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La Saint-Martin est célébrée le 10 novembre ou le 11 novembre en souvenir de Martin de Tours. La date correspond à sa mise au tombeau le . Depuis la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale elle est généralement fêtée le 10 novembre en Flandre française et parfois en Belgique. Elle reste fêtée le  aux Pays-Bas, dans l'île de Saint-Martin et parfois en Belgique, en Suisse, en Allemagne et en Autriche ainsi que dans les pays scandinaves. Cette fête tenait un rôle semblable à celle de fête de Saint-Nicolas et c'est encore le cas dans certains endroits.

Légende

Flandres
Saint Martin serait venu évangéliser les Flandres et y aurait perdu son âne dans les dunes. Les enfants du pays auraient alors cherché l'âne et l'auraient retrouvé. Pour les remercier, Saint-Martin aurait transformé les crottes de l'âne en croissants pour les distribuer aux enfants.

Traditions

Flandres et Belgique
La tradition est particulièrement vivace en Flandre qu'elle soit française ou belge. La tradition y est de faire des betteraves sculptées et de distribuer des spéculoos et des folards (ou voelaren) aux enfants.

La Saint-Martin est également fêté dans le Limbourg belge et dans les cantons de l'est.

Allemagne

Dans les pays germaniques (y compris l'Alsace) et scandinaves, il est de tradition de déguster une oie rôtie le jour de la Saint-Martin, correspondant à la veille de l'Avent. C'est alors que les oies sont les plus grasses. Une oie est également au menu de la Noël (donc après l'Avent) dans ces contrées.

Pour célébrer la Saint-Martin, les enfants se promènent dans les rues, tenant à bout de bras leurs lanternes illuminées.

Les écoles germaniques organisent souvent à cet effet une fête scolaire où tous les enfants se rassemblent. Ils vont alors chanter des chansons pour saint Martin, donner à manger à l'âne et faire le tour de la ville avec les lanternes tout comme dans le nord de la France.

Suisse

Villes avec une tradition de Saint-Martin
 Dunkerque
 Ganshoren dont la tradition est maintenue grâce à la Koninklijke Folkloristiche Maatschappij Sint-Martinus
 Ypres
 Furnes
 Alost
 Termonde
 Malines
 Voiron où est célébrée la Foire de la Saint Martin
 Herve
 Pontoise
 Quintin
 Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët
 Sarralbe
 l'Isle Jourdain où est célébrée la Foire de la Saint Martin.

Références

Fête traditionnelle dans les Hauts-de-France
Fête en Belgique
Fête aux Pays-Bas
Fête au Danemark
Fête de novembre
Flandre

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Well it's taken a bit, but I seem to be getting back into being home from pilgrimage. Two days after coming home I graduated with my BA in English Literature (Medieval and Renaissance primarily) and and Extended Minor in Theatre (with focus on Lighting and Directing). I then went straight from my grad dinner to an SCA event which I was running. The event ran wonderfully, and now I'm going back to work. It's odd to be back home after being gone for several weeks. Enjoy.


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"Miss American"
Arch Oboler's 1938 radio play, performed by Katharine Hepburn, pleaded with American audiences to offer more aid to Jewish refugee children. It aired as the country debated over the Wagner-Rogers Bill (Joint Resolution 64).
Choosing to Rescue
Sociologist Nechama Tec explores the story of one woman, Stefa Dworek - a Polish Christian - and her motivation to shelter a Jewish woman during the Holocaust. If caught rescuing a Jew during this time, Stefa would have faced imprisonment or worse. Yet about 2 percent of the Polish Christian population chose to hide Jews in a nation known for its long history of antisemitism.
Eboo Patel on Collaborating across Differences
Interfaith leader Eboo Patel talks about what it takes to build a healthy, religiously diverse democracy.
John Carey on the Rule of Law
Political scientist John Carey discusses the importance of the rule of law in making democracy work.
Let The World Know!
Two Jews meet with a Polish courier during the Grossaktion Warsaw in summer 1942, imploring him to tell the world what was happening to Jews.
Rapper Ruby Ibarra reflects on her Filipino-American experience and the role of language in this spoken-word poem.
The Reconstruction Era
Speech by President Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
This is an audio recording of President Lincoln's second inaugural address (March 4, 1865).
The Mission's Beginning
Waitstill Sharp describes how he and and his wife, Martha, were asked to begin relief work in Czechoslovakia aiding refugees from Nazi occupation.
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Justice & Human Rights
UDHR Workshop Day 1 Overview
Listen to the introduction from day one of the UDHR Workshop.
The horrors of World War II, the new and frightening power of the atomic bomb, and the Nazi genocide of Jews and of others deemed unworthy to live shocked the consciences of people all over the world in 1945. This capacity and desire to destroy whole populations of humanity prompted First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to warn that "In the end...we are 'One World' and that which injures any one of us, injures all of us."
Welcome to Day 3. Today we'll focus on reasons human rights was controversial in the post-war United States and why "civil" rights, instead, became the focus. This session will also model a literacy strategy known as close read activity.
Welcome to Day 4. The end of the first meeting of the Human Rights Commission in February of 1947 marked the drafting of the document first referred to as the International Bill of Rights, later known as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Hard earned points for Covena in Aragon
Tony Covena has scored a very well-deserved thirteenth place in today's Superstock 1000 FIM Cup race at MotorLand Aragon in Spain. The EAB Racing Team rider had to start from eighteenth on the grid after a difficult begin of the weekend, because of the late arrival of some vital components due to logistical problems. Despite this major challenge and despite a hard sprint to the first corner, the Dutchmen was able to score three important points aboard his EAB Racing Team Ducati 1199 Panigale R.
Covena's team mate Fabio Massei had no luck in the race as he was forced to withdraw after technical problems. Without this problems, a top-6 or top-7 was possible. The start of the race day was very good for Massei, as he ended the morning warming-up on the EAB Racing Team Ducati 1199 Panigale R in an impressive second place. Also Covena showed a good race pace with tenth overall in that session, only a couple of tenths behind his Italian team mate.
After the first round at Aragon, both Covena and Massei are now fully focused on next weeks race at the famous TT Circuit in the north of the Netherlands, Covena's and EAB Racing Team's home race.
Tony Covena: "After the difficulties in the qualification I needed a good start, but unfortunately my start wasn't that good as some riders crashed in front of me. From that moment the challenge was even bigger. At the end I'm happy with a couple of points after I lost some valuable time passing a competitor, but to be honest, after the promising warm-up, I was hoping for more. Hopefully Assen will be better. I'm looking really forward to my home race and can't wait to Friday morning's free practice 1."
Fabio Massei: "In the warming-up I found a really good rhythm and a good feeling with the Ducati Panigale and although I had to start from tenth on the grid, I was confident to score good points today. Without the technical problems I think top-6 would be possible. It's a real shame as this race was more or less a test for us and it would be great to leave Aragon with championship points. But this is racing and things like this can always happen. Hopefully we will have more luck at Assen!"


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The Cyprus Stock Exchange was established as a legal entity in the form of a public corporate body under the Cyprus Securities and Stock Exchange Laws and Regulations which were passed by the House of Representatives in 1993 and 1995, respectively. The first trading session on the Cyprus Stock Exchange was held on March 29, 1996.
The Stock Exchange currently operates a Regulated Market and a Market in the form of Multilateral Trading Facility ( the 'Emerging Companies Market'), which operate under the Cyprus Securities and Stock Exchange Law and the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law (MIFID). Main participants of the Stock Exchange are the Members of the Stock Exchange (brokerage offices), listed issuers and investors.
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CHICAGO, February 24, 2016—Nicor Gas is over-earning and should be ordered to give its customers a rate cut of up to $52 million, according to expert testimony filed by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Citizens Utility Board (CUB).
The testimony, written by David J. Effron, a New Hampshire-based Certified Public Accountant and expert on utility regulations, was filed this month as the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) reviews a bid by Southern Co. to acquire Nicor's parent company, AGL Resources.
The roughly $8 billion deal, announced last August, would create the nation's second biggest utility company. It is scheduled to close in the second half of 2016—but first it needs approval from regulators in several states, including from the ICC.
Illinois utilities like Nicor operate as monopolies in the regions where they deliver gas through their pipes. Special regulations govern what rates they can charge, as well as the return on equity (profit rate for shareholders) they can earn.
Nicor made $100 million in profits in 2014 and had a return on equity of 14.7 percent, according to Effron's testimony, filed Feb. 3. That was nearly 5 percentage points higher than the return on equity (10.17 percent) authorized by the ICC in the company's last rate case, decided in 2009. "This equates to excess net income of $30.8 million, which translates into excess revenues of $52.2 million,' Effron wrote.
The over-earning is connected to changes to Nicor's "depreciation accrual rate," approved by the ICC in 2013. The change lowered depreciation costs by about $50 million in 2014. Depreciation lowers the value of a utility's assets, such as trucks and other equipment, and that is a key factor in setting rates.
Nicor customers who want to send a message to the ICC in favor of a rate cut can visit www.CitizensUtilityBoard.org.


