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Time Out For Wheelie Bug!
Rachel loves her little Wheelie Bug ride on toy. She sometimes rides on him and sometimes she just pushes him around.
Apparently, today Wheelie Bug must have done something bad because Rachel pushed him into the Time Out corner, informed him that he was in Time Out, and then walked away.
My Little Pumpkins
We love Fall and all the fun we can have at our multiple local pumpkin patches.
There are always fun playhouses to play in.
Rachel had never been through a hay maze so Big Brother showed her the way.
Wee! Rachel loved finding the slide at the end of the hay maze!
She had to do that again so she ran back to the beginning and went right in. Nicholas was great and let Rachel lead the way this time through but he stayed close by just to keep her safe.
There are tons of fun wooden cut-outs in all the familiar characters that kids just love.
There are fun things to climb on and play in. There are really some great photo opportunities if you have someone to help wrangle the kids for you. I was just trying to get them both in the same spot. If that was accomplished then a smile on their faces was just lagniappe.
Playing with the giant pumpkins...
Rachel enjoyed rearranging the pumpkins in the Pumpkin House. Pick up a pumpkin, move it to an empty spot. Pick up another pumpkin, move it to an empty spot. Pick up a pumpkin and move it back into the spot that the first pumpkin was in. Repeat and repeat.
They then discovered the "big kid" hay maze. I didn't realize until they were both in it that it was only for ages 3 and up. This wouldn't have been such a big deal except that the hay bales were stacked so high that I couldn't see over them to keep an eye on my little pumpkins meandering around in there. But Nicholas is a veteran at hay mazes and they quickly appeared at the big playhouse slide at the end.
Rachel had fun giving the pumpkins a ride in the wagon...
...and waving at the hay ride wagon as it passed us.
Both of my children loved this simple pumpkin. It was just a pumpkin wall with some windows that opened and closed. They spent more time here than with anything else at the pumpkin patch. They had fun closing up all the windows then opening them all at once. Or surprising each other by going on the other side to open up a window that the other one had just closed. Such simple fun. I love it.
A little fun on the playground before we go...
Then we headed off to the next pumpkin patch...right next door...
Pony rides!!! Nicholas hopped right on and rode it around like a pro (although there really wasn't much skill to it since the pony was tied to a post that only let it go in a small little circle).
Rachel, on the other hand, was not a pro. She was excited to look at the ponies but squealed in terror once she was actually sitting on the pony. How did she get to be such a scaredy cat?
There were more pumpkins, more bounce houses, and more rides...
...and one tired Mommy by the end of it all.
Spooky Jigglers
I love Halloween but not as much as Nicholas. He loves all things spooky, weird, and creepy. We found some cool Halloween ice cube trays and he actually asked me to get them so we could do some kind of cool Halloween project with them. We decided to make some Spooky Jello Jigglers with just the basic recipe from the box.
1 cup boiling water (Do not add cold water.)
1 pkg. (4-serving size each) JELL-O Gelatin, any flavor
STIR boiling water into dry gelatin mix in large bowl at least 3 min. until completely dissolved. Pour into molds sprayed lightly with cooking spray.
REFRIGERATE 3 hours or until firm.
REMOVE JIGGLERS by inverting molds. Store in tightly covered container in refrigerator....or just eat them all in one sitting like our family did!
Our Jigglers came out really cool and the whole family enjoyed chowing down on them. I only regret that I didn't think to put some gummy worms in the molds before the Jello firmed up. Skulls with worms inside. Ewww! I love it :)
Cub Scouts Go Camping!
Last weekend we got out our camping gear to check it all out and make sure we were ready for the Fall Cub Scout camping trip. Stuart showed Nicholas our mess kit. Nicholas thought is was cool how all the cooking gear stacked so neatly inside itself.
Nicholas was a great helper with putting up the tent. He jumped right in and did his best.
Once the tent was up, Nicholas, Daddy, and Rachel climbed inside and zipped it up. Almost immediately, Rachel was whining to get out.
We talked about it some and decided that maybe Rachel wasn't up for sleeping in a tent this year. So Mommy and Rachel would spend the day at the campsite but go home for Rachel's nap and bedtime.
Nicholas and Stuart were content to keep playing in the tent in the backyard for quite a while.
The Cub Scout campout started Friday night. We couldn't get out to the site until Stuart got home from work plus we had to pick up a few last minute items. We had hoped to cook dinner at the campsite but the first priority was getting the tent up and by the time that was done the sun was down. We were glad we had grabbed some Wendy's for dinner!
Rachel and I stayed at the campsite until the boys were about to get ready for bed. We headed home and went to bed ourselves.
The next morning, Stuart called me to let me know that all went well in the tent that night. They were up and about to have breakfast with the Scouts but he wanted to let me know that Nicholas had been playing at an empty campsite nearby and had picked up a hypodermic needle that he found in some leaves. Nicholas showed it to Stuart who promptly explained the danger of needles (who knew we should have explained this to our 6 year old before going camping?). He told Nicholas that he could accidentally poke himself with the needle and that would be really bad. Nicholas then showed Stuart his finger which appeared to have a tiny dark spot on the tip of it.
Stuart didn't freak out because Nicholas said that he never felt the needle poke him. However, he did struggle as he took the cap off of the needle (again, who knew we had to explain the danger of taking the safety cap off a needle before going camping?) so a puncture was possible. Perhaps it was a light poke and he didn't discriminate that poke from the struggle with the cap. Nicholas couldn't recall how he got the dark spot on his finger. Stuart said that when he wiped the dark spot, it wasn't bleeding and it may have been dried blood but it seemed to be more of a blood blister under the skin. But being The Mom, it was my job to worry. If there was even a chance that he could have gotten poked with a contaminated needle, shouldn't we do something???
I spent many of my pre-motherhood years as a social worker in various dialysis clinics and I'm rather familiar with hearing about nurses accidentally getting punctured by needles. Although I never paid attention to the specifics, I knew that there was some kind of treatment that a nurse got one time in order to keep her from getting AIDS from a needle. I immediately called our pediatrician. He explained that we mostly should be concerned about Nicholas contracting HIV or Hepatitis C from the needle. He said that the risks of him actually contracting one of these from a needle that has been left outside in the elements for who knows how long is very, very slim.
Doc said that Nicholas can not be tested for HIV or Hep C for about 3-6 months because that's how long it will take for it to show up in his system so we won't really know for sure for a while. He said that in a clinic or facility setting, if a nurse was stuck with a needle, then they would do blood work on the patient to see if they showed positive for either of these diseases. If they had HIV, or were at high risk, then the nurse could start a round of treatment that prevents HIV from developing into AIDS. It's a toxic treatment and lasts about a month. Doc said that if we were really concerned about this then we could take Nicholas to the ER where they will start him on this preventative treatment. My gut said that I needed to do whatever I had to do to protect my little guy from a potentially life-threatening disease. But Doc reminded me that his risks is very low and the treatment is extremely toxic, especially in little people. The needle could be a harmless insulin needle. It could be old and exposure to the elements would have likely killed any disease on it. But again, if we were concerned then we could take him to the ER. I couldn't think straight so I simply asked him what he would do if this happened to one of his children. He said that he would NOT start them on the treatment.
I tried to breathe a sigh of relief from his quick and confident answer. But again, being The Mom, I stayed in a low-level anxiety mode for quite a while longer.
Rachel and I got to hang out with the Scouts and had a good time. Rachel loved
picking up rocks, often more than she could hold in her little hands.
That's when she would walk over to me and dump the handful of rocks into my hand to hold for her while she went back to collect more....and then I promptly dumped my handful of rocks, hoping that she'd just forget about them. And she usually did.
We enjoyed a delicious campground breakfast with pigs in a blanket, hash brown casserole, cereal, and fruit. Those Scouts know how to do campground breakfast right. If I had to plan a campground breakfast, I probably would have brought along a box of Poptarts (chocolate, of course) and said, "Breakfast is ready!"
Rachel was obsessed with the screened bathroom door. Fortunately, it was the women's bathroom door. She opened it and closed it, opened it and closed it, etc, etc. She went in the door, looked around the bathroom and shower stall, danced in the bathroom, went back out the door. Then repeated the whole thing all over again. I'm not sure what the fascination with it was but it could have provided hours of entertainment for her. Maybe I need a screen door for the house instead of the pile of toys that she has to play with.
The campsite was really pretty. We were on a penisula with many of the campsites right on the water. The weather was cloudy with the chance of heavy rains to come but the temperature was perfect and we were dry for the moment.
Time for games! The Scouts had a competition where they had to get into teams of two and work together as they walked with these boards on their feet. It was funny just watching them try to practice on their own. It was even funnier when two of them were on a set of boards together!
There was also an egg toss competition as well as lots and lots of running around and being silly.
The Scouts did a craft activity where they made hovercrafts out of old CDs and balloons. It was really quite a neat project.
There was lots of time spent playing on the camp playground.
Many of the Scouts know Rachel from when she was a baby and they like to talk to her and help "take care" of her. It's sweet and she loves the attention.
Next thing we knew it was time for lunch! Frito Chili Pie! You can't go wrong with that :)
Of course, the boys can't just smile nicely for a picture. Pull out a camera and they can't help but make silly faces.
We knew that bad weather was on the way so we weren't surprised to feel some drops of rain starting to come down. Then we heard that it was about 30-40 minutes away and the winds were pretty strong. Time to suit up!
Unfortunately, not too much later, a police officer stopped by to inform all the campers that the weather was going to get really bad with potential for hail and possibly tornados. The Scout leaders pulled everyone together to inform us that we were all welcome to stay because the site was paid for through Saturday night but that the Scouts were officially calling off the event due to safety reasons.
We packed up our tent and gear then pitched in to help to Pack gather up their tents, tables, and all the gear they had for the whole event. We had only a short drive to get home but about half way there we were hit with terribly strong winds, hail, and very heavy rains. I almost pulled over to the side of the road because the weather was so bad and the rain was so hard that I couldn't see the road very well. But I was also afraid of a tornado so I wanted to just get home and out of the vehicle.
We all made it home safely and eventually got all of our gear back into the house. We rested and relaxed but I was still having a hard time shaking the feeling that we should do something more for Nicholas. Stuart and I prayed for Nicholas' health and for guidance for us. We prayed a lot.
That was Saturday evening. By Sunday, I was starting to go into Freak Out mode with worry over Nicholas. What if he was really stuck by the needle? What if that was a "dirty" needle and his life will forever be changed by this? How can we not do something? By Monday, Stuart and I both were in a flurry of activity and phone calls. We had learned about the treatment protocol, how hard it can be on the body and especially detrimental for a young growing body, but we also learned that there was only a 72 hour window from the time of the needle stick for the treatment to do any good. Now we were under a time crunch. It was Monday and that window would close the next morning.
We got on the phone with the campground, the city's Park Department director, the police department, the emergency room, the Texas Department of Health, multiple nurses and doctors, a pharmacist, and we prayed some more. There were issues about how devasting the medication would be for Nicholas if we decided to go forward with it, just in case. But we were also working to try to find out who had stayed at the campsite where the needle had been found. We hoped that they would be informed of what had happened to our little 6 year old son and they would easily offer up the information that someone in the family had diabetes and that it was just an insulin needle and not a sickly drug user carrying who knows what kind of disease and that we didn't need to go forward with the toxic treatment.
There was lots of drama, more discoveries made, and lots of anxiety during this time but I'll spare you all of those details.
Although the old couple that stayed there previously was located and questioned and they freely disclosed their full list of medical problems, they said that they did not use needles for any of their medication and denied that the needles were theirs. So we were back to square one with no idea of who that needle had belonged to or how long it had been out there. We had to give that up and went back to the original facts that Nicholas doesn't know for sure how that spot got on his finger. Was it puncture wound with dried blood or was it just a blood blister under the skin from his struggle to take the cap off the needle? We have a dear friend who is a pharmacist and he came over to look at the wound. Since he has prepared many needles in his work as a hospital pharmacist, he has accidentally stuck himself with clean unused needles many times so he is very familiar with what a puncture wound from that kind of needle would actually look like. He examined the skin and although it was two days later, he didn't see anything to make him think that the skin had been punctured. This together with the uncertain origin of the injury and Nicholas not having felt a puncture and our pediatrician's recommendation, we decided to just keep praying about it and not seek the AZT treatment. We feel that we made the right decision but he will get blood work done at his next well exam, just for my peace of mind.
All of the drama aside, it was a fun campout and we are all sad that it had to end so soon due to bad weather. But we are looking forward to the Spring campout. We hope to get a bigger tent by then. Maybe Rachel won't feel so scared in a bigger tent and we'll actually get to camp out overnight with the boys.
Another Unusual Sandwich...
Happy 2nd Birthday, Rachel!
Wendy's Pick 2 Giveaway
Nothing Says Autumn Like Caramel Apples
In-Flight Entertainment, Toddler Style
Squeaky Clean And Oh So Cute
More Milk!
Waterproof Mascara
A Sandwich From Out Of This World
Chasing Ducks
Having a Wild Time at the Dallas Zoo


