
The 9th Circuit decides that making porn actors wear condoms doesn't run afoul of the First Amendment
Vivid Entertainment and other producers of adult erotica have been denied its latest attempt to halt the enforcement of a voter-initiated law that requires that porn actors wear condoms. On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of appeals rejected First Amendment arguments brought by the adult entertainment industry and affirmed a lower court's ruling.
In 2012, the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation pushed the law (Measure B) in response to word by the city's health department of the widespread transmission of sexually transmitted infections among workers in the adult film industry. The eventual law also contained permit conditions with collected license fees going to periodic inspections of sets to monitor compliance.
In today's opinion (read in full here), the 9th Circuit agrees with a lower court that intermediate rather than strict scrutiny was appropriate to analyze the law under the First Amendment. Although the entertainment industry is content based, which usually gathers strict scrutiny, the 9th Circuit points to an exception when ordinances regulate "speech that is sexual or pornographic in nature" and when "the primary motivation behind the regulation [is] to prevent secondary effects." A law that regulates sexual speech intended to prevent STDs fits the exception.
The panel at the 9th Circuit looks at porn films (not literally) and the messages intended by the expression.
Vivid and other plaintiffs attempted to argue that condomless sex conveyed a particular message about sex in a world without risks like pregnancy and disease.
"To determine whether conduct is protected by the First Amendment, we ask not only whether someone intended to convey a particular message through that conduct, but also whether there is a 'great' likelihood 'that the message would be understood by those who viewed it,' " writes 9th Circuit Judge Susan Graber. "Here, we agree with the district court that, whatever unique message Plaintiffs might intend to convey by depicting condomless sex, it is unlikely that viewers of adult films will understand that message. So condomless sex is not the relevant expression for First Amendment purposes; instead, the relevant expression is more generally the adult films' erotic message."
Having so decided, and further concluding that the condom mandate is a de minimis restriction akin to ordinances that require strippers to wear pasties-and-a-G-string without interfering with strippers' speech, the 9th Circuit upholds it as furthering a legitimate purpose. The appellate court also rejects the adult film companies' argument that it's not narrowly tailored and ineffective because porn films can travel across county lines without the restriction.
"The regulation need not be the most effective way to achieve the government's substantial interest, nor must it be shown that the regulation cannot be circumvented," writes Graber. "Rather, it suffices if the regulation helps to achieve the substantial government interest effectively."
The 9th Circuit further allows the permitting requirements to stay in place, rules it has jurisdiction in the matter, and agrees that the district judge's decision to strike a small portion of the law aimed at defining an "adult film" shouldn't be a roadblock in the enforcement of the law — that it's properly severable.
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Pandita Ramabai Medhavi, född 1858, död 1922, var en indisk feminist och författare.

Ramabai bedrev kampanjer för att förbättra kvinnans status och var mest framgångsrik vad gäller kvinnornas inträde inom medicin och undervisning. Hon företog resor i USA och England, där hon höll föreläsningar om kvinnans ställning i Brittiska Indien och skrev böcker i samma ämne. År 1882 grundade hon änkehemmet Sharada Sadan.

En krater på Venus har fått sitt namn efter henne.

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Virgin Atlantic and Delta changing US services from Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester
18 August 2019 By Rhys
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Virgin Atlantic and Delta have just announced a raft of scheduling changes that will increase the frequency of flights between the UK, including from Manchester, and the USA
These changes are unrelated to the joint venture filed between Delta, Virgin Atlantic, KLM and Air France, although when fully approved it will include these flights.
This article is based on the actual flight plans that were filed on Friday night and are a little different to what you may have read elsewhere.
Here are the changes:
New routes from Gatwick
Back in April we reported Delta's announcement regarding the Gatwick-Boston route, which was launched to stifle JetBlue's transatlantic plans. We now have the times and dates for the new services:
Delta is launching Gatwick – Boston in May 2020. The flight departs Gatwick at 10:30 and arrives in Boston at 13:20; returning from Boston at 21:00 with an arrival in Gatwick at 08:45.
Virgin is launching Gatwick – New York JFK on 21st May 2020. The flight departs Gatwick at 12:55 and arrives in New York at 15:40; the inbound departs at 19:30 and arrives in London at 07:50. (It was 1991 when Virgin Atlantic last flew from Gatwick to New York!) It starts at 5x weekly, increasing to 6x weekly from 13th June and daily from 27th July.
Changes to existing routes
Delta is adding a daily flight between Heathrow and New York JFK on 20th May with the inbound JFK – Heathrow being a day flight. The outbound flight leaves Heathrow at 07:30 and arrives in New York at 10:30. The inbound departs JFK at 10:15 and arrives at Heathrow at 22:25.
Virgin is removing a daily flight between Heathrow and New York (VS153/154) from 20th May (the Gatwick service starts the next day). Virgin is removing a second daily flight between Heathrow and New York from 10th June, when VS137/010 is dropped on Tuesday and Saturday. The net effect of these two changes is to cut the number of Virgin Atlantic-operated flights between Heathrow and JFK from 42 to 33 per week.
Virgin is increasing flights from Heathrow to Seattle from 7 to 11 weekly from 29th March 2020
Virgin is increasing flights from Heathrow to Los Angeles from 14 to 17 weekly (max 3 daily) from 30th March 2020
Delta is taking over Virgin Atlantic's Manchester to Boston route, increasing from 3x weekly to daily from 23rd May 2020
Aircraft changes
All Delta flights from Heathrow to New York and Boston will use refurbished 767-400 with Delta One and – for the first time – premium economy products
The new Delta flight from Manchester to Boston will use a Boeing 757, replacing the A330-200 used by Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic is placing its new A350 and Upper Class Suite on New York flights this year (which we knew) and Los Angeles in 2020 (which we didn't know)
There is a lot going on here:
the introduction of premium economy to Delta
the standardisation of the Delta fleet on the core Heathrow to New York and Boston routes
the switch at Manchester from Virgin to Delta on the Boston route (which seems illogical – if you assume most passengers are UK residents – but releases a Virgin aircraft to use elsewhere)
the addition of the Virgin A350 and new Upper Class seat to LA
the first day flight TO the UK from New York from Delta
Virgin reducing its presence on the key Heathrow to New York route sharply, from 42 to 33 services per week
the launch of Gatwick services to New York (on Virgin) and Boston (on Delta)
….. plus the Seattle and LA frequency increases
The additional frequencies as well as new routes are clearly an improvement, as is the move to a standard Delta product, albeit on an ageing Boeing 767. Boston, in particular, appears to be getting a boost – no doubt to compete with JetBlue's plans to launch a transatlantic route.
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Up and coming lacrosse players were getting a lesson from a local pro.
Police made an arrest in a south Charlotte crash that killed a woman and seriously injured another adult and three children.
A charter bus transporting Cannon School teachers and students was involved in a minor accident with a truck.
One suspect is behind bars tonight in connection with a string of kidnapping and robberies in Gastonia. Police say a group of men drove their victims to ATMs to get cash.
Charlotte Grandmother Behind Bars, Facing Charges She Killed Her Grandson.
A judge denied her bond on Wednesday, and now her family is speaking out.
Police are searching for clues after a man was found shot to death inside an east Charlotte apartment.
Charges have been filed against a Lincoln County father after two children died from being trapped under tons of dirt on his property.
The home where missing Salisbury teen Erica Parsons lived is not for sale after all.
Relief for a father extremely close to deportation.
The Westfield Eastridge mall in Gastonia has a new owner and a shorter name.
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer has been arrested and charged with 8 counts of obtaining property by false pretense.
This video is no longer available. Paying to keep sewage from spilling into a local lake, a CMPD murder suspect on the loose and the tech giant trying to conquer death Tonight at Ten.
Tonight friends are remembering the victim of Charlotte's latest murder. A 27-year-old man gunned down inside an East Charlotte apartment.
Police need your help identifying a man that is accused of stealing thousands of dollars in electronics from retailers in the Charlotte area.
Dozens of drug and fraud cases in Monroe have been thrown out because police officers dropped the ball.
You have a new way to stay informed on crime and news in your neighborhood.
The Rowan County Sheriff's Office released the following statement in regards to the ongoing investigation surrounding missing teen, Erica Parsons.
A Chester man faces murder charges in connection to the death of his girlfriend's baby.


