It's never easy even when they are 20yrs old! Yup, what a life he had. Buddy started out as an outside cat for about 17 years then I finally was able to get him to trust me to come inside. Too many health ailments were progressing along and the past few days I saw such a decline. I know all you pet owners can relate.
I'm so sorry Sue. It's been right at 2 years since I was in your place with my cat. RIP Buddy.
I'm so sorry, my thoughts are with you.
I'm very sorry to hear this Sue. Pets do become part of your family. RIP Buddy.
Sorry to hear about Buddy Sue 20 years!!! Hugs to you from Florida!
Sue, we're blessed to have them around for as long as we do. Having been through the same thing, we know the pain you're feeling. Just smile at the memories and when your time comes, know you will be surrounded by all your friends from days gone by.
A good and long life he had I'm positive.
So sorry, Sue. I've been there with dogs and it's so very difficult. Sending you sunshine Hang in there!
OH Sue!! I am SO sorry. Being one who has, has always had, and who LOVES cats, I feel for you and the pain you must be feeling. Am sending you warm and supportive hugs! I am so glad Buddy had such a long and good life with you, though. He was a very lucky kitty!
RIP Buddy.........hope the catnip up there is the BEST!
Had to do the same last year with one of our 2 cats.
Pets truly are a part of the family. RIP Buddy.
Wow. Long life for a cat.
Sorry to hear about your cat Sue..
Sorry to hear the news Sue.
Sorry to hear Sue, hard to find words when pets you are close to pass, I'm sure he knew he was loved.
So sorry to hear this Sue. I just went through this three months ago. My mother who was closest to Newt is still mourning and is starting to bug me about getting a kitten. 20 years old is quite a long life for a feline as was 18 1/2 years for our Newt. I'm sure you gave Buddy a wonderful life. Hopefully he is up in Heaven frollicking around with Newt as youthful cats again.
Very sorry to read this, Sue.
Oh Sue! So sorry to hear about Buddy. Sending prayers for comfort your way and hoping Buddy is happily playing with some catnip right now. Sounds like he lived a good long life - you were blessed to have his companionship for a so many years. Take care.
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"We might die of hunger before being killed by the virus": How COVID-19 Compounds the Challenges of Pakistan's Transgender Community
Syed Shoaib Hasan Rizvi / June 9, 2020 /	235
While the current lockdown in Pakistan has had a detrimental effect on livelihoods across the country, its impact on transgender communities has been particularly devastating. Covid-19 has revealed a troubling picture of transgender people's social exclusion, marked by high poverty rates, a lack of social security programmes, and structural discrimination. Over the past years, there have been steps in the right direction towards recognizing Pakistan's transgender community—most notably a 2009 Supreme Court judgement calling for the registration of transgender people as a 'third gender' and the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, passed by Parliament in 2018. However, neither measure has been widely enforced. Pakistan needs transformative, equitable policies to ensure equal access to basic public services for its transgender communities, who are currently in a dire situation. Covid-19 provides the Pakistani government a moment to reflect upon its treatment of transgender people and commit to better servicing the trans community.
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Many transgender workers face precarious employment and fear for their economic security. This income uncertainty means effective financial planning is impossible for many, leaving them stuck in poverty. This has only worsened as Covid-19 reduces employment opportunities.
Nadra, a trans activist living in Mansehra, northern Pakistan, earns their income from performing at wedding and birth ceremonies. With events cancelled under lockdown, they are concerned about how they will afford basic living expenses: "I have to choose between feeding myself or keeping a roof over my head," the 46-year-old said. "We might die of hunger before being killed by Coronavirus."
In addition to high poverty rates among Pakistan's transgender community, a 2016 report from the Aurat Foundation and USAID notes that many transgender people in Pakistan experience family rejection and homelessness almost from the beginning of their adolescence. Discrimination from landlords on the basis of their transgender status leads to many transgender people accepting accommodation in urban slums and dangerous buildings on the edge of collapse and resorting to street begging to pay their rent. Many transgender people cannot shelter in family homes. Further, in urban slums, they are more vulnerable to non-sanitary living conditions in the face of this virus.
