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This week, Argentina has a new Minister of Economy, who has presented an adjustment plan according to the demands of the IMF. In more global news, Kansas voted yes on abortion rights. This and more summarized here.
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Given the strong inflation situation in Argentina, the southern country has a new Minister of Economy. Massa, the new person in charge, has presented this week an adjustment plan in accordance with the demands of the IMF. In Chile, on the other hand, a very deep hole has appeared in the middle of the Atacama desert. The authorities are investigating. In global news, Kansas, a traditionally conservative state, voted yes to decriminalize abortion. This week is also the week of breastfeeding, so the WHO has invited governments to promote the protection of nursing mothers. Finally, in sports the Super Cup and the Champions League will have a semi-automatic offside system in their next edition.
Argentina presents adjustment plan in accordance with IMF requirements
The new economy minister of Argentina, Sergio Massa, is already showing his cards and presented the plan he has to calm the demands of the IMF and thus send a message of calm to the international markets that hit the fragile southern economy with special force. Massa's plan tries to strengthen the devalued Argentine peso, accumulate reserves and reduce the fiscal deficit. All these measures have been requested by the International Monetary Fund since the beginning of 2022 when an agreement was signed to refinance the 44 billion dollar debt that the South American country has abroad.
The goal, according to Massa, is to reduce the fiscal deficit to 2.5% and for this, not to use the balance of advances from the Central Bank to the Treasury. No more issuance will be requested to finance the Government. It did not close, even so, the door of private financing. Argentina will also deepen in sustaining the value of the peso through increasing international reserves. For this, there will be an income of 7,000 million dollars to the Central Bank and there will be a voluntary swap of public debt in pesos. Now, the most difficult issue is that he will have to reduce subsidies to gas and electricity generating companies, which will lead to an increase in rates for Argentine households with higher incomes. In this way, Minister Sergio Massa and President Alberto Fernández hope to reduce the inflation of the Argentine peso, which is estimated at close to 80% per year in the most optimistic projections.
The right to abortion wins an important battle in the United States
This, despite the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn the decision of Roe vs. Wade, which guarantees the right to abortion throughout the country. Now, each of the states must legislate in this regard, which opens the possibility that in the most conservative states, the possibility of a voluntary abortion, or even, for reasons of rape or mother's health, is completely eliminated.
Well, this week, the traditionally conservative state of Kansas voted to keep abortion legal. The state that in 2020 voted 56% in favor of Donald Trump, this time chose the policy supported by Joe Biden. This is the first state to go to the polls to define its decision, after June 24, when the Court, with a conservative majority, granted each state the power to legislate on the subject. This liberal victory within a traditionally conservative state may give a glimmer of hope in other territories that will owe their abortion legislation in the coming months. Likewise, many read this vote as an endorsement of the Democratic agenda, despite a weakened Biden who has skyrocketing inflation, a slowing economy and fuel prices that many cannot afford. With a view to November's midterm elections, he gives hope to a White House that fears losing control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
WHO: "Breastfeeding is the first vaccine for babies"
This week marks World Breastfeeding Week. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made a joint statement urging governments and organizations to allocate more resources to protect lactating mothers, especially the most vulnerable . "Less than half of newborns receive breast milk in the first hour of life, and this makes them more vulnerable to disease and death," the statement said. It also ensures that breastfeeding acts as the first vaccine for babies and protects them against various childhood diseases and helps prevent malnutrition.
A huge hole appears in Chile: the authorities investigate it
A huge sinkhole has appeared in the Atacama region of Chile. It is a hole 32 meters in diameter and 64 deep. That is, higher than the tower of Pisa or a 20-story building. This is an abnormal event that has occurred in a field where copper mining activities are carried out. "This event did not affect people, equipment, or facilities, both inside and on the surface of the mine," the National Geology and Mining Service said in a press release. However, the investigations have not yet concluded and it is speculated that it may be a consequence of extractivist activities and the environmental damage they cause.
The Super Cup and the Champions League will have a semi-automatic out of place
The Super Cup and the Champions League will have a semi-automatic offside system in their next edition. UEFA Chief Referee Mauricio Mochettini said: “This innovative system will allow VAR teams to determine offside situations quickly and more accurately, thus improving game play and consistency of decisions. ” The technology works thanks to cameras that are capable of following up to 29 different body points per player. Since 2020, it has undergone a total of 188 tests.

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Shabnam Resources which is based in the outskirts of Chennai in India, is a non-profit charity organisation which devotes its time by helping children from difficult backgrounds. They do this by trying to help them have a balanced life through different activities, as well as supporting them throughout their education.
The organisation focuses primarily on community welfare, education and medical support for children from rural and semi-rural areas.
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Around 34 children from the ages 8-14 years old took part. The children were taught breathing exercises and about having a positive mindset.

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Rounding out the 2011 La Canada Flintridge Shakespeare Festival's theatrical offerings, Vanguard Repertory Company presents a raucous revival of “A Midsummer Night's Dream.”
Adapted by Matthew Kellen Burgos and the show's director, Sam R. Ross, this pared down, one-act version moves along smoothly, with scenes unfolding at a well-oiled pace.
Credit for this goes to Ross' casting of Jason Vizza as the spritely Robin Goodfellow, also known as Puck.
Vizza's performance of this mischievous elf is enchanting as he rules the roost, a sort of master puppeteer manipulating every aspect of the tale.
Never exiting the stage, Vizza provides background underscoring on a guitar for the entire production. It's an extremely effective touch.
Meanwhile, this fantastical tale is made up of various and sundry characters representing royalty, working class folk and the supernatural.
Most successful are “The Mechanicals,” a collection of laborers set on providing entertainment for the wedding of Grecian Duke Theseus and his Amazonian queen bride, Hippolyta.
David Ross Paterson leads this quintet with his portrayal of the pompously self-centered Nick Bottom, a weaver whose attempts to play every role are hilarious.
Often overshadowed by this thespian group's high jinks is the role of Peter Quince, a carpenter whose job it is to compose and direct these courtly pieces.
In this case, however, Matthew Kellen Burgos' performance is a refreshing stand-out. Frustrated at every turn by his companions' lack of focus, his simmering irritation is most entertaining.
Completing this troupe are Walter Wolfe as Francis Flute, a bellows-mender; Eliza Kiss as Tom Snout, a tinker; and Sean F. Toohey as Snug, a joiner, whose stuttering rendition of a lion is laugh-out-loud-funny.
Although theirs are the most truncated in this shortened version, Clay Wilcox and Kirstin A. Snyder provide solid performances as both the earthly royals and their fairy counterparts, Oberon and Titania.
Amidst this revelry, two pairs of excellently played lovers pursue one another through the play's forest setting with crisscrossed affections.
Zack Kraus' business-like Demetrius loves Elisa K. Blandford's precocious Hermia, but she loves Jeramy Felch's playboy-like Lysander, who hopes to elope with her.
Unfortunately, no one seems to care a whit for Lauren Dobbins Webb's lovelorn Helena, whose bespectacled eyes are set on Demetrius.
Further knotting Shakespeare's tangled web, Puck liberally sprinkles Cupid's dust, creating chaos among the quartet of paramours.
Choreographer Tracey Bonner has ably constructed this foursome's fight sequences. In particular, Blandford's pro-wrestling-style double-choking of Kraus and Felch is a near showstopper.
As an additional bonus, Vanguard acting interns Addie Wolfe and Lara Repko are delightful as Puck's impish assistants.
Located in our community's own backyard, this must-see production is worth the drive up Chevy Chase Canyon.
About the writer
DINK O'NEAL, an actor and member of the American Theatre Critics Assn., resides in Burbank.
What: “A Midsummer Night's Dream”
When: Runs in repertory with “Tragic Women” and “After the Autumn” through July 31. 8 p.m. performances.
Where: Byrnes Amphitheater, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, 440 St. Katherine Drive, La Cañada Flintridge.
Tickets: $12 to $29 for individual tickets; $22 to $48 for festival passes.
Contact: (818) 745-3327 or visit www.vanguardrep.com

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Minnesota’s health insurance exchange will be data-driven. As a subcontractor to Maximus, IBM will support the two-year, $41 million project with its Cúram software platform, the company announced Monday, July 23.
“This contract is a significant milestone in the design and development of a Minnesota health insurance exchange,” Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman said in a press release. “We can now move forward on developing the technology backbone of the exchange, a user friendly tool that will help more than 1.2 million Minnesotans choose the quality coverage they need at a price they can afford.”
The website, which is expected to launch fall 2013, will help people and businesses in the state choose a health insurance plan, similar to how Expedia or Travelocity help people find plane tickets. The software developer, called Cúram, was acquired by IBM in 2011 and is now used in more than 80 government agency projects internationally, according to IBM.
IBM says Cúram software complements the company’s Smarter Cities initiative, which aims to help governments around the globe lower costs and improve efficiency by utilizing data.


