President Joe Biden supports an investigation into the August drone strike that killed 10 civilians and as loads as seven youngsters in Afghanistan, the White House talked about Monday.
Explaining all by way of the White House press briefing that Biden was briefed Friday morning relating to the Pentagon’s report relating to the strike, White House press secretary Jen Psaki talked about, “I would say, first, the president’s view – and all of our view – is that the loss of any civilian life is a tragedy.”
Psaki went on to reiterate recommendations from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie that the drone strike was “done in error,” and affirmed that “clearly, the investigation that will continue is something the president broadly supports.”
“As a human being, as a president, as someone who has overseen loss in a variety of scenarios, both as a leader and personally, his reaction is it’s a tragedy and every loss is a tragedy and he supports the effort to move this forward as quickly as possible and to have a thorough investigation,” she added.
Psaki wouldn’t say if anybody could very nicely be fired or in another case held accountable for the drone strike, which the Pentagon initially claimed had killed ISIS-Okay “planners and facilitators” of the Aug. 26 suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members.
LIBERAL MEDIA HAMMERS BIDEN ADMIN OVER BOTCHED AFGHAN DRONE STRIKE: ‘THIS IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING’
When requested about potential penalties for these accountable, Psaki talked about, “I think what’s important is that the secretary of defense and the chairman and Gen. Mackenzie came forward and made very clear that this was, they wanted to see this move forward quickly. They want it to be as transparent as possible. They wanted to learn from what had happened.”
Psaki furthermore advisable Americans to notice that the strike was made amid threats from ISIS-Okay in course of U.S. troops.
“Obviously, it was done in error. And obviously, there was a horrific tragedy that happened. But I’m not going to predict what the impact will be,” she talked about.
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Your parents were punks, what happened to you? We are a left wing, pro worker, profoundly depressed, and highly spirited group of thinkers with instruments. Our music plunges the depths of indie rock to look for stirring guitar riffs and insightful words.

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When you are seeking to improve your home's thermal quality, it's important that you reach out to air conditioning professionals that can assist you. There are a lot of HVAC professionals that can make your AC thrive and keep you from dealing with an inordinate amount of heat indoors. By getting some great air conditioning service, you can count on comfortable days during the summer. With this in mind, keep reading and touch base with professionals in your area.
#1: Make sure to stay up to date with your air conditioning service
The biggest problem that many people face with their HVAC service is that they don't touch base with professionals often enough. Sometimes you might need to look into installing a brand new AC unit, but in other situations you may just have to clean out the ventilation mechanisms. Either way, it pays to have a go-to HVAC shop that is credible and able to assist you with each piece of work that you decide to have done. When installing a new AC system, you might pay somewhere between $1,800 and $10,000. Getting this service will go a long way for your home.
#2: Be mindful of the shade around your house
The way that your HVAC system operates sometimes depends more on the outside of your home than the inside. For instance, a home that gets a tremendous amount of sun exposure will cause the AC system to work harder than usual. To keep your home cool, it pays to have some shade around it. Likewise, too much shade can make your home cooler than it would be otherwise. Whether you need to care for your trees or cut them down, touch base with landscapers that understand the ramifications these changes will have on your HVAC service. Be sure to get multiple quotes as cutting down a tree can cost anywhere between $150 and $1,500.
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Your home loses a lot of air through its insulation, so touch base with roofing and insulation contractors. If the roof is worn down, you will also need to get in touch with a contractor that can help you out. Installing one of these roofs usually run between $5,000 and $10,000, and the cost of repairs can run the gamut.
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Last Days of the Pop-Up Shop at Rare Device!
Our pop-up shop at Rare Device in San Francisco ends tomorrow, so make sure you get a chance to check out our entire line of goods including: planners, calendars, bookmarks, journals, postcards, books, prints and cards. You can also see original art from the Living Things Series books by Lizzy Stewart, Hannah Waldron and Jo Dery!
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By Ibrahim Muhammad Kano
The Interim Caretaker Chairman of Dawakin Tofa Local Government, Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Danguguwa, has allocated and distributed 1500 10-kilogram sacks of grains and 110 crates of spaghetti to those in need.
During the distribution, Dr. Danguguwa articulated that the primary aim of this initiative was to alleviate the hardships faced by individuals within the local government area.
He emphasized the importance of supporting the community, especially in light of the prevailing economic challenges affecting the livelihoods of the people.
Dr. Danguguwa expressed gratitude to the Dawakin Tofa business community and the Dawanau Market Association for their collaborative efforts in providing the necessary provisions.
Furthermore, he pledged to continue offering assistance to the residents with the combined support of both the state and local government authorities.
The distribution encompassed a variety of grains including millet, maize, beans, and locally produced pasta, in addition to crates of spaghetti.
The recipients expressed their appreciation for the aid received, acknowledging that it was the first instance of direct assistance from their government.
The Chairman of the provisions committee, who also serves as the Vice Caretaker Chairman of the local government, commended the Interim Chairman and his team for their dedication in organizing the distribution.
In conclusion, the provision of essential supplies has brought much-needed relief to the inhabitants of Dawakin Tofa, thanks to the collaborative efforts of the local government, businesses, and community.

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Star Wars has captured imaginations for over 40 years. There have been many iconic moments throughout each and every episode but surely none more so than the exploding Death Star from the very first movie made in 1977. This design from Richard Sudbury features that very thing with this awesome Death Star motif! No Star Wars fan should be without one! (Please note, this design is fan art and NOT official Star Wars merch!)
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Nick Sakiewicz was always a soccer guy.
He played, in college and professionally. He coached. He scouted. He built teams. He’s been a fan, is a fan, will be a fan of the Philadelphia Union.
“I was the first fan of that club,” the Glen Mills resident said in a recent interview. “I started the thing. I started that club from a blank sheet of paper.”
He had help, but that was the short version of how the lifelong soccer guy helped bring a major-league team to the Delaware County waterfront. As he said, he “cobbled together” investors, worked the political back-channels, found a coach, encouraged a fan group.
“Second year,” he said, “we were in the playoffs.”
For a while, it was a remarkable story, and Sakiewicz was at the front. The Union, of the MLS, was attracting crowds — loud ones, too — to a spectacular compact facility hard by the Commodore Barry Bridge. Born in 2010, the Union was in the 2011 postseason. The Daily Times sports department chose the organization as its “Sports Figure of the Year.” The Union was going places. Soon, though, Sakiewicz would be, too.
“A lot of things I wanted to do with the Union, I couldn’t do for a variety of reasons, on and off the field,” he said. “I don’t think there was any secret that philosophically, (owner Jay) Sugarman and I were not on the same page.”
No, it was no secret, not at all. Indeed, it turned noisy. The Union began to lose games and traction, and the most vocal fans turned on Sakiewicz, the operating partner, essentially the general manager, marching around the stadium to demand his dismissal. By 2015, he was gone, not that he had to mimic the kicking and screaming going on around the facility.
“I was a prominent figure, the face of the club,” Sakiewicz said. “Someone has to answer and take the heat, I guess.”
He was blamed for hiring too many ordinary players, though roster-building was the responsibility of the coaching staff. He was blamed for the Union producing MLS’s 18th best record by 2015. He was blamed, but in a sense, he was relieved. He just never knew how relieved he was until he did what any good athlete will do ... prepare for the next game.
For Sakiewicz, the next game would be … box lacrosse?
“It’s awesome,” he said. “I’m having a blast.”
Sakiewicz is the commissioner of the National Lacrosse League, the indoor circuit that used to include the Philadelphia Wings. Though the league has no Philadelphia franchise, the commissioner’s office is in Conshohocken. A legal and marketing department remains in New York, but Sakiewicz is comfortable in Montgomery County, where he works with former Union front-office types Dave Rowan and Ashley Dabb.
“I may not have been born in Philly,” said Sakiewicz, a native of Passaic, N.J., “but I am a Philly guy. I am definitely a Philly guy.”
He insists the NLL is thriving, pointing out that the Denver-based Colorado Mammoth was out-drawing both the Nuggets and the Avalanche late in the season. And he expects expansion, and soon. Philadelphia is more than on the radar.
“As a hard-core soccer guy, I never thought I’d enjoy a sport as much as I do this,” Sakiewicz said. “I’ve become a huge fan. It’s fun to watch. It’s end-to-end. The players are incredibly skillful with the stick. We are regularly on ESPN’s list of Top 10 plays. It’s a little hockey, a little basketball.”
Indoor lacrosse is not unfamiliar to Philadelphia fans, who once had a passion for the Wings, who won six championships but who would relocate to New England in 2014. Nor is it breaking news that outdoor lacrosse is blowing up at the youth, high school and college levels, suggesting a ripe market for growth. For that, Sakiewicz has no immediate urge to return to soccer.
“I love what I am doing,” he said. “I am enjoying myself. Life is short. You never say never. I have different opportunities every day. But for now, I will stay put.”
So he’ll run a lacrosse league from Conshy, about 20 miles from Chester, close enough to closely follow the soccer club he helped form, the one that had gone 251 days between victories before winning their last two games against Red Bulls and D.C. United in succession.
“I am still a fan of that team,” Sakiewicz said. “Listen, I created that brand with the fans. I watch every game. I get to some. I haven’t been there this year, but I still follow the team. I am still a fan.”
He’s a fan of the team, but not necessarily of its direction, not before, not currently.
“I saw other MLS teams investing heavily in scouting and technical staff,” he said. “But we had philosophical differences. I wanted to bring in more talent for scouting players, developing players. And we didn’t agree on that or on the people.
“People always think it’s about investing in players, that it is about spending money. But it’s about spending money on the right players. The Union spends money on players. But we needed scouts and technical talent to spend that money properly.”
Sakiewicz recalls trying to lure Octavio Zambrano to improve the Union’s youth-development effort. And he remembers being repelled.
“Octavio is now the national coach in Canada,” Sakiewicz said. “And Carlos Carvalhal is an interesting one. I had an opportunity to bring him in. But now he is in England, coaching Sheffield Wednesday. It’s all part of investment in the on-field product, beefing up the coaching and scouting department.”
The Union have won three straight games and are on a five-game unbeaten streak, but until those last three victories Jim Curtin was firmly into the vote-of-confidence phase of his coaching career. Sakiewicz has to know what that could mean.
“Jim Curtin is a terrific, young coach,” Sakiewicz said. “I am a big fan of Jim Curtin. But he is a young coach.”
For the Union, the coach is young, but the annual non-championship result is growing old.
“The great thing about sports is that you can always turn it around,” Sakiewicz said. “Sport is that way. But as unforgiving and cruel as the sports business can be, you will always have a chance to win and make the team better.”
And for some in the business, there can be another sport altogether.
“I am having a blast with lacrosse, doing the same thing we did with the Union,” Sakiewicz said. “We built a great stadium and an amazing brand and I am proud of that. I have two runner-up medals from the U.S. Open Cup. I got the team into the playoffs in the second season. I was pleased with that. Our staff did a good job of filling up the stadium. We brought international soccer events here.
“At the end of the day, I have no regrets whatsoever.”

