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Summer 2015, Skin deepdropdown
Skin deep, Summer 2015
The inner life of skin
New lungs, new life
A transplant survivor's struggle to keep her smile
Wither youth
Why does skin grow old?
Surviving melanoma
New hope for beating skin cancer's deadliest form
Getting under their skin
A conversation with actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith
Heart choices
As fewer healthy, young hearts become available for transplant, attention turns to the increasing number of castoff donor hearts.
Vaccine hunter
A new biography of Jonas Salk, written by professor emeritus of medicine Charlotte Jacobs, MD, tells the legendary polio fighter's story. Stanford Medicine offers an excerpt.
The rarest of rashes
Curing the skin's rogue cancer
By Tracie White
Photograph by Max Aguilera-Hellweg
Cassie Stockton reclines on a doctor's exam chair, preparing for yet another medical procedure. The 21-year-old community college student, who hopes to become an ultrasound technician, is a patient at Stanford's Laser and Aesthetic Dermatology Clinic. A tiny woman, with white-blonde hair and full lips, Stockton is here regularly for what are common cosmetic treatments for much older women — injectable fillers, chemical peels, pulsed light rejuvenation.
For Stockton, these skin treatments have meant so much more. They've helped give her back her smile.
Stockton was 15 years old when she came out of a surgery born into a new life. No longer would she have to hide at home from germs like the common cold virus. No longer would there be panicked, middle-of-the-night emergency room trips, the constant struggle to breathe, the gasping for air.
The oxygen machines, the vasodilators, the feeding tubes, a childhood spent living in fear — all tossed.
From this day forward, Stockton could be almost like other teenagers — go out on dates, hang at the lake, go to school every day even during the germ-filled winter months. She could play soccer in PE, have a first kiss, go to prom. Breathe deeply. Belong.
The day Stockton woke up out of the anesthesia six years ago after a 13-hour surgery at the Transplant Center at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, she breathed in oxygen with newly transplanted lungs, and breathed out sobs. Tears streamed down her face.
"At first, I thought she was in pain," says her mother, Jennifer Scott, who stood by her side. But that wasn't it. Stockton was overwhelmingly sad because she now knew her new lungs were the gift of a child.
It was Dec. 6, 2009, just before Christmas. The death of someone else's child had given her a whole new life.
Six years later, Stockton's sickly childhood has become a thing of the past. But as an organ transplant recipient she faces new medical challenges. A daily regimen of immunosuppressant medications — a handful every morning and night — is essential for keeping her body from rejecting her new lungs, but they caused an increased susceptibility to diabetes and a high risk of skin cancer. Now she's a diabetic whose strict, daily, self-care regimen includes insulin injections and waging war against a barrage of skin cancers.
Every four months, she and her fiancé make the four-hour drive from their home in Bakersfield, California, past the oil rigs and cattle farms to Stanford's Redwood City-based dermatology clinic for her skin cancer screening. It's been two years of treatments: freezings, laserings, a total of eight outpatient skin surgeries — the most significant resulting in the removal of the left half of her lower lip. The dermatologic surgeon removes the skin cancers, and then gets to work to repair the damage.
"It's heart-breaking to have to remove the lip of a 21-year-old woman," says Tyler Hollmig, MD, clinical assistant professor of dermatology and director of the Stanford Laser and Aesthetic Dermatology Clinic, who leads Stockton's treatment and keeps her looking like the young woman she is, restoring her skin, rebuilding her lip, making sure she keeps her smile.
Stockton doesn't complain about any of it. It's her job to take care of the lungs given to her by that child, she says. She knows she got a second chance at life.
"After the transplant I felt like I threw half of everything bad away," Stockton says. "Now I stay on a strict regimen of medications. I can't skip a day of it. The more I work out at the gym, the more it helps my lungs. I protect my skin and stay out of the sun. A lot depends on how well you take care of yourself. Finally I can breathe."
Born premature
Stockton's own lungs never really had a chance. Born premature, the newborn was intubated the first two weeks of life, then sent home with her mother and an oxygen tank. She remained on oxygen 24 hours a day for the first two years of her life.
Eventually, she was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a chronic lung disorder more common in infants who get mechanical ventilation to treat respiratory distress syndrome.
"She was always so sick," says her mother. She and Stockton are together at the Scotts' home in Bakersfield looking at childhood snapshots scattered across the dining room table — a 1-year-old Cassie with oxygen tubes in her nose, a smiling Cassie posing at the prom in a short skirt and high heels.
"She was always short of breath and prone to lung infections," Scott says. "She would not thrive. She didn't walk until a year and a half."
To protect her baby from the lung infections that resulted in repeated emergency room visits, Scott kept her at home away from any possible germ sources, including playmates.
"She was always congested," Scott says. "She would sit in my lap and I'd pat on her chest saying, 'Come on lungs, come on lungs.' That was what she said when she first started to talk."
At the age of 2, Stockton was able to come off the oxygen machine during the day, but remained on oxygen during the night. She was still sickly, but she could do a bit more, ride her tricycle, run around. But during visits to the park, mother and daughter sat alone at a bench away from any germs and watched the other kids play.
"I remember being angry, really angry," says Scott. "I just wanted her to be able to get up and play."
At 5, Stockton got sick again, this time with the flu, and was back in the hospital, intubated once more.
"This time Cassie's lungs were destroyed," Scott says. "Doctors told me it may be years from now, but she would need a double-lung transplant. After that there was a huge change in Cassie. She couldn't ride her tricycle anymore, she could barely breathe to walk.
"She was so skinny, so frail, even malnourished. She was always breathing so hard, burning up calories. At 6 years old, she was just 25 pounds," her mother recalls.
A physician kept Stockton, who also had a gastric reflux condition, on a feeding tube for the next two years. Eventually she got strong enough to go to a small, private kindergarten and on to first grade at a public school. By homeschooling Stockton during the germ-filled winter months, her mom was able to keep her out of the ER for the next decade. Then at 15, Stockton came down with pneumonia.
That year there were heavy wildfires surrounding Bakersfield, the smoke and smog settling thick as soup into the Central Valley's bowl-like basin. It affected a lot of people's lungs. Stockton was an eighth grader at Fruitvale Junior High.
"One day we were sitting at the table at home, eating cookies and drinking milk," Scott says. "Cassie wanted her lip pierced. I said no. She got mad and went to her room. When I peeked in, she was crying."
But it wasn't about the piercing. Stockton was having really bad chest pain. It was pneumonia. The two headed back to the ER. This time, Stockton's lungs wouldn't survive the attack.
Afraid her lungs were too weak to keep her alive, the staff at Children's Hospital in Madera inserted a catheter into the main artery of her neck and connected her to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine. ECMO is a life-support system. Oxygen-depleted blood from the patient flows through the machine where it gets re-oxygenated and sent back to the body. Then they sent her to Stanford, well-known for its expertise in transplant medicine.
"She was in complete lung failure," her mom says.
Over the next two weeks while at Stanford, Stockton was slowly weaned off the ECMO machine until she was able to walk around her unit. She wasn't going to die, not yet at least. But she needed a lung transplant as soon as possible. Stockton, not her mother, would need to give her own approval to undergo the life-changing surgery.
"The doctors told me, 'It's not up to you,'" her mom says. "'Cassie's old enough to make that decision herself.'" When they asked Stockton, she refused.
"I was shocked," her mother says. "I guess she was just so sick, so tired of all of it."
As Stockton listens to her mom tell the story of her childhood, the tears continually start and stop. Maybe it's more for her mother than for herself, but lines of mascara stream down her cheeks. She walks off to the kitchen to compose herself, circles back into the dining room, then walks away again, the tears still flowing.
Through it all she keeps smiling.
"I was scared," Stockton says, remembering back to the transplant decision. Two weeks later, after talking to other young transplant patients at the hospital, she changed her mind. She agreed to the surgery, was put on the lung transplant waiting list, and went home — to wait.
