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Maternal age and fetal...
Maternal age and fetal loss: population based register linkage study
BMJ 2000; 320 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1708 (Published 24 June 2000) Cite this as: BMJ 2000;320:1708
Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, research fellow (any{at}ssi.dk)a,
Jan Wohlfahrt, statisticiana,
Peter Christens, statisticiana,
Jørn Olsen, professor of social medicineb,
Mads Melbye, professor of epidemiologya
a Department of Epidemiology Research, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Statens Serum Institut, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
b Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Correspondence to: A-M Nybo Andersen
Accepted 25 April 2000
Objective: To estimate the association between maternal age and fetal death (spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth), taking into account a woman's reproductive history.
Design: Prospective register linkage study.
Subjects: All women with a reproductive outcome (live birth, stillbirth, spontaneous abortion leading to admission to hospital, induced abortion, ectopic pregnancy, or hydatidiform mole) in Denmark from 1978 to 1992; a total of 634 272 women and 1 221 546 pregnancy outcomes.
Main outcome measures: Age related risk of fetal loss, ectopic pregnancy, and stillbirth, and age related risk of spontaneous abortion stratified according to parity and previous spontaneous abortions.
Results: Overall, 13.5% of the pregnancies intended to be carried to term ended with fetal loss. At age 42 years, more than half of such pregnancies resulted in fetal loss. The risk of a spontaneous abortion was 8.9% in women aged 20–24 years and 74.7% in those aged 45 years or more. High maternal age was a significant risk factor for spontaneous abortion irrespective of the number of previous miscarriages, parity, or calendar period. The risk of an ectopic pregnancy and stillbirth also increased with increasing maternal age.
Conclusions: Fetal loss is high in women in their late 30s or older, irrespective of reproductive history. This should be taken into consideration in pregnancy planning and counselling.
Editorial by Stein and Susser
An increasing risk of fetal death, and in particular spontaneous abortion, with increasing maternal age has been observed by several authors.1–7 Previous spontaneous abortions and multigravidity are also well known risk factors for spontaneous abortion in subsequent pregnancies.8–10 As these factors are highly correlated, it remains to be evaluated what the effect of maternal age is when taking into account a woman's reproductive history.11 12
As the association between age and spontaneous abortion reflects both biological mechanisms and forces of selection, the significance of the association is expected to change over time. Decades ago, older pregnant women were mainly those with low fecundity or high parity. At present, many women delay childbearing for social reasons.
To study the effects of maternal age on fetal loss we derived our data from the population based Danish health registries, which cover the population of Denmark. This allowed us to control for the confounding effects of reproductive history and calendar period.
Subjects and methods
Since 1 April 1968, the civil registration system in Denmark has assigned an individual, unique registration number to all citizens. This number permits accurate linkage of information from different registries. A research database of parity was established with data from this registration system, including information on all live births to women born between 1 April 1935 and 31 March 1978. This is described in detail elsewhere.13
For our study, we added mandatory reported information on fetal death (spontaneous abortion, hydatidiform mole, ectopic pregnancy, and stillbirth) and induced abortion from three national health registries. The national discharge registry, established in 1977, comprises diagnoses at discharge for all patients admitted to hospital. From this registry we obtained all cases of spontaneous abortion, hydatidiform mole, and ectopic pregnancy. The medical birth registry, established in 1973, contains information on all births in Denmark. From this registry we obtained information on stillbirths. Information on induced abortions was obtained from the national register of induced abortions. We identified all reproductive outcomes in Denmark in the period 1978-92. Reproductive outcome was defined as live birth, stillbirth, spontaneous abortion including hydatidiform mole, ectopic pregnancy, or induced abortion.
We restricted analyses concerning the combined effects of maternal age and reproductive history on outcome of pregnancy to pregnancy outcomes in the period 1988-92. In these analyses reproductive history was exact parity status (complete information on births) and complete information on other reproductive outcomes in the preceding 10 years.
Maternal age at conception was estimated by deducting gestational age at birth from maternal age at delivery. Gestational age was recorded for more than 90% of the live births and stillbirths, and for the remaining cases we applied the mean gestational age for the entire population. As gestational age was not recorded for spontaneous abortion, hydatidiform mole, and ectopic pregnancy, we set this at 9 weeks, 12 weeks, and 8 weeks respectively.
According to Danish standards, a stillbirth is defined as the birth of a child with a gestational age of 28 weeks or more who does not show any sign of life. Parity was defined in two groups: nulliparous women (no previous live births or stillbirths) and parous women.
We estimated the risk of fetal loss according to maternal age as a proportion of all pregnancies intended to be carried to term—that is, live births, stillbirths, spontaneous abortions, and ectopic pregnancies. For the risk of stillbirth according to maternal age, only pregnancies at risk of becoming a stillbirth were taken into consideration, and consequently the risk constitutes the proportion of stillbirths among all births.
The number of pregnancies intended to be carried to term might be slightly biased because some fetal losses occurred before an intended induced abortion. Such cases would wrongly be counted as intended pregnancies. To evaluate this bias we estimated an adjusted number of fetal losses by deducting the expected number of pregnancies that ended as a fetal loss before an intended induced abortion from the total number of fetal losses. The adjusted risk of fetal loss was calculated as the adjusted number of fetal losses divided by the number of live births plus adjusted number of fetal losses.
From 1978-92, a total of 634 272 women had 1 221 546 pregnancies, of which 126 673 ended in fetal loss, 285 022 in an induced abortion, and 809 762in a live birth (table). The overall risk of fetal loss was 13.5%. The riskof fetal loss according to maternal age at conception followed a J-shaped curve, with a steep increase after 35 years of age (fig 1). More than one fifth of all pregnancies in 35 year old women resulted in fetal loss, and at 42 years of age more than half of the intended pregnancies (54.5%) resultedin fetal loss. After adjustment for induced abortions, the increased risk of fetal loss disappeared in women aged less than 20 years and the increased risk in women aged more than 35 years was at a slightly lower level (1.
Pregnancy outcomes by maternal age at conception in 634 272 women in Denmark, 1978-92
Risk of fetal loss from spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, and stillbirth according to maternal age at conception
Spontaneous abortion
Spontaneous abortion accounted for 80% of fetal losses. The overall risk of spontaneous abortion was 10.9%. A curve was observed for the association between maternal age at conception and spontaneous abortion, which was similar to that for all fetal losses (2). The risk of spontaneous abortion varied from a minimum of 8.7% by the age of 22 years to 84.1% by the age of 48 years or more. When the figures were adjusted for the effect of induced abortion, the risk in women in their teens was similar to those in their early 20s.
Risk of spontaneous abortion according to maternal age at conception, stratified according to calendar period
The overall risk of spontaneous abortion leading to admission to hospital increased from 9.3% in 1978–82 to 11.1% in 1983–87 and 12.5% in 1988-92. However, the association between maternal age and risk of spontaneous abortion was not confounded by calendar period or maternal birth cohort.
Figure 3 shows the age related risk of spontaneous abortion stratified by parity status and number of previous spontaneous abortions. The association between spontaneous abortion and age was similar in all strata, although the level increased with increasing number of previous spontaneous abortions. The incidence of spontaneous abortion varied according to a woman's parity and number of spontaneous abortions in the preceding 10 years; among women aged 25–29 years spontaneous abortion occurred in 8.9% of nulliparous women and 9.3% of parous women without a history of spontaneous abortion, in 12.4% and 11.8% of those with a history of one spontaneous abortion, and in 22.7% and 17.7% of those with a history of two spontaneous abortions. After three or more spontaneous abortions, the proportion of pregnancies ending in spontaneous abortion increased to 44.6% in nulliparous women and 35.4% in parous women.
Risk of spontaneous abortion in nulliparous and parous women according to maternal age at conception and number of spontaneous abortions in preceding 10 years
In women with no history of spontaneous abortions we found a slightly lower overall risk of spontaneous abortion among nulliparous women than parous women (10.0% v 11.6%). This tendency was found in all strata of age except for women aged 40–44 years. Among women with a history of spontaneous abortion, the reverse tendency was observed; in general, nulliparous women had a higher age specific risk than did parous women (3).
Under the assumption that only 80% of women with abortions in recognised pregnancies were hospitalised the risk of spontaneous abortion would be: 12–19 years, 13.3%; 20-24, 11.1%; 25-29, 11.9%; 30-34, 15.0%; 35-39, 24.6%; 40-44, 51.0%; and 45 or more, 93.4%.
The overall risk of ectopic pregnancy was 2.3%. The incidence of ectopic pregnancy showed a steady increase with increasing maternal age at conception from 1.4% of all pregnancies at the age of 21 years to 6.9% of pregnancies in women aged 44 years or more (4). This association was not confounded by calendar period.
Risk of ectopic pregnancy according to maternal age at conception
The overall risk of stillbirth was 4.3 per thousand women. The association between maternal age and stillbirth showed a J-shaped curve, but the effect of age was less than for spontaneous abortions and ectopic pregnancies (5). When restricting the analysis to nulliparous women, we found an identical pattern, although the level was slightly higher. The proportion of stillbirths was substantially increased in teenage pregnancies and was at the same level as for the 35–39 year age group. The incidence of stillbirth was unchanged during the study period.
Risk of stillbirth according to maternal age at conception
Our study shows an increasing risk of fetal loss with increasing maternal age in women aged more than 30 years. At 42 years of age, more than half of all pregnancies resulted in a spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, or stillbirth. The increasing risk of spontaneous abortion was observed in both nulliparous and parous women, regardless of parity, number of previous spontaneous abortions, or calendar period. Thus, although maternal age is highly correlated with parity and reproductive history, our data clearly show a strong and independent effect of maternal age on the risk of spontaneous abortion.
Age—or bias from selection?
The observed association could be the result of age related changes such as an increase in conceptions that are chromosomally abnormal or decreasing uterine and hormonal function. Also, age might be a surrogate measure of cumulative exposure to unknown factors.15–16
It could be argued that women at a particularly high risk of spontaneous abortion are overrepresented among pregnant women of high maternal age because of the tendency to carry on in an attempt to achieve the desired number of children. However, we found the same increasing risk of spontaneous abortion with increasing maternal age when restricting the analysis to women with no history of spontaneous abortion in the previous 10 years (women with an average low propensity of spontaneous abortion) and women with a history of live births (women with an average higher degree of achievement of the desired number of live births).
Alternatively, the increased risk of spontaneous abortion in older age groups could in part be explained by subfertile women reaching a higher average maternal age before achieving a pregnancy. Thus, subfertile women have a higher risk of spontaneous abortion than fertile women.17 Following this argument, however, the effect of maternal age in nulliparous women with no history of spontaneous abortions should be stronger than in women with a history of only live births, which was not observed. In women without a history of spontaneous abortion, we observed a slightly higher risk of spontaneous abortion in parous than nulliparous women.
Methodological issues
The estimated risk of fetal loss in pregnancies intended to be carried to term might be slightly biased by the fact that several pregnancies ended in fetal loss before an intended induced abortion. Such cases would wrongly be counted as an intended pregnancy. This bias was found to be particularly relevant to risk estimates in women aged less than 20 years but had only a minor influence on risk estimates in other ages.
Regan et al and others stated that "as the most predictive factor for spontaneous abortion is a previous spontaneous abortion, the outcome of a woman's first pregnancy has profound consequences for all subsequent pregnancies." 18 Our study does not agree with this statement. We found a substantially lower risk of spontaneous abortion among women under 30 years of age with a history of spontaneous abortion in their first pregnancy than among women aged 35 years or more with a history including only live births.
