The best way to get a feel for the School of Music is to visit. We offer a variety of opportunities for prospective students and guests.
The School of Music offers information sessions specific to students interested in music as well as tours of the music facilities most weekdays at 1:30pm. Info sessions are led by Music Admissions staff, and tours are led by current music students. Register online.
Note that these tours include music facilities only. If you are interested in seeing the rest of the campus, you'll need to schedule a separate campus tour (see below).
General DePaul information sessions and tours of the Lincoln Park Campus are available Monday through Saturday. These are not specific to music students but can be helpful in learning more about the university as a whole. Register online.
Students interested in having a trial lesson or meeting with a faculty member should contact that person directly. Details of trial lessons (including costs) are arranged directly with faculty. If you would like to schedule a lesson, we encourage you to arrange this part of your visit first so that you can plan around it. Faculty bios and contact information can be found here.
Depending on the time of year, some classes and rehearsals may be open for prospective students to observe. If you are interested in arranging a class or rehearsal observation, please send us an email with your request.


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After high school she did an independent film called Suicide Blonde. Angel was also in a commercial for Allstate that was shown nationally. In 1997 she moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, shortly after Angel got a role on a TV show named Viper, then a recurring role on the popular television series Beverly Hills 90210. Angel Boris, more recently, was on the show Fear Factor.


There is another great release of new dies over in the online store. The Expressions Plus (word dies) with 35 designs are available right now. The font is so beautiful and you will definitely want these in your collection. Janet (our video artist) has put together a video showcasing some of these new dies.
For your viewing pleasure today, I am featuring one of the new dies. I am using the Explore Phrase. As soon as I saw this word, I thought of making an outdoor scene with the dies from the November 2016 Camping Bundle set.
I have some friends that just retired. they bought a motorhome and are taking a 3 month trip across our beautiful country. This is a retirement celebration card for them.
I thought the outdoor scene would work best in a different type fold. I found a tutorial on YouTube for a double front fold card. You have your front image, then an inside image an then another panel for a 2nd inside image. Here is a video link. I will also give you a step by step tutorial.
So let's get started with some details on how I created my card this week.
Step 1: I started by cutting my navy blue card base. It is 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". I scored it at the 4 1/4" point and cut 2 1/4" off the 8 1/2" side. This is how I achieved the front fold on my card. I set that aside to work on my outside image panel.
Step 2: The next step was to cut the Motorhome. I used light and dark gray + red cardstock on the image. The white panel is cut at 2 3/4" x 3 1/4". I layered that over red cardstock measuring 3" x 3 1/2". I stamped my sentiment and set this aside to work on the inside image panel.
Step 3: On this panel I used the images from the Campsite & Woodland Friends dies. I cut the pine tree in a dark green, a yellow sun and the directional arrows in red, green and blue. I cut a small cloud from the sun & clouds die and used that as a template and did a bit of background sponging.
The white panel is cut at 2 3/4" x 3 1/4". Cut the explore phrase word in navy cardstock. I layered this panel over red cardstock measuring 3" x 3 1/2".
Step 4: I cut another piece of white cardstock at 5 /14" x 8" and scored it at 4". I attached this image panel to the cardstock and then secured it to my navy blue card base.
Now I can attach the front panel to the card. It goes directly over the inside image. I used Scor-tape to make sure it stays put when the card gets opened and closed.
Step 5: Now it's time to decorate the inside hidden panel or the double fold part. I used the Jamboree Bear die and the campfire from the Campfire Squirrel die. The background paper is some that I had in my stash. It reminds me of a nighttime sky so I thought it would work well here.
Well, that completes my card for this week. I hope I have shown you another way to use the new Expression Phrases dies and incorporating them with existing CottageCutz product you already have. And, I hope you will give this fun fold a try. I think it makes a big impact on a card.
That's one awesome card! It's just one cute scene after another! Your friends are going to love it. I bet it finds a place to be displayed in their new "home."
Mary, your card is a perfect gift for someone retiring and traveling around the US. It is a very creative and gorgeous card!! I love the design of the card, and I'm sure it will be loved by your friends. Love it!!
What an awesome card love all of the detail that went into making it. Fantastic job Mary!
I like the different combinations you put together. This is so happy adventure. Nice!
Such a cute card, Mary. My sister and her husband are RV enthusiasts. They would love this one.
I love the way you made the opening. Very clever.


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Denna artikel syftar på den brittiska musikgruppen Magnum, för fler betydelser, se Magnum

Magnum är en brittisk musikgrupp bestående av Tony Clarkin (gitarr, låtskrivare) och Bob Catley (sång, tamburin), vilka är de enda kvarvarande originalmedlemmarna som är aktiva och än idag är själva kärnan i bandet. Övriga bandmedlemmar är, 2019: Dennis Ward (basgitarr), Rick Benton (Keyboards) och Lee Morris (trummor, precussion).

Tony Clarkin har från första plattan skrivit bandets alla låtar, förutom några låtar på Goodnight L.A. Magnum är ett dynamiskt liveband med den karismatiske sångaren, Bob Catley, i fronten - som också är känd för sitt "visuella berättande", idoga gester med armar och händer, i takt med musiken. Ofta speglar hans armrörelser visuellt låtarnas teman och budskap.

Magnum spelar melodisk, hård rock med symfoniska och pompösa inslag, och deras stil kan liknas vid Styx, Queen och Kansas, dock med starkare betoning på melodiska och inte lika särpräglat progressiva låtar som de nämnda banden. Dock kan de fyra första albumen ses som mer utpräglad progressiv framtoning, innan de fann sin stil med plattan On A Storytellers Night som släpptes 1985, där man tydligt märker de starka melodierna, med en lätt progressiv, symfonisk framtoning.

Från och med albumet Sleepwalking (1992), har Clarkin också producerat de flesta albumen. Clarkin har som nämnts skrivit i princip allt material, och återkommande teman är antikrigs-låtar liksom hungersnöd och liknande missförhållande. Värt att notera är att som de flesta rockband har de ej tagit någon som helst aktivt politiskt ställningstagande.

Studioplattan Rock Art (1994) var den sista i den långlivade och framgångsrika Clarkin, Catley, Lowe, Stanway och Barker-konstelationen (1985-1996). Bandet hade sedan ett uppehåll mellan 1996 och 2002, då de samma år återkom med albumet Breath of Life (SPV records). Under de åren skapade Clarkin och Catley bandet Hard Rain. Två studioalbum släpptes under det namnet, men gav ej några kommersiella framgångar.  Al Barrow, vilken spelade basgitarr live och på den sista av två släppta albumen under 'Hard Rain', följde med och var med från start Magnums nya line-up, (tillsammans med Clarkin, Catley samt Mark Stanway), och Barrow har därefter varit bandet trogen, men valde 2019 att lämna bandet och ersattes av Dennis Ward.

Trots sina musikaliska kvaliteter, starka melodier och välproducerade album, har Magnum aldrig slagit igenom kommersiellt hos den breda publiken. Sin största framgång har de haft med albumet Wings of Heaven (1988), då de spelade inför stor publik i inomhusarenor. De har dock byggt upp en mycket trogen skara fans, som följt hela deras varierade och omfångsrika karriär. Bandet konserter präglas till stor del av en mycket engagerad publik, och allsång till många låtar är vanligt.

2016, i slutet under pågående turné, valde Mark Stanway av oklar anledning att lämna bandet, och har under 2018-2019 skapat hyllningsbandet Kingdom of Madness. Rick Benton ersatte dock snabbt Stanway bakom keyborden.

Magnum har vid flertalet tillfällen spelat i Sverige på många olika platser, och är mycket populära i Sverige. Vid sidan av Storbritannien och Tyskland har de förmodligen sin största skara fans i Skandinavien.

