It's back to San Jose for Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final on Sunday.
The Sharks are 2-0 this postseason when facing elimination. The Penguins squandered an opportunity to become the first Pittsburgh team to win a championship at home since the Pirates won Game 7 of the 1960 World Series over the New York Yankees on Bill Mazeroski's walk-off home run.
The Sharks trail the series 3-2 following a 4-2 win on Thursday. The only other time they faced elimination this postseason, San Jose defeated Nashville 5-0 in Game 7 of their second-round series.
Sharks captain Joe Pavelski earned his first point of the series by securing the victory with an empty-net goal.
Martin Jones stopped 44 shots, Logan Couture had a goal and two assists and the San Jose Sharks avoided elimination by hanging on for a 4-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night.
Melker Karlsson, Brent Burns and captain Joe Pavelski, into an empty net, also scored for the Sharks, who cut the Penguins' series lead to 3-2 and forced Game 6 at San Jose on Sunday.
Evgeni Malkin and Carl Hagelin scored 26 seconds apart in the first period of a game the Penguins outshot the Sharks 46-22.
Aside from Pavelski's goal, the rest of the scoring came in the first period, and included the teams combining to score two each in the first 5:06 to set a Cup final series record for fastest four goals to start a game.
The Sharks squandered a 2-0 lead before Karlsson scored the go-ahead goal with 5:13 left in the first. Set up in the slot by Couture's no-look pass, Karlsson snapped a shot that banked in off the bottom of goalie Matt Murray's glove.
The Sharks are one period away from sending the Stanley Cup Final series back to San Jose for Game 6 on Sunday.
Up 3-2 on the Pittsburgh Penguins entering the third period, the Sharks are 8-0 this postseason when leading after two periods.
The Penguins, meanwhile, are 0-4 this postseason when trailing after two periods. Pittsburgh, which leads the series 3-1, is attempting to win its fourth Cup, and do it for the first time on home ice.
Martin Jones stopped all 17 shots he faced in the second period in helping the San Jose Sharks preserve their 3-2 lead over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Jones was particularly sharp during a 50-second span beginning with about 5 minutes left in the frame.
First, he stopped Phil Kessel's shot from the left circle, and then kicked out his left pad to stop Nick Bonino attempting to backhand in the rebound from the slot. Off the next faceoff, Jones got a piece Connor Sheary's shot that was deflected in front. Finally, Jones stood his ground and got his blocker out just in time to stop Patric Hornqvist driving alone to the net and getting a shot off from his knees.
Jones has allowed two goals on 32 shots. Penguins rookie Matt Murray has given up three goals on 15 shots.
Pittsburgh leads the series 3-1 and was hoping to win the Cup at home Thursday night.
Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari provided a thumbs-up to the up-tempo, high-scoring first period.
He posted a picture from the stands of the Consol Energy Center and a note on his Twitter account after the Penguins had scored twice in 22 seconds to tie the game at 2.
Referring to the goal surge as ''exciting stuff!'' Calipari added the Penguins' fast-break wouldn't look out of place at the Wildcats home, Rupp Arena.
San Jose Sharks forward Logan Couture has regained his scoring touch in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final.
Couture has a goal and two assists in helping the Sharks build a 3-2 lead over the Penguins. That comes after Couture was held to just two assists this series, and held without a point the previous two games.
Couture has now upped his playoff-leading point total to 29 (nine goals, 20 points). He had already surpassed the Sharks' franchise record for playoff points set by Igor Larionov, who had 18 points in 14 games in 1994.
The San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins have set a Stanley Cup Final record by combining to score four goals in the first 5:06.
Each team scored twice in what were the fastest four goals scored to open a game in the final series, according to Elias Sports.
The Penguins were involved in setting the old mark in 1992 when they and the Chicago Blackhawks combined to score four goals in the first 6:51 of Game 4 of the final series. Pittsburgh went on to win the game 8-2 and complete a four-game sweep of the Blackhawks.
Down 3-2 after the first period to San Jose, the Pittsburgh Penguins headed into intermission trailing on the scoreboard for the first time in three weeks.
The Sharks opened the scoring for the first time in this Stanley Cup Final on Brent Burns' goal just 1:04 into the game. Burns' goal also ended the Penguins streak of not trailing in a game at 436 minutes and 50 seconds. It was a run that began following a 4-3 loss to Tampa Bay in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final on May 20.
The Penguins have gone 5-2 since, with both losses coming in overtime.
The Sharks then opened a 2-0 lead on Logan Couture's redirection of Justin Braun's point shot. Pittsburgh responded with two goals in a span of 22 seconds as the two teams combined to score four times in the first 5:06.
San Jose regained the lead on Melker Karlsson's goal with 5:15 left in the period.
Penguins rookie goalie Matt Murray made just four saves on seven shots.
Sharks goalie Martin Jones stopped 13 of 15 shots.
The San Jose Sharks have taken a 3-2 lead on Melker Karlsson's goal scored with 5:15 left in what's been a highly entertaining first period.
Logan Couture set up the goal with a no-look pass to a wide-open Karlsson in the slot. Karlsson quickly snapped a shot that banked in off the bottom of goalie Matt Murray's glove.
Couture now has a goal and two assists.
The posts have been ringing in Pittsburgh.
After erasing a two-goal deficit, the Pittsburgh Penguins took over the momentum. Chris Kunitz snapped a shot from the left circle that banged off the left post with 11 minutes left in the first period. Some 10 seconds later, Pittsburgh's Phil Kessel had a shot from near the same spot deflect off both posts. Kessel's shot first hit off the left post and then caromed across the crease and hit the right post, before deflecting out.
Both chances came during a power-play opportunity, with San Jose defenseman Brent Burns off for high-sticking.
Goals are coming fast in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final.
The Sharks scored goals 1:49 apart in the first period of Game 5 to take a 2-0 lead, stunning a Pittsburgh crowd eager to celebrate a Stanley Cup championship. The Penguins led the best-of-seven series 3-1 heading into Thursday night's game.
Brent Burns gave the Sharks their first lead of the final with a goal just 64 seconds into the game. Logan Couture then deflected in Justin Braun's shot from the right point to put the San Jose Sharks up 2-0 at the 2:53 mark.
It didn't last long: The Penguins answered with goals just 22 seconds apart. Evgeni Malkin cashed in on a power play and Carl Hagelin added another to make it 2-2 just 5:06 into the game.
Teams with a 3-1 series lead have gone on to win the Cup 31 of 32 times. The 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs are the lone NHL team to overcome a 3-0 deficit to win.
The Penguins have not trailed over past 435 minutes and 46 seconds of game time. They're 5-2 during that stretch, with both losses in overtime.
With 14 playoff wins, Penguins goalie Matt Murray is one shy of matching NHL rookie record for one postseason set by Patrick Roy in 1986, and matched by Ron Hextall in `87 and Cam Ward in 2006.
The Sharks set a franchise record with 28 regular-season road wins, though they're 5-6 on the road in the playoffs.
San Jose goalie Martin Jones has allowed 19 goals in his past seven games since posting consecutive shutouts against St. Louis in Games 2-3 of Western Conference final.
Both teams have converted just one of eight power-play chances.
With three Cup championships, Pittsburgh is tied for ninth on the list with New Jersey. The New York Rangers and Islanders are tied for seventh with four each.
Pittsburgh is ready for the biggest party in 56 years.
Thousands of fans descended on the streets surrounding Consol Energy Center on Thursday ahead of Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. The Penguins can become the first Pittsburgh team to win a championship at home since Bill Mazeroski's epic ninth-inning home run against the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series.
Scalpers were asking $1,500 just to get in the door, though business was slow two hours before game time. With temperatures around 70 degrees and little humidity, many decided against forking over a mortgage payment in exchange for a folding chair, a frosty beverage or two and starting ''Let's Go Pens!'' chants.
The city and team have worked together to put a massive big screen television outside an arena gate, and added a second viewing spot at a downtown shopping square about a mile away.
Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan is hoping Evgeni Malkin's performance in Game 4 can carry over into Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final against San Jose.
Malkin posted his first points of the series with a goal and assist in a 3-1 victory at San Jose on Monday night. The goal, which put Pittsburgh up 2-0, stood up as the winner.
Sullivan says he's seen Malkin's performance improving both offensively and defensively as the series progresses.
Sidney Crosby has just two assists against San Jose, and is in the midst of a five-game scoring drought.
Defenseman Kris Letang has three assists, all of them setting up eventual winning goals.
San Jose Sharks coach Peter DeBoer has a simple objective when it comes to Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Scoring first would be a welcome change, DeBoer told reporters earlier in the day.
That's something the Sharks haven't done yet in a series they trail 3-1.
DeBoer at least cleared up one issue regarding his lineup by announcing center Tomas Hertl will miss his third straight game with a lower-body injury.
Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins have an opportunity to accomplish something not done since the final months of the Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency: Win a championship at home.
With a 3-1 Stanley Cup Final series lead over San Jose, the Penguins will get that opportunity at the Consol Energy Center on Thursday night.
Pittsburgh hasn't had a chance to celebrate a title on home soil since Oct. 13, 1960. That's when Bill Mazeroski led off the ninth inning with a home run to clinch a 10-9 Game 7 victory over the New York Yankees at Forbes Field.
The Penguins celebrated their previous three championship victories on the road: at Minnesota in 1991, at Chicago in `92 and at Detroit in 2009.
The Pirates clinched their previous two World Series titles at Baltimore, in 1979 and `71, both in Game 7, while the Steelers' six Super Bowl titles have all come at neutral sites.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are one victory away from clinching their fourth Stanley Cup championship.


