September 26, 2009, 5:00 p.m.
2. Minutes from the Annual Meeting were read. and APPROVED.
3. Interim Treasurer, Sharon Alden reported: $30,177 in Savings Account, $7,549 in Checking Account, $2,190 in New Memberships, not yet deposited. Rich Seifert asked if we could accept donations tax exempt. Rob indicated yes, if accepted as a gift.???
4. Assignments for Board seats were conducted according to FCCM Bylaws.
11 – 2 p.m. at the Ken Kunkel Community Center on Goldstream Road. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 children under 12 years of age, and Free to children under 5 years of age. The purpose of this breakfast series is to exchange information and ideas, as well as raise funds. There will be a powerpoint presentation and a chance to visit with board members.
b. Rob Leach will be making a presentation to the Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District's board meeting, on Tuesday, September 29th at 5:00 p.m.
c. Triple Pack Marketing Blitz to include Radio, TV and paper print advertising. Sue Sprinkle is updating the brochure and FCCM flyer (hand bill). An emphasis was made on how important it is to get these completed.
d. Dessert Auction: November 21st at Morris Thompson Cultural Center.
e. The Vista Worker interview will be held Monday, September 27, 2009 at noon, 3rd Floor of Borough building. Mary discussed that the worker will have only one supervisor and will be required to go to training. Morgan expressed her interest in taking the training. Mary said she would like to be the supervisor, because she has specific tasks in mind for the worker. Rich Seifert stated he is a trained Vista Supervisor and that he can assist in the interim until such time someone gets the required training, and that he will be a "hovering presence" leading and assisting in the meantime.
We need to recruit a Chair and volunteers to be a part of this committee. Discussion ensued regarding the need to provide detailed committee descriptions. Mary stated they are on our website.
Store Design – Chair: Rob Leach reported that he spoke to a gentleman named Jim with Arctic Refrigeration that will help us figure out whether we want to work with what is available for refrigeration or if we will need to buy new / new to us refrigeration. We need to answer the question – How much refrigeration do we need? Producers / Vendor Selection Committee will be a responsible for figuring this out.
Rob also let us know that he has the building drawings on AutoCAD, and we need to ask the question? What do we want the store to look like and what departments we want it to include –i.e. Coffee Shop, Deli, ect.
Business Plan – Chair: Rob Leach reported that he is working on getting some help with it.
Operations – Chair: Mary Christensen reported that the committee will be meeting October 1st and will report on the committee work at the next meeting.
Finance – Chairs: Hans Geier reported that Rich Seifert is going Co-Chair the Finance Committee with him. Rich Seifert reported that a gentleman name Sam Skaggs, a financial advisor in Juneau called him to discuss the possibility of one of his clients, a "slow money" investor who may be interested in investing in FCCM. Slow Money investors are dedicated to investing in small food enterprises and local food systems; connecting investors to their local economies; and, building the nurture capital industry. Sam referred Rich to the book by the same name. Rich indicated that we need to have a strong Business Plan in place before we present our cooperative grocery store to him. Rich will be going to Juneau and will visit with his friend Sam and get more information to pass on to us.
Rich indicated that any loan or investment that is made will expect it to be secured. Discussion ensued regarding buying verses leasing a building. Mike said it seems FCCM is set on the Foodland building and mentioned with the amount of money it will take to rehab the Foodland building we could potentially buy and / or build to suit our needs. Rich also spoke to credibility. We need to continue to build our credibility.
An architect needs to be employed to put together a rendering and start the process of asking the questions that will provide the them with the information needed to put together a conceptual design, based on our overall plan and objectives.
Health & Fitness – No Chair – No report.
Board Members at Large are Helen McLean, Cora Kelley, Mike Emers, Rich Seifert.
b. Assign Check Signors: Based on the election of new Officers, the signors will change from Sharon A. to Morgan M., from Lela to Mary M. Check signors will be – Rob L., Morgan M. & Mary C. Sharon A. will handle the details.
c. Adopt Payment Plan: A discussion to adopt a payment plan for membership fees took place from $50 quarterly payments in for one (1) to $25 quarterly payments for 2 years. The Board chose the later with a condition that at the time of official store opening, members participating in the payment plan must be current on their quarterly payments or their membership benefits will be suspended. . .
8. Decision Making Process for the Board: Mike spoke on how Calypso handles their "Consensus Policy for Decision Making". When they vote, they determine the strength of a decision by the number of fingers the Board members holds up. The number one (1) means strong support, number three (3) describes that the board member could go either way (undecided) number five (5) means no support. It was decided to put this off until a future meeting. A proposal or proposals will be presented for the Board to vote on.
9. Consultant for Store Design: Rob has experience doing this type of work and has said he will prepare something. Mary believes we need something prepared by a professional and that we need to get it started. Discussion ensued regarding the process. Hans spoke about developing a scope of need to give to potential and interested architects.
10. Review Committee Budgets – this will be moved to the Agenda for the next Board meeting.
12. Set date for next Annual Meeting. No date set.
13. Recommend minutes from 1st Annual Membership Meeting for presentation and adoption at 2010 Annual Meeting.
14. $200 was approved for office expenses.
15. $700 was approved for repairs for an existing computer, printer / scanner.
Meeting Adjourned at 8:37 p.m.


