Giving a free gift increases response.
Be at the printer when your brochure is being run to check the quality.
Highlight the free gift prominently.
Let the design of your direct mail package follow your subject matter.
Make your offer easy to respond to.
Evaluate your competitors promotional material.
Prove your claim with details to add credibility.
Make sure your mailing speaks to all of your potential customers.
Using graphics or a color background can increase response.
Thinks through all the possible uses of your mailing before it is designed.
Eliminate risk by offering a free trial or guarantee.
Make all your writing changes before typesetting.
Always make the most powerful offer you can for thegreatest response.
For self-mailers, check with your Post Office on postal rates and design before preparing artwork.
Write your copy in plain, simple English. No buzz words.
For self-mailers, back up the reply form with the key-coded mailing label.
Make your offer easy to understand -at a glance.
Have someone else proofread your copy and look over your artwork.
Invest in a direct mail copywriter and a graphic designer for higher response.
More benefits make for greater response.
For good copy and design people ask someone who has mailed successfully.
Put benefits on the reply card, in the P.S. and on the outer envelope.
Get input from your printer on your direct mail package.
Benefits are the reasons to buy, promise many.
Ask your printer about your paper options.
Use an incomplete P.S. in your letter. Make your letter look like a personal, typewritten letter from you.
Include a "lift note" as an additional reminder of the benefits.
Ask for the order right away.
End a page of a letter in the middle of a sentence to encourage turning of the page.
Your offer should be the most prominent copy in your piece.
Tell the whole story in the letter and on the brochure. Make all your points on one side of your brochure.
Keep your paragraphs short. Break up long copy with graphic devices.
Start your letter selling immediately. Don't give a history or use humor.
Eliminate the risk with a free trial period and assured nationwide service.
Keep the sales pitch positive and benefits driven.
Use typefaces that are easy to read, inviting, accessible and exciting.
To get orders, use long copy and include every benefit.
Encourage immediate action. Give an order deadline for a Free gift.
To get leads, use short copy to tease the reader to respond.
Include the price. The reader can compare benefits with your price.
Include postage paid or a return envelope in your mailing.
Your product should encourage repeat business - the heart of successful direct mail.
Have a toll-free 800 or 888 number.
Delivery of your product must be easy and economical.
Offer a special discounted price.
Make your order form simple and easy.
Increase response with a deadline.
Tell your reader what to do.
Introduce an add on product as a free gift with the purchase of a current product.
Use testimonials using a name, title and affiliation attached to the quote.
Use capital letters, bold facing, underlining, handwritten notes, a second color and paragraph indents.
Offer your customers to pay by installment.
Tell your reader to respond in the beginning, middle and end of your letter.
Your offer must induce the reader to respond now.
Offer free information, freedemonstrations and free samples.
Continue to develop new offers to test against your current offer.
Response options should be open to phone, fax, e-mail and mail.
Your offer must be simple and easy to understand.
Before preparing a reply card or envelope, check with the Post Office.
Be careful not to confuse a feature with a benefit. Emphasize benefits.
Highlight your phone number and give the reader a reason to call.
The appearance of your letter should attract attention.
Set up a telephone answering procedure to deal with the incoming calls.
Break your letter down to smaller "bite- size" segments.
Get the readers involved by tearing out a coupon or answering several questions.
Put an photo of your product on top of your letter to increase response.
Use handwritten notes to summarize key benefits of your offer.
Make alluring promises in the beginning of your letter to entice the reader to continue.
Use the middle of your letter to prove how the benefits are true.
Show a picture of your product or brochure.
Use the last part of your letter to assure the reader of the no-risk guarantee.
Use key words that will stimulate your target audience.
Link benefits with key features.
Maintain a list of customers and inquiries as an in-house list. This is the best list you will ever use.
Restate your offer near the end of your letter.
Store all your customer and inquiry data on computer.
Use captions under photos to sell.
Order your mailing list early.
The P.S. is one of the most frequently read parts of a letter.
Merge-purge all of your mailing lists.
Your envelope should sell as well as get the reader to open it.
Discuss list selection with your mailing list professional.
If you have a strong offer, begin your benefits on the outer.
Repeat your offer and benefits on your reply card.
Expand your supplier network by asking your suppliers to recommend other suppliers.
Make your reply card look like a certificate.
Get estimates from mailing list professionals.
Mail several pieces to yourself to determine the timing.
Get realistic timetables from your suppliers.
Keep in touch with your suppliers throughout your entire mailing.
When hiring copy writers, designers, printers and lettershops, see samples of their previous work.
After your mailing, evaluate your mailing. Can it be improved?


Ants is considered the highest form in insects evolution. They evolved the highly structured society. They have their powerful strings. They do not have many predators. They seem dominate in the insect class. They are quite different from others insects. However, if we learn more about Sawfly and wasp, we can see the evolution track from Sawfly to Ants.
It is believe that the ancestor of hymenopterans, i.e., wasp, ants etc., look like the Sawflies today. We can find the special features in wasps and ants, the early images are still retained in Sawflies.
How they got their strings?
Sawflies are closely related to wasps. They got their name because the have their special egg-laying tool, like a saw, to cut through leaf tissue for their eggs. Their adults look similar to wasps except they do not have the 'waist'. Although sawflies do not sting, they use their ovipositors to cut open the surface of the leave to lay and insert their eggs inside. It is not hard to imagine how they accidentally turn their ovipositors to their enemy and become their weapon. By natural selection, their ovipositors become their strings.
How they become the hard working parents?
Although Sawflies do not supply food to their young, they guard them until they hatch. The female sawfly will stay near the eggs and watch her baby come out. Then usually she will die. But if some of the sawflies accidentally have a habit that she brings some food to her baby, and those food are accepted by her baby larva, it is a very good habit and natural selection will quit likely select this. The larvae will have a much better chance to live and become adults. Some of them will quite likely inherited the 'bring food to larvae' character. This group of sawflies will become more in number. The 'bring food to larvae' character will be enhance by evolution. After a long time, this character diverged and become the different form of parental care that we can see in wasp, ants and bees.
How they build their society?
There are quite a number of different theories that explain why some of the hymenopterans are social insects. There is one or a few individuals who lay eggs, most others are workers and help to look after the young. It is general accepted that the major reason is the genetic structure of hymenopterans so the the kinship of sisters are even higher than mother and child. However I can see there is another factor, may be it is not as important as the kinship theory, but could be important in the beginning of the hymenopterans society evolution. We can see this from the sawfly. The larvae of sawflies, unlike more other caterpillars of moths and butterflies, are always stay together when at rest. If so happen that they stay together in a nest even after some of them become pupa. Some of them become adults. Adults lay more eggs in the nest. Adults bring foods to the nest. Now you can see the primary form of the society has just formed.
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The Sunday spotlight series is a way for me of sharing the love and support I've received from the wonderful book blogging community since the release of my book First Came Forever. Every Sunday I will shine some light on an amazing blogger, bookstagrammer or other lovely book community person.
This week the spotlight is all on the gorgeous Touch My Spine Book Reviews blog, run by the absolutely wonderful Dani.
I've gotten to know Dani the past months and am proud to call her a friend. Dani is an incredible, strong, courageous and marvelous person. Despite all the hardship she has been through in her life, she has not only survived and endured all that has happened, but has managed to stay the warm, kind, empathetic, awesome, funny and fierce person that she is.
At Touch My Spine Book Reviews, Dani shares her passion for books. I absolutely adore this blog, it's so personal and positive, with feelings all over the place and happy, loving vibes. I often laugh out loud from all the funny comments and quirky gifs and the emotions running wild. The mix with amazing reviews, hilarious rants like "funny book dedications" and "funny things written by kids" makes this blog so much more than an ordinary book blog. I love that you can really feel Dani's love for books all over, she really puts her heart into her reviews and has so much personal commitment to all the books she's reviewing. Please head over to check Touch My Spine Book Reviews out if you are not already following it, as this blog, and Dani herself, deserves all the love in the world.
I can't think of anyone who deserves the spotlight and all the love in the world more than Dani. So please head over to her blog and give her your love and support!
Finally, I wish to say thank you to all of you who have written about the book, shared your pictures and just been so supportive and kind to me. I love and adore you all and am so grateful!
I'm so glad you've featured Dani! She's an amazing person and her blog is fantastic!
Thank you, Kim, so sweet of you! I couldn't agree more, Dani sure is an amazing person and her blog is absolutely fabulous!
Great post. Lovely shout out to Dani, one of my favourite blog stops everyday.
Thank you, Nina! So happy to hear that Dani's blog is one of your favorites as well!


