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How I Started a Scripture Study Group (Even Though I'm Shy)
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As a quirky, say-it-like-it-is type of gal, I am also someone that has more down than up days and a bushel full of self-doubt. This was especially true a few years ago, when I moved to Utah from Minnesota and found myself isolated and lonely. My children were older than those in the majority of the families around mine, and I wasn't finding closeness with the ladies at church. I also did not have an assignment at church, which would have given me the chance to be involved with other women. I felt empty and missed having female connections.
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One of my sons had recently left on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I wanted to be able to send him uplifting thoughts from my scripture reading and words from our leaders. I remembered how participating in a scripture study group in Minnesota helped me apply the scriptures to my life and also overcome social anxieties. I decided to start a scripture study group with a few ladies in Utah. But getting it up and running was difficult for a couple of reasons: What if the women in my congregation said no? What if no one showed up? What if my lack of scripture knowledge and study habits became embarrassing? I felt vulnerable asking. Self-doubt can sometimes be paralyzing when it comes to initiating something like this. As I agonized over these questions, my experience in Minnesota kept coming back to my mind, giving me the courage to reach out.
I had lived in Minnesota for six years before I felt like I found my place among the women in my community. Those six years might have dragged on, except a sister asked if I'd like to join a scripture study group. These five ladies quite easily became some of my closest friends, and those friendship are intact today, despite many of us moving to different states. Lyea, from the Minnesota group, said:
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"The scripture group I joined was made up of my very closest friends. Focusing on our love of the Gospel together felt like Heaven. They were such incredible examples to me of goodness and true love.
The road back to Heavenly Father is not easy and can seem very, very long at times. But traveling the road with my friends seemed more like a road trip than a trial, test or sacrifice.
I was my best self during that special time."
I realize that making friends isn't necessarily the ultimate goal for scripture studying, but maybe it should be one of the goals. After all, Jesus called His disciples "friend," and we are closer to heaven when we share God's love with others.
Even though I don't attend church solely for social reasons, something is definitely missing if I don't feel connected with the women at church. So with the memory of my Minnesota study group lingering in my mind, I approached one of my closer Utah friends about starting a scripture study group. When I found out she was on board, I mustered the courage to ask more sisters, until there were about six of us. Some said no, some didn't even reply to my texts, but some said yes!!
From the very beginning, I started to feel a kinship with these amazing women. We have been able to share deep experiences, sage advice, and interesting perspectives, drawing us closer together and closer to our Savior. It is hard to describe the feelings I have developed for these sisters, feelings that started blooming even in the early weeks of our meetings. I often go home with tears of happiness that I have found a place that helps me feel connected with others at church.
But more important than all this is my renewed love for my Savior. I find myself immersed in the scriptures and the words of my church leaders on a regular basis. I am able to piece little nuggets of information together that pertain to situations in my family. I have "aha" moments more often. This gives me hope that I will come to better understand my Savior and His plan.
Sometimes I've asked myself how this is different than just going to Sunday meetings. I mean, what's the point? But like Kim from my current study group said: "I think the biggest blessing has been being able to get to know women from my [congregation] on a spiritual level. It has made the bonds of friendship seem deeper and closer and because of that, meetings on Sundays are even richer."
If a scripture study group sounds appealing to you, I would recommend the following practical suggestions in getting started:
Be flexible! We started out by rotating homes, but after some time, we found that meeting at one sister's house was easier for her with her small children. We also took the summer off and restarted with a bang in September, better than ever. We try to re-evaluate on a regular basis and just do what works.
Communicate. I started a private Facebook page where we post upcoming meeting topics and articles that are pertinent to the lessons. No one is technically in charge, but because I initiated the group, they often look to me to get things started.
Think about service. Last year, we participated in the 12 Days of Christmas for a hurting sister, and this year we are going to tie a quilt for a sister who has cancer while we have our discussion. If this works out, we'll do more service like this on a regular basis because "we're just sitting on our bums."
I often tell my children that I'd rather look back and say, "I can't believe I did that," rather than saying, "I wish I had done that." Starting a scripture study group has been one of those things in my life - I'm so glad I reached out rather than letting fear hold me back. As it says in 2 Chronicles 15:7: "Do not give up, for your work shall be rewarded." This has certainly been true for me.
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"Definitely open to something if it felt right": Andrew Garfield Reveals If He Would Return for More Spider-Man Movies
January 9, 2022 January 9, 2022 / Hollywood, Movies / By Rashmeet Kaur
Andrew Garfield has surprised fans by making a comeback as Spider-Man in Tom Holland's Spider-Man: No Way Home. Andrew who played the superhero in two installments of Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man wore his suit again for the last installment of Tom Holland's Spider-Man. Tobey Mcguire who played the first SpiderMan also joined the No Way Home cast.
Andrew Garfield got his chance to come back and he didn't waste it, he stole almost every scene he was in and reminded the world how good he was to Spider-Man. Now fans are asking to see more of him as Spider-Man.
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ANDREW GARFIELD AS SPIDER MAN
Spider-Man fans have been wondering what it would be like if Andrew Garfield ever got the chance to continue taking the web-slinger icon, and those aspirations eventually came true for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Marvel and Sony's new production has seen a wide variety of openings and all three live Peter Peter reruns appear on screen together.
Andrew Garfield and Tobey McGuire's addition to Tom Holland's Spider-Man certainly made the film reach massive heights across the world with earning more than 1.5 billion dollars on the Box Office.
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There is no end to the cry for Garfield to get more screen time as Spider-Man, either in the third round of his Amazing Spider-Man franchise or against another character like Venom or Morbius. Of course, any return may depend on Garfield actually wanting to come back and play Spider-Man again. In a recent interview with Variety, Garfield has indicated that he would like to give it a go, as long as the story is solid.
"I mean, yes, something is definitely open when it sounds right," Garfield said. "Peter and Spider-Man, those characters about the ministry, to great people who are very confident in me. "
WHY DID ANDREW SAY YES TO NO WAY HOME?
Andrew spilled the beans about why he agreed to play the teen superhero again in No Way Home. "I didn't expect to have another conversation about playing Peter Parker. I felt so happy to be a fan again. But I got this call from Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige and Jon Watts for this idea. It was undeniable at once. It sounded so exciting, so spiritual – so triple and totally interesting. At a basic level, as a Spider-Man fan, just the idea of seeing three Spider-Men in the same frame was enough."
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Christian Halkidiki Exhibition at Ouranoupoli
The 10th Directorate of Byzantine Antiquities has set up the Christian Halkidiki exhibition in Ouranoupoli, Halkidiki, which is the village where visitors and pilgrims embark for Mount Athos.
It is housed in a building near the embarkation point and the Ouranoupoli tower. Constructed in the eighteenth century, this building is known as the arsanas or boathouse, and was formerly used as such by the monks of Vatopedi Monastery, which owned it.
The exhibits date to the Early Christian, Byzantine, and post-Byzantine periods and come from all over Halkidiki. The purpose of the exhibition is to show visitors that Halkidiki also has plenty of important treasures of the Christian era in addition to the numerous treasures owned by the monasteries of Mount Athos.
On the first floor there are 14 portable icons (11 large and 3 smaller ones) of the eighteenth to early twentieth century, from monasteries, churches, and chapels in Halkidiki. Of particular note is the icon of the Panayia and Christ-child enthroned, which dates to 1728.
Also noteworthy are the folk-style wall paintings detached from the sanctuary and prothesis apses of the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, a dependency of the Monastery of St Anastassia (16th-17th cent.). Visitors may also see a bronze cross of the 11th-12th century, a small bone plaque of Christ of the 10th-11th century, and a calendar of services for the immovable feasts in September produced in 1806 and found in the area of the Kassandra open prison.
On the second floor are Christian finds from excavations in Halkidiki: glazed pottery, unpainted pottery, oil lamps, bronze coins, jewellery, seals, and arrowheads from Potidaia, Toroni, Palaiokastro, Ayos Mamas, Nea Syllata (the mediaeval city of Brya), Galatista (the tomb of St Paraskevi), and the cemetery of Ierissos. Other exhibits include Corinthian and Ionic capitals and a perforated closure slab from the Early Christian basilicas of Sophronios and St George at Nikiti.
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What lurked in the depths, now is going to haunt your boat.
Be careful what you hook up. Aside from picking some vicious industrial garbage, you can bring to the surface some strange and unmentionable things. Most fishermen will happily brag about an extraordinary big fish (and we'll show plenty of those in this article). But sometimes the catch is so bizarre, that they'd rather try to forget it over a drink or two.
Catfish the size of a small car? Well, almost.
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This fish was given the opportunity to speak out (as part of 1945 research). Must be some hair-raising tales, judging by how scared it looks.


