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Musical Form – Baroque Era: Sarabande
The sarabande (from French sarabande, itself derived from Spanish zarabanda) is a dance in triple metre.
The sarabande is first mentioned in Central America: in 1539, a dance called zarabanda is mentioned in the poem Vida y tiempo de Maricastaña written in Panama by Fernando de Guzmán Mejía.[1][2] The dance seems to have been especially popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, initially in the Spanish colonies, before moving back across the Atlantic to Spain. In its time, it was controversial since it was thought too indecent—Miguel de Cervantes once said it was "invented in Hell".[this quote needs a citation] It was banned several times, but it was still performed by many people and even by clerics during the mass. While it was banned in Spain in 1583 for its obscenity, it was frequently cited in literature of the period (for instance, in works by Cervantes and Lope de Vega).[3] It spread to Italy in the 17th century, and to France, where it became a slow court dance.[4]
In the Baroque era, the standard 18th-century suite typically included a sarabande as the third of four movements. Johann Sebastian Bach sometimes gave the sarabande a privileged place in his music, even outside the context of dance suites; in particular, the theme and climactic 25th variation from his Goldberg Variations are both sarabandes.
The sarabande form was revived in the late-19th and early 20th centuries by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (in his Holberg Suite of 1884), French composers such as Debussy and Satie, and in England, in different styles, Vaughan Williams (in Job: A Masque for Dancing), Benjamin Britten (in the Simple Symphony) and Herbert Howells (in Six Pieces for Organ: Saraband for the Morning of Easter).
One of the best known constant harmony variation types is the anonymous La Folia whose harmonic sequence appears in pieces of various types (mainly dances) by dozens of composers from the time of Mudarra (1546) and Corelli through the present day.[5] The theme of the fourth-movement Sarabande of Handel's Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) for harpsichord is a variation of this piece, and is featured prominently in the film Barry Lyndon [6] as well as the BBC documentary, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution.
Handel: Grande Sarabande, HWV 437
Musical Form – Baroque Era: Prelude
Musical Form – Baroque Era: Sinfonia


Use something like AeroKroil penetrant and a quality vice-grip. You may destroy the fitting, but sounds like it might be time for new brake lines anyway. Do not rely on cheap line wrenches. They flex too much. MAC or Snap-On are you best choices. Expensive, but worth it.


I missed out on June again due to all the special events (Spotlight on Fairy Tales Retold and H&W Investigations UF series) taking place in July (see below), but I am back for the inventory of what happened in July.
July was a very busy month: I am very satisfied with the amount of books I've read and reviewed and loved putting together the special events, they were so much fun! So overall I'm very happy at what a productive month it was.
If you follow the blog you must know how much I love this series, and this prequel novella did not disappoint! It was fantastic as you can see in my review.
I LOVE Lavinia Kent's writing! Her novels are evocative, well developed and heartsqueezing (one of the tell-tale signs of a great novel is if I get goosebumps or feel my heart do some little flips). This is the first novella in her witty desperate housewives-esque historical romance series, a wonderful read!
And the best for last! Or at least one that is the most fresh in my mind since I read it on the very last day of July. I immediately fell for Rachel Vincent's Shapeshifter UF series. She mixes the perfect ingredients (wonderful and interesting characters, breakneck action, heartclutching romance, chuckle out loud humour and brilliant writing) and the result is fantastic! I gobbled up the first two books in one day each and couldn't stop myself from starting Book #3 as soon as I was done with Book #2.
This novel was simply not for me: I found it overly melodramatic and the gothic exaggeration was not to my taste. You can read my detailed review here.
then we celebrated the release of Jess Haines' 3rd book in the H&W Investigations series.
It was also Netgalley month! I read 8 NG books, which is more than I did in April (when I completed 6), but hope to outdo this next time.
Ok, I think that's it, the most important events that took place at Ex Libris in July.


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package buildcraft.api.blueprints;

import java.util.LinkedList;

import net.minecraft.item.Item;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.nbt.NBTTagCompound;

import buildcraft.api.core.IInvSlot;

/**
 * A schematic is a piece of a blueprint. It allows to stock blocks or entities
 * to blueprints, and can have a state that moves from a blueprint referential
 * to a world referential. Although default schematic behavior will be OK for a
 * lot of objects, specific blocks and entities may be associated with a
 * dedicated schematic class, which will be instantiated automatically.
 *
 * Schematic perform "id translation" in case the block ids between a blueprint
 * and the world installation are different. Mapping is done through the builder
 * context.
 *
 * Detailed documentation on the schematic behavior can be found on
 * http://www.mod-buildcraft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=builder_support
 *
 * Example of schematics for minecraft blocks are available in the package
 * buildcraft.core.schematics.
 */
public abstract class Schematic {

	/**
	 * Blocks are build in various stages, in order to make sure that a block
	 * can indeed be placed, and that it's unlikely to disturb other blocks.
	 */
	public static enum BuildingStage {
		/**
		 * Standalone blocks can be placed in the air, and they don't change
		 * once placed.
		 */
		STANDALONE,

		/**
		 * Supported blocks may require to be placed on a standalone block,
		 * e.g. a torch.
		 */
		SUPPORTED,

		/**
		 * Expanding blocks will grow and may disturb other block locations,
		 * like e.g. water
		 */
		EXPANDING
	}

	/**
	 * This is called each time an item matches a requirement. By default, it
	 * will increase damage of items that can be damaged by the amount of the
	 * requirement, and remove the intended amount of items that can't be
	 * damaged.
	 *
	 * Client may override this behavior. Note that this subprogram may be
	 * called twice with the same parameters, once with a copy of requirements
	 * and stack to check if the entire requirements can be fulfilled, and once
	 * with the real inventory. Implementer is responsible for updating req
	 * (with the remaining requirements if any) and slot (after usage).
	 *
	 * returns what was used (similar to req, but created from slot, so that any
	 * NBT based differences are drawn from the correct source)
	 */
	public ItemStack useItem(IBuilderContext context, ItemStack req, IInvSlot slot) {
		ItemStack stack = slot.getStackInSlot();
		ItemStack result = stack.copy();

		if (stack.isItemStackDamageable()) {
			if (req.getItemDamage() + stack.getItemDamage() <= stack.getMaxDamage()) {
				stack.setItemDamage(req.getItemDamage() + stack.getItemDamage());
				result.setItemDamage(req.getItemDamage());
				req.stackSize = 0;
			}

			if (stack.getItemDamage() >= stack.getMaxDamage()) {
				slot.decreaseStackInSlot();
			}
		} else {
			if (stack.stackSize >= req.stackSize) {
				result.stackSize = req.stackSize;
				stack.stackSize -= req.stackSize;
				req.stackSize = 0;
			} else {
				req.stackSize -= stack.stackSize;
				stack.stackSize = 0;
			}
		}

		if (stack.stackSize == 0 && stack.getItem().getContainerItem() != null) {
			Item container = stack.getItem().getContainerItem();
			ItemStack newStack = new ItemStack(container);
			slot.setStackInSlot(newStack);
		} else if (stack.stackSize == 0) {
			slot.setStackInSlot(null);
		}

