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Borgo Valsugana (en allemand : Burg im Suganthal) est une commune italienne d'environ  (2021) située dans la province autonome de Trente dans la région du Trentin-Haut-Adige dans le nord-est de l'Italie.

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Borgo Valsugana est située dans une parte étroite de la Valsugana, entre le mont Ciolino au nord et le mont Rocchetta au sud, tous deux pas très élevés. C'est le centre de la Basse Valsugana, situé dans un resserrement de la vallée. La petite ville s'est développée autour du fleuve Brenta, et est la seule ville du Trentin-Haut-Adige à s'être développée sur les deux rives d'un fleuve (Trente, par exemple, occupe une seule rive de l'Adige).

Histoire

Grâce à sa position de transition entre la Vénétie et le Trentin, Borgo Valsugana a toujours eu une certaine importance du point de vue historique, politique et économique.

Des origines à l'époque romaine
Les premiers centres habités se sont d'abord installés dans la Basse Valsugana à partir de l'âge du bronze tardif. Il s'agissait principalement de populations rhétiques et gallo-vénitiennes. La romanisation de la région a probablement eu lieu dans le , quand elle a été annexée au municipium de Feltria de la Regio X.

Le Moyen Âge

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Les campagnes de Bonaparte en 1796 marquèrent la fin d'une longue période de paix. Bonaparte est arrivé à Borgo Valsugana et y a passé la nuit avec  hommes, avant d'aller battre les Autrichiens du comte Wurmser le lendemain, le , près de Bassano del Grappa, lors de la bataille de Bassano.

Giacomo Casanova y séjourna les 4 et 5 novembre 1756, juste après sa fuite de la prison vénitienne des Plombs.

Jusqu'en 1918, la ville (appelée BORGO jusqu'à la fin du ) fait partie de la monarchie autrichienne (empire d'Autriche), puis Autriche-Hongrie (Cisleithanie après le compromis de 1867), chef-lieu du district de même nom, l'un des 21 Bezirkshauptmannschaften dans la province du Tyrol.

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Monuments et patrimoine
Parmi les monuments on souligne l'église principale, dédiée à la nativité de Marie, bâtiment du  assez intéressant. À côté de celle-ci, on trouve le campanile édifié par Tommaso Temanza et la petite église de San Rocco, complètement peinte par Francesco Corradi. Face à l'église principale il y a le palais où Napoléon Bonaparte a dormi quand il est passé par la Valsugana.

Sur la place principale il y a l'église de Sante Anne, qui était part d'un grand couvent dans le passé, presque entièrement détruit par un grand incendie dans le 1862. Un autre bâtiment du couvent qui n'a pas été détruit est ce qui constitue actuellement l'hôtel de ville.

Le centre-ville (et surtout sa part dénommée « Borgo vècio », c'est-à-dire « vieux Borgo ») est caractérisé par nombreux vieux palais et bâtiments, avec des décorations intéressantes. Près de l'église principale et à côté du fleuve Brenta il y avait un vieux grand bâtiment industriel du , qui a été transformé en siège du lycée. Face du lycée on a récemment réalisée le « Parc de la paix Alfredo Dall'Oglio. »

Hors du centre-ville, dans une position isolée dans le passé, il y a le sanctuaire d'Onea.

Sur le mont Ciolino, à l'extrémité nord de la ville, on trouve le couvent des frères franciscains et des sœurs, qui offre une merveilleuse vue sur la ville et les montagnes autour d'elle. On trouve aussi Castel Telvana, un château situé dans une position très panoramique, utilisé comme résidence privée et caractérisé par une tour très haute et étroite.

Administration

L'ancien maire, Laura Froner, est membre du Parlement italien depuis 2006 et fait partie du groupe du Parti démocrate.

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Communes limitrophes

Personnalités liées à Borgo Valsugana
 Alcide De Gasperi, chef du gouvernement italien
 Stefania Segnana, femme politique
 Matteo Trentin, coureur cycliste italien

Notes et références

Commune dans la province de Trente


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Were Qing Dynasty empresses prisoners of the imperial palace? Probably not. In the context of their times, the wives and consorts of the emperors of the last Chinese dynasty were highly respected — and powerful.
"Empresses of China's Forbidden City, 1644–1912" — an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's museums of Asian art in in Washington — presents ample evidence. The exhibition coincides with the 40th anniversary of the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China.
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So the last few posts, I have mentioned I was working on the second book of a series I am writing. But currently, I have closed that writing project since difficulties I have occurred. Mainly because I want to write in a different genre. Or really because I might have to rewrite the story all over again.
Either way, I started a new book. I plan on publishing as an ebook. It's a contemporary mystery. The story is for an older audience since there is mentioning of tattoos, drinking, and human tracking. If you are interested in reviewing it, let me know.
This story was actually based on a short story I wrote called Cursed. It is mainly about how society destroys a woman's perspective of herself. Sometimes leading to self-harm and on occasion, suicidal thoughts.
Lynn, the main protagonist is a high school drop out. After suffering from self-harm, self-abuse, and suicidal thoughts. The story begins ten months later, after coming out of rehab.
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El Campeonato Mundial de futsal de la FIFUSA 2000 fue la séptima versión del importante torneo y la última que organizó la FIFUSA; el campeonato se disputó en las principales Ciudades de Bolivia, entre el 15 de noviembre y el 28 de noviembre. en este certamen participaron 16 selecciones nacionales.

Los partidos se disputaron en Santa Cruz, Oruro, Cochabamba, Sucre y La Paz.
Por razones económicas el conjunto de Venezuela no pudo defender su título. Al final Colombia logró el título en la definición por penales venciendo al local en una de las mejores finales de todos los tiempos.

Antecedentes
El 24 de junio en los salones del Hotel Radisson La Paz, se llevó a cabo la ceremonia de sorteo de sedes e integración de zonas del VII Mundial de Futsal. Con la presencia del Ministro de Educación, Cultura y Deportes de Bolivia, Dr. Tito Hoz de Vila, el Viceministro de Deportes Lic. Juan Antonio Terán, el presidente de FIFUSA - Antonio Alberca García, su Comité Ejecutivo en pleno, el Presidente de la Federación Boliviana de futsal Angel Maldonado, Presidentes de las Federaciones Departamentales de Bolivia, Autoridades Consulares, Delegados de los países participantes, Invitados y numeroso público.

El acto protocolar transmitido por televisión nacional en directo a todo el país, se inició con el ingreso de las banderas de los países participantes, continuando luego con la presentación de la mascota oficial "Condorito" de algunos bailes típicos seguido de un vídeo institucional, luego de las palabras de rigor del Presidente de la Federación Boliviana, del Presidente de FIFUSA y del Ministro de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, el Director Ejecutivo de FIFUSA Teodocio Carbonell, se llevó adelante el sorteo acompañado de las modelos Susana Peredo, Yenny Vaca y Raquel Rivero.

