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Amplifying Tufts' Impact
By fostering collaborations, Tufts CTSI brings scientific discoveries to the clinic and beyond.
By Molly McDonough; Illustrations by Chris Madden
To be truly groundbreaking, a biomedical discovery needs to make a difference in the real world. That's the premise driving translational science, a field that bridges gaps between research and clinical implementation. "We want to avoid the practice of doing research just to discover things," said Harry Selker, dean and principal investigator at Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). "Only when it gets out in the community is there any impact."
Founded by Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center in 2008, Tufts CTSI has been a pioneer in a relatively nascent field. In addition to overseeing a graduate pro- gram, it provides support and seed funding, runs an online-learning platform, organizes an expert panel of stakeholders to guide research teams, partners with hospitals to promote multisite clinical research, and much more. And its tireless commitment to translational science is paying off: This year, Tufts CTSI earned its third Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health, receiving a perfect score in the award's "UL1" section (encompassing the administrative core, informatics, community and collaboration, and more).
Among sixty or so CTSA recipients in the United States, Tufts CTSI stands out. While translational science is often touted as taking discoveries from "bench to bed- side"—from the laboratory to patients— CTSI pushes the adage further than most: to broad clinical practice and public policy. "We consider ourselves the extrovert CTSA," said Selker. "We're more public- policy oriented." Alice Rushforth, executive director of Tufts CTSI, agreed: "We have spent a lot of time focusing on interacting with and engaging the community," she said.
Moving forward with the new $56 million award, Tufts CTSI plans to bolster the internal and external collaboration that has long been its driving force. "We realize we are not the largest university or medical school in the nation, but we have strengths that are specific to us," Selker said. Those strengths are fundamentally tied to partnerships—Tufts CTSI involves various stakeholders in its research, from community groups to industry to hospitals, payers, and patient advocates. "While that might mean more work initially," Selker said, "you'll have a more relevant, and hopefully, a more impactful outcome."
So, what does that impact look like? Ahead, four projects fostered by Tufts CTSI display how translational science is improving medicine.
RETHINKING TREATMENT FOR KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
From celecoxib to naproxen, there are myriad drugs to treat knee osteo-arthritis—but which one works best? In his Dean's Award-winning Clinical and Translational Science graduate program doctoral thesis, Raveendhara Bannuru, SK15, considered this question in a new way. Before his work, each intervention had generally been compared against a placebo. But with guidance and mentorship from the CTSI, Bannuru applied an innovative method to compare nine different drugs against one another, ranking them by efficacy.
The result? The treatments once considered more successful and prescribed more often, turned out to be less effective. That's because not all placebos are created equal: Bannuru found that some placebos—specifically inert topical creams and saline injections—were actually more effective than certain active oral treatments, due to varying psychological effects and patient-doctor interactions. "We answered a common question using novel methods and techniques," said Bannuru, who is the director of the Center for Treatment Comparison and Integrative Analysis at Tufts Medical Center and an assistant professor of medicine. "We would not have gotten these results with a traditional, randomized- trial approach."
The study, outlined in two 2015 articles in the Annals of Internal Medicine, created a buzz in the medical world; by bucking current practice, it fueled a change in perspective. "People will always strongly resist any paradigm shift," Bannuru said, "but this study withstood that assault due to its rigor and quality."
COMBATING INEQUALITY IN BREAST CANCER CARE
The fruits of biomedical progress don't always extend to all patients, especially when socioeconomic disparities come into play. Case in point: Although treatments in breast cancer have improved over time, racial disparities have increased. In Boston, for example, African-American women with the disease have a mortality rate that's 25 percent higher than the rate for white women. Launched in 2017, Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) aims to combat clinical inequality with strategies that have been shown to reduce delays in patient care, such as establishing health-care navigators for each patient. "One hypothesis is that vulnerable groups aren't getting access to the best treatments," said Karen Freund, vice chair for faculty affairs and quality improvement at Tufts Medical Center and a professor of medicine. "That's why it's so important to study this from a translational perspective, identifying places in the translational spectrum where innovations might not be reaching all people."
TRIP is a testament to the extroverted spirit of Tufts CTSI, which is teaming up with translational science institutes at Boston University, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts—plus Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Breast Cancer Equity Coalition—to put the $8.65 million NIH award to use. The goal of the project extends beyond the 1,100 Boston-area women it will help over the next five years. If the strategies are successful, they can be replicated elsewhere, Freund said, tackling other barriers to treatment for a wide range of diseases.
CONSIDERING COMMUNICATION IN KIDNEY DISEASE PATIENTS
Engaging patients and communities in clinical decision-making is central to translational science—and that includes finding ways to close gaps in communication between doctors and patients. Among older patients, treatment choices can be complex, levels of individual autonomy vary, and end-of-life discussions can be difficult. In older patients with kidney disease, for example, dialysis may not always present as much benefit as conservative management, and overly aggressive interventions may be detrimental. Yet few clinicians mention the possibility of conservative management to their patients. Older patients often do not understand that dialysis is voluntary, and research has shown that they do not always feel included in the decision.
With the help of Tufts CTSI—plus a multidisciplinary team and public and private partners—co-principal investigators Keren Ladin, assistant professor of public health and community medicine and occupational therapy, and nephrologist Daniel Weiner, A94, M98, SK04, associate professor at the medical school, are exploring these issues. Their study, "Promoting Autonomy and Improving Shared Decision Making for Older Adults with Advanced Kidney Disease," funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, combines qualitative research with a randomized trial to test the comparative effectiveness of a web-based treatment decision aid. "By taking a real-world problem that arises commonly in clinic, we then apply communication science frameworks, along with social- and behavioral-science approaches to examine the comparative effectiveness of our intervention," Ladin said. "Our study spans the translational spectrum—we've worked with stakeholders to develop an intervention which is now being used in widespread practice."
IMPROVING IDENTIFICATION OF GENETIC DISORDERS IN INFANTS
As the practice of whole-genome sequencing advances, how do we maximize the impact on patients? Among newborns with genetic disorders, it's sometimes difficult to pinpoint a conclusive diagnosis using standard testing—it can require years of exams, hospitalizations, and clinic visits. "The emotional and financial toll this takes on families, as well as the health-care system, can be staggering," said Jill Maron, executive director of the Mother Infant Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center and a principal investigator of the clinical trial, "Precision Medicine in the Diagnosis of Genetic Disorders in Neonates."
With an $8 million, five-year award from the NIH, Maron and coprincipal investigator Jonathan Davis, chief of the Division of Newborn Medicine at Tufts Medical Center, have initiated a national trial that will test two different approaches to genome sequencing: whole genome, and a targeted sequencing that analyzes 1,722 possible genetic disorders affecting newborns. Partnering with Tufts CTSI, the researchers will com- pare the two methods among 400 newborns to deter- mine accuracy and effectiveness. The study will also consider how much money targeted sequencing could save the health care system. "Our hope is that these platforms will transform care, lower hospitalization costs, and provide families with answers much sooner," Maron said.
MORE: Learn about exciting Tufts CTSI collaborations beyond campus.
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A new Tufts center is cracking down on one of the biggest global health concerns.
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Outsmarting Cholera
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A new study from Lila Flavin, M19, uncovers a surprising answer.
Getting in Tune
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A New Leader at Tufts Medical Center
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Abstract Autonomous characters in virtual environments have the potential to improve the interaction experience of users, specially, their social experience.This effect is driven by the interactions occurring between users and the autonomous characters, that in certain scenarios can be in the context of a group.However, for these group interactions to be successful, it is not enough to assure that the autonomous characters behave in a coherent manner from an individual perspective,but it is also necessary that they exhibit behaviours that are coherent with the group composition, context and structure. Therefore, we have developed a model to support believable group dynamics of autonomous characters, inspired in theories developed in human social psychological sciences. This model defines the knowledge that each individual should build about the others and about the group it belongs, and how this knowledge drives their interactions in the group. The model was integrated in the mind of the autonomous characters that perform a collaborative task, in a computer game, with a human player. The game was used in a study that showed that players' interaction experience was better when interaction with groups that followed our model, namely, regarding trust and social identification with the group. In addition, we found some evidence that players prefer playing in groups that have higher level of conflict.


