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Baobab Press End-of-Summer Extravaganza
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Baobab Press celebrates the launch of three new titles in September, and on Saturday the 11th at 11:00 am, we're thrilled to welcome Brian Crane, Lisa Sobiek, and Paula Robison—all local to the Reno area—to the yard of the Levy Mansion for a socially distanced signing.
Baobab Press is the publishing arm of Sundance Books and Music. Baobab selects literary work, including children't literature, with a strong sense of place at its core. Read more about their fall frontlist below, and join us in the yard on September 11.
Pickles Tails by Brian Crane
Pickles Tails Vol. I is Brian Crane's first collection dedicated to the beloved Pickles family pets, Roscoe and Muffin, and their wily ways! All of the beloved Pickles characters are here, playing, cuddling, gently scolding, and loving wholeheartedly their favorite furry friends!
Brian Crane's Pickles is syndicated in over 900 newspapers worldwide. He has been nominated three times for the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year award by the National Cartoonists Society and won the award in 2013. Pickles has twice won the National Cartoonists Society's prestigious Best Comic Strip Award in 2001 and as recently as 2019. Crane lives in Sparks, Nevada, with his wife and family, which consists of seven children and nineteen grandchildren.
Pip Pip Toodle Doo written by Lisa Sobiek and illustrated by Paula Robison
Pip Pip Toodle Doo follows Pinky the bird as she sings her playful song, dives through the clouds, and meets new friends Fred, Sue, Jean, and Ray! These birds aren't like Pinky, but as she'll find out, that only makes them more fun and more interesting. Lisa Sobiek's buoyant story, accompanied by Paula L. Robison's colorful illustrations, demonstrates the fun of being actively interested in others and how asking questions leads to new understandings and new friends!
Lisa Sobiek is a registered nurse who lives in Reno, Nevada. Married, with two grown sons, she continues to share her lifelong love of children's books with her grandson.
Paula L. Robison grew up on her family's farm and ranch in rural Montana, and now lives in Reno, Nevada. She is the illustrator of Sleuth on the Goose, and the cover artist for the novel Calamity Jane. Find Paula and her work at www.paularobison.net.
Stay tuned for additional info and events for Sophie Sheppard's The Moon's Tear!
The Moon's Tear: A Desert Night's Dream follows Raven in his journey to find a companion for the Moon, who is traveling alone across the empty night sky. Enlisting Child for help, Raven must travel with his friend high into the mountains to retrieve a precious gift from the belly of a trout, and fill the night with light. Quiet and dreamlike, Sheppard's illustrations perfectly compliment a tale of loneliness and how it is conquered by friendship. The Moon's Tear is a contemporary legend that will delight and entertain anyone with the courage to dream.
A third generation painter, Sophie Sheppard lives and works in the remote northwest corner of the Great Basin where the distances are vast and the silences are deep. Her paintings and writing are place-based in this land where she, her husband, Lynn Nardella, and three generations of their family practice regenerative agriculture and put carbon back in the soil where it belongs. This story is based on a dream she had while sleeping under clear desert night skies.
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Raymond "Ray" Graves
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Raymond "Ray" Graves, of Somerset, KY (formerly of Mount Vernon)?father, farmer, brother and friend, ?died in hospice care on Friday, December 17, 2021 after a extended illness. He was 69 years old.
Ray was born on September 28, 1952, to Leonard and LaVada Graves in Sand Springs, KY. From a young age, he was fascinated by the sciences, and found particular interest in the separate areas of study in pathology and horticulture. After graduation at Mount Vernon High School, he was accepted at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington DC, prior to being drafted by the Army and serving honorably during an extended tour in Vietnam.
Ray was a naturalist and enjoyed a lifetime of farming. He was valued as a farmer who practiced organic farming and raising free range chickens before there was a name for this style of farming.
Ray is survived by his daughter, Rochelle Graves-Shelton (Bill) of Gravel Switch, KY; grand-daughter Stephanie Marx (Jacob) of Bowling Green, KY; and brothers Clinton (Lynn) and Dallas of Mount Vernon. He is preceded in death by his parents, sisters Lena and Vina Lou and brothers Stanley and Boyd.
At Ray's request, his body will be donated to the University of Tennessee for the advancement of science. A memorial service will be held and announced by the family at a later date. In honor of Ray, please plant a fruit or nut tree in his memory or send a donation to the Parkinson's Foundation.
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Q: Create multiple graphs with button in shiny I have the following shiny script
 library(shiny)

ui <- fluidPage(
  actionButton("go", "Go"),
  #This should trigger a default 100 hist
  actionButton("go", "Go"),
  numericInput("n", "n", 50),
  plotOutput("plot")
)

server <- function(input, output) {

  randomVals <- eventReactive(input$go, {
    runif(input$n)
  })

  randomVals2 <- eventReactive(input$go, {
    runif(n = 100)
  })

  output$plot <- renderPlot({
    hist(randomVals())
  })
  output$plot2 <- renderPlot({
    hist(randomVals2())
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

This provides me with a button I can press to get a histogram. It works fine. However, I would also like to include another button next to it that gives a histogram with default n = 100 (just for learning purposes).
However the second button does not seem to work.
Any thoughts on what should be changed to trigger it?

A: @PorkChop has correctly pointed out one bug in your code, which is the repeated IDs of both buttons. Also, your don't have plot2 defined in your UI function.
However, I would like to comment that the functions defined is a bit redundant. In principle, both buttons should preform the same functionalities (generate random data and plot their histogram), with different size parameter.
The neatest way would be defining one function that does the full functionality required, and calling it with the specific parameters with each button:
library(shiny)

ui <- fluidPage(
  actionButton("go_hist", "Go"),
  actionButton("go_hist_100", "Go with 100"), #This should trigger a default 100 hist
  numericInput("n", "n", 50),
  plotOutput("plot")
)

server <- function(input, output) {
  plotHist = function(size){
    randomData = runif(size)
    output$plot = renderPlot(hist(randomData, main = paste("n =", size)))
  }
  observeEvent(input$go_hist, plotHist(input$n))
  observeEvent(input$go_hist_100, plotHist(100))
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

With such functionalization, your code will be easier to read, debug and maintain.

A: You cant have multiple buttons with the same id please change button names
  actionButton("go", "Go"),
  #This should trigger a default 100 hist
  actionButton("go1", "Go"),

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Q: Should I compile with /MD or /MT? In Visual Studio, there's the compile flags /MD and /MT which let you choose which kind of C runtime library you want.
I understand the difference in implementation, but I'm still not sure which one to use. What are the pros/cons?
One advantage to /MD that I've heard, is that this allows someone to update the runtime, (like maybe patch a security problem) and my app will benefit from this update. Although to me, this almost seems like a non-feature: I don't want people changing my runtime without allowing me to test against the new version!
Some things I am curious about:

*

*How would this affect build times? (presumably /MT is a little slower?)

