In October 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated significant revisions to product labeling for the commercially available perflutren-containing ultrasound contrast agents (UCA) Definity (perflutren lipid microsphere injectable suspension, Lantheus Medical Imaging, North Billerica, Massachusetts) and Optison (perflutren protein type A microspheres for injectable suspension, GE Healthcare, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) after spontaneous reports of 4 patient deaths and approximately 190 "severe cardiopulmonary reactions" occurring in close temporal relationship to UCA administration (1). This 3-part labeling revision included a new "black box" warning (advising of the potential for "serious cardiopulmonary reactions") and multiple new disease state contraindications to UCA use, including acute myocardial infarction (MI) or acute coronary syndromes, worsening or decompensated heart failure, serious ventricular arrhythmias or patients at high risk for arrhythmias based on QT interval prolongation, as well as respiratory failure, severe emphysema, pulmonary emboli, or other conditions that may cause pulmonary hypertension. Finally, the FDA also required a blanket 30-min monitoring period after UCA injection for all patients, including ambulatory outpatients (1).
Immediate response from the echocardiography community was strongly critical of the FDA action, with clinicians charging that the agency had ignored the previously published safety profile of UCAs in clinical trials at doses exceeding those used in clinical practice, the anecdotal nature of post-marketing safety reports, and the likelihood that deaths and poor outcomes associated with UCA use were in fact "pseudocomplications" (death or complication due to progression of the underlying disease state rather than diagnostic testing or therapeutic intervention) (2,3). Critics also noted the greater potential risks associated with alternative testing procedures such as transesophageal echocardiography and radionuclide ventriculography (which would now be necessary in many patients), the hazards of misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis (due to poor-quality studies without contrast), and the fact that patients with disease state contraindications, including many hospitalized in intensive care units, were the very patients most in need of, and likely to derive significant benefit from, contrast-enhanced echocardiography (2,3).
In July 2008, after intense advocacy by physician experts, publication of exculpatory safety data in hospitalized patients (4), and a better understanding of contrast-enhanced echocardiography efficacy, the FDA partially relaxed product labeling for both Optison and Definity (5). Although a black box warning still exists, the October 2007 disease state contraindications have been replaced by warnings. Additionally, the 30-min monitoring period after injection now applies only to patients with pulmonary hypertension (the severity of which is not defined) and patients with "unstable cardiopulmonary conditions" (who presumably would be hospitalized in intensive care units and subject to continuous rhythm and hemodynamic monitoring) (5).
Since early 2008, multiple UCA safety studies have been published in the peer-reviewed literature (4,6–12). These studies (with experience in ∼200,000 patients receiving UCAs) have established the relative safety of Optison and Definity in a wide range of clinical environments, including hospitalized patients (4,6,7–11), ambulatory outpatients (7–12), and, in a more limited sense, stress echocardiography (7–12). Although the FDA has not expressly approved UCAs for use in stress echocardiography (and UCAs would not have been contraindicated in most patients undergoing stress echocardiography even under the original FDA labeling changes in October 2007), safety of UCAs for this indication is an important issue. Marketing data for the calendar year 2008 indicates that contrast agents were used in approximately 3.2% of stress echocardiographic studies in the U.S. (vs. only 0.4% of resting studies, with both percentages dramatically lower in comparison with 2007 and previous years) (Arlington Medical Resources Imaging Market Guide [USA Edition], unpublished data, 2005–2008), the American Society of Echocardiography recommends use of UCAs for the stress echocardiography indication in "difficult to image patients presenting for echocardiography with reduced image quality" (13), and the recently published Stress Echocardiography Appropriateness Criteria find selective use of contrast (when 2 or more contiguous segments are not seen on noncontrast images) both acceptable and reasonable (with an appropriateness score of 8) (14).
In this issue of iJACC, Abdelmoneim et al. (15) extend the growing body of UCA safety literature with a retrospective study in patients undergoing stress echocardiography at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, between November 2003 and December 2007. A total of 26,774 patients undergoing either exercise or pharmacologic stress echocardiography comprised the study population, including 10,792 patients who received an ultrasound contrast agent (86% Definity and 14% Optison) and underwent either exercise (n = 4,276) or dobutamine (n = 6,516) stress echocardiography. End points included all-cause mortality or MI over the short term (≤72 h) and intermediate term (≤30 days), as well as long-term all-cause mortality or MI in a subgroup of propensity-matched patients (with follow-up extending to 4.5 years). Patients receiving a UCA were older and sicker (with a significantly higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus, systemic hypertension, and symptomatic coronary artery disease in the contrast cohort) and more frequently underwent dobutamine echocardiography, presumably due to inability to exercise. Despite these higher risk features, there was no increase in any of the primary study end points in patients receiving a UCA. These results are reassuring and corroborate previously published data (see Table 5 in Abdelmoneim et al. ) which has established an excellent safety profile for UCAs in now 9 large-scale post-marketing studies (4,6–12,15).
