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Terrific Text Tips (Circles and Lines AutoCAD Tutorial)31 Jul, 2007 By: Lynn Allen
Check your wish list: AutoCAD 2008 offers major Mtext updates, spiffy spell check options, and multiline attributes.
At first glance I didn't think there were enough improvements in the world of text in AutoCAD 2008 to merit an entire article, but I've now changed my mind as I've worked more and more with the product! Because it's a very rare drawing that makes it out the door without some type of text annotations, we can all benefit from learning about the latest and greatest text features and improvements.
Mtext Gains Savvy
Many of us prefer using Microsoft Word to create lengthy amounts of text, especially because Word has so many advantages over the clunky Mtext command. If you've gone to great lengths to get your text just right in Word only to be severely disappointed by the final result when you brought that text into AutoCAD, you'll love the improvements in AutoCAD 2008. Mtext now brings across text height, fonts, and spacing from Word into AutoCAD -- and that's a beautiful thing. Let's take a look.
Notice the variable line spacing, text heights, and fonts that exist in the Word document pictured below. The paragraph spaces are varied, the first three lines have different text heights, and I've changed the font for the word "existing" to Country Blue Print. In previous releases of AutoCAD, all the text would come in as the same height with the same spacing and the same font -- end of story! In fact, the text font used in AutoCAD would depend on the current text style or setting in the Mtext command. With AutoCAD 2008 you'll have a much happier ending as the text heights, line spacing, and fonts remain intact as you bring them into your drawings with Mtext.
Text created in MS Word with varying text heights, line spacing, and fonts.
Here I simply copy the text to the clipboard from my Word document and then paste it into my Mtext editor. Here's the pleasantly surprising outcome!
The text heights, line spacing, and fonts are maintained in AutoCAD 2008.
You'll also find a new dialog box in Mtext aimed at helping you get just the paragraph results you are after as seen below. Here you'll find all the options you need to get the exact paragraph spacing, alignment, and indents you you need You can also control your tab settings within this dialog box instead of the in-place editor's ruler, if you prefer.
Note that some of these new paragraph options don't go back to previous releases gracefully. Specifically, I'm talking about paragraphs with justified or distributed alignments. If you plan on exchanging your data with others who aren't yet on AutoCAD 2008, you might want to hold off on using these new settings.
Use the new Paragraph dialog box in Mtext to get your correct spacing and indents.
Columns in Mtext
It's easy to turn on columns using the new options in the Mtext dialog box.
There are two rules regarding columns: all columns must have the same width and the same gutter width (the space between the columns). I like to use the Dynamic columns option because it lets you create your columns with grips. Simply grab the lower-right grip to indicate the desired area for the columns to fill and AutoCAD does the work for you. Dynamic columns are text-driven in that adjustments made to the columns affects the text flow, which can lead to more columns being added or removed.
Assigning a specific number of static columns to existing text evenly breaks up the text into the desired number of columns. You can use grips to manipulate the outcome here as well. Use the Column Settings dialog (within Mtext) to get the exact results needed for your columns when exact widths are needed. You can use the Properties palette to control the various column properties as well. If you want to force a column break yourself, you can do so by typing Alt+Enter, or by selecting Insert Column Break from the drop-down menu.
Use the Column Settings dialog box for more control over your columns.
I almost invariably get a round of applause when I demonstrate the new column features in Mtext during my presentations -- especially when the audience sees how easy they are to work with.
Tip. The fastest way to exit the Mtext dialog box is to simply pick outside of the dialog box -- no more hunting for the OK button.
Spell Bound Spell Check
The Spell Checker (Spell command) in AutoCAD 2008 has some very nice additions. First off you no longer need to select text to check. By default it now assumes you want to check all the text in the drawing. In addition, when AutoCAD finds a spelling error, it zooms in on the discrepancy rather than leaving you to guess where the offending word lies. Fabulous! Be sure to add words that are specific to your industry or company to the custom dictionary so it doesn't ask about them time and time again. And it helps your dictionary get smarter and smarter.
The Settings options in the Spell Checker gives you more control over the text selection set. Being able to spell check your dimension text is also a nice new addition. You may opt to ignore words with numbers as well as those words with punctuation or perhaps even capitalized words.
Use the Settings option to properly configure your spell checker.
Use the Multiple lines mode to create attribute text that spans more than one line.
Spend some time trying out the new text features inside AutoCAD 2008. You'll be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to generate columns, work with Word documents, and run spell checks inside AutoCAD 2008. Until next month, Happy AutoCADing!


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Cake Smash At The Amara Sanctuary Resort!
I learnt about the cake smash trend sometime ago and thought it is so cute! Without a doubt, I knew that I will have to do it for Sarah’s first birthday! My husband and I decided to hold the cake smash session during a staycation at the lovely Amara Sanctuary a month before Sarah’s birthday. We figured that we want to have the photographs displayed at her first birthday party so we thought it is a good idea to have the photoshoot done earlier.
To our surprise, Sarah was not as “destructive” as we thought she would be. I expected she would dig her little hands into the cake without hesitation! However, she turned out to be rather “cautious”, choosing to pull out the strawberries one by one, before actually tasting a little cream from the cake.
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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The State Law Enforcement Division and the FBI say they're investigating possible civil rights violations in at least three recent law enforcement incidents.
In July, a Sumter police officer was accused of kicking a suspect in the head during a traffic stop. That officer was terminated after the allegations surfaced.
"Our position has been when we become aware of allegations that could be criminal, we deal with the personnel process quickly, and immediately contact SLED for a neutral and impartial investigation," said Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson.
Later in the month, two Department of Juvenile Justice correctional officers were fired after being accused of beating a juvenile arrestee.
Forty-two-year-old Clarence Frazier and 35-year-old Damieon Moody were charged with third degree assault and battery by mob and misconduct in office.
Warrants say the incident started when that teenage inmate attacked a guard with a rock wrapped in a sock on June 3.
The latest incident comes from Kershaw County where a deputy allegedly assaulted an arrestee so hard he broke the suspect's leg, according to reports .
"As soon as we were made aware of this situation, we contacted SLED and requested that they investigate," said Kershaw County Sheriff Steve McCaskill. "This employee has been terminated."
SLED Director Reggie Lloyd said he appreciated each department's response in light of the incidents.
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When LOU BONAMARTE attended a one-man show of watercolors by John Pike forty years ago, he realized that watercolor did not have to be a timid medium. Inspired by this discovery, he pursued watercolor painting with a passion and has become a virtuoso of the medium. Through the use of pure vibrant color, his paintings have a vitality and sophistication that sets his work apart. Formerly an instructor and dean at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Bonamarte is listed in Men of Achievement, International Biographies, Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in the East.


A new dress code satisfies the ACLU's concerns about the prohibition of a "Some People Are Gay" shirt worn by a student.
As pastors challenge Illinois's ban on "ex-gay" therapy for minors, Equality Illinois CEO Brian C. Johnson calls for a nationwide end to the discredited practice.
The Trevor Project's Abbe Land on the troubling new numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Queer youth are being disproportionately labeled as sex offenders.
The Emerald City becomes the 10th jurisdiction to make such a move.
Preparing your child for a transphobic world doesn't have to be scary. Take a deep breath, and then follow these recommendations.


