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Q: SubSonic 2.1 SqlQuery multiple Where()s? I'm building a SqlQuery to support an ad-hoc query screen.
I want something like this:
SqlQuery q = new Select().From<VwInstitutes>();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(username))
{
    q.Where(VwInstitutes.Columns.AssignedUser).IsEqualTo(username);
}

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(stage))
{
    q.Where(VwInstitutes.Columns.Stage).IsEqualTo(stage);
}

My problem is--attaching multiple Where()s doesn't seem to work--is that correct?
So now I'm writing this, but it's pretty ugly.
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(username))
{
    if (q.HasWhere) q.And(VwInstitutes.Columns.AssignedUser).IsEqualTo(username);
    else q.Where(VwInstitutes.Columns.AssignedUser).IsEqualTo(username);
}

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(stage))
{
    if (q.HasWhere) q.And(VwInstitutes.Columns.Stage).IsEqualTo(stage);
    else q.Where(VwInstitutes.Columns.Stage).IsEqualTo(stage);
}

Please tell me that there is a better idiom for this scenario. Thanks!

A: Start your query with a where that always evaluates to true.
new Select().From().Where("1").IsEqualTo("1");

then build the rest of the query with q.And. See this thread as well.

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Today, we spent the day learning another protocol that will be used throughout the summer: Transformation. The procedure is used to transform plasmids into Top10 Competent cells which were made yesterday. The transformation procedure is done through heat shocking the competent cells and then icing again before recovering in SOC solution. The full transformation procedure can be found in our Lab Protocols. With the rest of our time, we continued to read papers pertaining to projects that are possibilities for us to do over the summer. Today, the papers centered mainly around the protein troubleshooting circuits and the potential Oilsands project. We found the Oilsands Initiative that had been proposed and were debating whether we should apply for it due to the funding that would be provided. Various other papers were read as well to try and find other projects that were feasible to do over the summer.


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import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;

import com.daviancorp.android.data.database.DataManager;

public class MonsterToQuestListCursorLoader extends SQLiteCursorLoader {
	public static String FROM_MONSTER = "monster";
	public static String FROM_QUEST = "quest";

	private String from;	// "monster" or "quest"
	private long id; 		// Monster or Quest id

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		this.id = id;
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	@Override
	protected Cursor loadCursor() {
		if (from.equals(FROM_MONSTER)) {
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			return DataManager.get(getContext()).queryMonsterToQuestMonster(id);
		}
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			return DataManager.get(getContext()).queryMonsterToQuestQuest(id);
		}
		else {
			return null;
		}
	}
}

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GenesisCare offer a range of respiratory tests. It's our focus on expert diagnosis that ensures you receive the right treatment and ongoing care based on any conditions and needs. Here's what we offer.
This is a non-invasive test to see how much oxygen you have in your blood (oxygen saturation). This is done by assessing the distance you walk in 6-minutes and the degree of oxygen desaturation. The test can be performed with and without extra oxygen given to you.
Spirometry is a common test that assesses your lung function. It works by measuring the volume of air your lungs inhale and exhale. Part of the test involves being given a bronchial medication that can help open up your airways.
This is an overall respiratory test to measure how much air your lungs can hold, or retain. This is used to show how much oxygen is being delivered to your body.
A bronchial provocation test (BPT) is often used to assess for the presence of asthma or occasionally to demonstrate asthma control. It involves doing a breathing test after the inhalation of a substance called mannitol. The mannitol can cause airway irritation and narrowing. After each breathing test a progressively increasing dose of mannitol is given until either the breathing test result drops or the maximum dose of mannitol is given. Any airway narrowing can be reversed with salbutamol (e.g. Ventolin) after the last test.
Ventilatory function test (VFT) also known as spirometry is a breathing test to measure airflow and airway size. It involves blowing into a mouth piece as hard and for as long as possible to measure the speed at which air is blown out and the volume of air blown out. The test is often done before and after giving medication to open airways (e.g. Ventolin).


The Alzheimer's Foundation of America Raise Your Voice For Care College Tour will kick off its national campaign at Frostburg State University on Wednesday, Nov. 5, in the Lane University Center. The day-long event will include a Healthzone Health Fair with free memory and blood pressure screenings, educational sessions, giveaways, brain games and music.
Sessions on healthy living and care issues will occur throughout the day, beginning at noon. "Introduction to Alzheimer's" at noon and 4 p.m. will explore the illness and its effects on individuals, family and caregivers; a "Caregiver Panel" from noon to 1 p.m. will offer insight from multigenerational caregivers; and a "Quilt to Remember" from noon to 4 p.m. will pay tribute to all those who have passed or are living with dementia and their families.
At 1 p.m., there will be a session on "Music Therapy," which includes a Q&A about songwriting and the healing power of music with musician Michael Pearsall of the band Honor By August. Later, from 2 to 3 p.m., "Career and Service Opportunities" will explore health-related career fields, service-learning and volunteer opportunities.
To top off the day, Honor By August will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.
Participants at the event will include FSU's Brady Health Center and Activities for Life, PharmaCare and the Western Maryland Health System.
FSU's Raise Your Voice For Care event is sponsored by the Department of Student & Community Involvement. For more information, contact the Lane Center information desk at 301-687-4411 or infodesk@frostburg.edu. For more information about AFA, visit www.alzfdn.org.