Medlemmar
Nuvarande medlemmar
Bob Catley – sång (1972–1995, 2001–)
Tony Clarkin – sologitarr, sång (1972–1995, 2001–)
Dennis Ward – basgitarr (2019–)
Rick Benton – keyboard (2016–)
Lee Morris – trummor (2017–)

Tidigare medlemmar
Kex Gorin – trummor, percussion (1972–1984; död 2007)
Bob Doyle – basgitarr (1972)
Dave Morgan – basgitarr, sång (1972–1975)
Colin "Wally" Lowe – basgitarr, sång (1975–1995)
Richard Bailey – keyboard, flöjt, sång (1973-1974, 1976–1980)
Mark Stanway – keyboard (1980–1984, 1985–1995, 2001–2016)
Jim Simpson – trummor, percussion (1984–1985)
Mickey Barker – trummor, percussion (1985–1995)
Al Barrow – bass guitar, sång (2001–2019)
Jimmy Copley – trummor, percussion (2005–2007; död 2017)
Harry James – trummor, percussion (2002–2005, 2007–2017)

Turnerande medlemmar
Grenville Harding – keyboard (1980)
Robin George – rytmgitarr (1983)
Eddie George – keyboard (1984–1985)

Vikarierande musiker
Laurence Archer – sologitarr (1984; vikarierade för Tony Clarkin)
Les Kitcheridge – gitarr, sång (1972)

Diskografi

Studioalbum
Kingdom of Madness (1978)

Livealbum
 Marauder (1980)
 Invasion Live (1989)
 The Spirit (1991)
 Keeping The Nite Light Burning (1993)
 Stronghold (1996)
 The Last Dance (1996)
 Dance of Wonder (2000)
 The River Sessions (2005)
 Wings of Heaven Live (2008)
 Escape from the Shadow Garden Live 2014 (2014)

Samlingsalbum
Anthology (1986)
Mirador (1987)
Foundation (1990)
Archive (1993)
Chapter & Verse (1993)
Road to Paradise (1998)
Long Days, Black Nights (2002)
The Gathering (2010)
Evolution (2011)
The Valley of Tears - The Ballads (2017)

Singlar/EP (topp 100 på UK Singles Chart)
Magnum Live (EP) (1980) (#47)
"Just Like An Arrow" (1985) (#83)
"Lonely Night" (1986) (#70)
"Midnight (You Won't Be Sleeping)" (1986) (#91)
"When The World Comes Down" (1987) (#96)
"Days Of No Trust" (1988) (#32)
"Start Talking Love" (1988) (#22)
"It Must Have Been Love" (1988) (#33)
"Rockin' Chair" (1990) (#27)
"Heartbroke And Busted" (1990) (#49)

Externa länkar

 Officiell webbplats
 Magnum på allmusic.com
 Diskografi på Discogs

Brittiska musikgrupper

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Justia Forms Business Contracts Casa Systems Inc Description of Securities of the Registrant
Description of Securities of the Registrant
EX-4.2 2 casa-ex42_193.htm EX-4.2 casa-ex42_193.htm
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 12 OF THE EXCHANGE ACT
The following description of registered securities of Casa Systems, Inc. ("us," "our," "we" or the "Company") is intended as a summary only and does not purport to be complete. It is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "Certificate of Incorporation"), the Company's By-laws (the "By-laws"), and the applicable provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL"). The Certificate of Incorporation and the By-laws are incorporated by reference as Exhibit 3.1 and Exhibit 3.2, respectively, to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of which this Exhibit 4.2 is a part.
Our authorized capital stock consists of 500,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Common Stock"), and 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Preferred Stock"). Our common stock is registered under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").
Voting Rights. Holders of our Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders and do not have cumulative voting rights. Any matter other than the election of directors to be voted upon by the stockholders at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be decided by the vote of the holders of shares of stock having a majority in voting power of the votes cast by the holders of all of the shares of stock present or represented at the meeting and voting affirmatively or negatively on the matter, except when a different vote is required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or the By-laws. An election of directors by our stockholders shall be determined by a plurality of the votes cast by the stockholders entitled to vote on the election.
Dividends. Holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive proportionately any dividends as may be declared by our board of directors, subject to any preferential dividend rights of any series of Preferred Stock that we may designate and issue in the future.
Liquidation, Dissolution and Winding Up. In the event of our liquidation or dissolution, the holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive proportionately our net assets available for distribution to stockholders after the payment of all debts and other liabilities and subject to the prior rights of any outstanding Preferred Stock.
Other Rights. Holders of Common Stock have no preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights and there are no sinking fund provisions applicable to our Common Stock. The rights, preferences and privileges of holders of Common Stock are subject to and may be adversely affected by the rights of the holders of shares of any series of Preferred Stock that we may designate and issue in the future.
Provisions of Our Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws and the Delaware General Corporation Law That May Have Anti-Takeover Effects
Delaware Law. We are subject to Section 203 of the DGCL. Subject to certain exceptions, Section 203 prevents a publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a "business combination" with any "interested stockholder" for three years following the date that the person became an interested stockholder, unless the interested stockholder attained such status with the approval of our board of directors or unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. A "business combination" includes, among other things, a merger or consolidation involving us and the "interested stockholder" and the sale of more than 10% of our assets. In general, an "interested stockholder" is any entity or person beneficially owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock and any entity or person affiliated with or controlling or controlled by such entity or person.
Preferred Stock. Under the terms of our Certificate of Incorporation, our board of directors is authorized to direct us to issue shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series without stockholder approval. Our board of directors has the discretion to determine the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, of each series of Preferred Stock. The purpose of authorizing our board of directors to issue Preferred Stock and determine its rights and
preferences is to eliminate delays associated with a stockholder vote on specific issuances. The issuance of Preferred Stock, while providing flexibility in connection with possible acquisitions, future financings and other corporate purposes, could have the effect of making it more difficult for a third party to acquire, or could discourage a third party from seeking to acquire, a majority of our outstanding voting stock.
Staggered Board; Removal of Directors. Our Certificate of Incorporation and our By-laws divide our board of directors into three classes with staggered three-year terms. In addition, a director may be removed only for cause and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the votes that all our stockholders would be entitled to cast in an election of directors. Any vacancy on our board of directors, including a vacancy resulting from an enlargement of our board of directors, may be filled only by vote of a majority of our directors then in office. The classification of our board of directors and the limitations on the removal of directors and filling of vacancies could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire, or discourage a third party from seeking to acquire, control of our company.
Supermajority Voting. The DGCL provides generally that the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares entitled to vote on any matter is required to amend a corporation's certificate of incorporation or bylaws, unless a corporation's certificate of incorporation or bylaws, as the case may be, requires a greater percentage. Our By-laws may be amended or repealed by a majority vote of our board of directors or the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the votes that all our stockholders would be entitled to cast in an election of directors. In addition, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the votes which all our stockholders would be entitled to cast in an election of directors is required to amend, repeal, or adopt any provisions inconsistent with, any of the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation described above.
Stockholder Action; Special Meeting of Stockholders; Advance Notice Requirements for Stockholder Proposals and Director Nominations. Our Certificate of Incorporation provides that any action required or permitted to be taken by our stockholders must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of such stockholders and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders. Our Certificate of Incorporation and our By-laws also provide that, except as otherwise required by law, special meetings of our stockholders can only be called by our board of directors. In addition, By-laws establish an advance notice procedure for stockholder proposals to be brought before an annual meeting of stockholders, including proposed nominations of candidates for election to our board of directors. Stockholders at an annual meeting may only consider proposals or nominations specified in the notice of meeting or brought before the meeting by or at the direction of our board of directors, or by a stockholder of record on the record date for the meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who has delivered timely written notice in proper form to our secretary of the stockholder's intention to bring such business before the meeting. These provisions could have the effect of delaying until the next stockholder meeting stockholder actions that are favored by the holders of a majority of our outstanding voting securities. These provisions also could discourage a third party from making a tender offer for our Common Stock, because even if such third party acquired a majority of our outstanding voting stock, it would be able to take action as a stockholder, such as electing new directors or approving a merger, only at a duly called stockholders meeting and not by written consent.
Exclusive Forum Selection. Our Certificate of Incorporation provides that unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (1) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of our company, (2) any action asserting a claim of breach of fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer or other employee or stockholder of our company to us or our stockholders, (3) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or as to which the DGCL confers jurisdiction on the Court of Chancery or (4) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine. This choice of forum provision will not apply to actions arising under the Exchange Act. Our Certificate of Incorporation further provides that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States of America shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act. Although our Certificate of Incorporation contains the forum selection provision described above, there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce this provision or conclude that such provision applies to a particular claim or action.


