The patent is about a radio channel access method applicable to both 3GPP LTE/5G D2D/V2V communications and IEEE 802.11 standards.
3GPP D2D and V2V networks, IEEE WLANs, Public safety networks, Tactical wireless ad hoc networks, M2M and IoT networks.
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Patriots Take On Chiefs
Guide to Fantasy Football
We'll start off with a quick PSA because (as much as we all want it to be), Fantasy Football has nothing to do with The Bachelor's Fantasy Suite. Sad, we know.
Guide to Football
Even if you only watch one game per year (the Super Bowl) and you mainly watch it for the commercials and the iconic halftime show, we promise there's something for you in this guide.
Our New England Patriots will face the undefeated defending Super Bowl champions in the Kansas City Chiefs.
SOURCE: SCOTT BOEHM/AP PHOTO
The GIST: We can't believe it's October already. Soak in our Patriots preview before you admire the Harvest Moon tonight.
Who's playing?: Our Pats face a big test against defending Super Bowl champions, Kansas City Chiefs, on Sunday at 4:25 p.m. ET. Kansas City is undefeated so far, most recently taking a decisive win over the Baltimore Ravens earlier this week. Look out.
So you're saying there's not much of a chance?: No, not quite! The Pats go into Sunday's game as the underdog (so weird), but could still rain on Kansas City's parade. But to have a chance, Pats quarterback (QB) Cam Newton needs to bounce back from last week's so-so game, while cornerback Stephon Gilmore and the Pats' defense have to lock down Kansas City's speedy offensive threats.
And of course, pressure must be laid on none other than reigning Super Bowl MVP and soon-to-be dad, QB Patrick Mahomes. Even Pats' head coach Bill Belichick is impressed by Mahomes. Alright, Dolla Dolla Bill.
Anything else?: Yes, actually. Prep for Sunday football with Saturday football of the soccer variety: the Revolution take on Nashville SC (SC stands for Soccer Club) at 7:30 p.m. ET. Get your footy fix!
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You know what Encore Party DJs says… the more the merry. This was a repeat client, so we knew exactly what to expect. For Chet's private party, he invited his whole neighborhood. I would have to say that there were 75 people that showed up. The Elmore block party started around 8pm and went until midnight. I always recommend inviting your neighbors when planning a party. Some cities have noise ordinances, and if you invite your local neighbors they are less likely to complain to the authorities.
It was great seeing some familiar faces (we did their party the year before) and some new faces. There is even this one couple that has us booked for their DJ wedding services. We were located in a tent in the backyard. It was large enough to fit everyone inside. Since the block party happened in the fall, Chet made sure there were portable heaters in the tent. Our client provided some light horderves to kept guest occupied while everyone was showing up.
We setup our disc jockey equipment inside and even had the chance to light up the ceiling canopy with our computer controlled LED lighting fixtures. It gave a really nice look, the entire changed colors. At first when guests were arriving, we kept it on a static color. However, once the music started it went with the music. It really caught guests off guard how the lighting went with the music. They expected it to stay the same color the whole night.
I would have to say that within an hour, the tent was packed. Just like last year, we did some games with the guests and had some awesome prizes for the winners. We try to keep this portion of the night to about 30 minutes. It is enough to give them a break before we really get into the dance. This is also a great way to give our gifts to those you know. The more they participate, the higher their chances are of winning. Once the sunset, it was on like Donkey Kong. Guests loved the fact the lighting changed color of the ceiling wash. It gave every song a vibe which really helped to create the mood for the block party.
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Board Chair, Global Partnership for Education
Julia Gillard is the chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Partnership for Education. She came to the Global Partnership after a distinguished career of public service in Australia. She served as Prime Minister of Australia between 2010 and 2013 and successfully managed Australia's economy during the global economic crises. Education is Ms Gillard's passion. She reformed Australia's education at every level from early childhood to higher education with a special focus on disadvantaged children. She delivered new standards to improve the quality of childcare and access to early childhood education for every Australian child and developed a needs-based funding system for every school and ensured that funding was tied to a quality improvement agenda of better teaching, individual learning plans and parental engagement. She also established Australia's first national curriculum and ensured significant investment in school buildings. Before becoming Prime Minister, Ms. Gillard was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and Social Inclusion. From 2003 to 2006, Ms. Gillard served as Shadow Minister for Health followed in 2006 by an appointment as Shadow Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and Social Inclusion. In 2003, Ms Gillard took on responsibilities for Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs and in 2001 Ms. Gillard was appointed Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration. Previously, from 1998 to 2000, Ms. Gillard was a member of the House of Representatives' Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Workplace Relations.
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Q: When should I use a nested table and when a reference? How should I decide whether to use a nested table or a reference?
For example:
We have an airline and a flights table:
CREATE TABLE airline OF airline_ty(
token VARCHAR2(8),
description VARCHAR2(20)
)

CREATE TABLE flights OF flights_ty(
flightNumber NUMBER(10)
securityLevel VARCHAR2(10)
)

Should I know make a reference in airline (flights REF flights_ty) or go for a nested table?

A: It depends on the requirements for usage of the data. In your example with airlines and flights a flight should have a foreign key to its airline. The main table is flights and airlines is a codebook.
An example case where a nested table would be a good choice:
A customer in a core banking application has several phone numbers, email addresses etc. You need to hold this data for a customer, but you do not evaluate it (all customers with this email etc.), you just display it together with other customer detail. You cannot have an extra table for each one to many property, because you have much more interesting data, like accounts, loans, credit cards, account statements, behavior score cards etc.
You have always take into account, what will be the redundancy, reuse, importance, property vs. entity, aggregation vs. composition...

