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Norbert Sterk (* 4. Dezember 1968 in Wien) ist ein österreichischer Komponist.

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Norbert Sterk studierte ab 1983 am Konservatorium der Stadt Wien Klavier bei Otto Probst, Kontrabass bei Burkhardt Kräutler, Tonsatz bei Reinhold Portisch, Instrumentation bei Walter Breitner und Komposition bei Heinz Karl Gruber (1999 Diplom) sowie 1989–92 an der Universität Wien Philosophie, Musik- und Theaterwissenschaft. Weiters absolvierte er Seminare für Analyse und Formenlehre bei Karl Heinz Füssl und Iván Eröd während des Carinthischen Sommers 1985 und 1986, Kompositionsseminare bei Ernst Krenek, Alfred Schnittke und Kurt Schwertsik sowie ein Stimmseminar bei Marie-Thérèse Escribano. 2003–05 lernte er im Bereich Funktionale Stimmarbeit bei dem Stimmphysiologen Michael Heptner. Neben seinem künstlerischen Schaffen übt Sterk den Beruf eines Logopäden an einem Wiener Krankenhaus aus.

Sterks Kompositionen entstanden zumeist als Auftragswerke u. a. für die Wiener Festwochen, die Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, die Ensembles die reihe, Ensemble Kontrapunkte und Ensemble Reconsil, den Österreichischen Rundfunk (ORF), die Musikalische Jugend Österreichs (Jeunesse), den Saarländischen Rundfunk (SR), das Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Wien Modern, das Festival Hörgänge und netzzeit. 2001 war Sterk Composer-in-residence beim 6. Komponistenforum Mittersill. Ein wesentlicher Teil seines Schaffens gilt gemeinsamen Projekten mit Künstlerinnen und Künstlern anderer Sparten, vor allem aus dem Bereich der Bildenden Kunst und der Literatur.

Auszeichnungen, Förderungen (Auswahl)
 2004: Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für Komposition
 2008: Preis des Theodor Körner Fonds
 2009: Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für Komposition

Werke (Auswahl)

Musiktheater und Bühnenmusik
 Minotaurus. Schauspielmusik zu einem gleichnamigen Bühnenwerk, gemeinsam mit Tryggvi M. Baldvisson, Thomas Heinisch und Reinhold Portisch (nach Friedrich Dürrenmatt; 1991)
 Alles kann passieren – eine Chorprobe (Arbeitstitel). Ein szenisches Konzert für 12 Vokalisten, Ensemble und Dirigent (Libretto: Doron Rabinovici nach einer Idee von Florian Klenk; 2021)

Orchester oder großes Ensemble
 Mirliton für Singstimme und Ensemble (Text: Samuel Beckett in der Nachdichtung von Karl Krolow; 1999)
 The Old Piano Plays an Air für Ensemble (nach James Joyce; Version 2001)
 Am Rand des Augenblicks – Fragment für großes Orchester (nach Octavio Paz; 2001)
 die sonne stand still. der mond trieb davon für Ensemble (nach Mythen der Native Americans; 2004)
 "... und leuchteten das Dunkel aus" für Horn und Ensemble (nach Ingeborg Bachmann; 2006)
 Mandragora für Ensemble (2007)
 Vertigo.Saxophon.Desaster für Saxophon und Ensemble (2010)
 KorollArien. Fassung für Flöte solo und Streicherensemble (nach Raoul Schrott; 2009/11)
 Die dunckle Nacht fahrt aus. Konzert für Violine und Ensemble (nach Robert Schindel und W. G. Sebald; 2005/12)
 land of closed eyes für Tenor/Obertongesang, Sitar und Ensemble (nach Octavio Paz; 2012)
  Mandragora. Fassung für Stimme und Ensemble (mit Worten von Semier Insayif; 2007/13)
 feuerfalter für Ensemble (2014)
 tongue breaks for trumpet, trombone and ensemble (nach Fragmenten der Sappho; 2016)

Kammerensemble (Sextett bis Nonett)
 The old piano plays an air für Klarinette, Horn, Akkordeon, Cymbalon, Violine und Kontrabass (nach James Joyce; 1997)
 Nacht aus Mirliton für Sopran, Flöte, Klarinette, Horn, Harfe, Cymbalon, Akkordeon, Violine und Kontrabass (Text: Samuel Beckett in der Nachdichtung von Karl Krolow; 1998)
 Ruine für Melodica, Klarinette, Saxofon, Alphorn, Hackbrett, Akkordeon, Violoncello, Kontrabass und Synthesizer (2001)
 Ins Weiße. Fast Nichts für Kammerensemble (nach Octavio Paz; 2003)
 approaching white. replay for small ensemble (nach Octavio Paz; 2004)
 Die Ankunft des Atemzugs für Violine im Ensemble (nach Robert Schindel; 2005)
 Teile dich Nacht für kleines Ensemble (nach Nelly Sachs; ab 2008)
 Schlafmund. Asche. Traum für Bass und kleines Ensemble (1. Teil, nach Worten von Jan Christ; 2010)
 Notturno estinguendo "Ae fareweel, alas!". Haydn-Hommage für Viola, Klavier und Ensemble (2012/13)
 nacht schatten gewächse für Sprecher, Alt, Tenor/Obertongesang, Bariton/Countertenor, Flöte/Bassflöte, Posaune, Percussion und Violine (Text: Semier Insayif; 2007/13)
 mourning monarchs für Ensemble (nach Octavio Paz und Anne Carson; 2014/15)
 Hôtel de la Paix – Rejouer pour flûte, clarinette, alto et trio avec piano (nach Ingeborg Bachmann; 2005/12/16)
 mon anarch schnarch monarch für Streichquintett, Klavier und Sprecher ad lib. (Text: Ernst Jandl, Norbert Sterk; 2016)
 Weiß. Nichts für Ensemble mit Akkordeon (nach Octavio Paz und mit Gemälden von Elisabeth Holzer; 2003/20)

Quintett
 Adios Adagios. Mozart-Hommage für 2 Klarinetten und Streichtrio (2006)
 AmorFunica – unique creatures for small ensemble (mit Federico Vecchis Skulpturen formaunica; 2018)
 Al chimiya für Sprecher, Flöte/Bassflöte und Streichquartett (nach Gemälden von Elisabeth Holzer und Worten von Semier Insayif; 2020/21)

Quartett
 Hôtel de la Paix für Stimme, Violine, Violoncello und Klavier (nach Worten von Ingeborg Bachmann; 2005)
 "...wenn die Vögel die Nacht aufritzen –". Drei Fragmente für Countertenor, 2 Tenöre und Bassbariton (nach Worten von Nelly Sachs und WG Sebald; 2007/09)
 KorollArien für Flöte und Streichtrio (nach Raoul Schrott; 2009)
 Himmelsklänge für Altflöte, Oboe, Violine und Violoncello (2011)
 feuerfalter des gegenwärtigen/wirklich unwirklich ruhig bebend für Streichtrio und Klavier (nach Octacio Paz; 2014)
 mourning monarchs. Replay for string quartet (nach Octavio Paz und Anne Carson; 2015/18)
 false echoes - landscape with shostakovich for string quartett (2019)

Trio

 Hôtel de la Paix. Trio für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier (nach Ingeborg Bachmann; 2005/06)
 "... aus Finsternissen losgelöst". 2. Klaviertrio (2007)
 bidun qarar für Sprechstimme, Klarinette und Viola (nach Worten von Semier Insayif; 2013)
 bidun qarar. Replay für 2 Violinen und Sprechstimme (nach Worten von Semier Insayif; 2013/17)

Duo
  Die Ankunft des Atemzugs 2 für Violine und Violoncello (2005)
 land of closed eyes 1 für Obertonsänger/Tenor und Schlagzeuger (nach Octavio Paz und Semier Insayif; 2012/13)

Solo
 land der wachen spiegel für Flöte solo (nach Octavio Paz; 2007/11)
 der anlaut des atems auf der zunge der blätter für Viola solo (nach Raoul Schrott; 2008/20)
 Nachhall für Barockcello oder Violoncello & Sprecher ad libitum (nach Worten von Semier Insayif; 2019/20)

Gemischte Besetzung
 land of sleepless mirrors (Ins Innere des Bildes). Werkzyklus in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bildenden Künstlerin Elisabeth Holzer, enthält die auch einzeln aufführbaren Stücke nacht schatten gewächse, land der wachen spiegel, land of closed eyes 1, "…und leuchteten das Dunkel aus", "…aus Finsternissen losgelöst", Mandragora, Vertigo.Saxophon.Desaster, bidun qarar. Replay, land of closed eyes, Weiß. Nichts und Al chimiya