Brookland’s new Park Slope condo project gets renderings
Developer filed plans for 11-story mixed-use project last year
Renderings and additional details for Brookland Capital’s new Park Slope condo development at 550 Fourth Avenue have been revealed.
The developer filed plans for the project, located at 15th Street and Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, in December that called for an 11-story building housing 30 apartments across nearly 32,000 square feet of residential space.
Brookland Capital partner Boaz Gilad has provided additional details, however, telling New York YIMBY that the building will feature 38 units.
The glassy tower, complete with staggered balconies, will sit atop a 5,000-square-foot retail base featuring two commercial spaces. Amenities include a gym and an 870-square-foot terrace on the second floor.
Brookland Capital acquired the development site, which currently holds a supermarket and two three-story frame houses, as part of a $7.4 million assemblage purchased last year. The Department of Buildings has yet to approve demolition permits. [NY YIMBY] – Rey Mashayekhi


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Are we better than our fathers? or, A comparative view of the social position of England at the Revolution of 1688 and at the present time, 4 lectures (1872)
William Robert Gregory MC (20 May 1881 in County Galway, Ireland – 23 January 1918 near Grossa, Padua, Italy) was an Irish cricketer and artist.The only child of William Henry Gregory and Lady Gregory, an associate of W. B. Yeats, Robert was born in County Galway in Ireland in May 1881. He studied at Harrow, New College, Oxford and the Slade School of Art he excelled at bowls, boxing, horse riding and cricket. He was good enough at cricket to play once for the Ireland cricket team, taking 8/80 with his leg spin bowling in a first-class match against Scotland in 1912. He didn't score a run. His bowling performance in that match remains the tenth best in all matches for Ireland and the fourth best in first-class cricket for Ireland. His bowling average of 10.22 is the second best for Ireland in first-class cricket.An accomplished artist, he worked in the design studio of Jacques Émile Blanche, and had his own exhibition of paintings in Chelsea in 1914. The following year, he joined the war effort, becoming a member of the 4th Connaught Rangers, transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916. He became a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur in 1917, and was awarded a Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty."He was killed in Italy at the age of 36 when an Italian pilot mistakenly shot him down.Robert's death had a lasting effect on W. B. Yeats, and he became the subject of four poems by him; In Memory of Major Robert Gregory, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Shepherd and Goatherd, and Reprisals.


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Video: Pacers F Tyler Hansbrough, Heat F Udonis Haslem trade flagrant fouls
Indiana Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough is called for a flagrant foul for a hit on Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade during Game 5 of an Eastern Conference semifinals series and then Heat forward Udonis Haslem retaliates with a flagrant foul of his own.
A chippy series got even chipper on Tuesday night.
First, Indiana Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough was called for a flagrant foul for a hit on Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade during Game 5 of an Eastern Conference semifinals series.
The hit occurred with 10:23 remaining in the second quarter.
Minutes later, Heat forward Udonis Haslem retaliated with this two-hand blow to Hansbrough's head. Haslem was issued a flagrant one foul.
Neither player was ejected although both could face disciplinary action from the NBA league office.
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The Rockets look to close out the series at home
A few Rockets decided to wear all black to the game
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Najib will be watching you!
In the lead up to to his ascension (based on my personal observation)... already:
1) Police has fired water canons & teargas to opposition ceramahs, some without issuing the mandatory warning. Because they claim that those are illegal gatherings, not because they are but because they can never be legal (permits will never be granted)
2) Gobind Singh Deo has been suspended from Parliament for one year
3) Daddy Singh also facing sedition charges
4) RPK faces sedition charges too and will especially face an uphill battle with Najib on the throne. Najib hates this bugger, who has relentlessly exposed his baggage, and will stop at nothing to shut him up. Not so easy, Najib.
5) Suara Keadilan and Harakah, have been suspended for three months with no explanation
6) UMNO barred six Internet-based media from covering its annual general assembly this week
7) The power grab in Perak on 5th February 2009 was unethical, undemocratic, illegal and personally orchestrated by Najib himself


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As Australia’s stone pillar of funeral dirge, MOURNFUL CONGREGATION, prepares to unveil their mammoth The Incubus Of Karma LP later this month, Decibel Magazine is now streaming the album’s “Whispering Spiritscapes.”
An incredible twenty-five years into their existence, MOURNFUL CONGREGATION persists in refining and perfecting their immortal art on The Incubus Of Karma. Reaching innovative new heights, within the bounds they have created for themselves, the bounds in which a multitude of newer bands now draw from like a wellspring, MOURNFUL CONGREGATION cast a giant shadow, steadfastly towering over the landscape like a monolithic obelisk.
Decibel Magazine is now streaming The Incubus Of Karma‘s entrancing “Whispering Spiritscapes” ahead of the album’s release, noting in part of the opus, “MOURNFUL CONGREGATION weave a dense, mournful, yet still melodic, fifteen-minute song that highlights all of their strengths before ending with somber spoken word. It’s rare that a band can pull off such a dense, long song without overstaying their welcome, but MOURNFUL CONGREGATION pull it off gracefully.”
Hear MOURNFUL CONGREGATION’s “Whispering Spiritscapes” at Decibel at THIS LOCATION.
The Incubus Of Karma will see release on March 23rd, on 2xLP, CD, cassette, and digital formats, with 20 Buck Spin handling the record in North America, with Osmose Productions releasing it in Europe, and Weird Truth Productions handling the release for Asia. Find North American preorders at Bandcamp where you can stream “Scripture Of Exaltation And Punishment” HERE, and through the 20 Buck Spin webstore HERE.
More than six years have passed since the release of MOURNFUL CONGREGATION‘s regal fourth full-length, The Book Of Kings. Since that time the band made several trips to the US and Europe and released a mini-album Conrcrescence Of The Sophia, increasing their reputation as the pinnacle of extreme/funeral doom and one of the most influential bands in the entire genre.
Throughout these intervening years, MOURNFUL CONGREGATION set to the task of meticulously crafting a new masterpiece, now presented in the form of the crown jewel titled The Incubus Of Karma. Everything that has made this band the unchallenged masters of this style since The Monad Of Creation, is here. The agonizing weight of extreme doom riffs, bitterly somber dissonance, a painterly attention to detail and arrangement, and the vocals summoned from the deepest hole. And as with each album before, the band expands upon their unique progressive tendencies, weaving beautifully constructed solos and lengthy virtuoso interludes into a bleak yet intricate tapestry of stately grandeur. The Incubus Of Karma also marks the band’s first album with drummer Tim Call (Nightfell, Weregoat, Sempiternal Dusk, Aldebaran).


"It was not clear whether the attorney general's deliberations were influenced by Mr. Trump's refusal to concede his election loss or his fury over Mr. Barr's acknowledgment last week that the Justice Department uncovered no widespread voting fraud. In the ensuing days, the president refused to say whether he still had confidence in his attorney general," reports the Times.
According to one of the three anonymous sources, Barr had been considering an early departure since before last week, and that Trump's election fraud claims had not influenced his thinking. Another said that Barr felt he'd finished the job he set out to complete at the DOJ.
In addition to avoiding a confrontation with Trump over using the Justice Department to challenge the election results, Barr's departure would deprive the president of a cabinet officer "who has wielded the power of the Justice Department more deeply in service of a president's political agenda than any attorney general in a half-century," writes the Times, seemingly forgetting about Obama 'wingman' Eric Holder. Meanwhile, some Trump allies who have criticized Barr over inaction may be pleased by an early departure.


Truck makers and suppliers are narrowing their focus on technologies that work as well on the road as they do in the lab as the U.S. Department of Energy’s five-year Super Truck II program reaches the halfway point.
The DOE picked five teams with the goal of making heavy-duty trucks twice as fuel-efficient as they were in 2009. The goal of the first Super Truck program was improving freight efficiency by 50 percent. Three of four Super Truck I industry teams exceeded that goal by 2016.
Power-management company Eaton Corp. is providing several technologies for better fuel economy and reduced emissions to the Super Truck II teams:
- A high-efficiency transmission that recovers wasted heat while enabling coasting with the engine off.
- A 48-volt mild-hybrid accessory drive that charges the vehicle’s batteries and runs the air conditioner and other accessories. It can keep a sleeper cab comfortable without running the engine on idle.
- Precise exhaust gas recirculation controllers that save fuel and reduce emissions at the same time.
“This is a great opportunity for Eaton technologies to contribute,” said Mihai Dorobantu, Eaton Vehicle Group director of technology planning and government affairs.
Super Truck II has made significant progress, said Michael Berube, director of the DOE Office of Vehicle Technologies. His office put up half of the$100 million for the program.
“The work is well on its way,” he said at the recent Work Truck Show in Indianapolis. “I am very encouraged. I think a year from now we’ll have a lot more we can show.”
The five team leads and their projects include Cummins Inc., which is developing a new, more efficient engine and advanced drivetrain and vehicle technologies.
Navistar International Corp. is developing a vehicle and powertrain with electrified engine components for higher engine efficiency and a reengineered cab to reduce wind resistance. Navistar is the first customer for an AxleTech electronic axle that includes an electric motor and power electronics.
Daimler Trucks North America is developing a tractor-trailer combination that includes active aerodynamics, cylinder deactivation, hybridization, and the electrification of accessories. Aerodynamic improvements are options on the 2020 Freightliner Cascadia, which improves fuel efficiency 5 percent over the 2019 model.
Volvo Trucks North America is developing a tractor-trailer combination with lightweight cab that uses alternative engine designs. The Swedish truck maker last September revealed Vera, an autonomous truck concept that operates in ports or warehouse districts.
Paccar division Kenworth Truck Co., which joined Super Truck II in 2018, is working with United Parcel Service to improve aerodynamics, engine and powertrain efficiencies on its T680 tractor Paccar MX engine. UPS is determining what is commercially feasible and acceptable to drivers.


