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Searchlight Resources receives final payment for sale of New York Canyon Property
Vancouver, British Columbia, March 30, 2020, - Searchlight Resources Inc.("Searchlight" or the "Company") (TSX-V: SCLT) announces that it has received the final payment of $225,000 from the sale of the New York Canyon Property, NV (the "Property") to Emgold Mining Corporation, a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "EMR", ("Emgold").
Under the Agreement terms, Searchlight will transfer all its interest in and to the New York Canyon Property to Emgold and, in consideration of which, Emgold will have paid Searchlight CAD $275,000 and issued 2,941,176 common shares of Emgold.
Under the terms of the Claim Purchase Agreement between Emgold and Searchlight, Emgold, agreed to purchase a 100% interest in the 21 patented and 60 unpatented mineral claims comprising the Property (at that time) from Searchlight under the following terms:
C$10,000 on signing the LOI (paid);
C$40,000 on closing of the Transaction (paid);
C$500,000 in common shares of the capital of Emgold at the date of closing of the Transaction, with the share price based on the 30-day volume weighted average price of the Company's share immediately prior to the announcement of the Transaction – 2,941,176 shares at C$0.17 per share, with the shares subject to Right of First Refusal provisions (paid);
C$100,000 within 6 months of the date of closing of the Transaction;
C$100,000 within 12 months of the date of closing of the Transaction; and
C$100,000 within 18 months of the date of closing of the Transaction.
In the Claim Purchase Agreement with Searchlight, Emgold had the option of accelerating the acquisition. If the outstanding payments (3 x C$100,000) were made on or before the 6 month anniversary of the closing of the Transaction, Emgold would be entitled to a 25% discount on the outstanding balance, reducing the amount of the payment due to C$225,000.
On February 11, 2020, Emgold announced it had signed an Earn-In with Option to Joint Venture Agreement with Kennecott Exploration Company ("Kennecott"), a subsidiary of Rio Tinto PLC (LSE: RIO:L, ASE: RIO.AX NYSE: RIO.N) for the Property. Kennecott can earn up to a 75% interest in the Property by completing US$22.5 million in exploration expenditures. Kennecott staked 265 unpatented mineral claims, expanding the Property to 21 patented and 417 unpatented mineral claims, totaling approximately 8,700 acres
Under the terms the Earn-In with Option to Joint Venture Agreement between Kennecott and Emgold, Kennecott elected to pay this discounted payment to Searchlight, on Emgold's behalf, as part of its expenditures under the First Option.
About Searchlight Resources
Searchlight Resources Inc. is a Canadian mineral exploration and development company listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange (TSX-V: SCLT). The corporate strategy of the company is:
• to explore and develop opportunities in safe, low risk jurisdictions. The Company holds claims in Saskatchewan and Ontario, Canada. These are two of the top jurisdictions in the Canada for mining investment, as ranked by the Fraser Institute
• to target known highly productive geological belts, including the Flin Flon – Snow Lake Greenstone Belt and the Abitibi Greenstone Belt
• to acquire high quality projects, close to infrastructure, focusing on road access
• to work closely with stakeholders, including First Nations, Metis, local and provincial governments and local contractors to advance mineral exploration and development in a safe and environmentally sound manner.
SEARCHLIGHT RESOURCES INC.
Stephen Wallace P.Geo, President, CEO and Director
Contact: Searchlight Resources Inc.
info@searchlightresources.com
Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions as of the date of this news release. These statements reflect management's current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations. They are not guarantees of future performance. The Company cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to the Company's limited operating history and the need to comply with environmental and governmental regulations. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.


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Cyclocheilichthys furcatus, the Mekong giant barb, is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus Cyclocheilichthys found in the Mekong.

Footnotes

furcatus
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Fish described in 1989

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Q: running batch process over file named in unicode I need to run a process over file named in unicode ?
How using a batch file ?
I tried :
 dir /b %folder% > dir.lst

 ::cmd /u /c dir /b %folder% > dir.lst
 FOR /F "delims= tokens=*" %%G IN (dir.lst) DO (
 echo %%G
 @set filename2=%%G
 @echo %filename2%

 @set filename=%pathlogs%\!filename2!
 @echo %filename%
 @echo %filename2%
 @%binaries%\gawk -v fn=%filename% -v fn2=%filename2% -f %scripts%\AlexBank_barcode.awk                               %folder%\%filename2% 2> %scripts%\AlexBank_barcode.fil
 @%binaries%\sort -k 1.129,1.144 -T F:\tmp  %pathlogs%\%filename2%.log >      %pathlogs%\%filename2%.log.tmp 2> %scripts%\%filename2%".sort.fil"
 @set filename3=%filename%.log.tmp1
 @%binaries%\gawk -f %scripts%\AlexBank_collect_barcode.awk %pathlogs%\%filename2%.log.tmp 2> %scripts%\AlexBank_collect_barcode.fil
 @set filename3=%filename%.separate_all.log
 @%binaries%\gawk -f %scripts%\AlexBank_separate_barcode.awk %pathlogs%\%filename2%.log.tmp1 2> %scripts%\AlexBank_separate_barcode.fil

 @set filename3=%filename%.separate_statement_le.awk.log

@%binaries%\gawk -v fn=%filename3% -f %scripts%\AlexBank_separate_statement_le.awk      %pathlogs%\%filename2%.log.tmp1 2>      %scripts%\%filename2%".AlexBank_separate_statement_le.awk.fil"
     @set filename3=%filename%.separate_statement_gt.awk.log
     @%binaries%\gawk -v fn=%filename3% -f %scripts%\AlexBank_separate_statement_gt.awk      %pathlogs%\%filename2%.log.tmp1 2>      %scripts%\%filename2%".AlexBank_separate_statement_gt.awk.fil"
     )

A: You have two options here:

*

*Set a TrueType font for your console window

*Don't use for /f to iterate over the output of dir /b. It's unnecessary in the vast majority of cases, more complicated to get right, more brittle and fails on Unicode file names when the settings are slightly wrong as you experience. You can use for to iterate over files directly:
for %%F in (%folder%\*) do ...

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package org.kie.workbench.common.stunner.core.registry.impl;

import java.util.ArrayDeque;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Deque;
import java.util.List;

import org.kie.workbench.common.stunner.core.command.Command;
import org.kie.workbench.common.stunner.core.registry.command.CommandRegistry;
import org.kie.workbench.common.stunner.core.registry.exception.RegistrySizeExceededException;

/**
 * The default generic implementation for the CommandRegistry type.
 * It's implemented for achieving an in-memory and lightweight registry approach, don't do an overuse of it.
 * Note: The Stack class behavior when using the iterator is not the expected one, so used
 * ArrayDeque instead of an Stack to provide right iteration order.
 */
public class CommandRegistryImpl<C extends Command> implements CommandRegistry<C> {

    private final Deque<C> commands = new ArrayDeque<>();
    private int maxStackSize = 200;

    @Override
    public void setMaxSize(final int size) {
        this.maxStackSize = size;
    }

    @Override
    public void register(final C command) {
        addIntoStack(command);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean remove(final C command) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Remove not implemented yet.");
    }

    @Override
    public void clear() {
        commands.clear();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean contains(final C item) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Contains not implemented yet.");
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isEmpty() {
        return commands.isEmpty();
    }

    @Override
    public List<C> getCommandHistory() {
        return new ArrayList<C>(commands);
    }

    @Override
    public C peek() {
        return commands.peek();
    }

    @Override
    public C pop() {
        return commands.pop();
    }

    private void addIntoStack(final C command) {
        if (null != command) {
            if ((commands.size() + 1) > maxStackSize) {
                stackSizeExceeded();
            }
            commands.push(command);
        }
    }

    private void stackSizeExceeded() {
        throw new RegistrySizeExceededException(maxStackSize);
    }
}

