Award-winning veteran war correspondent Mike Boettcher has seen a lot during his more than 30 years working as a journalist. From being kidnapped by terrorists in El Salvador in 1985 to surviving an attack by a suicide bomber in Baghdad in the mid-Aughts, Boettcher has found himself in a number of extremely dangerous situations throughout his career.
In the new documentary “The Hornet’s Nest,” Boettcher and his son Carlos, both working for ABC News, travel with the U.S. military to Afghanistan to capture footage of U.S. soldiers at war. I sat down with Boettcher during a tour stop in San Antonio a couple weeks ago after a screening of the film.
Tell me about the first time you ever stepped foot in Afghanistan.
The first time I stepped foot in Afghanistan was early 2002. The war began after 9/11 and I went there and there actually weren’t many troops coming in. When I stepped foot in Afghanistan, there’s something about that country – that part of the world – that has so much history. You’re stepping foot into a place that has been the crossroads of history for millenniums. That was not lost on me. I knew anything we would undertake there was not going to be easy.
In “The Hornet’s Nest,” you go into Afghanistan with your son Carlos by your side, who is also a journalist. Was it difficult for you to be a journalist there doing a job and also be a father who obviously was worried about his son’s well-being?
The story takes a whole different spin with [Carlos] there. I’m a dad, so I’m looking out for my son. I’m with my son in one of the most dangerous places on earth. The one thing I couldn’t let happen was I couldn’t let my son die. People always tell me they think it’s fascinating to see a film about a father and son in a warzone telling the stories of the war. We never wanted to tell a father/son story. But people thought Americans would want to see that part of the story. We acquiesced and went ahead and told those stories about the father son relationship because it’s something everyone can relate to. Not everyone can relate to war. Through the father/son story, we wanted to tell the bigger story of the war with all these other fathers and sons and mothers and daughters who are over there.
Why don’t you think Americans relate to the war today?
I think you can see a feature movie about a war or watch a news story, but you really don’t feel it. That’s why I wanted to make this film. I wanted the American public to feel the sacrifice of war. I wanted them to feel immersed in what really happens. People die. It’s not pretty. People have a hard time relating to that. We’re here [in the U.S.] and we are safe. We have two oceans on each side of our border. We don’t have to worry as much about the war and aren’t as attuned to our security as nations in Europe are.
During the Bush Administration, the American public was never allowed to see caskets of American soldiers. That, of course, has changed in the last few years. Do you feel like that is something we needed to see to understand the sacrifice you’re talking about?
Absolutely. In the early parts of WWII, the War Department prohibited images of U.S. deaths being shown in American newspapers. People forget during WWII, there was a period around 1943 where support for WWII was flagging. President Roosevelt made a decision and it was filtered through the War Department that those images could be shown. The first time the American public saw the consequences of war was, I believe, after the Battle in Anzio (in 1944). Photographs were shown. It galvanized American public opinion to continue supporting the war. It’s a little known historical fact. So, hiding the consequences is not the way to go. We need to show what our people are doing out there day after day after day to connect U.S. citizens with the decision to go to war.
By the end of this year, the U.S. should have most of its troops finally out of Afghanistan. I know you’re going to be there with the military during that drawdown. How do you see that playing out?
We’ll see. I believe we’re still going to have about 5,000 troops stay [in Afghanistan]. Those will not be combat troops, but support troops. I think we have an obligation to see this through. Look, we pulled the ripcord and pulled everyone out of Iraq and Iraq is in total chaos right now. As Secretary Rumsfeld has said before: If you break it, you have to fix it. I think we have an obligation to support these changes that our involvement after 9/11 brought. We have to be able to help the Afghan army supply itself. We have to help with political processes and have Americans there to continue trying to movie Afghanistan toward democracy. We have to have people who can build a judicial system. We have to have people who can train police. We must continue our involvement for a period of years until Afghanistan can stand on its own.
You’ve been covering the war for so long, would you say you’ve become jaded by the things you’ve seen?
I used to think I was jaded, but then as you grow older you realize these are experiences that someone is experiencing uniquely. You may have seen something like that before, but for them, they’re in the moment. I think I took my job for granted for a few years. I was really excited when I got into journalism and I covered all these things early. What I did was something important. What I think we need to do as journalists is embrace every day. Every day is a new day. There’s a new story out there. That’s why I love this job. We never know what we’re doing the next day. As I’ve gotten older, I’m now more excited than I was when I was 21 years old.
When you look at the makeup of the young U.S. soldiers who are fighting these wars, what do you see? After 9/11, people were signing up for the military because they had a sense of patriotism. Is that still the case? Are 18 and 19 year old kids signing up because they feel they have a sense of duty to their country or has that changed?
I think a majority of them still join because they want to serve their country. There’s something in their upbringing that compelled them to serve. Of course, some get in because they don’t know what else to do.
Does that make a different type of soldier?
Initially, yeah, but once they’re there, they all become the same. I think they become committed to their fellow soldiers. The fact that they’re somewhere doing something important resonates with them. Everyone [joins the military] for a lot of different reasons, but what goes through that training funnel and comes out the other end are people who really love their country and have a connection to what it means to sacrifice for this nation. I actually think there should be some form of required national service. You don’t have to serve in the military. You can work in our schools. You can work to rebuild our nation. I think that younger generations need to be connected to their country and what it means to serve it. We get very individually orientated and lose sight of the bigger picture. People take the freedoms of this nation for granted and they shouldn’t because it could all go away.
What does it feel like to put your life in someone else’s hands when you’re on the ground in a country as dangerous as Afghanistan? Again, I know you’re there to do a job, but I’m sure the soldiers you are with feel some sense of responsibility for you.
I feel like my life is in my hands. I made the decision to go there. I don’t want the soldiers there next to me to feel like they have to protect me. Now, they do. I don’t have a weapon. But I’m a volunteer. No one put a gun to my head and told me I had to go to Afghanistan. Frankly, when it comes to warfare, there are few people in this country who are more experienced than I am. So, I know how to take care of myself.


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D- Dimer a safe diagnostic test to rule out VTE during pregnancy, finds study
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. The risk of VTE is higher in pregnant women and a leading cause of maternal death in western countries. A recent study by Marta Bellesini and their team evaluated the safety of D- Dimer as a diagnostic tool in pregnant women. The study is published in the journal of thrombosis and hemostasis.
The objective of the study was to investigate the safety of D- Dimer as a diagnostic tool in pregnant women to rule out VTE with suspected pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis.
The study had two reviewers independently identify studies through PubMed and Embase until the first week of June 2021. They strengthened the study by manually reviewing reference lists of all retrieved articles, clinicalTrials.gov, and reference literature. Prospective or retrospective studies in which a formal diagnostic algorithm was used to evaluate the ability of D-dimer to rule out VTE during pregnancy were considered eligible.
Researchers identified 665 references through a systematic database and additional search strategies, out of which 45 studies were retrieved in full, of which four were included, after applying exclusion criteria. Three studies were prospective, and one had a retrospective design. The 3-month thromboembolic rate in pregnant women left untreated after a negative D-dimer was 1/312 (0.32%; 95% CI, 0.06–1.83). The pooled estimate values were 99.5% for sensitivity (95% CI, 95.0–100.0; I², 0%) and 100% for negative predictive value (95% CI, 99.19–100.0; I², 0%). The prevalence of VTE and the yield of D-dimer were 7.4% (95% CI, 3.8–12; I², 83%) and 34.2% (95% CI, 15.9–55.23; I², 89%) respectively.
The researchers concluded that "Our results suggest that D-dimer allows to safely rule out VTE in pregnant women with suspected VTE and a disease prevalence consistent with a low/intermediate or unlikely pretest probability." The D-dimer can be used to safely rule out acute VTE in pregnant women without a high pre-test probability for VTE.
For further information: https://doi.org/10.1111/jth.15432.

