Medieval Mdina happened this weekend, and I (typically) decided to go at the very last minute on Friday evening. And then I decided to also go in costume. But what costume? I've sold Merida, the only really Medieval costume I had, so what could I make in 24 hours?
I highly recommend this video if you want to sew Daenerys' Dothraki clothing. I did make a few changes: I tended to sew instead of using hot glue, and I added bra cups to the inside of the top, to give it padding and structure. I put an old bra on the dress form, and put the crop top over it, then pinned the bra and top together. Once I got them positioned correctly, I sewed the bra to the top by hand, though I think hot glue would have been faster.
My dress form: not the prettiest, but very useful. The top is just a square of material, folded in half to make a triangle. It knots closed at the back, and there a plaited trim/neck tie and a gathered sweetheart neckline. I did a little bit of distressing, which just involved making little cuts with my scissors and pulling at the loose threads.
I didn't take many progress pictures because I was working flat out. The skirt, loin cloth and over skirt (or whatever the lighter coloured piece round the waist is) are made exactly the way they are in the video. The material looks great, even if the colour isn't quite perfect.
I think the wig needs work though. It was very hard to hide my hair under the wig, and dark hairs kept peeking out. There has to be a way of hiding them! I had to plait sections of the fringe, which may be a reason why some of the hair at the front is visible. Thee was also visible hair near the ears. I was thinking of using this wig for Elsa, but I might have to reconsider, or at least alter the wig significantly.
And then it was off to Medieval Mdina! And I scored in terms of photos, because the Herpetological Society had a tent there, and were showing off their great collection of snakes, lizards and one red-kneed tarantula. I actually got to hold a Bearded Dragon: Mother of Dragons for the win!
There was also this gorgeous yellow-morph Burmese Python; she weighed about 7 kilos, but was very pleasant to hold. Snakes feels gorgeous: mostly smooth and sleek, with slight bumpiness when the scales are, and surprisingly soft. The Herpetological Society were all very friendly and helpful, and let me hold a lot of animals (3 or 4 different snakes, the bearded dragon, and a red-kneed tarantula) and answered my million and one questions. If you're in Malta and come across one of their events, I recommend saying hello-you may just get to have a 7 kilo python round your neck.
This was a very lucky photograph. There were two mounted re-enactors, and they let me take a photograph with this Lipizzaner (I think that's the breed. The spell-check doesn't think this is a real word, and is suggested 'Pizzeria'-weird). They also had a stunning Friesian that I very much wanted to take home and keep in the garden.


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Professor John Atherton's main research interests are in the virulence of the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori, in the pathogenesis of peptic ulceration and gastric adenocarcinoma, and in the role of H. pylori in modulating other diseases. He supervises both laboratory and clinical research.
Professor Nigel Minton has previously spent 25 years in the applied environment of the Department of Health Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research (CAMR), Porton.
Dr Neil Guha trained at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital and began his postgraduate career in hepatology at St Mary's Hospital, London. His doctoral thesis, awarded by the University of Southampton, focused on non-invasive biomarkers of liver fibrosis.
Dr Gordon Moran is an academic gastroenterologist with a special interest in the clinical management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Dr Luca Marciani graduated in Physics at the University of Genoa in Italy. He then worked in Milan and London before joining the University of Nottingham where he was awarded his PhD in Physics at the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre.
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Joe's main research interest is in using linked electronic health datasets to carry out clinically relevant epidemiological studies.
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Professor Jonathan Ball co-ordinates an international translational hepatitis C virus (HCV) research program.
Karen's research group is mostly focused on the human bacterial pathogen Helicobacter pylori, which is the main cause of stomach ulcers and gastric cancer.
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Dr Maura Corsetti graduated in Medicine and obtained her Specialization (2000) and PhD (2004) at the Universita degli Studi di Milano in Italy.
Professor Dileep Lobo qualified from Bangalore University, India and has trained as a surgeon in Chandigarh, Nottingham and Leicester.
Professor Krish Ragunath is the BSG International Secretary, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and London. His clinical and research interests include advanced endoscopic imaging of the GI Tract, in particular Barrett's oesophagus and minimally invasive endoscopic therapy of early GI neoplasia.
Professor Will Irving currently chairs the national Viral Hepatitis Strategy Group, having previously chaired the Department of Health Expert Advisory Group on Hepatitis and is also a member of the UK Government Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO).


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Is refereeing in the Premier League a good enough standard?
February 15, 2018 jackriley117	Leave a comment
After the controversial match between Liverpool and Tottenham, there have been calls that Premier League refereeing is not up to a good enough standard, particularly in an age where we have goal line technology, players on £450,000 per week and football being the biggest business in the world, and the Premier League, the so called "best league in the world" being at the heart of it.
Take for instance, arguably the greatest show of all time, especially if you are a football fan, Match of the Day, or indeed Soccer Saturday. How many episodes of these programmes have there been where Gary Lineker and co. haven't criticised a refereeing or linesman's decision, or where Matt le Tissier, Paul Merson, etc haven't said "That is a shocking decision from the referee."
The fact that refereeing decisions crop up every matchweek in the Premier League with many people criticising them, whether it be offside, penalties, etc. This surely is enough to show the people in charge that there needs to be investment in making sure that these constant wrong decisions are not made, while it is impossible for managers to comment on these decisions as they're fined for criticising referees.
VAR was introduced to cancel out these decisions, but that as well has received criticism. It has been said that decisions take too long, and that it is only being used in certain matches, and it isn't being used either in all games or none.
So whatever happens, the standard definitely needs to improve, as these decisions are becoming wrong too constantly, and referees are not being protected and football fans are felt they are cheated too often out of results, which can turn out to be crucial.
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This report provides a picture of 'frequent GP attenders' across local areas. It breaks down the Australian population into groups according to how often they visited a GP in 2012–13, and how many different GPs and specialists they saw.
Many Australians are fortunate to experience very good or excellent health and have few or no longterm health conditions. They might visit a GP once or twice a year or they may go the whole year without any visits. Overall, Australians see GPs 5.6 times per year on average.* However, many other Australians need to see a GP more often than this.
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Did not attend: no visits.
* Average number of non-hospital GP attendances per person (including non-GP attenders). National Health Performance Authority analysis of Department of Health Medicare Statistics (via MedicareWiz), January 2015.


