Dr. Abraham Loo is a practicing surgical pathologist/hematopathologist at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, NJ. He was a fellow in Hematopathology at URMC from 2014-15. Here, he shares more about his career and what makes his work rewarding.
I was born and raised in NYC. After medical school, I went active duty in the United States Army and lived out west for eight years before returning to the east coast to do a Hematopathology fellowship. I currently live in Red Bank, NJ.
What was something that made your experience at URMC a positive one?
I really enjoyed my time as a fellow and I left feeling well prepared to sign out heme path cases. I am grateful to have met many wonderful people as well. Dr. Richard Burack was a supportive fellowship director, Pat Leary was a patient teacher of flow cytometry, and Leslie Antinarella was always a kind person in the department. After finishing residency, I did not feel prepared to work with residents, but as a fellow with prior experience as a staff pathologist I enjoyed working with the residents (Sapna, Nisha, Chad, Hani, et al) that rotated through.
When did you first "discover" pathology and what or whom first sparked your interest in it?
I had limited exposure to pathology in medical school and I cannot remember when exactly I "discovered" pathology, but I can say I genuinely enjoy my job. There are good days and bad days, but I enjoy doing impactful work that uses my education and can positively affect people's lives while keeping me divorced from the emotional aspect of medicine.
How would you describe your job to someone who knows nothing about pathology?
After a biopsy is performed, the tissue (breast, prostate, etc.) is processed and read under a microscope by a doctor, who is the pathologist. The pathologist renders a diagnosis to the clinicians, who directly take care of the patient. If a clinician is concerned for blood cancer (leukemia or lymphoma), I am the pathologist in my practice that looks at those specimens.
I have two wonderful daughters, Calista (7 years old) and Naomi (5 years old), who are my everything.
I have been practicing Brazilian Jiujitsu/No-Gi grappling since 2006. There are few things as pure as a combat sport, and there aren't many venues where people from all walks of society can share space engaged in a physical struggle, yet not have any social, political or personal conflicts.
What's one piece of advice you have for pathology students or trainees looking to start their careers?
Have long term goals in your professional and personal life, but there will be unexpected twists and turns. Don't neglect your soul on the journey.


