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"…if I say yes, we are nobody. If I say no it can cost us our life": The La Bufa Story with Guro Moe – Interview Special | Simon Gore
"…if I say yes, we are nobody. If I say no it can cost us our life": The LaBufa Story with Guro Moe
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There's no one else quite like Guro Moe. The Octobass wielding Norwegian heroine has many a string to her bow. When she's not conducting commissions for theatre or composing for independent horror films, she's preparing the most badass Habanero salad in the northern hemisphere. With an appetite for professional momentum that would have scared even the likes of Frank Zappa, it's hardly surprising that she is making a serious name for herself around the world.
Alongside being one of the most iconic women in Norwegian music, with an honesty and welcoming charm, her social personality is a strange contrast to her firm and fierce on-stage alter ego. We got together in Oslo's Kulturhuset following one of her latest public talks to discuss the new record, La Bufa with her decade strong, self-titled noise rock/punk band, MoE.
SG: So when we arranged this you were working on a theatre piece?
GM: I was working on music for a new puppet theatre performance for Plexus Polaire with singers from Hamar – where I am from. It's my mum and local choir singers. But I've got many others going on – like tomorrow, I'm doing a structured composition, but how it turns out is dealt with the involvement of the participants. I'm not presenting them a full score, as has been the composition method I have acquired and have liked. This is to reach to the performer's own motivation to do sound. Obviously, some are more strict and some more open. It's featuring a fraction of the chamber orchestra, The Touchables. This one is called The Noise is Rest, with two more coming – Svart/Hvit and Dots Kinematics, which is a composition by Pain Jerk.
SG: We should talk about the album. I thought it was recorded at Athletic Sound in Halden, Norway?
GM: Not this one. This was done at Testa Estudio in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. It's a true copy of Electrical Audio.
SG: I thought it looked similar when I saw the pictures.
GM: The in-house engineer, KB, worked at Electrical Audio for some months. He went back making an identical copy. It's an analogue studio with 24-track tape. We've known about that studio since the first time we were in Mexico in 2013, but in 2017 it just made sense to record there. We'd heard good things about it from other Norwegian and Mexican musicians who had been there. I remember Håvard was very suspicious – "man, we're recording in Mexico – the guy's going to smoke pot and it's going to be a mess". And it was the total opposite. KB was the straightest guy with an epic work ethic. His only violation to this was Coca Cola, so it went very well.
SG: And you said you recorded live?
GM: Yeah, with some few overdubs.
SG: To me, the guitar sound particularly on this album is very different to your earlier stuff. To my ears this is certainly closer to 13 Songs era Fugazi, or something like that, in comparison to your earlier stuff. Did you ship anything out with you? Because I know you and Håvard are vintage amp collectors.
GM: But the reality of modern touring has made the vintage amp collector perspective fade in favour of functionality. Functionality also makes us not bring anything to Mexico. Also, we had the aspect of using what was in the studio and making it work, which has of course been the issue of a lot of those concerts in Mexico. You know, how can I produce meaningful, valuable music on an amp that's the size of a matchbox? We change the set every night to fit the surroundings, which has been a strength. But in terms of getting deeper and controlling what you are communicating, this thing of knowing your gear is valuable and necessary. But then I love both sides of it – the precise knowledge and chaos. You have to just work with reality.
SG: So why Mexico? And why that studio? I know you guys have got a big following out there
GM: It happened from not knowing. You never know how a place is going to be the first time you go. You cannot worry, but you can also never predict the outcome. The energy that came towards our music from our first tour in Mexico was so incredible. I had never experienced this energy, ever, until 2013. I didn't know this could be found in our music. This was a real life changing experience. One which changed the course and our motivation to explore places where musicians wouldn't normally go. It's just the confirmation that you have no clue. And also, you must trust your emotions – you're not supposed to, as it leads to so much trouble. But then you have to. It turns into things you could not have dreamed about.
SG: The internet still can't tell you everything.
GM: No. On the first tour was a concert in Guadalajara where a guy came up to our guitarist, Håvard and said, "I WANT TO MARRY YOU". So it can lead to drastic things.
SG: From an artist's perspective, what is it like out there in Mexico now, in terms of the political atmosphere, in comparison to how it was in 2013?
GM: Because of the time we have spent there over the years, I'm getting more of a clue of how it actually is to live in Mexico. Not just from a visitor's perspective, but going deeper. Last year the new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who's the first left-wing president was put in. Which made a gigantic scene. We were in a taxi and the driver told us to listen up to his speech on the radio, as it was a big deal to the people there. I only know a bit of Spanish, but enough to communicate how special this moment was for them.
As always, there's opposition as he's rooted deeply in Christianity and some of our other Mexican friends were saying he's also following the same structures that the country has seen for a long time. But that country has such intense political changes and corruption, which leads to what happens in closer communities; these are the most valuable and important. The way I feel is how they are – alive in the present. You notice it in how they talk to you and how they put in all of what they are. This makes me feel like I can really rest easily.
The country has had abuse from the USA in forms of demand for drug supply and professional crime for what seems like forever. Obviously you know about this, but on the surface it's not visible and not really heard of in our circles. How on earth can someone deal with being colonialized and having their whole culture ripped out? I read in a book that actually in terms of how many years humans have been here, the colonisation in South America has been the most devastating in history. It's hard to imagine when you compare it to better-known cases like African slavery, for instance.
They are suffering also from violence against women – physically and psychologically, which is increasing throughout South America. So I'm also confronted with that when I'm there and I ask questions, like, how I respond to this reality? A reality that is very far from my own.
SG: How does it feel to be the front woman of a perceptively very aggressive musical act, and obviously being a white foreigner performing to such an audience in a place like this?
GM: In terms of a performance like ours, I feel people are embracing it and giving it energy. Someone suggested something to include in this interview: I'd never thought about my necessity. I need to play this music. It is for the audience, but also for myself. My necessity is someone else's impossibility. I've gotten to know a lot of great female musicians who are doing the same, yet it also feels contradictory. To be in Mexico feels like an abrasiveness of the feminine. But you can experience the feminine perspective in how people look after each other and think about everyone. It's present in their dialogue and their interactions.
But the feminine perspective does not have to deal with gender. I think everyone is screaming for it, as the masculinity that controls and determines our society today, has gone out of date. Now, I think, with the acceleration of violence against women, the world knows the feminine perspective is what will save us. I feel you can hear it from politicians and people at work. Many men also are tired of this.
SG: I'm certainly tired of being around chauvinism and Neanderthal-like, attitudes.
GM: I can also understand that it's not so easy to be a man today. Having all these limits – be this, be so cool, don't be something else. Like, to have no places to be in touch with your sensitivity is a bad thing for all humans. Our times do not allow this, whereas music and art do have the power to allow this and make thishappen. This is proven by observing dictatorships and regimes, where music and art is forbidden by the powers.
SG: It's the model of dictatorship that a lot of men, particularly in this strange, modern world, are chasing. It's the desire to be able to remove anything that threatens their idealised persona or lifestyle. Like you said – if you are singing about violence against women in a noise-rock band, as a woman, this is going to make people listen and that becomes a threat to the demographic that the dictator is trying to control.
GM: Exactly. Capitalism is also like that, in a way, where they control your needs and your desires. But I do feel grateful that music and touring takes up so much of my life. I have the freedom to do what so many others sadly don't.
SG: I like the Sophie Scholl quote where she explains, "The real damage (to society) is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' …Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness." She tried to speak up about the casual, societal acceptance of these comforts, but sadly the powers at the time saw her as a threat and she was executed as a result of her actions.