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Newcastle v CHELSEA: Youngster McEachran and Essien are Blues' only absentees
Early end: McEachran went off injured mid-week
Chelsea will be without Josh McEachran for Saturday's Barclays Premier League game at Newcastle.
The midfielder was forced from the field in Tuesday's Carling Cup defeat to Liverpool with an injury to his left ankle, which he is expected to recover from in less than a fortnight.
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Her seminar on Saturday is 5 – 6 hours long. Here is a short clip from it.
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AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn softball fans gathered at Jane B. Moore Field on campus to watch the Tigers take on the Oklahoma Sooners in the final National Championship game. They left disappointed with the result of the game, but not in their team.
The game has grown and the community has supported the Auburn team.
Mary Cross played softball for 11 years. She recently graduated from high school, which ended her softball career.
Cross says seeing the success of her favorite team this season adds to her love of the game.
“It fires it. It’s almost like my season didn’t because I got to see my favorite team go all the way to the very last game so, it was kind of cool to go from my last game to watching Auburn follow through. So it was really good,” Cross said.
The Auburn Softball team returns to Auburn Thursday at 5:30 p.m. central.

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Man charged after East Market Street accident
A man was charged after an accident on East Market Street Tuesday evening.
Officer Michael Moore of Tiffin Police Department said Harold L. Pence, 46, of Tiffin, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, drug abuse instruments and driving under suspension.
He said Pence was traveling the wrong way on East Market Street in a 2008 Ford Explorer. Moore said Pence’s Ford struck at least three vehicles and then struck a building at 59 E. Market St. before coming to a rest. There was “some damage” to the building, he said.
Moore said Pence was transported by Tiffin Fire Rescue Division to Mercy Health – Tiffin Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Pence was wearing a seatbelt, he said.
The accident was reported at 8:22 p.m. and Tiffin Police Department, Tiffin Fire Rescue Division and John’s Welding & Towing responded to the scene.


text: The second ghoulish murder-case for Houston's handsome, rich, neurotic cop Stuart Haydon (A Cold Mind, 1983)--with, again, the identity of the villains revealed to the reader almost from the beginning. The first corpse is that of photographer Wayne Powell, stabbed in his developing lab at the Langer Media Co. And it soon seems clear that Powell's death connects to his night-time freelance work as a duplicator of videotapes--many of which were apparently filmings of the most hideous real-life violence (from El Salvador atrocities), supplied to Powell by a creepy cameraman named Rick Toy. But who was Toy working for? Could it be a coincidence that Langer Media is owned by eccentric tycoon Josef Roeg, who just happens to have a mad, obsessive passion for watching violence? Above all: what was on one of those tapes--something beyond mere recording of Latin American horrors--that led to Powell's death. . . and to subsequent murders of everyone connected with cameraman/blackmailer Rick Toy? Haydon, though still in delicate mental condition from previous on-the-job horrors, does a steady, smart job of sleuthing--talking to Powell's colleagues (including a pathetic girlfriend who also winds up dead), to Roeg's henchmen (including a bitter, dying ex-employee). And the finale, featuring a double-psycho showdown between Toy and Roeg, reveals the not-too-surprising extent of Roeg's heinous kinkiness. Despite the lurid, somewhat farfetched premise: intense, often-absorbing detection/psychodrama-with the sort of textured, dark-edged narration that would work even better with less melodrama and more mystery.

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Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda: What You Can Learn From Pre-Retirees’ Top 3 Mistakes
Researchers recently asked people nearing retirement what specific things they wish they’d done differently to better prepare for their post-career lives. Here’s your chance to go to school on their answers.There’s no shame in making retirement-planning mistakes. But it would be a shame not to learn from other people’s mistakes if you have the opportunity to do so. And now you do.
In May, researchers for TIAA-Cref’s Ready-to-Retire Survey asked people age 55 to 64 what steps they wish they had taken during their working years to increase their chances of achieving a secure retirement. You’ll find their answers below, along the percentage of people who wished they’d made each of these moves. Think of it as your chance to turn their hindsight into your foresight, and boost your retirement prospects by learning, and profiting from, their mistakes.
1. They wished they’d started saving sooner (52%). Retirement can seem like a far-off horizon in the early and even the middle stages of your career. Which makes it easy to put off committing to a serious savings regimen to some vague date in the future. But procrastination can seriously stunt the eventual size of your nest egg.
For example, a 25-year-old who earns $40,000 a year, gets 2% annual pay raises and contributes 10% of salary to a 401(k) plan throughout his career would end up with an account value of almost $830,000 at age 65, assuming a 6% annual return.
If that same person waits just five years until age 30 start saving for retirement, his nest egg would shrink to just under $645,000 at 65, or roughly $185,000 less than with the earlier start. And if this 25-year-old doesn’t begin saving until age 35, come retirement time his 401(k)’s value would be about $492,000, or about 40% less than had he started in his mid-20s. Better to understand now the bite procrastination can take from retirement security and start saving sooner rather than later.
2. They wished they’d saved more of their paycheck (47%). Given the financial obligations we must take care of in the present—paying the mortgage, funding health insurance, raising a family—it’s not surprising that saving for the future often gets short shrift. That said, if most people take a hard-enough look at their budget, they can usually find smart ways to free up extra bucks to save for retirement.
And it doesn’t take a huge bump in annual savings to significantly boost the eventual size of your nest egg. For example, by just upping the percentage of salary saved from 10% to 12%, the 25-year-old above would end up with a nest egg of just under $1 million at 65 compared with almost $830,000 by saving at a 10% rate. And if through a combination of his own retirement-plan contributions plus any employer-provided match, he can increase his annual savings to 15% of salary—the level recommended by the Boston College Center For Retirement Research—he would have $1.2 million at retirement. The key is to free up those extra bucks for saving as early in your career as you can to maximize the benefit of long-term compounding of investment returns.
3. They wish they’d invested more aggressively (34%). This one is tricky. Yes, investing more of your retirement savings in stocks can lead to higher long-term returns and boost the eventual size of your retirement stash. For example, if our hypothetical 25-year-old saves 15% annually but earns a 7% vs. 6% annual investment return, his age-65 nest egg would jump to nearly $1.6 million.
But a more stock-intensive portfolio is also more vulnerable to setbacks, such as the 57% tumble stock prices took between October 2007 and March 2009. The key is arriving at a portfolio of stocks and bonds that can deliver solid long-term returns that’s also compatible with tolerance for risk, which you can gauge with a Risk Tolerance Questionnaire.
Fortunately, pulling off that balancing act between risk and return is eminently doable. And while the near-retirees surveyed didn’t say anything about investing expenses, I will: namely, whatever mix of stocks and bonds you eventually settle on, you’ll increase your chances of earning a higher return if you stick to investments with low fees. (11/24/14)
Walter Updegrave is the editor of RealDealRetirement.com. If you have a question on retirement or investing that you would like Walter to answer online, send it to him at email@example.com.