I secretly -- except not, apparently, since I just said it on my blog -- love Sarah Jessica Parker's dress.
I can't even tell if it's that bad. I'm too fixated on how she's got the possessed smile and forced jollity of a bridesmaid who's just been told the bouquet is being tossed in ten minutes, and the bride just got on the mic and screamed that she expects ALL THE SINGLE GIRLS TO BE THERE, FRONT AND CENTER ,with a huge wink in her direction, while oily Uncle Warthog and his halitosis just caught the garter and is stretching and twiddling it between his fingers while panting openly at her, AND the open bar just closed so she's got no liquid courage in her glass to help her through the horrible events that will doubtless ensue.
So it COULD be a nice dress, I guess -- the crumpled-paper-in-a-trashcan hem reminds me of Zac Posen's show-closing gown from the Spring '07 show, although apparently this is Donna Karan -- but next to what the Queen Bee got to wear, it's a bit of a flop. Or, to quote Tyra Banks as she delivers a sensitive monologue to a contestant with bad photos, "Wah-WAAAAAAH."


For over one hundred years, Scouting has been helping to better the lives of youth around the world by developing them into well rounded adults. Whether it be outdoor or basic life skills, the competencies you learn through Scouting can carry you through life. While most people start in Beavers or Cubs and work their way up, my story is a little different. My first ever Scouting experience was my Rover Crew's biannual NERF gun battle. I was 19 years old and quite frankly had no idea that Scouting went beyond the age of 12. A friend of mine enticed me with the promise of an epic battle and the potential to make new friends, and I cautiously agreed to go along (if only just to get my friend off my back about coming).
Joining "late" as a youth member has opened me up to a whole new world of adventure.
I went in expecting to play a few games and maybe come back another time, but I came out with so much more. Over the year, I found myself getting more and more involved, and spending more and more time with my Crew to the point where I was seeing them more than my own family. In a way, they became my family. Shortly after my one year Scouting "anniversary", I found out about the Scouts Canada Youth Spokesperson program and applied on a whim in October 2015. I was accepted and started the next chapter of my Scouting journey, which leads us to now.
A lot of Scouting members start in a younger Section, or they go in as Scouters when they sign their kids up. Joining "late" as a youth member has opened me up to a whole new world of adventure. While a lot of people my age feel as though they are "too old" to get into things that are typically viewed as an activity for younger kids, I feel as though becoming a member later in life was the best route for me.
Another aspect of Scouting that I love is being part of a Rover Crew that believes in citizenship. Community involvement is a huge part of why I love being a Rover and volunteering truly has allowed me to give back to my local community. I love the idea that there are young people in this world who want to assist in making the changes necessary for it to be a better place. Being a Rover (and a Scouting Volunteer) puts the idea of "service above self" into perspective, and it can be an eye opening experience for someone like me who didn't really have the chance to understand it earlier on in life.
Scouting has really pulled me out of my shell because my Rover Crew has pushed me to do things I never would normally do. From simple things like using a hatchet or a knife comfortably, to more complex things like hiking four kilometers in the winter to a campsite; you would have never caught me even thinking about these things before I joined. Spending my weekends volunteering or out camping is more fun than I ever thought it could be.
I'm happy I get to work with such a fantastic organization, and I'm even happier that I get to do it with the people I do. I feel as though becoming more involved with Scouting has helped me figure out the type of person that I am, and has given me the tools and skills necessary to become the person I want to be in the future. If you aren't a member of this great organization already, I suggest you join now!


