Congenital facial paralysis is classified as traumatic or developmental, unilateral or bilateral, and complete or incomplete (paresis). Determining the etiology is important because the prognosis and treatment differ, depending on the underlying pathophysiology. An appropriate history and physical examination usually resolve the origin, but radiographic imaging and neuromuscular testing may be necessary for treatment planning.
An extended physical examination is needed to exclude other congenital malformations. Associated anomalies may include microtia, inner ear abnormalities, extraocular muscle paralysis, facial hypoplasia, other cranial nerve deficiencies, cleft palate, internal organ disorders, and extremity deformities.
A child with Möbius syndrome is depicted below.
Child with Möbius syndrome, eyes open. Image courtesy of M.J. Biavati.
The causes of developmental facial paralysis are numerous and may be associated with syndromes and teratogens.
Several subcategories exist that fall under the spectrum of oculo-auriculo-vertebral disorders that consists of anomalies of the first and second branchial arches. This is a common craniofacial disorder characterized by a wide spectrum of anomalies, including a conductive hearing loss due to external and middle ear deformities.
The prevalence of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), as well as facial nerve dysfunction, is underappreciated. A retrospective study by Carvalho et al found that in a cohort of pediatric patients, hearing loss was present in 74 of 99 children (75%), with a conductive component in 73 patients. Sensorineural hearing loss was present in 11 patients (11%), with mixed hearing loss in most patients. Nearly a quarter of the patients (22 of 99 [22%]) had facial nerve dysfunction, but only 1 patient had facial palsy on the same side as the SNHL.  Lower facial weakness occurs in 10-20% of cases and is likely related to bony involvement in the region of the facial canal. A nonhereditary variant of hemifacial microsomia is Goldenhar syndrome, which has vertebral anomalies and epibulbar dermoids.
Osteopetrosis, a rare cause of paralysis at birth, may also manifest later in childhood.
Newborn children with facial paralysis may present with noted asymmetric facial movement, incomplete eye closing, and difficulties feeding. They may have other more significant symptoms from other congenital defects.
Determine the etiology of congenital facial nerve paralysis based on birth history, family history, physical examination, radiologic studies, and neurophysiologic tests.
A family history positive for facial paralysis or other congenital anomalies increases the suspicion for a developmental cause of the facial paralysis.
Examine the infant bilaterally and evaluate both the upper and lower portions of the face. Looking at forehead wrinkling, eye closure, and lip movement. A bilateral facial palsy is frequently incomplete, affecting either the lower or upper portion of the face. This helps to distinguish developmental causes of congenital facial paralysis from traumatic causes that often involves the upper and lower face equally and are often unilateral.
The examination needs to evaluate the other cranial nerves and rule out other congenital anomalies.
Often, a mild paresis of the facial nerve is not noticed at birth, especially if the injury is bilateral. When facial nerve paralysis is associated with hemifacial microsomia or other craniofacial abnormalities, the facial nerve is often not noted to be weak until the child grows and a more pronounced asymmetry develops, prompting closer evaluation of the facial nerve.
To grade the severity of the facial paralysis, many grading systems exist, such as the Terzis-Noah scale.  The most commonly used scale is the House-Brackmann listed below.  The higher the grade, the least likely full recovery will occur.
Traumatic congenital facial nerve paralysis usually resolves spontaneously and does not require surgery. A general guideline when considering surgery in a traumatic facial paralysis patient is to determine if clinical and electrophysiologic tests reveal (1) complete unilateral paralysis (H-B grade VI), (2) evidence of temporal bone trauma based upon CT scanning and physical examination, (3) complete loss of function of the facial nerve at age 3-5 days, and (4) absence of improvement by age 5 weeks.
Surgery in patients with developmental facial paralysis is usually delayed until later in life.
The facial nerve (cranial nerve VII) develops early in fetal life from the facioacoustic crest in the second branchial arch. All facial muscles are identifiable in the embryo by the 14th week. The facial nerve develops close to the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII). Therefore, any abnormality of these structures often accompanies facial nerve deficits. At term, the anatomy of the facial nerve approximates the adult anatomy with the exception of its superficial location within a poorly pneumatized mastoid. Development of the mastoid bone occurs from age 1-3 years and displaces the facial nerve medially and inferiorly.
The facial nerve is a complex mixed nerve containing motor, parasympathetic, special sensory (taste), and sensory components.
The motor nucleus lies deep within the reticular formation of the pons, where it receives input from the precentral gyrus of the motor cortex. The motor fibers innervate the muscles of facial expression, posterior belly of the digastric muscle, stylohyoid muscle, and stapedius muscle. The upper motor neuron (supranuclear) tracts supplying the upper face cross once and then cross again in the pons; thus, bilateral innervation is present, whereas tracts to the lower face cross only once.
The parasympathetic fibers originate in the superior salivatory nucleus and are responsible for lacrimation and salivation via the greater superficial petrosal nerve and the chorda tympani, respectively.
Afferent taste fibers are carried from the anterior two thirds of the tongue to the nucleus tractus solitarius via the lingual nerve, chorda tympani, and nervus intermedius.
The facial nerve also provides some sensory innervation to the external auditory canal.
The intracranial segment of the facial nerve travels 23-24 mm from the brain stem at the level of the caudal pons to the internal auditory canal (IAC). The meatal segment includes 7-8 mm of the nerve between the fundus of the IAC and the meatal foramen. The facial nerve occupies the anterior-superior quadrant within the IAC. The labyrinthine segment is 3-5 mm in length and travels superior to the cochlea and vestibule to the geniculate ganglion.
The first branch of the facial nerve, the greater superficial petrosal nerve, is within this segment. The tympanic segment is 12-13 mm in length and begins at the geniculate ganglion, where the nerve turns 40-80° posteriorly (first genu) to enter the middle ear on the medial wall of the tympanic cavity superior to the oval window and inferior to the lateral semicircular canal and ends at the pyramidal eminence.
The nerve turns inferiorly (second genu) below the horizontal semicircular canal and continues as the mastoid (vertical) portion 15-20 mm and exits the stylomastoid foramen. The extratemporal portion of the facial nerve is distal to the stylomastoid foramen and supplies the muscles of facial expression. The facial nerve divides the parotid gland into superficial and deep lobes. Within the gland, branching of the nerve is variable. Most commonly, the nerve divides into an upper temporozygomatic and lower cervicofacial division. Five terminal branches innervate the mimetic musculature of the face, namely the temporal, zygomatic, buccal, marginal mandibular, and cervical branches.
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Child with Möbius syndrome, eyes closed. Image courtesy of M.J. Biavati.
Child with congenital heart disease and left lower lip palsy suggestive of velocardiofacial syndrome. Image courtesy of M.J. Biavati.
Incision marking for a XII-VII crossover with jump graft. Image courtesy of A.D. Bruns.
Surgical exposure of the facial nerve, hypoglossal nerve, and great auricular nerve. Image courtesy of A.D. Bruns.
Surgical photo of a XII-VII crossover with jump graft. The great auricular nerve graft is sutured to the proximal portion of the facial nerve and to a partial sectioned hypoglossal nerve (preserving approximately two thirds of the axons going to the tongue). Image courtesy of A.D. Bruns.
The authors and editors of Medscape Drugs & Diseases gratefully acknowledge the contributions of previous author Kim Lundstrom, MD, to the development and writing of this article.