The train you see in one of the last sections, the one with the part that can stand still, is brilliant. It's an amazingly strong machine, and it's laser guided. It picks up the rails. Then vibrates the stones underneath the track, so that they fall into eachothers gaps. The stones have sharp corners, and if they are that tightly organised, the bed of stones is stronger than concrete, plus you can still adjust it at any time. If the stone bed is good to go, the machine placed the rails in the stonebed. It does this very precisely, with a less than a millimeter accuracy.
In the dutch and belgian railway system, there are no gaps in the rails anymore between stations. The rails they use are welded together to beams of tens of kilometers long. With this machinery, they can layout the tracks so tightly, that the rails won't even move when it extends or contracts on warm days and cold nights. The rails simply cannot go anywhere. This is why they spend so much effort on getting the stones right.


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Johnny Depp: Taking Chances
I'm really going to show my age here and reveal that my first memories of Johnny Depp aren't of his off beat characters, but as a then unknown actor in the horror flick Nightmare on Elm Street and a few years later as the heart throb Tom Hanson on 21 Jump Street. He was everything an up and coming star should be: Good looking, intense, and a little bit of a bad boy.
So, why am I writting a blog post about Johnny Depp? Because, believe it or not, we can all learn from him. The indie publishing revolution is all about taking chances and jumping into the unknown. Johnny Depp did just that when he left his Hollywood idol image behind to play the lead role in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands. That was a huge risk for him to take! People thought that he was crazy to "throw away" his heart throb image to play a cooky role that would surely be the end of his career.
Now, be honest, can you picture anyone else playing that part? Depp has made a career out of unusual roles, even Captain Jack Sparrow was a gamble as Pirate movies hadn't made money in years. So what can we take from this? Maybe, while the publishing world is turned upside down by ebooks and idie authors, we should all look around and see what risks could we take to improve our careers or our writting. Maybe we all need to stop and ask ourselves: What would Johnny Depp do?
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You had me at Johnny Depp! My early memories of him are the same as yours. Interesting connection and a lot of truth in it. Certainly fear can be disabling and I love your have-a-go spirit.
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Now he's kind of pidgeonholed as the guy who plays weird Tim Burton roles (not that I am complaining - I <3 Tim Burton). I wonder if we would've been doing "Hey Girl" ala Ryan Gosling for Johnny Depp if he'd stayed in the heartthrob scene...


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The government decided to increase the minimum wage for garment and footwear industry workers by $2 to $192 per month for 2021, a decision that has left unions and employers dissatisfied after the two parties failed to come to an agreement in talks that ended September 10. The National Council on Minimum Wage (NCMW) approved […]
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Source: New York Yacht Club
NEWPORT, R.I. – Sail long enough and you're sure to have a leg where all factors conspire against you: the wind, the tide, the competition, passing motor boats, everything. That's what this year is like for regatta organizers. The New York Yacht Club's plan to re-start the 2020 sailing season on August 28 to 30 with the 166th edition of the Annual Regatta was stymied by an uptick of COVID-19 cases in Rhode Island and the resulting uncertainty regarding possible quarantine restrictions imposed by neighboring states upon anyone spending more than 24 hours in the Ocean State. But, determined to exhaust every opportunity to get sailors on the water this season, the Club has pivoted once again, moving the Annual Regatta to the first weekend in October where it will include the Melges IC37 National Championship, which was originally scheduled for those dates.
"Many of our competitors and volunteer race committee travel to Rhode Island from neighboring states, and there was simply no way to reasonably guarantee they could safely, and legally, return to their normal lives after the completion of the regatta, had we held it in late August," says Commodore William P. Ketcham. "With renewed focus in Rhode Island toward reducing the percentage of positive tests, we're cautiously optimistic that we'll be able to extend the Annual Regatta's unparalleled legacy: 165 editions over 173 years, including the last 51 years in a row."
The Annual Regatta, North America's oldest regular sailing competition, was first run in 1846, and has been sailed on an annual basis since, with the occasional pause for national or global crises. The last time the Annual Regatta was canceled was 1968, due to the Presidential and Gubernatorial decrees of mourning that followed the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy on June 6, 1968. There was no Annual Regatta scheduled in 1943 through 1945, due to World War II; 1917 through 1920, due to World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic; or 1898, when the United States was engaged in the Spanish-American War.
Since the Club acquired its Harbour Court Clubhouse overlooking Newport Harbor, the Annual Regatta has been a fixture at the start of the Rhode Island sailing season, usually taking place the first or second weekend in June. But unique times demand creative solutions. So for 2020, it'll be the last regatta of the summer season. And it will include some smaller one-design classes not traditionally invited to the Annual Regatta, specifically Sonars, Stars and Shields.
"There's nothing normal about trying to hold an event this year," says Ketcham. "But we know there are a lot of eager sailors in Southern New England, and we believe there's tremendous value in sending them into the fall with some fond memories of sailing in 2020. Those lucky enough to have raced in Rhode Island in late September and early October know that it's hard to beat in terms of sailing conditions. While the dates on the calendar may be strange, the format will be very familiar: a lap of Conanicut Island on Friday, October 2, then two days of buoy racing or navigator-course racing over the weekend."
The other remaining events on the Club's regatta calendar—Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex (September 23 to 26) and the Queen's Cup (September 27)—remain as scheduled. There will be no on-shore social activity for any of the Club's 2020 regattas.
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Regional Government extends deadline for submission of applications to "Get into Scene" youth creativity programme
The Regional Government has decided to extend the application deadline for the "Get into Scene" youth creativity programme until July 10, an initiative promoted by the Regional Directorate for Youth, announced the Regional Assistant Secretary of the Presidency for Parliamentary Affairs.
The "Get into Scene" programme aims to support projects developed by young people, informal groups of young people or by non-profit entities working in the Youth area, granting financial support of up to 5,000 Euros.
According to Berto Messias, this initiative is aimed at young people, informal groups of young people and non-profit entities based on the concept "from young people to young people."
Berto Messias pointed out that the number of applications submitted this year demonstrates, "in fact, a growth."
"We supported 52 projects in 2019 and, this year, we already approved 32 projects in the first application phase, corresponding to an overall support of nearly 50 thousand Euros. This initiative involves several hundred young Azoreans throughout the Region," revealed the Regional Secretary.
Even so, "the Government intends to extend the application deadline so that this initiative can reach more young people and support more projects, taking into account that the situation in the last three months conditioned the planning of projects and activities."
"Hence, I call all young people to take part in "Get into Scene" and promote new projects in their communities and, thus, contribute to the recovery phase that we intend to implement," said Berto Messias.
Applications for the second phase of the "Get into Scene" programme can be submitted via an electronic form available at https://poeteemcena.azores.gov.pt.
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The South Glasgow Hospital Campus development involves the expansion of one hospital and the construction of two new hospitals to create one of the largest hospital complexes in Europe. The new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital For Sick Children will deliver a truly gold standard of healthcare.
There were two areas that required tensile fabric solutions – the ceiling inside the Hospital's atrium area and the facade of the "Santuary" (a room-within-a-room) also located in this part of the Hospital's central communal area. The design called for both practical and asthetic solutions to hide services and soften the hard lines of construction.
A 240sqm wave-shaped fabric ceiling was designed using Trapeze+ fabric – an inherently flame-retardant stretch polyester fabric by Dazian, to create a smooth and undulating surface. This was framed and suspended from the atrium's sub-structure and benefited from a perimeter shadow gap with atmospheric up-lighters.
The Sanctuary is an asymmetric cube, a room suspended on stilts to provide a calm and serene environment for staff, patients and visitors. 90sqm of tensile fabric panels, manufactured in Serge Ferrari's translucent 402 PVC, were fixed to the outside of the Sanctuary and backlit with a series of LED lights. The fabric facade by Fabric Architecture serves to soften the overall look and feel of the cube, which provides a retreat from the fast pace of hospital life outside.


