Dina éléktronika, dioda nyaéta hiji komponén nu ngahalangan arah gerak pamawa muatan. Prinsip dasarna, dioda ngaliwatkeun arus listrik kana hiji arah, tapi ngahalangan éta arus lamun arahna sabalikna. Ku kituna, dioda bisa dianggep minangka vérsi éléktronikna tina kelép pangecékan. Sirkuit nu ngabutuhkeun aliran arus ngan saarah umumna pasti ngagunakeun hiji atawa leuwih dioda dina rancangan sirkuitna.
Dioda baheula maké kristal "cat's whisker" jeung parangkat solobong vakum (disebut thermionic valves dina basa Inggris). Kiwari lolobana dioda umumna dijieun tina bahan sémikonduktor saperti silikon atawa germanium.
Dioda térmionik jeung padetan (solid state) diwangun sacara paralél. Prinsip oprasi dioda térmionik kapanggih ku Frederick Guthrie taun 1873 . Prinsip oprasi dioda kristal kapanggih taun 1874 ku élmuwan Jérman, Karl Ferdinand Braun .
Thermionic diode principles were rediscovered by Thomas Edison on February 13, 1880 and he took out a patent in 1883 (U.S. Patent 307031), but developed the idéa no further. Braun patented the crystal rectifier in 1899 . The first radio receiver using a crystal diode was built around 1900 by Greenleaf Whittier Pickard. The first thermionic diode was patented in Britain by John Ambrose Fleming (scientific adviser to the Marconi Company and former Edison employee ) on November 16, 1904 (U.S. Patent 803684 in November 1905). Pickard received a patent for a silicon crystal detector on November 20, 1906  (U.S. Patent 836531).
At the time of their invention such devices were known as rectifiers. In 1919 William Henry Eccles coined the term diode from Greek roots; di méans 'two', and ode (from odos) méans 'path'.
Thermionic diodes are vacuum tube devices (also known as thermionic valves), which are arrangements of electrodes surrounded by a vacuum within a glass envelope, similar in appéarance to incandescent light bulbs.
In vacuum tube diodes, a current is passed through the cathode, a filament tréated with a mixture of barium and strontium oxides, which are oxides of alkaline earth metals. The current héats the filament, causing thermionic emission of electrons into the vacuum envelope. In forward operation, a surrounding metal electrode, called the anode, is positively charged, so that it electrostatically attracts the emitted electrons. However, electrons are not éasily reléased from the unhéated anode surface when the voltage polarity is reversed and hence any reverse flow is a very tiny current.
For much of the 20th century vacuum tube diodes were used in analog signal applications, and as rectifiers in power supplies. Today, tube diodes are only used in niche applications, such as rectifiers in tube guitar and hi-fi amplifiers, and specialized high-voltage equipment.
Dioda nu pangmodérenna dumasar kana hubungan p-n sémikonduktor. Dina dioda p-n, arus konvénsional bisa ngalir ti sisi tipe p (anoda) ka tipe n (katoda) tapi henteu bisa ngalir dina arah nu sabalikna. Tipe dioda sémikonduktor lianna, dioda Schottky, diwangun tina hubungan antara logam jeung sémikonduktor, tinimbang hubungan p-n-na.
A semiconductor diode's current-voltage, or I-V, characteristic curve is ascribed to the behavior of the so-called depletion layer or depletion zone which exists at the p-n junction between the differing semiconductors. When a p-n junction is first créated, conduction band (mobile) electrons from the N-doped region diffuse into the P-doped region where there is a large population of holes (places for electrons in which no electron is present) with which the electrons "recombine". When a mobile electron recombines with a hole, the hole vanishes and the electron is no longer mobile. Thus, two charge carriers have vanished. The region around the p-n junction becomes depleted of charge carriers and thus behaves as an insulator.
However, the depletion width cannot grow without limit. For éach electron-hole pair that recombines, a positively-charged dopant ion is left behind in the N-doped region, and a negatively charged dopant ion is left behind in the P-doped region. As recombination proceeds and more ions are créated, an incréasing electric field develops through the depletion zone which acts to slow and then finally stop recombination. At this point, there is a 'built-in' potential across the depletion zone.
If an external voltage is placed across the diode with the same polarity as the built-in potential, the depletion zone continues to act as an insulator preventing a significant electric current. This is the reverse bias phenomenon. However, if the polarity of the external voltage opposes the built-in potential, recombination can once again proceed resulting in substantial electric current through the p-n junction. For silicon diodes, the built-in potential is approximately 0.6 V. Thus, if an external current is passed through the diode, about 0.6 V will be developed across the diode such that the P-doped region is positive with respect to the N-doped region and the diode is said to be 'turned on' as it has a forward bias.
A diode's I-V characteristic can be approximated by two regions of operation. Below a certain difference in potential between the two léads, the depletion layer has significant width, and the diode can be thought of as an open (non-conductive) circuit. As the potential difference is incréased, at some stage the diode will become conductive and allow charges to flow, at which point it can be thought of as a connection with zero (or at léast very low) resistance. More precisely, the transfer function is logarithmic, but so sharp that it looks like a corner on a zoomed-out graph (see also signal processing).
In a normal silicon diode at rated currents, the voltage drop across a conducting diode is approximately 0.6 to 0.7 volts. The value is different for other diode types - Schottky diodes can be as low as 0.2 V and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can be 1.4 V or more (Blue LEDs can be up to 4.0 V).
Referring to the I-V characteristics image, in the reverse bias region for a normal P-N rectifier diode, the current through the device is very low (in the µA range) for all reverse voltages up to a point called the péak-inverse-voltage (PIV). Beyond this point a process called reverse breakdown occurs which causes the device to be damaged along with a large incréase in current. For special purpose diodes like the avalanche or zener diodes, the concept of PIV is not applicable since they have a deliberate bréakdown beyond a known reverse current such that the reverse voltage is "clamped" to a known value (called the zener voltage or breakdown voltage). These devices however have a maximum limit to the current and power in the zener or avalanche region.
The Shockley ideal diode equation (named after William Bradford Shockley) is the I-V characteristic of an idéal diode in either forward or reverse bias (or no bias). It is derived with the assumption that the only processes giving rise to current in the diode are drift (due to electrical field), diffusion, and thermal recombination-generation. It also assumes that the recombination-generation (R-G) current in the depletion region is insignificant. This méans that the Shockley equation doesn't account for the processes involved in reverse bréakdown and photon-assisted R-G. Additionally, it doesn't describe the "leveling off" of the I-V curve at high forward bias due to internal resistance, nor does it explain the practical deviation from the idéal at very low forward bias due to R-G current in the depletion region.
and n is the emission coefficient.
T is the absolute temperature of the p-n junction.
which operate as described above. Usually made of doped silicon or, more rarely, germanium. Before the development of modern silicon power rectifier diodes, cuprous oxide and later selenium was used; its low efficiency gave it a much higher forward voltage drop (typically 1.4 - 1.7 V per "cell," with multiple cells stacked to increase the peak inverse voltage rating in high voltage rectifiers), and required a large heat sink (often an extension of the diode's metal substrate), much larger than a silicon diode of the same current ratings would require.
As a dopant, gold (or platinum) acts as recombination centers, which help a fast recombination of minority carriers. This allows the diode to operate at signal frequencies, at the expense of a higher forward voltage drop . A typical example is the 1N914.
(pronounced /ziːnər/) Diodes that can be made to conduct backwards. This effect, called Zener breakdown, occurs at a precisely defined voltage, allowing the diode to be used as a precision voltage reference. In practical voltage reference circuits Zener and switching diodes are connected in series and opposite directions to balance the temperature coefficient to near zero. Some devices labeled as high-voltage Zener diodes are actually avalanche diodes (see below). Two (equivalent) Zeners in series and in reverse order, in the same package, constitute a transient absorber (or Transorb, a registered trademark). They are named for Dr. Clarence Melvin Zener of Southern Illinois University, inventor of the device.
Diodes that conduct in the reverse direction when the reverse bias voltage exceeds the breakdown voltage. These are electrically very similar to Zener diodes, and are often mistakenly called Zener diodes, but break down by a different mechanism, the avalanche effect. This occurs when the reverse electric field across the p-n junction causes a wave of ionization, reminiscent of an avalanche, leading to a large current. Avalanche diodes are designed to break down at a well-defined reverse voltage without being destroyed. The difference between the avalanche diode (which has a reverse breakdown above about 6.2 V) and the Zener is that the channel length of the former exceeds the 'mean free path' of the electrons, so there are collisions between them on the way out. The only practical difference is that the two types have temperature coefficients of opposite polarities.
In a diode formed from a direct band-gap semiconductor, such as gallium arsenide, carriers that cross the junction emit photons when they recombine with the majority carrier on the other side. Depending on the material, wavelengths (or colors) from the infrared to the near ultraviolet may be produced. The forward potential of these diodes depends on the wavelength of the emitted photons: 1.2 V corresponds to red, 2.4 to violet. The first LEDs were red and yellow, and higher-frequency diodes have been developed over time. All LEDs are monochromatic; 'white' LEDs are actually combinations of three LEDs of a different color, or a blue LED with a yellow scintillator coating. LEDs can also be used as low-efficiency photodiodes in signal applications. An LED may be paired with a photodiode or phototransistor in the same package, to form an opto-isolator.