GM: I think that's dependent in terms of who is in power. The thing is, the feminine perspective can be expressed or delivered effectively by either sex.
I was in a meeting recently and overheard a conversation from the organisation director saying that it was such a shame that there were no women in the board making decisions. I couldn't help joining in the conversation. It can't be like, "oh shit, we forgot to bring any women". The necessity of views and qualities this brings should not be overlooked. The feminine perspective is the necessity in this situation, not the gender.
SG: Is there anything you have touched upon in the subject matter of your lyrics this time, in relation to these experiences?
GM: Yeah. I wrote most of the lyrics during a self-made residency in Guanajuato, Mexico, when I had 2 years of support for my personal development. It was important for me to show that the process came from a feminine perspective. One song in particular takes influence from a brutal event in Santa Rosa where a woman was almost killed because she refused to have sex with a guy who had offered her a lift. When they first got the trial to court, she was accused of putting herself in that situation because she said she was sexually active. They tried taking the blame away. But she replied so accurately from the perspective of women, "if I say yes, we are nobody. If I say no it can cost us our life." Because she spoke up like this, it made the whole thing change.
Her voice made me talk about it with you in this interview. It empowered other women in the same situation feeling vulnerable and guilty, suffering from the same thing happening but not finding words. She also said that what had happened had given her a voice. In the end it's the patriarchal society that we are living in, I think in all the world. It had different levels of this depending on how a country has developed socially and I think our different countries are not just beneficial for their climate – just to put it in another perspective.
SG: I remember the At The Drive-In song, Invalid Litter Department, was written about the disappearance of young women in Juárez, which became 570 unsolved murder cases from 1993 – 2001. I later read that the initiation process of a crime gang was to abduct a woman, rape and kill her then leave her in the desert and this may have been related to the case. I'm not up-to-date or informed enough to know the outcome of this and were it not for ATDI, I would never have known about it.
There are too many other people who don't get to hear about these things and not enough press sources making this information available outside of the initial area. So I have great admiration for people when people sing about these globally hidden issues, making the stories accessible through their art. I can remember interviewing Lasse Marhaug years ago and he said that the fundamental role of an artist wasn't necessarily to change the world, but to provide a new perspective on something – if you provide a new angle of vision for someone, they will see things differently.
This is what I think singing and playing about these subject matters really does – it helps people that may not have access to news sources or information from other parts of the world become engaged in important matters beyond their immediate surroundings. This is channelled through, for instance, what you have done. To be going back to Mexico and singing about these things is incredibly brave.
GM: It's just the openness between the music and the audience. I can, of course find this elsewhere, but this has another physicality that gives it another level of meaning.
SG: So La Bufa is coming out on your own label, Conrad Sound?
GM: We've worked with just one other label in the past, Fysisk Format, but everything else, including this one is on our own. It works better with the model of our band structure. Our creative and professional choices mean we sell albums mostly at concerts. Distributing is something extremely valuable and something I always search for. But to be able to release records following our artistic drive, visions and work, to have our own label is the only way. Well, the way that has functioned best until now. We have done many co-releases on other labels, and especially with other projects.
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SG: So what's next? The album is out now. Are you having a release party?
GM: We must because there will also be a music video, filmed by Amat Escalante, the award-winning director of The Untamed.
SG: No fucking way.
GM: Yeah, he recorded it in Mexico on 16mm film with an awesome crew of Everado Filipe, Martín Escalante, Oscar Escalante and Adrián Alba, for the song, Santa Rosa. It's all narrative with Alejandra Ramírez and myself on screen and cut/edited by Dalia Huerta Cano. So that will be a party!
SG: You should get a film crew with you next time. Do a Mexican tour video.
GM: Oh yeah.
SG: Do you have a tour booked?
GM: Yes – Europe and Mexico. This is the first step for the album.
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I like C++ and my text mining app is written in C++. The reasons: speed (e.g., file I/O, data structures) and STL. However, one major weakness of C++ is visualization, something R is quite good at if you can figure out all the syntax quirks. So I set out to combine the two in my app for visualization purposes using some prevalent and well-respected packages. Xcode is my chosen IDE. The process was setup-heavy, and took some time digging here and there. I documented the process so that anyone else looking to do the same might find this post helpful. I have also provided a working code example.
You could forego installing ggplot2 and use R's plot() function, but ggplot2 has better aesthetics.
- Add necessary R header files to the Xcode project's header files search path list.
Alternatively you could copy all of the R header files into your default /include directory.
- Add the R and RInside dynamic libraries to your Xcode project.
Rcpp does not require a dynamic library.
std::string cmd = "library(ggplot2); "
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Getting Mileage From Gasoline Prices
Simon Constable
Bloomberg Commodity Index
Gasoline prices look set to trade in a sideways range over the summer, but there are profits to be made for investors willing to play the options market. The main caveat: It will require taking on significant risk by selling options rather than buying them.
Experts say gasoline prices won't venture far from the recent active month futures of $1.50 a gallon on the CME. Few are expecting a return to the days of $3 or $4 a gallon fuel—and there seems little chance we'll see $1 a gallon.
"It definitely seems to be one of a range-bound market," says Max Pyziur, senior advisor at the Energy Policy Research Foundation.
What will keep prices from surging is an elevated level of gasoline inventory, now at approximately 10% more than the average level over the past five years, according to a recent report by Morgan Stanley.
"I can't be bullish on the market because inventories of gasoline and crude are very large, way above the average and the five-year range," says Pyziur. On top of that, he doesn't see signs of any major supply disruption, for instance from the hurricane season.
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There are reasons to believe that the prices won't fall much, either.
Refineries likely won't add much to the inventory overhang because the so-called crack spread is relatively low. The spread measures how much money a refinery can make by purchasing crude oil and converting it into gasoline.
Crack spreads on the East Coast have fallen from $11.59 in the third quarter of 2015 to $6.31 in the first quarter of this year, according to a recent report from Scotia Howard Weil. By late June, the spread for the second quarter was averaging $9.38, according to SHW estimates.
Because of the drop in profitability, there is reduced incentive to increase production, says Stewart Glickman, group head for energy equity research at S&P Global Market intelligence. There is also likely to be decent demand this summer. "Since gasoline prices fell from the $3-to-$4 range, there has been a shift in purchasing less fuel-efficient autos," says EPRF's Pyziur. Again, that means the inventory overhang probably won't increase.
SO HOW DO THE OPTIONS WORK? Traders should sell calls that pay out when the price of gasoline rises above $1.70. They should also sell puts that pay out when prices fall below $1.30. If the price is within the range of $1.30 to $1.70 at the end of the contract, then the options expire worthless and the trader keeps the cash.
Doing so recently would have fetched 2.73 cents and 2.64 cents a gallon, respectively, for the two types of September-dated contracts on the CME.
It's probably unwise for inexperienced traders to deal with contracts dated beyond September because forecasting the volatile gasoline market that far ahead can be treacherous. And if the price of gasoline moves outside the $1.30-to-$1.70 range, investors could suffer steep losses.
Each contract represents 42,000 gallons of reformulated gasoline. When you write an option, you are obligated to make good on the contract no matter what. If the option allows the purchaser to buy at $1.70 and the price is $2.00, you owe the difference of 30 cents a gallon. These markets can move very quickly, so buying back a contract to close the position can be tricky.
SIMON CONSTABLE is the author of The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter.
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Dom Gualdim Pais (1118-1195), croisé portugais, frère-chevalier de l'Ordre du Temple ainsi que chevalier du roi Alphonse I de Portugal, est le fondateur de la ville de Tomar.