Dan Smith of Bastille performs on New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square.
Irish Sea weather conditions have obliged Bastille to cancel their sold-out Olympia Concert in Dublin tonight, Sunday January 27.
"We're gutted that our gig in Dublin tonight has had to be postponed, " the band declared in a statement.
"We've been trying everything possible in the last 24 hours to get the tour trucks and buses to Ireland, but the bad weather has meant all ferries have been cancelled and none of our gear will be able to make it in time.
"Huge apologies to everyone with tickets and anyone who's travelled."


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Conversations with Consequence: Knives Out's Rian Johnson and Michael Shannon
Director and star discuss whodunits, Trump-era class tensions, and ben wa balls
Rian Johnson and Michael Shannon in Knives Out
Following up a $100 million Star Wars movie with a light-hearted, mid-budget throwback to the works of Agatha Christie doesn't feel like a conventional move for most filmmakers. Luckily, Rian Johnson isn't like most filmmakers: the 45-year-old writer/director has long managed to subvert expectations with challenging, controversial works, regardless of their accessibility or price point (if you think Last Jedi discourse ruffles some feathers, just say the word "Fly" around a Breaking Bad fan and see how they respond).
Love them or hate them, Johnson's works are often deeply indebted to genres and filmmaking traditions of the past, but with a few novel, contemporary tweaks. Think Brick's high-school neo-noir or Last Jedi's gleeful bucking of franchise norms. His latest, the uproarious whodunit Knives Out, is an ode to old-school murder mysteries with absurdly stacked A-list casts — the tale of dead mystery writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) and the cutthroat family members who might have done him in. This includes character actor extraordinaire Michael Shannon as Thrombey's embittered son Walt, who paints himself as the reasonable member of the family but has some skeletons in his own closet.
In the wake of Knives Out's packed, exuberant screenings at this year's Chicago International Film Festival, Consequence of Sound spent some time with Johnson and Shannon at a tiny suite in the Peninsula Hotel, commiserating over a package of convenience-store donut holes we brought for the occasion. (Their significance becomes clearer after you've seen the film.) Together, we talked about everything from the appeal of making an old-fashioned whodunit to Trump-era class tensions to the ongoing discourse about whether Marvel films are Cinema(tm).
Knives Out (Lionsgate)
On making a murder-mystery movie after The Last Jedi
Rian Johnson: Well, this was just the next thing I was excited about. I'd wanted to do a whodunit for years and years; I just grew up reading Agatha Christie books and wanted to do that genre. I had the basic idea for this about 10 years ago, so this has been cooking for a long while. It wasn't anything specific about coming out of Last Jedi, it was just the next thing.
On the difference between noir (Brick) and whodunits (Knives Out)
Johnson: It's fun to me, just the difference between the noir genre and the whodunit. I mean, moral clarity is sort of the dividing line between the two of them: it's all about the moral murkiness with noir; with a whodunit, it's always really clear. That's kind of what's comforting about it — the detective comes in and always sorts it out.
On working with the rest of Knives Out's A-list ensemble cast
Michael Shannon: It was pretty surprising – you show up at work, and there's James Bond and Captain America in the same movie. And then there's Jamie Lee Curtis and Don Johnson, people I've admired since I was a kid, you know? It was kinda like going to Madame Tussaud's.
On how [Shannon's character] Walt's cane and boot helped him get into character
Shannon: Oh man, that boot was a pain in the butt. I was worried about my alignment. I'm already kind of asymmetrical to begin with. But no, it's a lot of fun to relish in that [affectation]. Walt's kind of a barely functional guy, so this physicalization or manifestation [helped out].
On diagramming the intricate plotting of Knives Out's whodunit story
Johnson: Oh, I have no organic flow; anytime I write anything, I have to diagram it all out and have it all planned out, especially something like this. You just start really broad, with the dramatic shape of it, and then you fill in the details. Most of the work goes into making sure it's simple enough to where, for the audience, it's a rollercoaster ride, not a math problem.
On whether he had alternate endings in mind
Johnson: As Hitchcock said, "please don't spoil the ending, it's the only one we've got." So that was it from the start.
On playing up Walt's likelihood as a whodunit suspect
Shannon: That's an interesting question. More than anything, you just try to play each scene for what it is, and not think about the whole superstructure of the thing. Just be in the moment and focus on the relationships. 'Cause you can't — yeah, I think about as plot as little as possible when I'm working. I just try and focus on the people I'm in the room with and the electricity, or lack thereof, between us.
On where he felt that electricity most
Shannon: I love the big family scenes, when we're in all the room; they felt pretty authentic, you know? It's kind of a weird thing to do with a bunch of strangers, just pretend that you're family. Jamie [Lee Curtis] was really warm and kind, and really attached to the house, and the notion of us being a family. She would never go back to her trailer; she would sit in the kitchen with the owners of the house, and talk about the history of the house. Just very invested in creating this atmosphere, and we all took her lead, you know?
On designing and conceptualizing the house
Johnson: It was sort of supposed to be the murder mystery mansion of the mind. The whole reason we went to Massachusetts was that we found that house. We scouted early, and we found this place, and we were just like, "It's perfect." We shot on the inside and outside of it. And the other huge ingredient was our production designer, David Crank, who's a genius. He and his team filled this house up with all of the stuff that you see in the film – all the tchotchkes, all the automatons, all the artwork. David Schlesinger was our set decorator, or I forget what his exact title was, but he's the one who found all that stuff. The house is great, but it's really all the stuff inside, the way that they dressed it, that gives it that feel.
On the film's exploration of Trump-era politics, and whether they feared (or hoped) that those moments would dissipate by the film's release
Johnson: I was praying that I'd have to cut a few scenes 'cause they'd feel dated [laughs]. That would have been nice.
Shannon: And I remember [Rian] saying that this movie was specifically designed for Thanksgiving. Families should go there after they have their turkey, and it can be kind of maybe cathartic or something.
Johnson: Fight with your family, and then you can go see a family fight? But you can laugh at that version. I know for me, that sounds good.
On the recent Scorsese/Marvel dustup, and the question of superhero movies as cinema
Johnson: Obviously, I love original stuff, and I also love the big stuff. I enjoy both of them. But I think cinema's something different for everybody. This is the dumbest thing to have to say out loud: different people like different stuff! It's fine! [laughs] And fuckin', Martin Scorsese is allowed to like and not like whatever the fuck he wants, stop yelling about it! Jesus. Well, not everyone has to like everything. So let's take a breath.
Shannon: I just get scared with all the big mergers and stuff. Like Fox/Disney and all that. To me, it's not about what kind of movie people wanna make, it's about what kind of movie are you still able to make. I just don't want to get to the point where a movie like this — a mid-range, not huge studio, but decent movie [can be made]. I want there to be some middle ground between $100 million and $500,000, you know.
On the passing of the late, great Robert Forster, and working with him on 2018 family drama What They Had
Shannon: Like I said earlier, talk about running into a bunch of strangers and whipping up a family out of nothing. But yeah, he was such a kind man, so thoughtful. And at that point, he'd started to struggle with retaining the lines, which happens to everybody as you advance in age and whatnot. But he just felt like… our dad, you know? And he was so invested — not just in the movie, but we would talk about career stuff. I was trying to figure out what I was gonna do, and I'd come to him, he'd chew it over. He'd be like, "oh, that's so exciting!" He had so much enthusiasm.
It was interesting to talk with him about it, because this was a guy who started strong and then had kind of a murky period, and had to come back. He just hung in there, you know. He never gave up. Robert Forster was a great role model for actors about how to treat people, and how to appreciate what you're doing.
On whether or not Daniel Craig's character name (Benoit Blanc) is a joke about ben wa balls
Johnson: What is ben wa balls? I don't….
Shannon: It's a toy for… amorous encounters.
Johnson: [laughs] You perverts.
On whether he'd do more "Benoit Blanc" films
Shannon: The million-dollar question.
Johnson: I never thought about sequels to my own movies, but this… I wouldn't think of it as a sequel, even. I had so much fun making it, that's the thing, you can do new mysteries and everything. So yeah, the idea of hatching a new one of these [is appealing].
On why audiences delight in rich families squabbling with each other
Johnson: Well I mean, there's a lot in the air right now in terms of the growing divide between haves and have nots, so that's kind of out there. You can feel that in a lot of movies right now. Movies respond to the culture they're in; they respond to what's on people's minds. For me, it was doing a classic whodunit, but truly setting it in today. To me, that meant not just giving it a modern skin, not just giving everyone cellphones, but that meant doing what Christie did in her time — plugging into what people are arguing about with their families, what they're talking about, what's on everyone's minds. The movie absolutely attempts to plug into that.
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Suppositories is one of the leading treatments used today. Laser hair removal allows for delivery of moisture and lubrication to the hemorrhoid which will help for the next bowel movement.
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However, with this solution there is the possibility for further problems as well as for other side effects to be able to emerge.
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An important as well as significant point that is worth mentioning is the ever increasing interest and pursuit for alternative and natural hemorrhoid treatments. Many say that the demand has been due to its "back-to-basics" homeopathic nature, the safe use and faster results that numerous experience within a few days.