Equipos participantes

Sistema de juego
Las 16 selecciones participantes disputaron la primera ronda en donde se crearon cuatro grupos de cuatro equipos donde avanzaban tres equipos de cada uno. Luego los 12 clasificados disputaban una segunda ronda de cuatro grupos de tres equipos en donde avanzaron dos equipos de cada grupo. Los 8 clasificados disputaron una fase final donde daban inicio en los cuartos de final. Los vencedores de cada llave pasaron a las semifinales y luego los ganadores de cada encuentro se enfrentaban en la gran final.

Primera fase

Grupo A

Grupo B

Grupo C

Grupo D

Segunda fase

Grupo I

Grupo III

Tercera fase

Cuadro general

Cuartos de final

Semifinal

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Premios y reconocimientos

Goleadores
En cursiva, jugadores y goles con los datos incompletos.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Official website - Bolivia 2000
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Having taken care of the problems presented by the Scythe tree, the party traveled north into the forest. This part of the Narlmarches was also somewhat depleted of resources, though not as heavily as other areas that the group had seen. Not long after they began their trek, they came across a small pond with a large old coach tree sitting at the edge. Next to the pond, the form of a woman was kneeling, crying into the pool. Gavriil the Human Arcanist was quick to move over to her, offering her comfort and asking what was the matter. The rest of the party fell in behind him, occasionally chiming in, though mostly they remained quiet and let their Grand Diplomat do the talking. The crying woman introduced herself as Tressia, a Dryad whose profound sorrow was caused by the 'great evil' that was in the forest.
After a bit of talk about this great evil, the Dryad named it– and to the party's surprise, it was the Scythe Tree! With a grin, the Arcanist informed her that the Scythe tree was dead– slain, in fact, by the efforts of Noruas the Human Gunslinger and Elysia the Half-Elf Ranger! Tressia was overjoyed at this revelation, and it was at this moment that from the edge of the clearing a Satyr jumped out, rejoicing as well! The Satyr, Tressia's dearly beloved, also proclaimed his joy for his friend's life saved, as the Scythe tree had developed quite the taste for Dryad trees and would have delighted in devouring Tressia's home. The pair of them were quite thankful, and offered some of their belongings to the group in a show of good faith. Gavriil spent some time trying to convince the pair that they should help the kingdom defeat the trolls that had been seen in the area, and indeed the duo were able to inform the party that the trolls were responsible for the overeating, overpicking, and overhunting that had caused so much devastation in the Narlmarches. Nonetheless, they stated that it was the balance of things for the strong to be undone, and that they need not take part in this shifting of balance– clearly, those before them were part of this balancing force!
Leaving the grove behind, the party continued onwards. The next day they found a pool, dirtied and fouled by the body of a majestic unicorn, its horn having been cut off near its base. Though there were no obvious signs of death, the Arcanist was able to detect faint traces of magic from the area. Elysia began examining the body, checking it for any hint as to how it died, but could only determine that it'd been dead for some time, that the normal bugs and decomposers had for some reason not touched the body, and that the horn was removed post-death. With some magical knowledge, Eneko the Human Bard/Cavalier was able to ascertain that the unicorn had been slain with a Finger of Death spell, a high-level Necromancy of a sort that he'd only read of before. After some debate, Gavriil decided against his first instinct of casting Create Lesser Undead upon the unicorn, instead favoring the burning of the body.
The next few days brought the group along the edge of the Narlmarches, where they could see at one point a great swamp to the west. The forest continued to look depleted and grim, moreso in some places, less in others. Travel continued down to the south-east, and finally the party reached a ruined keep, overgrown with plants and vines and crumbling inside and out. Four towers marked the four corners of the circular keep, and a central tower rose above the rest of the keep, though it was about as ruined as the rest of the area. An iron portcullis stood raised at the entrance to the keep, and the Gunslinger and Ranger decided to take a look around. Gavriil on the other hand began circling the walls, and found that the southern edge had crumbled sufficiently to allow people to climb over the walls if they were so inclined. Meanwhile the duo at the front gate found a trap, a mechanism that would close the portcullis after some had moved through! Noruas disabled the trap, and the party moved inwards.
The first thing noted on the inside was that much of the courtyard was overgrown with shrubbery and trees. Next noticed was the sound of vermin squeaking softly in the north-east tower, and then Gavriil's Detect Magic pinged something in the tower to the south-east. Deciding to send his rat familiar in to speak with the vermin, Gavriil released his little pal from underneath his hat, and sent him on his way. What he was able to learn from his familiar was that there were masses and masses of rats inside the tower, and that they were extremely hungry– not likely to come out of their tower home unless presented with food, but would very much pose a problem if intruded upon. Deciding to come back later with some rat food, the group moved on to the south-east tower, approaching it with curiosity. It was then that Noruas, bringing up the rear of the group, got a nasty surprise in the form of a knife in the back! Turning, she barely glimpsed a blur of movement before it was gone, out of sight!
Thus began an interesting running fight, which had the amazingly fast Quickling Fey darting in and out of sight, Noruas and Elysia attempting to shoot it when it appeared, Eneko attempting to reason with it, and Gavriil reasonably focused on trying to find the magical item he detected inside the tower. After several rounds of failed attacks upon the Quickling (120 move speed, Spring Attack, a miss chance due to a blur effect when moving at his incredible speed), the group decided on a more strategic way to deal with the Fey. Noruas and Elysia placed themselves with their backs to the crumbling walls, aiming down their weapons and preparing to attack when they saw the Quickling appear. Eneko laid out two Grease spells on the most likely approach to the party, and Gavriil prepared a Deep Slumber spell to cast upon the creature when it charged. As the Quickly charged in, cackling at how he couldn't be hurt, he was able to shrug off the Sleep spell, but as he struck at Eneko he was in turn struck by the Baron's whip, sending him crashing to the ground! Elysia's arrow and two loud blasts from Noruas's double-barreled musket quickly ended the life of the creature, removing the issue he presented.
This taken care of, and a small stash of valuables recovered from the Quickling's tower home, Gavriil decided their next stop should be the central tower. Entering in and examining the area, they found a staircase going up, but before they could get any further a noxious gas filled the room! While most of the party was able to fight off the slightly intoxicating effects of the poison gas before it dissipated, Gavriil found himself being drug into slight madness for a few moments before he too shook off the effects. The Arcanist was left with a bit of Wisdom damage, but other than that no one else was worse for the wear. With that taken care of, Elysia decided again that she needed to take point to keep an eye out for more traps, and the group ascended the stairs to find a small room, carvings etched into the walls, and a beautiful woman laying on a bed. Cautiously approaching her, they engaged in conversation, and the woman, who seemed very happy to see everyone. So happy in fact, that she began to dance, moving in quite the sensual way as to attract the eyes of everyone present. Noruas would have none of it and immediately turned herself away from it, while the rest of them remained non-plussed; the behavior extremely suspicious, many in the party began to ready their weapons…and then the woman danced over next to Gavriil, and grabbed him aggressively!
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Daddy DM says:
They all made their Will saves?
Matthew, the busy basilisk says:
They…*all* made their will saves. Now, this was aided by the Bard, who used the spell Saving Finale (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advancedPlayersGuide/spells/savingFinale.html) to end his Distraction performance that he started as soon as he saw the lady start to dance– a single failed roll thus passed.
Handy spell. That should make the encounter a cakewalk, though on the other hand you don't have to worry about a TPK. Area-of-effect save-or-die/suck (or do nothing, in this case) monsters can be a real headache. Everyone saves, monster can't do much. No one saves, quick, invent a reason it's not a TPK!


