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ACCESS Releases Technical Preview Version of NetFront™ Browser v3.4 for Pocket PC
TOKYO, Japan, – January 19, 2007 – ACCESS CO., LTD. (TSE:4813) today announced the availability of a technical preview version of its NetFront™Browser v3.4 for Pocket PC, an Internet browser for Pocket PC devices. By making this technical preview available, ACCESS expects to obtain extensive feedback from users prior to releasing the final commercial version of the browser, which is scheduled for release in the first half of this year. Both the Japanese and English language versions of the technical preview version of NetFront Browser v3.4 for Pocket PC will be available for download from ACCESS' website free of charge.
The NetFront Browser v3.4 is designed to provide high performance in resource-constrained environments such as those with limited memory or CPU capabilities and is an ideal Internet browser for mobile terminals and other consumer electronics. The NetFront Browser v3.4 enables full Internet browsing on more than 1,000 commercial devices including PDAs and smartphones. There are currently 300 million NetFront Browser deployments worldwide.
The technical preview version of NetFront Browser v.3.4 for Pocket PC delivers significant functionality to both corporate and individual users including increased operating speed thanks to optimized communications processing and a redesigned module structure. The technical preview version also includes a new, improved Page Pilot™ feature, which allows users to quickly zoom in on any area of a Web page. Also featured is Visual Bookmark an advanced technology that allows users to easily select a bookmark through a thumbnail image.
ACCESS will incorporate valuable customer feedback received from the availability of the technical preview version into the final commercial release of NetFront Browser v3.4 for Pocket PC.
The technical preview version NetFront Browser 3.4 for Pocket PC can be downloaded at:
Japanese version: http://nfppc.access.co.jp/about_34.html
English version: https://gl.access-company.com/products/mobile_solutions/netfrontmobile/browser/nf34/
About ACCESS CO., LTD.
ACCESS CO., LTD., is a global company providing leading technology, software products and platforms for web browsing, mobile phones, wireless handhelds and other networked devices. ACCESS' product portfolio, including its NetFront™ browser, Palm OS® and the ACCESS Linux Platform™ provide customers with solutions that enable faster time-to-market, flexibility and customizability. The Company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operates 29 subsidiaries and affiliates within Asia, Europe and the United States. ACCESS is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index under the number 4813. For more information about ACCESS, please visit www.access-company.com/en/.
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ACCESS and NetFront are trademarks or registered trademarks of ACCESS CO., LTD. in Japan and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


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Aldersgate is much more than a retirement community. We are a nonprofit actively involved in redefining and shaping the future of senior living. Our canvas is an unmatched 231-acre wooded campus in... Learn more »
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May 20, 2019 | Jerry Bergman
Can a Dinosaur Have Bat-Like Wings?
Calling an Animal a Dinosaur Does Not Make It One
by Jerry Bergman, PhD
A new fossil discovered in northeastern China recently was described by Reuters as a "feathered dinosaur a bit bigger than a blue jay that possessed bat-like wings [which] represents a remarkable but short-lived detour in the evolution of flight and the advent of birds."[1] A 3-D reconstruction, completed at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China on May 8, 2019 shows it flew with bat-like membranous wings. The Jurassic Period dinosaur Ambopteryx, (meaning "both wings") longibrachium (meaning "long arm") looks nothing like a dinosaur, so why call it a dinosaur?
Artwork from the Reuters article
Ambopteryx was not a bird, either, because its wings were "made of skin supported by a long, pointed wrist bone, dramatically different from the distinctive feathered wings of birds."[2] The reconstruction by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, as well as the description made by a careful examination of the fossil, makes it look almost identical to an extinct bat. They want it to look like a dinosaur because evolutionists consider it additional evidence of the so-called "feathered dinosaurs" discovered recently. They think this one adds evidence supporting their theory that dinosaurs evolved into birds. The bat discovered is presented as evidence of an "alternate evolutionary path for airborne dinosaurs."[3] In short, the bat is called a dinosaur, and not a bat, because the scenario that it evolved from a theropod dinosaur on its way to evolving into a modern bat supports Darwinism.
The scientific reports explain aviation pioneers, like birds and bats, dabbled with various experimental flying machines and, like Orville and Wilbur Wright, after lots of trial and error failure finally got it right and were able to fly successfully. Likewise, Dunham writes, "there was an analogous period of flight experimentation among dinosaurs before small feathered ones evolved into the first birds about 150 million [Darwin] years ago."[4] The scientific report in Nature added that this fossil demonstrates, "close to the origin of flight, dinosaurs closely related to birds were experimenting with a diversity of wing structures…. membranous wings—a flight apparatus that was previously unknown among theropods but that is used by both the pterosaur and bat lineages."[5] The Nature report humbly admitted this just-so-story "was not universally accepted."
So, the paleontologists report, evolution was "experimenting" like the Wright Brothers until they figured out the details of flight, such as wing warp and the Bernoulli effect. Likewise, dinosaurs "experimented" until they successfully accomplished flight and were on their way to becoming birds. [Did they do this on purpose, using intelligent design?] This is absurd. Evolution cannot think, experiment, plan ahead or design. In the words of Professor Gander: "Evolution cannot get 'hung up' on one type of design, or one type of solution to a given survival problem…. So it could never 'plan ahead,' even if such planning could produce a really good design…. Say evolution wanted to produce a nice, clear, well-formed lens… evolution must take steps [and as a result of trial and error]… organisms may evolve organs that can appear rather poorly designed in retrospect."[6]
Another issue is that, unlike any known bird, "Ambopteryx had membranous wings resembling pterosaurs, flying reptiles that appeared roughly 230 million [Darwin] years ago, and bats, flying mammals that appeared roughly 50 million [Darwin] years ago."[7] So why call it a dinosaur? In spite of this problem, evolution forces ancient animals to appear to be a link to something more advanced. Clearly defined anatomy-based categories exist for both "bird" and "dinosaur," but evolution requires a bird-to-dinosaur transition, and since Ambopteryx bat is very old, it must be some sort of transition to something else and more research will hopefully tell us exactly what it evolved into.[8] So for now we will call it a dinosaur, even though it is nothing like any dinosaur we have ever seen. Riley Black remarked that "dinosaurs and non-dinosaurs are often indiscriminately intermingled without much thought to the fact that the word dinosaur doesn't apply to just anything…. Dinosaurs are their own discrete group, in other words, joined to all the rest of their family through their common ancestry and identified through the traits of their hips that have been maintained from the Triassic to the present."[9]
One major trait of dinosaurs is they are egg-laying reptiles. I was unable to find any evidence that Ambopteryx bats were egg-laying reptiles. Conversely, bats are nocturnal mammals, not reptiles, usually frugivorous or insectivorous that possess wings formed from four elongated digits of the forelimb covered by a cutaneous membrane. They have good vision but often rely on echolocation and give birth to their young which they breast feed. Another example of attempting to fit the Ambopteryx discovery into an evolutionary scenario is the claim that, although "Ambopteryx longibrachium was likely a glider, the fossil is helping scientists discover how dinosaurs first took to the skies."[10] In a Darwinian trance, Black speculates,
in the depths of the Jurassic, feathered dinosaurs started to take to the air. Clawed arms that had evolved to snatch and catch began to take on a new aerodynamic role, and feather-coated limbs began flapping as the earliest avian dinosaurs overcame gravity to leave the surface of the Earth behind. But not all fluffy saurians launched into the air the same way. An unexpected discovery from China reveals an enigmatic family of dinosaurs with bat-like wings… The dinosaur's wings were more like those of bats, which wouldn't evolve for more than 100 million [Darwin] years, or like the leathery wings of contemporary flying reptiles called pterosaurs.