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I'm a Type II Diabetic. I'm mostly in control of things, but sometimes not. I'm also overweight, which is certainly affecting my body's ability to take care of itself - and may well have been the main cause of my contracting the disease.
I don't like to talk about it much, and I try to push it out of my mind usually. It frightens me, and that gets worse if I think about it too much.
I remember when I was diagnosed - the doc explained all the complications, including heart problems, kidney problems, neuropathy... I didn't sleep for 4 days straight. I would wake my wife in the middle of the night and ask her to listen to my chest to see if my heart was still beating. I ended up in the hospital for a couple of days because of the stress - doing all sorts of cardiac tests. Everything came back saying my heart is in fine shape. But I always wonder, still.
Every time my feet tingle, I wonder how long it will be before I'll be facing amputation.


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Ни́жний Люба́ж — деревня в Фатежском районе Курской области. Входит в состав Верхнелюбажского сельсовета.

География
Расположена в 13 км к северу от Фатежа на реке Любаж, недалеко от места её впадения в реку Желень. Высота над уровнем моря — 187 м. С северо-востока деревня ограничена балкой Орлов Лог, которая отделяет её от деревни Средний Любаж.

 Климат
Нижний Любаж, как и весь район, расположен в поясе умеренно континентального климата с тёплым летом и относительно тёплой зимой (Dfb в классификации Кёппена).

 Часовой пояс

История
В середине XIX века деревня была административным центром казённой Нижнелюбажской волости Фатежского уезда, созданной для управления однодворцами.

Во время Гражданской войны, в ходе Орловско-Кромского сражения, 10 ноября 1919 года 7-й и 9-й полки 3-й латышской бригады начали наступление на позиции белой армии и после штыкового боя заняли Нижний Любаж и соседние деревни. При этом была полностью уничтожена 1 белогвардейская рота.

Население

Инфраструктура
Личное подсобное хозяйство. В деревне 87 домов.

Транспорт
Нижний Любаж находится в 3 км от автодороги федерального значения  «Крым» как часть европейского маршрута , в 90 км от автодороги  «Украина» как часть европейского маршрута , в 28 км от автодороги  (Тросна — М-3 «Украина») как часть европейского маршрута , в 4 км от автодороги регионального значения  (Верхний Любаж — Поныри), в 10 км от автодороги  (Фатеж — Дмитриев), в 22,5 км от автодороги  (А-142 — 38К-038), в 3 км от автодороги  (М-2 «Крым» — Игино — Троицкое — 38К-035), в 3 км от автодороги межмуниципального значения  (М-2 «Крым» — Жердево), в 24,5 км от ближайшего ж/д остановочного пункта 34 км (линия Арбузово — Лужки-Орловские).
В 180 км от аэропорта имени В. Г. Шухова (недалеко от Белгорода).

Примечания

Литература

Населённые пункты Фатежского района

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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Overreach
Owen Matthews
The Duke Of Sussex Prince Harry
The Children of Ash and Elm
Neil Price
Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor E Frankl
David Graeber, David Wengrow
Jocko Willink
A History of World Societies, Combined Volume
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The Human Planet
How We Created the Anthropocene
av Simon Lewis, Mark A Maslin
Häftad Engelska, 2018-06-07
'Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read' - Ellie Mae O'Hagan An engrossing exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts Meteorites, methane, mega-volcanoes and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet's 4.5-billion year history a single species is dictating Earth's future. To some the Anthropocene symbolises a future of superlative control of our environment. To others it is the height of hubris, the illusion of our mastery over nature. Whatever your view, just below the surface of this odd-sounding scientific word, the Anthropocene, is a heady mix of science, philosophy, religion and politics linked to our deepest fears and utopian visions. Tracing our environmental impact through time to reveal when humans began to dominate Earth, scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin masterfully show what the new epoch means for all of us.
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A careful explanation of what society is doing to this amazing planet and its people. I was absolutely gripped. Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read -- Ellie Mae O'Hagan A relentless reckoning of how we, as a species, got ourselves into the mess we're in today. . . told with determination and in chiseled, almost literary prose. Indeed, the book's main story - how one species, Homo sapiens, fresh off the trees of Africa, came to rule the Earth so completely that it now stands a good chance of wrecking it - has the force of a Greek tragedy * Wall Street Journal * A highly entertaining examination of the many ways in which humans are now profoundly altering Earth -- Robin Mckie * Observer Books of the Year * A clear, intelligent and engaged history of and argument about the Anthropocene. . . If readers want a judicious and engaging marker of where the debate has reached, The Human Planet is it -- Robert J. Mayhew * Times Higher Education * Profound and thought-provoking, this book does a remarkable job explaining where the current proposal to define a new human-dominated era properly fits -- Thomas E. Lovejoy, winner of the Blue Planet Prize That humans now dominate the 'natural' systems of our planet is the key fact of our time -- this book does a remarkable job of explaining how that came to pass, and why it matters so much -- Bill McKibben, author Falter Understanding what it means for humans to have become a geological force reshaping the workings of the Earth is both a deep intellectual challenge and a political necessity. Richly thought through and provocative from its title onwards, The Human Planet rises to that challenge, bringing together Earth history and human history in a new way. Its reassessment of the past will equip its readers to understand the future -- and perhaps to improve it -- Oliver Morton, author of The Planet Remade Today scientists increasingly believe that we have entered a new era, the Anthropocene. In this succinct but sweeping re-evaluation of the human story, Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin show exactly why this abstract-sounding contention should radically affect our views of today and tomorrow. The Human Planet packs more ideas into a small space than I would have thought possible -- Charles C. Mann, author of The Wizard and the Prophet Immensely readable. . . Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin provide a compelling narrative, stretching from the emergence of hominins from Earth's long history some 3 million years ago, to our position today, as a species with planetary reach * Nature *
Simon L. Lewis is Professor of Global Change Science at University College London and the University of Leeds. An award-winning scientist, he has been described as having 'one of the world's most influential scientific minds'. He has written for the Guardian and Foreign Policy magazine. Mark A. Maslin is Professor of Climatology at University College London, a Royal Society Industrial Fellow, and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Scholar. He is the author of eight books and has written for The Times and New Scientist.