Six months later, in December, they got the call.
"We got in the car and drove to Stanford," Scott says. "It was a 13-hour surgery that lasted all night long."
During the four-month recovery period spent living in the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford, Stockton's first order of business was studying for her online driving test. She couldn't wait to start life as a "normal" 16-year-old.
Her transplant had come at a particularly tricky age, smack dab in the middle of those rebellious adolescent years. Stockton's pulmonologist knew there would be battles to come. Teenage rebellion for transplant patients isn't allowed. It's too risky.
"They have the worst outcomes, adolescents," says Carol Conrad, MD, a Stanford pediatric pulmonologist who has been Stockton's physician since she first transferred to Stanford from Madera on the ECMO machine.
"They forget things, or they think they are going to live forever. I tend to be very strict and very clear that my patients have to follow every single one of my directions because we really don't have options for treatments after transplants. Poor Cassie, she wanted to be so normal, to look like everybody else, to get up and get out of the house, to go out and date boys."
After the transplant, Stockton did turn into a full-time teenager just like she wanted. She hung out at the lake. She drank sodas. Got a tan. Dated boys. Nothing so rebellious, but she soon learned that as a post-transplant patient with diabetes, she had a new set of rules to follow. Conrad helpfully pointed these rules out.
"One time, I showed up at her office drinking a Gatorade," Stockton says, the sugar-filled drink off limits to diabetics.
"Dr. Conrad told me to 'throw that out.'"
Another time, she showed up at an appointment wearing a tank top and a tan. The no-tan rule took a little longer to sink in.
"She told me to, 'Please throw the tank top away,'" Stockton says, laughing. "It took me a while to get used to Dr. Conrad. It was like having a second mom. We have hot, humid weather in the summers in Bakersfield, and it's torturous. Everybody likes to go to the lake. My friend has a boat."
"She would come very, very red to clinic," Conrad says. "She would say she was out at the beach. I kept on telling her, 'You can't do that.'"
About two years post-transplant, Stockton began to understand why.
One of the drugs that Stockton was prescribed after her transplant put her at a high risk of skin cancers. (It was voriconazol, an antifungal to protect against fungal diseases such as Valley Fever, which is common in Bakersfield.)
No signs of skin cancer appeared until Stockton turned 17. She went to Pismo Beach with her family one weekend, and thought it was strange that her hands got burned even though it was a chilly, windy day. Then over a short period of time, dark spots began to appear on her hands, on her lower lip, on her chest, even on her scalp.
"I got a little concerned," she says. Conrad sent her to the dermatology clinic. And thus began another merry-go-round of doctor visits, this time to battle an onslaught of basal and squamous cell skin cancers.
Since 2012, Stockton has undergone a wide assortment of dermatological treatments at Stanford including liquid nitrogen to freeze off precancerous growths and eight rounds of a procedure known as Mohs surgery to remove deeper, more serious cancerous growths: several on her chest, scalp and, the most severe, on her lower lip.
"At 21 years old, Cassie has significant sun damage to her skin," says Hollmig, who was the surgeon for the Mohs procedure that resulted in the removal of the left half of her lower lip. "She had two recurrent, high-risk squamous cell cancers invading the visible portion of the lower lip. We were forced to excise almost half the lip to clear the tumors." Stockton's lip cancer could have metastasized and traveled to her lymph cells, a deadly risk. She had the procedure done in one day at the end of September.
Mohs surgery, developed in 1938 by Wisconsin surgeon Frederic Mohs, MD, is a type of microscope-controlled surgery used to treat common types of skin cancer. It involves slicing off thin layers of the cancerous tissue, then studying the slice under the microscope as soon as a slide of the tissue is prepared. If the surgeon sees any cancer cells left along the borders of the excised tissue, the patient gets called back in from the waiting room for another tissue excision. This process continues until the surgeon is certain the last bit of tissue removed is completely free of cancer cells at all its borders. Studies show it's by far the most effective and efficient way of eliminating dangerous skin cancers and those arising in important anatomic regions such as the eyelids, nose and lips since it removes the entire skin cancer while sparing the maximum amount of normal skin cells, Hollmig says.
"It takes about 15-20 minutes to remove each layer," Hollmig says. "Patients have to plan to be there all day. To identify every cancer cell we want our slides to be perfect. It takes 45 minutes to over an hour to make these high-quality slides of the removed tissue so that we can see every cell at the edge of the skin cancer.
"Cassie's largest skin cancer was removed with three layers of Mohs surgery. We got all the cancer out but it had extended to invade the muscle of the lower lip so a substantial portion of muscle, in addition to skin, had to be removed. As such, rebuilding her lip required a relatively large reconstructive procedure."
That procedure was an hour-long "advancement flap" surgery. The idea was to use skin from a nearby area on her body to fill in the U-shaped gash where the left half of Stockton's lower lip used to be.
"The best way to do that was to borrow some 'extra' skin from the right side of the remainder of the lower lip area," Hollmig explains. He cut further down into the U-shaped wound left behind by the Mohs surgery to loosen up the muscle of the entire lower lip area. This created an even deeper V-shaped opening, but it also made it possible to stretch the entire right side of the lower lip across to fill the opening in.
Hollmig then sutured the two sides of the lip area together, reconnecting the inner lining of the mouth, the muscle and skin.
"Now her lip functions fine. She can talk. She can whistle." Still, there was an unavoidable side effect from the surgery that had Hollmig worried. Stockton's normally plump, full, lower lip was left thin and scarred on the left side. She was only 21, and recently engaged to be married. He wanted to help get back her rounded lips for future wedding photos.
"I didn't have much of a lip left. It was very, very thin. I hated it," Stockton says. "I've always had puffy lips and that's what I'm used to. It was hard having half of a full lip."
To further battle the skin cancer, Hollmig worked with Conrad in pulmonology to change Stockton's antifungal medication, helping find alternatives that can help prevent fungal diseases like Valley Fever but without the skin cancer side effects.
"Working with Dr. Hollmig has been incredibly useful," Conrad says. "He came up with alternatives that I was completely clueless about." Now they are together working to make the same medication changes for other transplant patients.
The new medications along with Stockton's own efforts to protect her skin from the sun — using spray tans and sun block, tinting her car windows and visiting the lake less often — have slowed the spread of the skin damage and skin cancers. Things are getting better. Stockton returns regularly to the dermatology clinics for skin checks and restorative skin procedures.
Since the September surgery, her full lips have been restored through injections with a protein filler. Laser treatments have helped soften the scar. It's still there, a faded line dissecting her lower lip, but she can deal with that. She's got "puffy lips" back. And she's accepted her scars, in fact, pointing them out with something akin to pride.
"This one is from the ECMO machine," she says, indicating the scar on her neck from her bout with pneumonia, deftly hidden under makeup.
"I always check my scalp now," she says, running her hands through her hair to find the first of the Mohs scars, a slight dent in her scalp.
Then she discreetly lifts her shirt to show the scar from the feeding tube in her abdomen. And next to it the long transplant scar that dissects her chest.
"It's crazy to think I've had all these procedures," she says.
Her health is now better than expected. The average life of transplanted lungs is about five to six years, but with good self-care, Stockton has stretched hers to a life expectancy of about 10-15 years, says Conrad.
"She's an excellent patient," Conrad says. "She takes care of herself very well. She's beat the statistics."
Now, Stockton's looking ahead to the future. Marriage, children, a normal life. She and her doctor are afraid pregnancy would be too dangerous for her, so she's considering surrogacy. She'll make it all work out somehow. "It's been quite a journey," she says.
Tracie White is a science writer for the medical school's Office of Communication & Public Affairs. Email her at tracie.white@stanford.edu.
A psychiatric illness that strikes children out of the blue
Cells hold clues to a healthy old age