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The manager at a health center was talking with a new receptionist about their patients and doctors and the floor plan of the building.
Questions were of the diagram and map labeling kind.
A student and a tutor were talking about the advantages and disadvantages of the wind turbines used in Australia.
Passage 1 was about the causes that led to the extinction of apes around the world.
Questions: match quotations to experts' names.
Passage 2 was about the development of mathematical tables and models to solve problems.
Passage 3 was about music therapy and its power to heal people suffering from illnesses such as burns and autism.
Questions: Filling in blanks, True/False/Not Given, matching exercises.
A table showing the oil production in four African countries over a period of four years was given. Test takers were asked to write a report based on the information given in the table.
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Our children are trained and excel in a lot of sports such as cricket, basketball, table tennis, badminton, martial arts, kabaddi and yoga and regularly win many accolades at state/national level.
Various cultural activities such as dance, music and drama are an integral part of our education process. Children are encouraged to nurture their special talents and excel in this field too.
Travel and the outdoors enrich the mind of children with a colorful canvas of experience; Central Academy regularly conducts tours, excursions, outdoor camps and treks to develop a love for travel and Nature, in the students.
Essay, debates and quiz competitions, drawing, painting and craft activities, making working models related to various academic and non-academic subjects etc are conducted frequently.


Are Crohn's disease, tuberculosis and sarcoidosis all different types of auto-immune diseases?
What chronic/autoimmune/genetic diseases have flare-ups like Lupus?
With acute diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis caused by systemic lupus erythematosus, why would a patient have uremia and hyperkalemia?
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There must be something special about the Bavarian Alps, because even though their area takes up merely 1.5% of Germany — they're usually the first thing to come to mind when talking about Germany.
Perhaps this is why the Bavarian Alps are said to be "one of the most scenic places in Central Europe." Foolish mortals, why would anyone say such a thing?
The Bavarian Alps stretch for some 200km (124mi) along the Austrian border, from the Ammergau Alps in the west to the Chiemgau Alps in the east.
Within this slice of mountainous Heaven are classy spa towns like Füssen in the west and Freilassing in the east; scenic routes like the German Alpine Road and Via Claudia Augusta; castles like Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau; and more outdoor recreational activities than you could do in one season.
And I wouldn't dream of not mentioning places like the Forggensee and the Lake Tegernsee.
The most interesting part of the Bavarian Alps, and which most people don't realize, is that they're not the tallest mountain peaks. The highest point is the Zugspitze at "just" 2,962 meters or 9,718 feet, but their topography of just jutting straight up over the level landscape gives them a real imposing stature.
Talk about dramatic, wait until you get a look at the Alps from the cable car ride in Bayrischzell. If you're not a skier, this is one of the best ways to get up to the top.
Skiing is one of the best activities to do in the Alps, with the season running from December to April. That's like five months of swishing and swooshing down the mountainside with the call of the Alpenhorn the distance.
If you're going to do that, you're best off heading to small alpine villages like Benediktbeuern. Just don't do it at the 8th century Benedictine Abbey — doesn't seem appropriate, does it?
Of course, winter isn't the only time of year to enjoy the Bavarian Alps. Summer gives you ample time to try paragliding, hiking, and canoeing (to say the least). And with a summer season that runs from May to November, there's certainly plenty of time to do it all.
Well, that is if you aren't distracted by the dramatic views.


Samsung's free Internet browser is no longer a Galaxy phone exclusive Safari and Google Chrome are installed as default web browsers on most mobile devices. But there are other options -- and Samsung's exclusive mobile browser is now available for all users of the most recent versions of Android.
I previously wrote that Samsung's Galaxy S8 apps are better than Google's -- and now Android L and later owners can install Samsung Internet for free.
Apple iPhones include Safari as the default web browser while most Android phones have Google Chrome as the default. Samsung Galaxy owners have had the Samsung Internet browser available for years. Other mobile browser options include Firefox and Opera.
After using them all on various devices, the best I have found is the Samsung Internet browser.
Controls at the bottom: With today's large screen smartphones, it is much easier to use the browser with the main navigation options at the bottom. Back, forward, home, bookmarks, and tabs are found on the bottom of the Samsung Internet browser.
True full screen viewing: Most browsers have a "full screen" mode that then still shows some controls or menu options. As soon as you start scrolling down a page with the Samsung browser, the entire display fills with your internet content and you enjoy the internet as it was designed.
Reader mode: One reason I like Safari on the iPhone is for its integrated reader mode that strips out and reformats content for an optimal reading experience. Chrome hacks can give you a similar, but limited experience, as well, but Samsung's browser supports it by default and it works very well.
High contrast mode: This modes makes browsing the web for those with impaired vision much better and it is easily toggled by tapping the Settings > Accessibility option in the browser settings.
Desktop syncing: Samsung Internet supports tons of extensions, including a desktop Chrome extension, so you can sync your Google Chrome desktop bookmarks with the Samsung Internet browser.
Easy support for content blockers: I understand ad review supports many sites, but sometimes it is overbearing and you want to block ads or content. Samsung Internet supports content blockers with suggested ad blockers provided right within the browser.
Experimental features: Similar to Chrome flags, enter internet://flags in the URL line of Samsung Internet and enable features such as WebVR, Web Bluetooth, WebGL 2, and many more.
If you own a non-Galaxy Android L and above smartphone, then I recommend you visit the Google Play Store for the Samsung Internet browser beta, version 6.2, and give it a try. You might agree with me that it is the best on today's smartphones.


