First, connect the PC to internet router and access point.Next, click the “network” button on the taskbar, and open Network and Sharing centre (yours may look different, mine signifies a wireless network, yours will most likely be a PC with a plug next to it)
Click “change adapter settings” on the left hand side and then right click your INTERNET Connection (NOT not on the adapter that is connected to the access point), and select properties
Under the “Sharing” tab, select “allow other network users to connect through this computers internet connection” and then select the connection through which your PC connects to the internet (in my case wireless)
ISC changed the IP adapter access point automatically. Go to the adapter where the access point is connected, view the properties and add the new DNS. 18.104.22.168 are recommended. Remember the assigned IP, usually 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.137.1. It will be necessary to configure DHCP server later
IMPORTANT: Do not change the IP assigned by windows. If you need to change to access the access point, you should leave it as it was originally.
Then with a little luck, you should be able to connect to the internet through both PC’s at once!


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Black (Matthew N. Stern ’08) kisses Queenie (Carrie A. Lee ’10) in an intense moment of passion and lust in the Musical Theatre Guild’s production of Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party” playing Feb. 7-9 at 8 p.m. in La Sala de Puerto Rico.
Queenie and Black (Carrie A. Lee ’10 and Matthew N. Stern ’08) stand back as the enraged Burrs (Matthew Ciborowski ’08) processes the scene in the Musical Theatre Guild’s production of Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party” playing Feb. 7–9, at 8 p.m. in La Sala de Puerto Rico.
Musical Theatre Guild cast members perform “Good Heavens,” a musical within Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party,” composed by brothers and lovers Phil and Oscar (Carlos Cardenas ’09 and Dave Berger, not pictured). “The Wild Party” will perform in La Sala De Puerto Rico, Feb. 7–9, at 8 p.m.
Mae (Nicolina A. Akraboff ’08) and Eddie (Darrell D. Cain ’08) sing about their wonderful life as a couple in the song “Two of a Kind” in the Musical Theatre Guild’s production of Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party” playing at 8 p.m. in La Sala de Puerto Rico, Feb. 7–9.
Evan C. Iwerks ’10 (center) teaches Burton-Conner Housemaster Merritt R. Smith and President Susan Hockfield how to play tennis with the Nintendo Wii. Hockfield toured Burton-Conner as part of her continuing effort to learn more about the MIT community.
Daniel D. Jimenez ’10 learns how to perform CPR on a dummy at Thursday’s MassCPR event in La Sala de Puerto Rico. The event was sponsored by MIT-EMS.
Paul Pierce, 2008 NBA Finals MVP, holds up his trophy during the Celtics’ Rolling Rally on June 19 on Tremont St. The Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers to clinch their first NBA Championship in 22 years.
Former Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez steps up to the plate in the bottom of the eighth inning against the New York Yankees on Sunday, July 27. Ramirez was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers as part of a three-way deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates just minutes before the trade deadline on July 31. The Red Sox won 9-2 to avoid being swept in the series.
Teams (left to right) 61 “The Shifters”, 97 “The Cow” (Sponsored by MIT), and 1153 “The RoboRebels” compete in the semifinals of the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) robotics competition. High school students from all over New England descended on Boston University’s Agganis Arena last Saturday, March 29 for the regional championship.
High School student Levi Toledano (right) shows other students how to play On-Sets, a dice game that helps students learn about set theory. The MIT Saturday Engineering and Enrichment Discovery Program held a workshop on Feb. 29 to showcase the Massachusetts Academic League of America, a club where students learn and compete by playing academic games.<< First 1
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HRH Crown Prince Condoles President of France on Death of Former President
Riyadh, His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, has sent a cable of condolence to President Emmanuel Macron of the Republic of France on the death of former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of France.
In his cable, HRH the Crown Prince expressed profound sorrow and regret on receiving the news of the death of former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of the Republic of France.
The Crown Prince extended his deepest condolence and sincere sympathy to His Excellency and the family of the deceased.
Source: Saudi Press Agency


Systems Biology and Bioinformatics: A Computational Approach
Taylor & Francis, 13.04.2009 - 190 Seiten
The availability of molecular imaging and measurement systems enables today’s biologists to swiftly monitor thousands of genes involved in a host of diseases, a critical factor in specialized drug development. Systems Biology and Bioinformatics: A Computational Approach provides students with a comprehensive collection of the computational methods used in what is being coined the digital era of biology.
Written by field experts with proven track records, this authoritative textbook first provides an introduction to systems biology and its impact on biology and medicine. The book then reviews the basic principles of molecular and cell biology using a system-oriented approach, with a brief description of the high-throughput biological experiments that produce databases.
The text includes techniques to discover genes, perform nucleotide and amino acid sequence matching, and estimate static gene dynamic pathways. The book also explains how to use system-oriented models to predict the behavior of biological systems for important applications such as rational drug design.
The numerous examples and problem sets allow students to confidently explore practical systems biology applications using real examples with real biological data, making Systems Biology and Bioinformatics: A Computational Approach an ideal text for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students.
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The new drama is a hit for the network.
October 4, 2013
NBC announced today that it has picked up a full season of The Blacklist by ordering nine additional episodes of the Monday night series, bringing its total to 22. The freshman drama is off to a strong start for the network, averaging an impressive 3.6 rating among adults 18-49 over its first two episodes.
(Source: TV by the Numbers)
12/10/14 at 10:51am
Spader is excellently pompous in this show. Definitely the bad-man you love to hate!
04/29/14 at 07:59am
I love this show so exciting ,suspenseful and a lot of drama
12/21/13 at 09:14am
best intelligent show on tv today, no question. don't miss an episode !
12/04/13 at 05:29pm
I am so glad I love this show and missed the last two Mondays, but I don't see it on for the week of December 9th, is it not on that week?
10/19/13 at 12:17pm
Very surprised, but CBS messed up by moving Hawaii Five-O. They let greed of being slightly less than Castle get to them. Now they left the door wide open for NBC to steal. I watched castle and hawaii five o last year and this year I watch Black List live and I'm always looking forward to. Everyone knows by now every show idea is a been there done that, it comes down to convenience and actors. Actors are great and storyline although sticking to a formula, still works for me!
10/15/13 at 10:12am
Great entertaining new show. Acting is so-so but the writers make up for that in spades. Jordan's Landing starting with not so good actors and got better and better as time went by. Good job NBC.
10/14/13 at 00:47am
You don't need a stop watch. The formula is PAINFULLY obvious. If you fail to see it.. you're exactly the mindless idiot the networks want watching -- you prove more pliable for the advertisers. James Spader is a pretty mediocre actor. If you all think he's "wonderful" and "makes the show" that right there speaks to it's mediocrity.
10/13/13 at 04:42pm
James Spader makes the show. The writing is smart and very good, so far. Let's just hope it stays that way, because not even a great actor can save a show with dumb writing.
10/13/13 at 04:39pm
There's one thing that really makes this show and his name is James Spader. He's a superb actor. Would we really watch this, if he wasn't in it? I'm sure a lot of people would say no. So far the show has been smart. Let's just hope that they keep it that way and the writing doesn't suffer. Not even a great actor can save dumb writing.
10/08/13 at 05:40pm
LOVE this show, it's one of the few crime dramas EVER to have captured my attention as strongly, I already care what happens to the lead characters, and how there is no black and white in this series, but shades of grey, and you can trust absolutely no one. There's only 1 thing that is painfully obviously, I'm sure to everyone who's watched the show, however maybe that's what the writers intended, and then they pull the rug from under you. This is honestly beating Revolution's 2nd season for me.
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Lack of biz coverage on California’s South Coast
Ray Estrada, former managing editor of the Pacific Coast Business Journal, writes for the Santa Barbara Independent about the slim business coverage in the market.
Estrada writes, “During my reporting over the past five years, South Coast business owners have often complained to me that they suffer from lack of financial coverage because no publication even attempts to track most local commerce on a daily or weekly basis in a specific section. The News-Press hasn’t had a business editor in three years, for instance, and the Business Times also covers Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties, which means that Santa Barbara news isn’t always a top priority.
“Complicating matters more, in my opinion, is that the vast majority of South Coast business coverage is conducted by writers with little or no previous financial experience, in large part because younger writers tend to be cheaper than more experienced reporters such as myself. As such, there is a lack of institutional knowledge about the South Coast’s commercial community. No matter how talented a young journalist may be, it’s hard to write about what is happening today with little understanding of how things got to be that way.
“And the situation may not change any time soon, as many of the correspondents relied upon in Santa Barbara for business coverage aren’t actually paid staff members. Instead, many are part-time, often underpaid freelance writers who usually have another job to make ends meet. For instance, the full-time writing staff at today’s News-Press is a fraction of what it was in 1990 or even 2005. It has one designated business writer, while in 1990 it had three.”
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Kara Nepomuceno (pronouns she/her) is a writer and educator moving towards futures of abundance through language and dance. Her vision for the future is informed by Philippine dance forms, which teach her about storytelling, critical discomfort, and embodied ways of knowing.
Joining thINKingDANCE in February 2021, Kara has written for The Dancer-Citizen, The Oberlin Review, and the anthology Dance Adventures: True Stories of Dance Abroad (Megan Taylor Morrison, December 2020). Her undergraduate honors thesis, “Moving Honestly” wove personal narrative, research, and dancemaking to describe codified pangalay in Manila and the United States.
Kara moves from Western contemporary and modern dance traditions as well as folk and regional dance forms of Southeast Asia. In 2019, she received the Shansi In-Asia Grant to study codified pangalay with AlunAlun Dance Circle in Manila. Since March 2020, she has offered performances and embodied agitations at online fundraisers and rallies in support of the Philippine Human Rights Act.
Kara is an Oberlin Shansi Fellow (2020 - 2022) at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She holds a certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language and a BA in Biology and Dance (Highest Honors) from Oberlin College.
Learn more at karanepomuceno.mystrikingly.com.