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Henderson gas pipeline opponents want environmental study of proposed CenterPoint project
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Environmental advocates are asking federal regulators to slow down and take time to assess the environmental impact and greenhouse gas emissions of a proposed natural gas pipeline expansion in Henderson County, Kentucky.
The interstate pipeline would serve two proposed natural gas combustion turbines CenterPoint Energy wants to build across the Ohio River in Posey County, Indiana.
CenterPoint Energy is seeking to speed development of the pipeline as it approaches the October 2023 retirement of its coal-burning A.B. Brown power plant near Evansville.
Texas Gas Transmission, LLC, is the Houston-based company that will build and operate the pipeline by expanding its existing pipeline infrastructure.
However, Texas Gas needs approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission before it can go ahead with the 24-mile pipeline extension through western Henderson County. The project also includes upgrades to Texas Gas facilities near Slaughters, Ky., in Webster County, and in Johnson County, Indiana.
Texas Gas has asked federal regulators to say the project won't need an environmental impact statement because it "will cause a substantial net reduction" in greenhouse gas emissions.
Those reductions would come both from Texas Gas' own upgrades as well as from CenterPoint's move to more renewable energy sources, including closing A.B. Brown.
Squaring away:CenterPoint Energy says Evansville's Woodland Park Apartments agrees to payment plan
The expansion will be from near the Henderson-Webster county line northwest and then north across the Ohio River to Posey County to the A.B. Brown power plant near Evansville.
Both the Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, a consumer advocacy organization, and the environmental group Sierra Club have filed written protests. Citizens Action Coalition also is seeking a public hearing.
CenterPoint has stated the natural gas turbines are important to help it transition from mostly coal-fueled power generation to a mix dominated by renewable energy sources while making sure it can reliably supply power at times renewable energy lags.
In a 10-page filing to support the pipeline, Jason Stephenson, a CenterPoint vice president and general counsel, wrote that transitioning to renewable energy will be cheaper for customers than continuing to upgrade and operate the coal-burning power plant if the utility can make the transition quickly.
"CenterPoint must move quickly to ensure this transition can be accomplished while maintaining reliability for its retail customers because it must retire its A.B. Brown Generating Station by October 2023 to avoid making significant capital investments to bring the facility into compliance with environmental regulations," Stephenson wrote.
A rejection of the pipeline project would mean CenterPoint would not be able to operate the gas turbines at the A.B. Brown site, CenterPoint spokeswoman Alyssia Oshodi said Monday.
However, she could not say whether the utility would be able to locate the gas turbines elsewhere if the Henderson County pipeline expansion doesn't go through.
In its own filing, CenterPoint said the gas turbines won't be available until the last three months of 2024. That means there will be a 12-15 month gap between when it closes the A.B. Brown coal-burning units and it can use the natural gas units.
But the utility also noted that generation capacity can be obtained from other sources to bridge the gap.
More:Henderson city commission votes unanimously to decline Big Rivers' offer to purchase HMP&L
In its written protest, the Sierra Club argued that proves the gas plants aren't necessary for maintaining reliability as CenterPoint believes.
"The proposed Posey County gas-burning units are not needed to provide electric service to CenterPoint's customers," according to the Sierra Club.
Both Sierra Club and Citizens Action Coalition disagree with Texas Gas' argument that a full environmental impact statement is not needed because the pipeline expansion's environmental benefits are obvious.
Both groups argue that Texas Gas cannot claim CenterPoint's closing of the A.B. Brown coal-fired plant as an environmental benefit of the pipeline, because CenterPoint has stated elsewhere that A.B. Brown's retirement will happen with or without the natural gas turbines.
Kerwin Olson, executive director of Citizens Action Coalition, said environmental assessments for such projects should be broadened.
"It doesn't look at emissions from the mining, the drilling and the transportation of that fuel," he said.
He also said Texas Gas is assuming that Indiana regulators will approve CenterPoint's construction of the two new gas plants at A.B. Brown.


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The City Colleges of Chicago Foundation will honor its Chairman, William "Bill" Lowry, at its "Seven Strong" Inaugural Benefit" on November 15 at The Geraghty, located at 2520 South Hoyne in Chicago.
Lowry will receive the Ella Flagg Young Award, becoming the first to receive the honor that is named after the Chicagoan who lived from 1845 to 1918 and was the first woman in America to head a large city school system. Monies raised from the event will benefit City Colleges students with scholarships and emergency funds, and resources for veterans.
Lowry, who joined the City Colleges of Chicago Foundation Board in 2015, has amassed stellar career achievements. He has held positions in corporate and philanthropic communities, in education and as a TV host.
After serving in the Air Force, Lowry wanted a teaching job at Francis Park School in Chicago, but needed additional hours for certification, so he attended Wilson Jr. College, which is now Kennedy-King College and part of the City Colleges system.
Lowry's corporate career began with Inland Steel, where he started in an executive training program and climbed the ladder to be a top executive for over 30 years in human resources, recruitment and personnel.
His philanthropic career started at the MacArthur Foundation, where he began as a consultant and ended up as Vice President of Administration and Human Resources for 14 years.
From there, Lowry went to the Chicago Community Trust, where he served as Special Assistant to the President. Bill also hosted the Emmy and Peabody Awarding winning program on CBS-TV called Opportunity Line, which aired for nearly a decade beginning in 1967 and helped more than one million people with job placement and training.
N'DIGO has admired Mr. Lowry for years for his leadership and we sat down with him recently to catch up and learn more about his new duties at the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC).
N'DIGO: What does it mean to you to be honored with the first Ella Flagg Young Award?
Bill Lowry: To be the first person to receive the award is to say that it's never too old to be humble, for I am humbled and gratified because of what it symbolizes. I have regarded City Colleges as a diamond in the rough. CCC has not received the proper recognition in this city.
I am glad to see the profile raised. It's an opportunity to be used as a vehicle to bring about diversification, representing for a long time what I have worked for in the city to bring about, which is unison. This recognition pays homage to that.
The City Colleges have been a launching pad for many, including me. I took the educational courses needed to qualify me for accreditation so that I could teach at Francis Parker as a coach.
In your new role with the City Colleges, what would you most like to accomplish?
I would like to enhance the image of CCC to the point where it is recognized by universities, to the point where it is a lynch pin for many. I would like for people to recognize and support these schools.
There is an essence here unrecognized. It is a first step and second step to education. I would like to bring that to the surface. These schools are currently not recognized as such. I would also like to raise money for scholarships so the system can have money to do what they need to do for students to have successful careers.
In your more than 30 years as a corporate executive, what three things did you definitely learn?
I'd say the Principals of Life. First, don't allow your emotions to overrule your reason. Many times people become emotional and don't use their intelligence. So be rational and not overly emotional.
Secondly, you never learn anything while talking. You need to be an active listener, to hear what others are saying. I place a great deal on communication. You must have understanding of another's frame of reference. You cannot influence others unless you give attention to them. This is critical in making decisions to address the things you are looking for in a group. You do nothing alone – you must understand others.
Third, the old adage of "do unto others what you would have done unto you." You have to have empathy to produce the right behaviors. You must put yourself in the other person's shoes.
You retired from the philanthropic world only to join the City Colleges of Chicago Foundation; what was the appeal that brought you out of retirement?
In all honesty, my first retirement was early retirement from Inland Steel. Since that time, I have retired from several other careers. I retired from the MacArthur Foundation. I retired from the Chicago Community Trust. I have retired as a business consultant. Retirement must not really be a word that I have in my lexicon!
My biggest challenge now is staying out of my wife's way. Seriously, though, it's essential for people to continue to function. It's unhealthy not to work. I am action oriented. I didn't come out of retirement; it was simply part of doing additional things. I love education and to be able to help in a meaningful way people of color so that I can actualize others' potential – that is why I am doing what I do.
In your many years in the philanthropic community, what three things did you definitely learn?
If you are genuinely interested in another's progression, it is appreciated and returned. People do appreciate genuineness and sincerity; people will respond in a sincere way and respond in kind.
Secondly, if people want to truly make a difference, it usually involves more than money. Something has to be behind the money. Money alone will not go do it. If you want people to respond positively, you must do more than write a check. Your efforts are the primary thing.
Third, the needs that we have within our communities, Black and brown, are bottomless. The need is so great and people have been approaching these communities with substance, but our people have not progressed, and we have to change that.
Our people need hope. You must believe in something better than what you have. You have to work hard and we have to get out of this rut to survive. The TV show that I did was important. The Opportunity Line was used as a vehicle to get people into jobs and training on Channel 2. We served better than a million people at that time. People recognized me for getting my first job on TV and now I am retired. That's important to me.
I got into TV with no experience. Joe Black, who did the radio commentary show By The Way, With Joe Black, and the late Bill Farrow of Commonwealth Edison, were friends of mine. We started a youth motivation program where we went to high schools to talk about careers and training.
We did that for about 30 years until the Chamber of Commerce picked up the program. The first session was at Farragut High School. The late, great radio deejay Herb Kent used to go with me. This actually led to me doing the TV show.
Doing an on-camera interview for "Opportunity Line".
Well, CBS wanted to do something locally along the lines of housing, education and employment. They were calling people to discuss ideas as to what kind of program was needed, who could host the program, that kind of thing. They finally decided to more forward and I got a call from CBS.
I guess they heard about what I was doing with the youth motivation work, so I was called for an audition. This was a passion of mine, to help young Black men and women get jobs. This show was about opportunities for jobs and training, so that was a good combination to talk about and it could not get much more accommodating.
I also served on the Chicago and Cook County Welfare Reform Task Force under the Clinton administration and we were looking at what does the welfare reform mean in terms of jobs. Barack Obama was also assigned to this committee, as were Tom Dart and the late Rev. Ken Smith. We were connecting to neighborhoods and environments that are often neglected, yet important to me.
Where is your favorite place in Chicago?
As a kid it was Washington Park, but now it is the Museum of Science and Industry and the Art Institute. So many things here offer us a significance that doesn't exist elsewhere, despite the violence and injustices.
My mother, simply because I miss her, and Nelson Mandela – I never met him, but just on the basis of what he accomplished. He had such human qualities that are not duplicated. I would love to sit at his feet for guidance and to get answers to things I don't have answers to.
Riding in the Bud Billiken Parade in 1968.
The greatest book to impact me was Plato's Republic, dealing with principals. I enjoyed the principals developed. I was a jock and philosopher. My teacher said, drop philosophy as a major, but take as many philosophy courses as you can. So I transferred to history.
What advice would you give a young college student?
I try to tailor my conversation to the person I am talking to, but in general, I would try to give a student the principals that I live by. Listen to others. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. There are things in life that are more valuable collectively and not just to you; this will give you better relationships.
Don't strive just for self; you will miss dimensions. Don't be narrow in your thinking. Don't be afraid of work. If you truly want to accomplish something, you have to commit yourself with time and energy. Absent of that, you will never achieve your goals. Many of us are born with abilities, with innate talent, but it's never actualized because we don't work at it. Don't accept mediocrity; you will never be perfect, but shoot for it.
What should students mostly prepare themselves for?
Rejection, and how to overcome it. Don't accept rejection. Be prepared to counter it with effort and determination. You must overcome the roadblocks that lead to success.
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Q: Getting index of subtree in Stanford's parse trees I am trying to get the index of a subtree in a parsed sentence so that I can remove it.  Here is my code:
{
    Queue<Tree> queue = new LinkedList<Tree>();
    queue.add(tree);
    while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
        Tree current = queue.poll();
        if (current.label().toString().equals("CC")) {
            List<Tree> siblings = current.siblings(tree);

