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I wear hats more often during the summer. In the literal sense, I have hats for watching baseball, hats for gardening, hats for hanging out at the pool, and hats that I hope just look cute while keeping the sun off my freckles. I wear many figurative summer hats as well, including those of: chauffeur, chef/short order cook, referee, recreation director, park ranger, personal shopper, tour guide, nurse, arbitrator, dog walker, party planner, and banker.
And writer. I shouldn't forget that one.
Actually, it's easy to forget to put on my writer hat during the summer, partly because of general busy-ness and partly because I usually catch a pretty good case of the lazy school's out vibe from my boys. This lack of scheduled writing time used to make me panic, and I would resign myself to eleven or so totally unproductive weeks.
But a couple of years ago, I noticed something: my writer brain does not take the summers off. It is always there, always observing, always piecing together random phrases and bits of dialogue. In fact, it is often busiest when I am not sitting down and telling it to write. It works in the quiet mornings before my boys wake up. It works as I'm pulling weeds, watering flowers, and waging my annual war on squash bugs. It works in the soft evening light as I'm waiting for a baseball game to start.
In the generally unstructured days of summer, my writer brain and I find a balance. I try to give it fertile moments, and it gives me food for thought. I sneak away for some computer time, and it does not let me spend that time looking at Awkward Family Photos. And then, when school is back in session and I can start removing hats a la Bartholomew Cubbins, I find that my writer hat has been waiting patiently for me all along. And with any luck, it still fits.
Are you able to keep your writer hat on during the summer?
Jenny, Yes, creativity seems to come at quiet moments, e.g., just waking up or having breakfast. Do you keep a notepad near by? Often my brilliant observations are gone twenty minutes later. Thanks for the great post.
All other hats must fit over, and accommodate the writer hat. Even my fave fly fishing hat allows my writer hat priority, even on the river.
Where it well, writer friends.
As usual Jenny, another wonderful post. I agree that there are times (especially in the summer) when we aren't physically writing, but our writer brain is actively engaged.
I'm hoping to finish my book this summer. My kids are grown, so summer/school year terms don't affect me the way they used to. And I'm still visiting blogs from the A-Z challenge!
Thanks for the comments everyone. I'm glad you'll all be wearing your writer hats this summer. But Kerrie, duct tape + hair is a bad combination!
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'HalloweenTown' witch house for sale in Eastmoreland
Updated: Aug. 29, 2019, 9:53 a.m. | Published: Nov. 08, 2018, 5:08 a.m.
By Janet Eastman | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Youngsters who want to freak out in a funny way turn to the Disney Channel classic, "HalloweenTown," in which a teen witch discovers her magical powers in time to save a ghostly city.
Believe in sorcerers if you want, but there are real elements in the movie: Fans know St. Helens was used for most of the filming of the town where descendants of the wizard Merlin once ruled. Less known is that a New England-style farmhouse 35 miles away, tucked away in Southwest Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, also played a role.
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The Victorian-era house, one of the first built in the area, is for sale at $1,365,000.
The 1892 farmhouse was the fictional home of good witch Grandma Aggie (Splendora Agatha Cromwell), played by actress Debbie Reynolds, in the Disney Channel classic, "HalloweenTown." In the kitchen, she and her grandchildren concocted potions.
Joey Zimmerman, Emily Roeske, Debbie Reynolds and Kimberly J. Brown (from left) starred in "Halloweentown'' on the Disney Channel.
The famous house is hidden on a half-acre property at 3814 S.E. Martins St.
Three covered porches offer views of a forest of mature trees.
Inside, there is 4,956 square feet of living space across three levels.
Rooms have high ceilings, large picture windows and unpainted woodwork -- the original tigerwood and birdseye maple -- and Douglas fir floors.
Two burning fireplaces are surrounded by handmade tiles and wood carvings.
The dining area is separated from the living room with pocket doors.
The 225-square-foot kitchen has original birdseye maple cabinets and a farmhouse pantry.
The second level contains three of the five bedrooms and a separate family room and office.
The master suite has two closets and a "magical" enclosed sitting porch, say listing agents John Hatch and Angela Stevens of Keller Williams Realty Professionals.
There is a formal staircase plus a back staircase to the third floor, which could become a new master suite, a bonus room or art studio. "The open space with two additional bedrooms and the turret tower will be sure to inspire you," adds Stevens.
Hatch and Stevens believe the house, built in 1892, is the original surviving structure in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, which rose from cattle and farmland.
Around 1907, banker William S. Ladd and his developer son, William M. Ladd, began to transformed a swath of the region's agricultural land into residential neighborhoods through their the newly founded Ladd Estate Co.
Oregon Iron & Steel Company's 4,000 acres became Dunthorpe, Country Club Estates/Lake Oswego, while farmlands in east Portland became Ladd's Addition, Laurelhurst and Brooklyn.
The house has one full bath and one powder room.
Starting in the 1890s, the Ladd family bought smaller farms to create the 500-acre Crystal Springs Farm for raising stock. This area was carved up in 1909-1910 to become Westmoreland and Eastmoreland.
The house has three levels and a basement.
Curving east-west streets, designed to align with old streambeds, were planted with elms while maples line straight north-south streets. In 1916, the company donated 150 acres to start the Eastmoreland Golf Course, Portland's first public golf course.
Even with cultural and entertaining amenities, lot sales were slow, drawing out new construction into the 1940s and beyond. Some of the houses on the crest of arching lawns share Reed's original Tudor-Gothic architecture style. Others are Tudor and English cottage revival homes, and American colonial revival, bungalows and Craftsman.
In the 1940s, Reed invited Modernist architect Pietro Belluschi to design a steel-and-glass building. This is also the campus where Steve Jobs took those calligraphy classes that influenced Apple's designs. Yet despite shots of high tech, few of Reed's neighbors built modern homes.
Today, Eastmoreland homeowners are debating the merits and drawbacks of having the neighborhood listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which would limit changes to structures, associated landscape and streetscape.
Stevens says the farmhouse is a "hidden gem" on a dividable lot. "The lucky new owners of this home not only will have an irreplaceable piece of Southeast Portland history, they also will have the best of both worlds -- a direct path into the center of Eastmoreland with its top rated schools and beautiful parks, but also only a few blocks from the hot shops and local restaurants of Woodstock," she says.
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Read more: 'Twilight' houses are for sale. Psst: How to get a location scout to pick your property: Cinematic Oregon homes are selected to star in films, TV show and commercials. Is your home ready for its close up? A clapboard house in St. Helens became famous as Bella's house after showing up in the "Twilight" films. Then there's the custom West Linn estate where the vampire Cullen family plotted in the garage to get rid of Bella. Both properties are for sale. Homeowners can make $1,200 a day if they lend their property to a film crew. Here are ways to get a location scout's attention.

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'Blasphemy' has the same number of letters in it as 'beautiful' and 'brilliant.' It has to do with the puritanical and generally philistine attitude, common in the art world as in the culture at large, that insists that if you're beautiful you can't also be brilliant. It's a function of the need to suppress the threat to seriousness that prettiness and frivolity pose, and that's why the painting's called Blasphemy. I'd begun to write about the general topic at this time and some twelve years later it turned into a book.