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ATLANTA (AP) — The National Weather Service has confirmed that two tornadoes struck Georgia during storms on Sunday.
Forecasters had previously determined that an EF-0 tornado touched down near Moreland in Coweta County, downing trees and damaging a house and a boat during about a minute of destruction.
The weather service now says a second tornado from the same storm system touched down northeast of the Henry County town of McDonough on Sunday. Forecasters say that twister, also rated an EF-0, traveled just over a mile and struck the Sleepy Hollow subdivision, where it damaged the siding of five houses and toppled a half-dozen trees.
No serious injuries or deaths were reported in the storms.


Paul Krugman on how insurance companies are gearing up to fight the Obama health plan even as they claim to want to be a part of it:
The Post has the storyboards for the ads, and they read just like the infamous Harry and Louise ads that helped kill health care reform in 1993. Troubled Americans are shown being denied their choice of doctor, or forced to wait months for appointments, by faceless government bureaucrats. It’s a scary image that might make some sense if private health insurance — which these days comes primarily via HMOs — offered all of us free choice of doctors, with no wait for medical procedures. But my health plan isn’t like that. Is yours?
“We can do a lot better than a government-run health care system,” says a voice-over in one of the ads. To which the obvious response is, if that’s true, why don’t you? Why deny Americans the chance to reject government insurance if it’s really that bad?
For none of the reform proposals currently on the table would force people into a government-run insurance plan. At most they would offer Americans the choice of buying into such a plan.
And the goal of the insurers is to deny Americans that choice. They fear that many people would prefer a government plan to dealing with private insurance companies that, in the real world as opposed to the world of their ads, are more bureaucratic than any government agency, routinely deny clients their choice of doctor, and often refuse to pay for care.
As we go forward in this critical and oft-complicated debate, I would simply ask people to keep a certain point in mind:
The primary concern of the health care industry is profit.
What? It’s the way private enterprise works.


Canadian Forest Service Publications
Differentiation among effects of nitrogen fertilization treatments on conifer seedlings by foliar reflectance: a comparison of methods. 2000. Moran, J.A.; Mitchell, A.K.; Goodmanson, G.; Stockburger, K.A. Tree Physiology 20: 1113-1120.
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Analysis of reflectance can be used to estimate foliar concentrations of photosynthetic pigments, thus providing information on the physiological status of green plants. We compared several methods of reflectance analysis for the capacity to differentiate among effects of fertilization treatments across different irradiances on seedlings of Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.). Seedlings were grown in two light treatments (0% and 60% shade) and three nitrogen (N) treatments (10, 25 and 100 mg N l-1) for one growing season, after which foliar reflectance of the needles was measured. Five indices were tested: R550 (% reflectance at 550 nm); red edge position; the ratio R698:R760; the structure independent pigment index (SIPI); and the photochemical reflectance index (PRI). Both the light and nutrient treatments significantly affected foliar chlorophyll a and b and carotenoid concentrations.
Among the indices tested, R550, red edge position and R698:R760 ratio were related to chlorophyll concentration, and were significantly affected by both light and N treatments. Both SIPI and PRI were related to chlorophyll and carotenoid concentrations. Among these relationships PRI was affected by both treatments, whereas SIPI was sensitive to N treatment but not to light treatment. All five indices were weakly but significantly correlated with growth as measured by dry weight.


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- Mauritania, Chad Presidents in Saudi Arabia for Hajj
Mauritanian president Maaouya ould Sid Ahmed al-Taya ... Mauritanian president Maaouya ould Sid Ahmed al-Taya and the accompanying delegation arrived in Madinah ... at the prophet's mosque, reported the official Saudi News Agency (SPA). And President of Chad Idriss ...
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- Chadian Government Officials Killed in Plane Crash
general in President Idriss Deby's office were killed with their pilot in a plane crash near ... Idriss Deby's office were killed with their pilot in a plane crash near the capital Ndjamena, ... in a sandstorm just across the border from Chad in Cameroon. The dead included Ali Ahmed Lanine, ...
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- Battle Rages for Leadership of Egypt's Sole Legal Islamist Party
official, Ahmed Idriss, gathered at one of its local branch premises, and proclaimed Idriss chairman, ... 1,000 people led by party official Hamdi Ahmed occupied the party's headquarters, and elected Ahmed ...
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- 'Rat hunt' on for Gaddafi, dead or alive, 'house' by house, 'alley' by alley
in Sebha yesterday, said Ali Idriss Hadar, 30, whose father, Idriss Hadar, was trapped in the town. ... Ahmed, a young man who was on a patrol on Imam Malik street, a few metres from his house. He said he ...
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- Morocco: Islamist party takes over new government
and Freedom. - Ahmed Toufiq: Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs. - Driss Dahak: Chief Cabinet ... of Government responsible for Public Service and Administration Modernization. - Azami Idriss Al Idrissi: ...
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Three meets into the season, the men’s and women’s cross country teams are looking ahead to its most important races of the season at the Suffolk Invitational and the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference Championship.
First-year head coach Brandon Fox ‘11 said he circled Saturday’s Suffolk Invitational on his calendar at the beginning of the season.
“I think the fact that it’s at Franklin Park and it’s home—it’s really our home course even though we don’t typically host—that’s what makes this meet special,” Fox said in an interview. “Usually we have the administrators coming in, a lot of family support around us, and it’s also a course that we look back on every year and say, ‘Okay, we know what we can do here.’ There’s not a lot of courses in New England where you can compare times directly, so comparing apples to apples each year and looking at that progression, I always circle Franklin Park.”
The teams will use the Suffolk Invitational to evaluate themselves ahead of the NEWMAC championship on Nov. 3. Fox said he hopes both teams are able to succeed this Saturday.
“I want to be in the middle of the pack on both sides,” Fox said. “There’s going to be a lot of teams there, a lot of competition. We’re sort of right in the mix—it’s a sort of dogfight with a lot of teams that are of our size and our capability—so all those points matter. We’ve got to go in with the right attitude, and I think if we do that we’ll be pretty successful and we’ll see some [personal records].”
Junior captain Joey MacNeil said this meet is especially important to him following last year’s results.
“Last year was [Suffolk University’s] first year of being competitive in a very long time because they got a track team, which helps out their cross country team,” MacNeil said in an interview. “They got a ton of really fast kids and they killed us last year because we were probably having one of the worst years ever in this program’s history, so it was kind of embarrassing. Now we’re a little bit better and we can compete with them a bit more.”
The Lions opened their season at the Endicott Invitational on Sept. 7. The men’s team finished in eighth place out of 10 teams, and the women’s team placed fifth out of seven teams. Freshman Oliver Glass led the men’s team, placing fifth out of 84 runners with a time of 29:23. Junior Taylor Ranney finished 10th out of 80 runners in the women’s race with a time of 21:32.
Two weeks later, both the men’s and women’s teams placed fourth out of eight teams at the Pop Crowell Invitational. Glass once again led the men, placing sixth of 88 runners and setting a personal record of 28:45. Ranney finished in tenth with a time of 25:39 to lead the women.
Glass said the team is using each meet as a stepping stone to prepare for the upcoming challenges at the end of the season.
“I think we’re doing better, we’re improving with every meet,” Glass said in an interview. “The idea is to gear up to run the best at the important meets at the end of the season, and I think that’s what we’re doing so far.”
The teams competed in their third meet of the season this past Saturday at the Runnin’ Monks Invitational in Standish, Maine. Out of the eight teams competing, the men’s team finished in fifth and the women’s team came in fourth. Glass earned a time of 29:17.6 as the 19th of 83 runners to cross the finish line. Ranney placed ninth out of 93 runners with a time of 26:00.5.
“This past Saturday was probably the most excited I’ve ever been as a coach,” Fox said. “Seeing my team succeed is the best thing in the world, and that’s a testament to the amount of work they put in.”
Following the Suffolk Invitational, the cross country teams will prepare for the NEWMAC Championship on Nov. 3 at Franklin Park.
Junior Maddie Lynch believes the race is an opportunity for the program to redefine itself within the conference.
“Historically, Emerson has been the bottom of the NEWMAC for cross country, so if we could move up in that placement that’d be awesome,” Lynch said in an interview. “It’s at Franklin Park, so we’ll have a second chance on that course which will be good, so I feel like hitting our fastest times and also moving up in the rankings with NEWMAC would be great.”
Fox said Emerson will face a difficult challenge going into the conference championship.
“Since we’ve moved into this conference, it has just been an absolute nightmare running against some of these teams—MIT hasn’t lost a championship in two decades,” Fox said. “I don’t look forward to this meet every year for that reason because we’re not well-positioned to run against these teams, but we need to pick the apples we can reach.”
However, Fox believes his teams have what it takes to compete with the contenders in the conference.
“We’ve beaten Babson on the women’s side, we’ve beaten Wheaton and Clark on the men’s side and on the women’s side,” Fox said. “Let’s race against teams we can race against, and if we go in, we give it our best shot. For me that’s a win, knowing that we’ve left it all out there and we did what we could do.”