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In recent years there has been a resurgence of the Integrated Project Delivery model in the North American construction marketplace.
This method traces its origins to the heyday of North Sea oil exploration, when owners, design firms and contractors created a delivery model known as Project Alliancing as a way to improve outcomes. In this model, the owner guarantees the direct costs of design firms and contractors, but their profits, overheads and bonuses depend on the project's outcome. By forcing all parties to operate collaboratively, the model steers projects toward a shared result.
Creating such a collaborative alignment is very difficult under the traditional Design-Bid-Build model used by the construction industry for decades.
The Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) method eventually evolved out of the Project Alliancing model. Keeping the core aspects of its predecessor in place, IPD adopted solutions from other collaborative models like the Special Purpose Entity model and Relational Contracting model.
At their heart, all of these models attempt to align key project stakeholders around project outcomes, and thus, encourage improved collaboration.
As the construction and asset management sector of the economy gets its act together around data collection and collaboration, we may soon be able to start comparing all delivery models and one day determine which model delivers the best results. We may very well find that the ideal model depends on the nature and attributes of the project it's being applied to.
For now, we're forced to use anecdotal experience and hypothesize what makes certain delivery models more effective than others. To that end, when looking at the IPD model, it clearly creates an environment for collaboration.
Many of the risks that inevitably manifest on a construction project – both during construction and into the operation of the asset – are the result of misaligned interests and poor communication. When profit, overhead and incentive compensation are combined and shared by all parties and delivered to each collaborator only if desired project outcomes are achieved, you can understand why this model creates a team environment and highly incentivizes all-party communication.
At this point, it makes sense to look at this delivery model from the perspective of the insurance industry, which can be a great source of feedback to all industries experimenting with new solutions.
In the case of IPD, the model contains what is probably one of golden rules of risk management: alignment of interests via skin in the game.
Several of the insurance industry's greatest risk finance solutions are founded on this principal. The insured is incentivized to manage risk due to the exposure they face if risk isn't properly managed. The insurance sector has long integrated this principal through simple solutions like a deductible on insurance policies. In this case, there is some pain if you suffer a loss, but the benefit of insurance is that that pain is not catastrophic for the insured. It is, however, aligning.
Some insurance solutions are starting to use funded deductibles, also known as retentions, which create a "carrot" rather than the "stick" of an unfunded deductible. When you look at the structure of the IPD model, the parties are aligned through the owner's exposure to the project costs and the non-owner's exposure to non-payment of overhead, profit and bonus. Models or policies that align the interests of all involved parties and encourage collaboration and communication have always been profitable for the insurance sector. Thus, the insurance sector should encourage this model to grow.
Perhaps the sector should incent such growth by creating a platinum risk management solution for such models? Given the aligning power of IPD and its potential to create more certainty around construction phase outcomes, such a model could improve certainty around the entire life of an asset.
Design firms, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers are invaluable partners in an asset's lifecycle, and it's reasonable to assume their involvement at all stages could significantly improve the total cost of ownership. When considering that roughly 10 to 15 per cent of an asset's present value cost is made up of construction costs, with operating costs accounting for the remaining 85 to 90 per cent, a model that combines IPD alignment and whole-life asset planning might just be the answer all asset owners have been looking for.
Given the growing interest in collaborative models and the increasing integration of technology, the birth of an Integrated Asset Delivery model in the coming years is certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
David Bowcott is Global Director – Growth, Innovation & Insight, Global Construction and Infrastructure Group at Aon Risk Solutions. Please send comments to editor@on-sitemag.com.