            String leaf = current.getChildrenAsList().get(0).label().toString();
            Tree rightNode = siblings.get(1);
            Tree leftNode = siblings.get(0);
            if (leaf.contains("and") &&
                    rightNode.label().toString().contains("S")) {
                int index = rightNode.index();
                System.out.println("index " + index);
                System.out.println("returning index: " + tree.getChild(index).label().toString());  // testing to make sure it's the right node
            }
        }
        List<Tree> children = current.getChildrenAsList();
        for (Tree child : children) {
            if (!child.isLeaf()) {
                queue.add(child);
            }
        }
    }
}

I've tried every iteration of objectIndexOf that I can think of:
int index = tree.objectIndexOf(rightNode);
int index = current.objectIndexOf(rightNode);
int index = rightNode.objectIndexOf(current);
int index = rightNode.objectIndexOf(tree);

but every time I get a -1.  My program is correctly hitting the conditionals so clearly the "s" node is in that tree as a sibling to "CC." But I can't get it to return an index so that I may remove it.
I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here.


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In respect of the Aden pensioners I would refer the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. Allason) to the written reply my right hon. Friend gave to the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Mr. Sharpies) on 19th March. Her Majesty's Government are prepared to make ex gratia loan advances equivalent to the amount of pensions to indigenous pensioners who were members of the civil administration and...
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Q: A query for laravel to fetch percentage from the db rows which are "filled" and not empty How can we get the percentage of how many fields in a row have been filled by a user in the table and also fetch the percentage of relations from other tables rows which parent users has relationship with. Example of tables
Cars table
id     name     wheels     windshields     seats
1     Hyundai    113           221           16
2       BMW      114           154
3     Toyota                    2

If I try to find percent from above table result should come like:
1 = 100% details filled
2 = 80% details filled
3 = 60% details filled

Now if I am trying to make relations involved in it
wheels table
id    wheel_type        price
113     alloy
114  chrome coated
115     rims             946

After checking up relations percentage of cars table results should be something like:
1 = 90% details filled
2 = 60% details filled
3 = 60% details filled

What do I have to do in Laravel to get such results

A: Trait to calculate the percentage filled for model attributes
<?php

namespace App\Models;

trait CalculatesFilledPercentage
{
    public function filled()
    {
        $attributes = collect($this->attributes);

        $totalCount  = $attributes->count();
        $filledCount = 0;

        $attributes->keys()
            ->map(function ($key) use (&$filledCount) {
                !empty($this->{$key}) ? $filledCount++ : $filledCount;
            });

        return ($filledCount / $totalCount) * 100;
    }
}

Then for all Car records
Car::all()->mapWithKeys(function($car){
    return [$car->id => "{$car->filled()}% details filled"];
});

For relations two scenarios need to be addressed:

*

*HasOne relationship

*

*One related record - relatively easy to calculate filled with parent clubbed

*HasMany relationship

*

*Many related records - not easy to club details filled with parent


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No Easy Answers in Bioethics Podcast
Genes, Behavior, and the Brain: Cabrera and Reimers - Episode 17
We can look at an individual's DNA and know what their hair color is, but what about their behavioral traits? This episode features Center for Ethics Assistant Professor Dr. Laura Cabrera, and Dr. Mark Reimers, Associate Professor in the Neuroscience Program in MSU's College of Natural Science. Drawing from their expertise as neuroscience researchers, they discuss what we know about how our DNA affects our behavior—from IQ scores to mental illness. They also explore possible ethical issues that may arise in the near future related to the study of behavioral genetics and gene expression.
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This episode was produced and edited by Liz McDaniel in the Center for Ethics. Music: "While We Walk (2004)" by Antony Raijekov via Free Music Archive, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
Gray JR, Thompson PM. Neurobiology of intelligence: science and ethics. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2004;5:471-482. DOI: 10.1038/nrn1405.
Liz McDaniel: Hello and welcome to another episode of No Easy Answers in Bioethics, the podcast from the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Today's guests are Center for Ethics Assistant Professor Dr. Laura Cabrera, and Dr. Mark Reimers, Associate Professor in the Neuroscience Program in MSU's College of Natural Science. Drawing from their expertise as neuroscience researchers, they discuss what we know about how our DNA affects our behavior—from IQ scores to mental illness. They also explore possible ethical issues that may arise in the near future related to the study of behavioral genetics and gene expression.
Laura Cabrera: Hi! Hello, I'm Dr. Laura Cabrera, I'm an assistant professor at the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, and my research focus is neuroethics. And today with me I have my colleague and friend Dr. Mark Reimers. He is an associate professor at the Institute for Quantitative Health, and he does very interesting research in terms of quantitative computational work that really intersects with neuroscience and, and genetics. And so for today we're gonna be talking a little bit about genes, behavior, and brain, and some of the work that Dr. Reimers does in the area. But also to look a little bit into the ethics or ethical issues associated with the field. One thing to say is that Dr. Reimers and I have a very shared interest in ethical implications of neuroscience research, and that has led us to have joined journal clubs, and reading groups, so it's been really fun interaction, and really interesting discussions around ethical issues beyond just genes, behavior, and brain. So when we think about human brain development, how, you know, the interaction with genes and environmental influences today, it is relevant to, you know, to see what or how genes and behavior are related. So it might be good to start if Dr. Reimers can tell us a bit, a little bit more, how do genes affect behavior and brain?
Mark Reimers: So I guess, hi Laura, the short answer is we really don't know, but we think that they do, and the evidence for that historically has been that identical twins behave more similarly than fraternal twins, and behave more similarly than brothers or sisters from the same family and certainly more similarly than people sort of taken at random who are friends. So, when we see that kind of characteristic that twins are more similar than non-twins, we think there may be a heritable component. However, we've had a great deal of difficulty actually trying to identify specific genes that influence any aspect of behavior over, you know, a large number of people. So even though many traits, particularly things of popular interest like intelligence quotients, are very highly heritable, or mental illness. In some cases psychosis is very highly heritable. We can't find any specific common genetic variants of large effect. We can't find, you can't look at somebody's DNA and tell them that you're going to be high IQ, you're going to be, you're going to have serious mental illness, whereas we can look at someone's DNA and tell you what your hair color is, roughly what height you're going to, you are, and, you know, even some extent what your face looks like.
LC: Wow I mean that's very, very interesting. Now before I ask you a little bit about what your particular research focuses on, you mentioned something about, you know, about variants.
MR: Mm-hmm.
LC: So, maybe can you explain that a little bit more?
MR: Sure. So, you know, we, we've known for a while that each cell in your body has about 3 billion bases of information. And typically about one in 500 of those differ between you and, let's say, somebody else picked at random from the human population. Maybe differs at, you know, one in a 1000 places from people from your ethnic group, but maybe more from people from different parts of the world. So we say a genetic variant is one of those one in a 1000 places. But of course one in a 1000 doesn't seem like a lot, but if you have 3 billion bases that's, you know, going to be 3 million places. And actually if we're looking at the whole human population we sort of estimate the number of places where there's common differences to be something like 10 million places.
LC: Wow. Yeah it's kind of interesting when you put in, in context, how it does, it does matter. So, well, I mean this is a perfect place for, for now for you to tell us a little bit more about your research on genes and the brain.
MR: Sure. So, I'm interested in two kinds of things, working on two kinds of projects. First is what we'll call behavioral genetics or psychiatric genetics, and that is just by looking at DNA how much can you predict about a person's behavior or, or likelihood of psychosis, or any other behavioral trait. Including things like IQ. And that's what most people mean by genetics. That is how much is sort of born into you that you can't really change, or that life experience doesn't change much. How much is sort of hardwired at birth and that you can't do much about. And the second line of research that I'm pursuing is gene expression. And that is more a measure of how the cells are responding to their situation. So when we talk about gene expression, you have those genes on your DNA, but how much of them are actually being transcribed or copied into active cell compartments is variable depending on a whole lot of things, like your mood, your recent infection history, how much exercise you're doing. All kinds of things. And that's, so we can use gene expression as sort of an index of how the cells are coping with their, their lives sitting in your brain.
LC: Right, well both are, sound fascinating. But I guess one question that relates, and we're going to touch a little bit more into this in a couple more minutes, but, so in the field of behavioral genetics, the first one that you mentioned, it's been very debated, whether we should ,through genetic manipulation, you know, be able to create or manipulate the genome, to create, for example, super high IQ babies or similar. So you already mentioned that IQ is genetic, but how much, how much is IQ depending on genetics?
MR: So that's a very much debated question. So when I give you those estimates of heritability like 80 percent heritability, which is a commonly cited figure for IQ. That's based on, you know, twin studies showing that sort of identical twins have very similar IQs. That if you know your identical twin's IQ, you have a pretty good idea, an 80 percent accuracy, in predicting your IQ.
LC: Mm-hmm.
MR: But, that doesn't seem to translate very readily into specific genetic variants. So I can't read your DNA and very, get a very good idea of your IQ. Now it may be that I don't know enough, maybe we, maybe the field doesn't know enough about which genetic variants contribute. And maybe in some future time, you'll be able to look at someone's DNA and predict their IQ. I don't believe that's likely. And one reason for that is that almost all the twin studies are done with middle-class people who respond to questionnaires.
MR: That's actually a minority of the human population. It's very hard to track down and do studies on people who don't answer questionnaires or don't even answer the doorbell or may have moved since you've last talked to them. But if, you know, when people do those kinds of studies, go to the effort, they typically find that the heritability estimates for IQ and many other things are much, much lower. Typically for IQ they're finding more like 20 or 30 percent rather than 80 percent. Which suggests that it's not all sort of hardwired at birth, it has, you know, IQ has a lot to do with your experiences, but most middle-class people in stable families have relatively similar experiences.
LC: And what about other things like, like personality?
MR: So, again, you know we have a saying, you know, "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" to describe, or, you know, "like father like son" or "like mother like daughter," to describe how similar behavioral traits seem to run in families. But, again it's very hard to identify specific genes that mediate those kinds of behavioral characteristics. So while we know that neuroticism runs in families, people who are worried and get worked up about things tend to have children who are like that. Only the very largest studies have been able to identify any specific genetic variations that tilt your, your likelihood of becoming neurotic ever so slightly. The effect sizes are infinitesimal, meaning, you know, less than one percent of one percent.
MR: So, again, you can't look at somebody's DNA and say, okay this person's a neurotic person, or highly neurotic, or medium neurotic, or not neurotic, or well adjusted. And I, I don't think that it's very likely that we will be able to do that.
LC: So we talk about neuroticism, but is there any particular behavior or personality trait that we know more about that is more likely to be affected by genes compared to neuroticism?
MR: Well we, we certainly know that IQ is affected by genes. We've identified almost 100 specific genetic variants that each infinitesimal, very very slightly, they might move your needle, you know, on average a fraction of an IQ point. So we can look at people's DNA and say, well, you know, other things being equal this person is slightly more likely to have a higher IQ than that person.
LC: So recently in the news there was something about, you know, that they identify some genes that could predict the sexual orientation of people.
MR: Oh yeah.
LC: What was your reaction to that?
MR: Well I was not at all surprised. Again they took a very very large data set, so they were able to find very very small effects, and be confident that they were real. But they found four genetic variants that, again, had, in total, less than a one percent of one percent effect on, you know, the probability of being gay or not gay.
MR: And they didn't, you know, they, again, they can't look at somebody's DNA and say, you know, at birth, this person's going to be gay or this person's not. One thing about, just back to the, to the IQ issue, although we can't identify common variants that are very predictive of IQ, we can certainly identify lots of variants that are predictive of low IQ. So intellectual disability is something that is largely correlated with harmful mutations in genes that are quite rare. But that are detectable. So, when I say that, well, we're not, you know, we're not going to take more or less healthy people and say your IQ is going to be 120 and yours is going to be a 110, we can certainly look at some people's DNA and say, well, this person is very likely to have a very low IQ.
LC: It's interesting because we get wrapped up in knowing more about how the gene will help us know things about people, whereas the environment already can tell us a lot. I don't know if more, but certainly...
MR: Right.
LC: ...We can do also...
MR: I mean if we're, if we're concerned about raising IQ, a better investment is better schools.
LC: Exactly. Well now, let me ask you a couple of things about the other area that you focus on, gene expression. So you talk a little bit about, you know, how the genetics and the origin of disease, and so how this relates to, to work on gene expression. Now are there any mental disorders, since this is an area that you focus on most, for which we have well mapped the gene expression in the brain?
MR: Well, we've certainly done lots of studies. There are now hundreds of people with severe mental illnesses who have donated their brains to research, and whose brains have profiled in a variety of ways. And we don't have a sort of prototypical or stereotypical picture of what the brain of a schizophrenic looks like, or what the brain of a depressed person looks like, with a couple of important exceptions. And that is that we know that if a person's had a diagnosis of schizophrenia for quite a long time, often their brain is smaller, and they seem to have lost some grey matter. And we believe that's largely a loss of synapses. We don't really know why, and we can't look at the specifics of gene expression and say, well we've got a single cause for this shrinkage of the brain, and the delusions, and also negative affect that goes along with schizophrenia. We have some ideas though. We can say that probably there are some individuals who are becoming schizophrenic for different causes or different reasons than others. And we think that some of the reasons have to do with, with severe inflammation. They have a stronger inflammatory response in their brain. And where that comes from of course we don't know unless we collect life history data, which we typically don't have.
LC: Mm-hmm. Now how can research in this area to be useful in the treatment of mental disorders?
MR: So I think that the real hope, and I think it's likely to be realized, is if we can understand the different mechanisms or the different sort of stories behind mental illness, like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, or even depression, or perhaps a condition like autism, that we can have some hope of intervening more effectively if we can identify what kind of, what version of the disorder you have. One of the big breakthroughs in let's say the treatment of breast cancer was when it was realized about 20 years ago or shown that actually there are at least three major kinds of breast cancer. And let's say some of them are largely driven by estrogen. So, those particular kinds of cancers can be effectively treated by shutting down estrogen, and that's a treatment that's used. But estrogen doesn't do anything, shutting down estrogen doesn't do anything for the other major types of breast cancer.
LC: So basically knowing the gene expression will help us know what to shut down or activate or...
MR: It'll give us some idea, at least for some people, of the mechanisms behind their particular mental illness. And that I think will enable some effective treatment.
LC: So it would be kind of the equivalent of personalized medicine in mental health.
MR: Yes, I think that that's really what we need, and what I hope that a combination of genomic and behavioral studies will show is that, you know, each person's depression is not necessarily the same as everybody else's depression. Or one person's psychosis is not necessarily the same and treatable the same way as another person's psychosis.
LC: Well that's a whole world there to continue studying and exploring. So I guess now just before we end this conversation today, since, you know, we are both interested in ethics, I wanted to ask what do you see as the most pressing ethical issues connected to the areas that we discussed today?
MR: So I think that one ethical issue that will come up fairly soon is not so much are we going to create a designer babies with IQ 200. I would be very surprised to see that practical. But rather, as we get a catalog of those rare variants, those mutations that do raise the risk of either intellectual disability or mental illness quite substantially, what should we do with that knowledge? Should we discourage people who are carriers of those mutations from having children. That I can imagine would be quite a fraught discussion.
LC: Yeah.
MR: And so that, that's what I see some as the most pressing ethical issue that's likely to come up soon. I don't envision a sort of 'Gattaca'-like world where most of the interesting aspects of a person can be predicted from their DNA. I don't see that it's likely that we'll see predictions of temperament or IQ for most people in the normal range from DNA. But I think rare variants that have been fairly well linked to intellectual disability or behavioral problems, like aggression, might well prompt a conversation about, well, should we discourage people who are carrying these variants from having children.
LC: Or you could also have the conversation, should we be selecting babies that are less likely to have those. For those couples that decide to go that way.
LC: Instead of, you know, going the natural way, if we may call it that, that way. So now are there any, you mention a lot of gathering of, you know, thousands of tissue and samples that you need to carry out this studies. So I guess there are also a couple of ethical issues in, you know, how people give consent to having their tissue, maybe some privacy of how you might, or scientists might be able to de-identify their samples? Have you encountered any of those discussions so far?
MR: At the moment it's mostly, you know, the NIH has historically, I think, come down on the side of overcaution. And so, for example, in many, you know, what we would like to have is some indication of the life history of the people whose brains are donated to understand, for example, why we're seeing expression of genes associated, let's say, with inflammation or with pain or with, you know, some other kinds of specific characteristics we can identify.
MR: Because certainly not everybody has the same, everybody with a particular diagnosis, has the same gene expression profile. So we'd like to know what's different. And it's not that they have genetic variants that seem to be, to seem to explain that very much. It explains a little bit the specific gene variants that they have are very slightly related to the gene expression. But the majority of the variation does not seem to come from the DNA, but seems to come, well, seems to me that it's likely to come from their life experiences. So it would really help to know what life experiences they had. So it's a, you know, from a researcher's point of view it's a serious impediment that we don't have that information, but it would expose a lot of privacy concerns, and we would need to do something to address those if we're going to have that information.
LC: Well thank you so much for your time Dr. Reimers, it was my pleasure to having you here and hopefully people enjoy learning more about this topic.
MR: Okay. Thank you Laura.
LM: Thank you for joining us today on No Easy Answers in Bioethics. Please visit us online at bioethics.msu.edu for full episode transcripts and other resources related to this episode. A special thank you to H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online for hosting this series. This episode of No Easy Answers in Bioethics was produced and edited by Liz McDaniel in the Center for Ethics. Music is by Antony Raijekov via Free Music Archive.