Biographie
Il est né à Amares (une ville dans la province de Minho près de Braga) en 1118, de Paio Ramires et Gontrode Soares. Il combattit les maures aux côtés du roi Alphonse I, ce dernier le fit chevalier en 1139 après la bataille d'Ourique. Il part peu après pour la Palestine, où il se bat cinq années durant en tant que chevalier templier. Il eut d'ailleurs un rôle important dans le siège de Gaza.

Maitre de la province des templiers du Portugal

En 1157, il devient le quatrième maître de l'Ordre du Temple au Portugal, dont le siège central se trouvait à Braga. Il transféra ce siège dans le château de Tomar (qu'il fit bâtir en 1160), ce dernier se trouvant alors près de la frontière avec les états musulmans. La fameuse Rotonde des Templiers du couvent de l'Ordre du Christ du château de Tomar, inspirée de l'église du Saint-Sépulcre à Jérusalem, fut construit sous sa supervision. Il institua également un for, un ensemble de lois locales, pour la ville de Tomar en 1162. De plus, il supervisa la construction ou la restauration de plusieurs autres châteaux frontaliers pour l'Ordre du Temple tels que le château d'Almourol, ainsi que ceux d'Idanha, Ceres, Monsanto et Pombal. Enfin, il fonda la ville de Pombal et la dota également d'un for en 1174.

Bien qu'assiégé en 1190 par les forces bien supérieures en nombre du roi almoravide Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, il réussit à les vaincre avec ses chevaliers et ainsi à préserver de toute invasion la frontière sud du jeune royaume du Portugal.

Il est mort à Tomar en 1195. Sa sépulture se trouve dans l'église de Santa Maria do Olival dans cette même cité.

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Pais, Gualdim
Naissance en 1118
Décès en 1195

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Могай улам мый налог тӱлӧ гын, мый шке недвижимость сырам ужалат?
There are two taxes to be paid by seller of a real estate in Tenerife.
A – The year you have acquired the property.
B – The year you are selling the property.
Y – Special coefficient that depends on the municipality where your real esate is located and the number of years you've owned the property (in Tenerife it averages at 3,1).
X – The price of acquisition of your property.
Y – The price that you are selling your property for.
If the difference between prices is negative – there is no tax to pay.
Ме муат гын, тыланда мо кӱлеш.