Our study was based on data from population based registers, with complete information on all pregnancy outcomes leading to hospital admission over a period of 15 years and complete live birth history for all women in the cohort. This rules out biases such as selection related to non-responders and differential misclassification of a woman's reproductive history.
Our results were restricted to spontaneous abortions leading to admission to hospital. If the tendency to be admitted was dependent on maternal age, this might confound the association. It is, however, unlikely that a differential referral to hospital could explain more than a minor part of the association. In the hypothetical scenario where all women aged 45 years or more were admitted to hospital and only 80% of women aged 20–24 years were admitted, the risk of spontaneous abortion would be 74.7% and 11.1% respectively instead of 74.7% and 8.9%.
Another potential problem could be that some induced abortions were recorded as spontaneous abortions. Our study takes advantage of the fact that both conditions are mandatorily reported and that induced abortion before 12 weeks of gestation is legal, available, free of charge, and a widely accepted practice in Denmark. Thus, we assumed that misclassification of induced abortions was minimal, which is supported by other studies.19
Stillbirths and ectopic pregnancies
As with spontaneous abortion, we also found an increasing risk of ectopic pregnancy and stillbirth with increasing maternal age. The increase in risk of ectopic pregnancies in teenage women is most likely caused by pelvic inflammatory disease. We observed the same pattern regardless of calendar period, which indicates that the association between age and ectopic pregnancy cannot be ascribed to secular changes in the incidence of ectopic pregnancies, in contrast to previous results from Finland.20 We also found a higher incidence of ectopic pregnancies than those reported from other Scandinavian countries.20–21 The difference could be due to a higher incidence of infection with genital Chlamydia trachomatis in Denmark than in other Scandinavian countries, especially during the 1980s.22–23
The risk of stillbirth was found to be high among teenagers, as previously reported.24 This may be a result of unfavourable social and behavioural conditions among pregnant teenagers, although a biological explanation cannot be excluded. The risk of stillbirth among women aged more than 35 years was increased but to a lesser extent than that observed for spontaneous abortion and ectopic pregnancy. The increase in risk among nulliparous women indicates that selective fertility is probably not the explanation for the association between age and stillbirth.
Our study shows an important increase in the risk of spontaneous abortion and other types of fetal loss among women aged more than 40 years and that the increase is already considerable among those in their 30s. This increase is observed irrespective of a woman's reproductive history. For society, such findings would indicate that tendencies to postpone pregnancy increase the overall incidence of fetal loss and possibly the costs of health care. On the individual level, information about the increased risk of spontaneous abortion with high maternal age should be part of medical counselling so that it can be taken into consideration in decisions about reproduction.
Maternal age at conception and history of fetal loss are risk factors for fetal death; these factors are highly correlated
Maternal age at conception is a strong and independent risk factor for fetal death, irrespective of previous reproductive outcome, as is a history of fetal loss
The chance of a successful pregnancy in women aged 40 years or more is poor
Patients could be counselled more fully about their chance of a successful pregnancy if their age and reproductive history were taken into account
This study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Board.
Contributors: MM conceived the study idea. A-MNA, JW, and MM developed the design and analytic strategy. JW and PC performed the data linkages and statistical analyses. A-MNA, JW, MM, and JO jointly wrote the paper. A-MNA will act as guarantor for the paper.
Funding This work was supported by a grant from the Danish National Research Foundation and the Danish Medical Research Council.
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Laura Nelson
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It's been a weird year (the weirdest I can remember at least), and Thursday morning's announcement that Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature made it weirder still. But, overall, it is weird in a welcome way.
Pre-announcement speculation centered on the possibility that the prize might be awarded to an American. Given that Toni Morrison was the last American recipient of the literature prize way back in 1993, this seemed overdue. But the names most frequently tossed around as possible U.S. honorees were Thomas Pynchon, Phillip Roth, and Don DeLillo. Dylan's victory came in from out of the blue, and marks the first time a musician was so honored. As the Nobel Committee's press put it, Dylan was awarded the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
Well put, and on the mark, but it raises further questions, such as: "Yeah, but does this make Dylan's lyrics-set-to-music 'literature'? Is it comparable to Derek Walcott's poetry? Or Borges odd, surrealistic philosophical ficciones? Or the work of those edged out of the running this year, such as Joyce Carol Oates or the Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, or, for that matter, Pynchon, Roth, or DeLillo? Is Dylan's work in the same category as theirs and, if not, is this a fair measure of comparison for them? "
Many novelists and essayists think not. Irvine Welsh, of Trainspotting renown, tweeted "I'm a Dylan fan, but this is an ill-conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies." (All I can say is: what hath Trump wrought?) Novelist Hari Kunzru quipped "This feels like the lamest Nobel win since they gave it to Obama for not being Bush." And finally Gary Shteyngart, Kurt Vonnegut's heir presumptive: "I totally get the Nobel committee. Reading books is hard."
It would be wrong to write such complaints off as mere ressentiment or sour grapes. Nothing implied by Welsh, Kunzru, or Shteyngart detracts from Dylan's achievement, and Welsh explicitly admits it. What they do draw attention to is the fact that the novel, the essay, the poem, is a different sort of accomplishment than the popular song, one that is steadily losing ground similar to non- or quasi-literary assembly-line artifacts of "the culture industry." Literature stands in peril of becoming a lost art, if not exactly a lost cause: at present, it demands conservation rather than displacement.
The written word has always been arrière garde, even when it is, like Beckett's or William Gaddis's work, self-consciously avant garde. Reading the written word, as much as writing words meant to be read rather than sung, is a deeply rooted practice that needs to be preserved even as it is as renewed, so that future generations can experience and embody the goods proper and specific to literary art. As the image, or sound, or image/sound hybrid, colonizes writing, we might become poised to lose our grip on those practices and goods – goods such as the empathetic understanding conveyed by the novel, or the ability to see aspects and disclose worlds as in poetry. By giving the prize to Bob Dylan, the committee contributes to this slow, incremental abandonment of "the literary world." A world of tweets and mp3 files without Tolstoy or Pushkin is not much of a world.
There is something to this kind of gripe. Category mistakes can and do matter, and it isn't immediately clear that lumping Dylan and Gabriel Garcia Marquez into the same genus isn't a serious category mistake, one that gives novelists and poets a raw deal. But it isn't immediately clear that it is a serious category mistake either. I think that one can marshall at least three convincing reasons why Dylan deserves the Nobel.
First, "the great American song tradition" is a tradition to be reckoned with. If anything American is to be counted a world-shaking cultural force, it is its music, from Blues and Jazz, Folk, Country and Bluegrass, Rock and R&B to Hip-hop and Electronica. "The American Song tradition's" recognition by the Nobel Committee is a clear acknowledgement of its importance, and in honoring Bob Dylan it is tacitly tipping its hat toward the likes of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Robert Johnson, and a host of others who in effect put Whitman's vision of democratic culture to song, and made it ring out in a popular idiom. No mean achievement.
Second, if Dylan's Nobel ought to raise eyebrows, the criticism those arched brows imply ought to be directed at the Nobel Board of Directors rather than Dylan himself. While Alfred Nobel's will established prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Medicine, and Peace, permission was given to the board to add other prizes to the menu at their discretion. The board established a prize for Economics in 1969, but subsequently refused to establish prizes in any other discipline.[i] As Nobel sought to award those whose work contributed to "the greatest benefit for mankind," it is hard to argue against the inclusion of prizes for a whole host of sciences, humanities, and arts. It is hard to see keeping the list static as anything other than an arbitrary reluctance to change, hewing to the letter and not the spirit of Nobel's original will. The lack of a prize in Mathematics has rightly irked Mathematicians from the Prize's beginnings in 1901. Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre were awarded prizes more for their philosophical endeavors than their literary accomplishments. And it is hard to maintain that, of all the social sciences, only Economics has benefited the human race in any substantive manner. There is no reason not to include more disciplinary categories as Nobel-worthy: Fine Arts, Earth Science, Biology, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, and, yes, Music, have also contributed significantly to the enhancement and enrichment of life on this planet. If expanding the range of Nobel Prizes would diminish the size of each award to recipients, I think that should be at best a minor concern. The award is valuable for its honor and prestige, not as a paycheck. Dylan does not need the prize money, but he surely deserves the recognition. It would be easy for the Nobel board to reverse their precedent, and given all the category anxiety this year's literature prize has generated, they should do so promptly.
Finally, if anyone's lyrics count as poetry, Dylan's do, and not just because of their intrinsic worth, but because they are so thoroughly integrated into the imaginative web of "real" literature. Charles Sanders Peirce, in his Semiotic theories, insisted on the triadic nature of all signification: there is the sign itself, the Object signified, and the interpretant, the understanding one have of the sign/object relation. Understanding for Peirce, however, is holistic: there is no act of understanding that is not itself determined by other sign/object/interpretant triads – signification "goes all the way down."[ii] Dylan's "infinite semiosis" reaches down through the signs wrought by Eliot, Pound, Dylan Thomas, Whitman, and Shakespeare, among many others. One of Dylan's finest lyrics, "Tears of Rage"[iii], not only resonates with Shakespearean themes and imagery made American, but is a précis of King Lear itself:
We carried you in our arms on Independence Day
And now you throw us all aside and put us all away
Oh, what dear daughter 'neath the sun could treat her father so
To wait upon him hand and foot, yet always tell him no
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief
Come to me now, you know we're so alone
And life is brief
It was all so very painless when you ran out to receive
All that false instruction which we never could believe
And now the heart is filled with gold as if it were a purse
But, oh, what kind of love is this which goes from bad to worse
We pointed you the way to go and scratched your name in sand
Though you just thought it was nothing more than a place for you to stand
I want you to know that while we watched you discover no one would be true
That I myself was among the ones who thought it was just a childish thing to do
And life is brief[iv]
If that's not prize-worthy poetry, I do not know what is.
[i] http://www.nobelprize.org/faq/questions_in_category.php?id=2#17
[ii] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Peirce's Theory of Signs", http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/
[iii] "Tears of Rage", originally part of the esoteric and renowned "Basement Tapes", was first recorded by The Band and included in their first release Music From Big Pink. Richard Manuel, The Band's pianist and lead singer, wrote the music and asked Dylan to write lyrics. "Tears of Rage" is a good test of Dylan's talent as a poet, as he had no hand in writing the music. For this one, I'd give him an "A"…..
[iv] https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=tears%20of%20rage%20lyrics
(The Band's original version of "Tears of Rage" can be found here. My favorite version is a rare take on the song by Jimi Hendrix, recorded in a hotel room with his friend Paul Caruso. Unfortunately, no on-line links can be found; the version is included in Hendrix's posthumous collection West Coast Seattle Boy.)
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The fifth International Conference on Energy Renewal, Conservation, and Education (CIER 2007)closed in Havana this week with using hydrogen as fuel as a hot topic.
At the CIER 2007 conference Thursday, studies involving the impact of hydrogen as a fuel for motor vehicles and its cost-effectiveness were discussed.
Currently in Cuba, research on obtaining hydrogen from electricity generated by bagasse (a residue of sugar cane crushing) and through electrolysis is being conducted. Electrolysis is a method of separating electrolytes via electricity.
Also discussed at the conference, namely by Elena Vigil of the University of Havana's Physics Department, was the use of the sun as an energy solution. Vigil argues the promise of photovoltaic conversion, solar components, and hydrogen as viable fuels for the future.