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review 1: Overall this was a pretty good issue. However since this is the first issue of Batgirl after Gail Simone's run there are some differences to get used to. First off the pros. Barbara's photographic memory was talked about and brought up in her previous run but here in this issue it's actually shown to the reader in a way that helps you to better appreciate how her mind works. I was iffy on the new art style at first but after seeing it in a full issue it's really very nice and I can see myself growing to like it.That being said what are the cons? Some of Barbara's words and actions in this issue aren't... well, Barbara. At least not the one fans have grown used to seeing. There were pages in the issue where I couldn't help but think "wow that doesn't seem like her." It wasn... more't an overpowering feeling but it did detract a bit from my enjoyment of the story. Granted with a new team there are going to be differences, but while the slight shift in her personality wasn't something I would label as bad or terrible it just seemed... off. It didn't flow with the image I have of Barbara Gordon and it was a distraction.Right at the beginning we see that Barbara and her roommate had a party at the new apartment and apparently Barabra was making out with a guy who ended up sleeping over on the couch. Granted Barbara is young, in college and many college kids drink (a lot) it still threw me off. Maybe it's just my perception but Barbara doesn't strike me as the type of person really party much. Of course that was in previous issues where she came off as more reserved and private all the time. The suggestion that she would make out with some guy she doesn't know or doesn't know very well threw me off quite a bit. It's especially weird to see after having read the earlier issues Batgirl and seeing Barbara with her boyfriend. However like I said at the beginning, overall I did enjoy this issue. I'm not quite ready to throw all my affections behind it but it has promise and I will give it a chance and see what happens in further issues. I can only hope others do the same.
Batgirl moves to Brooklyn (Burnside) to be a grad student. Somehow I identify with this!
Slow to start, but picking up speed now. I'm so eager to see more.


Is Cut-Flower Industry Promotion by the Government Negatively Affecting Pollinator Biodiversity and Environmental/Human Health in Uganda?
Copyright © 2014 Bin Mushambanyi Théodore Munyuli. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Bin Mushambanyi Théodore Munyuli, "Is Cut-Flower Industry Promotion by the Government Negatively Affecting Pollinator Biodiversity and Environmental/Human Health in Uganda?," ISRN Biodiversity, vol. 2014, Article ID 368953, 52 pages, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/368953.


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Stories from Saturday, December 8, 2012
Amanda and Shawn Stuckey (Wedding ~ 12/08/12)
Amanda Louise Jagels and Shawn David Stuckey, both of Kansas City, Mo., were married in Cozumel, Mexico, at 5 p.m., on June 10, 2012. The bride is the daughter of Ricky and Linda Jagels, Rich Hill, Mo., and granddaughter of Ruth Campbell, Rich Hill, and Marvin and Velda Jagels, Rockville, Mo. The groom's parents are Linda and Steve Smith, Greenwood, Mo., and Ron Stuckey, Unionville, Mo...
Emily Watts - Trevor Hinkle (Engagement ~ 12/08/12)
Robert and Janie Watts of Nevada announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Emily Watts, to Trevor Hinkle, son of Kenny and Janyce Hinkle of Nevada. Emily and Trevor plan to be married on Jan. 5, 2013, at First Presbyterian Church of Nevada...
Pvt. Crawford graduates basic combat training (Military News ~ 12/08/12)
Special to the Herald-Tribune Army Pvt. Lauren E. Crawford has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises.. ...
Uniontown girls finish tourney on high note (High School Sports ~ 12/08/12)
HUMBOLDT, Kan. -- Uniontown's girls finished their week in the Humboldt Emprise Bank Classic with an effort that pleased head coach Dustin Miller in a 52-14 pasting of Three Rivers League rival Crest. "We ended the week on a good note," MIller said. "This tournament has been a good test for us to see where we stand going forward. It has revealed to us the things we must work on to get better. I am very proud of how hard the girls have played."...
Fort Scott boys show tenacity in loss (High School Sports ~ 12/08/12)
ALTAMONT, Kan. -- It's not often one will find positives in a 20-plus-point loss such as the one Fort Scott High's boys suffered to Labette County in their league opener at Harrison Gymnasium Friday night. Consider, though, that the Tigers could have easily just played out the string after finding themselves down 27-1 late in the first quarter. Instead, they fought back and knocked the deficit down to 9 points three times in the second half before running out of gas and falling, 73-52...
Fort Scott girls fall in overtime at LCHS (High School Sports ~ 12/08/12)
ALTAMONT, Kan. -- Every coach will stress the importance of free throws. In a game such as this Friday night, free throws made a huge difference in the outcome of this Southeast Kansas League game at Harrison Gymnasium. Fort Scott High's girls made just 7 of 21 free throws on the night and went just 1 for 7 in overtime. Labette County's 10-of-14 performance at the charity stripe, meanwhile, was one of the major reasons the homestanding Grizzlies took a 44-42 victory...
FSCC men break losing streak; women's continues (College Sports ~ 12/08/12)
LEXINGTON, Mo. -- Fort Scott Community College's men broke a two-game losing streak here Wednesday night while the women's team dropped its sixth in a row following a 3-0 start to the season. Greyhound men (6-4) held off a Red Dragon rally in the second half to prevail, 71-69. Wentworth's women took a 48-41 victory...