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Hormusji N. Cama new PTI Chairman, Riyad Mathew vice-chairman
Cama has been member of the Press Council for two terms earlier and has again been nominated to the Council last year.
September 14, 2015 01:21 pm | Updated 02:24 pm IST - New Delhi
Hormusji N Cama, Managing Director of Bombay Samachar was on Monday unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Press Trust of India (PTI).
Hormusji N Cama, Director of Bombay Samachar and Riyad Mathew, Director of Malayala Manorama, were today unanimously elected Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively of the Press Trust of India.
Mr. Cama, whose daily is the oldest continuously-published newspaper in India from 1855, succeeds Mahendra Mohan Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director of the Jagran Prakashan.
Mr. Mathew succeeds him as the Vice Chairman.
The election took place at a meeting of the Board of Directors following the Company's 67th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in New Delhi.
Mr. Cama has served two terms as president of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) and is currently the Chairman of the Readership Studies Council of India apart from being on the Board of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) and Council for Fair Business Practices. He has been member of the Press Council for two terms earlier and has again been nominated to the Council last year.
Mr. Mathew, who is also a Senior Assistant Editor of the Malayala Manorama, looks after the Week, one of India's leading news magazines. He holds a masters degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and has worked as a correspondent with Associated Press (AP) in Washington.
Besides Mr. Cama, Mr. Mathew and Mr. Gupta, members of the PTI Board are:
K.N. Shanth Kumar (Deccan Herald), Vineet Jain (Times of India), Aveek Kumar Sarkar (Ananda Bazar Patrika), Viveck Goenka (Indian Express), N Ravi (The Hindu), M.P. Veerendra Kumar (Mathrubhumi), Sanjoy Narayan (Hindustan Times), Vijay Kumar Chopra (Hind Samachar) and R. Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar).
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South West WA
Three jaw-dropping Australian west coast road trips
It's a bold move to take on the biggest and most rugged side of the continent, sure, so we've figured out we should get some help from the TomTom Road Trips web site to ensure you can either plan your jaw-dropping Australian west coast road trips, or do it spontaneously on the road via TomTom MyDrive , or both.
(Enter here to win a TomTom GO 620 navigation prize pack worth $468.85!)
Nothing feels freer than hitting the open road and few roads feel more open than those etching across the vast state of Western Australia, cutting a swathe of fun and epic adventure through the mindblowing scenery, surprising stops and stopovers along the way.
TomTom Road Trips website is where you can find all the different road trips with description and a map showing the route and location.
You can select any of the routes on the website and plan your own journey from TomTom MyDrive. Here, three amazing road trips to take on Australia's west like a boss.
The Stunning South Coast Drive
Moody rocks frame the gorgeous Atlantic sea
Striking out south-east from Perth, it doesn't take too long to find the wide open spaces of the aptly named Golden Outback. Just under four hours drive and you'll hit Hyden, famous for its many rock formations including world-renowned Wave Rock. The surrounding wonders such as Hippo's Yawn, the Humps and Mulka's Cave, deserve more than just a quick stretch of the legs.
The hike over the Humps is best done in the morning or afternoon, while the chance to really enjoy getting up close to the Aboriginal art within Mulka's Cave is too good to rush. If you'd like to make an extended stopover, TomTom MyDrive easily links you through to TripAdvisor so you can plan more adventures in this fascinating and highly Insta-worthy spot.
Moody rocks frame the gorgeous Indian Ocean
Speaking of spectacular photos, plenty more await you after the next, nearly five-hour leg of the journey through to Esperance. This pristine, sandy-beached, sun-kissed town is the tip-off point for explorations on and around more than 100 gobsmacking islands.
Don't miss the chance to take a flight over bright-pink Hillier salt lake. If you have the funds, the TomTom Roadtrip website's Around You function will help you plan your sun-soaked days easily. What can we say? Hashtag blessed.
Cape Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin
If a decadent weekend is more your scene, pack your swimmers and your designated driver, and download this route from the TomTom Road Trips web site and enjoy a scrumptious mix of wine and natural wonder. You can drive from Cape to Cape in two and a half hours, but considering there are more than 50 wineries, 90 metre karri trees, incredible coastal wilderness and unparalleled whale watching opps along that short stretch, we doubt you'll be setting any personal bests here.
Instead, start at the beautiful Cape Naturaliste lighthouse, three hours south of Perth, and keep your camera handy for this short journey to the rugged seascapes of Canal Rocks near Yallingup. Next, savour some famous Western Australian tipples at the many wineries dotting the coast, from charming Redgate Wines to perhaps Margaret River's most famed resident winemakers at Vasse Felix. Further south, get a crick neck marvelling at the giants of the Boranup Karri Forest, then choose a secluded beach along Caves Road and relax.
Play your cards right and you might even end up at the stunning Cape Leeuwin, the meeting point between the Indian and Southern Oceans, and you will get to experience one of the country's most incredible sun-meets-sea moments during sunset.
The Indian Ocean Drive
These rock formations look other worldly
Once you've got a taste of Team TomTom and you, why not go for gold? This absolute epic of a drive eats up 1700 kilometres of some of Australia's most awe-inspiring countryside, and the sheer distance travelled means you'll leave the madding crowd far behind. The coastline between Perth and Ningaloo Reef is dazzling, with aquatic life both wild and accessible. Plan a stopover in Monkey Mia to interact with the cheeky wild dolphins, and prepare to fall in love entirely with Australia's 'other' great reef at Ningaloo itself.
Plan your visit between April and July to swim with the whale sharks here, still a relatively new and always amazing experience and also give yourself enough leeway to pay proper respect to the more landward sights. After all, this drive also covers such wonders like the towering Pinnacles, the three-storey-high Lancelin Sand Dunes and the rare, important Stromatolites of Shark Bay. Keep up to date with the latest TripAdvisor reviews on each sight along the way via TomTom's MyDrive and you will get the best drive of your life. So you can actually lose yourself wherever you like, without actually getting lost.
Want to turn your epic road trip into The Ultimate Big Lap of Australia? Read on to find three of the greatest coastal drives of Australia's east coast.
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Three Republican US congressmen arrived in Israel this week to promote American-Israeli cooperation in the battle against abortions.
The three, all leading pro-life figures in the US, are Congressman Chris Smith from New Jersey, who heads the anti-abortion lobby in Congress, Congressman Frank Wolf from Virginia and Congressman Joseph Pitts from Pennsylvania.
During their visit in Israel, the congressmen met with Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and expressed their concern regarding Israel's declining birth rate, compared to the growing birth rate among the Palestinians. The representatives also lauded the rabbi for the Chief Rabbinate's strong stance against abortions.
The congressmen met with haredi political figures in order to promote Knesset legislation that would help enforce current abortion laws in Israel, or that could lead to prohibition of abortions by law.
In a meeting with Shas MK Chaim Amsellem, the latter announced his plans to establish a parliamentary lobby against abortions that would work closely with Smith's American lobby.
The American and Israeli officials also discussed the possibility of holding a Republican party conference in Washington that would host rabbis and academics, alongside Israeli MKs from the anti-abortion lobby, and aim to raise awareness to their cause.
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Most Expensive Watch in the World
By Chris Boyle
Neither jewelry nor apparel, fine watches go far beyond timekeeping. They are collectors' items, style icons and technological marvels.
They are also among the more useful items to come out of 16th Century Europe. Originally created as novelty items for German nobles, the earliest portable timepieces could barely be bothered with telling time. They had only an hour hand, and their verge and foliot movements were so inaccurate that that one hand tended to be off by several hours.
Worn by high society in Nuremberg and Augsburg, these early watches served as pieces of 16th Century flair, fastened to jackets or worn on chains as necklaces. The dial was not under glass, but rather a curved and carved brass or metal decorative lid. They were shaped like eggs, animals, crosses or even skulls.
Fortunately, the addition of the balance spring in 1657, and the focus on technological advancement during Europe's late 18th Century period of Enlightenment, greatly improved the accuracy of the next wave of watches. Watchmakers like Abraham-Louis Breguet began creating luxurious timepieces that combined fashion and function.
In 1868, a Swiss up-and-comer named Patek Philippe created the first wristwatch. The ingenuity of the company, founded by two Polish watchmakers and a French colleague who just so happened to invent the world's first keyless winding mechanism, also includes such milestones as the perpetual calendar, chronograph and minute repeater.
Switzerland's Girard-Perregaux watchmaker was commissioned by the German Imperial Navy to develop a series of wristwatches for sailors in the late 19th Century. Kaiser Wilhelm I was such a fan that he ordered one for himself.
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Cartier got in on the game in 1904. Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont asked his buddy Louis Cartier to create a "hands-free" device that he could use to time his flight performances. The resulting wristwatch, Cartier's fittingly named Santos model, went on sale to the public in 1911.
Haute horology continues to develop today, with Patek Philippe, Breguet and Cartier joined by the likes of Chopard and Piaget. Fine watches value intricate complications, elegant workmanship and spring-powered mechanisms, while more affordable versions with quartz movements are sold by everyone from high-end designers to humble drug stores.
Our ranking of the world's 11 most expensive watches spans antique clocks with removable pocket watches, to bespoke wristwatches studded with gemstones, gold and even rare galactic materials like the Rosetta Stone. These pieces elevate timekeeping to a bona fide art form.
Piaget Emperador Temple, $3.3 million
This jewel-encrusted timepiece has a dial made of Polynesian mother-of-pearl, as well as 173 diamonds in brilliant and baguette cuts.
The top of the case does not disappoint, either. It has one emerald-cut diamond, 481 brilliant-cut diamonds and 207 baguette-cut diamonds and an emerald-cut diamond on the top of the case. The bracelet is lined with 350 baguette-cut diamonds.
Patek Philippe 1928, $3.6 million
Sold by Christie's Geneva in 2012, this watch was previously owned by Eric Clapton.
The perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatch has 23 jewels, a silvered matte dial, windows for day and month, gold dauphine hands and moon phases with date.
Patek Philippe Platinum World Time Watch, $4 million
At the time of its creation in 1939, this was the world's most expensive wristwatch.
It sold at auction in 2002, and is believed to be the only Platinum World Time watch ever created.
The world's most expensive stainless steel wristwatch, Christie's sold the 1949 at auction in May 2008.
This perpetual calendar watch has a face with Arabic numerals applied in black lacquer, a steel case and a moon phase indicator.
Louis Moinet Meteoris, $4.59 million
Made with a galaxy of rare materials, the Meteoris set consists of four different timepieces.
The individual watch faces are made from a meteorite from Mars, the moon, an asteroid and an ancient meteorite better known as the Rosetta Stone.
Patek Philippe Gold Perpetual Calendar Wristwatch, $5.7 million
Nicknamed the Mona Lisa of 20th Century wristwatches, this Patek Philippe piece was sold at auction at Christie's in 2010.
The 18 carat gold watch has a perpetual calendar, moon phase indicator, barrel housing and a tonneau-shaped case.
Duc D'Orléans Breguet Sympathique, $5.77 million
This clock with a removable pocket watch sold at Sotheby's New York in December 2012.
The half-quarter repeating gold watch winds automatically, and is both set and regulated via the quarter striking clock.
The rare Sympathique clocks helped bring Abraham-Louis Breguet to the forefront of watchmaking. Dated 1835, it is closely connected to European royalty and aristocracy, and made from ormolu-mounted red tortoiseshell.
Patek Philippe Calibre 89, $6 million
Weighing in at more than two pounds, this pocket watch took five years of research and more than four years to create.
In addition to precise timekeeping, the Calibre 89 also takes external temperature. It has nearly 2,000 components, and was created in 1989 to celebrate Patek Philipe's 150th anniversary.
Patek Philippe Supercomplication, $11 million
This yellow-gold pocket watch was created for banker Henry Graves, Jr. in 1932, at which point it was deemed the most complicated watch ever constructed.
As part of a watch-related wager with friendly rival James Ward Packard, Graves commissioned the complex timepiece. Sotheby's then sold it at auction in 1999.
The 201 carat Chopard, Over $25 million
This gemstone-studded watch is more jewelry collector's item than traditional timepiece.
The thick, floral design includes a 15 carat pink diamond, 12 carat blue diamond and 11 carat white diamond. There are also 163 carats of smaller diamonds throughout.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Joaillene Manchette, Over $26 million
Constructed from a thick band of polished and diamond-set links, this bespoke timepiece can be customized to have up to 576 diamonds.
The watch face has a silver-colored dial with sapphire crystal, and a winding crown. It uses the mechanics of the manually wound Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 101. There is no list price, but appraisers value it at more than $26 million.