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"What is this?" Breath hissed through Falcon's veil as he spoke. Snarling would be too much emotion for one of his Order, but his voice teetered on a precipice.
"It's a lake," Ianthe replied. "With water. You do remember water, don't you?" She had traded her heavy boots for sandals, and she lifted a foot out of one, and toed the water.
The water was the color of the sky at twilight — a deep, clouded blue, lit as if from beneath.
Ianthe sighed, rolled her eyes. "Nothing so dramatic. It's perfectly safe to swim in." She shucked off her sandals, stripped down to her chemise.
She didn't reach the water before Kaala, who raced past her companions, down a pier, to take a cannonball leap into the water. The Tempest warrior was soon swimming for a distant island, red panda makeup streaking off her face.
"Did she just–" Nu began, pointing toward the retreating Disciple.
Rolant was there, too, now. "Care to join her?" He raised an eyebrow suggestively at Nu.
"I'M NOT LISTENING," Ianthe replied, making a show of covering her ears. She waded into the shallows. The water was cool, and little white fishes swarmed around her ankles.
His eyes narrowed thoughtfully, "I remember, yes. Modesty just strikes me as a strange pretense, these days. But as you will." With a nod, he wandered off, towards the line of pine trees that lined the beach.
Ren appeared from the tree line, baring more skin that Ianthe had never seen on a Veiled before. He had stripped to a loin-cloth — black, of course. His corpse-white pallor reflected the sun with blinding radiance. Of course, he still wore his Veil, perfectly in place. "I have prepared myself," he announced, spreading his arms wide.
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Late today, Starbucks announced seeing signs of "early recovery" in China despite coronavirus fears and current dire restrictions put on citizens.
Despite a 13% year-to-date drop in its stock and a 4.4% drop today, Starbucks says its sales in the US are strong. This is good news since Starbucks has made 65% of its revenue in the United States during the first quarter of 2020.
The company has reduced revenue expectations in China by $400 million for the first quarter. Starbucks enjoyed $745 million in sales in China during the final quarter of 2019.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Starbucks said the COVID-19 virus has not affected sales in the US and the company has an optimistic long-term outlook that has not changed.
In February, Starbucks sales in China were down 78% from last February. The company expects sales in China for 2020 to be roughly half of 2019's. The company had suspended work on new stores that were to be opened in the country. These stores were planned before the coronavirus fears stifled Starbucks' 3% projected growth in China.
Approximately 90% of Starbucks stores in China are now reopened, with 5% more expected to reopen during the second quarter. However, these stores are operating in "safe mode" with limited seating and focus being on its mobile ordering service.
80% of Starbucks stores in China had been closed due to COVID-19. The company decided to pay workers despite the closures. While this is great for employees, the earnings per share are expected to drop as much as 18 cents.
The good news for Starbucks is the company has the money to weather the coronavirus storm. Although revenue and earnings have dropped, Starbucks has a substantial cushion to keep it afloat during difficult times like these.


