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Lara Worthington Opens Up About Motherhood
"He is a fantastic father, fantastic husband and we're just a really good team." - by Tina Burke
Lara Worthington has opened up about her family, and superstar husband Sam Worthington, in a candid new interview
The mother-of-two spoke with Buro 24/7 about having two children, and how her life has changed since welcoming Rocket-Zot Worthington in 2015, and Racer Worthington in 2016.
On how her experience was during pregnancy, Lara revealed: "I was lucky that I had two great pregnancies and two healthy babies but pregnancy isn't the hard part - it's taking them home! You've got the biggest responsibility of your life and that's all that matters to me. The first pregnancy is different because it's something you've never done before, and there's that what if, or the unknown, so I tried not to read anything because I didn't want to know too much. I just wanted to take my own journey and experience it for myself."
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As for juggling her makeup empire, her two children and her relationship with Sam, Lara said:
"You know, my husband is amazing. He is a fantastic father, fantastic husband and we're just a really good team. We've grown together and grown as a family and I think that's the most important thing.
"We travel everywhere together and we never have more than two weeks apart from each other - and that really works for us," she continued. "He's just so good with the kids, he does the night feeds and everything- he is seriously superhuman! And Sam will work a 17- hour day...my days seriously do not compare to his at all.
"He also inspires me to be that kind of business woman / mum. He's always like, 'you can do whatever you want Lara' and I guess when you get that support at home, you get that inspiration. It really is all about what comes from the inside out, and if you're happy with your surroundings - you can do it all!"
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Despite their current rate for having babies year-on-year, Lara doesn't see a third child on the way in the near future.
"I think because I've done two back to back I need a rest, it's full on and fun but it's definitely challenging," she said. "You have those days where you're like "OMG". But I feel like that why I'm here, to lead that legacy. I think for now I'm just really enjoying my little family."
1 year of this little man. Thank you, Universe! 🚀