The term 'step recovery' relates to the form of the reverse recovery characteristic of these devices. After a forward current has been passing in an SRD and the current is interrupted or reversed, the reverse conduction will cease very abruptly (as in a step waveform). SRDs can therefore provide very fast voltage transitions by the very sudden disappearance of the charge carriers.
are used as sensors, heat engines for thermoelectric cooling. Charge carriers absorb and emit their band gap energies as heat.
There are other types of diodes, which all share the basic function of allowing electrical current to flow in only one direction, but with different methods of construction.
These are a type of point contact diode. The cat's whisker diode consists of a thin or sharpened metal wire pressed against a semiconducting crystal, typically galena or a lump of coal. The wire forms the anode and the crystal forms the cathode. Cat's whisker diodes were also called crystal diodes and found application in crystal radio receivers.
These are used as voltage-controlled capacitors. These were important in PLL (phase-locked loop) and FLL (frequency-locked loop) circuits, allowing tuning circuits, such as those in television receivers, to lock quickly, replacing older designs that took a long time to warm up and lock. A PLL is faster than a FLL, but prone to integer harmonic locking (if one attempts to lock to a broadband signal). They also enabled tunable oscillators in early discrete tuning of radios, where a cheap and stable, but fixed-frequency, crystal oscillator provided the reference frequency for a voltage-controlled oscillator.
A PIN diode has a central un-doped, or intrinsic, layer, forming a p-type / intrinsic / n-type structure. They are used as radio frequency switches, similar to varactor diodes but with a more sudden change in capacitance. They are also used as large volume ionizing radiation detectors and as photodetectors. PIN diodes are also used in power electronics, as their central layer can withstand high voltages. Furthermore, the PIN structure can be found in many power semiconductor devices, such as IGBTs, power MOSFETs, and thyristors.
The first use for the diode was the demodulation of amplitude modulated (AM) radio broadcasts. The history of this discovery is tréated in depth in the radio article. In summary, an AM signal consists of alternating positive and negative péaks of voltage, whose amplitude or 'envelope' is proportional to the original audio signal, but whose average value is zero. The diode (originally a crystal diode) rectifies the AM signal, léaving a signal whose average amplitude is the desired audio signal. The average value is extracted using a simple filter and fed into an audio transducer, which generates sound.
Diodes are frequently used to conduct damaging high voltages away from sensitive electronic devices. They are usually reverse-biased (non-conducting) under normal circumstances, and become forward-biased (conducting) when the voltage rises above its normal value. For example, diodes are used in stepper motor and relay circuits to de-énérgize coils rapidly without the damaging voltage spikes that would otherwise occur. Many integrated circuits also incorporate diodes on the connection pins to prevent external voltages from damaging their sensitive transistors. Specialized diodes are used to protect from over-voltages at higher power (see Diode types above).
In addition to light, mentioned above, semiconductor diodes are sensitive to more energetic radiation. In electronics, cosmic rays and other sources of ionising radiation cause noise pulses and single and multiple bit errors. This effect is sometimes exploited by particle detectors to detect radiation. A single particle of radiation, with thousands or millions of electron volts of energy, generates many charge carrier pairs, as its energy is deposited in the semiconductor material. If the depletion layer is large enough to catch the whole shower or to stop a héavy particle, a fairly accurate méasurement of the particle's energy can be made, simply by méasuring the charge conducted and without the complexity of a magnetic spectrométer or etc. These semiconductor radiation detectors need efficient and uniform charge collection and low léakage current. They are often cooled by liquid nitrogen. For longer range (about a centimetre) particles they need a very large depletion depth and large aréa. For short range particles, they need any contact or un-depleted semiconductor on at léast one surface to be very thin. The back-bias voltages are néar bréakdown (around a thousand volts per centimetre). Germanium and silicon are common materials. Some of these detectors sense position as well as energy. They have a finite life, especially when detecting héavy particles, because of radiation damage. Silicon and germanium are quite different in their ability to convert gamma rays to electron showers.
Semiconductor detectors for high energy particles are used in large numbers. Because of energy loss fluctuations, accurate méasurement of the energy deposited is of less use.
A diode can be used as a temperature méasuring device, since the forward voltage drop across the diode depends on temperature. This temperature dependence follows from the Shockley idéal diode equation given above and is typically around 2.2mV per degree C.
Digital cameras and similar units use arrays of photo diodes, integrated with réadout circuitry.
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Mike Buddie: Where Are They Now?
Mike Buddie
By Ron Morris
In a professional baseball career that spanned 13 seasons and included 87 big league games pitched over five years, Mike Buddie played for two Yankees teams that won the World Series and played a bit role in a motion picture.
Along the way, Buddie tucked away enough savings from a $75,000 signing bonus in 1992 to a $175,000 World Series share in 1998 to pay for his final semester of schooling at Wake Forest. He then parlayed a communications degree into a career in athletic administration and now oversees 20 men's and women's teams as athletic director at Furman University in Greenville, S.C.
"We all played for really good coaches and really bad coaches," Buddie said. "As I reflect on the really good coaches, to me it was the coaches who communicated really well. They told you what the expectations were and held you accountable. I try to do the same for people who work with me."
A Yankees fourth-round pick out of Wake Forest, Buddie found himself in the big leagues six years later as a member of one of the greatest teams in baseball history. With Mariano Rivera sidelined by a tweaked hamstring, the righthanded reliever got the call from Triple-A Columbus and from the bullpen in the Yankees' 1998 home opener.
After starter David Cone got knocked around in the early going, Buddie picked up his first big league victory by not allowing an earned run in 1.1 innings of relief. Yankees trainers carved out the game's details on a ball for a Buddie keepsake.
"You'd love for that first game ball for your first major league win to be like a 3-2 pitchers' battle," Buddie says. "The final score was 17-13. So, there are so many numbers on that ball that . . . it's staggering."
During the offseason prior to the 1999 season, Buddie landed an acting role in "For Love of the Game" a love story disguised as a baseball movie starring Kevin Costner. Buddie played the character Jack Spellman, the Yankees' starting pitcher. He appears in one scene in which Spellman is part of a pitching change. In the filming, Buddie had one speaking line in which he cursed his center fielder for lackadaisical play.
"I remember thinking: Am I going to be embarrassed if this makes it and my grandmother . . . brags to all of her friends that I'm in this movie and I'm dropping f-bombs?" Buddie said. The line was cut.
Buddie earned approximately $50,000 that winter for filming, and the following season got a basic $1,500 World Series share as a September callup of the World Series-champion Yankees in 1999.
Buddie did not appear in a postseason game for the 1998 or 1999 Yankees.
Then it was on to Milwaukee, where Buddie was introduced to the realities of the major leagues. The Brewers lost 89, 94 and 106 games in his three seasons there from 2000 to 2002, though he got to pitch in more meaningful games.
Upon retiring at age 32 following a 2003 season he spent at Triple-A, Buddie returned to Wake Forest, graduated and then worked in fundraising over the next 10 years, first in the business school and later in the athletic department.
He is in his fourth year as Furman's athletic director.
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We humans just can't get enough of makign life easier each day. Seems like the technology experts are of the same mind!. Neurowear, have developed Mico headphones that use a brainwave sensor to detect the mood of the listener and accordingly play a song for him.
The idea behind the product is that you shouldn't have to pick your song each time, hence the brainwave sensing technology. The headphone has a rather bulky appearance, which may not be everyone's cup of tea. With everything becoming smaller in size, gigantic headphones may not be very exciting for many users. However the headphones not only have a large size they also have an EEG (Electro Encephalo Graph) sensor protruding from the front, the sensor allows the headphones to analyze a person's brain patterns and determine the wearer's mood.
Once the headphones are connected to the smartphones app, the headphones play songs chosen from the Neurowear database. The sides of each ear piece light up when music is playing and they also display symbols to indicate whether the listener is feeling focused, drowsy, or stressed. The only mysterious downside of the product apart from the huge size could be how accurate the song matching software is, and whether it can can have an opposite effect on the mood of the listener.
The company hasn't still released any date or price on the product, guess we'll just have to wait till the tech gurus get their hands on it and review the product for us. But how does this technologically advanced idea sound to you?


