The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa that began in March 2014 and has killed more than 11,000 people since, has raised new questions about the resilience of the virus and tested scientists' understanding of how to contain it. The latest discovery by a group of microbial risk-assessment and virology researchers suggests that the procedures for disposal of Ebola-contaminated liquid waste might underestimate the virus' ability to survive in wastewater.
Current epidemic response procedures from both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advise that after a period of days, Ebola-contaminated liquid can be disposed of directly into a sewage system without additional treatment. However, new data recently published by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, Drexel University, and the National Institutes of Health indicate that Ebola can survive in detectable concentrations in wastewater for at least a week or longer.
"Initial research by the WHO and CDC recommended disposing of Ebola-contaminated liquid waste into a latrine or treatment system without disinfection because the virus wasn't expected to persist in wastewater," explains Kyle J. Bibby, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Pitt's Swanson School of Engineering and principal investigator of the study "Persistence of Ebola Virus in Sterilized Wastewater," published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters. "However, we found that the virus persisted over a period of at least eight days."
The researchers gathered their data by observing the change in viral particle concentration in two samples, spiked with different concentrations of the virus, over an eight-day period. The testing was performed in a secured lab at the NIH. While the researchers observed a 99 percent decrease in concentration after the first day, the remaining viral particles were detectable for the duration of the experiment.
"These results demonstrate a greater persistence of Ebola virus in wastewater than previously speculated," says co-author Charles Haas, head of the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering; the LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering; and director of the Environmental Engineering Program. "While the Ebola virus was found to be generally less persistent than enteric viruses in wastewater, the identified survival period might suggest a potential of a wastewater exposure route."
Historically, it was believed that the virus could only be transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids, but there have been cases where people contracted the disease without apparently coming in contact with infected fluids. This, the study suggests, could be an indication that large liquid droplets might be a vector for the virus--which means greater care should be taken when handling contaminated liquid waste. And given that an infected patient may produce up to nine liters of liquid waste per day, if infected liquid could carry the virus to someone else, this could be a significant risk factor.
The team also notes that the virus' seemingly early decay upon entry into wastewater might be due to the viral particles clumping together or latching onto other particles in the water, rather than the virus dying. These phenomena would actually make the viruses less susceptible to environmental factors, such as disinfectants, that would normally kill them off.
A proposed solution, already adopted by the WHO, would be to hold the contaminated liquid waste for a longer period of time before releasing it into the sewage system. Another might be to pretreat it with an antiviral agent, such as chlorine, although performance data on disinfectants is needed as well. These options would provide more time for the viral concentration to decay and for the remaining viruses to be inactivated.
"These results indicate that further research is needed with a more holistic approach to assessment of Ebola-infected wastewater, from storage to treatment to disposal and continued monitoring, including a precautionary approach to wastewater handling in all epidemic responses," Bibby says.
In addition to studying whether or not Ebola can actually be contracted from exposure to wastewater, the next step for this research thread would be to review variations in the wastewater composition, such as temperature, microbe population and pH level, the use of disinfectants, and the viral concentration's effect on the decay and inactivation of the virus.


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Lehnsbaron Otto Ditlev Rosenørn-Lehn (* 28. Mai 1821 auf Orebygård; † 21. Mai 1892 in Kopenhagen) war zweimaliger dänischer Außenminister.

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Rosenørn-Lehn entstammte väterlicherseits dem Briefadelsgeschlecht Rosenørn; sein Vater war der Offizier Henrik Christian Rosenørn-Lehn (1782–1847), seine Mutter dessen Gattin Christiane Henriette Rosenørn-Lehn, geborene Barner (1788–1860).
Rosenørn-Lehn nahm 1841 ein Studium in Sorø auf. Nach dem Todes seines Vaters übernahm er die Baronie Guldborgland.

1864 wurde Rosenørn-Lehn in den dänischen Reichsrat berufen, bei dessen Abschaffung 1866 in den Landsting, dem er bis zu seinem Tode angehörte.

1870 wurde Rosenørn-Lehn zum Direktor der königlichen Malereisammlung auf Christiansborg berufen, 1874 wurde er zudem Direktor der Kupferstichsammlung.