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text: It was William's last day of classes before final. He worked for at least a week on his social studies paper on Chairman Mao (they needed to choose a world leader and talk about impact and other issues). It was interesting to learn along with him. The final, the day after the paper is handed in, will be a five minute oral summary of this topic. William spent the evening gathering images. The oddest bit that he is adding to his presentation that was not in his paper was a program Mao instigated to get rid of pests. In its first incarnation, he had the entire nation strive to kill as many flies, mosquitoes, rats, and sparrows as they could. The resulting hut to near extinction of sparrows (pictured above), instead of saving on how much grain they ate, created a plague of locusts that had previously been eaten by the birds. Famine followed. He latter changed the hunt to bed bugs.

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Kawai Concert Artist CA65
Condition - This piano can be concidered as new, very few light marks on it from when it was moved from the shop to its original owner.
The Concert Grand experience in the comfort of your home Kawai has been crafting musical instruments for 85 years, maintaining traditional processes while embracing original ideas. These decades of experience afford the Kawai engineers a wealth of knowledge from which to create stunning digital instruments, in a quest to perfect the art of the piano. A digital piano that will transform enthusiastic players into accomplished pianists, and modest homes into grand concert halls. This is the ambitious philosophy behind the Concert Artist digital pianos – a premium instrument that captures the essence of playing a magnificent concert grand piano, and inspires musicians to realise their true artistic potential.
To achieve this ambition, every aspect of the new Concert Artist has either been redeveloped or significantly improved, ensuring that this flagship instrument provides the most authentic playing experience of any digital piano.
The instrument’s new Grand Feel keyboard action reinforces Kawai’s reputation as an industry leader, utilising real wooden keys with luxurious Ivory Touch surfaces, and incorporating premium features such as Let-Off simulation and triple-sensor key detection.
This class-leading keyboard action is bolstered by powerful new digital audio technologies that faithfully reproduce the exquisite sound of Kawai’s magnificent EX concert grand piano.
With the latest Harmonic Imaging XL sound sampling, remarkable 256 note polyphony, and brand new reverberation and resonance modelling effects, the new Concert Artist delivers unparalleled acoustic realism that is guaranteed to enthral performers and audience members alike.
Yet despite the abundance of powerful technology on the inside, the Concert Artist still manages to deliver a remarkably traditional piano playing experience. This is thanks to the instrument’s concealed control panel and handsome cabinet design, with a selection of distinctive grand piano-like characteristics that celebrate Kawai’s rich, classical pedigree.
Unrivalled grand touch, breathtaking acoustic tone, distinctive traditional design, and inspirational modern features. Concert Artist from Kawai – the concert grand piano experience in the comfort of your home.
The Touch of a Grand PianoThe keyboard action of an acoustic grand piano is composed of black and white keys, graded hammers, and numerous other components working in harmony when each note is pressed. This beautifully designed mechanism allows gifted pianists to express a wealth of feeling and emotion in their music, as they appreciate and respond to the tactile nuances transmitted through the keyboard.Translating the piano action’s intricate movements to a digital instrument, while retaining these acoustic-like subtleties is a stunning achievement – one which has drawn upon 85 years of experience in building some of the world’s finest pianos.
Grand Feel keyboard actionEmbracing many of the long-established principles associated with an acoustic piano, the new Grand Feel keyboard action utilised by the latest Concert Artist combines realistic materials, motion, and mechanism to recreate the exceptional touch of the finest concert grand pianos.All eighty-eight black and white keys are crafted entirely from long pieces of wood, with finely textured ivory-like surfaces applied to absorb moisture and assist control. Each wooden key pivots smoothly on a balance pin – the ends rising and falling to replicate the familiar ‘seesaw’ motion of an acoustic piano action. When pressed, the back of the key lifts, triggering a grade-weighted hammer to strike a pressure switch. The amount of force applied to this switch is then measured, and the corresponding note played with authentic tonal character and volume.
Additional counter-weights placed at the front of the bass keys help to lighten their heavier touch during pianissimo passages, with let-off simulation also reproducing the delicate ‘notch’ sensation felt when playing the keys of a grand piano very softly.
These subtle characteristics allow discerning pianists to practise their expanding repertoire with confidence, and ensure that there are no unpleasant surprises when called upon to perform using the finest acoustic grand pianos.
Ivory Touch key surfacesThe exceptional Concert Artist features Kawai’s highly regarded Ivory Touch key surfaces as standard. This finely textured material gently absorbs fingertip perspiration and oils to assist playing control, and possesses a natural, matte finish that is smooth but not slippery.Furthermore, this moisture is absorbed without dirt or grease permeating the surface, allowing the keytops to be wiped clean easily using just a damp cloth.
88 wooden keys with Ivory Touch key surfaces / Grand Feel (GF) action with Let-Off and Triple Sensor
-Internal Sounds: 60
Harmonic Imaging™ XL (HI-XL), 88-key piano sampling
max. 256 notes
Room, Lounge, Small Hall, Concert Hall, Live Hall, Cathedral
Reverb Depth, Reverb Time
Stereo Delay, Ping Delay, Triple Delay, Chorus, Classic Chorus, Tremolo, Classic Tremolo, Auto Pan, Classic Auto Pan, Phaser, Rotary, Combination Effects x 4, Amplified Effects x 3
Dry/Wet, Time, Speed, Mono/Stereo, Accel./Rotary Speed – Parameters dependent on effect.
Dual Mode, Split Mode, Four Hands Mode (Volume/Balance adjustable)
Light+, Light, Normal, Heavy, Heavy+, Off (constant), User 1, User 2
Equal Temperament (Equal Piano Only), Pure Temperament (Major), Pure Temperament (Minor), Pythagorean, Meantone, Werckmeister III, Kirnberger III, Equal Temperament (Flat), Equal Temperament (Equal Stretch), USER Temperament
10 song, 2 track recorder – approximately 90,000 note memory capacity
Audio Playback MP3: 32 kHz/44.1 kHz/48 kHz, Mono/Stereo, Bit Rate: 8-320 kBit/s (constant & variable) WAV: 32 kHz/44.1 kHz/48 kHz, Mono/Stereo
44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Stereo, 192 kBit/s (constant) WAV: 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Stereo, 1,411 kBit/s (uncompressed)
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Load Internal Song, Load Registration, Load User Memory, Save Internal Song, Save SMF Song, Save Registration, Save User Memory, Rename File, Delete File, Format USB, Convert Song to Audio, Overdub Audio
USB Stick, USB Disk Drive, USB Harddisk
-Metronome: 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 3/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, 12/8 + 100 drum rhythms
Intonation, Damper Resonance, Damper Noise, String Resonance, Key-off Effect (incl. Key-off Release), Fall-back Noise, Hammer Delay, Topboard, Decay Time, Soft Pedal Depth, Stretch Tuning, User Tuning, User Key Volume, Half-Pedal Adjust, Minimum Touch, Minimum Touch
-Registrations: 16 memories
Key/Song Transpose, Tone Control (incl. User EQ), Speaker Volume, Phones Volume, Line Out Volume, Audio Recorder Gain, Tuning, Damper Hold, Four Hands, LCD Contrast, User Memory, Factory Reset, Lower Octave Shift, Lower Pedal On/Off, Split Balance, Layer Octave Shift, Layer Dynamics, Dual Balance, MIDI Channel, Send PGM#, Local Control, Transmit PGM#, Multi-timbral Mode, Channel Mute, Auto Power Off
Finger exercises + Czerny, Burgmüller and Beyer etudes, or a collection of songs from the popular Alfred series course books (depending on market location)
-Piano Music: 29 Songs
-Concert Magic: Songs 176
-Display: 128 x 64 pixel LCD with backlight
Sustain (with half-pedal support), Soft, Sostenuto. Grand Feel Pedal System
-Finish: Premium Rosewood
LINE IN (L/MONO, R), LINE IN Level Adjust, LINE OUT (L/MONO, R), Headphones x 2, MIDI (IN/OUT), USB to Host, USB to Device
-Speaker System: 2 x 13cm + 2 x 5cm speakers
-Output Power: 2 x 50W
-Power Consumption: 45W
-Dimensions: 144,0 (B) x 47,0 (T) x 90,5 (H) cm
-Weight in kg: 73