		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * Perform a 90 degree rotation to the slot.
	 */
	public void rotateLeft(IBuilderContext context) {

	}

	/**
	 * Applies translations to all positions in the schematic to center in the
	 * blueprint referential
	 */
	public void translateToBlueprint(Translation transform) {

	}

	/**
	 * Apply translations to all positions in the schematic to center in the
	 * builder referential
	 */
	public void translateToWorld(Translation transform) {

	}

	/**
	 * Translates blocks and item ids to the blueprint referential
	 */
	public void idsToBlueprint(MappingRegistry registry) {

	}

	/**
	 * Translates blocks and item ids to the world referential
	 */
	public void idsToWorld(MappingRegistry registry) {

	}

	/**
	 * Initializes a schematic for blueprint according to an objet placed on {x,
	 * y, z} on the world. For blocks, block and meta fields will be initialized
	 * automatically.
	 */
	public void writeToBlueprint(IBuilderContext context, int x, int y, int z) {

	}

	/**
	 * Places the block in the world, at the location specified in the slot,
	 * using the stack in parameters
	 */
	public void writeToWorld(IBuilderContext context, int x, int y, int z, LinkedList<ItemStack> stacks) {

	}

	/**
	 * Write specific requirements coming from the world to the blueprint.
	 */
	public void writeRequirementsToBlueprint(IBuilderContext context, int x, int y, int z) {

	}

	/**
	 * Returns the requirements needed to build this block. When the
	 * requirements are met, they will be removed all at once from the builder,
	 * before calling writeToWorld.
	 */
	public void writeRequirementsToWorld(IBuilderContext context, LinkedList<ItemStack> requirements) {

	}

	/**
	 * Returns the amount of energy required to build this slot, depends on the
	 * stacks selected for the build.
	 */
	public double getEnergyRequirement(LinkedList<ItemStack> stacksUsed) {
		double result = 0;

		for (ItemStack s : stacksUsed) {
			result += s.stackSize * SchematicRegistry.BUILD_ENERGY;
		}

		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the flying stacks to display in the builder animation.
	 */
	public LinkedList<ItemStack> getStacksToDisplay(
			LinkedList<ItemStack> stackConsumed) {

		return stackConsumed;
	}

	/**
	 * Return the stage where this schematic has to be built.
	 */
	public BuildingStage getBuildStage () {
		return BuildingStage.STANDALONE;
	}

	/**
	 * Return true if the block on the world correspond to the block stored in
	 * the blueprint at the location given by the slot. By default, this
	 * subprogram is permissive and doesn't take into account metadata.
	 *
	 * Post processing will be called on these blocks.
	 */
	public boolean isAlreadyBuilt(IBuilderContext context, int x, int y, int z) {
		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Return true if the block should not be placed to the world. Requirements
	 * will not be asked on such a block, and building will not be called.
	 *
	 * Post processing will be called on these blocks.
	 */
	public boolean doNotBuild() {
		return false;
	}

	/**
	 * Return true if the schematic should not be used at all. This is computed
	 * straight after readFromNBT can be used to deactivate schematics in which
	 * an inconsistency is detected. It will be considered as a block of air
	 * instead.
	 *
	 * Post processing will *not* be called on these blocks.
	 */
	public boolean doNotUse() {
		return false;
	}

	/**
	 * Return the maximium building permission for blueprint containing this
	 * schematic.
	 */
	public BuildingPermission getBuildingPermission () {
		return BuildingPermission.ALL;
	}

	/**
	 * Called on a block when the blueprint has finished to place all the
	 * blocks. This may be useful to adjust variable depending on surrounding
	 * blocks that may not be there already at initial building.
	 */
	public void postProcessing(IBuilderContext context, int x, int y, int z) {

	}

	/**
	 * Saves this schematic to the blueprint NBT.
	 */
	public void writeToNBT(NBTTagCompound nbt, MappingRegistry registry) {

	}

	/**
	 * Loads this schematic from the blueprint NBT.
	 */
	public void readFromNBT(NBTTagCompound nbt, MappingRegistry registry) {

	}
}

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When Your Dog Is Happy To See You After A 102 Day Deployment
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Saudi Royal Navy and Pakistan Navy Carry Out Live-Exercise In Arabian Sea
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EVER ACE, The World's Largest Containership, Transits The Suez Canal
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Photos: Shipbreaking on the Beaches of Alang
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Carver County Historical Society
Two storms in July and August of 2010 caused the east wall and gables of the historic North Peterson Barn, a structure on the Andrew Peterson Farmstead listed on the National Register of Historic Places, to collapse. The already deteriorating barn required stabilization to preserve what remained for eventual restoration. The firm of Hansen Hometech was contracted to carry out the stabilizing process. The two-story bank-barn, an example of Swedish barn construction from the 1870's-1880's, was built of hand-hewn framing and timbers on a fieldstone foundation with board-and-batten siding.
The area had to be secured for safety and all timber and siding were numbered and set aside for reuse or to be used as templates for new wood. A large number of items and artifacts had to be removed from the barn and sorted by volunteers before a complete assessment of the damage and stabilization needs could be made.
Lagging beams were jacked and shored up. Two dormers were removed, labeled and numbered for future reconstruction. Some items found inside the barn, such as foam insulation sheeting, were put to use for the project. A large tarp was nailed across the east side of the barn for protection.
To stabilize the barn on the Andrew Peterson Farmstead, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
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Jim Cramer: Why It Makes Sense for Salesforce to Buy Tableau Software
And why the stock will recover from this hammering on the merger news.
Jun 11, 2019 | 07:40 AM EDT
Stocks quotes in this article: CRM, DATA, OKTA, ZEN, ZS, AMZN
What was Salesforce (CRM) supposed to do? Was it supposed to buy $1 billion companies? Was it supposed to find unicorns and buy them?
No, it had to buy at scale. It had to buy something that would move the needle, something that made it so customers could rely on the entire suite of offerings Salesforce had.
In order to buy a company that's at scale, that is not needing to go right with a small client list but instead already doing well stand alone, you have to pay up. You have to be willing to destroy near-team earnings.
The best time to do that is right after earnings are reported -- and they are excellent.
The result, as you know, is a rapidly falling stock, as those mutual funds and hedge funds with charters and orientation that won't buy the stocks of companies with earnings that are cut dump stock, coupled with arbitrageurs locking in a sale of Salesforce and a buy of Tableau Software (DATA) .
But at the end of the day, if Salesforce's stock is hit hard, as was the case yesterday, the price adjustment is in the stock.
The move was incredibly gutsy. Tableau has slightly more than $1 billion in revenue. Marc Benioff paid about 15x sales -- that's a ton of money. But let's look at some of the others that are perfect for his suite. Okta (OKTA) , $700 million. Zscaler (ZS) , $400 million. Zendesk (ZEN) , $800 million. All would have been ridiculously expensive versus the revenue, although Benioff likes all three of those companies.
They would have been equally as expensive but would not provided the scale you get from Tableau, because you get on premise -- the legacy business of Tableau -- cloud, the current business and perhaps best of all, you get Adam Selipsky, who spent a decade building Amazon Web Services (AMZN) .
Before Selipsky came on board as CEO, Tableau didn't have cloud and when it had a shortfall in February of 2016, Salesforce didn't pounce even as the stock dropped to $40. That's because Benioff went after LinkedIn, which also had a shortfall, and Tableau hadn't yet embraced the cloud. I remember talking to Marc about it and he didn't think it was a good fit. It was only after Selipsky came in and made the place a fantastic analytical dashboard for the cloud, that it became worth it for Benioff to buy. Selipsky, a frequent guest on Mad Money, is one of the smartest people I have ever met.
Of course, if you do that you are buying an expensive existing business. But you are buying the company that your customers suggest you buy. That's how you get your stock hammered short-term, as the deal for Mulesoft did last year, knocking the stock for a loop which it then recovered from within seven days.
I think this one will take longer. But I think it will be extremely rewarding because it instantly moves the needle. That's all you can ask for when you are dealing with companies this size.
At the time of publication, Action Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, was long AMZN, CRM.
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Aim High With This Defensive Dividend Stock
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Lockheed Martin is a classic defense stock that also gives investors an offensive position.
A Day for Resets
I'm more inclined to do strategic buying in this sort of market action rather than more aggressive selling.