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The numbers of people getting pets are increasing by the day. Pets are not only fun to have around but are also great companions to us. As pets are animals, there is a long list that you can choose from. People choose different kinds of pets because of their differences in personalities and preferences. A pet becomes a part of your family as soon as they come on board, and it is evident that most people do not consider them anything less. You cannot deny the reality of how much pets need to be cared for, as like humans, they need food, medical attention, among others. Having a comfortable and happy pet makes your experience with them much better. You should realize that you are the one to ensure that you look into their needs at all levels to have them in the best conditions. The needs of a pet might not be accessed in regular stores, and even if some stores can come through not with everything. You have to get a store from which you can be purchasing what your pet needs There may be varieties of pet store from which you can find whatever you need for your pet, but they are not all the best. Check out the guideline below to aid you in the selection of a reliable pet supply store.
The kind of supplies your pet needs is what you have to understand first. Parrots and cats will have entirely different needs. Therefore, finding a store that has the products your pets need is the first step to make. Pets besides being fed will also need other things that will make their lives more comfortable. It is best to pick a supply store that has everything that you might need for your pet.
You have to invest in quality supplies for your pet to have the best life. Watch out for the various pet supply brands that will come along your way. Judging between the quality might not be an easy thing to do most when you are buying it for the first time; however, reviews, recommendations and referrals will be of great help.
You are supposed to take a look at the prices of the supplies the pet store provides. In that case, you will be shopping often for its needs.
The pet store staff members are supposed to be packed with information on specific products and should be ready to help you. It is best to pick a store that has an online presence to order and have your supplies delivered to you when you are not able to go to the physical store.

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Kagami stifled a yawn as her eyes shut tightly against her will, very small tears emerging. She groaned and rubbed her eyes as she regained control of her face, looking at the bathroom's mirror. God, I look terrible... she thought to herself.
Few minutes later, she was done with all necessities and exited the bathroom. The girl looked around for any sight of her sister, but to no avail. Great, she's not awake yet. She begrudgingly walked back up the stairs and opened the door to her sister's bedroom. "Tsukasa, time to wake up."
Tucked under several layers of bedsheets, her sister yawned from the bed. "Mmn... five more minutes..." the girl mumbled.
Kagami rolled her eyes. "You're going to be late. Come on..."
"S-sis..." Tsukasa groaned.
The older sister rolled her eyes.
It took a few seconds for the younger Hiiragi twin to finally push herself up, stretching her arms as she braced herself for the day to come. Kagami, meanwhile, went back to her own bedroom to change into her school's winter uniform.
Hiiragi Kagami found herself feeling a bit sad once she was reminded that her final year was soon coming to an end. She had asked her friends before about their university choices, but for some reason she can't recall any of them- not that it bothered her much anyways. Konata probably hasn't even thought much about this, and Tsukasa's probably panicking about that... The stereotypical tsundere couldn't help but chuckle at the thought of having to help her sister pick a university.
Of course, that's if she manages to get in anywhere... she eventually thought, growing a bit worried.
The girl finished dressing up and picked up her bag, of which she had prepared the night before. She left her room and peeked into her sister's room once more.
"Hey, now, Tsukasa! Wake up!" she yelled.
The younger Hiiragi twin snapped awake again on her bed, her uniform buttoned halfway. "S-sorry, sis! I fell asleep!"
"Yeah, no duh," Kagami replied. "I'll be waiting outside, so hurry it up, 'kay?" she said.
"W-wait for meeee!"
The two eventually made their way to the train station nearby. They sat patiently on colored seats, waiting for their train to come. Tsukasa looked around nervously. "What's the matter?" Kagami asked.
"N-nothing," her sister replied. "It's just... I'm so nervous, we're going to graduate from high school soon..." Tsukasa said.
"...yeah, I feel nervous too," Kagami said. "We'll all be going our separate ways, I assume... and who knows what will happen to each one of us? Will we still keep in contact with each other? Will we become too busy? I dunno... thinking about it makes me a bit sad, I guess."
Tsukasa frowned. "Sis... I'm sure we'll all still be together like always!" she said. "Besides, we can always visit each other anyways, so they won't forget us."
Kagami grinned. "Well, either ways, you should first focus on passing the finals," she teased.
"S-sis! Come on, it's not easy!" Tsukasa whined.
Chuckling, Kagami looked back at the train tracks. A few more minutes... she thought to herself. Figuring she could play with something, anything, she reached into her pocket. She pulled out what she initially thought was her cellphone, but frowned once it entered her sight. "What the...?"
The foreign object wasn't something she recognized so far. Completely square, encased in bright pink plastic, she wondered what it was until her curious fingers rubbed over a sort of button somewhere and the item flipped open.
"...a mirror?" Kagami whispered. The more she stared at it, the more she felt like she recognized it somewhere, but the older Hiiragi twin couldn't place a finger on where she had picked up such a simple-looking mirror. It took a few more seconds of staring until her memories started returning to her. "Oh, I Remember this... I picked this up on my way home from univ..." she muttered, but stopped completely.
She narrowed her eyes confusedly. What was I about to say? she thought. University? I'm not even out of high school yet, what the heck?
Kagami eventually decided to dismiss her strange, strange mind and closed the mirror. She stuffed it in her bag, then looked forward, just in time to hear the screeching sound of a train slowing down.
Smiling, she looked in the direction of the approaching train. "The train's here, Tsuka...sa?"
She then noticed two things.
One: her sister was nowhere to be seen, nor her bag. No matter where her eyes darted at, she couldn't find a trace of her cute little sister that had been sitting right next to her this entire time.
But more importantly, the longer she looked around, she noticed something else.
Two: absolutely no one was around.
The station was filled with emptiness and dead silence, the eerie quietness sending shivers down her spine.
"Wh... where did everyone go?" she whispered. The train came to a stop, and the gates opened for her to enter, but she remained outside. "Tsukasa! Tsukasa? Where are you!?" she yelled. No response. The girl frowned. That's weird... and even Konata's not here yet... she thought. Kagami looked back at the train- there didn't seem to be that many people inside.
The girl sighed and walked closer to the gates. Then she noticed, as she got closer, that it wasn't that there weren't that many people inside the train. Sure, when she couldn't see anyone, she often assumed people were just sitting somewhere deep inside the train, but this... was weird.
Nobody was in the train at all.
It took Kagami almost five minutes to realize that the train was- as odd as it was- waiting specifically for her. She had no idea where everyone went, nor where Tsukasa was, but she summed up her experience as a dream and decided to enter the train. The train then departed immediately and, to her chagrin, didn't show any signs of waking her up anytime soon.
She found out later, though, that the train was behaving quite normally and was headed for the closest station to her school.
When she reached the destination, she got off the train and made her way to class. After all, what exciting thing could possibly be waiting for her in this dream world of hers? Kagami changed shoes at the building's shoe locker, made her way up the stairs to the floor for her year, and entered her classroom.
Throughout the entire trip, not a single soul was inside the building.
"What's going on with Ryoo High?" she had asked herself at some point. That action, too, led her to another dream-like discovery: that her voice was non-existent here. She knew what she said, and she could sort of 'hear' it, but she knew at the same time that she didn't actually say anything. The experience was quite... 'trippy', if she had to describe it, referring to some weird slang Konata pointlessly taught her ages ago.
Anyways, in her classroom, all the desks were lined up neatly just like normal. Well, nothing out of the ordinary, she thought, except that everything about this isn't ordinary. Seriously, where's everyone!?
Kagami sighed and shook her head. She felt like she was in for a world of headaches, so she quickly took her seat and put her bag down.
"What's with everyone today, just disappearing like I'm the only one left?" she muttered. "It's creepy, and... oh, man, Konata would be gushing about how much this seems like a story plot," the girl mused with a chuckle.
She then pulled out the plain pocket mirror from before and looked into it again. Oh man, you could see how freaked out I am, she thought.
"Whose mirror is this anyways?" she muttered and blinked.
"Oooh, what's that, Hiiragi? A new mirror?"
Kagami's eyes widened and she whipped her head around immediately. Kusakabe Misao stood behind her, eyeing the mirror that was now pocket-sized and in her hands, and Minegishi Ayano stood to her other side, waving a gentle greeting. She might have even jumped a bit, rattling her table, as Misao now seemed surprised by her... surprised state.
"Whoa! You okay, Hiiragi?" Misao asked. "What's the matter? You look like you've just seen a ghost, ahaha!"
Kagami's hand, shaking, pointed at the embodiment of energy herself. "What the hell are you..." she began to say, but froze further when she realized that there were people everywhere inside her classroom. Specifically, her classmates. When did they all get here!? she thought. The girl looked around, extremely confused. "W-when did everyone get here?" she muttered.
Misao must have heard her, because then she gave her a skeptical look. "Uh, are you really alright, Hiiragi?" she asked.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kagami inquired, raising an eyebrow.
"Everyone's been here like normal," Misao replied.
Ayano frowned. "We actually didn't see you there, but one moment later and you suddenly appeared out of nowhere, going about your business," the orange haired girl explained.
"...you're kidding, right?" Kagami asked. The two's stares told her otherwise, but she didn't feel like playing their games right now. "...whatever it is you guys are trying to do, it's not funny, so knock it off." Kagami turned back and put her new pocket mirror away. "Today's started off really weirdly, so I'm not really in a good mood..."
...wait, so that wasn't a weird, long dream sequence? Kagami eventually thought. Then her mind wandered to the disappearance of her sister. ...did I just not notice her go to the toilet?
As if fate heard her, a familiar voice called for her. "S-sis!"
Kagami turned to the entrance of her class, seeing Tsukasa and more importantly Konata standing there. "Tsukasa!" she exclaimed and got up to head over ot her sister. "Where did you go!? I was so worried, thank god you're not missing or anything."
"Sis, what are you talking about?" Tsukasa asked, to her confusion. "Y-you're the one who disappeared! And just as Konata arrived..."
"I, whuh?" The older Hiiragi twin was now feeling more confused than ever. "Wh, what do you mean? I was there, waiting for the train, and you're the one who just... disappeared!"
"I dunno, Kagamin," Konata interrupted, "but I got there as the train arrived and you weren't anywhere to be seen."
What? What does that mean? the tsundere asked herself mentally. This wasn't making any sense, nothing was making sense for her today, and-
Everyone flinched once the bell rang. "A-ah! Homeroom's starting!" Tsukasa shouted. "S-sorry, sis! We'll talk later!"
"Ciaou ciaou, mon amigos Kagamin!" Konata said and ran off to her class as well.
"...what language was that?" Kagami muttered. She hesitantly walked back to her seat and sat down. What the heck is going on? she resumed asking herself.
Misao looked at her face once more. "You sure you okay, Hiiragi?" she asked.
"...yes, I'm fine, Kusakabe." Kagami sighed. "Just... having a sort of weird day."
"I hope you feel better soon then," Ayano said to her.
"Me too, Minegishi. Me too."
She didn't know, however, that fate had other plans for her.

