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What's Behind the Venezuelan University Strikes?
In this series of short interviews by Merida based community television station, TatuyTv, university teachers and students argue that the university strikes aren't trying to fight for worker rights, but rather are part of the opposition's destabilisation plan.
An ULA protest in the centre of Merida two weeks ago. The banner at the front makes fun of President Maduro's lack of a university education (Tamara Pearson / Venezuelanalysis.com)
By TatuyTv
Jun 18th 2013 at 7.17pm
UniversitiesWagesOpposition Destabilization 2013
In this series of short interviews by Merida based community television station, TatuyTv, university teachers and students argue that the university strikes aren't trying to fight for worker rights, but rather are part of the opposition's destabilisation plan. Below is a translated transcription of the interviews that TatuyTv put together in the following news clip.
TatuyTv narrator: The Federation of Professor Associations of Venezuela (FAPUV) has been calling an indefinite strike in public universities since 30 May this year and after various staggered strikes. The Federation has argued it is for supposed salary and budget demands.
The professor Reynaldo Ortiz, representative of the science faculty for the Professors of the University of Los Andes Association (APULA) refutes this argument.
Reynaldo Ortiz: Really, since last year the national government was already calling for discussion roundtables with all the teachers' and university worker unions of all the universities. Now, adjusted to the new work law, these discussions have to be held with the ministry of work. The FAPUV, knowing this, didn't adjust to the new law, and the FAPUV is an organisation that is completely illegal, as it hasn't held elections since 2005. So in that way, they aren't adjusted to the new work law and they can't attend the dialogue meetings that the government has been convoking, or that the ministry of higher education is convoking, in order to discuss wage increases, not just for teachers, but rather for all the unions.
The FAPUV didn't mean to accept the invitation. They refer to their exclusive representation of national teachers, which isn't true, not all universities are attached to FAPUV. There are more than twenty-two universities that have been created recently, in the last fourteen years of revolution, and these universities are represented by unions that participate in a different series of federations, which are the ones participating in the dialogue meetings. Likewise the workers from this university [the ULA] are involved in the meetings.
TatuyTv narrator: Professor Pedro Rivas, from the humanities faculty, attempts to unveil the real reason behind these [strike] measures.
Pedro Rivas: I think that the national government has had a few small weaknesses, we might say, in not having resolved this sooner. But currently, the national government is discussing, in a collective way with the whole university sector, their life conditions, which, I repeat, attend to the demands of the university sector.
The strike has some interests behind what it's supposed to be about. That is, the strike isn't a strike with labour character to it. It's not a strike which is aiming to make demands for the teaching sector. It's a strike which is linked to a plan to politically destabilise [the country], a plan which has been underway for a while. It is within the framework of a silent coup d'état, an economic coup, which aims to place the democratic system in a crisis situation. All the time this federation [FAPUV]... in 2002 it participated in the April coup d'état and in the petroleum strike, which generated for the country loses of over $20 billion and destruction of the petroleum industry,
Reynaldo Ortiz: The indefinite strike called by the FAPUV is simply a political manoeuvre which together with a series of other activities that the Venezuela opposition is carrying out, aims to destabilise the country and to take advantage of the current situation.
Pedro Rivas: For us, it's a political decision that is related to the destabilisation plans and with coup-ism, the coup-ism that is established in Venezuela, and which the universities have used as a refuge to destabilise and place the country in a situation of chaos.
What we categorically reject is that the university becomes a national political party, just like Fedecameras [Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce], the Catholic Church, and the rightwing parties, the traditional ones like COPEI, or the newer ones like First Justice, and so on.
TatuyTv narrator: These institutions from so called "civil society" aim to maintain the structures of capitalist society, covered by "democratic" prestige, but really they only seek to maintain the privileged status of the minority. In the case of the ULA, the mask melted away when this measure of paralysing activities was implemented against the consulted desire of the faculty staff.
Pedro Rivas: The Association of Professors and its local offices, by faculty and by nucleus – all the nuclei of Merida and Trujillo decided not to participate in the indefinite strike. The majority of teachers decided, in two separate consultations, to not go on strike, so the indefinite strike was rejected in a democratic consultation. What isn't understood is how the president of the APULA [Association of Professors of the ULA] goes to the FAPUV to vote against a majority decision, that doesn't make sense. What isn't understood is how the FAPUV decrees, ignoring the consultations, an indefinite strike.
It's a mechanism which closes the university off from dialogue, when the university is just that, its dialogue, it's conversation, it's agreement, it's divergence, a deliberation.
TatuyTv narrator: Faced with the absolute illegitimacy of the strike, a group of students sustain the vile arguments of their authorities, even proposing hunger strikes while they continue organising their luxurious banquets. Nevertheless, dignified students denounce the measure because it is hindering their academic learning process and other students' rights. <Footage of students chanting "Yes to classes, no to the strike".>
Inder Romero (student representative to the University Council): FAPUV is made up of around 18 associations. Of these 18 associations, around 13 are participating in the dialogue meetings, are participating in the discussion for the collective contract. The wage increase is expected . The vice-minister, Jason Gusman, announced the increase in scholarships. So then, why are they protesting? What do they want? That they keep being sent money, like they did before in past years, so that the [university] authorities can keep buying trucks and keep spending money on luxuries that the university is used to?
Douglas Jover (student representative to the Student Affairs Board, ULA): Evidently, it's a political plan which the APULA has to destabilise the city of Merida. Today, we, the students, the real students of the University of Los Andes, we're going to introduce an appeal in the courts of Libertador municipality, Merida, because we are aware that what they want to deny us is the right to education, as stipulated in article 102 of the constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Today, the students, we decided that we're going to... via legal means, bring suit before the president of the FAPUV, Luis Loaiza.
Michael Navarro (fifth year forestry engineering student): Article 103 of the constitution establishes that all people have the right to quality, integral, permanent education, without any limitations that aren't derived from their vocation. Our right to education has been violated. We call on the rector, on the academic vice-rector, Patricia Rosenzweig, on the different faculty heads, to resume classes, because they are interfering with our rights to education.
Inder Romero: We don't think the strike is the best alternative, the best decision; it's to the determent of the quality of training of the students.
Transcribed and translated by Tamara Pearson for Venezuelanalysis.com
Source: TatuyTv
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Not seven? Sorry, I only have four common sins of using ice-breakers; however, if you avoid these four pitfalls you'll be able set the pace for your volunteer event, focus your meeting, and build community.
Deadly Sin One: Announce that you are going to play a game.
The worst thing a facilitator can do is to say, "To get started we are going to play a get-acquainted game." (Groans from everyone.) Instead just start doing it. For example, if I am looking for an opener for my regular volunteer committee meeting of people who know each other very well, I sometimes use the Check In. Have each person say, "I am _____ % here today. The rest of me is ______." I have heard people say things like, "I'm only 60% here tonight. My daughter has her first date and the guy is a jerk." Let each person talk about where their minds are. As a leader you discover how big a job you have to get everyone focused on your meeting agenda, but you also discover what each of your team members are dealing with.
What is your expectation today?
Deadly Sin Two: Expect community to just happen.
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A favorite of mine is the "When I was in high school . . ." ice-breaker. I love this ice-breaker and use it all the time with various groups. It is amazing how much we learn about each other.
The facilitator will ask follow-up questions to find out more about what each person did during their high school days. I remember learning that a very serious-minded engineer, with very short-trimmed hair, revealed to the group that when he was in high school he was a long-haired drummer for a rock band. No one believed him so he brought pictures the next day.
Deadly Sin Three: Use an ice-breaker just because everyone says to do it.
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4. Our organization is living in the past.
5. Our organization stands on the threshold of opportunity.
6. Our organization is alive and growing.
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Ice-breakers are tools to have participants reveal something personal about themselves, or which encourage participants to get to know each other personally. They also provide the opportunity to have participants talk about their perspective on the discussion topic. The idea is more than just having fun, the ice-breaker will truly help to create group understanding based on trust and understanding.