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The NBA's Best Assist Combos of the 2000s
Anthony Davis and LeBron James are far and away the most prolific partnership of the 2019-20 season. Which teammates have connected for the most buckets since the turn of the century? We crunched the numbers to come up with the top 10 partners in dime.
By Zach Kram Mar 9, 2020, 6:40am EDT
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Like peanut butter and jelly or Drake and Josh from Drake & Josh, some NBA players naturally fit together. Hear the word "Stockton" in a basketball context, and the mind instinctually continues "... and Malone."
With the NBA shifting from the decade of Big Threes to a new league landscape of Big Twos, these pairings are highly relevant once again. And while there are numerous ways to measure the effectiveness of any pairing of players, one simple, appealing method involves the "Stockton and Malone" of it all—one player passes to a teammate, over and over again, to score a bevy of buckets all season long.
The top two-man assist combination in the 2019-20 season is a new pairing—but it's not much of a surprise. LeBron James is leading the league in assists for the first time in his storied career, and new teammate Anthony Davis is his favorite target. James-to-Davis is in first place this season, and it's not particularly close.
Stats current through Saturday's games.
In 61 Lakers games before Sunday's big win over the Clippers, James had assisted 164 Davis baskets this season, per PBPstats.com, which puts that combination on pace for 220 assists in their first run together. That's a lofty total, especially considering that both players have missed games and that their minutes have been staggered more than almost any other star pairing's—yet it's nowhere near the highest on record. (Full play-by-play data extends back to 2000-01.)
So today, we're going to search for the highest on record. But instead of analyzing only the best single-season assist combinations, which can include bizarre outliers due to the smaller sample—for the 2001-02 Cavaliers, Andre Miller assisted Wesley Person 256 times!—we'll look over players' entire multiseason partnerships, for those who played together for at least three seasons. And instead of focusing on the top assists duo based on career totals, we'll look at the top combinations on a per-season basis—or else we'd merely be rewarding the partnerships who spent the most time together. Overall since 2000-01, the combination with the most total assists is Tony Parker to Tim Duncan, because they shared the court for 15 seasons. But Parker-to-Duncan produced an average of just 102.2 assists per season, which ranks 59th among all combos who played three-plus seasons together.
With those methodological considerations in mind, we'll count down the best pairings this century in a moment. But first, here's a look at the top combos who missed out on the top 10. (Because the 2019-20 season isn't over yet, this ranking doesn't include this season's statistics.)
Best Assist Combos Since 2000-01, Outside the Top 10
Assister
Assists per Season
11 Rajon Rondo Ray Allen 5 157.4
12 Stephon Marbury Shawn Marion 3 154.0
13 Jason Kidd Vince Carter 5 152.0
14 Jason Kidd Dirk Nowitzki 5 150.6
15 John Wall Marcin Gortat 5 147.0
16 Rajon Rondo Kevin Garnett 6 146.3
17 Russell Westbrook Steven Adams 6 134.8
18 Damian Lillard Jusuf Nurkic 3 134.7
19 Gary Payton Rashard Lewis 3 134.3
20 James Harden Clint Capela 5 134.0
21 Chauncey Billups Richard Hamilton 7 133.4
22 Antoine Walker Paul Pierce 4 129.5
23 Jason Kidd Kenyon Martin 4 128.5
24 Jason Terry Shareef Abdur-Rahim 3 128.3
25 (tie) Jrue Holiday Anthony Davis 6 128.0
25 (tie) Jason Williams Pau Gasol 4 128.0
As the pairings in this chart and the upcoming top 10 demonstrate, the assister-to-scorer dynamic can manifest in a few different positional archetypes:
The Guard and the Big
The guard-big pick-and-roll has long been an offensive staple at every level of basketball and often inspires the most productive pairings. Not every possession ends the same way—from Gortat's hammer slams to Nowitzki's rainbow jumpers—but mastery of the same basic premise can lead to incredible results, as defenses still can't stop a guard and big with years of familiarity and repetition.
Note that many of the guards here were passers first, scorers second, and many of the bigs didn't dominate the ball. At All-Star Weekend last month, I asked current players their favorite duos growing up, and many picked Shaq and Kobe. But the Shaq-Kobe partnership was somewhat different than the ones depicted here. Since 2000-01, Kobe assisted Shaq for 117.3 buckets per season, and Shaq assisted Kobe just 45.5 times on average.
Playing in the Triangle system and dominating the ball as they each did, there wasn't as much opportunity for Shaq and Kobe to assist each other's made baskets. The relative lack of mutual assists didn't get in the way of their team success, of course, or their scoring: As I calculated before this season, Shaq and Kobe compiled the top two Big Two scoring seasons in league history and four of the top seven.
But if it seems strange that this ranking would include more Wall-Gortat–style pairings than two-star duos, that's why.
The Two Guards Together
Backcourt partnerships like Rondo and Allen, or Billups and Hamilton, can thrive in the assists category because when one player subsists on zipping around screens to catch and shoot, well, he needs someone to pass him the ball first. Moreover, long-range shots are much more likely to involve an assist: This season, 81 percent of made 3-pointers have been assisted, versus just 50 percent of made 2-pointers.
Some guards, like Rondo here with Garnett and Allen, maintain robust combos in multiple categories. A lineup with a diverse set of scoring abilities and a pass-happy guard can thrive. (As Rondo and Allen prove, sometimes that success is limited to on-court matters.)
One of the best examples of this kind of fluidity in the 2019-20 season is Spencer Dinwiddie, who ranks 13th this season in assists to one partner (big man Jarrett Allen) and 22nd with another (shooter Joe Harris). And his offense has benefited as a result: With Dinwiddie off the court this season, the Nets' offensive rating has fallen by 11.2 points per 100 possessions—the largest differential on the team.
Dinwiddie grew up a Lakers fan, but he says he learned the most from watching the Celtics' Rondo figure out how to involve all his teammates to promote better team cohesion and ball movement. "You just understand what it's like to try to be a little selfless out there, try to understand where guys like the ball," Dinwiddie says. "You just try to play to their strengths as much as you possibly can."
The Guard and the Wing, or Two Wings Together
This is the least common combo, pairing a passer with a scorer who's not a pick-and-roll big, nor a pure shooter like Allen. Think of Shawn Marion—who's not done on this ranking—for the latter spot. More interesting, perhaps, is the absence of any other kinds of pairings; there are no inverted big-guard or big-wing duos that have consistently produced assists this century. Nikola Jokic, with his pick-and-roll dances with Jamal Murray, is special.
Now, on to the top 10 per-season assist combos since 2000-01. The full list can be found here.
10. Chris Paul to JJ Redick
Seasons: 4 | Assists per season: 158.5
Paul-to-Redick didn't produce the loudest highlights of the Lob City era—one such duo remains on this list—but with Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan crashing the paint for alley-oops, Redick kept defenses honest by stretching the floor for 3s.
During the four seasons that they played together, Redick made 674 total 3-pointers, ninth most in the league. Nearly half of those triples (317, or 47 percent) were assisted by Paul. No other assist combo this century has produced more 3-pointers per season than Paul-to-Redick.
At times, the Clippers boasted multiple best combos in the league. Check out the top 10 assist combos from the 2014-15 season, with a wide gap after the top two. (This was the season that the Clippers finished no. 2 in net rating and beat the Spurs on Paul's Game 7 game-winner, before collapsing in the Western Conference semifinals against the Rockets.)
9. Jason Kidd to Kerry Kittles
Given that Kidd enjoyed more memorable partnerships with Carter, Nowitzki, and Martin, it's something of a surprise to see Kittles as his most prolific partner. More memorable, perhaps, is the level of team success the Nets experienced with the Kidd-Kittles backcourt. In three seasons together, they made two Finals and lost Game 7 of the 2004 Eastern Conference semifinals against the eventual champion Pistons.
Those Nets teams never actually won a title, of course, which isn't unique on this list. In fact, none of the top 10 pairings here ever won a title together. Is that an unfortunate coincidence, rather than a warning sign for LeBron and Davis? Almost definitely—nos. 11, 14, 16, and 21 all won championships together. But it's certainly strange that the best long-lasting assist combos this century never managed to win even once.
8. Deron Williams to Carlos Boozer
Williams and Boozer formed an underrated duo for half a decade. In 2006-07, their second season together, the Jazz made the conference finals; the next year, both players were All-NBA selections; and the year after that, they gave the first Kobe-Gasol Lakers team trouble before falling in the conference semis.
Yet as far as Jazz pick-and-roll duos go, Williams and Boozer take an obvious backseat to a combo higher up this ranking.
7. Steve Nash to Dirk Nowitzki
Nash and Nowitzki played together until 2003-04—and then, as Nash decamped for Phoenix in free agency, the NBA amended its defensive hand-check rules to open up a more free-flowing game. Nash immediately won two MVPs, and Nowitzki followed with an MVP season of his own. The Dallas duo still ranks seventh in assists per season this century, but it's hard to look at this ranking, and the surrounding context, and not wonder what could have been, if only Mark Cuban hadn't made his self-described worst move as an owner and let Nash leave.
6. Russell Westbrook to Kevin Durant
Westbrook and Durant played more seasons together than any other pairing in the top 10, and in fact rank second in total assists behind only Parker and Duncan. Their partnership, which began in 2008-09, Westbrook's rookie season, extends back far enough that it helped inspire some of the best young players now matriculating to the league.
"Our favorite players are KD and Russell Westbrook, so that's a duo you look up to a lot," says Jaren Jackson Jr. about his partnership with noted Westbrook admirer Ja Morant. Jackson says he particularly tries to learn from "KD's shooting and the way he spaces the floor, and the way you've got to have some ballhandling in there to relieve pressure from the guards."
Westbrook and Durant are both singular talents; like Nash and Nowitzki, they're both league MVPs. But especially as guards grow more aggressive hunting their own shots, and tall wings and bigs play more from the perimeter, the Westbrook-to-Durant combo seems like it might best reflect the future of the league.
5. Chris Paul to David West
West set plenty of picks for Paul when the two played in New Orleans, but he didn't thunder toward the rim like the next big man, also a Paul partner, on this list. Instead, Paul and West crafted a nifty pick-and-pop game, tormenting opposing defenses with midrange jumper after midrange jumper.
Paul-to-West produced 134 midrange buckets per season, the best for any combo this century. They combined for nearly three midrange baskets for every one basket at the rim. It wasn't glamorous, but it sure got the job done.
4. Chris Paul to Blake Griffin
Some of the best pairings on this list trafficked in solid fundamental two-man play, beating defenses with timing and footwork and impeccable chemistry. Not Paul-to-Griffin. To be clear, they had all those other traits, too, especially as Griffin matured as an all-around player; in 2013-14 and 2014-15, both Griffin and Paul finished in the top 10 in MVP voting.
But more than routine baskets, Paul and Griffin combined for spectacular highlight-reel assists. It's difficult to do their dynamism justice with words. Just watch the dang clips (or Clips) instead.
3. Steve Nash to Shawn Marion
We already discussed Nash in Dallas; as soon as he moved to Phoenix and began to benefit from the NBA's altered player movement rules, he found a glitch in the Matrix. (Sorry.) The Nash-to-Marion combo thrived—and in fact could have looked even better had Marion not been traded to Miami midway through his fourth season with Nash.
Remember, this ranking averages assists on a per-season basis without factoring in games missed within those seasons. So instead of dividing their total number of assists by roughly 3.6, to account for Marion's trade after the Suns' 48th game in 2007-08, we divide by four, the number of seasons. With a 3.6 divider, though, this combo would have 229.5 assists per effective season—no. 2 on the list, and knocking on the door of a very familiar-looking pairing at no. 1.
Photo by Sam Forencich/NBAE via Getty Images
2. John Stockton to Karl Malone
Context is important for the Jazz duo's placement here. Because this data goes back only to 2000-01, this ranking captures Stockton's age-38-through-40 seasons, and Malone's 37-through-39. For the last three seasons of Stockton's career, and three of the last four seasons of Malone's (he went on to play one final season with the Lakers), the ur-pick-and-roll duo still averaged 225 assists, and nearly placed no. 1 this century.
It's difficult to fathom just how many assists this combo tallied during the players' prime seasons. Consider first that both players stayed incredibly healthy. When Malone was on the Jazz, he played 1,434 of a possible 1,444 games (99.3 percent); Stockton played 1,504 of a possible 1,526 games (98.6 percent).
Consider further that Stockton has the most career assists in NBA history. Even removing the one season he played without Malone, Stockton is no. 1 by far. And his assist totals were highest earlier in his career, before we had proper play-by-play data and before the cutoff for inclusion on this list. Across the three seasons accounted for here, Stockton averaged 8.2 assists per game; from 1987-88 through 1991-92, he averaged an astounding 14.0.
And consider finally that Malone made the second-most shots in league history, behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Remove the one season he played without Stockton and that's still true.
Take all those factors into account, and it's clear that Stockton and Malone would lap the field if we had access to their earlier data. Even with just the available numbers, it's clear how special this partnership remained. Stockton-to-Malone ranked first in the NBA in total assists in 2000-01. The combo ranked second in 2001-02. And it ranked first again in 2002-03, as Stockton completed his career with the only franchise he'd ever known.
1. Steve Nash to Amar'e Stoudemire
Edging out Stockton and Malone for the top spot is a combo that served as an inspirational pick-and-roll example for those not old enough to watch the two Utah Hall of Famers.
Grizzlies rookie Brandon Clarke ranks second this season in points per pick-and-roll possession as the roll man (minimum 100 possessions). He scores 1.48 points per try, an outrageous figure—and he says that because he grew up in Phoenix, he first learned the value of an unstoppable pick-and-roll play from this very duo.
"I was a really big Suns fan, so I was always watching Nash and Amar'e play," Clarke says. "So it's actually kind of funny to have something that's kind of similar to that now—it's not as good, but it's kind of similar to that."
In addition to leading the overall average, Nash and Stoudemire also posted the best and third-best single-season assist totals on record. Here's that top 10. (Again, behold Miller and Person, completely out of place on this list.)
Top Single-Season Assist Combos Since 2000-01
1 2008 Steve Nash Amar'e Stoudemire PHX 282
2 2011 Russell Westbrook Kevin Durant OKC 279
4 2008 Deron Williams Carlos Boozer UTA 270
5 2006 Chauncey Billups Richard Hamilton DET 268
6 2015 Chris Paul Blake Griffin LAC 262
7 2008 Chris Paul David West NOH 257
8 2002 Andre Miller Wesley Person CLE 256
10 2004 Sam Cassell Kevin Garnett MIN 251
James-to-Davis won't approach Nash-to-Stoudemire in terms of sheer volume, but their presence atop the 2019-20 leaderboard, a decade after Nash and Stoudemire last played together, is a remarkable statement about the evolution of the sport around them. When Nash assisted a Stoudemire basket, it was a 2-pointer 99.6 percent of the time; Stoudemire, who's listed right at Davis's height, made 15 total 3-pointers with the Suns. When James assists Davis this season, however, the Lakers big sinks a 3-pointer 18 percent of the time. Davis has already made 60 3s this season, half assisted by James.
And while Nash and James both averaged north of 10 assists per game in the seasons in question, the latter has 6 inches and more than 50 pounds on the retired guard. Heck, James is bigger than Marion, Nash's other top assist recipient. In an increasingly positionless league, the best distributors aren't automatically the slightest players on the court. The best "guards" are now as likely to resemble LeBron or Jokic or Ben Simmons or Luka Doncic as Nash or Paul or Kidd.
Nash-to-Stoudemire rates as the most prolific assist combo of the century thus far. But if they're surpassed in the years to come, odds are the statistical upstarts won't look much like that duo did in Phoenix—even if their staple play, an unguardable pick-and-roll, remains the same.
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Selling of wine by free to buyers auctions.
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Aussies and Kiwi hot favourites.
England and Malawi could be the dark horses.
Netball puts basketball to shame on skill and entertainment.
Australia V England tonight in Sydney.
Australia are the team for me.
And England spotted yet again in the Sydney night clubs, who do they think they are MEN.
Getting down to the business end.
Semis on Saturday and final on Sunday.
Last day of group games.
Oscar, nobody seems to have much interest, but as a keen volleyball player myself I am sure you will at least allow me to suggest that New Zealand is a very viable contender for the top slot.
Up to number 8 on the trading forum world stage.
Could there be few secret men traders who like netball or is the place just full of girls.
Have a good day in the sunny Dominican Republic.
Have heard the Queen and Prince Charles will tune into watch the final.
And we already know David Cameron and Barack Obama like a bit of netball.
You the One that I want.
Couldn't be a better final. Either for the teams or the location. I'm still calling it for the Kiwis. But I'm really just so pleased it's been such a wonderful competition.
I should have followed the trend and pitched up behind Oz. Well done Australia.


