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Eur J Cancer. 2009 May;45(7):1218-1231. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.10.037. Epub 2008 Dec 16.
Data quality at the Cancer Registry of Norway: an overview of comparability, completeness, validity and timeliness.
Larsen IK1, Småstuen M2, Johannesen TB2, Langmark F2, Parkin DM3, Bray F4, Møller B2.
Department of Clinical and Registry-based Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, Fridjof Nansens vei 19, Postbox 5313, Majorstuen, N-0304 Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: inger.kristin.larsen@kreftregisteret.no.
Department of Clinical and Registry-based Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, Fridjof Nansens vei 19, Postbox 5313, Majorstuen, N-0304 Oslo, Norway.
Clinical Trials Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Cancer Research UK, Centre for Epidemiology, Mathematics and Statistics, London, UK.
Department of Clinical and Registry-based Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, Fridjof Nansens vei 19, Postbox 5313, Majorstuen, N-0304 Oslo, Norway; Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.
To provide a comprehensive evaluation of the quality of the data collected on both solid and non-solid tumours at the Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN).
Established quantitative and semi-quantitative methods were used to assess comparability, completeness, accuracy and timeliness of data for the period 1953-2005, with special attention to the registration period 2001-2005.
The CRN coding and classification system by and large follows international standards, with some further subdivisions of morphology groupings performed in-house. The overall completeness was estimated at 98.8% for the registration period 2001-2005. There remains a variable degree of under-reporting particularly for haematological malignancies (C90-95) and tumours of the central nervous system (C70-72). For the same period, 93.8% of the cases were morphologically verified (site-specific range: 60.0-99.8%). The under-reporting in 2005 due to timely publication is estimated at 2.2% overall, based on the number of cases received at the registry during the following year.
This review suggests the routines in place at the CRN yields comparable data that can be considered reasonably accurate, close-to-complete and timely, thereby justifying our policy of the reporting of annual incidence one year after the year of diagnosis.
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Day 3: Jetlag?
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I must have been wrong about the jetlag, because I think I actually have some. I was absolutely exhausted last night, and went to sleep around 11. Got up around 5AM, and stayed up since I couldn't go back to bed. Decided to start off my day. I'm pretty sure this is jetlag rather than just my sleep schedule being off, because usually there's no way I would even operate with just 5 hours of sleep, unless absolutely necessary. I spent pretty much the entire day in the Ooimachi (大井町) area of town, which is south of Shinagawa. Why did I go there? Because I knew there was a group of department stores, and it would be a good place to start my work research. Actually doing the work, I feel like some kind of spy or detective, which sounds retarded but is actually kind of fun. I have to snap pictures of the store displays and product selections, without anyone seeing, of course, and then I was talking to a store manager today and two other employees trying to get some basic information about the whole baby bottle issue I'm researching. Kind of cool, plus I think my Japanese is kind of coming back to me. Too bad my reading level can be compared to "retarded 3rd grader with a dead eye."
I got back from Ooimachi on the Rinkai Line, which isn't a JR line per say, but is connected to the Saikyo Line. Confused? There was even a sign in Japanese that said "Rinkai Line is not a JR Line," meaning that even Japanese people must get confused. If the natives don't get the difference, I certainly shouldn't be expected to. One sweet thing about the Rinkai Ooimachi Station, however, was that there were 3 computers set up with internet. 100 yen (about a buck) for 10 minutes of usage, right there in the station. Talk about handy, especially for people like me who have no keitai because of stupid stricter laws requiring foreigners to have their alien cards to get a cell phone. Grr. But I really liked having the internet computers there, not because I really had anything important to look up, but just because it's so convenient. I checked e-mail, Facebook, and that was pretty much it. Again, a great idea.
Since I don't have a whole lot to talk about today, I will go on a bit of a tangent about Japanese TV. Everyone probably knows that it is, in a word, ridiculous. This is probably one of the reasons I like it and would want to work in it, because some of the most ridiculous ideas ever are made into TV shows. Let's not even go into some of the really crazy shows, that most Americans see some evidence of in Iron Chef and MXC. The weirdest one was last year when I saw the show where they challenged guys to drink as much beer as possible, then they timed them peeing in the bathroom to see "who can pee for the longest?" Crazy, right? And you thought American late-night TV was bad. Whenever I've been in the hotel, at night and in the mornings, I've watched mainly news shows. Japanese news shows show the exact same clips and stories all day long, at least from what I've noticed. All channels, all day, and sometimes for several days in a row, will show the exact same stories, exact same footage, and related information about the "biggest stories." Maybe it's just that this is normal and I don't watch news shows in the states enough. This whole week the biggest things have been a girl who died in a pool drain in Saitama, and the new flyweight boxing champion Kameda Koki.
I don't watch a lot of boxing, but I don't need any boxing knowledge to tell you that this kid (he is 19) is a major tool. He and his two brothers are famous in Japan I guess, training under their boxer father to be boxers themselves. Kameda Koki won the championship the other night, by a 2-1 decision against some equally tooly looking skinny guy from Brazil or somewhere in South America. I didn't watch the match, but I hear that Kameda was pretty much getting owned the entire match, even getting knocked down twice. How did he win? I don't know, but I'll bet it was some kind of underhanded bribery. I'm not going to speculate, since I don't know (or care) about boxing, but I just wanted to spend this time on my blog to reiterate that Kameda Koki is a tool. After winning, he was crying, weeping, and and generally being a poor winner on stage, acting like a little kid who just successfully stuck all 64 crayons up his nose. The next day, he's on a pretty much every news show, with many of them having him there for a live interview. Instead of being respectful to the adults and everyone watching him, this little snot now has an even bigger ego, wearing reflective sunglasses and a silk shirt in every interview. Most of his answers are 1 or 2 words only, and he doesn't have much to say except "I'm going to get stronger." If I were interviewing this kid, I would have punched him in the face if he refused to take off the glasses and talk like a grown up. I don't know why he pisses me off so much, he just does. If you look up a picture of him (here I did it for you), you can see that he's just a little snot whose dad paid off the officials so that he would win and not have to cry in the corner all year.
Back to TV. Another thing you see a LOT of on Japanese TV is shows with people eating. I noticed this the first night I got here, when there was at least 2 hours of consecutive shows like these. These aren't cooking shows, food review shows, or anything about the history of the food really. They're just shows that feature people eating. Anything. They don't even have to be celebrities, they're just the random hosts of the shows who go around eating at restaurants. Sometimes it's actually something interesting, like a restaurant that has a giant parfait, or maybe a giant bowl of noodles, but usually it's just watching people eating and hearing them exclaim "oh man this is good." Does that sound boring and retarded? Well it is, and I guarantee that Japanese TV stations air at least 10 hours of people eating a week. The two hosts are usually a girl who acts like she is 12, and a guy with a kansai accent who says "waaaaaa" a lot.
I haven't watched much of childrens programming, but I caught the beginning of some show this morning before I left the hotel. It apparently stars the former sumo star Konishiki, but I guess since retiring from the sport he has been downgraded into a crappy Barney-type character. Showing you this picture will do a lot more than me trying to explain it:
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The Airplane That Wasn't There
A B-25 bomber ditched in a Pennsylvania river in broad daylight 1956 and, seemingly impossibly, was never found.
Filed under Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends
This is the story of a WWII-era bomber that disappeared in broad daylight, during peacetime, with plenty of witnesses. Something like an ultimate magician's trick. It was 1956, and a B-25 bomber was on a routine transport flight, headed from Nevada to Pennsylvania to pick up some spare parts and also deliver a couple of passengers. As the plane neared Pittsburgh, a sudden loss of fuel was observed. The bomber ran out of gas, and with both engines out, it made a controlled belly landing in the Monongahela river. All six men aboard survived the landing, but only four were rescued. Two of the men died from exposure in the freezing January water. The real mystery is that the aircraft itself, in water that was scarcely deeper than the plane's tail stood from the ground, completely vanished. To this day, not a single relic or piece of debris has been found, despite extensive searching by numerous groups. Did the bomber manage to almost incredibly evade detection, or was it secretly removed?