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Schleich Carnotaurus Dinosaur Model Reviewed
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A Review of the World of History (Schleich Prehistoric Animals) Carnotaurus
Dinosaur models are a bit like buses, you wait ages for a model to come along and then two arrive in quick succession. First Papo of France introduced their Carnotaurus replica and now Schleich of Germany have added a Carnotaurus to their not-to-scale prehistoric animal model series. The two models are very different, the Schleich figure suggests a much more robust and heavy animal with a strong set of jaws.
Named and described back in 1985 after an almost complete skeleton was excavated from Upper Cretaceous sediments located in Argentina, Carnotaurus is a very bizarre looking Theropod dinosaur. The name Carnotaurus means "meat-eating bull", a reference to the two horns that stick out sideways from just above the eyes. The skull itself is very short and this dinosaur had a very blunt muzzle, with a shallow lower jaw. Studies of skull material have suggested that this dinosaur had an acute sense of smell, Schleich have chosen to give their Carnotaurus replica prominent nostrils and a considerable overbite. This member of the Abelisaurids had a strong neck and some large muscle attachments associated with the jaws, which seem to be at odds with the relatively weak lower jaw and the disproportionately small teeth.
The Carnotaurus Model (Schleich of Germany)
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The model measures twenty-one centimetres in length, with the head held ten centimetres off the ground. Based on an estimated size of around seven and a half metres, this model of Carnotaurus is in approximately 1:35 scale.
The arms of Carnotaurus are extremely small, much smaller in proportion to the rest of its body than the arms on a similar sized Tyrannosaurid. These stumpy arms were relatively immobile, they could not reach the jaws and they would have been useless at grasping had helping to subdue prey. This dinosaur had four fingers on each hand, one of which, the first digit, seems to have pointed backwards, although in this Schleich model only three fingers are represented.
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Thanks to some excellent skin impressions from the right flank of the specimen excavated along with the other holotype material, palaeontologists have a very good idea about how Carnotaurus looked. Its body was covered with small, pebble-like scales with lines of larger scales (scutes), forming rows running along the flanks. The design team at Schleich have been careful to recreate their dinosaur with these features on the skin.
This replica is reminiscent of the Carnotaurus depicted in the Disney film "Dinosaur" that was released in 2000 AD. Even the mauve colouration is very similar to that seen in Disney CGI movie although in the film these Theropods were referred to as "Carnotaurs".
Schleich Carnotaurus Model
The Schleich Carnotaurus - 1:35 scale approximately.
The model has oversized feet, an aid to stability, as it is often difficult to get bipedal dinosaur models to stand unassisted, but this does not detract from the stance or the pose. This Carnotaurus is nicely crafted, although clearly aimed at younger dinosaur fans, with its slightly rubbery almost springy feel, it makes an interesting contrast to other Carnotaurus replicas introduced recently.


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Q: Debugging a zero-transaction result from the transactions endpoint in customer data api We use the https://financialdatafeed.platform.intuit.com/v1/accounts/account_id_goes_here/transactions endpoint on a recurring basis to fetch transactions for all of the accounts we sync.  We've been using this stably for quite awhile now, across a wide variety of accounts spanning 100s of financial institutions.  This works great.
However, occasionally we get a report from a user who claims that we're not receiving transactions that they know to exist.  Our investigation protocol is as follows:

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*To ask the user if they see the transactions when they sign into their bank's web site directly

*To ask them to confirm that the credentials they used on their bank's web site are precisely the ones that they entered when setting up credit card sync on our site

*We then manually inspect the response body from the above mentioned URL, to make sure that the HTTPS response indicates HTTP 200 and has a non-error response body (our app catches these errors correctly, but if debugging mysteriously missing transactions, we inspect the response body visually).

