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West 108th Housing Critics Release Impact Study
The Manhattan Express
BY JACKSON CHEN
A group opposed to adding an affordable housing development to an existing transitional homeless shelter on West 108th Street has released an environmental study of adverse impacts it says the project would bring.
Save Manhattan Valley (SMV) maintains that the proposal for 250 units of affordable housing and an increase to 110 transitional homeless shelter beds would be detrimental to the neighborhood. The project's sponsor, the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing (WSFSSH), a non-profit group, currently operates 92 transitional beds at the site at 149 West 108th Street.
To facilitate the project, WSFSSH needs to demolish three adjacent city-owned garages to make space for their development. While SMV claims that many have boiled down the issue to "people versus parking," the group argues that much more is at risk, including the community's quality of life and the safety of those nearby. In response to WSFSSH's plans, SMV retained Michael Hiller, an attorney known for representing residential opposition to major developments, who in turn hired GHD Services, an engineering and environmental consulting firm.
GHD completed an environmental study in February and presented its results to SMV in March. The study outlined a number of potential hazards the project could create, including an increased risk of traffic accidents, the release of hazardous materials, and shadow impacts on nearby parks.
According to the study, there are risks that lead, asbestos, and gasoline from storage tanks beneath the existing garages could be released as part of the construction. If the development is completed as is proposed, the study asserted, the reduction of parking spaces would cause more gas emissions and a higher risk for traffic accidents due to more vehicles circling the block.
"If the city is doing its job, this environmental assessment leaves no doubt that the project must be stopped," Hiller said. "But that assumes the city is acting as an honest and equitable decision maker."
Meryl Zegarek, a founding member of Save Manhattan Valley, is hoping the environmental study will prompt the city to seriously consider their concerns.
"We're hoping that it'll start a discussion about it," Zegarek said of the study. "I think people in the neighborhood have a right to know what's going on and have a right to know what's in the building."
Hiller circulated the study to many elected officials, including City Councilmember Mark Levine, who contacted Mayor Bill de Blasio's office about the project on March 21. According to documents received by Manhattan Express, Levine's email stated he received the environmental study as well as a petition with a large number of signatures and supported the group's request to meet with the mayor to discuss alternatives.
SMV emphasized that the group has identified 10 alternate project sites throughout the five boroughs that would suit WSFSSH's needs, including a relatively nearby site at the soon to be emptied P.S. 191 campus at 210 West 61st Street.
"If this project can't be done so it's safe, and the height of the building can't be brought down, and the garage spaces can't be replaced," Zegarek said, "maybe this just isn't the right space for it."
According to WSFSSH's executive director, Paul Freitag, the organization is currently working with the city's Housing Preservation and Development on the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. Freitag noted that process would include an environmental review and offer opportunities for public input later in the spring.
"We are proud to count almost 20 neighborhood community organizations and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer as supporters not only of WSFSSH at West 108, but the idea that permanently affordable housing and resources for vulnerable seniors and families are a necessary component of our neighborhood and city," Freitag said in a written statement.
The mayor's office did not respond to a request for comment on Levine's email seeking a meeting.
West Side Rag
A plan to build an expanded affordable housing complex at 149 West 108th street is drawing protests from local residents, who say the neighborhood already has enough affordable housing, and the new building would be too tall.
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The West Side Spirit
BY SILAS WHITE
PUBLISHED JUN 29, 2016 AT 11:00 AM (UPDATED JUL 1, 2016)
Plans for an 11-story building on 108th Street run up against concerns about hundreds of lost parking spaces.
This story has been corrected to reflect that a Community Board 7 committee has not yet voted on an affordable housing project proposed for West 108th Street.
A plan to expand affordable housing on 149 West 108th Street has been met with complaints from the community, who claim that the area already has enough affordable housing and that the building violates zoning laws.
The proposal by West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing includes 193 units, and would reach a height of 11 stories, despite a zoning law that restricts building height to seven stories. The plans involve demolishing Valley Lodge, the supportive housing unit WSFSSH already manages at that property, and the destruction of three garages with 675 parking spaces.
Save Manhattan Valley, a coalition formed to protest the plans, have listed several concerns about the project, including the zoning issue, the destruction of the parking garages, and the concern that the noise and possible hazards from construction could be disruptive or harmful to the nearby school, Booker T. Washington Middle School.
Glory Ann Kerstein, a founding member of Save Manhattan Valley, said the parking spaces are used by St. Luke's Hospital Workers, the Central Park Medical team, and Columbia University staff and visitors.
"This was done without the community," said Kerstein.
In an email, she added, "As such, the city of New York and WSFSSH remain unaware of the consequences for the community. Talk with us. Collaborate with us. The community board strives to provide a forum for public input but that cannot substitute for true negotiations with HPD and WSFSSH at a sit down meeting."
According to Paul Freitag, executive director of WSFSSH, his team has been meeting with different community groups for a couple years, with the most recent push coming last fall.
"We've met with (Save Manhattan Valley) three times in a series of private meetings, in addition to community board meetings." said Freitag, "All of the three meetings we've had so far have been about information, no action has been taken."
Meryl Zegarek, also a founder of Save Manhattan Valley, described the community as generally accepting. "It's greatly upsetting when people refer to the issue as affordable housing vs. people," she said.
In a subsequent email, Zegarek said, "This is poorly planned development vs. people. A lot of older people use those parking spaces. We've walked around and talked to a lot of shop owners who need their cars, a lot of the workers at St. Luke's work odd hours and need a car."
Their other chief concern is the building's height, which Kerstein said would tower over other buildings in the area and could raise heating bills for buildings caught in the new building's shadow. "Imagine 11 stories, you're not going to be able to see the sun over there," she said.
Zegarek and Kerstein said that many of the people who use the parking garages need their cars, and the destruction of the garages would take away from one community to give to another. "I just can't imagine what the city was thinking." Kerstein said, "They're going to vaporize parking for 800 people. Is that good planning? Not for our community use."
The number of parking spaces that will be destroyed seems to be a source of contention. Save Manhattan Valley says that 800 spaces will be destroyed, while WSFSSH says the number is 675.
The current senior shelter at Valley Lodge has about 92 beds. WSFSSH wants to expand that to 110 beds, in addition to 193 additional units of affordable housing. This would be accomplished in part by the 11-story building, which was met favorably by the committee despite the fact that the building violating existing zoning laws, which Freitag said was because of the "overwhelming need for supportive housing." An official vote has not taken place however.
Community Board 7 also requested in an open letter to WSFSSH that they "incorporate sufficient data and analysis on how such loss of parking would impact the immediate neighborhood." WSFSSH did prepare an initial parking study, but the board deemed it inadequate, calling the scope of the study "narrow," and citing an "obvious absence of any statistics as to the number of available (i.e. unrented) spaces in the neighborhood." The board's letter also raised questions about environmental impact, the fair share of distribution of social services (Manhattan Valley is home to roughly 50 percent of Manhattans affordable housing already), and environmental impact, echoing the concerns of Save Manhattan Valley.
Freitag said that WSFSSH is not opposed to putting parking underneath the new building, but he noted that the underlying bedrock is quite high, which would result in a costly excavation. In response to the complaint that the Central Park Medical team will not have a place to park, WSFSSH has modified its design to allow three Central Park ambulances to be stored in the building. "Were somebody to generate a viable proposal for putting parking in the building, we would be open to that," said Freitag.
As for the issue of construction within close proximity to a school, Freitag said the construction would be in compliance with Bill 420, a still-unpassed bill proposed by District 7 Councilman Mark Levine that requires construction be kept at least 75 feet away from a school. "I think the two issues that are often raised are environmental contamination and noise. We would work with our consultants to make sure everything was state of the art to make sure there was no spreading of anything that could in any way be harmful to the school," he said.
Freitag also said they would be willing to accommodate and work with the school to figure out what hours would work best, such as avoiding construction during testing hours.
West 108th Street Housing Developer Gives Some, But Opponents Remain
The Upper West Side nonprofit organization looking to create an affordable housing complex out of its current homeless shelter will hold off on 60 units of senior housing for several years to preserve parking desired by the local community.
West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing's plans involve the demolition of its current Valley Lodge shelter facility at 149 West 108th Street, which contains 92 transitional beds, and three neighboring city-owned garages to make way for an affordable housing complex of about 250 units and 110 transitional beds.
Opponents of the plan charged that loss of the garages would eliminate 675 parking spaces from a neighborhood where parking is already tight. In response, the nonprofit recently updated its plans to allow the easternmost garage with about 125 parking spaces to be maintained for five years beyond the start of construction.
According to Paul Freitag, WSFSSH's executive director, the organization is hoping to begin construction next summer and once the five years are up, the decision falls on the city to figure out the disposition of the parking garage left intact.
Freitag explained that in preserving the garage, a portion of the affordable housing complex that would serve roughly 60 senior citizens would be delayed pending the city's decision at that future date.
WSFSSH is also looking into the costly option of below-grade parking and has provided the operator of the existing garages with all the preliminary information necessary. Freitag said his organization hasn't yet heard back from the operator.
Concerns raised at Community Board 7 meetings earlier this year also involved the volunteer Central Park Medical Unit, which stores four ambulances in the garages at no cost and would be displaced by the WSFSSH development.
Once the nonprofit organization was made aware of that situation, it reached out to the ambulance unit. Freitag said that the new complex would dedicate a garage for three of the CPMU vehicles and facility space for any courses or programs the ambulance corps conducts.
While the volunteer EMTs are amenable to WSFSSH's proposal, the unit's president, Rafael Castellanos, expressed uncertainty about the housing development's future given the range of concerns raised during community board meetings.
"If this goes through, we'll be taken care of, which is very nice," Castellanos said. "How long it will take to go through, will it go through, we just don't know."
An opposition group, Save Manhattan Valley, has voiced more than just skepticism and is outright calling for a relocation of the development.
"We are hoping to stop a poorly conceived plan," Meryl Zegarek, a founding member of Save Manhattan Valley, said. "We don't know of any other time that WSFSSH and the city have removed a valuable community resource from one segment of the population to aid another segment."
Zegarek and Glory Ann Kerstein, another founding member of the group, argued that the Manhattan Valley neighborhood already hosts 40 percent of the Upper West Side's affordable housing units, more than its fair share.
The group also argues that the loss of parking would lead to more circling cars and add to the area's traffic, air pollution, and safety risks. To alleviate their concerns, Kerstein said her group would like to see more traffic studies done in collaboration with the Department of Transportation as well as an environmental review to gauge how construction would affect the surrounding neighborhood, including M.S. 54, located at the corner of West 108th Street and Columbus Avenue.
And after being told that WSFSSH was "not willing to negotiate" during one of their meetings, Kerstein said that Save Manhattan Valley is formalizing a petition and will be seeking signatures soon.
"Effectively, the community's voice in this poorly conceived project is being ignored," Kerstein said.
Freitag, however, contended that in declining to negotiate with Save Manhattan Valley, WSFSSH was simply expressing the goal of engaging the entire community rather than a single opposing group. He said that WSFSSH's traffic analysts have been working to address questions raised by the community and that an environmental review would be conducted as part of the group's zoning application.
"We're trying to be transparent by including all community groups and the community board," Freitag said. "We're trying to have this happen in a context that includes all members of the Upper West Side."
Opposition to West 108th Street Development Escalates
JACKSON CHEN | Via: Manhattan Express
Opponents of a nonprofit organization's plans to create an affordable housing complex on West 108th Street have stepped up their efforts with their release of an online petition and by retaining an attorney.
Save Manhattan Valley was formed to counter the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing's proposal for its Valley Lodge location at 149 West 108th Street. According to WSFSSH's plans, it would demolish its current transitional homeless shelter there as well as three neighboring city-owned garages in order to construct a seven-to-11-story complex of about 250 affordable housing units and 110 transitional beds.
However, the Save Manhattan Valley activists argue that the removal of the parking garages and the construction to follow would lead to significant adverse effects on the surrounding neighborhood. Even after WSFSSH announced in June that it would allow the easternmost garage of about 125 spaces to be maintained for five years beyond the start of construction — to address concerns about the loss of neighborhood parking — the opposition is still not satisfied.
"There's a pattern here," Glory Ann Kerstein, a founding member of Save Manhattan Valley, said. "Things are being thrust upon local communities without the city assessing or studying the consequences."
Save Manhattan Valley has consistently raised concerns about more traffic congestion and idling cars as hundreds of garage spaces are removed. There are also worries about environmental hazards and the bypassing of zoning regulations in the neighborhood related to the construction of the new housing.
To bolster its efforts, the opposition group has begun circulating its petition online on its new website at savemanhattanvalley.org. To date, the group has gotten 600 signatures by canvassing the neighborhood with paper copies of the petition. With the help of an online social media presence, Kerstein said Save Manhattan Valley is aiming for a total of up to 2,000 signatures that it hopes will grab the attention of local politicians.
The group has also retained Michael Hiller, an attorney with a history of fighting against developments that communities consider unfair. While Save Manhattan Valley has raised the seed money to hire Hiller, it is looking for donations totaling $50,000, a cost the opponents said they estimated based on the legal costs of other land use battles.
"He'll take on a case if he feels it's deserved," Kerstein said of Hiller. "He's against poorly planned developments, and that's our issue."
Save Manhattan Valley? What's Dat?
By: Bill Murawski | Via: Dewitt Clinton Express
As my office is the street, I come across situations just by being in the right place at the right time. This time I learned about another issue regarding what is known as an Urban Renewal Project, in a little known area named Manhattan Valley in the 7th City Council District. The City Council website indicates that "Mark Levine is a New York City Councilmember representing the 7th District in Northern Manhattan" but says nothing about Manhattan Valley . . . but of course not, because the age old and successful military strategy of divide and conquer is being used to divide the district into small little pockets for the politicians own agendas. During the gentrification of Hell's Kitchen by Tom Duane and Christine Quinn, the real estate developers tried to rename the neighborhood "Clinton" to make it more desirable for people with money to rent there as Chelsea was outpriced. They also tried to name parts of the neighborhood "Northern Chelsea" and "Midtown West", but nothing they tried worked. The evidence is clear because if you walk the neighborhood, most if not all, restaurants proudly display the name Hell's Kitchen. Those living in City Council District 7 should consider referring to the district as Washington Heights for a number of reasons, especially since Councilmember Mark Levine is permitted by law to select community board members not only for Manhattan Community Board 7 but for Manhattan Community Board 12, too, which includes Inwood.
The rezoning of Inwood that the politicians are beginning with 4650 Broadway includes eliminating hundreds of parking spots. If you have ever tried to park in Inwood, it is already nearly impossible. The same is happening in Manhattan Valley, where three parking garages with 675 parking spaces are at risk of being eliminated as a result of the area becoming part of the Urban Renewal Project for Cathedral Parkway that was established by the City of New York in 1969. But that was then and this is now. With the obvious increase of homelessness now in full view of the public in the borough of Manhattan, sympathies can go out to the proposed affordable housing development by the Westside Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing Group* that would create 280 units of permanent housing and 110 transitional units. However, it would eliminate three parking structures that provide 675 spaces. What about the residents who park their vehicles at these garages, who need them to get to work across the five boroughs and in New Jersey and Connecticut. Where will they be able to park? Would they have to move to another area of the city or out of the city altogether? Or replace the jobs that currently let them support their families and pay taxes? What happened to the concept of securing Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for those residents? And where would the all-volunteer Central Park Medical Unit park its ambulances, which serve Central Park and surrounding areas and do not fit in most garages? It certainly seems to me that the politicians are misguided in their efforts, focusing narrowly on "affordable housing", and not seeing the big picture.
When Mayor Bloomberg wanted to institute congestion pricing in New York City, a proposed traffic congestion fee for vehicles traveling into or within the Manhattan central business district of New York City, it failed in Albany and soon thereafter, bicycle lanes and paths and Citi- Bike stations began popping up everywhere, the first ones in Hell's Kitchen. With the possible elimination of parking spots in both Inwood and Manhattan Valley, it certainly appears that the De Blasio administration is gearing more and more towards the institution of Bloomberg's congestion pricing fee. And it is using the issue of the lack of affordable housing to assist in its efforts to push through its agenda.; Instead of pushing for more "affordable" housing in the city, why increase the population of a city that is already difficult to manage? Why not address the issues for the population that already exists?
It is therefore strongly suggested that the residents of Inwood and Manhattan Valley band together and fight the politicos together. Read Politicians Planned for Bicycles in HK below. *The West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing (WSFSSH) wants to expand its Valley Lodge location, which will include a mix of studios and one and two-bedroom apartments, but also include room to grow the exiting stock of 92 transitional beds by 18. Valley Lodge is located at 149 West 108th Street and currently functions as a transitional shelter serving that portion of the homeless population aged 50 or older.