The North American B-25 Mitchell was a twin-engine medium bomber developed just before the United States entered WWII. It saw service throughout the war and normally carried a crew of six. B-25s are best known from the Doolittle Raid, in which sixteen of them were launched from an aircraft carrier for a one-way bombing raid against Tokyo, greatly exceeding the design capabilities of both the carrier and the aircraft. It was a B-25 that crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945, killing 14 people. In 1969, nearly a quarter of all flying B-25 survivors were acquired and featured in the 1970 movie Catch-22. So it's a well-known plane with a familiar history.
This particular plane was a TB-25N, a variant designed for training navigators, of which some 47 were made. Its serial number was 44-29125. After the war it was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, from where it departed with 7 men on board on January 30, 1956. One man, a Cap. Tabak, stayed behind when the crew overnighted at Selfridge AFB in Michigan. The remaining six crew left for Olmstead AFB in Pennsylvania, a flight which should have required only an hour and 40 minutes. They left at 1:43pm on Tuesday, January 31, with three hours of fuel indicated on board — plenty for this short flight. Once they got to the vicinity of Pittsburgh, they noticed a sudden decrease in the fuel readings. No problems were found, but to be on the safe side, they decided to change course for Greater Pittsburgh Airport, the nearest refueling site. And, unfortunately, their story became one that's all too common in aviation. Weather closed in, they stayed aloft off-course longer than they should have; and once they sighted a break in the clouds, they were short on fuel and all they could see were populated areas. The fuel ran out and both engines quit at 3000 feet. Rather than crash into a populated area, they made the decision to ditch in the Monongahela river. The air temperature was below freezing; the water temperature only a fraction above.
The B-25 ditched in the river just clear of the 1936 Homestead Grays Bridge, following the current in a southwesterly direction. Reports from the crewmen and the witnesses state that the plane stayed afloat for 10-15 minutes, and during that time, drifted about one mile downstream. The current was reported as 8-10 knots, so all these numbers are roughly in the same ballpark; but it's hard to say at exactly what time the plane disappeared from view or exactly where that was, witnesses said it was near the Jones and Laughlin steel plant. The water in the Mon river (as it's commonly called) is kept dredged just deep enough for towboats and coal barges; if you stood a B-25 up on its end in the water, about half or even two-thirds of it would be out of the water. It seemed unthinkable that it might be able to sink and never be found; but at the time, energy was focused on rescuing the six men who were on the verge of a frozen death.
Dotson and Smith were picked up by a commercial boat. Alleman successfully swam to shore. Jamieson was rescued by a police boat. The other two men, Ingraham and Soocey, were seen swimming but didn't make it. Both bodies were recovered, but only after their remains were discovered months later.
The sunken airplane was an obvious hazard to navigation in the small river, so efforts to remove it began quite quickly, in fact the very next day. The water of the Mon was both muddy and polluted, so search efforts depended upon the dragging of anchors and grappling hooks, and hoping to latch onto something. For several days, a Coast Guard cutter, the Forsythia, marked all candidate debris with buoys. A barge commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Monello II, patiently scraped and search each spot. Only once did they think they had something; operators began raising what they believed to be a wing of the aircraft, but the anchor slipped off and the object, whatever it was, sank and was not found again. No photographs were taken that may have confirmed what was believed to have been found.
After two weeks of combing the river with the mind-boggling result of not finding such a large object that must be in such a small space, the search was called off. Nobody has ever since reported finding so much as a scrap of aluminum. The loss defied all logic and expectations, but facts are facts. The Air Force put the salvage rights up for auction in September. They sold for $10. The buyer, John Evans who owned a nearby seaplane base, mounted his own search, but also found nothing.
So what did become of the plane, and do we have the facilities to solve this mystery after so many decades? The null hypothesis is that the wreck of the plane simply evaded detection, which does happen from time to time, in spite of its apparent unlikeliness. Some point to a jinx, as it was neither the first nor the last time a plane ditched in the Mon with a loss of life. Three such tragedies occurred in close succession: in 1955, an airliner ditched in river killing 10, and less than two months after the loss of the B-25, a Navy plane ditched near Masontown at night killing all three aboard. But associations like these are only apparent when pointed out; when viewed against the background noise of all data of all fatality crashes anywhere, they fade into randomness. Statistics do not, at all, support the existence of a "jinx" at the Mon river. Suggested theories go as far as claiming that Howard Hughes was on board, despite it obviously not fitting into the timeline of his life, nobody reporting rescuing him, and no coherent suggestion as to why he'd be there or why it would demand secrecy.
But the prevailing theory today is a bit of a conspiracy: some say the Air Force came in that very night of January 31, found, raised, and removed the wreck, and transported it away on trucks to a nearby Nike missile base, before daylight and before anyone began the "official" search on that cold February morning. This theory has become something of an urban legend, to the extent that any number of people have "come forward" and claimed to have been part of it in some way.
Researcher Robert Goerman has collected extensive anecdotal information supporting this version of events. This information consists of stories that someone heard an anonymous phone call into a radio station by a trucker claiming, 20 years after the fact, to have been hired to transport the wreckage in the middle of the night. Not only is this a third-hand anecdote, it's desperately illogical. If such a trucker existed — in defiance of the fact that the military had sufficient resources of its own — he was either paid or threatened into silence, but then allowed to speak freely about it on the radio. Such a fancy is indistinguishable from a crank call into the radio station, and doesn't deserve to be treated any differently.
There are other severe weaknesses in the Air Force conspiracy version of the story. For one thing, a TB-25N is a specially modified trainer version of the plane; it would be in no shape to carry a nuclear weapon, nor was there any reason for it to have done so in 1956. But, granted, if the Air Force had decided it wanted to use this particular TB-25N aircraft for some secret purpose, it certainly had the resources to do so. But the fact that it might have been so does not constitute evidence that it was. We've not left the realm of pure conjecture.
The biggest problem, from my analysis, is the proposal that the Air Force located, raised, disassembled, and transported the wreck during the dark of night, with no lights, with nowhere near enough time, and accomplished it with no witnesses. Fenced-off train tracks border both banks of the Mon river up and down that whole region. The southern bank is largely forested, and busy Carson Street runs alongside the tracks. On the north bank, the fenced-off train tracks separate the river from a trainyard, neighborhoods, utility yards, or forested areas, depending where you are. The claim that the Air Force completed their recovery with nobody noticing requires a lot of stretchers. For one thing, it's non-trivial to remove and replace fencing and get heavy equipment across active railorad tracks — certainly blocking the train tracks for a good part of the night — with nobody finding out. The traffic along Carson Street can easily see both sides of the river, and any lights used, or such light sources as cutting torches.
The military had no river assets like barges or cranes, and would have had to hire them; and yet the logs of all the assets that actually were hired into the project over the next few days have not been called into question, so far as I've been able to find.
But mainly, the B-25 was the Air Force's own plane. They were well within their rights to raise it, cut it apart, and take it wherever they wanted. There was no need for secrecy, even if they did have some clandestine cargo. It's not like nobody knew the Air Force existed or knew about nuclear weapons. In other cases, for example when an XB-70 bomber crashed in California in 1966, they cordoned off the area while doing their cleanup. There was no reason to do their recovery in the dead of night and pretend it never happened. The conspiracy version of events is without any meaningful evidence, would be unprecedented, illogical, and excrutiatingly improbable.
So where is the missing B-25? We don't know. But the group that has put the most time and energy into finding out has a theory that requires no leaps of logic. A private association called the B-25 Recovery Group, working with the Sen. John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, believes there is a solution that would fit all the observations. According to their research, extensive gravel dredging had been done for years right off of the Jones and Laughlin steel plant, at a place called Bird's Landing. This left great deep pits in the riverbed into which the B-25 quite likely would have sunk and been stuck. In the decades since, it's been covered with silt, and it's probable that nothing besides the engines, landing gear, and other heavy parts might remain — for anyone with the resources to dredge for it. So far, nobody has stepped up to do magnetometer readings or other expensive surveys. More than likely, according to their theory, the B-25 simply slipped Tetris-like into a slot that has effectively hidden it, and will likely remain so for the forseeable future.