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This is why I ALMOST stopped playing the piano….. Part 2
By The Cross-Eyed Pianist | February 21, 2022 February 21, 2022
Long read guest post by Dr Michael Low (read Part 1 here)
My journey back to playing the piano started when I casually suggested to a new colleague that perhaps we should play some chamber music together. I honestly didn't think that she would take me seriously, but the next day I found the scores of Schubert lieder and Puccini arias in my pigeon-hole. Although one part of me wanted to go back on my word, the other told me to just get on with learning the notes, and I was grateful for the latter. The most valuable lesson I learnt from working with a singer is the shaping and the breath of the musical phrase, no melodic line is rushed, and the sense of rhythmic pulse is often relative to the direction of the music. Following my brief appearance as a repetiteur, I founded a chamber ensemble amongst my colleagues to perform the chamber music versions of Mozart piano concertos and movie soundtracks.
My new musical project was not without obstacles, both logistically and musically. Because initially there were only six of us, the piano has to 'fill in' the missing parts – this meant that I had to play both the solo part as well as the orchestral tutti, a challenge that I relish (having studied my fair share of Romantic transcriptions, the orchestral reduction of the tutti passages were to be the least of my worries). However, nerves still presided over my performance, but the ensemble was generous in their support and patience. 'It gets better with every rehearsal', was one member's assessment of my playing. Another told me that it is just a matter of 'practising performance', and I will never forget the words of our leader (sadly no longer with us) when I felt that I could have played better after one particular rehearsal. 'That's why we are here to practise', he smiled at me. Away from the music and the piano, I met Laverne, who was to become my wife in the not-too-distant future.
I was no longer the rhythmically wayward student, yet something was still not clicking. Physical tension still existed which translated into uneven semiquaver passages. I found myself with a sense of musical déjà vu, but told myself that I was no longer that hot-headed student: 'Everything is difficult at the beginning, but once you have worked it out, then it is easier.' I also reminded myself that my repertoire was predominantly 19th-century, and Mozart still a composer I had yet to study in detail. I turned to my doctoral supervisor, Hendrik Hofmeyr, for advice. Hendrik told me that in order to eliminate the tightness in my playing, I would have to adopt a different mindset. He showed me a way of playing the piano which utilises the bigger muscles of the body, especially the weight of the arm.
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I eventually understood what Hendrik was after but only after weeks and months of frustration and tears: every time I felt strain and pressure during practise, I would stop and retrace my steps, and play even slower. The primary objective was now to find a position of the hand (and body) that enabled me to play with the greatest ease whilst freeing myself of any physical tightness. The biggest breakthrough came when I adjusted the way I sit at the piano, but it was to be at least another two and half years before I could feel the difference in my playing.
For over two years I studied Mozart piano concerti and very little else. More importantly, I relearnt the significance of one particular musical gesture that makes up so much Classical and Romantic music – the Mozartian slur, sometimes known as the classical slur; this completely changed the way I view and interpret music especially when I revisited old repertoire. The Mozart concerti were followed by Beethoven's first and last piano concerti. I then studied Schumann's Opus 54, which is more akin to an augmented piano quintet, and what a glorious one it is! The Schumann Concerto was followed by Rachmaninoff's second and third piano concertos, as I finally got comfortable with my new way of playing the piano.
As patient as the ensemble were, they were beginning to wonder if there would at least be some performances at the end of all the rehearsals. Although I was tentative, a concert was eventually scheduled and we made our debut in front of an audience of about two hundred people. The performance was well received but old musical wounds resurfaced. Yet again I walked off stage haunted by musical discrepancies despite the standing ovations and calls for an encore. I recalled the words of a former professor, 'Something very intense inside you is preventing you from playing the intensity of the music'. Laverne encouraged me to keep going and play further performances, but I was reluctant, and a heated argument ensued. I told her my belief of how some were chosen whereas other chose to perform and faced a backlash, 'This is such b***sh**t! The people who get it right on stage are those who get up there and do it over and over again until they are comfortable. As talented as you are, you are not going to play the "Emperor" Concerto brilliantly on your first attempt!' Furthermore, Laverne also assured me that it is the audience's perception of my performance that is ultimately more important than my own: 'You have the ability to connect to the audience through your playing, surely this is more important than the odd wrong notes and occasional memory lapse?'
Laverne's insightful words were of great comfort to me, and it was on her recommendation that I began to address my musical wounds in the formal setting of psychotherapy. 'I think it will help you to reconnect the dots and explained why certain things happened the way they did,' she told me before my first session with my psychologist. Ultimately, Laverne was right. It was not Christianity or God, nor was it table tennis, golf or CrossFit, but the work that I did with my psychotheraphist that provided me with the most conclusive explanation to my performance anxiety and stage fright.
I agree with Zach Manzi that there is plenty to dislike about the Classical music industry – an industry resistant to change, safeguarded by numerous holier-than-thou gatekeepers who have placed themselves on a musical pedestal. I like Manzi's idea of making Classical music more 'accessible and inspiring,' and I certainly would like to find out more about his 'audience first' concert format design. However, it is my humble opinion that audiences around the world don't attend live concerts just to hear Bach, Beethoven or Wagner anymore. This has partly to do with the fact that there is no definitive way of interpreting a piece of music. What the Classical music industry has been promoting since time immemorial is the cult of the personality. People now go to concerts to hear the performer rather than the composer: Schiff's Bach, Barenboim's Beethoven, Trifonov's Rachmaninoff, Thielemann's Wagner, etc. And this is perhaps the main reason why concert agents and managements are more likely to look for a 'performer' than a musician when filling their concert diaries. In other words, if we don't think you can sell tickets, then why the hell should we book you? Performers are more sought after than musicians, as the commercial value of the former trumps that of the latter.
Please don't get me wrong. I am not, for one second, suggesting that some of the great performers are not great musicians first and foremost, but if you look at the artists signed by major recording and distributing companies in the last decade or so, you will find that many of them fit a certain marketable profile in terms of looks, dress code, and perhaps the most importantly, being able to say the right thing at the right time, especially in front of the cameras.
