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Such screeds could be ignored if it were not for their geometric increase in quantity over the last few weeks. Professor Alexander Motyl has put it openly: "An astoundingly large amount of nonsense has been written about Ukraine ever since it came to occupy center stage in the public mind.".To be sure, the mass media are always chasing after sensations and stop at nothing to attract readers' interest. But those pretending to the status of intellectuals are under no obligation to put their professional reputation at risk.
This article originally appeared on the Contemporary Ukraine Research Forum. Reprinted with permission.


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At a recent food trend insights event held in Johannesburg, South Africa, Chef James Diack, a pioneer of provenance and recent recipient of the SASSI Trailblazer Award for 2018, provided insight into some of the top sustainable eating trends for 2019.
An amalgamation of rising costs, and genuine concern for the source of food over the past year, will see a combination of food trends emerging in 2019.
Here we share a few ways to think smarter about your food, and shop smarter with your money.
Katsu, or "cutlet" in Japanese, refers to various cuts (often the cheaper cuts) of meat that have been pounded to be really thin before cooking. The meat, usually pork or chicken, is seasoned, dredged in flour and egg, and then bread-crumbed. It's growing in popularity in the States – similar to how the taco gained notoriety, and now here in South Africa too.
Katsu has shone a light on the issues surrounding pig farming around the world and people are starting to pay more attention to what cut is being used, where was it farmed, and what it was fed. Similar to how the growth in the Wagyu beef trend started.
A growth in wheat and gluten allergies has rocked the local restaurant scene. To keep up, chefs are having to seek out alternative grains to replace traditional wheat products. Think Pearl Barley, Quinoa, Farro and Split Oats. Alternative grains are great for pasta-type dishes, salads and even for making crumbs.
Using the whole plant reduces food waste and reduces costs. A year ago, a kilogram of lemons cost around R35 per kilo, now you're looking at over R100 per kilo. Food prices are showing a sharp increase and this means you can't afford to waste a thing.
Citrus fruits like lemons and oranges can be used for the zest one day and juiced the next. Carrot tops can be baked for a garnish, or ground into a green pesto. The same concept applies to proteins – using all parts of an animal when cooking – even the offal!
The current world economic climate is putting everyone's pockets under pressure. Sourcing fish from inland and responsibly-farmed sources is not only more sustainable for home chefs and restaurant kitchens, but it's definitely more cost-effective.
Using local fresh-water farmed trout to replace imported Scottish or Norwegian means less import and less transport costs. It also holds all the qualities of the imported salmon – but it's fresher and costs a quarter less than the European version.
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Many people having moved to these offerings because they feel some restaurant dishes are over-complicated and they pay inflated prices. So, in response, restaurants are including simpler offerings on their menus, making everyday meals special, simple, and well-priced.
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Consumers want to drink great wine by the glass, but often the bottle is too expensive to open for just one customer. Enter the Coravin wine preservation system – it pours wine without removing the cork from the bottle, thus preserving it, and giving people, who can't necessarily buy a bottle, a chance to enjoy a glass.
For 2019 most food trends will be hinged on provenance – knowing exactly where ingredients are coming from, but also creating and maintaining sustainable food businesses that sustain jobs and communities.
Chef James Diack is the owner of The Brightside Group of restaurants which operates four restaurants in Johannesburg. Brightside Farm, where James was raised, is run by his mother Janet and provides 95% of the produce served at each restaurant. Passionate about seasonality and sustainability, the team is committed to providing a world class experience from nose-to-tail, root-to-leaf, beginning-to-end, that hopes to inspire others to live more conscious and sustainable lives. While each restaurant is slightly different, they are individually driven by a young chef and front of house manager, that have trained with James to deliver simple, beautiful, flavourful food with gracious hospitality in stunning environments.