Bearbeitungen
 Die Alpenbewohner von Ernst Krenek, Instrumentation für Orchester (1993)
 Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten. Märchenoper von Wolfgang Söring, Bearbeitung für 10 Instrumentalisten (1995)
 Tulifant Collage für Orchester nach Gottfried von Einems Oper "Tulifant" (1996)
 Saties Parade, Bearbeitung für drei Instrumentalisten (nach Erik Satie und Jean Cocteau; 1997)
 5 Cabaret Songs von Kurt Weill, Bearbeitung für Stimme und Streichorchester (1999)
 Warnung op. 3/3 von Arnold Schönberg, Bearbeitung für Mezzosopran und 12 Instrumentalisten (Text: Richard Dehmel, 2007)

Diskographie

 ruine. einklang records (2001)
 approaching white. replay. einklang records (2004)
 Die Ankunft des Atemzugs 2. einklang records (2005)
 Hôtel de la Paix. Capriccio (2006)
 "...und leuchteten das Dunkel aus". Phoenix Edition (2008)
 KorollArien. Spektral (2013)
 21st century portraits: Die Ankunft des Atemzugs, "...wenn die Vögel die Nacht aufritzen –", Vertigo. Saxophon. Desaster, "...aus Finsternissen losgelöst", land der wachen spiegel, Hôtel de la Paix. Capriccio (2014)
 mourning monarchs. orlando records (2015)

Weblinks

 Biographie und Werkverzeichnis Norbert Sterk in der musicaustria-Datenbank
 Website Norbert Sterk
 Norbert Sterk beim Musikverlag Doblinger
 Interview mit Norbert Sterk vom 3. Juni 2013 bei musicaustria.at

Einzelnachweise

Komponist klassischer Musik (21. Jahrhundert)
Musiker (Wien)
Österreicher
Geboren 1968
Mann