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I noticed it for the first time about an hour ago and saw him lick it once - he is not licking it excessively. We live in Austin Texas and every year the exact same month he gets into something in the park that causes his back feet to swell and get red. If he licks them alot before i get him to the vet for a steriod shot he ends up with some sores and has to take an antibiotic. He got his shot and is on his 4th day of ciprofloxacin. His rear feet were looking better and the red and swelling are gone but this evening on our walk I noticed a small raw score on the side of his rear foot and thought neosporin might help heal it.
is neosporin hareful if they lick it off if you dont cover the scrape?


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1. Vladimir Chagin 2. The 2011 Dakar Rally© RIA Novosti. Sergei Pyatakov
1. Vladimir Chagin 2. The 2011 Dakar Rally© Photo Dakar Rally
- Russia's Vladimir Chagin becomes seven-time champion of Dakar rally
- Russia's Vladimir Chagin wins opening stage of Dakar 2011
- Russia's Team Kamaz sweeps podium at 13th stage of 2010 Dakar
- Chagin brings Kamaz another victory, goes for new Dakar record
- Russia's Team Kamaz wins ninth leg of 2010 Dakar rally
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated on Sunday the Russian Kamaz truck team with the victory in the 2011 Dakar Rally in South America.
"I want to congratulate the Russian Kamaz-master team and Vladimir Chagin with a brilliant victory in the Dakar Rally. Well done!" Medvedev said in his Twitter account.
The 2011 Dakar Rally came to an end in Argentina on Saturday. The Russian Kamaz truck team became the winner of the rally's truck class, winning the event for the tenth time.
Russia's Vladimir Chagin, piloting a Kamaz truck, became seven-time champion of the 2011 Dakar Rally's truck class. He won eight of the 13 stages of the rally. Chagin was followed by another three Kamaz truck pilots, Firdaus Kabirov, Eduard Nikolayev and Ilgizar Mardeyev.
The Dakar 2011 Rally, originally called Paris-Dakar, took place in South America for the third consecutive year and ran until January 16.
67 trucks, 170 motorcycles and 30 quad bikes took part in the rally.
The route of the rally spanned the territories of Argentina and Chile; however only the start and the finish of Dakar 2011 was held in Argentina.
MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
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The growing outright rivalry between the United States and China gives Russia more foreign policy weight, enabling it to assume the role of a balancer. So far it has been doing so rather skillfully. Today it may participate in a joint naval exercise with China that Beijing positions as outwardly anti-American. But tomorrow it can team up with the naval forces of the Old World.

