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Christina Rossetti: Poet of Grace (Oxford University Press, in preparation).
Faithful Reading: Poetry and Christian Practice, with Mark Knight (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Ed., Elizabeth Jennings: The Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2012).
The Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Nineteenth Century Religion and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Writers and their Work, 2006).
Co-ed. with Tom Burton, Dialect Poems in the Dorset County Chronicle: William Barnes (Edinburgh University Press, in progress)
Ed., Reading the Abrahamic Faiths: Rethinking Religion and Literature (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Co-ed., Nineteenth Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates (Routledge Criticism and Debates Series, 2014).
Co-ed., with D. J. Moores, Susan Wolfson, Adam Potkay, James Pawelski and James Engell, On Human Flourishing: An Anthology of Poetry (McFarland, 2014)
Co-ed., La Questione Romantica: special issue on William Wordsworth (Primavera, 2014)
Ed. 'Nineteenth Century Poetry and Forgiveness', special issue, Literature Compass, 11.2 (2014)
Co-ed., The Oxford Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Co-ed., The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (Blackwell, 2009).
Co-ed., 'Languages of Emotion', with Isobel Armstrong, Textual Practice, 22.1 (2008).
Co-ed., 'Tractarian Poetry and Poetics', Victorian Poetry, 44:1 (2006).
'Ecology with religion: rethinking kinship in John Clare', in Simon Kövesi and Scott McEathron, New Essays on John Clare: Poetics, Culture and Community (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
'Elegy,' in Mark Knight, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Literature (Blackwell, 2015).
'Emotion', in Jonathan Herapath et al, ed., Nineteenth Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates (Routledge Criticism and Debates Series, 2015).
'Re-thinking Religion and Literature', Reading the Abrahamic Faiths: Rethinking Religion and Literature (Bloomsbury, 2014).
'Devotional Poetry,' in Jack Lynch, ed., The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry 1660-1800 (Oxford University Press, 2014).
'Religion, the Bible and Literature in the Victorian Age,' Juliet John, ed., The Oxford Handbook to Victorian Literary Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014).
'The Victorians and Bunyan's Legacy,' in Anne Dunan-Page, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 150-161.
'Elihu's Spiritual Sensation: William Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job,' in Michael Lieb et al, ed., The Oxford Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2011), 460-475.
'Sensibility into Sense: Barbauld, Hemans and Religious Commitment,' in Jo Carruthers, ed., Spiritual Identities, Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination (Peter Lang, 2009), 79-96.
'Poetry and Religion,' in Christine Gerrard, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Blackwell, 2006), 53-68.
'Love's the burning boy: Hemans' critical legacy,' in Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley, ed., The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature (Wayne State University Press, 2006), 205-224.
'"The Clue to the Brontës?": Understanding Religion in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights,' in Mark Knight and Thomas Woodman, ed., Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000 (Ashgate, 2006), 69-78.
'"Her Silence Speaks": Keble's Female Heirs,' in Kirstie Blair, ed., John Keble in Context (Anthem, 2004), 125-142.
'"A Sort of Aesthetico-Catholic Revival": Christina Rossetti, Ritual Ceremony and Christ Church, London,' in David Clifford and Lauren Roussillon, ed., Outsiders Looking in: The Rossettis Then and Now (Anthem, 2003), 115-130.
'Elegiac Neutrality in Barthes' Mourning Diary', Textual Practice, 30.2 (2016).
'Wordsworth's intuition', La Questione Romantica, special issue on William Wordsworth (Primavera, 2014).
'Poetry and Ecology', La Questione Romantica, special issue on William Wordsworth (Primavera, 2014).
'Grace and metrical movement': Coleridge and Wordsworth on grace', The Coleridge Bulletin, 41 (2013).
'Exploring forgiveness in nineteenth-century poetry', Literature Compass, 11.2 (2014).
'Hear my voice: rhythmic forgiveness and Psalm 130', Victorian Review, 37.2 (2012).
'Dogs, detectives and the famous Sherlock Holmes,' International Journal of Cultural Studies, 11.3 (2008), 289-300.
'Feeling Dickensian feeling,' 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 4 (2007), 1-19.
'The trouble with comfort: Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin and leafy emotion,' Yearbook of English Studies: Victorian Literature, 36:2 (2006), 169-179.
'Introduction: Tractarian Poets,' Victorian Poetry, 44:1 (2006), 1-6.
'Sydney Dobell and "The Church,"' Victorian Poetry, 42:4 (2004), 537-552.
'"Some very good natured friends": Frederick Locker's Scott Manuscript,' The Huntington Library Quarterly, 67:4 (2004), 623-631.
'"Some god of wild enthusiast's dreams": Methodist Enthusiasm and the Poetry of Emily Brontë,' Victorian Literature and Culture, 31:1 (2003), 263-277.
'Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve,' Journal of Victorian Culture, 7:2 (2002), 196-219.
'Emily Brontë and the Enthusiastic Tradition,' Romanticism on the Net, 25 (February, 2002)
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'"ears of my ears": cummings' Buddhist prosody', in Lawrence Normand and Alison Winch, ed., Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature (Bloomsbury, 2013).
'Falling from trees: arborescent prosody in John Clare's tree elegies', in Donald J. Moores, ed., Human Flourishing in Literary Studies: The Positive Turn (Rowman and Littlefield, 2012).
'Felicia Hemans' Sonnets on Female Characters of Scripture,' with Jon Roberts, in Andrew Tate, ed., Yearbook of English Studies: Literature and Religion (MHRA, 2009), 72-83.
'Saving Literary Criticism,' with Mark Knight, in Louise Lee and Mark Knight, ed., Religion, Literature and the Imagination (Continuum, 2009), 150-161.
'Reciprocal Scansion in Wordsworth's "There was a boy"', with Rhian Williams, Literature Compass, 6.2 (2009), 515-523.
'Feeling: an indefinite dull region of the spirit?' with Isobel Armstrong, 'Languages of Emotion,' Textual Practice, 22.1 (2008), 1-19.
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The Chronicles of Awesome
A Little Girl in Yemen — And What Matters in Life
Sometimes I wonder if humanity is worth saving, that maybe the time has come to pull the plug and turn out the lights.
My morning began with a review of my Twitter timeline, and this was near the top.
The 100-plus-day bombardment of Yemen included the use of cluster bombs made in Massachusetts. http://t.co/vYStX627YH pic.twitter.com/5k7JkeM9tX
— PRI's The World (@pritheworld) July 17, 2015
What caught my eye was not the headline. Instead, it was the little girl.
There are four framed pictures atop my bookshelf at the office. Two pictures are of cats, one who died in 2001, the other who ran away a few weeks before I moved from Raleigh in 2006. The other two pictures are of my niece, one when she was an infant, the other when she was three and a half.
The little girl in the picture reminded me greatly of my niece. Not quite a twin; this girl is a few years younger than my niece, but she has the same features and the same unruly mop of curly hair. From a distance, I would almost certainly mistake her for my niece.
The PRI article wasn't especially interesting. In the Yemeni civil war, the Saudis are using American-made cluster bombs as a weapon against the Houthi rebels, who may be backed by the Iranians. A cluster bomb is basically a shotgun-blast of explosives that are scattered over a wide area to do damage over as large an area as possible. Because of that, they stand a high risk of harming civilians, and the Saudi-deployed cluster bombs have had civilian victims. Most of the world is party to an international agreement not to use cluster bombs. The United States and Saudi Arabia are not.
I found the Reuters article where the image of the little girl — "An internally displaced girl waits with her father (not pictured) for her turn to receive food at a school in Sanaa May 17, 2015" — originated. The article, written by Chris Arsenault in June, reported on how the fighting in the civil war made the distribution of food from a United Nations program impossible.
"It's a humanitarian crisis," [United Nations World Food Program] spokeswoman Abeer Etefa told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Cairo. "The city has been cut off from supplies for a long time."
Aden residents have no running water or electricity, and food shops are empty because supplies have not been getting into the city, Etefa said.
Even before the latest violence, many Yemenis were going hungry. Yemen imports around 90 percent of its food and an estimated 16 million people, more than 60 percent of the population, need humanitarian assistance, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported.
The reasons for the fighting in Yemen are long and complicated, and I doubt I can do them justice. Yemen was once two countries, a generally religious north and a generally secular south, that were unified into a single country twenty-five years ago. (Yemen, by the way, is where "the Queen of Sheba" comes from; that area of the Arabian peninsula was once known as Sheda in pre-Islamic times.) Earlier in the year, religious rebels from the north, known as the Houthis, seized the capital city Sana'a and deposed the country's president. This touched off a conflict as Saudi Arabia, who backed the deposed president, led bombing campaigns against the Houthi rebels to drive them back. The Houthi are Shi'a and are believed to be backed by Iran, the loyalists to the deposed president as Sunni (like the Saudis), and there might even be an ISIS influence at work in the country. This BBC article might explain it better. Basically, Yemen is a poor country, and much of the conflict stems from who had power and who was excluded from power.
Sometimes I struggle with understanding humanity's inhumanity to man and the glee and willingness with which is goes about it for what are the most trivial of reasons — their enemies believe the wrong thing, their skin tone is slightly different, they're not like some amorphous "us."
It happens all around the world, every single day. It's not unique to Yemen. It's happening in Burma with the Rohinga. It's happening throughout the Middle East. It's happening in Africa. It's happening here. Hating on and hurting fellow human beings is wired into our software. I don't understand it.
I look at the picture of the little girl, the tears welling in her eyes, crumbs on her chin, and my heart breaks. She looks to me like she's three or four. Before the fighting, she had a home and friends she could play with. Two months ago, when that picture was taken, she had none of that.
There's real suffering in this world. There are people in this country who have nice homes, with refrigerators and panties full of food, who fill their time with two hundred television channels with nothing they want to watch, who feel that they're suffering because they have to accept that two men can ask for a marriage license. On the other side of the world, there are tens of thousands who have no roof over their heads, who don't know where their next meal is coming from, who have lost everything they owned for reasons that have nothing to do with them.
At our best, humanity is capable of wonders, like our arrival Pluto this week. But at our worst — and our worst is so much more common — we turn on ourselves in pointless and brutal savagery.
I call myself a journalist. I am, I write about comic books and toys. Someone has to. It feels important. Just yesterday, I was thinking of how proud and happy I was with a piece I wrote in 2009 on Bloom County. Then I look at the pain and the suffering in the world, I look at the tears and the anguish in the eyes of this little girl in Yemen, and I realize how unimportant toys and comic books are. I could be writing something, doing something to make the world a better place, to help people like the little girl in Yemen and ease their pain and suffering, the little girl who reminds me so much of my niece. Little girls shouldn't be crying because they've lost everything they've ever known and going hungry because they don't know where their next meal is coming from or what it will be.
Then I wonder what one person can do, what I can do.
And I don't know.
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Reading: Producing inter-specific hybrids between Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. oleracea (...
Producing inter-specific hybrids between Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. oleracea (L.) to synthesize trigenomic (abc) Brassica
S. R. Weerakoon
Department of Botany, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Open University, LK
Polyploidy is recognized as a major mechanism in plant evolution. Polyploid crops often have wider adaptation, better quality and higher yielding capacity than their diploid counterparts. Although many successful natural and man-made hexaploid crops are existing, hexaploid Brassica are still not available. So far, relatively a limited work has been conducted to synthesize hexaploid Brassica with A, B and C genomes, which will provide a very good potential to create new crops for domestication. An investigation was conducted to evaluate the possibility of synthesizing trigenomic (AABBCC) hexaploid Brassica by crossing Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. oleracea (L.). Five genotypes of B. juncea (AC 0747, 0790, 1099, 2180 and 7700) and five genotypes of B. oleracea (Chinese Broccoli, Broccoli-var. Shogun, Cauliflower-var. Snowball and var., Phenomenon Early and Cabbage-var. Sweet Eureka) were selected for the study. Hand pollination was done by emasculating buds of one species and pollination using another species in both directions. Success of pod formation of the crosses of B. juncea (♀) x B. oleracea (♂) was 25%. Totally 893 putative hybrid seeds were harvested. Although 9% pod formation was observed in reciprocal crosses, no seeds were developed. Evaluation of 80 putative hybrids by molecular markers and agro-morphological characterization confirmed four true hybrids resulting crosses between AC 0747 x Chinese Broccoli, AC 0790 x Chinese Broccoli and AC 2180 x Broccoli-var. Shogun. The present investigation confirms that hybridization of tetraploid B. juncea (4x, AABB) with diploid B. oleracea (2x, CC) is a potential approach to produce hexaploid Brassica (6x, AABBCC) genotypes.
Keywords: Hexaploid Brassica; inter-specific hybridization; polyploidy; SSR markers
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v6i0.4218
J Sci.Univ.Kelaniya 6 (2011) : 13-34
Keywords: Hexaploid Brassica , inter-specific hybridization , polyploidy , SSR markers
How to Cite: Weerakoon, S.R., 2012. Producing inter-specific hybrids between Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. oleracea (L.) to synthesize trigenomic (abc) Brassica. Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 6, pp.13–34. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v6i0.4218
Published on 27 Mar 2012.
Weerakoon, S.R., 2012. Producing inter-specific hybrids between Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. oleracea (L.) to synthesize trigenomic (abc) Brassica. Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 6, pp.13–34. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v6i0.4218
Weerakoon SR. Producing inter-specific hybrids between Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. oleracea (L.) to synthesize trigenomic (abc) Brassica. Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka. 2012;6:13–34. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v6i0.4218
Weerakoon, S. R. (2012). Producing inter-specific hybrids between Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. oleracea (L.) to synthesize trigenomic (abc) Brassica. Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 6, 13–34. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v6i0.4218
Weerakoon SR, 'Producing Inter-specific Hybrids Between Brassica Juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. Oleracea (L.) to Synthesize Trigenomic (abc) Brassica' (2012) 6 Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka 13 DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v6i0.4218
Weerakoon, S. R.. 2012. "Producing Inter-specific Hybrids Between Brassica Juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. Oleracea (L.) to Synthesize Trigenomic (abc) Brassica". Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka 6: 13–34. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v6i0.4218
Weerakoon, S. R.. "Producing Inter-specific Hybrids Between Brassica Juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. Oleracea (L.) to Synthesize Trigenomic (abc) Brassica". Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka 6 (2012): 13–34. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v6i0.4218
Weerakoon, S. R.. "Producing Inter-specific Hybrids Between Brassica Juncea (L.) Czern & Coss and B. Oleracea (L.) to Synthesize Trigenomic (abc) Brassica". Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, vol. 6, 2012, pp. 13–34. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v6i0.4218