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KentuckyOne said the cuts were due to "challenges," from the evolution of health care reform and a decline in patient volumes in some areas, and insisted patients would see only a "minimal disruption."
Officials told the Courier-Journal the changes are unrelated to discussions between the system's parent, Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, and Dignity Health, another national health system based in San Francisco.
Some doctors learned in a meeting with top administrators about two weeks ago that KentuckyOne would exercise an option to terminate their professional services contracts.
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"It was a surprise," said Dr. Richard Holt, a spine surgeon who was at the meeting. "They had an escape clause, and they used it."
His agreement expires July 31.
KentuckyOne is made up of the former Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare and St. Joseph Health System, has 15 hospitals and more than 200 locations. CHI reported in February that it had narrowed operating losses to nearly $76 million during the last quarter of 2016 as it continues affiliation talks with Dignity Health, but it said operations in Kentucky and two other states had suffered year-over-year losses.
KentuckyOne confirmed last month it would lay off 250 mostly corporate administrative staff members. Those layoffs are related to a mutual decision calling for KentuckyOne to cede management of University of Louisville Hospital and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center to U of L on July 1.
KentuckyOne officials declined to confirm which doctors and practices were being let go. The statement said: "The impacted physicians have all been notified and will continue with KentuckyOne through the term of their contract. Individual physicians are making decisions on how they will continue practicing, caring for current and future patients and what level of staff support is needed. As a result, we anticipate minimal disruption in patient care as a result of this decision."
It added that affected patients, in most cases, could stay with their current physician or could transfer to a nearby KentuckyOne Medical Group physician.
But Dr. James Patrick Murphy, past president of the Greater Louisville Medical Society, said it may not be that simple.
Patients, particularly those looking for a new primary care doctor, are seeing the impact of shortages of doctors around the country. If a person can find a doctor who accepts his or her insurance, Murphy said, the patient may not be able to get an appointment for months because the practice is heavily booked.
In the case of KentuckyOne-employed doctors, some are apparently considering retirement.
Holt, whose practice is affiliated with Jewish Hospital, said he is leaning toward hanging up the scalpel. At 69, he said, he isn't interested in starting a stand-alone practice again.
And when he contacted Norton and Baptist Health, he said he was told neither is taking on new doctors now. Baptist Health didn't respond to requests for comment late Tuesday afternoon.
Norton's chief medical officer, Dr. Steven Hester, said in an email that Norton is open to considering "opportunities" that help the health system meets the needs of the community.
Holt said he gladly sold his practice five years ago to KentuckyOne to be relieved of making payroll and handling other administrative duties. That's been a going trend in health care for two decades because the skyrocketing costs of running individual practices.
Even though Holt's practice with another surgeon and a staff of 12 people has excellent productivity numbers, he said, he understands the move is about saving money. It's no secret that CHI has suffered "big-time losses" and that KentuckyOne, in turn, must cut overhead, Holt said.
Dr. John Roberts, a neonatologist and president of the Greater Louisville Medical Society, said the reduction in doctors is yet another sign that the health care industry "is in a mess."
Hospitals and health systems are weighed down by rising costs, flat or falling reimbursement levels on services, and more uncertainties ahead for health care reform, Roberts said. "Like any business, if there's no margin, the mission means nothing. ... All of the hospitals are having to reassess what they need to be supporting."
Reporter Grace Schneider can be reached at 502-582-4082 or gschneider@courier-journal.com.