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MoviePass Parent Plunges More Than 40% After Reverse Stock Split
The reverse stock split was of two measures shareholders of the company approved at a meeting Monday in an effort to prevent the data analytics company from being delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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The struggling MoviePass pulling out all the stops.
Yet another move made.
MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. (HMNY) plunged 40.10% Wednesday to $12.73 following a massive reverse stock split that brought its stock price to $21.25 at market open. The company first reported the reverse stock split in an SEC filing Tuesday.
The reverse stock split was one of two measures shareholders of the company approved at a meeting Monday in an effort to prevent the data analytics company from being de-listed from the Nasdaq stock exchange.
"At this point, I feel like Helios has taken the brunt of the risk along the way and now that we're outside of that and the risk is mitigated substantially from where it was several months ago, that we want to be a benefactor of that," Helios and Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth told TheStreet. "When MoviePass goes public down the road Helios will end up being the largest shareholder as we are currently."
The stock has dropped 99.73% from its peak in October amid concerns that MoviePass' business model is unsustainable. The subscription service allows users to see one movie daily for $9.95 a month but pays theaters full price for each ticket, causing it to burn $21.7 million a month according to SEC filings. Nasdaq notified Helios and Matheson it was in danger of being de-listed in June as it requires that listed companies maintain a share price above $1.
Farnsworth also said that the stock split has not reduced investor confidence in the company. Shareholders also voted to increase the number of shares of common stock from 500 million to 5 billion.
The reverse stock split is the latest in a series of efforts to bring the parent company back from the grave. Farnsworth told TheStreet earlier this month that the company can generate between $6 to $8 of additional income per subscriber by leveraging its 3 million customer base to provide marketing and analytics to film studios.
Helios and Matheson is planning to start offering MoviePass in Europe and "some mergers and acquisitions" by the end of the year, Farnsworth said.
"We feel at this point MoviePass is well on its way," Farnsworth said. "We understand the cash burn and the different things that are going on with it but also the positives and how much leverage we have over a movie when we tell subscribers to go see it."
"We're not going anywhere," Farnsworth said. "We're good for the next several years."
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Are we feeding each other hate?
Wed, 1st May 2019
Review: The Hate U Give
(M) Amandla Stenberg, Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall, K.J. Apa
It may be marketed as a teen drama but The Hate U Give, is an educational film that we all need to take notes from. Tackling topics of police brutality, the black lives matter movement, neighbourhood gangs and identity, this film is hard-hitting.
Based on the 2017 novel of the same name and penned by Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give follows 16 year old Starr (Amandla Stenberg) as she navigates two worlds. First, there is Starr who lives in Garden Heights a predominantly black neighbourhood which is run by a drug gang. Then there is Starr who attends a predominately white high school, who doesn't use slang so she doesn't get labelled "ghetto" and has a white boyfriend Chris (K.J. Apa).
After witnessing her childhood best friend (a young unarmed black man) being shot by a white police officer, her worlds collide and this time she can't be silent or blend into the background.
Starr's father Maverick (Russel Hornsby) is prominent in helping her find her voice. Maverick continually tells his kids that there is power in the names that he has given them. For Starr, her name represents a light in the darkness. Her older brother is named Seven, after the number of completeness and perfection in the Bible and her younger brother is named Sekani, which means joy.
Amandla Stenberg (The Darkest Minds) gave a stellar performance, embodying Starr, and shining through just as the name suggests. Her performance carries the film, making the audience feel every conflict both external and internal of Starr's journey. Russel Hornsby is also a standout portraying the strength and vulnerability of Starr's father in the way the character changes his own life as well as how he empowers his children to know and fight for their rights.
The Hate U Give doesn't shy away from showing the intricacies of gang wars in communities and the effects of heavy police presence or confronting friends, as Starr did, about their own understandings of privilege. As Starr explained that you don't have to say the 'N' word to be racist. The film also seems to question the protests and the rioting that can follows; does it really making people listen or is just escalating that violence and anger or both?
There is poignant scene between Starr and her police officer uncle (played by rapper and actor Common), where he tries to explain the complexities how he relates to the white officer who shot her best friend. It shows a cycle where demonising each other means that tensions lead to this sort of violence to escalate. It also highlights the engrained prejudices that we have in our own communities despite coming from the same backgrounds or ethnicities.
The book, film and title is not only influenced by the black lives matter movement but also legendary rapper Tupac Shakur's motto and thinking around T.H.U.G L.I.F.E, which stands for "The Hate U Give Little Infants F**** Everybody."
The hate we teach our youth creates the very scenarios of tension, anger and violence that tears our society apart. Once you keep thinking and treating a certain group of people as a threat then they become that threat.
Tupac (aka 2Pac) was a poet, rapper and activist and his mother was a former Black Panther. He was shot multiple times after leaving a Mike Tyson boxing match 7 September 1996 and died six days later from his injuries—the shooter was never found. His message is as relevant today as it was more than two decades ago and not just for African Americans but the way we treat each other across the globe.
The Hate U Give asks, what anger, what hate are we feeding each other?
It challenge us to lift ours heads out from the sand and to think further than it's just 'us vs them'. To do life differently—differently and with love, to break that cycle. Sounds a bit like Proverbs 10:12 or 1 John 2:9.
The Hate U Give is on DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital.
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Let's go beyond the basics! In our second installment of this immersion, Sutra study, Gita verses and Bhakti poetry are just the tip of the iceberg! We'll dive into the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Bhagavat Purana, the Sufi Mystic poets and then some. Plus, special guest Jenny Meyer visits to teach us more than just the alphabet and pose names. We'll even learn how to write beautiful things in Devanagari! Join us if you need to brush up on your Sanskrit (don't we all?) or if your first teacher training didn't give you what you think you need! Everyone welcome.
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Surviving the lunar night can be a challenge for astronauts on the moon
As multiple nations plot out their moon exploration strategies, how best to survive the lunar night gives space engineers the cold sweats.
The moon's lunar day/night cycle at most locations on the surface includes fourteen Earth days of continuous sunlight followed by fourteen days of constant darkness and intense cold.
Due to the lack of a moderating atmosphere, temperatures on the lunar surface can range from 248 degrees Fahrenheit (120 Celsius) during the day to minus 292 F (minus 180 C) during the night. Permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) on the moon can be even colder, plunging down to minus 400 F (minus 240 C).
Related: Artemis 1: The first step in returning astronauts to the moon
Pluses and minuses