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Prof. Neeraj Agarwal
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Twitter: @neerajaiims
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Director, GU Medical Oncology, Division of Medical Oncology, Co-leader, Urologic Oncology Multidisciplinary Program, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah.
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Assoc. Prof. Alessandro Volpe
Prof. David Pfister
After finishing medical school in November 2004 I started my residency in the Department of Urology at the University of Cologne. For my endoscopic training I switched to the General Hospital in Weiden (Oberpfalz/Bavaria) between August 2006 and March 2007. After returning to Cologne I heightened my oncologic education under Prof. Heidenreich. The oncologic training consisted of two arms: medical and surgical oncology. In 2009 my education was augmented at the University Hospital of Aachen. In 2010 I passed my urologic board exam. Since 2011 I have been working as a staff urologist with main interests in castration resistant prostate cancer and testicular cancer. In 2011 I passed the Charles Huggins grant, an educational grant at the Center for Prostate Disease Research in Maryland, USA. In 2012 I received an additional qualification in the systemic treatment of solid tumors and since that time I have organised and led the urological clinical trial center. In 2012 I qualified as a Professor and became an Associate Professor in November 2012 for medical oncologic treatment in urological tumors. At the end of 2015 I became the Commissionary Leader of the Urologic Department of the University of Aachen. Since 2016 I have become the Deputy Director of the Department of Urology, Uro-oncology and Robot Assisted Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne. Special interest is castration resistant, radiation resistant prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
Assoc. Prof. Alicia Morgans
Dr. Morgans is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Northwestern University's Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center where she serves as a genitourinary medical oncologist and outcomes researcher. She completed medical school and residency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston, and earned a Master of Public Health at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Morgans treats patients with prostate, bladder, and testicular cancer, and her research assesses complications of advanced prostate cancer survivorship and patient-centered treatment decision-making in advanced prostate cancer.
Dr. Roberto Iacovelli
Dr. Roberto Iacovelli studied medicine at the "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy. At the same University, he specialized in medical oncology and had the PhD in molecular medicine and human pathology. He had international experience as a fellow at Institute Gustave Roussy in France and as oncologist in main referral oncological centres in Italy. Currently, he is a medical oncologist at the University Hospital of Verona, Italy. His research activities focus on metastatic renal cell carcinoma, prostate and bladder cancer. His major interest is in predictive and prognostic factors in GU cancers as well as the sequence of therapy in renal cancer. He published more than one hundred papers in international peer-reviewed journals and several abstracts at international conferences on these topics. Dr Iacovelli received many national and international awards, such as the ASCO Cancer Foundation Merit Award in 2011 and the best poster award at the ESMO congress in 2012.
Asst. Prof. Shilpa Gupta
Shilpa Gupta, MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation and the lead for the Phase 1 Interdisciplinary Solid Tumor Program at the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. Prior to joining University of Minnesota in July 2015, Dr. Gupta was faculty in Genitourinary Oncology and Experimental Therapeutics at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida for 4 years. Dr. Gupta's clinical and research interests are to treat patients with genitourinary malignancies and develop novel trials using targeted therapies and immunotherapies. She is currently the Principal investigator of several early and late phase trials in genitourinary oncology. Dr. Gupta is passionate about her research and has published her research across a variety of peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.
Twitter: @shilpaonc
Email: guptash@umn.edu
Dr. Tia Higano
Dr. Higano is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine (Division of Oncology) and Urology at the University of Washington and the University of British Columbia as well as a Member of the Clinical Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She graduated from University of Massachusetts Medical School, finished internal medicine residency at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, and completed hematology/oncology fellowship at University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson. Her research interests focus on new drug development including immunotherapy, the effects of androgen deprivation therapy on the male body and mind, and development of supportive care/survivorship programs for prostate cancer patients and their partners.
Dr. Daniel Keizman
Dr. Keizman is an expert in Genitourinary Oncology, particularly in prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancer; and at present serves as the head of the Genitourinary Oncology service at Meir Medical Center, Israel.
He graduated from The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and then completed his residency in Internal Medicine (at the Tel-Aviv Medical Center), Medical Oncology (at the Tel-Aviv Medical Center) and a Post Doctoral Clinical Fellowship in Genitourinary Oncology at the John Hopkins Hospital, Kimmel Cancer Center, Baltimore, USA.
He is the author of numerous studies and review articles published in medical journals, and a reviewer of numerous medical journals. He presented numerous studies in international meetings. His current research activity focuses on genitourinary oncology.
Dr. Neal Shore
Neal D. Shore, MD, FACS is the Medical Director for the Carolina Urologic Research Center. He practices with Atlantic Urology Clinics in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Dr. Shore has conducted more than 250 clinical trials, focusing mainly on GU Oncology, and serves on the Executive Boards of: Society of Urologic Oncology Board, Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network,Society of Urologic Oncology Clinical Trials Consortium, Secretary-Treasurer, and is President, Large Urology Group Practice Association. He is a founder for both: CUSP Clinical Trials Consortium, as well as for DASHKO, large urology practices data registries. He serves as the National Urology Research Director for 21st Century Oncology. He has served on the AUA Male Health Committee; he is currently a member of the AUA Data Committee, the SITC Task Force for Prostate Cancer, the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Think Tank and the editorial boards of Urology Times, Chemotherapy Advisor, OncLive, PLOS ONE(Academic Editor), Urology Practice,World Journal of Urology, and serves as Editor, Everyday Urology. He has more than 125 peer reviewed publications and numerous book chapters; he performs peer review for Lancet Oncology, European Urology,Journal Urology, Urology, BJUI,PCPD, and numerous other high impact scientific journals. A graduate of Duke University and Duke University Medical School, Dr. Shore completed a 6 month clinical research fellowship in Pretoria, South Africa, and then completed his General Surgery/Urology training at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Assoc. Prof. Brian Costello
Brian A. Costello, M.D., M.S. is a Consultant in the Division of Medical Oncology at Mayo Clinic Rochester and is an Associate Professor of Oncology and Urology. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He then completed his medical oncology fellowship at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Costello was subsequently a Mayo Clinic Scholar during which time he focused on early phase clinical trials and genitourinary malignancies. Dr. Costello is currently the Chair of the Genitourinary Tumor Group of the Division of Medical Oncology at Mayo Clinic. He serves as a member of the NCCN Kidney Cancer Panel, the National Cancer Institute's Renal Task Force, as well as the GU Cancers Core Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. He also previously served on the NCI Prostate Task Force from 2013 to 2016. He is actively involved in clinical and translational research and has a busy practice caring for patients with genitourinary cancers. Dr. Costello is actively involved in early drug development, especially in genitourinary malignancies. He is the Lead Investigator of the NCI-sponsored Mayo Phase II Program and is a member of the NCI's Investigational Drug Steering Committee.
Prof. Evan Yu
Evan Y. Yu, M.D., is a medical oncologist specializing in prostate, bladder, and testicular cancer treatment and research. He graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the University of Washington School of Medicine and his post-doctoral training was at Harvard Medical School. He completed internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He returned to Seattle at the end of 2004 to join the faculty at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He now is a Full Professor, and he is the director of the Clinical Trials Core for GU malignancies, as well as having an integral role in the Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer SPORE. His research focuses on testing the next wave of novel molecular targeted therapies and immunotherapy techniques, with a complementary focus on biomarkers. In addition to an active clinical and research practice, he also is the Assistant Fellowship Director and remains very active in student, resident, and fellow education. He has regularly been voted a "Top Doctor" by Castle Connolly, U.S. News and World Report, Seattle magazine, and Seattle Met magazine. He continues to serve on the National Cancer Institute Genitourinary Cancers Steering Committee.
Prof. Steven Joniau
Steven Joniau graduated in Urology in 2002 at the Catholic University of Leuven. In 2003, he was appointed full-time staff member at the Dept. of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven after a 1-year fellowship at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK. In July 2012, he obtained his PhD in Medical Sciences entitled 'High-risk localized prostate cancer: the role of surgery and the development of clinical outcome prediction models'. In 2013, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven.
Dr. Yuji Miura
Dr. Tobias Klatte
Tobias Klatte is Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Klatte obtained both his medical degree and doctoral degree at the University of Magdeburg, Germany. He received his clinical training at the Medical University of Vienna/Vienna General Hospital, and where he subsequently joined the faculty and rose to the rank of associate professor. He moved to the UK in 2017, where he spent one year at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge before being appointed in Bournemouth. Dr Klatte completed a research fellowship in urological oncology at the University of California-Los Angeles. His research is focused on kidney cancer and urothelial cancer, and he has published widely in these fields. In 2012, he completed his habilitation on prognostic factors in renal cell carcinoma.
Prof. Sandy Srinivas
Sandy Srinivas- Professor of Medicine/ Oncology- GU medical Oncologist - passionate about clinical trials and drug development and caring for patients with urologic cancers. Dr Srinivas has published extensively and is on national panels including the NCCN.
Dr. Fabio Schutz
Dr. Schutz graduated from Parana Federal University and did his internal medicine residency at Hospital de Clinicas in Curitiba - PR, Brazil. Then, he moved to Sao Paulo - SP for his medical oncology clinical fellowship at Hospital Sirio Libanes. After finishing his medical oncology fellowship, he worked for a couple of years as an assistant medical oncologist in the same hospital. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a research fellow in genitourinary (GU) oncology in the Lank Center for GU Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Harvard Medical School in Boston - MA, USA. He developed several original research projects and authored many manuscripts in high impact journals. Since mid-2011, he is working as a medical oncologist of the BP - Beneficencia Portuguesa de Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo - SP, Brazil. He is most interested and is currently conducting clinical trials in GU cancers.
Dr. Phillip Koo
Phillip J. Koo, MD is the Division Chief of Diagnostic Imaging at the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Arizona. Prior to this, he was Chief of Nuclear Medicine and Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Koo completed his transitional internship at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center-Presbyterian, radiology residency at Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and fellowship at the Harvard Medical School Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine. He is a diplomate of both the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and American Board of Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Koo is an active member of multiple societies and serves on the Scientific Program Committee for the Radiological Society of North America, Nuclear Radiology Certifying Exam Committee for the ABR, and is the Chair of the Quality and Evidence Committee for the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). He is also Chair of the Prostate Cancer Working Group at the SNMMI and was a member of the RADAR I and II working groups. Dr. Koo has published on various topics related to radiology and nuclear medicine in multiple journals such as Radiology, Radiographics, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Urology, and Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Dr. Gert Attard
Dr Attard is a Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist and Team Leader at The Institute of Cancer Research and an Honorary Medical Oncology Consultant at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. He graduated with a degree in Medicine from the University of Malta in June 1999 and obtained a PhD in Medicine from the University of London (ICR) in 2010. His main research interest is dissecting treatment resistance, currently with a focus on plasma DNA analysis, in order to inform on the development of novel therapeutics and biomarkers for castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). He is an experienced clinical trialist in CRPC and a co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including several important papers on advanced prostate cancer. Dr Attard's many awards over the years include the ASCO Foundation Annual Merit Award in 2007, Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investor Award in 2008, the AACR-GlaxoSmithKline Outstanding Clinical Scholar Award in 2009, the Medical Research Society/Academy of Medical Sciences Sue McCarthy Prize in 2010 and the McElwain award in 2010. Dr Attard sits on a number of advisory boards and the editorial board of Annals of Oncology.
Assoc. Prof. Tanya Dorff
Following a residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, Dr. Dorff came to LAC + USC Medical Center for her hematology and medical oncology fellowship. She currently heads the Genitourinary group within the Department of Medical Oncology at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. In addition to being a devoted clinician and translational researcher, Dr. Dorff has authored more than 45 peer reviewed articles as well as 35 review articles/commentaries. Dr. Dorff serves as associate editor for Clinical Genitourinary Cancer and Seminars in Urologic Oncology. She has lectured on prostate and bladder cancer treatment nationally and internationally, and has presented her research at national meetings. Current research interests include the effects of fasting on chemotherapy side effects and cancer control and immunotherapy for prostate cancer. She has been the principal investigator for more than a dozen clinical trials, involving targeted therapy and immunotherapy, for genitourinary cancers.
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Assoc. Prof. Martin Pichler
Martin Pichler obtained his MD at the Medical University of Graz in 2006, and his Master of Science in Molecular Biology at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria. Martin continued his cancer research training in different places, including The UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA (where he is Adjunct Faculty member at the Department of Experimental Therapeutics). He currently works as a medical oncologist with special focus on Urogential- and Gastrointestinal cancer, at the Division of Oncology, Medical University of Graz, Austria. He currently holds the research managing director position of this division and is the Head of the Research Unit for Non-Coding RNAs and Genome Editing in Cancer. His main research focus is to study molecular mechanisms of cancer biology, prognostic biomarker studies and clinical trials. He received several awards, grants and published about 170 peer-reviewed papers so far (https://forschung.medunigraz.at/fodok/suchen.person_uebersicht?sprache_in=en&ansicht_in=&menue_id_in=101&id_in=2001296) .
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Specialising in employee engagement, customer experience and the leadership required to create the link between the two.
Previously, he spent 28 years working for the John Lewis Partnership, starting as a management trainee to becoming responsible for customer experience across the department store division.
Andrew's aim is to make individuals and organisations happier and more fulfilled through a sense of collective purpose, so they engender trust, loyalty and advocacy from their customers while becoming more productive and, as a consequence, more profitable. He helps organisations join up their own internal dots to create their unique link between employee engagement and consistently great customer experience.
Whether it's public sector, not for profit or a large multinational, Andrew places an emphasis on understanding what makes (or can make) them different and special for their customers. Often different parts of an organisation believe they have different purposes, but Andrew enables them to cut through their differences in perception and experience. By uncovering inherent values and a shared enthusiasm he brings about employee engagement and growth.
Andrew also looks at the roles of leadership, communication, trust and enjoying work in creating success. In presentations, he explains that great customer experience cannot be taught but reflects a great internal culture. By developing a personality and values that are realistic, honest, and shared, organisations can deliver a degree of long lasting, competitive differentiation that few achieve, but many aspire to.
Andrew has spoken at conferences worldwide. He does not have a standard 'deck' of slides, preferring to create presentations from a substantial slide library that reflects his experience at John Lewis and beyond. Consequently, presentation content is created collaboratively with clients and tailored to meet the precise needs of their event, with bespoke slides being written when required. Along with stories and examples from his extensive experience, presentations also include practical solutions that can be implemented quickly and with minimal cost.
Andrew started his career as a management trainee with the John Lewis Partnership at Brent Cross in North London. He quickly moved up through the management ranks and led a number of selling teams in different branches, culminating in heading a department in the flagship Oxford Street branch.
From there he moved to the head office to take charge of the department stores' Intelligence Team. They acted as an internal business consultancy, reporting on competitive strategy, product differentiation and value, catchment area demographics for new branches and customer experience.
In 2000 Andrew was asked to lead on customer experience for the department store division. The role saw him develop JLP's market-leading culture and attitude towards customer experience and sales with the 30,000 customer-facing Partners in 26 John Lewis shops across the UK. That customer-driven culture is something that has now became synonymous with the John Lewis brand. During his tenure John Lewis frequently won awards for customer experience from Which? Verdict and Retail Week and were regularly cited in the media as a leading customer oriented organisation. He was also responsible for the management and resolution of the group's customer complaints.
While at John Lewis, Andrew advised many other non-competing organisations on their customer experience strategy and became recognised globally as an expert in the field.
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U.S. airstrike targets ISIS-Somalia in support of the Federal Government of Somalia
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In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike targeting ISIS terroristsin the Golis Mountain region, Somalia, on July 27, 2019.
U.S. Africa Command to Conduct Change of Command July 26
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U.S. Africa Command will conduct a change of command ceremony Friday, July 26 at 10 a.m. at Patch Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Approximately 200 personnel from the North Carolina and Alabama National Guards and over 300 Botswana Defence Force service members are participating in exercise Upward Minuteman 2019, July 7 - 21, 2019 at Thebaphatswa Air Base in Botswana.


