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Hepatic adrenal rest tumor in a patient with multifactorial liver cirrhosis: a case report with CT and MRI findings and pathologic correlation
Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine volume 52, Article number: 280 (2021)
Adrenal rest tumor is an ectopic collection of adrenocortical cells in an extra-adrenal site, more frequently located around the kidney, retroperitoneum, spermatic cord, para-testicular region and broad ligament, but very rarely occurring also in the liver. Hepatic adrenal rest tumor poses a diagnostic challenge in differentiating it from hepatocellular carcinoma, particularly in a cirrhotic liver.
An 83-years-old male was referred to our hospital by his family doctor for hepatological evaluation due to multifactorial liver cirrhosis. Ultrasound revealed a centimetric hypoechoic nodule in the VI hepatic segment in the context of a liver with signs of cirrhosis and steatosis. The patient first underwent MRI and then CT, which showed a fat containing focal liver lesion in the subcapsular location of the right lobe, strictly adjacent to the homolateral adrenal gland. The nodule was hypervascular in the arterial phase, washed out in the portal-venous and transitional phases, resulting hypointense in the hepato-biliary phase at MR imaging. In the suspicion of a hepatocellular carcinoma, the nodule was surgically removed, and the patient’s postoperative course was unremarkable. The final histopathological diagnosis was of adrenal rest tumor of the liver.
Hepatic adrenal rest tumor is an extremely rare hepatic tumor, often without any clinical manifestation, that can also occur in the cirrhotic liver as in our case. Although there are not specific imaging findings, the possible diagnosis of HART should be considered when we observe a well-defined lesion in the subcapsular location of the right lobe, with fat containing, hypervascularity after contrast medium injection and vascular supply from the right hepatic artery.
Adrenal rest tumor is an ectopic collection of adrenocortical cells in an extra-adrenal site , more frequently located around the kidney, retroperitoneum, spermatic cord, para-testicular region and broad ligament [2, 3], but very rarely occurring also in the liver. These tumors may be nonfunctional or hormonally active with manifesting as an endocrine syndrome .
Histologically, hepatic adrenal rest tumor (HART) is composed by sheets or confluent cords of large polygonal cells with abundant eosinophilic and clear cytoplasm, similar to adrenocortical tissue.
At imaging, HART generally appears as round, well-defined mass, with subcapsular localization in the right hepatic lobe, showing macroscopic fat-containing and hypervascularity [1, 5,6,7]. These radiological findings can also be present in other focal liver lesions, which range from hepatocellular adenoma and angiomyolipoma (AML) to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with fatty change [1, 5,6,7]. Moreover, patients with chronic liver disease, especially with cirrhosis, who present with a solid focal liver lesion are at a very high risk for having HCC and in this setting the correct diagnosis is particularly relevant and critical for patient’s management.
An 83-years-old male was referred to our hospital by his family doctor for hepatological evaluation due to multifactorial liver cirrhosis.
His medical history was positive for metabolic diseases (in particular insulin resistance and dyslipidemia), prostatic hypertrophy, past hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) infections, the latter eradicated with antiviral therapy in 2018.
The laboratory investigation showed a normal level of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP, 6.0 ng/mL), a normal hepatic function (albumin level 4.3 gr/dL, total bilirubin level 1.6 mg/dL, prothrombin activity 79%) and hepatic enzymes within normal levels (aspartate aminotransferase 23 U/L, alanine aminotransferase 18 U/L, gamma-glutamyl transferase 19 U/L, alkaline phosphatase 94 U/L).
At ultrasound follow-up, a centimetric hypoechoic nodule was identified in the VI hepatic segment in the context of a liver with signs of cirrhosis and steatosis.
Considering the medical history of the patient, the hepatologist requested a MR study of the liver to better characterize the focal liver lesion.
MRI was performed on 1.5 T system (Signa Excite HDxt; GE Healthcare) with a phased-array multi-channel coil; examination was carried out using spoiled gradient-echo (SPGR) T1-weighted in- and out-phase sequences, T2-weighted images, and diffusion-weighted imaging. A 3D fat-suppressed breath-hold T1-weighted LAVA (Liver Acquisition with Volume Acceleration) sequence was performed before and after intravenous administration of Gd-EOB-DTPA (Primovist®, Bayer HealthCare) in a dose of 0.1 mmol/kg of body weight as a bolus injection at a flow-rate of 2 ml/s, followed by injection of isotonic saline (25 ml). Contrast-enhanced dynamic images were acquired in the arterial dominant phase, in the portal-venous phase, in the transitional phase (at 3 min) and in the hepato-biliary phase (about 20 min after administration).
MR confirmed the presence of an 11-mm-in size nodule in the subcapsular VI hepatic segment, near the inferior vena cava, with signal intensity decay in the in/out-of-phase T1-weighted sequences (Fig. 1), whereas the hepatic nodule was not clearly recognizable on diffusion-weighted imaging. The lesion was strictly adjacent to the right adrenal gland from which it was not possible to recognize a clear cleavage plan. After contrast injection, the nodule appeared hyperintense in the arterial phase, showed a wash-out in the portal-venous and transitional phases and resulted hypointense in the hepatobiliary phase (Fig. 2).
On the basis of a possible radiological diagnosis of HCC and to better define the anatomical details and relationship of the nodule with the right adrenal gland, the patient underwent CT of the abdomen that was performed using a 64-slice CT scanner (LightSpeed VCT; GE Healthcare). Patient received plain and triphasic contrast-enhanced CT (arterial, portal-venous and delayed phase) after intravenous injection of non-ionic iodinated contrast medium (iomeprolo 400 mg/mL, Iomeron 400, Bracco), covering the upper abdomen. On CT scans, the nodule was hyperdense in the arterial phase, appeared hypodense in the delayed phase (Fig. 3) and was vascularized by a thin collateral branch of the right hepatic artery (Fig. 4). Right adrenal gland was partially visualized and very close to the nodule (Fig. 3).