*What are the other implications?

*Which one do most people use?

A: By dynamically linking with /MD,

*

*you are exposed to system updates (for good or ill),

*your executable can be smaller (since it doesn't have the library embedded in it), and

*I believe that at very least the code segment of a DLL is shared amongst all processes that are actively using it (reducing the total amount of RAM consumed).

I've also found that in practice, when working with statically-linked 3rd-party binary-only libraries that have been built with different runtime options, /MT in the main application tends to cause conflicts much more often than /MD (because you'll run into trouble if the C runtime is statically-linked multiple times, especially if they are different versions).

A: from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2kzt1wy3(VS.71).aspx:

/MT    Defines _MT so that multithread-specific versions of the run-time routines are selected from the standard header (.h) files. This option also causes the compiler to place the library name LIBCMT.lib into the .obj file so that the linker will use LIBCMT.lib to resolve external symbols. Either /MT or /MD (or their debug equivalents /MTd or /MDd) is required to create multithreaded programs.
/MD    Defines _MT and _DLL so that both multithread- and DLL-specific versions of the run-time routines are selected from the standard .h files. This option also causes the compiler to place the library name MSVCRT.lib into the .obj file.
Applications compiled with this option are statically linked to MSVCRT.lib. This library provides a layer of code that allows the linker to resolve external references. The actual working code is contained in MSVCR71.DLL, which must be available at run time to applications linked with MSVCRT.lib.
When /MD is used with _STATIC_CPPLIB defined (/D_STATIC_CPPLIB) it will cause the application to link with the static multithread Standard C++ Library (libcpmt.lib) instead of the dynamic version (msvcprt.lib) while still dynamically linking to the main CRT via msvcrt.lib.

So if I am interpreting it correctly then /MT links statically and /MD links dynamically.

A: If you are using DLLs then you should go for the dynamically linked CRT (/MD).
If you use the dynamic CRT for your .exe and all .dlls then they will all share a single implementation of the CRT - which means they will all share a single CRT heap and memory allocated in one .exe/.dll can be freed in another.
If you use the static CRT for your .exe and all .dlls then they'll all get a seperate copy of the CRT - which means they'll all use their own CRT heap so memory must be freed in the same module in which it was allocated. You'll also suffer from code bloat (multiple copies of the CRT) and excess runtime overhead (each heap allocates memory from the OS to keep track of its state, and the overhead can be noticeable).

A: I believe the default for projects built through Visual Studio is /MD.
If you use /MT, your executable won't depend on a DLL being present on the target system. If you're wrapping this in an installer, it probably won't be an issue and you can go either way.
I use /MT myself, so that I can ignore the whole DLL mess.
P.S. As Mr. Fooz points out, it's vital to be consistent. If you're linking with other libraries, you need to use the same option they do. If you're using a third party DLL, it's almost certain that you'll need to use the DLL version of the runtime library.

A: If you are building executable that uses other dlls or libs than /MD option is preferred because that way all the components will be sharing same library. Of course this option should match for all the modules involved i.e dll/lib/exe.
If your executable doesn't uses any lib or dll than its anyone's call. The difference is not too much now because the sharing aspect is not into play.
So maybe you can start the application with /MT since there is no compelling reason otherwise but when its time to add a lib or dll, you can change it to /MD with that of the lib/dll which is easy.

A: I prefer to link statically with /MT.
Even though you do get a smaller executable with /MD, you still have to ship a bunch of DLLs to make sure the user gets the right version for running your program. And in the end your installer is going to be BIGGER than when linking with /MT.
What's even worse, if you choose to put your runtime libraries in the windows directory, sooner or later the user is going to install a new application with different libraries and, with any bad luck, break your application.

A: The problem you will run into with /MD is that the target version of the CRT may not be on your users machine (especially if you're using the latest version of Visual Studio and the user has an older operating system).
In that case you have to figure out how to get the right version onto their machine.


