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Percontini, A., Blas, B. and Cordeiro, G. (2013). "The Beta Weibull Poisson distribution", Chilean Journal of statistics, Vol.4, No.2, P.3-26.
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Properties of the Distributions Generated by Mixing Weibull and Inverse Weibull Distributions with Zero Truncated Poisson
Salah H Abid1, , Sajad H Mohammed1
1Mathematics department, Education College, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, Iraq
American Journal of Modeling and Optimization. 2016, Vol. 4 No. 1, 19-28
DOI: 10.12691/ajmo-4-1-3
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Salah H Abid, Sajad H Mohammed. Properties of the Distributions Generated by Mixing Weibull and Inverse Weibull Distributions with Zero Truncated Poisson. American Journal of Modeling and Optimization. 2016; 4(1):19-28. doi: 10.12691/ajmo-4-1-3.
Correspondence to: Salah H Abid, Mathematics department, Education College, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, Iraq. Email: abidsalah@gmail.com
In reliability analysis, a lot of failure distributions are used to represent lifetime data. Recently, new distributions are derived to extend some of well-known families of distributions, such that the new distributions are more flexible than the others to model real data. In this paper, properties of Weibull-Poisson distribution (WPD) and inverse Weibull-Poisson distribution (IWPD) will be considered. We provide forms for characteristic function, rth raw moment, mean, variance, median, Shannon entropy function, Rényi entropy function and Relative entropy function. This paper deals also with the determination of R = P[Y < X] when X and Y are two independent WPD (IWPD) distributions with different parameters.
Weibull-Poisson distribution, inverse Weibull-Poisson distribution, Shannon entropy, Rényi entropy, Relative entropy, stress-strength reliability

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United by their practice of sound, Pôm Bouvier B, Myriam Pruvot and Alexandra Sebbag will offer, during this evening, 3 aesthetic experiences that look as singular as their backgrounds. A diving-concert which plays with duration and entitled « les mondes », an exercise of prediction songs through the mythological figure of Tiresias, and Angelina, a sound installation especially designed for the chapel.
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Wolfgang Gartner delivers a smooth electro ride on latest original, 'Ching Ching'
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It's no secret that Wolfgang Gartner has a real soft spot for top-notch pop productions, despite his legendary penchant for electro house excellence. He's been vocal about pop's innovations and impressions on dance music and vice versa, and now as he continues to build momentum in what seems to be the next chapter in his comeback, we're finding the complextro don adding some considerable pop flair to his latest original, "Ching Ching." The new track comes fresh off the heels of Gartner's recent "Banshee" alongside k?d, which found the seasoned beatsmith broadcasting in rare form, perhaps his best work since the contents of Weekend In America.
"Ching Ching" rides a similar wave, and while it leans away from battering club fare and more towards a lyrical, melodic house appeal, the new track follows up on "Banshee" as another infectious dance hit, and one of Wolfgang's strongest offerings in recent memory. We're seeing the resurgence of Wolfgang with his new work, and on his latest, as he blurs the line between pop and electro with veteran finesse.
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Brace Yourself for the E3 Comet's Closest Approach to Earth
The dazzling space rock and its green tail could be visible to the naked eye.
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Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF imaged on December 24 2022
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Get excited, space enthusiasts. A long-period comet discovered in March 2022 has recently brightened in the night sky, just in time for its closest approach to Earth in a few weeks. Once it passes us by, it won't return again for tens of thousands of years.
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The comet is named C/2022 E3 (ZTF), a name derived from when and how it was first observed (by a camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility). It is still too dim to see without a telescope, according to NASA. But that may change as the amalgam of ice, rock, and dust whips through our cosmic backyard.
The comet was spotted in March, when it was within Jupiter's orbit. E3 will make its closest approach to the Sun on January 12 and will be nearest to Earth on February 1 or 2. People in the Northern Hemisphere could be able to view it starting in late January, and it will become visible in the Southern Hemisphere in early February, NASA stated.
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long-period comet, a label applied to comets with orbital periods longer than 200 years. But this particular comet has an extraordinarily long orbital period: It takes the object tens of thousands of years to complete one orbit around the Sun.
According to the British Astronomical Association, the comet "has recently grown a long and highly structured ion tail." The association also points out that the comet may best be observed in the next couple of weeks, as the Moon will not be as bright in the night sky.
Jessica Lee, an astronomer with the Royal Observatory Greenwich, told Newsweek that the comet may not return to Earth for another 50,000 years, due to its long orbit. "Some predictions suggest that the orbit of this comet is so eccentric it's no longer in an orbit—so it's not going to return at all and will just keep going," Lee said.
But if the comet does return, it would be sometime around the year 52,023. In other words, way too late for you and me.
C/2022 E3 is not expected to be as dazzling as the comet NEOWISE, which was visible to the naked eye when it passed over Earth in July 2020. The surface of that 3-mile-wide comet was warmed by the Sun, causing NEOWISE to shed gas and dusty material in a wonderful tail. It was the brightest comet seen in the Northern Hemisphere since the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997.
NEOWISE won't return to Earth's neighborhood for another 6,800 years (or now, 6,798 years, if we're expecting remarkable punctuality from the comet.) So try tuning in for C/2022 E3—we may be the only humans to ever witness it.
More: Mega Comet Arriving From the Oort Cloud Is 85 Miles Wide
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How Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraq war lobby used New York Times reporter Judith Miller to make the case for invasion.
By James C. Moore
May 28, 2004 2:50AM (UTC)
When the full history of the Iraq war is written, one of its most scandalous chapters will be about how American journalists, in particular those at the New York Times, so easily allowed themselves to be manipulated by both dubious sources and untrustworthy White House officials into running stories that misled the nation about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. The Times finally acknowledged its grave errors in an extraordinary and lengthy editors note published Wednesday. The editors wrote:
"We have found ... instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been ... In some cases, the information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged. Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged -- or failed to emerge ... We consider the story of Iraq's weapons, and of the pattern of misinformation, to be unfinished business. And we fully intend to continue aggressive reporting aimed at setting the record straight."
The editors conceded what intelligence sources had told me and numerous other reporters: that Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi was feeding bad information to journalists and the White House and had set up a situation with Iraqi exiles where all of the influential institutions were shouting into the same garbage can, hearing the same echo. "Complicating matters for journalists, the accounts of these exiles were often eagerly confirmed by United States officials convinced of the need to intervene in Iraq. Administration officials now acknowledge that they sometimes fell for misinformation from these exile sources. So did many news organizations -- in particular, this one."
The reporter on many of the flawed stories at issue was Judith Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and authority on the Middle East. The Times, insisting that the problem did not lie with any individual journalist, did not mention her name. The paper was presumably trying to take the high road by defending its reporter, but the omission seems peculiar. While her editors must share a large portion of the blame, the pieces ran under Miller's byline. It was Miller who clearly placed far too much credence in unreliable sources, and then credulously used dubious administration officials to confirm what she was told.
And of all Miller's unreliable sources, the most unreliable was Ahmed Chalabi -- whose little neocon-funded kingdom came crashing down last week when Iraqi forces smashed down his door after U.S. officials feared he was sending secrets to Iran.