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Films will be screened at five venues in the Metro St. Louis area.
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News / Generating Terahertz Waves from Water
Generating Terahertz Waves from Water
Patricia Daukantas
Researchers have used lasers to generate terahertz pulses via interaction with a target—in this case, an extremely thin film of water. The nearly 200-μm-thick water film is suspended between two aluminum wires. [Image: Kaia Williams and Brandon Dube, University of Rochester]
Scientists have generated terahertz waves from solids, plasmas and even water vapor—but, until now, not from liquid water, which strongly absorbs radiation in that frequency range. Researchers at a U.S. university have finally figured out the right setup for generating broadband terahertz radiation from liquid water excited by femtosecond laser pulses (Appl. Phys. Lett., doi:10.1063/1.4990824).
Key to this feat is the geometry of the experimental setup: focusing the laser on a free-flowing water film just 177 ± 8 μm thick. Optics doctoral candidate Qi Jin and his colleagues in OSA Fellow Xi-Cheng Zhang's group at the University of Rochester confirmed that the terahertz radiation was actually coming from the water, not the surrounding air, and explored the dependence of the polarization of the emission on the polarization of the pump beam.
To get a consistent and stable film, Jin's team set up a gravity-driven flow of water between two horizontal aluminum wires. Adjustments to the flow rate controlled the thickness of the vertical sheet of water. In that plane, the researchers focused a polarized beam from an 800-nm-wavelength pump laser with a repetition rate of 1 kHz.
Experimental setup used to generate terahertz radiation from liquid water. Researchers focus the optical pump beam into the water film and use filters, off-axis parabolic mirrors (OAPMs) and other optical components to detect the terahertz signal and block any other light waves simultaneously generated from the water film.
Between each laser pulse, the water flowed about 1.3 mm—a much greater distance than the width of the light beam's focal spot. According to the authors, this ensured that each light pulse would interact with water that had not previously interacted with the beam. To confirm that the terahertz emission was coming from the water and not the surrounding air, the team moved the water film in and out of the beam's focal spot in the direction of the laser propagation and measured the terahertz fields in the various positions.
Zhang says that many people with whom he discussed the idea for generating terahertz emission from water had reservations about the project, because water's large absorption coefficient in that frequency range is well known. Several of his students had taken stabs at the idea, but they gave up after a few tries, until Jin came along and incorporated recent studies of free-space water films into the work.
In the future, Zhang would like to study water-laser interactions at Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), the second largest laser-fusion facility in the United States. In the meantime, he's pleased that the last piece of the puzzle—terahertz generation from all four states of matter—has been put into place.
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Berger on Brooklyn: 1 year, 1 Sandy later
New Brooklyn Health Report
One of the legacies of the Medicaid Redesign Team's Brooklyn workgroup (see box) is that it sparked several community health planning efforts in the borough. A report to be released shortly taps the comunity's own view of its health care needs. The Brooklyn Community Health Needs Assessment focuses on north and central Brooklyn, and bases its analysis on 644 surveys conducted in 15 ZIP codes, as well as additional data from focus groups, according to Judy Wessler, director of the Commission on the Public's Health System, one of three groups involved in the report. Unlike the MRT's report, hers was conducted "from the bottom up" and "comes up with different solutions that we believe are better solutions," she said.
Dual-Eligible Plans
New York plans to move 124,000 people who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare into managed care by 2014. Only 7,000 dual eligibles currently are in managed-care plans. A report by the United Hospital Fund discusses how integrating service delivery, care management and operations under a single capitation payment—all part of the proposed Fully Integrated Duals Advantage program—will pose substantial challenges for beneficiaries, providers and managed-care plans. Released last week, the report examines the design features of the FIDA program: eligibility and enrollment, benefits and network adequacy, financing and payment, performance monitoring and quality measurement, and consumer protections. It also lays out a timeline of key milestones for the next two years. While the report concludes that FIDA has the "potential to achieve efficiencies and savings" as well as to improve health outcomes, it warns that "managing the inclusion of the Medicare benefit and building linkages with Medicare providers will be challenging, given the constraints on implementation resources and the tight timeline."
Thumbs Down on Medicaid Payments
Sentiment among Crain's online readers is running more than 2-to-1 against an Obamacare/Cuomo-administration plan to offer some Medicaid recipients financial incentives to go to the doctor, try to quit smoking or lower their blood pressure, according to a new Crain's poll. The Cuomo administration has applied for a federal grant to fund a study that would offer cash payments to inspire Medicaid recipients who smoke, have high blood pressure, or are diabetic or prediabetic to get healthier. Smokers could get up to five $50 payments for attending smoking-cessation sessions and $150 for testing negative twice for nicotine. Diabetics and hypertension patients could get paid for getting checkups and improving their health metrics.
A year after Stephen Berger issued a data-packed report on what ails Brooklyn's troubled health care system, which was severely challenged by Superstorm Sandy, the chairman of the Medicaid Redesign Team's Brooklyn task force said the recommendations "did not go far enough. We have to move ahead further and faster."
Pulse spoke with Mr. Berger last week about the state of health care in Brooklyn.
Mr. Berger sees a new model for training doctors in Brooklyn, with SUNY Downstate at the center. Last year's report suggested that SUNY Downstate consolidate inpatient services at Long Island College Hospital instead of remaining at University Hospital's "small and outdated" space. It was silent on what would become of University Hospital but implied it should close. Downstate's then-president, Dr. John LaRosa, told Pulse in April: "The point I made to Stephen Berger is if you take away our hospital, we can't teach."
Dr. LaRosa resigned in June, and in August was succeeded by Dr. John Williams.
The institution is losing "millions of dollars a week," said Mr. Berger. "What is Dr. Williams' mandate? I have argued that this should be seen more as an opportunity than a problem. Let the hospital close and establish relationships with Kings County, Lutheran, Maimonides."
SUNY's teaching mission, he said, should shift to a new network of residencies based in other hospitals instead of crumbling Downstate.
"Too many people don't get decent health care in Brooklyn," added Mr. Berger. "A lot of people can't imagine how I can say, 'Close an institution and you get better health care.' But you would."
A Downstate spokeswoman declined to comment.
WHO'S NEWS: Steven Herbst joined Loeb & Troper last month as director of managed care. He had been director of strategic planning at VNSNY Choice Health Plans.
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ASSESSING THE CHAMPIONSHIP SUMMIT
have very distinctly set about forming a third tier in the chase for promotion to the Premier League. There's a long way to go – but for now (and long may it stay this way) it's us, those chasing us and those battling for the Play-Off places. Healthy, would be a reasonable definition of our current state of play - without taking anything for granted.Cardiff CityIn opening a ten point lead at the summit of the nPower Championship,
How critical a month could February prove to be? A third of Malky Mackay's side's remaining eighteen fixtures fall during those twenty-eight days, three home and three away. We start at Leeds, travel to Huddersfield, return to face Leicester, Bristol City and Brighton at Cardiff City Stadium and finish with a trip to Wolves. Plenty of points on offer, most would say.
are the teams to watch, the Foxes in particular following their acquisition of striker Chris Wood and last Friday's 1-0 win over fellow promotion hopefuls Middlesbrough. Leicester have won their last four Championship fixtures, scoring twelve in the process and conceding just one. That's mightily impressive. A home derby with Wolves and tricky trip to Peterborough are next on the cards.Hull City and Steve Bruce's Leicester CityBut what about that second band - those sides determined to gun down the City and cement themselves in the top two? For now many would argue that Nigel Pearson's
Hull, meanwhile, have enjoyed a resurgence this season under Steve Bruce. Having flirted with the top-six since their relegation from the Premier League in 2010, the Tigers have failed to put up a genuine promotion fight; this year, that looks like changing.
Boss Bruce picked up the December Manager of the Month gong for guiding his side to five wins and a draw through the last weeks of 2012 and though they've failed to win since the turn of the year (two draws and one defeat), they'll be hoping to reassert themselves with two upcoming away games at Millwall and Brighton at the start of February. An F.A. Cup replay with Leyton Orient has brought about a fourth round fixture with Barnsley on the weekend, though arguably this Cup involvement has scuppered their recent good form.
. Palace's form has been patchy since Ian Holloway took charge in the autumn – in fact they've only won twice in their last eleven games, turning them from Championship favourites into hopefuls. The Eagles host Charlton next up after going out of the F.A. Cup in round three to Stoke. Another London(ish) derby at Watford the following weekend could tell a lot about how their season will pan out. As to whether or not they'll hold on to the seemingly Manchester United-bound Wilfried Zaha would be another key consideration.Watford and surprise package Middlesbrough sleeping giants Crystal Palace,Below Hull and Leicester (each of whom are on fifty points), sit former pace-setters
Tony Mowbray's Middlesbrough have been Championship favourites since their relegation from the Premier League in 2009. They've enjoyed little success, with crowds at the Riverside poor, although in Mowbray they have one of the division's best managers, who's sculpting a team that look more capable than ever of returning to the top-flight. Boro enjoyed some fantastic form at earlier stages of the season, though again look like a team distracted by Cup competition having lost back to back League fixtures to Watford and Leicester following their third round conquering of Hastings United. A fourth round hosting of Aldershot this weekend stands in the way of preparations for their 'end of the earth' trip to Ipswich on February 2nd!
Completing the top-six then is the very watchable Watford, now under the alluring but calculated stewardship of Gianfranco Zola. The Hornets have quietly gone about their business this season racking up forty-six points to date, although their success has been patchy with winning runs backed by losses eliminating consistency. Having gone out of the F.A. Cup in round three to Manchester City, Zola's lads have beaten Middlesbrough and Huddersfield Town. Next up they travel to lowly Bristol City before hosting floundering Bolton the following week. How much will we learn about their Play-Off credentials in the next month?
, all on forty-one.Leeds United and Brighton, Millwall, Nottingham Forest on forty-two points followed by the quadrant of BurnleyThere's always one though apparently. Always one side that creeps into the Play-Offs or smashes their way to automatic promotion. Mackay, Pearson, Bruce, Holloway, Mowbray and Zola will hope that this is not so in 2013 – although sitting just outside the Play-Off zone as it stands are the Charlie Austin-led
There's no two ways about it – this division is as chillingly unpredictable as ever. But for once there's daylight in our favour at the summit that we have to embrace.


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Electric utilities; shared solar programs. (HB832)
Electric utilities; shared solar programs. Expands the current shared solar program to include participation by Phase I Utilities. The bill introduces incentives for shared solar programs that are located on rooftops, brownfields, or landfills, are dual-use agricultural facilities, or meet any other category of incentive that the Department of Energy may establish. The bill authorizes the State Corporation Commission to establish a program cap on the amount of capacity for Phase I Utilities' shared solar programs. Provisions of the bill shall be implemented by the State Corporation Commission by December 31, 2022. The bill permits both jurisdictional and nonjurisdictional customers to participate in a shared solar program and creates a stakeholder group to address interconnection issues and propose changes via petition to the Commission by January 1, 2023. The bill also allows utilities to recover the costs of incentives established by the bill. Read the Bill »
01/12/2022: In Committee
01/12/2022 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy


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The Wondrous Life of Anthony Bourdain, Clouded in Documenting His Death
'Roadrunner' director Morgan Neville wants to understand Bourdain's death; the audience wants to understand Bourdain. He was an author and host but more importantly a guide. A travel guide, yes, but more so a master or tutor.
By Justin Charity Jul 16, 2021, 4:01pm EDT
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A few years ago, Anthony Bourdain took up Brazilian jiujitsu, inspired by his wife at the time, Ottavia Busia. In Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, released in theaters on Friday, Bourdain stands sweating on a podium in his gi, competing in his late 50s. Fans of his CNN series Parts Unknown might recall him grappling with an opponent in a San Francisco gym during the Bay Area episode. But the footage in Roadrunner looks a lot more like home video, capturing Bourdain at the bleeding edge of his international fame and containing a hint of the second life we wish he might have been able to enjoy beyond our prying adoration.
The documentarian Morgan Neville directed Roadrunner, conducting interviews with the adventurer's business partners, TV crew, and famous friends Eric Ripert, John Lurie, David Chang, Iggy Pop, and ex-wife Busia. There's a common bitterness in their reminiscing about Bourdain. They're grieving to this day and still struggling to process his demise. Three years ago, Ripert found Bourdain dead in his hotel room in France. He'd been taping an episode for Parts Unknown, the successor to his Travel Channel hit series, No Reservations. In his breakout memoir, Kitchen Confidential, based on his earliest professional misadventures in New York, Bourdain chronicled the secret vices and indignities of restaurant work. Once a dishwasher addicted to heroin, Bourdain became a globe-trotting iconoclast. He dodged a missile strike in Beirut. He scouted land mines in Laos. He profiled activists in Hong Kong and Tehran. He nursed a brave appetite and a nasty hangover wherever he traveled. He burst from one international intrigue to the next. He sought conversation as often as cuisine, even as his age and inebriation wore him down. And he ate.
I recall Bourdain's death, on June 8, 2018, ruining everyone's day with shockingly universal reach. He was a cable television personality with a downright presidential regard. Mourners crowded around Les Halles, the Lower Manhattan brasserie and site of so much drama in Kitchen Confidential, and laid flowers. Barack Obama, who once dined with Bourdain in Hanoi for an interview on Parts Unknown, tweeted his condolences, recalling Bourdain's "ability to bring us together [and] make us a little less afraid of the unknown." The filmmaker and actress Asia Argento, who dated Bourdain for a couple of years after his separation from Busia, faced a hostile brigade in her Instagram comments. Did Argento cheat on Bourdain and then break up with him, thus driving Bourdain to suicide? That's what they wanted to know. Neville and his subjects want to know, too. It's an ugly question—but grief will have you asking some ugly questions about yourself and others. "I understand that the world needs to find a reason," Argento told The Daily Mail. "I would like to find a reason, too."
The first half of Roadrunner reanimates Bourdain's life and style. Like 2Pac, Bourdain at times seems to be commenting on his own demise in retrospect. Neville says he even fed 12 hours of Bourdain's voice to an artificial intelligence model to generate three written quotes Bourdain never actually said out loud. The second half of the documentary desperately seeks the reason for his death. The subjects obsess over Argento, as they heap innuendo onto footage in which she barely speaks. Neville told The Wall Street Journal he never even bothered to solicit an interview with the actress. "I didn't want to get one inch deeper into that story," Neville said, "because it was quicksand." Even then, Argento dominates the last third of Roadrunner. The drama surrounding her relationship with Bourdain grants some insight into Bourdain's temperament—"much more manic and much more depressive" in his final years, Neville summarizes—but also obstructs the account of his better days.
Watching the film, I considered the difference between No Reservations and Parts Unknown. The former series, which aired for nine seasons, found Bourdain in his early 50s, a restless ex-smoker fighting through jet lag, hangovers, and peppercorn heat. He crashed through destinations with a combination of irreverence and humility that couldn't be found on any other culinary programming—or really anything else—on television at the time. He was the Great American Tourist, redeeming the rest of us with our broken French and fanny packs and savvy disavowals of George W. Bush. Parts Unknown followed Bourdain closer to 60, restless as ever but now a bit creaky, far more distinguished and cautious in his role as a sort of culinary ambassador for the whole wide world. It was increasingly unlikely to see him and his crew sprinting toward a naval escort in active war zone, the Libya episode notwithstanding. CNN produced Parts Unknown and occasionally tapped Bourdain as a talking head in other programming on the network. He never quite became a pundit, thank God, but CNN did seem to domesticate Bourdain and very nearly turn him into a proper cable news correspondent.
Roadrunner discusses Kitchen Confidential in detail but then becomes imprecise in accounting for Bourdain's television career. It can feel a bit like watching a band documentary where no particular album is mentioned or discussed. The seasons pass as screensavers, a mere backdrop to so much desperate psychoanalysis. Neville wants to understand Bourdain's death; I want to understand Bourdain. He was an author and host but more importantly a guide. A travel guide, yes—I've visited a few cities and patronized several establishments on his recommendation—but more so a master or tutor. He taught you how to communicate with strangers who don't speak your language. He taught you how to consume unfamiliar food without irony or trepidation. He taught you how to behave in a strange land. Even if you watched these shows with no means or desire to book such adventures for yourself, Bourdain taught you to view the world as a vast and wonderful menu to be savored, in good company, wherever you are.
I struggled to understand the one contentious exception to Neville's otherwise vague survey of Bourdain's TV experience: Asia Argento supposedly ruining a Parts Unknown taping in Hong Kong. The series' director, Michael Steed, gets sick, and at Bourdain's behest, Argento substitutes. She appeared in a few episodes throughout the series but directed only this one. The crew recalls her as a fussy and incompetent filmmaker; the behind-the-scenes footage shows her interrupting some impassioned testimony from a democratic activist in order to make a minor adjustment to the table where they're seated for lunch. It's an awkward encounter but in fact tracks with the overall differences, larger than Argento, between No Reservations and Parts Unknown. The later series often seemed overproduced and overdetermined to extract its geopolitical insights—far less reckless than No Reservations, a bit too true to CNN.
Don't get me wrong, Bourdain and his crew made great episodes of Parts Unknown: dining with dissidents in Tehran and Isfahan, getting drunk on baijiu and schooled in Sichuan cuisine with Ripert, riding in candy paint with the truck rattling in Houston with Slim Thug. But No Reservations was his masterwork. No Reservations was Bourdain's great action-adventure.
Revisit his works, rather than revel in the uncertainties about his demise, and you resurface the dark ironies that made his death such a brutal and gratuitous insult on a cosmic level. It's not just who he was and how he'd suffered from addiction and depression since the 1980s. It's the moment in which we lost him. Here we had this noble, globe-trotting foodie determined to bust the culinary imagination wide open, and then he died during this populist craze against multiculturalism and globalization. With Bourdain died a certain joy and romanticism about freedom of movement.