Where is the TB-25N that fell into an icy grave all those years ago? The fact is we don't know, but we've also insufficient reason to believe it's anywhere other than where everyone saw it go. "I don't know" does not mean "I do know and it was an Air Force conspiracy", so for now, we're going to leave the book open.
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The Federal Reserve: Partying like it's 1979
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This month, inflation reached its highest rate since 1991—5.4%. As consumers, we definitely feel it at the grocery store, with meat prices up some 12%, and at the gas pump, where fuel prices are up 42% over last year.
The White House is worried: Inflation is an administration killer. This is how presidents find themselves in single terms. We saw it in the 1970s with Presidents Ford and Carter and the inflation-spiked recession of the early 1990s did President George H.W. Bush no favors.
President Biden sees a shortage of goods and container ships piling up outside the Port of Los Angeles. So, last month he directed that the nation's largest container port begin 24-hour round-the-clock operations.
It's unlikely that round-the-clock operations at the Port of Los Angeles alone will solve consumer goods shortages, much less stem inflation anytime soon, however. When the Port of Los Angeles ramps up to 24-hour operations, there may not be the ground logistics—drayage, warehousing and cross-country freight—to distribute it.
The adjacent port at Long Beach has been operating 24 hours a day for nearly a month; drayage freight (the trucks that haul from the piers to adjacent warehouses) is past capacity now, and containers are even being placed in residential neighborhoods because warehouses are full. And we have seen the new influx of trucks clogging I-40 eastbound as they struggle up Sedillo Hill.
This open-the-port Hail Mary play seems especially pointless given the overall state of the economy in 2021. We will continue to see consumer goods shortages due to lack of vaccines in Southeast Asia where many of these goods are being manufactured. We will continue to see high prices for food the remainder of this year due to severe weather, labor shortages, packaging shortages and transportation bottlenecks. This is only expected to ease 2-3% in 2022.
Then there's fuel. It is a global truth that the transition from fossil fuels has begun. But we are by no means there yet. Oil is now over $80 a barrel—which should mean great things for the U.S. oil industry. But production may not ramp up fully until 2022 because the small producers hit by the pandemic and by the drilling license moratorium in the first part of this year won't be able to start up as quickly as their larger counterparts. Gas will remain expensive. Which will make shipping and freight expensive. And so on and so on. Inflation is a bear.
It will be an expensive winter. Natural gas prices are expected to reach record highs worldwide, with Russia pulling the rug out from under much of Europe this week with the announcement that it will not increase natural gas deliveries there this winter. Inexplicably, the Biden administration decided to okay the Nordstar pipeline between Russia and Germany after killing Keystone XL.
This inflation feels a little different, though. People aren't lining up at gas stations like they did in the 1970s. Purchasing power remains stable-ish because of cash infusions via government stimulus and increased personal savings during the pandemic. What is really different is the upheaval in the labor market which remains the single greatest variable threatening our economic recovery.
Here's the most challenging labor statistic: The childcare industry has 10% fewer workers in 2021 than it did pre-pandemic. If you can't get your kid in daycare, you can't go back to work. Every industry is impacted by this. About a million Americans are childcare workers. We've got a shortfall of 100,000 employees. This problem isn't going to be fixed overnight, or by a federal stimulus package.
The most obvious thing to do in a period of sustained inflation is to institute a contractionary monetary policy. Simply put, this means making less money available to slow purchasing demand. In the United States, this is achieved primarily through adjusting interest rates though the Federal Reserve.
In the 1970s the U.S. endured seven years of inflation beginning in 1973, when inflation leapt from 3.4% to 8.7% (the optimal inflation rate is around 2%). The Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate—the rate banks charge each other for overnight loans—from 6% to 11%, and inflation dropped to 5.7%. The ensuing OPEC crisis pushed inflation still higher in 1974, requiring another rate hike to 13%.
But the Fed didn't hold to this policy after 1974. The prevailing economic belief at the time of the OPEC crisis was that the U.S. was facing cost-push inflation, which is a phenomenon where prices increase due to increases in the cost of production; that is, higher costs for raw materials and wages. Higher costs of production can then result in a decrease in the total production, or aggregate supply in the nation, driving prices higher. (That might certainly sound like our current state in 2021.)
After interest rates hit a high of 13% in 1974, the Federal Reserve actually started cutting interest rates because it felt it necessary to offset the recession that was developing under stagflation (where jobs and production slow while inflation increases). Inflation was at 14% in 1979 when Fed Reserve chair Paul Volcker, influenced by economist Milton Friedman, finally implemented decisive constrictive monetary policy and set the Fed rate at 20%.
This move had two impacts. It sent the economy into a deep recession cycle while stopping excessive inflation; and it began a new era for the Federal Reserve. Inflation dropped to 3.8% by 1982, and stabilized for the rest of the decade, setting up the tremendous economic boom of the 1980s. The action also began a trend for the Federal Reserve to again function as a credible inflation fighter, which it has been able to do with relative success for the last four decades.
Friedman maintained that "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." His theory certainly proved its validity in 1979 and was the prevalent wisdom for the rest of the century. Today, and for the last few years, Federal interest rates are close to zero, to the delight of Wall Street and the banking industry.
Now, with inflation over five percent, and the world still emerging from an economic shock—the pandemic—the Federal Reserve is hinting at a modest increase (a quarter point!) in 2022. That won't be enough.
In an economy where the only "savings" programs are dependent on private investment funds, not interest-bearing bank accounts, and our economy has seen unprecedented growth over a seemingly endless money supply, will the Fed intervene to check inflation in a meaningful way in time by staunching the supply of money into the economy? Will the President urge such an action?
Inflation is an administration killer. The White House will have to move quickly to manage the national obsession with cheap debt and urge the Fed to make stronger moves if Biden/Harris are to stand a chance in 2024.
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There's nothing like a bit a brown to make Real Red look amazingly vibrant! Ever since Stampin' Up! brought out Stampin' Blendabilities Markers, I've been dying to dig out my Pleasant Poppies stamp and use it with them. This week's challenge from Pals Paper Arts was the perfect opportunity!
Now, I know that we only have Blendies in Cherry Cobbler, but since it is a three shade assortment, if you go a little heavier on the lightest shade, it really looks like Real Red to me. What do you think?
I stamped the image in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Whisper White cardstock and coloured in the poppies with the Blendabilities assortment as mentioned above, and using Crumb Cake on the stems. I carefully cut out the poppies with my Paper Snips, but left the cardstock intact at the bottom of the image.
On my Soft Suede card base, I added some Park Lane Designer Series Paper in Soft Suede, and then some Crumb Cake DSP from the Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack.
I stamped the sentiment from the Feel Goods Stamp set (it's really the day for oldies today!) in Versamark Ink and heat embossed it using Early Espresso Stampin' Emboss Powder as a neutral on Vellum cardstock.
I cut slits on either side of the vellum in order to pass the Crumb Cake Seam Binding ribbon through and used the ribbon to attach the vellum to the card base. I also added some Glue Dots on the vellum under the ribbon, where they couldn't be seen, to help hold it. I tied a bow in some Crumb Cake Seam Binding ribbon and added it with Glue Dots on the left of the sentiment.
I'm really pleased with the way this card turned out. You should definitely try this colour combination! I love how the neutrals make the red positively glow!
I'm leaving today for holidays in Mexico, but will be able to keep in contact through email and facebook if you need anything! I'll be home in about 10 days, when I will resume my regular blog schedule. I have another post scheduled for Friday and I'll try to post some pictures of holidays in between.
Heather, this is really spectacular! What a beautiful job you did on the poppies, and I agree with you that they do look just like Real Red! So glad you shared your card with us this week at Pals Paper Arts!
Heather, this is gorgeous. The poppies literally "pop" off the page. Beautifully done. Thanks for playing with Pals Paper Arts!
Heather, I just saw your card on Pals Paper Arts. This is stunning! I must follow your blog, so I just signed up for email notices. I'm a SU demo in Gilbert, AZ and love your blog. Thanks for the beautiful card and inspiration!
This is gorgeous Heather. Your coloring is remarkable and I love how you cut out around the poppies. What a lovely idea. Congrats on being a PPA pick this week!!


