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package me.barrasso.android.volume.popup;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.PorterDuff;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.LayerDrawable;
import android.os.Build;
import android.provider.Settings;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.view.WindowManager.LayoutParams;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.graphics.PixelFormat;
import android.widget.SeekBar;

import static me.barrasso.android.volume.LogUtils.LOGD;
import static me.barrasso.android.volume.LogUtils.LOGI;

import me.barrasso.android.volume.R;
import me.barrasso.android.volume.media.StreamResources;
import me.barrasso.android.volume.media.VolumePanelInfo;
import me.barrasso.android.volume.ui.MaxWidthLinearLayout;
import me.barrasso.android.volume.ui.transition.TransitionCompat;
import me.barrasso.android.volume.utils.SettingsHelper;
import me.barrasso.android.volume.utils.Utils;

/**
 * Simplest {@link VolumePanel} that covers the system status bar with a
 * black strip that includes the active volume_3 stream icon and a {@link android.widget.ProgressBar},
 * but does not accept user interaction.
 */
public class StatusBarVolumePanel extends VolumePanel {

	public static final String TAG = StatusBarVolumePanel.class.getSimpleName();

	public static final VolumePanelInfo<StatusBarVolumePanel> VOLUME_PANEL_INFO =
										new VolumePanelInfo<StatusBarVolumePanel>(StatusBarVolumePanel.class);

	public StatusBarVolumePanel(PopupWindowManager pWindowManager) {
		super(pWindowManager);
	}

    ViewGroup sliderGroup;
    ViewGroup root;
    ImageView icon;
    ProgressBar seekBar;

	@Override
	public void onCreate() {
		super.onCreate();
        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(getContext());
        root = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.sb_volume_adjust, null);
        sliderGroup = (ViewGroup) root.findViewById(R.id.slider_group);
		seekBar = (ProgressBar) root.findViewById(android.R.id.progress);
        icon = (ImageView) root.findViewById(R.id.stream_icon);
        toggleSeekBar(seek);

        SettingsHelper settingsHelper = SettingsHelper.getInstance(getContext());
        setStretch(settingsHelper.getProperty(VolumePanel.class, STRETCH, stretch));

        if ((sliderGroup instanceof MaxWidthLinearLayout) && stretch) {
            ((MaxWidthLinearLayout) sliderGroup).setMaxWidth(0);
        }

        // When the stream icon is clicked, launch sound settings.
        icon.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                hide();
                Intent volumeSettings = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_SOUND_SETTINGS);
                startActivity(volumeSettings);
            }
        });

        // KitKat+ add support for default transitions.
        TransitionCompat transition = TransitionCompat.get();
        transition.beginDelayedTransition((ViewGroup) root.findViewById(R.id.slider_group));

		mLayout = root;
	}

    @Override public void setColor(final int newColor) {
        super.setColor(newColor);
        toggleSeekBar(seek);
    }

    @Override public void setSeek(final boolean shouldSeek) {
        super.setSeek(shouldSeek);
        toggleSeekBar(shouldSeek);
    }

    protected void toggleSeekBar(final boolean shouldSeek) {
        // If we've got a SeekBar, handle seeking!
        if (seekBar instanceof SeekBar) {
            SeekBar seeker = (SeekBar) seekBar;
            seeker.setOnSeekBarChangeListener((shouldSeek) ? this : null);
            seeker.setOnTouchListener((shouldSeek) ? null : noTouchListener);
            Drawable thumb = null;
            if (shouldSeek) {
                thumb = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.scrubber_control_selector_mini);
                thumb.mutate().setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
                thumb.setBounds(0, 0, thumb.getIntrinsicWidth(), thumb.getIntrinsicHeight());
            }
            seeker.setThumb(thumb);
            // NOTE: there's so weird issue with setting the thumb dynamically.
            // This seems to do the trick (fingers crossed).
            Utils.tap((View) seeker.getParent());
            seeker.invalidate();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onStreamVolumeChange(int streamType, int volume, int max) {
        // Update the icon & progress based on the volume_3 change.
        StreamResources resources = StreamResources.resourceForStreamType(streamType);
        resources.setVolume(volume);
        LOGD(TAG, "onStreamVolumeChange(" + streamType + ", " + volume + ", " + max + ")");
        // Figure out what resource and icon to use.
        int iconRes = ((volume <= 0) ? resources.getIconMuteRes() : resources.getIconRes());
        Drawable drawable = getResources().getDrawable(iconRes);
        drawable.mutate().setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
        LayerDrawable layer = (LayerDrawable) seekBar.getProgressDrawable();
        layer.findDrawableByLayerId(android.R.id.progress).mutate().setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
        // Actually update the images/ drawables.
        root.setBackgroundColor(backgroundColor);
        icon.setImageDrawable(drawable);
		seekBar.setMax(max);
        seekBar.setProgress(volume);
        seekBar.setTag(resources);
        show();
	}

    protected void updateSize() {
        LOGI(TAG, "updateSize(stretch=" + stretch + ')');
        if (sliderGroup instanceof MaxWidthLinearLayout) {
            int panelWidth = 0;
            if (!stretch) {
                panelWidth = getNotificationPanelWidth();
                if (panelWidth <= 0)
                    panelWidth = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.notification_panel_width);
            }

            ((MaxWidthLinearLayout) sliderGroup).setMaxWidth(panelWidth);
        }
        onWindowAttributesChanged();
    }

    @Override
    public void setStretch(boolean stretchIt) {
        LOGI(TAG, "setStretch(" + stretchIt + ')');
        super.setStretch(stretchIt);
        updateSize();
    }

    @Override public boolean isInteractive() { return true; }

    @Override public WindowManager.LayoutParams getWindowLayoutParams() {
		int flags = (LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE		|
                     LayoutParams.FLAG_WATCH_OUTSIDE_TOUCH  |
                     LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCH_MODAL      |
                     LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_INSET_DECOR   |
				     LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_IN_SCREEN		|
				     LayoutParams.FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED	    );
		LayoutParams WPARAMS = new WindowManager.LayoutParams(
			LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, mStatusBarHeight, 0, 0,
			LayoutParams.TYPE_SYSTEM_ERROR, flags, PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT);
		WPARAMS.windowAnimations = android.R.style.Animation_Dialog;
		WPARAMS.packageName = getContext().getPackageName();
		WPARAMS.setTitle(TAG);
        WPARAMS.rotationAnimation = LayoutParams.ROTATION_ANIMATION_JUMPCUT;
		WPARAMS.gravity = (Gravity.FILL_HORIZONTAL | Gravity.TOP);
		WPARAMS.screenBrightness = WPARAMS.buttonBrightness = LayoutParams.BRIGHTNESS_OVERRIDE_NONE;
		return WPARAMS;
	}
}

