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Meet the new $13 billion aircraft carrier of the United States Navy
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December 19, 2022 Ian Wilcox (CMC, US Navy, Ret.)
By Ian Wilcox (CMC, US Navy, Ret.)
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The most advanced technological warship ever built is the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78).
The Gerald R. Ford was launched from the dry dock into Virginia's James River in November 2013 to begin its trials.
On July 22, 2017, the USS Gerald Ford was commissioned in Norfolk, Virginia. Commissioning is an extravagant occasion that puts a ship into active service. It is rooted in naval tradition.
Though President Trump has previously criticized the ship, he struck a much more optimistic tone during the ship's commissioning celebration.
"American hands and steel built a 100,000-ton message to the entire world: American might is unparalleled," he said.
Notwithstanding being officially commissioned, the Ford will involve a further four years of trials before operation. It will add a further $780 million to the ship's already significant cost.
The completed carrier is 1,106 feet long and 250 feet tall.
The finished USS Gerald R. Ford provides a number of welcome quality-of-life updates for sailors over the prior Nimitz design, such as quieter sleeping quarters, various recreation areas, and gymnasiums in addition to better air conditioning.
The Ford alone will cost US taxpayers $12.8 billion in both labor and materials. This excludes the $4.7 billion spent on research and development for the new carrier class.
The term "responsibility" refers to the act of determining whether or not a person is responsible for his or her own actions.
It is the first US carrier to also be constructed using such digitalized strategies.
On the Ford, augmented reality is being used.
The Gerald R. Ford also employs augmented-reality technology to provide its crew with more information about the ship's systems and to improve efficiency
The first cut of steel
The construction of a 90,000-ton naval vessel always starts with a single cut.
According to Newport News Shipbuilding, just welding the ship together will require 4,000,000 pounds of metal.
Working on the propellers
The propellers will enable the new class of ships to travel at speeds of 35 miles per hour, which is impressive for a 22.5-million-pound sea vessel.
The US Navy's most advanced warship – and the world's largest – created a stir this week as it set sail for its first deployment, a watershed moment in an ambitious plan to modernize the American fleet of aircraft carriers that have dogged by delays and technical hiccups.
The USS Gerald R Ford departed for Norfolk, Virginia, the world's largest naval base, to join vessels from France, Germany, and Sweden for different exercises in the Atlantic.
The exercises will take place in the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas, where Russian fleets have already been operating in recent months in response to Ukraine's invasion.
The nearly 100,000-ton ship, which cost the US government $13 billion, is hailed as possessing the potential to revolutionize the US Navy for several decades to come.
What folks know about the US Navy's first-of-its-kind supercarrier
The USS Gerald R Ford is the first ship in the Ford class, that will include at least 3 other ships in various stages of construction.
Assembled by Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding, the boat weighs approximately 97,000 tons and is nuclear-powered.
It brags about using augmented-reality technology, which will provide the army with greater insight into the ship's systems and increase efficiency.
The USS Gerald R Ford has not had an easy ride, as it has been chastised by Mr. Trump, other politicians, and navy veterans for problems including technical integration problems with the weapons elevators, misfires in the electromagnetic catapult, as well as a number of other issues over the years.
The US Navy's most advanced warship – and the world's biggest – generated a commotion because it set sail for its first deployment, a breakthrough for an ambitious project to modernize the American fleet of aircraft carriers which has now faced criticism amid delays and technical mishaps.
For more than 40 years ever since the 1970s, Nimitz-class carriers have served as the first responders throughout situations of crisis and dispute for the US Navy.
The Gerald R Ford has two nuclear reactors with 4 shafts, enabling it to make the journey at a rate of more than 30 knots. Its top speed is faster than that of the Royal Navy's flagship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, which can reach speeds of up to 25 knots.
Because of its high levels of automation, the ship does not require a large crew to operate and can function with a small unit.
It can transport over 4,539 personnel as well as 75 aircraft and other types of equipment.
According to the Navy, the carrier has nearly three times the amount of electrical power" as the previous Nimitz-class carriers.
Since its commissioning, the vessel has sailed for 250 to 300 days in testing at sea, but it only made its first formal deployment on Wednesday. Carrier Air Wing 8 has been working with the carrier off the coast of the United States.
The carrier has an electromagnetic launch system, or EMALS, which uses electricity to launch planes from it. A steam slingshot system was previously used. The new system means that the carrier will be under less stress, and the period between launches will be shorter.
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Q: Calling a method using Spinner? I'm trying to call a method using 2 different spinners, When I call using the first Spinner it is working, however when I user the other spinner its not calling and when it does it is copying the data from the first spinner. How can I call the method using both Spinners independently.
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A: This is vecuase you are doing UI work in background either you shold use Onpostexecute method of asynctask to set and parse the data or use RunonUIthread

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André-Marie Ampère was born in Lyons, France in 1775 to Jeanne-Antoinette Desutieres-Sarcey and Jean-Jacques Ampère. His father was a successful businessman and was devoted to his son's education. Ampère became interested in mathematics at an early age and submitted his first academic paper in mathematics when he was only thirteen years old. The rejection of the paper merely inspired him to study harder. The French Revolution affected the entire family. Ampère's father had accepted a civil service position and was eventually executed by guillotine.