So, this dinosaur is said to have evolved into bats? This find was not speculation by amateurs, but written up in the most prestigious science journal Nature by leading researchers claiming that "Powered flight evolved independently in vertebrates in the pterosaurs, birds and bats, each of which has a different configuration of the bony elements and epidermal structures that form the wings." That hints that the Ambopteryx find may be actually have been the precursor of modern bats as this paper has concluded, and not a dinosaur evolving into a bird as other authors imply.[11]
Even the National Geographic called it a "New species of bat-wing dinosaur," and repeated the claim that the bat was "a bizarre predator: a tiny dinosaur that glided from tree to tree with leathery, bat-like wings. The newfound fossil, … is just the … first dinosaur ever found with bat-like wings.[12] The study author, Min Wang, added "it shows that some dinosaurs evolved very different structures to become volant," meaning capable of some form of flight.
Conclusion: The Bare Facts
The simplest story of the find is it is more evidence that the living world contains an enormous amount of variety, and this is just another example. Fully one in five mammals living on earth today is a bat—the only mammal kind containing more species than rodents.[13] Bats exist in an extraordinary diversity of lifestyles and morphologies. The oldest known complete fossil bat is a Icaronycteris dated by Neo-Darwinists back to the Eocene, over 50 million years ago. Since then, their evolution has been "near stagnation."[14]
In other words the first bat was a bat, not something evolving into a bat. Unfortunately, instead of letting the evidence speak for itself, the Darwin-tinted glasses distort reality. What clearly appears to be another example of an extinct bat is interpreted as a dinosaur evolving into something else. The evidence testifies to the fact that bats have always been bats, and Ambopteryx appears to be one of the many existing kinds of bats.
[1] Dunham, Will. 2019. Bat-winged dinosaur was intriguing detour in evolution of flight. Science News, May 8. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-science-dinosaur/bat-winged-dinosaur-was-intriguing-detour-in-evolution-of-flight-idUKKCN1SE2BN
[2] Dunham, 2019.
[3] Black, Riley. 2019. Newly discovered bat-like dinosaur reveals the intricacies of prehistoric flight. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/newly-discovered-bat-dinosaur-reveals-intricacies-prehistoric-flight-180972128/.
[5] Black, 2019.
[6] Gander, Eric. M. 2004. On Our Minds: How Evolutionary Psychology Is Reshaping the Nature versus Nurture Debate. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
[8] Sloan, C. 1999. "Feathers for T. rex?" National Geographic, 196 (5): 99-103.
[9] Black, Riley. 2017. What Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur? December 8.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ask-smithsonian-what-is-dinosaur-180967448/
[10] Black, Riley. 2019.
[11] Wang, Min. 2019. A new Jurassic scansoriopterygid and the loss of membranous wings in theropod dinosaurs. Nature. 569:256-259, May 8.
[12] Greshko, Michael. 2019. New species of bat-wing dinosaur discovered. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/ambopteryx-new-species-bat-wing-dinosaur-discovered-china/
[13] Sears, Karen, et al., 2006; Sears, Karen E., Richard R. Behringer, John J. Rasweiler IV, and Lee A. Niswander, 2006. "Development of Bat Flight: Morphologic and Molecular Evolution of Bat Wing Digits." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 103(17):6581-6586, p. 6581.
[14] Van Valen, Leigh. 1979. "The Evolution of Bats." Evolutionary Theory, 4(3):103-121, p. 110.
Dr. Jerry Bergman has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at several colleges and universities including for over 40 years at Bowling Green State University, Medical College of Ohio where he was a research associate in experimental pathology, and The University of Toledo. He is a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, Wayne State University in Detroit, the University of Toledo, and Bowling Green State University. He has over 1,300 publications in 12 languages and 40 books and monographs. His books and textbooks that include chapters that he authored, are in over 1,500 college libraries in 27 countries. So far over 80,000 copies of the 40 books and monographs that he has authored or co-authored are in print. For more articles by Dr Bergman, see his Author Profile.
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Categories: Birds, Darwin and Evolution, Dinosaurs, Fossils, Mammals


It is estimated that the social gaming market will grow to US$17.40 billion by 2019, growing at a CAGR of 16.1% from 2013 to 2019. This is largely thanks to growth in the use of internet and social media sites and an increase in demand and decrease in price of smartphones and tablet PCs. Big On Play is an innovative new approach to the perennially popular, already-successful social gaming phenomenon.
As one of very few companies based out of the Middle East focusing solely on social gaming, Big On Play's unique positioning in, knowledge of, and experience in the Middle East market, enables it to take advantage of a highly lucrative niche sector in a continuously evolving field, whilst also positioning itself to exploit opportunities on a global scale.