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may not be cited except as provided by
Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1996).
STATE OF MINNESOTA
IN COURT OF APPEALS
In the Matter of Appeal of the
Determination of the Responsible Authority
for the City of La Crescent that certain data
concerning Keith W. Garrett are accurate
Filed July 8, 1997
Minnesota Department of Administration
File No. 1-0200-10467-2
Keith W. Garrett, 514 McIntosh Road, La Crescent, MN 55947 (Relator - pro se)
Kent A. Sulem, League of Minnesota Cities, 145 University Avenue W., St. Paul, MN 55103-2044 (for Respondent City of La Crescent)
William Von Arx, La Crescent City Attorney, 274 South Kingston Street, P.O. Box 229, Caledonia, MN 55921 (for Respondent City of La Crescent)
Amy V. Kvalseth, Assistant Attorney General, 525 Park Street, Ste. 200, St. Paul, MN 55103 (for Commissioner of Administration)
Considered and decided by Parker, Presiding Judge, Toussaint, Chief Judge, and Harten, Judge.
Relator Keith Garrett seeks certiorari review of a decision of the Commissioner of Administration disposing of his challenge pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 13.04, subd. 4 (1996), to the completeness and accuracy of certain minutes of a City of La Crescent council meeting at which relator made a public statement. The administrative law judge (the ALJ) submitted a recommended order to the commissioner granting summary disposition in favor of respondent city, but nonetheless directing the city to attach an addendum to the minutes substantially adopting relator's requested changes. The Commissioner of Administration adopted the ALJ's order. On appeal, relator, unsatisfied with the addendum, claims that his constitutional rights were violated by irregularities in the contested case proceeding and by the refusal of the ALJ and commissioner to allow the submission of material evidence. We affirm.
Agency decisions are presumed to be correct by reviewing courts, and will be reversed only when they reflect an error of law or when the findings are arbitrary and capricious or unsupported by substantial evidence.
In re Hutchinson, 440 N.W.2d 171, 176 (Minn. App. 1989), review denied (Minn. Aug. 9, 1989) (citation omitted).
1. Respondents' brief argues that relator lacked standing to challenge the accuracy of the data in question. Relator did not challenge the agency's decision relating to standing nor have respondents filed a notice of review. It is therefore unnecessary for us to address this issue and we express no opinion on the propriety of relator's standing before the agency. See Minn. R. Civ. App. P. 106 (to obtain review, respondent may file notice of review); In re Minnesota Indep. Equal Access Corp.'s Application for Certificate of Pub. Convenience & Necessity, 477 N.W.2d 516, 521 (Minn. App. 1991) (issues not raised by notice of review will not be considered on appeal from administrative decision), review denied (Minn. Jan. 30, 1992); Smoliak v. Myhr, 361 N.W.2d 153, 157 (Minn. App. 1985) (court will decline to address additional issue raised by respondent where respondent failed to file a notice of review).
2. Relator argues that irregularities in the agency's decision-making process deprived him of a fair hearing in violation of his constitutional rights. Relator does not allege what constitutional provisions were violated, nor does his brief specifically set forth constitutional analysis or citation, nor do we see any obvious prejudicial error; therefore, we need not address relator's general allegation of unconstitutionality.
An assignment of error based on mere assertion and not supported by any argument or authorities in appellant's brief is waived and will not be considered on appeal unless prejudicial error is obvious on mere inspection.
Schoepke v. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., 290 Minn. 518, 519-20, 187 N.W.2d 133, 135 (1971) (citations omitted).
3. Relator also contends that the agency proceedings were tainted by a number of procedural irregularities. First, relator argues that the ALJ engaged in ex parte communications in violation of Minn. R. 1400.7700 (1995). The record, however, does not support relator's allegations that improper ex parte communication occurred.
Second, relator argues that the conditions of summary disposition were not met. The record indicates that the parties agreed to have the case decided by summary disposition contingent on the submission of tape recordings of the city council meeting. Relator contends that the tapes submitted by the city were altered and were not the originals. Relator, however, did not offer any evidence to the ALJ challenging the authenticity of the tapes; relator merely asserted that, after listening to the tapes, he believed the tapes had been altered. But after listening to the tapes, the ALJ found that the tapes were originals. Under the circumstances, we conclude that the ALJ's determination that the city submitted the original tapes and his consequent refusal to consider additional evidence concerning tampering was not arbitrary, capricious, or unsupported by substantial evidence.
Third, relator argues that the ALJ improperly relied on an affidavit attesting to the authenticity of tape recording of the city council meeting. The record demonstrates, however, that the ALJ indicated that reliance on the affidavit was unnecessary because the parties had agreed that the ALJ would review the hearing tapes to resolve factual disputes. Thus, relator has failed to demonstrate how this alleged procedural irregularity was prejudicial. See Minn. R. Civ. P. 61 (harmless error not ground for disturbing order).
4. Relator argues that the agency's decision is erroneous because the ALJ denied him the opportunity to submit expert testimony from a sound engineer regarding the authenticity of the hearing tapes. Additionally, relator contends that the commissioner's decision is not supported by substantial evidence because the commissioner relied on the ALJ's findings rather than expert evidence submitted by relator in his notice of exceptions challenging the authenticity of the hearing tapes.
Pursuant to Minn. R. 1400.5500 (1995) and 1400.7300 (1995), the ALJ has the power to determine what evidence is admissible and make decisions on discovery requests. District courts in civil trials have considerable discretion in granting or denying discovery requests, and absent a clear abuse of discretion, the district court's decision will not be reversed on appeal. Erickson v. MacArthur, 414 N.W.2d 406, 407 (Minn. 1987). Likewise, we have concluded that the abuse of discretion standard of review is appropriate when reviewing administrative discovery decisions. Zahavy v. University of Minn., 544 N.W.2d 32, 39 (Minn. App. 1996), review denied (Minn. May 9, 1996). A district court may limit discovery upon a determination that it would be:
unduly burdensome or expensive, taking into account the needs of the case, the amount in controversy, limitations on the parties' resources, and the importance of the issues at stake in the litigation.
Minn. R. Civ. P. 26.02(a)(3).
The record indicates that after considering relator's request for additional discovery and his allegations that the hearing tapes had been altered, the ALJ concluded that relator's request was unduly burdensome and further discovery was unnecessary. Moreover, the commissioner's findings demonstrate that she also considered the evidence relator submitted challenging the authenticity of the tapes, but concluded that the evidence did not merit further discovery because even if there were "conclusive evidence that the tapes had been altered it is unclear what reliable data or evidence could be produced to correct the alleged alteration." Relator argues that the commissioner erred by concluding that there was no reliable evidence that could be produced to determine what occurred during the city council meeting. Relator contends that he could have called witnesses to testify as to what transpired. There is no evidence in the record, however, that there are witnesses relator could have offered in his support; therefore, relator's claim is speculative, and the agency did not err by ordering summary disposition. See In re Assessment Issued to Leisure Hills Health Care Ctr., 518 N.W.2d 71, 75 (Minn. App. 1994) (to withstand motion for summary disposition party must demonstrate specific facts that create a genuine issue for hearing), review denied (Minn. Sept. 16, 1994). We conclude that the agency did not abuse its discretion by denying relator's request to submit expert testimony from a sound engineer regarding the audio tapes of the city council meeting.