In 1802 Ampère accepted a professorship of physics and chemistry at Bourg Ecole Centrale. He published several mathematics treatises and then took a post at the Lycee in Lyon. After his first wife died in 1803, he was appointed to a post at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, despite his lack of formal education. He remained in this position for nearly twenty years, a period which included a second brief and unhappy marriage. Ampère had wide-ranging intellectual interests. He worked on the classification of chemical elements and a theory of light. He was also interested in metaphysics and physics and brought a deep sense of spirituality to his academic work. In 1814 he was elected to the Institut National des Sciences.
After Hans Oersted's 1820 experiments proved the magnetic effects of electricity, Ampère attempted to formulate a combined theory of electricity and magnetism, thus founding the field of electrodynamics. His formulation of the mathematical description of the magnetic force between two electric currents is known as Ampère's Law. Although he was not a methodical experimenter, he was the first person to develop measuring techniques for electricity. His contributions were recognized by the international scientific community when he was elected to the Royal Society of London in 1827. Ampère's electrodynamic theory was fundamental to nineteenth-century developments in electricity and magnetism.
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How Flannery O'Connor Kicked the Fear Out of Me
Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her first novel, "Malcolm Orange Disappears" was published by Liberties Press in 2014, followed by a short story collection, "Children's Children" in 2016. Her flash fiction anthology, "Postcard Stories" is forthcoming from the Emma Press in 2017.
Her stories have appeared in journals such as Storm Cellar, Banshee, Harper's Bazaar and The Honest Ulsterman. In 2014 she was a recipient of the Arts Council NI Artist's Career Enhancement Bursary. She was longlisted for the Sean O'Faolain short story prize in 2015 and shortlisted in 2016, won the Harper's Bazaar short story competition in 2016 and was shortlisted for a Sabotage Award for best short story collection 2015/16.
In 2005 I moved to Portland, Oregon. I knew no one in the entire state. This was part of the appeal. I wanted to be unknown. I was weary of the Northern Irish goldfish bowl I'd grown up in; of not being able to leave the house without bumping into someone I knew; of over-familiarity and never being able to escape my previous self. I wished to re-invent myself and fancied becoming a writer. I had not, at this point, written anything but felt very strongly that I had the potential to write many things of great and lasting importance. (I was reading a lot of Sylvia Plath at the time). As a teenager I'd consumed huge amounts of American literature: Steinbeck, Salinger, Capote and all the other, 'mostly men' who'd charted the US's progress through youth and early childhood. I was captivated by the possibilities offered by a country still trying to define itself, and believed that America, despite its myriad faults, could offer me almost unlimited opportunities for re-invention. So, I packed a laptop and an inordinate amount of waterproof clothing, (Portland being the only city in the world more prone to pervading drizzle than Belfast), and moved to the other side of the world. I told everyone I met that I was a writer. "That's great," they said, and never once questioned this bold claim. After a few weeks I began to believe my own fib. After a few months I actually started writing.
I spent almost four years in Portland. I flourished in the city's incredible arts community. I flexed my wings as a fledgling writer and wrote, and wrote, and most of what I wrote was utter drivel, but the odd piece flew. I felt a creative freedom I'd never experienced before. It seemed possible, even probable, that I might get to make some tiny, but significant mark on the world. I had a friend tattoo the phrase, "be not so fearful," round the inside of my left arm. This would be a permanent reminder of my new found confidence; a bold line I would not permit myself to retreat over again. Then, in Autumn 2008, my American adventure was suddenly over. Visas, family issues and study opportunities conspired to force me out of the city I'd hoped to call home and back across the Atlantic, to Northern Ireland, where I did not want to be. The scab hadn't even healed over my new tattoo yet I could already feel the fear beginning to sink its claws in.
With zero career prospects and even less savings, I found myself, aged twenty nine, making the humiliating move back into my old room in my parents' house. I got a minimum wage job in a provincial shopping centre, and quietly despaired. It was not an easy year. I spent a great deal of time stomping round the town with my anorak hood up, crying and trying to reconcile the person I was in Portland with my current circumstances. I watched a lot of CSI. I spent a great deal of time hanging out in Tesco's café, (the only thing open after 5pm on a week night), and I attempted to write a novel.
I have a very clear memory of writing the opening two lines of my first book, Malcolm Orange Disappears. I was sitting in the coffee island of the provincial shopping centre, drinking a piss-thin Americano and trying to feel inspired when one of the security guards leaned over my shoulder, read the first two sentences off my laptop screen and laughed in my face. It was one of the smallest and most demeaning moments of my life. At that point I could not possibly have imagined the life I now have: writing, publishing books and stories, never, really making much money, but nonetheless relishing every second of the journey. I felt utterly defeated: stupid and insignificant, the absolute opposite of a dangerous woman. I almost gave up on my novel. I very nearly stopped writing.
Just a few weeks later I discovered Flannery O'Connor. I may have been a little late to this particular party but, for me, the advent of Flannery occurred at exactly the right moment. In a very real sense Flannery O'Connor saved my writing life. I devoured her stories, novels and, perhaps most importantly, her non-fiction writing. She kicked the fear out of me, reminding me why I had to write. It was not a choice so much as a responsibility. Her stories knocked me sideways. They were passionate, wise and wickedly funny. They left me with an unswerving desire to live well and boldly. Under her tutelage I came to understand that crafting a powerfully honest sentence was just about the most dangerous thing a woman could do.