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A simulation of Poland's two upcoming mixed wind/solar auctions held by the Polish wind energy association has shown that wind may prove more competitive than solar, especially in the auction for projects over 1 MW. The real auctions are expected to be launched between November and December.
A 40 kW installation in Bojsowy, South Western Poland.
A simulation of the upcoming tenders for wind and solar projects in Poland, conducted by the Polish Wind Energy Association, PwC and the law firm K&L Gates, has shown that bids for solar projects are slightly higher than those submitted in the country's previous two renewable energy tenders.
According to Piotr Pająk from news site Gramwzielone.pl, dedicated to renewable energy professionals and investors, the simulation has shown that, in the auction round for wind and solar projects exceeding 1 MW, the maximum bidding price was 292 PLN (US$79.2)/MWh, while the maximum bidding price for the auction round for wind and solar up to 1 MW was 380 PLN ($103.0)/MWh.
Furthermore, Pająk revealed that minimum and maximum prices for solar in both auction rounds were 350 PLN ($94.9) and 411 PLN ($111.4)/MWh, respectively, while minimum and maximum prices for wind were quite a bit lower, at 225 PLN ($61.0) and 350 PLN ($94.9)/MWh, respectively.
A comparison is only possible with the previous two mixed solar-wind tenders held by the Polish government, which were only devoted to projects up to 1 MW, and were dominated by solar. In the first auction, 84 offers with a combined capacity of around 70 MW were submitted, while bidding prices ranged from 254 PLN to 409 PLN/MWh. In the second auction, some 352 projects were awarded, totaling approximately 300 MW, with prices ranging between 195 PLN and 399 PLN/MWh.
For both categories, real auctions should be held somewhere between November and December, according to Pająk. The auction for wind and solar projects over 1 MW, which may see the allocation of around 750 MW of capacity, will make 45 TWh of energy available for a maximum budget of 15.75 billion PLN, while 16 TWh of energy, and a budget of 6.2 billion PLN, will be made available for projects up to 1 MW.
"As for auctions dedicated to projects bigger than 1 MW, wind is still most competitive and should embrace all support in 2018 auction," Pająk told pv magazine. "However the restrictions in development of new wind projects were implemented into Polish law in 2016, and since then there are no new wind projects being developed," he said. This lack of new wind projects may also make some room for bigger PV projects in next auctions for projects exceeding 1 MW, according to him.
The government and Polish electricity system operator, PSE recently said there is a need in the country's electricity system for around 2 GW of PV, which should help tackle summer peaks.
According to a recent report from Polish research institute, Instytut Energetyki Odnawialnej (IEO), there are currently around 2.1 GW of large-scale PV projects with grid-connection approval in Poland, which could potentially compete in the upcoming auctions. Poland's state-owned utility, Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) has so far released the largest number of grid approvals for 942 PV projects with a combined capacity of around 780 MW, which accounts for approximately 45% of the approved capacity. The other power providers – Energa, Enea and Tauron – accounted for the remaining 23%, 20% and 12%, respectively.
Most of these approved projects – around 1.34 GW – are represented by projects ranging from 500 kW to 1 MW, while projects up to 200 kW and with a capacity between 200 kW and 500 kW, account for 349 MW and 210 MW, respectively. This means that a total of almost 1.9 GW is from projects that can compete in auctions for PV up to 1 MW.
Furthermore, the IEO reveals, there is another 179 MW available for projects ranging in power from 1 MW to 5 MW, and an additional 20 MW for PV projects exceeding 5 MW in size. The last two project types will likely compete in the upcoming mixed wind-solar auction for projects over 1 MW.
Poland's cumulative installed PV capacity reached around 300 MW as of the end of May. According to another report from the IEO, an installed PV capacity of around 1.2 GW may be reached by the country at the end of 2020, as a result of the deployment of all of the aforementioned auctions. Most of the country's current installed PV power, the IEO said, is represented by residential and commercial PV projects developed under the expired green certificate scheme and net metering for solar up to 40 kW.
Piotr Pająk represents Polish renewable energy portal Gramwzielone.pl. Greenpeace Polska (which has no connection with Greenpeace).


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And concludes: most studies suggest that the effect of the consumption of soft drinks on an eventual weight gain is small except in people who are prone to gain weight or have high levels of consumption. Obesity among the American population has increased considerably and according to data from the United States Disease Control Center, in 2005 there was a 23.9% of obese adults, with a BMI greater than 30, while in 2007 that percentage already reached 25.6 per cent. Meanwhile, according to data from the Spanish society for the study of obesity (SEEDO) and the Spanish society of Endocrinology and nutrition (SEEN), the percentage of adult population with obesity in Spain does not reach 16%. This is, almost 10% less than that has United States, an argument that reinforces the thesis provided by Nutrition Research Reviews.