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'I was thinking you know, like this was like my last stop.
David Casarez, 26, is a software developer with three years of job experience and a college degree. "If anyone in the Silicon Valley could help him out, that would be fantastic", she tweeted Friday at around 5 p.m.
"Google reached out to me". She rolled down her window and called Casarez over to her auto.
Scofield's tweet went viral, racking up hundreds of thousands of hits over the weekend.
The web developer said he came to Silicon Valley with high hopes and big dreams in September, but was quickly overwhelmed by the high cost of living.
Things took a turn when a driver, Jasmine Scofield, asked to click his picture and post it online, reports People.com. "I spent 20 to 30 seconds writing the tweet and Facebook post and by the end of the night, it hit nearly 10,000 shares".
A passerby's photo of him standing on the median holding the sign soon went viral on Twitter, and by Saturday afternoon, he'd been flooded with more than 200 job offers. "It's Hail Mary for him", she told KTVU.
"It kinda blew up", Casarez said. In another tweet, she wrote that Casarez told her he came to Silicon Valley from Texas, dreaming of becoming successful in the technology industry.
About a month ago, his van was repossessed and he wound up sleeping in the park.
While some find his story inspiring, others are critical of a work force that makes it hard for outsiders to break in. "To make it work, he put his ego aside to hand out resumes on the street". While many discussed how Silicon Valley is a double-edged sword. "If I were in that position, I'd want somebody to help me". "It was a shock".
He says, "I was at that lowest point and when I did that sign I was like, this has to work".
"It hurt to see he couldn't get [a job] at the time", Scofield said.
"I've been pretty close to his situation before. I really understand how hard it is to find work in Silicon Valley", said Scofield, who is a makeup artist. "It hit really close to home for me.... I was determined to help him". As of this writing, the tweet has been retweeted more than 100,000 times. "No one was hiring", he said. They told him they liked his perseverance. "We're also paying for his transportation to interviews".
Casarez did not indicate what he plans to do with all of the offers, but said he'll be back sleeping on his bench tonight.
Casarez's story was first told by Bay Area news station KRON-4. "The support has just been so overwhelming, very positive", he said.
The Mets receive a young pitching prospect in Kilome, who has a 4-6 record this season, with a 4.24 ERA for Double-A Reading. Sources told The Athletic and MLB.com that the Mets landed Double-A pitcher Franklyn Kilome in the deal.
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Windsor Castle to this day is a symbol of royal power in Britain. Built by William the Conqueror in the 11th century, Windsor is currently still used by the Queen of England. This castle along with Buckingham Palace is one of the two official residences of the current Queen Elizabeth.
Usually the Queen goes to Windsor Castle in the early summer and again in the winter, most often for Christmas. Windsor is open for tourist visits, but only when its massive towers are not waving the flag of the country. The fluttering flag means the queen is there and visits are not possible.
Windsor Castle is located near the English town of the same name, located in the County of Berkshire. This part of Southeast England and Windsor are one of the most popular and interesting tourist attractions. Through the city of the beautiful island runs the River Thames. Windsor Castle is an absolute record as it is considered the oldest and largest inhabited castle still in the world. Windsor Castle is located 34 km west of London . From the British capital the most comfortable way you can get to the town and castle is by taking a train from Paddington station which, from there to Windsor takes about 45 minutes.
Windsor Castle was built with the original idea to be a fortress. William the Conqueror ordered the erection of the palace on the right bank of the Thames in the 11th century. The idea was Windsor would be one of several key fortresses to defend the road to the British capital.
Later, King Henry II ordered to move to the palace of stone, having built several towers. Since then, Windsor Castle has not stopped as a royal residence. In the 14th century Edward III destroys it as it was constructed by his predecessor to raise Windsor Castle as we see today.
The main portal of Windsor Castle is the shortest street in the land named after Queen Charlotte, whose length does not exceed more than a meter. The eastern courtyard called is where the royal chambers are located. The incredible Cathedral of St George was built in the lower courtyard to the west between 1475 and 1525. Its architectural style is amazing, the whole cathedral was erected in the so called spirit of perpendicular Gothic. The internal design and its interior is no less impressive. To fill your experience look to the west window with its stained glass, depicting 75 stories from English history.
The castle Windsor is celebrating the royal family weddings from 12th century until today, many are buried kings and queens.
In 1992 a major fire destroyed the chapel. Restoration of such damage was completed in 1997, all repairs of Castle Windsor amounted to 53 million dollars.
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Allyn G. Turner
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Environmental, Energy & Resources
Health Law & Managed Care
Proposal to Revise Aluminum and Selenium Water Quality Criteria
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's ("WVDEP") proposed rule revisions for consideration during the 2016 regular legislative session are now available on the WVDEP website, including long-awaited revisions being proposed to the state's existing aluminum and selenium water quality criteria.
The state's water quality standards rule, 47 C.S.R., Series 2, is proposed to be revised to include hardness-based criteria for aluminum and fish concentration criteria for selenium. Revisions are also proposed to add two new variances from standards on behalf of the WVDEP's Division of Land Reclamation.
The current aluminum criteria for aquatic life, which has been the subject of much debate over the course of the last decade or more, was most recently revised from a total aluminum criteria to a dissolved aluminum standard. The total aluminum numeric criteria was challenged in years past for lacking adequate scientific basis, both as to the numeric values selected and because it was a total metal standard instead of a dissolved metal standard. The dissolved aluminum values are more reflective of potential impacts to aquatic life.
The new proposed revisions to the aluminum criteria would further refine the state's water quality criteria to include a hardness based formula that would apply where pH is between 6.5 and 9.0. This proposed revision is based on evaluation by the agency and is similar to hardness-based criteria adopted by other states and approved by United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"). In its summary of its proposed rules, the WVDEP states that the hardness based equations cannot be used for waters not meeting the pH requirements as well as certain hardness requirements.
West Virginia's current selenium criteria for the protection of aquatic life includes a water column-based acute value of 20 ug/l and a chronic value of 5 ug/l for the protection of aquatic life, as well as a 50 ug/l value for the protection of human health. These criteria have been the subject of debate for over a decade as well, with the EPA losing a legal challenge regarding its then-recommended acute criterion in 1997 and then announcing plans to propose revised chronic aquatic life criteria in 2004 (which have yet to be finalized for public review and comment). Selenium discharges have been the subject of agency actions and guidance and multiple third party lawsuits directed at the coal mining industry in the state.
While the EPA continues evaluation of new federally recommended criteria, West Virginia is finally moving forward with a proposed revision to the state's chronic criterion based upon selenium concentration in fish. The proposed chronic criterion will use a four-day average value of 20 ug/l based upon fish egg/ovary selenium concentrations, and a four-day average value of 8.3 ug/l based upon fish whole body concentrations. The proposed rule also retains the water column criterion of 5 ug/l, but states that the proposed whole body fish concentration criteria overrides the water column criteria of 5 ug/l, and that the egg/ovary concentration values override both the fish whole body and water column concentration values.
In the WVDEP's summary of its proposed rules, the agency states that the added fish concentrations may be assessed where "the existing water column limit is exceeded" to make a determination regarding an exceedance. It further explains that its proposed approach "is consistent with methods recently drafted by EPA that are expected to be implemented as recommended nationwide criteria."
Implementation of the proposed selenium criteria and review of proposed WVDEP guidance on implementation will be important, as the fish tissue-based standards, and methods of translating such criteria into specific permit conditions and effluent limitations, could prove challenging for both the agency and permittees.
Numerous permit holders and regulated entities have the potential to be directly impacted by the proposed changes. A public hearing on the rule is schedule to be held at the WVDEP's Cooper's Rock Training Room at 6:00 p.m. on July 21st. Public comments will be accepted until July 31, 2015.
© Steptoe & Johnson PLLC. All Rights Reserved.National Law Review, Volume V, Number 201
Allyn Turner concentrates her practice in the areas of environmental law, environmental litigation, administrative law, and environmental policy issues. Her practice involves permitting, enforcement, state and federal water, 404 permitting, and 401 certifications issues, and advising on environmental matters for coal, oil and gas, industrial, municipal and commercial interests, state Environmental Quality Board and Surface Mine Board appeals, state and federal court litigation, drafting legislation, and assisting clients' involvement in West Virginia legislative and...
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Ghostly Manor Thrill Center Has Interactive Activities for Offbeat Dates
The Short Version: Ghostly Manor Thrill Center can bring extra fun, adventure, and spookiness to dates in Sandusky, Ohio. The 50,000-square-foot center has 11 attractions that include a year-round haunted house, an escape room, and an arcade. Couples can visit Ghostly Manor Thrill Center to enjoy the laser maze course or the roller skating rink. They can even go on a simulated roller coaster at the XD theater. The family-run facility is a wonderful spot for couples who are young at heart.
Calling Billy Criscione's father a fun dad is an understatement. As a parent in the 1990s, he went all out to make holidays come alive and became a local legend in Sandusky, Ohio. Every October, he would design and build a haunted house on the family's property for local children to enjoy on Halloween.
"My dad's passion was holidays. He was the Clark Griswold of the neighborhood," Billy told us.
Ghostly Manor is one of the few haunted houses in the U.S. that's open all year round.
In 2000, when Billy was a senior in high school, his father made a surprise announcement. He had bought a roller rink called Skateworld and planned to turn the 27,000-square-foot building into a haunted house. That was the beginning of Ghostly Manor Thrill Center.
"I think deep down my mom was excited that the haunted house would no longer be in our home but shocked that my dad had made such a large purchase for a hobby," Billy recalled in an interview.
While Billy and his sister went off to college, their parents started a new family business in Sandusky.
Ghostly Manor Thrill Center grew more popular with time, and Billy's father kept adding more attractions and games to make it even better.
Eventually, Billy left his sales job in Chicago to take over as manager of Ghostly Manor Thrill Center. Billy moved back to his hometown with his wife and two children so he could keep his father's legacy going.
"I always knew that, at some point in my life, I wanted to move back home to the Lake Erie Shores and Islands because of the small-town, family-oriented feel this area has," Billy told the local tourism board. "Together with my parents and my wife, we grew the business and our family."
Ghostly Manor Thrill Center now stretches over 50,000 square feet and includes four buildings and 11 fun and freaky activities. All attractions are indoors, so the center remains year-round. That means couples can visit a haunted house any time of the year and enjoy a date full of laughs and thrills.
A Year-Round Haunted House and Escape Room Experience
Looking for a spooky and downright kooky date venue? Ghostly Manor Thrill Center definitely fits the bill. The center's most popular attraction is the haunted house from which it gets its name.
Ghostly Manor Haunted House has the look and feel of an old-timey mansion under a curse, and plenty of monstrous surprises lurk in its halls. It is open all year round, and tickets cost $11 off-season.
Billy's father dreamed up the haunted house over 20 years ago. The 6,000-square-foot attraction has several dozen rooms and employs actors to pop out at guests as they shuffle their way through the dark.
"The haunted house is our signature attraction," Billy said. "We run it as a high-startle experience — nothing gory or demonic — but we don't recommend it for people under 10. It gets your heart racing."
During the month of October, Ghostly Manor adds four additional haunted houses to its lineup of attractions. That way, couples who love creepy dates can make the most of the scary season.
The thrill center is full of spooky surprises and heart-pounding activities.
One TripAdvisor reviewer shares her experience with the haunted house: "Crazy! Scary! Monsters! Loud noises made us jump and scream! Graveyards and hanging body parts! Don't go if you're scared of the dark! Definitely go if you dare!"
The Missing Deed escape room is one of the newest attractions at the thrill center. Participants must solve a series of puzzles and follow clues to find the missing deed to Ghostly Manor. If puzzlers fail to find this missing deed, the developers will construct the dreaded Justin Bieber Land. So the stakes are pretty high.
Couples can enter the escape room by themselves or bring some of their nerdiest friends to help them beat the escape room within the allotted time.
"It's a one-hour experience with three or four dozen clues you have to solve. It's difficult, but everyone loves it," said Billy.
Virtual Reality, a Laser Maze, a Skating Rink & More Activities
Ghostly Manor Thrill Center has a lot to offer people of all ages. Beyond the haunted house and escape room, the center has virtual reality games that put people in the midst of an adrenaline-inducing adventure. Couples on a date can cling to each other as they ride the virtual roller coaster ride at the 4-D Theater. The show includes simulated wind, lightning flashes , and chair movements to complete the effect.
Additionally, people can go to the virtual reality area and put on the VR goggles to immerse themselves in a VR game.
"One the most famous is Zombies — that's where you ward off zombies from getting to you. You see people hit the floor and scream!" Billy said with a laugh.
The Laser Maze is another fun spot where people can test their cunning and flexibility. The attraction challenges visitors to play bank robber and work their way past a laser maze to get to a bank vault.
"There's a haze in the room, and you have to navigate through the lasers without breaking the beams," said Billy.
All sorts of unique attractions await visitors young and old.
Skateworld — Ghostly Manor's original attraction — still provides a lot of good times for people of all ages. The neon lights, music, and skating games can get visitors in a good mood and give them the chance to stretch their legs. Skating rinks may be old-fashioned, but they've never gone out of style at Ghostly Manor.
Ghostly Manor gives couples the chance to have a one-of-a-kind adventure on their date night. They can go to the 3-D blacklight mini golf course, put on their 3-D glasses, and embark on a wizard's journey to slay a dragon one putt at a time.
One couple went to Ghostly Manor Thrill Center along with their three children, who range in age from 8 to 16 years old. They spent the day exploring the center and had nothing but positive things to say afterward.
"We were looking for something fun, different, and inside because it was so cold out," the couple wrote in a review. "We ended up getting the thrill passes which included the haunted house, 6D movie, 3D glow mini golf and skating and adding on the escape room and laser maze. All in all, we all had a great time, and this place held up to our expectations!"
Ghostly Manor Thrill Center Provides Fun for All Ages
Billy's father built Ghostly Manor Thrill Center because he loved entertaining people of all ages. Over 20 years later, the center has become a family affair. Billy manages the center with his wife, and he said he gets a lot of helpful feedback from his parents and children.
It was actually Billy's children who came up with the idea for the Jump, Climb, and Skate pass, which offers young visitors unlimited access to the bounce houses, jungle gym, and skating rink.
Ghostly Manor Thrill Center isn't just for children — adults are welcome to join in as well. The center is a great date spot for people of all ages. Billy told us he wants to create a fun experience for everyone and bring different generations together under one haunted house roof.
During the day, the center tends to fill up with children and families, but more teenagers and childless adults tend to stop by as it gets darker outside.
Ghostly Manor sees both locals and tourists exploring its many attractions, and it's a particularly popular activity on rainy or snowy days. Couples with children appreciate the family-friendly atmosphere, and those without children enjoy breaking the ice with some unique activities and entertainment.
"It's a great opportunity to do something you don't normally do, like roller skating or going to a haunted house in the summer. We're one of the only haunted houses in the country that's open year-round," Billy told us.