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Two Stanford adventures
Last week, the California: The Art of Water exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center, a fascinating show in an assortment of media (painting, drawing, photography, maps, video), of a just-right size (enough stuff to be engaging, not so much it was overwhelming).
Yesterday, a visit to the Cactus Garden. The winter rains started a while back, turning the golden grasses of the dry season to bright new green and also sending cactuses into abandoned blooming. Some had already bloomed, some were in bloom right now, some were in bud, about to bloom.
California water. From the Stanford Museum site:
From July 13 to November 28, 2016, the Cantor Arts Center will present California: The Art of Water, a major new exhibition devoted to artistic portrayals of California's most precious resource. Featuring more than 50 works made by eminent artists and photographers including Albert Bierstadt, David Hockney, William Keith, Richard Misrach and Carleton Watkins, California: The Art of Water explores objects made over the last two centuries that helped to shape ideas about water in California. It includes pictures of pristine waterways in the wilderness and depictions of the immense and growing system of waterworks that the state's towns, cities and agriculture required — titanic dams and aqueducts that ran for hundreds of miles. The exhibition links visions of natural beauty and progress with depictions of places where patterns of water use created devastation.
Depictions of Owens Lake, now mostly dry, and the Salton Sea, now contracting, but also very saline and quite polluted. Photographs of the huge systems of pipelines and of canals. Paintings of the canals and roads in the Central Valley, treating them as forming abstract designs. And plenty of landscape painting, including many works depicting the water of Yosemite Valley.
Of course, there are several Bierstadts — really big, grand, and luminous. Two California Bierstadts:
Looking Down Yosemite Valley (1865)
(one of several Bierstadt did of this scene)
Sacramento River Valley (1872)
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-born American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.
Born in Germany, Bierstadt was brought to the United States at the age of one by his parents. He later returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. He became part of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along this scenic river. Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. An important interpreter of the western landscape, Bierstadt, along with Thomas Moran, is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.
Two other 19th-century paintings from the show. A luminous William Marple (1827-1910), Mount Tamalpais from Napa Slough (1869):
And Thomas Hill (1829-1908), Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley (1892):
Cactus in bloom. From Wikipedia:
The Arizona Cactus Garden, or, officially, Arizona Garden (30,000 square feet or 2,787 square meters), also known as the Cactus Garden, is a botanical garden specializing in cactus and succulents. It is located on the campus of Stanford University (within the Stanford University Arboretum, and near the Stanford Family Mausoleum and the Angel of Grief) …, and open to the public daily without charge.
The garden was first planted between 1880 and 1883 for Jane and Leland Stanford to a design by landscape architect Rudolph Ulrich. It was planned to be adjacent to their new residence, and part of the larger gardens for the Stanford estate. However, the home was never built. The garden was regularly maintained until the 1920s after which it fell into great disrepair.
Volunteer restoration work began in 1997 and is ongoing. Notwithstanding decades of neglect, some of the original plants remain. The garden now contains approximately 500 cacti and succulents in 58 beds
Quite a place. Annoyingly, there are no identifying markers, and though there are many websites devoted to the garden (with pictures), I haven't found any that identify the plants in the photos.
First, a historical note: a 1912 postcard from the garden:
Lots and lots of cactuses and succulents in the picture, but the dominant plant is a prickly pear in bloom. (Prickly pear species have flowers in a number of colors; these are red.)
Earlier on this group, on 9/13/14 in "Linguistic diversity among the nopalries", Opuntia pictures in #1 and #2. More information from Wikipedia:
Opuntia is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae.
The most common culinary species is the Indian fig opuntia (O. ficus-indica). Most culinary uses of the term "prickly pear" refer to this species. Prickly pears are also known as tuna ([the] fruit), sabra, nopal (paddle, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit; or paddle cactus.
The genus is named for the Ancient Greek city of Opus, where, according to Theophrastus, an edible plant grew which could be propagated by rooting its leaves.
… Jams and jellies are produced from the fruit, which resemble strawberries and figs in color and flavor. Mexicans have used Opuntia for thousands of years to make an alcoholic drink called colonche.
… Mexican and other southwestern residents eat the young cactus pads (nopales, plural, nopal, singular), usually picked before the spines harden. They are sliced into strips, skinned or unskinned, and fried with eggs and jalapeños, served as a breakfast treat. They have a texture and flavor like string beans.
They can be boiled, used raw blended with fruit juice, cooked on a frying pan, and often used as a side dish to go with chicken or added to tacos along with chopped onion and cilantro.
The spines are evil.
Two shots from the Stanford garden in recent years:
Cactus gardens tend to be groves of rampant phallicity, but some of the plants are startlingly phallic. A case in point are some of the agaves (several of which I've posted briefly on here). Here we get things like this agave bud (in a scene from a garden in Baja California):
Agave shoots are fabulously phallic, right up to the tip, or dickhead. If you think that looks like an asparagus run amok, you're exactly right. An account cobbled together from pieces of several Wikipedia entries:
Agaves are not cacti, but succulents (in the Asparagaceae, or asparagus family, and fairly closely related to the Yucca genus) with a large rosette of thick, fleshy leaves (in most species ending in a sharp terminal spine), native to the hot and arid regions of Mexico and the southwestern United States. Each rosette grows slowly over years to flower only once. During flowering, a tall (often 15-40 ft. tall) stem or "mast" (quiote in Mexico) grows from the center of the leaf rosette and bears a large number of short, tubular flowers. After development of fruit, the original plant dies, but suckers are frequently produced from the base of the stem, which become new plants.
We saw a number of these at Stanford. One, about 10 ft. tall, was close to blooming; its tip was dramatically penis-like, an asparagus spear for giants. Next to it was an now-dead plant about 20 ft. tall, with its dry brown flower stems and flowers spread like death sculpture in the sky. (Those stems are, as you might have guessed, seriously woody.)
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Robert Coren Says:
Tangential linguistic note/query: You write of the winter rains sending cactuses into abandoned blooming. I would find blooming with abandon unremarkable, but I can't recall ever having seen abandoned used in this way. But maybe I've just loved a sheltered life.
arnold zwicky Says:
abandoned 'unrestrained, uninhibited' — i.e., 'with abandon'. But if you're unaccustomed to the usage, maybe you can appreciate my use as a little linguistic flight of fancy.
On a lighter note: The photo and remarks on the very phallic agave remind me of a Charles Addams cartoon that appeared in The New Yorker many decades ago: A couple looking out in the gray dawn on their suburban front yard, where enormous (say, more than human-height) asparagus spears have apparently emerged overnight; he says, "I'll call the botanical society, you go in and start making hollandaise."
Not in the New Yorker; I've just been through the complete cartoons, page by page. A Google search on "asparagus cartoon" didn't find it, either. Much as I'd like to post this cartoon, I give up on the search.
Well, that's what my memory says, and I can't think where else I would have seen it. But we all know how reliable memory is.
Randy McDonald Says:
Lovely photos, and nice subjects.
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NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – The New Amsterdam Islamic School re-opened yesterday.
Region Six Education Officer Shafiran Bhajan closed the institution last Wednesday after reports of what appeared to be a series of paranormal events.
The institution was constructed and opened a year ago. It is situated a short distance from the Stanleytown Cemetery in New Amsterdam.
The Regional Education Officer and a Welfare Officer visited the school last Wednesday and all of the students were sent home immediately after some of them appeared to be under the influence of what some called a demonic force.
Mrs. Bhajan said that the head teacher of the school reported to her, on Tuesday, that four senior girls suffered an attack. They were said to be screaming loudly, got what looked like seizures, that they spoke about things they did not know of and demanded rum and cigarettes.
According to the Regional Executive Officer, one of the girls said that she came from England and another said she was from America. One threatened to poison another.
Another girl said that she was there to help another female student who would have been killed. The victim she identified was said to be even sicker than the others and staff members immediately rushed to her assistance.
All in all during these mental aberrations, the students appear to have a burst of extra strength.
Another student, according to reports, had to be taken to a Christian Pastor to be exorcised.
On the other hand some persons believe that the children experienced a mental aberration and as such their minds played tricks on them.
The Chairman of the school was scheduled to visit the facility last Thursday. Though the school was closed for the three days, the teachers were required to report for duty and be engaged in professional development activities.
Last week was not the first time such occurrences took place at the New Amsterdam Islamic School. Mrs. Bhajan said that earlier in March, there was another episode.
Some persons, who claimed they witnessed the episode, said that the girls were 'talking in tongues' and staring in a fixated manner; some collapsed and all were said to be behaving badly.
The Regional Education Officer indicated that during the December school term, there were episodes for two consecutive days. The first set of students who were affected in December had complained of tummy aches and vomiting among other things.
The Administration of the school had conducted praying sessions to rid the institution of whatever it was that was affecting the students but this did not help.
The Region Six Education Officer and her team are scheduled to re-visit the institution later this week to monitor the situation.
Some persons are convinced that the students could be suffering from dengue fever. Early in March it said that some of the students were admitted to the New Amsterdam Hospital and had been diagnosed with dengue fever.
But during a press conference with Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy the day after the episode, he said he was not aware of any cases of dengue fever in the Region.