What does genetic drift do to allele fitness and frequency?
Is speciation macroevolution or microevolution?
What are the 5 types of mutations?
what happens when speciation occurs?
Where do monophyletic groups separate?
Genetic drift will rapidly reduce genetic variation in small populations. Thus, it is a high priority to keep the population of endangered animals as large as possible.
In some cases, gene flow could be used to increase genetic variation and reduce inbreeding depression. However, gene flow can also be deleterious if the new alleles reduce the fitness of the endangered population.
Mutation rates are too slow to affect an endangered species; unless a deleterious or beneficial mutation mutation exposes the population to selection.
Are red and brown algae unicellular or multicellular?


Ending , but that leopard didn't change it's spots !
morning , no Happy Birthday cakes .
Always , always , bottom of the list for family holidays .
GC enjoy their Easter with other GP again !
LL you cannot change how they treat you. You can only change how you treat yourself. My GC are not with me today either, the only difference is that I don't feel left out. Why? Because I decided that my life is too short to spend days hurting over things that I cannot change so every time I think about that situation I willfully change my thoughts to something I enjoy thinking about. It takes practice and I still fall down sometimes but I no longer dwell in the abyss of emotion I used to inhabit. Now that you have had your "little moan" and gotten that off of your chest maybe you could go have a wonderful Easter! It is raining here so no Easter eggs hunts for anybody!!
Many thanks for your kind words .
It's that horrible word expectations !
No expectations , no disappointment .
I think I will ban holidays as that's the only time I have expectations . I decided to escape to my art world and spent three hours painting. It worked . The day has passed and I survived .
So lovely to hear from you again Luise , I've missed you and your words of wisdom . I won't leave it so long next time .
I think its our expectations and hope that get us into sadness. We want something and it doesn't happen and we get upset. Its human nature. I was reading in one of my textbooks about how women are socialized to be the glue of their family, keeping everyone together, doing all the work, etc. That made me realize how some of our expectations are probably cause we think we ought to do something or be something and then it doesn't happen. I got invited last minute to Easter luncheon but it meant traveling and staying in a hotel cause the daughter doesn't invite us to stay with her. We didn't go. Made up a good excuse and we spent the weekend cleaning up our current home cause we put an offer into another home. Kept my mind off the holiday.
Good for you! Hope you get the new place!
Are you still baking those wonderful clotted cream scones?
I am at the moment Luise .
However we are planning to retire this year and planning to sell up .
More time to travel and fulfil some dreams .
Thankyou Pen lovely to hear from you , I have accepted how things are and will be . Just every now and again things stick in my gut and make me both angry and sad .
I feel once I retire I will make plans to travel , if they occur around holiday times sobeit !
Love to all , sending hugs .
Uuuuhhhhh CLOTTED CREAM! There you two go again...making me gag and grimace!
LL...my Sister from another Mister...you do you.
That's right. You do YOU! It doesn't matter what the rest of us did or didn't do, I know how important those GC are to you. Sooo...now that you are almost retired, plan to travel on the holidays! You can go see all the wonderful things offered at holidays and don't have to worry about who's spending holidays with whom. Make yourself unavailable at holidays!
P.S. I would love to see your paintings someday!
So lovely to hear from you again and I HEAR you loud and clear .
I will never be allowed to have full access to my gc , I know that but it still hurts .My DIL has major issues which I don't want to add to , so I smile and move on .
Hope you're healthy and happy Pooh .
I hate to harp on about this but we are now being offered time to see our GC .
After their family get together for lunch we could possibly see them before bedtime . Or after school for an hour .
As next weekend we are away with the family .
Finding it hard not to say what I feel .
Feeling like the poor souls with a begging bowl just to see my GC .
Need to cloak up my heart again , we get let in , then have the door slammed once again .
Why ? I'll never know that answer .
This weekend was Father's Day in the States...another opportunity to feel unequal, underappreciated, passed over if we choose to look at it that way. My DH handles it better than I do, at least outwardly. I woke up this morning feeling like the fight was finally out of me, I was resigned to it. Permission granted to feel the sadness, then on with my day!
We don't have GC yet so maybe I'll turn into raging GM ("What do we want?" "Equality!" "When do we want it?" "Now!") when the time comes, but more than likely we'll take what we can get. I just hope that we aren't teaching a negative lesson, as Luise says. If it feels like abuse I hope we have the sense to stop it.


Fixed income: Open short in 2-year USTs. Within EMU, we overweight Ireland and Italy but we prefer to position for this through CDS. Equities: Asset reflation favors the high-risk, high-beta parts of the equity market. Credit: European credit 2010 outlook—stay overweight Financials focusing on Lower Tier II, Tier I issued in 2009, and distressed Financials within HY. FX: We stay short USD medium term and focus on crossrates where interest rate markets looked mispriced. Alternatives: Stay short oil, but long base metals and agricultural products.
With economic data coming broadly in line with expectations, asset reflation and risk premia compression have become more important forces for equity markets. Asset reflation favors the high-risk, high-beta parts of the equity market, i.e., small caps versus large caps, cyclicals versus non-cyclicals, and EM versus developed markets.
Retail flows into equity funds picked up this week. We need to wait for a few more weeks to see if a new trend is emerging. Retail investors have been reluctant buyers of equities so far and have deployed most of their excess cash into bonds. In contrast, the tactical flow remains supportive for equities as equity hedge funds appear to have been steadily increasing their equity exposure since April. The 21-day rolling beta of equity long-short hedge funds with respect to the equity market reached its highest level since January 2008.
with Energy being the best performing sector.