Even before the latest suspicions about Chalabi, a reporter trying to convince an editor that the smooth-talking exile was a credible source would have a difficult case to make. First, he was a convicted criminal. While living in exile from Iraq, Chalabi was accused of embezzling millions from his Petra Bank in Amman, Jordan. Leaving the country in the trunk of a car reportedly driven by Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan, Chalabi was convicted in absentia and still faces 22 years in prison, if he ever returns. Evidence presented in the trial indicated Chalabi's future outside of Jordan was secured by $70 million he stole from his depositors. Chalabi maintains his innocence and has suggested his prosecution was political because he was involved in efforts to overthrow dictator Saddam Hussein in neighboring Iraq.
Even more damning, Chalabi was a player, an interested party with his own virulently pro-war agenda -- a fact that alone should have raised editorial suspicions about any claims he might make that would pave the way to war. He was also a highly controversial figure, the subject of bitter intra-administration battling. He was the darling of Richard Perle and his fellow neocon hawks, including such ardent advocates of the war as Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, but was viewed with deep suspicion by both the State Department and the CIA. State in particular had turned its back on Chalabi after his London-based Iraqi National Congress spent $5 million and an audit was unable to account for most of its expenditure.
One might have hoped that American journalists would have been at least as skeptical as the State Department before they burned their reputations on Chalabi's pyre of lies. But even the most seasoned of correspondents and the most august of publications, including the Times and the Washington Post, appear to have been as deftly used by Chalabi as were the CIA, the Department of Defense and the Bush administration.
Miller, however, is the only journalist whose reliance on Chalabi became a matter of public debate. An e-mail exchange between the Times' Baghdad bureau chief, John Burns, and Miller was published in the Washington Post. In the exchange, Miller said Chalabi "had provided most of the front page exclusives for our paper" and that she had been "reporting on him for over ten years." Miller later told the New York Review of Books that she had exaggerated her claims to Burns in order to make a point. However, in an earlier interview with me, Miller did not discount the value of Chalabi's insight.
"Of course, I talked with Chalabi," she said. "I wouldn't have been doing my job if I didn't. But he was just one of many sources I used while I was in Iraq."
Miller refused to say who some of those other sources were, claiming their identities were sacrosanct. Nonetheless, her reportage appeared to reflect Chalabi's intelligence gathering and his political cant. At his behest, she interviewed defectors from Hussein's regime, who claimed without substantiation that there was still a clandestine WMD program operating inside Iraq. U.S. investigators now believe that Chalabi sent these same Iraqi expatriates to at least eight Western spy agencies as part of a scheme to persuade them to overthrow Saddam. An unknown number of them appear to have stopped along the way to speak with Miller.
If the double-agent spy business had a trophy to hold up and show neophyte spooks what happens when their craft is perfectly executed, it would be a story by Judith Miller and Michael Gordon that appeared on the front page of the New York Times on a Sunday morning in September 2002. The front-page frightener was titled "Threats and Responses: The Iraqis; US Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts." Miller and Gordon wrote that an intercepted shipment of aluminum tubes, to be used as centrifuges, was evidence Hussein was building a uranium gas separator to develop nuclear material. The story quoted national security advisor Condoleezza Rice invoking the image of "mushroom clouds over America."
The story had an enormous impact, one amplified when Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney all did appearances on the Sunday morning talk shows, citing the first-rate journalism of the liberal New York Times. No single story did more to advance the political cause of the neoconservatives driving the Bush administration to invade Iraq.
But Miller's story was wrong.
It turned out that the aluminum tubes were covered with an anodized coating, which would have been machined off to make them usable in a centrifuge. But that change in the thickness of the tube wall would have rendered the tubes useless for a centrifuge, according to a number of nuclear scientists who spoke publicly after Miller's story. Aluminum, which has not been used in uranium gas separators since the 1950s, has been replaced by steel. The tubes, in fact, were almost certainly intended for use as rocket bodies. Hussein's multiple-launch rocket systems had rusted on their pads and he had ordered the tubes from Italy. "Medusa 81," the Italian rocket model name, was stamped on the sides of the tubes, and in a factory north of Baghdad, American intelligence officers later discovered boxes of rocket fins and motors awaiting the arrival of the tubes of terror.
The probable source for Miller's story, in addition to U.S. intelligence operatives, was Adnan Ihsan Saeed, an Iraqi defector Miller was introduced to by Chalabi. Miller had quoted him in a December 2001 report when Saeed had told her he had worked on nuclear operations in Iraq and that there were at least 20 banned-weapons facilities undergoing repairs. Of course, no such facilities have been found -- meaning Saeed was either lying or horribly uninformed.
"I had no reason to believe what I reported at the time was inaccurate," Miller told me. "I believed the intelligence information I had at the time. I sure didn't believe they were making it up. This was a learning process. You constantly have to ask the question, 'What do you know at the time you are writing it?' We tried really hard to get more information and we vetted information very, very carefully."
But Miller's entire journalistic approach was flawed. A few months after the aluminum tubes story, a former CIA analyst, who has observed Miller's professional products and relationships for years, explained to me how simple it was to manipulate the correspondent and her newspaper.
"The White House had a perfect deal with Miller," he said. "Chalabi is providing the Bush people with the information they need to support their political objectives with Iraq, and he is supplying the same material to Judy Miller. Chalabi tips her on something and then she goes to the White House, which has already heard the same thing from Chalabi, and she gets it corroborated by some insider she always describes as a 'senior administration official.' She also got the Pentagon to confirm things for her, which made sense, since they were working so closely with Chalabi. Too bad Judy didn't spend a little more time talking to those of us in the intelligence community who had information that contradicted almost everything Chalabi said."
Long after the fact, Miller conceded in her interview with me that she was wrong about the aluminum tubes, but not that she had made a mistake.
"We worked our asses off to get that story," she said. "No one leaked anything to us. I reported what I knew at the time. I wish I were omniscient. I wish I were God and had all the information I had needed. But I'm not God and I don't know. All I can rely on is what people tell me. That's all any investigative reporter can do. And if you find out that it's not true, you go back and write that. You just keep chipping away at an assertion until you find out what stands up."
In that description of her methodology, Miller described a type of journalism that publishes works in progress, and she raises, inadvertently, important questions about the craft. If highly placed sources in governments and intelligence operations give her information, is she obligated to sit on it until she can corroborate? How does a reporter independently confirm data that even the CIA is struggling to nail down? And what if both the source and the governmental official who "corroborates" it are less than trustworthy?
According to Todd Gitlin of Columbia University's school of journalism, a reporter in that position needs to ladle on an extra helping of doubt. "Independent corroboration is very hard to come by. Since she's been around, if you're aware that such echo-chamber effects are plausible, what do you do? I think you write with much greater skepticism, at times. I think you don't write at all unless you can make a stronger case when you are aware that people are playing you and spinning you for their purposes."
More than skepticism, though, Gitlin believes that news organizations have a responsibility to explain possible motivations for whoever is leaking the information to reporters. This can be done without identifying the source, he insists, and the Times, as well as a few other papers, is supposedly in the midst of adopting this protocol.
Miller's centrifuge story, although the most influential, was not the most egregious of her pieces. A story titled "Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert" was based on a source she never met or even interviewed. For that story, Miller watched a man in a baseball cap from a distance, who pointed at the desert floor, and used that as a basis for filing a piece that confirmed the U.S. had discovered "precursors to weapons of mass destruction." According to her sources in the Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha of the U.S. Army, this unnamed scientist from Hussein's WMD program had told them the "building blocks" of WMD were buried in that spot. Miller explained to me several months later that she had seen a letter from the man, written in Arabic and translated for her, that gave his claims credence.
