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Lymphopenia as a predictor of sarcoidosis in patients with uveitis
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Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Centre for Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, Institute of Human Development, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Correspondence to Professor Nicholas Jones, The Royal Eye Hospital, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK; nicholas.jones{at}cmft.nhs.uk
Aims To investigate the hypothesis that lymphopenia is an independent predictor of sarcoidosis in new patients presenting with uveitis.
Patients and methods Retrospective case–control study of 112 patients with sarcoidosis-associated uveitis (SAU) against 398 controls with other forms of uveitis.
Results Of the patients with SAU, 30/112 (26.8%) had significant lymphopenia (<1.0×109/L), compared with 24/398 (6.0%) for other uveitis (p≤0.0001, OR 5.7 (95% CI 3.2 to 10.3)). The mean lymphocyte count for patients with SAU was 1.43 vs 2.04 for other uveitis (p≤0.0001). Logistic regression modelling using diagnosis of SAU as the independent variable identified age, ACE levels and lymphocyte count as independent predictors of SAU. A new patient with uveitis with significant lymphopenia has a risk of sarcoidosis (from this parameter alone) of 31.6%.
Conclusions Significant lymphopenia (<1.0×109/L) is an independent predictor of sarcoidosis in new patients presenting with uveitis. We recommend that diagnostic criteria for SAU should be modified to include this phenomenon.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2015-307455
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British Journal of Ophthalmology 2016; 100 1-1 Published Online First: 22 Sep 2016. doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2016-309597

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Club for Growth: Ted Cruz was perfect in 2013
By Aaron Blake
Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), emerges from the Senate Chamber on Sept. 25, 2013, after his overnight crusade railing against the nation's new health-care law at the Capitol. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
The Club for Growth is out with its 2013 scorecard, and the big winner is Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.).
Cruz is one of just two Senate Republicans to earn perfect scores from the fiscally conservative group, along with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
Two other potential GOP presidential candidates — Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — trail just behind Cruz and Lee, earning the group's "Defender of Economic Freedom" awards for scoring above 90 percent in 2013 and having lifetime ratings above that same threshold.
Paul ranked third among all senators with a 97 percent score in 2013, while Rubio ranked 12th at 91 percent.
Another potential 2016 GOP candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), scored considerably lower. The architect of the bipartisan budget last year — a budget the club opposed — scored 79 percent, good for 70th overall but still in the top one-third of all House Republicans.
Four of Ryan's House colleagues — including three Arizonans — received perfect scores. They are Reps. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and Tom McClintock (R-Calif.).
Among the other notable scores:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who is receiving a challenge from the right, ranked 15th out of 45 Senate Republicans with a score of 87 percent — just above his 85 percent lifetime score.
Another primary target, longtime Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), had the third-lowest score among Republicans, at 56 percent. The club is supporting his primary opponent, state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R).
A third primary target, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), ranked 19th with an 84 percent — significantly higher than his lifetime score of 74 percent.
Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) continues to be the highest-scoring Republican in the Georgia GOP Senate primary, at 97 percent, good for 13th overall. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) scored a 93 percent, and Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) scored an 87 percent. All three are running, among other candidates.
The lowest-scoring Republican in the House: Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), who made news recently by threatening to throw a TV reporter over a capitol balcony. Grimm later apologized.


This is a guest post by Dr. Jonathan Chung DC and Dr. Grace Liu. Thanks Jonathan and Grace!
Now if you ever get a chance to talk to Grace, you'll begin to understand that her passion and enthusiasm for poop, microbiology, and it's relationship to gut health is highly infectious (pun intended). One of the things that came up in our conversation is the effect that antibiotics have had on the disappearance of many ancestral organisms over the years.
The fact that my medical history has never included a stint of prescribed antibiotics made the prospect of looking at my gut microbiome super interesting, so I decided to take a look. Of course, I can't account for the fact that antibiotics may seep in through our current food and water supply, but nonetheless, I haven't had the direct prescriptive exposure that most of us have had.
Stress Level: Low to medium.
Medical History: Past shoulder and elbow tendonosis. History of occasional gastritis.
From my view, it looks like a pretty healthy distribution compared to the other comparative values. It looks like I have a LOT more Actinobacteria than every other population average. Breaking things down at the genus level, I also found higher than average amounts of skin and mouth flora.
After reading Martin Blaser's Missing Microbes I'm a little curious as to my H. Pylori status and seeing if that plays into my history of gastritis.
I love the new uBiome dashboard that allows tracking of the major spectrums of gut flora over time. I'll be doing this with my auto-ordered kits soon!
The breakdown is such that I suspect that you have a great gut in terms of very little known opportunistic pathogens. The production of butyrate, a major nutrient, from gut flora fermentation of fiber/food is likely very good because the abundance of known butyrate producers is high and good. Actually your gut appears to house a spectrum of butyrate-producers that I don't commonly see — Peptinophilus — which produces butyrate apparently from protein as its major energy source. You've got quite the carnivore in your gut and less of the known 'herbivores' which I find very curious. It is about 10 to 20 times higher than I've seen in other Paleo diehards.
Your gut appears to be dominated by Porphyromonas which enjoys complex plant fiber like its Bacteroidetes cousins. The other major gut member on this test appears to be part of skin flora (Corynebacteria 9%), but minimal presence of any potential skin opportunistis (Cronobacteria, Staphylococcus, etc).
Campylobacter (0.2012%) might be the only potential non-commensal resident worth highlighting. Often it is associated in gastroenteritis or digestive disorders such as the microbiota signature of GERD (reflux/heartburn) and others. At higher abundances Campylobacter is correlated to low gut diversity and higher inflammatory cytokines.
Your ubiome was really interesting — not the typical 'template' that I see but has the major anti-inflammatory protectors and one of the lowest levels of Proteobacteria and other groups of bacteria typically associated with modern industrial guts. Your minimal or zero exposures to healthcare antibiotics may be partly responsible I suspect. After antibiotics in both human and animal studies, distinct shifts to rises in potential pathogens and reductions in beneficial gut protectors are visibly noted.
Also what I am impressed with is the nice diversity of bifidobacteria reported (in the raw taxonomy) and truly amazing abundance of one of the most important 'gut guardians' Bifidobacteria longum (54% of total Bifidobacteria). uBiome reports species data such as B. longum as 'experimental' so this data is not diagnostic. In studies of healthy human adult and infant guts, B. longum is found to be dominant out of the spectrum of bifidobacteria discovered. It has robust anti-inflammatory properties and does the job to crowd out pathogens in the gut for both babies and adults.
Overall gut diversity looked fantastic. The number of genera was fairly moderate > 90 indicating to me good diversity. The number of orders was less than mine when we contrasted the results.
With your exceptional current health and athletic performance, I believe it gives me hope in knowing that if we perhaps minimize antibiotics, exercise, practice good sleep, reduce stress, and essentially everything you are committed to do for optimal human health, then good gut health may be the gift and reward.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to check out your gut signature, Jonathan!
Hopkins, Mark J et al. "Degradation of cross-linked and non-cross-linked arabinoxylans by the intestinal microbiota in children." Applied and environmental microbiology 69.11 (2003): 6354-6360.
Ezaki, Takayuki et al. "Proposal of the genera Anaerococcus gen. nov., Peptoniphilus gen. nov. and Gallicola gen. nov. for members of the genus Peptostreptococcus." International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 51.4 (2001): 1521-1528.
Turroni, Francesca et al. "Exploring the diversity of the bifidobacterial population in the human intestinal tract." Applied and environmental microbiology 75.6 (2009): 1534-1545.


NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Today Features Women - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Did you know that women fill 72 of the 102 operational roles at NASA that support the Curiosity rover while it roams the surface of Mars?
NASA's Curiosity rover has celebrated a successful year on Mars (687 Earth days) - and as part of the celebrations NASA held Women's Curiosity Day for the team running the rover.
"I see this as a chance to illustrate to girls and young women that there's not just a place for them in technical fields, but a wide range of jobs and disciplines that are part of the team needed for a project as exciting as a rover on Mars," said Colette Lohr, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.