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Tone Tips: The Power of Plug-Ins
With the Console app in the background, a Raw Distortion pedal plug-in, and the Friedman/Brainworx DS40 amp sim, this screenshot shows a typical UAD plug-in setup I might use when tracking direct into my Apollo interface.
Greetings, fellow tone hounds! When I relocated my home and studio about a year ago, I decided to set up a small, simple home studio space to use in addition to my main studio. I'll always enjoy tracking and mixing at my main space, but it's great having a zone at home where I can practice and record music. Tracking and playing through loud guitar amps at home is not an option, however, so on top of using stand-alone modeling units and amps with load boxes for recording direct, I've been experimenting with amp-modeling plug-ins. As the quality of plug-ins has steadily improved, they have become more than just a quick and easy way to track guitar. Indeed, amp-modeling plug-ins can provide creative tonal options that are difficult or even impossible to achieve using traditional-amp setups.
In my studio. I've been using Universal Audio Apollo recording interfaces for a few years now. They are well made, have a host of great features, and are reliable and easy to use. But one of the best things about UA's interfaces is the library of available plug-ins. These plug-in effects run on the Apollo's internal DSP, so there's no hit on your computer's DSP. And you can use them within your DAW or in UA's Console software.
Using a plug-in with Console allows for very low-latency monitoring, and you can commit to a tone and record the plug-in-effected sound to a track in your DAW (just like recording a real amp). You can also choose to send a clean DI track to your DAW, but monitor through an amp plug-in for the vibe and tone of playing through a real amp—without having to commit to a specific tone while tracking. The obvious advantage to this is that you'll have options to audition different amp tones and effects after you've tracked a part. It's the equivalent of reamping, but digital style, and this type of flexibility is difficult to get out of traditional setups.
Input gain. I've found that most amp-modeling plug-ins respond best when the input gain for the recording interface channel you have your guitar plugged into is turned down to its lowest level. When you boost the input-gain control for your guitar channel, it's like using a clean boost in front of a guitar amp. It can sound cool—especially when you want to overdrive the input of the amp with a hot signal—but it can also result in unwanted clipping, a loss of definition, and the inability to get a clean tone.
It's the equivalent of reamping, but digital style, and this type of flexibility is difficult to get out of traditional setups.
Speaking of overdrive, UA also makes some cool, stompbox-style plug-in effects. In fact, I used their Pro Co RAT-inspired Raw Distortion plug-in on a DI-recorded bass track just the other day. For the project, I first copied the DI track to another track in Logic so I'd have two tracks with identical audio files. On the second track, I loaded up the Raw Distortion plug-in along with UA's SVT-VR bass amp plug-in and dialed in a grindy, raunchy rock bass tone. When I blended in the clean DI track, the bass tone was massive, rocking, and also perfectly in phase, which is difficult to achieve when tracking DI bass with a traditional mic'd amp.
Keep your pedals. I'm often asked if it's okay to plug standard stompboxes into the 1/4" input on a recording interface. The answer is yes! Stompboxes can help add realism to modeled tones and you can use your effects pedals with plug-in amp models just like you would with a real amp. Tip: For a great, larger-than life tone, I sometimes patch a stereo pedal—like a stereo delay with some modulation—into the two 1/4" line inputs on the back of my UA Apollo Twin. (Make sure to use a buffered pedal or an external buffer as these are low-impedance inputs.) In channel 1 and 2 of UA Console, I'll load two identically set instances of an amp plug-in such as the Friedman DS40 with the master set high and the gain low. Pan the channels hard-right and hard-left in the DAW, turn on the effect, and voilà, you'll experience a perfect, stereo-guitar signal.
Speaker sound options. Speaker sound is a huge component of the overall tone and experimenting with some of the great impulse-response libraries out there can be really rewarding. You can defeat the internal speaker-cabinet modeling in most plug-ins and use a free IR-loader plug-in in your DAW such as Rosen Digital's Pulse. Simply place the IR loader after your amp modeling plug-in and start experimenting with different cabinet and microphone choices. For example: Run a 100-watt Marshall plexi plug-in into an AC30-style 2x12 with 15W Celestion Blues (impossible with traditional gear, since you'd most certainly blow the speakers), and then mic it with ribbons, dynamics, room mics, rear mics—all in-phase and blendable in the mix. The sky's the limit!
I'm an advocate for using all the tools available to make the best music possible. So until next month, I hope you'll experiment, innovate, and go for the tone!
Pete Thorn is a Los Angeles-based guitarist who has toured with Chris Cornell, Melissa Etheridge, Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, and many others. He has released two solo albums: Guitar Nerd in 2011, and 2018's Pete Thorn II.
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Q: Does Spring make sure Closeable beans are closed in the correct order? Let's pretend that we have two Closeable beans:
@Component
public class CloseableBean1 implements Closeable {

    private BufferedOutputStream outputStream;

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        try {
            outputStream.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // ignore e
        }
    }
}

@Component
public class CloseableBean2 implements Closeable {

    @Autowired
    private CloseableBean1 bean1;

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        try {
            bean1.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // ignore e
        }
    }
}

Does Spring make sure that CloseableBean2 is closed first and then CloseableBean1 is closed?

A: There is nothing specific in documentation about order of disposing, but...
the description of depends-on we can see, that depends-on should be used only if bean does not explicitly depend on another. And there is noted, that dependent bean will always be destroyed first.
In your case bean CloseableBean2 always will be destroyed first, because it contains explicitly dependency of CloseableBean.

I would prefer to make additional protection. Something like:
@Component
public class CloseableBean1 implements Closeable {

    private boolean closed = false;

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        if(closed) return;
        outputStream.close();
        closed=true;
    }
}

Official documentation recommend us:

...and to internally mark the Closeable as closed, prior to throwing the IOException.

This approach helps to avoid accidental repeated call of close() on already closed stream. But if exception will occurred during first invocation of close(), we will able to handle it.

