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A NASA study shows that red light therapy is an effective method that promotes effective and faster-wound healing and treatment. The results paved the way for light therapy to get more attention from the conventional medicine niche. After a decade following the NASA research, red light therapy undergoes more improvements with thorough researches and studies to back its claim. The FDA-approved treatment offers pain relief, anti-aging, and effective wound care.
Visible wavelengths of red light penetrate the skin to an eight to 10 mm depth and the absorbed light energy becomes cellular energy that stimulates the natural processes of the body. Red light taps the cellular level and triggers a string of metabolic activities that include the increase in the circulation and formation of new capillaries.
Red light therapy boosts lymph system activities as well as the production of fibroblasts and collagen, promoting younger and tighter skin. It increases raw cellular energy release and cellular cleanup or phagocytosis. Red light treatment significantly reduces inflammation while stimulating tissue granulation.
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The application of red light on the skin offers tangible results in delaying the signs of skin aging. Skin maturity shows in various ways specifically in fine lines and wrinkles. Red light therapy promotes anti-aging through stimulating the increase of collagen production. Collagen is an essential substance that the body produces, which keeps the skin firm, tight, supple, and smooth. Aging dramatically decreases collagen production, making the skin dry, which eventually results in the formation and appearance of wrinkles and fine lines.
Red light treatment is an effective solution for different skin conditions such as psoriasis, acne, rosacea, eczema, and herpes or cold sores. It also helps in the faster healing of scrapes, burns, everyday cuts, and bruises.
Recent studies show the connection between red light therapy and losing weight. Vibrating devices that emit red light are popular products in the ever-growing weight loss industry. Red light affects numerous body cells particularly those that store fats or affects the natural process of the body in flushing out toxic wastes. Scientific trials connect red light therapy with fat reduction and weight loss as red light affects the hunger-related hormones, helping you regulate your diet and consequently avoid gaining extra pounds.
Red light therapy plays a vital role in the skin care and weight loss industry, providing remarkable results that show. The treatment is safe because it does not use harmful UV lights that could potentially damage the skin. It is time-efficient because the non-invasive procedure is not painful and does not require any downtime for recovery.