VicRoads is planning a road safety improvement project on the Goulburn Valley Highway, north of Melbourne.
Regional director Bryan Sherritt says a centre line wire rope barrier is likely to be the most effective solution to a number of crashes in the 13km section between Yea and Molesworth.
"Tragically, there have been a number of crashes on this section of the highway and the majority of crashes have involved vehicles drifting onto the wrong side of the road," he says.
The project will be jointly funded between VicRoads and the Transport Accident Commission.
Sherritt is calling on stakeholders, including local transport operations, to take part in a community consultation session on the project.
"We are keen to seek feedback on the project design, project timing and staging, as well as identifying any issues or concerns relating to the project," he says.
The second of three sessions takes place today until 7pm in Alexandra, with the final opportunity on Saturday morning in Mansfield.


This senior project tasks two groups of students with performing a feasibility study on the improvement of the Beaumont SR-60 corridor. Currently SR-60 is a four lane expressway and the intersection at Jack Rabbit Trail to SR-60 is an at-grade intersection with Westbound Off and On ramps. Caltrans has requested a feasibility study of a lane widening of the corridor to six lanes, an intersection at Jack Rabbit Trail, the conversion of the expressway to controlled access freeway conditions, and frontage roads to maintain access in the community where it was already established. These improvements will take place in order to accommodate for the future growth in the region for the year 2040 with 2020 as the base year.
The team began by deciding our study and design boundaries along with acquiring general information about the area; including a digital terrain map, land use map, right of way map, and many others to obtain a general idea of the area as well as creating a base for AutoCAD drawings. The purpose and needs of the project were deliberated and finalized to be used as a guideline for why and how we would conduct the study. A traffic impact study was conducted along with a Preliminary Environmental Analysis to determine how we could move forward with the geometric design of the project.


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Robinhood Seeks Sanctions Investigators ahead of Self-Custody Crypto Wallet Launch
Samuel Edyme Oct 24, 2022 06:15 2 Min Read
Robinhood is seeking to hire several Sanctions Investigators for its finance crimes compliance unit as it may be broadening its offerings, according to its official Linkedin page.
The job description includes reviewing and analyzing alerts of potential matches of Robinhood customers to denied parties, managing the investigative process from initial detection to disposition and reporting, annotating findings providing proof of evidence and a final decision, escalating any matches that cannot be resolved to Sanctions Investigation management and in addition any accurate positive matches to the Sanctions Office.
Robinhood is a standalone wallet app that offers brokerage services and allows users to trade and swap crypto without network fees.
According to reports, the Brokerage app hiring sanctions investigators could be related to the firm's upcoming self-custody wallets launch, which will be released officially in the coming months.
Per the job posting, the role requires two-plus years of experience working in financial crimes investigation and one-plus years investigating cryptocurrency transactions. While not required, "Chainalysis experience" is welcome.
In August, the Brokerage app firm was slammed with a fine of $30 million by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).
As reported by Blockchain.News, the sanctions came as the regulator discovered that Robinhood Crypto violated several extant regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) violations, transaction monitoring inadequacies, and failure to make provisions for cybersecurity regulation.
The regulator noted that it discovered the flaws behind the sanction in Robinhood Crypto's operating models following a supervisory examination and a subsequent investigation.
Superintendent of Financial Services Adrienne A. Harris stated that as the Brokerage firm grew, it failed to "invest the proper resources and attention to develop and maintain a culture of compliance—a failure that resulted in significant violations of the Department's anti-money laundering and cybersecurity regulations."
Robinhood Lists USDC as First Stablecoin on Trading Platform
SANCTIONS INVESTIGATORS


Parent volunteer Shannon Martin said the school focused on Greece, Southeast Asia and Saudi Arabia in the past.
A committee through the Parent Teacher Organization decided to focus on Australia this year since it was a country the students haven't studied yet.
"They're able to see the similarities and differences of the countries," Martin said.
Li, of Sydney, along with Ashleigh Ng, 26, also of Sydney, and Nora Sheng, 22, of Melbourne, gave a brief lecture on animals, foods, geography and festivals native to their country.
Ng said the Penn State students were asked to be a part of the event through the university's Global Programs.
"It was something we were given the option to do and it's just really cool to give back to the community," she said.
Young Scholars teachers also incorporated bits of Australian trivia in class.
Assistant special education teacher Jacki Coiro has been demonstrating the didgeridoo to her students.
On Friday, Coiro played a couple of quick tunes using the wind instrument.
With the use of a brass-instrument technique, it made a loud, deep, bass-like sound that changed pitch with the fluctuation of her voice.
"It's not hard once you learn it, but there's a certain way to play it that can be tricky," Coiro said.
And for students, getting to taste test different foods was the best part of the event.
Classmate Gavin McKenna, 9, said he enjoyed the meat pies the most.
Students and their families, and teachers made different Australian dishes for guests to try.
Some goodies included Vegemite, Tim Tams, lamington, and meat pies.


