If you are interested in nominating a candidate for either of these awards, contact the chair of that award jury. The deadline for nominations and supporting materials is Dec. 1.
This grant is awarded to provide librarians and paraprofessionals from under-represented groups new to the metadata field with the opportunity to attend a professional conference and encourages professional development through active participation at the national level. The grant is to be used for airfare, lodging, and registration fees to attend the ALA Annual Conference. The award consists of $1,000, donated by Netanel Ganin, and registration to the next Annual Conference. Eligible applicants may apply more than once. Winners will be chosen based on: evidence of or interest in a career as a library metadata specialist as demonstrated by activities that may include (but are not limited to) past coursework, internships, jobs, special projects, and publications; candidate's written justification for the grant in terms of commitment to and interest in metadata-related work; identification with an under-represented group; letter(s) of reference; and a vita.
Send nominations to Amber Billey, chair, Chan Professional Development Jury.
Visit the Chan Professional Development Grant page for more information.
This award is presented to a cataloger or classifier for outstanding professional achievement in the areas of cataloging or classification through publication, participation in professional cataloging associations or valuable contributions to practice in individual libraries. The Cataloging and Metadata Management Section administers the award, a citation and $2,000 to the library school of the winner's choice, which is donated by OCLC, Inc. The Mann Citation committee bases its selection on nominations made by members of the profession or friends of the profession. Anyone with a worthy candidate is urged to nominate that person. Achievements to be considered include: notable publications; outstanding contribution to the activities of professional cataloging associations; outstanding contribution to the technical improvement of cataloging and classification and/or the introduction of a new technique of recognized importance; and outstanding contribution in the area of teaching cataloging and classification.
Send nominations to Wendy West, chair, Mann Citation Jury.
Visit the Margaret Mann Citation page for more information.


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Q: How to get Google Place Details value in iOs I'm now got stuck that I cannot retrieve how to fetch value from below json of Google Place Detail API.
I want to get all data from "types" node.
{
    "address_components" =     (
                {
            "long_name" = "Bridge Street";
            "short_name" = "Bridge St";
            types =             (
                route
            );
        },
                {
            "long_name" = London;
            "short_name" = London;
            types =             (
                locality,
                political
            );
        },
                {
            "long_name" = London;
            "short_name" = London;
            types =             (
                "postal_town"
            );
        },
                {
            "long_name" = "Greater London";
            "short_name" = "Greater London";
            types =             (
                "administrative_area_level_2",
                political
            );
        },
                {
            "long_name" = "United Kingdom";
            "short_name" = GB;
            types =             (
                country,
                political
            );
        },
                {
            "long_name" = "SW1A 2LW";
            "short_name" = "SW1A 2LW";
            types =             (
                "postal_code"
            );
        }
    );
    vicinity = London;
}

A: Why not integrate Google places API itself rather than parsing yourself.
It's simple and easy to retrieve places
here is the link
https://developers.google.com/places/ios-api/

A: You can use google places api. Use place id and use below code to get place details value.
-(id)getAddressFromPlaceId:(NSString*)placeId
{

NSString *placeRequest;

if ([AppDelegate getInstance].isDetailsLimitReached)
{
    placeRequest = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?placeid=%@&key=%@&language=en",placeId,[Utility getInstance].arrGooglkey[tempc]] stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

}
else
{
    placeRequest = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?placeid=%@&language=en",placeId] stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
}

NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:placeRequest]cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                                     timeoutInterval:20.0];
NSError *error;
NSData *response = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:&error];
if (error)
{
    return nil;
}
else
{
    NSDictionary *resData = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:response options:0 error:&error];
    if (error)
    {
        return nil;
    }
    else
    {
        if ([resData[@"status"] isEqualToString:@"OK"] || [[resData objectForKey:@"status"] isEqualToString:@"ZERO_RESULTS"]) {

            return [resData[@"result"] mutableCopy];
        }
        else
        {
            if ([AppDelegate getInstance].isDetailsLimitReached)
            {
                return nil;
            }
            [AppDelegate getInstance].isDetailsLimitReached = TRUE;
            return [self getAddressFromPlaceId:placeId];
        }
    }

}
return nil;

}

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Is this the long-awaited Xiaomi Mi 5? (UPDATE)
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Updated: Dec 09, 2015, 2:15 AM
Alan F.
Is the thin-bezeled phone in this picture the long-awaited Xiaomi Mi 5?
UPDATE 1: In November 2014, we showed you a leaked image purportedly showing off a bezel-less Xiaomi Mi 5. The device being assembled in the picture below looks very similar to the one in the photo that accompanied Friday's story.
UPDATE 2: It appears this image has been present on Xiaomi's site for quite a while now, and is designed to promote the company's smart lamp. In that case, we'd consider it not to depict the Mi 5.
It has been 17 months since the Xiaomi Mi 4 flagship was unveiled. The Xiaomi faithful have been waiting patiently for the sequel, which has been long in coming compared to Sony, which seems to roll out a new flagship every time the seasons change. Just the other day, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun noted that the company takes 12-18 months to develop its flagship phones. There also has been speculation that the company was waiting for Qualcomm to start shipping the Snapdragon 820 chipset.
As we told you late last month, analyst Pan Jiutang expects the Mi 5 to be launched in February. If he is right, we are only two months away from the release of Xiaomi's new flagship handset. We have heard so many rumors about what features we might see with the Mi 5; to whet our appetites even more, CEO Jun has been using the Mi 5 as his daily driver, and says that the phone is amazing.
That leads us to a picture posted on the company's Weibo site that could be our first real look at the model. The picture shows a handset flashing very-thin bezels. And while the phone does have a resemblance to the Xiaomi Mi Note, the latter sports thicker bezels.
Besides the photograph, we also have word that the phone's display will carry Synaptics ClearForce technology, which is similar to ForceTouch. The rest of the rumored specs include a 5.2-inch screen with a 1440 x 2560 resolution. As we noted, the Snapdragon 820 SoC should be under the hood, with a quad-core CPU and the Adreno 530 GPU. 4GB of RAM will be inside, along with 64GB of internal storage. The rear-facing camera will be 21MP with an 8MP front-facing snapper for selfies and video chats.
If this picture is showing us Xiaomi's next flagship model, the Mi 5 will have the looks to go along with its top-shelf specs and value pricing.
Leaked image from a November 2014 PhoneArena story showed off a bezel-less Xiaomi Mi 5