Doxxing Games in DC – Did Maxine Waters Staffer Release Senators' Information?
Home » Doxxing Games in DC – Did Maxine Waters Staffer Release Senators' Information?
Doxxing is the practice of releasing personal information on people: address, phone number, etc. Just after Christine Ford was questioned at the Kavanaugh Senate Hearings, someone modified Wikipedia information to include the personal addresses of Senators Mike Lee, Orrin Hatch, and Lindsey Graham. Now, a couple of Conservative outlets mentioned that the IP address of the computer that edited their information may have come from Maxine Waters' office.
Cue the outrage: Waters is throwing a fit. She called the accusation against her staffer a "conspiracy theory being pedaled by ultra-right wing pundits." But… but… but Maxine, you told your followers to do things like that.
A bot that monitors changes in that information (and tweets it) revealed that whoever changed it was at the House of Representatives. Wikipedia removed the information. Waters contended that her IT person said it was not her staffer.
The Gateway Pundit reported that the staffer from Water's office COULD HAVE BEEN Kathleen Sengstock but could not verify that it was actually her. It is unlikely that the perpetrator will be caught simply because the editing was done anonymously. But if you base things from the way it went at the Kavanaugh hearings, verification means absolutely nothing. You are now guilty until proven innocent.
The phone numbers released on each Senator were not particualrly accurate for the most part. The number listed for Lindsey Graham came back to "Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group." Fox stated that they didn't get many phone calls. Some liberal with a twisted sense of humor?
Maxine is having a problem with all of this because she's the one who basically told her followers to harass Trump supporters and members of his cabinet. She apparently doesn't like being the victim of her own ideas.
She also said that Brett Kavanaugh shouldn't be a member of the Supreme Court because he got angry during the hearings. So Ari Fleischer reminded her of her own words.