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Shop Talk | April 02, 2013
Book of the Week: Practical Classics, by Kevin Smokler
Our newest feature is Kevin Smokler's most recent book, Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School, which was published last month by Prometheus Books. Smokler is the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times, a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. Called "a publishing visionary" by the Huffington Post, his writing on the arts and technology has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Believer. Smokler has a B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. in American Studies from The […]
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Shop Talk | September 17, 2012
Are You There, Author? It's Me, A Lazy Student
As we've seen of late, sometimes professional book reviewers (or, rather, less-than-professional ones) forget that Authors Are People, Too. Well, so do book-reviewing students. Behold this exchange, in which a student turned to Yahoo! Answers to help write his book report on DC Pierson's The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To… and the author responded. Pierson posted the kid's question and his response on his Tumblr feed, giving the kid some reasons he might actually want to read the book and suggesting strategies for doing it. Here's an excerpt: I'm not going to sit here and act like […]
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Shop Talk | June 07, 2012
A Public Service Annoucement About Book Suicide
So we know how books are born, how they fall in love, and what they're up to after the bookstore closes for the night. But did you know that books sometimes think about ending it all? It's sad but true. What drives them to despair? This display I spotted in Porter Square Books has the answer: The Origami Poems project suggests a poem as a cure—but perhaps you'd better add a short story too, just to be on the safe side? Further Reading: Jersey Shore a la Oscar Wilde Lit and TV have a clandestine affair at the brilliant Slaughterhouse […]
Celeste Ng, lit and television, reading in peril, whimsy
Shop Talk | November 09, 2011
Fahrenheit 451–2011 edition?
Is there anything more disrespectful to a book–and its authors and would-be readers–than burning? Book burnings are inevitably associated with censorship and repressive ideology, from the Third Reich to the more recent Quran-burning controversy. Even without those connotations, burning any book–for any reason–sends a shiver down my spine. But can book-burning sometimes be justified? On Cracked, S. Peter Davis writes about book-burnings that are occurring now, all over many countries–and why: For the past year or so, part of my job has been to walk through library warehouses and destroy tens of thousands of often old and irreplaceable books. […] […]
Celeste Ng, controversies, ebooks, print books, reading in peril
How to read a book–without reading
Back in high school, I had a book called How to Become Ridiculously Well-Read in One Evening, which described itself as "A Collection of Literary Encapsulations" and contained classic works of literature in short, usually silly poems. For example, The Great Gatsby began thusly: Nick Carraway and Gatsby (Jay) Are next-door neighbors; every day The enigmatic Gatsby gazes Towards a distant green light (Daisy's). Cute, right? But it seems some people took the book at face value, expecting to catch up on the Western canon in just a few hours. Says one review of the book on Goodreads: I had […]
Celeste Ng, lit and tech, reading in peril
Shop Talk | October 11, 2011
Writing without reading?
Some frustrated soul on Facebook has started an "I Hate Reading" page. Even though–in keeping with the "I hate reading" theme–there's nothing actually on the page, over 475,000 people "like" it. AbeBooks issued the following video, entitled "Long Live the Book," in response: Okay, so some people hate to read. Some people aren't book people. But some writers apparently also hate to read. On the New Yorker's Book Bench, Macy Halford writes: [William Giraldi] teaches writing at Boston University, and has been amazed at how many of the kids possess a passionate urge to write without also possessing an urge […]
Celeste Ng, encouraging reading, reading, reading in peril, the writing life
Help save the St. Mark's Bookshop!
New Yorkers know and love the St. Mark's Bookshop, a stalwart on the Lower East Side. But lately, the bookstore has been struggling to pay the market rent asked by its landlord, Cooper Union. The NY Daily News reports: The co-owners of the book shop, Terry McCoy and Bob Contant, are set to meet with the school's officials Wednesday to discuss a rent reduction. The last time the two sides met, in early 2010, Cooper Union was unwilling to budge on the rent, which has increased to $20,000 a month. And the New York Times covers the deep sacrifices the […]
bookstores, Celeste Ng, independent bookstores, indie bookstores, reading in peril
Essays | September 05, 2011
The Future of Literary Citizenship: A Review Essay
With the rise of digital culture, teachers must examine how to help students connect with literature all over again, and teachers who are also writers have a particular interest in building students' "literary citizenship." Writer and teacher Anna Leahy looks for perspectives on this dilemma in four books by Marjorie Garber, Christina Vischer Bruns, Kevin Stein, and David Orr.
Anna Leahy, essay, literary culture, pedagogy, reading in peril, writers on writing
Shop Talk | August 29, 2011
The End of Borders: A Daily Show Perspective
I admit it: when current events become a bit too much to handle, I turn to the Daily Show for some much-needed comedic perspective. Usually it's politics that's making me tear my hear out, but here's Jon Stewart and John Hodgman (a fiction writer himself) finding the humor in the Borders closing. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Borders Goes Out of Business www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook Happy Monday. As John Hodgman would put it, "You're welcome." Further Reading: Does the end of […]
Celeste Ng, publishing, reading in peril
So, What's Really Killing Fiction?
You may have already seen this essay by Ted Genoways, editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, blaming too many MFA programs and their "navel-gazing" writers for the sorry state of fiction these days: But the less commercially viable fiction became, the less it seemed to concern itself with its audience, which in turn made it less commercial, until, like a dying star, it seems on the verge of implosion. Indeed, most American writers seem to have forgotten how to write about big issues—as if giving two shits about the world has gotten crushed under the boot sole of postmodernism. Now, […]
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Estate planning, a project for the living, can end with the administration of your estate or it can continue on for generations. If you are charitably minded, but would like more control over your charitable contributions and want your charitable impact to extend past your death, setting up a private foundation can be an important part of your estate planning. If your only goal is to reduce your overall tax liability, then contributing to one or more public charities of your choice can be effective. But, if control over your charitable contributions is important to you, and you have the desire to make an impact on society as a whole, then you should set up a private foundation.


How safe are KC's food trucks?
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- From a spicy mango to a Philly cheese steak, you name it you can almost always find a truck in Kansas City selling it.
But how safe is it eating food from a truck?
FOX 4 Problem Solvers poured over dozens of health inspection reports and, quite frankly, food trucks had a better record than many restaurants. No case of food-borne illness has ever been linked to one, according to the Kansas City Health Department.
But food trucks can have issues.
One inspection report cited a truck after an inspector observed that no employees washed their hands during the entire inspection. Of course, even if employees had wanted to, they couldn't. The hand washing sink was clogged.
Another truck had four critical violations, including a cappucino machine that was so rarely cleaned debris was building up on the inside.
So how do you know the truck you are eating from is under the Health Department's watchful eye?
For starters, look for the permit sticker on the side of the truck. Every truck is required to have one and they must be in plain sight. They are renewed annually.
Then, check for a generator. Every truck needs one to run its heating and cooling system. Hot foods need to be kept above 135 degrees and cold food needs to be stored below 41 degrees.
And every truck needs three sinks. One for washing. One for rinsing and one for sanitizing.
Here's another clue for spotting errant food trucks: a condiment serving station that's outside of the truck. That's illegal because it's too easy for them to become contaminated. Even mustard and ketchup containers can't be sitting outside.
Finally, the person selling you food, should not be the person making the food, unless they're washing hands before and after handling cash.
To see the Health Department's inspection results, click here.