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Enhanced oil recovery giant Denbury Resources files for bankruptcy
August 11, 2020 International Newscollectionind723
Another major oil company has buckled under the weight of its debt during the COVID-19 pandemic and fallen into bankruptcy as depressed fuel demand continue to pummel the nation's energy giants.
Independent energy firm Denbury Resources, Inc. petitioned for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 30, with the aim of shedding about $2.1 billion of its bond debt.
The Texas-based company has claimed a unique niche in the oil and gas market with its focus on recovering stranded oil reserves from mature fields using enhanced oil recovery, including in Wyoming.
Denbury has secured lenders for interim funding and anticipates continuing its operations as the bankruptcy process unfolds, according to a news release. It also intends to continue paying employees wages and benefits, the company said.
"Throughout this process, we are committed to continuing to perform at a high level, remaining focused on safe, responsible and efficient operations," Denbury's President and CEO Chris Kendall said in a statement." I again want to thank our dedicated team for their hard work and unwavering dedication to the Company's success. We look forward to emerging a financially stronger company, and we are excited about building on the multiple advantages of our unique CO2 EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery) focused strategy for many years to come."
Denbury declined to provide the specific number of workers currently employed in Wyoming. But according to a 2019 annual report, the company employed 806 workers across about a half dozen states.
BLM collecting public feedback on effort to expand state's pipeline infrastructure
With operations across the Rocky Mountain and Gulf Coast regions, Denbury has led tertiary oil recovery efforts at some fields in Wyoming.
In a process known as enhanced oil recovery, operators inject pressurized carbon dioxide into reservoirs to remove the remaining oil that traditional drilling processes did not extract.
In 2011, Denbury secured a working interest to develop the Grieve field, approximately 45 miles outside of Casper, according to Mark Watson, supervisor of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. In 2018, the company began injecting carbon dioxide to extract oil at the site. Last year, Denbury produced nearly 93,000 barrels of oil from the Grieve field, according to data collected by the state.
But Denbury's oil production at the field dramatically slowed down this past April and came to a sudden halt in May around the time prices for oil tanked due to the precipitous drop in fuel demand worldwide.
Denbury also has acquired interest and permits for the Hartzog Draw field in the Powder River Basin. It produced over 409,000 barrels of oil in 2019 at the field, according to Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission data.
The firm completed construction of the region's first carbon dioxide pipeline, called the Greencore Pipeline, in 2012. The 232-mile pipeline runs from the Lost Cabin gas plant in Wyoming up into Montana.
Now in Casper, Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute continues to vet and hone technologies
The carbon dioxide Denbury typically uses for the process of enhanced oil recovery in Wyoming is supplied from ExxonMobil's Schutte Creek gas processing plant at the LaBarge field in southwestern Wyoming. Denbury also collects carbon dioxide the Lost Cabin gas plant owned by ConocoPhillips.
The case for EOR
But as the glut of oil worldwide continues to haunt U.S. energy producers, some industry experts questioned the fiscal feasibility of enhanced oil recovery for the foreseeable future.
The Casper-based Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute did not return requests for comment.
But in an April 14 letter, Director Steven Carpenter urged Wyoming's governor to consider "immediate, outside-the-box survival" actions to increase support for oil and gas operators with a foothold in Wyoming. He recommended implementing several incentives to spur enhanced oil recovery activity in the state. The ideas ranged from amending idle well-bonding rules to creating incentives for operators to focus resources on stranded oil recovery during low-price environments.
"Conventional reservoirs make up over 90 percent of the oil fields in Wyoming and are capable of being economic at much lower oil prices than unconventional ones," the report stated. The institute estimates about 1 billion barrels of stranded oil could be recovered, if the state amends its regulations for idle wells.
Denbury, along with several other major oil companies, have long lobbied both state and federal lawmakers to support the expansion of tax credits and the rollback of regulatory hurdles for sequestering carbon dioxide through enhanced oil recovery.
In 2018, the U.S. Congress revised Section 45Q of the tax code to provide more favorable tax incentives to companies engaged in carbon capture and sequestration.
The 45Q federal tax credit is given to companies for each ton of carbon dioxide they sequester in the ground. Since then, the program has faced intense criticism after discrepancies were identified between data held by the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. The IRS recently proposed rules to regulate the program.
Some critics of the industrial sequestration of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery also say the process does not necessarily guarantee a net climate benefit and more stringent monitoring requirements are needed.
Denbury's bankruptcy case will be held in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Article by Camille Erickson
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Some people want to go back to those "amazing" ecstasy days, so these illicit laboratories have come up with a drug that resembles molly, but more potent because it is MDMA in it's purest form, making the effects of the drug stronger, especially in the party scene where alcohol is mostly always taken with molly. Molly is considered an MDMA, just like ecstasy.
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New in the original packet red Shimano DX brake lever. A must for an early 1980s vintage BMX bike build.
This is a left hand side lever so good for a rear brake in some parts of the world and front brake in others.
A small lever with adjustment to move the lever arm closer or further from the bars to suit different hand sizes. Also has the 'unique' method of moving the cable outer rather than the inner. Who knows whether it worked any better!


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Deloitte acquires cloud consulting firm Day 1 Solutions
March 27, 2017, 11:33 a.m. EDT
Deloitte said Monday it has acquired substantially all the assets of Day 1 Solutions, a cloud consulting firm, and announced a commitment to add 3,000 new high-tech engineering jobs in the U.S. over the next year, adding new "cloud studios" in different locations.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Day 1 Solutions is a McLean, Va.-based consulting firm that acts as a systems integrator, managed service provider and value-added reseller of cloud-based technology. Located near Washington, D.C., it has worked as a government contractor, but also has clients in the health care sector and other industries. It will be joining the Deloitte Digital business.
"As one of the largest professional services organizations in the world and a recognized leader in applying new technologies to businesses, Deloitte provides the reach and expertise needed to share our award-winning cloud solutions with a diverse client roster," said Day1 CEO Luis Benavides in a statement. "At the end of the day, our commitment to clients is to harness the power of cloud to accelerate their digital transformation."
Deloitte said the thousands of engineers it plans to hire over the next year will help client organizations integrate, streamline and manage business operations in the cloud. The group will focus on creating innovative cloud-based technologies to provide clients with more analytics and cognitive solutions. The majority of new engineers will operate out of three new cloud studios that Deloitte plans to open in Orlando, New York and Washington, D.C., in the course of the year ahead. The offices will extend an existing network of 44 Deloitte Digital studios around the world.
"Cloud is the backbone of innovation and a conduit for clients to reimagine how they do business," said Deloitte Consulting LLP principal Ranjit Bawa in a statement. "For years, we've helped our clients view cloud integration as a critical driver for business transformation. By adding these significant investments to our portfolio, our clients will have access to deeper cloud expertise and even more innovative capabilities, as well as the talent they need to help them thrive in a fast-moving digital economy."
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Effective implementation of patient navigation programs can be complex and daunting. Navigation is a foundational component in developing world-class cancer centers of excellence. Navigators ensure patients are compliant with their treatment plan by removing barriers, educating them, providing care coordination, and becoming a constant point of contact. For navigators to be successful, they need to be supported by a strong leader who can remove barriers to success, influence key program stakeholders about the importance of navigation, and demonstrate value of the program consistently.
Navigation leadership focuses on ensuring the top 3 navigation stakeholders—patients, physicians, and administrators—understand the value and key benefits of navigation. Navigators need assistance in developing models that ensure standardization, consistency, and collaboration within the program. They also need a place to escalate opportunities or gaps in the program to administrators who make financial and resourcing decisions. Navigation leaders must develop consistent navigation workflows and standardized navigator documentation to ensure navigation value is demonstrated. Each one of these stakeholders has a different "love language" when demonstrating value.
Our navigators most naturally communicate the value of navigation to patients. Many patients will describe their navigator as their "lifeline" and "angel" throughout their cancer journey. However, caring for patients effectively can be extremely inefficient if a navigation leader has not performed a gap analysis of the programmatic barriers before implementation of navigation. Implementation of resourcing to remove barriers to care, improve timeliness of care, and improve patient experience are critical to ensuring a successful program.
Physicians also need to understand the goals of navigation and have a point person to improve workflow issues and remove overarching barriers to clinical pathway adherence. Building trust and collaboration with physician groups is key to the success of a navigation program. In addition, these relationships must continue to be nourished as the navigation programs develop. Navigation is the great unknown to physicians until a leader can effectively and proactively speak to the efficiency gains and how the program will help improve patient outcomes.
Administration is also interested in all the value metrics of a physician. However, they understand "no money—no mission" and must be good stewards of the financial well-being of the hospital and cancer program. There are many innovative programs presented to our administrators every day that positively affect patient care. The goal of a great navigation leader is to demonstrate the quality, programmatic, and financial value of a navigation program. Navigation leaders ensure there are predetermined success metrics that are shared on a regular basis to demonstrate the value of a navigation program. A great method is to develop a monthly or quarterly navigation scorecard. Items such as growth, productivity, timeliness of care, pathway adherence, and patient experience would be key to demonstrate value to an administrator.
A strong scorecard leads to another key role of the leader of navigation. Many sources of data in a cancer program often go untapped. Cancer registry data are at the top of the list. Working with the cancer registrar to flag navigation patients can be a great way to demonstrate outcomes of a navigated versus a non-navigated patient. Navigation documentation, be it in an Excel sheet or a sophisticated navigation tool, is also critical to the success of demonstrating navigation value. Working with your administrators and physicians to identify navigation metrics early in program development sets up the program for success. Peter Drucker, business management leader, is quoted as saying, "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." As navigation programs mature in their data analytics, we will more efficiently add depth to our programs.
Navigation leaders are needed to grow and mentor the navigators. Navigators are usually identified for the position because they are strong employees who communicate well and are collaborative problem solvers. Navigators often become the "face of the program" and have many attributes of our future cancer program leaders. Mentorship and development of navigation employees is a critical part of the navigator leader role.
Many navigation programs have been unsuccessful because hired navigators are not provided training or leadership to ensure success. A navigation program has significant impact programmatically, clinically, and in ensuring physician/cancer team collaboration through the cancer patient journey. Navigation easily can become an invaluable investment in the cancer program when managed well. A navigation resource is far too precious and valuable to leave the success to chance. Navigation leaders should champion and advocate for the program, develop consistency and standardization, demonstrate value, influence positive change through data, and mentor and grow the next generation of cancer program leaders.