The social and economic crises resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic threaten to deepen existing inequalities unless the government takes bold action. Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced an $8 billion relief package to address the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on Pakistanis. The government allocated funding through the "Ehsaas Emergency Cash" programme; however, the trans community has not benefited from this programme, and they hope that Prime Minister Khan will take notice as he reviews its efficacy. He can improve their outcomes by implementing targeted policies in education, finance, housing and healthcare to ensure that transgender people have access to secure employment opportunities and are able to access the financial and medical support to which they are entitled.
Build progressive economic policies with transgender movement leaders: Most transgender people in Pakistan receive no major support from the government. To rectify this, the Government of Pakistan should invest in vocational training and apprenticeship programmes to increase transgender people's employability and support them to secure stable employment. The government should develop entrepreneurial capacities and provide access to microcredit services, thus empowering unemployed transgender people and creating dignified income-generating opportunities. Where social welfare programmes are available, policymakers must facilitate transgender people's enrollment in these programmes through community outreach campaigns.
Advance affordable housing policies that address structural discrimination against the transgender community: The government should eliminate social and economic barriers and foster transgender-responsive affordable housing policies. For instance, low-income transgender people should receive welfare support to meet rent expenses in the midst of this crisis. Prime Minister Imran Khan should increase funding for 'Panahgah' (shelter homes) in order to build transgender-safe shelters where they can live without fear of discrimination. Pakistani authorities should take immediate steps to ensure that landlords cannot discriminate against tenants based on their transgender status.
Protect access to healthcare for transgender patients: As a result of economic hardships, many transgender people are developing anxiety and depression. Addressing mental health is therefore crucial during this time. Currently, this is being done within the community, with 'guru' transgender elders reaching out to younger trans people experiencing mental health problems in order to provide support. To ensure access to professional mental health support, the government should increase funding of mental health services, such as counseling and 24/7 helplines for those in crisis. Doing so will help members of the community to regain their confidence, saving lives that might otherwise be lost. Further, most transgender people do not have access to hand sanitisers and masks, and also lack the income to afford medication in the time of Coronavirus. I spoke to a transgender heart patient who also earns her income through performing at celebratory events. Having suffered three heart attacks, she can no longer afford medication to treat her angina. Referring to her governmental health card, she notes that "[the] insaf card is just a piece of plastic with no benefit. I live in Sahiwal, and it doesn't work here." The first step towards securing the right to health is making sure that these 'Sehat Insaf Cards' work correctly across Pakistan. This also means abolishing treatment and medication fees at all healthcare facilities in moments of deep crisis. The government should work with transgender communities to have their voices reflected in healthcare reform.
The transgender heart patient I spoke to reached out to her Mayor, her Member of Provincial Assembly, and her Member of the National Assembly to express her concerns, but received no response. "We have lived all our lives in self-isolation," she says. "First our families have isolated us, then our communities have isolated us, and now our governments have isolated us in times of our greatest need."
The Supreme Court decision and Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act show that there is a willingness among Pakistanis to help this vulnerable population. Coronavirus can be the impetus to build a Pakistan in which we truly respect the value and dignity of transgender lives.
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Now, Cutty's was a little difficult for me to find because 1) I'm not good with directions, 2) I had never been to that neighborhood before and 3) Cutty's had no sign outside their building.
Cutty's thinks of itself as a "fast casual restaurant that sells inexpensive premium-quality breakfast and lunch fare." I'm not sure that I can completely agree with the "inexpensive" part, but their commitment to using seasonal, local and organic ingredients is definitely evident in their menu.