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This class contains functions that enable to get or change parameters of a navigation area within which pathfinding is performed. The navigation area can be either a navigation sector or a navigation mesh.
For example, by using the functions of this class, you can scale velocity of the point moving inside the navigation area. Or you can change the danger factor of the area.
Casts a Navigation out of the Node instance.
Sets the danger factor that indicates if the point that moves inside the navigation area should try to avoid this area.
Returns the current danger factor that indicates if the point that moves inside the navigation area should try to avoid this area.
Returns the specified connected navigation area.
Sets a navigation mask for the navigation area.
Returns the current navigation mask of the navigation area.
Returns the number of navigation areas that intersect the current one.
Sets a quality of optimization of the route that has already been calculated.
Returns the quality of optimization of the route that has already been calculated.
Sets a scaling factor for velocity of the point that moves inside the navigation area along the calculated route.
Returns the current scaling factor for velocity of the point that moves inside the navigation area along the calculated route.
Depending on the type of the navigation area, the function performs the following: For navigation sectors, it checks whether the given point is inside the navigation sector.
Depending on the type of the navigation area, the function performs the following: For navigation sectors, it checks whether the given point is inside the navigation area.
If the danger factor exceeds the maximum danger factor set for the route, the navigation area will be excluded from pathfinding calculations.
float dangerous - Danger factor.
int num - The navigation area number.
Sets a navigation mask for the navigation area. The navigation mask of the navigation area must match the navigation mask of the route that is calculated within it. Otherwise, the area will not participate in pathfinding. By using the navigation mask, you can specify navigation ares that must be ignored during pathfinding.
int mask - An integer value, each bit of which is used to set a mask.
Returns the current navigation mask of the navigation area. The navigation mask of the navigation area must match the navigation mask of the route that is calculated within it. Otherwise, the area will not participate in pathfinding.
The number of connected navigation areas.
Sets a quality of optimization of the route that has already been calculated. This value specifies the number of iterations that are used for taking the short cut. However, the higher the value, the longer the route calculation will take.
int quality - A quality value. If a negative value is provided, 0 will be used instead.
Returns the quality of optimization of the route that has already been calculated. The quality value specifies the number of iterations that are used for taking the short cut.
float velocity - A velocity scaling factor.
For navigation sectors, it checks whether the given point is inside the navigation sector. The height of the navigation sector (Z coordinate) is ignored.
For navigation meshes, it checks whether the given point is inside the navigation mesh and the distance from the point to the mesh is in range [-height;height]. Here height is a height of the navigation mesh.
const Math::Vec3 & point - Point coordinates.
float radius - The radius of the point. The radius is used to exclude exceeding the navigation mesh by the point. If the radius is set, it is more likely that the point will be inside the navigation mesh.
When calling the function for NavigationSector, this option is irrelevant.
1 if the point is inside the navigation area; otherwise, 0.
For navigation sectors, it checks whether the given point is inside the navigation area. Notice that the height of the navigation sector (Z coordinate) is also taken into account.
For navigation meshes, it checks whether the given point is inside the navigation mesh and the distance from the point to the mesh is in range [0;height]. Here height is a height of the navigation mesh.
1 it the point is inside the navigation area; otherwise, 0.