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A 23-year-old guitar phenom and innovative songwriter, Marcus King can simultaneously switch from swaggering rock to supersonic soul – with his vocal powers taking center stage. The Marcus King Band, consisting of drummer Jack Ryan, bass player Stephen Campbell, trumpeter/trombonist Justin Johnson, sax/steel guitarist Dean Mitchell along with Marcus, brings an irreplaceable combination of commitment, craft and soul to their work.
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The Marcus King Band – El Dorado Tour
Songwriter. Guitarist. Singer. Bandleader. At only 22 years of age, Marcus King has been writing songs and performing onstage for half his lifetime, delivering a southern fried brand of blues and psychedelia inspired by rock n' roll. All five members of the band—drummer Jack Ryan, bass player Stephen Campbell, trumpeter/trombonist Justin Johnson, sax player Dean Mitchell and keyboard player DeShawn "D-Vibes" Alexander—create a blistering, yet soulful unit that has honed their synergy through endless touring.
King is a Blue Ridge Mountain boy, born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina. A fourth-generation musician, he traces his lineage back to his fiddle-playing great grandfather, while his grandfather was a fiddler and guitarist. His dad is Marvin King, is a singer/guitarist who has toured nationally since the '70's with various artists as well as his own group, Marvin King and Blue Revival. Since he was a teenager, he's been trading licks with famous fans and mentors Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks whenever their paths have crossed.
Marcus King doesn't strive for authenticity, he never had to—it's busting out of his DNA in every note he plays and every word he sings. This focused, firmly rooted artist isn't just perpetuating the proud legacy of American rock and soul music; with the musically enthralling, deeply personal new album, Carolina Confessions, he and his great band are adding their own eloquent chapter to that rich narrative.
Early James
A few years ago, Early James stumbled home, "drunk, or in some kind of state" and started doing dishes. When he woke up the next morning, the young man did not have a clean kitchen, but, he'd soon realize, he did have a song. Almost immediately, James began writing "Dishes in the Dark," a sober self-reflection about trying, and failing, to clean your act up. "This dirt, this dust, this rust/It's what I'm all about," he sings over a sparse acoustic guitar. "I won't wash up/I'll just wash out."
Singing For My Supper, the debut album from Early James, is full of those types of poignant, straight-from-real-life-to-the-page stories. Early James has lived a long life for a 26 year-old, a life he can't help but end up turning into art. Songs keep spilling out of him: Songs about addiction, songs about familial reckoning, songs about mental health, songs about the ways adulthood can rob us of childhood wonder. For someone raised largely by the women in his family in Southeastern Alabama, Early James, whose mother worked 12-hour shifts as a traveling nurse during his upbringing, never expected that he'd get to become a professional artist, and he doesn't plan on wasting a second.
"I make sounds for a living," he says. "That's a weird thing to say."
James' first album is a riotous blend of styles and sounds, the type of wise-behind-their-years debut offering that makes one stop to wonder how a 22 year-old could possibly contain so much world-weary wisdom. "Blue Pill Blues" details a harrowing four-five month period when James, who was being treated for depression, quit his antipsychotic medication cold turkey. "High Horse" is a lament of the ways his adolescent excitement faded with the arrival of the vices of adulthood. "I can't remember the last time I climbed I tree," he sings with a world of despair, "Now when I'm high, there ain't much that I want to see." "Easter Eggs," meanwhile, finds the songwriter coming to terms with some of the darker sides of his familial inheritance, a prime example of James' ability to pack a lifetime of questions into a single couplet:
"Southern sadness from days of yore," he sings, "Jesus Christ, when it rains it really pours."
The album's wide-ranging ten songs span a blend of hard-charging blues, wistful folk and ages-old pop crooning anchored by the singer's once-in-a-lifetime voice, which can oscillate from gravel-gruff shout to honey-smooth whisper.
"Some people are good singers," says the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who decided he needed to produce the singer's debut album at his Easy Eye Sound studio after watching just two seconds of a video of him performing. "And some people are better than good singers, they just have this great form of expression."
James' voice conjures a century's worth of American barkers and crooners, from Alan Lomax field recordings to mid-century iconoclasts like Billy Holliday and Howlin Wolf to ghostly late-century interpreters like Fiona Apple and Tom Waits. But James wasn't simply born with such a voice; he's entirely uninterested, in fact, in that myth. "I hated my voice for a long time," he says. "I didn't used to believe my voice when I heard it. It sounded like me, and I know I'm a liar, so I couldn't believe it."
Using prickly-poet heroes like Apple and Waits as inspirations, James realized he could arrive at a greater emotional truth if he just tried to conjure up the voice he heard in his head. Long before he ever discovered his own voice, though, Early James' soul was full of music. He can hardly remember a time when he wasn't obsessed with song. As a young child growing up in Troy, a small community in Southeast, AL that James says was plagued with "Walmart disease," he would start singing "Take It Easy" by the Eagles to strangers while waiting in the checkout line with his family at the grocery store. His life was changed forever when, at age six, he witnessed a local musician who'd been hired to play covers perform at a family function at his grandmother's house.
His life changed once again when, as a preteen, he discovered the music of Hank Williams Sr, whose music he began to sing in the shower every night. Then came the teenage years: grunge, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana. After asking for a guitar for Christmas several years in a row, his Aunt finally gifted him one at age 15. His uncle taught him how to play \"\Mary Had A Little Lamb," and James was off to the races. "I just didn't stop," he says of his high school years spent locked away in his room playing guitar.
As soon as he was old enough, Early James moved to Birmingham, where he's become an integral part of the city's thriving music scene over the past half-decade. "Everything in Nashville is so competitive and clique-ish and cutthroat," he says, "But Birmingham is the greatest fucking scene in the world. It's a weird melting pot." In town, James plays in "like five other bands": bluegrass outfits, folk collectives, alt-country groups. "I just try to convince people to let me play guitar for them."
James' diverse experience in the Birmingham scene has helped mold him into a singular talent, an artist whose sound remains entirely uncategorizable. "The biggest compliment we get," James says, "Is, 'I was confused by your set. I don't really know what genre to put y'all in.'"
Coming out of a local music scene as first-rate as Birmingham has also helped sculpted James into a songwriter who obsesses over the craft and texture of every word he's ever sung. "Every line has to mean something to him, personally," says Auerbach. "It's not good enough to just write a good song, it needs to have a deeper meaning. He's unlike any person I've ever worked with. He's not writing a song to be universal; he's writing a song for him."
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Saturday, September 24, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, War Crimes continue, silence continues, and much more.
Journalistic hero I.F. Stone long ago observed, "All government lie."
But for nearly eight years, many of the so-called left have pretended that doesn't apply when it comes to Barack Obama.
Yet we now know the US President knew about Hillary Clinton's use of a private server. That makes him a big, fat liar and even worse. The implications haven't been thought out yet.
"Impeach" isn't even a rumble. As people reflect on that infamous 60 MINUTES interview, that might change.
In the meantime, he's proof positive that all governments lie.
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The modern day Christ-child has authorized the use of illegal weapons in Iraq.
RT reports:
The US forces are reportedly using white phosphorus munitions against Islamist militants in Iraq, despite widespread perception of the weapon as indiscriminate and able to cause horrific injuries to civilians.
Images posted on a Pentagon-run public affairs website Dvids show a US Army artillery unit firing white phosphorus munitions in Iraq, identified by the Washington Post as M825A1 155mm shells.
The M825A1 shells are generally used to create a smokescreen lasting for up to 10 minutes, or make signals and markings for friendly troops. But when used indiscriminately in civilian-populated areas, white phosphorus munitions can cause severe burns.
ARMEN PRESS notes, "International humanitarian law stipulates that white phosphorus munitions should only be used in areas devoid of civilians." War Crimes and this time they can't be pinned on Bully Boy Bush. That ass has left the Oval Office and it's all on Barack. Ken Hanly (DIGITAL JOURNAL) adds:
This is not the first time the US has used white phosphorus munitions in Iraq. The munitions were extensively used in the battle of Fallujah as described in Wikipedia: On November 9, 2005 the Italian state-run broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A. aired a documentary titled "Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre", alleging that the United States used white phosphorus as a weapon in Fallujah causing insurgents and civilians to be killed or injured by chemical burns. The filmmakers further claimed that the United States used incendiary MK-77 bombs in violation of Protocol III of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
Mark Hiznay, the associate arms director for Human Rights said that he was concerned about the possible use of white phosphorus munitions in the campaign to retake Mosul from the IS:
"When white phosphorus is used in attacks in areas containing concentrations of civilians and civilian objects, it will indiscriminately start fires over a wide area. U.S. and Iraqi forces should refrain from using white phosphorus in urban areas like Mosul because whatever tactical military advantage is gained at the time of use, it will be far outweighed by the stigma created by horrific burns to civilian victims."
Remember when White Phosphorus was an issue?
Bully Boy Bush was in the White House and all the faux activist sites -- DAILY KOS and the other gutter dwellers -- acted like they gave a damn.
They don't.
They're perfectly okay with it now when Barack Obama is in the White House.
They'll look the other way.
They won't pretend to be horrified.
Because there was never any real concern for the people of Iraq from so-called 'antiwar' leaders. Leslie Cagen doesn't give a s**t about the Iraqi people.
That's why she folded tent as soon as Barack became president.
She's an operative, she's not an activist.
She exists to distract.
So many of her ilk do.
It's left to the foreign press to tell the truth.
SputnikVerified account @SputnikInt 2h2 hours ago
War Crime? US troops caught using #whitephosphorus munitions in #Iraq
It is War Crimes.
And back when many believed that the internet would find a way around corporate media and light a fire to public opinion, you'd see every website on the left talking about it.
Right now?
You'll see most avoiding it.
War Crimes.
There's no substantive difference between Bush and Barack.
That's why they delight in one another's company.
Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch 6h6 hours ago
No wonder Obama is sending more troops to Iraq....
And as they amuse themselves and frolick, the people of Iraq suffer. Specifically, the persecution of the Sunnis continues.
Charlotte Alfred (HUFFINGTON POST) reports:
People are starving in the Iraqi city of Fallujah because the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS, won't let them leave — and Iraqi forces surrounding the city aren't letting supplies in.
Between 30,000 and 60,000 civilians have been trapped inside Fallujah since Iraqi troops and militiamen encircled the ISIS-occupied city in January, humanitarian groups say.
Since then, shops and markets have run out of basic food supplies, cooking gas and fuel are nonexistent, and electricity only works a few hours a day, the World Food Programme said earlier this month. The price of wheat has skyrocketed sixfold since December.
"For the past several months, it has been very difficult to get supplies into Fallujah, especially medicines and food," Lise Grande, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, told The WorldPost. "If you are poor, you can't afford to buy food anymore. The situation is deeply worrying."
The lack of food and medicine in the city has killed some 140 people, an Iraqi official told Human Rights Watch earlier this month, although this figure has not been confirmed. Activists told the group that Fallujah residents had resorted to eating soup made from grass.
"There is no food inside Fallujah, except some vegetables grown in agricultural areas on the outskirts of the city," an Iraqi activist who asked to remain anonymous told The WorldPost via the Facebook solidarity page "We are all Fallujah."
"Some diabetes patients have lost body parts due to lack of treatment," the activist said.
On the above, we'll note this Tweet:
Rania KhalekVerified account @RaniaKhalek Sep 23
The lack of outrage over starving Fallujah suggests that civilians trapped in ISIS areas don't matter
100 retweets78 likes
There is no outrage.
Not in the west.
The persecution of the Sunnis has been carried out with silence from the west.
#IRAQ شمرية العراق @moonnor27 12h12 hours ago
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.
185 retweets104 likes
Meanwhile, the US continues dropping bombs on Iraq. Today, the US Defense Dept announced:
Strikes in Iraq
Attack, bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted nine strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq's government:
-- Near Baghdadi, a strike destroyed an ISIL rocket cache.
-- Near Kisik, two strikes suppressed two ISIL mortar positions.
-- Near Mosul, three strikes engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two fighting positions, a rocket rail and a tunnel.
-- Near Qayyarah, a strike destroyed an ISIL chemical weapons factory.
-- Near Ramadi, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two mortar systems.
-- Near Sultan Abdallah, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed eight rocket rails, three rocket systems and a vehicle.
Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target. Ground-based artillery fired in counterfire or in fire support to maneuver roles is not classified as a strike.
These bombs destroy the country of Iraq. They frequently wound and kill civilians. How this qualifies as 'success' or 'winning' is anyone's guess.
Rami @RamiAILoIah 8h8 hours ago
Rami Retweeted HadidH حامد حديد
8 #Iraq|i army soldiers and Shiite militants killed in a 'mistaken' #USA-led Coalition bombardment near Rutbah in Anbar..
Rami added,
HadidH حامد حديد @HamidHadeed
#عاجل ارتفاع عدد قتلى القوات الحكومية الى 8 نتيجة قصف بالخطأ من طائرات التحالف على موقعهم قرب #الرطبة بمحافظة #الأنبار بغربي #العراق
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Who Ate All The Cupcakes?
The US Soccer Blame Game
Mexico 2, USA 1.
USA still can't beat Mexico at the Estadio Azteca, even after a one goal lead.
So, who's to blame?
BLAME THE REF
I thought the cards were inconsistently given, although it wouldn't have led to anything substantial. No one deserved a send off. Yes, I think Nery Castillo deserved a yellow after the Davies incident, but so did Feilhaber.
However, the ref had nothing to do with the result today.
BLAME CONCACAF
This usually follows the blaming of the referee. I don't think there's a grand conspiracy against the US in CONCACAF. There's way too much money to be made by CONCACAF in the United States. Why do you think they have the Gold Cup here every time?
CONCACAF assigns the referees, yes. I don't think they've ever screwed the US over with a referee assignment. If you want to argue about the competency of referees in the region, take that up with the national associations who train and develop referees, not CONCACAF.
BLAME THE COACH
There's lots of Bradley haters out there, I'm not exactly sure why. Is he the best coach in the world? No. Has he done a good job in charge of the US national team? I would say yes.
I'm not the biggest fan of Bocanegra on the left. In this game, I think he was the best option we had. It's a position that is a weakness right now. If you have a kid, teach him to play left back.
I thought he had a good, balanced group on the field. I don't believe it was his call to park the bus after the Davies goal. The team began to play scared and couldn't even complete a pass. Ching was wasted up top, because we couldn't even find him so he could hold the ball. We were not able to relieve the pressure in the first half, and the goal was always coming.
Things seemed better in the second half. I think he did the right thing with Altidore. Jozy was never going to be able to go very long in this game, he hasn't been training consistently and didn't have 90 minutes to give. The Holden sub was the only one I wonder about, I don't think it worked very well. I believe the idea might have been to go to more of a 4-5-1, but it never worked out that way.
Again, I don't think Bradley is the best in the world, but I think he's doing a good job overall. Definitely good enough to get to the World Cup. Who would you replace him with right now? Dominic Kinnear will end up being the coach of the US national team, but bringing him in now wouldn't change things very much. Give him the team at the beginning of the cycle so he can start to build his own team. Right now is about knuckling down and getting the necessary results to qualify for the World Cup.
At the beginning of the hexagonal, who thought we'd beat Mexico in Mexico this time anyway?
Unfortunately, Mexico was the better team today. That's okay. It was a game that they HAD to win, while it was a game that we never counted on winning.
Personal thoughts on the game:
Too much whining about the refs by the announce team of Schoen and Balboa, I think that might be coloring the fans' opinions.
Definitely a big game feel to today, I love these types of games...
Donovan needed to see the ball more. Beautiful pass on Davies' goal.
The altitude/smog definitely took our legs away as the game went on. Bradley really didn't have much else he could do with the calendar on this one. Can't blame him for going into the DF at the last minute. At least we didn't pull an Argentina in Bolivia type of fiasco...
I'm just not that disappointed after today. A little frustrated, yes. Thinking it was an opportunity wasted, yes. Disappointed in the team or the program, nope.
Come see me if we don't make it to the World Cup or go 3 and out in South Africa and then we'll talk...
Posted by Longshoe at 7:39 PM
Zach said...
Hard to blame anyone really. Mexico just outplayed us. Although it wasn't as hot as they thought, smog could of played a small role in why Mexico outran us, but not I wouldn't accept that as a reason for losing. Mad props to Tim Howard though, he stopped several balls that could of made the score a lil closer to the Gold Cup nightmare.
Longshoe said...
Smog would be something to blame, it was either that or the altitude that sapped our energy.
Howard did well. Mexico didn't test him as much as they should've considering their possession in the final third of the field. They resorted to taking lots of shots from distance, which was surprising.
If I had to really point a finger, Bocanegra would probably get singled out. He was out of position on both goals and added nothing going forward.
As far as smog is concerned they should have come to Silverbacks Park to train. The fumes coming off the interchange is hard to bear.
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<?php
/**
 * Created by PhpStorm.
 * User: carri_000
 * Date: 23.09.2016
 * Time: 20:24
 */