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Louisiana’s Strategic Adaptations for Future Environments will share draft strategies of projects with residents of Lafourche parish.
In this fourth round of engagement, residents will have the opportunity to review and provide feedback on the draft strategies developed by the LA SAFE team after several rounds of collaborative meetings over the course of the year.
These draft strategies will be presented in a variety of settings that could include focused discussions with participants from previous meetings, including public and elected officials; casual open-house gatherings; or table presentations at local festivals and other public spaces. The planning team will take these final suggestions into consideration as they complete the design of one adaptation strategy for each parish that addresses challenges and opportunities unique to that parish.
The result of two months of research and planning, these draft strategies follow a third round of meetings at the parish level, where residents engaged in interactive roundtable activities that showed the LA SAFE team what types of projects, programs and policy recommendations work best for their parish.
We look forward to hearing from you, the most important stakeholders, on how we should finish this crucial first step in a long-term process to adapt to a changing coastline.
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Two years ago, my life stopped. For a split second, I hung on the precipice between my old life and whatever my new life would be. Before that moment, I was the same person I’d been for almost twenty-five years; after that moment I had no idea who I’d be.
And then everything started again. I thought I’d never smile again, that this new life was the worst thing imaginable. Two years later, I realize I couldn’t have been more wrong.
A year ago I marveled at the fact that my fault genetics no longer made me cry. Two years out, I’ve realized that not only am I not crying, I’m not necessarily viewing it at as a negative. It’s something I think and talk about without dramatics, without giving it the power to destroy me. I worry about others’ reactions, but I’m able to have a sense of humor about it. I’m matter-of-fact; it often carries no more weight than the fact that I have an under-active thyroid.
Because of this gene mutation, I’ve realized the value of my life. I’ve met amazing, strong women who will be my friends for life. I’ve learned that I’m stronger than I thought, that while my life changed with my positive test results, it didn’t end.
Today is my two-year anniversary and it took me until 7:00 at night to remember the significance of the day. I feel like that’s progress. While I have a long road ahead of me (surgery, recovery, more surgery, dealing with passing the mutation to my children, and all the other things that come with BRCA), I’m happy. I’m normal. Things might be different, but I’m still me… just a little bit stronger.

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The authors did adequate modifications
The authors answer all my comments ,and these were clarified
along the manuscript. I appreciate the effort of the authors.
Please heed the reviewer's 2 comments when preparing an amended version of the manuscript.
The Authors address all the issues I raised and I am satisfied with their responses.
Adequate to answer the questions raised.
Modifications made to clarify previous issues.
Congratulation for an interesting study.
The authors answer most of the comments, figures were improved and now they showed evidence of oxidative stress in the retina of the mutant mice.
However, I do still some comments:
1. From the results, it is clear the high variability of individuals respect to different parameters such as the thickening of Bruch membrane. I can see that the age is important; in fig.1B the 7 months albino WT, showed the same outer segments length than the Abca -/- mutant at the same age.
In this respect, in the fig. S 3, the number of photoreceptor nuclei appear similar to the WT, although disorganized ; which is the age of the mice in this figure?
2. In the human experiments, time of diagnoses. How the authors interpreted the high content of pigment granules in the RPE patient (fig 8B).
3. It is clear that melanin has an important role in RPE, as has been reported for other authors and mentioned by the authors. I think discussion is long, and now another paragraph was added, which in fact support my comment.
4. The results and discussion support the fact that other factors participate in the disease , then I consider important that based on their results the authors propose which mutant may be a better model to study the Stargardt disease.
This manuscript, as stated by the reviewers, is of interest to the field, but the evidence presented (see reviews) is not adequate; therefore, if you consider submitting a revised version, you should properly address the issues and concerns set forth by both reviewers, and additional evidence and detail regarding the results should be presented. Both reviewers agree that the data presented is not enough; particularly, the evidence concerning melanin and oxidative stress should be strengthened. There is already some data in the literature regarding this last point, that should also be addressed.
This manuscript reports on a detailed work examining retinal structures in transgenic animals. The article is very extensive, with sufficient background and literature. It is written in a style that is easy to read and understand. The paper follows the structure of the Journal.
The article is within the remit of the journal.
The work examines the finer details of morphological changes associated with Stargardt disease animal models. The goal is to plug the whole in our knowledge base in regards to ultra-structural alteration induced by genetic modification.
The investigators examined many aspects of the changes that is summarized in Table 1. This investigation relays on the accuracy of methodology and I have some concern about the way the tissue was prepared for examination. For the most accurate results, animals usually perfusion fixed, that ensures the best preservation of morphology. Removing the eye and post-fixed often introduces postmortem artifacts. I see no evidence that this had been controlled for. This is even more significant for the human eye samples that was fixed 48 hours death. Relaying on that tissue for fine details is unlikely to reflect real life situation, though probably the best one can lay a hand on.
It is not entirely clear whether the method used for fixation is really cap[able of preserving lipids in the tissue, and as such the lipid section appears to be over interpreted, but this might just be my lack of knowledge of the methodologies.
I am unable to judge appropriately whether the statistics are appropriate for the study, but it would be important to check this as the used method of analysis is somewhat outside the usual methods that most people use. If this is appropriate, I suggest a short explanation why this method and what the advantage over the more regular methods are.
It will be important that the Authors carefully check the manuscript and fix the inconsistencies in reporting numbers of samples used. It is very confusing for this reviewer.
This is a largely descriptive work. This is NOT a weakness, as we are lacking details of many diseases still introduce high risk methods in trying to treat the disease. We do need proper examination of diseases associated processes, and while this paper is following one line of interest in proving the detrimental effect of lipofuscin accumulation in the RPE, an idea that is not shared equally by the eye community, still add to our knowledgeable.
Whether the data is robust enough for publication, rely on how good the methodology is, and, as above, I have issues with it, but this could be only my lack of knowledge.
Whether the work on isolated pigment really adds to the work I am not entirely sure.
All in all, the question asked is inte3resting, whether there is enough evidence to clearly couple oxidative damage to the processes is somewhat less convincing without identification of molecular changes representing oxidative changes.
It is commendable to try to tackle issues described in this manuscript using largely morphology. The authors has a long track record in publishing high quality morphological works. There needs to be assurances that this work lives up to the standards of previous works.
They speculate that melanin protect from oxidative stress, but do not present results to support that.
The manuscript fit to a very interesting field related to retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) degeneration and it is clearly written. I commend the authors for their extensive data set.
The main goal of the manuscript is the evaluation among the three models; however, the data (although probably with more details) confirm previous results but are not new. In addition, in the case of the human patient, the authors showed alterations in the RPE but not that in the retina photoreceptors cells, as indicated in the title.
In figure 7, the representative electronic microscopic images of Bruch’s membrane, indicate a significant difference in the thickness of Bruch’s membrane, that have been previously described; but that is not observed in the bottom part. Then, the images are not representative.
Figure 8, can be very important. The image of the retina is not presented, although in the text indicated that photoreceptor cells are almost completely degenerated. The figure is focus on the elevated content of pigment granules and lipofuscin; but the cell structure is lost. It is indicated that Bruch´s membrane is thickened, but the dimensions should be presented and compared with a normal individual.
Discussion is extensive. I found obvious that the Abca4-/-.Rdh8-/- mice show alterations not observed in the Abca4-/-, but it is interesting that albino mice showed greater alterations than the pigmented Abca4-/-; although the speculation that melanin can protect in some way for degeneration is reasonable, the authors do not present evidence for that.
Based in the literature the authors speculated that the effects observed in RPE morphology in mutant mice are due to an oxidative stress, but they not present evidence for that. Also, a variety of studies has demonstrated melanin as a potential scavenger of reactive oxygen species, as mentioned by the authors; therefore, results on figure 9 do not support additional information.
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Here’s what happens in “Edwin Parker” (2011), the English artist Tacita Dean’s twenty-nine-minute film of Cy Twombly: nothing much. He pads around his studio in Lexington, Virginia, in a herringbone tweed jacket and high-waisted linen trousers. He picks up a plaster object and sets it down. He opens an aerogramme and skims an article in the Financial Times. He goes to lunch at a local diner. Occasionally, he says a few words to an assistant, which we can’t quite make out. But mostly he sits, near his studio’s front window, behind drawn blinds in the fading light, impeccable and aloof, like one of his white-plaster sculptures.
Twombly died nine months after Dean filmed him, and it would be easy to see in “Edwin Parker” (the title is Twombly’s given name) fresh proof of her skill as an embalmer. For nearly twenty years, Dean has been celebrated and chastised as a chronicler of obsolescence, a maker of exquisite art about dying things: shipwrecks, abandoned buildings, aging artists, technologies long past their prime. Her preferred medium is 16-mm. film—itself an endangered form in an age in thrall to digital devices—and her preferred tempo, a snail’s pace, often tries the patience of critics and can seem a rebuke to contemporary life. (For “FILM,” her contribution to the Tate Modern’s prestigious Turbine Hall series, last fall, Dean created a sumptuous 16-mm. film that relied on painstakingly produced analog effects to showcase the medium’s aesthetic possibilities—a process I documented in a profile of Dean for the magazine.) Twombly is not the first of her subjects to die: Merce Cunningham, the artist Mario Merz, the art critic Leo Steinberg, and the poet Michael Hamburger all passed away soon after she filmed them. “I’ve always been interested in age, in interesting people, in bodies,” she told me. “People carry a lot of information in their bodies.”
One of the pleasures of “Tacita Dean: Five Americans,” an exhibition at the New Museum that features “Edwin Parker,” along with recent films of Cunningham and the artists Julie Mehretu and Claes Oldenburg (as well as several photographs of Steinberg), is the way it turns Dean’s fixation on obsolescence on its head. If there’s a unifying theme to this show, it’s not the inevitability of demise but, rather, the more mysterious imperative to create. “GDGDA” (2011) consists of two brief films (one is three minutes, the other four) of Mehretu—at forty-one, a mere child in Dean’s schema—as she completes a monumental canvas destined for the lobby of Goldman Sachs. (Calvin Tompkins wrote about the painting in a profile of Mehretu for the magazine.) We watch Mehretu and her assistants patiently dab fresh paint on top of existing layers, peel away masking tape and brown paper from finished sections, and apply what looks like an industrial blow dryer to the canvas, often mounting a scissor lift to do so. And because the films are shown on continuous loops—they are back-projected on small sheets of Plexiglas suspended side by side from the ceiling at eye level—the artist’s labors, both obsessive and mundane, never cease.
Similarly, for the sixteen minutes of “Manhattan Mouse Museum” (2011), Oldenburg, elderly but mercifully vigorous, silently rearranges knickknacks—wind-up sushi toys, plastic Popeye figurines, an impressively realistic pink leather strap-on, as well as miniature versions of his iconic sculptures—on the shelves of his New York studio, displaying a concentration that is mesmerizing to watch, and which never ends, since the film immediately begins again. But perhaps the show’s most poignant depiction of creative compulsion is “Craneway Event” (2009), which portrays Merce Cunningham rehearsing his troupe in a former Ford assembly plant overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Dean’s camera hovers near Cunningham, a rapt presence in a wheelchair, issuing terse directives in a hoarse whisper. For minutes on end, the only sound is the muffled thud of feet against floorboards. Cunningham’s troupe employed some of the most exciting modern dancers around, including the astonishing Silas Riener, and it’s a treat to watch them perform. But Dean is after something else here, not physical virtuosity per se, but, rather, the desire that sustains it. As the dancers begin their rehearsal, light floods the plant through a double row of mammoth windows. Ships inch past. Gradually, the day wanes and the light dissipates. Still the rehearsal continues, until, by the film’s final sequence, the dancers’ bodies are flickering silhouettes, indistinguishable from the encroaching blackness.
“Craneway Event” lasts nearly two hours, and when I saw it a dozen other people joined me for parts. None stayed to the end. Which is too bad, because it takes time to see past the superficial tedium of Dean’s work to the compelling questions that lurk in it, among them: Why make art? Dean is a mystic, and her recent films are best understood in this light, as awed testaments to the ineffable process by which obsession, solitude, boredom, and repetition are transfigured in the studio. Twombly doesn’t make any art in “Edwin Parker,” but near the end of the film Dean’s camera takes in a wall, on which spatters of dried paint mark the spot where a canvas once hung. In its place are narrow bands of gray—shadows cast by the window blind across the room. Together, the spatters and the shadows suggest a phantasm, the painting in the artist’s mind.
Twombly makes art because he can’t do otherwise. According to a wall plaque at the exhibition, Dean told him that she is afraid of flying but tolerates it for the sake of her art. Twombly commiserated, revealing that as a child the act of painting sometimes made him so anxious that his mother wondered why he persisted. “Does painting make you happy now?” Dean asked. To which Twombly replied, “More or less.”
Installation shot of Tacita Dean’s “Edwin Parker,” 2011. Courtesy the artist/Marian Goodman Gallery/Frith Street Gallery, London.