Wally Kogen is a travel agent who takes Homer Simpson and his friends to the Super Bowl. He and Homer first met in a pyramid scheme and later met while Homer was waiting to get his car tires replaced.
Wally is a travel agent who is often tricked into buying things. He once went into a tire store to use the phone and was tricked into buying their "Road King Package". He also bought counterfeit Super Bowl tickets, which were printed on crackers. He also knows Dolly Parton and got her to help him and his friends break out of jail.
He was seen during Trappuccino.
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Q: Show: If $C\subseteq\{X,Y\}^*$ is prefix-free and $|C|=2^n$, $\sum\limits_{w\in C}\operatorname{length}(w)\ge n2^n$. For two letters $X$,$Y$ one can form $2^n$ words (arbitrary sequences composed of the letters $X,Y$) such that none of these words is an initial segment of any other of these words.
An initial segment of a word can be of any length, from a single first letter, to the whole word. Show that the sum of lengths of these words is at least $2^nn$.
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I have tried using Huffman Tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding as my understanding is that the question is asking is that if a huffman tree has n nodes, the sum of the length of the encoding is >= n*2^n.
However I have not had any luck using this route. I am wondering if I should look to proof by contradiction and/or Induction Method to make another attempt at it.
Any thoughts or leads would be really helpful!

A: This is actually a special case of a more general result: if $C$ is a set of $m$ words over the alphabet $\{X,Y\}$ such that no word in $C$ is an initial segment of any other word in $C$, then the total length of the words in $C$ is at least $m\lg m$, where $\lg m=\log_2m$ is the binary (base two) logarithm of $m$. This evidently reduces to the desired result when $m=2^n$. I may be missing something simple, but I don't see a proof of the special case in the question that is any simpler than proofs of the general result. I came up with two proofs of the general result, one using the Kraft-McMillan inequality and one using more elementary ideas.
For convenience let $\ell(w)$ be the length of $w$ for each word $w$ over $\{X,Y\}$, so that the result is that $\sum\limits_{w\in C}\ell(w)\ge m\lg m$.
The Kraft-McMillan inequality says that
$$\sum_{w\in C}2^{-\ell(w)}\le 1\,,$$
and multiplying by $\frac{m}{\sum_{w\in C}2^{-\ell(w)}}$ yields the inequality
$$m\le\frac{m}{\sum\limits_{w\in C}\frac1{2^{\ell(w)}}}\,.\tag{1}$$
The righthand side of $(1)$ is the harmonic mean of the numbers $2^{\ell(w)}$ for $w\in C$, and the harmonic mean of a set of positive real numbers is less than or equal to the geometric mean of those numbers, so
$$m\le\left(\prod_{w\in C}2^{\ell(w)}\right)^{1/m}=2^{\frac1m\sum_{w\in C}\ell(w)}\,.$$
Now take binary logs on both sides:
$$\lg m\le\frac1m\sum_{w\in C}\ell(w)\,,\tag{2}$$
so
$$\sum_{w\in C}\ell(w)\ge m\lg m\,.$$

If one hasn't already noticed the fact, $(2)$ makes it clear that the result can also be thought of as saying that the mean length of words in $C$ is at least $\lg m$.

If the Kraft-McMillan inequality isn't available, one can prove the result by induction on $m$. You can easily verify that it holds for $m=1$ and $m=2$. Now assume that the result holds for all such sets of fewer than $m$ words. Arrange the words over the alphabet $\{X,Y\}$ in an infinite binary tree $T$:
                             *         Level 0
                            / \
                           /   \
                          /     \
                         X       Y     Level 1
                        / \     / \
                       /   \   /   \
                      XX   XY YX   YY  Level 2

The left child of a word $w$ is $wX$, and the right child is $wY$. Observe that a word $u$ is a prefix of a word $w$ if and only if the vertex $u$ is on the path from the root $*$ to the word $w$. Thus, the $m$ words must lie on $m$ distinct branches of $T$. If $m=2^n$, for instance, they could (but need not) be the $2^n$ words on Level $n$, in which case their total length would be exactly $n2^n$.
Let $C_X=\{w:Xw\in C\}$ and $C_Y=\{w:Yw\in C\}$; clearly no word in $C_X$ is an initial segment of any other word in $C_X$, and similarly for $C_Y$. Let $m_X=|C_X|$ and $m_Y=|C_Y|$, and assume for now that $m_X\ne 0\ne m_Y$. The induction hypothesis then ensures that
$$\sum_{w\in C_X}\ell(w)\ge m_X\lg m_X$$
and
$$\sum_{w\in C_Y}\ell(w)\ge m_Y\lg m_Y\,.$$
Now $m_X+m_Y=m$, so
$$\begin{align*}
\sum_{w\in C}\ell(w)&=\sum_{w\in C_X}\big(1+\ell(w)\big)+\sum_{w\in C_Y}\big(1+\ell(w)\big)\\
&=m_X+\sum_{w\in C_X}\ell(w)+m_Y+\sum_{w\in C_Y}\ell(w)\\
&=m+\sum_{w\in C_X}\ell(w)+m_Y+\sum_{w\in C_Y}\ell(w)\\
&\ge m+m_X\lg m_X+m_Y\lg m_Y\\
&=m+m_X\lg m_X+(m-m_X)\lg(m-m_X)\,.
\end{align*}$$
It's an easy exercise in basic calculus to determine that the function
$$f(x)=x\lg x+(a-x)\lg(a-x)$$
has a minimum at $x=\frac{a}2$, so
$$m_X\lg m_X+(m-m_X)\lg(m-m_X)\ge m\lg\frac{m}2=m(\lg m-1)\,,$$
and
$$\sum_{w\in C}\ell(w)\ge m+m(\lg m-1)=m\lg m\,,$$
as desired.
What if one of $m_X$ and $m_Y$ is $0$? In that case the words in $C$ all share a non-empty maximal common initial segment $u$, and since $u$ is maximal, both $uX$ and $uY$ are initial segments of at least one word in $C$. Let $C_0=\{w:uw\in C\}$, the set of words obtained by removing the common initial segment $u$ from the words in $C$. Then
$$\begin{align*}
\sum_{w\in C}\ell(w)&=m\ell(u)+\sum_{w\in C_0}\ell(w)\\
&\ge m\ell(u)+m\lg m\\
&>m\lg m\,.
\end{align*}$$
The result now follows by induction.

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Daily Prayer Briefing Posted on February 20, 2021 • Updated February 19, 2021 268
Heading into the weekend, the administration is continuing working with Congress leaders on a COVID-19 economic relief package. The current proposal sits at $1.9 trillion in aid and is a combination of various measured approved by congressional committees. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that a vote on the bill could come sometime next week.
On Friday, President Joe Biden traveled to Kalamazoo, Michigan, to tour the Pfizer Manufacturing Site. "I came here because I want the American people to understand the extraordinary — extraordinary work that's being done to undertake the most difficult operational challenge this nation has ever faced," the president said when speaking to Pfizer employees. He added that, with increased vaccination numbers, the end of the pandemic might be in sight, "I believe we'll be approaching normalcy by the end of this year. And God willing, this Christmas will be different than the last."
Due to the new strains of the virus and many unknown variables, President Biden cautioned, "But I can't make that commitment to you. There are other strains of the virus… Things can change. But we're doing everything the science has indicated we should do, and people are stepping up to get everything done that has to be done."
On Saturday, the president is remaining in Washington, D.C., and has no public events on his schedule at this time.
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
For administration officials and members of Congress to seek God's will as they negotiate the details of the COVID-19 relief bill.
For God to be at work through the president to accomplish His will on Earth and for America.
For the president to seek wisdom from God in every upcoming decision that he faces.