There is one side of me who believes that the route currently taken by the Classical music industry is inevitable, as it has to adapt and keep up with increased commercialism, and Classical music has never been the art form for the masses. At the same time, I find it problematic that some of those who hold the industry's most prominent positions are not often the best people. It is an industry that still favours nepotism and the 'old-boys' network' (if I may use such a term), which means that it is often a case of who you know, or rather whose ego you are willing to stroke (and, by the same token, how successful you are at negotiating politics), that gets you places. I also don't think that it is right when so much power is placed in the hands of those in authority, especially teachers: the one person who can make a student feel completely sh*t about him/herself is the only person who can also galvanise the student. There is something fundamentally unhealthy about this, and when it is coupled with the abuse of power and trust (which has been shown in amongst numerous high-profile musical cases in recent times), it only makes the Classical music industry even less desirable. Hence it is not difficult to see why the more sensitive artists are less inclined to trade their souls, knowing full well that Mephistopheles doesn't deal in refunds.
Despite its unpleasantness and Weinstein-esque overtones, I have never regretted my decision to pursue a career in Classical music. I knew that the cards were stacked against me, yet I was determined to make something of it. When I swallowed the red pill and saw the industry for what it is, I realised that I have one of two choices: b*tch and cry that life is unfair or find another way forward, and I am glad that I did the latter. To borrow Laverne's phrase, 'Once you have decided what the system is, then you can choose how far removed or how far involved you want to be.'
I am eternally indebted to all my professors, especially Graham and Hendrik, but my greatest teacher has been life itself. It has taught me that there is no such thing as a timeline or timeframe in my quest for artistic truth. If you are not an international prize-winner by the time you are in your late twenties it doesn't necessarily mean that you haven't 'made it.' By the same token, if 'it' doesn't happen for you now (whatever 'it' may be) 'it' might still happen: when the future is uncertain, anything is possible. You might not necessarily end up where you envisaged, but it is exactly the place you need to be in the present moment. Ultimately, the one person truly responsible for your own musical ambition is you yourself: don't sit around waiting for the phone to ring, go out and make things happen. Be bold, promote yourself, build communities, surround yourself with like-minded colleagues, and embrace your musical flaws and technical limitations as an artist. Allow yourself the license to play wrong notes and have the odd memory lapse, and try not to crucify yourself after every performance, as there will always be people who will do that for you. Music is a reflection of life, and life itself is far from perfect.
When Laverne and I visited the heritage part of Penang in 2018, we were humbled by way of lives of the street food vendors, who spent their life perfecting one local dish with the recipe handed down from past generations. There is something very humbling about knowing your place in your community and doing your best to be part of that. We often underestimate our own work, but someone else may deem our contribution invaluable. I know of many excellent musicians and performers who are not part of the world's 'famed' orchestras, nor do they regularly perform at venues such as the Carnegie Hall or London's Royal Festival Hall, but this doesn't mean their performances are any less committed or engaging. At the end of the day, I think it is the beauty of music as well as the desire to keep on learning that keeps all musicians going.
I leave you with a conversation that took place between a former student and myself.
Student: 'Dr Low, I am going to stop piano lessons now, is that OK?'
Me: 'Sure, I have never believe in making someone do something they don't want to, but at least tell me the real reason behind you wanting to stop.'
Student: 'Well Sir… I will never be rich and famous if I play the piano, right?'
Me: '(The student's name), the joy is in the playing.'
Student: (Blank stare)
Michael Low, January 2022
As a teenager, Michael Low studied piano under the guidance of Richard Frostick before enrolling in London's prestigious Centre for Young Musicians, where he studied composition with the English composer Julian Grant, and piano with the internationally acclaimed pedagogue Graham Fitch. During his studies at Surrey University in England, Michael made his debut playing Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in the 1999 Guildford International Music Festival, before graduating with Honours under the tutelage of Clive Williamson. In 2000, Michael obtained his Masters in Music (also from Surrey University), specialising in music criticism, studio production and solo performance under Nils Franke.
An international scholarship brought Michael to the University of Cape Town, where he resumed his studies with Graham Fitch. During this time, Michael was invited to perform Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto for The Penang Governer's Birthday Celebration Gala Concert. In 2009, Michael obtained his Doctorate in Music from the University of Cape Town under the supervision of South Africa greatest living composer, Hendrik Hofmeyr. His thesis set out to explore the Influence of Romanticism on the Evolution of Liszt's Transcendental Etudes.
In 2013, Michael started a project in Singapore collaborating with The Kawai School Elite in a series of masterclasses and workshops for teachers and students. Having grown up in the East and lived his life in the West, Michael believes that both cultures has much to offer and envisage an exchange between Singapore and Cape Town in the future.
Michael is also the co-founder of the Elvira Ensemble – a Classical Chamber Orchestra specialising in the Piano Concertos of Mozart and Beethoven as well as Soundtracks from Blockbuster Hollywood Movies. The Ensemble have given performances at several high-profile events such as the wedding of Justin Snaith, South Africa's leading race-horse trainer. In January 2020, the ensemble was engaged to perform at the wedding of the former Miss Universe and Miss South Africa, Miss Demi-Leigh Nel Peters.
Michael has also worked with numerous eminent teachers and pianists, including Nina Svetlanova, Niel Immelman, Frank Heneghan, James Gibb, Phillip Fowke, Renna Kellaway, Carolina Oltsmann, Florian Uhlig, Gordon Fergus Thompson, Francois du Toit and Helena van Heerden.
Michael currently holds teaching positions in two of Cape Town's exclusive education centres: Western Province Preparatory School and Herschel School for Girls. He is very much sought after as a passionate educator of young children.
Michael has also served as a jury member in the 2nd WPTA Singapore International Piano Competition in 2020. He has been engaged for a series of talks and masterclasses with the WPTA Indonesia in September of 2021.
Michael Low's website
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Allen Steck est un grimpeur et alpiniste américain né le 17 mai 1926 à Oakland en Californie et mort le .