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"New Lawsuit: Unequal, Unfair Rockwool PILOT Agreement is Unconstitutional"
New Lawsuit: Unequal, Unfair Rockwool PILOT Agreement is Unconstitutional
Leading West Virginia constitutional scholar joins suit to protect citizens from unequal and unjust taxation.
CHARLES TOWN, WV. Jefferson County Vision today filed suit in circuit court challenging Rockwool's PILOT agreement with local government. The Rockwool PILOT is an unfair and unlawful tax avoidance scheme that is forbidden by the West Virginia Constitution.
Download the lawsuit (.pdf)
In this case, Jefferson County Vision engaged renowned West Virginia University Law School Professor Robert M. Bastress as co-counsel with Charles Town law firm Arnold & Bailey. Professor Bastress has litigated and lectured extensively in the field of West Virginia constitutional law, and is the author of the definitive legal interpretation The West Virginia Constitution, (Oxford University Press, 1995).
The Rockwool PILOT, which stands for "Payment in Lieu of Taxes" requires the Jefferson County government (the "JCDA") to take full ownership of the Rockwool plant once it is built. Then, in a sleight of hand, the county government "leases" the factory back to Rockwool. As a result, instead of paying taxes, Rockwool makes a handful of much smaller and arbitrary "lease" payments to the government. These payments "in lieu of taxes" allow Rockwool to avoid paying its fair share of taxes like every other Jefferson County taxpayer. After 2029, ownership of Rockwool's plant would revert back to the company for a nominal amount.
When Rockwool pays far less to the government than other Jefferson County property owners, that is unfair and unjust, because all other taxpayers are bearing a higher proportion of the overall tax burden.
Section 10.1 of the West Virginia Constitution explicitly protects the rights of all taxpayers from this type of unfair and unequal taxation. It states:
"...taxation shall be equal and uniform throughout the state, and all property, both real and personal, shall be taxed in proportion to its value to be ascertained as directed by law. No one species of property from which a tax may be collected shall be taxed higher than any other species of property of equal value;"
The State Constitution is clear: Rockwool's PILOT, which allows the company to pay no taxes for five years and at much lower rates in other years, is unlawful.
Arnold & Bailey's Christopher Stroech commented, "Rockwool should not be given preferential treatment. If they are to operate, they should pay their fair share of taxes."
Jefferson County Vision Board member Amanda Foxx said, "The state of West Virginia was born under the motto 'Mountaineers are Always Free' and our state constitution enshrines those values in its bill of rights and in provisions protecting citizens from unequal taxation."
"On one side stands every Jefferson County business, car owner, and property owner, who are paying our lawful share of county property and personal property taxes to fund schools and local government. On the other side is Rockwool, which conspired with local government to pay nothing at all for many years. In other years, Rockwool pays at a tiny fraction of the rate every other business and citizen pays."
"Today Jefferson County Vision is going to court to protect our community's rights under the West Virginia Constitution. We are all equal before the law. Rockwool must pay its fair share of taxes, just like the rest of us."
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Following this occasion, the subsequent meet and welcome got sorted out later in December and ran for two days.
The program invited numerous adherents in Greenwich, Connecticut. Other TikTok famous people Maximo Rivano, Luca Lombardo, Nikko Zingus, and Dixie additionally joined the festival. For your anxiety, parts of cash from both occasions got given as a foundation.
The abrupt ascent in notoriety may have stung a few other hopeful entertainers like a thistle, however, TikTok master Alessandro Bogliari suspects something.
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Charli helped the vocalist at the Barclays Center in NY City and opened for the Jonas Brothers. The TikTok young lady likewise handled a job in a business for Sabra on the 2 February 2020, Super Bowl LIV.
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Charli D'Amelio uploads short lip-sync videos, humor videos, and dancing videos. Charli's followers on various social media platforms are growing rapidly.
Date of Birth May 1, 2004
Birthplace United States Of America
Zodiac Tauras
Profession Dancer and Social Media Star
Height 5 feet and 7 inches (5″ 7′)
Relationship status In a Relation with Chase Hudson
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Charli D'Amelio is a competitive American dancer, a TikTok star, and a social media personality. Her TikTok has 52 + million of subscribers and 3.5 + billion likes. She has worked with the likes of Maximo Rivano, Chase Hudson, Tony Lopez, and Ondreaz Lopez, among others.
Her ultimate objective is to be a famed dancer like Jennifer Lopez one day. In November 2019, D'Amelio was enlisted by Bebe Rexha to participate here at the Barclays center in new york.
They decided to open for the Jonas Brothers as part of the Begins Happiness Tour. She showed up in an advertisement for Sabra during the Super Bowl LIV on February 2, 2020.
D'Amelio was born on 1 May 2004. She was raised in Norwalk, Connecticut. Her mom, Heidi, is a videographer, her dad, Marc, is a business person.
She's got an older sister, Dixie D'Amelio, who's an aspiring model. Marc and Dixie are active on TikTok as well. In addition, Marc is the founder and president of the NYC Level 4 Collective. He is also an influential Republican and a retired Norwalk Board of Education frontrunner.
D'Amelio began teaching dance at age of 3 and started competing at the age of five. She referred to jazz and postmodern as her favorite dance style. D'Amelio attended King's School and danced competitively at The Spot (JD Studio) in Norwalk. March 24, 2019,
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the 18-month prison sentence that a Montenegro high court imposed today on investigative reporter Jovo Martinovic because of his journalistic investigations into arms trafficking, and calls on international bodies not to tolerate this flagrant violation of the freedom to inform.
The court convicted Martinovic on charges of drug trafficking and criminal association despite the overwhelming evidence that his contacts with organized crime were solely the results of his investigative reporting.
Martinovic was doing journalistic investigation on arms trafficking in the Balkans for the French TV current affairs production company CAPA Presse when he was arrested on 22 October 2015, and then spent 15 months in preventive detention until granted a conditional release.
"We condemn this iniquitous verdict and sentence and regret that, during the three years of proceedings against this journalist, the judges took no account of evidence and testimony demonstrating his innocence," said Pauline Adès-Mével, the head of RSF's European Union and Balkans desk.
"The extreme harshness of the sentence imposed on Jovo Martinovic is yet another sign of the decline in respect for media freedom and the rule of law in a country that says it wants to join the European Union."
Throughout this case, Montenegro has violated its obligation to respect the freedom to inform and this journalist's right to due process, giving the impression that the actions of prosecutors and judges were subordinated to political interests.
RSF calls on all international organizations and western governments to condemn this sentence and to support Martinovic, who plans to appeal.
Montenegro is ranked 103rd out of 180 countries in RSF's 2018 World Press Freedom Index.
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There are many dishes served in numerous Chinese restaurants in Indonesia that I cannot find anywhere else. One such dish is this super delicious ayam goreng lada garam, and another one is ayam goreng mentega. Ayam goreng lada garam - spicy chili fried chicken can be considered a more recent invention, probably in the last decade. Since its introduction, this dish has been gaining popularity; and nowadays, practically all Chinese restaurants in Indonesia have this in their menu.
If you are frequent readers who have been following my recipes, you probably realize that many of my fried chicken dishes use the same recipe for the fried chicken portion. This is one of my basic go-to recipe, and I have it pat down and memorized. This is so basic that sometimes I will prepare double or triple batches, and once they are all fried, I cook different dishes. The sauce part is always super quick, so this trick is really handy when I need to prepare several dishes in one go. With the same fried chicken, you can quickly whip up ayam goreng mentega, easy spicy sweet and sour fried chicken, and ayam goreng saus tauco.
Heat oil in a frying pan over medium high heat. Sauté garlic and chili until fragrant, about 3 minutes.
Add scallions, season with salt, ground pepper, and sugar. Mix well.
Add in the minced dried shrimps, stir until dry.
Return the fried chicken to the frying pan, gently toss to coat.
Hi Anita, thanks a lot for posting this great recipe! Do you think this recipe still works if we bake, not deep fry, the chicken?
Hi Anita, thanks so much for your reply, and the orange hoisin chicken stir fry (baked version) recipe! I am going to try these recipes soon. Thanks again!
Hi Anita, Enjoy your recipes and look forward to trying many. Can you tell me what type of chilies you reference in this recipe as well as some others? Thank you!
Hi Michael, I use dried Thai red bird eye chilies because that's what available in my Asian markets here :) But you can also use Chinese dried chilies as well. You can also use fresh chilies if you want. In that case, you can use fresh red Thai bird eye chilies (I guess green is also okay, but I prefer red for aesthetic reason). Or, when you want less heat, try using fresh red fresno chilies.


Late winter and spring is the main flowering time for many Australian orchids. While most growers grow their plants conventionally in plastic pots Blue Mountains-based sculptor Tony Lennon displays them as artworks attached to sandstone, wood and bone. Some of his works are now on display at the Sheffer Gallery in Sydney during mid to late August and orchid lovers should make a visit.
Sculptor Tony Lennon has been fascinated with orchids for most of his life so it seems natural that he would incorporate these architecturally shaped plants into his art practice. Complimenting the sculptures is a series of large format photographs of Lennon's orchids by photographer Peter Webb.
Of the 47 works on show a fifty year old Dendrobium kingianum growing on sandstone near the gallery entrance is stunning as is the Dendrobium nobile growing in a tree fern next to it. Other works of interest are a number of native orchids mounted onto animal bones as well as a series of oil paintings depicting the insect-like shadows created by an orchid flower.
This is an exhibition that will inspire both the gardener and the artist within. Don't miss it.


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Qasem Soleimani, född 11 mars 1957 i Qanat-e Malek i Kerman-provinsen i Iran, död 3 januari 2020 i Bagdad i Irak, var en iransk general i det iranska islamiska revolutionsgardet, och från 1998 befälhavare för dess elitstyrka Quds, som är specialiserad på särskilda, hemliga operationer.

Soleimani har tidigare gett råd till kurdiska och shiamuslimska styrkor i striden mot ISIS. År 2014 hjälpte Soleimani den irakiska staden Amirli att motstå en ISIS-attack. Rodger Shanahan, en forskare på Lowy Institute, har sagt att med tanke på Soleimanis "betydelsefulla" roll i kampen mot ISIS i Irak, har hans död gett upphov till konsekvenser i regionen.

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Soleimani och den irakiska milisledaren Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis dödades i en amerikansk raketattack vid Bagdads internationella flygplats. Den amerikanske presidenten Donald Trump gjorde ett uttalande där han sade att han beordrade anfallet. Iran kallade i ett brev till FN attacken för statsterrorism och en otillåten kriminell handling. Ayatolla Khamenei lovade i ett uttalande en svår hämnd mot dem som låg bakom attacken.

Den 7 januari 2020 attackerades flygbasen Ayn al-Asad (där bland annat USA verkar) med iranska ballistiska missiler som hämnd för dödandet av Quds-ledaren Qasem Soleimani. Ayatolla Khamenei beskrev attacken som endast en örfil. Iran har även utfärdat en arresteringsorder och bett Interpol om att hjälpa till med att arrestera Trump.

Agnes Callamard, en expert från FN, sa den 9 juli 2020 att dödandet av Qasem Soleimani var otillåtet, och att USA inte försett med några bevis om att attacken var ett svar på ett överhängande hot.

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Den 6 januari 2020 fyllde miljontals iranier Teherans gator för att hedra den dödade generalen. Över 50 personer rapporterades döda och över 200 skadades vid tumultet som uppstod i hans hemstad Kerman vid begravningen dagen därpå.

Ismail Haniya, ledaren för den palestinska militanta gruppen Hamas, närvarade i Teheran under Qasem Soleimanis begravningsceremoni, och beskrev den dödade generalen som "Jerusalems martyr".