namespace Pachisi\Board;
use Pachisi\Collection\PlayerCollection;
use Pachisi\Field\Exception\FieldIsNotEmptyException;
use Pachisi\Field\StartAreaField;
use Pachisi\Field\TargetAreaField;
use Pachisi\Man;
use Pachisi\Player;

use Pachisi\Field\FieldAbstract;
use Pachisi\Field\RegularMovementField;
use Pachisi\Field\StartField;
use Pachisi\Field\EndField;

use Pachisi\Area\StartArea;
use Pachisi\Area\TargetArea;
use Pachisi\Logger\LoggerService;

abstract class GameBoardAbstract {

    /**
     * @var FieldAbstract[]
     */
    protected $_circuitFieldList = array();

    /** @var StartArea[] */
    protected $_startAreasPerPlayer = array();

    /** @var TargetArea[] */
    protected $_targetAreasPerPlayer = array();

    /**
     * GameBoardAbstract constructor.
     *
     * @param   PlayerCollection $collection
     */
    public function __construct(PlayerCollection $collection) {
        /** @var Player $player */
        foreach ($collection->iterateCollection() as $player) {
            $this->_startAreasPerPlayer[$player->getPlayerIdentifier()] = new StartArea($player);
            foreach ($player->getManList() as $man) {
                $this->resetManToStart($man);
            }
            $this->_targetAreasPerPlayer[$player->getPlayerIdentifier()] = new TargetArea($player);
        }