The radiological orientation was that of a neoplastic nature of the nodule, in particular for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in a cirrhotic liver. This was supported by the vascular pattern of the nodule both on MRI and CT, by the hypointensity in the hepato-biliary phase and by the clinical context. However, it was not possible to exclude with certainty the possible adrenal relevance also for the signal intensity of the nodule in the in/out-of-phase sequences.
After a long multidisciplinary discussion (hepatologist, radiologist, abdominal surgeon and oncologist), the team decided to propose the surgical treatment to the patient, who accepted. The opportunity of performing a liver biopsy of the nodule was considered, but it was judged technically not feasible by the interventional radiologist.
The patient underwent surgical atypical resection of the caudate process and of a portion of the VI segment near the inferior vena cava, partial resection of the right adrenal gland and cholecystectomy. The patient’s postoperative course was unremarkable.
At macroscopic examination of the surgical specimen, the pathologist observed a yellowish-orange lesion measuring 2 × 1.5 × 1 cm that was located in the subcapsular portion of the liver. Histologically, the mass was composed of large polygonal cells with eosinophilic or pale and lipid-rich cytoplasm, arranged in nest or trabecular pattern with abundant capillary vessels similar to adrenal cortex (Fig. 5). Immunohistochemically, the lesion expressed Melan-A/MART1 and did not stain for liver marker HepPar1 and renal marker PAX8.
The morphology along with the immunohistochemical profile supported the final diagnosis of adrenal rest tumor of the liver.
As already reported above, the adrenal rest tumor is considered a collection of adrenocortical cells outside the adrenal gland. The adrenal cells have different embryological origin: the cortex is derived from the mesoderm and the medulla from the ectoderm of the neural crest. It is not clear what happens during the fetal development when an ectopic collection of adrenocortical cells is formed. Its occurrence is postulated for the localization near the genital structures [2, 3], where the adrenal rests within the genital structures are due to mechanical separation and displacement of portions of cortical tissue associated with gonadal tissue during its descent. Bozic et al. suggested that the most common locations where this ectopic tissue can be found might be related to misplaced mesothelial cells or autonomous differentiation of mesodermal elements .
The ectopic adrenocortical tissue is rarely detected in the liver, and the adrenal rest tumor is quite rare. These tumors may be nonfunctional or functional with manifesting as an endocrine syndrome due to hormonal product [4, 9]; howsoever, they are generally nonfunctional and clinically asymptomatic, and a malignant transformation is anecdotic .
In our patient with HBV/HCV-related and metabolic cirrhosis, the HART appeared as a round, well defined nodule, with subcapsular localization in the right hepatic lobe. The preoperative diagnosis was very difficult due to the clinical context and to the absence of specific characteristic at CT and MR imaging. Furthermore, the lesion was difficult to cleave from the right adrenal gland on imaging.
However, there are radiological findings that can address toward the correct diagnosis of HART. The first one is the identification of the fat component  inside the nodule that reflects the presence of intracytoplasmic lipid droplets in the tumor cells; for the identification of this feature, MRI represents the most specific diagnostic technique thanks to the typical behavior on chemical shift imaging. In fact, axial in- and out-phase images showed lower signal intensity of the lesion on the out-of-phase image compared with the in-phase image.
The second one is the hypervascularity of the nodule ; although this is not a specific radiological finding, it was identified at the dynamic study both on MRI and on CT scans. Besides, CT well highlighted that vascular supply of HART was mainly represented by the posterior branch of the right hepatic artery.
Few case reports of HARTs are currently published in the literature; anyway, most of them appear as hypervascular and fat-containing lesion as in our case [1, 5,6,7]. Interestingly, in other published cases [1, 5,6,7] hepatic adrenal rest tumors had similar location to the current case, in the posterior part of the right hepatic lobe or subcapsular. This localization of HART might be explained by the prevailing migration of aberrant adrenal tissue in this portion of the hepatic lobe. Besides, our case concurs with a previous case report by Tajima et al. , suggesting that the vascular supply of HART is mainly provided by hepatic arteries.
Nevertheless, imaging features of HART can be non-specific, and differential diagnosis with other hepatic lesions should always be considered preoperatively [5, 7]. The radiological differential diagnosis should first include hepatic lesions containing fat components and then the hypervascular focal liver lesions [7,8,9,10]. In the present case, hepatic AML and HCC with massive fatty metamorphosis are the most probable differential diagnoses due to the fat internal component, the fibrous capsule and distinctive neovascularity associated with the tumor. Furthermore, in our case the fact that the patient had a liver cirrhosis made the differential diagnosis even more complex and directed the therapeutic choice of the multidisciplinary team.
Macroscopically the HART appeared as a well-circumscribed, yellowish, nodular lesion occurring beneath the capsule of the right hepatic lobe. In these lesions, close morphological examination including immunohistochemistry  may be warranted to allow an adequate diagnosis and differential diagnosis especially for perivascular epithelioid cell tumor, also known as PEComa, renal cell carcinomas metastasis and hepatocellular carcinomas.
HART is a very rare hepatic tumor, often without any clinical manifestation, that can also occur in the cirrhotic liver as in our case. Although there are not specific imaging findings, the possible diagnosis of HART should be considered when we observe a well-defined lesion in the subcapsular location of the right lobe, with fat containing, hypervascularity after contrast medium injection and vascular supply from right hepatic artery. MRI has a potential role in improving the diagnosis of HART.