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New Imaging Technology May Help Doctors Diagnose Amyloidosis
Feature September/October 2015
Author: Summer Allen
One December day in 2013, Michael Rasmussen realized that just chewing his food made him tired. Short walks felt draining. At one point, he became so tired that he sat down and didn't get up for three days. Rasmussen had been a man in perfect health. For 30 years, he lived as an artist in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and walked or biked everywhere. He even bicycled across the United States five times. But now he had slid into a horrible medical mystery.
A chest cold became pneumonia. He had asthma attacks. He started bleeding out of his colon. He was scared. He was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, but the treatment didn't work. He was referred to a urologist, to a pulmonologist, and to a nephrologist. In the process, the uninsured Rasmussen racked up thousands of dollars in medical bills. And then, in the spring, a nephrologist ordered a kidney biopsy and stained it with Congo red, a dye that sticks to a substance called amyloid. Now, Michael finally had a diagnosis: amyloidosis. Although Rasmussen had hoped to be part of a clinical trial for a stem cell treatment, his disease had progressed too far. Instead, he entered hospice and died in October, just six months after his diagnosis [1]. (These details are from accounts provided by Michael and his sister Pamela that were previously featured on the Amyloidosis Foundation website [1]. On the website are many similar patient stories—stories that show how difficult it can be to diagnose and treat this rare disease.)
Amyloidosis occurs when copies of a misfolded protein called amyloid stick together to form amyloid fibrils that accumulate in major organs and tissues. Amyloid may build up in a single organ or in organs and tissues throughout the body. The involvement of multiple organs makes the disease difficult to diagnose because there are many possible symptoms—including abnormal heart rhythm, fatigue, numbness in hands and feet, swelling, weight loss, joint pain, problems swallowing, decreased urine, and skin changes—and many of these symptoms could just as easily indicate other diseases.
Figure 1 – Jonathan Wall
There are multiple forms of amyloidosis. Familial amyloidosis is hereditary and usually affects the nerves and kidneys. Secondary amyloidosis is caused by chronic infections such as tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and some forms of cancer. Primary amyloidosis is the most common form of the disease, but it is still rare. In the United States, around 3,000 people are diagnosed with primary amyloidosis each year. Because it can present in so many different ways, it often takes doctors a long time to make the diagnosis, and this delay can be very costly. Without intervention, the amyloid deposits can shut down major organs and kill the patient.
Even with a diagnosis, it is difficult to assess a patient's prognosis or to know whether a given treatment—which can range from drugs to chemotherapy to stem cell transplants—is working. "Currently in the United States there is no way to do noninvasive imaging of systemic disease in these patients," says Jonathan Wall, director of the Amyloidosis and Cancer Theranostics Program (ACTP) at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine (Figure 1, right – Photo courtesy of Kandi Hodges, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine.).
Roadblocks to Imaging
Meanwhile, doctors in Europe have had access to imaging technology designed to view amyloid deposits for more than two decades. "In Europe you can get a whole body scan, and they can assess the amount of amyloid that you have in every organ," says Wall. The imaging technique used in the United Kingdom involves isolating a protein called serum amyloid P (SAP) from donated blood. The protein is then purified, tagged with radioactive iodine, and injected into patients with amyloidosis. SAP binds to the amyloid, and six to 24 hours later the patient enters a whole body gamma camera scanner. The resulting image shows the location and severity of the amyloid deposits. "It's a relatively low-resolution imaging technique, but in the U.S. we've got nothing like that," says Wall. In the past 25 years, the National Amyloidosis Centre in the United Kingdom has performed 10,000 SAP scans [2].
It may seem bizarre that patients in the United Kingdom have had access to an imaging technique that is not available in the United States, but in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration requires that donated blood undergo stringent antiviral purification steps before products from the blood can be injected into another person. This protects patients from potential viral infections. Unfortunately, these purification steps also destroy the SAP protein.
This lack of imaging capability is a problem for physicians trying to treat amyloidosis patients in the United States. Even in patients who clearly have amyloidosis, it can be hard to know the extent of the disease and which organs are involved. "Amyloid is a very clinically challenging disease," says David Aljadir, a hematologist and oncologist also at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. "We don't have an available modality that can reliably detect amyloid deposits, especially in areas that are otherwise difficult to biopsy—such as the heart, kidneys, or nerve tissue."
Clinicians also have difficulty seeing how amyloidosis patients are responding to treatment, information that is crucial given that many of the patients only have nine months to three years to live. "These patients also have a relatively poor prognosis—a lot of them—so they have a short life span once they're diagnosed," says Wall. "If you take 12 months providing a treatment that's not working, but you can't tell, then that's a lot of time."
A synthetic peptide Offers an imaging solution
When Wall came to the United States after completing his Ph.D. degree in the United Kingdom, he was committed to finding an imaging solution for amyloidosis patients and their doctors. Wall and his team knew that amyloid deposits are full of protein fibrils as well as sugar molecules called heparin sulfate proteoglycans. These sugar molecules are normally produced by every cell in the body, but the form that binds to amyloid has a distinct structure and electrical charge. Wall wondered if he could take advantage of these properties to make a synthetic imaging molecule that would selectively bind to amyloid deposits.
After producing a series of potential heparin-binding peptides, radiolabeling them, and injecting them into mice with amyloidosis, Wall's team found a promising candidate, p5, which stuck preferentially to the amyloid deposits. The bodies of the mice cleared the unbound p5 quickly, which lessened their radiation dose—an important consideration for an imaging probe designed to one day be used in humans (Figure 2, right – Imaging amyloid in a mouse. (Image courtesy of the ACTP, University of Tennessee Medical Center)). The peptide can be labeled with several different radioactive markers and can be visualized with either positron emission tomography (PET) or single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging [3].
As the group worked to further engineer their peptide, they found that adding a tail of amino acids to the peptide made it stick even better to the heparin (Figure 3). Wall says, "We've hit upon the peptide that we want to take into man." They named the new peptide p5+14 (because it has 14 extra amino acids). The peptide's stickiness is a prime advantage for getting "really informative high-resolution images," according to Wall.
Figure 3 – A model of p5+14 binding to amyloid fibril. (Image courtesy of Jonathan Wall, University of Tennessee Medical Center.)
In fact, the resolution of the images means that using p5+14 could be more powerful than the technique used in the United Kingdom. Another advantage is that p5+14 doesn't require blood donors or any biological materials (Figure 4). It also may make treating amyloidosis patients quicker and cheaper because clinicians will be able to tell if a particular treatment is working faster. "If you could image them quickly and see if the amyloid is being removed in response to therapy, then you can either stay the course on that drug or, if it's not working, you can move on to something else," says Wall.
Figure 4 – p5+14 in an adrenal gland section from a mouse model of amyloidosis. (Image courtesy of the Actp, University of Tennessee Medical Center.)
Moving from Mouse to Man
Of course, none of this will be useful if p5+14 isn't validated in humans. Wall and his team say they've done extensive preclinical validation in mice and are eager to bring the technique into human clinical trials (Figure 5). However, since it is a diagnostic agent (rather than a therapeutic agent) for a rare disease, p5+14 is a bit of tough sell for industry.
Still, Wall has kept at it. He applied to be a part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Science Moving Towards Research Translation and Therapy program [4], which "provides tailored pharmacology and toxicology testing, manufacturing services, and regulatory support to investigators to expedite the transition of their discoveries to the clinic." So far, this program has agreed to support Wall through the regulatory process and to provide enough human grade peptide to be used in 500–600 patients during a future Phase I clinical trial.
Figure 5 – The ACTP Group at the University of Tennessee. (Photo courtsey of Kandi Hodges, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine.)
If p5+14 is validated in human patients, Aljadir says clinicians would "absolutely" find it useful. "Imaging studies like this may do for amyloid what PET scans have done for other solid tumor cancers—provide diagnostically sensitive and specific information that may be used to establish diagnosis as well as monitor response to therapy."
While this type of peptide imaging could help doctors monitor patients' responses to different treatments, it's an open question whether imaging with p5+14 would replace Congo red in diagnosing patients. Using the Congo stain on a biopsy costs around US$50, whereas PET or SPECT imaging with p5+14 would likely cost thousands of dollars. "That being said, an imaging modality that could identify potential targets for biopsy would be a major leap forward in this disease," says Aljadir.
Beyond Rare Disease
There are still several hurdles to pass before Wall will know whether or not p5+14 will be validated for use in humans and raise the standard of care for amyloidosis patients, but he's already set his sights on other potential uses for the peptide.
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a major cause of stroke in older adults. In patients with the disease, amyloid deposits can cause cracking in blood vessels in the brain, leading to bleeding and eventually strokes. Imaging with p5+14 could hypothetically be used to monitor the amount of amyloid in the brains of patients at risk of CAA before they have their first stroke."We have evidence in mice that our peptide likes the amyloid in the vasculature around the brain," says Wall. "And we're working on a way to image it."
Type 2 diabetes is another potential target. Patients with the disease have accumulations of amyloid in their pancreas, although the clinical usefulness of visualizing that amyloid is unclear at this point.
But Wall is most interested in the so-called "theranostic" potential of p5+14 and related peptides. Theranostics are molecules that can be used both in diagnosing and treating a disease. Wall and his team have found that some of their peptides have "inherent therapeutic properties." These peptides can actually stop amyloid deposits from growing. "The idea that you could use the same peptide to image and effect some kind of therapy is the path that we're going down now in a fairly big way," says Wall.
Wall is particularly intrigued by the possibility of developing immunotherapeutics for amyloid diseases—peptides that would make amyloid a target for antibodies present in the body so the immune system destroys it. This type of therapy could have potential for amyloidosis, and new treatments for the disease are sorely needed—as of now, there is no cure for amyloidosis.
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NHLBI Science Moving Towards Research Translation and Therapy Program. [Online].
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Населення становить 599 осіб.