        $this->_circuitFieldList = $this->_createCircuit($collection);
    }

    public function isManMovableForward(Player $player, $numberOfDicePoints, Man $man) {
        $fieldToMove = $this->getFieldToMove($player, $numberOfDicePoints, $man);
        if ($fieldToMove instanceof FieldAbstract) {
            return TRUE;
        } else {
            return FALSE;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Checks if the Player´s man is able to move forward $numberOfDicePoints
     *
     * @param Player $player
     * @param        $numberOfDicePoints
     * @param Man    $man
     *
     * @return bool|FieldAbstract
     */
    public function getFieldToMove(Player $player, $numberOfDicePoints, Man $man) {
        $currentPosition = $man->getCurrentPosition();
        $route = $this->drawPlayersRoute($player);

        $remainingDicePoints = $numberOfDicePoints;
        $manPositionFound = FALSE;
        $endFieldOfMovement = NULL;
        // Iterate over the hole route
        foreach ($route as $field) {
            // if the position of man was found we begin to count down the remaining dice points
            if ($manPositionFound) {
                $remainingDicePoints--;
                // in case the remainingDicePoints are 9, we know that the movement stops on the route...
                if ($remainingDicePoints == 0) {
                    $endFieldOfMovement = $field;
                    // ... and we stop the iteration here!
                    break;
                }
            }
            // if the currentPosition (of man) is equal with the current iterations field, we found the position on
            // the route
            if (spl_object_hash($field) == spl_object_hash($currentPosition)) {
                $manPositionFound = TRUE;
            }
        }

        // If the endFieldOfMovement is on the track, we have to check the track if there is another man ...
        if ($endFieldOfMovement instanceof FieldAbstract) {
            if ($endFieldOfMovement->hasMan()) {
                $occupingMan = $endFieldOfMovement->getMan();
                // .. if there is a man, we have to check if it belongs to our player or not ...
                if ($occupingMan->getPlayerIdentifier() == $player->getPlayerIdentifier()) {
                    // .. in case the man belongs to our player we are not able to move
                    return FALSE;
                } else {
                    // .. in case the man belongs to an other player we are able to move
                    return $endFieldOfMovement;
                }
                // if there is no man, we are able to move here in any case!
            } else {
                return $endFieldOfMovement;
            }

            // In case, the movement did not stop on the route, we have to check if we are allowed move into the TargetArea
        } else {
            $playersTargetArea = $this->getPlayersTargetArea($player);
//            var_dump($playersTargetArea);
            if ($playersTargetArea->isFieldAccessible($currentPosition, $remainingDicePoints)) {
                return $playersTargetArea->getField($remainingDicePoints);
            }
        }
    }

    public function moveToField(Player $player, FieldAbstract $fieldToMove, Man $man) {
        if($fieldToMove->hasMan()) {
            if ($man->getPlayerIdentifier() == $fieldToMove->getMan()->getPlayerIdentifier()) {
                throw new FieldIsNotEmptyException('On the given field is a man of the same player!');
            }
        }

        $man->getCurrentPosition()->detachMan();
        if($fieldToMove->hasMan()) {
            $manToEliminate = $fieldToMove->getMan();
            $fieldToMove->detachMan();
            $this->resetManToStart($manToEliminate);
        }
        $fieldToMove->attachMan($man);
    }

    /**
     * Template Method Pattern
     *
     * Forces to implement the number of fields per player in inhereted classes
     *
     * @return integer
     */
    abstract protected function _fieldsPerPlayer();

    /**
     * @param   PlayerCollection $collection
     *
     * @return FieldAbstract[]
     */
    protected function _createCircuit(PlayerCollection $collection) {
        /** @var FieldAbstract[] $circuitFields */
        $circuitFields = array();
        $regularFields = $this->_fieldsPerPlayer();

        $playersInEndFieldOrder = clone $collection;
        $playersInEndFieldOrder->leftShiftContent();

        $fieldNr = 0;
        foreach ($collection->iterateCollection() as $player) {

            // We begin with creating the StartField ...
            $circuitFields[] = new StartField($player, $fieldNr);

            // ... than we add n fields till the next start field will be inserted
            for ($iteration = 0; $iteration < $regularFields - 2; $iteration++) {
                $fieldNr++;
                $circuitFields[] = new RegularMovementField($fieldNr);
            }
            $fieldNr++;
            // We finish the iteration with creating the EndField for the player before...
            $circuitFields[] = new EndField($playersInEndFieldOrder->shiftFirstItemFromCollection() ,$fieldNr);
            $fieldNr++;
        }

        return $circuitFields;
    }

    /**
     * Draws for every given player his own route from StartField to EndField
     *
     * @param Player $player The player which should be used to generate his personal route
     *
     * @return FieldAbstract[]
     */
    public function drawPlayersRoute(Player $player) {
        $line = array();
        $startFoundFlag = FALSE;
        /** @var FieldAbstract $field */
        foreach ($this->_itearateCircuit() as $field) {

            // First we look for the players start field
            if ($field instanceof StartField) {
                if ($field->getRelatedPlayerIdentifier() == $player->getPlayerIdentifier()) {
                    $startFoundFlag = TRUE;
                }
            }

            // If we found the players start field, we track each field until we find his EndField
            if ($startFoundFlag) {
                $line[] = $field;
                if ($field instanceof EndField) {
                    if ($field->getRelatedPlayerIdentifier() == $player->getPlayerIdentifier()) {
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        return $line;
    }

    /**
     * @param Player $player
     *
     * @return Man[]
     */
    public function getPlayersManWithAscendingDistanzToEndField(Player $player) {
        $orderedManList = array();
        $route = $this->drawPlayersRoute($player);
        /** @var FieldAbstract[] $reverseRoute */
        $reverseRoute = array_reverse ($route);
        foreach($reverseRoute as $field) {
            if($field->hasMan() && $field->getMan()->getPlayerIdentifier() == $player->getPlayerIdentifier()) {
                $orderedManList[] = $field->getMan();
            }
        }

        return $orderedManList;
    }

    /**
     * @return \Generator[FieldAbstract]
     */
    public function _itearateCircuit() {
        $circuitLength = $this->getCircuitLength();
        $iteration = 0;

        do {
            yield $this->_circuitFieldList[$iteration];
            $iteration++;
            if ($iteration == $circuitLength) {
                $iteration = 0;
            }
        } while (TRUE);
    }

    /**
     * @param Player $player
     *
     * @return StartField
     */
    public function getPlayersStartField(Player $player) {
        $route = $this->drawPlayersRoute($player);
        return array_shift($route);
    }

    /**
     * @param Player $player
     *
     * @return EndField
     */
    public function getPlayersEndField(Player $player) {
        $route = $this->drawPlayersRoute($player);
        return array_pop($route);
    }

    /**
     * @param Player|string $player
     *
     * @return StartArea
     */
    public function getPlayersStartArea($player) {
        if($player instanceof Player) {
            $playerIdentifier = $player->getPlayerIdentifier();
        } else {
            $playerIdentifier = $player;
        }
        return $this->_startAreasPerPlayer[$playerIdentifier];
    }

    /**
     * @param Player|string $player
     *
     * @return TargetArea
     */
    public function getPlayersTargetArea(Player $player) {
        if($player instanceof Player) {
            $playerIdentifier = $player->getPlayerIdentifier();
        } else {
            $playerIdentifier = $player;
        }
        return $this->_targetAreasPerPlayer[$playerIdentifier];
    }

    /**
     * @param Player $player
     *
     * @return TargetArea
     */
    public function appendToPlayersTargetArea(Player $player, TargetAreaField $targetAreaField) {
        return $this->_targetAreasPerPlayer[$player->getPlayerIdentifier()] = $targetAreaField;
    }

    /**
     * @param Player $player
     *
     * @return StartArea
     */
    public function appendToPlayersStartArea(Player $player, StartAreaField $startAreaField) {
        return $this->_startAreasPerPlayer[$player->getPlayerIdentifier()] = $startAreaField;
    }

    /**
     * @param $manToEliminate
     */
    public function resetManToStart(Man $manToEliminate) {
        $startArea = $this->getPlayersStartArea($manToEliminate->getPlayerIdentifier());
        $startArea->resetManToStart($manToEliminate);
        LoggerService::logger()->info("KICK OUT :{$manToEliminate->getManIdentifier()}!");
    }