Over the course of a very long winter, selling over-priced candles and picking away at the first draft of my novel, Flannery taught me that words were like tiny bombs: powerful and potentially explosive. There was no place for fear or restraint when it came to writing honestly about the world as I saw it. If I was entrusted with the gift of writing I was required to tend it to the absolute best of my ability. This would require bravery, risk-taking and the very real possibility of failure. It wasn't my job to concern myself with what might become of my writing. I was not to worry what friends or family, church or critic might make of the stories I felt compelled to tell. It was my chief calling, and indeed privilege, to serve the words generously, to shape and sharpen, then let them loose to explode as they saw fit. This was a harsh lesson, but a grounding which would ultimately keep me writing through the ups and downs of the following decade. I ignored the security guard and all those people who thought they knew what I was capable of, and the little voice in my head which craved security and approval, and I finished my book. Then I wrote another. And two more after that. And I'm still going.
Flannery O'Connor stayed with me. She became both a good friend and a persistent thorn in my side. Her essays continue to be the most well-thumbed books on my shelves. I go to her for inspiration and challenge when I feel myself growing fearful, doubting my ability as a writer. Sometimes she offers me sympathetic encouragement; mostly I get a well-aimed kick in the butt. I see much of myself in her life for I'm also a woman writer who has struggled with chronic illness, who feels drawn to wrestle with issues of faith and region, who doesn't function well, (at all), when she isn't writing. I admire Flannery's tenacity; her ability to flourish despite circumstances. I have so much still to learn from her.
In some ways Flannery O'Connor lived a very small and limited existence. Diagnosed with Lupus at 25, she spent most of her short life in pain, restricted to the family farm at Milledgeville, Georgia where she raised peacocks, wrote furiously and, as a devout Catholic, spent hours in prayer and contemplation. She had no real love affairs, didn't travel widely, caused no significant scandals and died one year shy of her fortieth birthday having written two novels and two collections of short stories. By today's high standards she might not even be considered a particularly successful human being. Yet, I would argue that Flannery O'Connor lived fearlessly, with tremendous passion and purpose, condensing so much significance into her 39 years, the reverberations are still being felt all over the world, not least in the thousands of writers she inspires, and oftentimes provokes, from beyond the grave. Flannery O'Connor is, in my opinion, the definition of a dangerous woman.
I am primarily drawn to O'Connor's unswerving sense of purpose. Her good friend Sally Fitzgerald recalls how, in light of her Lupus diagnosis, (which in the 1950s was a death sentence), Flannery, "took stock characteristically and began to plan her life in the light of reality." A practical realist as much as a visionary, she understood from a very early age that she had been born to write and ordered her life accordingly. She put her artistic practice first, actively resisting self-pity. She refused to allow exhaustion, chronic pain or limited time to distract her from writing and was, reportedly, crawling out of bed to finish the stories in what would become Everything That Rises Must Converge even as she lay dying. The literary world has always been plagued by individuals who value the title of Writer above the act of writing. Flannery O'Connor remains the antithesis of the status writer. Her life and work pay testament to an unspoken belief that her work was much more important than she would ever be. There is a peculiar power to be found in such bold humility when coupled with creative excellence. It is not bolstered by success or crippled by critique. It is unswerving as a bullet in its purpose and almost always hits its mark.
Secondly, I am continually inspired by Flannery's ability to see her difficult circumstances as fuel, if not fodder, for her writing. Every time I feel frustrated by the constraints of my own life –the exhaustion of juggling full time work and writing, the financial limitations, the small and large disappointments- I am reminded of her assurance, "I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing." Every facet of Flannery O'Connor's existence, both the positive and negative, found its way into her work and made her a braver, bolder, more honest writer. I have spent the last decade trying to squint my eye in a similar fashion. It's a difficult thing to do. In a world where so many use their circumstances as an excuse to retreat, Flannery has taught me how to invert my artistic gaze and see the powerful potential in every experience, no matter how difficult.
I must also pay testament to O'Connor's incredibly forthright voice. In a literary scene dominated by men she never once allowed her gender to limit the power of her voice. She offered unbidden critique of her, chiefly male, peers, castigating Capote and other "fashionable" writers of the time, whilst taking every opportunity to champion those whose work she admired, many of whom were relatively unknown. She spoke out boldly on controversial topics such as Catholic doctrine, the role of the Southern writer and literary form, militantly maintaining her own opinion, even when it wasn't the popular or pervading outlook. She was a woman who knew her own mind and wasn't afraid to use it. The impact of her influence is particularly remarkable in light of the fact she was latterly confined to a bed, in a room, on a backwater, Georgian farm. O'Connor's boldness of tone is unarguably most apparent in her fiction. Her critics often accused her of over-doing the grotesque to which Flannery, with characteristic forthrightness, and no small measure of dark humour, replied, "to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures."
Bold and uncompromising as she could be, Flannery O'Connor also had an incredible generosity of spirit when it came to supporting other, younger writers. Her collected letters offer a small insight into her belief that the writer does not exist in isolation; each generation has a responsibility to invest in the next. Over the course of her life she wrote hundreds of carefully constructed letters to other, less-experienced writers, mostly younger women. She offered advice, criticism, contacts and encouragement, always pausing to celebrate the success of her fellow writers.
Dangerous women, understand that the patriarchy is advanced when women are tricked into seeing each other as competition. Flannery O'Connor resisted this. She was always a team player, championing the power of artistic community. Her final, posthumously published collection was titled, Everything That Rises Must Converge. I have always read this as a kind of rallying cry. It is the writer's responsibility to write and write well, understanding that their voice is just one small, but essential part of a much bigger conversation. For me, however, Flannery O'Connor's voice will always be just a little louder than the rest.