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Screening of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms in 50 to 60-year-old Female Smokers – a Pilot Study
Justiina Huhtakangas, Jussi Numminen, Johanna Pekkola, Mika Niemelä, and 1 more
Read the published version in Scientific Reports →
Background: The prevalence of unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs) is around 2 to 3% in the general population. We hypothesized that the prevalence of small UIAs is higher among 50 to 60-year-old female smokers, since the incidence of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is exceptionally high in 60 to 70-year-old female smokers.
Methods: Ethics approval for this pilot study of 50 women was obtained from the hospital ethics committee. In order to minimize recruitment bias, preliminary invitation letters were sent to 50 to 60-year-old women who were known to be active smokers. Those interested in participating were further informed about the study rationale and protocol. Following written consent, participants filled a detailed questionnaire and underwent computed tomography angiography (CTA) analysis. All abnormalities were recorded.
Results: Of the 158 preliminary invitation letters, 70 potential participants initially replied. Of these, 50 returned questionnaires and written consents, 43 of which underwent CTA analysis. Most (39; 91%) were postmenopausal, and 9 (21%) were hypertensive. Two reported a family history (≥ 1 first-degree members) of intracranial aneurysms. UIAs (maximum sizes of 2, 2, 3, 3 and 7 mm) were found in five (12%) female smokers. One woman was operated on, and the remaining four were treated with non-invasive preventive actions (smoking cessation and follow-ups).
Conclusion: Small UIAs, which may be best suited for non-invasive preventive actions, may be relatively common in 50 to 60-year-old female smokers. Whether this kind of targeted screening leads to improved health in female smokers requires further investigation.
Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
The prevalence of unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs) in the general population is poorly known. The population-based Rotterdam Study invited 45-year-old and older people from a suburb of Rotterdam to undergo standard (no angiographies) brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) screening. The results of this study indicated that UIAs were diagnosed in 35 of the 2000 (1.8%) study subjects (mean age 63.3 years; range 45.7 to 96.7)1. According to the pooled data of heterogenous studies reporting the prevalence of UIAs, around 3.2% of people with a mean age of 50 years (50% women) and without comorbidities carry UIAs2. A highly cited Finnish familial screening study found UIAs in 38 (8.7%) of the 438 asymptomatic first-degree family members (mean age 49 and 47 years in women and men, respectively; 53.2% women) from 85 families with two or more relatives with a possible history of intracranial aneurysms (IAs)3. According to the guideline published in 2015 for healthcare professionals, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association deems UIA screening appropriate in families with two or more affected persons with IAs4.
Smoking is not only associated with, but also causes, SAH5. Moreover, SAH deaths are the most common type of stroke deaths in middle-aged women6. The incidence of SAH in women surpasses that of men at the age of 60 years7, and the incidence is highest among 70 to 75 -year-old women7. Sex and smoking habits affect the risk of SAH such that heavy female smokers have the highest risk of both SAH and sudden SAH death8,9. In fact, the only lifelong follow-up study thus far suggests that nearly 50% of female smokers with diagnosed UIAs suffer from SAH at some point in their lives10.
We hypothesized that risk factor-based targeted screening is capable of detecting a fair percentage of UIAs in a population with a high risk of SAH (not only a high risk of UIAs), and that this screening is safe, reasonable in cost, and widely available. Furthermore, we hypothesized that UIAs in this population are still small (< 5 mm), i.e. in a "preclinical state", and therefore primarily suitable for non-invasive preventive actions such as smoking cessation and blood pressure lowering (if necessary). If true, the number of major complications related to invasive treatments of screen positives could be minimized. Based on these assumptions, we screened UIAs in 50 to 60-year-old female smokers using computed tomography angiography (CTA).
Ethical considerations. The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) Biobank granted access to identify potential study participants from the previous studies coordinated by the THL Biobank. This pilot study of 50 participants (TYH2019107) was approved by the University Hospital Ethics Committee (HUS/1003/2019). Each participant signed a written informed consent before enrolment. The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki11. Pseudonymized research data are personal data according to Finnish legislation and cannot be shared outside the Helsinki University Hospital.
Recruitment protocol. In order to minimize recruitment bias, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare sent preliminary invitation letters to female smokers between the ages of 50 and 60 years old (age when study recruitment started; Fig. 1), who had previously participated in the GeneRISK study (https://thl.fi/en/web/thl-biobank/for-researchers/sample-collections/generisk-study). Briefly, the GeneRISK study is an ongoing prospective observational study focusing on genetic risk factors of cardiovascular diseases. In the GeneRISK study, 7342 randomly selected 45 to 65-year-old individuals were recruited between 2015 and 2017 in Southern Finland. Of these participants who had previously replied to a GeneRISK study questionnaire about smoking habits, current smokers were identified. The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare posted preliminary invitation letters between October 2019 and February 2020 to potential participants. The preliminary invitation letter explained shortly the UIA screening study protocol and rationale. If a person was interested in the screening study and replied to the letter, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare securely shared their name and address with the study authors (JH and MK). Between December 2019 and September 2020, the study authors (JH and MK) and a research nurse sent the formal invitation letters (Fig. 1), which included a full description of the study protocol, instructions, contact details, questionnaires and consent, to the women who were preliminarily interested in participating. All invited participants who returned the signed consent were eligible to self-book a brain CTA examination appointment at the study hospital. Prior to the brain CTA examination, participants were also instructed to have a plasma creatinine test in any of the multiple University Hospital laboratories around Southern Finland. Participation in the study was not compensated, but documented travel expenses (use of own car or public transport) were reimbursed.
Questionnaires. The study questionnaire, which was multiple choice and fill-in format, had 53 distinct questions divided into 7 domains: 1) health 2) smoking (e.g. smoking habits, regularity, daily amounts, smoking years, exposure to passive smoking and estimated ability to quit), 3) educational attainment and employment, 4) physical activity, 5) alcohol consumption, 6) hormonal status and 7) health-related measurements (height and weight).
Quality of life. The participants were asked to complete two health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires (15D12and EQ-5D-3L13), prior to and after the CTA screening, regardless of the CTA findings. For this work, we chose to use the 15D instrument, which has more dimensions than EQ-5D-3L14. The 15D is developed in Finland15,16 and is used as a generic and comprehensive instrument for measuring participants' health-related quality of life in 15 dimensional measures (mobility, vision, hearing, breathing, sleeping, eating, speech, excretion, usual activity, mental function, discomfort/symptoms, depression, distress, vitality and sexual activity17). The 15D score is a sum (single number) of the 15 dimensions and is presented on a continuous scale between 0 and 1 (0 = dead, 1 = no problems in any dimensions). The generic minimum important change (MIC) for two longitudinal 15D scores is ±0.01518. A change of > 0.035 is considered to be a large improvement or deterioration in the HRQOL18.
CTA screening protocol. All CTA screens were performed in the Töölö hospital, where the Department of Neurosurgery is also located. The CTAs were acquired helically with a multi slice CT-scanner (GE Lightspeed VCT 64, GE Healthcare, USA) using the standard institutional protocol (120-kV tube potential, NI 10/100–500 mA). All CTA screens were performed with manual bolus tracking in the common carotid artery with a contrast material (350 mg I/mL) introduced at an injection rate of 5 mL/s, followed by 40 mL of saline. Axial raw data images were reconstructed with a slice thickness of 0.625 mm.
Image Analysis. In addition to the thin-slice raw data, 22/3 mm and 1 mm MIP axial, coronal and sagittal images were reconstructed and sent to the local PACS system, and then further to 3D workstation servers (syngo.via, Siemens Healthineers; or Vitrea, Vital, Canon Medical Systems) for 3D analysis by three observers (MK, JP, JN). Any disagreements between the observers (MK, JP, JN) were verified with digital subtraction angiography (DSA). Study participants with abnormal imaging findings were invited to the outpatient clinic, whereas participants without abnormalities were informed by mail.
Recruitment protocol. The original GeneRISK study included 291 women born between the years 1958 and 1969 (study recruitment started in 2019), who were daily smokers, and who lived in Southern Finland. The study recruitment protocol is described in Fig. 1. In brief, between October 2019 and February 2020, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare sent preliminary invitation letters to 158 smoking women (Fig. 1), who lived within approximately 150 kilometers of the study hospital. Of these 158 women, 70 expressed their preliminary interest to participate in the study (Fig. 1). At the end, 43 underwent a brain CTA screen (Fig. 1). The last brain CTA was done in November 2020 (Fig. 1). A postal strike in Finland and COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions in the recruitment of research participants in the University Hospital complicated and extended the recruitment process (Fig. 1).
Study cohort. Most of the participants were postmenopausal (n = 39, mean and median age 57 years), who considered that their own general health was very or fairly good (very good n = 3, fairly good n = 30, average n = 10). The most commonly reported long-term health concerns were hypercholesterolemia (n = 16), arthritis (n = 12), and hypertension (n = 9).
The participants had a history of 24 pack-years (mean and median pack-years 24 and 23) and 36 active smoking years (mean and median smoking time of 36 years). Two women (5%) reported that they quit smoking after receiving the formal invitation letter. Nine participants (21%) reported in the questionnaire that they could be able to quit smoking, but the majority were hesitant (n = 27, 63%); five participants (12%) estimated that they could not quit at all. Two (5%) of the 43 participants reported a family history (≥ 1 first-degree relatives) of UIAs.
Screening results. Screening results are reported in Table 1 and visualized in Fig. 2. None of the participants reported that they had previously undergone head CTA screens. However, electronic patient files and imaging archives revealed that one study participant had undergone a familial UIA screening in 2007. This participant did not have UIAs, neither in 2007 nor in our screening. A total of six suspected UIAs (maximum sizes of 2, 2, 2, 3, 3 and 7 mm) were identified in the CTAs of six (14%) patients (one per patient; Fig. 2), four of which (9%) were undisputable (Fig. 3a-d). The other two (2mm and 2mm in size) were not completely agreed upon by all authors, therefore the CTA findings were verified with DSA. One UIA suspicion was confirmed to be an infundibular dilatation of the posterior communicating artery, while the other could not be confirmed (Supplementary Fig.) since the participant repeatedly cancelled the scheduled DSA. One participant had a dural arterio-venous fistula of the floor of the anterior cranial fossa.
Screening results of 43 participants.
CTA-positives
(n = 5)
CTA-negatives
(n = 38)
Total /
All participants (n = 43)
Age at CTA
(mean)
Diagnosed hypertension
BP measured previously:
Within 6-12months
Within 1-5yrs
UIA or SAH in family (First-Degree relatives)
Number of suspected UIAs
Number of verified UIAs
UIA location
ICA-opthalmic
ICA-other
AcomA or DACA
Posterior circulation
(other than UIA)
Need for DSA angiography
Complications,
CTA or DSA
Active treatment
for a pathology (neurosurgical or endovascular)
Conservative Treatment for a pathology
(preventive actions and/or follow-up)
CTA = Computed Tomography Angiography
UIA = Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm
MCA = Middle Cerebral Artery
ICA = Internal Carotid Artery
AcomA = Anterior Communicating Artery
DACA = Distal Anterior Cerebral Artery
DSA = Digital Subtraction Angiography or Catheter Angiography
BP = Blood Pressure
Treatment. Smoking cessation and weekly blood pressure monitoring at home were strongly recommended for all patients. A 1-year follow-up CTA imaging study and a subsequent clinical visit was scheduled for the four patients with small (2–3 mm in size) UIAs. One patient with a 7 mm middle cerebral artery bifurcation aneurysm (Fig. 3a) was operated on. The surgery was uneventful, and the neurologically intact patient was discharged home two days after the surgery. She was on a standard sickness allowance for four postoperative weeks (20 working days). One patient with a dAVF underwent a DSA for treatment planning, and her treatment is scheduled for summer 2021.
Quality of Life. All participants filled the 15D at enrolment (before CTA imaging). Of the 43 participants, 34 also returned the 15D after receiving the CTA results, which revealed a mean increase of 0.010 (median 0.007) in the score. Specifically, 11 had the MIC (≥0.015) for better score, and 8 for worse. Four participants experienced large deterioration in the 15D score (> 0.035, one was CTA-positive), whereas 9 experienced large (> 0.035) improvement (none were CTA-positive). Chart 1 presents HRQoL-dimensions (15D) of patients with normal CTAs.