Plastic: How long until it's gone?
Why is plastic in the oceans such a huge problem? It can take up to 600 years to break down, though it never REALLY decomposes!
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Gemin X Closes $8 Million Series E FinancingSupports Preparations for Phase 3 Pivotal Trial for Obatoclax in Small Cell Lung Cancer
MALVERN, PA and MONTRÉAL, QC – August 04, 2010 – Gemin X Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel, targeted cancer therapeutics, today announced the completion of its $8 million Series E round of financing. All of the company's preferred stockholders participated in the round, led by Caxton Advantage Life Sciences Fund, L.P. and Sanderling Venture Partners.
"We are pleased that our committed group of investors continue to support Gemin X and the future of our lead product candidate, obatoclax, as we explore strategic opportunities for this novel pan Bcl-2 inhibitor," said Peter R. Dolan, chairman and chief executive officer of Gemin X. "The Series E funding follows on a growing body of positive clinical data from our randomized, controlled Phase 2b study of obatoclax for the first-line treatment of extensive stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC), and we look forward to submitting this data for presentation at an upcoming medical conference. A positive outcome in ES-SCLC provides proof-of-principle that we expect could translate to multiple other cancer indications."
"As an early investor in Gemin X, I am proud of the company's achievements, most notably its progress in advancing obatoclax, a pan Bcl-2 inhibitor and the most advanced compound of its kind in the clinic today," said Robert G. McNeil, Ph.D., founder and managing director at Sanderling Venture Partners and member of the board for Gemin X. "When the survival data from the Phase 2b study of obatoclax becomes available, we anticipate that it will provide a strong foundation for achievement of the company's strategic goals."
Gemin X announced in March 2010 the completion of enrollment in its ongoing Phase 2b clinical trial of obatoclax (GX15-070) for the treatment of patients with ES-SCLC. This multi-center, randomized, controlled trial is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of obatoclax in combination with standard chemotherapy. In the study, a combination of carboplatin, etoposide and obatoclax (the CEO arm) is being compared to a standard regimen of carboplatin and etoposide alone (the control arm) in patients with ES-SCLC. The primary endpoint of the study is comparison of overall response rate (ORR) for the CEO arm versus the control arm, based on RECIST criteria. Secondary endpoints include comparison of six-month rate of progression free survival (PFS) as well as overall PFS. Patients are also being followed for overall survival (OS) and safety. The Phase 2b study is being conducted at more than 60 leading cancer centers, primarily in the United States and Europe.
"Since our initial investment in Gemin X in June 2008, the company has made tremendous progress with its portfolio of cancer therapeutics, particularly obatoclax, which is making strides in small cell lung cancer, an area where there has been no change in standard-of-care for over 25 years and where new and improved therapies are desperately needed. As a product candidate for the first-line treatment of patients with SCLC, we believe that obatoclax represents a significant market opportunity and an important addition to the treatment regimen. We remain enthusiastic supporters of the company and its novel scientific approaches to cancer management that are now gaining clinical validation," said Eric Roberts, co-founder and managing director at Caxton Advantage and member of the Gemin X board.
About Gemin X Pharmaceuticals
Gemin X is developing first-in-class cancer therapeutics based on reinitiating programmed forms of cell death, including apoptotic and autophagic cell death, and based on the inhibition of metabolism in cancerous cells. Gemin X currently has several clinical development programs underway, including a Phase 2 clinical trial for its lead product candidate obatoclax (GX15-070), an innovative pan Bcl-2 inhibitor, and GMX1777, a novel inhibitor of NAD+ synthesis that has completed a Phase 1 study. Gemin X also has preclinical studies underway for its Telomere Capping program. Potential treatment indications for the full scope of pipeline programs span a broad range of hematological and solid tumors, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), melanoma, small cell lung cancer (SCLC), lymphoma, myeloma and glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Founded in 1998, Gemin X is privately held with drug development and executive headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania and research and development in Montréal, Canada.