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So - when you click the linked folder it opens that folder on your computer.
I don't use Python - that's the only Reason, why i don't code some features in a Taskcoach.
1. TSK-File + StorageFolder which can be set in "Options", so that alle attachements can be stored there as normal files and the Filenames would be some kind of GUID's to avoid Problems.
2. If you want to have a All-in-One-File-Solution you can use ZIP-File, like OpenOffice.Org-Files (ODS / ODT ...) do and the compression level can be set by a user (size vs. perfomance).
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Undiscovered and Unloved
The stock market is generally efficient, and the prices of individual stocks trend towards the underlying intrinsic values of their respective businesses. As value investors, we rely on this efficiency – we expect that temporarily mispriced businesses will eventually be re-priced correctly. This tenet is the idea behind one of Ben Graham's most recited quotes: "In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine."
Value investing done properly should offer the expectation of both lower risk and higher returns. These asymmetric benefits result from investing in incorrectly priced (i.e. "voted" on) stocks that trade at a meaningful discount to their intrinsic values. This discount, which is Graham's all-important "margin of safety," can prevent permanent capital loss when an investor makes a mistake (lower risk) and should promise outsized results (higher returns) when that analysis is correct . We tend to find mispriced businesses that offer these advantages clustered in two categories.
The first category is undiscovered. Put simply, these are businesses off the radar of the broader investment community and therefore more likely to be mispriced. These companies provide an opportunity to generate an informational advantage through in-depth research. When we opened Cook & Bynum in 2001, we were finding these opportunities amongst small-cap and micro-cap companies in the United States. This U.S.-centric search got harder as both access to information about and the amount of capital invested in these market niches grew, so we began to look in emerging markets to find businesses largely undiscovered by other investors. We have made most of our recent purchases – Lindley and Coca-Cola Embonor, for example – within this category. As S&P valuations continue to rise, we are doubling down on our efforts to sift the globe for undiscovered businesses selling cheaply. During the fourth quarter, our research team travelled to Indonesia, the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile investigating new ideas and checking on current investments.
The second category is unloved. These mispriced businesses hide in plain sight and sell at a significant discount to intrinsic value because they are off-trend, unpopular, or trading based on speculator sentiment – things that have no bearing on our analysis of intrinsic value. One such unloved company was Walmart. In 2015, Forbes declared Walmart "a Wreck." Seeking Alpha headlined, "Wal-Mart: Save Your Money, Live Better Without This Terrible Stock." Perception has changed in the last few years as investors have begun to recognize the strength of Walmart's low-cost advantage and the intelligent decisions that Doug McMillon, Marc Lore, and Greg Foran have been making to leverage their store fleet into an omni-retail offering combining bricks-and-mortar with online. In 2017 CNN wrote, "Watch Out Amazon. Walmart Is Coming for You." And last month Bloomberg reported, "Wal-Mart's Last Remaining Bearish Analyst Upgrades Stock."
"You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus."
Walmart is no longer unloved, and its valuation reflects a cheery consensus. We continue to believe that Walmart offers and will continue to offer a value proposition to Americans that cannot be matched by competitors in the near or intermediate term, but the stock's 68% appreciation in the last two years means that it no longer offers the asymmetric benefits produced by investing in a business that trades at a significant discount to its intrinsic value. We sold the Fund's stake in November.
Similarly in 2011, Microsoft was unloved as investors believed the rise of the consumer businesses of Apple and Google portended the fatal decline of Microsoft. Headlines screamed, "The Five Biggest Problems Facing Microsoft" and "Microsoft Has Failed: Their Actions Erase Any Lingering Doubt" and "Microsoft Still Can't Find Its Future. Is It Too Late for the Company?" Broad sentiment could hardly have been worse, and the market believed that Microsoft was a dinosaur unable to keep up with the rapid changes happening in technology. There was little to no recognition of the company's commercial/enterprise business, which many thought was vulnerable to tools like Google Docs and corporate Gmail.
Taking over as CEO in 2014, Satya Nadella began driving strategic and cultural changes that continue to bear fruit. Microsoft is shipping better products than it has at any time in the last decade. Customers are increasingly happy, and Microsoft is winning business in the cloud at a strong clip. In fact, Microsoft and Amazon are separating themselves as the premier players for enterprise cloud offerings. Office 365, with its monthly subscription fee, is a superior model for selling the Office software suite, and customers continue to switch over to this sticky, recurring revenue stream. The market has recognized this progress, and overall perception has changed drastically. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote, "Microsoft's Cloud Should Keep Rising." CNBC added, "Why Microsoft's Profit Boom is Just Beginning." The stock has nearly quadrupled since the Fund's purchases in the summer of 2011, which has stretched the market valuation past our estimate of intrinsic value. As much as we would like to remain shareholders for this new generation of Microsoft, we will not keep your and our capital deployed in cases where the risk of permanent capital loss becomes too high and the odds of success from richly valued prices narrow considerably. Hence, we sold the Fund's stake in the business earlier this month.
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A phase I/II study of bortezomib in combination with paclitaxel, carboplatin, and concurrent thoracic radiation therapy for non-small-cell lung cancer: North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG)-N0321
Yujie Zhao, Nathan R. Foster, Jeffrey P. Meyers, Sachdev P. Thomas, Donald W. Northfelt, Kendrith M. Rowland, Bassam I. Mattar, David B. Johnson, Julian R. Molina, Sumithra J. Mandrekar, Steven E. Schild, James D. Bearden, Marie Christine Aubry, Alex A. Adjei
Introduction: Despite the advances in radiation techniques and chemotherapy, survival with current platinum-based chemotherapy and concomitant thoracic radiation remains dismal. Bortezomib, a proteasome inhibitor, modulates apoptosis and cell cycle through disruption of protein degradation. The combination of bortezomib and carboplatin/paclitaxel and concurrent radiation in unresectable stage III non-small-cell lung cancer was evaluated in this phase I/II study. Methods: Patients with histologic or cytologic confirmed stage III non-metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer who were candidates for radiation therapy were eligible. In the phase I portion, patients received escalating doses of bortezomib, paclitaxel, and carboplatin concomitantly with thoracic radiation (60 Gy/30 daily fractions) using a modified 3 + 3 design. The primary endpoint for the phase II portion was the 12-month survival rate (12MS). A one-stage design with an interim analysis yielded 81% power to detect a true 12MS of 75%, with a 0.09 level of significance if the true 12MS was 60% using a sample size of 60 patients. Secondary endpoints consisted of adverse events (AEs), overall survival, progression-free survival, and the confirmed response rate. Results: Thirty-one patients enrolled during the phase I portion of the trial, of which four cancelled before receiving treatment, leaving 27 evaluable patients. Of these 27 patients, two dose-limiting toxicities were observed, one (grade 3 pneumonitis) at dose level 1 (bortezomib at 0.5 mg/m2, paclitaxel at 150 mg/m2, and carboplatin at area under the curve of 5) and one (grade 4 neutropenia lasting ≥8 days) at dose level 6 (bortezomib 1.2 mg/m2, paclitaxel 175 mg/m2, and carboplatin at area under the curve of 6). During the phase I portion, the most common grade 3 of 4 AEs were leukopenia (44%), neutropenia (37%), dyspnea (22%), and dysphagia (11%). Dose level 6 was declared to be the recommended phase II dose (RP2D) and the phase II portion of the study opened. After the first 26 evaluable patients were enrolled to the RP2D, a per protocol interim analysis occurred. Of these 26 patients, 23 (88%) survived at least 6 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 70-98%), which was enough to continue to full accrual per study design. However, due to slow accrual, the study was stopped after 27 evaluable patients were enrolled (6 - phase I RP2D; 21 - phase II). Of these 27 patients, the 12MS was 73% (95% CI, 58-92%), the median overall survival was 25.0 months (95% CI, 15.6-35.8), and the median progression-free survival was 8.4 months (95% CI, 4.1-10.5). The confirmed response rate was 26% (seven of 27; 95% CI, 11-46%), consisting of four partial responses and three complete responses. Grade 3+ and grade 4+ AEs occurred in 82% and 56% of patients, respectively. One patient experienced grade 5 pneumonitis that was possibly related to the treatment. Grade 3 and 4 hematological toxicities were observed in 82% and 56% patients, respectively. Conclusions: The addition of bortezomib to concurrent carboplatin/paclitaxel and radiation seemed to be feasible, although associated with increased hematological toxicities. A favorable median overall survival of 25 months suggests a potential benefit for this regimen.
Journal of Thoracic Oncology
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Zhao, Y., Foster, N. R., Meyers, J. P., Thomas, S. P., Northfelt, D. W., Rowland, K. M., Mattar, B. I., Johnson, D. B., Molina, J. R., Mandrekar, S. J., Schild, S. E., Bearden, J. D., Aubry, M. C., & Adjei, A. A. (2015). A phase I/II study of bortezomib in combination with paclitaxel, carboplatin, and concurrent thoracic radiation therapy for non-small-cell lung cancer: North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG)-N0321. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 10(1), 172-180. https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0000000000000383
A phase I/II study of bortezomib in combination with paclitaxel, carboplatin, and concurrent thoracic radiation therapy for non-small-cell lung cancer : North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG)-N0321. / Zhao, Yujie; Foster, Nathan R.; Meyers, Jeffrey P.; Thomas, Sachdev P.; Northfelt, Donald W.; Rowland, Kendrith M.; Mattar, Bassam I.; Johnson, David B.; Molina, Julian R.; Mandrekar, Sumithra J.; Schild, Steven E.; Bearden, James D.; Aubry, Marie Christine; Adjei, Alex A.
In: Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Vol. 10, No. 1, 01.01.2015, p. 172-180.
Zhao, Y, Foster, NR, Meyers, JP, Thomas, SP, Northfelt, DW, Rowland, KM, Mattar, BI, Johnson, DB, Molina, JR, Mandrekar, SJ, Schild, SE, Bearden, JD, Aubry, MC & Adjei, AA 2015, 'A phase I/II study of bortezomib in combination with paclitaxel, carboplatin, and concurrent thoracic radiation therapy for non-small-cell lung cancer: North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG)-N0321', Journal of Thoracic Oncology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 172-180. https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0000000000000383
Zhao Y, Foster NR, Meyers JP, Thomas SP, Northfelt DW, Rowland KM et al. A phase I/II study of bortezomib in combination with paclitaxel, carboplatin, and concurrent thoracic radiation therapy for non-small-cell lung cancer: North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG)-N0321. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 2015 Jan 1;10(1):172-180. https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0000000000000383
Zhao, Yujie ; Foster, Nathan R. ; Meyers, Jeffrey P. ; Thomas, Sachdev P. ; Northfelt, Donald W. ; Rowland, Kendrith M. ; Mattar, Bassam I. ; Johnson, David B. ; Molina, Julian R. ; Mandrekar, Sumithra J. ; Schild, Steven E. ; Bearden, James D. ; Aubry, Marie Christine ; Adjei, Alex A. / A phase I/II study of bortezomib in combination with paclitaxel, carboplatin, and concurrent thoracic radiation therapy for non-small-cell lung cancer : North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG)-N0321. In: Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 2015 ; Vol. 10, No. 1. pp. 172-180.
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AU - Aubry, Marie Christine
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N2 - Introduction: Despite the advances in radiation techniques and chemotherapy, survival with current platinum-based chemotherapy and concomitant thoracic radiation remains dismal. Bortezomib, a proteasome inhibitor, modulates apoptosis and cell cycle through disruption of protein degradation. The combination of bortezomib and carboplatin/paclitaxel and concurrent radiation in unresectable stage III non-small-cell lung cancer was evaluated in this phase I/II study. Methods: Patients with histologic or cytologic confirmed stage III non-metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer who were candidates for radiation therapy were eligible. In the phase I portion, patients received escalating doses of bortezomib, paclitaxel, and carboplatin concomitantly with thoracic radiation (60 Gy/30 daily fractions) using a modified 3 + 3 design. The primary endpoint for the phase II portion was the 12-month survival rate (12MS). A one-stage design with an interim analysis yielded 81% power to detect a true 12MS of 75%, with a 0.09 level of significance if the true 12MS was 60% using a sample size of 60 patients. Secondary endpoints consisted of adverse events (AEs), overall survival, progression-free survival, and the confirmed response rate. Results: Thirty-one patients enrolled during the phase I portion of the trial, of which four cancelled before receiving treatment, leaving 27 evaluable patients. Of these 27 patients, two dose-limiting toxicities were observed, one (grade 3 pneumonitis) at dose level 1 (bortezomib at 0.5 mg/m2, paclitaxel at 150 mg/m2, and carboplatin at area under the curve of 5) and one (grade 4 neutropenia lasting ≥8 days) at dose level 6 (bortezomib 1.2 mg/m2, paclitaxel 175 mg/m2, and carboplatin at area under the curve of 6). During the phase I portion, the most common grade 3 of 4 AEs were leukopenia (44%), neutropenia (37%), dyspnea (22%), and dysphagia (11%). Dose level 6 was declared to be the recommended phase II dose (RP2D) and the phase II portion of the study opened. After the first 26 evaluable patients were enrolled to the RP2D, a per protocol interim analysis occurred. Of these 26 patients, 23 (88%) survived at least 6 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 70-98%), which was enough to continue to full accrual per study design. However, due to slow accrual, the study was stopped after 27 evaluable patients were enrolled (6 - phase I RP2D; 21 - phase II). Of these 27 patients, the 12MS was 73% (95% CI, 58-92%), the median overall survival was 25.0 months (95% CI, 15.6-35.8), and the median progression-free survival was 8.4 months (95% CI, 4.1-10.5). The confirmed response rate was 26% (seven of 27; 95% CI, 11-46%), consisting of four partial responses and three complete responses. Grade 3+ and grade 4+ AEs occurred in 82% and 56% of patients, respectively. One patient experienced grade 5 pneumonitis that was possibly related to the treatment. Grade 3 and 4 hematological toxicities were observed in 82% and 56% patients, respectively. Conclusions: The addition of bortezomib to concurrent carboplatin/paclitaxel and radiation seemed to be feasible, although associated with increased hematological toxicities. A favorable median overall survival of 25 months suggests a potential benefit for this regimen.
AB - Introduction: Despite the advances in radiation techniques and chemotherapy, survival with current platinum-based chemotherapy and concomitant thoracic radiation remains dismal. Bortezomib, a proteasome inhibitor, modulates apoptosis and cell cycle through disruption of protein degradation. The combination of bortezomib and carboplatin/paclitaxel and concurrent radiation in unresectable stage III non-small-cell lung cancer was evaluated in this phase I/II study. Methods: Patients with histologic or cytologic confirmed stage III non-metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer who were candidates for radiation therapy were eligible. In the phase I portion, patients received escalating doses of bortezomib, paclitaxel, and carboplatin concomitantly with thoracic radiation (60 Gy/30 daily fractions) using a modified 3 + 3 design. The primary endpoint for the phase II portion was the 12-month survival rate (12MS). A one-stage design with an interim analysis yielded 81% power to detect a true 12MS of 75%, with a 0.09 level of significance if the true 12MS was 60% using a sample size of 60 patients. Secondary endpoints consisted of adverse events (AEs), overall survival, progression-free survival, and the confirmed response rate. Results: Thirty-one patients enrolled during the phase I portion of the trial, of which four cancelled before receiving treatment, leaving 27 evaluable patients. Of these 27 patients, two dose-limiting toxicities were observed, one (grade 3 pneumonitis) at dose level 1 (bortezomib at 0.5 mg/m2, paclitaxel at 150 mg/m2, and carboplatin at area under the curve of 5) and one (grade 4 neutropenia lasting ≥8 days) at dose level 6 (bortezomib 1.2 mg/m2, paclitaxel 175 mg/m2, and carboplatin at area under the curve of 6). During the phase I portion, the most common grade 3 of 4 AEs were leukopenia (44%), neutropenia (37%), dyspnea (22%), and dysphagia (11%). Dose level 6 was declared to be the recommended phase II dose (RP2D) and the phase II portion of the study opened. After the first 26 evaluable patients were enrolled to the RP2D, a per protocol interim analysis occurred. Of these 26 patients, 23 (88%) survived at least 6 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 70-98%), which was enough to continue to full accrual per study design. However, due to slow accrual, the study was stopped after 27 evaluable patients were enrolled (6 - phase I RP2D; 21 - phase II). Of these 27 patients, the 12MS was 73% (95% CI, 58-92%), the median overall survival was 25.0 months (95% CI, 15.6-35.8), and the median progression-free survival was 8.4 months (95% CI, 4.1-10.5). The confirmed response rate was 26% (seven of 27; 95% CI, 11-46%), consisting of four partial responses and three complete responses. Grade 3+ and grade 4+ AEs occurred in 82% and 56% of patients, respectively. One patient experienced grade 5 pneumonitis that was possibly related to the treatment. Grade 3 and 4 hematological toxicities were observed in 82% and 56% patients, respectively. Conclusions: The addition of bortezomib to concurrent carboplatin/paclitaxel and radiation seemed to be feasible, although associated with increased hematological toxicities. A favorable median overall survival of 25 months suggests a potential benefit for this regimen.
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DO - 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000383
JO - Journal of Thoracic Oncology
JF - Journal of Thoracic Oncology