Biographie

Ascensions
 1949 : voie Comici à la face nord de la Cima Grande di Lavaredo (premier américain à faire l'une des « six grands faces nord des Alpes » citées par Gaston Rébuffat dans Étoiles et tempêtes)
 du 30 au  : première ascension de la face nord de Sentinel Rock avec John Salathé (la voie Steck-Salathé est la première de degré V aux États-Unis)
 1954 : il participe à l'expédition américaine au Makalu, qui atteint  d'altitude
  : première de la face sud-est du Clyde Minaret () avec Dick Long, John Evans et Chuck Wilts
  : première de l'arête Hummingbird au mont Logan () en Alaska avec Dick Long, John Evans, Jim Wilson, Frank Coale et Paul Bacon
  : première ascension des Doors of Perception à la North Palisade, avec Doug Robinson

Publication
 Allen Steck, Steve Roper, Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, Sierra Club Books, 1979.

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Naissance en mai 1926
Naissance à Oakland (Californie)
Grimpeur américain
Alpiniste américain
Décès à 96 ans
Décès en février 2023

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Home » US News » San Diego high school student contracts meningococcal meningitis
San Diego high school student contracts meningococcal meningitis
by Robert
A 17-year-old student from San Ysidro High School in San Diego has been confirmed positive for meningococcal disease, according to county health officials.
Meningitis symptoms/Public domain image/Mikael Häggström
The previously healthy male was admitted to a local hospital Saturday morning and is recovering.
Health authorities have identified and notified family members and other close contacts to the student who may have been exposed to the bacteria. The student may have exposed others with close contact any time between Nov. 14 and Nov. 21.
While meningococcal disease can be serious and deadly, it is not spread through casual contact. Therefore, the risk to those who were not in close, direct contact is minimal," said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer. "Meningococcal disease is spread through close contact with the infected individual. We are working to notify all who may have been exposed to the disease and to provide post-exposure treatment as needed."
Neisseria meningitidis causes the most severe form of bacterial meningitis. Meningitis is an infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. It can also be found in the bloodstream. This particular type of meningitis is very severe and can result in death if not treated promptly. Even in cases where treatment has been given, the fatality rate is around 15%.
The symptoms of bacterial meningitis are sudden, with fever, stiff neck, body aches and headaches. As the disease progresses other symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, photophobia and seizures. A petechial rash seen on the trunk and lower extremities, bleeding complications, multi-organ failures and shock are usually final signs. This disease has the ability to kill within hours of getting it.
Up to 10-20% of older children and young adults carry this organism in the mouth and nose, though the carriage rate will vary with age and closeness of population. The majority of people that carry this bacterium have no clinical disease. The organism is spread person to person through respiratory secretions from the nose and mouth (coughing, sneezing and kissing). Experts are unsure why some people advance to meningitis disease while many do not.
Crowded living conditions facilitate the spread of the organism and places like military barracks and college dormitories are well documented areas of concern with this disease. For more infectious disease news and information, visit and "like" the Infectious Disease News Facebook page
Related: Meningococcal Group B Vaccine, Trumenba, now available in the US
There have been eight cases of meningococcal disease reported in San Diego County this year, including the deaths of a Patrick Henry High School student in February and a San Diego State University student in October. On average, 10 cases have been reported annually over the past five years in San Diego County.
A vaccine is available to prevent certain strains of meningococcal disease and is routinely recommended for children and adolescents 11 to 18 years of age, including a booster for those entering college if they received their last dose prior to age 15.
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Caroline Petrie says:
Our hearts and support go out to those affected by the terrible effects of meningitis. The Meningitis Foundation of America offers extensive information regarding diagnosis, immunization, recovery and the after effects of meningitis. MFA survives primarily by donations. For the past 17 years, we have assisted people through support groups, resources and advocacy in efforts to help those affected with meningitis overcome and those around them understand the journey ahead. We promote prevention and safety measure in at risk communities and help explain the short term, long term effects and recovery treatments of meningitis to the media and public at large. Meningitis is a dangerous & often times fatal infection that can lead to serious life-long physical problems and even death. We are here to provide emotional support to those who need it; please feel free to reach out to us at http://www.musa.org.
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A weight-gain diet could take some getting used to. Since you're eating more than you're burning each day, you might feel very full after your meals. Avoid being overwhelmed at mealtime by eating three meals and two to three snacks each day, rather than getting all your calories at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Use healthy but high-calorie fats, like flaxseeds and flax oil, avocados, olive oil, coconut oil, and nuts and nut butters. Try whole-grain toast slathered with almond butter or sweet potatoes mashed with olive oil and herbs for flavor. Spoon high-calorie granola into your oatmeal for crunch and extra calories or add half an avocado to a salad or wrap as a source of calories and fat.
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De Tuin van geneeskrachtige planten Paul Moens (Frans: Jardin des plantes médicinales Paul Moens) is een kruidentuin in Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.