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Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Commentary - Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing (2021) Volume 4, Issue 6
Management of drug shortages induced by COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 pandemic has led to a devastating situation globally. To defeat COVID-19 pandemic, continuous supply of medicine is required to safeguard the health of society. However, in Pakistan it seems that drug shortage has soared in COVID-19 pandemic as importation of raw material is currently suspended. This article offers insight on potential drivers for drug shortages in the bay of COVID-19 outbreak in Pakistan and suggests recommendations for its efficient management. Apparently, pre-existing causes of drug shortages have been exacerbated due to the emergence of a COVID-19 pandemic. Among these, sub-optimal performance of regulatory authority is a significant contributor as no management strategy has been implemented to combat shortages. In fact, no official definition as well as no online reporting system has been dedicated to communicate drug shortages in the country due to which it is hard to quantify the current level of shortages in the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, there is a need to establish a proper surveillance system to squelch the unforeseeable consequences of drug shortages.
Author(s): Sumaira Omer*
Citations : 11
Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing received 11 citations as per Google Scholar report
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Frank Daroma (born 12 April 2001) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who currently plays for MLS Next Pro side Tacoma Defiance.

Career

Youth
Daroma played with the USSDA Barca Residency academy for a year prior to attending college.

College
In early 2019, Daroma signed a letter of intent to play college soccer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. However, Daroma went on to attend California State University, San Bernardino later that year, where he went on to make 19 appearances, scoring 4 goals and tallying 5 assists for the 'Yotes. In his freshman season, Daroma was named CCAA Freshman of the Year and was  honored as a First Team All-American and All Region selection. There was no 2020 season in the CCAA due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professional
On 5 April 2021, Daroma was announced as a signing for USL Championship side Las Vegas Lights, opting to pursue a professional career and leaving college early. Daroma made his professional debut on 5 May 2021, starting in a 5–0 loss to LA Galaxy II.

References

External links
CSUSB bio

2001 births
Association football midfielders
Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes men's soccer players
Expatriate soccer players in the United States
Las Vegas Lights FC players
Living people
People from Goleta, California
Sierra Leonean expatriate footballers
Sierra Leonean expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Sierra Leonean footballers
Soccer players from California
USL Championship players
Sportspeople from San Bernardino County, California

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Sudbury River - Route 62 to Weir Hill & Return
Yesterday's big blow finally calmed down enough overnight to allow an early morning trash patrol on the Sudbury River from Route 62 up to Weir Hill and back. After launching into the river's relatively calm waters, I began heading upstream. Almost immediately I heard the approach of the morning's first train to Boston and turned around in time to watch it pass over the river. Train 2402 was on a schedule to reach North Station at 8:15, whereas I, running on the river as an "Unscheduled Extra", would reach Weir Hill at about 10:15 or so.
The first trash encountered was just before reaching the Route 2 overpass on the river's east bank, below the highway. Several cans, a couple of bags and a 18 foot-long piece of facia board 6" wide by 1/4" thick. Fortunately, it broke easily into many small pieces which fit into my kayak's aft storage compartment.
The Heaths Bridge area was good for a few cans and bottles but was cleaner than usual.
Reaching Fairhaven Bay, I found its water's being fished by a pair of two-man boats.
The bay's Brooke Island had a beer can gleaming in the sun on its small beach. The can was just beyond the reach of my out-stretched paddle blade thus requiring a short foray onshore. Once on the island, I found 7 more cans strewn around the burned out stump of a white pine. Seeing the remains of the tree's trunk lying on the ground nearby reminded me of the "Project Mishoon" website and its link to an account of the dugout canoe recovered from Great Pond in Weymouth back in 1965. That dugout was said to have been made from an eastern white pine measuring 10 feet in diameter and estimated to have been between 150 and 200 feet tall. It was radiocarbon dated to around 1505.
Heading upriver from the bay, I noticed that a breeze was building out of the west/southwest, however it was nothing like yesterday's wild gusts!
Nearing the mouth of Pantry Brook, the sound of water falling could be heard. Paddling up to the sheet-piling structure I found the water being held back was at a level about even with my head. The structure itself is now a man/beaver hybrid with a truly unique look!
At Weir Hill I cut the power and drifted into shore where a short hot-cocoa break was enjoyed. Temperatures were warming nicely and soon I was on my way back downriver.
Wildlife seen today were mallards, Canada geese, a solitary blue heron, and a pair of red-tailed hawks. Beavers were not seen today but evidence of their recent work was abundant.
Arrived at my takeout location with 27 pieces of trash. Here they are on solid ground again...
Of the 27, 18 were recyclable (16 redeemable) and 9 were misc. rubbish such as the facia board and plastic bags, and styrofoam. My YTD total stands at 5298.
More pictures from today's patrol can be seen here.
Mishoonash in Quinsigamond
Sad News Concerning the Moose on the Loose
Assabet River - Cox St. to Gleasondale Dam & Back
Assabet River - Cox St. to Forest Ave. & Return
Assabet River - Cox St. Hudson to Orchard Hill in ...
Mashantucket Pequot Museum
Sudbury River - S. Bridge to Lee's Bridge and Back...
A Trashy Calendar for 2010
Heard Pond - Brief Terrestrial Patrol
Sudbury River - River Rd. to Power Lines & Back


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This authentic Valentino Rockstud Tote Leather and Exotics Medium presented in the brand's 2014 Noir Collection is a stylish and iconic tote that is one of today's most sought-after styles with an exotic twist. Crafted from black calfskin leather, this stand-out tote features an exotic intricate design of fur, genuine snakeskin, embossed crocodile, signature gunmetal pyramid stud border, strap detailing, protective base studs, foil logo accent, and clasp closure. Its black leather interior features side zip and slip pockets storing daily essentials. Its detachable strap allows this bag to be worn on the shoulder or longer on the body. This bag's easy construction and versatile, cool-girl style is ideal for everyday use. Authenticity code reads: BS-D970ZCA3. **Note: Shoe photographed is used as a sizing reference, and does not come with the bag. These are professional pictures of the actual bag offered by Rebag. This item can only be shipped within the United States.
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Q: How to divide a file into parts and assign it (multiword parts)? Ex#1. 1 AM Roset Malin 18 19
Ex#2. 2 PM Margie 20 21
If you did something like for Ex#1...
int a = scanner.nextInt() << 1
String b = scanner.next() << AM
String name = scanner.next() << Roset //Malin will not be shown here
String c = scanner.nextInt() << 18

What if you wanted to have "Roset Malin" in a single variable AND still work correctly for Ex#2, where there is no two part name?
I can't seem to find a way to do this. And before people asks, I'm not familiar with tokenizers, buffreaders (??) and such. Only have used scanners.

A: As you have already noticed, names can be a real issue when retrieving Space delimited data since a name can contain one or more words, for example:
Dr. Steven Jon Parker III

Even perhaps no name at all which may or may not need to be considered.
I think an easy solution would be to use the Scanner.nextLine() method instead of the Scanner.next() method and then split the incoming file line with the String.split() method. In my opinion this then gives you easier control of the read data in this case.
The code example below utilizes the aforementioned Scanner.nextLine() and String.split() methods. Of course everything is enclosed within a while loop code block so as to iterate through the entire file. The condition for the while loop utilizes the Scanner.hasNextLine() method which returns boolean true if there is another line in the input of the scanner object.
You will also notice that there are Regular Expressions (RegEx) used within the code. These are simple expressions an I'll explain what they do now:

Expression used in the String.split() method - "\\s+":

The String.split() method splits it's respective string into a One Dimensional (1D) String Array based on the supplied delimiter to the method which in this case is a white-space delimiter. The "\\s" expression means a single white-space whereas the "\\s+" expression actually used means one or more white-spaces. Why one or more? Well, to basically handle typo's where an unintentional white-space may have been supplied during data entry and not removed before the data string was saved to file.

Expression used in the String.matches()
  method - "\\d+":

In the code below we also utilize the String.matches() method to merely verify the fact that the string we are about to convert to integer with the Integer.parseInt() method is indeed a string representation of a numerical value. If we try to pass a value to this method that contains a space or a alpha (non-numerical) character then the Integer.parseInt() method will throw a NumberFormatException and possibly halting code execution.
The "\\d" expression used in the String.matches() method means, does the respective string match a string representation of a single numerical digit. The "\\d+" expression actually used means, does the respective string match a string representation of one or more numerical digits and we already know why we want one or more digits.
As mentioned the String.matches() method is merely used to validate the fact that what we are about to pass to the Integer.parseInt() method is indeed a string numerical value but if it fails this validation then 0 is placed into it's respective int variable. We use a Ternary Operator to do this. A Ternary Operator (also sometimes called a Conditional Operator) is basically a shortened version of an if/else situation.
Here is the code. Yes...it looks like a lot but it's mostly comments which you can safely remove if you like:
// A try/catch is required in case the supplied
// file could not be found.
try {
    // Try With Resources to auto close the Scanner object
    try (Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File("Data.txt"))) {
        // Iterate through the file line by line
        while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
            String strg = scanner.nextLine();
            // Skip past blank lines (if any) and Comment Lines
            // that start with a semicolon (;) (if any). We don't
            // want to process these.
            if (strg.trim().equals("") || strg.trim().startsWith(";")) {
                continue;
            }
            // Split the read in line into a String Array
            String[] parts = strg.split("\\s+");
            // Get the number from the current file data line. Ternary
            // is used here. If the data is found not to be numerical
            // then 0 is used.
            int number = parts[0].matches("\\d+") ? Integer.parseInt(parts[0]) : 0;
            // Get the AM or PM from the current file data line
            String amPM = parts[1];