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Latham opposes Senate immigration package
July 3, 2013 By O. Kay Henderson
Republican Congressman Tom Latham says he does not support the immigration reform package that cleared the U.S. Senate last week.
"The Senate bill — it certainly would not have any opportunity of passing in the House," Latham says.
House Republicans will meet in private July 10th to talk about the issue. Many House Republicans are opposed to a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people living in the country today — something the Senate endorsed in its bill. Latham is among the Republicans who say they need proof the border is secure before they'll even consider granting legal status to those who entered the country illegally.
"I support the House position, that is to move individual bills addressing immigration: talking about border security, about making a verification system work and in place before any kind of change in status for people who have come into the country undocumented," Latham says. "And that's really the way we're going to proceed."
The Senate folded all immigration-related proposals into one bill. Steve King — Iowa's other Republican congressman — has long opposed what he calls "amnesty" and he opposes House votes on any part of immigration reform. King and others fear congressional leaders might use any bill that passes the House as a vehicle to forge a compromise immigration reform measure with the Senate.
A chorus of other Republicans, like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Karl Rove — an advisor to former President George W. Bush, have been calling on the House to pass a comprehensive immigration reform package that includes some path to legal status for undocumented people living and working in the U.S. today. They argue the GOP will alienate minority voters if the party doesn't embrace immigration reform.
Other Republicans say business groups are divided on the issue and granting undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship rewards lawlessness.
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A convenience store chain thought it had just the gift for Secretary Day. "Happy day to all the secretaries," the Circle K ad in Mexico read. "Celebrate with them the proper way with this executive combo." The combos in the ad consisted of a bottle of wine and a chocolate bar, and one threw in a package of condoms. At one spot, "executive combo" was followed by the text, "If you know what I mean," placed next to a cartoon image of a woman's legs and a wink emoji. The ad was posted Monday on the chain's Mexico Twitter account. After a social media outcry, Circle K has taken down the ad, withdrawn the offer, and apologized, the BBC reports.
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Journal of Surgery	(ISSN: 2575-9760)
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Angular Stable Plating of the Cervical Spine Comparing Cages and Bone Grafts
Authors: Vastmans J, Vogel M, Muessig J, Maier D, Hoegel F*
*Corresponding Author: Florian Högel, Center of Spinal Cord Injury, BG-Trauma Center Murnau, Prof. Küntscher Str. 8, 82418 Murnau, Germany.
Center of Spinal Cord Injury, BG-Trauma Center Murnau, Murnau, Germany
Received Date: 21 September, 2021
Accepted Date: 30 September, 2021
Citation: Vastmans J, Vogel M, Muessig J, Maier D, Hoegel F (2021) Angular Stable Plating of the Cervical Spine Comparing Cages and Bone Grafts. J Surg 6: 1430. DOI: 10.29011/2575-9760.001430
Background: The aim was to examine treatment strategies after injury of the lower cervical spine (C3-T1). The hypothesis was that ventral spondylodesis using cages and non-angular stable plates are before locked plates and tricortical bone graft.
Methods: This study was retrospective, case-controlled. During 01/2017 and 12/2019 all patients, with lower cervical spine fractures and instabilities of C3 to T1 were examined clinically and radiographically, for bony consolidation and stability after 3 and 12 months. Two groups were examined. In group, A stabilization was performed by angular stable plating and cage and in group B angular stable with additional bone graft interposition was performed. As for stability criteria, bony union and alignment of the spine were evaluated. Loss of stability, revision rate, and dysphagia were recorded.
Results: We included 77 patients stabilized by angular stable plates. Group A obtained 41 and group B 36. In group A, 30% were healed after 3 months, while none of the patients in group B were healed. In group B a healing rate of 66% was achieved after 12 months. After 3 and 12 months, patients of group A showed a significantly higher healing rate than in group B. All patients in group A showed good alignment, while in group B differences in the joint width occurred in 21%. Dysphagia occurred more often in group B than in Group A.
Conclusion: Faster healing and better alignment of cervical spine instabilities and fractures can be achieved by implantation of cages after angular stable plating. The risk for dysphagia can be also reduced by the implantation of cages.
Keywords: ACDF; Bone graft; Cage; Cervical spine; Surgery
Regarding the location of cervical spine fractures, 55% are located at the level of C5/6 and C6/7 and there is a common agreement that surgical stabilization using the anterior approach is favored [1]. Surgical treatment of the segments C3-T1 using the anterior approach has been introduced in 1952 [2] and since then the technique has changed over the years, so now there are many plating systems, angular stable or non-angular stable plates, available on the market. In a biomechanical study by Zdeblik, et al. [3], it was possible to show that load-sharing is needed for a faster union of the segmental fusion. In a clinical study, it was possible to show, that angular stable plating in the cervical spine leads to a bridging of the stabilized segments and bone grafts showed significantly higher failure rates [4]. There are different preferences by surgeons regarding the use of cages or bone grafts and it is to state that autografts are the most common procedure for intervertebral interposition [5,6]. Avoiding co-morbidities when using cages instead of bone grafts from the iliac crest, is an argument to use cages [7,8]. In an animal study, it was shown, that cage interposition is before autologous bone graft regarding the preservation of disc height [9].
By using cages it is possible to reduce operation time and donor site morbidities as pain or infections. Arguments for autologous bone grafts are the lower costs and no risk for allergic reactions. The rationale of this retrospective investigation was to examine the time until bony healing, alignment, and rate of secondary operations. Secondarily we wanted to examine the rate of dysphagia. We hypothesized that non-unions or secondary dislocations can be decreased by restoration of disc height using PEEK cages.
This study was planned retrospectively and case-controlled. During a time range between 01/2017 until 01/2019 all patients with fractures or traumatic instabilities of the lower cervical spine between the segment C3 and T1 and operative stabilization were included. The included patients were divided into two groups. Group A was treated by anterior angular stable plating and cage and group B by angular stable plating and bone graft (Figure 1a-b). For anterior stabilization, the patients were put in a supine position and the head was positioned in a radiolucent head frame. The skin incision was controlled under intraoperative x-ray. After a cross-section of the soft tissue, the cervical spine was exposed and a Caspar distractor was placed. After distracting the region of interest the discectomy and/or corpectomy was done and the clearance of the spinal canal was performed. The cage size was measured and the cage was filled with ß-TCP or cancellous bone graft and implanted. After loosening of the distractor the plate size was measured and the plate was implanted. All implantation processes were performed under x-ray control. We recorded the rate of postoperative complications such as dysphagia, perforations of the esophagus regarding the duration of dysphagia postoperatively after 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, or permanently and the rate of reoperation because of secondary dislocation. The radiological examination was performed after 3 and 12 months after injury with the CT-scan (Lightspeed, GE, USA) to evaluate alignment and fusion. As healing or stability criteria we recorded visible bony fusion in the anterior or posterior spine, changes in alignment or spine angulation, and loosening of the implants. Measurements were performed using the angle measurement tool of the digital x-ray system (ImpaxEE R20 VII, Agfa, Germany). As statistical tool percentages were chosen. As a statistical test, we performed a Students t-test for combined groups using the SPSS 19.0 (IBM, Ehningen, Germany).