De tuin is aangelegd op een terrein van tweeduizend vierkante meter en wordt omringd door een openbaar park van tweeënhalf hectare. Er bevinden zich honderden inheemse en geacclimatiseerde planten, struiken en bomen, variërend van geneeskrachtige, voedzame en giftige gewassen tot kruiden.

De tuin en het park maken deel uit van de Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (UCLouvain) te Brussel. De UCLouvain beheert naast deze tuin ook nog de beeldentuin en het Farmaceutisch Museum Albert Couvreur, beide eveneens in Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe.

Het geheel heeft een informatieve functie voor studenten geneeskunde, farmacie en dieetleer. Deze functie had het ook al in vroegere tijden voor artsen, apothekers en diëtisten, voor wie het werd opgezet. De tuin en het park zijn gratis toegankelijk.

Zie ook
 Lijst van musea in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

Museum in Brussel
Farmacie
Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe
Openluchtmuseum in België


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How the Jewish Press Reported Leo Frank's Execution in 1915
Rosemary Pennington · 18 August, 2015
Accuracy wasn't much better then than now; these are translations from the Yiddish "Forverts" coverage of this day 100 years ago.
ATLANTA, August 17, 1915 — A telephone dispatch was received today at 55 minutes past 8 in the morning reporting that Leo Frank was lynched in Marietta (Marietta is the town where the murdered Mary Phagan was from and was buried there.)
No details are known yet.
Atlanta, August 17
Via a telephone report from Lynchburg, Putnam County there is news that Frank's body was found in the 'Little River.'
Per the telephone dispatch several bullets were found in Frank's body. The body was already several hours dead when it was found. The body was found several miles away from the location where Little River meet Further [sic] River.
Another report from Atlanta gives a different account of Frank's death.
The outlaws hung the victim Frank from a tree. The body was found hanging from the tree in a location found two miles from Marietta.
The site was not far from the house where Mary Phagan was born. His hands were bound.
The rope around his neck re-opened his previous wound made when the convict Green cut him there with a knife, July 17th.
Mrs. Frank, Leo Frank's mother, upon hearing the sad news about her son exclaimed practically automatically: 'Thank god my son is dead already for death frees him forever from all his suffering. In any case his life would have been a torment for him. Those who thirsted for his blood might have killed him in an even crueler manner.
Macon, Georgia, August 17
Leo Frank yesterday, at 20 minutes after 12 at night was taken from the state prison in Milledgeville where he had been placed since Governor Slayton [sic] had commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment.
Twenty-five masked men broke into the prison, got the warden and found Frank's location, quickly removed him from there, seated him in one of the waiting cars which swiftly disappeared.
The cars headed in the direction of Easonton [sic] which is 25 miles from Milledgeville to the north.
As the kidnappers had cut telegraph and telephone wires earlier, which connected the prison and Milledgeville with the outside world, it took a critically long amount of time before the prison board could get word out to the surrounding villages about what had occurred.
From Macon, which is 25 miles east of Milledgeville, two cars full of prison board members were immediately sent to Atlanta.
The sheriff of Milledgeville immediately sent deputies out in all directions to the surrounding counties.
There was no sign of the kidnappers. They left no trace and the board got no descriptions of them from the prison guards either. Poor Frank! He had a bitter struggle for his life. He knocked on several courtroom doors seeking justice, preparing a second trial in which to prove his innocence.
But the courts were deaf and so were the judges. They rejected his request for technical reasons. And it appeared nothing would save him from the hanging execution that was his sentence for being accused of the murder of Mary Phagan.
But suddenly it seemed fate was smiling at him. Governor Slayton claimed that not enough evidence was found to convict him and that if not for the crowd's anger the jury might not have found him guilty. And he changed the sentence from a death sentence to life imprisonment. But soon it would be clear that his life was not secured yet. July 17th, one week after Frank was brought to the state prison farm, another life term convict, W. Green, made an attempt on his life and nearly decapitated him with a knife. For several weeks Frank lay between life and death. It was only recently, a few days ago that he was released from the prison hospital.
And now he's been kidnapped.
By whom? We don't yet know. In the first moments, many thought his friends kidnapped him in order to rescue him from a probably second attempt on his life.
But this notion didn't make sense. There is evidence to show this isn't the work of friends but enemies. A prisoner reportedly heard one of the masked men yell: "Tomorrow (meaning, today-Tuesday) Frank's body will lie on Mary Phagan's grave."
Also it appears those who kidnapped him were the same ones thirsting for his blood and there is a fear that they lynched him.
How Frank Was Kidnapped
It was half past midnight and the prison had been asleep since 8 pm. It was quiet throughout.
The stillness was broken by the 7 cars arriving and stealing into the prison farm surrounding area.
Quietly, without making a sound from out of the cars, 25 armed men emerged like shadows. Their tasks had already been decided earlier. Five of them moved off together towards the office of Warden Smith. The warden turned around to find five revolver barrels aimed at him.
A few other masked men did the same thing to the superintendent of the prison. The rest of them tore into the prison sector where Frank was held. There they found two guards they easily overcame. Then, they grabbed Frank quickly and disappeared with him into the night.
Rumors That Frank Is No Longer Alive
Atlanta, August 17th — There are reports that indicate that Frank is no longer among the living.
One report says that the lynchers hanged Frank on a tree five miles from Milledgeville. Another report says they shot him in Little Creek, which is midway between Milledgeville and Atlanta.
These reports have not yet been confirmed.
Mrs. Frank Fainted When She Heard The Sad News.
When Mrs. Frank was told her husband had been kidnapped she fainted. She was revived but there is a fear that the tragic news affected her so deeply she will not recover.
100 Bullets Shot Into Frank
Atlanta Aug. 17 — A farmer in the county where the prison is located claims he heard revolver shots at night. He says it wasn't less than 100 shots that were fired. That is an indirect confirmation of the report that the outlaws shot Frank.
Milledgeville., Aug.17 — According to prison guards, about 25-100 masked men leaped out of the cars.
A black man incarcerated and kept in the area where Frank was also held claims that right after the outlaws dragged the deathly pale Frank from his cell he ran into the office of the superintendant whose hands had been bound and also to the office of Warden Smith whose hands had also been bound. Warden Smith immediately ran over to the phone but realized immediately that the wires had been cut. He tried to phone from additional locations but the wires had been cut everywhere.
A local farmer let him use the phone and from there he called police in all the surrounding areas. Shortly thereafter the chase began after the outlaws but three quarters of an hour had already gone by during which they could have gotten far from Milledgeville..
Atlanta, Aug. 17 — Governor Harris orders all means be used to catch the outlaws who kidnapped Frank. Masses of police, detectives and various agents are seeking evidence of the outlaws.
Governor Harris has demanded Warden Smith present him with a full report on how Frank was kidnapped.
Source: Jewish Daily Forward
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18 August, 2015 at 7:50 am	— Reply
Can Donald Trump stop White genocide in America? Just because his daughter married a Jew doesn't mean he wants Whites to become an ever-vanishing minority. He must know that the only way to make America great again is to keep it from becoming a third world country, and it is highly unlikely that he privately believes in the racial equality myth.
It's good that the black republicans were incapable of winning the peace after the 4 years war; otherwise, Frank might have escaped the confederate rope attached to the hanging tree. The South never developed what became known as Stockholm syndrome. The Jews were repulsed by the deep rooted southern culture.
18 August, 2015 at 9:17 pm	— Reply
One is compelled to not let this crime rest for the sake of justice. Or is it more?
Exactly what is this Jew grievance? If Leo Frank , despite evidence and other condemning prejudicial knowledge of his earlier prurient behavior did in fact not murder the child , MAry Phagan , then who did?
Is the question about his culpability or the hegemony of Jewish control.?
Jews always work to create doubt. Their motive is more tp undermine the will and integrity of a people to self determination or belief in themselves. Their life is a conspiracy to persuade a new generation that southern people's ability to decide important affairs without Jewish supervision is highly unreliable and suspect.
Monopoly is their ultimate goal and subversion of a people's self reliance to govern themselves or preserve law and more importantly their culture , is this not the victim symbolized in an innocent child?
Obviously the life of a poor, white girl means nothing to them. Another child not wanting to believe their lies and enter a new life of corruption which they will avenge in another young woman Norma Jean Baker of the next generation.
I am beginning to understand why this one child that I never heard of before this year and her sacrosanct murderer have nothing in common and cursed are the events or times which brought them together.
Leo Frank
29 August, 2015 at 10:27 am	— Reply
In the eyes of the anti-Gentile Jewish supremacists, 13 year old Mary Phagan was then and is now, just an afterthought and cheap plot device, however Jewish sex killer Leo Frank the toilet strangler is the real victim of this case.
Interestingly enough Forverts (now The Jewish Daily Forward) founder interviewed Leo Frank in 1914 while he was at the county jail waiting on the results of his appeals. Leo Frank stated that more or less anti-Semitism was not behind it all. Yet today, every time Leo Frank's trial is invoked often the words anti-Semitism are mentioned.
There is zero evidence that Leo Frank was suspected, indicted and convicted because of anti-Semitism, it is a Jewish lie repeated over and over again by organized Jewry over the generations.
The Jewish supremacists will stop at nothing in their efforts to get Leo Frank exonerated.