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ARCA's Fifth Annual Conference, June 21-23, Amelia
After the jump, a list of the speakers and award winners, the full conference schedule is available here.
Toby bull, Senior Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force, "Property of a Hong Kong Gentleman, Art Crime in Hong Kong – Buyer Beware";
Ruth Godthelp, PhD Candidate Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, Senior Police officer art related crime, Amsterdam Police, "The nature of crimes against Arts, Antiques and Cultural Heritage: A description of art-related crime in the Netherlands";
Saskia Hufnagel, Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, "Shifting Responsibilities: The Intersection of Public and Private Policing in the Area of Art Crime";
James Moore, retired trial lawyer and student of Caravaggio, "The Outrageous Theft of Caravaggio's Masterpiece The Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence";
James Bond, ARCA Alumnus, Certificate 2011, "The Theft of Rare Books from the largest Home in the United States";
Chris Dobson, Former Master Armourer to the Royal Armouries at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, "Claiming Fake 'Fakes' in the Trade in Arms and Armour";
Stefano Alessandrini and Derek Fincham will lead a discussion on the Fano Athlete/Getty Bronze;
Joris Kila, Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, ARCA award winner 2012, "An update on Armed Conflict and Heritage";
Nicholas M. O'Donnell, Partner with Sullivan & Worcester LLP, "American Wartime Art Restitution Litigation in the 1990s and Beyond– Has it All Been Worth it?"
Jerker Rydén, Senior Legal Advisor Royal Library of Sweden, "Skullduggering in the Stacks: Recovering stolen books for the Royal Library of Sweden";
Judith Harris, author and free-lance journalist, regular contributor to the New York monthly ARTnews, "The Role of Collectors";
Felicity Strong, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne, "The mythology of the art forger";
Joshua Nelson, MA Candidate in Art & Visual Culture, University of Guelph, "Framing the Picture: The Canadian Print Media's Construction of an Atypical Crime and its Victims";
Theodosia latsi, MA in Global Criminology, Utrecht University, "The Art of Stealing: The Case of Museum Thefts in the Netherlands";
Verity Algar, Art History Student, University College London, "Cultural memory and the restitution of cultural property: Comparing Nazi-looted art and Melanesian malanggan";
Giulia Mezzi, PhD Candidate University of Reading, "The origins of Cultural Heritage Protection in Italy, a historical survey"
Carrie Johnson, JD Candidate South Texas College of Law, "Cultural Property in Crisis: Whose Burden is it?"
Alesia Koush, Foundation Romualdo Del Bianco-Life Beyond Tourism in Florence, MA Candidate at the University of Cologna under Prof. Luciano Carrino, "The Right to Culture"; and
Cynthia Roholt, JD Candidate South Texas College of Law, "Human Remains: Permission and Plastination".
The conference will open with cocktails at Palazzo Farrattini on Friday evening, June 21. The speakers will present at Chiosto Boccarini on Saturday and Sunday. Imbedded in the conference will be tthe ARCA Award Presentations: Art Policing and Recovery Award to Sharon Cohen Levin, Chief of the Asset Forfeiture Unit in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York; Art Protection and Security Award to Christos Tsirogiannis, Archaeologist, Illicit antiquities researcher, University of Cambridge, former member of the Hellenic Ministry of Justice; Eleanor and Anthony Vallombroso Award for Art Crime Scholarship to Duncan Chappell, Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney, Australia; and the Lifetime Achievement in Defense of Art to Bianco Nino Norton, Consultant Petén Development Project for the conservation of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Ministry of Environment of Natural Resources/BID, Delegation of World Heritage Guatemala, Treasurer ICOMOS Guatemala, Presently serving as a Council Member for ICCROM.
To attend, please just RSVP to me at derek.fincham@gmail.com
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That Picasso Vandal was Sentenced to two years in prison
In the informal straw poll I've taken with Houston artists, art student and all-around jerk Uriel Landeros is universally reviled.
In June last year he spray painted a work by Picasso, woman in a Red Armchair, at the Menil here in Montrose. His lawyer attempted to partially defend the crime by arguing he was making an artistic statement. I find that a particularly unconvincing defense, as it seems the sentencing judge did as well.
A video of the damage was posted on youtube and Landeros fled to Mexico. But he turned himself in at the border in January, and agreed to plead guilty to a graffiti charge. He was sentenced to two years, but with his 5 months already served he may be eligible for parole soon. Glasstire reports that he may be planning to return to the University of Houston for his final semester.
Here's hoping he's denied admittance to Houston's museums. And he can't use this notoriety to further his art career.
Paula Newton, Picasso Vandal Sentenced to Two Years, Glasstire (May 21, 2013).
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Jason Felch Updates the Southland Antiquities Investigation
In Sunday's LA Times, Jason Felch reports on a languishing federal antiquities investigation. In 2008 there was a loud showy raid on five museums in Southern California, including: the Bowers Museum, the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, the Mingei Museum, and the LA County Museum of Art. We are now five years since those raids, which resulted in the seizure of 10,000 objects, but has not resulted in any objects being returned, or even in any prosecutions. At least not yet. Which is strange, because if agents display such force in searching and seizing material in a simultaneous early morning raid, surely that investigation should bear fruit.
One reason for that is the death of those under investigation. Some of those are the result of natural causes. But not the sad death of Roxanna Brown—a witness for investigators and later a target—who died while in federal custody, in a shameful display of federal mismanagement. Here is a full history of Brown:
Roxanna Brown's story: Part I, Part II, Part III and settlement.
Many who follow this investigation probably echo Prof. Stephen Urice, professor at the University of Miami Law School, who is quoted:
I'm baffled . . . Given the amount of illicit antiquities moving through the U.S. borders, these guys are really hacks. Surely there must be more significant people out there.
Felch reports that a criminal case against two men will begin in June: Robert Olson, aged 84; and Marc Pettibone, 62. Prosecutors allege that both men conspired to bribe officials in Thailand to secure export, and that the objects were then sold in the United States. And they would then use inflated appraisals for the objects and would secure excessive tax deductions for their donation.
All in all a troubling story on many levels. Few would dispute the staggering amount of objects which are being removed from Southeast Asia. But the prosecution and this investigation may be even more troubling. Its been a long investigation, with some very bad outcomes. The tragic death of targets of federal investigation is a growing trend in antiquities prosecutions. Think also of the three suicides which took place after the display of federal force in the four-corners antiquities investigation.
We can't of course blame federal investigators and prosecutors entirely, but they do share blame here, and if as many argue we are using these prosecutions to deter future smuggling, looting, and tax fraud, well the deterrent impact is very much in doubt. Criminologists can articulate this better than I, but a well-established truth that irregular regulation, even one which results in custodial sentences, cannot effectively deter. And when there is such a pall of controversy over these federal investigations, it may actually ossify the attitudes of individuals in the trade that they are being unfairly and unjustly targeted.
Jason Felch, Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say, Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2013.
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Cambodia Presses Other Museums
Tom Mashberg reports that Cambodia now has requested objects from others, including:
Denver Art Museum
The Norton Simon,
And of course Sotheby's which is challenging a federal forfeiture
New York's Metropolitan Museum announced it would return two other statues. It seems to have encouraged the Cambodians and their advocates to look for other similar material. And that precedent set by the Met may compel these other institutions to return objects. From the NYT piece:
The Met's two statues represent brothers of Bhima who knelt in attendance during the fight. The Met's statues were acquired in four pieces from donors 1987 to 1992. Those statues, plus the one from Sotheby's, are known to have gone through a London art dealer, Spink & Son, in the early 1970s. Cambodian officials say the broken pedestals of all those sculptures were left in the ground by the looters. Norton Simon, who died in 1993, bought the Bhima in 1976 from a Madison Avenue Asian art dealer and gave it to the museum in 1980. "In more than three decades, the foundation's ownership of the sculpture has never been questioned," the museum said in a statement. The Sotheby's statue was shipped to New York in 2010 to be sold at auction by its Belgian owner, Decia Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa. Her husband, who has since died, acquired it in 1975 and Sotheby's estimated its value to be $2 million to $3 million. Experts on antiquities trafficking say teams of bandits used ox carts to trundle their trophies along jungle trails and into Thailand, 15 miles north, during Cambodia's war years. In their case against Sotheby's, lawyers for the United States attorney's office for the Southern District of New York say the statue was one of many shipped illicitly from Bangkok to the United States and Europe after 1970. Sotheby's says the statue was legally purchased in good faith from a reputable London auction house in 1975 and it "denies knowledge that the Duryodhana statue was stolen." Cambodia's secretary of state, Chan Tani, said the looting of Koh Ker is especially crushing because its style of statuary exists nowhere else. "They are part of our soul as a nation," he said, "and they were brutally stolen."
One aspect I find really intriguing is how Cambodia has seemingly eschewed the Italian approach of offering long term loans and continuing to have a relationship with these institutions. Not sure why that may be, I'd be interested in hearing some ideas below in the comments.
Mashberg, Tom. "Cambodia Presses U.S. Museums to Return Antiquities." The New York Times, May 15, 2013, sec. Arts / Art & Design.
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The Met Announces the Return of two statues to Cambodia
Today, Ralph Blumenthal reports that the Met has agreed to return two 10th century statues to Cambodia. The Met's director Thomas Campbell is quoted as saying:
This is a case in which additional information regarding the 'Kneeling Attendants' has led the museum to consider facts that were not known at the time of the acquisition and to take the action we are announcing today.
The piece reports the statues may have been removed from Cambodia at around the same time the Koh Ker statue was removed, which is the subject of an ongoing forfeiture action by a federal prosecutor. Little information has been reported that I can find on the precise circumstances surrounding the removal of these statues from Cambodia. We know the instabality and conflict taking place in southeast Asia at the time of course. The statues were donated by Douglas Latchford in a series beginning in 1987. The parts of the statues were broken into pieces at some point, and the individual pieces of the figures were donated between 1987-1992. Conservators at the Met reattached the heads and bodies in 1993.
The Met should be congratulated for doing the right thing here with these objects which have such an important connection to Cambodia. This return may also give pause to Sotheby's, the Norton Simon museum, and others who have objects which were removed from Cambodia during this period.
Blumenthal, Ralph. "The Met to Return Statues to Cambodia." The New York Times, May 3, 2013, sec. Arts / Art & Design. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/design/the-met-to-return-statues-to-cambodia.html.
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Manhattan DA has Charged Kapoor and 7 Others
Student Note on the Scythian Gold from Crimea
Federal and local cooperation in the Kapoor investigation