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United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) reported fourth quarter 2012 adjusted earnings per share of $1.32, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.38. However, earnings per share registered growth of 3.1% from $1.28 in the year-ago quarter.
Adjusted earnings for the quarter exclude the impacts of a non-cash $3 billion after tax charge for pension and retirement benefits, arising from decline in discount rates. Adjusted earnings for the year grew 4.1% year over year to $4.53 per share.
Total revenue for the quarter inched up 2.9% year over year to $14,571 million but fell short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $14,387 million. The year over year growth was driven by improvement in freight pricing in both, ground and air products. In the reported quarter, consolidated volume and average revenue per piece respectively grew 2.9% and 1.4% year over year.
For the year 2012, total revenue increased 1.9% year over year to $54,127 million. Volume and increased 3.2% year over year and average revenue per piece remained flat year over year.
Total operating profit increased 1.2% year over year to $2,049 million. Operating margin fell 20 basis points (bps) year over year to 14.1%. For 2012, total adjusted operating profit rose 2.9% year over year to $7,070 million, resulting in an operating margin of 13.1%, up 20 bps year over year.
US Domestic Package revenue rose 3.0% year over year to $8,933 million in the reported quarter. Operating profit grew 4.4% year over year to $1,378 million. Operating margin grew 20 bps year over year to 15.4%.
The margin expansion was driven by solid volume growth and improved network efficiencies and higher base rates. Average daily volume increased 3% on growth in online shopping. Revenue per piece improved 1.7% year over year driven by higher rates.
International Package revenue rose 1.5% year over year to $3,201 million. Operating profit fell 1.2% year over year to $499 million in the reported quarter and operating margin contracted 40 bps to 15.6%. Average daily volume grew 2.2% year over year on strong international shipments in Europe and Asia. Revenue per piece grew 0.9% year over year.
Supply Chain and Freight segment revenue rose 4% to $2,437 million. Operating profit plunged 13.6% year over year to $172 million. Operating margin contracted 140 bps year over year to 7.1%.
UPS generated free cash flow of $5.4 billion and spent $2.2 billion in 2012. The company repurchased 21.8 million shares worth $1.6 billion at year-end 2012.
For 2013, UPS expects earnings per share in the band of $4.80–$5.06, representing growth of 6–12% over 2012 adjusted earnings. The company raised its share repurchase guidance for 2013 from $1.5 billion to $4.0 billion.
Besides UPS, another stock worth a look is Air Transport Services Group, Inc. (ATSG), which carriers a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Despite the challenging economic conditions, we remain encouraged by UPS' continued productivity gains, improved operating profit, and strong free cash flow position. Despite the failure of its mega Dutch acquisition, TNT Express N.V. (TNTEY), the company remains focused on smaller acquisitions to expand its footprint globally.
However, we remain concerned over the volatile economy condition that continues to restrict market demand. Further, the company is also exposed to unionized workforce and intense competition from giants like FedEx Corporation (FDX).
UPS retains a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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At the conference, issues of unlawful methods of inquiry used by the Ukrainian side against DPR supporters, held in penitentiary institutions and other detention facilities in Ukraine, were discussed.
Summary of speech given by DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova:
– Detention of peaceful citizens in the territory of Ukraine is a common practice, which demonstrates indiscriminate exactions by staff of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, said DPR Ombudsman. A betrayal, a post in social networks, disapproval of actions of Ukrainian government as well as travel to the territory temporary controlled by Ukrainian government may lead to detention. There are more and more cases of pensioners being detained as they cross the contact line in order to receive social payments or pension.
– In August 2017, SSU staff illegally detained three-time taekwondo champion in Ukraine Daria Mastikasheva and concealed her whereabouts from her relatives and friends. She went to the territory of Ukraine to visit her son and her mother. On August 15 she was detained, and the application for the initiation of a criminal proceeding against Daria Mastikasheva was written on August 16, one day after she was kidnapped, her lawyer revealed. Soon after that, on August 17, at the special briefing for journalists the SSU Head Vasily Hrytsak told that Security Service of Ukraine arrested Daria Mastikasheva on suspicion of treason (Part 1, Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Part 1, Art. 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). He added that she recruited former participants of the so-called “anti-terrorist operation” in Donbass in order to organize terrorist attacks in Moscow and other cities of Russia, and to blame the Ukrainian government in terrorism.
– On November 1, 2017, I received a request from a resident of Donetsk on the fact of detention of her daughter, Julia Prosolova, by the SSU. The girl disappeared on October 19, as she had crossed the checkpoint “Yelenovka” on her way to Mariupol to visit her friend. At his briefing, SSU Chairman Vasily Hrytsak reported that Julia was detained in Odessa, and she was accused of blowing up the car of one of the staff of the Ukrainian special services. Also, Head of Department provided a video showing the girl allegedly confessing to committing the crime. Julia’s parents left for Mariupol, where they filed a complaint of disappearance of their daughter with the law enforcement agencies and the SSU.
– Staff of the Security Service of Ukraine often detain civilians illegally, without the permission of the investigating judge. At the same time, detainees are denied their right to contact relatives, so they have no information about the arrest, and whereabouts of a missing person remain unknown. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights continues to document cases of persons unlawfully or arbitrarily deprived of liberty or subjected to enforced disappearance or abduction.
– Unfortunately, contrary to the norms of the International Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Ukrainian security forces continue to mock the captive supporters of the Republic. The Human Rights Ombudsman Office in the Donetsk People’s Republic often receives information about the use of illegal methods of inquiry. We write in to international human rights organizations regarding the use of torture against detainees.
– On December 27, 2017, as a result of a prisoner exchange 160 persons returned to the Republic. They are witnesses of human rights violations and of breaches of international humanitarian law.
For example, Leonid Belikov was taken prisoner by the Lvov-1 battalion and spent several years in remand prison in Mariupol. As a result of torture, the guy had a few fractures of the jaw, his teeth and ribs were broken, internal organs were injured. Ruslan Andrievsky sustained a ruptured spleen and ribs fracture as a result of a severe beating in a remand prison. Another man, a citizen of Druzhkovka, Dmitry Tayursky, was also subjected to severe beating for his political opinion in Ternopil prison. First, he was detained in the Kharkiv region in 2014 for separatism, then the man was released, but soon he was charged with committing a crime again, and he was sent to a correctional facility in Western Ukraine. The men were kept in the same cell with participants of the so-called “ATO” and members of volunteer battalions. Dmitry was often beaten for political reasons. Once, he even was on the verge of life and death, the man had to get his spleen cut out.
– Staff of law enforcement agencies and special services of Ukraine grossly violate the State’s international human rights obligations and the Constitution of Ukraine, Art. 28, which prohibits torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. However, there are no definitions to these terms in the Ukrainian legislation. It is also worth recalling that Ukraine is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the first Optional Protocol to it. Therefore, the UN Convention Against Torture and, according to Article 9 of the Constitution, existing international treaties are part of national legislation. This regulation is also contained in the Law “On International Treaties of Ukraine”, Article 17 of which recognizes the primacy of international law over domestic law if a conflict arises between them. Thus, in Ukraine, the definition of torture given in Article 1 of the Convention against Torture should apply. It should be noted that international treaties of Ukraine related to human rights, including the Convention against Torture, have not been issued by official sources. Consequently, Article 9 of the Constitution is only declarative by nature. This is one of the reasons why Ukraine has no practice of application of international treaties in the area of human rights.
– Representatives of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights express their concern over impunity for violations and infringement of human rights in Donbass. None of the members of security agencies of Ukraine, who committed crimes, were brought to justice. This is due to the reluctance to investigate human violations. Nobody wants to take responsibility for any death of civilians due to the shelling. The Reports clearly state that the Government of Ukraine is responsible for investigating allegations of serious violations of human rights, including torture, ill-treatment and arbitrary detention.
– People released from Ukrainian captivity are eyewitnesses of human rights violations in Ukraine. Their testimonies will constitute a basis for criminal case files that will be submitted to the European Court of Human Rights. I would like to remind you that crimes against humanity are not subject to the statute of limitations, everyone who has broken the law will be brought to justice and receive the punishment they deserve. (Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, 26 November, 1968).