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Are patient deaths in the Juno cancer trial just a 'bump in the road'?
By Ed Silverman @Pharmalot
Juno Therapeutics/AP
The fallout from the clinical hold that regulators placed late Thursday on a key clinical trial being run by Juno Therapeutics may not be known for weeks, if not longer. Of course, the ramifications are already being dissected, especially on Wall Street, where investors are trying to determine the extent to which the approach that Juno is taking to combating cancer will affect its fortunes and possibly other companies, as well.
To quickly recap, Juno is exploring CAR-T immunotherapy — genetically modifying patient T cells, which help fight cancer, and then injecting them back into the bloodstream. But its most advanced project, which involves a compound called JCAR015, led to three patient deaths. The mid-stage trial, known as Rocket, is testing the compound in adults with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Juno halts its immunotherapy trial for cancer after three patient deaths
Juno believes the culprit is fludarabine, a chemotherapy that was added to the mix of drugs used to treat patients before administering JCAR015. The FDA has asked the drug maker to submit various materials, but for now, it remains uncertain what happens. Meanwhile, Wall Street analysts are ballparking the odds. Here is what some of the wags are telling investors Friday morning …
Joshua Schimmer of Piper Jaffray:
"While the evolving data do not suggest that fatal neurotoxicity is a problem across all CAR programs, severe neurotoxicity (cerebral edema) and severe cytokine release syndrome … are consistently seen. As such, it's not surprising to us to see fatalities emerge with the Juno program. Exactly what the recipe is that leads to a patient death is unclear, but it does highlight the need to consider the entirety of these regimens and not pretend that it's all 'just the cells' that are responsible for the safety and efficacy profiles.
"We had spoken with Juno management earlier in the year and found it difficult to pin them down on any nuances of their (CAR) programs, which seemed like a moving and evolving target to us, further confounding the ability to ascribe blame to any particular aspect of their program. That said, it may be naive to believe that other potent CAR-based regimens won't be associated with fatal events."
Barclays analysts Jonathan Eckard, Geoff Meacham, and Bryan Czyzewski:
"We view the treatment-related patient deaths and clinical hold … add risk to this program, which could broaden if FDA concerns carry over to other Juno CAR-T programs. Our initial view is that the data suggest these events being specific to the Rocket trial, and therefore, the ultimate impact on Juno could be contained. However, if broader FDA concerns materialize, we expect this to occur quickly — days to weeks. … We believe most important will be to watch for any updates on other Juno trials. If there are no negative headlines over the next 1-2 weeks, we believe the risk could be contained to the Rocket program."
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Chris Shibutani and Santhosh Palani of Cowen:
They describe the clinical hold as a "bump in the road" and a "setback that appears manageable. The scope of the safety issue appears contained (to the Juno compound and the combination of both cyclophosphamide and fludarabine) and we see Juno's response plans as reasonable. We see a delay in timelines, not a failure of the adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia program.
"Determining causality of the patient deaths is clearly a challenge given the multiple potentially contributing variables and the relatively small number of patients involved. That said, we are heartened by the data — which has shown thus far, the combination of solid efficacy, as well as reasonable safety (no patient deaths) seen in patients." They note these patients have already been managed using the cyclophosphamide-only regimen, which Juno plans to use going forward."
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analysts Edward Nash, Yun Zhong, and Mike Guo:
In assessing the impact on Bluebird Bio, which is currently running a Phase 1 study in patients with refractory multiple myeloma, they do not think it will be affected by Juno safety issues. They note that neurotoxicity is common in all patients receiving chemotherapy, but is not frequently observed in multiple myeloma patients. And while the same regimen of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide is being used in the study (CRB-401), "the cyclophosphamide dose is only one-third to half of what was used in Juno's JCAR015 study so the dose is much lower and should be associated with a lower rate of side effects."
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For those of you wondering about the next steps at Juno, the FDA requested Juno submit four items to address the clinical hold: a revised protocol that will remove fludarabine; a revised informed consent form; a revised investigator brochure; and the presentation made to the agency on Wednesday. Juno plans to submit the materials this week and anticipates an expedited response.
But timelines can vary. The FDA has 30 days to respond or at least provide feedback. Of course, the process could extend beyond that timeline if the agency decides to conduct a safety analysis or asks Juno to modify the protocol.
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Home Computers U.S. announces timeline for 25% tariff on Chinese tech products
U.S. announces timeline for 25% tariff on Chinese tech products
After significant back-and-forth over the past few months, the White House intends to follow through with a pledge to place tariffs on imported Chinese technology goods while also tightening restrictions on investments by Chinese firms into American companies.
In a statement posted by the White House this morning, the administration said that it would impose a 25% tariff on $50 billion of Chinese high-tech goods "containing industrially significant technology." That follows the conclusion of the U.S. Trade Representative's Section 301 investigation into China's industrial and intellectual property policies. What goods will be included in the tariff policy has been up for debate, but the final list will be released on June 15th. This package of tariffs is different than a separate package of tariffs focused on steel and aluminum production announced earlier this year.
The regulations around investment restrictions by Chinese companies will be announced at the end of June. The administration will also continue to litigate a case at the World Trade Organization over intellectual property protections.
All of these announcements should be taken with a shaker's worth of salt though, since these are just the latest cards being played in a series of interconnected negotiations both internal to the White House and external with the Chinese government.
Internally, the White House has been riven with differences over how aggressively to prosecute the Chinese over its industry practices, with financiers like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin taking a more flexible line while others like U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Director of the White House National Trade Council Peter Navarro have pushed for a much more aggressive approach. As different actors curry favor with President Donald Trump, their respective policies seem to appear and disappear.
Externally, the U.S. and China are engaged in a protracted multi-dimensional negotiation over the status of trade between the two countries. That includes both the approval of Qualcomm's merger with NXP from the U.S. side, as well as re-authorizing a tech export license to China's telecommunications manufacturer ZTE on the Chinese side. Expect more announcements and counter-announcements to come in the coming weeks as these negotiations continue.