Bourdain was opinionated and disagreeable to so many admirers. He championed #MeToo alongside Argento, and Busia recalls him liquidating some friendships over disputes about the movement. He'd always been a "cynical, born and bred, citified lefty," ranting, for example, against imperialism on location in Central America. Still he remained, in essence, a working-class chef with a foul mouth, common sense, and relatability persisting despite his stature and stridency. He was a "media elite" in a very bygone sense: plainspoken, adventurous, curious, rigorous, trustworthy. Roadrunner complicates the popular portrait, presenting a beleaguered hero who turned impulsive, defensive, and inscrutable in his final days. He was nigh unrecognizable among his last documented mannerisms, and then he was gone. It's a heart-wrenching turn, and Neville masters the emotional stakes for his subjects. He tames the grief. But watching Roadrunner, I rarely felt like Neville "got" Bourdain as so many strangers knew him: by his work.
I don't mean to suggest that Neville should've made a more flattering documentary. But Bourdain hosted 21 seasons of television—250 episodes—across two networks, each season a distinct vintage; a bit more thoughtfulness about his life's work would've been appreciated. Instead, Roadrunner obsesses over his death to the point of vengeful speculation, to the exclusion of everything else. It's true to grief, I suppose, but distressingly insular for a documentary about such a magnanimous adventurer who departed this world with no shortage of strangers to meet, meals to share, hangovers to remedy, and stories to tell. That's the void he's left behind for so many strangers. Not the mysteries in his death but rather his inconclusive guidance. We've always known how to eat. But Bourdain was teaching us how to break bread across great distances and dissimilarities. In his absence we've forgotten so much.
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Bismacine
Against allopathy
Clinically unproven
Cancer Cure Foundation
Chris Beat Cancer
Geophagia
John R. Brinkley
Kinoki Foot Pads
List of medicinal plants
Paida lajin
Stainless steel soap
Vomit therapy
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Bismacine, occasionally known as Chromacine[1] (though Chromocine might be a different drug),[2] is an alternative medicine sold to treat Lyme disease that involves the injection of the metal bismuth. Bismacine was invented by Robert Bradford, who is not a medical doctor,[3] in 2004.[4] In 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning against Bismacine,[5] as bismuth is not approved for injection and can lead to heart and kidney problems.[1] Bradford pled guilty in 2010 to charges that Bismacine caused the death of a woman in Kansas.[6] Bradford and business partners also admitted that they inflated fears of Lyme disease as part of a marketing campaign to increase sales of Bismacine,[7] calling Lyme disease a "potential plague of the 21st century."[4]
In an article for the Townsend Letter, an alternative health magazine, Bradford claimed that when using Bismacine, all patients had little-to-no adverse effects known as Herxheimer reactions.[2] This is not surprising, as Herxheimer reactions occur in at most 15% of all Lyme disease patients,[8] and would occur in even fewer if Bismacine was failing to actually kill the Lyme-causing spirochetes.
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↑ 1.0 1.1 Mayo Clinic: Lyme Disease
↑ 2.0 2.1 Biochemistry of Lyme Disease. Townsend Letter
↑ A Dubious Diagnosis. Chicago Tribune
↑ 4.0 4.1 Lyme disease, potential plague of the 21st century. Townsend Letter
↑ Quackwatch: Lyme disease
↑ Casewatch: Robert W. Bradford Pleads Guilty (2010)
↑ Ex-Physician Convicted of Fraud Topeka Capital-Journal
↑ IDSA Lyme disease guidelines
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Cellular & Molecular Structure & Function
The cell is the basic unit of all life forms. to understand the cell, we must know all of its component parts & have a detailed mechanistic Understanding of how these function.
Our research interests in the area of Cellular and Molecular Structure and Function range from computational protein folding to stem cell biology. Despite the breadth, there are a number of themes that can be identified, all of which are centred on understanding fundamental mechanisms. Several labs are focussed on neuronal development and neuronal tissue function, for example, work that includes the study of neuronal stem cell generation, axon guidance mechanisms and the molecular basis for neural network formation. Central to these efforts is the study of stem cells and the use of a number of different animal models. Cutting-edge techniques involving laser optics and optogenetics are leveraged to study higher-order functions such as learning, memory and locomotion. Stem cells and animal models, including the zebra fish, are also being used to study development and disease in other systems and tissues including the heart and kidney. Collectively, the advances emerging from these efforts are expected to contribute to novel approaches to treating neural and heart tissue damage, brain cancers in children and Alzheimer's disease in the elderly to name just a few.
Genome stability through successive cell divisions is central to the maintenance of normal cellular function. Not surprisingly, DNA damage and the gain or loss of chromosomes or portions of them are hallmarks of cancer. Several MoGen labs are working to understand DNA repair mechanisms and the processes that ensure proper chromosome replication and segregation. In one collaborative effort, functional genomics, microscopy and mass-spectrometry are being used to study centrosome biogenesis, an important component in the regulation of cell division. In another collaboration, cell-based approaches and x-ray crystallography are utilized to determine how DNA repair enzymes are recruited to double-strand breaks.
Regulation of gene expression is critical at all stages in the life-cycle of a living organism, and control at both transcriptional and translational levels is the focus of many members of our Department. Core to the effort is the identification and characterization of the DNA- and RNA-binding proteins involved in controlling these processes. Over the past few decades, we have begun to appreciate the important roles played by small RNAs in gene regulation, and a new paradigm for small RNA-mediated gene regulation is beginning to emerge from recent work by MoGen labs. Splicing of pre-mRNA enables both gene regulation and the generation of varied protein isoforms, with exciting new work in this area from MoGen members shedding light on how microexon splicing is controlled in neural development and how the process is misregulated in autism.
The study of protein structure and protein interactions represents another theme among members of the group. Collectively, a wide range of biophysical techniques including NMR and x-ray crystallography, as well as computational approaches, are being used in this research. We study protein folding and quality control, protein-protein interactions, macromolecular assemblies, G protein-coupled receptors, ion transporters, virus-receptor interactions and protein kinases among others. Intrinsically disordered proteins are now known to mediate cross-talk between signalling pathways, and structural insights into how they perform this role represent one example of cutting-edge research that has recently emerged from our group. MoGen labs are also focussed on the development of novel protein and small-molecule human therapeutics, and notable among these efforts are the use of protein engineering to develop novel antibody therapeutics, the use of bacteriophage as antibiotics and the identification of new drug targets using the membrane yeast two-hybrid assay. Novel functional proteomic approaches are also being used to discover and characterize protein-drug and protein-ligand interactions, which promises to uncover new uses for already approved small-molecule therapeutics.
For a more detailed look at the work ongoing in the Cellular and Molecular Structure and Function research field please read the full Field Spotlight. Many members of the group are also associated with other research fields, and we invite you to explore them all.
Field spotlight
Irene Andrulis
Benjamin Blencowe
Gabrielle Boulianne
Julie Brill
Martha Brown
John Brumell
Eric Campos
Amy Caudy
Hue Sun Chan
Brian Ciruna
Julie Claycomb
Alan Cochrane
Richard Collins
Sabine Cordes
Joe Culotti
Alan Davidson
James Ellis
Oliver Ernst
Lori Frappier
Barbara Funnell
Scott Gray-Owen
Jack Greenblatt
Xi Huang
Chi Chung Hui
Thomas Hurd
Ran Kafri
David Kaplan
Lewis Kay
Tae-Hee Kim
Brigitte Lavoie
Julie Lefebvre
Jun Liu
Marc Meneghini
Freda Miller
Michael Moran
Julien Muffat
Kenichi Okamoto
Christopher Pearson
Laurence Pelletier
Stephanie Protze
Miguel Ramalho-Santos
James Rini
Janet Rossant
Frank Sicheri
Sachdev Sidhu
Andrew Spence
Igor Stagljar
Boris Steipe
Mikko Taipale
Derek van der Kooy
Andrew Wilde
Jeff Wrana
Mei Zhen