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Anderson Harp, 30-year Marine Corps vet digs deep into North Korea
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Jason Delgado is with me, and in studio this episode we have 30-year Marine Corps veteran and military fiction author Anderson Harp. Kicking off this episode however, we get an update from Derek Gannon who attended the recent protests in Dallas to cover the situation involving Antifa, BLM, as well as pro-Trump supporters. There was a surprising clash that went down between what many would think would be ally groups, and you can read about that in the article, "ANTIFA, unwelcome by Solidarity Movement, clashes with Black Lives Matter in Dallas."
Anderson joins us to talk about his novel, "Northern Thunder" from his Will Parker series, and although it's the 2017 book he's out promoting, it's actually the first of the series. To explain that a bit, Anderson wrote "Northern Thunder" over a decade ago which was followed by "Retribution" and "Born of War." Since that time our friends at Kensington Publishing picked up Harp as an author, and made some updates to the first novel which was then reissued. "Northern Thunder" which was actually banned in China, is just as relevant today as when Anderson wrote the book, if not more, as it deals with the threat of a nuclear North Korea. Harp's books have been praised by the likes of Brad Meltzer, and we expect the SOFREP audience to really dig his work. Anderson and Jason also talk about the differences they've seen in South Korean and Japanese culture from their time in Asia, as well as share some tales from both of their time at the Bridgeport, California Marine Corps base. Anderson has since obtained his Masters degree, and regularly runs marathons, proving some of the awesome things that one can achieve later on in life after an already distinguished military career.
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The Duration of Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury Predicts In-Hospital Mortality in Surgical Patients
Hung-Chieh Wua, Yu-Wei Chenb, c, d, Wei-Jie Wanga, e, Jui-Tsung Tinga, f, Han-Hsiang Chenb, c
aDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Taoyuan, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan
bDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
cMackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan
dGraduate Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
eDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
fCorresponding author: Jui-Tsung Ting, No.1492, Zhongshan Rd., Taoyuan City, Taoyuan County 33004, Taiwan (R.O.C)
Manuscript accepted for publication January 17, 2014
Short title: The Duration of Acute Kidney Injury
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/wjnu143w
Abstract ▴Top
Backgrounds: It has been known that severity of acute kidney injury can predict in-hospital and long term mortality. Recently, an additional parameter, duration of acute kidney injury (AKI), might allow better prediction of in-hospital mortality. We aimed to determine if duration of AKI adds additional prognostic information in postoperative patients with AKI.
Methods: The study enrolled surgical patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit. AKI cases were defined by RIFLE (risk, injury, failure, loss and end-stage renal failure) criteria and categorized according to tertiles of AKI duration: first tertile, less than 1 day; second tertile, 2 - 5 days; third tertile, ≥ 6 days. The hazard ratios (HRs) for in-hospital mortality after adjust multiple covariates compared to those without AKI were recorded. The predictability of mortality was accessed by calculating the area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic curve.
Results: In total, 504 postoperative patients with 377 developed AKI (first tertile: 124 cases, second tertile: 140 cases, third tertile: 113 cases) and 127 without AKI were enrolled. The overall in-hospital mortality was 39%. The in-hospital mortality rates were 15.7% (non-AKI), 28.2% (first tertile), 55% (second tertile), and 38.3% (third tertile) as well as the HRs for in-hospital mortality were 1.632, 2.956 and 2.212 compared to non-AKI group (P = 0.201, 0.010 and 0.040). Cumulative in-hospital survival rates differed significantly for non-AKI group vs. AKI groups (first, second and third tertile) (P < 0.001 by log-rank test). The AUC of AKI duration and stage together (0.696) was higher than AKI stage alone using RIFLE criteria (0.665) (both P < 0.001).
Conclusions: AKI duration was an additional predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with postoperative acute kidney injury.
Keywords: Acute kidney injury; RIFLE criteria; Duration; Mortality
Introduction ▴Top
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an ominous and common event in critical patients, occurring in up to 15.4% (3.1-75%) of patients after cardiovascular surgery [1]. AKI affects costs, lengths of hospitalization, in-hospital and long term mortality [2, 3]. The reported mortality rate was up to 60% [4, 5]. The incidence of postoperative AKI decreased and some study demonstrated surgical patients receiving perioperative hemodynamic optimization had reduced incidence of postoperative AKI [6]. However, postoperative AKI still had high mortality rate. The diagnosis of AKI and its classification are important.
Several predictors were associated with postoperative AKI, such as advanced age, emergent operation, liver disease, high body mass index, high risk operation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and peripheral venous occlusion disease [7]. Various criteria based on serum creatinine or urine output for AKI classification were also mentioned. RIFLE (risk, injury, failure, loss and end-stage renal failure) classification and acute kidney injury network (AKIN) criteria, purposed by a working group consisting of members of the acute dialysis quality initiative (ADQI) and AKIN, were important classifications and stages for AKI. Compared to RIFLE classification, the most notable change in AKIN criteria was the inclusion of a small change in serum creatinine more than 0.3 mg/dL, which increases sensitivity of detecting AKI [8, 9]. The validity of AKI stage to predict mortality had been known. However, it is insufficient to rely on AKI criteria as a predictor of mortality by identifying serum creatinine and/or urine output change. In addition to AKI stage, duration of AKI might provide prognostic information in patients with AKI. Some studies evaluated the association between duration of AKI and mortality in patients with postoperative AKI, but the result was limited [10, 11]. Lack of data on urine output and exclusion of critical ill patients might be some of the limitations of above studies. Some study demonstrated duration of AKI was an additional predictor of mortality in critical ill patients [12]. Despite urine output criteria were mentioned in the study, less than 5% of study population was surgical patients and surgery categories were not mentioned. We retrospectively reviewed biochemical, clinical parameters and organ scoring systems of critical surgical patients to assess the association between AKI duration and in-hospital mortality. We also compared the ability to predict mortality from AKI stages, from AKI duration and from AKI stages and duration together to evaluate whether AKI stages and duration together provided better prediction of mortality than AKI stage alone.
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This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (2000) of the World Medical Association, and the protocol was approved by the institutional review board of Mackay Memorial Hospital and informed consent was waived. Mackay Memorial Hospital is a tertiary referral center for kidney disease. This study was a single center investigation, and all patients in the study were directly diagnosed and followed up at Mackay Memorial Hospital.
This is a retrospective observational study that included 691 adult patients who underwent major surgery and admitted to the ICU department of Mackay Memorial Hospital from August of 2004 to April of 2011. Those undergoing chronic dialysis, less than 18 years of age, receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT) before surgery (n = 9) and initially admitted due to medical problems, such as respiratory failure (n = 28), hepatic failure (n = 23), congestive heart failure (n = 15), and septic shock (n = 31), were excluded. Besides, those without urine output record during AKI and lack of baseline renal function were also excluded (n = 9). Finally, those who needed renal replacement therapy during admission (n = 40), lengths of hospitalization less than 48 h (n = 20), any radiology study using intravenous contrast within the first 7 postoperative days (n = 5) and AKI developed 7 days later after surgery were excluded (n = 7). Consequently, a total 504 eligible patients were included for analysis.
Demographic data, underlying disease, source and severity of sepsis, surgery categories, serial renal function, lengths of ICU stay, lengths of hospitalization, AKI duration, the use of diuretics and vasoactive drugs, biochemical data and clinical characteristics, urine output during AKI period and ICU organ scoring system, such as acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE II) score, sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, simplified acute physiology score (SAPS) and multiple organ dysfunction score (MODS) were recorded. The urine output was recorded every 6 h. The definition of AKI as defined in Table 1, was based on the RIFLE classification [8]. The baseline renal serum creatinine, defined as last serum creatinine obtained before admission at outpatient department, and serum creatinine on ICU admission, initiation of AKI and peak AKI were also recorded for RIFLE classification. Patients with AKI were stratified according to the maximum of RIFLE class (RIFLE max). Duration of AKI was defined by the number of days from first day to the end of AKI that subjects met at least RIFLE-Risk classification. The end of AKI was determined when it did not conform to criteria of AKI. The duration of AKI was classified into three subgroups according to the tertiles of AKI duration. The first tertile was duration less than 1 day, the second tertile was duration between 2 and 5 days and the third tertile was duration more than 6 days. Patients who required renal replacement therapy during admission were excluded. Definitions of severe sepsis and septic shock were based on 2012 international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock [13]. A surgery was defined emergent if the anesthesiologist indicated an emergent code as part of the American Society of Anesthesiologist physical status code [11]. Respiratory failure with ventilator dependency was defined as those with hypoxic and/or hypercapnic respiratory failure who needed ventilator. Hypoxic respiratory failure was defined as arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2) of < 60 mmHg on room air at sea level while hypercapnic respiratory failure was hypoxia with an arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) of > 50 mmHg on room air at sea level. In-hospital mortality was recorded as primary outcome. Renal recovery was also examined. Complete recovery of AKI was defined as those with AKI who had serum creatinine no more than 0.2 mg/dL higher than baseline serum creatinine at end of AKI.
Click to view Table 1. Definition of RIFLE Classification
Continuous variables with a normal distribution were summarized as mean ± SEM unless otherwise stated. Variables with a non-normal distribution were expressed as median (interquartile range (IQR)). Patients without AKI were used as reference group. Analysis of variance (ANOVA), Chi-square, Mann-Whitney U or Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to assess differences of the demographic data, laboratory variables, lengths of hospitalization and recovery of AKI between patients with postoperative AKI (three subgroups) and non-AKI. The in-hospital mortality rate was recorded and calculated using Kaplan-Meier method. Cumulative survival curves for postoperative patients with different RIFLE classification and AKI duration were performed according to the log-rank test. The hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for in-hospital mortality were calculated using Cox proportional hazard model after adjusting age, gender, need for ventilator, organ scoring systems, surgery category, underlying diseases, emergent operation, the use of vasoactive drugs, source and severity of sepsis, baseline renal function, RIFLE max. The discriminative ability of the criteria to predict the mortality was assessed by the area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software (version 17.0, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and a P value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results ▴Top
In total, 504 patients who underwent surgery were enrolled. None of these patients received organ transplantation. The mean age for the patients was 64.7 years, with 353 (70%) males and 151 (30%) females. AKI cases were diagnosed by serum creatinine criteria (65.9%), urine output criteria (14.3%) or both (19.8%). The overall incidence of postoperative AKI was 74.8% (377 cases) and in-hospital mortality between AKI and non-AKI were 45.8% (173 cases) and 15.7% (20 cases). Most of patients underwent cardiovascular (48%) and abdominal surgery (29%). Baseline demographical, clinical, scoring systems, surgery categories and laboratorial characteristics for non-AKI and AKI subgroups were shown in Supplementary 1 (www.wjnu.org). Various parameters, such as baseline serum creatinine, the use of bumetanide during ICU admission, lengths of hospitalization, lengths of ICU stay, the proportions of AKI stages showed a significant difference among 4 groups. The organ scoring systems, such as APACHE II score, SOFA, SAPS and MODS, RIFLE max were also severer in AKI groups than non-AKI group. However, no significant difference was noted for age, gender, body mass index, cigarette smoker, need for ventilator, mean arterial pressure, serum creatinine at onset and peak AKI stage, source and severity of sepsis, surgery categories, underlying diseases, the use of diuretics and vasoactive drugs except bumetanide.
Figure 1 shows in-hospital survival curve in different groups according to their AKI stages by log-rank test (P < 0.001). The HRs (95% CIs) for in-hospital mortality compared to non-AKI were as follows: RIFLE-R, 2.049 (1.009 - 4.163); RIFLE-I, 2.282 (1.164 - 4.475); and RIFLE-F, 2.785 (1.456 - 5.327) (all Ps < 0.05). The mean duration of AKI in AKI group was 4.7 days (median, 3 days; IQR, 1 to 7 days). A 1-day increase in AKI duration led to 2.4% increase in-hospital mortality (P = 0.096). The AKI groups were subdivided into three subgroups according to duration of AKI: first tertile (n = 124), < 1 days; second tertile (n = 140), 2 to 5 days; third tertile (n = 113), > 8 days. The proportions of AKI were determined by urine output criteria in AKI groups were 30.6% (first tertile), 14.3% (second tertile) and 10.6% (third tertile). Figure 2 shows that the in-hospital survival curve according to the tertiles of AKI duration was different among four groups (P < 0.001 by log-rank test). The mortality rates were higher in AKI groups than non-AKI group. The unadjusted HRs were 1.890 (first tertile), 3.405 (second tertile), and 2.721 (third tertile) (all Ps < 0.05). The HRs were still significant in second tertile and third teritle after adjusting for confounding factors such as age, gender, need for ventilator, APACHE II, SAPS, SOFA, MODS, surgery category, underlying diseases, emergent operation, the use of vasoactive drugs, source and severity of sepsis, baseline renal function, and RIFLE max (Table 2). The lengths of hospitalization were shorter in non-AKI group (mean, 29.6 days; median, 20 days) than AKI groups (first tertile: mean, 30.1 day, median, 18 days; second tertile: mean, 31.8 days; median, 21 days; third tertile: mean, 37.6 days, median, 27 days) (P < 0.05 in second and third tertile groups). The proportions of recovery from AKI were significant different among AKI groups (first tertile: 71.7%, second tertile: 60.7%, third tertile: 30.9%) (P < 0.001). The AUC (95% CI) of the ROC for in-hospital mortality was 0.688 (0.641 - 0.734) according to tertiles of AKI duration. When duration of AKI was considered as continuous variable, the AUC was 0.680 (0.633 - 0.727). The AUC of ROC for in-hospital mortality was higher when AKI duration and stage were considered together (0.696 (0.649 - 0.742)) than the AUC calculated by AKI stage using RIFLE classifications (0.665 (0.617 - 0.712)) (all Ps < 0.001).
Click for large image Figure 1. Cumulative survival rate for 504 postoperative patients based on their AKI stages using RIFLE criteria. The overall in-hospital survival rates were significantly different among four groups (P < 0.001 by log-rank test).
Click for large image Figure 2. Cumulative survival rate for 504 surgical patients based on their duration of AKI during admission. The overall in-hospital survival rates were significantly different among four groups (P < 0.001 by log-rank test).
Click to view Table 2. Hazard Ratios for In-Hospital Mortality According to Duration of AKI
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This retrospective study demonstrated duration of postoperative AKI predicts in-hospital mortality in surgical patients after adjustment for organ scoring systems, underlying disease, surgery category, AKI stages, source and severity of sepsis, baseline and clinical characteristics. It suggested that duration of postoperative AKI was an additional predictor for in-hospital mortality. We also found liver disease, advanced age, and AKI stages can predict in-hospital mortality of surgical patients with postoperative AKI.
The validity of AKI stage to predict mortality, proposed by either AKIN criteria or RIFLE classification, had been known [8, 9, 14]. However, the definition of AKI was not fully optimized. Some patients with AKI were undiagnosed and the mortality rates were not increased with AKI stages proportionally [15, 16]. It might explain by the shortcoming of serum creatinine, limitations of urine output criteria and failure to identify other predictors of mortality in patients with AKI [17, 18]. Serum creatinine might not be a good gold standard biomarker for AKI because the magnitude of serum creatinine rise might associate with volume status and muscle mass. Plasma neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and serum cystatin C were superior to serum creatinine in prediction of AKI after cardiac surgery [19]. Compared to those studies without data on urine output, our study defined AKI using creatinine criteria and urine output criteria [10, 11]. Proportions of AKI diagnosed by urine output criteria alone ranged from 2.9-25.7% and 19.8% in our study [12, 18]. Besides, we assessed whether the new parameter, duration of AKI, was a predictor of in-hospital mortality or not. The current consensus definition of AKI as proposed by RIFLE classifications does not incorporate any duration component into the definition.
The duration of AKI may be a surrogate of recovery potential of the injured kidney. The more severe and treatment resistant and AKI case is, the longer duration of the AKI becomes. AKI is not only disease of kidney, it can also affect the function of other organ. The longer duration of AKI might be reflective of more severely ill or extra-renal organ dysfunction and it takes longer to recovery from AKI. Patients with younger age, more renal masses, and faster restoration of renal medullary blood flow might regain renal function more quickly [11, 20]. Previous studies divided duration of AKI into groups: transient azotemia (< 3 days) and acute tubular necrosis (> 4 days); short (< 2 days), medium (3 - 6 days), and long (> 7 days); first, second, third tertiles of AKI duration and renal replacement therapy group [11, 12, 21]. In our study, we defined groups according to tertiles of AKI duration. We excluded patients with renal replacement therapy because renal replacement therapy can confound AKI duration [22]. The duration of AKI was mostly within 15 days. As previous study, less than 3% (2.8%) of patients had AKI duration longer than 2 weeks [21].
There were several limitations in present study. First, the study population is within one medical center, thus the result might not extrapolate into other patient population. Because of different AKI treatment individually, the outcome and duration of AKI wound be different. Duration may change depend on treatment regimens. Diuretics might increase urine output but did not alter the discriminative function of urine output criteria for survival rate [18]. Second, the exclusion of patients without data on urine output may lead to selection bias. Third, the predictive accuracy of Cox proportional hazard model has its own limitations. Finally, there might be residual confounding factors which may attenuate the relationship between duration of AKI and in-hospital mortality.
In summary, duration of postoperative AKI predicts in-hospital mortality in surgical patients after adjustment for organ scoring systems, underlying disease, emergent operation, surgery category, AKI stages, source and severity of sepsis, baseline and clinical characteristics. Moreover, the ability of AKI duration and AKI stage together to predict in-hospital mortality was better than AKI stage alone by using AUC of ROC curve. The durations and severity of AKI were both parameters for surgical patients. This study was limited by the retrospective nature; therefore, the treatment strategy and subsequent outcomes could not be validated. A prospective multi-center, interventional study is warranted to evaluate potential treatment options for patients classified according to the RIFLE criteria and duration of AKI.
Declaration of Interest
The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
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So close on finishing The Fledgling. Down to 24 chapters now. two chapters were short and were related. they became one.
Kat's coming along good. It took a major twist yesterday, one I didn't plan on. But I have the way out. Damn subconscious driving me again.