Does the Media Contribute to Eating Disorders?
Do the media contribute to eating disorders? Well, today, the influence of the mass media is definitely ubiquitous. In fact, according to Melvin DeFleur and Everette Dennis, coauthors of Understanding Mass Media: A Liberal Perspective, in the age of technology, "The mass media are present in one form or another in virtually every society," with only "a few pockets of population in remote areas where one can find people who have no access to mass communications" (p. 3).
Given their ubiquity, the media, most notably television, magazines, and movies, influence not only people's perception of reality but also their personal decisions, from how they dress to how they wear their hair to the cars they drive and even the brand of deodorant they use. One must wonder, though, in view of their considerable persuasiveness, if media organizations often have a more insidious impact upon human lives, however unintentional that might be. After all, they influence humankind's perception of beauty, and since this is the case, one might very well conclude that, yes, it's true; the media does contribute to eating disorders.
The majority of individuals who suffer from eating disorders are female, a tendency many sociologists attribute to the social pressure placed upon women to be thin. Interestingly, however, as noted by Charles Zastrow and Karen Kirst-Ashman, coauthors of Understanding Human Behavior and Social Environment, thinness was not always in vogue. In fact, until 25 or 30 years ago, women were considered more attractive when they were a bit rounder and fuller; but today's cultural ideal "is pencil slimness, and, according to advertisements and fashion magazines, even mature women should look like adolescent boys" (p. 330).
According to Sharon Brehm, Saul Kassin, and Steven Fein, coauthors of Social Psychology, the "slender ideal projected in the media" is the main reason why more women than men suffer from potentially dangerous eating disorders, namely anorexia and bulimia. As proof, the authors say numerous studies have demonstrated that when young women see magazine ads or television commercials featuring ultra-thin models, they become dissatisfied with their own bodies; yet when young women view "neutral materials," they do not experience the same feelings of dissatisfaction (p. 313).
They are intolerant of any perceived flaws.
Considering these commonalities, it's easy to understand how when a female with an already fragile sense of self watches a television show and sees ultra-slim women in the starring roles, or she opens a magazine like Seventeen, Teen Vogue, Glamour and sees ultra-slim women leading glamorous lives, she invariably compares herself and concludes, "I'm just not good enough." And what makes the pressure to be thin even greater, of course, is the way magazines like Star and People constantly ridicule female celebrities for gaining even a little weight, regardless of how much better they might look.
In conclusion, in light of the sociological evidence, it's apparent that, yes, indeed the media do contribute to eating disorders and, given their ubiquity, will continue to do so for a long, long time to come . . . well, that is, unless society's ideal for female attractiveness reverts back to that of the 1950s when "rounder and fuller" was in vogue.