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The longtime NBA head coach Karl was trying to build his teams like Sloan and the Jazz.
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🗣👂🏽Former #NBA head coach @CoachKarl22 took time to join me on Friday to discuss his memories of Coach Jerry Sloan🐐as well as the legacy of the legendary Utah Jazz coach. Hear that full conversation 👇🏽#TakeNote l #MileHighBasketball l #RIPJerrySloanhttps://t.co/6V7hKb2CDY
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Karl had six stops in the NBA including time with the Cleveland Cavaliers from 1984-86, Seattle Supersonics from 1992-98, Milwaukee Bucks from 1998-03, Denver Nuggets from 2005-13 and Sacramento Kings from 2015-16.
Karl met Sloan in the Jazz many times in the NBA playoffs with both the Supersonics and the Nuggets. They met three times throughout their careers in the postseason. The first time was in the first round of the 1993 postseason when the Sonics beat the Jazz in five games. The second time was in the 1996 Western Conference Finals where Seattle pulled out the series in Game 7 at home.
📺 SportsBeat: Jerry Sloan Special 📺 @JJSportsBeat and @SFarnsworthKSL give @utahjazz fans a peek behind the curtains into the who Coach Sloan was as a person and the career that he had. #TakeNote #JerrySloan #NBATwitter https://t.co/CHss0vTl54
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“We were up 3-1 and we thought we had the series won,” Karl recalled. “They came back and won a tough game in Seattle and blew us out in Salt Lake City. We won a really close game in Game 7.”
Finally, the two met in the first round of the 2010 NBA Playoffs when the Jazz beat the Denver Nuggets in six games.
“He believes in physical and aggressive play,” Karl said. “He was a no nonsense kind of guy that doesn’t want to hear about individuality, it’s a team game, is demanding at the defensive end of the court and very clever and smart. Smart is not talked about by NBA fans and media. But having an intelligent basketball team was the forte of a Jerry Sloan basketball team.”
Division Rivals With Denver
As division rivals, Karl and the Nuggets would face Sloan and the Jazz at least four times during the regular season and they even met once in the postseason. Back then, Karl had Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson who would create great matchups and make for great games among the rocky mountain teams.
“The thing we always respected was how well they were coached,” Karl said. “They could change their personality. We only had one personality and that was to play fast. But, if you went to Utah and wanted to play fast, they would play fast with you.”
"His teams played hard. They played together and they were a very smart basketball team.” – former @NBA head coach @CoachKarl22 told @SFarnsworthKSL. #TakeNote #JerrySloan #NBATwitter https://t.co/OKTscTgilB
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Karl knew that Sloan was known for his defense but admired his offense.
“He (Jerry Sloan) was a masterful coach of offense,” Karl mentioned. “I know he was known for his defense but his versatility and creativity offensively was well admired by most coaches in the NBA.”
Farnsworth asked Karl what was Sloan’s defining legacy as a head coach.
“I think in 23 years and sustaining excellence in one city, he and (Gregg) Popovich are the only guys that I can remember that last that long in one city. To stay with one franchise and one organization shows the character of both the organization and also the head coach. Also, his loyalty to the game and to the profession of coaching.”
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KIR Gene Variant and PD-1 Blockade
Trefny et al., p. 3026
Resistance to PD-(L)1 immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) is common in non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Trefny and colleagues have identified KIR3DS1, a genetic variation of a NK cell receptor, as a mediator of resistance to ICI in NSCLC patients. The KIR3DS1 variant and NK cell dysfunction were linked to clinical progression under PD-(L)1 therapy. This finding offers a new therapeutic approach to overcome such resistance by targeting NK cells, thus establishing effective antitumor immunity.
Clonal Heterogeneity of T-Cell Lymphoma
Hamrouni et al., p. 3104
The etiopathogenesis of mature T-cell lymphomas is still an enigma. Mycosis fungoides (MF), the most common cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, is thought to be caused by malignant transformation of a mature T cell residing in the skin. To pinpoint the relationship between the neoplastic cells in biopsies from MF tumors, Hamrouni and colleagues performed a detailed analysis of the T-cell receptor rearrangements using deep sequencing. They found evidence strongly supporting the notion that malignant cells are clonally diverse and probably originating from an immature precursor cell. New therapeutic strategies should therefore target those early lymphoma precursor cells.
Exosomal Chimeric RNA in Cancer
Lin et al., p. 3035
Aberrant trans-splicing-induced GOLM1-NAA35 chimeric RNA is enriched in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and correlates with patient outcome. Because saliva collection is noninvasive and painless, Lin and colleagues evaluated the clinical utility of salivary exosomal GOLM1-NAA35 as a candidate esophageal cancer biomarker using human cells, a mouse model, and saliva samples from several patient cohorts. The discoveries highlight a new approach with translational clinical potential as a convenient, nonradiological and noninvasive test for early cancer detection, therapeutic response measurement, and close monitoring for recurrence.
Serum miRNA Biomarker for Prostate Cancer
Urabe et al., p. 3016
The high false-positive rate of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) may lead to unnecessary prostate biopsy, an invasive procedure that can cause severe complication. In this study, Urabe and colleagues analyzed microRNA microarray data from 1,091 serum samples of prostate cancer (PCa), negative prostate biopsy, and healthy controls to identify a potential screening diagnostic tool for PCa. They found the combination of two miRNAs was able to detect PCa in men with suspected PCa. This model could help reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies and improve the accuracy of diagnosis.

