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Diagnosis Sonographic signs
Inflamed lymph nodes (p. 110) Variable size, L/W ratio j 2, prominent echogenic hilum
Lymph node metastases (p. 112) Variable size, L/W ratio < 2, absent hilar sign, aberrant vessels
Malignant lymphoma (p. 113) Variable size, L/W ratio often < 2, absent hilar sign, variable pattern of involvement, variable echogenicity, increased vascularity on CDS
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© Splenic hilum lymph nodes
(4) Superior and inferior mesenteric group © Para-aortic group 0 Parietal ©Iliac group lymph nodes
Fig. 143 Localization: abdominal lymph node groups
Fig. 145a, b Echogenicity. a Enlarged lymph node with an echogenic hilum and hypoechoic cortical parenchyma. b The hilar vessels course within the echogenic hilum
o n Causes: Table 18 reviews the most frequent causes of enlarged lymph nodes. Ultrasound examination contributes significantly to benign-malignant differentiation.
Table 18 ■ Most frequent
Inflamed lymph nodes
Mesenteric lymphadenitis Ileitis
Appendicitis Diverticulitis Hepatitis Cholecystitis, etc.
causes of enlarged lymph nodes Metastatic lymph nodes Malignant lymphoma
ENT carcinoma Bronchial carcinoma Thyroid carcinoma Breast carcinoma Esophageal carcinoma Gastric carcinoma Gallbladder carcinoma Colon carcinoma Malignant melanoma Sarcoma, etc.
Low-grade NHL High-grade NHL Hodgkin disease
n Most frequent causes: see Table 18.
n Clinical manifestations: The clinical findings often suggest the correct diagnosis (local infection with regional lymphadenopathy) and may include inflammatory signs, tenderness to palpation, and positive serology. n Sonographic diagnosis: The sonographic criteria for benign-malignant differentiation are helpful in the evaluation of peripheral lymphadenopathy (Figs. 144 and 145).
• Prominent echogenic hilum; occasional concentric or eccentric cortical widening
• Frequent visualization of hilar vessels or a branched vascular pattern n Sonographic findings: See Figs. 146-149.
n Sonographic findings: See Figs. 146-149.
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Fig. 147 Solitary hypoechoic lymph node (L) at the porta hepatis in infectious hepatitis. HA = hepatic artery, SA = splenic artery, CT = celiac trunk
Fig. 149 Small lymph nodes (arrows) produce a speckled echo texture in the mesentery of a patient with gastroenteritis. VC = vena cava, AO = aorta
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All you need is a proper diet of fresh fruits and vegetables and get plenty of exercise and you'll be fine. Ever heard those words from your doctor? If that's all heshe recommends then you're missing out an important ingredient for health that he's not telling you. Fact is that you can adhere to the strictest diet, watch everything you eat and get the exercise of amarathon runner and still come down with diabetic complications. Diet, exercise and standard drug treatments simply aren't enough to help keep your diabetes under control.


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Are you a trauma survivor? Have you experienced trauma in your life that you wondered if you could ever overcome? Are you still carrying around the emotional impacts of your life trauma? Are you looking for tools to help you navigate through your trauma and perhaps shame? Our special guest Eunice Nuna is a rape survivor and she’s here to answer these and many other questions about thriving and healing from trauma.
Eunice is an intuitive Psychosocial Counselor and empathetic storyteller, speaker, mentor and life coach. Eunice graduated with a degree in counseling Psychology from Africa Nazarene University and is currently pursuing a Masters in Peace and Development.
Most important, Eunice is a thriving survivor of rape and sexual violence, which led her to found and now lead Wounded Healer of Kenya. Eunice was raped by a police officer in Kenya who is now a high ranking public official. The rape also left Eunice pregnant with her son and cast out by her family. Living on the streets and struggling to survive, Eunice found a way to continue her education and get her degree. Due to threats in Kenya, she has come to the United States seeking asylum. She’s not safe in Kenya because she’s speaking out against the culture of sexual violence and the man who raped her.
Eunice now shares stories of women survivors of sexual violence, who are thriving, liberated and passionate to end the cycle of sexual violence. She also equips survivors to grow in self-dependency, leadership and healing through her gift of counseling. Eunice is dedicated to giving all children and women the ability to protect themselves against all types of violence including gender-based and sexual violence.
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- Starting a non-profit without resources or support
- What is means to live with a passion for helping others
- Eunice’s experience of raising a child while living on the streets and later getting her college degree
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- The importance of self-awareness and believing in yourself
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- Serving others is a key to resilience
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- The ways we hide behind masks in the United States
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- Ask yourself, “How do I live my purpose today?” or “How did I live my purpose today?”
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - In recognition of National Primary Care Week, medical students from the Quillen College of Medicine left the classroom and put what they've learned to practice.
The local chapter of the American Medical Student Association held a health fair at the Johnson City farmer's market today.
More than 100 people received free blood pressure and blood glucose screenings.
Students tell us this provided them with a practical experience. "It's a great experience because we spend most of our time right now in the classroom, so it's great to be able to come and really get involved in the community and get to know the community that we are living in and serving," said Rebekah Rollston, medical student.
This event was just one of the events the organization has held to promote health and wellness in the community.
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Tokyo 2020 is meant to be the “hydrogen Olympics” — a showcase for Japan’s aspiration to make the lightest element in the periodic table the fuel of the 21st century, and a central technology in the drive to net-zero carbon emissions.
After a team of Japanese engineers spent months developing a suitably colourful additive, the Olympic flame will burn hydrogen. The athletes’ village has been designed as a hydrogen society in miniature. What the world will take away, Japan hopes, is the image of a hyper-modern nation that has found the energy of the future.