Our intrepid team strives to publish and develop exciting new social and mobile games that will strike a chord in a world where virtual interactive relationships whether with friends or complete strangers, are now an intrinsic part of the social DNA. Capitalising on a combination of engagement and retention of the continuing increase in internet users, Big On Play is set to enter this lucrative field by providing addictive new games, leveraging off and enhancing social connections and transforming the way people play games and interact online. 'Social Gaming' powered by virtual goods along with secure, easier to use online payment platforms is most certainly the tech-field to watch.


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Dylan Duarte
Angry Birds was met with nearly-universal acclaim when it initially hit iOS in December of 2009 and has since become something of a phenomenon. The action puzzler and its various sequels have spread like a plague to various platforms and devices, even streaming boxes like the Roku and social networking website Facebook. The series has even spawned a line of plushies, for crying out loud. Many have wondered when the mania surrounding Angry Birds is going to die down, and with the release of the newest entry in the series, Angry Birds Space, I can offer some insight into that question. And the answer? Not anytime soon.
One Small Step For Bird
I like Angry Birds. It's not particularly deep, but it's a fun way to kill time. Though I will admit that after both Seasons and Rio, my interest started to wane. Nevertheless, I was eager to try out Angry Birds Space due to the changes in gameplay. And while those changes aren't many, the key change to the core gameplay is pretty substantial – the ditching of traditional side-scrolling levels in favor of spherical planets with their own gravitational fields.
Difficulty Gravitating
There's also a new bird, a square fella with the ability to turn objects into ice, making them easier to smash through. And the yellow bird, the one that darts forward like a missile when you click the mouse button – he's purple now, and he shoots towards wherever you click.
The rest of the birds are all familiar, but with aesthetic makeovers to better match the sci-fi theme. That said, these changes are all secondary to the new gravitational field mechanic. The field is visible, represented by a pulsating ring around the planet. Once the bird enters the ring, it's flight path will alter drastically, sending it spiraling towards the planet. Learning to account for the gravitational pull definitely takes time, but not too much time, and once you get the hang of things, it can be truly rewarding.
The difficulty is inconsistent. For the first world or even the first two, the game is surprisingly easy, almost as if the developers underestimated how quickly players would adapt to the new gameplay. There were several levels that I "three-starred" almost entirely by accident; I would send my bird off on a test run to observe its behavior, only to have it get sucked into the pigs and structures, and then have that debris sucked into the remaining pigs.
But once you hit the third world, the challenge ramps up considerably, leading to some truly frustrating levels. I'm not ashamed to say that I looked up guides on a few of the levels in World 3, and to my disappointment, it seemed as if luck played a pretty big factor in completing those levels. You would aim your shot as best you can and then you would be at the mercy of mother nature, hoping that everything tumbled in a direction that benefited you. Thankfully these levels were few.
Bosses, Bonus Levels, and the Best Birds Yet
The boss battles from Rio return in glorious form. Pigs pilot various mechanical monstrosities and destroying them usually involves hurling your birds at floating rocks, which then come crashing down on your enemies.The real highlight of the game, however, are the bonus levels, each of which is fashioned after a different retro videogame. I won't say which games, as the surprise is a big part of the fun, but each level was a gem in its own right.
I played Angry Birds Space to completion on PC and dabbled in the Android version. As I understand it, the iOS version contains in-app transactions that users are none too pleased about, but these are not present here. Aside from the silly difficulty curve, which is easy enough to look past, Angry Birds Space is not only a terrific game, but the best entry in the series so far. It's no surprise that it saw ten million downloads in just three days.
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In this article, a high power diode laser is used for surface melting a 7075-T651 aluminum alloy with and without graphite coating to induce microstructural changes on the surface and to improve corrosion resistance. LSM (Laser Surface Melting) is investigated using 3 kW power with the scan rate of 4 mm/s and 5 mm/s for the graphite coated and non-coated samples in the nitrogen atmosphere respectively. The microstructural analysis observations show that, most of the grain boundaries of the wrought structure and the coarse constituent phase are altered in the re-solidified laser melted layer. The potentiodynamic polarization of the alloy is determined using corrosion study, whereas the electrochemical impedance study is evaluated by treating the alloy in 3.5% sodium chloride solution. Based on this study, it is observed that the corrosion current of the laser treated sample is reduced by 5 times when compared to the un-treated samples. Superior corrosion resistance occurs due to the absence of coursed constituent phases at the surface of the laser-melted layer.
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Category: Lombard Police and Fire Department Crimes
Home Invasions in Lilac Town Are A Sign of The Times
Filed under: Lombard Damages, Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow in DuPage Co., Lombard Illinois 60148 USA, Lombard Police and Fire Department Crimes, Lombard Police Corruption, lombard real estate property damages and losses to the hung family estate, Lombard Victim of Crimes, Lombard Victim of Traumatic Brain Injury, Losses to the Hung Family Real Estate Property, Mr. Roberto Hung Illinois Victim of Crimes as a Lombard Resident Homeowner, Mr. Roberto Hung Traumatic Brain Injury Aneurysm, Murdered by Respiratory Therapist Ben Aguilar under Dr. Grodzin, National Center for Victims of Crime, National Victims' Constitutional Amendment For Illinois Enforceable Victims' Rights Act, Office for Victims of Crimes, Office of Workman's Compensation in Chicago, Post-Mortem Compensation for Mr. Roberto Hung Illinois Crime Victims Compensation Case No. 11cv5273, Professional Writing, York Township Community Center — Leave a comment
How I Lost My Family?
Relocating into a town of orphans, dysfunctional residents, and psychiatric rehabilitated people, I did not know that I would lose my family and personal freedom as a Lombard resident homeowner in District 5, York Township, DuPage County, Illinois USA. When my Father, Mr. Roberto Hung purchased the Lombard historic Brick Bungalow at the corner of Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, he did not know that this Lombard real estate property was surrounded by the DuPage Easter Seals orphans, mentally retarded, dysfunctional residents, and reformed alcoholics, drug addicts, and psychiatric rehabilitated people in District 5, York Township, DuPage County, Illinois USA. Neither my Father nor I knew the consequences of purchasing Lombard real estate property near Saint Pius X Catholic Church and School, upon request from my Mother and youngest brother who had followed Paul Rathe's friend Linda Schuster to the western suburbs of DuPage County, Illinois. Twenty (20) years afterwards, I have lost my Father after Lombard home invasions, traumatic brain injury and aneurysm, repeated hospitalizations, abuse and murder by a hospital respiratory therapist; I cannot find my Mother who was presumed dead by the DuPage County Clerk in Wheaton, though she is still around relocated outside of Lilac Town; and my estranged husband who is roaming in the state of Illinois and does not communicate with me.