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Originally Posted by chopper
The jars seal. It's "canned".
Yes they do, and yes it is, but if there are any botulism bugs in the jar when it is sealed and canned, they will continue to grow unless the jar is kept in the freezer, in which case, all that hard work spent in sealing the jars is something of a waste time. I hope that the many experienced canners on this forum will forgive me for stating such basic information, but here's how it works.
Clostridium botulinum thrives on both animal and plant tissue (it loves asparagus!) and is anaerobic, so it can live in an oxygen free environment. One thing that will kill it is an acid environment. I believe that C. botulinum cannot live at a pH below 4.6, and when we make high acid jams and such (yum) the pH is probably closer to 4.0.
Unfortunately, some other nasties are not deterred by the low pH and so we subject them to the temperature of boiling water in a water bath for ten minutes. A weak spot on the lid pops down as the contents of the jar cool and contract, and the bottle is "sealed" or "canned. Unfortunately, this temp (212F) alone is not enough to kill the botulism bugs, so if the contents of the canning jar are not highly acidic, they will thrive. What will kill them is the high pressure, high temperature produced in a pressure cooker. Sparrowgrass already gave us a link with the government's figures for this.
But of course, if there are no botulism organisms in the jar when it is sealed, you won't get the disease. Perhaps because so few people can anything but jam these days, the national incidence of botulism is very low, less than 30 persons per anum, I believe. A third of those, however, are from Alaska, where, my late wife told me, the Inuit would thaw frozen meat and then freeze what was left for next time. I saw one case in London over fifty years ago. The patient was a Goanese seaman, and everyone thought that he must have an exotic tropical disease. Unfortunately, by the time that they discovered their mistake, he had died in great distress, so I am very careful about the handling and preparation of canned foods!

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After the excitement and the time I spent touring San Antonio during my stay I knew I needed some downtime to catch my breath and relax.Our service is available for transportation to and from local attractions, corporate events, weddings, airport service and any other group transportation needs.
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No way, shape, or form of bullying should be acceptable in any way. That is why 16-year-old Daniel J. Briggs from Lafarge, New York’s act of taking his own life is heartbreaking.
Bullying can make children feel lonely, terrified, hurt, and sad. When parents do not check them up, these feelings can escalate to worse problems such as depression, anxiety, and eventually suicidal thoughts.
In a Youtube video by Champion of Choices, Amy J. Briggs heartbreakingly shares the story of Daniel. The video has gone viral, with nearly 10 million views.
In the video, Amy shares that for most of Daniel’s school life, he was constantly bullied because he did not fit in with most of his schoolmates. She states that he “had a soft side of him that was second-to-none-for a kid his age.” He also had different interests such as hunting and trapping.
The bullying also started verbally but as he grew up, they became physical as bullies would force Daniel to lick the school’s bus window. They would also throw trash at him, and even hit his stomach.
While Daniel’s parents reached out to the school to alleviate the situation, there were no actions taken.
What then led Daniel to take his own life was a text from one of the students who bullied him. The text reads, “Why don’t you take one of your precious guns and do the world a favor and go kill yourself.”
Daniel then responded, “You won’t have to worry about me anymore, I’m going to go home and kill myself.”
The last reply from the bully had been, “Put up or shut up.”
Daniel then told some people in his class and on the bus on the way home on March 3, 2014 that he was going to kill himself.
Few believed him, however, and when Daniel went home, he shot himself with one of his shotgun, dying two months just before he was supposed to turn 17 years old.
“I just wish he knew how much he meant to so many people. He did matter. He does matter, We will never recover from this,” Amy states.


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May 16 (UPI) -- A New York man wrongfully jailed for the murder of an off-duty correction officer in New York as a child has been exonerated.
John Bunn, 41, served 17 years in prison after being convicted of the murder at the age of 14 in August 1991 based on tainted evidence produced by former detective Louis Scarcella.
"It has been 27 years, I've been fighting for my life and I've been fighting for my innocence," Bunn said.
He was freed on parole in 2009 and won the right to a new trial in 2016, but he was ultimately exonerated after prosecutors said they wouldn't retry his case.
"I didn't deserve any of that stuff that you all did to me," Bunn said. "They won't admit and say that I'm an innocent man. But I'm an innocent man, your honor, and I have always been an innocent man. You all convicted and had a wrong man in prison, and you all still have somebody on the loose that killed someone."
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Shawn'Dya Simpson said Bunn shouldn't have been imprisoned and questioned the legal process leading to his conviction
"This case was tried ... a jury was picked, testimony was given and it concluded all in one day," Simpson said. "I don't consider that justice at all."
Bunn and Rosean Hargrave, then 16, were convicted in the shooting of Rikers Island correction officers Rolando Neischer and Robert Crosson.
They were placed in a photo array created by Scarcella for Crosson, who survived the shooting and identified Bunn and Hargrave as the suspects. Crosson also served as the lone witness in the trial.
Simpson told Bunn to "move forward" after the exoneration. In the years since his parole, Bunn started a non-profit literacy organization called A Voice 4 The Unheard and has collected more than 20,000 books for New York inmates.
"I don't know how I made it this far, but I believe I am here for a purpose," Bunn said.
Hargrove's conviction was also thrown out and his case won't be retried.