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College seeks to rebuild Southwest Virginia’s economy
Far Southwest Virginia’s faltering economy troubled Donna Henry, chancellor of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, when she took the school’s helm in January 2013.
“When I came, it was sort of the beginning of this downward spiral,” Henry recalls. Coal was caught in what seemed to be a “perfect storm” of competition from cheap natural gas and tighter environmental regulations on the industry and its customers. Coal’s collapse, marked by mining company bankruptcies and thousands of layoffs, came a lot faster than anyone expected, she says.
Henry could see the impact at her college, where roughly half of the student body of about 2,000 comes from rural counties west of Roanoke. The families of some U.Va.-Wise students were leaving the region. Enrollment in local public schools was declining. College students were needier, and some had families who were unable to support them. This summer, the unemployment rate in Virginia’s most coal-dependent counties was running more than double the state average.
The struggling economy prompted Henry to make U.Va.-Wise’s 9-year-old economic development program a part of the chancellor’s office last fall. Having an economic development office — uncommon for small liberal arts colleges — is one of many ways U.Va.-Wise serves the Cumberland Mountain region of Central Appalachia to which it owes its existence.
Request made in 1954
In 1954, three Wise men made a pilgrimage to Charlottesville to ask University of Virginia President Colgate W. Darden Jr. to support the creation of a university branch in their county. The closest state-supported college at the time was in Radford, a three-hour drive to the east.
The men — two lawyers and an engineering firm owner — secured Darden’s support and headed for Richmond to plead with lawmakers for the money needed to start the school. A college was about to be born.
That fall, with $5,000 in initial state funding and $6,000 in local donations, the college opened its doors to 109 area students, two-thirds of whom were Korean War veterans. The school initially was called Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia.
After 1999, in a marketing move, it became the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. The site picked for the school was the county’s old Poor Farm, which offered a large sandstone building suitable for the first classrooms.
Since those humble beginnings, Southwest Virginia has continued to support the college. The college’s endowment stands today at roughly $85 million, which equals or exceeds that of many larger Virginia schools. Sixty percent of the endowment’s income goes toward scholarships. That allows students who receive financial aid, 80 percent of the student body, to graduate with some of the lowest student debt in the nation. In 2014, more than half of U.Va.-Wise graduates left with no student debt, and the average debt for the remainder was $12,496.
The college has grown at an accelerating pace. Begun as a two-year institution, it awarded its first bachelor’s degrees in 1970 when enrollment was roughly 400, still almost all from the region. Full-time enrollment exceeded the 1,000 mark in 1991 and stood at 2,065 in the 2015-16 academic year. The eventual enrollment target is 2,600, Henry says. Students, many among the first in their families to attend college, now come from all around the state. All but five Virginia counties are represented, and fully a fourth of the student body calls Northern Virginia or Hampton Roads home.
With the growing enrollment has come a campus building boom. Since 1997, 37 projects have added or renovated roughly 585,000 square feet of space at a cost of nearly $217 million in public and private money. Notable among those were: an $8.3 million health and wellness center; a 3,000-seat, $30 million convocation center; three new residence halls totaling more than $20 million; more than $23 million in science center construction and renovation; a new $9.6 million dining hall; and a new $37.2 million library that opens this fall.
The construction work — much of it done by local contractors — has provided jobs and economic activity. That represents just one of many ways the school contributes to the local economy aside from the payroll and student and school spending. For example, the David J. Prior Convocation Center, which opened in late 2011, has stimulated spending in the area by attracting visitors to various events. In the most recent fiscal year, the center hosted 1,001 events, drawing nearly 80,000 people.
A better picture of the school’s overall contribution to the area economy should be available in December when an economic-impact study of the university’s Charlottesville and Wise campuses will be published.
“U.Va.-Wise to us is an economic engine,” says Carl Snodgrass, economic development director for Wise County. “The local impact on the economy has been pretty phenomenal.”
He speaks from experience. Snodgrass, who is the only employee in his office, welcomes help from the college through its resources and broad contacts.
The college also provides Snodgrass with an important recruiting advantage when he goes after new industry. “We tout that pretty highly,” he says. Companies today, Snodgrass notes, are looking for employees who can read, understand what they’ve read and share what they’ve learned with other employees.
Helping new businesses
The college is training a workforce now that can perform in tomorrow’s jobs, Henry says. U.Va.-Wise, she says, is still at heart a liberal arts college that teaches students to think critically, communicate well, work in teams and be lifelong learners — the kind of soft skills that Snodgrass says companies are looking for.
The college also has a business launch plan that can connect fledgling businesses with faculty, students and other resources in the region, such as civic groups, suppliers, vendors and potential customers, says Shannon Blevins, associate chancellor for economic development and community engagement. Along those lines, the college is planning a cyber-technology business accelerator for a recently donated building in St. Paul. The college is working with Mach37, a Herndon-based cybersecurity accelerator, on the project and is talking with startups about using the St. Paul facility.
If she cannot find the expertise a fledgling company needs in-house, Blevins just puts out a call to her colleagues in Virginia’s University-Based Economic Developers group. “We go to each other for resources, and we do that a lot,” she said. The close relationship with the mother institution in Charlottesville can be particularly helpful. There, Blevins found an expert in fluid dynamics for a new technology business in Wise.
U.Va.-Wise’s economic development office has pursued a variety of other strategies in concert with regional organizations. One of them is the Virginia Coalfields Economic Development Authority (VCEDA), which has been marketing the region since 1988.
“I think [the college] is playing a very vital role in strengthening the regional effort,” says Susan Copeland, VCEDA’s marketing director. The No. 1 priority for business prospects is the quality of the workforce; so access to education is important, she said.
U.Va.-Wise doesn’t seek to duplicate existing development work in the region but to support all entities that are working for the region’s benefit, helping them find resources, expand and do their work better, Blevins says.
For example, by last fall more than 55 individual public and private entities were working on economic development in the region. “That just spoke to the sense of urgency people feel … that we’re in a challenging economic situation with the decline of coal,” Blevins says.
There was a need, Henry says, for a nonbiased party to bring public and private development organizations together to work on a strategic plan for the entire region. The college hosted a forum in May whose goal was to do just that. People not just from
Southwest Virginia but from across the commonwealth and other states that have an interest in the region — 356 in all — attended the meeting. “This is going to be an ongoing conversation,” Blevins says.
U.Va.-Wise is also working with the Virginia Department of Tourism and the Department of Housing and Community Development to build an entrepreneurial culture in Southwest Virginia. Before a regional strategy was agreed upon in 2012, the effort to promote entrepreneurship was fragmented.
The college was an important factor in recent successful recruitment efforts at the county’s Lonesome Pine Technology Park, including a customer-support center for TurboTax and Quickbooks and a data center providing business continuity and disaster recovery, Snodgrass says. Among other factors, including geologic stability and technological infrastructure, DP Facilities of Long Island, N.Y., cited “a technically competent labor force because of the nearby University of Virginia at Wise” when explaining its choice of the park as the location for a new 65,000-square-foot data center. U.Va.-Wise has a computer science program and offers the only undergraduate software engineering major among Virginia’s public colleges.
The college was the “dominant” reason Micronic Technologies, a startup from Northern Virginia, moved to Wise County in 2014, says company founder and CEO Karen Sorber. The support the college offered the company and its sponsorship of a $2 million grant from the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission put U.Va.-Wise “square in partnership with us,” she says.
Micronic has developed a patented water treatment system that removes impurities and contaminants from any water source. “In my case, we had the technology down but needed a lot of ancillary services the college could provide for us,” Sorber says.
The company got help from the college’s professors and interns. They, in turn, have benefited from the relationship by getting real-world experience in how businesses work, she says.
Sorber has traveled around the state this year as a member of 2016 class of Lead Virginia, a leadership training program. Through the program, she has learned about Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s interest in linking colleges with early-stage companies.
“Chancellor Henry is way ahead of the game in terms of her leadership in economic development compared with other universities in the state,” Sorber says. “She gets it.”