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Divisions of the Department of Medicine
Nephrology & Hypertension
History of the Division
Division Heads
Nathan W. Levine, M.D., 1971-1988
Francis Dumler, M.D. (interim), 1988-1990
Robert G. Narins, M.D., 1990-2000
Thomas Dunfee, M.D. (interim), 2000
Jerry Yee, M.D. (interim), 2000-2001
Jerry Yee, M.D., 2001-Present
The Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Henry Ford Hospital grew out of hypertension research done in the 1950s under the leadership of John Caldwell, M.D. Also, Clarence Rupe, M.D., was considered the first physician at Henry Ford Hospital to develop the use of dialysis in the hypertension clinic in the 1950s. Significant control of hypertension became possible after 1958, when diuretics became available.
In 1963, the twin-coil artificial kidney machine became available at Ford Hospital. In the late 1960s, as Chair of Internal Medicine, Richmond Smith, M.D., decided to move hypertension staff to the Division of Metabolic Diseases under Fred Whitehouse, M.D. Afterward, Drs. Whitehouse and Caldwell recruited Oscar Carretero, M.D., in 1968 to establish the basic science hypertension research laboratory and to work closely with clinician researchers. That same year, Stanley G. Dienst, M.D., was appointed as the chief of transplantation for the hospital. The first allogeneic kidney transplant was performed in Detroit at Henry Ford Hospital by the renowned vascular surgery group, headed by D. Emerick Szilagyi, M.D., Roger Smith, M.D., and Joe Elliott, M.D.
Jonathan Parsons, Ph.D., of the Edsel B. Ford Research Institute, Department of Physics and Biophysics, developed methods of X-ray diffraction in the analysis of biological and medical compounds and substances, which was significant in the work with kidney stones.
In 1971, Nathan W. Levin, M.D., joined Henry Ford Hospital as the first chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension. A native South African, Dr. Levin was Chief of the Renal Section of the Veterans Administration Research Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago.
The following year the 11th Annual Kidney Disease Symposium was held at Mercy College in Detroit, and featured the work of several Henry Ford physicians and researchers.
In 1973, the Troy satellite began to provide renal dialysis clinics under the direction of Dr. Levin. Francis Dumler, M.D., who completed his training at Ford Hospital including a nephrology fellowship, joined the Division's staff in the 1970s and became Physician-in-Charge of The Fairlane Hemodialysis Center in Dearborn and Director of the Immobilized Enzyme Research Laboratory.
Dr. Levin first recruited Pedro Cortes, M.D., a native of Spain and former fellow of his from Northwestern University. Dr. Cortes became world-renowned for his work in diabetes research. He recruited Max Wisgerhof, M.D., and opened the Hypertension Clinic in the Clara Ford Pavilion on the hospital's campus in 1982. This area provided exam rooms, labs, offices, and 15 dialysis stations. The nephrology Hypertension Clinic and dialysis unit were under the direction of Dr. Levin and staffed by Drs. Wisgerhof, Caldwell, and Arturo Pascual.
In 1983, the Henry Ford Health Care Corporation was formed as the parent organization of the hospital and two subsidiaries: Fairlane Health Services for the development of new business and Greenfield Health Systems Corporation for varied services, including kidney dialysis.
Drs. Francis Dumler and Pedro Cortes along with many other scientists conducted ongoing work in the nephrology research laboratory. Dr. Dumler was an active researcher in the renal metabolic alterations in diabetes. After Dr. Levin's departure, he served as Acting Division Head from 1988 to1990.
Robert G. Narins, M.D. led the Division from 1990 to 2000. A leader in education and teaching, Dr. Narins later became Chair, American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Board. In 2006, The American Society of Nephrology established the Robert G. Narins Award, which is awarded annually to individuals with "meritorious contributions in education and teaching."
In 1996, a cross-racial living kidney transplant between two friends was performed at Henry Ford Hospital. This was the first of its kind in Michigan and one of only two dozen in the United States.
Jerry Yee, M.D., was appointed Division Head, Nephrology and Hypertension in 2001. He is also Chief Medical Officer, Greenfield Health Systems, the end-stage renal disease administrator for the health system. Dr. Yee is Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, a publication of the National Kidney Foundation and Co-Director, Nephrology Self-Assessment Program, an educational vehicle of the American Society of Nephrology. He also chaired the ABIM CKD Practice Improvement Module development committee.
Under Dr. Yee's leadership, the Division has expanded across clinical, education, and research areas. The Division is known for expertise in CKD management, diabetic nephropathy, acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapies, and kidney/pancreas transplant medicine.
In 2009, Henry Ford Hospital became the first in Michigan to participate in a kidney paired donor transplant in which eight patents received a new kidney from eight unrelated donors at four hospitals in four states. The surgeries began the largest series of kidney paired donations (KPD) ever. The surgeries were performed at Henry Ford Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, and at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
In 2017, The Henry Ford Hospital became the first transplant center in the United States to perform robotic surgery in both kidney transplant recipients and donors.
The Henry Ford Hospital remains the only multi-visceral transplant program in the State of Michigan. In 2018, we performed successfully our first combined heart, liver and kidney transplantation.