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India will tour Sri Lanka for a limited-overs series comprising 3 ODIs and 5 T20Is which will take place at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo and this will happen in the month of July. While the ODIs will be part of the ICC ODI World Cup Super League 2023, the T20Is are a part of preparation for the upcoming ICC World T20 later this year. Cricket fans and bettors must be disappointed that IPL2021 has paused in the middle, but they have Cricket happening around the globe. Bettors can visit betalternatives to get the latest information and alternative betting sites to bet on cricketing games from around the globe.
Since the Sri Lankan limited-overs series will happen in July, many of the regulars will be in England at the same time for the team’s 5-match Test series against England that starts from August 4th and last till 14th of September.
So, this India’s squad for Sri Lanka will be sans regular captaincy candidates such as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma or KL Rahul for that matter. Another player who is being touted as a future captain Shreyas Iyer is currently injured and may not be fit in time for the tour.
The BCCI already have announced that legendary Indian batsman Rahul Dravid will likely coach the Indian team for this tour. And they are expected to name a 2nd string Indian team along with a new captain anytime now. We will look at the 3 possible candidates who can possibly lead the side in the absence of skipper Virat Kohli and Vice-Captain Rohit Sharma.
Shikhar Dhawan is one of the senior players in the Indian team who doesn’t play Test cricket these days and is a sure shot pick in the limited-overs format for India. The 35-year-old has represented India in ODIs since 2010 and is yet to don the captaincy hat even once.
But the southpaw is one of the most consistent openers India has ever had. He has played 142 ODIs scoring 5977 runs at an average of 45.3 and could very well be the 4th fastest to cross 6000-run landmark in ODI history. Adding to that, Dhawan has scored 1673 in T20Is as well.
This baton of captaincy could be a nice way to appreciate Dhawan for his contribution to Indian cricket in all the 3 formats of the game. Moreover, he will likely be the most capped player in the Indian squad, so it is a no-brainer to give him the role that he has already with the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is another player who missed the bus to England where most would have thought he will head to. Perhaps due to his injury concerns, the selectors might have thought otherwise. That leaves him to be an automatic pick in the Indian squad for this Sri Lankan tour and has an outside chance of being named the skipper as well.
The right-arm swing bowler made a brilliant comeback to the Indian team in the home series against England in both the ODIs as well as T20Is. He was even named the ICC player of the month for March and will be in good space going into this tour where he will spearhead the attack.
Bhuvi as he is called has led the SRH franchise in the IPL in the absence of Kane Williamson in 2018, although with limited success. But his cool calm head might come in handy if he does don the hat for India.
The mercurial all-rounder Hardik Pandya is our 3rd pick to be the captain of the Indian team as he is one of the more experienced players in the possible squad. But one thing can go against him is his lack of exposure as skipper of a team.
This series could be an important one for the all-rounder as his returns were poor in both the England limited-over leg as well the IPL 2021. So, this is a chance for him to redeem himself before the ICC World T20 and captaincy might turn things around for him.


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Principal Scientist, Supply Chain Technology
- Seattle, WA
Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) optimizes Amazon's global supply chain end-to-end and build systems to source and deliver billions of products to our customers' doorsteps faster every year while saving hundreds of millions of dollars using science, machine learning, and scalable distributed software on the Cloud. Inbound Product and Tech (IPT) team is part of SCOT and owns the tools and workflows that enable Suppliers, Carriers and Amazon to move inventory from source into Amazon network.
We are looking for an industry-leading Research Scientist to join our team and shape the future of Amazon Inbound Supply Chain. Our vision is to create an accurate model of the constraints and control inbound flow in the network based on customer demand, thereby giving reliable predictability to suppliers, carriers and buying and planning systems to optimize replenishment, placement and transportation decisions. In this role, you will be building models on and consulting on the design of Amazon's inbound supply chain. Within that, you will take ownership over modeling business segments worth many-billions-of-dollars and geographies. There are teams of software engineers, business intelligence engineers, and other scientists to support building out models in detail, bringing them to production, and automating data ingestion. Given that the opportunity impacts whole of Amazon inbound flow, the person in this role will be the thought leader on optimization models and is expected to drive solutioning and consensus with multiple teams within and outside SCOT.
• Ph.D. in a field such as Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Economics or a related field.
• 10+ years of industry experience
• 4+ years modeling supply chain related problems
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with both technical and business people. Ability to speak at a level appropriate for the audience. Experience applying these skills in both academic teaching environment and a business setting is a plus.
• Excellent writing skills for presenting business cases and to document the models and analysis and present the results/conclusions in order to influence important decisions.
• A working knowledge of smooth and non-smooth optimization methods accompanied by associated expertise in the use of tools and the latest technology (e.g. CPLEX, Gurobi, XPRESS).
• The ability to implement models and tools through the use of high-level modeling languages (e.g. AMPL, Mosel, R, Matlab).
• Experience prototyping and developing software in traditional programming languages (C++, Java, Clojure, Python).
• Familiarity with SQL and experience with very large-scale data. The ability to manipulate data by writing scripts (Perl, Ruby, Groovy) is a plus.
• Experience with high-impact decisions (>$1B)
• Experience with machine learning and optimization in production
• Experience with fully automated machine training (e.g. automatic re-training, automatic testing)
• Experience with complex supply chains (>100 facilities, >1000 routes)
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Dozens of protesters gathered in Athens for a demonstration in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former 17N member who went on hunger strike starting the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens. Police brutally attacked the protest, pepper-spraying participants point-blank, cornering and beating them.
Thousands of Kurds took to the streets in Paris, demanding justice on the 18th anniversary of the triple murders of pro-PKK Kurdish activists in France, who were all found shot in the head execution-style. Many suspect that the MİT ([Turkish] National Intelligence Organization) was to blame for the murders, including French authorities themselves, who later caught the 34-year-old Ömer Güney, a maintenance worker in the Charles de Gaulle airport, with substantial evidence.
Dozens of protesters gathered in Washington D.C. for the weekly FTP march organized by the They/Them Collective, demanding justice for Xzavier Hill, a teenager killed by state police in Charlottesville on the 9th of January. The MPD harassed the demonstrators, trailing them in nearly equal numbers on bikes, before demonstrators dispersed mostly without issue.


Mark Riddaway is an award winning writer and editor and publisher, having previously won Editor of the Year at the Independent Publisher Awards. His involvement with Borough Market began more than a decade ago, and since 2012 he has been the editor and publisher of Market Life, the Market's bi-monthly food magazine, which was named Best Magazine or Supplement by the Guild of Food Writers in both 2018 and 2019. In 2020, Mark's regular columns in Market Life earned him a place on the Guild's shortlist for its food writing award.
The story of Borough Market mirrors the British food revolution.
This book tells that story; deliciously, ingredient by ingredient.
-- William Sitwell
This is the perfect book for those moments when you find yourself in the kitchen wondering about how a particular ingredient found its way into our everyday culinary lives. It's as enticing as Borough Market always is, as witty as Mark Riddaway always is, and packed with the kind of knowledge I love. -- Angela Clutton
Fascinating and entertaining - a pleasure to read. -- Claudia Roden
It's so important that Borough and the food community are supported, and what better way of spreading the word than through the stories and histories of a most historic market that has become a unique beacon of good things. -- Jeremy Lee
This book is for lovers of food and markets and history. It's also a book that everyone who eats should read. It is fascinating, informative and entertaining. Mark Riddaway effortlessly guides us though Borough, telling the story of the market and its produce with ease and grace. -- Kay Plunkett-Hogge
Mark Riddaway's Edible Histories is thoroughly researched and engagingly written and belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in food history. Even if you are not interested, this is the book that will get you started. -- Mark Kurlansky