Image: Cropped from photo 'Robie with Flannery 1947' by Cmcauley at commons.wikipedia.org, used under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
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Monira Al Qadiri: The Craft
Co-commissioned by the Sursock Museum and Gasworks
3 November 2017 to 7 February 2018
Twin Galleries, GF
Monira Al Qadiri
The End (installation view)
Polystyrene model, levitation module, sound
dimensions variable
Presented as part of "The Craft" at Gasworks, London, 2017. Photograph by Andy Keate.
Installation view of "Monira Al Qadiri: The Craft."
Photo: Christopher Baaklini. © Sursock Museum
Opening reception: Thursday 2 November from 18:00 to 21:00
The Sursock Museum presents The Craft, Monira Al Qadiri's first solo show in Lebanon.
The exhibition comprises works in sculpture, video and sound that envisage international diplomacy as an alien conspiracy. Shown in two distinct environments – a mysterious, pitch-black anteroom and an American diner – these semi-autobiographical pieces of science fiction unearth the unlikely stories lurking in the shadows of the artist's childhood in Kuwait.
In the VHS video The Craft (2017), presented in the diner, the artist asks: "Were my parents conspiring with aliens behind my back?" Reality crumbles, paranoia and speculation take hold. Pop culture, futuristic architecture, junk food, dream readings, alien abductions, geopolitics, diplomacy, war and peace: all of these once solid staples of modern life become tainted by a general sense of distrust.
Leaving the diner, we encounter The End (2017), a dimly lit, levitating hamburger. Arguably the most iconic symbol of consumer capitalism, here the burger is associated with the Japanese Ukiyo-e: pictures of hedonistic, "floating worlds" that became popular amongst the merchant classes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japan. The crude mechanics of suspension reveal, however, the precariousness of American cultural hegemony – a point brought home by the accompanying sound piece: a pre-recorded, voice-manipulated reading of an excerpt from The Kuwait Urbanization by Saba George Shiber, a book about the modernization of Kuwait in the 1960s.
The Craft was first presented at Gasworks, London, in the framework of Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture, 2017.
To mark the opening of her solo show, The Craft, Monira Al Qadiri will give a lecture performance titled "American Century: The End." In this lecture performance, Monira Al Qadiri performs a eulogy for the death of the American popular imagination, using a single all-embracing motif: junk food.
This event will take place on Thursday 2 November, from 19:00 to 19:30, in the auditorium.
Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts, where her research was focused on the aesthetics of sadness in the Middle East stemming from poetry, music, art, and religious practices. Her work explores unconventional gender identities, petrocultures and their possible futures, as well as the legacies of corruption. She is also part of the artist collective GCC.
Exhibition guide
Download the exhibition guide in Arabic and English.
American Century: The End
Lecture performance by Monira Al Qadiri
Thursday 2 November, 19:00 to 19:30
In this lecture performance, Monira Al Qadiri performs a eulogy for the death of the American popular imagination, using a single all-embracing motif: junk food. This event takes place on the opening night of Al Qadiri's solo show The Craft.
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Nice! Glad to hear the fish were biting for you despite the frigid temps! Email me your photo – jc@spacefishreport.com, and I'll plug it into your report for you.
That one hit first thing so we decided to release it and keep one later, but y'all know how that goes. Never got another one.


In 17th century Europe multiple matching items of jewellery were all the rage. A parure, as these collections were known, could include diadems, coronets, belts, bracelets, earrings, pendants, corsage studs, fasteners, necklaces and other accessories.
Among the most intriguing jewels in the world are pieces formerly in the collection of the French Crown Jewels. Nearly all the jewels were sold during an auction the French government conducted in 1887. The ruby and diamond diadem was sold to a Mr. Hass and the matching bracelets were sold to Tiffany & Co. Within a year, these jewels were resold to Mr. Bradley-Martin of New York City, an original member of the "Four Hundred," a term coined for New York City's high society.
The new owner became Cornelia Bradley-Martin, who played a colorful part in America's social history during the 1890s when New York was in the midst of an economic panic. Thousands were unemployed and long bread lines formed on the streets. Cornelia Bradley-Martin was distressed over the misery she saw around her and suggested that an extravagant party might help to lift New York out of its slump. It not only would lift spirits, she thought, but also would employ out of-work florists, hair stylists and dressmakers.
Guests were asked to dress "appropriately for the court of Versailles at the time of Louis XIV." Newspapers around the world began to print detailed accounts of the preparations. The New York Times told readers how carloads of orchids and roses arrived to transform the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria into the Great Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
The Bradley-Martins were costumed as Louis XV and Mary, Queen of Scots. She complemented her costume of black velvet and white lace with a stunning collection of jewels, including the pair of ruby and diamond bracelets dating from 1810 (which she wore joined together to form a dog collar), a large diamond brooch known as the Sevigne brooch dating from 1856, and the center plaque from the piece known as the great girdle set with diamonds, pearls and colored stones dating from 1864. On her right shoulder was a quatrefoil pendant set with rubies and diamonds.
In addition to the royal pieces, she wore an impressive diamond tiara, a necklace designed as a line of ruby and diamond clusters, a large diamond sunburst brooch, a belt set its entire length with large diamonds, and three additional diamond strands draped from her shoulder to her waist. She was a picture of extravagance.