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When you publish a post in Publish0x, you are tipped with ERC20 tokens like BAT, DAI, HYDRO, etc. Then you request for withdrawal of these tokens, which are processed and transferred by Publish0x to your ETH wallet on every Monday.
There are many types of users in the Publish0x ecosystem. While some of the users keep it as a "store of value" & when the price of these tokens appreciate to a reasonable level as per their anticipation they sell it. Some of them use these tokens to convert it into a different crypto asset which they believe as more valuable than these tokens. Some of them take it as their salary and convert it immediately into fiat currency.
So in all these cases exchanging crypto-assets like BAT, DAI, HYDRO, etc into another crypto asset like ETH and to convert it into fiat currency is a general use-case. So this article is a tutorial on how to get your crypto earnings from Publish0x, how to exchange it into ETH and to a vast list of fiat currencies like USD, EUR, GBP, and many other local currencies.
So we categorize it into three phases:-
- Phase-I: How to withdraw the crypto earnings from Publish0x to your ETH wallet
- Phase-II: How to convert BAT, DAI to ETH in a cost-effective way
- Phase-III: How to sell your ETH to a variety of fiat currencies across the globe.
Here both Uniswap and Localcryptos are recommended as both support micro trading & cost-effective too. Uniswap is to be used for the exchange of ERC20 tokens to ETH and Localcryptos is to be used for selling ETH to a variety of fiat currency options across the globe.
Phase-I: How to withdraw the crypto earnings from Publish0x to your ETH wallet
- If you keep the cursor on your username of publish0x(assuming that you are already logged in), you can see the drop-down menu, click on "settings", then go to "Wallet".
- Add your Etherum address and then click on "Save".
- Now go to your "Dashboard" and then click on "Payments".
- You can notice the withdraw link against each of the tokens(BAT, DAI, HYDRO, etc). The "withdraw" link is activated/enabled when the balance of crypto tokens worth a minimum of 0.5 USD, otherwise, it will remain disabled, you need to keep earning more tokens to make it at least 0.5 USD(for each individual token) before being able to withdraw. Now click on the "Withdraw" button.
- Confirm your withdrawal by clicking on "Confirm Withdrawal". Make sure the ETH address is the correct one. If not, you can edit the address and update the correct one.
- The Payment History is updated every time you make a withdrawal request (or when approved or when the cryptos are sent) & show you the amount & time of withdrawal request. Wait till Monday when Publish0x will check it and confirm it once approved. You will receive an email when you request it and also receive an email when they approve it.
- Publish0x sends the payment in batches. So once approved, be assured that you will receive the requested tokens in your ETH wallet and you can also view the transaction details whose link is available in the payment history as well as in your email(from Publish0x).
Phase-II: How to convert BAT, DAI to ETH in a cost-effective way
- Go to: https://uniswap.exchange/swap
- Connect your Metamask wallet.
- Then input the amount of BAT or DAI and in the output select ETH.
- Click on the "Swap", the output ETH will be deposited to your Metamask wallet.
NB- Please note that you can use your MEW wallet in Metamask.
Phase-III: How to sell your ETH to a variety of fiat currencies across the globe.
In this phase, you can sell your crypto for fiat currency. Before that, you need to register and login to Localcryptos. You can either create a fresh account using your email id or you can log in directly with your ETH wallet like Ledger, Walletconnect, Fortmatric, Portis, etc.
I am not going into the registration detail of Localcryptos. For that, you can go through this link: https://localcryptos.com/signup and signup with your Email ID.
In case you have created an account using your email ID, the next step is to know your ETH wallet address and export your private key or back up your wallet. Click on "Wallet", then "Etherum".
You can now see the ETH address. Below that, you can notice the symbol ⤓, click on that to export the private key and save the key in a safe place offline, so that if the Localcryptos site goes down, you can still be able to recover & access your wallet. You can also back up your wallet by visiting your Account section.
Now either you can use the private key of the ETH wallet and access your wallet in Metamask or you can send the ETH(as converted in Phase II) to this wallet so that you can further sell your ETH for fiat money in Localcryptos.
The exchange process in Localcryptos is better as you can set your own rate(as a maker), you can respond to an existing rate and the number of available fiat options is more than any other exchange. The end to end chat encryption & message secrecy is simply best & unique in Localcryptos.
Here you can swap your ETH for various fiat options which include domestic as well as international options:
Bank transfer, Cash (in person), Cash deposit, WeChat Pay, etc.
PayPal, Western Union, SEPA transfer, Skrill, Alipay, MoneyGram, International wire, TransferWise, PAYEER, Mercado Pago, Venmo, etc.
Country Wise specific options
M-PESA (Kenya), UPI (India), Paytm (India), IMPS (India), Alfa cash-in (Russia), QIWI (Russia), Interac e-Transfer(Canada), Yandex.Money (Russia), WebMoney (Russia), AdvCash (Russia), Efecty (Colombia), Cardless cash (Australia), Swish (Sweden), PayNow (Singapore), Pingit (United Kingdom).
If you want to create your own offer to sell your ETH, then follow these steps:
- Go to "offers" of Localcryptos(assuming that you are already logged in).
- Click on "Create a new offer".
- Fill in the form details: "Sell" "Etherum", Choose your "Location"- Click "Next"
- Choose which payment method you want to accept: e.g. Bank Transfer, Cash Deposit, Internation Wire, Western Union, Cash(in person), or any other method as per your suitability etc.
- Choose your currency: for example USD, EUR, GBP, INR, etc but that has to be relevant with the payment method you have chosen. Click "Next".
- Set your rate: Dynamic market price is easy and better as it takes the reference price of an exchange that you would choose. So select that one. Click "Next".
- Choose the market of reference & set your margin "above" or "below" that reference: e.g. I have chosen Binance exchange and set the margin as 1.5% above. Click "Review price" followed by "Confirm price".
- Set your limit of "Maximum trade size" & "Minimum trade size". You can also skip this. Click on "Next" if you have set your limits.
- Choose your Headline. Click "Next".
- Outline the terms of the trade such as place, time restrictions, payment window, etc. Click "Next". You can also skip it.
- You can choose to trade either with "Anybody" or with "Verified users only".
- Finally click on "Confirm Details". Anytime you can modify, pause or delete your offer.
- It will now display under "My offers".
When a buyer responds. you will be notified both in your email as well as in the notification bell of Localcryptos, then have a chat with the buyer, once mutually agreed, fund the escrow and share your bank details so that the buyer can send the payment, once the payment is sent, check your bank account, confirm it & release the escrow to the buyer.
If you want to respond to an already existing offer to sell your ETH, then follow these steps:
- Go to Localcryptos and click on "Browse".
- Fill the details: Buy or Sell, Crypto, Payment method, Location.
- Then it will display the list of offers based on your input.
- Click on an offer you are interested in and then fill up trade amount you want to and type your message under "send a message" and then click on "Open trade".
The exchange of message with your counterpart is end to end encrypted, so it is secure.
The maker fee is 0.25% and the taker fee is 0.75% in Localcryptos. The fees may be somewhat higher in the case of market-taker. But what I am trying to emphasize is not fees but the vast number of fiat options across the globe. So a user will be able to trade not just with a domestic counterpart but also with the international counterpart depending upon a payment method. So while you can trade your ETH domestically in your local currency, you equally have the options to trade your ETH for fiat money like USD, EUR, GBP internationally.
So this is the most flexible option to convert your BAT, DAI to ETH and then ultimately to USD, EUR, GBP, or any other local currency of your country.The route of converting BAT, DAI to fiat money is not just cost effective, but also flexible and most importantly a user can trade micro amounts too.
The infogrphics are my original works. I have taken the logos of Publish0x, Localcryptos, Metamask, Uniswap, etc from the respective official sites. The GIF & the screenshots are taken during the user experience with the exchanges like Locacryptos, Uniswap, etc & wallet like Metamask.