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Home Gorkha Personalities The Faces In Our Midst
IN MEMORIAM – Saharman Dewan
TOPICS:DarjeelingDarjeeling FootballFootballIndian Football
Old by age... young by heart... with the love of his life in recent years
Author: TheDC News Desk December 26, 2019
This is the story of an incredibly talented footballer, coach, mentor and a loving teacher who worked all his life for promoting sports in Darjeeling – Late. Saharman Dewan of Ging T.E.
Saharman Dewan was born in Ging Tea estate to Shri Harka Bahadur and Suklachhi Dewan on 16th of July 1939. He was only 6 years old when his father passed away, and was brought up by his aunt (mother's sister) and her loving husband. Losing a father so early in life was difficult, but Saharman persevered with the help and support from his new family. Under their guidance, Saharman studied up to class 8 at Ging Primary School and finished his schooling from Rama Krishna Educational Institute (RKPS).
His uncle Shri. Ambar Singh Rai used to be an official at the British Gorkha Recruiting Depot at Jalapahar, and Saharman joined the Army as a "Boy Bhartee." In 1954, Saharman joined the Gorkha Boys Company at Dehradun and that is when under the care and supervision of British coach Mr Dennis Nevelle he shined as a footballer. After playing in a few inter-army tournaments he was selected to play for the Gorkha Brigade team in 1960 and later Services Team.
The handsome young lad proudly wearing Services coat
In 1961 his brilliant solo goal in the finals helped the Services Team to lift the prestigious Santosh Trophy National Football Tournament, held at Municipal Stadium, Calicut. His performance was rewarded and he was promoted to the rank of Havaldar.
In 1965 he captained and coached the Gorkha Brigade Team for Durand Cup which included one of the most iconic of all Indian footballers – Shyam Thapa,.The team included other Gorkhali greats Venu Subba, Prem Tamang, Aslam Thapa, Tarenza Subba, and Tej Bahadur Thapa – unfortunately they lost the semi-final match to Mohun Bagan that year.
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Playing for Gorkha Brigade he helped the team to win Robert's Cup, Nijam Cup (Hyderabad), Shri Krishna Cup (Patna), Santosh Trophy, IFA Shield and many other football tournaments all over the country.
After that Saharman remained in 11GRRC as a Coach and trained them for participation in Gorkha Brigade, Command and Services team.
In 1969, Saharman was transferred to 107 Inf Bn (TA) for training their footballers. Saharman participated as a coach and player and helped them to win many tournaments including Mall Shield and the coveted Harley Cup.
After winning Harley Cup and Darjeeling League
In 1970 Saharman was promoted to the rank of JCO and he retired from service in 1973.
After retirement Saharman joined St. Joseph's College as their football coach and his coaching skills were on full display when St. Joseph's College lifted the Harley Cup.
When 11 GR came to Darjeeling, Saharman was again appointed coach for Regimental team and remained its coach from 1976 to 1982. During his period 11GR won all the football tournaments held in Darjeeling – Darjeeling League, Harley Cup, Yashoda Giri Cup and Dorjee Gold Cup in Kalimpong.
Later he trained various Army teams who were station at Lebong – 7 Madras, 26 Madras, 3/9 GR and 8 Assam.
In 2004 and 2005 he coached the 107 Inf Bn (TA) and helped them to lift the DAS Memorial Cup Championship played at 11 GRRC, Lucknow in 2005.
Saharman Dewan settled in Ging Tea Estate, Lebong but he never gave up his association with football. He played for 14 years as a 1st class player and coached for the rest of his life. His invaluable teachings and mentorship have helped shaped the lives of many footballers from our beloved hills.
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Sadly during the course of our collecting info on his incredible life, Shri. Saharman Dewan passed away on August 11, 2014.
TheDC team keeps him and his family members in our prayers and we hope that all of you will join us in praying for the departed soul and an iconic son of Darjeeling!!
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Purse-sized canisters of Mace brand pepper spray have now popped up for sale in one of the oldest neighborhood pharmacies on the East End—for those times when one might want to try to outfox a fox or needs to ward off an attacker of the more human variety.
The spray canisters are carried in a small blue cardboard display in the back of the pharmacy next to the hearing aid batteries. The top of the box states "Protect Yourself" in capital lettering.
Mr. Marcus, a bespectacled East Hampton resident who has been at the pharmacy for about 11 and a half years, said that, locally, attacks could come from raccoons or red foxes in the woods. Joggers and mail carriers could use it to fend off stray dogs, he said.
But it is not the local residents who are suddenly stocking up on the small spray cans, he has noticed—it is tourists and visitors from the city, as well as those in the transit trades who are shelling out the $21.95 for each canister. Women buy it more than men, he added.
The Sag Harbor Pharmacy now sells about one canister per day, according to Mr. Marcus. The spray joined his stock after a solicitation by the company, he said, adding that only licensed pharmacies can sell the product.
In addition, buyers must be 18 years or older, show picture identification, and are limited to two canisters each, he said. In addition, customers must sign before buying the self-defense spray, and their signature verifies that they have never been convicted of a felony or an assault in any state.
Early Monday evening, near the store's closing time of 6:30 p.m., there were three pressurized pepper spray canisters available for sale in a pink version. Of those, two were of the "Covert Defense" design, a container resembling a lipstick case, and one was the "Flip & Grip" style, a "fumble-free safety design" that is intended to prevent accidental discharge. There were also four black ones available in the "Flip & Grip" design. Mr. Marcus said none had been sold that day.
Adva Zingher, a 21-year-old college student from Westborough, Massachusetts, who is staying in Sag Harbor with her grandmother this summer, was in the pharmacy at that time. She was not buying the spray, but said she might consider it. "I've had pepper spray before," she noted.
Larry Fleischman, a pharmacist at the Sag Harbor Pharmacy and an East Hampton resident, emerged from behind a counter to say he had just bought one—a "Flip & Grip" canister for his 18-year-old daughter, Kori, who just graduated from high school in New Jersey and is bound for Rutgers University, that state's largest institution of higher learning. "It's just good to have," he said, "in case of an emergency." He mentioned late nights on campus.
Mr. Fleischman had considered getting the "Covert Defense" model—"that looks a little prettier in her purse"—but ultimately settled on the "Flip & Grip," style, he said, because he felt it would be less likely to open accidently.
In keeping with its summertime clientele, the spray is expected to be cleared off the shelves come fall, Mr. Marcus said.
I thought it was illegal to sell this stuff in New York State ?
So did I. Has the law changed?
You realize of course that now a criminal can simply pepper spray a victim and then rob them much easier ?
Very true. We'd better make pepper spray illegal for self defense so no one will get hurt as the robber beats his victim with a (legal) lead pipe.
Apparently a licensed pharmacist can be an authorized dealer in NY State. Last I new Mace was illegal to posess in NY. Maybe the law changed.
Pepper spray has never been illegal in New York. It's astonishing how many people "know" so much that isn't true.
Odd, I wonder why the town police arrested someone I know on a "B" misdemeanor when they found mace in his possession on a traffic stop, under section, Unlawful Possession of Noxious Material, New York Penal Law 270.05 PL. You saying it was a bad call by PD?
In otherwords, if I carry a jar of urine, a noxious material, around with me with intent to throw it in soneone's face if the bother me, then it's legal to do so?
Mace is legal in NY State ONLY if you meet the criteria under section 265.20 paragraph 14 of the NY State Penal Law.
It's hard to understand why anyone in Sag Harbor would need a can of mace. It's disappointing to think that it's a product for sale in our unique little community.
Pepper spray is not mace.
All of the photos and signs in the pharmacy say "Mace" for sale, not pepper spray. What's the difference?
Why anybody would still buy anything from Sag Harbor Pharmacy is beyond me, Read this article and thought they got the pepper spray for their customers, well thats just my opinion of a store that needs to change its policies on customer service.
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The UK's traditional three-party system seems to be fading – and non-mainstream rivals are ready to take center stage. For many, support for alternative parties is seen as a way to protest against the nation's current political landscape.
Last week's bi-election in Eastleigh saw 14 unconventional parties racing for the win. The UK Independence Party – a group which David Cameron once described as a "bunch of fruitcakes, loonies, and closet racists" – managed to push the Conservatives into third place.
Some say it's a sign that voters are disillusioned and ready for change.
"People often talk of the protest vote like it's a bad thing. Let's face it – there's a lot to protest about right now," the leader of the Pirate Party, Loz Kaye, told RT.


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I gained 50 pounds with both pregnancies. I am a relatively small woman, below average weight, 5'5" and a size four. Make no mistake: Every. Pound. Showed.
I used my pregnant pauses as a little science experiment and tried to gain less the second time around by eating less and exercising more. I was still running 10 miles a week at 37 weeks pregnant the second time and I still gained 50 pounds.
If there is a third baby, I am just going to eat hot fudge and lie all day on the couch because it seems to make no difference what I do.
The thing is, I lose the weight. And no, I am not one of those women off whom the weight magically falls. Nope. I work for it. I run and lift and do yoga and pilates—sometimes twice a day. It is hard, hard work, but I think I owe it to myself to feel like myself.
The hard work is worth it to me because so much changes when a woman gets pregnant: her body, her priorities, her entire life. And if there is one small thing that can remain the same, it makes the other stuff feel a lot easier. I may no longer have a 9-5 job, sleep through the night or make leisurely weekend plans, but my body will look the way it did before kids even if it kills me to wake up at 5 a.m. and run five miles before the little ones are awake.