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Metal Detectors at Rexall Place, A Solution in Search of a Problem.
It was just the first night and things will improve but the metal detectors sill don't make much sense.
By ryan_batty@ryan_batty Sep 21, 2015, 4:02pm MDT
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One of the shorter lines at Rexall Place last Wednesday.
The first pre-season game of the year, that's the kind of thing that gets my attention. But tonight I'm more than a little interested in something off the ice as well: how the process of getting fans through the newly installed metal detectors work.
I was there last Wednesday when the Oilers hosted the University of Alberta Golden Bears and the results were not good, but that was just the first night, things have to get better as the bugs gets worked out (and also because people will start showing up earlier, more on that in a bit), right? My guess/hope is that it will improve, but the simple fact is getting into Rexall Place last week was a complete mess with lines extending from the doors of Rexall Place, across the bridge over 118 Avenue, and into the Edmonton EXPO Centre parking lot. And the building wasn't even at capacity, on opening night - and maybe even tonight - they can expect another 2,400 plus fans to come walking through the doors.
After the game last week, the Oilers made a statement about the delays experienced by fans on their way into the building, saying that "Rexall Place will continue the testing and training associated with the operation of the equipment in preparation for the Oilers first pre-season game on Monday, September 21 vs Calgary," which is really all they can do because the metal detectors are mandated by league policy. Based on my experience I would suggest that the training in particular is something they might want to really focus on, since the bag I was carrying (a diaper bag because I'm that cool) was neither scanned nor searched. Which seems like a pretty significant flaw in the security system to me.
Although it completely defeated the purpose of the metal detector, I was a little glad that my bag avoided being searched. Not because I had hidden a six-pack of beer at the bottom, although I might have to consider that in the future if diaper bags are excluded from searches, but because it gave me something to laugh about after standing in a line to get in for 10 minutes. In the future though I'm going to be a lot less patient with this system because it doesn't provide anywhere near enough value to justify the inconvenience that comes along with it.
I've gone to a lot of games over the nine years that I've been an Oilers season ticket holder. If I had to guess, I'd put the number somewhere between 175 and 200. Like I said, I've been to a lot of games, and in that time I have seen the atmosphere inside the building change, and not for the better, but at no point have I ever felt unsafe. There has always been security at the doors as you enter, checking bags (oh the irony) and patting down those lucky fans who get randomly selected (or me, every time), and there are police officers throughout the building all night long. Increased security like this is nothing more than a solution in search of problem.
For a game in Edmonton the previous amount of security always seemed like more than enough, whether or not that's sufficient for another market, well, I can't really say. A few years ago I went to the Grand Ole Opry and I remember a sign out front telling those attending the show that firearms were not permitted, even if you had a permit. Before seeing the sign I had never considered that anyone there might be carrying a gun, that's not the culture that I'm familiar with, but presumably the people operating the Grand Ole Opry felt that this was necessary and had installed the sign as a result. So maybe in a market like Nashville metal detectors make sense. But that doesn't mean that the same makes any sense in a market like Edmonton.
I'm rarely a fan of a one size fits all solution to anything because, more often than not, problems are more complicated than that.
I'm rarely a fan of a one size fits all solution to anything because, more often than not, problems are more complicated than that. But rather than consider what each market might need, the NHL has instead decided to adopt a cover your ass policy towards safety without actually worrying about whether or not the measures make sense or what their impact on the fans and their enjoyment of the NHL's on-ice product might be. Again, there are markets were metals detectors might make sense and markets where they don't. Just like there are markets where waiting ten minutes to get into the building for a game in January isn't a big deal and other markets where you could sit outside all day in shorts. Treating every NHL city as if there is no difference between them simply ignores reality.
The argument in favour of the metal detectors, at least in Edmonton, can be boiled down to "better safe than sorry." Which is reasonable to a point I guess, but why doesn't the same apply to movie theaters, malls, grocery stores, or even Commonwealth Stadium (no shootings or stabbings at AC/DC last night)? Where do we draw the line between those places that need to be secured and those that don't? Why not let the circumstances dictate what is necessary when it comes to security? Perhaps a proactive approach on the part of the team would work better, maybe even with the NHL's input, looking at patterns and incidents and coming up with an appropriate plan to address the individual needs of each city and team.
Ultimately, regardless of whether or not metal detectors are necessary, I do believe that things will almost certainly be smoother as the season progresses and everyone gets more used to the system. Knowing what is expected of the fan coming through the door will help improve the system, as will some additional training of the game-day staff, some of whom looked lost on Wednesday night. The biggest impact though will probably come from fans deciding to arrive at the games earlier in order to avoid the lines entirely. And for some that might well be a good solution but it's not one that I'm particularly interested in.
For my money, attending an NHL game is already a long enough experience, I'm less than thrilled about the idea of adding an extra half an hour to my night for a security measure that makes little or no sense. Will I do it? For a while I will, I now that. But it'll also be one more thing that goes in the drawback column when I think about attending games. More and more I find myself looking at the cost of attending an Oilers game and I wonder if my couch with cheaper beer and no drunken idiots might be a better alternative. Make attending the games more inconvenient and my couch starts to look even better.
Obviously I'm just one person, if I decide to stay home that has zero effect on the bottom line of the Oilers or the NHL as a whole. But are there others like me? I suspect that there are, and sooner or later the impact will have to be felt somewhere. A league policy mandating metal detectors was likely made with the best of intentions but it's not a policy that is required at this time, and it's one that has a real impact on fans of the game.
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Q: Reading specific parts of a file I have a file that is structured like:
[REG]
1
2
3

[LAP]
4
5
6

I just want to read the lines below the [REG] part, then i'll reverse the code when reading the [LAP] part but the following code is only giving me back [REG]
string[] commands = File.ReadLines(@"Engines\" + url_engine_code)
    .TakeWhile(x => x.TrimStart().StartsWith("[REG]"))
    .SkipWhile(x => x.TrimStart().StartsWith("[LAP]"))
    .ToArray();

foreach (var action in commands)
{
    Helpers.ReturnMessage(action);
}

Am i missing something? my LINQ is not the greatest! thank you for any help, it is appreciated.