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Major advances have occurred in the fields of proteomics and genomics over recent years. Now, scientists are utilizing the technologies from each approach collectively in a novel research area named proteogenomics. Proteogenomics looks set to revolutionize personalized medicine in the next few years. We spoke with Alexzander Asea, Professor and Director at Precision Therapeutics Proteogenomics Diagnostics Center, University of Toledo, to learn more about the applications of proteogenomics in precision medicine.
Molly Campbell (MC): Why is it important to study both the genome and the proteome for precision medicine?
Alexzander Asea (AA): The easiest way to understand why it is important to study the genome and the proteome for the best outcome in precision medicine is by looking at the caterpillar that eventually morphs into a butterfly. Both have the same identical genome but vastly different proteome. This allows the caterpillar to crawl from place to place and the butterfly, the ability to fly.
Therefore, to fully deliver the benefits of precision medicine, which is an approach to patient care that allows doctors to select specific treatments that are most likely to help specific patients; we need study the genome, the proteome and the transcriptome, known as proteogenomics, and seamlessly integrate it into precision medicine and clinical care.
This is why the mission of our center is to seamlessly integrate proteogenomics into patient care by characterizing proteomic signals that correlate with response or resistance to target therapeutics (Precision Medicine), develop new diagnostics, design therapeutic IP and create new treatment IND directions.
MC: How can proteogenomics further advance personalized medicine?
AA: The seamless integration of precision medicine into personalized medicine will improve prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases and disorders. This is achieved by its ability to enhance the understanding of the molecular mechanisms and accelerating the translation of molecular findings into the clinic.
Proteogenomics is able to provide an overall systems perspective to a diseases or disorder. Specifically, genomic data (the sum total of all DNA sequences and expressed sequence tags), transcriptomic data (the sum total of all RNA sequences and ribosome profiles) and proteomic data (the sum total of protein synthesis and post-translational modifications) are simultaneously analysed.
The potential of proteogenomics lies in its ability to enable us to elucidate disease mechanisms by discovering and validating novel prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers and responders or non-responders to specific targeted therapies. We can use this data to improve prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases and disorders through the enhanced understanding of the molecular mechanisms and accelerating the translation of molecular findings into the clinic.
MC: What recent breakthroughs have occurred in the field of proteogenomics and precision medicine?
AA: The development of high-throughput that allows the measurement of multiple proteins and post-translational mutations simultaneously has been a key breakthrough that has occurred in the field of proteogenomics and precision medicine. Additional breakthroughs in technology that allows high specificity, increased dynamic range and high throughput have been seminal.
Support from the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research (OCCPR) whose stated mission is to advance proteome and proteogenome science and technology development through community resources (data and reagent), and accelerate the translation of molecular findings into the clinic. As well as the contribution of consortia like the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC), the International Cancer Proteogenome Consortium (ICPC) and the Human Proteome Project (HPP), are all significant breakthroughs that have greatly pushed the field of proteogenomics and precision medicine into the future.
MC: What research techniques are commonly used in proteogenomics research for precision medicine? Are there any drawbacks or advantages to specific techniques?
Common techniques used in proteogenomics research for precision medicine include RNA-sequencing and data analysis, LC-MS/MS and MALDI mass spectrometry. These techniques combined with database search engines that are able to bridge genomics and proteomics studies and facilitates cross-omics data integration are the most efficient. It is extremely important to also use and/or combine quantitation bioinformatics software including, Ingenuity Pathway analysis (IPA), Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM), Progenesis, Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) and Skyline, DESeq, Limma, EdgeR, R and MStats, for the best, reproducible and most reliable data.
These techniques are able to integrate the genome, transcriptome and proteome data to creates three proteogenomics relationships based on; 1) Analysis of the correlation of mRNA and protein pairs across samples. 2) Analysis of mutations, PTM and signalling pathways. 3) Analysis of correlation of the regulatory effects on RNA and protein expression levels caused by genetic variants (eQTL), microRNAs (miRNAs) and copy number aberrations (CNA).
MC: Are there any exciting research projects that you are able to provide an overview of and discuss?
We are using a proteogenomics platform to understand why triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is such an aggressive disease. Although slightly responsive to chemotherapy, TNBC is more difficult to treat, generally insensitive to most available hormonal or targeted therapeutic agents and depending on its stage of diagnosis, TNBC can be extremely aggressive-recurring and metastasizing more often than other subtypes of breast cancer. Therefore, there is an overarching need to understand TNBC and to ultimately develop therapeutic interventions to treat this disease.
MC: What major advances in the proteogenomics precision medicine field do you anticipate to see over the next ten years?
AA: I would like to see advances in single cell proteogenomics in terms of both mass spectrometry imaging of single cells with clear resolution of cytoplasmic and nuclear elements and the ability of LC-MS/MS to obtain accurate, reproducible data from a single cell. I would also like to see the cost of the assays come down significantly. This will make it more affordable to healthcare providers and patients.
Due to the huge amount of data that are generated during mass spectrometry-based experiments, Dr. Birgit Schilling from the Buck Institute for Aging, Novato, CA made it clear that improvements in bioinformatics algorithms is an essential strategy to the future of clinical proteomics. Dr. Schilling taught a course in quantitative proteomics at the US HUPO 2019 conference in Washington, DC, where she gave a hands-on tutorial on platform-independent and label free quantitation of proteomics data using MS1 extracted chromatograms in Skyline.
The US HUPO 2019 conference also featured a workshop that discussed how clinical practice has begun to reveal which biomarkers have clinical utility and that precision medicine has changed the rules for selecting therapies and has created new opportunities for biomarkers.
The panellist included scientists such as Tina Gatlin (NHGRI, NIH), Udayan Guha (NCI, NIH), Jacob Kegan (NCI, NIH), Aleksandra Nita-Lazar (NIAID, NIH), Pamela Marino (NIGMS, NIH) and Amanda Paulovich (Fred Hutchinson) to name a few. They further discussed what constitutes a good biomarker and the challenges in translating biomarkers to the clinic. The panellists concluded that major advances in biomarker discovery and their effective translation into the clinic, will be instrumental in driving the future of precision medicine.
Alexzander Asea was speaking to Molly Campbell, Science Writer, Technology Networks.