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Q: Syntax error, space in the username command I'm trying to change the owner and the group of a directory and any subdirectories and archives in a centos sytem
I'm using this commands:
chown -R mc4380 [502] /home/minecraft/multicraft/servers/server4380
chgrp -R mc4380 [502] /home/minecraft/multicraft/servers/server4380

The way to directory is:
/home/minecraft/multicraft/servers/server4380
And the new owner and group are:
mc4380 [502]
The problem is the space in the mc4380 [502], I receive this error when I execute the command:
chown: cannot access `[502]': No such file or directory
I Already tried this and don't worked:
chown -R "mc4380 [502]" /home/minecraft/multicraft/servers/server4380
chown -R 'mc4380 [502]' /home/minecraft/multicraft/servers/server4380
chown -R mc4380\ [502] /home/minecraft/multicraft/servers/server4380

everytime receiving this:
chown: invalid user: `mc4380 [502]'
But the user/group exists and are okay, and when i used this command:
chown   -R    new_owner:new_group     /directory

Him understood the first argument changing successful the owner of the archives/directory and subdirectorys
Oh, sorry my bad english, I tried to do my best

A: Try this command:
chown -R mc4380\ \[502\] /home/minecraft/multicraft/servers/server4380

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November 19, 2018 – Nashville, TN – MULTI-platinum selling performer Thomas Rhett announced today his VERY HOT SUMMER TOUR with special guests Dustin Lynch, Russell Dickerson and Rhett Akins. Thomas Rhett is set to kick off the summer on May 17 in Spokane, WA. Touted as a "Born Entertainer" (Lincoln Journal Star), fans can't help but "get swept up in the fun" (Lexington Herald Leader) of Thomas Rhett's live show. Initial public on-sales are scheduled for Nov. 30 beginning at 10AM local time via thomasrhett.com. Fans can also purchase tickets for additional select cities beginning Friday, January 25 as part of Live Nation's Country Megaticket at www.Megaticket.com, and additional dates will continue to roll out over the coming weeks. Citi is the official presale credit card of the  tour, and Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday at  10AM local time through Citi's Private Pass program. For complete presale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Live Nation is the national tour promoter.


Saute onion in butter in a Dutch oven. Add flour, stirring until smooth. Cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Gradually add milk, half and half and chicken broth. Cook over medium heat, stirring until the mixture is thickened and bubbly. Stir in salt, garlic powder and basil. Add broccoli, then cover and cook over medium heat for 15 minutes or until broccoli is tender.