“During the Olympics and Paralympics, cars and buses will run through the city powered by hydrogen, and the athletes’ village will run on electricity made from hydrogen,” said former prime minister Shinzo Abe in March 2020, as he geared up for a Games he later had to postpone for a year because of Covid-19.
Behind the hydrogen razzmatazz, however, the reality is considerably more prosaic — and nothing illustrates that better than the humble Tokyo bus. A central part of one of the world’s best public transport systems, the Tokyo network has introduced 100 fuel cell buses, made by Olympic sponsor Toyota.
Along with a fleet of hundreds of Toyota’s Mirai fuel cell cars, it is one of the most ambitious hydrogen experiments in the world. In a fuel cell, hydrogen reacts with oxygen to produce a flow of electricity, with water as the waste product. Hydrogen has a higher energy density than lithium batteries, making it particularly suitable for heavy vehicles such as buses.
The buses Tokyo has bought are a hit, according to Osamu Maekawa of the metropolitan government’s transportation bureau. “The feedback from the drivers is extremely good. The buses are quiet and have lots of power,” he says.
Nonetheless, having bought dozens in time for the Olympics, the city will not buy any more this year. The problem is cost. A fuel cell bus from Toyota costs ¥100m ($900,000) for a six-year lease. A diesel bus costs ¥24m ($220,000) and has a useful life of 15 years.
To get the initial 100 buses into service, the local and national authorities have paid subsidies covering 80 per cent of the lease cost. Even that is not enough to make them competitive.
“The fuel costs are also higher,” says Daisuke Harayama, who is in charge of operations at Tokyu Bus, a private company that has introduced two of the fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs). “The fuel cost is 2.6 times higher for FCVs over diesel.”
This reflects fundamental constraints: the high capital cost of the vehicle, with its complicated drive system and fuel cell full of exotic materials; the short lifespan, which is limited by the performance of the fuel cell; and the relatively high cost of hydrogen fuel.
There are also additional costs in time and money associated with early adoption. Operators have diesel fuel stands in their depots to refill buses in the evening, but the fuel cell buses must travel daily to one of a few hydrogen filling stations big enough for a bus.
The operators could bring costs down a little if they switched to hydrogen for all their buses, by installing fuel pumps in their depots, and sharing parts across the fleet. Yet they would still be far more expensive than diesel — and bus passengers will not tolerate higher fares.
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To make hydrogen feasible, manufacturers will have to cut prices hard. “If we can’t get the costs down close to diesel, then it’s going to be hard to continue this in the future,” says Maekawa.
Harayama has a similar view about the short term. “I think it’ll be hard to go to fuel cells for now,” he says. “We don’t look at it as whether fuel cells are good or bad. There’ll come a time when we can no longer use diesel so we need to think about the options.”
Where the bus experiment does make a difference is by increasing the demand for hydrogen and supporting the refuelling infrastructure that will be essential if it is ever to become mainstream.
“Running the buses creates a big increase in H₂ demand,” says Maekawa. The buses run all day, unlike cars that mostly stay parked. “To have an H₂ bus in operation is equivalent to having 50 fuel cell vehicles on the road.”
The most fundamental issue for all Japan’s hydrogen aspirations is where that fuel comes from. At present, it is mainly made from natural gas at existing chemical plants, in a process that emits plenty of carbon dioxide.
In the future, Japan hopes to import large amounts of hydrogen from countries such as Australia, where it will be made from coal, with the carbon captured and stored, or produced using green electricity such as solar.
For now, however, the environmental benefit of the buses that will ship Olympic athletes and officials around the city is hypothetical. The Olympic flame will burn prettily, but to make a true transition to a hydrogen society will require years of patient effort — and some big breakthroughs on cost.


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Overview Halliday Jackson (1771-1835) was a Quaker minister from New Garden and Darby, Pa.. From 1798 to 1800 he joined the Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians organized by the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Shortly after his return from the mission to the Seneca, Halliday Jackson married Jane Hough and moved to Darby, Pa. Following Jane's death in 1830, Halliday Jackson remarried in 1833 to Ann P. Paschall (1792-1874), also a Quaker minister. These records contain documents...

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I'd have to disagree with you here. The speech wasn't about Blacks being painted as victims. His speech emphasized a pervasive problem in this country that has historical context to support his conclusion: that Black communities and African-Americans overall have not always been given a fair shake in this country even in modern times since both Reconstruction (post-Emancipation) and the Civil Rights era. Black Laws enacted by White leaders at local, state and to a lessor degree the federal level have all passed legislation (some as local ordinances) that worked to curtail Black achievements and/or advancements. If you've studied American history - or more specifically Black History - you'd know this to be true.Even Obama, as seen in the 2007 speech recently publicized, feeds the victim mentality to people (especially blacks) and paints being rich as evil.
However, the President didn't just lay blame on government for undermining African-Americans. He also laid blame squarely at Black people themselves for not taking more responsibility for themselves and their communities. It's the same type of tongue lashing Black historical figures such as Frederick Douglass, Bucker T. Washington, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. have all stated repeatedly throughout their lives. As such, I don't see why our nation's 44th President should be villified in present-day for echoing those exact same sentiments.
To put it in perspective: Republicans/Conservatives have been saying all along that poor people whether Black, White, Hispanic, Italian, etc., should do more to take responsibility for themselves. Why then was what Pres. Obama said in that regard so dreadfully wrong simply because:
1) he said it before a group of majority Black people; and,
2) he said it using a "Negro Dialect"
I get that people want to make that speech (and others) part of a larger argument concerning race relations or picking winners and loser, etc., but I think if people turned off their partisan and/or racial radar and tried to see things in much broader terms (and it helps to know alittle history as well), maybe they'd come to understand that their distain for so many people thinking they are "entitled" to gov't handouts is very much in keeping with our President wanting more people to take responsibility for themselves. The problem here, of course, is the only real way many people will "see" opportunities to move forward is for them to have a job. And so it is incumbant on both the federal government and the private sector to foster employment opportunities since not everyone has the skills, knowledge or even the bravery (let alone the desire) to risk starting a business of their own.