Several ministers condemned the lavish display of wealth during a time of economic hardship. Soon the story of the ball erupted into a full-blown controversy. Collier's magazine printed critical editorials and a political cartoon lampooning it. The New York City tax authorities doubled the Bradley-Martins' tax assessment and, by the end of the year, the couple moved to England.
Their daughter, also named Cornelia, married the Fourth Earl of Craven and acquired the title Lady Craven at age 16. The Earl of Craven fell off his yacht and drowned at age 53 in 1921. His death was said to be an example of the curse on the Craven title (whereby all who inherit the title die young).
His body was found a day after his disappearance off the deck of the 63 ton yawl, Sylvia. In the police description of Lord Craven it was stated he was dressed in a dinner jacket, silk shirt and pearl cufflinks with his family crest tattooed on his breast. He was succeeded by his son, the one-legged Viscount Uffington.
The Maharajah of Patiala was rumoured to be a connoisseur of underwear.
In a small suite at Dorchester House the Gaekwar of Baroda briefly camped last week with his wife, a secretary and a few servants. Their Highnesses will slip over to Paris for the Gala Season and last week they left behind them in France their sleek motor car with solid gold fittings. As a self-made potentate would—the Gaekwar was a cowherder until adopted by the widowed Maharanee of Baroda as heir—His Highness did bring from India to the Jubilee gems such as Patiala was assumed to have brought.
There breathes no Englishman who does not know that Ranjitsinhji, the late sovereign of Nawangar, was the greatest Indian cricketer of all time and indeed one of the world's greatest. In London honeymooning last week was Ranji's nephew, His Highness the Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawangar. For a wedding present he received a racehorse from the Aga Khan and five elephants from his father-in-law, the Marahao of Sirohi.
Paul Deschanel was the President of France for seven months in 1920. In the middle of his presidency a strange incident occurred.
A trackwalker on the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railroad was trudging along a hundred miles south of Paris last night. It was a few minutes before midnight. The air was chill. The moon had gone down. Along the track toward him came a slightly built man wearing silk pyjamas.
The trackwalker thought the man was crazy, but he escorted him to Lorcy where a message was sent to the next station at which the train would stop. When the members of the presidential entourage were informed, they assured the station master that there must be some mistake. They searched all compartments except the President's as he had left word he was not to be disturbed before 7:00 am.
When at last his valet did enter the carriage to help the President dress it was noticed that he was indeed missing; the window was wide open with the curtain fluttering in the breeze…..
Previously his eccentric behaviour had also caused consternation when on one occasion after a delegation of schoolgirls had presented him with a bouquet, he tossed the flowers back at them one by one. Shortly after the incident with the train he walked out of a state meeting and straight into a lily pond, remaining there for several hours before being fished out by a gardener.
This is the final part in the French series. Just a reminder that next week is T shirt Friday again, so you've got 7 days to take a photo of yourself wearing a T shirt, then post it on your blog on June 30th for a link back. Thanks to daisyfae for suggesting the sepia treatment this week and thanks to queenwilly for being so obliging.
The Savoy Hotel was once the most beautiful and prestigious hotel in London. Currently closed for refurbishment*** and due to reopen shortly, I'd love to attend a dinner party there like the one George Kessler held for King Edward VII's birthday in 1905.
It is a balmy July evening in London. A silk-lined gondola, strewn with 12,000 carnations, bobs on a Venetian canal, escorted by pearl-white swans. A baby elephant, groaning under the weight of a 5ft-high birthday cake, is escorted on board the gondola, accompanied by Enrico Caruso, who croons "O Sole Mio" under a paper moon. The scene is illuminated by 400 hand-made paper lamps. In the air above them flutter 100 white doves.
Waiters costumed as gondoliers served twelve courses to twice that number of diners seated on gold chairs. Three impressive lions carved out of ice bore trays of peaches and glace fruits while a bevy of Gaiety Girls drank the health of the monarch in Moet et Chandon champagne.
The al fresco dinner saw the Savoy's forecourt, which was later turned into a Japanese garden to entertain the Japanese Royal Family, and now lies under the Lancaster Ballroom, flooded and turned into a reproduction of Venice. The bill came to £3,000, a fortune at the time. (Kessler presumably also had to pay for the swans, which were overcome by the blue dye in the mock canal).
*** another auction highlight was a mahogany chest of drawers from the room Richard Harris lived in.
Sir Leo Money (1870-1944) was an English politician and economics journalist who had a taste for the ladies. He was once caught in a compromising position with a young woman in Hyde Park.
***Chief Inspector Alfred Collins' reputation was challenged by the notorious case when it was alleged Miss Selvidge had been made to show her pink petticoat to police without a female witness in attendance.
Sir Leo not only fought the charges, but demanded an apology from the police. Collins was accused of badgering the witness, and faulted for not having a female police officer remain for the interview (Inspector Lilian Wyles). A Parliamentary inquiry ensued, at which the police were largely exonerated, and the Met changed its policy to mandate that women officers always be present when women were giving statements. Wyles and Collins remained on good terms after the inquiry was concluded, and he always carried, in his waistcoat pocket, a "lucky" mahogany bean which Inspector Wyles had given him during the hearings.