This is the first time I've ever been given an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of a book to promote as part of a blog tour (thank you, Sage!) and I'm really glad that this was my first choice!
Man Mission, is Eytan Uriel's true coming of age story told through a recounting of fifteen years of 'guy trips' that he took with his three best friends. Not only is the book well-written (you'll be in awe of the descriptions of the amazing places to which these guys travelled) it's emotional and thought-provoking.
We meet Eytan, Sam, Alec and Dan in college…they are embarking on their independent lives and exhibiting all the signs of early 20s young men; they are full with both hope and hubris. Over the next fifteen years, we get 15 chapters (one representing each year of the Man Mission trips they take) interspersed with stories surrounding the trips: they find careers, get married, have children and find their own struggles.
The trips that the 4 men take are as ridiculous as they are amazing: they are completely unprepared to do things like arduous hikes in New Zealand and sail in Thailand but the descriptions of their tenacity and the landscapes around them are incredible!
More incredible, perhaps, is the fifteen-year bond that develops between the 4 men and the insights into their hearts and minds that we are given by Uliel. As a woman, wife and 'boy mom,' I was fascinated by the men's camaraderie, behaviors and perceptions of themselves. I learned a tremendous amount about the pressure that men place on themselves and their notions of what it means to be a man.
Along the path, I was often frustrated by the chauvinistic, chest-thumping activities the men engaged in but appreciated Uliel's willingness to portray himself and his friends in an unvarnished way. The story, with all of the men's sensitivities and flaws, rang true in a way that kept me reading to the end.
I found myself rejoicing in each man's triumph's and cringing at each man's struggles. There were certainly triggers for me around some of the heartless, misogynistic behavior that is portrayed in the book but I considered it a fair trade-off for a glimpse inside these men's hearts and minds.
If you have a love of travelogues and memoirs, this book provides the best of both worlds. As I mentioned, I read an ARC and it did not include any photos but if the final copy includes any photos of these 'blokes' and their adventures, I can only imagine that those would be great fun as well!
I highly recommend Uriel's debut, Man Mission, for its look at the world: the ones both beyond our gaze and behind our eyes!
To get your copy (at the time of this writing, the Kindle version is only $3.99!) click on the cover below!