All those pluses and minuses add up to one of the most demanding environmental challenges that future moon expeditions will face. Attaining and gaining longer and longer human stays — perhaps gaining permanent status — will mean coming to grips with the moon's vicious environment.
In fact, craters within permanently shadowed regions are sun-shy spots on the moon in which quantities of water ice could reside. Those deposits would be ideal for processing into oxygen, water, even rocket fuel.
Moon exploration planners are laying out what has to happen to operate successfully on the moon, particularly at the lunar south pole, loaded with PSRs and conceivably a rich haven for harvesting water ice.
But here is the cold, chilly fact: it isn't easy.
Read more: The moon's strange warm pits may be the most pleasant place for astronauts
Shown here is a rendering of 13 candidate landing regions for NASA's Artemis 3 mission. Each region is approximately 9.3 by 9.3 miles (15 by 15 kilometers). A landing site is a location within those regions with an approximate 328-foot (100-meter) radius. (Image credit: NASA)
Basic problem, two branches
Dean Eppler, chief lunar scientist at The Aerospace Corporation, said surviving the night on the moon is not only a key issue for a lunar south pole site, but for any place we want to be on the moon for longer than lunar daytime.
"I think the basic problem has two branches," Eppler told Space.com. "Simple survival during the lunar night, and operations during night time, regardless of whether it's a 'normal' day night cycle like you would get at anywhere other than the poles, and the variable darkness you get at the poles due to the very low solar inclination angle."
Eppler said that, for future missions, particularly for landed missions off the polar latitudes, hunkering down may still be the best decision for scientific operations.
"You don't do field geology at night," Eppler said, "but that will probably be the time to do 'inside' activities, such as life sciences, sample analysis and culling, engineering/maintenance work." Those are tasks mostly not carried out during the day when crew members are engaged in maximizing their surface, moonwalking operations, he said.
Eppler said he's optimistic in taking on the lunar night. "I think we are much better equipped to handle that now than we were during any other time we've considered lunar exploration."
Artistic depiction of NASA astronauts at the lunar south pole carrying out early work to establish an Artemis Base Camp. (Image credit: NASA)
Deeply cold
Although surviving the lunar night outside the polar regions is still an issue, "I think we have that pretty well in hand, and that also goes for areas of the poles shadowed by the existing terrain as the Sun travels around in the sky."
However, when it comes to the poles, Eppler sees a much more complicated problem. Firstly, there will be significant areas that get shadowed by the terrain long enough that it's going to get very cold in those locations — not PSR-cold, but still not unlike the equatorial night.
"Secondly, we'll have to deal with the problems of working in any PSR area, or areas that, while not in permanent shadow, are still shadowed much of the time, long enough to be profoundly cold inside of them," he said Eppler. "This is a huge challenge … so much so that I think we'll need, for instance, a special set of tools that we only use in cold conditions," he added.
Keep-alive warmth
Coping with the ultra-cold shouldn't be a hard problem to solve, said Philip Metzger, a planetary scientist with the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida.
"With even just a little energy and good insulation the vehicle can stay warm. The New Horizons spacecraft kept its electronics at room temperature even when it was far from the sun at Pluto," Metzger told Space.com.
Their key issue is where can we get the energy on the moon?
Radioactive decay sources can be used, for one example. Radioactive Heater Units (RHUs) can be placed on the vehicle at appropriate points, Metzger said. "Without a radioactive source it becomes more challenging, though."
Metzger envisions a stand-alone asset that has adequate battery capacity to provide the "keep-alive-warmth" during the night. "A rover could plug in through the night. After sunrise the asset will recharge. That would take some mass on the moon for adequate storage, but with the new lunar landers, including the SpaceX Starship coming online, it should be easily doable," he said.
Using local resources on the moon can help make future crewed missions more sustainable and affordable. (Image credit: RegoLight, visualization: Liquifer Systems Group, 2018)
Good set of assumptions
Present-day data sets are yielding key temperature data on the moon, advised Noah Petro from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He is a project scientist for the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission now circling the moon.
"Fortunately the temperature data we have from the Diviner instrument on LRO has given us a fantastic set of bounding conditions for what to expect thermally at the poles. From this dataset we know the expected cold temperatures at night and warmth during the day," he said Petro.
As far as the engineering capacity to ring out hardware, Petro said given that researchers have a good set of assumptions for the environment (temperature, radiation, etc), he foresees that the issue of lunar survival can draw upon an already mature understanding of the engineering requirements to operate through lunar nights.
Photo shows Apollo 17's Jack Schmitt carrying a gnomon back towards the lunar rover after observing and sampling the east side of a huge boulder. The vertical arrow in the distance points to the Lunar Module Challenger, located roughly 2 miles (3.1 kilometers) away. Apollo 17's surface time, the program's longest stay time on the Moon was three days, two hours, fifty-nine minutes. (Image credit: NASA)
Message from Apollo
Looking back on the 20th century Apollo era, there are lessons to be re-learned, said Clive Neal, a lunar exploration expert in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Neal points out that the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) consisted of scientific instruments set up by moonwalkers at the landing site of each of the five moon-landing Apollo missions to land on the Moon following Apollo 11; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left a smaller set of devices called the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package.
However, Neal said the issue is if solar is the way to do this? Is battery technology good enough to allow operations during the lunar night?
"For many things, just surviving the night is not good enough," Neal added. "We need to be able to match what was done 50 years ago, in my humble opinion!"
A close-up view of two components of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) deployed by Apollo 14 astronauts during their first moonwalking excursion. (Image credit: NASA/JSC)
Moonwalking suits
What's it going to be like strolling across and working upon the lunar territory, Artemis style?
Regarding moonwalking suit systems, including boots, gloves and the backpack-like portable life support system, the thermal design issues will be severe, Eppler of The Aerospace Corporation said.
"For instance, say you're standing ankle deep in a very cold, shadowed area, but your legs, torso, etc., are in direct sunlight. You'll need to ensure that the boots and pressure garment material don't freeze and break, while ensuring that the upper parts of the suit system don't become so hot that serious heat stress to the crew member is a significant issue," Eppler said. "It's a real problem."
The good news, Eppler concludes, is that Artemis technologists are trying to come to terms with the whole surviving the night state of affairs.
"That says to me that we will find solutions at some point," Eppler said. "The point where you get into trouble is when people don't understand or accept the magnitude of the problem…but I don't think that's the case here," he concluded.
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Q: How do I find "prob=?" in this equation pbinom(q=5,size=10,prob=?,lower.tail=FALSE)=.1? How do I solve for the "prob=" parameter of pbinom() if I want pbinom() to equal a specific value and I assume values for "q=" and "size=" parameters? Let's assume that I want pbinom() to equal 0.1 when I have q=5, size=10, and lower.tail=FALSE, is there a function or way to determine to what the "prob=" parameter should be equal? For example:
> pbinom(q=5,size=10,prob=.3542,lower.tail=FALSE)
[1] 0.09998054