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According to Asian Development Bank, Pakistan ranks among the region’s five major recipients of foreign remittances. The country annually receives around $21 billion from its diaspora of 10 million working in different regions of the world. Credible sources reveal that $10-12 (half of the workers’ remittances) go to the real estate sector, and this may not see any decrease in the near future.
On the other hand, more than 45% of the under trial civil cases in the country’s lower and apex courts are related to real estate disputes. According to Overseas Pakistanis Foundation, Overseas Pakistanis Commission, Association of Overseas Pakistanis, and other diaspora welfare organizations, lack of investment & transactional transparency and security in the real estate sector are the biggest problems overseas Pakistanis face when investing here.
Some of the biggest issues overseas Pakistanis face when they intend to purchase, sale, or rent out property back home include:
Graana.com, Pakistan’s smartest property portal, was conceived by real estate entrepreneurs who themselves were diaspora members and had exhibited incredible professional expertise across various media and parts of the world. The philosophy behind Graana.com was to develop a real estate service centre where the diaspora in particular could be ensured increased transactional and investment transparency and security through unprecedented user convenience.
Graana.com brings transparency, verification, user convenience, knowledge economy, awareness, innovation, and institutional support to the real estate sector, whose major beneficiaries are non-resident Pakistanis. Here is how Graana.com is solving all the problems overseas Pakistanis face when investing back home!
Globally, the real estate sector is in a process of complete transformation. Digitization, green building, big data analytics, virtual reality, 360-degree real estate touring, healthy workplaces and drone land surveying are some of the key features the sector showcases in the developed countries.
Graana.com has synthesized all the features and provided its overseas customers with complete exposure to the property market of Pakistan.
Keeping in view the growing number of web surfers, the real estate industry all over the world could no longer remain unaffected by the cyber revolution. Graana.com made an entire world of property-related information available online to achieve two major milestones: one-stop-shop customer experience, and convenience of conducting business for the diaspora.
In addition to bringing forth thousands of property listings in just a click including a huge verified inventory of commercial property, plots, and residential houses for sale in Islamabad, Rawalpindi and nationwide, the portal now also offers updated comparative market analyses and automated valuation of a property (in process). The users get an estimation of the open market value of any property in any region.
The property portal is fed with enormous data (big data) collected from different and authentic sources, which it uses to provide end-users a comprehensive real estate system. Users view, review, compare and analyze this data before reaching any decision. The same is used by real estate agents to prepare personalized packages or offers for the clients based on available options and customers’ choices.
Another technology that Graana.com plans to reproduce soon is Position Intelligence Engine (PIE). This technology, by using big data, helps in calculating how much footfall any building has at any point in time. This will allow overseas Pakistanis to make an informed decision before making any investment or subscribing to any other service.
Graana.com is utilizing drone technology for geographical mapping and property surveying. With drone land surveying, the property listings now offer more accurate, detailed and useful information. Their high-resolution sensors capture angular, three-dimensional, realistic and active data in every type of landscape. The usage is not only client-friendly but also saves substantial cost and labor for the real estate business, in addition to furnishing high-level quality.
One huge issue overseas Pakistanis face when searching, selling or buying property online is the lack of trusted and accurate information. This is where Graana.com makes things easier for those sitting abroad but planning to invest back home.
Information on Graana.com appears in the form of broad scale listings. These listings are exclusively prepared and presented to suit a variety of audience. Overseas Pakistanis can comfortably compare and choose their options without undergoing any physical survey of the property. Moreover, the modern technology that includes drone surveying, 3D visualisation and visual touring has made even the survey of any property extremely reliable and easy.
To avoid forgery or fraud, Graana.com verifies listings before they are advertised. Furthermore, qualified agents are readily available to look through any query during the buying and selling process.
Graana.com conducts research to extract data from different markets and areas and offer comparable information. The comparative cost of any property, its future value, customers’ trends, market inclinations, and useful commentary on any investment are some of the topics that Graana.com discusses for the awareness and better use of all.
Similarly, apart from buying and selling, the portal assists in deciding financial investments, home décor, life styling, and most importantly, gaining knowledge about many things.
Additionally, it provides different tools to sales agents and customers for market valuation and analysis, rate calculation etc.
One of the biggest worries for overseas Pakistanis is the fact that they might have to invest in a property without actually seeing or visiting it. This also means that they won’t be able to verify the information and confirm the legitimacy of the transaction when they’re residing thousands of miles away.
Graana.com maintains the accuracy of every piece of information and listing provided through a series of strenuous checks and verification processes. Every property listing is verified by an in-house research team before it is uploaded to the website. It is also ensured that every property listing is unique; other property portals face the issue of duplication, where multiple listings are available for the same property. Graana.com ensures that is not the case. Moreover, all the details of listings are continuously updated to maintain relevance and accuracy.
Moreover, the agents and developers of the property are verified as well. This means that even from the comfort of your home, you can rest assured that the project you are looking at comes from a verified and reliable developer. The agents featured on the Graana.com website also go through a screening process, and only trustworthy and reliable agents are featured.
Relying on other people for information, or going the old-fashioned way of property searching only complicates things, especially if you are an overseas Pakistani. What you need are unlimited options and convenience, and that is exactly what Graana.com brings to you.
Graana.com provides an extremely user-friendly interface which makes transacting with property easy and comfortable. A detailed inventory is placed with every listing so all the relevant information is provided to you at one place. There are also very detailed descriptions of not just the projects, but the areas surrounding them and the investment opportunities you should be looking out for. High-resolution multimedia videos and images accompany the listings and information to give you an accurate idea of the project you are interested in. The search options are easy, and provide the option of multiple filters to make property searching easier, and crisper. The detailed contact details of relevant dealers are provided with every listing so you can contact any time you want for information or queries.
Graana.com, with its property portal and other information provision services like news, blogs, reports and the forum, ensures that the users experience the highest quality of service from the comfort of their homes, no matter where they are around the world. The website and application are continuously updated, and new features are added to ensure that Graana.com stays ahead in providing its overseas audience with the best services ever.
Policies, procedures, laws and bylaws, all keep changing and evolving with time. To successfully carry out a profitable property transaction, it is important for you to stay up-to-date with current procedures and policies in Pakistan. Graana.com provides all such information on its platform so that overseas Pakistanis have a handy guide to every step of the way.
With the advent of the internet, real estate has become everybody’s business these days. Reliable sources state that online access to properties and deal closures has increased considerably over the last few years.
Graana.com carries firsthand information about any property anywhere. Moreover, by using modern advertising techniques, it sends notifications and updates about lucrative investment opportunities to the diaspora members through every available medium.
Graana.com not just facilitates the actual property transaction, it helps you out by providing you all the information regarding the real estate sector you can ever need. The Graana Blog provides daily real estate, economy and current affairs related news, which are updated regularly. If you are an overseas Pakistani looking to get an idea of what exactly is happening back home in the property sector, this is where you should come. The blogs cover a variety of topics from construction tips and procedures, development guides, home and lifestyle articles, and legal information.
Graana.com has truly revolutionized the real estate sector in Pakistan. Not only has it made property searching, buying, selling and renting easier for those within the country, it has changed the landscape of investment in Pakistan for overseas Pakistanis.
With all the information they need at one place, and verified and accurate property listings to suit their needs, overseas Pakistanis are now finding investing in Pakistan easier than ever thanks to Graana.com.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man was indicted Wednesday and charged with selling a mixture of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl to the son of a Greek billionaire who died of a drug overdose.
Terry Lee Christian, 35, is charged with distribution of drugs and use of a phone to commit a drug offense. Cleveland police say Christian sold the fatal mix to Sokratis S. Kokkalis, whose body was found his hotel room in the Cleveland Marriott Downtown on July 14. The 34 year old was in town attending the summer meeting of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States.
Court filings say surveillance footage from July 13 outside JACK Cleveland Casino showed Kokkalis taking drugs from a passenger in a minivan that authorities later identified as Christian. Tests showed Christian’s DNA on packaging materials found in Kokkalis’ hotel room, and cellphone records also tied Christian to the location of the drug deal, the filings say.
The filings do not specifically identify Kokkalis as the victim, though Christian’s indictment lists the victim by the initials “S.K.” Records from the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner also say Kokkalis was found dead in the same hotel room on the same day listed in federal court filings from last week.
Christian’s formal charging follows his arrest Monday. The indictment ratchets up the charge Christian faces, as it carries a “death specification,” something federal prosecutors have used against people suspected of selling drugs to someone who dies from an overdose.
He faces a minimum of 20 years in federal prison if convicted and is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. His arraignment is set for Thursday.
“This case is yet another reminder that any drug people are buying likely contains fentanyl, which can kill even in very small doses,” U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman said in a statement. “By all accounts, the victim in this case believed he was buying cocaine, not opioids. This epidemic is cutting across all demographics and people need to understand there is no safe amount of drugs that can be used recreationally.”
Christian’s federal public defender did not immediately return a phone call.
Sokratis S. Kokkalis is the son of Sokratis P. Kokkalis., a Greek business tycoon. The elder Kokkalis is the founder of Greek telecommunications giant Intracom and its subsidiary Intralot, while the younger Kokkalis worked for Intralot’s business development department.
Intralot regulates sports betting for the government of Greece. Its business development department sought to expand its presence in the U.S. online sports betting market, according to the company's website.
The company has two contracts with the Ohio Lottery: one that allows the lottery to store and distribute instant tickets and lottery ticket printing paper, and another to operate the monitoring equipment and repair lottery machines.
It also operates the machines that check the Ohio Lottery's winning tickets at its Strongsville facility.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr.
If you would like to comment on this story, please visit Wednesday’s crime and courts comments section.


Finally the Afro-Pop/RnB musician entertainer and performer “Innocent” discharged his new singles titled ” Onyeoma” as follow up to his debut “Omalicha Nwa”.
Onyeoma is a calling love song set to raise clubs with much classic tunes. So get ready to groove along as you get this on your playlist. Download and Enjoy!!!