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"Rare is a racer so well wrought from start to finish."
The sounds of spraying gravel and frantically called pace notes echo in my living room. It's two in the morning, and I'm flinging my favorite Subaru through a forest in rural Croatia, deftly avoiding trees, rocks, and spectators alike. The smile on my face is growing by the second.
Way back when I was a teenager, a friend of mine introduced me to rally racing by way of his enthusiasm for all things four-wheeled and fast. Since that fateful moment I've tried every game adaptation I could get my hands on, starting with the old Colin Mcrae titles. Codemasters' DiRT 2 is their latest title to bear the Macrae name, and even though it's not strictly a rally game, it manages to hold an almost perfect line all the way through.
DiRT 2 starts off with a monstrously huge career mode, playable in six different difficulty levels with five different types of events. Rallies are traditional off-road races with a co-driver calling out pace notes (a series of annotations of the course ahead) and staggered starts. Trailblazer races ditch the co-driver in favor of quick reactions and course memorization. Rallycross events include a whole field of opponents at the starting line and laps around mixed pavement and dirt courses.
Climbing into trucks and buggies will get you access to Landrush and Raid events, with Raids taking place over a few laps of a track and Landrushes being a simultaneously started truck-based rally. Things can get pretty hectic in these events, with other drivers smashing about in SUVs, trucks, and buggies like they're in a demolition derby. It's a pretty big change of pace from the measured tension of the rally events, which brings some good variety to the campaign.
Three modes of racing help to mix things up even more. Gate Crasher is a solo rally that starts each driver with a certain amount of time, which ticks backwards. Maintaining a good line and smashing into gates will keep the clock from running out, with the highest finishing time winning. Domination and Last Man Standing can either take place on Rallycross or Raid tracks, with Domination awarding the fastest times within individual sections of the track and Last Man Standing eliminating the slowest competitor one at a time, every twenty seconds. Domination seemed to play mostly like any other lapped race to me, especially since it awards points for finishing order, but Last Man Standing could get pretty interesting, particularly when an elimination came on one of my weaker sections of a track.
There's great tension in DiRT 2's races, owing partly to the structure of rallies in general, but also to the fantastic course design and difficulty curve. Every track has some do-or-die moments, and quite a few of the locations are long strings of nothing but. (I'm looking at you, Croatia!) Individual countries of the world all feel distinct in both environment and execution. From the mountainous, winding rallies in China to the long stretches of barren desert in Utah, each race is lovingly rendered and unique.
Given that the campaign is so engaging, I have to wonder at Codemaster's decision to include a levelling treadmill and Call of Duty inspired "Missions" that reward chunks of experience for drifting a certain amount, driving on two wheels, and the like. Even the unlockable dashboard/mirror gadgets and car liveries (paint schemes) feel a bit tacked-on, with only a few options each and no real effect on gameplay. Car upgrades would have been the way to go, here. They would add a much-needed "CaRPG" element to the DiRT series, and give the player a much more rewarding grind than just some visual doo-dads.
If the five different events, three special modes, nine different locations, and unlockable gimmicks aren't enough meat to sink your teeth into, DiRT 2 has a full-featured online mode, complete with its own independent leveling system and custom game lobbies. Unfortunately, I found the ranked multiplayer a bit difficult to enjoy, thanks mostly to a lobby system that allows you to join races in progress. I spent more time waiting in those lobbies than I did behind the wheel, which is never a recipe for a fun multiplayer experience. Still, if you're willing to put the time in, there's even more game to be had here, and a party of racing buddies will find the custom games particularly enjoyable.
In both single and multi-player games, the most consistent quality of DiRT 2 is the graphical presentation. This game is gorgeous, with a vibrant color palette reminiscent of an energy drink label, but without the gaudy aesthetic. For that, we turn to the cars themselves, which can range from visually subtle tributes to the late Colin Mcrae to garish pink monstrosities complete with "z"- laden pluralizations and horrifying spoilers. The over-the-top nature of the cars works fantastically in tandem with the aforementioned scenery. They've got just enough pop to keep your eyes interested without rolling them back in your head.
You'll need to keep your eyes on the (lack of a) road as much as possible, though, because DiRT 2 will happily send you careening down a mountainside if you're not paying attention. The Flashback feature from GRID makes a timely appearance and promises to alleviate some headaches, but it doesn't hurt the wonderfully executed difficulty curve of the overall game. DiRT 2 grows with players very well, providing a good mix of challenge and reward with uncanny consistency. Rare is a racer so well wrought from start to finish.
Like any other game that approaches perfection, the best parts of DiRT 2 can also serve to illuminate its flaws. Thankfully, these little dings and dents are few and far between, but they bear mention regardless. First (and foremost), the variety in cars is sorely lacking. Even with a total of 35 vehicles across all the different disciplines, too many of the cars feel similar for my taste, and many are actually just different versions of the same thing. I count at least four Impreza WRXs and three Evos in my garage. Driver AI is a bit cookie-cutter as well; every opponent in a race will try to take the same line through a turn unless it's somehow blocked off to them. This really starts to show on multiple-lap courses and in events like Raid, Rallycross, and Last Man Standing where the player can easily take advantage of the slower sections in the AI's routine.
Still, the core of any driving game is the racing itself, and DiRT 2 has arcade-inspired bliss by the truckload. It would be a shame to let any of the less-than-stellar elements of this game detract from the sheer joy you get piloting a turbocharged hatchback through the back country at over a hundred miles per hour. DiRT 2 not only succeeds masterfully in delivering the fun of off-road racing to your living room, it does so with style and character all its own.
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I just found this works really well and you don't have to worry about wine version mismatch, and also you don't need to input WINEPREFIX .
it is a fork of this https://github.com/Sirmentio/protontricks , but that project is abandoned.
How can we use this for external libraries? I have 3 steam libraries on different partitions, when i search for a game it finds it however when i try to launch winecfg it displays an error.
Sputnik_tr_02 How can we use this for external libraries? I have 3 steam libraries on different partitions, when i search for a game it finds it however when i try to launch winecfg it displays an error.
do you have winetricks installed?? maybe you should file a bug, everything works for me. It found games on a secondary disk (and winecfg works) not the usual $HOME/.local/steam .
Yes, winetricks is installed on my system. I'll open a bug report on github.


Convert Red, Green and Blue to a single 32-bit value.
Used to tell wxPGProperty to use label as name as well.
This section describes some miscellaneous values, types and macros.
If property is supposed to have custom-painted image, then returning this in OnMeasureImage() will usually be enough.
This is the value placed in wxPGProperty::sm_wxPG_LABEL.
Many wxPropertyGridInterface and wxPropertyGrid methods to set property value or to modify its state use these flags to specify additional details of the operation.
Flag for wxPropertyGridInterface::SetProperty* functions, wxPropertyGridInterface::HideProperty(), etc.
Apply changes only for the property in question.
Use this flag to retain category structure; each sub-category will be its own wxVariantList of wxVariant.
Apply changes recursively for the property and all its children.
Use this flag to include property attributes as well.
Used when first starting recursion.
Only sort categories and their immediate children.
Sorting done by wxPG_AUTO_SORT option uses this.


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Kanjana Sung-Ngoen (Surin, Tailandia; 21 de septiembre de 1986) es una futbolista tailandesa. Juega como delantera y su equipo actual es el Bangkok F.C.  de la Thai Women's League de Tailandia.

Clubes

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Ficha de la jugadora  en fifa.com
Ficha de la jugadora en eurosport.com

Futbolistas femeninas de Tailandia
Futbolistas de Tailandia en la Copa Mundial Femenina de Fútbol de 2019


Provide electronic data integrity oversight for GCP/GLP computerized systems.
Serving as a Quality Lead for (providing project management, leadership and participation in) GIS computerized system lifecycle activities for GIS, GCP, and GLP systems.
Authoring, reviewing, and approving work process documents (SOPs and Work Instructions).
Generating and maintaining metrics for GLP and GCP Quality Leadership Teams.
Identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities.
Leading oversight of electronic data integrity compliance guidance for GIS, GCP, and GLP systems.
Assessing emerging needs in the industry to identify technology/ skills gaps within the team.
Participating in defining and executing operational and aspirational strategies.
Working with various CxO's to identify process improvements and tracking remedial actions to closure.