An important observation in the present study (and consistent with data from the Hennepin County database [n = 16,025 contrast injections]  and the American Society of Echocardiography database [n = 78,383 contrast injections] ) is an approximate 1:10,000 incidence of acute anaphylactoid reaction immediately after (generally within several min) UCA injection. These reactions are believed to be secondary to a recently described variant of the type I hypersensitivity reaction (complement activation-related pseudoallergy), and can be life-threatening (16). This risk can be readily mitigated by early recognition of anaphylactoid reactions and prompt treatment with an intramuscular injection of 0.3 mg/1:1,000 dilution of epinephrine (commercially available in the U.S. as an automatic injectable) (EpiPen, Dey, L.P., Napa, California). The risk of anaphylactoid reaction with a UCA appears equal to or lower than that associated with low osmolar noniodinated radiocontrast media (17); individuals with a history of atopy, such as drug, food, or environmental allergy, may be at somewhat higher risk of these reactions with both UCAs and radiocontrast agents (17).
Although it is always easiest (and safest) to conclude that "further studies are warranted," it is unlikely that additional investigation will significantly alter our current understanding of UCA safety. We now know that UCAs are safe by any reasonable standard, including use in hospitalized patients (4,6,7–10) and ambulatory outpatients (7–12), as well as in patients undergoing rest (4,6–9) or stress echocardiography (7–12,14), and certainly are safe in comparison with competing/complementary cardiovascular testing modalities including coronary angiography, transesophageal echocardiography, nuclear imaging, and physical or pharmacologic stress testing (2). When considered in association with professional society recommendations (13,14), as well as recent efficacy data published in American College of Cardiology journals that have confirmed the critical role UCAs play in enhancing the accuracy of stress echocardiography (18) and in improving the diagnostic utility of transthoracic echocardiography in patients with suboptimal baseline imaging (19), the benefit-to-risk calculation for contrast echocardiography strongly supports routine use of UCAs in all difficult to image patients.
With these substantial data in support of safety and efficacy, the time is right for the FDA to lift the black box warning, withdraw the disease state warnings, and rescind the 30-min monitoring period after contrast injection, all of which discourage UCA use in the patients most likely to derive the greatest benefit from contrast-enhanced echocardiography. In 2007, the FDA questioned the safety of UCAs based on anecdote. These questions have now been answered—with evidence.
Dr. Main serves as a principal investigator for clinical trials sponsored by Lantheus Medical Imaging and GE Healthcare.
Micro-bubble Contrast Agents (marketed as Definity (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension and Optison (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres for Injection). October 2007 http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm152686.htm. Accessed August 4, 2009.
Micro-bubble Contrast Agents (marketed as Definity (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension and Optison (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres for Injection). http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm110260.htm. Accessed August 4, 2009.
(2008) Acute mortality in hospitalized patients undergoing echocardiography with and without an ultrasound contrast agent: multicenter registry results in 4,300,966 consecutive patients. Am J Cardiol 102:1742–1746.
(2008) Safety of myocardial flash-contrast echocardiography in combination with dobutamine stress testing for the detection of ischaemia in 5250 studies. Heart 94:1571–1577.
(2008) AACF/ASE/AHA/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2008 appropriateness criteria for stress echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriateness Criteria Task Force, American Society of Echocardiography, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Heart Association, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiology Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. J Am Coll Cardiol 51:1127–1147.
(2005) Complement activation-related pseudoallergy: a new class of drug-induced acute immune toxicity. Toxicology 216:106–121.
(1990) Adverse reactions to ionic and nonionic contrast media: a report from the Japanese Committee on the Safety of Contrast Media. Radiology 175:621–628.
(2008) A randomized cross-over study for evaluation of the effect of image optimization with contrast on the diagnostic accuracy of dobutamine echocardiography in coronary artery disease: the OPTIMIZE trial. J Am Coll Cardiol Img 1:145–152.