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Q: Where we are passing labels to CNN Image Classifier? I have a simple&basic question. When we are training an image classifier model(ie with CNN) exactly where we are telling the model this is a cat or a dog? Before backpropagation, the model knows that it is a dog or a cat because it is arranging new weights accordingly.
Our data is labelled but we are not reading or passing this information to the network. I am working with image captioning which is much more complicated. I appreciate any clarification, thank you in advance!

A: It is used in the loss (aka cost) function. When you give an image as an input to a network and some output is activated, the difference between the output and the truth is called loss. So, the optimization algorithm tries to minimize these losses by changing weights.

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China Across Oceans: Lead Perpetrator or Law Protector?
A few months ago, the Russian Ambassador in Tehran announced that China, Russia and Iran would hold joint maritime exercises in the Persian Gulf either by end of 2021 or in the beginning of 2022. Pretty sure you are thinking – SO WHAT? Afterall military exercises including joint maritime exercises are definitely nothing new. In fact, they are generally welcomed if it brings security across the seas. Yet, when the above was announced, the stated objectives may have been mildly amusing to most followers of such exercises around the world.
According to Levan Dzhagaryan, the Russian Ambassador, the drills are aimed at ensuring safe navigation, international shipping safety and combating pirates. When those indulging in illegal actions across the maritime spectrum are part of the above-stated objectives of a maritime drill, amusing it certainly is!!
China's Maritime Safety Law & farce of 'safe navigation''anti-piracy'
This news also comes at a time when China announced foreign vessels to report when in her 'territorial waters'…and as always, their "territorial waters" covered almost the entire South China Sea. According to the Communist Party-run Global Times, the new regulations came into effect on September 01, 2021. The Maritime Safety Administration of China issued a notice to "operators of submersibles, nuclear vessels, ships carrying radioactive materials and ships carrying bulk oil, chemicals, liquefied gas and other toxic and harmful substances to report their detailed information upon their visits to Chinese territorial waters". The categorisation covered almost every type of vessel other than warships and passenger liners. What is even more perplexing is that for the purpose of its latest regulations, China continues to claim water bodies within an ambiguous nine-dash line as territorial waters – a concept that has no legal standing in the International Maritime Laws.
The latest announcement when read in isolation may not strike immediately as dangerous. However, coupled with a law enacted in January this year which permitted ChineseCoast Guard to fire on foreign vessels in the disputed South China Sea, the latest announcement, has made transit across the South China Sea 'dangerous for navigation'.
Now, back to the Russia-Iran-China joint maritime exercise. While China and her motives are already raising eyebrows, Iran for its part too is under the lens for its alleged actions in explosions onboard transiting merchant vessels in the Persian Gulf over the past few yearsincluding one onboard an Israeli owned vessel. To participate with these very forces in an exercise to ensure safe navigation in the Indian Ocean Region is definitely anembarrassment for Russia.
As for anti-piracy operations in the Persian Gulf, the premise is just that – a premise. Piracy has largely been restricted to the Gulf of Aden and now intensifying across the East Atlantic Ocean, especially the Gulf of Guinea. The IOR navies, principally the Indian Navy, have contributed handsomely over the years to reduce piracy to almost nil. The Navies in the Persian Gulf, especially those of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and even Iran to an extent have kept piracy out of the discourse with their constabulary actions.
Russian Navy has largely been seen as a benign maritime force in the IOR. Its periodic anti-piracy operations and bilateral exercises with various littorals have seldom raised eyebrows. Most navies in IOR that have been abiding by international maritime laws look forward to regional bilateral/multilateral exercises with navies from the USA, UK, India, Australia, France, Japan – not only because those navies are law-abiding, but also because they bring about a sense of security. Russia, therefore, has largely been welcome in the IOR – whether it is the Indra series of exercises with India or bilateral exercises with other countries. Yet, when any country exercises with China, there have always been suspicions. China, after all, has worked towards and cultivated the image of an aggressor, a violator of international maritime laws, an usurper of others resources – all of which are difficult to undo.
Chinese maritime misadventures
In the past decade, China has been the largest decimator of ocean resources and is feared by all maritime nations – small or big. For a country that aspires to be at the apex in every conceivable parameter, it certainly has succeeded in becoming the number one in Illegal, Unregulated Unreported Fishing (IUUF). Accounting for 35% of global demand, China today is the largest consumer of fish. With a nearly $405 billion annual industry that caters to 20% of the protein intake of the world, fishing is an extremely lucrative industry. After depleting stock in its waters, President Xi Jinping's directives to – "Build bigger ships and venture even farther into the oceans and catch bigger fish" – has made China the lead encroacher on every possible EEZ where the coastal state is unable to repulse IUUF on account of ill-equipped navy or coast guard. Be it the Island nations in the Pacific, the countries abutting the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the South and the East China Sea or for that matter the IOR – China has been the lead violator of all regulations. Even large countries such as Australia haven't been spared.
Indeed, most coastal nations across the globe today are been at the receiving end of the Chinese Fishing Flotilla, its militia and illegal underwater surveys. China's grey-zone misadventures keeps every less capable coastal state's polity awake. It is, therefore, rich for China to conduct joint exercises with the stated aims of keeping the oceans safe. Infact, what could be one of the biggest ironies, just a day before the Russian Ambassador announced the trilateral exercises, Pakistan – the self-proclaimed 'Iron-Brother' of China witnessed hundreds of its citizens in Gwadar protesting against Illegal fishing by the Chinese trawlers – usurping traditional fishing waters of Pakistani fishermen.
While the trilateral exercises may proceed as planned, it would do little to boost the confidence of other maritime nations. Compare this with other maritime exercises in the IOR such as those participated by India or France or the USA or Australia or such other law-abiding maritime powers. They bring a general sense of safety across the oceans and reassurance to smaller coastal states that there is room for all, security for all and growth for all. No number of claims and façade of exercises by China towards achieving safety and peace across the oceans can compensate for its actions or instil a sense of security. The perpetrator claiming to be protector has little acceptance in this world.
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Elon Musk Says His Neuralink Chip Can Transmit Music Directly to Our Brains
Manikanta Immanni
Before the second official announcement, Elon Musk has revealed few capabilities of his latest technology – Neuralink Chip. He tweeted in response to a scientist's question, as Neuralink Chip can be used to stream music directly to your brain! This could be done through the chip receiving and feeding directly to our brain!
Elon Musk's Neuralink Project Can Stream Music Directly to Brain
Mind hack is the term we've been using for someone whose mind can be controlled psychologically. But this is set to change to its actual meaning soon. If minds were equipped with electronic chips, which can be operated from outside players, a slight tuning of this could make us wild. Such kind of mind hacks is assumed from Elon Musk's new invention.
The Neuralink project was started in 2016, which is touted to solve the brain diseases as per official saying. But it's meant for being more productive and competing with the rapidly developing AI. And now, the company's founder, Elon Musk has revealed that Neuralink chips can be able to stream music directly to our brains! This was said to a computer scientist on Twitter.
He further confirmed that these chips can be used to control hormone levels! This means you'll be able to regulate your feelings like anxiety to enhance abilities like reasoning. While we're thinking it to be much cooler, the process he hinted seemed harsh, and that makes us set a step behind. Musk said his company is now working on a sewing machine-like device.
While this seemed terrifying, Musk reasoned it like, the device would provide a direct connection between the chip, which would be inserted into both computer and the brain. He also asked the public on Twitter that, anyone has expertise in solving "problems in phones/wearables (sealing, signal processing, inductive charging, power management, etc)" can join Neuralink.


This article describes methods that allow users to draw annotations on AnyStock plots.
Please note: when working with annotations, you can use methods of either the plot or the chart (see the PlotController and ChartController sections in AnyChart API). Of course, if there is only one plot on your chart, there is no significant difference between these two options.
To make the integration process easier, there is a sample web application with open source, demonstrating how AnyStock Stock Drawing Tools can be implemented.
You can see the application live at https://www.anychart.com/solutions/drawing-tools/.
To download its source (or simply fork it), visit this page: GitHub: AnyStock - Drawing Tools and Annotations Demo.
// start drawing the annotation.
annotationDrawingFinish Event type for the annotation drawing finish.
annotationSelect Event type for the annotation select.
annotationUnselect Event type for the annotation deselect.
annotationChangeStart Event that occurs right after the mouseDown event.
annotationChange Event that occurs while dragging.
annotationChangeFinish Event that occurs right after the mouseUp event.
Please note that you should attach listeners to the chart object.
The getAnnotationAt(), getSelectedAnnotation(), and getAnnotationsCount() methods are used get an annotation with a certain index, a selected annotation, or the total number of annotations. The rest of the methods, combined with these 3, allow removing and selecting / deselecting annotations.
The removeAnnotation() and removeAnnotationAt() methods are used to remove a single annotation, and removeAllAnnotations() removes all annotations.
There are a lot of ways to save annotations to a server or to load them. Below you can find a basic sample that shows how to do it with special events and methods AnyChart provides.
onDocumentReady() - this method is called when the document is ready. The external content might not been loaded for this moment, though.
annotationDrawingFinish - this event can be used to track newly created (or changed) annotations and sending the list of annotations (or the new one) to a server. See information about annotation events in the Handling events section.
the fromJson() method is used for serialization the list of annotations.
In the following code sample, custom functions sendAnnotationsToServer() and getAnnotationsFromServer() used, which act like placeholders for functions that would send and receive the annotations from a server.


PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ESIS, Inc., ("ESIS®") a risk management services company, today announced the appointment of Michael J. Hoberman as Senior Vice President, Client Services. Based in Philadelphia, Mr. Hoberman will be responsible for managing overall client relations and account management functions and ensuring consistency in customer service for ESIS across the United States.
Mr. Hoberman has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry and has particular expertise in developing innovative solutions to better serve customers' needs. Prior to joining ESIS, Mr. Hoberman served as Senior Vice President, Business Development for Broadspire Services Inc. in Berkeley Heights, NJ, where he successfully led large account teams. Previously, he served as Vice President, Risk Management Services for Kemper Insurance Company in New York City. He also has held senior leadership positions at Reliance National Insurance Company, Signet Re-Insurance Company, and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Mr. Hoberman received a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. He holds the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) professional designation.