Sorry that your wife had to endore such disrespect, but I think you totally misunderstand the caliber of student the Pres. wants to pursue a college education even from within the African-American community.Instead, someone needs to whip the work ethic in this country into shape. My wife just quit her job at a high school after three lectures because about 25 of her 30 students were disrespectful and one even physically assaulted her. The 2nd day of class, a student tried to insist the classroom door be open during lecture and tried to physically push my wife when she blocked to student from the door. This is the kind of punk Obama wants "entitled" to college? Instead, teach your "culture" the respect and work ethic to earn scholarships. This generalizes to requiring people to earn any type of aid desired.
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Whether or not he has succeeded in turning the nation into a European Socialist nation based upon Radical Karl's writings is not relevant to his fundamental beliefs. In addition to being steeped in Marxism he is also an opportunist. He is using fascism in the form of massive regulations to bring the nation to its knees, preparing it for more radical changes.
Things take time. Despite the radicalization of most of the Democratic Party Radical Barack could not move us to socialism in one term. But if Obamacare is not repealed that is our fate.


For the past month, Thursday nights on ABC have been renamed #Shonda-land because the power house writer and producer Shonda Rhimes is behind the entire lineup. And one can’t help but to be proud of Rhimes, even though I detest “Grey’s Anatomy” and not really all that into “Scandal”, you have to give credit where it’s due. Rhimes, a black woman, is making waves on a major network and has power in an industry that normally shuts women and blacks out.
Her latest show “How to Get Away with Murder” might have me hooked already. Even though I’m not normally a “crime drama” type of person, “Murder” has a real addictive quality to it that makes me want to tune in every week. (Though I normally watch it on the weekends because 10pm is kind of late for me lol!).
Before I get into the addictive details of the show, I want to preface by saying I intended to write about a very specific and small portion of the show. I’ll get to that later, but for now let’s talk about what goes on in “Murder”.
The series follows Annalise Keating (played so intensely by Viola Davis) a hard-ass defense lawyer and law professor, this woman has a very cynical view of humans and seems to doubt everything. The show started (sort of) at the beginning of a new semester when she announces to her class that she plans to chose 5 students that will work for her firm.
Keating takes on a different murder case each week, and so far her track record is flawless. However, the actual murder cases are not what makes this show so intriguing. One of the main draws for me is the side stories of the 5 students and Professor Keating herself that add a little extra sense of personality, humor and mystery.
There’s Michaela (Aja Naomi King), the head strong pretty girl who is determined to become the next Michelle Obama. Laurel (Karla Souza) who is struggling to find her lawyer voice, and definitely has a crush on Keating’s employee Frank (Charlie Weber). Wes (Alfred Enoch) the uber-naive “wait list” kid who is almost unbelievably innocent. He has the hots for his drug dealing next door neighbor (Katie Findlay), a side story that has connected to this weeks case. Even Asher (Matt McGory), the semi-douchey guy of the group, is a great asset to the show since he provides all the comic relief. These characters are interesting, but Rhimes and company only give us small peaks into their lives, which makes the viewer want to know even more about them, which leads viewers to their addiction to the show.
Now, Viola Davis does a great acting job during her lecture and court scenes, but her acting chops go to a new level when her home life is slowly revealed. She’s in a marriage with a man she doesn’t quite trust or love, she has a side-boyfriend in a cop that she used in Episode 1 to win a case. And it seems she has the hots for one of her students Wes, which I’m sure that will play out before the end of the season.
There is also a parallel storyline that intrigues me. Somebody was murdered, and the students are somehow left with the responsibility of taking care of the body. Little but key details are revealed each episode about this murder that happens 3 months after the beginning of the semester. Details like who got killed (Professor Keating’s husband), and which of the students is more manipulative than previously thought (*gasp, it’s Wes). This “LOST” type quality of this “flash forwards” further hooks viewers because we want to fill in all the holes before anyone else.
So yeah, “Murder” is a good show. The acting is good, the pacing is quite fast but manages to work, and the writing is pretty inventive. (I also wanted to add, the styling for all characters but mainly Keating is PERFECTION!)
Now what I really want to talk about is small, but sometimes small differences help to make big changes.
If you remember last year, my initial complaint about HBO’s series “Looking” was the lack of any lead Asian characters. It seemed like a horrible casting choice because San Francisco is a highly Asian populated city. So I was pleased to see Oliver (Conrad Ricamora), a really good looking Asian man who gay student Connor (Jack Falahee) seemingly used to get information on the case of the moment. It bothered me slightly that Oliver was an IT guy, but I was really surprised to see his arc went a little further when him and Connor had sex that night.
On the second episode, Oliver was used again by Connor, but later in the episode it seemed as if Connor was genuinely interested in Oliver, “I’m not here for work, I’m here for dinner”. Oliver rejects him at first, but reconsiders before they have yet another steamy sex scene, this time with their roles reversed.
This is a very small portion of the show, and Ricamora didn’t appear at all in the 3rd episode. It’s noteworthy though, because it’s not often you see an Asian man sexualized on mainstream television. Normally, Asian actors get stuck with the “nerdy” stereotype, where they can be smart but not sexual. So I fully applaud Rhimes and company for allowing an Asian man to be shown as desirable and HOT. Connor is what you might consider the “standard of Gay beauty” these days. He’s thin, he’s young, he’s incredibly groomed. So to have a guy like that pining for a guy like Oliver is great. This is the kind of equality I’m talking about, because… WHY NOT!?