Through trial and error, I found that prob=.3542 is close enough. I know that qbinom() is the inverse of pbinom(), but I'm not interested in finding q=5 given I want pbinom()=.1. I instead want to find "prob=" given I know pbinom(q=5,size=10,prob=?,lower.tail=FALSE)=.1. Thanks in advance for your help.
*Sorry if this has already been answered elsewhere. I looked and couldn't find it. Seems pretty simple, so I was surprised.


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2014's Assassin's Creed: Rogue isn't a bad game, but it is a totally unnecessary one. The game feels like an afterthought to Unity, which was released in the same year. I wish more was done with Rogue because it may have one of the most intriguing plots of the series. You play as Shay, an assassin who no longer believes in the creed and changes allegiances to the templars. The game does a great job communicating Shay's struggles and the reasons for his actions. Playing as the traditional "bad guys" in this game allows Rogue to expand the lore in new ways. However, the ending doesn't amount to much and the connection it has to Unity feels entirely forced. The mechanics in Rogue feel unrefined and the world feels empty. It borrows locations and mechanics from III and IV yet doesn't add its own twist to the series gameplay. Despite coming out annually, each Assassin's Creed usually tries to add some new mechanic or switch up the gameplay in someway, but Rogue seems to feel its story is enough. Ultimately I feel Rogue would have been better served being a comic or novel because as a game it feels uninspired and redundant. Play III or IV instead of Rogue.
Assassin's Creed, the game that birthed a franchise, came out in 2007. At the time of release the game helped show what was possible on the Xbox 360 and PS3. The plot was tight and well told and the gameplay felt like a refreshing take on action and stealth. The setting of the Holy Land during the Crusades may be my favorite of the series and one that is underutilized in games overall. However, Assassin's Creed is very much a first game in a series that has evolved. Going back to AC after playing its sequels is difficult. The series has progressed and playing as Altaïr now feels slow and clumsy. The movement and combat are very basic and the cities feel much smaller than in later entries. The game lacks much of the charm of later games and most of the characters are stone-faced and uninteresting. The game laid the foundation for the series and the subsequent games have built on that in a way that makes the first game feel narrow in scope and lacking in execution.
Revelations is the final act of the storyline from II and Brotherhood. The player controls Ezio, the hero of the previous two games, who is now an aged master Assassin on his final mission. Storywise Ezio is laid out to pasture in a way that felt true to the character. Assassin's Creed, for the most part, is a series full of vignettes of the character's lives, but for Ezio the player had truly gotten to known him playing as him from birth to old age. It was satisfying seeing Ezio retire on top of his game. The gameplay continued the excellent tradition of II and Brotherhood. The hookblade and bombs were nice and addition. The main failure of the game is the virtual city of Istanbul. A victim of the past two game's wide open and beautiful Italian cities, the game's Istanbul was segmented and split up by loading screens. It made the whole thing feel very small and for a game about freedom of movement, feeling small is a very bad thing. On top of that the game experimented with first-person puzzles in the modern day part of the game. These were awkward and didn't work. Revelations's plot and gameplay are top notch, but it makes me sad that Ubisoft wasted the great city of Istanbul the way they did.
Note: I played Unity after it was patched so many of the complaints others have about its bugs I did not experience so I will not be including them in this discussion.
Unity was a big change for the series. It left behind the North American continent after the two previous games were set there and restricted the action to a single city. But what a city that was, Paris in Unity is beautifully crafted. Paris feels huge as the city is teeming with people and quests. Climbing Notre-Dame de Paris is one of the standout Assassin's Creed experiences. The detail put into Paris's well-known landmarks is a highlight and I was constantly stopping just to look at the architecture. The people of Paris are also a treat: Ubisoft used the power of the Xbox One and PS4 to exponentially increase the size and intelligence of its NPC crowds. They are now a part of the game that can help or hinder the player. Pairs, although great, has a few missteps:there are so many activities that the minimap feels crowded and it can be hard to find what you want. Sailing is absent, which after being such a key component of the last game is a bummer. Overall the shift back to Europe is a welcome one, but has a few bumps along the way. The best addition from Unity to the series is the Freerun Down button. In past games getting down from buildings was always a bit awkward, you either slowly climbed down by grabbing onto a ledge and dropping or jumped off into the street. Now getting off a building looks and feels as good as scaling one does. Arno keeps his speed while moving downward safely and the new animations look great. It's a control change that the series has needed for a while. Many of the buildings are enterable in Paris, a first for the series, and this enables all sorts of new ways to assassinate targets. The assassinations in Unity recapture the spirit of the first game by giving you a true sandbox that allows you to kill targets anyway you can imagine. The co-op multiplayer was a nice addition, yet Ubisoft seems to be abandoning it in Syndicate, it was a nice way to switch things up in Unity. There are some really bad parts of the game: Unity is marred by Ubisoft locking much of it's content away in the companion app and Uplay. It feels like every other chest the player tries to open in Paris is locked unless you sink hours into it's lackluster companion app. Ubisoft has a really fun game in Unity, but it kept forcing me to stop playing to look at my phone. Despite its frustrating moments, Unity is a beautiful and fluid game when it gets out of its own way.
Assassin's Creed III had lofty expectations to meet when it came out in 2012. It was the culmination of a modern day storyline that had been in the works since the first game. It came directly after the Ezio trilogy, three great games with what many view as the best protagonist in the series. On top of that it had a massive hype campaign that convinced everyone that this was going to be the best game ever! It wasn't and to many the game was a disappointment. The protagonist, Connor, was a bit of a drag and the game didn't even start with you playing as him. At times Connor felt very disconnected from the historical events of the game; an assumption of ACIII was that it was going to showcase the American Revolution in a big way. ACIII didn't conclude the series in a great way and the game had some control issues that held it back from the game it wanted to be. Looking past all the expectations and disappointment is a good game that added a lot to the series. The setting was very well done, colonial America was felt authentic and the weather effects were good. Even though the game lacked the huge buildings of Renaissance Italy, it gave Connor the ability to climb and freerun through trees. It pushed the series from its urban roots to the wilderness and the game felt very comfortable there. Hunting was added and stalking animals and templars through the bushes worked well. Sailing was one of the best features of this game and it was for the most part entirely optional. The modern day sections finally let the Desmond be an assassin and we're extremely gratifying. The ending was a let down as it wasn't the conclusion we were promised, but the game was solid up to that point and a good addition to the series.
Assassin's Creed II was a game-changer that cemented the series core mechanics and popularity. To many the first game was disappointing, it was a good game, but didn't live up to the lofty expectations most had for it. It's sequel not only lived up to the hype, but surpassed it in many ways. Set in Renaissance Italy, the game stared the charming Ezio as he took down the Templar order ending with a fist fight against the Pope himself. Sounds ridiculous and in many ways this game was. It shrugged off much of the seriousness of its predecessor in favor of a game that embodied freedom and fun.. The protagonist, Ezio, is among the series best, and the supporting charters are all memorable in their own right. The plot is one of revenge and growth that features great voice actors and writing. The gameplay was sped up freerunning feels incredible. The action-oriented combat was beefed up and by the end of the game Ezio feels like a powerhouse that can plow through any number of guards. Ezio's tools and weapons are far greater than that of his predecessor and the game now features hammers, maces, and axes. Italy is the star of the game as much as Ezio is. All of the cities in II are well done, and Venice is one of the highlights of the series. Exploring it's canals in the game will forever be imprinted in my memories. Assassin's Creed II is wonderful showcase for what the series does right and a great game to back to or experience for the first time.
2010's Brotherhood was a surprise hit: coming out only a year after Assassin's Creed II many were skeptical about the quick turnaround for the game. What Ubisoft delivered was a game that built on the gameplay of II in a fantastic way. Ezio returns, a little older but not any slower, and the game charges you with rebuilding the Assassins' presence in Rome, a city left out of two for the most part. The player and Ezio now have access to a large team of Assassins that do their bidding. You could order them to kill, pickpocket, and fight for you. These allies added another degree of strategy to the gameplay and leveling them up was addictive. You watched them rise from a novice to a master assassin and felt a sense of pride as your brotherhood grew. The game takes place entirely in the city of Rome. It is wonderfully realized in game and features some of the best traversal in the series. For the first time Ezio can ride a horse everywhere in game to assist the player getting around the huge city. Brotherhood is one of the best games in the series and the best out of the Ezio trilogy, if you overlooked it in 2010 go back and play it.
series. The sailing mechanics are back from ACIII but are pushed to the forefront of this game. Instead of having an upgradable town or homestead like in other games your hub is the Jackdaw, a pirate ship you can upgrade and sail to your hearts content. The Caribbean economy feels alive as you can raid and trade rum, sugar, and other goods for gold. The combat is noticeably less gory than in other instalments adding to the swashbuckling nature of the game; it's fun and cinematic as Edward, the protagonist, swings his two swords with six pistols strapped to him jumping from ship to ship in search of enemy captains. The story of the Assassins and Templars is present in this game, but it never really jumps to the limelight in large part because Edward is the most selfish of all the Assassins in the series. He's a pirate first and he will sail, raid, and kill to his heart's content. If he helps the Assassins along the way that is cool, but it is never on the top of his priorities, and it won't be on yours while you play Black Flag. Black Flag is all about fun and freedom and that is when the series is at its best I think. You never feel chained down or like you have to do anything in Black Flag, you go where your heart and the wind takes you and it's a blast. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is my favorite game of the series because it is simply the most fun. Drink up me hearties YO HO!


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Peter James Reveals Who Got Him Reading
Written by Julie Vegas on Thursday, November 15th, 2012
When asked by The Daily Mail, author Peter James gave an answer that you might expect from a British author…
Order of Famous Five Books
The Famous Five is a series of novels by British novelist Enid Blyton. The series features a group of kids who go on adventures that most kids could only dream about. The group consists of Julian, Dick, Anne and George (a tomboy) and her dog Timmy.
"Famous Five" TV Series in the Works?
Written by Ella Thomson on Sunday, July 15th, 2012
Kindle Entertainment has signed an agreement with Hachette UK to create a TV series based on Enid Blyton's Famous Five series. Kindle is going to be pitching the series to distributors in order to gain funding. The Famous Five series sells nearly one million books every year, even decades after the series has ended.
Hachette UK Buys Rights to Enid Blyton Properties
Written by Dan Malone on Monday, March 26th, 2012
Hachette UK is the new owner of the rights of Enid Blyton's estate with the exception of the Noddy Library (those rights were recently purchased by Classic Media). Hachette Children's Books rep Marlene Johnson said, "I am absolutely delighted that we have acquired world rights to publish Enid Blyton. Hodder was her original publisher, so […]
Order of Enid Blyton Books
British children's author Enid Blyton (1897-1968) is one of the most prolific authors in the English language, having sold over 600 million books. Infact, her books have been translated into over 90 languages and are still enjoyed across the globe. She was portrayed by British actress Helena Bonham Carter (pictured above) in the BBC biopic […]


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The lone weak spot involves the repurposing of the seminary's chapel, where stained glass windows that were deemed overtly Christian (and therefore, potentially offensive to non-Christians) were removed. The large chapel - once the site of religious services and now a comfortable, colorful gathering spot for grad students - is fine. But the small one, previously a dark meditative space where multicolored light filtered through stained glass, is now a chilly little conference room.
Chilly? You decide. My guess is that most economics students at the University of Chicago would have been intelligent, and thick skinned enough, to fathom the history of their own institution.