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Overweight Riders Can't Participate In NYC's New Bike Share Program
New York's new bike share program, designed in part to improve the health of those who use it, will not be open to cyclists who weigh more than 260 pounds.
The limit is noted in the Citi Bike rental agreement, which must be signed before a customer can use a bicycle:
You must not exceed the maximum weight limit for the Citi Bike bicycle (260 pounds) or the cargo carrier (17 pounds).
The program, however, has no way to enforce the weight limit, and Department of Transportation Policy Director Jon Orcutt told the New York Post the City does not plan to try: "I think people will be self-selecting, practical and safe."
Orcutt also said the limit was included for legal reasons.
Citi Bike is scheduled to open this month, though a specific date has not been announced.
Registration opened in April, and within a day, 5,000 people had paid $103 for annual memberships, indicating public excitement for a program that is more than a year behind schedule.
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One of the city's most popular free tourist attraction.
Buroj Ozone dancing fountain will be the first musical fountain of its kind in all of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Located in the center of the city and strategically surrounded by luxurious restaurants; these fountain will offer you spectacular top-notch performances. The free shows will be choreographed to more than 35 different Multilanguage songs that will make you want to download them later on.
This fountain will include over 600 jets that rocket streams of water 30 meters (100 feet) into the air. The jets will be placed in sections shaped as letters from the name of the group "Buroj". Each letter will have its own set of jets and lightning systems, which makes it easier to manage and oversee operations of the shows. The dancing streams of water are illuminated from within and jut out in a timely matter to the pulse of whichever song is playing. The streams will be perfectly timed to match the crowds Crescendo of amazement sounds. They will shimmy, twirl and spin. There will be a staff working 24/7 to make sure nothing wrong happens, they will maintain, clean, and make any emergency repairs.
The Buroj Ozone Fountain Schedule will be:
Monday - Saturday: A show every half hour from 1 p.m. - 8 p.m. and every 15 minutes from 8 p.m. - midnight.
Sundays & holidays: show times begin at 10 a.m. and run every 15 minutes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Fun facts:
The region's largest dancing fountain Shaped based on the group's name "Buroj"
In sync with classical, Arabic and world music
Thousands of lumens projected light
Spray heights of up to 30 meters 10,000 gallons of airborne water
Set in center of the city, just beneath the Buroj Ozone Zipline
One of the finest, worldwide!
People that visit our luxurious restaurants will also be able to enjoy the magnificent shows. Buroj Ozone dancing fountain will provide you with a scenery so beautiful that it will make you want to watch every show till the end of the night.
The fountain is strategically placed within 15 to 20-minute walk from any part of the city, making all the other attractions very easy to reach. The fountain will also be a host for many events and festivals, it could be considered as the heart of the city, where everything leads to it. Because of the height and amount of lights that the fountain will be operating at, our customers will never get lost, the fountain will be used as a focus point to navigate through the city, its buildings and other attraction spots.
Over the fountain there will be a zipline crossing over from one tower to the other side of the fountain. It will be designed and timed in a manner so that when the people riding the zipline will be also sprayed as they are moving along the line over the fountain.
The environment filled with ozone will make the fountain experience even more spectacular. People will get the opportunity to rehabilitate their health system all while enjoying their time at a very competitive prices. People can enjoy everything we offer in the city without worrying about not seeing or missing the fountain shows, they will also have the opportunity to put in requests for the songs they like and making their experience even more delightful.
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Feminists in Western countries have been going off the edge a bit too often of late.
Trolls with Islamist streak attacked and abused Dr. Hina Shafi Bhat, a BJP woman leader from Kashmir, on Facebook.
Will Barkha Dutt call this guy who raked up personal life of Vasundhara Raje a troll?
An article by Aatish Taseer in NYT has elements that should earn him a label of troll by Barkha Dutt. Will she do that?


Xenophon., Boise, J. Robinson. (1870). The first three books of Xenophon's Anabasis: with explanatory notes, and references to Hadley's and Kuhner's Greek grammars, and to Goodwin's greek moods and tenses; a copious Greek-English vocabulary; and Kiepert's map of the route of the ten thousand. New York: D. Appleton and co..
Xenophon, and James Robinson Boise. The First Three Books of Xenophon's Anabasis: With Explanatory Notes, And References to Hadley's And Kuhner's Greek Grammars, And to Goodwin's Greek Moods And Tenses; a Copious Greek-English Vocabulary; And Kiepert's Map of the Route of the Ten Thousand. New York: D. Appleton and co., 1870.


Wednesday February 27, 2019 (PW) —- The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) Interim Chairperson, Amb. Lt. General Augostino Njoroge, on Tuesday reiterated that the full restoration of the rule of law is key to the future of South Sudan.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of the two-day stakeholder's meeting on security laws organized by the National Constitution Amendment Committee (NCAC) in Juba, Amb. Njoroge noted, "This forum is critical and has provided an excellent opportunity for the organized sectors of South Sudan society, including civil society, youth, women groups and government institutions to give feedback to NCAC on the proposed amendments".
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (PW) — With absolute respect of your capacity as a President of the country, I am writing to you this letter and I hope you will have a chance to read it or somebody to converse it to you. And as you plan to visit your home region Bahr el Ghazal, it is important to collect and solve all the pains that have been created by your various administrators who you have posted to govern the population.
The region is complaining here and there in your name and you are almost to be hated than being love as a son. Most of the complaints are about lack of development to the local population. There are no road connections in the larger parts of Bahr el Ghazal. But above all there are no life-serving services like health facilities and schools especially in the area of Lou Ariik County, my village.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (PW) — This is a patriot's open letter to the president, Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit, of the Republic of South Sudan. Dear Mr. President, seeking appointment by our community or going through protocols will not deliver my urgent letter to you. I as a son of this nation on behalf of our community (Mabior-Yar community of Tonj State) with all honor beg you Mister President to go through my letter.
Your Excellency the president, please accept my sincere thanks for your great leadership derived from your great ideology and the durable purpose sandwiched with a patriotic vision and relentless courage. This good courage gave birth to the sustained resistance against acts of oppression, repression and forms of injustice in the then Southern Sudan during the liberation struggle.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (PW) — Love and lust are the dominant desires that rule the blood stream of man. They both connect you to the one you love and sometimes stained you and your relationship. But this is not the argument many lovers put forth. They always confess that, without love; there will be no life. Citing the creation of Adam by arguing that; it was because of love that Adam was created from dust and life was breathed unto his lung to acquire living and to see the beauty of the world.
Eve was also plug out from in between Adam's ribs because almighty love Adam to own a wife though there are no women in Heaven. Don't raise your eye brows yet, I have an argument for that claim. However; the lust goons argue their character and lase it with other sweet texture. They says, without lust; there will be no world. According to them; it was out of lust that God create the whole universe.
Tuesday, February 26, 2017 (PW) —Another powerful intellect has gone!
The world has become so mean to the extent of swallowing human alive?
26th February 2019 will remain one of the days where my heart was choked by thorns of disbelief and acceptance.
I came to know Albino Deng Juach through his commentary writings in the Citizen Newspaper/This Day Newspaper, The Star-Tribune Newspaper and the Dawn Newspaper where we both contributed as column writers.
Saturday, February 23, 2019 (PW) — Fellow South Sudanese, as the SPLM aristocracy continues to make political maneuvers to help them stay in power, it is important that our people remain vigilant in order to avoid a complete loss of their hard-won struggle for self-determination. It would be marvelous if the wounds inflicted on our people could be healed magically by the SPLM reunification. The problem with the reunification however, is that the SPLM reunification comes partly as a result of a misdiagnosis of the problem and partly as a tactic by the SPLM(IG) to isolate the SPLM/SPLA(IO).
1. The genesis of the SPLM leadership failure can be traced back to the unfortunate manner in which the first Chairperson of the SPLM, Dr. John Garang de Mabior, met his end.
Friday, February 22, 2019 (PW) — I am deeply appalled by the continuous use of death penalty as the best form of punishment in our fractured society. In a span of one week, South Sudan has carried out six executions on inmates, some of who have not exhaust all their legal options, including the right to appeal for clemency to His Excellency the President of the Republic. REST IN PEACE!
Thursday, February 21, 2019 (PW) — I wish, if I were close to president Kiir to tell him that another hole is created behind him to fall in. Did I hear it very well over the SSBC Radio news that one day's pay will be cut from the salaries of all civil servants to support implementation of the peace deal? My God! Is this a decision to deduct one day from civil servants is real or the government has find a way to blanketed the six months unpaid with this decision?
In simplest calculations, one day pay for someone getting one thousand five hundred South Sudanese pounds is fifty pounds. Then, five millions South Sudanese pounds will be raised by one hundred thousand civil servants, equivalent to eighteen thousand eight hundred sixty-seven dollars at the rate of two hundred sixty-five South Sudanese pounds per dollar.
Who is the cleanest person in the Ministry of Finance or in the committee to keep this money? Does this decision involved army? Is this a scenario of robbing Peter in order to pay Paul? The statement is somewhat ambiguous to be understood.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (PW) — I miss you Malakal. It had been a long while without seeing your view. As politics of S. Sudan so much affected your affairs. We got so much uprooted and our direction got lost as we dashed to UNMISS as we hid for surviving.
We badly left behind our beautiful places in town including Dingri-shufu, al-Bam, al-Thorat, Hai Matar, Malakia, Luakat & Hai Salaam.
We badly missed the unnumbered hospitalities & and the generosities of the communities and the joy of cultures of Upper Nile.