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Travel Channel's 'Devil's Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren': The Conskipper Review
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Travel Channel launches their new Shock Docs series on Monday, September 7th at 9pm ET/PT with Devil's Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren. This two-hour special focuses on the history of America's most famous ghost hunting couple, and it contains classic footage and new interviews detailing their most famous cases. The special serves as a solid primer on the Warrens' pioneering work in the world of the supernatural, and the show will entertain and inform everyone ranging from those who are only aware of the popular movies which are based on their cases to those who have been following their work for decades.
Travel Channel went directly to the source to make Devil's Road an engaging and compelling documentary. A rare interview with Judy Spera (Ed and Lorraine's daughter) runs throughout the program, as does commentary by her husband, Tony Spera. Mr. Spera worked with Ed and Lorraine for decades, served as the moderator of their classic show, Seekers of the Supernatural, and he currently leads the New England Society for Psychic Research, which was founded by the Warrens in 1952. Seekers of the Supernatural was originally only available on local television to fans who lived near the Warrens' hometown in Connecticut in the nineties, and clips from the series appear in Devil's Road. For the first time ever, the entire nation can see Ed and Lorraine themselves speak in detail about some of their most famous cases. To round out the documentary, Devil's Road also features current experts in the field who were inspired by the Warrens, along with chilling photographs, classic news clips, and other artifacts from their work. In this documentary, you won't just learn about a case through standard narration… you will see pictures of haunting artifacts and locations and you will listen to actual audio recordings of everything from police officers who were on the scene of a haunted house to real life video footage of an actual exorcism. This collection of sources provides for a thorough and engaging experience.
The Warrens have so many famous cases that it is difficult to whittle their extensive work down into a two-hour special. Devil's Road focuses mainly on cases which appear in Warner Bros.' The Conjuring franchise and cases which have become films and/or figments of pop culture legend such as The Amityville Horror. There are pros and cons to this selection, and it leads to areas of the documentary which may feel too short and others too long. Because Devil's Road is a single special, this Shock Doc could only focus on a specific case for so long before moving on to other topics. This sometimes leads to major pieces of classic stories being conspicuously absent from the narrative of the documentary. Some of the missing pieces make the less well-known cases sometimes seem to have less of a narrative impact, and viewers might wish they were cut altogether to favor the more popular cases. This minor flaw speaks to the overall strength of the documentary: Devil's Road is so well made and so interesting that it could easily use a couple more episodes to detail the complete story of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Based on the quality of this documentary, it is clear that an extended Shock Docs series focusing exclusively on the Warrens would be a fantastic way to further chronicle the Warrens' cases in further detail. One can only hope that the Devil's Road has miles to go!
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Q: A car park has 10 empty spaces. 5 cars park in the car park. What is the probability of no two cars being parked next to each other? I have been trying to work out the answer to this question, but I don't have a markscheme so I'd like to confirm if I'm correct or not.
I drew out the number of orientations in which no two cars are parked next to each other and found that there are 6 combinations that fit the criteria.
I then found 6/(10C5), which gave me 6/252 or 1/42 as the probability. Is my working/answer correct?