Vom 28. Mai 1870 bis zum 11. Juni 1875 war Rosenørn-Lehn Außenminister der Regierungen Holstein-Holsteinborg und Fonnesbech, er wurde von Frederik Moltke abgelöst, der jedoch am 1. Oktober 1875 starb, sodass Rosenørn-Lehn in die Regierung Estrup beriefen wurde und dieser bis zu seinem Tode angehörte.

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 Kristian Hvidt: Otto Rosenørn-Lehn, in: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, 3. Ausgabe, 1979–1984.

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Ekaveli ist das dritte Soloalbum des Mönchengladbacher Rappers Eko Fresh. Es erschien am 23. November 2007 und war Eko Freshs erste Veröffentlichung für das von Bushido betriebene Label Ersguterjunge.

Entstehungsgeschichte
2006 erschien das Album Hart(z) IV über das Sony-BMG-Tochterlabel Subword, das sich auf Hip-Hop spezialisiert hatte. Bereits davor hatte Eko Fresh mit Bushidos Label Ersguterjunge zusammen gearbeitet. So war er auf den beiden Labelsamplern Vendetta und Nemesis vertreten. Ende 2006 unterschrieb er schließlich bei Bushido.

Der Name Ekaveli ist eine Anspielung auf Makaveli, den Künstlernamen des ermordeten Rappers Tupac Shakur, den dieser für sein letztes Album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996) verwendet hatte. Dieser war ebenfalls eine Anspielung auf den italienischen Philosophen Niccolò Machiavelli.

Den Hauptteil der Musik steuerten die GermanDream-Hausproduzenten Kingsize, Prodycem, Capkekz und Ground Zero bei. Weitere Beats kamen von Flashgordon aus Hamburg, Bock auf'n Beat aus Frankfurt am Main und von Serious Sam, welcher bereits früher für Eko Fresh als Produzent tätig war. Auch Beatlefield, bestehend aus Chakuza und DJ Stickle, die damaligen Hausproduzenten von Ersguterjunge hatten mit Bis ich unter der Erde lieg Anteil an dem Album. Die meisten Featuregäste waren zu jener Zeit auf Ekos Label "German Dream" unter Vertrag. So steuerten Capkekz, SDiddy, Farid Bang, La-Honda, G-Style, Hakan Abi und Summer Cem vom Label German Dream ein Feature bei. Weitere Gastbeiträge waren der R&B-Sänger Ado Kojo, Gangsta Luv und Karim. Außerdem konnte Bushido für ein Feature auf der ersten Single Ring frei gewonnen werden. Als besondere Überraschung gelang es Eko Fresh einen Teil von 2Pacs Gruppe Outlawz als Featuregäste zu gewinnen.

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Musikstil
Ekaveli ist ein Konzeptalbum und große Verbeugung von Eko Freshs Lieblingsrapper 2Pac. Der Großteil der Beats des Albums ist deshalb stark am Westcoast-Hip-Hop der 1990er angelehnt und enthält Elemente des G-Funks. Die Beats klingen dabei mal hymnisch (Ring frei), mal klassisch (Bis ich unter der Erde lieg), mal melancholisch (Es tut mir leid) oder auch düster (Westcoast). Dazu passend konnte von 2Pacs alter Crew Outlawz die beiden Rapper Edi Amin und Young Noble gewonnen werden, die als "Tha Outlawz" auftreten. Auch textlich sind einige Parallelen zu finden. Zudem verwendete Eko Fresh auf diesem Album einen kehligeren, tieferen Rapstil, der ebenso eine Ähnlichkeit zur Rapikone 2Pac anstrebt.

Aus dem Rahmen fallen das soulige Jedem das seine und So kann ich nicht arbeiten, bei dem Eko über einen Akustikgitarren-Beat mit Gesangsstimme singt. Auch Ohne dich, das den gleichnamigen Klassiker der Gruppe Münchener Freiheit samplet, weicht vom Konzept ab. Eko Fresh verwandelt das Liebeslied in eine Ode an den Haschischkonsum.

Video und Singleauskopplungen
Für das Album wurde nur ein Video zur ersten Single Ring frei (feat. Bushido) gedreht. Das Video zeigt abwechselnd Eko Fresh rappend im Boxring und einen Wrestling-Kampf.