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Instagram/Twitter Palestinian discrimination
Occurred: May 2021
Instagram and Twitter users are having their accounts closed and content and hashtags blocked when mentioning the possible eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, and when sharing photos and videos of Israeli forces facing off with Palestinian residents.
Human and digital rights groups fear 'discriminatory' algorithms may be at work, accuse the social media companies of censorship, and are demanding greater transparency.
Both companies later reversed course and reinstated the relevant accounts and content. Twitter blamed automated spam filtering software, while Instagram put the problem down to a 'technical bug'.
In October 2021, Facebook announced it will appoint independent, non-profit organisation BSR to conduct an investigation into the moderation of Arabic and Hebrew posts.
Operator: Meta/Facebook; Twitter
Developer: Meta/Facebook; Twitter
Country: Palestine; Israel
Sector: Politics
Purpose: Review & moderate content
Technology: Content moderation system
Issue: Accuracy/reliability; Bias/discrimination - ethnicity; Freedom of expression - censorship
Transparency: Governance; Black box
https://www.cnbcafrica.com/2021/instagram-twitter-blame-glitches-for-deleting-palestinian-posts/
https://www.reuters.com/article/israel-palestinians-socialmedia-idUSL8N2MU624
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/palestinians-denounce-censorship-of-social-networks/ar-BB1gE9Wg
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/instagram-reportedly-removed-posts-about-a-holy-islamic-mosque-after-the-company-associated-alaqsa-with-a-terrorist-organization-amid-palestinian-israeli-violence/ar-BB1gFtUG
https://www.businessinsider.com/palestinian-journalist-mariam-barghouti-says-twitter-asked-delete-tweets-2021-5
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8b4x/twitter-said-it-restricted-palestinian-writers-account-by-accident
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mariam-barghouti-twitter-suspension_n_609b314ee4b0909247fc7bbf
https://www.msn.com/EN-US/news/world/twitter-censors-then-uncensors-palestinian-journalist-s-account/ar-BB1gCTDc
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/sheikh-jarrah-content-takedowns-reveal-pattern-of-online-restrictions-in-palestine-1.1220037
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/instagram-facebook-censored-al-aqsa-mosque
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/technology/india-israel-facebook-employees.html
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-facebook-investigation-social-media-posts-suppression
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Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP Partner Michael W. Drumke offers his "View From The Chair" in the Fall 2014 issue of the American Bar Association's The Brief.
Drumke, the 2014-2015 Chair of the ABA's Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), announces the inaugural TIPS section conference, to be held in April 2015.
To read the full Q&A, please visit this link: "View From the Chair: Announcing the Inaugural TIPS Section Conference."
At Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP, Drumke focuses his practice on Toxic Tort Litigation, Product Liability, Class Action Defense, and Commercial Litigation and Business Disputes. He has represented clients in 20 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands.


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The New Room Bristol, John Wesley's Chapel > News from The New Room > Latest News > BITE-SIZE CAROL SERVICES AND MORE FOR BROADMEAD SHOPPERS
BITE-SIZE CAROL SERVICES AND MORE FOR BROADMEAD SHOPPERS
Twenty minutes refuge from the Christmas shopping is all that's needed for people to absorb the spirit of the season at one of the new bite-size 'Carols for Shoppers' services in Broadmead's New Room on Saturday 16 December.
Shoppers can choose to drop by at 1pm, 2pm or 3pm and sing along with a programme of traditional carols in the calm and beautiful 18th century surroundings of the New Room, also known locally as John Wesley's Chapel.
Volunteer warden, Gary Best, who will be leading all three services, said: "We decided that Bristolians deserve to enjoy the same opportunity in their own city as shoppers in Bath, who can be seen queueing round the block to take part in the annual shoppers' carol services at Bath Abbey.
"We know people can't usually afford to take much time out of their busy December weekends, but for those who are present-hunting in Bristol city centre the New Room couldn't be in a more convenient location, and we'll offer a welcome chance for them to refuel spiritually. Our whole aim is to help people recharge their batteries and feel really positive about the upcoming celebrations.
"We'll be singing popular traditional carols that everyone is bound to know, including some of the well-loved compositions by John Wesley's brother Charles such as 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.,' with the words on programmes printed for the day."
The New Room's artisan café will be open before and afterwards, offering light lunches and a festive-themed afternoon tea with home-made bakes such as cranberry and cinnamon scones and little sticky toffee puddings, as well as their secret-recipe spiced hot chocolate.
Other seasonal events at the New Room include a concert by the Bristol Hippodrome Choir, singing carols and other festive tunes on Thursday 7 December. A well-established community group, the choir is led by Victoria Bourne and has previously sung with Russell Watson and X-Factor winner Sam Bailey.
On Thursday 14 December the second in the New Room's regular series 'Folk At The New Room' will take place, featuring the popular folk duo Laura Smyth and Ted Kemp, plus special guests the Bristol Folk Singers, presenting an evening of seasonal folk music and traditional carols.
The New Room's traditional lunch-time 'Carols and Communion' and early evening 'Carols by Candlelight' will both take place on Friday 15 December, at 1pm and 6pm respectively. These perennially popular services will both feature Philip Carter, the New Room's director of music on the chapel's 18th century Snetzler organ, and be followed by mince pies and hot drinks.
A fun all-age service on Saturday 23 December brings the New Room's pre-Christmas programme to an end, with a pop-up nativity at 2pm which children and the young at heart are welcome to attend wearing nativity costume (or not, as they wish). Designed to appeal to children and adults alike, the service which will last around 30 minutes, with a re-telling of the Christmas story, and is shaped by the people who attend, so it's different every year.
Full details of the New Room's Christmas events programme are available online at www.newroombristol.org.uk , including ticket costs for the folk evening and the Bristol Hippodrome Choir concert. Other events are free of charge.
The chapel and the café at the New Room will be open as usual throughout the festive season from 10.30am-4pm Monday to Saturday.
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Where is the statue of Liberty stand for?
Best Answer: It is stand for United States of America.
Lady Liberty was originally a gift from France to the USA.
However over the years, especially when Ellis Island was "in use" she became a beacon of hope when you saw her from the back and the side as you were coming to/ during your stay on the island. And once allowed entry into the country and she was seen in all her majestic glory from the front, she became a symbol of freedom, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Letting those know who traveled and successfully entered the country through Ellis Island that they had finally made it and had the opportunity to achieve that ever coveted American dream.
It stands for friendship between France and the US.
It stands for American liberty - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to pursue happiness, and the application of the law equally.
It stands for Liberty. A gift from the French.