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Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty Positions University of California Irvine, School of Medicine - Physiology & Biophysics United States
The Vaccine Research and Development Center, the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, and the Institute for Immunology at the University of California, Irvine, seek applications for research-intensive tenure-track Faculty positions at the level of Assistant Professor rank or tenured Associate Professor rank to complement a group of highly interactive faculty members with broad expertise in basic immunology, microbial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interaction, chemistry, bioengineering, and vaccine development. Priority will be given to candidates with a strong publication record and interests in vaccines and immunotherapies for infectious diseases, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to, basic aspects of the immune response, mechanisms of vaccine protection, systems biology, and/or the development of novel adjuvants, vaccine delivery systems or immunotherapies. Integration into interdisciplinary and translational research programs will be required. The successful candidates will receive a generous start-up package and a salary commensurate with their rank and experience. The ideal candidate should provide evidence of successfully leading a research group and a strong record of extramural funding.
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The Campaign for the California Desert enthusiastically supports passage of the CDCRA. This website offers a place to learn about the proposal and get involved. This section presents more information about the CDCRA and the places and rivers it aims to protect.
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Wow very nice image, has a really good feel to it.
probably my favourite piece of the whole competition so far !
yeah great work, one of my favourites;) want to see more!
Strong! Keep going with this one!
I love the pic, very inspiring. I think i'm gonna join too because of you now. This feels very much like the chamber.
Really awesome perspective and concept.
this is very good and suggestive.
Really sweet image! Not much to say other than keep up the good work.
Thats very serene, mark. i think the swirly organic flow of the err "highways" really guide the eye on a peacefull journey. would love to see this largescale, can't wait!
I really like your image, all the elements looks great.
One of my fav. Keep going.
I agree with the rest. Brilliant work , very crisp and depictive.
I think is one of the best concept from here…very deep…is like a photo taken from outhere…very clean. So peacefull…and cold!
Nice…Im very courios how you continue ur work…good luck!
Thanks for the great comments and feedback! Good luck to everyone.
I've started to refine the city a bit - adding texture here and there.
I started to rough in the idea of the scientists posing for a photo in front of their "discovery". I wanted to have the three nations there representing a united front. Kind of hard to see at the moment so I may add some localised lighting in there.
Just an idea at the mo.
Brilliant work Mark. It's hard for me to imagine how you will improve upon this because it already looks amazing. Keep up the the great progress mate.