Out of seven participants who had cerebrovascular lesions in CTA, five returned the second HRQoL questionnaire. The UIA patient who was surgically treated experienced a large deterioration in the 15D score (> 0.035) prior to surgery, whereas the other UIA patients and the one with suspected dAVF experienced no change (Chart 2).
Screening costs. Screening and treatment costs have been listed in Table 2. We included all screening and treatment-related costs, even though only the pretreatment-related costs, such as CTA screens, letters, first clinical visits, travel costs, etc., were covered by the study funding, as screen-positive persons changed from being study participants to university hospital patients. The total screening costs were 18 817 EUR (22 627 USD), which translates to 3 763 EUR (4 524 USD) per screen-positive participant (n = 5). When summing together all the costs of active preventive treatment (microsurgical treatment) of one UIA patient as a result of screening, this amounts to 48 605 EUR (58 440 USD, screening, treatment and economic costs).
Screening and treatment costs. All costs of UIA screening and active preventive treatment (microsurgical treatment) of one UIA patient. Economic costs have been estimated by using the evaluation of Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) considering the costs of sickness absence30.
Cost (EUR)
Valid for number of candidates (n or all)
(Research permit and consultation fee)
Postal costs
Lab costs
CT angiography (CTA)
250.0 (10 750)
DS angiography (DSA)
869.0 (1738)
Travelling costs
Visit at the Outpatient Clinic
Treatment costs, Neurosurgical ward
(1 day)
Microsurgical operation
15 249.2
Inpatient day fee
(2 days)
Treatment costs,
Neurosurgical ICU (24h)
Sickness allowance
Economic costs of
sickness allowance30
ICU = Intensive Care Unit
In this risk factor-based (age, gender and smoking) screening pilot for an asymptomatic but potentially life-threatening condition, five out of 43 female smokers were identified, each with one suspected UIA (4 diagnosed and one suspected but unconfirmed with DSA). A dural arteriovenous fistula was found in one study participant. The woman with the largest UIA (7 mm) was microsurgically treated without complications, and the patient with the dural arteriovenous fistula is scheduled for treatment. Four patients with small (2–3 mm) UIAs were advised to quit smoking, and all four were scheduled for a 1-year follow-up CTA. Two women with UIAs had hypertension, and one had a family history (≥ 1 first-degree members) of IAs. The proportion of hypertensive participants (n = 9, 21%) was in line with the general Finnish population; about one fifth of the population use antihypertensive medication19.
Previous data suggest that people with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) have a significantly higher prevalence of UIAs2. In the largest study of screened ADPKD patients to date, UIAs (≥ 2 mm in size) were detected in 75 (9.2%) of the 812 ADPKD patients who underwent a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) screening between 1989 and 2017 at the Mayo Clinic20. Even in ADPKD, selective or widespread screening for UIAs has remained questionable20,21, partly because ADPKD patients have a shortened life-expectancy due to the underlying kidney disease. However, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Patients views that ADPKD patients – particularly those with a family history of IAs – should be offered a UIA screening4. In addition to ADPKD, UIAs may be found relatively frequently in families with a history of IAs. In the largest screening study of UIAs in first-degree relatives (parents, siblings or children) of SAH patients to date, UIAs were identified in 4.0% of 626 first-degree relatives (mean age 41 years; 52% women)22. Eighteen out of the 23 screen-positives underwent surgery (11 of which had UIAs smaller than 5 mm), which resulted in complications in 11 (disabling in one)22. In the largest UIA screening study of individuals having two or more first-degree relatives with a history of SAH, UIAs were identified in 11.1% of 458 relatives (median age 38 years; 58% women) in the first screening23. Of the identified UIAs, 25% were smaller than 2 mm and 51% were 3–5 mm in size23. No treatment results were reported23. In a multinational Familial Intracranial Aneurysm (FIA) Study, 548 subjects with a family history of ≥ 2 siblings (first-degree family members) or ≥ 3 any family members with IAs were screened with MRA, if they additionally had a history of ≥ 10 pack-years of smoking (or currently smoking) or hypertension24. The percentage of screen positives was 20.6%, but since 108 (96%) out of 113 found UIAs were small (< 7 mm in size), only 11 patients were treated surgically24. In our study, none of the five screen-positive female smokers reported a family history of IAs in advance. However, earlier patient notes revealed that the one of the five screen-positive women had a family history of aSAH (patient's mother had suffered from aSAH), and that this woman had also undergone a brain CTA screen 13 years earlier for familial screening (no UIAs were detected). Two of the 38 screen-negatives reported a family history of IAs (≥ 1 first-degree relatives). In comparison to the screening of individuals with ADPKD (a rare disease) and a family history of SAH, the population-wide effect of UIA screening in postmenopausal female smokers might be more significant, particularly since the number of 50 to 60-year-old female smokers is substantial in many countries. For example, in 2018, 16.3% of women aged 45 to 64 years old were current cigarette smokers in the United States25, whereas the estimated prevalence of ADPKD in the Unites States is 0.04%26. Therefore, if the percentage of identified screen positives in high enough, a targeted screening of 50 to 60-year-old female smokers could perhaps lead to a decrease in SAH incidence in women.
Preventive health screenings have the fundamental goal of detecting potential health concerns early, and this should help individuals to stay healthy. In the presented pilot, one major health concern – smoking – was known prior to the targeted CTA screening. Whether the shared information about the high risk of SAH in female smokers has resulted in a long-term smoking cessation among the screened women needs to be followed up and studied. In addition to the possibility of reducing smoking rates in screened individuals, the targeted screening of female smokers should reduce SAH-related morbidity and mortality. Currently, the UIA screening recommendation by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association views that screening for UIAs is justified in families with two or more affected person with IAs4. In the largest familial SAH study to date, 156 (3.0%) out of 5282 SAH patients had one first-degree family member with a history of SAH27. In one of the largest twin studies conducted to date, study authors identified 6 (1.2%) concordant (5 monozygotic and 1 opposite sex) and 492 discordant twin pairs for SAH out of a total of 504 SAH cases, suggesting that familial SAHs are rare, and that the relative contribution of inherited genes to SAH is moderate at most28. Therefore, even if targeted screening would identify familial UIAs, it is still questionable whether this is an effective way to decrease the incidence of SAH. Contrary to the low familial SAH risk, the risk of SAH is vastly increased in hypertensive smokers. In fact, the incidence of SAH is over 14 times higher (171 per 100,000 person-years) in women with a history of active smoking and high blood pressure (systolic blood pressure ≥ 159mmHg) than in normotensive women without a smoking history29. If it is accurate that close to 50% of smoking women with diagnosed UIAs suffer from SAH at some point in their lives10, and that the incidence of SAH in female smokers is exceptional29, a targeted UIA screening of female smokers (both normotensive and hypertensive) could perhaps be more effective than the familial screening. This might be especially true if the screening identifies women with small UIAs, thus enabling non-invasive, i.e. complication free interventions (smoking cessation and blood pressure control). Smoking cessation decreases the risk of SAH, and five years after quitting, the risk of SAH among former smokers appears to be close to that of people who have never smoked8. Nevertheless, it remains speculative whether screening for UIAs in female smokers is beneficial and cost-effective. In our study, the screening costs were 3 763 EUR (4 524 USD) per screen-positive woman. If estimated that the operated 7 mm UIA had ruptured at some point in life10, and if all screening and treatment-related costs were allocated to the treated screen-positive smoker, the prevention of one aSAH amounted to 48 605 EUR (58 440 USD). Those participants that returned the HRQOL questionnaires before and after the CTA imaging did not deteriorate in the HRQOL. However, one screen-positive woman reported a decline in her HRQOL score after the UIA diagnosis.
Our pilot has a few strengths. Since the overall prevalence of UIAs2 and incidence of SAH7 in Finland do not differ from other countries also reporting reliable prevalence and incidence estimates, UIAs may also be found at a similar frequency in 50 to 60-year-old female smokers in other countries. We chose to screen people with CTA alone, thus decreasing the likelihood of finding false positives and incidental findings, which are more common in MR imaging studies. Most importantly, we tried to diminish the risk of a recruitment bias by inviting only true current smokers. Our study also has limitations. The response rate for the preliminary invitation letters was not high, which may have indeed led to a recruitment bias. Furthermore, the postal strike during 11.-27.11.2019 and the coronavirus pandemic-related restrictions in recruiting research patients between 17.3.-29.7.2020 and 23.11.-13.12.2020 prolonged the study protocol, and may have affected the recruitment protocol. In addition, we cannot be certain that by selecting high-risk individuals for screening, we avoided the most serious harm of screenings, i.e. overdiagnosis. Finally, the number of screened women in our pilot is small. However, without a pilot and a subsequent international peer review, which estimates the scientific justification of the suggested approach, it is challenging to obtain a research permission for larger screening studies from hospital ethics committees, which follow the Declaration of Helsinki as a statement of ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects.
In conclusion, if the prevalence of UIAs in smoking women was around 10%, and these UIAs are detected at the point when they are still small, such a screening program using a widely available and safe CTA could have a significant effect on the incidence of SAH among women. Our pilot study results may warrant a larger and multinational screening study of 50 to 60-year-old female smokers.
We thank the THL Biobank (www.thl.fi/biobank) for the fruitful collaboration in recruiting the study participants and biobank donors for their generous participation in the study. We also would like to thank Päivi Olli, our research nurse, for flexible and seamless co-operation, as well as Professor Harri Sintonen and Professor Risto P Roine for the 15D- instrument and advice. We also appreciate the graphical support by PhD Onni Järvinen.
This pilot study was funded by the University Hospital annual government research funding, which is a national funding program for all university hospitals and granted by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The funding was granted to cover the estimated expenses of a maximum of 60 study participants. The funding source had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or decision to submit the results.
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
MK designed the pilot, obtained the funding, and provided guidance about data analysis and interpretation. JH contributed to study design. MK and JH organised and managed the pilot. MK was responsible for the clinical patient care. MK, JN and JP analysed CTA images. JN and JP performed DSA studies. JH performed the data interpretation. MK and JH drafted the manuscript. MN critically reviewed and revised the manuscript.
Pseudonymized research data are personal data according to Finnish legislation and cannot be shared outside the Helsinki University Hospital.
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Lindbohm JV, Kaprio J, Jousilahti P, Salomaa V, Korja M. Sex, Smoking, and Risk for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Stroke. 47:1975–81 (2016).
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Sanchis IM, Shukoor S, Irazabal MV, Madsen CD, Chebib FT, et al. Presymptomatic Screening for Intracranial Aneurysms in Patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 14:1151-1160.doi:10.2215/CJN.14691218 (2019).
Flahault A, Trystram D, Nataf F, Fouchard M, Knebelmann B, et al. Screening for intracranial aneurysms in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is cost-effective. Kidney Int. 93:716-726.doi:10.1016/j.kint.2017.08.016 (2018).
Magnetic Resonance Angiography in Relatives of Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Study Group. Risks and benefits of screening for intracranial aneurysms in first-degree relatives of patients with sporadic subarachnoid hemorrhage. N Engl J Med. 341(18):1344–50 (1999).
Bor ASE, Rinkel GJE, van Norden J, Wermer MJH. Long-term, serial screening for intracranial aneurysms in individuals with a family history of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: a cohort study. Lancet Neurol. 13(4):385–92 (2014).
Broderick JP, Brown RD Jr, Sauerbeck L, Hornung R, Huston 3rd J, et al. Greater rupture risk for familial as compared to sporadic unruptured intracranial aneurysms. Stroke. 40:1952-7.doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.542571 (2009).
Creamer MR, Wang TW, Babb S, Cullen KA, Day H, et al. Tobacco Product Use and Cessation Indicators Among Adults - United States. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2019;68(45):1013–9 (2018).
Willey C, Kamat S, Stellhorn R, Blais J. Analysis of Nationwide Data to Determine the Incidence and Diagnosed Prevalence of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease in the USA: 2012-2015. Kidney Dis. 5:107-117.doi:10.1159/000494923 (2019).
Bor AS, Rinkel GJ, Adami J, Koffijberg H, Ekbom A, et al. Risk of subarachnoid haemorrhage according to number of affected relatives: a population based case-control study. Brain. 131:2662-5.doi:10.1093/brain/awn187 (2008).
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Supplementary Figure. One suspected UIA of the right internal carotid artery-ophtalmic segment has not been confirmed due to DSA cancellations by the patient.