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The Superstitious Route
Julie Traub
There's a group of shops in the city, huddled along a few quaint city blocks, very different from the Starbucks, Gap and McDonald's a half-mile up the street. Hebrew signs hang in the windows, printed in big block letters. There are no vowels underneath the letters to help American readers. These signs are for the fluent. Inside the shops, whether it's bagels or books for sale, the goods display an aura of separateness, a silent acknowledgement that something out of the ordinary occurred to make them kosher or holy. Shoppers walk the aisles, rambunctious or meek, but everyone behaves as if they live in a small village isolated from the rest of the world, when in fact it's a crowded suburb ten minutes outside Boston, Massachusetts.
So here I stand in line at the kosher supermarket with the loudest of the villagers. A solidly built woman in front of me adjusts a blue and red printed scarf over her stiff dome of hair and exclaims to her friend, "You know my granddaughter was accepted to Harvard Medical School? Praise God!"
The woman's friend squints with an interested eye. "Maybe your granddaughter would like to meet my niece's son, the rabbi? He was just appointed to a congregation of 300 families," she says. "He's ready to settle down and start a family, already."
A gentle elbow in my ribs jolts me out of my eavesdropping. "Move up, Alyssa," urges my mother-in-law, Sabra. "You don't want to lose your place in line."
I fear there's little chance of that happening with this battleaxe of a woman guarding the way. Sabra is the Israeli version of Superwoman -- tall, busty, big-hearted, and unstoppable.
Over the past few months, Sabra has conducted a relentless campaign to get me into this supermarket line, the only one where people are not checking out groceries. We're waiting to meet Rabbi Minsky, a man dedicated to biblical study and an unusual brand of good deeds: it's rumored that simply his blessing brings instant fertility. In a quest to increase the Jewish population, he travels to Orthodox communities all over the world. At the front of the line, the rabbi motions to the next woman to sit in the worn wooden chair on the makeshift stage. She takes her place, crossing her ankles and clasping both hands in her lap. Rabbi Minsky's long, graying curls fall to each side of his face. They bob up and down gently as he speaks. I try very hard to avoid mental comparisons to a shopping mall Santa Claus.
"My daughter-in-law is trying to start a family, too." Sabra says, barging easily into the conversation of the Jewish ladies in front of us. "That's why she's come to sit in Rabbi Minsky's chair."
The women look me over, like experienced horse traders eyeing a one-year-old filly. I feel myself blush all the way up to my eyebrows.
"Do you know them?" I whisper to Sabra.
"No, but look. Everyone is happy for another Jewish generation." Sabra pronounces her o's like u's, and rolls her r's extravagantly, sounding very foreign and old-world. If only she knew how close I came to marrying my college boyfriend, who was British and uncircumcised.
Both ladies nod in agreement with Sabra. "Mazel tov. Good luck." They smile.
"Thank you," I murmur, and look at the floor. The green-and-white checked linoleum seems like a safe place to concentrate. The line moves forward.
"This Rabbi Minsky is such a scholar," Sabra continues. "We're so lucky to have the chance to meet him."
"You can see it goes very quickly, nothing to be embarrassed about, dear." The red-and-blue scarf woman is talking to me.
I look up to meet her eyes, and calculate she's way beyond childbearing years. "Why are you here?" I ask. Sabra snorts and glares at me as if I'm being impossibly impolite.
The older woman shrugs, "I hear he's good with menopause, too."
Three months later, a single cruel blue line still haunts the result window of my pregnancy test. Negative. No sign that Rabbi Minsky's blessing had any effect. Sabra calls me. I avoid her by scanning the caller ID, but I can only do this so many times before she gets suspicious.
"Alyssa, pick up. I have an idea for you." Sabra's voice echoes on speakerphone. I wonder if her phone got stuck in that mode, or if she reserves it for discussing private matters.
I dutifully pick up the receiver. "Hello, Sabra."
"The problem might be in your ketubah." She means the marriage contract that Josh and I signed on our wedding day. A local artist painted the colorful border and carefully lettered the Hebrew and English text celebrating our commitment to "support each other as we meet the joys and challenges of life." The framed ketubah hangs over our bed.
"Remember how we objected to the blind man as your witness?"
I remember. Josh had chosen his friend, Mitch, as the best man. Before the wedding, a loud and protracted debate had erupted in Josh's family about whether a man who couldn't see was a valid witness. Thankfully, Mitch didn't have to hear it because Josh and I thought the ketubah was a quaint custom, not a binding legal document.
The Old World and the New crashed against each other in my ears, like surf on the Maine coastline, giving me a headache. On one hand, Judaism provided a strong foundation for our marriage. Josh and I took the obligation of chesed seriously: we almost competed to do acts of kindness. I knew this must be the reason we woke up every morning and smiled at each other.
On the other hand, the strict black-and-white dictates of Orthodox Judaism conflicted with my American lifestyle and feminist ideals. I did not keep kosher. I did not think men and women should sit separately in synagogue. My rejection of the big things caused me to waffle when it came to the details: how much did I care that we followed the letter of the law when signing the ketubah? It was easiest to dismiss the family's concern about Mitch's blindness as another bit of superstitious junk.
So during the ceremony, Mitch had signed as a witness, even if Josh had to hold a ruler below the line so Mitch could feel the place for his signature.
Sabra's insistent voice draws me back to our conversation. "There's a rabbi in Israel who specializes in ketubah corrections," she continues. "I corresponded with him by e-mail. He said because of the defect in your marriage contract, the egg and sperm are now cursed by blindness: They cannot see each other to unite. Fortunately he agreed to look at your ketubah and try to fix the problem. Just ship it to him in Jerusalem. Here's his address."
Because Sabra's speakerphone is on, I can hear my nephew in the background, "Grandma, what's sperm?" Sabra must be babysitting him today. I miss her answer because of a clunking sound as she picks up the receiver and switches the phone back to private mode.
"Gotta go," I say. "I'll be sure to discuss your idea about the ketubah with Josh."
That night I tell my husband we've waited long enough. "I made an appointment with an endocrinologist," I say over dinner. A friend had given me the name of the best fertility doctor in the city. "You can tell your mother he's a rabbi of reproductive science."
It was a long journey from Rabbi Minsky's chair to the in vitro clinic, where the miracle of life is broken down into component parts and then reconstructed. The scientists smoothly incorporated modern-day conveniences into the treatment: A nurse put a fresh condom over the end of the probe for each vaginal ultrasound to guarantee safe hygiene. When our sperm and egg were ready to meet in the Petri dish, I was told the sperm got a shot of caffeine to ensure their spunkiness, kind of like a laboratory location Starbucks. The clinic itself had a retail chain aspect to it -- with an office downtown and one in the suburbs -- staffed by the same doctors on different days.
Here in the magical realm of high technology, a drug that wards off infection replaces the ancients' spell to ward off the evil eye. Still, like some witch doctor with a terrible cure, the endocrinologist measured progress in vials of my blood. When Josh and I knew the exact moment of conception, it was miraculous anyway.
"Is it a boy or a girl?" Sabra asks during our next conversation.
"Too early to tell. Maybe in another month." I pause. I have a question of my own. "What do the Orthodox think of artificial methods?"
"However you bring a life into this world is a mitzvah, a blessing," she responds.
I don't ask my next question. How is creating an embryo any less like playing god than destroying one? Sabra has expressed her disapproval of abortion many times. The hypocrisy sets my teeth on edge. Instead I say, "I hope the baby will have Josh's blue eyes."
"And your strong teeth," she replies. Her comment stings. Are my teeth the best compliment she can think of? In Sabra's world perhaps good orthodontia is the ultimate status symbol. I chalk it up to another cultural difference in the cavernous gap between us. She adds, "As long as it's healthy."
I think about the healthy part for a long time. How would the result of this artificial combination be different from what nature intended? Oddly enough, it was the rabbi's blessing that came to mind: When I was sitting in that chair at the supermarket, just me and Rabbi Minsky together, I whispered in his ear, "What do you think about in vitro fertilization?"
He smiled ever so slightly and said, "Even the workings of Science are created by God."
Julie Traub has taught creative writing to teenagers and has hosted bi-weekly writing critiques for adults. Now she gets her best story ideas from the adventures of her one-year-old boy, Simon. Julie lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband and son. Please send feedback or observations to traub@comcast.net.
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Perhaps it was Khnum Khufu at Giza as God, and Khufu at Abydos as King.
Doesn't explain the fact of both cartouches being in G1 though.