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Сусідні населені пункти: села Ребрикове на півдні, Мечетка та Вербівка на південному сході, Кам'янка та Паліївка на сході, Першозванівка, Мар'ївка, Верхня Оріхівка на північному сході, Волнухине, Новофедорівка на півночі, Шовкова Протока, Оріхівка, Круглик та селище Лісне на північному заході, Червона Поляна на заході, Зеленодільське, Зелений Курган, Картушине та смт Ясенівський на південному заході.

Історія
Село засноване у XVII столітті, належало до Слов'яносербського повіту Катеринославської губернії. Першими мешканцями були кріпаки пана Духновського.

За даними на 1859 рік у власницькому селі Слов'яносербського повіту Катеринославської губернії мешкало 507 осіб (243 чоловіки та 264 жінки), налічувалось 52 дворових господарств, існував завод.

У 1870 році у селі збудовано школу. Працював горілчаний завод, два вітряні млини.

Станом на 1886 рік у колишньому власницькому селі Кам'янської волості мешкало 534 особи, налічувалось 76 дворів, існувала лавка.

У 1898 році було отримано дозвіл на будівництво через село Македонівка залізничної гілки Колпакове — Першозванівка, а в 1899 році цю гілку було збудовано. Поруч із селом було відкрито залізничну станцію Македонівка. Залізницю було демонтовано після збройного конфлікту 1917—1921 років.

На початок 1908 рік село входило до складу Першозванівської волості, населення зросло до 858 осіб (443 чоловічої статі та 415 — жіночої), 112 дворових господарств.

У 1929 році в селі утворено два колгоспи: імені Петровського та Зірка (пізніше — імені Сталіна), а 1969 року об'єднані в колгосп імені XVII партз'їзду, який проіснував до 1993 року.

Населення

За даними перепису населення 2001 року у селі проживали 599 осіб.

Рідною мовою назвали:

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Hank shares his thoughts on a USA Today article by Doyle Rice claiming that we now know how Lucy, our iconic, supposed human cousin, died. According to this article, about 3.2 million years ago this hominid, Lucy, fell to her death from a high tree. Yet upon further examination, this is ends up being a dogmatic assertion rather than a defensible argument. The picture of a knuckle-dragging ape evolving into a human has been seen so frequently, that it has become the argument despite the fact that evolution cannot account for the origin of life.
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Supporting a mid-sized regional law firm that has been based in Denver for decades to attract legal talent with established books of business. The goal was to grow an industry-focused general counsel and litigation practice to better serve clients doing business throughout the western United States.
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Climate change: Greta Thunberg files complaint on behalf of children
Greta Thunberg and fifteen children decided to go beyond speeches and calls to protest. This Monday, September 23, they filed a complaint against five countries, including France, accusing their leaders of flouting the rights of children.
"How dare you? You stole my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. ". This Monday, September 23, the voice of Greta Thunberg resounded, more resolute than ever, in front of the world leaders gathered at the summit at the UN. "However, I am one of the lucky ones. People suffer, they die. Whole ecosystems are collapsing, we are at the beginning of mass extinction, and all you are talking about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth? How dare you! (…) You have let us down. But young people are starting to understand your betrayal, she continued. If you decide to drop us, I tell you: we will never forgive you. We won't let you get away with it. " Before concluding: " The world wakes up, and change is coming, whether you like it or not. "
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To file this complaint, the sixteen young people received help from the international law firm Hausfeld and the blessing of Unicef.
France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, and Turkey are among the most influential members of the club of wealthy G20 countries. They are also among those who have ratified the "optional protocol" which allows the filing of this appeal: since 2014, it authorizes children to lodge a complaint with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child if they consider that their rights have been violated.
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Mrs. Jordan, Volume 2
By James Boadan
size. When I bound them together I asked him to letter the volume for me, and he called it « Kemble's Covent Garden Theatre."
But as I must soon quit him in his new element, I just notice his success in Lord Townley, with that lovely woman, Miss Louisa Brunton, for his lady. Like Miss Farren, she was found to possess charms of every sort worthy of a coronet, but did not, when she assumed it, take away quite so much genius from the stage. Cooke was still the Richard, and Kemble condescended to Richmond in the hope of conciliating his dear George ; but when the return arrived of Cooke's condescension, namely, to act Pizarro to Kemble's Rolla, he came on knowing nothing of the language, and soon fell backwards as mute as a turtle. Happily his new friend was at hand to say that he was really ill (which everybody saw), and Mr. Henry Siddons ready to read the part for him; at which few, I imagine, could grieve. His illness had left him by the tertian intermittent, for on the twentieth he stood his ground in the character without shaking Mrs. Siddons, as poor Richardson told Sheridan she would, had now fallen into Elvira sufficiently; and this was, perhaps, the greatest injury which the Kembles inflicted upon Drury; for Sheridan had very indiscreetly published the play, so that any theatre could act it. He got a large sum, it is true, for the copyright.
Mrs. Jordan had no new character to the end of the year. She about this time, upon Frances, her eldest daughter's, coming of age, took a handsome house for her in Golden Square, and she became at length Mrs. Alsop. Her two sisters, Lucy and Dora, lived with her in town, but they were frequently at Bushy with their mother. I understand some old gentleman, of the name of Bettesworth, offered Miss Jordan a very handsome fortune to take his name and become his representative.
The Reservoirs of Some Use at Drury Lane The " Caravan"
and the Dog Carlo — Story of the Piece - Sheridan and His Preserver — " Cinderella" and her Slipper, with Venus and the Graces — Cherry's " Soldier's Daughter" – Mrs. Jordan in the Widow Cheerly - Her Epilogue, a Female Army The " Sailor's Daughter," by Cumberland - Mrs. Jordan's Benefit - The " Middle Dish " — Bannister Returns to the Haymarket — Fawcett Makes a Ballet from the Action of Shakespeare's " Tempest". The "Gay Deceivers " — Elliston and His Address Master Betty at Edinburgh - Home and His " Douglas " - A Really Great Genius of the North Descending to Works below Him — Rewriting All Our Literature Substitutes — Standard Works to Be Carefully Reprinted — The Followers of Didot — His Application at Seventy-three — Elliston at the Opera House - Mrs. Jordan Herself Opens the Season of 1804-05 in Widow Cheerly - Mathews and Elliston Now at Drury – Miss Duncan's First Night — Phantom Lathom and His " Dash" – A Fête Royal at Weymouth Elliston and Miss Decamp - The Royal Game, and the Michaelmas Goose on a Birthday Another Farce for Mrs. Jordan, Called " Matrimony."
NOW return a little to commemorate a striking event in the history of the
National Theatre. The reservoirs, which had been prepared in the contemplation of its danger from fire, absolutely saved the concern, for a time at least, from sinking under its burthens. I allude to the production, on the 5th of December, 1803, of a serio-comic romance, called the "Caravan," attendant upon which, in the person of a Newfoundland dog, called Carlo, Reynolds started the first formidable rival to the new management.
The story merits a few lines, though I have not read it in " Mariana." The regent of some time or other, for period is immaterial, is desperately in love with another man's wife. The lady, at least on the stage, is, as usual, a paragon of fidelity. The husband, who is a Marquis of Calatrava, is sent by the caravan from Madrid to Barcelona, with orders to the driver, who bears the discreet name of Blabbo, to starve him on the journey ; but if he should be able upon the chameleon's dish, the air, to reach Barcelona, then, and in that case provided, the governor, Mr. Dowton, has sealed orders to destroy him. As to the marchioness, silly woman, she follows her husband, and for her there are brave punishments in reserve. If she does not overcome her vulgar prejudice, the marquis is to be put on board a fireship and blown up, and her son Julio is to be thrown from a rock into the sea to join the
remains of his father. "Oh, this love, this love !" But Blabbo nourishes the marquis on the journey by dividing with him the dog's meat and his own. The marquis is not blown up, though the ship is, and Carlo the dog, with his master's humanity, no sooner sees the child Julio thrown from the rock into the sea than he jumps in after him and brings him ashore in his mouth with the utmost ease.
The maternal feelings of the house had never been before at so high a pressure; the boiler was almost bursting, for here was really danger, real water, a real dog, a real splash, and a special interposition. Well might Sheridan rush into the greenroom and call out, "Where is my preserver?" Well might the author modestly present himself, and well might the manager say, " Pooh! I meant the dog !"
The run of the dog was the triumph of fourfooted sagacity; it was succeeded by the slipper of glass worn by Cinderella, and the reign of honest Carlo interrupted by Mother Goose. « Cinderella " was attributed to a gentleman of Oxford, and he very classically rescues his heroine from the doubtful patronage of witchcraft, and produces all the effects of magic by the influence of beauty and love and marriage and grace, which