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Jerusalem is emerging as a major stumbling block in new peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, both Jews and Muslims are claiming the city's holy sites as their own.
A senior Palestinian official has thrown a wrench into peace talks by saying that the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, the holiest place in Judaism, belongs to Islam and the Palestinians.
The Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Adnan Husseini says the Western Wall is a "Wakf" or Islamic Trust that must be returned to Palestinian control. He told Israel Radio that it is a supporting wall for the al-Aksa Mosque, the third holiest place in Islam.
For Israel, the wall is the last remnant of the biblical Temple, and turning it over to the Palestinians is unthinkable.
As Israel and the Palestinians try to hammer out a declaration of principles to be presented at an international peace conference this year, Jerusalem is back on the negotiating table.
In a compromise proposal earlier this week, Israel offered to hand over some Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem to Palestinian control, though that would not include the Old City, where contested holy sites are located.
Israeli parliamentarian Reuven Rivlin, of the hawkish opposition Likud party, says the government made a mistake by negotiating on Jerusalem in the first place.
Rivlin told Israel Radio that if you begin by offering Arab neighborhoods to the Palestinians then you end at the Western Wall. He said no Israeli leader has the right to negotiate over Jerusalem, which he says is the eternal capital of the Jewish people.
Reinforcing Palestinian demands, President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel must withdraw from all territory captured in the 1967 war, including Jerusalem's Old City. Israel's government says that is a non-starter.