    /**
     * @return int
     */
    public function getCircuitLength() {
        $circuitLength = count($this->_circuitFieldList);

        return $circuitLength;
    }
}

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We wish we could tell you the exact number of events that happen on the property every month because we're sure the number is astounding but it would require a great deal of research and at least a full day of Mathematics to work it out. One day a store has a season launch, the next day a band performs on the amphitheatre, the day after that Shimmy has a MASSIVE party, then an art gallery has an exhibition opening and someone gets married at The Lookout, the list goes on and on. Every Saturday the Oranjezicht City Farm Market in Granger Bay is an event in itself and then we have huge productions like the World Triathlon Series (this weekend, FYI) and the Volvo Ocean Race and there is New Years Eve on the most extreme end of the scale. Basically, what we're trying to say is that there are a lot. Everyone knows about the bigger events and the right people know about events like the High School Band Slam (Fridays in April) and those sorts of focused music events but then there are smaller music events that not everyone knows about and more of you certainly should. Why? The entertainment is world class, the location is incredibly unique AND the effort is all in aid of a great cause.
OneSight and Ray-Ban have hosted three OneSight Acoustics sessions on the Croquet Lawn (outside The Springbok Experience Rugby Museum) and their fourth and final event is coming up on the 30th of April. All proceeds from the events go OneSight: a global public nonprofit organization which provides sustainable access to quality vision care and eye wear to those who cannot afford it or do not have access to it. Over the past 27 years, OneSight has engaged thousands of skilled volunteers to hand-deliver the gift of sight to almost 9 million people in 40 countries. It is nothing short of incredible.
The final event will be featuring Goodluck, Crazy White Boy, The Kiffness, DJ Invizable and Roxy so it is going to be epic.
For more event info, see the Facebook event page here. Or go straight to the ticket purchasing portal here. Still unsure? Please enjoy some pics from the last event below.
We hope to see you on the 30th!
The trio of muso's whose collective expertise molds their unique sound, features Juliet Harding on vocals – a songstress who has written hits both locally and internationally. She effortlessly takes listeners on nostalgic adventures with her lyrics and enchanting voice. Matthew O'Connell is on saxophone and keys. He is new to the group but seemingly cut from the same cloth – his performances on stage are electrifying. They're kept together by the wizardry of GoodLuck's producer and founder Ben Peters, whose repertoire includes 7 number one hits and an uncanny ability to turn disparate ideas into foot- thumping dance floor fillers and has radios begging for more.
Their high-octane performances have earned them a credible place amongst other artists in the live-electronic genre. GoodLuck have shared stages with Groove Armada, Bassment Jaxx, The Petshop Boys, Bakermat, Goldfish and Paul Oakenfold to name a few. In September 2015 GoodLuck was selected to open for Pharrell Williams, as a part of his world tour, to rave reviews. GoodLuck has performed at sold-out concerts in Amsterdam, Berlin and London, and most recently sold out all 5 concerts at their first summer residency Get Lucky Summer.
In 2013 GoodLuck threw caution to the wind and headed into the Namibian desert to record their second album – CREATURES OF THE NIGHT. A feat so ambitious that they were asked to present a master class at the acclaimed Amsterdam Dance Event discussing how they adapted unique and abstract environmental sounds into a commercially successful album.
In October 2015 GoodLuck are set to release their first global breakout single with De Hofnar "Back In The Day" through the Iconic dance label Armada.


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Novel reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree with a biosynthetic absorbable graft
Peter Nau, James Liu, E. Christopher Ellison, Jeffrey W. Hazey, Matthew Henn, Peter Muscarella, Vimal K. Narula, W. Scott Melvin
Objectives: The reference standard technique for the reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree is Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. This procedure is not without complications and may not be feasible in some patients. This project sought to evaluate a novel approach for repairing common bile duct injuries with a biosynthetic graft. This allows for the reconstruction of the anatomy without necessitating an intestinal bypass. Methods: Study subjects were 11 mongrel hounds. Utilizing an open approach, the common bile duct was transected in each animal. A 1-cm graft of a synthetic bioabsorbable prosthesis was interposed over a 5-Fr pancreatic stent and sewn in place as an interposition tube graft with absorbable sutures. Intraoperative cholangiograms and monthly liver function tests were completed. Animals were killed at 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 months. Results: The first five animals were killed early in the process of protocol development. One animal developed obstructive symptoms and was killed on postoperative day 14. The next five animals were longterm survivors without evidence of clinically significant graft stenosis. Mean alkaline phosphatase and total bilirubin were normal, at 140 U/l and 0.2 mg/dl, respectively. Histology showed the complete replacement of the graft with native tissue at 6 months. Conclusions: Biliary reconstruction using a synthetic bioabsorbable prosthetic as an interposition tube graft is feasible based on initial results.
Jejunoileal Bypass
Prostheses and Implants
basic science < biliary
basic science < liver
Nau, P., Liu, J., Ellison, E. C., Hazey, J. W., Henn, M., Muscarella, P., ... Melvin, W. S. (2011). Novel reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree with a biosynthetic absorbable graft. HPB, 13(8), 573-578. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-2574.2011.00337.x
Novel reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree with a biosynthetic absorbable graft. / Nau, Peter; Liu, James; Ellison, E. Christopher; Hazey, Jeffrey W.; Henn, Matthew; Muscarella, Peter; Narula, Vimal K.; Melvin, W. Scott.
In: HPB, Vol. 13, No. 8, 08.2011, p. 573-578.
Nau, P, Liu, J, Ellison, EC, Hazey, JW, Henn, M, Muscarella, P, Narula, VK & Melvin, WS 2011, 'Novel reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree with a biosynthetic absorbable graft', HPB, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 573-578. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-2574.2011.00337.x
Nau P, Liu J, Ellison EC, Hazey JW, Henn M, Muscarella P et al. Novel reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree with a biosynthetic absorbable graft. HPB. 2011 Aug;13(8):573-578. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-2574.2011.00337.x
Nau, Peter ; Liu, James ; Ellison, E. Christopher ; Hazey, Jeffrey W. ; Henn, Matthew ; Muscarella, Peter ; Narula, Vimal K. ; Melvin, W. Scott. / Novel reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree with a biosynthetic absorbable graft. In: HPB. 2011 ; Vol. 13, No. 8. pp. 573-578.
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abstract = "Objectives: The reference standard technique for the reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree is Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. This procedure is not without complications and may not be feasible in some patients. This project sought to evaluate a novel approach for repairing common bile duct injuries with a biosynthetic graft. This allows for the reconstruction of the anatomy without necessitating an intestinal bypass. Methods: Study subjects were 11 mongrel hounds. Utilizing an open approach, the common bile duct was transected in each animal. A 1-cm graft of a synthetic bioabsorbable prosthesis was interposed over a 5-Fr pancreatic stent and sewn in place as an interposition tube graft with absorbable sutures. Intraoperative cholangiograms and monthly liver function tests were completed. Animals were killed at 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 months. Results: The first five animals were killed early in the process of protocol development. One animal developed obstructive symptoms and was killed on postoperative day 14. The next five animals were longterm survivors without evidence of clinically significant graft stenosis. Mean alkaline phosphatase and total bilirubin were normal, at 140 U/l and 0.2 mg/dl, respectively. Histology showed the complete replacement of the graft with native tissue at 6 months. Conclusions: Biliary reconstruction using a synthetic bioabsorbable prosthetic as an interposition tube graft is feasible based on initial results.",
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author = "Peter Nau and James Liu and Ellison, {E. Christopher} and Hazey, {Jeffrey W.} and Matthew Henn and Peter Muscarella and Narula, {Vimal K.} and Melvin, {W. Scott}",
journal = "HPB",
T1 - Novel reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree with a biosynthetic absorbable graft
AU - Nau, Peter
AU - Liu, James
AU - Ellison, E. Christopher
AU - Hazey, Jeffrey W.
AU - Henn, Matthew
AU - Muscarella, Peter
AU - Narula, Vimal K.
AU - Melvin, W. Scott
N2 - Objectives: The reference standard technique for the reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree is Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. This procedure is not without complications and may not be feasible in some patients. This project sought to evaluate a novel approach for repairing common bile duct injuries with a biosynthetic graft. This allows for the reconstruction of the anatomy without necessitating an intestinal bypass. Methods: Study subjects were 11 mongrel hounds. Utilizing an open approach, the common bile duct was transected in each animal. A 1-cm graft of a synthetic bioabsorbable prosthesis was interposed over a 5-Fr pancreatic stent and sewn in place as an interposition tube graft with absorbable sutures. Intraoperative cholangiograms and monthly liver function tests were completed. Animals were killed at 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 months. Results: The first five animals were killed early in the process of protocol development. One animal developed obstructive symptoms and was killed on postoperative day 14. The next five animals were longterm survivors without evidence of clinically significant graft stenosis. Mean alkaline phosphatase and total bilirubin were normal, at 140 U/l and 0.2 mg/dl, respectively. Histology showed the complete replacement of the graft with native tissue at 6 months. Conclusions: Biliary reconstruction using a synthetic bioabsorbable prosthetic as an interposition tube graft is feasible based on initial results.
AB - Objectives: The reference standard technique for the reconstruction of the extrahepatic biliary tree is Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. This procedure is not without complications and may not be feasible in some patients. This project sought to evaluate a novel approach for repairing common bile duct injuries with a biosynthetic graft. This allows for the reconstruction of the anatomy without necessitating an intestinal bypass. Methods: Study subjects were 11 mongrel hounds. Utilizing an open approach, the common bile duct was transected in each animal. A 1-cm graft of a synthetic bioabsorbable prosthesis was interposed over a 5-Fr pancreatic stent and sewn in place as an interposition tube graft with absorbable sutures. Intraoperative cholangiograms and monthly liver function tests were completed. Animals were killed at 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 months. Results: The first five animals were killed early in the process of protocol development. One animal developed obstructive symptoms and was killed on postoperative day 14. The next five animals were longterm survivors without evidence of clinically significant graft stenosis. Mean alkaline phosphatase and total bilirubin were normal, at 140 U/l and 0.2 mg/dl, respectively. Histology showed the complete replacement of the graft with native tissue at 6 months. Conclusions: Biliary reconstruction using a synthetic bioabsorbable prosthetic as an interposition tube graft is feasible based on initial results.
KW - basic science < biliary
KW - basic science < liver
JO - HPB
JF - HPB