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You, my dear, simply need to attempt to see this event in a different light. Whenever you start beating yourself up about it, imagine how you might console a friend who took a risk that didnt pan out. Youd say, I think it took a lot of guts to do what you did, or Well, you needed a change anyway. This didnt work out, but something else will. Grant yourself this same respect and compassion. Once, when I was feeling depressed about something Id done something I thought was ridiculously stupid a friend said, Karen, have a little mercy on yourself. I love that word, mercy. Its so expansive and generous. Have mercy on yourself for your willingness to take a chance.
Every successful person on earth has made missteps. When he was in the throes of trying to invent the lightbulb, Thomas Edison said this about trying something new: I have not failed 700 times; I have succeeded in proving 700 ways in which this will not work. Take this to heart and know that something better will come along.
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- Reasons Geometry Dash APK is worth downloading?
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Avett Brothers made mainstream waves with their 2009 major label debut, I and Love and You, landing at No. 16 on the Billboard Top 200 and garnering critical acclaim. Last year, the band released their tenth studio album Closer Than Together featuring new single “High Steppin’” which reached #1 on the Americana Radio Chart. Now you can see them live at Ozarks Amphitheater, recently named the “Best Live Music Venue in Missouri”, located in the heart of the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks in Camdenton, Missouri.


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ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT & CEO
Brett Batterson self-identifies as a New York born, midwestern-raised man with strong southern influences. Specifically, he was born in upstate New York, but his family moved to Davenport, Iowa when he was an infant. The strong influences come from a combined 22 years of living in the American south. In fact, Brett has lived in eleven different states, but Tennessee is the only one he has lived in twice and the state he has lived in the longest.
His professional life began as a Theatrical Scenic Designer and technician, working at such theatres as The Guthrie Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Idaho Summer Repertory Theatre, Chattanooga Theatre Centre and Theatre Midland.
For five years he owned a scenic studio in Chattanooga, creating scenery and exhibits for The Nashville Network, The Grand Ole Opry, Toyota, Honda of America, Chattanooga Regional History Museum, United States National Park Service, Tennessee Aquarium and many others.
In 1994, he took the position of Project Manager for the construction of the Detroit Opera House. As the opera house was getting ready to open, he was asked to manage the new facility, which is when he transitioned from being a theatre artist to being a theatre administrator. Eventually he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Michigan Opera Theatre, the owners of the Detroit Opera House.
Highlights of his time in Detroit include presenting The Three Tenors at historic Tiger Stadium which was the highest grossing concert in North American in 1999 with ticket sales exceeding $6M. In addition, Michigan Opera Theatre presented Andrea Bocelli in his first staged opera performance and commissioned the new American opera Margaret Garner, starring Denyce Graves and directed by Kenny Leon, with a libretto by Toni Morrison.
In 2004, Batterson was recruited to Chicago to run the national historic landmark Auditorium Theatre. While there, he created three city-wide festivals (The Miles Davis Festival, The Billy Strayhorn Festival and The Music+Movement Festival), saw the Auditorium host the National Football League (NFL) Draft in 2015, which was the first time that event was held outside of New York City in over 50 years, and staged the successful celebration of the Auditorium’s 125th birthday. Batterson also founded an arts camp for young people who have experienced the death of a parent (Hands Together, Heart to Art) and co-founded Enrich Chicago, a non-profit dedicated to diversifying arts leadership in Chicago.
Another call from a search firm brought him to Memphis, where he became President & CEO of the Orpheum Theatre Group on January 1, 2016. In this role, the theatre and its second facility, the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education, has dramatically expanded its programming, bringing the best of Broadway, music, comedy and community events to its stages. Educationally, the organization has become a leader in the Mid-South through new programs such as Mending Hearts Camp (similar to Hearts to Art in Chicago – a camp for young people who have experienced the death of a parent), Camp SAY Across the USA - Memphis (a camp for young people who stutter), numerous story-telling and play-conceiving community programs and the expansion of the High School Musical Theatre Awards. Batterson also founded the Memphis Cultural Coalition, a roundtable of leaders in the arts and culture sector.
Guiding the Orpheum Theatre Group through the COVID pandemic, Brett was commended for creating a Broadway-themed mini-golf course on the stage of the Orpheum. Despite initial skepticism from some, mini-golf ran for 17 weeks and thus became the longest running show in Orpheum history.
In the community, Brett is an active Rotarian, having been a member of Chicago’s Rotary One before transferring to the Rotary Club of Memphis. He is a two-time Paul Harris Fellow and will become president of the Memphis club in 2024.
He is active with the Broadway League and is an Executive Committee member of the Independent Presenters Network (IPN), a consortium of 30+ presenters of Broadway touring shows around the United States.
In addition to the Rotary and IPN boards, he has, at various times, served on the boards of The League of Chicago Theatres, Illinois Presenters Network, Northside Presbyterian Church (Chattanooga), Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 140 (a proud 30+ year member despite moving from labor to management). He is currently on the Advisory Boards of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theatre, and Giordano Dance Chicago.
Under Batterson’s leadership, as investors or co-producers with their IPN colleagues, the Orpheum has been nominated for four Tony Awards, winning two for Best Musical. These join three received prior to Brett’s arrival, bringing the total number of Tony Awards won by the Orpheum Theatre Group to five.
Other honors include being named Presenter of the Year by the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents in 2017, a 2009 State Farm Embrace Life Award for founding Hands Together, Heart to Art, the 2016 Think Big Award presented by the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, the inaugural Fifth Star Award from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2014 (on behalf of the Auditorium), and being recognized by New City News as one of the fifty most important people in Chicago Theatre from 2009 to 2015, ranking second on that bi-annual list in 2014. Brett is an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award voter.
Batterson holds a B.A. degree from Augsburg University and a M.F.A. degree from Tulane University. He is married to author and photographer Veronica Randolph Batterson (veronica-batterson.pixels.com). They have two grown daughters and one beautiful granddaughter.
Batterson Bio for speaking introductions and printed programs:
Brett Batterson serves as President & CEO of the Orpheum Theatre Group (OTG), a five-time Tony Award winning theatrical institution based in Memphis, Tennessee. Prior to his arrival in Memphis, he served for twelve years as Executive Director of the national historic landmark Auditorium Theatre in Chicago and ten years as COO of Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit. Among his many accolades, he is proud to have been named Arts Presenter of the Year by the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA) at the annual APAP conference in New York City in 2017. He also enjoys the notoriety he gained for building a mini-golf course on the Orpheum stage during the COVID pandemic. Memphians enjoyed playing mini-golf at the Orpheum for 17 straight weeks, making mini-golf the longest running show in Orpheum history. Brett is married to author and photographer, Veronica Randolph Batterson.