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Officials familiar with Lafayette Square confrontation challenge Trump administration claim of what drove aggressive expulsion of protesters
Officials from a number of federal agencies forcibly cleared protesters from the area around Lafayette Square and the White House on June 1. (Alex Brandon/AP)
Aaron C. Davis,
Aaron C. Davis
Carol D. Leonnig,
National investigative reporter focused on the White House and government accountability
Josh Dawsey and
Devlin Barrett
Reporter focusing on national security and law enforcement
June 14, 2020 at 10:31 p.m. UTC
During the nearly two weeks since authorities charged at peaceful protesters to push them from D.C. streets — about 30 minutes before President Trump walked through the area for a photo op — his aides, the attorney general and federal law enforcement officials have sought to shield the president from political fallout with a simple defense: One scene, they say, had nothing to do with the other.
The notion that the street-clearing offensive around Lafayette Square was already planned, and separate from Trump's decision to visit a nearby church, has emerged as the administration's central explanation for scenes of federal officers shoving protesters with shields and firing pepper balls, chemical grenades and smoke bombs at retreating crowds on June 1.
"This was not an operation to respond to that particular crowd. It was an operation to move the perimeter one block," Attorney General William P. Barr told CBS News last week.
However, the accounts of more than a half-dozen officials from federal law enforcement, D.C. public safety agencies and the National Guard who were familiar with planning for protests outside the White House that day challenge that explanation. The officials told The Washington Post they had no warning that U.S. Park Police, the agency that commanded the operation, planned to move the perimeter — and protesters — before a 7 p.m. citywide curfew, or that force would be used.
Among them is D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham, who said that while there had been discussions about possibly pushing the perimeter farther outward from the White House, there was not a confirmed time to do so. He noted that authorities did not actually secure the area with fencing until hours after protesters were cleared.
"When they extended the perimeter, it was overnight," he said.
Newsham said that his agency, which did not take part in the Lafayette Square operation, learned via police communications that force was going to be used to clear the protesters just moments after he and other officials were told that Trump would be walking to the church.
"We heard that there was going to be an unscheduled presidential movement," Newsham said. "Just a few minutes later, our teams on the ground learned [chemical] munitions were going to be used. The munitions were deployed minutes later."
Another D.C. public safety official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation, said it was as if the Park Police plan to move the perimeter had been "hurried up" around the time the president decided to walk to the church. The clearing of the area began just after 6:30 p.m., and Trump left the White House for the church about 7:02 p.m.
Lafayette Square clash, still reverberating, becomes an iconic episode in Donald Trump's presidency
The Washington Post reconstructed who did what to clear protesters from Lafayette Square, which sits north of the White House, on June 1. Watch how it unfolded. (The Washington Post)
Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said he was stunned to watch the scenes of protesters fleeing officers on television that evening.
"I never heard any plan, ever, that police or National Guard were going to push people out of Lafayette Square," said Lengyel, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
U.S. Park Police acting chief Gregory T. Monahan said in a statement to The Post that the timing and tactics were in response to what he said was violence by demonstrators.
Monahan said the operation to secure the street and install the fence "had been discussed as early as two days prior" and was "completely irrespective" of the president's later movement, which he said his agency did not know about.
Moving the perimeter, Monahan said, "was contingent upon having enough resources on scene. Given that the majority of law enforcement personnel did not report until later in the day, a late afternoon or early evening operation was inevitable."
The Park Police did not respond to questions about what time the fencing was eventually installed.
A spokeswoman for the Secret Service declined to comment, referring questions to Monahan.
Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said protesters were not moved to accommodate the president's walk to the church. "The decision to move the perimeter was made well before there was any plan for the President to leave the White House," she said in a statement.
A White House spokesman did not respond to a list of questions.
Trump has repeatedly played down the use of force that federal authorities deployed to clear the streets. "The protesters, agitators, anarchists (ANTIFA), and others, were handled VERY easily by the Guard, D.C. Police, & S.S. GREAT JOB!" he tweeted Thursday.
A senior administration official said Trump wanted protesters pushed farther away from the White House beginning that Monday morning. Throughout the day, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Barr had conversations about moving the perimeter, long before the president decided to walk across Lafayette Square, according to the official, who, like several others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations.
Photos and videos of protesters being hit with riot-control grenades as they were forced from streets around Lafayette Square, a historic site for protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, has elicited sharp criticism from former military leaders and apologies from the Pentagon's top general for his presence at the scene, and spurred multiple calls for investigations.
The new accounts of officials who spoke to The Post further deepen questions about who ordered the forceful dispersal of protesters, why the order was executed at that particular moment — when the crowd was at its thickest all day and protesters would soon be ordered home — and how police justified the aggressive tactics against largely peaceful demonstrators.
At least two other explanations the administration has offered for the police offensive have been undercut by witnesses and reporters at the scene.
The White House initially said the crowd was dispersed to help enforce the city's 7 p.m. curfew. But the curfew had not yet taken effect, and D.C. officials said they did not request any such help and were not on site participating. Park Police have repeatedly given a different explanation, saying officers responded with force after violent protesters began throwing bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids.
A video reconstruction published by The Post that analyzed footage from dozens of camera angles found no evidence before the offensive of such projectiles being thrown, although a few protesters threw partially full water bottles as officers massed for the offensive. Instructions given over police radios also showed that officers were executing planned "surges" to remove protesters, rather than responding to individual provocations.
Law enforcement statutes, codes of conduct and the terms of a federal class-action legal settlement indicate that the operation may have violated safeguards for protesters that the Park Police and the Justice Department agreed to in 2015, experts said. Those protections included providing demonstrators with repeated, clear warnings of officers' intentions, and then adequate time and avenues for them to disperse peacefully.
If the street-clearing operation was carried out to accommodate Trump's photo op, several additional rules of engagement for the U.S. Secret Service may have also been violated, according to several law enforcement officials, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss rules surrounding presidential security.
"I think we need a thorough investigation about what occurred there. Why was the crowd cleared? Who did it? Was it legal? We need to answer these questions," Newsham said. "I think we need to get all the details to see if this was lawful."
The president fumes
As dawn broke over Lafayette Square on June 1, the scars of a week of protests that had rippled out from Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd while in police custody were evident all around. Graffiti marred federal statues. Broken windows and vandalized storefronts were covered in plywood. And at the historic St. John's Episcopal Church at the corner of H and 16th streets, north of the White House, soot covered an entrance to a nursery, where a fire had been set during protests the night before.
Inside the West Wing, the president had stayed up late into the night Sunday, talking on the phone to friends about how he needed to restore order, and, in particular, to get D.C. "under control," according to the senior administration official.
Trump grew furious as he watched morning news reports that he had been hunkered down in a White House bunker two nights earlier during a chaotic night in which protesters breached a fence near the White House.
Protesters' breach of temporary fences near White House complex prompted Secret Service to move Trump to secure bunker
Trump fumed that he should invoke the Insurrection Act, allowing him to send active-duty troops into U.S. cities for the first time since the Rodney King riots of 1992.
That morning, the president asked Barr to coordinate the federal government response "to the violence and arson and in that role supported a plan to move the perimeter north of H Street," Kupec said.
Around 11 a.m., Barr and Meadows met to discuss pushing the perimeter boundary, one of several conversations they had throughout the day, the senior administration official said.
By that afternoon, Trump had also begun talking with a small circle of advisers, including Meadows, his daughter Ivanka Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner, White House social media director Dan Scavino and press aide Hogan Gidley about staging an event to show he was in command. One idea emerged: a visit by Trump to the damaged St. John's Church.
As the discussions continued, protesters and police begin trickling back downtown and filling in between the White House and the church for a fifth straight day.
Members of the D.C. National Guard — which had been activated to help with the city's covid-19 response and asked a day earlier by D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to pivot to traffic control around protests — received a new, urgent request: to serve in support of the U.S. Park Police, which has jurisdiction over Lafayette Square, according to D.C. and Guard officials. Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy, who for the D.C. Guard functions as a state governor would, approved the request, and guardsmen began arriving at the park at noon, a Guard spokesman said.
At 2 p.m., top law enforcement and military officials gathered at an FBI command center about a mile from the White House to plan for the night ahead.
There, Barr was working to assemble an auxiliary force of U.S. marshals, federal agents, homeland security personnel and even federal prison guards to multiply the number of law enforcement personnel on District streets by nightfall.
Barr seeks to subdue D.C. protests by 'flooding the zone' with federal firepower
Over the weekend, the Park Police had prepared a plan to expand the perimeter around the White House. Monahan said the move was necessary because both the public and law enforcement were at risk from ongoing violence. The Secret Service told the Park Police that "anti-scale fencing" would be procured and potentially delivered on Monday for installation along H Street, he said.
Barr said he approved the perimeter expansion Monday morning.
"It was communicated to all the police agencies, including the Metropolitan Police at 2 p.m. that day," the attorney general told CBS. "The effort was to move the perimeter one block, and it had to be done when we had enough people in place to achieve that."
During the 2 p.m. planning meeting at the FBI command center, Newsham and Barr looked over maps discussing various contingency plans not just for Lafayette Square, but for other parts of the city as well, according to one person in attendance.
Kupec said that the plan to move the perimeter was discussed at the meeting, adding: "No one voiced disagreement with that plan."
Newsham declined to comment on what was discussed but reiterated that there was no firm decision about when such an operation would take place.
"We knew that they were considering the perimeter expansion, but there was no indication if or when it would happen," said Dustin Sternbeck, a spokesman for the D.C. police.
Lengyel, who was also in attendance and would spend the afternoon pressing state Guard units to send 5,000 troops to further bolster security in D.C., said he remembers a discussion about "a larger, expansive zone" that would be set up at some point. But he said there was no indication during the discussion that police would forcefully set such a perimeter. "There was no talk that 'we're going to go in and push it out,' " he said. "I did not hear that discussion."
He said he was listening for issues that would affect the guardsmen on duty at Lafayette Square and recalled the meeting being mostly about whether D.C. police and U.S. Park Police would have adequate staffing for the night and how they would coordinate to quash protests and round up curfew violators.
Another person in attendance said the possibility of extending the perimeter was talked about in general terms.
"No one said in the room, 'We are going to push the perimeter back X amount of feet," a U.S. defense official said. "However, there was discussion about the possibility of having to do that if certain conditions existed."
According to the defense official, the officials said they would push back the perimeter "if they were not able to stop the protesters from committing vandalism around Lafayette Square. It was all conditions-based."
Back at Lafayette Square, 50 officers from the Arlington County Police Department soon returned at the request of Park Police for a second night of helping keep order around the federal park. At a stand-up meeting near the Treasury Building, beside the White House, their commander met with two U.S. Park Police captains, who said Arlington officers should prepare to help move the northern perimeter outward "at some point" later in the evening, according to County Manager Mark Schwartz.
Arlington officers were told the push would have to wait until more National Guard soldiers arrived to hold the line, as well as contractors to install the temporary new perimeter fence, Schwartz said.
However, a D.C. National Guard spokesman said that soldiers were at Lafayette Square all afternoon and that their force levels did not change significantly before the offensive.
'Hands up, don't shoot'
As the afternoon grew late, Meadows and other White House officials became frustrated that the perimeter had not yet been expanded. They were told that the Park Police still did not have enough people in place to do so, according to two administration officials.
A group of aides was putting the final touches on a speech the president would give in the Rose Garden that would begin: "I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters."
"Just minutes" before Trump's 6:15 p.m. address, he made a decision: He wanted to visit the church immediately afterward, the senior administration official said.
"It had been talked about all afternoon, but that's when the final decision was made," the senior administration official said.
Anthony Ornato, White House deputy chief of operations, alerted the Secret Service that the president was going to make a brief appearance outside St. John's Church, according to two people familiar with the plans.
"Of course it was going to have to be pushed back for him to go," said a second administration official. "It's not like the president of the United States is going to walk through a crowd like that. But we believed it was going to be pushed back either way."
At 6:08 p.m., a Post reporter spotted Barr arriving in Lafayette Square, where he was seen on camera conferring with other officials, including Ornato.
Kupec said the men were having "a brief discussion of the need to stay out of a range of projectiles and why the movement had not already occurred and when it would occur."
A peaceful chant of "hands up, don't shoot," broke down as people in the crowd began to point and murmur about officers massing in greater numbers along the northern edge of Lafayette Square.
There were dozens of Secret Service officers and the 50 Arlington County police clad in SWAT gear, according to a Post video reconstruction of the event. U.S. Park Police had over 80 officers with shields and 15 mounted on horseback. Behind them were D.C. National Guard and Air National Guard members with shields saying "military police."
Coming across the middle of Lafayette Square were U.S. marshals in camouflage with an armored personnel carrier. Some officers holding canister launchers and pepper ball guns had patches indicating they were guards from a U.S. penitentiary in Hazelton, W. Va.
The push to clear the area began shortly after 6:30 p.m. — roughly 10 minutes before Trump began speaking in the Rose Garden.
One protester, Stephan Starkes, 27, a security worker in Upper Marlboro, Md., noticed a man in a yellow Park Police helmet striding up and down the line, seemingly giving instructions. As Starkes began to wonder whether he should move farther away, some of the officers began pulling down their face shields.
"Then all of a sudden it got crazy," Starkes said. "You could hear people screaming, followed by loud cracks, you started to see smoke — people rubbing their eyes, people running."
As the push continued north, east and west, clouds of smoke filled the air. Park Police officers fired smoke canisters and pepper balls, a projectile munition that shoots irritant powder. A Post reporter witnessed protesters along H Street coughing, their eyes streaming with tears, and some of them vomiting. While the Park Police has said it did not use tear gas, the chemical agents it deployed cause intense irritation to the eyes and skin.
Sarah Rosner, a 37-year-old Dupont resident and lead bartender at the Four Seasons in D.C., was retreating along H Street, almost near St. John's Church, when her skin and eyes began burning from the gas, even though she was wearing goggles.
Holding her "Silence is Betrayal" sign, she shouted at an officer. "We are peacefully protesting!"
Rosner said the officer then shoved her to the ground with his shield. She fell backward and hit her head on the street before her friend and two others dragged her out of the way.
Questions about tactics
Former U.S. Capitol police chief Terrance Gainer said the street-clearing operation ran counter to "everything we train to do" to keep demonstrations peaceful and orderly. He said the perimeter should have been moved before dawn, as is routinely done to accommodate special events in the nation's capital.
"There was no reason to use force and fight," he said, adding: "If they wanted to clear that park, they could have done it in a very orderly way, giving people notice."
Although the Secret Service has broad authority under federal law to clear people from an area where the president plans to travel, several elements of the tactics used in the operation under the Park Police's command that evening violated Secret Service training and protocol, former agents said.
The Secret Service is trained to warn people in an area that they want to secure, with officers instructing them repeatedly that they need to move to another area, and directing them toward that safe location.
Shooting munitions and chemical gas is considered a last resort and could be deployed only after Secret Service and other federal officers made numerous audible warnings, and were met with forceful and violent resistance.
In the events of that Monday evening, former agents told The Post, the officers failed to make such audible warnings and failed to take gradual, incremental steps to properly move the crowd before escalating to a dramatic use of force.
The Secret Service declined to comment.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, a nonprofit legal group that often represents clients in First Amendment cases, said that if the police offensive was, as it appeared, an effort to clear a path for Trump, "presidential security does not give a pretext for wholesale brutal assault on demonstrators and journalists," she said.
"Just because they want to get him across the park does not mean they can attack people and use chemical weapons and assault them," she said. "Protecting the president is not a license for excessive force."
Verheyden-Hilliard signed the 2015 federal settlement with Park Police on behalf of protesters, which requires the agency to provide a "reasonable exit avenue" to those in the crowd and to position an officer at the rear who can certify that warnings to leave can be heard.
The June 1 footage appears to show that Park Police officers did not give adequate notice or direction to protesters that they must leave the public street, or how to peacefully do so, she said. Video indicates that the warnings were barely audible amid the crowd.
"It's clear Park Police committed a mass violation of constitutional rights, as well as very specific procedures," the agency agreed to in court, she said.
The Park Police did not respond to a request for comment on the 2015 settlement. In his statement, Monahan said the agency, "following standard operating procedures," issued three warnings to demonstrators over a loudspeaker.
In the aftermath of the Lafayette Square confrontation, the president has touted his decision to walk to the church as a way to show he had reclaimed the streets. Several top aides were rattled by the images of fleeing protesters, however, and worried it had been a mistake.
By the next morning, portions of a new black barrier were visible when reporters returned to the area at 7 a.m., following the end of the overnight curfew.
Neither U.S. Park Police, the Secret Service nor the contractor that installed the fencing would comment on what time crews put it in place.
Two days later, over a mile of hardened, concrete barrier was added. According to the Virginia company that delivered it, the barrier was ordered June 2, the day after streets around the park were cleared.
It has all since been removed.
Hannah Natanson, Samantha Schmidt, Peter Hermann, Alice Crites and Dalton Bennett contributed to this report.