Nothing can get me out of bed faster than a glimpse of sunrise in my bedroom mirror. The oil painter in me oohs and aahs as exquisite hues sneak into the darkness and then dance across the sky ~ waiting until a shimmery pot of gold pops its head into the swirling glory. I gaze enchanted!!! It is always like no other. Often I take pictures of these masterpieces. My husband asks, "What are you going to do with that one?"
To which I reply, "No two are the same! I need to capture this moment."
Watching a sunset is equally as thrilling for me. "Why spend hundreds of hours trying to display a hint of the true beauty on a canvas, when you can watch it unfold in amazing technicolor before your eyes most evenings?" I have hundreds of photos to prove the uniqueness of beaucoup moments mesmerized by a setting sun. To show the necessity of photographing each one, I've included some of my favorites for you to enjoy. I encourage you to wake up early tomorrow and/or observe carefully at sunset, the beauty you might see from your own back porch.


The Afterschool All-Star community club took a visit to Rosecastle Assisted Living facility on Valentine's Day. Students made cards for the people at Rosecastle, and got many hugs and thanks for their time there. What a day to spread love in our community!


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Talking with an admirer of the poetry of James Thomson, Samuel Johnson, who found Thomson deplorably wordy, took down a volume of Thomson's verse and read aloud a lengthy passage. "Is not this fine?" he asked. After the listener expressed admiration, Johnson said, "Well, sir, I have omitted every other line."
I sometimes think that much journalism could be approached that way, by omitting alternate paragraphs, without much damage to the fabric. (I actually tried that once with a Sun columnist's work, and no one could detect the difference, though we were obliged to print the full text anyhow.)
For your inspection, an item from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel forwarded by one of my many spies, with commentary following:
Miami firefighter killed in Hollywood motorcycle crash just back from Haiti
An off-duty Miami firefighter who recently returned from a rescue mission to Haiti died Thursday night after his motorcycle collided with a car, police said.
Leslie Luma, an eight-year veteran with City of Miami Fire-Rescue, celebrated his anniversary with the fire department Thursday. He was married and had three children.
"He was well-loved by a lot of his co-workers and his family," Fire-Rescue spokesman Ignatius Carroll told WPLG-Ch. 10.
The firefighter's motorcycle collided with a 2001 Ford Mustang near the intersection of North State Road 7 and West Park Road just before 9 p.m., said Police Lt. Manny Marino.
The Mustang's driver, Sherry Lynn Marks, 19, suffered minor injuries.
Luma, 37, was a member of the Urban Search and Rescue Team Task Force 2 and recently returned from rescue efforts in Haiti.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the crash occurred when the Mustang traveling southbound on North State Road 7 veered into the northbound lanes and collided with the northbound 2005 American Suzuki motorcycle, Marino said.
The crash is under investigation.
I suggest to the students in my editing class that jotting down a rough outline of the elements of an article is one way to get at structural issues. Look at the paragraph structure of this exercise:
(1) Firefighter killed in motorcycle accident.
(2) Anniversary of employment, details of family.
(3) Eulogistic quote.
(4) Detail of accident.
(5) Other motorist.
(6) Firefighter's trip to Haiti.
(7) More details of accident.
(8) Investigation continues.
So the details of the fatal accident, which are what news this article has to offer, are broken up into four paragraphs, separated paragraphs containing other material. And the order of the paragraphs is apparently generated, like the winning Mega Millions numbers, at random.
It is then topped off with a headline written evidently by someone with a tenuous grasp of conventional English syntax. If it is necessary to pad out the headline by reference to the firefighter's activities in Haiti (of which no significant details are given), then "Miami firefighter just back from Haiti is killed in Hollywood motorcycle crash" would have been less likely to puzzle the reader.
Refrain*
Once you eliminate most of the editors and copy editors, and overburden the remnant, this article and headline are the kind of dog's breakfast that the reader can expect to find.
*Since this is becoming a stock observation at this blog, I thought I'd label it for you.
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Santayana on the copy desk
Those who do not learn from the headline mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them.
A reader forwards this Denver Post headline:
Colo. bars taking live crayfish from Yampa basin
Bar as a noun meaning a saloon is widely recognized. But it is also a verb much favored in headlinese meaning "prohibit."
The same ambiguity crops up in a classic headline collected in one of the Columbia Journalism Review's features of defective headlines:
Minneapolis bars putting leaves in street
The errors of the past repay study.


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'Solo' TV Spot: There's a Lesson to Be Learned Here
Posted on Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 by Chris Evangelista
Hey, look, it's time for another exciting Solo TV spot! This latest advertisement for the new Star Wars spin-off film is filled with action-packed moments and even a quick joke about Lando flirting with Han. What more do you need? Watch the TV spot below.
Every new bit of footage seems to confirm it: Solo: A Star Wars Story looks great. At one point in this TV spot, Woody Harrelson's character says, "There's a lesson to be learned here." Perhaps that lesson is: never doubt Ron Howard. Despite some behind-the-scenes drama, Howard may have actually managed to knock this one out of the park. Here's a new Solo TV spot that looks even better than the last one.
Solo TV Spot
The most memorable moment in this TV spot is, of course, the throwaway joke about Lando flirting with Han. Beyond that, though, we get plenty of action, plenty of "hero moments" (like when Lando tosses Han the famous Han Solo blaster), and a scene where Lando refers to Chewie and Han as "Hairy and the Boy."
I still have a few reservations here and there. For one thing, despite the film being called Solo, it's been clear since day one that Donald Glover's Lando is going to steal the show, and this TV spot reaffirms that. In addition to that, while everything here looks exciting, the story being set-up comes across as predictable. In other words, there probably won't be any surprises here – the narrative will unfold exactly how we expect it to unfold. But if Solo manages to entertain, perhaps that won't be such a terrible thing. And after the weird backlash against The Last Jedi for being so "different", perhaps playing things safe with Solo makes sense for Disney and Lucasfilm.
Solo, starring Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, and Paul Bettany, hits theaters on May 25, 2018.
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in "Solo: A Star Wars Story," an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga's most unlikely heroes.
Ron Howard directs "Solo: A Star Wars Story," and Kathleen Kennedy, Allison Shearmur and Simon Emanuel are the producers. Lawrence Kasdan, Jason McGatlin, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller serve as executive producers. Jonathan Kasdan & Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay.
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Q: PostgreSQL - start a server but the port is taken I'm on Windows and with PostgreSQL 14, I tried to make a new PostgreSQL database cluster with initdb --locale=en_US.utf8 PGDATA
Then I created a new PostgreSQL database with createdb my_database
Then I launched the server with pg_ctl -D PGDATA -l serverlog start
But then I get those errors:

2022-09-16 14:27:22.668 CEST [18596] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 14.5,
compiled by Visual C++ build 1914, 64-bit
2022-09-16 14:27:22.676 CEST [18596] LOG:  could not bind IPv6 address "::1": Permission denied
2022-09-16 14:27:22.676 CEST [18596] LOG:  could not bind IPv4 address
"127.0.0.1": Permission denied
2022-09-16 14:27:22.676 CEST [18596]
WARNING:  could not create listen socket for "localhost"
2022-09-16 14:27:22.676 CEST [18596] FATAL:  could not create any TCP/IP sockets
2022-09-16 14:27:22.678 CEST [18596] LOG:  database system is shut
down

I have been told that my PORT are already used (which mean some of my applications?), so I close useless app that was starting when my computer started like "CCXProcess.exe" which related to Adobe.
I opened pgAdmin4 to look for the port used by the database there (I've just began PostgreSQL, so I only made a database in "Servers" cluster and two others empty clusters) which is 5432 (port by default)?
I then I opened a Ternimal and did netstat -na | find "5432" to look at the port 5432

C:\WINDOWS\system32>
TCP    0.0.0.0:5432          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    [::]:5432              [::]:0                 LISTENING

And killed it with taskkill /pid 5432 /f but I got this message "5432" not founded.
I don't understand everything, so I'm probably not doing the right step. Any advice please?

A: It looks like you are trying to kill the process with PID 5432, but 5432 is the port you were investigating right ?
The PID should be at the far right of the output of netstat I think
Rather try:
netstat -aon | findstr 5432

which should output something like
TCP    [::]:5432[::]:0                 LISTENING       18996

And do taskkill /pid 18996 /f with the correct number instead of 18996

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from my cell to the chair.
and shaved off all my hair.
not out of respect but fear.
and they both smell like beer.
though I knew this day would come.
there's no way I could run.
the puke off my breath.
which leads to the end.
and the answer I think he knew.
and my saints are of pain.
and my priests like to kill.
and I make the rules.
when they get to my door.
and they buckle me in.
then the switch is thrown.


New year's eve is an easy day to blame.
"I hate new year's eve" (i personally love it), "New year's day is the 'best day'" (every time I have been out new years day everyone is home by 6pm feeling sorry for themselves and everywhere is empty).
Most people put off living today, doing their best today, being present TODAY instead of a day in the future when everything "will be better".
My own experience is new year's eve is a good to great day full of possibility, just like EVERY day. I dream big tonight and imagine the great things to come next year. What's wrong with wanting great things to happen? It's better to have a go and fail, than wait on the sidelines in life afraid to make any mistakes.
New year's day is another great day, when I'm super psyched up to have a great year. It's the day before we start back the gym, when endless opportunity becomes reality.
One new year's eve during the first year I started being a trainer, I experienced enormous negativity from a so called 'friend', make that MANY friends. I was used to being ridiculed by certain people back then, laughing behind my back at my career choices and my chances but I soon got used to it.
Anyway during my run today with the dogs, I saw this man's parents, who also shared the hilarity at the thought of me having a 'career'.
They were passing the bin where you put dog poo, so I put the poo into the bin and promptly got down and hit another 20 press ups. Reason one was to complete 200 press ups for the run, reason two was for YOU LOT.
I had to do it to practice what I preach. To show people that we DON'T CARE what people think in our pursuit of what really matters in life, after all our success depends on our continuous hard work and extreme effort.
You may scoff at new year's eve, but it was the birth place of my dreams and ambitions, my ignition point to spark off something better that would help notably my life greatly, but many others too I have tried to help, it gave me the confidence to have a huge go at being my best.
Dream big today, tonight and put into action tomorrow your most meaningful aspirations and plans you have put off for WAY too long.


A small town man who has followed his nose for the entirety of his completely normal life loses everything: his boring job, cute love interest, and apartment to a pair of genius chimps that have escaped from a space experiment. With the help of his cousin, his mom, and a cute librarian, he'll finally have to ask himself what he really wants out of life and how to get it. Of course, he'll also have to hide the escapee chimps from the local police, live with his cousin, and not let his mom down.


"The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past . . . Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past."
"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
G6. Masts, Poles, Ropes. Dynamics.
G10. Late Victorians. Gymnastik fur Bergsteiger.
"The history of art is the history of revivals"
R5. The Rope Climb in the Czech Rep.
HP. Historical Performances . . .
suspended bodyweight feats, beginning in the mid 1800s.
One-arm chin-ups and pull-ups, one-finger chin-ups, etc.
"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."
C1.1 Alternatives to Climbing: Gymnastics.
C2. A Golden Age. Bouldering Ratings.
C7. Soloing. Thimble. Injuries & Old Age.
C8. Interviews & Profiles. Writings. Links.
"A mathematician is a machine for converting caffeine into theorems"
Click on the image above to see the latest video of John Gill doing a few exercises at age 80+.
To avoid rating systems confusion, I shall use the American Decimal System (5.0 - 5.15?) to describe the difficulty of both boulder problems and longer climbs. It will be assumed the rating of a move or sequence of moves are the same if they are 10 feet off the ground or 1,000 feet. I will also use Sherman's V-rating when appropriate. Widely-spread historical benchmarks are easier to compare with the use of only one or two systems.
I would like to thank Kerwin Klein of UC-Berkeley and Colin Wells for information about the history of European bouldering, John Sherman for historical information from his excellent book Stone Crusade , Bob & Bonnie Kamps, Ted Cais, Curt Shannon, and Simon Panton for photos, Michael Fain , John Stannard, Pat Ament ,Phil Gleason, and Ted Cais for contributed articles, Randy Burks for assistance in translation, Karsten Kurz for assistance regarding Saxony climbing, Jiří Tlamsa for an article on rope climbing in the Czech Republic, Predrag Miletic for comments about chinning, Sylvain Jouty for historical information.
Thanks, in addition, to Bridget Burke, ex-Director of the Henry S. Hall, Jr. American Alpine Club Library and to Gary Landeck, current Director, and to Yvonne Sibbald of the Alpine Club Library.
Stone Crusade by John Sherman contains additional biographical material.


When it comes to the point when you have to hire a roofing contractor, a lot of people make the same mistake of not researching enough and hiring the first contractor they find. If you don't want to make the same mistake, then you better read this article and follow the instructions that we will be sharing with you. There are a lot of reasons why you need to use professional roofing contractors and if you don't know any of them, then take a look at some of the major benefits.
Hiring a random roofing contractor who doesn't have any reputation isn't the smartest idea because they might not do a good job at all. Installing the roof on a home requires a lot of skills which are not easily learned, some people dedicate their entire life to this just to be good. therefore, you should never be satisfied with just any roofing contractor. We strongly suggest that you always seek and find the most popular or the best contractor in your area because that will guarantee that you will get a quality job done. If you don't want to be dealing with leaks and tiles falling off your roof, then you better hire professionals who have a lot of experience even if they cost a little more.
Replacing or installing a roof on a new house requires a lot of time even for professionals. However, if you hire someone who doesn't know what they are doing, then this process will take away a lot of your time and you won't be able to move inside until the roof is done completely. With professional roofing contractors, it depends on the size of the roof, but it should never take more than a week to finish because of the unpredictable weather. Replacing the roof during bad weather is the last thing that you want to be dealing with because the entire process will need to be stopped until the cloud clears up and there is no more rain.
If you don't want to waste any time on your roof replacement or installation, then you will have to hire professionals who know what they are doing. You can save a lot of time by choosing the right contractor. More importantly, you will save money because they will do a much better job and you won't need any repairs later on.