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Review: The Fault in Our Stars (FILM)
Source: US Weekly
Last week I was very fortunate to be invited to a preview screening of The Fault in Our Stars. Penguin Teen Australia extended an invitation and I grabbed at it with two grubby hands. But what did I think?
SPOILERS ABOUND - BEWARE
If you're reading a YA blog, of which this is, and haven't heard of (or read) this novel then I have no words. I won't be retelling the plot as 1) I shouldn't have to, and 2) I am too lazy.
Admission - I think TFioS is a good book and have often remarked that the first ten pages are as close to YA perfection as I can conceive. However, I don't think it is the masterpiece that it is often touted as, and I have always had concerns with the Gus character, the whole Amsterdam segue and the narrative arc. Basically I found Gus to be insufferable and would have prefered for John Green to concentrate on a girl, her view on life and death, and her parents. The romance was never the part that grabbed me, Hazel's voice was.
My theory on this film is that what you like or dislike about the book will be mirrored in your viewing experience. Gus' cigarette metaphor of unspeakable horrors is even worse in film. He's a character that has more front than Myers and the screenplay hasn't shied away from this brashness and irreverence which is a key character trait. What makes the difference is Ansel Engort...but more about him later.
The screenplay is too loyal. There, I said it. While the words on a page depict the entire world of Green's story, a film has speech and visuals to draw upon. The screenplay, in including all the quotable quotes, overbaked the film. The actors' physicality made many of the lines unnecessary to that point where 20-30% of the dialogue could have been scaled back. I understand a readers' desire to see their favourite lines spoken aloud but haven't we learned from Twilight? Whereas the lion and the lamb line may have (kinda) worked in the book, it lands heavily when leaving an actor's mouth. The same can be said for many of the lines that now grace many memes (and probably skin) on Tumblr.
I cannot envision the possibility of a stronger cast. Shailene Woodley demonstrates her ability to dig her toes into the dirt and plays everything as true. She plays Hazel with a surety that makes the voiceover work and goodness knows this is an uphill climb in the best of projects. Not only this but she is the sun in which the rest of the cast, characters and narrative orbit. There is no A to B here, there's just the world as it dips and weaves around a girl who is enormously strong but also sick. With all the discussion of strong females, Hazel Grace Lancaster will rarely be named. Despite the lack of bow, or roundhouse kick, she is the strongest of them all. Don't look any further than a scene in Anne Frank's house for evidence of this strength of character and will.
Angel Elgort is a bit of a revelation. But he did score the sparkier role. But he wouldn't work if Shailene weren't the best scene partner a boy could have. And Gus is that, a boy. He's all swagger and bravado, a low slung cigarette that points out despite his experience with cancer and in hospitals, he's without much life experience. He plays the Gus, who I borderline hated from the book, with panache. But it is the vulnerable moments were Elgort really shines, specifically the mentions of his now amputated leg and a certain love declaration that happens in a bed. When he allows the projection of Gus fall away, you see the fragile boy beneath and it is heartbreakingly real. The actor is good, very good but it wouldn't work if his partner wasn't working hard (and making it look easy) beside him.
Laura Dern and Sam Trammell make the most of the several scenes they have as Hazel's parents. It is what they do when they don't have line readings that really tunnel into one's chest cavity. Dern has a well earned reputation as a gifted actress and she effortlessly commits to every emotion a parent of a dying child goes through. Trammell has less screentime but a scene in which relief swamps him as he sees his daughter alive and moving towards him made the breath catch in my lungs.
The grizzled features of William Dafoe match the curmudgeonly Peter Van Houten splendidly. While the actor wisely plays the character much less dramatically than the book, he's still a forceful presence in the film.
Small shoutout to the actress who played the younger Hazel. She was beautiful, soulful and a crazily effective match for Shailene.
Josh Boone did a serviceable job. He clearly loved the materials and while it wasn't innovative filmmaking, it wasn't awful either. The use of visual elements to flesh out the technological conversations of Gus and Hazel were a lovely touch. The flashbacks, both at the very start of the film, and at its conclusion were very unnecessary. It robbed the audience of discovery. It also failed to trust audience members to remember scenes that happens twenty minutes earlier. Perhaps this was a loving callback, but wasn't this the entire film? It felt very much like a television framing device and was (again) unnecessary.
I'll also state that I disliked the opening and closing credits and their use of the books' design. It was predictable and this film needed more surprises.
It's very good. I liked it so much that I really don't have words.
But everyone is going to talk about tears shed. I didn't cry, though there was a glassy moment. But I would hate for this film to be reduced to a discussion on tears. (Isn't that what we have Twitter and Instagram for? Seriously, before and after shots people?) If there's anything to crow about, it is the performances that elevate an overworked premise to uncover authenticity and life to a world that Green so lovingly created.
mysterysquid said...
Sounds like the best film then book could have hoped for. Thanks for the review!
Jenny P said...
Great review Adele. I read the book so long ago that I'm sure I'll love rediscovering the characters again through the film. Reassuring to read in this review that the actors and characters are well matched.
This is an excellent review. I just listened to the audiobook (I read the novel when it first came out), and I found it more problematic this time through (probably because I'm sick to death of the coverage of the movie and John Green as the "prophet/savior" of YA). I suspect I have many of the same issues with Gus as you do, but hearing that Engort puts in a great performance makes me cautiously hopeful.
I really did love this review!