            // Get the name from the current file data line
            String name = "";  // Declare & initialize the name variable
            // Start from parts Array index 2 because we already used 0 & 1
            int i = 2;
            // Get the Name regardless of its length...
            for (; i < parts.length; i++) {
                // If we hit an element that is a numerical value
                // then we know we hit the end of our name, so we get
                // out of this loop with the break statement.
                if (parts[i].matches("\\d+")) { break; }
                // Ternary used here to see if the name variable contains
                // anything. If it doesn't then just a word is appended to
                // the string held by the variable otherwise a whitespace
                // and the word is appended.
                name+= name.equals("") ? parts[i] : " " + parts[i];
            }
            // If it was found that there is no name supplied
            // in the current file data line then we will make
            // the name hold the string of: "Unknown".
            if (name.trim().equals("")) {
                name = "Unknown";
            }

            // Get first value after the name. Ternary is used here.
            // If the data is found not to be numerical then 0 is used.
            int valOne = parts[i].matches("\\d+") ? Integer.parseInt(parts[i]) : 0;
            // Get second value after the name. Ternary is used here.
            // If the data is found not to be numerical then 0 is used.
            int valTwo = parts[i + 1].matches("\\d+") ? Integer.parseInt(parts[i + 1]) : 0;

            // Display variable contents to the Console Window.
            System.out.println("Number:\t" + number);
            System.out.println("AMPM:\t" + amPM);
            System.out.println("Name:\t" + name);
            System.out.println("Value1:\t" + valOne);
            System.out.println("Value2:\t" + valTwo);
            System.out.println("=====================");
        }
    }
}
catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
    Logger.getLogger("Get Data Test").log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}

This code has been tested against a data text file named Data.txt. This is what it contains:
1 AM Roset Malin 18 19
2 PM Margie 20 21
3 PM Dr. Steven Jon Parker III 18 19
4 AM  20 21
5 AM Jack B Black 20 21

Console Window Display:
Number: 1
AMPM:   AM
Name:   Roset Malin
Value1: 18
Value2: 19
=====================
Number: 2
AMPM:   PM
Name:   Margie
Value1: 20
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Cloud-based services and mobile devices have opened up a world of opportunities for businesses to be more productive, increase their employees' efficiency and connect with their customers.
Unfortunately, this also leaves businesses increasingly more vulnerable to ever-evolving threats. The recent barrage of headline-making attacks have been a wake-up call for many businesses: the Petya malware breach, Equifax hack and WannaCry virus affected millions of people and devices globally, giving us a sobering view of what could go wrong in this hyper-connected world.
Cloud-based services and mobile devices are making it easier to do business, but also leave you more vulnerable to ever-evolving attacks.
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[1] Source: https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/annual-threat-report/mtrends.html
[2] Source: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/309688/pwc-study-shows-firms-unprepared-for-cyber-attacks.html
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Plant Spirit Medicine Healer Training Begins March 2013 at Blue Deer Center in Margaretville, NY
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Margaretville, NY (PRWEB) January 15, 2013
It is easy to recognize how plants offer food, oxygen, and medicines. But less known today is that plants have spirits with wisdom to nurture and heal people physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Ancient cultures and shamans have known for millenniums that the medicine of plant spirits can bring us into balance and harmony, but much of this tradition has been lost in the West. Plant Spirit Medicine has now been remembered, revitalized, and reintroduced by American healer and shaman, Eliot Cowan, and has proved as effective in today's world as in times past.
Eliot is the author of Plant Spirit Medicine, and a fully initiated Tsaurirrikame (shaman) in the Huichol Indian tradition. He began the study and practice of herbalism in the 1960's and completed a Master of Acupuncture degree with J.R. Worsley in England in the 1970's. Eliot subsequently apprenticed with Don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, a Huichol Indian Shaman. On the occasion of Don Guadalupe's retirement in 2000, he ritually recognized Eliot as a guide to shamanic apprentices in the Huichol tradition. This was an unprecedented honor for a person of our culture. Twenty-eight of Eliot's former apprentices are now initiated shamans.
Alison Gayek has been teaching Plant Spirit Medicine with Eliot Cowan since 2002. She began her studies with Eliot in 1997 and graduated from the PSM course in 1999. Since then, Alison has maintained a strong effective PSM practice. As a teacher, Alison also teaches graduate clinicals and skills courses, working to teach, mentor, and support new graduates as they start their own practices. In addition, she is a qualified clinical supervisor and provides clinical supervision for students and graduates. Alison has continued her healing work through various pilgrimages with Eliot Cowan and other shamans. She is a Granicera — a Weather Shaman — in the Nahua tradition indigenous to Central Mexico.
Plant Spirit Medicine is the shamans' way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine that can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul. In students learn to speak a language of the world — the language of the Five Elements. This millennial Chinese study teaches us to see humans as the expression of the forces of nature. It is important for healers learn to see these forces, to smell them, to hear them in the sound of the voice, to feel them in the throbbing of the pulses, to sense them emotionally. In this way the natural world determines what is needed in order to restore a person to balance. We know that balance is health and imbalance is illness.
In addition to his teaching of Plant Spirit Medicine, Eliot Cowan is the founder of the Blue Deer Center and is a member of the Council of Elders for the Temple of Sacred Fire Healing, which inducts qualifying Plant Spirit Medicine graduates as "Lay Spiritual Healers."
Blue Deer Center provides an important setting for teachings and practices that promote balanced relationship with the natural world. They particularly welcome ancestral approaches to healing, ritual, and retreat. The Center's origins are rooted in the Huichol shamanic tradition and living connection to the universal and sacred spirit of fire.


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A cross compiler is a compiler capable of creating executable code for a platform other than the one on which the compiler is running.  For example, a compiler that runs on a PC but generates code that runs on an Android smartphone is a cross compiler.

A cross compiler is useful to compile code for multiple platforms from one development host. Direct compilation on the target platform might be infeasible, for example on embedded systems with limited computing resources.

Cross compilers are distinct from source-to-source compilers. A cross compiler is for cross-platform software generation of machine code, while a source-to-source compiler translates from one coding language to another in text code. Both are programming tools.

Use
The fundamental use of a cross compiler is to separate the build environment from target environment.  This is useful in several situations:
 Embedded computers where a device has highly limited resources. For example, a microwave oven will have an extremely small computer to read its keypad and door sensor, provide output to a digital display and speaker, and to control the microwave for cooking food. This computer is generally not powerful enough to run a compiler, a file system, or a development environment.
 Compiling for multiple machines.  For example, a company may wish to support several different versions of an operating system or to support several different operating systems.  By using a cross compiler, a single build environment can be set up to compile for each of these targets.
 Compiling on a server farm. Similar to compiling for multiple machines, a complicated build that involves many compile operations can be executed across any machine that is free, regardless of its underlying hardware or the operating system version that it is running.
 Bootstrapping to a new platform. When developing software for a new platform, or the emulator of a future platform, one uses a cross compiler to compile necessary tools such as the operating system and a native compiler.
 Compiling native code for emulators for older now-obsolete platforms like the Commodore 64 or Apple II by enthusiasts who use cross compilers that run on a current platform (such as Aztec C's MS-DOS 6502 cross compilers running under Windows XP).

Use of virtual machines (such as Java's JVM) resolves some of the reasons for which cross compilers were developed. The virtual machine paradigm allows the same compiler output to be used across multiple target systems, although this is not always ideal because virtual machines are often slower and the compiled program can only be run on computers with that virtual machine.

Typically the hardware architecture differs (e.g. coding a program destined for the MIPS architecture on an x86 computer) but cross-compilation is also usable when only the operating system environment differs, as when compiling a FreeBSD program under Linux, or even just the system library, as when compiling programs with uClibc on a glibc host.

Canadian Cross
The Canadian Cross is a technique for building cross compilers for other machines, where the original machine is much slower or less convenient than the target. Given three machines A, B, and C, one uses machine A (e.g. running Windows XP on an IA-32 processor) to build a cross compiler that runs on machine B (e.g. running Mac OS X on an x86-64 processor) to create executables for machine C (e.g. running Android on an ARM processor).  The practical advantage in this example is that Machine A is slow but has a proprietary compiler, while Machine B is fast but has no compiler at all, and Machine C is impractically slow to be used for compilation.