@Mj_206 So that is what happens when people hold you accountable. You block them.
No, @OfferUp321 - I block people that repeatedly break our Community Guidelines, even after several public warnings. I've told you all several times that I am NOT a payments specialist, and have given all of you the information needed to contact the correct team.
I will also continue removing posts that are off topic... Please - if you have shipping issues, reach out to the proper team. I can't help.
I don't think I'm being uncivil. I was trying to be as neutral and unbiased and give a very fair review of my experience with OfferUp so far. Their marketplace system and messaging system are great. I still continue to use them. My only qualms are the lack of a proper support team, offerup's unapologetic attitude, and their speed at which they resolve serious payment issues across many users. I'm just trying to warn other users of the bad experience I had with the shipping feature. How is that not a fair thing to say? If I've made any false assumptions you may correct them but what I've said is what I've been through so far with OfferUp.
Hey there, @esc2010 - your posts are for the most part fine aside from assuming other community members are OfferUp staff and that post was pretty uncivil.
Look - I'm here to make sure everyone stays on topic and follows our rules. That is all.
@esc2010 Stripe is a billion dollar cc payment processing company, when claims are filed the protection process is with Stripe, Offerup has to contact them to process claims and figure out problems and Stripe is in no hurry to resolve anything. I've had to deal with Stripe several times because they were my cc processing company on my old website and I had several fraud transactions that took me forever to resolve so I do understand your frustration.
That's true. That's not a fair assumption. I just don't understand why so many people are willing to spend all day defending OfferUp when they've obviously made a huge mistake unless it was their day jobs. It feels a lot like the responses I get from their actual support team. Just the same "someone is working on it please wait" that I've heard so many times before. It'd be nice to have a case number to track the progress or even the name of the actual "payment specialist". Because it never felt like anybody was working on anything. My cases were being automatically closed and marked as resolved for no reason so I had to open up new cases daily and when I contact anyone on OfferUp Support I'd just get ignored. I had to resort to contacting my friend who worked at OfferUp to get this problem resolved. How is that the way people should get their payment problems fixed?
Great post @BrightMoonstone but in reference to Stripe why are we only hearing that from you now?
@esc2010 - this is not the flow we intended for when we launched Shipping. That being said, there is a TON of work going on behind the scenes to make the next iteration of our Shipping feature even more epic. I understand how it can seem as though other people spending their own time posting here on the forums may make you think they are employees, but that just isn't the case. There are a ton of community members on here that have been able to make selling on OfferUp their full time job, and they have tons of tips and tricks that can help others out. That perfectly sums up what @BrightMoonstone does here on these forums. Trust me - @BrightMoonstone has had some shipping issues herself as well, so she has seen it all when it comes to shipping. She is just trying to offer her personal experience to ease the minds of those experiencing issues.


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Varun Tej's Boxer to resume shooting in September- Cinema express
Varun Tej's Boxer to resume shooting in September
The sports drama will be one of the much-awaited big-budget films to resume production during the unlock 1.0 phase
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Published: 24th July 2020
After a four-month break due to the Covid-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown, the makers of Varun Tej's upcoming film, VT 10 are raring to go. The team is planning to resume shooting in September with strict adherence to health and safety guidelines issued by the State and Central governments.
"We have planned two schedules in Hyderabad and Delhi. While the Hyderabad schedule will commence on September 15 with attention to all the safety norms, the Delhi one will begin after the Covid-19 curve flattens. Maintaining sanitization and making masks mandatory on the sets, we will be shooting with a 30-member crew until the completion of the film," confirms Kiran Korrapati.
Saiee Manjrekar, who made an impressive debut in Hindi opposite Salman Khan in Dabanng 3, will be foraying into Telugu as the female lead of the film. "Besides Varun and Saiee, actors Upendra, Suniel Shetty and Nadiya, who are playing pivotal roles in the film, will join the action as well," adds Kiran.
Tentatively titled Boxer, the film went on floors in February in Visakhapatnam, but the shoot came to a grinding halt due to Covid-19 lockdown in March. The film is being bankrolled by Allu Venkatesh (Bobby) and Sandeep Mudda.
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Константин Гаврилович Козунов (1865—?) — полковник, герой Первой мировой войны.