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Proving Causation in Environmental Litigation
Kristin E. Schleiter, JD, LLM
Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(6):456-460. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.6.hlaw1-0906.
To recover damages in a personal injury lawsuit, a plaintiff has the burden of establishing a causal relationship between the defendant's harmful conduct and the plaintiff's injury. In environmental litigation, proving causation can be difficult for both physician and attorney. In environmental cases, courts commonly refer to two types of causation: general and specific. General causation addresses whether a substance is capable of causing a particular injury or condition, while specific causation addresses whether a particular substance caused a specific individual's injury [1, 2].
The difficulty of proving causation in environmental litigation is a significant barrier to recovery of damages [3]. To begin with, scientific knowledge about the toxicity of many substances is limited [3]. Second, how substances move through air, soil, and water is often unknown and difficult to trace, and, third, the level or timing of a plaintiff's exposure is also often unknown [3, 4]. Together, these factors can lead to ambiguity about the cause of a plaintiff's disease. Multiple causation poses the challenge of proving that a particular injury was the result of one substance rather than another or a combination of substances [4]. For example, while asbestos is known to cause lung cancer, so are the various toxins found in cigarettes and cigarette smoke [4].
Courts have provided assistance in dealing with these issues, generally allowing evidence from epidemiological or toxicological studies that establish a likely causal relationship between exposure and harm [4, 5]. Epidemiology studies, which examine existing populations for an association between a disease or condition and a factor suspected of causing that disease or condition, are increasingly indispensable in tort cases concerning toxicity where specific causation studies are lacking [1].
Courts are quick to point out, however, that proof of an association is not equivalent to causation [1, 6]. Rather, epidemiological studies show the degree of statistical significance between events and variables [1]. Further, a positive association between exposure to an agent and development of disease is only one piece of the causation puzzle. Once an association has been found, a medical expert must next determine whether the association reflects a true cause-and-effect relationship [1]. To do this, medical experts consider several factors, including: (1) the strength of the association; (2) the dose-response relationship (e.g., whether higher exposures to the agent increase risk of disease); (3) replication of findings; and (4) biological plausibility [1]. No generally agreed-upon method exists for determining how much weight to apply to each factor [1].
If a medical expert's testimony establishing general causation is admissible, the court next determines whether the medical expert has established specific causation using differential etiology—the procedure by which a physician isolates an external factor as the cause of internal disease [1]. In performing a reliable differential etiology, the expert first compiles a list of hypotheses that might explain the clinical findings under consideration and engages in an evidentiary process of elimination to reach a conclusion about the likely cause of the disease [1]. At this "ruling-out" stage, the court focuses on whether the expert has a reasonable basis for concluding that a certain agent was likely the cause of the patient's symptoms [1].
Before an expert's testimony can be admitted into evidence, it must meet general standards for admissibility. The court decides whether the witness' knowledge, skill, expertise, training, and education qualify him or her as an expert. If the opinion involves science or specialized knowledge, trial courts must also determine whether the reasoning or methodology underlying the expert's opinion is scientifically valid [1]. Next, the court must determine whether the expert reliably applied the methodology [1]. Five factors are considered when determining reliability: (1) whether the theory or technique can be, or has been, tested; (2) whether the theory or technique has been subjected to peer review and publication; (3) whether there is a known or potential rate of error; (4) whether there are standards controlling the technique's operation; and (5) whether the theory or technique enjoys general acceptance within the relevant scientific community [1].
In the two tort cases that follow, both plaintiffs claimed damage from toxic substances, and the courts came to different decisions on the admissibility of expert testimony about causality.
Fraser v. 301-52 Townhouse Corporation
In Fraser v. 301-52 Townhouse Corporation, former tenants brought action against their former landlord, alleging they sustained respiratory problems, rash, and fatigue as a result of dampness and mold infestations in the apartment building [6]. The district court did not admit certain expert testimony on the plaintiffs' behalf, a decision the plaintiffs appealed [6]. The Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, upheld exclusion of the plaintiffs' expert testimony on the ground that the underlying casual theory lacked support in the scientific literature [6].
The higher court reasoned that, while indoor dampness and mold are known to be associated with upper respiratory complaints, the observed association is not strong enough to constitute evidence of a causal relationship [6]. As was stated above, association is not equivalent to causation [6]. The court held that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate general acceptance of the notion that a causal relationship existed between the conditions and ailments in question [6].
Even if the medical expert's testimony regarding general causation was valid, the court noted, the plaintiffs' medical expert failed to specify the threshold level at which dampness and mold produced health problems similar to those the plaintiffs suffered [1]. Without evidence that the plaintiffs were exposed to a level of dampness or mold sufficient to cause their alleged injuries (specific causation), the court reasoned, the plaintiffs could not prevail [6]. Ultimately, the court rejected the entirety of the plaintiffs' medical expert testimony.
King v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company
In King v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company, the wife of a deceased former railroad employee brought a tort action against the railroad, asserting that her husband contracted multiple myeloma—a cancer originating in the bone marrow plasma cells—due to his exposure to diesel exhaust emissions over his 28 years of work for the railroad [1]. The plaintiff appealed the trial court's decision to exclude testimony of her expert witness regarding the cause of myeloma [1]. The Supreme Court of Nebraska held that the trial court erred in determining that the medical expert's opinion was unreliable [1].
The King appeal centered on the testimony of the plaintiff's primary medical expert, Dr. Frank, a physician board-certified in internal medicine and occupational medicine. Dr. Frank testified that diesel exhaust contains benzene, and that scientific evidence supported the opinion that benzene alone and diesel exhaust could cause multiple myeloma [1]. Another medical expert, a certified industrial hygienist, reviewed Burlington Northern's environment samples and concluded that the plaintiff's husband had a significant exposure to diesel exhaust, particularly in the early years of his employment [1].
Dr. Frank recognized that contrary statements existed in the medical records regarding benzene's effect on health and that he did not know of any studies that explicitly linked benzene or diesel exhaust to multiple myeloma [1]. He explained, however, that scientific studies generally point to a causal relationship rather than stating outright that such a relationship exists [1]. Dr. Frank argued that the plaintiff's husband's extraordinary exposure to diesel exhaust was most likely a contributing cause to his disease [1]. There were few known causes of multiple myeloma, he stated, and benzene was the only diesel-exhaust component that had been separately studied as an agent of disease [1]. Burlington Northern's expert focused on this lack of a determined causal relationship, arguing that, with the exception of radiation exposure, researchers did not know the cause of multiple myeloma and that the majority of studies failed to show a specific positive association between benzene and multiple myeloma [1]. Dr. Frank had ruled out radiation exposure as a cause of the plaintiff's husband's myeloma because he found no evidence of unusual exposure to radiation [1].
The district court ruled that, although Dr. Frank was qualified to give expert testimony, his opinion was unreliable because it did not have general acceptance in the field [1]. In addition, Dr. Frank could point to no study that conclusively stated that exposure to diesel exhaust and benzene caused multiple myeloma [1]. The district court also ruled out Dr. Frank's testimony because: (1) the record did not show what causes other than diesel-exhaust exposure Dr. Frank had considered in his differential etiology, (2) Dr. Frank "ruled in" diesel exhaust exposure as a possible cause, even though no medical or scientific study concluded that such exposure causes multiple myeloma, and (3) Dr. Frank had failed to explain why he had "ruled out" any other potential causes [1]. The court criticized Dr. Frank's conclusion that diesel-exhaust exposure was the most probable agent, even though no medical or scientific study authorized such a conclusion [1].
The Nebraska Supreme Court disagreed, however, and reversed the district court's opinion [1]. In its decision, the court looked to the standards for general admissibility of expert testimony and admissibility of testimony establishing general and specific causation [1].
First, the court discussed whether Dr. Frank's expert testimony was admissible under general standards, asking whether his opinion was based on reliable, valid methodology, not what conclusions those opinions generated [1]. In this regard, the trial court acts as "evidentiary gatekeeper, not goalkeeper," and is free to exclude expert testimony if there is too great an analytical gap between the data and the opinion proffered [1]. The court ruled that Dr. Frank's testimony was reliable, though the ultimate weight of his opinion was considered a question for the jury to decide [1].
Turning to the issue of general causation, the court found that the district court had erred in concluding that Dr. Frank's general causation opinion was unreliable [1]. The higher court reasoned that individual epidemiological studies need not draw definitive conclusions on causation before experts conclude that the agent causes a disease [1]. Rather, if the medical expert's methodology appears to be consistent with the standards explained above, the opinion is admissible [1]. Though the district court had criticized Dr. Frank's supposed lack of reliance on the totality of information regarding multiple myeloma, the Nebraska Supreme Court noted that Dr. Frank testified to a body of evidence in support of his conclusion, including human data studies, animal studies, and toxicology studies [1]. Further, his testimony did not reflect a disconnect between his opinion and the underlying data from these studies [1].
In sum, the court found that Dr. Frank's reasoning was consistent with general causation criteria [1]. The court commented that, in considering the sufficiency of underlying studies, the focus should be on whether no reasonable expert would rely on the studies to find a causal relationship, not whether the parties dispute their force or validity [1]. Hence, the analysis of Dr. Frank's opinion should be based on the validity of his methodology and the grounds for his opinion, not whether his conclusion differed from that of other experts [1].
Finally, regarding specific causation, the higher court rejected the district court's holding that Dr. Frank's medical opinion failed to adequately "rule out" or "rule in" potential causes [1]. The court noted that Dr. Frank had considered other causes of multiple myeloma including radiation exposure, diabetes, pesticide exposure, and cigarette smoking, and believed that epidemiological studies of these agents failed to show a causal relationship with the plaintiff's multiple myeloma [1]. Ultimately, the case was remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the supreme court's opinion [1].
Public health/Climate and the environment,
Law and medicine/Malpractice
King v Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company, WL 484965 (Neb 2009).
Jackson v Nutmeg Technologies, 842 NYS2d 588 (App Div 2007).
Powell BH. Cause for concern: an overview of approaches to the causation problem in toxic tort litigation. J Env L Prac. 1999;9:227-258.
Faigman DL, Kaye DH, Saks MJ, Sanders J. Specific and general causation. M Sci Evid. 2005;3(21).
Harris OF. Toxic tort litigation and the causation element: is there any hope of reconciliation? Southwestern L J. 1986;40:909-964.
Fraser v 301-52 Townhouse Corp., 870 NYS2d 266 (App Div 2008).
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Kristin E. Schleiter, JD, LLM is a senior research associate for the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs for the American Medical Association in Chicago. She analyzes ethics policy and law and assists in the development and dissemination of ethics policy and related educational material. Ms Schleiter received both her law degree and masters of law in health law from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was a contributing writer for the Annals of Health Law.
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Educating Patients as Medicine Goes Green, Commentary 2
Janet Brown
The Yin/Yang of Health and the Environment
Mitali Banerjee Ruths, MD
What Primary Physicians Should Know about Environmental Causes of Illness
William J. Rea, MD
Physicians' Duty to Be Aware of and Report Environmental Toxins, Commentary 2
Steven R. Kirkhorn, MD, MPH