Lilac Town is a haven for orphans, that is to say children without natural parents, young people without a father, a mother, or a relative to provide lodging, food, and family surroundings. The western suburb of DuPage is always soliciting young orphans to fulfill the mandatory school age requirements in District 5, near Westmore Elementary School, Saint Pius X Catholic School, Jackson Middle School, and the surrounding religious schools in Lilac Town. Plus, Glenbard East High School is always soliciting and recruiting young students to enroll in their secondary education programs, going as far as to bring qualified international exchange students from around the world to relocate all the way to the Village of Lombard in the western suburbs and become permanent residents of the state of Illinois.
There are also many dysfunctional residents who move to the western suburbs of DuPage County. Rehabilitation lives from substance abuse, drugs, alcohol, over-medicated senior citizens, abused women, disabled people, mentally retarded individuals who have medical preference to settle in shared housing facilities, assisted-living lodging, and community-based housing without having the required income to support a west suburban lifestyle in Lilac Town, York Towship, DuPage County, Illinois USA.
In addition, the Village of Lombard solicits psychiatric rehabilitated residents to support subsidized state and federal grants for the Lombard Crisis Intervention Center on Finley Road.
Surprisingly, the Lombard historic bungalow my Father purchased in District 5, was surrounded by the Deicke Home for the Retarded, the Community Church along Westmore Avenue, the Mennonite community on Madison Avenue, and other churches near the State of Illinois Drivers' License Facility.
My Father, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor, did not know that purchasing two (2) Lombard real estate property with his family of five members would cost his life in five (5) years. Mr. Roberto Hung, a Lombard resident homeowner and taxpayer was attacked at home by intruders during home invasions and became an Illinois Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes statistics in the western suburbs for District 5, York Township, DuPage County, in the United States of America. As a Lombard resident homeowner, my Father became a victim of the heinous hate crimes set up at his Lombard home by the surrounding community along Westmore-Meyers Road in District 5, for the western suburbs of DuPage County, Illinois.
I have been a Lombard Victim of Repeated Home Invasions, Physically Abused, Kidnapped, Tortured, and Hospitalized by intruders, orphans, mentally retarded individuals, alcoholics, drug addicts, dysfunctional residents, and psychiatric rehabilitated people who have trespassed, invaded my personal lifestyle, and contributed to the loss of my family life in District 5, York Township, in the western suburbs of DuPage County in the state of Illinois.
"For the last twenty (20) years, I have lost my family to orphans, mentally retarded individuals, alcoholics, drug addicts, dysfunctional residents, and psychiatric rehabilitated people who have relocated, lived and settled in Lilac Town since September 2, 1993, after my Father, Mr. Roberto Hung and our family purchased Lombard real estate property at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and 342 West Harrison and Finley Road in York Township, DuPage County, Illinois, United States of America".
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2013 National Crime Victims' Rights Week: April 21-27th. New Challenges. New Solutions
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In the year 2013, the National Crime Victims' Rights Week takes place from Sunday, April 21st through Saturday, April 27th, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crimes in order to inspire our communities to observe the Victims of Crimes Act of 1984 (VOCA).
The Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (VOCA) was an attempt by the federal government to help the victims of criminal actions through means other than punishment of the criminal. It created a federal victims-compensation account funded by fines assessed in federal criminal convictions, and it established provisions to assist state programs that compensated the victims of crimes. The compensation system is still in existence, having distributed over $1 billion in funds since it began.
The statute, codified at 42 U.S.C.A. § 10601, was a direct result of a task force set up by the Justice Department under the auspices of President Ronald Reagan called the President's Task Force on Victims of Crime, the report issued by the task force in 1982 was harshly critical of existing victims-compensation programs. "In many states, program availability is not advertised for fear of depleting available resources or overtaxing a numerically inadequate staff. Victim claims might have to wait months until sufficient fines have been collected or until a new fiscal year begins and the budgetary fund is replenished," according to the report.
VOCA established the Crime Victim's Fund, which is supported by all fines that are collected from persons who have been convicted of offenses against the United States, except for fines that are collected through certain environmental statutes and other fines that are specifically designated for certain accounts, such as the Postal Service Fund. The fund also includes special assessments collected for various federal crimes under 18 USC § 3613, the proceeds of forfeited appearance bonds, bail bonds, and collateral collected, any money ordered to be paid into the fund under section 3671(c)(2) of Title 18; and any gifts, bequests, or donations to the fund from private entities or individuals.
The first $10 million from the fund, plus an added amount depending on how much has been deposited in the fund for that fiscal year, goes to child-abuse prevention and treatment programs. After that, such sums as may be necessary are made available for the U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to improve services for the benefit of crime victims in the federal criminal justice system, and for a Victim Notification System.
The Office for Victims of Crimes has chosen this year's theme to be: "New Challenges. New Solutions." The mission of the OVC's strategic initiative is called Vision 21: Transforming Victims Services in the 21st century for the new millennium.
According to Joye E. Frost, the Acting Director for the Office for Victims of Crimes, "in spite of all our progress, victims' rights laws in all 50 states, the Victims of Crime Act of 1984, the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, and the more than 10,000 victim service agencies throughout the United States of America–there are still enduring and emerging challenges for victims of crimes in America."
About 50 percent of violent crimes are not reported, and only a fraction of victims receive the help they need. There are still ongoing investigations to know and find out more about these victims, how to help them in the best way, and how the victims' services can be targeted to reach every victim. While adapting to funding cuts, globalization, changing demographics, new types of violent crimes, and the changes (both good and bad) brought by technology. These 21st century new challenges call for bold, new solutions.
The promise and commitment of our Vision 21, will pave the way to the ongoing work with victims during the 2013 National Crime Victims' Rights Week, in order to transform victims' services in the 21st century–Office for Victims of Crime, Joye E. Frost, Acting Director
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The Village of Lombard, Police and Fire Department have not compensated the Family of Mr. Roberto Hung, his Daughter, Lombard Resident Homeowner as Victims of Crimes, Structural Disaster Roofing Water Damages and Losses at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, one block southeast from St. Pius X Catholic Church, and one block southwest from Westmore Elementary School, near the Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White Motor Vehicles Facility.