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Last week, on June 23, the Class of 2017 graduated from Hudson High School. On June 26, 1917, a picture of that year's Hudson High School graduating class appeared in the Hudson Evening Register. The picture includes not only the graduates--10 young men and 19 young women--but also the high school principal, Guy P. Davis, and the superintendent of schools, Charles S. Williams.
The building in which these students would have spent their senior year and the second half of their junior year was 401 State Street.
Completed in 1915 and dedicated on January 4, 1916, the building was considered the epitome of all that was desirable in a school building, "constructed and equipped according to the most modern ideas."
In the summer of 2014, a proposal to construct a four-unit apartment building at the corner of Fairview Avenue and Bayley Boulevard got its required variances from the Zoning Board of Appeals and received site plan approval from the Planning Board. Over the past three years, construction of the building has proceeded in fits and starts, much to the vexation of some who live in close proximity to the site. In the dead of this past winter, the building was finally framed out, but, for the past few months, in the height of the construction season, no progress has been made.
It is now rumored that the Galvan Foundation has purchased the partially constructed building. That should ensure its speedy completion.
The New York State Military Census took place between June 11 and June 25, 1917. Everyone between the ages of 16 and 50—women as well as men—was required to register in the census, which was undertaken to identify the resources in the state that could be tapped for the war effort. On June 26, the Hudson Evening Register announced the results for Hudson. Of interest to us today is that the number of Hudsonians between the ages of 16 and 50 in 1917 is greater than the entire population of Hudson today.
The only ward in which the total population at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century was greater than the number of people in the ward between the ages of 16 and 50 in 1917 was the Fifth Ward.
After compiling a list of 998 mid-sized cities, we researched the walkability of each city, and then ranked them by the number of antique shops, restaurants, and hotels. We also gathered the date each city was founded because history definitely adds to the charm factor.
The following ten cities have a walk score of 80 or higher, meaning you can easily park your car and spend the rest of your day perusing the many antique shops on foot.
That being the criteria for charm, Hudson made the list: "The 10 Most Charming Cities in America."
It's pretty clear that the creators of the list never set foot in Hudson or any of the other nine cities on the list--at least not in the course of researching the article. The picture used of Hudson is one we've seen many times before. (It's the one that appears on Wikipedia.) It's so old it still shows the old Urban Renewal era lamp posts which were replaced in 2009 by the ones we have now.
The first troops from the United States arrived in France on June 26, 1917. On the day before, a lengthy article appeared in the Hudson Evening Register describing the challenges of transporting troops from all across the country to France.
The Quartermaster Corps is just now the busiest department of the United States Army. Without it not a single company of troops could reach the firing line, not a soldier clothed, fed or armed.
To move the great army Uncle Sam is bringing into being means the marshalling of 121,580 railroad cars in 7,320 trains and directing them without delay or confusion over routes many of them over three thousand miles long. To keep this force provisioned in the field means supplying and shipping one billion pounds of freight a month, requiring fifty-five trains a day.
The Quartermaster Corps, in cooperation with Defense Committee of railroad presidents, has organized America's 260,000 miles of railroad, with its hundreds of corporations, into one system and plotted every mile and every train move over its myriad routes….
Quartermaster Corps officers must know every stopping point, length of sidings, junctions, capacity of terminals, loading and unloading facilities, size of tunnels, capacity of bridges, &c., along their routes.
The estimates of the corps are based on a force of twenty field armies, or about 1,500,000 men. With them go 700,000 mount and draught animals, 60,000 vehicles and 3,360 big guns. A tabulation of rolling stock and other railroad equipment just completed shows that to handle this traffic there are needed, besides more heavy cars, special terminal yards and sidings, loading and unloading platforms, double tracking of many single track lines and the building of new lines into undeveloped territory.
This means the raising of a vast amount of new capital by the railroads. The railroad executives believe that the systematizing and unifying of railroad control under federal authority, brought about by war preparation, will prove the value of such centralized regulation for permanent adoption by the United States as a peace measure. This vast increase of expense is putting the roads in shape for war is also given as one of the chief reasons for asking the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to increase freight rates.
There is news about the commercial ship anchorages proposed last year for the Hudson River. The proposal was for forty-three berths in ten locations between Yonkers and Kingston. Today, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that it will conduct a Ports and Waterways Safety Assessment (PAWSA) of the Hudson River. The news release from the Coast Guard explains: "The PAWSA process is a disciplined approach to identify major waterway safety hazards, estimate risk levels, evaluate potential mitigation measures, and set the stage for implementation of selected measures to reduce risk."
The news release continues: "In the fall, a group of waterway users and stakeholders will conduct a two-day structured workshop to meet these objectives and ensure the PAWSA process is a joint effort involving waterway users, stakeholders, and agencies to determine the safety of the waterway."
Today's announcement by the Coast Guard is terrific news for the Hudson River and the countless community members, businesses, organizations, and elected officials--of both parties--who opposed the anchorages proposal. It brings welcome relief from the threat of increased petroleum traffic and potential oil spills that new anchorage grounds would inevitably bring.
My office has spoken out against this plan since it was first introduced, and I'm proud of our recently passed legislation that increases the state's capacity to protect communities and natural habitats along the Hudson River. Often referred to as America's River, the Hudson is the lifeline of our region: It connects us economically, culturally, and historically. We remain committed to fighting for a healthy, safe, and vital Hudson River, today and for future generations.
Bill Williams of 98.5TheCat just shared this news: "Another Hudson Mayoral candidate arrested." The mayoral candidate arrested today, for allegedly making "a terroristic threat" and aggravated harassment, is Fred Starke (at right).
Two weeks ago, another mayoral hopeful Earl Swanigan was arrested for allegedly entering a house without permission and touching a woman inappropriately in the course of trying to get her to sign his designating petition.
Last night, the Greenport Planning Board continued its review of the proposed Colarusso haul road. The board is still gathering information in preparation for making a positive or negative declaration in the SEQR process.
P. J. Prendergast, engineer for Colarusso, told the Greenport Planning Board, as he did the Hudson Planning Board a few weeks earlier, that to solve the problem of dust, they were going to pave the roadway through South Bay, and they would also pave the 200 feet from the end of the haul road to the southern end of Front Street. He asserted that the environmental consultants for Colarusso said "paving was a good idea." Those consultants apparently also suggested that a 15 mph speed limit be imposed on the haul road and that signs be erected to warn drivers not to run over snakes and turtles in the road, although Prendergast claimed the drivers would never run over a turtle. "They would stop the truck and hustle it out of the way."
Planning Board chair Ed Stiffler asked if the proposal to pave the road had been presented to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Prendergast confirmed that it had, saying there were "other people who have to look at it" but making the prediction that "they will think it's OK." He then declared: "If DEC says don't pave it, they're [i.e. Colarusso] OK with that; if DEC says pave it, they're OK with that." Stiffler indicated that the board needed something in writing from DEC.
Ray Jurkowski, consulting engineer to the Greenport Planning Board, said that Trish Gabriel, the environmental analyst at DEC for our region, was drafting a letter in response to his correspondence, which he said "had to do with environmental issues, to assist the Planning Board in its SEQR determination." One of those environmental issues it seems were wetland grasses, about which Prendergast declared, "You can't kill wetland grasses; you can't even burn it." He went on to declare, "Anything they do will be an environmental improvement."
There were also unanswered questions about the volume of traffic on the haul road and the perceived intensification in recent years of industrial activity on the haul road and at the dock. Prendergast maintained that the increase of activity had to do with the recovery after the Great Recession, and it was not a trend that was expected to continue. Jurkowski reminded Prendergast that this information needed to be documented in writing.
It was decided that the letter from DEC was a critical component, as was Colarusso's written response about traffic. He then asked about the floodplain permit. Prendergast acknowledged that they hadn't received it yet, noting that Hudson Development Corporation, which must issue the permit, "hasn't done a floodplain permit since 1982," when the L&B building was constructed.
It was decided that the board would hold a special meeting when the letter from DEC had been received. That meeting was tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, July 11, at 6:30 p.m. Although the next step seems to be for the board to decide if they will make a positive or negative declaration, Stiffler stated that the board "will not be making a formal determination" at that meeting. A formal determination, said Stiffler, will be done only after the board's legal council has drafted a resolution making the declaration, and the board votes on it.
Two days after the Greenport Planning Board special meeting, the Hudson Planning Board is holding a public hearing on the alterations already completed at the dock. That hearing will take place on Thursday, July 13, at 6:30 p.m., at City Hall.
Bill Krattinger, from the Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, is expected to visit the site of the Furgary Boat Club on Thursday, July 6. After that visit, he will meet with the mayor and members of the Common Council at 4 p.m. at City Hall, to discuss the possibility of pursuing state and national register designation for the site. It was determined two years ago, at the end of July 2015, that the settlement of shacks known as the Furgary was eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, not because the shacks are examples of great historic architecture but because the site in its entirety--shacks and their setting--is an example of a Maritime Cultural Landscape.