Favourite match played by your team & why: Wolves 4 Leicester 3 (2003-4) – fantastic comeback from being 0-3 down and meant I could hold my head up high on return to work on Monday. Winning the 2002-3 Play Off final was also sweet as it meant not only we'd be promoted (to play teams like Leicester) but watching it at home I was able to play my own copy of 'The Liquidator' continuously and very loud to my next door neighbour (a Leicester season ticket holder)….who proceeded to take me to the pub and buy me beer….all in all a very good day!
Favourite player of all time who played for your club: 'The Tipton Skin' i.e. Steve Bull, closely followed by Wolves (and Leicester) legend Derek 'The Doog' Dougan and John Richards…all were great goal scorers. I also had the added bonus of delivering theirs (and Mike Bailey's) newspapers as a young lad in my home village.
Your favourite current player in your squad and why? Ruben Neves – oozes class but still love it when he brings Cavaleiro or Traoré on to open up the game.
Player in our squad you most fear and why? I like Hamza Choudhury's desire and willingness to win a lost ball. He may be too tough for the Wolves midfield.
Up and coming prospect in your squad? Any of the unknown Portuguese!
How do you think you'll do against us? We should have won at the King Power and our home form is poor, but I still predict a narrow Wolves win 2-1.


Perth's Festival of the Web is eight days of co-located conferences, workshops, talks, exhibitions and events that you won't want to miss. Bringing together entrepreneurs, academia, industry, government and the community, it offers a series of activities on the future web.
Join web experts from around the world in this rare opportunity for high-level discussion through workshops, tutorials, panel discussions, seminars, co-located conferences and evening events. There will also be a technical exhibition on how the web will affect how we live in the future.
Opportunities will abound for entrepreneurs, web developers, designers, students and gamers to participate in exciting hands-on activities. Delegates can access and enjoy a social networking haven, daily food themes and nightly events featuring culinary delights of WA. A digital art exhibition and web-focused late-night comedy festival will keep the conversation going.
Hear from experts on security, web governance and censorship and discuss the challenges and opportunities of the rapid growth of the World Wide Web.
Explore the "New World of Work" and creative tracks featuring speakers, workshops and tutorials, an app pitchfest, OzApps showcase and start-up weekend.
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The Boot News Roundup: Dolly Parton Day Declared in Nashville + More
Amy McCarthy Published: August 8, 2019
Aug. 5, 2019, is officially Dolly Parton Day in Nashville! Music City Mayor David Briley announced the news after signing a proclamation in honor of Parton's contributions to both music and philanthropy throughout her decades-long career. "We give thanks for Dolly's unparalleled career as an entertainer and philanthropist and her ability to touch millions of lives everywhere, including so many right here in Music City, with her moving music and generous heart," the proclamation reads in part.
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Scotty McCreery is headed to Europe this fall for a series of tour dates in Germany and the United Kingdom. According to Nash Country Daily, McCreery will head to Berlin, Germany, for a show on Oct. 23, making stops in Cologne, Germany, and London, England, before concluding the four-show run in Manchester, England. Tickets for the Germany dates are on sale now, and tickets for the UK shows will become available on Aug. 9.
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Dallas Smith and Billy Ray Cyrus will co-host the 2019 Canadian Country Music Awards. Set for Sept. 8 at Calgary, Alberta's Scotiabank Saddledome, the ceremony will recognize the achievements of Canada's biggest country stars (including Smith, who's nominated for three trophies, including Entertainer of the Year). The event will air live across Canada starting at 9PM ET, and will be broadcast on Twitter for fans who want to watch the action from the States.
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John Hiatt is the latest recipient of BMI's Troubadour Award. The honor, which recognizes the accomplishments of music's finest songwriters, will be presented to Hiatt at a private dinner at BMI's Nashville office on Sept. 9. Known for hits recorded by Iggy Pop, Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt, Hiatt joins previous winners Robert Earl Keen and John Prine in the list of Troubadour Award recipients.
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SOLO: SECRET DOCTRINE SERIES (7 galleries) > NOTES, REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATIONS, & CONCEPTS THE SECRET DOCTRINE SERIES
NOTES & STATEMENT: THE SECRET DOCTRINE SERIES
*Image 1, example, referenced in NOTES
*Image 2, referenced in NOTES, from GRIDDED EARTH DRAWINGS
*Image 3 referenced in NOTES, zoomed in, photoshop enhanced
*Image 4, reference in NOTES, Chinese calligraphy
*Image 5, referenced in NOTES, Chinese calligraphy
*Image 6, referenced in NOTES, from the hexagram from the I Ching, Wilhelm, Baynes
THIS GALLERY CONTAINS A STATEMENT, AND REFERENCED IMAGES WITHIN THE "NOTES AND STATEMENT" material.
*Image 1: "...The IMAGE aspect suggests a different component of language that can bridge form, meaning and comprehension as an attempt, perhaps crudely, to use the natural form, say a blade of grass as a multi-meaning-ed "letter" of an alphabet. The three forms, text, art/design, and nature are compiled to form an image/text/language structure that thickens meaning... *(see Image 1 example)"
*Image 2: "...An example from a different piece the GRIDDED EARTH DRAWINGS- when I first saw a photograph of a single 30"x30" gridded off section of our earth, mostly grass, I immediately perceived it as a document. I sensed it conveyed information, similar to language, that could be read, containing multi-layered, complex meaning..."
*Image 3, 4, & 5: "... There are, at a minimum, a visual relationship to Chinese calligraphy. (see Image 3 zoomed in, photoshop enhanced, Image 4, and Image 5)..."
*Image 6: "...I also sense the possibility of reading the gridded image in an associative manner, or with the same open intuitional comprehension one employs in gleaning understanding from the ritualistic process needed to grasp the nonlinear significance that an intuitive reading of the I Ching *(see Image 6) is capable of providing. I am reminded that the history of the divination process of the I Ching involved heating the shells of tortoises with a hot iron pole then reading the cracked lines...