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Kapuskasing was visited by members of the Ontario Northland Railway Historical and Technical Society (ONRHTS) on July 22 as part of their annual tour
Francophone entrepreneurs will benefit from business mentorship and coaching as a result of a Government of Canada investment of $72,648 in the Hearst
Every year, the Kapuskasing & District Chamber of Commerce (KDCC) recognizes local businesses and individuals who have demonstrated continued success
On July 21, 2017, at approximately 11:39 p.m., Kapuskasing officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a weapons call on Riverside Dr
On July 23, 2017, at approximately 8:00 a.m., officers of the Hearst Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Cochrane District Emerg
When Zeppelin the hedgehog was brought to a local wildlife rescue centre in Scotland on Sunday, it was not because he was overweight.
Florida officials are looking into a "horrific" video that has gone viral of a shark being dragged behind a boat.
City police have charged a man after an altercation between a cyclist and a truck driver Tuesday morning.
Follow your heart -- such a common phrase, so often spoken by those encouraging others to pursuing their dreams.
Kapuskasing's local cheese factory, Fromagerie Kapuskoise celebrated its second anniversary on July 14.
For the second consecutive year “Echo d’un Peuple”, Félix St-Denis, the Conseil Scholaire Catholique de district des Grandes Rivières and Conseil Scho
Larabie’s Your Independent Grocer donated $3,439 to the Kapuskasing Food Bank on July 12.
On July 9, 2017, at approximately 7:00 p.m., Hearst officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop on Highway 11 in Devitt T
On July 7, 2017, at approximately 8:30 p.m., Kapuskasing officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop for a Highway Traffi