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Idioms of Inquiry
The originary hypothesis creates a "new way of thinking," as Eric Gans has so often said. A way of thinking involves a new vocabulary and grammar; it puts words to new use, generates new questions and imperatives. Any new way of thinking would do this; all the more so must one founded upon an account of the origin of language; all the more so an account of the origin of language that sees language as constitutive of the human. It seems worth trying to generate such a vocabulary and grammar through linguistic terms themselves—all discourse must be conducted through ostensives, imperatives, interrogatives and declaratives, so the way these utterances work in relation to each other must provide us with an exhaustive account of any discourse; and if of any discourse, of all human activity. That we can do it does not necessarily we that we should—but I'm going to proceed on the assumption that it's worth the effort.
Let's start with a simple observation: it must be possible to read any sentence as an answer to a question. This is the case insofar as the first predication, the negative ostensive posited by Gans in The Origin of Language, is itself a response to a question. Questions, moreover, are "softened" imperatives, or imperatives cognizant of the possibility that they won't be obeyed. Think of how far just these observations would already take us: if the sentence is designed so as to answer questions (I don't think "answer" is quite originary enough for our purposes here, but we can leave that aside for now), then any sentence might be answering more than one—each word in the sentence could be read in terms of the question it is answering, of the anticipated follow up question it is answering; word placement could be read in terms of answers to questions regarding how to answer the question, which would in turn reveal something of the relation between the interlocutors. Which imperatives get obeyed, which get resisted, which get mistaken, deliberately or accidentally, and so on; which imperatives get prolonged into the uncertainty of the question? I would suggest that focusing on such questions would teach us far more than all the speculations and accusations regarding "power relations" occupying so much of postmodern discourse.
Imperatives, in turn, can be grounded in ostensives: following the cry of "Fire!" (one of Gans' most used examples) we would expect "Follow me!," "Head for the exit!," "Stay close to the ground!," "Call 911!," etc. Even more commonplace imperatives (to take another of Gans' privileged examples: the surgeon requesting "Scalpel!") could be understood in these terms: if the surgeon needs a scalpel it's because he realize that "it's time!" (to start cutting). Moreover, the boundaries between these modes of utterance are fluid, with one mode often "presenting" as another, as with the rhetorical question. If declaratives can be read as, let's say, presenting a reality (in which other imperatives might be obeyed) in exchange for the desire involved in the question, they can also be read as embedding imperatives. If someone says, "The door is open," maybe they want me to close the door, maybe they want me to leave, maybe they want me to look over in that direction, but the sentence is telling me to do something. Any sentence is—or, if one likes, any sentence can productively and revealingly be analyzed as doing so; such commands, on one level, are those which any sign puts forth, which is to iterate the sign itself, to operate within the space it opens. Aside from the kind of practical imperatives I just suggested, iterating the sign might involve adding an adjective to the noun, suggesting an ostensive that might confirm the subject-predicate relation articulated by the sentence, along with, perhaps, attending to the next sentence, etc.—these are acts the sentence might be "telling" us to perform.
I consider imperatives to be central here because only imperatives can make anything happen beyond the centered attention effected by the ostensive—indeed, we could say that even the ostensive put forth on the originary scene might be considered unique and expansive enough to imply an imperative like "Stop!" I think that the hypothesis that verbs are originally imperatives is an extremely fruitful one, but leave that aside. More pragmatically, I would propose that the world appears to us as the effect of (indeed, created by) imperatives, with things and people telling each other and themselves what to do all the time. If you start paying attention, you can start noticing how deeply embedded imperatives are in ordinary language—it is imperative that, our imperative here is…., etc. So, if someone does or attempts something, we can analyze it as obedience to some imperative, regarding the source, aim and force of which we could hypothesize. We could also re-conceptualize our fundamental categories of thought and action, including those constitutive of GA, in these terms.
So, to get started, thinking is obeying the imperative to suspend all imperatives: in this suspension, imperatives approach or occur to one, appearing as possibilities which the thinker in his/her detachment follows; ultimately, the emergence of one imperative after another leads us to the founding imperative of thought, to cease obeying commands directing us to efface the ostensive sign. Politics, we might say, is obedience to the imperative to generate declaratives that can harmonize the incommensurable commands with claims upon us—what we might also discuss as the convertibility of imperatives and declaratives. Morality follows the command to map imperatives onto declaratives—every imperative, to pass the test of morality, must be seen as derived from some declarative (the "thou shalts" rely on "I am the Lord thy God," or more recently, "x is wrong"). Ethics, meanwhile, follows the imperative to align imperatives with ostensives (treat others fairly is a moral imperatives, but what counts as fair in a given situation—what we will point to, authenticate, as an instance of unfair treatment, belongs to ethics); we are engaged esthetically when we obey the command to attend from one element of a sign to another, indefinitely; and so on.
We can analyze the most fundamental concepts of GA in grammatical terms. Desire involves taking a command from the object, a command to model one's activity on the possession of that object; resentment, that refusal to accept one's barred access to the object, might be seen as taking a command to superintend the object (if one can't have it, one can keep one's eyes on it; if it's going to be distributed, one can make sure that it is done under the authority of the sign). Imitation takes the command from the model to treat that model as a source of imperatives—the model tells me what to do, and the more it tells me the more commands I demand. Indeed, we can describe the mimetic crisis in these terms: I must command the model to give me commands that would let me bridge the gap between his commanding being and the consequences of my compliance. Such commands to the source of commands create contending imperatives and turn the commanding gestures into an ostensive one indicating a common source of imperatives. Imitation is thereby converted into iteration, as the model is seen to share the same relation to its model as one has just constructed with it.
Such grammatical analyses could never be exhaustive as it is impossible to describe ostensives, imperatives, interrogatives and declaratives without orienting oneself towards the world they constitutive—indeed, even in the definitions I have just offered, a whole series of terms, like "object," "model" and "source" could only be defined circularly, as the origin of imperatives. This circularity would remain even were we to go on and specify the object and model, but this is the point of a conceptual vocabulary—a conceptual vocabulary derived from the originary hypothesis just needs to be aware that if the world appears to us as result and source of imperatives it is because we are commanding and commanded by it to do so. Since commands are both circumscribed and fallible, this circularity is a constant source of idioms. The same is true for these descriptions I am offering, all of which aim at minimality and for that reason require (command) quite a bit of surrounding discussion.
My argument here for the generation of linguistically and semiotically grounded idioms of inquiry is part of my argument in my previous post for the sanctification of language in the post-millennial era. Using grammatical terms in this expanded way simultaneously places those terms within language, making them generative rather than descriptive. I am proposing a practice of deliberately putting language to work so as to produce novel idioms that are both means and objects of inquiry. Anyone can conduct the kind of analysis I am outlining—anyone could tell you whether the question they have just asked is really meant to function more like a command, or what they would have to see, hear or experience to better understand what you just said, or what they would like someone to do as a response to something they said, etc. And once one's attention is directed in this way, there is always something to talk about with others, and it may become very interesting. Language itself, after all, is in the end a mode of inquiry into the kinds of representations that might defer violence.
Finally, it seems to me that such an idiom of inquiry helps us to formulate what might be an enlightening way of thinking about the political condition of postmodernity, which we might define in terms of a crisis in the imperative. One of the most significant consequences of victimary modernity, and its intensification under postmodernity, has been a continual shrinking of the sphere of operative (uncontested, understood, grounded in our tacit knowledge of others, immediately complied with) imperatives. To put it simply, no one is sure enough about whom they should listen to. The task of modernity has been to enhance the imperative force of declaratives, but the same assumptions that led "reason" to attack rather than complement "faith" set declaratives at odds with imperatives, compliance with which must contain a substantial "irrational" element. Events are always a sure source of imperatives, upon which victimary discourse relies heavily and has come to produce rather than discover, but that can never be enough. The Left is bossy enough, to be sure, but their imperatives are generated by ostensives on one side ("racist!"; "fascist!", "homophobe!," etc.) and formulaic declaratives on the other. "Gay marriage is a human right" is a declarative, and a very characteristic one—it presents itself, grammatically, more as a statement of fact than of opinion; it is a declarative that depends upon a long sequence of previous ones of exactly the same type ("gay marriage" simply filling a slot previously filled by other substantives), creating the reality which provides the effect of "facticity"; and its imperative force is absolute for anyone situated within that "reality" (the human rights world picture), while anyone outside of that reality is irrevocably demonized. The fetish the Left has come to make of "lying" (as a strategic accusation, at least) makes sense in these terms as well: distinguishing between truth and lies places politics completely on declarative terrain, while charging the declarative with imperative force.
In that case, the post-victimary imperative would be to create and obey together the imperatives out of which new declaratives might emerge. I don't know what those imperatives might be or how we will come to obey them—indeed, how could any of us? The absolute and ultimately arbitrary adherence to some irresistible model which I understand Raoul Eshelman's notion of "performatism" to be identifying as a "post-postmodernism" seems to me one productive line of inquiry. It might also help to inscribe imperatives within freedom, which we might consider obedience to the imperative to prolong the distance between the imperative and its ostensive authentification. Freedom, in other words, is not the opposite of obedience—it is obedience to an imperative to honor the imperative order by embedding single imperatives in prior, more inclusive ones and making one's own obedience into a sign that is never completely formed. I have previously defined freedom as nobody, including yourself, knowing what you are going to do next—and isn't that exactly what is happening as one follows an increasingly impersonal imperative through ever wider circles of consequences?