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Marcus Gardley is a Bay Area-born playwright who the New Yorker calls the heir to Garcia Lorca, Pirandello and Tennessee Williams. His most recent play, X or the Nation v Betty Shabazz was a New York Times Critic's Pick and will be remounted off-Broadway in the Spring of 2018. He is the recipient of the 2015 Glickman Award for The House That Will Not Stand. The play was commissioned and produced by Berkeley Rep and had subsequent productions at Yale Rep and the Tricycle Theater in London and was a finalist for the 2015 Kennedy Prize. Gardley was the 2013 USA James Baldwin Fellow and the 2011 PEN Laura Pels award winner for Mid-Career Playwright. His play The Gospel of Loving Kindness was produced in March 2015 and won the BTAA award for best play/playwright. His play Every Tongue Confess, starring Phylicia Rashad and directed by Kenny Leon, was nominated for the Steinberg New Play Award, the Charles MacArthur Award for Best Play, and was the recipient of the Edgerton New Play Award. His musical On The Levee premiered at Lincoln Center and was nominated for 11 Audelco Awards including outstanding playwright. His critically acclaimed epic And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi was produced at the Cutting Ball Theater and received the SF Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award nomination for outstanding new play and had two sold-out extensions. His epic black odyssey premiered at the Denver Center Theatre and opened to rave reviews. In 2014, his saga The Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry had a national tour and was a finalist for the 2014 Kennedy Prize. His plays This World in a Woman's Hands (October 2009) and Love is a Dream House in Lorin (March 2007) have been hailed as some of the best in Bay Area Theater. The latter was nominated for the National Critics Steinberg New Play Award. He has had six other plays produced including and adaptation of Tartuffe called A Wolf in Snake Skin Shoes, which was produced in London; dance of the holy ghosts at Center Stage in Baltimore and the Yale Repertory Theatre; (L)imitations of Life at the Empty Space in Seattle, WA; and like sun fallin' in the mouth at the National Black Theatre Festival. He is the recipient of the 2013 Mellon Playwright Residency, 2011 Aetna New Voice Fellowship at Hartford Stage, the Hellen Merrill Award, a Kesselring Honor, a Gerbode Emerging Playwright Award, a National Alliance for Musical Theatre Award, a MidAtlantic Arts Foundation Grant, a NEA/TCG Playwriting Participant Residency, the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Scholarship, and the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize. Gardley holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale Drama School and is an alumnus of New Dramatists, The Dramatists Guild, and the Lark Play Development Center. Currently, he is working on a TV show for Showtime.
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Aleshea Harris is a playwright and performer who received an MFA in Writing for Performance from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been presented a number of places including the Costume Shop at American Conservatory Theater, Playfest at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, La Comédie de Saint-Étienne, the Skirball Center, and REDCAT. Harris has enjoyed residencies at MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Djerassi and SPACE on Ryder Farm. She is the winner of the 2016 Relentless Award from the American Playwriting Foundation for her play Is God Is, which was published by 3 Hole Press in the Spring of 2017 and will premiere Off-Broadway at Soho Rep. in 2018. Is God Is is also a finalist for the 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was seventh on The Kilroys List of "the most recommended un-and underproduced plays by trans and female authors of color" for 2017. Aleshea is currently working on an adaptive response to Sophocles' Philoctetes as a commission with The Denver Center Theatre and a solo play for her own performance.
Laura Jacqmin
Laura Jacqmin is a writer for television, video games, and the live theater. She's currently a writer-producer on Get Shorty (MGM/Epix). Selected plays: Residence (40th Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville); January Joiner (Long Wharf Theatre); Ski Dubai (Steppenwolf Theatre); A Third (Finborough Theatre London); Look, we are breathing (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble; Sundance Theatre Lab); Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (Williamstown Theatre Festival; Chicago Dramatists/At Play, 16th Street Theater); Ghost Bike (Buzz22 Chicago). Awards: Wasserstein Prize, two NEA Art Works Grants, ATHE-Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award, two MacDowell Fellowships, Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Grant. Other television: Grace and Frankie (Netflix); Lucky 7 (ABC). Video Games: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series—A New Frontier, Minecraft: Story Mode (both with Telltale Games). She received her BA from Yale University, and earned an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University.
Molly Smith Metzler
Molly Smith Metzler is the author of Cry it Out, Elemeno Pea, The May Queen, Carve, Close Up Space, and Training Wisteria. Regionally, she has worked at South Coast Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana, Northlight (upcoming), The Kennedy Center, The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Chautauqua Theater Company, City Theatre, Play Makers Rep, Geva Theatre Center, and more. In New York, she has worked at Manhattan Theatre Club, where she is currently under commission. Metzler's awards include the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center, the National Student Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's David Mark Cohen Award, the Mark Twain Comedy Prize, and a finalist nod for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is a proud alum of the Ars Nova Play Group, the Dorothy Strelsin Writers Group at Primary Stages, and the Cherry Lane Mentor Project. In television, Metzler has written for Orange Is the New Black (Netflix), Casual (Hulu), Codes of Conduct (HBO), and is currently a writer/co-producer on Shameless (Showtime). She is also adapting Ali Benjamin's award-winning novel The Thing About Jellyfish into a film for Reese Witherspoon's production company OddLot/Pacific Standard. Metzler was educated at SUNY Geneseo, Boston University, New York University's Tisch School for the Arts, and The Juilliard School. She lives in Los Angeles.
Matthew Paul Olmos
Matthew Paul Olmos is a three-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient, New Dramatists Resident Playwright, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan Lab Playwright, Humanitas Play LA Workshop Playwright, Princess Grace Awardee in Playwriting, National Latino Playwriting Awardee, and La MaMa e.t.c.'s Ellen Stewart Emerging Playwright Awardee as selected by Sam Shepard. He spent two years as a Mabou Mines/SUITE Resident Artist being mentored by the late Ruth Maleczech and is a former New York Theatre Workshop's Emerging Artist Fellow, Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist in Residence, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Primary Stages' Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer, Brooklyn Arts Exchange Resident Artist, INTAR H.P.R.L Playwright, Rising Circle Collective Playwright, terraNOVA Collective's Groundbreakers Playwright; he is also an Echo Theater Company Resident Playwright and an Ensemble Studio Theater lifetime member. He is a proud Kilroys nominator. His work has been presented both nationally and internationally, taught in university, and is published by Samuel French and NoPassport Press. He's currently working on a devised piece, American Nationalism Project, with director Luke Harlan and designer Nick Benacerraf, which was developed through New York Theatre Workshop's Adelphi Residency. And will soon complete his three-play cycle with So Go the Ghosts of México, Part Three at Undermain Theatre, Dallas, TX. MatthewPaulOlmos.com.
Jiehae Park
Jiehae Park's plays include peerless (Yale Rep premiere, Cherry Lane MP, Marin Theatre Co, Barrington Stage, First Floor, Company One, Moxie), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Here We Are Here (Sundance Theater-Makers residency, Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor, Princess Grace Works-in-Progress @ Baryshnikov Arts Center), and contributions to Wondrous Strange (Humana/Actor's Theatre of Louisville). Her work has been developed through the Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab, the Public's Emerging Writers Group, p73's i73, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, Atlantic, Old Globe, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Ojai Conference, BAPF, and the amazing Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Awards: Leah Ryan, Princess Grace, Weissberger, ANPF Women's Invitational; two years on the Kilroys List. Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, McCarter, Yale Rep, Geffen, OSF, Williamstown, MTC/Sloan. Residencies: MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman. She is a NYTW Usual Suspect, LCT New Writer in Residence, former Hodder Fellow, and current member of New Dramatists. Upcoming: performing in Ripe Time/Naomi Iizuka's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Sleep (BAM Next Wave 2017). BA, Amherst; MFA, UCSD.
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Al Roker Proclaims: 'I'm A Very Fortunate Person,' After Return From Hospital
The legendary Al Roker is back on his feet, with gratitude, after being out of action for an entire month.
It was revealed in November 2022 that Roker was hospitalized for blood clots in his lungs, resulting in his undergoing surgery. All the same, he got discharged on Thanksgiving and was recently interviewed on the "Today" show, where he thanked his supporters for their love and dished his experience trying to regain his strength.
Al Roker Feels Fortunate To Be With Family After Hospitalization For A Month
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The "Today" family enthusiastically welcomed the celebrity author with a touching theme song alongside the display of a heartfelt message written on a white poster, urging him to "get well soon." As one of the four presenters, Hoda Kotb, announced his return with the other co-hosts applauding him, he could not help but express his appreciation for the gesture.
In addition, when asked how he felt following the hospitalization, Roker admitted that it was good to be home surrounded by family. However, he was grateful to everyone who checked up on him at the hospital. He further mentioned that the period was "tough" and gave him "a profound sense of gratitude for this outpouring of prayers and thanks."
Afterward, the veteran weather anchor called himself "a very fortunate person" and shed more light on his recovery as seen in the video uploaded on "Today's" official Twitter page. He said:
"You lose a certain amount of muscle mass every week you're in the hospital. I was in the hospital for four weeks. So you know it's just a certain amount of weakness. I'm doing physical therapy every day, occupational therapy. I've got to just get my strength back."
During the discussion, Roker disclosed he wanted to get a knee replacement in January but had to reschedule, given his condition. Nevertheless, he admitted, "I feel good, I feel strong, and every day I feel a little bit better. I made dinner last night, and yeah, I just feel like there's going to be a little bit of a slug."
The 68-year-old actor once more voiced how blessed he felt to have all the resources helping with his health compared to those who had to manage little resources for worse conditions. He sent a shout out to the doctors and nurses who cared for him at the New York Presbyterian Hospital while also appreciating his "Today" family again.
Savannah Guthrie, another co-anchor, noted that Roker always smiled despite his difficulties, leading her to praise his wife, Deborah Roberts, for being a "warrior" and keeping them up to date with his condition.
Towards the end of the short clip, the four co-hosts expressed their love and told Roker how much he is missed prompting him to blow them a kiss from the comfort of his kitchen.
Since his discharge from the hospital on Thanksgiving, the "3rd Hour Today" co-host has been all about gratitude especially given the thankful season. Roker announced his return home on Instagram using a video captioned:
"So much to be #thankful for on the #thanksgiving day. Leaving the hospital and home for #thanksgivingdinner."
As for the clip, he declared that "getting ready to leave the hospital" was his version of the Thanksgiving Day parade. And naturally, the heart-lifting post caused fans to express delight in seeing him well.
The 'Today' Weather Anchor Recalls His Past As An Overweight In Instagram Photos
In March, The Blast reported that Roker, who has had his share of surgeries over the years, acknowledged how far he had come regarding his weight loss. After going through gastric bypass surgery, the journalist was able to lose 100 pounds in eight months, and in remembrance, he took to Instagram to compare his current size with the past.
In the shared photos, he could be seen donning size 54 jeans he wore to the surgery in 2002, fitting him perfectly at the time. However, his present look showed a significant difference as it was enormous on his now slight frame.
Taking to the caption, Roker expressed disbelief that he actually wore the jeans two decades before when he was 340 pounds. He further admitted that it was still a daily struggle with several setbacks but promised never to go back or forget how far he had come.
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Q: c++ 2D vector push_back error in code I had my program working with a single vector and decided to use a 2D vector to represent multiple hands (one dimensional vector vPlayerHand1 plus one dimensional vector vPlayerHand2 plus ...).  I can't figure out how to populate the vector.  I am using Visual Studio C++ 2010 which does not seem to fully implement C++11 and reports parsing errors in the IDE for code that is provided as answers to similar questions in this forum. In the outline below Card is a class.
#include <vector>