If you have a large containment area, you may need extra boundary flags for training your pet to use an in-ground or wireless fence.
Place flags approximately 10 feet apart to remind your pet of his off-limits area. Between days 15 and 30, you will be monitoring your pet's progress. After you are satisfied your pet's training is complete, remove every other Boundary Flag every 4 days until all flags are removed. In about a month, your lawn will be free of training flags and your pet will know his limits. We recommend keeping a flag or two in your yard to let neighbors and passerby know that your pet is securely contained.


The ability to identify individual plant species from tiny amounts of material has a surprising range of uses, from monitoring bee populations to assessing the contents of food and nutritional supplements, as well as working out what a herbivore had for breakfast. Classifying fragments of plants can be tricky, so researchers at Emory University have developed a new database of genetic information that can be used with the latest DNA sequencing technologies to improve the accuracy of plant identification.
Genetic barcodes are regions of variable DNA that can be used to identify a species by comparing its unique barcode sequence to a database of known sequences from thousands of plants. Recent advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing mean that multiple species in a mixed sample can now be distinguished and analyzed at the same time. This process, DNA metabarcoding, saves researchers the painstaking task of separating the different plant species before sequencing their DNA. Described in a new paper published in Applications in Plant Sciences , Dr. Karen Bell and colleagues from the Department of Environmental Science at Emory University used publicly available data to develop a library of sequences of the rbcL gene, a popular barcode in plants, for use in DNA metabarcoding studies.
Bell's work builds on the development of the first DNA metabarcoding database for plants, containing sequences of the ITS2 barcode from over 72,000 species. By combining ITS2 and rbcL information, the team was able to accurately identify more species from a mixed sample of pollen grains, improving the resolution and accuracy of the DNA metabarcoding technique.
The rbcL gene is a useful barcode because it codes for part of the key photosynthesis enzyme ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBisCo), so it is present in virtually all plant species. One section of its DNA sequence is very variable between species, making it ideal for DNA barcoding. Several barcoding regions have been developed in plants over the past decade, but rbcL is particularly suited to new technologies. Bell elaborates, "We chose rbcL because the length of the gene is readily applied to modern high-throughput sequencing methods." The new rbcL library contains sequences from over 38,400 plant species, around 9% of all seed plants on Earth.
The rapid innovations in high-throughput DNA sequencing have left data analysis methods behind, but the development of the rbcL and ITS2 databases means that DNA metabarcoding can be used to identify plants faster and more accurately than ever before. Using the combined rbcL and ITS2 metabarcodes, Bell and her team were able to identify eight of the nine plant species in a mixture of pollen grains - more than could be identified using the rbcL or ITS2 barcodes separately. If a species is not included in the reference library, it cannot be identified by DNA barcoding, so more sequences from the estimated 450,000 species of flowering plants must be added to make these databases more comprehensive.
Bell and her colleagues tweaked the DNA metabarcoding bioinformatics pipeline to make it capable of using additional DNA barcodes once their databases have been developed. This should further improve the barcoding accuracy because, explains Bell, "The more genetic markers available, the greater the chance of genetic identification." As the cost of genome sequencing comes down, researchers won't be restricted to scanning the barcodes of small fragments of DNA either: "At some point in the future, we'll be doing DNA barcoding using whole plant genomes. The laboratory technology is available, but currently we don't have enough complete plant genomes to make the databases."


PUNE: The Sakal Media Group (SMG) has taken the initiative to solve issues related to agriculture, education, entrepreneurship and development which came forward during the recent Maratha Kranti morchas and have now become the focal point in society.
To develop Maharashtra's villages, Abhijit Pawar, Managing Director of Sakal Media Group, spoke about the concept of a smart village which can ensure good benefits to agriculture, education, entrepreneurship and development. Many of the dignitaries present expressed willingness to actively participate in this scheme.
Those present included former Supreme Court judge PB Sawant, Rajendra Kondhare, Pravin Gaikwad and representatives from various districts. SMG was represented by Shriram Pawar, Chief Editor; Bhausaheb Patil, Director (Technology); Bobby Nimbalkar, Strategic Head; Malhar Arankalle, Editor; and Nandkumar Sutar, Executive Editor.
SMG's Chief Editor Shriram Pawar explained the background of the meeting. He said that unprecedented Maratha morchas are being organised and this agitation does not spread hatred against anyone. "Without any leader, the agitation has witnessed huge participation of the community. The demands of the agitation should not be lost in the struggle for development. For this, there is a need to follow agricultural development and entrepreneurship," he said.
Adinath Chavan, Editor of Agrowon, explained the concept of smart village, selection of villages, people's participation and other activities that will be included under the project.
The participants appreciated Sakal Media Group (SMG) for undertaking the Smart Village initiative. Various representative discussed several issues with Managing Director of SMG, Abhijit Pawar. Many showed interest in working with SMG. Representatives from Konkan to Vidarbha were present. Those present on the occasion include Dr SK Jain (Pune), Vikas Pasalkar (Pune), Suryakant Kale (Satara), Sandeep Pol (Satara), Suresh Bhamare (Nashik), Chandrakant Bankar (Nashik), Shailesh Kute (Nashik), Dr Ujwalkumar Chavan (Jalgaon), Ranjit Patil (Sangli), Sandip Vichare (Mumbai), Vinod Bhosale (Solapur), Satish Bhosale (Thane), Sachin Sawant Desai (Navi Mumbai), Sudhir Bhosale (Chiplun), Suhas Merunkar (Raigad), Ajit Salvi (Chiplun), Kishor Phad (Navi Mumbai), Harishchandra Desai (Lanja), Dr Pradeep Tupere (Ahmednagar), Guruprasad Desai (Pune), Dr Sanjay Kalamkar (Ahmednagar), Rajendra Kale (Ahmednagar), Mithilesh Desai (Ratnagiri), Subhash Tamboli (Pune), Sharad Sanap (Sinnar), Sharadchandra Ghule (Sinnar), Prabhakar Dhamak (Nashik), Umesh Tandale (Pune), Arjun Pawar (Aurangabad), Aniket Deshmukh (Amravati), Dr Abhay Patil (Akola), Nikhil Patil (Aloka), Manoj More (Dhule), Yogesh Thorat (Dhule), Anil Pawar (Dhule), Amit Marne (Pune), Dr Shivraj Kadam (Pune), Ketan Khinvasara (Pune), Sunil Bejalagave (Nanded), Balasaheb Thakary (Narkhade), Dr Sujit Lahankar (Nanded), Prasad Karhadkar (Chinchwad), Prof DD Bachhav (Jalgaon), Mansingh Pawar (Aurangabad), Sadanand Deshpande (Pune), Wishvesh Kulkarni (Pune), Prof Chandrakant Bharat (Aurangabad), Vijay Mudhol (Hingoli), Sureshdada Patil (Kolhapur), Aba Vijay Patil (Pimpri Chinchwad), Subhash Jawale (Parbhani), Gani Aajrekar (Kolhapur), Sanjay Katkar (Aurangabad), Kondajimama Awahad (Nashik), Kundan Sonavne Patil (Nandurbar), Jitendra Patil (Nandurbar), Dr Balsaheb Pawar (Ahmednagar), Manish Pawar (Aurangabad), Vijaykumar Shinde (Nagpur) and Girish Jadhav (Nanded).