I was there around lunch time and had a hard time picking a sandwich because they all sounded so good. In the end, I went with the small eggplant spuckie ($3.75): olive salad, housemade mozzarella and roasted eggplant on ciabatta. I'm usually not a huge olive fan, but this sandwich was delicious. The olives perfectly complimented the eggplant and mozzarella without overpowering the sandwich.
I'll admit that $3.75 is not a bad price at all, but be advised that when they say small, they do mean small. The large eggplant spuckie goes for $7.25 and if you're hungry I would definitely recommend upgrading to the larger size.
There's also salads and snacks, plus a breakfast menu. And Cutty's site promises breakfast sandwiches are on the way. That upcoming addition especially makes Cutty's remind me of my favorite super-small but super-good sandwich place in Portland: Little Red Bike.
And one final note: Cutty's is owned by Culinary Institute of America-trained chef Charles Kelsey. This guy obviously knows what he is doing and I hope that Cutty's will allow him to show off his skills for a long time to come.


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India?s first organ and tissue transplant body to come up in New Delhi
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New Delhi (ISJ): The first national organ and tissue transplant organisation (NOTTO) will come up in New Delhi. The organisation to be commissioned in 18 months at Safdurjung Hospital in the national capital, will maintain computerised networks with 24 identified transplant and organ retrieval centres in the region.
"I wish to see a body pledging revolution in India," said Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vadhan in New Delhi on Thursday (Aug. 07). He said the government will launch a fresh initiative to ensure organs and tissues are collected scientifically from donors and distributed to patients-in-need at minimum cost.
"At present only a handful of private hospitals are controlling information on organ availability, which is making costs prohibitive for the common man. Soon public institutions will make possible for speedy and effective distribution of kidneys, hearts, lungs, bones, tissues, cornea, skin and cells at token cost to those who can pay and free to the poor," Dr Harsh Vardhan said.
The Minister said, organ donation from the brain dead to patients-in-need is facilitated by law. Still the rate of organ donation in India is only 0.16 per 1 million population, compared to 40 in Spain and 35 in the United States, he rued.
On Wednesday, a dry-run to transport a dummy heart was successfully carried out between IGI Airport and a Gurgaon-based private hospital covering over a 15.4 Km in 15 minutes through rush hour traffic. In normal days, this would have taken at least twice the time. In June, two heart transplants were carried out in Chennai using the ?green corridor? system.
Dr Harsh Vardhan said he would consult state governments on setting up NOTTO-like institutions in all state capitals. The 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) has allocated Rs 149 crore for setting up organ donation facilitation infrastructure. However, in the first two years only about Rs 10 crore was spent.
?"Though my heart swells with pride on reading of green corridors, I am also sorry to note that most people in this country are not yet free from superstition that inhibit them from even implementing the pledges made by their parents, leave alone committing their own bodies for donation," lamented Dr. Harsh Vardhan.


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Senior tax breaks: Selectmen lean toward means test
Macklin K. Reid
Published 5:47 am EDT, Monday, October 22, 2018
With tax breaks for senior citizens already approaching $4 million, the selectmen are moving carefully on the idea of creating more tax credits or deferment programs to reduce the burden on property owners over 65.
The selectmen seem to have reached at least a loose consensus in favor of putting a "means test" on any new or expanded senior tax breaks, so the benefits would be targeted to lower income seniors — as opposed to all taxpayers over 65.
"We felt if we do anything, it would be means tested," Selectman Steve Zemo said Oct. 10, recalling the selectmen's previous discussion of senior tax breaks back in June.
The board had returned to discussion of a request made early in last year's budget deliberations by the OWLS senior citizen group.
John K. Fisher, president of the OWLS (the seniors group whose name comes from "Older Wiser Livelier Set"), laid out a three-pronged proposal for increasing tax programs that benefit senior citizens in February.
Fisher proposed three changes the OWLS had voted to request from the town:
They sought an increase in the annual property tax reduction or "tax credit" for people over 65 from the current $1,048 per year to $1,200 per year.