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The FDA has granted LOXO-292 a breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of patients with RET fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). This designation will expedite the development and review of the drug.
BY Silas Inman
The FDA has granted LOXO-292 a breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of patients with RET fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer (MTC), according to Loxo Oncology, the manufacturer of the selective RET inhibitor.
The breakthrough designation, which will expedite the development and review of the drug, is specifically for the treatment of patients with metastatic RET fusion–positive NSCLC who require systemic therapy and have progressed following platinum-based chemotherapy and an anti–PD-1 or anti–PD-L1 therapy; and for the treatment of patients with RET-mutant MTC who require systemic therapy, have progressed following prior treatment, and have no acceptable alternative treatment options.
The designation, which will expedite the development and review of LOXO-292 for these indications, is based on findings from the phase 1 LIBRETTO-001 study presented at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. In the ongoing trial, the objective response rate (ORR) was 77 percent for patients with RET fusion–positive NSCLC. At the April 2018 data cutoff, no patients with NSCLC had developed progressive disease (PD), with 90 percent remaining on treatment with LOXO-292. Moreover, all patients (three patients) with measurable intracranial lesions responded to LOXO-292.
In those with RET-mutated MTC, the ORR was 45 percent, with one complete response (CR) and one additional CR awaiting confirmation. Two patients in this group developed PD and 93 percent continued to receive treatment with LOXO-292. Moreover, in two patients with a resistance mutation in V804M, there was a substantial reduction in tumor size. In four enrolled patients with no known activating RET alteration, there was no response with LOXO-292.
"We look forward to working with FDA to streamline the development of LOXO-292 in the two patient populations that have comprised the bulk of our initial clinical trial enrollment," Josh Bilenker, M.D., chief executive officer at Loxo Oncology, said in a statement.
"Given the many available therapies for non–small cell lung cancer and medullary thyroid cancer, we are pleased that LOXO-292 has shown encouraging data in refractory patients, and hope to demonstrate the full potential of this treatment in additional populations over time," added Bilenker.
At the April 2018 data cutoff, 82 patients had been treated across seven cohorts of LOXO-292, with doses ranging from 20 mg every day to 240 mg twice daily. The study enrolled patients with RET fusion-positive cancer or those with RET mutations. The RET fusion group (49 patients) included 38 patients with NSCLC, nine with papillary thyroid cancer and two with pancreatic cancer. The RET-mutated arm consisted solely of patients with medullary thyroid cancer (29 patients).
The median age of patients in the trial was 61 years (range, 17-88) and the primary ECOG performance status score was 71 percent. The median number of prior therapies was three (range, 1-9). Nearly a third of patients received two or more prior multikinase inhibitors (29 percent), with 66 percent of patients receiving at least one of these agents prior to study entry. Prior immunotherapy was received by 24 percent of patients and brain metastases were present for 15 percent of patients.
For patients with RET fusion-positive NSCLC (38 patients), there were 20 partial responses (PRs) and 3 PRs that were still awaiting confirmation on subsequent scans. Four patients had stable disease and three were not yet evaluable. Across all patients with RET fusion-positive cancer, the ORR was 77 percent, which consisted entirely of partial responses. Six patients had stable disease.
Responses to LOXO-292 were seen across RET fusion partners for patients with NSCLC. In those with the most common partner, KIF5B (16 patients), the ORR was 81 percent. In those with non-KIF5B partners, the ORR was 82 percent. Additionally, responses were observed regardless of the starting dose and prior therapy.
For those with MTC, responses were also observed regardless of starting dose and mutation type. Moreover, there was a substantial decline in carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and calcitonin levels following treatment with LOXO-292.
Most treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) in the study were grade 1 in severity. There were only two treatment-related grade 3 AEs and no grade 4 events. The two grade 3 events were tumor lysis syndrome and increased ALT levels, both events resolved. At the April 2018 data cutoff, a maximum tolerated dose had not yet been reached. Tumor lysis syndrome represented the only dose-limiting toxicity in the trial.
The most common TEAEs were fatigue (20 percent), diarrhea (16 percent), constipation (15 percent), dry mouth (12 percent), nausea (12 percent) and dyspnea (9 percent). The most common treatment-related AEs were fatigue (13 percent), dry mouth (6 percent), nausea (5 percent), diarrhea (2 percent) and constipation (2 percent).
Multikinase inhibitors targeting RET and other kinases have shown promise in previous studies, specifically Caprelsa (vandetanib) and Cometriq (cabozantinib), which are both approved for MTC. In the study that led to FDA approval for Caprelsa, the ORR was 44 percent with the multikinase inhibitor compared with 1 percent for placebo. For Cometriq, the ORR was 27 percent compared with 0 percent for placebo.
In a case study of a 57-year-old man with advanced MTC harboring a germline RET V804M gatekeeper mutation, LOXO-292 demonstrated a confirmed CR at the 80 mg twice daily dose, which was escalated to 160 mg twice daily. Prior to enrollment in the study, the patient had progressed on Cometriq, Caprelsa and Lenvima (lenvatinib). The patient remained in response at month 6.
The phase 2 LIBRETTO-001 study exploring LOXO-292 continues to enroll patients with advanced RET-altered solid tumors. The full estimated enrollment for the trial is 180 patients and the primary completion date is August 2019 (NCT03157128).
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Upper-Secondary School
Even though upper-secondary school is not compulsory in Japan, 94 percent of all lower-secondary school graduates entered uppersecondary schools in 1989. Private upper-secondary schools account for about 24 percent of all upper-secondary schools, and neither public nor private schools are free. The Ministry of Education estimated that annual family expenses for the education of a child in a public upper-secondary school were about �300,000 (US$2,142) in both 1986 and 1987 and that private upper-secondary schools were about twice as expensive.