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Родился  года. Окончил в 1883 году 6-классный курс коммерческого отделения 1-го Санкт-Петербургского реального училища; 30 июня того же года поступил в Санкт-Петербургское пехотное юнкерское училище из которого был выпущен в 92-й пехотный Печорский полк. Подпоручик (ст. 01.01.1885), поручик (ст. 01.01.1889), штабс-капитан (ст. 15.03.1897). После окончания Офицерской стрелковой школы почти 13 лет командовал ротой; капитан (ст. 06.05.1900), подполковник (ст. 26.02.1912). Был награждён орденами Св. Станислава 2-й степени (1909) и Св. Анны 2-й степени (06.12.1912)

Принимал участие в Первой мировой войне. В 1914 году за отличия в делах против неприятеля был пожалован мечами к ордену Св. Анны 2-й степени; затем был награждён Георгиевским оружиемза то, что в бою под м. Ополе, 26.08.1914, составляя правый боевой участок полка, по собственному почину, с целью оказания содействия лейб-гвардии 2-му стрелковому полку, атаковал и овладел редутом у д. Войцехов, взял при этом в плен 3-х офицеров и 59 нижних чинов.
Произведён в полковники (пр. 24.12.1914; ст. 06.09.1914; за отличие в делах…). Был награждён орденом Св. Владимира 4-й степени с мечами и бантом (ВП 02.08.1915). С 5 марта 1916 года — командир 14-го пехотного Олонецкого полка.

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Источники
 Список полковникам по старшинству. Составлен по 01.08.1916. — Петроград, 1916

Полковники (Российская империя)
Выпускники Владимирского военного училища
Выпускники Санкт-Петербургского первого реального училища

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Class society DNV GL has issued approval in principle (AiP) certificates for two small-scale LNG (ssLNG) carrier designs with bunkering capabilities, one of which is equipped with battery-hybrid power.
The designs are the first under a partnering agreement between DNV GL and Keppel Marine and Deepwater Technology (KMDT), a subsidiary of Singapore shipbuilder Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), that aims to promote LNG as a marine fuel. The agreement covers potential newbuild LNG bunker vessels, ssLNG carriers and floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs), as well as LNG-related assets employing battery and hybrid propulsion technologies.
Each of the new ssLNG carriers will have a Type C cargo containment system with a capacity of 7,500 m3 of LNG. An optimised deck arrangement for the modular LNG gas supply, filling and safety systems is expected to increase the cargo capacity and efficiency of the vessels. Each ssLNG vessel will be equipped with dual-fuel engines that can burn diesel or LNG and have a class notation when required for LNG bunkering.
Keppel O&M is already building LNG bunkering vessels. Russia's Shturman Koshelev has commissioned Keppel O&M to construct an LNG bunker vessel with an ice-class 4 notation and a cargo capacity of 5,800 m3, due for delivery in Q4 2020. The LNGBV will be chartered to Gazprom Neft for operation in the Baltic Sea. Avenir LNG had booked two 7,500-m3 capacity LNGBVs with Keppel to be built in China, but that order has ben cancelled. Avenir LNG has now ordered two similar vessels from China's CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering for delivery in 2021.
With the 1 January 2020 deadline for the IMO 2020 sulphur cap less than nine months away, the adoption of LNG as marine fuel is increasing. DNV GL's Maritime Forecast to 2050, part of the research behind the DNV GL Energy Transition Outlook 2018, projects that more than 10% of the world's shipping fleet will be powered by LNG by 2030, compared to less than 0.3% in 2019. The report anticipates that LNG-powered vessels will make up 23% of the world's fleet by 2050.
In order to support this growth, an upgrade of LNG bunkering infrastructure is needed. "One of the objectives of our collaboration with Keppel is to facilitate the increased supply of LNG bunkering infrastructure by being future-ready through design approvals of different sizes of LNG bunker vessels, and LNG-related assets such as small-scale LNG carriers and FSRUs," said DNV GL business director for gas carriers Johan Peter Tutturen.
The collaboration between DNV GL and Keppel is also intended to further advance asset design by optimising machinery and systems configuration to increase fuel efficiency, using advanced simulation tools.
Additionally, the parties will work together to establish roundtable discussions involving all stakeholders in the LNG-as-fuel value chain, including gas and LNG bunker suppliers, designers, shipbuilders, shipowners and operators, in an effort to increase the uptake in demand for LNG bunkering in Singapore and globally.
The design and engineering collaborative office will be located at KMDT Singapore, with Keppel O&M's yards to undertake the project execution.


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Immigration work visas may allow for spouses to get jobs
Immigrants to relocate to the United States often seek to remain in the nation with their family members who traveled with them to the country or who later joined them. In order to accomplish this, immigrants seek to obtain employment. Because some immigrants are unable to enter the country through the proper legal channels, this could make it difficult to obtain or maintain a job. Even if the proper paperwork is filled out, it could still be challenging to work in the field of expertise the immigrant has due to competition.
Recently, H-1B visas were given to immigrants experienced in the fields of engineering, computer science and other fields requiring a specialized skill set. The spouses of these immigrants were allowed to come with them to the United States, but they were not permitted to work in the country. According to the Obama administration, this situation is about to change. If all goes well, some of these spouses will be given work visas and allowed to work in the U.S.
Technology companies have been supportive of the increase in distribution of H-1B visas to encourage employment immigration. The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, also founded a group to promote immigration reform. In order to obtain permanent residence based on employment, an employer must obtain a labor certification from the U.S. Department of Labor. The employer must then petition on behalf of the foreign national. The foreign national will then apply to the immigration service for Lawful Permanent Resident status. Workers will be separated into different categories based on education and level of experience.
By allowing spouses of immigrants to work, the government hopes to encourage immigrants trained in highly-skilled fields to continue to live in the United States and support the U.S. economy for a long period of time. In order for the U.S. to remain competitive with other countries, the U.S. will have to attract as many skilled workers from other countries as possible.
The Obama Administration also plans to focus on updating regulations to give certain visa holders waiting for an extension a broader number of authorized work days. While immigration reform is still not progressing in the House, President Obama is doing whatever he can to push it forward.
Immigrants seeking to obtain employment for themselves, a spouse or family member should understand their options and how this situation could benefit them in the future. Gaining legal advice could help them file the necessary paperwork and provide them with a realistic timeline and future options.
Source: The Washington Post, "Obama administration will let spouses of some on immigrant work visas get jobs", Katie Zezima, May 6, 2014


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Рој Фокер (-{Roy Focker}- у Макросу, односно -{Roy Fokker}- у Роботеку) је лик из јапанских научно-фантастичних аниме серија Макрос и њених наставака Макрос: Да ли се сећаш љубави? и Макрос Нула. Рој Фокер је талентован и упоран пилот ловачког авиона, а такође је познат због своје љубави према женама и алкохолу.

Рој је можда добио своје име у част фабрике авиона Фокер и њеном оснивачу Ентонију Фокеру који је направио Фокер E.I, Фокер Др.I и Фокер D.VIII ловце током Првог светског рата. У неким сценама, Рој лети у Фокеру D.VII и даје Хикару (Рик Хантер у Роботеку) један модел као поклон за "брзо оздрављење".

Боје Ројевог -{VF-1S}- Валкира су сличне оним на VF-84 Џоли Роџерс јединици које лете на -{F-14}- авионима, који су били основа за Валкире.

Макрос серијали

У Макросу Нули, Фокер је један од првих тест-пилота на развоју променљивих ловаца за УН снаге. 2008. је размештен са својом ескадрилом Лобања на носач авиона Асука II у јужном Пацифику и лети ВФ-0 у борби против СВ-51 ловаца Анти-УН снага. Посао урађен на ВФ-О је помогаоо развоју ВФ-1 Валкира.

У Макросу, Фокер није приказан сасвим као заштитнички лик. Упркос томе што је био тутор младом пилоту под именом Хикару Ичијо, он је приказан као пилот који се поклапа са данашњим виђењем пилота из Првог светског рата; он стално пуши и конзумира алкохол и такође је у друштву жена, стално изазивајући смрт. Када није на некој важној мисији, ужива до максимума у животу. Он је био у вези са Клаудијом Ле Сал (Клаудија Грант у Роботеку), официром на мосту Макроса.