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#ifndef PAGMO_ALGORITHM_PYTHON_BASE_H
#define PAGMO_ALGORITHM_PYTHON_BASE_H

#include <boost/python/class.hpp>
#include <string>

#include "../../src/algorithm/base.h"
#include "../../src/config.h"
#include "../../src/exceptions.h"
#include "../../src/population.h"
#include "../../src/serialization.h"
#include "../utils.h"

namespace pagmo { namespace algorithm {

// Wrapper for implementing algorithms in Python.
class __PAGMO_VISIBLE python_base: public base, public boost::python::wrapper<base>
{
	public:
		python_base():base(), boost::python::wrapper<base>() {}
		base_ptr clone() const
		{
			base_ptr retval = this->get_override("__get_deepcopy__")();
			if (!retval) {
				pagmo_throw(std::runtime_error,"algorithms's __get_deepcopy__() method returns a NULL pointer, please check the implementation");
			}
			return retval;
		}
		std::string human_readable_extra() const
		{

			if (boost::python::override f = this->get_override("human_readable_extra")) {
			#if BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, <= 1700)
				return boost::python::call<std::string>(this->get_override("human_readable_extra").ptr());
			#else
				return f();
			#endif
			}
			return base::human_readable_extra();
		}
		std::string default_human_readable_extra() const
		{
			return this->base::human_readable_extra();
		}
		std::string get_name() const
		{
			if (boost::python::override f = this->get_override("get_name")) {
			#if BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, <= 1700)
				return boost::python::call<std::string>(this->get_override("get_name").ptr());
			#else
				return f();
			#endif
			}
			return base::get_name();
		}
		std::string default_get_name() const
		{
			return this->base::get_name();
		}
		void evolve(population &p) const
		{
			p = py_evolve(p);
		}
		// Changed implementations from Python.
		population py_evolve(const population &p) const
		{
			if (boost::python::override f = this->get_override("evolve")) {
				const population retval = f(p);
				return retval;
			}
			pagmo_throw(not_implemented_error,"the __evolve__() method has not been implemented");
		}
	private:
		friend class boost::serialization::access;
		template <class Archive>
		void serialize(Archive &ar, const unsigned int)
		{
			ar & boost::serialization::base_object<base>(*this);
			ar & boost::serialization::base_object<boost::python::wrapper<base> >(*this);
		}
};

} }

BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT(pagmo::algorithm::python_base)

#endif


James Dean Watson, 21, of no fixed address but formerly of Ramsgate, Louth, was sentenced at Skegness Magistrates' Court on July 8 after jointly stealing clothing and electrical items on separate occasions.
Watson pleaded guilty to both offences at a previous hearing at Skegness Magistrates' Court on May 17.
The first incident, which took place at Yorkshire Trading on November 27 last year, involved the theft of clothing worth £32.
Watson was ordered to pay £16 in compensation.
The second incident involved trespass at Riverhead Court in Eastgate, Louth, and the theft of electrical items from the property.
For this, Watson was sentenced to a community order including 100 hours of unpaid work in the community, and a rehabilitation activity requirement which includes up to 15 days of activities and appointments with the responsible officer.
Watson was also ordered to pay £85 in court costs, and a £60 victim surcharge.


First off, "toaster incident?" It sounds like the name of a neo-funk folk fusion band, perhaps playing on an off night at Spaceland.
Second, why would there be a PA announcement INSIDE the building that it was safe to return INTO said building? A hearty thanks from all of us up here on the top floors.
Dan Evans isn't only your favorite mid-level bureaucrat, he's also a damn fine Los Angeles Wedding Photographer. Check out his work at www.danevans.org.
Wasn't this an episode of "The Office"? Did the voice sound like Dwight Schrute?


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Overview Exhibitions Collections Mint Around Town Projects - Art Crush - The Year of Fashion at The Mint Museum - GENDERED: An Inclusive Art Show - Kidnapped Pagans: A Charlotte Arts Project - Outdoor Is In - 80 x 80: An Art Show - Coveted Colors | Year of the Collection - Project Ten Ten Ten - The Light Factory's Moment Mile - Behind The Seams - The Boombox Project - Artist in Residence: MOTOI YAMAMOTO - Vote for Art - Google Art Project - power2give
Mint Museum UPTOWN / (December 17, 2014 - February 22, 2015) - In association with The Light Factory, Mint Museum UPTOWN hosts a pop-up photography show in the museum's Level 5 expansion space.
Level 5 Installation
SEAN BUSHER
Share the Moment
In fall 2014, The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film invited photographers—new and seasoned—to participate in Moment Mile. Led by Sean Busher, the project sought to build awareness of and support for their recent re-opening. On 1 November, 138 photographers gathered in uptown Charlotte. At 6:15 p.m., the photographers stood in predetermined spots on the mile-long stretch of Tryon Street and simultaneously clicked their shutters. Then, exactly five minutes later at 6:20 p.m., they did so once again on the opposite side of the street. Stitched together, the two resulting prints – each 100 feet long and 11inches tall – capture a single moment of a stretch of Charlotte's urban core and acts as a historical marker of the city circa 2014.
"Participatory projects like Moment Mile are a new avenue that involve the Charlotte community in what we are doing at The Light Factory, and more broadly involve others in the art of film and photography," said Busher, who is a board member for The Light Factory and Charlotte advertising photographer.
Moment Mile will be on view from December 17, 2014 through February 22, 2015 in Mint Museum Uptown's Level 5 expansion space – raw, unfinished space on the museum's top floor first used fall of 2014 for The Boombox Project, a pop-up gallery of photos by Lyle Owerko. This new project, which will occupy even more of the space first glimpsed during the Boombox run, will continue the museum's recent emphasis on contemporary photography as an art form.
The Moment Mile project was supported funded by the Arts & Science Council, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and Wells Fargo.
Moment Mile is FREE to the public during regular museum hours – 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Museum visitors will receive special admission stickers to visit the Level 5 gallery without paying museum admission fees.
For the latest updates and more information about the The Light Factory visit http://lightfactory.org/, Facebook.com/TheLightFactory or @TheLightFactory. If interested in participating in the Moment Mile project, sign up at www.momentmile.com or contact Sean Busher at info@momentmile.com.
"Where artists, photographers, filmmakers, and enthusiasts gather to share their impressions, techniques, and passion."
WHAT IS THE MOMENT MILE?
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THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTING SPONSORS
Exhibition Sponsor:
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At the Dammam - Al Khobar Wader Roost South yesterday evening I saw a Western Osprey hunting along the coast. The Western Osprey is not a scarce bird in the Eastern Province and can be seen year round. A few pairs nest in the region, mainly on offshore islands, but they are always a good bird to see. This individual was practicing fishing by flying out over the water and trailing its legs in the sea, or maybe it was really trying to catch fish but unsuccessfully? It spent quite a lot of time perched on some railings alongside a few Indian Reef Heron that did not seem to mind the neighbour at all.