I wish I would have known while my dad was alive. I only traveled home about yearly, or bi-yearly. I only called about monthly, sometimes longer. Every time I would go to his house, he would invite me into the living room and ask me to catch him up on what was going on. My parents made me nervous. I felt like I never shut up around them. I felt like no one could get a word in edgewise. I was instantly tossed back in time, just a kid struggling for attention. I wasn't a neglected child but there were six of us, and I was not the golden child – ever.
Still, every time I called, every time I visited, dad would focus on me, and ask about the details of my life. How was my job, my kids, and my husband? What did we do for fun? He would get me started and a year's, or a month's worth of data would vomit out of my brain. I even asked my husband to give me a subtle nudge if I was talking too much. I don't talk that much at home. Oh, I'm not completely silent, but I don't go on and on – most of the time. When I was around my parents, I couldn't seem to stop myself.
I worried that they thought less of me because I couldn't shut up. I tried to ask about their lives too, but they always turned the focus back on me. I never seemed to know much about their lives. I worried it was my fault. I wish I would have known. I would have called more.
My kids are grown now, with lives of their own. Still connected to mine, but separate. It's wonderful when we get together and just talk about what's going on in their lives. I want to know about their jobs, their friends, their kids, and spouses. I want to know about their dreams, even if they never come true. I want to know about their struggles and heartaches. Everyone has them. I don't think less of them for having them too. I cherish the fun we have in group texts, and out for pizza, or playing cards. I cherish family gatherings. Mostly I love hearing about their lives, even the mundane things, because I'm not there, and it makes me feel connected. I wish I would have known.
You grow apart too easily. Life slips by too fast. There are too many chores, and not enough free time. There are too many good choices, and too much life to live. I want to hear about it all. They could talk a mile a minute – I wouldn't care. They could tell me the same story two and three times over; I like hearing their voice. I like being with them.
To those of you out there who still have your parents, call them, write them, text them, keep in touch. Never feel like you talk too much. Stay connected. I say this knowing I need to call my mom, and my step mom. I need to catch up. I say this, missing being able to call my dad. I wish I had known. We weren't super close but we weren't estranged either. I was blessed. I am blessed with family connections that will always be there, even after a month or two, or a year. We get together and pick right up where we left off. Catch me up. Tell me your stories. I want to hear.
You could never talk too much. I wish I would have known.
I want to hear about that time.
The one with your partner in crime.
Across these great big states.
And the cows getting through the gates.
To live a thousand lives.
Get on memory lane and drive.
You pick the topic, I'm all ears.
There is a hidden group within our midst, the non-hugger. I can count myself in their numbers. We have a different anatomy than most. You see non-huggers have a bubble. You can't see it unless you are very perceptive towards our body language. Ok, that's a lie. Everyone notices our body language, they just respond to it differently. You can peg a person with a bubble, or personal space issue quickly when you go to hug them. We have our coping skills, the pup tent hug, the side hug, the three second, pat your back and let go hug, or occasionally we get a handshake in to block the hug. If you get a wave, or the slight backup movement, sorry, that's a defense mechanism. We like to hide out amongst the extreme introverts and germaphobes. They don't want to hug either, for their own reasons. Introverts who are huggers do exist, they just won't hug you unless you are in their inner circle of people. I am not in their numbers. The germaphobe has to make a choice between touching hands or hugging, neither of which is comfortable for them. They also can be mistaken for the non-hugger, bubble people, as they do have a bubble but their mindset is different and I can't begin to speak to it.
Being a person with an extra sensitive bubble and need for personal space, who is not an introvert, and is very compassionate, I have had to do some soul searching on this issue. I'm from a great small town, very safe, and very friendly. I talk to strangers, much to my family's dismay. I have been a Stephen Minister at our church. This lay person's job is to come along side someone in a crisis and support them, for as long as they need. You could consider it a one on one deacon. My point being that I am compassionate, empathetic and caring. I can be warm and bubbly, not to be confused with my personal space bubble. Nonetheless, I am NOT a hugger. I come from a long line of undemonstrative people, some of which are also very personable and loving. I can't say my personal space issue is a result of environment or just how I am designed. I have not lived in that small town since I was a child, and there are an awful lot of huggers out here. My intuition tells me that my bubble issue is more of a design thing. I only call it an issue because this is a hugger's world. I am not broken.
First, I have to describe the hugger to the best of my observations. The hugger shows their compassion, love and any other host of emotions via their hug. "I haven't seen you in a whole week", I should hug you. "You are upset over an event", I should hug you. "You just got a new job", I should hug you. "I just flat out love you", I should hug you. It's the obligatory "passing of the peace" or "I should hug you" time in church, so I should hug you. Additionally, huggers get their needs met via their hugs as well. "I'm excited about something God has blessed me with", I need to be hugged. "I'm upset about a trying or sad event", I need a hug. "We just heard a horribly emotional story", I need a hug. "You shared with me and let yourself be vulnerable about a situation in your life which touches my heart", I need to hug you to show you I understand and care. "I haven't seen you in a whole week and I love you", I need to hug you to show you that love. "I'm feeling a little needy or vulnerable myself", I need a hug to know your acceptance and to receive the gift of your love and compassion. You see, huggers freely give the gift they have in abundance, the gift behind the hugs. Those gifts include love, compassion, empathy, acceptance and acknowledgment of an inner circle of friends. Huggers receive those same gifts from giving a hug, it is a two-way delivery system for them.
Huggers receive energy from a hug. It is a positive exchange for them. It fills their tank. That tank can become empty, and require hugs to be filled. Hugs initiated by others, gives more energy than those initiated by themselves but most of the time they don't realize they beat you to the punch anyway. You even have your super huggers who hold you so tight and for so long until that gift they are giving you is fully received and returned. It's a super power much like Superman's gift of flight, or Captain America's inability to age. The super huggers receive healing with their super powers, and are positive you will as well, if you just fully embrace the hug. They can fill their tanks quickly but prefer a tank that is overflowing so that they can give to others freely. We avoid you, unless you are in our inner circle.
There are a lot of huggers in this world, or at least in America, as I have barely left this country in my lifetime. At very least there are a lot of huggers, who hug those who are at least in their inner circles. The degree of circle to hug intensity is often relational. Since introverts can also be huggers, that leaves the non-huggers in the very large minority.
Let me describe the non-hugger now. The non-hugger requires you to use your imagination to understand. The non-hugger has a bubble of personal space that they maintain at all times. Keeping the bubble intact requires the least amount of energy. It's a little like the old moat around a castle. A non-hugger has to expend energy to allow you into their bubble. The draw bridge has to be lowered. It acknowledges that you are accepted or loved. Just lowering the bubble, is a gift from the non-hugger, as well as a drain on our energy. It does not refill our tank to hug you. Let me repeat that, we do not get energy from hugging you. We do receive the gift of love, compassion and empathy. What appears to be the biggest difference from my point of view, is that we do not receive energy from it. Much like the introvert who goes to a party and comes home drained. They may have even had a great time, but they are exhausted, it does not build up their stores.
The non-hugger is offering you the olive branch by simply lowering the bubble. The longer the bubble remains down, the more energy the non-hugger has to expend. It is a choice that we make because we live in a hugger world. We know that huggers take the side hug, or the handshake move offensively. We know that you can tell we hug you stiffly. We may need that pup-tent space to keep from being completely drained. We may only have three seconds of energy to give. Our worst moments are when we care for someone so very dearly, who only wants to comfort us, but we do not have enough energy in our tanks to lower the bubble. We feel your pain. We know that you also have a need to hug us. We have experienced this hugger world our entire life. We are perceptive enough to know that our lack of energy feels like rejection to you. It is not. It is self-care. We simply may not have the energy needed to give to you what you need. We are used to being the giver. That may shock you.
It has been expected of us to choose to let down our bubble because of your needs. We face that forced choice regularly. No one would force a child with autism to hug them. We understand that you are hurting that child not helping them or loving them. We understand that to love that child, you meet them how they can receive. Non-huggers do not get this understanding. We get looks of hurt, judgement and dismissal when we make the choice to not expend our energy. That choice may have nothing to do with our relationship with you, though it often takes far more energy to lower the bubble for those outside our inner circles. Yet, the responses we get, regularly reinforces, that to make that choice we will offend you. If we have chosen that, it was most likely not lightly. We don't like the judgement either. We are perceptive enough to know, unlike the child with autism. If we care about you, it hurts us even more. That is a sign! If you are in our inner circle of friends and family, and we are incapable of lowering our bubble, our tank is flat empty. We have nothing to give you. We will not receive the love, empathy or compassion that you are trying to give us to fill up our tanks, because we don't have enough energy to maintain the bubble's integrity. It is not a positive exchange any longer for us. That has nothing to do with our relationship with you, but with our own energy stores within our very spirit.
The East Coast has a tradition of torturing grieving families, called "Visitation Hours". This terrible tradition lines a grieving family up so that you can share in their grief and support them. Which may work wonderfully for huggers, but is a lot like a nightmare for a non-hugger. My dad was a very loved man in the small town I grew up in. It's a much larger town when you are forced to be in the receiving line at visitation hours. Approximately 500 people came through those receiving lines. Each with stories of how they knew my dad, and loved him. Each with the offering, the gift of their shared grief in our loss; most of them huggers. After the first ten or so people, my tank was beyond empty. There was no longer any room for my own grief. Luckily my oldest son arrived half way through, he was able to be light hearted and perhaps inappropriately silly with me. I had nothing left to give those who came by that time. It was a lot like immersion therapy. It changed me. My bubble was irreparably damaged, not necessarily a bad thing. While the night itself was the worst thing I can imagine doing to a non-hugger, it has opened up an ability to receive the gift huggers have long been extending to me. I have been known to initiate a hug since that night! It's quite the transformation, but only for my inner circle. If I have hugged you, initiated the hug, that was a gift. Not only did I lower the bubble, which still exists, but has changed, but I extended and received the gift of love, compassion and empathy that huggers intend. Now if you aren't in my inner circle, sorry that part of my bubble regenerated.
So, my advice for huggers is to not immediately be offended by the pup tent hug, the side hug, the three second hug or the stiff hug. You can go ahead and be slightly offended by the quick handshake or wave. Instead if you know the person well, especially if you are in their inner circle, look for a deeper reason. Maybe this person is a non-hugger. Maybe this person's tank is running empty for circumstances you are unaware of. Understanding our emptiness with that overflowing compassion you can tap into, is greatly appreciated. We know in those instances, it's harder for you not to hug. Choosing to help us maintain our energy stores, our depleted tank, is more loving. Instead offer a prayer, or a simple touch on our arm or shoulder. We will receive the intended hug. We will appreciate, if not immediately, it will occur to us when our tank is replenished, that you respected our needs. You see, it doesn't happen often, so even if we are too drained to notice immediately, we will remember. But most importantly appreciate the choice we make to show you how much we love you, when we do hug you. You are special to us, worthy of our energy stores. You are worthy to be given to, without a return for us. The reasons for our bubble can be numerous. Our anatomy remains much the same, it's just that you can't see part of it. That bubble, and the energy store required to maintain it are just as real as our tears, our limbs, or our heart. It excludes us, we wouldn't keep it if we had a real choice. We would choose to receive what you receive with a hug if we could. Yet, we are not broken, we are designed differently. We only ask for understanding and acceptance, like everyone else. Dismissing, or making fun of our bubble is the opposite of what we would prefer, even if we acknowledge and make fun of it ourselves. So, continue to offer us hugs. Hug us as long as we allow, and as hard as we can return. Nonetheless, do not take offense, we have offered all we can.