A: For a systematic approach:
Note that the possible patterns must have the form $$0^a\,X\,0^b\,X\,0^c\,X\,0^d\,X\,0^e\,X\,0^f$$
Where $0$ is an empty space, $X$ is a car, $a+b+c+d+e+f=5$ and $b,c,d,e>0$. Letting $b'=b-1,c'=c-1,d'=d-1,e'=e-1$ we see that $a+b'+c'+d'+e'+f=1$ so exactly one of these is non-zero (and that one is equal to $1$).  That translates to $6$ options, confirming your solution.

A: Park $5$ cars on $6$ spots -- in $6=\binom{6}{5}$ ways. Add between each car one extra spot and  get a proper parking on $6+4=10$ spots.


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After a recent run of lacklustre form, the Judd Apatow brand has finally found its mojo again thanks to this tenderly handled rom-com from stand-up comedian Michael Showalter. While in recent years the output of Apatow's production company – Trainwreck, This is 40, The Five-Year Engagement – has become synonymous...
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U.S. Military Launches Airstrike on ISIS
The U.S. military launched its first airstrike on Islamic State militants in northern Iraq on Friday, hours after President Obama authorized military action and humanitarian drops to protect the autonomous Kurdish-controlled city Erbil, said the Pentagon.
The Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said "two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Erbil."
The decision to strike was made by the U.S. Central Command commander pursuant in addition to the President's authorization to strike if needed to protect Erbil from the advancing militant group.
The Kurdish-controlled capital, Erbil, is a home to a U.S. consulate and a joint U.S.-Iraqi operations center.
"We intend to stay vigilant, and take action if these terrorist forces threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in Iraq, including our consulate in Erbil and our embassy in Baghdad," President Obama said on Thursday from the White House.
In Iraq, 650 U.S. troops are stationed – 470 of them to protect American personnel and facilities, and the rest are there to assist Iraqi refugees fleeing from ISIS and to aid Iraqi forces in dealing with the ISIS militants who have seized key cities.
In recent days, ISIS has carried out a deadly offensive on Kurdish forces and has captured the Christian town of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq, forcing thousands to flee their homes.
"American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq," he said.
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How to create a sky using acrylics!
Want to learn how to paint a sunny sky painting? There's no one better to show us than talented UK artist Jess Reyna! She's been painting gorgeous candy colored skies for her #100daysofskies project for quite a while now and we've absolutely fallen in love with her work.
Today, she'll be sharing her step by step process on this guest blog post. Check out her work below to learn how to paint a unique and colorful acrylic sky!
Hello there! My name is Jess from IG: @reynaartdesign. I've been painting ever since I was a toddler and about two years ago, I decided to start selling my artwork. I've been working on a 100 Day Project on Instagram and my muse has been skies. On Craftamo, I will be explaining my step by step process on how to create a sky using acrylic paint.
With this particular painting, I used a 5 x 7 inch canvas panel. I work best on canvas with acrylic paint, however, I sometimes use heavyweight mixed media paper.
I typically start with the boldest color in the sky. With this piece, it was dark blue. I use System 3 Acrylics Ultramarine, Process Cyan, and Wedgewood. I used a medium sized flat brush size 12 with fast strokes because it truly captures the movement in the sky. Add pockets of this dark color first throughout the canvas.
Without rinsing the brush, pick up some white paint and swiftly move the strokes around the bold color. This will be the beginning of your cloud movement. I use a splotching technique because the mix of both blue and white paint creates the shadows within the clouds.
Switch to a smaller brush (size 8) to add finer details and focus on the areas with smaller colors. In this case, it was yellow (System 3 Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue). Keep picking up white paint and continue with haphazard brushstrokes. It doesn't have to be perfect. If you need to, grab some water to help blend some of the colors together since acrylic paint tends to dry very quickly.
In this final step, grab an even smaller brush (size 4) and add in the pockets of sky that peek out of the dark clouds.
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Friday, 30 August 2013: The drums of war in the Middle East continue to beat in rhythm with a global economic meltdown and planned reset. We arrived at this moment in time not by accident, but by design. Those in America and all throughout the Western world are about to experience the hijacking of our future through the pillaging of our wealth and the revamping of lifestyle. How are you going to survive what's coming? Regardless if you are a parent or simply someone others look to for leadership, how are you going to position yourself to calmly lead your family or others to safe harbor in the storm-churning seas?
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Q: Pandas:Dataframe issue I have the following data frame.
          'a1'                'f1'             'a0'
0  [5261, 5247, 5246]  [526, 557, 5246]    [1, 32, 5261]
1   [521, 5547, 5246]             'NaN'    [61, 5247, 246]

[5261, 5247, 5246] join with [526, 557, 5246] and the resultant array does
 not have duplicates.
 required ans:[5261,5247,5246,526,557].
 Same with the rest below.
[5261, 5247, 5246]  with 'NaN'
[521, 5547, 5246]  with [526, 557, 5246]
[521, 5547, 5246] with 'NaN'

These results need to be stored somewhere and the resultant result (counts to 4 nos) is repeated with 'a0' too.
I tried many ways but doesn't work out.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Sonia

A: I would try to get it is tidy format (some term, look it up I think R people invented the term).
    In [58]: s = pd.Series({'a1': [['5261', '5247', '5246'], ['521', '5547', '5246']], 'f1': [['526', '557', '5246']], 'a0': [['1', '32', '26'], ['61', '47', '246']]})

    In [59]: s
    Out[59]:
    a1    [[5261, 5247, 5246], [521, 5547, 5246]]
    f1                         [[526, 557, 5246]]
    a0               [[1, 32, 26], [61, 47, 246]]
    dtype: object