Dr Awadel-Karim has invented a new repulping technology called "System and Method for Repulping of Paper Products and Improvement of Water Quality with Dipolar Solvents and Recovery". The invention has been registered in Canada, United States, and internationally. In 2009 the technology was patented by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Dr Awadel-Karim has already designed a project for developing a prinitng/writing paper mill using waste paper, which is entirely based on the technology which he says is in line with climate change issues, friendly environment and CDM criteria. Furthermore this project may have a significant impact on the social development of poor communities because it will open up remarkable employment opportunities.
Dr. Awedel Karim earned a gold medal in the 3rd International Invention Fair of the Middle East
In November 2010 Dr Awedel-Karim was awarded a Gold Medal in the 3rd International Invention Fair of Middle East (IIFME), Kuwait, Kuwait State.
Dr Awadel Karim has carried out substantial consultancy work at mills in Europe and the Middle East and is currently a partner with Cartoneel Printing and Packaging Company Khartoum, Sudan, in a carton project (flute, test liner and kraft liner) from waste paper. The project is now in the establishment stage. Middle East Paper Co. (MEPCO), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is also currently using the technology at a commercial scale in its mill.
The technology:System and Method for Repulping of Paper Products and Improvement of Water Quality with Dipolar Solvents and Recovery
PPI: Can you first of all tell us why you think this technology is needed in the paper industry?
Awadel-Karim: I believe dipolar aprotic solvents (DAS) technology, is crucial for the paper industry in particular at this time because the paper industry in general and recycled paper in particular have recently suffered a hard time in generating rewarding returns. This is because conventional repulping technology that is used worldwide in the recycled industry suffers a number of shortcomings. These short comings include low productivity, high production cost, inferior fiber quality and environmental concerns. I believe the DAS technology eliminates all these shortcomings. It is also noteworthy to mention that DAS technology is a multifold climate change related benefits.
*DAS stands for Dipolar Aprotic Solvents family. This family includes dimethylformamide (DMF), dimethylactamide (DMA), dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), hexamethylphosphorc triamide (HMPT), acetone, and pyridine. These compounds have noticeable effect on hydrogen bonding.
PPI: Can you tell us how the technology actually works?
This technology is designed to provide an enhanced method of repulping paper and improving water quality with a dipolar solvent. This method addresses two parts: first with respect to the repulping of cellulosic material and second with respect to the water quality improvement.
- For the enhancement of the cellulosic material, DAS repulping is capable of offering flexible and responsive cellulose with open hydrogen bond packing (i.e., no less than virgin pulp).
- The primary water quality improvement objects are to increase its reactivity, solvent capacity, carrying efficiency and microbiological stability. This is achieved through the interaction of a dipolar aprotic solvent with the hydroxyl groups of the cellulosic material and offering cellulose with attenuated hydrogen bonds. On the other hand, this dipolar aprotic solvent is capable of restructuring water hydrogen bonding system by offering reactive water with superior qualities characterized by possessing ice crystal-like and small water molecule clusters (six water molecule clusters instead of 400-600 water molecule clusters) with weaken hydrogen bonds.
Also, it is of importance to point out that this invention is designed to work on all types of recycled papers including mixed office waste (MOW), old magazines (OMG), old newspapers (ONP), old corrugated containers (OCC), etc. Thus, it is suitable for production of various end use papers such as printing, writing, newsprint, corrugating, test liner, tissue paper.
What are the benefits/savings/improvements to the production at the mill?
- With regards to DAS technology benefits, as discussed earlier the benefits lie in two parts:
Part 1: Repulping and pulp enhancement
1.High yield of recovered pulp fibers with considerable fiber flexibility can be attained by the effectively uniform interaction of dipolar solvent with both amorphous and crystalline cellulose, i.e., effective breakdown of interfibre bonding of the cellulosic material;
2. Ease of defibrillation and recovery of fibers with attenuated H-bonds, i.e., accessible cellulose;
3. Fibers can be recycled continuously due to open hydrogen bond packing; the recovered fibers are continuously recyclable using the method of the present invention, as the fibers are always in a comfortable H-bonding position. The system and method of this part of invention is thus compatible with sustainable development principles that aim at a rational and effective use of renewable resources, while providing a significant increase in industrial revenue.
4. Dissolution-hydration of hemicellulose (e.g. surface adsorbed xylans) and better degree of hemicellulose retention;
5. Ease of detachment of additives, adhesives, and ink particles due to greater specific molecular surface area exposure to de-additive, de-adhesive, deinking reactions.
6. Energy savings by reduction in other operations (e.g., kneading, soaking, deinking);
7. Ease of bleaching, i.e., greater exposed surface area of fibers for reaction;
8. Better sheet strength properties: The tensile strength, burst strength, stretch and smoothness of paper sheets prepared from the re-pulpled material are improved due to the flexibility of the fibers and the increased amount of hemicellulose attained by the method and system. The flexibility of the fibers and the increased amount of hemicellulose retained by the fibers are directly proportional to the weakening of the hydrogen bonds in the cellulose. The optimizing loops are thus both easy and important to implement for a given repulpable material.
9. Enhanced paper machine operation;
10. Ease of draining; less fines for blocking screens;
11. Smoother paper sheets from re-pulpled material due to fibers being flexible and comfortably in pressed position; no fluffiness on sheets due to no stiff fibers sticking out;
12. Environmentally benign.
Part 2: water quality improvement
1. Increased fibrous material hydration capacity through water-water weaker hydrogen bonds and smaller water molecule clusters interaction with cellulosic material, i.e., better interfiber bonding.
2. Ease of detachment of adhesives, additives and ink particles due to high dissolving power quality of dipolar aprotic solvent treated water (i.e., dissolution of extraneous substances).
3. Improved fibrous mass transfer due to high dissolving quality and greater carrying efficacy of aprotic solvent-water system.
4. Lesser sludge load due to microbiological stability of water, i.e., highly tetrahedral lattice water and small water clusters with no free oxygen for bacteria and enzymes to grow and proliferate.
5. Limited use of biocides.
6. Enhanced fibrous material mixing, i.e., uniform defibration due to lower surface tension, greater carrying efficiency and increased dissolving power of aprotic solvent water.
7. Limitation in the use of sheet strength and sizing agents;
8. Reduced water, electrical and chemical consumption.
- With respect to the savings, the implementation ofDAS technology (invention) for repulping suits both developed and developing countries. Unlike what is happening in the neutral and alkaline repulping methods, the invention (new solvent repulping) is designed to provide an enhanced method of repulping paper and improving water quality with dipolar solvents and recovery and these result in remarkable savings (22% savings, 2007). The considerable savings make both running and newly established mills remarkably viable.
- Concerning the improvements in mill production,DAS technology is capable of delivering high productivity, low production cost, better paper quality and a benign environment.
Will it make any noticeable difference to the carbon footprint at a mill?
Yes, the preposition value of DAS technology includes the reduction of carbon footprint through: forest conservation, reduction of emission, provision of reactive water, reduction of chemical use and it reduces energy consumption. In addition it reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions more than conventional recycling.
How does/will it affect the bottom line in terms of increased profitability? (any case study examples?)
The technology will enable high pulp yield with zero pulp rejects. Also, productivity can be increased by improving paper machine runnability because DAS technology enhances the stretch parameter of the produced paper (vertical increase). In addition, the energy and water consumption are reduced because there is no further technological treatment of pulp rejects and the detachment of ink particles adhesives and additives takes place in the hydropulper. Thus, there is less effort needed to deink and clean. Moreover, DAS technology offers industrial water with superior qualities; increased hydration power, greater dissolving ability, increased carrying efficiency and better microbiological stability. Therefore, there is minimum cost for sludge treatment. Last but not least, through the application of DAS technology, only one dipolar aprotic solvent is used in the repulping process which is less expensive when compared with the total cost of chemicals that are usually used in conventional methods. This profitability is illustrated in Fig. 1 and Table 1. The comparison between production cost of one ton manufactured by conventional method in an Indian mill and new technology was made in 2007.
Table 1 - A comparison between conventional and new technology production cost
|Total cost comparison|
|Description||Existing %||New tech %||Cost India||Cost ew method|
|Raw material||$ 155.00||155|
|Chemicals||100||33||$ 20.00||$ 6.60|
|Water /cubic meter per ton||100||85||$ 80.00||$ 68.00|
|Power consumption||100||90||$ 45.00||$ 40.50|
|Productivity increase by fiber savings||56||75||-||-29|
|Productivity increse by machine runnability||0||8||-||-12|
|Labor||100||90||$ 60.00||$ 54.00|
|Maintenance||100||75||$ 40.00||$ 30.00|
|Total Cost||$ 400.00||313.1|
|Net saving percentage||22%|
Table 2 - A comparison of physical properties of handsheets produced from conventional and new solvent repulping (NLK-Econotech)
|Analysis||Units||Conventional pulping||New solvent repulping|
|Basis weight, conditioned||g/m2||64.15||65.62|
|Tensile energy absorption||J/m2||29.8||34.6|
|Brightness ISO, top||%||45.9||48.3|
|Brightness ISO, bottom||%||44.1||46.8|
Does it improve the quality of the final product?
DAS technology offers reactive cellulose with open hydrogen bond packing (i.e., accessible cellulose), lower curl and kink indices, and fibers with high retention of microfibers (<0.2 mm%). Thus, such characteristics remarkably improve the final product quality.
Has there been any Beta testing? If so, what are the results so far?
DAS technology has been tested in Econotech independent lab, Vancouver, Canada. The results confirmed that all the physical properties are better than those of the conventional technology, Table 2.
As illustrated, even at a higher freeness level, there was an increase in all the strength properties. There was also an increase in the final brightness. Most importantly that these results are repeatable under similar conditions (Econotech independent lab).
How easy is it to apply the new technology, ie: does it involve a pulping/PM shut down? Does it involve the installation of any dedicated machinery? Does the application involve a lot of training?
DAS chemical is a direct replacement for the chemicals in the conventional methods with no changes to capital equipment or the actual process itself other than swapping in the DAS chemical.
Thus the application of DAS technology does not require a machine shutdown or lots of training. However, the DAS technology requires a special course of application.
Can you give us an idea of cost, and if not, could you give an idea on the return on investment involved?
All feasibility studies using DAS technology as a repulping method confirm through payback period, IRR, NPV and other economical parameters, the viability of the business which will certainly encourage the investors. On the other hand, the DAS technology is in line with climate change requirements and it contributes positively to the emission reduction, clean and green technology adoption.
Can the technology be viewed in action anywhere?
The ongoing negotiations with various countries such as China, India, Saudi Arabia, Kenya and Kuwait are good evidence for the technology workability, efficiency and future diffusion. Factually, DAS technology is a real innovation and it will play a revolutionary role in pulp and paper industry worldwide.


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Genetic defect in sporadic cases of the lung disorder pulmonary hypertension
Sporadic primary pulmonary hypertension is associated with germline mutations of the gene encoding BMPR-II, a receptor member of the TGF-ß family (2000; 37:741-5)
Sporadic cases of the lung disorder primary pulmonary hypertension share the same genetic
defects as inherited cases of the disease, shows new research in the Journal of Medical Genetics.
Pulmonary hypertension refers to abnormally high blood pressure in the artery serving the lungs.
This puts a strain on the heart, which has to work harder to move adequate amounts of blood
through the lungs to enable the person to breathe properly. Heart-lung transplants may be the only hope for some patients. It is twice as common in women as it is in men and tends to develop in people in their 20s and 30s.
Around 6 per cent of those diagnosed with the disease have a family history. And recent research has implicated defects in one of the genes (BMPR-II), thought to be involved in cell growth and turnover, in cases of familial primary pulmonary hypertension. The investigating team of the new study looked for these same gene defects among 50 people with primary pulmonary hypertension but no known family history. The team decoded the DNA pattern for BMPR-II from tissue samples taken from the pulmonary arteries of the 50 patients.
They found different BMPR-II defects in 13 of the 50 people studied, each of which would be capable of changing signals among cells that may be vital for their growth. Three of the patients had inherited the defect from their healthy fathers, but in a further two the same defect had arisen spontaneously. The authors suggest that at least one in four patients with the sporadic form of the disease share the same genetic defect as those with the familial form.
These findings have important implications for the relatives of those with the disease, say the authors, and for future treatments which could focus on the altered cell signals arising from the genetic defect.
Professor Richard Trembath, Department of Medicial Genetics, University of Leicester
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Crackington Haven beach stone theft signs 'aggressive'
Beach visitors are being "aggressively" threatened with prosecution for taking stones home, it is claimed.
Theft had become so common at Crackington Haven, Cornwall, that several signs were put up to warn it is illegal, the parish council said.
Visitors could face a fine of up to £1,000 as removal of stones leaves the area exposed to erosion, the clerk for St Gennys Parish Council warned.
But critics claimed the signs were "heavy handed" and "spoil the beach".
St Gennys parish clerk Barry Jordan said the signs were installed in late July due to many complaints to the council about stones being removed, adding that it was illegal under The Coastal Protection Act 1949.
In one case the council traced a holiday maker back to his home hundreds of miles away and he drove "a carrier bag of stones" all the way back to the beach after being threatened with prosecution, Mr Jordan said.
"Those who saw the damage of the floods a few years ago know what water can do, take away the pebbles and the haven would be damaged during every storm," Mr Jordan said.
"It's a shame that we must have such a problem with stone theft that the beach is now littered with large red and yellow signs threatening prosecution," local artist Jen Dixon said.
"They are so darn ugly on our beautiful beach... It seems very heavy-handed to have that many signs".
Local Jackie Carpenter said: "They ruin the 'beautiful place' view and they also provide a horrible 'police-state' sort of environment".
Lisa Ward, who also lives in the area, added: "I have overheard visitors walking onto the beach commenting on how 'aggressive' they look".
Two of the four warning signs were removed on Tuesday due to a backlash, the parish council said.
Cornwall Council, which owns 57 of the county's beaches, said it "strongly urged visitors not to remove stones or sand".
A spokesperson said: "It may seem harmless, but given the many thousands of visitors to Cornwall's beaches every year every stone removed could have an impact on coastal erosion, natural flood defences and wildlife habitats".