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Victorian earrings are rare beauties. It's difficult to find pairs that can manage to say together over one hundred years. We are so thankful that these 18k rose gold beauties made it. Incredible design that looks just a fresh today as it did in the 1890's. This rich rosy gold has a wonderful patina and the faceted balls add plenty of shine.
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Q: NodeJS asynchronous process.on with multiple functions I have a main function/file which calls a doLogic function/file. This doLogic opens up a database connection, and I am trying to use process.on('SIGINT') to cleanup the database, however, when I hit CTRL-C the process doesn't wait for the asynchronous calls.
main.js
import {doLogic} from "./doLogic"
import {cleanup} from "./cleanup"

// Attach SIGINT listener
process.on("SIGINT", async () => {
   await cleanup()
   process.exit(0)
})

async function run() {
  doLogic()
}

run()

doLogic.js
import { connectionIds } from "./cleanup"

export async function doLogic {
  for (const desiredConnection of desiredConnections) {
      let id = await connectToDB(desiredConnection)
      connectionIds.add(id)
  }
}

cleanup.js
export const connectionIds = new Map()

// This function is just to simulate disconnecting
unlockConnection(connectionId) {
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    setTimeout(() => {
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    }, 5* 1000);
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export async function cleanup() {
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   }
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}

The weird thing is that it is strictly doLogic() which seems to prevent the await cleanup() call from actually awaiting. If I comment this out and just pause the program with stdin() then if I send a SIGINT await cleanup() seems to work fine. Also I can confirm that there are actually connections in the map.

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Could you explain in detail why you believe this will help to protect against ARP poisoning and ARP viruses? I don't recall the ability to 'drop' ARP packets in LnS firewall, so wouldn't this block network access?
Besides, if you use static ARP/IP pairs, then there's nothing to worry about.
http://www.mntolympus.org/SPFSPIFWS.html might help, take a gander.
Do you mean by arp announcement - arp broadcast ("who has")?
If so, it's useful and there's no reason to block it on a trusted network.
for arp spoof and cache poison.
btw.the latest beta of your rules set has a small issue in offset.
damn it, have to use nemesis to finish this task under win32, i miss *nux.
This can be done by standard rules (you don't need the raw rule edition plugin).
Just select Inbound, and then follow the instructions for the Ethernet and IP source address selections. In the drop box you will find "equal my @" / "different from my @" criteria.
For me you have 3 different rules for 1>, 2> and 3>.
For the second 3>, I'm not sure what was the real intention of dRag0nMa. If he wanted to indicate these packets have to be allowed, then the destination should my IP, or my MAC.


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The owners of this bungalow in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood love to cook, so we expanded the kitchen while moving it to the rear of the house. The first floor provides spaces for music, living, and dining. We added a home office to the second floor and a third-floor deck that offers fine sunset views.
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Movie Review: When It Was a Game 2 – Hank Aaron Didn't Use Steroids
By Patti Aliventi on September 13, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )
Long before the days of baseball superstars, many of the players were ordinary folk like you or me. Only instead of Dad heading off to work at the factory or the office every day, Dad headed off to the ballpark. I can remember being totally baffled when I learned that a member of the 1969 New York Mets World Championship team lived the next town over from me when I was growing up. In the age of the mega-salaries, it was something hard to comprehend.
In 1953 a player was typically paid $700 a month! That seems hard to believe. A letter is read from one player to his owner disputing this figure and asking for $850. In 1928, a player made $375 for the season and thought he was doing pretty good.
Like its predecessor When It Was A Game 2 goes a long way to understanding that difference. It consists of 8mm and 16mm home movie footage taken by baseball players and fans from 1925-1961. The footage is mostly before games or off the field entirely and shows them away from the image they projected and cutting loose. In other words, more human rather than the larger-than-life legends many of them have become.
When It Was A Game 2 also manages to clarify some facts about the game then versus now. A hot topic currently is the ability of some clubs to sign superstar free agents while other clubs can't afford them. The problems of some clubs being wealthier than others existed "back then" as well. It's long been romanticized that it was different "back then", but it really wasn't. One year the St. Louis Cardinals drew a measly 86,000 in attendance for the entire season.
The footage used in When It Was A Game 2 has been digitally restored. The interference has been cleaned up a lot, and the color seems a lot richer and more vibrant than I would expect it to be after all these years. Yet, the picture is still grainy and has the feel of home movies. It gets washed out in the sun, and faces get lost in the shadows. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
This is the second in a series of three documentaries under this title from HBO. Color footage of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Roy Campanella, Hank Greenberg, Jimmie Foxx, Satchel Paige, Ted Williams, Lefty Grove, and, of course, the Babe. It's nice to see color footage of the Babe as well as a recording of him.
I liked seeing the old stadiums as well. Wow – they actually used to allow banners in Yankee Stadium before Steinbrenner took over. There's more talk of the minor league system as well as spring training. Before Major League teams moved out west, players in the Pacific Coast League often had higher salaries. "Moving up" to the Majors meant taking a pay cut.
If there is a downside, it's that much of the time is spent with a few teams of the era, since that's where the superstars were. There is a lot of time spent on the Brooklyn Dodgers and how the rivalry with the Yankees came about. It doesn't mean there isn't good footage of the famous players from other teams, it just means that fans in other cities have to sit through a lot of footage from cities like New York and Boston.
The soundtrack is excellent as well. The music evokes days long past without distracting from the footage. It's narrated by Peter Kessler with Ellen Burstyn, Billy Crystal, Joe Mantegna, Jack Palance, Jason Robards, and Roy Scheider. Many of the players still alive comment on what it was like to play back then as well.
When It Was A Game 2 is one of those baseball documentaries that only fans will appreciate. If you don't "get" baseball, then you probably will be bored to tears. If you spend each winter counting down the days until pitchers and catchers report, you will be thrilled.
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Bon Repos Gites says:
Sounds a fascinating piece of social history! I have seen something similar over here but relating to the professionalisation of football!
Patti Aliventi says:
Yes, it's really great to see so many of these old films. They're a part of history and with baseball there's so much that was tied into society.
Agreed! It is also, like you said, interesting to see a time when the key players were plumbers and drivers who lived in the same streets as their fans. Something we just cannot imagine happening today!