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February 13, 2023
In the presence of HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, HE Suhail Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, and HE Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), and HE Saif Humaid Al Falasi, CEO of ENOC Group, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between DEWA and Enoc to cooperate in a feasibility study to establish, develop and operate a joint integrated pilot project for the use of hydrogen in mobility. This proposed project will take advantage of DEWA’s existing green hydrogen production facility in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park and ENOC's knowledge of the fuel market and reach to customers.
The MoU was signed on the first day of the World Government Summit 2023. The signing ceremony was attended by officials from the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, DEWA, and Enoc.
The MoU supports the UAE's hosting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28) later this year. The project includes a feasibility study for building a hydrogen fueling station, contributing to achieving the goals of the Dubai Green Mobility Initiative 2030, which aims to stimulate the use of sustainable means of transportation, and supports the national hydrogen vehicle system, which aims to develop the hydrogen economy in the UAE and open local markets to hydrogen vehicles.
HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of DEWA, said: “DEWA and ENOC Group have a strategic partnership that supports the vision and directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to promote Dubai's position as a global model in sustainability and green transformation. We are pleased to sign this MoU with ENOC Group to use green hydrogen, which is one of the environmentally friendly energy sources and represents one of the pillars of a sustainable future that depends on accelerating the transition to net-zero carbon emissions in order to achieve the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and Dubai Net-zero Carbon Strategy 2050 to provide 100% of energy production capacity from clean energy sources by 2050.”
"The Green Hydrogen project supports the UAE’s hosting of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), and is in line with Dubai's firm commitment to sustainability and its unwavering support for energy and climate change issues, and our vision to be “A globally leading sustainable innovative corporation committed to achieving net-zero by 2050.” We are moving steadily to prepare a roadmap for a green hydrogen strategy that will be implemented in phases, as well as our strategy to diversify energy sources and increase investments in them, by supporting innovation, research and development in energy storage technologies, including green hydrogen, which is described by many as the “fuel of the future” that will play an important role not only in the global energy mix, but also in mitigating the effects of global warming,” added HE Al Tayer.
His Excellency Saif Humaid Al Falasi, Group CEO at ENOC, said: “ENOC Group’s partnership with DEWA follows the announcement of 2023 as the 'Year of Sustainability' by the UAE’s President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. It also aligns with the Dubai Economic Agenda 'D33' that was announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. The agreement underpins the Group’s efforts to nurture public-private partnerships to achieve Dubai’s Clean Energy Strategy 2050 as well as lay the foundation for a green economy and lead the adoption of sustainable energy solutions.”
“Given the relentless efforts made by DEWA in the field of sustainability and the provision of environmentally friendly energy solutions, we are extremely pleased to strengthen our relationship with the authority. ENOC Group is committed to providing energy supplies and continuously supporting the UAE’s energy transition efforts. The Group’s contribution to establishing hydrogen fuel supply stations stems from the vital role that ENOC plays in the UAE’s field of fuel supply and its extensive experience in this industry,” added His Excellency.


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FF-XIII.net reporter Maiki has written summaries of both the Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy XIII trailers from the Jump Festa. These were written in English and not translated via google unlike earlier misleading reports.
Final Fantasy XIII
-Music was a slow peaceful string-centric orchestral piece
-Very pale-skinned lady in a white flowy dress and feathery hair played a huge harp on a watery surface
-In a dark space, a floating object spewed out a bunch of CD-like discs all over the place and Pigtails Girl picked one
-Later you see a small creature with white body but greeny face summoned (out of the disc?) and the girl smiled at it
The article continues with Versus as well as features artwork draw from seeing the characters in the trailers.


The outlets changed from the early design (left) to the late design (right) for the '94 MY. Here are a few part numbers for the late design:
The 3.8L’s may have stuck with the splayed design. It’s been too long for me to recall.I never knew this. If you look under 1997 and 3.8 it shows the split style but the 4.6 shows the correct one. I assumed they would be the same so I never looked.
For what it's worth, official Ford guidance (via a TSB) was not to ground. We had a thread about that not too long ago.I am going to run a ground strap to it either way.
Exactly. My genuine theory is they were concerned technicians would fasten the other end of the wire to a poor point contact that wouldn’t stop the electrolysis, so rather than risking a return visit from the same customer armed with a complaint their core failed despite their touted repair, walking back the TSB on paper all gets the stealership off the hook, and rake in the hours for another heater core jobIf you ground ALL parts of the cooling system together it will not corrode. Block, radiator core, and heater core. The radiator core is not grounded in our car except by accident, unless you do it yourself. That's what most people miss.
Or just wrap electrical tape around the copper strands and hose outlet and then put the stainless clamp over the tape to tighten it together, then the stainless clamp won’t react with eitherAs long as you don't drill thru a tube, there's no danger. A copper wire touching a stainless ho se clamp is going to corrode in winter driving. A good ring terminal is tin/lead dipped, or at least, the 30 yo box I have is. It helps a lot. Galvanic corrosion is a *, lol.
To eliminate it, requires extreme measures. So, just inspect and replace as necessary. If you replace the coolant every two years, you'll never have a problem, three years is too long, from personal experience. If it turns brown, it has boiled, and needs replaced.
Here's the table; the further apart right-left, the higher the potential. To eliminate the corrosion, you have to remove the voltage, or the electrolye. Rainwater is mildly conductive, but you add salt, you have an unwanted battery.


Benefiting from Monochromatic and Broadband Algorithms in the same Coating Process.
Broadband monitoring with high signal quality enables use of both broadband and monochromatic layer termination algorithms in the same process when depositing optical interference coatings. Evatec’s Stephan Waldner, Juergen Buchholz, and Rico Benz present case studies using a bandpass filter and an absorbing layer to show how such a “hybrid” approach can lead to the most accurate layer termination.
An essential component of state-of-the-art deposition systems for the development and production of optical interference coatings is an in-situ optical monitor. By measuring either transmittance or reflectance on a product or a specific monitor substrate during film growth, the termination of each layer can be controlled based on the actual optical performance of the coating.
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08-08-2010, 11:55 PM #1
Looking For badminton Players @Bukit Damansara
Anyone intrested in playing at Damansara comminity centre, we are short of players, looking out for permanent players, atleast 4 players needed..we are a mix group of average to above average players ...call me if anyone is intrested to join us...
Location:Bukit Damansara Community Centre
08-09-2010, 10:37 PM #2
You can join this group http://www.badmintoncentral.com/foru...ad.php?t=84346. I think it is near your place (actually i'm not familiar with this area). Some of my friends are playing there and they are very good.
08-10-2010, 04:23 AM #3
hey thanks...but the place u mention is very very far from my place....not worth goin so far...
09-12-2010, 06:44 AM #4
You still got spot for me? Love to join you guys..
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It was an overcast afternoon, yet still one to appreciate during this new transition into fall, when I went to meet Adriana Adelé for tea and a conversation about her experiences as a yoga instructor. I first came across Adriana’s work on Instagram during a search to find a yoga studio and instructor to begin practicing with. As a black woman myself, Adriana’s account was one that instantly stood out to me for connection.Read More
It was a breath of fresh air + the beginning of a new era as the Philadelphia Eagles brought the Vince Lombardi Super Bowl Championship Trophy home to Broad Street this Thursday. All love was spread throughout the entire city, as millions celebrated one unified dream come true.
Photographers, Cath Alyse (@cathalyse) + victoriadrianna captured moments from their point of views.Read More


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With all the numbers hinting at a housing market recovery (the National Association of Realtors posted another positive chart this afternoon), it’s a good time to take a look at a recent speech by Elizabeth A. Duke, a Federal Reserve board governor, talking about the challenge of what to do with the millions of homes in America that nobody seems to want.
As of the end of June there are just over 132.7m housing units in America, and 10.6% of them – more than 14m – are vacant all year round for some reason or another. That very broad number includes everything from holiday homes to places in the temporary purgatory between being rented or sold and being moved into by the new occupant. But at the pointy end of that spectrum are nearly four million homes that aren’t just sitting unsold or unrented - they’re not even on the market.
And while vacant properties are broadly decreasing in number, as more are sold or rented, that final “other” number – places simply not on the market and not being used for anything, has actually increased in the last year. And these vacant homes are bad news for all involved, bringing down property values around them, falling into disrepair, and often attracting higher crime rates and other social problems.
So what to do? A few thoughts from Dukes speech, after the jump.