In the meantime, advocates for the Furgary, calling themselves the Shantytown Committee, have created a map to show what a plan for preserving the site might look like, which Gossips shares here, with the permission of its creators.
If you are curious to know which shacks are being recommended for preservation, you could go down and have a look. The numbers are spray-painted on the buildings, and the site is accessible.
Any Day Now . . .
In April 2016, the Common Council passed a resolution allocating $4,230 to redevelop the City of Hudson website. In May 2016, the Council passed a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract with Revize, LLC, to do the work. The contract was for four years: the City would pay Revize, each year on March 29, $4,230 in the first and second years and $1,200 in the third and fourth years. It was anticipated that the work take a matter of months, but it's been more than a year, and there's still no new website.
Last week, however, Gossips learned from the mayor that all the content from the current website had been migrated to the new website. This week, city officials are engaged in webinars to learn how to use the new website. So it appears that any day now the new website will go live, and when you enter cityofhudson.org, you will see something altogether new.
Most Hudson residents, although they have chosen to live in a compact, walkable urban setting, value the preserved open spaces and working farms that surround the city. Even given its proximity to New York City and Albany, Columbia County has so far been spared, in large part, the kind of urban sprawl that destroys rural character and creates what James Howard Kunstler called "the geography of nowhere."
Recently, however, a new development has been proposed for the Town of Claverack, near the intersection of routes 9H and 66, in an area that has the 12534 zip code, that seems to be the complete antithesis of all that is valued about this place where we live.
So far, the plan is for senior housing in one complex with both market value and government subsidized units. Another complex would have market value apartment units with some recreational amenities, while across 9H there would be a large commercial area for big box stores, warehouses, office space and whatever other commercial endeavors could be induced to locate there.
Elsewhere, the proposed development has been described as "an $80 million, 700-unit apartment complex and big box commercial development that will be just south of 66." Amedore Homes has previously built developments in Albany, Saratoga, and Schenectady counties.
The current zoning code in the Town of Claverack does not permit such a development, but it seems the Town Board is contemplating amending the zoning to allow the project to go forward. A Facebook group has been formed to share information this proposal.
The First Annual OutHudson Parade Awards Ceremony happened tonight, and a week and two days after the spectacular OutHudson Pride Parade, Gossips is now able to announce the winners, chosen by the team of judges: Tiffany Martin Hamilton, Richelle Martin, and Rick Rector.
There were also awards in categories other than the original eight. The award for Best Dressed Business went to Wm. Farmer & Sons, and a Lifetime Achievement Award went to Lisa Durfee, who in every Pride Parade in Hudson except the most recent one has created a rainbow of vintage dresses from her shop, Five & Diamond.
Last Tuesday, Victor Mendolia gave an hour of air time on his show @Issue on WGXC to Stephen Dunn, one of the two people vying to be the Democratic candidate for Common Council president. That interview has been archived and can be heard here. In the interview, Dunn talks at some length about his plans for improving the effectiveness of city government. One of his ideas, to appoint private citizens to work with the aldermen on Common Council committees, has a familiar ring to it. His opponent for the Democratic nomination, Tom DePietro suggested the same thing when he ran for Common Council president in 2015.
Meanwhile, Gossips has learned that WGXC will give DePietro equal time to discuss his platform on air before the primary on September 12. DePietro, who will be seeking the Democratic nomination in the primary, has already been endorsed by the Republicans and the Working Families Party.
It appears the local election this year will be Democrats challenging Democrats. The Republicans seem to be putting up no candidates of their own, choosing instead to endorse Democratic candidates. So far it's been confirmed that the Republicans have endorsed Rick Rector for mayor and Tom DePietro for Common Council president.
During the early days of the United States' involvement in the Great War, accounts of doctors offering their service to the war effort were no doubt common. This report of a Hudson doctor being commissioned, however, caught my eye, because Henry C. Galster is a familiar character in Gossips posts. We know he made it safely through the war because in 1922, when Hudson police chief John J. Cruise was being investigated, accused, and tried for dereliction of duty, for allowing the production and sale of liquor to continue in Hudson in the early days of Prohibiton, Henry C. Galster was the mayor of Hudson.
Dr. Henry C. Galster, as well known physician and surgeon of this city, to-day received a commission as captain in the medical section of the Officers Reserve corps of the United States army. He is now awaiting orders to leave Hudson for some concentration camp, from which he probably will be detailed to Europe.
In April Dr. Galster offered his services to the United States government, and stated that he was ready for immediate service in Europe. He was recommended for a captaincy commission, but subsequently received word that led him to believe that he would be appointed a first lieutenant.
This morning he received a communication from the office of the secretary of War, in which was his commission as captain in the medical section of the Officers' Reserve corps, which commission became effective June 15. His many friends will be delighted to learn of the designation and that he will make a most capable officer is not doubted.
Dr. Galster for some time was first lieutenant in the Medical corps of the Tenth regiment, National Guard, a position he filled in a most capable manner. He has, therefore, considerable military experience.
Galster, who was 29 in 1917, lived and practiced medicine at 454 Warren Street. It is the address given on his draft registration card.
The picture below, by Walker Evans, shows the house, which is now the location of Nolita, as it was in the 1930s. Galster's shingle can be seen on the street level door.
Ordinarily, Gossips doesn't pay much attention to Greenport politics (this is, after all, a blog about Hudson), but a recent event gives rise to curiosity. On Thursday, June 22, the Greenport Democratic Committee held a caucus to nominate its candidates to run for town office in November. All registered Democrats living in Greenport were invited to come to the caucus and vote for the would-be candidates of their choice.
Yesterday, on the Democrats' blog, Thoughts on Greenport: Hanging Around Hudson, the Democrats announced their candidates: Kathy Eldridge for town supervisor; Janice Brodowski and Carol Peckham for town council; Mark Gaylord for town highway superintendent; and John Porreca for town justice.
It's the last nomination that's puzzling. Gossips has learned that the Democrats had a choice for town justice between Porreca and Robert Gagen. The question arises: Why would they opt for a Republican who has no particular qualifications to be town justice over a Democrat who is a lawyer?
In the post on Thursday about Frederick Law Olmsted and his comment about Promenade Hill, I mentioned that the first library at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, had been designed by Hudson architect Michael J. O'Connor and promised more on that subject. Today is the day to make good on that promise.
The story starts with General John Watts De Peyster, the last patroon of Lower Claverack Manor and the great-great-great-grandson of Abraham De Peyster, who was mayor of New York in the 1690s. We in Hudson know De Peyster as the philanthropist who gave us the statue of St. Winifred by George Edwin Bissell that stands on Promenade Hill.
From The Hudson Valley Sketchbook, "a fragmented history of the area by Mrs. Marion C. Smith of Hudson," which was self-published in 1964, we learn that De Peyster, who lived in Tivoli, and Michael O'Connor were personal friends. O'Connor played a role in getting De Peyster to donate the statue to Hudson 1896, when it turned out it couldn't be placed where De Peyster had intended it to go. A few years later, when De Peyster decided to build a library for Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (the college had honored him as an amateur historian), he commissioned his friend Michael O'Connor to design the building. The pictures below show the library designed by O'Connor, which was dedicated in 1898.
Sad to say, the De Peyster Library at Franklin & Marshall College was demolished in 1937.
The colorized post card and the photograph above it both show a statue positioned in front of the library. That statue has its own story, one that was told in 2011 in the New York Times. In 1893, John Watts De Peyster commissioned Bissell to create a larger than life likeness of his great-great-great-grandfather, Abraham De Peyster. The intention was that the statue be placed in Battery Park. The New York Times complained at the time that "the Battery was already overrun with statuary."
Growing weary of arguing with city officials about the placement of the statue, De Peyster offered it to Franklin & Marshall College, where presumably it was gratefully accepted, but when his dispute with the City of New York was resolved and the statue was placed in Bowling Green, a duplicate was cast and placed in front of the De Peyster Library.
When the De Peyster Library was demolished in 1937, the statue was moved to a place of little prominence on the edge of the F&M campus. The statue in New York also suffered the indignities of being moved about--from Bowling Green to Hanover Square to a parks department warehouse on Randalls Island where it remained from 2003 until 2014, when it was installed and rededicated in Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square, at the corner of Lafayette and Worth streets.
Columbia-Greene Media has announced that on Thursday, June 29, it will debut its "all-encompassing news website" called HudsonValley360.
Mark Vinciguerra, publisher of Columbia-Greene Media, said of the new website: "HudsonValley360.com is a clean, well-designed website using the latest technology. We're the second newspaper in the world to go live on this completely new [Drupal] platform. It's got the ability to do more, it has quicker load times, it has a better look--as far as cleaner look, its features include video and photo galleries that load faster and look crisper. For us, that means we're going to tell stories in a different way. It allows us to do more multimedia storytelling."
Vinciguerra continues, "We are taking a more regional approach to our coverage. The idea is to expand our audience, which, right now, is 200,000-plus unique visitors, consuming over 1.2 million pages per month. We're the biggest media entity in the Twin Counties and HudsonValley360.com will help us expand on that."
Interestingly, in 2014, the population of Columbia County was 62,122 and population of Greene County was 47,967.