    In [60]: s.exp
    s.expanding s.explode
    In [60]: s.explode()
    Out[60]:
    a1    [5261, 5247, 5246]
    a1     [521, 5547, 5246]
    f1      [526, 557, 5246]
    a0           [1, 32, 26]
    a0         [61, 47, 246]
    dtype: object

    In [61]: s.explode().explode()
    Out[61]:
    a1    5261
    a1    5247
    a1    5246
    a1     521
    a1    5547
    a1    5246
    f1     526
    f1     557
    f1    5246
    a0       1
    a0      32
    a0      26
    a0      61
    a0      47
    a0     246
    dtype: object

    In [62]: s.index
    Out[62]: Index(['a1', 'f1', 'a0'], dtype='object')

    In [63]: s.values
    Out[63]: array([list([['5261', '5247', '5246'], ['521', '5547', '5246']]), list([['526', '557', '5246']]), list([['1', '32', '26'], ['61', '47', '246']])], dtype=object)

In [68]: d = s.explode().explode()

In [69]: d = d.reset_index()

In [70]: d
Out[70]:
   index     0
0     a1  5261
1     a1  5247
2     a1  5246
3     a1   521
4     a1  5547
5     a1  5246
6     f1   526
7     f1   557
8     f1  5246
9     a0     1
10    a0    32
11    a0    26
12    a0    61
13    a0    47
14    a0   246

In [71]: d.columns = ['A', 'B'] # whatever

In [72]: d.to_parquet('here.parquet')


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The Titan: Story of Michelangelo ist ein US-amerikanischer Dokumentarfilm aus dem Jahr 1950 über das Leben und Werk des Malers, Bildhauers, Architekten und Dichters Michelangelo.

The Titan ist die von Robert Flaherty und Richard Lyford überarbeitete, gekürzte Fassung des Films Michelangelo – Das Leben eines Titanen (1938) von Curt Oertel.

Handlung und Auszeichnungen

Das Leben und Werk Michelangelos, eines der bedeutendsten Künstler der Hochrenaissance, wird von dem Filmschauspieler Frederic March als Erzähler vor dem historischen Hintergrund der Zeit Michelangelos präsentiert. Dabei wird mit den Frühwerken begonnen und der späte Ruhm des Künstlers dargestellt, wobei der Film detaillierte Betrachtungen auf einige der bekanntesten Werke des Künstlers beinhaltet.

Der Film, der bereits 1950 den National Board of Review Award als bester fremdsprachiger Film erhielt, wurde darüber hinaus bei der Oscarverleihung 1951 mit dem Oscar für den besten Dokumentarfilm ausgezeichnet.

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My field is late twentieth-century U.S. culture and politics, what is known in shorthand as Post45 or Post War (to the confusion of many: which war?). I also am a founding member of the Post45 collective, which publishes an online journalPost45and a book series atStanford University Press. My interests in the field include American poetry, novels, essays, and plays; gender and sexuality studies; photography; autobiography and confessional writing; American ethnic literature; poetry and poetics; and Cold War history. I have been working recently on the immediate postwar moment, @1948, on which topic I and three colleagues ran a year-long, interdisciplinary Sawyer Seminar sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. My colleague Leela Gandhi and I co-edited a selection of papers presented in the seminar in a special issue of Critical Inquiry. In the fall of 2018, James Sparrow in the Department of History and I will curate an exhibit from the holdings of the Smart Museum on the @1948 moment.
This past spring my book, Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, was published by the University of Chicago Press. Tough Enough focuses on these six women who are aligned with no single tradition but whose work coheres in a style and philosophical viewpoint that derives from a shared attitude toward suffering. What Mary McCarthy called a "cold eye" was not merely a personal aversion to displays of emotion: it was an unsentimental mode of attention that dictated both ethical positions and aesthetic approaches. Tough Enough challenges the pre-eminence of empathy as the ethical posture from which to examine pain. My first book, Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America, examined the discourse of privacy beginning with its emergence asa topic of intense anxiety in the late 1950s. Pairing landmark Supreme Court decisions on the right to privacy with the investigation of privacy and private life in the work of the confessional poets, the book takes up these two discourses for their particularly subtle investigation of the language of privacy as the concept evolved over the next decades.
Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, University of Chicago Press, April 2017.
"Around 1948" with Leela Gandhi a special issue of Critical Inquiry, Summer 2014.
"Confessional Poetry," Cambridge Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, ed. Jennifer Ashton, forthcoming.
"Introduction: Twentieth-Century Poetry: Expanding Archives and Methods," PMLA, Vol. 127, No. 2, March 2012.
"The Virtues of Heartlessness: Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, and the Anaesthetics of Empathy," American Literary History, Winter 2006.
"Sylvia Plath and the Cold War" in the Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath, edited by Jo Gill, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Guest Editor, Special Issue of WSQ "Gender and Culture in the 1950s," Dec. 2005.
"Suffering and Thinking: The Scandal of Tone in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem" in Compassion, edited by Lauren Berlant for the English Institute, Routledge Press, 2004.
Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America, Columbia University Press, 2001.
"Beyond Privacy: Confessions Between a Woman and Her Doctor," Feminist Studies, Summer 1999.
"Penetrating Privacy: Confessional Poetry and the Surveillance Society," Home/Making: The Poetics and Politics of Home, edited by Catherine Wiley and Fiona Barnes.
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Jim Cramer sees long-term potential in Portillo's and Origin Materials
December 17, 2021 December 17, 2021 by Mike Robinson
CNBC's Jim CramerAccording to Friday's statement, he views long-term opportunities for publicly listed companies. Origin Materials Portillo'sInvestors interested in buying stocks can do so under certain conditions.
Let's see what you think. "Mad Money"The host considers the investment requirements of each company.
Cramer said he views Portillo's — a Chicago-based restaurant chain known for its Chicago-style hot dogs — as an attractive story over time as it grows its store footprint nationally.
The stock won't be able to work right now because investors are dealing with a Federal Reserve that is more aggressive, Cramer cautioned. Cramer advises that investors start "a modest position" in this area.
Cramer stated that one negative aspect of Portillo's was the fact that Berkshire Partners (a private equity sponsor) still holds a majority stake in the company, even though it went public last October. Cramer said, "The overhang that they could finally ring on the register could do some damage."
Cramer was nevertheless impressed by Portillo's core principles, including the average units volumes and margins for restaurants. Cramer said the fast-casual chain is profitable as well.
Cramer stated that Portillo's stock is still very expensive on a price to earnings basis. The stock closed at $31.73 per shares Friday. On Nov. 17, it reached an all-time record of $57.73.
However, he suggested that "if it keeps getting hit," you buy more and gradually add to the weakness. I believe this could be an excellent long-term story for a restaurant.
Origin Materials
Cramer stated that Origin Materials' SPAC merger with late June is worth speculative investments. Cramer defines this as buying shares only with money, meaning that investors cannot lose.
Cramer stated that Origin has a strong long-term story. However, Wall Street is currently avoiding this stock. Origin's share price is $6, so I suggest you get a look at Origin. This is half the cost for a New York-style deli sandwich.
Cramer stated that Origin is unique because, even though they are in chemicals business, it "remains a sustainable chemical company." Cramer stated that Origin does not use petroleum-based feedstocks as many other companies in the sector. Instead, Origin uses pulp waste, wood chips and cardboard.
Cramer stated that plastic can be made from wood chips and not petroleum, underscoring the importance of Cramer's emphasis on environmental responsibility.
If they're able to do it, this company could have a huge value. He cautioned that we do not know how they will pull this off. Even though the project has major-name investors, and reservation from many companies such as PepsiCoOrigin, he stated, is still very early in its development.
He said, "Just keep in mind that I am only blessing this one to speculate. It is not something you should consider buying with money you cannot afford to lose."
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Thalia Shirley, DDS is originally from Houston, TX a graduate of Bellaire High School. She began her Pre-Dental education at Baylor University with a BA in Sociology with a Minor in Chemistry and went on to obtain a Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree from Baylor College of Dentistry and an Advanced Education in General Dentistry certificate from the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry.
Dr. Shirley has been a family and cosmetic dentist for 20 years. Some services she provides beyond traditional dentistry are wisdom teeth removal, implant placement and restoration, veneers and full mouth reconstruction.
She participates in several local and online study groups and is committed to community service both within and outside the field of dentistry. Dr. Shirley holds memberships with local, state, and national dental organizations including The American Dental Association, Texas Dental Association and Dallas County Dental Society.
Dr. Shirley has two daughters with whom she enjoys watching them perform in their arts. She also enjoys fitness activities, cultural events, cuisine of all types live music and dancing.
Gricel is a Grand Prairie native, and now makes her home in Rowlett with her husband and three daughters. Gricel began working in this dental practice as a teenager when it was owned by Dr. Goodyear. She was first his dental assistant and then his hygienists upon graduation from Baylor School of Dentistry in 2008. She continued to serve as the hygienist when the practice shifted ownership to Dr. Karry Barnes. Gricel is an extraordinary hygienist committed to continuing education and providing cutting edge hygiene care to her beloved patients.
When not in the office Gricel treasures time with her growing family participating activities from gymnastics to church.
Lily is a Dallas native. She has been a Registered Dental Assistant since 2010 with her start in Pediatric Dentistry. She loves patient care and ensuring the patients have a great experience. She is very skilled in assisting all aspects of dental surgery including the placement and restoration of dental implants and other cosmetic restorations.
In her free times she enjoys cooking, traveling and cheering on America's Team, The Dallas Cowboys, with her husband and her 3 children.
Bethany is a Ft. Worth native and is studying Pre-dental Biology and Chemistry at UT Arlington. She has been a dental assistant for seven year and is very proficient in all aspects of dental customer service. In her free time she enjoys taking dance classes and spending time with her fiancé and dog.