Erfolg

Ekaveli erreichte Platz 100 der deutschen Albumcharts. Die Singleauskopplung Ring frei erreichte mit Platz 64 seine höchste Chartnotierung in den Singlecharts. Während Eko beim letzten Album Hart(z) IV noch 2 Videos hatte, wurde durch den Misserfolg die Promotion für Ekaveli bereits nach dem ersten Video eingestellt. Das Album ist damit neben dem Kollaboalbum Dünya Dönüyor – Die Welt dreht sich mit Azra, das gar nicht die Charts erreichte, das Album mit den niedrigsten Chartplatzierungen.

Kurz darauf ging auch die geschäftliche Beziehung mit Bushido in die Brüche und Eko Fresh verlor seinen Plattenvertrag. Neben dem fehlenden Erfolg des Albums waren auch Ghostwriting-Vorwürfe, die der Rapper La Honda erhoben hat, für den Bruch mit Bushido verantwortlich. Die beiden Mitglieder von La Honda hatte in einem Hiphop.de-Interview behaupteten in einem Interview mit Hiphop.de, das Eko Fresh Bushido drei Alben geschrieben habe, bis er Kay One als neuen Ghostwriter direkt von Eko Fresh abgeworben habe. Zudem habe er Eko Fresh nicht ausreichend unterstützt. Eko fresh widersprach dieser Darstellung nicht, was letztlich seinen Anteil am Bruch hatte.

Eko Fresh kündigte später auf Myspace das Ende seiner Karriere an und begründete dies unter anderem mit den schwachen Verkaufszahlen. Er wolle nur noch die Promo für SDiddys Album 21 Gramm machen und sich anschließend aus der Rapszene zurückziehen. Später nahm er Abstand von diesem Schritt.

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Nicht nur der fehlende kommerzielle Erfolg lässt das Album im Backkatalog von Eko Fresh als schwaches Album erscheinen. Auch die Kritik war nicht besonders enthusiastisch. So vergab Philipp Gässlein auf Laut.de nur zwei Sterne. Er lobte zwar die Beats, kam aber dennoch zu folgendem Fazit:

Die Tageszeitung Heilbronner Stimme bezeichnete das Album als solide und vom Rapstil her besser als seine Vorgänger:

Jahre später bezeichnete Eko Fresh selbst das Album als Fehler:

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Ivanka Trump promised her dad would deliver a great family leave plan. Here's what we got.
Posted on December 10, 2018 December 12, 2018 by ThinkProgress Staff
Ivanka Trump once promised that if her father was elected, she would ensure paid family leave was a staple in every workplace, and Donald Trump promised the program would finance itself.
Two years later, the Trump administration is no closer to accomplishing this goal than they were when Ivanka and her father told prospective voters and working parents that they could be trusted to deliver on paid leave and thus deserved their votes.
"My father's policy will give paid leave to mothers whose employers are among the almost 90 percent of U.S. business that currently do not offer this benefit," Ivanka Trump said at a September 2016 rally.
Trump himself said he would "provide six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit" and "get them to be okay, right? And we will be completely self-financing." He said he would do that "by recapturing fraud and improper payments in the unemployment insurance program."
His campaign website also promised "6 weeks of paid leave to new mothers before returning to work." The campaign's proposal did not include fathers or adoptive parents in their paid family leave proposal. Offering paid leave only to mothers carries economic costs to women, who already face a motherhood penalty in the workplace.
Since then, there have been paid family leave policies announced in budget documents that were subsequently ignored by the administration and the Republican-controlled Congress.
Ivanka Trump was there for the announcement of Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) paid family leave bill in August, which would allow working parents to access some of their Social Security benefits early, to give them the facsimile of paid leave at the expense of the worker's retirement.
That this campaign promise has seemingly died on the vine shouldn't be too surprising, as Trump's own businesses often fell far short of paid family leave for its own workers.
Ivanka Trump, who was an executive at the Trump Organization before joining her father's administration, asserted that the company provided paid family leave to all of its workers. But that turned out not to be true — the company complied with the Family Medical Leave Act which requires employers to allow workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave, however it did not provide paid parental leave to employees across all its properties and hotels.
The United States is one of only nine countries in the United Nations that doesn't guarantee paid time off for new mothers.
Some states have struck out on their own to pick up the slack, passing legislation that ensures the expansion of paid family leave coverage for their residents.
But working parents nationwide are still waiting for a solution to a crisis that impacts millions of new parents who need to work to support their families.
This article was originally published at ThinkProgress on December 7, 2018. Reprinted with permission.
About the Author: Ryan Koronowski is the Research Director for ThinkProgress. He grew up on the north shore of Massachusetts and graduated from Vassar College with dual degrees in psychology and political science, focusing on foreign policy and social persuasion. He earned his M.S. in energy policy and climate at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he was the research director and rapid response manager at the Climate Reality Project. He has worked on Senate and presidential campaigns, predominantly doing political research and rapid response.
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Trump blocks Obama effort to combat pay discrimination
Posted on August 31, 2017 by Laura Clawson
Former President Obama intended to fight pay discrimination with a rule requiring businesses to track how much they pay different groups of workers. You know the next part, right? Of course you do. Donald Trump is blocking the rule from going into effect as scheduled next spring because it's just too hard for businesses to report how much they pay their workers.
"It's enormously burdensome," said Neomi Rao, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which analyzes the cost of federal rules and regulations. "We don't believe it would actually help us gather information about wage and employment discrimination."
Which part of that do you think is more important—that it's burdensome or that they don't believe it would help gather information? Or the unstated third reason that Donald Trump and his underlings don't want to hold businesses accountable for discrimination anyway. This burden, by the way, amounts to putting extra information on a form that businesses already fill out. That information about how much women vs. men are paid, or workers of color vs. white workers seems like it would be helpful to uncovering discrimination. The Obama administration certainly thought so:
"We'd learn about a pay-discrimination problem because someone saw a piece of paper left on a copy machine or someone was complaining about their salary to co-workers," leading others to realize they were being underpaid, said Jenny Yang, who was chairwoman of the EEOC when the rules were drafted, at NYU School of Law's Annual Conference on Labor in June.
"Having pay data in summary form will also help us identify patterns that may warrant further investigation," Ms. Yang said.
Self-proclaimed equal pay champion Ivanka Trump is right on board with the messaging against this effort to promote equal pay, by the way.
This blog was originally published at DailyKos Labor on August 30, 2017. Reprinted with permission.
About the Author: Laura Clawson is labor editor at Daily Kos.
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Ivanka Trump supports her father's decision to stop monitoring the wage gap
Posted on August 30, 2017 by ThinkProgress Staff
Despite her supposed support for equal pay, Ivanka Trump backed a recent White House decision to end an Obama administration rule that would have required businesses to monitor the salaries of employees of different genders, races, and ethnicities in an effort to prevent employment discrimination.
Ivanka said in a statement that the policy, which would have taken effect this spring, would "not yield the intended results." She didn't offer any alternatives to replace the policy or explain why monitoring employees' salaries would not help close wage gaps.
Ivanka has made a brand out of praising women who work, selling herself as an advocate for women's rights.In April, Ivanka praised similar legislation passed in Germany requiring companies with 200 or more workers to document pay gaps between employees. She even added that the United States should follow Germany's example.
"I know that Chancellor Merkel, just this past March, you passed an equal pay legislation to promote transparency and to try to finally narrow that gender pay gap," she said. "And that's something we should all be looking at."