The Lombard Fire Department, former Fire Chief Georges Seagraves, Keith Steiskal, and Lombard Police Chief Ray Byrne, Police Marilyn Gabinski, and others, have not compensated the Daughter of Mr. Roberto Hung for stealing personal clothing, belongings, and other household items from the garage at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard during 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
In addition, the Village of Lombard has been damaging the existing landscape, shrubbery, Stark Bros. Golden Delicious Apple Trees, existing Rose Bushes, Lilacs, Spring perennials, and Strawberry plants growing around 502 South Westmore-Meyers and Washington Boulevard which have been purchased and planted by the Daughter of Mr. Roberto Hung and Family from 1993 through 2008.
The Village of Lombard Board has not responded to numerous letters, correspondance, and personal inquiries that the Daughter of Mr. Roberto Hung has made for compensation and restitution for All The Crimes, Structural Disaster Water Damages and Losses, Stealing, Abuse of the Homeowners' Rights in the Village of Lombard, York Towship, DuPage County, Illinois USA. The Village of Lombard has not paid the Daughter of Mr. Roberto Hung as an Illinois Victim of Crimes during her life as a Lombard resident homeowner in Illinois.
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1980s, 2.5/4, Clint Eastwood, Drama, Review
A Second Look at Bird
December 15, 2022 January 20, 2023 davidmvining
#27 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films.
Wow…it's been a long time since I reviewed Bird, Clint Eastwood's biopic of the jazz musician Charlie Parker. Revisiting it again for the first time in three years, I find that my overall opinion has not changed.
I would say that I've added a dimensions to my thoughts on the film, and that's in large part due to watching it in the context of Clint Eastwood's body of work as a film director. Throughout all of Eastwood's work up to this point, the words that I used most consistently were "competent", "professional", and "workmanlike". There's obviously a directorial voice with thematic concerns working through a lot of it, but this is the first time that I've considered using the word "self-indulgent." This feels like a work-print, the first amalgamation of footage that includes just about everything shot before things get whittled down to a more manageable length for public distribution.
I really get the sense that Eastwood, an obvious fan of jazz in general and Parker specifically, just fell in love with the script by Joel Oliansky that captured so much of the bygone era of the jazz scene in the 40s and early 50s. He wanted to see it all. I'm reminded of an interview with Paul Haggis talking about his experience with Eastwood on the making of Million Dollar Baby where Haggis was very happy to have Eastwood interested in his script, but Haggis wanted to go back and work more on it, insisting that it was just a first draft. Eastwood refused to allow any changes, insisting that what Haggis called flaws were part of what he loved about the script. I imagine that Eastwood approached the script for Bird in a similar way. He loved the expansive view of the era and personalities around Parker, but it ends up feeling like there's no real story going on.
It's just trying to capture as much of Parker's life as possible without pushing it into the framework of storytelling. However, while that amorphousness is limiting, the film really is anchored by Forest Whitaker as Parker, and he's really very good. Parker is a man who cannot find solace or peace considering the physical and psychological pain he's in when he's not playing music, searching for a numbing of his aches through women, talk, drugs, and alcohol in a constant descent until his death, leaving behind a body that the coroner thinks belongs to a sixty-five year old man instead of a thirty-four year old, as he was. Diane Venora has the largely thankless role as Chan Parker, who spends most of the film worrying about her husband's self-destructive path, and she does everything she can with the limited role.
The parts of Parker's story that I find the most interesting are the comparisons between him and two other musicians, Dizzy Gillespie (Samuel Wright) and Buster Franklin (Keith David). Gillespie is the more cool-headed manager who can keep his band together in contrast to Parker, and Buster is the one who recognizes rock 'n roll, leaving jazz behind. Unfortunately, this stuff feels clipped really short in favor of the homestead material focusing on Chan and the family (mostly the death of their daughter). While that's obviously hugely important to Parker, it lends itself to manifesting the issue with trying to capture the life of a complicated man in two to three hours: there simply isn't enough time to get it all. You have to pick a lane, and then stick to it. Eastwood and Oliansky seemed more interested in capturing everything rather than just trying to capture something.
So, I'm still mixed on the film. I don't feel the emotional weight of Parker's death, but I still find the whole journey interesting. A lot of that has to do with Whitaker's performance, but there's also something to be said about the physical production that very well captures the look and feel of 1950s New York and Los Angeles. I don't think it works overall, but it's still something worth paying attention to, especially as what obviously seems to be Clint Eastwood's first passion project as a film director.
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Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood to Offer Complimentary Weekend Shuttle Service to The Colonnade Outlets at Sawgrass Mills
Posted: Tue , May 28 , 2019
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood announces a new complimentary shuttle service to and from The Colonnade Outlets at Sawgrass Mills. Available on Saturdays and Sundays, visitors can take the shuttle between the main court area near Burberry and the porte-cochere at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood. Guests will also have access to exclusive promotions at both Seminole Hard Rock and Sawgrass Mills.
Each shuttle holds a capacity of 18 passengers. Guests taking the shuttle will receive a complimentary Savings Passport coupon book filled with more than 175 offers and hundreds of dollars in savings to select stores at Sawgrass Mills.
Guests must be 18 years or older unless accompanied by parent or legal guardian. Alcoholic beverages are not permitted on the shuttle. Departure Schedule is as follows. Times are subject to change without notice.
Sawgrass/Colonnade 11 a.m. Departure
Seminole Hard Rock Noon Departure
Sawgrass/Colonnade 1 p.m. Departure
Seminole Hard Rock 2 p.m. Departure
Currently in the midst of a $1.5 billion expansion, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood is the world-renowned entertainment, gaming and hospitality destination that features a AAA Four Diamond-rated luxury hotel. With 140,000 square feet of gaming space, Seminole Hard Rock is currently home to 2,000 of the industry's most popular slots and the only place in South Florida offering live table games with more than 100 tables. Slated for a Fall 2019 opening, Seminole Hard Rock's expansion will double the casino's gaming floor and bring more luxury guestrooms to an iconic guitar-shaped hotel as well as a new 42,000 square-foot Rock Spa, new restaurants, bars and lounges, day club and night club, and much more.