APARTHOTEL - the Design & Lifestyle hotel in rotkreuz.
A notable feature of the APARTHOTEL is the installation of an earth probe heating system. The necessary energy for heating and warm water is supplied through heat pumps and 10 ground holes drilled at a depth of 250 m. In the summer, the building can be cooled by inverting this process. This way, no fossils fuels are necessary. The decision to avoid using fossil fuel reflects contemporary ecological concerns.
The Construction Authority in Canton Zug and the MINERGIE Certification Authority awarded the certification of the building at the end of December 2010.
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The Marginalized Male
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"Delighted" would accurately describe my reaction to discovering Christians for Biblical Equality. I'm a man who knows something about marginalization and alienation — two themes central to CBE's concerns.
I'm a Canadian man now resident in the American Deep South. My wife is American, originally Southern by birth, but at least as much northern now, by culture. Trish has been Christian — devoutly, thoughtfully, worshipfully — for many years. I've been a theist for about 10 years, a Christian no more than four or five, and I came to that belief not through church or seminary, but via the rocky, desperate road of addiction and recovery. I'm well educated in several secular veins, but a theological virgin. Trish reads scriptural circles around me, leaving me to hide under the covers with my flashlight, furiously absorbing Scripture and criticism just to keep up.
Yet the Southern churches we've attended have kept throbbing with a message that seems nothing short of bizarre — I am, they're saying, to be the spiritual head of my household. Fact: I was and am unqualified. I was and I remain ill-equipped to "instruct" my wife, to "guide" her scripturally, to be her "spiritual head and leader," to be the "arbiter," "decider," or "authority" in her spiritual life, to do, indeed, much that Southern religion wants me to do.
And I refuse the role.
If I am — as I've been accused of being — "unbiblical" in taking that stance, then so be it.
Much debate in CBE literature, and feminist forums generally, naturally centers on the marginalization of women by patriarchal brands of Christianity, and some on the marginalization of women who escape those bonds. Yet men of egalitarian bent are no less marginalized. Come Wednesday night prayer suppers at our former church, I'd typically get up, clear tables and pitch in washing dishes. The women of the church, to my surprise at first, found this variously amusing and (as one put it) "refreshing." To my slowly dawning horror, I learned that the men, overall, found my behavior (to quote one) "inappropriate." One member noted of the all-male board of deacons that "they talk about [me]." "Outsider" was one term used. "Liberal," another term applied to me, was synonymous with radical, ungodly, and, it was eventually made clear, welcome only in the back pews.
Hitherto only an occasional churchgoer, I naively thought at first that what kept all those women silent in the back pews during Sunday school was some sort of collective natural demureness having an origin in Southern culture. I was partly right — it wasn't merely the explicitly literal interpretations of isolated slices of Scripture that had achieved this effect. Just as the church remains arguably the single most powerful social force in American Southern culture, so the continuing attempts of so many Southern churches to silence women pervades the culture at large. Women in homes, organizations, classrooms and workplaces, I noted, had systematically been taught silence and deference as their default roles.
My mistakes: I listened to women; I joined them in debate; I wanted — very, very much — to be taught by them, to be taught, in my hunger for Christian learning, by any thoughtful person who might shed light. To exclude half the population from that role at first never occurred to me, and since that rude epiphany has seemed sheer madness.
We attended for a time a strange kind of "faux-liberal" church that sought to distinguish itself from the most brazenly objectionably sexist tenets of institutionalized Southern Baptism. Pastor and teachers — men, all — talked the talk of "mutual submission," and it sounded good for about two weeks. Until, that is, the talk of women's alleged moral and intellectual weakness slipped through.
In the cultural and religious American South, the man who allies himself with egalitarian causes is himself marginalized. The man who lets women speak is traitor to his gender, and to the existing order. The man who refuses presumptuous male complicity in anything from blonde jokes to sexist interpretations of I Timothy 2 is openly sneered at. Moreover, the man who — even at the most theoretical level — questions the canons of interpretation that bolster patriarchal reading of the Bible likewise achieves alienation. Intellectuality, in any stripe I recognize, engenders finger pointing in so many Southern churches. If CBE literature is up to date, there are no chapters in the Deep South. A few years living there has helped me understand why.
I need my wife's spiritual guidance as much as she needs my own. It's a moral minefield out there, and I want us to hold hands as we walk through. Trish is way too sharp for me to get away — even if I wanted to — with my waltzing in with a Promise Keepers pamphlet and an announcement that "Darlin', I'm takin' over." We teach each other, support each other, walk side by side, and, as the two of us read Scripture, that's what it tells us to do.
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Though the consequences of this policy change will take years to unfold, there are several things we can already predict about the limits and dangers of the new policy. Below we list the most important areas to watch and provide links to some of the best analysis available to date around the web.
It's all about jobs, but it won't create many.
If the administration's primary goal is to enrich a few major defense contractors, it may succeed. If, on the other hand, the goal is to create American jobs and bolster the economy more generally, disappointment is inevitable.
Even if the Trump administration boosts sales against such headwinds, this will not create many additional jobs. Arms exports are a surprisingly inefficient means of employing people at home. Using census data, the Commerce Department estimates that a billion dollars of defense exports would "create or sustain" 3,918 jobs, considerably fewer than the 5,700 jobs per billion created by increased US exports more broadly. Doubling the United States' annual arms exports to $40 billion, a highly unrealistic goal, would thus create fewer than 80,000 new jobs. There are other industries the United States can promote that will have larger effects on jobs.
Until now the United States has kept a close hold on armed drones like the Predator and Reaper, allowing China to meet most of the global demand. Under the new policy the United States will begin to sell some drones through the direct commercial sales process.
The new policy goes further than the Obama administration's 2015 guidance in a few ways. This means U.S. manufacturers can export more directly to other countries and bypass the foreign military sales process, which entails more time-consuming involvement from the U.S. government. Second, the new rules reclassify drones with strike-enabling technology, like laser target designators, as unarmed, which will make it easier to export them.
A much less visible policy change with important ramifications is the move by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to amend the Arms Export Control Act to include counterterrorism as an explicit strategic justification for weapon sales.
As Caroline wrote for Ink Stick, this seemingly subtle change in language expands the legal and institutional footprint of the war on terror and does so despite the fact that most of the major conventional weapons for sale by the U.S. aren't much use for fighting terrorism or insurgencies.
The change will effectively turn civil servants who had been third-party brokers between foreign governments and American defense contractors into de facto salespeople. Officials talking up American defense products isn't new, but giving them the directive to increase "economic security" gives profit a greater emphasis — with the commander-in-chief and his 2017 sales pitches to the Saudis, for example, offering model behavior in this regard.
Currently, the majority of incentives to foreign buyers of American weapons come in the form of offsets. These agreements are made once the US government has cleared a sale and the company can liaise with whichever foreign government is purchasing the product. Offsets are meant to make the deals more attractive, and can include anything from co-production to technology transfer to Foreign Direct Investments. This takes a major cut out of any profit for the defense contractors, who shoulder most of the cost. In 2014 alone, contractors reported $20.5 billion in defense-related merchandise exports, with $13 billion worth of those sales including some kind of offset. The total value of reported offset agreements for that year was $7.7 billion — over one-third the value of total defense exports for that year.
Foreign Military Financing…to the rescue?
This type of financing comes directly out of the US federal budget—specifically out of the State Department's portion. The final budget omnibus that was signed into law in March settled on $6.1 billion to give freely to other countries to purchase American weapons. That's right—$6 billion of American taxpayer dollars this year alone will go towards subsidizing the arsenals of other nations so that they too can "Buy American." Foreign Military Financing had, until now, been on the decline. From 1985 to 2015 the program decreased 50 percent in real terms. With this new economic security component to stated guidance on arms sales, there is a very real possibility that Foreign Military Financing could continue to rise.
As we wrote in a Cato Policy Analysis published in March, the United States has a poor track record when it comes to assessing the potential risks from selling weapons abroad. Since 2002 the United States has sold over $300 billion worth of major conventional weapons to 167 countries including places with repressive governments, histories of human rights abuses, and which are engaged in active conflicts.
Unfortunately, despite the many negative unintended consequences that arms sales can spawn, nothing in the Trump administration's new policy suggests it will pay any more attention to these risks than previous administrations. Given the administration's zeal to sell more weapons abroad, the most likely outcome is even less sensitivity to downstream risks. Stay tuned.
A fleet of driverless cars designed by Waymo, a project of Google's parent company, Alphabet, is on the roads of Phoenix, Arizona. Last week, Waymo CEO John Krafcik announced that in the coming months the driverless cars will be part of the world's first autonomous ride-hailing service. The recent news is a milestone in driverless car technology history, and it's no exaggeration to claim that the technology behind these new cars has the potential to save hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of lives in the coming decades. Sadly, drones, another life-saving technology, have had a tougher time getting off the ground.
Waymo's cars are not suddenly arriving on the scene. Google has been working on getting a driverless car on the road since 2009, and Waymo has been offering some lucky passengers in the Phoenix area rides since April. However, these cars had a driver at the wheel, just in case. The fleet now driving in Phoenix does not include safety drivers.
This may prompt unease among some Phoenix residents. A clear majority of Americans are uncomfortable about getting into driverless cars. Yet human drivers are deadly. More than 90 percent of car crashes can be attributed to human error, and motor vehicle accidents killed an estimated 40,200 people on American roads last year.
Today, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) civilian police commission voted to approve proposed guidelines for a one-year unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) pilot program. According to the LAPD's guidelines, UAVs will not be equipped with lethal or nonlethal weapons and will only be deployed in a narrow set of circumstances. The guideline also requires officers to obtain a warrant before using a UAV "when required under the Fourth Amendment or other provision of the law." This looks all well and good, except that the Fourth Amendment and California law provide little protection when it comes to aerial surveillance.
The Fourth Amendment protects "persons, houses, papers, and effects" from "unreasonable searches and seizures." Many Americans could be forgiven for thinking that this constitutional provision would act as a shield against warrantless aerial surveillance. Sadly, this is not the case. California law is similarly of little help. California is not one of the states that require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before using a UAV, with Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014 vetoing a bill that would have imposed such a requirement.
To the LAPD's credit, routine surveillance is not included in its list of approved UAV operations. However, the LAPD has a history of using new surveillance gadgets, and it's reasonable to be wary of UAVs being regularly used for surveillance as they become an everyday feature of police departments' toolboxes.
Although the Supreme Court has yet to take up the issue of UAV surveillance, it did address aerial surveillance in a few cases in the 1980s. In Dow Chemical Co v. United States (1986) the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency did not need an administrative warrant when it hired a commercial photographer using a mapping camera to inspect a 2,000 acre Dow Chemical plant from an aircraft.
Today, legislative efforts began in eleven cities (see right) aimed at requiring police departments to be more transparent about the surveillance technology they use. The bills will also reportedly propose increased community control over the use of surveillance tools. These efforts, spearheaded by the ACLU and other civil liberty organizations, are important at a time when surveillance technology is improving and is sometimes used without the knowledge or approval of local officials or the public.
Many readers will be familiar with CCTV cameras and wiretap technology, which police use to investigate crimes and gather evidence. Yet there is a wide range of surveillance tools that are less well-known and will become more intrusive as technology advances.
Facial recognition software is already used by some police departments. As this technology improves it will be easier for police to identify citizens, especially if it is used in conjunction with body cameras. But our faces are not our only biometric identifiers. Technology in the near future will make it easier to identify us by analyzing our gait, voice, irises, and ears.
Yesterday my colleague Alex Nowrasteh wrote an extensive list of reasons why Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, is the nativist dream candidate. The list leaves little doubt that if Trump makes it to the White House he will seek to violate the Constitution, create a police state, put citizens' privacy at risk, and build a border wall (despite its estimated $25 billion price tag) all in the name of reducing legal and illegal immigration to the United States.
Trump's immigration plan ought to worry civil libertarians because, as Alex points out, he supports mandatory E-Verify, the ineffective employment eligibility verification program that puts privacy at risk. Trump's disregard for effective policy and privacy rights can be seen not only in his views on E-Verify but also his support for 24/7 border drones.
The program has also not achieved the expected results. Specifically, the unmanned aircraft are not meeting flight hour goals. Although CBP anticipated increased apprehensions of illegal border crossers, a reduction in border surveillance costs, and improvement in the U.S. Border Patrol's efficiency, we found little or no evidence that CBP met those program expectations.
DHS was unable to say just how often smugglers tried to jam or spoof border-watching UAVs. But Bennett said the attacks are hindering law enforcement abilities to map drug routes. "You're out there looking, trying to find out this path [they're] going through with drugs, and we can't get good coordinate systems on it because we're getting spoofed. That screws up the whole thing. We got to fix that problem," he said.
The ineffectiveness of drones on the border is not the only concern. CBP drones also pose privacy concerns. Predator B drones carrying out combat missions abroad have been outfitted with Gorgon Stare, a wide-area surveillance technology that allows users to track objects within an area at least 10 square kilometers in size. Almost two years ago it was reported that once incorporated with Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System (ARGUS-IS), another wide-area surveillance tool, Gorgon Stare can monitor 100 square kilometers. A video outlining ARGUS-IS' capabilities is below.
The growing use of special operations forces has been a hallmark of the Obama administration's foreign policy, an attempt to thread the needle between growing public opposition to large-scale troop deployments and public demands for the United States to 'do more' against terrorist threats, all while dancing around the definition of the phrase 'boots on the ground.' But the increasing use of such non-traditional forces – particularly since the start of the Global War on Terror – is also reshaping how we think about U.S. military intervention overseas.
National Journal has a new piece out today that highlights the continuing controversy over the Federal Aviation Administration's failure thus far to publish a final rule governing the operation of drones in domestic airspace (FAA's current unmanned aerial system (UAS) guidance can be found here). One thing the FAA will not be doing is wading into the commercial sector privacy debate over drones; it has punted that issue to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). But what about federal agencies and their use of UASs?
Federal domestic UAS use has a checkered history.
The unmanned aircraft did not meeting the CBP Office of Air and Marine (OAM) goal of being airborne 16 hours a day, every day of the year; in FY 2013, the aircraft were airborne 22 percent of the anticipated number of hours.
Compared to CBP's total number of apprehensions, OAM attributed relatively few to unmanned aircraft operations.
OAM could not demonstrate that the unmanned aircraft have reduced the cost of border surveillance.
OAM expected the unmanned aircraft would be able to respond to motion sensor alerts and thus reduce the need for USBP response, but the IG found few instances of this having occurred.