Рој умире у 18. епизоди (-{Pineapple Salad}-, односно -{Farewell, Big Brother}- у Роботеку), од рана задобијених док је бранио супердимензионалну тврђаву Макрос од одреда Милије Фалино (Мирија Парино у Роботеку).

У Макрос:Да ли се сећаш љубави? (филмске верзије телевизијске серије који се сам третира као "историјски" филм у измишљеном Макрос универзуму), Рој умире на броду ванземаљских Зентраеда, док се бори са Квамзином Кравшером (Кајрон у Роботеку). Он се жртвовао да би омогућио Хикаруу и Миси Хајасе (Лиса Хејз) да побегну.

Роботек адаптација

У Роботек адаптацији серије Макрос из 1985, Ројев приказ је ублажен за америчку публику од стране продуцента Карла Мацека. Он је задржао оригинално име, али је оно сада написано као -{Roy Fokker}-. Његова основна личност је слична у обе серије, док је разлика само у детаљима.

Ројев отац, Ден Фокер, био је колега из ескадриле и близак пријатељ Мичела Хантера током последњих година Вијетнамског рата. Ден је касније убијен у тајној мисији америчке морнарице, а Мичел Хантер је преузео старатељство над Ројем. Од тада, Рој је одрастао са Хантером и његовим сином Риком и летео за Мичеловом летећем циркусу.

Рој је био главни тест-пилот програма -{VF-1}- и као потенцијални симбол Уједињене земаљске владе (УН владе из Макроса) био је мета неколико покушаја убиства од стране Антиујединитељског покрета, укључујући најмање две заседе током тест-летова -{YF-1}-. Преживео је оба покушаја убиства, укључујући и пад његовог прототипа Валкира док га је тестирао у облику Гардијана (знаног као Гервалк у Макросу).

Након ове несреће, програм Валкир је званично укинут у корист програма Ескалибур, пројекта развијања Дестроида (ходајућих робота/тенкова); ипак, отмица носача авиона Армор 1 (-{ARMD-01}- у Макросу) му је дала прилику да докаже вредност Валкира једном заувек; он је узлетео упркос наређењима капетана Хенрија Гловала (Бруно Глобал у Макросу) користећи први произведени модел -{VF}--1 и окончао је претњу по -{SDF-1}-, уништивши мост отетог носача и обарајући рефлекс пројектиле који су били испаљени на острво Макрос (Јужна Атарија у Макросу).

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Earlier this summer, I began a series of posts about the U.S. News & World Report's law school rankings. (Please see below for links to each post in the series.) My research uncovered many interesting and troubling things about the rankings. I discovered errors in the data that USN&WR used for the most recent rankings and, consequently, errors in the way that it ranked several law schools. More distressingly, I discovered that almost no safeguards exist to correct or prevent such errors. I think it fair to say that, but for my peculiar obsession with the USN&WR rankings, nobody would have noticed the errors I've documented. That won't do. We cannot rely on one nutty professor to keep the rankings honest. I thus here wrap up my series about the most recent USN&WR law school rankings by describing several reforms designed to make law school rankings more accurate and open. Although I suggest all of them, implementing any one of these reforms would make errors in the rankings less likely, and surviving errors more likely to get corrected.
Both the ABA and USN&WR send law schools questionnaires each fall. The latter apparently wants schools to repeat their answers to the former. Judging from how it asked schools to report their median LSAT and GPA data last fall, however, USN&WR could do a better job of clarifying exactly what data it wants. To avoid honest confusion or lawerly logic-chopping, USN&WR's questionnaire should simply ask schools to repeat exactly the same answers that they put on the ABA's questionnaire.
Law schools have a strong incentive to answer the ABA's fall questionnaire accurately, as that organization controls their accreditation. USN&WR, in contrast, wields no similar threat. Furthermore, law schools have a much more powerful incentive to dissemble on the USN&WR questionnaire, as their responses directly affect their rankings. What can USN&WR do to encourage law schools to give it accurate data?
USN&WR should commit now to publishing corrections to any inaccuracies it discovers in the data it uses to rank law schools. It should do so at all events, given that students use the rankings to make very important decisions. It can do so easily, too; it need only update its website. Yet USN&WR has thus far failed to correct the erroneous data it used to (mis)rank the University of Florida College of Law and Baylor University School of Law. For shame!
Perhaps USN&WR does not want to publicly acknowledge that its law school rankings sometimes contain errors, fearing that to do so would decrease the credibility of its rankings and, ultimately, its profits. Consumers will eventually discover the errors, though. Better that USN&WR should correct the rankings when necessary and thereby reassure its customers that it sells the best data available.
Publishing all that data would allow others to double-check it, thereby helping to keep law schools honest and the law school rankings accurate.
At present, a law school must pay the ABA $1430/year to receive "take-offs" summarizing the data that the ABA has required all member schools to report. The ABA marks that data as "confidential" and forbids its unauthorized publication. As I discussed earlier, the ABA apparently treats law school data that way not to protect law schools or the ABA from public scrutiny, but rather to increase ABA revenue.
It would greatly help, too, if the ABA would publish in a conveniently downloadable form that and the other data that USN&WR uses in its rankings. The Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools currently comes only in paper or PDF formats, making it necessary to scan or re-key the data needed double-check the USN&WR rankings. That grindingly tiresome process invites the introduction of errors, throwing a needless hurdle before those of us interested in improving the law school ranking process.
As I said, adopting any one of the reforms I suggest would improve how law schools get ranked. Adopting all four would prove better, yet. Please note, though, that I do not promote these reforms for the sake of USN&WR. It seems quite capable of milking the rankings cash cow without my help. Rather, these reforms stand to benefit all of the rest of us—students, professors, and administrators—who live in the shadow of USN&WR's law school rankings.
By opening up public access to the data used to rank law schools, moreover, the reforms I've proposed make it more likely that alternatives to the USN&WR rankings will grow in popularity. Rankings require data, after all. In a better world, the ABA would make lots and lots of data about the law schools it accredits freely available in an convenient-to-use format. Those of us who doubt that USN&WR has discovered the one sole Truth about how to measure law schools might then easily offer the world our own, new and improved, rankings.
So ends my series of posts about the most recent USN&WR law school rankings. I thank my gracious host and co-blogger, Glen Whitman, for putting up with my often-dreary march through the necessarily statistical and administrative arcana. Readers—if any!—who share my interest in these matters may want to note that I plan to write an academic paper relating and expanding on the observations I've made here. Please feel free to drop me a line if you have any suggestions about how I might make such a paper useful to you.
Whence Come the LSATs and GPAs Used in the Rankings?
What about the dubious exclusion of 2L transfers? This skews the reality and encourages some schools (ie Georgetown) to artificially constrict their 1L class and then open the floodgates to 2L transfers. It is unfair and unhealthy for the system. It would also likely stop in heartbeat if those transfer seeking schools had to report the LSAT numbers of the transfers as part of that year's entering class.
Agreed, Anonymous, that some schools use transfers strategically. But the blame, if such there be, lies not with the ABA. USN&WR simply follows the ABA's lead in terms of deciding which LSATs and GPAs to count.
So, should the ABA ask each school to report an aggregate LSAT and (undergrad) GPA for all its students? I'm not so sure. LSATs mean a lot more for 1Ls, after all, given that they are the best predictors of subsequent law school success. But transfers come with still better predictors: 1L grades. So we arguably *should* discount the importance of LSATs after the first year of law school.
Why would U.S. News undertake the reforms you suggest if, as you suggest it's likely to lead to an increase in popularity of alternative rankings?
Good question, David B. I've worried about that rhetorical effect, too. It arises from my attempt to simultaneously persuade two different audiences, which have varying interests: USN&WR and those who dislike the influence of its rankings.
Perhaps I undertook a fool's errand. I think, though, that USN&WR would on net have an interest in adopting (most of) the three reforms I suggested if the ABA would only adopt the fourth. In other words, USN&WR would have little choice but to pre-commit to correcting its rankings and disclosing the data it uses therein if it knew the ABA was going to release almost all the same data, anyhow.
I agree with the previous comment that U.S. News has very little motivation to do business differently. However, if U.S. News doesn't have the motivation to make these reforms, the ABA could reform U.S. News by policing the consumer information that law schools provide to commercial rankings and ratings companies.
The ABA should require all schools to publish (via Internet) the complete response to any commercial ranking and review publication request for information. Schools must ALWAYS provide consumers accurate information, not just in the annual survey. If you want to play the U.S. News game, you should be willing to do this. If you don't want to make your submission public, then you can't play.
We should expect more from the ABA, since we can't expect more from U.S. News. The results might be similar.
I like your suggestion that schools publish (at least some of) their rresponses to the USN&WR questionnaire, Anon. I say "at least some of" because USN&WR asks for a lot of data that it does not (yet) use in the rankings. There's no need to repost that data, so far as reforming the rankings goes.
I'm not so sure I'd want the ABA to mandate republication of the data, though. The ABA already asks too much of law schools. And the new mandate you propose would require a bit of work, since USN&WR has schools fill out web-based forms. But, granted, it's just a question of re-entering the data.


