I love your music, so excited about runrig playing on saturday at scone!
Saw you twice last year at edinburgh castle then at the barrowlands! Absolutely brilliant concerts! Love love love your voice! So glad to hear that Malcolm is better too!
I saw only too clearly that you will be in Oberhausen in September while we will be in Antigonish!!
E-mail: I ordered your new album by amazon, and i`m ver� exited to hear it. Please, please don�t forget Munich by your next Tour. We also wait all unpatiently for you !! Have a good time .........and you are really great, i love your music so much !!
E-mail: mafong@gmail.com Born and raised in Cape Breton but living in Hong Kong for the past 20 years, I try to stay close to my Celtic roots as much as I can. I travel to Scotland quite often with one of my recent visits being last year when I caught Runrig performing at the Edinburgh Castle. Amazing event....and what made it even more amazing was that it was only then that I realized that you were the same "Bruce" I seen perform a couple of times in Cape Breton over the years when I was back visiting the folks ('duh'). Just wanted to say thx and congrats on all the great music, talent and success.... and for making us Cape Bretoners, no matter where we are, so proud. See you at the end of the month at Scone Palace.
E-mail: johannebir@jubii.dk Sorry to hear that there will be no Runrig at the festival in T�nder this year.
But thank God for Bruce Guthro!
Glad to know that you`ll come to our rescue.
Looking so much forward to listen to some of your new stuff.
Good to have you in T�nder where you also belong!!
See you Thursday night in tent 1.
Its a wee while since I properly checked out your site and its such a shame so few of your messages are from Scotland. I live and work in Iain's home-'county' of Fife and come across Iain's relatives and old school chums occasionally with some interesting stories!! Been a Runrig fan for longer than I care to admit but was a small child when I first heard them!! Listened to -and love - your solo stuff since you joined Runrig. Can't wait for Scone Palace and I'm thinking of Malcolm everyday in the hope he will recover enough to be with us all.
I hope this message finds you well and that the family can come to Perthshire ( and hopefully Fife also - just short trip away I'm sure you've been told!) with you to enjoy all we have to offer.
I�m happy to see you again in Oberhausen in september and I�m looking forward for your new album. I�ve ordered tickets for me and my husband and now I�m counting the day to 11th. september.
God bless you an your family.
So, my sister is in PEI for her friends wedding (I am writing this on July 18/09) and the next night her friend (Kelley) was playing a gig at some pub/hall there in PEI and I got an email from my sister saying "Hey, I was at Kelley's gig last night. Man can she belt out the tunes. And then this guy got up and sang House of the Rising Sun. He was so awesome and Kelley got to sing with him...he is really well known here and in Europe" ...Well, my sister was so blown away by you, and I emailed her back "Was it Bruce Guthro?", so I got a simultaneous email and phone call from them dumb founded that I knew straight away that it was you, and man, was Kelley thrilled to have met you and to have been on stage singing with you, it blew her away. So, needless to say, I was pretty bummed not to have been there myself, and having since checked your concert dates, will have to try to plan way ahead to next summer when I can hopefully make a trip of my own to the Maritimes to catch your show myself. You have such an amazing talent. I sure wish you could make it to the West Coast more often. So, cheers for now and all the best for continued success.
E-mail: wimola@hashoj-net.dk Thanks for a lovely evening in Hunter River, with songs and music in the top, and beautiful musical surprises, we love your voice, singing and music. A great sound and an audience which was very supplied. It was a fantastic conclusion to a wonderful tour of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island, with lots of music, beautiful people and a breath resolved beautiful scenery and natur.
E-mail: jessica-mullin@hotmail.com i met you yesterday @ the cavendish fest and i lovelovelove your music!
it was really great that you stayed and took pictures with everyone etc, not everyone would take out that much times.
E-mail: bella@estradiol-level.com I enjoy your site!
E-mail: linzieross@hotmail.com I can't wait until august, wonder why love ya.
looking foward to the show in Mainz in September!
E-mail: ruth.simpson12@btinternet.com Hi bruce Cant wait to see you and runrig at scone place in August. lots of miaws from your namesake brucecat from alison ruth and brucecat in peterhead.
E-mail: jleonard@gabriola.net Just returned from a two week visit to Sydney Mines, visiting family and friends.
Michael Jesty inroduced me to Runrig. WOW!
Reading the guestbook and enjoying the comments of all your fans. Count me in.
No wonder your name is seen at every enterance to Sydney Mines.
Best to you and family.
E-mail: a_stafford@shaw.ca Wow, wish I had checked out your website before. Love your music, your voice is so powerful and beautiful! Thank you for writing falling. You probably hear this alot but this song reminds me of my family, and even now after all these years, it still makes me cry. Once again thank you. If you ever come out this way I will be there.


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Cher has apologised to fans for making light of prison rape in her latest rant against U.S. leader Donald Trump.
The pop superstar took to Twitter on Wednesday night (29May19) after Special Counsel Robert Mueller staged a news conference about his investigation into the President's alleged election tampering.
Mueller revealed federal rules prohibited him and his team from charging a sitting President with a crime but added, "If we had had the confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so."
Cher ran with the comment and called for an abrupt end to Trump's presidency, tweeting: "I Would *love* 2 See trump Impeached, Brought 2 Trial, *locked* Up In *prison* & Toy Boy Big Bubba...!! I WANT WHAT'S BEST 4 DEMOCRATS AND DEMOCRACY."
She later deleted the tweet and early on Thursday, she issued an 'apology' that read: "This is Not Apology, It's a Cher 'wtf (what the f**k) Moment'. Dont Usually Delete My Twts, But Sometimes I Need 2 Check Myself. What I Thought Of As Stupid Joke 'On Paper',Went 2 Far. Think trump Belongs In Jail, but Big Bubba Joke Was Wrong. If I Twt, I Have a Responsibility."
She later added: "HE'S LIAR, RACIST, ANTI-SEMITE, WHO TOOK FROM POOR, 4 NON EXISTENT UNIVERSITY, LIED ABOUT BUILDING CONDOS & PPL (people) LOST THEIR (money)... HE'S CRIMINAL, & US TRAITOR, WHO'S UNFIT 4 OFFICE. HE'S DICTATOR
(IN-WAITING) WHO PULLED(plug) ON DEMOCRACY."
Cher then took aim at Trump again after reports suggesting the President's late rival, war hero and Senator John McCain's name was covered on his own battleship, so the President wouldn't see it during a tour of Japan.
"OK,JUST WHEN YOU THINK trump CANT SINK ANY LOWER?? trump DIDNT WANT 'USS JOHN McCAIN' IN HIS SIGHT WHILE HE WAS IN JAPAN..HE WENT SO FAR AS TO HAVE TARP (tarpaulin) THROWN OVER THE WAR HERO'S NAME. I DID NOT SHARE JSM (McCain) POLITICS, BUT I HAD 'RESPECT' FOR HIM. HE WAS HERO. trump HAS 'HERO' ENVY."

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Taxes & Economy
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Pennsylvania mayors have voiced their frustrations with public sector unions forcing counties to pay higher wages even as they face budget constraints. Inevitably, that has led to higher taxes, such as a 25% increase in Lancaster county's property tax. Salaries – not to mention medical benefits and pensions – among public sector employees such as police officers and firefighters have increased at a rate far greater than inflation.
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The Little Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus in Haiti-have withstood numerous challenges in their seven-decade history but are looking toward the future with hope and a distinct sense of mission.
Sun City Picture House is a 26-minute documentary about Raphael Louigene, a young Haitian man who loves movies. Raphael works at St. Damien's children's hospital in Port Au Prince and every Thursday he buries the dead at the city morgue with Father Rick Frechette, a Catholic priest. In contrast to this horrific task Raphael and Father Rick have a hope and vision for Haiti's future.
An excellent site for updates on current events in Haiti.
Haiti Marycare's efforts address three areas: child and family health, education and community development. Mary Lou Ryder-Larkin, a Marian High School graduate, is the medical director of Haiti Marycare.
Partners in Progress helps people in Haiti help themselves by promoting and advancing a community model of sustainable rural development through educational outreach and resource networking.


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Revolution in dealing with breast cancer: New tech & options
By Diana Tucker
BB&T Contributing Editor
NEW YORK — Pink clouds of confetti exploded over Times Square, announcing the start of the 11th annual Revlon Run/Walk for Women's Cancers, just as coincidentally the doors opened to the late April/early May annual meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBS; Columbia, Maryland). Nowhere else has there been such an unintentional yet extravagant beginning to a surgical conference that addresses a cancer that is treated far differently than other cancers.
Unlike many cancers where the incidence is expected with increased age, breast cancer often strikes young, productive workers and mothers, dictating treatments that will allow them to return to, and survive in, their previously active life. The objective in treating breast cancer is to deliver the patient disease free with minimal cosmetic and sexual defect concerns that are typically not echoed by other types of cancer treatments. The ASBS annual meeting is the only medical meeting dedicated exclusively to the latest issues affecting surgeons who treat breast disease, from diagnosis and staging to treatment planning and ongoing management.
According to the American Cancer Society (Atlanta), an estimated 178,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to occur in U.S. women during 2007. In addition, another 62,030 new cases of in situ breast cancer are expected, of which roughly 85% will be ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a form that is currently being treated similarly as that of invasive breast cancer.
In the American College of Surgeons' (Chicago) National Cancer Database Benchmark Report, data indicate that 70% of eligible women with breast cancer will have a lumpectomy, while the remainder receives a mastectomy.
Breast-conserving therapy is preferable for many women because it provides superior cosmetic results compared to mastectomy, with similar patient survival rates when accompanied by lymph node testing and radiation therapy (RT).
The one issue still plaguing minimally invasive lumpectomies, however, is that of having to return to the operating room to remove cancerous tissue that was left behind during the initial lumpectomy.
Reduction of recurrence rate
Local recurrence of cancer in a patient that has had breast-conserving surgery (BCS) continues to plague this surgical advancement, with reports of 25% to 45% of all lumpectomies requiring a re-excision. Although the survival rate of BCS when coupled with radiation therapy is equivalent to that of mastectomy, the fact that so many patients end up returning to the operating suite haunts this advancement in breast cancer treatment.
Presented here for the first time were studies on a new radiospectroscopy intra-operative probe that helps detect positive tumor margins in order to avoid repeat surgeries, developed by Dune Medical Dev-ices (Caesarea, Israel). Using radio frequency spectroscopy technology that detects differences in the electromagnetic fields, the hand-held MarginProbe assesses margin malignancy status during an initial lumpectomy and helps avoid repeat procedures by enabling doctors to intraoperatively identify positive margins. As the tip of the probe is applied to excised lumpectomy tissue, radio frequency signals are transmitted into he tissue and when the signals are reflected back, they are analyzed using a specialized algorithm to determine the presence of malignant tissue.
In a randomized prospective multi-center study, the probe was used for positive margin assessment during breast-conserving surgery (BCS) and repeat surgery rates were compared in patients undergoing lumpectomy with and without the device. The double-armed study incorporated 11 sites, 35 surgeons, and 300 patients undergoing BCS and randomized the patients into two groups, one using the device as an assessment tool, the other utilizing conventional assessment tools. Use of the probe resulted in a 56% reduction in repeat lumpectomies with no statistically significant difference in the volume of tissue removed.
"This data is significant in demonstrating the potential of radio frequency spectroscopy in characterization of cancer at the resection margins," said Tanir Allweis, MD, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center (Jerusalem, Israel), an investigator in the study and presenter at the meeting. "The reduction of patient complications and discomfort as well as costs associated with repeat breast surgeries is of significant benefit to everyone involved in the treatment of breast disease."
Genomic-guided decisions
Although one in eight women will develop breast cancer, about 90% of the women who do develop breast cancer have no family history and of the 10% with family history, only 2% to 3% of those will develop it. So how does a women know if she is at risk or not? Several companies are now marketing risk assessment tools that use the patient's genes to determine both the chance of developing breast cancer as well as to predict therapy outcomes should she get it. Myriad Genetics (Salt Lake City) assesses a woman's risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer based on detection of mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. This test has become the standard of care in identification of individuals with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and is reimbursed by insurance.
The ASBS Consensus Statement on BRCA testing states "Breast surgeons are in an ideal position to identify such high-risk individuals, to encourage and provide access for BRCA testing, and, most importantly, to help devise individualized management strategies for those who test positive."
Another company that incorporates both personal history and gene-based information to determine a woman's future breast cancer risk is Intergenetics (Oklahoma City). The company has developed a saliva swish test that is sent to its lab to determine non-BRCA genotype risks over the lifetime of the patient. With this tool, clinical medicine can focus attention on high-risk patients and employ more comprehensive screening tools, the use of preventive medicines and lifestyle changes that could lead to reduction of risk and the prevention of breast cancer.
Once a woman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, her treatment plan needs to be decided. Breast cancer patients can have markedly different treatment responses and overall outcome. While chemotherapy can reduce the risk of distant metastases by roughly one-third, 70% to 80% of patients receiving it would have survived without it. Gene expression profiles will outperform all currently used clinical parameters in predicting disease outcome following treatment.
According to Pat Whitworth, MD, associate clinical professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee),"We have always treated 100% of the patients we felt required chemotherapy, knowing that only five will benefit from it. Now with genetic testing we can detect those five." The OncotypeDX test by Genomic Health (Redwood City, California) determines the likelihood of breast cancer recurrence in women with newly diagnosed, early stage invasive breast cancer as well as assesses whether the patient will benefit from chemotherapy.
This already is changing how physicians are treating breast disease and has the potential to significantly alter a patient's treatment plan. Traditionally, tumor characteristics such as size, lymph node involvement, and estrogen sensitivity have determined whether a patient receives chemotherapy. Studies now verify that cancer thumbprinting provides greater insight into the disease and test results should supersede the less-sophisticated measures used to assess the benefits of chemotherapy in the past.
In one study presented here, a comparison between recommended treatment plans with and without OnctoypeDX information was examined for 78 women with breast cancer. "Prior to this test, 39 out of 78 or 50% of the patients would have been recommended for chemotherapy, but using the OncotypeDX score only nine, or 12% of the patients were recommended for chemotherapy," said Leilia Thanasoulis, MD, of Bryn Mawr Hospital (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), who added, "This analysis allows us to tailor breast cancer care to patients that can be spared or benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy."
The newest genetic entry, exhibiting here for the first time, was Agendia's (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Mammaprint test that measures the activity of 70 genes using a fresh sample of tissue removed from a breast tumor and through computer analysis better directs the course of therapy. MammaPrint offers two results high risk and low risk and in studies accurately picked which women were at low risk for a recurrence at least 90% of the time. However, for women who were told they were at high risk for recurrence as a result of the test, just 23% experienced a relapse. This is the only FDA-cleared in vitro genetic test for breast cancer treatment (see Table 1 for a synopsis of in vitro genetic tests available for breast cancer).
New options for brachytherapy radiation therapy
Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) goes hand-in-glove with the trend towards minimally invasive lumpectomies. APBI allows only the tumor bed where it is estimated that 90% of the recurrences occur to be irradiated, as opposed to the full breast. APBI also takes only five days as opposed to the 30-day regimen required for full breast irradiation. For these reasons, patient demand for APBI has been high and has attracted several new competitors (see Table 2).
Peter Beitsch, MD, of the Dallas Breast Center, compared the various balloon catheters used for APBI in his presentation, "Partial Breast Irradiation: Balloon Catheters."
"It is always fun to see who exactly is in the audience," he began, and then polled the 350-plus attendees in the ballroom using the interactive polling system and found the following:
• 85% of the audience was surgeons.
• 80% to 100% of their practice was devoted to breast.
• 73% performed ultrasound-guided biopsies
• 38% performed stereotactic core breast biopsies.
• 32% were attending this meeting for the first time.
After a brief review of each brachytherapy balloon available, he said "Each device has an application that best suits certain patients," which suggests the concept of personalized medicine for the treatment of breast cancer an idea that seems to be developing in this space. His comments, along with company information on each brachytherapy balloon, are summarized in Table 2.
APBI technology is evolving rapidly, with new balloons and cages offering second-generation products with increased benefits for the patients. While current thinking is to provide high-dose radiation to the tumor bed over a brief period of time, there are at least two other schools of thought being investigated.
One is a single dose of radiation delivered during surgery, which Intraop Medical (Sunnyvale, California) and Karl Zeiss (Oberkochen, Germany) are developing, albeit with vastly different approaches.
Xoft (Fremont, California) also has the capacity to deliver intraop radiation and, according to Darius Francescatti, MD, assistant professor of surgery at Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) and surgical consultant for Xoft, "Xoft is more than a balloon it is a platform that has the capacity to do more than deliver brachytherapy. Xoft is in a position to deliver intraoperative RT without the requirement of bunkers, making it potentially available to many more patients."
The other novel approach is that of low-dose radiation delivered through the North American Scientific (Carlsbad, California) ClearPath cage that allows the patient to have an initial loading dose of radiation and return only at the end of the week to have the balloon removed, wearing a special barrier bra during this time. While waiting for these new technologies, RT treatments continue to be made more patient-friendly and available to a larger number of women with breast cancer.
SenoRx (Los Alisos, California), though the last to receive FDA clearance for its multi-lumen brachytherapy balloon, was blessed by the FDA with favorable labeling. Since some patients who could be candidates for balloon therapy are excluded because of the location of the lesion and their breast size, devices that can shift the radiation dose away from skin surfaces or ribs (dose shaping) can now be used in those cases.
The second-generation devices such as Contura, SAVI and ClearPath that have advanced multi-lumen designs may address this issue for certain patients. SenoRx was able to actually include this feature in their FDA labeling that states "Use of the appropriate off-set lumen(s) should be used to minimize the exposure to the skin," which highlights one of their key selling points.
Prophylactic mastectomies on the rise
With the advancement of risk assessment using the Gail model, family history, and now genotype studies, many women who are considered at high risk for developing breast cancer are now choosing to have a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy (BPM). In a breakfast workshop, Sarah McLaughlin, MD, of the Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville, Florida), discussed the "who, when and how" of this relatively new elective surgical concept.
Elective BPM often is at least considered by those women who carry the BRCA gene mutation and are at high risk. BRCA carriers have a 50% to 88% risk of getting breast cancer by age 70, significantly higher than a woman without BRCA. "In a study that followed women with the BRCA1 mutation, they found that those who had a BPM significantly extended their time to develop a cancer, and for breast cancer, the risk reduction was significantly reduced although not to zero, ranging from 94% to 100% risk reduction," McLaughlin said.
For those patients electing to have a contra-lateral prophylactic mastectomy at the same time as a therapeutic mastectomy is performed on the other breast, the data is unclear regarding long term survival. But the number of patients electing to do so is rising and "show no tendency toward plateauing anytime soon," McLaughlin said.
In a patient satisfaction survey conducted by the Mayo Clinic of 572 patients who underwent bilateral prophylactic mastectomy, after 14 years 70% were satisfied with their decision and 74% had a diminished level of breast cancer concern. "We do not want our patients to regret their irreversible decision," she said. "We asked the 19% who were dissatisfied with their choice what they wished they knew before the prophylactic mastectomy, and now try to incorporate that information into our counseling."
From better diagnostics to a wider range of therapies, breast cancer treatments are becoming a personal decision.
Diana Tucker
ASBS Annual Meeting: Genomic tests are blurring the line between surgeon, medical oncologist


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Q: error() function from Stroustrup's book behavior in Visual Studio 2015 So I've arrived at Chapter 5 exercises in Programming Principles and Practices Using C++
I'm using VS 2015 as my IDE and I encountered a problem with errors.
If I run the code in Visual Studio 2015 and enter -280 to check the temp I get this:
However, if I run the same code in codeblocks I get this:
As you can see, error given from codeblocks actually writes out the error message while VS 2015 does not. I tried to find out why this is happening but without success so far.
Here is the code I'm using:
#include "../../std_lib_facilities.h"

double ctok(double c)   //converts c to k
{

    if (c<-273.15) error("Temperature below absolute zero!"); // checks that temp isn't below absolute zero
    double k = c + 273.15;
    return k;
}

double ktoc(double k)
{
    double c = k - 273.15;
    return c;
}

int main() {

    double c = 0;       //declare input variable
    cin >> c;           //input temp
    double k = ctok(c); //convert temp
    cout << k << '\n';      //print out tmep

    return 0;
}

I'd be thankful if anyone would be able to explain the difference between the two. Thank you for your time.

A: When an exception is not caught in the program, it is terminated abnormally. Different run time environments treat that differently. The standard does not guarantee any uniform mechanism that we can rely on.
There is nothing you can do about that other than learn how to deal with them.

A: Your error() function throws std::runtime_error exception that is not handled anywhere. When the exception is not handled, terminate() is called. terminate() calls std::terminate_handler() which calls abort().
It looks like terminate_handler() from standard library shipped with CodeBlocks behaves differenlty - it prints the type of the exception that caused terminate() and it's std::exception::what() to the console. Visual Studio's std::terminate_handler() implementation doesn't do that, but it doesn't have to.

A: I tried to recompile your code using Bjarne Stroustrop's std_lib_facilities.h (http://www.stroustrup.com/Programming/std_lib_facilities.h)
#include <iostream>
#include <errno.h>
#include "std_lib_facilities.h"

using namespace std;

double ctok(double c)   //converts c to k
{

    if (c<-273.15) {
        error("Temperature below absolute zero!"); // checks that temp isn't below absolute zero
        return 0;
    }
    double k = c + 273.15;
    return k;
}

double ktoc(double k)
{
    double c = k - 273.15;
    return c;
}

int main() {

    double c = 0;       //declare input variable
    cin >> c;           //input temp
    double k = ctok(c); //convert temp
    cout << k << '\n';      //print out tmep

    return 0;
}

And this message comes out
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.9/ext/hash_map:60:0,
                 from std_lib_facilities.h:34,
                 from test1.cpp:3: /usr/include/c++/4.9/backward/backward_warning.h:32:2: warning:
#warning This file includes at least one deprecated or antiquated header which may be removed without further notice at a future date. Please use a non-deprecated interface with equivalent functionality instead. For a listing of replacement headers and interfaces, consult the file backward_warning.h. To disable this warning use
-Wno-deprecated. [-Wcpp]  #warning \   ^

everything else looks fine after executing the code, and entering the value of the temperature to be -300
suhubdyd@paris:~/Documents/code/testcpp$ ./test1
-300
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  Temperature below absolute zero!
Aborted (core dumped)

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Why This Man Celebrating His 146th Birthday Might Be the Oldest Person Alive
January 3, 2017 | By Valerie Cools
Image source: Liputan6
Officially, the title of the oldest person currently alive is held by Emma Morano, an Italian woman who turned 117 in late November. But an Indonesian man claims to be older by nearly 30 years.
Mbah Gotho, who lives in the Indonesian village of Sragen, reportedly celebrated his 146th birthday on Saturday, according to the Independent. He has outlived not only his four wives and 10 siblings, but also his three children, writes the International Business Times.
Gotho has produced documents stating that he was born on December 31, 1870. Indonesian officials have confirmed the documents are authentic. However, the documents would need to be independently verified in order for Gotho to officially enter the record books. In the meantime, Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who was 122 years old when she passed away in 1997, officially holds the record of the longest-living person in history.
Image source: Donal Husni/ZUMA Wire
Gotho has claimed he never expected to live this long, having even made arrangements for his own death back in 1992. He has attributed his impressive longevity to patience, but told the Telegraph he was ready to die, now that all his grandchildren are grown up and independent.
Gotho, who lives with his grandson, celebrated his birthday surrounded by family and neighbors. While he is growing frail, he was reportedly still able to blow out all the candles on his cake in one take.
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Unless you've been living under a rock for the past several decades, you may not have noticed the world is going to…well, s**t, to put it bluntly. We may not have much ...


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The tablespace file format. For example, Antelope, Barracuda, or Any (general tablespaces support any row format). The data in this field is interpreted from the tablespace flags information that resides in the .ibd file. For more information about InnoDB file formats, see Section 14.10, "InnoDB File-Format Management".
The type of tablespace. Possible values include General for general tablespaces and Single for file-per-table tablespaces.


Candlemass, Solstice, Warning, Isole, Mirror Of Deception, Scald, Reverend Bizarre. When you see those bands cited as influences not only do you know the band has great taste, but also that they are drinking from the source and that you are in the presence of that increasingly rare flavour, true doom. Doom, people. Doom. Forever having its clothes stolen; first by slow death metal, then by sludge and lately by the seventies ressurectionists. Clothes stolen yes but never its soul. True doom is more underground than ever these days, only Pallbearer really having poked their heads above the parapets of late, but its mournful, heavy, determined soul was born to persist. If doom can mean 'judgement' or 'fate' then it has forever stared into its own, unflinchingly, and carried on regardless one foot before the other. Unfashionable, unbothered, onwards.
Greek band The Temple actually formed in 2009 but before this had only 2015's 'As Once Was' e.p. to their name. With their first full length album they wear their hearts on their sleeves from the first chord of 'The Blessing'. This is no bad thing and this is high church doom, the strangely religious tones ringing like sombre bells, the melodic vocals and guitar lines slowly rising above the downtuned bass and steady, granite solid drums. Early Solstice turning slowly in a Warning direction, or a glance at Isole, with the vocals and the riff. It is a lovely, thoughtful vestibule to enter by, a rich one. Immediately entrancing it welcomes you within and lays out the heavy velvet of its music for you without pretence or posturing. A simple yet adept sound, familiar yes but as with all good first albums of true doom it has an undertow, a strain pulling relentlessly in the direction of its own path, its own future.
With songs like 'Qualms in Regret' there is something of Griftegarde (R. I. P.) in the quasi-religious mournful rise and fall of the vocals; not perhaps as dark but as sombre and as considered. The Temple heavily use the melodic guitar line following the crest of the riff here, too, adding a sharpness to the mix. On the excellent 'Remnants', a fine and remarkably complex song underpinned by a great Warning-esque fuzzed and smothering riff, there is great and ambitious use of harmony vocals. Yes perhaps they need a little work on some of the higher registers but they are still very good and this is a debut. Every debut is the marker of a work in progress and with doom I would say this is doubly so. 'Death The Only Mourner ' delves deeper into the twin wells of Warning and Griftegarde and even surpasses 'Remnants' with its stately, echoing presence. A softer midsection leads into a wonderful, dense and emotional riff and again their ability to mix the tempo and arrangements shines through brightly, a lamp in the fog that demonstrates a heartfelt over of what they do to speak so fluently through their chosen genre.
And the songs, yes three individual songs keep getting better. 'Mirror Of Souls' has the intense personal touch, the demonstrating of emotion that Mirror Of Deception were so good at and again the vocals work so very well together to carry the listener onwards. There's the hint of a progressive edge here too in the guitar work, the kind of thing While Heaven Wept used to balance so well before they tipped over into full on prog.
I do wish that the production, which is fine as far as it goes, could have been a bit more expensive, a bit more epic. These riffs and these vocals are crying out for it. This sounds like it was recorded in a chapel, a good acoustic space to be sure, but the songs are meant for a cathedral and the huge sound it can bring. Next time maybe.
The Temple may not know precisely where they are going other than onwards and, indeed, upwards but they most certainly know where they are from. That certainty of heritage, that belligerent loyalty and emotional attachment to an unfashionable genre is what gives them such a granite like foundation to build upon. This is a work of love and that sounds in every note here; honestly they are simply bursting with enthusiasm here (in a slow, doom kind of way of course.) No wonder I Hate opened their doors to them. Rarely have I heard such knowledgeable and affectionate doom debut, and the songwriting is glowing with talent. The best thing of all, though, is that through all the influences on show there is that extra something, that individual personality shining out, ready for the next steps.
It's a fantastic start. Can't wait to see what comes now.


With winter here and the holidays coming on, it is good to know that there is an easier than normal, quicker and better way to roast a turkey. The white meat stays moist; the dark meat cooks thoroughly and the skin is crisp.
Many Thanksgivings have proved the high heat method to be ideal. A fifteen pound turkey at room temperature takes two hours. However, it may take several hours for the turkey to reach room temperature. While the turkey is sitting out, cover it loosely with a towel otherwise the skin will dry out. I prefer a fifteen pound turkey as it isn't too heavy for me to handle. It usually gives lots of good leftovers and is generally available. Try to find a fresh turkey that hasn't been doctored up with injections of fat and or water. They are not needed.
Remove the giblet bag from the interior of the bird. Remove the wing tips. Put everything except the livers into a pan; cover with water; bring to a boil; reduce to a simmer. By the time the bird is at room temperature and roasted, the gravy will be done. Remove the wing tips. Chop the cooked gizzards, heart and neck meat and return to liquid. Season. Use the liver in the dressing/stuffing or add to a freezer container of livers and milk.
Make sure there is a pan big enough for the turkey without its touching the sides of the pan. Do not truss.
Use a solid pan without high sides. Do not use disposables. They are dangerous with the heavy weight. Consider whether the bird should be stuffed or the stuffing served as a dressing separately baked. If stuffing, about twelve cups are needed for a fifteen pound bird which will allow the big cavity to be stuffed and some more stuffing to be crammed under the skin flap at the neck. I don't stuff because there are real safety questions about the bird and its stuffing sitting out at room temperature.
The oven must be very clean before roasting, or cooking at this high temperature will cause unpleasant smoke. In any case, turn on the fan or open a window. Don't put the oven rack too high or the skin on the breast will get over-cooked. For a twenty pound turkey the rack should be in the lowest position. Always put the legs in first. Dark meat takes longer to cook.
If the top skin seems to be getting too dark, slip a doubled piece of aluminum foil on top of it. Don't move the turkey. Use an oven mitt to protect the hand. Remove the foil with the same oven mitt ten minutes before the turkey comes out.
Large turkeys are most easily removed from the pan by holding them with two pot holders which will need to be washed. Get out a large stock pot to boil up the carcass and leftover bones for turkey soup.
Rinse the turkey inside and out. Pat dry. Sprinkle the outside with the pepper. If stuffing, stuff cavity and crop, securing openings with long metal skewers. Do not truss.
Put turkey in a 18×13×2-inch roasting pan, breast side up. Put in oven legs first. Cook until the leg joint near the back bone wiggles easily, about 2 hours. Remove the turkey to a large platter. Let sit twenty minutes before carving.
Pour off grease from roasting pan and put pan on top of the stove. Add the water or stock. Bring to a boil while scraping vigorously with a wooden spoon, loosening all the crispy bits in the bottom of the pan. These add intensity to the gravy. Let reduce by half. Serve on the side in a sauce boat or add to giblet gravy.


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Q: Checked exceptions in Java when calling Groovy code? When I have a Groovy class (in the groovy folder and ending in .groovy):
...
DerbyNow() throws IOException {
    // create socket connection
    socket = new EventSocket(new Socket(DERBY_NOW_HOST, DERBY_NOW_PORT)) // EventSocket throws IOException as well
    ...

and create it from Java code (in the java folder and ending in .java):
try {
    DerbyNow derbyNow = new DerbyNow();

    setDerbyNow(derbyNow);
} catch (IOException e) {
    Log.bad("error while setting up Derby Now: ", e);
}

IntelliJ IDEA doesn't give me an error/warning (correct), but when I go to compile/run, it gives me an error in the Messages Make view (incorrect):
Error:(382, 19) java: exception java.io.IOException is never thrown in body of corresponding try statement

How can I get it so that the compiler recognizes this exception? I looked at the decompiled groovy class (decompiled to Java), and it does still throw the IOException.
Here's part of my Gradle file:
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'groovy'

...

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    mavenLocal()
    ...
}

...

dependencies {
    compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.3.11'
    ...
}

I am using the javac compiler (default).

A: I wish I had a clear answer from a Groovy specialist.
I had a similar issue and worked around it in a very ugly way:
try {
    DerbyNow derbyNow = new DerbyNow();

    setDerbyNow(derbyNow);
} catch (Exception e) {
    if (e instanceOf IOException) {
        Log.bad("error while setting up Derby Now: ", e);
    } else {
        throw e;
    }
}

So that works because since Java7, there is some special forgiveness for Exception.


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The three types of applications below are suggested starting points that will immediately make your life easier.
All of these are GREAT candidates for FlexApp!
FlexApps are portable layers that can be copied, pasted, imported and delivered to virtual and physical desktops! Here is more detail on three different types of applications you can get started with now.
Pay extra attention to the Liquidware FlexApp method in each of the 3 examples.
It is very difficult for administrators to update virtual desktops – even for single / small application update. Any update no matter how small, require the ENTIRE image to be recomposed or redeployed out to each data store. There are typically many data stores that host images and for some architectures recomposing is a dreaded necessity. Applications typically have to be installed and updated in EACH image when the same application is used by different groups and pools.
Many line of business applications need to be highly available. Usually 100% of the applications do not need to be available, but a core set is required for the main functions of a company to operate. Images are large and in-use so replicating whole VM images is almost a non-starter for small businesses, even large enterprises. The technical challenges, resource requirements and laws of physics make this impossible for many. Replicating user data is enough to try and manage – much less entire virtual desktop images.
Have 2 datacenters with the exact same desktop images on each end and perform application updates using the traditional application update method in scenario 1 above to primary and secondary locations.
Often times SAN/NAS systems are overloaded mechanically, on the network – even the built-in caching systems of these devices are taxed to the max trying to optimize and deliver the entire VM image. Decoupling applications from the image and delivering them from new or alternate storage can be next to impossible for many applications using traditional application virtualization. The performance overhead of traditional application virtualization (in the bubble isolated apps using ThinApp or App-V) is often used for application compatibility and never for higher performance.
The types of applications that you can FlexApp are endless, but the three types above will give you a great place to start to ease your frustrations of application management. If you are not yet a FlexApp customer, you can download and trial FlexApp today by visiting the Download section of www.liquidware.com.
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Portrait of Hans Holbein the Younger
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A c. 1543 CE self-portrait by the German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543 CE). (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
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Texas passes NRA backed Open Carry legislation
The National Rifle Association claims another victory for the law-abiding gun owners of Texas with the passage of House Bill 910. This landmark open-carry legislation, now headed to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk for his expected signature, will bring the total number of states recognizing the right of open-carry to 44.
"The NRA is proud to have played a leading role in the passage of Texas open carry legislation" said NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox. "The passage of this common sense law expands law abiding citizens' right to exercise their constitutional freedoms and affirms Texans' long tradition of supporting the Second Amendment. On behalf of the NRA's 5 million members, I want to thank bill sponsors Rep. Larry Phillips & Sen. Craig Estes for their tenacious fight to pass this important bill, as well as Senate and House leadership for getting this measure across the goal line."
The NRA-backed legislation removes the requirement for Concealed Handgun Licensees (CHLs) to keep their handguns concealed by giving them the option of carrying their firearm either wholly or partially visible in a belt or shoulder holster. After 20 years of of law-abiding and responsible behavior, Texas CHLs are more than capable of accepting this new level of freedom.
Passed on the final days of the 2015 Texas legislative session, HB 910 requires permit holders to be at least 21 years of age and a resident of Texas for at least six months. As of January 1, 2015, more than 800,000 Texans held concealed carry licenses.
Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America's oldest civil rights and sportsmen's group. More than five million members strong, NRA continues to uphold the Second Amendment and advocates enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation's leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the armed services. Follow the NRA on social at Facebook.com/NationalRifleAssociation and Twitter @NRA.
Texas Open Carry Right-To-Carry Self Defense/Castle Doctrine
Nevada: Gun Bills Sent to the Governor and Campus Carry to the Senate
Wisconsin: Assembly Committee Advances Self-Defense Bills
Arizona: First Week of Session Sees A Flurry of Firearm Related Legislation Introduced
Wisconsin: Senate Committee Passes Constitutional Carry


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Home Health Health: Dr. Jerry Cade talks about the COVID-19 effect
Health: Dr. Jerry Cade talks about the COVID-19 effect
LV Spectrum Staff
Dr. Jerry Lynn Cade by Tonya Harvey
Las Vegas physician Jerry Cade is a well-known pioneer of AIDS medicine. He also is a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ health care in the valley. The Las Vegas Spectrum asked him about how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting our community and how we can stay safe.
Q: We know the pandemic shut down the entire Las Vegas Valley. It is just now reopening. How do you feel that COVID-19 is affecting the LGBTQ+ community in particular?
A: Like most situations in life, groups that have traditionally been marginalized and/or disenfranchised seem to be further isolated by cataclysmic events like this pandemic.
Perhaps, the most glaring disparities with COVID-19 have been the increased incidence of morbidity (illness) and mortality (death) in the African American and Latino communities, which would, of course, exacerbate challenges for LGBTQ+ individuals, who are African American or Latino.
Blacks have had almost twice as many deaths as their percentage of the population. Likewise, Latinos have been hard hit with an out-of-proportion number of COVID-19 diagnoses and deaths.
However, beyond the specific impact this has on LGBTQ+ communities of color is the underlying probability that one of the main reasons for these disparities is a lack of access to culturally appropriate health care.
Unfortunately, the LGBTQ+ community shares in this lack of access to culturally appropriate health care. In general, access to appropriate health care for women has been more of a challenge than it has for men, so that would mean lesbians and bisexual women are at risks for these barriers. And of course, trans health care is all but non existent, so this is another group that is at risk for problems.
Ironically, treated HIV disease does NOT confer any increased risk of acquiring COVID-19. There are even theories – just speculation with no proof – that because of the persistent viral replication in HIV positive individuals, they might be at less risk of acquiring or succumbing to infection with SARS-CoV-2.
I think that is an interesting, but very challenging to prove theory, but it does underscore how far we have come with HIV treatment over the past 39 years. The U.S. HIV epidemic officially began June 5, 1981 with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Report about a cluster of five gay men in Los Angeles with pneumocystis jiroveci (carinii) pneumonia.
Q: As an AIDS medicine pioneer, what do you think the long-lasting medical effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic will be?
A: Speculating has never been my strong point. That is why I don't gamble. There are several examples from nature of the long-term effects of viral infections.
With a virus like hepatitis A or B, a person gets the disease, has an immune response and has a lifetime of immunity, particularly with hepatitis A. For some reason with hepatitis B, 10 percent of the infected population develops chronic hepatitis B. Then with hepatitis C, only 15 percent to 30 percent of the population have an immune response that eliminates the virus, whereas 70 percent to 85 percent of the infected individuals develop chronic hepatitis B.
Then, there are viruses like herpes- both herpes simplex (cold sores and genital herpes) and herpes zoster (shingles), which never go away and can manifest themselves at any time – usually the most inopportune times.
Then, there are viruses like the flu, which is continually changing. We can develop a vaccine for a particular strain of the flu in time to blunt the flu's impact for a given season, but we have to do it all over again the next year.
Unfortunately, SARS-CoV-2 seems to be acting more like the flu virus, so it may be that we have to get our flu and COVID vaccines every year.
Apart from the treatment concerns for COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed gaping holes in our public health care
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package net.uniform.html.validators;

import net.uniform.api.Element;
import net.uniform.html.elements.EmptyElement;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
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 * @author Eduardo Ramos
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public class AlphanumericValidatorTest {

    @Test
    public void test() {
        Element element = new EmptyElement("test");

        AlphanumericValidator validator = new AlphanumericValidator();
        element.addValidator(validator);

        assertTrue(element.isValid());//No value, not required

        element.setValue("466ad4bc13");

        assertTrue(element.isValid());

        element.setValue("Other val %&$");

        assertFalse(element.isValid());
    }
}

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Infinite Glitch - evA dilcuE: Infinite Glitch - the world's longest recorded pop song, by Chris Butler.
I'm tired of trying to fix everything.
For years I thought it was my job.
Now I feel that there's another way.


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Yoga @ The WREC
Yoga @ The WREC 7:00am - 8:00am (1h)
Starts August 23, 2021 at 7:00am
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Repeats Weekly on Monday and Wednesday, starting from Aug 23, 2021, until Dec 15, 2021
Yoga @ The WREC 12:30pm - 1:30pm (1h)
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Butts N' Guts @ The WREC
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A person was hurt by an accident on the road with the fault of driver. He has been cheated and caused a huge loss. He is blamed for some specific reason he isn't responsible. Either way he will need a compensation lawyer for the proper guidance through the process. Compensation attorneys will aid their clients in the best ways to win the case. Compensation lawyers are well specialized individual in their own particular field. He is skillful with all the conditions and claims of an individual.
Occasionally lack of good legal information err the injured party from claiming compensation under the motor vehicle incident law. The Automobile Accident Lawyers have finally made the process simpler for injured individuals to maintain their right under proper law. These companies consist of skilful attorneys who have outstanding legal history and have dealt with many subjects of law involving motor vehicle collision matters.
He'll study the case thoroughly collect all of the evidence and present in the court. He will supplement his thoughts that will encourage the debate. He will provide his customer with all the necessary legal formalities. He also gathers the witnesses as an evidence to the court to make his case strong. Hiring compensation attorneys is your ideal step one can take if he's being cheated or betrayed and search for his rights.