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Endometrial integrin expression in women with recurrent implantation failure after in vitro fertilization and its relationship to pregnancy outcome
There is no evidence of abnormal endometrial integrin expression in women with recurrent implantation failure. The expression of integrins a1, a4, and aVb3 have no prognostic value in subsequent IVF treatment.
Published Sep 01, 2013
Carol Coughlan, M.R.C.O.G., Melanie Sinagra, Ph.D., William Ledger, Ph.D., T.C. Li, Ph.D., Susan Laird, Ph.D.
Volume 100, Issue 3, Pages 825-830.e2, September 2013
To determine expression of integrins α1, α4, and αVβ3 in the glandular and luminal epithelium, stroma, and cells in the blood vessel walls of the endometrium from women with recurrent implantation failure (RIF) and to determine if they are of prognostic value in determining pregnancy outcome.
Prospective nonrandomized study.
Department of reproductive medicine.
Patient(s):
Forty-five women with RIF and six healthy fertile women were recruited. RIF was defined as the failure to conceive after the transfer of four good-quality embryos in three or more fresh or frozen cycles.
Intervention(s):
Endometrial biopsy samples were obtained from women with RIF and control women on days LH+7–LH+9 of the cycle. Expression of integrins α1, α4, and αVβ3 was determined by immunohistochemistry.
Main Outcome Measure(s):
A semiquantitative measurement of expression of each integrin protein in the luminal and glandular epithelium, stroma, and cells in the blood vessel walls was determined by H-score analysis.
Result(s):
Expression of integrins α1 and α4 was greatest in the luminal and glandular epithelial cells and the cells in the blood vessel wall, and significantly higher expression of integrins α1 and α4 was seen in the glandular epithelium compared with the luminal epithelium (H-scores: α1 293 ± 15 and 180 ± 12, α4 287 ± 14 and 191 ± 11, respectively). Expression of αVβ3 in the epithelium and blood vessels was also greater than in the stroma but there was no significant difference in expression of αVβ3 in glandular and luminal epithelium. No significant difference in H-scores was seen for α1, α4, and αVβ3 expression in any of the endometrial compartments in tissue from women with RIF and control women. No significant difference in α1, α4, and αVβ3 expression in any compartment was observed between those who achieved a clinical pregnancy after subsequent assisted conception treatment (n = 21) and those who were unsuccessful (n = 24).
Conclusion(s):
RIF, when defined as failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after the transfer of at least four good-quality embryos in three transfer cycles, is not associated with abnormal endometrial integrin expression. In addition, the expression of integrins α1, α4, and αVβ3 appears to have no prognostic value in subsequent IVF treatment.
Endometrial signaling pathways during ovarian stimulation for assisted reproduction technology
Endometrial hormone receptor expression was altered during ovarian stimulation cycles and was independent from serum E2 levels.
Genotoxicity assessment of mouse oocytes by comet assay before vitrification and after warming with three vitrification protocols
Vitrification protocols containing 1,2-propanediol induced significant DNA damage on mouse oocytes before cooling and after warming.
Dead spermatozoa in raw semen samples impair in vitro fertilization outcomes of frozen-thawed spermatozoa
A high proportion of dead spermatozoa in raw semen samples increases the generation of endogenous reactive oxygen species and nuclear DNA fragmentation when frozen-thawed, impairing IVF ability and embryo development.
A randomized trial comparing the endometrial effects of daily subcutaneous administration of 25 mg and 50 mg progesterone in aqueous preparation
In mock donor-egg assisted reproduction technology cycles, daily subcutaneous administration of 25 mg or 50 mg progesterone reproduces the physiologic secretory transformation of the endometrium seen in the luteal phase.


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"""
An example using TextgridTier set operations.

The following example is derived from real code.

The original code.  Suppose you have two tiers and want to use one tier to
filter the results of another tier.  In my case, I had textgrids with
stressed syllable and stressed vowels marked.  I wanted to extract pitch
information using this tier.  But the pitch contour contained some pitch
doubling and halving--afflicted areas were marked on a separate tier.

By taking the difference between the two tiers, we get the relevant regions,
minus areas affected by pitch halving and doubling.

I've added union and intersection here just to show their effect.
"""

import os
from os.path import join

from praatio import textgrid

def doSetOperations(fromFN, toFN):
    tg = textgrid.openTextgrid(fromFN, False)

    syllableTier = tg.tierDict["tonicSyllable"]
    phoneTier = tg.tierDict["tonicVowel"]
    filterTier = tg.tierDict["manually_labeled_pitch_errors"]

    # Intersection
    phoneTier1 = phoneTier.intersection(filterTier)
    phoneTier1.name = "vowel_intersection"
    syllableTier1 = syllableTier.intersection(filterTier)
    syllableTier1.name = "syllable_intersection"

    tg.addTier(phoneTier1)
    tg.addTier(syllableTier1)

    # Difference
    phoneTier2 = phoneTier.difference(filterTier)
    phoneTier2.name = "vowel_difference"
    syllableTier2 = syllableTier.difference(filterTier)
    syllableTier2.name = "syllable_difference"

    tg.addTier(phoneTier2)
    tg.addTier(syllableTier2)

    # Union
    phoneTier3 = phoneTier.union(filterTier)
    phoneTier3.name = "vowel_union"
    syllableTier3 = syllableTier.union(filterTier)
    syllableTier3.name = "syllable_union"

    tg.addTier(phoneTier3)
    tg.addTier(syllableTier3)

    tg.save(toFN, "short_textgrid", True)

path = join(".", "files")

fromFN = join(path, "damon_set_test.TextGrid")
toPath = join(path, "set_output")
toFN = join(toPath, "damon_set_test.TextGrid")

if not os.path.exists(toPath):
    os.mkdir(toPath)

doSetOperations(fromFN, toFN)