The Obama-era rule would have required companies with 100 or more workers to collect and submit data on employee wages to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Neomi Rao, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, told The Wall Street Journal that the policy is "enormously burdensome…We don't believe it would actually help us gather information about wage and employment discrimination."
The recent move to end the employment discrimination rule is only the latest in a series of failures by Ivanka to stand up for what she claims to be right.
Ivanka — an official White House advisor — has long been regarded as a potential moderating force within the Trump administration. But that image is carefully crafted, through a series of anonymous anecdotes to the media and sound bites that don't actually fall in line with her father's policies.
When Trump began the process of rolling back Obama-era clean water regulations just one month into his presidency, Ivanka remained silent. Ivanka also reportedly opposed the United States withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, but she failed to stop her father from backing out of the deal. In June, in honor of Pride Month, she tweeted that she was "proud to support my LGBTQ friends and the LGBTQ Americans who have made immense contributions to our society and economy." She then stayed silent when her father announced he would ban transgender Americans from serving in the military. (She also hasn't said anything about the administration's rollback of protections for transgender students.)
In her recent book, Women Who Work, Ivanka repeatedly touts her lifelong mission as, "Inspiring and empowering women who work — at all aspects of their lives." But she remained silent on the shortcomings of her father's paid family leave plan, which would offer six weeks of paid maternity leave to mothers, leaving out fathers and adoptive parents and potentially creating career obstacles for the working women she claims to support.
Wage discrimination in the United States is a serious problem. While the national gender pay gap has decreased since 1980, it still stands at a whopping 17 percent, with women making 83 percent of what men earn. The racial pay gap lags closely behind. In 2015, black workers earned 75 percent as much as white workers, according to Pew Research. The racial disparity is worse for women, who also fall behind men within their own racial or ethnic group.
Inside the White House, there is a surging pay gap, the highest of any White House since 2003, according to the Washington Post. At 37 percent, the White House pay gap is more than double the national gender gap.
This blog was originally published at ThinkProgress on August 30, 2017. Reprinted with permission.
About the Author: Elham Khatami is an associate editor at ThinkProgress. Previously, she worked as a grassroots organizer within the Iranian-American community. She also served as research manager, editor, and reporter during her five-year career at CQ Roll Call. Elham earned her Master of Arts in Global Communication at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and her bachelor's degree in writing and political science at the University of Pittsburgh.
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REVIEW: The Presidential Game
I think one of the most confusing things about the election process in the United States is the Electoral College. I don't think it *has* to be confusing, but most of us don't know that much about it. We think when we vote for the next President, and we watch the little maps change color on TV, that the President has been elected when the popular vote has been decided. Not so, my friends, not so! There is an important little organization called the Electoral College, and THEY get to make the final decision. Granted, they almost always vote according to the popular vote - but almost is a key word.
I love anything that makes learning fun, so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to review The Presidential Game. It's a board game for ages 11 and up that takes you through the campaign process. There are two teams, naturally, Republicans (red) and Democrats (blue). Each team has their own chips and set of color-coordinated dice. At each turn, you have a choice to fundraise or campaign. You roll the dice to see how many votes you get to use on your turn, and place chips on your chosen state in the hope of taking control of that state. You keep track of your electoral college votes on the included score pad, which is good, because the number of chips you use does NOT indicate the number of electoral votes in your control. The game requires strategic thinking and planning - do you want to try to control key states, or do you want to control as many states as possible? If you want to be in charge in California, you're going to have to use a lot of votes there. Is it worth it? Only you can decide as you run your campaign.
The Politics Cards add a little twist to the game. If you choose Fundraising on your turn, you have to take a Politics Card at the end of your turn. Most of them work in your favor. They might say something like "Your opponent wore loafers to a fundraiser at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage in Oklahoma City. Add 3 votes to Oklahoma." Every now and then, though, you get a card that gives votes to your opponent (your uncle got publicly drunk, say), and sometimes both sides lose some votes (some upstart independent threw their hat in the ring and messed everything up). There are even some blank cards so you can make up your own Politics. I confess to feeling a bit gleeful at the thought of the things we can come up with to write on our cards.
The first time we played, Isaac kindly laid out his blankets on the floor for us. Wasn't that nice of him? Abbie was torn between wanting to play with blue chips and wanting to be Republican. Emma, my oldest, was paired with Isaac, my 6 year old, and he was not even a little bit interested in the game, so he and I had our own little game on the side with his Squinkies. He would give me one every time I did something "bad," according to him, and I would occasionally ping one back at him across the board. We like to keep things interesting. Heh.
WebMap Calculator
One really cool feature of this game is the WebMap Calculator. When you open your game, it includes a code to give you access to an online map. You tap on the states to change their color according to which party is winning there. It looks just like the one you see on TV during election night. It's a lot of fun to use. I had it set up on my iPad while we played. It's neat to watch it fill in.
The game instructions say that a 30-week election cycle should take about an hour, but we had to play shortened versions with Isaac around, because he made it difficult to concentrate. He only wanted to fundraise, which made Emma's campaign efforts interesting. One of these days we'll get to play when he's busy doing something else.
This is a great game! If you love politics, or you don't (I really don't); if you want to teach your kids about our election system or are looking for something to make government studies a little more fun - take a look at this game.
The Presidential Game is available for $35.00. It's a high-quality game board with nice pieces. You won't be disappointed!