The following section sets forth the easy steps that are involved in preparing, processing, and completing a successful Chapter 7 case. The object is to get a discharge and wipe out all of our client's debts. Let us show you how we help our clients accomplish this goal.
A Chapter 7 bankruptcy is started by filing a document called a petition. The petition is about 70 pages long. We must conduct several detailed meetings with you to obtain from you all of the important financial information that will be needed to accurately complete the petition. The case officially begins when we electronically file the Chapter 7 with the Bankruptcy Court, and the $335 filing fee is paid to the Court.
Our office can immediately notify any creditors that need to be notified that your case has been officially filed. If a creditor takes action against you after being informed that you have started your bankruptcy, that creditor can be punished by the Bankruptcy Court.
The Bankruptcy Court Clerk's Office also quickly notifies all of your creditors. You will be getting copies of the same notices that your creditors get. Therefore, when you get your notice in the mail you know that your creditors have also been notified.
If you are behind in your utility bills, we can notify utility companies so that your utilities are not shut off. You can normally wipe out your utility bills through a bankruptcy filing. If your utilities have been shut off before your bankruptcy has been filed, the public utility companies will have to promptly restore your service after your bankruptcy has been filed.
Mortgage company foreclosure proceedings or sheriff sales are usually stopped.
We can notify car finance companies so that there will be no vehicle repossessions. If your vehicle has been repossessed, it would normally have to be returned to you upon submitting proof of full coverage automobile insurance.
If your landlord is trying to evict you, we may be able to stop that.
If the IRS is withholding your refund or taking other action against you, that has to stop upon filing of bankruptcy.
If anyone is trying to attach your wages, they will usually have to stop. If anyone already has a wage attachment against you, that will usually have to stop. If any money is taken out of your wages after your bankruptcy has been started, it will usually have to be returned to you by the creditor that took your money.
Sometimes we can even get money back that was taken from your pay check before you filed bankruptcy, so please let us know if you have a wage execution. If they took $600 or more from your salary within the 60 days before your case is filed, there is a good chance that we can get you the money back.
If anyone has frozen your bank account, you may still be able to get your money back.
If you have lost your driver's license due to inability to pay surcharges, we can work on helping you get your license back.
If anyone is suing you for just about anything, that lawsuit will usually have to stop, unless the bankruptcy court gives the creditor or any other party that is suing you permission to continue with the case against you.
The court will assign a case number to your case. With electronic filing, we now get an immediate case number. You will also receive a copy of the case number in the mail within a few days after your bankruptcy case has been filed.
You will also receive a document from the bankruptcy court called Notice of Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Case. Your creditors also receive this document, and that is their official notice from the Bankruptcy Court that you have started your case and listed them as a creditor. Please review that document carefully because it gives you information as to when and where you need to appear for your bankruptcy meeting. The meeting is called the Meeting of Creditors, but actually creditors hardly ever appear.
The bankruptcy meeting is not before a judge. It is simply before a person appointed by the court to act as what is called a "trustee". The meeting usually takes five to ten minutes, and is usually very easy. There is nothing to worry about. The meeting is normally scheduled in Camden at 8th and Cooper Street, in room 102 of the Bridge View Building. We will give you directions. If you live in Cape May County or Atlantic County, the meeting is scheduled at 1423 Tilton Road in Northfield.
We will be there with you at the meeting, and you will be fully prepared to answer all questions. You do not have to appear in court. This meeting takes place with a lawyer in a small room in an office building. They schedule about 7 meetings for every 30 minute block of time, so you can see that in most cases the meeting takes about 5 minutes or less. You probably already know all the answers to the questions that the lawyer is going to ask you because they are very basic and simple. The most important things that you need to remember are to simply relax and tell the truth.
Also, you do not have to be dressed up. You can wear the clothes you normally wear on a typical day. It is usually not a good idea to wear any kind of fancy clothing or expensive looking jewelry.
Your attorney is with you and will review your petition with you before you appear in front of the trustee, so you should show up for the meeting about 15 minutes before it is scheduled.
The meeting takes place in a public room, so you can expect that there will be maybe 5 other bankruptcy clients in the room, and maybe 2 or 3 other lawyers.
When you go to your meeting, you must bring your social security card and a government approved photo ID. If you do not bring these items, you will probably have to come back again.
You are sworn in by the trustee to tell the truth. Everything is usually pretty informal. The meeting will take about 5 minutes in most cases.
Be prepared to show the trustee your social security card and a valid government approved photo ID that has not expired. If you bring your driver's license, make sure it is a current license and not an expired license.
You will be asked to verify your signature on the bankruptcy petition. You will also be asked to verify that you reviewed the petition before you signed it and that all the information was true and correct. If there are any changes or additions you want to make, let the attorney from our office that is with you know before you are sworn in. Tell your attorney about any changes before you go in front of the trustee.
An example of a change would be a new address, new job, adding a new creditor that you might have forgotten, or any other corrections or additions that were not originally included for whatever reason.
what is the property worth now.
what is the approximate payoff on any mortgages you owe.
If you have financed a car, the trustee may ask what you think the car is worth, and how much you still owe to pay off the car.
The trustee will normally want to see one or two recent pay stubs. Bring a pay stub that shows what your average weekly or biweekly income is. Don't bring a pay stub that shows too much income because of unusual overtime. Don't bring a pay stub that shows too little income because it does not cover a full pay period.
Have you transferred, given away, or sold any property to anyone in the last 4 years before you filed for bankruptcy?
Have you been injured in an accident, and are you making a claim against anyone, or have you filed a lawsuit against anyone for your injuries where you are trying to get money?
Do you have any other types of claims or lawsuits against anyone?
If the answer to any of the above questions in yes, make sure that you let the attorney that is with you know this before you are sworn in to answer the trustee's questions.
In most situations, you will have already been asked these questions by us when we met with you in our office, and you will already have been prepared for these questions.
When is the last time you used any of your credit cards before you filed for bankruptcy? If you used any credit card within 90 days before you filed your bankruptcy, make sure to let us know before you get sworn in for your meeting.
The final question by the trustee is usually something like this: "What happened in your life that caused you to file for bankruptcy?" The trustee is not looking for any long drawn out answer.
You can normally answer this question in 20 words or less. For example, if it was a loss of job, medical problem, accident, marital issues, legal issues, mismanagement of your money, or anything like that, that's really all that you have to say.
After that, the trustee will usually conclude the hearing, and you are now on your way to obtaining your discharge and wiping out your debts.
After the meeting is concluded, the trustee will submit a report to the bankruptcy court to indicate that you qualify for a bankruptcy discharge and that you should be approved. If for some reason the trustee does not feel that your bankruptcy should be approved (this is pretty unusual), the trustee will let us know what has to be done so that your bankruptcy can be approved. This might happen in about 5% or less of the cases that are submitted.
After your meeting, you will be getting one or more documents from the bankruptcy court and you should be aware of what those documents mean. The most important document is the Bankruptcy Discharge. This will be received about three months after you have had your meeting.
Keep the Discharge document because this is the proof that all of your debts have been forgiven and legally wiped out. If any creditor ever tries to collect from you in the future and you have listed that creditor in your bankruptcy, the discharge is your proof that your debt has been wiped out.
If you own real estate, you will probably receive in the mail a document called a Notice of Proposed Abandonment of Property. This means that the trustee is abandoning his right to make any claims against your property, and that you can keep your property without any problem.
If you read this document, it is worded in "legalese", and it might cause you to worry if you didn't know ahead of time what it meant. Because the document is called Notice of Abandonment, people sometimes think that they must abandon or give up their home or other real estate.
That is totally incorrect. In fact, the opposite is true, and it is good news when you get that document. The document mentions a court date in the event anyone objects. It is extremely rare that anyone objects, and you do not have to go to court on the court date mentioned in the Notice of Abandonment.
Thus, when you receive the Notice of Abandonment, it is great news, and you are on your way to successfully completing your case and receiving your discharge. So, when you get this notice, be happy and celebrate your victory over debt.
If you are working and paying your new bills after you have filed your bankruptcy case, you might be very pleasantly surprised to see that credit card companies are soliciting you and offering you credit cards after you have been discharged. This is not unusual, and it is not very hard to reestablish credit if you maintain good employment and pay future bills.
If you ever need assistance with buying a house, obtaining a mortgage, or financing a car in the future, feel free to call us because we know people in the business that help our clients who have successfully gone through the bankruptcy process.
After you have your discharge, you are legally entitled to the fresh start provided by the bankruptcy laws. Obtaining your discharge is the official conclusion of your bankruptcy case in most situations unless you are expecting to receive a substantial asset in the future, like an inheritance of a large settlement on a personal injury case.
In that type of situation, the bankruptcy court could keep your case open until the court has complete information as to the amount of your personal injury settlement.
If you inherit any property within six months of filing your bankruptcy, you must notify us and the bankruptcy court.
Most people find that their lives are much better after they have gone through the bankruptcy procedure. Married couples have told us that their marriage has improved because of much less financial stress and tension.
You actually do not have to wait for your discharge to get your fresh start, because all creditors have to stop contacting you immediately upon the filing of your bankruptcy. Therefore, if any creditors contact you directly after you have filed bankruptcy, simply tell them that you are in a Chapter 7, give them the date your bankruptcy was filed and your case number, and they have to leave you alone. If they do not leave you alone, they may be violating federal laws, you could possibly sue them, and you might get rich.
For most clients, the goal in Chapter 7 is to wipe out all of their debts, obtain a discharge from the Bankruptcy Court, and keep all of their assets, including their money, their home, their vehicles, their personal property, and their retirement funds.
Chapter 7 is a pretty liberal law for debtors. When filing Chapter 7, you are allowed to own a home, cars, jewelry, and other assets, and you may maintain active bank accounts. You are allowed to have money and assets and still wipe out your debts. Of course there are limits as to the value of the assets you own, and we will review those limits with you when we meet with you and prepare your case.
There are also limits on the amount of money you can earn and still qualify for Chapter 7. For example, if you are a single person, and you are making over $100,000 per year, that is well above the legal limit, and instead of filing a Chapter 7, we would probably discuss other alternatives with you, such as debt settlement, or maybe filing a Chapter 13 where you might just pay back a small portion of your debts.
The amount of income you earn per month compared to the amount of reasonable expenses you have per month can also be a factor in determining whether you can wipe out all of your debts.
For example, let's assume you have $40,000 in credit card bills that you would like to wipe out. You need to disclose your income and expenses on a monthly basis, and you may need to demonstrate that you simply do not have enough money to pay the normal monthly bills, let alone your credit cards.
Let's assume you earn $4000 per month and also have $4000 in reasonable and necessary expenses, not including your credit card debt. In this example you obviously can't afford to pay the credit card bills and you qualify to wipe them out by filing for Chapter 7.
On the other hand, if you earn $4000 per month, but you have only $3500 in reasonable and necessary monthly expenses, the court could say that since you have $500 per month left over, you should use that $500 to pay some of your credit card bills. This type of situation might prevent you from filing a successful Chapter 7. If it turns out that you have excess monthly income that would allow you to pay some of your credit card bills, we will propose some potential alternate solutions that could help you get a fresh financial start.
The ultimate goal in Chapter 7 is to obtain that discharge, have all of your debts forgiven by the federal government, and keep all of your property. In order to get that discharge, you must complete the debtor education program, and you can do that on the internet or by phone. It usually takes about 90 minutes to 2 hours to complete this program.
Once you get that discharge, why not celebrate your victory over debt. Reward yourself for having taken responsibility, and having used the laws of this country for the purposes for which they were intended. Maybe you'll even feel like throwing a victory over debt party for yourself, your family, and your friends.
Enjoy the new beginning that our United States Constitution has permitted you to achieve. Savor and enjoy the feeling of finally being debt free. And who knows, a few years from now you just might be saying that having filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy was one of the smartest moves you ever made.