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Autumn Budget: Expert comments from University of Warwick economists
Following Chancellor Rishi Sunak's announcement of the Autumn Budget, experts from the Department of Economics comment on some of the thinking behind policy decisions and the impact they might have.
Professor Ben Lockwood comments: "In my research with colleagues from the Centre for Business Taxation at the University of Oxford, we study the effect of business property taxes on the utilization of business properties in the UK, using property relief schemes such as Retail Relief to identify the effect of the tax on vacancy and occupation rates of business properties. We found that Retail Relief is the most effective of these schemes, delivering the most "bang for the buck" in terms of reducing vacancy rates, and on the basis of our research, we expect the 50% relief for retail and hospitality businesses just announced by the Chancellor for 2022/23 to have a major positive impact."
Read a blog on business rates co-authored by Professor Lockwood: https://oxfordtax.sbs.ox.ac.uk/article/business-rates-and-the-high-street
Professor Abhinay Muthoo comments: "The UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, set out his Budget yesterday afternoon, in Parliament. Several spending pledges had already been announced over the preceding days including that the minimum wage would be increased to £9.50, an increase of about 7%, and that the NHS would receive an additional £6bn which is on top of the recently announced £12bn from the Health and Social Care levy.
"The Chancellor faced the toughest and most uncertain economic situation and environment in peacetime, tougher than that faced after the 2007/08 financial and economic crisis. He was on the one hand concerned about economic growth over the coming period, which remains fragile, but at the same time he was concerned about making a start of bringing the public finances under control. Not easy to square these twin objectives, and in the current context when inflation is rising, and people, businesses and communities need continued support. And further investment is also needed in health, education, the climate crisis and the "levelling up" agenda.
"The Chancellor Rishi Sunak continued, in this Budget, to be bold and imaginative, as he was last year, when he noted that he would do whatever it takes. Unprecedented times do call for unprecedented approaches, policies and rules."
University of Warwick press office contact:
Peter Thorley
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Email: peter.thorley@warwick.ac.uk
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Know what is deadly and what is life-giving.
Are you aware there is one natural disaster that causes more deaths per year in the United States than floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes combined? According to research from the University of Maryland an average of 1500 residents of American major cities die because of the heat. The other natural disasters cause approximately 200 deaths annually in our country.
Yet, heat related deaths attract very little national attention. There are several factors that contribute to our lack of awareness of the danger of heat. First, death resulting from overheating does not always occur instantaneously and so we may not be aware of the actual cause of death until after the fact. Second, heat strokes do not produce the sensational media visuals that earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes do. Third, usually there is no loss of tangible property. In spite of what we say about the value of life, often we fear the loss of property more than we do the loss of life.
There is a spiritual parallel. When Christians lose their influence because of sexual, financial or abuse scandals it attracts attention and everyone grieves the death of Christian reputation and influence. While we must be aware that we are potentially susceptible to these scandals, they are not the most common reasons that Christian lose their spiritual vitality, influence and reputation. We forfeit the spiritual vibrancy of our souls and the opportunity to make a difference for the Kingdom of God more often by our sinful attitudes that we allow to go virtually ignored. We may not lose our jobs, families or positions in the church and community, but sinful attitudes do cause the death of spiritual vitality and Christian influence.
How do we avoid the spiritual disaster of sinful attitudes? We guard our hearts against anything that is destructive. We cannot avoid living in a world where sins exists, but we need to be careful that we do not over expose our hearts and minds to sinful influences. A heat stroke is not usually the result of hot weather, it is caused by over exposure on those hot days. In hot weather the medical community reminds us to drink plenty of water and to get proper rest. As Christians we cannot avoid all contact with the attitudes of the world, but we need to protect our souls and attitudes through worship, Bible study and Christian fellowship. Failure to engage in corporate worship, small group Bible study and daily devotions will allow the heat of life to crush your spirit and your attitude and your Christian influence will die.
See you this Sunday as we observe communion and nothing restores and gives life like remembering the new life Jesus gave us through His death and resurrection.