Goodman's Fields was historically an area for stabling horses, just to the east of the City of London, before it became part of the Aldgate banking and financial centre. When these uses themselves became redundant Berkeley Homes was able to realise a major mixed use regeneration project for the site creating over 1,000 new homes, student housing and new retail and office space. Lichfields has been working with Berkeley on every stage of the project securing the original hybrid planning permission and then the detailed approvals necessary to deliver this very high quality development.
Goodman's Fields is a great example of place-making on a large scale on London's City Fringe. As well as much-needed homes, a hotel and commercial floorspace, the scheme is delivering a network of intimate and larger scale areas of public realm which are carefully knitted into the existing urban pattern.


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Norris McLaughlin Attorneys to Speak on Brewery and Distillery Law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Posted on May 23rd, 2019
Theodore J. Zeller III, Danielle M. DeFilippis, and Matthew B. Andersen, attorneys of law firm Norris McLaughlin, P.A., will present "Brewery and Distillery Law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey" at a training seminar hosted by the National Business Institute on Thursday, June 6, 9 a.m.– 4:30 p.m., at Homewood Suites by Hilton in Valley Forge.
The speakers will present ways to help clients understand the complex world of alcohol manufacturing and distribution; minimize liability; and navigate the licensing, labeling and tax reporting challenges along the way. They will also discuss how to effectively protect client's intellectual property, avoid legal landmines in advertising, and give valuable tips for negotiating distribution agreements. Topics include brewery and distillery business entity selection, formation, finance and insurance; licensing, labeling, and regulatory compliance; federal and state tax reporting requirements; negotiating/drafting brewery and distillery contracts; intellectual property and advertising; and ethics. For more information and to register, please click here.
Zeller, a Member of the firm and Chair of its Liquor Law Practice Group, is experienced in liquor law, regulatory licensing, commercial transactions, real estate transactions, and litigation. He was lead counsel in a beer rights case brought against the world's largest brewers and is General Counsel to Brewers of Pennsylvania. Known throughout Pennsylvania, he also represents beer interests on a national level and advises breweries and wholesalers on state regulatory matters involving beer distribution and franchise laws. He regularly prepares distribution agreements for his clients, and coordinates state and federal licensing for manufacturing and national distribution. Zeller has tried multiple cases in county and federal court, including jury trials, and hundreds of cases before arbitration panels, district justices, and administrative law judges. He is General Counsel to D.G. Yuengling and Son, Inc.; represents alcohol interests in every category; and has helped numerous start-up breweries, wineries, distilleries, and retailers. He currently serves as Chairman of the Allentown Parking Authority. Zeller is an author of the firm's liquor law blog, Legal Liquor. He earned his J.D. from Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
DeFilippis, a Member of the firm and Co-Chair of its Intellectual Property Law Practice Group, focuses her practice on intellectual property prosecution and litigation. She represents individual and corporate clients in all phases of litigation, from commencement through trial, and regularly serves as lead counsel in cases before federal and state courts, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and alternative resolution forums. She has represented clients in a variety of industries, most notably food and beverage, liquor, jewelry, and cosmetics. She has handled cases involving trademark and copyright infringement, false advertising, commercial disparagement, business torts, deceptive trade practices, Lanham Act claims, state and federal unfair competition laws, and other business disputes. She is an author of the firm's trademark, copyright, and unfair competition blog, More Than Your Ma®k. DeFilippis received her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law and her B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University.
Andersen, an Associate of the firm, concentrates his practice on liquor law and business law. In his liquor law practice, he works with breweries, distilleries, wineries, wholesalers, distributors, restaurants, and hotels on obtaining and transferring liquor licenses, complying with liquor regulations and laws, providing transactional counseling, and defending citations and protests before the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Andersen represents national restaurant chains and hospitality companies with regard to their Pennsylvania locations in all aspects of their liquor licenses and acquisitional counseling. He also works with numerous alcohol manufacturers to bring their dreams and ideas of operating a brewery, distillery, or winery to a reality, advising them through the planning, licensing and operation stages. Additionally, Andersen has worked with licensees, nonprofit organizations, and event planners on obtaining temporary alcohol permits for events. He also is experienced in drafting and negotiating distribution agreements between alcohol manufacturers and distributors in many states to help them expand the reach of their brands. He also works with alcohol manufacturers on obtaining federal Certificate of Label Approvals and formula approval for their products. Andersen is an author of the firm's liquor law blog, Legal Liquor, and won a JD Supra "Reader's Choice Award" in 2018 for his contributions. He is an assistant lacrosse coach at Northwestern Lehigh High School. He earned his J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law, and his B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University.
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Le  est un complexe sportif arena situé à Kadoma dans la Préfecture d'Osaka au Japon.