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Kapoor Kiddies Samaira Kapoor & Kiaan Raj Kapoor Can't Stop, Won't Stop Wearing *This* Colour!
The Kapoor we're talking about this time is Samaira Kapoor, who is surely making a mark with her casual-comfy looks. Remember the last time the teen was seen in a red slogan sweatshirt while mom Karisma Kapoor and brother Kiaan Raj Kapoor twinned in matching black outfits? Seems like Samaira likes pop culture as much as we do, because she repeated her outfit, and just a few days later too, proving her undying love for the colour red along with slogan sweatshirts (obviously)!
At a recent outing in B-Town, Samaira Kapoor was seen (re)wearing her 'Stranger Things' slogan sweatshirt along with skinny black leggings and white sneakers. Dressed in this comfy outfit, the teen surely made a strong case for comfortable yet fashionable weekend dressing. We totally get Samaira opting for this pop culture-inspired red sweatshirt. After all, slogan sweatshirts seem to be all the rage in Bollywood! Also seen in a close hue of red was brother Kiaan Raj Kapoor, giving us proof that the Kapoor kiddies really, really have a thing for the bright, vivid colour. Who wouldn't, TBH?
In case you needed a refresher, here's a pic of Samaira wearing the same slogan sweatshirt a few days back. Needless to say, Samaira Kapoor's latest outfit also comes as a lesson in re-wearing one's ensembles without a care in the world. Celeb kids, they are just like us!
Also seen at a recent outing were Kareena Kapoor Khan and cousin Taimur Ali Khan, giving us mother-son fashion goals like all the other times they step out.
We just love the fashion looks from all the celeb kids. Keep 'em coming you guys!


35mm (30.0g) .900 fine gold. Numbered 1211/1250. Moshe Dayan and Yitsak Rabin in front of the wailing wall/ Israeli special forces insignia.
Central American Bank gold 50 Pesos 1970, ( 20 grams, 900 Fine.) KM-X1, Struck to mark the 10th anniversary of economic integration. mintage of 1500. Mimics the design of the Central American Replublic escudos.
1897 Pattern Talari (Thaler) Proof Gold restrike from the silver pattern dies. (40.2g.) KM X1 Amharic legend: "He is the Conqueror, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, One Birr" Extremely Rare. Purportedly from a mintage of 10 pieces, struck by Pinches in London in 1950 to commemorate the post war liberation of Ethiopia.
4 Dukaten 1917. (12,65 g.) Minted the year before his abdication upon his defeat by the allied forces in 1918. Schl. 5.3.4.
14K Gold Medal (Hallmarked pt.585 on rim with K for Kremnitz mint) (35 grams), 38mm; "Celostatina Vystava Postovych Znamok Bratislava 1937." / "Pro Filatelia" (engraved) "Arnost Berka." medalic tribute to philatalist convention in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, the last year of autonomy before the country was annexed and partitioned by Germany in 1938-9.
Benito Mussolini.Medallic/Pattern 100 Lire, 35mm (32.2g fine Gold). Helmeted bust of Il Duce l. Rv. Fasces with ax and lion's head. Rev: copy of the Vittoreo Emanuele pattern struck in 1928, Obv: with Mussolini's bust substituted for the King's.Bruce X2c. very rare.
Extremely fine.............. available on request.
Sycess: 1.002 gold bar struck during the Chiang Kai Shek rebellion. obv: Ancient "pu" weight, Rev: Characters (made by the central bank of China, year 4) (1.002 ozs.) Very Rare.
Sycess: .992 gold bar struck during the Chiang Kai Shek rebellion. obv: Ancient "pu" weight, Rev: Characters: (made by the Cantral Bank of China, year 4) (.992 ozs) Very Rare.


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Hyperimmune Globulin for Congenital CMV: A Signal of Harm
— Secondary analysis finds higher rates of placental syndrome
by Molly Walker, Associate Editor, MedPage Today February 7, 2020
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Women with cytomegalovirus (CMV) randomized to receive hyperimmune globulin during pregnancy were more likely to develop placental syndrome than those assigned to placebo, a researcher here found.
A secondary analysis of a randomized trial of hyperimmune globulin to treat CMV infection found a 1.49-fold increase in risk for placental syndrome, which includes preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, and small for gestational age infants, among women receiving hyperimmune globulin versus placebo (95% CI 1.04-2.13, P=0.03), reported George Saade, MD, of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
At the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine annual meeting, he noted that about 0.5% of U.S. infants are born with CMV infection, that it is the leading cause of childhood hearing loss, and is also a significant cause of developmental disability, which can have lifelong effects.
He cited certain scientific rationales that could explain why hyperimmune globulin could have a positive effect on the placenta, such as that CMV infects the trophoblasts and other cells in the uterus and placenta and may result in utero-placental dysfunction, as well as related adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Therefore, he hypothesized that CMV hyperimmune globulin treatment in women with CMV infection would improve utero-placental dysfunction, as well as prevent placental dysfunction and placental syndrome.
But that wasn't what happened.
While acknowledging that any explanation for higher risk of CMV infection with hyperimmune globulin would be "post-hoc," Saade offered a couple of theories at the presentation.
"I think ... hyperimmune globulin affects the immune system, particularly the utero-placental interface. Many adverse outcomes are related to an imbalance in the immune system," he said.
The main purpose of the randomized trial, Saade explained, was to evaluate hyperimmune globulin infusions for reducing risk of congenital CMV infection; interim results showed no significant difference in this outcome for hyperimmune globulin versus placebo, and the trial was stopped early for futility.
Of the 399 women enrolled in the initial trial, data were available for all but nine. Baseline characteristics were similar, with a median age of 27-30, most were white, and around 32%-36% of each group were nulliparous.
About 30% of women in the hyperimmune globulin group had placental syndrome compared with 20% of the placebo group, though there was no significant interaction based on race/ethnicity, maternal age, body mass index, or other demographic factors.
Severe placental syndrome was defined as preeclampsia or gestational hypertension requiring delivery prior to 37 weeks, low birthweight, preterm birth prior to 34 weeks or perinatal death, and there was no difference in risk between groups, though Saade noted that rates of severe placental syndrome were higher in the hyperimmune globulin group.
"Not only does ... hyperimmune globulin not prevent CMV infection or perinatal death, it may also cause harm," he said.
Saade hoped that research would eventually be able to uncover why hyperimmune globulin had this effect on women with CMV infection.
"I hope somebody takes this and goes to the lab and finds results," he noted.
This study was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development's Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network. Study drug was provided by CSL Behring, which had no input in the trial.
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Source Reference: Saade GR "The effect of treatment of maternal CMV infection on the development of placental syndrome" SMFM 2020; Abstract 2.