Rhos-y-gwaliau is a small hamlet in Meirionnydd, Gwynedd, North Wales, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-east of Bala. It is home to the Rhos y Gwaliau Outdoor Activity Centre and a now disused Victorian chapel, built for the Calvinistic Methodists.
The Berwyn Mountains rise behind the village. The village lies towards the lower end of the narrow Hirnant valley formed by the Hirnant stream, which rises at the crest of the Berwyns and flows into the River Dee. The valley gives its name to the Hirnantian Age in the Ordovician Period of geological time.
Close to the village is Plas Rhiwaedog, the manor house of the ancient Rhiwaedog estate.
Regional Cycle Route 12 passes through the village.
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This very enthusiastic and multi-talented group is located in the city of Hanoi and specialises in the mass production of beautifully-made clothing for both domestic and overseas customers. The group is particularly adept at working with silk and canvas, producing a finished product on time and to the highest degree of craftsmanship. In addition, group members have a keen eye for detail and are attentive to customer needs.


It doesn't matter if you have been playing bingo at your local bingo parlor for years, you might be thinking of giving bingo games online a try. Even if you still enjoy the social aspect of seeing and interacting with your friends at the bingo hall, there are some advantages to playing bingo online that you don't get at live games. All you need to take advantage of the fun is a computer and an internet connection.
Here are seven advantages that playing bingo live in an online setting can offer.
Playing Bingo Online is 24/7 – You don't have to wait for your local bingo venue to open and the games to officially begin when you play bingo online. You can play any time of the day or night and on any day of the year. It's nice to not have to get dressed, get in your car and travel to the nearest casino to be able to play into the wee hours. You can enjoy the fun of playing bingo anytime you like right from the comfort of your own home. That means you can play bingo while dressed in nothing but your night clothes and your bunny slippers if you wanted to. Even when it's 3:00 in the morning and you can't sleep; it may surprise you just how many others are also up playing, too. Playing bingo anytime online allows you to work it around your schedule.
Playing bingo online can be less annoying – Some of the real downsides of playing bingo are all of 'the little things' that go on at the bingo hall. There always seems to be someone who just gets on our nerves while we're trying to focus on the game. Other players may have annoying habits such as being too talkative, or taking up an entire table on their own with all of their cards and assembled good luck charms. Other players may be just too loud or moan and whine aloud every time someone else wins. You don't have to keep a constant eye on your cards to avoid interference from other players, and you don't have to worry about being short-changed by bingo hall staff either. It's also nice to not have to worry about having your clothes, hair and everything else smelling of cigarette smoke by the time you get home. Playing bingo online lets you avoid all of that. Once you get started playing bingo online, you may never want to go back to the bingo hall again!
Playing online can be less expensive. Playing bingo live will often mean that you are buying a set number of cards for a set price. Online bingo will have a range of prices, depending on how much you want to try to win. Some feature free or very low prices for players who are risk averse. Those who want to spend more potentially have a chance to win bigger prizes. Many online players appreciate having that choice.
Online bingo games are fast paced! Playing bingo is often considered to be very dull when waiting for the bingo caller to pull the numbers out of the hopper and read them aloud. The computer based Live bingo games online are more fast paced. The numbers are chosen by the computer and you don't need a dauber to mark your cards, simply click them with your mouse.
You can play bingo and chat with friends around the world – One feature of the best bingo sites online is the chat feature. You can still interact with friends who moved that you once knew at the bingo hall. In an earlier article, we asked whether our users liked to chat while playing bingo. We got a variety of interesting answers but the general consensus was that chatting with others adds to the fun and for some, it's their favorite feature.
Playing bingo online has more variety – In order to keep players interested and engaged, sites feature colorful graphics, sounds to keep it interesting. At BingoMania we have a variety of cards and different games as well as courteous and attentive staff on hand 24/7.
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For the installation of a multipurpose grid in the sports Arena in Seoul, Korea, Ltd East-West KBS Sports World Technologies asked Prolyte distributor Tongsuh to supply the trussing and hoists for the grid. The former sports venue, which will be known by its new name KBS Arena, is located in the Gonghang Dae-ro and recently has had a complete update.
Installing the grid on hoists was part of the briefing to turn this location into a multifunctional venue, thereby creating broader utilization possibilities.
The truss grid, supported by Aetos hoists can be flown with precise positioning and accuracy; reducing the maintenance costs for the lighting fixtures by being able to do maintenance from normal working height – rather than in mid-air.
Furthermore, the build-in limit switches secure the position of the hoists, thereby greatly adding to safe operation of the grid. For Korea, an installation on this scale is unique.
As specifically requested by the venue's consultant, all prescribed materials had to be on a world recognized standard, deliberately choosing for an installation that can rival any installation in the world, offering the guarantee of a flawless performance. With these requirements in hand, KBS Sports World Technologies found in Prolyte distributor Tongsuh the right partner to offer the equipment, as well as the support, locally.