Japanese Restaurant Minneapolis: A Great Spot for New Year's Eve!
Spend New Year's Eve at Moto-i!
December is nearly half over, and that means the New Year isn't far away. If you always have trouble making plans or finding something to do on New Year's Eve (NYE), Moto-i is here to help. With NYE falling on a Saturday this year, we'll be open until 2:00 am, serving sake, beer, and fantastic Japanese cuisine. Even if it's just you and your significant other, we will do our best to make your celebration especially memorable.
You might be someone who likes hopping from place to place on New Year's Eve. If you're hoping to plan an impromptu party (meaning whomever can make it will make it, and will meet you when they can during the night), you might have a place you want to go to dinner, a few bars you want to pop into, and somebody's nearby apartment where you can ring in 2017. We have spaces that can accommodate your group, and if you're only planning on a few for dinner, we can make sure there's a table (or tables) where you can sit and eat comfortably. If you only plan to belly up to the bar before you move on to the next party, we have a great variety of beer, wine, and sake from which to choose. What better time than New Year's Eve to try traditional sake for the first time?
If you're a hopeless romantic who enjoys spending NYE with your special someone, our menu has something for every taste. We can seat you at a table where you can have quiet conversation or simply gaze into each other's eyes. It might be your first date with this person or your hundredth, but we will do what we can to create an ambiance that's conducive to getting to know each other or spending quality time together. Perhaps you met on New Year's Eve and celebrate it as your "anniversary" or you're hoping to pop the big question before midnight strikes! Whatever the case may be, our restaurant can be the perfect spot for your special night.
Once you're finished with dinner or have had your favorite sake cocktail at our bar, there's plenty to do in Minneapolis on NYE. There are parties, concerts, and more happening all around the city, with several of them within just a few blocks of our location on Lyndale Avenue. You can walk (if you want to brave the cold), take a taxi, or call an Uber to get your destination. Above all, no matter what you do, make sure you take the proper steps to get home safe!
If you're looking for a spot where you can spend part or all of New Year's Eve 2016, call or visit Moto-i today. You can also make a reservation through our OpenTable account, and we'll make sure everything is ready when you arrive on December 31st. Ring in 2017 with some amazing Japanese cuisine and sake that's made on site!


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There was wild jubilation in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Friday as the Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin declared Dr. Kayode Fayemi the legally elected governor of Ekiti State.
Civil servants, who monitored the court proceedings on the telephone, were the first set of people who trooped out of their offices to celebrate the verdict. The civil servants, after running round their offices in wild jubilation, closed abruptly and left for their various homes.
Our correspondents, who moved round the state, observed that jubilant youths who rode on motorcycles and drove cars and buses, held brooms, which is the symbol of the Action Congress of Nigeria and sang praises of the new governor.
Thousands of ACN supporters, including old men and women, trooped to the party secretariat along Ajilosun Street to celebrate the victory.
However, the ousted governor, Mr. Segun Oni, did not leave the Government House despite the verdict which nullified his election until around 2.30 pm.
Oni, who dressed in a white lace material with a red cap, headed straight for the chapel inside the Government House to worship before removing his belongings.
Although journalists were locked outside the Government House gate, it was gathered that the Ifaki born politician sang praises to God before finally packing out.
Though Oni managed to look composed, some of his aides were in tears and there was graveyard silence inside the Government House despite the deafening noise from ACN supporters outside the gate.
Some bags were seen packed outside the residential quarters inside the Government House. While his aides were packing some of his personal belongings inside a bullet-proof Mercedes Benz bus, Oni told them to remove the bags because he was not going with the bus, which is a government vehicle.
Oni, told journalists before finally leaving. The verdict is a verdict of man and not of God.. I have been here and I served our people conscientiously.
"What is wrong with our people is still wrong with them. No government can thrive by spoon feeding the citizens. I saw that attitude here.
"My greatest ambition now is that when the next governorship election will be held here I want to support those who had worked conscientiously with me."
While Oni was still inside the Government House, jubilant residents had gathered outside the gate seeking to dislodge the former occupants from the place.
It took the intervention of the Deputy Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Nicholas Nkemdeme, who led riot policemen loaded in about 10 vans and the officials of the State Security Services to prevent the crowd from surging inside the Government House.
Former Gov. Ayo Fayose, who is now a chief of the Labour Party, danced round the town in his Hummer Jeep to celebrate the declaration of Fayemi, who he supported during the rerun poll.
Fayose said, "Oni is a product of injustice from the beginning. I knew he would go, but I didn't know the time. My advice to Fayemi is to probe Oni's illegal administration because he has plundered the state resources."
Also, the Commissioner for Information in Lagos State, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, described the verdict as the work of God. He said that he had expected that the Court of Appeal would correct the mistakes made by the lower tribunal.
Bamidele said, "What has happened today is to the glory of God."
The chairman for the Committee for the Creation of Ekiti State, Chief Deji Fasuan, also described the judgment as the work of God. Fasuan said that Fayemi deserved the victory and the court did the right thing by declaring him the governor.
Fayemi, however, ordered that the accounts of the state be frozen with immediate effect.
Fayemi, who spoke on a local radio station, Araba FM, directed the Permanent Secretary of the state ministry of finance, Mr. Bunmi Famosaya, to effect the order.


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In order to provide coverage for the GSM network across enormous highways connecting major towns in certain countries could pose major challenges especially if these highways are not electrified. The choices left to the country are one of two. Either the use of Generating Sets or Solar.