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[resolved] Need Help Constructing Syntax Search for "(the) Son of God"
Home>Logos 6>[resolved] Need Help Constructing Syntax Search for "(the) Son of God"
This search, however, returned only 38 results, which is fewer than the results I get from Grammatical Relationships. It's missing Mt 26:63; Mk 5:7; etc. How should I modify my syntax search?
Strangely, John 1:34, for example, appears in my syntax search but NOT in Grammatical Relationships. Is there a grammatical reason why this verse is excluded?
It's missing Mt 26:63; Mk 5:7; etc. How should I modify my syntax search?
And I have seen and testify that this one is the Chosen One of God.
One very early manuscript and a few other early witnesses have "the Chosen One of God," but most other early and later witnesses have "the Son of God." Both titles refer to the same person, so there is no great difference in understanding the passage. The difference is largely found in what is emphasized by the expression, whether the chosen status of Jesus or his divine sonship.
Rick Brannan and Israel Loken, The Lexham Textual Notes on the Bible (Lexham Bible Reference Series; Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014), Jn 1:34.
Thank you both for your very prompt replies.
Graham, your explanation made perfect sense. I did not realize that you could choose a different syntactical database for Grammatical Relationships. Thank you.
Dave, I tried adding "or" above the head term but it returned 0 results. What I did was I clicked on the plus sign above the head term to select "or".
If you could also please explain what the function of "or" is, i would really appreciate it.
HOWEVER, again comparing the results to that of Grammatical Relationships, it's still missing John 5:25 and Gal 2:20, where υἱός is tagged as a "qualifier" as opposed to a "definer."
As a beginner student of syntax searches, I'm wondering whether there's a catch-all approach that would get exact results matching what's in Grammatical Relationships. For example, if I were to search for "(the) Son of Man," is there a rule I should follow that can guarantee complete search results? Without comparing the discrepancies, I would not have known to add qualifiers and definer to my search.
Thank you again for your patience in guiding me.
HOWEVER, again comparing the results to that of Grammatical Relationships, it's still missing John 5:25 and Gal 2:20, where υἱός is tagged as a "qualifier" as opposed to a "definer.
Gal 2:20 is different as it has an extra level - head term -> definer -> qualifier -> son. To "ignore" the extra term you can click on the Modifier and then select "Matching skip levels" from the General information in the editor. This will cause a hit even whether it is "further down the tree"
As a beginner student of syntax searches, I'm wondering whether there's a catch-all approach that would get exact results matching what's in Grammatical Relationships.
That's a much more difficult question and I am not aware of a standard answer to that one. Hopefully those more knowledgeable than I will be able to comment on that.
This seems to work on any scenario where a word is used adjectivally with another word. I've tested "Son of Man," "his son," "kingdom of God" and "kingdom of heaven" and the results were all identical with those returned by Grammatical Relationships.
If anyone can think of a way to simplify this search diagram, that would be awesome!
Not sure what the practical benefits of this exercise are for other users. I guess it was a good experience in the process of learning syntax searches.
Head Term ---> Modifier (may or may not be present) ---> Unordered ---> etc.
Thanks for working through this, Stephen. It was just what I was looking for this morning!


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Methods: We recruited three patients, each with a PU, who were being treated by a PU team at a university hospital. We measured the length, width, area, and maximal depth of the ulcers by using the device and with the conventional method. The ulcer volume was measured only with the device. The difference in measurement results of the device before and after debridement was compared in the first patient. The difference in measurement results between the conventional method and the device was compared in the second patient. Correlation coefficients between the conventional method and the device obtained from longitudinal data were calculated in the third patient.
Results: The changes in measurements between before and after debridement were easily detected by the device in the first patient. Although the maximal depth was different, the length, width, and area were consistent between the conventional method and the device in the second patient. The correlation coefficients of the length, width, and area between the conventional method and the device were 0.35, 0.48, and 0.59, respectively, in the third patient whose PU exhibited a vague wound edge.
Conclusion: Although two-dimensional measurements were comparable between the conventional method and the device, there were some challenges to performing three-dimensional measurement more precisely. A further study is needed to determine the specific characteristics of wounds that result in poor measurement accuracy.