Everyone is eager to know who will be walking away with the prizes, but if you're more serious-minded and worried about your health insurance and how the Trump era American Health Care Act (AHCA) would impact you, you might want to go to the Hudson Opera House at 6 p.m. before joining the party at Helsinki.
It is predicted that the AHCA, if passed, will leave 2.7 million New Yorkers without health insurance and will roll back protections for women, children, and people with preexisting conditions. The prediction continues: "The AHCA would include $7 billion in cuts from New York's healthcare system--effectively eliminating the Essential Plan, devastating our hospitals, and forcing major staffing cuts during a time when we need more, not less, doctors and nurses."
Monday evening at the Hudson Opera House, an expert panel will talk about the AHCA and give you the opportunity to learn what is at stake and how best to protect your family from possible changes to our health care system.
If you plan to attend the forum on Monday, June 26, at 6 p.m., at the Hudson Opera House, you are asked to RSVP to mike.morris@exec.ny.gov. Mike Morris is the representative from the governor's office for the Capital Region.
The war in Europe and woman suffrage were both in the news in 1917. The most compelling story in the Hudson Evening Register for June 22, 1917, weaves together the themes of patriotism and service with women's liberation.
Miss Helen M. Hall, daughter of Judge and Mrs. M. M. Hall of this city, has the distinction of being the first woman to apply for entrance into the government Aviation schools. A week ago Miss Hall offered her services to Captain Davidson of the Cornell Aviation school. The course is for eight weeks, after which the students are transferred to another government school to get practical experience in flying. Upon finishing at these schools, students are given commissions as Lieutenants, Captains or Majors. As yet no provisions have been made for women in the Signal corp so that immediate entrance to impossible. The War department at Washington, however, has assured Miss Hall that such provisions will be made within the next few months and that the county will be glad to welcome her as the first aviatrix in the government schools.
Miss Hall, while waiting for the government to take action, is at present engaged in organizing a Cornell Women's Ambulance corps for immediate service in France.
A week later, there was more news about Miss Hall on the front page of the Register.
Miss Helen M. Hall, daughter of former City Judge and Mrs. Milton M. Hall of this city, returned home yesterday from Cornell university. She was graduated from that institution on Wednesday, receiving the degree of A.B. Miss Hall will remain here for a week, and will then return Ithaca, where she has an excellent position.
The commencement exercises at Cornell this year, Miss Hall states, were not as impressive as in former years because of the fact that a large number of the seniors are in the United States service and many are now in France. Those who were graduated were sent telegrams to the effect that they had been graduated.
Miss Hall has been very much interested in aviation, and has offered her service to the United States government. She has been informed by the Adjutant General of the United States that as soon as women are accepted in the government's aviation department she will be notified.
Census records indicate that Judge Milton M. Hall and his family lived at 110 Green Street, in the house that is now the location of Bates & Anderson Redmond & Keeler Funeral Services.
The complete history of American ambulanciers in the Great War will never be satisfactorily told because a significant part of the record is incomplete: that involving the work of female volunteers. American women who drove ambulances in France usually got there by sheer force of their ability, ingenuity and resolve, and yet their extraordinary work is seldom treated in detail in either public or private accounts of the war. Still, sparse though the evidence may be many women did in fact swap their stateside lives for a term of ambulancing that was largely without exhilarating moments.
No evidence could be found about what Helen Hall did during wartime, but the decennial census for 1920 lists Helen M. Hall, then 25, who was born in New York and whose father was also born in New York, as living in Oklahoma City with two other young women. According to census records, Helen and one of her roommates, Ruth F. Harel, 24, from California, have the same illegible occupation in the same illegible industry.
Ancestry.com transcribes their occupation as "Sec Tuburkhs" and the industry as "Asso," which makes no sense; whatever they did they were wage earners.
It is likely while she was living in Oklahoma, working at whatever job she did, Helen Hall met her husband, Adolph Oliver Dovre, who was born in Minnesota, the son of Norwegian immigrants, and worked as a geologist for Sun Oil Company in Oklahoma. They were married in 1920 in Hudson, but sadly, the Hudson Register for 1920 is not available at FultonHistory.com, so an account of their wedding, which surely must have appeared in the newspaper, has not been found.
In the early years of their marriage, Adolph Dovre worked in the oilfields of Venezuela, and a couple of times in 1921, the Columbia Republican and the Chatham Courier noted that Mr. and Mrs. Adolph O. Dovre of Venezuela were visiting various friends and relatives in Hudson and Columbia County.
By 1930, Helen and Adolph Dovre had settled in San Antonio, Texas, where they lived in this house on East Magnolia Avenue.
Helen Dovre died in 1943. Her death certificate gives the cause of death as "Generalized Carcinomatosis." Her obituary, which appeared in the San Antonio Light on September 24, 1943, doesn't give many clues about her life.
The obituary that appeared the same day in the Hudson Evening Register provides a bit more information.
Adolph Dovre survived his wife by eight years and died in May 1951 at the age of 57.
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Themes2.7.4.2 - Historic Urban Landscapesclose2.2.6.3 - Minor modifications to the boundariesclose2.7.4 - Cultural Landscapesclose2.2.6 - Boundaries and buffer zonesclose2.2.1 - Outstanding Universal Value: definition and attributesclose2.2 - Outstanding Universal Valueclose2.1 - Nominations to the World Heritage Listclose
Decision 44 COM 11 Follow-up to recommendations of evaluations and audits on working methods and outcomes of the Ad-hoc Working Group
"5. [The World Heritage Committee is] (c)onvinced that the most appropriate means for restoring and enhancing the credibility and balance of the World Heritage List is, inter alia, the development of high quality nominations for sites which have a strong potential to succeed, through enhanced dialogue between the States Parties and the Advisory Bodies from a very early stage,
6. [The World Heritage Committee] (d)ecides to adopt the reformed nomination process, with the Preliminary Assessment as a first phase of the nomination process, and with the current mechanism - as described in the current paragraph 128 of the Operational Guidelines - as a second phase."
Theme: 2.1 - Nominations to the World Heritage List
1. "Every State Party to this Convention shall, in so far as possible, submit to the World Heritage Committee an inventory of property forming part of the cultural and natural heritage, situated in its territory and suitable for inclusion in the list provided for in paragraph 2 of this Article.
2. On the basis of the inventories submitted by States in accordance with paragraph 1, the Committee shall establish, keep up to date and publish, under the title of "World Heritage List," a list of properties forming part of the cultural heritage and natural heritage, as defined in Articles 1 and 2 of this Convention, which it considers as having outstanding universal value in terms of such criteria as it shall have established. An updated list shall be distributed at least every two years.
3. The inclusion of a property in the World Heritage List requires the consent of the State concerned. The inclusion of a property situated in a territory, sovereignty or jurisdiction over which is claimed by more than one State shall in no way prejudice the rights of the parties to the dispute."
Source: Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
The Budapest Declaration on World Heritage
3. "(...)
b) [The World Heritage Committee invites States Parties to the Convention to] identify and nominate cultural and natural heritage properties representing heritage in all its diversity, for inclusion on the World Heritage List."
Source: WHC-02/CONF.202/5 The Budapest Declaration on World Heritage
"A partnership approach, underpinned by inclusive, transparent and accountable decision-making, to nomination, management and monitoring provides a significant contribution to the protection of World Heritage properties and the implementation of the Convention."
"Nominations of immovable heritage which are likely to become movable will not be considered."
"States Parties are invited to submit nominations of properties of cultural and/or natural value considered to be of "Outstanding Universal Value" for inscription on the World Heritage List."
"Nominations presented to the Committee shall demonstrate the full commitment of the State Party to preserve the heritage concerned, within its means. Such commitment shall take the form of appropriate policy, legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures adopted and proposed to protect the property and its Outstanding Universal Value."
"Effective and inclusive participation in the nomination process of local communities, indigenous peoples, governmental, non-governmental and private organizations and other stakeholders is essential to enable them to have a shared responsibility with the State Party in the maintenance of the property. States Parties are encouraged to prepare nominations with the widest possible participation of stakeholders and shall demonstrate, as appropriate, that the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples has been obtained, through, inter alia, making the nominations publicly available in appropriate languages and public consultations and hearings."
"Outstanding Universal Value means cultural and/or natural significance which is so exceptional as to transcend national boundaries and to be of common importance for present and future generations of all humanity. As such, the permanent protection of this heritage is of the highest importance to the international community as a whole. The Committee defines the criteria for the inscription of properties on the World Heritage List."
"To be deemed of Outstanding Universal Value, a property must also meet the conditions of integrity and/or authenticity and must have an adequate protection and management system to ensure its safeguarding."
"A minor modification is one which has not a significant impact on the extent of the property nor affects its Outstanding Universal Value."
Theme: 2.2.6.3 - Minor modifications to the boundaries
"If a State Party wishes to request a minor modification to the boundaries of a property already on the World Heritage List, it must be prepared in compliance with the format of Annex 11 and must be received by 1 February by the Committee through the Secretariat, which will seek the evaluation of the relevant Advisory Bodies on whether this can be considered a minor modification or not. The Secretariat shall then submit the Advisory Bodies' evaluation to the World Heritage Committee. The Committee may approve such a modification, or it may consider that the modification to the boundary is sufficiently significant as to constitute a significant boundary modification of the property, in which case the procedure for new nominations will apply."