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The Wertheim Twins: Coral Reefs, Crochet, and Hyperbolic Space
Posted by: Dale Griffiths Stamos
How do coral reefs, geometry, crochet, and environmentalism come together? Well ask Margaret and Christine Wertheim, Australian twin sisters who are two of our profile subjects in RenWomen: What Modern Renaissance Women Have to Teach Us About Living Rich, Full Lives. These two sisters are each exceptional in their own fields. Margaret is a trained physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and has pursued successful careers in science writing, and public speaking. Christine has a PhD in literature, is a poet, critic, performer, museum curator, and teaches creative writing and critical studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
But they have also created an amazing synergy by bringing their various skills together to found the Institute for Figuring, "The mission of the Institute of Figuring," explains Margaret, "is to engage people with science and mathematics by looking at the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of these fields." And there is no better example of this kind of synthesis than their Project Coral Reef, a project which, as the IFF website explains: "resides at the intersection of mathematics, marine biology, handicraft and community art practice, and responds to the environmental crisis of global warming and the escalating problem of oceanic plastic trash." Whoa! How you may ask, does it do all that?
It began with the discovery in 1997 by Cornell mathematician Daina Taimina, that through crochet, one could create a model of a mathematical structure many mathematicians thought was impossible to model. This structure is a non-Euclidean geometry called hyperbolic space, and crochet is the perfect vehicle for demonstrating its strange crenulated properties.
For years, mathematicians had been trying to model hyperbolic geometry on computers, but with no success. When Margaret was asked by TED interviewer, K. L. Mulholland, why this was, she explained: "We are moving into the age of being able to simulate more and more things on computers and we are coming to realize how mind-bogglingly complex the world is which we are trying to simulate. The fall of a handkerchief in the wind is hard to simulate, and yet the handkerchief does it effortlessly. In some sense, the handkerchief knows something; it can do something that our best computer engineers can't do."
The sisters met Daina in 2003. As Christine explains it: "She'd been crocheting [her models] for six or seven years, and she was using them in her classes at Cornell. Daina's models looked a certain kind of a way. Daina and Margaret were very interested in making them mathematically perfect. But I'm not that kind of person, so I started playing. Using pink wool and fluffy wool and sparkly wool… I changed the recipe somewhat. They were still essentially hyperbolic, but not perfectly so.
"And then I just had a pile of them on the coffee table, and I said to Margaret, 'It looks like a coral reef!' Because I wasn't doing them perfectly, and because I had embedded them in pink and orange and fluffy, I made them look like organic things which also made them look like corals."
It turns out that corals are essentially hyperbolic. There are also other things in nature that share this geometry as well, such as lettuce leaves, cactuses, and sea slugs. "There was a theorem among mathematicians," Margaret comments wryly, "that you couldn't have models of this geometry in the physical world. They could not see that natural structures around them were doing this. And I once asked some mathematicians, why didn't they realize it? And their brief answer was 'I guess there aren't many mathematicians out there looking at sea slugs.'"
The Australian twins, having been brought up near the Great Barrier Reef, also saw their reefs as environmentally relevant. They are concerned about how, due to the influence of global warming, coral reefs are dying out worldwide. As Margaret explained in the Ted Talk she gave in 2009: "Corals are very delicate organisms, and they are devastated by any rise in sea temperatures. It causes these vast bleaching events that are the first signs of corals being sick. And if the bleaching doesn't go away -- if the temperatures don't go down -- reefs start to die."
Well the twin sisters' coral reef went viral. First asked to fill a small room with their reef at the Andy Warhol museum, they were subsequently commissioned to fill larger and larger gallery spaces. And what started as a two woman endeavor expanded into community projects across the globe involving over 7000 people (predominantly women.) Margaret says: ""One of the reasons that the reef project has been so successful and gone on so long is that it engages so many women about science." And what these reefs demonstrate is something so many women already intuitively know: Knowledge is not just something abstract. It is a hands-on experience!
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Having a twin can be really frustrating, but at the same time, it is also nice. I mean, my twin brother and I used to play together all the time. While it is annoying that people think about us differently, it is also nice to know that you have someone who has your back at all times. I am sure that most people want to have a twin, and to be honest, I am lucky that I have one. I really love my twin brother.