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Waco: The Rules Of Engagement
Documental, Historia: The Waco Siege of 1993 shook American society to its core. Following a 51-day stand-off with the FBI, the Texas compound of the unorthodox Christian group the Branch Davidians was burnt to the ground, killing most of its inhabitants. The official record stated that the Davidians had started the fire themselves to avoid capture. However, with meticulous and exhaustive investigation this ground breaking film claims to reveal a far more sinister truth. The horrific events of April 19th 1993 live long on the American memory: following a 51-day stand-off between the FBI and the Branch Davidians, the compound of the Davidians eventually burnt down, killing 76 of its members, many of them women and children. The FBI and the ATF have repeatedly asserted their probity in the affair, maintaining that the Davidians were a dangerous cult who were stockpiling illegal weapons and abusing children within the compound, and that they themselves had started the fire in an act of mass suicide. Waco: The Rules of Engagement fearlessly challenges the US government, dismantling their narrative with painstaking detail and presenting a far more troubling account of events.
Documental, Historia: Décadas de brutalidad policial y protestas de la población culminaron con la absolución de cuatro agentes, filmados mientras agredían a Rodney King en 1992.
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Biografía, Documental, Historia: RED ARMY is an inspiring true story about the Cold War played out on the ice rink, and a man who stood up to a powerful system, paving the way for generations of Russians. From Oscar(r) nominated and Emmy award-winning filmmakers, RED ARMY examines the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. With the demise of Communism came the end of the Cold War, as Soviet players began joining the National Hockey League. The film explores how sport mirrors social and cultural movements in Cold War Russia.
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After the launch of China Marine Tourism Year 2013 this Tuesday, Hainan started its series of wedding marketing promotional activities with an aim of building Hainan into the most popular destination for wedding groups.
Each month will feature different wedding themed activities covering cruise, rainforest, Li and Miao flavors and scenery towns to show Hainan diverse wedding tourism culture and products to the international market.
This January on the calendar will see groups of couples to choose the event and activities featuring cruise as part of their wedding celebration.
It is reported that a united organization system organized by scenic spots, travel agencies and hotels will be set up to link wedding market operation with local tourism products to optimize the island's tourism products structure.


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Jiashan Senior High School (Chinese: 嘉善高级中学), formerly known as Jiashan County Junior High School, Jiashan County First Junior High School, and Jiashan Second High School, was founded in September, 1926.  It is the earliest established high school in Jiashan County, and is a key high school in Zhejiang Province.  In August, 2001, the school was relocated to a new site, 318 Jiashan People Ave., and was renamed Jiashan Senior High School.

History
In 1920s, under the influence of May 4th Movement, the democrats and celebrities in Jiashan County advocated and promoted fundamental education. Approved by the County Council, "Jiashan County Junior High School" was founded in 1926.  The original site was located outside the east county gate (now Sixian Department Store). The school officially opened on September 20, 1926, and the first principal was Mr. Wu Zhaohuan (吴兆焕). It is the precedent of Jiashan Senior High School, and is also the earliest established high school in Jiashan County.

Over the years the school altered its name occasionally and it was relocated several times.  After the outbreak of Sino-Japanese War, Jiashan was soon occupied by Japanese, and the school was forced to close in November, 1937. Thanks to the efforts of pioneering scholars, the school was moved to Xitang Town in spring of 1938 and the class was resumed. In the following years, the school moved back and forth to Xitang and Tianning under the Japanese occupation, and struggled to remain open in harsh times. After VJ-day in August, 1945, the school moved back from Tianning to the county seat, and built a new campus in Miancheng Garden in Tianjia Lane (now printing factory in Xingxian Rd.). A second campus was also expanded in Xitang whre Jiashan Third High School.

In May, 1949, Jiashan was occupied by CPC army and the school was taken over by a military unit. Before the opening of fall semester, the government decided to relocate to school to the site of elementary normal school in Dasheng Temple, outside east gate (now Xiaosi Lane), and the two schools merged. In spring 1950, the school was again relocated to the Confucius Temple (now Second Senior High School). In autumn of that year, the teacher training section was abolished, and the Xitang campus became independent.

In July 1953, the school was renamed "Jiashan First Junior High School". In September 1958, it established agriculture department and its name changed to "Jiashan Agricultural Specialized School". Meanwhile, a workshop, a farmer and a ranch were formed, affiliated to the school. In March 1959, Jiashan County was merged into Jiaxing County and the school was renamed "Jiaxing County Agricultural Specialized School". Another institute, "Jiaxing South Lake Agricultural Specialized School" was merged into it. At that time, the school still retained over 10 classes at junior high level, besides agricultural sections. In that year, due to the achievement in labor-sustained education, the then president, Liu Maoxuan, was invited to attend the "National Elite Workers Conference in Culture and Education System" in Beijing. In April 1960, the school was renamed "Jiaxing Thirteenth High School". In August 1961, Jiaxing and Jiashan were divided into two counties, and the school adopted the name "Jiashan Weitang High School". During Cultural Revolution, in December 1966, the school changed the name to "Jiashan Oriental Red High School", and was managed by the Indigence Management Commission of Fengtong Commune.

The school began normalization in 1972. In that fall, new students enrolled in senior high section and the school transformed to a comprehensive high school, consisting of both junior and senior high sections. In December 1972, it adopted the name "Jiashan Second High School" and retained the name till July 2001.

Since the Reform and Openness, the school has witnessed a period of speedy development. In August 1978, Jiashan Second High School was accredited as "Provincial Key High School" by provincial government. The school gradually switched its emphasis from junior high to senior high, and its education quality has been greatly improved. In 1984, the school was honored as "Advanced Group of Primary and High Schools of Zhejiang Province".

Approved by Jiashan County government, Jiashan Second High School transformed to an exclusive senior high school in August 1992, and the junior high section was abolished. Thus, the main focus of the school has become the preparatory education for colleges and universities. In 1995 and 1996, the school set historical records of college enrollment in national college entrance exams. Since then, it has enjoyed renowned social reputation.

In October 1996, the school celebrated its 70th anniversary. In May 1998, the school was honored as one of "Provincial First-Class Key High School" by Zhejiang government.

The new campus was established in August 2001. After relocation, the school was renamed "Jiashan Senior High School".

The current president and Party chief is Zhou Jianyi (周建夷).