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Q: Cassandra + Java Spring connection trouble I tried to install and run Apache Cassandra on the amazon instance. On the instance all work fine. Also i can to connect from remote machine via cassandra-cli --host PUBLIC_IP --port 9160.
But when i try to connect via spring-data-cassandra (1.2.0.Build snapshot) cassandra throw error:
All host(s) tried for query failed (tried: /PUBLIC_IP:9160  (com.datastax.driver.core.ConnectionException: [/PUBLIC_IP:9160] Unexpected error during transport initialization (com.datastax.driver.core.TransportException: [/PUBLIC_IP:9160] Channel has been closed)))

My cassandra.yuml:
listen_address: localhost
start_native_transport: true
native_transport_port: 9042
start_rpc: true
rpc_address: 0.0.0.0
rpc_port: 9160
broadcast_rpc_address: PRIVATE_AWS_INSTANCE_IP

cassandra-cli --host PUBLIC_IP --port 9160 work fine.
Cluster bean:
@Bean
public CassandraClusterFactoryBean cluster() throws Exception {

    CassandraClusterFactoryBean cluster = new CassandraClusterFactoryBean();
    cluster.setContactPoints(env.getProperty("cassandra.contactpoints"));
    cluster.setPort(Integer.parseInt(env.getProperty("cassandra.port")));
    return cluster;
}

props:
cassandra.contactpoints=PUBLIC_IP
cassandra.port=9160
cassandra.keyspace=mykeyspace

Dependencies:
<properties>
    <spring.version>4.1.0.RELEASE</spring.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cql</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.0.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-expression</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>

 <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-data-cassandra</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>

UPD
Problem was resolved by changing port to 9042 (native)

A: You're using the native driver but connecting on the Thrift port.  Try 9042.

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namespace kalibao\backend\modules\message\components\messageGroup\crud;

use Yii;
use yii\helpers\Url;
use kalibao\common\components\crud\SimpleValueField;
use kalibao\common\components\crud\InputField;
use kalibao\common\components\i18n\I18N;

/**
 * Class ListGridRowEdit
 *
 * @package kalibao\backend\modules\message\components\messageGroup\crud
 * @version 1.0
 * @author Kevin Walter <walkev13@gmail.com>
 */
class ListGridRowEdit extends \kalibao\common\components\crud\ListGridRowEdit
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            'model' => $models['i18n'],
            'attribute' => 'title',
            'type' => 'activeTextInput',
            'options' => [
                'class' => 'form-control input-sm',
                'maxlength' => true,
                'placeholder' => $models['main']->getAttributeLabel('title'),
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        $this->setItems($items);
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London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1892, No. 966.
Paris Exposition, 1901. (Gold Medal).
George William Joy is almost solely known for one picture, his Royal Academy exhibit of 1895 'The Bayswater 'bus' (no. 524), now in the collection of the London Museum (inv. 29. 166) and therefore this is a rare example of his work to come to auction. He studied at South Kensington and the Royal Academy Schools before training in Paris under the direction of Jalabert, a pupil of Paul Delaroche. He exhibited two pictures at the Royal Academy in 1892, 'The First Union Jack', (no.966), and The King's Drum Shall Never be beaten for Rebels, 1798 (no.105, now Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth).
A preliminary sketch for our painting, drawn in black crayon and heightened with white (Witt Library), shows how Joy had first intended to dress the figures in mid-eighteenth-century wear. The present painting shows the artist settling for a late-eighteenth /early nineteenth century costume and head-dress whilst maintaining his original idea for the pose of the two figures.
'The First Union Jack' combines the elements of patriotic and naval duty with that of romanticism. These are shared by the young couple, who, quietly seated side by side, pronounce in soft whispers and lowered eyelids their commitment to official duties as well as to those of the heart. The Union flag being sewn is likely destined for the officer's ship, where it will fly on the jackstaff, the short flagpole fixed upright at the end of the bowsprit on a sailing ship-of-war.
On 1st.January 1801, when Ireland entered the Union of Great Britain, the red cross of St.Patrick was added to the British flag originally designed in 1606 when Scotland (cross of St. Andrew) and England (cross of St. George) were united under a common monarch and unchanged after the more formal Act of Union with Scotland in 1707. In nautical parlance, when the national flag is flown from the jackstaff, normally while the vessel is at anchor, the flag itself is known as the jack. Hence, the derivation of the common - though vexillogically incorrect - expression 'Union Jack' when referring to Great Britain's distinctive national colours.


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Христорожде́ственский монасты́рь — монастырь в честь праздника Рождества Христова.

 Забричанский Христорождественский монастырь
 Слободской Христорождественский монастырь
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package fr.inria.verveine.extractor.fortran.parser.ast;

public class ASTEndSubroutineStmtNode extends ASTNode {
	public static final int TEND =1 ;
	public static final int TENDSUBROUT =2 ;
	public static final int TSUBROUT =3 ;
	public static final int TEOS =5 ;

    ASTToken label; // in ASTEndSubroutineStmtNode
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    ASTToken endName; // in ASTEndSubroutineStmtNode
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    public ASTToken getLabel()
    {
        return this.label;
    }

    public void setLabel(ASTToken newValue)
    {
        this.label = newValue;
        if (newValue != null) newValue.setParent(this);
    }

    public ASTToken getEndName()
    {
        return this.endName;
    }

    public void setEndName(ASTToken newValue)
    {
        this.endName = newValue;
        if (newValue != null) newValue.setParent(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void accept(IASTVisitor visitor)
    {
        visitor.visitASTEndSubroutineStmtNode(this);
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    }

    @Override protected int getNumASTFields()
    {
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    }

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        case TENDSUBROUT:  return this.hiddenTEndsubroutine;
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        case 4:  return this.endName;
        case TEOS:  return this.hiddenTEos;
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        }
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    {
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        case TENDSUBROUT:  this.hiddenTEndsubroutine = (ASTToken)value; if (value != null) value.setParent(this); return;
        case TSUBROUT:  this.hiddenTSubroutine = (ASTToken)value; if (value != null) value.setParent(this); return;
        case 4:  this.endName = (ASTToken)value; if (value != null) value.setParent(this); return;
        case TEOS:  this.hiddenTEos = (ASTToken)value; if (value != null) value.setParent(this); return;
        default: throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid index");
        }
    }

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}


Have you heard of the newest diet trend known as the HCG diet? The truth is that HCG is not a trend at all; in fact the HCG diet has been dramatically improving the lives of patients for over fifty years. This revolutionary diet involves self-injection of HCG – a naturally occurring substance that helps the body burn fat and lose weight. HCG is a hormone created by the body during pregnancy but can also help non-pregnant patients lose up to a pound a day.
HCG shots can help increase your metabolism and energy without experiencing the nervousness of other products. HCG also allows for fat loss in stubborn areas that are hard to reach with exercise and other diets. Finally, HCG can improve your sleep and your mood.
The HCG diet has been proven successful in both male and female patients when paired with a 500 calorie a day diet. You should plan to stick to this diet for approximately 8 weeks, however under the advice of a physician you may be able to stay on the diet longer. While a small number of calories are available, you should rest assured that you can still eat during the HCG diet. Some of the most common foods included in the diet include fish, fruits, vegetables and even bread.
Contact Creative Image Laser Solutions to learn more about the HCG diet today.


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using Woodpecker.Core.Metrics.Infrastructure;

namespace Woodpecker.Core.Metrics.Factory
{
    public interface IMetricCollectionServiceFactory
    {
        IMetricCollectionService Create(string tenantId, string clientId, string clientSecrect);
    }
}


Rooms with one single bed, overlooking for the village and smoking rooms available.
Rooms with one couple bed (double bed) or two single beds together (twin room), overlooking for the village and smoking rooms available.
The Hotel São Lourenço has breakfast room located in the ground floor, Sunflower Room, buffet breakfast is served from 7:00 am to 10:30am.
Breakfast can be served in the bedroom, at guest request, no additional fee is included in the room rate.
For reservations of 10 or more rooms the Hotel São Lourenço has special rates, please contact us.


This James Bond themed 50th Birthday bash, can you think of a better way to celebrate your 50th? We had such a fun time being a part of the special night and would like to express special thanks to Anna & Jody at Bling Event Studio in conjunction with All Things Theatre Pty Ltd for the awesome themed set up, Acoustic set Bella Blakemore Music & L.C. DRUMS, Security by the cute little pooch.