When purchasing new curtains for your home, it is important that you have considered what fabrics and colours will best match the room's décor. The furnishings need to complement the existing space, but not so much that they will be lost on the walls. So, how can you decide which fabrics and colours will best suit your home?
Begin by considering the mood of the room – for a formal space, heavy silk or velvet will look fantastic; for a casual space, billowy linen and crinkly crushed velvet tend to work best. Cotton, cotton blends, wool and wool blends will actually work with any kind of décor. You might also like to consider the washing instructions when choosing a curtain fabric.
Begin by considering whether you want the curtains to blend or whether you want them to pop – for blending, pick fabrics that are the same tone as the wall but a few shades darker; for popping, pick fabrics that stand out like an exclamation mark because they're a few shades brighter. You should also consider how the drapes will disperse light through the room.
Begin by considering other elements in the room – patterned furniture or bedding implies that you should stick with solid curtains in Melbourne; solid coloured furniture or bedding implies that you can use patterned drapes (perhaps a neutral print, like dots or paisley) to add some texture. If you are set on a bold print, just note that this can be a daring but striking move.
Regardless of whether you are decorating the room from scratch or whether you are just changing up a few elements, many people like curtains to be one of the last choices that they have to make. This allows you to see what colours, textures and fabrics have already been used in the room and to choose drapes that will match this accordingly.