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About hbsn
Vol 9, No 6 (December 2020) /
Metabolic associated fatty liver disease and cancer risk: causal role or epiphenomenon?
Ali Bayoumi1, Mohammed Shatat2, Mohammed Eslam1
1Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW, Australia; 2Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minya University Hospital, Minya, Egypt
Correspondence to: Mohammed Eslam. Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead 2145, NSW, Australia. Email: mohammed.eslam@sydney.edu.au.
Comment on: Allen AM, Hicks SB, Mara KC, et al. The risk of incident extrahepatic cancers is higher in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease than obesity-A longitudinal cohort study. J Hepatol 2019;71:1229-36.
Submitted Feb 14, 2020. Accepted for publication Feb 24, 2020.
doi: 10.21037/hbsn.2020.03.05
The majority of global deaths are attributed to one of the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and cancer is projected to be the leading cause of death worldwide in the 21st century (1). There were 18.1 million incident cancer cases worldwide in 2018, 43.8 million are living with cancer and 9.6 million deaths from cancer. One in 6 deaths is due to cancer and these numbers are projected to rise to 13 million by 2030, more than that from tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. In addition, the total annual global cost of cancer was estimated at around US$1.16 trillion, representing a significant burden on health care systems and families (1).
Notably, approximately a third of cancer cases preventable and are attributed to behavioural and dietary risks, and an additional third treatable if diagnosed early. In this regard, numerous epidemiological studies and meta-analyses provided unequivocal evidence to demonstrate an association between obesity, as defined by body mass index (BMI) and at least 12 types of cancer, including liver, colorectal, pancreatic, esophageal, breast, kidney and bladder (2). Imbalances in dietary intake, energy homeostasis, and inappropriate physical activity fuel to a large extent, this global epidemic of obesity. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the prevalence of overweight and obesity has almost tripled since 1975 and in 2016, 1.9 billion adults globally were overweight, of whom 650 million had obesity (3). Hence, obesity is projected to be soon replacing smoking as the leading preventable cause of cancer.
Nevertheless, not all fats are the same; ectopic fat accumulation, particularly in the liver and skeletal muscle entails higher risk for the development of insulin resistance and cardiometabolic abnormalities and adverse events, compared to total body adiposity. Thus, it is currently recognised that BMI is only an imprecise indicator of obesity as it does not assess body fat composition or central obesity (4,5).
In parallel with epidemics of obesity, the prevalence of metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) (formerly known as NAFLD) that encompasses a significant accumulation of fat in the liver, has significantly increased affecting up to a quarter of the world's adult population and is currently a leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide (6-8). As MAFLD are fundamentally intertwined with obesity and metabolic syndrome, it is not surprising that the clinical burden and consequences of MAFLD are not limited only to the risk of liver-related complications but it extends also to increase the rate and severity of various extrahepatic complications, including multiple extrahepatic cancers (9). Indeed, the leading cause of death in patients with MAFLD is cardiovascular disease, followed by extrahepatic malignancies and then liver-related complications (10). Thus, dissecting the effects of obesity and its associated metabolic consequences, from those mediated by MAFLD on extrahepatic cancers is important.
A recent study by Allen et al. (11) provides new insights on the impact of MAFLD, demonstrating that liver fat is a pivotal mediator in the association between obesity and the development of hepatic and extrahepatic cancer. This longitudinal study included a community cohort of 4,722 NAFLD and 14,441 age- and sex-matched control subjects followed up to 21 years with a median follow-up of 8 years. During this period, there were 2,224 incident cancers. The presence of MAFLD was associated with 90% greater risk of developing cancers after adjustment for potential confounders. The highest risk increase was demonstrated in liver cancer [incidence rate ratio (IRR) 2.8; 95% CI, 1.6–5.1], followed by those for uterine, stomach, pancreas, then colon cancer. Interestingly, MAFLD was associated with an approximately two-fold increase in the overall risk of incident cancers in comparison to non-obese controls (IRR 2.0; 95% CI, 1.5–2.9), while obesity had much less impact on cancer risk (IRR 1.2; 95% CI, 0.9–1.6). Furthermore, this study demonstrated that obesity per say, in the absence of MAFLD did not significantly increase the risk compared to non-obese controls (IRR 1.0; 95% CI, 0.4–1.4).
The next frontier is to go from the epidemiological association to the mechanistic explanation. Though a direct causal link between MAFLD and extrahepatic cancers is yet to be clarified, several mechanisms have been postulated. MAFLD is intimately interconnected with hepatic and systemic insulin resistance, which in accompanying with high-glucose environment can lead to oncogenic alterations and the promotion of various pathways involved in cell proliferation, such as MAPK/ERK, PI3K/Akt, Ras, and c-MYC. In addition, the low-grade systemic inflammation associated with MAFLD can induce mitochondrial dysfunction, release pro-carcinogenic cytokines and hormones and promote reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation. These events can lead to the activation of oncogenic pathways. Moreover, metabolic perturbation as occurs in MAFLD can induces wide epigenetic oncogenic changes and DNA mutations (12).
However, it remains challenging to ascertain causality and disentangle if liver fat itself, the intertwined endocrine activity of adipose tissue, or additional factors, such as microbiota changes and poor dietary intake are causative, given the complex and dynamic interaction between these factors. The possibility that MAFLD represents a robust surrogate of visceral obesity and thus has a stronger association with extrahepatic cancers than obesity, as assessed by BMI, also cannot be excluded.
An important question from this report is whether we can leverage the new knowledge to improve the management of patients and broaden opportunities for cancer control? Obviously, if this study is independently confirmed by others, it could help in risk stratification of patients and identification of those with increased risk of obesity-promoted malignancy, ultimately enabling more personalised surveillance approaches. Such knowledge would also help determine the optimal type of and time point for treatment and prevention strategies for obesity and MAFLD.
In conclusion, MAFLD likely plays a more critical role rather than obesity in the development of hepatic and extrahepatic cancers. Current measures of obesity seem to be imperfect and thus practical everyday tools to characterize excess adiposity are required. Though external validation of the findings is required, they are intriguing and are an impetus to undertake further research in order to address the questions raised.
Funding: None.
Provenance and Peer Review: This article was commissioned by the editorial office of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition. The article did not undergo external peer review.
Conflicts of Interest: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/hbsn.2020.03.05). The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
Ethical Statement: The authors are accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Open Access Statement: This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits the non-commercial replication and distribution of the article with the strict proviso that no changes or edits are made and the original work is properly cited (including links to both the formal publication through the relevant DOI and the license). See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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Eslam M, George J. Genetic contributions to NAFLD: leveraging shared genetics to uncover systems biology. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2020;17:40-52. [Crossref] [PubMed]
Eslam M, George J. Refining the role of epicardial adipose tissue in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Hepatol Int 2019;13:662-4. [Crossref] [PubMed]
Eslam M, Sanyal AJ, George J. MAFLD: A consensus-driven proposed nomenclature for metabolic associated fatty liver disease. Gastroenterology 2020;158:1999-2014.e1. [Crossref] [PubMed]
Younossi Z, Anstee QM, Marietti M, et al. Global burden of NAFLD and NASH: trends, predictions, risk factors and prevention. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2018;15:11-20. [Crossref] [PubMed]
Sarin SK, Kumar M, Eslam M, et al. Liver diseases in the Asia-Pacific region: a Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology Commission. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2020;5:167-228. [Crossref] [PubMed]
Byrne CD, Targher G. NAFLD: a multisystem disease. J Hepatol 2015;62:S47-64. [Crossref] [PubMed]
Adams LA, Lymp JF, St Sauver J, et al. The natural history of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A population-based cohort study. Gastroenterology 2005;129:113-21. [Crossref] [PubMed]
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Cite this article as: Bayoumi A, Shatat M, Eslam M. Metabolic associated fatty liver disease and cancer risk: causal role or epiphenomenon? Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr 2020;9(6):774-776. doi: 10.21037/hbsn.2020.03.05
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I am certainly no blogging expert, but I have learned quite a bit about what works and what doesn't work since I started Atheist Revolution in 2005. Starting a new atheist blog is much harder today than it was back then, but that doesn't make it any less important. For the good of our community, I'd like to help others succeed.
In the first part of this series, I focused on some of the more important tips for getting one's atheist blog off the ground (i.e., monitoring blog traffic, using Technorati, joining the Atheist Blogroll, posting frequently, and understanding the benefits of blog carnivals). Now that you're doing those things, it is time to take your blog to the next level.
The following suggestions are designed to bring more traffic to your blog, make sure you are reaching your audience, protecting your content, and encouraging commenting and discussion by your readers.
Consider when you are publishing your posts, paying attention to the location of your key audience and the time of day.
Get on Twitter and use it to promote your blog and connect with others in the atheist community.
Use StumbleUpon effectively to drive traffic to your blog.
Protect your content, and do not make the mistake of plagiarizing from others.
Upgrade your blog's default commenting system. I've been happy with Intense Debate.
This should keep you busy for awhile. More tips are on the way, so stay tuned.