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Q: Automatically start app on boot from code I have configured my app to automatically start on boot and it's working but only the first time :/
The manifest
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SHUTDOWN"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.PREVENT_POWER_KEY" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />

  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.REBOOT" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MODIFY_PHONE_STATE" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.DEVICE_POWER" />

 <receiver android:name=".autostart" android:enabled="true" android:exported="true">
      <intent-filter>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED"/>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON"/>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.REBOOT"/>
        <!--For HTC devices-->
        <action android:name="com.htc.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON"/>
      </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

The autostart
public class autostart extends BroadcastReceiver {
  @Override
  public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
      Intent i = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
      i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
      context.startActivity(i);
      Log.d("AutoStart", "AutoStart");
  }
}

I restart and shutdown the app with this code :
  public static void Reboot(CaniGPSApplication caniGPSApplication) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] { "/system/bin/svc", "power", "reboot" });
    proc.waitFor();
  }

  public static void Shutdown(CaniGPSApplication caniGPSApplication) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] { "/system/bin/svc", "power", "shutdown" });
    proc.waitFor();
  }

I have no idea why my apps doesn't start the second time. I am working on a GPS device (no screen ...) and my app is in system/priv-app .
Hope someone will have an idea :)

A: I have found a solution.
First I remove autostart block which is not more used
<receiver android:name=".autostart"

And I have added the HOME category in my main activity
<activity
      android:name=".MainActivity"
      android:exported="true">
      <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
      </intent-filter>
    </activity>

From the documentation

This is the home activity, that is the first activity that is
displayed when the device boots.

Perfect for my case : a simple GPS device, but I think a bad idea on a phone :)


Certainly one of quite possibly the most widespread electrical wiring thoughts is on how to wire a swap. Although employing switches at your house is very easy, wiring a person may not be that simple for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is actually quite simple to wire. There are actually several types of switches, but for this example, let's say you're putting in a single-pole toggle switch, an exceedingly common switch (as well as most basic).
There are 3 hues of wires in the regular single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and eco-friendly. Splice the black wire in two and connect them to the terminal screws - one particular on best plus the other to the base screw of the switch. The white wire serves as a supply of uninterrupted electrical power and is particularly usually related to your mild colored terminal screw (e.g., silver). Connect the environmentally friendly wire towards the ground screw of your change.
These methods would normally be sufficient to create an average change do the job with out a dilemma. On the other hand, for those who will not be self-confident that you simply can carry out the process effectively and safely and securely you greater allow the pros do it rather. Just after all, there is a cause why this job has become the most typical electrical wiring concerns questioned by plenty of people.
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Kerrisdale Village is on the west side of the city of Vancouver. Called Vancouver's most charming village, with its brick-paved sidewalks and welcoming spirit, it's a great place to spend an afternoon. It offers a cornucopia of shops, eateries and services that would rival those of any bustling metropolis, while keeping its quaint village charm and warm spirit. One such store is a quirky, yet sophisticated stationary store, offering a quality selection of writing instruments, basic art supplies, unique gift cards, journals and so much more; Buchan's has a 55 year history and has only changed hands once in that entire time. Proprietor Inna Vasilyev – Gutman bought the space in 2012 and has transformed it into a veritable shop for everyone who needs anything paper, art or gift related.
"I've changed the idea of the store.
It used to be just stationery, I've made it more like a 'one stop shopping place' for all ages from 1 month to 101 years old" says Inna.
Inna is originally from Russia and had studied to be an electrical engineer. Having decided it wasn't the career for her, she and her family moved to Israel. While living in Israel, Inna read an article about Vancouver and could not get the place and the photos out of her mind. After 6 years, she and her husband and children, packed up and moved to the beautiful place in the magazine, Vancouver… without ever visiting it or knowing anyone there. 19 years later, it is home sweet home and still as beautiful as the photos.
Beautiful cards, pretty journals, plenty of pens, markers and other writing instruments, wrapping paper, gift bags, candles, napkins and art and party supplies. Buchan's sells high-end gift items such as, exclusive handbags, purses, toys, fragrant creams, travel bags, Disney collectibles, a huge kids section, lots of very cool collectibles, Rogers fabulous chocolates from Canada, Moleskin, Cross Pens, an entire wedding section, Lamy pens from Germany, Crane, Papyrus, Rosier Bags and of course Rossi1931.
Obviously a very stylish proprietor, Inna works very long hours and continually gives back to her community by supporting local fundraisers.