Seventy-seven (n=77) patients with a mean age of 47 years and a gender ratio of 4:1 (m:f) were included. Forty-one patients were administered to group A and 36 patients were administered to group B (Figure 2).
Time until healing
After 3 months patients of group A showed significantly faster healing with signs of cage integration in 30%, while no patient in group B showed integration of bone graft during the first 3 months. After 12 months 99% of patients in group A showed bony integration of the cages and no loss in alignment or angulation of the cervical spine (Figure 3), while only 66% of patients in group B fulfilled the healing criteria after 12 months.
All patients treated with cages showed a good alignment of the facet joints and no differences in facet joint width, while patients treated with bone grafts showed differences in the joint width in 21% of the cases. The joint width differences were rated from 34% up to 245% in this 21% of patients. In one patient with an angular stable plate, tri-cortical bone graft and persistent luxation between C7/T1 implant failure were observed. This patient had to be revised using a ventral-dorsal approach with open reduction and fixation from C5-T3.
Dysphagia was observed more often in group B postoperatively than in group A (p<0.05) (Figure 4). Perforations of the esophagus or deep wound infections were not observed.
When using cages and angle stable plates for stabilization of the cervical spine, healing was achieved in over 80%, while only in 66% healing was achieved when using bone graft and angle stable plating. According to the publication of Zdeblik [3] and Saphier [4], this can be explained by the better positioning of cages compared to bone graft and the mechanism of load sharing by locked plates. When using a locked plate the load runs through the plate and not through the central column of the vertebrae. Therefore, bone grafts do not achieve the compression impulse which is needed for the integration of the bone.
Regarding the correctness of graft or cage implantation, it must be said, that a high percentage of the patients treated by bone grafts shows an inadequate difference of the corresponding facet joints which can lead to delayed healing or insufficient stability. The pubmed search did not give any information on why this happens in cervical fusion using bone grafts. In our opinion, it is easier to achieve a correct alignment intra-operatively using cages.
The rate of permanent dysphagia is rather small. In a prospective study about dysphagia and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) a rate of more than 80% of dysphagia after 1 week and about 60% after 1 month was observed. Also, a penetration rate was seen in 36% of the cases [10]. This seems to be quite high and cannot be found in the present study. A reason for dysphagia can be the implant itself which leads to bulk, but no differences were found between the implants like was shown in a study by Skeppholm et al. [11] and Jang et al [12]. Another reason for the higher rate of dysphagia in group B might be that the soft tissue retractor might not have been loosened and therefore a high tension affected the soft tissue with resulting in more postoperative swelling, which is the cause for the higher rate of dysphagia in group B. The initial damage to the soft tissue also might be the cause for the higher rate of permanent dysfunction of the swallowing act.
As limitations of the study, we have to declare that different plates and cages were used but it was shown by Razack et al [13], that the reduction of the facet joints is a crucial point to achieve stability. In a small sample series of König and Spetzger [6], it was possible to show that there is no biomechanical difference between distractable titanium cages and peek-cages. A study of Niu et al. [14], in 53 patients, comparing titanium vs. peek cages in the cervical spine, did not show significant differences in clinical outcome. Therefore we recommend that both cages can be placed in one group and no subgroups have to be formed.
The fixation of cervical instabilities using angle stable plates and a bone graft is not useful because of slower healing. To achieve a faster healing of fractures or instabilities and better alignment of the facet joints at the lower cervical spine it is sensible to use angular stable plates and cages. Regarding dysphagia, it seems to make sense to perform stabilization with a dorsal approach.
Figure 1a-b: Angular stable plate and cage, angular stable plate and bone graft.
Figure 2: Group deviation of a cage (A) versus bone graft (B).
Figure 3: Percentage of full-filled healing criteria after 3 and 12 months.
Figure 4: Rate of postoperative dysphagia more than double in-group B than group A (n=77, p<0.05).
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Work the new bod! Amanda Bynes stepped out in Los Angeles to grab a bite to eat and the former actress looked unrecognizable with a new fuller figure!
With her platinum blonde locks, Amanda was easy to spot out grabbing coffee with some pals.
The former actress showed off her new figure wearing some tight leggings and a loose fitted white top.
The 29-year-old actress is rarely seen out since she spiraled out of control and was placed on psychiatric hold back in 2014.
During her outing, Amanda sipped on a cold beverage and took a cigarette break!
A source told E! News that Amanda "keeps to herself, but she seems really healthy and focused on her schooling."
What do you think of Amanda's new look? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below!
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Whatever Happened to the Konami Game Contra Series From So Long Ago?
It's been around 25 years now since the Contra game series initially began. This specific Konami game was popular because of several factors. You might recollect the old Konami code that goes Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Begin. That was the popular code เว็บแทงบอล from such a long time ago that gave you 30 lives. The Contra series has progressed significantly from that point forward, with Konami bringing out new hits like Super Contra, Contra 3 The Outsider Conflicts that was delivered on the Super Nintendo, which likewise experienced a couple of lull issues, and afterward there was the Beginning rendition called Contra Hard Corps, one more most loved exemplary for Contra spreads out there. The following Contra game didn't actually grab hold until the PSX emerged, then the two that followed were Contra The Experience, and afterward Contra Tradition of War, the two of which were successes. Fans could now observe the Contra universe in a more 3D and reasonable setting.
The presentation of the PlayStation 2 likewise gave the world Contra Broke Fighter and Neo Contra, additionally which were amazing. These days things are unique, it appears Konami is more centered around games like Metal Stuff and Castlevania to concentrate on the long running Contra series any longer. As a matter of fact, simply last year at the E3 electronic show, Konami had shown another secret trailer for another Contra game that was initially expected to be named "Contra Reboot". That trailer just comprised of a couple of moments showing a "flaring C" in the video, and that was all there was to it. The new Contra game was just prodded and afterward was dropped by Konami games advancement. That essentially denoted the finish of the Contra series, as there hasn't been a genuine Contra game delivered since the times of the PS2, besides on the Nintendo DS framework.
The main expectation presently is the way that Dave Cox, who is maker of Mercury Steam, an organization who has Castlevania authorized to them, has played with resurrecting the Contra series and just might be the way to giving Contra another rent in the gaming scene. Yet, what might be said about Konami games improvement? Nowadays it appears they have their hands full with their main four lead titles, those being Star Development Soccer, Castlevania, Metal Stuff, and Quiet Slope. It appears they are more centered around those since deals of those have been so gigantic. Once more however I feel that the Contra game series will get another glance from Konami and they will at long last see that the market for it has not passed on by any means, yet recently been hanging tight for it to sparkle.