Why aren't we allowed to throw away items that don't sell? I need more space!
Or even better let us get the things we need to expand our inventory!!!!
I thought I saw an 'x' (delete) button when I was maxed. Perhaps similar to BS2.
Yes confirmed there's a "X" to throw away items in the inventory and there's no discard function in the City Exchange to free up the sale slot.
I think it's part of the game design where we cant sell upgrade parts. So keep submitting order or tap on your citizens to get these parts. And mastering businesses will reward them too.
I display the mastered shops to meet the requirements for City Hall but I store my extra mastered shops so to be able to keep submitting orders and get more parts and coins from them. Yap we all badly need space. Try rearranging your city. The City Hall and the factories are the only buildings which dont need roads so place them in the centre. Main thing is dont stop your orders cos we need those parts to upgrade/expand. Hope this helps.
After a certain time if the item isn't sold it needs to be returned to inventory, sold for a lower price or something. If no one buys we can't use the spaces which sometimes you need to free up space for items in your inventory.
Every so often I buy an item from the market, hopefully it helps someone out.
Are these people selling items real people? I see the same cities all the time: San Francis(co missing), Brasilia, Berlin, London, Sydney, Paris and Rome. Never see any other USA cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, Miami etc nor any Canadian cities.
I think those cities are based on approximate location. I did just see New York in the list. Others I see are Paris, Bras?lia, Rome, Hong Kong, Berlin, Seoul.
Level 12 here. All my stuff has been selling very fast, but today it just sits all day in the shop. What's up?
Is there a limit on how much I can sell in the trading post each day? I was selling like gangbusters and now it's stopped since about five hours ago. If I can't sell, I can't play since my storage is so limited right now. I have tons of stuff waiting to be collected from my factories, but I only have about five slots left to get my shipments out.
Same problem here, overloaded n storage and cant bring more stuff. Have four slot open n store but three seem to be out of commition. The forth will sell stuff, albeit a lot slower than before.
Same problem too, not selling anything in the trade post and yesterday everything sold as soon as I posted it.
So yesterday everything was flying off the shelves. Now today I was gone for over 8 hrs and not one item sold. Something is wrong. I'd take the punch and just remove them but once u list it...there is no way I can see to delete or remove item etc. so my store has 6 items just sitting that aren't selling and I need to sell stuff to make room in inventory as usual because the inventory gets sucked up by parts we need. But the game is useless if I can't use my store or sell anything. I don't get why I could sell stuff yesterday and all days prior and now can't sell a thing. Why isn't there an option to delete the item up for sale at least if it doesn't sell?
I haven't been able to sell much today either. Yesterday was awesome, everything was selling in seconds.
Same thing. Selling fast yesterday. Today it sits or glitches to show a certain item doubled. Then it switched back. Not moving.
Can't play anymore if it is not working.
Slot #1 started working this morning and I was able to sell three items that were filling my storage....and then it stopped again. Slots 2 and 3 are dead. I can understand a couple of hours, but not overnight.
Yeah and with the harbor boat, u get stuck in a deadlock where u can't even play. Trying to store stuff that takes a long time to make just to fulfill the boat request but yet trying to fill regular orders but storage fills up mainly with expansion/storage parts. So your only choices to free up space are to sell stuff (but that doesn't work if stuff isn't selling) or to get rid of things in storage like expansion needed parts or things u have made (which makes no profit). It's all screwed up.
It would be nice eh? Hey MODS, some help...can u ask or find out for us?
east think we could just delete a pending sale if it's not selling. But I think there's a glitch because why when I go to buy something it's like people are buying like crazy, u gotta be quick or its gone. Yet my stuff has sat there for 3'days.
Same problem. Nothing I list is selling. This game is the least user friendly I have played if all these issues are there on purpose. Not being able to sell the expansion parts or delete a sale item makes for very poor playability.
I've reported this in for the team to check. Thanks.
Aside to all: You can report in this bug thread (http://forums.storm8.com/showthread.php?92963-Can-t-sell-item-in-market-anymore) if you are experiencing this.
did you expect to see a listing from Antarctica?
I see names today, yesterday was cities, today is names. Every other cycle I get the same names with the same items. They are in different spots, but still the same ones. I noticed this because the same person is trying to sell 20 hats and it is always showing up. My sale items are selling really slow, takes hours for a sale.
I'm not impressed with going to the exchange to buy and finding that over half of the stock has sold and all I'm left with us sugar to buy. When I first started using the market things wouldn't sell out - I'd always have a good selection to pick from - but now always gone when I visit. What is the point?????? It's really annoying! It's hard enough to fill the boardwalk orders without a full market.
All there is to purchase is sugar it seems, not helpful at all.
All I get to buy is sugar, ice cream cones and hats. It was working great 4 days ago, now nothing good to buy and sales are really slow, takes hours to sell something.
Seeing as how sugar isn't required THAT much and I have a stack of alternating coffee and sugar at least 8+ high at any moment it's a little disappointing to just see sugar in the Exchange. What I need are usually Tradecraft tools. I'd buy stacks of Pliers and Chisels if anyone ever sold them!
At a stalemate here. Can't progress because storage is full, items won't sell, and nothing I need to buy. Unless I spend a fortune on gems, which I won't. Tapped out on Farm Story 2 as far as buying gems. I rather like this game, at least before this weekend. Hope the store problem is a fixable glitch. Plus once in a rare while, someone named 'someone' buys my stuff. Can we name our cities and buy from one another?
I need these items too! I make sugar and coffee at night and have more than what I need but always need tradecraft tools.
Just hit level 11 and pretty much ever since the exchange opened for me it's been a nonstop sugar fest. I haven't even had businesses asking for sugar in orders, though I think the boardwalk did once. My best find was 5 stoves, I HATE making stoves and griddles!! I also get a lot of listings for things I can't even make yet, hats and popcorn and baseball bats....that's not very useful either!
Anyone else notice a change to how long before we get new orders? It was 5 minutes before the orders reset, now it's 6.
For several weeks, most of the items that are posted for sale in my Exchange are chauffeur hats and baseball bats. I 'assume' that the coders have the ability to 'load' items in the Exchange.
I'd like more variety. For example items from Tradecraft, Furniture, Kitchenware, Appliances and Casual Wear. Can the coders load some different products?
And, I wonder if others are seeing the similar collection of items as I have.
I'm level 18 , and there was more variety in the Exchange for me at the lower levels.
I see tons of chauffeur hats and baseball bats too. I always assumed that was because a lot of people make extras of those, since they require no pre-crafts, in order to keep their factories from being idle and hopefully make a little money on them. So if 80% of the offers that players make are those 2 items, and they take a random sampling, chances are we will see them take up 80% of the space in our exchanges most of the time.
Personally, I'd LOVE to see more t-shirts or any other casualwear items in the market. Whenever I do see anything that is casualwear or requires a t-shirt, I buy it, no matter how many are in the offer, or the price, or whether I need it right then or not. It's SO worth it to me to not have to make them. I also buy any Tradecraft, or item that has a tradecraft pre-craft, as well, no matter the price. Like ovens as you mentioned. But I almost never see any of the things I want either. So I check the exchange obsessively. Once in a while... I scored 7 t-shirts once! That's 5:15 hours of coveted casualwear time saved! Even just a chisel I jump on. Once I scored 3 jeans too. I may not need them now but I always will soon.
I do the exact same thing buying any and every item that is made in the tradecraft or casual wear factories wether I need it or not. I don't see them very often either although I would never sell any of those items either lol.
Would be nice if the game just generated a random item in a few of the slots, or maybe it does idk.
Who on earth had time to make and sell 60 caramel corn and why would someone buy that many?
Not sure if it was a glitch or what but thought its was funny when I saw it.
OH gosh, that is crazy. I've seen unusually high quantities , but your example is way out there!
I try to do the same, but as you know it is slim pickings. You've had some good luck! good for you. I deleted the bricks and sledgehammers in my storage. to make room for real merchandise.
I also see a lot those hats and bats. It's irritating. They're so easy to make, why buy them? So I will sell tools, clothing, etc in hopes that the exchange will offer more of a variety.
I just deleted 20 saws myself. It really hurts to have to delete them all rather than delete down to 5... or even better be able to exchange those items so those who need them can pay me a ton for them lol. I have never played a game before that didn't let us do that.
But I always keep bricks & sledgehammers (and hard hats but really I NEVER get enough of those). Because we are forced to grow up rather than out and the more of each type of highrise we build, the more of those items spare required to open slots. But I may be forced to sell sledgehammers soon too. The ginormous gap between when players are ready to expand and when the game allows us to is at least as bad as any other Storm8 game I've played.
I always delete parts that start to get out of control. Like when I have 18 bubble wraps and only 2 of the others.
I don't understand the people that sell large quantities of anything. Especially stuff like hats and bats. There is a 65 hat one that keeps showing up today. Does anyone ever even have 65 available slots? Not to mention I would never even buy 1 hat let alone 65. I guess I don't understand people needing money since I just hit $300,000 the other day.
45 coffees?! I buy coffees all the time but never more than 4 at a time. Geez...I feel sorry for these people since they can't get rid of the order and no one will ever buy it.
I find the City Exchange boring when buying. Selling is great as I make the expensive items to sell and they go quickly. But you can't buy interesting items or items that are ridiculously long to make or to collect i.e. Bricks. I'm fully expanded and could really use bricks to fill up my high rises. It's full of blue caps, baseball bats, hot chocolate or sugar. Please open it up to sell and buy building, upgrading or expansion parts.
Same issue here, only my City Exchange is almost always full of large amounts of Chauffeur caps. I don't understand why people make so many of them?? Waiting 5 minutes to check again and it refreshes with more capssssss! Occasionally some coffee is thrown in but geez the exchange is useless most of the time!
If no one buys them, I believe storm8 automatically purchases them after 48 hours. So the player still accrues coins.