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Objective To initial evaluate clinical applications of quantitative assessment left ventricular volume and ejection fraction (EF) by single cardiac cycle full volume 4-dimensional Echocardiography in patients with chronic heart failure.
Methods There were 33 patients with heart failure (CHF group) in study group and 30 healthy volunteers in control group (NOR group). Left ventricular end-diastolic volume (LVEDV), end-systolic volume (LVESV) and ejection fraction (EF) were measured by Teichholz method (ME), Simpson's method (2DE) and 4-dimensional left ventricular analysis echocardiography (4D LVA) method, and then compared whether the indicators had differences.
Results In NOR group, LVEDV, LVESV, EF had no statistically significant difference among ME, 2DE and 4D LVA (p>0.05). In CHF group, LVESV did't have significant difference in three ways (p>0.05); compared ME with 2DE and 4D LVA, the difference of LVEDV, EF was statistically significant (p<0.05), difference of LVEDV, EF was not statistically significant between 2DE and 4D LVA (p>0.05). In NOR group and CHF group LVEDV, LVESV, EF of 4D LVA had significant difference (p<0.05). In NOR group, EF of ME, 2DE, 4D LVA had correlation (r were 0.955–0.927), while in CHF group (r were 0.885–0.967). EF measured by 4D LVA, coefficient variation of intraobserver and interobserver were 2.61%, 3.45%.
Conclusions Single cardiac cycle full volume four dimensional echocardiography doesn't need splice, the full volume of the heart images are completed at one heart beat. It quantitatively evaluates of left ventricular volume and ejection fraction (EF), gived rapid and feasible measurements of LV volume and EF, has a broad clinical application.

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harrisoni (17282) - Ashford, Kent, ENGLAND - NOV 6, 2005
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull at Thomas Ingoldsby, JDW, Canterbury. Deep chestnut colour, with disapearing thin beige head Some malts, some choc, some dark fruits. Fullish in mouth, some dark sour cherry. Finish has more fruit and tingly hop. Tad vinuous too.
RichardGretton (4639) - Leicestershire, ENGLAND - OCT 28, 2005
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@Nottingham Beer Festival. Brown beer with a lightly bitter flavour and a light and malty aroma. Overall a plain beer.
Mungo (2470) - Southampton, Hampshire, ENGLAND - OCT 12, 2005
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned @ Giddy Bridge (JDW), Soton. Red with frothy beige head. According to JDW tasting notes the colour comes from red maize!? Initial roasted malt aromas and a thick creamy body. After a few sips the body becomes much thinner with a dry empty flavour reminiscent of some beers unders nitro.
maeib (8749) - Wootton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, ENGLAND - MAY 8, 2005
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. A deep brown beer with a ruby hue and no head. The aroma is malty and fruity with some butterscotch notes. The taste is malty and toasty with blackberry fruits, caramel and toffee. A buttery, creamy full body. Nice.
hughie (3996) - Bedford, Bedfordshire, ENGLAND - MAY 7, 2005
2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Didn’t like this at all. It looked good and the aroma was quite interesting, but the taste was hugely disappointing, even medicinal. I nearly poured it away, but persevered bravely to the end. Perhaps I’ll try it again because I like the name.
duff (5484) - Copenhagen, DENMARK - DEC 19, 2004
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@The Red Lion, Isleworth, London. Ruby/red colour. Quite malty. Nutty and dry, with some light bitterness.
RichardWilding (201) - London, Greater London, ENGLAND - NOV 30, 2004
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught. Dark red coloured, with small white head. A roasted malt flavour, with some dark fruit. Surprisingly hoppy, citrus notes. Slightly bitter finish.
JonMoore (2063) - Loughborough, Leicestershire, ENGLAND - NOV 7, 2004
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Swan in the Rushes, Loughborough. Reddish brown colour with a creamy, long lasting white head. Aroma is hoppy and malts. Taste is fruity, malty, hops and caramel. Smooth and drinkable.
Liberty (52) - Stompwijk, NETHERLANDS - OCT 17, 2004
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
From the bottle. A good bitter finish and nice roasted malts. Good balance, a nice beer. I really would like to try this beer from the handpump!
Spiesy (2338) - Sydney, Greater London, AUSTRALIA - SEP 7, 2004
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask Conditioned, at the Wenlock Arms, London.
Reddish bronze colour, thin with very little head. Sharp bitter aroma. Metallic, copper flavour which linger rather painfully on the palate. Needs washing down with something else. Make it a Brewers Gold extra please guv.

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Staff, students and families had another opportunity to voice their concerns and get their questions answered at a meeting hosted by Spokane Public Schools.
The meeting at Rogers High School was organized in small-group discussion format, with about a dozen tables with experts at them dedicated to specific issues pertaining to Spokane Public Schools' massive budget shortfall.
The most popular tables on Wednesday night: the local levy, the change in library model and staff cuts.
It makes sense that the staff cuts table would be so popular at this meeting since Rogers High School is facing by far the most layoffs of any school in the district.
Sixteen Rogers teachers received layoff notices. No other school at any level saw double-digit cuts.
This happened because the union contract mandates that teachers with the least seniority get cut first and Rogers simply has many of the least senior teachers.
The cuts, however, do not mean Rogers will actually end up with 16 fewer teachers come September. Staff will be shuffled around the district to meet various needs.
At the Rogers meeting, the table dedicated to staff cuts was full throughout the evening.
One participant was Rachel Green, a school nurse in the district who received a layoff notice.
"Right now's kind of a scary time for our kids," Green said.
She came to the meeting to advocate for nurses directly and learn more about what the district has in store for them.
"[I'm here to learn] what's upcoming and what to kind of expect," she said. "Also to learn more about whether or not they're going to pursue this new levy."
That levy was also a top priority for many meeting participants, as was the changing library model. This was true of the first meeting on Tuesday night at Shadle Park High School as well.
Similar to the first meeting, the feedback about the small-group setup was positive.
"I think it's awesome because they can actually hear from the community and see really what the community feels like our kids need," Green said.
"I like this format because you don't have to sit and listen to somebody talk before you get to speak," said Kate Jones, another concerned citizen at the meeting.
The third and final installment of these discussions will take place on Thursday night at Ferris High School between 5 and 7 p.m..

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On November 26, 2014 Denis Mukwege will receive the Sakharov prize for his tireless work of helping victims of war time sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Sakharov prize is awarded yearly by the European Parliament. The prize is named after the Soviet human rights activist Andrei Sakharov and is intended to honour exceptional individuals who combat intolerance, fanaticism and oppression.
Sexual violence is one of the contemporary curses of war time violence. The consequences of sexual violence are devastating for the victims – see the impressive book by Anne-Marie de Brouwer & Sandra Ka Hon Chu with the telling title The men who killed me and the equally impressive documentary on mediastorm: //mediastorm.com/publication/intended-consequences. Victims of sexual violence often suffer terrible abuse, humiliation and trauma. Many post WW-II conflicts such as the Rwandan genocide, the war in former Yugoslavia, the conflicts in Sierra Leone, DR Congo and Sudan have been characterized by the structural and systematic use of sexual violence. IS (formerly known as ISIS) too is using sexual violence as a weapon in war. Sexual violence has been so persistent throughout history that many scholars and policymakers have come to believe that it is an inevitable consequence of war. This however is not the case.
A group of scholars from Yale University under the leadership of Elisabeth Wood have concluded that the use of sexual violence in armed conflicts varies. While Bosnian Serbs, the Rwandan killer groups and the Revolutionary Armed Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone engaged in extremely high levels of sexual violence, the use of sexual violence in some other conflicts is rare. The LTTE in Sri Lanka for instance engaged in many forms of violence but displayed low levels of sexual violence. Wood consequently notes that sexual violence cannot be considered an inevitable consequence of war. Dara Cohen, a former student of Wood’s, conducted a cross-national survey on conflicts and sexual violence in the period 1980-2009. She gathered data on all 86 civil wars in this period and in a recently published article she concluded that in 18 conflicts there was widespread rape – in 35 conflicts there were numerous reports of rape, in 18 conflicts there were isolated reports of rape and in 15 conflicts there was no report of rape. These figures clearly show that not all characterized by rape and sexual violence.
This is an important finding: if sexual violence is not inevitable then we should be able to find means to fight it. In order to be able to do so, it is important to figure out why sexual violence varies. Wood concludes that in some conflicts the leaders of armed groups have a tight grip on their recruits and prohibit sexual violence for a number of practical and strategic reasons, while in other situations high ranking leaders or mid-level commanders condone or even order sexual violence. Sexual violence can however also be initiated by the lower ranking soldiers who are out of reach and control of the top leaders. More research needs to be done in order to figure out when and under what circumstances sexual violence occurs in order to find effective means to fight it. Progress has however been made in the struggle against sexual violence. Since several years it has been an important topic in academia, extensively discussed by policymakers such as the UN and the international criminal courts and tribunals have prosecuted and convicted a number of perpetrators for sexual violence in the last couple of years.
As in many other conflicts, sexual violence has been a very persistent problem in the DRC. Denis Mukwege is one of the people who is fighting this. Mukwege is a medical doctor who has established a hospital specialized in the treatment of victims of sexual violence. He however not only helps and treats victims of sexual violence in the DRC in a medical sense but also tries to help them reintegrate into society. This unfortunately is often a problem. Many women who have been sexually abused, humiliated and raped are often ostracized by the community, they continuously suffer from the physical and emotional trauma but also from the social stigma as they are often considered unfit for marriage. Mukwege has also become a human rights activist travelling around the world to draw attention to the persistent problem of war time sexual violence. Two years ago Mukwege survived an assassination attempt but this did not stop him from continuing his important work. By awarding the Sacharov prize to Denis Mukwege, the European Parliament not only praises a man for his work but also draws attention to the terrible consequences of war time sexual violence and the dire need to fight this curse and look after the victims.
- Brouwer, A.M. de & S. Ka Hon Chu (eds.) (2009). The men who killed me, D.M. Publishers.
- Brouwer, A.M., C. Ku, R. Römkens & L. van den Herik (eds.). Sexual violence as an international crime: interdisciplinary approaches, Antwerp: Intersentia.
- Cohen, D.K. (2013). Explaining rape during civil war: cross-national evidence (1980-2009), American Political Science Review 107 (3), p. 461-477..
- Wood, E.J. (2006). Variation in sexual violence during war, Politics and Society 34 (3), 307-342.
- Wood, E.J. (2009). Armed groups and sexual violence: when is sexual violence rare? Politics and Society 37(1), 131-161.
- See also the sexual violence dataset: //www.sexualviolencedata.org/dataset/