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2012 will see the release that fans of intelligent guitar music have been waiting for. Produced by Stephen Street, "Waiting" picks up the torch passed from The Smiths through Blur and Pete Doherty.
In classic British art-rock tradition the track is a witty and colourful look at a world in which everything has been seen and done. Unashamedly pop, "Waiting" shows you can be cool and know how to play.
In their brief time together Ace City Racers have refused to follow the tired path of the average guitar band. Born of a manifesto to challenge, and bored of traditional venues Ace City Racers have made a name for themselves by staging events at open air Lidos and Mayday tea parties. Along the way they have also paid their dues by playing the odd support slot for Sound of Guns, Viva Brother, Bis, Franz DJ sets, and playing the main stage of Liverpool Sound City 2011.
Unusually for a band who stridently champion melodic guitar music, Ace City Racers embrace influences such as Krautrock, Glamrock, Northern Soul, Synthpop, Postpunk and Psychedelia as their future records will testify. Picked as Gill Mills Myspace band of the week, featured as The Sun's ones to watch, and selected for NME video and radio play, Ace City Racers have their eyes on the prize.


Data has always played a role in semiconductor and electronics manufacturing. In the semiconductor industry, data was initially collected manually to track WIP (work-in-progress). In many instances, the analysis was performed in a very manual "ad-hoc" fashion by domain experts.
Over the years, data collection has become much more automated. But even with this improvement in the ability to collect data, it has been estimated that more than half of it is never processed. And of this data that is processed and stored, most of it is never again accessed.
Moving forward, data volume and velocity is increasing rapidly, as more sensors are added and data collection rates on process tools are increasing by several orders of magnitude.
Recently there has been lots of interest and progress in the fast-growing field of Predictive Analytics. Thanks to the emergence of the ability to harness massive parallel processing architectures (Big Data) and the advancement of machine learning algorithms, we are now able to gain insights and make predictions using massive amounts of data at speeds that make such approaches relevant and realistic. At StreamMosaic, we will bring to bear the latest in machine learning and predictive analytics technologies to get the most out of your available data.