When using the Canadian Cross with GCC, and as in this example, there may be four compilers involved
 The proprietary native Compiler for machine A (1) (e.g. compiler from Microsoft Visual Studio) is used to build the gcc native compiler for machine A (2).
 The gcc native compiler for machine A (2) is used to build the gcc cross compiler from machine A to machine B (3)
 The gcc cross compiler from machine A to machine B (3) is used to build the gcc cross compiler from machine B to machine C (4)

The end-result cross compiler (4) will not be able to run on build machine A; instead it would run on machine B to compile an application into executable code that would then be copied to machine C and executed on machine C.

For instance, NetBSD provides a POSIX Unix shell script named build.sh which will first build its own toolchain with the host's compiler; this, in turn, will be used to build the cross compiler which will be used to build the whole system.

The term Canadian Cross came about because at the time that these issues were under discussion, Canada had three national political parties.

Timeline of early cross compilers

 1979 – ALGOL 68C generated ZCODE; this aided porting the compiler and other ALGOL 68 applications to alternate platforms. To compile the ALGOL 68C compiler required about 120 KB of memory. With Z80 its 64 KB memory is too small to actually compile the compiler.  So for the Z80 the compiler itself had to be cross compiled from the larger CAP capability computer or an IBM System/370 mainframe.

GCC and cross compilation
GCC, a free software collection of compilers, can be set up to cross compile. It supports many platforms and languages.

GCC requires that a compiled copy of binutils is available for each targeted platform. Especially important is the GNU Assembler. Therefore, binutils first has to be compiled correctly with the switch --target=some-target sent to the configure script. GCC also has to be configured with the same --target option. GCC can then be run normally provided that the tools, which binutils creates, are available in the path, which can be done using the following (on UNIX-like operating systems with bash):

 PATH=/path/to/binutils/bin:${PATH} make

Cross-compiling GCC requires that a portion of the target platform'''s C standard library be available on the host platform. The programmer may choose to compile the full C library, but this choice could be unreliable. The alternative is to use newlib, which is a small C library containing only the most essential components required to compile C source code.

The GNU autotools packages (i.e. autoconf, automake, and libtool) use the notion of a build platform, a host platform, and a target platform.  The build platform is where the compiler is actually compiled. In most cases, build should be left undefined (it will default from host). The host platform is always where the output artifacts from the compiler will be executed whether the output is another compiler or not. The target platform is used when cross-compiling cross compilers, it represents what type of object code the package will produce; otherwise the target platform setting is irrelevant.  For example, consider cross-compiling a video game that will run on a Dreamcast.  The machine where the game is compiled is the build platform while the Dreamcast is the host platform. The names host and target are relative to the compiler being used and shifted like son and grandson''.

Another method popularly used by embedded Linux developers involves the combination of GCC compilers with specialized sandboxes like Scratchbox, scratchbox2, or PRoot.   These tools create a "chrooted" sandbox where the programmer can build up necessary tools, libc, and libraries without having to set extra paths. Facilities are also provided to "deceive" the runtime so that it "believes" it is actually running on the intended target CPU (such as an ARM architecture); this allows configuration scripts and the like to run without error. Scratchbox runs more slowly by comparison to "non-chrooted" methods, and most tools that are on the host must be moved into Scratchbox to function.

Manx Aztec C cross compilers
Manx Software Systems, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, produced C compilers beginning in the 1980s targeted at professional developers for a variety of platforms up to and including PCs and Macs.

Manx's Aztec C programming language was available for a variety of platforms including MS-DOS, Apple II, DOS 3.3 and ProDOS, Commodore 64, Mac 68k and Amiga.

From the 1980s and continuing throughout the 1990s until Manx Software Systems disappeared, the MS-DOS version of Aztec C was offered both as a native mode compiler or as a cross compiler for other platforms with different processors including the Commodore 64 and Apple II. Internet distributions still exist for Aztec C including their MS-DOS based cross compilers. They are still in use today.

Manx's Aztec C86, their native mode 8086 MS-DOS compiler, was also a cross compiler. Although it did not compile code for a different processor like their Aztec C65 6502 cross compilers for the Commodore 64 and Apple II, it created binary executables for then-legacy operating systems for the 16-bit 8086 family of processors.

When the IBM PC was first introduced it was available with a choice of operating systems, CP/M-86 and PC DOS being two of them. Aztec C86 was provided with link libraries for generating code for both IBM PC operating systems. Throughout the 1980s later versions of Aztec C86 (3.xx, 4.xx and 5.xx) added support for MS-DOS "transitory" versions 1 and 2 and which were less robust than the "baseline" MS-DOS version 3 and later which Aztec C86 targeted until its demise.

Finally, Aztec C86 provided C language developers with the ability to produce ROM-able "HEX" code which could then be transferred using a ROM burner directly to an 8086 based processor. Paravirtualization may be more common today but the practice of creating low-level ROM code was more common per-capita during those years when device driver development was often done by application programmers for individual applications, and new devices amounted to a cottage industry. It was not uncommon for application programmers to interface directly with hardware without support from the manufacturer. This practice was similar to Embedded Systems Development today.

Thomas Fenwick and James Goodnow II were the two principal developers of Aztec-C. Fenwick later became notable as the author of the Microsoft Windows CE kernel or NK ("New Kernel") as it was then called.

Microsoft C cross compilers

Early history – 1980s
Microsoft C (MSC) has a shorter history than others dating back to the 1980s. The first Microsoft C Compilers were made by the same company who made Lattice C and were rebranded by Microsoft as their own, until MSC 4 was released, which was the first version that Microsoft produced themselves.

In 1987, many developers started switching to Microsoft C, and many more would follow throughout the development of Microsoft Windows to its present state. Products like Clipper and later Clarion emerged that offered easy database application development by using cross language techniques, allowing part of their programs to be compiled with Microsoft C.

Borland C (California company) was available for purchase years before Microsoft released its first C product.

Long before Borland, BSD Unix (Berkeley University) had gotten C from the authors of the C language: Kernighan and Ritchie who wrote it in unison while working for AT&T (labs).  K&R's original needs was not only elegant 2nd level parsed syntax to replace asm 1st level parsed syntax: it was designed so that a minimal amount of asm be written to support each platform (the original design of C was ability to cross compile using C with the least support code per platform, which they needed.).  Also yesterdays C directly related to ASM code wherever not platform dependent.  Today's C (more-so c++) is no longer C compatible and the asm code underlying can be extremely different than written on a given platform (in Linux: it sometimes replaces and detours library calls with distributor choices).  Today's C is a 3rd or 4th level language which is used the old way like a 2nd level language.

1987
C programs had long been linked with modules written in assembly language. Most C compilers (even current compilers) offer an assembly language pass (that can be tweaked for efficiency then linked to the rest of the program after assembling).

Compilers like Aztec-C converted everything to assembly language as a distinct pass and then assembled the code in a distinct pass, and were noted for their very efficient and small code, but by 1987 the optimizer built into Microsoft C was very good, and only "mission critical" parts of a program were usually considered for rewriting. In fact, C language programming had taken over as the "lowest-level" language, with programming becoming a multi-disciplinary growth industry and projects becoming larger, with programmers writing user interfaces and database interfaces in higher-level languages, and a need had emerged for cross language development that continues to this day.

By 1987, with the release of MSC 5.1, Microsoft offered a cross language development environment for MS-DOS. 16-bit binary object code written in assembly language (MASM) and Microsoft's other languages including QuickBASIC, Pascal, and Fortran could be linked together into one program, in a process they called "Mixed Language Programming" and now "InterLanguage Calling". If BASIC was used in this mix, the main program needed to be in BASIC to support the internal runtime system that compiled BASIC required for garbage collection and its other managed operations that simulated a BASIC interpreter like QBasic in MS-DOS.

The calling convention for C code, in particular, was to pass parameters in "reverse order" on the stack and return values on the stack rather than in a processor register. There were other programming rules to make all the languages work together, but this particular rule persisted through the cross language development that continued throughout Windows 16- and 32-bit versions and in the development of programs for OS/2, and which persists to this day. It is known as the Pascal calling convention.

Another type of cross compilation that Microsoft C was used for during this time was in retail applications that require handheld devices like the Symbol Technologies PDT3100 (used to take inventory), which provided a link library targeted at an 8088 based barcode reader. The application was built on the host computer then transferred to the handheld device (via a serial cable) where it was run, similar to what is done today for that same market using Windows Mobile by companies like Motorola, who bought Symbol.