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West Side Story in concert in Bilbao and interview with Ernst Van Tiel
7 October, 2018 /in Articles, Concerts, Films & Orchestra, Interviews /by STF
Last Friday, October 5th, 2018, Gorka Oteiza attended the screening of the film in concert West Side Story at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao (Spain), performed by the BOS Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao – Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, under the baton of the guest conductor Ernst Van Tiel.
Previously we published Gorka's comments on the rehearsals (read article), and now here you have his impressions about the concert, as well as an interview with its conductor, Ernst Van Tiel, exclusively for SoundTrackFest.
WEST SIDE STORY IN CONCERT
After a successful first show on Thursday, October 4th, the second and last performance of fabulous film West Side Story in concert arrived on Friday Oct-5th at 7:30 p.m. in Bilbao, in charge of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra – Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa (BOS), under the attentive, precise, and diligent conducting of the Ernst Van Tiel.
In total we had almost three hours of a fantastic audiovisual show. A unique experience to enjoy a classic movie, in a way that can only be lived in a concert hall.
The truth is that having attended the dress rehearsals on Wednesday, October 3rd (read article), we could already guess the quality of what we would find in the final concert, but the expectations were surpassed in the moment of truth.
But let's go step by step and let's start with the details. The first thing to note is an almost full house at the Euskalduna Palace, in which, according to the organization, only about 100 tickets were available to complete the total of 2,164 seats, clearly showing the interest that the public has for this work.
West Side Story in concert was a risky and courageous bet by the team that prepares the programming of the BOS, since the usual public of the orchestra, and mainly its subscribers, are more used to traditional symphonic concerts. But as it could be seen by the box office success, the bet was widely corresponded and very well received by all the attendees.
Leonard Bernstein, who would have turned 100 on August 25th, 2018, is the author of the fabulous music of West Side Story; a perfect amalgam of order and chaos, Latin rhythms and symphonic sound, melodies for love and for conflict, music to express the nonsense of hate or the story of Romeo and Juliet. All of them are perfect ingredients for a great show, with jazz, mambo, cha-cha-cha and salsa rhythms, accompanied by the symphonic potential of the whole orchestra.
Although the main inspiration for Leonard Bernstein came from the Shakespeare's story of Romeo and Juliet, the musical West Side Story (1957) was finally shaped shortly after reading a brief article in the Los Angeles Times about Latino gang fights from the West Side of San Bernardino, which transformed the original story into a conflict between a Puerto Rican gang (represented by the Sharks) and a Polish gang (represented by the Jets).
The film West Side Story (1961) directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, is the adaptation of the 1957 musical, and in addition to the fabulous music by Leonard Bernstein, has some great and accurate lyrics by the legendary Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by award-winning Jerome Robbins.
The 2 and a half hours of the film were divided into two acts for the concert: a first act of about 80 minutes, which after a break of 20 minutes, was followed by the second act of 74 minutes. Although it may seem that the almost 3 hours of film in concert could be long, nothing is further from reality, since the masterful structure of the film, that intersperses musical numbers with scenes with dialogues of the actors, makes it agile and light. In addition, the fact of having the orchestra in sight, on stage, playing Leonard Bernstein's powerful music live (a music that hooks you from the beginning), also played a good part on it.
Once in the venue, you could find that there was a large screen over the orchestra, in which the film could be seen in its original format, Panavision 70 mm, leaving two black bands at the top and at the bottom. These were skillfully used to show the subtitles in Basque above and in Spanish below, since the film was screened in its original English version, keeping the dialogues and the voices of the songs intact, as well as the sound effects.
Talking about the music, I have to say that the BOS was great, exceeding in an outstanding way the difficult challenge of performing such a changing music, so varied, and with so many alterations in rhythm, in a synchronized and precise way with the film. The musicians had the help of small headphones, from which at times they received the temporary marks (the famous 'click-track'), with which they were able to match with precision the most complex scenes of the movie.
But let's not forget that much of this merit also falls on the work of conductor Ernst Van Tiel, who with an attentive look, firm pulse, and precise indications, kept the rhythm and tension throughout the concert, getting power and strength from the orchestra, especially in those scenes that required intensity and a perfect fusion of image and music.
Although there are many special moments, I would like to highlight the fabulous overture of almost 5 minutes at the beginning of the film, where without projecting any image, and only with the music and the strength of the orchestra, a summary of all the main themes that we will be able to enjoy later is made, establishing the musical tone of the rest of the movie. In addition, we have the great dance scene in the gym at the rhythm of mambo, where the brass and percussion sections of the orchestra were outstanding, and we could also highlight the development of the theme 'America', which although started a bit slow for my taste, immediately picked up the rhythm and managed to transmit all the musical intensity of the scene, in perfect synchronicity with the verbal and choreographed confrontations of the protagonists.
In summary, an excellent film with a wonderful music, which we greatly enjoyed thanks to the fabulous quality performance of the BOS conducted by Ernst Van Tiel.
Starting the 2018/2019 season of the BOS with West Side Story, paying homage to Leonard Bernstein on the centenary of his birth, has been a risky bet but at the same time very well received by the orchestra's subscribers and by the public in general. From here we would like to send our congratulations to the BOS programming team and to its technical director Borja Pujol, for using film music within the repertoire of the orchestra.
And looking at the success of the two shows of West Side Story this year… maybe next year it would be possible to consider something similar? How about a classic musical movie like "Singing in the Rain"? It seems like a very appropriate title for Bilbao!
THE INTERVIEW - ERNST VAN TIEL
Could you introduce yourself to somebody who doesn't know you? Who are you and what do you do in a regular basis?
Well, my name is Ernst Van Tiel, I'm a conductor of many, many different kinds of music in many orchestras around the world. Like normal conductors, do I do the classical, romantic, all that music… but since a few years, I do a lot of film concerts with live orchestra, for several reasons. First of all… I love theater, I love Opera, I love conducting Ballet, and for me, the film concert is at the same level. The music is also fantastic. In the past film music was not very highly respected. The orchestras are now discovering how fantastic that music is. Not only from these days. Not only John Williams but also in the past like Bernard Hermann. The first film I conducted live, and this was for me the eye-opener, was Alexander Nevsky. The famous film of Eisenstein, with music of Prokofiev.
And also for this I can say, that people who know the Alexander Nevsky cantata, they do not know the Alexander Nevsky film music. It is much longer, much different. And there's a funny story because after the recording of Alexander Nevsky, they lost all the scores.
Oh, no! Really?
Indeed! And Prokofiev wrote by heart the cantata for everything that he remembered. And this cantata is, I think, 33 minutes… but music for the film is 65 minutes! So a very, very, very serious man, Frank Strobel, reconstructed the original music in 2001, and this is what we play now. So in 2004 it was my first big film concert, Alexander Nevsky and it was a thrill for the orchestra and for everybody. And then I was asked for more and more, and I'm recording a lot of film music, and… yeah I love it!
Did you always knew you wanted to be an orchestra conductor? Or you just went into the music world and then it just came?
No, I started quite late with music and then I played several years in symphony orchestras. I also played jazz music and I played pop music, and then I started to study piano… and then I started quite late to study conducting. So by the first time I was conducting I was 38, 39… it was quite late. In fact, when I was a student for conducting, I was twice as old as most of the other students. But…
Well, so you have more experience…
Yeah, yeah. (*laughs*) That's true, but you cannot be seen as a young promising conductor. But I love to study and here I study a lot. When I'm in front of a new movie, and I have a new score, I have to learn it, the technique, what the composer wanted to achieve…. That's challenging but I love it. And in the case of this fantastic music of Bernstein, but also most music of John Williams, you feel that they are both great conductors. And John Williams is not just a conductor of his own music, he is very experienced in conducting the Hollywood Bowl in all kinds of music for years. And you feel that everything is so natural.
What kind of skills does a conductor need for a live to picture concert or for a recording session for a movie, compared to conducting classical music in a concert hall?
Well, what is very important for playing with film, is that you have very, very, very strong feeling for tempo. And this is also for recording: to be able to keep this tempo, but that the orchestra can still feel free and breathing. Not rigid like… (*chop, chop, chop*). So this is what I'm still developing… to give the orchestra the feeling that they are free, but in the meantime they are really strict. This is important.
Let's talk about West Side Story. This one of the most known works from Leonard Bernstein. What can you tell us about the music of West Side Story from the point of view of the conductor? Because you will see it in a very different from the way from how we see it… and you will enjoy it differently as well…
Well, of course. I experience the music as top, top music, but I see the effect the music has to support the drama, which is superb. I feel the wonderful orchestration. How he is using the instruments, for which theme he's using, or the balance between singers. And this is also part of Bernstein's experience in opera or playing with soloists. What's very important is that as soon as you start playing the first rehearsal, the orchestra is caught by the music, and this is just because of its quality.
Also I can say that when I was a student in the conservatory, before I was starting conducting, many students loved the music, although it was not done to love this musical which was a 'deeper world'. It was very difficult for Bernstein to be accepted as a conductor, because he wrote a musical! It was so below what people expected. But all the music lovers, they had a secret love for the music of West Side Story.
So they loved it, but they could not say it openly and widely, because they would not be taken seriously…
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I remember the first time I heard the music of West Side Story, I did not know what it was. My sister played the record, and I was caught. One second.
Same happened to me. It was one of the first CDs I owned and I was trapped. I played it once and again, once and again…. and then I saw the movie later, months later! Let's talk about Leonard Bernstein, because he would have turned one hundred in 2018…
Yes! And I just want to say… don't forget about his other music…
Well, that was the question!! (*laughs*)
Was it? (*laughs*)
Yes! If somebody comes to see West Side Story, and enjoys the movie and the music, and doesn't know Leonard Bernstein, what would you recommend to him or her to listen?
I would recommend really to listen to Chichester Psalms… to Candide. Then you'll be caught by that style. That kind of music that he wrote. And also I wish I had one of his talents; he was a great conductor, a great composer, and a fantastic piano player so… (*laughs*)
And a good storyteller…
And a storyteller too! I'm jealous. (*laughs*)
Well who knows, maybe in 10 years, you'll get to that point!
Who knows? (*laughs*)
Let's talk about the rehearsals. How do you prepare a concert like this?
It depends on the quality of the orchestra, and the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra is a very good orchestra. So, we had time to prepare everything very much in detail, and I trust them very much; that's important. I don't have to do everything three times before I'm sure they can play it. I just give small advice, small questions. Now we have the dress rehearsal, and in the dress rehearsal I'm not stopping for mistakes, I just stop for things that are not clear. Because the orchestra is so good that they know what's wrong.
Are you using a click-track when you are conducting?
Usually not. In this case, because we have the original voices, it is very special. It was originally not recorded with a click-track, it's very free in tempo. And the dance is also there, so for a few of the songs we use the click-track, but most of them are free.
And let's go for the final question, let's talk about one score you conducted, the music for 'The Artist' by Ludovic Bource, that won the Oscar in 2011. How was that project and how would you describe the music?
The music is incredible, because Ludovic Bource prepared himself for years to be able to have the atmosphere of the 20s/30s. I met him on the first day of the recording, we never met before… but since then, we are friends. And we had a very short time to record. Only four days. And even on the last day, at six in the morning, there was new music under by the door of my hotel!
So you have to read it and learn it before going to the studio!
Well…This is how it usually goes. I just made a recording for a Dutch film, and the same thing happened (*laughs*). Also I did some recording with Foreigner, the rock band. Some crossover music, and let me tell you that all the recordings have their things!
You can bet! I sure you have many stories to tell, but we're running out of time and you have to get back to the rehearsals. Thank you for dedicating some minutes for SoundTrackFest in your busy schedule, and good luck with the West Side Story concerts in Bilbao!
Thanks! See you there this Friday?
Indeed you will. I'll be there!!
Article and Interview by Gorka Oteiza
Tags: Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, BOS, Ernst Van Tiel, Leonard Bernstein, Palacio Euskalduna
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Ant bites: Stings by fighter ants, red ants or honey ants cause immediate localized burning and formation of fluid-filled blisters within 2-4 minutes.
Spider bites: Black widow spiders cause immediate piercing pain which becomes intense in 1-3 hours and is characterized by small red puncture spots at the site of injury. Numbness of the affected region occurs after some time. Within 12-48 hours, chest pain and muscle cramps. 4-5% death rates have been reported due to the neurotoxic effect of the spider's venom.
Centipede bites: Immediate burning pain occurs which lasts for 4-5 hours. A severe puncture at the wound spot occurs along with skin inflammation. Purple rashes might appear on the limbs in extreme cases (Purpura).
Scorpion bites: A local sharp pain occurs immediately after the sting. Pinprick sensation occurs followed by more severe symptoms like numbness, tightened jaw muscles, secretion of sticky saliva, respiratory and cardiac ailments. Few death cases have been reported due to bites by the neurotoxic species.
Caterpillar bites: Burning pain occurs at the site of the sting, which gradually radiates to other regions of the body. Swelling of lymph glands occur. With slow progress of the infection, nausea and convulsions start.
Tick bites: Inflammation at the site of injury occurs and can even persist to cause "Tick Paralysis" and "Tick Granuloma" (tumors). Numbness starts in the lower limbs but gradually spreads to the upper limbs as well.
Bug bites: Bites due to bed-bugs or assassin bugs cause the formation of papules, small reddish vesicles, and giant urticarial lesions. It can lead to edema of the skin at a later stage.
Honeybee stings: It is accompanied by extreme pain and appearance of giant eruptions (wheels). Bluish skin color (cyanosis) and convulsions may occur immediately due to the shock. Within 10-14 days it may cause a serum-sickness reaction, swelling of lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy), polyarthritis and renal disorders. Numerous death cases have been reported so far due to honey bee stings.
For carrying out any kind of diagnosis related to an insect bite, few important conditions such as- skin perfusion, pulse and blood pressure, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation must be noted. If immunotherapy is recommended for a patient, the existence of specific IgE protein within the patient's body needs to be determined. Skin sensitivity tests and Radioallergosorbent test (RAST) need to be performed only after this step to decide whether the patient should receive an Adrenaline autoinjector dose or not.
Application of cold compresses (not direct ice as it can damage the skin).
Topical creams containing hydrocortisone or lidocaine that relieves itching and pain.
Aloe vera gel as it is effective in soothing skin rashes.
Natural extracts such as chickweed, witch hazel, evening primrose oil, and calendula.
For removing a tick, use a pair of tweezers to pull the insect out while ensuring that the head of the tick isn't behind.
In case the insect sting results in increased swelling and pus formation, the wound needs to be checked by a doctor. In most of these cases, the patient will need antibiotics for treatment.
If the affected individual develops fever and body ache, he/she should be immediately rushed to the hospital. This could mean the onset of illnesses such as malaria or dengue.
Use insect repellents which have EPA certification. It helps in keeping insects and bugs away without harming the environment or the human body.
Don't let water stagnate. This provides an ample breeding ground for insects such as mosquitoes which are notorious for spreading serious diseases.
When visiting areas where the risk of insect bites (ticks, mosquitoes, and spiders) etc is high, keep your skin covered and wear covered footwear.
Refrain from making sudden and jerking movements around bee hives or hornet nests.
Wear gloves and other protective clothing when gardening. Never go out barefoot outdoors.
Don't let garbage and wastes collect for a long time. Keep waste bins clean and covered.
Some of the most rampant and life-threatening diseases spread through insect bites are encephalitis, yellow fever, Zika virus infection, malaria, and dengue fever.
75% of the entire known animal kingdom is comprised of arthropods. These are insects that live on land and have 6 legs.
When an insect stings you, the itching, pain, and reddish-coloration of your skin is nothing but an allergic reaction to the venom injected by the insect.
The main toxic component of a bee's venom is melittin. This is chemically a peptide that contains roughly 50% of dry venom and leads to the destruction of human cells.
When a bee stings you, it ends up losing its stinger and thus dies in the process. In contrast to this wasps and fire ants can sting you multiple times.
Wash the affected area with soap and water and apply cold compress on the affected area.
Keep the area elevated. This will help in reducing swelling.
Consult a doctor if the symptoms don't improve with these methods and/or you get a fever post the insect bite.
Take any medications (painkillers or antipyretics) before consulting the doctor, if you have experienced an insect bite.
Scratch the affected area, even if it is difficult to resist the urge. This will worsen the symptoms by making you more susceptible to secondary bacterial infections.
Make the use of a tourniquet (an external device used to restrict the blood flow).