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I discovered and fixed a weird problem today. As it turns out, if the configuration contains the value '85', it would corrupt the configuration in the ignition controller, requiring a complete wipe and and re-update of the ignition config.
Since the value '85' represents the ASCII character 'U' (the controller's "Update" command) it would reset the update process in the middle of the *current* update process, causing data corruption.
Fortunately, it was an easy one line fix in the firmware code to prevent it from recognizing the update command during an update in process.
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We have no signs of a cria from Nessa yet. Time will tell. We are on Day 15 of Llama Watch, Round 1. This is so different than watching and waiting for ewes to drop their lambs.
We have one week before the first lambs are due; our barnyard is stuffed with groaning, waddling ewes. Well, I imagine they are groaning...they certainly are waddling! It brings to mind a "home for unwed mothers," as they used to say. The girls seem to be a bit testy with each other; there has been a bit more head butting between the ewes. As I wait for lambs, I invent stories about the ewes... Perhaps head butting is their way of taking out their frustration and jealousy over "their ram." It's barnyard trash-talk... . I put together three breeding groups, with expected lambs from the end of April through the end of May. Since I put the groups together, doesn't that make me the Madame? The Sheep Madame. Yes, every breeding season, you may call me Madame Shepherdess.
The first breeding group was put with Bluefaced Leicester ram Beechtree Dougal. We purchased him from Becky Utecht last November. He has a lustrous, purly fleece which is just luscious!! My goal with Dougal is to add his fleece qualities to our flock as well as more size for market lambs. He was put over four Shetland and two North Country Cheviot ewes. By putting a BFL over these girls we will get first generation crosses which are commonly done in the United Kingdom. The crossbred Mules, as they are called, can then be put to a terminal sire ram for a larger market lamb. I'm not sure that we will add the terminal sire to the mix next year. I want to see how we do with lamb size this fall. We will hopefully get at least a few Mule ewes to retain, and the rams which aren't whethered for fiber pets will be a nicer size market lamb. All these ewes appear to be pregnant; right now it looks like one of the Cheviot ewes and Roundaboutacres Bunny will be the first to lamb.
Our two NC Cheviot ewes, #7 and #23. Bella is in the back. I really like the Cheviots ewes. They are larger but calm and mellow with the other ewes. I still haven't named them! I want a theme for the NC Cheviots - constellations, flowers, jewels, etc. Any suggestions??
Little Red Oak Lily (moorit) in front and one of the Cheviot ewes in the back. In this picture Lily is about 18 months old and the Cheviot is about six months. The Cheviots are definitely larger and blockier than the Shetlands. And their fleece is dense, dense, dense!
In the next post I will have pictures of the other two breeding groups. In the meantime, I am looking forward to more barnyard trash-talk!
Oh I loved seeing the photos of your sheep. I've missed Dougal of course, especially at shearing time.
Those Cheviots look great. I can't wait to hear about the arrival of your first Mule lambs. It won't be long now.
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'The Queen's Gambit' review: Binge this series all knight long
The talented Anya Taylor Joy and Oscar-winning screenwriter-director Scott Frank come together in 'The Queen's Gambit', which makes chess appealing to non-players in mesmeric ways
Since childhood, I steered clear of chess, feeling that the people who often played it were just far too intense — and in some cases, too snobby — for my liking. It always remained an enigmatic sport for the umpteen rules to remember, and the energy seemed way more than what the sport was worth. But yes, I always considered chess a sport; in its essence, it is competitive that exercises some part of the human body.
The Queen's Gambit, Netflix's latest psychological-drama limited series based on the eponymous 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, sums up the sport and its pressures through the eyes of Elizabeth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor Joy (The Miniaturist, Glass). Yes, chess is the central nervous system of the series, but the heart and soul is Beth.
At the start of the series, which is set in a Cold War era, Beth loses her mother in a car accident and is placed in a girls' home until she is adopted by the cheery Alma Wheatley (Marielle Heller) and her stoic husband. Much of the first episode narrates her loss as well as her gain of chess-playing abilities, learning from the orphanage's gruff janitor, William Shaibel. Unfortunately, during this time, Beth swallows several handfuls of blue and green tranquillisers. These distinct-looking pills would become central to the story later.
Anya Taylor Joy is transfixing as the socially-aloof and checkmate-driven Beth, slicing through chess matches like a hot knife through butter. This noticeable in even the most nuanced movements such as the pensive posture and minute eye movements while she studies the chess-board. Through the series, as Beth meets her matches (no pun intended) across different verticals, audiences are kept on their toes by an unpredictable yet entrancing Joy whose talent is only further stoked alive by Frank's impeccable writing and directing.
Even as her fame propels her all over the world and sees her gracing the cover of chess magazines, Beth's exterior in the first few episodes is rarely affected. Only when she meets photographer Townes (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) do we see a shy warmth, and it is a pining that forges on through the remaining episodes.
Checkmate casting
The Queen's Gambit sees an impressive supporting cast, all of whom impact Beth's life in some shape or form. Tina Gerussi and the rest of the series' casting team can call checkmate of the groundswell of raw talent in the show.
Following the adoption, Alma's husband leaves the family ultimately binding mother and child in a unique relationship where Beth's long-nurtured chess talent sees Alma becoming an agent of sorts, collecting 15% commission on the matches' wins. Heller shines as Alma, straddling the line as a parental figure and business partner, cementing for audiences that the two are not necessarily traditional mother and daughter, but there is a remarkable symbiosis.
Beth's enigma draws in many a male admirer. She meets the lovable Harry Beltik (Harry Melling, The Devil All The Time, Harry Potter) who is instantly enchanted by Beth but she does not return his feelings. Melling, in his few scenes across the episodes, is a scene-stealer, occupying a space between unassuming innocence and worldly knowledge, the latter coming to light in later episodes. And then there's the charming Benny (Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Love Actually) who carries an alluring swagger about him that piques the usually reserved Beth's interest. Each encounter reveals more about the Beth audiences loves and learns to love more.
But one of the most remarkable relationships is Beth's competition with Russian champion Vasily Borgov (Marcin Dorocinski). Beth meets Borgov and loses dismally in a match but competing with him becomes something of a mission, though they rarely interact. Dorocinski's expressions are set in an almost clay-like manner, unmoving even at the most tense nexus of a match which is disconcerting.
A beautiful game
Chess, inherently being a visually-charged sport, has to be portrayed on screen thoughtfully. Frank and cinematographer Steven Meizler and editor Michell Tesoro have risen to the challenge of bringing a confusing-to-some sport to the screen for all. The Queen's Gambit's visual elements are only elevated by the smatterings of tilting shots and VFX-melded frames. When Beth falls into addiction, the cinematography reflects this but through nuanced subtlety rather than the cliched manner.
Sound and music are inherently their own storytellers in the series; from composer Carlos Rafael Rivera's numerous scores each like a fingerprint of a given scene, to the hypnotic sound design by Wiley Stateman. The core sound to series is the chess timer's ticking, often bringing the audience's focus to that very moment a match is taking place. It is a sound that is synonymous with the sport and is successfully inserted alongside the most strategic frames.
The series itself is a dark horse from Netflix, having been in quiet production for almost two years. That said, the pace of Beth's own story is best suited for the steady thrum of a series rather than a one-shot film. The debate of 'choice versus the only choice' is resounding across the seven episodes; Beth is a chess pioneer thanks to her good choices and moves, whereas her pull into addicted is justified by anything but. The story is not always an easy watch, perhaps triggering at some parts, but as audiences watch Beth grow, the attachment evolves into something that's not entirely formulaic to most female-led series.
So, what am I most grateful for watching The Queen's Gambit? That I wasn't taught — actively or passively — how to play chess, but rather introduced to the mind-boggling pressure players must surely experience… undoubtedly, the most rewarding feelings taken away from the series are empathy and understanding.
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We always get a backlog of sound recordings from surveys which wait until Winter to get analysed. Kel took a break from refurbishing her house to analyse a recording from Harold Odell Country Park made last year and found we had discovered the rare barbastelle there. We had thought for a long time that there ought to be barbastelle here, but at long last we have confirmation. We try to make as many recordings as we can because it is possible to miss calls when you are out in the field. This shows it is worth while.
You can listen ti the sound file here 11.08.11-clip 2.
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Credibility, if you can believe it, is a person or statement believable or worthy of belief. This immediately eliminates lawyers, politicians, pathological liars (pardon the redundancy), and oft times, religious fundamentalists. It also reduces or eliminates the believability of anything they might say or write -- or for that matter, think.
Bertrand Russell said, many moons ago, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." A corollary to this is that anyone who is cocksure about something almost always lacks credibility. Anyone absolutely certain about something has typically closed down their receptors for incoming information, and thus they have eliminated any ideas or concepts which might contradict their firmly established beliefs. On this basis their pronouncements are no longer credible.
It is very important to recognize that these people have decided to close their minds to anything that might challenge their beliefs. They have become willfully ignorant. In all respects they have chosen, of their own free will, to be as stupid as a fence post. With apologies to Betrand Russell, it's not that the cocksure among us are necessarily all lacking in intelligence -- many are members of Mensa, possess Ph.D.'s, and have impressively high IQs. But they have chosen to close their minds (and hearts) to other possibilities. The result is that their opinions have no value and no credibility.
The current political situation is just one case in point, where the leader of the most powerful nation on the earth has chosen willful ignorance. Instead of making decisons based on all the facts -- or even an attempt at the whole truth -- he has instead eliminated all traditional avenues of incoming information. He reads no newspapers, news magazines, or anything else of content -- and instead has limited all data input to what he is told by a very small cadre of inside staffers. Even the election rallies he attends are so stringently choreographed that there is almost no chance that any one with an alternative viewpoint might possibly get the ear of the President and thereby suggest that perhaps not everything is peaches and cream in the heartland. This so-called leader might as well be playing croquet with Alice In Wonderland.
The end result of such limited access to alternative viewpoints is that all decisions are based on biased, narrow-minded, prophecy-fulfilling information input by equally biased and inherently, willfully ignorant people. Thus the decisions become biased, narrow... and so forth. It's the old computer adage: GIGO, i.e. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
One is reminded of Rush Limbaugh, the very conservative radio/tv commentator, who was reported some time ago to have lost a significant portion of his hearing. The irony is that inasmuch as Mr. Limbaugh has not really listened to anyone else' viewpoint in decades, it's no surprise that his hearing might have failed, if only from lack of use. It's the equivalent of the brain adage: use it or lose it. And thus without an open mind or a willingness to hear any other viewpoint, we obtain zero credibility in Rush's arguments.
Admittedly, there is equal danger in the opposite condition, wherein too much data or input information can cause the truth to be lost in the shuffle. And this is where the Inter Net comes into play. One might ideally like as input the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. But also perhaps, only the relevant truth.
The difficulty, of course, is what constitutes relevancy. In a world of connections, where all things are related in some manner or another, it is difficult to prejudge information as to its relevancy to any given issue. You just never know what might become relevant once you have enough information available.
One test is receiving and then accepting or rejecting various e-mails and allusions to specific web sites with amazing, often shocking relevations. One such tongue-inserted-firmly-cheek articles says pretty much what needs to be said in regard to all the stuff out there (all purporting to be absolutely true). As such it is well worth recanting here. Just keep in mind that without Discrimination, all the truth in the world will quickly become veiled or lost in the sheer mass of... uninhibited speculations. And we wouldn't want that would we? Or would we? And just exactly who's "we"?
I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's, sent to me because I forwarded their e-mail to five other people, (celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals), when I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken - which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC.
Anyway, one day this friend went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN!!!
The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle, around which was wrapped a note that said, Welcome to the world of AIDS."
Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but if only 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).
So anyway, the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation.
Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green M&Ms, but if you don't, the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the anti-perspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the U.S. government will put a tax on your e-mails forever.
I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet!
When you stop laughing, you can return to Communications, Media, Education, under the auspices of The Library of ialexandriah, or forge ahead to Discrimination, the cure for what might ail you now that you've been exposed to the above. OR go directly to Laughter, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, but still manage somehow to avoid jail.