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Natural Burial - Honoring Life in Death
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The city of Carlisle, Great Britain, faced a challenge: to find and preserve green space within its borders. Creative thinking by the city council revealed some unexpected open land—its cemeteries. In 1993, Carlisle Cemetery opened a small section of property for "woodland burial," with the goal of restoring forested area in the city. The section was designed to provide a natural memorial setting dominated by native plant species, while reducing the environmental impact of conventional interment and cemetery upkeep. Carlisle Cemetery's Woodland Burial Ground became the modern world's first eco-cemetery.
The green burial movement took shape through the efforts of its advocates, with slow, but steady growth worldwide. Naturalists saw green burial as a gift returned with gratitude to the Earth they loved. Environmentalists valued preventing the burial of toxins and non-degradable materials into an already endangered ecosystem. Stepping away from the conventions of the modern funeral industry gave many a freedom to honor the departed in unusual and personal ways. 1998 marked the inception of Ramsey Creek Preserve, in South Carolina, the first green cemetery in this country. Today, more than 200 sites in the United States are set aside as current or future natural burial grounds.
For green burial, the body of the deceased is prepared without chemical preservatives, and the remains are buried in a biodegradable coffin, shroud or other container. Graves are sometimes hand-dug, and almost always vault- or liner-free. Some graves are unmarked, while others may bear a simple native stone or indigenous plantings. Natural burial grounds use no irrigation, pesticides or herbicides for maintenance. The idea is for the grave and its occupant to be part of the natural cycle of life, death and regeneration of new life.
Resources for researching and planning a green burial abound. The Green Burial Council has established standards for sustainability and transparency in the death care industry; its website lists providers who adhere to them, sorted by service and location.
An individual can find anything he or she needs to arrange the natural funeral or memorial desired. Websites like GreenBurials.org and NaturalBurial.coop are full of general information and links to all aspects of death care. EarthUrn.com offers a variety of natural, biodegradable and organic containers for cremated remains, while NaturalBurialCompany.com helps consumers find a green coffin to suit them, made from materials like cardboard, sustainably harvested wood or woven plant fibers. EternalReefs.com adds cremated remains to cast concrete "reef balls," used to rebuild dying ocean reefs.
Service providers like Memorial Ecosystems, owner of Ramsey Creek Preserve, and local funeral homes that have opened their doors and minds to include or specialize in natural burials, are prepared to answer the myriad questions that surface. "If you know how to use the Internet and you're not afraid to make calls to people you don't know, you can get answers to any question in the world," notes Bob Butz, a naturalist and award-winning author.
Butz, 37, has recorded his odyssey through eco-friendly interment in Going Out Green: One Man's Adventure Planning His Own Natural Burial, due out in May 2009. Although the book is complete, the author's exploration of natural death care is not over. His blog on the topic can be accessed through the website of Spirituality and Health magazine.
Butz makes observations ranging from soulful to pragmatic or humorous, an approach which may seem irreverent in a culture that tiptoes so carefully around death. He hopes his blog will draw the interest of people who otherwise might avoid the discussion.
"We have no experience with death anymore, and the only way that is going to change is if we start talking about it and planning for it, as we are so eager to do with births, weddings and every other of life's most important rituals," the author contends. "People put more thought and planning to where they will spend their summer vacation than where their body will be laid for all eternity."
In the course of his pre-need personal exploration, Butz shopped for an environmentally friendly coffin, hand-dug a grave and met with a death midwife, who will assist his family with the logistics of dying. "There's a heck of a lot of paperwork," he remarks, as well as details of transporting and caring for his body from death through the home funeral ritual he prefers.
As part of the journey, he also revisited the grave of his father, who died when Butz was a boy. "There my father was stuck, planted in some cramped piece of ground, surrounded by strangers. He never wore a suit, yet he was buried in one. He was a man of the outdoors, a man who liked simple things and who loved wilderness and wildlife, yet he was buried in a frilly oak casket on a piece of ground that he never plowed, never trod over or enjoyed in any capacity during his life.
"A funeral [or] burial has to honor the life of the deceased," Butz reasons. "It should in some way have elements that symbolize who they were in life."
For more information about Bob Butz and his works, visit BobButz.com. The link to his blog is Spirituality-Health.com/books/blog/2.
Green Burial Resources on the web include: The Green Burial Council at GreenBurialCouncil.org; GreenBurials.org; The Centre for Natural Burial at NaturalBurial.coop/USA; and MemorialEcosystems.com, by the owner of Ramsey Creek Preserve and Honey Creek Woodlands.
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안드로이드 전략 전술 게임어플 [Mobile Royale] 모바일 로얄 업데이트 버전 입니다.
여기서 게임의 환상적인 세계로 뛰어 들어가 3D 그래픽과 대규모 전투를 즐기십시오.
이 게임에서 당신은 이웃 씨족들과 무역 관계를 수립하고 적을 분쇄하기 위해 거대한 군대를 모을 필요가 있는 도시의 통치자 역할을 할 것입니다.
길드에 가입하여 인간, 엘프, 드워프, 베버맨, 드래곤과 같은 수십 개의 영웅으로 구성된 강력한 군대를 모으십시오.
전 세계의 플레이어와 게임하고 무적의 전략과 전투 전술을 개발하십시오.
환상적인 비행선과 비행 함대를 관리하고 군사 전쟁의 세계에 몰두하십시오.
Here we have to plunge into the fantastic world of the game and enjoy 3D graphics and large-scale battles.
In this game you will play the role of the ruler of the city who needs to establish trade clubvaio relations with neighboring clans and gather a huge army in order to crush the enemy.
Join the guild and collect a powerful army consisting of dozens of heroes, such as humans, elves, dwarves, everymen and dragons.
Play with players from all over the world and develop your invincible strategy and battlactics.
Manage fantastic airships and flying fleet and immerse yourself in the world of military battles.


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#include "RuntimeEnabledFeatures.h"

#include "DatabaseManager.h"
#include "MediaPlayer.h"
#include "SharedWorkerRepository.h"
#include "WebSocket.h"

#if ENABLE(FILE_SYSTEM)
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isLocalStorageEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isSessionStorageEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isWebkitNotificationsEnabled = false;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isApplicationCacheEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isDataTransferItemsEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isGeolocationEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isIndexedDBEnabled = false;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isTouchEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isDeviceMotionEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isDeviceOrientationEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isSpeechInputEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isCSSExclusionsEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isCSSShapesEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isCSSRegionsEnabled = false;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isCSSCompositingEnabled = false;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isLangAttributeAwareFormControlUIEnabled = false;

#if ENABLE(SCRIPTED_SPEECH)
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isScriptedSpeechEnabled = false;
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#if ENABLE(MEDIA_STREAM)
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isMediaStreamEnabled = true;
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isPeerConnectionEnabled = true;
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#if ENABLE(LEGACY_CSS_VENDOR_PREFIXES)
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isLegacyCSSVendorPrefixesEnabled = false;
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#if ENABLE(FILE_SYSTEM)
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isFileSystemEnabled = false;

bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::fileSystemEnabled()
{
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#if ENABLE(JAVASCRIPT_I18N_API)
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::javaScriptI18NAPIEnabled()
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::audioEnabled()
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::htmlMediaElementEnabled()
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::htmlAudioElementEnabled()
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::htmlVideoElementEnabled()
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::htmlSourceElementEnabled()
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::mediaControllerEnabled()
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::mediaErrorEnabled()
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bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::timeRangesEnabled()
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#endif

#if ENABLE(SHARED_WORKERS)
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#if ENABLE(WEB_SOCKETS)
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{
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#if ENABLE(VIDEO_TRACK)
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    bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isVideoTrackEnabled = true;
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#endif
#endif

#if ENABLE(SHADOW_DOM)
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isShadowDOMEnabled = false;

bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isAuthorShadowDOMForAnyElementEnabled = false;
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#if ENABLE(CUSTOM_ELEMENTS)
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isCustomDOMElementsEnabled = false;
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#if ENABLE(STYLE_SCOPED)
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#if ENABLE(INPUT_TYPE_DATE)
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#if ENABLE(INPUT_TYPE_DATETIME_INCOMPLETE)
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#if ENABLE(INPUT_TYPE_DATETIMELOCAL)
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#if ENABLE(INPUT_TYPE_MONTH)
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#if ENABLE(INPUT_TYPE_TIME)
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#if ENABLE(INPUT_TYPE_WEEK)
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#if ENABLE(DIALOG_ELEMENT)
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#endif