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Joint Pain Related to Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and a degenerative joint disease that is prevalent among older adults. It is estimated that 27 million adults over the age of 25 are suffering from this condition in the United States today.1 In day-to-day life, osteoarthritis can limit daily personal activities, restrict work, and make sufferers feel helpless or depressed.
Unlike other forms of arthritis that also affect internal organs, such as rheumatoid arthritis, this form only affects the joints.2 It mostly affects cartilage and can be very painful. It can progress quickly, but most often develops and worsens over a period of many years.
Eroded Cartilage and Bone Spurs
Osteoarthritis is a condition that affects cartilage, which is the tissue that covers the ends of bones in a joint.3 Healthy cartilage absorbs movement shocks, but osteoarthritis causes the top layer of cartilage to break away.4 Pain is caused when bones rub together without this cartilage protection, and over time, bones may lose their mobility and shape.
Another debilitating condition of osteoarthritis is bone spurs.3,5 These can grow on the edges of joints, and tiny pieces of bone and cartilage can break off. This causes even more pain and long-term damage. In osteoarthritis sufferers, the body attempts to repair bone and cartilage loss by creating bone spurs near the damaged area.
Who Does Osteoarthritis Affect Most?
Older adults most commonly develop osteoarthritis, and this condition worsens with age.3 However, younger people who have suffered joint injuries can develop the condition as well. Some of the other risk factors of developing osteoarthritis include being overweight, genetic defects in joint cartilage, and subjecting the joints to high stress from work or sports.1
What Does Osteoarthritis Feel Like?
One of the most common symptoms of osteoarthrosis is a feeling of stiffness after getting out of bed or after sitting for long periods of time.3 It also feels like swelling and tenderness in the joints, and sufferers may experience a crunching feeling when one bone rubs up on another bone.
During a physical exam, a doctor may conduct x-rays or do an MRI to detect the degree and location of joint damage. He or she may also order blood tests to rule out other conditions that may be causing the joint pain.
What Body Parts Does Osteoarthritis Affect?
The most common places that people develop osteoarthritis are the hips and knees. About one in four people develop hip arthritis by age 85, and nearly one in two people develop symptomatic knee osteoarthritis by then.6 However, it can also occur in the hands and spine.
Pain-Killer Alternative Treatments
Osteoarthritis sufferers often take a combination of pain-killers, but these types of medications can be habit-forming and negatively interact with each other. As an alternative, JointFlex offers a clinically proven solution for immediate and long-term pain relief for osteoarthritis, and is designed to deliver soothing ingredients quickly and safely to where you need it most. An eight-week clinical trial published in the Journal of Rheumatology showed dramatic improvements in patients who suffered from chronic osteoarthritis knee pain for an average of 10 years.7
In addition to this powerful non-prescription cream, osteoarthritis sufferers should also balance the amount of exercise they get with rest from stress on the joints and ensure their diet supports a healthy weight.1 For example, strengthening exercises with light weights, low-impact aerobic exercises, range-of-motion exercises, and balance/agility exercises can help people with osteoarthritis sustain the use of their joints for a longer period of time.8
REFERENCES FOR JOINT PAIN RELATED TO OSTEOARTHRITIS
1. Osteoarthritis (OA). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved November 2, 2018 from https://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/basics/osteoarthritis.htm.
2. Dewing, K. A., Setter, S. M., & Slusher, B. A. (2012). Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis 2012: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment. National Practitioner Healthcare Foundation. Retrieved November 2, 2018 from https://www.nphealthcarefoundation.org/media/filer_public/c0/d1/c0d118bc-16a4-4114-a5cc-69901adfb298/osteoarthritis_and_ra_2012.pdf.
3. Kontzias, A. Osteoarthritis (OA). (2017 July). The Merck Manual: Consumer Version. Retrieved November 2, 2018 from https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/bone,-joint,-and-muscle-disorders/joint-disorders/osteoarthritis-oa.
4. Konstantakos, E. (2016 May 10). What is cartilage? Arthritis Health. Retrieved November 2, 2018 from https://www.arthritis-health.com/types/joint-anatomy/what-cartilage.
5. Burke, S. (2016 December 7). What are lumbar osteophytes (Bone spurs)? Arthritis Health. Retrieved November 2, 2018 from https://www.arthritis-health.com/blog/visual-guide-lumbar-osteophytes-bone-spurs.
6. Arthritis by the numbers. Arthritis Foundation. Retrieved November 1, 2018 from https://www.arthritis.org/Documents/Sections/About-Arthritis/arthritis-facts-stats-figures.pdf.
7. Petrella, R. J., & Bartha, C. (2000 September). Home based exercise therapy for older patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized clinical trial. The Journal of Rheumatology, 27, 2215-2221. Retrieved November 1, 2018 from ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12333369_Home_based_exercise_therapy_for_older_patients_with_knee_osteoarthritis_A_randomized_clinical_trial.
8. DeVries, C. (2016 February 24). When I'm in pain, should I exercise or rest? Arthritis Health. Retrieved November 2, 2018 from https://www.arthritis-health.com/blog/when-im-pain-should-i-exercise-or-rest.
Understanding the Connection Between Arthritis and Bone Spurs
Arthritis-related conditions can cause additional symptoms besides joint pain, such as bone spurs. This type of bone condition is common..
Stiff Joints in the Morning: How to Ease Morning Stiffness Arthritis
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Cruz's Gun Control Deception
In arguing against gun control, Sen. Ted Cruz said that Washington, D.C., and Chicago "for years" have been "right at the top of murder rates," and claimed that most "jurisdictions with the worst murder rates" have "the very strictest gun control laws." Cruz distorts the facts:
It's true that Chicago "has long been at or near the top" in total annual murders, but its murder rate is "nowhere near" the top, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of FBI data from 1985 through 2012. Chicago's murder rate in 2014 was 35th highest among cities with 100,000 or more residents, FBI data show.
Washington, D.C., had the highest murder rate eight times during the 28-year period reviewed by Pew. But the last time the District had the highest rate was 1999. In 2014, Washington, D.C., reported 15.9 murders for every 100,000 people — 29th highest in the country.
There is no evidence that gun control laws result in higher murder rates. In fact, studies suggest the opposite: States with a higher number of firearm restrictions have lower firearm deaths. But there is only an association between gun control laws and firearm deaths, not a causal relationship, studies show.
Cruz made his remarks at a town hall event on ABC's "Good Morning America." A pastor from Bronx, New York, asked the Texas senator what he would do to stop gun dealers from buying guns in Southern states and "shipping them into my community."
Cruz, who is running second behind Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, said "the way to solve gun violence, I believe, is targeting the criminals, not targeting law-abiding citizens."
Cruz, April 18: If you look at the jurisdictions with the worst murder rates, most of them are the ones with the very strictest gun control laws. Because when you put gun control laws in place, the criminals don't hand over their guns, but the law-abiding citizens do and it ends up leaving them more vulnerable. And so, you look at Washington, D.C. You look at Chicago. Both of them have for years effectively banned firearms and both of them have for years, been right at the top of murder rates.
Let's start with the murder rates. We looked at Chicago and Washington, D.C., and didn't find that they are "right at the top of murder rates."
Murder Rates
Pew Research Center reviewed data for murders that were reported to the FBI from 1985 through 2012 by jurisdictions with populations of 100,000 or more residents. The headline of the Pew article says, "Despite recent shootings, Chicago nowhere near U.S. 'murder capital.' "
"In terms of raw number of murders, Chicago has long been at or near the top of U.S. cities, according to FBI crime statistics," Pew found. "But Chicago also has some 2.7 million residents, more than any other city except New York and Los Angeles, and you'd expect it to have more murders (and other crimes) than most other cities for that reason alone. Adjust the raw numbers for population size to get a murder rate, and a very different picture emerges."
Pew Research Center, July 14, 2014: According to the FBI figures, Flint, Mich., had the highest murder rate of any sizeable U.S. city in 2012, the most recent year available. There were 62 murders per 100,000 population (which, coincidentally, was just about Flint's estimated population that year). Trailing Flint were Detroit (54.6 murders per 100,000), New Orleans (53.2 per 100,000) and Jackson, Miss., (35.8 per 100,000). Chicago, whose population is several times bigger than any of those cities, came in 21st, with 18.5 murders per 100,000 — nearly quadruple the national average, true, but still nowhere near the highest in the country.
So, FBI data show Chicago was not "right at the top of murder rates." What about Washington, D.C.?
Pew found that Washington, D.C., was one of only six cities that "held the anti-honor of having the nation's highest murder rate" from 1985 to 2012: "New Orleans (12 times, most recently in 2011); Washington, D.C. (eight times, most recently in 1999); Detroit (four times, most recently 2006), Flint, Mich. (twice, also in 2010); Richmond, Va. (once, in 1997) and Birmingham, Ala. (once, in 2005)."
But as Pew noted, Washington, D.C., hasn't had the highest murder rate since 1999. A chart on the Pew website shows the District's rate climbing dramatically in the mid-'80s and into the 1990s before dropping just as dramatically in the last two decades.
The most recent FBI crime statistics available are for 2014. We calculated Chicago's murder rate at 15.1 murders per 100,000 people, and Washington's rate at 15.9 per 100,000. St. Louis had the highest murder rate in 2014 with 50 homicides per 100,000 residents — more than three times the rates in Chicago and Washington.
Of the 286 jurisdictions with a population of more than 100,000, Washington, D.C., ranked 29th and Chicago ranked 35th. (See our list of the 50 cities with the highest murder rates in 2014. As we have cautioned before, the FBI data set isn't ideal because it is voluntary and self-reported.)
We note that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Chicago's handgun ban in June 2010 and Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban in 2008. In the year before the court's rulings, Chicago's murder rate in 2009 was 16.1. The city with the highest murder rate that year was New Orleans at 51.7 murders for every 100,000 people. In 2007, the year before the court's ruling on Washington D.C.'s ban, the District had a murder rate of 30.8 in a year when New Orleans had a rate of 94.7 per 100,000.
Gun Laws and Murder Rates
Cruz also said most "jurisdictions with the worst murder rates" have the "very strictest gun control laws," claiming the restrictions made "law-abiding citizens … more vulnerable" to such violent acts. But there is no evidence that gun control laws result in more murders, and the Cruz campaign did not respond with any evidence when we asked.
David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, told us that "many studies … found that stronger gun laws are associated with lower rates of homicide." The key word is "associated." As we have written twice before, researchers have not established a cause-and-effect relationship between stricter gun control laws and less gun violence.
Hemenway, who has written extensively about gun violence, referred us to a study by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health, including Hemenway, that was published in JAMA Internal Medicine in May 2013. Researchers developed a "legislative strength score," which ranked states from 0 to 28 based on the strength of their gun control laws, and then "measured the association of the score with state mortality rates" from 2007 to 2010.
The study's conclusion: "A higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually. As our study could not determine cause-and-effect relationships, further studies are necessary to define the nature of this association."
Other studies have reported similar findings.
A study published in January 2014 in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery looked specifically at gun laws that were designed to reduce firearm-related injuries among children. Researchers at the University of Arizona divided 44 states into two groups — 11 "strict firearm law states" (SFLs) and 33 "non-strict firearm law states" (non-SFLs) — "based on background checks on firearm sales, permit requirements, assault weapon and large-capacity magazine ban, mandatory child safety lock requirements, and regulations regarding firearms in college and workplaces." The study then looked at firearm-related injuries of trauma patients 18 years old or younger in those states in 2009.
That study concluded that strict firearm laws "were associated with a lower rate of firearm injuries in children." Again, researchers found an association but not a causal relationship.
In March, the Lancet published a study that sought to determine "the independent effect of different firearm laws on firearm mortality." The study, which was done by researchers at Boston University, Columbia University and the University of Bern in Switzerland, looked at 25 state laws. It found that "nine were associated with reduced firearm mortality, nine were associated with increased firearm mortality, and seven had an inconclusive association."
In general, the report found "state licensing and authorised inspections were associated with lower homicide rates, but record keeping did not reduce homicides."
Specifically, it found "the three laws most strongly associated with reduced homicide firearm mortality were expansion of background checks for all firearm and ammunition purchases and firearm identification." However, it also found that child-access prevention laws (CAP) were associated with increased firearm deaths. "[T]he increased risk attributed to firearm locks in our study could be explained by the results of a longitudinal study for which presence of CAP laws was associated with an increased likelihood of unsafe firearm storage in states with fewer firearm policies," the report said.
All of these findings, again, go to the association between gun laws and firearm deaths. They do not prove a causal relationship between individual laws and firearm deaths — which is what Cruz claimed when citing the murder rates in cities with strict gun control laws.
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New US business visas for Kiwis a step closer as Congress passes legislation
24 Jul, 2018 08:09 PM 2 minutes to read
New Zealand businesspeople will soon have easier access to the US with new visas. Photo / Getty
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Better access to the United States for New Zealand businesspeople and investors is a step closer after Congress passed legislation that would allow Kiwis to apply for special visas.
The Knowledgeable Innovators and Worthy Investors Act (Kiwi Act), which now just needs the signature of US President Donald Trump to pass it into law, means eligible New Zealanders can enter the US on E-1 and E-2 visas.
The visas would allow multiple entry to the US for two years without having to apply for new visa each time, and the ability to renew the visa on a rolling basis.
Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said the passage of the legislation through Congress yesterday was a major step.
"The United States is a key strategic partner for New Zealand. If approved, these visas would improve access to the US for New Zealand businesspeople and investors, further developing our trading relationship to the benefit of both countries," Peters said.
New Zealand-United States Council chairman Leon Grice said New Zealand exporters and entrepreneurs had been calling for better visa access to the US for many years.
"New Zealand exporters and entrepreneurs have incurred significant immigration legal costs in the past building their business in the US and this act lowers the barriers to their success in the US market."
The council credited the New Zealand Embassy in Washington DC for its long-standing lobbying, and US Ambassador Scott Brown in Wellington, for the success of the campaign.
"It is a good day for the NZ-US bilateral relationship," Grice said.
Net migration falls in June, but remains historically high
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Anatolij Semjonowitsch Schwarz, auch bekannt unter dem Pseudonym Anri Schwarz (* 24. April 1951 in Charkiw) ist ein ukrainischer Dichter, Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Publizist. Werke und Lyrik verfasst er in deutsch, russisch und ukrainisch.

