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V. Match the halves of these sentences
I. Match the words with their definitions
1.A piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine media
2. a journalist who writes a regular series of articles for a particular newspaper or magazine. gossip column
3. radio, television, newspapers, the Internet and magazines, considered as a group. commentator
4. a short news broadcast talk show
5. the title of a newspaper story, printed in large letters tabloid
6. a serious type of newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. columnist
7. a television or radio programme in which people answer questions in order to win prizes newsflash
8. someone whose job is to give a description of an event on television or radio as it happens. editorial board
9. a title at the top of a page or piece of writing. channel
10. a television or radio programme in which famous people talk about themselves and their work. editorial
11. a short broadcast of an important piece of news in the middle of a television or radio programme. quiz show
12. someone whose job is to give information about television or radio programmes between other programmes heading
13. a newspaper that has small pages and not much serious news headline
14. a television station and the programmes that it broadcasts announcer
15. an article in a publication expressing the opinion of its editors or publishers. foreign correspondent
16. part of a newspaper where you can read about famous people's private lives. broadsheet
17. a group of people, usually at a publication, who dictate the tone and direction the publication's editorial policy will take. bulletin
18. a journalist who reports on events in other countries article
II. Make the sentences complete using the topical vocabulary.
1. As a ___ , I'm allowed to express my opinion in ways that other journalists are often not allowed to.
2. This week we've got a special ___ on new children's books.
3. Your general knowledge is very good; maybe you should go on a quiz show.
4. We interrupt this programme to bring you a ___ .
5. I don't know why you waste your money on that ___ . It's just full of gossip about minor celebrities.
6. There's a two-minute news ___ on at 11 o'clock.
7. The ___ has just said that Big Brother is not going to be on tonight after all as they are showing a football match instead.
8. The whole of the front page of the paper was taken up with the ___ "YOU LIAR".
9. "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Guardian" are both examples of ___.
10. I'd love to be a sports ___, but I don't think I can talk quickly enough.
11. If you look at the ___, it'll tell you what the paragraph is about.
12. The Sun is a typical tabloid newspaper. Its ___ is full of celebrity stories.
13. Robert is a ___ for The Times. He travels all over the world to report on different events.
14. The ___ in this newspaper always supports the government.
15. I buy the Sunday newspapers for their ___s on fashion.
III. Circle the correct word or phrase.
1. It's a great computer programme / program once you get the hang of it.
2. I hate tabloid / broadsheet newspapers; they are just full of gossip, scandal and lies!
3. As a journalist / columnist for a local paper, you don't have to interview people or attend events. You just have to express your opinions about the issues of the day.
4. On some TV channels, an announcer / a commentator tells you what the next programme is going to be.
5. Join us at half past nine for a live broadcast / channel of the State Opening of Parliament.
6. There's a great talk / quiz / game show on BBC1 tonight. Contestants have to race through a supermarket as quickly as they can, filling up their trolleys as they go.
IV. Complete using the correct form of the words .
1. I generally trust what I hear on the news, but rarely believe I read in the …. . 2. The … involve print journalism, TV, radio and even electronic forms of communication such as the Internet. press media
3. We interrupt this programme to bring you an urgent … . 4. And we'll be back with our regular … at seven o'clock. bulletin newsflash
5. Did you see the newspaper … this morning? 6. If you give every paragraph of your report a …, it'll be easier to read. heading headline
7. Living Today has got a special … this month on healthy diets. There are interviews with nutritionists, menus, recipes, and loads of other things too. 8. There's an interesting … in the paper about the Constitution of the European Union. feature article
9. Johnny Depp rarely … invitations to do interviews. 10. Johnny Depp … to appear at a press conference to promote his latest film. agree accept
12The politician … to say more when questioned by reporters this morning. 13.John Sanders, MP, … any involvement in the scandal when asked about it yesterday. deny refuse
1. Most newspapers cover the same current
2. There was an interesting news
3. Rolling Stone is the best magazine for in-depth
4. The student newspaper had such a small
5. I've just read a sensational
6. I read a worrying feature
7. The Sydney Olympics made headline
a. about genetic engineering the other day.
b. coverage of pop music.
c. events every day of the week.
d. item in The Times today. It was all about extreme sports.
e. circulation that the university closed it down.
f. story about a UFO sighting in the tabloids.
g. news whenever a British athlete won a medal.
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O People of Zion, behold, the Lord is at hand to redeem the nations." There are signs in the sun, moon, and stars. All creation cries out for this coming, this redemption, this recreation. Creation groans because it is slowly being de-created. Every earthquake, tornado, flood, hurricane mars the beauty of creation. Cities may be rebuilt, lives returned to seeming normalcy, but the scar is still there. Everyone remembers how high the flood waters were, the pain of irreplaceable family memories flung to the heedless winds and lost forever, the way the earth shook and opened and swallowed up innocent pedestrians. All of these signs confess that the return of the Lord is at hand.
These signs, though they promise good for those redeemed by Christ, are still terrible. They are dangerous to faith. Wars, disasters, fighting, and mass shootings, no matter how far away they may be from us, all shake faith. The midst of evil and chaos is the hardest place to believe in the goodness of God, in His providence and care. It makes us ask the unanswerable question, "If God really loves me, loves the world, then why did this happen?" Satan loves the question, "why," for it never receives an answer that satisfies our itching ears. So watch and pray. Mark the signs, but take heed lest you be absorbed by them and forget Him whose coming these signs promise.
So we pray, "Stir up our hearts, O Lord." But that can be a dangerous prayer. While we'd prefer comfort food and soft music, warm feelings, comfortable and leisurely lives, this is not how hearts are stirred up, made eager for Christ's coming. We pray that God would stir up our hearts, that He would disturb us, prod us into action. Hearts are stirred up by earnest calls to repentance with a dose of reality. "Stir up our hearts" is a plea for God to end our complacency, defeat our laziness, and stop our feelings of despair. We ask Him to intervene for us against one of our greatest enemies: ourselves. We ask Him to fight for us on the most dangerous battlefield: our heart.
We pray for this stirring up because temptation is all around us. It's easy to grow weary, to be seduced by the devil's promise of rest and comfort. "Why fight it? Why work so hard? Why care about what God says when it looks like He doesn't care about you?" He tells us to take care of ourselves, to make the world happy so our lives can have at least a little pleasure and ease. But this is the way of death, of contentment in sin. Giving in and indulging in carousing, drunkenness, and the cares of this life means that the Day will come unexpectedly, and we forget Whose we are, and for Whom we wait.
So the Church cries out, "Look up! Lift up your eyes!" We wait on the Lord, our Help. Christ comes to save us from despair, coming with healing in His wings. The Church proclaims this glorious Gospel. Though the signs of de-creation are all around us, Christ has left us with other signs, signs that promise His salvation, eternity in the new creation.
Christ has given us the sign of water, water which He uses as a saving Flood, a lavish washing away of sin. There, at the Font, by water and Word do you see that God's promise of forgiveness and life is made there. He gives us the signs of bread and wine, to which He unites His Body and Blood, fulfilling His promise to be with us always, to keep us ever mindful for His second coming when we will be in communion with Him for eternity. We are given these signs in grace, and the Word that accompanies these signs creates and strengthens faith, faith which waits expectantly for its Lord to redeem the nations.
With that faith, we need not fear the signs of de-creation, we need not fear what will happen next. The Day of the Lord comes indeed. But in that day there is no wrath or mourning for you. God's Son has borne your wrath. Before the signs of the close of the age were the signs that the Messiah was coming, that the glorious voice of the Redeemer would be heard, that the Sun of Righteousness would arise. And He did. He suffered under the Law you failed to keep. He did all that it demanded. He abstained from all that it forbade. He then allowed the Law to do to Him all that it should have done to you, dying the death you deserved. In dying, He left behind your death and sin, rising to new life. He rose with healing in His wings, healing which comes by the forgiveness of all your sins. By Him the gate of death is riven.
And now His Spirit calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies you. He keeps you steadfast as the threatening signs swirl around you, stirring up your heart to repentance and joy, waiting for the coming of the only-begotten Son. He calls you to this place where the Lord is in your midst. While war, disasters, sorrows, guilt, shame, and regret are present on every side, the Lord comes to you as He has promised in His holy Word and Sacrament. You are not alone. Not only do you have your fellow members of the Body of Christ, but you have the Lord. He comes to speak Words of comfort. He comes to feed your body and soul with His Body and Blood that you be strengthened for the trial to come, that you would have joy while you wait. This is His promise that He is not merely your Lord in the future, when He comes again in glory, but He is your Lord now, even in the midst of sorrow.