"I have a photograph of him," she explained. "I know who he is. There's no way I would have gone forward with such a story without knowing who my source was, even if I got it from guys in my unit. You know, maybe it turns out that he was lying or ill-informed or cannot be independently verified."
The next day she was on national television, including PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," proclaiming that what had been discovered was "more than a smoking gun" and was a "silver bullet in the form of an Iraqi scientist." In an interview with Ray Suarez, Miller began using the plural "scientists" and implied there was more than one source. She gave the Bush administration credit for creating a "political atmosphere where these scientists can come forward." The story was trumpeted by conservative talk-show hosts like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh and, once it was zapped off to regional newspapers via the Times wire service, it acquired even more dramatic purchase. "Illegal Material Spotted," the Rocky Mountain News blared with a subhead that distorted even more: "Iraqi Scientist Leads U.S. Team to Illicit Weapons Location." "Outlawed Material Destroyed by the Iraqis Before the War" was the headline of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Unfortunately, none of it was true.
In its editors note, the Times admitted Miller's "informant also claimed that Iraq had sent unconventional weapons to Syria and had been cooperating with Al Qaeda -- two claims that were then, and remain, highly controversial. But the tone of the article suggested that this Iraqi 'scientist' -- who in a later article described himself as an official of military intelligence -- had provided the justification the Americans had been seeking for the invasion. The Times never followed up on the veracity of this source or the attempts to verify his claims."
Miller, who knew all of this already at the time I interviewed her, remained righteously indignant, unwilling to accept that she had goofed in the grandest of fashions.
"You know what," she offered angrily. "I was proved fucking right. That's what happened. People who disagreed with me were saying, 'There she goes again.' But I was proved fucking right."
Even though the Times has been, by its own admission, deluged with e-mails and letters criticizing Judith Miller and the paper's coverage of WMD, management has consistently defended her and refused to make statements about her work in impartial public forums. The only time there has been any hint that Miller's journalism was being deconstructed by editors was in a note posted on an obscure blog run by the paper's new ombudsman, Daniel Okrent. Times Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote that a "fair amount of the mail on this subject seemed to me to come from people who had not actually read the coverage, but had heard about it on the cyber-grapevine." Keller, who was not executive editor at the time Miller was filing her questionable dispatches, said, "I did not see a prima facie case for recanting or repudiating the stories. The brief against the coverage was that it was insufficiently skeptical, but that is an easier claim to make in hindsight than in context." Rather than scrutinize his correspondent's work, Keller chose to base his assessment of Miller's WMD work on her past performances. Describing her as "smart, well-sourced, industrious and fearless," Keller dismissed criticisms that her work was fatally flawed.
Until this week, the Times blamed everyone other than its own editors and reporters for its lapsed journalism. As late as May 21, in an editorial on the disgraced Chalabi titled "Friends Like This," the paper contradicted its own behavior and amplified its hypocrisies by an order of magnitude. "There's little to recommend Mr. Chalabi as a politician, or certainly as an informer. But he can't be made a scapegoat. The Bush administration should have known what it was doing when it gave enormous credence to a questionable character whose own self-interest was totally invested in getting the Americans to invade Iraq."
All true -- but the paper failed to point out that much of its reporting was dependent on Chalabi and Iraqi defectors provided through the exiled Iraqi National Congress, the same operation that was getting the Bush White House to gobble up its lies and distortions. Why weren't Times editors as intellectually disciplined on the subject of Chalabi when Miller and other reporters were trotting in with stories based on spurious allegations from the Iraqi National Congress and Chalabi's merry band of defectors?
The fact that Chalabi was able to feed disinformation to America's most widely recognized publication and have it go relatively unchallenged as the electorate was whipped into a get-Saddam frenzy ought to be keeping Times editors awake all night. Nobody wanted a war against Iraq more than Ahmed Chalabi -- and the biggest paper in the U.S. gave it to him almost as willingly as the White House did.
The failures of Miller and the Times' reporting on Iraq are far greater sins than those of the paper's disgraced Jayson Blair. While the newspaper's management cast Blair into outer darkness after his deceptions, Miller and other reporters who contributed to sending America into a war have been shielded from full scrutiny. The Times plays an unequaled role in the national discourse, and when it publishes a front-page piece about aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds, that story very quickly runs away from home to live on its own. The day after Miller's tubes narrative showed up, Andrea Mitchell of NBC News went on national TV to proclaim, "They were the kind of tubes that could only be used in a centrifuge to make nuclear fuel." Norah O'Donnell had already told the network's viewers the day before of the "alarming disclosure," and the New York Times wire service distributed Miller's report to dozens of papers across the landscape. Invariably, they gave it prominence. Sadly, the sons and daughters of America were sent marching off to war wearing the boots of a well-told and widely disseminated lie.
Of course, Judy Miller and the Times are not the only journalists to be taken by Ahmed Chalabi. Jim Hoagland, a columnist at the Washington Post, has also written of his long association with the exile. But no one was so fooled as Miller and her paper.
Russ Baker, who has written critically of Miller for the Nation, places profound blame at the feet of the reporter and her paper. "I am convinced there would not have been a war without Judy Miller," he said.
The introspection and analysis of America's rush to war with Iraq have turned into a race among the ruins. Few people doubt any longer that the agencies of the U.S. government did not properly perform. No institution, however, either public or private, has violated the trust of its vast constituency as profoundly as the New York Times.
James C. Moore
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Grant of £770 towards the restoration of the 'Coronation Gate' and the replacement of the 'Walking Map'.
The Coronation gate is a special kissing gate commissioned in 1953 in honour of the Queen's Coronation. This fine gate provides access to one of the paths within the village which leads to Centenary way. Though simple in style, it is beautifully hand-carved in oak with ornate hinges, octagonal posts and curved frame. It is well-loved and well-used but after over 60 years, it is badly in need of restoration.
Grant of £1,250 towards the Cotswolds Rivers Barn Owl Recovery Project. Helping reverse the decline in this iconic species through the provision of barn owl boxes along the River Windrush Area, an identified Barn Owl hotspot.
Grant of £1,352 towards the restoration of the iconic riverbank dry stone wall where the River Windrush flows through the centre of Bourton on the Water. This will help maintain the high quality environment and historic character of the village centre which is visited by over a million people each year.
Grant of £820 towards the "Cotswold Story: the Bagendon Landscape" project. This project seeks to help people gain a deeper understanding of the landscape they are walking through. A downloadable walking guide which will be complemented by on-line resources, including: interviews, with farmers, archaeologists and residents; further information on the history and land use of the area and links to other relevant organisations and resources.
Grant of £2,500 towards the reconstruction of a railway halt near Hayles Abbey.
This newly restored halt on the historic Gloucestershire Warwickshire steam railway line will not only be a historic feature in its own right it will also connect with the local rights of way network and is just 800 metres from Hailes Abbey.
It will provide for walkers, cyclists and visitors without cars to visit the National Trust owned historic ruins of Hailes Abbey as well as the church opposite, which predates the Abbey by half a century.
The Church is home to a number of early wall paintings which are of much interest to local visitors.
The halt will also enable a circular walk along the edge of the Cotswold escarpment from Winchcombe to Hailes Abbey, returning via the railway from Hayles Halt. Hayles is the original Great Western spelling for the halt which will be used in the reconstruction.
The grant funded coppicing in Grove Woods to let light into the woodland floor, increasing species diversity within the woodland. Vegetation was also cleared in a popular seating area, along footpaths, and also along the riverbank to improve walker's views of and access to the river.