They also asked that the town "consider freezing the real estate taxes for people 75 years or older" so they would pay the same taxes year after year, exempt from increases in the tax rate.
The OWLS also asked that the cut-off point for participation in the town's "tax deferment" program for the elderly be raised from the current limit of an annual income of $55,000.
This program is designed to allow people with lower incomes to delay paying taxes, or a portion of their taxes, while living out their senior years in their homes. The money is collected by the town when the house is eventually sold, either when the senior moves from town or passes away.
In their Oct. 10 discussion, the selectmen reviewed background materials from Assessor Al Garzi.
The tax credit program giving any taxpayer 65 or older $1,048 off their tax bill is enjoyed by 1,675 households that receive a total of just over $1,739,000 a year, Garzi said.
Increasing the tax credit from $1,048 to $1,200 as requested by the OWLS — a $152 per taxpayer increase — would cost the town's other taxpayers an additional $254,600 a year, Garzi projected.
A smaller increase, to $1,100, would cost $87,100 annually.
On the proposal to freeze taxes for property owners over 75, Garzi said there were 949 households with taxpayers over 75 that would qualify, and projected that with an estimated 2% annual tax increase by the town, the proposal to exempt people over 75 from the increases would require about $225,000 a year more from other taxpayers.
The third proposal would raise the cut off point for people to qualify for the senior tax deferment program, increasing it from the current $55,000 to $65,000 or $75,000.
Garzi said that currently — with only households with annual incomes of $55,000 or less eligible — there are 47 households taking advantage of the tax deferment program.
The total of deferred taxes is about $2 million, Garzi said.
"Are we going to start seeing some payback on that?" Selectman Steve Zemo said of the $2 million deferred.
"Every once in a while we do get $150,000 or so. Someone decides to sell or, unfortunately, passes away," Garzi said. "It's not something you can count on."
The tax credit program granting seniors a $1,048 deduction from their tax bill is fairly stable, Garzi said, adding about 100 people a year but also losing about 100 a year as homes are sold to younger taxpayers who don't qualify.
The biggest difference, the selectmen noted, is that taxes deferred are eventually collected by the town, whereas the tax credit or a freeze program actually reduces the amount seniors owe.
"The credit program, we don't get it back," First Selectman Rudy Marconi said.
Discussing the logic of a means-tested program, the selectmen recalled Fisher's original pitch had emphasized the plight of hard-pressed seniors.
"He said folks at the lower end of things are really hurting," said Selectman Steve Zemo.
Insult?
The selectmen agreed that many seniors would be troubled by the notion of not carrying their full share — though that may be changing.
"There may be a different perspective from baby boomers," said Zemo.
Marconi said some seniors felt strongly about means-tested programs, regarding senior tax breaks not as charity but as a recognition of the contributions they'd made to the town and society throughout their lives.
He recalled a senior arguing vehemently that putting a means test on senior tax programs amounted to a devaluing of the contributions more affluent seniors had made.
"That's an insult," he quoted the man as saying.
Some seniors defer just a portion of their taxes — they may "use it fix a roof," Garzi said — while others "defer the entire bill."
He added, "Of the 50 people, 25 refile every year, and average a tax bill of $13,000."
$55,000 cap
Discussing the income limit on the deferment program, Zemo was struck by the extent of the burden lower income seniors bear.
"If you think about $55,000 and an average tax bill is $13,000, people are paying a quarter of their income," he said.
Marconi noted that the $55,000 cap on incomes eligible for the deferment program was set 18 years ago when the program was created. As a result of inflation, a $55,000 income's real value would have declined over the 18 years.
"Would we consider bumping that up a bit?" Marconi asked.
Garzi said he does get some inquiries from people interested in the tax deferment program, but who didn't qualify due to the $55,000 income limit.
"We've had several people, five or six people," he said.
Selectwoman Maureen Kozlark asked how quickly the total of taxes deferred had gotten to $2 million.
"It's been in place 18 years," said Selectwoman Barbara Manners.