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Q: Duplicating xfce panel across multiple monitors I have multiple monitors on my desktop using XFCE for a DE and I'd like to have the panel on the bottom to be duplicated across all of my screens and show the same open applications on both. Currently the panel is only displayed on my right screen.
How would I go about setting this up with XFCE?

A: As an alternative to putting one panel across two monitors, you could have a separate panel on each monitor. You can put the same widgets into each panel, and they'll look the same.

A: You could use Xfce Panel Switch.
Follow the very comprehensive guide by Colin Robinson: http://colinrrobinson.com/technology/linux/xfce/automatically-switch-xfce-panel-layout-plugging-monitor

A: The only way I know to copy and paste your panel is to do so in the config file:
.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml

I would suggest creating an empty second panel for your monitor, so you can see how it displays in the config file.
You can paste the settings for your first panel to replace the settings for your second panel.  You just need to change the panel number and position numbers to make the same settings apply to your second panel.

A: Here is what I did: In a my xubuntu 18.04 terminal, I type xfce4-about and find I am running Version 4.12. I right click on my (whisker) menu button (on the upper right corner of my primary screen). I get a menu where I click Panel->Panel Preferences..->Green Plus Sign to create a new panel (Panel 1).  In that same dialog box I click the items tab and add  whisker menu and clock. I Close the dialog box.  I Drag the new little Panel to the second screen, then I right click on the new little panel and fix it up some more.

A: I found aemaem's post got me close (and directly editing the config files in .config/xfce4/... didn't work for me), but if you actually want to easily duplicate across monitors, there were some extra steps not listed out there:
from the Panels menu > Backup and restore > Select "Current Configuration" and "Save" and "Export", which saves off a tar.gz of your configuration. Open that and find the "config.txt" file. This will contain a list of "panels" and "plugins". You'll probably want to copy this, then copy the lines beginning with "/panels/panel-x/" that you want to duplicate, changing the number (i have two panels, panel-0 and panel-1, so i created two more, panel-2 and panel-3). you'll also need to find all the lines beginning with "/plugins/plugin-y" for all plugins listed in your "/panels/panel-x/plugin-ids" line(s), and copy and renumber those as well (it seems there are sometimes issues with multiple panels pointing to the same plugin ID). be sure to update the line that lists out all the panels as well. Then resave this file into the tar.gz, and duplicate and renumber any "launcher-n" folders in the tar.gz as well. finally, you can either re-import the tar.gz in the same place you exported it, or with "python3 /usr/share/xfpanel-switch/xfpanel-switch/xfpanel-switch.py load /path/to/yourfile.tar.bz2" (from here) See the example below.
my original file:
/panels [<0>, <1> ]
/panels/panel-0/...
...
/panels/panel-0/plugin-ids [<1>, <2>, <3> ... ]
/panels/panel-1/...
...
/panels/panel-1/plugin-ids [<10>, <11>, <12> ... ]
/plugins/plugin-1 ...
...
/plugins/plugin-2 ...
...
/plugins/plugin-21 ...
became:
/panels [<0>, <1>, <2>, <3> ]
/panels/panel-0/...
...
/panels/panel-0/plugin-ids [<1>, <2>, <3> ... ]
/panels/panel-1/...
...
/panels/panel-1/plugin-ids [<10>, <11>, <12> ... ]
/panels/panel-2/...
...
/panels/panel-2/plugin-ids [<22>, <23>, <24> ... ]
/panels/panel-3/...
...
/panels/panel-3/plugin-ids [<31>, <32>, <33> ... ]
/plugins/plugin-1 ...
...
/plugins/plugin-2 ...
...
/plugins/plugin-21 ...
...
/plugins/plugin-22 ...
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/plugins/plugin-23 ...
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/plugins/plugin-42 ...