*We look to see whether we're successfully syncing transactions for any other user that relies on the same FI. If we are, we become confident that both the bank and Intuit APIs are well-behaved, and that the problem is on our end somehow.

*We sometimes ask users to try the same FI in Mint, guessing that if it fails in Mint, that it might be a bank or FI issue.

Investigation steps 1-2-3-4-5 tease out the root cause of at least 99% of the times when a user emails us to say that we're not successfully receiving their transactions.  However, the remaining 1% are the tricky ones.
Today I'm faced with a situation where a user sees the txns on their bank website, swears that they are using the same creds when adding the card to our site, the HTTP response from the endpoint is HTTP 200 but contains zero transactions, but yet when the user tries via Mint they successfully see transactions.
However, the particular FI (OnPoint Community Credit Union) is not one where I can do investigation step 4, because we have no other users that currently rely on that FI.  Is it possible for someone at Intuit to check to see whether there is evidence that users relying on OnPoint Community Credit Union are currently, successfully, retrieving transactions from that particular FI?
Any other suggestions for how to further deduce whether the zero-transaction response is due to: (a) user error, (b) bank server responding incorrectly, (c) Intuit server responding incorrectly, vs (d) our app behaving incorrectly?

A: Can you please submit a support ticket to Intuit with the Account_ID that is missing the transactions so that we can diagnose the issue?  The first place to start when diagnosing the issue is to look at the Agg_status_code to make sure that reflects a '0'.  If we are unable to login due to invalid credentials or MFA might be a cause of the missing transactions.  I can help diagnose though once a ticket is submitted.

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Helps keep your cuffed sleeves from falling down.
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By Gabrielle Solomon @CNNMoney October 29, 2015: 9:18 AM ET
1. Angela Ahrendts
Title: Sr. VP, Retail and Online Stores
Cash compensation: $3.4 million
Stock and options: $70 million
First published October 29, 2015: 9:18 AM ET
Source: Equilar
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And We're Off to the Oscar Races!
Barbra Streisand did a magnifacent rendition of "Memory" from "Cats" Not "Feelings"! You idiots!
oh, so sorry. my mistake. see what J&B can do to a girl's, um, memory?
by the way … it's spelled "magnificent" not "magnifacent." but that's just being petty, don't mind me.
Hee hee. You rock, Kitty.
Boy, do I miss the old Muppets. I just shake my head sadly at their desperate attempts to keep it alive nowadays. Leave it as it was: a brilliant, innovative comedy program. Now it's just about money. Respect the late, brilliant Jim Henson by leaving his work alone.


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Winter months offer some of best chances to spot Ohio's bald eagles
Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 4:01 a.m.
A bald eagle nests in a tree in March 2022 in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Stone Road, just west of the Towpath Trail. The eagle took over a Heron nest within a rookery in that area. Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio — One of the great wildlife success stories in recent years is the increasing population of bald eagles in Ohio and across the nation. Once endangered, bald eagles are now considered common in Ohio.
According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, there were an estimated 824 eagles nests in 2022. It's a dramatic increase from 1979, when there were only four recorded nesting pairs of eagles.
Nesting activity increases during the winter months and with the leaves of the trees, people hoping to spot an eagle have a good chance to see one ... if they're in the right spot.
Eagles tend to nest near aquatic habitats, so areas near rivers, wetlands and lakes offer the best opportunities to see an eagle.
Some popular areas in Northeast Ohio to spot bald eagles include:
Redwood Elementary School, 32967 Redwood Blvd., Avon Lake. Two eagles nicknamed Stars and Stripes have made their home on the school's property. A live cam has been set up to monitor the nest.
Pinery Narrows area of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Brecksville.
Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation in Cuyahoga Heights.
The Cleveland Metroparks Rocky River Reservation.
Some other popular locations to spot eagles include Bruce Yee Park in Eastlake, Lake Erie Bluffs in Perry Township in Lake County, and Mosquito Creek Wildlife Area in Trumbull County. Eagles often are spotted along the shore of Lake Erie and along the rivers in the Cleveland area.
ODNR says people observing eagles should stay at least 100 yards away. Disturbing bald eagles at the nest site could lead the pair to abandon the eggs.
Mature bald eagles are easier to see because of their white head and tail. Eagles younger than 5 years old still have mottled brown and white plumage and can be more difficult to spot, according to ODNR. The agency recommends people use a good set of binoculars or a spotting scope.
"The recent success of Ohio's bald eagles is owed in a big way to improvements in the state's water quality and habitat availability," ODNR Division of Wildlife Chief Kendra Wecker said in a statement. "The bald eagle's recovery is an example of how wildlife and habitats benefit when the state, conservation partners, and individuals work together."
The bald eagle was removed from the federal list of threatened and endangered species in 2007 and from Ohio's list in 2012. Bald eagles are protected under both state law and the federal Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.