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Professors at war: Sexual misconduct allegations in Windsor reach Trinidad and Tobago
By Jane Gerster
At least two students at the University of Windsor's law school allegedly disclosed to their teachers that a professor had repeatedly sexually harassed them.
That same professor is also alleged to have joined student social media groups, "grooming" them before they even arrived on campus. Those who weren't drawn into his groups were allegedly harassed and intimidated, sometimes sexually.
There's an attempt at a joke, too, in a 2006 issue of The Oyez, a law student magazine. It goes like this: a first-year student talks about this "awesome guy" she met the other night, someone who "was saying all the right things," and she wants to know who he is.
The Oyez has the answer: "His name is Professor Mohammed. Welcome to Windsor Law."
READ MORE: Is it time for Canadian universities to ban student-professor relationships?
That joke has been appended to the list of allegations, all of which were recently filed in the Ontario Superior Court as part of a legal battle between University of Windsor law professor Julie Macfarlane and the Canadian Universities Reciprocal Insurance Exchange (CURIE).
On the face of it, the battle is about insurance coverage. Macfarlane is being sued for defamation, and she says that CURIE is obligated to defend her because her allegedly defamatory comments were made in a professional capacity. She says her lawyer learned via the University of Windsor's lawyer in late April that CURIE has no intention of fulfilling that obligation.
A spokesperson for the university said it's working with Macfarlane and declined further comment. CURIE did not respond to a request for comment.
Macfarlane and CURIE go before the courts in July. But this case is about much more than where a university insurance company's responsibility to represent faculty members ends. It's about sexual misconduct on campus and growing concerns over the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
Macfarlane is being sued for defamation by her former colleague Emir Aly Crowne-Mohammed — he's "Professor Mohammed" to The Oyez and Emir Crowne professionally.
Macfarlane says he's a sexual harasser who doesn't deserve to move from job to job with the impunity afforded by an NDA (she's called his employers at a law firm in Toronto and later at the University of the West Indies, where he taught for a while). Crowne says he's innocent and Macfarlane has gone on a years-long "racist attack on [his] reputation which is totally lacking in any merit." Crowne specifically denies allegations he "groomed" students, and he denies allegations he sexually harassed them.
None of the allegations in the Macfarlane-CURIE case have been proven in court.
WATCH: Privacy laws shouldn't protect sexual harassers, law prof says
Macfarlane's lawsuit against CURIE is further proof of her merit-less attack, according to Crowne's lawyer Matthew Gayle, who called the legal action "vexatious proceedings intending to specifically frustrate" a sealing order put on the defamation case in Trinidad and Tobago, where Crowne currently works.
That sealing order effectively prohibits Global News from reporting on the Caribbean case. However, documents pertaining to that lawsuit were filed in the Ontario Superior Court as part of Macfarlane's case against CURIE. Those documents are not under a publication ban.
They offer a closer look at a case that's caught the attention of professors and students in Canada, the United States and beyond.
On the one hand, there's "a salaciousness to it — warring colleagues," says Dawn Moore, a professor of law and legal studies at Carleton University, "but it strikes to a deeper issue that plagues a lot of us."
How do you balance academic freedom and privacy with maintaining safety on campus and decreasing sexual violence?
WATCH: Queen's University releases on-campus sexual assault numbers
The student's impression of Prof. Emir Crowne was that he "lacked boundaries."
The woman — now a lawyer in Toronto — started as a University of Windsor law student in 2011.
Her experiences are recounted from her March 22, 2019 witness statement that was entered into the Macfarlane v. CURIE proceedings. Given her fear that speaking publicly will cause her to be targeted in the defamation suit, Global News is not naming her. She says everything in the statement is "absolutely true."
Crowne showed up at student events, including a boat cruise, and was active in their social media groups, she said. He added her on Facebook, even direct messaging her a "happy birthday."
"He was not one of 'us' — he was a professor," she said. "The weight his opinion had in a Facebook conversation, for example, could not be divorced from his position at the law school."
Crowne's lawyer says he "accepts that he interacted with students on social media" but that it was in a manner that was "wholly appropriate" given his job.
An attempt at a joke in a 2006 issue of The Oyez, a law student magazine, that references Professor Emir Crowne's relationship with students.
And yet, she said she was one of several students who avoided confronting Crowne because of his accolades and "his positions with different women's organizations."
During her first year, Crowne was voted Professor of the Year at the students' law prom, according to the Macfarlane-CURIE documents. He was also a student adviser for the Windsor Review of Student and Legal Issues and Women in the Law as well as an adviser to the White Ribbon Campaign.
It was "common knowledge" that Crowne would offer research positions primarily to women students, " she said in her statement, students whom "he would later invite out for private dinner."
Crowne's lawyer did not respond to questions about these specific allegations, however he said Crowne denies all allegations of sexual harassment.
In the fall of 2013, she wrote an exam for Crowne's class. It asked students "to consider how to sue female students for defamation and how to sue the Law Union," she said — scenarios that "felt very specific" in light of Crowne's frequent criticism of the law union on social media.
She wrote a letter shortly thereafter to the dean of the law school, asking the dean to address "what I perceived to be a hostile environment to women." She said she received no reply, although she was summoned to a meeting with the university's president to discuss Crowne in January 2014.
At that meeting, she said she met Macfarlane.
Macfarlane became "a safe place" for her and other students who were scared and concerned about Crowne, in part because Macfarlane is a survivor of sexual abuse.
"We felt that we were in a weak position," the student said.
"We felt that as burgeoning law students, with no money to our name and no careers to speak of, we were ending our careers before they started."
WATCH: Universities struggling to confront sexual harassment reality, prof says
Freedom of information and protection of privacy acts, or FIPPAs, have "terrified universities," says Moore, the Carleton University professor.
For the most part, Moore says students who want to know what's happened with their complaints come up against the brick wall of FIPPA.
"We've even seen gag orders put on students who make complaints," she says. "I've chronicled students who've been sanctioned by their deans for even posting on social media that they were sexually assaulted on campus — not even naming their perpetrators."
WATCH: Former Mountie Alice Fox explains why people who want to fix the force often accept settlements and gag orders
And yet, Macfarlane says, the privacy argument is a "total red herring."
"Although employees have certain information protected as a matter of privacy," she says, "if they have been found to have been a danger as a sexual harasser to others … privacy laws don't protect them and shouldn't protect them morally any more than they do not protect them legally."
Macfarlane should know "based on the lawfully disclosed documents from the Trinidad proceedings" that Crowne wasn't fired for misconduct in December 2014 and that his departure was not covered by an NDA, says Gayle, Crowne's lawyer.
Crowne was suspended pending an investigation, but it was not relating to sexual harassment, Gayle says. Furthermore, Gayle says, "no allegations of sexual harassment were ever put to Dr. Crowne. It, therefore, follows that no findings of sexual harassment (have) been made against him by any employer or anyone else."
WATCH: 'There's not just smoke, there is a raging fire'
Crowne left, Gayle says, but he was not terminated for misconduct and "the matters" pertaining to his departure are covered by a settlement agreement that he is "happy with." Gayle would not clarify how the settlement is different than the NDA he denies exists.
A spokesperson for the University of Windsor declined to comment. However, Windsor professor Anne Forrest acknowledges the NDA in an email to the Windsor University Faculty Association earlier this year.
In that email, Forrest — former WUFA president — urges the association to support Macfarlane in her legal battle.
Forrest, who did not respond to Global News' request for comment, wrote about being "intimately involved in negotiating the settlement of Emir Crowne's grievance."
The administration wasn't able to convince the students who brought concerns forward about Crowne to testify at his arbitration hearing, Forrest wrote. That meant Crowne would likely have been able to return to his teaching job "even though I (and many others) were convinced that he had committed the acts he was accused of."
It's for that reason, Forrest wrote, that she felt WUFA did the best it could at the time even though NDAs "permit likely predators to move from employer to employer with impunity, thus exposing other unwitting students and faculty to sexual misconduct."
"Our dilemma was real," she wrote.