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Scripps scientists study tide pools, sea cliffs, with ocean protection grants
By Deborah Sullivan Brennan
Four researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography earned state grants to study how climate change is shifting conditions on the Pacific Coast, from crumbling cliffs to vibrant tide pools.
Together they were awarded $1 million from the California Ocean Protection Council to create maps, models and other data sources that will help chart the changes to California's coastline, and guide strategies to deal with them.
The council was created in 2004 as part of the California Ocean Protection Act, and works to maintain "healthy, resilient, and productive ocean and coastal ecosystems." The grants of $250,000 to each scientist are part of a larger project to fund research on topics such as sea-level rise and coastal resilience, marine pollution, and renewable energy.
Marine biology professor Ronald Burton will use "DNA metabarcoding," a method of high volume genetic analysis, to identify fish eggs and determine which species are spawning from La Jolla to Santa Cruz. Jennifer Smith, an associate professor of marine biology, is building 3D images of rocky intertidal zones to study how sea-level rise will affect the wealth of marine life in tide pools.
Scientist Adam Young will map the stability of coastal cliffs and detect "erosion hotspots." And associate Professor Brice Semmens will develop a time series of bass species abundance dating back to the late 1940s in order to guide management of the popular recreational fishery.
With her grant, Smith will create vast 3D models of the intertidal zones off the California coast, with images that include soaring flyovers of the topography, as well as granular snapshots of each tide pool. It's important, she said, because the intertidal zone is one of the most diverse marine habitats on the coast.
"In San Diego, we have a lot of different intertidal organisms, everything form bright green surf grass, sea weed, all kinds of muscles, barnacles, limpets, sea hares, octopus, small rockfish, nudibranchs and sea slugs," Smith said.
It also serves as a gateway to the ocean for tourists and other beachgoers, offering a glimpse of sea life that would otherwise only be visible to divers.
"It functions as a window into the ocean for people who may not be comfortable going into the ocean," she said. "It tends to be one of the more important environments for engaging people in marine ecosystems."
But it's an elusive space that's fully accessible for only a few hours, a few times a year, at extremely low tides. So Smith's team is working to capture those moments with models built from millions of ordinary, individual pictures.
"We use a fairly low-tech approach, where we have a camera that we pull on a pulley, from the highest area to lowest area," she said. "We end up with thousands of images. It's like mowing the lawn of the intertidal."
Researchers enter those images into a software program that stitches them together to create a 3D model of the underwater landscape.
"We have a snapshot of everything that was there at that moment, and then spend the next few months exploring that habitat from our desks," she said.
They plan to share the images with schools, scientific organizations and coastal tribal nations in California. And they will use them to project how sea-level rise could affect those ecosystems.
"This is especially important under the current climate scenarios, where we're dealing with future sea-level rise, which will affect these intertidal habitats the most," she said.
Burton's project builds upon previous genetic analysis methods to identify and track fish spawning en masse.
"DNA metabarcoding is an advance from what we call barcoding," Burton said. "It means we can identify an organism based on a small sequence of DNA."
The technique allows scientists who are studying fish spawning to tell which species the tiny, gelatinous eggs belong to.
"Identifying a big fish isn't hard, any expert can do it," he said. "But identifying a fish egg is difficult, because most fish eggs look alike. They're all small balls, they're all about 1 mm across."
Barton and his team have pulled fish eggs from Scripps Pier with a plankton net every week for six years, doing DNA barcoding, egg by egg, to find out which fish are breeding.
Over that time, they have sequenced over 20,000 eggs, at a cost of about $2.50 per egg. Although it's a bargain compared to a "23andMe" test, it gets pricey to test that may fish eggs.
Under the new "metabarcoding" system, however, scientists will grind up hundreds of eggs from each sample and sequence them together. By looking at the percentage of DNA snippets from each species, they can calculate how many of each fish species are spawning.
"So you have this mix of their DNA, presumably in the same proportion as eggs," he said. "Then, at the end, we get back these sequences,and we look at how many of them are anchovy, versus mackerel or sanddab."
Semmens will also use genetic identification techniques to create a 70-year timeline for bass populations off California.
"Down here in Southern California, recreational fisheries are really an engine of the economy," he said.
State fisheries regulators are trying to assess sportfishing stocks, he said. But until the 1980s, all bass were lumped in one category instead of separated by species, such as kelp bass or spotted bay bass. However, California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, or CalCOFI, a partnership of Scripps Oceanography with marine regulators, maintains samples dating back to the 1940s.
"It was started by sardine fisheries after the sardine crash up in Cannery Row," Semmens said. "That program has collected data, and also ichthyoplankton and trawls that we do in stations all over California. We could use that data to recreate the last 70 years of bass species."
The trawl samples are preserved in formalin, and difficult to identify by eye, he said. But newer genetic technology can take those pickled fish eggs and match them to species, creating a history of which types of bass flourished during which different oceanic conditions, such as El Nino and La Nina periods.
"The end goal is to assess bass populations so that we can manage fisheries so recreational fishermen will have ample fish to catch into the future," Semmens said.
Young will use laser data captured from overflights of the California coastline to create high resolution maps of the state's sea cliffs. The maps will show how coastal bluffs have shifted over the past two decades, and help predict what they may look like decades from now. Researchers will also test rock strength at different locations to see which areas can best resist erosion, and identify "hot spots" where cliffs are receding rapidly.
"Those areas that are retreating faster, we may be able to focus on those," he said. "It's important that we measure accurate historical erosion rates, so we can make better projections for the future."
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January 27, 2023 / 0 Comments
Carved in Ebony
At some point, I turned into a full-fledged history nerd. It started with that project my eldest daughter and I did a few years ago, researching the history of our home, but I never really stopped. For a while when people asked me what I'd do once all the girls were in school, I joked "Spend all my time at the museum photo archives." And while that's not exactly how it's turned out—I've only made it there once since our youngest started kindergarten—I have definitely disappeared down a rabbit hole of weird, smelly library books and city directories from 1910.
I justify this in part because I've been writing some historical fiction, but I'm pretty sure I'd sit around watching YouTube videos about old buildings in our town whether I had a "project" to "research" or not. Because here is what keeps me coming back: the little stories, the nearly-forgotten ones, the stories that remind you that, one hundred years ago, people were still living one life at a time and didn't know what was coming next. Beneath the oft-retold narratives of our town's celebrated founders are smaller memoirs and newspaper articles about people who don't have schools, roads, or mansions named after them—and those are my favorite stories. The ones about people quietly doing their work—raising children, opening businesses, teaching students, baking bread, hosting sewing circles, selling houses, all of it.
And so I was delighted to find, in Jasmine Holmes's Carved in Ebony, stories about Black women often overlooked in the historical accounts. In choosing women to profile in this book, Holmes made a point of steering clear of familiar names and introducing readers to women on the fringes of the historical record. And in doing so, she creates a small but powerful volume featuring ten Black women who were faithful to God where he placed them and who reminded those around them—many of whom were arguing vehemently otherwise—that they, too, were created in God's image. Holmes writes that she tells these stories
to combat the opposing narrative, yes, but [also] to point to the inherent dignity and worth of women, whom God created in his image and for his glory.
These are stories we may not think to look for and may not (I confess, this was my case) realize that we need. But Holmes's writings are rooted in the Bible—thoroughly and soundly. She isn't writing solely to inflame or provoke—not to tear down, but to build up. Not to belittle America or the Church, but to help them repair and grow. "What if," she writes,
instead of putting Uncle Sam in a cape and Lady Liberty on a pedestal, we told the story of America as the story of God's faithfulness—and not our own? What if we took a note from the people of Israel, and every time we stood on the precipice of a defining cultural moment, we reminded ourselves of God's providential hand protecting us in spite of our waywardness?
Holmes's passion for unearthing the names of women new to most readers is what drew me to her in the first place. But her message in this book extends far beyond that. As she tells these stories, she continually turns back to Scripture, weaving a multi-dimensional tapestry for readers that illuminates so much we might be missing in our conversations about race and our country's history.
It is hard to know what the big issues will be facing our children when they're grown, but I'm struck again and again by this truth: the way to understand the things we're facing now is often to look behind us—at history and at the Bible. Jasmine Holmes does both these things faithfully here, and readers will be richer for it.
Carved in Ebony: Lessons From the Black Women Who Shape Us
Jasmine L. Holmes (2021)
Carved in Ebony has been released in two editions: the regular one for teens and adults, and the young reader's edition for middle school students. I've been quoting and writing about the regular edition so far, but the young reader's edition covers much of the same material, though it's been simplified (Holmes's personal stories, for example, have been removed) and formatted a little differently so it's accessible to middle-grade kids. Both editions are wonderfully illuminating, though, and I recommend both heartily.
Big Questions (Series)
Today at lunch, my seven-year-old summed it up neatly. "Is the virus going to last forever?" she asked.
I took a few meditative bites of my cold leftovers before I answered. "No," I said. "It won't. I don't know how long it will last, but it won't last forever." Meaning: eventually Jesus will come back. The pandemic will definitely be over by then.
But this has been a grueling year for parenting, hasn't it? Aspects of it have been pleasant: I've loved (most of) the increased time together and the new ways we've found to spend it—making killer calzones, for example. Or training our puppy not to bite us. I've even appreciated the chance to walk through something difficult with my daughters and to show them that our faith has a strong and sure foundation.
But at times, I am tired. So often, I don't have answers. The longer this pandemic goes on, the more weary I feel, and the more acutely I feel my inadequacy. I am their mother, one of the first two people they come to with questions. But I know better now that I am not the Keeper of Answers or the Fixer of All Things. I am just a woman who is also their mom—a fallen being in need of grace, too.
What to do when the news looks bleak yet again and we all groan, How long? Or when our kids come to us with weighty, legitimate questions, hoping that we will give them honest answers? In those moments, I like to take a cue from Chris Morphew, an author and school chaplain who doesn't just answer those questions but who writes whole books about them.
Each of the short chapter books in his Big Questions series tackles a tough topic: a really tough topic. How Do We Know Christianity is True?, for example. Or Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen? And he doesn't condescend to kids as he writes. His examples of "bad things" aren't "I didn't make the soccer team" laments that any kid going through a pandemic could sneeze at. No, he admits what many of us don't like to: hard things happen, and they often happen to kids.
But he doesn't stop there, and that's key. He reminds kids, too, that God sees them and he does have a plan, even though it often sprawls far beyond our comfort zone and asks way more of us than we think we can give. He reminds readers that Christianity gives us satisfying answers to some of life's hardest questions, and it also gives us the freedom when we need it to say humbly, "I don't know." It gives us the consolation that, hey, Somebody knows. And he doesn't make mistakes.
All three of these books have been great conversation starters at our house, as well as a balm for my occasional fatigue—a reminder, I guess, that these questions do have answers, even though I don't always have the answers handy. And that, at any age, it's okay to ask big questions.
Chris Morphew; Emma Randall (2021)
Disclosure: I did receive copies of these book for review, but I was not obligated to review these books or compensated for my review in any way. I share these books with you because I love them, not because I was paid to do so.
March 30, 2021 / 0 Comments
"Grave 8-A"
I park the van at the top of Section C, and my daughter and I get out into the rain. The spongy ground slopes away from us to the road below, speckled with headstones that are, in turn, speckled with lichen. Already my daughter bends over one, wipes the drizzling rain off its surface, and reads a name aloud.
About this cemetery hangs a pleasant sense of disorder. Stones shaped like benches, pillars, or pensive children kneel in the grass, half-sunken where the ground beneath them has settled; moss laps at their edges. Certain monuments here are notorious, like the massive stone angel who has, with her attendant urban legends, nearly eclipsed the family she was meant to memorialize. Broken stones lean in pieces against cottonwood trees whose burly roots slowly shoulder the soil away.
Unlike another local cemetery, which styles itself as a "memorial park" and offers natural burial as well as farewell tributes, death is still a presence here, not an unpleasant thought to be sponged away with rebranding. I feel comfortable saying "tombstone" here, or "grave." As in, "Look at this grave!"—which I call to my daughter when I find one carved to resemble a scroll draped over a log and slicked with real moisture, real moss. She is at my side in a moment and together we puzzle out the inscription.
It is beautiful, but it is not his.
Since I was a kid, our local cemetery has been one of my favorite places—eerie and beautiful, sodden with history and urban legends. I used to walk through it on my way to college; the girls and I go often to explore; I gravitate toward the cemetery when I want to be alone. It was the first place we met my mom for a walk during quarantine, and it was there, one snowy evening twenty years ago, that Mitch and I confessed that we had, you know, feelings for each other.
Yet one of my most bewitching trips came about a few years ago, when my eldest daughter and I went the cemetery on a quest for knowledge. I wrote an essay about that trip, and The Rabbit Room (hooray!) kindly published that essay today.
"Josie Contemplates the Urban-Legend Angel," or "2020 in a Nutshell"
This essay took over two years (off and on) to write, partly because it took me about that long to figure out what I was trying to say, and partly because I just had so much fun researching it. I learned about churchyard lichens, and about a spree of vandalism in our cemetery years ago. I spooked myself—pretty thoroughly and deliciously—researching the origins of those urban legends I grew up hearing. I know now about "grave wax" (don't google it!) and about how long it takes a human body to decompose—in short, I learned far more about death and our cemetery than I actually needed to put into the essay, and yet I think every bit of that knowledge (except maybe the bit about grave wax) helped the story get where it was going.
And where it was going is here. (Thank you for reading!)
Note: The cemetery featured in the photo at the top of this post is actually not our local cemetery, but my other favorite cemetery: Sleepy Hollow in Concord, Massachusetts. I would have shown you our beloved local haunt (pun intended!) but . . . I ran into issues with the photo quality. I hope you'll forgive the substitution.
It Couldn't Just Happen
As much as I enjoyed this book, I debated about whether or not to share it here. Though I do occasionally review books I know will be controversial, I tend to pass over titles on topics that might widen already wide schisms between Christians. I find plenty of excellent, gospel-focused books to share here without reviewing books on baptism, or educational philosophies, or particular denominations.
My own opinions on those things sometimes show through as I write, I know, and I don't mind that—I want you to get to know me and where I'm coming from so you can factor that in as you read my reviews. But I don't choose books because they support my stance, just books I found interesting and helpful and that I think you'll find helpful, too.
All of which is to say: I wasn't sure at first if I'd share this one, because I'm confident that we hold a variety of views on this subject. But you know what? I think that's a good thing. That's a discussion worth having. And I think Lawrence O. Richards addresses those differences of opinion well in this book by laying out multiple views on things like the old earth vs. young earth debate, or macroevolution and microevolution.
I ultimately decided to share this book because the author took such care to present the material in a respectful way (though those committed to evolution may disagree). Also, I looked so hard for one like it and was so happy when I found it that I figured at least one of you out there is going to sigh with relief and say, "Finally!" because this is the book you've been looking for. For that one of you, here you go.
It Couldn't Just Happen is, essentially, an introduction to a Christian perspective on science and the theory of evolution. Lawrence O. Richards lays out both sides (or, in cases where there are more than two perspectives, all sides) of the debate, holding them up to scrutiny and showing readers how to ask good questions of the things they read. But he also spends a wonderful amount of time reveling in and discussing the wonders of our world, exploring everything from termites' towering houses to the specialized tongue of the woodpecker. (I still think about the section on bees when I work in our garden.)
This is not a book that tells the reader what to think but how to think. By encouraging readers to look behind a headline to the assumptions a writer begins with, Richards strives to equip readers with tools that will benefit them as they study a variety of subjects, not just evolution.
It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation
Lawrence O. Richards (Reprinted 2011)
The Faithful Spy
My seventh grade teacher collected ugly ties. On the first day of class—my very first day of junior high—he thumped a stubborn projector hard on one side. The light switched on, but the glass across the top spider-webbed with fissures.
"Well," he said. "The library's not going to be happy with me."
That was the year I learned about the Holocaust. We probably read books about it; I'm sure we held discussions or listened to lectures, or something. But what I remember most—what I remember vividly to this day—was watching the film Escape From Sobibor. That was my introduction to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, the murder of babies, those images of discarded, emaciated bodies.
Was I ready for it? No. Emphatically not. But as upsetting as that movie was, I can appreciate now what my teacher was doing. He knew, I think, that we didn't need to hear about it—we needed to see it. We needed to move the Holocaust away from the white board and into our imaginations, horrifying as that process was.
John Hendrix's biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer makes a similar leap from the theoretical to the visual. In The Faithful Spy, he doesn't simply tell us about Bonhoeffer but, through his striking illustrations and hand-lettered text, he shows us Bonhoeffer's life during the rise of the Third Reich. Bonhoeffer is a complex figure—a Christian who risked his life for others, but who also worked as a spy for a German resistance group and was eventually martyred for his role in a plot to kill Hitler.
But The Faithful Spy also tells the story of the German Resistance. In his introduction, Hendrix writes:
"Desperate for leadership, the German people were led like rats to the edge of the cliff by a diabolical Pied Piper. But not all fell for the seduction. Dietrich was but one man among many hundreds of patriotic Germans (including prominent preachers, military generals, and politicians) who saw the Nazis for what they truly were and fought back. They fought with words at first, but eventually they fought with actions."
Through the story of Bonhoeffer, Hendrix introduces us to a greater story of the faithful Germans who recognized the dangers of "the Nazi war machine" and, in far too many cases, gave their lives to fight it. Dietrich Bonhoeffer is perhaps the best-known of them all, but I appreciated Hendrix's reminder that Bonhoeffer was part of a network, part of a full-fledged resistance.
Though far less disturbing than Escape From Sobibor, John Hendrix's The Faithful Spy uses words and images to move a story of the war from the whiteboard to the imagination. Through Hendrix's art and storytelling, Bonhoeffer's story takes on an unforgettable dimension, and we see him not as a black-and-white photograph surrounded by text, but as a living man with doubts and fears and faith in a God who slays giants.
Does John Hendrix's name sound familiar? It should! He also wrote and illustrated one of my all-time favorite picture books, Miracle Man, as well as many other excellent books.
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
John Hendrix (2018)