For tech companies and startups, the uncertainty and lack of clarity around these tariff policies is difficult to manage. Product roadmaps and supply chains are being reconsidered as each new policy gets announced, making it difficult to manage future launches. While no one wants a tariff in the tech industry, clarity would certainly make any tariff much easier to stomach.
Even more challenging is the looming deadline for the announcement of investment restrictions. Given that venture capital rounds generally take several weeks to close because of the due diligence process, and the deadline for the announcement of these new investment restrictions is at the end of June, Silicon Valley founders should be hesitant to accept Chinese VC dollars while they await regulatory certainty from Washington.
I've written before that the national security implications of Chinese venture capitalists are overblown, but ultimately, the administration is going to have to develop a rule, and until more information is provided, any investment from a Chinese-connected firm could potentially be cutoff at the last minute. Expect more developments on all of these policies as U.S. and Chinese negotiators continue hashing out a deal around trade.
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The intention behind this conference is to encourage and promote much needed theological engagement with regard to the furtherance of dialogue between Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. During their history these Churches have endured a very complex and at times tense relationship with one another (and this not just theologically but also politically, e. g. the example of the Ukrainian context). We would seek to gather together official representatives of both Christian traditions, as well as theologians and politicians from the differing contexts where the tensions are greatest to see if we can help move dialogue and so relations forward in this area.
Conference theme will be: "Stolen Churches" or "Bridges to Orthodoxy"? Impulses for Theological Dialogue Between Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.
We are aware that the theme may strike some as somewhat provocative but it serves the purpose to illustrate the differing and polarized positions on both sides with regard to the ecclesial status of Eastern Catholic Churches. This conference could help draw out the subjectivity of differing ecclesiological standpoints with regard to the status of these churches and therefore help move toward an ecumenically oriented breakthrough in understanding. As you know well, some Orthodox refer to them as "stolen", regardless of historical accuracy, whereas on the Catholic side they are seen as bridges to the Orthodox traditions (a perspective which, again, many Orthodox strongly reject). In delving deeper into what shapes and maintains differing ecclesiological perspectives, partners in dialogue might come to appreciate the sources of divisions and the sensitivities involved in helping to overcome ecclesial stand-offs of key historical moments as well as in recent decades.
The event would be a joint initiative between the Academy Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network (EI Network, see www.ei-research.net) and many additional partners. More detailed information about past events organised by the EI can be viewed concerning our Assisi 2012 event, involving over 255 participant from 55 different nations: Where We Dwell in Common: Pathways for Dialogue in the 21stCentury, our 2013 event Religion, Authority and the State: From Constantine to the Secular and Beyond; our Oxford 2014 conference on Hope in the Ecumenical Future,; and our 2015 gathering at Georgetown University and the Washington National Cathedral: Vatican II: Remembering the Future – Ecumenical, Interfaith and Secular Explorations of the Council's Legacy and Promise at which Cardinals Tauran and Tagle spoke and Cardinal Kasper spoke and presided and preached (you can finds videos of the plenary sessions alongside photos from throughout the event's duration on these websites).
In July, 2016 we met in China, in Hong Kong to explore Christianity and Religions in China: Past, Present, Future, where, among our keynote speakers were the Anglican Archbishop Paul Kwong, Bishop Michael Yeung of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong and a host of scholars and practitioners from around the globe – we were especially pleased that a majority of presentations were by those working in or working on Asian contexts. Our most recent events commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, taking the theme of The Reformation and Global Reconciliation, held in Germany at the University of Jena in 2017 and The Church and Migration: Global In-Difference?, which was organized with multiple ecumenical partners at the University of Toronto in June, 2018 and was opened by Cardinal Collins. Other events have taken place in Dayton-Ohio (US), Leuven (Belgium), Utrecht (Netherlands), Durham (England), Hawarden (Wales) and Kottayam (India).
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Warren Sibilla, Jr, PhD. 2 hours 21 minutes. Audio MP3 Download. Topics: Archetypes, Eastern Philosophy, Family and Intimate Relationships, Trauma
The Psychology of Terrorism: East & West
Terrorism and violence in its many forms and manifestations has become a constant in our day-to-day experiences. One of the most insidious responses to such vehemence is to find oneself polarized into in a dualistic worldview that in the end, only ensures the perpetuation of the violence. Through the use of koans, basic Buddhist principles, and the careful study of Jung's model of the psyche, this presentation will offer a response to such fear that, when practiced, promises a more peace-filled heart.
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OSTA: Don't Scrimp On DVD Burner Media
By Mark Hachman on December 8, 2003 at 7:09 pm
You get what you pay for, OSTA officials have concluded.
Officials at the Optical Storage Technology Association, Cupertino, Calif., released a second cut of compatibility data the association published last week, and concluded that consumers will have the most luck burning DVD media that is of "high quality," officials said.
Unfortunately, OSTA officials offered no further clarification, as the vendor-agnostic industry association declined to back any specific manufacturer. In data released last week, OSTA found that various DVD burners and media were only compatible 85 percent of the time, on average.
OSTA conducted the tests in conjunction with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as well as the DVD Association. OSTA also disclosed the test parameters which will be used during a second round of testing, the results of which will be revealed early next year.
For consumers, the problem is that OSTA represents the optical storage vendors, not users themselves. Subutai Ahmad, chairman of the OSTA DVD compatibility committee and vice president of engineering at YesVideo Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., said the organization would not release the list of compatible media and burners for either round of testing.
Instead, OSTA is struggling with a way to indicate that a particular brand of media is compatible with the DVD specification's list of error criteria, Ahmad said. "It's not yet something we're working on…it's a question of how we give the consumer the idea that there's some (Good) Housekeeping seal of approval," he said."
However, the compatibility committee did find that +RW and –RW media are, in general, equally compatible. The more expensive brands of media are also generally higher in quality, Ahmad acknowledged.
The committee's first round of testing used 14 DVD-ROM burners and a "grab bag" of media, Ahmad said. Each drive burned media at 1X and 2X speeds.
During the second round of testing, the compatibility committee will use the top five +RW and –RW drives, measured by unit sales, Ahmad said. The drives will represent 75 percent of the total market, which will include drives that are purchased by OEMs and then rebranded as their own products. A similar cross sample of media will be used. For this round, each disc will be burned at 4X speeds, he said.
"It will be a very good test," Ahmad said.