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ClimateCultures welcomes new Member Sally Moss, who brings us her review of fellow Member Nancy Campbell's new book, The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate. Nancy has long had an interest in the polar regions and in watery environments; she is currently the UK's Canal Laureate and has written for ClimateCultures about her Polar Tombola project. Sally is a writer, editor and activist exploring the cultural shift required for regenerative living and creative ways to challenge high-carbon habits. She is currently Social Media and Website Project Coordinator (freelance) for Commonweal, using online platforms to link forms of nonviolence activism and prompt grass-roots action.
Nancy Campbell's The Library of Ice documents both the realm of ice and humanity's multifaceted relationship with it.
This direct nature scholarship, and the latent fragility of the ecosystems that support us, are the themes that underpin The Library of Ice's wandering course. We are presented with manifold landscapes, eras, hubris-driven expeditions, personalities and planetary prognoses, piling up like brash ice.
The book is rich in meticulous detail — it's a microscope and a dictionary, as much as a library. Less familiar words bloom throughout ('dioptre', 'firn', 'philtrum'), and it does well to veer only occasionally towards the abstruse. For all the density of scholarship, it's a readable account, and highly poetic in places.
Vivid imagery is conjured, whether it's through Campbell's words ("The [curling] stone makes me think of a child potentate: everyone's eyes are on it, and its apparently independent movement is cleverly controlled") or the words of others (Arctic explorer William McKinley: "As I turned round to face the ship, old Karluk seemed to be doing her best to outdo nature. Her deck covering of snow shimmered like tinsel. Every rope and spar was magnified by a fluffy coating of frosted rime").
The book also internally debates narrative approaches. An example: Robert Boyle was one of the founders of modern chemistry and devoted much of his energy to "the Phaenomena of Cold". He said of his sources, "to get to the useful matter [the reader] must labour through 'melancholy Accounts of storms and distresses, and Ice, and Bears, and Foxes'". Campbell's response is to smile and admit "My own journals are not free of such accounts".
But when reading Boyle's own words I find his personal fascination with his subject far more engaging than his results. And I am anchored and reassured when Campbell shares her rawest perceptions with us. What can be more important for humanity's prospects right now, I wonder, than examining our subjective responses until we become, one by one, a great deal more self-aware and adaptable?
When it comes to raising the climate alarm, the book is relatively measured: mere whispers of catastrophe punctuate the chapters. But while it may be a myth that a whisper can start an avalanche, several in concert can certainly trigger disquiet.
And the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, we hear, has predicted that snow cover will disappear from the Alps by 2100, leaving the unprotected glaciers to melt quickly.
The Icelandic landscape is regularly used for filming, often because it has the look of an alien planet; Campbell notes that "As the Earth changes, this rocky landscape may hint at humanity's future, as well as its past".
Against this background, I began to think about the reading process itself, about the pace of life. I read The Library of Ice in snatched quarter-hours on commutes and in queues; reading a book such as this can take time that isn't always easy to find, or justify, in a frenetic age. There's the daily grind, which grinds ever harder under neoliberalism, and the fiery panic the climate emergency can induce.
But if a profound book can change a reader's internal landscape in a matter of days or weeks, then I guess it works fast enough even for 2018. This one slows us down until we can see through the lens of geological time, see in academic detail what is happening to us, and begin to accept and process it. Rapid, society-wide change is certainly needed, but the personal change it rests on requires us to relearn patience.
Through Campbell's reflections, we encounter a range of perspectives across times and places.
And in a TV weather forecast in Upernavik, Campbell tells us, "Europe, North America, the rest of the world are off the map, beyond the edges of the screen — out of sight, out of mind" — just as those parts of the world that were ravaged first by climate disruption are often out of mind in Europe and North America. In this journey, she has joined the dots between nations who don't always recognise their primary interdependence.
Another parallel: for hunters in Qaanaaq, where the ice is retreating, "The changing climate has removed both the possibility of movement, and the promise of rest". Perhaps we face a corresponding conundrum in the guilty West, with many of us stuck in the chronic busywork of overconsumption yet still lacking a collective sense of the way forward.
Having starkly laid out the current condition of our planetary home, The Library of Ice concludes with an individual act of home-making: Campbell returns from her travels to a new base in the UK.
It strikes me that the book plays it very cool in ending as it does, transporting us to the melting point (and no further) in the settings it explores. This is no bad thing, I think. It leaves us to ponder for ourselves the journey onwards to unbearable temperatures, to drought and death — a journey already completed in the most vulnerably situated countries, and one that many more of us will make, globally, if our nature scholarship is lacking, or if we fail to start living by it in the very near future.
Sally Moss is a writer, editor, researcher and activist exploring the cultural shift required to live regeneratively and adapt well to the Anthropocene. She is currently Commonweal's freelance Social Media and Website Project Coordinator, using online platforms to link forms of nonviolence activism and prompt grass-roots action. You can find out more about Sally's work in her Directory entry and at sallymoss-editorial.co.uk. Sally interviewed ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe for Commonweal in July 2018, published simultaneously here.
Nancy Campbell's The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate is published by Simon & Schuster / Scribner UK. Nancy has previously published a poetry collection, Disko Bay, and artists' books, including The Polar Tombola: A Book of Banished Words and How To Say 'I Love You' In Greenlandic: An Arctic Alphabet. Nancy was a Marie Claire 'Wonder Woman' in 2016 for activities including Arctic Book Club and The Polar Tombola, an interactive live literature event. She is the UK Canal Laureate 2018. You can find more of her work in her Directory entry and at nancycampbell.co.uk. Nancy's posts for ClimateCultures include The Polar Tombola and A Personal History of the Anthropocene – Three Objects #7.