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This time of year is right up my street, I have to be honest. The nights are pulling in and it definitely makes me want to stay home and experiment with new dishes, or cook some comforting classics. Which is what I did tonight, but with a twist. We were in Spain last week (blog post to come on that) and although it was lovely to be in the sun, I was so excited to get home to our lovely cottage. There’s nothing quite like home comforts is there? And one of those comforts is food. While we were away, I really fancied having a homemade pie and chips. It’s one of my favourite comfort dishes and the thought of eating it made my mouth water.My favourite pie of all time is steak and kidney, but it’s not quite that weather yet! I’ve linked my recipe for the steak and kidney pie if you’re interested! However, I knew I could devour a chicken pie, and they’re simple to do as you don’t need to slow cook it or braise the meat. I did encounter a first world problem at the shop though, the chillers were all down and I couldn’t get any smoked lardons or bacon of any kind so I thought I would do a twist on the traditional chicken and bacon pie and use chorizo instead. I love chorizo and we eat it in abundance, but with some meals, you have to be very careful that you don’t over power anything else. I made a cheese, mustard and tarragon sauce to go with mine and I have to say, it tasted bloody delicious!The recipe serves 6 so it’s great to share or freeze some of the meat to have another time!Prep time: 10 minutes.Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes.Ingredients:For the filling –
- 4 large chicken breasts diced.
- 200g chorizo finely diced.
- 2 leeks sliced.
- 1 brown onion diced.
- 4 cloves of garlic crushed.
- 100g frozen sweetcorn.
- Black pepper.
- 2 tsp dried tarragon.
- 1 tsp dried mixed herbs.
- Ready rolled puff pastry – you can make your own, but it’s a lot easier and cheaper to just buy it!
For the sauce –
- 40g plain flour.
- 500ml vegetable stock (I use stock instead of milk as it keeps better and gives the sauce a smoother texture)
- 100g butter.
- 250g grated mature cheddar.
- 2 tsp dijon mustard.
- 2 tsp dried tarragon.
- Black pepper.
- Melt the butter in a large pan and add the garlic, leeks and onion. Have the pan over a medium heat and cook until they soften. This will take around 15 minutes.
- Add the chorizo and season with black pepper. You won’t need to add salt as the chorizo is naturally salty, as well as the cheese sauce. Also add the tarragon and mixed herbs. Stir thoroughly and cook for 20 minutes on a medium heat.
- Next, add the sweetcorn and the chicken. You want the chicken to be just cooked when you assemble the pie, if not it is in danger of becoming dry. Cook for 20 minutes on a low heat then remove the pan from the heat and allow to cool. You need the meat to be cool when you put the pastry on top, otherwise it will become soggy and moisture won’t be able to escape.
- While the meat is cooling down, start making the sauce. Melt the butter together with the flour and whisk to make a roux.
- Slowly begin to add the stock. Whisk it in gently and the sauce will begin to thicken. You don’t want your sauce to be runny at all. It needs to be the consistency of thick custard.
- When the sauce is at the right consistency, add the cheese and whisk until it has all melted. Don’t let your sauce boil at any point as the cheese may stick to the bottom and burn.
- Add the dijon, tarragon and black pepper. When all of the ingredients are incorporated, remove from the heat.
- Stir the sauce into the meat mixture and set aside to cool.
- When it comes to cooking the pie, you need to pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees and then cover your meat with the ready rolled pastry. Brush with an egg wash.
- Cook the pie for twenty minutes and serve with homemade chips (literally cut potatoes, hard boil, then cook in the oven for 45 minutes, or until they’re crispy), and peas.

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The Department of Economics will host a Seminar this Friday, April 11th from 11 a.m. to noon in HHS1-105. Dr. Puqiu Jing, Professor and Dean of the School of Economics at Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, and a Visiting Scholar in CSULB’s Economics department will present her research titled, “Is There a Dutch Disease in Resource-based Regions? A Case Analysis from Shanxi Province of China.”
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Pals Kevin Jonas and Vanessa Hudgens catch up backstage during the Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief at CBS Television City in Los Angeles on Friday evening (January 22).
The duo are just two of the many telephone operators during tonight’s telethon. Others include Van‘s boyfriend Zac Efron and Kevin‘s brothers, Nick and Joe.
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– Online: HopeforHaitiNow.org
– Phone: 877-99-HAITI
– Text: Text “GIVE” to 50555
– Mail: Hope For Haiti Now Fund, Entertainment Industry Foundation, 1201 West 5th Street, Suite T-700, Los Angeles, CA 90017
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Hypothetical scenario (please note that this is indeed hypothetical, and I would never dream of actually doing this. I'm asking out of curiosity.)
I have a normal desktop computer with a clean installation of Windows 10 and no personal or sensitive data on the machine at all. The computer is not sharing a local network with any other devices. This is a normal system, and not a virtual machine.
I give a malicious user remote access to this machine, through the software TeamViewer. The peripherals like USB keyboard, mouse, etc, are disconnected the moment he gets access. The malicious user can spend a few hours doing whatever they want.
After the malicious user is done, the computer is immediately shut down. I then boot from a Linux live CD, format the internal drive of the computer, and install a clean installation of an operating system (Either Windows 10 or Debian, for example.) there are no other storage devices connected to the computer.
In this case in what ways could my computer still be compromised or damaged? We can say that the malicious user knew I might format the drive, and prepared especially for that. They might simply have been interested in doing damage, or compromising the computer in some way.


Nothe To Take On A New Look For The Games
10:43am 12th June 2012
A number of path improvement works will start at the Nothe Gardens in Weymouth today.
Weymouth and Portland Borough Council is doing the work on behalf of The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). LOCOG is paying for the work as part of the preparations for the Nothe to be used as the ticketed spectator site for the London 2012 Olympic Games sailing events.
The car park behind the toilet block will be closed off to the public for the duration of the work which is planned to last for up to four weeks. There is still ample parking for visitors and the toilets will still be open.
The path networks will be closed off in sections while the surfacing work is being done but the public will be have full access to all areas of the Nothe Gardens by walking on the grass.
Chairman of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council Management Committee Cllr Michael Goodman said: “The Nothe Gardens in Weymouth will be welcoming the world this summer and it is crucial that the Nothe looks its best.
“Disruption will be kept to a minimum but we apologise for any inconvenience caused. We would ask the public to co-operate by observing any signage indicating closed paths or instructions from contractors working on site.”
Works being carried out from Monday include:
- Resurfacing from the gardeners compound to the bridge over the fort access road
- Gravel to be replaced with tarmac on the gravel path network on Newtons Cove side
- Repointing of mortar joints and repositioning of loose stone on the stone steps on Newtons Cove side. Steps will be closed during works.
- Improvements to the rear of the sea wall at Newtons Cove side of the gardens. A surface will be laid so visitors can walk along the area but allow surface water to drain through.
In addition to these improvement works, LOCOG has made it a priority to ensure the full reinstatement of the Nothe Gardens as soon as possible after the Olympic Games and this is included in the agreement with the borough council. It is committed to returning the Nothe Gardens in a better condition by upgrading the footpaths and the toilets within the gardens for public use after the Games.
If you have any comments, concerns or questions about the Games in Weymouth, staff from LOCOG and Weymouth and Portland Borough Council will be holding a Games Surgery for local residents on Thursday 28 June.
The surgeries will be at Ritz Café, Weymouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Weymouth DT4 8ED from 12.30pm – 2.30pm and at house number 12, Sailing Village (Osprey Quay), Officers Field, Portland DT5 1AL from 4.30pm – 6.30pm.


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Inter striker Edin Dzeko has looked back to his absolute best since his summer move from Roma, with his goal and performance in the Nerazzurri’s comeback win against Sassuolo yet more evidence that he has found top form.
This according to today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, who praise the Bosnian for his display and describe him as being like “a player reborn” so far this season for the Nerazzurri.
Dzeko came off the bench to score the Nerazzurri’s equalizer and win the decisive penalty which saw his team take all three points from a match in which they did not start at their best.
The 35-year-old was rewarded for his display with a place in the record books as the first player to score six goals in their first seven matches in an Inter shirt since Ronaldo, while his goal also took him level with Ciro Immobile at the top of the Capocannoniere standings.
The Bosnian may have appeared to be past the peak of his powers to some during his last season with Roma, but so far his performances for Inter look very much like those of the striker who finished top scorer in Serie A for the Giallorossi during the 2016-17 season.