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Lummis, Western senators renew push for state management of grizzlies
By: CJ Baker and Mark Davis, Powell Tribune via Wyoming News Exchange - Updated: 1 year ago
POWELL — A group of Republican senators from Wyoming, Idaho and Montana are calling on Democratic leaders to take "immediate" action on a bill that would return management of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's grizzly bears to state governments.
The State of Wyoming has also promised to file a petition seeking the species' delisting as a threatened species, though that document has yet to be submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
And when the state's petition arrives, it will take months, if not more than a year, for Fish and Wildlife to respond, Jennifer FortinNoreus, a biologist with the agency, said Monday.
"There are quite a few steps we would have to take" if Fish and Wildlife found any merit to the petition, Fortin-Noreus said during a meeting of the Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, which helps coordinate recovery efforts.
It was on Sept. 16 that Gov. Mark Gordon and Wyoming Game and Fish Department Director Brian Nesvik gathered in the Governor's Ceremonial Room in the State Capitol to announce the planned petition. They noted that the state has invested 46 years and more than $52 million in conserving the species.
"Grizzly bears, by all measures, have been fully recovered since 2003," Gordon said in the announcement. Several Republican lawmakers in Congress agree.
In a Nov. 2 letter, U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis — joined by fellow Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso and three of their Western colleagues — bemoaned the fact that the species remains listed as a threatened species and under federal management.
"The story of the [Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem] grizzly bear should be one of triumph and success for federal, state, and local conservation efforts," the lawmakers wrote. "Instead, it has become another story of government bureaucracy and failure that only casts doubt on the efficacy of the Endangered Species Act."
The region's grizzly bears have been listed as a threatened species since 1975, when as few as 136 bears roamed the area. The population has since rebounded to more than 1,000 animals.
"Grizzlies are moving well beyond areas where the bears can exist, causing loss of human life, damage to livestock, and eroding public support for the recovery of this iconic and important species," the Republican senators wrote in their letter. "Clearly, this is not good for either public safety or the welfare of the animal."
Federal and state wildlife managers have said that grizzlies appear to have reached their carrying capacity in Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding areas. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife and Service attempted to delist the species under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, but were met with opposition from environmental groups and Native American tribes.
Opponents have expressed concern that the species' recovery remains tenuous — particularly in light of the changing climate — and they took issue with Wyoming and Idaho's plans to allow a small number of bears to be hunted as trophy game.
When Fish and Wildlife delisted the Greater Yellowstone population in 2017, a number of groups sued and a federal judge in Montana reinstated protections the following year.
In a 2018 ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen found that the Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to adequately consider how delisting the region's bears would impact grizzlies in other parts of the country, had illegally negotiated a deal with state officials about how to estimate the number of bears and hadn't taken enough measures to ensure the genetic diversity of the GYE population.
It's unclear whether the Biden administration will make another attempt to delist the bears, but in the meantime, Sens. Lummis, Barrasso, Steve Daines, R-Mont., Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and James Risch, R-Idaho, have written a bill that would do so legislatively.
The measure was introduced in March, but has yet to get a hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works' Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water and Wildlife.
In their letter to the Democratic chairs of those committees, the five Republican senators asked for "immediate consideration and action" on S. 973, the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2021.
"The legislation is simple but of utmost importance to the lives and livelihoods of our residents and all Americans who visit the Greater Yellowstone region," they wrote.
The GOP lawmakers said they often hear from concerned outfitters, hikers, hunters, ranchers, and other public land users on the grizzly issue, also alluding to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of livestock losses.
"We feel compelled to take action," the senators wrote. "The Grizzly Bear State Management Act is essential to ensuring the recovery of the GYE grizzly is a happy conservation success story, not a grisly failure."
Previous efforts to pass similar legislation have been unsuccessful, including under a Republican Congress in 2018.
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A group of Republican senators from Wyoming, Idaho and Montana are calling on Democratic leaders to take "immediate" action on a bill that would return management of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's grizzly bears to state governments.