The worst movies of 2011 are the films that left moviegoers scratching their collective heads, wondering what in the world prompted them to plunk down $10 (or more) to be tortured in a darkened theater. Or they're the bad movies that made me so mad I literally got up and left halfway through (hey, I always stay through the opening credits). We're talking awful, mind-bendingly horrific celluloid monstrosities here. Not just the middle-of-the-road, take-it-or-leave-it kind of movie. No, this list includes the 2011 movies that were so terrible, they were beyond redemption. The "I demand a refund!" movies on this list represent the worst of what Hollywood had to offer everyone this year. Vote for the worst movies of 2011 and, if you were particularly offended by a movie that isn't on this list? Add it!
Obviously any list of "good" or "bad" anything is subjective. Not everyone's going to agree, for example, that 'Season of the Witch' was a bad 2011 movie (it was, trust me). Some people will continue to swear that 'Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star' is downright brilliant, Oscar-worthy comedy (I hate you, whoever you are) and others might say, "Well, I kinda laughed a little during 'Jack and Jill,' especially the fart parts." Some will argue that 'Zookeeper' is genuinely comedy, or that 'Abduction' was a terrific thriller filled with Taylor Lautner and his killer abs. Good for you! Vote on this list, then, and let your (somewhat misguided) voice be heard!
Now that you've seen the worst films of 2011, how about injecting a little hope? Check out the list of the best movies of 2011 as proof that there were indeed some fine, fine movies released. Also, take a look at, and vote on, the best comedy movies and the best horror movies of 2011! See? It is still possible to make a great movie (though you might not know it from looking at this list).


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Interview: David Lowery on 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints'
Written by Sean Axmaker August 22, 2013
David Lowery
David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints plays like the cinematic answer to an outlaw folk song. Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck play lovers Ruth and Bob, separated when Affleck heads to prison and Mara settles down to raise their daughter, looked after by Affleck's shady but loyal father figure (Keith Carradine) and looked in on by lovesick policeman Ben Foster. Comparisons to Terrence Malick are not misplaced, but this has more in common with Thieves Like Us than Badlands, with Affleck as both a wild kid and cold killer and Mara as devoted mother and lover balancing her heart's desire with her realist's understanding of how his desperate prison escape is destined to end.
This is Lowery's second feature, but his first film, St. Nick, remains undistributed and to date has only been seen in festivals (Robert C. Cumbow reviewed the film for Parallax View in 2009). Ain't Them Bodies Saints may change that. It opened in New York and Los Angeles on August 16 and opens in Seattle (and becomes available on cable On Demand) on Friday, August 23.
I spoke with David Lowery when he came to the Seattle International Film Festival in May 2013.
How did you land such a great cast for your second feature?
They all really liked the script, and that was great. One of the things that helped was that I made this short film called Pioneer that played at Sundance in 2011 and when we sent the script out, I sent that short film with it. Pioneer is fifteen minutes long and is just a father telling his son a bedtime story. I wrote it while I was writing Ain't Them Bodies Saints and even though it's a very different film, it speaks to some of the same ideas and same themes. Because it is just two actors, one of whom is four years old, talking for 15 minutes, and the film works—I don't want to speak to highly of my own work but it was successful in what we tried to do—I think that gives the actors confidence in signing on to this film. They had the script, and that gave them an idea of what I wanted, and then they would see that short film and I think that helped a great deal in them saying, Yeah, we'll take a chance on this guy. Because my previous feature, St. Nick, was so tiny it's hard to gauge from that film how this one would be, but that short film I think was very instrumental. All the actors in Ain't Them Bodies Saints were all my first choices for the part and through some miracle all were available and all wanted to do it and it came together in a rather miraculous fashion.
While watching Ain't Them Bodies Saints, I thought about Thieves Like Us and They Live By Night, both films that are built on the idea that these young outlaws were born into this world and living in a perpetual depression.
I'm really glad you brought up They Live By Night because that's one that I watched for the first time while I was at the end of the screenwriting process. The script was done and I don't know if it was after we cast it, but I watched it and something I love about that movie is the way the last act, or almost the last act—the act breaks are weird in that movie—but it turns into this extended chase sequence that starts off feeling like it's going to be just a small aside, it's not going to be the climax of the movie, and it turns into this great mountainside chase sequence and it's really intense and that becomes a huge part of the movie. And then you've got the thing with the Ma, which is extended as well, but that was something I thought about a lot in terms of how our movie finally moves towards what might be considered the one action scene and then takes on unexpectedly epic proportions, to some extent, at least.
Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck
And I really enjoyed how we learned more about the characters through the course of the film. You don't make a point of making them mysterious, you simply throw us into the middle of their lives without an introduction and we get references to this and that and fill out this sense of their lived histories.
I love the idea of characters with history and I love the idea that people live in a world where everyone just understands what's happened and they don't need to talk about it. So if you drop into the middle of it, you might pick up a reference here and a reference there to something that's happened and gradually you put together a patchwork understanding of who someone is and where they're coming from, but no one ever sits down and just talks about, you know, does the whole David Copperfield thing: "I was born…" No one every pauses to do that so you just piecemeal it together. And as an audience member I love that. I love getting these cyphers, so to speak, and gradually through decoupage figuring out who they are as human beings and what their history is. And that's a fun way for me to write characters. I always fall back on this description of it: I start off with an archetype and just gradually figure out what it is that makes them a full-fledged human being. I think with this movie, you start off throwing these people up there in archetypal relief in the beginning of the film and gradually, with the information you get, it chips away at the edifice of the archetypes. A little snippet of information here, another one there, and gradually you realize that they're actually people and not these grand, mythic figures that Casey [Affleck's character], at least, thinks he is.
They are also not their backstory. They are who they are in the moment.
Very much so. Everything has led them up to this point but they're not… I could talk for twenty minutes about the relationship between Keith Carradine and Casey and Rooney's characters, but that's not what I wanted the movie to be, so we had it there, we knew what it was, and if we could make a reference to it obliquely, sure. But it wasn't what the movie was about and I didn't want to spend much time reminiscing, even though they do towards the end of the movie because everything's falling apart. At the outside, you just jump in.
And you know there is history because of the way they deal with each other. Did you give your actors a backstory or work with them to develop their backstories so they knew who they were?
Not really. I think every actor, they need different things, they have a different approach. With Ben Foster, for example, we came up with a pretty significant backstory that he then employed in the way he played the characters. But with Casey and Rooney and Keith, the triumvirate we start off with at the beginning of the film—the criminal underside of whatever they are—I wrote about a 20-page prologue that outlined in very short form exactly how the characters, Bob and Ruth, met, what their relationship to Keith Carradine's character was, and everything that happened leading up to the moment the movie begins, the robberies and everything they did. And that was all the backstory that either of them ever read. It gave them just enough to have a clear idea of who they were, and beyond that I think they took it and ran with it themselves. I know that they came up with things on their own but that was for them to do and for them to use and they didn't need to share it with me nor did I need to see it. I just needed to see how they play the characters in the moment, as you say. I needed to see them at that moment that we're joining them, that was all that really mattered.
Your cinematographer, Bradford Young, is amazing. I've only seen a couple of the many films he's made, and they don't look anything like Ain't Them Bodies Saints.
I'd seen Pariah, which won the cinematography award at Sundance two years prior, and I was meeting a lot of cinematographers and talking to a lot of them. Everyone was incredibly talented and their work was great and some of them were people who I'd admire for years that I was surprised wanted to do this film. And I met Brad and was instantly… You want to have like a psychic connection with your collaborators, you always want to have that twins syndrome, where you finish each other's sentences, and Brad was instantly on that level. I hadn't seen anything that he had done that looked the way I wanted this movie to look, but everything he had done was so wonderful, so beautiful, and there were things about it that I knew that I could use as touchstones, but more than that I knew that he had an immense talents.
When we began working together, we went through old photographs, we looked online and tried to find all sorts of reference materials, and then gradually distilled those down to just five or six pictures that represented the colors, the textures, the way we wanted the night scenes to look, and really just came up with a very deliberate and very carefully planned visual guide for the film. And we did a lot of tests as well. You always think the things that make up an image in a film are the lenses, the medium, whether it's film or digital—in this case we were using film—and then which film stock you use, but one thing people don't think about a lot is how that film was processed and that was something that Brad was really excited to experiment with and to test out and to research. We did a day of shooting film tests and then tried out different ways of processing it in different chemical combinations and found out exactly the right way to get what we hoped would be a film that looked like a piece of wood. We always described it as we wanted a movie to have perfect clarity and yet look like it was shot through a burlap sack. There's a really fine like between a grainy image and a perfectly clear image and we tried to find that point where you could feel the image, where you feel like you could just reach out and scrape your hand across it and feel it, and yet at the same time it never felt like an underexposed image that was grainy because there wasn't enough light. Finding that fine line was a long process and on the set itself it was difficult to get the light right. There was a lot of finessing a scrim here, a fader there, trying to get exactly the right level so the exposure would be what we needed to pull that texture out of the image. About halfway through the shoot we were like, Maybe we bit off more than we could chew, we only have 28 days to shoot this movie and this is taking so long. But it really paid off.
Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck in "a film that looked like a piece of wood"
The quality of light, even with all those incandescent bulbs, it looks like it was shot by hurricane lamps.
That was another thing with those bulbs. We wanted to light it with old things as much as possible. There were never any fluorescents in the movie, there was nothing that would give you a clean light, it was always a really dirty light, and we're very fond of saying that the movie looks really dirty because that was the texture we wanted.
You specifically don't say when this takes place and the closest you have to dating the film is the makes and models of the cars—and even then they were so old you couldn't tell how long they'd been running—a portable TV set, and a radio in the bar that looks like it was something out of the late 1960s.
We very purposely, and not without some controversy, decided not to put a time-stamp on the movie. I really wanted the time period to be something you felt rather than a reference to something else. I never wanted a scene, for instance, where they walked past a TV and there's the Vietnam War. We are not shy about saying the film takes place in the 1970s, but everything about it is… When we did our research on the movie, we travelled these little towns in Texas, like Meridian, where the movie takes place, and nothing's really changed. There are a few new cars here and there but everyone else is driving cars pretty much from the eighties or early nineties. They have ranches and farms so they're wearing clothes that have been made to last, so the clothes are all really old and the buildings are all from the thirties or forties and those haven't changed either. So it really is sort of a Twilight Zone feel and that was what we wanted to capture, that timelessness where you don't really know when something takes place. I feel that as soon as things became plasticized in American industry, that's when things began to get particularly dated. Computers are one thing, telephones are another thing, but when there became an influx of plastic everything… I was born in 1980 and that's the world I grew up in: plastic toys, plastic this, plastic that. So we really decided to cut our production design off at 1981. Anything before 1981 was fair game and rather than having a specific year in mind, it was more what feels right, what looks right. The police cars weren't technically period specific. Bob's truck and the police cars are from two completely different periods and they don't really make sense that they would exist in that world, but they felt right together and that was what we used as a barometer more than any actual date.
Even though I knew it was decades later, I kept thinking that this is the town that never escaped the Great Depression.
There was one still that came out when the movie first got into Sundance, and up until recently was the only still that was out there, and a lot of people assumed it was taking place in the twenties. That's great, that's exactly what we were hoping for, that it would have that elusive quality, and then hopefully that you would just forget about that as the movies wore on and it becomes that world.
And may I say, there are some great mustaches in the film.
We love our mustaches in Texas. The crew gradually, over the course of the shoot, the ones who didn't have facial hair felt a little bit ostracized, I think, because everyone started to grow beards and mustaches. Casey had a beard for the first two days because we were shooting the stuff with him breaking out of prison and he was so bummed that he had to shave it off for the rest of the movie. He was like, "Can't we just rewrite it so he has a beard for the whole thing?" It wouldn't have worked. But his beard did look fantastic.
You can view some of Lowery's short films at his website.
Tags: Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Casey Affleck, David Lowery, Rooney Mara
Blu-ray/DVD: 'Charulata' and 'The Big City'
The View Beyond Parallax… more reads for week of August 23