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Frequent but late donor-directed antibody formation after kidney transplantectomy within one month after grafting
J. Lenaers, M.H. Christiaans, L.W. van Heurn, J.P. van Hooff, E.M. van den Berg-Loonen
CDLab Transplantation Immunology & Tissue Typing
NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism
BACKGROUND: Donor-directed antibodies (DDA) can be formed in recipients after transplantation. There is not much known about their appearance in relation to the time after transplantation, nor the duration between transplantation and failure. METHODS: DDA formation was retrospectively analyzed in patients transplanted between 1992 and 2004. Thirty-two nonimmunized first transplant recipients with transplantectomy within 4 weeks (median 6 days) were analyzed. Posttransplant sera were screened for HLA class I and II by flow cytometry (FC), ELISA, and cytotoxicity. All patients except one were treated with CNI (calcineurin inhibitor)-based immunosuppression. RESULTS: Analysis was performed on the basis of FC results. In total, 16 of 32 patients became positive for DDA class I and/or II (50%). All antibodies were detected after transplantectomy. Class I and II antibodies were produced in 15 and 10 recipients, respectively. Multivariate regression analysis showed DDA positivity to be predicted by donor age (P=0.05). DDA were shown in patients who lost their graft due to immunological reasons but in a comparable percentage also in patients with nonimmunological graft loss. CONCLUSIONS: DDA after early transplantectomy appeared frequently but later than expected. In view of the growing number of marginal donors and the possible necessity of retransplantation, it is considered important to prolong the time of serum sampling and screening to at least 4 months. Immunization might escape attention when serum screening is restarted only from the time the patient is again referred to the waiting list.
https://doi.org/10.1097/01.tp.0000196726.91957.97
10.1097/01.tp.0000196726.91957.97
Lenaers, J., Christiaans, M. H., van Heurn, L. W., van Hooff, J. P., & van den Berg-Loonen, E. M. (2006). Frequent but late donor-directed antibody formation after kidney transplantectomy within one month after grafting. Transplantation, 81(4), 614-619. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.tp.0000196726.91957.97
Lenaers, J. ; Christiaans, M.H. ; van Heurn, L.W. ; van Hooff, J.P. ; van den Berg-Loonen, E.M. / Frequent but late donor-directed antibody formation after kidney transplantectomy within one month after grafting. In: Transplantation. 2006 ; Vol. 81, No. 4. pp. 614-619.
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In: Transplantation, Vol. 81, No. 4, 01.01.2006, p. 614-619.
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N2 - BACKGROUND: Donor-directed antibodies (DDA) can be formed in recipients after transplantation. There is not much known about their appearance in relation to the time after transplantation, nor the duration between transplantation and failure. METHODS: DDA formation was retrospectively analyzed in patients transplanted between 1992 and 2004. Thirty-two nonimmunized first transplant recipients with transplantectomy within 4 weeks (median 6 days) were analyzed. Posttransplant sera were screened for HLA class I and II by flow cytometry (FC), ELISA, and cytotoxicity. All patients except one were treated with CNI (calcineurin inhibitor)-based immunosuppression. RESULTS: Analysis was performed on the basis of FC results. In total, 16 of 32 patients became positive for DDA class I and/or II (50%). All antibodies were detected after transplantectomy. Class I and II antibodies were produced in 15 and 10 recipients, respectively. Multivariate regression analysis showed DDA positivity to be predicted by donor age (P=0.05). DDA were shown in patients who lost their graft due to immunological reasons but in a comparable percentage also in patients with nonimmunological graft loss. CONCLUSIONS: DDA after early transplantectomy appeared frequently but later than expected. In view of the growing number of marginal donors and the possible necessity of retransplantation, it is considered important to prolong the time of serum sampling and screening to at least 4 months. Immunization might escape attention when serum screening is restarted only from the time the patient is again referred to the waiting list.
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package org.apache.http.impl.client.cache;