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Pittsburgh's Strip District & Primanti Brothers Sandwiches
Post on: February 1, 2018
You can't take a trip to Pittsburgh without trying one of the legendary sandwiches from a Steel City institution: Primanti Brothers. While it's now a chain, you really can't beat the atmosphere at the original, and as a bonus, you'll find the first Primanti Brothers Restaurant in the middle of one of the 'burgh's hip neighborhoods: the Strip District. So why not combine lunch with a little sightseeing?
The Strip district of Pittsburgh is located northeast of downtown Pittsburgh, along the Allegheny River. Most of the action centers around Smallman Street and Penn Avenue. You'll find Primanti Brothers wedged between Smallman and Penn, on 18th Street (it's practically an alley). Primanti Brothers does have a tiny parking lot, but most likely you'll need to pay for parking. Numerous paid spots are available along Smallman Street.
Let's start with that sandwich. I was pretty hungry when I got off the plane in Pittsburgh, and I was determined to make Primanti Brothers my first meal. That took some effort — because I had to rent a car, check into a hotel, then drive downtown and find the place. Oh, and driving around Pittsburgh is a real challenge. It seems like every intersection allows you to go about seven different directions, and half of them are over a hill or around a sharp curve. When your GPS says turn left, that doesn't narrow it down much.
I took a lot of wrong turns and ended up taking a tour of most of downtown Pittsburgh before I finally made my way into the Strip District. Then, I tried to find a free parking spot for a while, before giving up and paying for parking. I was getting hangry. But there was a cure.
Primanti Brothers has the down-to-earth appeal that you'd expect from a local tradition. I doubt it has changed much since it opened in 1933. Back then, it catered to the late-night, early-morning workers at the fruit and vegetable depot on Smallman Street (that big building you'll probably park in front of). It also developed quite a devotion from the 2 a.m. crowd, who needed food after the bars closed.
There are lots of options on that menu board, but the basic sandwich is pretty simple. It's whatever kind of meat you want, cooked on a grill, then heaped on a slice of Italian bread. Cole Slaw is added, then a handful of hand-cut french fries. Another slice of bread goes on top, and it all gets smashed together.
A Primanti Brothers Sandwich
I've heard it said that you either love this sandwich, or you hate it. I guess I'm the exception to the rule. I liked it, but I wasn't wild about it. I'd probably order another one if I had the chance. It was a good sandwich. But I don't have strong enough feelings to fall into either category.
With a full stomach, and my hangriness quickly fading, I decided to take a walk around the Strip, to see what all the buzz was about.
It was a very busy day, the day that I visited. Vendors had set-up shops along the sidewalk — most of which were selling Steelers gear. It was just a few hours before a Steelers game across town, so I'm guessing that explains the high demand for black and gold.
Just like Primanti Brothers, the Strip District remains authentic, with plenty of old buildings and some ghost signs towering over the streets.
You'll also find some newer street art, adding to the funky vibe in the Strip.
Smallman Street is flanked by big warehouses (the aforementioned fruit and veggie depot is on the left), and Saint Stanislaus Church stands in the distance, at a curve in the road. It was built in 1891 by Polish immigrants.
Roslyn Place: Pittsburgh's Wooden Street
Great Views of Pittsburgh on Mount Washington
Here's a look at the drive into Pittsburgh, around downtown, and into the Strip District:
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Check out Pittsburgh's Strip District for a look at an authentic, turn-of-the-20th-century' burgh neighborhood. And while you're there, try a sandwich at Primanti Brothers, and decide whether it's the best thing ever, absolutely awful, or just okay.
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Colombia captures its 'most-feared' drug lord Dairo Antonio Usuga
By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN
Updated 3:31 AM EDT, Mon October 25, 2021
Colombia's most-wanted drug lord captured
Bogota, Colombia CNN —
Colombia's most-wanted drug lord has been captured by authorities in what has been heralded as the biggest blow to the country's narcotics traffickers in decades.
Colombia's President Iván Duque Márquez confirmed the capture of Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as "Otoniel," in a televised national address Saturday.
"This coup is only comparable to the fall of Pablo Escobar in the 90s," Duque said, referring to the Colombian drug lord who died in 1993 after building a multibillion-dollar empire dealing cocaine.
"Otoniel was the most feared drug trafficker in the world, a murderer of policemen, soldiers, social leaders, and a recruiter of minors," he said.
Otoniel, 50, was seized by Colombian authorities during an operation in a rural area of Colombia's Uraba region, located in Antioquia province, Reuters reported. One police officer died during the operation, according to the report.
Otoniel was the leader of the 'Clan del Golfo' drug cartel, which the US State Department describes as "heavily armed and extremely violent." He became the leader following stints as a left-wing guerrilla and a paramilitary, according to Reuters.
The cartel is comprised of former members of terrorist organizations, according to the State Department, and uses violence and intimidation to control narcotics trafficking routes, cocaine processing laboratories, speedboat departure points and clandestine landing strips.
Otoniel was indicted by the Southern District of New York in 2009. The State Department offered up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction, while Colombia offered a reward of up to 3 billion Colombian pesos (about $800,000) for information on his whereabouts, Reuters reported.
Duque ended his televised speech Saturday with a message for other drug traffickers, saying: "To all criminals and narco traffickers: either you surrender, or we will come and get you."
Additional reporting from Reuters.