There's no getting around it: statins are in vogue in medicine in general and in prostate cancer care, and their relatively mild toxicity profile and other benefits make them an attractive medication for off-label use. Whether they actually affect prostate cancer outcomes remains an open question, however.
In light of this question, a research group from Denmark sought to determine whether statin use after a diagnosis of prostate cancer may improve overall and prostate cancer-specific survival1. The team utilized several nationwide Danish registries that capture care utilization from nearly everyone in the country, including the Danish Cancer Registry, the Danish National Prescription Registry, and the Danish Register of Causes of Death, among others. They completed a retrospective population-based study of 37,790 men with prostate cancer including 7,365 men who died of prostate cancer and 11,811 men who died of other causes during the follow-up period. Having a sample size this large, and including large numbers of men who died of prostate cancer and other causes gave the investigators a high degree of statistical power to assess the relationship between statin exposure and prostate cancer and overall survival in men with a history of prostate cancer. The cohort was followed for a median of 2.8 years from baseline. A majority of men (56%) had localized prostate cancer, and 22% had verified distant disease.
In this Danish cohort of men, prostate cancer-specific mortality was decreased by 17% among statin users as compared to men not exposed to statins (HR 0.83, 95% CI 0.77-0.891. All-cause mortality was also reduced among men using statins, with a 19% reduction in all-cause mortality in men using statins when compared with men not using statins (HR 0.81, 95% CI 0.76-0.85)1. The authors performed a number of additional analyses, including stratifying by age at diagnosis with prostate cancer, type of statin used, Gleason score, and clinical age, and the results were similar. They did not find a dose effect, and did not find a difference in the effect between men who continued statin use from prior to diagnosis and men who started a statin after diagnosis. They did find that men diagnosed earlier in the study period, men who underwent prostatectomy, and men who were treated with systemic endocrine therapy appeared to have the greatest benefit to statin use.
When considering this study and other retrospective population-based studies, it is critical to consider the strengths and weakness of the approach, and where we need to go as a field in terms of answering remaining clinical questions. The strengths of this study are its size and ability to collect data on the entire population of a country, providing substantial statistical power and reducing the selection bias that occurs when studies include only a portion of the population. However, because of where it was performed, the study represents a homogeneous group of men from a single country that is predominantly white, eliminating our ability to understand the effects of statin exposure in African American men who experience both higher rates of prostate cancer and prostate cancer mortality in the US. It is also limited by its retrospective population-based nature that does not enable us to balance confounders by randomizing men at the study start and following prospectively. There may have been inherent differences between men taking statins and those not taking statins that affected mortality in the study, but it is impossible to measure all of the possible differences, particularly unmeasured ones, in a retrospective investigation.
An editorial written by Mucci and Kantoff compiles the data on multiple studies of statins in men with prostate cancer to provide some context for the results2. As the editorial discusses, the preponderance of evidence from multiple studies of statin exposure appear to find a similar relationship of reduction of prostate cancer-specific mortality among men with prostate cancer taking statins. The evidence in preventing prostate cancer diagnoses is less consistent, though a study investigating the development of fatal or advanced prostate cancer found that the risk was lower among men exposed to statins3. It is plausible that statins specifically impair the development of more aggressive prostate cancer cells, while less aggressive phenotypes are not affected as substantially. In addition, Mucci and Kantoff describe a biologic rationale behind the statin hypothesis that may support the epidemiologic findings. They explain that because cholesterol is a precursor of testosterone, medications that affect cholesterol levels may similarly limit testosterone bioavailability. Additionally statins may interfere with the uptake of testosterone into cells, further limiting androgen signaling. These and other effects by statins may contribute to the findings seen.
To study the relationship between statin exposure and prostate cancer specific outcomes and truly define a causal relationship between statin exposure and reduced prostate cancer-specific mortality it will be imperative to complete a clinical trial. Only a prospective randomized clinical trial can eliminate the effects of unmeasured confounders that may be the true cause of the reduced mortality seen in these studies. However, challenges abound when considering a clinical trial to assess this relationship. First statins have become ubiquitous in the US for cardiovascular disease treatment, and cardiovascular disease is common in the elderly American male population. Finding men who are not on statins prior to being eligible for enrollment on a clinical trial may be a challenge. A clinical trial would also need to be performed in a racially diverse population to provide data that can be effectively utilized in clinical practice in a broad array of men. Finally, outcomes like prostate cancer-specific mortality are long term outcomes that can take decades to measure, making what could be a slowly accruing trial require a long period of follow up after accrual is complete. Despite these challenges, a thoughtfully designed study that assesses statin effects prospectively in a diverse population randomly assigned to exposure or non-exposure is the only way to definitively demonstrate the effects of statins in this context.
Of course it is possible that exposure to statins has no effect at all in preventing the progression of prostate cancer and prostate cancer-mortality. However, the population-based, epidemiologic evidence suggests otherwise. Will I recommend that my patients use statins? At this point, I only recommend statin use in men meeting indications for treatment of cardiovascular disease by their primary care physicians or cardiologists. I do ask all men to undergo assessments of cardiovascular risk factors when we meet, especially if we are initiating or continuing treatment with androgen deprivation therapy. I am not starting statins on my own, but fully support their use when initiated by providers who recommend them to my patients for other indications. If the data supports increased utilization for reduction of prostate cancer-specific mortality or improvement of other outcomes in men with prostate cancer in the future, I will be happy to change this stance.
1. Larsen SB, Dehlendorff C, Skriver C, Dalton SO, et al. Postdiagnosis statin use and mortality in Danish patients with prostate cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2017; 35(29):3290-7.
2. Mucci LA and Kantoff PW. Is the evidence sufficient to recommend statins for all men with prostate cancer? J Clin Oncol. 2017; 35(29): 3272-5.
3. Platz EA, Leitzmann MF, Visvanatan K, et al. Statin drugs and risk of advanced prostate cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 98; 1819-25.


Here are the best deals you can take advantage of right now. Amazon Echo No more rotating dial The Amazon Echo is the standard version of the speaker, and this is the second generation of the device. I have been an admirer of most of the things amazon has come up with. The does a lot more than turn the lights on and off, however. Shoppers can also win in three different ways or four ways if you count the gift cards. Google Home, Google Mini, and the Google Hub are frequently discounted by Walmart and other merchants. Just take note of the expected delivery date.
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Semi Driver Killed at Dangerous, Unguarded BNSF Crossing
(Dakota City, Nebraska – June 10, 2014)
The driver of an eastbound 18-wheeler died in a fiery collision with a northbound BNSF freight train just south of Dakota City, NE Tuesday evening At about 8:30 P.M., CDT at the dangerous and unguarded intersection of 190th Street and BNSF tracks. The train struck the cab of the tractor, which subsequently exploded, was dragged a considerable distance down the track, and caught fire. The driver was ejected upon impact.
The Dakota County Sheriff's Office reported that the driver, James Hubbard of Dakota City, was dead before emergency responders arrived. One witness reported multiple explosions from the vehicle after it was struck by the train, which appeared to be carrying tank cars of crude oil.
The accident was the second recorded at the crossing, which has no active, automatic protective devices such as flashing lights, bells and crossing gates. The Federal Railroad Administration says is a daily average of 11 trains which cross there at a top allowable speed of 49 mph. It is virtually certain that lights and gates would have prevented this incident. Both BNSF and Operation Lifesaver know lights and gates are the most effective type of protection at railroad crossings. Studies that have been conducted over fifty years ago confirm that lights and gates offer the ability to drastically reduce the number of vehicle/train accidents by as much as 96%.
Assisting the sheriff's office in investigating the tragedy was the Nebraska State Patrol.
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