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The man that decisively shaped twentieth-century Spain for almost four decades, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, died peacefully on November 20th, 1975 in a Madrid hospital.
Although he ultimately saved Spain from Communism and the Catholic Church from extermination, for the average Spaniard he is a figure from a distant past. A majority of them don't even know the year he passed away.
Most of the population benefited from Franco's good economic policy, designed by technocrats and not demagogues, in the mid-term and could afford to buy a flat, a car and a small country house or a beach apartment.
After the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) that brought him to power, about 25,000 people were executed for serious crimes committed during the fratricidal conflict.
One of them was Separatist leader Luis Companys (born 1882), who as president of the Catalonian autonomous government signed 400 death sentences and is held responsible for the deaths of about 8,000 persons.
Notwithstanding, since 1979 a street in Barcelona is dedicated to him. In 2001, the Olympic Stadium in Montjuïc was renamed after him without significant resistance from Conservatives.
In revenge, nowadays Franco is much vilified by the heirs of those that lost the war and just can't accept their defeat, trying to achieve victory 80 years too late.
Those who continue to honor Franco's memory will probably soon face criminal charges if the current coalition government of Socialists and Communists gets its way with the Orwellian Law of Democratic Memory, approved on September 15th, 2020.
On the other hand, diehard Stalinists like Dolores Ibárruri (1895-1989), nicknamed La Pasionaria and best known for her famous slogan "¡No Pasarán!", enjoy an excellent reputation. She escaped justice and spent almost 40 years in Moscow before returning to Spain in 1977.
A street in the capital is dedicated to her successor as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), Santiago Carrillo (1915-2012), involved in the 1936 Paracuellos massacres of thousands of Nationalist prisoners.
At the same time, due to Leftist iconoclasm, renowned doctors like Juan José Lopez-Ibor (1906-1991), former president of the World Psychiatric Association, as well as lawyers, soldiers and writers of the other side are gradually disappearing from public consciousness.
In 2016, Madrid revoked the honorary citizenship of General Augustín Muñoz Grandes (1896-1970), one of the two commanders of the Blue Division, which fought on the Eastern Front during World War II.
The plaques for those members of the clergy murdered by the anticlerical mob in the 1930s have long been removed from outer church walls, but sometimes those victims are still remembered inside.
According to the currently prevailing opinion, the terror unleashed by the Moscow-backed Popular Front in 1936, which cost the lives of more than 4,000 priests alone, was merely a mostly spontaneous response to a coup d'état.
Military insurgents rose up against a democratically legitimized republic and killed three times as many people as its defenders anyway. It was basically an epic struggle between Good and Evil, in which the latter temporarily prevailed.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had the exhumation of Franco's body from the Valley of the Fallen Memorial carried out on October 24th, 2019. Obsessed by this idea, he deliberately reopened historical wounds.
Especially radical Separatists, who never gave up their sinister plans to dismember Spain, are profiting from the destruction of Franco's legacy, a unified nation.
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HCNG: An alternative to coal and oil?
Zane Alcorn
Zoe Kenny
A small Western Australia-based company, Eden Energy, is working on a project to convert most of India's public buses to run on a cleaner type of gas that will reduce smog in packed Indian cities. Eden Energy owns the patent for a fuel known as Hythane, or HCNG, a compressed mixture of hydrogen and compressed natural gas.
Scientists discovered that adding hydrogen to natural gas makes it burn more cleanly, reducing its emission of pollutants (notably reducing smog-causing nitrous oxide emissions by around 50%). Hydrogen combines with oxygen when burnt, creating water vapour (and not CO2).
In December, Eden signed a contract to work with Chennai-based Indian bus manufacturer Ashok Leyland to modify Indian buses built to run on natural gas to use HCNG so that they will have much lower CO2 emissions. Ashok Leyland currently manufactures around 80,000 vehicles per year, including 11,000-14,000 buses. It produces the majority of all metropolitan transport buses in India, carrying some 60 million passengers per day.
New buses are to be built with recalibrated engines tuned for use with HCNG. The recalibrated engines will be installed for testing and demonstration purposes throughout 2007 in Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Kanpur.
Last October, the Indian government announced a five-year program to expand the distribution of compressed natural gas (CNG) to cover 46 cities and increase available CNG from 5 million to 25 million tonnes. The expansion plan would enable CNG to be supplied for use in up to 60% of all motor vehicles in India.
Although natural gas (methane) is a fossil fuel, it can also be extracted from sewage, animal waste and decaying plant matter sourced from agricultural by-products, biodegradable garbage and food waste.
Because agricultural waste products and sewage are constantly being produced, methane derived from them is categorised as a renewable energy resource, even though burning methane releases CO2 — though burning CNG emits a third less CO2 than burning gasoline or diesel.
Capturing and burning methane from sewage and food waste is better than letting it be released into the atmosphere, since methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the Earth's atmosphere at a rate 21 times greater than CO2.
In a serendipitous coincidence, HCNG presents an exciting possible link between "green" automobiles and wind energy.
One of the main problems with large wind farms is that in high wind, they can actually generate too much electricity and therefore overload the electricity supply grid. Creating hydrogen from water by electrolysis uses enormous amounts of electricity, and could be used to "soak up" surplus electricity from wind farms during wind energy production peaks, while at the same time storing that energy in a widely usable form — hydrogen — to be blended with methane.
Hydrogen could also be made from biomass-sourced methane, by heating methane in combination with water.
On its own, hydrogen is not an immensely practical fuel, requiring sophisticated and expensive piping and/or storage. But HCNG represents a highly practical use for hydrogen, given that its handling properties are virtually identical to those of regular CNG.
HCNG might also be developed for use in gas-fired power stations, providing necessary backup to wind farms in periods of reduced breezes, as well as providing a lower-emission alternative to coal-fired power stations for baseload and peak power generation.
If run solely on biomass-produced methane (rather than natural gas), gas-fired power stations would be carbon neutral. This is because burning bio-methane simply returns to the atmosphere the CO2 extracted from it by plants (and ingested by animals and humans when they eat plant foods), but does not introduce "new" carbon as does the burning of fossil fuels.
Infrastructure that uses gas for generating electricity, running engines and for cooking and heating can be run on bio-methane and, it would seem, the cleaner HCNG blend. Gas-fired power stations, cars and buses should thus be encouraged as part of the solution to global warming and climate change.
Given the severity of climate change, and the urgency with which CO2 emissions must be reduced, research into (and production of) compressed air, petrol-electric hybrid, biodiesel and HCNG engines should be heavily subsidised by the federal government.
HCNG is a cleaner fuel than petrol or diesel. Zero emission cars should be developed but in the meantime greener fuels like HCNG should be widely utilised.
The technological breakthrough made by scientists working for Eden Energy, however, is not available to be used without paying Eden's owners royalties on the company's HCNG patent.
Like AIDS anti-retrovirals, the patents for technologies that can be used to combat climate change should be socially owned, not private property.
Emerging green energy and engine companies are forced to make maximum profits and expand their market share, rather than develop the products with a view to providing affordable, mainstream access to them. The competitive nature of capitalism stunts the integration of clean technologies into existing production capacity.
Capitalist economic relations dictate that green technologies such as low- or zero-emission engines must find their legs as corporations, compete with existing fuel guzzling auto producers (a David versus Goliath battle), and make profits upon profits, for years on end, until they are finally in a position to crush their competitors and become the new dominant technology producers.
Humanity does not have time for this ridiculous slow dance between emerging innovations and satisfaction of the profit drive of the massive intertwined oil, auto and banking monopolies.