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Mount Sinai Researchers: Why COVID-19 May Be Less Common in Children Than Adults
Findings Published in JAMA Could Lead to Potential Biomarker of Susceptibility
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Wise Up
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A WEIRDo's Guide to Exercise
The Man Box
Enough with the Mindfulness
PTSD, Meet MDMA
Year of the Pandemic
Theater of War
Workshopping Resilience
Cancer is Me
The Indestructible Judith Hunt
The Price of Perfection
Our Better Angels
Three Generations of Autism Advocates
I Am Not My Hair
Coping After a Natural Disaster
Unmaking Painful Memories
Rewrite Your Script
Three Good Things
The Recharge Room
Emily & Kumail on Staying In
The Givers
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The virus that causes COVID-19 uses a receptor known as ACE2, found on the surface of certain cells in the human body, to enter its victims. Now, Mount Sinai researchers have found that children have lower levels of ACE2 gene expression than adults, which may explain children's lower risk of COVID-19 infection and mortality. Gene expression is a measure of how much a gene is transcribed. These results, published in JAMA on Wednesday, May 20, may point to a potential biomarker of susceptibility to the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2.
"ACE2 expression may be linked to our susceptibility to COVID-19," says lead author Supinda Bunyavanich, MD, MPH, Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. "ACE2, which stands for angiotensin converting enzyme 2, is a receptor that some might be familiar with because of its role in blood pressure regulation. The coronavirus uses ACE2 to enter the human body, where it spreads. ACE2 is known to be present in our airway, kidneys, heart, and gut. In our study, we took this knowledge a step further, finding that there are low levels of ACE2 expression in the nasal passages of younger children, and this ACE2 level increases with age into adulthood. This might explain why children have been largely spared in the pandemic."
The research focused on ACE2 due to its significance in COVID-19 infection. The nasal passages are usually the first point of contact for SARS-CoV-2 and the human body. Dr. Bunyavanich's study is one of only a few examining the relationship between ACE2 in the airway and age.
The retrospective analysis, led by Dr. Bunyavanich, examined nasal passages epithelium from Mount Sinai Health System patients aged 4 to 60. The researchers found ACE2 gene expression in nasal epithelium was age-dependent, lowest in younger children and increasing with age into adulthood.
Tags: COVID-19 Facts and Resources, Department of Genetics & Genomic Sciences , Genetics, Icahn Genomics Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, Patient Care, Pediatrics, Research, Supinda Bunyavanich, MD
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is one of three medical schools that have earned distinction by multiple indicators: It is consistently ranked in the top 20 by U.S. News & World Report's "Best Medical Schools," aligned with a U.S. News & World Report "Honor Roll" Hospital, and top 20 in the nation for National Institutes of Health funding and top 5 in the nation for numerous basic and clinical research areas. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
For more information, visit https://www.mountsinai.org or find Mount Sinai on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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/*
 * Author: Ralph Mor, X Consortium
 */