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At the launch of its 2017 MotoGP team, Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali confirmed to the assembled press that the Italian marque was working on a V4 superbike, which echoes the rumors we have heard over the past two years.
It shouldn’t surprise readers to hear that the model’s development comes directly from Ducati’s work in MotoGP, which is based around the 1,000cc 90° V4 engine that currently powers the Ducati Desmosedici GP race bike.
“The engine development we have made in MotoGP is exceptional,” Domenicali told our man David Emmett at the MotoGP team launch. “We have an engine which is very reliable, very light, compact and has a lot of interesting technology. We are seriously thinking of introducing it to regular customers, because it is a masterpiece of engineering.”
“Of course, translated into a something that can be sold for a reasonable, if not premium price,” Domenicali added. “So, it will not be a kind of exotic bike like the Desmosedici, but a more regular high-end sport bike.”
Domenicali of course would not let slip when we would see such a model from Ducati, though our sources say it will be a 2018 model, and that it will be offered in limited quantities, and be geared towards meeting the homologation requirements set by the FIM.
Domenicali seemed to confirm this notion when he was asked if the new superbike would geared to racing in the World Superbike Championship – to which he responded, “absolutely, yes.”
In other words, the V4 superbike is set to replace the Panigale R in Ducati’s lineup, and also be Ducati’s racing platform going forward in production-based racing championships.
Of course, Domenicali wouldn’t confirm that the machine would have a 1,000cc engine displacement (though WBSK rules would suggest so), and there are some hints from the CEO that the V4 platform would include some advances in aerodynamics, like what we have seen on the company’s MotoGP race bikes.
While our sources tell us to expect the V4 superbike to debut much later this year, at the EICMA show in Milan, we likely won’t see it racing until the 2019 season though. This is because of Ducati’s long-held pattern of developing its race bike’s first in national race series, before taking it to the world stage in WorldSBK.
Ducati Sporting Director Paolo Ciabatti’s comments the team launch seem to confirm this notion, limiting his words on the future of the v-twin power plant to the 2017 and 2018 seasons in World Superbike.
“For sure we will race with the Panigale for 2017 and 2018,” said Ciabatti, when we asked him. But, there can be no denying the fact that the current World Superbike rules favor bikes with a four-cylinder design – a departure from the “Ducati Cup” rules we saw in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
So what does the future hold for Ducati’s v-twin superbike platform?
There certainly will be push-back from loyal Ducatisti to the concept of a four-cylinder superbike from the Italian brand, that much is certain.
But, limiting the V4 power plant only to a homologation-focused model might be the best way for the Italian brand to walk the thin line between heritage and racing rules. As such, we would expect to see Ducati keeping its commitment to the v-twin design, if only for street and track enthusiasts.
This could prove to be a strong strategy, as the v-twin power plant has many advantages over engine designs with more cylinders, namely in physical size and overall weight.
Free from the constraints of building a bike that must conform to the parameters of a racing rulebook, Ducati is free to take full advantage of its v-twin knoweldge.
We can see this philosophy already in the Ducati 959 Panigale and Ducati 1299 Panigale models, which rival other relevant sport bikes in size and weight, yet effectively use a much larger v-twin power plants.
This two-pronged strategy also allows Ducati to introduce innovations that would otherwise be banned by racing regulations. This would surely mean more aerodynamic advances for street bikes, but could also include technologies like motorcycling’s first proper kinetic energy recovery system (KERS).
Not only is this an exciting prospect, but it also serves Ducati’s goal of being a technology adoption leader in the motorcycle industry. Stay tuned, loyal A&R reader and Ducati lovers.


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Although most of us would like to somehow lose weight, most people have a hard time really dedicating themselves to a strict exercise program and dietary plan. There is a way to facilitate weight loss without taking any excessive measures, but by simply eating the right foods. You can easily include these weight loss foods into your regular diet without making much changes.
Some foods are harder for our bodies to break down and some take more time to absorb. This has a direct effect on your weight loss since the harder it is to break down, the more energy we will use up (burning more calories), and the more time it takes to digest, the more time we don't feel hungry. The best weight loss foods that might be found in your fridge are chicken breasts, fish, lean red meat, egg whites, and fish. These are high and protein and low in fat which is exactly what you are looking for.
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Whole grains like: whole wheat products (breads, tortillas, pasta), rye bread, brown rice, and other grains. It's an excellent idea to add terrific appetite suppressors to your salads, such as pine nuts.
4-5 daily servings of vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, beans, asparagus, celery and squash.
3 daily servings of fruit including lots of berries (especially acai berries), pomegranates, grapes, peaches, oranges, and cantaloupe.
Spices like cayenne pepper and cinnamon.
Try to restrict consumption of simple carbohydrates as they facilitate the release of insulin into the bloodstream, which directly stimulate fat storage and with time rises your chances of developing diabetes and becoming obese. To prevent this, avoid sugary deserts, white rice, white pasta, white bread, and sugar or icing in any form.

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Holmes County School District’s Plan To Withstand Lack of Bus Drivers
The Holmes County School District, like many others, is experiencing a bus driver shortage. Because of this long-standing issue, school bus routes have been reduced from 34 to 30.
According to Superintendent Buddy Brown, this issue has persisted, with retired drivers not being replaced. Despite the fact that many prospects apply, many do not finish the onboarding process.
Adapting with Consolidation and Dual Roles
To deal with the situation, the district has implemented a bus route consolidation scheme. This consolidation has recently occurred in Ponce De Leon, for example.
Furthermore, the district is deploying its current personnel in dual roles, where they accomplish their primary responsibilities while simultaneously serving as substitute bus drivers.
The Challenge Of Hiring On A Tight Budget
The process of becoming a school bus driver is far more complicated than that of becoming an over-the-road truck driver. Candidates must get a passenger endorsement, which causes many to fail the physical examination.
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This budgetary constraint affects efforts to recruit and retain qualified bus drivers, aggravating the district’s transportation quandary.