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Schwarz hat die 131. Mittelschule beendet und studierte an der Charkiwer Polytechnischen Hochschule Elektroenergetik. Dann arbeitete er im Charkower Forschungsinstitut der Monokristalle. 1992 zog er von der Ukraine nach Deutschland um. Dort absolvierte er eine Ausbildung zum Physiotherapeuten und arbeitete in orthopädischen Kliniken in Heidelberg, Bad Schönborn und Bad Dürkheim. Zurzeit ist er im St. Marienkrankenhaus in Ludwigshafen am Rhein tätig.

Seine ersten Gedichte und Erzählungen schrieb Anatolij Schwarz im literarischen Studio des Industriebetriebes in Charkow. Schwarz ist Autor der Bücher Herz auf dem Altar (Poesie) und Traurige Märchen über die Liebe (Erzählungen) sowie Autor der Theaterstücke Dichter und Prostituierte (anderer Titel: Dichter und Kurtisane), Kopfüber, Probe des Evangeliums, Silberne Gipfel der Berge, Madame Loren und weiteren.

Schwarz ist auch bekannt als der Autor von phantastischen Erzählungen, unter anderem von Schamanen, Dummköpfe und Auf dem Lande. Er schreibt für Moskauer und St. Petersburger Zeitschriften. Seine Bücher befinden sich in den Bibliotheken Russlands, der Ukraine und Deutschlands (Speyer, Ludwigshafen). Schwarz ist verheiratet und hat zwei Töchter.

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 Traurige Märchen über die Liebe (Грустные сказки о любви), St. Petersburg, Nev-Almanah, 2006, ISBN 5-902741-41-6
 Herz auf dem Altar (Сердце на алтаре), Kiev, Azimut Ukraine, 2005, ISBN 966-8405-22-6
 Dichter und Prostituierte (Поэт и проститутка)
 Herz auf dem Altar (Сердце на алтаре)
 Kopf und Zahl (Орел и решка)
 Gedichte
 Urne (Урна)
 Schamanen (Шаманы), Auf dem Land (На даче), in Чудеса и приключения, 2009, N 1., С. 61–63,

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 Über sein Werk (russisch)

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Geboren 1951
Mann
Ukrainischer Emigrant in Deutschland