All upper-secondary schools, public and private, are informally ranked, based on their success in placing graduates in freshman classes of the most prestigious universities. In the 1980s, private upper-secondary schools occupied the highest levels of this hierarchy, and there was substantial pressure to do well in the examinations that determined the upper-secondary school a child entered. Admission also depends on the scholastic record and performance evaluation from lower-secondary school, but the examination results largely determine school entrance. Students are closely counseled in lower-secondary school, so that they will be relatively assured of a place in the schools to which they apply.
The most common type of upper-secondary schools has a fulltime , general program that offered academic courses for students preparing for higher education and also technical and vocational courses for students expecting to find employment after graduation. More than 70 percent of upper-secondary school students were enrolled in the general academic program in the late 1980s. A small number of schools offer part-time or evening courses or correspondence education.
The first-year programs for students in both academic and commercial courses are similar. They include basic academic courses, such as Japanese language, English, mathematics, and science. In upper-secondary school, differences in ability are first publicly acknowledged, and course content and course selection are far more individualized in the second year. However, there is a core of academic material throughout all programs.
Vocational-technical programs includes several hundred specialized courses, such as information processing, navigation, fish farming, business English, and ceramics. Business and industrial courses are the most popular, accounting for 72 percent of all students in full-time vocational programs in 1989.
The upper-secondary curriculum also underwent thorough revision; in 1989 a new Course of Study for Upper-Secondary Schools was announced that was to be phased in beginning with the tenth grade in 1994, followed by the eleventh grade in 1995 and the twelfth grade in 1996. Among noteworthy changes is the requirement that both male and female students take a course in home economics. The government is concerned with instilling in all students an awareness of the importance of family life, the various roles and responsibilities of family members, the concept of cooperation within the family, and the role of the family in society. The family continues to be an extremely important part of the social infrastructure, and the ministry clearly is interested in maintaining family stability within a changing society. Another change of note was the division of the old social studies course into history, geography, and civics courses.
Most upper-secondary teachers are university graduates. Uppersecondary schools are organized into departments, and teachers specialize in their major fields although they teach a variety of courses within their disciplines. Although women compose about 20 percent of the teaching force, only 2.5 percent of principals are women.
Teaching depends largely on the lecture system, with the main goal of covering the very demanding curriculum in the time allotted. Approach and subject coverage tends to be uniform, at least in the public schools. As in lower-secondary school, the teachers, not the students, move from room to room after each fifty-minute class period.
Upper-secondary students are subject to a great deal of supervision by school authorities and school rules even outside of school. Students' behavior and some activities are regulated by school codes that are known and obeyed by most children. School regulations often set curfews and govern dress codes, hairstyles, student employment, and even leisure activities. The school frequently is responsible for student discipline when a student ran afoul of the regulations or, occasionally, of the law.
Delinquency generally, and school violence in particular, are troubling to Japanese authorities. Violations by upper-secondary school students include smoking and some substance abuse (predominantly of amphetamines). Use of drugs, although not a serious problem by international standards, is of concern to the police and civil authorities (see Public Order and Internal Security , ch. 8). Bullying and the drop-out rate are also subjects of attention. Upper-secondary students drop out at a rate of between 2.0 and 2.5 percent per year. The graduation rates for upper-secondary schools stood at 87.5 percent in 1987.
Discrimination in education is prohibited, but the hisabetsu buraku discriminated communities, a group of people racially and culturally Japanese who have been discriminated against historically, are still disadvantaged in education to some degree (see Minorities , ch. 2). Their relatively poor educational attainment through the upper-secondary level in the 1960s was said to have been largely corrected by the 1980s, but reliable evidence is lacking.
There are some private schools for the children of the foreign community in Japan, and there are some Korean schools for children of Japan's Korean minority population, many of whom are secondgeneration or third-generation residents in Japan. Graduates of Korean schools face some discrimination, particularly in entering higher education. Observers estimated that 75 percent of Korean children were attending Japanese schools in the early 1980s.
Training of handicapped students, particularly at the uppersecondary level, emphasizes vocational education to enable students to be as independent as possible within society. Vocational training varies considerably depending on the student's handicap, but the options are limited for some. It is clear that the government is aware of the necessity of broadening the range of possibilities for these students. Advancement to higher education is also a goal of the government, and it struggles to have institutions of higher learning accept more handicapped students.
Upper-secondary school students returning to Japan after living overseas present another problem. The ministry was trying to get upper-secondary schools to accept these students more readily and in the late 1980s had decided to allow credit for one uppersecondary school year spent abroad.
Upper-secondary school graduates choosing to enter the labor force are supported by a very effective system of job placement, which, combined with favorable economic conditions, keeps the unemployment rate among new graduates quite low (see The Structure of Japan's Labor Market , ch. 4). For those students going on to college, the final phases of school life becomes increasingly dedicated to preparing for examinations, particularly in some of the elite private schools. About 31 percent of upper-secondary graduates advance to some form of higher education directly after graduation.
After-school clubs provide an important upper-secondary school activity. Sports, recreational reading, and watching television are popular daily leisure activities, but schoolwork and other studies remain the focus of the daily lives of most children. The college entrance examinations greatly influence school life and study habits, not only for college-bound students but also indirectly for all; the prospect of the examinations often imparts a seriousness to the tone of school life at the upper-secondary level.