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As an electronic publication of the Truman Library, users should note that features of the original, hardcopy version of the oral history interview, such as pagination and indexing, could not be replicated for this online version of the Aylward transcript.
Opened September, 1976
Oral History Interview with
Kansas City, Missouri
FUCHS: Mr. Aylward, I wish you would give me, sir, a brief autobiographical statement--when and where you were born, your schooling, and so forth.
AYLWARD: I was born in Peoria, Illinois, 1885. My father and mother were Irish immigrants. They brought me to Kansas City when I was six months of age and I have lived here continuously ever since. All the other members of the family were born in Kansas City, Missouri--some twelve brothers and sisters. I went to parochial and public schools until the fifth grade and then I got a job. I was a newsboy, newspaper carrier, Western Union messenger boy, a cash boy in the department stores; had jobs of a similar character, office boy for a merchandise brokerage here. About 1899 I was in an office in the
West Bottoms and transferred from there to the New York Life Building. There I met Mr. Frank P. Walsh, who was a very prominent lawyer, and became fascinated with his career and reputation and ability, and wound up as his office boy. Frank Walsh was actively engaged in local and state politics--he was a member of the state committee and prominent in politics for his own crowd, the Shannon organization in Kansas City as opposed to the old State House crowd that was in power at that time. That was Governor Dockery and Allen who was treasurer, and Sam B. Cook, who was Secretary of State, and Joel Stone who was in the Senate--who really dominated and controlled the politics of Missouri at the time.
There was a controversy over the leadership and a division in the party. Joseph Folk of the City of St. Louis was the circuit attorney and prosecuted the boodlers in St. Louis; those who had received and accepted bribes or solicited bribes for the support of franchises granted to suburban railroads and other utilities; and he made an enviable reputation for obtaining convictions of members of the council and other leaders from the outside who had any connection with the bribery scandals. He became a candidate for Governor, and he established a statewide
reputation as a law enforcement officer, the leader of the party in St. Louis; and he ran against Mr. Harry Hawes, who was the leader of the Jefferson Democratic Club in St. Louis and who was aligned with Ed Butler, the boss of the City of St. Louis, for Governor of the State of Missouri. He won the primary election of the delegates to the state convention--the majority of them--and he was nominated over Hawes for Governor of the State of Missouri.
FUCHS: And this was what year, sir?
AYLWARD: 1904. Walsh supported Folk and so did Shannon, and they became the dominating leaders in Jackson County, Missouri on account of the Folk election. As far as patronage is concerned, why, they were in control of practically all of it.
Well, during those campaigns, as office boy I kept track of all of the charges and the debates, that is an account of them carried in the newspapers, concerning all the personalities in these campaigns, and from then on I kept a scrapbook, for every year thereafter I assume, about politics. So that's my introduction to
politics, and I was a member of the Shannon organization, faction in those days. I was unanimously selected by the leaders of the Democratic Party in Jackson County in, oh, say 1920 or maybe prior thereto, as chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Committee; and I continued in the office of chairman of the county committee for a period thereafter of sixteen to eighteen years. I was engaged in organizing the Democrats in the party into one unified and harmonious group, so that we could present a united front to the Republican organization, and we set up all the latest departments for accomplishing that effect. We perhaps had the strongest, the most powerful, and the most efficient political organization in this state at that time--all that time up until past the election of Truman.
FUCHS: Were you ever affiliated with the Shannon organization?
AYLWARD: I was affiliated originally with the Shannon organization.
So the leaders, Pendergast and Shannon and others, agreed that I should be selected as chairman of the Democratic County Committee and that was done and, as I
say, I was the man who was selected every two years thereafter. I used my good offices to keep the so-called bosses together. When they'd have a controversy, why, I did everything I could to bring about a rapprochement to prevent disunity, so that we could continue to win. There were many good experiences of that type.
FUCHS: You were practicing law all this time?
AYLWARD: Practicing law at this time, I was a partner of Frank Walsh--started as office boy and wound up as his law partner. He supported Woodrow Wilson for President and he was named by Woodrow Wilson as chairman of the Industrial Relations Commission in Washington to set up an investigation of the labor practices, the labor situation, and conditions throughout the country for the purpose of introducing legislation to correct evils that they encouraged in industry such as child labor, sweatshops, wages and hours, and sanitary conditions, and so forth; so he went from here to New York and Washington and opened an office in New York and Washington and I continued to practice law here in Kansas City and attended his office. He remained away for practically the rest of his life. He
came here occasionally. After his service on the Industrial Relations Commission he was appointed, with William Howard Taft, as co-chairman of the War Labor Board during the First World War. He served until Wilson went out of office in 1920.
I said I continued to manage the executive organization and to set up all the departments, I don't want you to think I did it all on my own. I had plenty of cooperation and help from the party leaders and the workers and the precinct captains and every person who was a member of the organization. We built this organization to the zenith of its power and we had I'd say 7,500 persons who were directly interested in winning elections for the Democratic Party. We had plenty of precinct workers--ten or twelve people to a precinct. They were not all jobholders; we didn't have that many jobs. We set up a registration department and polling department. We polled every householder, every voter in the community--this hasn't been done here for some twenty years. We knew from day to day who the voters were and what their predilections were, their selection of candidates in either party, or if they were independent or irregular. Whenever we polled
a voter and he manifested some doubts, why, we didn't put him down as doubtful, we put him in the Republican column. So that we actually had a substantial, accurate, truthful poll, and, as I say, it covered the entire city and most of the county--the townships out in the county. We had that kind of a working organization. We had all the various committees usually operating in an election; speakers' committee; habeas corpus committee to take care of members of the organization who were arrested for some violation of the law, when they really weren't violating the law, just to get rid of them, get rid of their services in the precinct. So we managed to get them out of jail so they could continue to work. In those days, from 1920 to '32, for twelve long years the Republicans were in power in this state. Hyde was elected Governor in 1920 and Baker in '24 and Caulfield in '28; so we had considerable opposition at that time and we were out of office almost out of the county and city until '26, when there was a charter election. There was a conference among the leaders of the party as to whether or not we should support this charter that was prepared and drafted by a political committee who were not close to the
Democrats. We believed that it was dominated by the Republicans. Prior to the adoption of the charter we had a councilmanic form of government. We had sixteen wards and sixteen aldermen in a lower house and sixteen in an upper house, and a mayor, and comptroller, and treasurer, and an auditor. That was the old form of government. So that was scrapped but the question for the leaders to decide was whether or not we should support this charter or be against it--what would be best for the party organization--whether we could live viably under it--continue to be a success as a political unit in Jackson County and Kansas City, particularly. So Pendergast and Welch after a conference decided they'd support the charter, and Shannon decided he'd be against it; so the charter was adopted.
FUCHS: That was Cass Welch?
AYLWARD: Cass Welch on Fifteenth Street, yes. He was the leader of the second ward in those days and he became aligned and affiliated with Pendergast, and we were all friends. Part of the Shannon crowd then departed from Mr. Shannon and joined Pendergast in support of the
adoption of the charter and thereafter in the election to nominate the candidates to office. After the charter was adopted, there was a primary election and we filed candidates for all the offices. The twelve councilmen and mayor- perhaps at that time they didn't have that many but that was the setup--one from each district. There were four councilmanic districts--one from the local district and the other four at large and a mayor, so that's nine. Shannon filed a ticket in the primary and Pendergast and Welch, and the others who went along with Pendergast, they supported the Pendergast slate in that primary, and the Pendergast slate won. Shannon was defeated by a substantial majority. Then the question arose what we were going to do about the division that would occur because of Shannon's defeat. So I waited a few days until after the election and then I went to see Mr. Thomas J. Pendergast; and I suggested to Pendergast that something ought to be done to induce Mr. Shannon to support the ticket in the general election because there was great danger of suffering a defeat if he didn't go along, if he bolted the ticket it had been bolted before and then been defeated. Well, he said, "Nobody can talk to him. You can't make deals with him."
I said, "Well, don't despair about it. I've got a suggestion I'd like to make to you."
He said, "oh, what is it?"
"Well," I said, "why don't you agree to give him one third of the patronage if we win, and two members of the nine directors to be appointed by the mayor or city manager, in a city manager form of government."
"Oh," he said, "he won't do that, you can't induce him to accept it."
"Well," I said, "you never know until you try."
I came uptown from his office at 1908 Main, and the Shannon organization had headquarters in the Law Building on the second floor, 9th and Walnut; and I went into the club's office and there was only one person there that morning and that was Peter J. Kelley, who was one of the first lieutenants of Mr. Shannon. Of course, they were in the doldrums, they were much disappointed, and despairing about what was going to happen to them politically, because it was either quit or bolt the ticket to try to beat the Democratic ticket. Of course these candidates did not run under any party label; they were just filed by organization but the candidates
we filed were all Democrats. Well, I said to Kelly, "I've got a suggestion I'd like to make to Mr. Shannon and I'd like to have you confer with him and transmit this suggestion to him."
And he said, "What is it?"
I said, "Assume that Pendergast and the crowd with him would consent to give Shannon a third of the patronage and two of the nine directors, don't you think it's a matter of justice and fairness in a division of the patronage that Shannon should support the ticket?"
Well, he said, "There's nothing we can do now but bolt."
Well, I said, "If you bolt, you're through forever--never come back at your age and that probably goes for others, too.
He said, "They won't do that."
I said, "You never know what they'll do until the effort is made;" I said, "You go and see Mr. Shannon." So he went over to see Shannon and of course Shannon laughed at him. He contacted Mr. Shannon and Mr. Shannon called me on the telephone. He said, "Pete Kelley is in my office and he tells me that you called
on him this morning at the Law Building and made certain suggestions to him what might be done to induce our organization to support the ticket."
I said, "Yes, that's true."
He said, "Well, I'd like to see you."
I said, "I'll come over to your office."
He said, "No, I'll come over to yours."
He sat down and he looked me over very carefully and critically, and asked me about this proposal and I said, "Well, now, I'm not committed to make that proposal to you but I'm willing t

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Blueprints for the GIS Module
The original GIS module is described here:
We use OpenLayers to display Maps with a few MapFish widgets.
We plan to use an integrated MapServer to display Shapefiles & Images
Q: Are we better-off supporting GeoServer?
- MapFish & OpenGeo do this
- GeoServer uses OpenLayers as native preview
- Next version of GeoServer will feature a REST configuration API!
We should aim to be compatible with UN Logistics: http://www.logcluster.org/mapcenter/unsdi
Ideas from here could be useful: http://mapsgeek.com/
- Locations Hierarchy
- Real-Time Tracking
- Spatial Storage
- UAV - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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December 10, 2013 at 3:05 PM
As they continue preparations for the Fight Hunger Bowl, the Huskies will resume practicing on Friday morning at the Dempsey Indoor facility, under the direction of interim coach Marques Tuiasosopo.
UW will practice again on Saturday, take Sunday off, and then practice Monday through Thursday. All practices will remain closed to the public and the media (except for the first 20 minutes of warmups and the stretching period).
The Huskies will depart for San Francisco on Dec. 22 and then have four practices at the City College of San Francisco before playing BYU at AT&T Park on Dec. 27.
Including two practices from this past weekend, that’s 12 bowl practices scheduled, of the 15 allowable.
New coach Chris Petersen said he will have a hands-off role during these December practices.