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Army Continues Assault on TNSM & Fazlullah
The Pakistan army continues the assault on Fazlullah's followers who are allied to Al Qaeda and the Lal Masjid clerics in North Waziristan. The Mullah is in hiding, and the article does not mention if he's still broadcasting from his illegal FM radio stations. This comes after a suicide attack on the 2500 troops near Swat, and four beheadings of Frontier Corps troops. Details at the Independent:
Pakistani troops and helicopter gunships attacked the village stronghold of a militant cleric yesterday, a day after a deadly suicide bombing, while militants retaliated by beheading four security personnel in an intensifying conflict in the northwest.
Militants kidnapped and beheaded three paramilitary soldiers and a police officer, and displayed their severed heads in a village near the resort town of Swat, said Badshah Gul Wazir, the Home Secretary of the North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan.
"I know they were four, and they have been beheaded," he told a news conference in Peshawar, the provincial capital.
Media reports had said that militants had abducted a total of eight security officials, but Wazir would not confirm the total number of kidnapped personnel.
Wazir's comments came hours after the two sides traded fire across the rushing Swat River, using rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and other weapons, after security forces attacked the redoubt of the cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who runs a sprawling seminary in the village of Imam Dheri.
Two civilians were killed when stray bullets hit them near the river, while one of the militants also died in the gunbattle, said Mohammed Khan, a police official in Swat.
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Actress Kristen Stewart, 31, announced that her girlfriend Dylan Meyer proposed to her after two years of dating. "We're getting married," the American shared Tuesday on Howard Stern's radio show on SiriusXM.
Stewart said it was Meyer who made the proposal. "I wanted him to propose to me. It was really beautiful. She did very well. We married. We will definitely do it"Said the protagonist of" Spencer ".
In the same program, in 2019, Stewart had explained that with his partner they had met six years ago, on the set of a movie. After Stewart parted ways with the model Stella maxwell that same year, the romance with Meyer began.
The news of the engagement comes almost exactly two years after the actress told Stern she couldn't "expect" to propose to the screenwriter, after only three months of relationship.
"I want to be, like, something reasonable about it. I think good things happen fast, "Stewart shared at the time. "I have a couple of ideas. I am very impulsive. I don't know when it will be".
The actress with her girlfriend (@spillzdylz)
In an interview last October, while discussing how she juggled her personal life despite world fame, the actress admitted to being "cautious" about her relationships. "I felt like maybe there were things that had hurt the people I've been with. Not because I was ashamed to be openly gay, but because I didn't like to give myself up to the public, somehow.", He said during an interview with InStyle.
"This was a period of time where I was a bit cautious," Stewart added. "Even in my previous relationships, which were straight, we did everything we could to not be photographed doing things that didn't represent us, so I think the added pressure of representing a group of people, of representing queer, was not something. that I understood then. Only now can I see it. "
Stewart's girlfriend works as a screenwriter (@spillzdylz)
At the moment he has not given more details of when the big day will be, but, presumably, it will be celebrated next year when the awards campaign ends.
Dylan Meyer is a renowned screenwriter, although she has also made some appearances as an actress. His scripts include films such as "Moxie" (2021), "Loose Ends" (2015) and "XOXO" (2016)While, among her roles as an actress, her participation in films such as "The Death and Return of Superman" and "Wrestling Isn't Wrestling" stands out.
Stewart admitted that she knew she loved Meyer from the beginning of their relationship.
According to Kristen, she and Meyer met about nine years ago in a movie, but didn't become close until six years after that. "She showed off on a friend's birthday and I told her: 'Where have you been and how have I not met you?' ", revealed the "Twilight" actress a couple of years ago.
By admitting that she can be "impulsive," Stewart recounted the first time she confessed her love for Meyer, two weeks after dating. "The first time I told her I loved her it was too late and we were in a shitty bar, and her friends were there or whatever and they left, and I was like, 'I'm so fucking in love with you, "she recalled.
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If you were wondering, Beatles covers are our favorite kind. They incite a rare kind of mass euphoria, that special quotient that could make any show that much more memorable. On their August 16th stop in Chicago, Mumford & Sons and opening act Dawes shared the stage for a rollicking rendition of the classic Sgt. Pepper cut "With A Little Help From My Friends." It just goes to show that any song can sound like a Mumford & Sons song if you have the right amount of horns and grit in your voice.