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Trump Approval Lower Than U.S. Mood Might Predict
Trump's job approval should be near 50% given economic confidence
Americans' economic outlook is the best it's been since Clinton years
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump's 38% job approval rating in Gallup's latest weekly average is well below what would be expected based on the relationship between job approval and Americans' views of the economy and their level of satisfaction with the direction of the country for recent presidents. A Gallup analysis of these relationships finds Trump's approval rating is nine to 14 percentage points lower than the predicted values.
President Donald Trump's Job Approval Rating as Predicted by
December 2017 Economic Ratings and U.S. Satisfaction
Mood of the country ratings as of December 2017
Predicted Trump job approval rating
Believe the economy is getting better
Rate current economic conditions excellent/good
Satisfied with the direction of the U.S.
These estimates are based on a comparison of the two-way relationships between each metric and presidential job approval from 1997 through 2016. This spans President Bill Clinton's second term (the first year the economic outlook measure is available on a consistent basis) and the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Gallup's most recent coincident measures of Americans' views of the economy and their satisfaction with the direction of the country are from December 2017. Using these values to predict Trump's job approval rating results in a range between 47% and 54%.
More specifically, Trump's predicted approval rating is 54%, based on the 46% of Americans who think the economy is getting better. It is 52% going by the 39% who rate current economic conditions excellent or good. Alternatively, it is 47% based on the 29% of Americans who are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.
Presidential approval has been more closely related in Gallup trends to U.S. satisfaction than to either economic metric. Thus, all other things being equal, the historical relationships predict that Trump's approval rating right now should be closer to 47% than 54%. However, in either case, the target is significantly higher than his approval rating is today.
U.S. Mood Is in Trump's Favor
The accompanying graph displays the average economic, satisfaction and approval ratings during each of the past five presidential terms, as well as in Trump's first year in office. This helps illustrate the degree to which Trump's job approval rating is depressed relative to the other metrics.
Trump's 39% average approval rating for all of 2017 lagged behind the percentage of Americans saying the economy was getting better (46%) and barely matched the percentage rating the economy excellent or good (34%). It was only marginally higher than U.S. satisfaction (27%).
By contrast, Obama's average job approval rating in both of his terms, as well as Bush's average approval rating in his first term, soared above the contemporaneous economic and satisfaction ratings, reflecting unique circumstances for each. Bush's first-term approval ratings were heavily influenced by 9/11, somewhat separating his job score from the less-than-optimal economic circumstances in the country at the time. Obama inherited an economic crisis when he took office and was somewhat shielded from blame for the duration of his presidency, as a result.
Bush had a much lower average job approval rating in his second term than in his first, in part reflecting mounting economic problems and public opposition to the Iraq War.
Clinton's second-term sets the high bar for these metrics, with his average approval rating exceeding 60%, coinciding with the highest recent presidential term averages for U.S. satisfaction and economic confidence.
Every presidency is unique because each is defined by different economic, political and geopolitical circumstances -- not all of which are under a president's control. Still, all presidents are eventually measured, at least in part, by the state of the economy as well as Americans' sense of whether the country is headed in the right direction.
Trump came into office with a much better economy than Obama did, although GDP remained sluggish. Yet despite improved consumer attitudes about the economy in 2017, Trump's average first-year job approval rating was historically low.
Many factors may play into this including public reaction to Trump's initial failed effort to repeal Obamacare, congressional investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, Trump's controversial firing of FBI Director James Comey, and a record number of staff changes in the White House, to name a few. However, the key reason for Trump's lower-than-predicted job approval is likely his favorability rating, which, similar to his approval rating, has been historically low since the start of 2017. That is also reflected in Trump's subpar character ratings.
Whatever the reasons, Trump's approval rating is failing to live up to the level predicted by Americans' confidence in the economy and broader satisfaction with the direction of the U.S.
This analysis is based annual averages of Americans' rating of the economy, their outlook for the economy, satisfaction with the U.S. and presidential job approval from 1997 through 2017. Job approval and the economic ratings are based on monthly Gallup standalone polls from 1997 through 2008 and Gallup Daily tracking results (monthly averages) from 2009 through 2017. The U.S. satisfaction ratings are based on Gallup standalone polls from 1997 through 2017. All 1997 to 2008 averages are based on the subset of polls conducted each year in which all four measures were asked in the same survey.
For the 2017 results, each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.
Learn more about how the Gallup U.S. Daily works.
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When you begin to wonder, where did today's persistent problems come from, what has you noticed?
Well, according to this law, they come from yesterday's solution to the same or a different problem. Yesterday, it had been a great solution to the problem. And in fact, you actually see the solution begin to reverse the problem at first. The key is, 'at first'. Over time, however, the solution has re-created the problem today.
Let us take a look at an example.
THE STORY OF URGENT FILES
The police investigation superintendent notices the number of files that has remained in backlog and therefore unsolved in his department, has grown with time. He is seeking to be promoted this year and do not wish to see this matter become an issue that gets in the way of his goal. He calls a meeting and orders the setup of a task team to act on and reduce the pile of backlog files immediately. However, in order to resolve the backlog cases, the task team resorts to putting their ongoing active investigation files on hold, so as to use the time to clear the backlog files on an urgent basis.
A few weeks later, with the men hard at work, the pile of backlog cases begin to reduce. Everyone is happy and rejoices. A few days on, the complainants of the current active files notice their files are placed on the backlog instead, and begin to make enquiries on the investigation status of their files. They are unhappy with the response that the office shall get back to them shortly. They decide to take matters into their hands, and raise their concerns to the police superintendent and state categorically that they want to see their files treated with a matter of urgency. If they do not see a change in prioritizing their files, they would take the matter up with his supervisor. He now fears for his promotion prospects and accepts the new files and marks them as 'URGENT' to his investigators and places them in his out-tray.
The moral of the story: The more we set aside current files to work on urgent files (yesterday's solution), the more urgent files we create (today's problem). The workload doubles as each file has increased number of times it goes on to the production line.
Can you see the vicious circle of causality at play?
THE POPULATION CONTROL STORY
Here's another example of a young country learning to understand the impact of controlling its population except it is doing so, from its future.
A young country, as in Singapore in its 1960s, was struggling to stand up on its feet. It had just gained independence from its colonial masters and also separated recently from its neighbour, Malaya with whom it had shared its people, history and resources from time back.
It lacked its own natural resources including water and sufficient farmland (it relies for its raw materials and food sources on Malaya).
Although, it now has a land size of 722 sq km it has a density of 7,900 persons per sq km with a population of 5.6 million to 2.3 million for Botswana (this compares at 4 persons per sq km for Botswana on a land size of 600,370 sq km or 800+ times the land size of Singapore).
Its indigenous races, the Chinese, Malays and Indians, are primarily rooted in agrarian societies and so their cultures tend to promote large families.
This was the setting against which Singapore intended to industrialize to absorb a burgeoning population on a tiny island and the highly strategic position it holds on the international waterways with its shipping port.
Back then, it soon realized that if it did not do enough to reign in the population growth, it will not have enough resources (schools, hospital, housing, etc.) to provide for itself. And so, very early on in its new found independence, it passed a law that all families will bear no more than two children.
Over time, the population listened and obeyed. With each generation every decade, they began to produce fewer offsprings from five to three and two and eventually one and sometimes none :
The birth rate dropped from 5.45 births per woman in 1960 to 1.20 in 2016). With rising costs of living and little personal times left, often led families to delay procreation or individuals choosing not to marry at all.
With one child to replace every two adults, that would mean Singapore could not essentially replace itself. And so while its economy began to expand and now the private sector was investing in its infrastructure, it was finding it hard to fill the positions. It had a new problem in its hand.
And so, to correct the new problem, Singapore had to learn quickly how to open its door wide to foreigners or face failure.
Today, a large percentage of its population are non-residents; of its total population of 5.47 million in 2014, 3.87 million were residents (citizens plus permanent residents), 1.6 million non-residents. In June 2016, Singapore's population hit 5.61 million in June 2016. The not so good news? The number of foreigners (non-residents + permanent residents) now make up a whopping 64 percent of the population.
Singapore's general economic indicators
Ratio of male Chinese (red), Malay (orange) and Indian (blue) to females, 1960-2016 A high ratio suggests an influx of male migrants.
[Note: We shall present here data that shows the proportion of contribution to the population by citizens and residents when it becomes available.]
LEARNINGS: KEY QUESTIONS
So, where did today's problems come from? Yesterday's solution. Right!
How long ago was yesterday's solution? Sixty years ago. Right!
Would that mean, that we would need to wait 60 years from today's solutions to learn the consequence on tomorrow's problems? What could have happened to see sooner that this was coming?
To do this, let us put two figures side by side. One where the population was controlled and the other that was not.
The population of United States 1790-2000
The population of Singapore (after increasing the proportion of foreigners to 64%)1960-2016
What do you notice?
What is the inherent nature of behaviour over time of an uncontrolled population? Did you say it behaves more like a reinforcing loop? What does the behaviour of Singapore's population look like instead?
Well, right now, it is hard to tell. But should we remove the resident and naturalized citizens from the population graph, it is possible that we may be looking at a negative reinforcing loop.
All natural systems are reinforcing loops. They either reinforce positively or negatively. Human populations are natural systems. When left uncontrolled, it reinforces positively just as in the behaviour of the population of the US. However, when we attempt to control what was essentially a reinforcing loop, it does not steady and behave consistent with a balancing (or goal-seeking) loop, but instead, begins to reinforce negatively. The causal structure either reinforces positively or negatively.
When we understand this salient aspect of systems thinking, it is possible then, that we can predict the behaviour of any decisions we take today and their impact in the future. This is key.
Knowing this now, what could we have done differently?
Did you say, we would take the knowledge of the systemic structures and the current data to the population masses and let them decide? You have got it right!
Should the population understand what is a reinforcing loop and its behaviour over time, it becomes now better placed to know what it needs to do (remember populations creates population) and to monitor the changes more carefully, even so by themselves. Now, what could have been more democratic than that?!
All that the leader would have to do is to make the data and choices clear for all to see. Over time, we create a population that can learn to think and act together (rather than cast their votes, silently).
It now leaves for us to conclude, that if today's problem come from yesterday's solution, then, it really goes without saying that if we choose not to watch the systemic nature of the solutions we make today, then today's solutions could become tomorrow's problems. Yesterday's solution create today's problems. Today's solution create tomorrow's. Often, it is in the nature of the structure of the systemic interrelations that leads us into finding solutions that feed the persistent nature of these problems.
It is no one person's fault. There is no blame. It is everyone's fault for not seeing together how we are a part of the interrelations that exists and therefore letting these structures lead us into trapping us into further problems.