A: You just need to reverse the TakeWhile test (I like to call that SkipUntil) and then use a normal TakeWhile:
var ans = File.ReadLines(@"Engines\" + url_engine_code)
             .SkipWhile(s => !s.TrimStart().StartsWith("[REG]")) // find line with [REG]
             .Skip(1) // skip line with [REG]
             .TakeWhile(s => !s.TrimStart().StartsWith("[LAP]"))
             .Where(s => s.Trim() != String.Empty)
             .ToList();

var ans2 = File.ReadLines(@"Engines\" + url_engine_code)
             .SkipWhile(s => !s.TrimStart().StartsWith("[LAP]")) // find line with [LAP]
             .Skip(1) // skip line with [LAP]
             .Where(s => s.Trim() != String.Empty)
             .ToList();

A: You are saying to only read lines which start with [REG] -> .TakeWhile(x => x.TrimStart().StartsWith("[REG]")) the lines after [REG] but before [LAP] is what you want but none of those lines start with the text [REG].
Try:
string[] commands = File.ReadLines(@"Engines\" + url_engine_code)
      .Skip(1) //Skip the first line [REG]
      .TakeWhile(x => !x.TrimStart().StartsWith("[LAP]") &&
        !String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(x)) //Take while not the line which start with [LAP] and is not blank (empty)
      .ToArray();

In reverse, read until you get to [LAP]:
string[] commands = File.ReadAllLines(@"C:\test.txt").Reverse()
                     .TakeWhile(x => !x.TrimStart().StartsWith("[LAP]"))
                     .Where(x => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(x))
                     .ToArray();

A: Here is the documentation for TakeWhile: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enumerable.takewhile?view=net-5.0
I recommend always reading documentation from MSDN for .NET, it explains everything really well.
The TakeWhile method takes in an Enumerable and keeps returning elements while the condition specified is true. This line of code:
.TakeWhile(x => x.TrimStart().StartsWith("[REG]"))

will thus keep returning you strings as long as they start with [REG]. It will only give you the first line and then return.

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PM Praises Public Support Of Police
Police Interact With The Public
March 18, 2016 (SKNIS)
The increased support of law enforcement by residents of St. Kitts and Nevis has been hailed as a contributing factor in driving down crime in The Federation.
At a press conference on Tuesday (March 15) at Government Headquarters, Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris commended the public for what he described as "wide felt support of the new high command team and indeed for the police and law enforcement agencies in general."
Commissioner of Police, Ian Queeley, stated that an increased presence of police officers on the streets and heightened tactical operations have resulted in successes. These include arrests for various offenses and the recovery of a number of illegal firearms.
"I ask the public to provide the police with any information which it has regarding criminals, [or] criminal activities be they from the past, the present or imminent," Prime Minister Harris said. "The long arm of the law will protect you and the truth is the life which you may save may well be yours or a family or friend."
Dr. Harris, who is also the minister of national security, pledged that his government will continue to do its part to upgrade police resources.
"We have provided operational support to the police in the form of vehicles, a special comparison microscope, a new forensic department and the expertise of the Bramshill Police Advisors," he stated. "My government has said repeatedly and again that we will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to keep our country safe and secure."
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NORTH KITSAP: Objections expressed over radio tower proposal
Ray Miller — Aug 26th, 1996
* To date, six letters opposing the building of the county's first antenna tower for enhanced
wireless communication have been filed.
By Ray Miller
A half-dozen homeowners in the Northfield development near Luoto Court have filed objections to a proposed "enhanced specialized mobile radio antenna" tower being proposed for their neighborhood.
OneComm Corporation of Kirkland applied to the county for a conditional use permit to build the 167-foot high antenna tower. It would be built on a leased 45-foot-by-45-foot plot of land located on a 5.68 acre parcel at 1299 N.W. Luoto Court. The site is just south of Luoto Road, also known as Highway 308, and west of Silverdale Way. Luoto Road runs between the Naval Submarine Base at Bangor and Keyport.
Meg Sands, with the Kitsap County Department of Community Development, said the permit will be considered by the hearing examiner at 10:15 a.m. Sept. 12 at the County Courthouse in Port Orchard. Department staff recommend conditional approval of the permit.
To date a six letters of objection to the tower have been filed, all by residents of Northfield. One, filed by Craig and Katherine Cook of 14568 Kingscross Circle, N.W., expresses concern over health hazards associated with radio frequency (RF) microwave emissions. The couple also worries the project will result in devaluation of surrounding properties, including their own, and will be an eyesore.
A spokesperson for the company said the antenna tower will provide Kitsap County its first enhanced wireless radio communication system for use in cellular telephonic communication, two-way radio dispatching, paging and other applications, all through a single antenna.
Radio tower going up on island
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Opponents of a 300-foot radio tower in the Indianola area of North Kitsap have gone to court to stop it. Calling themselves North Kitsap Reasonable Environmental Controls for All People, or NK-RECAP, they have filed a land-use petition in Kitsap County Superior Court ... [Read More...]