Seeing people of different races, body types, and etc. in different lights than the stereotypes we are used to is nothing but great. Because in day to day life, not every Asian you see is a math wiz, not every big guy is on his way to Dunkin Donuts, and not every gay guy is attracted to a Tom Daley-type twink. And American viewers need to see characters that are different from the stereotypes, with the hopes that some viewers don’t pre-judge certain types of people based on the limited views they get of them on TV or elsewhere.


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The Omen meets Child’s Play. The Prodigy certainly has some good things going for it; Unfortunately, the vapid characters and paint-by-numbers plot keep the film from achieving what it so desperately wants to achieve.
Fantastic Beasts: the crimes of screenwriting. I am still not entirely sure what I watched last night. J.K. Rowling’s plot for the second film in the Fantastic Beasts is all over the place. This sequel is certainly darker than its predecessor, but fails to provide a well-developed plot that will drive the remaining films forward.
If you haven’t figured out by now, my favorite genre is horror! During the month of October, I am planning to watch, and I challenge you to watch, 31 horror movies. Each day, I will add a movie with a brief analysis. As I am someone who enjoys order and a method to accomplishing a movie challenge, I am dedicating each 5-7 days to a different subgenre of horror. To my podcast friends, I would love to join the #AllTheHorror conversations this month. Send me an email or direct message on Twitter to setup a time for me to join your next horror discussion. Let’s begin!
In honor of Jurassic Park‘s 25th Anniversary, I want to revisit why the film works so incredibly well, and never …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said a “major, major conflict” with North Korea was possible over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, while China said the situation on the Korean peninsula could escalate or slip out of control.
Trump, speaking to Reuters on Thursday, said he wanted to resolve the crisis peacefully, possibly through the use of new economic sanctions, although a military option was not off the table.
“There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea,” Trump said in an interview at the Oval Office.
“We’d love to solve things diplomatically but it’s very difficult,” he said, describing North Korea as his biggest global challenge.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said there was a danger that the situation on the Korean peninsula could escalate or slip out of control, his ministry said.
Wang made the comments in a meeting at the United Nations with a Russian diplomat on Thursday, the ministry said in a statement.
China, the only major ally of North Korea, has been increasingly uncomfortable in recent months about its neighbour’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles in violation on U.N. resolutions.
The United States has called on China to do more to rein in Pyongyang and Trump lavished praise on Chinese President Xi Jinping for his efforts, calling him “a good man”.
“I believe he is trying very hard. I know he would like to be able to do something. Perhaps it’s possible that he can’t. But I think he’d like to be able to do something,” Trump said.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday that China had asked North Korea not to conduct any more nuclear tests. Beijing had warned Pyongyang it would impose unilateral sanctions if it went ahead, he added.
Tillerson did not say when China made the threat. He is due to chair a meeting with U.N Security Council foreign ministers on Friday, where he said he would stress the need for members to fully implement existing sanctions as well as possible next steps.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, asked about Tillerson’s remarks, would not say what actions China might take if there were a new nuclear test and would not comment directly on what Tillerson had said.
“We oppose any behaviour that goes against Security Council resolutions. I think this position is very clear. This is what we have told the United States. I think North Korea is also very clear about this position,” Geng told reporters.
China banned imports of North Korean coal in February, cutting off its most important export, and Chinese media this month raised the possibility of restricting oil shipments to the North if it unleashed more provocations.
Geng said Friday’s UN meeting should not fixate on new sanctions.
“If the meeting only focuses on increasing sanctions and pressure, I think this will not only lose a rare opportunity, it may also exacerbate the confrontation between all sides and may damage efforts to promote peace and talks,” he said.
MISSILE DEFENCE, CARRIER GROUP
In a show of force, the United States is sending the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to waters off the Korean peninsula, where it will join the USS Michigan, a nuclear submarine that docked in South Korea on Tuesday. South Korea’s navy has said it will hold drills with the U.S. strike group.
Admiral Harry Harris, the top U.S. commander in the Pacific, said on Wednesday the carrier was in the Philippine Sea, within two hours’ striking distance of North Korea if needs be.
Harris also said a U.S. missile defence system being deployed in South Korea to ward off any North Korean attack would be operational in coming days.
China has been angered by the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), complaining that its radar can see deep into China and undermines its security.
Trump said in the interview he wants South Korea to pay the cost of the THAAD, which he estimated at $1 billion. South Korea, one of Washington’s most crucial allies in the region, said the United States would have to bear the cost, pointing to possible friction ahead.
Trump’s remarks came as South Korea heads into a presidential poll on May 9 that will likely elect liberal frontrunner Moon Jae-in, who has said the next administration in Seoul should have the final say on THAAD.
Trump has vowed to prevent North Korea from being able to hit the United States with a nuclear missile, a capability experts say Pyongyang could have some time after 2020.
North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests and numerous missile tests, including one this month, a day before a summit between Trump and Xi in Florida.
North Korea, technically still at war with the South after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty, regularly threatens to destroy the United States and says it will pursue its nuclear and missile programmes to counter perceived U.S. aggression.
“It is just the U.S. which has pushed the situation on the peninsula to the brink of nuclear war by staging the largest-ever aggressive joint military drills against the DPRK for the past two months after bringing all sorts of nuclear strategic assets to south Korea,” the North’s KCNA state news agency said in a commentary.
DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“…The nuclear force of the DPRK is a treasure sword of justice and reliable war deterrent to defend the sovereignty and dignity of the country and global peace from the nuclear war threat posed by the U.S.”
Trump, asked if he considered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be rational, said he was operating from the assumption that he is rational. He noted that Kim had taken over his country at an early age.
In Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on North Korea and other countries on Thursday to avoid behaviour or rhetoric that could increase tension.