The grant was also used to work with local residents to clear Hancock's Well. The waters of this well have a historic reputation for having healing properties for human eyes and dog's legs. Waste was removed from the site, including a large tractor tyre that was covering the well.
Vegetation was cut back to reveal a stone surround to the well which will now be a much more impressive site for visitors.
A community group in Winchcombe has been able to complete a missing section of hard surface footpath thanks to the Cotswold Visitor Giving Scheme. In 2011 the Winchcombe Walkers are Welcome group created the Winchcombe Way, a 42 mile walk around the north Cotswolds. However there was a 30 metre section of path missing where the route crossed Abbey Fields between the play park in Back Lane and the church in the centre of Winchcombe. Walkers faced a steep drop in gradient and a muddy section before rejoining the path at the entrance to St Peter's Churchyard.
Contributions from visitors to the Cotswolds went towards laying tonnes of stone and soil to re-profile the gradients and provide an all weather hard surface. Now walkers and parishioners have a more scenic route through to the town centre and to hidden and forgotten historic sites. The path crosses the former fishponds and gardens of the old Benedictine Abbey.
Robert Talbot, Secretary of the Winchcombe Walkers are Welcome group said "The offer of a grant from the Cotswold Visitor Giving Scheme was the catalyst to get this much needed improvement made to the footpath network within Winchcombe Town Centre and it will benefit locals and visitors alike for years to come."
Grant of £500 to the Cotswolds Rivers Trust towards river restoration work on the River Coln.
Based around the Winson area near Bibury, this project consists primarily of installing in-stream flow deflectors on featureless stretches of the river. These will use the force of the current to create deeper pockets in the riverbed providing refuges for fish.
The varying depths and current speeds will also enable river plants such as water-crowfoot to thrive providing cover for fish and habitat for invertebrates. It will particularly benefit brown trout which have been identified as an iconic Cotswold species.
The end result will be an enhanced ecosystem with greater numbers of birds such as Kingfishers as well as insects such as dragon and damselflies. A scheme like this at the top of a river is particularly valuable as the natural downstream drift of organisms benefits the whole river.
Grant of £500 to the World Land Trust towards woodland coppicing and site interpretation at Kites Hill Nature Reserve.
Kites Hill Nature Reserve near Painswick Beacon is owned by international conservation charity World Land Trust (WLT) and managed in partnership with the Gloucestershire branch of The Conservation Volunteers (TCV).
Woodland coppicing (a traditional method of harvesting wood) is used at the reserve to maintain a varied and healthy woodland structure. TCV work parties cut hazel to the base to allow light to reach the woodland floor and encourage new growth. This practice benefits a wide variety of plants, insects and birds.
The grant will also contribute towards the production of four interpretation boards to be placed along the Kites Hill nature trail. The boards will highlight key species living at the reserve such as the hairy dragonfly and pyramidal orchid, and explain the management practices that help conserve them and the Cotswolds landscape.


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Il campionato malaysiano di calcio o campionato malese di calcio, organizzato dalla Federazione calcistica della Malaysia, è articolato su cinque livelli: il massimo livello nazionale, la Liga Super, a cui prendono parte 14 squadre, la seconda divisione, detta Malaysia Reserve League, cui prendono parte 12 squadre, dopo la soppressione della Liga Premier, la terza serie, detta Liga M3, la quarta serie, detta Liga M4, e la Liga M5.

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Topic Data security
SubTopic Encryption technology
Data security and cloud computing
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Encryption technology
MD5 security: Time to migrate to SHA-1 hash algorithm?
Many organizations have been replacing the MD5 hash algorithm with the SHA-1 hash function, but can the MD5 hash algorithm still be used securely?
MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a cryptographic one-way hash function. Hash functions output a short, fixed-length value called a hash -- an MD5 hash is typically expressed as a 32-digit hexadecimal number -- based on a piece of data such as a file or message. Hash functions have many uses in cryptography because any change to the original input, accidental or otherwise, will change the resulting hash value. They're used in many forms of authentication, such as digital signatures and message authentication codes, as well as for verifying file integrity, because even the slightest change to the data will change its hash value. For example, many software publishers provide the MD5 hash value of their down-loadable software so that users can verify that the file is authentic and has not been tam-pered with.
However, because hash algorithms create a short, fixed-length hash value to represent data of any size, it means that there are far more possible input values than there are unique hash values. This means there have to be multiple input values that will produce the same hash value. This is known as a collision and for a hash function to be deemed cryptographi-cally secure and collision resistant, it has to be hard to find two inputs that hash to the same output. In March 2005, two researchers created two X.509 digital certificates with different public keys but with the same MD5 hash; since then various methods have been published that can find an MD5 collision in under a minute. This is why MD5 is considered cryp-tographically broken and is being replaced by the SHA-2 family of hash functions.
MD5 security is certainly not suitable for security-based applications and services like SSL or digital signatures that rely on collision resistance. For a legacy application that stores the MD5 hash value of its users' passwords, it is possible to mitigate against MD5's weaknesses by adding a salt (a brief set of random characters) to the passwords before hashing them. This makes a dictionary attack against the hashed passwords more or less impractical and although MD5 can no longer guarantee that a file hasn't been tampered with, it can play an error-checking role when downloading larger files and validate that the file isn't corrupted or incomplete.
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Arts & Culture · Straight talk
Gediminas Zujus
Record producer, composer, lecturer
Photo credits: Rytis Šeškaitis
I don't feel fulfilled unless I feel like my work is having a positive effect on the people around me.
My childhood was quite different than those of my peers. We would run around chasing a ball, riding bicycles and climbing trees together, but once my mother rang a bell, I had to run to take piano lessons. Suddenly, the smells and sounds of hot pavement, bicycle tires, dust and childish laughter changed to silence, serenity, floor wax and the musty, naphthalene scent of the piano.
I discovered that concentration and these first sounds blended like thunder and had the power to transform me – to transport me to a different plane, one of rhythm and sound. I communed with that world through the keys of the piano. At first, it was like a game. During our breaks, my mother would open a closet distinguished by its unforgettable smell of vintage vinyl records. A multitude of worlds lived within: Peer Gynt, Peter and the Wolf, The Carnival of the Animals, etc. It seemed that the gramophone stylus would narrow its eyes and smile at me, fizzing "Tshh…" before the stylus dipped into the record's world, and then, from the depths of the brown box, the story would emerge.
Everything became more serious when I was admitted to a school of the arts; here the familiar smells of floor wax and naphthalene were supplemented by parquet and marble, and the grand pianos growled in lower tones than the lions at the Kaunas Zoo. There were also violins and cellos, but they squeaked loudly when the fiddlers drew the bows across the strings… Concerts, exams, gamuts, études, other concerts, a contest in the fourth grade, another in the sixth grade… I had lost a fingertip, and it was difficult to adapt at first, so there were times when I played 14 hours per day. I was exhausted. Finally, I became a laureate, but it was only because I practiced so much.
My passion for playing died down a bit because I became restless; I wanted to explore uncharted territories, meet new people, and try unfamiliar things. A storm arose, one that continues to this day, albeit in a different form. The wayward journeys, travel by freight train, hitchhiking and stunt flying of my youth transformed into worldwide concert tours, while my amateur experiments with radio and sound engineering evolved into the first private professional recording studio in Lithuania.