Across social media, conservatives are on the hunt for lion lovers. "Hey Liberals," one meme featuring a smiling infant in a feline costume reads, "Let's pretend I am a lion. Maybe then you can muster up some outrage that I am skinned alive for my parts." Senator Marco Rubio's tweet "Look at all this outrage over a dead lion, but where is all the outrage over the planned parenthood dead babies" has been re-tweeted thousands of time. And these are just two examples of a chorus that is echoed in a hundred other places, sometimes with different "more important" topics, like the police shooting unarmed African-Americans, juxtaposed against the death of the African lion.
A part of me wants to roar along. Yes, the fact that publicly funded Planned Parenthood systematically dismembers little humans and then shops around their body parts is a bigger deal than a Minnesota dentist putting an arrow into one of the king of the beasts—a much bigger deal. As with the baby back-stabbing Kermit Gosnell's murder trial, the failure of the mainstream media to take the matter seriously is an indicator of the deep biases that infect most newsrooms. Last Thursday, ABC's World News Tonight ran yet another full length story on the death of Cecil the lion (and there have been more since). Ironically, that was followed by a piece entitled "The Forgotten Children." Young ones torn apart with the aid of ultrasound in an effort to preserve their high dollar livers were not, of course, the subject of the expose´. ABC News once sent hidden camera wearing reporters into Food Lion meat markets to uncover unsanitary practices, but the human butchery of Planned Parenthood has yet to merit any on air attention.
I can certainly understand the inclination to cross your arms and tap your foot while looking disapprovingly on as the death of Cecil and other lesser topics are spotlighted while the violence of a D&C remains cloaked behind a veil of media silence. This is a doughnut-hole phenomenon where the circumference of compassion has been expanded but its traditional central core of empathy towards our own has been hollowed out. American society's priorities are indeed warped, but an indignant reaction tends to push us towards the odd place of trying to demonstrate our compassion for the unborn by suppressing any compassion we might have towards animals. "Forget the stupid lion!" we lash out in frustration.
Kay Warren, wife of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, followed this path several years back when she wrote a blog called "Puppies Aren't People" about almost being moved to donate to a local SPCA by one of those weepy Sara McLachlan commercials. She successfully beat back the initial tug at her heart and concluded, "Puppies? Gorillas? No . . . children." Today, many are effectively saying, "Cecil the lion? No, Emmitt the unborn!" I say, why not both?
As a Christianity Today editorial put it in response to Warren, "Compassion is not a zero sum game." Suppressing appropriate feelings in order to emphasize others is a misplaced and counterproductive response. Are those animal lovers who have lost sight of human suffering more likely to respond to fingers wagging from the sidelines or an arm-around-the-shoulder approach that joins their work when appropriate and then challenges them to care for people as well?
As new videos were emerging documenting the depravity at the upper levels of our nation's leading abortion provider, the ASPCA was on Capitol Hill with lots of cute puppies in tow. Should representatives and staffers have felt obligated to kick the dogs simply because they were there to lobby for a topic other than defunding Planned Parenthood? Of course not! Care for those in the womb is hurt, not helped, by embracing animal cruelty.
Indeed, the history of the SPCA reminds us that compassion for people and animals can flow from the same heart. William Wilberforce who, along with his Clapham Sect allies, embraced the bondsman as a brother and brought about an end to the British slave trade also helped to found the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, the first organization to advocate for the humane treatment of animals. This reform minded evangelical is not alone in the pages of Christian history.
The dominance of American political tribalism now makes it difficult to conceive of animal welfare as anything but a "liberal" concern, but that need not be the case. White Coat Waste describes itself as "pro-animal and pro-taxpayer" and open to those who share either or both concerns. The group works to reduce the billions spent on federally funded animal experimentation projects that seems to offer little in the way of scientific value. Do we really still need million dollar caged monkey studies to know that cocaine is addictive and junk food can make them fat? Is this necessary or just a gravy train fueled by the inertia of a federal budget process that keeps stuffing money into the same holes year after year?
Anthony Bellotti, the movement's leader is not some granola munching lefty. He is a faithful pro-life Catholic who has long worked in Republican political circles. (Full disclosure, Anthony also serves with me as a board member for the Earth Stewardship Alliance.) Just as I do not want my tax dollars going to an organization whose business model embraces abortion quotas and fetal organ harvesting, neither do I want those monies spent to cut the voice boxes out of floppy eared beagles.
Those of us who are rightly alarmed by the priorities on display in this odd cultural moment can either continue to direct our frustration towards tearing down the other stories that seem to be hogging the limelight, or we can affirm their underlying merits and begin to use them to fill in the abortion blind-spot. The empathy that ABC's David Muir exhibited towards the "forgotten children" of Mexico—disabled youth literally housed in government funded cages—offers a glimmer of hope. The same compassionate instincts could logically extend to the unborn. Both sets of children are seen by many as barriers to self-fulfillment who can, therefore, be dealt with brutally. The killing of Cecil the lion, a creature lured out of his protected territory and killed not for food or to protect human life but simply as a raw expression of egotistical human power, flows from a neighboring dark place in the human heart. The response to this act may be overblown but it is not utterly illegitimate. Mindful that, say, ancient Rome was a far worse place for both disabled babies and beasts, we should be thankful that such pockets of compassion still exist in our culture. While the overall trajectory is not encouraging, these are still seeds that, if tended well, could grow into a fully human conscience.


"2-D Supergravity and Its Connection to Integrable Models" by Luben N. Arnaudov, Emil Prodanov et al.
Arnaudov, Luben N.; Prodanov, Emil; and Rashkov, Radoslav Ch, "2-D Supergravity and Its Connection to Integrable Models" (1993). Articles. 90.