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May 27, 2020 10:38 AM EDT By Staff Reporter
Not Jennifer Aniston, Alia Shawkat: Brad Pitt Has the Hots for THIS Woman
If Brad Pitt is just friends with his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, and if he denies having a relationship with "Arrested Development" actress Alia Shawkat, could THIS be the girl who can win his heart next?
The "Mr. And Mrs. Smith" star has been rumored to be flirty with an Australian TV reporter while she interviewed him on the red carpet.
Renee Bargh is a red carpet reporter for "Extra TV" and is considered to be one of the most desirable women in Hollywood today.
The 33-year-old was reportedly "flirting up a storm" with Pitt ever since interviewing him at the SAG Awards in January this year.
Many people who have watched the interview said that the two looked so good together.
An onlooker recalled that moment, "Renee is very much Brad's type. He can tell she's got what it takes to go all the way in Hollywood and beyond."
When the 56-year-old actor winked at her, Bargh had a temporary loss for words and then later joked about their fantastic chemistry.
The onlooker further told New Idea that Pitt has been dropping all the hints that he wants to take the reporter out on a date and mentioned that the "Ad Astra" actor would ask her out once she's in Los Angeles.
The onlooker continued to reveal of the special moment between the two, saying that Brad Pitt doesn't usually open up to anyone on the red carpet, and while speaking with Bargh, he was very chatty and impressed with her.
After the SAG Awards, Brad Pitt and Renee Bargh have reportedly run into each other a few more times, as they share mutual friends.
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But this wasn't the first time they met.
During the red carpet premiere of Pitt's movie in September 2019, Pitt and Bargh first showed flirtatious behavior in front of the cameras.
Renee Bargh shared a clip of her with the actoron Instagram and captioned it, "The 'point' of this picture is to show the apparent chemistry Brad and I have."
A post shared by Renée- Claire Bargh (@reneebargh) on Jan 20, 2020 at 10:01am PST
Once rumors started surfacing that she was Pitt's newest girlfriend, she laughed it all off and hasn't talked about it since.
Renee Bargh is an Australian entertainment reporter who worked for Channel V Australia and is currently the co-host of The Voice Australia.
She has been living in Los Angeles for many years now.
However, Bargh isn't only linked to Brad Pitt, as previously reported, she "secretly dated" action movie star actor Tom Cruise.
In July 2018, Woman's Day reported that Bargh was at a red carpet premiere of Cruise's movie that the two have instantly "hit it off."
However, the TV personality slammed the claims, telling "The Kyle and Jackie O Show," that the speculation was untrue and "ridiculous."
"That's one of those ones where you look at it, and I got all these messages and emails from people in Australia being like, 'Oh my gosh, you're the new girlfriend,' and I'm like, 'Where did this come from?'"
Bargh revealed, "We just had a couple of great interviews on a red carpet. I think in Paris, and then someone just wrote that article. It came out of nowhere."
The show hosts joked that they don't see Renee Bargh with Tom Cruise because Bargh is "tall. She's got length to her. It'd be crazy."
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Their regular gig: The early Beatles at the Cavern club in 1961 with Pete Best on drums
❚ ON THIS THIS DAY 50 YEARS AGO four Scousers played the first of 292 gigs at the Cavern club in Liverpool — 292! They were paid £5 and Pete Best was playing drums that day, although when they played their last Cavern lunch date two years later, in Feb 1963, Ringo Starr sat behind the kit and Please Please Me was heading towards No 2 in the charts to be followed by four No 1 hits in a row.
Bob Wooler, Cavern deejay: urged the owner Ray McFall to give The Beatles a try. Picture from Liverpool Post
Two hundred and ninety two gigs is the equivalent of playing every night for 48 weeks without break. In fact, many of those dates were, like the first on Thursday Feb 9, 1961, played to few dozen office workers at lunchtime. Practice may well make perfect but, even so — 292 at one venue! The Cavern's deejay Bob Wooler booked the bands and gave The Beatles their residency, "playing lunchtime and evening sessions for about 25 shillings a session", according to Ray Coleman in a definitive biography of John Lennon. "The Cavern, with little ventilation, appalling acoustics, walls dripping with dampness… would tax even the most enthusiastic of young musicians."
Coleman explains why playing in this club was a decisive tipping point: "It was a hotbed of traditional jazz… The audiences were, in John Lennon's opinion, snobs against rock'n'roll. He hated them for their superior attitude. The Cavern was to represent, to John, something more than success for The Beatles. He saw it as a crusade against jazz and all it stood for.
"John told jazz singer [author, journalist and cultural guru], George Melly, who had played the club with the Mick Mulligan Band: 'You lot kept us from getting into the Cavern and other places much earlier. All that jazz crap held us back.'
"The game was up": Jazz singer George Melly in 1960. Photographed © by Ray Moreton
"Melly conceded this point to Lennon… With rock'n'roll groups, led by The Beatles, pulling in students, previously jazz's natural audience, 'the game was up', as Melly succinctly puts it. Lennon relished the kill." On that cramped stage in that desperate year of 1961, Coleman maintains: "Lennon's demeanour could be likened to that of a caged tiger. Here, he honed his short-sighted, head-tilted, legs-astride stance into a statement of defiance, much more than mere music."
The Cavern residency was a testament to the determination of the man who had been a founder-member of The Quarrymen in 1956. Let's not forget that the world-beating band who evolved from them also played four seasons in the German city of Hamburg between their bass player Stuart Sutcliffe eventually naming them The Beetles in August 1960 [a spelling Lennon later changed to reflect the beat], and securing their first recording contract in June 1962 with EMI, which was to turn them into the most famous pop group in history.
The Beatles' beat look, 1960: honed in Hamburg by photographer Astrid Kirchherr who took this picture when guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe was in the lineup
So how many gigs did these musicians from Liverpool have to play in order to clinch a deal with a major London label in an era when the metropolis viewed the provinces as a foreign land? These were the dark ages before the internet, when television was only starting to replace newspapers as the mass medium, and when many singers upped their vocal register as far as falsetto to be heard clearly through the latest piece of technology, the handheld transistor radio.
A chance phone call in 1960 won The Beatles their first stint in Hamburg where they played seven nights a week at £15-a-week, Aug-Oct (46 gigs at the Indra club) straight on through Oct-Nov (57 gigs at the Kaiserkeller). They returned to Liverpool with moptop hairstyles and bespoke cuban-heeled Chelsea boots from London's theatrical shoemakers Anello & Davide. After their Cavern debut the next year, 1961, The Beatles returned to Hamburg, Mar-July (98 gigs). They were viewed at the Cavern that November by Brian Epstein who agreed to manage them a month later, and played their first southern gig in Aldershot to 18 people. It was back to Hamburg in spring 1962, April-May (49 gigs), to find that Epstein had a deal ready to sign† the week after they returned. So let's say that those four tours of duty in Germany amounted to almost exactly 250 gigs. Two hundred and fifty!
Beatles relaxing, probably 1961: Rare photo including Stuart Sutcliffe at left and Pete Best at right. (Photo courtesy Yoko Ono Lennon)
The Beatles themselves described their far from meteoric progress in their own words in the monumental Anthology published for their company Apple Corps in 2000. It makes you want to weep.
John Lennon says: "In Hamburg every song lasted 20 minutes and had 20 solos in it. We'd be playing eight or ten hours a night. [This is rather more practice than young musicians achieve at a western conservatoire, and rather less than Chinese music students.] That's what improved the playing. And the Germans like heavy rock… Paul would be doing What'd I say? for an hour and a half."
Paul McCartney says: "What'd I say? became like trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records — who could make it last the longest… It has the greatest opening riff ever… then the chorus… then it had the killer 'Oh yeah!' — audience participation."
George Harrison says: "We had to learn millions of songs. We had to play so long we just played everything — Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino — everything. Hamburg was really our apprenticeship, learning how to play in front of people."
Ringo Starr, who met the others in Hamburg while playing drums in Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, says: "This was the point in our lives when we found pills, uppers. That's the only way we could continue playing for so long. We'd get really wired and go on for days. So with beer and Preludin, that's how we survived."
Brian Epstein: local businessman who became The Beatles' manager
When they signed with EMI their average age was 20. The band calling itself The Beatles had played 250 gigs in Hamburg, and averaging their Cavern appearances over the year and a half before signing suggests they played 206 gigs there.
So in addition to many other local dates, it took The Beatles at least 456 live gigs to clinch their future as the most commercially successful group in pop. In the UK The Beatles have had more number one albums than any other musical act, and in the US they top Billboard magazine's list of the all-time top-selling Hot 100 artists.
Four hundred and fifty-six live gigs! And in 1980, when Spandau Ballet signed to Chrysalis just less than a year after assuming their New Romantic identity, they had given — as part of a cunningly formulated plan — exactly 18 live performances (six in the UK plus 12 in St Tropez on-stage nightly). Whatever this says, it's a measure of how effective mass communications had become during the intervening two decades. And what an exhilarating hurricane they swept before them as the 80s turned into the second great era of British pop.
† LITTLE-KNOWN FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY
❚ THE 1999 PHOTO-BOOK HAMBURG DAYS — a limited edition box-set by Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann — reveals that the early Beatles lineup (with Pete Best as drummer but without Stuart Sutcliffe who had left the band) had signed their first recording contract in 1961 with Bert Kaempfert, the German Polydor agent who also ran a celebrated light orchestra.
Hamburg Days: the cover shot
He had hired The Beatles to play under the pseudonym The Beat Brothers to back singer Tony Sheridan, with whom they'd often jammed at The Indra club. On June 22 1961 at the Friedrich Ebert Halle — seen in the slideshow (above) of wonderful early Silver Beatles photos — they all recorded the Sheridan single My Bonnie, which effectively became the band's first commercial recording when it was released in October 1961 and reached No 5 in the hit parade.