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China claims to have developed 'anti-stealth' radar that doesn't seem physically possible
Alex Hollings No Comments Military Aviation, News
Although Russia's defense program marketing efforts may be among the most robust in the world, China is no slouch when it comes to making lofty claims about military capabilities through state-owned media outlets with global reach. China's latest claim pertains to a new radar system that, according to reports, might render stealth technology obsolete.
In February, Chinese state-owned media reported on a spray-on coating they claimed had turned their J-16 into a "near-stealth" fighter. Although a radar-absorbent coating does play an important role in any stealth aircraft's ability to evade detection, simply spraying it onto a platform prone to producing both large radar and IR returns does little to offset detection. However, according to Chinese media, the coating not only gave the aircraft stealth "capabilities," it also made it nearly invisible to the naked eye.
"Brigade commander Jiang Jiaji, the first pilot to win the PLA's Golden Helmet competition three times, told CCTV at the exercise that the silver-gray painting covering the J-16 is a kind of cloaking coating that gives the warplane a certain stealth capability, making it nearly invisible to the naked eye and electromagnetic devices," China's state-owned Global Times reported.
Now China claims to have developed a new radar array that can penetrate the stealth coating found on most low-observability aircraft, delivering radar returns that are precise enough to make a clear distinction between the types of aircraft that have been spotted. The radar array works by using terahertz radiation, which travels in a frequency range that's higher than radio or microwaves but lower than infrared light waves. Theoretically speaking, terahertz radiation could penetrate the composite materials and radar-absorbent coating of a stealth aircraft, then bounce off of the metallic objects housed inside and produce a viable radar return.
The concept has some basis in reality. Terahertz radiation is already used as a commercial imaging tool than can penetrate materials like paper, plastic, and textiles to observe or inspect metallic objects housed inside. It has even been discussed for use in security applications, where terahertz radiation could be used to identify concealed weapons hidden under a subject's clothes. However, these applications all depend upon an extremely close proximity between the antennae, object, and receiver, whereas detecting an aircraft would mean needing to transmit terahertz radiation waves over an extremely large expanse of airspace.
And therein lies the rub. Terahertz radiation simply does not have the range to be an effective means of aircraft detection. In fact, it fails to do much of anything at all at distances greater than about 30 feet.
According to Carter M. Armstrong, a scientist serving as the vice president of engineering in the electron devices division of L-3 Communications:
For short-range operation—that is, for signals traveling 10 meters or less—the effects of the atmosphere and bad weather don't really come into play. Try to send anything farther than that and you hit what I call the 'terahertz wall': No matter how much you boost the signal, essentially nothing gets through. A 1-watt signal with a frequency of 1 THz, for instance, will dwindle to nothing after traveling just 1 km. Well, not quite nothing: It retains about 10-30 percent of its original strength."
If you're thinking that the Chinese may have managed to overcome this obstacle by simply ramping up the power output on their terahertz radiation radar systems to astronomical levels, that also seems rather unlikely per Armstrong's research.
So even if you were to increase the signal's power to the ridiculously high level of, say, a petawatt, and then somehow manage to propagate it without ionizing the atmosphere in the process, it would be reduced to mere femtowatts by the time it reached its destination. Needless to say, there are no terahertz sources capable of producing anything approaching a petawatt; the closest is a free-electron laser, which has an output in the low tens of megawatts and isn't exactly a field-deployable device.
China, however, claims to have already completed one prototype of their new radar platform with a successor on its way, though interestingly, even Chinese media points out that their terahertz-radar program probably won't work. Oddly, this admission doesn't come until nearly the end of the piece, despite apparently discrediting the rest of the article.
"Experts said the terahertz radiation decays very fast in the air, meaning the effective range of the radar is likely low and not sufficient for detecting an advanced stealth fighter jet in time before it launches attacks from beyond visual range," the Global Times wrote.
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Alex Hollings Alex Hollings writes on a breadth of subjects ranging from fitness to foreign policy, all presented through the lens of his experiences as a U.S. Marine, athlete and scholar. A football player, rugby player and fighter, Hollings has spent the better part of his adult life competing in some of the most physically demanding sports on the planet. Hollings possesses a master's degree in communications from Southern New Hampshire University, as well as a bachelor's degree in Corporate and Organizational Communications from Framingham State University.
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The London Gazette, Issue 53084, Page 17809
…ade by 20th November 1992. K. M. Pugsley, Director of Law and Administration Civic Centre, Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. SCHEDULE 1 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, between the junction with Bridge Street and a…
The London Gazette, Issue 53182, Page 1199
DACORUM BOROUGH COUNCIL The Dacorum Borough Council ( Hemel Hempstead Town Centre) (Traffic Regulation) Order 1992 Notice is hereby given that Dacorum Borough Council have made an Order under section 101 of the Loca…
The London Gazette, Issue 47429, Page 140
…. Nature of Business: TIMBER MERCHANTS. Address of Registered Office: Swan Court, Waterhouse Street, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Liquidator's Name and Address: David William Ridgwcll, Swan Court, Waterhouse Stree…
The Dacorum District Council (Marlowes and Bridge Street, Hemel Hempstead) (Experimental Prohibition and Restriction of Waiting) Order 1981. Notice is hereby given that the Dacorum District Council on 13th November …
For any late Notices see Contents list en last page ] Mr. Reginald H. Wales, 7 Georgewood Road, ^ Hemel Hempstead Mr. Dennis Bedford, 4 St. John's Well Lane, Berkhamsted W. H. Lavers and Sons Ltd., Corner Hall Wharf…
…ouncil Offices, Wallfields, Pegs Lane, Hertford.(721) C. W. G. T. Kirk, Town Clerk. (753) Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead. Dated 16th February 1973. HEMEL HEMPSTEAD BOROUGH COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC PATH ORDER HIGHWAYS ACT…
DACORUM BOROUGH COUNCIL The Dacorum Borough Council ( Hemel Hempstead Town Centre) (Prohibition and Restriction of Waiting) (No. 1) Order 1993 Notice is hereby given that Dacorum Borough Council have made an Order u…
6.Mark Road, Hemel Hempstead: South-west side from a point opposite the party wall of Nos. 11 and 12 extending north-westerly to a point 15 metres south-east of the junction with Cleveland Road. North-east side, fro…
…ORD BOROUGH COUNCIL (528) SCHEDULE 4 Parking places for use by the disabled at all times 1.Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead Eastern side, 2 bays opposite Nos. 172-176 Marlowes for a distance of 12 metres. Eastern side, outs…
…The Castle, Exeter. 10Parcel of land and premises situate on the northerly side of Piccotts End Lane Hemel Hempstead aforesaid containing an area of approximately 20*582 acres. 11Parcel of land situate on the souther…
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Ahoy Mateys! Arrrr you ready for our 2nd annual Gasparilla Brunch Barrr Crawl?! This time we will have 2 brunch options for you to choose from to start your Gasparilla experience (please indicate at check out where you would like to have brunch). The mutiny starts at 10am at District Tavern Tampa or Thee Tree House on Platt (formerly known as Platt Street Bourough). If you managed to get your hands on the limited brunch tickets*, you can enjoy a delish brunch buffett along with bottomless Mimosas as well as Tito's Bloody Mary's at the Tavern or at Thee Tree House from 10am - 12pm. Others are free to grab a drink and use our hop-on-hop-off buses to commute between our 3 participating bars District Tavern, Thee Tree House and The Franklin Manor for food and drink specials.
We will be running a continuous bus loop between our three bars. Buses will run from 11:30am to 2:30pm and arrive every 30-45mins. At 3pm we release all Crawlers into the wild to watch the official 2019 Gasparilla Pirate Fest & Parade of the Pirates enter Tampa's Downtown. Franklin Manor is only a 5min walk away from all the action at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park.
PLEASE NOTE:Our buses will ONLY run between our 3 bars District Tavern, Thee Tree House and Franklin Manor.
WHAT'S INCLUDED:Your BRUNCH CRAWL TICKET includes a delish Brunch Buffet with bottomless Mimosas & Tito's Bloody Mary's (from 10am - 12pm ONLY), a free welcome shot at each of the 3 bars, free bus transport, drink specials, bar games (beer pong, corn hole), our famous Beer Shotgun, other surprises and a raffle ticket for our Monday raffle to win drink vouchers and tickets to local attractions!
Your CRAWL ONLY TICKET includes a free welcome shot at each of the 3 bars, free bus transport, drink specials, bar games (beer pong, corn hole), our famous Beer Shotgun, other surprises and a raffle ticket for our Monday raffle to win drink vouchers and tickets to local attractions!
So bring your crewe or make new friends, discover new places, win cool stuff and have a good old time!


Perhaps you have been receiving physical therapy treatment and have heard your therapist use the word "TENS" while working with you or have been given a TENS unit for home use. Or maybe you have seen the Icy Hot commercials advertising their new Smart Relief Tens. TENS stands for "Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation" and is quite simply another modality in the tool box of your physical that they can use to help provide you with additional pain relief. So without further ado, let's take a closer look at how TENS works.
Explaining how TENS works can be quite a confusing process. There are two major pain relief mechanisms that can be activated by using TENS: the "Pain Gate Mechanism" and "Endogenous Opioid System". To keep it simple and as easy as possible, we will only look at the "Pain Gate Mechanism" and break it down into simpler terms that everyone can understand.
In your body, you have different nerve fibers that are sensitive to different sensations. For example, you have nerves that are sensitive to touch/feeling and also nerves that are sensitive to pain. When the electrodes from the TENS unit are placed on your skin and the current is turned up, the nerves that are susceptible to light touch become "excited" and start sending signals to your brain letting it know you're experiencing this sensation. By stimulating an abundance of these sensation nerve signals, this will help reduce the transmission of the pain nerve signals being sent to your brain, reducing your pain levels! Additionally, the nerves designed to experience sensation such as light touch travel much faster to the brain than do the pain nerve signals thus "gating out" the pain nerve signals and reducing your pain levels. This is the same principle as to when you hit your elbow on a table and start to rub it and you notice a decrease in pain!
***Disclaimer*** These are just some of the common contraindications and precautions. For further questions, please ask your physical therapy before application!
To sum things up, TENS is another adjunct that you can use during your treatment to help relieve your pain and possibly have a faster recovery time! I've personally had patients wear units while exercising to be able to tolerate an increase in exercise program to help return to the maximum functional capacity a lot faster. Portable TENS are being more common nowadays and are easily available for consumers. However, these units are often confusing and often do not properly instruct you on using your machine the right way. Feel free to ask any of your Physical Therapists or Physical Therapists Assistants here at Advanced PMR if you have any questions regarding TENS or would like to have it added as part of your plan of care if you aren't currently!
Also, be sure to be on the lookout for the next installment in this series coming out in a few weeks regarding the use of Ultrasound!