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Q: AJAX + php + html - php doesn't create the file I have this issue.
I'm running an HTML with AJAX:

Ajax Post to PHP and Get Return Data

First Name: <input id="first_name" name="first_name" type="text">

Last Name: <input id="last_name" name="last_name" type="text">

<input name="myBtn" type="submit" value="Submit Data" onclick="ajax_post();">

(It's not my code anyway, but from here: https://www.developphp.com/video/JavaScript/Ajax-Post-to-PHP-File-XMLHttpRequest-Object-Return-Data-Tutorial)
It calls a PHP on server side, which is:
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If I'm clicking the button on HTML it gives back the "hi" to the screen, so I assume that the HTML-AJAX-PHP connection is working properly, but the file "people.txt" doesn't show up on server side.
I guess it must be some permission issue, but I can't figure it out!
PLS help!
Thanks!

A: Try this:
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    // Write the contents back to the file
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Or you can try this:
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    echo 'Success';
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A: It was an easy, but frustrating one.
I need to
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Now it's working!


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It was such a wonderful opportunity getting to meet and take Miss Albuquerque's headshots for her reign this year! Gabrielle is truly one of the most kind hearted people I have met to date, with so much drive, passion and integrity - I'm super proud that she is representing our city with so much grace! Best of luck to you at Miss New Mexico & then at Miss America Gabby!! You totally got this girlie!


Another USA exclusive you may wish to look for when you're on your travels in the US. This piece is 99 USD and exclusively retails in Dillard's Department stores.
This special edition of Swarovski's Annual Edition Christmas Bell Ornament is exclusively offered at Dillard's Department Store. It showcases a green crystal holly leaf with red crystal berries inside a hand-made, mouth-blown bell. The outside of the glass is embellished with small, hand-glued Moonlight crystals, making each piece truly one-of-a-kind. Only available in 2018, the ornament features a metal tag engraved with the year of issue and comes on a gray satin ribbon. Delivered in special blue packaging printed with 'Exclusive Edition Dillard's Bell Ornament 2018', it would be the perfect gift to celebrate a birth, wedding, anniversary, or any other special occasion in 2018. Hang it on your tree, in a window, or on the Christmas Ornament Home Display, large. You can even ring the bell gently to hear a wonderful sound.


The Rent in the Sky touched some more than others, giving them otherworldly powers, but cursing them to a life of madness. The Commedia dell'Arte are blessed with eldritch skills but cursed to slowly turn into the very characters they portray on stage.
This box contains a complete Gifted gang. Gifted can be played as a mercenary faction, including any number in any other gang to provide a little extra punch. Alternatively, the fearless Il Capitano, overbearing Il Dottore, narcissistic Colombina, vengeful Brighella, and murderous Pantaleone can also be taken as a complete gang in their own right.