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>
#endif
#include <X11/SM/SMlib.h>
#include "SMlibint.h"
#include <stdio.h>

/*
 * Default Smc error handler.
 */

void
_SmcDefaultErrorHandler(SmcConn smcConn, Bool swap, int offendingMinorOpcode,
			unsigned long offendingSequence, int errorClass,
			int severity, SmPointer values)
{
    char *pData = (char *) values;
    const char *str;

    switch (offendingMinorOpcode)
    {
        case SM_RegisterClient:
            str = "RegisterClient";
	    break;
        case SM_InteractRequest:
            str = "InteractRequest";
	    break;
        case SM_InteractDone:
            str = "InteractDone";
	    break;
        case SM_SaveYourselfDone:
            str = "SaveYourselfDone";
	    break;
        case SM_CloseConnection:
            str = "CloseConnection";
	    break;
        case SM_SetProperties:
            str = "SetProperties";
	    break;
        case SM_GetProperties:
            str = "GetProperties";
	    break;
	default:
	    str = "";
	}

    fprintf (stderr, "\n");

    fprintf (stderr, "XSMP error:  Offending minor opcode    = %d (%s)\n",
	offendingMinorOpcode, str);

    fprintf (stderr, "             Offending sequence number = %ld\n",
	offendingSequence);

    switch (errorClass)
    {
        case IceBadMinor:
            str = "BadMinor";
            break;
        case IceBadState:
            str = "BadState";
            break;
        case IceBadLength:
            str = "BadLength";
            break;
        case IceBadValue:
            str = "BadValue";
            break;
	default:
	    str = "???";
    }

    fprintf (stderr, "             Error class               = %s\n", str);

    if (severity == IceCanContinue)
	str = "CanContinue";
    else if (severity == IceFatalToProtocol)
	str = "FatalToProtocol";
    else if (severity == IceFatalToConnection)
	str = "FatalToConnection";
    else
	str = "???";

    fprintf (stderr, "             Severity                  = %s\n", str);

    switch (errorClass)
    {
        case IceBadValue:
        {
	    unsigned int offset, length, val;

	    EXTRACT_CARD32 (pData, swap, offset);
	    EXTRACT_CARD32 (pData, swap, length);

	    fprintf (stderr,
		"             BadValue Offset           = %d\n", offset);
	    fprintf (stderr,
		"             BadValue Length           = %d\n", length);

	    if (length <= 4)
	    {
		if (length == 1)
		    val = (unsigned int) *pData;
		else if (length == 2)
		{
		    EXTRACT_CARD16 (pData, swap, val);
		}
		else
		{
		    EXTRACT_CARD32 (pData, swap, val);
		}

		fprintf (stderr,
	            "             BadValue                  = %d\n", val);
	    }
            break;
	}

	default:
	    break;
    }

    fprintf (stderr, "\n");

    if (severity != IceCanContinue)
	exit (1);
}

/*
 * Default Sms error handler.
 */

void
_SmsDefaultErrorHandler(SmsConn smsConn, Bool swap, int offendingMinorOpcode,
			unsigned long offendingSequence, int errorClass,
			int severity, SmPointer values)
{
    char *pData = (char *) values;
    const char *str;

    switch (offendingMinorOpcode)
    {
        case SM_SaveYourself:
            str = "SaveYourself";
	    break;
        case SM_Interact:
            str = "Interact";
	    break;
        case SM_Die:
            str = "Die";
	    break;
        case SM_ShutdownCancelled:
            str = "ShutdownCancelled";
	    break;
	default:
	    str = "";
	}

    fprintf (stderr, "\n");

    fprintf (stderr, "XSMP error:  Offending minor opcode    = %d (%s)\n",
	offendingMinorOpcode, str);

    fprintf (stderr, "             Offending sequence number = %ld\n",
	offendingSequence);

    switch (errorClass)
    {
        case IceBadMinor:
            str = "BadMinor";
            break;
        case IceBadState:
            str = "BadState";
            break;
        case IceBadLength:
            str = "BadLength";
            break;
        case IceBadValue:
            str = "BadValue";
            break;
	default:
	    str = "???";
    }

    fprintf (stderr, "             Error class               = %s\n", str);

    if (severity == IceCanContinue)
	str = "CanContinue";
    else if (severity == IceFatalToProtocol)
	str = "FatalToProtocol";
    else if (severity == IceFatalToConnection)
	str = "FatalToConnection";
    else
	str = "???";

    fprintf (stderr, "             Severity                  = %s\n", str);

    switch (errorClass)
    {
        case IceBadValue:
        {
	    unsigned int offset, length, val;

	    EXTRACT_CARD32 (pData, swap, offset);
	    EXTRACT_CARD32 (pData, swap, length);

	    fprintf (stderr,
		"             BadValue Offset           = %d\n", offset);
	    fprintf (stderr,
		"             BadValue Length           = %d\n", length);

	    if (length <= 4)
	    {
		if (length == 1)
		    val = (unsigned int) *pData;
		else if (length == 2)
		{
		    EXTRACT_CARD16 (pData, swap, val);
		}
		else
		{
		    EXTRACT_CARD32 (pData, swap, val);
		}

		fprintf (stderr,
	            "             BadValue                  = %d\n", val);
	    }
            break;
	}

	default:
	    break;
    }

    fprintf (stderr, "\n\n");

    /* don't exit() - that would kill the SM - pretty devastating */
}

/*
 * This procedure sets the Smc error handler to be the specified
 * routine.  If NULL is passed in the default error handler is restored.
 * The function's return value is the previous error handler.
 */

SmcErrorHandler
SmcSetErrorHandler(SmcErrorHandler handler)
{
    SmcErrorHandler oldHandler = _SmcErrorHandler;

    if (handler != NULL)
	_SmcErrorHandler = handler;
    else
	_SmcErrorHandler = _SmcDefaultErrorHandler;

    return (oldHandler);
}

/*
 * This procedure sets the Sms error handler to be the specified
 * routine.  If NULL is passed in the default error handler is restored.
 * The function's return value is the previous error handler.
 */

SmsErrorHandler
SmsSetErrorHandler(SmsErrorHandler handler)
{
    SmsErrorHandler oldHandler = _SmsErrorHandler;

    if (handler != NULL)
	_SmsErrorHandler = handler;
    else
	_SmsErrorHandler = _SmsDefaultErrorHandler;

    return (oldHandler);
}

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