This is GREAT! The grill side is perfect for either grilling, or a griddle. The one eye is a little underpowered at 5,000 BTU, but that only means it takes a few more minutes to boil water, or perk my coffee.
The oven works wonderfully, and the smell of cinnamon buns this last weekend was unbelievable! As was the peach cobbler! A whole new world of camp cooking just opened up to me. I love it. My wife has always said, "why did you bring that (grill, stove), just cook over the fire!" But when she saw the camp oven, she immediately said, "that's a keeper".
The OTHER thing I did this weekend, was to solve one of my big complaints in camping.....The grill/stove is never level!!!!!!! And when cooking bacon/eggs, everything always runs to one side of the pan/griddle!!!! Frustrating...because the campsites are not level! I was tired of trying to level with little pieces of wood, rocks, etc.
So, I started with a scrap piece of 3/4' plywood, and painted it to withstand some elements.
Then I placed 3/8" T-nuts into holes drilled in the corners, and placed 3/8" carriage bolts through from the bottom. On the top side I used T-handles screwed on, then held in place by a 3/8" nut (so I can raise and lower the bolt's using the T-handle).
I then placed some small restraints to keep the table from slipping, and then placed a double/bubble level in the center.
So, you raise or lower the corner posts, using the T-handle until your platform is level, place your table (mine is an Aluminum camp table from WalMart), and mount your grill. If your stove/grill is a little lopsided, place a level on IT...and readjust the legs until the top is level. It works great!
Here's a picture of the table mounted on the leveler board. I started (these pictures) with 4 1/2" carriage bolts, but the ground isn't usually THAT unlevel. So, I have changed them to 3" and I'm sure it will work better.
really interesting....I have seen those camp even units and I like the griddle. Funny though since we got the Escape--I do all my cooking indoors...Use the toaster oven when we have services and I have the coleman one to use over a campstove....is this powered by thsoe 1 lb units or a bigger tank We have a 5 or 8 pound tank..
It will work off of either. The smaller bottle attaches directly to the rear of the stove, or an extension hose (came with it) attaches it to the larger tanks.
Here's the link, where there are a couple of neat videos. The stove is on sale for $199 Should last for years.
I have looked at the Camp Chef oven here at Bass Pro. It is about $200 there too. It looks like a great unit, my only concern was the size and weight of it, and where I would store it. The nice thing about this is it takes the baking outdoors instead of in the trailer.
We had an oven in our last trailer, and in 500 nights of sleeping in it only used it maybe 6 times. In hindsight we should have used it more. What I do take is my Outback Oven which is a lightweight backpacker oven that works great. I think I only used it three times in the last two years of owning my Escape, once for making a risen dough pizza, and twice to make cakes. While canoeing I have made tons of stuff in it, including many a scratch cake, focaccia bread, pizza, cinnamon buns and the like.
Nice leveling pad you built. I know too well how hard it is to find a level spot. Pancakes too are a real pain when off level. You have me thinking now, what about building some simple removable leveling feet for the table?
I have never had an oven, but I'm sure gonna use it now! It was so much fun smelling those cinnamon buns cooking : - ) And hot fruit cobblers!!! Nice thing here, is that you can use it on or off grid, as opposed to a toaster oven design. I've seen those campfire ovens you have, and they are really cool. Collapsible if I remember.
We got a padded bag for the oven, so it's the last thing into the camper, and first thing out. Really not that heavy.
I had thought and thought about how to level my stoves, usually ending up sliding whatever under the feet, and feeling uncomfortable with the stability. My last stove had legs that slid out a little, but that was difficult to get level...lots of trial and error, and more than an inch out on any leg made it unstable. I was constantly thinking how I could use "leveling feet" on the table.
I was musing about it to my wife, and she said "why don't you just put a piece of plywood under it?", as if just a piece of plywood would level out the ground. But then it hit me, instead of leveling out the stove, yes, level out the ground!!!!!!! This solution allows you to hover over the "leveler", eye on the bubble levels, and simple turn the handles to level. Could have used a tripod design too. If I find lots of soft dirt/sand to where the heads of the bolts sink in too much, I can easily add small wood "pads" to the feet. So far, so good!
Happy Thanksgiving to you to Dan. Isn't life just full of stuff to be thankful for?
You are referring to a reflector oven, and I have seen them in use and they work great. Mine is a little more portable and uses a stove for heat.
I do see how that plywood base would stabalize the table good, better than just leg extensions. What about using a lightweight aluminum frame, maybe one that could fold down. for storage?
Here are a couple pics of pizza being made on my Outback Oven. I may have shared them before, I forget.


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Здание было построено в XIX веке Смолиными на пересечении улиц Московской и Пролетарской.

К 1875 году на нижнем этаже дома Смолиных помещается трактирное заведение отставного унтер офицера Никифора Кондратьева. В 1888 году Надежда Алексеевна Глухарева просит разрешение на исправление купленного с аукциона каменного двухэтажного дома принадлежавшего прежде наследникам Смолиным. В том же году супруг Надежды Алексеевны купец 2 гильдии Никита Глухарев просит разрешения на открытие в следующем году в доме гостиницы, но акцизный надзиратель подаёт протест, ссылаясь на то, что дом находится на расстоянии 36 сажень от храма, что меньше предусмотренных 40 саженей. Глухарев парирует, что данный закон принят по отношению к трактирам, а он обязуется не торговать вином в гостинице. Городская дума поддерживает купца: «в г. Звенигороде не существует приличных помещений для лиц приезжающих, тем более, что вход в предполагаемую гостиницу имеется не с лицевой стороны дома, а с боку онаго, выходящий на Дворянскую улицу». С этими условиями в апреле 1889 года Глухарев получил разрешение на устройство в доме гостиницы.

В 1910 году у дома та же владелица. После революции, по свидетельству Н. А. Краснова, в доме в 1917 году был «Народный дом», где наряду с манежем проходили важные собрания в Звенигороде. Там же помещалась (на 2 этаже) городская и районная библиотека (примерно до 1930 года). В первом этаже дома помещались кружки танцевальный, драматический и другие. Позже, в 1950-1960, здесь был ресторан.