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General information about Musikmesse, about your participation at the fair as an exhibitor and your visit to the fair as a visitor.
Musikmesse is opened from Tuesday 2.4. until Friday 5.4.2019 from 10am to 6pm.
Tickets for Musikmesse Plaza (Saturday, 6. April) are available at the box office for 5 EUR.
Secure your Musikmesse online ticket at a lower advance-booking rate or redeem a voucher.
You are interested in exhibiting at Musikmesse? Book your booth here easily.
Personal mouthpieces may be taken into Musikmesse for instrument testing.
Brought instruments and equipment will be sealed at the entrances (Galleria, Portalhaus, Entrance City and S-Bahn stop Messe) and you get a document, which entitles you to take the instrument with you to the fair.
Use the official catalogue to gain a complete and efficient overview of all exhibitors at the Musikmesse. Detailed information will support you for the preparation and review of your visit. The catalogue is going to be published a few weeks bevor the start of the fair as a print and a PDF version as well as an e-catalogue.
During the Musikmesse the print catalogue is available on the fairgrounds (at the cash registers). However, you can pre-order with costs the print and PDF version of the catalogue before the start of the Musikmesse.
The Business Matchmaking programme promotes contact between manufacturers and buyers before the fair even kicks off. We help you find the companies that are most important to your business and offer what you are looking for. An easy-to-use online platform is available to help you plan your meetings. In addition, our Matchmaking team offers you individual assistance. If you have a ticket for Musikmesse, you are already automatically registered in the Business Matchmaking programme and can sign in with your trade fair login details.
As soon as you bought your online ticket, our Business Matchmaking team matches your profile with exhibitor profiles.
You will get an email with your personal login data for your Business Matchmaking account.
The Matchmaking team will be available on site at Musikmesse to provide assistance. You will find the service stand in the foyer of hall 4.1.
The Messe Frankfurt Kindergarten caters perfectly for little trade-fair visitors aged three and older. Two kindergarten teachers look after a maximum of 20 children in the 180 m² facility. Parents with babies can also retire to this child-oriented setting and breastfeed, change the diaper or prepare the baby food. During Musikmesse, this free service is available within the regular hours of opening.
Did you know? Saturday, 6th April, the new Musikmesse Plaza will take place. Gear - Vintage – Lifestyle. More information about it and its exhibitors can be found here.


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Demographic model of the swiss cattle population for the years 2009-2011 stratified by gender, age and production type
Schärrer, Sara and Presi, Patrick and Hattendorf, Jan and Chitnis, Nakul and Reist, Martin and Zinsstag, Jakob. (2014) Demographic model of the swiss cattle population for the years 2009-2011 stratified by gender, age and production type. PLoS ONE, Vol. 9, H. 10 , e109329.
Available under License CC BY (Attribution).
Demographic composition and dynamics of animal and human populations are important determinants for the transmission dynamics of infectious disease and for the effect of infectious disease or environmental disasters on productivity. In many circumstances, demographic data are not available or of poor quality. Since 1999 Switzerland has been recording cattle movements, births, deaths and slaughter in an animal movement database (AMD). The data present in the AMD offers the opportunity for analysing and understanding the dynamic of the Swiss cattle population. A dynamic population model can serve as a building block for future disease transmission models and help policy makers in developing strategies regarding animal health, animal welfare, livestock management and productivity. The Swiss cattle population was therefore modelled using a system of ordinary differential equations. The model was stratified by production type (dairy or beef), age and gender (male and female calves: 0-1 year, heifers and young bulls: 1-2 years, cows and bulls: older than 2 years). The simulation of the Swiss cattle population reflects the observed pattern accurately. Parameters were optimized on the basis of the goodness-of-fit (using the Powell algorithm). The fitted rates were compared with calculated rates from the AMD and differed only marginally. This gives confidence in the fitted rates of parameters that are not directly deductible from the AMD (e.g. the proportion of calves that are moved from the dairy system to fattening plants).
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09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) > Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) > Human and Animal Health > One Health (Zinsstag)
Zinsstag, Jakob Z and Hattendorf, Jan and Chitnis, Nakul


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Cork use to stopper bottles was increasingly used in the 17th C however it was the introduction of the corkscrew, first recorded in 1686 that accelerated its use. Before that it was not possible to tightly fit corks as they were difficult to remove!. An early device was used simply an awl but this often damaged the glass bottle neck and glass bottles initially were expensive.
Initially the cork was partially inserted and then tied down by pack-thread to the string lip. An invention of Sir Kenelm Digby. This persists in Champagne bottles
Adding the string lip
Corks were known to the Greeks and Romans. Pliny mentions them in his Natural History but fell from common use thereafter. Corks were mentioned by Sir Hugh Platt in his book of 1602 Delights for Lady in the bottling of beer but probably was used with ceramic not glass bottles. Corks were also mentioned by Gervase Markham in his book English Hus-wife of 1602 saying "corks should be tied down with packthread"
As mentioned earlier with the invention of the cork screw, modified from a gun worm used to remove bullets and wadding from gun barrels; this and its resultant ability to fully insert the cork plus the evolving cylindrical shape of the bottle allowed bottles to be binned on their sides. This simple change resulting in the cork remaining moist extended its ability to keep the wine healthy and maturing.
Returning to cider Worlidge first recommends glass stoppers first each ground to a perfect fit with paste of emory powder and oil, (this technology is still used in decanters), as early corks were of variable quality. J Worlidge in Vinetum Britannicum " much liquor being absolutely spoiled by defects in the cork" However the resultant tight fit of a glass stopper could result in exploding bottles if the cider had not finished fermenting. Each cork manually cut as early hand blown glass bottles had variable sized necks. It was not until 1740 that moulds were used to create standard neck and capacities.
Robert Hooke another early member of the Royal Society was the first to begin the understanding of why corks were so good. Compressible, elastic and a barrier to water, mould and oxygen. The air cells responsible were visible with the microscopes he invented from glass used to make lens.
Image from Hooke's Micrographia
Cork stoppers were recognised to improve the cider with age Worlidge and Beale recommended cork stoppers and lying the bottles in cool cellars Worlidge suggesting that vaults were made at the bottom of wells. It is known that Lord Scudamore constructed a cellar in his estate with spring water diverted to it to cool his bottles.
Shakespeare noted the use of corks in bottles in" As you like it" saying
I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings"
Over time as bottles became more available in the landed Gentry's houses post 1660 barrels were decanted into bottles and corked to age the wine or cider by the top servant to age it and his name changed with his role from bottler to butler.
There is a delightful story of how Dom Perignon rediscovered the use of the cork. This was when he saw the water bottles of two monks who stayed at his Abbey in Hautvilliers en route from their Monastery in Catalonia ( where it is said the best terroir for growing the best cork is to be found). Prior to that the French used wooden pegs covered with hemp soaked in olive oil. However the French use of cork and Verre Anglais the strong English glass was relatively late and the Duke of Bedford's household accounts of 25th March 1665 notes " Champaign wine 2 dozen glass bottles and corks" three years before Dom Perignon even entered the Abbey! It is more likely he knew of this bottling of champagne from the English who had earlier used cork to stop beer and cider bottles.
Cork is the bark of the Cork Oak tree, Quercus Suber. It grows all over the Mediterranean but especially well in the Iberian Peninsula. Its use as bottle stoppers as invented by Romans died out as tanners increasingly used it and resulted in forest depletion in Italy.
Cork tree stripped of cork from the trunk
Harvesting cork is is a long term industry. Cork cannot be harvested from the tree until it reaches a certain girth. This is about 50 years of age and then harvesting in once every 10 years until the tree finishes its useful life at age about 150 to 200 years. The harvesting is a skilled occupation. 2 men work in a team and suing axes cut the bark from the ground up to a certain height (which might include some of the lower limbs) in one piece.
These are then stacked in the forest to weather for several months before being boiled to remove tannins and soften the bark into flat sheets. These are then dried until the moisture content is right for cutting the cork plugs. Originally this was by hand.
For the cork to be used for corks it must be 2 inches thick and the corks are cut across the grain so fissures in the cork do mot affect its ability to act as an airtight barrier. The cork oak is the only tree that survives having its bark stripped with a new cambium layer quickly reforming. The other unique feature is a compound initially called suber. This is in fact a complex of organic chemicals that span across the cell membrane. On the outer side the phenolic domain of hydroxycinnamic acid linked to the aliphatic glyerol domain on the inner surface, making the cell water and airtight. The cell becoming filled with air as the bark grows on the tree. The air in the cells makes the cork compressible. This curious quality of cork presumably ecologically gave it an increased ability to resist fire common in its habitat, rather than as a gift for humanity!
The use of corks in England increased significantly after the Treaty of Methuen of 1703 which encouraged trade between England and Portugal where cork growing is centred. Trade was also in corked bottles of Port which improved with ageing for years. To help perfect the seal the cork and neck were then dipped in wax.
The use of cork for bottle stopping has now declined with the screw cap and sparkling drink closures such as Zork. This in turn has lead to some cork forests being left untended and the savanna undergrowth rebounding ( it is cut out to allow the cork harvest on its 10 year cycle). The adverse effects of this is the decline in numbers of the Iberian Lynx as hunting becomes more difficult in the undergrowth.
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Q: How to change the css style of the columns in the TableView in javafx successfully? Hi guys I want to populate a TableView dynamically where its numbers of columns could be different in every execution of the application. Every column has to have a different background color. Every time the user select a value in the table, all cells with the same value will be selected, but once I change the style of the column the cells selected they are not highlighted any more. How can I solve this problem?
This is the fragment of code where I define the style for every columns:
    ... ... ... ...
    int nPos = lttry.getPositionsSize();
    for(int i=1; i<= nPos; ++i) {