Il a été achevé au début de 1996. L'architecte principal est Mamoru Kawaguchi, fondateur de la société Kawaguchi & Engineers.
Le dôme est composé en grande partie de béton armé et de cadres d'acier, il couvre une superficie d'environ 25 000 . À l'intérieur, il y a la salle principale pour les compétitions, une piscine séparée, une salle d'entrainement, une salle polyvalente, des salles de conférence et un restaurant. La salle principale est de 6 000 places fixes avec une capacité possible de 10 000 personnes. On y trouve aussi un grand écran et un marquoir électrique.

Utilisations
L'utilisation de l'arène change avec les saisons.
 En été, l'arène a une piscine, de 50 m x 25,5 m, où la profondeur peut être modifiée grâce à son sol mobile. La piscine de plongée de 25 m sur 25 m, avec trois plates-formes de plongée et cinq tremplins, a aussi un sol mobile.
 En hiver, l'arena se transforme en patinoires pour le  patinage sur glace. La patinoire principale mesure 60 m sur 30 m, et une patinoire annexe fait 18 m sur 30 m.
 En automne et au printemps, l'arène est transformée en gymnase où sont organisées des compétitions sportives, des expositions et des conférences.

Événements sportifs
 Certains matchs de la Coupe du monde de volley-ball féminin 2003 ont eu lieu au Namihaya Dome.
 Certains matchs de la coupe nationale de tennis et de la Coupe Davis ont eu lieu au Namihaya Dome.
 Le Trophée NHK pour les éditions 1996, 2005, 2014 et 2020.
 Les championnats du Japon de patinage artistique 2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2017 et 2019.

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Liens externes
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Équipement sportif achevé en 1996
Dôme (architecture)
Salle de basket-ball au Japon
Salle de volley-ball au Japon
Piscine au Japon
Équipement de tennis
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Joe Panik honored by John Jay, locals Wednesday
Sean T. McMann
Atop an orange-and-black, double-decker bus that bore his name, Joe Panik rode through the streets of San Francisco on Oct. 31, thousands of fans heaping on him and his teammates the adulation due World Series champions.
This time, it's the Hudson Valley's turn.
"I'm happy to see my close friends and family," Panik, a 2008 graduate of John Jay High School, told the Poughkeepsie Journal ahead of the private ceremony his alma mater will hold to honor him Wednesday. "When I come back here, to my friends and family, they just see the person — not the baseball player."
Invited guests, along with dignitaries from the Wappingers Central School District, the Town of East Fishkill and Dutchess County, will share their gratitude for the second baseman from Hopewell Junction. The 7 p.m. event is not open to the public, due to space limitations at the high school venue.
San Francisco's first-round pick in Major League Baseball's 2011 First-Year Player Draft, Panik spent three-plus seasons in the minor leagues before receiving a promotion to the big leagues on June 21. He compiled a .305 batting average in 72 regular-season games before helping the Giants win their third World Series in five years.
"You always dream about it," said Panik, referring to winning the Fall Classic as a rookie. "For it to happen, that's something that's surreal."
After the World Series, officials from the county, town and school had convened to work on an event to fete the local champ. Weather precluded a parade or event at a local baseball diamond.
Officials had originally agreed to host an event at Town Hall in East Fishkill. Logistics, however, moved the intimate, private ceremony to John Jay "to honor Joe with the people who had direct influences on him," said Tom O'Hare, who coached Panik at the Wiccopee school and has acted as a liaison between the different parties.
O'Hare, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and John Jay teacher Rob Seipp will be among those to make presentations.
"I've been in touch with former coaches, former teachers, former players — some people I haven't heard from in years. It's been nice," said O'Hare, who teaches physical education at John Jay. "Seeing Joe in the World Series was nice and amazing, and this is bringing back a lot of memories: coaching him and watching him grow and develop. It's putting me back a few years in my head."
Molinaro said Panik "has been very, very modest" about his success, but also "very deserving" of the recognition he'll receive Wednesday.
"Dutchess County is exceptionally proud to call Joe Panik one of our favorite sons," he said. "He's a great ballplayer and a real tribute, not only to his family and the Wappingers Central School District, but to the county, as a whole. We're looking forward to recognizing his accomplishments so far."
Panik made a diving flip to start a double play in Game 7 of the Fall Classic, turning him into a seemingly overnight sensation — baseball fans and industry members voted it the Greatness in Baseball Yearly Award winner for best play of the postseason last week. But, he said the national attention hasn't gone to his head.
Panik told the Journal he appreciates the local support and remains a kid from Hopewell at heart.
"It's definitely difficult to win a championship — there are guys who go their whole career without winning one —so it's really special," the 24-year-old said. "Coming from Hopewell Junction, I feel very blessed for everything that happened here."
In recent offseasons, Panik had worked out at John Jay, training and returning to visit former teachers and administrators.
Wednesday, though, will present him with a unique opportunity: the ability to share his World Series success with the people who played a part in helping him achieve it, while allowing them to thank him for the memories he's given them.
"I just want to see that gym. I've been around in the past, running on the track and things, but it will be cool to be back," Panik said. "Just walking into the gym and see your banner on the wall, that's going to be amazing.
"That's really where my career started. That led me to college (at St. John's University), and it's going to be an honor to go back there. You have to remember your roots. It's pretty special. That's where you grew up, and that's where everything started."
Sean T. McMann: smcmann@poughkeepsiejournal.com; 845-437-4826; Twitter: @journalsean


Ed Sheeran doesn't quite fit the mold of your conventional pop star: He's a tattooed redhead who has veered on the side of pudgy in the past.
Despite his unconventional looks, the 25-year-old Englishman can write a mean song, flexing his melodic skills to the tune of three Billboard top-10 hits, two Grammys, and over 3 million albums sold in Australia alone. Now Sheeran has added another impressive number to his résumé: 22. That's the approximate number of kilograms the singer has recently shed.
Sheeran told Total Access on Signal 1 Radio that after coming home from months of touring last year, he put on a significant amount of weight. "I didn't realise how active I was on tour," Sheeran said.
So Sheeran enlisted the help of his girlfriend, hockey player Cherry Seaborn, to put him on a diet and exercise plan. "I did 10 minutes a day without fail: intervals of 30 seconds and 30 seconds sprinting. The key is to not miss a day, so you don't have to do an hour," Sheeran told Total Access.
Sheeran is now down to around 72 kilos, and will no doubt feel lighter on his feet when he sets out on tour in support of his forthcoming album, ÷ (Divide).