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WFAA8's Gary Reaves decides it's time to retire (updated)
Gary Reaves in a signature picture from his Facebook page.
Reporter Gary Reaves, a stalwart at WFAA8 in two tenures totaling 24 years, is retiring from the Dallas-based station. His last day will be on August 1st.
Reaves rejoined WFAA8 in 1991 after working five years for CBS News. His first shift at WFAA8 was from 1982 to 1986. Later Saturday, he forwarded the note he sent to his station colleagues Friday.
"It is with mixed emotions that I have come to the decision to make a change in my career," Reaves said. "After 35 years of going to work every day in a newsroom, I have decided it is time for me to move on. It is difficult to decide to leave WFAA. I have had most of the best moments of my work life here. I have been blessed to work with many of the best people in the business. I have been privileged to travel the world, from East Texas to East Jerusalem, from South Africa to South Dallas. However, after some 10,000 days on deadline, I have decided it is time to take a break."
In an interview with this writer when he was still with CBS, Reaves sent signals that he wasn't entirely happy at the network news level. In fact he seemed pretty miserable back in 1989.
" 'Humbling' doesn't even begin to cover it," he said. "It's funny, because you would think it would be this incredible boost to your ego, having been picked. But they sort of re-train you, and so that's pretty humbling."
During his first go-around at WFAA8, "I knew I was pleasing the people I worked for every day," Reaves said. "Here, there's a half-dozen people in New York who go over every word you write and sort of by committee decide whether it's good enough. It seems like when you do get a story on, the stress that you go through is so much greater that it almost takes away the satisfaction . . . There have been many times when I have turned to my wife and asked, 'Why am I doing this?' "
Reaves, a native Oklahoman, could be counted on to bring a light touch to feature stories and a hard nose to the breaking news of the day. He has been a quintessential general assignment reporter, one of the best this market has ever had.
In a Q&A segment attached to his WFAA8 bio, Reaves says that for him, being a success in TV news means "doing my job every day with consistency. Whether it's a fun feature story or a tragedy, I am successful when I make the most of the time I have to produce, and the time I have on the air to tell it."
Whatever the story, he says, "you need a reason in your heart that makes you feel strongly that what we do is important."