       String posName = data.getColumnPos(i).getName();
       TableColumn<Vector<String>,String> clnPos = new TableColumn<>(posName);
       String clmnId = "clmn"+posName;
       clnPos.setId(clmnId);

       final int idxPos = i;

      clnPos.setCellValueFactory(new Callback<CellDataFeatures<Vector<String>, String>, ObservableValue<String>>() {
                    @Override
                    public ObservableValue<String> call(CellDataFeatures<Vector<String>, String> p) {
                        return new SimpleStringProperty((p.getValue().get(idxPos)));
                    }
                });
      tblVwLttData.getColumns().add(clnPos);
            }

            ObservableList<Vector<String>> items =
                    FXCollections.<Vector<String>>observableArrayList();
    ... ... .... .... .....

The following picture shows the problem that I'm facing, the user has selected a cell with the value of 31 and all the cells with the same value has been selected, but these ones don't have the traditional blue color showing that those cells has been selected, only the text  color has changed to white.

the following is css file:
    .table-view{
        -fx-background-color: transparent;
    }

    #clmnP1{
        -fx-background-color: #d0ae9caa;
        -fx-backgrounds-insets: 0, 0 0 1 0;
    }

    #clmnP2{
        -fx-background-color: #f2d092aa;
        -fx-backgrounds-insets: 0, 0 0 1 0;
    }

    #clmnP3{
        -fx-background-color: #92f2d2aa;
        -fx-backgrounds-insets: 0, 0 0 1 0;
    }

    #clmnP4{
        -fx-background-color: #f2f292aa;
        -fx-backgrounds-insets: 0, 0 0 1 0;
    }

    #clmnP5{
        -fx-background-color: #a987ccaa;
        -fx-backgrounds-insets: 0, 0 0 1 0;
    }

    #clmnP6{
        -fx-background-color: #92d3f2aa;
        -fx-backgrounds-insets: 0, 0 0 1 0;
    }

    #clmnP7{
        -fx-background-color: #92b3f2aa;
        -fx-backgrounds-insets: 0, 0 0 1 0;
    }

I have tried several other solutions that have been proposed for similar problems with no success.