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Top Teams Compete in Best vs Best at EDP Cup Fall 2020
By Evan Unger, 10/12/20, 2:15PM EDT
This past weekend, EDP Soccer hosted the first part of its popular EDP Cup Fall, annually ranked the top event in the nation by GotSoccer. The weekend featured 9U-16U boys teams from MLS Academies, USYS National League Conferences, MLS NEXT, EDP, ECNL, and the Elite Academy League creating a best vs. best experience. Games were played at Iron Peak Sports & Events in Hillsborough, NJ and at Tuckahoe Turf Farms in Hammonton.
The EDP Cup is the first event that had games played on the Bermuda Grass section of the turf farm. The 14U and 13U Platinum brackets were some of the groups that got a chance to play on these fantastic fields. The Bermuda Grass from Tuckahoe Turf Farm is being used all around the country by professional teams, and now youth teams in New Jersey are getting the chance to play on it first, before it is used in stadiums.
EDP followed strict health and safety protocols, and continued the use of the innovative scheduling. The schedule format included back-to-back game times that provided for important social distancing protocols and the ability for tournament operations staff to properly sanitize as needed between groups leaving and entering the facility. EDP Soccer also continued the use of its new field layout for the weekend, which created extra space between fields to ensure teams and spectators have the ability to distance themselves. To limit commingling of participants, all home teams and their supporters were positioned on one side of the field and away teams and their supporters on the other side. In addition, home teams stay on the same field for both of their games as this technique reduces the need for team movement across the facility.
"I will always bring my teams to one of the best competitions and organized tournaments in the country. Hats off to the staff again for pulling it off in this difficult time."
— Rich Ludwig, Nationals (MI) Head Coach
"This was a great event for us to attend. It was an opportunity for us to have our younger teams play against the best teams in the region, and also a chance for us to be able to see many of the top players in the age group at one great venue."
— Paul Nash, Philadelphia Union Academy Head Coach
EDP Cup Fall continues next weekend at Tuckahoe Turf Farms with the 9U-16U girls.
A Look At The Weekend's Results
9U Boys
In the Gold bracket Cedar Stars Academy Bergen Pre-Academy 2012 and Real Jersey FC 2012 faced off in the final. Cedar Stars Academy defeated The Football Academy NJ 2-1 in their first game Sunday to reach the final, and Real Jersey defeated a very strong Lower Merion side 5-2 on Sunday to claim their spot. In the final, the teams went back and forth, but Cedar Stars Academy Bergen was able to find the lone goal on a free kick by captain Benny Fernandez, and win 1-0 in a battle between two of New Jersey's best teams.
10U Boys
In the Gold bracket, The Football Academy NJ 2011 Black reached the final after winning all three of their games in group play, defeating Real Jersey FC 2011, Cedar Stars Academy Monmouth and PDA Puyol. In the final, they faced off against Cedar Stars Academy Bergen Pre-Academy 2011, who was also unbeaten through group play. The final saw some excellent soccer, with The Football Academy NJ edging Cedar Stars Academy Bergen on a last minute Wells Kasserman goal for the 3-2 win.
In the Platinum bracket, Nationals Oakland 2010 Black, the top ranked in Michigan advanced to the final after defeating Cedar Stars Academy Bergen Pre-Academy, New York Red Bulls Pre-Academy NJ South, and PDA Gerrard in the group stage. The final saw them match up against The Football Academy NJ 2010 Black, who after tying Lehigh Valley United 2010 Black in their first game, they defeated Holmdel FC NJX Monaco and beat New York Red Bulls Pre-Academy NJ North in a thrilling 7-5 game to win their group. In the final, Nationals Oakland athleticism and technical ability were too much to handle, and they came away with a 3-0 victory behind goals from Alex Ogden, Nico Churco, and Jacob Copeland and a clean sheet by goalkeeper Tyler Arpachinda who was excellent all weekend.
In the Platinum bracket, all teams in the bracket came into Sunday with 1 win and 1 loss, creating a very exciting final day of the tournament. On Sunday, in group A NJ Premier FC 2009 and FC Bucks Wolfe drew 0-0, Cedar Stars Academy Bergen Pre-Academy 2009 was able to claim a spot in the final with a win over Real Jersey FC 2009. In group B, PDA Pre-MLS 2009 and STA 2009 Pre-ECNL played to a 2-2 draw, so Lehigh Valley United 2009 Black made the final by defeating Philadelphia Union JR Academy 2010 2-1. In the final, it was another extremely close game, with Cedar Stars Academy Bergen Pre-Academy 2009 defeating Lehigh Valley United 2009 Black 1-0 behind a goal from forward Vova Chernikov, and big saves from goalkeeper Aidan Betances who kept his third clean sheet of the tournament.
In the Platinum bracket, Nationals Union 08 Black won all four of their games to finish top of the group, with Torpedoes SC Red coming in second place with two wins, a loss and a draw. Nationals, ranked #1 in the Midwest Region, started the tournament with a 2-1 win over PSA National, followed up by a big win over STA 2008 ECNL. On Sunday, they followed up the performance with a 2-0 win over Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 08 Black, and closed out the event with a 3-1 win over Lower Merion SC Thunder to claim first place.
In the Platinum bracket, MLS NEXT side Real Jersey FC 07 avenged their 2019 NJYS State Cup Semi Finals loss to the nations #1 ranked teams, SC Vistula Garfield Lewandowski on their way to a first place finish. The two sides faced off in the first game, with Real Jersey FC winning 2-1, with Real Jersey then defeating NJ Premier FC to go into Sunday with two wins. Real Jersey FC defeated PDA Hibernian Scholes and Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 07 Black on Sunday to finish the event undefeated. Marlboro SA 2007 Gunner Blue finished second place in the group, with 2-1 wins over Philadelphia Ukraininan Nationals and PDA Hibernian Scholes, and 1-1 draws against STA 2007 ECNL and NJ Premier FC 2007.
In the Gold bracket, the two topped ranked teams in Pennsylvania faced off in an exciting final. Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 06 Black and FC Europa 06 Elite both came into Sunday's final unbeaten with 3 wins. In the final, it was FC Europa who proved why they are ranked #1 in the state, with the 2-0 win.
In the Gold bracket, FC Europa 05 Elite defeated Hulmeville Dortmund 2-0 in the final, to cap off an impressive performance by the team's defense, who did not allow a goal during the event.
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Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) is a cannabis oil, named after its eponymous creator Rick Simpson, a Canadian cannabis activist whose belief in the flower's medical powers, and the ones of his creations in particular, is as fervent and unfaltering as anyone's. Whether that belief is founded or not, is a far less straightforward matter.
He applied RSO on his bumps with a bandage. His faith more than paid off, as his bumps miraculously disappeared after just four days.
This was the start of a lifelong, devoted advocacy for this method, undeterred by the police raids and prosecution Simpson went through. And on top of that, he sought no profit whatsoever – he distributed the oil free of charge and encourages patients to make their own.
Another famous 2014 study revealed a lot of promise regarding THC and CBD for indirectly fighting cancer as they augmented the effects of radiation against an aggressive type of brain cancer.  To this day, this study remains one of the strongest arguments for cannabis-aided cancer treatment.
Furthermore, THC is well-known to relieve inflammation, nausea, insomnia, and loss of appetite, which are all byproducts of cancer and chemotherapy. These properties shouldn't be taken as cures for cancer, but rather as aids in the battle against it; they help other, central treatments take effect and make the process more tolerable.
It's also worth mentioning that Simpson famously helped a girl with leukemia back in 2013, creating a cannabinoid resin extract which supposedly had a very positive effect on her cancer. That being said, she ended up dying from an unrelated gastrointestinal condition, which is why the whole case should be viewed as a promising starting point for further research rather than a definitive proof.