When going about our daily lives we accumulate the energies we get into contact with, and not all of them are positive or beneficial to us. Therefore this Positive Energy Balancing Body Scrub helps to clean & clear all of the unwanted energy away and leave you balanced.
Simply take a handful of the scrub mixture and scrub your entire body visualizing it cleaning & clearing any and all negative or stagnant energy away. Rinse off with water.
Sage is cleansing & purifying and mentally uplifting.
Packaged in a glass bottle & weighs around 350 grams.


Finding the right piece of jewelry can be difficult. These valuable keepsakes often hold a lot of meaning to their recipients. It's important for buyers to take time when looking for the right piece. Not only should they carefully choose a piece that will last for many years to come, but they should find a great dealer who will offer numerous services.
Many dealers offer a wide range of jewelry pieces. Buyers can choose to Buy Gold in Arlington TX, or a number of different other precious metals, such as silver and platinum. A broad selection of pieces will give buyers a chance to find the perfect accessory. Additionally, jewelry stores with a wide range of pieces can often offer the best price. They're often flexible in pricing, allowing buyers to get the most bang for their buck.
Buyers should ensure that they can get repairs done on pieces they buy. Jewelry is a big investment that needs to be taken care of. Buyers should find a dealer they can trust who will offer them great service. Jewelry is very intricate in nature. The pieces often have numerous small parts that are difficult to replace. Clasps and hooks can easily break, leaving jewelry owners incapable of using them. A jewelry dealer, like Pioneer Gold and Silver Exchange, will be able to fix a piece swiftly and effectively. They'll be able to find replacement parts and bring the piece back to life.
While most don't realize it, many jewelry stores offer regular maintenance services. Those who Buy Gold in Arlington TX, will need to take care of the pieces. Gold can easily deteriorate in value if not taken care of properly. It will lose its brilliance and dull over time. With regular maintenance, jewelry owners can bring a single piece or an entire collection to be cleaned. These heavy cleanings will be done with safe cleaning agents to protect the precious metal and bring out its brilliance.
Jewelry is a great way to show love and make memories. The process of buying jewelry doesn't have to be difficult. With a great dealer, jewelry buyers will get a beautiful piece with important services that will ensure that the piece will last a lifetime.


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Nicholas Irving is the Reaper – a deadliest Army Ranger in history
Nicholas Irving and Spotter in Afghanistan (Photo: Reddit)
Nicholas Irving for friends Irv and for all other Rangers, the Reaper is famous Army Ranger sniper who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a former member of the 3rd Ranger Batallion (75th Ranger Regiment). Through his career, he raised up to the rank of Sergeant and has become one of the most famous special operations snipers in the modern U.S. Military.
Military career
It looks like he was brought to this world to serve, because Nick Irving was born in Fort Meade, Maryland. His parents, both of them, were enlisted soldiers at the time. His first stop was at the Navy recruiting office where he comes with an intention to become a Navy SEAL, but he failed a colorblindness test and instead of Navy SEALS, he joined the United States Army Rangers.
You become a sniper; you want to shoot." – so writes Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving in "The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers"
During his active duty service, Nick Irving was deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan. He becomes widely know after his military record had 33 confirmed kills in a single deployment. He accomplished that while he was serving as a sniper and machine gunner in Afghanistan. He has become one of the deadliest Army Rangers in history.
Nicholas Irving – The Reaper (The Real Book Spy)
Confirmed kills and weapon of choice
His weapon of choice was an Mk 11 rifle a modified version of the SR-25 sniper rifle, nicknamed Dirty Diana. SR-25 sniper rifle won US Army Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle (XM110 SASR) competition, and today it is being issued to US Army snipers as the M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System.
Fellow Rangers nicknamed Irving "The Reaper" because of his proficiency for killing. He earned the nickname "The Reaper' after killing 33 enemies is less than four months while deployed in Afghanistan. His unconfirmed kill total count could easily be into triple digits.
Civilian life
After leaving the Army, Nicholas Irving pursued an entertainment career. In 2016, Irving was one of four military leaders to serve as coaches on the reality show American Grit with John Cena. He also served as an on-set advisor for Doug Liman's 2017 sniper film The Wall.
In 2015, he wrote and published with Gary Brozek The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers, a New York Times bestseller about his military career during the War on Terror. According to some sources, the movie and miniseries are in preproduction. Both, the movie and miniseries will feature Irving's time as a sniper in 3rd Ranger Battalion.
After he retired from the military, Irving has been haunted by nightmares from the day of his first kill. Since then, his life has been a roller coaster of alcoholism, PTSD, and suicidal thoughts, including one failed attempt. Irving says there is light at the end of the tunnel now; in November of 2016, his wife gave birth to the couple's first child and he has been clean and sober since.
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The nascent all-electric MotoE championship has had its whole roster of Energica Ego Corsa bikes destroyed by an overnight fire.
The MotoE field was in Jerez for three days of pre-season testing, and all 18 bikes that had taken to the track for the opening day on Wednesday were burned.
The fire is thought to have began around 12.15am local time, completely engulfing the MotoE paddock structure that hosted the Ego Corsa machines.
"A fire in the newly-built E-paddock has destroyed the majority of material for the FIM Enel MotoE World Cup," a statement from the organisers read.
"The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
The championship had been announced as last year as a new support category for MotoGP that would put on shorter races of around 10 laps on grand prix weekend Sundays.
A total of 12 teams, among then MotoGP outfits Tech 3, Pramac, LCR, Avintia, SIC Racing (which runs the Petronas Yamaha outfit) and Gresini (which operates Aprilia's works team), signed up, and the rider roster included the likes of Sete Gibernau, Bradley Smith and Xavier Simeon.
The opening day of the Jerez test was topped by Avintia's Eric Granado.
The championship's inaugural five-round season was set to kick off during the Spanish Grand Prix weekend at Jerez on May 3-5.