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Starting Salary for a Newly Graduated Podiatrist
By Denise Dayton Updated May 17, 2021
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A podiatrist is a doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the lower legs and feet. In order to practice, a podiatrist must earn a doctor of podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) degree from an accredited school and be licensed in the state where she practices. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median 2020 pay for a podiatrist was $134,300 a year, or $64.57 per hour.
Podiatrist Description
Podiatrists are sometimes referred to as "foot doctors," but their training and licensing qualifies them as medical specialists who can treat injuries and conditions of the feet, ankles and lower leg. WebMD explains that podiatrists can perform surgery, reset broken bones, order X-rays and lab tests and prescribe medications. They treat conditions such as arthritis, bunions, hammer toe, plantar fasciitis and complications associated with diabetes.
Podiatrist Education Requirements
The American Association of Colleges of Podiatric Medicine (AACPM) lists the nine accredited schools where you can earn your doctorate. The degree requires that you spend four years in residence, where your training will be divided between classroom instruction, laboratory work in the basic sciences and supervised clinical practice.
Admission to podiatrist school requires a minimum of 90 semester hours of college credits, including eight hours each of biology, physics, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry and English. Over 97 percent of students accepted to a podiatric medical school have earned a bachelor's degree. You'll also need to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT).
According to the AACPM, the average grade point average (G.P.A.) for admission was 3.3 in 2019. For the 2020-2021 academic year, 1,006 individuals applied for 679 places in the nation's podiatrist schools.
Podiatrist Licensure
You must be licensed to practice podiatric medicine. Licensure is granted by individual states, and requirements for both licensure and scope of practice can vary. Most states require post-graduate training or a residency for full licensure. Some states offer reciprocity, meaning they honor a valid license from another state. For complete information, visit the website of the Federation of Podiatric Medical Boards.
Podiatry Salary by State
The employment website Salary reports the average podiatrist salary in the United States as $209,990 as of April 2021. The typical range of salaries is $140,259 to $339,000. A podiatrist starting salary is not necessarily at the lowest end of the reported range. A podiatrist's earnings, even when newly graduated, depend on factors such as geographic location, employer and the number of hours worked.
As of 2020, podiatrists reported the highest annual earnings, on average, in Maine ($214,960), followed by Nebraska ($206,050), New Hampshire ($192,130), Oklahoma ($187,420) and North Carolina ($186,100). Metropolitan areas where podiatrists reported the highest average annual earnings include Youngstown, OH ($229,330) Virginia Beach ($226,260), Charlotte, NC ($221,380), Omaha, NE ($204,940), Houston, TX ($203,660), Washington D.C. ($202,510), Syracuse, NY ($194,720), Boston, MA ($187,510) and Tampa, FL ($185,040). All figures are provided through the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Forbes magazine lists average salaries for podiatrists by state for all years between 2013 and 2018. Looking at these data allow you to see salary trends in different parts of the country. If you're graduating with a doctor of podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) degree, it's important to look at salary averages in the states where you'd like to practice.
Podiatrist Job Outlook
The U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics predicts little or no change in the job outlook for podiatrists through 2029. Although not many new positions will be created, newly graduated podiatrists will fill positions vacated by retiring practitioners. As of 2020, the states with the highest level of employment for podiatrists were New York, California, Florida, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Podiatrists
Forbes magazine: Here's How Much Money Podiatrists Make in Every State
American Association of Colleges of Podiatric Medicine
Salary.com: Podiatrist-DPM Salary in the United States
WebMD: What is a Podiatrist?
Federation of Podiatric Medical Boards
Denise Dayton is a a freelance writer who specializes in business, education and technology. She has written for eHow.com, Library Journal, The Searcher, Bureau of Education and Research, and corporate clients.
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This delightfully simple flower and leaf press makes a perfect gift for those who are nature-mad and creative with their crafts.
Simple collect your preferred flowers or leaves and arrange between the two halves of this mini press and leave to dry out.
Great for teaching children all about the botanical structures of plants and leaves, or for making your own arts and crafts decorations.