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Meine Ehre heißt Treue ("My honour is called loyalty") is the motto of the former National Socialist organization, the Schutzstaffel (SS).
In a National Socialist context, the phrase Meine Ehre heißt Treue refers to a declaration by Adolf Hitler following the Stennes Revolt, an incident between the Berlin Sturmabteilung (SA) and the SS. In early April 1931, elements of the SA under Walter Stennes attempted to overthrow the head of the Berlin section of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. As the section chief Joseph Goebbels fled with his staff, a handful of SS men led by Kurt Daluege were beaten trying to repel the SA. After the incident, Hitler wrote a letter of congratulations to Daluege, stating ... SS-Mann, deine Ehre heißt Treue! ("Man of the SS, your honour is loyalty"). Soon afterward, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, adopted the modified version of this phrase as the official motto of the organisation.
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Leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) candidate Delfina Gomez finished second, getting 30.8 percent of the vote, while Juan Zepeda, of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), received 17.8 percent of the vote.
Josefina Vazquez Mota, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), finished fourth, garnering 11.3 percent of the vote.
Voter turnout was 52.53 percent in Sunday's election.
Del Mazo received 1.94 million votes, giving him a lead of nearly 167,000 votes over Gomez in the race to run Mexico state, the country's most populous state and a region considered a barometer for the 2018 presidential election.
In Coahuila state, PRI gubernatorial candidate Miguel Riquelme got 38.3 percent of the vote, followed by PAN-PRD coalition candidate Guillermo Anaya, who garnered 36.81 percent, with 85.5 percent of the ballots counted.
Morena candidate Armando Guadiana finished a distant third, with 12.05 percent, while independent Javier Guerrero got 7.4 percent and finished fourth.
Voter turnout was 60 percent in Coahuila, which is in northern Mexico.
In the western state of Nayarit, Antonio Echevarria, the gubernatorial candidate of a coalition formed by the PAN, PRD, Workers Party (PT) and Revolutionary Socialist Party (PRS), got 38.6 percent of the vote.
Manuel Humberto Cota, candidate of a coalition formed by the PRI, Mexican Green Party (PVEM) and New Alliance, finished second, with 27 percent of the vote.
Hilario Ramirez, an independent, finished third, with 12.02 percent of the vote in an election with a 62.3 percent voter turnout rate.
Morena's Miguel Angel Navarro got 11.92 percent of the vote in the Nayarit gubernatorial election.
In the Gulf state of Veracruz, where 212 mayoralties were up for grabs, the PAN-PRD coalition had the best showing, winning control of 112 local governments.


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最近再看《Android源码设计模式与实战》,又把 Java 中的23种设计模式知识重新过了一遍,其中有一些知识点参考自网络。

## 设计模式

* [chapter01 - 面向对象六大原则](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter01-面向对象六大原则.md)
* [chapter02 - 单例模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter02-单例模式.md)
* [chapter03 - Builder模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter03-Builder模式.md)
* [chapter04 - 原型模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter04-原型模式.md)
* [chapter05 - 工厂方法模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter05-工厂方法模式.md)
* [chapter06 - 抽象工厂模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter06-抽象工厂模式.md)
* [chapter07 - 策略模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter07-策略模式.md)
* [chapter08 - 状态模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter08-状态模式.md)
* [chapter09 - 责任链模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter09-责任链模式.md)
* [chapter10 - 解释器模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter10-解释器模式.md)
* [chapter11 - 命令模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter11-命令模式.md)
* [chapter12 - 观察者模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter12-观察者模式.md)
* [chapter13 - 备忘录模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter13-备忘录模式.md)
* [chapter14 - 迭代器模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter14-迭代器模式.md)
* [chapter15 - 模板方法模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter15-模板方法模式.md)
* [chapter16 - 访问者模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter16-访问者模式.md)
* [chapter17 - 中介者模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter17-中介者模式.md)
* [chapter18 - 代理模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter18-代理模式.md)
* [chapter19 - 组合模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter19-组合模式.md)
* [chapter20 - 适配器模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter20-适配器模式.md)
* [chapter21 - 装饰模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter21-装饰模式.md)
* [chapter22 - 享元模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter22-享元模式.md)
* [chapter23 - 外观模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter23-外观模式.md)
* [chapter24 - 桥接模式](https://github.com/onlylemi/notes/blob/master/DesignPattern/chapter24-桥接模式.md)