Early 1990s
Throughout the 1990s and beginning with MSC 6 (their first ANSI C compliant compiler) Microsoft re-focused their C compilers on the emerging Windows market, and also on OS/2 and in the development of GUI programs. Mixed language compatibility remained through MSC 6 on the MS-DOS side, but the API for Microsoft Windows 3.0 and 3.1 was written in MSC 6. MSC 6 was also extended to provide support for 32-bit assemblies and support for the emerging Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT which would form the foundation for Windows XP. A programming practice called a thunk was introduced to allow passing between 16- and 32-bit programs that took advantage of runtime binding (dynamic linking) rather than the static binding that was favoured in monolithic 16-bit MS-DOS applications. Static binding is still favoured by some native code developers but does not generally provide the degree of code reuse required by newer best practices like the Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

MS-DOS support was still provided with the release of Microsoft's first C++ Compiler, MSC 7, which was backwardly compatible with the C programming language and MS-DOS and supported both 16- and 32-bit code generation.

MSC took over where Aztec C86 left off. The market share for C compilers had turned to cross compilers which took advantage of the latest and greatest Windows features, offered C and C++ in a single bundle, and still supported MS-DOS systems that were already a decade old, and the smaller companies that produced compilers like Aztec C could no longer compete and either turned to niche markets like embedded systems or disappeared.

MS-DOS and 16-bit code generation support continued until MSC 8.00c which was bundled with Microsoft C++ and Microsoft Application Studio 1.5, the forerunner of Microsoft Visual Studio which is the cross development environment that Microsoft provide today.

Late 1990s
MSC 12 was released with Microsoft Visual Studio 6 and no longer provided support for MS-DOS 16-bit binaries, instead providing support for 32-bit console applications, but provided support for Windows 95 and Windows 98 code generation as well as for Windows NT. Link libraries were available for other processors that ran Microsoft Windows; a practice that Microsoft continues to this day.

MSC 13 was released with Visual Studio 2003, and MSC 14 was released with Visual Studio 2005, both of which still produce code for older systems like Windows 95, but which will produce code for several target platforms including the mobile market and the ARM architecture.

.NET and beyond
In 2001 Microsoft developed the Common Language Runtime (CLR), which formed the core for their .NET Framework compiler in the Visual Studio IDE. This layer on the operating system which is in the API allows the mixing of development languages compiled across platforms that run the Windows operating system.

The .NET Framework runtime and CLR provide a mapping layer to the core routines for the processor and the devices on the target computer. The command-line C compiler in Visual Studio will compile native code for a variety of processors and can be used to build the core routines themselves.

Microsoft .NET applications for target platforms like Windows Mobile on the ARM architecture cross-compile on Windows machines with a variety of processors and Microsoft also offer emulators and remote deployment environments that require very little configuration, unlike the cross compilers in days gone by or on other platforms.

Runtime libraries, such as Mono, provide compatibility for cross-compiled .NET programs to other operating systems, such as Linux.

Libraries like Qt and its predecessors including XVT provide source code level cross development capability with other platforms, while still using Microsoft C to build the Windows versions. Other compilers like MinGW have also become popular in this area since they are more directly compatible with the Unixes that comprise the non-Windows side of software development allowing those developers to target all platforms using a familiar build environment.

Free Pascal
Free Pascal was developed from the beginning as a cross compiler. The compiler executable (ppcXXX where XXX is a target architecture) is capable of producing executables (or just object files if no internal linker exists, or even just assembly files if no internal assembler exists) for all OS of the same architecture. For example, ppc386 is capable of producing executables for i386-linux, i386-win32, i386-go32v2 (DOS) and all other OSes (see ). For compiling to another architecture, however, a cross architecture version of the compiler must be built first. The resulting compiler executable would have additional 'ross' before the target architecture in its name. i.e. if the compiler is built to target x64, then the executable would be ppcrossx64.

To compile for a chosen architecture-OS, the compiler switch (for the compiler driver fpc) -P and -T can be used. This is also done when cross-compiling the compiler itself, but is set via make option CPU_TARGET and OS_TARGET. GNU assembler and linker for the target platform is required if Free Pascal does not yet have internal version of the tools for the target platform.

Clang
Clang is natively a cross compiler, at build time you can select which architectures you want Clang to be able to target.

See also
 MinGW
 Scratchbox
 Free Pascal
 Cross assembler

References

External links
 Cross Compilation Tools – reference for configuring GNU cross compilation tools
 Building Cross Toolchains with gcc is a wiki of other GCC cross-compilation references
 Scratchbox is a toolkit for Linux cross-compilation to ARM and x86 targets
 Grand Unified Builder (GUB) for Linux to cross-compile multiple architectures e.g.:Win32/Mac OS/FreeBSD/Linux used by GNU LilyPond
 Crosstool is a helpful toolchain of scripts, which create a Linux cross-compile environment for the desired architecture, including embedded systems
 crosstool-NG is a rewrite of Crosstool and helps building toolchains.
 buildroot is another set of scripts for building a uClibc-based toolchain, usually for embedded systems. It is utilized by OpenWrt.
 ELDK (Embedded Linux Development Kit). Utilized by Das U-Boot.
 T2 SDE is another set of scripts for building whole Linux Systems based on either GNU libC, uClibc or dietlibc for a variety of architectures
 Cross Linux from Scratch Project
 IBM has a very clear structured tutorial about cross-building a GCC toolchain.
  Cross-compilation avec GCC 4 sous Windows pour Linux - A tutorial to build a cross-GCC toolchain, but from Windows to Linux, a subject rarely developed

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RAF Mount Pleasant is the most recent purpose-built airfield in the Royal Air Force. The RAF previously had a small base at Stanley airfield after the end of the hostilities in 1982. During the Falklands War when the islands were occupied by Argentine military forces, British aircraft were sent to disable the runway with RAF Strike Command Vulcan bombers (Operation Black Buck) and Royal Navy Sea Harriers. The raids were moderately successful, and on the first Black Buck mission one 1,000 lb bomb hit the runway in the middle, disabling it. However, temporary repairs by the Argentines did allow Hercules C130 transport aircraft to bring in supplies and take out casualties until the end of the conflict. After the end of hostilities the runway was fully repaired by British military engineers.
After the surrender of the Argentine ground forces on the islands, the British still faced the problem of potential Argentine air attacks from the Argentine homeland, so an aircraft carrier had to remain on station to guard the islands with its squadron of Sea Harriers until the local airfield was prepared for jet aircraft. HMS Hermes was the first to take guard duty, whilst HMS Invincible went north to change (at sea) a gearbox that had broken while departing the mainland UK. The Argentines claimed the aircraft carrier was hit on May 30, and needed repairs. Invincible then returned to relieve Hermes which urgently needed to return to the UK for boiler cleaning. Invincible returned until she was relieved by the newly built HMS Illustrious, which was quickly rushed south and commissioned during the journey. Once the Port Stanley runway was available for jets, Illustrious was relieved by several RAF Phantom FGR.2.
The British government felt that Stanley airfield was not the best option for a large, permanent base and decided to construct a new RAF station and make it the centrepiece of the Islands' considerably strengthened defences. This was intended to deter any future Argentine attempts to take the islands by force. Mount Pleasant, to the west of Stanley, was chosen as the site for the new station. The airfield was opened by Prince Andrew in 1985 (Prince Andrew served in the Falklands War), and became fully operational in 1986.
RAF Mount Pleasant has a wide range of social and sporting facilities including a gym, swimming pool, golf course, diving centre, karting, laserquest, library, cinema, bowling, climbing wall and indoor and outdoor sports pitches. There are two NAAFI shops, hairdressers, a medical centre, and a education centre on the base. There is also a complex that includes a cafe and a small shop (RONOKEs), which are both owned and run by the Falkland Islands Company.
Currently based at Mount Pleasant are No. 1435 Flight with 4 Tornado F3s, No. 1312 Flight, with a single VC-10 tanker and one Hercules C130, as well as No. No.1564 Flight (since November 2007) with 2 Sea King helicopters maintained by SKIOS (Sea King Integrated Operational Support), an aeronautical engineering confrontation between Augusta Westland and VT Aerospace. There are also 2 Sikorsky S61 civilian Helicopters run by British International Helicopters Limited (Brintel). Ground units include No 7, 303, and 751 Signals Units and a Rapier detachment from the Royal Artillery. This was previously handled by the RAF Regiment but the RA now have sole responsibility for operating the Rapier.
33 Engineer Regiment (EOD) provides constant support and is part of the Joint Service Falkland Islands Detachment which consists of RAF and RLC EOD teams. It is mainly based in Stanley but there is also a detachment at Mount Pleasant. The group's role is to destroy unexploded munitions from the Falklands War; to brief troops, tourists and citizens on which areas are safe; and to mark uncleared minefields.
There is also a Joint Communications Unit (JCU) providing the electronic warfare and command and control systems for the Royal Navy, Army and Air Force.