#if ENABLE(CSP_NEXT)
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#if ENABLE(IFRAME_SEAMLESS)
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::areSeamlessIFramesEnabled = false;
#endif

#if ENABLE(FONT_LOAD_EVENTS)
bool RuntimeEnabledFeatures::isFontLoadEventsEnabled = false;
#endif

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Brazil is well-known for its geographical vastness. The Amazon basin stretches over more than a thousand kilometers, while an endless coastline frames the country in the east. In the central parts of Brazil, the Cerrado plateaus cover the states Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Minas Gerais, making it one of the largest coffee production regions in the world.
OriginBrazil
Coffee Regions Minas Gerais, Cerrado, Sul de Minas, Sao Paolo, Mato Grosso, Espirito Santo, Paraná, Bahia
Coffee Altitudes 600 – 1,300 MASL
Varieties Mundo Novo, Yellow Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai
Harvest Period May – Sep
Number of Coffee Farms / Farmers bigger "smallholders" and plantations
Yearly Production Total (in 60kg bags) 51,800,000(40,100,000 Arabica + 11,000,000 Robusta)
Average Farm Size 5 – 20 ha
Coffee production in Brazil represents about one third of the entire coffee production making it by far the biggest producer worldwide for the last 150 years. Both Arabica and Robusta are grown, the latter known as Conillon, whereas Arabica clearly dominates with a growing share of ca. 80%.
The common description Santos is a brand name referring to the port through where coffees from different regions of the country are traditionally shipped from. Coffees from Brazil are uniquely described in detail: NY 2 stands for "New York 2" and refers to the maximum number of allowed defects according to the defect count method of the New York stock exchange and is quality-wise the highest grade.
Screen 17/18 defines the bean size being one of the biggest among Brazilian grades. Strictly soft, fine cup describes the cup profile – requiring a smooth, consistent and clean cup. The most common processing method in Brazil, used for about 90% of the Arabicas produced, is the dry process, also known as unwashed or natural. The entire coffee cherry is first cleaned and then placed in the sun to dry in thin layers on the patios or dried by drying machines. Coffee plantations in Brazil often cover immense areas of land, need hundreds of people to manage and operate them and produce huge quantities of coffee.
Fertile and densely populated lands in the west while vast and lone savannahs dominate the east - Ethiopia is a country of natural contrasts. Moreover, this East African gem has experienced only little Western influence.
India is a country full of color: bowls of brick red and ocher spices in vivid market streets, turquoise water hitting golden beaches while verdant volcanic mountain ranges sketch the diversity of India's flora and fauna.
Guatemala is a fascinating country with rich indigenous culture and stunning natural habitats. The most striking features of its landscape are the 37 volcanoes, several of them still being active.