Notable alumni
 Huang Ju, a politician and vice premier of the People's Republic of China
 Shen Tianhui, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 Zhang Zhongjun, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 Yuan Guirong, a geologist
 Wu Liangzhi, a computer scientist of Peking University

References

External links
 Official website of Jiashan Senior High School

Educational institutions established in 1926
High schools in Zhejiang
Jiaxing
1926 establishments in China


Well,... I can't really call it a bottling run since I don't own $100,000 worth of stuff that automatically fills, labels and caps the used bottles I drink from, but I do have a really good helper.
We were learning to ride a bike this morning while I was getting ready to bottle an American Brown Ale and she asked to help fill bottles.
I let her fill them and cap them too.
She did a great job and I'm proud of her. She doesn't see what fascinates me so much about beer, but she knows it's important to me and wants to be part of it. Of course, it will be at least 10 or 12 years before I'll let her try beer for herself. And helping me like this is rare for her, but she had fun.
Our normal activity is watching Disney Channel together.
We had a family day yesterday at the Nashville Zoo with Lunch at Bosco's.
I make note of it because Jenny and I each had a wonderful glass of Irish Red.
Thanks, Karen Lassiter and Adam Hargrove for making such a delicious beer to commemorate our favorite March holiday. If you happen to be near Hillsboro Village, stop in and have a pint. It's very flavorful.
The photo is by Hallie.


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, conegut com a Nacho Biosca, és un jugador d'handbol català, que ocupa la posició de porter.

Format al Futbol Club Barcelona, el 2014 va fitxar per l'Ademar León. El 2019 va decidir no renovar per l'equip castellà i marxar al Kadetten Schaffhausen suís.

Amb la selecció espanyola absoluta va participar als Jocs Mediterranis de Tarragona de 2018 on va guanyar la medalla de bronze.

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Pàgina d'Ignacio Biosca a eurohandball.com

Jugadors d'handbol barcelonins
Jugadors d'handbol del FC Barcelona
Naixements del 1995


The TAO Group gave me to order to produce some antique mirrors with handdrawn design and some goldleaf gilding. The making of these antique mirrors for restaurant Nacional at the Leidseplein in Amsterdam was a little complex job because they all had to be made in a tight timeframe.
The antique aged mirrors had to be rather dark. The making took some steps, first design, then cleaning the glass and apply the design on the glass in black ink, after that i chemicaly silvered the glass panels and after that i goldleafed some details in high gloss gold on the reverse side. This making antique mirrors for restaurant Nacional in Amsterdam was a nice job wich had some different techniques in them. And the restaurant looks great with them.


This is terrible news for Miami. Just announced Megan Duffy is the new HC at Marquette. She was a great coach. I hope Sayler makes another good hire. By far, Megan was his best hire of his tenure. I wish her well. How depressing.
This is an occupational hazard of having a great young coach in MACTION. But Coach Duffy did good things here and left the program in much better shape than she found it. Hopefully that will make it easier to attract the next great young coach. And here's hoping she knocks it out of the park at Marquette.
Program is in much better shape now then when Megan took over. That being said, just like a program can be turned around in 2 years for the good, it can just as quickly have the bottom drop out. David Sayler must make the right hire, and not take eons to do it. If I were him, I would be looking for someone with the exact same traits as Megan. And yes, she was tough on the players. And it worked, and they liked her. Winning is fun.
Marquette won 27 games this year. Their coach left on April 3 for Penn State. In 7 days they land Duffy.
I am going to throw a name out there many might not know but she is with the program already and I think should at least be considered. And that is assistant coach Ke'Sha Blanton. Prior to Miami she was an assistant coach at Detroit Mercy in the Horizon and before that graduate assistant coach at Florida State. She graduated from Toledo. I know she is young, but it might be a good way to continue what Megan has been building. Not saying I am endorsing her but I think she should be in the mix. Unless she follows Megan to Marquette.
On the bright side maybe your restraining order will be terminated.
I thought we might get at least one or two more years out of her, particularly since she's from the Dayton area and I assume still has family in the area.
In the coaching profession, if you get a chance to move up fast, you take it. Duffy's run at Miami was already reminding me a bit of another short-stay MACTION coach.
On the bright, maybe your restraining order will be terminated.
I'm looking for jobs in Milwaukee this morning!
Cleve Wright was just hired as the Head Coach at Gannon last week. Thankfully his name should be off the table this time around.
Let's be real. Buffalo's "institutional commitment" by giving Oats a new deal was as much about the fat buyout they got as it was about trying to keep the good times rolling. Buffalo subsidized their new coach for 2 years the moment Alabama took him away.
In some respects, we got lucky here. Duffy's buyout was due to decrease from $210,000 to $100,000 in 51 days.
Sadly no one is knocking on our doors to take our major men's sport coaches anymore.
Let's be real. Buffalo's "institutional commitment" by giving Oats a new deal was as much about the fat buyout they got as it was about trying to keep the good times rolling.
Fully aware. It was a smart move although not quite as appealing to my grumpy old lawyer sense of humor as WMU trademarking all that "Row the Boat" crap so that Minnesota had to buy that in addition to paying Fleck's buyout in K-Zoo.
When is Duke basketball paying us for The Brotherhood?
Probably never. A cursory google search for the term in association with college athletics suggests that it's too generic to be protectable by us or Duke or Army or . . . .
The vast majority of coaching commitments is to money. Pretty simple. If you make $200K and the competition offers $400 K, unless there are the occasional extenuating circumstances, you take the money.