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Alexandra Owings
Another newbie! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Alexandra Owings to the fold and to her first time at Patrick's Cabaret! She will be treating you to a fantastic belly-dancing performance this weekend, and hopefully weekends to come.
Alexandra has been dancing since she was a child, but it wasn't until she was sixteen that she discovered belly dance and fell in love with it. She quickly discovered its many fusions–tribal, hip-hop, Latin, etc.– and was excited by their challenges. She loved learning to feel and dance to the music itself, not eight-counts. These days her favorite thing about dancing is "the feeling you get when your body is entirely in sync with the music. I love picking out interesting beats to dance to and it is so much fun to explore how your body and your different body parts can hit the beats. I think a good song to dance to really helps a dancer to feel the music and move their body to the beat of the song. When I come across a new song I love, it is such a good feeling like you are meant to move to the song. I think that is why I love gothic fusion so much: because the songs speak to me."
You know, I've really missed doing interviews. You get to find out so much interesting stuff. For instance, before this interview, I had no idea what gothic-tribal belly dance was, but now I know that this genre, which Alexandra has been exploring recently, is a fusion dance made up of gothic-style and ATS (American Tribal Style, itself derived from Middle Eastern bellydance). Alexandra describes it as incorporating "mostly ATS, hip-hop, and modern style dance…gothic in that the music, costume, and movements are very dark, sensual, yet cutting edge and dynamic." It has less of bellydance's stereotypical "girly, sexy" vibe and more of "the darkness of vampires, the isolations of hip-hop, and the sensuality of traditional belly dance ."
Also a dance teacher, Alexandra loves "picking out songs that make my students move. I can see the excitement in their bones when they hear a good song. It makes them feel empowered, feminine, sexy, yet humble at the same time. Dance is so liberating and I love for my students to feel that rush of feeling throughout their bodies when they dance."
Lastly, Alexandra would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people in her life have taught her to dance and/or shown her good music, for helping her to develop and grow as a dancer: "my mom taught me to feel music, my sister taught me that dancing is liberating, my brother taught me that music is an instrument to show how you
feel, my dance teachers have taught me technique, and my fiancé has taught me confidence and has pushed me into achieving my goals. I thank all of them for their help!"
That certainly is a lot of people, eh? Don't let their gifts be in vain! Come see Alexandra tomorrow and Saturday and Patrick's Cabaret.
Categories: Upcoming Performance . Tags:Alexandra Owings, belly dance, gothic-tribal . Author: patrickscabaret
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Shelamziyyon Alexandra
by Tal Ilan
Queen Shelamziyyon Alexandra ruled Judea in the 1st century BCE. During her reign, which was the only time a woman inherited the throne from her deceased spouse, she was most known for deposing the ruling party that had supported her husband. In the place of that party, she appointed the Pharisees, whose heirs portray her positively in the rabbinic literature they composed. She is also mentioned in a few other texts, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Name and Lineage
Shelamziyyon Alexandra, Hasmonean Queen (76–67 BCE), was the wife and successor of King Alexander Yannai (Jannaeus) (c. 126–76 BCE). Our knowledge of her is principally derived from the writings of the Jewish historian Josephus, but she is also mentioned in rabbinic literature and in the Dead Sea scrolls. Her Hebrew name—Shelamziyyon—is a unique Second Temple invention, meaning peace of Zion, or wholeness of Zion. It is never recorded by Josephus, who only knows the queen by her Greek name—Alexandra—and it is usually preserved in odd ways in rabbinic literature (Shelamzi; Shelamzo; Shel Ziyyon). Only in the Dead Sea scrolls is the queen's original Hebrew name preserved.
In the past it was assumed that Shelamziyyon Alexandra was also the widow of Alexander Yannai's brother and predecessor King Judas Aristobulus I I (104–103 BCE), and that Alexander had taken her in Marriage between a widow whose husband died childless (the yevamah) and the brother of the deceased (the yavam or levir).levirate marriage after his brother, the king, had died childless. However, there is no ancient evidence for this assertion.
The queen's most important and memorable internal political act was deposing the Sadducee ruling party, which had supported her husband, and appointing the Pharisees instead. Being a woman, and thus barred from officiating herself (as her predecessors had done), Shelamziyyon appointed her eldest son, Hyrcanus II (c. 103–30 BCE), high priest and successor, but this appointment was contested, even during her lifetime, by her other son, Aristobulus II (d. 49 BCE).
After her death civil rivalry broke out between the two, followed by the arrival of Roman rule in Palestine and the end of Jewish independence. The queen's foreign policies were unimpressive; she supported a failed Jewish attempt to take Damascus, and corresponded with the Armenian king, Tigranes, when his armies approached the borders of her kingdom.
Shelamziyyon was the only Jewish queen to hold power during the Second Temple period. An earlier attempt, by her father-in-law, John Hyrcanus (reigned 135–104 BCE), to nominate his wife as his successor in a similar fashion, had failed, but his action may suggest that in the Hasmonean dynasty a wife succeeding her husband to the throne was the rule rather than the exception.
Twice Josephus relates the details of her rule. Once in his earlier version, in The Jewish War, he describes her positively: "Alexander bequeathed the kingdom to his wife Alexandra, being convinced that the Jews would bow to her authority as they would to no other, because by her utter lack of his brutality and by her opposition to his crimes she had won the affections of the populace." However, in his later Jewish Antiquities he describes her negatively: "She was a woman who showed none of the weakness of her sex … being one of those inordinately desirous of power to rule. … For she valued the present more than the future, and … she had … no consideration for either decency or justice. … Matters turned out so unfortunately for her house that the sovereign power was not long afterward taken from it because of her desire of things unbecoming a woman. … Even after her death she caused the palace to be filled with misfortunes and disturbances, which arose from the public measures taken during her lifetime." (Ant.13:430–432). This latter approach Josephus probably took over from King Herod's court historian Nicolaus of Damascus, who did everything in his power to denigrate the Hasmoneans to aggrandize his master and used gender-specific rhetoric in the process.
Because Shelamziyyon put the Pharisees in power it should come as no surprise that the queen is greatly praised in rabbinic literature, apparently composed by the heirs of the Pharisees. They claim that she was the sister of Simeon ben Shetah, the leading Pharisee of her day, and they maintain that the days of her reign were blessed with rain in its season and a plentiful harvest, fulfilling God's promise to reward his people if they kept his commandment (Sifrei Deut. 42).
Queen Shelamziyyon is mentioned by name twice in the Dead Sea scrolls, in an astrological fragment (4Q322–4Q324). Reference to her reign is probably also found in Pesher Nahum. These allow a glimpse into the Dead Sea Sect's attitudes to the queen. Pesher Nahum first describes the reign of her husband, during which the Pharisees were crucified, referring to a well-known event in the days of King Alexander Yannai (88 BCE) described in the writings of Josephus (Ant. 13:380). It then goes on to describe the rule of the Pharisees, obviously during the queen's reign.
Jerusalem under the rule of the new queen is described as "the bloody city" and the queen herself is described in the words of the prophet Nahum: "Because of the countless harlotries of the harlot, the winsome mistress of sorcery, who ensnared nations with her harlotries and peoples with her sorcery." (Nahum 3:4). For the sectarians of Qumran, the queen's change of policy in Jerusalem did not seem to make much difference. They hated the Sadducee rule of Alexander Yannai, and they detested his heiress's Pharisee rule no less.
Ilan, Tal. "Queen Salamzion Alexandra and Judas Aristobulus I's Widow: Did Jannaeus Alexander Contract a Levirate Marriage?" Journal for the Study of Judaism 26 (1993): 181–190.
Discusses the chronological and onomastic difficulties arising from the identification of the queen with the widow of Judas Aristobulus.
Ilan, Tal. Integrating Women into Second Temple History. Tübingen: 1999; pp. 11–42: "Fear Not the Pharisees" (BTSotah 22b): The Attraction of Aristocratic Women to Pharisaism; pp. 86–125: "Things Unbecoming a Woman" (Ant. 13:431): Josephus and Nicolaus on Women; pp. 127–53: "And Who Knows Whether You Have not Come to Dominion for a Time Like This?" (Esther 4:14): Esther, Judith and Susanna as Propaganda for Shelamzion's Queenship.
Various chapters in this book discuss important aspects of the queen's biography. Chapter 1 places the queen's support of the Pharisee sect in a historical and gendered context. Chapter 3 discusses the representations of the queen in Josephus and contextualizes them within the general rhetoric of the works. Chapter 4 discusses the possible relationship between the queen's reign and various contemporary compositions dealing with powerful women.
Ilan, Tal. "Shelamzion in Qumran—New Insights," in Historical Perspectives: From the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of the Orion Center, 27–31 January 1999, eds. David Goodblatt, Avital Pinnick and Daniel R. Schwartz, 57–68. Leiden: 2001.
Discusses the various sources from the Dead Sea scrolls that may be of relevance to the question of the sect's attitude to the queen.
Klausner, Joseph. "Queen Salome Alexandra," in The World History of the Jewish People VI The Hellenistic Age, ed. Abraham Schalit, 242–254. London: 1972.
A detailed if somewhat outdated description of the queen's reign.
Sievers, Joseph. "The Role of Women in the Hasmonean Dynasty," in Josephus, Bible and History, ed. Louis H. Feldman and Gohei Hata, 132–146. Detroit: 1988.
The reign of Shelamziyyon viewed in the context of women's roles in the Hasmonean dynasty.
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Ilan, Tal. "Shelamziyyon Alexandra." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. 31 December 1999. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on January 19, 2022) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shelamziyyon-alexandra>.


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After a particle accelerator causes a freak storm, CSI Investigator Barry Allen is struck by lightning and falls into a coma. Months later he awakens ...
Starring: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Carlos Valdes, Danielle Panabaker, Hartley Sawyer
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. The series was widely praised for its thematic complexity, dark tone, artistic quality, and faithfulness to its title character's crime-fighting origins.
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When a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged substances bathes chemist Barry Allen, transforming him into the fastest man alive--The Flash.
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Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a sinister conspiracy threatens New York City.
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Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?
A suburban couple's ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.
A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.
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Erythroplakia is a clinical term to describe any erythematous (red) area on a mucous membrane, that cannot be attributed to any other pathology.

The term erythroplasia was coined by Louis Queyrat to describe a precancerous red lesion of the penis. This gave rise to the term erythoplasia of Queyrat. Depending upon the context, this term may refer specifically to carcinoma in situ of the glans penis or vulva appearing as a red patch, or may be used as a synonym of erythroplasia on other mucous membrane or transitional sites.

It mainly affects the glans penis (the head of the penis), although uncommonly it may present on the mucous membranes of the larynx, and rarely, the mouth, or the anus.

Erythroplakia is analogous to the term leukoplakia which describes white patches. Together, these are the 2 traditionally accepted types of premalignant lesion in the mouth, When a lesion contains both red and white areas, the term "speckled leukoplakia" or "eyrthroleukoplakia" is used.

Although oral erythroplakia is much less common than leukoplakia, erythroplakia carries a significantly higher risk of containing dysplasia or carcinoma in situ, and of eventually transforming into invasive squamous cell carcinoma (a type of oral cancer).

Signs and symptoms
Although often the terms erythroplasia and erythroplakia are used synonymously, some sources distinguish them, stating that the latter is macular (flat) while the former is papular (bumpy).

Erythroplakia of the genital mucosae is often referred to as erythroplasia of Queyrat.

The most common areas in the mouth where erythroplakia is found are the floor of the mouth, buccal vestibule, the tongue, and the soft palate.  It appears as a red macule or plaque with well-demarcated borders.  The texture is characterized as soft and velvety.  An adjacent area of leukoplakia may be found along with the erythroplakia.

Erythroplasia may also occur on the laryngeal mucosa, or the anal mucosa.

Causes
Erythroplakia has an unknown cause but researchers presume it to be similar to the causes of squamous cell carcinoma. Carcinoma is found in almost 40% of erythroplakia.  It is mostly found in elderly men around the ages of 65 - 74.  It is commonly associated with smoking.

Alcohol and tobacco use have been described as risk factors.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of an oral red lesion

There are many other conditions that are similar in appearance and must be ruled out before a diagnosis of erythroplakia is made (see table).  Sometimes, a diagnosis is delayed for up to two weeks in order to see if the lesion spontaneously regresses on its own or if another cause can be found.  Erythroplakia frequently is associated with dysplasia, and is thus a precancerous lesion.