For a limited time, new casino players can take advantage of new member promotions when they sign up for a Seminole Wild Card. Seminole Wild Card Members can earn exclusive rewards and benefits across all Seminole Gaming Casinos throughout Florida, including bounce back free play, comp dollars, personalized hotel rates, VIP access to events and more.
The Colonnade Outlets is the Sawgrass Mill's outdoor luxury outlet collection, featuring more than 70 of the finest brands around the globe – many of which are exclusive to South Florida. Brands include Armani Outlet, Breitling, Brunello Cucinelli, Burberry, Coach, Diane von Furstenberg, Etro, Versace, Maje, Marc Jacobs, Prada, Rag & Bone, Dolce & Gabbana, Saint Laurent, and Ted Baker London. As the largest outlet and value retail shopping destination in the United States, Sawgrass Mills features more than 350 retail outlets and stores and is home to more than 100 stores found nowhere else in South Florida, making the mall a top shopping destination.
"We are extremely excited to now have shuttle transportation offering guests at Sawgrass Mills and Seminole Hard Rock the opportunity to conveniently enjoy the best of shopping, dining and entertainment," said Chris Valle, director of marketing for Sawgrass Mills.
About Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood is the flagship casino resort of Hard Rock International, owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It isa world-renowned entertainment, gaming and hospitality destination that features a AAA Four Diamond-rated luxury hotel; expansive gaming offerings including first-in-class slots, high-stakes table games and South Florida's premier poker room; spa and fitness center; award-winning dining and nightlife; and the popular Hard Rock Event Center which hosts A-list entertainers, comedy and sporting events. A $1.5 billion expansion slated to open in fall 2019 will bring 638 luxury guestrooms to a first-ever, iconic, guitar-shaped hotel and 168 upscale guest accommodations in an adjacent hotel tower overlooking a lush, "Bora Bora" style, private cabana environment; a 42,000 square-foot Rock Spa®; a 13.5 acre recreational water-focused experience for sunbathing, swimming, kayaking, sailing and paddle boarding; 21 distinctive restaurants, bars and lounges; an expanded gaming floor featuring 3,100 slots, 193 table games and a 45-table poker room; 120,000 square feet of premier meeting and convention space; and 26,000 square feet of new retail space. The highly anticipated 6,500 seat Hard Rock Live theater-styleconcert venue will feature headline performances and live broadcast capabilities. The resort is located on 87 acres of the Hollywood SeminoleReservation along State Road 7, (U.S. Highway 441). The resort is 10 minutes from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport and 30 minutes from downtown Miami and Miami International Airport. For more information, visit us online at www.seminolehardrockhollywood.com, call 800-937-0010 or follow us: Facebook: SeminoleHardRockHollywood, Twitter: @HardRockHolly, Instagram: @HardRockHolly
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Swarthmore native Zinzi Clemmons accuses Lena Dunham of 'hipster racism,' quits project
by Nick Vadala, Posted: November 20, 2017
Zinzi Clemmons, who grew up in Swarthmore, criticized Lena Dunham for 'hipster racism.'
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Strath Haven High School grad Zinzi Clemmons has called on "women of color … to divest from Lena Dunham" as a result of the Girls star's alleged "hipster racism." Clemmons also announced that she will no longer write for Dunham's weekly newsletter, Lenny Letter.
"She cannot have our words if she cannot respect us," Clemmons, who was raised in Swarthmore, wrote in a statement posted to Twitter on Sunday.
Clemmons released her first critically acclaimed novel, What We Lose, earlier this year.
In that statement, Clemmons wrote that she "ran in the same circles" as Dunham and fellow Girls star Jemima Kirke while the author was a student at Brown University. At that time, Kirke attended Rhode Island School of Design, which is nearby Brown, and Dunham, who is a longtime friend of Kirke's, went to Oberlin College in Ohio.
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Clemmons claims that Dunham and her friends were known for "their well-known racism" at the time, which caused her to avoid "those people like the plague." In one example, Clemmons wrote that one friend "in Lena's circle" used "the N word in conversation in order to be provocative," and claimed she was joking when called on it.
"I'd call their strain 'hipster racism,' which typically uses sarcasm as a cover, and in the end, it looks a lot like gaslighting," Clemmons wrote. "'It's a joke. Why are you overreacting?' is a common response to these kind of statements."
Clemmons, however, wrote that she ultimately decided to leave Dunham's Lenny Letter after the Dunham threw her support behind Girls writer Murray Miller, who actress Aurora Perrineau recently accused of sexual assault stemming from an incident in 2012 when she was 17-years-old.
"One of my best friends was victimized in almost the exact same way by someone in Lena's circle," Clemmons wrote. "It was never addressed, and he continues to move in those circles and has a powerful job … Let's hold Lena accountable, and to me that means sacrificing some comfort and a little bit of cash, in this moment."
Dunham had issued a message of support for Miller on Friday, writing that "during every time of change there are also incidents of the culture … taking down the wrong targets. We believe, having worked closely with him for more than half a decade, that this is the case with Murray Miller."
Dunham was heavily criticized for her statement of support, which prompted her to issue an apology on Saturday. In it, Dunham writes that she "naively believed it was important to share" her perspective on the situation.
"I now understand that it was absolutely the wrong time to come forward with such a statement and I am so sorry," Dunham wrote. She has not, however, responded to Clemmons' statement.
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Why the current anti-terror debate is flawed
The public discourse on terrorist attacks emanating from France and Austria via Switzerland is extremely dangerous for human rights, writes political scientist Leandra Bias.
This content was published on November 24, 2020 - 16:00 November 24, 2020 - 16:00
Leandra Bias
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Deutsch (de) "Die Schweiz ist im Begriff, das härteste Antiterror-Gesetz des Westens einzuführen"
Italiano (it) "La Svizzera sta per adottare la più severa legge antiterrorismo in Occidente"
عربي (ar) "سويسرا على وشك تطبيق أقسى قانون غربي ضد الإرهاب"
Français (fr) «La Suisse est en passe d'introduire la loi antiterroriste la plus dure d'Occident»
Leandra Bias is a political scientist who has just submitted her dissertation on feminist critique in authoritarian regimes at Oxford University. She works as a gender expert at the Swiss Peace Foundation (swisspeace).