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Q: Get yesterday's date from the date entered I have console application that accepts date as parameter. However, the date is passed as a string in this format:
string dt = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd");

Once the date is entered I need to programmatically get day - 1 from the entered date. Since this is a string, I cannot do any calculation.
For example, user enters:

20141023

I need to subtract a day from the date to get:

20141022

I did a quick fix to solve my immediate need, however, this is not the right way to do it and it has a bug:
int yt = Int32.Parse(dt) - 1;

And then I turn around and convert it yt.ToString()
The above solution will not work if it's the 1st of the month.
Is there a way I can programmatically get yesterday's date in the format (yyyyMMdd) without changing the format and possibly not using the TimeSpan?

A: Why don't parse the input into a DateTime object? Then you can use the DateTime.AddDays(-1)
For example:
var inputDate = DateTime.ParseExact("20141022", "yyyyMMdd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); // change "20141022" into the inputted value
var yesterday = inputDate.AddDays(-1);

var yesterdayString = yesterday.ToString("yyyyMMdd"); // this will be yesterdays date, in the string format

A: Would this work for you ?
string newDateTimeStr = (DateTime.Today.AddDays(-1)).ToString("yyyyMMdd");

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for the date entered by the user:
string txtInputDate = Console.ReadLine();
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(txtInputDate).ToLocalTime();
string newDateTimeStr = (dateTime.AddDays(-1)).ToString("yyyyMMdd");

A: Try this...
  DateTime data = DateTime.ParseExact("20141023", "yyyyMMdd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
  Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1}", data, data.AddDays(-1).ToString("yyyyMMdd"));

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It is now widely recognised that people with disabilities suffer significant discrimination regarding employment opportunities. Yet, it remains a surprise to many people that approximately 13 percent of the population of Ireland are "registered disabled" and that just 30 percent of people of working age with disabilities participate in the workforce.
A 2005 report by the National Disability Authority (2005) noted that people with disabilities have lower hourly earnings than their non-disabled peers. The report also identified a wide range of other inequalities experienced by people with disabilities, including that just over half (50.8 percent) have no formal second-level educational qualifications and that they are over-represented in part-time employment.
A low level of educational attainment is just one factor that influences the capacity of a disabled person to secure employment. Other factors affecting an individual's ability or willingness to supply their labour are likely to include the severity of the disability, access to and within a potential workplace, beliefs about the likelihood of facing discrimination and the trade-off between employment income and benefit receipts.
It is an unfortunate fact that there are currently no tailored entrepreneurship support programs for people with disability in Ireland.
But it is not just the potential employee that might be reluctant to work for a company, as employers equally may not be open to employing a person with a disability. A 2006 report by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions found that owner-managers of SMEs identified a wide variety of reasons for not employing a person with a disability. These reasons include financial incentives which do not necessarily meet the needs of either employer or employee; employment quotas and anti-discrimination legislation with little practical effect on SME employer behaviour; health and safety and insurance regulations perceived as a barrier and recruitment and HR practices which rarely recognise the value of equal opportunity. However, the personal experiences of employers who may have a family member or friend with a disability can have a positive influence towards their willingness to offer a person with a disability a position within their firm.
To address existing employment imbalances, the Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities (2015-2024) has identified multiple approaches which need to be taken if the Irish workforce is to become truly inclusive of people with disabilities. Within this strategy, entrepreneurship is one of the activities identified that requires targeted action, an ambition that follows closely on recent successful targeted supports that have been offered to women, immigrants, youth, seniors, unemployed and other under-represented groups in terms of entrepreneurial activity. However, it is an unfortunate fact that there are currently no tailored entrepreneurship support programs for people with disability in Ireland.
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Torqeedo powers Thailand's first electric passenger ferry fleet
(BANGKOK) — Thailand's first emission-free commuter fleet was placed into service on Nov. 26 by the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA). Seven new vessels joined the first test boat, which has been successfully transporting Bangkok residents since 2018. The commissioning ceremony included a traditional blessing and sacrifice to Mae Ya Nang, an ancient Thai deity and guardian goddess of boats.
The 47-foot fiberglass vessels were repowered by MariArt Shipyard, replacing 205hp diesel engines with twin Torqeedo Cruise 10-kW electric outboards, 12 Power 24-3500 lithium batteries and four fast chargers. The 30-passenger, zero-emission water taxis are part of a fleet of ferries operated by BMA's Enterprise Krungthep Thanakom Company (KT BMA). They operate on a 3-mile route daily, providing a critical transport link between the express ferry on the Chao Praya river, the Saen Saep canal boats and the MRT subway station at Hua Lampjong.
"This is an important achievement for the city of Bangkok and a key part of our Thailand 4.0 Smart City vision for an integrated clean, green public transportation system including bus, rail and waterways," said Dr. Ekarin Vasanasong, deputy managing director of KT BMA, on the occasion of the first ferry's launch. The high-tech vessels depart every 15 minutes, are fully accessible for wheelchair users and offer bicycle storage.
Improving transportation and air quality are enormous challenges for the BMA. Bangkok was recently named the world's most congested city by navigation company TomTom. Millions of automobiles, tuk-tuks and motorbike taxis crowd the streets, and the average Bangkok resident spends more than 64 hours a year in traffic jams. The transport sector contributes a quarter of Bangkok's carbon emissions – higher than the global average – and the city's schools were temporarily closed last year due to extremely poor air quality.
"Adding electric ferries to the intermodal public transport plan accomplishes the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority's goals in two ways: moving passengers from roads to the waterways reduces congestion and, since the boats are 100 percent emission-free, they don't contribute to harmful local air pollution," said Dr. Michael Rummel, Torqeedo's managing director. "Electric passenger vessels are also quiet, vibration-free, and an enjoyable way to travel through this beautiful city."
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A report on www.couriermail.com.au on Tuesday 22 April 2014 regarding Redland City Council's management of a burst water pipe at Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island requires clarification and correction.
Council was notified of a burst pipe at 10.30pm on 21 April 2014.
The person who notified Council of the burst pipe reached a Council on-call officer, not a contractor as reported. The officer immediately set about liaising with appropriate parties – including Council management, SEQWater and the water taxi company – and also sourced resources to attend to the issue.
A Council crew was transported to North Stradbroke Island via an emergency called-out ferry which picked up the crew from the mainland at the earliest opportunity – about 1am. The water mains were shut down at about 2.30am.
Trained personnel are required when shutting down water supply and this issue in particular required specific technical knowledge and equipment as further problems could have been caused by incorrectly isolating valves.
The dedicated Council crew worked through the night to repair the pipe, which was 15cm in diameter, not 2.5 metres as originally reported by www.couriermail.com.au. The Courier-Mail has since fixed this error.
It was also originally incorrectly reported that Redland Water declined to comment. Council's communication team was contacted just three minutes before the online report was published at 9.37am this morning (22 April)and left messages for the journalist for several hours afterwards.
As stated in the amended published version (1.35pm), water supply was restored to all areas by 8am. This coincided with peak water usage times, so water pressure may have been less than usual as reservoirs were concurrently being refilled.


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Adin Ballou Underwood (May 19, 1828 – January 24, 1888) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Underwood was born in Milford, Massachusetts, on May 19, 1828. He studied law at Brown University, attended Harvard Law School and spent a year in Prussia. When the civil war began he practiced law in Boston. He was commissioned as Captain in the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. In 1862 he joined the new 33rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as a Major and served in that unit; eventually becoming its Colonel in April 1863.

After the Gettysburg Campaign the XI Corps, of which the regiment was part of, transferred to the west.

On October 29, at the Battle of Wauhatchie, Underwood was shot in the thigh and crippled for life. He still was promoted to Brigadier General in November. The wound healed slowly and when he returned to duty in 1865 he was medically unfit for field service, instead doing court-martial duty. In August 1865 he was brevetted to Major General and mustered out of the U.S. Volunteers. Returning to Boston; he served as surveyor of the port and practiced law again. Underwood died there on January 24, 1888.