In 1935 Sir Leo was again arrested for "wilfully interfering with the comfort of a passenger, Miss Ivy Ruxton" on a train travelling between Dorking and Ewell. After some consideration, Sir Leo, who admitted kissing the woman, was fined 50 shillings. He decided not to appeal and spent his last years writing rambling political treatises and serving as an editor for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The first maitre d'hotel at Maxim's was Eugene Cornuché. He prided himself on pleasing his clientele and saw to it they could order almost any dish. When one man shouted angrily that there was a beetle in his soup, Cornuché put the insect in his mouth and swallowed it, assuring the complainer that it was only a raisin. An American cotton millionaire asked for, and was brought, a naked girl resting in an ambrosial pink sauce on a silver platter.
He encouraged glamourous women to come to the restaurant every night. Haitian beauty Jeanne Duval arrived carrying her tiny pet dog in her jewel encrusted chastity belt. Caroline Otero fandangoed on the tables, Liane de Pougy wore emerald rings on her toes; and men flocked to be seen with them.
Of Caroline Otero, it was said that 'her spectacular breasts preceded her by a quarter of an hour'. The writer Collette described them as 'elongated lemons, firm and gloriously upturned at their lovely tips'.
Caroline and Liane both boasted that they owned the choicest jewels in France, and it was agreed that they should bring their collections one night to Maxim's and allow its habitués to judge. Caroline was the first to arrive, laden from head to foot. Her victory seemed certain as the only part of her left uncovered was her face.
Liane appeared dressed entirely in black velvet without a single jewel. Behind her came her personal maid, who removed the coat she was wearing and, in the words of an onlooker, resembled an illuminated Eiffel Tower. As abounding applause proclaimed her the winner, a raging Caroline rushed towards the winner and had to be restrained by the ever ready urbane Monsieur Cornuché.
"In 1913, Jean Cocteau said of Maxim's: "It's an accumulation of velvet, lace, ribbons, diamonds and what all else I couldn't describe. To undress one of these women is like an outing that necessitates three weeks advance notice, it's like moving house." Other famous guests of that time period were Edward VII and Marcel Proust.
Maxim's was also immensely popular with the international elite of the 1950s, with guests such as Aristotle Onassis, Maria Callas, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Porfirio Rubirosa, Max Ophuls, and Barbara Hutton. When the restaurant was renovated at the end of the decade, workmen discovered a treasure trove of lost coins and jewelry that had slipped out of the pockets of the wealthy and been trapped between the cushions of the banquettes.
Old Etonian Horace de Vere Cole was widely known as a practical joker.
"His pranks are legendary. The most well-known is probably the Dreadnought hoax of 1910, in which Cole and five friends (including a young Virginia Woolf) disguised themselves as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his posse, and were given a full VIP tour of the British warship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.
The Time-Life Library of Curious and Unusual Facts reports that "Cole often targeted his peers. For example, playing on the innate good manners of the well-bred English gent, Cole would pose as a surveyor on the street and politely ask a passing swell to help by holding one end of a string for a moment. Then the prankster would disappear around the corner, find another man to hold the other end of the string, and walk away.
He once stood in the street handing out free theatre tickets to a series of extremely bald passers-by with the result that, when viewed from the dress circle, the assembly of shiny bald heads in the carefully chosen seats clearly spelt out an expletive – complete with a dot over the 'i'.
He used to wander the streets with a cow's udder poking through his flies. At the moment of optimum outrage, he would then produce a pair of scissors and snip off the offending protrusion.


Singer-songwriter Elton John announced his retirement from touring. The iconic music legend has sold over 300 albums worldwide and is a five-time Grammy award winner. He is an Academy award winner for his music in the Disney movie The Lion King which was shared with Tim Rice as well as a Tony Award winner for the musical Aida.
Below is a story dedicated to give thanks to the man who helped me start my journey as a Man With Autism!
It's going on 10 years that I remember seeing Elton John in concert As my first concert full of memories. It started when I was in the front seat of my sister's car one day. She put a song on for me that had a nice piano melody and a singer singing beautifully. She asked me to take a guess on who was singing it. I guessed Elton John and I was right.
After hearing that song, I would reply it over and over.
I started to like his other songs and albums. And I would listen to him on the bus every morning on my way to Vo-tech in high school. I would listen to Crocodile Rock, Candle in the Wind, Daniel, I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues, and many others. My sister got me into his third album Tumbleweed Connection which is my favorite album by Elton John.
I always wanted to go to a concert I had no idea who I would see first until that day. I was on my way to school and I got a text from my friend saying "Elton John is coming to Wilkes Barre" which is town 20 miles away from me and we agreed that we had to get tickets.
We attended the concert on October 18th, 2008 where we sat in the upper level of the arena. I remember the whole night like it was yesterday. My friends Dad drove us to the arena. He dropped us off and we got in line to get in. Out of the middle of nowhere, 3 employees stopped us and asked us if we liked Elton John. I thought these guys were scammers.
They offered us front row seats for nothing. I wouldn't give them my tickets in case I thought they were scammers even though they had badges on. We took them, got to the gate, and we were in.
He opened with Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Being. When I heard his piano playing I was like to myself "Wow! He can play! Then I remember him playing Levon and Tiny Dancer, he looked at me and smiled for both songs. My friend noticed he did that.
As the show went on, people were getting up and dancing to his songs. I remember people who got up close to the stage were being stopped by security guards. The security guards couldn't stop everybody from doing this so they just let it go moving forward.
Before it was time for him to play the encore of the night, he took out an item that was going to help me start my journey on the autism spectrum. It was a marker. He was starting to sign autographs. I got in there and tried to get one. He took my ticket and signed it and gave it back with a smile.