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BT Ireland has reported a decline in revenues and profits for the year to the end of March 2020, due primarily to the transfer of customer accounts to another group company.
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"Overall, our 2019/20 company performance is in line with the previous year, as we continued to attract and retain business with multi-national corporations, major indigenous organisations and other local telecoms operators, and expanded the range of products and services being provided,"
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An attorney in New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration who was critically wounded by a stray bullet in Brooklyn earlier this month has been declared brain dead, his family said in a statement on Wednesday. Carey Gabay, 43, was struck in the head at a pre-dawn outdoor celebration on Sept. 7 before the annual West Indian Day parade, which has been plagued by violence in recent years. Gabay, the first deputy counsel at Empire State Development, the state's chief economic development agency, was in critical condition this week in an induced coma at Kings County Hospital Center.
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Luisana Lopilato Soap Opera Actress
Luisana Lopilato is an Argentine actor. She was born on May 18, 1987 (34 years old) in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires F.D. as Luisana Loreley Lopilato. Her nickname is Luli.
Luisana Lopilato is an Argentine actress model and singer with the nickname Lu or Luli. She has appeared in the television series Chiquititas Rebelde Way Alma Pirata Casados con Hijos and Atracción x4. She is a former member of the Argentine band Erreway and has had a successful modeling career.
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What is Luisana's zodiac sign?
Luisana Lopilato zodiac sign is taurus.
How tall is Luisana Lopilato?
She is 4′12″ ft tall, which is equal to 1.52 meters.
Luisana's hair color is blond hair
Luisana's eye color?
Eye color of Luisana Lopilato: blue
When is Lopilato's next birthday?
Luisana Lopilato was born on the , which was a Monday. She will be turning 35 in only 236 days from today (24 September, 2021).
Luisana Lopilato has 1 sibling. Darío (6 years older)
Luisana Lopilato net worth
She has a net worth of 7 million dollars.
Her first feature film was Perdida (2018, as Pipa). She was 30 when she starred in this movie. Since 2018, she has appeared in 9 feature films. The last one is Sunstrokes (2014). In this movie, she played the character Lala .
Luisana Lopilato movie characters
The names of the characters/jobs in the films she starred in are as follows:
|Mía Colucci||Erreway: 4 caminos (2004)||17|
|Feifi||Birds of Paradise (2010)||22|
|Mary Fraga||Los que aman, odian (2017)||30|
|Kendall||Fair Market Value (2017)||29|
|Julieta||Dad for a Day (2009)||22|
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Birth name of Luisana Lopilato is Luisana Loreley Lopilato
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She married with Michael Bublé (44), in 2011. Luisana Lopilato was 23 and Michael Bublé was 35 years old. Married for 10 years, 8 months.
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|Spouse||Michael Bublé , start time: 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z|
|Twitter username||@lulopilato. Luisana Lopilato official Twitter page , Twitter user numeric ID: 38741679 , number of subscribers: 6057103 , has quality: verified account , point in time: 2020-04-15T00:00:00Z , start time: 2009-05-08T00:00:00Z|
|Official website||Luisana Lopilato official website|
|Hair color||Blond Hair|
|Sex or gender||Female|
|Instagram username||@luisanalopilato. Luisana Lopilato official Instagram page|
|Number of children||3|
|Member of||Culin Culo Parao|
|Country of citizenship||Argentina|
|Place of birth||Buenos Aires|
|Work period (start)||1995-01-01T00:00:00Z|
|Birth name||Luisana Loreley Lopilato|
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|In 2020||She was 33 years old|
|In 2019||She was 32 years old|
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|In 2016||She was 29 years old|
|In 2015||She was 28 years old|
|In 2014||She was 27 years old|
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|In 2004||She was 17 years old|
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Amazon opens three more logistics centres in Brazil
The new units are already operating in Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and the capital city of Brasilia
Amazon has opened three more logistics centres in Brazil to make maximum use of the boost the Covid-19 pandemic has given to e-commerce in the country.
The new units are already operating in the states of Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul and the capital city of Brasilia, increasing the number of Amazon logistics centres in Brazil to eight.
The expansion, which adds 75,000 square meters (807,000 square feet) of distribution space, is Amazon’s biggest since it began operating in Brazil in 2012 and will create 1,500 direct jobs, the company said.
The new centres will allow the company to immediately raise the number of cities where Amazon Prime customers can receive deliveries within two business days to over 500 from 400.
“Brazil is the country with the fastest growth in Amazon Prime subscriptions,” Alex Szapiro, Amazon’s chief executive in Brazil said.
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Thousands of Brazilian businesses have increasingly shifted to e-commerce platforms due to social distancing measures and lockdown measures.
Last week, MercadoLibre Inc, Latin America's e-commerce leader, announced that its net revenue in the region rose nearly 150 per cent in the third quarter, measured in local currencies.
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Minor said he wasn’t sure of the percentage, but said growers this spring experienced worker shortages.
That caused growers during the latter part of the deal to stop picking crops based on market values, becoming more selective and moving to higher quality fruit, he said.
Minor agrees the shortages are requiring growers to become better forecasters.
“This fall, the first thing we will have to think about is how much labor we will have,” Minor said.
“Not only how much labor you will have, but how dependable it will be and will have to consider the possibility it could be delayed in arriving.”
Growers of all crops are being more cautious and aren’t planting as many acres as they did when they had more abundant labor.
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In the position since January 2015, Benoit Chichignoud, “DGS” of Chateaubriant, went to Saint-Aubin-d’Aubigné (Ille-et-Vilaine) for personal reasons.
Director General of Services (DGS) of the town of Chateaubriant since January 2015, Benoit Chichignoud left office on February 12, 2016. He joined the municipality of Saint-Aubin-d’Aubigné, north of Rennes, where he held there also the position of “DGS”. “I left for personal reasons, related to the work of my wife” , he explains. “Mr. Chichignoud made a choice of his life as a couple that I respect “ , confirms the mayor of Chateaubriant, Alain Hunault.