Images from Naples and the areas surrounding it– a bizarre cocktail of ancient tranquil beauty and by far the most dangerous slums I've gotten away with photographing. For a more clear understanding of the machinations of the city's underbelly, I recommend Robert Saviano's excellent and explosive non-fiction text, Gomorrah, (like the Mafia, but larger, more dangerous, and less well known) or the Matteo Garrone's terrific film adaptation of the same. There were great people populating the entirety of this spectrum, and the light shone through trees, markets, and decaying buildings without judgment. I endeavored to do the same.
Images shot in and around Napoli metro area, Amalfi, Paestum, Scampia, Ercolano, Pompeii, & Sorrento.


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Psyonix also explained how Rocket League's crate system determines rewards. Simply put, when you open a crate, the game rolls for item rarity, then for an item within that rarity (items of the same rarity are equally weighted), and finally for Painted or Certified attributes.
The studio says these odds haven't changed since loot crates were added in September 2016, and that "if we do make any changes to drop rates, we'll be sure to post the new numbers here on the blog."


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Who Are The Best Volleyball Players Of All Time?
November 26, 2020 Olivia Wilson
If you're looking to up your volleyball skills, then there are few easier ways to enhance your understanding than by studying the top players.
Before you can do that though, you need to know who the best players of all time are. Here we look at the top five.
Number 5. Sheilla Castro
Castro is unquestionably one of the best women volleyball players of all time and her trophy cabinet alone make her good value to rank in our top five overall. The Brazilian made her breakthrough in 2005 but really arrived a year later when she was named MVP in the FIVB World Grand Prix where she helped Brazil beat Russia to first place.
It's just one of an abundance of honours she's won. Perhaps though, her greatest achievement is the two Olympic Gold's she won at Beijing and London in 2008 and 2012 respectively.
Number 4. Gilberto Amaury de Godoy Filho
You might be quicker to recognise this Brazilian star by his shortened name, Giba. During his 23 year career, the outside hitter represented 12 different clubs in five countries but it is his displays on the international stage where is his best remembered.
He played for Brazil for 17 years and led them to 26 triumphs in that time including eight South American titles, the same number of World Leagues and Olympic Gold at Athens 2004. Throughout the 2000's Brazil were the dominant force.
Giba's athletic ability was a central theme in their play and it is easy to see why he's held in such high regard.
Number 3. Andrea Giani
There was little in the game that Gianicouldn't do. His versatility to perform anywhere on the court helped Italy beyond explanation during the nineties when they had their best ever period.
In 1994, he was voted the best blocker as Italy won the World League in Milan. A year later he went one better.
Italy retained the World League title in Rio de Janeiro whilst Giani was named MVP as they also won the World Cup. There are a host of honours Giani has not only won but been instrumental in both at club and international level. The only downside is that he failed to win Olympic Gold, which is a something a player of his quality deserved.
Number 2. Kerri Walsh Jennings
Nobody has racked up more victories or cash winnings on sand than California born Jennings. She was tipped for the top during her Stanford days and those college betting odds have proven more than accurate. At 42-years-old she's still going strong and the three Olympic Gold medals to her name – all of them won back to back between 2004 and 2012 – are just the tip of her trophy iceberg.
With 42 World Tour grand slam wins to her name combined with three World Championship Gold's s and those Olympic wins she's the most decorated woman in the history of beach volleyball. On top of that, her fourth Olympic appearance – Rio 2016 – ended with a third-place finish.
No beach volleyball player has achieved so much glory at the Olympic Games. Regardless of how her career eventually ends, Jennings is assured of a place in the history books.
Number 1. KarchKiraly
There won't be too many arguing with our choice to put KarchKiraly at number one. Kiraly started playing at a young age and by his early teenage years he was already competing against fully grown men. By the time he matured physically, Kiraly was not only competing with other men but dominating them.
His career spanned 28 years; all but four of them ended with at least some silverware. On a team level, a trio of Olympic Gold medals were the high point, but American man Kiraly excelled as an individual too. He won the FIVB World Player twice and was named AVP MVP on a staggering six times. He's now Head Coach of the US Women's team.
Just like Doc Rivers went from being a great player into being one of the best NBA coaches of all time, we hope KarchKiraly can live up to his legacy and also become as good coach as he was a player.
There you have it, the five greatest volleyball players of all time. Who did we miss? Let us know in the comments below.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot presides over her first Chicago City Council meeting on May 29, 2019. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)
"Alderman, please. I will call you when I want to hear from you."
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot, silencing veteran Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, while chairing her first Chicago City Council meeting, May 29, 2019
For a while there we thought Lori Lightfoot's nearly 3-to-1 drubbing of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle was Chicago's most remarkable political win in many years. Then came the mayoral election victor's show of dominion Wednesday over old-guard aldermen on the Chicago City Council. When it was over, Lightfoot had eclipsed her April 2 triumph.
Some of the aldermen for weeks had puffed out their chests, whispering threats of rebellion and essentially hoping that all of Lightfoot's talk about reforming City Hall would be gone with the wind. Supposedly she was a goo-goo too radical for the old guard, even as the council's socialist wing saw her as a lawyer too establishment.
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What, then, is a tenderfoot mayor to do?
Confront and dominate the opposition before it coalesces into a force majeure, that's what. Lightfoot shrewdly defused by addition some of the aldermanic whining: She created three new committees, giving herself three more chairs to select, aka a total of 18 council members to mollify with fiefdoms. And at Wednesday's meeting, the aldermen who fear losing clout didn't even try to mount an insurrection. Her reorganization ordinance passed on a voice vote, with a few grumbles of "No."
Given the earlier threats to undercut her, this is a big victory for Lightfoot. A defeat would have diminished her. Instead, on only her 10th day in office, a rookie mayor has the committee chairs she put forward. Her first act as mayor — signing an executive order limiting aldermanic power — in retrospect looks like what she had promised voters: the initial step of a long march to reform of City Hall.
Every Chicagoan paying attention will notice that none of the council's committee chairs is named Edward Burke. The council dean, facing one federal charge of attempted extortion and awaiting a more extensive indictment, at one point Wednesday tried to school Lightfoot. He complained about rules that used the pronoun "he" and that, he suggested, should be gender-neutral. Clever gotcha, or so it seemed. Would a female mayor stumble on a question about gender equity?
Lightfoot wouldn't play along. The Tribune reports that Lightfoot cut off Burke, saying that if he had no other concerns, she was moving on. When Burke did rise with another concern, Lightfoot took him out with her smackdown: She'll call him when she wants to hear from him.
Burke's plight surely was on many minds as the aldermen decided it was smarter to fall in line behind Lightfoot than to challenge her nascent campaign against corruption, pinstripe patronage, insider deals and clouted City Council decisions. The aldermen know that the feds likely have some of them chattering on recordings made by a fellow, now former alderman. And who knows, some of them might be on those thousands of Burke telephone calls the government captured.
The upshot: Hanging over the aldermen Wednesday was the new mayor's quite public campaign prediction that her former colleagues at Chicago's U.S. attorney's office won't let Burke be the last council member to face criminal charges.
You wouldn't call Wednesday's council vote a deathbed conversion. You could, though, say that if hellish heat is about to descend on the aldermen, many of them would prefer to be high on a cloud with the angels.
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Folgende Personen tragen den Namen Ceconi:
 Valentin Ceconi (1827–1888), Österreichischer Baumeister und Architekt
 Jakob Ceconi (1857–1922), Österreichischer Baumeister und Architekt
 Karl Ceconi (1884–1946), Österreichischer Baumeister und Architekt

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Work to improve Castleford town centre has been delayed until next year.
Wakefield Council unveiled plans earlier this year to spend £560,000 to alter Carlton Street and Sagar Street to help attract more shoppers.
But in a recent report by Coun Denise Jeffery, deputy leader of Wakefield Council and cabinet member for economic growth and skills, she said: "Due to problems with the sub-structure of Sagar Street, works have taken longer than expected.


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The Strategic Plan is supported by the VPSC Annual Plan 2018/19, which maps the VPSC's work program over the 2018/19 financial year. The VPSC will report against the Strategic and Annual Plans' targets through an outcome and performance framework.