std::vector<std::vector<Card>> vPlayerHand;

vPlayerHand.push_back(vShoe.back());  /* fails with parsing error No instance of
                                         overloaded function... */
vPlayerHand[0].push_back(vShoe.back());  /* builds okay then error Debug Assertion
                                            Failed... vector subscript out of range */

I am missing something on the correct use of the push_back function with a 2D vector (vector of vectors) I understand the first reference is to the row. and when I populate with push_back it should just do the first row.
Here is more complete code:
Edited at line 29... code runs correctly as given
Re-edited at line 32a as per solution by @RSahu runs correctly. Commented out line 29
1  # include <iostream>
2  # include <vector>
3  # include <algorithm>
4  # include <ctime>
5  # include "Card.h"  //Defines Card as having Suit, Rank and functions GetSuit()   GetRank()
6
7  std::vector<Card> vShoe;                  //Card Shoe vector holds 1-8 decks
8  std::vector<Card> vDeck;                  //Deck vector holds 52 cards of Card class
9  std::vector<std::vector<Card>> vPlayerHand; // Player Hands 0-original, 1-split1, n-splitn
10 std::vector<Card> vDealerHand;
11
12 void CreateDeck();       //Populates Deck with 52 Cards
13 void CreateShoe(int);   //Populates Show with Decks*n number of Decks
14 void ShuffleShoe();      // uses random_shuffle
15
16 int main() {
17
18 int iDeckCount = 2;
19 const int NumPlayers = 1;
20 srand(time(0));
21
22
23 CreaateDeck();
24 CreateShoe(iDeckCount);
25 ShuffleShoe();
26
27 // Following line gives parsing error
28 // vPlayerHand = std::vector<std::vector<Card>> (5, std::vector<std::vector<Card>>(12));

    // added this line and now runs as expected
    /* removed this line in favor of line 32a as per @RSahu
29 vPlayerHand.resize(2);  // need only initial size for 2 elements
    */

30 for (int i=0; i<=NumPlayers; i++) {
31      // I believe this is where dimension error comes vPlayerHand[0].push_back
32      // I tried vPlayerHand.push_back(vShoe.back()) but get parsing error "No instance of overloaded function.."

        // This line added as per R Sahu.  compiles and runs correctly
32a     vPlayerHand.push_back(std::vector<Card>());
33      vPlayerHand[0].push_back(vShoe.back()); //Top card in Shoe (last card in vector) is dealt to Player
34      vShoe.pop_back();                       //Top card in Shoe is removed (destroyed) from vector Shoe
35      vDealerHand.push_back(vShoe.back());    //Top card in Shoe (last card in vector) is dealt to Dealer
36      vShoe.pop_back();                       //Top card in Shoe is removed (destroyed) from vector Shoe
37      }
38
39 /* Show Results
40  std::cout << "\n---------------------------------\n" ;
41  std::cout << "   Players Hand" << std::endl;
42  std::cout << vPlayerHand[0][0].GetRank() << "," << vPlayerHand[0][0].GetSuit() << " ";
43  std::cout << vPlayerHand[0][1].GetRank() << "," << vPlayerHand[0][1].GetSuit() << std::endl;
44 */
45 }

Any insight would be helpful.

A: You have defined vPlayerHand as:
std::vector<std::vector<Card>> vPlayerHand;

When you use vPlayerHand.push_back(arg), arg has to be of type std::vector<Card> or convertible to std::vector<Card>. An argument of type Card cannot be used as an argument to that function. That's what you are trying when you use
vPlayerHand.push_back(vShoe.back())

What you need is:
vPlayerHand.push_back(std::vector<Card>());
vPlayerHand.back().push_back(vShoe.back());
vShoe.pop_back();
vPlayerHand.back().push_back(vShoe.back());
vShoe.pop_back();


Background and Purpose: The current study aims to evaluate the effect of the fruit size of service tree (Sorbus domestica L.) on physio-morphological properties of seeds and the seed germination process. Materials and Methods: The fruit samples varying in size and divided on the basis of weight into small (5-10 g), medium (11-15 g) and large (16-20 g) were collected from the area of Vukomeričke gorice (45°34′45″N 16°00′11″E), Zagreb County, Croatia. Results: In all fruits, a significant, positive and very high correlation was found between the fruit length and width (r=0.92). There was a negative and significant correlation between the fruit weight and the fruit shape index (r=-0.47). The number of filled seeds in fruit was significantly higher in large fruits (2.62 seeds) than in medium and small fruits (1.81 and 1.46, respectively). Seeds from large fruits had significantly greater length of radicle (3.89 mm) than those from medium and small fruits (3.27 and 2.88, respectively) after 120 days of stratification at 3°C. The mean germination time of seeds for all fruits in total was 107 days. The seeds with the highest weight had significantly lower rate of moisture absorption. After stratification the seeds of large fruits had the highest germination percentage (83.7%). Conclusions: The findings obtained will likely impact the propagation of this plant species in the future, because the results of the study favour the usage of seeds obtained from large fruits since they showed highest germination rate.