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I decided it was 'wintry' enough today to harvest some leeks from the garden and make a pot of leek and potato soup....real simple... roughly an equal amount of diced leeks and potatoes with enough chicken broth to cover. Simmer until the potatoes are done and then hit it with the immersion blender to your desired consistency. Tonight I kicked it up with a bit of shredded sharp cheddar cheese. It makes a different soup and it is very nice. I should add that I put dried thyme, a bay leaf and about a teaspoon of fresh garlic in the soup as well...just in case somebody jumps on this as some kind of recipe. I also sweat the leeks down before adding the broth and potatoes. Salt and pepper of course and you can make the soup richer by adding a bit of sour cream or yogurt as well. Minimonk doesn't eat vegetables but she eats this soup.

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Recently the word environment has been acquiring a broader meaning. Prevention, monitoring, and depuration are now focused not only on the chemical detection of air, water and soil pollutants but also on the health of the ecosystem, quality of life, including not only man but all living beings, clinical diagnostics and food safety, industrial activities and products, effects from chemical, biological and physical agents.
In this sense the need for controls of such a complex environment reflects the request for an increased measurement ability, mainly in terms of number of analyses and costs but also in terms of knowledge of the relationship between causes and effects.
Genetically modified organisms (GMO) and microorganisms (GMMO), for new processes and products in the field of agriculture, food and therapy (new drugs and vaccines), represent new challenges but also a potential risk for the sustainable progress of mankind. However, they have to be well known and controlled, to rule out their possible negative effect on health and biodiversity.
For these reasons, the use of sensor-based analytical methods, originally focused on chemical and biochemical tests, is gaining increasing interest in the fields of environmental toxicity testing, for ecosystem monitoring as well as testing of crops and foods of animal origin, clinical diagnosis and therapy. The increased interest in sensor–based techniques is proven by the significant number of both scientific papers and registered patents on this subject. Multidisciplinarity between chemistry, material sciences, biochemistry, molecular biology, physics, μ-electronic technologies, and engineering has created important new ideas in several research fields, including biosensing and remarkable results for improving quality of life on our planet can be expected.
Increasing number of potentially harmful pollutants in the environment calls for fast and cost-effective analytical techniques to be used in extensive monitoring programs. In this context, biosensors appear as a suitable alternative or a complimentary analytical tool. In spite of having many advantages, many of the developed systems cannot compete with conventional analytical methods. Strict requirements of application of most traditional analytical methods to environmental pollutants analyses constitute an important hindrance for their application on a regular basis.
Anyway biosensors can be used as environmental screening tools in the assessment of biological/ecology quality or for the chemical monitoring of both inorganic or organic pollutants:
As a matter of fact biosensors represent a technology, which is intended for mass production of hybrid devices based on the so-called “smart properties” of natural molecules and technological materials. Biosensors result by coupling a biological part (proteins with enzyme activity, receptors, nucleic acids, but also living cells or tissues) which is able to selectively recognize the analytes or a class of analytes and a transducer to convert the chemical signal in a readable and recordable electrical signal.
At the moment few engineered biomolecules and nanostructured materials are used for commercially available analytical devices and the critical factors for their use are mainly related to their stability and optimal (oriented) immobilisation, without loss of functional properties. On the contrary an amazing number of papers and researches were done for coupling the smart properties of new biologically engineered molecule and microorganisms with technological nano-sized materials.
Hybrids, synthetic, natural molecules, including their active fragments or modified derivatives, have been used. Genetically engineered biomolecules seem to be a new and powerful approach for obtaining simpler artificial structures with intact or improved properties (stability, sensitivity and specificity) or with additional functional groups and activities. For example, a His6 tag can be used for oriented and reversible immobilization of engineered single-chain antibody fragments (scFvs), or gene fusions with phosphatases or green fluorescence protein may allow analytical detection using bacterial cells.Recombinant bacterial systems have been used to monitor environmental benzene contamination based on engineered Escherichia coli, which carries genes coding for benzene dioxygenase and benzene dihydrodioldehydrogenase from Pseudomonas putida. These activities can be detected electrochemically or colorimetrically and used to monitor benzene pollution in environmental air samples. Nanostructured materials have proven to be a powerful tool in new technologies as well as in basic research, due to their very peculiar properties at nanometer size scale. Many studies and publications have demonstrated that optical, mechanical, photo-catalytic or electronic properties of the nano-sized surfaces drastically change with respect to those of the bulk materials. Electrochemical biosensing constitutes a research field where nanotechnologies have been successfully applied, especially in using nano-sized materials with high surface to volume ratio as well as metal wires and tubes, carbon nanotubes or graphene. The synthesis via template represents a convenient procedure, which in many cases has strongly simplified the production of surface confined nano-scale materials as nanoparticles, nanowires or nanotubes (nano-electrode ensemble). This method is essentially based on the simple but effective idea that the pores or cavities of the host supports can be used as templates to address and control the growth of specific materials, i.e. metals, semiconductors, biological compounds and polymer chains. The use of templates in producing novel nano-materials goes back to the early eighties. Pioneering works were ascribed to authors involved in the preparation of different metallic nanostructures but presently the method was extended to a large number of substrates and applications. Advances in biotechnology and nanotechnology may be able to provide more sensitive and stable detection systems for air and water quality monitoring, allowing the simultaneous measurement of multiple parameters and real time response capability.