Despite years of ranking as one of the fittest states in the United States, a report released last week shows Colorado may be taking a turn for the heavy, and that has some experts worried the state's children could bear the brunt of the trend's impact.
From 1995 to 2008, Colorado's obesity rate increased 89 percent, while the number of obese adults nationwide rose 67 percent. According to the Associated Press, obesity rates in Colorado children exceed those of several other states in America.
In 2008, 15 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 14 in the state were overweight, leaving some experts concerned that more students, already bombarded with images of model-thin people on TV and computer screens, could enter struggles with eating disorders.
Wilson said many overweight adolescents just want quick responses and don't want to take the time to construct healthy diets or exercise regiments, so many of them often just cut out entire food groups, turn to weight loss pills and fall into the pattern of crash dieting.
According to the Journal of American Dietetic Association, 81 percent of 10-year-old girls are afraid of being overweight and 51 percent of 9 and 10-year-old girls feel better about themselves when they're on a diet.
Wylie Cate, a student counselor at Lesher IB World Middle School in Fort Collins, said her school also tries to promote good health through guest speakers, different events and activities and educational programs.
"It's a hard age as far as body image goes," she said.
Cate said some students walking down the hall could be as much as 200 pounds and look like they're college aged while another student of the same age could be 60 pounds.
"That's just who they are. There really is no norm," she said.
Cate stressed to students that everyone is different and that sometimes perceptions of reality are not so real.
"I talk to a lot of girls about what body image is and not what being skinny is," Cate said.
Kerry Duncan, owner of KLD Nutrition Therapy in Fort Collins, said societal pressures are "extremely intense." A registered dietitian for 15 years, she said the most important thing to remember when dealing with weight issues is to be educated and support others who may be dealing with one.


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I ask myself at times why I react so negatively to a word often used these days, the word "value." The reason for my negative reaction seems to lie in the fact that the talk of values strikes me as very neutral. The word admits that for someone else my value may be quite valueless. The term communicates, in fact, our acceptance that what we take as valuable may be quite meaningless in somebody else's eyes. In other words, I react negatively to the word simply because it contains a possibility of relativism and meaninglessness.
The trouble seems to be, then, that all discussion of values is senseless; while I admit something has value, somebody else may well see it as insignificant. There is the attitude that the dialogue takes place without any attempt to change anyone's mind. All discussion of values is useless. Any attempt to change anyone's mind is, in fact, unacceptable and even unecumenical.
It seems that the only value that is universal in our society is that of the glorified ego. The notion predominates that all our views must be measured by our sovereign likes and dislikes. This notion seems to be at the basis of our democratic conviction and practice; my ego is thought to be the only authority which counts. There is no truth and value apart from what I like or dislike. The difficulty is, however, that this sovereign ego is not a neutral value — just because it is generally accepted. It is, clearly, a one-sided myth.
If we wish to have proof of the mythical quality of our sovereign ego, it lies in the fact that it is quickly becoming something else, that is to say, a productive ego, a unit of economic utility. It is this productive human being whose "value" is beginning to fray at both ends of the life spectrum. Our society has already accepted the principle of abortion and there is a growing number of people defending euthanasia. Whatever the reasons proclaimed by them, children learning from this type of society will get rid of their old people as soon as they become economically unproductive.
Economic progress is thought to be productive of human dignity as well as democracy. Free trade, the sacred cow at whose hoofs we seem to worship, is the missionary capitalism of our world. The notion very much at home in some of our media and the programs of some political parties, seems to be basic and unquestioned, though it can hardly be said to be neutral, that the well-fed, fully employed and economically secure individual will remain honest and democratic. However, this self-seeking and self-justifying individual, seeking his own economic advantage, will hardly proclaim the values of honesty and respect for others.
The point we must stress again and again is that our society is basing itself on an ideologically un-neutral notion of the sovereign individual. Much is being claimed for this sovereign individual: freedom, democracy, self-sufficiency of all sorts. But this individual, whatever may be claimed for it, is quickly becoming something else, i.e., economic and economically self-dependent. The notion, moreover, that this economically self-sufficient individual will reduce crime is pure nonsense.
Emanuel Kant, a late 18th-century philosopher who described and defined the trend of thought in force since the 18th century, viz., the Enlightenment, felt that while all the intellectual proof for God's existence is invalid, God could be proven by the so-called categorical imperative, i.e., moral obligations by which we live and take for granted. There are two difficulties, which Kant himself did not experience, with his notion of categorical imperative. One is the fact that two millennia of Christian teaching were needed in order to make the categorical imperative obvious and taken for granted. Further, he did not realize that the categorical imperative would diminish in content quickly as the intellectual basis for it was taken away. What Kant would consider as obligatory, in other words, is not thought of as obligatory at all by our non-believing contemporaries. Before I feel that I must be honest, I must be convinced that there is a God who demands that honesty. God is greater and far more important than democracy and financial honesty. Should democracy become an end in itself, should we have no reason whatever apart from our "social" obligation to be honest and non-violent, self-controlled and tolerant, then we become victims of our own prejudices and predilections. The only way for democracy to survive is to accept the two great commandments which Jesus has given us, the love of God first, and the love of neighbour. It is only if we know that God is greater than us, that God is greater than anything else in the world, that we can then accept His commands, whether they serve us or not, whether they are useful to us or not, that we shall live in true freedom and democracy.
I end with a story from the Gospel of Luke. On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus asked the Samaritans to accept Him and His disciples; they refused because they were on the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. When "the disciples James and John saw it they said, 'Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?' " (9:54). Jesus' reaction is rather interesting. Instead of being merely indignant, He is said to have rebuked them. The word translated as "rebuke" is stronger; it means censure, colloquially, "blast." Jesus knows that He has brought peace to this world, and though we may at times feel like reacting strongly to unfair treatment, we simply have no right to do so, because we are asked to reflect God's peace and God's love. Jesus' reaction is acceptable to our current multicultural mood. But should multiculturalism ever cease to be politically correct, Jesus' word and attitude would remain obligatory for the church and all her members.