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Combined endovascular embolization and surgery in the management of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: experience with 101 cases
J Neurosurg. 1991 Dec;75(6):856-64. doi: 10.3171/jns.1991.75.6.0856.
F Viñuela 1 , J E Dion, G Duckwiler, N A Martin, P Lylyk, A Fox, D Pelz, C G Drake, J J Girvin, G Debrun
1 Service of Endovascular Therapy, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1991.75.6.0856
The authors describe their experience with 101 cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM's) treated by endovascular embolization followed by surgical removal. Fifty-three patients presented with intracranial hemorrhage and 35 had seizures. Based on the classification of Spetzler and Martin, two AVM's were Grade I, 13 were Grade II, 26 were Grade III, 43 were Grade IV, and 17 were Grade V. Fifty-six AVM's were in the right hemisphere, 28 were in the left hemisphere, 12 were in the corpus callosum, and five involved the cerebellum. In 50 cases, presurgical obliteration of 50% to 75% of the AVM nidus was achieved by embolization, and in 31 cases this percentage increased to between 75% and 90%. In 97 (96%) patients, complete surgical removal of the AVM was obtained. Morbidity resulting from preoperative endovascular embolization was classified as mild in 3.9% of the cases, moderate in 6.9%, and severe in 1.98%. The death rate related to embolization was 0.9%. The immediate postsurgical morbidity was classified as mild in 5.9% of the cases, moderate in 10.8%, and severe in 5.9%. The overall long-term morbidity was mild in 5.9% of the cases, moderate in 6.9%, and severe in 1.98%. Two patients (1.98%) died due to intractable intraoperative hemorrhage and two (1.98%) as a result of postsurgical pulmonary complications.
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Cerebral Hemorrhage / etiology
Combined Modality Therapy
Embolization, Therapeutic* / adverse effects
Embolization, Therapeutic* / methods
Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / complications
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Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / therapy*
Seizures / etiology
Vascular Surgical Procedures / methods


Installation work produced as a safe space for discourse during the 2016 election.
43,000 sq.ft mural highlighting the complex cultural dynamics of Chattanooga's history. As gentrification encroaches on cultural endangerment, the work reclaims an entire city block with a multi-directional narrative that reconciles the past with a hopeful future.
Temporary installation commissioned by Project HOME for the 2015 papal visit and the World Meeting of Families. The interactive installation drew over 150,00 participants and served as a place of reflection and religious pilgrimage.
Series of three multimedia installation works comprised of stained glass, light elements, a water feature and mosaic tile. Works are integrated into the lobby of the Project HOME facility.
Water tower painted in collaboration with students from the United States and the SEGA School for Girls.
Multimedia theatre comprised of a 5,000 sq. Ft. ceiling mural, light sculptures and a six panel lobby mural.
Multimedia mural incorporating found objects sourced from the Fox Chase community.
Mural exploring the evolution of caregiving throughout history. Work incorporates lights, sculptural relief and paint.
Multi part site specific installation made up of a central 5,000 sq.ft mural with 13 satellite locations.
At 30,000 sq. Ft. this is the largest publically funded mural in the United States. The process also involved over 2500 community participants.
Award for Distinction, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University, 2011.City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Visionary Artist Award for "outstanding vision and groundbreaking achievement, 2006.
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship, 2002.
National Endowment for the Arts/Mid-Atlantic Artists Create for the Millennium Resident Artist, 2000.
Leeway Foundation Award for Excellence, 2000.
National Endowment for the Arts/Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1996.
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship, 1996.
National Endowment for the Arts, International Residency, 1995.
Resident Artist, 1994.Pew Charitable Trust Disciplinary Finalist, Painting, 1993.
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, Roster Artist, AIE, 1993-1996.
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship, 1992.
Featured in Public Art Review as one of ten artists in the country who has had a decade long influence on the mural movement, 2006.
Featured in "Spotlight on Muralists" Public Art Review, Fall/Winter, 2005.
Feature in Public Art Review, 1999.
Spotlight in the Franklin Institute IMAX Film Philadelphia Anthem.
B.F.A. - Painting: Washington University - School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO, May 1987.
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Home Breaking News Guam has conducted 300,000 COVID-19 tests since the start of the pandemic
Guam has conducted 300,000 COVID-19 tests since the start of the pandemic
Gerry Partido
DPHSS COVID operation. (PNC file photo)
Guam has cumulatively conducted 300,000 tests since the start of the pandemic, the latest DPHSS COVID-19 surveillance update reported.
In addition, the Public Health report states that the test positivity continues to fall to 2.5% of all tests.
"Cases have fallen to less than 20 per day on average and the CAR Score is now less than 1. In the past thirty days, there has been an exponential decrease in cases," territorial epidemiologist Anne Pobutsky said during Thursday's DPHSS media briefing.
In addition, Pobutsky said all age groups are showing decreases and convergence.
Moreover, Pobutsky said case rates among the unvaccinated are close to 3 times higher than among the vaccinated.
According to the report, all COVID-19 related deaths in the past three weeks were among unvaccinated people (n=11).
In 2021 only 15% of 140 deaths occurred among those who were fully vaccinated (n=21).
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Gerry Partido is PNC's digital and social media editor. He is a veteran newsman with more than a decade of experience as a writer and an editor. Gerry was a former managing editor of The Guam Daily Post, editor of the Marianas Variety (Guam Edition), and a writer and section editor of The Guam Tribune. He also wrote editorials and the weekly column "Island Stir" for the Variety and the Post.


Building upon "the deep friendships which have grown between Britain and Ireland" will be more important than ever in the wake of Brexit, Ireland's president has said.
Michael D Higgins expressed his "sadness" at the decision of the British people to leave the European Union, but said the "dark days" of the UK and Ireland's relationship were "behind us".
Speaking at Birmingham Town Hall on the first day of his three-day visit to England on Monday, Mr Higgins said: "We have been sharing so much, much more than use of the English language in meetings of the Union.
"I wish to reiterate today that however the challenge of Brexit is resolved it will be more important than ever in the years ahead to sustain and build upon the deep friendships which have grown between Britain and Ireland.
Speaking about a memorial to the 21 people who lost their lives in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, Mr Higgins said: I wanted to pay tribute and offer the respect of memory and sympathy to all of the innocent victims and their families and I do so as the President of Ireland. I want to thank the committee of the Birmingham Irish Association who put in place this respectful memorial to their loss.
The memorial near Birmingham's New Street station features three metal trees, designed by artist Anuradha Patel, with the names of the victims written on the leaves.
"It was unveiled last November after a project involving the Justice4the21 campaign group, together with Network Rail and the Birmingham Irish Association.
In his first visit to Birmingham as Irish president Mr Higgins praised the city's Irish community who became part of the "very fabric" of the city.
He remarked on the work of Irish men in the 1950s who "built so much in the region" including famous Birmingham landmarks such as the NEC events venue and the Spaghetti Junction road system.
The project tells the stories of Irish workers who came to Birmingham after the Second World War, through their own words and those of their children.
"Through this project you can get a sense of what it meant to these people to leave home, and how they went on to build their lives in a new city," he added.
Mr Higgins also thanked the people of Birmingham for welcoming the Irish people and their families into their communities.