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Happy Friday!! A few weeks ago I started a new series called my “Friday Favorites!” Inspired by the popular videos on YouTube, I try to shine the spot light on some of my favorite products. These are products that I’ve either had for a while and rediscovered or ones that I use pretty regularly. I figured this would be a great way to give you guys a small taste at some of the products that I truly call favorites! Today, I have my first Mac cremesheen lipstick.
I picked this up at my local CCO back in September. Well, local is a bit of a stretch since it’s a 45 minute drive, so whenever I go I normally do some damage. I picked this up because it looked like the perfect every day shade of warm pink for an everyday lip! While I got this at a CCO, this is a permanent color from Mac so you can still get your hands on it.
I have to be honest … before this lipstick, I didn’t have the best luck with Mac lip products. Every one that I had purchased (all 2 of them before this), were a little bit of a disappointment. So I was a little hesitant to try out another one, but I had heard amazing things about the cremesheens! So seeing an amazing peachy-pink in a cremesheen formula for about 30% off, I didn’t think twice.
Mac describes Shanghai Spice as a frosted neutral pink. The word “frosted” immediately sends shivers through my spine because I get flashes of the worst 80s frosty pink lipstick. As you can tell from the swatch above, yes, it fits that bill! Frosty peachy-pink. I’m glad that I didn’t just rely on the swatch because this lipstick is gorgeous when you have it on.
As you can tell, this is definitely a gorgeous every day lip color. It isn’t as frosty on the lips as my picture makes it appear. Its just a result from the lights that I use in my filming room. It is a great every day lip color and because its a cremesheen, its very comfortable on the lips. The wear isn’t the longest, but it fades in a way that looks very natural.
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The County of Hawaii voted last month to ban the use of most non-organic hebicides on county land and facilities, including county-controlled parks, roads, trails, bikeways, sidewalks, drainage ways and waterways.
The ban would be implemented gradually over a four-year transition period and establishes a “vegetation management transition committee” to oversee the transition from herbicides to safer alternatives.
County Bill 101 specifically bans 23 of the most commonly used herbicides including glyphosate, the active ingredient to Roundup, the most commonly used herbicide on earth.
Monsanto, the manufacturer, has been successfully sued in various lawsuits asserting that Roundup causes cancer.
Mayor Harry Kim still hasn’t announced whether he’ll sign the bill or veto it. He has already asked the two departments affected, Parks and Recreation and the Highway Maintenance section of Public Works, to analyze the costs and impacts of the legislation.
He said the parks department had already reduced herbicide usage by about 40% in the past three years, using measures such as spraying saltwater on weeds or using goats and sheep to eat them.
“This is obviously an important bill,” he said. “I haven’t talked to anybody who doesn’t think we should be more aware of this issue.”
The bill sailed through earlier readings with unanimous consent, but lost three votes in the final reading: Council Chairman Aaron Chung, and council members Sue Lee Loy and Herbert Richards III.
Richards, a veterinarian, felt the bill could be a stalking horse for a wider ban that would include agriculture use. He pointed out that two of the banned herbicides can only be legally used in Hawaii for corn and soybeans.
Chung also thought that the herbicide ban was too broad. He and Lee Loy both pushed for an amendment which would exempt Hilo Golf course, fearing that greens maintenance would be impossible without herbicides.
Rebecca Villegas, the bill’s sponsor, declined to insert such an amendment in the bill.
“The science and technology and the traffic is there to show that residents near golf courses are affected” by herbicide use on golf courses, she said.
She held up the International Audubon Society’s award-winning Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf as an example how golf courses could be run “greener.”
But even the Audubon-certified golf courses are not required to be herbicide-free, though the program does set up best practice standards that minimize and control their use.
Completely organic golf courses are possible, but exceedingly rare. Perhaps the best known example is the Vineyard Golf Course in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, which has replaced pesticides entirely with “bio-stimulants” and organic fertilizers. If the Hilo Municipal Golf Course actually succeeds in eliminating herbicides, it will join such a rare elite that the fact it is herbicide-free could become a tourist draw just like the Vineyard course.
“I have no problem with banning glyphosate,” Chung said. But he felt that the rationale for what was included in the ban — especially the inclusion of the agricultural chemicals — wasn’t clearly explained.
Villegas responded that these were the most commonly used herbicides in the world today, and that the agricultural herbicides had been included as a precaution, in case someone tried to reclassify them later for other uses to take advantage of the ban.
The agricultural community was divided about the bill.
Representatives of the flower and nursery industries testified against it. Organic farmers, of course, favored it. A number of those who testified in favor of the bill identified themselves as small farmers.
But one opponent, a local farmer, testified that, “It’s totally irresponsible to ban safe tools.”
The biggest block of agricultural workers present at the hearing, however, were beekeepers, who strongly supported the bill. Glyphosate, they said, could be lethal to bees, who carried it home to their hives with the pollen and nectar they collected, so it could spread to even bees who’d not been in direct contact with it.
Recent studies have shown that glyphosate can affect the gut bacteria of honeybees, making them more susceptible to infections, and may be affecting their ability to navigate. This all may be at least a contributing factor to colony collapse disorder, which has been affecting the bee population worldwide.
This reinforced the experience of local beekeepers. “Those that have been sprayed, die,” one of them stated flatly.
“We’re losing 60 to 70% of our colonies,” said another.
“The irony is that some of the people who are afraid of this depend on honeybees,” to pollinate their crops, noted Harry Holm, president of the Big Island Beekeepers Association.
The council also heard from people who spoke of personal damage from herbicide spraying on themselves.
“I get a fever, I lose my energy,” said Linda Holman, who said her symptoms repeatedly coincided with spraying in a nearby county park.