Biopsy
Microscopically, the tissue exhibits severe epithelial dysplasia, carcinoma-in-situ, or invasive squamous cell carcinoma in 90% of cases.  There is an absence of keratin production and a reduced number of epithelial cells.  Since the underlying vascular structures are less hidden by tissue, erythroplakia appears red when viewed in a clinical setting.

Treatment
Treatment involves biopsy of the lesion to identify extent of dysplasia.  Complete excision of the lesion is sometimes advised depending on the histopathology found in the biopsy.  Even in these cases, recurrence of the erythroplakia is common and, thus,  long-term monitoring is needed.

History

In 1911, French dermatologist Louis Queyrat described a sharply defined, bright red, glistening velvety precancerous lesion of the glans penis. He coined the term "erythroplasie" to designate red plaques as an analogy to "leucoplasie", which designated white patches. Since "leucoplasie" was the equivalent of the English leukoplakia (coined in 1861), the term became erythroplakia in English. Similarly, the term leukoplakia was originally coined to describe white lesions of the urinary tract, and in 1877 was first applied to white patches in the mouth. It is unclear when the term erythroplakia was first adapted to describe red lesions in the mouth.

Etymology
The word erythroplakia means "red patch", and is derived from the Greek words ερυθρος - "red" and πλάξ - "plate"
The World Health Organization defines oral erythroplakia as follows:

References

External links

Conditions of the mucous membranes
Oral mucosal pathology


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Aaadonta, rod puževa (Gastropoda) iz porodice Endodontidae. Predstavnici ove porodice žive na Palauu i Americi. Sve vrste ovog roda ugrožene ili kritično ugrožene. Opisao ga je prvi puta američki malakolog Solem, 1976.

Vrste i podvrste
 Aaadonta angaurana  Solem, 1976 (kritično ugrožena)
 Aaadonta constricta Semper, 1874; tipična vrsta,  (ugrožena)
 Aaadonta constricta babelthuapi
 Aaadonta constricta komakanensis
 Aaadonta fuscozonata  (E.H.Beddome, 1889) (ugrožena)
 Aaadonta fuscozonata depressa
 Aaadonta irregularis  Semper, 1874 (kritično ugrožena)
 Aaadonta kinlochi Solem, 1976 (kritično ugrožena)
 Aaadonta pelewana Solem, 1976 (kritično ugrožena)
→Endodontidae →Punctoidea →Gastropoda