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QUESTIONING FREEDOMS IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
. . . nothing is less articulated or problematized . . . than the nature and stakes of what we call ‘freedom’ (Nancy, 1993: 1)
The question of freedom has received much attention in the context of the exercise of power aimed at securing modern liberties and citizenship; this question, of course, also extends to related themes of ‘human rights’, ‘security’, ‘development’, and even ‘competitiveness’ in today’s neo-liberal world. But while these issues continue to clamor for our attention, the conversations in response express a continued fragmentation of, or even an antagonism among, attitudes and analytical perspectives concerning power and freedom. This is especially the case, given the impact of neo-liberalism on the conditions shaping the sovereignty of nation states and their citizens, from East to West. Neo-liberalism has prompted debates on the state’s demise, diminution, or reconfiguration (Arrighi and Silver, 1999; Ilgen, 2003; Sassen, 1996, 1998; Weiss, 1998), and we believe that there has been an unsettling uncertainty about these vexing issues for states, individuals, communities, and ‘societies’, despite the argued centrality of freedom to the very possibility of development (Sen, 1999), and to the stability of the global economy in the Atlantic world and beyond.
This conundrum is not new. Scholarly literature on the Atlantic world often investigates the histories and legacies of manumission and the paradox of slavery, given republican ideals of citizenship established during the Enlightenment (Clark, 2002; Fick, 2007; Nesbitt, 2005, 2009). Because institutionalized bondage and other forms of plantation labor linked places where potentially quite different understandings of freedom and citizenship circulated, these concepts require elaboration in relation to specific local conditions and differently racialized populations (Metzger, 2008). Nevertheless, the questioning of freedom as experienced within the rise of modern structures of power has been repeatedly rehearsed in the Atlantic womb of a modern world that has been (and is being) constituted through ‘relational histories’.
The notion of ‘relational histories’ here is borrowed from Philip McMichael (1990) to emphasize the ways in which seemingly distinctive spatial regions are interconnected in their mutual making and unmaking. For example, one may observe this relationality within the interstices of Atlantic regions, reflected in the 19th-century rise of the slavery complex in Cuba and the coincidence of decline on other Caribbean islands, in South America and the US South (Tomich, 1994). More recently, but perhaps less obviously, such relationality continues in new and different ways. Consider, for example, the simultaneous decline of agricultural crops like bananas and sugar in one region, notably the Caribbean and the Pacific, and their expansion in others, like Latin America as one of the enduring outcomes of neo-liberalism’s globalization projects. Present articulations of, and struggles for, constructions of freedom are thus being worked out through these relational spatial histories, which have engendered diverse processes of ‘becoming’ within a world system inflected by historical contingencies and the imaginations of its peoples. The idea of ‘becoming’ here refers to processes through which social spaces articulating identities, selves, times and ‘cultures of power’ become refashioned and transformed through diverse practices. However, as Stuart Hall emphasizes in his work on identity and its politics of becoming, such processes of (historical, cultural, political, or social) transformation, are unfinished and incomplete projects (Hall, 1997, 2000). For example, Barnor Hesse cites three spheres through which Black British identity has been refurbished, beyond the parochial British templates. He argues that this occurs as follows: first, through the ‘migratory orbit of familial ethnicities’, second, ‘as antiphonal forms of commodification in popular culture, through music, film, literature, sport, fashion or vernacular’, and third, through forms ‘of political, cultural and intellectual relations of elective affinities’ (Hesse, 2000: 116). As seen in this example, then, the historical exercise of forms of modern social power, and its ensuing transformations, have both accelerated and given rise to new territorial reconfi gurations, sociocultural interlocutions, and psychic identifications. This has forced a need for a continuous re-examination of the iterative constitution of freedoms and unfreedoms in a modern Atlantic and world economy constantly in a state of flux (Crichlow and Northover, 2009). Becoming’, however, cannot be read in isolation of processes of unbecoming, predominantly emanating from a ‘modern’ order, founded through a ‘global idea of race’ (Ferreira da Silva, 2007) or through a ‘coloniality of power’ (Quijano, 2000). In other words, diverse processes of ‘othering’ have been mobilized in state-formations and nationalisms. While Benedict Anderson argued in his celebrated work, Imagined Communities (1983), that nationalism and racism are separate phenomena, this assertion has been critiqued by those who point to the various forms of racism intrinsic to projects of nationalism: nationalism has been imagined and constituted through various strategies of racialization (Mertz, 1995).
Under these conditions, what then is the potential or possibility for actually unsettling or transforming the ‘freedoms’ emplaced in these conditions of being? Are ‘freedoms’ made in one location manifestly different from freedoms experienced or pursued elsewhere? What are the ‘relations’ through which seemingly disparate and discrete (un)freedoms are being stitched together? Is freedom to be appropriated as an absolute? Is freedom an immanent quality of human existence in the world (Northover, forthcoming). More specifically in guiding our inquiry into processes of freedom and unfreedoms and their interconnections across Atlantic time and space we asked;
- How do interlinked Atlantic places and spaces become transformed into spaces and places of belonging, rest, settlement?
- What kinds of imaginations of freedom and unfreedom are woven into these making of places as articulations of home or spaces of settling, unsettling, and resettling in the hope of ‘modern freedom’ and how?
- What kinds of agencies and ‘movements’ articulate and are articulated in the flows of bodies (social and material) and lives (as subjects and objects) re/presenting spaces as homes, places as homelands?
- Why exactly and how do these practices of and movements for homestaking and dwelling become transformed into movements of violating or profaning and leaving as well?
These are the sorts of questionings that we pursue in this Race, Space, Place project seeking to think and unthink ontologies of being, spaces and places, defetishizing them along the way, and in the words of Sylvia Wynter, “unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom,” (Wynter, 2003).
Therefore we welcome essays and processual thinking, ideas from places of, and beyond the Atlantic that operate with this notion of relationalities. Our ultimate investment is in an inclusive politics that thinks through identities, such as race in terms of processes of ‘othering’ that include considerations of color/ethnic questions, but go beyond them to recognize these larger processes of othering that have underscored and been a condition of ‘the ascension of modern state systems.’ We concur with those analysts who read this process as “a central symbolic motif for politically fixing/reifying or resisting/unsettling the sacred identity categories, or relations, that are invested in ‘capital’ as a modern social power” (Northover & Crichlow, 2007).


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Review and assess recently published regulations and policies impacting development of treatments for rare diseases, communicate the impact to management and project teams, and provide training on applicable requirements to scientific staff as required.
Develop strategic responses to policy and regulatory issues that affect the company's marketed and pipeline products; areas of focus include but are not limited to: gene therapy, orphan drugs, clinical trial design, drug development for rare diseases, combination products, orphan drugs, biomarkers, labeling, the voice of the patient in drug development, and PDUFA reauthorization.
Lead teams on generation of comments on draft guidances.
Represent BioMarin on trade and patient association calls and meetings, help shape and steer stakeholder discussion based on company regulatory policy, and generate minutes and follow-up and fulfill commitments.
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Work collaboratively with BioMarin's regulatory research, outcomes and patient engagement teams to generate opportunities to collaborate to further support BioMarin programs.
This role reports to Executive Director Regulatory Policy, Research and Engagement, and must interact with internal team members, senior management, regulatory affairs representatives, government affairs representatives, market access representatives, BioMarin subject matter experts, potential partners, and industry organizations.
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12+ years of experience in the healthcare, pharmaceutical industry, trade associations, or the Food and Drug Administration.
Regulatory, policy and/or clinical science work experience.
Communication skills, excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
Very strong attention-to-detail combined with ability to see big picture and understand business need.
Strong collaborative skills, as this position requires close working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
A postgraduate degree in science, law or public policy.