My family is patriotic to the core. Throughout my childhood, my home was the site of many underground meetings during which we hosted historians, photographers, and authors. In hindsight, I realize that none of this was allowed under the Soviet regime, and that the repercussions had we been caught would have been severe for all parties involved. But there on my childhood wall hung the Lithuanian coat of arms I made with my own two hands, my very own Vytis. And my mother's mother, my bobutė, worked for the Red Cross for many years, trying to rescue Lithuanian, Polish, and Jewish families from exile. Alas, she too was eventually exiled to Siberia. You know, for a long time I didn't even know that my mother's sister, Aldona Brazdžionienė, was famed poet Bernardas Brazdžionis' wife. You could say that patriotism simply runs through my veins.
There were so many secrets during those grim times. To this day, I find it hard to believe that as my classmates and I were playing our instruments in the auditoria of the music conservatoire, we sitting less than 50 meters away from the cellars of the KGB headquarters, where the Soviet secret service tortured and shot our nation's most prominent, learned, loyal people.
My mother always wanted to protect me; she didn't even tell me our entire family history until I was an adult. That was just one way she tried to protect me from the KGB, which was continuously following her, for several times she had been reprimanded by the administrators for questionable behavior. Because she taught musical literature at the art school, my mother not only cardinally influenced our musical taste but also gave us space to develop our patriotism and fostered our desire for freedom. In her class, we secretly listened to music forbidden by the Soviets, and at her bidding we began to attend jazz concerts. The Ganelin Trio was one of my favorites – it was like a spiritual awakening.
My motivation is also my weakness: when I fantasize, I set complex and hardly achievable goals. Perhaps this trait was inherited from my parents? Nevertheless, reaching for these dreams is an exhausting and sometimes disruptive exercise. It provides neither financial stability nor moral fortitude, and sometimes I even question my commitment. However, that is when I remember that I must not look to the past or the future, but instead must be mindful and live in this moment, this present, and must do the best work possible.
Music was always my first choice. Sure, I rarely play grand piano, but I allocate more time to composing music, sound design, and producing. These fields entice me because they determine what the end product will sound like and how the listener will interpret it. Music is meant to be felt.
Yes, I hear the notes and I have perfect pitch.
Unfortunately, sometimes hard-working and reasonable people don't always feel happy and fulfilled. Maybe their lives lack risk or adventure in its best sense. Personally, I have too much risk and adventure inside of me; perhaps this is why I feel so scattered and unfulfilled. With so many possibilities and oddities in the world, how on earth can it be possible to sit and concentrate on just one thing? I find this so very, very hard to do.
I will always remember 1985, my friends and I opened Lithuania's first private professional recording studio, which was a huge gamble during the Soviet era. We started in a windowless cellar four meters deep. My father, through his work, had provided the space for us, so we all risked our necks together. Now I can look back on those times with a smile, for those were the days I made my dreams come true.
I like to take risks. Don't ask me why. It's just the way I am.
Recognition is a funny thing. It can be nice, but it has absolutely nothing to do with art. You simply have to live the life for which you feel a calling.
The older you get, the more you realize you don't know.
Young people need to understand that reality shows are just illusions. It is very painful to see young people accept this game as truth and then get disappointed or, on the contrary, over-inflate their egos. It's all a facade; there is no truth here. Cash is still king and you, young person, usually won't end up on top.
My children taught me about diplomacy, especially my 10 year-old son. He mastered this art during his not-too-long, yet not-too-easy, chock-full of reality lifetime.
When traveling to foreign countries, I make a point of hanging out with locals as much as possible. I want to learn about the morals and values of their country through their own eyes. These change from place to place – from the favelas of Brazil to the highest skyscrapers of a metropolis, and over to the necropolis of Cairo's City of the Dead.
Contrasts. They allow me to feel the infinite diversity of the material and spiritual worlds. Feeling the friction between these spaces brings me joy.
I truly respect artists like Veronika Povilionienė and Petras Vyšniauskas. They don't publicize themselves, but instead just live among us. Perhaps we don't recognize the greatness of the people around us as much as we should.
I'm inspired by complex dreams, ones that require perseverance and improvisation to be finally realized. And that improvisation itself is a type of composition that is made "here and now." In that sense, life is a type of composition as well, and I couldn't imagine living without this spirit of creation.
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By Steven B. Siepser, MD, FACS
Mastering Iris Defect Suturing Techniques
Solutions for anatomical challenges that too many surgeons aren't willing to meet during cataract surgery.
Why master iris defect suturing for cataract surgery? Why even try? I know at least some of my colleagues will ask themselves these questions when starting to read this article. By the time even the most dubious among us finish it, however, I hope more will give it at least some consideration.
Although not indicated for every iris defect, suturing significant defects has evolved into an increasingly viable way to spare patients debilitating visual disruptions—before or after cataract surgery—as well as troubling life-long cosmetic abnormalities.
Figure 1. The sliding knot repair is created outside of eye during the Siepser slide-knot iris repair. (All photos: Steven B. Siepser, MD, FACS)
Exactly what is a significant iris defect? This depends on what patients report to us. The Challenging and Complex Sub-Committee of the Cataract Committee of
ASCRS members now emphasizes that we shouldn't dismiss any patient's concerns solely based on the size of a defect.1 Remember that the potential effects of these defects on visual function are widespread and can include glare, light scatter, photophobia, monocular diplopia and reduced visual acuity and contrast sensitivity. Symptoms can range from evoked patient observations to life-altering distractions and disabilities.
These repairs are especially helpful in cataract surgery—most especially premium cataract surgery—to help us achieve the refractive outcomes that today's patients expect. I've had the pleasure of introducing new suturing techniques and then seeing other surgeons refine these techniques through the years. (Imitation, I've learned, can be the highest form of flattery.)
Best of all, suturing an iris defect is often something you can do yourself. In this review, I'll discuss congenital and traumatic iris defects, as well as iatrogenic defects caused by our surgical maneuvers. I'll also go over indications for suturing, suggest suturing techniques and recommend when to rule out suturing. Risks and contraindications for intraoperative repair of iris defects and pupillary reconstruction will also be covered.
Good Reasons for Saying No?
Through the years, I've heard colleagues offer many reasons why iris defects are best left alone. Below are a few:
Iris defects don't significantly affect vision.
Repairing an iris defect isn't the number one priority during cataract surgery.
Repairing or reconstructing an iris doesn't make much of a difference to the patient.
Going to this trouble doesn't really work or help—so why do it?
We've always done surgery without fixing iris defects. Why change now?
The iris tears like wet tissue paper.
The reality is that iris defects can cause a broad spectrum of problems for our patients. The defects may be congenital, traumatic, intraoperative or idiopathic. (See Risks to the Iris During Cataract Surgery below.) Acquired conditions, such as traumatic mydriasis and iridodialysis, may also play a role.
Suturing to Reconstruct an Iris
When reconstructing an iris, we typically seek to achieve one of three objectives:
correcting functional impairment;
securing the integrity of the anterior segment; or
addressing patients' cosmetic concerns.
We need to customize treatment to address the problems at hand. Although I'll focus primarily on suturing repairs, other needed interventions may be necessary to respond to large iris defects in cataract surgery patients, such as corneal tattooing and placement of an artificial iris.