Duplex ultrasound is now considered the mainstay of modern varicose vein assessment and has largely replaced the ordinary hand-held Doppler.
Ultrasound is a non-invasive test which can be performed as part of the outpatient consultation. Duplex enables the examiner to picture the veins even when they are not visible on clinical examination. The direction and amount of blood flow can be measured enabling an accurate diagnosis. The exact source of the varicose veins can be determined enabling the correct treatment to be tailored to each patient's individual needs.
The main veins in the leg, the deep veins, lie deep within the muscles and are not visible on standard clinical examination but can be visualised using Duplex ultrasound.
During your full consultation Mr Michael Gaunt will conduct a thorough evaluation using a duplex ultrasound scan to access the blood flow through your arteries and veins. The scan allows the deep veins to be examined to ensure they are working normally before any treatment of varicose veins is contemplated.
Duplex ultrasound is a simple, non-invasive investigation which is vital to the correct assessment of all the veins in your leg and will determine which treatment is best for you. Mr Michael Gaunt will put you at ease and talk you through the process.
How long does it take for the results?
The results of your duplex ultrasound scan are immediately available allowing Mr Michael Gaunt to recommend a suitable treatment plan during your consultation. He will openly discuss the results and answer any questions.
In certain conditions of the veins more specialised investigations are indicated. These are usually required for patients with more complicated abnormalities. These help Mr Gaunt assess whether varicose vein surgery will improve the venous function of the leg or, more importantly, ensure the venous function will not deteriorate after surgery.
These tests are performed by Mr Gaunt using specialised equipment and techniques and are known as venous plethysmography.
This test measures the resting venous pressure, how efficiently your leg muscles can pump the venous blood out of the leg and how quickly the venous pressure rises again when your leg muscles stop contracting. The effect of any proposed venous surgery can be simulated by inflating blood pressure cuffs at different positions on the leg and repeating the blood pressure measurements.
This test measures how quickly the venous blood leaves the leg and is used to diagnose conditions which cause an obstruction of the veins. Such patients may have a congenital abnormality of the veins or a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in the past which damaged the veins resulting in permanently swollen legs and/or venous eczema, lipodermatosclerosis and/or venous ulceration.
Abnormalities detected by venous physiology tests can be investigated further using special x-rays of the venous system – venograms. Radiological dye is injected into the veins of the leg and x-rays are taken to show any structural obstruction and/or leakage of the veins. Special fine catheters can be inserted in to the veins to measure the pressure at specific points. Surgery can then be planned to correct these abnormalities.
Mr Michael Gaunt will discuss the findings and the various treatment options which are appropriate to your specific needs. You will receive an individual treatment plan outlining required procedures and any further investigations needed.


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Q: Making few columns into one column if certain conditions are fulfilled I have an exercise in which I need to turn few or several rows into one row if they have the same data in three columnes.
substances = pd.DataFrame({'id': ['id_1', 'id_1', 'id_1', 'id_2', 'id_3'],
     'part': ['1', '1', '2', '2', '3'],
     'sub': ['paracetamolum', 'paracetamolum', 'ibuprofenum', 'dienogestum', 'etynyloestradiol'],
     'strength': ['150', '50', '50', '20', '30'],
     'unit' : ['mg', 'mg', 'mg', 'mg', 'mcg'],
     'other irrelevant columns for this task' : ['sth1' , 'sth2', 'sth3', 'sth4', 'sth5']
      })

Now provided that id, part and substance is the same, I am supposed to make it into one row, so the end result is:

id
part
strength
substance
unit

id_1
1
'150 # 50'
paracetamolum
mg

id_1
2
50
ibuprofenum
mg

id_2
2
20
dienogestum
mg

id_3
3
30
etynyloestradiol
mcg

The issue I have is that I have problem joining these rows into one row to show possible strength like this '150 # 50' I have tried to something like this, but it is not going great:
substances = substances.groupby('id', 'part', 'sub', 'strength').id.apply(lambda x: str(substances['strength']) + ' # ' + str(next(substances['strength'])))

A: df = df.groupby(['id','part','sub','unit']).agg({'strength':' # '.join}).reset_index()
df = df[['id','part','strength', 'sub','unit']]
print(df)

output:
     id part  strength               sub unit
0  id_1    1  150 # 50     paracetamolum   mg
1  id_1    2        50       ibuprofenum   mg
2  id_2    2        20       dienogestum   mg
3  id_3    3        30  etynyloestradiol  mcg


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Q: CoreData predicate for one to many relationship I have two entity: A and B.
Every element of A can have more elements of B (one to many).
Now I have an item of A and I would to take, in this item, one item B (contained in A) that it  has B.field = "myParameter".
How can I generate the Predicate for this?

A: You may be looking for that (tested with MagicalRecord):
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"(field LIKE %@) AND (isLinkedToAObject == %@)", myFieldParameter, objectA];

With:
ClassB has a property isLinkedToAObject to link it to ClassA.