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The immunohistochemical detection of estrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptors in breast cancer is routinely used for prognostic and predictive testing. Whole slide digitalization supported by dedicated software tools allows quantization of the image objects (e.g. cell membrane, nuclei) and an unbiased analysis of immunostaining results. Validation studies of image analysis applications for the detection of ER and PR in breast cancer specimens provided strong concordance between the pathologist's manual assessment of slides and scoring performed using different software applications.
The effectiveness of two connected semi-automated image analysis software (NuclearQuant v. 1.13 application for Pannoramic™ Viewer v. 1.14) for determination of ER and PR status in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded breast cancer specimens immunostained with the automated Leica Bond Max system was studied. First the detection algorithm was calibrated to the scores provided an independent assessors (pathologist), using selected areas from 38 small digital slides (created from 16 cases) containing a mean number of 195 cells. Each cell was manually marked and scored according to the Allred-system combining frequency and intensity scores. The performance of the calibrated algorithm was tested on 16 cases (14 invasive ductal carcinoma, 2 invasive lobular carcinoma) against the pathologist's manual scoring of digital slides.
The detection was calibrated to 87 percent object detection agreement and almost perfect Total Score agreement (Cohen's kappa 0.859, quadratic weighted kappa 0.986) from slight or moderate agreement at the start of the study, using the un-calibrated algorithm. The performance of the application was tested against the pathologist's manual scoring of digital slides on 53 regions of interest of 16 ER and PR slides covering all positivity ranges, and the quadratic weighted kappa provided almost perfect agreement (κ = 0.981) among the two scoring schemes.
NuclearQuant v. 1.13 application for Pannoramic™ Viewer v. 1.14 software application proved to be a reliable image analysis tool for pathologists testing ER and PR status in breast cancer.
Early detection of breast cancer, one of the important causes of cancer morbidity worldwide , can significantly improve the survival probability of the patients [2, 3]. Identifying molecules which regulate the growth of normal and transformed breast epithelium by means of immunohistochemistry, has been used as adjuncts for diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive decision-making . The most established validated molecular markers predicting responsiveness of patients for molecular targeted therapy are estrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptors  and the type-2 human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2).
Large scale randomized clinical trials proved that patients with double positive (ER/PR) status are likely to benefit from endocrine/hormonal therapy. According to the recent ASCO-CAP guidelines, ER and PR status should be determined in all invasive breast cancers and recurrences . However, the reliability of assay results depends on both the reproducibility of assay performance and its interpretation [7, 8].
Standardized protocols used by automated immunostainers set up high standards in test reproducibility. Whole slide digitalization, supported by dedicated software tools allows image object quantization based on colour and intensity segmentation for unbiased analysis of immunostaining results .
Several validation studies of image analysis applications for the detection of ER and PR in breast cancer specimens have been published [10–16] and results provided strong concordance between the pathologist's manual assessment of slides and scoring performed by the different software applications.
Our survey was performed to test the effectiveness of two connected software application: Pannoramic™ Viewer v. 1.14 (hereinafter PV) and NuclearQuant application for PV v. 1.13 (hereinafter NQ) both manufactured by 3DHISTECH Ltd. (Budapest, Hungary). PV enables the visualization of digital slides, users being able to inspect and annotate (i.e. select certain regions of an image) digital slides. These editable (i.e. possibility for deletion, rename) annotations can be rectangular and/or free hand. NQ is an image-analysis software connected to PV, suitable for unbiased automated analysis of digital image objects based on colour, intensity and size. It detects and separates nuclei-shaped connected pixel sets (e.g. immunolabelled cell nuclei) on microscopic digital slides (*.mrxs file format) created using one of the digital slide scanners manufactured by 3DHISTECH Ltd. (i.e. Pannoramic DESK, Pannoramic MIDI, Pannoramic SCAN 150). For image standardization  Wallis image filters are used, to compensate rarely perceptible but possibly occurring local intensity deviations arising from unsuitable luminance and optical aberrations. NQ uses a "colour deconvolution" algorithm for the scoring process, which decomposes the RGB image into greyscale intensity images that represent the staining or dye concentration maps individually for each stain. Nuclei scoring is based on the intensity of connected pixel sets measured on the 3,3'-Diaminobenzidine (DAB) intensity image only. The nuclei detection is performed on the intensity normalized greyscale image, based on the morphometrical parameters, such as optimal roundness, average density and proper contrast of the intensity at the boundary. Scores are calculated for each detected object, based on the average intensity of the corresponding pixels of the intensity image. Users may filter object by size or shape, and can separate joint objects. The information necessary for the algorithm to be used is not saved on the image itself but are stored in Microscopic Image Segmentation Profile files (*.misp). The application can be run on whole slides or annotations, and the detected objects can be viewed, reclassified, relocated and visualized. Both research use applications are intended to support in vitro diagnostic decision-making, aiding pathologists in the detection, scoring, classification and counting of cells of interests.
The aims of our validation study were: 1) calibration of the algorithm for ER and PR detection built-in NQ on immunostained slides after whole-slide digitalization; and 2) assessment of equivalence of the semi-automated detection using the software application with the manual scoring of digital slides.
ER and PR stained IHC breast cancer slides from 16 cases (14 invasive ductal carcinoma Grade I-III and 2 invasive lobular carcinoma) were used from the archive of the 1st Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research of the Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. The formalin-fixed paraffin embedded specimens were stained (as defined in the manufacturer's staining protocol) on a Bond-max™ fully automated staining system (Leica Microsystems GmbH, Germany), using Leica Microsystem's mouse monoclonal antibodies for ER (clone 6F11) and PR (clone 1A6). Samples were selected to cover all positivity ranges, selection based on the original diagnosis. Slides were digitalized using a Pannoramic SCAN digital slide scanner with Zeiss plan-apochromat objective (magnification: 20×, Numerical aperture: 0,8) and Hitachi (HV-F22CL) 3CCD progressive scan colour camera (resolution: 0,2325 μm/pixel).
The algorithm developed by the University of Pannonia, Faculty of Information Technology, Veszprém, Hungary had default detection parameters, defined based on a training sample set (i.e. 68 hematoxilin, ER, PR, Ki67, p53, p16 stained samples). The measurement of the exact deviation in the object detection and scoring quality of the system was performed in a factual environment. The system needed to be calibrated for suitable detection of ER and PR stained slides. During the calibration the detection algorithm had to set to the optical features of the digital slides created using the digital slide scanners manufactured by 3DHISTECH Ltd.
The calibration was performed on a selected slide set. Small areas (2-4/slide) representing each case were selected by a pathologist on the digital slides. Areas (n = 38) contained a mean number of 195 cells (min. 73- max. 489 cells). The pathologist scored each annotation on the digital slides using PV. The slides were later analyzed with NQ to compare the scores with those provided by the pathologist. The selection was followed by a manual marking (i.e. encircling using the freehand annotation option in PV) of each cell in the respective annotation. Different colours were used to denote the positivity classes (Figure 1). Pathologist reviewed the suitability of the marking. The process was followed by iterative analysis of each slide accompanied by the adjustment of the detection parameters of NQ until close reproduction of the manual encircling was obtained. The separate *.misp files, created for each slide after the most optimal detection setup, were analyzed with respect to the detection parameters (e.g. object detection, correctness of cell marking) to obtain the most appropriate setup and to create a main *.misp file that can be used on any ER or PR stained slide. After the optimal setup, all slides were re-analyzed using NQ and the scores were compared with those provided by the pathologist.
Manual marking of cells within a ROI. Blue = negative cells, Red = positive cells.
One pathologist marked from 3 to 5 biologically representative areas (regions of interest, ROI) on each digital slide, and scored the ROI on a computer monitor using PV only. The same ROI were later scored using NQ and the results of the two scorings were compared. The mean number of cells analyzed per slide was 5069 (min. 2,780-max. 19,740). The Allred scoring  was used by the pathologists to score the slides, and the same scoring was incorporated into NQ. This widely accepted and used [19, 20] semi-quantitative scoring system takes into account the percent of the positively stained tumour cells and the staining intensity of the cells. The percent of positively stained tumour cells represent the Positivity Score, ranging from 0 to 5 (i.e 0 = no stained cell, 1 = 1/100 stained cells, 2 = 1/10 stained cells, 3 = 1/3 stained cells, 4 = 2/3 stained cells, 5 = up to 100% stained cells). The staining intensity, defined as the Intensity Score, ranges from 0 (i.e. no staining) to 3 (i.e. strong staining). The two scores are added to obtain the Total Score that ranges from 0 to 8, and represents positive tumours if equals or exceeds 3 .
Agreement between the pathologist's scores of digital slides and scores obtained using NQ was analyzed using Cohen's kappa. The strength of agreement of the kappa statistic was interpreted using the classes proposed by Landis and Koch  as follows: <0.00 = poor agreement, 0.00-0.20 = slight agreement, 0.21-0.40 = fair agreement, 0.41-0.60 = moderate agreement, 0.61-0.80 = substantial agreement, 0.81-1.00 = almost perfect agreement. The strength of the agreement was additionally assessed using the Spearman rank-correlation coefficient. In order to test the clinical relevancy of the agreement, quadratic weighted kappa was calculated as well, by assigning the weight 0 for the most relevant disagreement (i.e. negative Total Score = 0, 1 or 2 vs. highly positive Total Score). The data were analyzed using the SPSS 17.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, USA) and MedCalc for Windows v. 11.2.1.0 (MedCalc Software, Mariakerke, Belgium) software applications.
The first step of the testing was the assessment of the object detection and scoring quality of the newly developed algorithm in NQ, without calibration. The measurement of the deviation in the object detection and scoring of the algorithm was performed to test for the need of calibration. The analysis of the slides provided slight agreement between the two scores if tested with Cohen's kappa (κ = 0.138, SE = 0.0815, 95%CI = -0.0217-0.298), and moderate agreement using quadratic weighted kappa (κ = 0.485, SE = 0.100). Result showed that the object detection and scoring of the algorithm was not adequate, and therefore needed to be calibrated.
Our approach using encircled cell nuclei (Figure 1) proved to be an adequate input to calibrate the optimal object detection and positivity determination of the algorithm (Figure 2).
Agreement in cell detection between the un-calibrated and calibrated algorithm and the manual encircling.
The calibrated algorithm provided an overall 87% agreement in cell detection with the manual marking, which proves a correct object detection mechanism (Figure 3). Results provided with the main *.misp file were tested against the scores provided by the pathologist. The application, similar to the pathologist, rated eight annotations as negative and 30 as positive. Almost perfect agreement between the two scoring was found with Cohen's kappa (κ = 0.859, SE = 0.0666, 95%CI = 0.729-0.990), and quadratic weighted kappa (κ = 0.986, SE = 0.162). There was a significant correlation between the pathologist's scores and the ones provided by NQ (Spearman's rho = 0.953, df = 37, p < 0.0001, 95% CI for rho 0.911-0.976).
Object detection of the calibrated NuclearQuant algorithm. Blue = negative cells, Red = positive cells.
Two slides containing 3-3 annotations each have been removed from the analysis. Both contained necrotized and ragged tissue sections, and additionally relatively intense cytoplasmic staining, thus these were not suitable for quantization using the software application.
Altogether 53 annotations have been used in the analysis. Seven annotations were scored by the pathologist as negative (i.e. Total Score between 0 and 2), 46 as positive, and the same results were obtained using NQ. Four discrepancies were recorded between the Positivity Scores provided by pathologist and the application. Three included down-scoring (i.e. lower NQ positivity score) and in one case up scoring (i.e. PS = 0 vs. 1). Similar results were obtained in the Intensity Score.
Cohen's kappa showed substantial agreement (κ = 0.795, SE = 0.0669, 95%CI = 0.664-0.926), whereas quadratic weighted kappa almost perfect agreement (κ = 0.981, SE = 0.137). There was a significant correlation between the pathologist's scores and the ones provided by NQ (Spearman's rho = 0.975, df = 52, p < 0.0001, 95% CI for rho 0.958-0.986).
Pathologist usually score IHC-stained slides with the light microscope by semi-quantitative methods, which are not standardized. Although there are several scoring guides available with colourful pictures of various slides depicting different positivity, biological samples are more heterogeneous and more 'awkward' slides exists, which are hard to be categorized. These are mainly cases with low or moderate positivity and with vesicular nuclear structure, where the chromatin is associated to the nuclear membrane and therefore the immunstaining is hard to capture. Usually a simple scoring takes several seconds, but in these problematic cases, it may take even minutes and may be un-reproducible since the result depends merely on the training and the tiredness of the pathologists' eyes and the time the pathologist deals with a single slide. By using a well calibrated and optimized automatic scoring algorithm and software, these risky cases could be scored in a standardized and reproducible way, and could additionally be documented thoroughly.
The calibration procedure applied using encircled nuclei proved an adequate input for the adjustment of the optimal object detection and the intensity thresholds to the score definition in our software application. The overall 87% cell detection agreement is regarded as excellent, considering that the slides analyzed covered the entire positivity range. This method could be used to suitably calibrate similar image analysis applications.
Following the calibration of the NQ algorithm the agreement with the scores provided by the pathologist was almost perfect (κ = 0.981). Similar results were reported in the literature following the assessment of different image analysis applications. Sharangpani et al.  found an agreement of 85% and 81% between the automatic determination of positivity/negativity of ER and PR stained cells with the subjective measurements. The agreement rate of the automated and manual scoring using higher number of samples then the ones used in our validation survey was reported to be 0.78 for ER and 0.72 for PR , 0.84 for ER  or 0.918 for ER . Gokhale et al.  reported 95% concordance between the automated systems and observers, and Mofidi et al.  a highly significant correlation (r2 = 0.844) between the digital scores and the manual ones.
Although the semi-automated assessment has several advantages over the manual scoring, the process has its drawbacks as well, that include i) precise and more time consuming selection of ROI to be investigated, as stromal tissue may influence the Total Score given by the application, or ii) only well prepared specimens may be quantified, as the detection algorithm may provide erroneous results if intense cytoplasmic staining is present or when the nuclei are vesicular. Still these drawbacks are superable by means of intensive training of pathologists on the use of the analysis application. The occasional misclassification errors, non-conceptional errors, arising from poorly stained samples or samples of bad quality can be solved during the review of the results by the pathologist. NQ provides the user with the ability to reclassify or drop individual detected objects, and thus to censor the software provided results.
By use of image analysis applications such as NQ presented above, the quantization of nuclear markers could be improved, made objective and reproducible. Further large clinical performance evaluation study(ies) involving several institutions and pathologists are needed to assess the safety and effectiveness of this software application with certainty before its initiation in the day-to-day pathological workflow.
In conclusion, our data support the suitability of NQ to reliably test ER and PR status in breast cancer. The calibration procedure applied using encircled nuclei is an adequate method to calibrate image analysis applications. Further large clinical performance evaluation studies should be performed to further characterize the software application and prove its diagnostic validity.
We thank Renáta Kis (3DHISTECH Ltd.) for scanning the slides. Orsolya Bakonyi, Balázs Fricker, Veronika Halász, Márton Kardos, Zoltán Markovits, Imre Mészáros, Csaba Pintér, Máté Weidlisch, Pál Wittmann, all from 3DHISTECH Ltd., participated in the detection calibration, and are acknowledged here. The slides were analyzed with the permission of the Institutional Review Board and Regional Ethics Committee of the Semmelweis University (RKEB) (permit no. 7/2006).
GK, DSz, VJ, PG, LF are employees of 3DHISTECH Ltd. BM is the owner of 3DHISTECH Ltd. GCs and LC were financially supported by 3DHISTECH Ltd. to develop the detection algorithm included in the NuclearQuant software.
LK, VJ and GK planned the calibration. LK, TM, TK constructed the majority of the manuscript and performed the statistical analysis. TM and TK were the pathologist scoring the cases. GK, DSz, VJ, PG, LF, BM planned and developed the NQ software. GCs and LC develop the detection algorithm. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.