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Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome during Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation
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Nosocomial transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome from critically ill patients to healthcare workers has been a prominent and worrisome feature of existing outbreaks. We have observed a greater risk of developing severe acute respiratory syndrome for physicians and nurses performing endotracheal intubation (relative risk [RR], 13.29; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.99 to 59.04; p = 0.003). Nurses caring for patients receiving noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation may be at an increased risk (RR, 2.33; 95% CI, 0.25 to 21.76; p = 0.5), whereas nurses caring for patients receiving high-frequency oscillatory ventilation do not appear at an increased risk (RR, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.11 to 4.92; p = 0.6) compared with their respective reference cohorts. Specific infection control recommendations concerning the care of critically ill patients may help limit further nosocomial transmission.
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‘RIP AMBRO’: Family, fellow officers say final goodbye to Horry County Police corporal
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) – Friends, family and fellow officers honored Horry County Police Cpl. Michael Ambrosino on Tuesday after he lost his battle to COVID-19 last week.
The day began with a private memorial ceremony at a Murrells Inlet funeral home, followed by an honorary procession.
This was the beginning of the procession. @wmbfnews pic.twitter.com/jLPRH6oHH2— Patrick Lloyd (@PatrickLloydTV) August 25, 2020
RELATED: Memorial set for Tuesday for fallen HCPD corporal; family releases statement
Dozens of law enforcement vehicles made their way from the funeral home to the Myrtle Beach State Park, where a banner plane with a sign reading “RIP AMBRO” was circling in the sky above.
The family then took part in a ceremony at the state park, pouring a mix of sand, shells and flower petals from the pier into the ocean, where Ambrosino loved to spend a lot of his time.
People like Jim O’Brien who knew Ambrosino said he was a great person.
“A well-liked guy,” O’Brien said. “I haven’t heard a guy say a bad word about him. Really, he was just that type of individual.”
Some people on the beach just so happened to be there during the service, which they weren’t aware was going to happen. That didn’t stop some from watching intently.
Mike Bricker never met Ambrosino; he just happened to be on the beach before the service.
Despite that, the Vietnam veteran knows what it’s like to defend the lives of people he serves, just like Ambrosino did as a police officer.
“Before all this virus and everything went, if I saw a police officer anywhere, I’d go up and shake their hand and thank them for their service, because they’re the army that guards all of us in our homes,” Brickner said.
Ambrosino’s family released a statement regarding the passing of their loved one:
“Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to reach out to our family, offer assistance, and share a little about their experiences over the years with Mike. It’s touching how kind and generous people truly are.
While we haven’t read every letter or comment yet, or returned every call, hearing about Mike and the people he reached on so many different levels makes us incredibly proud of him. To know that he made a difference in the lives of others is a light in the darkness. It doesn’t make the loss acceptable, but it does help the pain.
It’s hard for us right now. The beautiful stories make us laugh and smile, but they also hurt because it means Mike isn’t here, and truthfully we would trade all of it in a minute if it would bring him back.
COVID-19 took Mike, and it took our ability to mourn fully with everyone who meant so much to him, but it cannot and will not take our memories. Those live on forever, just like our love for him.”
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Metro Train for Delhi
The project of Delhi Metro is sure to change the existing state of transport. The idea of Metro train in Delhi is not a new, in fact the idea was brought into consideration about some fifty years back, but the bureaucracy red—tapism made it to take a such a long period to some into reality. However in December 26, 2002, people of Delhi got the first ride in this much awaited dream train.
The people of Delhi are happy with the service rendered by the Metro because now they have an alternate to the suffocatingly and ill-managed packed blue line buses and the inadequate service of D.T.C and C.N.G buses. With the Metro option, the passengers are not only save from the inconvenience of the road transport, but they also experience a world class service at very affordable fares. Metro train same like a warm sunshine on a foggy morning.
With the start of Metro, the burden on the roads reduced. People of Delhi won’t have to wait for the buses for the long time. It saves the valuable time and money too. The coaches of Metro are fully air-conditioned. Another outstanding feature of the netro is that it is very useful for handicapped. The speed of Metro Rails is good enough to meet the needs of growing population in Delhi. It also saves the people from population of vehicles.
The construction work of the Delhi Metro is on at a considerable pace and it is hoped that the people of other areas in Delhi will soon be able to avail of this amazingly comfortable train service. It is foreseen by many that at the completion of this project, Delhi will have a better train facility than even Japan and North Korea, the countries which provided the present metro trains to India.
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We take customer safety seriously and as such, we work closely with the Victorian Police Transit Safety Division to keep our trains and stations safe. CCTV surveillance on trains and at stations, in addition to increased lighting, employee presence and Transit Police Officers on platforms, in stations and in car parks, further improve your personal safety while travelling.
You may also be aware of Victoria Police’s progressive roll out of Protective Services Officers (PSOs) at train stations across Melbourne from 6pm to the last service, to further improve safety at night.
If at any time you feel unsafe on the network please alert a Metro employee. Should an employee not be immediately available, red emergency buttons are available on every platform and in train carriages. In an emergency situation, press the button for assistance.
Safety around trains
- It’s a good idea to arrive at your station earlier than your timetabled service to give you enough time to touch on and board your train safely.
- Customers who may need additional time to board are asked to board towards the front of the train where the driver is close by. Customers travelling with bicycles cannot board at the first door of the first carriage, as this is a priority area for mobility impaired customers.
- Spread out along the platform – this helps avoid crowding carriages.
- When waiting for a train, stand behind the yellow line at all times.
- Stand aside and allow other people to get off before you board the train.
- Never attempt to hold a train door open or to force it open.
- Mind the gap between the train and the platform. This can vary depending on the type of train you are exiting and the platform onto which you are stepping.
- When the warning tone sounds to close a train’s automated doors, please ensure hands, arms and bags are safely on board or removed to the platform.
- Only ever cross the train track at designated level crossings. Not only is crossing at an unmarked spot extremely dangerous, it’s also illegal.
Safety at night
- If you are travelling alone, board the first carriage, closest to the driver’s cabin. Also, try to sit in carriages with other customers, rather than by yourself.
- By planning your journey first, you minimise your wait time for services. Check the Metro website or metroNotify app for the latest service information, including line disruptions and delays.
- While you wait for your train, stand in a well-lit area, or, if available on the platform, stand in the yellow safety zones located at many of our stations.
At the station
- Avoid running at stations, especially in wet weather. Stations may have different surfaces, so take care when moving to and from your train.
- Remember, rollerblading, skateboarding and cycling are not permitted on platforms.
- Do not board the train if you feel unwell. If you feel unwell while on board, if possible exit the train at the next station and alert a Metro employee. If an employee is not immediately available, press the red, emergency, button on the station platform to speak to a staff member.
- Use station bins for litter to avoid creating possible obstacles for other customers.
- Please also avoid littering on trains, take your litter with you when you reach your destination.
- Travelling with a pram? Click here for specific pram safety tips.
Danger on the network
If you notice any unattended bags, luggage or suspicious activity at a station report it to a Metro employee .
If you feel unsafe and are at a non-staffed station, press the red, Emergency, button at the station. This intercom links to the control room along the train line and will enable you to speak with the control room officer who will be able to assist you and activate emergency services if necessary.
If you can safely move away from present danger, either on the train or at the station, do so in a calm manner.
In the event of an emergency, listen for announcements and follow the instructions and advice broadcast by trained Metro employees.
Community Education Unit (CEU)
The Metro Community Education Unit (CEU) proactively engages with schools and community groups to teach and promote safe train travel. Their objective is to proactively engage school groups to advise on safe utilisation of public transport and the expected standards of behaviour. Click here for more details and to find out how to secure a presentation.
To learn more about staying safe on trains, at stations and at level-crossings, visit dumbwaystodie.com and help spread the safety message.