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STATELESS ON MAIN STREET
posted July 8th, 2020
In the past two decades, Tashi Dorji has traveled a long road. Making several dozen albums and touring the world, playing his guitar solo and in tandem with inspired others. Gifted with a sensitive and restless ear, he reaches through his guitar to find new sounds. The title of this forthcoming record, Stateless, is about more than just playing one's way into somewhere else. It invites us to perceive hair-raising truth; these are free pieces in more ways than one.
A native of Bhutan, Tashi has lived in Asheville NC with his family since 2000. His career as a musician has flourished during this time - even as, in recent years, the government presiding over this country that he and we call home has taken a series of entirely despicable positions on the status of immigrants, refugees and foreigners of all kinds. On any level that we can imagine, this is a corrupt human policy. Our immigrant ancestors once lived in fear - must immigrants always? Or is this the cluttered and sinking path of a nation drifting into a sea change?
Stateless is a probing recital in which music, the texture of the instrument and the nature of the moment in which it is played are all of equal significance. Like a sculptor, Tashi flecks away at his acoustic guitar, percussive strikes discovering the shades of folkish melodies within, while continuously shaping other contours in a flow of improvised actions.
Stateless by Tashi Dorji
Stateless measures the miles on the charred highway we're all presently stalled upon - not going home again, at time on a march for no reason, other moments insensibly in the weeds, rummaging, looking for something. Watch the hypnotic video (video by Jason Scott Furr and art by Will Isenogle) for the first single "End of State, Part III" and mark your calendars for September 25th. Stateless is upon us all.
Artists in this story: Tashi Dorji


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Technique and feasibility of radical para-aortic and pelvic lymphadenectomy for gynecologic malignancies: a prospective study
Benedetti. P. Panici1,
G. Scambia1,
G. Baiocchi1,
S. Greggi1 and
S. Mancuso1
1 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Catholic University, Rome
Address for correspondence: Salvatore Mancuso, MD, Catholic University, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Largo A. Gemelli, 8 00168 Rome, Italy.
Of 284 patients evaluated for entry into the study between January 1986 and June 1990, systematic para-aortic and pelvic lymphadenectomy was performed in 208 cases (108 cervical cancer, 43 and 57 ovarian and endometrial cancer, respectively). The median number of nodes removed was 58, 49 and 54 for cervical, ovarian and endometrial cancer, respectively. The operating data are divided into 2 groups according to the consecutive number of the cases. The median operating time and the median estimated blood loss of lymphadenectomy was 230 minutes (range 120–270) and 390 ml (range 200–3300) in the first 95 cases. These operating data decreased to 150 minutes (range 100–240) and 250 ml (range 100–2800) in the second 113 cases. No surgery-related deaths occurred. Severe hemor-rages (blood loss exceeding 1000 ml) occurred in 6 patients. The obturator nerve was dissected in 1 patient and in 1 case the left ureter was cut. Formation of lymphoceles occurred in 20.4% of patients. Eighteen patients (8.8%) developed deep venous thrombosis. Nine of these patients experienced pulmonary microembolism. In 3 patients a retroperitoneal abscess was diagnosed. One patient developed a fistula of the most proximal part of the right ureter during the third postoperative week. The resection or coagulation of branches of the genito-femoral and obturator nerves determined mild paresthesis localized at the supero-anterior and internal side of thigh in 11 cases (5.4%). No statistically significant differences were found between the clinical (age, weight and previous chemotherapy) and pathological (type of cancer and lymph node status) parameters considered on one hand and postoperative complications on the other.
pelvic lymphadenectomy
para-aortic lymphadenectomy
gynecologic malignancies
gynecologic surgery
surgical techniques.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1438.1991.tb00028.x
© 1991 Blackwell Science Ltd.