Izvori

Puževi


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Documenting the quest to track down everything written by (and written about) the poet, translator, critic, and radio dramatist, Henry Reed.
An obsessive, armchair attempt to assemble a comprehensive bibliography, not just for the work of a poet, but for his entire life.
Read "Naming of Parts."
Henry Reed, ca. 1960
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Reeding Lessons: the Henry Reed research blog
Eye Witness
In my lengthy, involuntary exile, I was remiss in not linking to an excellent reminiscence of Henry Reed's time as a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, between 1963 and 1967. Ed, over at I Witness (appropriately enough), has two spectacular posts from October last year, recounting his days as an English major and teaching assistant in Seattle, and how Reed came to befriend him and his family.
Part one, "Henry Reed in Seattle," tells the story of how Reed came to be invited to teach at the University of Washington, and features a cameo appearance by the poet Theodore Roethke. The second part, "Typography of the Heart," has tea with Elizabeth Bishop, the occasional opera, and Reed's eventual return to England.
I, myself, have been trying to remember precisely when I first discovered Henry Reed. It was his "Naming of Parts," of course. It was in high school, inside a giant, all-encompassing Norton Anthology we had to purchase for sophomore year. My copy was used, well-used, with the notes of various previous owners in the margins in pen and pencil, passages underlined. The pages were onion-skin thin, almost transparent, and it seemed like every single page could be peeled to reveal another, like Borges' infinite library book.
We didn't even read "Naming of Parts" in class. I would read ahead whenever I was bored with whomever we were covering: Homer, Conrad, Eliot. I remember reading Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts," distinctly. It was the first truly modern poem I had been introduced to, and I was staggered that I could learn something so profound from (and about) a painting I had never seen, Brueghel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus." Just a few pages beyond Auden was Henry Reed. Anytime I wrote poetry for a creative writing class in the years that followed, I was imitating either Auden, or "Naming of Parts."
It would be ten years before I would look Henry Reed up, again. I had a part-time job at the reference desk of my local public library, and I spent my shifts answering the oddest questions from our patrons, like "Where can I find a list of all the times the word 'breast' appears in The Bible?" After a while I knew enough about how the library worked and how the books were organized to try and answer some of my own questions.
There was nothing about Reed online in those days. Most of the library's databases were still on CD-Rom. In Louis Untermeyer's anthology, Modern American and British Poetry, I learned there were two more poems to Reed's Lessons of the War: "Judging Distances," and "Unarmed Combat." There was also a long, long poem called "The Auction Sale." I must have known that Reed had written other poems, but I hadn't been prepared to find two sequels to "Naming of Parts," and certainly nothing as good as "Judging Distances."
And it would be a few more years before I would learn of Reed's death, after I had taken a job at a university library. There, it was easy enough to go to the Reference section—so much more comprehensive than the one at my old public library—and look him up. So I finally found out that Reed had died back in 1986, about the same time I first read "Naming of Parts." But there are biographies in the reference sections of many libraries which haven't been updated since before Reed died, and several printed since which failed to notice his passing, and you can still find him listed in the subject headings of library catalogs online with a heartening Reed, Henry, 1914 - .
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Sackville-West speaks admirably of Reed's poetry, and was personally 'taken with the poem called "Lives," which seemed to express so admirably Mr. Reed's sense of the elusiveness as well as the continuity of life.'
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Reed, Henry (1914-1986). Born: Birmingham, England, 22 February 1914; died: London, 8 December 1986.
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How much thought do you give to your "culture and lifestyle"?
I think most everyone would admit there's a vast difference between white and black culture, for example. Some of those lines have certainly been blurred over the past 50 years post-segregation, but in truth, there are a lot of practices that are almost foreign to one group or the other. We all meet in the middle with the so-called "American" lifestyle. I suppose that's where our melting pot culture comes from: we take a little bit here, and a little bit there, mix them up and come up with something that's more homogenous. And in my opinion: pretty boring (Why else do tyou think I live in New Orleans?).
Homogeneity in mainstream American culture creates a lifestyle that allows us to recognize some of our commonalities and to function more easily in a society that consists of all sorts of ethnicities, religions, races, and sexual preferences. These innate differences are, of course, featurea of a highly diversified population, the hallmark of America. It's especially true in New Orleans, a city that revels in eccentricity, that we're not quite all one-of-a-kind homogenous. We like to mix it op–a lot–and we celebrate our differences.
Ever heard of Sweet Brown?
Rearing its head this weekend in New Orleans is a very different kind of celebration: we celebrate LGBT culture with Southern Decadence. Held every Labor Day weekend, Southern Decadence is one of the most colorful, fun festivals in New Orleans—but definitely not one that what one would consider politically correct in the mainstream homogenous American cultural mix (oh, trust me on that). I recently learned that Decadence is a celebration that started in New Orleans over 40 years ago. I also learned that the Decadence organization uses the proceeds from the event to donate to a charity every single year. So it's not just a big gay party: this group parties hard (oh pardon the pun), and not only celebrates its gayness and different-ness that bubbles under the surface of New Orleans mainstream culture. It's actually a celebration of freedom of expression, of throwing off the shackles of being hated, derided and shunned by many in the world, even their own families (what a terrible tragedy). It's a celebration of equality, of being open, of acceptance. And lucky ofr us, the party contributes greatly to the city's appeal as an off-the-wall, party-friendly destination for people of all sexual orientations (who cares about sexual orientation, anyway? A person is a person!).
This sort of thing is exactly what I've described previously: in New Orleans, we care not about your culture being different; we celebrate your individuality. What we need to remember, though, is that LGBT visitors are just people looking to have a good time, and if we loosen up and join the party, we'll learn something about a culture that's different from the ho-hum mainstream.
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Trifolium pratense L., Sp. Pl. 2: 768. 1753.
Trifolium borysthenicum Gruner, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 41(2): 140. 1869.
Trifolium bracteatum Schousb. in Willd., Enum. Hort. Berol 793. 1809.
Trifolium lenkoranicum (Grossh.) Roskov, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 75: 719, 1990.
Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum, Tomus II: 768.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Trifolium pratense. Published online. Accessed Oct. 29 2017.
The Plant List 2013. Trifolium pratense in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2017 Oct. 29.
Tropicos.org 2017. Trifolium pratense. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2017 Oct. 29.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Trifolium pratense in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed on 28-Oct-07.
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The Piececlopedia is intended as a scholarly reference concerning the history and naming conventions of pieces used in Chess variants. But it is not a set of standards concerning what you must call pieces in newly invented games.
Piececlopedia: Bishop
In the end of the middle ages, the slow Alfil was replaced in the game of chess by the Bishop. This was part of an overall reform of the rules of Chess, making the game much faster.
The Bishop has its roots in an Indian piece called a Hasty or Gaja, which were both Indian words for elephant. Persians called it Pil, the Persian word for elephant, and the Arabs modified this to Fil. At some point, the Arabic definite article got prepended, giving the name Alfil, meaning the elephant. When the names of Fil and Alfil reached Europe, they were meaningless to the Europeans. In trying to find some meaning in the name, Europeans often used similar sounding words in their own languages. Italians started calling it Alfiere, which meant flag-bearer. The French began calling it delfino, which suggested "dauphin," the French crown prince. The French also played on the similarity in sound between fil and the French word fol, which is related to the English word fool. This led to the current French name for the piece, which is fou, meaning jester or fool.
It should be noted that Murray rejects this etymology of the name fou, but his reasons don't stand up well. His main reason is that the French knew the piece only as an Alfil, not as a Fil. In contrast, Davidson says that the French did know of it as a Fil. Even if Murray is right about the name of Fil not being current in France, he overlooks some important facts. The French definite articles are very similar to the Arabic definite article. Its feminine form, la, is just al spelled backwards. Being neighbors with Spain, the French would already be familiar with another definite article that had the backwards spelling of one of theirs. Le, the French masculine definite article, is just el spelled backwards. So it wouldn't be out of the question for the French to interpret the first syllable of Alfil as a definite article. Besides this, the French normally contract the definite article before words beginning with a vowal. So, le Alfil could become l'Alfil. This sounds almost like La Fil. Just drop the second l, and it may seem to a French speaker that the piece is a Fil, not an Alfil. So it seems, contrary to Murray, that the current French name of the piece does have its roots in the Arabic name.
Instead of playing on the piece's Arabic name, the English gave it a new name that seemed to fit the design of the piece used at the time. The Alfil piece had two projections at the top, which were supposed to be elephant tusks. The English interpreted this as a Bishop's mitre and began to call the piece a Bishop, which fit in with the English idea that Chess was a court game rather than a war game. Icelandic, which calls it a biskup, and Portugese (bispo) are other languages whose name for this piece means Bishop. Germans gave the piece entirely new names, such as der Alte, which means sage, and the current name, Laufer, which means courier or runner. This name seems to have its roots in Courier Chess, which included both the Alfil and the modern Bishop. The Dutch call it Loper, which means the same as Laufer.
Shogi has an identically moving piece of independent origin. It is commonly known to English speakers as a Bishop, though, as reported by Murray, its Japanese name literally means angle-going.
Because the Bishop is one of the regular Chess pieces, it has been used in countless Chess variants. In Yáng Qí, a recent Xiangqi variant by Fergus Duniho, the Bishop was renamed as Sage, Sheng in Chinese, so that it could be represented by a single Chinese character. The choice of this name was guided by the German name of der Alte. Examples of the Sheng piece are included among the alternate piece images shown further below.
The Bishop moves an arbitrary number of spaces in any diagonal direction. It may not pass over occupied spaces, and it ends its move by occupying an empty space or by capturing an enemy piece.
Movement Diagrams
Vocabulary: Diagonal
A Bishop moves diagonally. Diagonal movement passes through the corners of spaces, connecting spaces of the same color on a suitably checkered board. Diagonally adjacent squares share a common corner but have no sides in common. Diagonally adjacent hexagons share no sides or corners in common and are connected by a line that touches a corner of each space.
Alternate Images
Click on an image to view the full piece set it belongs to.
Davidson, Henry A. A Short History of Chess, 1949.
Murray, H. J. R. A History of Chess, 1913.
This is an item in the Piececlopedia: an overview of different (fairy) chess pieces.
Written by Fergus Duniho and Hans Bodlaender. Diagram by Ben Good. Information on Portugese name of Bishop by Nuno Cruz.
WWW page created: September 9, 1998. Last modified: December 15, 2001.
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Bishop. Moves arbitrary number of unobstructed squares diagonally.
Anonymous wrote on 2010-03-19 EDT
There are many pieces called 'Elephant' (and Bishop in Russian is also Elephant), many pieces called 'Joker' (Bishop in French is also Joker), many pieces called 'Archer' (also Bishop in one of languages, i don't remember), and there is no Bishop in chess expect Bishop itself!
Carlos wrote on 2005-11-18 EST
In spanish, this piece is called Alfil. It has no other meaning than 'that chess piece that moves diagonally'. As a spanish reader, I sometimes get confused when I see the word 'Alfil' not meaning the Bishop, because this is the piece I think about when I hear that word :)
Charles Gilman wrote on 2004-11-30 EST
It would have been nice if Gergely Buglyó had posted his information while
I was still trying to find out! Still, better late than never. In the
context of pre-industrial armies the terms runner and messenger are fairly
interchangeable.
The variant with hex-prism cells and the described effect on the bishop
has now been posted
(http://www.chessvariants.org/hexagonal.dir/honeycomb.html).
Gergely Buglyó wrote on 2004-08-24 EDT
In fact, 'futár' means 'messenger' in Hungarian, but in chess the bishop is called 'futó', which could mean 'runner' indeed. (I'm not sure if the word 'futó' is derived from 'futár'.)
Charles Gilman wrote on 2004-08-02 EDT
Well I have recently submitted a variant using FIDE pieces with their
square-board definitions on a 3d board on which the ranks are hex boards
on their sides, to preserve the square-board change-of-rank requirements
as with Quadlevel but through the nature of the pieces rather than any
weakening extra restrictions. Thus the Bishop in that game has no move
within a hex board.
Since my last comment here I have finally discovered the meaning of the
Hungarian Futar. It means runner, same as the German Laufer and Dutch
Loper.
Number of ratings: 2, Average rating: Excellent, Number of comments: 10
https://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/bishop.html
First Created: Wednesday, September 9th, 1998
Last Modified: Saturday, December 15th, 2001


Hello, can someone help me with this request?
Hi @ziodave, I've been reviewing your translation, and it doesn't follow some translation guidelines for PT-BR and our glossary. Please check them out (specially the uppercase/lowercase section) , and once you correct those strings, we can approve you as editor, right?
Hi! As we didn't have any activity in this request during the last two months, can pt_BR checkbox be removed from it, @tobifjellner?
If you still have an interest in becoming PTE for your own plugin in ptBR, @ziodave, you can make the necessary revision and then make another request, ok?
Yes sorry, I hadn't got the time to review this.
I'll reopen a request as soon as I am ready.
I've deactivated the entry for pt_BR.
This request is still open for #pt_PT though.
Sorry @ziodave, we didn't get the memo… probably because of the locale change.
Please, take a look at how the portuguese community handles pte requests..