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The encampment in Hyde Park MDCCLXXX / P. Sandby fecit.
Print shows tents beneath large trees on the right and in the background, with soldiers and citizens clustered in small groups; at the far right is a drinking establishment with a sign that states "Pooles Inti... More
New-York, November 26, Last Sunday night arrived the Lord Hyde Packet ...
Evans 18253.; Title. New York, November 26, etc.; The definitive treaty.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Prin... More
Map of Hyde Township.
Cadastral map from period 1810-1830 that covers Warrensburg region of central Warren County, New York, and that shows lot lines and lot numbers. Hyde Township no longer exists independently and has been incorpo... More
James Madison to Hyde de Neuville, November 17, 1819.
Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at http://www.loc.gov/collection/james-madison-papers/about-this-collection/.
James Madison to Baron Hyde de Neuville, December 19, 1823.
James Madison to Hyde de Neuville, June 15, 1829.
Samuel M. Hopkins, D.D., Hyde Professor of ecclesiastical history and ...
Samuel M. Hopkins, half-length portrait, facing slightly left.
[Picadilly omnibus boarding passengers to the exhibition at Hyde Park;...
Title devised by Library staff. Paper joined in irregular shape. No. 40:4.
View of the nave of the great exhibition building, Hyde Park
Third day of the great sale at Hyde Park & Fairmount, Monday, Oct. 11....
Land sale.; Handwritten on verso: 1857? Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; P... More
Lt. Col. Wm. B. Hyde, 9th N.Y. Cavalry
Col. N.B. Hyde, 37th Vermont Inf.
Yes, my darling, ever kind. Words by C. W. Stayner. Sherman & Hyde, Pu...
The cruelties of fashion - "fine feathers make fine birds" / Hyde.
Illustration shows progression of bird's fate from hunted prey to decoration on a woman's hat. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. LVII, no. 1,468 (1883 November 10), p. 184. Title from item.
Group of Sioux Indians "Spotted Tail" (photo c. 1875) Standing: Joe M...
Hyde, hon. Ira B. Rep of Mo. Pvt. Co. F. 1st Minn. Mounted Rangers aga...
Hyde, Hon. Ira B. of Mo.
New York City--An afternoon lounge at Goupil's Art Gallery, Fifth Aven...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1872 July 13, p. 280.
New York City - opening day at Lord & Taylor's store, Broadway and Twe...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 35, 1873 Jan. 11, p. 289
Ladies' dress reform meeting at Freeman Place Chapel, Boston, Mass. / ...
One woman holding up piece of women's clothing and another woman holding large doll in sample dress.
New York City--The sewing-room at A.T. Stewart's, between Ninth and Te...
Large number of women sewing at long tables. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1875 April 24, p. 109.
July 4th, 1876. The centennial celebration in Philadelphia-Richard Hen...
New York City - Cheap lodging-houses as nests of disease -A night scen...
Interior view of lodging house and three exterior views. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 54, (1882 March 18), pp. 56-57.
Hyde & Behman's Operatic Spectacular Minstrels under the personal supe...
P17856 U.S. Copyright Office "Composed entirely of artists of merit. Original in every detail. Perfectly equipped & organized with the intention of presenting minstrelsy as an art ... Reserved seats at usual pl... More
Ohio - the mining troubles in Hocking Valley - scene in the town of Bu...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1884 Oct. 25, p. 152.
Richard Mansfield as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Trick photograph showing Mr. Mansfield as Dr. Jekyll superimposed over himself as Mr. Hyde. Photograph by Pach Bros., N.Y. Richard Mansfield Collection.
At farewell social of Congregational Church at Hyde Park, Mass., Janua...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 76, Folder 31a.
[Rotten Row and Hyde Park Corner, London, England]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10277". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More
[Hyde Park Corner, London, England] view, photochrome print postcard.
Hyde Park, Queens birthday, London / photographed and published by B.W...
2059W1 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 6018.
Lawn at Hyde Manor, Green Mountains
Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...
Frank Farrel, Charles Hyde
Chas. H. Hyde, seated in study
[Up from Hyde's Cave, Ausable Chasm, N.Y.]
Helen Hyde
Entrance to grounds, Hyde Manor, Green Mountains
Arthur M. Hyde
Hyde Park School, room 2 /
Four rows of pre-adolescent children, both boys and girls, are standing in front of a blackboard on which the words "Kansas City, Missouri" can be seen. Each boy and girl has a pair of Indian clubs and for the ... More
[James Hazen Hyde, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right...
H54147 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by A. Chickering. No. 1.
HYDE, ARTHUR. HONORABLE
Hyde Park Avenue, Tampa, Fla.
Ruins of San Francisco, 500 feet elevation above Hyde and Green Sts.
Copyright claimant's address: Chicago. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; June 1906.
Votes for Women, Hyde Park Demonstration, London, June 21, 1908, Souve...
Hyde Park Suffrage Demonstration Program includes map showing route of 7 processions and placement of 20 speaker's platforms, encircled by portraits of 20 women speakers and border of purple violets.
Suffragists New Record. Half million demonstrate for woman suffrage in...
Dr. Emil Reich describes the record-breaking Hyde Park suffrage demonstration: seven processions converging from different points in the city; Christabel Pankhurst and other women commanding twenty speaker plat... More
All London in Hyde Park for record-breaking suffrage demonstration
Photomechanical print pictures the sea of faces at the Hyde Park suffrage demonstration
Votes for Women, Programme and souvenir, Hyde Park Demonstration, Lond...
Hyde Park Suffrage Demonstration Program includes map showing route of 7 processions and placement of 20 speaker's platforms, encircled by portraits of 20 women speakers and list of 60 speakers; border of pink rosettes.
Hyde Park and Westport High School, Kansas City, Mo.
H128106 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. H. Jones; June 7, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Kansas City, Mo.
Hyde Park corner, London, Eng.
J132512 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Moffett Studio; October 4, 1909; DLC/PP-1909:43881. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago.
Mrs. Richard Hyde
Jas. H. Hyde
Photo shows businessman James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Hyde, Mrs. Ginnett, a detective and a little girl wal...
Dr. Douglas Hyde, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Head and shoulders, facing slightly left. Repro. of drawing. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: B.I... More
Return of C.H. Hyde to New York
Chas. Hyde opens American B.B. season, 4/22/11
[Russia]. Dr. Huntington, Mr. Bergen, Mr. Groves, Mr. Smith. Mac Artne...
Titles from item and devised by Library staff. From disbound album of James Maxwell Pringle's business trip to Russia and Asia for First National City Bank of New York. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:041
Florence S. Hyde
Photograph shows Florence S. Hyde who was secretary of the National Woman's Prohibition Federation. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)
105th Engineers, Lt. Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt, commanding, Camp Sevier, ...
Tunnels, possibly bunkers, dug into ground in foreground. J228906 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Richards Film Service, Inc.; March 19, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45725. Copyright claimant's address: Montgomery, Ala.
Eliz. Hyde Sirvent
Mrs. A.T. Hert of Ken. and Mrs. J. Hyde of Utah, 3/21/25
A.M. Hyde, Gov. of Missouri, 2/1/22
Wallace & Hyde triplets
Charles Cheney Hyde, nominated Jan. 27th by the Pres. to be solicitor ...
Chas. C. Hyde, 1/30/23
Ed. B. Clements, Rep. State Com. Mo., Gov. A.M. Hyde of Mo., 9/2/23
In spotlight at Dies hearing. Washington, D.C., May 24. George Deather...
General John J. Pershing joined with members of the Service Star Legio...
Arthur M. Hyde, [2/6/29]
[Arthur M. Hyde, 2/6/29]
Missouri delegation presents traveling set to Secty. Hyde, 5/6/29
Mrs. Hoover presents cup to boy winner at National 4-H Club Camp. Mrs....
Secty. Hyde, 7/11/29
Arthur M. Hyde, 2/6/29
Swearing in of Arthur M. Hyde, 2/6/29
President Hoover officially opens baseball season in National Capital....
Secretary of Agriculture is surprised with gifts from members of perso...
Bankers and drought relief plans. Twelve drought-stricken states sent ...
Mrs. Herbert Hoover and cabinet ladies at amaryllis show. The First La...
Butler School, River Street, Hyde Park, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-564
Reservoir Keeper's House, Bay & Hyde Streets, San Francisco, San Franc...
Survey number: HABS CA-1234
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ARRIVES HOME FROM VACATION. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AR...
BRISTOL BAY GILL NET BOAT, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Franci...
Survey number: HAER CA-257
Hyde Hall, Gatehouse, East Lake Road, East Springfield, Otsego County,...
Survey number: HABS NY-264 Building/structure dates: 1833 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000555
ROOSEVELT BACK FROM VACATION. RETURNING FROM HIS SUMMER WHITE HOUSE AT...
ROOSEVELT RETURNS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RETURNS FROM HIS SHORT TRIP TO ...
Portable saw near North Hyde Park, Vermont
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
Sharpening knife of old mowing machine on farm near Hyde Park, Vermont