An adventure for your classroom!
What have I done my first two official days off? Grad work, working out, and working on crafts! I've been busy, but it's SO nice to know I can do it on my own schedule with summer days!
I wanted to pop in today before I go grocery shopping to link up with a great linky that has just started and I am SO excited abut!
This amazing new linky with Reading Towards the Stars!
When I was thinking of what book I was going to review, I knew I HAD to do this one.
All of my followers out there, I know you probably could've guessed it before I said it.. but it's because I LOVEEEEE this book.
I always blog about my Fantastic Folder Narnia Lapbook that we wrap up the year with, but I've never really gone into detail as to WHY I use The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in my classroom. So here's my review on WHY!
I still remember when I first read this book. It was the summer between my 4th and 5th grade year, and I was at that age where finding books I like was getting hard. Most books were either "too young" for me, or my mom wouldn't let me read them because they were "too mature." It was so hard to find anything! My mom suggested I read LWW, so I listened to mom, and I did!
Let me tell you, it was LOVE at first page.
A book filled with a land of fantasy where there is danger, evil, kindness, talking creatures, war, and love? I was hooked! It's for these same reasons that boys and girls alike in my class love reading this story every single year.
The four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are sent away from their homes in London, to the Professors house in the London countryside because of the air raids in WWII. <<I LOVE that the book begins with this. Right away, we tie in history and my students want to learn more! I have students spend a little time researching about who was bombing them and what was going on in the world. It makes for great discussions and connections.
When the children arrive at the Professors house they find that it is a very old house, but a mansion. They spend time exploring the many halls and rooms, and are intrigued by it all. Then, one day, while playing hide and seek, the youngest, most curious, and loving sibling Lucy, hides in a wardrobe in an empty room. It is through this wardrobe that she discovers Narnia. Here she meets Mr. Tumnus, a faun, who tells her all about the evil White Witch who claims she is queen and rules over Narnia, making it always winter and never Christmas! He tells her of the prophecy that 2 sons of Adam and 2 daughters of Eve need to fill the thrones at Cair Paravel to break the spell of the white witch.
Eventually, her 3 siblings get into Narnia with her, and the magical tale of adventure, suspense, good vs. evil, forgiveness, and righteousness begins.
Hooked yet? You should definitely read it if you haven't already!
There are SO many teachable moments in this book. The themes are so powerful. My students always produce such wonderful writings of good conquering evil, being able to forgive those who have wronged you, the power of family, sacrifice, and so many other themes that you find in the story. It is a great way to introduce or review Figurative Language because the book is rich in it and the students can understand it. It is FILLED with symbolism and imagery that even 4th graders can understand! Students vocabulary is broadened by the difference in the 1940s way of talking combined with the British accents. C.S. Lewis describes everything in such vivid detail, including his characters, so students can get a true picture of the story in their mind.
Read it, teach it, love it. You won't be sorry, I promise! I use my Fantastic Folder and a Powerpoint that has a series of chapter review questions, writing activities, discussion activities, and extension activities to teach this book (I will be making this Powerpoint available on TPT soon, I promise!) Even if you don't teach it in this way, at least use it as a read aloud.
Thank you for linking up! I remember reading that book and being swept away into another world! I can't wait for my son and daughter to be old enough to read and appreciate it.
Whoop! Whoop! Look at the newest little picture in your followers log:))))))) Sorry, didn't know I wasn't following:/ Love your lapbook! It's awesome! Do you have a generic version that goes with any book?????
YAY! Glad to have you following!! :) I am actually working on a generic version for fiction and one for nonfiction as we speak! I hope to have them done by the end of next week :) I will blog about them and let you know when they are posted! They are so much fun!
I so love this book! I am a little addicted to the Narnia series!


I just finished visiting 3 schools in the Dripping Springs School District (in Texas) and we had a blast ... I think I made one kid laugh so hard that milk came out his nose ... at least I think it was milk ... not sure... anyways it was fun. Dripping Springs has great schools, kids, teachers and administrators. Thanks everybody for having me.
This weekend I will have a booth at the Georgetown Texas Red Poppy Festival on Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday (April 24, 25 and 26).
Come on down and enjoy some good music and art and I will be there to sign books for you all 3 days.


Everything comes back to nature.... When designers are looking for new ideas or trying to create environments that evoke feelings, it's our humble opinion that they should be looking to natural science. We apply our scientific understanding of natural objects and materials to create interiors, exhibits, and art which truthfully reflect and incorporate parts of nature.


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Q: Matching First and Last Occurrences Only - JavaScript So I am making a simple BBCode parser in JavaScript, nothing too fancy. I first need to get a regular expression that will match only BBCode and will only match the first and last occurrences of the tag. This will help with items that are nested in each other such as
[b][c red]This should output bold red text[/c][/b]
which should be parsed to
This should output bold red text
The current "Master" regex (the one that detects if there is any BBCode in the string) is as follows.
(\[{1}([^\[]{1,3})(| .*?)\]{1}(.*?)\[{1}(\/{1}[^\]]{1,3})\]{1})
Is there any way to alter this in order to detect only the first and last matches?
Note: I want to exclude wikilinks such as [[Main Page]]

A: Regular expressions wouldn't be the right tool for the job, just like it isn't the right job for parsing HTML.  This is because it is a context-free language and not a regular language (hence regular expression).
However, I can never complain with someone working on something as a "small problem solving exercise" (that's why I'm on SO). You said my comment helped, so I'll post it and add an explanation.
\[(\w{1,3})\](.*)\[\/\1\]
<$1>$2</$1>

First we look for [ followed by our first capturing group of 1-3 "word" characters ([a-zA-Z0-9_]) followed by the ].  This \w can be replaced with [^\]] to match any character but the closing bracket or really anything else of your choosing (I'm not entirely sure of the BBCode specs and what a tag can consist of).  Then we will (greedily) capture 0+ characters into another group.  Finally, we look for a [\ containing our first captured group (\1 which references to \w{1,3}) followed by a ].  Since we used a greedy capture with (.*), it will keep going until it gets to the last closing tag.
Now we have 2 captured groups, one with the tag and one with the contents.  You can change the [ to < by simply referencing the groups: <$1>$2</$1>
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