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Huawei Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro specs and screen protectors leaked; prices for the Mate 40 Pro allegedly starting from 5,999 yuan (US$863)
Noted leaker Teme (@RODENT950) has been sharing a considerable amount of information about the Huawei Mate 40 series. First up are some supposed specifications for the smartphones, of which some had already been leaked a few days ago. The Huawei Mate 40 (“Ocean”) will apparently sport a 6.67-inch curved display from LG that offers a 90 Hz refresh rate. As for camera equipment, it seems users will enjoy a 50 MP + 20 MP (ultra-wide) + 8 MP (telephoto) setup. The Mate 40 will also have the Kirin 9000 SoC, 8 or 12 GB RAM, and a choice of 128 GB, 256 GB, or 512 GB storage space.
As for the Huawei Mate 40 Pro (“Noah”), the tipster states that the high-end smartphone will sport a waterfall-type display from either LG or BOE that is capable of a 90 Hz refresh rate. The smartphone will also be powered by the HiSilicon Kirin 9000 chip and will offer a 50 MP (“liquid lens”) + 80 MP (ultra-wide) camera setup that is joined by a periscope lens and ToF sensor. Teme also mentions three battery capacities, which could be for the Mate 40, Mate 40 Pro, and a Mate 40 Pro+ device, which are listed as 4,300 mAh, 4,600 mAh, and 5,000 mAh. There is also an emoji of a salt shaker at the bottom of the tipster's tweet, so of course take this leak with a pinch of salt.
Along with the images of the Huawei Mate 40 and Huawei Mate 40 Pro screen protectors (see below), there were also some prices mentioned for the Pro models. Apparently, the 128 GB model will cost 5,999 yuan (US$863), the 256 GB variant will be priced at 6,499 yuan (US$935), and the 512 GB Huawei Mate 40 Pro will allegedly cost 7,399 yuan (US$1,065). It’s not known exactly whether the whole Mate 40 series will be released outside of China, with a recent report stating that European fans will only be treated to a Huawei Mate 40 Lite model. The Huawei Mate 40 devices are expected to be released sometime in September.


American chain restaurant TGI Friday’s will be subject to more than 30 nationwide demonstrations today (Wednesday 4 July 2018) in a dispute over the organisation’s tip policy.
The demonstrations, which have been organised by trade union Unite, will take place at three London restaurants, as well as sites in the north-west, Wales and Glasgow. Available employees are participating in the demonstrations, alongside Unite’s community membership and other members wishing to support affected TGI Friday’s staff.
According to Unite, the dispute concerns unpaid trial shifts, minimum wage non-compliance, and the organisation taking 40% of waiters’ tips from card payments to redistribute, in lieu of providing a pay rise to kitchen staff.
The changes to TGI Friday’s tip policy is estimated to cost minimum wage employees £250 a month in lost wages, according to Unite.
Unite members working at TGI Friday’s have already undertaken four days of strike action over consecutive Fridays between 18 May 2018 and 8 June 2018 in relation to these complaints.
The trade union has previously stated that waiting staff over the age of 25 earn £7.83 an hour, and waiters aged between 18 and 20 earn £5.90 an hour, with tips typically used to boost these incomes.
TGI Friday’s ranked third on the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) March 2018 minimum wage non-compliance list for failing to pay 2,302 employees a total of £59,347.64.
Dave Turnbull, regional officer at Unite, said: “The fourth of July is a big celebration for the American-themed restaurant chain, and Unite wants to make it a day they’ll never forget. Our members are tired of being ignored and very upset that the [organisation] and its [chief executive officer] Karen Forrester, are refusing to recognise the financial hardship and anxiety its decision has caused.
“We are protesting because we don’t think it’s right that big name chains like TGI Friday’s are using the tips customers use as a ‘thank you’ for good service to subsidise their own poor pay policies. Kitchen staff used to be paid more, in recognition of their skill, but the gap has narrowed since the introduction of the government’s national living wage in 2016.
“TGI Friday’s needs to pay all staff fairly and dig into its own pockets, instead of robbing the tips from one group of low paid [employees] to pay off another. And it should be up to staff to decide how tips are shared out, not employers.”
TGI Friday’s was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.


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I had a visitor come to live with me in the New Year. She actually arrived on New Years Eve and she's found a home for now on my Wall of Random Beauty in my bedroom.
Early in December, I was visiting one of my favorite bloggers, Jeanette of Sweet Jeanette fame.
Jeanette is a very talented blogger, writer, cook and seamstress. Jeanette is pretty much good at anything she puts her mind to and I love to visit her blog.
On this particular day in December she was hosting a giveaway of a beautiful Angel that she had made and named Hope. I of course entered the giveaway cause who doesn't love a giveaway? And amazingly enough...I won!
Hope arrived in my home on New Years Eve. She's beautiful and much larger than I thought she would be although Jeanette said she was larger than she looked online!
Hope immediately found a spot to rest after her long trip from Florida. She noticed that there was an empty spot my Wall of Random Beauty.
I call this My Wall of Random beauty as I want to use this wall to feature items that I find beautiful.
I hope to use the items on the wall for a while and change the items out regularly with other beautiful items. That way my Wall of Random Beauty will always have beautiful things on it that inspire me and make me smile. This wall is at the foot of my bed so it is the first thing I see when I wake in the morning. My sister-in-law Connie gave me the framed "It's a Wonderful Life" picture and it's a great reminder on those days when I don't feel like getting up that it is after all a wonderful life...so it's best to just get up and get at it! Life I mean :-)
Here's a close-up of Hope. Can you believe Jeanette hand-made this Angel? I am so impressed and so in love with this lovely Angel and I'm sure during the year she will find other spots in my home to give HOPE to!
Thank you Jeannette for giving me Hope in the New Year!


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Upon introduction, both trims are equipped with a standard 3.6-liter, H6, 444-horsepower, turbo engine that achieves 15-mpg in the city and 22-mpg on the highway. A 6-speed manual transmission with overdrive is standard, and a 5-speed automatic transmission with overdrive is optional.
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Pro A-F system: it makes school ratings understandable
On Aug. 15, the Texas Education Agency will issue report cards for our schools. We do this for two main reasons. First, parents should know how well our schools are performing so they can better support their children. Second, educators benefit from having clear information about school performance, highlighting successes and challenges, to help improve support for students over time.
This year, the report card system for our schools is changing. For the first time, school districts will receive a rating on an A-through-F scale. These ratings will be applied to schools themselves starting next year.
To help parents, educators and community members understand the A-F system, we have established a new website — TXschools.org — to share school report cards.
These online report cards are designed to be useful tools for parents, educators and community members to see how a school or school district is doing in different areas. The report spotlights specific strengths, in addition to any challenges, that can assure the needs of all students are being met. Parents can search by district or school name and compare that district’s or school’s performance to others in their area.
As Commissioner of Education, I view parents and the community as important partners in a school’s success. That’s why we spent time listening to parents, educators and members of the community to make sure the new report cards were easy-to-use tools that provided meaningful information.
In addition, principals and district leaders can use this information to better support students and schools. Moving forward, year-to-year comparisons using A-F will make it easier to determine if a district or campus is getting better, performing about the same, or still has some work to do to improve.
School and district ratings are based on multiple measures, which include more than just test scores. The overall rating is calculated using the school’s score in three areas: Student Achievement; School Progress; and Closing the Gaps. To help explain the system in basic terms, TXschools.org includes easy to read descriptions and tools describing just how the system works.
Starting Aug. 15, I encourage all parents to spend a few moments to explore the abundant information that will be available about your child’s school and school district. And just as parents use a variety of information to assess their own child’s education, these school report cards – in conjunction with information available at the local level – should help inform how schools are working to meet the needs of every student in the community.
Mike Morath serves as Texas Commissioner of Education. To learn more about the A-F accountability system, visit https://tea.texas.gov/A-F/.
Against A-F system: it relies on high-stakes testing
Regardless of the results of the Texas Education Agency’s first issuance of letter-grade ratings to Texas public school districts, the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) will continue to advocate for the establishment of a more comprehensive, community-based public school accountability system that looks beyond high-stakes, multiple-choice exams.
TASA and many school leaders across the state believe there is a better way to define school success and accountability.
“We believe in a strong accountability system, but we ask this question: To whom should we be accountable and for what?’” said TASA Executive Director Kevin Brown. “School districts should be accountable to their local communities first, and the measures of accountability should represent the complex work that schools do to prepare children for the 21st century, including teaching innovation, leadership, critical thinking and real-world problem solving.”
“Parents want their children to do rigorous, engaging work that sparks a lifelong love of learning, not prep for a multiple-choice test that colleges and businesses don’t even consider. To think that one letter grade somehow accurately reflects the complex work of hundreds of teachers and thousands of students on one campus, let alone an entire district, is really an insult to their hard work. We expect more for our children and our schools.”
TASA also opposes A-F district and campus rating systems, says TASA Legislative Chair Doug Williams, superintendent of Sunnyvale ISD.
“While letter grades seem simple, no one can explain why a district receives an A or an F. Numerous pages of complicated calculations are used to reduce district performance measures — mainly standardized test scores — into a single letter grade. There is also no guidance on how to raise a low grade, making it a punitive system. So, A-F systems are neither transparent nor useful for improvement,” Williams said.
TASA is not alone in its opposition to A-F school ratings. In 2016-17, nearly 600 school district boards of trustees representing 2.87 million students, as well as a number of chambers of commerce and statewide organizations, adopted resolutions opposing the A-F school rating system.
In addition, according to a 2016 survey conducted by the State Board of Education, an overwhelming majority of Texans say they do not want a public school accountability system based primarily on students’ standardized test scores. The survey also showed that most Texans also agree that public school accountability should provide a way to identify areas of support needed for underperforming schools as well as identify areas of effective best practices used by high-performing campuses and districts.
“We believe that Texas students would be better served by a comprehensive, community-based accountability system,” said Brown. “Such systems look beyond high-stakes, multiple-choice tests to meaningful assessments that have value for students, parents, and teachers, as well as measures what each community deems important in promoting college and career readiness.”
TASA is helping to further community-based accountability in Texas by facilitating the Texas Public Accountability Consortium (TPAC), a group of 51 Texas school districts working to build on the success of community-based accountability systems already in use in districts around the state by developing next-generation measures and assessments that would enable wider use of such systems.
“TPAC is working to demonstrate that a well-crafted community-based accountability system can better communicate the quality of effort by a school and district than the state’s standardized, test-centric accountability system, which fails to provide a full picture of what is actually taking place in a school,” Brown said.
Casey McCreary is the Associate Executive Director of education policy for , TASA, The Texas Association of School Administrators.