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Filing of candidacies for midterm polls begins
REELECTIONIST Senator Aquilino Martin L. Pimentel III, singer-songwriter Freddie Aguilar, and former party-list congressman Neri J. Colmenares were among the early birds in the filing of certificates of candidacy (CoCs) that began on Thursday, Oct. 11, and is scheduled to end next Wednesday, Oct. 17.
Comelec Commissioner Rowena V. Guanzon said there will be 18,092 positions open for next year's midterm elections. Besides the aforementioned candidates for senator, Marawi civic leader Samira Gutoc-Tumawis of the opposition Liberal Party, former Department of Health consultant Willie T. Ong, and former councilor Danilo Roleda of the Binay camp's United Nationalist Alliance also filed their candidacies for senator. CoCs have also been begun to be filed for the local positions.
In an interview with Reuters, Earl Parreno of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reforms said, "The mid-term elections will test not only the president's popularity and strength, but if he can continue to push for his agenda in the second half of his term."
The latest senatorial poll, by the Social Weather Stations, showed allies of President Rodrigo R. Duterte still dominating the Top 12. But they are expected to deal with economic issues that have weighed down on Mr. Duterte's own ratings.
Among Mr. Duterte's Cabinet officials, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano confirmed on Thursday that he will run as Taguig Representative in the 2019 midterm elections and will seek the House Speakership if elected in order to push the Duterte administration's vision in the legislative branch.
"With all humility, I will seek another term in my hometown Taguig and Pateros and then let's see where it goes from there….I will seek the leadership position in the House but, you know, it's a complex matter. We have to win first in the district, and I want to focus on that first. And then you have to win the trust and confidence of the whole Congress," Mr. Cayetano told reporters in Bali, Indonesia.
For its part, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said it plans to provide security assistance to "possible candidates, if they think they have threats to their lives," said PNP spokesperson Senior Supt. Benigno B. Durana, Jr.
"They can avail of the security coverage services which will be provided by the Philippine national police," said Mr. Durana.
Mr. Durana added that PNP chief director General Oscar D. Albayalde already tasked the Directorate for Integrated Police Operations in Northern and Southern Luzon, Visayas, Eastern, and Western Mindanao to provide extra security measures during the election period.
In this year's elections, The PNP has also tagged 7,926 barangays and 896 municipalities in the country as areas of concern or election hotspots. —reports by Gillian M. Cortez, Camille A. Aguinaldo, Vince Angelo C. Ferreras, and Reuters
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Ballroom set up for a wedding dinner party. Up to 180 guests can be served in this configuration — in addition to the 12 VIPs on stage.
Note that there are both Classical voiced and Theater voiced organs available in this venue. (Space for those console(s) needs to be allowed for if used).


The Topeka Capital-Journal reports two Kansas men have been denied a marriage license in their home state.
Dan Barnes, 41, and Wade Honey, 44, took an hour long drive from their town, Ogden, to the Shawnee County District Court, which is located in a more liberal area of their state.
Barnes and Honey filed for a marriage license, and it took less than five minutes for them to be turned away.
You can't do that in the state of Kansas…Our application says 'man and woman.' The Legislature has not changed it.
This opens the door for a lawsuit from the two men, along with the numerous couples like them who attempted to apply for marriages.
I swore an oath to support the Constitution of the State of Kansas…An overwhelming majority of Kansas voters amended the Constitution to include a definition of marriage as one man and one woman. Activist judges should not overrule the people of Kansas.
Kansas falls under the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, but it is not one of the five states who are directly implicated in the recent Supreme Court decision. Governors and AGs of these states have the chance to spin their wheels and delay gay marriages. It seems likely in states like Kansas and South Carolina, we will see some legal go-arounds of this nature in the coming weeks.


The customers can get reward points or earn miles by using the credit cards. After servicing your air conditioner, we will ensure that there will be no messes and spots on your air conditioner. The technical staff at our company will ensure to provide the best services for the customers. You can contact us if you are not happy with the services offered by our company. If you have any air conditioning repair at your home then you can schedule an appointment in advance. The customers are pleased with the aircon servicing offered by the friendly technicians. You will get an email and SMS remainder once if your appointment is confirmed by the company. If you are satisfied with the services offered by the company then you can submit the feedback on our website. The fan coils should be removed from the chemicals by using the clean water.
You can contact us if you require any assistance with our aircon servicing. The hazardous nature of the alkaline and chemicals will take place during the chemical cleaning process. The loosened impurities from the coils may also be removed during the cleaning process. The oily deposits can be melted away by particularly formulating the inhibitors.
The powerful cleaners are blended with the products along with the surface-active agents and the inhibitors. The other types of the heat exchangers can also be used to transfer the heat and dissolve the scale. The commercial or residential aircon systems can be used for performing the chemical cleaning. You can prefer to perform the chemical cleaning on the fan coil as it is very cost effective. It is not possible to remove the fan coil if it is lightly contaminated. The impurities can never be moved on the coils with the help of the enzyme liquid application.
An overhaul can be considered particularly for the heavily contaminated units. The damaging coil fins can be avoided with the low-pressure spray to remove the impurities. It may take about 60 minutes to perform the enzyme cleaning for only one fan coil unit. The enzyme solutions can be used in the chemical cleaning process instead of the chemicals. The enzyme cleaning is recommended over the chemical cleaning in order to unmount the complete unit of the overhaul. If you have booked a slot in real time then you can check whether the technician is available or not without any hassles. You will not require much time to schedule an appointment as it will take only 60 seconds. The major credit cards can be used to make the payment online in order to encourage the cashless transactions. There will be no hidden charges when you make the payment by using the credit cards.