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  title 'Sphinx'
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  cookbook 'sphinx'
  recipe 'sphinx'
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Instead of focusing on positive campaign promises, a slate of Orland Park candidates led by popular incumbent trustee Carole Griffin Ruzich buried their chances in an avalanche of negative mailers that undermined their chances in the April 2, 2019 elections. Ruzich and running mates Kelly O'Brien and Devin Hodge were decisively defeated in the election by the People Over Politics slate led by equally popular candidate Cindy Katsenes and her running mates Michael Milani and William Healy.
The race for Orland Park trustee was a bitterly fought election that delivered a resounding victory to a slate of challengers led by a popular candidate, Cindy Nelson Katsenes, and reinforced the public's demand for new leadership that began with the ouster of former Mayor Dan McLaughlin two years ago.
Katsenes and her running mates, Michael Milani and William Healy, easily defeated incumbent trustee Carole Griffin Ruzich and her running mates Kelly O'Brien and Devin Hodge.
The results were decisive for Katsenes, Healy and Milani who ran under the name "People Over Politics," and will tip the balance at the Orland Park village board which has stymied the efforts of Mayor Keith Pekau who swept in to replace McLaughlin in April 2017.
Ironically, Ruzich had been a supporter of Pekau during the two years of contentious attacks led by Trustees Michael Carroll, Kathy Fenton and Dan Calandriello. Carroll and trustee Patricia Gira are retiring with this election creating two vacancies for the new slate of winning trustees. Carroll's mutterings on his Facebook page turned off so many voters and really hurt Ruzich and her slate. Ruzich, one of the nicest members of the board next only to Jim Dodge, will be replaced by Katsenes. Ruzich's loss is a loss to Orland Park.
As an aside, Dodge's reasoned approach to Mayor Pekau was reflected in the election results for his wife, Linda Peckham-Dodge who easily led the slate winning a seat on the Orland Park School District 135 school board. The voters in the village and school district races are one and the same. Dodge and Ruzich often voted based on issues and not only personal politics, which is why I was so surprised to see Rucich lose in this election.
The Katsenes People Over Politics slate probably would have done even better had it not been for a decision by Mayor Peaku, their strongest backer, to pick a fight with former Cook County Board Commissioner and taxpayer champion Liz Gorman. Had that personal fight by Pekau started sooner, it might have cost the Katsenes slate their victory. Pekau's biggest problem is his knack for turning potential friends into enemies. Gorman backed Ruzich even doing a robocall to respond to Pekau's outrageous claims that she was somehow behind a series of anonymous robocalls. Pekau didn't help the Katsenes slate at all with some of his conduct in the election.
The real deciding factor, though, was the tone of the election. It was too negative. And the candidates seemed determined to make it even worse.
It began when Ruzich's slate attempted to prevent voters from deciding who to represent them, and a challenge was filed against the Katsenes slate decided by Orland Trustee Kathy Fenton and Orland Clerk John Mehalek. Fenton and Mehalek are allies of Ruzich and they voted to throw Katsenes off the ballot, outraging many voters. It's a decision that will probably cost them their election in two years.
When Katsenes' lawyers succeeded in throwing out the ridiculous challenge, their attorney appealed in the hopes again to deny voters in Orland Park the right to choose. But the appeal was rejected. Instead of undermining Katsenes, it empowered her slate. The voters were outraged and it gave Katsenes a boost in popularity that she was able to fight a sinister and unjustified election challenge filed by an attorney who should have known better, Burt Odelson.
Ruzich's slate was plagued by poor campaign management strategy, and it's hard to decide who to blame it on. Instead of focusing on why they would be the better choice, the Ruzich slate, Orland Integrity Party, concentrated on attacking Katsenes sometimes viciously. I don't believe that was Ruzich's choice to pursue that election strategy and it raises questions about how this will impact Orland Township Supervisor Paul O'Grady who solidly backed the Ruzich slate and now is left wondering if he made a terrible political decision that will come back to haunt him. Both O'Grady and Trustee Michael Carroll have been rumored to be contemplating runs for Orland Mayor in two years against Pekau. This election puts those ambitions in the deep freeze. They would have a hard time winning.
Here's a look at the mailers that were sent out.
The Orland Integrity Party sent out 15 mailers and one letter. Only five of the mailers were positive touting the achievements of Ruzich and campaign platform of Kelly and Hodge. The Ruzich slate mailed out 10 attack mailers that often were so mean they made voters look twice.
10 negative mailers sent out by the Orland Integrity Party in the April 2, 2019 trustee elections in Orland Park.
In comparison, the Katsenes People Over Politics Slate mailed out seven positive mailers and only three negative attack mailers attacking Ruzich's slate.
3 negative mailers sent out by the People Over Politics slate in the April 2, 2019 trustee elections in Orland Park.
Ruzich complained often about a series of anonymous robocalls that personally attacked her, but the origins of those robocalls — four of them — were dubious. Most voters I spoke with thought the robocalls were stupid, poorly crafted and even ignorant. Instead of focusing on the negative robocalls by unleashing a wave of negative mailers against Katsenes, the Ruzich slate should have responded by flooding mailboxes with positives that touted the professional way Ruzich handled herself during her four years on the board, voting based on issues, not based on personalities or politics as her other board member colleagues did.
There are several fundamental rules about negative mailers and negative campaigns.
First, criticism is not negative. It's legitimate. You can criticize rival candidates without making it personal. But when mailers mix criticism and excessive personal attacks, they all become negative mailers.
Second, campaigns that resort to negative mailers are telling voters that they are behind and trailing the slate being attacked. In other words, there are strategists who believe you resort to throwing mud only when your rivals are leading.
Despite what many elected officials on the Orland Park Village board think, the voters in Orland Park are very smart, discerning, and they know what's really going on. That includes the seniors who are given far less credit than they deserve by mudslinging strategists. When voters see a slate sending out more negative mailers than positive mailers, it tells them clearly that slate is losing the election and it feeds into the target's strength. In this case, Katsenes and her slate benefited significantly from the negative attack mailers that were sent out against them.
Orland Park has too many real issues that should have been the focus of the election. It's too bad those issues were not debated and the election was dragged down into the mud.
As for Pekau, this election was another victory, one he can claim credit for. But has he learned anything from his missteps?
He's been the victim of political attacks from the village staff, the most disgusting was how he was almost entirely erased from the Village of Orland Park's thick newsletter that showcased every trustee — his opponents — but went out of its way to politically suppress him. In contrast, when McLaughlin was mayor, the newsletter promoted McLaughlin excessively and it was filled with the former mayor's pictures and praise and self-serving stories that did little, apparently, to save his job last April 2017.
If anything comes out of this, maybe the political ugliness at Village Hall will finally stop. Pekau's critics have made him into a martyr by their constant attacks and obstruction. They got in his way, creating the image that Pekau is the victim. Smart politicians would step back and let Pekau do what he wants to do, allowing him to sink or swim on his own merit.
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This arcade-style game provides a fun way to practice and test your precognition ability.
You have to guess whether the next card dealt will be higher, lower, or the same value as the previous card. Aces are always high.
Alternatively (or in addition) you can guess whether the next card is red or black, whether it is a number or picture card, or which suit it is. You can make as many different bets as you wish on each card, including bets that are contradictory (similar to betting in Roulette).
Each bet is $1 (of course we're not playing for real money!). The payouts for each bet are shown in the table, including the number of cards that match each bet. If a bet is not possible (e.g. there are no club cards left to bet on) this will be shown in the table as "No Bet".
The payouts are individually calculated on each bet to give an average 100% return. This means that (without precognition and with normal luck) your average winnings should be zero. If you can consistently win at this game, this may indicate precognitive ability.
The deck of cards is shuffled at the beginning of the game. You continue with this deck until you decide to deal a new one. The previous 10 cards drawn are shown at the top of the screen.
As well as testing your precognition, this game is also useful in learning about probabilities and for testing betting strategies.


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Milad Doueihi (born 1959) is a Syrian-Lebanese cultural and intellectual historian. He is Professor of Digital Humanities at Paris-Sorbonne University.

Life
Doueihi was Directeur d'Études Associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In 2000 he was a Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Works
 'The Traps of Representation', Diacritics 14:1 (Spring 1984), pp. 66–77
 (ed.) The Metis of the Greeks. Diacritics 16:2 (Summer 1986)
 (ed.) Hoc est sacramentum: painting blasphemy, Modern language notes 109 (1994)
 A perverse history of the human heart, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997
 La grande conversion numérique, suivi de Rêveries d'un promeneur numérique, Paris: Seuil, 2008. Translated as Digital cultures, 2011. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
 Earthly paradise: myths and philosophies, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009. Translated by Jane Marie Todd.
 Solitude de l'incomparable, Paris: Seuil, 2009.
 Augustine and Spinoza, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010.
 Pour un humanisme numérique, Paris: Seuil, 2011.

References

External links
 Guest colloquium by Milad Doueihi - Digital Humanism

1959 births
Living people
Academic staff of Paris-Sorbonne University
Academic staff of Université Laval
American writers in French
20th-century American historians
21st-century American historians

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Maybe we are all entangled and we don't know it?
The entire system has been designed to benefit those who created it. It's a one-way street. Nobody and drive the wrong (right) direction on this road.
There is no god, no spirit, no divine intervention. There is only big business. Your true owners.
Big Business is created from the illusion of money..
I have read a little on that and find it very interesting but what I meant was.. well it's hard to articulate, but if we are in a simulated or 'electric' etc. universe, how can there not be some sort of self-protective controls in place to favor the Creator? If nothing exists without Him, then what use is anything else, really? Could He not 'turn it all off' at any time? How does abusing him make any logical sense to these dark factions? I just don't see how it would be literally physically possible to injure THE SOURCE of EVERYTHING.