It has become part of Beatles folklore that it was a Sheridan fan called Raymond Jones who brought the band to Brian Epstein's attention that November by asking for My Bonnie in the record-shop Epstein ran in Liverpool. What Kirchherr and Voorman reveal, contrary to most accounts, is that it was not until May 25 1962 while the band was engaged at the Star Club in Hamburg that Epstein finally persuaded Kaempfert to release The Beatles from his contract with them, effective from June 1. (Only after The Beatles auditioned for George Martin at Abbey Road on June 6 was an EMI deal confirmed.) The Kaempfert contract actually had a further year to run until July 1963. Imagine how mad he must have been when 1963 came round and The Beatles notched those four No 1 hits in a row.
VERDICT OF HISTORY
The late Charlie Gillett, in his consummate history of rock, The Sound of the City (1970), passes this judgement on the Fab Four: "Musically, The Beatles were exciting, inventive and competent; lyrically, they were brilliant, able to work in precisely the right kind of simple images and memorable phrases that distinguished rhythm and blues from other kinds of popular music… But there was something else about them, and it was this that transformed the nature of the world's popular music as decisively as rock'n'roll had done nine years before — their character as people."
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Dr. Mark Flanigan Back on the Tennis Court After Robotic-Assisted Knee Replacement
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Recently retired family physician of 40 years Dr. Mark Flanigan enjoys traveling with wife, Nancy. The couple are pictured off the coast of Maine.
Dr. Mark Flanigan has summited all of Colorado's 58 14,000-foot peaks, plus other mountains, too. In June 2020, he climbed 12,504-foot Mt. Ptarmigan. On the way down, he realized he might need to do something about his knees. "Going up was not so difficult, but it took me forever to get down," says the recently retired physician. "You need your knees when you descend."
The family physician of 40 years is also an avid tennis player. A couple of years ago, he began experiencing pain on the inside of his left knee. His stride became titled, and he had to drag his left leg while playing tennis. He could no longer jump up when serving. Upon examination by orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist Dr. Oscar Noel, he learned that he had bone-on-bone osteoarthritis on the inside of his left knee.
"Dr. Noel said that I most likely damaged the cartilage or meniscus in my left knee when I slid into second base while playing baseball," he says. "The degeneration process probably began then and has progressed during the past 40 years."
Starting With Conservative Treatment
Dr. Noel initially recommended conservative treatment for Dr. Flanigan's condition, prescribing a custom brace, injections and physical therapy. As a result, Dr. Flanigan experienced less pain and could still play tennis, but not as competitively as he had previously. In early 2021, a man who had had a knee replacement soundly beat him during a few matches. At that point, he decided to explore a total knee replacement.
Benefits of the ROSA Robot for Total Knee Replacements
Dr. Flanigan returned to Dr. Noel. "He performs knee replacements using the ROSA robot to ensure perfect placement and balance of the knee implant," says Dr. Flanigan. "The robot shows where the holes need to go and exactly where to drill and cut according to Dr. Noel's plan."
Dr. Flanigan also learned that Dr. Noel uses non-cemented implants for the new knee in appropriate situations. Because they are porous, bone can grow onto them. "With most early knee replacements, they put a spike down your tibia and femur," says Dr. Flanigan. "But if you have good healthy bones, the porous-coated posts are a better choice because they save your bone marrow."
Dr. Flanigan underwent a knee replacement by Dr. Noel on February 17, 2021, at North Suburban Medical Center. He chose local and spinal anesthesia, remaining awake during the procedure. "I'm pretty tough, and it's better to go with local anesthesia as it eliminates the recovery time from anesthesia."
He stayed one night at the hospital as his surgery was late in the afternoon. A physical therapist came the next day to educate him on post-surgical recovery and therapy. "Being a doctor, I already knew how to rehab. The key is to move the knee to the point of pain, then stop, ice it and do it again in six hours," he says.
Back to Playing Tennis Again
In June, just four months after surgery, Dr. Flanigan began playing doubles tennis again. "Now, I don't even feel the implant," says Dr. Flanigan. "My knee does not hurt anymore, and I feel like I could climb any mountain. Last night, I played three sets of tennis at a club in Greeley, and I'm getting my power serve back, too."
Dr. Noel advised against playing singles tennis due to the additional running on the new knee, but Dr. Flanigan admits that he will likely play some singles matches despite his surgeon's advice.
Overall, Dr. Flanigan is very satisfied with his new knee. "Dr. Noel did a great job," says Dr. Flanigan. "He could not have done better. He is very good at what he does."
To determine if you are a candidate for robot-assisted knee surgery, call 303-287-2800 to schedule a consultation with Dr. Oscar Noel.
Below, Dr. Flanigan describes his experience with Dr. Oscar Noel, performing his robotically-assisted knee replacement:
For more information about total knee replacement with the ROSA robot, click here!
Editor's Note: On November 12, Dr. Flanigan underwent minimally invasive carpal tunnel surgery on his right wrist by Dr. Noel. He reported that his hand felt better immediately after the procedure, and he did not require any medication.
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Big philanthropists flock to D.C.'s Bridge Park project to battle gentrification
By Jonathan O'Connell
The proposed 11th Street Bridge Park that would cross the Anacostia River continues to inspire big-name philanthropists to write big checks to revitalize some of the District's poorest neighborhoods and help low-income residents prepare should an economic turnaround arrive.
The latest is JPMorgan Chase. Over the next three years, the financial giant agreed to donate $10 million in Wards 7 and 8 of the District, including $5 million to preserve affordable housing for low-income residents as part of a proposal established by the Southeast D.C. nonprofit organization planning the park, Building Bridges Across the River.
Sometimes likened to New York City's High Line public park, the Bridge Park calls for a public plaza, amphitheater, environmental education center and other amenities to be built along a 1.45-mile stretch of bridge atop four piers that once supported the 11th Street Bridge. It would connect Anacostia, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city, with the much more affluent neighborhoods in and around Capitol Hill.
Construction is projected to cost between $50 million and $55 million, about $25 million of which has already been raised. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2019.
Organizers are already concerned that the park project will drive up rents and property values to the degree that low- and moderate-income residents of the area will be forced out once the park opens, similar to what has happened when new development arrived in other parts of the city in recent years.
From the start, the project's organizers have enlisted community members and housing experts to determine how to prepare low-income and mostly minority residents to prepare themselves for a possible economic turnaround. For instance, a home buyer's club created by park organizers has already set 53 Ward 8 homeowners on the path to buying their own homes, according to Scott Kratz of Building Bridges Across the River. And the Anacostia neighborhood will see its first community land trust, a nonprofit organization that uses private and public money to create permanently affordable housing in an area with rising property values.
[Can D.C. build a $45 million park for Anacostia without pushing people out?]
That larger mission has attracted big-name philanthropists from across the country interested in battling poverty and inequality, among them the Kresge Foundation of Michigan, the JPB Foundation of New York and the Horning Family Fund of D.C.
Last year, the Local Initiatives Support Corp., a nonprofit organization with offices in 31 locations around the country, announced that it would invest $50 million in neighborhoods near the park site to support affordable housing, early-childhood education and other services. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), in announcing her bid for reelection last week, emphasized the need to spread the city's growing prosperity to a larger swath of the population.
JPMorgan typically donates $700,000 to $800,000 annually in the District. It is upping the ante in part because the firm sees problems — inequality and displacement — that are likely to worsen and an opportunity — the Bridge Park — it considers "a genuine opportunity to make a difference," said Peter Scher, the firm's chairman for the D.C. region.
"A lot of cities you go into and everyone is moving in 100 different directions. The nonprofit community is not aligned with the business community and the nonprofit community is not aligned with itself," Scher said. When it comes to housing costs in neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River, he said, "in most cities they are waiting until after people have been displaced. Here we are seeing an opportunity to get in relatively early."
Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan chairman and chief executive, said in a statement the firm was investing in Washington "because we see local leaders working together and innovating to make opportunity available to all Washingtonians no matter the neighborhood they live in."
[Nonprofit commits $50 million to prevent gentrification east of the Anacostia River]
JPMorgan has been targeting its philanthropy toward cities, said Scher, who is also global head of corporate responsibility. He said that since 2012 the company had begun targeting its philanthropy toward job training, minority-owned small businesses, neighborhood revitalization and financial education. A few years ago, JPMorgan made a $100 million, five-year commitment to Detroit and announced Sept. 14 that it would donate $40 million to underserved neighborhoods in the South and West sides of Chicago.
The Bridge Park project is one of just four winners this year of a JPMorgan competition for the best ideas from community-based groups for revitalizing neighborhoods. Of the $5 million, $3 million will go toward a community land trust, $1 million toward support for neighborhood businesses and the remainder for construction-skills training and program evaluation.
"We can use this investment to test, pilot and evaluate some of our economic strategies to make sure local residents can remain in place," Kratz said. "They see the ability to pilot some of this work and, as we're successful, scale it" in other areas of the country.