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FK Comae Berenices-variabeln är en typ av roterande variabel. Variablerna är snabbt roterande jättar med spektralklass G till K med ojämn ytljusstyrka, troligen orsakade av stora solfläckar. Variabeltypen uppvisar också starka emissionslinjer i sitt spektrum. De kännetecknas förutom av den snabba rotationen med hastigheter på 100–160 km/s också av stark magnetisk aktivitet och röntgenstrålning, med väldigt heta koronor.

FK Comae Berenices-stjärnor
V645 Monocerotis, eller 28 Monocerotis, är den ljusstarkaste av de kända FK Com-variablerna och varierar mellan visuell magnitud 4,68 och 4,70. Andra variabler i gruppen är prototypstjärnan, FK Comae Berenices, 31 Comae Berenices, eller LS Comae Berenices, V1794 Cygni, AB Doradus och UZ Librae. FK Comae Berenices varierar mellan visuell magnitud +8,03 och 8,43 med en period av 2,4015 dygn.

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Rob Anders takes second crack at Conservative nomination
Bill Graveland
Conservative MP Rob Anders in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Wednesday September 26, 2012.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Controversial Conservative MP Rob Anders may not find the welcome mat out as he attempts to make the move from a big-city riding where he lost his nomination to a brand new rural one.
Earlier this year, Anders lost a bitterly fought nomination battle in Calgary Signal Hill, which takes in a large part of the constituency that he has represented in Ottawa for 17 years.
He is now seeking the Conservative nomination in the riding of Bow River east of Calgary. It covers a large swath of southern Alberta, including the communities of Strathmore, Brooks, Taber and Vauxhall.
Anders's entry into the race has residents talking and is causing some resentment, says Brooks Mayor Martin Shields, who is one of three other candidates seeking the nomination.
"I was not happy and not pleased," Shields said in a recent interview. "If you lose your own nomination in your own riding, I think it's a message that maybe running somewhere else, where you're not from, is not something you should do.
"When there was a drop-in candidate, it became more apparent that we really need to have somebody local run."
Rolly Ashdown, a reeve in Rocky View County, is also seeking the nomination in a vote expected the third week of September.
"I've heard that from a lot of people. I think the basics are they'd like to see someone local," he said. "It does make a difference being from here. It gives you familiarity, that's for sure."
Candidate Gerard Lucyshyn, a former Mount Royal University economics professor, agrees.
"If he wants to try his hand again, I guess that's up to him. Most people that I've spoken to in the riding have indicated they want somebody local and somebody that is in the community and lives here and shares the same interest," said Lucyshyn, who lives in Langdon.
Anders has not responded to four requests for comment from The Canadian Press, but in a news release announcing his plan to run, he said he shares many of the same views as his potential constituents. Anders said he now lives in Chestermere, a town just east of Calgary that is within the new riding.
"There is a lot of work to do in Ottawa: personal-property and gun rights that need protecting; taxes that need cutting; and family values that need to be fought for," he said. "The new riding of Bow River shares these values and I would be honoured to represent it in Ottawa."
When Anders appeared at a fair in Brooks last month, it did not go unnoticed by one of his Conservative caucus colleagues.
"Just heard that Rob Anders MP-Calgary told a crowd on Saturday in Brooks, he was the MP for this area. FYI — Rob I am still the MP," Medicine Hat MP LaVar Payne said on Twitter at the time.
A waiver from the Conservative party is required when a candidate has been defeated in one nomination race and wants to run again. The party did not responded to a request for an interview on whether Anders has been granted the waiver. The party also hasn't responded to a request for a list of candidates.
That issue hasn't stopped the campaigning.
Recently, the Wildrose party, Alberta's right-leaning official Opposition, received a number of complaints after robocalls went out from a former Wildrose leader endorsing Anders.
"He has openly supported me and the Wildrose party for years on the provincial scene," Paul Hinman said in the call.
It prompted current leader, Danielle Smith, to issue a statement clarifying that the Wildrose is not endorsing Anders. One of her members of the legislature from the area did the same.
Conservative party officials chastised Anders during the Calgary race last March for what they said were misleading phone calls that might have left the impression they had come from his rival Ron Liepert. Liepert ended up winning the nomination.
Anders is known for his strong social conservative views and gained attention for his sometimes inflammatory statements, including his opposition to granting honorary citizenship to Nelson Mandela, branding the South African leader a communist and a terrorist.
Anders once compared the 2008 Beijing Olympics to the 1936 Berlin Games, which were held when Germany was under the control of Adolf Hitler.
He faces an uphill battle, suggested David Taras, a political scientist from Mount Royal University.
"The problem is he's not a local and, if there is a strong local candidate that has profile, then he really becomes the outsider," said Taras. "He's bringing the baggage of his defeat. He's been defeated, he was defeated by a lot of the people who presumably knew him best.
"Once you have the image of someone who has lost and can't hold your own riding — and then you say, 'OK, elect me' — I think that's really hard."
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Because the Jefferson post struck up some good discussion, let me tell you about a book I'm reading, Revolutionary Characters, by Gordon Wood, a former history professor of mine at Brown. Wood is probably the foremost historian of early America alive today, though his brand of history — focused on dead, white males who were political leaders — is no longer en vogue. The history I've written myself is usually about the intersection of gender, class, ideology, and media, but I appreciate Wood's perspective. Some of his stances do strike me as conservative, but less in the contemporary, political sense than in a deeply historical sense, in which he sometimes seem to mourn what was lost in past more than he valorizes social progress.
The book is basically a collection of essays on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and John Adams. By embracing popular democracy, each man, Wood writes, helped usher in an age in which the Enlightened, intellectually-rigorous leadership of the early United States would be replaced by a politics held hostage to a dumbed-down and rancorous mass culture. Wood gets at the central problem of any democracy: What do we do when the people are just wrong?
Wood openly admits his project is to restore the "Founding Fathers" to their rightful place as heroes of American history. But he wants to replace the myths about these men — Washington was honest to a fault, Franklin was a jolly businessman — with truths. Thus, Wood focuses on Franklin's transition from colonialist Empire-lover to disillusioned Revolutionary. We're reminded that unlike Washington, Jefferson never freed his slaves, despite his writings condemning the practice. But that doesn't mean we can't appreciate Jefferson's lifelong project of bringing erudition to America. From architecture, to philosophy, to wine, to the value of public education, Jefferson's legacy is large.
And of course, it's nice to remember that two of our most revered historical figures — Franklin and Jefferson — were confirmed Francophiles.
This entry was posted in Books, History on June 28, 2007 by Dana Goldstein.
I wouldn't really identify his material as dead-white-men history because that places alongside the worst examples of myth-making and whitewashing. He is really an intellectual historian. His "Creation of the American Republic" is probably the best answer to the radical-individualist conservative view of the founding.
I agree with you BF – Wood is a great intellectual historian.
As someone else who took a couple of courses with Gordon Wood, this is pretty much a solid impression of him (though I haven't had a chance to read his new book). Still something else to note that what a lot of people consider conservative about Wood is not a sense of past nostalgia, but his very emphasis on ideas and the Founders rather than more en vogue histories dealing with gender, race, class and economics, and the like. In my mind, all of the above have an important place, and I was at least glad that Wood recognized that in terms of his course readings and assignments (if not his lectures) while also getting his two-sense in there strongly.
Not to mention that there's something to be said about looking back nostalgically for guidance to the Founders' hard-developed ideals. Take the concept of the upper chamber of a bicameral legislatures, which evolved through state governance during the Articles period before informing a general sense of what the Senate ought to function as. As I was reading and writing on that topic, I couldn't help but juxtapose it positively with what the Senate actually looked and behaved like in the present day….
Gordon Wood is fine if you only hope to achieve a pass/fail acquaintance with American colonial history.