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Tru by Hilton Expected To Open First Property In Late 2016
By Lindsay Stein. Published on January 25, 2016.
Tru by Hilton's envisioned lobby
Credit: Courtesy of Hilton
Hilton Worldwide is introducing a new midscale hotel brand, Tru by Hilton, aimed at appealing to consumers of all ages who share values around what the company refers to as the "millennial mindset."
The new line is expected to open its first property in late 2016 and is looking to attract business and leisure travelers "united" by a common, youthful outlook, said Alexandra Jaritz, global head, Tru by Hilton, via email.
"These travelers tend to have similar expectations and travel attitudes, including a desire for human connection, an emphasis on personalization, and an environment that fosters creating experiences because creating memories is important to them," she said.
The brand's target audience also wants hotel basics, such as a great bed and technology integration, done well and at an affordable price point, said Ms. Jaritz.
Tru is initially focused on the U.S. and Canada and already has 102 signed hotels in place with an additional 30 in stages of approval. It will open in markets such as Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Denver, Portland, and Nashville.
In addition to the name "Tru" being understandable for guests, Hilton chose the moniker because it reflects its brand pillars of being "simplified, spirited and grounded in value," said Ms. Jaritz. The name also has creative legs and a sense of innovation to help it gain awareness, she said, noting that the word has associations with friendship, being true to your word and True North.
"It's a simple, yet memorable name," she said.
"By Hilton" was tacked on as a way to add value to the brand for owners and ensure guests of its reliability.
The Brand Consultancy, which Ms. Jaritz has worked with in the past, was hired to help the brand develop its fundamental elements, including the brand pillars, personality, messaging, logo, visual expression and launch communications. GSD&M has and will continue guiding the brand on its digital and social media efforts.
To stand out from Hilton Worldwide's other niche hotels, Tru will put a strong emphasis on how it represents the brand in its advertising campaigns, said Ms. Jaritz.
"It will be visually represented through spirited photos with playful and vibrant colors; custom, fun illustrations; circular shapes, not only to invoke our logo, but also to convey that we are different; and the custom vernacular we've created for this brand using three-letter words like zip, jam and fit," she said.
The brand will also put a lot of focus on connecting with consumers through social, such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Hotel lobby areas will even include a social media wall.
When asked if Tru by Hilton was created as way to combat the rising popularity of Airbnb, Ms. Jartiz said: "The consistency, quality, exceptional customer service and overall experience this brand will provide at an affordable price point simply cannot be offered by non-traditional providers."
Ms. Jaritz declined to disclose the brand's marketing budget, but said "we will have significant reach due to our brand-focused and portfolio marketing strategies."
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Q: Contract two lists Suppose I have two lists of the equal length in the form
powers=    {{rho th},{mu},{beta},{nu},{r},{}}
subscripts={{     }, {a}, {th},  {b}, {r},{mu,al}}
If there is a repeated element (one in the first list and other one in the second list) which I specify (for example in this case it is mu, but not r) then I remove it from both lists and create an element with the rest, for example in this case the out put should be
powers=    {{rho th},{beta},{nu},{r},{    }}
subscripts={{     }, {th},  {b}, {r},{a,al}}
I got the removing part
DeleteCases[powers,mu,Infinity]
DeleteCases[subscripts,mu,Infinity]
but struggling with the rest.
UPDATE:
I found how to combine the elements, now just need to remove $mu$ from them, but DeleteCases does not work.
posmu1=Position[power,mu][[1,1]]
posmu2=Position[subscipts,mu][[1,1]]
Flatten[powers[[posmu1]]powers[[posmu2]]]
It gives {mu rho th}, but now I cannot delete mu from it using DeleteCases.

A: Finally I got it

posmu1=Position[powers,mu][[1,1]];
posmu2=Position[subscripts,mu][[1,1]];
indpow1=DeleteCases[powers[[posmu1]],mu,Infinity];indpow2=DeleteCases[powers[[posmu2]],mu,Infinity];
If[indpow1!={}&&indpow2!={},powersadd=Join[indpow1 indpow2],powersadd=Join[indpow1,indpow2]];
subscriptsadd=Join[DeleteCases[subscripts[[posmu1]],mu,Infinity],DeleteCases[subscripts[[posmu2]],mu,Infinity]];
powerstmp=Delete[powers,{{posmu1},{posmu2}}];
subscriptstmp=Delete[subscripts,{{posmu1},{posmu2}}];
powersnew=Append[powerstmp,powersadd];
subscriptsnew=Append[subscriptstmp,subscriptsadd];

I need this additional to save the structure: powers should not contain comma and subscripts should.

A: This now appears to work
c = First@Flatten@subscripts[[Flatten[Take[Position[powers, mu], All, 1]]]];
Delete[subscripts, Flatten[Take[Position[powers, mu], All, 1]]] /. mu -> c
Delete[powers, Flatten[Take[Position[powers, mu], All, 1]]]

First, find the item in subscripts that corresponds to mu in powers; call it c.  Second, delete that item from subscripts.  Third, replace mu in subscripts by c. Finally, delete the item containing mu from powers.
Update: cleaner and slightly more general solution
contract[key_, list1_, list2_] := Module[{pos = {Position[list1, key][[1, 1]]}, rep},
  rep = If[Flatten@list2[[pos]] != {}, First@Flatten@list2[[pos]], {}];
  {Delete[list1, pos], Delete[list2, pos] /. key -> rep /. {{}} -> {}} // MatrixForm]

Then, for instance,
contract[mu, {{mu f}, {a}, {b}, {c}, {d}, {e}} , {{}, {mu}, {beta}, {gamma}, {delta}, {eps}}]

$\left(
\begin{array}{ccccc}
 \{a\} & \{b\} & \{\text{al}\} & \{d\} & \{e\} \\
 \{\} & \{\text{beta}\} & \{\text{gamma}\} & \{\text{delta}\} & \{\text{eps}\} \\
\end{array}
\right)$

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Some were perhaps personally affected by illegal profit-driven strategies aim at forcing renters from their rent-stabilized dwellings.
That would not be surprising. Reportedly, Croman and underlings working for him harassed and otherwise mistreated tenants in many of the nearly 150 residential buildings he owns across the city.
As we noted in the above-cited blog post, Croman paid a heavy criminal penalty for his misdeeds. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to several of the 20 felony charges he faced, and is now serving a one-year jail term on Rikers Island. Additionally, he was slapped with a $5 million fine for tax fraud.
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Q: How to select a string and use it to find the difference between the times in Powershell I have a text file that has a bunch of lines that logs my DNS. It records the time and the site that my devices request DNS.
I have the file located on c:\data
$path = 'c:\data\dns.log'
I tried to query the log by simple match for a word "xfinity"
$Query = get-content -Path $path | Select-String -SimpleMatch "xfinity"
Then I query the first time it requested and the last time it requested
$Query | select -First 1
$Query | select -Last 1
$1st = $Query | select -First 1
Then I tried to "isolate" just the time
$1st -Split ("dnsmasq")
and I got stuck below because I don't know how to select just the time. Did a lot of googling but most of the stuff just went over my head
Jan  7 15:31:14
[250]: query[A] www.xfinity.com from 172.17.0.1
How do I just get the "time" of the first line and "time" of the last line and find the elapse time between them?
Here is an example of the dns.log would look like after Select-string to simple match "xfinity"
Jan  7 15:31:14 dnsmasq[250]: query[A] www.xfinity.com from 172.17.0.1
Jan  7 15:31:14 dnsmasq[250]: forwarded www.xfinity.com to 8.8.8.8
Jan  7 15:31:14 dnsmasq[250]: query[HTTPS] www.xfinity.com from 172.17.0.1
Jan  7 15:31:18 dnsmasq[250]: query[HTTPS] dss-dl-prod.aws-origin.xfinity.com from 172.17.0.1
Jan  7 15:31:18 dnsmasq[250]: forwarded dss-dl-prod.aws-origin.xfinity.com to 8.8.8.8
Jan  7 15:31:18 dnsmasq[250]: reply dss-dl-prod.aws-origin.xfinity.com is <CNAME>
Jan  7 15:33:18 dnsmasq[250]: reply dss-dl-prod.aws-origin.xfinity.com is <CNAME>

A: *

*Generally, note that Select-String does not directly return the text of matching lines, it returns Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.MatchInfo objects whose .Line property contains the line text, alongside metadata.

*

*In PowerShell (Core) 7+, you can use the -Raw switch to directly request the text.

*In Windows PowerShell, you must access the .Line property value explicitly, either via (...).Line or by piping to Select-Object -ExpandProperty Line

*Once you extract the actual line text, you'll be dealing with strings, so you'll need to parse those strings into the fields they contain.

*

*The fields before : can unambiguously be extracted by using whitespace as the separator, which the unary form of the -split operator provides.