"We believed [Crowne] should not be permitted to continue his predatory behaviour at UW, yet we would not have been able to negotiate the termination of his employment without a no-disclosure agreement."
Crowne denies the allegations.
"I have been investigated as a result of these baseless allegations on numerous occasions, at great personal expense to me, and each and every time the investigation has proven my innocence," he said in a statement sent via his lawyer.
Earlier this year, Students for Consent Culture Canada published an open letter urging the University of Windsor to support Macfarlane. It had hundreds of signatures within days, says the organization's national chair, Connor Spencer.
The issue of defamation suits being launched by alleged perpetrators of sexual misconduct against students is one SFCC is particularly attuned to. It was formed two years ago when students across the country came together to create a national action plan to address sexual violence on campus.
Among SFCC's list of things a university's sexual violence policy should not have? A gag order.
READ MORE: Ontario government boosts grant funding to bolster sexual violence programs on university, college campuses
Organizing in support of Macfarlane was a no-brainer, says Spencer: "We're going to stand up for professors that stand up for us."
Macfarlane isn't the only person to be hit with a defamation suit for speaking up about alleged sexual misconduct.
Last year, a McGill professor filed a defamation suit as a result of sexual misconduct allegations; a former student at Yukon College was served over a Facebook post implying a former instructor — one who had already lost his job as a result of a college investigation into sexual assault allegations — sexually assaulted her; and Steven Galloway, who was awarded $167,000 for the University of British Columbia's handling of sexual assault allegations against him, filed suit against his accuser as well as nearly two dozen other people who shared the accusations online.
READ MORE: Concordia University defends handling of sexual misconduct complaint
Defamation suits went from a vague possibility to a reality in a short span of time, Spencer says. "People in positions of power wield their power in order to keep it."
Most people who sue for defamation are likely hoping to rehabilitate their reputation, says Hilary Young, a law professor at the University of New Brunswick. And yet, that's not really a guarantee, she says, because court proceedings are generally public and can actually compound the reputational concerns by bringing the allegations to more people's attention.
"It depends on what harms have already been done," Young says.
In Macfarlane's case, she went public about the allegations against Crowne a year ago in a CBC article. She didn't actually name him. She did, however, reach out to the dean at the University of the West Indies, where Crowne was a senior lecturer, to advise him of circumstances surrounding Crowne's Windsor exit.
That job, which Crowne has since left — the strain of the investigation "caused him to experience a mental health crisis," his lawyer says — was his second attempt at joining the University of the West Indies, according to the Macfarlane-CURIE documents. He'd been turned down for a position at the university's other campus. Crowne's lawyer says he never learned the reason why, but according to exhibits filed in the Ontario court case, his background check revealed the allegations surrounding his Windsor departure.
John Knechtle, who works at the University of the West Indies, volunteered to do the check because he knew Richard Moon, a law professor at the University of Windsor who used to be married to Macfarlane. According to Knechtle's witness statement, the first words out of Moon's mouth were that he shouldn't hire Crowne and that Knechtle should speak with Macfarlane "or any of the other female professors at the Faculty of Law."
FROM 2017: Fighting sexual assault on campus
Crowne's lawyer dismissed the unsigned statement, saying Knechtle is a "known" friend to Macfarlane. In an email to Global News, Knechtle said "it would be unwise for me to talk" given the litigation ongoing in Trinidad. However, he noted: "Whatever witness statement you have is certainly not signed by me."
To this, Macfarlane's lawyer Natalie MacDonald says she spoke with Knechtle "at length, and prepared what is known as his affidavit which was to be sworn by him." Knechtle did not respond to a subsequent email sharing the statement and asking for comment.
Moon told Global News that he was asked to give a reference and that he was clear: he had no direct knowledge of the allegations but he was aware of them, and he advised against hiring Crowne because of other issues with his work, including that he was known to party with his students, which faculty felt was not appropriate.
There was no similar concern raised when Crowne applied to be a senior lecturer at the university's other campus.
Indeed, the dean expressed shock when Macfarlane initially emailed him about the allegations, according to copies of the email exchange filed in Ontario court.
However, according to subsequent emails, dean Leighton Jackson conducted his own investigation and found there to be no truth to the allegations. It's unclear what exactly Jackson's investigation consisted of.
When a professor forwarded him a copy of the CBC article in May 2018, saying a "very senior attorney" had flagged it to her, Jackson responded, saying he applied his own "very senior attorney" mind and called it "an attempt at a new spin on old discredited news in light of the 'Me Too' movement in the Trump era."
A portion of the email sent in May 2018 from the law dean at the University of the West Indies following a CBC article connecting the university's then-senior lecturer, Emir Crowne, to sexual harassment allegations in Canada.
Jackson went on to say MacFarlane is "quite a dishonest person who is obsessed with Crowne" and that his own investigation reveals that the allegations stem from "racial tension at Windsor." He highlighted the case of a black woman professor who was turned down when she applied to be dean of the law school and on whose legal challenge Crowne worked.
Presumably — Crowne's lawyer could only say it was "most likely" and Jackson did not respond to Global News' requests for comment — he was speaking about the human rights complaint filed by fellow law professor Emily Carasco. Carasco launched her complaint in 2010 after she was rebuffed as the new law school dean. Carasco said it was because she is a woman of colour.
Jackson wrote that "the McFarlane [sic] crew" was not about to have a black woman become dean. Macfarlane denies being part of a group trying to block Carasco's appointment, although she says she did tell the committee in confidence that she didn't think Carasco was a good fit. She denies it was related to Carasco's race. Carasco's human rights application was withdrawn after she reached a settlement. Macfarlane says race has nothing to do with her informing Crowne's employers about the allegations against him.
Jackson wrote that the university "chose not to go forward" with the disciplinary charges against Crowne but paid him "a generous settlement" and sealed the settlement with a confidentiality agreement "as is customary."
Jackson also wrote about allegations Macfarlane made that Crowne inflated and, in some cases, falsified his qualifications. Crowne vehemently denies this. Jackson wrote that his own investigation found it to be untrue. Global News has not been able to independently verify.
"As my investigator commented, [Macfarlane] is either mentally ill or a woman scorned," wrote Jackson, who did not return requests for comment from Global News.
"I am completely and personally familiar with false accusations. Those have been made against me even in quite recent times. It's a part of this imperfect life of mischief makers."
Jackson copied Crowne on the email as "due process and natural justice demands."
As it stands, Macfarlane is not participating in the defamation case against her in Trinidad. It's for a few reasons, she says. First, Macfarlane has cancer and is in chemotherapy. And second, she says, "we cannot properly defend the case" until they can get the university to release Crowne's original termination letter and the settlement agreement.
If the case was filed in Ontario, she says her lawyer could compel them to do so. That the case was filed in Trinidad means the process has been "a complete joke," Macfarlane says, with "absolutely no fair process or regard for my situation and apparently completely biased in favour of the plaintiff making whatever assertion he wants."
Macfarlane has no intention of complying with the Trinidad order telling her to stop talking.
WATCH: Universities should stop using gag orders, prof says
"I do believe that universities will step up. I do believe that they will put the protection of students first," she says, but "in order to do that, they have to stop using NDAs to cover the tracks of people whom they terminate for sexual misconduct."
Other industries have a duty to protect their employees, says MacDonald, Macfarlane's lawyer. There's the Occupational Health and Safety Act specifically to ensure that if an employer has information about potential risks, they report that.
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"When a person who knows that and has that information is providing it in the course of their duties and responsibilities as a professor, how is that any different?" MacDonald says.
Ultimately, Macfarlane's is a case with ramifications for all of academia, MacDonald says.
"It signifies how far a university is prepared to go to stand behind its faculty when there is an NDA present," she says.
"I understand why there is an issue of privacy. I certainly appreciate that, but privacy should not be so broad as to protect perpetrators of abuse."
READ MORE: Should Canada restrict the use of gag orders in sexual abuse cases?