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See also
List of American Civil War generals (Union)

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1888 deaths
19th-century American lawyers
Brown University alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
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The blinding of Gustavo Gatica and the return to unrestrained police state violence in Chile
Mauricio Saavedra
Eight months after university student Gustavo Gatica was blinded by riot police, not one officer has been arrested. In the case of factory worker Fabiola Campillai, who was nearly killed by the impact to the head of a teargas canister, the Carabineros have not made public which officers were involved. These two cases are representative of thousands of human rights abuses committed in Chile since the eruption of massive demonstrations against social inequality last year. They reveal a level of impunity not seen since the 17-year military dictatorship, when thousands were arrested, tortured, killed and disappeared.
On July 6, the Investigations Police (PDI) made a perfunctory promise to the Human Rights Commission of the lower house of Congress that investigations into the two cases would be concluded in the "following days." The PDI has been promising this undertaking since prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus in March, but continues to drag its feet as human rights groups and investigative journalists publish further damning evidence. The PDI works in coordination with the civilian Public Prosecutor's Office, a toothless body when it comes to prosecuting Carabineros.
"The police have an obligation to communicate the results in order to lower the perception of impunity," PDI director general Héctor Espinosa told the parliamentary deputies. "We are committed to the truth … I have absolute confidence that my institution will rise to the occasion in these two cases, because the country needs to know what happened."
Espinosa seemingly convinced the parliamentary human rights commission and its president Emilia Nuyado (Socialist Party), who openly praised the institution.
No class-conscious worker, youth or student—those who have borne the brunt of escalating human rights abuses—has any expectation that the thoroughly corrupt and brutal state repressive apparatus, which acts in the service of corporate and financial ruling elites, will be brought to justice. The Carabineros are an autonomous military unit barely answerable to civilian bodies and have from the outset lied, obfuscated and withheld information in these cases, as in so many others before and after them.
At about 4 p.m. on November 8 of last year, Gustavo Gatica, a 21-year-old psychology student, was shot in the face by riot police while on Carabineros de Chile street. From a distance of no more than 30 metres, the special forces were indiscriminately firing rubber-coated lead pellets into hundreds of youth standing behind makeshift barricades.
Each cartridge releases 12 pellets. In the space of four hours, three high-ranking riot police used 420 cartridges, releasing a total of 5,040 pellets against the youth. This came to light only at the end of June because of leaked evidence, published by Amnesty International and other human rights and investigative organisations, revealing the identities of the three agents: Col. Santiago Saldivia, Lt. Col. Claudio Crespo and Lt. Col. Andrés Graves.
The Deputy Director General of the Carabineros, Inspector General Diego Olate, also addressed the deputies at last week's parliamentary session exclusively to whitewash the crimes of his agents. Crespo, he said, "has an impeccable record, with commendations." Olate added that he wanted to put on the record "that the disciplinary measures (against Crespo) are related to the breach of protocol" and not the injuries sustained by Gatica.
Olate was referring to the fact the institution had recently been impelled to remove Crespo because it had become public knowledge that the cop had attempted to hide his presence at the events of November 8—he downloaded his body camera onto his computer before submitting it to internal auditors. As a matter of fact, the auditors initially did not even take his deposition, even though he was a commanding officer and had personally fired 170 cartridges. More information has since come forward about this sadistic cop, who has a long history of violence and "systematic torture of minors," according to one medic.
On the day of Gustavo Gatica's blinding, the Medical Association and the Society of Ophthalmology released a chilling report stating that 176 people had suffered severe injuries to their eyes in the previous two weeks of protests. Sixty percent had severe decrease in vision, and 30 percent had been blinded in one eye. This is equal to more than two-thirds of all eye injuries caused by "non-lethal" weapons in demonstrations or areas of conflict from 1990 to 2017.
The eruption of massive demonstrations on October 18, triggered by a public transport fare hike, was immediately met with unprecedented police state violence. The ultra-right administration of billionaire President Sebastian Piñera set in motion a series of draconian laws to outlaw protests and decreed for the first time in the 30 years of civilian rule a State of Constitutional Emergency. This allowed the military, Carabineros special forces and black berets to unleash a reign of terror.
"We are at war," Piñera broadcast on live television. "We are at war with a powerful, ruthless enemy, who respects nothing and no one, who is willing to use violence and crime without any limits." Piñera's war was, and continues to be, against the working class, students and youth who have been at the receiving end of 50 years of social and political counterrevolutionary measures that have helped enrich the scions of Augusto Pinochet's fascist civic-military dictatorship and created one of the most socially unequal countries in the world. Chile, the "paragon" of free market nostrums of the World Bank and the IMF imposed at the barrel of a gun, today boasts shantytowns amid condominiums, 25 percent unemployment amid 4,000 multi-millionaires and, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, collapsed public hospitals for the poor amid concierge clinics for the rich.
By November 26 of last year, the Chilean Institute of Human Rights reported that at least five people had died at the hands of the security forces and more than 2,300 had been injured, of whom more than 1,400 were wounded by firearms and 220 suffered severe eye trauma.
The Prosecutor's Office recorded more than 1,100 complaints of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, as well as more than 70 crimes of a sexual nature committed by Carabineros. In the case of Josué Maureira, it reported that he had been raped with a cane while in police custody.
Meanwhile Amnesty International documented the practice of Carabineros and soldiers running over or attempting to run over protesters walking in the street on at least nine occasions in the cities of Colina, Quilpué, Santiago, Viña del Mar and Valparaíso.
"The use of tear gas in an inadequate manner and in alarming quantities… as well as in hospitals, universities, homes and even schools, seriously affecting children, adolescents and other populations that require special care," reported the human rights organisation. "Its firing into the body of people at close range and through grenade launchers … has generated severe injuries, including to the eyes."
This is how Fabiola Campillai, 36 and the mother of three, was nearly killed by Special Forces in the working-class commune of Cinco Pinos in Greater Santiago on the evening of November 26. At 9 p.m., Fabiola and her sister Ana Maria were heading to work at Carozzi S.A., a Chilean-based food processing company. As they turned onto Portales Avenue East, riot police fired a tear gas canister into Fabiola's face from less than five metres.
Ana Maria screamed at the cops standing two metres away to help her sister to the hospital "She's dying, she's bleeding to death.' I told them. They just shooed me away. They smiled and threw a tear gas canister at my feet."
Fabiola has undergone multiple high-risk procedures to prevent cerebrospinal fluid seepage and has been left with scar running from one ear to the other. She lost, in addition to her sight, her senses of taste and smell.
Last week La Tercera released video footage from Capt. Jaime Fernández' GoPro body camera where officers are heard saying, "He hit her, right?", "Matu seems to have hit her, hit her with a …" as a third shot was fired by Capt. Patricio Maturana Ojedabut.
Yet to date, no one has been charged. Public prosecutors have requested more time to investigate the case.
There is no tally of the total victims of the police state repression—the state's own figures are a deliberate underestimation. Last March, the National Human Rights Institute issued a balance sheet indicating that 3,838 men, women and children were hospitalised due to severe injuries caused by bullet wounds, tear gas canisters and beatings. Of these, 460 suffered eye wounds. The NHRI recorded, during visits to police stations, the detention of 11,389 men, women, adolescents and children. Among those detained, 2,146 reported some kind of human rights violation: sexual violence (257); torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment (617); and excessive use of force (1,272).