If you could go into a laboratory or outer space and design the perfect wine, on which attributes would you focus? What would be your priorities?
Allow me some predictions: complexity of flavor, variety of flavor; clarity, clean delineation; tantalizing but not overbearing aromas; options along the textural spectrum from bracing to lush; balance among components; a sense that the wine itself offers direct communication between the place it came from and the glass. Above all, a certain vividness.
You'd want this wine to have relatively low alcohol so you could drink more of it. You'd want it to match amicably with all sorts of food, but to serve well and provide pleasure without food. It could be drunk as soon as you brought the bottle home, or it could lie down for decades and gain intricacy and depth.
You'd hope the wine could be made by hand on small estates, amidst dramatic topography in a beautiful region that one day you might visit. You would even ask that this wine offer uncommon monetary value, in terms both raw (you could find decent versions of it for cheap) and relative (at whatever price level you're comfortable with, the comparative beauty of the wine would be notable and better than with other wines).
You know where this is going, yes? The wine you would design already exists. It is in plain view yet you continually ignore it, and if you continue to do so it might be lost to the world forever. The wine is German Riesling; specifically, traditional German Riesling which contains a small, balanced amount of sweetness.
German Riesling meets every single one of the criteria listed above, better than any other wine in the world. Except for the fact that your hypothetical wine may have been red and not white, it is the perfect wine. So many wine know-it-alls have already eloquently sung German Riesling's praises that there is little point in my throwing yet another Ode to Riesling mp3 onto the critics'-encomium playlist of your psychological iPod.
But I will try, here and again and again and again, to explain why I feel the way I do about this wine, in the hopes that you might at least accept its legitimacy and remain open to its capacity to serve you well.
Just so we're clear on the parameters of the conversation: Though I am talking here about German Riesling with sweetness, German Riesling is not always sweet; in fact, more and more of it is being made dry. Historically, though, it was so cold at that latitude that when autumn came, fermentation (done without temperature-controlled tanks) simply stopped before all the natural sugar in the grapes had been consumed by the yeasts. Some sweetness stayed in the wine.
It so happened that this sweetness balanced the wines' natural acidity. The Germans saw that this was good. A lot of other people saw that it was good, too. (In fact, if you look at old wine lists from this country's best restaurants before 1975 or so, there were usually just three categories: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Mosel. And the latter had the highest prices.) The interplay between natural sugar, natural acidity and natural minerality, conducted by a clarity of expression no other wine offers, was appreciated fully. It still is appreciated, and the quality of wine-growing in the area has never been higher, but the competition from other regions is stiffer these days.
Still, I do not care, directly at least, whether you end up liking and buying the slightly sweet wines that I adore. I really don't. You are not my problem, and you can do whatever you like. In fact, Rieslings made in the steep-slope regions of the Mosel, Nahe and Mittelrhein are so dramatically undervalued right now, untenably so given the quality and age of the vines and the absurdly difficult labor conditions (60-degree slopes!), that I hope you persist in ignoring these wines so I can greedily continue to buy them at these prices, which many Germans have told me won't stay low for much longer.
No, the only reason I'm even talking about German Riesling-with-residual-sugar is that I need for it to remain in the world. For all those wine-growers in Germany who might be producing dry wines to satisfy a deluded international market, I want the "fruity style" (as the Germans themselves call it) to be something they can continue to produce. A scarcity of Riesling Kabinett (the lightest category of off-dry Riesling, usually from the earliest-picked grapes) would be akin to a species of dolphin or leopard going on the endangered species list: sad, because the species is beautiful; tragic, because it is necessary to the health of other species.
Actually, the deeper reason I'm worried has less to do with wine, and more to do with a certain temperament, a way of seeing the world that has more to do with delicacy, softness, grace and charm than with aggression, superfluity, "power." Maybe grace will remain in the world longer than off-dry Riesling will, but I doubt my own capacity to expand in grace, graciousness and gratitude without off-dry Riesling.
There is a barely decent number of German Rieslings currently available in Maine. You ask someone in the business about it, and they all say the same thing: "Oh, I know, we should have more, but it's so hard to sell." This is accurate, if frustrating. Even for those U.S. importers with the greatest German wines (Rudi Wiest, Terry Theise, Frederick Wildman, Domaine Select, among a few others), their Maine distributors offer only a limited selection. This is your fault, but it's mine too, and I hope to atone by focusing in the majority of my next several columns on the excellent Rieslings that are as close to you as your favorite wine shop or restaurant.
Meanwhile, you can avail yourself of a terrific opportunity to taste a few great Mosel Rieslings this very week, for free. I swear I would be pushing this even harder if I didn't work there, but on Friday, Rosemont Market in Yarmouth will host a wonderful ambassador for German wine: Thomas Haehn of Von Schleinitz. (I've written previously about Von Schleinitz in this paper, whose searchable archives are available online.) It's from 4 to 6:30 this Friday afternoon, and it's the only public event scheduled with Mr. Haehn. I'd appreciate your attending, just so we have something to talk about next week. Thanks.


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Q: css animations inside inline blocks I am currently building a template that will be the foundation on my new website and have reached the point of adding the animations and other 'special effects'. For  basis to my template I am using the Boilerplate h5bp template and my header element is built of inline-blocks thus -

Your name here

Click to call your-phone or Email Us

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

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This is how I have done the css alignment (The colours being used are purely to highlight box sizes and alignments at this stage) -
header
    {
        border: 0.5em solid blue;
        box-sizing: border-box;
        -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
        text-align: justify;
        padding: 1em 0.5em 0em 0.5em;
        margin: 5px auto;
    }

nav,
ul.menu,
ul.menu li
    {
        display: inline-block;
    }

#logo-head
    {
        width: 200px;
        height: 200px;
        padding: 0.5em;
    }

div.box#head-two
    {
        width: 100%;
        height: 100%;
        text-align:center;
        display: inline-block;
        animation:logo 5s linear 0.3s 3;
        -webkit-animation:logo 5s linear 0.3s 3;
    }

@keyframes logo
    {
        0%      {transform:rotate(0deg);}
        25%     {transform:rotate(90deg);}
        50%     {transform:rotate(180deg);}
        100%        {transform:rotate(360deg);}
    }

@-webkit-keyframes logo
    {
        0%      {-webkit-transform:rotate(0deg);}
        25%     {-webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);}
        50%     {-webkit-transform:rotate(180deg);}
        100%            {-webkit-transform:rotate(360deg);}
    }

div.box#head-one
    {
        width: 75%;
        text-align: center;
    }

header::after
    {
        content: '';
        width: 100%;
        display: inline-block;
    }

header div.box#head-one::before
    {
        content: '';
        height: 100%;
        width: 100%;
        vertical-align: middle;
    }

However the animation is pushing the logo contained in 'header div.box#head-two' to the bottom of the header box instead of up on the right side, without the animation the logo sits nicely vertically aligned - middle and to the right of the rest of the header content.
How can I stop this basic animation from breaking my structure, this is an important problem for me to solve on this project as page layouts depend on the inline-block display value.

A: It doesn't stay to the right for me without the animation.  You are setting div.box#head-two to 100% width and not floating it.  If I add float: left to those 2 divs and make div.box#head-two 25% width it works.
div.box#head-two {
    width: 25%;
    height: 100%;
    text-align:center;
    float:left;
    display: inline-block;
    animation:logo 5s linear 0.3s 3;
    -webkit-animation:logo 5s linear 0.3s 3;
}

div.box#head-one {
    width: 75%;
    float:left;
    text-align: center;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/ydEPG/


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Der Triple-Test (auch bezeichnet als MoM-Test: MoM = Multiples of the Median, englisch: Das Vielfache der Median-Konzentration) ist eine aufgrund der vergleichsweise unsicheren Ergebnisse, die er bringt, umstrittene Methode der Pränataldiagnostik, bei der auf Basis der Konzentration von drei Hormonen im Blut der Schwangeren versucht wird, Rückschlüsse auf Besonderheiten beim ungeborenen Kind zu ziehen.

Untersuchungszeitpunkt
Nach Leitlinie einer deutschen Konsensuskonferenz soll der Triple-Test zwischen der 15. und 18. Schwangerschaftswoche (14+0 bis 17+6) und nur in Ausnahmefällen bis zur 20. Schwangerschaftswoche (19+6) durchgeführt werden. Der Triple-Test ist keine Routineuntersuchung und wurde offiziell nie von den Krankenversicherungen bezahlt. Seit 1998 betrachten die Krankenkassen diese Untersuchung stringent als so genannte "individuelle Gesundheitsleistung" (IGeL), deren Kosten komplett von den Patientinnen zu übernehmen sind.

Der behandelnde Arzt ist verpflichtet, die Schwangere vor der Untersuchung ausführlich zu beraten und die Vor- und Nachteile in verständlicher Art und Weise zu erörtern. Dazu gehört auch der Hinweis darauf, dass allein durch die Untersuchung keine Diagnosen möglich sind, sondern bei einem Verdacht weitere, zum Teil invasive folgen müssten, um eine Diagnose zu erhalten.

Was wird untersucht?
Der Triple-Test beinhaltet eine Untersuchung des Blutes der werdenden Mutter.

Bestimmt wird dabei die Konzentration von drei Stoffen:
 α1-Fetoprotein (AFP)
 freies Estriol (uE3 von engl. unconjugated estriol)
 freie β-Kette des Choriongonadotropins (β-hCG).
 Wird zusätzlich zum Triple-Test der Wert des Inhibin A (InhA/Follikulostatin/X-Hormon) mitbestimmt und ausgewertet, spricht man vom Quadruple-Test.

Die gemessenen Konzentrationen der Stoffe werden im Computer ausgewertet. Die ermittelten Werte sind oft in MoM angegeben, daher auch die Bezeichnung MoM-Test als Synonym für Triple-Test. Der MoM-Wert besagt, um das Wievielfache der jeweilige Wert höher oder niedriger ist als der mediane Wert.