*You can interpret strings such as 15:31:14 as time spans, simply by casting them to the [timespan] .NET type.
To put it all together:
# Get the lines of interest.
# Note: In PowerShell Core 7+, you could simplify to:
#  $matchingLines = Get-Content $path | Select-String -Raw xfinity
$matchingLines = (Get-Content $path | Select-String xfinity).Line

# From the lines of interest, extract the first and last line.
$firstMatchingLine, $lastMatchingLine = $matchingLines[0], $matchingLines[-1]

# Calculate the elapsed time between
# the last and the first matching line.
[timespan] (-split $lastMatchingLine)[2] - (-split $firstMatchingLine)[2]


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Bridgewater, NJ – Tonight the Somerset Patriots (32-26, 82-46) host the York Revolution (33-24, 57-70) for the second game of a three game midweek series. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. from TD Bank Ballpark. Download today's comprehensive game notes. The Patriots are 10-5 against the Revolution this year. The Patriots lead the all-time series 86-85. This week marks the final homestand of the regular season. After this week the next home game will be Friday, September 25th which will be Game 3 of the First Round of the Playoffs.
First pitch scheduled for 7:05 p.m.
Righty Will Oliver (4-1, 2.92 ERA) toes the rubber for Somerset while southpaw Logan Williamson (7-11, 4.07 ERA) will toss for York
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The Patriots have been outscored 17-1 during their mini two game losing streak
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Убиства Срба у Сиску или Случај Сисак представља низ ратних злочина током рата у Хрватској у Сиску и околини које је Република Хрватска избегавала да процесуира. У оквиру ратних злочина који су се тада догодили страдало је 611 цивила углавном српске националности. Од тог броја 595 убијених је српске националности, затим 14 Хрвата и 2 Бошњака. Од укупног броја страдалих 120 је жена.

Ратни злочин
Већ у лето и јесен 1991, а посебно од септембра након што је ЈНА заузела Петрињу, а тамошње хрватско становништво избегло према Сиску и Загребу, већи број грађана Сиска углавном српске националности одвођен је из својих кућа и са посла и нестајао. Неки од њих касније су нађени мртви. Град је у то време био на првој линији фронта, под сталним знаком опште опасности и изложен минобацачким нападима, па је у њему владала несигурност, а део јавних служби није функционисао. Део Срба већ је раније отишао родбини на Банију или у Босну и Херцеговину, део у западне земље, а део је остао у граду. Неки су се придружили и Збору народне гарде. Док је део грађана хрватске националности у Сиску настојао наставити са заједничким животом у национално измешаном граду, групе наоружаних особа, неки мисле и уз подршку утицајних лица из полиције или власти, застрашивале су сисачке Србе. Тако је било паљења локала чији су власници били Срби, 1992. бачена је ручна бомба пред православну цркву Св. Петке и парохијски дом, а већи број људи нестао је или је убијен.

Број страдалих
Опширан списак од 611 жртава садржан је у казненој пријави од 25. априла 2007, коју је Заједница Срба у Хрватској поднела против тадашњег политичког врха Хрватске на челу са Грегурићем, као и утицајних лица из Сиска (Ђуро Бродарац). Они се терете да су били упознати или су сами сарађивали у догађајима из 1991. и 1992, када су грађани српске националности одвођени, злостављани, мучени и убијани на локацијама: "Барутана", "ОРА" и "Јодно" (бивше лечилиште). На том је списку 611 жртава. Убијени су из села: Блињски Кут, Кињачка Горња и Доња, Блињска Греда, Бестрма, Трњани, Чакале и Брђани.
Списак са именима несталих и убијених, њих 116, објавила је Хрватска љевица, где се каже да су у списак "Унесене особе чији су лешеви нађени, или су покопани на сисачком и сеоским гробљима и које су уведене у матичне књиге умрлих", као и да се "истинитост тврдњи да су биле изложене тортури, измасакриране, да имају прострелне ране можда још увек може проверити путем ексхумација и обдукција". Исти лист наводи да постоје пријаве чланова породица о више стотина несталих, али и да има и оних који тај списак стављају под знак питања. 25. јула 2007. државно тужилаштво у Сиску одбацило је казнену пријаву против чланова владе из 1991. (7 лица) уз следеће образложење: "Из документације и свих других података... произлази како је Влада Републике Хрватске, а самим тиме и чланови Владе, у оквиру својих овлашћења предузела потребне мере да би се могући злочини спречили и санкционисали." Државно тужилаштво још није донело одлуку по казненој пријави против лица са подручја Сиска. Државно тужилаштво Хрватске (Државно одвјетништво) располагало је 2006. подацима о 35 убијених.

Кривци
Према неким новинским изворима, за те су догађаје знали Фрањо Туђман, Јосип Манолић и Фрањо Грегурић.
У недељнику Национал објављен је још 1999. текст у којем су представљени материјали о нестанку Срба, које је Националу предао Стјепан Комарац, председник грађанског одбора за повратак Сисачко-мословачке жупаније. У тим документима се за масовне ликвидације Срба оптужују Јосип Брајковић, Иван Бобетко и Ђуро Бродарац. Један од сведока Златко Диздаревић тврди да су припадници Сивих вукова ликвидирали Србе у јодном лечилишту. Били су то манијаци, бивши легионари, који би резали Србима уши и низали их у котловници. Касније би ликвидирали Србе. Ови материјали нису још добили своју судску потврду.
За неколико убистава полиција Хрватске покренула је већ и раније истражне радње.

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NEW YORK - Hitler: The Rise of Evil fulfills its mission: taking viewers on a grim guided tour through an era gone mad. And it's a trip well worth taking.
What more to say about this CBS miniseries, which airs at 9 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday? The usual vocabulary of TV reviews – "gripping," "entertaining," "excellent" – seems jarringly out of place applied to such a drama.
Consider its dicey goal: to bring into America's homes a biopic of modern times' most infamous tyrant, and give him his due, yet avoid the dramatic misstep of ascribing even a trace of glamour or moral conflict to his villainy.
Mission accomplished. This film treads the straight-and-narrow, somberly tracking the conditions that enable Hitler to seize control – in particular, the social turmoil of Germany after World War I, where his rabid blend of nationalism and bigotry win growing favor.
Here is a visionary blowhard selling a bold new tomorrow as he blames the Jewish race for the world's shortcomings – even his own as an artist ("Jews run the galleries," the young Hitler rants, "they won't buy my paintings"). And as he turns circumstances to his awful advantage, the film's depiction of him unearths nothing whatsoever to condone, much less admire.
Robert Carlyle plays Hitler as twitchy, wild-eyed and ruthlessly shrewd. Known for such films as The Full Monty and Angela's Ashes, the Scottish-born actor is able to reconcile this despot's magnetism and depravity. Watching him, we see all too easily how Hitler succeeded.
"People don't want the real news," says Fritz Gerlich (Matthew Modine), a real-life Munich journalist who, trying to expose the Hitler scourge, battles public indifference. "They don't want to hear about anything they might have to do something about."
Julianna Margulies (ER) and Liev Schreiber play Helene and Ernst Hanfstaengl, an aristocratic married couple who, at first in a flourish of radical chic, reach out to Hitler, then fall under his virulent spell.
The Rise of Evil ends at Hitler's height, when, in 1934, he solidified his grip on Germany and proclaimed the beginning of the 1,000-Year Reich.
A postscript reminds us that his campaign for world domination would end in defeat and his life in suicide. But after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, that is cold comfort, all the more so considering the film's main theme: Evil, and those who indulge it, seem to never go out of fashion.
The film, therefore, is less an exercise in Hitler-bashing than a call for soul-searching: Would we let a latter-day Hitler gain a foothold in the here and now?
The film was directed by Christian Duguay ( Joan of Arc).
Airs at 9 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday on CBS.
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With mild weather the last few weeks we've been trying to get caught up in the vegetable garden with weeding and planting. Winter offers a good opportunity to grow a variety of vegetables, particularly herbs and leafy greens. Chris transplanted several dill plants that had self seeded throughout the vegetable beds in an effort to make room for planting onions and other crops.
Chickweed had thrived in both the vegetable and flower gardens already this winter. I've been pulling tons of it, and yes, I know it is edible. I just haven't gotten around to trying it, yet.
We're a little late in getting our onions in this year, at least for us. My brother who lives in DFW doesn't put his in until, I think, February. Our onion growing has always been pretty successful around here so I don't think we'll have any problems with getting them in later this year.
Most of the greens I planted back in early October are thriving. A few need to get a little bigger before I begin harvesting, but some are almost big enough to start harvesting and eating.
I planted two kinds of parsley and was a little unsure of how they would do as both seeds seemed to take their time in germinating.
I am definitely looking forward to kale salads soon. I love massaging it with some vinegar and olive oil as well as a healthy dose of salt. So good!
In addition to the parsley I planted, I also planted two types of cilantro. I know a lot of people down south try to grow cilantro in the summer and always get discouraged when it blooms (bolts) and I'm constantly having to tell them that it is a winter crop, not spring or summer. It takes some getting used to, knowing that our seasons are different than northern climates!
The mini-gardener likes being out of his stroller these days.
Lastly, on Christmas Eve we planted the sugar snap and snow peas. We managed to get Forest to put two peas in some holes we poked for him, so he's officially growing his very first plants!
As I type this, on Sunday afternoon—readying this for later in the week when you will be reading it—, it is beginning to rain and soon the cold front that has brought blizzard and snowy conditions to far west Texas and the panhandle as well as tornadoes to DFW, will be blowing through shortly. Our mild temperatures will drop back down to a more seasonally appropriate temperature, which makes me a little bit sad. I really love wearing shorts in December!
I'm one of those people that used to try to grow cilantro in summer–will have to remember this about growing it later/earlier in the season.
That little Lowes cart is too cute!
Yes, cilantro in the winter. Throw that stuff in the ground in late fall. Needs no protection from the cold. Just forget using it in salsa, and use it in winter soups instead.