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On November 3, Gill St. Bernard's hosted Morristown Beard in the Hoka One One Postal Nationals, a two-mile cross country race. In the boys' race, the team finished seconds behind Morristown Beard. The girls' team won its race, with captain Nicole Johnson '18 claiming first place and the coveted Hoka One One Postal Nationals hat.
The designation "Postal' is a reference to early days of the race when results from different venues were mailed into the United States Track & Field Federation. The results would be compared, making it possible to hold a national high-school competition through a series of local events. In its present-day iteration, high schools can hold the race from mid-August through mid-December.
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Recipe inspiration to set up your own bake sale
In support of Cookies for Kids' Cancer
Natasha Payton
Recipes in this post
Gluten-Free Oatmeal and Flax Cranberry Cookies Oatmeal and Flax Cranberry Cookies American-Style Vanilla Biscotti Chocolate Chip Cookies Whole Grain Brownies
I have many fond memories of bake sales.
Growing up, my brothers and I were very involved in sports. We often spent weekends in the car driving to see someone's game or tournament. A 2-hour drive to your 9-year old brother's baseball game was worth it if there was a bake sale at our destination.
"Mom...," I would say, using my little-girl charm, "Can I have some money to buy a treat?" She could never resist handing over $5 to support whatever it was the team, club, or organization was raising money for.
That's the thing with bake sales, for a small price you get a homemade goodie, while supporting a good cause. It really is a win-win.
If a group can get together to bake and sell treats to raise money for new uniforms, a service trip to South America, or the local Humane Society, why can't bake sales be used to make a difference on a larger – national – scale?
Well, they can! Cookies for Kids' Cancer, founded in 2008, has proved the power of bake sales. Gretchen and Larry Witt started Cookies for Kids' Cancer during their son, Liam's, battle with cancer. The Witts were shocked by "the lack of effective treatments for pediatric cancer due to lack of funding."
Lack of funding can be changed by raising awareness and money. And that's what Gretchen and Larry have been doing ever since. By encouraging people all over the country to have bake sales to support pediatric cancer research, Cookies for Kids' Cancer has donated $5 million in grants since 2007.
King Arthur Flour was inspired by Cookies for Kids' Cancer and their mission, and joined as a sponsor in 2012. Take a look at some of our favorite bake-sale recipes –Emily Malpino, King Arthur Flour inventory planning manager, got involved in baking for Cookies for Kids' Cancer bake sales because she likes baking and she loves kids.
"Anything to help kids is important for me," Emily said. "There's not much that's more rewarding then helping kids in need." Emily's favorite bake-sale recipe is Oatmeal and Flax Cranberry Cookies (also available in a tasty gluten-free version). This healthy oatmeal-raisin-with-a-twist cookie is very satisfying – and they freeze perfectly!
Gwen Adams, writer and recipe tester, likes to make biscotti. They look elegant, and taste delicious. But the best part is that they're easy to make.
This is what Gwen has to say about getting involved: "No one should ever have to hear the word 'cancer'…especially not children. If spending a few hours in the kitchen, doing what I love, will aid in any way in the search for a cure, it's really a no-brainer. Cookies for Kids' Cancer is such a wonderful organization; that makes getting involved fun. From baking, to making colorful posters and setting up the table, to knowing that 100% of the proceeds go to research for those sweet kiddos…I just feel good all over."
Barbara Sleeper, a member of our King Arthur Flour human resources team, got involved with Cookies for Kids' Cancer to share her baking skills with those in need.
"In my personal life, we regularly celebrate our family's good fortune but always remain aware that there are others who haven't been so lucky." Barb loves to make Chocolate Chip Cookies. This recipe makes cookies with the perfect balance of crunchy edges and chewy centers – and it's King Arthur Flour guaranteed!
While cookies are great, I'm more of a brownie gal myself. I love our Whole Grain Brownies. These brownies are so decadent and delicious... and I can feel better about eating one (or two!) because of the whole wheat.
Brownies are a great addition to round out a bake sale. I love to bake, and when baking can help me support my favorite causes, it really is a great feeling.
King Arthur Flour's first Cookies for Kids' Cancer bake sale at Dartmouth College
Get started using your baking powers for good. We'd love to hear about your bake sales; we invite you to share your pictures on Facebook,Twitter and Instagram, using the hashtag #bakeforgood.
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Louth's Ciaran Downey, Longford's Conor Berry and Evan O'Carroll of Laois.
Longford are top of Division Three, while Louth and Laois also picked up their second victories today.
Longford - the only unbeaten team in the third tier after three rounds - moved to the top of the pile, making it five points from a possible six when beating Carlow by 1-11 to 0-9 at Dr Cullen Park, susbtitute Conor Berry claiming the game's only goal.
At Portlaoise, second-half goals from Stephen Attride and Donie Kingston propelled Laois to a crucial 2-18 to 2-10 victory over Sligo. Evan O'Carroll pointed eight times for the winners, while substitute Barry O'Gorman plundered two late consolation goals for the Yeats County, who remain pointless.
And Louth made it back-to-back wins when emerging from Tullamore with a 2-10 to 2-8 defeat of relegation-threatened Offaly. John Maughan's men led by six points with 50 minutes played but a Declan Hogan own goal in injury time ultimately won it for the Wee County.
Offaly were ahead by 2-5 to 1-3 at the break, having played with the wind, Ciaran Downey palming Louth's first goal to the net in between Faithful County majors from Anton Sullivan and Shane Horan.
Longford - P Collum; D Quinn, A Farrell, B Farrell; C P Smyth (0-2), B McKeon, D Mimnagh (0-1); D Gallagher (0-3f), M Quinn; S Donohoe; N Rabbitte (0-1), M Hughes; P Hanley, L Connerton (0-2), P Lynn. Subs: J Hagan (0-1) for P Lynn, C Berry (1-1) for N Rabbitte, D Doherty for S Donohoe.
Carlow - R Molloy; C Crowley, S Redmond, B J Molloy; J Morrissey (0-1), E Ruth, C Lawlor; B Murphy, S Murphy; S Gannon (0-1), D Foley (0-2), S Clarke; D Walshe, D O'Brien (0-2, 1f), D St Ledger. Subs: P Broderick (0-3f) for D Walshe, B Kavanagh for S Clarke.
Laois - G Brody; D Seale, S Nerney, G Dillon; M Scully, S Attride (1-0), C Begley; K Meaney, J O'Loughlin; D O'Reilly (0-1), D Kingston (1-3, 0-1m), C Boyle (0-1); P Cahillane (0-2, 1f), E O'Carroll (0-8, 1f, 1m), M Barry (0-1). Subs: R Tyrrell for K Meaney, S O'Flynn for C Boyle, E Lowry for M Barry, C Murphy (0-2) for E O'Carroll, R Munnelly for P Cahillane.
Sligo - A Devaney (0-2f); N Mullen, P Laffey, J Carr; L Nicholson, P McNamara, G O'Kelly Lynch; P Kilcoyne, A McIntyre; L Gaughan (0-3), S Carrabine, C Henry; A Marren (0-4, 3f), P O'Connor, N Murphy. Subs: B O'Gorman (2-1, 0-1m) for N Murphy, N Ewing for C Henry, A McLoughlin for S Carrabine, D Cummins for L Nicholson.
Louth - F Sheeky; F Donohoe, E Carolan, J Craven; A Williams, B Duffy, J Clutterbuck; T Durnin (0-2, 1f), C Early; C Brannigan, C Downey (1-0), C McKeever; A McDonnell, S Mulroy (0-6, 4f, 1'45), D Byrne. Subs: E Duffy (0-1) for A McDonnell, J McEneaney for C Downey, R Nally for D Byrne, J Califf for C Brannigan, R Moore (0-1) for C McKeever. Offaly (1-0og).
Offaly - P Dunican; D Hogan, E Rigney, D Dempsey; J O'Connor, P McConway, C Donohue; C Mangan, J Moloney; S Horan (1-0), P Cunningham (0-2f), N Darby (0-1); B Allen (0-4, 3f), A Sullivan (1-0), R McNamee (0-1). Subs: N McNamee for R McNamee, E Carroll for C Donohue, D Molloy for C Mangan, A Leavy for J Moloney.


This book is mainly divided into three sections viz.- Models of teaching Methods of teaching and Technology in teaching learning. Illustrations from teaching in clinical setting typical classroom teaching learning and advanced technological learning ways have been incorporated. The various models and methods given in this book in a way would help conceptualizing the learning process that may assist teachers and students in identifying meaningful forms of active learning. These models and methods suggest that all learning activities nvolve some kind of experience or some kind of dialogue. The two main kinds of dialogue are Dialogue with Self and Dialogue with Others. The two main kinds of experience are Observing and Doing. Therefore teaching is an essential part of education. Its special function is to impart knowledge develop understanding and skills.


We are now on the Canal du Centre. In the past five years we've been on this canal three times. Does the repetition make it boring? Of course not! We might remember some of the villages or towns, but the scenery is constantly changing. There are so many different places for Rabelo to moor we could do this canal a dozen times and never tie up in the same place.


Welcome to my art and paintings portfolio.
are availiable as prints. Contact me for more information.
and support company called NALF? (swedish language only) - Click here.
Third,fourth and fifth tutorial is online. Two step-by-step/walktrough guides. Click on "Tutorials" in the menu above.
Check out my newest paintings, in my updated sections, also added a new section called "sci-fi". Not to many paintings in there yet though =) Some of my latest paintings has been featured here and there over the net, and i appreciate all of comments and feedback!
First update for a very, very long time! Been busy years with mostly designing and not so much painting :( But i'm slowly getting into it again. Be sure to check out my galleries! Hugs and kisses!
2003.07.24 - Tutorial 002 ONLINE!
Second tutorial is online. Useful painting shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop(tm). Click on "Tutorials" in the menu above.
2003.07.15 - Tutorial 001 ONLINE!
My first tutorial/step-by-step is online. It took 6 hours to finish it. Check it out by clickin on "Tutorials" in the menu.
Started planning on a personal project. A painting that is 3 meters wide and 0.7 meter high. More information later.
I got nominated for elite for the second time with my concept painting "Home". Although i didn't become an elite it was an honour. Click here to visit GFXArtist.
Won 1st prize at the swedish scene/compo lan: Underscore with my hirez/airbrushed painting Evergrey.