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Fewer Young Adults Drinking, But More Smoking Weed
By System Admin, Tuesday, October 13 2020 . Permalink College Drinking
Fewer college-age Americans drink alcohol, compared to nearly 20 years ago, according to a new study. Between 2002 and 2018, the number of adults aged 18-22 in the U.S. who abstained from alcohol increased from 20 percent to 28 percent for those in college and from about 24 percent to 30 percent for those not in school, say researchers at the University of Michigan and Texas State University. And alcohol abuse among both groups decreased by roughly half. However, the study found that the number of young adults using marijuana, as well as co-using alcohol and marijuana, has increased.
Overall, the mixed findings show more positive than negative trends for alcohol and marijuana use and misuse among this age group, but the progression still bears close monitoring, the researchers say.
The study, appearing in JAMA Pediatrics Oct. 12, examined how alcohol and marijuana abstinence, co-use and use disorders have changed in 18-to-22-year-olds as a function of college status, using data from a nationally representative survey of 182,722 young adults. It also looked at prescription drug use and misuse as a function of alcohol and marijuana use, from 2015 to 2018.
The researchers were particularly surprised at the drop in alcohol use and misuse.
Decrease in Alcohol Use Disorder
"We're encouraged by the significant decreases in alcohol use disorder—for both college and noncollege students," said lead author Sean Esteban McCabe, director of the Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health at the U-M School of Nursing.
"The prevalence of alcohol use disorder in both groups in 2018 was roughly half of what it was in 2002. We are excited to learn about these drops in disordered drinking, as alcohol-related consequences are one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for young adults."
Co-author Ty Schepis, professor of psychology at Texas State, said "even with increases in marijuana use disorder and co-use of alcohol and marijuana, there is a lot of hope in our study's results."
Drinking and Smoking Marijuana
"Points of concern that deserve more attention are the rise in co-use of alcohol and marijuana, as we know that polysubstance use can have more negative consequences and be more difficult to treat," he said.
The study also found that more than three-fourths of those who had disordered use of both alcohol and marijuana reported past-year prescription drug use and illicit drug use, while the majority reported prescription drug misuse.
The findings indicate that the substance use landscape has changed over the past 20 years, with more young adults using or misusing several different substances, as opposed to just marijuana or alcohol.
Dangerous Consequences
"For example, from 2015 to 2018, only 2.5 percent of young adults who abstained from both alcohol and marijuana reported misusing prescription drugs, while 25.1 percent of co-users misused prescription drugs," Schepis said. "That is a tenfold difference with potentially dangerous consequences."
Abusing multiple substances is often more dangerous than abusing a single substance.
"Interventions that focus solely on one substance will be less effective than interventions that take a more holistic polysubstance use perspective," McCabe said. "The findings of our study reinforce the complex task health professionals have of detecting and developing effective interventions to reduce consequences associated with polysubstance use, such as co-use of alcohol and marijuana."
Supporting Recovery Efforts
Schools and employers may require more resources to scale interventions to address both young adults with and without a disorder, including screening and brief interventions for co-use of alcohol and marijuana, McCabe said.
"The finding that abstinence is increasing among college students and young adults not in college is very important for U.S. colleges and universities to take into account moving forward," he said. "These findings reinforce the importance of the need to support those young adults in recovery and abstinence for other reasons. There are over 1 million U.S. young adults in recovery and a wide variety of resources are needed to support these individuals."
Source: McCabe SE, et al. "Trends in Alcohol and Marijuana Abstinence, Co-Use, and Use Disorders among US Young Adults by College Status: 2002-2018" JAMA Pediatrics 12 Oct. 2020.