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A warning for bond insurance
Nancy Marshall-Genzer Feb 14, 2008
https://www.marketplace.org/2008/02/14/warning-bond-insurance/
Scott Jagow: Maybe it won't be as dramatic as Roger Clemens on Capitol Hill, but today, Congress hears from a line-up of heavy financial hitters. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Christopher Cox, the head of the SEC. They'll each give their assessment of the economy of the markets to the Senate Banking Committee in just a few minutes.
Then, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer testifies before a House Subcommittee. Spitzer plans to give a stern warning about the bond insurance business. Nancy Marshall Genzer has more.
Nancy Marshall Genzer: Governor Spitzer is concerned because local governments need bond insurers to back their municipal bonds. State and local governments can only use top-rated insurers.
But bond insurers could lose their triple-A ratings. That's because they're expected to suffer big losses from insuring bonds linked to subprime mortgages. Spitzer says if the government doesn't help the bond insurers, there'll be a "financial tsunami."
But economist Bernard Baumohl of the Economic Outlook Group says the government's options may be limited. The bond insurers are guaranteeing more than $2 trillion worth of debt.
Bernard Baumohl: We're talking about such huge numbers that there's really not much the federal government can do. I think the markets will correct this. It may take time. That's the biggest price that we're going to pay.
Baumohl says it'll take one to two years.
In Washington, I'm Nancy Marshall Genzer for Marketplace.
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2004 Year-Ender
By Gwynne Dyer ⋅ December 24, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment
Filed Under Iraq, United States, US, Vietnam
The world has been on hold this year. Interesting and important things have happened in many countries, and most people have scarcely noticed that international politics is becalmed — but it is. The normal business of the planet has pretty much slowed to a halt and we are all gently drifting downstream together while we wait to see what becomes of the United States — and, as a result, of the rest of the world, for the US is still a key player in almost every game. We may be waiting some time.
The war in Iraq is not really very important, because Iraq itself is not all that important in the global scheme of things, any more than Vietnam was a generation ago. What matters is the way that this war is shaping America's relations with the rest of the world, and in that sense Iraq has the potential to be a far bigger turning point than Vietnam ever could have been.
Vietnam, like Iraq, was a war undertaken for the wrong reasons and close to unwinnable from the start, but the Vietnam conflict happened in the middle of the Cold War. No matter how Vietnam had come out, the basic alignments in the world would not have changed: the rival alliances were practically carved in stone at the time. Iraq is different, because it is happening in a world where those alliance confrontations have dissolved and the new norm is multilateralism: the great powers are supposed to be running the world by consultation and consensus. But that world is now fundamentally at risk,
Two popular perceptions of what is happening dominate the world at the moment. One, held mainly by Americans, sees a world beleaguered by such a huge terrorist threat that all the old rules have to be abandoned. The United States, they believe, is carrying the main burden of this "war against terror" while other countries shirk their share of the load. (Despite all the talk of a fundamental clash of values in the recent US election, both parties basically held the same view on this issue.)
Most people in other countries, and most of their governments, too, see terrorism as a much smaller threat. Certain measures need to be taken to contain it, but it is nowhere near big enough to justify scrapping all the rules of international behaviour we have painfully built up over the past half-century.
A lot of the governments also believe (in private) that the Bush administration is deliberately pumping up the fear of terrorism in order to justify a unilateral strategy that really aims at establishing American hegemony worldwide. The popular American belief that the United States has the right to go anywhere and attack anybody if it feels itself threatened — "we do not need a permission slip from the UN," as Vice-President Dick Cheney frequently puts it — predates 9/11, but it has been greatly strengthened by the rhetoric of the "war on terror."
Most of the other great powers on the planet are coming to see the United States as a rogue superpower. (Britain is formally an exception under Prime Minister Tony Blair, but even in London the concern is palpable at lower levels of government.) Yet everybody is deeply reluctant to confront the United States directly, since that would just hasten the collapse of the multilateral order they still hope to save. The result has been a lengthy pause in which most other major powers refuse to approve or assist the American adventure in Iraq, but avoid any open defiance of American power.
Instead, they are waiting. They waited for American voters to repudiate the Bush strategy in last month's election (though they were well aware that the strategy of a Kerry administration would not have been radically different). They continue to wait for the resistance war in Iraq to grow into a second Vietnam that will turn the US public against the whole neo-conservative project (but they cannot be sure that that will happen before their own public opinion loses patience and demands that they move to contain rampant US power). They half-dread the collapse of the US dollar, but half look forward to it as a blow that might shift American policy.
They are on hold, in other words, and they will stay that way as long as they possibly can — because the alternative is to start creating alliances and building up their own military power in order to contain the United States. Do that, and you have started to lay the foundations for World War III, so nobody wants to go there.
Nobody should go there. The United States no longer dominates the international system except in terms of hard military power, and that is an instrument that often breaks in the hands of American governments because the US public hates casualties. Sooner or later American voters will rebel against the human and financial cost of trying to be Globocop. so just wait it out, and sooner or later normal service will be restored in Washington. That is the right strategy, and there is at least a couple of years' worth of patience in other capitals before anybody gives up on it. With luck, that may be enough.
In the meantime, everybody tries to get on with their lives as if there were not some potential calamity looming over us all. And though the big picture is menacing, the fine detail is a bit more encouraging.
The great event in Europe was the "big bang" expansion of the European Union from 15 to 25 members on 1 May. This had originally been intended to close the candidates' list for a long time while the EU dealt with a new constitution, spread the use of the euro to the new members, and generally "deepened" the ties binding the members together, but by May there were already three more countries scheduled to join the EU in 2007: Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. By year's end 70 million Turks had also joined the queue.
It's neither a federation nor an empire, but it's much more than a customs union; something significant is happening in Europe. In fact, although Ukraine still has no promises from the EU, the popular hope that it might eventually become an EU member provided much of the fuel for the demonstrations in late November and early December that undid a rigged election, unseated a corrupt post-Communist oligarchy, and set the country on the road to democracy. Something similar, though less dramatic, happened in Romania in December.
Russia continued its drift back into authoritarian rule, with President Vladimir Putin winning a second term in March thanks in large part to terrorist attacks by Chechen fighters in a war that he himself did much to trigger. He successfully portrays this Chechen independence war to his own people as part of a generalised "Islamic" assault against the "civilised" countries, and used the school siege that killed 331 people in Beslan in September as a pretext to proclaim an interventionist doctrine that mirrors the US doctrine of "preemptive war". Russia, his advisers announced, henceforward claims the right to "liquidate all terrorist bases in any part of the world." (But it couldn't protect its own puppet ruler in Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in May.).
By contrast, the big Western European countries had a year so tranquil that even Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's umpteenth miraculous escape from conviction on corruption charges ranked as big news. But there was one exception: Spain, where terrorist bombs on commuter trains in Madrid killed 190 people in March. Yhe Spanish (who had opposed their government's support for the US invasion of Iraq by almost four-to-one) responded by voting the conservative People's Party government out three days later. The newly elected Socialist government ordered the 1,300 Spanish troops in Iraq home as soon as it took power in April.
On the peripheries of Europe, long-awaited things almost happened but didn't quite. Northern Ireland came very close to a power-sharing agreement between Protestants and Catholics that would allow the restoration of self-government in the province, only to fall at the last hurdle — but there will be no slide back into war. The Basque separatists of ETA, its senior ranks decimated by a wave of arrests, came close to declaring an end to violence — only to shy away from it at the last moment with a string of bombs in Madrid this month. The Greek-Cypriots, offered a UN-brokered deal on the reunification of their island, overwhelmingly rejected it even as their Turkish-Cypriot compatriots voted yes.
And in the Netherlands, the spiritual home of liberal tolerance, something went dreadfully wrong in November. The murder by an Islamist fanatic of radical Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh, who had made a movie condemning violence against women in Muslim societies, was a deplorable but isolated event. The subsequent displays of hostility and outright violence both by Dutch-born Muslims and by Christian or post-Christian Dutch who used to preach tolerance were shameful and deeply worrisome — and the further east you go in Europe, the worse it gets. The continent is still a long way from the Promised Land. Speaking of which…
The dominant motif in the Middle East during 2004 was the US war in Iraq, from the repeated sieges of Fallujah, Najaf and Karbala to the disgusting images from Abu Ghraib prison, but the single great event was the November death of Yasser Arafat, the embodiment of Palestinian aspirations for the past forty years. But it was a measure of the success of the US-Israeli strategy for rendering him irrelevant that his death actually changed very little in terms of the realities and possibilities of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