In small-pupil cases, it may be helpful for you to counsel patients and their families regarding the possibility of prolonged surgical time. If the reconstruction involves the potential use of a pupil expansion device, for example, it will pose a greater risk of iris damage, possibly giving rise to functional or cosmetic problems after surgery. If you've prepared the family and your OR staff for a potentially complicated procedure, you won't have to contend with arbitrary time pressures challenging your desire to do what's best. Avoid being led down an unproductive primrose path. It's far easier to tell a family that you spent some extra time getting things just perfect than to explain why another intervention is needed.
Each of us is at risk for panicking when things go south. At such a moment, take several deep breaths and count to 10. A case may seem to spiral into an emergency, putting you at risk for a phenomenon called time compression, which will interfere with your judgment. A short moment of meditation will give you the time to come up with an alternative plan.
Like many of us, I often struggle to complete my share of challenging iris repairs without losing concentration and focus. Earlier in my career, when operating on aphakic patients who required thick, high-plus glasses or contact lenses, I was always able to improve their vision, but unable to fix terrible sector iridectomies. I often found no safe and effective way to repair these defects.
The McCannel technique, introduced in 1976, provided us with an open-chamber direct method of iris suturing. To perform the technique, we needed to bring the defect to the corneal opening to pass a 10-0 nylon suture into the edge of the defect. In 1994, I was able to advance this technique by using a closed chamber "sliding knot" approach I had borrowed from a fly-tying technique used in fly fishing.
How to Use the Sliding Knot
My approach relies on the use of the two paracenteses, which keep the anterior chamber formed with the aid of viscoelastic. Here's how it works: Initiate your proximal paracentesis with a 15-degree blade, creating a 1.2-mm incision that's 0.5 mm anterior to the limbus. Make a 6 o'clock incision and lubricate the cornea. You can line up your approach to the incisions by positioning a Sinskey hook over the defect.
Figure 2. The sliding knot is internalized to close a portion of the iris defect.
Figure 3. By continuing to create sliding knots and internalizing them, the surgeon is progressively able to completely close a significant iris defect.
As you know, when an iris is damaged or sections of the iris are cut, it retracts, much like a long garden worm that shrinks down to almost nothing when cut. Polypropylene suture with a CIF-4 needle, often present in the OR, can be used for these situations. Once the paracenteses are in place, with an additional incision 90 degrees away, you can begin the procedure, usually using grasping, 25-gauge coaxial microforceps to tease and unfurl the retracted iris. (You'll be impressed by the amount of iris that can be stretched to fill fairly large defects.)
Next, identify the end of the posterior pigment of the iris, locate the collarette for alignment, then pull and stretch the collarette to stabilize it. Once you've confirmed the location of the pigment margins, you can use a Luer-locked syringe and 27-gauge cannula to express viscoelastic and drive the needle point into the cannula. Pierce both sides of the iris with this technique. Next, dock the tip of the needle in the cannula and back it out of the distal paracentesis.
With the suture ends now externalized through each side of the paracentesis, insert a Bonn's hook or Condon snare. After introducing the hook or snare, pass over the defect to grasp the suture that's between the incision and the far side of the iris defect. Draw the grasped suture toward the proximal incision, thus making it into a loop, and then draw the loop out of the proximal incision. You can externalize this distal loop on the proximal side while the suture remains threaded through both sides of the iris defect. Then you can tie various sliding knots outside of the eye that can be slid into the eye and into position over the iris defect. Before I explain how this is done, consider what constitutes a sliding knot.
A sliding knot can be formed by using one, two, three or four throws, depending on the desired knot configuration. Keep in mind that it's not the final configuration of the knot but the process of sliding it into position that makes this knot unique and effective. After making one of these sliding knots outside of the eye, grasp and pull on the suture end that's extending from the knot through the eye and out the distal side of the eye, while maintaining your grasp on the suture end extending from the proximal side. By balancing these competing, pulling forces, you'll be able to navigate the knot into the eye and park it atop the defect. Pulling on the suture ends from each side of the eye will enable you to tighten the knot, closing the defect while maintaining a closed chamber, without having to enter the eye. This doesn't deform the iris, and it allows for a tight anatomic closure.
As you know, some irises have multiple defects. The process I've just described can be repeated as many times as needed to close every defect, making repairs possible in all medians during the same procedure.
Through the years, a number of modified suturing techniques have been introduced, many addressing the shortcomings of the original techniques, such as a steep learning curve or sutures protruding into the anterior chamber. Some modified suturing techniques have been used to respond to complex ocular pathology. Several of the innovations are described below. (The numbers associated with them represent the number of wraps used for each throw, meaning, for example, that a 2-1-1 square knot involves two wraps on the first throw and one wrap on the second and third throws.)
• Osher, Cionni, Snyder Siepser variant. Throws are created by threading a suture end through the loop. The 2-1-1 square-knot configuration distinguishes this technique from the 2-1 throws of my original technique.
• Condon Siepser variant. Throws are created by wrapping the side of the suture loop attached to the iris around forceps before grasping the other suture end. This also features 2-1-1 square-knot-configured throws.
• Ahmed Siepser variant. Throws are created by wrapping the side of a suture loop that's not attached to the iris around the forceps before grasping the other suture end. This variant features 3-1-1 square-knot-configured throws.
• Narang, Argarwal Siepser variant. A single throw of four wraps is completed as part of my original maneuver.
• Ogawa Ahmed variant. This technique relies on an instrument inside the eye to act as a pulley to hold the knot in place until it's taut. The Ahmed component relies on coaxial forceps inside the eye to stabilize and tighten the knot.
Additional Suturing Techniques
Figure 4. In this illustration, the sliding knot is created outside the eye and then drawn over the defect.
Iris cerclage is another proven suturing technique, best used to help us control persistent mydriasis caused by diffuse iris sphincter dysfunction.2,3 We can use this approach to rescue a pupil from permanent disfigurement, achieving excellent control of the patient's final pupil size. The technique is an ideal way to treat mydriasis following trauma, providing the patient with good functional and cosmetic results.
You begin performing iris cerclage by making 1-mm stab incisions at 9, 5, and 1 o'clock over the limbus or the clear cornea. Next, fill the anterior chamber with viscoelastic and insert forceps through the 1 o'clock port while you're inserting a needle that conveys a 10-0 polypropylene suture through the 9 o'clock incision. Use your forceps to grasp and stabilize the iris. Make three to four bites peripheral to the pupillary edge before removing the forceps from the anterior chamber.
You'll then need to use a blunt instrument to guide the needle out of the incisions or to dock the needle in a cannula to back it out. This cycle should be repeated three or more times. The result of the repeated efforts will be continuous bites encircling the pupillary margin, with both suture ends exiting the 9 o'clock port. The suture ends can then be pulled to create the appropriate pupil size and tied externally or by using a slipknot approach.
The cerclage—or purse string technique, as it's also known—provides your patient with a substantial aesthetic advantage when you've repaired a mydriatic pupil. The bottom line: Unlike the other methods I've discussed, this suture technique lets you create a round pupillary aperture.
Risks to the Iris During Cataract Surgery
Think of the risks to the iris that can arise during cataract surgery. Small pupils, for example, predispose patients to iatrogenic damage because the pupils can be easily damaged by phaco, aspiration ports and surgical instruments.
Meanwhile, the iris of a pupil of any size can be inadvertently aspirated by the phaco or irrigation/aspiration tip. Repeated mechanical contact with the iris by a chopper or even large, dense nuclear fragments can lead to pigment loss, chaffing of the iris constriction and pupillary distortion, a situation found more often in patients with uveitis and glaucoma. Other risks include inadequate pupillary dilation, associated with insufficient response to mydriatics, senile miosis and surgeons hurrying to do surgery before full dilation takes hold.