Modern medical science has identified a nasty bacterium, Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), as a key causal factor in the development of most human ulcers. However, there remain important psychological and environmental factors at work in your office and in your mind that may contribute to your getting an ulcer—a medical condition that the whimsical title of Stanford University professor Robert Sapolsky's book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers suggests is a very and mostly human problem.
Whether your job stress is chronic or acute, mild or severe, there is something you can learn from zebras about how to cope with it. In his scientifically well-researched and insightful 1994 book, Dr. Sapolsky, Stanford University Professor of Biological Sciences, Neurology and Neurological Sciences, explains why humans get ulcers when animals in the wild, including zebras, rarely, if ever, do.
The main reason is that, even though animals in general are not as ingenious or able to control their environments as humans on average are, they seem to be much smarter and freer than many of us when it comes to stress prevention and control. The key to their ulcer-free lives is very simple: They do what most animals do when stressed by other animals—they usually adopt one of the "3F"s of "fight", "flight" or "freeze", depending on whether the individual animal or species has retaliation, fleeing or remaining perfectly still as its best option in a given kind of threat situation on any specific occasion.
A zebra, for example, may employ any one of these methods. It may, upon being harried by a lone jackal, fight. Confronted by a menacing pack of jackals, it is more likely to flee. Or, just getting a whiff of them on the far side of a hill crest, it may momentarily freeze and remain vigilant until it assesses the situation or the danger has passed.
Other animals, such as rabbits, in virtue of being small and defenseless, are far less likely to fight, and will flee or freeze—much like a harried employee who, unable to fight the boss, is likely to quit (flee) or to try to make herself as inconspicuous as possible (freeze). Should neither flight nor freeze succeed, there are other animal options that often work, such as "fold"—i.e., to submit, much as the loser in a wolf dust-up does, to prevent serious injury to itself at the fangs of the more dominant rival. For the frazzled employee, this may another option.
A second reason that Sapolsky identifies for the relative immunity to ulcers among animals in the wild is that their stress, unlike that of humans, tends to be acute and transient, rather than chronic, even if severe. A zebra sees a lion and runs. That's transient, albeit severe stress. A self-employed recruiter alternates between having too much or too little to do or has unbearable time pressures all the time. That's chronic stress, something that a young male jackal bullied by other jackals can experience (sometimes with fatal results), but a condition that seems to be far more common in human interactions and certainly more common than in inter-species stressful interactions. On the other hand, if a candidate doesn't show up for a scheduled meeting with a client, that's transient, acute stress.
The smart strategy, for jackals, zebras and humans alike, is to prevent stress from becoming chronic. Yes, zebras, like us, can have unremitting and uncontrollable chronic stressors, such as drought or pesky flies. But in its interactions with other animals of its own or other species, the Big 3 of "fight/flight/freeze" generally serve the zebra well and serve as a behavioral template for you as you try to cope with your uniquely human stressors and prevent ulcers. As a minimum, they are a yardstick by which you can measure the effectiveness of whatever ways you've tried to deal with your stressors and the stress they induce.
That nipped any stress in the bud.
Taken aback, he urged me not to quit. I promised to do whatever I could to pick up the pace and calmly returned to the tasks at hand—until I became the victim of budget cuts about two weeks later, when another supervisor I never met did the paperwork to terminate me during my immediate supervisor's vacation.
A particularly instructive aspect of that stress-management exercise was the response of another of the recruits, who overheard that conversation. He told me how impressed he was with my courage. I told him that it wasn't courage. It was merely a consequence of the fact that I, unlike him, was single with no dependents—a predisposing and enabling factor underlying the willingness and ability to use "fight" and/or "flight", or the threat to use it, as a workplace stress-management tool. Given his family commitments and in the event of similar job stress, he was far more likely to simply freeze—since fighting and fleeing were not options.
A second lesson to be gleaned from this story is that "freeze" is probably not such a good idea for you, even if it's great for rabbits. That's because, apart from your having more options than a rabbit, the rabbit will use it to cope with transient, acute stress, not for chronic stress, whereas humans are more likely to use freezing as a habitual response to chronic workplace stress, e.g., do nothing to change the office situation, especially when there is a huge power imbalance between the stressor (a supervisor) and the stressee (the employee). Freezing can be almost indistinguishable from the other "F" strategy I mentioned above, namely, "fold", i.e., submission, since it is often the case that doing nothing is tantamount to submission (although in some instances it can be a passive-aggressive response). Moreover, both of these superficially resemble another stress-management strategy, "forget"—namely to ignore the stressor and/or the stress, in a wise-guy "fuhgedd aboud it" way.
Because we humans have higher-order cognitive capabilities, we can employ sophisticated, emotion, volition or cognition-based stress management techniques that other species of animals, like zebras, may not have available to them—at least not to the same degree. Whereas, "fight", "flee", "fold" and "freeze" (and maybe "forget") are common to most species of mammals, a sixth strategy, "frame", is far less likely to be observed in the rest of the animal kingdom. "Frame" is another of the 17 stress control responses beginning with the letter "F" that Dr. Robert Kissner (for whom I have done social science research), CEO of Lifelogix.com, a Vancouver stress and trauma management research company, calls the "F-17".
"Frame" involves perceptually and/or intellectually "reframing" the stress situation to make it more manageable. For example, if, instead of framing a cancelled appointment as a crisis, you frame it as an opportunity to follow up a couple of other leads, a more constructive behavioral response will flow from your having framed the situation differently ("reframing").
Dr. Kissner's advice for any employee facing chronic interpersonal workplace stress is to "identify and pay attention to not only the unique dimensions of your own stress, but also to the dimensions of the stressors acting on others." If you do this, you may be able to reframe your stress response as well as your stressor, by shifting your attention to the causes of an antagonist's stress, away from an over-focus on the effects of that associate's behavior on you. You may also more insightfully view your own stress systemically—as an interplay of variables more numerous and complex than a simplistic "my boss is mean" or "this job is too chaotic" summation would suggest.