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In Our Hearts Stories
Less than 20% of those diagnosed with a brain tumour survive beyond five years
Katie Dean
Katie Dean was just six years old when she died of a brain tumour. Her diagnosis came after suffering from terrible headaches, which were dismissed as migraines for several months. Though it's been 16 years since Katie died in July 2003 her dad Scott, an officer with Staffordshire Police, still remembers losing his darling daughter as if it were yesterday.
Here is Katie's story, as told by her dad, Scott …
It's been 16 years since Katie died and in many ways my grief is stronger than ever. I think that's because I refused to talk about my loss for so long. Katie died a long time ago but to me it still feels like yesterday.
For several years, because of my role as an officer in Staffordshire Police, I felt I had to be the macho, robotic cop with no feelings. I put my professional head on and distracted myself with work. But now, after going to counselling and talking about my bereavement, I know it's important to show emotion and to properly grieve.
"I feel guilty. As a parent, I was supposed to protect my daughter but instead I was helpless and I couldn't do anything to save her."
There is still a memorial garden for Katie at Five Ways Primary School in Heath Hayes, Cannock, where she was a pupil. And I try to ensure that by talking to her sister Mollie, 19, and half-brothers, Mason and Louis, 11 and five years old, Katie's still part of our family.
"It was so hard to see Katie change from a happy young girl, who loved to dress up as a princess, to a withdrawn, thin child with hair loss from her radiotherapy treatment."
Katie's symptoms began months before her diagnosis and now I am frustrated it took so long for us to be taken seriously by medical staff. We took Katie to the GP several times because she had suffered from terrible headaches and was often sick, but we were told she was suffering from migraines. Katie's mum thought it was unusual for a four-year-old to be affected by migraines but we trusted the doctors' opinions. Though I'd separated from Katie's mum a year before Katie fell ill, I will always appreciate that she was the forwarding drive to getting Katie a diagnosis.
"In hindsight, I wish I'd pushed for an MRI scan earlier but at the time I never imagined Katie could have a brain tumour."
After months of these excruciating headaches, Katie's mum wondered whether she may need to wear glasses, so we took her to the opticians in Cannock. It was there that Katie was immediately referred to the Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary. Because of the sense of urgency in which Katie had been taken to hospital, I had a gut feeling that things were serious.
Katie was seen by at least 10 members of staff at the hospital, including senior consultants and medical students, which made me feel uneasy. She had several eye tests and scans, which were examined by doctors at the Birmingham Children's Hospital. It seemed like an eternity to be given the results but it was probably only a couple of hours.
"We were taken into a private room to be told the news and because of my experience in the police I knew this wasn't a good sign."
Katie had a brain tumour the size of an egg and was given a prognosis of just 18 months. It was the most horrific moment of my life and I began hyperventilating. I was panic-stricken and my world was shattered in an instant.
The following morning, Katie was taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital where she was admitted to the head trauma ward. It was a strange time and after that events seemed to snowball and I felt helpless with everything that was happening.
Just a few days after Katie's diagnosis, she had a nine-hour operation to remove her tumour. A follow-up scan showed that not all of the tumour had been removed, so she had to endure further surgery two days later.
Katie then had a six-week course of radiotherapy and chemotherapy at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. She hated chemotherapy and became very weak and tired. She also lost a lot of weight and most of her hair, which was horrible to see. I was very grateful to the support of my colleagues in the police force, who allowed me to take as much time as I needed to be with Katie and even gave me lifts to the hospital when I was too exhausted to drive.
"Despite everything, Katie had a positive attitude and always smiled no matter what. Nothing seemed to bring her down and I found strength in that."
Sadly, Katie's tumour recurred just over a year after her initial diagnosis and it had spread to her spine. She endured another gruelling four-hour operation but was never the same after that. Her personality changed and she became quiet and withdrawn. She suffered from a number of infections and was admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). I remember how the nurses at Birmingham Children's Hospital put the FA cup final on for me and a couple of other dads, and now the FA cup brings back horrible memories.
"Even while Katie was in ICU, she managed to draw a picture of me. I was moved that while going through so much she was still thinking of me and remembering tiny details, like the mud on my shoes. I treasure that drawing and today it is proudly displayed on my bedroom wall."
Katie declined rapidly and lost her ability to speak. She passed away on 14 July 2003, just two months after her sixth birthday. Her funeral was well-attended and people were standing outside the church. Some of them didn't know Katie personally but were there to support me and the family and that was touching. Katie's coffin was taken to the church by horse and carriage, which was an emotive moment.
I returned to work just a week after Katie died and now, I wished I'd taken more time to process my emotions. I flipped between periods of sadness and anger and most of my colleagues, understandably, didn't know how to deal with someone who had recently lost a child.
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I went to counselling a few years after Katie's death but I had to stop going as it was too painful to talk about what I'd gone through. It wasn't until 2016 that I knew I needed to talk about everything in order to heal and this was because, after losing Katie, I lost both my parents and split up with my partner. Eventually, everything had caught up with me.
Counselling helped me come to terms with what had happened and helped me to move forward. Losing Katie inspired me to take up a role as a family liaison officer in the police and I feel I can empathise with those dealing with bereavement because of my experience. While I'll never get over what happened, I like to think losing Katie made me who I am today.
I was shocked to discover that brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, yet historically just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this devastating disease. I hope that by sharing Katie's story I help to raise awareness and inspire people to donate to this vital cause.
Scott Dean
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typedef union _GdkEvent GdkEvent;
typedef struct _XDisplay Display;