(Additional reporting by Phil Stewart, Matt Spetalnick, Eric Beech and Patricia Zengerle in Washington, Denis Pinchuk and Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow, Ben Blanchard and Vincent Lee in Beijing and Ju-min Park in Seoul; Writing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Nick Macfie; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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PalacIo de Cristal, Madrid - Spain - A Reflective Palace Of Rainbows, 2006 The Palacio de Cristal was originally built in the late in Madrid, Spain. In 2006 artist Kimsooja transformed it into this rainbow reflecting palace.
Ross Priory ~ Is an early country house located west of Gartocharn, West Dunbartonshire, on the south shore of Loch Lomond. The term "priory" does not imply ecclesiastical provenance, but is simply a romantic affectation.

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US Senators expressed concerns about Mexico’s plan to ban the import of genetically engineered corn during a Wednesday hearing on the 2023 farm bill, a piece of legislation that sets U.S. standards for agriculture and related policy.
In 2020, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the country would prohibit genetically modified corn by 2024, prompting U.S. lawmakers to worry that the change would hurt American farmers and violate trade agreements.
Alexis Taylor, under secretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs for the Department of Agriculture (USDA), answered questions from lawmakers Wednesday about the response to López Obrador’s decree.
“As it is for many other genetically engineered products that have been studied for decades, the safety of these products are not in question,” Taylor said.
Congress must pass legislation known as the farm bill every five years to set standards for agriculture, nutrition, forestry and conservation. The Senate Agriculture Committee began the process last year by holding field hearings in Michigan and Arkansas.
The Wednesday committee hearing focused on trade and horticulture, with López Obrador’s announcement at the forefront of lawmakers’ minds.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) asked Taylor about the Biden administration’s response to the GMO corn ban and if they would enforce trade agreements between the U.S. and Mexico in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
“In the meantime, the administration has refused to trigger the USMCA to contest Mexico’s planned exclusion of American corn,” Marshall said. “What are we waiting for? What are we waiting for to trigger this mechanism? I mean, I’m tired of talking about it, forming committees and praying about it. We think it’s time for action.”
Taylor said she visited Mexico two weeks ago to highlight concerns about the ban and that officials are still working to find a solution, given the USDA said the ban could disrupt “billions of dollars” in trade.


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“Tests are completely free and available seven days per week at Gosford and Wyong Hospitals,” he said.
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A few weeks back, I photographed the wedding day of Sara and Cory at the Springhill Pavilion outside Bozeman, Montana near the base of the Bridger Mountains.
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A preview of Courtney & Jordi’s Fall wedding day photos at The Woodlands in Bozeman, Montana
Had the pleasure of photographing Jenny and Ethan’s wedding rehearsal and wedding day this past weekend at the Rockin TJ Ranch in Bozeman, Montana
Photograph the wedding day of Elizabeth & Ryan at Chico Hot Springs in Pray, Montana
Over this past weekend I photographed the wedding day of Sara and Cory at the Springhill Pavilion near the base of the Bridger Mountains outside of Bozeman.
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The fourth in the series I titled 'Hula Coffee' - mixed media. I was inspired by the logo of Holly Brown for this one.
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There has been an interest in the future of agro food processing and its role in generating employment. Experts say Nigeria’s agro-processing industry, if properly harnessed, could create jobs and grow the agro-allied sector’s contributions to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But the challenges facing small agro processors are numerous, but not insurmountable. DANIEL ESSIET reports.
Why does Nigeria exports raw cashew nuts and imports its processed form? Why do Nigerians import chocolate and other products made from cocoa when its beans are produced in the forests of Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, Cross River and other states?
The reasons for these are not far-fetched. For one, there is no competitive agro-processing sector that has a comparative advantage in agriculture. The sector again had suffered a long period neglect by successive governments.
The cashew nuts industry is one area where the country is losing millions of dollars every year by exporting unprocessed cashew nuts. According to experts, one processed tonne of cashew nuts could fetch five-fold income after processing.
Nigeria exports more than 70 per cent of its cashew production in raw form. After the commodity has been shelled in India, the nuts are re-exported to the United States (US) and Europe where they are sold at good prices.
The National Cashew Association of Nigeria(NCAN) President, Mr Tola Faseru said exporting unprocessed cashew is the reason for farmers’ poverty.
Faseru, who spoke with The Nation, said the food processing sub-sector is still dominated by small-scale food processors. “They cannot afford machines capable of carrying out large processing of the commodity. This explains the reason for the underdevelopment of the sector,” he said.
With this gloomy picture, he said, the overall potential of processing is huge as it could increase the value of the crops of poor farmers thus yielding higher returns.
Several trends, he added, indicated that the significance of agro-processors in the food value chains is going to increase.
He, however, lamented that the conditions for good integration are not favourable.
He said in the last two years, there have been reports of few investments in processing taking place in fresh fruit and vegetable products which are showing little success.
The President, Association of Micro-Entrepreneurs Nigeria (AMEN), Prince Saviour Iche is concerned about this development. According to him, the agric sector faces many problems emanating from various negative aspects of the economy. Some of them are the uncertainties that exist in access to finance, advice, information and reliable markets.
He urged the government to take urgent measures to upgrade small-scale processing, adding that the current level of agro processing was not helping agriculture sector’s growth.
To achieve this, encouraging investment in the agriculture and food processing sector, he said, will go a long way in establishing an efficient supply chain that links farmers and small manufacturers directly with retailers, and maximise value for all stakeholders.
He called for the establishment of infrastructure, arguing that it will minimise wastage especially, in fresh perishable foods and vegetables, increase farmers’expectations, encourage best practices in crop management and improve food safety and hygiene.
He reiterated that the agro-processing industry has the potential to meet the local requirements and that medium-scale enterprises have potential to create employment opportunities.