Artist Reach and Japanese noted photographer Yonehara Yasumasa aka Yone are set to open the latest leg of their Partouze Exhibition with a show in Hong Kong. The opening will take place on May 29th, 2009 (11am-8pm) running through June 4th at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre. The cocktail party will begin at 7pm until 10pm with a live body painting session scheduled for the next day at 3pm.


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'Tanned skin is damaged skin': Surgeon general warns sun-loving Americans after 200% spike in deadly melanoma
Stop sunbathing and using indoor tanning beds, the acting U.S. surgeon general warned in a report released Tuesday that cites an alarming 200 per cent jump in deadly melanoma cases since 1973.
The report blames a generation of sun worshiping for the $8billion spent to treat all forms of skin cancer each year.
Rear Adm. Boris Lushniak said state and local officials need to do more to help people cover up, such as providing more shade at parks and sporting events.
While other cancers such as lung cancer are decreasing, skin cancer is rising rapidly, with five million people being treated for skin cancer each year
Schools should encourage kids to wear hats and sunscreen and schedule outdoor activities when the sun is low in the sky. And colleges and universities should eliminate indoor tanning beds on campus much as they would prohibit tobacco use, he added.
'We need more states and institutions on board with these policies that discourage or restrict indoor tanning by our youth,' Mr Lushniak said. 'Tanned skin is damaged skin.'
The surgeon general's 'call to action' plan is part of a broader push this year by government officials and public health advocates to raise awareness on what they say has become a major public health problem.
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While other cancers such as lung cancer are decreasing, skin cancer is rising rapidly. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, five million people are treated for skin cancer each year.
And the number of Americans with skin cancer in the past three decades eclipse the number of all other cancers combined.
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer with 9,000 people dying each year from the mostly preventable disease.
Stacey Escalante of Las Vegas, Nevada, blames years of sunbathing with baby oil and using indoor tanning beds for her melanoma diagnosis in 2005.
'We need to change the social norm with respect to tanning and shatter the myth that tanned skin is somehow a sign of health'
The mother of two was a 34-year-old television reporter training for a marathon when she found a small red growth the size of a pencil eraser on her lower back.
By the time she saw a doctor, the cancer had traveled to her lymph node, requiring two surgeries that left an eight-inch scar. She then spent two years on an experimental drug.
Ms Escalante said she realizes now that she was lucky to survive, and was foolish to think she was immune to skin cancer because her father was Hispanic and she tanned well.
Now an advocate for early detection, Ms Escalante is pushing for state legislation prohibiting minors from using indoor tanning beds.
The Melanoma Research Foundation says exposure to tanning beds before age 30 increases a person's risk of developing melanoma by 75per cent.
'If only I had first gone to the doctor, when I first saw that spot, instead of ignoring it, I would have saved my family and myself ... the emotional, physical and financial burden of skin cancer,' she said.
'It was absolutely overwhelming.'
Howard Koh, assistant secretary for health for the Department of Health and Human Services, said skin cancer prevention needs to become a bigger part of daily American life.
'We need to change the social norm with respect to tanning and shatter the myth that tanned skin is somehow a sign of health,' Mr Koh said.
Doctors recommend doing regular skin checks for new moles and seeing a doctor if any change in size, shape or color.
Doctors also recommend applying at least 1 ounce of sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or more to exposed skin and reapplying every two hours, more if swimming or sweating.
Children in particular should be protected because bad sunburns in childhood are thought to greatly increase risk later in life.
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Do foam cups contain cancer-causing chemicals? Leading panel says styrene may be a 'human carcinogen'
Styrene can be 'reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen'
Conclusion reached by 10 leading medical experts in the U.S.
They stress further research is needed before chemical is regulated
American Chemistry Council says styrene has passed most stringent safety tests to be used in food and drink packaging
A chemical used in foam cups and disposable food containers may cause cancer, scientists have warned.
Styrene can be 'reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen', the National Research Council in the U.S. said yesterday.
The conclusion was reached by a team of 10 experts in toxicology, chemistry and medicine.
Styrene - the chemical used in foam cups and disposable food containers - can be 'reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen', the National Research Council in the U.S. said yesterday
'[However] 'I think it's important to keep in mind that this is a hazard assessment,' Dr Jane Henney, who chaired the research council's committee of experts, told Newsday.
The declaration means there is 'scientific evidence suggesting that styrene causes cancer, but there may be alternative explanations, such as chance, bias or confounding factors', explained Dr Henney, who led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration during the Clinton era.
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'Our report says this chemical could be a problem, but a full risk-assessment on dose, exposure, quantification and further characterization of the risk would need to be done before one would think about regulation in this area,' she added.
Dr Henney also stressed that the term 'reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen', was far from emphatic - unlike, say, factors such as tobacco.
And that the Council's latest ruling was in the line of that three years ago, when concerns were raised about the possible links between styrene and cancer.
But industry experts say regulatory agencies have deemed polystyrene safe for use in contact with food and drink
The National Research Council is a major policy body and division of the National Academies, which includes the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Science and the National Academy of Engineering.
The American Chemistry Council has previously defended styrene, saying: 'Polystyrene plastic has been used in foodservice products - foam coffee cups, salad bar takeout containers, cutlery - for more than five decades.
'Polystyrene has been reviewed by regulatory agencies that have deemed it safe for use in contact with food.
'For example, polystyrene meets the stringent standards of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission/European Food Safety Authority for use in packaging to store and serve food.'
Earlier this month British scientists warned that more than 170 dangerous chemicals - including styrene - are legally used in the production of food packaging.
The Food Packaging Forum warned the toxic substances, which were found to cause cancer and inflict changes on genes, could end up in the food they contain.
But the Food Standards Agency moved to reassure consumers, explaining all food packaging falls within European standards and the presence of the chemicals are of no concern if they are used within the 'limits or restrictions' set for their use.
The study, published in the journal Food Additives and Contaminants, discovered around 175 chemicals with varying affects.
They found the substances interfered with sperm production, caused genital malformations and disrupted hormone production in the body.
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Morning sickness isn't ALL bad news: Women battling the condition may have 'healthier, more intelligent babies'
These women may also have fewer miscarriages, say Canadian doctors
Infant's development in the long-term may also be better
Women 35 or older in particular seemed 'to benefit' from morning sickness
Morning sickness affects up to 85 per cent of mothers. The Duchess of Cambridge also suffered while pregnant with Prince George
It is the bane of many a pregnant woman's life.
But new research suggests morning sickness may be a sign the baby will be healthier - and more intelligent.
A study has revealed that mothers who experience nausea during pregnancy will have fewer miscarriages than those who are healthy during their whole term.
They will also have fewer birth defects and better long-term development for the infant.
The findings may offer some comfort to those who have to endure bouts of vomiting and queasiness as they are expecting.
And they could be very good news indeed for the Duchess of Cambridge who suffered acute morning sickness whilst pregnant with Prince George.
Her illness because so severe that she had to be admitted to hospital before the birth.
Morning sickness affects up to 85 per cent of mothers and it is thought to be caused by rapid increases in gonadotropin, a hormone released by the placenta.
The researchers, from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, looked at mothers who suffered morning sickness to any extent and found that the benefits applied across the board.
They looked at data from 10 separate studies conducted in five countries between 1992 and 2012 which covered 850,000 pregnant women.
The findings showed that feeling sick and vomiting was linked to lower risk of a low birth weight or a short body length.
Mothers who suffered nausea also had fewer premature births; 6.4 per cent compared to 9.5 per cent for healthy mothers.
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The risk of miscarriage was also more than three times higher in women who did not experience morning sickness.
Women 35 or older in particular seemed to benefit from what the researchers called the 'protective effects' that resulted.
Over the years mothers have turned to all manner of cures to try and beat morning sickness, from ginger tea, to vitamins or antacids.
Some have also turned to sugar solutions and anti-sickness pills, but previous studies have concluded there could be no cure at all.
Morning sickness may be a sign the baby will be healthier - and more intelligent. TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp (left) and singer Kelly Clarkson (right) also suffered with the condition
The new study found that among the other benefits of going through morning sickness was that the risk of birth defects was reduced by between 30 per cent and 80 per cent.
Years later when they were tested for intelligence, babies born to mothers who suffered sickness scored higher for IQ, language and overall behaviour.
The findings also looked at the impact of drugs to mitigate nausea and vomiting and but found they they did not alter any positive effects associated with morning sickness.
The Duchess of Cambridge's extreme form of morning sickness is known as hyperemesis gravidarum and effects one birth in 50.
Others who have suffered the same condition are Atomic Kitten star Jenny Frost and TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp.
The latest research was published in the journal Reproductive Toxicology.
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Oestrogen gel rubbed into her leg every morning can help with depression
On a hot summer evening two years ago, my best friend's husband rang.
'Chloe's missing,' he said.
My friend is blessed with a wonderful husband, two children and a lovely home.
She has also suffered from depression since her teens. She had already tried to kill herself twice in the previous year. And she had disappeared.
Together her husband and I walked the streets in a desperate attempt to find her.