This book is the product of a symposium "Biology of Boas, Pythons, and Related Taxa" held at the 2005 joint meetings in Tampa, Florida, and sponsored by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. This was the first attempt to bring together researchers actively working on some aspect of boa/python biology.
The symposium was a resounding success, and this book represents a current assessment of our understanding of boid biology. Between the diversity of the peer-reviewed contributions and the literature reviews, this volume will become an essential reference for most future boa and python research.
How do snakes crawl and climb? What do they eat? How do they breathe, hear, and smell? What is the largest snake? Authoritative and accessible, this book answers the most frequently asked questions about snakes and provides a basic introduction for both adults and children to the habits and marvels of these limbless creatures. Nearly 160 illustrations, 55 in colour.
Having been passionate about snakes all his life, Fearn's experience, knowledge and understanding are enthusiastically shared in this book, providing a fascinating insight into the biology and habits of Tasmania's three venomous snakes. Illustrated by full colour photographs this comprehensive guide will teach you how to identify, appreciate and live alongside these often feared creatures.
The Snakes of the Moluccas (Maluku), Indonesia: A Field Guide to the Land and Non-Marine Aquatic Snakes of the Moluccas with Identification Key.
Provides details of all 49 snake species (plus the enigmatic genus Acantophis, of which the number of species has not yet been established) found on the Moluccas. The species descriptions cover external morphology, colour, habits, habitat and distribution, and serve to identify specimens in an easy way. It presents a key (in English and Bahasa Indonesian) to easily identify specimens. With contributions from many Australian herpetologists, this book contains a lot of overlap with Australia's fauna.
Venomous snakes of the world: a manual for use by U.S. amphibious forces.
Originally published in 1962, this is the perfect practical guide to not only snake bite survival, but to understanding and identifying venomous snakes. Even if no life hangs in the balance, this manual is a great reference guide for the outdoors enthusiast, the reptile lover, or anyone with a thirst for pragmatic, how-to knowledge. With this comprehensive edition, you will be armed with one of the most thorough volumes available for dealing with these incredible reptiles, including definitive advice on: Precautions to avoid snake bites, identifying the symptoms and signs of snake venom poisoning, first-aid and medical treatments, recognizing poisonous snakes and indigenous species from various regions around the world. Completely revised and updates this new edition is now in full colour making for the easiest identification yet.
Artist/Author: Wallach, Van et al.
This title is not held in stock but we are happy to supply on special order. Please contact us. This book covers all living snakes and fossil snakes. It has broad appeal not only to conservationists and herpetologists but to hobbyists, educators and libraries and it will be the standard reference on snakes. The text includes 1) 625 valid genera and 3800 valid species (including their synonyms), 2) dubious names (12 genera and 155 species), and 3) invalid names (19 genera and 151 species). The index lists every species in two ways (genus-species and species, genus) so any name can be easily found. Also available in paperback [stock id 39745].
Snakes of Zimbabwe and Botswana.
Artist/Author: Broadley, Donald G. and Roger Blaylock.
Frankfurt Contributions to Natural History Vol. 39. This guide details the 93 species of snakes found in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Species are grouped in families and illustrated with multiple colour photographs. Each species is accompanied by a distribution map and notes on appearance, range and preferred habitat.
The Complete Children's Python: A Comprehensive Guide to the Natural History, Care and Breeding of Antaresia Species.
Artist/Author: Julander, Justin, Nick Mutton and Peter Birch.
The genus Antaresia, a group commonly referred to as the Children's pythons, can be found across the continent of Australia and part of neighbouring New Guinea. This group contains the smallest pythons in the world. Despite their small size, these snakes are ideally suited to life in the often-harsh climates of their native Australia. Because of their size and durability this group has been very popular among python keepers for many years.
This book is dedicated to all aspects of this amazing group of snakes with particular emphasis on natural history, biology, and reproduction. The authors have beautifully illustrated the immense diversity and natural beauty contained within wild populations of these pythons. This group has previously been underrepresented in herpetocultural literature despite being one of the world's most successful and widespread python genera.
A guide to Australian pythons in captivity.
This title is the latest reference dealing with Australian pythons in captivity to be published in Australia. Written by Adam Elliott, with contributing authors, Dr Robert Johnson presenting the Health and Disease chapter, and Dr Justin Julander presenting the Taxonomy, Hybridisation and Morphs sections, the information is aimed at all levels of expertise in reptile keeping and breeding. All aspects regarding the captive care of pythons are covered using accessible text and an easy-to-read layout. More than 400 colour images support details on general management including selection, handling, housing, temperature, thermoregulation, lighting, humidity, feeding-what to feed, nutrition, how to feed and feeding problems.