namespace base {

// The documentation for this class is in message_pump_glib.h
class MessagePumpGdkObserver {
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  // This method is called before processing a message.
  virtual void WillProcessEvent(GdkEvent* event) = 0;

  // This method is called after processing a message.
  virtual void DidProcessEvent(GdkEvent* event) = 0;

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};

// This class implements a message-pump for dispatching GTK events.
class BASE_EXPORT MessagePumpGtk : public MessagePumpGlib {
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  MessagePumpGtk();
  virtual ~MessagePumpGtk();

  // Dispatch an available GdkEvent. Essentially this allows a subclass to do
  // some task before/after calling the default handler (EventDispatcher).
  void DispatchEvents(GdkEvent* event);

  // Returns default X Display.
  static Display* GetDefaultXDisplay();

  // Adds an Observer, which will start receiving notifications immediately.
  void AddObserver(MessagePumpGdkObserver* observer);

  // Removes an Observer.  It is safe to call this method while an Observer is
  // receiving a notification callback.
  void RemoveObserver(MessagePumpGdkObserver* observer);

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  // Invoked from EventDispatcher. Notifies all observers we're about to
  // process an event.
  void WillProcessEvent(GdkEvent* event);

  // Invoked from EventDispatcher. Notifies all observers we processed an
  // event.
  void DidProcessEvent(GdkEvent* event);

  // Callback prior to gdk dispatching an event.
  static void EventDispatcher(GdkEvent* event, void* data);

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  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(MessagePumpGtk);
};

typedef MessagePumpGtk MessagePumpForUI;

}  // namespace base

#endif  // BASE_MESSAGE_LOOP_MESSAGE_PUMP_GTK_H_

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namespace service_manager {
class Connection;
class Connector;
}

namespace content {

// Helper class to establish a connection between the Service Manager and a
// single child process. Process hosts can use this when launching new processes
// which should be registered with the service manager.
class CONTENT_EXPORT ChildConnection {
 public:
  // Prepares a new child connection for a child process which will be
  // identified to the service manager as |name|. |instance_id| must be unique
  // among all child connections using the same |name|. |connector| is the
  // connector to use to establish the connection.
  ChildConnection(const std::string& name,
                  const std::string& instance_id,
                  const std::string& child_token,
                  service_manager::Connector* connector,
                  scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner> io_task_runner);
  ~ChildConnection();

  service_manager::InterfaceProvider* GetRemoteInterfaces() {
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  }

  const service_manager::Identity& child_identity() const {
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  // end of the Service Manager connection pipe.
  std::string service_token() const { return service_token_; }

  // Sets the child connection's process handle. This should be called as soon
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  void SetProcessHandle(base::ProcessHandle handle);

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  class IOThreadContext;

  scoped_refptr<IOThreadContext> context_;
  service_manager::Identity child_identity_;
  const std::string service_token_;

  service_manager::InterfaceProvider remote_interfaces_;

  base::WeakPtrFactory<ChildConnection> weak_factory_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ChildConnection);
};