Auswertung
Unter Berücksichtigung des mütterlichen Alters, des Körpergewichts der Schwangeren, vorausgegangenen Schwangerschaften mit einem Kind mit Chromosomenaberration sowie der genauen Schwangerschaftsdauer (Gestationsalter/Schwangerschaftsalter) zum Zeitpunkt der Blutabnahme wird u. a. eine Durchschnittswahrscheinlichkeit für ein Down-Syndrom (Trisomie 21) beim Säugling errechnet.

Bei manchen Schwangeren, die ein Kind mit Down-Syndrom erwarten, sind die Werte für Alpha-1-Fetoprotein und E3 vermindert, für β-hCG sind sie dagegen erhöht.

Bei Schwangerschaften mit einem Kind mit Edwards-Syndrom (Trisomie 18) finden sich gehäuft verringerte Werte für AFP, HCG und Östriol; der AFP-Wert liegt oft unter 60 % des üblichen Medianwertes.

Deutliche Erhöhungen der Werte können neben einer Chromosomenbesonderheit auch auf eine Mehrlingsschwangerschaft oder Komplikationen wie z. B. Blasenmole oder ein Chorion-Karzinom hinweisen, die allerdings nichts mit dem Embryo zu tun haben.

Das Alpha-1-Fetoprotein wird vom entodermalen Gewebe des ungeborenen Kindes gebildet. Eine deutlich erhöhte Alpha-1-Fetoprotein-Konzentration kann auf eine offene Fehlbildung der Bauchwand (z. B. eine Bauchspalte) oder des Neuralrohrs (Neuralrohrdefekte wie eine Spina bifida aperta oder Anenzephalie) hinweisen, da bei diesen Besonderheiten das Alpha-1-Fetoprotein ins Fruchtwasser und darüber auch ins Blut der Schwangeren gelangt: Bei Neuralrohrfehlbildungen beispielsweise kommt es zum Austritt von fetaler Gehirn- und Rückenmarksflüssigkeit in das Fruchtwasser. Dadurch ist das AFP im Fruchtwasser erhöht und geht schließlich auch in erhöhter Konzentration in den Blutkreislauf der Schwangeren über.

Allerdings zeigen erhöhte Alpha-1-Fetoprotein-Werte lediglich in etwa zwei bis drei von 100 Fällen solche Besonderheiten beim Kind an, denn erhöhte Alpha-1-Fetoprotein-Werte liegen auch bei z. B. Mehrlingsschwangerschaft oder ungenau angegebenem Schwangerschaftsalter (Gestationsalter) vor. Die gemessenen Werte lassen daher keine genaue Aussage darüber zu, welche Besonderheit beim Kind vorliegen könnte.

Einflüsse auf das Ergebnis
Das Ergebnis des Triple-Tests wird durch viele Faktoren beeinflusst:

Häufig ist z. B. die zu Grunde gelegte Schwangerschaftsdauer nicht exakt. Selbst Abweichungen von nur einer Woche können bereits extreme Schwankungen der errechneten Wahrscheinlichkeit hervorrufen.

So bescheinigt der Test z. B. durchschnittlich 100 von 1.000 Schwangeren eine erhöhte Wahrscheinlichkeit dafür, dass ihr Kind ein Down-Syndrom hat. Von diesen 100 Frauen erwartet aber dann nur eine tatsächlich ein Kind mit dieser chromosomalen Besonderheit.

Durchschnittlich 40 von 1.000 Frauen wird eine erhöhte Wahrscheinlichkeit für ein Kind mit einer Neuralrohrfehlbildung bescheinigt. Tatsächlich erwarten nur zwei dieser 40 Frauen ein Kind mit Spina bifida aperta, bei Anenzephalie sind es noch weniger.

Kritik
Der Test dient dazu, diejenigen Schwangeren zu identifizieren, die eine statistisch gesehen erhöhte Wahrscheinlichkeit haben, ein Kind mit einer chromosomalen Besonderheit oder einer Neuralrohrfehlbildung zu erwarten, damit ihnen speziell eine weiterführende Diagnostik empfohlen werden kann, denn es handelt sich beim Triple-Test lediglich um einen Suchtest und nicht um eine diagnostische Untersuchung. Aufgrund dessen wird ein Teil der Kinder mit einer entsprechenden Besonderheit nicht erkannt (Restrisiko durch ein falsch negatives Ergebnis) und der Test liefert vielfach falsche Prognosen (falsch positives Ergebnis).

Der Test bringt eine auf Statistiken beruhende individuelle Wahrscheinlichkeitsangabe, deren Aussagekraft bei vermuteter Chromosomenbesonderheit ggf. durch eine invasive Untersuchung (z. B. Chorionzottenbiopsie oder Amniozentese) abgeklärt werden müsste. Denn nur durch eine Chromosomenanalyse lassen sich chromosomale Besonderheiten mit hoher Sicherheit diagnostizieren.

Bei vermuteter körperlicher Auffälligkeit kann eine Abklärung meist durch nach heutigem Wissen für Mutter und Kind ungefährliche Feinultraschall- bzw. durch 3D-Ultraschall- oder 4D-Ultraschalluntersuchungen erfolgen.

Siehe auch
 Pränataldiagnostik
 Double-Test
 First-Trimester-Screening
 Sonografie (Ultraschall)
 Feinultraschall (Organscreening)
 Doppler-Sonographie
 Nackentransparenz (NT-Screening/Nackenfaltenmessung)
 FISH-Test (pränataler Schnelltest)
 Nabelschnurpunktion

Weblinks
 Hormonverläufe in der Schwangerschaft

Pränatalmedizin

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Yesterday late in the afternoon, I received an email referencing this piece. I've read it several times since, and caught myself mulling over aspects of it.
Politeness. Authority. Acculturation and silence.
I know. I see what he sees as he observes and writes. The students, the classroom. The quiet. It's what gets in the way most often when you're teaching someone to write and they're struggling, not understanding that aspect of it all, thinking that it fits neatly into a formula with five double-spaced paragraphs in 12-point helvetica. It's easier to think of those very concrete things. More safe. There isn't a commitment, really. Is there?
Writing comes from life. Everything we've said or thought or done is a path from which words come in whichever voice we choose: one of passivity and compliance, or cold detachment.
Writing is not linear. It's messy. There are no clear cut rules even though most of us had rules thrown at us about what we should or shouldn't do as writers. We were asked to complete lifeless narratives or produce dull regurgitations of information on gross national product and chief exports — if we were asked to write at all. We received letter grades for our efforts, in pen at the top of the paper where everyone could see it, and when you turned the paper over, could feel the embossment, and think about the teacher putting it there.
It's safe to expect students to write about those things. Nothing personal will arise. There will be no worries about whether one piece on "Where You Went On Your Summer Vacation" will differ from the next. You don't have to have confidence in anything like that because you just write it.
Unless you didn't go anywhere on your summer vacation.
Or lacked the confidence to realize that it didn't mean your summer vacation was insignificant compared to that of others. That lying in golden, waist high grass to watch clouds drift, or listening to pebbles clack hollowly against one other in a ditch as the water from lawn sprinklers carries them along may not be considered worthy of being written about.
We're pigeon holed almost from the beginning to behave and think and act in particular ways. To speak in a specific fashion. To dress ourselves just so. To do and to be what others expect.
First at home, and then at school. Especially when others are watching.
There could be a high correlation between the seeming lack of confidence exhibited by students repressed by societal norms and the degree to which they let loose, get rowdy, and party hearty when they're not being watched.
Eventually, they escape if they really want to.
Lost as writers, or lost as humans with life to experience?
Whoa. You just gave me A LOT to think about. This is a VERY powerful post. I need some time to conjure up an appropriate response.
Yes, I know, meleah. I could write 4 or 5 more on this, but I'd most likely scare everyone off.
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