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TheRustedChain - The Blog: Insignificant.
Do you struggle with feeling insignificant?
Like one tiny speck in the middle of a huge shore of sand. This little life - what does it matter?
Have you ever noticed the graceful curves of a tulip?
Have you ever listened to the melody of a stream?
Have you ever smelled the fragrance after a rain?
Have you ever looked deeply at the intricacies of a flower?
Have you ever stood in awe looking at mountains or an ocean?
Have you ever heard a bird's sweet song?
Have you ever turned your face to the sun and basked in it's warmth?
Have you ever gasped at the spontaneous beauty of a rainbow?
Have you ever wondered at a snowflake stuck to the window?
God inserted so much beauty into the earth, all for our enjoyment.
How much more beauty did He use to create you? Me.
Tell me again how you feel insignificant.
You are not. Your fingerprints, your freckles, your curves, the gap in your teeth, your tears, your ideas, your talents, your dreams, your hopes, the way you snort when you laugh, ... they all matter.
I hope you pause on that. I hope it takes your breath away, just for a moment. I hope you let it seep into your soul.
Thank you for this-I am pursuing classes that none of my family except my kids support and it is so easy to feel down and discouraged. And satan is really busy telling me things I should not be listening to. I love your stuff-even in your down times you always speak to me. Blessings!