import java.util.Date;

import org.apache.http.Header;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.http.HttpVersion;
import org.apache.http.annotation.Immutable;
import org.apache.http.client.cache.HeaderConstants;
import org.apache.http.client.cache.HttpCacheEntry;
import org.apache.http.impl.cookie.DateUtils;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;

/**
 * Rebuilds an {@link HttpResponse} from a {@link CacheEntry}
 *
 * @since 4.1
 */
@Immutable
class CachedHttpResponseGenerator {

    private final CacheValidityPolicy validityStrategy;

    CachedHttpResponseGenerator(final CacheValidityPolicy validityStrategy) {
        super();
        this.validityStrategy = validityStrategy;
    }

    CachedHttpResponseGenerator() {
        this(new CacheValidityPolicy());
    }

    /**
     * If I was able to use a {@link CacheEntity} to response to the {@link org.apache.http.HttpRequest} then
     * generate an {@link HttpResponse} based on the cache entry.
     * @param entry
     *            {@link CacheEntity} to transform into an {@link HttpResponse}
     * @return {@link HttpResponse} that was constructed
     */
    HttpResponse generateResponse(HttpCacheEntry entry) {

        Date now = new Date();
        HttpResponse response = new BasicHttpResponse(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, entry
                .getStatusCode(), entry.getReasonPhrase());

        response.setHeaders(entry.getAllHeaders());

        if (entry.getResource() != null) {
            HttpEntity entity = new CacheEntity(entry);
            addMissingContentLengthHeader(response, entity);
            response.setEntity(entity);
        }

        long age = this.validityStrategy.getCurrentAgeSecs(entry, now);
        if (age > 0) {
            if (age >= Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
                response.setHeader(HeaderConstants.AGE, "2147483648");
            } else {
                response.setHeader(HeaderConstants.AGE, "" + ((int) age));
            }
        }

        return response;
    }

    /**
     * Generate a 304 - Not Modified response from a {@link CacheEntity}.  This should be
     * used to respond to conditional requests, when the entry exists or has been re-validated.
     *
     * @param entry
     * @return
     */
    HttpResponse generateNotModifiedResponse(HttpCacheEntry entry) {