In addition to relieving insomnia, inflammation, nausea, and loss of appetite, RSO is said to help with depression, multiple sclerosis, high blood pressure, asthma, and arthritis.
Interestingly, some research suggests the compound can actually exacerbate certain cancerous cells. (3) These arguments are not against RSO per se, but against THC and CBD as a treatment for cancer altogether.
Another cause for concern is some of Simpson's unorthodox methods like his experience using naphtha as a solvent, which shouldn't be attempted by any DIY enthusiasts for obvious safety reasons.
Overall, RSO certainly has demonstrated a lot of promise, but further research is needed to help the oil reach its full potential.
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Patents: A Glossary And Roadmap
Booth Albanesi Schroeder, PLLC, is prepared to guide you through all legal processes and requirements for obtaining and defending patents. We can explore your needs and assist with the following issues:
Patent Interference And Deprivation Proceedings
Inventorship can be challenged by instituting either a patent interference proceeding or a derivation proceeding with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The earliest priority date of a patent application determines which proceeding is available. If the earliest priority date is before March 16, 2013, (the date that America Invents Act's first-to-file rules went into effect), an interference proceeding may be brought. Otherwise, a derivation proceeding is the appropriate proceeding to challenge inventorship. Both are administrative proceedings brought at the USPTO.
Interference scenarios generally arise where two parties apply for a patent that covers basically the same invention, whether the parties know each other or not. An interference proceeding is sought to determine which applicant is not entitled to the patent if:
Both claimed the same invention in two or more pending patent applications
There is at least one pending patent application
At least one patent was issued within a year of the pending application's filing date
Derivation scenarios typically arise when collaborations between two parties fall apart, and information shared by one party makes its way into the other party's patent application. But it can also arise where one party has substantially copied another's patent application and filed it as their own.
A party alleging that another derived the invention must prove that they:
Conceived the invention claimed by another
Communicated the complete conception of the invention to the other party
Because this proceeding must be instituted within one year after the disputed application is published, it is imperative to monitor published patent applications and issued patents for any that claim subject matter that you or one of your inventors developed. Aside from this being a best practice, it may be particularly important to monitor activity of former collaborators for the reasons discussed above. Booth Albanesi Schroeder, PLLC's patent attorneys can help with monitoring such activity.
Utility, Design And Plant Patents
There are three types of patent applications:
Utility patent: This is the most common type of patent, protecting the structure of a product or a method of using it. This also includes the discovery of a new method of using an old product or chemical compound. If you think about a wind turbine, the structure includes the component parts and the method steps that make the wind turbine function.
Design patent: A design patent refers to the appearance of a product. This may include the design of a shoe or the dimensions of a smartphone.
Plant patent: This patent protects the development of new, asexually produced plants. For example, a new and distinctive cultivar of a geranium plant may be protected with a plant patent
Reexamination, Reissue And Post-Grant Review Proceedings
Through ex parté reexamination, a patent owner (or a third party) may lodge a request for USPTO examination of an already-granted patent based on patents and printed publications that they bring to the USPTO's attention.
Such a request can be filed at any time during the enforceability of a patent.
The requester must establish that the submitted prior art establishes a substantial and new question of patentability.
At that point, the USPTO will grant the reexamination request and order examination (that is, reexamination) of the patent in question.
This proceeding often arises where you or a potential licensee has discovered prior art that "clouds" the value of a patent, and you want the USPTO to have another look and clear up the issue.
Patent reissues are another avenue for correcting errors in an issued patent. If filed within two years after the patent is issued, broader claims can be sought. The reissue proceeding is handled by a patent examiner and is similar to a standard patent prosecution. However, critical differences between the two proceedings can lead to a poor outcome if they are not handled correctly. This is an area where Booth Albanesi Schroeder, PLLC's patent attorneys provide significant value.
Our attorneys have extensive experience in appropriately broadening or narrowing patent reissue applications, and in protesting reissue outcomes, which is particularly helpful to clients who are preparing to enforce their patent through a patent infringement lawsuit.
Post-Grant And Inter Partes Review Proceedings
Booth Albanesi Schroeder, PLLC's patent attorneys have extensive experience with both of the following proceedings and have generated very favorable outcomes for their clients.
Post-grant review
Post-grant review is a trial proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to review the patentability of claims on several grounds. The window for filing is only nine months after a patent grant or reissuance. The patent owner may file a preliminary response. If it appears "more likely than not" that at least one challenged claim is unpatentable, a post-grant review may be instituted. With the exception of "covered business method patents," the post-grant review procedure generally applies to patents subject to the AIA's first-inventor-to-file provisions — that is, patents issuing from applications having an effective filing date after March 16, 2013.
Inter partes review
Inter partes review is a trial proceeding to review the patentability of claims, but using only prior art consisting of patents or printed publications. It can be used as an alternative to litigating patent validity in federal district court. The process begins when a party other than the owner of the patent files a petition for review after the later of either: 1) Nine months after the grant or reissuance of a patent; or (2) The termination of any post-grant review.
Both review proceedings allow for discovery by the parties. The inter partes review procedure took effect on September 16, 2012, and applies to any patent issued before, on, or after that date.
Foreign And Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Applications
The patent attorneys at Booth Albanesi Schroeder, PLLC, have extensive experience protecting inventions internationally. Many filing strategies are available, but the most common, and cost-effective, approach is to file an international application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). The process for obtaining a patent via the PCT occurs in two parts, an international stage and a national stage.
During the international stage, a PCT application undergoes preliminary examination that helps an inventor decide whether and to what extent to pursue the invention in various countries. A PCT application does not issue as an "international patent" (there is no such thing). After about 30 months from the earliest priority date the PCT application must enter the national stage, meaning that a national application based on the PCT application must be filed in one or more member countries. The national stage application is fully examined and subsequently issued as a national (for example, China or Canada) patent.
A patent application may be filed directly in desired countries if an inventor:
Does not need to delay costs
Only wishes to file in a few countries
If the filing is based on a priority application, an inventor has 12 months from the earliest filing date to file in the target country, assuming that the target country is a member of the Paris Convention.
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