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Sticks and stones might make him groan, but clay really ticks him off! Bad Mister Frosty is the name, and action is the game. Fists and feet will fly (and other parts) as Frosty and his friends smack it out in head-to-head fighting action.
Platform: Super Nintendo
Official Release Date: November 1993
Number of Players: 1-2 Players
Genre: Action > Fighting > 2D
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Product Barcode: 040421820115
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Small faux Christmas trees and pillar battery candles wrapped with red grapevine berries in a rustic wooden box.
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Contemporary Art from the UAE
Watch the talk here.
Take the exhibition tour here.
WHEN: December 3, 2021– April 29, 2022
WHERE: THE MEI ART GALLERY
At the Middle East Institute
1763 N ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036
Marking the United Arab Emirates’ Jubilee celebration, Between the Sky and the Earth: Contemporary Art from the UAE brings together 12 artists reflecting the diverse contemporary art ecosystem in the UAE today. Whether originally Emirati, Kuwaiti, Pilipino, or American, the artists – all of whom call the UAE home – challenge standard narratives about the Emirates through an intergenerational dialogue exploring their social, cultural and natural landscapes.
The featured artists explore themes around permanence and transience, time and memory through a range of subjects such as the environment, consumerism and the impact of oil-driven industrialization on individuals and societies. In the process, they offer a sample of the multi-faceted community of practitioners contributing to the UAE’s dynamic cultural output – the community that shares the space Between the Sky and the Earth.
Featured artists are: Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Afra Al Dhaheri, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Hashel Al Lamki, Shaikha Al Mazrou, Asma Belhamar, Alaa Edris, Lamya Gargash, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Mohammed Kazem, Solimar Miller, Augustine Paredes.


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- Stéphane Rinfret, MD, SM∗ ( and )
- Luiz Fernando Ybarra, MD, MBA
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Dr. Stéphane Rinfret, McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Glen Site (B03.7200), 1001 Boulevard Décarie, Montreal, Québec H4A 3J1, Canada.
- antegrade dissection and re-entry
- antegrade wire escalation
- chronic total occlusion
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- randomized control trial
The CrossBoss-Stingray antegrade dissection and re-entry (ADR) system (Boston Scientific, Natick, Massachusetts) was designed to help overcome a common failure mode of antegrade chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI): subintimal tracking. The first pivotal study using CrossBoss-Stingray devices confirmed the safety and feasibility of ADR with these devices in selected patients, but was never compared with an antegrade wire escalation (AWE) strategy (1). One-third of CTOs could also be crossed true to true lumen without the need for the Stingray system. ADR was subsequently incorporated as part of a hybrid strategy, and is still considered a necessary and desirable approach for long CTOs with good distal target, especially when no retrograde collateral channel can be used (2). The hybrid approach has been followed effectively and safely by many operators around the world, with use of ADR in 15% to 25% of cases (3–5).
By the hybrid algorithm, AWE should be selected first for CTOs without proximal cap ambiguity and shorter than 20 mm, although longer CTOs can nowadays be crossed with new high-torque wires. In this issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, Karacsonyi et al. (6) report the results of a prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing procedural outcomes of patients undergoing CTO PCI with a planned antegrade approach, using either guidewires or the CrossBoss device. Investigators screened 966 patients from 2015 to 2017 in 11 centers and randomized 246 into a CrossBoss-first versus guidewires-first strategy. The primary efficacy endpoint of crossing time was not significantly shortened with CrossBoss (56 vs. 66 min). The primary safety endpoint of major adverse cardiac events did not differ (3.28% vs. 4.03%) between groups, and other procedural characteristics were similar. Success rates were high in moderately difficult lesions (Japan Chronic Total Occlusion score = 2).
The investigators should be commended for conducting one of the rare RCTs in CTO PCI, and to our knowledge, the first to compare 2 accepted strategies. Recruitment of patients with CTOs eligible for AWE resulted in the randomization of only one-fourth of screened patients, who had more favorable angiographic criteria: high in-stent occlusion rate, low rate of proximal cap ambiguity and good landing zone. Moreover, the use of an AWE in 22% through the CrossBoss catheter rather than using its spinning properties is another limitation and must be considered a high and difficult-to-handle crossover rate.
Most importantly, given the absence of difference in crossing time and clinical outcomes, the much higher rate of ADR techniques in the CrossBoss arm (50% vs. 22%) required to succeed has possible unmeasured clinical implications. As stated, it is perceived that the CrossBoss catheter limits the size of the dissection. We agree that the CrossBoss helps to limit the dissection plane to a smaller subadventitial track thickness or width compared with the track created by a knuckled wire or contrast. However, the CrossBoss catheter is certainly not a device designed to limit the length of the dissection. Keeping the length of the dissection plane as short as possible is desirable. Extending the length may result in significant side branch occlusion, leading to myocardial infarction (MI) and worse flow. Although the authors did not find significant difference in side branch loss, they did not report the rate of all periprocedural MI; some smaller branch occlusions could have been missed in the absence of a core lab analysis. Moreover, the CrossBoss strategy was associated with a 2.46% rate of Q-wave MI, compared with 0.81% in the AWE group; had the study been better powered for safety, such a difference could have been statistically significant. Although stent length was similar in both groups, the length of subintimal stenting per se is not reported. Song et al. (7) have showed that subintimal tracking had more evidence of dye staining or extravasation, more branch occlusion, and was associated with increased in-hospital adverse events (1.9% vs. 7.9%; p = 0.04), mostly periprocedural MI, compared with intraplaque crossing.
By using the CrossBoss early, the operator expects to perform re-entry techniques in most cases. In this study, CrossBoss catheter crossed from true-to-true lumen in only one-quarter of simpler cases, a rate lower than reported previously (1). Therefore, by using the CrossBoss with its propensity to track the subintimal space, operators give up one potentially easier option, intraplaque crossing with wires, a strategy that is successful in more than 50% of patients. Re-entry, when required, involved the Stingray in 95%, with high success, even in the AWE group, confirming it can still be done without a CrossBoss first. When the Stingray device can be used to preserve side branches, long-term outcomes with ADR are excellent (8). However, use of the Stingray was not always successful, and few subintimal tracking and re-entry techniques were required. Such last-resort re-entry techniques are unfortunately associated with worse outcomes (8). Therefore, minimizing the need for ADR in simpler cases is reasonable to avoid using last-resort re-entry maneuvers, required to bailout Stingray failure. In the absence of longer-term outcomes from this RCT, one needs to remain careful with liberal use of ADR, and the common sense of using the least traumatic techniques should prevail.
Although readers may be reassured by the short-term safety profile of a CrossBoss-first strategy, we need to reinforce the fact that the study was not powered for any hypothesis concerning safety. Given an incidence of major adverse cardiac events of 3% to 4%, a reasonable noninferiority margin would have yielded a much larger sample than the one recruited. The trend seen in the reduction of perforation and pericardiocentesis is an intriguing one at first glance: whereas 4 patients in the AWE group needed pericardiocentesis, none was required in the CrossBoss group. When reading the circumstances that led for pericardiocentesis, it is difficult to conclude of a protective effect from the CrossBoss, as many perforations resulted after a retrograde approach, balloon inflation or perforation after stenting; they were not related to wire manipulation. Intraplaque crossing with wires can sometimes be associated with more difficult subsequent plaque modification maneuvers (rotational atherectomy, high pressure inflation, cutting balloon) compared with when operators “get around” the CTO plaque with ADR. Such findings should be confirmed with a larger sample. Finally, unit costs are not provided. Given the absence of difference in aggregated costs, unit costs were likely substantially cheaper than in other countries, including in Canada where CrossBoss and Stingray add at least U.S. $2,500 in procedural costs.
The study results comfort our beliefs: wires can be successfully used to cross the CTO in >50%, do not increase procedure time nor complication, and re-entry technique can still be performed in case of subintimal tracking, even without the CrossBoss catheter. In case of failed intraplaque tracking, dissection planes can be created with polymer-jacketed knuckled wires supported by modern microcatheters. Knuckled wires more predictably track the main vessel subintimal space and stay away from branches, compared with the CrossBoss that is often advanced with much less control. The CrossBoss catheter, given its stiffness, often tracks side branches arising from the greater curvature of the coronary artery. Such branches may be smaller than the CrossBoss tip, resulting in perforation. The low perforation rate reported with the CrossBoss catheter in this study might be attributable to shorter CTOs compared with those usually tackled with ADR. After successfully tracking a subintimal plane with a knuckled wire, the microcatheter can be advanced proximal to a re-entry spot, and subsequent wires advanced straight into the subintimal space next to the true lumen. Such dissection planes with straight wires are unlikely to damage the re-entry spot. Following this, the microcatheter is advanced to dilate the track, and is subsequently exchanged for the Stingray balloon. Such AWE ± ADR as described in the preceding text, with more effective wires, has substantially decreased our use of the CrossBoss catheter to few units over the last 2 years.
CrossBoss never? We think operators still need this catheter for specific tacks. Its ability to track the true lumen for in-stent occlusions is attractive and was associated with a shorter crossing time in this subgroup compared with AWE (41 min vs. 66 min; p = 0.047). Also, although the CrossBoss is perceived to be a “poor starter” of a dissection plane, it is invariably a “good finisher” when used on a very short final distance, resulting in a relatively thin and “dry” spot lying in the outer curvature of the artery, easing subsequent re-entry attempts.
But CrossBoss first? Maybe for in-stent CTOs, although a time difference in crossing may not justify the incremental cost. In general, “CrossBoss last” in selected patients remains the most reasonable approach, and “Stingray always” when ADR is attempted.
↵∗ Editorials published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions or the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Rinfret has been a consultant to Boston Scientific, Teleflex, Abbott Vascular, Abiomed, and SoundBite Medical. Dr. Ybarra has reported that he has no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
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I began the month of May with a goal to find new ways to use Glimmer Mist and other misting dyes - it become my "May Misting Month". Each day was filled with progress and learning. At the last minute I was able to get into a class on misting taught by Brenda Martell (co-owner of Paper Metal Scrapppers in Payson, AZ - one of my favorite stores in AZ!) where I learned some new ways to look at misting. This layout and the five after are a sampling of what I learned from this amazing adventure.
I had six photos to get onto one layout and knew I'd be able to do so if I used a graphic-style layout configuration. I also had some solid paper from Studio Calico paper which didn't compete with the photos.
I drew a grid on the backside of the the paper so I was sure my photos would fit. I had to keep in mind that the layout would be flip-flopped when completed which kept me mindful of the photo placement. I machine stitched on the pencil lines and trimmed the paper away from each photo section leaving a 1/4"' border that I turned under from the front side of the layout. You can see the stitching lines because I inked them with darker ink and added some misting to alter the paper too. Too keep the misted paper from warping I placed it under the piece of glass I have on my workspace for a few minutes.
To learn more about grids and graphic-style layouts see the ebook, "New to Scrapbooking Quick Guide 1 - Easy Graphic-Style and Color Blocked Layouts." Though the book says it's for beginners I use it often to spark my creativity to do layouts in a whole new way as you can see here.