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The Expedition 44/45 crew of the International Space Station has safely returned to Earth.
'Landing confirmed! #SoyuzTMA17M! After a six-month space voyage, the ISS Crew 44/45 safely returned to Earth,' tweeted the Russian space agency Roscosmos, confirming the return of Russia's Oleg Kononenko, Japan's Kimiya Yui, and Kjell Lindgren of the United States.
Three crewmembers of the International Space Station were safely extracted from the Soyuz reentry capsule after landing in Kazakhstan on Friday and they are in good health, a spokesman for Russia's Mission Control said.
'The crewmembers are feeling well. The returning 'space travelers' will undergo a thorough medical check-up before heading to their home countries,' the official told RIA Novosti.
The ISS program is a joint project among five participating space agencies: the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Russia's Roscosmos, the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
The station is divided into two sections – the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) and the United States Orbital Segment (USOS).


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Q: Can we do `a = b || c` in Ruby? I would like to know if we can express "if the first is null, then choose the second."
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A: well, yea. a ||= b is the equivalent of a = a || b if the first element is nil or false then the result is the second element.

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Anthony Taylor Dies in Car Accident
by Benjaman Spencer February 1, 2021
[Oakland, CA] – Anthony Taylor Dies in Two-Way Accident on 55th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Anthony Taylor Killed in Oakland Crash on 55th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Monday, February 1, 2021 – Anthony Taylor, age 40, was killed on Monday evening at around 11:00 P.M. Moreover, he died in a car accident that happened on 55th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Initially, officers responded to a report of a two-vehicle crash at on 55th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
According to reports, a woman was driving a 2012 Jeep Liberty north on Martin Luther King Jr. Way. Next, she turned left to go down 55th Street. Then, a 2001 Toyota Camry that was speeding southbound struck her Jeep.
Furthermore, the driver of the Toyota, Anthony Taylor, lost control of his vehicle. As a result, he drove south until he crashed into a pillar in the 5400 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Unfortunately, emergency workers who arrived at the scene declared Mr. Taylor dead on arrival. Currently, the authorities still have not released information on whether the female driver was injured or not.
Additionally, there is no confirmation whether impairment was a factor as well.
Car accidents can happen for many varied reasons.
Here are a few examples of the diverse types of auto collisions.
Subsequently, the collision may be caused due to sudden deceleration of the vehicle in front of you.
A common injury related to rear end collisions, is whiplash.
Although, the damage may be minimal, this type of accident can cause one of the drivers to lose control of their vehicles.
To the family and friends of Anthony Taylor, we at Salkow Law firm cannot begin to imagine what you are going through, and our sincerest condolences go out to you.
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Breaking news! This is not a drill people! In a tweet from the official Spider-Man movie account, we have finally gotten confirmation on the release of the first Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer.
Tune in tomorrow, Thursday, December 8th, on Jimmy Kimmel Live to see the world premiere of the trailer! Then come back to Spider-Man News to watch it over and over again! Are you guys ready?!


Love traveling (traveled over 20 countries so far), hiking, snowboarding etc. being active in general. Also like to relax at home, watching movies and catching up with friends :-) I'm an entrepreneur, running own company over 10 years. Traveling regularly to Scandinavia and Europe for both business and pleasure. I got divorced three years ago (no kids), I'm looking for a serious relationship to have a good balance and happiness in my life.