A: Open xfce4-panel. You can right click on a panel > Panel > Panel Preferences. Select the target panel under the drop down near the top. Under the Display tab, check the box next to Span Monitors.
Note: I am on XFCE 4.12 and I am not sure if the span monitors option is available on earlier versions.

A: Create a 2nd panel and add "Windows Buttons" widget to it. It will show open applications on both panels.

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*Right click on first panel (on monitor-1)

*select panel > panel preferences

*there is '+' icon in-front of panel, this will add second panel.

*drag it to second monitor to required position

*On Display tab (for panel-2), click lock, set length to 100%, adjust height of 2nd panel (Row Size pixels)

*Select Items tab > click '+' button > add "Windows Button"

Now you can see open application on both panel and monitors

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In addition, some smart people are saying the WhatsApp acquisition for a bazillion dollars makes sense, but I can't help feeling like it is the late 90's all over again.
update: Apparently unlike most all other major online advertisers, Facebook terms and conditions do not allow 3rd party click audits.
Many folks are getting the same cancellation letter I received. Here is more, via Maggies Farm.
He seems to have an agenda at the top of the list, but what about us libertarians at the bottom? I know we are outraged, so I supposed we need a better PR agent. I mean, no outrage here.
restoration project on the planet, is faltering.
generations of destruction, federal financing has slowed to a trickle.
River of Grass is disappearing, too.
If, forty years ago, individuals who cared about the Everglades had banded together with private money, they could have bought up and preserved huge tracts of land around the current National Park. Instead, as so many activists do today, rather than trying to rally private action they lobbied the government to do something about it. Once the ball was thrown into the Feds' court, all incentive for private action disappeared, and as is so often the case, the Feds bungled their way $8 billion to little effect.


If you have an iPhone 6 and if it often gets disconnected from your WiFi network automatically, then you are not alone. There are many other users who have also reported the same issue wherein the WiFi keeps getting disconnected every now and then on an iPhone 6.
The exact issue is that WiFi gets dropped every few minutes on the iPhone and then it also asks you to input the WiFi password each time you connect to it although you have asked the phone to remember the password for you.
This is a network issue on your iPhone 6 and it must be resolved as soon as possible or you will spend all of your time trying to get your iPhone connected to your WiFi network.
There are some ways you could fix the issue on your iPhone and we have listed those down for you in this guide.
A possible fix could be force restarting the iPhone. What this does is it forces your iPhone to reboot. To do that, close all the apps on your iPhone. Hold down both Power button and Home button for a few seconds and you will see the Apple logo on your screen. Your iPhone should now force restart.
Another possible fix is to make your iPhone forget the WiFi network you're trying to connect to and then re-connect to it.
1.Tap on Settings on the springboard of your iPhone to launch the settings menu.
2. Tap on Wi-Fi on the following screen to open WiFi settings menu. That's where you can see all of the WiFi networks your iPhone can connect to.
3. Tap on the name of the WiFi network you are having issues connecting to.
4. On the following screen, tap on the option that says Forget This Network. What it will do is it will make your iPhone forget the password and other details of the selected WiFi network. Basically it just clears all the data of the selected WiFi network from your iPhone.
5. Once the WiFi network has been forgotten, click on it in the WiFi menu and enter the password to connect to it. Use WiFi for some time and see if it gets disconnected. If it doesn't, you're good to go.
While this does not actually control your WiFi network, it is still something you can do to see if it solves the issue for you.
1.Tap on Settings on the homescreen of your iPhone to launch the settings menu.
2. Tap on Privacy on the following screen to open the privacy settings menu.
3. Tap on Location Services on the screen that follows to open location settings.
4. On the following screen, tap on System Services to open the system services settings menu.
5. On the following screen, turn the toggle for Wi-Fi Networking to OFF position. It will disable the feature on your iPhone.
6. Connect to your WiFi network and see if it works fine now.
1. Run Tenorshare ReiBoot after installing. Connect your iPhone to computer with an USB cable and click "Fix All iOS Stuck" section in the main interface.
2. After Tenorshare ReiBoot detect your device, Click "Repair Now" to start downloading the firmware package.
You are done. Now that your iPhone 6 has been set up as a fresh device, you will likely have no issues with anything on it. Let us know what method worked for you!


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The Faculty is (ACPE) Certified
The faculty was established in 1993. It has 54 faculty teaching members and 1964 students. The faculty has graduated 24 classes of B.Sc. degree and 9 classes of M.Sc. degree. The faculty members have published 390 research publications in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 35 research participations in Arabic and international conferences. The faculty has held five international conferences in the fields of pharmaceutical and clinical sciences. The employment percentage of its graduates, locally and regionally, was 99%.
The most important achievements of the faculty are:
Establishment of the master program in pharmaceutical sciences in the first semester of the academic year 2011-2012.
Achievement of the highest total capacity for students among the private universities.
The faculty has registered two patents.
The faculty has established six well-equipped laboratories for scientific research purposes.
The faculty was the first among its peers in training its students to practice pharmacy profession
and medicines dispensing through the establishment of a virtual pharmacy inside the faculty building.
The faculty granted 13 Ph.D. scholarships in different pharmaceuticals disciplines.
The faculty has signed a scientific cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Pharmacy at Toledo University / Ohio / U.S.A.
The faculty has established an animal house for both teaching and scientific research purposes.
The faculty contributes to the community service through free medical days all over the Kingdom .
The faculty participates in the scientific committees of pharmaceutical companies and cooperates with the Jordan Pharmacists Association and other educational institutions in organizing scientific and educational lectures and seminars.


The Ravens have officially finalized a series of roster moves that includes five signings and three cuts, according to multiple reports from the Baltimore Sun. According to Aaron Wilson, the team has parted ways with undrafted rookies Dexter Moody (S), Xavius Boyd (LB) and Avery Patterson (CB). With the newly-created openings, plus the two other open roster spots, the club has confirmed the signings of cornerbacks Aaron Ross and Dominique Franks, linebackers Nick DiMarco and Austin Spitler and wideout Mike Willie, per Jeff Zrebiec (via Twitter).
Of those five signings, four had been reported yesterday, so only the addition of Willie is new. The Arizona State alum, who went undrafted in 2012, has spent time with the Chargers in past years, though he has yet to appear in a regular-season NFL game.
As for the trio of players who were cut, all three were part of Baltimore's undrafted free agent class back in May. Patterson received a signing bonus of $3K from the team, while Boyd received $1.5K to sign, but neither bonus was enough for the club to keep them on the roster into training camp.
The Ravens now have a full 90-man roster.
TUESDAY, 9:56am: The Ravens have announced an 18th UDFA signing, adding Montana Tech linebacker Ryan Jones to the list (Twitter link). Jones got a signing bonus of $1K, per Aaron Wilson (via Twitter).


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SIXTY SONNETS by Ernest HilbertPosted by Rattle
Review by Maryann Corbett
SIXTY SONNETS
by Ernest Hilbert
Red Hen Press
2009, 93 pp., $18.95
www.redhen.org
One look at the cover of Sixty Sonnets lets you know you're dealing with a poet who's got both slyness and chutzpah—at least if poet Ernest Hilbert and cover designer Jennifer Mercer worked closely together, and the acknowledgments suggest that they did. The cover design parodies the staid, pale dignity of a classical music score like the ones published by G. Schirmer and Boosey & Hawkes—the color, the placement of the graphics and rules, the typefaces, even the fake opus numbers. To that pattern the designer adds a splat of tea stain, a trompe-l'oeil ripped corner, and what looks like the print of a drippy wineglass. The seriousness of real art, and the grit and mess of real living. It's a fair, and clever, representation of the book, and it was a smart move to turn it into the publicity stickers that the Baroque in Hackney blog tells us about. While we're considering the looks of the book—something we should do while we still have the privilege of reading real books—we should also applaud page designer Sydney Nichols and note that 6-by-8 inch pages consisting of fourteen lines of Bembo set 10 on 18 are lovely to behold.
But you are reading this to learn about the poetry, and the first bit of poetry to be assessed is the title itself. The plain words Sixty Sonnets are a complicated sort of claim. One can't ignore the likeness in sound to the TV program title "Sixty Minutes," and the suggestion of an assortment of news stories. The word Sonnets by itself tells us that Hilbert means to engage with the tradition. "Engage" means both to gather in, as a speaker does to listeners, and to square off against, as an army does to enemy forces. The tradition with which he means to engage goes back to the Italian "little song" and comes in assorted classical forms, and is shaped (usually) in fourteen lines, most often iambic, and has a very definite sort of argument and structure, right down to the placement of its prescribed change of direction. Sixty Sonnets, with no other embellishment or limitation, tells us that this will not be a thematically unified collection like Mark Jarman's Unholy Sonnets, or Tony Barnstone's Sad Jazz: Sonnets, or Kim Bridgford's To the Extreme (about world records), or Philip Dacey's New York Postcard Sonnets, or Moira Egan's Bar Napkin Sonnets. We know we're going to get a unity of form but also a variety of theme and subject matter. What we'll want to see is how inventive, how various, how insightful, and how wise the poet can be within those limits.
Those limits need not have been very tight, given the broad understanding of the modern sonnet. (See Tony Barnstone's article in the December 2006 issue of The Cortland Review.) In fact, Hilbert has made the limits tight in a new way. He's created his own Houdini-like set of chains to wriggle out of: a new form that's already known as the Hilbertian sonnet, with the rhyme scheme abc abc def def gg. It's a form designed to grate against the expectations of the reader who is geared to the usual foursquare quatrains in the octaves of the Petrarchan and Shakespearian sonnet forms. It also cuts across the squared grain of some of the poet's arguments, as it does here in "Fortunate Ones,"where we have couplets of thought and tercets of rhyme:
You will inherit large sums of money
(But someone dear to you will have to die first).
You will travel far and see the wide world
(And load yourself with debt; these things aren't free).
You can relax now. You've been through the worst.
(But it consumed your youth, and now you're old.)
Bucking our expectation of quatrains is a way of allowing rhyme to be present but not foregrounded. Even for a master and great proponent of form as Hilbert, that strategy might be necessary in the current climate of smiling intolerance for rhyme. (Gentle reader, please do not try to tell me this prejudice is easing. Not ten days ago I went to a reading at which Todd Boss, whose new book Yellowrocket is getting terrific press, made the baldfaced claim that end rhyme is "not cool," while internal rhyme is much better accepted.) Bucking our expectation of rhyme is also simply a way of keeping readers off balance, keeping them un-lulled by regularity of sonics. As to the location of the volta, or turn, again we don't know what to expect; the novel form upsets our habit of looking for a turn after the octave. Sometimes there is one, sometimes it's elsewhere, sometimes it's absent. Hilbert bucks our metrical expectations too: he writes mostly ten-syllable lines, but refuses to let too many of them fall into the expected iambic pattern. No amount of looseness or "breathability" will make them iambic; it's not in their design to let us settle into a pattern.
Nothing here settles. The opening poem goes right for the gut with vividness, drama, and crunchy consonants—
On a step behind the Holiday Inn,
Two Russians roamed up, bummed a cigarette,
While a third snuck up, struck me from behind.
I sprawled to asphalt. Then the boot came in.
I swung through the red, but it's a good bet
I didn't land one. The blackout was kind….
—and the second poem seems to follow on the same action. These dramatic or thematic pairs are scattered throughout the book and are distinguished by strong use of sound; two poems about Thomas Eakins in the book's final section are remarkable for their density of sound devices as well as their striking visual qualities, such as the description of the motion of a rowing scull with its oars as a "delicate insect thrash." Another such pair in the first section, about fugitives fleeing a robbery, exerts a grip on the brain that reminds me of the work of Michael Donaghy. But it might not be wise to specify likenesses; the sixty poems are different enough that they'll evoke comparisons with many other poets.
The poems that use language strikingly tend to be my favorites in this book. But the title promises us variety within limits, and variety is what we get. There are also poems that strike us by the range of the characters being depicted among them: scholars and losers and entrenched suburbanites and figures of myth and history. Other poems are striking in their thoughtfulness and depth of feeling. The favorites I mentioned, besides having attention-grabbing sonics, also seem to represent the poet himself, in his own real feelings, and not a fictional narrator. Examples include the poem addressed "To a godson" and the one titled "Love Poem," which pulls every love-poem-sucker chain in my head every bit as successfully as does "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways….".
A piece entitled "Song" seems to be a personal ars poetica:
A song for those who learn forgotten, slow
Skills, crafts submerged long past by massed commerce…
The last, noble pull of old ways restored,
Valued and unwanted, admired and ignored.
The poet-critic Adam Kirsch, with his pessimistic view of almost everything modern, singles out that last couplet for special attention in The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry. The admiration in those lines for "old ways," slow methods, and craft is probably what prompts Kirsch to declare Hilbert one of the best poets writing today. The flip side of that admiration for craft—disdain for a modern lack of discipline, plain amazement at what passes for modern life—shows up in other poems in starker, flatter language:
Maybe you've heard about this, maybe not.
A man came home and chucked his girlfriend's cat
Into the wood chipper. This really happened….
The section of the book entitled "Legendary Misbehavior," the longest section in the book, is the section built on these plain, flattish, wry observations of human ineptness and general propensity to screw up. This segment seems to be garnering the most attention in the online world. Perhaps that's because its title has also been given to the poet's spoken-word recording. But perhaps it's also because in it Hilbert, for all his disapproval, finds in these poems a way to be warmly sympathetic toward "all the aging fuck-ups/The guys who can't get their shit in one bag…." (It seems this is as close as the modern sonnet gets to the classical poems of remorse, like "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame/ Is lust in action…") This wry but affectionate take on life may be Hilbert at his most authentic, in spite of his Oxford doctorate, his editorship of Contemporary Poetry Review, and his work as an antiquarian book dealer. The hints of this are scattered all over the book as small, clever pleasures, like the one-liners tucked into the copyright and acknowledgments pages.
For my money, I would have preferred a few more of the thrillingly sonic, the dramatic, the vivid, and the wise pieces, and fewer of the crisply flat ones. Flatness, even by design, even when chosen and skillfully deployed for shock value, is still, well, flatness. And there is rather more of it in the book than there is of the other styles. If the book's balance isn't perfect, though, it still delivers the full range of human types and stories, and nearly the whole breadth of what the sonnet can do. Of the great, classic sonnet themes, there's only one that's conspicuously absent from this grouping: the face-off with God.
God doesn't figure here as Other, either as an object of devotion or one of paralyzing doubt. There's no "Batter my heart," and there are no "terrible sonnets." But here's where the sympathetic stance of the "misbehavior" section figures: we might see Hilbert as being God in these poems—as taking the all-gathering view of the merciful God who has room for all these lost ones, right along with the desperate fugitives, retired literary critics, crime victims, lovers, and godfathers. The poet as indwelling creator spirit? It fits for Hilbert: poet, from poietes, maker.
Maryann Corbett is a co-winner of the 2009 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in River Styx, Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, Christianity and Literature, Measure, The Dark Horse, First Things, The Barefoot Muse, Unsplendid, and other journals in print and online. Her two chapbooks are Dissonance (Scienter Press, forthcoming in 2009) and Gardening in a Time of War (Pudding House, 2007). She lives in St. Paul and works as a legal-writing adviser, editor, and indexer for the Minnesota Legislature.


Google could have done a Penguin update more frequently, but they want to push out an update that makes both webmasters and users happy. So they are working hard on making both happy.
Will be interesting. The recent rollouts had an odd effect especially for offline, plenty of marketers tracking (as well as I) saw spammed content taking rankings even in the 7 pack over legit quality content sites.
Also why did that one guy stay on the video alone so long ?


called "Twenty Houses" released under her name at the time Jennifer Onesto available in the above locations as well.
"Empty Need" was picked for the "Women in Music" compilation CD!
"Not That Way" recently received some airplay on WVLP 98.3FM Valparaiso. You can click here to listen.
Family Reunion was played on Jonathan Brandmeier's morning show on 97.9FM Chicago The Loop WLUP.
This song "History's Daughter" by The Jennifer Jennings Band was inspired by the book "History's Daughter" by Maire MacSwiney Brugha, who was the daughter of Terence MacSwiney, the Irish revolutionary, who in 1920, died in a British prison after a 73 day hunger strike. His sacrifice caught the attention of the world, and in 1921, Ireland (at least the South) attained its independence.


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UN committee: al-Qaida sanctions still needed
German Ambassador Peter Wittig says that Osama Bin Laden's recent death constitutes a "turning point," but international sanctions are still needed to counter actions of groups linked to his al-Qaida network.
Speaking Monday as the chairman of the Security Council's sanctions committee on people and groups associated with Bin Laden, al-Qaida and the Taliban, Wittig says that assets freezes, travel bans and similar measures remain "essential" in the face of terrorism's continued threat to international peace and security.
Wittig says the committee is assessing the implications of Bin Laden's death, and reviewing lists of sanctioned people and groups to decide who needs to be removed or added.


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