The cassava industry is an example. Farmers are increasing cultivation of neglected cassava after chipping machines introduced by the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi(FIIRO) has opened up market opportunities. The machines allow for quicker processing of raw cassava, which is chipped, dried and ready for sale within days.
Cassava, according to experts, perishes within 72 hours after harvest, making it unfit for for human and livestock consumption. Farmers, who cultivate the crop are being left with losses as poor market has limited its sale. The surplus, which is supposed to translate to joy to farmers, becomes their loss. This has forced them to limit production, leaving the crop to its nondescript backyard subsistence crop, even as farmers from other developing countries such as India continue to make millions from value added to the crop.
However, FIIRO’s new processing machine is changing the face of cassava production.
Its Director-General, Dr Gloria Elemo told a forum in Lagos that the institute is working on cassava processing machine. Through selective breeding, scientists from major research institutes have managed to increase cassava yields six-fold and as a result expanded the average area farmers can plant with cassava almost 10-fold. While this has increased food security, there is a real threat of cassava getting spoilt before harvest. This eventually undermines the local market prices and farmers’ income.
To prevent this, Mrs Elemo said FIIRO is helping local processors to get processing machines that could produce chipped cassava and flour.
Aside, she said, the Institute has done extensive research on cassava apart from its high quality flour. These include de-odorised fufu; glucose syrup production; using cassava wastes in animal feeds; production of adhesives; ethanol; custard; biogas and enzymes among others.
Another area where FIIRO is producing machines for is fruit juice processing. High demand for processed fruit juices is seeing new entrants in a market model that is also benefiting small hold farmers, who are earning from the demand for raw materials from these companies.
She said fruits and vegetable processing and preservation offer a new viable opportunity, adding that though more effort needs to be put into promotion and marketing.
The institute, Mrs Elemo said, is empowering small and medium agro-processing entrepreneurs to manufacture processed produce, adding that increasing the level of agro-processing would have a significant impact on the economy. This is due to the scale of output generation, employment creation and impact on rural economy.
While FIIRO has made efforts to develop machines for medium-scale grain milling, bread-making enterprises, livestock feeds manufacturing and vegetable oil processing to facilitate entry of more entrepreneurs increase, Dr Elemo said the institute aims to increase the competitiveness and growth of agro-processing enterprises by helping them translating research results into improved products.
She said it is the vision of the institute to commercialise its developed technologies. This, according to her, is being done through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as evidenced by the number of Memoranda-of-Understanding (MoUs) the Institute has signed in the last few months.
Notable among the private sector organisations that have signed the MoU are Honeywell Group Limited, Bio-organics Nutrients Systems Limited and Ladmok Nigeria Limited.
According to her, some small-medium scale enterprises have also signed MoUs with the institute in cassava processing and fortification of food products developed from the institute’s research activities.
The institute, Mrs Elemo said, held a forum with equipment prototype fabricators to enable them produce equipment of higher quality and durability.
She stressed the need for government at both federal and state levels to re-orientate the youths to embrace technical and vocational skills development by reviving the technical colleges and trade centres.
According to her, the institute’s engineers will facilitate the assessment of the equipment available in technical colleges and polytechnics especially, in Lagos State and there after train personnel to operate the machines to ensure optimal use.
To assist small scale entrepreneurs, FIIRO’s management met with the Bank of Industry (BoI) on ways to provide innovative interventions geared towards boosting the economy’s transformation from farming to developing small-scale enterprises, food processing and industrialised agro-industries.
BoI’s Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Rasheed Olaoluwa, said the collaboration became necessary in order to boost the 6.8 per cent contribution of the real sector to the nation’s GDP, through encouraging the development of localised solutions to the industrialisation gaps identified.
He said the mandates of both organisations are the same, adding that stakeholders especially, SMEs in the area of agro-processing, would benefit if both organisations aligned their strategies to work together.
He, therefore, promised FIIRO of BoI’s support, especially in the area of promoting the low-cost technologies developed by the Institute, which could help SMEs compete favourably through exhibitions and other avenues.

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Fades with Age explores the difficulties of aging in an increasingly fast-paced, modern world. It examines the ways in which American culture and society push ever onward while people and generations, the older they become, fade away altogether.
A documentary project that explores one gay man's life and struggles from his childhood and onward. Through the use of old YouTube clips, family photos, video diaries, and selfies, Keegon Schuett examines his life in phases and attempts to find his true self.
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The state parent of Brilliance China Automotive Holdings is in talks with Daimler AG to set up a joint venture in China making special purpose vehicles, executives at the parent company, Brilliance Auto, said on Monday.
Brilliance is discussing a manufacturing tie-up with Daimler now to convert Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles into special purpose models, said a Brilliance Auto executive who was briefed on the matter.
The shareholding structure and size of the venture have not been finalized, but a deal could be reached before the end of the year, the executive told Reuters.
The options are open now. We may build a new plant or use Brilliance's existing capacity, another Brilliance Auto executive said, adding the converted Mercedes-Benz models will be sold in China.
Both executives asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
A Daimler spokesman in China could not be reached immediately for comment.
Daimler makes Mercedes-Benz sedans in China with Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp (BAIC). It agreed late last year to set up a medium-to-heavy truck venture with BAIC subsidiary Beiqi Foton Motor Co.
The German automaker also owns 34 percent of a three-way commercial vehicle tie-up in south China with Fujian Motor and Taiwan's China Motor.
Brilliance Auto, the country's eighth-largest automaker and a BMW partner, manufactures BMW 3 series and 5 series sedans at a plant in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang.
Yufei Wan, the chief of Brilliance's international trade arm, said in April that the two partners were building their second manufacturing plant in China, where automobile remain solid as government aggressive stimulus measures lift consumer confidence.
The expansion could increase the annual capacity of the JV by 75,000 to 80,000 units by the second half of next year, up from 30,000 at the end of 2008, Wan added.
BMW, however, said no decision had been made on a second plant.
Brilliance Auto had shipped its BS6 and BS4 mid-sized sedans, developed in-house, to Europe since 2007. Both models scored poorly in initial crash tests although improvements were subsequently made to the BS6 model.
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Tesla started rolling out its 2022.12.3.4 software update on Tuesday afternoon according to @Teslascope, and with it, includes a change to increase Autopilot maximum speed for Tesla Vision vehicles, which was reported on yesterday.
According to 2022.12.3.4 release notes shared by @zachgilbert, the addition of “Autopilot Maximum Speed” details “Autopilot’s maximum speed has increased from 130 km/h to 140 km/h. Please continue to remain attentive and be ready to take over while using Autopilot features.”
For those in the U.S., the Autopilot maximum speed increases from 80 mph to 85 mph, according to a screenshot shared on Reddit, confirming Tesla’s website changes on the matter.
Tesla Vision Autopilot relies solely on cameras and does not use radar. Tesla Vision debuted on the Model 3 and Model Y starting in May 2021 and the newest Model S and Model X cars produced in North America since mid-February 2022.
It’s unclear if 2022.12.3.4 fixes the Dashcam bug that requires owners to keep formatting their USB sticks or removing and re-inserting them.
Now, if and when Tesla allows an Autopilot maximum speed of 88 mph, that’s when we can go ‘back to the future’, right?


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(Okay, maybe I exaggerate. Gibson's homer in the '88 Series is still probably the best. Still...)
I gotta admit, I was worried. Like really worried. The Dodgers' offense over the last week has been having a hard time finding its way to the ballpark, showing up only in the late innings. Colorado's starters, none of whom are gonna make anyone forget Randy Johnson, were manhandling Dodger hitters. Fortunately, the offense did eventually make it through the traffic around Dodger Stadium in time for the last inning in most of the games. They tied it in the eighth and won it with a run in the ninth on Monday. They scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth Tuesday night to win 5-4. The offense never did show up Wednesday, wasting a magnificent eight-inning, four-hit pitching performance by Odalis Perez. Thursday it didn't show up until the twelfth, coming from the most unlikely source of all. David Ross, a catcher hitting .169, (45 points under his weight), hit only his fifth homer of the year to win the game.
Ross's homer was a big one. It meant that all the Dodgers needed to do to win the division this weekend was win one game. One lousy game over the Giants.
The best the Giants could hope for coming in was that if they swept the three games, they would force a one-game playoff with the Dodgers up in SBC Park for the division championship. Weaver started Friday night, and threw his usual game, three runs over seven innings Unfortunately, the offense never showed up, and the Dodgers lost the opener.
Saturday's game presented a problem for Jim Tracy. He didn't have anyone to start it. The starters available were Nomo and Jackson, both of whom got clobbered in their previous outings. Nomo's been terrible all year, and his career is probably done. Jackson is still too inexperienced to put into this spot. Tracy decided to go with pitcher by committee. He started Elmer Dessens, who was picked up on a waiver deal with Arizona in August. Dessens was a starter with his previous teams, so the choice wasn't completely out of the blue. He did okay, giving up two runs in four innings. The bullpen held the Giants to only one run the rest of the way, so all-in-all, the pitching gamble paid off. Unfortunately, the offense was still MIA. The Dodgers were making Brett Tomko, the Giants' starter, look like the second coming of Juan Marichal.
And then it's the bottom of the ninth, and the Dodgers are down 3-0, with just three outs left. The Giants bring in Cody Ransom as a defensive replacement for Deivi Cruz. Dustin Hermanson is pitching for the Giants, facing Shawn Green. Green works the count to 3-1, then hits a little looper to left that falls just inches in front of a sliding Barry Bonds. Up next, Robin Ventura walks on a 3-2 count. Alex Cora, who has been the hero so often, strikes out. One out, David Ross due up. Despite the home run Thursday, Ross is still hitting 25 points under the Mendoza line, so Tracy sends up Jose Hernandez to pinch hit. Hermanson runs the count to 3-2, but loses Hernandez, who walks to load the bases with the pitcher due up. Hee-Seop Choi pinch hits for the pitcher (Brazoban at this point). Choi has been an utter failure since coming over in the Lo Duca trade, but the Dodgers are running out of players. Hermanson gets ahead of him quickly, 1-2, but then, wonder of wonders, he throws three straight balls, and Choi walks, forcing in Green for the first Dodger run. Christiansen relieves Hermanson, Cesar Izturis comes to the plate.
Did you wonder why I mentioned Cody Ransom earlier? It's called foreshadowing. Izturis hits a soft ground ball towards Ransom at short. Ransom bends down to field it, and then straightens up to throw to second, hoping to start a game-ending double play. Except the ball is still down on the ground, laying there at his feet. Everyone is safe, and another run is in. Herges Relieves Christiansen, and Jayson Werth comes to the plate. One of the reasons the Dodgers weren't able to obtain Randy Johnson from the Diamondbacks is because Arizona demanded that Werth be part of the deal. To his credit, DePodesta refused to go along, and Werth has played well. Werth gets the count to 2-2, fouls off a couple of pitches, then smokes a line drive to center field that scores Hernandez, tying the game. Unfortunately, he hit it too sharply to score the game winner. That's okay. Franklin relieves Herges.
Steve Finley comes to the plate. Finley is the only player the Dodgers received in the infamous end of July trades that has actually panned out. He's been a clutch hitter down the stretch, with 13 homers and 46 RBI in only 57 games since the trade. He takes a called strike from Franklin, and then crushes the second pitch. He knows the instant he hits it that it's gone. He stands there for that instant with his bat still pointing towards right-center, then releases it from both hands simultaneously so that it just drops straight down as he pumps his arms up over his head in triumph. Grand slam. Dodgers win 7-3, and take the division for the first time since Peter O'Malley sold the team to Fox.