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Oct. 10, the date designer Michael Leyva chose to hold his fashion gala at the National Museum of Natural History in Manila, was a special one because he was marking his 10th anniversary on 10-10.
Leyva’s clients come to him for evening wear in crayon brights, although he is also known for black formal gowns.
Those who have been to the museum know that suspended over the main lobby is a huge skeleton of a Marinduque sperm whale. That evening, the venue served as the guests’ holding area before they were led to their seats, which were arranged salon style.
Leyva was thrust into the world of design a little over a decade ago after the death of his older brother, designer Brian Leyva. Michael had actually been studying to be a flight attendant, which he had the chance to try out, before deciding to carry on Brian’s work.
In the short video shown before the models came walking down the ramp from the building’s top floor, Michael talked about how he feels his brother’s presence when he designs.
“I didn’t know how to choose fabrics or notions but I soldiered on. I would meet with clients at coffee shops after scouring Divisioria for fabrics because that was what I could afford,” he recounted.
A long way
He’s come a long way since. Last year, he presented a 30-piece collection in Dubai after renowned designer Michael Cinco vouched for him, effectively securing a place for him at Arab Fashion Week 2021.
For his gala show earlier this week, Leyva presented a 53-piece collection that consisted of slinky evening gowns with dramatic details like statement sleeves (long, ruffled or wing-like), voluminous skirts and several heavily sequined numbers that caught the light and threw it back to the audience. The designer also presented cocktail dresses as well as several men’s suit jackets worn with matching shorts, again accented with sequins or painterly details.
The show could have benefited from tighter editing and a more energetic pace, but the designer told Lifestyle in an email interview that he “wanted to show that Filipino designers are capable of doing a lot of beautiful gowns; our talent is world-class.”
Leyva described his design aesthetic as one that champions versatility because “we Filipinos always adapt to any circumstance. We are resilient and flexible.”
His models that evening included Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach, who opened the show, and comedian and TV host Vice Ganda as his bride, wearing a white trailing gown with matching oversized sleeves.
The designer described the Michael Leyva client as “an elegant woman, someone who is confident and capable of extraordinary things.”