We are proud to welcome Stu Chisholm, author of Knowing Guns: The Ins & Outs of Firearms & Firearms Politics for the Uninitiated, to the Great Lakes Emergency Preparedness Expo.
Stu will be signing copies of his book and educating attendees on important information relating to the politics of owning firearms.
With the complicated responsibilities and emotions attached to the topic of firearm ownership, emotions and misinformation can run wild. There are a number of laws and debates over gun control, and Knowing Guns looks to answer some of the more pressing questions as honestly and clearly as possible.
Politics and controversy aside, firearms can be both a means for self-defense and recreational objects, depending on how they're used. Guns are a hot topic that is important to address with pure facts and unbiased opinions.
On the topic of preparedness, understanding the politics of personal safety and human rights can translate into a number of topics within the minds of doomsday preppers and the general public. It becomes a discussion about living and dying, freedom and perseverance, and keeping yourself and your family safe.
Stu Chisholm's book is about gathering the right information and deciding if guns are worth your consideration, and works to remove the political propaganda and emotion from the equation. Approaching these dire concepts, even beyond firearms, is an important mindset in preparing for the worst possible scenarios.
The book comes complete with annotations and citations, even a suggested reading list to further expand your knowledge of the topics presented and understanding firearms on your own terms.
Furthermore, Stu is a sound specialist and DJ by trade, and will be providing the PA system and sound setup for the presenters at this year's show. We are happy to welcome his expertise in bringing the best quality in relaying our speakers and their backgrounds, knowledge, and advice to all of those in attendance.
For more information about Knowing Guns: The Ins & outs of Firearms and Firearms Politics for the Uninitiated, visit the AmmoLand link HERE. It covers the book's description and content in more detail.
If you're interested in ordering your very own copy of Stu's book, which is available in paperback or e-book, visit the Amazon link HERE. Knowing Guns is also available for Kindle HERE.
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2 teens killed by lightning were found below splintered tree
KECKSBURG, Pa. —
Authorities say two teenagers killed by lightning in a park in Pennsylvania were found below a large splintered tree.
Westmoreland County's coroner says 18-year-old Brendan McGowan, of North Huntingdon, and 19-year-old Kaitlyn Rosensteel, of Donoroa, died Thursday afternoon at Mammoth Park near Kecksburg.
Coroner Kenneth Bacha says bystanders started CPR, followed by park police, but they were unable to revive the victims.
Strong thunderstorms had moved through the area around the time, bringing a cluster of lightning strikes to the area around the park. The strike occurred on a peninsula that juts out into a 24-acre lake.
Mammoth Park is about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh.
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Rutgers suicide raises questions on privacy
EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES According to authorities, Clementi's sexual encounter with another man in his dorm room was secretly shot by his roommate and another student on a webcam -- and streamed live on the Internet.
It's unknown how many voyeurs actually tuned in, but a day later Clementi, an accomplished violinist, posted his final thought on his Facebook page by simply writing, "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry."
Clementi's death has fueled the debate over privacy and the abuse of technology.
"It is the kids that would never do this in person," said Regina Lewis, an Internet trend expert at AOL. "Then they get behind the computer, and (it happens) because they are tech savvy, the anonymity and underdeveloped sense of empathy or, frankly, maturity."
The Rutger's tragedy comes on the same week "The Social Network" opens in theaters nationwide.
The movie about /*Facebook*/ and its CEO /*Mark Zuckerberg*/ is bound to attract the college crowd, which makes up a large part of the website's 550 million users.
News of the Rutger's suicide spread to college campuses across the country. But for some tech-savvy /*University of Southern California*/ students, privacy on social networking sites is of little concern.
"Nowadays having a Facebook account is like having a bank account," said one student. "Everybody has it."


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34th President of the United States: 1953 ‐ 1961
Veto of Bill Concerning Claim of William E. Stone.
To the United States Senate:
I return herewith, without my approval, S. 2582, a bill "To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of William E. Stone for disability retirement as a Reserve officer or Army of the United States officer under the provisions of the Act of April 3, 1939, as amended."
The enrolled bill would confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims, notwithstanding any limitation on its jurisdiction, to adjudicate the claim of Captain William E. Stone arising out of the failure of the then War Department to retire him for physical disability.
The beneficiary of this measure sustained injuries to his neck and shoulders when he parachuted over enemy territory in 1944. Following this jump, he was held as a prisoner of war by the Germans until his liberation in 1945. He was subsequently examined in the same year, by three medical officers who found no evidence of any incapacitating disability. The beneficiary was relieved from active duty for reasons other than physical disability in 1946, after affirmatively indicating he had suffered no service-incurred injuries.
During a period of Reserve training duty in 1951, the beneficiary was examined by the Air Force and found physically fit to perform flying duty. However, in the following year, he applied for and was awarded service-connected disability compensation by the Veterans' Administration, which currently considers him to be 40 percent disabled.
Upon review of his case in 1953, the Office of the Surgeon General of the Air Force determined that the beneficiary had not been permanently incapacitated for the performance of active duty at the time he was relieved from such duty in 1946. This decision was twice reviewed, in 1954 and in 1955, by the Air Force Board for the Correction of Military Records acting under statutory authority empowering it to amend military records when such action is necessary in order "to correct an error or to remove an injustice." Acting under this broad standard, the Board upheld, with the approval of the Secretary of the Air Force, the prior decision of the Surgeon General's Office. The present measure would permit review of these administrative decisions by the Court of Claims.
To avoid confusion, there is one thing which I think should be made clear at the outset. This is the difference between the basis for awarding disability retirement pay administered by the military departments and that for awarding disability compensation administered by the Veterans' Administration. The basis for the former is whether or not the individual sustained an injury or disease in the service which permanently incapacitated him for the performance of active duty at the time he was relieved from such duty. Awards of disability compensation, however, are based on findings that the former serviceman has a compensable service-connected condition. As a result of this difference, it is obvious that many individuals, particularly those with latent injuries such as the beneficiary sustained, will be able to qualify for disability compensation but cannot qualify for the receipt of disability retirement pay.
Traditionally, eligibility for retirement on account of physical disability has been determined by the military service in accordance with general provisions of law. More recently, appellate review of these decisions has been provided within the Executive Branch by means of statutory boards such as the several Boards for the Correction of Military and Naval Records established by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended.
On at least two occasions within the past year, the Court of Claims has been petitioned to award disability retirement pay to individuals who had been found not entitled to such pay by the Secretary of the military service concerned. In denying these petitions, the Court has stated, in effect, that under the statutory procedures for determining and reviewing entitlement to retirement, it has jurisdiction only in cases where it can be shown that the cognizant Military Secretary has acted arbitrarily, capriciously, or contrary to law.
I believe that this rule which the Court of Claims adopted is a sound one. It conforms to an important principle underlying judicial review of administrative decisions, namely, that the courts will not substitute their judgment for that of the experienced officials who have been given adjudicative responsibility by law. For this reason and since there is no evidence in this case that the Secretary of the Air Force acted arbitrarily, capriciously, or contrary to law, I can see no justification for special legislation which would require the Court of Claims to grant the beneficiary a de novo hearing.
Approval of this bill would discriminate against the many hundreds of individuals who have had their claims for disability retirement denied without benefit of judicial review. It would also establish an undesirable precedent leading to other exceptions to the orderly procedure which is now provided for under general law and which currently governs the hundreds of similar cases that are adjudicated each year.
Accordingly, I am compelled to withhold my approval from S. 2582.
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		    this.http.post(this.pageUrl+"page/edit/"+this.pageid , this.pageForm.value).subscribe(result => {
				if(result['success']=="1"){
					this.router.navigate(['./pages']);
				}
			});
	    }
    }

	getPage(id){
	    return this.http.get(this.pageUrl+"page/view/"+id);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub