For many of us, it's inevitable that the end of the calendar year brings a welcome season of joy.....and an unfortunate season of stress. Work, school, family, and holiday travel are common December stressors that I hear about from patients when they visit the office. Stress can cause a multitude of physical ailments including elevated blood pressure, increased susceptibility to illness, and even dental pain. If this sounds all too familiar, you may be suffering from a dental condition called bruxism.
Who is prone to bruxism?
Stress: Increased anxiety or stress can lead to teeth grinding. So can anger and frustration.
Age: Bruxism is common in young children, but it usually goes away by the teen years.
Personality type: Having a personality type that is aggressive, competitive, or hyperactive can increase your risk of bruxism.
What are some signs that I might have bruxism?
Most people with bruxism aren't aware they have the condition. This can be true not only with mild cases but moderate and severe cases as well. Like snoring and sleep apnea, it is often the patient's sleeping partner that will notice the bruxism before the patient is even aware of it. If one sleeps alone, this obviously can't occur. For these patients I find that the most common symptoms that push the patient to seek treatment are 1) visible changes to their teeth (chipping/fracture or chronic wear/shorter than they used to be) and 2) waking up with symptoms (headaches, TMJ issues/pain, muscular pain of the face/head/neck region). Sudden unexpected chips can sometimes be smoothed out, other times repaired with cosmetic bonding, and still other times require a crown or veneer. Slow chronic grinding is a different animal entirely. As the teeth slowly wear down over years, they also erupt out of the gums and bone. This phenomenon is an essential evolutionary development because the teeth remain in contact throughout the individual's lifetime despite heavy wear and annual loss of height/volume. Restoring these teeth to their original size/shape often involves a massive overhaul of not just the teeth that have worn down but the entire arch of teeth (all upper or all lower...sometimes both). Bonding is no longer an option if the majority of the tooth is missing. Restorative dentistry of this magnitude, often termed partial or full mouth reconstruction, involves quite a bit of time/effort, and can be quite costly. It is immensely better to prevent the loss of height/volume if at all possible. This is typically accomplished with a simple full arch hard nightguard.
There are MANY different types of nightguards available to both dentist and patient. Over-the-counter "Boil & Bite," custom fabricated soft, hard acrylic, hard thermoplastic, anterior NTI style...the list goes on and on. With all these options, how do you choose? Although each style does have merit in certain situations, I feel that bruxism patients benefit most from a hard, full coverage, nightguard custom fabricated by their dentist. All the other styles can work but I feel they are generally less predictable long term for most patients. The density of the material is an important attribute to discuss. Believe it or not, soft nightguards of any kind can actually CAUSE problems in the long run. While comfortable and functional at first, the jaw musculature and joint eventually get wise to the fact that something pliable and semi-firm is between the teeth...and often assumes it is FOOD. Patients who elect to wear the soft nightguards long term often find themselves with pain/symptoms from their Tempromandibular Joints (TMJ) because throughout the night they unconsciously chew and "mush" the nightguard while they sleep. Imagine chewing gum all night long...every night! What do you think your jaw would feel like?? Tired to say the least! A hard nightguard prevents this from occurring because the density of the material does not "give" and more closely mimics hard tooth structure than food. Therefore, the body simply grinds down the nightguard material thinking it is tooth enamel while the real teeth are protected under the nightguard. Another important fact is that hard nightguards will typically last years and possibly decades while both the custom soft as well as the soft "Boil & Bite" are quite short lived in comparison. Over time, this can certainly have a negative effect on a patient's wallet if they require multiple replacements.
So we've established that in general I recommend getting a custom made, hard, nightguard but is there more to the story? YES! Now we have to choose between my favorite subcategories of hard nightguards: solid acrylic, solid thermoplastic, and a combination of the two. This decision is quite case dependent for each patient. For patients who have very few fillings and a long history of stable checkups without cavities, I would typically recommend a hard thermoplastic nightguard. It is the least expensive of the group and is quite comfortable. The comfort comes from the fact that a hard thermoplastic is briefly run under warm water by the patients in order to slightly relax the material prior to wear. The relaxed material is easy to fit to the teeth and yields quite a comfortable fit. Their downside is that adjustments to a thermoplastic nightguard after fillings/crowns are difficult and sometimes impossible. Therefore, while initial cost is low, a patient may need to completely remake the nightguard if dental work is completed in the future. For patients who have multiple large/old amalgam fillings that will likely need future dentistry or have a history of instability with multiple cavities at many checkups, I would typically recommend a solid acrylic nightguard. This style is initially more expensive than the thermoplastic but can be easily relined after fillings or crowns to keep an exact custom fit. The only downside to the solid acrylic nightguard is that it is VERY rigid and some patients find them uncomfortable. All nightguards should be worn every night, forever, just like an orthodontic retainer. If they're not worn nightly, the teeth may shift. This can cause discomfort with an acrylic nightguard because it is so rigid. If enough shifting occurs, the nightguard simply won't fit at all and the patient will need to purchase a new one. A third hard nightguard option is my favorite: the combination thermoplastic/acrylic nightguard. A very hard acrylic shell houses the hard yet thermoplastic inner liner and provides a middle ground between the two worlds of all thermoplastic and all acrylic. They are incredibly comfortable and long lasting. Although sometimes difficult, they can be relined/adjusted after dental work in certain situations. Most importantly, the combination thermoplastic/acrylic nightguard feels and fits fantastic. This means patients will actually wear the device and protect their teeth! The key to dentistry is in the planning, and nightguards are no different. Open conversation between dentist and patient is essential and vital to the success of any case.
If you would like to speak about bruxism, nightguards, or any other topic, please feel free to call the office and schedule a complimentary appointment with me. Email and Twitter are also available options. I am extremely passionate about modern dentistry and love discussing it with patients, so don't hesitate to contact me.


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Tale of Two Hospitals: How Failing to Expand Medicaid Hurts Kansans
Posted by Rachel Bezek
Healthcare has been a national conversation for years now, going back and forth as the most talked about topic for Americas. Republicans have structured their platform around the Affordable Care Act, while many Democratic candidates have pushed for even further changes toward universal healthcare. It's estimated that between 6 million and 10 million people are at risk of losing insurance if the Affordable Care act is repealed under this administration — a number so large it's nearly impossible for most people to comprehend, let alone empathize.
Kansas, even as a deep red state, is beginning to feel the effects of this lack of empathy. In this recent turn of events, the epicenter of this debate is Topeka, Kansas — now facing the possibility of one of the community's hospitals being shut down due to financial woes. While it's impossible to say what the causes by the financial troubles were, a statement by St. Francis Hospital said that the lack of medicaid expansion "added pressure" to the hospital.
But — backing up — what lead to all of this?
Kansas was one of the states that originally declined to expand Medicaid as a part of the Affordable Care Act, leaving federal funds on the table that could have covered hundreds of thousands of Kansans. But back in February, the Kansas House voted 83-40 in favor of a bill that would expand Medicaid — known as KanCare in Kansas. This vote was largely unprecedented by my deep red state, and gave many people that were hoping for this expansion a little bit of hope. Even better, the Senate later voted 25-13 in favor of the bill too. Although Kansas was one of 19 states that hadn't expanded Medicaid, it was beginning to look like we might join the majority of the country and make effort to protect lower income Kansans.
However, the bill was swiftly vetoed by Governor Brownback — who I lovingly call Governor Amnesia, since he can't remember what's important to the people he's meant to serve. With 62% of Kansans supporting the expansion of Medicaid, it became obvious that the veto was on the basis of his own ideology and nothing to do with public opinion or the good of Kansans. An override failed, and so the idea of Medicaid expansion died just as it was in the palms of our hands.
Now, St. Francis is at risk of shutting down, even as one of the two hospitals in Topeka. These two hospitals also serves as the two hospitals of Shawnee county in Kansas, which holds a population of 178,000 people. That number doesn't account for regular out-of-county patients or people visiting from anywhere that might need emergency services. St. Francis also employs 1,600 people, who will likely be without jobs should the hospital close.
And this is where the state is at the moment. There were talks of an official announcement planned for Tuesday the 19th, then Brownback assured that there wouldn't. As of now it's assumed that we'll know the fate of St. Francis by early May, giving a very small amount of time for a bill to help mend the situation to be presented at the next legislative session on May 1st. With closure of St. Francis seeming more likely with each passing day, that might be one of the only viable options to keep healthcare and emergency services available to Kansans.
It's sad that it takes ripples as extreme as these to open eyes and get people rallying around an expansion of Medicaid for Kansas. Putting an obscene amount of people at risk and forcing the other hospital, Stormont Vail, to take on a load larger than what they already have is shameful. For those that depend on these hospitals for care, the next few weeks can be a deciding factor for the rest of their lives. In times of emergencies, such as gunshots and heart attacks, an overworked and overcrowded hospital can diminish the quality of care and can turn critical conditions fatal. For the low income individuals and families, the lack of a medicaid expansion and the closing of a hospital can have detrimental effects as well.
All in all, leaving the situation as-is would be a huge loss for the interest of Topekans and Kansans. It's unlikely that the Governor will budge on his ideology, and I don't doubt that he'll let Kansans die in order to further his failed experiment of being the Republican dream state. The lack of a veto override is also concerning, as our legislature is also willing to bend to ideology at expense of others.
The Kansas government lacks the basic empathy to realize the magnitude of the situation, let alone care about those that will be affected by it. As usual, the experiment is favoring a fallacy instead of families. An idea instead of the individuals. A delusion instead of dedication to the Kansas people, the people that need St. Francis to stay open and operating.
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India - Wood Pellets - Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights
India: Wood Pellets Market 2023
Wood Pellets Market Size in India
The Indian wood pellets market skyrocketed to $X in 2021, with an increase of 73% against the previous year. This figure reflects the total revenues of producers and importers (excluding logistics costs, retail marketing costs, and retailers' margins, which will be included in the final consumer price). Overall, consumption, however, showed a abrupt descent. As a result, consumption attained the peak level of $X. From 2018 to 2021, the growth of the market remained at a lower figure.
Wood Pellets Exports
Exports from India
In 2021, wood pellets exports from India soared to X tons, rising by 72% against the year before. Over the period under review, exports, however, recorded a deep reduction. The pace of growth was the most pronounced in 2020 when exports increased by 387%. The exports peaked at X tons in 2012; however, from 2013 to 2021, the exports failed to regain momentum.
In value terms, wood pellets exports surged to $X in 2021. Overall, exports, however, recorded a abrupt decline. The most prominent rate of growth was recorded in 2015 with an increase of 148%. Over the period under review, the exports hit record highs at $X in 2012; however, from 2013 to 2021, the exports remained at a lower figure.
Nepal (X tons) was the main destination for wood pellets exports from India, accounting for a approx. 100% share of total exports.
From 2012 to 2021, the average annual rate of growth in terms of volume to Nepal stood at +98.9%.
In value terms, Nepal ($X) emerged as the key foreign market for wood pellets exports from India.
From 2012 to 2021, the average annual growth rate of value to Nepal totaled +53.5%.
The average wood pellets export price stood at $X per ton in 2021, with an increase of 12% against the previous year. Overall, the export price, however, saw a drastic downturn. The most prominent rate of growth was recorded in 2017 an increase of 571%. As a result, the export price reached the peak level of $X per ton. From 2018 to 2021, the average export prices remained at a somewhat lower figure.
As there is only one major export destination, the average price level is determined by prices for Nepal.
From 2012 to 2021, the rate of growth in terms of prices for Bahrain amounted to +1.1% per year.
Wood Pellets Imports
Imports into India
In 2021, wood pellets imports into India soared to X tons, rising by 63% against 2020 figures. Overall, imports, however, showed a abrupt decline. The growth pace was the most rapid in 2018 when imports increased by 656%. Over the period under review, imports reached the peak figure at X tons in 2013; however, from 2014 to 2021, imports failed to regain momentum.
In value terms, wood pellets imports skyrocketed to $X in 2021. Over the period under review, imports, however, showed a deep slump. Over the period under review, imports reached the maximum at $X in 2013; however, from 2014 to 2021, imports failed to regain momentum.
In 2021, Indonesia (X tons) constituted the largest supplier of wood pellets to India, with a 71% share of total imports. Moreover, wood pellets imports from Indonesia exceeded the figures recorded by the second-largest supplier, Vietnam (X tons), threefold. The third position in this ranking was held by Italy (X tons), with a 3.1% share.
From 2013 to 2021, the average annual growth rate of volume from Indonesia stood at +55.2%. The remaining supplying countries recorded the following average annual rates of imports growth: Vietnam (+32.5% per year) and Italy (+20.0% per year).
In value terms, Indonesia ($X) constituted the largest supplier of wood pellets to India, comprising 54% of total imports. The second position in the ranking was held by Italy ($X), with a 25% share of total imports. It was followed by Vietnam, with a 21% share.
From 2013 to 2021, the average annual growth rate of value from Indonesia totaled +72.6%. The remaining supplying countries recorded the following average annual rates of imports growth: Italy (+17.5% per year) and Vietnam (+49.2% per year).
In 2021, the average wood pellets import price amounted to $X per ton, increasing by 6.8% against the previous year. Overall, the import price, however, continues to indicate a pronounced slump. The most prominent rate of growth was recorded in 2017 an increase of 375% against the previous year. As a result, import price attained the peak level of $X per ton. From 2018 to 2021, the average import prices failed to regain momentum.
There were significant differences in the average prices amongst the major supplying countries. In 2021, the country with the highest price was Italy ($X per ton), while the price for Nepal ($X per ton) was amongst the lowest.
From 2013 to 2021, the most notable rate of growth in terms of prices was attained by Vietnam (+12.5%), while the prices for the other major suppliers experienced more modest paces of growth.
What are the largest markets for wood pellets in the world?
The UK constituted the country with the largest volume of wood pellets consumption, accounting for 23% of total volume. Moreover, wood pellets consumption in the UK exceeded the figures recorded by the second-largest consumer, South Korea, threefold. The third position in this ranking was taken by Japan, with a 7.8% share.
What are the largest producers of wood pellets in the world?
The country with the largest volume of wood pellets production was the United States, comprising approx. 19% of total volume. Moreover, wood pellets production in the United States exceeded the figures recorded by the second-largest producer, Vietnam, twofold. The third position in this ranking was taken by Canada, with an 8% share.
What are the leading suppliers of wood pellets to India?
In value terms, Indonesia constituted the largest supplier of wood pellets to India, comprising 54% of total imports. The second position in the ranking was held by Italy, with a 25% share of total imports. It was followed by Vietnam, with a 21% share.
What are the leading importers of wood pellets from India?
In value terms, Nepal emerged as the key foreign market for wood pellets exports from India.
What is the average export price for wood pellets in India?
In 2021, the average wood pellets export price amounted to $113 per ton, growing by 12% against the previous year.
What is the average import price for wood pellets in India?
In 2021, the average wood pellets import price amounted to $299 per ton, rising by 6.8% against the previous year.
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the wood pellets market in India. Within it, you will discover the latest data on market trends and opportunities by country, consumption, production and price developments, as well as the global trade (imports and exports). The forecast exhibits the market prospects through 2030.
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Q: number of active sessions increasing in oracle 10g I have made a jsp page on which in have run sql queries.Every time i refresh the page a new active session is being created due to which after the maximum actives session reaches the database connectivity is lost and the following error is displayed:
java.sql.SQLException: Listener refused the connection with the following error:
ORA-12519, TNS:no appropriate service handler found
How to stop this increase in session.
jsp page:
   <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ page import="dao.Dao" %>
<%@ page import="model.Chat_model" %>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ page import="model.Register_model" %>
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
     <title>Insert title here</title>

     <%

     Dao object=new Dao();

      ArrayList<Chat_model> a=new ArrayList<Chat_model>();

      String email1=(String)session.getAttribute("email1");
      a=object.selectChat(email1, ((Register_model)(session.getAttribute("user"))).getEmail());

     String name1=(String)session.getAttribute("name1");
     String email2=((Register_model)(session.getAttribute("user"))).getEmail();
     String name2=((Register_model)(session.getAttribute("user"))).getName();
     for(Chat_model k:a)
     {
if(email1.equals(k.getEmail1()))
{
    out.println("
"+name1+":	"+k.getChat()+"
");
}
else
{
    out.println("
"+name2+":	"+k.getChat()+"
");
}
    }

       %>

         <form action="../Controller" method="post">
         <textarea name="chatbox" rows="4" cols="50"></textarea>
           <input type="hidden" name="action" value="chatsend"></input>
           <input type="submit" value="Send"></input>

           </form>

database transaction method:
          public ArrayList<Chat_model> selectChat(String s1,String s2)
  {
    DatabaseConnection db=new DatabaseConnection();
    Connection conn=db.getConnection1();
    Statement stmt = null;

    String email1 = null;
    String chat=null;

    ArrayList<Chat_model> a=new ArrayList<Chat_model>();
    try
    {
        stmt = conn.createStatement();

        String sql = "SELECT email1,chat FROM chat_all where email1="+"'"+s1+"' AND email2="+"'"+s2+"' OR email1="+"'"+s2+"' AND email2="+"'"+s1+"' order by tm_stamp";
        ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(sql);

        while(rs.next()){

            Chat_model object=new Chat_model();

             email1=rs.getString("email1");
             chat=rs.getString("chat");
             object.setEmail1(email1);
             object.setChat(chat);

             a.add(object);

          }

    }

    catch(Exception e)
    {
    e.getStackTrace();
    }

      return a;
}

database connection class:
        public class DatabaseConnection {

String driver = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@siddhartha-PC:1521:xe";
String username = "system";
String password = "password";

Connection conn = null;
public Connection getConnection1(){

    try {
        Class.forName(driver);
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    try {
        conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url,username,password);
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return conn;
}

public boolean closeConnection(Connection conn){

    try {
        conn.close();
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return true;
   }
       }

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Can't start off the day without honoring the sun, the moon, and the earth, right?
Especially today, August 21st, 2017, with the solar eclipse on the way!
The full coverage is supposed to be around 2:45 pm in Connecticut. This is around the time I will be done loading my vehicle for tonight's Terrariums Workshop in Stafford Springs, CT.
I don't have the proper viewing gear, so I guess I'll just focus on the shadows on the ground if possible that way – which one guy on t.v. noted is possible. We will see.
And, I saw a Facebook post where they indicated there will be live streaming of the eclipse, so that is another option.
I think it is kind of cool my workshop falls on our solar eclipse day. I'm sure everyone will have their own versions of stories to share tonight as we make our terrariums at the cidery.
Just wanted to say, enjoy our sun's photobomb! Hopefully the clouds won't be in the way.


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Other than this fact, link cloaking improves your possible consumers depend on since you provide protection steps in your website. This is additionally among the needs if you desire become successful in associate advertising, along with the excellent item and also a great advertising and marketing campaign. You will not go extremely far if you do not select a great item to advertise and an excellent campaign for your advertising and marketing approaches. Nevertheless, without a protected affiliate link, all your effort and time are gone lost!
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Bobbi Klau: "The Perfect Gift"
In our followup segment, we thank our listeners, including American military personnel from around the world who have been reaching out to us this week, as well as those listeners kind enough to rate and review Speak Up Storytelling during this past week.
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In our Homework for Life segment, we talk about how a simple but powerful statement from a stranger can be enough material for a story.
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After listening, we discuss:
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Drozdowo (, Drozdawa; , Drozdowo) – wieś na Białorusi, w obwodzie grodzieńskim, w rejonie lidzkim, w sielsowiecie Honczary.

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Znajduje się tu skrzyżowanie drogi magistralnej M11 z drogą republikańską R11. W pobliżu znajduje się przystanek kolejowy Dzitwa, położony na linii Baranowicze – Lida.

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W dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym leżało w Polsce, w województwie nowogródzkim, w powiecie lidzkim, do 11 kwietnia 1929 w gminie Honczary, następnie w gminie Bielica. W 1921 miejscowość liczyła 177 mieszkańców, zamieszkałych w 37 budynkach, w tym 175 Polaków i 2 Białorusinów. 165 mieszkańców było wyznania prawosławnego, 7 rzymskokatolickiego i 5 mojżeszowego.

Po II wojnie światowej w granicach Związku Sowieckiego. Od 1991 w niepodległej Białorusi.

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Tané Remington '06 on Bold Career Moves and Aligning Career to Purpose
December 7, 2021 December 10, 2021 / Kim Palacios
If you'd asked the 9th grade version of Tané Remington where she would end up in life, a career in STEM might have seemed out of reach. She failed her first chemistry exam junior year and struggled with basic concepts, despite seeming to grasp some of the more difficult ones.
Then, teacher Eugene Mizusawa made her a deal that would change her life's trajectory: he promised her a passing grade if she joined robotics. Fifteen years later, Tané still likes to come to campus and play with robots, this time as a volunteer advisor to the current robotics team. And she doesn't just inspire students with her knowledge. Stories of her circuitous path, which was paved with stones she collected at Athenian, tell of how she landed some of the most fascinating—and socially important—professions in the world.
"My department tried to understand how we might deflect asteroids that were coming toward the earth," Tané mentioned casually when asked about her former role at Lawrence Livermore Labs. She went there as a postdoc after earning a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from UC San Diego. "I got to run simulations relating to asteroids with a range of attributes—rock, metal, bollides, etc." It was Tané's first professional job.
Following a two-and-a-half year stint in planetary defense, she was offered a full-time position at Lawrence Livermore, this time working in a nuclear forensics unit with adjacency to the Stockpile Responsiveness Program, an effort that fully exercises the capabilities of the US nuclear security enterprise. But after more than three years with the lab, an opportunity that felt supremely meaningful drew her to a new path.
"It just so happens that I'm obsessed with water," Tané explained as she talked about Maelstrom Water, a high-tech desalination company of which Tané is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer. "It comes from being Californian, and also being Turkish, as we had a lot of water shortages."
Desalination refers to processes that remove the salt content from water. Reverse osmosis is the most well-known approach. But Maelstrom endeavors to use a different method: cavitation. By reaching the temperature of the sun in a matter of microseconds, it can change the properties of its targets. Though a working desalination solution is not yet ready, Maelstrom has confirmed other applications of its technology (e.g., waste water, medical waste, soil remediation, the worldwide oceanic and fresh water algae bloom) and has numerous patents pending.
Tané spent all of middle and upper school at Athenian, except for one year she spent abroad. She attributed her spirit of innovation and curiosity at least partially to her Athenian teachers. "When I was in middle school, Sven and Ted really taught me how to love learning." Beyond traditional classroom fare, Focus Fridays and volunteer service provided opportunities for perspective.
"I think Athenian's values had an enormous impact on the person I became. I gave up a tenured position for less money, no stability. It's risky, but it keeps me up at night thinking about our future with water." She also mentioned her daughter as a driving factor behind her decision to make a move. "When my daughter asks me when she's older what I work on, I can tell her how proud I am to have taken on an issue like desalination and committed to it as part of my legacy."
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Laura Mecca describes the establishment and development of the Italian Historical Society
Historian Laura Mecca describes the role of various community groups and key figures in the Italian community, and the history projects that have emerged under the IHS umbrella
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It was a vision, a vision by a group of people at CO.AS.IT, headed by Sir James Gobbo but it was interesting because the group of people were mainly first generation Australian-born or second generation, you know, but the first generation Australian-born and the idea of the society came amongst them, among this group and Maria Tence is one of them. There was Gina Triaca there were other young people of – you know, born in Australia, with Sir James, they all discussed, you know, there was a need – they perceived there was a need to ensure that the Italian history or the Italian story was present in Australian mainstream repositories.
There was nothing, Sarina Casino conducted a survey and only found very little in the Australian archives. There were mainly records of prisoners of war, internees, but nothing significant so the real story and contribution of the Italians wasn't there. And we all felt that there was a need – the most important need was for the people to record their history themselves, we didn't want it interpreted. There was no – you know, the – we didn't want it to have a – to be interpreted by Australians by others, it had to be – the story had to be told by the Italians, themselves.
So, that's how it started, they started with a series of interviews, particularly of the people who came in the '20s and '30s, which were already quite old. And that was very successful, of course, when you go out and interview them, the first thing that comes out apart from the grappa, the caffe, the biscuits and all that, are the photographs. So I mean, how can you tell a story without illustrating it? So they started to collect photographs and all this eventuated in "Negative Issue", which was Victoria's Italian – the first exhibition – it was a story of Victoria for 45 years, from 1900 to 1945.
And then Maria essentially got busy making babies, so I came in. And from there on, I mean for 20 years [we have been creating projects]. 02:27
... Australia's Italians, 1788-1988, an exhibition, "The Dowry" which was the inaugural exhibition of the Migration Museum about the – how the concept of the dowry changed. We worked at a book, "The Proxy Brides," by Mrs Bella and then we finally came out with a big book, you know, which is "Per l'Australia" which is a – the conclusion of my contribution to the historical society. So we collected enormous amounts of photographs.
I think the success of the society was that we were very much part of the community particularly with CO.AS.IT, it is a – a welfare organisation and the network that it had, you know, that helped a lot. And the reputation of course, because – I mean I was almost neurotic in trying to protect the photographs and the community and their story, I wouldn't let anyone alter it unless it was altered with the consent of the donor. Same with the book, it was hard work because when you come to graphic design and designing the book, the photographer very often would crop the photographs. . I said, "No, the photographs cannot be touched."
Because a migrant does the first choice anyway, so you don't get to see every photograph, they make their decision what they want about their story to be preserved and told first, so you've got to respect that.
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The National Basketball Referees Association is aggressively asserting that the NBA is cowing to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, charging him with pursuing a competitive advantage for his team "via threats and intimidation" toward game referees.
The Vertical obtained a series of memorandums distributed recently among the league's 64 referees – including correspondences between the NBRA and NBA – that describe over a year of discord between the referees and league office, largely centered on Cuban.
"We consider the threat to the integrity of NBA basketball presented by Mr. Cuban's misconduct to be real and growing," Seham wrote on Dec. 9.
Cuban has been a longtime critic of the league's officiating and referee management, accruing over seven figures in financial fines through the years for his public criticisms and behavior regarding referees. Cuban has been adamant in his displeasure over the quality, training and oversight of referees.
NBA spokesman Mike Bass told The Vertical on Thursday: "We have no specific response to Lee Seham, the lawyer who represents the referees union. This approach is just the latest in a series of steps Mr. Seham has taken in an attempt to undermine the necessary transparency we have brought to our game.
In a telephone conference call that included many of the NBA's 64 referees this week, Spruell was met with several strong admonishments from individual referees decrying a lack of league support toward them, said sources with knowledge of the call. Also, the teleconference included dialogue between referees and Spruell that both sides considered constructive too, sources said.
In several internal and external memos over the past year, Seham portrays a league office unable to control or mollify Cuban, raising fears that his reported behavior is emboldening others to disregard league norms and rules.
"To suggest I have influence is to suggest that the NBA officials can be influenced," Cuban told The Vertical in an email. "If an official can be influenced by pressure from anyone, they should not be in the NBA. I don't believe they can be influenced. As far as my influence on employment, several years ago I sent a list to the NBA of officials who had been NBA officials for more than a decade and never made the playoffs.
Essentially, owners, executives, coaches, staff and players were warned of more severe fines and punishments for improper behavior. Neither the memorandum nor the new guidelines were made public.
After its implementation, the NBRA reported a noticeable drop in incidents involving league personnel, including Cuban, for the rest of the 2015-16 season.
In letters to Seham and the union, Spruell rejected the idea that Cuban holds any undue influence over employment decisions on officials.
In a Nov. 29 letter to NBA general counsel Rick Buchanan, Seham cited two new in-game instances with Cuban and referees this season. Both episodes in late November, the union said, included Cuban using his proximity to the Mavericks bench and huddle to yell at referees.
In the league's response, Spruell told the NBRA that those instances were "borderline" but didn't violate rules governing in-game conduct. The NBA has fined Cuban and Suns owner Robert Sarver for referee-related episodes this season, league sources told The Vertical. Those fines weren't made public, which is sometimes the case with senior-level punishments in the NBA.
Beyond Cuban, the NBRA expressed dismay that the ejections of Los Angeles Clippers guard Austin Rivers and coach Doc Rivers in a Jan. 30 game at Houston did not include additional fines under the language of the enhanced penalties guidelines.
In the months preceding this "enhanced penalties" mandate in April, the NBRA documents outlined multiple 2016 referee game reports that included Cuban – and Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver – berating referees.
Sarver, an NBRA document says, "moved toward the floor yelling that he considered a Referee a 'f—— disaster" in a Feb. 21 Suns game against San Antonio.
After the NBRA was notified that The Vertical had possession of the memorandums and planned to report on the issues between the union and NBA, NBRA spokesman Mark Denesuk said: "While this memo sent to all NBRA members was intended for internal distribution only, now that it is public, we hope it will move the conversation forward and help to address issues that are threatening the integrity of the game.
"It's not about the officials," Cuban wrote. "It's about the situations they are put [in] by their management that make their jobs far more difficult. Managing NBA officials requires the ability to manage. Just because you were an NBA crew chief doesn't make you a good manager of officials any more than being a good salesperson makes you a good sales manager. Until we have top notch managers managing officials, improvement will be difficult.


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Begin by making sure that the camera is turned off and that the battery is removed as to avoid any shock injuries.
With the battery removed, you can begin removing the outermost screws from the camera to allow for case replacement, while keeping track of where each screw comes from. There are (5) screws in total. This will require a Philips head # 00 screwdriver.
There are (2) screws located on the left side of the camera. These screw locations are depicted with the red circle markings in the second photo of this step. These screws are 2 mm long.
Remove the front panel of the camera case to expose the top left copper strip. Gently pull said strip upward and disconnect it from the camera.
Then, remove the screw on the far left-hand side of the camera as indicated in the photo.
Now that you have removed all of the screws, carefully pull the case apart at the seam. The case will detach from the camera in two pieces.
Then, remove the indicated "L" shaped bracket from around the top and right sides of the LCD screen.
Insert the flat side of your spudger tool carefully into the top of the LCD screen and lift the screen free.


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Award-winning American composer Oliver Caplan writes melodies that nourish our souls, offering a voice of hope in an uncertain world. Inspired by the resiliency of the human spirit and beauty of the natural world, his music celebrates stories of social justice, conservation and community.
Mr. Caplan's works have been performed in over 125 performances nationwide. He has been commissioned by the Atlanta Chamber Players, Bella Piano Trio, Bronx Arts Ensemble, Brookline Symphony Orchestra, Columbia University Wind Ensemble and New Hampshire Master Chorale, among others. Winner of a Special Citation for the American Prize in Orchestral Composition, additional recognitions include two Veridian Symphony Competition Wins, the Fifth House Ensemble Competition Grand Prize, seven ASCAP Awards, and fellowships at VCCA and the Brush Creek Foundation. Recordings of Mr. Caplan's music include his 2017 release with Juventas You Are Not Alone, 2012 debut album Illuminations, 2015 EP Moon Over Appalachia, and a track on the Sinfonietta of Riverdale's 2016 album New World Serenade (Albany Records).
Mr. Caplan holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the Boston Conservatory, is a voting member of the Recording Academy, and resides in Medford, Massachusetts.
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Elizabeth Fagan '81
September 28, 2020 — With a home set in the woods overlooking the Lake Michigan shoreline, artist Elizabeth Fagan '81 is never at a loss for natural subjects to photograph and paint. Deer, fox, raccoons, and wild turkeys regularly pass through her yard. And just west of her home in Port Washington, Wisconsin, are active farms with barns, ponds, and more animals that she portrays in her prints.
"I'm an animal lover, so I like to represent animals in a way that allows people connect to them, and not just see them as objects," says Fagan, a longtime artist who shares her home with a German Shepherd named Rosie and two cats, Bridget and Jimi. Her subjects often look directly at the viewer. "It's the way people connect," she says, "by looking into their eyes."
Fagan calls her home and art business 'Lake Michigan's Left Coast' because Port Washington is located on the lake's western edge, just north of Milwaukee.
"This is my part of the world, and it's what I try to represent in my artwork – animals, flowers, the lake, and some local farms. I don't do people," Fagan says.
Though her parents were Wisconsin natives and she was born in Madison, Fagan moved to the East Coast at age 10, then attended a private arts high school in Madison, Connecticut, where she learned to draw and paint. She came to Grinnell in 1977 before completing her English major at University of Illinois-Chicago. Her fondest Grinnell memories involve her Grinnell-in-London semester of 1979, led by late Professor of History Alan "Al" Jones '50, and Professor Emeritus of English James D. Kissane '52.
"Our focus was art, history, and literature, and we studied European painters," she says about her London experience. "The professors took us to a small town in the Midlands to see late 19th century Industrial Revolution housing and how a town was built around a steel mill. My favorite place they took us to was Stonehenge because I had always wanted to see it."
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After graduation, Fagan stayed in Chicago and earned her Master of Arts in linguistics and became an editor and writer. When the Internet boom began in the 1990s, Fagan earned a degree in web development, got a job at Microsoft, then returned to Chicago several years later to become web development manager for Oprah Winfrey's website.
"It was the earlier day of the Internet and for the first time, Oprah's message could be carried around the world," says Fagan. "She helped a lot of people with the things she said, her guests, and her book group. She really connected people."
After 35 years as an avid city dweller – and a huge Chicago Cubs fan – Fagan's husband passed away suddenly. Five years ago, she found her new home by the lake. Though she has vast experience drawing, painting, and printmaking, Fagan switched to digital-only art. She can produce more of it and gain more exposure via her site and social media. Additionally, she can print her work in a variety of ways, from framed prints and wood panels to coffee mugs and canvas.
"My art reflects my reverence for nature and the beauty of nature, and how precious our natural world is," she says. "That's what I'd like people to see."
To see more of Elizabeth's artwork and read her essays, visit the Lake Michigan's Left Coast website. The Grinnell-in-London program is tentatively set to return in spring 2021.


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BioM: Fristad, Sandra L. (1964)
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Surnames: Fristad, Engel, Schueffe, Hanson, Ivans, Halloin, Kuntze
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Fristad, Sandra L. (20 JUN 1964)
Miss Sandra Lee Fristad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fristad of Stevens Point, formerly of rural Colby, became the bride of John Philip Engel, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Engel of Green Bay, Saturday, June 20, 1965.
The ceremony took place at one o'clock at Frame Memorial Presbyterian Church, Stevens Point, with the rev. Richard Hill officiating.
The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, was attired in a floor length bell shaped silk linen gown. A detachable pleated chapel length train which extended from the shoulders of the fitted bodice, was accented by a bow.
A silk linen pill box topped the shoulder length veil. She carried a bouquet of white roses centered with a white glamellia.
Attending the couple were Miss Barbara Schueffe and Donald Hanson of Green Bay as honor attendants, Mr. and Mrs. Endre Ivans of East Chicago, and Miss Carolyn Engel and John Halloin of Green Bay. T. Melvin Fristad of Milwaukee and Walter Kuntze of Houghton, Mich. were the ushers.
The bride's attendants were attired alike in powder blue silk shantung designed with fitted bodices, oval necklines and bell-shaped skirts.
Following the ceremony a reception and dinner for 130 guests took place at the Antlers overlooking Lake DuBay.
The new Mr. and Mrs. Engel are lving in Caledonia, a suburb of Milwaukee, where Mr. Engel is employed as an insurance adjustor by the General Adjustment Bureau. Mrs. Engel has accepted a teaching position at Greendale.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Engel are graduates of Wis. State College at Stevens Point. Prior to her marriage the bride taught at Green Bay.


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December 11th? My Last Post was Dec. 11?
Catching up, then. I could have sworn I posted every day from San Diego, but it seems I streamed instead, telling my audience the things I normally would have posted, and then crashing.
2nd day in SD started with buying band aids and neosporin at the hotel gift shop (the neosporin was way overpriced) because my left shoe had worn a hole in my instep, and it was very painful to walk on. Back in the room, applied that, and no more pain.
Hiked to the hop-on hop-off trolley stop, my one goal to spend some time on the ocean beach out on Coronado Island. It was a long walk from their Coronado stop back to the beach, Plan A was to walk past the Hotel Del and veg out on the sand, but it was overcast and chilly and generally not a beach day, so since it was lunchtime, I found the restaurant with outdoor seating, with a view of a sliver of the ocean past the unoccupied ice rink, and had an amazing seafood salad and an even more amazing chocolate dessert. The salad had shrimp, lobster, crab, a generous portion of bacon pieces, 1/4 of an avocado sliced, tomatoes and probably other things because something stuck between my teeth. The dessert was a tennis ball sized sphere with a dark chocolate shell, chocolate mousse inside, caramel mousse center on a crumbled Oreo crust. Hella expensive but worth it. Some eye candy passing by as well.
Lunch over, I did walk out onto the beach, snapped a few pictures of waves half-heartedly crashing against the rocks. It would have been better at not-low tide.
Back to the trolley stop by 4, and off at Little Italy. The plan was to hike up the block to this huge nail spa and get my nails done. Did the hike, but in this huge spa (12 pedicure stations) there were only two people working and they were booked for the day. Another 3 blocks to a smaller nail spa, they also only had two people working and were booked.
But all that walking brought me to dinner time, a place called the Mona Lisa, very large family-friendly place. The lasagna with sausage was good, would have been better with Italian sausage instead of Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage. The mud pie was superb. Real chocolate + coffee ice cream. <$25 for a great meal with excellent service.


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A huge number of stars are revealed in this image of the night sky at ISO 6400 f/2.8 for 30 seconds. And although the Milky Way Galaxy was not visible to the naked eye, it is faintly apparent in the center of this image.
The Nikon D7100 that recently came into my possession is the first camera I have owned that is capable of really ridiculously high ISO settings, and is purportedly capable of delivering reasonably clean images at those settings. By "ridiculous" I mean 25,600 ISO, which was unthinkable in the film era. Additionally, the camera has a built-in intervalometer, which can be programmed to shoot any number of frames at any interval.
One thing I wanted to try with these capabilities was photographing the night sky. I am planning a springtime hiking trip, and want to integrate night photography into it.
I live in an area of relatively low light pollution (though my home in the Oklahoma doesn't compete with, for example, the high desert or mountain peaks.) It happens that tonight after dark, the moon hadn't risen yet, so I got started.
My first stab was just kind of an exposure test. ISO 6400, 20mm AF Nikkor f/2.8 @ f/2.8, for 30 seconds. This wasn't a bad guess, and resulted in an image with thousands of stars visible on a field somewhat contaminated by light pollution. Next, I mounted my Tokina 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5, set at 10mm and f/3.5 for 30 seconds. In both images, I used my headlamp, set to red, to softly paint the tree limbs red.
The results of both attempts reveal that I need much more reading and practicing on the subject, but that this camera has the potential to make some extraordinary night sky images.
This image was made at 10mm, f/3.5, for 30 seconds, and shows nearly an entire hemisphere of the sky. Among other things, the Pleiades are plainly visible.
Think of the potential for night sky motion.
The ISO possibilities are amazing with newer DSLRs… My 60D gets to 12,800, which I almost never use, but 6400 has been used a few times on purpose. It certainly makes possible images I couldn't get before.
I haven't tried too many night sky shots though (as you might imagine, my light pollution in a city of 130,000 is a bit much), but I know from friends that after a few seconds you're going to be dealing with star trails instead of star points.


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Five things the White Sox are hoping to see in the second half
Vinnie Duber
NBC Sports Chicago July 11, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC
The first half of the 2019 campaign was an undoubtedly positive one for the White Sox.
That doesn't mean it was exclusively positive, of course, as there was plenty of bad news, too, that would have been cause for great alarm if this rebuilding team had already moved into contention mode: one of their starting pitchers going down for the season with Tommy John surgery, the DFA'ing of one of their biggest offseason acquisitions before the end of June and 40 percent of their starting rotation accounting for two of the three highest ERAs among baseball's qualified starters.
But after losing a combined 195 games during the 2017 and 2018 seasons and having to simply wait for talent to develop in the minor leagues, White Sox fans were rewarded for their patience with a mighty promising first half. Sitting at two games under .500 at the All-Star break isn't necessarily cause to believe that a playoff chase is coming to the South Side this September. But the performances of a host of young players have made the White Sox future blindingly bright, pointing to the contention window opening as soon as the 2020 season.
Lucas Giolito, James McCann and Jose Abreu put together good enough first halves that they represented the White Sox at the All-Star Game earlier this week. Yoan Moncada, Tim Anderson and Alex Colome put together good enough first halves that their All-Star teammates spent a good deal of time discussing how they should have been in Cleveland with them.
Eloy Jimenez and Dylan Cease are at the major league level, Jimenez finding his power stroke after finding his way through the first couple months of his big league career and Cease picking up a win in his major league debut last week.
That's all great news for the White Sox, especially because all of those players are expected to, in one way or another, be a part of the group that opens that contention window. Many of them are core youngsters who will be with this team for years to come.
So after all those good vibes in the first half, what can be expected from the second half? A baseball season has all sorts of twists and turns and ways of surprising, so it's difficult to draw up a forecast. But here's at least what the White Sox are hoping for over the final two and a half months of the 2019 campaign.
'More of the same'
All that stuff I just mentioned? The White Sox want to keep seeing it.
It's important to note that for many of these players who have provided these first-half positives, it's the first terrific half of a baseball season they've put up as big leaguers. Giolito has made a remarkable turnaround from being, statistically, the worst pitcher in baseball to an All-Star and a Cy Young candidate. Can he keep it up? The same goes for McCann and Moncada, who went through plenty of offensive struggles in 2018 only to explode in 2019. Can they keep it up? Anderson was in the midst of a breakout campaign before suffering a high ankle sprain in Boston. Can he pick up where he left off?
Maintaining what they've been able to do to this point is a big part of all those players' growth into core pieces for this White Sox team.
"More of the same in terms of what we've seen at the big league level," general manager Rick Hahn said last week, asked what he wanted to see in the second half. "We want to get TA right and healthy and in a good spot to pick up where he left off. Moncada had to deal with a couple of minor tweaks here and there, and hopefully we can minimize those and he can continue to grow the way he's been growing.
"Eloy had himself a great June, which was a nice step forward. You've seen that maturity already and that development at the plate already in the first three months. We want to see more of that in the coming months.
"Gio is performing at an extremely high level. Maintaining somewhat close to that pace for the next few months would be fantastic as some of these young guys, whether it's the Dylan Ceases of the world or Aaron Bummer in the bullpen and Zack Collins when he gets his opportunities, show that progression, that they're taking advantage of the opportunity at the big league level and either locking in who they're going to be for the future or at least finding themselves on that right path to who they're going to be."
Just take Giolito as one example. He spent his All-Star experience in Cleveland being asked about what his transformation has been like and how great it feels to be one of the best after he was one of the worst last season. But he made sure to point out to anyone who asked that this isn't his ultimate destination.
Can he be even better? McCann said it'll be hard for Giolito to be better than he's been, statistically, but Giolito said he's going to try.
"I'm never satisfied," he said. "I feel like I can continue to get better. I think sometimes I let at-bats get away from me, I'll walk a guy on four pitches. I really want to continue to hone in on my focus on each and every pitch. I've talked about how I approach pitching, a 'one pitch at a time' mentality. I want to continue to get better and better and better at that to where if I'm throwing 100 pitches in a game, I want to have my maximum focus on all 100.
"As far as numbers and all those things go, I'd like to cut down walks, always. That's No. 1 for me. But I'm not worried so much about all the numbers or anything else. I feel like that takes care of itself if I'm true to my gameplan each time I go out and pitch, and that's what I want to continue to get better at."
A successful transition for Cease
Cease has already made the biggest start of his pro career to date, getting the win in his major league debut last week on the South Side.
Now, after a lengthy stretch in between starts, he'll find out what it's truly like to be an every-fifth-day big leaguer. He's slated to make his first start of the second half in the second of a four-game series against the Kansas City Royals next week in Missouri.
It will be a start-to-start evolution for Cease, who's still just 23 years old, even if his teammates keep talking about how mature he is. That's how he's going to attack the second half of the season.
"I'm not really looking at that big of a picture right now. It's just day by day," Cease said last week. "Execute my pitches, and if I'm not executing, figure out what I need to do to execute better. Hopefully I have a great second half.
"I expect a lot of myself, and the more you expect, the better, really. As long as I don't let it get to my head and don't put too much pressure on myself and just worry about my process, good things should happen."
Those expectations will obviously be high throughout the fan base, but the White Sox are just hoping to see the expected growth of a player Cease's age with Cease's experience level.
"As you guys have seen, going back to Lucas, as you've seen with Michael (Kopech), guys develop at different rates and acclimate themselves to the big leagues at different rates. This is going to be a process," Hahn said. "There's still some development to Dylan Cease. He's got a front-end-of-the-rotation arsenal, but it might take a little while for him to harness that and become that type of pitcher.
"I think he's going to greatly benefit from working with our staff, from facing big league hitters, from being challenged by this next step in his development. And ideally at the end of this year, we'll be able to look back at his performance at the big league level and say this provided him with a very firm launching pad or foundation to enter next season as an important part of our rotation."
Jimenez continuing to get better
Jimenez came in with so much hype, that everyone knew in the back of their minds that it was really going to be impossible for him to live up to it. And when he struggled against major league pitching the first couple months of his first big league season - not to mention spending nearly a month on the injured list with a sprained ankle - the realism set in.
And then Jimenez flung the realism out the window.
He was spectacular in June, delivering the single best moment for this team in several years with his broken-bat, game-winning homer in the eighth inning of his first ever game against the Cubs, the team that traded him away two years ago. He had multi-homer efforts, he blasted a ball into Thome territory on a part of the Fan Deck and has worn out the center-field foliage with dingers.
A once-outlandish prediction by this writer that Jimenez would hit 36 homers this season doesn't seem terribly off this planet at the moment. He's on pace for right around that number.
If Jimenez can go from struggling to surging that quickly, what can he do without an extended period of struggles in the second half?
Unsurprisingly, the White Sox just want things to progress at their natural rate - even if Jimenez's natural rate is better described as supernatural.
"He came up initially and they were treating him like a 10-year vet the way they were pitching him," Hahn said. "Usually you see a young guy come up, especially at his age, and they challenge them with big league hitters and see if they can handle that. They skipped that step with Eloy and went straight to sliders off the plate and tried to see if he had the discipline to lay off it.
"And it took a little adjustment from him, we all saw it, we knew what they were trying to do. And unfortunately the foot injury kind of slowed him down a little bit because he was starting to come around before he did that. But now over the last several weeks, now that he's been healthy, I think he's had a very solid approach. Obviously put up big numbers in June. Hopefully see more of that in the coming months."
The 2018 version of Reynaldo Lopez
While the first half of the season was defined by the bright spots, one of the not-so-bright spots was Lopez, who a year after being the White Sox best starting pitcher has been the opposite.
Jumping to conclusions, much like people did after Giolito's woeful 2018 season, is to be expected, and there has been an avalanche of calls on social media for the team to send Lopez and his 6.34 ERA - the highest among baseball's qualified starting pitchers - to Triple-A Charlotte to figure things out. Many fans are scrubbing him from their projected rotations of the future and shifting him to the bullpen.
All this happened with Giolito a year ago, and he's shown how rash it can be to make such proclamations this early.
The White Sox are not going to be as hasty with Lopez, and they are, for the time being, planning on taking advantage of time the same way they did with Giolito in an effort to get Lopez right. Being in a rebuilding season where making a sacrificial run at the second wild card has never been the stated goal, the White Sox can allow Lopez to struggle as he stays in the rotation, hoping he'll learn the same things Giolito did a year ago.
"He is a kid who obviously had a little bit of an up-and-down season last year but finished the year very strongly and we had high hopes coming into this season. We've seen flashes of it," Hahn said. "The ingredients are still there. What we need to see is much more consistency.
"He's obviously a young player. There's going to be hiccups in the development of any young player, but Reynaldo's been around long enough and had enough success that I understand his frustration and desire to put these struggles behind him and get back on track quickly.
"I wouldn't go to so far as to say anyone has a scholarship indefinitely up here, that they are never going to get optioned if struggles continue or for something we feel is better addressed in a lower stress environment or with a little bit of a change in their approach. But for now he's going to remain part of our rotation heading into the second half."
If Lopez can take advantage of the opportunity the White Sox are giving him, that's great news for the White Sox, who can look at the first half as more of a blip then a huge step in the wrong direction and add another name to what is shaping up to be an exciting rotation for the 2020 season.
If he can't, then things get trickier, and if the team is truly planning on being a contender in 2020, the question becomes: Is there room for a still-figuring-it-out guy like Lopez once the games become a lot more meaningful?
More mashing in the minors
Yes, the first half was about the waiting game paying dividends. Earlier this week, Abreu described it thusly: "It's good when you see that all the sacrifices you have been through are paying off."
But that doesn't mean that every little bit of the waiting game is over on the South Side, and fans are just as excited about three hitters in the minor leagues as they are about the guys already making noise at the big league level.
Luis Robert just got promoted to Triple-A Charlotte as he continues to destroy minor league pitching in 2019. Thumb injuries limited him to 50 games and zero homers in 2018. This season, he smacked 16 home runs in his 75 games between Class A Winston-Salem and Double-A Birmingham to go along with an outrageous .349/.401/.618 slash line and 29 stolen bases. And now he's on the doorstep of the majors at Triple-A.
Robert is a hitting machine right now and someone the White Sox hope can be a five-tool force in their outfield. When will he reach the South Side? If he keep swinging that hot bat, calls will come for him to be promoted to a fourth level before the end of the 2019 season. But Robert might have to face many of the same service-time questions Jimenez did over the last year, and with the White Sox not expected to be chasing a wild card spot in September, Opening Day 2020 or thereabouts looks more likely right now.
"In terms of what (Robert's promotion to Triple-A) means for his future or larger questions about his timeline to Chicago, quite frankly it's premature to really speculate along those lines," Hahn said. "He's ready for that next challenge. In terms of his future timeline and path to Chicago, let's take the next logical step in his development and see how Triple-A goes and we'll go from there."
Perhaps not the answer White Sox fans want to hear, but there you go.
Robert won't be the only other minor league hitter the White Sox have their eye on as 2020 approaches, however. The team's last two first-round picks are making their presence known in the minors this season, too.
Nick Madrigal has been excellent since his promotion to Birmingham, where he owns a .382 batting average and a .442 on-base percentage. In his combined time this season, he's swiped 28 bases and banged out 91 hits. Touted as a Gold Glove caliber second baseman, perhaps he could find his way onto the Opening Day roster in 2020 if everything goes really right.
And then there's Andrew Vaughn, the power-hitting first baseman who the White Sox took with the No. 3 pick just last month. Well he's already playing pro ball and off to a smoking start with a homer and a .391 on-base percentage in just five games with Class A Kannapolis. Vaughn's obviously got more time to put in before he reaches the majors than Robert and Madrigal, but he was described as one that could move through the system quickly. His bat was touted as one of the most advanced in the draft.
So seeing those three guys continue to rake in the minors this season would be a very good thing for the future-focused White Sox.
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Q: why python 3 or 2 can't give output to this code with Input : 0 1 10 [in a single line] a=input()
d=a.strip(' ')
a=int(d[0])
b=int(d[2])
c=int(d[4])
for i in range(0,c-2):
    p = b**2 + a
    a=b
    b=p
print (p)

#This code is working fine, if the input is: 0 1 9 but not when the input is: 0 1 10

A: When the input is 0 1 10 your code interprets that as 0, 1, 1.  Specifically, the line
c = int(d[4])

takes the fourth character, not the fourth and fifth. Because c ends up being 1 and not 10, your range is never entered, and p is never defined.