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Let's build some more advanced data visualization, that is users' engagement heatmap. The darker color means the higher user engagement \(avgSessionDuration\) in this time of the day. This example was inspired by **[Todd Moy.](http://toddmoy.com/)**

```r
# traffic heatmap
# based on https://github.com/toddmoy/Google-Analytics-Heatmap/blob/master/traffic_heatmap.R

# install libraries
# install.packages("googleAuthR")
# install.packages("googleAnalyticsR")
# install.packages("ggplot2")
# install.packages("RColorBrewer")

# load libraries
library("googleAuthR")
library("googleAnalyticsR")
library("ggplot2")
library("RColorBrewer")

# authorize the connection with Google Analytics servers
ga_auth()

## pick a profile with data to query
#ga_id <- account_list[275,'viewId']

# or give it explicite using tool http://michalbrys.github.io/ga-tools/table-id.html in format 99999999
ga_id <- 00000000

gadata <- google_analytics(id = ga_id,
                           start="2012-01-01", end="2016-06-30",
                           metrics = c("avgSessionDuration"),
                           dimensions = c("dayOfWeekName", "hour"),
                           max = 5000)

# order the data
gadata$dayOfWeekName <- factor(gadata$dayOfWeekName, levels = c("Sunday",
                                                          "Monday",
                                                          "Tuesday",
                                                          "Wednesday",
                                                          "Thursday",
                                                          "Friday",
                                                          "Saturday"))
gadata[order(gadata$dayOfWeekName),]

# convert the data frame to xtab
heatmap_data <- xtabs(avgSessionDuration ~ dayOfWeekName + hour, data=gadata)

```

When data is transformed to the desired outcome, it's time to prepare the plot:

```r
# plot heatmap
heatmap(heatmap_data,
        col=colorRampPalette(brewer.pal(9,"Blues"))(100),
        revC=TRUE,
        scale="none",
        Rowv=NA, Colv=NA,
        main="avgSessionDuration by Day and Hour",
        xlab="Hour")
```

And the result is:

![](/assets/6_heatmap.png)

In this case - Wednesday morning is the most engaging time of the day for users :\)

## Source code

The complete source code of the examples showed above is in my GitHub repository:

[github.com/michalbrys/R-Google-Analytics/blob/master/6_heatmap.R](https://github.com/michalbrys/R-Google-Analytics/blob/master/6_heatmap.R)


CARBON HILL - The Carbon Hill City Council on Monday discussed setting up a meeting with local churches to discuss having a method where churches have a calendar of community service or fellowship programs that the city could sponsor, although details still have to be worked out.
At a workshop Monday, Joey Vick of Nauvoo Church of God and Scott McCullar of First Baptist Church came to the meeting to listen to ideas proposed by District 1 Councilman McClain Burrough.
Burrough said many church officials said they were not sure they could come to the meeting but expressed support. He and the pastors said a separate meeting devoted to just that idea could be helpful. Others suggested a committee could be put together.
Mayor Mark Chambers said the recent citywide cleanup was so successful, with about 60 people showing up. Doing something in the next month might help keep a momentum, while people are still interested in volunteering, he mayor said.
If the city waited too long, people would lose interest.
Burrough said he thought a quarterly project could be done on a regularly basis, although he didn't not know the best way to involve the churches.
He said the city could, for example, promote the First Baptist Church's annual Thanksgiving project.
"We could team up with some of the things y'all are already doing, and plus some of the things we want to do, and just work together," he said.
McCullar said as for the Thanksgiving project, he would welcome the city or other churches helping, as it currently involves First Baptist and First United Methodist Church of Carbon Hill. However, he noted the Methodist minister, Diane Marie Housler, is being reassigned, leaving some uncertainty in future planning.
Burrough said on a quarterly basis with eight churches, two churches could team up each quarter, with the city helping to promote, such as through its website and on its Facebook page. Officials talked about how various projects could be done, ranging from mowing lawns to helping with a city prison ministry.
McCullar suggested allowing the pastors to form a steering committee to direct the ideas.
"I think the churches would be better off to come up with the ideas on their own and maybe bring them to you," he said.
Chambers said not every quarter would necessarily have to be a work project, but instead one that people came to out of enjoyment. Vick noted his church is involved with a Christmas party for the mentally challenged which is a major event.
"This is big, real big. That is something the city or the community might want to get involved with," he said.
Another church in Dora hosted a special needs prom, sponsored by former quarterback Tim Tebow's organization, McCullar said.
"Those kind of things can make a big difference of people, and they are not necessarily on a Saturday night," when sometimes football poses a scheduling conflict.
Burrough said an occasional large community picnic could also be carried out, using the churches to promote the fellowship event. The mayor said gatherings might be best for the coldest and hottest days of the year, when it would be more uncomfortable to work.


Even TV comedian Stephen Colbert isn't immune to the excitement surrounding the historic upcoming landing of NASA's newest rover on Mars.
The huge Mars Science Laboratory, also known as the Curiosity rover, is slated to touch down on the Red Planet on Aug. 5 at 10:31 p.m. PDT (1:31 a.m. EDT Aug. 6). The rover's thrilling descent through the Martian atmosphere is so complex that it has been nicknamed "the seven minutes of terror."
John Grunsfeld, a former veteran astronaut and NASA's associate administrator for science missions, spoke to Colbert about the Curiosity rover's landing Wednesday during an appearance on Comedy Central's hit late-night faux-conservative news show The Colbert Report.
Before setting its wheels down on the Red Planet, a supersonic parachute, followed by a rocket-powered sky crane, will help slow the rover's speed from more than 13,000 mph to zero in only seven minutes.


Yes, we do have a Hershey collection. Are you looking for anything in particular? The collection consists primarily of personal papers, photos, and artifacts.
by Don Wentworth (Lilliput Review) on Nov 05, 2013.


For the paste: coriander seeds – 1 tsp, gram dal – 2 tsp, 2 red dried chillies, whole black peppers – 1/2 tsp, asafoetida – a pinch.
Fry the above in 2 tsp ghee, add 5 tsp grated coconut and grind.
Soak 3 tsp of chana dal previous night and let them be soaked for at least 7-8 hours. Cut bitter nut into slices, add the chana dal and steam them. Steam toor dal (3/4 cup) separately. Heat 1 cup of water and add tamarind juice to it. Add 1 tsp Sambar powder, and 1 tsp salt. When it comes to boil, and the raw smell of tamarind disappears, add the bitternut, chana dal and cook for 3 min. Then add the ground paste and steamed toor dal. Cook for about 3 min . In little oil splutter some mustard seeds and add it to the pitla. Add a bunch of curry leaves.


Eventually, however, there was a glimmer of hope on Friday 7th August. Monday or Tuesday looked possible. The excitement should have been considerable, but for the fact that hopes had been dashed several times already. I arranged for further charts to be faxed through on Saturday morning.
When these arrived, I showed them to John, and he cautiously stated that Monday looked 'not unreasonable' for a start. Well, actually Monday morning wouldn't be very good, but from Monday afternoon through to Tuesday night looked favourable. Wednesday was expected to feature light crosswinds.
This was obviously not ideal by any stretch. However, I wanted to make an attempt at the first sensible opportunity. I had previously informed Edwin (the RRA secretary) that I wanted to go on the Monday, with a view to postponing if Saturday's forecasts showed a worsening. At 11am Saturday, I phoned to confirm that Monday was ON.
Then the panic started. The day I'd been looking forward to for ages was approaching! I rushed home and phoned the rest of the team. I also had the foresight to arrange accommodation, about five miles from the start.
In the style of Dave Pitt, I then assembled my tricycles and checked they worked.
The next stage was preparing food for the first 24 hours, and finally getting clothing packed up for several days away.
As a final weather check, John visited Met. Office HQ at Bracknell late on Saturday night. Once he'd talked his way past the security guard, he soon found his way to the 'central control room' - helped no doubt by meeting a forecaster who he'd worked with 40 years ago! The important result from this was that the forecast had not worsened, and in fact seemed slightly better than previously thought.
On Sunday 9th August, Audrey, John and I left for Land's End, in my heavily laden car, with virtually the entire contents of my bike-room (except the bikes, of course).


Combine ½ cup of grated raw potatoes, two finely chopped green chilies, 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro, 3 tablespoons rice flour (or substitute any other flour you like), 1 tablespoon crushed roasted peanuts (crunchy peanut butter works fine here too), 3 tablespoons of water, and salt to taste. Mix well and divide the mixture into 10 equal portions. Heat an oiled non-stick pan and spread each portion of the mixture on the pan with your fingertips to make a 3-inch circle. Cook on both sides until golden brown. Serve with Indian green chutney (if you want to be authentic!) or with any other tasty chutney or sauce you have on hand.