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This chapter of my new book explores how spectacular failures in complex systems transformed the category of "accidents" in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. The vast expansion of British Victorian rail networks in the 1840s and 1850s helped create a society of strangers that defined both modern Britain and modernity itself. But that expansion also created deep anxieties about the dangers of large-scale systems, their tendency to multiply horrific accidents, and even to make those accidents inevitable. Whereas accidents had previously been freak occurrences, by the 1860s, railway systems were seen as the material sites where impossible conjunctions of imperfect materials, flawed humans, and failing machines routinely came together to threaten a newly nervous public. The chapter examines the attempts to develop a systematic knowledge of technological accidents and their shifting nature, from freak occurrence to looming inevitability. It highlights the role of the anxious traveling public in that transformation — a public these accidents helped create. It explores the suite of modern remedies — timetables, management practices, system maps — designed to bring accidents under control. And it focuses on the rise of a way of thinking about technological failures that tied anxieties about unreliable humans to fears of untrustworthy machines. In doing so, the chapter aims to remind us of how "making things work" has always been bound up with fraught questions over why and how things fail. Victorian observers furnished one particularly powerful and enduring way of thinking about accidents, responsibility, and social order in an age of distributed causality.


Having to travel out of town for treatment can make it even harder.
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Flowers can be purchased using the linked form.


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Q: Probability of winning a contest after people join Let $n\geq 1$. A contest has two rounds. You are automatically in the second round, while $n$ other people are in the first round. Each of the $n$ other people proceeds to the second round with probability $1/n$, independently. If there are $k$ people in the second round, you win the contest with probability $1/k$. Is it true that you win the contest with probability at least $1/2$, regardless of $n$?
For $n=1$ it's clear that the probability is exactly $1/2$.
For $n=2$, the probability that both other people join is $1/4$, and in this case you win with probability $1/3$. If one other person joins (probability $1/2$), you win with probability $1/2$. If no one else joins, you win with probability $1$. The probability that you win is then $$\frac14\cdot\frac13+\frac12\cdot\frac12+\frac14\cdot 1=\frac{7}{12}>\frac12.$$
For $n=3$, the probability that you win is
$$\frac{1}{27}\cdot\frac{1}{4}+\frac{6}{27}\cdot\frac13+\frac{12}{27}\cdot\frac12+\frac{8}{27}=\frac{65}{108}>\frac12.$$

A: To answer your question, let $X\sim Binom(n,\frac 1 n)$. Then $$P(Win(n))=E\big(\frac 1 {1+X}\big)\geq\frac 1 {1+E(X)}=\frac 1 2$$ by Jensen's inequality (with equality only if $n=1$).
We can also integrate probability generating function for $X$ from $0$ to $1$ to yield $$P(Win(n))=\sum_{k=0}^n\frac 1 {k+1}P(X=k)=\sum_{k=0}^n\int_0^1P(X=k)z^kdz=\int_0^1 (1-\frac 1 n+\frac z n)^ndz=\frac n {n+1}-\frac{n-1}{n+1}\big(1-\frac 1 n)^n\to 1-e^{-1}$$

A: Let $p_i$ be the probability that $i$ other people reach the second round. The expected number of other people who reach the second round is $1$. Hence $p_0\ge1-p_0-p_1$, so your winning probability is at least
$$
p_0+\frac12p_1\ge\frac12p_0+\frac12p_1+\frac12(1-p_0-p_1)=\frac12
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(and this would hold even if you lost if two or more other people reach the second round).

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Jay R. Traver (1894–1974) was a University of Massachusetts entomologist. Jeffrey Lockwood wrote in The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects that she was responsible for "one of the most remarkable mistakes ever published in a scientific entomological journal".

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Traver displayed evidence in her writing of having what has been described as a classic case of delusional parasitosis – a mental disorder in which individuals believe, without evidence, that they have a parasitic infestation of the skin. After she was "rebuffed by doctors for years" when describing her symptoms, she embarked on a quest to identify the source of what she believed was an infestation causing her skin sores.  A dermatologist said her symptoms "were largely imaginary" or  "caused by an ill-advise (sic) attempt [at self-medication by the patient]". She convinced a neurologist that she did not need his help. She corresponded with others who reported similar symptoms, and used 22 different chemicals to attempt to rid herself of the infestation.

She claimed the cause of her infestation to be a rare dust mite that she thought came from a neighbor's cat or dog. In 1951, she published in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington a paper titled "Unusual Scalp Dermatitis in Humans Caused by the Mite, Dermatophagoides (Acarina, epidermoptidae)" summarizing her tribulations and findings. The article concluded with a "tirade against the 'medical profession' and her pride in rejecting the dermatologist's verdict and having the knowledge to identify her invaders", according to Matan Shelomi.

In the mid-1960s, another scientist, Alex Fain, discovered that Travers' account was a scientific impossibility, because dust mites do not burrow into human skin as Traver described; other inconsistencies are documented in the literature and described by Shelomi. Hinkle, Poorbaugh, Shelomi and others argue that the evidence that Traver had delusional parasitosis is contained in her detailed 1951 publication describing her symptoms. Lockwood concludes in The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects that "Traver's account was a vivid, poignant, and tragic autobiography of a woman driven to desperate measures to affirm the reality of her delusion".

In the 2013 article, "Mad Scientist: A Unique Case of a Published Delusion", Shelomi describes Traver as having a "textbook case" of delusional parasitosis.  Shelomi argues that the paper published by Traver "is unique in the scientific literature in that its conclusions may be based on data that was unconsciously fabricated by the author's mind". Shelomi argues that the published work may have been accepted on the basis of her reputation as a scientist, although the writing was not the dispassionate writing typical of a scientist, and that it should not have been accepted for publication. He says the paper warrants retraction, but that doing so could raise concerns about discrimination against those with mental disorders, and questions the responsibility of medical journals when delusions are presented as science. He argues that the historical paper should be retracted because it has misled people about their delusions. He says the paper has done "permanent and lasting damage" to people with delusional parasitosis, "who widely circulate and cite articles such as Traver's and other pseudoscientific or false reports" via the internet, making treatment and cure more difficult. He compares it to the controversy with Andrew Wakefield's retracted paper that fueled the Lancet MMR vaccine autism fraud.

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Traver collaborated with James George Needham on his 1935 book, The Biology of Mayflies, which was described in 2007 as "the cornerstone of North American mayfly entomology".