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This debut album from John Lucas explores the mysteries life, love, and faith through powerful lyrics and instrumentation reminiscent of the beautiful landscapes these songs were written in.
The album Seven Songs is the story of seven sacraments and the power that can be found in the rhythm of a ritual and the rhyme of remembrance. Singer/Songwriter Amanda Opelt reflects on the experience of faith and doubt, death and resurrection through lyric and melody, calling attention to the ancient rituals embedded in the history of church.
Back-up Vocals by Erin Deuel. All songs written by Amanda Opelt.
Recorded and released in 2012, Biomes is an overflow of 10 years of inspiration and songwriting. Biomes explores the mystery of a God who beckons us to become through images of earth, renewal, and relationship.
Back-up vocals by Erin Deuel. All songs written and produced by Glenn Deuel.


Top 5 Italian speciality coffee spots!
It goes without saying that coffee plays a huge role in Italian culture. Known for the coveted espresso, their coffee is definitely a flavoursome affair. However, once the third-wave of coffee hit, a huge expanse opened between the traditions of Italian coffee and speciality coffee as we know it today. However, more and more people are bridging the gap! So, here are our top 5 Italian speciality coffee shops that we think you should all give a visit.
Espresso Base is a foldable coffee shop located in a beautiful churchyard in Bloomsbury. Run by Gennaro de Mattia, this coffee cart is changing Londoners' perception of Italian coffee, one shot at a time. Combining the strength, body and crema of traditional Italian coffee with the depth of flavour of speciality, Gennaro has successfully bridged the gap between the two.
If you like to enjoy your coffee in a peaceful setting away from the hustle and bustle, then this is the place for you.
Setting out to change the face of Italian coffee that has a rep for being over-roasted, Terrone & Co. have a microroastery based in London as well as roasting facilities in the Italian countryside, creating delicious coffee to serve at their café in Netil Market , as well as at their Sottoscala ('under the stairs') stall near Pizza Pilgrims Kingly Court. They also serve coffee at various events around London, so look out for them!
Terrone's owner, Edy, has been in the speciality business for ages, and so has perfected his style down to T.
Run by good friends Simone and Roberto (both previously baristas), 80 Stone Coffee has strong roots in the Italian coffee culture. They both met in London in 2006, but went separate ways with Roberto opening a wine bar in Verona and Simone working for a coffee exporter in Central America. In 2012 they found themselves back in London and decided to get into business together, creating a brand that merges the traditions of Italian coffee with London's thriving third-wave coffee culture. What started out as just a roastery has now expanded into a flagship cafe and espresso bar in Elephant & Castle.
The coffee they sell has been their own roast since 2015 – constantly testing new origins, blends and beans, 80 Stone are always serving up something interesting to their loyal customers.
Representing a new wave of Italian coffee like the others on our list, Coffeology is a wonderful speciality cafe whose team is predominantly Italian. Their philosophy is to never compromise on quality, as well as maintaining good vibes and a friendly atmosphere for their loyal customers.
They understand great customer service, and bring that Italian character day in day out.
7Gr is truly a family affair – established in Milan in 2009 by sisters Mary, Angelita, Anna and Daniela Mauro, it's aim was to bring the tradition of the Italian espresso back in demand amongst speciality coffee drinkers. Their two studios, in Shoreditch and Clapham, their customers can experience the unique taste of the traditional espresso, as well as delicious food prepared by Italian chefs.