It was a great experience for my first concert and helped me appreciate the city of Wilkes Barre, P.A. even more. As Elton is retiring with his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, I want to say, thank you Elton for helping me start my autism journey and giving me one of the greatest nights of my life along with giving me a great high school memory. I will forever cherish this day.


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The aim of this study is to determine the risk factors of epilepsy development in children with cerebral palsy.
Data of 234 cerebral palsy patients treated at Ege University Pediatrics Department, Child Neurology Division between January 2008 and December 2015 were evaluated retrospectively. All patients were classified into two groups; Group I: cerebral palsy without epilepsy (n=116) and Group II: cerebral palsy with epilepsy (n=118). The clinical and laboratory findings of the groups were compared to each other, a p value of less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.
There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of gender, gestastional age, birth type, birth weight, risk factors for cerebral palsy development (pre-/peri-/postnatal), duration of neonatal intensive care stay and the need for mechanical ventilation (p>0.05). The risk factors of epilepsy were determined as the following; the presence of neonatal convulsions, focal clonic and generalized tonic neonatal seizures, an abnormal baseline rhythm on neonatal electroencephalography (EEG), discharge from neonatal intensive care unit with at least one antiepileptic drug, spastic bilateral (tetraplegic) cerebral palsy, epileptic activity on the sixth month EEG, abnormal cranial magnetic resonance imaging findings, mental retardation, microcephaly and visual problems.
Epilepsy is a common problem in children with cerebral palsy. Therefore, cases of cerebral palsy, especially those with the determined risk factors should be closely monitored for epilepsy in order to ensure a timely diagnosis and proper treatment.
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive, mainly postural, motor impairment disorder of the developing brain which develops due to various causes during the intrauterine period, or shortly after birth. The incidence of CP has been reported to be 2 to 5 per 1.000 live births (1). In a study conducted in Turkey, the prevalence of CP was reported to be 4.4 per 1.000 live births (2). Epilepsy is common in children with CP with a varying rate of 15 to 60% (3-5). However, there are few studies which extensively investigated this topic in the literature. In the present study, we aimed to identify the risk factors for epilepsy development in children with CP.
The duration of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) stay and neonatal convulsions classified according to the Volpe classification were recorded (8). The electroencephalogram (EEG) during the neonatal period was evaluated in terms of background and epileptic activity. The background activity was accepted as abnormal if the expected characteristics of the post-conceptional age were absent or diffusely decreased or asymmetric in amplitude. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings were also evaluated. The patients who were discharged from NICU with antiepileptic drug therapy were noted. The type of CP was assessed according to the Surveillance of CP in Europe classification (9). Spastic bilateral type CP patients were also divided into tetraplegic and diplegic according to the predominant involvement of the upper and lower limbs (10). Accompanying problems such as mental retardation, microcephaly, vision problems and hearing problems were also recorded. Epilepsy was defined as ≥2 afebrile seizures occurring beyond the neonatal period (11).
All patients were classified into two groups (Group I: CP without epilepsy, Group II: CP with epilepsy). Seizure and epileptic syndromes were evaluated according to the International League Against Epilepsy classification (12). In addition, EEG findings at six months, antiepileptic drug use and duration, response to therapy and final EEGs of Group II were recorded. The study was approved by the Ege University Local Ethics Committee under the reference number 16-3/3 and was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS Statistics version 23 software (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). The chi-square test and Fisher's exact test, where appropriate, were used to compare categorical variables. The odds ratio (OR) with confidence intervals (CI) was calculated to evaluate the effects on prognosis. Independent two-group t-test and Mann-Whitney U test were used to compare the numerical variables. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to identify the factors affecting prognosis using variables which were significant in the univariate analysis or were below a p value of 0.1. A p value of 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Group I (CP without epilepsy) and Group II (CP with epilepsy) consisted of 116 (49.6%) and 118 patients (50.4%) respectively. The demographic and clinical characteristics of both groups are shown in Table I.
In both groups, the rate of prematurity was similar (39.7% vs 32.2%) (p=0.235). The majority of all patients were AGA infants (77.8%, n=182). There was no statistically significant difference in the BW for GA between the two groups (p=0.817). In all patients, there was at least one risk factor for CP development. Among the risk factors, perinatal risk factors were the most common (n=143, 61.1%), followed by prenatal risk factors (n=58, 24.8%). The frequencies of pre-, peri- and postnatal risk factors were similar in both groups (p>0.05). A history of NICU hospitalization was reported in a total of 136 patients (58.1%) with a similar rate in both groups. There was no significant difference between the groups in terms of the length of stay in the NICU and the need for mechanical ventilation. Neonatal convulsion was observed in 20 and 45 patients in Group I and Group II respectively (17.2 vs 38.1%). A history of neonatal convulsion was found to be a significant risk factor for epilepsy [OR=2.959, 95% CI (1.610-5.437), p=0.000]. The seizure type was also important. Focal clonic and generalized tonic seizures were identified as significant risk factors for the development of epilepsy [OR values, 5.918, 95% CI (1.241-28.221), p=0.026 and 11.8, 95% CI (1.466-95.526), p=0.02]. Thirty-four of 65 EEGs recorded during the neonatal period were available and they were re-evaluated by the author, S.G. Abnormal background activity was observed in 4 and 11 patients in Group I and Group II respectively. Its presence increased the risk of epilepsy by six times in patients with CP [OR=5.958, 95%CI (1.332-26.662), p=0.02].