The county also heard testimony of someone who’d done such a transition successfully in Hawaii. Maui County has already successfully transitioned from herbicides to organic solutions, though it has no law in the books that made it do so. Former DOT Highways Superintendent Stephen Rodgers headed that effort.
“I eliminated the use of those products on Maui, Molakai, and Lanai,” he told the Hawaii County Council. Furthermore, he added, “We did not have any budgetary impacts.”
Parks and Recreation Department Director Roxcie Waltgen had told the committee that implementing the ban would require 400 additional park personnel.
But Rogers said he didn’t need more personnel. He would have to invest in equipment such as long-armed mowers and supplies such as weed matting and organic herbicides, but said that was offset by a 90% overall decrease in the cost of herbicides.
Also testifying was Autumn Ness of Beyond Pesticides, a nonprofit that helped retrain the Maui crews.
Ness explained the organization’s “bottom up” approach: concentrate on fixing the soils instead of killing the weeds. In some Maui parks, for instance, the group tested overly compacted soil on sports fields, loosened and fertilized them, allowing them to grow healthy grass again instead of weeds.
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Ahead of the release of Sleeper’s highly anticipated ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ EP on April 27, Bassrush premieres its highly cerebral and infectious s
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Southampton’s own chats with Team Bassrush and dishes on how he got his start, where he’s going, and everything in between.
Siskiyou unveil their debut Chestplate release, packed with a contagious blend of forward-thinking attitude, midrange brutality and low end fury.
Newly established Stateside label Noctem celebrates its inaugural release with Basiclee, The Widdler and Max Mischief.
Hot on the heels of his “Giant Squiddim VIP” release, we touch down with the bass boss himself as he looks ahead to festival season.
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Libyan Navy is the maritime force of Libya, established in November 1962. It is a fairly typical small navy with a few missile frigates, corvettes and patrol boats to defend the coastline, but with a very limited self-defence capability. The Navy has always been the smallest of Libya's services and has always been dependent on foreign sources for equipment, spare parts, and training.
Its first warship was delivered in 1966. These were 2 Ham class minesweepers from the UK. Initially the effective force was limited to smaller vessels, but this changed after the rise of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969. From this time, Libya started to buy armaments from Europe and the Soviet Union. The Customs and Harbour police were amalgamated with the Navy in 1970, extending the Navy's mission to include anti-smuggling and customs duties. The total personnel of the Libyan Navy is about 8,000.
During the 2011 Libyan civil war several elements of the Libyan Navy were destroyed by NATO forces, including 8 warships in the night before 20 May and one on 17 August. Two were also captured by the rebels at Benghazi.
The Navy began the process of purchasing new boats in May 2012, mainly fast patrol boats for surveillance and border protection purposes, including the MRTP-20 fast attack boat.
As of June 2012, the Libyan Navy has been headed by Commodore Hassan Ali Bushnak, Chief of Staff of the Libyan Naval Force. The British Royal Navy along with the Libyan Navy held joint exercises together at Dartmouth Naval College in the UK in June 2012.
Libyan Navy ships under the command of Rida Issa, loyal to the internationally recognized Government of National Accord, took part in the operation to liberate the city of Sirte from ISIL. The Libyan Navy assisted ground forces and blocked off sea escape routes for the militants. On 20 June 2016, the EU states announced that the naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea, Operation Sophia, will be extended until 2017, and will help train the Libyan navy and coast guard.


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During an interview Friday morning on ESPN’s Mike & Mike, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell bristled at the idea that the league would allow players to use marijuana to manage pain.
“I think you still have to look at a lot of aspects of marijuana use,” Goodell said, as transcribed by Pro Football Talk. “Is it something that can be negative to the health of our players? Listen, you’re ingesting smoke, so that’s not usually a very positive thing that people would say. It does have addictive nature. There are a lot of compounds in marijuana that may not be healthy for the players long-term. All of those things have to be considered. And it’s not as simple as someone just wants to feel better after a game. We really want to help our players in that circumstance but I want to make sure that the negative consequences aren’t something that is something that we’ll be held accountable for some years down the road.”
In March, several former NFL players filed a lawsuit against the league alleging that teams violated federal drug laws in handing out powerful opioid painkillers to players, which can be highly addictive. Many NFL players, including Brett Favre, have said they struggled with addiction to painkillers.
Recent research has found that medicinal marijuana can help curb opioid use in patients with chronic pain, and that patients prefer marijuana to opioids because it comes with fewer side effects.
About 9% of marijuana users become addicted, while about 30% develop some form of dependence on the drug, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Goodell added that the league continues to consult with its medical advisors about medicinal marijuana but that they have not recommended the league allow medical use of the drug.

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On Friday, February 8, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, the Assembly Health Committee chairman, reintroduced the New York Health Act. It would create a single payer, government run health care system to cover all New Yorkers, doing away with private insurance. The latest iteration of the bill includes coverage for long term care, which increases the total cost of the program by an estimated $43 billion. The bill also exempts those who make less than $25,000, which means those making above $25,000 would pay more. What the bill is still missing is a specific tax structure to raise the revenue needed to fund a single payer trust fund.
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Greens, eggs and ham! That’s our hamtastic spinach and broccoli quiche. Quiche is one of the easiest ways to transform leftovers into a palatable, profitable work of art!
This recipe will help change your perception of what a ham sandwich is, to what a ham sandwich could be. Served open faced and topped with an egg, this Poblano dressed “ham sandwich” hits rockstar flavor levels.
Although easy in preparation, this recipe for Ham & Brie Stuffed Crepes will have your guests wondering “How the heck did they make that?” … It’s that good! Ease, flow and a labor-saving item make this a ham-dunk dish in any culinary operation.