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Drawing Blood is a 1993 novel, the second from author Poppy Z. Brite. Something of a haunted house tale, the novel was originally titled Birdland but the publisher retitled it to make a thin connection to Brite's first novel, Lost Souls, a vampire tale.
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What Goes Around Comes Around–From Sixties Radicals To Trump Revolutionaries Nothing Has Changed
The Sixties were revolutionary years which ushered in a radical reconfiguration of American politics and society. Free love, civil rights, drug tolerance, anti-war activism, and a rejection of capitalist materialism all happened at once. Any one of these would have been significant; but taken together they were nothing less than expressions of a fundamental change in outlook, aspirations, and convictions.
Demographics played a major part in the revolution. At no time in American history were there so many young people aged 18-25 who, sharing the idealism and activist ambitions this age group has always shared, formed a potent lobby group for change.
The Fifties also played a role. There is nothing like revolt against something to trigger demands for something else. The Fifties was a decade of prosperity, national pride, and impressive economic growth. Family values – church, a good home life, a respectable job, and a belief in Christian principles – were universal and unquestioned. Of course there were interruptions in this idealistic vision – the Cold War, Korea, and McCarthyism – but all in all it was a settled time.
Progressive critics observed that the decade was only the calm before the storm. America was a nation of complacency, inherent bigotry, xenophobia, and enforced homogeneity. There was no way that this chimeric fantasy could last.
Baby Boomers, raised in this culture of unquestioning prosperity and social conservatism, brought up on the permissiveness of Dr. Spock, and considered the first generation of real historical optimism were, in the eyes of these same critics, ripe for insurrection. The Fifties may have been a decade of respectable conservative values, but they were also repressively so.
And revolt they did. The March on Washington, the Freedom Riders, the anti-war protests in front of the White House, the sit-ins and take-overs of college administrations were radical in concept and revolutionary in execution. Not only were these actions in response to specific grievances, they were designed to crack the foundations of a political-economic-social system which was inherently flawed and authoritarian.
The generation of the Sixties has been rightly credited with engineering needed social change. The plight of the poor, the excluded, the marginalized, and the oppressed was now in the open, and a new regard for social justice had to necessarily follow. Adventurous wars were an expression of this cocksure American posture; and the USA was considered the enemy of the people, not their liberator.
Much has happened since that decade, but many of the reforms initiated are now part of the mainstream.
Progressives of today who were part of the activist generation of the Sixties are understandably concerned about the conservative turn of American politics and society. The election of Donald Trump was far more than a a simple veer farther to the right. It was a revolutionary threat to the very principles for which they had fought fifty years ago.
They have good reason to be concerned; but they ignore the similarity of the current revolution with theirs. Just like Sixties progressives' revolt against the complacent, fat Fifties; today's populists are up in arms about what they see as the arrogant, presumptuous, and sanctimonious Obama years. Their civil rights have been abrogated through legislative and judicial action. Their freedom of religious expression, their right to bear arms, and perhaps most importantly their right to base political convictions on deeply-held religious beliefs are all considered in jeopardy.
While radical populists do not march like progressives did in the Sixties and still do today, they are equally influential. They have voted in the most conservatively radical White House, Congress, and Supreme Court the country has seen in may decades if ever.
These populists, their Washington and Statehouse political supporters, will actively move to return free speech to college campuses; ensure that religious rights extend beyond the individual to institutions and businesses; and roll back the intrusive, politically correct and ineffective social engineering programs in public education. They will turn national attention to middle class concerns and issues and away from the interests of minorities, such as the LGBT community which account for a small fraction of the American population.
They will reject the anti-capitalist rhetoric which attacks the financial and industrial enterprises which have always generated jobs and wealth. They will insist on a muscular foreign policy and reject idealistic morality in favor of realpolitik.
What is far more revolutionary is the total dismissal of the old, established cultural powers that be. Trump has no time let alone respect for the established media, political pundits, think tanks, or received wisdom. His is an administration of social media, big data, and universal populism. He is a child – despite his age – of the new, plugged-in, cybernetic, subjective, viral New Age; and the old guard are flummoxed. They have no idea what's happening and persistently try to draw the Republic back to truth, veracity, intellectual mediation, and reasonableness.
The people and their President are having nothing of it. Not only have politics changed but the very social dynamics of the country. America is no longer the republic of agrarianism and respect and reverence for Anglo-Saxon patrimony.
Donald Trump's revolution has only partly to do with national and geo-politics. It's true dynamics are cultural. Trump and his populist generation are new wave activists. They care little for vetted, authoritarian facts and place their bets on subjective optimism and good, old-fashioned patriotism.
Perhaps hardest for progressives to take is Trump's embrace of popular culture. He is President of the United States, but he is also a creation of Hollywood and Las Vegas. He, his yachts, and his estates have nothing to do inside-the-Beltway culture. His women have nothing to do with Rosalyn Carter, Pat Nixon, or even Nancy Reagan. He, his family, and his retinue are closer to the American fantasy ideal than any other occupants of the White House.
He may be no courageous leader like FDR, may have no Camelot, knights-and-ladies romance of the JFK years, nor any of the down-home charisma of LBJ; but he has glitz, showmanship, braggadocio, and sheer chutzpah of a Hollywood star, and that's good enough for most Americans.
Facts, 'truth', and reality have new meaning in the populist roots in popular American culture. Academia, Washington punditry, and 'rational' analysis have had their day.
What comes around, goes around; and radical revolution is no different. What populist conservatives are doing today under the Trump banner is no different from what Sixties radicals did decades before – structural reform of American society.
History is cyclical, repetitive, and predictable. While specific events may be unique, the force of human nature which underlie them do not. It is no surprise that the pendulum has swung between social conservatism and liberal interventionism over the years. The roots of both are as old as the Republic itself.
It is only a surprise that today's progressives are so shocked by this particular swing of the pendulum. It was sure to happen. The 'reforms' that they instituted and the insularity of thought which propagated and enforced them were bound to meet opposition. Trump supporters must know that their time will be short-lived. There is no such thing as absolute truth or absolute social values.
Viva la revolucion!
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Q: usage of ev3 ultrasonic sensor in lejos behavior based programming I'm using ev3 ultrasonic sensor. And I'm writing a behavior based lejos code. I want to do some tasks when the ultrasonic sensor detects an object which is not further than 30 cm's. And this is my code:
public UltrasonicSensor(Port port)
    {
        sonar = new EV3UltrasonicSensor(port);
        sonar.getDistanceMode().fetchSample(value, 0);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean takeControl() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return value[0] < 0.3;

    public void action() {
        ....
    }

    @Override
    public void suppress() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        suppressed = true;
    }

But I think it is not the right way. How can I implement it in the right way?
Thanks for help,

A: It appears you are only fetching a distance sample from the ultrasonic sensor once.  Get a SampleProvider object from the getDistanceMode(), store it in a global variable, and call fetchSample() on it each time you want a new sample.
However, you may want to make sure that you don't ask the sensor for a new sample too often, as this may overload it with ping requests.  Sound can be slow in comparison to how fast your program runs.

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