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Yesterday's News: Police radio pioneer suffered fatal heart attack at his post
Night Desk Sgt. Samuel R. "Bob" Smith was in the radio room of the Henderson Police Department the night of Feb. 17, 1941, when he collapsed from a heart attack.
Yesterday's News: Police radio pioneer suffered fatal heart attack at his post Night Desk Sgt. Samuel R. "Bob" Smith was in the radio room of the Henderson Police Department the night of Feb. 17, 1941, when he collapsed from a heart attack. Check out this story on thegleaner.com: http://www.thegleaner.com/story/news/columnists/frank-boyett/2016/02/14/yesterdays-news-police-radio-pioneer-suffered-fatal-heart-attack-at-his-post/86973768/
The Gleaner Published 12:00 a.m. CT Feb. 14, 2016
Photo courtesy of Poss Coomes The Henderson Police Department poses in front of the police station at old city building circa 1938-39. Pictured (front row from left) are R.L. Duke, fingerprint expert; John Fitzgerald, chief of police; Lyman Roll, detective; (second row) Patrolmen Ira Campbell, Shelby Reid, Claud Tabor and Ira Willingham; Bob Smith, desk sergeant; Engrum Coomes, patrolman; (third row) Patrolmen Roy Galloway, Lilburn Hunter and Gordon Humphrey; Elliot Denton, license inspector; Sherman Hill, desk sergeant; Denver Waide, traffic officer; and Eugene Hall, patrolman; and (back row) Fount Miller, patrolman, and Gordie Coomes, traffic officer. Visible at far right is a corner of the old county jail.(Photo: Picasa)
Night Desk Sgt. Samuel R. 'Bob' Smith was in the radio room of the Henderson Police Department the night of Feb. 17, 1941, when he collapsed from a heart attack.
Patrolman Otis Womack discovered him on the floor and called for help, but Smith died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. His name, however, is not on the Central Park monument dedicated to local law enforcement officers who fell in the line of duty.
Perhaps it should be.
Smith was one of the pioneers of police radio in Henderson County. He could rightly be considered a predecessor of the men and women who man the 911 Emergency Dispatch Center, which is currently undergoing a major overhaul and expansion.
The Henderson Police Department didn't get its first radio until 1938, according to an article in the Oct. 16 edition of The Gleaner that year. It said a 20-watt transmitter and receiver was being installed in the police station by off-duty members of the Evansville Police Department's radio division, and would soon be up and humming.
Five Henderson officers were to be given instruction in operation of the radio, and Smith was one of them. All were to receive third-class radio licenses from the Federal Communications Commission at the end of their training. The others were Chief John Fitzgerald, Day Desk Sgt. Sherman Hill, Detective Ira Williams and Patrolman E.G. Crowley.
That first radio system was pretty primitive, though. Only one patrol car was equipped with a radio receiver, and it had no capacity to transmit. It could only receive messages from headquarters.
But improvements were not long in coming. The Gleaner of July 25, 1940, noted the original 20-watt radio had just been replaced with a 50-watt transmitter the previous night. Roy McConnell, head of the radio division at the Evansville Police Department, arrived with the FCC permit allowing its use.
'With the new transmitter, Henderson joins a hookup including Evansville, Owensboro, Bowling Green, Hopkinsville and, indirectly, the (Indiana) State Police headquarters in Jasper, Ind.,' the article said. 'With this inter-town hookup a police dragnet can quickly be laid around any criminals who venture into this territory.'
The last paragraph of that story, however, adds a note of uncertainty. Up to that point all of the newspaper coverage had been about the Henderson Police Department. But then there is a reference to the Henderson County Sheriff's Department:
'The cost of the transmitter and two radios installed in the sheriff's cars was partially paid for from proceeds of the police minstrel (show) held in the early part of the summer.' The 'sheriff's cars' wording may have been an error on the part of the reporter, but perhaps that's when the Sheriff Department entered the radio age.
But back to Bob Smith, who at 63 was most likely the oldest member of the department at that time. He had been desk sergeant for five years, according to a more in-depth story in The Gleaner of Feb. 19, 1941, but had been a patrolman for several years prior to that.
I really don't know a whole lot more about Smith other than he had been grand master of the Louisville Masonic Lodge, and was a member of the Moose Lodge here at the time of his death. He and his wife, Kate, for several years had operated a small grocery at Letcher and Washington streets.
His children included Blanche Troutman and Mrs. Basil Hicks of Evansville, as well as a son, Thomas Smith, who lived here but was district manager for the Evansville Ideal Pure Milk Co. He also had six grandchildren.
Members of the Police Department were his pallbearers. His place as night desk sergeant was taken by Ira Campbell, according to an April 1, 1941, story in the Evansville Press.
Other members of the department, according to that story, included Chief Shelby Reid, Sgt. Sherman Hill and Patrolmen Chester Elliott, Ben T. White, Denver Overfield, Engram Coomes, Fount Miller, Eugene Hall, Gordon Humphrey, Monroe Willingham and Otis Womack.
An early morning fire ravaged the Princess Theater on Second Street, according to the Feb. 13, 1916, edition of The Gleaner.
The Princess was one of Henderson's older moving picture theaters. According to Vol. 19, page 186, of The Moving Picture World, the Princess opened in either late 1913 or early 1914.
Initial press coverage in 1916 indicated it had been 'destroyed,' but by March 10 rumors that it would be rebuilt began to circulate. And they were true, because S.H. Kimmel bought the property, renamed it The Kimmel, and the theater lasted well into the 1940s. Its end came on Valentine's Day 1943, when fire once again gutted the building. Portions of debris remained until 1951. The lot was vacant until Ohio Valley Bank built a drive-through facility there in 1960.
Approximately 3,750 residents of Henderson County would be eligible for Medicare when the program kicked off, according to a Feb. 16, 1966, article in The Gleaner, although the majority of them were already receiving Social Security.
The approximately 3,000 on Social Security would automatically receive medical insurance under Medicare, but another 750 needed to sign up for the program by March 31 — or they would have to wait two years for another chance to sign up. The program provided hospitalization coverage once the patient paid the initial $40. After that Medicare covered expenses for 60 days, although not luxuries such as TV sets or private nurses.
The city of Henderson won a major legal battle over ownership of a key piece of the riverfront, The Gleaner reported Feb. 21, 1991. Dennis Francis had been occupying the land at the end of Seventh Street for 25 years, but Circuit Judge Carl Melton ruled that had been only because of the city's generosity. The city later settled with Francis and his wife for $400,000.
Frank Boyett can be found on Facebook or on Twitter at @BoyettFrank.
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Youth-Led Women's March Rally to Move Forward, CTU Poll Puts Preckwinkle Ahead in the Race for Mayor
By Aaron Cynic on January 8, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
CTU Poll Puts Preckwinkle in the Lead, Many Still Undecided
A new poll released by the Chicago Teachers Union shows that while Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle holds the lead among candidates in the Chicago Mayor's race, a good chunk of likely voters are still undecided.
The poll, conducted in mid-December by Lake Research Partners, shows Preckwinkle in the lead, garnering 18 percent of the 600 likely voters surveyed. Preckwinkle is followed by Susana Mendoza and Bill Daley, with 12 and 10 percent respectively. While all other candidates received single digit percentages, some 19 percent say they're still firmly undecided. The CTU endorsed Preckwinkle in December.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle speaks at an endorsement press conference alongside CTU and SEIU officials in December. Photo by Aaron Cynic.
More than half surveyed say they're both pessimistic about the direction the city is headed in as well as the state of Chicago Public Schools. Meanwhile, some 62 percent have a favorable view of the CTU – but lower ratings for both the Chicago City Council and Board of Education – at 48 percent and 45 percent unfavorable respectively.
The data in the poll also suggests a majority of voters want to see whoever ends up occupying the office on the fifth floor of City Hall make educational investment a priority, as well as addressing wealth inequality in Chicago's neighborhoods and racial segregation in determining attendance boundaries for schools.
The union says the poll confirms its agenda.
"A majority of voters say both the city and CPS are on the wrong track," said CTU President Jesse Sharkey in a press release. "Voters want wealthy corporations and individuals to pay their fair share of taxes, and they want a new mayor to prioritize the needs of Chicago's working class families, including the Black and Latinx families whose children make up the vast majority of the city's public school students."
A large number of those surveyed say they're in favor of making wealthier individuals and corporations in Chicago pay their fair share in taxes. 73 percent say they're in favor of a millionaires' income tax, while about 60 percent say they're in favor of suing banks to recover losses from 'toxic swaps' and taxing large corporations that pay their employees less than $12 an hour.
"This poll confirms strong public support for what this union is battling for—adequately funded schools, dignity for our teachers and paraprofessionals, safe communities, and a city that is livable and affordable for every Chicagoan, regardless of the color of their skin or the size of their wallet," said CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates. "People want to live in a truly equitable city—and they want the next mayor to take up that challenge in our schools and in our neighborhoods."
Youth-Led Women's March Slated for January 19th
While a formal Women's March from organizers of previous marches late last year, a youth-led rally will take place on January 19th in Chicago.
Women's March Chicago organizers cancelled their January march in late November, citing concerns over cost and resources.
A woman holds a sign at the Chicago Women's March in 2018. Photo by Aaron Cynic.
"Because WMC put so much time, money, energy, and effort into our October event, we will not be marching in January," the group wrote in a Facebook post. The first Women's March drew more than a quarter-million people to Grant Park downtown, and subsequent marches and rallies drew hundreds of thousands over the past two years.
The announcement from Women's March Chicago organizers came amid a controversy over alleged links between national organizers with the movement and Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan. According to the Chicago Tribune, Farrakhan gave a speech in February of 2018 where he praised Tamika Mallory, co-President of Women's March Inc, and simultaneously made anti-Semitic remarks. The national organization denounced those comments in March, and over the following months Women's March chapters across the country followed suit and in some cases, distanced themselves from the national organization.
Organizers with Women's March Chicago said they're not directly affiliated with Women's March Inc, but rallies and marches in the past have been held in step with ones occurring nationwide.
"That sort of infighting within the movement is very painful. It's very painful to watch," Sara Kurensky, a Women's March Chicago Board Member, told the Tribune at the time. "When a handful of leaders … say something, they are not speaking for an entire movement."
Jazmine-Marie Cruz, a freshman at Roosevelt University who's organizing the march on the 19th, said she didn't feel she knew she had a voice until the 2017 Women's March took place.
"I watched countless racial and hate-based acts of violence happen on the news, and I watched privileged white men make decisions regarding women's rights," said Cruz in a Tuesday morning press release. "It was infuriating. And then the 2017 Women's March happened. Thousands of women gathered to show that when our voices are united, we can move mountains. I participated in the 2018 Milwaukee March and joined thousands of others in resistance to bigotry."
The event is being supported by Women's March Illinois, an affiliate of the Women's March Network, and is in part promoting the group's 10 point 'Women's Agenda.' That agenda includes ending state violence, immigrant and LGBTQIA+ rights, racial, environmental, reproductive, and economic justice, disability rights, and ending violence against women and femmes.
"I want to make sure that young women have a chance to raise their voices here in Chicago on January 19, 2019, and that we show the diversity and inclusion of the Women's March," said Cruz. "I want to show others who, like me, have felt powerless that they are dynamic and life changing. All voices deserve to be heard no matter the age, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or size."
The Young Women's March rally will take place Saturday, January 19th in Federal Plaza beginning at 10:00am.
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Sallie Axl Wiki, Age, Height, Husband, Baby, Boyfriend, Family, Tattoo, Bio
Celebrity Wiki By Jeevan Shetty On February 17, 2019
Sallie Axl Wiki
Sallie Axl whose real name is Sallie Waterhouse was born on October 3, 1986, in Wallasey, England, UK. She is a Glamour Model, reality television personality and an Instagram star who became popular after being a housemate in the 14th season of Big Brother reality show. Recently, the Big Brother star undergone gruesome plastic surgery for her legs to make herself taller.
Sallie Axl has recently shocked her fans after she revealed about her heel implants to make herself taller. The glamour star turned to Botched surgeons for the unusual plastic surgery to add some extra inches to her 5" 2 frames. The glamour model has recently shared a picture of herself from the hospital bed after her gruesome surgery. The Botched surgeons, Dr. Paul Nassif, and Dr. Terry Dubrow performed the arthroplasty to add some extra inches to Sallie.
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After her surgery, Sallie Axl addressed her followers making a video and posting it on her Instagram. She came under fire for the procedure and also mentioned that she doesn't really care about what haters say about her bum implants and foot implants. Further, she added that everyone will get foot implants next year. In addition to that, Sallie thanked her fans to their great support in her decision.
Recently, she stabbed her Ex-Boyfriend with Scissors because he laughed at her when she was self-harming. Later, in the footage it is clear that this incidence occurred in front of a toddler. Furthermore, she has cuts on her wrists and this video also available on the Internet and police started an inquiry.
Sallie Axl Family
The Beauty Model seems to have completed her High School graduation. Since her young age, Sallie wanted to look more sexy, hot and attractive. She dreamt of entering into the modeling industry. However, the model has not shared much information about her parents and siblings on social media and kept her personal life very private.
Sallie Axl Career
The 32-year-old Glamour Model describes herself as 'bitch' and has multiple affairs including various celebrities and footballers. Moreover, she also said to have slept with more than 70 girls as she is a Bisexual. By profession, she is a model, who entered into glamour world from the past two years by uploading her sexy pics on social media.
She has made modeling a core part of her lifestyle. She has tattoos over her body and by night she is a DJ. In 2010, she created her twitter account and her first tweet read "<3 New To twitter <3." In 2009, she had participated in The X Factor show and also made it to the boot camp round. After she appeared on the Big Brother, UK 14th season, she started to get more fame and recognition, however, she was eliminated later.
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The Instagram star is presently the mother of two daughters, Nirvana and Savannah. In one of the Instagram post in March 2016, Sallie Axle revealed that she will be raising her daughters as a single mom, since their dad doesn't want to be there. Currently, Sallie is separated from her husband, but the couples have joint custody of the child.
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Krajníčko falu és önkormányzat (obec) Csehország Dél-Csehországi kerületének Strakonicei járásában. Területe 7,52 km², lakosainak száma 96 (2008. 12. 31). A falu Strakonicétől mintegy 16 km-re délkeletre, České Budějovicétől 39 km-re északnyugatra, és Prágától 109 km-re délre fekszik.