The first problem is the focus on declarations of war: by the French government against "Islamist separatism" and by Vienna against "political Islam". While such statements convey an energetic and action-oriented approach, they are worded in disastrously vague terms.
This is a trend we have witnessed ever since US President George W. Bush announced the "war on terror". Since then, the catchwords "terrorism" and "extremism" have become so widespread in our laws that they can mean almost anything: ideas, beliefs or speech.
The preventive mechanisms that ensue from this undermine the very values we should be protecting most preciously: freedom of speech and the rule of law. These achievements are under attack from Islamists, and yet we are busy digging a grave for them with our supposed prevention strategy.
This preventive action involves sacrificing the right to privacy in exchange for the promise of absolute security. It also leads to a situation where we no longer regard citizenship as a fundamental right but reinterpret it as a privilege that can become the plaything of our criminal justice system.
In Switzerland, we are about to adopt the toughest anti-terrorism law in the Western world. If campaigners fail to collect enough signatures to force a referendum on the proposed legislation, it will become possible to place people under house arrest without a court order, simply on the suspicion that they may commit a terrorist act in the future. The bill would also apply to minors and violates the European Convention on Human Rights. This is why it has also been sharply criticised by the UN human rights special rapporteur, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin. At the beginning of the year, Switzerland also legally revoked a person's citizenship for the first time since the Second World War.
It is therefore hardly surprising that Austria is now also trying to strip citizenship from dual nationals who are active Islamists, and that Vienna and Paris are leading efforts within the EU to ban encryption in message services such as WhatsApp, in order to increase the possibilities for surveillance.
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Combative speeches are seductive, as they suggest determination and quick, easy solutions. However, they overlook the fact that far-reaching powers already exist, certain problems are actually minimal, and the measures are highly counterproductive.
The case for supporting Macron's stance on "Islamist separatism"
This content was published on Nov 24, 2020 Nov 24, 2020 A global debate on Islamism has flared up, in which the French President called the problem by its name, writes political scientist Elham Manea.
Take French President Emmanuel Macron's approach to combating an Islamist "society within the society", for example. He announced in his speech that, from now on, homeschooling would be strictly limited, to prevent girls from being kept out of school. Then, in a letter to the Financial Times, he stated that girls in "some districts are raised wearing a full veil, separated from boys and in hatred of France". The article was subsequently withdrawn, as it contained factual errors. According to the latest statistics from the French education ministry itself, girls attend school no less than boys.
Once more, the Muslim population of France is being defamed and marginalised. Muslims are called into the arena on a selective basis to condemn terrorist attacks, completely disregarding the fact that the majority of victims of Islamist attacks worldwide are actually Muslim. Let's remember: Isis established the caliphate on the territory of Iraq and Syria, and not in the French region of Alsace, for instance. Yet, if the Muslim population wanted to initiate a discussion on systematic social and economic discrimination, they would be silenced again.
Georgia elections in US showcase the nuts and bolts of democracy building
This content was published on Jan 11, 2021 Jan 11, 2021 Zurich-based American law lecturer Alexandra Dufresne sees both positive signs and cautionary tales in recent US political developments.
We know that anti-Muslim discrimination fosters radicalisation. We can assume the same is true in Switzerland. No studies have been carried out so far, which itself is indicative of a lack of interest. Clearly, our preventive strategy is not concerned with understanding the real motives. Islamophobia is certainly growing in Switzerland. We have thus not just banned minarets, but are increasingly adopting the French discourse, and will vote on a burqa ban next spring.
Another problem is when anti-Muslim discrimination takes place in the name of women's rights. Feminists are described as "surprisingly quiet these days" and accommodating to Islamism.
The fact is that feminists have criticised Islamism for years as part of a global patriarchy. But they are not willing to align themselves with xenophobic currents. So the focus is never only on Islamism, but just as much on right-wing extremism and other misogynist movements that exist under the guise of "conservatism".
Ambassador: US won't have much time for Switzerland
This content was published on Jan 20, 2021 Jan 20, 2021 Jacques Pitteloud does not foresee an improvement in bilateral relations following the change of power in Washington.
And what if we turn the question around: why does everyone remain so quiet when, in the name of Christianity, a European country [Poland] completely restricts the right to abortion, thereby attacking the fundamental right of women to self-determination over their bodies? What if this had triggered the same uproar, and given rise to the same solidarity with Polish women? This would have meant consistently defending women's rights, and not just when they are useful in order to defame other groups.
A coherent approach to human rights is tragically lacking in the current anti-terror debate and policies. But achieving it is difficult, as it does not offer any quick, simple or heroic solutions. Instead, it requires a long, self-critical and expensive process. This is the only course of action that would truly protect us in the long term.
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Switzerland backs EU call for tighter cooperation on terrorism
This content was published on Nov 13, 2020 Nov 13, 2020 Strong cooperation within Europe is key to combating terrorism, says Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter.
Terror threat remains high in Switzerland, warns Federal Intelligence Service
This content was published on Oct 27, 2020 Oct 27, 2020 Terrorist attacks inspired by the Islamic State group remain likely in Europe, with Switzerland not invulnerable to such threats, a new report states.
Parliament agrees to bolster anti-terrorism law
This content was published on Sep 23, 2020 Sep 23, 2020 The Swiss parliament has tightened measures aimed at preventing extremist violence and organised crime as part of increased international cooperation.
UN warns Switzerland over draft anti-terrorism law
This content was published on May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020 UN has outlined its concerns to Swiss government over the country's proposed anti-terrorism legislation.


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From shared schools to shared space: integrated education initiatives in Northern Ireland in comparative perspective
Shaun Mcdaid
Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences
School of Human and Health Sciences
Centre for Citizenship, Conflict, Identity and Diversity
Secure Societies Institute
Political parties and the general public in Northern Ireland usually agree that community relations could be improved by more widespread provision of 'integrated education' in the region (Lucid Talk, 2014). Integrated schools in Northern Ireland involve children from both the Catholic/nationalist and Protestant/unionist communities being educated together in the same classroom. Currently, most children from a Catholic/nationalist background attend Catholic schools, whilst the majority of their Protestant/unionist counterparts attend state schools. This article compares the policy on integrated education pursued by the first power-sharing executive (1973–74) with those of the current executive. The evidence suggests that there has been a drift away from integrated to shared education models, where the only true sharing taking place is of the facilities and infrastructure (DOE, 2013). The latter kind of school is much less likely to lead to the promotion, at an early age, of tolerance and mutual understanding between the region's two main communities. The evidence therefore suggests that the first power-sharing executive, during a more difficult security climate, had a considerably more ambitious integrated education policy than its contemporary counterpart, ostensibly operating in a post-conflict context.