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"use strict";
// Const
let constants = require('../../constants'),
  auctionUrl = constants.auctionUrl,
  queryEnd = constants.query;

// Packages
let logger = require('../../sLogger'),
  Promise = require('bluebird'),
  request = require('request'),
  Client = require('node-rest-client').Client,
  client = new Client(),
  _ = require('lodash');

// Validator
let Validator = require('jsonschema').Validator,
  validator = new Validator(),
  schemaQuery = require('../schemas/auction-query'),
  schemaDump = require('../schemas/auction-dump');

// Errors
let ApiError = require('../../lib/errors').ApiError,
  MaxRetryError = require('../../lib/errors').MaxRetryError,
  MalformedError = require('../../lib/errors').MalformedError;

// Database
let database = require('../helpers/database');

/*
  Query the API to get the dump.
  @param {string, string} URL to query, timestamp.
  @return {object} An object containing the result and the timestamp.
  @error {ApiError, MalformedError}
*/
function getData(source, timestamp) {
  let options = constants.defaultQueryOptions();
  options.url = source;

  logger.log('api', 'Sended request to fetch auction dump for ' + source);

  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    request(options, function(error, response, body) {
      // Logs
      logger.log('api', 'Received auction dump');

      // Errors
      logger.log('json', 'Validating...');
      if (response.statusCode !== 200 || error) {
        reject(new ApiError(error));
        return;
      } else if (!validator.validate(body, schemaDump).valid) {
        reject(new MalformedError('Dump itself'));
        return;
      }

      // Succeed
      resolve({
        timestamp: timestamp,
        results: body
      });
    });
  });
}

/*
  Query the API to get the URL of the dump and then gets the dump.
  @param {string} Realm name.
  @return {object} The dump.
  @error {ApiError, MalformedError}
*/
function query(server) {
  logger.log('api', 'Sent request to wow auction api for ' + server);
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    client.get(auctionUrl + server + queryEnd, function(data, response) {
      // Logs
      logger.log('api', 'Received an anwser from wow api for ' + server, data);

      // Errors
      if (response.statusCode !== 200) {
        reject(new ApiError(
          'Problem with the API answer. Status code : ' + response.statusCode));
        return;
      } else if (!validator.validate(data, schemaQuery).valid) {
        reject(new MalformedError('Dump query'));
        return;
      }

      // Succeed
      getData(data.files[0].url, data.files[0].lastModified)
        .then((results) => {
          resolve(results);
        }).catch((e) => {
          reject(e);
        });
    }).on('error', (err) => {
      // This error is not tested
      reject(new ApiError(err));
    });
  });
}

/*
  Query the API to get the URL of the dump and then gets the dump.
  This will be executed a given number of tries.
  @param {string, integer} Realm name.
  @return {object} The dump.
  @error {MaxRetryError}
*/
function queryWithRetry(server, retry) {
  return query(server)
    .then(function(body) {
      logger.log('api', body.results.realms, body.results.auctions.length);
      return body;
    }).catch(function(e) {
      logger.log(['api', 'error'], e);
      if (retry > 0)
        return queryWithRetry(server, retry - 1);
      else
        throw new MaxRetryError(server);
    });
}

// DB
/*
  Save a dump in MongoDB.
  @param {object} The dump.
  @return {object} The dump.
  @error {DatabaseError}
*/
function insertDump(document, timestamp) {
  if (!_.isArray(document))
    document = [document];
  //Add timestamp to every elements
  document.forEach(function(item) {
    item.timestamp = timestamp;
  });
  return database.insert(document, constants.tableNames.auction);
}

class auction {
  constructor() {}

  /*
    Query the API for an array of auctions.
    @param {string, ?number} Realm name, number of retries.
    @return {array} An array of auctions.
    @error {ApiError}
  */
  static fetchDump(server, retry) {
    return queryWithRetry(server, retry || 0);
  }

  /*
    Fetch a dump and save it in MongoDB.
    @param {string, ?number} Realm name, number of retries.
    @return {object} The dump.
    @error {DatabaseError, ApiError}
  */
  static fetchAndSaveDump(server, retry) {
    return auction.fetchDump(server, retry)
      .then((res) => {
        return insertDump(res.results.auctions, res.timestamp);
      });
  }
}

module.exports = auction;