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Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby.
The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adrienne's retreat from life and her attempt to return to it.
Her sharp scepticism about the people around her is achingly funny. Yet beyond derision there is forgiveness and something along the lines of love.


NEW YORK (AP) � Matthew Stafford�s mission is daunting: Lead the Detroit Lions back from the only 0-16 season in NFL history. Mark Sanchez has nearly as big a challenge: He�ll compete to replace Brett Favre.
The Lions found the centerpiece for one of the biggest rebuilding jobs in league history by taking Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford with the top overall selection yesterday. Detroit already had signed the 21-year-old Stafford to a six-year deal with $41.7 million in guarantees and a maximum value of $78 million.
Then the New York Jets rocked Radio City Music Hall by trading with Cleveland � and of all people, Eric Mangini, whom they fired as coach in January � for the fifth overall spot. The Jets took the other premier quarterback in the draft, Sanchez of Southern California.
Oddly, both drew plenty of boos and chants of �OVERRATED� to go with the many cheers.
�Now, it�s up to us to develop him and get good players around him,� Detroit General Manager Martin Mayhew said.
Sanchez started for just one season at USC, leading the Trojans to a 12-1 record and a Rose Bowl victory. He will now compete for the job of replacing Favre as the Jets� QB.
�With Mark, I think he�s a special guy,� Jets Coach Rex Ryan said.
Kansas City, like St. Louis, used nearly all 10 of its minutes seeking a trade before selecting LSU defensive end Tyson Jackson. He will join college teammate Glenn Dorsey on the Chiefs� defensive line.
Another tackle, Virginia�s Eugene Monroe, went eighth overall to Jacksonville, one spot after Oakland � no surprise here � was seduced by the speed of Maryland�s Darrius Heyward-Bey. The Raiders grabbed the player who had the fastest 40-yard time in workouts, even though many projected him to go far later.
Boston College defensive tackle B.J. Raji to Green Bay and Texas Tech�s Michael Crabtree, the highest-rated receiver before the draft, to San Francisco, rounded out the top 10.
Missouri wide receiver Jeremy Maclin went 19th to the Philadelphia Eagles, who traded their first pick and a sixth-rounder to the Cleveland Browns to move up two spots. Missouri defensive lineman Ziggy Hood went to the Pittsburgh Steelers with the final pick of the first round.