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CBS' Les Moonves quits after new sex misconduct…
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CBS' Les Moonves quits after new sex misconduct allegations
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In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Les Moonves, chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation, poses at the premiere of the new television series "Star Trek: Discovery" in Los Angeles.
By David Bauder | The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Longtime CBS new chief Les Moonves resigned Sunday, just hours after six more women joined others who had previously accused the long-time television executive with sexual misconduct.
Moonves's resignation is effective immediately, CBS said in a statement posted on its website Sunday night.
The network didn't address the sexual harassment allegations directly, but said Moonves will donate $20 million to one or more organizations that support the #MeToo movement and equality for women in the workplace.
"The donation, which will be made immediately, has been deducted from any severance benefits that may be due Moonves," the statement added.
In the wake of the resignation, CBS Chief Operating Officer Joseph Ianniello will take over Moonves' duties as president and CEO until the network's board of directors finds a permanent replacement. CBS said Moonves' position as chairman will remain open for now.
Hours before Moonves' resignation, New Yorker magazine reported sexual misconduct from six additional women against Moonves, who was already under investigation for previous allegations.
The New Yorker magazine reported the women's new accusations included Moonves forcing them to perform oral sex and retaliating when advances were turned away. Moonves acknowledged relations with three of the women but said they were consensual, and that he had never used his position to hurt the careers of women.
Six other women accused Moonves of misconduct in another New Yorker article published last month. Even before the new allegations came to light on Sunday, CBS' board was reportedly discussing terms of Moonves' exit. A spokesman for the board did not immediately return requests for comment.
Moonves joined CBS as head of entertainment in 1995, and has been CEO of CBS Corp. since 2006, leading the CBS network, Showtime and other entities. CBS has spent much of his tenure as the nation's most popular broadcast network, with hits such as "The Big Bang Theory" and "NCIS," and its success has made Moonves one of the highest-paid and most powerful executives in the business.
He remained on the job despite the earlier allegations, and there were earlier reports that he was negotiating a buyout from his contract.
One of the women, Phyllis Golden-Gottlieb, reported her accusations to Los Angeles police last year, but they weren't pursued because of the statute of limitations. She said that Moonves, while an executive at the Lorimar production studio in the late 1980s, pushed her head into his lap and forced her to perform oral sex.
At another time, she said an angry Moonves pushed her hard against a wall. When she resisted later advances, she began to be frozen out at the company, she said.
"He absolutely ruined my career," she told the magazine.
Another woman, Jessica Pallingston, said Moonves had forced her to perform oral sex on her first day working as his assistant at Warner Bros. productions. Other women told the magazine of unwanted touching or advances by Moonves.
In a statement to the magazine, Moonves said the "appalling accusations" are untrue, but he acknowledged consensual relations with three of the women before he started working at CBS.
"I have never used my position to hinder the advancement or careers of women," he said. "In my 40 years of work, I have never before heard of such disturbing accusations. I can only surmise they are surfacing now for the first time, decades later, as part of a concerted effort by others to destroy my name, my reputation and my career. Anyone who knows me knows that the person described in this article is not me."
CBS, in a statement Sunday, said it takes the allegations "very seriously" and is conducting an investigation. The network is also investigating Jeff Fager, former CBS News chairman and executive producer of "60 Minutes," on charges that he condoned a hostile atmosphere to women.
The organization Time's Up, which fights accusations of sexual misconduct, said the women had made "bone-chilling" accusations against Moonves. "We believe them," Times' Up said in a statement on Sunday.
Time's Up said the CBS board has a responsibility to rid the company of a toxic culture toward women.
"Remember that the world is watching," the statement said. "We will accept nothing less than full transparency of the investigation's findings, a commitment to real change across all levels of CBS management and no reward for Les Moonves."
A likely successor to Moonves, at least on an interim basis, is Chief Operating Officer Joseph Ianniello, analysts said. Ianniello, who has held his current position since 2013, has steered top projects such as the CBS All Access and Showtime streaming services.
AP correspondent Lindsey Bahr in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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Алексей Александрович Шевченко (21 октября 1995, Омск) — российский биатлонист, чемпион и призёр чемпионата России. Мастер спорта России. Помощник тренера женской сборной России по биатлону.

Биография
Родился в Омске, где начал заниматься биатлоном у тренера Адеенко Дмитрия Викторовича. В юношеском возрасте был приглашён в Екатеринбург, занимается в УОР № 1 у Шашилова Михаила Викторовича. На внутренних соревнованиях представляет Свердловскую область.

Призёр первенства России среди юниоров 2016 года — бронзовый в спринте и серебряный — в гонке преследования.

Участник юниорского чемпионата мира 2016 года в Кейле-Грэдиштей, на котором занял шестое место в индивидуальной гонке, 31-е — в спринте и 19-е — в гонке преследования.

С сезона 2016/17 участвует в гонках Кубка России среди взрослых, в первых двух сезонах не попадал в призовую тройку.

В 2019 году стал чемпионом России в одиночной смешанной эстафете в команде Свердловской области вместе с Тамарой Ворониной. В 2020 году стал бронзовым призёром в одиночной смешанной эстафете и серебряным призёром в марафоне. В 2021 году Шевченко завершил карьеру профессионального спортсмена и стал сервисером в сборной команде России. На сборе женской команды в 2021 году был представлен как помощник старшего тренера сборной Михаила Шашилова, у которого сам Алексей начинал юниорскую карьеру.

Сестра — биатлонистка Анастасия Шевченко.

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Malcolm Myers of AMH Test System takes us on a learning journey of how applicable and scaleable LabVIEW software and testing equipment is for him and hundreds of other engineering and electrical business around the UK and World.
Recognised as a Chartered Engineer, Certified LabVIEW Architect and National Instruments Alliance Partner, he knows his craft. Working with audio, acoustics, power tools, telecommunications and renewable technologies around the UK since 1996.
We talk about what you need to get started and how an engagement works for him. Using this graphical programming software and wiring up the testing devices on site. So join us and see if we PASS/FAIL the test.
This episode of Cliff Notes Podcast: Lead manufacturing, host and founder of Holdingbay Tristan Bailey talks Malcolm Myers. He has enjoyed a varied career with a broad engineering background, particularly in the areas of audio, acoustics, power tools, telecommunications and renewable technologies. Having used LabVIEW since 1996 he has now branched out on his own to provide expert testing services to industry.
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Send me your suggestion, I record a few weeks in advance so can book guests in the diary.