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This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/255,625, filed Oct. 21, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,273,475 B2, issued Sep. 25, 2007, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/139,800, filed May 3, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,094,225 B2, issued Aug. 22, 2006, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/288,325, filed May 3, 2001, entitled MEDICAL DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE FOR GLAUCOMA TREATMENT, and the entire contents of each are hereby incorporated by reference herein.
When drug therapy fails, surgical therapy is used. Surgical therapy for open-angle glaucoma consists of laser trabeculoplasty, trabeculectomy, and implantation of aqueous shunts after failure of trabeculectomy or if trabeculectomy is unlikely to succeed. Trabeculectomy is a major surgery that is widely used and is augmented with topically applied anticancer drugs, such as 5-fluorouracil or mitomycin-C to decrease scarring and increase the likelihood of surgical success.
Some aspects of the invention relate to a medical device for treating tissue of trabecular meshwork of an eye comprising an ultrasound arrangement on the medical device for providing ultrasonic vibrational energy to stimulate the tissue of the trabecular meshwork. In one embodiment, the device is positioned inside Schlemm's canal in an ab externo procedure. In another embodiment, the device is positioned through the trabecular meshwork in an ab interno procedure.
The therapeutic liquid may comprise a pharmaceutical substance selected from a group consisting of Imidazole antiproliferative agents, quinoxoalines, phosphonylmethoxyalkyl nucleotide analogs and related nucleotide analogs, potassium channel blockers, synthetic oligonucleotides, Transforming Growth Factor-beta (TGF-beta), 5-[1-hydroxy-2-[2-(2-methoxyphenoxyl)ethylamino]ethyl]-2-methylbenzenesulfonamide, guanylate cyclase inhibitors, methylene blue, butylated hydroxyanisole, and N-methylhydroxylamine, 2-(4-methylaminobutoxy) diphenylmethane, a combination of apraclonidine and timolol, cloprostenol analogs or fluprostenol analogs, an ophthalmic composition that provides a sustained release of a water soluble medicament, said water soluble medicament comprising a crosslinked carboxy-containing polymer, a sugar, and water, a non-corneotoxic serine-threonine kinase inhibitor, a composition of non-steroidal glucocorticoid antagonist, and a prostaglandin analog or a derivative thereof.
Still referring to FIGS. 4 and 5, the tubular member 72 has a proximal end 76, a distal end 78 and a lumen 80 extending therethrough. The inflatable cup balloon 74 is mounted at the distal end 78. The cup balloon 74 has a balloon rim 82 defining an isolated enclosure 84 for aspiration of fluid through the lumen 80 of the introducer 72. The enclosure 84 is adapted for inducing liquid flow through the trabecular meshwork 21 and into the lumen 80 by suction power (e.g., by creating a partial vacuum or reduced pressure relative to the appropriate ambient pressure) exerted at the proximal end 76. The device 70 is preferably used in an ab interno procedure.
The embodiment as shown in FIG. 4 enables a completely ab interno procedure that advantageously acts on or treats the majority and substantially all of the trabecular meshwork 21. As discussed above, it is one embodiment of flushing or treating the trabecular meshwork 21 by providing a flow through all or part of the trabecular meshwork 21 in the opposite direction to that normally experienced by trabecular meshwork 21 during normal physiological function. The trabecular device 42 and the aspiration means 44 of the system 40 are both inserted in an ab interno procedure.
Lynch and Brown in PCT Publication No. WO 00/64389, published Nov. 2, 2000, entitled TRABECULOTOMY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING GLAUCOMA, PCT Publication No. WO 00/64390, published Nov. 2, 2000, entitled INFLATABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING GLAUCOMA, PCT Publication No. WO 00/64391, published Nov. 2, 2000, entitled STENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING GLAUCOMA, and PCT Publication No. WO 00/64393, published Nov. 2, 2000, entitled SHUNT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING GLAUCOMA, the entire contents of each one of which are hereby incorporated by reference herein, disclose devices and methods for entering Schlemm's canal in an ab externo manner for treating glaucoma.
Referring to the embodiment of FIG. 6, the catheter device 92 is inserted from a puncture at the scleral wall of the eye 10 by an ab externo procedure so that the distal section 94 is positioned in Schlemm's canal 22. By maintaining a pressure difference between Schlemm's canal 22 and the anterior chamber 20, a reversed trabecular flow or back flow (as generally indicated by arrows 100A, 100B, and 100C) is created from Schlemm's canal 22 through the trabecular meshwork 21 and into the anterior chamber 20 or the aspiration means 44. The reverse flushing outflow or backflow is created by a pressure difference, differential or gradient created between a higher pressure in Schlemm's canal 22 and a lower pressure in the anterior chamber 20 or in the aspiration means 44.
Referring to the embodiment of FIG. 7, the catheter device 112 is inserted from a puncture at the scleral wall of the eye 10 by an ab externo procedure so that the water-jet catheter tip 114 is positioned in Schlemm's canal 22. By maintaining a pressure difference between Schlemm's canal 22 and the anterior chamber 20, a reversed trabecular flow or back flow (as generally indicated by arrows 122A, 122B) is created from Schlemm's canal 22 through the trabecular meshwork 21 and into the anterior chamber 20 or the aspiration means 44. The reverse flushing outflow or backflow is created by a pressure difference, differential or gradient created between a higher pressure in Schlemm's canal 22 and a lower pressure in the anterior chamber 20 or in the aspiration means 44.
The embodiment shown in FIG. 7 enables a combined ab externo catheter procedure with an ab interno aspiration means that act on or treat all or part of the trabecular meshwork 21. Since the pressure in Schlemm's canal 22 is kept at a relatively high value, it is also used to stimulate the dysfunctional tissue inside Schlemm's canal 22, the collector channels or the trabecular meshwork 21. This method is well suited to cases wherein the Schlemm's canal 22 has shrunk as in trabeculectomy patients.
FIG. 10 is a simplified partial view of an eye 10 generally illustrating the placement and use of a system or fiber optic device 160 therein for rejuvenating dysfunctional trabecular meshwork by an ab externo optical energy method and having features and advantages in accordance with one embodiment. The fiber optic device 160 comprises a tip 162 that is capable of emitting optic signals and receiving the signals. As shown in FIG. 10, the tip 162 is positioned within Schlemm's canal 22.
Referring to FIG. 10, the fiber optic device 160 is deployed to inspect Schlemm's canal 22, collector duct openings, and the adjacent trabecular meshwork 21. The device 160 is useful to inspect the target areas before, during or after a glaucoma treatment of ab interno or ab externo procedures. The optic fiber 160 may also be combined with other catheter embodiments to accomplish multi-function goals. Further, the device 160 can also carry light enabling heating the tip 162 for thermal treatment of Schlemm's canal 22 or the adjacent trabecular meshwork 21 for tissue stimulation/rejuvenating.
The optic fiber arrangement as illustrated in FIG. 10 can be used to apply optical coherence tomography (OCT) principles for diagnosing the dysfunctional or diseased Schlemm's canal 22 and/or adjacent trabecular meshwork 21. OCT is a high-resolution imaging modality that can provide in vivo cross-sectional images of tissue structure with a spatial resolution of about 10 to 20 microns (μm). Radhakrishnan et al. reported real-time optical coherence tomography of the anterior segment at 1310 nm (Arch Opthalmol. 2001; 119:1179-1185) from outside of the eye.
The device or catheter of the embodiments disclosed herein can be dimensioned in a wide variety of manners. Referring in particular to devices or apparatuses inserted through a trabecular meshwork 21 into Schlemm's canal 22 as illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 9, the depth of Schlemm's canal 22 is typically about less than 400 microns (μm). Accordingly, the devices 42, 140 are dimensioned so that the portion extending into Schlemm's canal 22 is typically less than about 400 μm. The diameters of the devices 42, 140 are dimensioned typically in the range from about 100 μm to about 300 μm which is roughly the typical range of the thickness of the trabecular meshwork 21. Also referring in particular to catheters, devices or apparatuses inserted into Schlemm's canal 22 as illustrated FIGS. 6-8 and 10, the diameter is dimensioned typically in the range of from about 25 μm to about 200 μm for easy insertion and deployment.