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But not these wholeseome and completely delicious pops. Each contain just two ingredients, fruit and kombucha, in a one-to-one ratio—ensuring you get a nice dose of antioxidants and fiber, some gut-friendly probiotics, and zero added sugars.
So get yourself some popsicle molds (we like this stainless steel mold and this BPA-free plastic option) and make these delightfully sweet and tangy pops for your next summer cookout. Feel free to play around with different flavor combinations, too—it's hard to go wrong!
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The Apple File Protocol (AFP) Client fails to properly clean its environment before executing commands. This vulnerability may allow a local attacker execute commands with elevated privileges.
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Under certain circumstances, AFP Client may execute commands without properly cleaning the environment. This may allow a local user to create files or execute commands with system
A local attacker may be able to execute commands with elevated privileges.
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Apple has addressed this vulnerability with the updates included in Apple Security Update 2007-004.
This vulnerability was reported in Apple Security Update 2007-004.
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I imagine its tougher than the MCP being that its lighter; I find my MCPX not that durable to be honest; BUT mine flies like its on crack so I am biased lol.
as far as using 6 axis gyro.
I am assuming, its just a matter of clicking on the 6 axis switch on the heli's logic board, or do you need to do something with TX as well?
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text: One of the first approaches is to expand the donor pool utilizing a virtual crossmatch geographically. (7). DSA connected complement-independent systems of allograft damage consist of activation of signaling cascades leading to endothelial and soft muscle tissue cell proliferation, launch of inflammatory cytokines/chemokines, and platelet activation. These results recommend DSA might are likely involved in CLAD (4, 8). Of take note, lung transplant recipients who develop DSA possess a higher threat of developing persistent rejection than people who didn’t develop DSA and worse success (3, 14). Among the most powerful risk elements for post-transplant DSA can be pre-transplant detectable HLA antibodies, called allosensitization also. Lately, data from multiple centers verified that allosensitization ahead of transplant likely escalates the threat of AMR (14, 15). Pre-transplant Recognition of HLA Antibodies- Methods, Reporting, and Occurrence Several studies possess proven pre-transplant sensitization with anti-HLA antibodies are connected with reduced waitlist success and success after transplantation, improved ventilator days pursuing lung transplant, higher prices of mobile rejection, advancement of donor-specific HLA antibodies, and bronchiolitis obliterans symptoms (BOS) (3, 16C18), nevertheless, this isn’t a universal locating (19). Different pre-transplant management techniques have been carried out from the lung transplant community and mainly remain institution particular (20). As well as the potential post-transplant problems, lung transplant applicants having a high-calculated -panel reactive antibody (cPRA) Anxa1 frequently have an extended waitlist period and higher threat of waitlist mortality weighed against non-sensitized individuals (21). To fight both pre and post-transplant worries, centers possess employed several restorative approaches in order to lower or desensitize HLA antibody positive people ahead of transplant (18). Nevertheless, many applications will decline extremely sensitized lung transplant applicants (21). In a recently available study of lung transplant applications, 21.1% of applications considered a higher cPRA like a contraindication to transplant, while 56.1% of applications dropped offers for detailed candidates who are highly sensitized based on HLA antibodies to donor HLA. A minority of applications (14%) accepted gives no matter Erythropterin positive digital crossmatch or real crossmatch (20). This variability between organizations underscores the necessity to better understand the consequences of allosensitization on transplant related results in order to reduce pre and post-transplant morbidity and mortality. Factors for Policy Adjustments Among the 3,500 transplants yearly performed world-wide, around 60% of donors are allocated from the Lung Allocation Rating (Todas las) or an identical intensity of disease rating with a concentrate on increasing transplant recipient advantage by balancing expected mortality for the waiting around list and twelve months success (22, 23). Although some nationwide countries possess nationwide wait around lists, other countries take part in supranational allocation systems (e.g. Eurotransplant) (22). While not accounted for in lots of lung allograft allocation systems, allosensitization is regarded as a hurdle to transplant (21, 24). Provided the much longer waitlist period and threat of loss of life for the waiting around list therefore, the question continues to be raised on if allosensitization ought to be weighted inside the Todas las or additional allocation systems, though that is controversial (25). A single-center research found people that have any amount of allosensitization had been less inclined to go through transplant than those without HLA antibodies (17). Another single-center research taking into consideration allosensitization as a continuing adjustable discovered allosensitization prolongs the median waiting around time and considerably decreases the probability of transplant. This research demonstrated a primary relationship between your breadth of allosensitization (as approximated by cPRA) and waiting around time, aswell as an inverse romantic relationship with the probability of lung transplant (21). Provided these findings, thought of allosensitization Erythropterin in body organ allocation plans may mitigate the chance of death for the waiting around list Erythropterin (21); but with conflicting data concerning if this subset of individuals encounter higher mortality and problems pursuing transplant (3, 16C19). Therefore, it remains challenging to determine whether extra thought or exclusions for sensitized individuals should be offered (26). In 2022, america allocation through the Body organ Procurement and Transplantation Network will set up a constant distribution allocation platform and incorporate allosensitization within the brand new system (27). Pre-Transplant Sensitization and Post-transplant Result As above mentioned, the pre-transplant sensitization can be associated with adjustable post-transplant outcomes. As the utmost of the are single middle, retrospective studies, they must be interpreted with extreme caution (4). Using one end from the range, Bosanquet et?al. demonstrated that pre-transplant allosensitization.


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Did you know there is a cave in Howard County? A cave almost in your backyard.
You will not find large stalactites, waterfalls, pipe organs or a gift shop. You will have a visit with nature and history. The place is Camel’s Den Cave near Danials.
According to an article in the Baltimore Sun in 1993, Camel’s Den Cave is the county’s only underground attraction.The cave is part of Patapsco State Park and is accessible from Daniels. Camel’s Den is 6 feet wide, 8 feet high and 15 feet long, carved from a highly crystallized sedimentary rock known as Cockeysville marble. The cave was used by Indians, most likely as an overnight shelter for hunting parties following the Patapsco River valley inland from villages near Chesapeake Bay.
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Another cave is located near Woodstock.
WOODSTOCK CAVE is Late Archaic or Early Woodland period rock shelter identified along the southern bank of the Patapsco River, west of the Town of Woodstock. The site is situated on the steeply sloping northern face of a broad finger ridge that extends along the southern side of the river. Woodstock Road crosses the Patapsco River approximately 250 m (820.2 ft) east of the site. Eleanor Wilcox of the Archeological Society of Maryland visited the rock shelter in 1966, completing the site form currently on file at the MHT.
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September is National Yoga Month. To mark the occasion, the popular Chair Yoga program at Laurelwood Arboretum will resume with autumn sessions offered on Wednesdays from September 12 through October 24 from 11 am to noon. The session will take place indoors at the air conditioned Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive West, Wayne. There is a $5 fee per class for members of Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum and a $10 fee per class for nonmembers.
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The 14-year-old rider was pronounced useless on the spot. Nonetheless, authorities haven’t launched any data on the automobile driver and are trying to find a witness.
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