A successor (Mahmoud Abbas) is to be elected chairman of the Palestinian Authority on 9 January, but the notion that this represents a "fresh opportunity for peace" in the region is fantasy. The course of events was set for some time to come by the Israeli-American summit last April, in which President Bush declared that "new realities on the ground" make it "unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status (peace) negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949." In other words, Israel can keep most of its settlements in the occupied West Bank — 37 years of American foreign policy scrapped in a sentence.
This was Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's reward for declaring a unilateral withdrawal from the few indefensible Jewish settlements in the densely populated Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the "security fence" that has been carving its way through the West Bank underlines the new territorial settlement that is being imposed on the ground. Arafat's death was awkward for Sharon, who lost his favourite excuse for claiming that there was nobody to talk to about peace on the Palestinian side, but the main outlines of his plan for a "unilateral disengagement" are already in place.
As Sharon said himself, "My plan is difficult for the Palestinians, a fatal blow. There's no Palestinian state in a unilateral move." His senior adviser, Dov Weisglas, was even blunter, saying that "The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process." And with the opposition Labour party set to enter Sharon's coalition government early in the new year, that is where things are likely to remain so long as the current American hegemony in the Middle East endures.
Elsewhere in the region, Libya's loony dictator Muammar Gadafy formally renounced the nuclear weapons programme that he never really had (allowing the US and Britain to claim that their invasion of Iraq had scared him out of it), and Iran was persuaded at the end of November to put its uranium enrichment programme on hold for the moment. But it will not have escaped Tehran's notice (or Pyongyang's, or Damascus's, or anybody else's) that the main reason Iraq got invaded was its failure to develop and deploy weapons of mass destruction.
Events in Asia unfolded a good deal more smoothly, as they generally do these days. The surprise victory of Indira Gandhi's Congress Party in India's May election was followed by an orderly handover by the outgoing Hindu nationalists of the BJP, although Mrs Gandhi, being foreign-born, chose to make Manmohan Singh prime minister rather than taking the job herself. Things got nastier afterwards, with the BJP boycotting parliament and the new government planning to re-rewrite textbooks that it said had been distorted by the BJP to emphasise India's Hindu heritage at the expense of its Islamic history. But the world's biggest democracy continues to get the most important things right
China, which lays no claim to being a democracy, had its own orderly hand-over of power, with 78-year-old former president Jiang Zemin relinquishing his last lever of power, his control of the Central Military Commission, to his successor, President Hu Jintao, at the Communist Party's Central Committee meeting in September. The main focus of the year, however, was China-Taiwan relations, which grew more tense with the re-election of Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian (who narrowly survived an assassination attempt a day before the vote).
Beijing, which sees Chen as a dangerous radical committed to Taiwan's formal independence, started talking darkly about war, but US Secretary of State Colin Powell took some of the heat out of the crisis in October by declaring in a Hong Kong radio interview that "there is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty." But Beijing was still alarmed, and at the end of the year it was planning to pass a new anti-secession law that would, as the pro-Beijing Hong Kong daily Wen Wei Po put it, "leave Taiwan independence forces with no ambiguity to exploit."
So much for two-thirds of Asia (as measured by population). In most of the remaining third, the economic crisis of the late 90s was long past and prosperity was returning even in Japan, which showed tentative signs of emerging from its ten-year recession. Indonesia elected a new president in July — the first ever to be chosen by a direct popular vote — and Malaysia also became much more democratic when Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi won a landslide victory in the March election.
The impression that Badawi was quietly repudiating the long period of authoritarian rule under recently retired ex-prime minister Mahathir Mohamed grew stronger when he allowed the courts to release Mahathir's former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, jailed six years ago on trumped-up sodomy charges after he challenged Mahathir's economic policies. But there was no similar sense of glaciers melting in Singapore in August when Lee Hsien Loong, 52-year-old son of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, who has dominated the prosperous city-state since 1965, formally took over as the new prime minister.
In October, hard-liners in the Burmese junta removed the closest thing to a moderate in their midst, Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, in what amounted to a mini-coup. Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo surprised absolutely nobody when she declared in August that the country was in a fiscal crisis. Cambodia changed kings, Thailand blundered into an insurgency in its Muslim-populated southern provinces, the ceasefire in the long war between Sri Lanka's Tamil minority and its Sinhalese majority sort of held, and Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf was still in the saddle at year's end despite widespread anger that he had broken his promise to give up command of the army this year.
We never did find out how much Pakistan had aided North Korea's nuclear weapons programme because Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, disgraced ex-chief of Pakistan's own nuclear bomb project, has been pardoned by President Musharraf for selling nuclear secrets and technology abroad and is still not available for interview by foreign intelligence agencies. Hamid Karzai won the much-postponed Afghan presidential election in October, though his power still does not extend far from Kabul and parliamentary elections have been postponed until next year. And Australian Prime Minister John Howard, "America's deputy sheriff" in the region, won a historic fourth term in the same month.
Africa presented its usual deceptive face to the world — a mini-genocide in Darfur in Sudan, civil war in Ivory Coast, civil and religious strife in Nigeria, the threat of renewed war in eastern Congo — as if Africa's main problem was war. It is not, and it isn't AIDS either. It is poverty, which is mostly the result of catastrophically bad government. So the important news from Africa is that there are increasing numbers of good governments, democratically elected, that serve the whole population rather than some narrow tribal base. In just the past month there have been two elections, in Ghana and Mozambique, that returned that kind of government. Things are bad in Africa, but not without hope.
Which leaves Latin America, the media black hole from which only occasional news of disasters reaches the outside world. We had the usual ration of that this year, with excited reports of the not-quite-coup that unseated President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti in February and of left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's near-death experience in the August referendum on his rule. We hear far less about the miraculous recovery of the Argentine economy, about the remarkable progress that Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva has made in shifting resources towards the poor while building Brazil's influence abroad, and about the South American Union (optimistically modelled on the European Union) that was launched in Ayacucho early this month.
One continent at a time, it all makes for a somewhat more hopeful balance-sheet than the one we usually see. It's the big-picture stuff that is really worrisome. Oil hit $40 a barrel in May and has stayed above that price ever since. Climate change is galloping up on us faster than ever (though at least Russia ratified the Kyoto accord, which finally brings the treaty into effect). The whole international system that has kept great-power war at bay for the past six decades is now under challenge. The pessimists are starting to fear that things are spinning out of control. So a sane and happy New Year to us all.
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Pinder ($2,275,000), Smith ($705,000) reach deals with A's
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)Utilityman Chad Pinder reached a $2,275,000, one-year contract with the Oakland Athletics a day before Wednesday's deadline for teams to offer deals to unsigned players on their rosters.
In addition, right-hander Burch Smith agreed to a $705,000, one-year deal.
Pinder returned from a hamstring injury to help Oakland in the playoffs. The 28-year-old infielder and outfielder was part of Oakland's wild-card game losses in 2018 and '19. A strained right hamstring kept him on the injured list for two weeks before he came back Sept. 27 to play the final day of the regular season. He batted .232 with two homers and eight RBIs.
Smith went 2-0 with a 2.25 ERA and a save in six outings spanning 12 innings for Oakland but was lost for the season in mid-August because of a strained forearm on his pitching side. The A's missed his presence in the bullpen as they won the AL West and the wild-card round against the Chicago White Sox before losing to the rival Astros in the AL Division Series.
Also Tuesday, catcher Francisco Pena received a minor league contract. He would earn $600,000 while in the majors if added to the 40-man roster.


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US, China trade talks may have hit an impasse: Chinese official media
The latest round of US-China trade talks may have hit an impasse, raising doubts about the chances of an early trade deal between the world's two leading economies
Beijing, PTI | Updated : 03 May 2019, 06:37 AM
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, who is Beijing's chief negotiator led the Chinese delegation during the China-US comprehensive economic dialogue held on Tuesday and Wednesday


The BBC's new daily politics programme was broadcast yesterday with one of the rarest sights on television: an all-female panel. Politics Live replaces the Daily Politics and is broadcast on weekday lunchtimes on BBC Two.
It is presented four days a week by Jo Coburn, and the first episode featured Amber Rudd, the former home secretary, Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, the journalists Camilla Tominey and Anushka Asthana and the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg.


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Paleontologists studied the oldest discovered bison fossils (bones) to determine when and how they arrived in North America.
Who's eating all the shrimp?
Scientists wanted to find out if there was a connection between the number of shrimp (prey) and fish (predators) in the Gulf of Mexico.
How does war affect gorillas?
Scientists completed a census of the Grauer's gorillas remaining in Africa and determined that they should now be listed as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List.
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Scientists research which are the preferred habitats for black sea bass.


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