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Patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) often receive donor transplants that effectively “reboot” their own immune defenses, which then attack and potentially cure the hard-to-treat disease. However, these patients have a high rate of relapse, and the transplanted immune cells may also harm normal tissues, causing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
Now, scientists at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report in the Journal of Clinical Investigation that they observed a strong and selective immune response in some patients who received, shortly after the transplant, several doses of a “personalized” tumor vaccine composed of their own inactivated leukemia cells combined with an immune stimulant, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). Thus the vaccine boosted the power of the transplanted immune system’s ability to attack the cancer — known as the graft-versus-leukemia (GvL) effect.
“Our studies suggest that autologous tumor cell vaccination is an effective strategy to advance long-term leukemia control” following transplants from donors, said senior author Catherine Wu, a Harvard Medical School associate professsor of medicine. “Although this was a phase 1 study and not powered to look at questions of clinical efficacy, we did see promising clinical activity.”
There are few treatment options for advanced CLL. Standard transplants, which involve powerful doses of pre-transplant chemotherapy to wipe out as much of the leukemia as possible, have proven too toxic for older patients and those with co-existing diseases. Over the past decade, researchers have developed reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens, using lower chemotherapy doses that are more tolerable but rely entirely on the activity of the transplanted immune cells to battle the leukemia. Usually this is insufficient to keep the cancer at bay long-term and the disease progresses.
Furthermore, research has shown that the identifying antigens on the surface of CLL cells in individual patients may differ — that is, they have “personal tumor antigens,” the scientists said. “Based on these principles, vaccination with autologous irradiated leukemia cells” — the patient’s own stored leukemia cells — “is an attractive approach to expand leukemia-reactive T cells, since this vaccine formulation reliably includes personal tumor antigens.”
To make the vaccine, the researchers mixed the patients’ irradiated leukemia cells with cells that produce GM-CSF and then injected them back into the patient. The combination stirs up a strong response by immune T cells, and the distinctive antigens on the injected leukemia cells direct the T cells to attack similar leukemia cells wherever they are present in the body.
In the phase 1 trial, the vaccine was administered between 30 and 100 days after the transplant, with some patients receiving as many as six vaccine doses. The study enrolled 22 patients with advanced, aggressive CLL. Thirteen of the patients had evidence of the leukemia in their bone marrow at the time of transplant.
Four patients did not receive the vaccine because they developed GVHD following the transplant. The remaining 18 received at least one vaccine dose; seven patients stopped receiving the vaccine after they developed GVHD.
When examined six months post-transplant, the majority of patients showed evidence of clinical response: 10 had complete remissions and six had partial remissions; an additional patient had an early complete response but then relapsed at four months. After a median follow-up of 2.9 years, 13 patients (72 percent) had remained in continuous complete remission, one patient had stable disease, three patients developed progressive disease, and two of those patients died.
The results support the safety and biological activity of whole tumor-cell vaccination in hematological malignancies, said the authors, and giving the vaccine shortly after transplant may have been critical in its effectiveness. In addition, they said a key to the vaccine’s potency was the development by Dana-Farber scientists of GM-CSF-secreting “bystander” cells that can be used against lymphoid malignancies — which was not possible previously.
However, the authors noted that further randomized studies in larger patient groups will be necessary to determine if this strategy “will translate into a true clinical benefit for patients with advanced CLL.”
The first author of the report is Ute E. Burkhardt of Dana-Farber.


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Luxury Ranch Home & Hay Farm For Sale Smith County Tyler TX | East Texas Real Estate
Price $2,500,000 | 241± Acres | Tyler TX
Luxury Executive Ranch and Hay Farm for Sale near Tyler Texas
The 241.733-acre Lonesome Willow Ranch is located in northeast Smith County, Texas near Tyler State Park halfway between Dallas, Texas, and Shreveport, Louisiana. The ranch location is very convenient to Interstate 20 and nearby by cities of Lindale, Winona, Kilgore, and Longview as well as Tyler. This premier ranch home for sale near Tyler, Texas is situated at the end of a gated winding private drive. The location of the ranch house offers stunning panoramic views of incredible sunrises and sunsets and expansive, gently rolling pastures. While the ranch scenery is impressive, the abundantly diverse and highly improved land also provides rich wildlife habitat for Whitetail Deer and other small game, making this East Texas Piney Woods manor the perfect family retreat.
Hilltop Private Luxury Estate for Sale in East Texas
A grand entry gate ensures privacy on your East Texas Ranch that is fully fenced and cross-fenced. The winding drive guides guests to the welcoming front entrance of Lonesome Willow Ranch. The estate house rests atop a high vista, taking advantage of the pastoral landscape’s prevailing breezes and panoramic views. Quality, craftsmanship, creative design, superior materials, and careful attention to detail are evident in one of East Texas’ finest homes.
Constructed in 2007, the 4817 SQFT executive home for sale is luxury living at its finest. Highlights include a gourmet central kitchen, fabulous downstairs primary suite with sitting area and giant walk-in closet, hardwood floors, spacious living spaces, grand fireplace, granite countertops, solid wood cabinetry, game room, pool room, and executive office.
The 4-bedroom, 4.5-bath Texas country estate provides sophisticated and classic accommodations for your family and guests. Large windows capture abundant natural light and extraordinary views, while tall ceilings lend an additional sense of openness to the spacious rooms. Practical amenities like a laundry room, wet bar, and security system add convenience, value, and peace of mind.
Entertain or Relax Outdoors on A Luxury Ranch
The lavish interior selections extend to outdoor space, creating a private retreat or perfect setting for entertaining family and friends. An expansive patio area with a heated, saltwater pool and spa and play area completes the home’s back exterior offering the perfect location to enjoy stunning sunsets and breathtaking sunrises. Several grand live Oak Trees encircle the ranch house, providing shade and a welcome place to relax in a hammock after the day’s end.
East Texas Ranch with Working Hay Operation
The well-planned hay operation at Lonesome Willow Ranch boasts 234-acres of Coastal Bermuda and Tifton 85 grasses, irrigated by a pivot system with water from a deep, well-fed lagoon. Ranching improvements include tractor and equipment barns, two Quonset-style hay storage barns, and a metal hay barn with a loading dock.
Hunt Texas Whitetail Deer & Waterfowl on Improved Land for Sale
Wildlife is plentiful on this Texas recreational ranch for sale which presents small game and big game, including deer, dove, and waterfowl. The property offers scattered oaks with several freshwater creek-fed ponds and a small lake. The water sources, established trails, improved pastures, and neighboring forests also support the wildlife habitat creating immediate recreational enjoyment and value.
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Sometimes emergencies and unexpected incidents can happen when you least expect it. Whether your pet has been hit by car, ingested a foreign object, chocolate, or poison, we are available for you and your pet during regular business hours. Emergencies always take precedence at our hospitals. Upon arrival, one of our veterinary technologists will assess your pet’s condition. If they are in need of immediate care, they may be taken to the treatment area for the veterinarian to assess and start treatment. If possible, please call ahead so we can be prepared for your arrival.
During After-Hours emergency, you can call any of the 24 hour emergency facilities listed below. If you are already a client with our hospital, the emergency hospital will inform us of your emergency so that we can follow-up to see how your pet is doing.
Emergency 24 Hour Veterinary Clinics in Calgary
C.A.R.E. Centre Animal Hospital
7140 – 12th Street SE
(Framed by Glenmore Trail, Deerfoot Trail and Heritage Drive SE)
Western Veterinary Specialist & Emergency Centre
1802 – 10th Ave SW
Calgary North Veterinary Hospital & Emergency Service
4240 – 4th Street NW
(Accessed off 16th Ave NW or McKnight Blvd.)