Trip information, updates, and discussion on the Gannett Peak climb of the USAF 50 Summits Challenge.
I am happy to report that our recent mission to gain the summit of Gannet Peak, the highest point in the state of Wyoming at 13,804ft, was an overwhelming success! Thanks to the skill, perseverance, and dedication of our entire team, this difficult mountain to access was summited on Wed. June, 27th by 3 out of our 5 teammates including; 1stLt. Alexander Poulos, TSgt Jeffrey Perkins, and USAFA OAP Dir/Head Guide Casey Graham. The following is a re-cap of what turned out to be 4 days of very hard work, unexpected challenges, grit, triumph, and the building of lasting friendships and community.
Early mornings like this are usually referred to as "alpine starts"in the climbing world. On this particular morning however, we knew as we met at FE Warren AFB's Outdoor Recreation Centerin Cheyenne, WY, that no mountain would be climbed today. This pre-dawn meeting of our team of five was necessitated by a hefty amount of mileage to cover on our first day, beginning with a 5-hour drive. This, just to reach the Glacier Trailhead on the Eastern slopes of the Wind River mountain range in western Wyoming.
Our team included 1stLt. Alex Poulos, TSgt Jeff Perkins, Capt. Denise Campbell, and guides Sean Podrecca, NF-III of FE Warren's Outdoor Adv. Program, and Casey Graham, NF-III of the US Air Force Academy's Outdoor Adv. Program. All of our members had been training for this trip for a number of months in various ways, and while all of us felt fit and ready, we undoubtedly underestimated the intensity of the task on which we were about to embark.
Making a few stops along the way, we finally arrived at the trailhead just on the edge of the Wind River Indian Reservation. We went through one last gear check, laboriously schlepped on our packs, each weighing between 45 and 60lbs, and just before 1200, began our approach to Gannett Peak by entering the Fitzpatrick Wilderness Area of the Shoshone National Forest.
This first day wasted no time in showing us the raw beauty of this mountain range. We trekked through lush forest, over theraging gorge cut by Torrey Creek, and through the high alpine meadows gracing the western slopes of Arrow Mountain which were blanketed with yellow and blue wild flowers. We made short work of hiking the better part of 9 miles gaining 3300ft. to our high point of the day, a broad pass between Arrow and Talus Mountains. From here we could gaze north at the snow covered Absoroka Range, and southwest into the formidable interior of the Wind River Range. It was hard to believe that even being the tallest point, Gannett wasn't even close to visible yet. What was visible was a toil of granite domes, cliff walls, steep snow clogged couloirs, and otherwise rugged terrain that was both beautiful and imposing.
Descending another 3 or so miles and close to 1,000ft, we passed by a number of alpine lakes, pristine and reminiscent of stock computer background photos. Not stopping to gape at shear rock faces which shot skyward from these freshwater sanctuaries was all but impossible. Eventually we decided not to fight this urge and at 1900 after 12.7 miles of hiking, made camp near the edge of Star Lake in a soft and inviting campsite with great photo opportunities as the sun and moon swapped positions in the sky.
While gorgeous, the day was not without it's trials including a number of puzzling creek crossings, switchbacks through talus which climbed over 1000ft in a mile, and once we stopped, the dreaded mosquitos. Their numbers were almost biblical as they swarmed us at every opportunity, almost taking our enjoyment of the landscape from us in favor of slap-happy insanity. But a good amount of deet seemed to keep them at bay long enough to eat a well-deserved dinner and crawl into our tents.
After ultimately a better night's sleep than we could have hoped for, we rolled out of our tents into the cloud of bloodsuckers once more, made a quick breakfast, and continued our quest toward our objective; the glaciated slopes of Gannett Peak. We began our day with the intent of making our way another 12miles to the base of the Dinwoody Glacier, a tall order to say the least.
With one of our teammates suffering from a penny sized blister on his heel, this goal seemed less likely right off the bat. But with expert medical care and a well-managed pace, he, and the rest of the team, all feeling the work out from the previous day, kept trotting along the Glacier Trail. Our packs felt a little heavier than the day before on our now bruised hips and shoulders.
After descending a steep, switch backed trail for 1000ft (which we quickly had the realization we would be coming back up in a much more haggard state), we were rewarded with a brief section of flat and pleasant hiking through a shady forest, keeping the hot sun off our necks. This was brief indeed though as our path quickly disappeared under a very swollen Down's Creek.
The winds received a decent snow year this winter, and the high alpine is still choked with feet upon feet of snow. Downs Lakeand others like it, high above and far away from us, was no doubt bursting at the seams, as the creek had engulfed the strong old bridge and left us with no option but to ford the cold and silty river. This was more of a test of how long we could endure water just above freezing on our joints than anything, but we made it through without incident, and continued down the now mostly flat trail.
Over the next 7 miles, we meandered through open meadows, dense forest, boot top horse poop and muck, sandy beaches, over rickety log bridges, creek crossings where we missed the rickety log bridges, and generally unrelenting rugged wilderness. Each time we stopped to have a snack or a drink, we seemed to invite the mosquitos to do the same.
Through all of this however, it was hard to lose heart bearing witness to the valley surrounding us, and to raise our spirits higher, we finally caught our first glimpse of our ultimate objective, Gannett Peak, still far off in the distance.
The Glacier Trail at this point moves in a mostly consistent direction south, following a gently arcing gash in the landscape, carved patiently by glaciers long ago. Over eons, those glaciers left us with smooth walls of granite that tower thousands of feet above the green valley floor and Dinwoody Creek, and stretchesfor almost 13 miles. At least 3 of us in the group who had been to Yosemite Valley, widely regarded by climbers as the most hallowed ground in climbing history, agreed these walls rival The Valley in quantity and quality of rock. If this chunk of land was anywhere near anything resembling a road, it would undoubtedly be as popular. Our pace was slowed during this point not just by our packs weighing us down or the heat, or the mosquito frenzy around us, but by our inability to focus on hiking while looking so far up in wonder all the time.
After many hours of hiking and having covered 9 miles on the day, we were met with a new challenge: Snow. Our final 2 miles, now getting to the heart of the mountain range, in which we would climb back up to the alpine zone, had not fully melted out just yet. Route finding and staying on trail was difficult to say the least. Wandering from snow patch to dirt patch, we tried our best to stay on what we thought was close to the actual trail, all the while post holing into the soft snow up to our wastes under the weight of our packs. Thanks to modern technology, namely the Gaia app, we were able to successfully surmount this section of convoluted forest and get above the tree line, into the alpine tundra where travel, though still very snowy, was much more consistent.
Having trekked for 9.5 hours, covering just shy of 11 miles and gaining 1400ft, we finally reached what would be our second, and our high camp for the trip. At this point, we took stock of how the team was feeling and began refining our plan for our summit attempt the following morning.
It became apparent that two of our team mates were feeling uneasy about the prospect of attempting the technical objective and still having adequate energy to make the 24-mile trip back. To be fair, we were all feeling a bit beaten up in one way or another after just two days in this wild place battling the elements all the way to the base of Gannett Peak. Following an honest and logical discussion about the merits of having someone in base camp to organize a rescue if needed and supply logistical support to the summit team, it was decided that Denise and Sean would stay behind the following morning to do just that, as well as get some much-needed rest for the days ahead.
The upshots of our base camp were 3-fold: it was windy up there which meant no mosquitos; the views around our site were that of imposing rocky peaks and spires just aching to be climbed; though we were a mile short of our intended camp for the night, we had found one of the few grassy flats to camp on in the surrounding snow. With these happy thoughts in mind, we made a hearty dinner, and went to sleep as early as we could for the TRUE alpine start in the morning.
The wind throughout the night made it difficult for anyone to get any sleep as it thrashed and beat on our tents. The precious hours that were spent asleep were considered by us to be a gift. Wind or no wind, it's hard not to be tired at the unnatural hour of 3am with a long day ahead. We scarfed down some breakfast and coffee, checked and rechecked our supplies, and departed camp just before 0400 for the summit of the highest point in Wyoming, 2.6 miles in front of us and 3200ft above us.
The day before, we encountered a group from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) who were camped in our originally intended site on the glacier. They had climbed the Gooseneck Couloir route on Gannett, the same route we were aiming for, two days before and were happy to report that, the most dangerous part of the route, an open bergschrund, was in fact closed at the moment and did not pose much of a technical challenge. They also informed us that the snow was getting very soft by 1200 that day and they had been post holing on their descent. Our plan was based on these last-minute conditions updates, and we were happy to find firm snow in perfect condition for climbing with crampons in the wee hours of the morning.
As we came around the cirque, we had our first full view of our route, which was clear and defined by the moonlight reflecting off the snowy peak. Once we reached the toe of the DinwoodyGlacier, we put our harnesses and crampons on, donned our helmets, and made our ice axes at the ready. We moved smoothly and swiftly up the Dinwoody, then over two uncovered moraines, gaining the Gooseneck Glacier. The Gooseneck, a small glacier as they go, was still filled with a monolith of ice, and open crevasses in its gut. We opted to stay away from where the glacier rolled and cracked, and climbed steep snow slopes to a succession of benches near the southeastern ridge of the mountain. The team had little trouble moving at a good pace over this terrain, looking and feeling confident in our movements, all the while keeping a wide margin of safety using the rope where we were exposed to objective hazards, and picking up time moving efficiently on sections of rocky class 2 ridges.
Finally, we made it to the route's namesake; the Gooseneck Couloir. By now it was 0630 and the dawn had crested over the spires to the east, coating Gannett's summit cliffs in a glorious reddish alpenglow. Looking at the 50deg slope, we noticed that the bergschrund was indeed covered up on one side with a boot pack already running straight up. We roped up and began our ascent. As we passed the open section of the schrund to our right, we took notice of how deep it went. An abyss of blue fading to black that dropped all the way into the bowls of the mountain. It would be dark and cold grave to waste away in if one of us was unlucky enough to not be on a rope and be committed to it. Giving this a wider birth, we easily ascended past it and gained the summit ridge.
As we marched up the ridge, gaining the summit at 0740, it was hard not to smile wide due to sheer joy, not just for getting to the top, but even more for being high up in the mountains surrounded by the unrivaled majesty of the landscape around us, and for the company we had to share this moment with. At an earlier point in this trip, Alex rattled off a thought that resonated with the team at this moment and throughout the trip saying "you hang out with and meet the best people in the mountains." No words every rang truer at that point in time.
We took our obligatory summit photos with both the American and Air Force flags and learned that there is a process to this task that is much harder than one might think. Specifically, wind and flags are a pair of things that don't play well with the timer on your camera. We took many summit photos that day, and finally got one or two that would work.
With the Grand Teton holding court over the valleys and peaks to the west, the expanse of the still snowy Wind Rivers all around us, and the vast parries and high deserts to the east and south, all under a cloudless, perfect sky, it was a hard place to leave. But, climbing the mountain is only half of any expedition. The way back would be long and hard and take all the energy we could muster. So we descended the way we came; down the summit ridge, and the steep Gooseneck Couloir, avoiding the open part of the schrund, then glissading like giddy kids down the slopes below onto the main parts of the Gooseneck and Dinwoody Glaciers. And with a brief walk down the snow slopes below the moraines, we rounded the corner and made it back to camp, losing sight of the route we had just completed in a fun and rewarding 7 hours.
Arriving back at camp earlier than we had expected at 1100, we decided to try and make some miles while we could. So at 1200, after packing up, we began our long hike out, reversing all the terrain we had worked so hard to cover the day before. This time, the snowy forest went much quicker having found the way previously, and the gentle slope of the valley made for a quick pace. As our feet began to ache and our sweat poured from the rising heat of the day in the lower elevations, we would stop more often. But nevertheless, we continued our march, ever discussing the possibilities of how far we could push, what we would try to do tomorrow, and how many mosquitos there were now that the wind was gone.
All in all, we went 10 miles from basecamp back down the valley that day, and camped at the base of the incline just a mile shy of our night 1 camp. For the summit team, we had walked 15 miles that day, 10 under heavy pack, and 5 on technical glaciated terrain, gaining 3200ft and loosing 4400ft. When we arrived at our spacious, but bug ridden camp for the night, everyone, through the exhaustion, had a sense of accomplishment on their faces. Denise and Sean had gotten the rest they needed and were ready for the hike out, and the summit team had pushed for the objective, triumphed, and were able to stay safe in the process. It was a good day all around, and by 1900, everyone was dead asleep.
It had been decided the night before that we would push over the pass between Arrow and Talus Mountains and try to make it down to the meadows in Bomber Basin, making our final planned day a short one so we could get back to Cheyenne at a reasonable hour. Staging our camp at the base of the incline up to the pass was intentional the day before as hard as it may have been, to set us up to be as fresh as possible that morning for the climb. Everyone feeling much better after a good night's rest without the wind whipping at the tents, gaining the pass proved to be a time efficient task, taking only 3 hours to gain about 2000ft and 3.5 miles.
When we arrived at the saddle at 1030, it was apparent that we could conceivably hike all the way out that day, and avoid camping in what the sky was telling us was an imminent thunder storm, and potentially snow in the higher elevations. After a discussion about the plausibility of this option, we resolved to go for it, giving the day everything we had left.
Being basically all downhill from that point, the next 8 or 9 miles went surprisingly fast, though, the work load of hiking downhill with heavy packs on steep switch backs was not lost on any of us, least of all our knees, calves, and ankles. The whole team moved with purpose throughout the day however, ignoring any aches, pains, blisters, or bruises incurred over the previous days, determined to face and overcome one last challenge on this trip in the form of physical endurance. How long could we hike this fast? How soon could we be back to the car and out of bear country? Could we outrun the storm? Can our bodies handle this last sprint? All of these thoughts poured through our brains like the ice water we envisioned from the burger place in Lander, WY we all hoped to visit at the trip's terminus.
Finally, with great effort and smiles all around, we reached the trailhead we started in at just 3 days before at 1600. Perfect timing for a well-deserved burger in town, and an easy drive back to Cheyenne. After a round of hi-fives and a quick change into fresh cotton cloths, we did just that.
We safely arrived back at FE Warren AFB in Cheyenne, WY just before midnight, having switched off drivers through the 4-hour drive. As we said our good byes, what we had just accomplished felt almost surreal. 4 days, a couple hundred miles of driving, over 52miles of hiking with heavy packs, and over 11000ft of elevation gain and loss, all to do exactly what we set out to do; claim a summit, be with friends and fellow Air Force folks in the wilderness, share a memory that will last a lifetime, and know that we are better for all of it.
The spirit of the USAF 50 Summits Challenge became apparent to all of us on this trip. Tagging the summit is the only truly measurable accomplishment of this challenge, but in essence, this challenge isn't really about the measurable triumphs. This challenge is meant to engage the greater Air Force community in a bond of friendship, support, and comradery that can really only be gained through experiences like these. Summit or not, the teams who participate in this challenge walk away with new respect for their fellow airmen, and themselves having tried something new, or taught someone else something new, and forging ahead in the face of strife. Our team certainly engaged with all of these themes at one point or another in this brief time, and I'm confident that we will all be getting out with each other again, further strengthening the trust and community we began developing deep in the wilderness, in the shadow of the highest point in Wyoming.