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We found there many works of graffity becoming a cultural show of this art.
No seguimento do meu projeto Graffity Hunter que se propõe a divulgar artistas desconhecidos desta forma de arte urbana hoje trago para compartilhar com vocês este graffity que encontrei na Rua Gonçalves Ledo no bairro Praia de Iracema em Fortaleza capital do Ceará - Brasil.
A região em redor do Mercado dos Pinhões tem muitas obras de graffity se tornando numa mostra cultural desta arte.
That's a very strange piece. What was going on in the mind of the artist, I wonder?
Who knows maybe traveling in sky.
@banjo and @cleverbot are you there?
Your UA account score is currently 2.970 which ranks you at #11021 across all Steem accounts.
In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 204 contributions, your post is ranked at #147.


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NZTech officially launched the Education Technology Association of New Zealand (EdTechNZ) this month, which aims to grow education technology exports from New Zealand.
EdTechNZ aims to drive creative use of technology in education, facilitate a world-class education system for New Zealanders and to showcase our education technology to the world.
The association brings together industry providers, educators and government (both ENZ and the Ministry of Education are represented on the board).
More than 70 industry players attended the launch, held at Microsoft's offices in Auckland. The launch included a panel discussion, The Future of Education is Now, which featured representatives from Ministry of Education, Unitec, Rangitoto College and others.
Annabel Robertson, ENZ's Business Development Manager, says educational technology is booming, and the new association will not only support the development of edtech for export, it will benefit the local New Zealand education sector.
"Technology is redefining how we learn, obtain skills and get credentials," said Annabel.
The edtech market is forecast to be a $344 billion global market by 2019.
Any organisation or teacher with an interest in edtech-based products, services or solutions is welcome to join EdTechNZ, and can find the details here.
Panel discussion of The Future of Education is Now.


The Good Yahoo Mail has all the tools you could want for managing your e-mail, and new themes and conversation view features make it more fun and convenient.
The Bad You can't use your own photos for themes.
The Bottom Line The latest version of Yahoo Mail gives you a great way to manage your e-mail with all the features you've come to rely on, while adding cool customization to give it some style.
Yahoo Mail for iOS received a face-lift for iOS 7 in the latest version, and with new themes and conversation views, it's a must have for anyone whose primary e-mail account is with Yahoo.
Following the new simplified design schemes of the main Yahoo app and Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Mail now has a new look to fit with iOS 7. But in Yahoo Mail, you have the ability to change the theme by selecting a premade background. Most of the themes are photos and patterns that show up in the background, and your inbox takes on the color of your photo. It's a lot like the effect of changing your background in iOS 7, where the colors of your background show through in the passcode screen.
If you find the colors to be too garish, you also have the option to pick from a selection of solid colors for just the interface elements while keeping the background a more standard white.


Looking forward to the upcoming launch of PSLV-C45 by India ISRO. Watching the video, they have many interesting and innovative aspects planned. You know… it just makes me wonder how best to cast the TMRO net out to like-minded space geeks located in India to strengthen their contribution/participation in the TMRO circle.
Video of the launch from a passing aircraft.


Australian rules football is a sport created in Australia. It is the national sport and is the most popular sport in Australia. The main league of Australian rules football is the Australian Football League.
In 1858, Tom Wills, a former student of the Rugby school and Cambridge College, created a set of football rules that were like a cross between rugby, soccer and Gaelic football. He made up the game for cricketers to keep in shape during the off-season (winter). Wills had help in making up the game from other people like his cousin H.C.A. Harrison, and W.J. Hammersly and J.B. Thompson.
Wills grew up with Indigenous Australians. He spoke the language of the people who lived near him and played with the children. It has been suggested that Australian Rules Football is based in part on Marn Grook, an Aboriginal game with some similar rules to Australian Rules Football. Because the indigenous people Wills played with as a child would have played Marn Grook, Wills would have been influenced by this game when creating the rules for Australian Rules Football.
The Melbourne Football Club was founded on 14 May 1859; the Melbourne Football Club is one of the oldest surviving football clubs in the world. A game of football was played between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School. It was played over three days on an oval next to the present day Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the two schools have played an annual game ever since. This game became known as Melbourne Rules Football, one of many local varieties of football that existed at that time, another notable one being Sheffield Rules Football. Then following its decision to not join either the association rules (1863) or rugby rules (1871), it became known as Victorian Rules, although it closely resembled the two former rule sets. Then in the 1880s as rugby and association rules began to diverge in a much greater way, Victorian Rules which resembled the 1850s type of football that both rugby and the association had based their rules on remained much the same except for moving to oval fields from rectangular fields and eventually introducing more posts. After the sport became popular in other states, people started calling it "Australian Rules".
The Victorian Football League ( VFL ) was created in 1896. The next year, the first official games were played. The first clubs were Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda, and South Melbourne. In 1908, Richmond and University joined. University left after the 1914 season. In 1925, Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne joined the VFL.
Brisbane Lions (1997, when the Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy Lions merged).
In 1990 the Victorian Football League was changed to the Australian Football League (AFL). Footscray changed its name to the Western Bulldogs in 1997. North Melbourne changed its name to the Kangaroos in 1999, but changed back in 2008.
Football is the most popular sport in Australia, with crowd attendances of 50-80,000 people common to normal home and away matches and capacity crowds of 100,000 people at the home of football the MCG during the finals and special matches. The record crowd still remains at 121,696, who watched that most history-making of all Grand Finals in 1970, between Carlton and Collingwood, where Carlton came from a 44-point deficit at half-time to win the game by implementing an entirely new system of play, handballing out of the backline, which changed the game forever, and marked the beginnings of the transition of the game from one of a 'territorial' base to 'possession football'.
There are 16 teams in the AFL . Each team has 22 players during game day with team lists of 40-45 players.During the game, each team has 18 players on the field, consisting of 6 forwards, 3 centres, 6 backmen, and 3 followers. The 4 remaining players are reserves three of which can be interchanged with any other player in the team as often as the coach wants. The forth can replace a player but the replaced player can not come back on to the field of play.
Every game consists of 4 quarters, being 20 minutes and overtime (stoppage time, time-keepers acting upon central umpire signals to determine how long). After every quarter the teams swap direction. The quarter is started when the umpire blows his whistle and bounces the ball in the middle of the field (similar to a basketball "tip")and opposing players try to tap or punch the ball to their team-mates.
The idea of the game is to kick more goals than the other team. At each end of the field are 4 poles. Players score points by kicking the ball between the poles. A goal is a kick between the centermost posts. It is worth 6 points. A Behind (worth 1 point) is a kick that goes between the outer posts. Players can bounce the ball and hit it with their hand (handball it) to other players . If a player catches a ball after the ball has been kicked in the air by another player, then this is a "mark" and the player cannot be tackled until he plays on.
It is the only "football" code where the major score can ONLY be scored with the foot.
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↑ W. F. Mandle (1976). "Wills, Thomas Wentworth Spencer (1835 - 1880)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 2008-11-25.
↑ "Gold Coast SUNS". goldcoastfc.com.au. 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
↑ "Greater Western Sydney Giants". gwsgiants.com.au. 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
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I'm looking to find useful debug information using UNO about the Office instance and the (Writer) document currently open in it. I found some document metadata in the DocumentProperties of the XDocument interface (e.g. Author, Generator, …).
More detailed information about the file that's been loaded, i.e. file format, its version (if available), etc.
Is such information available, and if so, how?
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>>> # Use settings.getProperties() to inspect what properties are available.
More information under Reading Configuration Data, although I couldn't find anything yet that leads me to configuration/meta data about the currently open document.
Look at sections 13.3 and 13.4 in Andrew Pintonyak's "OpenOffice.org Macros Explained" you may find what you need there.
UnklDonald418 wrote: Look at sections 13.3 and 13.4 in Andrew Pintonyak's "OpenOffice.org Macros Explained" you may find what you need there.
(…) # n-tuple of com.sun.star.beans.NamedValues (i.e. name/value pairs).
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Note, however, that the document statistics for a Writer document may be incomplete if the document hasn't finished loading. Related threads here or here and probably there are some more.