The trabecular device 42 (FIG. 4), introducer device 72 (FIG. 5), catheter device 92 (FIG. 6), catheter device 112 (FIG. 7), catheter device 130 (FIG. 8), trabecular device 140 (FIG. 9), fiber optic device 160 (FIG. 10) of the exemplary embodiments preferably comprise a biocompatible material (bio-material) such that inflammation arising due to irritation between the outer surface of the device and the surrounding tissue is minimized. Biocompatible materials which may be used for these devices preferably include, but are not limited to, titanium, titanium alloys, polypropylene, nylon, PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate), medical grade silicone, e.g., Silastic™, available from Dow Corning Corporation of Midland, Mich.; and polyurethane, e.g., Pellethane™, also available from Dow Corning Corporation.
Advantageously, the embodiments of the self-trephine device 140 (FIG. 9) allow for a "one-step" procedure to make an incision in the trabecular meshwork and to subsequently treat trabecular meshwork with heating or vibrational energy to stimulate/rejuvenate the tissue of trabecular meshwork leading to a more balanced intraocular pressure (IOP). Desirably, this provides for a faster, safer, and less expensive surgical procedure.
Referring to FIG. 11, any of the devices 92, 112, 130, 160 is housed in or held by the applicator 170, and pushed out of the applicator 170 once the applicator tip is in position within the trabecular meshwork 21. Since the tissue surrounding the trabecular meshwork 21 is optically opaque, an imaging technique, such as ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) or a laser imaging technique, is utilized. The imaging provides guidance for the insertion of the applicator tip and the deployment of the devices 92, 112, 130, 160. This technique can be used with a large variety of other device embodiments with slight modifications since the trabecular meshwork 21 is punctured from the scleral side rather than the anterior chamber side in the ab externo insertion.
The embodiment of FIG. 12 enables a completely ab interno procedure that acts upon a limited segment of the Schlemm's canal 22. Both the inflow and outflow portions of the instrument or device 180 are inserted through the trabecular meshwork 21 into Schlemm's canal 22. Since the resistance to flow is greater through the meshwork 21 than through the Schlemm's canal 22, inflow at the point shown will travel around the Schlemm's canal 22 and then exit through the aspiration outflow. This embodiment is particularly well suited to treating or modifying the endothelial lining along a short segment of Schlemm's canal 22.
In the embodiment of FIG. 13, retrograde injection into an episcleral vein 182 is used to infuse a liquid into the Schlemm's canal 22 via a minimally invasive minute puncture on the surface of the eye 10. This provides a means to supply a flushing back flow to flush the trabecular meshwork 21 (could be combined with anterior chamber aspiration if the liquid volume was significant) and to administer drugs or other chemicals directly to the Schlemm's canal 22. Since the flow resistance through the trabecular meshwork 21 is greater than through the Schlemm's canal 22, this retrograde injection would reach a significant fraction of the Schlemm's canal 22. This would also aid in the opening of the Schlemm's canal 22 if it has shrunk as in trabeculectomy patients. This procedure could also be combined with an episcleral ring that is pressed onto the eye to occlude the venous system downstream of the injection point; this would assist in achieving pressures that are high enough to provide back flow through the trabecular meshwork 21.
In the embodiment of FIG. 16, a stent is placed as a series of add-on parts. A tubular (circular, inverted "U" shape, with or without retention barbs, etc.) stent 210 is first inserted into Schlemm's canal 22 to stent open the canal and support the trabecular meshwork 21 for subsequent placement of a snorkel 212 (or multiple snorkels) that provide conduits for flow through the trabecular meshwork 21 into Schlemm's canal 22 and prevent the filling in of the trabecular meshwork 21. The Schlemm's canal stent 210 is inserted either via an ab externo or ab interno procedure. The snorkel(s) 212 is (are) placed by first making an incision through the trabecular meshwork 21 and the wall of the stent 210; the snorkel(s) 212 is (are) then pushed through the trabecular meshwork 21 until it (they) latches into the Schlemm's canal stent 210. Advantageously, the option to place multiple snorkels provides a means to adjust the outflow resistance of the eye 10 in a series of steps; use of snorkels with a variety of lumen diameters provides finer or coarser flow adjustment. In addition, if a snorkel were to become occluded (and could not be cleared) a replacement snorkel could advantageously be placed adjacent to the inoperative one to restore outflow.
deploying the second anchor such that the second anchor secures the implant within the physiological outflow pathway.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein positioning the first anchor comprises positioning at least one flexible wing of the first anchor adjacent the eye tissue.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein positioning the first anchor comprises positioning a flexible rim of the first anchor adjacent the eye tissue.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein positioning the second anchor comprises positioning at least one expandable rib of the second anchor within the physiological outflow pathway.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein deploying the second anchor comprises actuating a toggle mechanism that causes the second anchor to expand within the physiological outflow pathway.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein actuating a toggle mechanism comprises turning a pin that extends into the implant to deploy a rib of the second anchor in the physiological outflow pathway.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein turning a pin that extends into the implant comprises positioning at least one opening of a hollow portion of the pin such that the at least one opening is in fluid communication with the physiological outflow pathway to allow flow of fluid from the anterior chamber to the physiological outflow pathway.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein deploying the second anchor comprises actuating a pop-rivet mechanism that causes the second anchor to expand within the physiological outflow pathway.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein actuating the pop-rivet mechanism comprises pulling a rod that extends into said implant to deploy a rib of the second anchor in the physiological outflow pathway.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the physiological outflow pathway comprises Schlemm's canal.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the eye tissue comprises trabecular meshwork.
wherein the second anchor is deployable and is configured to secure the implant within the physiological outflow pathway.
13. The implant of claim 12, wherein the first anchor comprises at least one flexible wing.
14. The implant of claim 12, wherein the first anchor comprises a flexible rim.
15. The implant of claim 12, wherein the second anchor comprises at least one expandable rib.
16. The implant of claim 12, wherein the implant further comprises a deployment mechanism that causes the second anchor to expand within the physiological outflow pathway.
17. The implant of claim 16, wherein the deployment mechanism comprises a toggle mechanism.
18. The implant of claim 16, wherein the deployment mechanism comprises a pop-rivet mechanism.
19. The implant of claim 16, wherein the deployment mechanism comprises a moveable member that extends into the implant.
20. The implant of claim 19, wherein the member comprises a toggle bolt.
21. The implant of claim 19, wherein the member comprises a pullable rod.
22. The implant of claim 19, wherein the member comprises a hollow portion with at least one opening positioned at the outlet portion and in fluid communication with the anterior chamber.
23. The implant of claim 22, wherein the at least one opening comprises a side opening in fluid communication with the physiological outflow pathway to allow flow of fluid from the anterior chamber to the physiological outflow pathway.
24. The implant of claim 12, wherein the physiological outflow pathway comprises Schlemm's canal.
25. The implant of claim 24, wherein the eye tissue comprises trabecular meshwork.
26. The implant of claim 12, wherein the second anchor is configured to move from a first configuration to a second configuration during deployment.