The NHRI acknowledged that the figures do "not represent the universe of people injured since the social crisis, but is only a sample of cases observed or confirmed."
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Tom Hanks hosts 'Saturday Night Live At Home', says that he and wife Rita Wilson are 'doing fine' after coronavirus diagnosis
Hanks hosted the special edition of SNL from his home
By Pat Ralph
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Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks hosted a special edition of SNL this weekend called "Saturday Night Live At Home", and he said that both he and his wife Rita Wilson are feeling well after being diagnosed with coronavirus in March.
The 63-year-old Hanks has been a frequent guest on SNL over the years and has hosted the show a number of times. He admitted that it was a bit odd to be hosting the program from home rather than from New York City.
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"It's good to be here, but it's also very weird to be here hosting Saturday Night Live from home," Hanks said. "It is a strange time to try and be funny, but trying to be funny is SNL's whole thing."
Hanks didn't appear in any of the sketches on Saturday night, which were all filmed remotely in the homes of the SNL cast members who are quarantining as well during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amid his recovery from coronavirus, Hanks was able to make light of the situation during his opening monologue on Saturday night.
"For one, I've been the celebrity canary in the coal mine for the coronavirus," Hanks said. "And ever since being diagnosed, I have been more like America's dad than ever before since no one wants to be around me very long and I make people uncomfortable."
"Now the folks in Australia are fantastic in every way, but they use Celsius instead of Fahrenheit when they take your temperature," Hanks continued. "So when they come in and they say 'You're 36' which seemed very bad to me, but it turns out 36 is fine. 38 is bad. So it's basically how Hollywood treats female actors."
Hanks and Wilson were diagnosed with the virus last month while in Australia. After suffering from mild cold-like symptoms, they decided to get tested for the coronavirus and both tests came back positive.
"But now my wife and I are doing fine," Hanks said. "We're doing great. We're hunkered down like all of us should be. In fact, this suit is the first time I've worn anything other than sweatpants since March 11. My wife had to help me put it on because I forgot how buttons work. But it turns out there's these little disks, and they slide into these slots. Amazing."
Hanks ended his monologue with a positive and encouraging message for viewers watching at home.
"Stay safe," Hanks said. "We are in this for the duration, and we will get through this together. We are going to thank our hospital workers, our first responders, the supermarket stockers, the people who deliver our food, the people who are making takeout for us, the men and women who are keeping this country going at a time when we need them more than ever before. We're going to take care of them, and we're going to take care of each other."
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Getting a TRO against someone. Getting a TRO filed against you. Both situations are highly stressful. You'll find information and links on our site that may help you figure out your options. Doi/Luke, Islandlawyers is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and we have handled countless temporary restraining order cases over the last 20 years.
If you have questions not covered here, see our Legal Information page, or give us a call at (808) 593-2199 and schedule a consult – we'll be happy to speak with you.
Dealing with Temporary Restraining Orders, or TROs in Hawaii can be complicated. There are different types of temporary restraining orders in Hawaii — for individuals, the primary types are those given at Family Court and those given at District Court. In both types, they are issued to prevent harassment and/or abuse between two or more persons.
Persons in these relationships can apply for a restraining order due to physical abuse, emotional abuse, and/or malicious property damage committed against them by the other party.
DISTRICT COURT — these types of restraining orders are issued for parties who do not fall into the Family Court relationship categories. A typical example of persons who would come under the District Court restraining orders are neighbors, co-workers, or schoolmates.
Discussed below are the details of FAMILY COURT RESTRAINING ORDERS only.
HOW DO I GET A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER?Getting a temporary restraining order requires a petition to be filed at the Family Court. There is both a State office (Adult Services Branch: 538-5959) as well as a private non-profit office (Ala Kuola: 545-1880) set up to assist individuals in filing a petition for a restraining order.If the facts claimed in a TRO petition convince a judge that protection is needed, a temporary restraining order shall be granted that same day for a brief period (90 days), awaiting a full hearing. Once the temporary order is granted, the opposing party must be served by the police. A hearing is typically set one to two weeks after the initial filing — at that hearing, both sides will have the opportunity to argue why the TRO should or should not be extended for a longer period of time.
WHAT HAPPENS IF I AM SERVED WITH A RESTRAINING ORDER?
If you are served with a restraining order, it is very important that you read it carefully, to make sure that you do not violate the order. The restraining order itself is a civil matter, not a criminal one. However, the violation of a TRO will be a criminal matter, and may result in your arrest, so it should be taken very seriously. Virtually any type of contact with the petitioner (the person who obtained the restraining order against you) will constitute a violation — in person contact, phone calls, texts, e-mails, U.S. Mail, or even having another person contact the petitioner for you. As noted in the section above, you will have an opportunity at a court hearing to tell your side and/or argue your case.
On the day of the Court hearing, there are a number of other restraining order cases, often ten to fifteen, scheduled for the same time as your hearing. This is typical. Unfortunately, this often means that there is little hearing time available for each case, usually no more than twenty to thirty minutes at most. At Family Court, petitioners are seated in a separate area from respondents or defendants (the people who had the TRO filed against them).
During the hearing, both sides are allowed to put on evidence as to why or why not the TRO should be extended. Evidence includes testimony of both sides, as well as of witnesses either side might call. At the close of the hearing, the judge will issue a decision, granting or denying the extension. If the TRO is extended, it becomes an Order for Protection.The Order for Protection may contain a number of modifications and adjustments to allow for practicalities (compared to the initial TRO, which usually has very standard and strict provisions). As an example, an Order for Protection may allow for limited contact via phone or e-mail, or through 3rd party friends/family, to allow the parties to discuss their children's issues. The Order may also provide for visitation of the children with one of the parties.
Discussed below are the details of DISTRICT COURT RESTRAINING ORDERS only.
HOW DO I GET A DISTRICT COURT RESTRAINING ORDER?
Getting a temporary restraining order requires a petition to be filed at the District Court, which has locations in around Oahu, but are all held for hearing at the Honolulu District Court on Alakea Street in downtown Oahu. As mentioned above District Court TROs typically involve neighbors, friends, co-workers, or classmates, but NOT between spouses, family members, or people in "dating" relationships. As with Family Court TROs, if the initial petition to the Court is granted, the TRO is put in place until a hearing can be held. Hearings are typically held within two weeks of the initial TRO filing. At the hearing, the Court can decide whether or not the TRO should be extended, dissolved, or left in place to expire after 90 days.
WHAT CAN DOI / LUKE DO FOR ME?
Parties can appear at the hearings represented or not represented by attorneys. In cases where the person seeking the restraining order is especially fearful of the other person, an attorney can be of great value in putting together a convincing and effective argument for the Court. Our experienced family attorneys can provide experienced and determined representation for you in your TRO matter, both for petitioners and for defendants. Gavin previously worked with the AmeriCorps Domestic Violence program, and has argued many hundreds of restraining orders.
If you would like to talk to an experienced Hawaii divorce lawyer about your questions, or wish to set up a consult, please e-mail or call us at 593-2199. We'll be happy to discuss your issues.
Summary of TROs in Hawaii - Temporary Restraining Orders, both in Family Court and District Court.