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Q: Creating a form from a WinForms Control hosted within WPF -- Owner is not set Scenario
I have the following scenario (I've stripped it down to a sample application):

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*A WPF application with a window (MainWindow) hosting a WinForms UserControl (UserControl1).

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*The control is added dynamically in the code behind to a WindowsFormsHost

*UserControl1 has a button which opens a form (Form1)

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*It uses form1.Show(this).

Problem is:

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*Form1's .Owner property is null.

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*In the real application, some work is done involving the .Owner property which means I can't just ignore this problem.  Ideally, of course, there wouldn't be any dependancy here.

*In the real application, I don't have control over the WinForms side of this code.  Our WPF application is hosting another team's WinForms control.

*Notes:

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*When I use a WinForms host instead, the .Owner property is set correctly.

*UserControl1 is hosted fine in all other ways -- in the real application everything else works fine, it's just that the form opened by the user control doesn't have a proper owner.

I can understand why there's a problem here, but I'm hoping the answer to my next question might be 'yes'!
Is there anything I can do to get this to work by making changes on the WPF side of the equation?
Failing that, could anything be done on the WinForms side? (it's not beyond the realms of possibility that I could get some changes implemented there...)
Sample Code
Here's the code in my sample app.  First the WPF side:
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:my="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Forms.Integration;assembly=WindowsFormsIntegration"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="700">
    <Grid>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
            <RowDefinition/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <Button Name="btnAdd" Click="btnAdd_Click" Content="Add Winform"/>

        <WindowsFormsHost Grid.Row="1" Name="host" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="False"/>
    </Grid>
</Window>

public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    private WindowsFormsHost host;

    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void btnAdd_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        UserControl1 uc1 = new UserControl1();
        WindowsFormsHost.EnableWindowsFormsInterop();
        this.host.Child = uc1;

    }
}

And now the WinForms side...
UserControl1 is just a user control with a button and a label on it.  Here's the code:
public partial class UserControl1 : UserControl
    {
        public UserControl1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Form1 form1 = new Form1();
            form1.Show(this);
        }

        protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnLoad(e);

            this.label1.Text = "this: " + this + Environment.NewLine + "parent: " + this.Parent + Environment.NewLine + "toplevelcontrol: " + this.TopLevelControl;
        }
    }

Form1 is just an empty form.
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnLoad(e);

        MessageBox.Show(" this: " + this + " owner: " + this.Owner);
    }
}

The Owner shown in the message box and the TopLevelControl shown in the label are null when hosted in WPF, but have a value when hosted in another WinForms application.
Further Investigation
I guess the problem here is that .Owner is of type Form and there's no instance of this type in the WPF application.  It's hard to imagine what valid value that property could have in this scenario.  It seems likely, therefore, that I need to get the code changed that's accessing the `.Owner' property in Form1.

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Reading midfielder Michael Olise set to become Patrick Vieira's first signing as Crystal Palace boss
Reading midfielder Michael Olise set to become Patrick Vieira's first signing as Crystal Palace boss – with the Eagles locked in talks with the Championship club over an £8m dealMichael Olise has entered the final year of his current contract with Reading The 19-year-old is regarded as one of the best talents in the ChampionshipOlise scored seven goals and notched 12 assists in 46 league games last seasonCrystal Palace are also interested in signing Manchester City's Morgan Rogers
By Simon Jones for the Daily Mail
Crystal Palace are in talks with Reading over an £8million deal for attacking midfielder Michael Olise.
The 19-year old is regarded as one of the best talents in the Championship and has been capped twice by France at U18 level.
A number of Premier League sides have expressed interest but Palace have advanced quickly to try and make him the first signing of Patrick Vieira's era.
Crystal Palace are in talks with Reading over 19-year-old midfielder Michael Olise (right)
Palace have moved quickly and Olise is set to become Patrick Vieira's first signing
Palace also have an interest in Manchester City's Morgan Rogers but talks for Olise, who had one year on contract, are moving forward.
Olise is left footed and is predominately played behind the striker, but is equally adept when deployed on the right wing cutting inside onto his stronger foot.
The young midfielder was one of Reading's standout performers last season; scoring seven goals and notching 12 assists in 46 league games.
His impressive displays for the Royals didn't go unnoticed as he was named the EFL Young Player of the Season.
Despite representing France at youth level Olise also qualifies for England as he was born in London.
The Eagles are also interested is signing Manchester City youngster Morgan Rogers
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What is umbra in simple words?
Definition of umbra 1a : a conical shadow excluding all light from a given source specifically : the conical part of the shadow of a celestial body excluding all light from the primary source. b : the central dark part of a sunspot. 2 : a shaded area.
What is umbra Latin for?
Is umbra male or female?
What is umbra example?
What is the opposite of umbra?
What is difference between umbra and penumbra?
What is umbra in physics?
What's the Latin word for demon?
How do you use umbra in a sentence?
What is the darkest part of a shadow called?
Is Umbra a name?
What is Penumbra Umbra?
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Who makes umbra?
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From Latin umbra ("shade, shadow").
Umbra is shadow, or a dark tone or area. An example of an umbra is the shadow beyond a streetlight. An example of an umbra is the darkest part of the shadow cast by an eclipse. The completely dark central portion of the shadow cast by the earth, moon, or other body during an eclipse.
Opposite of a place, time or state with a partial or total absence of light. blaze. brightness. brilliance.
(i) Umbra means "shadow" while "penumbra" means to hang on the shadow or almost a shadow. Also, penumbra was coined by Johannes Kepler whereas the coining of "umbra" is not attributed to anyone in particular. (ii) Umbra is the dark part while penumbra is the lighter part.
The umbra (Latin for "shadow") is the innermost and darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding body. An observer in the umbra experiences a total eclipse.
From Latin daemon ("lar, genius, guardian spirit"), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, "dispenser, god, protective spirit").
Our planet's shadow has two parts, a dark inner core called the umbra and a pale outer fringe called the penumbra. The darkest, central region of a sunspot, called the umbra, features tightly bundled magnetic field lines. The strongest solar magnetic fields, up to 4000 gauss, are found within the umbra.
The umbra (Latin for "shadow") is the innermost and darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding body. An observer within the umbra experiences a total eclipse.
Umbra is a name that implies a pioneering spirit.
During an eclipse, two shadows are cast. The first is called the umbra (UM bruh). This shadow gets smaller as it goes away from the sun. It is the dark center of the eclipse shadow. The second shadow is called the penumbra (pe NUM bruh).
The umbra is the shadow's dark center portion, while the penumbra and the antumbra are different types of half-shadows.
One shadow is called the umbra which becomes smaller as it reaches the Earth. This is the dark center of the Moon's shadow. The second shadow is called the penumbra.
During an eclipse, two shadows are cast. The first is called the umbra (UM bruh). This shadow gets smaller as it goes away from the sun. It is the dark center of the eclipse shadow.
About us. Umbra is a Toronto-based homeware company born over 30 years ago when graphic designer, Paul Rowan, couldn't find a nice window shade to hang in his apartment window. So, he made one.
During an average total lunar eclipse, the moon is within the Earth's umbra for about an hour. This is called totality.
The UMBRA is the region of total shadow, while the PENUMBRA is the surrounding region of partial shadow. In the penumbra, sunlight is only dimmed and not blocked. The umbra of the Earth's shadow is about 1.4 x 10^6 km long and points directly away from the sun.
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Welcome to my new website, which will include both personal and software-related posts going forward. I'm gradually moving pages here - see the Site Status page for details.
Parameterized Tests With NUnit 2.5
It has been possible to write parameterized tests for NUnit for some time, using Andreas Schlapsi's RowTest Extension, which recognizes the RowTest and Row attributes familiar to MbUnit users.
NUnit 2.5 Alpha 2 Released
Published: Thursday, May 8, 2008
With a European trip about to start, I decided to release a second Alpha so that the new stuff would get some visibility. I won't be doing another release till late June, so please give this one a try.
A Simple NUnit Usage Recipe
Scott White has a blog about NUnit Best Practices. The approach may require adjustment on more complex projects, but it's a very simple recipe for those starting out with NUnit.
Common.Addins.Build : Addin Building Made Simple
Published: Monday, May 5, 2008
Let me start right out by saying: I know some of you won't find this to be simpler - but it is! If you can't bring yourself to install NAnt or work from the command line, then this isn't for you. But if you can get past the initial hump - or if you're already past it - then this is for you.
Using Addins with NUnit-Console
Published: Friday, May 2, 2008
A recent bug pointed out that addins are not recognized when running tests under the console runner. This is due to a missing entry in the nunit-console.exe.config file, which you can easily fix yourself. Follow these steps to have your addins recognized when using the console runner:
NUnit 2.4.7, 2.5, 3.0: What's With That?
A few folks are confused by the various release numbers being announced or discussed all at one time, so I thought I'd clarify:
Time for a New NUnit
Published: Thursday, December 13, 2007
As I've worked on NUnit 2.4 and its follow-ups, I have begun to feel that it's time for a much more significant update to NUnit, a rethinking of what it's all about and how it should work. Of course, at the same time, I don't want to lose all the work that has gone into NUnit up to now. Puzzling over this, and helped by a group of dedicated NUnit users and contributors, I think I now have a direction to go.
NUnit Stable Releases
Published: Sunday, November 4, 2007
While NUnit 2.4 was in development, I continued to maintain the NUnit 2.2 series as a stable, bug-fix-only branch. NUnit 2.2.10 was the last in that series.
Speed Up Reloading in NUnit 2.4.2
Published: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
When running under .NET 2.0, NUnit is rather slow at loading tests these days. Although many folks only noticed the slowdown with the release of NUnit 2.4, loading a large set of tests with NUnit 2.2 also takes more time - about twice as much - under .NET 2.0 as .NET 1.1.
NUnit Extras: Test Result Summarizer
NUnit is currently built under five different runtimes on Windows - plus two on Linux. Each build is tested under the same runtime on which it was built and on a number of the other runtimes. That's a lot of TestResult files.