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Cell-autonomous role of endothelial GTP cyclohydrolase 1 and tetrahydrobiopterin in blood pressure regulation.
Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is an essential cofactor for endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) function and NO generation. Augmentation of BH4 levels can prevent eNOS uncoupling and can improve endothelial dysfunction in vascular disease states. However, the physiological requirement for de novo endothelial cell BH4 biosynthesis in eNOS function remains unclear. We generated a novel mouse model with endothelial cell-specific deletion of GCH1, encoding GTP cyclohydrolase 1, an essential enzym...
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Electricity and Magnetism: What Are They & Why Are They Important?
How to Calculate Battery Watt-Hours
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How Much Is a kWh?
By Mark Stansberry
If you're a recreational vehicle owner, knowing how long your battery will provide power is important. And that's because your battery will powers all your electrical appliances and electronic devices.
So, to prevent a miniature blackout when you least expect it, learn to calculate how long your battery will last before it needs to be recharged. To do that, total the watt-hours that all your appliances and devices use. Once you know you that number and your battery's watt-hour rating, you will have the information you need to prevent surprise power outages.
A watt is defined as one joule per second and is the standard unit of energy in physics. Consequently, multiplying power by a unit of time restores units of energy, and in modern societies, either the watt-hour (W-h) or the kilowatt-hour (kW-hr) is the most often used. You may at times need to convert at times between maH and wH (milliamp-hours and W-h), with an ampere being the standard unit if electrical current.
Determine and list the watt rating of each of the device that your battery powers. Watt ratings of appliance and electronic device are often listed on the product. This rating can be used as the watt rating for the device. But if not given, typical watt ratings for specific electronic devices can be found on the Department of Energy's website.
However, for a precise measurement a watt meter may need to be used. This is because the actual power your device consumes will not be the same as the specification listed on the device, and it will not be same as what the Department of Energy provides. Those ratings are only rough estimates.
Estimate the time each of your devices is on over a given time period. The actual energy your device consumes is a function of the amount of time it is on and the number of watts is uses. For each device, estimate how long the device is on, on average, over a given time period; for example, each day. For example, your PC may, on average, be on for three hours per day.
Calculate the watt-hours for each electronic device. For each device, multiply the device watt rating by the average number of hours the devices is on for the set time period. For example, if your PC was rated at 20 watts and was on three hours per day, it would use 60 watt-hours of energy per day.
Calculating kilowatt-hours is as easy as calculating watt-hours. To get from kW-hr to W-hr, multiply by 1,000; to go from W-hr to kW-hr, by far the more common unit, divide by 1,000.
Add up the watt-hours for each of the devices. The total number of watt-hours that your battery will need to supply over the set time period is equal to the sum of the watt-hours that each of your devices uses. For example, if your PC required 5 watt-hours per day and your fan required 5 watt-hours per day, you would need 10 watt-hours of energy per day,
Further, if your electronic devices required 10 watt-hours per day and all of these devices needed to be powered for 10 days, the total watt-hours your battery must supply over the 10-day period would be 100 watt-hours--that is, 10 multiplied by 10. This means that you would need a battery that was rated at 100 watt-hours to ensure that you had power over the 10-day period.
Watt specfications for appliances and electronic devices
Watt-hour rating of batteries
There are a number of watt-hour calculators on the web that make it easy to determine total battery watt-hours needed. They use drop-down menus to select the type of appliance, and then they let you specify the average number of hours you use the device per day. They then calculate the watt-hours for each device and then sum them.
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Osiek Mały (polaco: Gmina Osiek Mały) é uma gminy (comuna) na Polónia, na voivodia de Grande Polónia e no condado de Kolski. A sede do condado é a cidade de Osiek Mały.

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 área agricola: 78%
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'American Pie': No new filling for American Pie
By Jackie Eisenberg — Staff Writer
The gang is back. The East Great Falls High School class of 1999 returns in the wild comedy "American Reunion," the eighth installment in the "American Pie" series.
In the film, the original characters are adults. Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) is married to band geek Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) and has a two-year-old son. Chris "Oz" Ostreicher (Chris Klein) is a sportscaster and former contestant on "Celebrity Dance-Off." Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas) is married and emasculated by his wife, and last, but not least, Steve Stifler (Sean William Scott) works a mind-numbing temp job.
The directors of the film, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, are new to the series and are both veterans of the "Harold and Kumar" movies. This explains the cameo appearance by Neil Patrick Harris. However, the directors worked with original writer Adam Herz and were able to successfully get into the minds of original directors Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz to deliver the witty, quintessential jokes and typically colorful characters "American Pie" is known for.
Though the film resonates with "American Pie" fans, many current comedic filmmakers such as Judd Apatow create more humorous scenarios within their films, which "American Reunion" isn't able to accomplish. The majority of the comedic moments were ones taken from the original film, and there were very few new ideas for funny scenarios. For example, a scene where Jim gets caught using a tube sock to pleasure himself exactly parallels a scene in the first movie. The same goes for the references to Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) and Stifler's mom (Jennifer Coolidge). Though these jokes are funny, they also only correspond to the past film.
One moment that "American Pie" die-hards will enjoy is the introduction to a relationship between Jim's dad (Eugene Levy) to Stifler's mom. While Jim's dad is drunk at Stifler's pre-reunion party, he meets Stifler's mom. The two parents have played major supporting roles in past films and are finally given the spotlight they deserve.
"American Reunion" is a major throwback to fans of the series, showing that each piece of "pie" tastes just as good as the first — even if it is the same old dessert.
"American Reunion" was directed Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and written by Adam Herz, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg.
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