        HttpResponse response = new BasicHttpResponse(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1,
                HttpStatus.SC_NOT_MODIFIED, "Not Modified");

        // The response MUST include the following headers
        //  (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html)

        // - Date, unless its omission is required by section 14.8.1
        Header dateHeader = entry.getFirstHeader(HTTP.DATE_HEADER);
        if (dateHeader == null) {
             dateHeader = new BasicHeader(HTTP.DATE_HEADER, DateUtils.formatDate(new Date()));
        }
        response.addHeader(dateHeader);

        // - ETag and/or Content-Location, if the header would have been sent
        //   in a 200 response to the same request
        Header etagHeader = entry.getFirstHeader(HeaderConstants.ETAG);
        if (etagHeader != null) {
            response.addHeader(etagHeader);
        }

        Header contentLocationHeader = entry.getFirstHeader("Content-Location");
        if (contentLocationHeader != null) {
            response.addHeader(contentLocationHeader);
        }

        // - Expires, Cache-Control, and/or Vary, if the field-value might
        //   differ from that sent in any previous response for the same
        //   variant
        Header expiresHeader = entry.getFirstHeader(HeaderConstants.EXPIRES);
        if (expiresHeader != null) {
            response.addHeader(expiresHeader);
        }

        Header cacheControlHeader = entry.getFirstHeader(HeaderConstants.CACHE_CONTROL);
        if (cacheControlHeader != null) {
            response.addHeader(cacheControlHeader);
        }

        Header varyHeader = entry.getFirstHeader(HeaderConstants.VARY);
        if (varyHeader != null) {
            response.addHeader(varyHeader);
        }

        return response;
    }

    private void addMissingContentLengthHeader(HttpResponse response, HttpEntity entity) {
        if (transferEncodingIsPresent(response))
            return;

        Header contentLength = response.getFirstHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_LEN);
        if (contentLength == null) {
            contentLength = new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_LEN, Long.toString(entity
                    .getContentLength()));
            response.setHeader(contentLength);
        }
    }

    private boolean transferEncodingIsPresent(HttpResponse response) {
        Header hdr = response.getFirstHeader(HTTP.TRANSFER_ENCODING);
        return hdr != null;
    }
}

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Asset Recycle, Inc. began business in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1989 and this year celebrates its 28th anniversary. It was formed by W. E. "Bill" Manhein to serve the Turbomachinery aftermarket. From 1973-1988, Bill worked in sales and sales management for the Engineered	Equipment Services division of both Worthington and Ingersoll-Rand. Bill's 45 years of experience in the field have resulted in the establishment of invaluable relationships with many original equipment manufacturers, engineering firms and aftermarket design firms.
Texas Turbo-Machinery Exchange was formed by Warren Ayres in LaPorte, Texas, in 1989. Warren's experience includes 31 years with the Elliott Company as a Sales Engineer in Washington, D.C., District Manager in Seattle, Washington, Product Marketing Manager for the Plant Air Package (PAP) line of air compressors in Jeanette, Pennsylvania, and Manager of Industrial Products for Latin America in Coral Gables, Florida. This was followed by 8 years of Compressor and Turbine sales for Louisiana Chemical Equipment Company in LaPorte, Texas, and 2 years of sales and customer coordination for Revak Turbomachinery Service in LaPorte, Texas. Warren's years of experience and the multitude of contacts he has established with manufacturers and users alike qualify him as one of the leaders in the industry.


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New database: MacRaes to America!!
Eilean Donan Castle, image by Syxaxis Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Today we're announcing a new database MacRaes to America, 1755-1930. This database contains over 9,500 entries pertaining to MacRae families across the United States.
This database presents Cornelia Wendell Bush's ebook MacRaes to America!! A Brief History of the Clan MacRae, With Records of MacRae, Ray, MacRath, McGrath & Related Families which traces this surname through United States censuses.
Interested researchers should be sure to consult the introductory content:
How to Use this Book
Spelling Variants
MacRae Name and Early History
Below is an excerpt from "How To Use this Book":
MacRaes to America!! combines my original research on the Clan's history with my original research on the Spelling Variants of the name MacRae, and then uses the census to identify geographical locations in the United States for persons with the surname MacRae.
The records have been organized by State and listed alphabetically by first name regardless of how the last name was recorded.
Not all census enumerators were familiar with Scottish or Irish spellings, and even our ancestors themselves may not have been consistent. This means that the same person may have had many different surnames in the records. When a surname is spelled consistently here, it may be indicative of the way it was spelled overseas prior to arrival in America and may give indications as to where to look geographically to go further back.
When a record appears to be a duplication, it has been removed, which means that if you are told to look on a certain page of the Census of 1840, you must look at ALL of the persons on that page who are spelled similarly so as not to miss your [ancestor].
As to ethnicity, not all persons in this book appear to be members of our clan, as some have clearly Germanic associations in names as well as in places of birth, and this is particularly noticeable with the surname RATH. Perhaps there is a connection, yet to be discovered, so they have been included.
The MacRaes and MacGraths arrived in America in record numbers, and by the first Census of the United States in 1790, they accounted for approximately 400 persons. Of these, the largest number were called RAY (228 persons) and the next largest number were called MCRAE (51 persons), plus the other spelling variants.
By 1930, American members of our Clan totaled almost 120,000 persons. Of these, the RAYs accounted for 61,919 persons and the MCGRATHs accounted for 12,295 persons, followed by GRATHs at 8,003 persons, RAEs at 7,277 persons, WRAYs at 6,860 persons, REAs at 5,837 persons, RATHs 5744 persons, MCRAEs at 5,082 persons and so on.
April 8, 2022 Molly Rogers
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Deceptive tactics to sell home security systems emerged as a major area of consumer complaints last year, according to the Consumer Federation of America (CFA).
Each year, CFA surveys state and local consumer agencies to find out what consumers are complaining about. Last year, there was a big increase in complaints about companies selling home alarm systems, ranging from misleading information to scare tactics.
The survey found a case where a company sent a letter to new homeowners that appeared to come from the county government. It warned that their neighborhood was deemed to be unsafe because of "the opioid crisis," and offered "free" alarm systems as part of a county-wide program.
Of course, as is the case with many "free" offers, the systems turned out not to be free. The survey also identified cases where companies marketing an alarm system claimed the product was used by police officers who lived in the area.
Other alarm system complaints involved failure to provide customers with copies of their agreements and failing to notify them of their cancellation rights. There were also instances where consumers who already had an alarm system were told their company had been sold and they needed to change where they sent the payment. It resulted in many consumers being double-billed.
"Alarm systems are supposed to protect consumers, but consumers need better protection from rogue alarm companies and salespeople who try to take advantage of them," said Susan Grant, CFA's director of Consumer Protection and Privacy.
Grant says companies marketing home security and alarm systems should be required to make clear disclosures and be barred from making misleading and unsubstantiated claims.
The survey also uncovered several consumer horror stories. They include a report of a Louisiana consumer whose car was in the repair shop for over a year. When she finally investigated why it was taking so long, she discovered the mechanic was selling parts from her car, instead of finding parts to repair it.


Alice and Claude Askew - Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer, Ash-Tree Press 1998, Limited to 500 Copies.
Hardback, Maroon Cloth, Gold Lettering, Maroon Endpapers, Dust Jacket, 131 Pages.
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The following section details some common errors and their suggested fix or alternative solution. If you are still experiencing problems, use the Connector/ODBC mailing list; see Section 6.9.1, "Connector/ODBC Community Support".
If these strategies do not help, start by making a log file from the ODBC manager (the log you get when requesting logs from ODBCADMIN) and a Connector/ODBC log to help you figure out why things go wrong. For instructions, see Section 6.5.8, "Getting an ODBC Trace File".