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*Registrant {email: string, password: string, availability: RegistrantAvailability, ...}

*RegistrantAvailability {unavailableDates: Date[], days: number[]}
The RegistrantAvailability schema becomes a subdocument of the Registrant schema. The days property is an array of numbers between 0 and 6 (0 = Sunday, 6 = Saturday) and converting these day numbers to a list of dates in that current week using the below:

async dayNumberToDate(today: Date, dayNumber: number) {
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    const offset = dow - dayNumber

    const d = new Date(today)
    d.setDate(d.getDate() - offset);
    console.log(d);
    return d
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What I am stuck with is looping through each registrant and updating this day property with the current week dates returned from the previous function.
This is what I have tried

const regDayDates = registrants.map(registrant => {
      return registrant.availability.days.map(day => {
        const newDay = this.dayNumberToDate(date, day)
        return newDay
      })
    });

At the moment the result is returning the below:

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A: First, change dayNumberToDate() to an ordinary function, there's no need for it to be async.
Second, you should be assigning the result of the inner map to the Date property.
Third, the outer map should be forEach(). You don't need a list of these results, you're doing this to modify the RegistrantAvailability object.

const regDayDates = registrants.forEach(registrant =>
  registrant.availability.unavailableDates = registrant.availability.days.map(day =>
    this.dayNumberToDate(date, day)));


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