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Aziz Ansari's Sexual Misconduct Story Highlights The Importance Of Teaching Sex Ed
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Last Sunday, we were still on an after week high from those fantastic Golden Globes. It was an award night to remember, where women and their "time's up" speeches echoed with so many viewers. Oprah's memorable speech was still the talk of many — with artists and women of different professions honoring her online. And while many people were vocal about identifying the "hypocrisy" of certain male artists wearing Time's Up pins — such as Justin Timberlake (for his work with Woody Allen) and James Franco (for sexual harassment claims) — just last Sunday, there was still an undeniable buzz from that electrifying and glamorous night.
Until a not-so-glamorous story broke out about Aziz Ansari and a night that his date described as "the worst night of her life."
In an interview published on babe, a 23-year-old photographer from Brooklyn, who went under the pseudonym "Grace," explained in detail how her date with the actor took a turn for the worse — resulting in nonconsensual sexual advances on Ansari's part. Once the story broke, it received a lot of mixed responses from the media.
There was The Atlantic's eyebrow-raising article that found the babe story "humiliating and unfair" and an opinion piece published in The New York Times calling the event "bad sex." Other publications explored how this story exacerbates the importance of teaching consent as early as possible.
But, two things have struck me while processing this story — one, just how much this story has resonated with other women who have, unfortunately, been in similar situations and, two, the mixed reactions by the public. Some have argued that "she could have left" or "she should have been vocal" or "he's not a mindreader." Others called the event wholly coercive and non-consensual.
These differences in opinion just go to show how crucial and necessary a comprehensive sexual education is.
A study about the current state of sexual education in the US published in 2016 by the Journal of Adolescent Health has stated that "despite great advancements in the science, implementation of a truly modern, equitable, evidence-based model of comprehensive sex education remains precluded by sociocultural, political, and systems barriers operating in profound ways across multiple levels of adolescents' environments." As a consequence, we are dealing with an outbreak of ignorance on a topic that is a normal part of human behavior: sexuality. The researchers from this study also mention that "at the societal level, deeply rooted cultural and religious norms around adolescent sexuality have shaped federal and state policies and practices, driving restrictions on comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, and service delivery in schools and elsewhere."
However, what we fail to see is that teaching teenagers (and children, which I will get into later) is a basic human right. So much so that the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child emphasized back in 2003 that governments should "ensure children have the ability to acquire the knowledge and skills to protect themselves and others as they begin to express their sexuality."
How do we expect adults — such as "Grace" or Aziz Ansari — to understand the essential components of consent if we are not emphasizing this type of education as early as possible?
How do we expect adults to understand terms like "consensual sex" or "coercive relationships" if it's not an educational policy?
Not all is doomed, though. Some organizations, like YES! (Your Empowered Sexuality) are taking matters into their own hands and teaching consent as early as kindergarten. YES! is a "Montclair-based organization that seeks to empower young people and deconstruct rape culture, with an intersectional feminist perspective through educational workshops about consent and the broad spectrum of sexuality." As one of the founders explained in a recent interview with Broadly: "if you can't talk about your body parts and sex, then how are you going to have good sex, healthy sex, safe sex, consensual sex?"
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This is where it all starts: a healthy conversation ASAP about our body, its parts, and consent in all types of relationships. This sets up the foundation for future sexual encounters and the understanding of what consent entails.
An essential part of what has people confused about this particular story is the "consent" portion. I always go back to the four parts of consent, as explained by the SAFE Homes Rape Crisis Coalition. Consent is active, which reinforces that "only yes means yes." It's based on equal power — which means that if a person is under the influence of a drug or alcohol, or is in a vulnerable position, consent becomes more difficult. It's a choice, as opposed to coercive, which seems to be the focal point of this story, in the sense that no one should feel pressured to give consent if they don't want to. Lastly, it's a process — which to me is the essential part of all of this —meaning that a person can change their mind at any point if they feel uncomfortable. And this should be respected.
I envision a future where children receive this education as early as possible. As a feminist sister put it — "people tend to forget that the whole point of raising a child is achieving an emotionally stable, responsible, and reasonable adult." We are at a point in history unlike any other, where women are speaking out and unapologetically telling their truth. But, it's also a valuable reminder that we need to start acting earlier on, as well. What are we going to do to prevent these type of situations happening in the future? More importantly, what can be done right now?
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This year marks the fifth anniversary of the foundation of JETS Academy in Nishinomiya. I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt appreciation to everyone for their generous support and encouragement. Thank you very much!
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DALLAS -- On a typically hot August afternoon four years ago, the athletic director of Southern Methodist University and the soon-to-be governor of Texas paused for a moment on an asphalt parking lot outside the school's administration building.
There were problems at SMU and both were concerned those problems were not over. The school had been placed on probation by the NCAA because cash payments had been made to football players and if it happened again, SMU could be in danger of losing its team.
Classes were due to resume in a few weeks and players would be returning to the campus. Some of those players had been receiving money and were expecting to get more.
Three of them were all-conference players and if the money was not forthcoming, they would likely leave the school and tell everybody why they were doing so.
Although meetings of top school officials had been held in which the problem of continuing payments had been discussed, no formal decision had been made.
Then, following one such meeting, Hitch and Bill Clements stopped to talk in the parking lot. Clements, the outgoing chairman of the school's board of governors, had previously served one term as governor and now was trying for another one. Adverse publicity might affect his campaign.
Clements asked Hitch whether it was possible for the payments to be continued to the athletes expecting the money. Hitch said the payments could, indeed, be contined.
'Then do it,' Clements told Hitch.
From that moment, SMU's fate was sealed.
In the four years since, SMU has become the first victim of the NCAA's so-called 'death penalty,' the school's athletic program has undergone a painful reorganization and much stricter entrance requirements have been placed on incoming athletes.
Now, after suffering through a tremendously embarrassing period in its otherwise proud history, the school is ready to field a football team once more.
It will be an undermanned team, one that will take years to rebuild because of the strict sanctions imposed by the NCAA, and one that will now play its games in a tiny, on-campus facility rather than in the glitzy confines of Texas Stadium.
A myriad of ingredients went together to bring about SMU's downfall. But, in the end, the reason for its two-year banishment was simple.
The school cheated, got caught, said it would not do so again and did -- blatantly so at the highest echelons of power and with very little hope of having its indescretions remaining a secret. SMU has paid dearly and must continue doing so. The school could sign only 15 players in 1988 and thus will have only 42 scholarship players to start the season.
The Mustangs will play their first game on the evening of Sept. 2. The game will take place in Ownby Stadium -- seating capacity, 24,000. The opponent will be the Rice Owls, a team that has lost its last 18 games. But the Owls will be the decided favorite.
So how will the Mustangs do?
'Well, that's the big question, isn't it,' said Forrest Gregg, who left his Green Bay coaching job (which was in jeopardy) to take on the unique task of bringing his alma mater back from the ashes. 'I'm not a soothsayer. I never would make predictions, no matter where I was coaching.
SMU actually will have more than 100 players in uniform as the opening game approaches, but the vast majority of them are walk-ons. The Mustangs must play a full conference schedule in addition to meeting Notre Dame in South Bend. SMU tried to talk Notre Dame out of playing, but the Irish would not let the Mustangs out of their contract.
If SMU does manage to return to competitive status, it will be a major success story. The odds are very much against them, but they have supporters in their attempt.
Hitch resigned in disgrace along with coach Bobby Collins. The president of the school, L. Donald Shields, also left in the wake of the scandal. The manner in which the school is governed has been restructured in an attempt to prevent a single entity such as Clements from ruling over the institution.
And as for Clements himself, he is in his third year of a four-year term as governor.
But when his alma mater returns to the football field Sept. 2, the 72-year-old Clements will not be there. He has conveniently arranged to be where no one can find him -- on a big-game hunting trip to Africa.
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Roasting a pot roast meal in a Dutch Oven is so easy and good tasting. So when it comes to the proverbial question, "What's for dinner?" You can say a wonderful pot roast meal. Not only is it great tasting but super easy to put together. Once you start cooking with cast iron, you will love the results and easy cast iron care steps.
Just place a 3-4 pound beef roast in the Dutch Oven. I like to use a cast iron trivet in the bottom to keep the meat up from the bottom but it's not necessary if you don't have one. Season the meat with all goodies you like on it such as seasoning salt, pepper, onion, garlic, sage, few dashes of Worcestershire sauce, and some beef broth. I like to put all the ingredients in a large measuring cup and mix it all up and pour it over the meat and veggies.
Next add the potatoes, some slices of onion and other veggies. I used carrots and some sliced celery too. Again I like to pour the seasoning and broth over the meat and veggies before baking.
I had a 3 pound Elk shoulder roast given to me and set out to roast it in my cast iron Dutch Oven. I had never done a Elk roast before so I did a little research and got some advice from a few people who had experience in cooking Elk roasts. Because Elk is very lean, it is a good method to slow cook a roast to get tender and moist meat.
I have used cast iron for cooking for years. The secret of using cast iron pans and dutch ovens is how you care for the pots before and after use. The first most important thing before use is the proper seasoning. If the pot or pan isn't seasoned thoroughly you will find cooking in it is miserable. Everything sticks in it, it looks rusty, and doesn't smell good. If you have any of these issues, your pan isn't seasoned properly but take heart. Even the worse cast iron pots and pans can be corrected with the proper seasoning.
Let's take a rusty dutch oven that I recently obtained for example. It had rust spots on the outside and the inside. It had a rough and dried-out look about it on the inside too. But I knew with proper care, I could restore this pot to good usable condition. I didn't take any pictures of the dutch oven before I worked on it but just let me say it was in need of some serious TLC.
Here is the inside lid after I applied oil to the inside and outside and put it in the oven to season it up.
Steps to Seasoning your Cast Iron: Wipe with cooking oil, I like to use Olive oil, on the inside and the outside. If you have a dutch oven that is in bad condition, place it on a cooking sheet inside your oven at about 300-350 degrees. I left mine for a half hour before checking. Check the progress and turn the lid if necessary. Make sure its getting hot enough for the oil to be absorbed into the cast iron. Add more oil if needed so it has a generous amount of oil on the cast iron. Let it bake for another 30 minutes so it has baked for a full hour.
Re-apply more oil to the inside and outside. Wipe the oil around with a paper towel. I always leave a little excess oil inside the pan so it can adsorb even more.
An important tip: Never use soap on your cast iron. Rinse out the pan in the sink and scrape out any food. Boil water in the pan and use a nylon scrubber to get any hard stuck stuff off of your cast iron. I also reminded that the Boy Scouts use dirt or sand to scrub out their cast irons pans when they are camping. Then they boil water in the pans before adding some oil to season the pot for the next use.
Here is my favorite large cast iron fry pan. It is all seasoned after the last time I used it. I don't know if the picture shows it well enough but this pan has a wonderful seasoned finish to it. When I cook in this pan, it's almost like using a non-stick pan.
Once a pan has a good seasoned surface like the cast iron skillet above, you can just rinse it out in the sink after use. Boil water in it if necessary on the stove to get it clean. Once it is clean, I pour some cooking oil into the pan and put it on the burner on medium until the oil heats up good. Wipe the oil around with a paper towel making sure you get the inside of the pan well oiled. Leave it on the burner for another few minutes. I usually turned the burner off and just let it cool down and finalize the seasoning process at this point.
A final note here is my dutch oven stored. You don't want the lid left on tight but leave a gap so it can breathe. I put a folded paper towel inside the lip to keep the lid open with a gap between the pot.