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Annie Glidden Heritage Garden continues to bloom outside CoE
August 3, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF
Gary Swick
Gary Swick views gardening as fundamental to the future.
"We live in a society that thinks that food comes from a drive-up window or, at best, a refrigerator," says Swick, an adjunct instructor of Foundations of Education in the NIU Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations.
"I think that people growing their own food, or being involved in growing food, is really going to be a key thing for us in getting our culture back," he adds. "Part of that is connecting to the natural environment, and we can't really expect people to protect something they don't care about."
As a longtime educator, Swick knows that the most effective way to change a culture's deeply ingrained mindset is through young children who are still learning about their world.
Planting those seeds is the mission of the Annie Glidden Heritage Garden, a plot of four raised beds tilled two years ago near the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center.
Swick assigns his College of Education students to create and plan lessons in math, science, social studies and language arts based on the garden.
They realize through that process that gardens are powerful teaching tools as well as valuable resources for schools, he says, and become more likely to carry that back-to-the-earth philosophy into their eventual classrooms.
He credits NIU's Communiversity Gardens as his inspiration. "I was in the right place at the right time. I am one of the faculty co-advisers, with Melissa Burlingame," Swick says.
Dan Kenney, a key player in the Communiversity Gardens initiative, later helped Swick to construct the Annie Glidden Heritage Garden. "I told Dan that I wanted this teaching garden, and he made it happen. We wrote a dean's grant, and I received it," he says.
"I got it in my mind that gardening is a skill that every teacher from Northern Illinois University should walk away with if they're not afraid to put their hands in the soil," adds Swick, a retired environmental sciences teacher from Dundee-Crown High School.
"You can experience the magic of a child planting a seed, and being able to see that something they can eat comes from it later."
Connecting that sense of awe and wonder to academics can bear great fruit, he says.
If students are excited over the miracle of seeds turning into plants, he says, imagine the poetry they might write! Imagine their curiosity to know where vegetables came from, how people used those crops over the centuries and their cultural significance to their countries of origin!
Lessons aren't restricted to vegetable gardens, he adds, mentioning flower gardens and even rock gardens.
"This is really limitless," he says. "The only limit is people's imaginations."
Equally limitless are the possibilities for society if today's children embrace gardening in a way that matches Swick's vision.
First, he says, naturally grown foods promote good nutrition, improve health and challenge business.
"You can grow food for way cheaper than you can buy it," he says. "I'm a believer that consumers control the marketplace. That's how capitalism works. If people understand their food better, if we start rejecting certain kinds of food, if we can start liking the crunch of carrots and celery instead of potato chips – then the food companies are not going to make it."
Second, he foresees greater civility among humanity.
"Our human culture is not on a sustainable path. We've got all of this violence and squabbling. But everybody eats. Everybody has to have food," he says.
"If you look at a supermarket, people are independent. They're rushing through, loading up carts, not interacting, being controlled by the marketing on the packages," he says.
"At a farmers market," he adds, "it's a community experience. Conversations take place. Relationships are developed. People are willing to pay more money for something than they would in the supermarket because they know who's producing it, they know what they're getting and, in some cases, they can have some control over it."
Next on Swick's wish list is a pair of aeroponic gardens, indoor tower-shaped gardens that spray water onto the roots rather than immersing the roots.
He wrote a dean's grant to obtain one model for the classroom and another for the Learning Center in Gabel Hall; the towers demonstrate the ability of year-round, indoor food production.
Meanwhile, he's already doing his part to put gardens into tiny hands. First-graders from NIU's Campus Child Care are watering and weeding the Annie Glidden Heritage Garden while their college-age counterparts are home for the summer.
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First of all, a bit of history if you're unfamiliar with the notion itself. Back in 2014, the Federal Accounting Standards Board (aka FASB) in partnership with the International Accounting Standards Board (or IASB) came up with new rules on regulating revenues from contracts known as ASC 606. Initially, it affected only public organizations: they had to follow the standards for annual reporting starting from December 15, 2017. As for now, more than four years later, all businesses reporting under US GAAP will have to report revenue under ASC 606 for fiscal years from December 15, 2018, and on.
The emergence of this new standard has a number of major reasons behind. Historically, there's always been a drastic difference between GAAP and IFRS in regards to how they judge revenue recognition and disclosure requirements. Thus, ASC 606 principles were crafted to simplify and unify revenue recognition practices across industries as requirements for reporting revenue vary within various jurisdictions and markets. However, revenue recognition is a critical benchmark if we talk about evaluating the financial performance of a business. In a nutshell, the newly-made standards serve one common principle: companies must identify revenues when transferring their merchandise or services to its clients, matching the amount of consideration expected in exchange for corresponding commodities and services. Five step guidelines have been designed for both individual and group contracts to keep them in conformity with ASC 606 principles.
While the steps above may seem pretty straightforward, the devil is in the details as they say. Industry professionals claim that the adoption of ASC 606 standards represents a principally difficult task for subscription-based companies at every step of the model. Let's find out what lies ahead for them.
It would be fair to say that subscription plans change now and then: for instance, a customer may upgrade or downgrade his plan. Naturally, changes within a contract are regarded as the norm for this field of business. However, these changes may not be in tune with the rhythm of the compliance step number one – the identification of the contract. Or, in some cases, contract changes are considered as a modification of the current contract. In other situations, there's a need to draw up a new contract. This way, this new reality impacts revenue recognition.
The remainder of the steps – from 2nd to 5th – creates even bigger ambiguity. For instance, how can you possibly regulate the variety of subscription characteristics? What about so-called evergreen subscriptions (which have no end)? Or non-refundable fees you sometimes have to pay upfront? Should they be recognized at once or not? And, surely, the point number 3 has a lot of mental pabulum to offer. The main question is how can we regulate usage-based pricing in regards to transaction price? All these questions add a new level of difficulty towards the tracking of contracted, recognized, and deferred revenue.
Firstly, in order to achieve compliance, companies will have to adjust their sales and marketing efforts. Contract designs and pricing models should be put on the list of things to urgently change, not to mention that organizations will have to rearrange the way they manage their sales teams. And what about discounts? Let's imagine a client purchasing a subscription for a certain number of seats. The overall price per seat is reduced, no matter if we talk about future additional seats or the previously-purchased ones. This situation has nothing in common with forecasting business' growth as contracts will be modified on the spot and prices will be continually changing.
But let's look on the bright side and shed some light on organizations which managed to benefit from changed rules. That would be, among others, Aetna Inc., an American managed health care company, which expects ASC 606 to increase its revenue and expense by whopping $2.0 billion. Universal Technical Institute, as one of the early adopters of the new accounting standard, will benefit from a non-cash increase to equity of approximately $37.2 million as of October 1, 2018.
Again, it would be safe to predict that this new standard will provide organizations with a big chunk of hesitation at the moment when they begin to incorporate ASC 606 into their reporting. However, one just can't ignore this issue, so the first step for subscription-only and mixed business model firms is to embrace this new reality. At first, they should address some specific features of their business models such as discounts over certain periods of time, pricing plans based on usage, bundled products, evergreen subscriptions and ramp pricing.
As the financial landscape is continually changing, the next step is the choice of a technology solution which is capable of keeping them in compliance with changes in ASC 606 as these new accounting standards represent (and won't cease to represent) a serious challenge for CFOs and their teams.
Historically, the growing list of international trade regulations and tax reforms policies have a significant impact on businesses' principles and practices. The new direction will make companies to revamp the way they calculate their revenues and whether it's time to resort to automation. This way, the right technology solution is essential for long-term success of subscription-based businesses. These solutions can be integrated either through an API or middleware to guarantee the proper accounting for revenue and, accordingly, the compliance with ASC 606.