Miraculously we did - sitting on a park bench weeping. I will never forget her despair as she tried to explain. 'I feel like I have turned into a cold-hearted, nasty person,' she said.
'I went from a loving person to this. Half the time I am floating in space, out of touch. I want me back. I want to love again. I am scared I am going to lose myself for ever.'
Another suicide attempt and two admissions to the Priory later, Chloe is fine. What cured her?
Not antidepressants, psychiatric hospitals or even electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
What made my friend sane again was an oestrogen gel rubbed into her leg every morning.
A revolution is taking place in the way we treat depression in women.
New evidence has identified that one particular group of women suffer from what doctors now call Reproductive Depression - like my friend Chloe, their mental health is affected by fluctuations in progesterone, a hormone released in the ovary with the egg during the second half of the menstrual cycle.
Progesterone prepares the body for pregnancy in case the released egg is fertilised. From the moment of ovulation, levels of progesterone surge.
It is this surge, doctors believe, rather than the progesterone itself, to which this group of women is vulnerable.
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If the surge goes untreated, then for two weeks of the month between ovulation and the start of their periods, these women suffer a dramatic change of personality: they become depressed, feel suicidal, cry all the time and have bouts of rage.
Then their period begins, progesterone levels tumble and their mood switches. As Chloe put it: 'I always feel fabulous on the first day of my period.'
To investigate why this is happening and what is the best treatment, Dr Michael Craig, a psychiatrist, has opened the first female hormone clinic at the Maudsley, a psychiatric hospital in South London and the largest mental health training institution in the UK.
This unique, multi-professional clinic, led by Dr Craig and Dr Mike Marsh, a gynaecologist based at King's College Hospital, will assess and treat women who have mental health problems at times of hormonal fluctuation.
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In this crossover between gynaecology and psychiatry, Dr Craig is an obvious choice. He trained as a gynaecologist before becoming a psychiatrist. In a slip of the tongue, Dr Craig once even described himself as a 'gynae-chiatrist'.
He points out that women who experience low mood with the hormonal fluctuations of their period are also particularly vulnerable to depression at other times of hormonal fluctuation, such as after childbirth and before the menopause.
'Studies show it is the same group of women who experience all three conditions,' says Dr Craig.
'We need to ask two questions. Do women who suffer from this depression have brains that react differently to hormones? And why is this problem in some women but not in others?' He believes the answer might lie in receptors in the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain responsible for memory and mood.
'From that research we can then assess which group of women would react better to antidepressants and which to a course of hormones.'
Unfortunately that research does not yet exist.
Depression is very much a woman's disease, twice as common in women as men. Women are also twice as likely to be admitted to hospital for depression and 70 per cent of anti-depressive medicine is prescribed to women.
Professor John Studd suggests the following questions may help identify if you're affected:
Does your depression follow your menstrual cycle?
Do physical symptoms such as migraine, abdominal bloating or breast pain also follow the menstrual cycle?
Did your depression stop during pregnancy?
Did your depression start again after childbirth and the return of your periods?
Has pre-menstrual depression became worse with age?
Do you have seven to ten?
Do you have seven to ten good days per month?
Despite the human misery, not to mention the financial cost to the NHS, Dr Craig says: 'There remains a paucity of industrial or government support for psychiatric research into women's mental health'.
He is hoping his clinic will go some way to rectifying this.
John Studd, a former consultant gynaecologist at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and professor of gynaecology at Imperial College, was the man who identified the co-existence of these three types of depression (linked to a woman's period, childbirth and before the menopause), and named it Reproductive Depression.
He believes the medical profession is failing to treat women with Reproductive Depression correctly because they are failing to identify who they are.
He says the clue to Reproductive Depression lies in a woman's reproductive history.
Blood tests used by GPs to check hormone levels are, he says, 'a complete waste of time - because the hormone levels of a pre-menopausal woman always look normal'.
'It's all there in her history,' he explains. Key markers are being able to trace her mood swings to her first period in her early teens, and feeling 'normal' during pregnancy.
Professor Studd says women with Reproductive Depression love being pregnant, because they are not ovulating, so their progesterone levels are not fluctuating.
One particular group of women suffer from what doctors now call Reproductive Depression
And Chloe tells me: 'The only time I was happy and felt normal, was during my pregnancies.'
Chloe's first suicide attempt was after the birth of her first child 20 years ago when she was overwhelmed by post-natal depression - it is now known that two weeks after giving birth, oestrogen levels plunge.
Age, says Professor Studd, brings no relief. In fact Reproductive Depression often worsens in the years of transition before the menopause when women are hit by a double-whammy: their progesterone levels are still fluctuating every month - despite not ovulating - and on top of that they start to experience pre-menopausal symptoms when both progesterone and oestrogen levels fall.
'I am a naturally sunny person,' reported one of his patients, 'but from my mid-40s, a tide of tears began to wash over my days and weeks.'
She said that even the smallest task evoked 'demons and monsters'.
She noticed that her black days occurred in the weeks running up to her period.
Her doctor gave her blood tests to check hormone levels - which appeared well balanced - and prescribed antidepressants and sleeping pills.
But the antidepressants did nothing to ease her emotions which remained 'unstable'. It went on for two years until she heard about Professor Studd. So what is the solution for Reproductive Depression? Professor Studd believes the answer is simple: a blob of oestrogen gel rubbed in every day.
Oestrogen stops you ovulating - so puts an end to the fluctuating cycles of hormones.
And my friend Chloe confirms: 'After a few weeks, I began to feel different. After five I felt normal; no, actually, better than normal. I sleep. I smile. I don't cry. I am happy.' Unfortunately the average GP assumes that the condition is psychiatric, not physical, says Professor Studd.
Women with Reproductive Depression love being pregnant, because they are not ovulating
Psychiatrists prescribe mood-stabilising drugs which can have side-effects, and even electroconvulsive therapy - none of which works, he points out, because they do not address the problem of fluctuating hormone levels.
The women he sees are usually in their mid-40s, and desperate.
'Some have been on antidepressants for 15 or 20 years and I am a last resort.
'It's a scandal because the evidence is there in good scientific journals that pre-menstrual depression, post-natal depression and peri-menopausal depression are all treatable with oestrogen.'
Oestrogen gel is available only on a doctor's prescription.
Other doctors have noticed the link between hormones and a woman's mental health and some now believe it lies behind even as serious brain disorders as bipolar and schizophrenia.
Jory F. Goodman, a practising psychiatrist in Beverly Hills with more than 30 years of clinical experience, explains: 'More and more people carry psychiatric diagnoses which are inaccurate and have very negative consequences for their lives.'
The most frequent, popular and incorrect diagnosis, in his view, is bipolar disorder.
Women who are moody, angry, temperamental or just plain objectionable, risk getting classified as bipolar and loaded with drugs. 'Turning a patient into a zombie,' says Dr Goodman, 'proves nothing and helps no one.'
He starts with a history of the woman and asks them to keep a diary. He also interviews parents and partners.
Like Professor Studd he, too, noticed a group of female patients whose symptoms first appeared when they started their periods.
For these women the terrifying Big Dipper ride of bipolar emotions - 'depression, impulsive behaviour, suicidal gestures' - correlates to their menstrual cycle and occurs in the two weeks after ovulation.
This is not so for every woman with bipolar, 'just many of them - for these patients the right hormones do the trick'.
Even a disease as serious as schizophrenia is influenced by hormones, suggests Lyn Harper Mozley, assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.
Proportion of women with major depression whose symptoms worsen before their period
The clue lies in the difference between the sexes. Men are more prone to schizophrenia than women and develop it earlier - in their early 20s.
Women develop it two to ten years later and their symptoms are, on the whole, less serious.
But after the menopause, the roles reverse, with women then more likely than men to develop the disease - and with more severe symptoms.
Mozley believes women are protected from psychotic illness when oestrogen levels are high.
Mozley also discovered that the symptoms of schizophrenia, including delusions, disorganised speech and behaviour, follow the menstrual cycle just like those of depression and bipolar disorder.
Her study revealed that the majority of hospital admissions for women are in that crucial week before their period begins.
They are also prone to relapses after giving birth and, guess what, their symptoms actually improve during pregnancy.
The link between hormone levels and mental health is exciting but, Dr Craig is careful to point out, not conclusive because it is based on so few studies.
'You can have an opinion on something and feel it is right but we need evidence.'
Meanwhile, women continue to be wrongly diagnosed with devastating results.
Chloe is one of the lucky ones - that moment of madness on the park bench is now a distant memory.
As she says: 'Don't waste time. Find out about hormones. Life is good. Take it back again.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2708901/Revealed-The-hormone-gel-banish-depression-women-Its-revolutionary-discovery-lives-countless-women-currently-given-antidepressants-transformed-using-simple-rub-gel-instead.html#ixzz38shD0RqG
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Quick goulash soup with seeded dinner rolls - Traditional goulash flavour of paprika in a speedy form using beef mince and lots of vegetables for a hearty winter feed.
1. Heat a large saucepan with 1/2 tbsp oil, add mince and cook for 5 minutes, breaking up any lumps with a spatula.
2. Dice onion and add to pan with 2 crushed garlic cloves, 1 1/2 tbsp paprika and 1 tsp dried oregano. Cook for 2-3 minutes, or until aromatic.
3. Dice (or grate) zucchini and 1/2 jar roasted peppers. Add to soup with tomatoes, diced root vegetables, 1 stock cube and 1 tbsp tomato paste. Cook briefly, stirring.
4. Pour in 3 cups of water. Simmer, covered, for 15 minutes or until vegetables are just tender. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
5. Strip thyme leaves from 1/4 packet and combine with ricotta, remaining peppers, 1 garlic clove and 2 tbsp olive oil. Blend until smooth using a stick mixer or small processor. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
6. Ladle soup into bowls and serve with rolls and ricotta spread. Top with remaining thyme leaves if desired.
Warm rolls in the oven if desired.
Perfect dish for your slow cooker if preferred!