Identity papers: A journal of British and Irish studies
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Painful Peeing? Raw Chicken Could Be to Blame
A new study says a strain of E. coli "could be causing 30,000 to 40,000" urinary tract infections in the United States every year.
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When you think about food poisoning, your mind probably turns to stomachaches and other digestive troubles. But there's mounting evidence that bacterial pathogens, particularly some strains of E. coli commonly carried on poultry, can also cause a common ailment we don't normally associate with dinner: urinary tract infections.
A new study, led by Professor Lance Price of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, pinpoints a particular E. coli strain that's adapted to thrive in chickens and also turns up in people with UTIs. For the study, the team took samples of chicken, turkey, and pork from Flagstaff, Arizona, supermarkets every two weeks for an entire year. Over the same time period, they analyzed urine and blood isolates taken from Flagstaff's main hospital. They found E. coli on about 80 percent of the meat samples and in 72 percent of the urine and blood samples.
"The most important message from this paper is that it establishes the direction of transmission from poultry to people," said lead scientist Lance Price.
Then the researchers analyzed the genomes of the E. coli cells to see if they could find genetic matches between the bacteria on the meat and in patients. The strains on pork were not related to ones found in people. But one particular strain turned up both ubiquitously on poultry and to a lesser extent in patients' samples. That strain, called E. coli ST131-H22, is what the researchers call "avian associated"—that is, it has genes adapted to help it thrive in birds.
The strain caused just 0.5 percent of the UTIs identified in the study, Price told me. But "if you scale that to the national estimates, ST131-H22 could be causing 30,000 to 40,000 UTIs in the US each year," he said. And, he added, "this is just one of many E. coli strains present in our food supply"—some of those other strains could be triggering UTIs, too.
Previous research on poultry and UTIs suggested but didn't definitively establish an E. coli strain with a bird-specific genetic signature. "The most important message from this paper is that it establishes the direction of transmission from poultry to people, and it shows that poultry-adapted strains are capable of causing bladder and kidney infections in people," Price said.
I asked Price how E. coli from supermarket chicken could cause urinary infections. He explained that, as with any other bacteria, E. coli ST131-H22 doesn't survive proper cooking. But as I noted in a recent piece on salmonella, cross-contamination—say, failing to wash a knife or even your hands properly after contact with raw chicken, a common kitchen blunder—is a way for germs to move from your meat into your mouth. The ST131-H22 strain is harmless to the digestive tract, Price explained, so it doesn't trigger what we normally think of as food poisoning.
But when it gets into the urinary tract—which for anatomical reasons happens much more frequently with women than with men—it can cause infections.
Meanwhile, UTIs are getting harder to treat as E. coli strains evolve to resist antibiotics. Price told me the poultry-adapted ST131-H22 strain identified in the study was more likely to be resistant to tetracycline—an antibiotic used in human medicine and some chicken production—than non-poultry-adapted strains. Luckily, that's not a huge concern, he said, because tetracycline isn't among the antibiotics commonly used to treat UTIs.
And the US poultry industry has begun to phase out routine use of antibiotics used in human medicine. Other regions still employ the same kind of antibiotic-intensive production that the US industry used to. "When my colleagues look at poultry E. coli in Southeast Asia, where they use all kind of antibiotics in livestock production, they see much scarier resistance profiles," Price said.
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Evolution of epicardial R wave voltage following experimental coronary artery occlusion: Effects of hyaluronidase
Lair G.T. Ribeiro, L. David Hillis, Peter R. Maroko
Summary: The goals of this investigation were: 1) to examine the pattern of evolution of epicardial R wave voltage during the 24 h after experimental coronary artery occlusion; and 2) to determine whether hyaluronidase, an agent shown previously to reduce myocardial ischaemic injury, alters this evolution. Coronary artery occlusion was performed in 36 dogs. In the control dogs, the average R wave voltage (R) recorded over the ischaemic myocardium increased by 7.6 ± 0.8 mV (P <0.001) from before to 15 min after coronary artery occlusion, then gradually returned to baseline over the ensuing 4 h. Subsequently, R wave voltage continued to fall, and 24 h after occlusion, R was 17.8 ± 1.8 mV (P <0.001) less than before occlusion. In the hyaluronidase-treated dogs (500 NF units·kg-1), R recorded over the ischaemic myocardium increased similarly to the controls before hyaluronidase administration. However, in contrast to the control dogs, the administration of hyaluronidase 20 min after occlusion caused R to return to baseline over the ensuing 40 min and 24 h after occlusion, the treated animals lost significantly less R wave voltage than the controls (P <0.001).
https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/15.8.425
10.1093/cvr/15.8.425
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Ribeiro, L. G. T., Hillis, L. D., & Maroko, P. R. (1981). Evolution of epicardial R wave voltage following experimental coronary artery occlusion: Effects of hyaluronidase. Cardiovascular Research, 15(8), 425-429. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/15.8.425
Evolution of epicardial R wave voltage following experimental coronary artery occlusion : Effects of hyaluronidase. / Ribeiro, Lair G.T.; Hillis, L. David; Maroko, Peter R.
In: Cardiovascular Research, Vol. 15, No. 8, 08.1981, p. 425-429.
Ribeiro, LGT, Hillis, LD & Maroko, PR 1981, 'Evolution of epicardial R wave voltage following experimental coronary artery occlusion: Effects of hyaluronidase', Cardiovascular Research, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 425-429. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/15.8.425
Ribeiro LGT, Hillis LD, Maroko PR. Evolution of epicardial R wave voltage following experimental coronary artery occlusion: Effects of hyaluronidase. Cardiovascular Research. 1981 Aug;15(8):425-429. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/15.8.425
Ribeiro, Lair G.T. ; Hillis, L. David ; Maroko, Peter R. / Evolution of epicardial R wave voltage following experimental coronary artery occlusion : Effects of hyaluronidase. In: Cardiovascular Research. 1981 ; Vol. 15, No. 8. pp. 425-429.
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