On March 1, 1925, the New River Pocahontas Coal Company acquired the Fayette County town of Kaymoor and its mining operations.
The new owner, a huge international company, began shipping coal from Kaymoor to the Atlantic Coast in Virginia, where the coal was used to fuel naval and merchant marine vessels.
Kaymoor had been established in 1899 by the Low Moor Iron Company and named for its first superintendent, James Kay, a pioneering coal operator in southern West Virginia. Kaymoor was actually two villages—one located at the top of the New River Gorge and the other at river level—creating two culturally different communities. The two were linked by a steep inclined tramway known as the "haulage." Everyone in Kaymoor—from the miners to children attending school—road in the precarious haulage.
Kaymoor's coal seam was worked out by the early 1960s, and the mines closed in 1962. The area remained relatively untouched until the National Park Service took ownership of the site. The few remaining structures and ruins at Kaymoor are striking reminders of the New River Gorge's once-booming industrial era.


Karachi, August 29: In Pakistan, women make up a majority of the agricultural workforce, but their contribution remains unacknowledged in policy and public debates. Women agricultural workers undertake difficult physical labour, working long hours in unsafe conditions and are paid lower wages compared to their male counterparts. They also have fewer opportunities than men, with unequal access to resources such as land, technologies and extension services.
The National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) and Collective for Social Science Research (CSSR) hosted a group consultation to share the findings of their studies on rural women and explore possible ways of advancing the rights of women agricultural workers at The Beach Luxury Hotel. The group included female parliamentarians, researchers, practitioners, opinion-makers and members of community organizations. They focused on how policy and legislative reform can improve the rights and well-being of women agricultural workers.
Dr. Yasmin Zaidi, Director of Centre of Gender and Policy Studies (CGaPS), presented the findings from the Status of Rural Women in Pakistan report 2018. She reported that approximately 53 percent of women who work are unpaid and 60 percent of these belong to rural areas.
Haris Gazdar, Pakistan's lead researcher for Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) and Director of CSSR, reported findings from the Women's Work in Agriculture and Nutrition (WWN) Survey 2015-16. The survey found that 46 percent of children between 0-3 months are stunted in rural Sindh. He said that this indicates that the battle against malnutrition is already lost when the child is born, and that women's health, work and well-being become central to child nutrition. The report also found that lack of education, household poverty and food insecurity are strongly associated with women's participation in agricultural work.
Participants then discussed how rights and well-being of women agricultural workers can be prioritized in legislation and policy.
Nafisa Shah, MNA and member of PPP, reiterated her commitment to represent women at the national level. She vowed to work jointly with other female parliamentarians present to take the issue of recognition of women agricultural workers to the Assembly floor. She said that labour policies and laws need to apply to female agricultural workers. She also emphasized forming women cooperatives at the state level for greater financial inclusion and political representation of women. She mentioned the need for strong policy instruments and political will to ensure landownership and land titles for women.
Tanzeela Qambrani, MPA from Sindh and member of the PPP, said that actions need to be taken to ensure that women can access and use credit, especially microfinance.
Mehnaz Akbar, MNA and member of PML-N, proposed strengthening the Women's Parliamentary Caucus so that problems of women agricultural workers (and their children) are discussed as a priority at the provincial and national levels. She also discussed sensitizing local governments so they are better able to address issues faced by women agricultural workers.
Khawar Mumtaz, Chairperson of NCSW, discussed the need to redefine women's work so all provinces can move towards counting and recognizing it at an official level. All participants agreed that there should be a forum or Task Force dedicated to taking these issues forward.


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WATCH: Nancy Pelosi says Paul Ryan's Legacy is 'incomplete'
By The Hill staff - 04/12/18 09:17 PM EDT
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) says House Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) legacy has yet to be realized ... and not in a good way.
Ryan announced this week he would not be running for reelection, ending his time as Speaker.
Asked by The Hill's Jamal Simmons what Ryan's legacy will be, Pelosi said she isn't sure yet.
"It's not complete, whatever it may turn out to be," she told The Hill.
Pelosi went on to say that part of his legacy will be the tax bill passed by Republicans last year. She also warned that Ryan is still aiming to undo Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as part of his legacy, but she hopes that doesn't happen.
Watch the video above to hear Pelosi in her own words.
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Valentine's Day is here again! A lot of promises and commitments would be made today by couples in love. We are also sure to see some proposals on social media especially with the rise in dramatic public proposals. This is not to throw a dampener in the celebration of love but some of these promises might get broken; a promise to marry for example.
This article is just to let you know that where your partner breaks his/her promise to marry you, you can sue! Funny, right? You are probably wondering what the business of the law is with a broken promise of marriage. How does it concern the law or the courts that a person who was promised marriage was probably jilted and is heartbroken? Seems trivial especially considering that there are so many criminals to be prosecuted and the likes, does it not?
Well here's is how it concerns the law, a promise to marry is a contract between two individuals capable of contracting a marriage that they will marry each other. In the above definition, the most important word is the word "contract". It is basic knowledge that when two parties enter into a contract and one party fails to perform his part of the contract or reneges, the other party can sue.
You might ask again how enforceable such "contract" is especially since a promise to marry is many times made orally. It is important to remember that there are basically two kinds of contract- oral and written. A promise to marry may fall into the category of a written contract where it is in a written form such as a letter or note or card.
You might wonder also what the aim of suing one's ex-partner could be or what benefit could be derived from going to the courts with such a matter especially as the court has no power to force an unwilling person into a marriage. Well, the affected party can claim monetary damages for loss or as compensation.
There must have actually been an unequivocal promise to marry and not mere speculation, wishful thinking or futuristic talks. To prove this, the disgruntled party would have to provide some documentary evidence like pictures or video records of an engagement, an introduction ceremony between the two families or other relevant event, letters, cards etc. Evidence from witnesses who were aware of the promise to marry is also acceptable especially in a case where there is documentary evidence.
It must be shown that the other party (man/woman) reneged on the promise to marry.
Where an affected party's claim is satisfactorily proved to the court, it may order damages for money lost as a result of such promise e.g. costs borne for wedding preparations or house rentage etc The court may also order compensation for damages to health or reputation of the affected party.
Do not make promises you have no intention of fulfilling, you might be sued!


We are encouraging you to attend the premier showing of the new documentary film 'Unplanned' that will be shown nationwide. If we fill the theater at the premiere, theaters will hold it over and more theaters will pick it up.
This is a nation wide effort.
ATP is working with other activists across the U.S. to get folks to the premiere of the film.
Please help by coming to one of the premieres in our area.
If you do not live in WNC, please check with your local pregnancy center for information about the premier in their area. Thank you.
In Hendersonville on Monday, March 25th at 7PM.
In Asheville,Thursday, March 28th at 7PM.
The new documentary film, 'Unplanned,' shines a light on the horrors of abortion by telling the true story of Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director and Planned Parenthood's Employee of the Year in 2008, who left the organization after watching an abortion on an ultrasound.
Heritage Action for America spoke with Abby Johnson and Ashley Bratcher the actress who portrays Johnson in the film. The interview was live stream on 3/13. You can watch it here.
The Mountain Area Pregnancy Center in Asheville and Open Arms Pregnancy Center in Hendersonville are sponsoring the premiere of the film in our area. Please support them.
Mountain Area Pregnancy Center has 272 advanced tickets for you to purchase here. for the Biltmore Grand Theater on Thursday, March 28th at 7PM.
Open Arms Pregnancy Center in Hendersonville has 150 advanced tickets for you at the Epic Theater on Monday, March 25th at 7PM.
or call the office for more information 828-676-4510.
WE MUST SEND A MESSAGE TO THOSE IN OUR GOVERNMENT WHO ARE EMBRACING A CULTURE OF DEATH.
Please be part of the solution and attend one of these showings.
Doors open at 6PM when you can pick up your reserved ticket.
Special gift bag to anyone who attends!
If you wish to join us for dinner before the 7:00PM show at the Biltmore Grand on March 28th, I will be making reservations for Thursday, March 28th, 2019 at 5PM at Hickory Tavern, 30 Town Square Blvd, Asheville, NC 28803, located in the same shopping center as the theater in Biltmore Park.
Babies who are born during failed abortion procedures should have access to medical care. Currently, abortion providers can refuse these children care and leave them to die after a failed abortion.
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Watch in horror how the Demonic Rats shut down the House floor vote on this bill. Is this who we have become!
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Help us to send the message that murdering infants is totally unacceptable.
Activists across the nation have joined together to continue to press our failing gov't officials to do the right thing.
We need your voice in that chorus!
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