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"An OUTSTANDING school where confident, enthusiastic and mature pupils learn exceptionally well…"
Broadhempston Village Primary School
Music Curriculum Statement
Broadhempston Music Curriculum Statement 2022.docx
Music programmes of study: Key Stages 1 and 2
Purpose of study
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high-quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
Attainment target
By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study.
Subject content – Key stage 1
Pupils should be taught to:
use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
play tuned and untuned instruments musically
listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
use and understand staff and other musical notations
appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
develop an understanding of the history of music.
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Turning Tides
Class 1 and 2 were very lucky to take part in the Turning Tides Project last year. The Turning Tides Project believes that everyone has the right to equal access to music, the arts and life. They intend to make this right a reality for people.
In Spring term 2021, Rachel from Turning Tides was due to start delivering sessions to Beech Class children but due to school closures, we were forced to deliver online learning. This did not deter Rachel who worked with Miss Simpson to deliver excellent remote sessions with small groups of children so all the children still received their music session each week. Some groups learnt how to play the recorder, some enjoyed learning and singing song and others created music with their different 'instruments' they found around the house. The children thoroughly enjoyed these sessions and the sense of achievement they felt after each session was fabulous to see.
Once we were allowed back into school, Rachel delivered her child led music sessions in person where the Beech Class children worked towards creating their own song with the use of various instruments and their voices. Rachel also started delivering sessions to Willow Class as well. Willow Class spent time with Rachel building up their knowledge of a range of instruments and rhythms to create a unique piece of music relating to their topic of 'Wild Weather'. The class spent time to decide which instruments could be used for different types of weather and created an order for their music to flow nicely together. Children also had the opportunity to be the conductor and lead the group in their performances.
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"Nehru Place Market Is Like Slum": High Court Raps Delhi On City Planning
HomeAll India"Nehru Place Market Is Like Slum": High Court Raps Delhi On City Planning
The high court, however, said it was aware that street vending provides employment to many, especially from the lower strata and people can buy goods at lower prices.
All IndiaPress Trust of IndiaUpdated: October 25, 2021 10:56 pm IST
In Nehru Place, people can't walk with street vendors everywhere, Delhi High Court said (File)
How can we talk of developing Delhi into a city like London in another decade or so without focussing on the planning aspect, the Delhi High Court said Monday as it heard an issue relating to unauthorised hawkers and street vendors in marketplaces.
The high court, however, said it was aware that street vending provides employment to many, especially from the lower strata of society and people can buy goods at lower prices, but there is a need to balance the rights of the shopkeepers who pay lakhs of rupees for rent of shops or people who want free access to the market area and of street vendors.
"We talk of developing Delhi into a city like London in another decade or so. How will we achieve that? What happens to the planning aspect?" it said.
While referring to the situation in Connaught Place and Nehru Place, a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh said people can't even walk in Connaught Place as there are vendors occupying the space which has become a business.
"In Nehru Place, you can't even walk as street vendors have made it their permanent place of business. We had to take suo motu cognisance of a fire incident at Nehru Place. The matter is presently before another bench. The condition of the Nehru Place market is like a slum. The need is to decide on the number of permissible vendors in a particular area while taking into account the plan of the place," the bench said.
The court was hearing a batch of petitions relating to challenge to the Street Vendors Act and by street vendors seeking various benefits including regularisation under the law.
Senior advocate Sanjeev Ralli appeared for the New Delhi Traders Association which represents shop owners and operators in the Connaught Place (CP) area, that is, Rajiv Chowk and Indira Chowk.
The court has recently directed the removal of unauthorised vendors and hawkers in the Connaught Place and Nehru Place area.
The bench said it will look into the challenge to the Street Vendors Act as it was willing to take the bull by its horns.
The bench said it was against street vending and that "we all have grown up buying from street hawkers, we still go to 'kirana' shops, street food vendors for our day-to-day needs."
The bench said people go to malls only for buying high-end clothes and not for items of daily need and added that nobody is against street hawkers and that both should co-exist and it just want that the city is not unreasonably crowded due to them.
The bench said more than 50 per cent of people are representing vendors' interests on the TVC and added, "We know the weakness of our system, unfortunately."
The court listed the matter for further hearing on October 30.
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New Gear Harvesting New Gear
Big risk, Big reward
By Andrew Snook
When Todd Manuel decided to switch from wood hauling to harvesting in 2009, he knew he was taking a risk. Manuel went to auction and purchased a second-hand grapple skidder and second-hand harvester and his company, Big Timber Ventures was born.
Big Timber Ventures owner Todd Manuel poses by one of the latest upgrades to his harvesting operation When Todd Manuel decided to switch from wood hauling to harvesting in 2009
Fast forward to 2015 and, so far, his gamble has paid off. Operating out of Lansdowne, N.B., his company cuts a combination of softwood and hardwood for Crabbe Lumber in Florenceville-Bristol, N.B. Most of the trees his operation harvests are fir and spruce logs.
When Manuel's first harvester – a converted excavator – needed to be replaced in 2013, he decided to try going with the combination of a Tigercat H855C harvester with a Logmax 7000C harvester head.
Manuel says upgrading his equipment doubled his production.
When a few of the harvesting contractors in the area moved to Quebec in 2014, Manuel decided to use the opportunity to grow his business again, and invested in a Tigercat 845C feller buncher with another Logmax 7000C harvester head in November 2014.
He says his last two upgrades have significantly improved his operation.
"I cut quite a bit more wood," he says.
Each of his machines cuts close to 150 tons of wood per week on average, depending on the kind of wood that's being harvested. The hardwood in his current harvesting area around the southern Johnsville region poses the biggest challenge for him.
"Sometimes it can be fairly big, burly, limby stuff, and the price per ton that I get paid is nowhere near as much for hardwood. [Starting in May] I cut 90 per cent hardwood for the first month or so, after we go back to work. It's the most challenging time of the year. I would say half my income comes from January, February and March, for the whole year."
Although the hardwood trees pose a bigger challenge than the softwood he harvests, he says they are "no match" for the power of his Tigercat-Logmax combinations.
"I'm really impressed with how the Tigercats and the Logmax work together," he says. "The Tigercats have good power and the Logmax has good power. It doesn't matter what you have to cut, it does the job – big, small, real limby stuff. It cuts what we need it to cut."
Big Timber Ventures owner Todd Manuel poses by one of the latest upgrades to his harvesting operation
a Logmax 7000C harvesting head
He says his favourite thing about his upgrade to Tigercat machines is their track power.
"The Tigercats are a far greater machine," he says. "It goes through the woods so nice. Track power, lifting power, it doesn't have any issues with power. It'll do whatever you need it to do. My old harvester had a lot less horsepower, a lot less hydraulic power, swinging power and track power. You'd go up against a big rock or a big stump somewhere in the woods, you had to pick yourself up and pull yourself over it. With the Tigercat, you just put the pedal down and go."
Manuel is also impressed with the durability and versatility his Tigercat-Logmax combinations provide his operation.
"I've only owned one other type of machine and I don't know about some of the other brands, but I firmly believe that Logmax is the most versatile that's out there."
He says the equipment works so well he doesn't think about looking at other brands.
"I have no reason to switch," he says.
Manuel currently runs about nine employees in total, between his wood hauling trucks and his harvesters. He runs 10- to 12-hour shifts, five days a week.
"I tried running double-shifts last winter, but good operators are hard to find around here," he says. "I found that when we ran 24 hours from about Christmas time until around March, that we didn't cut enough wood to justify the extra fuel, the extra hours and extra man."
Manuel hopes that his latest Tigercat-Logmax addition will be able to boost his production in a similar manner to his upgrade in 2013.
"I hope to double my production again," he says.
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THE DEVIL AND THE ALMIGHTY BLUES: SELF-TITLED THEMADISRAELI'S TOP TEN THRASH METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (PART 2)
AN NCS PREMIERE: THE RITUAL AURA — "TIME-LOST UTOPIA"
(Austin Weber introduces our premiere of a new song by The Ritual Aura.)
Lately we have witnessed an off-shoot within the technical death metal sound, one more progressively focused than dedicated to sheer mind-numbing bouts of hitting listeners with hammers and bolts of sonic lightning. Acts such as Obscura, Fallujah, and most recently Beyond Creation, have exemplified this trend and taken tech-death in a new and higher-minded direction.
Joining these high-level acts are a group of Australian upstarts named The Ritual Aura who decimate with a focus and skill similar to that of the aforementioned bands. We at NCS are proud to showcase the considerable talents of this band with a premiere of their new song "Time-Lost Utopia", which will appear on their upcoming full-length, Laniakea.
photo by Joseph Varley
It's crazy how many ridiculously talented metal bands come from Australia, and The Ritual Aura are definitely one you'll want to keep on eye on. They deliver a pummeling, yet progressive, assault on "Time-Lost Utopia". The song is very prog-minded in its builds, riffing, and mesmerizing grooves, while equally spewing a shitload of super-charged aggression and venom at the same time. As a whole, it comes across in a cascading transcendental wave.
The song gets an additional boost from a guest solo by none other than Christian Müenzner (Spawn of Possession, Alkaloid, ex-Obscura), who delivers a massive volley of notes as per his usual, slick soloing style.
While the band doesn't have a precise release date yet for Laniakea, expect it to come out later this year. Get hyped!
https://www.facebook.com/theritualaura
Posted by Islander at 7:56 am Tagged with: The Ritual Aura
7 Responses to "AN NCS PREMIERE: THE RITUAL AURA — "TIME-LOST UTOPIA""
Leperkahn says:
This reminds me a ton of Decrepit Birth. Which reminds me – what the hell ever happened to those dudes? Polarity was a long time ago – we need more DB ASAP.
mike hunt says:
They're working on an album for this year last time I heard of 'em.
Derek Neibarger says:
nice! absolutely gorgeous shredding 🙂
rian says:
is this midi or is it already the real sound?
sry but guitars sound like midi expect christian´s solo
TheRItualAura says:
Hey man,
What you're hearing is the upper range of the Chapman stick. As it's a two handed tapping instrument, the higher range of the two sits around the same area of the mix as guitars, just with what is essentially still a bass tone, giving it the quality you hear in 'Time-Lost Utopia'.
So there was no real Guitar used on this record? Only Chapman Stick? It really sounds like a Killer Performance very professional but at tue same time it really sounds like MIDI.. Tiny. I'm in love with your stuff anyways.
Lord_Farin says:
A very promising song; I would say The Ritual Aura have a bright future ahead of them!
However, I do feel that the guest solo doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the song. I think it's because the tones of the guitars are quite far apart. Perhaps also because the solo is mixed in too loudly.
Still, I'm definitely going to keep tabs on this album. If they get the mix right, it'll be positively awesome!