See also
 Morgellons

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1974 deaths
20th-century American zoologists
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Medical controversies in the United States
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President Trump wants to end the diversity visa program, which allows about 50,000 people to immigrate annually from eastern Europe and other places.
The suspect in Tuesday's terror attack that left eight dead in New York entered the United States through a national immigration lottery program that operates in Kentucky.
The Diversity Immigrant Program is administered through the Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, the seat of Whitley County, which borders Tennessee.
President Donald Trump said he wants to Congress to end the program and said that Sayfullo Saipov, 29, used it to enter the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010.
Saipov stayed for two weeks with an Uzbek family in Symmes Township. He moved to Tampa, Florida, and his most recent address is Paterson, New Jersey.
Why have a Diversity Immigrant Program?
This visa program, created by the Immigration Act of 1990, was designed to increase the diversity of the incoming pool of immigrants. It also provides people who have no family or economic ties to the United States a slim, random chance to enter.
The State Department issues up to 50,000 immigrant visas annually through this program, using a lottery system conducted at the Williamsburg center.
When they enter the United States, after a lengthy application process that includes a personal interview, visa recipients are Lawful Permanent Residents, otherwise known as green card holders.
Who does it bring to the United States?
Eligibility is limited to people living in countries from which few immigrate to the United States. Most of the resident countries are in Africa, Asia and eastern Europe or were part of the former Soviet Union.
In 2016, people from African countries made up 44 percent of the 46,718 diversity visas that were granted. Eastern Europeans received 33 percent and Asians 19 percent.
In the previous year,125,515 applicants were chosen by random to make formal applications for immigrant visas. That number came from a pool of 9.4 million total applicants.
Of those selected to apply, 5,000 were from Liberia and Cameroon. More than 4,900 were chosen from Iran, Egypt and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More than 4,100 were selected to apply from Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Russia.
People selected for the formal process are required to provide a detailed list of documents and are otherwise vetted, including a personal interview, before being allowed into the United States.
Can people from Uzbekistan still apply?
Yes. Uzbekistan is on the list of the countries allowed in the program for the fiscal year 2019; applications are now being taken. Instructions are available In the Uzbek language.
How exactly did Saipov get in?
He applied twice, according to a report by Newsweek.
He filed first in 2008 and then in 2009 because requests do not carry over year to year.
The State Department received 9,147,340 visa requests for the diversity lottery in 2009; 69,289 of them were from Uzbekistan.
That year 2,388 Uzbeks received visas, or 5 percent of the 48,036 total visas granted. The odds to receive a visa weren't as long for Uzbeks as for some others: 3.4 percent of Uzbek lottery entrants received visas, compared to 0.5 percent of all entrants.
What are requirements for the diversity program?
Besides being a resident of a country on the list, applicants must be a high school graduate and have two years of work experience in a number of qualifying fields. Among those are food preparation and service, agricultural, grounds maintenance and truck driver. Saipov worked as a truck driver.
What is the program's future?
Immigration hard-liners in Congress do not like the diversity lottery and want it replaced with a merit-based system. Trump said as much Wednesday.
In 2013, the Senate passed an immigration overhaul that would have eliminated the diversity immigration lottery program. The legislation died, though, when the House failed to bring it to a vote.
Now, Republican senators such as South Carolina's Lindsey Graham are apparently using the diversity program as a bargaining chip in immigration reform discussions. One proposal would kill it in exchange for keeping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Trump killed DACA in September but gave Congress a six-month window in which to come up with legislation to protect these immigrants brought illegally into the United States by their parents as young children.
Williamsburg is in the 5th congressional district, represented by House member Hal Rogers since 1981. Rogers, a Republican whose biography lists economic development and job creation among his top priorities, serves one of the nation's poorest districts. He has been a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee since entering Congress.
The U.S. Department of State created the Kentucky Consular Center in 2000 to take over management of the Diversity Immigrant Program from the National Visa Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The Sentinel-Echo newspaper of London, Kentucky, reported Oct. 25 that the center has 400 employees, compared to 45 when it opened.


Shinji Fukuyo, executive officer and chief blender at Suntory Spirits, will address the Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference 2017 in Scotland.
Fukuyo joins others already announced as participating in the conference, including keynote speaker Dame Anne Glover, former chief scientific adviser to the European Union, and Dr James Brosnan, director of the Scotch Whisky Research Institute.
The WDSC organising committee says they will join a range of experts from the global distilling industry who will congregate in Glasgow from May 29 to June 1 to share their knowledge and latest thinking on the spirits sector.
The theme of the conference is 'Local roots; global reach: delivering distilling expertise to the world'. The Scottish section of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling is hosting the sixth WDSC at the Hilton Hotel in the centre of Glasgow, with hundreds of delegates expected to attend.
Fukuyo was appointed chief blender of Suntory whisky in 2009 and executive officer in 2014. He is responsible for the liquid quality of all of the seven million cases of Suntory whisky brands as well as the research and development section of whisky production.
Shinji Fukuyo said: "I am very honored that Suntory has been chosen as the closing lecturer for this historic and prominent academic conference. As a result of acquiring US-Based Beam Inc. in 2014, Suntory has now transformed into a truly global whisky company that not only owns Japanese whisky brands but a wide variety of Scotch, Irish, Bourbon, and Canadian whisky brands as well.
Another draw of the conference, the organisers say, is its technical tour programme which this year includes visits to Glenmorangie's Alba bottling site and Glen Turner's Starlaw grain distillery. Both these visits are within easy reach of Glasgow and attendees at the conference are advised to sign up early if they would like to take part.
AWDSC chairman lan Kennedy said: "Next year's event is shaping up to be better than ever before. We're delighted to be attracting high-profile speakers from across the globe, such as Shinji Fukuyo who will share his in-depth expertise of the sprits industry. And we were pleased to receive more than 100 abstracts from people looking to actively participate in the conference.


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О́зеро Левинсо́н-Ле́ссинга — пресное озеро в Красноярском крае на полуострове Таймыр. Представляет собой узкий (не более 3 км) водоем, длиной 12 км, находящийся в одной из межгорных котловин разломного типа. Расположено в 30 км западнее озера Таймыр, абсолютная высота зеркала озера над уровнем моря составляет 48 метров. Измерение глубин показало, что они достигают в центральной части озера 112 м, то есть дно озера лежит на 60 метров ниже уровня моря. Площадь самого озера около 25 км², площадь же бассейна озера составляет около 500 км² и почти вся лежит в пределах гор Бырранга. Из озера вытекает ручей Проточный, который впадает в реку Ледяную, которая впадает в озеро Таймыр. В 1993—1996 годах бассейн этого озера всесторонне изучала комплексная международная экспедиция Института Арктики и Антарктики и Института Альфреда Вегенера (Германия).

Вокруг озера мохово-лишайничковая тундра. В котловине озера особый микроклимат, часты прорывы холодного арктического ветра с севера, и температура воздуха на 2-3 градуса ниже близлежащей равнины и межгорных котловин. Озеро и его окрестности входят в состав Таймырского заповедника. Озеро названо в честь российского геолога, академика Ф. Ю. Левинсон-Лессинга.

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 Комплексные лимнологические исследования оз. Левинсон-Лессинга и прилегающих озёр гор Бырранга
 М. А. АНИСИМОВ, О. Г. РОМАЩЕНКО, М. В. РЯЗАНОВА МОРФОМЕТРИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ ТЕРРАСОВЫХ УРОВНЕЙ озера ЛЕВИНСОН-ЛЕССИНГА

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