NEW ORLEANS – A former Halliburton manager has pleaded guilty to destroying evidence after the rig explosion that spawned BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sixty-two-year-old Anthony Badalamenti of Katy, Texas, faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine after his guilty plea Tuesday in U.S. District Court to one count of destruction of evidence. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 21.
Badalamenti was the cementing technology director for Halliburton Energy Services, BP's contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Prosecutors said he instructed two Halliburton employees to delete data during a post-spill review of the cement job on BP's blown-out Macondo well.
Last month, a federal judge accepted a separate plea agreement that calls for Halliburton to pay a $200,000 fine stemming from Badalamenti's conduct.


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"I Know Why (And So Do You)" is a 1941 song by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. The song appeared in the 20th Century Fox movie Sun Valley Serenade. The song was also released as an RCA Bluebird 78 single.

Background
The song was written by Mack Gordon, lyrics, and Harry Warren, music. The song is lip-synched by Lynn Bari in the movie Sun Valley Serenade. Pat Friday sang the vocals with John Payne and The Modernaires. The single, RCA Bluebird B-11230-A, reached no. 18 on the Billboard pop singles chart in a one-week chart run. The single release featured vocals by Paula Kelly and The Four Modernaires. The B side of the single was "Chattanooga Choo Choo" which, de facto, was treated as the A-side.

The tune was the one being rehearsed in the film, The Glenn Miller Story, when Jimmy Stewart was pretending to be Glenn Miller, trying to invent a new sound; then the trumpeter hurt his lip, which caused Miller to substitute a clarinet, creating the new sound.

Covers of the song have been recorded by numerous artists, including The Manhattan Transfer, Mel Torme, Richard Himber And His Orchestra with Johnny Johnston and the Joseph Lilley Ensemble on vocals, Ray Anthony, Anne Shelton with Ambrose & his Orchestra, June Christy, Frankie Sardo on 20th Fox Records, Lionel Hampton, Jean Peters, Joan Regan, Michael Feinstein and George Shearing, Babik Reinhardt, Dick Smothers, the Red Garland Trio, Orchestra Coco, the Michael Rose Orchestra, Teddy Petersen, Falconaires, US Air Force Band of the Rockies, Max Greger, Syd Lawrence, the Dino Olivieri Orchestra with refrain by Bruno Pallesi, David Pell, Diana Panton with Red Schwager on the album Red, and Robert Clary.

The 1941 Glenn Miller recording was featured in the 1990 Warner Bros. movie Memphis Belle and the 2017 film The Shape of Water which was nominated for 13 Academy Awards. It also was played at Ginger Rogers' party early in the 1954 movie "Black Widow."

Personnel
The personnel on the 1941 recording by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra released as a 78 single were: Paula Kelly, The Modernaires (vo), Billy May, John Best, Ray Anthony, R.D. McMickle (tp), Glenn Miller, Jim Priddy, Paul Tanner, Frank D'Annolfo (tb), Hal McIntyre, Wilbur Schwartz (cl, as), Tex Beneke, Al Klink (ts), Ernie Caceres (bar), J.C. McGregor (p), Jack Lathrop (g), Trigger Alpert (sb), and Maurice Purtill (dm).

The version used in the 1941 film Sun Valley Serenade features lead vocals by Pat Friday (and a verse by star John Payne) once again backed by The Modernaires.