2003-12-30 Assigned to GMP/CARDIAC CARE, INC. reassignment GMP/CARDIAC CARE, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: SOLOVAY, KENNETH S.
A rail stent-graft with increased longitudinal flexibility and sealing properties that is deployable within a body lumen, such as the aorta, for repairing an aneurysm. The rail stent-graft includes an anchoring assembly for securing the rail stent-graft to a portion of the vessel above a junction with another vessel.
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/641,284 filed on Aug. 15, 2003, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/403,361 filed on Aug. 15, 2002, and this application also claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/426,420, filed on Nov. 15, 2002. The full disclosure of each of these applications is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to a stent-graft for use as a prosthetic within a body vessel to support the vessel, and particularly, to a stent-graft having improved longitudinal structural flexibility and graft wear that can be used within a body vessel such as the aorta to support and facilitate the repair of the vessel.
An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a very common deteriorating disease typically manifested by a bulbous weakened section and expansion of the aorta vessel wall at a region between the aorto-renal junction and the aorto-iliac junction. These aneurysms can result from accidents, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure or inherited disease. Aneurysms affect the ability of the vessel lumen to conduct fluids, and may at times be life threatening, for instance when rupture of the vessel wall occurs. Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms—which can cause massive internal bleeding—kill about 6,000 Americans a year.
A traditional treatment for repairing an aneurysm is to surgically remove part or all of the aneurysm and replace it with a synthetic graft or patch. But, in this procedure, the graft is put in place by threading a tiny plastic tube through a small incision in the groin and into a femoral artery. A spring-loaded stent graft, covered with a sheath, is loaded on the tip of the tube. The stent graft provides a new, more secure channel for blood within the blood vessel. Using X-ray images, the medical team guides the graft to the diseased section of the blood vessel and then pulls back the sheath. The self-expanding spring action fixes the graft to the inside vessel wall, and the tube is withdrawn from the femoral artery and the groin.
When the aneurysm is proximate the opening of another vessel, such as the renal artery, it can be difficult to anchor a conventional expandable stent-graft within the aorta. Additionally, the neck above the aneurysm can be short and tortuous. Conventional expandable stent-grafts may include anchors such as that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,334,869 to Leonhardt et al., which is incorporated herein by reference. These conventional, expandable stent-grafts with anchoring stent portions are commonly referred to as "suprarenal" stent-grafts. However, these suprarenal stent grafts do not conform to, or follow, the contour of the region of the aneurysm. As a result, these conventional tubular stent grafts can be too stiff for effective use at the site of an aortic aneurysm.
In cases where the aneurysm involves the ipsilateral and contralateral iliac vessels extending from the aorta, it is known to provide a generally Y-shaped bifurcated stent graft having a primary limb joining with an ipsilateral limb and a contralateral limb. An example of such a stent graft, and elements for surgically implanting the stent graft, are described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,387,235 to Chuter, which is incorporated herein by reference. The surgical procedure taught by Chuter involves either surgical isolation of the femoral vessels in the groin to provide direct access to the vessels, or percutaneous entry through both ipsilateral and contralateral femoral arteries. However, these stent grafts experience the same lack of longitudinal flexion that are experienced by the above-discussed conventional stent grafts.
The present invention relates to a stent-graft with increased longitudinal flexibility relative to conventional stent-grafts. Longitudinal flexibility as used herein relates to the flexibility of the stent-graft structure (or portions thereof) to move relative to its major, longitudinal axis of extension. The stent-graft is deployed within a body lumen such as the aorta for supporting the lumen and repairing luminal aneurysms. In a preferred embodiment, the stent-graft is located and expanded within a blood vessel to repair aortic aneurysms.
An aspect of the present invention includes a rail stent-graft comprising an elongated stent assembly including at least one vessel support element that is positionable on a first side of a junction of at least two vessels. The rail stent-graft also includes an elongated stent-graft assembly comprising at least one vessel support element and at least one graft element. The stent-graft assembly is positionable on a second side of the junction of the at least two vessels. The rail stent-graft assembly further includes at least one rail element extending between the stent assembly and the stent-graft assembly. Each of these assemblies is moveable along and relative to the at least one rail element.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the rail stent-graft shown in FIG. 2.
Referring to the figures where like numerals indicate the same element throughout the views, FIG. 1 shows an aorta 12 joined to renal arteries 14 and 15 at aorto-renal junctions (intersection) 16, and having an aortic aneurysm 18 below the aorto-renal junctions 16. As is known, an aortic aneurysm 18 includes a weakened and expanded vessel wall at the diseased region of the aorta 12. As shown in FIG. 2, the rail stent-graft 10 according to the present invention is deployed within the aorta 12 so that at least a stent-graft assembly 50 is located in the region of the aneurysm 18 and acts as a prosthetic device for relieving blood flow pressure against the weakened vessel wall by acting as a fluid conduit through the region of the aneurysm 18.
As illustrated in FIG. 2, the rail stent-graft 10 according to the present invention comprises the stent-graft assembly 50 including a graft portion 100 and a stent portion 200. The stent-graft assembly 50 can include the structure of the stent-grafts discussed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/641,284 filed on Aug. 15, 2003, which is fully incorporated herein by reference. The rail stent-graft 10 also comprises a rail stent assembly 300 that is spaced from the stent-graft assembly 50 so that these two assemblies can be positioned on opposite sides of an intersection of two vessels. The rail stent assembly 300 can include any of the rail stents discussed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/100,986 filed on Mar. 20, 2002, and U.S. Provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/426,366, filed on Nov. 15, 2002, which are both fully incorporated herein by reference. As illustrated, the rail stent assembly 300 can be positioned and anchored above the junction 16 in order to locate the assemblies 50, 300 of the rail stent-graft 10 at their respective desired positions within the aorta 12. As discussed below, elongated rail elements 80 extend between the assemblies 50 and 300. Any number of rails 80 that do not hinder the desired longitudinal flexibility of the stent-graft 10 can be used between the assemblies 50, 300 and within these assemblies 50, 300.
The stent portion 200 of the stent-graft assembly 50 includes a plurality of spaced, circumferential support elements (hoops) 222. Each circumferential support element 222 is generally annular in shape. In a preferred embodiment, each circumferential support element 222 has a sinusoidal or otherwise undulating form. Each circumferential support element 222 is made from a flexible, biocompatible material (i.e., from a material that is, for example, non-reactive and/or non-irritating). In one embodiment, each circumferential support element 222 is made from medical-grade metal wire formed as a closed loop (i.e., as an annular hoop) in a known manner, including, for example, micro-welding two ends of a wire segment together. Stainless steel, metal alloys, shape-memory alloys, super elastic alloys and polymeric materials used in conventional stents are representative examples of materials from which circumferential support elements 222 can be formed. The alloys can include NiTi and Nitinol. The polymers for circumferential support elements 222 may, for example, be bioabsorbable polymers so that the stent can be absorbed into the body instead of being removed.
As shown in FIG. 2, the support elements 222 are freely mounted on elongated rails elements 80 (herein after "rails") such that the support elements 222 can move along the rails 80. The rails 80 extend along the length of the stent-graft 10 between the outermost peaks of terminal support elements 222 at a first end 54 and the innermost peaks of the terminal support element 222 at a second end 56. As illustrated, the terminal support elements 222 can extend beyond the terminal ends of the graft-portion 100.