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The Worst Seats At The Game
The previous post has me thinking about the best and worst seats in which I've ever had the fortune or misfortune to sit. The best? Either right behind home plate or first row, upper deck, first base line at Tiger Stadium. The worst: first base line, Municipal Stadium in Cleveland.
It was October 3, 1993, and the White Sox were in town for the last baseball game ever played in the old joint. I had been there a couple of times before when less than 10,000 showed up, but on this day over 72,000 were crammed in to say goodbye to the place hardly any them had patronized during baseball season. My buddy Ethan snagged three tickets so he, his little brother Ben, and I got in my 1987 Cavalier RS and drove up to Cleveburg to catch the game, armed no doubt with a nice assemblage of cassette tapes for the 135 mile journey.
Our seats were way back in the lower deck along the first base line. The upper deck hung low above us, and the backside of some more recent-vintage luxury boxes hung lower still, a few dozen yards in front of us. The effect of all of this was that any ball hit higher than, say, 15 feet in the air was completely obstructed from view, requiring us to watch the fielders to see if we could guess where the play was going to be. It was simply atrocious.
The only upside to these tickets was that we got to see Bob Hope up close and personal as he made his way from his luxury box down to the field to sing "Thanks for the Memories" after the game. When he ambled along the walkway running behind the boxes, the whole section cheered, overjoyed to actually see something interesting. As his wobbly version of his signature song attested, Hope was already circling the drain in 1993, but he lifted up his cane, smiled and gave us a bit of a wave.
The next season Ethan and I took in the third ever game at Jacobs Field. Again, we sat along the first base line, but this time the seats were primo, and the David Cone-Dennis Martinez duel was even better.
What are the worst seats you've ever had?
Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 10:35 AM
Grant said...
Upper deck at the Trop, probably. What a miserable stadium.
Yankee Stadium, Sec 36, Row S. Out in left field, upper deck, about 3 or 4 rows from the top. The bottoms of our feet were probably 20 feet above the tip of the foul pole.
Fenway Park, Patriot's Day 2004, Sec 18, relatively deep in the section. If I sat all the way back in my seat, one of the support beams perfectly blocked my view of home plate, so depending on whether the batter was right or left handed, I spent the whole game leaning one way or the other.
About 1 out of 4 seats in Shea is like the seats you describe at the old Cleveland Stadium. They are called "back rows" and are generally $10. In addition to being obstructed, they face centerfield (where the 50 yard line would be for a football game). As such, you can ONLY see groundballs up the middle. My brother had playoff seats there for the "Grand Slam Single" and missed the whole thing because everyone stood up.
This stadium was built in 1964!
tHeMARksMiTh said...
Back row of lower deck in left field of Cinergy Stadium. Couldn't see a damn thing.
Ethan said...
I'd totally forgotten that Bob was up on the luxury box catwalk right above us before he went out on the field for his schtick. I totally remember that after he starting driving around in the golf cart and singing somewhere about 450 feet from us while a bunch of Clevelanders stood around in awe that Something Was Happening in their town, you and Ben and I looked at each other, said, "it's not gonna get any better than this, and the traffic will suck" and blew town. We were probably 80 miles down I-71 before the last grumpy Lumina driver was out of that endless stadium parking lot.
Sitting in the back of the lower deck at the original Comiskey Park was a pain because you couldn't follow foul balls, but you were right on top of the game.
The worst seats I remember were in what is now US Cellular Field - the last row in the right field corner of the upper deck prior to the renovation. You felt like you were closer to the Sears Tower than the game on the field.
Alex Brissette said...
Last year my buddy got seats in the first row behind the Nats dugout at RFK. I had my feet up on the dugout for much of the game, and before the game one of the Nats' coaches tossed me a ball. I was also decked out in Braves gear, and was directly mocked by the Nats' mascot while he was dancing on the dugout. I firmly believe Chipper heard me yell "Big fly Chipper!" before knocking one out to left field. Needless to say my friends were mortified by my antics. I found out later these were James Carville's season tickets.
My worst seats ever were probably also at RFK -- way up in the RF side of the upper deck. We were behind the video board, and couldn't even see Francoeur steal a homerun (I assume that's what happened, but I'll never be sure).
The Common Man said...
Great question. My worst seats were definitely at the Metrodome. Upper deck in right field. You can't see much past the first baseman because of the precipitous drop at the bottom of the section. To make matters worse, you're so high up that you get a close-up look at the dome itself, in all its ugly beige glory, just praying for a gust of wind to rip the top off so you can see blue sky.
My worst are the same as yours. I was even at the same Bob Hope finale game. However, those seats under the overhang at Municipal Stadium were also my family's season tickets, so I saw many games from there in '92 and '93. Not good times.
i have to agree about shea...those are the worst seat ever.
Craig Calcaterra said...
Ethan -- thank you very much for not mentioning the fact that I keyed one of those Luminas for parking too close to the 87 Cavy.
Mike -- I hope that you at least got good season tickets at the Jake for having endured two years of Municipal.
In the late '90s, when the Indians were selling out every game, my family drove up to Detroit to see the Tribe play the Tigers at Tiger Stadium. We had bought tickets right behind home plate, quite a few rows back, and couldn't see anything beyond the infield.
Luckily, the place was completely empty so the ushers let us move around.
Peter -- I was spoiled. I had an uncle with seats that were maybe five or six rows back, so it was a great view. I realize that overhang probably screwed a lot of people.
I'm a tall guy...not ridiculously tall at 6'3", but a few inches taller than average...so my answer to the 'worst seat in a stadium' quesion is, invariably, "All of them." Went to a Broadway show on Saturday (hey, it had to happen sooner or later...I didn't pay, so it was fine), and it was even worse there...thank heavens I was on the aisle (though sitting sideways for 3 hrs wasn't great).
At the theater I said the same thing I said last time at Yankee Stadium (in $300 seats 15 rows behind home plate)...when are venue designers going to recognize the fact that Americans are LARGE people? I know, I know...smaller seats means you can cram more of them into a given space, but at some point people just stop going because it just plain sucks to be that uncomfortable.
Some of the newer stadia have that 'stadium seating' thing, where each row is much higher than the last (especially in the nosebleed seats)...but with many of them you wind up kneeing the head of the person in front of you, if you have long legs.
So, I guess for me, the worst seats I experience these days are those over other peoples' houses...where I can't claim sole possession of the remote control!
Had an opportunity to beat Jason to the punch with a one liner, but had to launch into my 'I hate being cramped' monologue...
The one liner: The worst seats at a baseball game? The ones behind some Red Sox fans!
(sorry for the religious humor there, I just couldn't resist though...actually, now that I think about it, the view and the comfort level aren't the only factors that impact the enjoyability of a stadium experience. The concessions, parking, trek to your seats, and co-spectators DO factor in as well. I was at a minor league game once where there was great baseball being played, but the apathetic fans in the packed house (why were they even there?) really ruined the whole experience.)
Dre said...
All the old ballparks have the obstructed seats or the seats underneath the upper deck where you can't see any ball that gets up in the air. Wrigley has at least 10k pretty worthless seats if you're going to actually watch the game.
Upper deck seats on the first base side at US Cellular in Chicago. Not only did the seats feel like they were miles away, but we couldn't get on the lower levels to even look around. I understand not letting you go down into the seats if you don't have tickets, but we couldn't even walk around the lower concourse and see the rest of the stadium. Worst stadium experience I've had, and I've been to 14 of them.
Michael M said...
Way back lower deck in front of a pillar at Wrigley when I saw a Cubs-Sox game in 2003.
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Dodgers at Pirates, ca 1960 Forbes Field. Upper deck, left field line, went with my uncles. I was about 7, and there was one seat behind a support beam. Guess who got that seat?