Album appearances
The song appears on the following albums:
 Remember Glenn Miller, 20th Century, 1973
 The Complete Glenn Miller, Vol. 6 (1940-1941), RCA Bluebird
 Glenn Miller: The Popular Recordings (1938-1942), RCA Bluebird, 1989
 The Ultimate Glenn Miller, RCA Bluebird, 1993
 The Essential Glenn Miller, RCA Bluebird, 1995

References

Sources
Flower, John (1972). Moonlight Serenade: a bio-discography of the Glenn Miller Civilian Band. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House. .
Miller, Glenn (1943). Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging. New York: Mutual Music Society. ASIN: B0007DMEDQ
Simon, George Thomas (1980). Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. New York: Da Capo paperback. .
Simon, George Thomas (1971). Simon Says. New York: Galahad. .
Schuller, Gunther (1991). Volume 2 of The Swing Era:the Development of Jazz, 1930–1945 /. New York: Oxford University Press. .

Glenn Miller songs
Songs with music by Harry Warren
Songs with lyrics by Mack Gordon
1941 songs
Songs written for films
Jazz compositions
Jazz songs

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using Microsoft.Azure.Graph.RBAC.Version1_6.Models;
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This note explains how UK/Irish trade could be conducted after Brexit to achieve a friction-free border.
See some of the latest Brexit news from the media here..
Investigating the Myths of a UK Withdrawal from the EU. You can see the full version HERE.
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Where do MPs want to take Brexit?
David's solution to the HS2 Debate - the HSNet Alternative. Find out more by downloading David's paper on the alternative to the current proposals.
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Labour Congress Commences Nationwide Protest Today
Samed Olukoya
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has started a nationwide protest today in Abuja to compel the Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige, to inaugurate the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) board.
The union and the ministry of labour have backed different people for the chairman of the board, with both parties fighting to inaugurate their preferred chairman.
However, in a statement put out from the presidency office on Sunday, the office of the president stated that the decision of Dr Ngige on NSITF board had the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The NLC is accusing Ngige of scheming to push Comrade Frank Kokori out of office as the Chairman of NSITF. While also claiming the minister sent thugs to attack them last week when they first converged at his Asokoro residence in Abuja.
"This is brazen continuation of Ngige's antics and machinations against the common interest of the Nigerian workers, which obviously played out with his subversive and divisive tendencies all throughout the negotiation period for a new minimum wage," the circular sent out by NLC stated.
"Tomorrow will go down in history that there was once a Minister of Labour that was picketed out of office and circulation."
The protest, which includes members of affiliated groups, started from the Labour house.
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, who also was at the protest, said they are protesting the attack on Nigerian workers during a procession to Ngige's private residence in Asokoro, Abuja.
"Members of International Labour Congress in Geneva will be protesting against Ngige on June 18," he said.
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African Action Congress Suspends Omoyele Sowore
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Oil Marketers Reject N5 Reduction in Pump Price
Petrol Price Reduced To N162.44 Per Liter, New Price To Take Effect From December 14th – FG
Labour, FG Agree to Suspend Strike for Two Weeks as FG Put Electricity Hike on Hold
Labour Says Nationwide Strike Will Commence on Monday, Shuns Court Order
Labour to Begin Strike as FG Refuses to Back Down on Petrol Price, Electricity Tariffs
NLC Cautions National Assembly Against Resurrecting Water Bill
Food Inflation Hits Record High of 19.56 Percent in December 2020
Food Index, which measures prices of food items, grew by 19.56 percent in the month of December 2020 amid herdsmen attacks and flooding.
In the latest report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), increases were recorded on Bread and cereals, Potatoes, Yam and other
tubers, Meat, Fruits, Vegetable, Fish and Oils and fats.
On month on monthly basis, the food sub-index rose by 2.05 percent in December 2020, 0.01 percent from 2.04 percent recorded in November 2020.
"The average annual rate of change of the Food sub-index for the twelve-month period ending December 2020 over the previous twelve-month average was 16.17 percent, 0.42 percent points from the average annual rate of change recorded in November 2020 (15.75) percent" the report stated.
Headline inflation number increased by 15.75 percent in the month of December 2020, up from 14.89 percent.
The report noted that increases were recorded in all COICOP divisions that yielded the Headline index.
On a month-on-month basis, "the urban index rose by 1.65 percent in December 2020, same as the rate recorded in November 2020, while the rural index also rose by 1.58 percent in December 2020, up by 0.02 percent above the rate that was recorded in November 2020 (1.56 percent)."
Nigeria's Inflation Rate Rises to 15.75 Percent in December
Inflation rate in Africa's largest economy, Nigeria, rose at the fastest pace in several months in the last month of 2020, according to the latest report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures inflation rate, increased by 15.75 percent year-on-year in December 2020, representing a 0.86 percent increment from the 14.89 percent attained in November.
On a monthly basis, headline inflation rose by 1.61 percent in the month of December, representing 0.01 percent increase from the 1,60 percent posted in the month of November.
Food gauge that measures prices of items in Africa's largest economy increased by 19.56 percent in December from 18.30 percent in November.
NBS attributed the increase to the surge in prices of Bread and cereals, Potatoes, Yam and other tubers, Meat, Fruits, Vegetable, Fish and Oils and fats.
On a monthly basis, the food sub-index grew by 2.05 percent in December 2020, an increase of 0.01 percent points from 2.04 percent recorded in November 2020.
The more stable annual rate showed Food sub-index over the last 12 months increased by 0.42 percent points from 15.75 percent in November to 16.17 percent in December.
Herdsmen attacks, the rising cost of fuel, flooding and the wide exchange rate are some of the key factors impacting the cost of food items in Nigeria, especially in December when demands were the highest.
Still lack of enough fiscal buffer to cushion the effect of COVID-19 and ease forex scarcity also drag on raw materials necessary for the production of some import-dependent items.
Joe Biden on Thursday Unveiled $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package
President-elect, Joe Biden, on Thursday revealed more details of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package for households and businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
In the proposal called the American Rescue Plan, several stimulus measures were detailed in the hope it would mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on families and businesses.
Below are the highlights of the Rescue Plan
Direct payments of $1,400 to most Americans, bringing the total relief to $2,000, including December's $600 payments
Increasing the federal, per-week unemployment benefit to $400 and extending it through the end of September
Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour
Extending the eviction and foreclosure moratoriums until the end of September
$350 billion in state and local government aid
$170 billion for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education
$50 billion toward Covid-19 testing
$20 billion toward a national vaccine program in partnership with states, localities and tribes
Making the Child Tax Credit fully refundable for the year and increasing the credit to $3,000 per child ($3,600 for a child under age 6).
Speaking on Thursday, Joe Biden, said "Tonight, I lay out my first step, the American Rescue Plan that will tackle the pandemic and get direct financial assistance and relief to Americans who need it the most."
"Next month, in my first appearance before a joint session of Congress I will lay out my 'build back better' recovery plan," Biden said. "It will make historic investments in infrastructure, manufacturing, innovation, and research and development in clean energy."
"Our 'rescue and recovery' plan is a path forward with both serious of purpose and a clear plan, with transparency and accountability, with a call for unity that is equally necessary," he said.
"It's not hard to see that we're in the middle of a once-in-several-generations economic crisis with a once-in-several-generations public health crisis. A crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste," Biden said. "We have to act, and we have to act now."
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