}  // namespace content

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A press release and photos issued to journalists in 1986 for the promotion of Tina Turner's new studio album Break Every Rule. Also included is a press release and photo from 1988 about the end of the Break Every Rule world tour in Osaka; this was Tina's biggest tour up to that point. Continue reading for the scans. Big thank you goes out to Alan for providing these!
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The Break Every Rule album is really special. It's maybe my favorite one. I can't get enough of "Afterglow", "Girls" and the other tracks. It seems the songs were taylor-made for her and the lyrics suits her very well. It's a very emotional and even spiritual album – just listen to "Girls", "Paradise is Here" and "I'll be Thunder". A masterpiece in my opinion.
Yes i was listening to it again the other day and like in PD & FA, there's a lot of personal background stuff in certain songs. Being french i didn't understand everything she was saying when i became a fan at 12 in 95.
But now that my english has improved a bit and i am i used to Tina very own way of singing i can understand, so anyway, yes, BER is a great album, but there's something missing in the album (some kind of unity maybe) and it's not as good as PD & FA for me.
"BWYS", "BER", "Girls", & "IBT" are highlights. Never really liked "TM".
I agree with T-Rox, I never liked Typical Male, sometimes I thought it was ok, but it was not the best track. Loved Back Where You Started and Break Every Rule, oh and Overnight Sensation!
I agree with Ben, there has always been something missing with this album. My favourite albums are Private Dancer and Foreign Affair. I was never keen on Typical Male either, but on her last tour I really grew to like it! My favourite songs on this album are what you get is what you see, break every rule, back where you started and paradise is here. I become a fan from the private dancer album when I was 4!
I think a little bit different of you all. For me, Typical Male is a perfect song. It was a perfect single choice for Tina back in 1986. It's vibrant, joyful and really rhythmic. Her vocals are astounding.
"What You Get Is What You See" is incredible, almost like Dire Straits-meets Tina-meets country.
I don't feel there's something missing in the album… I feel this way about "Twenty Four Seven"… that was an "incomplete" album in my opinion.
I really love "Break Every Rule" – a very "complete" album for me. I love every single track. It's the Tina album that I play the most on my ipod: I just love the relaxed atmosphere in the songs. Perfect to listen in the sunset. And the songs reflects Tina's state of mind back in the mid-eighties: a single woman still searching for love and happiness, still trying to make her personal life right. The lyrics of every song suits Tina perfectly.
"Two People" is a very emotional ballad, very simply and very warm. Perfect for a rainy day.
"I'll Be Thunder", "Paradise is Here", "Girls" are three of Tina's best vocal work ever.
"Private Dancer" and "Foreign Affair" are also amazing albums. But, for me, "Break Every Rule" is a little bit more intense. PD was very strong, and very classic. FA was incredible from start to finish. But, BER has something that I can't describe, it's beyond words for me… maybe because it's her most emotional album… the vocals and the lyrics and the songs are very moving, very intense (just listen to the ballads of the album.
I Also think her vocals on "Typical male" are great. And I love the video.
I think it's her second best album after "Foreign Affair".
I think, my special interest in mixes ("Is there a remix of it?") started with the maxi LP singles of the Break Every Rule album. My all-time fav is the title song itself and its remixed and extended versions. The video of that song is, of coruse, great because it was recorded in Dortmund, in the region of Germany where I was born.
I love the video Marco! And the extended 'outro' is great!
The songs are perfect, is all Tina styles in here, all great vocals, all perfect lyrics.
Break Every Rule, Thunder, Paradise, Girls, People.
BER mixes are the best also the video, supra!


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Video Game Design
Professionals in this field worked as game designers, lead game designers, design directors, writers, and creative directors. The median wage in this industry was $39.59 in 2013, or $82,340 annually. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's projections, there will be 40,200 job openings in this field between now and 2022.
A STEM degree opens the door to a world full of possibility. With so many related fields and careers, a STEM education prepares you for the future marketplace, where those with science, technology, and mathematics skills are highly sought for their talent. Those who enjoy math, science, or technology should consider a degree in a STEM-related field of study. The employment outlook in these sectors is positive for those who not only want to make a good salary, but who also want to be part of the leading world of technology and invention.
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