"Is this likely to balloon up to $5 million?" Selectman Bob Hebert wondered. "Or, are we in a range — people come off and people come on?"
"People are living longer," said Kozlark.
Zemo said "the bigger issue" was the OWLS request to increase the $1,048 tax credit that all seniors are entitled to.
The idea of adding a means test to that program had been proposed in the past, but people opposed had ended it.
"We've had the selectmen try twice to put an income requirement on it — it never got past 8 o'clock," Garzi said.
As discussion ended Marconi said, "That leaves us with…"
"Increasing the deferement — the income cap for the deferment," Selectwoman Barbara Manners said.
"We'll put it back on the agenda," Marconi said. "Get a little more information."


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Q: Is it possible to store functions in an array and call them depending on if statement result? I'm new using PHP, and I'm trying to store functions in an array to call them later using an if statement.
I've tried but, functions are called before if statement, so this is an example of what I need:
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What I want to achieve is to use a specific function depending on if validation.

A: Just store the function name as a string and call call_user_func.
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Identification and characterization of an unusual double serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Choukri Ben Mamoun, David J. Sullivan, Ritu Banerjee, Daniel E. Goldberg
We have cloned a gene from Plasmodium falciparum with homology to the Mg2+-dependent serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) family. The predicted coding region is 920 amino acids long, twice the size of other members of this family. We show that this protein can be divided into two halves (Pf2C-1 and Pf2C-2), each a complete phosphatase unit with homology to other phosphatases of this class. To study the function of this PP2C, we have tested the ability of different constructs to complement conditional null mutants of yeast. Our results show that expression of the full-length protein, the first half alone, the second half alone, or a hybrid with the N terminus of the first half and the C terminus of the second half was able to complement the heat shock response defect of a Schizosaccharomyces pombe strain with a PP2C (PTC1) deletion. Recombinant P. falciparum PP2C expressed in Escherichia coli was active in dephosphorylating 32P-labeled casein in an Mg2+-or Mn2+-dependent reaction. Each half alone was also active in recombinant form. Using the two-hybrid system, we have shown that the two halves can interact. Gel filtration assay of P. falciparum protein extracts suggests that full-length PfPP2C is a dimer, and phosphatase activity competition experiments indicate that dimerization of PfPP2C is required for its optimal activity. This unusual phosphatase molecule appears to be composed of four catalytic units on two polypeptide chains.
https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.273.18.11241
10.1074/jbc.273.18.11241
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Protein Phosphatase 2C Medicine & Life Sciences
Parasites Chemical Compounds
Falciparum Malaria Medicine & Life Sciences
Threonine Medicine & Life Sciences
Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases Medicine & Life Sciences
Serine Medicine & Life Sciences
Plasmodium falciparum Medicine & Life Sciences
Dimerization Chemical Compounds
Mamoun, C. B., Sullivan, D. J., Banerjee, R., & Goldberg, D. E. (1998). Identification and characterization of an unusual double serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 273(18), 11241-11247. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.273.18.11241
Identification and characterization of an unusual double serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. / Mamoun, Choukri Ben; Sullivan, David J.; Banerjee, Ritu; Goldberg, Daniel E.
In: Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 273, No. 18, 01.05.1998, p. 11241-11247.
Mamoun, CB, Sullivan, DJ, Banerjee, R & Goldberg, DE 1998, 'Identification and characterization of an unusual double serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 273, no. 18, pp. 11241-11247. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.273.18.11241
Mamoun CB, Sullivan DJ, Banerjee R, Goldberg DE. Identification and characterization of an unusual double serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1998 May 1;273(18):11241-11247. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.273.18.11241
Mamoun, Choukri Ben ; Sullivan, David J. ; Banerjee, Ritu ; Goldberg, Daniel E. / Identification and characterization of an unusual double serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1998 ; Vol. 273, No. 18. pp. 11241-11247.
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