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Bob Hawke to sell Northbridge home for $14m to downsize to CBD pad
Almost 30 years after former prime minister Bob Hawke swapped The Lodge for a waterfront house in Northbridge, he is believed to have sold it for more than $14 million.
The off-market sale comes as he and his wife Blanche d’Alpuget prepare to downsize to a pad in the CBD that they bought off-the-plan in the One30 development.
The Labor Party legend bought the Northbridge property in 1991 for $1.23 million, just six months before he lost the party leadership to Paul Keating.
A local buyer from the Northbridge area is believed to have bought it after it was shown on the quiet with $15 million hopes.
The sale price remains undisclosed and Hawke and d’Alpuget declined to comment on Wednesday, but a source said the result was between $14 million and $15 million.
Australia’s longest serving Labor Party prime minister turned 89 last December, and the downsizing plans come as his health proves increasingly frail given his advanced age.
He took possession of the 960-square-metre property in July 1991 just a month after he defeated Keating in Keating’s first challenge for the prime ministership.
Hawke and his then-wife, the late Hazel Hawke, had planned to eventually retire to the waterfront property after a three-bedroom house on site was demolished and rebuilt as a far more contemporary four-level residence.
But those retirement plans were brought forward six months later when Hawke lost the Labor leadership to Keating in a Labor Party caucus ballot in December 1991.
Construction of a new four-level residence was approved the following year, during which time the Hawkes lived at the now-defunct Ritz Carlton Hotel in Double Bay.
The four-level residence on the steep, north-facing site overlooking Sugarloaf Bay was completed in late 1993 and now comes complete with an internal lift, a rooftop putting green and some of the suburb’s best waterfront facilities, including a private jetty, pontoon, four poles and a boathouse.
The Hawkes divorced in 1995 after he left her for writer and his biographer d’Alpuget, whom he married the following year. Records show the couple took joint ownership of the property in 1999.
Sources say Hawke and d’Alpuget have bought an apartment in the One30 Hyde Park development on Elizabeth Street, which is due for completion later this month.
The apartment’s purchase price remains unknown, but one source close to the development said it would have been about $3 million. Settlement will confirm that price.
The 38-storey tower was developed by Hong Kong-listed developer Aoyuan Property Group in a joint venture with Ecove, the developer behind the disastrous Opal Tower building at Olympic Park.
At more than $14 million, the Hawke-d’Alpuget house sale puts it in the top three sales in Northbridge.
The suburb high was set at $21 million in 2017 when heiress to the Primo Smallgoods fortune Kristie Ward bought the waterfront home of Robert and Kelly Salteri, of the Transfield infrastructure giant.
In 2016 the home of Justin Reizes, former head of equities at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, sold for $15.25 million to Jianwen Huang, of China.
The sale comes just two weeks before the release of d’Alpuget’s latest book, The Lions’ Torment, the third in the Birth of the Plantagenets series and which her agent described as “Game of Thrones meets Hilary Mantel”.


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[ @ ] natgeo Photo by @jimmy_chin @Eva Markowski always in the right place at the right time. Searching for first ski descents in Sichuan Province, China w @ingridbackstrom and @giuliamonego. After a month in the mountains, we eventually skied the first descent of 20,000ft Reddommaine Peak in the Minya Konka Range. #unforgettable #exploration #taoofkasha
After skiing a few hundred feet from the summit, I caught up to Kit and Rob DesLauriers at the Hillary Step. We clipped into ropes to rappel down the forty-foot rock band at 28,840 feet, then skied across to the exposed ridge to the South Summit. Photograph by Jimmy Chin.
From Jimmy Chin on Mt. Everest - After two months of fighting bitter cold, massive storms and an avalanche that swept most of the climbing route on the Lhotse face, Dave Hahn, Kit and Rob DesLauriers make a late post monsoon summit bid on Everest. This shot of the team climbing above the Balcony at over 27,000ft with Makalu (the fifth highest peak in the world) in the background was one of the few frames I got that morning due to a frozen shutter.
Photo by @jimmy_chin Find the heli for scale….Thankful everyday for the work I get to do and the people I get to do it with….some of the most incredible pilots, athletes and safety teams out there. Here’s moment setting up for one of the more challenging shots of the year. #onlocation #canadianrockies #bts


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ROCHESTER, Minn. — Data scientists at the Mayo Clinic on Tuesday, Dec. 15, urged Minnesotans to consult the Mayo Coronavirus Map Tracker when planning vacation trips.
The website is a public-facing web portal created by the Clinic’s COVID-19 Predictive Modeling Task Force. It offers up-to-date, region-specific information on case rates, daily case counts, and two-week forecasts.
The tool is searchable by state or county, nationwide.
“COVID-19 cases are already high or on the rise in much of the United States,” said Dr. Shannon Dunlay, co-lead of Mayo Clinic’s COVID-19 modeling team “and this is a busy holiday season.”
“This is happening against the backdrop of many hospitals not only full of COVID-19 cases, but also patients with other needs.”
The tool reflects the fact that the prevalence of COVID-19 varies widely by region, with different parts of the United States experiencing spikes that rise and fall over time, while parts of a state given can largely separate from other parts of the same state in terms of case growth.
Moreover, these trends are largely independent of population density. Less populated rural areas, for example, may have high readings while urban areas report relatively modest transmission rates.
Minnesota, a state known for its advanced public health mechanisms, now has a much higher spread than Florida, a state that has often led the country in case growth.
“First and foremost, we encourage people to get vaccinated,” Dunlay said. “When you’re eligible, get your booster. If you’re sick, avoid others and get tested for COVID-19. Consider wearing a mask, even if you’re vaccinated, if you’re going to be around other people. “
The Mayo forecasting model incorporates a variety of data to predict case activity in a given region, including cell phone data that can anonymously inform individuals’ proximity to each other and whether there are a higher than usual amount of mixture.
The model even plans to incorporate wastewater data in some regions, according to Curtis Storlie, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic data scientist, who explained that a model can be learned from past activity of the virus.
“Things that govern the rate of spread and breeding numbers are going to vary over time,” he said. “There is a certain amount of model learning over time.”
On Tuesday, Dec. 13, the Mayo Tracker showed Minnesota had more than 71 cases per 100,000 people, nearly double the national average. But with 64% of the population vaccinated, the state is slightly ahead of the national vaccination average.
The number of cases in Minnesota has climbed in series of waves since late October. The state now approaches the holidays facing another climb, but with upper and lower limits that favor the possibility of larger departures up than down.
Minnesota’s 71 average daily cases per 100,000 population could rise to 123, in this calculation, or fall to 66. Alabama, by comparison, currently sits at 11 average daily cases per 100,000 population, with an upper limit of 13.
Statewide, at 38 daily cases per 100,000, Polk County in the northwest corner of the state has half the daily case rate of the rest of Minnesota, while those traveling to Waseca County, at 173 cases per 100,000, almost certainly falls into an area of greater spread.
“We want to hit some of the lower limits doing whatever we can,” Storlie said. “We can’t afford to have this big spike…it really is the time to take precautions.”
“We’re in a much better position thanks to vaccination,” Storlie said of Christmas 2021. fantastic for traveling.”


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False Starts, Flexibility & Persistence
We almost started our in-person events this week, we almost gathered in the same room and almost celebrated with morning coffee and croissants but alas…Covid had other plans and we had to re-schedule our first in person event since the pandemic began.
But what I have learned over the last two years, is that we are capable of so much more than we ever thought possible before we ever learned of this coronavirus.
Covid may have stalled us, but this false start was by no means going to stop us. After a few phone calls and conversations with the venue, the facilitator and the lead nurse at the organisation for whom the event was organised, we quickly had a new date and a new plan. The course was to go ahead, in person in September. This little inconvenience did not override the desire to gather, learn and share in the same room. We did not revert to the safer choice of an online event, the decision was to try a new date after the summer holidays as learning together was too important, especially right now.
This pandemic has tested us in so many ways. We have all experienced loss. We have loss people, old ways of working and living, the freedom to travel and see family and friends whenever we want. Some things we were glad to lose, we just needed the excuse of the pandemic to let them go. And somethings we were pleasantly surprised to learn we could easily live without them.
As the pandemic continues, it continues to offer the opportunity to re-evaluate our lives and the choices we make. Many people are planning some well-earned rest this summer and travel to the destinations they have not been able to enjoy for a while. Others are thinking about change; a new place to live, a new job or simply news ways of living and working where they are.
What is important to you as we move into this next phase of living with Covid. What would you like to see done differently as we shape our new normal? What do you not want to go back to? What would you like to see that would improve the experience of your patients and/or your satisfaction in your role?
We have learned that we are capable of so much more than we ever realised, and the new normal will evolve with or without your input, so why not intentionally decide what you would like to see change? Why not begin talking about your thoughts with the people around you? You and your colleagues have the power to influence how you work, how your patients feel as research participants and what research in healthcare will look in the future.
What change do you want to see?← Henrietta Lacks


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We welcome brand new music from Aussie favourites The Chantoozies! ‘Baby It’s You’ is the new single which also features our hometown heroes Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana and Anthony LaPaglia! What a lineup!
Check out our cheeky Aussie, Hugh Jackman on the canvas at WWE as Monday nights special guest! Our ‘Boy from Oz’ always finding himself in some form of mischief…. Just wondering if my mate Tom Casiello had anything to do with it! Woo! Woo! Woo!