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Sphenopalatine ganglion block for ipsilateral shoulder pain following open pancreaticoduodenectomy
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5617-1907Danielle Levin,
Martin Acquadro,
Joseph Cerasuolo and
Frederic Gerges
Department of Anesthesiology Pain Medicine & Critical care, St Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Correspondence to Dr Frederic Gerges; frederic.gerges{at}steward.org
A 59-year-old woman underwent an open pancreaticoduodenectomy. Thoracic patient controlled-epidural anaesthesia provided excellent incisional pain relief; however, the patient experienced intractable left shoulder pain (10/10 on the Numerical Rating Scale). To our knowledge, there is no effective established treatment for patients experiencing shoulder pain after an open pancreaticoduodenectomy. The patient's shoulder pain did not respond to medical management with acetaminophen, ketorolac, lidocaine transdermal patch, oxycodone and hydromorphone. Then, on postoperative day 2, the acute pain service was consulted. Considering that the sphenopalatine ganglion block has been previously reported to be helpful in a number of painful conditions, including shoulder tip pain after thoracic surgery, we offered this treatment to the patient. After just one topical sphenopalatine ganglion block, using a cotton-tipped applicator, the patient's shoulder pain entirely resolved and did not return. This is the first report of a successful treatment of intractable ipsilateral shoulder pain following an open pancreaticoduodenectomy with transnasal sphenopalatine ganglion block.
This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-243746
Pancreaticoduodenectomy (aka Whipple procedure) is one of the most complex surgeries and is often associated with a high rate of major complications and severe postoperative pain.1 Incisional abdominal pain after pancreaticoduodenectomy can be well controlled with epidural techniques and additional intravenous opioids. Although significantly more common in patients who undergo laparoscopic surgeries, some patients who undergo open procedures may experience postoperative ipsilateral shoulder pain. This type of pain is caused by the irritation of tissues supplied by the phrenic nerve. To treat shoulder tip pain, which is precipitated by diaphragmatic irritation, the C3, C4 and C5 nerve roots must be blocked, but as this would inhibit phrenic nerve function and cause apnoea, it is not an option. Furthermore, this type of pain is often not responsive to systemic analgesics, such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids.2
To our knowledge, there is no effective established treatment for patients experiencing shoulder pain after an open pancreaticoduodenectomy. Sphenopalatine ganglion block (SPGB) was first reported as a treatment for unilateral facial pain symptom complex in 1908 and has since then been used to treat a number of painful conditions.3 This is the first report of a successful treatment of intractable ipsilateral shoulder pain after an open pancreaticoduodenectomy with topical transnasal SPGB using a cotton-tipped applicator. Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this report.
A 59-year-old woman with a prior medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas underwent an open pancreaticoduodenectomy, portal lymphadenectomy, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy and pancreatic ultrasound. The surgery was performed under general and thoracic epidural anaesthesia (catheter inserted at T7–T8 level). There were no intraoperative complications. Postoperative pain was managed using patient controlled-epidural anaesthesia (PCEA) with bupivacaine 0.1% with 2 µg/mL fentanyl with a basal infusion of 8 mL/hour and a 2 mL PCEA dose with a lockout of 12 min. The epidural PCEA provided excellent incisional pain relief; however, the patient experienced left shoulder pain (Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) 10/10 for most of the day) that did not respond to acetaminophen 975 mg PO every 6 hours, ketorolac 15 mg IV every 8 hours, lidocaine 5% transdermal patch, hydromorphone 0.5 mg every 4 hours, oxycodone 5 mg PO every 4 hours and oxycodone 10 mg PO every 4 hours.
On postoperative day 2, the acute pain service was consulted to evaluate the patient's shoulder pain. The patient reported that she had a remote history of left shoulder pain 10 years prior to admission that resolved with physical therapy and intra-articular steroid injections. She reported that the postsurgical pain she was currently experiencing in her left shoulder was 'excruciating' and that it was significantly different from the type of pain she had 10 years ago. She described her current pain as sharp and needle-like sensation inside her shoulder that would randomly get significantly worse throughout the day since the surgery. The pain, when it was at its worst, would last in severity for 30 min.
The differential diagnoses included pain from surgical positioning, immediate postoperative complications, such as anastomotic leak or subphrenic collections, cardiac complications, pulmonary complications and/or referred pain from manipulation of the pancreas. The patient was afebrile and had no leukocytosis. Chest X-ray findings included: heart and mediastinum of normal size and contour; linear opacity in the left lower lobe likely representing atelectasis; no developing chronic heart failure or pneumonia; osseous structures unremarkable, particularly involving the left shoulder; no acute fracture or dislocation; and unremarkable acromioclavicular joint. This suggested that the source of the pain was not from surgical malposition nor from a pulmonary complication. ECG showed sinus rhythm, heart rate of 79 beats per minute with normal axis, which made the shoulder pain from a cardiac complication less likely. Since there were no signs of systemic infection at that time, which could point towards immediate postoperative complications, the primary surgical team chose not to do a CT scan at this time. The remaining differential diagnosis was referred pain from manipulation of the pancreas.
Based on a recent publication of the SPGB being an effective treatment for post-thoracic shoulder tip pain4 and our observation of the block being an effective treatment for various headache and neck pain aetiologies in our pain clinic, we offered the SPGB to this patient. On discussion of potential risks and benefits of the procedure, including the option of not proceeding, the patient elected to go ahead and signed a written informed consent.
At the start of the procedure the patient's left shoulder pain was 5/10 on the NRS. SPGB applicators were created from hollow cotton swabs, intravenous extension tubing with a stop cock, 3 mL syringes, 5% lidocaine ointment and 4% lidocaine topical solution (figure 1). The patient was positioned in the supine position with her head off the bed, supported by a pillow, for cervical spine extension (chin-up position) (figure 2). Haemodynamic monitors consisting of non-invasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry and EKG were applied, and the patient remained haemodynamically stable throughout the procedure. The SPGB applicator dipped into lidocaine ointment was gently inserted into each nostril atraumatically and stopped at the point where gentle resistance gave way at the junction of the turbinates and aperture of the nasopharynx. Lidocaine 4% was dripped drop by drop through the applicators into each nostril until the patient felt the medication in the back of her throat (1 mL into the right nostril and 0.5 mL into the left nostril) (figure 3). The SPGB applicators were left in place for a total of 15 min while the patient had a small towel covering her eyes for comfort.
Creation of the sphenopalatine ganglion block (SPGB) applicator: Supplies (lidocaine 4% topical solution, lidocaine 5% ointment, scissors, hollow cotton-tips, 3 cc syringes, Anaesthesia IV Set and towel to cover eyes (optional)); Disconnect the 'Anaesthesia IV Set' and cut the purple tip with scissors; Disconnect the tip of the 'Anaesthesia IV Set' and toss the tip; Connect all the remaining pieces together.
The positioning of the sphenopalatine ganglion block (SPGB) applicators in a mannequin model.
The sphenopalatine ganglion block (SPGB) applicator on a mannequin model demonstrating that once a patient feels the medication in the back of the throat, the medication has reached the SPGB (marked with the green circle).
Outcome and follow-up
At the end of the procedure, the patient was asked to sit up. She reported that her shoulder pain had entirely resolved, 0/10 on NRS.
During the procedure, the patient reported having some difficulty swallowing because it felt like the back of her throat was numb. This sensation resolves on its own after several minutes. On postoperative day 12, when the patient was being discharged from the hospital, she remained pain free in her shoulder. The patient was followed up 1 month later via a telephone call. At that time, the patient excitedly reported that she has been pain free in her shoulder since the SPGB treatment.
Open pancreaticoduodenectomy is one of the most complicated surgeries and involves a significant amount of intra-abdominal manipulation. When the head of the pancreas is affected, patients typically perceive pain in the T5–T9 regions; however, when the tail of the pancreas is involved, patients experience referred pain to the left shoulder secondary to the innervation of the C3–C5 dermatomes.5 6 As in our patient's situation described above and in many other pancreaticoduodenectomy surgeries, when the epidural is inserted at the thoracic level, the epidural is unable to relieve a patient of the referred shoulder pain. Systemic medications, such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids, are often trialled with limited effectiveness.2 Furthermore, opioids are commonly associated with adverse reactions, such as respiratory depression, sedation, dizziness, gastrointestinal disturbances, tolerance and physical dependence.7
When the administration of acetaminophen, ketorolac, lidocaine transdermal patch, oxycodone and hydromorphone did not provide sufficient left shoulder pain relief to our patient, the SPGB, a technique first described by Sluder over a century ago,8 was used and found to be highly effective. The precise neurophysiological mechanism that explains the observed results in our patient is unknown; perhaps it will be elucidated with future work.
Since there is only one sphenopalatine ganglion, the commonly accepted SPGB technique is to place local anaesthetic topically by way of both the left and right nasal passages local anesthetic-soaked swabs, contributing to successful transmucosal reach and coverage of the SPG.9 However, the sphenopalatine ganglion is a bilateral structure, so, in theory, a block just through the left nasal passage could have also potentially achieved the observed result. There are several commercially available devices available to perform SPGB, but the administration of this block via the assembly of cotton-tip applicators from supplies that are readily available in most medical centres is simple and inexpensive.4 9–13 The fascinating aspect of this block is that not only does it treat numerous pain conditions, including headaches of various aetiologies, neck pain, back pain6 10–13 and now postoperative shoulder pain, but it also, somehow, has a long-term effect. Even after the temporary effects of local anaesthetic wear off, certain pain conditions resolve and never return after this treatment. This interesting phenomenon would benefit from further investigation. In the meantime, we suggest that this technique be considered for patients with postsurgical shoulder tip pain.
This is the first report of a successful treatment of intractable ipsilateral shoulder pain after an open pancreaticoduodenectomy with topical transnasal sphenopalatine ganglion block using a cotton-tipped applicator.
Although there are several commercially available devices available to perform sphenopalatine ganglion blocks, the sphenopalatine ganglion block can also be effectively performed by quickly and inexpensively creating cotton-tip applicators from supplies that are readily available in most medical centres.
The cotton-tip applicators can be created from the combination of hollow cotton swabs, intravenous extension tubing with a stop cock, 3 mL syringes, 5% lidocaine ointment and 4% lidocaine topical solution.
Patient consent for publication
Consent obtained directly from patient(s).
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