Caramelizing is the process of slowly extracting (cooking low & slow) either natural sugars or sugars that have been added during processing. Many hams have sugars added during the curing process, which makes ham perfectly suitable for caramelizing.
Glazing ham is one of the easiest and most straightforward ways to add multi-dimensional flavor to your ham without breaking a sweat. A good glazed ham is a simple, fundamental recipe to have in your arsenal of culinary tricks.
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Classic Hawaiian flavors on a crispy baked flatbead.
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This easy breakfast recipe turns scrambled eggs and biscuits into a fun and tasty meal the students will love!
Grilled ham, fried egg, cheddar cheese, and golden BBQ sauce served on Texas toast. A panini perfect for any meal of the day.
Ciabatta bread and sliced turkey; pair with soup or salad and fruit for a hearty and easily prepared crowd pleaser.
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This classic combination of sweet pineapple, and salty ham is a great way to mix up the traditional fried rice.
The Cobb salad is said to have originated at the Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles way back in the 1930s. It is poster child for composed salads, where the ingredients are decoratively arranged rather than tossed, the Cobb is beautiful when the ingredients are presented in rows.


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LITERATURE/ Dante Day
This March 25 marks the first annual celebration of Dantedì, when Italy will celebrate Dante Alighieri. Organized prior to the Covid-19 emergency, the 13th-century Florentine poet is being embraced as a symbol of Italian culture and language to unite the country at this difficult time. Everyone is invited to read verses from the Divine Comedy at noon, while the celebrations will continue all day long online and via social media with performances and readings tagged with #Dantedì and #IoleggoDante. Schoolteachers throughout Italy will be adding Dante to their virtual lessons on March 25. Tune into readings of the Divine Comedy on Firenze TV with a deluge of Dante related content.
The digital versions of Manifattura Tabacchi's wide-ranging events line-up can be found via their Facebook and Instagram From Regeneration Yoga at 10am on Thursday with yogi Sara Beccari to Live Loud music sessions at 7pm on Sunday.
Weekly video conferences will be held with renowned photographers in a series called [email protected], an initiative by the Studio Marangoni Foundation. Friday's appointment is with the surrealist Abelardo Morell, discussing his career. To take part, go to this link.
A documentary will be screened daily as the 61st International Documentary Film Festival streams directly to your lockdown. The #ipopolirestanoacasa initiative allows you to watch top-quality documentaries from the comfort of your own home, for free. With themes such as a journey through Algeria and deforestation in Paraguay, let your mind travel to distant lands. Find out more on their facebook.
The New Generation Festival launches a series of live performances on Instagram at 5pm each day to raise funds for hospitals in Lombardy, the area worst hit by the Coronavirus crisis. The festival was created to break down the boundaries between musical genres and generations. This campaign is in collaboration with the Associazione Music con le Ali and will feature 15-minute-long live performances with young opera singers, classical musicians, jazz cats and DJs, every day at 5pm on the New Generation Festival Instagram, with a donation button at the ready.
During the week at 5pm CET—unless another time is noted—we’re going to try to have something to do together. We have chosen to meet on Go To Meeting or Go To Webinar (depending on the event format). The kind folks at LogMeIn are our technical sponsors; their digital communications packages make it possible for us to meet and interact online. With a wine club on Wednesdays, music, psychologists and more, the line-up is being ever updated. Read more here.

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You have 12GB of room on the partition, which means you have used a vast amount up somehow. Start by doing sudo apt autoremove sudo apt clean
which might give you some space to get started.
Then try sudo ncdu /
which, if it is already installed, will take quite a time scanning the card and then will tell you where all the space is. If it says ncdu is not installed, then if the commands above released a couple of hundred k then you should be able to install it and then run it sudo apt install ncdu
Once you know where all the space is used up you can delete it.
Make sure you have anything important backed up first though.


The Celestron NexStar+ EQ Hand Control works as the brain for all current equatorially mounted Celestron go-to telescopes: Advanced VX, CGEM, CGEM II, CGX, and CGX-L series telescopes and mounts.
With the push of a button, you can access NexStar+’s huge database of over 40,000 celestial objects in the palm of your hand. You can then automatically slew to objects in a variety of catalogs, including the Messier, NGC, Caldwell, and SAO brightest stars. The planets as well as a list of the most popular objects are also included. If you don't know what to look at, you can use the Tour Mode, and be shown a selection of the most popular objects for the time and date you are observing.
The Celestron NexStar Plus includes many setup conveniences like SkyAlign, customisable max slew speed, programmable slew limits, and more. This hand control includes USB Flash Upgradeable Technology, allowing users to upgrade its software with Celestron Firmware Manager.
- NexStar+ Hand Control works with Celestron equatorially mounted computerized telescopes
- Compatible with Advanced VX, CGEM, CGEM II, CGX, and CGX-L series telescopes and mounts
- Flash upgradeable via the Internet; latest updates can be found at Celestron.com
- 40,000-object database
- Dual line, 16-character LCD screen with adjustable backlighting
- Now connects to your PC directly with a mini-USB cable (cable not included) for software updates or optional telescope control with third party software


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In honor of Banned Books Week (much, much more on that here), I read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. It also happens to be a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read book. (I guess that earns double credit - Whoo-hoo! And a hat tip to Blue Gal for a head's up on the Big Read.) The Big Read site has background information and discussion questions for all their books, and additional resources for teachers, but I thought an interview with Bradbury about the book was the most fascinating.