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Global Journal of Surgery. Volume 2, Issue 3 (2011) pp. 133-139
Fournier's gangrene - A five years study of 48 patients
Madhumita Mukhopadhyay, Anil Kumar Saha
Department of General Surgery, Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India
Introduction: Fournier's gangrene is a polymicrobial necrotizing fascitis of the perineal, perianal or genital area. Experimental: A retrospective analysis of 48 patients of fournier's gangrene over a 5 year period. The patients were reviewed regarding age, sex, etiology, clinical presentation, laboratory tests, bacteriology, associated comorbid conditions, time from onset to admission, treatment done, secondary procedures, morbidity and mortality. Results and Discussion: Out of 48 patients there was only one female. The mean age was 46.96 ± 8.45 years. Diabetes was the most common co-morbid condition in 29.17% patients. Regarding etiology, majority of the cases were idiopathic. Etiology when present, included scrotal and perianal abscess, trauma, insect bite, thrombosed piles, hemoroidectomy, scald and UTI. Most of the patients were from the lower socio-economic status with unhygienic habits. Mean duration of symptoms was 6.02 ± 1.804 days. The culture was polymicrobial in all the cases. The commonest bacteria isolated were E.Coli (70.83%). Mean number of debridements were 3.38. Secondary surgical procedures included mobilization and suturing (77.08%), skin grafting (18.75%) or a combination of the two (4.17%). Mean duration of hospital stay was 33.58 ± 2.96 days. Mean FGSIS calculated in 35 patients was 2.09 ± 1.704. There was no mortality in our series. Conclusions: Fournier's gangrene is common in middle aged males. Diabetes is the most common co-morbid condition associated with fournier's gangrene. Early diagnosis and aggressive surgical debridement reduces morbidity.
Fournier's gangrene, Necrotizing fascitis, Diabetes Mellitus
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This is an important update of the myHack installer. It adds support for the OS X 10.6.3 Retail DVD & the OS X 10.6.4 Software Update.
– Refined install scripts and significantly reduced post-install script execution time.
– Reverted some of the changes to the v1.0.1 boot theme back to the v1.0 apperance.
* OSInstall MOD for both 10.6.0 and 10.6.3 Retail DVD's is now available within myHack installer, the version of your OS X Installation Medium will be determined automatically and the appropriate files moved into place accordingly.
** The SleepEnabler.kext from v1.0 RC5 – v1.0.1 will cause a kernel panic after an update to OS X 10.6.4. This new build of SleepEnabler.kext will function properly in OS X 10.6.0-10.6.4. (Thanks to nawcom for updating it).
*** LegacyAppleRTC.kext does not function under a 64bit kernel, the ElliottForceLegacyRTC.kext functions under both 32bit and 64bit kernels.
This release corrects a minor bug that was reported by several users when pfix was run under OS X 10.5.x "Leopard". I took the opportunity to clean up a few other things while I was at it.
-Improved syntax usage to adhere to expected syntax and ensure error free operation in the future.
-Corrected minor typo and altered some of the displayed information for clarity.
You may review the full v3.x release notes here.
* When pfix 3.0 was run under OS X 10.5 "Leopard" it was reported to display an "kextcache: illegal option — q" error. Apparently the -q "quiet" option either does not function correctly or is not available on the previous version of kextcache that is available under Leopard. As a result completely quiet operation has been disabled when pfix 3.1 is running under 10.5, it will simply use -v 0 (lowest verbose mode) instead. If you desire a different level of verbosity use the -v # flag as described in the pfix –help output. (# being any number between 0 and 6 as described in the man page for kextcache).


This morning I forget the bus doesn't stop in the harbour area of Tarbert, but in a car park a little further up the road. Realising my mistake, I'm jogging along the road when I see the bus coming up behind me. Luckily, the driver notices my frantic signals, and waits at the stop until I got there.
He seems unnecessarily impatient when I climb on board, but later apologises. He is worried because two young Chinese-looking tourists are hoping to make the ferry crossing to Islay.
During the journey, the driver phones the ferry terminal to tell them of the late arrivals, only to discover the ferry's departure time has been inexplicably brought forward by half an hour! Luckily, they seem happy to delay the sailing until the bus arrives.
After all this excitement, I'm feeling a little frazzled by the time I get off the bus at Clachan. To be honest, I 'm really not looking forward to today's walk, because it will be mainly along the road. And the BBC weather forecast says it is going to rain.
To start with, I'm avoiding the A83 for a mile or so, and following a minor road out of Clachan.
It loops up over the hill, promising to give me great views over the surrounding countryside. Well, it would give me great views… if only there wasn't all this mizzling cloud hanging low over the landscape.
I can just about see the water of West Loch. It's about a mile away over the fields.
Actually, my map shows a possible path that follows the shore more closely. But other walkers have reported obstructions and deep, cow-slurried mud. So, I've decided to stick to the road today.
Hello sheep. That's a couple of fine-looking lambs you've got there.
All too soon, my minor road drops down and joins the main road again.
Now I'm back on the A83, and it begins to rain. I stow my camera away, put my head down, and trudge along. Unfortunately the road is fairly busy, with very fast-moving traffic, so I have to keep my ears open and be prepared to leap onto the verge.
A car slows down beside me. I think they're going to offer me a lift (which I would refuse, of course, although they're going the wrong way anyway), but the two European gentlemen inside only want to know if there is a petrol station close by. I can't remember seeing one during my long walk up the A83, so I tell them the next one is in Campbeltown, many miles away. They seem unperturbed by the distance, and drive off.
The rain slows to a mere drizzle. I risk taking my camera out for a few photographs. Sadly, low clouds still obscure the views.
There are numerous "For Sale" signs along the road. Does this mean the area is ripe for development? Or going into decline? Otherwise, there isn't much to see. Only tarmac, and the occasional fast-moving car or lorry.
Ah, there's a big white house down there. That must mean I'm approaching a place called, rather unimaginatively, Whitehouse.
Onwards. Dodging traffic. Blind bends and steep hills make for a rollercoaster road full of dangerous corners.
To my right is a track leading up the hillside. Freasdail Wind Farm, according to the sign. The turbines are invisible from here, but I can remember them dominating the landscape when I started my walk down the east coast of Kintyre.
Ah, and here's the turn off to Skipness. I feel I'm bypassing an old friend. Despite the spray from passing cars, I stop to pull my camera out. Want to document this junction.
Soon I'm back at the ferry terminal for Islay. I don't go down to the quay, but keep walking along the A83.
The traffic is really getting on my nerves. Although there's plenty of room for a single car to pass me, there isn't enough room for two cars plus me. So, I must keep looking and listening out for a second car approaching at the same time, and be prepared to jump up onto the verge if I need to. This means my attention has to be focused on the road, and I can't relax and get into the swing of the walk.
I'm walking fairly close to West Loch now. Such a shame the views are dismal.
… because it's not just me that is at risk from the traffic. A couple of cyclists pull up in a layby to let an impatient tanker go past.
I can see the shore on the other side of the loch. It's still very misty over there.
More cyclists whizz past me.
And here's a sign about a "cycle event". What event?
On a bend in the road, I see a moored ship. Moored? On dry grass?
I stop to admire the view down West Loch. It's a long expanse of light and water, and I do believe the mist is beginning to clear.
To my right is a holiday park. The wooden chalets look cosy. There is a children's play area and a bench – so I sneak inside, sit on the bench, have something to drink, and eat my snacks.
Sitting on the bench makes my bum wet, but I feel wonderfully refreshed from my short break.
Onwards. Past that old moored ship. It really does look dilapidated when I get close up.
And a few yards further, lurking in the trees, is an even more dilapidated caravan.
There's a green lane running down beside the caravan. I check my map. Oh, excellent. It looks as if I can leave the A83 and follow a path around the shore to West Tarbert.
Shame the edges of the lane are covered in rubbish. Yuck.
Farther along, past the rubbish, and the lane becomes overhung with trees and really very pretty. I can see tarmac underneath the grass, so suspect this was once the route of the original coast road.
Unfortunately, after a while the lane becomes more and more overgrown, until it disappears under a thicket of bushes. I could force my way through… but I don't want to fight my way through the dripping jungle for another 1/2 mile or so. Reluctantly, I turn back.
Back on the old A83 again, I dodge traffic, and walk past the turn off for the cemetery.
By now the sky is clearing and the sun might just possibly make an appearance. My mood lifts. Not far to go.
The road runs along the shore of the loch again, and I look over at the far bank. I'm going home tomorrow but, on my next visit to Scotland, I'll be walking along a quiet road down that other bank.
Here's the turning at the top of the loch. This is where I'll start my next walk.
But, today, I must continue along the A83, and into Tarbert to find my car.
Tarbert is very pretty. The prettiest place in Kintyre, in my opinion, and bustling with cafes, pubs and shops. It has an impressive church, a lovely harbour, and even a castle on the hill. What more could you want?
… if only I'd got the focus right!
Looks like you got a typically Scottish summer day there! Tarbert is lovely, I agree.
It's certainly worth clicking on the photo, to see the whole thing. Beautiful toilets. How did I miss them?
It seems the photo has arrived over enlarged without having to go to Dropbox. If you scroll a bit with the mouse I think it will come back to normal size.
When we walked round Scotland, in the opposite direction to you (see my blog — "Turn Left at Bognor Pier") we made a rule that if there had once been a ferry across an estuary we could count it as if we had used it! Otherwise we would have spent days, if not weeks, walking round inland lochs instead of along the coast. So, after we had walked from Kilberry to Ardpatrick, the next Walk started in Clachan because there was once a ferry between Clachan and Ardpatrick!
We have walked 3931 miles so far, from Bognor Regis to Milford Haven, over 385 days, but it has taken us 20 years! We are determined to finish despite increasing age (we are both now in our mid-70s) and ill health (we have had eight operations between us, most of them major, since we started.) But we shall never give up! At the moment we are both in the peak of health, and it is regular walking that keeps us so.
Good luck with your continuing trek around Scotland — it is a fascinating country! And very friendly.
Hi Rosemary. Wish I'd thought of including your rule among mine 😄 You've made excellent progress and I'm sure you'll finish – not far to go now!