Mumbai: Savita Singh, Sharmistha Roy, Amala Papuri and Fawzia Fatima -- these names may not ring a bell, but they are the new women technicians who have made a mark in Bollywood and carved a niche in the otherwise male-dominated industry.
The Hindi film industry is beginning to see a number of female executive producers, first assistant directors, cinematographers and even sound engineers who have been learning the ropes of filmmaking and film trade.
Of them, the gritty one who has come to limelight is Savita, who worked as director of photography in Ram Gopal Varma's recent release "Phoonk". Pooja Sharma is another cinematographer who has opted for a career behind the screen. Amala has chosen the most "un-ladylike" profession of audiography and so has Fawzia.
While Meenal Agrawal has chosen production design, Hetal Dedhia has selected the lighting department to be their chosen fields. "Yes, we have crashed into the male bastion. But we have done so to prove ourselves and not to compete with anyone else," said Meenal, who worked on movies like "Bheja Fry" and "Mixed Doubles".
The entry of these women into the industry was a well-planned move on their part. They had talents to prove and it was acknowledged. According to Mumbai-based sociologist Maya Mehta, liberalisation of the Indian economy and its consequences contributed in a way towards liberalising the mindset of womenfolk in India.
Everyday can be woman's day!
"Liberalisation of the economy threw open many opportunities and women who had the inclination and talent picked them up. Corporatisation of Bollywood provided a reassurance to the professional woman to enter this new organised sector with faith," Mehta said.
The force that drove them to the industry, Mehta pointed out, was the change of thoughtprocess on the part of women who were ready to get out of the cocoon.
Of course, women had been in a dominant position in Bollywood earlier as well. In the 1930s, through the 1940s and 1950s, ladies like Ruby Meyers (Sulochana), Devika Rani and Mary Ann Evans (Fearless Nadia) had held a commanding position in the industry when women in general were forced to play second fiddle to men in India.
But until as recently as the 1980s, women never dared to encroach upon the technical domain of Bollywood as it was considered exclusive male territory. When in the early 1980s, a lanky and slender girl called Kamla Deviah was seen strutting around the sets of producer Pranlal Mehta's "Hum Se Badhkar Kaun" and giving orders to the unit hands with assurance and authority, she made a sight never before seen on the sets of any Hindi movie.
Yes, Kamla was one of Bollywood's first female professionals to do the job of a production controller, a job that required the skill of men management. But Kamla disappeared from the scene all too soon, after working for movies like "Dharam Aur Kanoon" (1984) and "Love 86" (1986). After she left, the only woman professional to be working on Hindi movies was choreographer Saroj Khan (Nirmala Sadhu Khan).
A disciple of dance master B. Sohanlal, Saroj Khan rose to fame with Shekhar Kapur's "Mr. India" (1987) and never looked back. She is as active today as she was in the past. "Bollywood is one place where more than the gender, it is one's talent that counts. I never felt any resistance when I turned independent choreographer with 'Nagina' in 1986 even though the profession was then dominated by men," Saroj said.
In a true sense, the influx of women professionals into Bollywood started only in the 1990s, even though professionals like director Sai Paranjape and costume designer Bhanu Athaiya had already been impacting the industry.
"When lyricist-fimmaker Gulzar's daughter, Meghna Gulzar, instead of opting for an acting career, chose direction as her profession, all she intended to do was to prove herself," said veteran journalist Ali Peter John.
"Similarly," Ali added, "yesteryear star Jeetendra's daughter, Ekta Kapoor, could have made her debut in movies straightway had she wished. If she chose television instead, it was because she wanted to prove her talent in a new territory on her own steam."
Ali's own daughter, Swati, is also into film direction and has not followed in her father's secure footsteps. When Renu Saluja, a graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, turned professional film editor in the late 1980s, she raised many eyebrows as the profession was then teeming with male editors in moviedom.
"But by successfully editing a film like Govind Nihalani's 'Ardh Satya', she proved skeptics wrong. My brother Saeed and director Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who had encouraged her in the beginning of her career, were more than delighted that a girl could do a man's job as successfully," said filmmaker Aziz Mirza.
What does Mirza think of the influx of woman technicians into the film industry? "I have no reasons to complain as each one of them is doing a great job in their respective professions. They are sincere and dedicated, the reasons why they succeed faster than their male counterparts," he said.
When Sharmistha Roy opted to be an art director, she, of course, chose her father, Sudhendu Roy's profession. But, if over time, she has become a regular with Yash Raj Films, Mukta Arts and Dharma Productions, it is not because of her father's connections with these respectable Bollywood banners, but due to her thorough knowledge of the trade.
In the field of direction, there were a number of women who tried their hand, but couldn't make it big. Farah Khan, who shifted profession from choreography to direction with aplomb, was the first to make her presence felt with the blockbuster "Main Hoon Na". And Reema Kagti followed suit with "Honeymoon Travels".
"It was a conscious decision when I made my career transition and, having done that, I worked hard not to be a failure and risk the grins and sneers of the industry. My hard work has paid off," Farah said.
She, however, refused to admit that her star connections made the job easier for her. "Of course, my industry connections helped, but at the end of the day, it is my work that is seen on the screen," Farah said.


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Title: Fathers
...Sweet Land Of Liberty, Of Thee I Sing. Land Where My Fathers Died...
Firearms control; Singing; Lobbies
Editorial cartoon by Ray Osrin of a man standing on a stage at a podium leading an audience full of men in the singing of "America (My Country Tis of Thee)." There is an American flag and a "National Gun Lobby" sign on the stage. The caption...
City Club Forum: Steven V. Roberts, journalist, Shapiro professor of media and public affairs, The George Washington University, and author, ''My Fathers' Houses, Memoir of a Family'' [video]
City Club of Cleveland; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; Forums (Discussion and debate); Freedom of speech; City Club Forum; Learning; History; Journalists; Roberts, Steven V., 1943-; Immigrants; Emigration and immigration; Economic policy;...
Friday Forum: ''The Economic Impact of Immigration,'' with Steven V. Roberts, Shapiro, professor of media and public affairs, The George Washington University, and author of ''My Fathers' Houses, Memoir of a Family.'' In partnership with TiE Ohio....
Fathers and women outside during Holy Trinity youth happening
Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio); Catholic churches; Clergy
Fathers and women outside during Holy Trinity youth happening in 1966.
Fathers and sons of St. Dominic's choir
Shaker Heights; Churches; Church of St. Dominic; Choirs; Singing
Paul Rampe, James Rampe, Robert Vitek, Matthew Drain, John Drain, and Robert Viteck Jr., sing in the choir at the Church of St. Dominic in Shaker Heights.