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A fair take on fairy tale.
Published: 30th March 2012 01:51 PM | Last Updated: 16th May 2012 09:50 PM | A+A A-
Julia Roberts and Lily Collins portrays Snow White in 'Mirror Mirror.' (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Jan Thijs).
'Mirror Mirror' (English)
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast" Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Lily Collins, Nathan Lane
Julia Roberts chews up the scenery and spits it back out again with great brio in her first truly villainous role as the evil Queen in 'Mirror Mirror.'
And oh, what scenery it is. After all, this is a film from Tarsem Singh, director of such spectacular spectaculars as the trippy 'The Cell' and last year's dreary 'Immortals.' Basically, the scenery IS the movie — and the costumes, of course, from the late Eiko Ishioka. They dominate every moment of this cheeky, heavily tweaked version of 'Snow White,' but at least they're a marvel to watch.
They'd better be, because the dialogue and the action are, for the most part, rather dull and weirdly devoid of energy.
This anachronistic, genre-hopping fairy tale — I swear, there's a 'George of the Jungle' joke at one point — comes from screenwriters Marc Klein and Jason Keller from a story by Melisa Wallack. It begins with the beautiful, innocent Snow White (Lily Collins, daughter of Phil), who's just turned 18, trapped in her bedroom in a castle perched high on a precipitous cliff. Her father, the King (Sean Bean), set off into the woods one day long ago and is presumed dead; her stepmother, the Queen, has taken over the kingdom and tyrannically transformed a place that was once merry into a wasteland of poverty and strife.
The Queen's right-hand man is the butt-kissing Brighton (Nathan Lane), who keeps trying to tell her she's broke, but she won't listen. All she cares about is her status as the fairest of them all, which she reinforces by visiting a mirror housed in a thatched hut hidden dramatically in the middle of a dark, isolated lake. (That Tarsem is an imaginative dude, we cannot deny that.)
But fortunately, into her kingdom comes the young, gorgeous, single and (more importantly) wealthy Prince Alcott (Armie Hammer in a perfect bit of casting; he seems game to make fun of his all-American good looks). The Queen tries to woo him with a lavish ball, but the Prince only has eyes for Snow, whom he'd encountered briefly in the forest earlier that day when neither of them realized the other was, you know, royal. (The wedding she plans for him looks like something that could take place in the Capitol of 'The Hunger Games,' with its foppish guests dressed in garishly colorful, over-the-top costumes and makeup.)
When the Queen tries to have Snow killed out of jealousy, the young beauty escapes and makes a new home with the Seven Dwarves, who get actual back stories and some of the film's funnier lines. None of them is named Dopey or Doc, but they do give Snow a tough-girl makeover, complete with the obligatory training montage.
Collins has a lovely screen presence — she's got this young Audrey Hepburn thing going — but she lacks a certain oomph, even after her character has learned to fight and supposedly found her inner strength. Roberts rules her at every turn, even when she flashes that iconic smile in cruel fashion. She seems to be reveling in playing a role that's such a departure; that sense of joy only sporadically finds its way to the rest of the film.
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Ireland commits Economic partnership with Liberia in Agricultural and large Scale Productions.
Ireland commits Economic partnership with Liberia in Agricultural and large Scale Productions, the commitment for partnership comes in the wake of several bilateral meetings when Foreign Minister Gbehzohngar Milton Findley met with the Irish at the AU and EU first annual joint ministerial meetings in Brussels, Belgium.
The EU-AU ministerial meeting was an opportunity to take stock of the implementation of the outcome of the 5th AU – EU Summit (Abidjan, 29-30 November 2017), with a key decision to invest in Youth through market-responsive education by rolling out more vocational training and other educational programs.
At the meeting, Foreign Ministers were expected to approve a Communique on the implementation of joint initiatives through Economic Cooperation, Resilience, Peace, security, and Governance, Migration and mobility, Cooperation on the Global scene and as well as a Post 2020 commitment while taking account of regional specificity and ensuring congruence of a future partnership.
During his meeting with Ireland Minister of State for Diaspora and International Development Ciaran Cannon and Fionnuala Gilsenan, Director of Africa unit, Foreign Minister Findley discussed strengthening of Ties and Irish interest in establishing a full Mission in Liberia.
According to a Foreign Ministry release, Minister Cannon expressed commitment for Economic partnership with Liberia in the Agricultural and large Scale Production sectors.
Minister Cannon further emphasized the need for Youth empowerment through Agriculture programs in the interest of both Liberia and Ireland..
For his part, Liberia's Foreign Minister Gbehzohngar Milton Findley expressed gratitude to the people of Ireland for committing to partner with the government of Liberia especially desiring to collaborate on agriculture front.
He assured the commitment of President George Manneh Weah in further strengthening ties with Ireland in ways that would support the country's Pro-Poor Agenda for Development and Prosperity.