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I picked up the new Metallogy Eye Shadow, compliments from I Nuovi, when I was at their Suntec City outlet recently. This range comprises 16 shades and they are described as molten metal eye colour formulated with a high percentage of metallic pearls for a dramatic shimmer effect.
The actual colors look quite different from what I saw on the website and in the end, I picked Tin 06006, which looks greyish with a little green undertone. It’s an interesting color because I noticed it also has some slight hints of gold when I look at it under different lightings.
Anyway, there is no need to apply this with a heavy hand for the color to show up. But the greenish tone only seems more obvious when I swiped more.
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Using DXA, weight change consisted of a loss ( 47.4%),
and a gain in FM
(þ63.0%). When using MRI, weight change
consisted of a loss ( 66.0%) and a gain in AT
These results suggest that there may be a regional redistribution
of fat and lean mass with weight loss and weight regain. However,
future research needs to be done using an intra-individual study
design. Because AT does not resemble FM and LST is higher than
SM (due to connective tissue and organ mass) absolute
differences in the composition of weight loss and weight gain
between both methods are obvious. However, this does not
explain the differences in fat and lean redistribution with weight
loss and weight gain that may partly be due to inherent
assumptions of DXA software. Taken together, data on DXA- and
MRI-derived changes in regional body composition cannot be
directly compared with each other. The limitations of the DXA
approach (and presumably the 2 component models) has to be
taken into account.
Study strengths and limitations
Some limitations to the present study should be discussed. The
number of men was small (n¼24), therefore sex differences
cannot be addressed with conﬁdence. In addition, physical activity
and ﬁtness have not been addressed which are known to have an
impact on the composition of weight change.
Since in this study
we did not assess intra-individual weight cycles, we cannot
directly compare the composition of weight loss and weight gain.
The strengths of this study is the concomitant use of a variety of
highly standardized body composition techniques including a
4C-model as a gold standard that avoids the assumptions of
different 2C-methods that may be violated during unstable
conditions of weight loss and weight gain. It should be
mentioned that 4C is balancing of the three measurements,
with amended measurement errors from all of them. In addition,
imaging technology allowed the evaluation of regional changes in
body composition with weight loss and weight gain.
When compared with the 4C model ( ¼gold standard), mean bias of
O and densitometry methods is explained by the erroneous
assumption of a constant hydration of FFM. This assumption leads to
an underestimation of FM change measured by D
overestimation of FM change measured by densitometry. Because
hydration does not normalize after weight loss we can deduce that
all 2C-models that are based on the assumption of a constant
hydration of FFM have a systematic error in weight reduced subjects.
The bias between 4C-model and DXA was mainly explained by FM%
at baseline whereas the change in FFM hydration only contributed to
additional 5% of the bias. As to the regional changes in body
composition, MRI data cannot be replaced by DXA measurements.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare no conﬂict of interest.
The authors wish to thank Britta Jux, Klinik fu¨ r Radiologische Diagnostik, UKSH Kiel,
for their help in MRI scanning. The study was funded by Deutsche Forschungsge-
meinschaft (DFG Mu¨ 714/ 8-3) BMBF Kompetenznetz Adipositas, Core domain ‘‘Body
¨rperzusammensetzung; FKZ 01GI1125)
The sponsor of the study (DFG, BMBF) had no role in study design, the collection,
analysis and the interpretation of the data, writing the text or in the decision to
submit the manuscript.
ABW and MJM designed and supervised the study, ABW, MP and MJM wrote the
ﬁnal version of the manuscript, MJM and ABW had primary responsibility for the
ﬁnal content of the manuscript. ABW and WL performed all the investigations. BS,
WL, MP organized the study, collected the data, did the segmentations of whole
body MRI data and performed the statistical analyses. C-CG was responsible for
DXA and MRI examinations.
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I wonder: When you spend a high percentage of time and emotional energy worrying about bad things that might befall your children – speeding cars, depression, illness – do you risk manifesting these, bringing these fears into being, or at least bringing your fear into your children’s hearts and minds?
And when you feel light in your heart and dwell on the happiness your children experience – the thrill of boogie boarding or skiing down a mountain, the delight of making a new friend, of discovering a great book, of taking a risk and accomplishing something they were scared to do – are you magnifying those beautiful achievements in their life, and filling their hearts and minds with joy?
I fall in the worrier camp. I have assumed that it’s what parents do. But do they all? I just read a terrifying/inspiring true story about a friend’s friend, a hit-and-run accident involving her son, causing brain injury, bones shattered. But after her initial terror, she became filled with hope, with the certainty borne of her gut instinct that her son would survive and thrive. Responses are coming in from healers around the world telling her similar stories of near-destruction and miraculous resurrections and lives well lived. Not disabled, but enhanced. And I think – isn’t THAT the attitude to walk around with. To be buoyed by hope not beaten by fear?
It’s not my nature. I’m a tad bit the cynic. But I do believe in the power of the mind to heal. I’ve seen it. It’s a struggle and challenge to favor optimism, but I’ve decided to find a mantra strong enough to overpower my natural fear. If you’ve got one, I’m all ears.
Pray, or wish, or shout out loud for this family and their still-fighting son.
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Laura, Worrywort Jujee hears you!! What a story! Recently, I heard Michael Smerconish on the radio review a book about a young man who was on a bicycle and hit by a car. Luckily, one of the nearby drivers was a trauma surgeon and helped him survive. Today, I believe the
young man is in medical school! Miracles do happen but we all worry! Love, Joyce

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