Bradbury's an extremely prolific writer, with short stories forming much of his output. Fahrenheit 451 is pretty short, too, really a novella - Bradbury wrote in 10 days renting a typewriter at the library. (I'm telling ya, read that linked interview!) It's easily one of his best and most enduring works, and the Wiki entry lists some of the many pieces that reference it. Isaac Asimov observed that in science fiction (or speculative fiction, if you prefer), the background is often half or more of the story. While sci-fi has seen some good and superb prose stylists (and plenty of crap, too), the genre in its lifetime has witnessed plenty of pieces with fairly conventional plots or underdeveloped characters that nonetheless present extremely thought-provoking worlds. It's a genre of ideas and imagination. The best pieces are good on all levels, of course, but even some flawed works can spur fascinating discussions on philosophy, anthropology, political science, culture – how do we know what we think we know, what assumptions do we make, how does our society really work and how might it work differently, what does it mean to be human? (I think (and hope) the attitude of snobbery toward the genre coupled with ignorance of it is slowly fading over time. I always found it ironic to see sci-fi trashed as a genre, while for decades 1984 and Brave New World have consistently landed in the top 20 on 'Greatest Novels of the 20th Century' lists. Meanwhile, more of what I'd call "real sci-fi" versus the solely pulpy variety has snuck into mainstream entertainment, from pieces of The Matrix to much of Lost.)
In Fahrenheit 451, fireman Guy Montag burns books rather than putting out house fires, because literature, poetry, good books and really good art in general are seen as not just useless, but dangerous. The title refers to the temperature at which books burn. Montag then has a crisis of conscience and curiosity (the Wiki entry gives a more detailed plot summary, but I imagine many people are familiar with it already). The book's very much about censorship, but Bradbury's stated it's more about television killing novel-reading, and basically vapid entertainment replacing substance. (It goes well with Orwell's "Politics and English Language"and Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death.) The book also taps into very real history, the samizdat tradition of underground copies of forbidden books in oppressive regimes. Fahrenheit 451 is a provocative book, especially for book-lovers, and has proved very popular with teenagers. It's hard to read it, or see Truffault's film version, and not think about what prized books one would try to save (a more urgent version of the old "deserted island" question, I suppose). It's the world of Bradbury's book that really sticks with us.
However, that world is with us now, in small and large ways. For Banned Books Week, Blue Gal posted a news report from 2006 about a family trying to ban Fahrenheit 451 in Houston:
The levels of irony here are astounding. First, art is capable of saying many things at once, and often deals in nuance, subtlety and ambiguity. That's one reason totalitarian governments have sought to control it, and the more literally-minded tend not to like it so much. The family depicted is extremely conservative, but both daughter and father have completely missed that "burning the Bible" is not depicted as a good thing in Fahrenheit 451! If they ever made it to the end, they'd also know that (slight spoiler) Montag memorizes part of the Book of Ecclesiastes! The father's list of objectionable material in the book probably corresponds pretty closely with the 75 or more passages that a publisher changed in Fahrenheit 451 without Bradbury's knowledge or permission (all editions past 1980 or so in English are supposedly authorized and complete). Meanwhile, swearing and drinking aren't necessarily celebrated in the book anyway.
But what if they were? I understand parental anxiety, but I've never quite understood the idea that somehow, one can protect one's child from ever experiencing the world as it actually exists. Even if one doesn't swear or drink, other people do. There's the question of age appropriate material, of course, but unless one lives in a select or cloistered community, teenagers will experience or at least become aware of the existence of that demonic triumvirate of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Teenagers have the choice of how to react to those things and the world, and the question for parents becomes how they want to prepare their kids. Typically, high school teachers try to give some preparation, provoke reflection, and provide a safe forum for discussion on the complexities of the world. Honest, realistic discussion is a more effective approach than one of control or denial. But this cuts to core world views, and whether one feels education should inculcate obedience, or help young adults develop their own critical thinking and decision-making skills.
If you've read Fahrenheit 451, this Houston news report might also remind you a specific section of the book. Roughly halfway through (slight spoiler), Montag forces his wife and two visiting friends to listen to him read a poem, Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach." All three women have been figuratively or literally anesthetized to their own feelings, and the poem provokes a powerful reaction in them as well as Montag. One cries. One is angry that Montag would read anything to move her and make her feel something, especially something sad.
The young woman in the news report is much the same. I don't mean to pick on her too much, especially since she didn't pick her dad. But she says she was upset by swearing and the Bible being burned. Basically, Fahrenheit 451 provoked a strong emotional reaction in her, and she didn't know how to deal with it. Her father, in defensive mode, decided to swoop in and remove the source of her distress rather than help her work through her feelings. That reaction is lamentable, if more forgivable as a first reaction. But then he pushed on to try to remove the book. If Fahrenheit 451 of all things set him off so, I'm surprised he allows his daughter in public school at all.
The teacher appears wise for allowing the student to perform an alternative reading assignment. That did not satisfy the father, however. And this comes to the crux of censorship we've discussed before in terms of a certain political candidate. It's fine (if sad) for this young woman and her father not to want to read this book. That's their choice. But in moving to pull the book, this man is trying to remove that same choice from other people. The dynamics are a bit different in a public school curricula versus a public library, because of the compulsory element, but in this case, the teacher adapted the assignment for the student. The father has every right to express his concerns. But he happens to be far out of the mainstream in his views. He's also frankly a dolt (not that I'd bring that up in a board meeting). To complain that Fahrenheit 451 in any way denigrates firefighters or religion reveals either desperation or a basic lack of reading comprehension skills – "values" he apparently has passed on to his daughter. Again, that's his legal right, but I can't help but feel he's depriving his daughter of something special and vibrant. And he shouldn't be able to do the same to anyone else. (More on the importance of healthy discomfort and independence in education here and here.)