The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently reported that single women are quickly becoming a significant percentage of the total nu,mber of home buyers in the U.S. real estate market. Last year 20% of all home buyers were single women.
According to the NAR, single women aren't just purchasing more homes. They are growing savvier about the whole home buying process, being much more likely to ask piercing questions and demanding straight answers to their questions regarding prices, features, financing options, etc. And it is not just young single professional women who are buying homes, the range of single female buyers varies all the way from young singles to post-retirement women.
Due to the increasing number of single women buying homes, both builders and real estate brokers are "stepping up their game" to appeal to this large new segment of the buyer market. Builders are increasingly offering new homes with more extensive security features, low- or no-maintenance yards, gourmet kitchens, more spacious bathrooms, softer color schemes – all features that appeal much more to female than to male buyers.
As the real estate market continues to bump along without much actual growth, it behooves every real estate professional to pay attention to trends like this and tailor their marketing plans and actions appropriately.
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At 6 am, we're lucky if we have the energy to reach for a cup of coffee. Mornings may be rough for some of us, but hold off on sleeping in: There are perks to waking up with the sun. (And we have some tips to make it easier, too!).
The old "I'm just too tired" complaint may be more than a sorry excuse for waking up late. Research suggests there are biological differences between early larks, who wake up at the same time every morning and feel most active around 9 am, and night owls, who get more sh!t done once the sun goes down. One survey found more than half of Americans fall into the morning category, saying they're at their "personal best" from 5 am to 12 pm. And it may get easier to greet the day at dawn as we get older, thanks to body clock changes as we age.
It turns out the early bird may get more than the worm. According to self-reports from college students, those who wake up earlier feel more optimistic and proactive than those who rise later. Other studies have found morning larks tend to be harder working and conscientious than night owls. (Still, it's not clear whether waking up early actually makes someone more productive or optimistic.) And perhaps the secret to a 4.0 isn't only hitting the books: Another study of university undergraduates found those who said they function better in the morning received higher grades than those who preferred the evening. That's possibly because morning risers are more likely to get to class on time or to forgo late-night partying. Researchers also suggest memory may improve during sleep, so getting to bed earlier in preparation for a morning alarm could help those exam notes soak in.
Get enough sleep. It may seem obvious, but getting those recommended seven to nine hours will make getting up earlier easier. Pro tip? Keep the laptop and other work out of the bed to sleep soundly.
Stay consistent. Try to set the alarm clock for the same time every morning—including weekends. A constant wakeup call may make it progressively easier to jump out of bed.
Start slowly. Pick a new wakeup time and gradually work towards it. Want to wake up at 7 am but stuck at 8 am? Start by setting the clock for 7:45, and move down in 15-minute increments until that new time goal is reached.
Skip the snooze. Disrupting sleep an hour or so before actually getting out of bed may disturb our REM cycle, which helps stimulate brain regions linked to cognition. Don't want to mess with that (or bug a roommate with multiple alarms!). Set one alarm for when it's time to rise—and maybe another a few minutes later in case you snooze through!
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Eat breakfast. Sleepiness doesn't disappear just from drinking a cup of coffee. Having enough time for some green eggs and ham (or maybe just a yogurt parfait) will also provide energy, not to mention it'll boost that brainpower, too.
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Perspective > Medscape Neurology > Diener on Neurology
Important New Results in Stroke
Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, PhD
This transcript has been edited for clarity.
Dear colleagues, I'm Christoph Diener, a neurologist from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Today I want to inform you about the most important results from the International Stroke Conference, which was held in Hawaii at the beginning of February.
Let me start with three positive studies. The first one was the Australian EXTEND study.[1] This study investigated whether tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is superior to placebo in the time window between 4.5 and 9 hours. This study included not only patients in this time window but also patients with wake-up stroke. The decision to randomize patients was based on perfusion imaging, using either CT or MRI perfusion.
The study randomized 225 patients, and the endpoint was modified Rankin 0 or 1, which is a good outcome. This was achieved in 35% of patients with tPA compared with 29% on placebo, and this translates to an adjusted risk ratio of 1.44 at 90 days. The mortality was 12% with tPA whereas it was 9% with placebo, which was not significantly different. As you would expect, the rate of symptomatic hemorrhage was higher with tPA, at 6% versus 1%.
If we take all of the evidence from the past 2 or 3 years, both on thrombectomy and tPA, we will no longer consider patients by a fixed time window. I think the decision about whether to choose tPA or thrombectomy basically depends on functional imaging, either with perfusion CT or perfusion and diffusion-weighted imaging on MRI.
The second study was a really exciting study from Japan that recruited patients with non-cardioembolic stroke.[2] They were randomized to either a monotherapy with aspirin or clopidogrel or the combination of cilostazol with aspirin and clopidogrel. The study recruited 1884 patients and the primary endpoint was recurrent stroke. This happened in 29 of 913 patients on combination therapy, which is 3.2%, compared with 64 out of 926 patients on monotherapy, which is 6.9%.
The combination therapy had a hazard ratio of 0.49, which means a 50% risk reduction, as there was no increased risk of bleeding with combination therapy. This study was done in Japan, and whether the results translate to patients outside of Asia or Japan is unknown at the moment. It would be really worthwhile to replicate this study, for example in North America and Europe.
We have a very effective reversal agent for dabigatran, which is idarucizumab, and we also now have a reversal agent for Xa inhibitors and heparin, which is andexanet alfa. The ANNEXA-4 study was reported and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.[3] This study included 352 patients with acute major bleeding on either rivaroxaban or apixaban, and these patients were treated within 18 hours with andexanet alfa. The treatment is a bolus followed by 2 hours of infusion. The endpoint was a change in anti-Xa activity and good hemostatic activity at 12 hours.
Approximately two thirds of patients had intracranial hemorrhage and 26% had GI gastrointestinal bleeds. On average, the severely sick patients were 77 years old. There was a 92% reduction in anti-Xa activity at 2 hours and 34% at the end of infusion. Good hemostasis was achieved in 82% of patients. Mortality was 14% and thrombotic events occurred in 10% of patients, mostly in patients who could no longer be anticoagulated and still had a high risk for thrombotic events due to atrial fibrillation.
The study clearly shows that andexanet alfa is a highly effective reversal agent for anti-Xa inhibitors. The downside, I think, is the high cost, which is currently about $24,000 for the lower dose of andexanet alfa in the United States.
We also had quite a number of neutral trials. I would like to start with the most frustrating study, which was the SHINE study: Stroke Hyperglycemia Insulin Network Effort.[4] This study included patients with type 2 diabetes or glucose above 150 mg/dL and an acute stroke. The investigators compared intensive therapy with IV insulin and a target blood glucose between 80 and 130 mg/dL, whereas the standard subcutaneous therapy had a target below 180 mg/dL.
This study included 1151 patients and the endpoint was modified Rankin at 90 days. Patients treated with intensive glucose therapy achieved good control of glucose, but there was no difference in outcome. Hypoglycemia, as you would expect, was more frequent with IV insulin.