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The weekly religion rail: Noah's Ark is found (again), a look at a book about the afterlife, getting to know a scholar on Islamic feminist thinkers, and more.
A filmmaker from Hong Kong says he and a team from the religious organization Noah's Ark Ministries International have discovered the remains of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey.
According to wire reports, Yeung Wing-Cheung and the group filmed inside the wooden structure discovered on the mountain. Yeung says wood samples were taken from the structure and tested in Iran, where they were carbon-dated to the time of what was thought to be Noah's flood.
Yeung has not revealed the exact location of the wooden remains.
There have been more than six previous claims of discovering Noah's Ark, and none have been proven true.
- On May 1, 1776, Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt established the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria, Germany).
- On May 4, 1415, religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics by the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Constance.
- On May 5, 1925, an arrest warrant is served to John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2007 by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, shows that prayer is a common religious practice in America, with nearly six-in-ten adults in the U.S. saying they pray at least once a day.
Drawing on history and popular culture, biblical research and everyday beliefs, "Heaven" offers a new understanding of one of the most cherished — and shared — ideals of spiritual life.
Lisa Miller raises debates and discussions not just about our visions of the afterlife, but about how our beliefs have influenced the societies we have built and the lifestyles to which we have subscribed, exploring the roots of our beliefs in heaven and how these have evolved throughout the ages to offer comfort and hope.
She also reveals how the notion of heaven has been used for manipulation — to promulgate goodness and evil — as inspiration for selfless behavior, and as justification for mass murder.
Isobel Coleman is the senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy with the Council on Foreign Relations.
Her areas of interest include economic development; gender issues in the Middle East and Southwest Asia; foreign aid; microfinance; and education reform in the Middle East.
She is author of the book "Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East," which shows how Muslim women and men are fighting back with progressive interpretations of Islam to support women's rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism.
In the book, Coleman highlights a number of Muslim men and women who are among the most influential Islamic feminist thinkers, and illuminates the on-the-ground experiences of women who are driving change.


Just like luck is an important concept in Arthur and the Invisibles, hope is as well.
All heroes have hope; Arthur is no exception.
Hope is mentioned once (or maybe more) when Selenia states that Arthur never gives up hope. He responds saying, "You can't give up hope." Arthur refuses to give up and has hope that everything will turn out right in the end.


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Nicholas Meyer, MD, is a board certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in upper extremity injuries and conditions. Dr. Meyer also specializes in Dupuytren's, Wrist Fractures and Weight Loss.
"My goal is simple: to help the patient regain their optimal quality of life by treating their condition with the simplest method possible. Sometimes this requires a simple splint or therapy, but sometimes it requires surgery. My job is to provide a diagnosis and treatment options to the patient; their job is to decide which treatment option would best fit their particular situation.
In that manner, we create a team approach to treating their condition: I cannot expect the patient to have a complete understanding of the condition and treatment options and the patient cannot expect me to have a complete understanding of their particular situation and desires. We work together to achieve a better understanding and an optimal treatment plan."
Dr. Meyer's outside interests include travel, triathlons, fitness and spending time with his family. He was a founding member in the Military Family Support League (assisting families of deployed service members) and is a Pillar Club member of the St. Croix Valley United Way and serves on multiple medical boards and committees.
Elbow Care, including Biceps Tendon Rupture at Elbow, Cartilage Injuries, Elbow Arthritis, Elbow Arthroscopy, Fracture Management, Ligament Reconstruction, Tendon Repair, Tennis Elbow Surgery, Tennis/Golfer's Elbow, Total Elbow Replacement, Ulnar Nerve Decompression/Transposition, and Ulnar Nerve Irritation
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Subspecialty Certification in Surgery of the Hand
Subspecialty Certification in Sports Medicine
Hand and Microvascular Surgery at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Orthopedic Surgery at Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Eagan Orthopedic Surgery Center
Hudson Hospital & Clinic
High Pointe Surgery Center
Lakeview Hospital
Woodwinds Health Campus
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American Society for Surgery of the Hand
Mid-America Orthopaedic Association
Minnesota Medical Association
Minnesota Orthopaedic Society
Twin Cities Medical Society
Voted "Best Doctor" in Minnesota Monthly (2016, 2017)
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The ProportionFit Diet book published (2013)
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Military Family Support League
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Unipolarity Is Over: Great Power Rivalry Has Returned to Asia
April 4, 2022 Topic: Great Power Competition Region: Indo-Pacific Tags: ChinaPeople's Liberation ArmyQuadAUKUSU.S. NavyU.S. Air ForceU.S. Military
U.S. policy and strategic concepts must demonstrate how our alliance forces contribute to successful deterrence and effective combat operations if necessary.
by Wallace C. Gregson
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's support puts "paid" to any lingering notions of an enduring U.S. unipolar moment, and thoughts that a liberal democratic order is the settled future of world governance. Polling in many democratic countries shows a remarkable change of attitudes about deterrence and defense, perhaps reflecting a recognition of the challenge. But this change of attitude, and the resources it may generate, are temporary. We must respond quickly with meaningful security policies and strategies for today's international balance of power and profound changes in the conduct of warfare. We must show we can take the initiative, win this thing, and not merely react.
We did this before in the years immediately following World War II. But that day's template is no longer apposite. The Cold War was a singular event with unique conditions, including an enemy right out of central casting with an autarkic economy. This is not a "new Cold War," but there is a need to compete while keeping our competition "cold." Effective deterrence, defined as an undoubted capability to prevail, is essential.
A fair summary of our national interests is that they are centered on the health, welfare, and security of our allies and friends, specifically including Taiwan. Our allies are our greatest strength. Our vital interests lie along the First Island Chain, not on Asia's mainland. It's been this way since the Truman administration. More recent descriptions of our national interests can be found in the 2017 National Security Strategy and the 2021 Interim National Security Strategy.
What's changed from the Cold War? The short answer is "a lot." One constant is that nuclear weapons shape the conditions of conflict. Three Asian nations, Russia, China, and North Korea are so armed. Attacking the mainland of a nuclear-armed nation requires some deep thinking.
The most jarring change facing the United States and our allies is that our air and sea superiority is challenged. From 1945 throughout the rest of the twentieth century, the United States enjoyed unchallenged air and sea superiority. We could fly, sail, and operate anywhere we wanted, projecting and sustaining forces ashore as we wished. Even in the early days of the Korean War, our forces offshore were the foundation of all our success and the salvation of our disasters. Japan became the offshore sanctuary in those days, supporting the combat theater on the Korean Peninsula. Our forces offshore in the Vietnam War were essentially unchallenged, projecting gunfire, aviation forces, and logistics ashore as we wished. The sea was indeed a secure operational maneuver space. Our force structure in Asia, and its disposition, developed assuming enduring unchallenged air and sea superiority.
Now our air and sea control are seriously challenged by China's massive force development program; long-range precision munitions; and ubiquitous, pervasive surveillance. China took advantage of its massive geographic sanctuary, building a missile arsenal that looks to establish sea control from the land. But they are not limited to one option. Their naval building program, and that of all other armed elements of the People's Liberation Army, including paramilitary organizations, continues unabated. China conducted an unchallenged dredging operation in the South China Sea to create large military outposts on seven previously submerged features. Some estimate that China achieved and demonstrated de facto control over the South China Sea through this action. Our allies and friends, and our forces on and within the First Island Chain, are within range and targeted. Intelligence estimates vary, of course, but there is no disagreement that China's naval and air forces enjoy a great numerical advantage over U.S and allied forces. We're outnumbered and outranged. And allies, notably Japan and the Philippines, are in the Chinese weapons engagement zone.
While this balance within the traditional air, land, and sea domains was changing, new domains of conflict rapidly emerged, adding still-growing complexity to the situation.
We must prepare for the prospective fight we have, not the one we might prefer. But "the way we've always done things" exerts powerful influence and is not easily overcome. In 2016, General Joseph Dunford, serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "we're already behind in adapting to the changing character of war today, in so many ways." A longer, sobering read is the bipartisan National Defense Strategy Commission report of 2018. The commission concluded that the United States could very well lose the next big war because we have not done the hard intellectual work to know how to win the competition we have.
The prospect of starting a fight already within range of a vast enemy arsenal is not without precedent. In December 1941, Manila Bay in the Philippines was powerfully defended by coastal artillery on Corregidor against attacks by enemy warships. But it was totally vulnerable from the air. General Douglas MacArthur's air force was parked wingtip-to-wingtip as a counter sabotage measure at Clark Airfield. Surprise was deadly, and decisive. We must do better this time.
If our allies are critical to our national strength in Asia across the full range of national capabilities, then it follows that our policy and strategy must support their welfare and security and be something that they can actively support. Our policy and strategic concepts must demonstrate how our alliance forces contribute to successful deterrence and effective combat operations if necessary.
One common geographic circumstance they all share—save Australia—is a coastline on the East or the South China Sea. Taiwan touches both. Australia has already declared its concern with these seas, and is shaping its defense program accordingly, most notably through the AUKUS agreement that supports its power projection there. Fortunately, sea and air control over the South and East China Seas is also high on the list of U.S. vital interests. We must build allied force capabilities to ensure that we can maintain, or quickly regain, sea and air control while operating inside China's weapons engagement zone.
The emergence of long-range precision strike and pervasive surveillance demands that sea and air control be a joint function. No longer can forces ashore afford to wait with fixed bayonets for the enemy to show up. The odds are so great that we cannot accept serial engagement—sea then land—across the terrestrial conflict domains. Forces ashore must contribute materially to the fight for sea and air control. Forces ashore must be widely distributed and agile to ensure survival. They must be armed with weapons that can range the sea and airspace, fully integrated into the maneuver and fires of U.S. and allied forces at sea and in the air. All forces, in the air, at sea, and on land, U.S. and allied, must be networked into the same common operational picture, and operating as component parts of an articulate and robust kill web across the East and South China Sea littoral. It's the only way to fight while outnumbered and win.
All elements of national power must be brought to bear. The current conflict in Ukraine demonstrates a remarkable ability of the United States, European allies, and many other nations to quickly agree on the employment of a wide range of national capabilities, including painful sanctions and seizure of ships. The same can work in Asia. With sea and air control over the South and East China Seas in conflict, we gain the ability to control access to the limited number of straits that enable China's seaborne trade. This gives us the ability to control the conflict and contain it while working toward acceptable war termination conditions. Building and demonstrating this capability establishes the undoubted capability to prevail essential to deterrence.
Wallace C. Gregson served as a former assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs (2009-11) and is currently a senior advisor at Avascent International as well as senior director for China and the Pacific at the Center for the National Interest. Gregson last served as the Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific; Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific; and Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Bases, Pacific, headquartered at Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii. He is a senior advisor to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems.
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Q: What is the fastest way to match string prefixes for the building of a Radix search tree? Full disclosure this is for an assignment in an algorithms class, but I'm not looking for someone to write any code for me or hold my hand. Anyways we have to do the Boggle game. For those unaware, basically you are given a Boggle board and have to find as many words as possible, which can take huge amounts of time given the string possibilities with recursion.
To bring down OP time, we were encouraged to utilize whatever algorithm we'd like to try and "weed out" strings as we go along. Currently I have a system that will find all possible 3 letter suffixes possible by storing them in a dictionary, and if the string has 3 letters but doesn't match any valid suffixes, recursion is stopped.
Getting to the crux of the question, I'm trying to implement a Radix suffix tree, and currently it looks something like this
public static class BoggleRadix
{
    private Node root;