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SDCC 2016! SyFy Presents Live! Elijah Wood Mistaken For Harry Potter!
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Elijah Wood gets mistaken for Harry Potter on SyFy Presents Live From Comic Con! Check it out!
Host Will Arnett and special guests David Giuntoli ("Grimm"), Mercedes Mason ("Fear of the Walking Dead"), Andre Meadows ("Black Nerd Comedy"), Tara Reid ("Sharknado 4"), the cast of "Dirk Gently" (Elijah Wood, Samuel Barnett and creator Max Landis), Lucy Lawless, and Tatiana Maslany ("Orphan Black").
For the final episode of SYFY PRESENTS LIVE FROM COMIC CON, Arnett rolled onto the stage to the song "The Final Countdown" on a segway, in the vein of his "Arrested Development" character G.O.B. Bluth.
Panelists David Giuntoli, Mercedes Mason and Andre Meadows talked about the guest's panels and Meadow's experience hosting the Syfy Social Lounge. They discussed Arnett's "Lego Batman" panel, Benedict Cumberbatch's surprise appearance, and the newly released "Justice League" movie footage.
Jackie Jennings gave fans an inside look at "The Magicians" party that took place last night, and played a game of "Would You Rather…" with the cast. She also visited the "Timeless" fan interaction station in San Diego and spoke to cast members Matt Lanter, Goran Visnjic, and Malcolm Barrett about the new series.
Tara Reid joined Arnett on stage to help host the finalists of the "Sharknado 4" Trivia Quiz, where the winner received a new Dodge Charger.
The "Dirk Gently" cast joined Will on stage to talk about the new series. Samuel Barnett gave Will a ninja turtle bathrobe as a "thank you" for having him on the show, and Elijah talked about getting mistaken for Daniel Radcliffe. The cast and Will played "One Weapon to Rule Them All" where each player was assigned a weapon and had to explain why their weapon is the best. Comic Con veteran, Lucy Lawless, interrupted with her sword from Xena Warrior Princess to win the game!
Bill Paxton and Sigourney Weaver sent Will a "hello" from the Aliens 30th anniversary panel. Eddie Redmayne also gave a shout out to the fans and sent over "Fantastic Beasts" swag for the audience, and the PaTrolli street team crowned the winner of the most "weirdly awesome" cosplay costume of the weekend.
Finally, "Orphan Black" star, Tatiana Maslany, stopped by to close out the show with Arnett!
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Theodorus Antoon "Theo" Saat (13 May 1928 – 2 June 2015) was a Dutch sprinter.

Saat competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m events, but failed to reach the finals. At the 1954 European Athletics Championships he finished in sixth place in the 100 m; he was also part of the Dutch team that set a national record in the 4 × 100 m relay in the preliminaries. He died in Noordwijk in 2015.

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Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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To make your morning refreshing.
I'm here with a crafty treat for your eyes.
She has been an inspiration for life.
To design this layout, i have used pearls shades, light soft colors with little fusion of green and blue ink colors and textured my base using some stencils. To add on to the beauty of the layout, i have used amazing newly released chipzebs by Mudra .


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#include "generator/srtm_parser.hpp"

#include "routing/routing_helpers.hpp"

#include "indexer/classificator_loader.hpp"
#include "indexer/feature.hpp"
#include "indexer/feature_altitude.hpp"
#include "indexer/feature_data.hpp"
#include "indexer/feature_processor.hpp"

#include "geometry/mercator.hpp"

#include "platform/country_file.hpp"
#include "platform/local_country_file.hpp"
#include "platform/local_country_file_utils.hpp"
#include "platform/platform.hpp"

#include "base/logging.hpp"

#include <cstddef>
#include <cstdint>
#include <limits>
#include <vector>

#include "3party/gflags/src/gflags/gflags.h"

DEFINE_string(srtm_path, "", "Path to directory with SRTM files");
DEFINE_string(mwm_path, "", "Path to mwm files (writable dir)");

using namespace feature;
using namespace platform;
using namespace routing;
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
  google::SetUsageMessage("SRTM coverage checker.");
  google::ParseCommandLineFlags(&argc, &argv, true);

  Platform & platform = GetPlatform();
  if (!FLAGS_mwm_path.empty())
    platform.SetWritableDirForTests(FLAGS_mwm_path);

  if (FLAGS_srtm_path.empty())
  {
    LOG(LERROR, ("SRTM files directory is not specified."));
    return -1;
  }

  LOG(LINFO, ("writable dir =", platform.WritableDir()));
  LOG(LINFO, ("srtm dir =", FLAGS_srtm_path));

  vector<LocalCountryFile> localFiles;
  FindAllLocalMapsAndCleanup(numeric_limits<int64_t>::max() /* latestVersion */, localFiles);

  generator::SrtmTileManager manager(FLAGS_srtm_path);
  classificator::Load();

  for (auto & file : localFiles)
  {
    file.SyncWithDisk();
    if (!file.OnDisk(MapFileType::Map))
    {
      LOG(LINFO, ("Warning! Routing file not found for:", file.GetCountryName()));
      continue;
    }

    auto const path = file.GetPath(MapFileType::Map);
    LOG(LINFO, ("Mwm", path, "is being processed."));

    size_t all = 0;
    size_t good = 0;
    ForEachFromDat(path, [&](FeatureType & ft, uint32_t fid) {
      if (!IsRoad(TypesHolder(ft)))
        return;

      ft.ParseGeometry(FeatureType::BEST_GEOMETRY);
      all += ft.GetPointsCount();

      for (size_t i = 0; i < ft.GetPointsCount(); ++i)
      {
        auto const height = manager.GetHeight(MercatorBounds::ToLatLon(ft.GetPoint(i)));
        if (height != feature::kInvalidAltitude)
          good++;
      }
    });

    auto const bad = all - good;
    auto const percent = all == 0 ? 0.0 : bad * 100.0 / all;
    LOG(LINFO, (percent > 10.0 ? "Huge" : "Low", "error rate in:", file.GetCountryName(),
                "good:", good, "bad:", bad, "all:", all, "%:", percent));
  }

  return 0;
}


In Pinellas County there are 26 public libraries bookmobiles, library research services. These are the public libraries are located in Pinellas, FloridaCounty. Choose a Pinellas County County Library to see find the services provided, contact information as well as directions to the location.
905 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.
This library is a Central Library serving a population of 2,529 offering 16,170 books to 12,782 annual patrons.


Nestled next to high end stores in a Fort Worth shopping center, a new pop up shop opened Monday that sells nothing but the perfect selfie.
The Tarrant County Sheriff's Department collected evidence it says proves Joseph Welborn was home alone with his son when he suffered multiple blows to the head.
Video from HD Chopper 8 showed water penetrating the dam, which is in North Arlington nearWest Lamar and Northwest Green Oaks boulevards.
Her family and the hospital had been in a legal fight over keeping Payton Summons on life support.
There's no cure for Acute Flaccid Myelitis at this time, according to Dr. Fernando Acosta Jr.
Payton Summons, 9, has been on life support since she suffered a cardiac arrest. But a Fort Worth hospital says testing shows Summons has zero brain activity.
Forrest Sanco, a Lockheed Martin employee, and his fiancee Donna Grant, were last hear from in September 2017, as they traveled by private plane to The Bahamas.
At one point, the player slams the 16-year-old's head to the ground.
The Fort Worth police officer, identified as Garrett Hull by FWPD, was conducting surveillance on three robbery suspects when he was shot. A fellow officer on the scene rushed officer Hull to JPS Hospital in his police car.
The drownings happened near Loop 820 and Wilbarger Street in southeast Fort Worth.
During practice after school, he experienced a medical emergency that left him unresponsive.
Christina Gregory is among 5,600 children in Texas who are medically-fragile and rely on Medicaid. Nov. 1, 2016, a new state law goes into effect and switches these kids to a managed care insurance program.