Couldn't see anything but the rain, but I remember Jonny Podres beat the Buccos. My uncles were furious, but quietly I was very pleased.
Of course, the Pirates won it all that year.
But my personal lesson was to never sit behind a damn beam, and as an adult, I've always spent a little extra to get better seats.
Loztralia said...
At Loftus Road, home of my football team - QPR - in London, the front half dozen or so rows of seats in the main stand were actually in front of the furthest extent of the roof, meaning that in wet weather they had no shelter at all unless the wind was blowing from behind the stand.
Which isn't of itself especially bad, but if it was raining and there was no wind at all, one unfortunate row also received the benefit of all the run-off from the poorly drained roof. I once spent two hours perched on the very edge of one of these seats while a steady flow of water cascaded down behind me, splashing my back and - if I relaxed for a second - falling down the back of my neck.
Matt Mitchell said...
Top row, farthest seat from the aisle, farthest section from home plate, upper deck, third base line, Wrigley on a cold, windy day.
TC said...
My worst and best revolve around a single game at Fenway a couple of years ago. I unwittingly bought this exact seat (and the one next to it):
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Upon learning that, I managed to switch out to some outfield seats. However, the Sox were getting killed, and the game suffered constant rain all night, so the home fans cleared out, and the fiance and I moved into the third row from the Sox batters box. Outstanding.
The Vet, in Philadelphia, was fun in that there were literally no good seats. The lower level featured obstructed views on flyballs (thanks to the balcony), as well as wildly expensive seats that still seemed super far from the action closer to the ground. The upper deck required a radio to tell you what was going on, because falcons can't make out a game at that height. Of course, if you were 15 and just trying to kill off a summer afternoon, you can do worse than following the shade around the upper deck for 3 hours.
Wrigley Field: OBSTRUCTED VIEW. You know what that means.
Back in the heat of Fernandomania the Dodgers came to Chicago, and I had - HAD - to experience the experience. Got lower box, some section, seats 12 and 13. I wondered if I had been swindled, since at the time seats in those sections only went from 1 to 12. But no, the seats were legit, if not good. In the absolute corner of left field there was room for one extra seat due to the angle - seat 13. I got to pound the foul pole for fun the entire game.
ribender said...
Third row from the top of the right field upper deck in the last seat of the row at the Cell (I used to call it new Comiskey, but that does a disservice to the old one). Had I moved over three feet, I would have fallen a good 150 feet. Far enough away that on a grounder to short, the crack of the bat could not be heard until the ball got to the infield dirt. And the only reason I knew the ball got to the infield dirt was because of the small cloud of dust that flew up when the ball hit the dirt -- too far away to actually see the ball.
The worst seats I've had happened this season at the K, Section 146, row R. Right field foul pole directly in front of us. Companion NPulsifer complained loudly that he couldn't see Mark Teahan's ass when he was in the field at 1st base, and he was not happy. We went to get beer while the ladies were moving over a section to an empty row. When I came back, they were staring in horror at a scene a couple of rows in front of them. I asked what happened, and they said that one of a group of 20-somethings had had "an evacuation incident."
"The blonde?" I asked, and they confirmed it was a young woman I had seen stumbling down the steps earlier, barely able to remain upright while clutching her friend.
About that time, an usher and a cleanup crew came by, and he said we could move over to the next section (real seats, as opposed to the former general admission; you could tell by the cup holders) if we wanted, and so we wound up with decent seats after all.
Ken Arneson said...
I went to the first game at Pac Bell Park, a preseason game against the Milwaukee Brewers. I had tickets in the upper deck, left field corner.
When I got to my seat...um...there was no seat. It hadn't been installed yet.
Eventually, an usher managed to scavenge a folding chair for me to sit on.
Aaron C. said...
On the first night of a business trip to Denver (from San Diego), I decided to make the long, glacial drive down the I-70 for a summer night of Rockies baseball. It was there that I discovered…in some parts of the country…it actually rains in August. My $4 "rock pile" ticket scored me a seat atop the moistened metal bleachers out in centerfield, but by the first pitch, me and the other eleven people out there had some…uh, company. Several cheerleading troupes of 10-year-old girls, I'm talking busloads of 'em, filled the emptiness around us. And, for the rest of the night, they "cheered" the Rockies on…in unison…in the most nasally prepubescent harpy shrills you'll never want to hear. I stayed three innings.
On Sunday, September 14th I was in Section 36, Row X seat 11 next to my 4 year-old daughter in seat 12. These are the last 2 seats in Yankee Stadiums left field - People passing by on the 4 train have closer seats. But, honestly, I would not have missed it for the world - I will miss the place!
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Written by Alex Murphy on April 1, 2015
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As we head into the final few games of the regular season, we start to seriously consider which teams have a legitimate shot of winning it all, and which ones are essentially setting themselves up as lambs to the slaughter once postseason play begins. NBA lines are a little trickier to handicap in the West, but there are a couple of exceptions. Two teams that seem to be heading in opposite directions, the Houston Rockets and the Dallas Mavericks, meet up at the American Airlines Center on Thursday night.
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Date: Thursday, April 02, 2015 Time: 8:30PM Venue: American Airlines Center Opening Line: Dallas -2.5
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The Dallas Mavericks are a team with a huge question mark over their head at the moment. Currently occupying the 7th seed in the West, they have been on a slide that is not what you would expect from a team about to make a big run in the playoffs. They are just 5-5 in their last 10, and lost Monta Ellis to injury last week, although there is some suggestion that he may be back in the lineup on Wednesday night for the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. This injury may be something of a blessing in disguise for Ellis, as there have been some who suggested that his current play warranted a bit of a break. That said, he has been a stalwart in the NBA, playing 237 consecutive games before going down against the Spurs. With Ellis out, the Mavs are going to have to lean hard on Charlie Parsons, who has been excellent since the All-Star break. You don't have to be a hug follower of the Houston Rockets to know who they out their faith in. James Harden is going to get some serious consideration for the league MVP, and he will now be getting a bit of help with Dwight Howard back in the lineup. The key to stopping the Rockets may well be keeping Harden off the free throw line, as Houston are a staggering 30-5 when The Beard scores 10 or more points from free throws. The Rockets will be looking to bounce back and get back to winning ways after dropping their last outing to the Raptors. When you consider that they are 7-3 in their last 10, doing so should not be that tough.
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Dallas is 1-6 ATS in its last 7 games Dallas is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games The total has gone OVER in 6 of Dallas's last 9 games The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Dallas's last 20 games Houston is 6-3 ATS in its last 9 games Houston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
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 * User: Uriel
 * Date: 19/5/16
 * Time: 3:05 PM
 */

namespace socialCocktail\Http\Controllers\Src\DAO;
use socialCocktail\TipoCoctel;

class TipoCoctelDAO
{
    public static function all(){
        return TipoCoctel::all()->sortBy('nombre');
    }

    public static function create($request){
        $tipo=TipoCoctel::create($request);
        $tipo->save();
    }

    public static function findById($id){
        return TipoCoctel::find($id);
    }

    public static function update($request,$id){
        $tipo=self::findById($id);
        $tipo->fill($request);
        $tipo->save();
    }
    public static function delete($id){
        self::findById($id)->delete();
    }

    public static function count(){
        return TipoCoctel::count();
    }
}

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