The RIGHT-2 study was designed to investigate the transdermal application of glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) in the ambulance by paramedics in people with acute stroke.[5] The inclusion criterion was a blood pressure above 120 mm Hg. The study in the UK recruited 1149 patients with either acute stroke or TIA, including 26% with stroke mimics. The GTN group achieved a 5.8–mm Hg lower blood pressure than control but there was no difference in functional outcome or mortality.
ENCHANTED was a factorial study, which was designed to compare a lower dose of tPA, 0.6 mg/kg body weight, with a dose of 0.9 mg/kg.[6] The study also had randomization between intensive versus mild blood pressure lowering in 2227 patients. There was no difference in functional status in terms of modified Rankin Scale at 90 days. There were fewer intracranial hemorrhages with the more aggressive blood pressure lowering.
The RESPECT study from Japan included 1263 patients and was designed to compare aggressive blood pressure lowering with a milder blood pressure lowering.[7] The endpoint was recurrent stroke, and again, there was no difference in recurrent stroke.
I think the second most important study after the insulin study was the MISTIE III study.[8] This is a study with patients who had moderate to large intracerebral bleeds, usually basal ganglia bleeds. The patients were randomized to a minimally invasive therapy where a catheter is placed into the bleeding and low-dose tPA is given every 8 hours, compared with control.
This study included 506 patients and the endpoint was modified Rankin after 1 year. Unfortunately, there was no difference. There was a reduced mortality in the surgical group, which was offset by a higher rate of people who are severely disabled. Unfortunately, we still do not have effective surgical therapy for people with moderate to large intracerebral bleeds.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a balance between a few positive trials, and as usual, more neutral or negative trials reported at the International Stroke Conference in Hawaii.
I am Christoph Diener from Germany. Thank you very much for listening and watching.
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Cite this: Hans-Christoph Diener. Important New Results in Stroke - Medscape - Mar 26, 2019.
Professor, Department of Neurology, Stroke Center-Headache Center, University Duisburg-Essen, Hufelandstrasse, Essen, Germany
Disclosure: Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, PhD, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
Received honoraria for participation in clinical trials, contribution to advisory boards or oral presentations from: Abbott; Addex Pharma; Alder; Allergan; Almirall; Amgen; Autonomic Technology; AstraZeneca; Bayer Vital; Berlin Chemie; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Boehringer Ingelheim; Chordate; CoAxia; Corimmun; Covidien; Coherex; CoLucid; Daiichi-Sankyo; D-Pharml Electrocore; Fresenius; GlaxoSmithKline; Grunenthal; Janssen Cilag; Labrys Biologics Lilly; La Roche; 3M Medica; MSD; Medtronic; Menarini; MindFrame; Minster; Neuroscore; Neurobiological Technologies; Novartis; Novo-Nordisk; Johnson & Johnson; Knoll; Paion; Parke-Davis; Pierre Fabre; Pfizer Inc; Schaper and Brummer; sanofi-aventis; Schering-Plough; Servier; Solvay; Syngis; St. Jude; Talecris; Thrombogenics; WebMD Global; Weber and Weber; Wyeth and Yamanouchi
Received financial support for research projects from: Allergan; Almirall; Astra/Zeneca; Bayer; Boehringer Ingelheim; Electrocore; GlaxoSmithKline; Janssen-Cilag; Lundbeck; MSD; Novartis; Pfizer; Janssen-Cilag; sanofi-aventis; Syngis; Talecris.
The Department of Neurology in Essen is supported by the German Research Council (DFG), the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), European Union, National Institutes of Health, Bertelsmann Foundation, and Heinz-Nixdorf Foundation.
Dr Diener has no ownership interest and does not own stocks of any pharmaceutical company.
Within the past year Dr Diener served as editor of Aktuelle Neurologie, Arzneimitteltherapie, Kopfschmerznews, Stroke News, and the Treatment Guidelines of the German Neurological Society; as co-editor of Cephalalgia, and on the editorial board of Lancet Neurology, Stroke, European Neurology, and Cerebrovascular Disorders.
Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, PhD, has no ownership interest in and does not own stocks of any pharmaceutical company.
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AMES, Iowa (June 28, 2021)
Iowa State University Office of Economic Development and
Industry Relations today announced Patrick Klepcyk as the Director, Office of Innovation
Commercialization (OIC) and President of the Iowa State Research Foundation (ISURF). Klepcyk
was hired following a national search, and replaces interim director Dana Rewoldt who has been
the interim director role since August, 2019.
Klepcyk comes to Iowa State from the University of Virginia Licensing and Ventures team where
he served as director of licensing since 2016. Prior to his director role, he served there from
2012-2016 as associate director and senior licensing manager. He has extensive experience in
technology transfer with a number of world class organizations including Case Western Reserve
University, the Cleveland Clinic, GlaxoSmithKline, and the National University of Singapore. He
also has deep international experience, having worked in Cleveland, Shanghai and Singapore
before moving to Virginia.
"We are thrilled to welcome Patrick Klepcyk and his family to our Iowa State family and to the
Economic Development and Industry Relations ecosystem. His measured success in licensing,
strategic partnerships, startups and international corporations make him a natural fit to lead our
very successful and long standing OIC and ISURF organizations in their continued growth, said
David Spalding, Interim Vice President at Iowa State University for Economic Development and
Industry Relations. "We are grateful to Dana Rewoldt for her years of dedicated service to OIC
and ISURF and in particular for her leadership throughout a challenging year due to COVID-19
and our search."
"I am very excited to join Iowa State and contribute to the commercialization of its innovations,"
said Klepcyk.
About the Office of Innovation Commercialization and Iowa State University Research
The Office of Innovation Commercialization (OIC) includes the Office of Intellectual Property and
Technology Transfer (OIPTT) and the Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (ISURF),
reporting to the Vice President for Economic Development, work in concert to facilitate and
enhance the inventive and creative works of Iowa State University's employees and students,
and to transfer these works for the benefit of society. Additionally, under Iowa State
University's contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, ISURF manages intellectual property
protection and licensing for the Ames Laboratory.
About Economic Development and Industry Relations
The Office of Economic Development and Industry Relations (EDIR) at Iowa State University
assists external stakeholders, both individuals and companies, in accessing Iowa State's unique
capabilities and services. EDIR is a single point of contact to streamline the process of making
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You'll forget to plan it.
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It will be incredibly special.
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After you've packed the fancy lingerie you got at your bachelorette party and pre-ordered the expensive champagne for your hotel room, you imagine romance will be in the air all day every day. But sometimes, too much sun, surf or sightseeing can really take its toll, and you can bet that at least one night you'll just want to do something sort of lame, like watching a TV show in a foreign language (and trying to decipher the plotline) while eating some room service.
On a related note, be prepared for unexpected—and unwelcome—events. Your hotel room might not be as lovely as it looked in the photos, you might miss a connecting flight or you might even get sick, but if you roll with the punches when things go wrong, you'll be able to enjoy all the amazing things that go right. And keep in mind that most hotels have doctors on call to help and medicine in the gift shop, but pack a few Imodium and Advil in your suitcase just in case (it'll be way cheaper than buying it there).
You won't want to come home.
Whether you've already been on tons of vacations as a couple or this is your first big one together, coming back from your honeymoon is a quick trip back to reality (sorry!) and everything you've been neglecting while you were planning your wedding, like a stack of work, your taxes or cleaning the bathroom. Planning your next trip can ease the pain a little, as can scheduling a fun date night for the weekend after you're back.