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"All of the troubles I have had are simply because of my granddaughter's drug-using good friends," he angrily told an Associated Press reporter. One of her buddies, Brandon Crosier, told police he'd last noticed Brandi at his family members home, a rundown home littered with junked cars. Brandon claimed that he had fallen asleep and awakened to find Brandi gone, police mentioned. But the vehicle she'd been driving was nonetheless parked outdoors. They attempted reconciling, Melissa Harris says, and spent Thanksgiving collectively. But a few days later, on November 30, Jack ran his Hummer into a concrete median, near Beckley, state police mentioned.
The competitors has intensified considering that the Moon Jae-in administration tightened regulations on redevelopment projects and reintroduced the price tag ceiling on new apartments to tame the genuine estate industry. "The preferences for new houses and concerns over a supply shortage look to have led to the heated competitors for new apartments," stated Yeo Kyeong-hee, a researcher at Real Estate 114, an on the net actual estate data provider. "Expectations for high profits and increasing housing costs are also behind the fervor." More than 60 % of the unclaimed income consisted of fifth-spot prizes worth only 5,000 won.
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This radical atmospheric hack could cool our planet super fast
Sarah Kramer,
Sometimes, the solution to a complex problem is right in front of your nose: Clouds could be key to slowing down climate change.
As the global climate passes troubling milestone after even-more-troubling milestone, some claim that humanity will have to re-engineer the environment in order to save billions of lives.
The idea for cooling the planet by hacking the clouds has been around since 1974, when climatologist Mikhail Budyko first suggested trying to make clouds more reflective. Preventing the sun's rays from reaching Earth's surface, the reasoning goes, would keep it from absorbing heat, and could slow rapid warming.
Would-be geoengineers are taking a cue from the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which, cooled the planet by about 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit for the next two years.
Volcanic eruptions spew hundreds of megatons of gas, including sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, into the atmosphere. Sulfur is particularly good at deflecting light, so sulfates like these (and sulfuric acid) are usually seen as our best bet for the method, also known as solar radiation management.
In 2011, British research collaboration Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) planned on releasing fine spray of water into the atmosphere. The experiment was seen as a first step in testing whether their proposed technology — which involved a gigantic balloon tethered to a ship by a half-mile-long garden hose— would actually work.
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But before SPICE even got off the ground, it was canceled due to concerns about potential conflicts of interest in the research group.
Environmental groups tend to be skeptical of solar-radiation management: The optics of spraying sulfates (including sulfuric acid) into the atmosphere are a huge hurdle, and we don't actually know how safe that would be for people on the ground.
An editorial in the scientific journal Nature also pointed out that right now, there isn't a governing body or set of research standards to guide geoengineering tests, which means irresponsible researchers could unintentionally wreak havoc on planet's climate with widespread global effects.
Research groups, including SPICE and Switzerland's CERN lab, continue to study possible solar radiation management techniques in a laboratory setting.
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Home » Health » Nutrition » Which one is more popular: kratom liquid or kratom powder?
We all know that kratom is available in several forms for the sheer convenience of the kratom lovers. However, it was not the same centuries back. It was then only available as raw leaves which often got rotten when transported to distant places. The plants from which the leaves came only grow in the tropical jungles of south-east Asian and African countries. It was then; people realized the need of revolutionizing the form of kratom. Finally, the leaves were naturally prepared into the ways of kratom we have now. In this post, we are going to check which one (kratom liquid or kratom powder) is more popular among the kratom community and why. Let us not waste time talking about trivial things and get started with the assessment.
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A quick reminder that "The Little Prince" premieres tomorrow, Friday, on Netflix U.S. The movie will also be released in selected theaters in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Apart from a stellar cast (Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, James Franco, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro, Ricky Gervais and more) retelling the 1943 story of "The Little Prince", the movie, as of now, also scores a high 96% on rotten tomatoes, making it certified "Fresh". It also scores high on Metacritics with a rating of 72!
Rachel, who voices The Mother in the movie, believes the movie has received such high praise because of its emotional intensity and the fact it pays such close homage to the original book.
The director, Mark Osbourne (Kung Fu Panda), recently released some early on sketches (gallery below) of the movie to show part of the progress that went into bringing the 1943 fable into to life for a modern audience.
To learn more about the making of the movie you can purchase the Titan Books' "The Little Prince – The Art of the Movie". It takes you through the creative process of bringing author Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 1943 story to life, showcasing various behind-the-scenes photographs, drawings, animated screenshots and production art from the movie.
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Did James Holzhauer break the 'Jeopardy' record? Here's what happened.
Mon., June 3, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
"Jeopardy!" sensation James Holzhauer speaks after being presented with a key to the Las Vegas Strip in front of the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign in Las Vegas. (Caroline Brehman / AP)
By Emily Yahr The Washington Post
In a twist that could rival a great television drama, "Jeopardy!" powerhouse James Holzhauer lost on the episode broadcast Monday – just as he was on the cusp of surpassing the 15-year-old earnings record of legendary champion Ken Jennings.
Holzhauer's historic run, in which he averaged almost a jaw-dropping $77,000 per episode, came to an end after his 33rd game. Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, lost to University of Chicago librarian Emma Boettcher, who beat him by about $22,000 in the Final Jeopardy round with a question about Shakesperean literature.
"What a game! Oh, my God," said host Alex Trebek, as a grinning Holzhauer gave Boettcher a high five.
Holzhauer's incredible "Jeopardy!" streak started airing in early April and captivated an increasingly splintered television audience, breathing new life into the iconic show, currently in its 35th season. As Holzhauer steamrolled more than 60 contestants with his seemingly endless command of trivia, his aggressive playing style triggered a debate among viewers about whether he "broke" the game. His hardball tactics included jumping around the board to pick out the highest-value clues – often accumulating a startling amount of money before his competitors could even figure out the buzzer – and then casually wagering massive amounts on Final Jeopardy, with a gambler's easy confidence.
By Holzhauer's fourth episode, Trebek wondered out loud if it was too early to make Jennings comparisons. Jennings, who became a household name by earning $2,520,700 over 74 games in 2004, said he loved watching Holzhauer employ his bold strategy and was sorry to see it come to an end.
"Honestly, I feel a little bit of the same letdown I did when I lost in 2004. I was enjoying the streak maybe more than anybody. I really wanted to see what this guy could do," Jennings said. "I also feel for him, you know? It really does show what a fickle mistress 'Jeopardy!' is. A couple breaks go the wrong way and any night could be the last night."
As of Monday, Holzhauer had won $2,462,216 over 32 games and only needed $58,485 to leap over Jennings. That result seemed so likely – the 10 highest single-day earnings in the show's history all belong to him – that on Sunday, when a brief clip circulated online that appeared to show Holzhauer losing to Boettcher, fans had trouble believing it was real.
However, the leaked footage proved to be accurate on Monday morning, as the first "Jeopardy!" broadcast of the day debuted in Montgomery, Alabama, where the local CBS affiliate airs the show at 9:30 a.m. Central Time.
Going into Final Jeopardy, Holzhauer wasn't in the lead, which was rare. Boettcher led with $26,600 while Holzhauer had $23,400. Jay Sexton, a research engineer from Atlanta, trailed with $11,000. The clue: "The line 'a great reckoning in a little room' in 'As You Like It' is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death."
Sexton revealed his answer first: Elizabethan playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe. His total became $17,000. Holzahuer also answered Marlowe – yet he only wagered $1,399. "A modest one for the first time," Trebek commented, as Holzhauer's new total became $24,799.
"So, Emma, it's up to you: If you came up with the correct response, you're going to be the new 'Jeopardy!' champion," Trebek said. "Did you?"
Indeed, Boettcher also said Marlowe and wagered $20,201, meaning she won $46,801 and trounced Holzhauer in the process.
"Oh gosh. What a payday!" Trebek said as the audience gasped.
Holzhauer, a University of Illinois graduate with a degree in mathematics, fascinated sports prognosticators and statisticians as he methodically picked apart the game, making quick calculations of the odds in his head that helped him settle on the shrewdest wager amounts while simultaneously summoning the necessary trivia. Jennings, like many other diehard "Jeopardy!" viewers, predicts that this tactic of making big wagers could become a new trend.
"James has made people realize that the aggressive game-play is good. And so I think you'll start seeing a lot more players being more aggressive in their bets," said Andy Saunders, who runs the Canadian-based website The Jeopardy Fan, which he reports has drawn a "mindblowing" increase in readers since Holzhauer's streak started. "It's absolutely been unprecedented – his average bet is almost $9,000 on the Daily Double."
But an aggressive betting strategy means nothing if you don't know the answers – or rather, the questions, in keeping with the show's challenging format.
Holzhauer, who has a 4-year-old daughter, credited his breadth of trivia knowledge with binge-reading books aimed at kids.
"You may be able to read an adult book about a boring subject without falling asleep, but I can't. For me, it was either read some children's books – designed to engage the reader – or go into 'Jeopardy!' with giant gaps in my knowledge base," Holzhauer told The Washington Post in a May interview.
This meant that quite a few contestants – many of whom had nurtured a lifelong dream of appearing on "Jeopardy!" – were in for an unpleasant surprise when they suddenly came face to face with a player more dominant than any the show had ever seen.
"Any other day, any other opponent, the results might have been different," said Lewis Black, a Salt Lake City attorney who competed against Holzhauer in his sixth game, "but you just happen to get there and run headfirst into a buzzsaw."
Holzhauer's command of the game was such that some fans, seizing upon his unusually low last Final Jeopardy wager, speculated that he may have lost intentionally – perhaps having wearied of competition.
But Brad Rutter, another "Jeopardy!" whiz who bested Jennings in a "tournament of champions," said Holzhauer was playing to win to the very end.
"It was absolutely the right wager … 100 percent his best chance at winning," said Rutter.
Holzhauer was trailing Boettcher by enough that his only hope was that she botch the Final Jeopardy question. Meanwhile, in case Holzhauer had also gotten the question wrong, then he need to wager conservatively enough so that Sexton couldn't surpass him.
"The idea that he would make a mistake or lose on purpose," Rutter said, "those are the two least likeliest things he would do."
Holzhauer told the Action Network, a website devoted to sports-betting trends, that his final appearance was taped on March 12 – well before his episodes began broadcasting on April 4. While he and his fellow contestants had signed nondisclosure agreements, scores of people who sat in the studio audience managed to keep the final results a secret for two months – a testament, some said, to the reverence fans hold for the show's aura of suspense.
Combined with his $2,000 for coming in second place on Monday's episode, Holzhauer's total winnings are $2,464,216; he has already started donating some of the funds to charity. Holzhauer and the publicists for "Jeopardy!" did not return a request for comment. Over the weekend, however, Holzhauer offered one clue that the end of his time on "Jeopardy!" wouldn't be the worst thing.
"My kid cried about the possibility of her dad losing, so I told her we could have a party the day after it inevitably happens," he tweeted. "Now she cries when I win."
Even as Holzhauer's time on "Jeopardy!" ends, many fans are thrilled that it brought a new spotlight to the beloved game show, a reliable mainstay for the past three decades.
"It reminded us how much 'Jeopardy!' means to us and how much we love it," Jennings said. "I think we take 'Jeopardy' for granted, and it's nice when something like this comes along. The fact that 15 years went by without someone making a real run at the record, really, it led to some complacency … so I like the idea now, I think there, might be more Jameses out there."
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Statement by Cardinal Seán Brady on the death of Cardinal Cahal Brendan Daly
It is with great sadness that I heard the news of the death of Cardinal Cahal Daly, who died peacefully this evening in the presence of family and friends at the City Hospital in Belfast, after a short illness.
At this time my thoughts and prayers are with his sister Rosaleen, his brother Paddy and sisters-in-law Barbara and Mavis, his nieces and nephews, his extended family and all who mourn him in the dioceses of Ardagh & Clonmacnois, Down & Connor and Armagh.
It is difficult to do full justice to the significance and achievements of his long, full and happy life but I believe, when fully assessed and appreciated, the legacy of Cardinal Cahal Daly to the ecclesiastical and civil history of Ireland will be seen as immense.
Having attended the Second Vatican Council as an expert theologian he worked untiringly for the renewal which it promoted. This was especially evident in his commitment to liturgical reform, renewal of religious life, the vocation of the lay faithful, catechetics, the social doctrine of the Church and unity among Christians. His writings in philosophy and theology were widely acclaimed and the influence of his keen intellect and energy on the work and publications of the Irish Bishops' Conference was vast.
At a critical and troubled time in Irish history, he was prophetic in his conviction that lasting peace can only be built on justice, mutual understanding and respect for the traditions and aspirations of others. He was firm and courageous in his absolute rejection of violence as a means of achieving political ends. With leaders of other Christian traditions, his work for reconciliation helped to create the environment and principles upon which a lasting political accommodation was eventually reached.
In all of this, Cardinal Daly remained, first and foremost, a kind and gentle shepherd of God's people who, on his appointment as Cardinal, in June 1991, prayed that he might never lose the sense of enthusiasm for the following of Christ and for his Gospel. That was never likely to happen for I knew him as a man of deep prayer and unshakable faith. In the words of one of his favourite verses from St. Paul, he was resolute in his belief that God's power 'working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask for or imagine' (Ephesians 3:20-21).
A natural teacher, a consummate scholar, a kind friend and a faithful and holy priest, Cardinal Daly will be missed by those whose lives he graced. Our country has lost one of its brightest lights and most able sons, who played a vital role in promoting reconciliation, peace and justice at a critical moment in our history. His total commitment to the service and good of others was rooted in the central conviction of his life, captured by the words of his Episcopal motto – 'Jesus Christ is the same today as he was yesterday and as he will be forever' (Hebrews 13:8).
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace. Amen.
Funeral arrangements for the late Cardinal Cahal Daly
Saturday 2 January
Arrival of remains at St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast, at 12.00 noon for Mass for the Dead.
Lying in state until 9.00pm.
Sunday 3 January
Lying in state St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast, commencing at 9.00am.
Liturgy of the Word and removal of remains at 3.00pm.
Arrival of funeral cortege at Lower English St, Armagh (General Post Office) at 5.00pm. Funeral procession on foot to arrive at St Patrick's Cathedral for Sunday Mass at 5.30pm.
Lying in state until 10.00pm.
Monday 4 January
Lying in state, St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, 9.00am – 9.00pm.
The Office for the Dead at 6.00pm.
Tuesday 5 January
Requiem Mass on Tuesday, 5 January at 12.00 noon, followed by burial in Cathedral grounds.
Martin Long, Catholic Communications Office, 086 172 7678
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The first Palestinian child killed by Israeli occupation forces in 2019 was struck in the head by a tear-gas canister during the suppression of protests in the Gaza Strip.
According to Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCIP), Abdel-Raouf Ismail Mohammad Salha – just 13-years-old – was "struck on the left side of his head by an Israeli-fired tear gas canister that caused a brain injury on the afternoon of January 11".
The child was pronounced dead from his injuries three days later in Gaza City's Shifa hospital.
"Crowd control weapons such as tear gas canisters can become lethal weapons when fired at children, especially if the point of impact is on a child's head or torso," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Accountability Program director for DCIP.
In 2018, the NGO documented "three cases where children died after tear gas canisters fired by Israeli forces struck them".
On the day in question, Abdel-Raouf was "participating in a weekly protest in the Abu Safia hill area, southeast of Beit Hanoun". At around 4pm, while the boy was "standing approximately 150 meters (492 feet) from the perimeter fence with a group of other protesters", Israeli forces in military jeeps from the other side of the perimeter fence "fired tear gas canisters at the group".
"The witness saw Abdel-Raouf collapse and a wound bleeding from his head", DCIP added.
Doctors told DCIP that "the force of impact caused a skull fracture and fragments of bone to enter the boy's brain".
In 2018, DCIP "independently verified the deaths of 57 Palestinian children at the hands of Israeli forces or settlers across the Occupied Palestinian Territory", including 49 killed in the Gaza Strip.
Children are the Zios' preferred targets, second only to pregnant women.
I bet Mr Nutjobyahu got a "Sick Thrill" when he learned about this……..They never get tired of killing Children, do they……Inhuman Pigs….!
I've just been reading the Book of Judges in the Old Testament. I haven't counted them yet but there are many times throughout that say, "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord".
Many times. Many, many times Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. Then, they were punished. Then, they cried out to the Lord. Then the Lord would raise them up a deliverer. Over and over and over again this happened.
Today, it appears that Israel is doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on the whole doing evil in the sight of the Lord thing. This does not bode well for Israel. Or the grandiose United States for that matter.
Ya'll don't seem to comprehend that the war has already been won. And you are the losers.
Oops, speaking the name of Jesus isn't unlawful or anti-semetic yet, is it? OH WELL. If so, too bad.