    public BoggleRadix()
    {

    }

    public class Node
    {
        public Node()
        {
           List<Edge> nodeEdges = new List<Edge>()
           {

           }
        }

    }

    public class Edge
    {
        public String edgeString;
        public Node edgeNode;

        public Edge()
        {

        }
        public Edge(String s, Edge e)
        {
            this.edgeString = s;
            this.edgeNode = e;
        }

    }

}

So I'm storing the pointers in an unordered list, which means if I'm checking for suffixes, I could expect, worse case, 26 operations to even find the suffix pointer I need to continue down the tree.
Is there any way to speed the insertions up, stream line the process? Is it worth building a small dictionary in memory for each node that would check for the first letter of the suffix's existence? Is this so trivial it wouldn't even matter?

A: I agree with jimktrains's suggestion of using array instead of a linked list for the suffixes. You can convert a capital ASCII letter c to an array index with (int)c - (int)'A'. Tests on my system dictionary suggest that there are only a few thousand three-letter prefixes, so space usage should not be a concern.
On the other hand, you could store the whole dictionary as a deterministic acyclic finite state automaton. Then it might be wise to try to save space. Instead of binary search, which branches unpredictably, I would suggest a bitmap. In each node, have a field int bitmap; equal to the bitwise OR (the | operator, with identity element 0) of (1 << i) for each occupied index i in the uncompressed array. Then, to test the presence of an uncompressed index i, check whether bitmap & (1 << i) is nonzero. If so, then the index into the compressed array is Integer.bitCount(bitmap & ((1 << i) - 1)).


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