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I installed 5.4.1 on exchange server 2016 and migrated my settings from exchange 2010's ORF installation.
now the exchange 2016 no longer receives/sends mail and i uninstalled ORF and the transport agents and it still doesn't receive mail.
Whenever you uninstall a transport agent, the Microsoft Exchange Transport service must be restarted as well in order to apply the new settings. To do this, start the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and run the following command: "Restart-Service MSExchangeTransport"
Furthermore, please verify that the removal of the "Vamsoft ORF SMTP Receive Agent" and the "Vamsoft ORF Routing Agent" was successful by checking the list of installed Transport Agents: Issue the following command from the EMS: "Get-TransportAgent".
Should the issue persist after restarting the Exchange Transport service, try restarting the affected Exchange server.
If the ORF Tranport Agents are uninstalled and you have restarted the Exchange Transport service as well, ORF has no way to affect the delivery of incoming emails on your Exchange server. It should be also noted that ORF does not filter outbound emails, and it does not act as a proxy (it does not have its own SMTP engine), which means it cannot actually receive or send any emails. Instead, it hooks specific SMTP events during the mail transmission, tests the incoming emails and instructs the underlying Exchange (or IIS SMTP) server to reject or allow them to pass. The actual relaying, queuing and delivery of emails is performed by Exchange, ORF has no control over that.
Have you tried to restart your Exchange server already?
During the Orf uninstall doesn't it stop and restart the Exchange Transport service automatically?
@mike.galbicka: No, it doesn't. The Exchange Transport Service (and the Exchange Front-End Transport service) must be stopped manually before uninstalling ORF. In fact, when you launch the uninstall wizard, the very first thing you see is a notification about this. If you skip this step, you will see a prompt at the end of the uninstall process stating that the transport agent binaries (orftagent15.dll) could not be removed - and should be deleted manually after stopping the Exchange Transport and Front-End Transport services.
@Daniel Novak (Vamsoft): Why isn't it built in to the uninstaller like it is the installer?
@mike.galbicka: ok sorry for the false alarm.
no , its not vamsoft problem.
apparently its a confluence of issues.
dns cache, mx settings, send or receive connectors. anyway the vendor got it fixed. i've reinstalled vamsoft ORF with no issue.
@mike.galbicka: As far as I know, this is due to technical limitations Mike. However, the technical details are way over my head, I am afraid (I am not a developer).


Vasilisa Pavlova backstage at the Dior Cruise 2016 show at the French Riviera.
I met Heidi Klum for the first time at the S/S 2015 Michael Kors show in New York.
My dear friend Daiane Conterato backstage at a Dior show.
Fun friday afternoon with Jordana Ribeiro!
I talked to Lorde at the Chloé show!
My polaroid of Nicki Minaj, last September at the Alexander Wang show in NY.
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This is a contributing entry for Evansdale and Star City Public Art Tour and only appears as part of that tour.Learn More.
"All Gave Some, Some Gave All" Memorial
This bronze sculpture and stone monument honor Star City residents who served in the military. The memorial is located at the JFK Memorial Park in Star City.
"All Gave Some, Some Gave All" memorial.
Stone accompanying sculpture.
Located at the Star City riverfront, this memorial is a tribute to Star City residents who served in the military. The memorial consists of two pieces: a bronze sculpture and a stone monument.
The stone monument was dedicated on Memorial Day in 2011. The monument includes a large star with the letters "WV" in the middle, flanked by the emblems of the Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, and Department of Defense. The monument text reads: "In honor of all Star City Veterans / Past / Present / Future."
The bronze sculpture was dedicated on May 25, 2015. It depicts the "battlefield cross," a rifle with a helmet balanced on top planted in the ground behind a pair of boots. This image may have first appeared in the Civil War as the dead were gathered for burial. It gained more popular use in World War I as a makeshift way of identifying the temporary graves of fallen soldiers. Throughout other conflicts in the twentieth century, the "cross" became a powerful symbol of those who gave their lives defending the United States, while also providing a sense of closure for the living. Originally, the "cross" consisted of just the rifle and helmet. Later depictions include dog tags, a pair of boots, and other personal memorabilia.
The Star City battlefield cross includes a small plaque with the words: "'All Gave Some - Some Gave All.' Dedicated to the memory of all veterans who proudly served and protected their country." The plaque also depicts the emblems of the five branches of the military.
Among the 200 people attending the dedication ceremony was West Virginia Secretary of State, Natalie Tennant, who said the memorial is meant "to remember those who have fallen, who gave their lives, whose families sacrificed as well."
Public art label: All Gave Some, Some Gave All. Star City waterfront. Accessed 2018.
Golden, Kathleen. "The Battlefield Cross." National Museum of American History. May 21, 2015. Accessed September 2018. http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/battlefield-cross
Wiles, Sunshine. "Battlefield cross memorial dedicated at Star City park." WAJR. May 25, 2015. Accessed September 2018. http://wajr.com/battlefield-cross-memorial-dedicated-at-star-city-park/
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Created by Sally Deskins on September 18th 2018, 11:55:47 am.
Last updated by Pamela Curtin (West Virginia University Libraries) on September 19th 2018, 12:37:15 pm.
Evansdale and Star City Public Art Tour
From outdoor sculptures and murals to indoor galleries and venues, Morgantown offers many opportunities for experiencing art for free! This Clio tour explores works of art on the Evansdale campus of WVU and Star City area. This tour was created to complement the West Virginia University Libraries Public Art Guide, a PDF of which can be found on the Visit Mountaineer Country website or you can generate a PDF by clicking on the link to a PDF below.