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Harvey's economic impact will be like the housing bubble popping, says Austan Goolsbee
By Nick Giampia Published August 31, 2017 NewsFOXBusiness
How will Harvey impact future fuel prices?
Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the council of economic advisers under President Obama, on the estimated damages of Hurricane Harvey and President Trump's push for tax reform.
Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under the Obama Administration, on Thursday compared the housing market crash, which began in 2007, to the economic damages Hurricane Harvey is set to cause the state of Texas.
"What's different here than in a lot of these cases is much of the multi-millions of people, a decent fraction of them do not have flood insurance, they are not in a flood zone. So that makes it in some ways like the housing bubble popping. So if you lost your home but the insurance isn't going to cover it, you could see spending go down pretty substantially on a regional basis," he told FOX Business' Ashley Webster on "Risk & Reward."
According to AccuWeather, the total cost of damages from Hurricane Harvey is estimated to total $190 billion.
"I would right now be surprised if it weren't the biggest natural disaster in our history, just because so many people live in Houston," said Goolsbee, who is also an economics professor at the University of Chicago.
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Canada's Trudeau offers help in Harvey relief efforts, says Tom Bossert
The University of Chicago economics professor also discussed how Harvey could impact fuel prices for not only Texas, but the entire country.
"For sure you know there's going to be a massive regional impact on the GDP of Texas and of the Houston region. The thing we don't know is for the wider aggregated economy, how much impact and how lasting impact will this have on fuel prices, that's a key component," he said.


Washington, D.C., May 5, 2011 - As the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, raises fresh questions about U.S.-Pakistan relations, newly released documents show that as early as 1998 U.S. officials concluded the Government of Pakistan "is not disposed to be especially helpful on the matter of terrorist Usama bin Ladin." According to previously secret U.S. documents, Pakistani officials repeatedly refused to act on the Bin Laden problem, despite mounting pressure from American authorities. Instead, in the words of a U.S. Embassy cable, Pakistani sources "all took the line that the issue of bin Ladin is a problem the U.S. has with the Taliban, not with Pakistan."
The documents in this compilation -- part of the National Security Archive's developing Osama Bin Laden File -- were obtained by the Archive through the Freedom of Information Act. They reveal a history of "disappointment that Pakistan ... a good friend of the U.S., was not taking steps to help with Usama bin Ladin (UBL)."
As an ally to both the Taliban and the United States, Pakistan was balancing conflicting policies towards the Bin Laden question. Islamabad continued to support the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, an organization protecting the al-Qaeda leader, while simultaneously promising U.S. leaders it was "taking the bin Laden matter very seriously" and would cooperate with U.S. counterterrorism efforts. Portending momentous events to come, U.S. officials in 1998 lamented that getting Pakistani help in apprehending bin Laden would be "an uphill slog."
How different history might have been if bin Laden had been apprehended in 1998.


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6β-Hydroxy-7α-thiomethylspironolactone (6β-OH-7α-TMS) is a steroidal antimineralocorticoid of the spirolactone group and a major active metabolite of spironolactone. Other important metabolites of spironolactone include 7α-thiospironolactone (7α-TS; SC-24813), 7α-thiomethylspironolactone (7α-TMS; SC-26519), and canrenone (SC-9376).

Spironolactone is a prodrug with a short terminal half-life of 1.4 hours. The active metabolites of spironolactone have extended terminal half-lives of 13.8 hours for 7α-TMS, 15.0 hours for 6β-OH-7α-TMS, and 16.5 hours for canrenone, and accordingly, these metabolites are responsible for the therapeutic effects of the drug.

6β-Hydroxytestosterone, which is analogous to 6β-OH-7α-TMS, has been found to possess virtually no androgenicity.

See also
 7α-Thioprogesterone

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Further reading

Secondary alcohols
Antimineralocorticoids
Human drug metabolites
Lactones
Organosulfur compounds
Pregnanes
Spiro compounds
Spirolactones
Spironolactone


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Led by fitness and nutrition experts, AGR Body's mission is to help individuals whose fitness goals go beyond basic diet and exercise training and focus on the body's core muscular and fat loss potential.
The goal of AGR Body and it's ownership group is to position ourselves as a leader in men's digitized body sculpting programs by providing the assistance guys need to help achieve their personal fitness goals. These programs and others in various stages of development can be accessed from any PC, Tablet or mobile device wherever an internet connection can be found.
Quite simply, we aim to help create as many physically sculpted, healthier, satisfied clients as we possibly can as these same men will continue to be the foundation upon which we build our brand awareness and the success of our fitness business into the future.


Bloom into a fresh craft or project with the help of Akrotiri Flowers. Made of paper, these darling flowers boast various blue tones, green leaves, iridescent glitter details, and beaded centers. Hot glue them to various surfaces like frames, felt, scrapbook pages, cards, and various crafts.
Width: 1 3/8" - 2 1/2"


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The Man in Grey was a novel by the British writer Lady Eleanor Smith first published in 1941. It was a melodrama set in Regency Britain. A young woman unhappily married to a cold aristocrat falls in love with a strolling actor, but her hopes of eloping to happiness are wrecked by an old school friend who murders her in order to be able to marry her husband.

Adaptation

In 1943 the novel was adapted into a film by Gainsborough Pictures directed by Leslie Arliss and starring James Mason in the title role as well as Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger. The film was a major commercial and critical success and was the first of the series of Gainsborough melodramas which dominated the British box office during the later years of the war during the immediate post war years. Another Smith novel Caravan was turned into a 1946 film Caravan.

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1941 British novels
British novels adapted into films
Novels set in England
Novels set in the 19th century
Novels by Lady Eleanor Smith
Hutchinson (publisher) books


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BOB, MAN OF IRON
For over forty years, Bob the 'Iron Framer' has been making frames - first for Frame Market and then after we purchased that company, as part of our team here at Le Frame Shoppe.
To help put this into perspective, consider the following:
When the Vietnam War ended, Bob was framing.
When bell bottoms and disco ruled, "you could tell by the way he used his saw, he was a framin' man no time to talk."
When Thriller thrilled, Bob was thrilled to be framing.
When the Berlin Wall came down, Bob's framing was as strong as ever.
When the Milli Vanilli lip-synch scandal broke, Bob was actually framing.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Bob's framing continued to endure.
When American Idol launched, Bob had already won 'framing idol' 30 years in a row.
When social media exploded, Bob had long been setting trends in framing.
His framing is legendary but one of my favourite Bob stories has nothing to do with his craft and tells you everything you need to know about the character and heart of the person we are fortunate enough to work alongside.
One day shortly after we purchased Frame Market, I brought my young son by the shoppe. As we made our way to the back of the building where most of our noisy production equipment is, I could see that my son was feeling a little nervous. Then big, tall Bob introduced himself and scooped my son up in his arms to show him how the mat cutter machine worked. Before you know it, they were hitting buttons, making mats and getting along like two old souls.
Having Bob as our production manager and head framer is an honour and a privilege. His wealth of experience and encyclopedic knowledge of all things framing is an incredible asset. After forty years, he still comes to work with passion and takes pride in creating frames that will live in people's homes for generations.
To say that we are lucky to have Bob on our team is an understatement and we just wanted to let you all know what an important, hardworking and all around good guy he is! Thank you Bob!


Today I am so excited to share with y'all the final cover design for Praying Through Lyme Disease (the 2nd edition)! As I shared a couple of weeks ago I am thrilled that the 2nd edition will release on June 1st! This 2nd edition has been expanded and updated and I am excited for these changes that keep the original content yet add to the book some exciting extra details. I am truly so overwhelmed and humbled by the beautiful support and reviews that this book receives. It is hard to believe that there are more than 10,000 copies of this book in print. It truly overwhelms my heart.
I also shared a couple of weeks ago that I am so excited that Praying through Lyme Disease the 2nd edition will be released in a Large Print Format. For the past several years (actually starting on the exact day that Praying through Lyme Disease was released!) I started receiving emails asking for a large print version. This has been in the works for a couple of years so I am thrilled and excited for this to be available also on June 1st!
If you would be interested in receiving a free digital copy of the book in exchange for posting a review on Amazon AND on Goodreads (these can be the same review) during the month of June I would love to hear from you. Please email me or leave a comment below! If you are looking for ways to help spread the word about this book and are an influencer online who would be willing to share more about this 2nd edition please feel free to contact me!
I am so incredibly blessed by each of you. Thank you so much for your support of all of my writing and books, including the support and love I have received for When Truth Refreshes that released last week! I am truly so blessed!
Happy Monday friends! I hope that you have a wonderful start to this week!