On Thursday afternoon I took part in a meeting of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations Arts, Culture & Heritage Special Interest Group. Our guest speaker was the Shadow Culture Minister, Helen Goodman MP and we had a very interesting discussion about the role of arts and heritage organisation within the voluntary sector, the part culture can play in the wellbeing agenda, the effect of cuts in local authority funding and the importance of active participation in cultural activities.
I was in London last Tuesday for a meeting of the ACEVO Arts, Culture & Heritage special interest group. Our guest speaker was Virginia Haworth-Gait, the outgoing Chief Executive of Music Mark, who gave us a presentation about the process of merging two organisations together. Music Mark, the UK association for music education, was created as a merger of the Federation of Music Services and the National Association of Music Educators. Virginia gave us a fascinating insight into the legal and operational journey as well as the human and emotional journey involved in a merger and the particular complications when merging two membership organisations.
On Tuesday I was at the University of Glamorgan in Cardiff for the Storytelling in Wales meeting. This is a regular gathering of representatives of organisations including Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, the National Museum of Wales, NIACE and Voluntary Arts Wales, convened and chaired by The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling. On Tuesday we discussed plans for a 'Summer of Stories' in 2014 to raise the profile of storytelling in Wales, with the intention of building towards a 'Year of Stories' in 2015 or 2016.


The iPhone backs up the majority of its content every time it synchronizes with iTunes. Apple's desktop software doesn't allow users to manually restore individual aspects of these backups, such as SMS text messages or the address book. A full iPhone restore is the only way to retrieve data for a specific application. By locating the exact backup file on the computer, SMS text messages can be manually backed up and restored as required.
Connect the iPhone to the computer using the USB cable, and click the "Sync" button in iTunes to perform a full synchronization and backup.
Close iTunes, and click the "Start" button on the computer, followed by "Search."
Perform a computer-wide search for the following file: "3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28" This is the SMS text message part of the iPhone's backup package.
Copy the text message backup file to another location on the computer, or upload it to any online backup storage systems you have access to. This file can now be used as a backup of all text messages received by the iPhone prior to the synchronization performed in Step 1.
Online services are available that can convert the iTunes backup file into a text file, spreadsheet, or other readable file formats. Restore the text message data manually by replacing the existing iTunes file with the your backup version. The same operation can be carried out for the iPhone's address book by locating the file "31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442."


How is the Millstreet to Macroom Road this morning?
Patricia was asking if anyone knows how the Millstreet to Macroom Road is this morning. With the snow and ice, does anyone know what way is it?
Very bad at 7am this morning!


Wyndham Hotel Group has unveiled plans to open a huge new hotel in Danang, Central Vietnam.
Located in the coastal city's Son Tra district, the 779-room Wyndham Soleil Danang will be set in a 57-storey hotel tower. At 199 metres high it will become the tallest building in Danang, and will form part of a major four-tower complex that will also feature 3,200 apartments, conference facilities, a retail and dining precinct and parks.
The US$446 million project is currently under construction and expected to open in September 2018. It will be managed by Wyndham Hotel Asia Pacific.
Located just 100 metres from My Khe Beach, Wyndham Soleil Danang will become only the brand's second property in Vietnam following the Wyndham Legend Halong Bay, which launched in July this year.
It will feature a "coral-inspired façade" and a mix of apartment-style rooms ranging from studios to one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Facilities will include a restaurant and bar, swimming pools, a gym, spa and health centre.
"With airport improvements underway, as well as its proximity to scenic beaches and UNESCO World Heritage sites, Danang is a market poised for great growth within a country popular with world travellers," said Barry Robinson, Wyndham Hotel Group's president & managing director for Southeast Asia & Pacific Rim.
Wyndham Hotel Group is currently accelerating its Southeast Asian expansion efforts, and will also open its first upscale property in Bali next month.


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இங்கிலாந்தில், பெண் நோயாளிகளை பார்க்க இந்திய முஸ்லீம் டாக்டருக்கு தடை
இங்கிலாந்தில், பெண் நோயாளிகளை பார்க்க இந்திய முஸ்லீம் டாக்டரான சையது அஸ்ஜார் ஜாஹிர் என்ற டாக்டருக்கு தடை விதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
பெண் நோயாளிகளை தவறான முறையில் தொட்டு பரிசோதனை செய்ததாக பல பெண் நோயாளிகள் புகார் கொடுத்துள்ளனர். அதனை ஆராய்ந்த மருத்துவ கழகம் அவை உண்மை என்று கண்டறிந்து இவ்வாறு இவரை தடை செய்துள்ளது
Indian doctor in UK banned from treating female patients
AgenciesPosted online: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 0746 hrs Print Email
London, June 18: : An Indian doctor working in Britain's National Health Service (NHS) has been prohibited from treating female patients except in emergencies after complaints of "inappropriate" examination of two women patients in August 2002.
For nearly four years, Syed Asghar Zaheer, who graduated from the Lucknow University in 1958, has restrictions placed on his employment after medical authorities found him guilty of the charges.
The General Medical Council (GMC) has now decided to further extend the restrictions for one more year since he did not submit any evidence on how he had addressed the concerns raised when he was first pulled up for the controversial examination.
At a 'fitness to practice' hearing this week, a GMC panel directed that except in life threatening emergencies, Zaheer must not undertake consultations with female patients without a chaperone present.
He was also directed to maintain a log detailing every case where he undertakes a consultation with such a patient, which must be signed by the chaperone.
In August 2002, Zaheer examined a female patient identified only as Ms A at her home, during the course of which he undid her bra strap. He further touched Ms A's private parts without her permission, according to case papers.
In the case of another female patient identified as Ms B on 17 February 2003, Zaheer "put his hands inside her clothing and felt her groin area."
This was done without her consent, and the authorities ruled that Zaheer's actions were "inappropriate and not clinically justified". His conduct was found to have "fallen well below the standard expected of a registered medical practitioner".
At the hearing, the panel noted that Zaheer was not working in clinical practice since June 2004 and that he had provided no objective evidence to demonstrate that he had kept up to date and maintained his professional knowledge.
In the circumstances, the panel said that a further period of conditional registration of one year was necessary for the protection of patients and in the public interest.
எழுதியது எழில் நேரம் Thursday, June 19, 2008
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