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Q: How do I portably add a large number of seconds to a time_t object? Well I think the title sums it up. Suppose I have an object of type double which I obtained from running std::difftime on two time_t objects, and now I want to add the resulting number of seconds back to a time_t object. I don't mind losing fractions of seconds.
Note that the number of seconds might be large (ie. larger than the 60 seconds allowed in struct tm, but always lower than any integer primitive used to represent seconds on the respective machine / implementation, and never larger than the order of 1 year, although preferably I would not like this to be a restriction).
How would I go about doing this portably (ie. as per C standard)?
I am hoping not to have to divide into months, days, hours, minutes etc. and add them manually to struct tm object. Surely there's a better way!?

A: Use localtime to convert your time_t value into a struct tm, which holds the time broken down into hours, minutes, seconds, etc. Adjust the number of seconds appropriately, then use mktime to convert the values in the struct into a time_t.

A: You are allowed to perform arithmetic with time_t values.
You can set up two struct tm objects one second apart (choose two times in the middle of a minute somewhere, where leap seconds are not allowed to occur, and at a local time where DST does not change), and call mktime() on them both to get two time_t values. Subtract the earlier of of those time_t values from the later, and this will give you a second in the same number of units in which time_t is measured on your system. Multiply this by the number of seconds you want to add, and add the result to your original time_t value. You can check the result by again calling difftime() on the original and new time_tvalues to see if the seconds difference was what you were expecting.
Note that even this isn't guaranteed to be portable, since technically, time_t isn't required to even have a resolution capable of distinguishing seconds, but it would be a pretty odd implementation that did not. Also, if time_t is a floating point value (which is unusual) and you wanted to add a really, really large number of seconds, you might run into floating point precision issues. In this case you could try adding hours for instance, instead of seconds, and set up your two struct tm structs accordingly. You might conceivably run into overflow issues with a large enough number of seconds, which you just can't do much about.

A: Seems like a duplicate of this.
"The C date/time type time_t is implemented as the number of seconds since a certain date, so to add seconds to it you simply use normal arithmetic."
Even if it's in C, there should be no difference to C++ :)

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Bacon Family papers
Identifier: HC.MC-1156
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries and photographs relating to the 20th-century Quakers Edith Farquhar Bacon and Francis Rogers Bacon, their families, forebears, friends and colleagues.
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections / Bacon Family papers
Dorothy Detzer Papers
Abstract Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection / Dorothy Detzer Papers
Kite-Bassett Family Papers
Overview The Kite and Bassett families were Orthodox Quakers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Lynn, Massachusetts, respectively. James Kite was born in 1808, the son of Benjamin and Rebecca Kite of Philadelphia. In 1837 he was granted a certificate to Salem Monthly Meeting in Massachusetts to marry Lydia B. Rodman, widow of Caleb Rodman and daughter of Isaac and Ruth Bassett of Lynn. James and Lydia had eight children, viz. Ruth, James Rodman, Eliza B., Rebecca, Isaac C. Bassett, Hannah B., Lydia...
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Kite-Bassett Family Papers
Emma Chandler MacClelland Papers
Overview Emma Chandler MacClelland was a Quaker who was involved in relief work in France during World War I with the American Friends Service Committee. She was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1895, and married Lee H. MacClelland after her return from France. She was a member of Reading Monthly Meeting at the time of her death in 1965. The collection contains correspondence of Emma Chandler MacClelland during the period, 1918-1919, in which she did relief work in France. Details her activities...
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Emma Chandler MacClelland Papers
Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers
Overview Wilbur K. Thomas (1882-1953), a Quaker born in Indiana, was executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee from 1918 to 1929. He graduated from Friends University in 1904, served as pastor of various Quaker churches, graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1907, earned a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1914, and was a member of Boston Friends Meeting after 1909. He was director of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation in Philadelphia from 1930 to 1946. The collection contains...
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers
Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief X


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Trailer for TARZAN 3D features a motion-captured Kellan Lutz as the Edgar Rice Burroughs hero
Published: October 22, 2013Posted in: News
Earlier this year at the Dallas International Film Festival, while talking about his Indonesian action film JAVA HEAT, I spoke to actor Kellan Lutz about his upcoming projects, including the motion-captured TARZAN 3D. Lutz was very excited about working on the film, and it became apparent he was a fan of the source material as well, which is always refreshing since most actors seem to get cast in iconic roles they know little or nothing about. There's a trailer online for the new Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation, courtesy of Addictomovie, though so far no American release dates have been announced. It should be noted this is a German production, so it will likely hit European audiences first. IMDB reports it was released in Germany on October 10, but I'm not finding confirmation of that or any advance reviews. It's directed by Reinhard Klooss, and features the voices of Spencer Locke, Brian Bloom, Jaime Ray Newman, Robert Capron, and Mark Deklin. The trailer below is obviously for International audiences, and I'm not quite sure if this is intended more for kids or young adults yet. Chances are we'll get an American trailer soon, so stay tuned for more details. In the meantime, check out your first solid look at the film, and tell us your thoughts in the comments.
Tarzan and Jane Porter face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan's parents, after they died in a plane crash.
Tarzan – Trailer #1 [VO|HD] by addictomovie
And here's my first interview I did with Kellan at Dallas International Film Festival 2013, where he talks a bit about TARZAN (skip to 6:12 for that section). I apologize for the uneven audio, for some reason my mic was way too low, though Kellan comes through loud and clear:
TARZAN 3D has no U.S. release dates defined as of this writing
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff.


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We think like our customers. Our key to success.
Company founder Klaus Faber. His life's work.
An entrepreneur is someone who is enterprising. A doer. A visionary. Someone who combines a willingness to take risks with strength of character. Who is brave. Who takes responsibility. Who burns for something in shaping a business. Klaus Faber is an entrepreneur. Heart and soul. Through and through. Looking at his journey through life and getting to know him quickly makes one realize that there could have been no other course for him but the one he has taken. Entrepreneurship, discipline, diligence and humility run through his life like a common thread. A success story – made in Germany.
Klaus Faber was born on September 30, 1924, in Bonn. His father is a train driver, his mother a housewife. He starts work at an early age. Having successfully completed his primary education in March 1938 at the early age of thirteen, he immediately starts an apprenticeship as an administrator at the town hall in Konz.
In 1947, Klaus Faber applies for jobs at Siemens and AEG. Both of them would take him and he goes for the job at Siemens. His potential is quickly recognized there and he is made head of the customs department. But he is already determined to go his own entrepreneurial ways, even then. When he wants to make this resolution a reality, Siemens is reluctant to let him go. But Klaus Faber insists on his decision.
"I didn't want a corporate career because it means having the next-higher person's feet on your head all the time."
In 1950, he and his wife establish Klaus Faber AG, a wholesale business for lighting and electrical appliances, in Saarbrücken – the first step into self-employment. In 1953, Klaus Faber takes on the representation of a medium-sized cable factory. The wholesale structures for electrical goods are not as developed as they are today and he sees that some customers have to wait for up to three weeks until they receive their cable supplies. Having an instinctive feeling for the issues of the future from early on, Klaus Faber hatches the idea of specializing in cables and wires as early as in the mid-1960s. The company then ultimately switches to selling cables and wires in the beginning of the 1970s. His enterprise is the first specialized company to import VDE-approved cables and wires from abroad.
"The most important good is the customer base".
Things are very difficult at first because his project is viewed sceptically by the producing companies abroad as well as his German clients. He works in the field service at the time, travels a lot. In his conversations with the managers of client companies he always emphasizes that he wants to place a greater focus on service and offer small cut lengths. The managers are as a rule easier to convince and more open-minded in their responses than the buyers. Klaus Faber is a fighter. Giving up is not an option for him. And his perseverance is rewarded as the first successes soon emerge. His self-conception as an honourable businessman always plays a decisive role in this.
The company shows continuous growth over the years. Growth being a permanent adjustment process, the warehouse locations originally situated at Lebacher Strasse and then in Riegelsberg and Beelen are moved to Fichtenau and Hedemünden. Meaningful strategic decisions that are vital for the company's success.
The company registers sales of six million Deutschmark in its first year. Ten years later, this figure has already grown to 20 million. When Klaus Faber established his company, he wanted it to be "small but mine". Today, Klaus Faber AG generates around 300 million euros a year with its workforce of over 200. A success story because his company rests on a firm foundation even if the industry has gone through its ups and downs over the years. Profits are always ploughed back. There have never been any dividends and Klaus Faber keeps it that way to this day. His focus is on the sustainable survival of a well-financed company, and thus on long-term planning and the responsibility to employees and clients.
"I am the owner, but I think as a team."
Klaus Faber thinks as a team – and into the future. He establishes the Klaus Faber Foundation in 2004. This foundation is dedicated to safeguarding the jobs and to funding medical science and research as well as projects of applied research, for example in fighting multiple sclerosis.
Klaus Faber celebrates his 70th year on the job in 2008. Retirement is a foreign word for him. Klaus Faber and the company form a unity – indivisibly connected. Klaus Faber remains actively involved in all corporate processes as chairman of the board until the beginning of 2016.
Klaus Faber has already arranged for his succession many years ago because he wants to make sure that his life's work is in good hands.
"I have been managing the company for 65 years now. Time flies and sometimes I need to pause for a moment to comprehend the way the company has taken since I established it in 1950 with my wife Elfriede. The beginnings were not exactly easy, but giving up has never been an option for me. I have struggled through and it has been worth it. Today, we are a stock company that generates around 300 million euros a year with our workforce of 230. This makes me very proud, also because the company has, despite a number of ups and downs, always stood on a firm base. And that has remained so to this day.
The long-term survival of the firm is a mission in life for me. As an entrepreneur I bear a social responsibility for my employees. It is for this reason that I have established a foundation whose primary purpose lies in safeguarding the company. I have arranged for my succession in due time, as well, so that my life's work will also be guided into the future."
"We get it done."