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The Hampton University Museum and its publications unit would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for your interest and steadfastness as readers of our online zine in recent years. The vision for the zine has always been to act as a complement to our primary print publication, The International Review of African American Art (IRAAA). In this regard, the zine has met its original intent artfully with many exhibition notices, reviews, articles and other materials to enlighten readers about visual culture and to serve as an adjunct to the scholarly or critical offerings regularly published by Hampton University Museum with IRAAA.
We would like to offer special thanks to former (now retired) IRAAA editor, Juliette Harris, who took the founding and ongoing publication of our online IRAAA+ web zine on as a consultant in 2013.
We began phasing out regular postings to the online zine during the last quarter of 2016. With the start of 2017, we will no longer continue with online publication of the zine. After a thorough assessment of existing operations and analytics for the online publication, and in consideration of the future vision and goals for Hampton University Museum operations and publications, our new museum director, Vanessa Thaxton-Ward, has determined that maximizing staff focus and resources on the HU flagship print publication, IRAAA, is our most efficient and effective course ahead.
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How did you become involved in the project? Can you talk about the initial concept?
10 Sorrel Street is our home. We knew we wanted to use Shaun Lockyer Architects, so we commissioned him as soon as we purchased the property to design a home that would accommodate an active young family with children approaching their teenage years and which would also meet the needs of our son with special needs. The home also had to present as a modernist piece that had both open and intimate retreat spaces. Shaun expertly fused the existing 1900s Queensland workers' cottage sitting on the property with the new extension.
The majority of the living, sleeping and bathing zones had to be on one level to accommodate our special needs son and Shaun did this by levelling out the backyard and creating a beautiful 'L' shaped home, which gave us plenty of green space and room for everything essential on one level.
We worked with an iron craftsman to produce the balustrading and front entry door. The air-conditioning grilles are all custom made. We had a large four-metre by one-metre roof window custom made by a window/skylight manufacturer, which had to be craned over the house to be fitted and installed.
What was the relationship like on the build with the other stakeholders; i.e. what's it like when you're your own client?
Building this home was relatively stress free. Carmel is an interior designer, so she knew exactly what had to be done in terms of getting the look she wanted. She curated the furniture and the art specially for the house. And the architectural drawings were so well-drawn and detailed that execution was made simpler. We also had an extremely knowledgeable and technically-driven site supervisor for the whole build, who was always one step ahead of everyone on-site in terms of progress and execution.
The major challenge was joining the cottage to the new concrete extension and making sure the two were aligned exactly. Once the old layers of the cottage were peeled back and the structure exposed, it became obvious the building was in need of restoration, so we had to tackle that first before we made the connection between old and new. This involved straightening existing walls, installing new trusses, adding additional support beams and correcting floor levels.
We love the huge open plan kitchen and outdoor entertaining areas. When you enter the front door, the large foyer is an introduction to the spaciousness of the house, especially as you climb the stairs and enter the open plan dining, lounge and kitchen area.
The first priority is your work – to turn up and perform well. This is your living!
Depends on the trade. There are some people who are a dream to work with in any trade and some that are a nightmare.
Knowledge is everything. Knowledge about product, about technique, about the building industry in general all helps.
Between eight and 10 percent.
Levels of expectations. Sometimes what the architect draws is not possible when building, so convincing the client that a detail needs to be reworked is hard. The more detailed the plans, the easier it is to build.
Open and consistent flow of communication. A builder is only as good as their subcontractors. And architectural plans are only as good as the level of detail provided.
I was a painter before I became a builder, and I probably would still be a painter.
Depends on their personality type. Building is not for everyone, as not all personality types can handle the pressure and stress of time limitations, budgets and different clients.


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This Ain't No Party…
These days a petting party can be dangerous in more ways than one…just ask Dagmar Carlson.
Dagmar Carlson, 324 South Rimpau Street, and her escort, William Wade were necking in his car when a trio of bandits appeared and held them at gun point, relieving William of his wrist watch, billfold and a notebook.
As a witness for the prosecution Dagmar told Judge Baird, "When they stuck that gun in my face and told me to stick up my hands, that's just what I did."
Five men have been implicated in a series of petting party hold-ups, but only three have been charged with robbing Dagmar and William. The three men are: Jack Olympus, Clyde Thomas and Elmer Smith. The remaining members of the gang, Orville Kindig and Maurice Schott, were ordered to be held on two other counts of robbery. Deputy DA Crail said that seventeen more counts of robbery will be filed against the men within the next few days. Each of the crooks is being held on $10,000 bail ($119,742.53 USD 2007).
Petting party bandits continued to be the scourge of dark side streets and remote lover's lanes all over the country. One of the most famous criminal cases in the history of Los Angeles would be that of notorious "Red Light Bandit", Caryl Chessman. Chessman, reform school alum and former prison escapee, would be paroled in December 1947. On January 23, 1948 he would be arrested on seventeen counts of robbery, kidnapping and rape.
Legal maneuvering and numerous appeals, particularly regarding the application of California's "Little Lindbergh" law, would keep his case in the courts for twelve years. He wrote four books while on death row, all became bestsellers. His case achieved so much notoriety that many famous people including Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, Eleanor Roosevelt and Billy Graham, petitioned Governor Edmund G. Brown (an opponent of the death penalty) for clemency on the death row inmate's behalf.
Over the years he was granted eight reprieves – but Chessman was finally strapped into the chair in San Quentin's lethal gas chamber on May 2, 1960. As the chamber filled with cyanide the emergency telephone rang, but the call came seconds too late to stop the execution.


Wine importer Jacques Alexandre Azoulay, beau of Bridgehampton's Countess Luann de Lesseps, will be hosting 35 prestigious wineries from the Right Bank of Bordeaux for a tasting of recent vintages including the stellar 2009 vintage, "possibly the finest vintage I have tasted in 32 years of covering Bordeaux," according to Robert Parker.
The event, which is open to the public, will be held at the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue between 74th and 75th Streets on March 8.
During the tasting, Master of Wine Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan will challenge guests with a series of "wine games" including blind tastings, aroma quizzes, and vintage comparisons. Wines will be paired with a selection of wine-friendly hors d'oeuvres and French pastries, including authentic Bordeaux canelés by Patissiere Céline Legros, recently described as the "new sweet addiction" by Bon Appetit.
The tasting is on behalf of Cercle Rive Droite de Grands Vins de Bordeaux, a client of AbleSocial, Azoulay's new social media agency geared to wine and food businesses. Ticket sales benefit God's Love We Deliver.


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