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Q: How to draw an updating line My goal is very simple. Imagine opening MSPaint, clicking the line tool, holding mouse down, and dragging it around. It anchors the starting coordinates where you clicked mouse down and constantly draws and redraws a line to your current position.
Except me trying to do this in C# isn't working as well as I would hope.
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr GetDC(IntPtr hWnd);
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
static extern int ReleaseDC(IntPtr hwnd, IntPtr dc);

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
    endingPoint = GetMouseCoords();
    DrawLine(startingPoint, endingPoint);
}

private void DrawLine(Point startingCoords, Point endingCoords)
{
    IntPtr desktop = GetDC(IntPtr.Zero);
    Pen pen = new Pen(Brushes.Red, 3);
    using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromHdc(desktop))
    {
        g.DrawLine(pen, startingCoords.X, startingCoords.Y, endingCoords.X, endingCoords.Y);
        g.Dispose();
    }
    ReleaseDC(IntPtr.Zero, desktop);
}

Using it this way, I only get the line drawn once. However, if I move the DrawLine() to a more static event like MouseUp, it will draw it, then disappear after about a quarter of a second.
What would be the best way to accomplish my goal here?
I would think that whatever event is being used to make the line disappear is what I would want to attach the drawing of the line to in the first place.

A: You need to have two drawing calls:

*

*One for the non-persistent line that follows the cursor in the MouseMove using someControls.CreateGraphics

*the other for the persisting line, triggered in the MouseUp, where

*

*you store the coordinates and

*call Invalidate on your canvas control and

*draw in the Paint event of your canvas  using its e.Graphics object.

Here is a minimal example code:
List<Point> allPoints = new List<Point>();
Point mDown = Point.Empty;

private void pictureBox1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    mDown = e.Location;
}

private void pictureBox1_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    allPoints.Add(e.Location);
    pictureBox1.Invalidate();
}

private void pictureBox1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Button.HasFlag(MouseButtons.Left))
    {
        pictureBox1.Refresh();
        using (Graphics G = pictureBox1.CreateGraphics())
            G.DrawLine(Pens.Red, mDown, e.Location);
    }
}

private void pictureBox1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
    if (allPoints.Count > 1) e.Graphics.DrawLines(Pens.Black, allPoints.ToArray());
}

Note that this uses a PictureBox as the canvas control. It is the control meant for this kind of interaction. Your code seems to draw onto the desktop, which doesn't belong to you. Drawing onto it in a persistent manner is not anything like what you would do with the/any Paint application.
Also note that my example stores a list of points and draws them as one non-closed Polyline. To draw them closed exchange DrawLines for DrawPolygon! To draw several such polylines or polygons you need to..

*

*..decide on the user interface for it, maybe add segment points only while the control-key is pressed and otherwise finish the current polyline

*store the points in a List<List, Point>>

Also note that this is one of the rare examples where using control.CreateGraphics is called for, as you actually do want a non-persistent drawing while the user moves the mouse.
In most other cases the Winforms graphics basic rule #1 applies:
Never use control.CreateGraphics! Never try to cache a Graphics object! Either draw into a Bitmap bmp using a Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp) or in the Paint event of a control, using the e.Graphics parameter..

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In PE this term we are looking at survival in and around water. To start off our swimming lessons we have been developing water confidence and practicing relaxing in the water so that we can float- as opposed to thrashing around and sinking! We have also been having a lot of fun!


As another useful data point we can examine the case of Taiwan, a country that replaced a collection of different insurance schemes with a National Health Insurance program in 1995. The percent of Taiwanese with health insurance rose from about 60% in 1994 to 96% a few years later. It turns out that in Taiwan's case, the forces that would increase costs roughly balanced the forces that would decrease costs.
Moreover, providing preventive care to all people, especially those who are currently uninsured, would likely save money by preventing later, costlier hospital visits—it's much cheaper, for instance, to treat diabetes early on than wait for a patient to get rushed to the ER. According to the Institute of Medicine, covering all Americans continuously would save the country anywhere from $65 billion to $130 billion in better health outcomes. Note that this is more than the estimated $80 to $100 billion it would cost to cover the uninsured. On the surface at least, universal coverage makes economic sense.
The catch that's always mentioned, of course, is that some sort of single-payer system would force rationing of health care and stifle innovation. Innovation is a harder problem, but it's worth noting that we already do ration care—by income, by location, by age. But the case for switching to a system that would cost roughly the same, if not less, as our present dysfunctional mess, and would lead to universal coverage, has a lot going for it.