Fibrosed pupillary margins, pseudoexfoliation, iris synechiae and medication-related floppy iris syndrome may also be implicated during surgery. In addition, of course, we know that we should always guard against thermal damage, excessive tissue manipulation and prolapse. Stretching or distorting pupillary sphincter muscles can injure the midperipheral sphincter or iris root and can be associated with iridodialysis.
Preventive measures include administration of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and mannitol to lower pressure in the eye. Of course, a careful history is always important to assess patients for past usage of systemic alpha-adrenergic receptor antagonists and other miosis-causing medications. Iris rings and pupil expanders should be used judiciously; try to rely more on OVDs to achieve viscomydriasis.
Concentrations of eyedrops, such as those containing 10% phenylephrine, may be indicated, if safe for the patient. Some surgeons recommend using atropine preoperatively in patients with IFIS.8
Over time, surgeons have innovated with other novel approaches to surgically manage the effects that complex ocular pathologies have on the iris. One is the use of the modified sewing machine technique for iridodialysis repair—so named because it replicates the action of a sewing machine by using a pre-threaded 26G/30G needle with a prolene suture to achieve a minimally invasive repair.
Another suturing technique for iris repair is done with the mattress suture.5 The mattress suture—which is also included in the technique used to improve cosmetic outcomes in the repair of sectoral iris defects—has been used to help surgeons succeed with iridodialysis repair. Additionally, this bowstring suturing technique has been employed to treat traumatic aphakia that involves a large iris defect. The technique combines tangential and radial suturing loops that are used to center and reconstruct much of the pupil. The remainder of the procedure involves an iris-claw implant and the implantation of custom-made sectoral iris prostheses.
For Large Defects
Figure 5. The sliding knot has been internalized, placed over the iris defect and tightened by adjusting the tension from outside each paracentesis.
In some patients, such as those with aniridia or large sectoral defects, iris suturing isn't feasible. Surgical alternatives to suturing in iris reconstruction in these cases include the implantation of iris prosthetic devices and corneal tattooing. Each of these alternatives has benefits and drawbacks. (I'm leaving out cautery, used by some surgeons, because more study of cautery is needed.)
Let's first review the use of prosthetics. Some prosthetic devices are designed for capsular bag placement. Others are intended for scleral fixation or passive sulcus fixation. These devices can be essential in the treatment of aniridia and can also be used for albinism and large pupillary defects. Currently, three general types of prosthetic irises are available:
an iris-lens diaphragm;
a device that's based on an endocapsular capsular tension ring; and
a customized artificial iris.6
An iris-lens diaphragm can correct both aniridia and aphakia. However, it requires large incisions for implantation and can be difficult to position. You can insert an endocapsular CTR-based device through much smaller incisions. However, some models are brittle and prone to fracture, requiring an intact capsular bag.
A customized artificial iris is a personalized silicone implant that resembles the fellow eye.7 The implant is foldable, allowing insertion through a small incision, but it has no central optic, requiring an accompanying IOL implant, if one is indicated. Insertion options for the artificial iris include implantation in the sulcus with transscleral suture fixation or with capsular support and with endocapsular implantation. Only one prosthetic iris, CustomFlex Artificial Iris (HumanOptics), has been approved by the U.S. FDA.
Why Do Nothing?
As you can see, iris suturing and alternative approaches have greatly expanded our repertoire of interventions that we can use to help patients with a variety of iris defects and related issues. The time to leave well enough alone has passed. I hope more of us explore these options to optimize patients' experiences and improve their vision in the years ahead.
Dr. Siepser, an anterior segment surgeon and the medical director of Siepser Eye Care in Wayne, Pennsylvania, is the inventor of the sliding knot approach to iris defect repair and has been involved in the development of other surgical techniques through the years. He is the owner of Siepser Technologies, LLC, focused on development of ophthalmic-related products, and SightAssure, offering patients insurance against inadequate surgical outcomes. He is also a consultant for instrument-maker Gulden Ophthalmics (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania) and IOL-maker Rayner Surgical (New York, New York).
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2. Behndig A., Small incision single-suture-loop pupilloplasty for postoperative atonic pupil. J Cataract Refract Surg 1998: 24:11: 1429-1431.
3. Ogawa GS. The iris cerclage suture for permanent mydriasis: A running suture technique. Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina 1998;29:12:1001-1009.
4. Venkata K, Kumar R. Modified sewing machine technique for iridodialysis repair, intraocular lens relocation, iris coloboma repair, Cionni ring fixation, and scleral-fixated intraocular lens. Indian J Ophthalmol 2018;66:88:1169-1176.
5. Tsao SW, Holz HA. Iris mattress suture: A technique for sectoral iris defect repair. British Journal of Ophthalmology 2015;99:3:305-307.
6. Srinivasan S, Ting DS, Snyder ME, et al. Prosthetic iris devices. Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology/Journal Canadien d'Ophtalmologie 2014;49:1:6-17.
7. Voelker R. First Artificial Iris Ok'd. JAMA 2018;320:1:23.
8. Bendel RE, Phillips MB. Preoperative use of atropine to prevent intraoperative floppy-iris syndrome in patients taking tamsulosin. J Cataract Refract Surg 2006;32:10:1603-5.
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The girls' wrestling team started its season in the second week of November and currently has a record of [1-0]. On Thursday, Nov. 29, the team has a match against Euless Trinity and Wakeland High School. The team has three state qualifiers this year, senior captains Cassie Moseley and Lydiana Hill and junior Katelyn Allen, who are expected to show leadership to their teammates and perform at the state tournament this year with the hopes of making it to the second round.
With freshmen joining this year, the team as a whole is forced to work harder so the girls can perform well at district.
The captains will have to take an even bigger step in their leadership this season because Stratton will be out on maternity leave so the girls will have practice without their main coach there to tell them what to do.
This year, they are focusing on the fundamentals of wrestling such as maintaining a strong stance and solid base when they go down. They aren't focusing on higher level techniques their advanced athletes are practicing until the entire team learns the basics. According to Hill, the girls need to work on intensifying their aggression while practicing in order to become stronger wrestlers.
When the girls understand how to work as a team, they will be able to better themselves and achieve higher expectations put on them by their peers.
The team was able to learn about each other at the beginning of the year. The diverse group of girls was able to develop relationships and create closer bonds despite differences.
The teammates who have been wrestling throughout their high school career, such as Moseley, are able to make the freshmen feel welcomed.


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Ceres Agriculture in administration as Brudle Park sells
Liz Wells, 29/03/2019
CERES Agricultural Company has gone into administration this week as its sale to Macquarie's Viridis Ag of the 9300-hectare Brudle Park cropping aggregation north of Moree for around $50 million is finalised.
Ceres Agricultural Co's other asset in northern New South Wales is Gunyerwarildi, which includes a feedlot and large-scale cropping operation at Warialda, east of Moree.
"Brudle Park sold walk-in walk-out, and it settles next week. Contracts have been exchanged unconditionally," CBRE agent Richard Royle said.
CBRE also has the Gunyerwarildi listing, and Mr Royle said the property was the subject of strong interest from more than one party.
According to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Ceres Agricultural Company's directors are Sydney resident Garrick Hawkins and Singapore residents John Sheehy and Michael Sweeney.