To return to Bradbury, he's currently 88, and lives out here in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, he's in poor health, diabetic, normally uses a wheelchair, and his beloved wife of 56 years Marguerite died in 2003. On the positive side, he has a host of friends, and still has the enthusiasm of a young kid. I went to hear Bradbury at my local library a couple of years back, and the place was overflowing. Ray Bradbury is one of the greatest proponents of libraries ever. A very bright, curious and imaginative young man, he skipped college and instead became largely self-educated by spending countless hours in the library. If you get a chance to hear him speak, do, because he's very inspiring. For Bradbury, every film he likes is the greatest film ever, and every novel he loves is the best book ever written. He's very effusive in his praise. He has his cranky and particular sides, but his love for the arts is invigorating. I believe he still writes every day, as he has since he was a young man.
I've heard him speak a few other times because some friends of mine acted in plays based on his works out here. Bradbury's always loved the theater, and so he produces plays based on his short stories fairly regularly, even though he tends to lose a modest amount of money doing so. He often attends the performances, and being a bit of a ham, absolutely loves to give a little introduction each time. He ropes many friends into attending. Sci-fi and fantasy doesn't always translate wonderfully to the stage, but the pieces selected are well-adapted and tend to work pretty well. Not all of his stories are sci-fi – one of my favorites was a character study with minimal lighting, a man playing both a priest and a confessor. One lonely night, the priest "admits" a penitent, who owns up to a sin he committed as a young boy that still haunts him. (Spoiler, I suppose) The piece is a dialogue by one man, and as the priest he essentially grants himself absolution. It was very well acted, but the piece itself was impressive and poignant. Meanwhile, I overheard Bradbury boasting to someone after one not-so overwhelming piece that he doesn't revise (or doesn't much) - and I think that particular piece could have benefited from it. But one of Bradbury's virtues is his sheer output. As with Asimov, not every piece is a gem, but the rougher works still often have interesting facets, and Bradbury's crafted some enduring classics in his prodigious yield.
The scan above is my copy of Fahrenheit 451, the cover and the title page. I had somehow forgotten I had gotten Bradbury to autograph it, so that was a pleasant surprise. However, in researching the book this week, I discovered my copy may be one of the bowdlerized versions! (Today I picked up a newer edition from the library – the same one where I heard Bradbury speak, actually - and I'll investigate.)
Some later editions of Fahrenheit 451 have an afterword and coda by Bradbury. He describes two scenes he considered for the book but didn't include, and one is pretty fascinating, focusing on the Fire Chief Beatty and his secret library. He also comes out strongly against censorship of Fahrenheit 451 or any of his other works. The Big Read uses one of his best passages:
Do not insult me with the beheadings, finger-choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.
Meanwhile, although it's been several years since I've seen it, and it's a bit emotionally detached perhaps, I've always sorta liked Truffault's film version of Fahrenheit 451. I think its chief virtues are more of the young woman Clarisse, and a longer look at the underground society. According to a film book of mine, Bradbury thought the scene with the snow falling on the camp was one of the most beautiful in cinema (when he loves something, he really loves something).
In any case, speaking of that world of Bradbury's — Fahrenheit 451 always makes me ask myself, what book would I memorize to safeguard it for the ages? I could imagine trying to memorize my favorite translation of The Master and Margarita or maybe Orwell, but I think I'd probably go the theater route, and memorize play after play until my memory was overloaded. Were I in Bradbury's world, I'd try to set up an underground theater troupe, and we'd travel about on the abandoned railroad tracks, performing plays in repertory in secret performances. Currently, I'm thinking my priority list would be, in order:
1. King Lear
2. Much Ado about Nothing
4. The Servant of Two Masters by Goldoni (Commedia dell'arte)
5. The Miser by Molière
6. Equus by Peter Shaffer
After that, I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure I could memorize at least three, but with a full troupe performing these, I think the number could really expand. Maybe Amadeus, also by Shaffer? The Seagull or Uncle Vanya by Chekhov? The Importance of Being Earnest? For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf by Ntozake Shange? (Seriously, it's fantastic.) The Crucible or maybe Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller? Some Pirandello? Tom Stoppard? Brecht? The Elephant Man? There are other novels that tempt me, but the beauty of theater is that it's so alive and present, a constant dialogue. I also think in some bleak, future dystopia, King Lear, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, Equus and The Crucible would really resonate, but it'd be absolutely vital to have some great comedies.
So – what book(s) would you memorize?
(Cross-posted at The Blue Herald)


Patterns Of Home (2017) Film still
Patterns of Home is a semi-documentary style film that explores the often precarious nature of ‘having a home’ in the 21st century. Four men who regularly attend the Faith in Action drop-in for homeless people in South-West London discuss the obstacles they face in finding and keeping a home, the daily challenges they encounter when sleeping rough and the tactics and resources they use to survive. The film investigates the men’s own and other people’s attitudes to homelessness, and the phenomenon in which paradoxically, due a lack of affordable housing, homelessness co-exists with extensive redevelopment and building in the UK.
Referencing 18th and 19th century Toiles de Jouy fabrics, the film re-contextualizes timeless vignettes of rural and pastoral scenes along with harsher, contemporary urban landscapes. Situating the imagery within a digital film context forms a contrast to the woodblock, copper-plate and roller printing techniques used to produce the original fabric designs. The juxtaposition of these apparently tranquil pastoral and rural motifs with the men’s accounts of the transitory, unpredictable and dangerous existence of their rough sleeping lifestyle instigates new and troubling narratives around this once idealized imagery.