A: Solution
Change d=a.strip() to d=[int(x) for x in a.strip().split(' ')]
Then use:
a, b, c = d

This works in the following way:

*

*a.strip().split(' ') -> Convert the string into a list, separating every  (whitespace)

*int(x) convert to an int for each element in that list for x

*create a new list and assign to d.

*All of this is called a list comprehension

*Now we have a list like this d = [0, 1, 10]

*assign each variable to an element in the list a, b, c = d
Why was it breaking?
You'll get an error p was not defined because it will never enter your for loop (where p is defined).
In your code, the raw input is a string that you're selecting elements of.
input = "0 1 9" is being treated as 0, , 1, , 9
input = "0 1 10" is being treated as 0, , 1, , 1, 0 where c=1.
So your code is trying to do range(0,-1) and will never enter the for loop.


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About these data
By Jeffrey Brainard Oct. 25, 2018 , 2:00 PM
In 2010, Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, two longtime health journalists, began to keep a list of retracted scholarly articles as a source of story ideas for Retraction Watch, the scrappy New York City–based blog they launched that year.
They found many more retraction notices than they had time to mention on their blog, and more than had been reported elsewhere. Soon, academics and journals were asking for Oransky's and Marcus's data, and they decided to create a more comprehensive database.
The beta version of that database debuted in 2016 with financial support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, Illinois, and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation in Houston, Texas. This week, Retraction Watch released a comprehensive version of the database online for public use; they have also made the entire data set available to researchers who wish to study it.
Although other organizations maintain databases that track retractions, Retraction Watch's database includes the most, with more than 18,000 entries overall, and it covers more journals. (The National Library of Medicine's PubMed database, in contrast, contains only about one-third that number, and includes only biomedical journals.) All the retracted papers appeared in peer-reviewed publications.
Retraction Watch staff members actively search for retraction notices instead of relying only on notices provided by journal publishers. The database may be missing some retracted papers because publishers do not always mark them well enough to be found. Retraction Watch staffers use a taxonomy they developed to record the reason for each retraction, although publishers do not always clearly or accurately report reasons for retractions.
Science performed all data analyses in consultation with Retraction Watch, using data drawn from its database on 30 August.
In analyzing the data, we made several choices:
We excluded conference abstracts. The database records retractions of nearly 7500 conference paper abstracts, which account for about 40% of all the retractions it contains. Those abstracts and the associated papers are not representative of conventional journal articles, we believe, in part because conference papers in some fields typically receive less rigorous review than traditional journal articles do. (Authors in China wrote most of the conference abstracts retracted. Had we included those retractions in our analyses, China would have had among the world's highest retraction rates.)
We counted each mention of an author or country as a separate retraction. Almost all papers have multiple authors; a minority of papers have authors in multiple countries. In each case, the paper was recorded multiple times in our analyses of retractions by country and by author.
We omitted co-authors when ranking authors with the most retractions, if those co-authors published most of their papers with first or last authors who had more retractions overall.
We analyzed retractions according to when the original paper was published, not the year the retraction notice appeared. Using the paper's publication year may be more meaningful because a journal can take an arbitrarily long time to publish a retraction—sometimes many years.
We used the total number of scientific publications reported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), according to data in the Scopus database, as the denominator in our calculations of retraction rates. The NSF's time series is not considered reliable for comparing years before 2003. The data include only English-language publication titles and abstracts.
We grouped the reasons for retraction by broad categories so that we could report overall numbers and trends by year. Most retractions listed multiple reasons, but we assigned each retraction to a single, mutually exclusive category.
"Fraud" contains retractions attributed to scientific fraud, as the U.S. government defines it: fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism.
"Other misconduct": other kinds of deliberate, unethical behavior that did not match the U.S. definition.
"Possible misconduct": Fraud or misconduct was implied, but not specifically characterized.
"Reliability": problems with reproducibility or reliability, excluding fraud and other misconduct.
"Error": errors, excluding the categories above.
"Miscellaneous": retractions that had other specific reasons, or none, and excluded the categories above.
Jeffrey Brainard
Jeffrey Brainard joined Science as an associate news editor in 2017. He covers an array of topics and edits the In Brief section in the print magazine.


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Net Neutrality alert: Verizon to throttle data speeds for heaviest users
The Net Neutrality whistles are blowing and flags are flying this morning over buzz that Verizon Wireless will be throttling data speeds for its heaviest data users. The change, effective immediately, is believed to be part of Verizon's efforts to ensure that its network is ready for the flood of iPhone users who will start powering up those devices next week.
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In a nutshell, if you're a heavy user - and you really have no way of knowing if that's you or not - then Verizon Wireless "may reduce your data throughput speeds periodically for the remainder of your then current and immediately following billing cycle to ensure high quality network performance for other users at locations and times of peak demand."
Maybe I'm wrong here, but doesn't that just reek of network discrimination? After all, I pay monthly for an unlimited amount of data services - and I use it. Web surf, download apps, stream music, the whole bit. Should I be punished for using something I pay for because other customers don't do the same?
That's like watching ESPN 24 hours a day and then having the programming cut in half for the last week of the month because other customers don't watch it as much as I do. How is that right?
I realize that there is a finite amount of available broadband in a mobile world and that the carriers are dealing with a balancing act to make sure that every customer has a good experience. But can a Internet service provider - and Verizon is exactly that - really discriminate against certain customers because they're using something that they legitimately pay for?
Apparently, it can.
The whole concept of Network Neutrality is a mess in this country, partly because a court ruling took away the FCC's teeth in setting some ground rules and partly because the jury is still out on how to regulate mobile broadband against home broadband.
Granted, the rules that are being imposed have more to do with restrict what ISPs can do to as it relates to sites that utilize heavy amounts of broadband - not necessarily the customers themselves.
Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson told Dow Jones today that the new policy is not related to next week's release of an iPhone on its network or the launch of pre-orders today, even though there have been widespread questions about how Verizon's network will hold up with a flood of iPhones hitting it.
In fairness to Verizon, the company isn't just implementing a policy that will affect heavy users. It's also taking steps to make the network more efficient so that hiccups don't become the norm. From a PDF statement on its Web site:
We are implementing optimization and transcoding technologies in our network to transmit data files in a more efficient manner to allow available network capacity to benefit the greatest number of users. These techniques include caching less data, using less capacity, and sizing the video more appropriately for the device. The optimization process is agnostic to the content itself and to the website that provides it. While we invest much effort to avoid changing text, image, and video files in the compression process and while any change to the file is likely to be indiscernible, the optimization process may minimally impact the appearance of the file as displayed on your device. For a further, more detailed explanation of these techniques, please visit www.verizonwireless.com/vzwoptimization.
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