Ceres is fully owned by Pegala Pty Ltd, and both companies share a registered address on O'Connell Road at Oberon on the central tablelands of NSW southeast of Bathurst, also home to the Hawkins family's showcase Mayfield Gardens.
Sources have said Mr Hawkins intended to retain involvement with the Ceres' Oberon properties, Mayfield and Ballyroe.
Administrators Philip Campbell-Wilson and Said Jahani from Grant Thornton Australia's Sydney office were appointed yesterday by the directors of Ceres Agricultural Company, and they have said yesterday's development does not extend to any related entities.
In a statement, the administrators said Ceres Agricultural Company operated one of Australia's largest integrated cattle-finishing and cropping enterprises with the capacity to finish up to 38,000 head of cattle at its peak, and potential for further expansion.
It said the company operated from leased properties at Oberon and Warialda.
"While it is too early to confirm the factors which contributed to the need for the company to appoint administrators, it is understood that the company had been experiencing working capital/cash flow issues in recent months," Mr Campbell-Wilson said.
"The drought, which has no doubt had an impact on many farmers, has had an effect on the company."
Mr Royle echoed those sentiments.
"The combination of drought and expensive cattle and expensive grain has made it very difficult," he said.
"The drought's been going harder and longer and wider than we thought, and it's made it very tough for people feeding cattle when they're aren't crops around."
Mr Campbell-Wilson said animal welfare was a key priority during the administration process.
"We are finalising arrangements in regards to the remaining 10,000 head of cattle on site which will enable the orderly finishing process for those cattle."
Mr Campbell-Wilson said the company being in administration would result in further redundancies, following a number of employees having been made redundant in recent months as the business has scaled back.
The administrator said a small number of employees may be engaged as part of the finishing process, and a number of employees will be rehired by related entities.
"We are mindful that the closure of the company will have an impact not only on employees but on the local communities and businesses that were supported by the company.
"Our aim is to make the administration process as smooth as possible for employees and stakeholders, and to provide support and certainty around next steps.
The first meeting of creditors will be held on 9 April.
The administrators will then conduct further investigations into the affairs of the company and release a report to creditors addressing their findings as to causes of the failure of the company and provide a recommendation as to its future, which may include entering a Deed of Company Arrangement should one be proposed. A second meeting of creditors will then be held.
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OneGoal – Houston Hosts Third Annual Golf for Grads
OneGoal Hosts Third Annual Golf for Grads
Local education nonprofit raises nearly $240,000 to ensure more students earn college degrees
HOUSTON (March 14, 2018) — OneGoal hosted its Third Annual Golf for Grads fundraiser on Thursday, March 8, at Topgolf Katy. The signature event is a unique networking opportunity and tee-off competition that serves to build awareness about the college degree divide in Houston, while also celebrating the success of OneGoal college-bound students, known as Fellows. With support from corporate and community champions, nearly $240,000 was raised to benefit students in the three-year program.
"At OneGoal, we understand that a college degree, while certainly not a guarantee, is one of the strongest indicators of opportunity and access for adults in our country. This makes our current reality all the more troubling – just 22 percent of students from the lowest economic quartile graduate from college, compared with 67 percent of their more affluent peers," said Patricia McKee, interim executive director for OneGoal – Houston. "But the narrative is changing. This year, Fellows from our very first OneGoal-Houston cohort will graduate from college. We couldn't be prouder of them or more confident about the opportunities they will pursue and the impact they will have for themselves, for their families, and for the broader Houston community."
Notable attendees at Golf for Grads included OneGoal board members Thomas B. Nusz, Chief Executive Officer and President of Oasis Petroleum; Michael Lou, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Oasis Petroleum; Jay Chernosky, Managing Director, Energy + Power Investment Banking Group, Wells Fargo Securities; and Wynne Snoots, Partner, EnCap Investments LP. Professional golfers Tommy Wolfenberger, Art Scarborough and Tommy Rush also attended.
During the event, Mays Al-Maliki, a OneGoal Fellow and freshman at University of Houston-Downtown, shared her journey to college.
"Over the past three years, my involvement in OneGoal has taught me many lessons, which continue to be true day by day," said Al-Maliki. "One of them is to truly realize the importance of being a real part of the community in which we exist. Our Program Director, Mrs. Fain, taught us to unite with one another and have healthy interactions, even on hard days or when we felt down. She taught us about how the strength in a community could be leveraged to empower yourself and others around you."
OneGoal's three-year model includes a credit-bearing class during students' junior and senior years of high school. Once the Fellows enter college, teachers known as Program Directors help students bridge the transition from high school to college by providing one-on-one intensive, remote coaching through the first day of the students' sophomore year of college.
OneGoal has been serving the Houston community since 2012 and currently partners with 33 high schools throughout Aldine, Spring Branch, and Houston Independent School Districts, and five YES Prep Campuses. OneGoal has grown from serving 150 students to more than 2,100 in the 2017-2018 school year. As students in the program graduate from high school and move forward with their post-secondary plans, OneGoal staff continues to provide support through partnerships with a number of postsecondary institutions across the state of Texas, providing resources and support known to directly impact college completion rates, statewide.
OneGoal makes college graduation a reality for all students. We collaborate closely with public schools in low-income communities, providing teachers with a robust curriculum, technology, training and coaching to implement our three-year model with a group of 25 students (called Fellows) per cohort. Teachers (called Program Directors) support the same group of Fellows beginning in their junior year of high school and bridge the gap through their first year of college. In communities where students typically have a 22% chance of graduating from college, 82% of OneGoal Fellows are enrolling in college and 78% are persisting in college or have graduated. OneGoal works in Chicago, Houston, Massachusetts, Metro Atlanta, New York and recently expanded to the Bay Area.


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O griffon de caça checo () é uma raça usada como caçadora multifuncional na Boêmia desde a década de 1800. Reconstruída após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, através da utilização de bracos alemães de pêlo duro e curto, o resultado foi um cão de temperamento dócil e fácil de adestrar, que por vezes necessita de um controle mais experiente. Raro fora de seu país de origem e bom animal de companhia, tem como peculiaridade física o fato dos machos terem quase o dobro do tamanho das fêmeas.

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Current: Daily Podcast to Highlight Key Happenings at NAB2006
Daily Podcast to Highlight Key Happenings at NAB2006
--NAB2006 Podcast Downloads To Be Available via iTunes--
WASHINGTON, DC - NAB announced today that daily podcasts will be offered from Sunday, April 23 until Wednesday, April 26 during NAB2006 in Las Vegas. The 5-minute video segments will be produced in conjunction with NAB2006 partner Future Media Concepts and will feature a brief recap of each day's events. Over 100,000 attendees registered for NAB2006 will receive a "sneak preview" e-mail linking to the debut podcast for NAB2006 on Sunday, April 23.
The video programs will be available through a free subscription to Future Media Concept's podcast RSS feed that is featured on iTunes, through a clickable link that will be sent via a daily e-mail or on the NAB2006 Web site.
"Emerging distribution vehicles such as podcasts offer exciting possibilities to broadcasters and audiences all over the world," said NAB President and CEO David K. Rehr. "We are looking forward to highlighting the multitude of groundbreaking events happening at this year's show to viewers around the globe."
The podcasts will include footage from featured events at the show including highlights of NAB2006 keynotes, exclusive backstage interviews with presenters and award winners, coverage from the exhibits floor and interviews with exhibitors and attendees.