Rachel Ligon graduated from Seton Hill in 2017 with a double major in Social Work and Spanish. After studying abroad in Chile her senior year, she completed her 500-hour Social Work field placement internship at Casa San José, a resource center located outside of Pittsburgh for Latino immigrants. Rachel worked alongside her supervisor, Sister Janice, to assist immigrants who were living in Westmoreland County. She conducted several interviews with the immigrants as well as with social service professionals in the area. After translating the interviews from Spanish to English, she conducted qualitative analyses in order to identify reappearing themes within the interviews. Some common themes she discovered throughout the interviews were the desire for more education, more financial success, and the fear of deportation. By conducting these analyses, Rachel was able to devise possible services that the immigrants would benefit from, such as interpretation services or connections to community resources.
Rachel says she is thankful for her experience at Seton Hill and the Social Work Program. She insists she could not have completed this project without the help of her advisor, Dr. Droppa: "I think I can speak for everyone who has gone through the Social Work program at Seton Hill in saying that Dr. Droppa is such an uplifting force in so many people's lives. He was one of the main reasons I achieved so much during my time at Seton Hill. He believes in his students and pushes you to achieve more than you thought possible."
Rachel is currently living in Tempe, Arizona, where she is working with older adults as a caregiver. "Completing this study was such an awesome experience," Rachel recalls.
"My experiences have helped me so much, especially in this part of the country where there is a high Latino population. Most of the clients I work with are Latino, so it's so awesome to be able to understand their culture and connect with them through their native language. No matter where I end up in life, I know that I will always take these experiences with me and will be a social worker at heart."
Learn more about Seton Hill University's Social Work and Spanish Programs.


Your school uniform is more than clothing that your students wear to school. It represents your school, its values, and reputation. So, you need to take the utmost care in designing the school uniform. Plus, you should get the best school uniform manufacturers in Hyderabad to professionally produce the uniform for your school.
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There's no need to leave the house with whiskers.
It's not uncommon to catch a stray hair sprouting from your chin. Even a cluster of chin hairs is normal. But if you'd rather remove them, you can easily wax your chin hair at home so you can save the time and money you would've spent at a salon or spa. And if you wax correctly, you can be fuzz-free for weeks at a time.
A cream waxing kit allows you to heat the wax up and apply it directly onto the skin before pulling it off with a muslin cloth.
Compared to pre-waxed strips and hard wax, this is often the most thorough waxing method and the easiest to get right.
In order for the wax to grab on to the hairs, your chin hair needs to be at least a quarter of an inch long. Now, this is pretty long for a strand of hair on your face, so if you'd rather not wait for it to grow out, you can always pluck in with a pair of tweezers. But if it's long enough, then you can wax everything pretty quickly.
Make sure to pull your hair back after from your face so it doesn't get in the way of the wax. Wash your hands and cleanse your skin with pre-wax cleanser to make sure all of your makeup and natural oils are cleared before starting. Pat it dry before applying the wax.
Make sure you're standing or sitting in front of a large mirror (not hand-held) so you can see clearly. Then test the temperature of the melted wax on your wrist before applying it to your face.
It should be warm, not hot, and have the consistency of peanut butter. If it's too thick, let it get warmer and if it's too thin, let it cool down.
Apply the melted wax evenly in the direction of hair growth in small sections using a wooden applicator. Be careful! You want to apply enough wax to thoroughly coat the hairs, but not so much that it becomes too thick to remove.
Since your chin is curved, wax the underneath and top of the chin in different sections to remove the most hair.
Once the wax is applied, cover it with with a muslin strip. Apply the strip in the direction of hair growth, leaving a bit of leftover strip at the end like a tab. Firmly smooth the strip over the wax in the direction of the hair growth a few times. Wait until the wax has cooled.
Grab onto the end of the strip. Hold skin taut with one hand, and remove the strip in the opposite direction of hair growth with one quick pull, all the way to the other side. Don't pull up, which might be your natural inclination. Once the strip is removed, press your hand down on your skin to help relieve some of the pain. If a little bit of wax with hair remains, simply place the strip back on the hair and pull it off again.
Repeat these steps in sections until you have removed all of the unwanted hair. But don't apply wax over the same area twice or you can burn or severely irritate your skin.
If you have any stray hairs remaining, use a pair of tweezers to pluck them out. Then clear away any remaining wax with wax remover or baby oil. Finish up by soothing your skin and getting rid of redness with an aloe gel.


Two objects in the collection of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library - a postcard and a photograph - give us a sense of what the headquarters of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction looked like for nearly half of the twentieth century.
In the early years of the twentieth century, the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, although officially headquartered in Boston (known within the Scottish Rite as its "Grand East"), still maintained a presence in New York City, where its Grand Secretary General continued administrative tasks, while the organization's archives were located at the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. At the Supreme Council's annual meeting in September 1926, then-Sovereign Grand Commander Leon M. Abbott (1867–1932) announced that the lease for the premises at 299 Broadway in New York City, used by the Grand Secretary General, was coming up for renewal on May 1, 1927, and that "it will become necessary to take some action at this annual meeting, looking to the renewal of the lease or the securing of other quarters." Present at that annual meeting was a man named Ellsworth M. Statler (1863-1928) - one of America's great hoteliers and a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason.
Statler urged the Supreme Council to lease space in his office building and, to further encourage them, offered that the Supreme Council "name its own terms." The lease began on May 1, 1927, for 3,090 square feet in rooms 1117 through 1124 on the eleventh floor. The new space in the Statler Building allowed the Supreme Council to consolidate its administrative offices and archives into one space. Yet it wasn't just office space that the Supreme Council occupied. As the photo above shows, one room was fitted up as a Supreme Council chamber.
By 1967, the Supreme Council was starting to outgrow its space in the Statler Building. That year they acquired 2,200 more square feet on the eleventh floor of the Statler Building, for a total of almost 5,000 square feet. In addition, they appointed a special committee to start investigating the possibilities of securing "a building of our own to be located in the Boston area." After forty years of being headquartered in the heart of Boston, the Supreme Council relocated a few miles west, to the town of Lexington. But that's a story for another day.
Postcard of Hotel Statler and Statler Building, Boston, Massachusetts, ca.1930. Tichnor Bros., publisher, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Museum purchase. A2012/37/1.
Supreme Council Meeting Room, Statler Building, 1927-1960. Atlantic Foto Service, Boston, MA. Gift of the Estate of James Farr, 94.040.2. Photograph by David Bohl.
Abstract of Proceedings of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Thirty-third and Last Degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America. [Boston: Supreme Council, 33°, N.M.J., 1926], 51.
Abstract of Proceedings of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Thirty-third and Last Degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America. [Boston: Supreme Council, 33°, N.M.J., 1967], 61-62.
George Adelbert Newbury and Louis Lenway Williams. A History of the Supreme Council, 33° of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America. (Lexington, MA: Supreme Council, A.A.S.R., N.M.J, 1987), 203-4.