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National Nurses United statement on today’s Trump administration press conference
The following statement by National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN and Presidents Jean Ross, RN, Zenei Cortez, RN and Deborah Burger, RN is in response to the Trump administration’s COVID-19 press conference this afternoon:
“At a press conference today, President Trump declared a national emergency and announced that Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar will now have broad new powers to “immediately waive revisions of applicable laws and regulations to give doctors, all hospitals and healthcare providers, maximum flexibility to respond to the virus and care for patients.” Trump also announced a new partnership between the government and corporations, including commercial labs Roche and Thermo Fisher to make the COVID-19 test; Google to market the test; and Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, and Target to administer the test to patients.
While launching this windfall for corporations, what the Trump administration did not mention was that the best way for health care workers to respond to COVID-19 is to ensure that they have the protections they need—which they currently do not.
This week, nurses were outraged that the federal Centers for Disease Control weakened its guidance on health care worker protections. These changes include, among other things, rolling back personal protective equipment (PPE) standards from N-95 respirators to allow simple surgical masks; not requiring suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients to be placed in negative pressure isolation rooms at all times; and weakening protections for health care workers collecting diagnostic respiratory specimens. These are moves that National Nurses United nurses say will gravely endanger nurses, health care workers, patients, and our communities.
National Nurses United urges Congress to quickly pass new legislation to address the inadequacies in the Trump Administration’s response to the pandemic. Specifically, we urge Congress to mandate that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration promulgate an Emergency Temporary Standard on COVID-19 protections for health care workers. An OSHA emergency temporary standard is a critical step in ensuring that all nurses on the frontlines of the coronavirus response are given the proper respirators and personal protective equipment to safely care for patients with confirmed or potential COVID-19 infection.
We also urge Congress to reduce the barriers to care that patients with potential COVID-19 infection may face, and to provide federal funding to ensure that all testing, treatment and care related to the coronavirus outbreak is provided free of charge to every patient who needs it. Nurses will stand up and speak out until the response to this outbreak is based on frontline worker and patient need, and on science—not on corporate profit.”


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There’s an article floating out on the web that might just strike your fancy – it certainly struck ours. OMNI’s Missions to the Edge of Inner Space covers three upcoming games that have aligned themselves to be available on the upcoming Oculus Rift VR technology- and while none contain your typical gameplay, they offer perspective on the kind of gaming magic you can find in games like PSN’s Flower or Journey. Here’s a snippet from the article.
While ultra-realistic military simulations and sandbox worlds like Grand Theft Auto flood the consumer market and seem to dictate how gaming is understood by the masses, the world of independently-made videogames is creating its own artistic niches. A new and untainted platform, like the Oculus Rift, with its entirely different set of parameters, can provide a space for the independent game community to experiment and thrive.
[…] Another important disruptive quality of the ‘Rift is that the deeply entrenched game genre of the first-person-shooter is wholly ill-suited for it. The dissonance between being able to look around an environment with your head, but then run using a keyboard instead of your real body, makes vertigo a common problem. New play styles are needed, styles which don’t heavily rely on the fast-paced running-and-shooting mechanics that are now such an American cultural institution.
It’s an interesting read, and while the three indie games showcased (MirrorMoon EP, Paranormical, Eleven) are using Unity3d, they seem to be more concerned with presentation over technical complexity. We recommend you check it out. Enjoy!


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Hamblett HJ, Senter PD, Chace DF, Sun MMC, Lenox J, Cerveny CG, Kissler KM, Bernhardt SX, Kopcha AK, Zabinski RF, Meyer DL, Francisco JA. 2004. Effects of drug loading on the antitumor activity of a monoclonal antibody drug conjugate. Clin Cancer Res 10:7063–7070.
Purpose: An antibody-drug conjugate consisting of monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) conjugated to the anti-CD30 monoclonal antibody (mAb) cAC10, with eight drug moieties per mAb, was previously shown to have potent cytotoxic activity against CD30+ malignant cells. To determine the effect of drug loading on antibody-drug conjugate therapeutic potential, we assessed cAC10 antibody-drug conjugates containing different drug-mAb ratios in vitro and in vivo.
Experimental Design: Coupling MMAE to the cysteines that comprise the interchain disulfides of cAC10 created an antibody-drug conjugate population, which was purified using hydrophobic interaction chromatography to yield antibody-drug conjugates with two, four, and eight drugs per antibody (E2, E4, and E8, respectively). Antibody-drug conjugate potency was tested in vitro against CD30+ lines followed by in vivo xenograft models. The maximum-tolerated dose and pharmacokinetic profiles of the antibody-drug conjugates were investigated in mice.
Results: Although antibody-drug conjugate potency in vitro was directly dependent on drug loading (IC50 values E8<E4<E2), the in vivo antitumor activity of E4 was comparable with E8 at equal mAb doses, although the E4 contained half the amount of MMAE per mAb. E2 was also an active antitumor agent but required higher doses. The maximum-tolerated dose of E2 in mice was at least double that of E4, which in turn was twice that of E8. MMAE loading affected plasma clearance, as E8 cleared 3-fold faster than E4 and 5-fold faster than E2.
Conclusions: By decreasing drug loading per antibody, the therapeutic index was increased demonstrating that drug loading is a key design parameter for antibody-drug conjugates.


July 13, 2020
IntelBrief: Mysterious Explosions Continue to Rock Iran
A number of unexplained explosions have taken place in Iran in June and July 2020. Most notable among them was a June 25 explosion at a facility in the town of Khojir, east of Tehran, most closely associated with Iran’s ballistic missile program. Another was a July 2 explosion at Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, in central Iran. Other explosions and power failures have happened over the course of the past two months, although it remains unclear whether these events were deliberate or connected to each other. Whereas the facility that was damaged at Khojir - reportedly involved in missile fuel production - is likely of marginal significance, the Natanz facility has a direct connection to the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program.
The building at Natanz, which commercial satellite photographs show was largely destroyed, is widely reported to be a site for the production of advanced centrifuges – equipment that is used to enrich uranium. The 2015 nuclear agreement allows Iran to research and develop, but not install, new centrifuges that can enrich many times faster than those that Iran is allowed to operate. Since mid-2019, as a response to the Trump administration’s 2018 withdrawal from the deal and its reimposition of all sanctions, Iran has reduced its compliance with the nuclear restrictions of the accord. Were Iran to begin installing and using the advanced centrifuges it was manufacturing at the Natanz facility, its ‘breakout time’ - the time needed to make enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon – would shrink to levels that the United States and its partners consider a critical threat.
As the ability of the 2015 nuclear agreement to constrain Iran’s nuclear program diminishes, the United States and its regional partners, particularly Israel, have considered direct action potentially necessary to constrain Iran’s nuclear program. The Natanz facility that produces advanced centrifuges presented a ripe target for any outside actor that seeks to set back Iran’s program. Although there is no direct evidence, there is broad consensus that the July 2 Natanz explosion was caused by a deliberate attack. And a July 6 report in the Washington Post, quoting a ‘Middle East security official,’ said that an explosive device was planted at the facility to ‘send a signal’ to Tehran. Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz said his country was not ‘necessarily’ behind every explosion in Iran, a formulation that seemed to confirm that the explosion was an Israeli operation. There were no reports of combat aircraft or missile activity in Iran at the time of the explosion, suggesting that Israel might have used agents inside Iran to strike the facility. Israel demonstrated in 2018 that it could take action inside Iran by spiriting out of a Tehran warehouse a trove of documents about Iran’s earlier efforts to develop a nuclear explosive device. In 2010, the United States and Israel jointly developed and employed the ‘Stuxnet’ computer worm to destroy about 1,000 of Iran’s 5,000 centrifuges that were operating at Natanz at that time. Both Israel and/or the United States are increasingly likely to act directly against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure as the 2015 nuclear agreement proves unable to constrain Iran’s technology.
Any direct action against Iran’s nuclear facilities revives debate over the optimum means to limit Iran’s nuclear program. Iran will almost certainly be able to reconstitute any destroyed operations at the damaged Natanz facility, just as the destruction at the hands of the Stuxnet cyberattack proved temporary. The Obama administration concluded that military action or cyberattacks would set back Iran’s program only temporarily, and that a diplomatic accord was required to achieve U.S. objectives. President Trump has sought to compel Iran to agree to a revised deal that imposes even stricter limits on Iran’s nuclear program and includes other issues of U.S. concern, but Tehran has refused thus far to negotiate. The Trump administration and its allies now have few options other than direct action – action that is likely to have either marginal effect or cause an all-out war with Iran that the United States and its allies say that they want to avoid.
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