The graft portion 100, illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3, is formed of well known biocompatible materials such as woven polyester including that available under the trademark "DACRON", porous polyurethane, and Polytetrafluroethylene (PTFE). In a preferred embodiment, the biocompatible material is expanded Polytetrafluroethylene (ePTFE). Methods for making ePTFE are well known in art, and are also described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,187,390 issued to Gore on Feb. 5, 1980, which is incorporated herein by reference.
The graft portion 100 can be secured to the rails 80 and the stent portion 220 as illustrated in the U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/641,284, filed on Aug. 15, 2003, which has been fully incorporated herein by reference. For example, the stent-graft portion 100 can include a plurality of circumferentially extending rings that are spaced from each other along the length of the graft portion 100. These rings eliminate the need to suture the stent portion 200 to the graft portion 100. Additionally, these rings can receive the rails 80 so that the rings and the stent-graft section can move along and relative to the rails 80.
The rails 80 can have any form. For example, the rails 80 can be solid cylindrical members, such as wires or extrusions with circular, elliptical or other known cross sections. Alternatively, the rails 80 can be ribbons or spring wires. Additionally, the rails 80 are desirably sufficiently flexible to accommodate bends, curves, etc. in a blood vessel. Rails 80 may be made from, for example and without limitation the following biocompatible materials: metals, metallic alloys including those discussed above, glass or acrylic, and polymers including bioabsorbable polymers. The rails 80 can also include any of the materials discussed in the U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/100,986, filed on Mar. 20, 2002, and U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/426,366, filed on Nov. 15, 2002, which have been incorporated herein by reference.
The rails 80 can be passed or "snaked" through the circumferential support elements 222 as discussed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/641,284. Additionally, the rails 80 can be passed through the stent portion 200 and the graft portion 100 as discussed below.
In the embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3, the circumferential support elements 222 include apertures through which the rails 80 extend as shown. The support elements 222 slide along the rail(s) 80 so that the stent-graft assembly 50 can conform to the shape of the aorta or other blood vessel. It is also contemplated that the terminal support elements 222 can move along the rails 80 if, for example, the rail elements form a closed loop or include terminal stop members.
The rail stent assembly 300 includes a plurality of vessel support elements 322 that, like vessel support elements 222, are mounted for free movement along the rails 80 and relative to the rails 80. These vessel support elements can be substantially the same as vessel support elements 222 discussed above. Therefore, the above-discussion regarding vessel support elements 222 is also applicable to vessel support elements 322 and will not be repeated. The adjacent vessel support elements 322 can be secured to each other by a bridge element. Providing at least one bridge element between adjacent support elements 322 increases the structural integrity of the stent-graft 10 because it helps to keep the support elements 322 distributed along the length of the rail stent portion 300 while still offering increased longitudinal flexibility. Alternatively, adjacent vessel support elements 322 can be free of any connection to each other and move independently along the rail(s) 80.
As previously discussed, the rails 80 are desirably sufficiently flexible to accommodate bends, curves, etc. in a blood vessel and can have any of the configurations discussed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/100,986 and U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/426,366. The ability of the support elements 322 to move along and independent of the rails 80 allows the rail stent section 300 to conform to the contour of a vessel by shortening along the inner radius of a vessel curve and maintaining a longer arc along the outer radius of the vessel curve. This conformability of the rail stent assembly 300 creates an effective seal with the vascular wall of the aorta above the renal artery junction 16. Similarly, as discussed above, the stent-graft assembly 50 is also capable of experiencing this conformability to the shape of the aorta below the junction 16 and thus is capable of forming a seal with the lower part of the descending aorta.
As shown in FIG. 2, the rails 80 extend between the rail stent assembly 300 and the stent-graft assembly 50. The space 90 between the rail stent assembly 300 and the stent-graft assembly 50 is aligned with the junction 16 and formed by stops on the rail(s) 80. Specifically, each rail 80 can include a mechanical deformation or stop member, such as a weld that restrict the support elements 222, 322 from traveling along the rail and entering the open space 90. Alternatively, the rails may be free of any type of stop for either the rail stent assembly 300 and/or the stent-graft assembly 50.
The stent-graft assembly 60 can include a bifurcated region 65 as shown in FIG. 2. In a preferred embodiment, the bifurcated region permits the stent-graft assembly 60 to be used in cases where involvement of one or both iliac vessels 11 and 13 is present. The bifurcated region 65 of the stent-graft 60 has a generally Y-shape and extends from the primary section 62 of the stent-graft assembly 60 that is located within the aorta 12. The bifurcated region includes a first limb 64 for location within a vessel such as the ipsilateral iliac vessel 11, and a second limb 66 for location within another vessel such as the contralateral iliac vessel 13. These limbs 64, 66 meet at a graft limb junction 63. Each limb 64, 66 is generally similar in construction to the primary section 60. Both limbs utilize the rail stent-graft technology discussed above with respect to the primary section 62. For example, the limbs 64, 66 each include a graft portion 100 having a graft material that can be secured relative to a stent portion 200 that includes a plurality of vessel support elements 222. The graft portion 100 and stent portion 200 of each limb 64, 66 are moveable between the ends of the rails 80 that support them. The term "bifurcation" is not limiting to the number of limbs that can found in this region of the stent-graft 10. Instead, the bifurcated region 65 could include more than two limbs.
The present invention also includes introducing an agent into a body using the above-discussed stent-graft 10. In a preferred embodiment, the agent(s) is carried by one or more of the rails 80 or the graft portion 100 and released within the body over a predetermined period of time. For example, these stents can deliver one or more known agents, including therapeutic and pharmaceutical drugs, at a site of contact with a portion of the vasculature system or when released from a carrier as is known. These agents can include any known therapeutic drugs, antiplatelet agents, anticoagulant agents, antimicrobial agents, antimetabolic agents and proteins. These agents can also include any of those disclosed in the above mentioned U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/426,366, U.S. Pat. No. 6,153,252 to Hossainy et al., and U.S. Pat. No. 5,833,651 to Donovan et al., all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety. Local delivery of these agents is advantageous in that their effective local concentration is much higher when delivered by the stent than that normally achieved by systemic administration.
at least one rail element extending between said stent assembly and said stent-graft assembly, each said assembly being moveable along and relative to said at least one rail element.
2. The stent-graft according to claim 1, wherein said graft portion includes circumferential rings spaced along said axis, and wherein said at least one rail element is received in a plurality of said longitudinally spaced rings.
3. The stent-graft according to claim 1, wherein said stent assembly and said stent-graft assembly each include a plurality of vessel support elements.
4. The stent-graft according to claim 3, wherein said vessel support elements are substantially circumferential in cross section.
5. The stent-graft according to claim 1, wherein said graft element is formed of expanded Polytetrafluroethylene.


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By Narendra V
Forbidden City is the largest palace complex in the world, located in Beijing, China. It was served as Imperial palace from Ming dynasty in 1420 to Qing dynasty 1912. Now it is used as Palace Museum. It was constructed between 1406 and 1420. It was built in traditional Chinese architectural style.
It is spread over 180 acres of land.
The complex has 980 buildings. It has total 8886 rooms.
The Palace complex was declared as World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987.
With 14 million visitors in a year, it is most visited museum in the world.
The Forbidden City is in rectangular shape with a length of 961 m and width of 753 m. It is surrounded by 7.9 m high wall. The wall again surrounded by 6 m deep and 52 m wide ditch with water.
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