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Q: Filter results in SQL query for search I am trying to write an SQL query to filter records from products table for search depending on the search text.
The text will have multiple words separated by space(e.g. Samsung s6)
The problem is the results should contain all the words in the result.
Now the records can have names like

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*Samsung s6

*Samsung galaxy s6

*Samsung A5

*Samsung galaxy s6 edge

*Apple Iphone 6

now for search text "samsung s6" should get records 1,2,4 in result but the way i tried is giving me 1,2,3,4 rows in result.
my query is:
CREATE TABLE #TempSearch
(
    ID INT IDENTITY(1,1),
    Value VARCHAR(200)
)

INSERT INTO dbo.#TempSearch
SELECT * FROM CSVToTable(ISNULL(@ModelName,''),' ')

SELECT
    T1.*
FROM
    <table1> T1 INNER JOIN #TempSearch T2 ON T1.Name LIKE CONCAT('%', T2.Value, '%')

I took the search string in a temp table which contains a row for each word (separated by space)
then inner joined with the main table.

A: I think you want an aggregation and left outer join:
SELECT T1.Name
FROM <table1> T1 JOIN
     #TempSearch ts
     ON T1.Name LIKE CONCAT('%', Ts.Value, '%')
GROUP BY t1.Name
HAVING COUNT(*) = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #TempSearch);

This counts the number of matches and makes sure that all components match.
You can add more column to the SELECT and GROUP BY to get more columns.
Note:
The following simpler version would work for your example:
select t1.*
from t1
where t1.name like '%' + replace(@ModelName, ' ', '%') + '%';

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Q: Data - Monte Carlo Correction techninques in Particle physics It is said that the data does not always match with the Monte Carlo simulations in particle physics.(I guess even in the Higgs to gamma gamma channel, the peak in real data was at about 127GeV and thus it was corrected) .Thus,I wished to know what are the different ways in which the differences in Data and MC simulations are corrected, if possible, for the case of jets like bjets.

A: You have to understand that a Monte Carlo simulation is a way of integrating the predictions of a model.
Theoretical models are often calculable, and can be inserted with "simple" generators. i.e. every event is generated with the probability given by the quantum mechanical calculation.
This is not enough to allow comparison of data with  theory. The data itself follows theoretical models, that describe particle interactions through the detector, with errors coming from statistical probability functions and estimates of these functions. All these errors need to be generated with the appropriate statistical probability width. The summation of events is the total integrals giving crossections for generating events in the experiment.
Thus a Monte Carlo program gives one event with the mathematically correctly combined probability of being observed in the detector. A simulation of one real event's probability.
When the Monte Carlo data do not fit the data, then two things are possible:
1) there is a programming error in the numerous generators  or the code, which has to be found
2) there is a new discovery  and everybody rejoices.
For example, back in the days when quantum chromodynamics was not even well formulated as a theory deep inelastic scattering on protons was thought to be an elementary interaction, and was modeled in monte carlos accordingly, with the appropriate theoretical  scattering amplitude in the generator. The data showed deviation in the high momentum transfer region, not reproduced in the monte carlo, which led the way to verifying  the complex quark internal structure of the proton.

A: If certain distributions of variables don't agree, then you can reweight the MC sample to match data (typically either using a nice clean control sample or s-weighted signal). There are a variety of reweighting techniques e.g. histograms, kernel-density estimators, boosted decision trees.
If resolution doesn't agree, you can apply 'smearing', whereby a variable is shifted by some random amount on an event-by-event basis according to a Gaussian distribution (or similar).