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By JOE KAY
Associated Press |
CINCINNATI — The Reds formally retired Pete Rose's No. 14 on Sunday, capping a big weekend for baseball's hits king that was a success for the franchise in every way except on the field.
Big crowds filled Great American Ball Park for the three days of celebration, which had to be approved by Major League Baseball because of Rose's lifetime ban for betting on his team. The last-place Reds have played in front of small crowds for much of the season.
They stretched the celebration into an entire weekend, honoring their 1976 World Series championship team on Friday night and adding him to their Hall of Fame on Saturday. They saved the number retirement for the final day of a series against the San Diego Padres.
"It solidifies what I've been saying for many, many, many years and will continue to say it: Cincinnati is the baseball capital of the world," Rose told the crowd, speaking from a stage by second base.
On Sunday, the Reds added Rose's No. 14 to their display of retired numbers behind home plate. Rose's number is the 10th retired by baseball's first professional team, along with Jackie Robinson's No. 42, which is honored by Major League Baseball.
The only glaring absence was Hall of Fame second baseman Joe Morgan, who couldn't attend because of health problems. Morgan hasn't appeared on the field at Great American Ball Park since the All-Star Game last July, when he needed a cane to walk because of knee surgery. Complications prevented him from traveling to Cincinnati this weekend.
Although Morgan has kept his condition private, Rose said on a Fox broadcast that Morgan is awaiting a bone marrow transplant. He told reporters that he talks to Morgan often, most recently on Saturday morning before his induction into the team's Hall of Fame. Morgan's No. 8 is among those retired.
"He's doing OK," Rose said. "He's doing good. He sounded real strong. I hate to talk to him now because when he starts talking for a couple minutes, he starts crying [and saying], 'I want to be there.' "
Rose was the 20th Reds player to wear No. 14, getting it as a rookie in 1963. Curt Flood wore it in 1957, and Don Zimmer had it before Rose in 1962.
The team had unofficially retired his number when he was banned from baseball in 1989. Lou Piniella, who succeeded him as manager, wore No. 14 with the Yankees but took 41 in Cincinnati.
The only other Reds player to get No. 14 was Rose's son, Pete Jr., who was called up in 1997 to spark fan interest at the end of an 86-loss season. The father-son team is practically a set of bookmarks on the all-time hits list — Rose at the top with 4,256 and Pete Jr. with two hits in 11 games.
Pete Jr. was among those on the stage with his father for the number retirement and later threw a ceremonial pitch to his father, lobbing it from in front of the mound while the near-capacity crowd cheered.
The Reds appreciated the weekend bump in attendance. They launched into a full-scale rebuilding after the All-Star game last year, trading most of their stars, including home run derby winner Todd Frazier. They sold out all three games over the weekend — one more capacity crowd than they'd had all season. They're averaging 24,057 fans, down by 5,813 per game from a year ago.
Rose urged fans on Sunday to keep supporting the team, which lost 98 games last season and is again last in the NL Central. The Reds lost the first three games of the series to the Padres, another struggling last-place team, before pulling out a 3-0 win on Sunday.
"Keep supporting the Cincinnati Reds," Rose said. "They need your help. They need your help on a daily basis.
"And who knows? It won't be long before (owner Bob Castellini) is here again recognizing a guy who's in the dugout for tonight's game."
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A Person Who Sets Big Goals Continues to Thrive (Part 2)
World Teacher's Message No.295
January 25, 2022 | World Teacher's Message No.295
The Question:
I know that one needs to be humble. However, for those who think they are superior to others, it is hard for them to be humble for they feel that it will somehow lower their status. They also don't want to listen to other people's opinions because they think people say things out of jealousy and an inferiority complex. Please advise me how these people can be humble.
Excerpt from the lecture, "In-between a genius and an ordinary person" Q & A given at General Headquarter of Happy Science on January 25, 2018
In the preceding issue, I said that if someone can produce a certain quantity of written or musical pieces, that quantity will turn into quality. In his book, "A Method of Intellectual Living", Professor Shoichi Watanabe wrote that it is usually quite impossible to write books up to a certain quantity. The same applies to paintings, calligraphies, novels, scripts, movies, cartoons and so on. However, if he or she continues writing, quantity will, at a certain point, turn into quality. The reason why he or she can keep producing is that they have a stored source within them. This internal storehouse pushes their ideas and pieces of work through a blast furnace to be produced systematically. Those are the people who are called "great authors" or "masters" of something. You need to have keen eyes for this point.
Whether You Are Smart or Not Will Not Be Determined in a Short Period of Time
Many Japanese people take "Eiken", the English proficiency test, which grades their writing and speaking ability from a scale of 1 to 5 (grade 1 being the highest level). Some people feel jealous of others who pass the grade 1 Eiken a year earlier than them. However, this doesn't determine who is smarter. It doesn't matter whether you pass the grade 1 Eiken when you are 18, 22, 25 or 30. What matters the most is how you can utilize that English skill for your work effectively.
There is a person who didn't attend college after high school and instead went to a 2-year private school specializing in travel and took a class specially designed to pass the Eiken test. That person passed the grade 1 Eiken at just 20 years old. Even students at Tokyo University rarely pass this test. Many employees at famous trading companies fail as well. Consequently, it's not so easy to determine whether you are smart or not. Many factors need to be taken into consideration other than the time you have invested, degree of concentration and talent.
Please think about small, medium and large competitions. It is foolish to say who won and who lost for small competitions.
A famous author, Ms. Ayako Sone, once wrote about the benchmark for bad religious organizations and wrote it in a way where most apply to me. However, when truly bad religious organizations started to cause problems in Japan, she criticized herself for being too quick to judge, subjective and misunderstanding. It sounded like she was apologizing to me. With the emergence of truly bad religions, she might have thought that she spoke too harshly.
Difficulties in Doing Business Without Making Problems
Authors would understand that to keep publishing books, making public speeches and continuing religious activities for more than 30 years without presenting a big problem is not that easy. Although we have had some people who caused minor troubles along the way, that number is very small relative to the size of our organization. When the national tax administration agency came to Happy Science Headquarters to investigate our accounting record of the past 5 years, they could not find accounting errors of more than $10,000. They said it is unbelievable for a religion. In other words, they could not find unexplained expenditures like they normally do when they investigate large corporations. The larger the corporation, the bigger their unexplained expenditures are.
Prime Minister Abe has more than $12 million secret Cabinet Secretariat funds that don't require receipts to use for unexplained purposes (at the time of this lecture). He is pressured to make this public now (at the time of lecture). He can use these funds to bribe opposing parties to quiet them in congress. If they say, "I'm going to ask this question to the Prime Minister tomorrow", the Prime Minister's secretary can offer $50,000 and say, "This secret money is untraceable. You might need it for re-election." or "I'm giving this kind of money to our own candidates at the Bon festival (Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors) at the year-end season, so please accept this." This is just my imagination. I don't know the truth but they could do this because there will be no proof and it will not be identified as bribes.
Even the Japanese Prime Minister can use more than $12 million for unexplained purposes, which should be secret. He must use these funds to handle the opposition and silence the people who disturb the street speeches.
Companies have this kind of money too. Our organization had a heated battle against one publishing company before. We were conducting protesting activities and on the third day, policemen came to our Kioicho Building, then our headquarters, and told us that this publishing company would hire Yakuza (Japanese mafia) members and warned us to be careful of our surroundings; They said "Since religious people are sober you will keep fighting with great enthusiasm, Yakuza will come around the third day, so be careful about yourself." We heard that news in the morning and sure enough we started spotting many mafia-like people at the places where the protesters were. The police know this very well. Companies use this kind of money, so-called "funds used for unexplained purposes" that don't require receipts. They will hire the mafia to frighten protesters so they will all go home. Most companies have this kind of money to hire mafia members or silence police. Police can be bribed to some extent too. In fact, the Kobe prefecture police station is said to be co-existing with the local mafia so nobody can tell.
You Can Maximize the Result by Doing the Job for a Long Time.
In a nutshell, you need to produce a large quantity of results by pursuing small, medium and large goals while at the same time, you should learn various things.
Someone like Yasushi Akimoto, whom I mentioned in the preceding issue, started his career as a lyricist, but can now be considered an entrepreneur because he invents many new innovations such as creating different singing groups and making them compete. Those who are always innovating and creating companies like that, know how to maintain success for a long time. They know how to maximize their results by continuing their efforts for a long time. For these people, it is not important whether or not other people had a smash hit, let alone feel jealousy towards them. After all, they have a large scale. Happy Science is not competing against authors. Authors can't establish publishing companies. Even if they issue a magazine, it will most likely be discontinued shortly thereafter, often by the third issue.