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Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on April 19, 2012, to eliminate a provision that requires an employee and employer to have entered a previous written agreement (essentially a contract) in order for an employee to take time-and-a-half “comp time” instead of overtime pay. Instead, the parties could sign a written agreement whenever the employee wants to take comp time instead of extra pay.
Referred to the House Commerce Committee on April 19, 2012.
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Vote: HAN-FCIAC Athletes of Week 8
It was a week for championships in the FCIAC — and records on the football field — as the fall season winds to an end in Fairfield County sports. The league crowned champions in boys and girls soccer, field hockey, girls volleyball and swimming this past week. And you'll find many of the nominees for the HAN-FCIAC Male and Female Athletes of the Week come from those league champions.
As the official broadcasting partner of the FCIAC, the HAN Network each week recognizes the top male and a female athletes during each week of the season.
The HAN Network sports staff nominates the male and female candidates. The winners are then chosen in an online poll (at the bottom of this post) and saluted on the FCIAC Tailgate program before the HAN Network football game of the week on Friday or Saturday. Last week's winners were both from New Canaan: Field hockey star Meredith Heaney and football star Peter Swindell.
This week’s winners will be announced Saturday as FCIAC Tailgate and FCIAC Gameday lead up to the HAN Network’s coverage of Staples vs. Darien in FCIAC football, available live on live.HAN.Network Saturday, Nov. 14, at 1 p.m. The game between the 7-0 Blue Wave and the 6-1 Wreckers will help decide who plays in the FCIAC Football Championship (likely against New Canaan). The FCIAC Championship, is available exclusivly on HAN's Championship website, championships.han.network.
FCIAC Tailgate starts at Friday at 11 a.m., followed by FCIAC Gameday at 11:30. Then football kicks off at 1 p.m.
Voting closes at 9 a.m. Saturday. The poll follows the nominees at the end of this post.
HAN-FCIAC Male Athlete of the Week nominees
Michael McArdle, Fairfield Ludlowe Soccer
McArdle scored both goals as the Falcons won their second straight FCIAC title with a 2-1 victory over Danbury. McArdle headed home a cross late in the second half to give Ludlowe the win.
McArdle, who was injured for a good portion of the season, earned the FCIAC championship game MVP plaque.
Michael Collins, New Canaan Football
Collins had an historic night as he tied a state record by throwing nine touchdown passes — to eight different receivers — in New Canaan's 69-26 rout of Trumbull.
Collins completed 18-of-29 passes for 483 yards, the second most in program history. His nine touchdown passes also broke the previous record of seven, set by Kurt Horton back in 1970.
Collins has 41 touchdown passes in seven games this fall, and the Rams are 7-0.
Eric van der Els, Brien McMahon Cross Country
Van der Els captured the State Open title with a run of 15:47 at the 5,000-meter course at Wickham Park in Manchester on Nov. 6. The UConn-bound standout is McMahon's first-ever State Open champ.
A senior, Van der Els placed sixth in the Open as a sophomore. His time this year was eight seconds better than Ridgefield’s Gabriel Altopp, who was second. Van der Els previously won the program’s first individual title at the FCIAC championships on Oct. 21.
Ethan Burger, Staples High Football
Burger ran for 167 yards and a touchdown to lead the Wreckers to a 28-20 road win over St. Joseph, in an FCIAC matchup featuring a pair of 5-1 teams on Saturday.
Burger’s 25-yard run in the second quarter broke a 7-7 tie and his 30 carries in the game allowed Staples to control the ball.
Staples plays Darien this Saturday, Nov. 14, at 1:30 p.m. in game carried live by the HAN Network.
Luke Bienstock, Greenwich Football
Bienstock rushed for 241 yards and three scores and had two huge kickoff returns to spark the Cardinals in their 33-28 win over Norwalk on Friday.
Greenwich was trailing 14-12 when Bienstock returned the second-half kickoff 66 yards to set up a go-ahead touchdown. After the Bears went back in front 21-19, Bienstock did it again, returning the ensuing kickoff 83 yards to set up another touchdown.
The senior scored his three touchdowns on runs of 8, 7, and 16 yards.
Tyren McCrea, Danbury Football
McCrea, a Danbury senior, scored three touchdowns as the Hatters scored their first victory of the season, 33-27, over Brien McMahon on Friday.
McCrea scored on two long plays: An 80-yard run and a 60-yard punt return, before adding a third TD on a five-yard rush.
HAN-FCIAC Female Athlete of the Week nominees
Rachel Burston, Westhill Diving
Burston made history as she captured her fourth consecutive FCIAC diving championship last Wednesday at Westhill High School.
The senior scored a league-record 505 points on 11 dives, breaking the old mark of 482, which she set last season. She was a runaway winner by more than 100 points, as Greenwich’s Kate Russack was second with a score of 396.90.
Meghan Egan, New Canaan Swimming
Egan had a big night as the New Canaan Rams won their first FCIAC championship since 2011 on Thursday at the Greenwich High pool.
A senior, Egan played a part of all three of the Rams’ race victories, including a first-place finish of 51.62 in the 100 freestyle. She also helped lead the New Canaan to wins in the 200 freestyle (1:36.94) and the 400 freestyle (3:30.98) relays, both in meet record times.
Marcie Maguire, Ridgefield Swimming
Maguire, a junior, earned the Most Outstanding Swimmer award and set two meet records at the FCIAC championships.
Maguire won the 100 backstroke in 54.48, and the 200 freestyle in 1:50.07 to set the new records, and was also part of the Tigers’ winning 200 medley relay, which set a meet record of 1:46.55.
Ridgefield scored 285 points as a team and finished as the league runner-up behind New Canaan, which scored 314.
Sarah Grinalds, Fairfield Ludlowe Swimming
Grinalds picked up two gold medals and set a new FCIAC finals meet record in the 50 freestyle during the conference championships.
Grinalds, a sophomore with the Falcons, finished the 50 free in 22.97, breaking the old mark of 23.55 set last year by New Canaan’s Katie Colwell.
After winning that sprint race, Grinalds won the 500 freestyle by more than eight seconds, finishing in 4:58.15.
Julia Middlebrook, Ridgefield Soccer
Middlebrook, a junior goalie, earned MVP honors for her performance in Ridgefield's 2-0 upset victory over previously-unbeaten St. Joseph in the FCIAC finals. It was the first time the Cadets were shutout this season.
Middlebrook's best stop came in the first half, when she dove to her left to deny a shot from St. Joseph's All-American Jenna Bike.
Georgia Cassidy, Darien Field Hockey
Cassidy scored the only goal as the unbeaten Blue Wave edged Wilton, 1-0, in the FCIAC championship game.
Two days earlier, Cassidy provided the game-winning goal in Darien's 2-1 semifinal triumph over New Canaan, scoring with two minutes to play.
Alice Nelson, Ludlowe Volleyball
Nelson was named the MVP of the FCIAC final after the Falcons defeated the Darien Blue Wave, 3-1, for the championship on Saturday.
Nelson had 25 digs to lead a strong defensive effort, also adding nine service points and two aces to the offensive attack.
Kylie McCaffrey, Ludlowe Volleyball
McCaffrey had 17 kills, 15 digs to go with nine services points and two aces when Ludlowe won the FCIAC title with a 3-1 victory over Darien on Saturday.
Coach Meghan Skelton’s Ludlowe team shared the title with Darien in 2012. The Mustangs improved to 17-4 with the 27-25, 21-25, 25-19, 25-20 victory. Darien dropped to 19-1.
Hannah DeBalsi, Staples Cross Country
Staples’ senior Hannah DeBalsi won the State Open girls cross country championship on Nov. 6 at Wickham Park — capping off one of the most dominating careers in state history. It was the third State Open win for DeBalsi, who holds the top five times at Wickham Park since the course was changed in 2008.
She completed the 5,000-meter course in 18:03. Tolland’s Katherine Deloreto was second in 19:01.
DeBalsi, who is committed to run for Stanford, is also a three-time Class LL and FCIAC champ. She’ll compete in the New England meet on Nov. 14 in Vermont.
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Remember the amazing looking Countach Concept EV from a few weeks ago by designer Flavio Adriani ? Well he has designed more than one concept that could bear the Lamborghini name ... like this LamborBiker you find on this page.
According to Flavia he created this two-wheel masterpiece as a tribute to the late Ferruccio Lamborghini and the Osmos wheel ... a wheel without a central hub, it actually runs on the rim.
Just take a look at this low-slung bike, the extremely low lines and the use of the Osmos wheel sure make it stand out of the crowd, with a powerful look even at a standstill, just like a Raging Bull is.
Naturally this is a mere concept, I don't think Automobili Lamborghini SpA is in the market for an addition to the line up with only two wheels, but it is still nice to dream about it ... there has been a real Lamborghini motorcycle in the past you know, and it looked totally amazing too.
Take a look at official footage of the Lamborghini Huracán design concept during an interview with Filippo Perini.
(added on March 15. 2014)
A very futuristic looking concept car that clearly shows the Lamborghini heritage in it's design
(added on August 6. 2010)
What if the legendary Countach would be designed today ? This is how it coul look ...
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A pure bred race car with the Raging Bull logo ... Sabino Leerentveld designed a concept for such a beauty.
(added on January 10. 2013)
Rumor has it Automobili Lamborghini SpA is preparing a very special concept for the 2013 Geneva Auto Show.
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The decision was taken during the IPL Governing Council's meeting with the Supreme Court appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) here.
The process of keeping players back can be through a combination of player retention ahead of the auction, and the Right to Match option during the auction, but each franchise can only use a maximum of either three retentions or three RtMs, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said through a press release. Irrespective of player retention or RTM, a franchise can have a maximum of three capped Indian players, a maximum of two foreign players and a maximum of two uncapped Indian players. The CSK and RR, who are returning to the league after paying two years suspension, will be permitted to retain players who played for their respective squad in the 2015 IPL season and the ones who were part of now-defunct teams Gujarat Lions and Rising Pune Supergiants.
And out of the five players, three should be Indians.
Congress Linking Ram Temple Issue with Elections: PM Modi
The Congress had distanced itself from Sibal's stand in the Supreme Court. "The Congress has double standards on the issue". Appearing for Sunni Waqf Board, Kapil Sibal had said the judgment of the case will political ramifications.
The salary cap for each franchise has been upped from Rs 66 crore, and will increase progressively over the next three years.
Talking about the players that the Royals and CSK could retain or have RTM at the auctions, the returning franchises will get a player pool of players who played for them respectively in IPL 2015.
"IPL governing council decided all teams can avail facility of retaining five players & Right to Match".
Time's Person of the Year: The 'Silence Breakers'
Trump was Time's 2016 "Person of the Year". "But it has actually been simmering for years, decades, centuries", Time's story said. Time also named the Dreamers - young adults whose legal status in the United States was put in limbo this year.
If a team does not wish to retain any player, it will still have the option of three Right to Match. The purse will increase to Rs 82 crore in 2018 and to Rs 85 crore for the 2020 edition. The minimum spend will be 75 per cent of the salary cap for each season to aid junior players.
In October this year, the IPL governing council floated a proposal, stating that CSK and RR can retain players who moved to Rising Pune Supergiant and Gujarat Lions for two years following a draft. The player auction is tentatively set for February.
A decision of squad size was also taken during the meeting. It will grow by Rs 2 crore and Rs 3 crore for the next two editions respectively. The minimum base price for capped Indian players has also increased from INR 30 lakh to INR 50 lakh.
Trump Travel Ban can stay despite ongoing legal battle: SC
The court's unsigned orders on Monday urged appeals courts to quickly determine whether the latest ban was lawful. Lawyers for Hawaii, which is challenging the ban, told the justices that there was no reason to make changes now.
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text: On September 29, 2005 Rediff reported, "Spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation Sri Sri Ravi Shankar visited Hurricane Katrina survivors, volunteers and public officials carrying out relief operation in Texas on September 27. Sri Sri was invited by Austin Mayor Will Wynn to meet with survivors of Hurricane Katrina, where the Art of Living and its sister organisation International Association of Human Values are conducting trauma relief workshops. 'It is truly an honour for our community to host a greatly respected world leader such as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,' said Austin City Council Member Raul Alvarez. 'I always feel the world is a global family and during such disasters, we can learn from one another,' Sri Sri said. IAHV is organising a series of concerts in the US with Pandit Jasraj to support its trauma relief and rehabilitation initiatives. The concerts will be held between 1st and 23rd October in New Jersey, Houston, Atlanta and Bay Area."

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