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from django.contrib.gis.db.models.manager import GeoManager
from django.contrib.gis.db.models.query import GeoQuerySet

from . import TransformQuerySetMixin

class GeoTransformQuerySet(TransformQuerySetMixin, GeoQuerySet):
    pass

class GeoTransformManager(GeoManager):
    def get_queryset(self):
        return GeoTransformQuerySet(self.model)


There is a house a block away from me that has the most beautiful garden in front, and the owner spends hours each spring and summer planting, pruning and weeding. There are lovely rose bushes, and I was admiring them the other day when the owner came out with some snips and cut me some to take home. I put them in my favourite vase and although they only lasted a couple of days, I stopped to smell them every time I walked by - the orange ones had the most delicious "rose" scent, unlike the ones you get from the florist. I was loving the combination of the orange and purple-red, and lo and behold....inspiration struck!
I even managed to work some green in there with my favourite (and very comfortable) ankle strap heels. The striped socks didn't really go with the rest of the outfit, but stripes make me happy.
To push the colour-meter over the edge, I added a brooch that my friend refers to as a "Yarn Barf".
I don't have a photo of the whole outfit because of my pathetic inability to take an in-focus full length shot with my camera on a tripod, so I had to make do with bits and pieces. You get the idea.
I get the idea and I love it! Your "yarn barf" pin is a work of art. Sometimes the colours of flowers take my breath away.
Love how creative the shoes and socks are!
Love those roses, so cute!
Beautiful roses, I love it when you get a proper old fashioned rose that has a scent. And that's an inspired colour combination too. Tarn barf - that's inspied as well!
I love all the colours and those shoes! Stripes go with everything, is my motto.
That coral rose is so very beautiful...and I love the yarn barf.
Love it: the colors, the description of the rose fragrance, the shoes, brooch, etc. A sensory delight.
Orange and purple-red couldn't be more beautiful together and I just love it when inspiration comes from flowers or anything else that touches that internal creative space. And then it blossoms into reality, like the brilliant outfit that you display.
While I'm not a fan of the broach, I love the inspiration and the final result. The long juicy o.j. legs with the striped socks and spark of low heeled sandals are a bouquet of style delight!


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The Emerald Ash Borer is a wood boring insect that kills Ash trees. They attack healthy Ash trees and kill them in one to four years, depending on their size. Adult beetles begin to emerge from infested trees around mid-May, because they have flat backs and rounded bellies their emergence holes are "D" shaped (honest). On average the female beetle lays roughly seventy-five eggs individually on the bark of trunks and branches of Ash trees. Eggs could be laid from mid-May through mid-August. The eggs hatch in about a week and the larvae tunnel under the bark, feeding and tunneling in the cambium area. This disrupts the transport of water and nutrients within the tree and branches begin to die as feeding progresses. Most EAB pass the winter as larvae inside the tree and then live two to four weeks as adult beetles once they emerge.
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U.S. Women and Global Government
by Megan Threlkeld
Between 1900 and 1950, many internationalist U.S. women referred to themselves as "citizens of the world." This book argues that the phrase was not simply a rhetorical flourish; it represented a demand to participate in shaping the global polity and an expression of women's obligation to work for peace and equality. The nine women profiled here invoked world citizenship as they promoted world government—a permanent machinery to end war, whether in the form of the League of Nations, the United Nations, or a full-fledged world federation.
These women agreed neither on the best form for such a government nor on the best means to achieve it, and they had different definitions of peace and different levels of commitment to genuine equality. But they all saw themselves as part of a global effort to end war that required their participation in the international body politic. Excluded from full national citizenship, they saw in the world polity opportunities for engagement and equality as well as for peace. Claiming world citizenship empowered them on the world stage. It gave them a language with which to advocate for international cooperation.
Citizens of the World not only provides a more complete understanding of the kind of world these women envisioned and the ways in which they claimed membership in the global community. It also draws attention to the ways in which they were excluded from international institution-building and to the critiques many of them leveled at those institutions. Women's arguments for world government and their practices of world citizenship represented an alternative reaction to the crises of the first half of the twentieth century, one predicated on cooperation and equality rather than competition and force.
"Citizens of the World is such a welcome addition to the exciting new work on women's international thought and agency. Lucia Ames Mead, Fannie Fern Andrews, Rosika Schwimmer, Dorothy Kenyon, Edith Wynner—these are all among the many women whose names should count for more in international history. The fact that they are all Americans only underscores Megan Threlkeld's message: American involvement and support for internationalist projects has a long history through the first half of twentieth century, and we need to know more!" —Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney
"In Megan Threlkeld's skillful hands, women who previously have been remembered, if at all, as anecdotes in separate stories—of suffrage, pacifism, and reform—emerge as a community of creative thinkers, analysts, and activists. Histories of twentieth-century political thought now need to be rewritten. Our understanding of American women's international activism is greatly enriched by Citizens of the World." —Linda Kerber, University of Iowa
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Hank Welch is one of the founding members of the Modesto Area A's.
Hank was friends with Gene Jamison, the co-founder and first president of the MOdel A Club. Jess Blaker, Turlock Concrete and Pipe, had a big open shed where he allowed Hank to sand blast his vehicle parts at no cost if Hank paid for the sand. Around 1960, he invited Hank to go on an annual Model T run to the Mother Lode at the Twain Harte Lodge. Gene Jamison was on the run also. Gene and Hank started discussing the possibility of forming a Model A club in Modesto because they enjoyed the Model T run so much.
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