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Q: Laravel migrations run with no error but integer field is not created I'm trying to migrate a migration file. Some integer fields triggered an error:
$table->integer('age',11)->default('0');
There were a few of those. After reading other posts, and trying a few things, I changed it to:
$table->integer('age',11)->default(0)->change();
This time, no error raised, but the created table miss and those fields!
Please find the whole file below:
<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateReservationAnniversairesTable extends Migration
{
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('reservation_anniversaires', function (Blueprint $table) {

        $table->increments('id',11);
        $table->string('nom',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->string('gsm',30)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->string('prenom',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->string('email',100);
        $table->integer('age',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->time('heure_debut');
        $table->time('heure_fin');
        $table->string('gateau',100)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->string('impression',100)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->integer('nbre_enfants',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->integer('acompte',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->text('remarques');
        $table->tinyInteger('salle',4)->default(0)->change();
        $table->time('heure_gouter');
        $table->date('date');
        $table->string('formule',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->integer('actif',11)->default(1)->change();
        $table->string('couleur',30)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->integer('rappel',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->integer('confirm',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->integer('pizzas',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->integer('sandwiches',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->string('options')->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->integer('annif_confirme',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->string('created',30);
        $table->string('modified',30);
        $table->tinyInteger('confirm_enfants',1)->default(0)->change();
        $table->tinyInteger('invitations',1)->default(0)->change();
        $table->string('adresse')->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->integer('invitsEnvoyees',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->float('paiement')->default(0)->change();
        $table->string('paiement_methode',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->integer('enfants_presents',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->integer('parts_gateau',11)->default(0)->change();
        $table->float('options_montant')->default(0)->change();
        $table->string('deco_salle',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->string('formule_theme',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->string('photos',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->string('grimage',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->string('clown',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');
        $table->string('sculpture',50)->nullable()->default('NULL');

        });
    }

    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('reservation_anniversaires');
    }
}

A: You can't set length, but you can use different types of integer:
$table->bigInteger()
$table->mediumInteger()
$table->integer()
$table->smallInteger()
$table->tinyInteger()

You can check documentation as well.

A: I believe you want to set the length of the age column integer type.
Unfortunately, the second parameter is not for setting the column length. You can set the column length for char and string types only, but not for integer.
Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint :
integer($column, $autoIncrement = false, $unsigned = false)

Automatically, migration will create the integer type with length 11. So you don't have to bother.
$table->integer('age')->default(0);

There were a few of those. After reading other posts, and trying a few things, I changed it to:
$table->integer('age',11)->default(0)->change();

The change method is only used to update the column, not to create the column. You won't see the error, because migration ignore it.
To update the table, you must have a schema like this:
Schema::table('reservation_anniversaires', function (Blueprint $table) {
    ...
});

// Schema::create for creating

A: The second parameter of all the integer fields is autoincrement, not size. Setting this to anything that's truthy will result in the field being auto incremented. This is probably not what you're attempting here.
I suggest you use any of the available methods for the size:
tinyInteger, smallInteger, mediumInteger, integer, bigInteger,
unsignedTinyInteger, unsignedSmallInteger, unsignedMediumInteger, unsignedInteger, unsignedBigInteger
Or any of the auto incrementing helpers:
tinyIncrements, smallIncrements, mediumIncrements, increments, bigIncrements
Also, you don't need change() unless you're actually changing the table structure in a follow-up migration.
Source: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/8.x/src/Illuminate/Database/Schema/Blueprint.php#L756-L759
Available column types: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/migrations#available-column-types
Modifying columns: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/migrations#updating-column-attributes