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The free transform tool can be daunting if you don’t know how to use it. The tool has a lot of hidden options that make it quite powerful. In this tutorial we will be manipulating a simple square to show you the basics and then we will move on to a real life application.
First: The basics
Step 1: Draw A square with the rectangle tool (u)
Step 2: Select Edit>Free Transform Path (or Command+T)
You should see little handles on the corners and the middle of the sides of the square.
Step 3: Grab one of the handles and drag it from the square
Go ahead and experiment. Adding keyboard shortcuts while using the transform tool is being used really unleashes its power.
Free Transform Tool + Keyboard Shortcuts
Grabbing a handle and dragging alters the shape. Holding down shift while dragging a handle preserves the aspect ratio of the shape.
Holding down option when dragging moves the sides equal distances from the center reference point.
Hovering your mouse over a corner reference point allows you to rotate the shape. Holding down shift while rotating snaps the shape to 45 degree angles from the original position.
Holding down Option+Command allows you to move both sides equally from the reference point and vertically as well – allowing you to skew the object.
Holding down Shift+Option+command allows you to add perspective to an object.
You can also achieve similar distortions with the specific transform tools which do the same thing. These tools can be found under the Edit>Transform menu. One tool that is notable and worth pointing out is the warp transform tool.
Warp Transform Tool
This tool ads a grid over the shape and allows you to distort and warp specific points of the shape.
Now that we have the basics down lets do something cool!
We’ll also be using my favorite banana image again!
Cut out the bananas in the shape of the blank billboard area.
Place your type over the billboard and then right click and convert to shape. This allows us to preserve the quality of the vector image while distorting.
This may take some time, but with some small fineagling with the perspective and skew tools you can get the type to look just right. Then add some outer glow behind the type to make it pop whiz bang!
Leave a comment and let us know what you think!


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Have you ever wondered how people are able to move in so many different ways? In large part, it’s due to the structure of our spinal columns. Here are some really fascinating facts about the spine…
5 amazing facts about the spine:
- Your spine is made up of 5 sections – cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral and coccygeal.
- There are 33 vertebrae altogether in the spine. You can remember how many each segment has with the number 7-12-5-5(fused)-4(fused).
- Although we tend to think of the spine as just consisting of vertebrae, there many muscles and connective tissues that make up your spine. This is why our spines are so flexible, and allow us to move in so many different ways.
- There are connective tissues in the spine such as discs, which can expand and contract with the weight of gravity and act as a shock absorber. If you measure your height in the morning and evening you might be slightly shorter in the evening, after gravity has compressed your discs throughout the day.
- Your spine gets use to your habits (for example: sitting) and will in a way remember your position for daily habits. That’s why it’s so important to try to establish a habit of having good posture.
Our spines are integral to our daily lives, so how do we look after our spines?
If you experience any pain, discomfort, or stiffness in your spine, contact us to make an appointment. The sooner one of our chiropractors at Our Chiro Brisbane can assess your spine, the sooner we will be able to treat it. It’s best to address any pain and discomfort from your spine so you can get back to a pain free lifestyle.
Even if you are not currently experiencing any pain or discomfort and would like an appointment for a check-up or to discuss spinal health from a postural or training point of view, we look forward to hearing from you. At Our Chiro Brisbane, we will check your alignment, and ensure that any potential problems are identified and treated. If you have any questions please contact one of our friendly staff on 07 32570399.

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By NIMY Sara Joy
London, April 4 – Record of human evolution being modified as a two-million-year-old skeleton of a child which discovered in South Africa possibly the missing link between apes and humans.
Science world is eagerly waiting for the unveiling of the child’s skeleton on coming week and for seeing the new species of hominid, the evolutionary limb of primates that consists of humans.
One of the professors from the University of the Witwatersrand, Lee Berger discovered the fossil. The fossil found out from the cave systems in the Sterkfontein region of Southern Africa, placed near Johannesburg as he was going through there.
The fossil is seemed to be complete. Scientist’s study on this fossil says that it belonged to one of the formerly unidentified type of early human ancestor which may have been a transitional phase of ape-men. It considered as evolving into the first species of later humans, Homo habilis.
The fossil shares uniqueness with 2.5 million years ago emerged Homo habilis. Homo habilis is spotted as the key appearance in the evolution of human species.
This skeleton will be helping the scientist world to analyze the early ancestor’s nature as their appearance, when they began to walk on two legs, posture and method walking. The presence of a pelvis and complete limb bones will help the scientists to distinguish it.
Mostly the fossils will remain as scattered wreckage of bones whereas this child fossil seems as complete.
A human anatomist and anthropologist, Phillip Tobias, who has seen the skeleton, said the hottest discovery was “wonderful” and “exciting”.
“To find a skeleton as opposed to a couple of teeth or an arm bone is a rarity. It is one thing to find a lower jaw with a couple of teeth, but it is another thing to find the jaw joined onto the skull, and those in turn uniting further down with the spinal column, pelvis and the limb bones.”
“It is not a single find, but several specimens representing several individuals. The remains now being brought to light by Dr Berger and his team is wonderful,” he was quoted as saying.
An expert on human evolution at Oxford Brookes University, Simon Underdown, said: “A find like this could really increase our understanding of our early ancestors at a time when they first started to become recognizable as human.”


A heat exchanger is a system designed to transfer heat between two fluids to control the temperature of one of the fluids. A heat exchanger could remove thermal energy from a fluid used in an air-conditioning system or add thermal energy to a system where processes require a certain temperature to work properly. The controlled fluid flows through tubes while the controlling fluid is used to transfer heat in one of three typical ways: concentric tube/double pipe (controlling fluid is in an adjoining pipe), cross flow (controlling fluid is not contained), and shell-and-tube (controlling fluid is in a shell surrounding the tubes). Another type is the compact heat exchanger, which is modified to move larger amounts of heat and is often used in industrial applications.
Water is pumped from one storage tank (open to atmosphere) to a higher tank at steady rate of 9.5x10...
Water is pumped from one storage tank (open to atmosphere) to a higher tank at steady rate of 9.5x10–4 m3/s. The difference in the elevations of the two water levels is 30 m. The higher tank is closed and has an absolute pressure of 170.3kPa. The absolute pressures at the inlet and outlet of the pump are 135.8 kPa and 652.9 kPa respectively. The power supplied by an electric motor to the pump is 750 W.
a.Find the pump efficiency.
b.Find the total power loss due to friction.
c.Do you expect to have caviation in this pump?•
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