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Colección del Milenio Clásicos: Danzas Húngaras (Orchestra Version) Alfred Scholz
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 1 in G Minor, WoO 1: Allegro molto
London Festival Orchestra & Alfred Scholz
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 2 in D Minor, WoO 1: Allegro non assai
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 3 in F Major, WoO 1: Allegretto
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 4 in F Minor, WoO 1: Poco sostenuto
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, WoO 1: Allegro
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 6 in D-Flat Major, WoO 1: Vivace
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 8 in A Minor, WoO 1: Presto
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 9 in E Minor, WoO 1: Allegro non troppo
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 10 in E Major, WoO 1: Presto
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 11 in D Minor, WoO 1: Poco andante
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 12 in D Minor, WoO 1: Presto
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 13 in D Major, WoO 1: Andantino grazioso
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 14 in D Minor, WoO 1: Un poco andante
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 15 in B-Flat Major, WoO 1: Allegretto grazioso
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 16 in F Minor, WoO 1: Con moto
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 17 in F-Sharp Minor, WoO 1: Andantino
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 18 in D Major, WoO 1: Molto vivace
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 19 in B Minor, WoO 1: Allegretto
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 20 in E Minor: Poco allegretto
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, No. 21 in E Minor, WoO 1: Vivace
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Joe Biden Jan 14
Google Tells Anyone Coming Into the Office to Take Weekly Covid Tests Amid Omicron Surge
Google told employees in a memo that it will enforce mandated testing as a "temporary measure" due to rising infection rates from the omicron variant.
personal finance Jan 14
Here Are 4 Ways to Get Your Retirement Savings Plan Back on Track
It's easy to lose sight of your retirement goals while juggling day-to-day financial responsibilities. But the steps you take now could add up big later on.
jobs Jan 14
This Is the Biggest Reason People Quit — and It's 10 Times More Important Than Pay
American workers have quit at record rates in the past year, and researchers say this is why.
Every day, service workers show up for jobs that are increasingly undesirable. Should you be tipping them more?
United States Jan 14
Work-From-Anywhere Jobs Are Hard to Come by. These Companies Have Them
About 95% of remote jobs have geographical restrictions, FlexJobs has found. Here's how to land a job that allows you to work from anywhere — and who has them.
New York Jan 14
Supreme Court Blocks Biden's Vaccine Mandate for Businesses—Here's What That Means for You
The federal vaccine mandate would have required workers at large private companies be vaccinated against Covid-19 or be regularly tested for the virus.
coronavirus Jan 14
President Biden urged companies to voluntarily impose Covid vaccination rules on workers after the Supreme Court blocked a government order to do that.
This 22-Year-Old Earns $200,000 Per Year in Tulsa, Oklahoma—and Saves Around $11,000 a Month. Now He's on Track to Retire in His 30s
At the end of 2020, Aaron Brock decided to move to Oklahoma via the Tulsa Remote program. Now, the 22-year-old is gearing up to live nomadically out of a van.
Considering a Move? These Are the Top 10 Cities for Young Professionals
These 10 cities offer young professionals the best opportunities, according to a recent study.
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These Are the Best Companies to Work for in France in 2022, Glassdoor Research Finds
Global Jobs website Glassdoor names the best companies to work for in France in 2022, based on employee reviews.
Some employers are offering student debt relief as part of a standard benefits package. The help can range from free guidance to direct payments on your loans.
Despite Higher Wages, Inflation Gave the Average Worker a 2.4% Pay Cut Last Year
Higher consumer prices in 2021 erased the raises many workers got from their employers. However, wage growth outstripped inflation for some lower earners.
How Much Do Others Make for the Same Job? Here's Where Employers Are Required by Law to Share Salary Ranges When Hiring
Laws requiring employers to disclose salary ranges on job openings are becoming more common.
These Are the Top Companies to Work for in the UK in 2022, According to Glassdoor
Jobs website Glassdoor compiled rankings of the best companies to work for in the U.K. in 2022.
travel Jan 12
Travel Is 'Roaring Back' — But the Industry Might Not Be Ready for a Boom
Despite the omicron variant, travelers are making plans to hit the road this year, whether the industry is ready for them or not.
Just 22% of People Give Themselves High Scores When It Comes to Financial Wellness
A survey shows that most people don't have confidence in their ability to provide for their families and handle life's unexpected financial events.
Here Are the Top Jobs in the US — and How to Land Them
Health-care jobs dominate U.S. News' latest rankings of the 100 best jobs in America, but it's a tech job that comes out on top.
Goldman Predicts the Euro Area Will Outgrow the U.S. Economy Over the Next Two Years
There are two reasons why Goldman thinks the euro zone will grow at a faster pace than the U.S. economy.
Markets Jan 10
Goldman Predicts the Fed Will Hike Rates Four Times This Year, More Than Previously Expected
High inflation and near-full employment will push the Fed to raise rates more quickly than expected, according to Goldman Sachs.
The Top 20 Companies on a Hiring Spree for Remote Workers This Year
2022 is kicking off with as tight of a job market as ever, and workers are looking for jobs with more flexibility.


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Meghan Markle's 'Suits' character will play role in series' final run
Updated: July 8, 2019 10:48 PM EDT
New mom Meghan Markle's character is still alive in the Suits universe, according to her TV husband Patrick J. Adams.
Adams and his co-star quit the drama after the seventh season as Markle went off to become a Duchess and he chose to pursue other projects, but now Patrick is heading back for the final run of shows.
Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, will not be returning but Adams insists her character, Rachel Zane, has not been killed off – and the popular legal eagle will be mentioned in the upcoming ninth season.
"For (my character) Mike (Ross), this is just a trip to New York," he tells Entertainment Tonight. "He's in Seattle, they (Mike and Rachel) are building their life together, it sounds like he's doing well.
"There's phone calls with Rachel saying, 'Goodbye, I love you', and, you know, I think there's some obvious acknowledgment that she's still there and a part of the show … I promise you they're happy."
Both Adams and his former TV love interest have become parents since departing the show – Meghan welcomed her first child with Prince Harry in May, while Adams and his wife, Troian Bellisario, became parents to a baby girl in October.
"Yeah, it's weird. We all have kids now," Adams laughs. "It's fantastic. I mean, it just changes everything in your life. It gives you a new purpose."
Meanwhile, the Duchess of Sussex is expected to make her first red carpet appearance since giving birth to son Archie at The Lion King premiere in London on Saturday.
Archie's christening moved to accommodate Queen Elizabeth's clashing schedule
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Q: Why isn't golang duck typing not working for me in my code below? In the code below, I'm trying to create concrete implementations of a Model interface and API interface:
package main

import "fmt"

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type Model interface {
    ID() string
}

type API interface {
    Create(Model)
}

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type ConcreteModel struct {}

func (model ConcreteModel) ID() string {
    return "123"
}

func (model ConcreteModel) Name() string {
    return "aron"
}

type ConcreteAPI struct{}

func (api ConcreteAPI) Create(model ConcreteModel) {
    fmt.Println("Created concrete model with id " + model.ID() + ", name " + model.Name())
}

func main() {
    // invocation via interface
    func(api API) {
        api.Create(ConcreteModel{})
    }(ConcreteAPI{})
}

Utterly confusing to me is why I get the following error when running this code:
ConcreteAPI does not implement API (wrong type for Create method)
        have Create(ConcreteModel)
        want Create(Model)

From what I glean about golang ducktyping, it would seem that ConcreteAPI should be fulfilling the contract of Create(Model) because ConcreteModel has the required methods of Model, namely ID() string.
The reason I want to try to do something like this is that func(api API) is a stand-in for something that knows how to play with concrete API implementations, in my intended real-world codebase.
Does anybody have suggestions on how to make whats above actually work?

A: ConcreteAPI doesn't implements API's method ,please you can add:
func( concreteApi *ConcreteAPI )  Create(Model){}
but you have another error see detail below:
ConcreteModel also doesn't implements  Model


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