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Fall TV 2019 Premiere Dates: The Complete List for New and Returning Broadcast Shows
Before you know it, broadcast will be back in session
Jennifer Maas | July 2, 2019 @ 12:25 PM	Last Updated: August 22, 2019 @ 9:35 PM
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We know, we know, summer has just started and we're already talking about Fall TV. But the broadcast networks have already announced the premiere dates for their new and returning shows and so it's our duty to let you know what is going to air when.
TheWrap has rounded up the premiere dates for new and returning shows that will hit Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC and The CW during the cooler months, to make sure you don't miss fresh episodes of your most beloved series — and the debuts of new ones.
See broadcast's fall premiere dates below, a list which TheWrap will continue to update as more become available in the coming months (new shows in CAPS):
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Monday, Sept. 16
8 p.m. "Dancing With the Stars" (ABC)
8 p.m. "The Neighborhood" (CBS)
8 p.m. "The Voice" (NBC)
8 p.m. "9-1-1" (Fox)
8:30 p.m. "BOB ♥ ABISHOLA" (CBS)
9 p.m. "ALL RISE" (CBS)
9 p.m. "PRODIGAL SON" (Fox)
10 p.m. "BLUFF CITY LAW" (NBC)
10 p.m. "Bull" (CBS)
10 p.m. "The Good Doctor" (ABC)
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Tuesday, Sept. 24
8 p.m. "NCIS" (CBS)
8 p.m. "The Resident" (Fox)
8 p.m. "The Conners" (ABC)
8:30 p.m. "Bless This Mess" (ABC)
9 p.m. "MIXED-ISH" (ABC)
9 p.m. "Empire" (Fox)
9 p.m. "This Is Us" (NBC)
9 p.m. "FBI" (CBS)
9:30 p.m. "black-ish" (ABC)
10 p.m. "NCIS: New Orleans" (CBS)
10 p.m. "New Amsterdam" (NBC)
10 p.m. "EMERGENCE" (ABC)
Wednesday, Sept. 25
8 p.m. "Survivor" (CBS)
8 p.m. "The Goldbergs" (ABC)
8 p.m. "The Masked Singer" (Fox)
8 p.m. "Chicago Med" (NBC)
8:30 p.m. "Schooled" (ABC)
9 p.m. "Modern Family" (ABC)
9 p.m. "Chicago Fire" (NBC)
9:30 p.m. "Single Parents" (ABC)
10 p.m. "STUMPTOWN" (ABC)
10 p.m. "Chicago P.D." (NBC)
8 p.m. "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
8 p.m. "Superstore" (NBC)
8 p.m. "Young Sheldon" (CBS)
8:30 p.m. "THE UNICORN" (CBS)
8:30 p.m. "PERFECT HARMONY" (NBC)
9 p.m. "Mom" (CBS)
9 p.m. "A Million Little Things" (ABC)
9 p.m. "The Good Place" (NBC)
9:30 p.m. "CAROL'S SECOND ACT" (CBS)
9:30 p.m. "SUNNYSIDE" (NBC)
10 p.n. "How to Get Away With Murder" (ABC)
10 p.m. "EVIL" (CBS)
10 p.m. "Law & Order: SVU" (NBC)
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8 p.m. "American Housewife" (ABC)
8 p.m. "Hawaii Five-0" (CBS)
8:30 p.m. "Fresh Off the Boat" (ABC)
9 p.m. "Magnum P.I." (CBS)
9 p.m. "Dateline NBC" (NBC)
9 p.m. "20/20" (ABC)
10 p.m. "Blue Bloods" (CBS)
8 p.m. "Crimetime Saturday" (CBS)
10 p.m. "48 Hours" (CBS)
7 p.m. "America's Funniest Home Videos" (ABC)
7:30 p.m. "60 Minutes" (CBS)
8 p.m. "The Simpsons" (Fox)
8:30 p.m. "BLESS THE HARTS" (Fox)
8:30 p.m. "God Friended Me" (CBS)
9 p.m. "Bob's Burgers" (Fox)
9 p.m. "Shark Tank" (ABC)
9:30 p.m. "Family Guys" (Fox)
9:30 p.m. "NCIS: Los Angeles" (CBS)
10 p.m. "The Rookie" (ABC)
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Wednesday, Oct.2
8 p.m. "Survivor" (CBS, regular time period)
8 p.m. "The Masked Singer" (Fox, regular time period)
9 p.m. "ALMOST FAMILY" (Fox)
9 p.m. "SEAL Team" (CBS)
10 p.m. "S.W.A.T." (CBS)
Friday, Oct. 4
8 p.m. "The Blacklist" (NBC)
8 p.m. "WWE's SMACKDOWN LIVE" (Fox)
Sunday, Oct. 6
7 p.m. "60 Minutes" (CBS, regular time period)
8 p.m. "God Friended Me" (CBS, regular time period)
8 p.m. "BATWOMAN" (The CW)
8 p.m. "KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS" (ABC)
9 p.m. "Supergirl" (The CW)
9 p.m. "NCIS: Lose Angeles" (CBS, regular time period)
10 p.m. "Madam Secretary" (CBS)
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Monday, Oct. 7
8 p.m. "All American" (The CW)
9 p.m. "Black Lightning" (The CW)
Tuesday, Oct. 8
8 p.m. "The Flash" (The CW)
Wednesday, Oct. 9
8 p.m. "Riverdale" (The CW)
9 p.m. "NANCY DREW" (The CW)
8 p.m. "Supernatural" (The CW)
9 p.m. "Legacies" (The CW)
Friday, Oct. 11
8 p.m. "Charmed" (The CW)
9 p.m. "Dynasty" (The CW)
9 p.m. "Arrow" (The CW)
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Summer is the season for mornings at the beach, afternoons by the grill, and nights spending prime time around the fire pit. Though things have changed a bit in recent years, May-early September is still not the time for TV.
To date, 23 new summer series have premiered on CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC and The CW -- we've got each of their starts charted by total viewers below.
Scroll through our gallery for the full rankings of summer show's debuts. TheWrap will update this post as more new broadcast series start. Find our Fall TV version of these rankings here and the midseason list here.
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Rank: 23 Show: "Peaking" Net: The CW Total Viewers: 250,000
Rank: 22 Show: "Mysteries Decoded" Net: The CW Total Viewers: 456,000
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Rank: 21 Show: " Hypnotize Me" Net: The CW Total Viewers: 564,000
Rank: 20 Show: "Two Sentence Horror Stories" Net: The CW Total Viewers: 588,000
Rank: 19 Show: "The Big Stage" Net: The CW Total Viewers: 652,000
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Rank: 18 Show: "Pandora" Net: The CW Total Viewers: 736,000
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Rank: 17 Show: "Bulletproof" Net: The CW Total Viewers: 803,000
Rank: 16 Show: "What Just Happened??! With Fred Savage" Net: Fox Total Viewers: 809,000
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Rank: 15 Show: "Paradise Hotel" Net: Fox Total Viewers: 1.4 million
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Rank: 14 Show: "First Responders Live" Net: Fox Total Viewers: 2.1 million
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Rank: 13 Show: "Love Island" Net: CBS Total Viewers: 2.7 million
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Rank: 12 Show: "Reef Break" Net: ABC Total Viewers: 2.8 million
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Rank: 11 Show: "Family Food Fight" Net: ABC Total Viewers: 2.9 million
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Rank: 10 Show: "The InBetween" Net: NBC Total Viewers: 3.1 million
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Rank: 9 Show: "Spin the Wheel" Net: Fox Total Viewers: 3.4 million
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Rank: 6 Show: "Card Sharks"* Net: ABC Total Viewers: 4.4 million
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Rank: 5 Show: "Holey Moley" Net: ABC Total Viewers: 4.8 million
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Rank: 4 Show: "Press Your Luck"* Net: ABC Total Viewers: 4.9 million**
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Rank: 1 Show: "Bring the Funny" Net: NBC Total Viewers: 6.2 million
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HomeNewsChernobyl and the true drab horror of socialism
Chernobyl and the true drab horror of socialism
By Tim Sullivan
IT HAS always struck me as odd that in 2019 there are still those who would advocate socialism and communism in this country and indeed in the West generally.
Knowing what history tells us of these now universally discarded and defunct ideologies, it seems quite extraordinary that, inter alia, Messrs Corbyn and McDonnell try to persuade us that this is in any way desirable. More extraordinary still is the plethora of 'socialist historians' determined to demonstrate that these ideologies existed long before Marx and Engels. They didn't, though despotism, tribal warfare, greed and a total disregard for large swathes of people has certainly characterised much of world history.
Churchill is alleged to have said to Stalin: 'It isn't communism which works, it's the midnight knock at the door'. This might equally apply to any extreme 'ideology'. After all, fascism and communism effectively meet each other behind the bicycle sheds. Whether you choose to be shot or hanged, the result is very much the same. In the Commons in 1945 Churchill (again) said: 'The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.'
Modern day exhortations or lamentations for such regimes past are always and without fail uttered by people who would remain pleasantly immune from the ravages of said philosophy. Those commonly (and fairly) referred to as 'champagne socialists' pontificate about the benefits of socialism from their luxury Camden Town and Islington dwellings. Luvvies abound of all denominations, keen to advertise their 'just and fair' credentials. Advocates of socialism are always drawn from impoverished classes such as the international stars of film and theatre world, popular entertainers and musicians, not forgetting self-serving 'intellectuals' of university academia. They, of course, would know.
If you have ever wondered what life might be like under an ideology long ago discarded by the world, particularly the West, do watch the current Sky Atlantic TV serial Chernobyl. Quite apart from being a superbly assembled 'no frills' drama, it does make very clear how communism failed at least two generations and nearly killed off at least half the non-communist world in the process. The utter contempt for life engendered by an obsession for control and secrecy is beautifully balanced against the courage and heroism of its plentiful, loyal and conveniently dispensable 'proletariat'.
Orwell's Animal Farm, prescient at the time of its publication and as relevant today as ever, is writ large over this excellent but harrowing dramatisation of events. Glaringly, rubbed into our faces, select apparatchiks were very much 'more equal than others'. The party machine, hugely incompetent and determined never to be (found to be) wrong, cynically enlists endless innocents to clear up the mess of Chernobyl, sending them to a sure and excruciating death, paying only minor lip service to 'some of the dangers'.
The Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation (in this instance, in the guise of Radio 5 Live) during a review of Chernobyl received a phone call from a very elderly former Russian citizen, resident in the UK for many years, who praised the accuracy of the entire programme, right down to the waste baskets in the hospitals. Poetic licence so often dilutes the true impact of history because modern audiences are thought to be impatient and to find it hard to relate to the unspectacular. But in Chernobyl is presented a triumph of the drab, the cynical, the barbarity and cruelty of the regime, the complete absence of social mobility, the incarcerating nature of those drab grey public housing towers and the absence of hope. And yet the downtrodden have courage and a nobility of spirit entirely incompatible with their surroundings and certainly not engendered by the prevailing regime. Indeed, the miners featured in the serial are the great heroes of the piece, working with immense dedication while certain of their death, titans of the human spirit in spite of the 'ideology' of the country in which they had the misfortune to be born.
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Click the link for "Get advanced features with Maps Engine Lite" (to be able to import Excel file).
Click the "New map" button.
Under "Untitled layer," click "Import." You can import any of these types of files: .csv, .xlsx, .tsv, My Maps or Google Drive spreadsheets.
Choose the Excel (.xlsx) file that contains your address data.
Select the columns that hold address data.
Select column to title the place mark (name of location or person).
Your custom map is displayed.
There are a couple of points to note in this process. A custom map can contain up to 3 layers. Each layer can hold a maximum of 100 addresses, for a total of 300 addresses on the Map, thus your Excel file should only contain 100 rows of data. You'll also want to make sure the first row of the Excel file contains column headings such as Name, Street Address, City, etc. Google Maps uses this information as the labels for each entry on the map. Layers can be hidden, which could be handy. Labels can be displayed on the map and some limited formatting options are available.
Maps are private by default but they can be shared.
Next time you'd like to create your own map from a list of addresses, now you have a tool to do so.
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