A new device that uses just a breath sample might, in the future, help diagnose early-stage Parkinson's patients or identify those who may be at risk, according to researchers.
The innovative technology, developed by researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology, was able to detect alterations in the breath of newly diagnosed Parkinson's patients, even before they begin medication.
Although the device and collection method still needs to be perfected to reach the sensitivity of other diagnostic approaches such as brain ultrasound scans, researchers believe the tool shows promise.
Findings were reported in the study, "Sensor Array for Detection of Early Stage Parkinson's Disease before Medication," published in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience.
The team had already tested its device in the past, and were able to detect differences in the exhaled breath of people already being treated for Parkinson's disease and healthy controls.
Now they wanted to see if the device could detect differences in the breath of patients with early-stage Parkinson's who were not yet on any medications.
The device consists of an array of 40 cross-reactive sensors based on gold nanoparticles or single-walled carbon nanotubes, attached to different chemical ligands. Each of these ligands can bind certain airy or volatile molecules in the breath that change the electrical signals of the sensor.
They tested the device on 29 patients who had recently been diagnosed with idiopathic Parkinson's disease — with no known cause — and were not yet on medication, and 19 healthy individuals of similar ages, used as controls.
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The device's performance was also compared with other currently used diagnosed tests, namely brain ultrasonography and smell detection.
The sensor was able to distinguish Parkinson's patients from controls with a sensitivity of 79%, a specificity of 84%, and accuracy of 81%, better than smell detection tests, which have 62% sensitivity, 89% specificity and 73% accuracy, and almost as good as brain ultrasound scans, at 93% sensitivity, 90% specificity, and 92% accuracy.
"[O]ur studies provide additional confirmation of the ability of our sensors array to detect altered breath VOC [volatile organic compounds] composition characteristic of PD [Parkinson's disease]," the researchers wrote.
Early diagnosis of Parkinson's can help patients begin neuroprotective therapies sooner, before extensive loss of dopamine-producing nerve cells — those affected in Parkinson's disease — has occurred in the brain. However, to date, diagnosis is still subject to considerable errors.
So far, studies on early Parkinson's diagnosis using volatile biomarkers have only been done in patients who are already being treated and medicated. "There is a great need to evaluate untreated patients for establishing a real world screening and diagnostic technology," the authors said.
Further improvements, as well as more testing in patients, are still necessary for the device to reach the sensitivity of other diagnostic methods like brain ultrasound scans.
"Future development of the sensors array technique has the potential to produce a small, portable system with the advantage of unbiased determination which could be used in initial screening of at-risk subjects without the need for experienced clinical personnel," the researchers concluded.
Tagged breath test, diagnosis, diagnostic test, early diagnosis, early stage, sensor, ultrasound brain scans.
My wife was diagnosed nearly 7 years ago. We have plain white bed linen and the top edge of her side of the duvet has discoloured dirty yellow, whereas my side of the duvet is still pure white. So, the question is this. Does the breath of a PwP have something in it that can discolour the area of the bedlinen kept close to the mouth and nose all night long, because from the research, it clearly has something which is enabling researchers to diagnose Parkinson's?


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NGKF and CBRE Tapped to Lease up Hudson Square Portfolio
By Liam La Guerre	October 17, 2016 6:21 pm
1 Hudson Square.
CBRE and Newmark Grubb Knight Frank have been selected to market office and retail space in nine of 11 Hudson Square buildings, Commercial Observer has learned, because of their "diverse expertise" and "breadth" in the Midtown South neighborhood.
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The entire portfolio, which is owned by Trinity Church Wall Street, Norges Bank Real Estate Management and Hines, is comprised of 5 million square feet, the majority of which is office space. Two of the buildings, 200 Hudson Street and 12-16 Vestry Street, "are fully leased with no impending vacancy," according to a press release from Hines, which also functions as the asset manager, provided exclusively to CO. The brokerages will targeting a wide range of companies, according to David Falk of NGKF.
"Clearly we are looking to take these building to an even more impressive level," Falk told CO. "With that we are looking for great brand names. It could be anything from media to tech and fashion."
Falk is leading an NGKF team in the office leasing at 1 Hudson Square, 100 and 155 Avenue of the Americas and 205 Hudson Street. CBRE's Howard Fiddle and Paul Amrich will work handle the office leasing at 10 Hudson Square, 225 Varick Street, and 345, 350 and 435 Hudson Street. NGKF's Mitchell Friedel will oversee leasing for the 80,000 square feet of available retail space spanning the entire portfolio.
There is currently 370,000 square feet of office space currently available to lease in the portfolio, and an additional 190,000 square feet coming online over the next 18 months.
The owners decided to work with two brokerage firms because NGKF and CBRE is 'responsible for more than two-thirds of leasing activity in the Hudson Square market," according to the press release.
"These teams are complementary and collegial, and together they bring formidable talent and market knowledge to their assignments," Tommy Craig, a senior managing director at Hines, said in a prepared statement. "CBRE and NGKF will help the market understand every floor, every space and every option that these assets offer."
The landlords are planning a "comprehensive program for capital improvements throughout the portfolio," according to a spokesman for Hines, who declined to elaborate about the renovations or how much it would cost.
Keywords: 1 hudson square, 10 Hudson Square, 100 Avenue of the Americas, 200 Hudson Street, 205 Hudson Street, 225 Varick Street, 435 Hudson street, CBRE, David Falk, Howard Fiddle, Mitchell Friedel, Newmark Knight Frank, Norges Bank Real Estate Management, Paul Amrich, Tommy Craig, Trinity Church Wall Street


At GSMST, we take pride in a variety of accomplishments. Not only we are a National Blue-Ribbon School of Excellence, we are also known as the winner of the international VEX robotics tournament, home of the state-winning math team, leaders in Model United Nations, skillful Science Olympiad competitors, talented international musicians…the list goes on and on!
Although we are widely known for these accolades, the school contains a strong and mutualistic community, and it's one of the defining features that separate us from other schools not only in the county, but across the state as well. So, what makes GSMST culture so special?
"The school has a unique culture in which people with similar interests, academic or otherwise, can express and discuss them without fear of being judged or feeling like an outcast," states Jamil Kassam, a senior who looks forward to graduating but wants to spend his last year here with all his close friends.
Other people at the school have similar thoughts on the congeniality of our students.
I was talking to Mr. Jeff Burmester, our AP Physics teacher, after a Science Bowl meeting, he looks around the room at the students eagerly discussing telescopes, and simply states, "We are slightly geeky and positively competitive." I don't think you see that anywhere else.
She goes on to explain how International Night, one of our biggest events of the year, is such a huge success because of this.
Although we aren't East High from High School Musical, I can assure you, our school, our community, our family is better than that — because we are GSMST.