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5 Best Cheap Digital Pianos For Beginners in 2023 - Reviews and prices
a year ago by Sylvester Green ∙ 5 min read
The digital piano is a popular instrument for lovers of live music, both at home and in concert halls. It is purchased both for adult musicians and for teaching music to children. Its advantages are obvious:
Compactness;
No need for tuning;
The ability to reproduce the sound of other instruments;
Possibility to use additional features and devices;
Connects to your computer and synthesizer, combines with headphones and sound amplifiers.
But which model to choose? Introducing the best digital pianos: top 5!
TOP-5 Electric Pianos
Yamaha P45 (under $500)
This model is already considered a cult among musical instruments of this type, and it is not hard to explain: Yamaha P-45 is a good combination of low price and excellent quality. With its low weight and compactness, this musical equipment has a surprisingly realistic, rich sound (in comparison with the previous version, Yamaha P-35, the sound has improved to almost perfect - clearly the work was been done to improve the tone generator).
But the main plus is the four-level GHS keyboard, which proved itself perfect in previous versions. The 88 keys give an amazing tactile sensation: as you lower the register, the keys become harder to press! The reverberation fully reproduces the effect of an acoustic grand piano. A nice bonus: many functions can be controlled by pressing a single button.
You may be interested in Cable Organizers
Casio Privia PX-S1000 (under $750)
This model is compact, but its functionality is great for its size. The sound of the electronic piano is as close as possible to that of an acoustic instrument:
The open strings resonate in the upper registers;
The hammers of the keyboard are tapping;
When muting, the characteristic resonances are heard;
There is a damped resonance effect.
All these nuances inherent to an acoustic instrument create the illusion of playing it!
The keyboard deserves nothing but praise - full-size, weighted. The ebony and ivory keys have a slightly rough texture, an ergonomic feature that will keep your fingers from slipping even when you play very expressively.
Korg LP-380-U (under $1150)
This model combines compactness, modern minimalist design, and competent construction - the creators have provided everything to give the instrument a realistic and rich sound:
The innovative RH3 keyboard;
High-quality pedal box that allows you to convey the nuances of emotions that the performer puts into the game;
A powerful sound engine with 120-note polyphony.
Korg LP-380-U Digital Piano comes complete with two 22-watt amplifiers and two headphone slots for practicing at home so as not to make the family and neighbours uncomfortable.
Casio CDP-S350 (under $550)
This is a compact digital piano for beginners with useful hammer-action mechanics. Beginners' fingers, unaccustomed to increased stress, often get wet and slip - that won't happen here, the keys have a dusting that "traps" slipping fingers. Sensitivity to the force of your strike can be adjusted. Thanks to the presence of two sound processors and a special filter, the sound is as close to acoustic as possible, there are many timbres, and an experienced keyboard player can play with the function of layering them. This is a really interesting instrument, which makes you want to improve and experiment!
Casio PX-870 (under $1000)
This is an advanced digital piano with an optimized case design, where the control panel is comfortably located on the side, and a great keyboard - you just feel the ivory under your fingers! Exercises on hammer mechanics are useful for beginners. The sound is expressively timbral and as close to live as possible thanks to the sound processor, which simulates the sound of open strings, and the acoustic system, which creates detail, balance, and depth throughout the range. For learning, this option is extremely good: plenty of instructional compositions and a feature for playing a duet with a stronger performer to help you learn the exercises and pieces, or with a teacher. You can record your own performance, listen to it, and correct it later.
5 advantages of digital pianos over acoustic pianos
1. You don't have to call a tuner several times a year when you use the instrument, which is a good way to save money these days. You also don't have to leave a water can and a light bulb inside the instrument.
2. In addition to the sound of the piano, there are sounds of violins, electric organ, electric piano, vibraphone, drums, etc. (depends on the model). Some models have over 1000 timbres!
3. Dimensions. More compact instrument in comparison with the acoustic piano. Which allows you to fit it seamlessly into a small room. Has less weight, which is very important, for example, when you move. Typically, a cabinet instrument consists of a keyboard and case walls, so you can quickly assemble and disassemble it yourself.
4. With a digital piano, you can adjust the volume and plug in headphones. You can play all day without disturbing your neighbours.
5. Most models have a recording function, which means you can record your piano playing in the memory of the instrument, or on a flash drive!
The main features of a digital piano
1. Has a full-size keyboard of 88 keys (like an acoustic instrument), while synthesizers tend to be more compact.
2. Weighted hammerhead keyboard. Each key has its own weight and that weight decreases from low notes to high notes.
3. Typically, digital pianos have a case in which the key level is at the same level as the keyboard of an acoustic piano. So there are also compact instruments without a case, but if you buy the original stand separately, it will meet these standards.
by Sylvester Green
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Q: MySQL error: "Column count doesn't match value count at row 1" - beginner help basically, php & MySQL being used. I am a beginner.
What I am trying to do is registering a user to my database, so storing the form input to my users_tb.
get this error when I try inserting the values into the form:
"Column count doesn't match value count at row 1"
I thought it was because I wasn't inserting the user_id value (which is auto increment), so I tried inserting '' in my query for the user_id, but still no luck.
here is the query:
$query = "INSERT INTO users_tb (user_id, user_status, user_gender, user_firstname, user_surname, student_number,
    user_email, user_dob, user_name, user_pass)
    VALUES('','$status','$gender','$firstname','$surname','$hnumber','$dob','$username','$password')";
    mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
    mysql_close();

whether that helps. If you need any other code just say.
just to make sure though, the inserts don't have to be in same order the fields are in the table do they?
many thanks,

A: You are missing a value for user_email.
$query = "INSERT INTO users_tb
          (
              user_status,
              user_gender,
              user_firstname,
              user_surname,
              student_number,
              user_email,
              user_dob,
              user_name,
              user_pass
          )
          VALUES
          (
              '$status',
              '$gender',
              '$firstname',
              '$surname',
              '$hnumber',
              '$email',    -- <--- you forgot this!
              '$dob',
              '$username',
              '$password'
          )";

And just a reminder: you should escape the values using mysql_real_escape_string if you are not already doing so.

A: Mark Byers answered the problem part, but didn't address this question:

just to make sure though, the inserts don't have to be in same order the fields are in the table do they?

No, they don't have to be in the same order as the columns in the table, but your columns list and your values list have to match both in count and in data type. The problem you have is the one Mark spotted; you're missing a value for user_email, which means the dob value is trying to go in that column instead. MySQL is seeing that there aren't enough values for the columns you listed, and reporting the error back to you.
Column count doesn't match value count is actually a pretty clear message, which is unusual for database engines. :)

A: You're missing one value.
For queries this long with so many columns (and if you're inserting just one row), I'd suggest using the following INSERT syntax, which is much easier to read and less likely to cause problems.
$query = "INSERT INTO users_tb SET
          user_status    = '". mysql_real_escape_string($status) ."',
          user_gender    = '". mysql_real_escape_string($gender) ."',
          user_firstname = '". mysql_real_escape_string($firstname) ."',
          user_surname   = '". mysql_real_escape_string($surname) ."',
          student_number = '". mysql_real_escape_string($hnumber) ."',
          user_email     = '". mysql_real_escape_string($email) ."',
          user_dob       = '". mysql_real_escape_string($dob) ."',
          user_name      = '". mysql_real_escape_string($username) ."',
          user_pass      = '". mysql_real_escape_string($password) ."'";
mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_close();

A: You can use this simple function to create a query out of $_POST array and list of allowed fields:
function dbSet($fields) {
  $set='';
  foreach ($fields as $field) {
    if (isset($_POST[$field])) {
      $set.="`$field`='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[$field])."', ";
    }
  }
  return substr($set, 0, -2);
}

used like this
$table  = "users_tb";
$fields = explode(" ","user_status user_gender user_firstname user_surname student_number user_email user_dob user_name user_pass");
$query  = "INSERT INTO $table SET ".dbSet($fields);
mysql_query($query) or trigger_error(mysql_error()." in ".$query);

of course it's assuming that HTML form field names match SQL table field names, which is very handy consideration

A: you've got 10 fields you want to insert, but you're providing only 9 values

A: You list 10 columns but you only have 9 values.


How do you delve behind school prospectuses? How do you choose the right school for your child? What factors other than academic rankings should you consider?
This well-established guide, now in its fifteenth edition - compiled by parents for parents and completely independent - combines facts and subjective interpretation to provide the ultimate guide for parents seeking the best school for their child.
Spanning both the private and state sectors, "The Good Schools Guide" covers schools from age 5 to age 18.
In addition to factual information such as contact details, entry requirements and fees, "The Guide" includes sections such as 'background and atmosphere' designed to enable parents to find the right match for their child.
It also gives a refreshing analysis of each school's strengths and weaknesses.


The votes from 2017 Your Voice, Your Choice: Parks and Streets have been tallied, and the list of funded projects includes one in Wedgwood.
In June, residents from all over Seattle voted on how to spend $2,000,000 of the City budget on small-scale improvements to streets and parks. Just one of the proposed projects fell within Wedgwood's boundaries — crossing improvements on 35th Ave NE at NE 80th Street.
Receiving 188 votes, the Wedgwood project made the cut and was granted $80,000. The winning projects will be included in City Departments' 2018 budget and will be implemented in 2018.
The crossing improvements on 35th Ave NE at NE 80th Street will likely coincide with the 35th Ave NE Paving Project, which is scheduled to begin construction in Winter 2018.


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