Religious founders are greater than authors. They can provide for many people and create and develop many activities. Magazines will be published beyond the third issue and books will be published one after another. A religious founder's capability is amazing. I am sure the public will soon recognize this point.
Please set a far-reaching goal, a medium goal that you can accomplish in ten years, and a small goal that you can achieve soon, such as until graduating or until the end of this year. If you have these goals, you will not be content with small successes and will not be conceited.
You might feel jealous or competitive. If your goal is far-reaching, it will take a long time to see who is the winner. You will not be bothered with small things.
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House passes Defense authorization
Posted by: Wally Northway in Manufacturing, NEWS 06/29/2009
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives has completed its consideration of HR 2647, the FY 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. The Defense Authorization Act authorizes $550.4 billion for the Department of Defense and each of the military services and a $130-billion contingency fund for ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House approved the measure by a vote of 389-22.
Congressman Gene Taylor (D-Mss.), chairman of the Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee, worked with his subcommittee colleagues to develop a funding plan to address the current and future needs of the Navy and Marine Corps' shipbuilding and aviation programs.
Taylor said, "Passage of this legislation represents an important step in ensuring that the Navy is able to achieve its required fleet size of 313 ships. The Seapower portion of the National Defense Authorization Act authorizes full funding for eight ships, the final increment of funds needed to complete three ships currently under construction, and advanced procurement funds for seven additional ships for which the remaining balance will be provided next year.
"The Defense Authorization provides multi-year procurement authority for the F/A 18 aircraft and the DDG 51 Aegis Destroyer program. Additionally, this legislation contains a 'take it or leave it provision' for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). It states that no more than $460 million will be spent on procurement costs per LCS. If the Secretary of the Navy is unable to enter into contracts at $460 million per ship, this act directs him to seek bids for construction of these ships from other shipyards."
The authorization also contains several items of importance to South Mississippi including:
• $2.3 billion for DDG-51 Aegis Destroyer — This ship will be built by Northrop Grumman at its Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula
• $1.1 billion for LPD 26 Amphibious Lift Ship — This LPD-17 San Antonio-class ship will be built by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding at its Ingalls and Avondale shipyards
• $60 million for LPD-27 Amphibious Lift Ship — The bill authorizes $60 million for procurement of long-lead items for this LPD-17 San Antonio-class ship. This vessel will be built by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding at its Ingalls and Avondale shipyards
• $8 million for Advanced, Long Endurance Unattended Ground Sensor — This project will provide funding to conduct research and development of advanced, low power unattended ground sensor (UGS) technologies at Mississippi State University that will provide the special operations warfighter with total, reliable and up-to-the minute situational awareness
• $2.6 million for Countermine Lidar UAV-based System (CLUBS) — This research and development will be done by Optech in Kiln
• $3.6 million for Eagle Eyes-Stand-off Radiation Detection — This effort will support the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA's) requirements to provide advanced tools and systems for stand-off radiation detection. This research will be done at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg
• $2.5 million for Navy Special Warfare Performance and Injury Prevention Program for SBT 22 at Stennis Space Center — Stennis will work in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh to establish the Special Boat Team Human Performance and Injury Prevention Laboratory at Stennis
• $6.5 million for Force Protection Measures-Relocate Base Entrance — The Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center (CRTC) main base entrance would be relocated to the current fuel storage compound entrance. A new secure gate house with bullet-proof glass and other force protection measures will be built
• $2.5 million for Integrated Rugged Checkpoint Container — Rapiscan Systems Inc in Ocean Springs will receive funds to integrate a suite of modular ruggedized inspection systems into one mobile container to provide a turnkey entry control checkpoint in any forward deployed terrain. The ruggedized container would serve as a modular checkpoint that will house the latest proven technologies in screening equipment for personnel, baggage, vehicles and footwear
• $2 million for Mold-In-Place Coating Development for the U.S. Submarine Fleet — Seemann Composites Inc in Gulfport, working with the US Navy, will receive additionally funding to develop a non-autoclave, Mold-In-Place [MIP] boot manufacturing process is in order to complete this effort
• $10.8 million for Riverine & Combat Craft Operations Facility — This funding will construct six SOC-R craft for Special Operations Command at United States Marine Inc. in Gulfport
• $5.1 million for Nitrile Rubber Collapsible Storage Units — These tactical fuel storage systems are manufactured by Avon Industries of Picayune
• Language directing the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General to conduct an investigation of the acquisition and subsequent disposal in 2003 of beachfront property adjacent to the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport
• A provision eliminating the special authority of requiring that future disposals of excess property by the Armed Forces Retirement Home be done in accordance with existing laws pertaining to the disposal of federal property
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Who is steering the ship at Ford?
V6 "Super Cars", Eco Boost trucks that get the same millage as the V8 truck but cost twice as much to repair, dropping most of the car lineup to make more little bubble SUVs, More Door Mustangs and now this?
My next new car will be one of the many cool versions of the Challenger or maybe the family man in me will try the Hellcat Charger, NOT a hippy Ford. At least they still make killer trucks!
Old Henry would be rolling in his grave.
Just bought a new car for the wife, and it was a Charger. Only competition from Ford really is the Taurus. While I liked the Taurus, it's a Grampa's car, not remotely sporty. Wife loves the Charger. First non-Ford I have purchased for us in over 25 years.
I've questioned Ford since Bill Ford resigned. He brought back the classic Mustang and TBirds, and the street legal Ford GT, and also had a new Cobra in the design stage. The next guy screwed over the Mustang design,killed the TBird and GT, and started all this turbo V6 crap. It's been downhill since. I'll never buy another new vehicle, but I will probably buy a used one or two, and most of the offerings from the last 8-10 years don't excite me much.
How is the fit and finish of the car? Would have bought one by now (or a Challenger) but I worry about their reputation of low quality and reliability. Have times changed?
You know, looking over the new stuff I don't know if it matters anymore. It seems like everyone is shooting for cheapest materials and highest profits, to hell with quality.
Yeah, it worries me too. Only time will tell, I guess. That dash is just a mass of plastic. For all the awards that UConnect system got, I find it inferior to my 2010 F-150 Sync system. It says it does Android Auto, but I've managed to get it work once. Seems you have to take the time to get it all set up prior to leaving the driveway. I do like the car overall. It handles well for such a big car. It's not as driver centric as the Mustangs we all love, but I can't get my head around a 4 door Mustang either. It's got 12k on it now, and I haven't had any issues other than a recall. Something to do with the cruise control, but it was easy (for me). Fit/finish seems ok if you get past the plastic. Most all cars are heavily plastic these days though. We got the 6 cyl AWD. She'll be doing winter driving, so the AWD was required. You can no longer get the AWD with a V8, so the 6 banger won out. At 300 hp, we don't really feel cheated though. It's a fun car complete with paddle shifters that are also fun, albeit still a bit laggy for my tastes. Fun nonetheless! Traded the Flex in on it which served us very well. Put nearly 150k on it and it was still running well, but nickle and diming me to death. Moonroof started leaking and that was the last straw. We really didn't need a mommy-mobile, so out it went. Taurus just isn't sporty enough.
Ya, it's a given that the interiors are almost all plastic now but even they seems to have a huge quality difference. The interior of my '05 Stang has that cheap, brittle plastic feel but on my F350 SD and the wifes Traverse it almost feels "softer" and "rubberier" if that's a word, lol. The V6 AWD was at the top of my list also for the winter driving but thanks to my inability to keep the '65 together for a whole season, it would be nice to have a V8 for a track day back-up car.
I am not worried about the new vehicles, I drive a 2000 Ranger Extd Cab 4x4 that has 152K on it that I replaced the cylinder heads 3 years ago, & just had the trans rebuilt. Being 1 year from partial retirement I probably will NOT need another vehicle. My wife Robin drives a 1999 Explorer Sport 4x4 with only 101K on it so she is probably good to go, & we have a spare vehicle a 2008 Escape 4x4 that has 106K on it, only problem is the body is starting to rust out over the rear wheels.
Pam has only put on 3600 miles on her new Edge since she got it around the end of May, so I doubt we'll ever buy a new vehicle either. In fact, when my van gets too beat up I'll just buy another one, probably an older one, at that.
That Ranger looks like a '01 - newer with those headlights. I take it they're aftermarket?
I've still got a ways to go. My youngest is a junior in HS, so in 6 years or so, I'll be trying to figure out what toy I want. I have my eye on that GT350, I have to say. I just love the stance of those. Probably won't spring for the R model. No AC and no rear seat don't attract me. That said, everytime I go watch GT350 videos, I go take a spin in the Saleen and I'm good to go again. I still love that car. Not sure I could go back to a non SC mustang after having heard that whine. Puts a smile on my face every time!
I may end up keeping the Saleen and getting another truck. My F150 has 140k on her now. Should be well over 200k by that timeframe. I seem to do about 20k/year in it.


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