The most frequent abnormality of the EEGs recorded in the neonatal period was focal or multifocal epileptic activity (n=20, 58.8%). This ratio was identical in both groups (10 vs 10), as well as the generalized epileptic activity (3 vs 3). The suppression burst pattern was only seen in three patients (17.6%) in Group II. There were no statistically significant differences in the epileptic activity on neonatal EEG between the groups (p=0.291).
Cranial MRI scans were obtained within the neonatal period in 40 patients, and all of them revealed abnormal findings. Hydrocephalus, cerebral abnormalities, intracranial hemorrhage and periventricular leukomalacia were the most frequent findings in order of occurence. There were no significant differences in the neuroimaging findings between the two groups (p>0.05). Fifty-eight of 65 patients (89.2%) with neonatal convulsion were discharged from the NICU with at least one antiepileptic drug. The number of these patients was 16 and 42 in Group I and Group II respectively, indicating a statistically significant difference [OR=3.454, 95% CI (1.806-6.606), p=0.000]. Spastic bilateral (tetraplegic) type CP was the most common type of CP, and the incidence was significantly higher in Group II (p=0.011). The second most common type was spastic unilateral CP. The spastic bilateral (diplegic) type was found in 58 patients and the frequency was significantly higher in Group I (38 vs 20, p=0.01). The risk of epilepsy in spastic bilateral (tetraplegic) CP patients was found to be 2.986 times higher than other CP types [95% CI (1.535-5.808), p=0.001]. Control EEGs at six months were performed on 53 of the 65 patients with neonatal seizures (Group I: n=18, Group II: n=35). The background activity was normal in 94.4% and 68.5% patients in Group I and Group II respectively (p=0.12). Focal or multifocal epileptic activity on EEG at six months was observed in 3 of 18 patients (16.6%) in Group I and 17 of 35 patients in Group II (48.5%). Generalized epileptic activity and hypsarrhythmia were found in 4 and 6 patients in Group II respectively. At six months, the presence of epileptic activity on EEG was found to increase the risk of epilepsy by 16.875 fold [95% CI (3.882-73.347), p=0.000]. The patients were first evaluated at the child neurology clinic between 1 and 209 months of age (mean age: 8.7 months). The overall median epilepsy onset age was 6 months (1 to 174 months). The median epilepsy onset age was 3 months, 8.5 months, 24.5 months and 33 months in the patients with spastic bilateral (tetraplegia), spastic unilateral, spastic bilateral (diplegia) and dyskinetic type CP respectively. However, it did not reach statistical significance (p=0.069). Generalized seizures (46.6%) were the most common type of seizures, followed by focal and secondary generalized seizures (39%). Infantile spasm was observed in nine patients (10.1%). Febrile seizure was present in one patient, while both febrile and afebrile seizures were present in seven patients (6%). West syndrome was identified in nine patients (7.6%) and two of these progressed into Lennox-Gastaut syndrome during follow-up. Final EEGs of Group II revealed normal background activity in 83 patients (70.3%) and decreased activity in 30 patients (25.4%). In five patients (4.3%), amplitude asymmetry was observed. Epileptic activity was seen in all but 24 patients. Focal or multifocal epileptic activity was the most common finding (n=66, 55.9%). Generalized epileptic activity and hypsarrhythmia were found in 19 (16.1%) and 9 patients (7.7%) respectively. In Group II, antiepileptic treatment was discontinued in 9 patients. The remaining patients continued to use antiepileptic drugs either as mono- or combined therapy (47.5% vs 24.6%). Drug resistant epilepsy was observed in 24 patients (20.3%).
In 209 patients, cranial MRI was performed at the end of the first year of life. The frequency of abnormal findings was similar in the two groups (86.3% vs 93.5%; p=0.084). Periventricular leukomalacia was the most frequent finding in both groups (41.2% vs 52.3%; p=0.219). The rate of cerebral atrophy, cerebral abnormality, and hydrocephalus were significantly higher in Group II. These findings were also significantly related to epilepsy development in CP patients. The OR values for cerebral atrophy, cerebral abnormality and hydrocephalus were found to be 4.545, 4.000 and 4.889 respectively [95% CI (1.437-14.378), p=0.01, 95% CI (1.277-12528), p=0.01, 95% CI (1.482-16.128), p=0.009]. Intracranial hemorrhage and ischemic changes were observed in 10 patients (9.8%) in Group I and in 5 patients (4.7%) in Group II. However, the difference was not statistically significant (p=0.062). In addition, mental retardation (65%) was the most common accompanying problem in CP patients, which affected 50% and 79.7% of the patients in Group I and Group II respectively (p=0.000). The presence of mental retardation was found to increase the risk of epilepsy by 3.9 times [95% CI (2.199-6.977), p=0.000]. Microcephaly was found in 43.6% among all patients including 27.6% of the patients in Group I and 68.6% of the patients in Group II. In the patients with microcephaly, the risk of epilepsy increased 3.828 fold [95% CI (2.212-6.627), p=0.000]. Furthermore, visual problems (i.e., refractive error, strabismus, reduced vision) were detected in 45 of the patients (19.2%). In these patients, the risk of epilepsy increased about 2.948 fold [95% CI (1.456-5.969), p=0.003]. Risk factors for epilepy in children with CP are shown in Table II.
In our study population, the prevalence of epilepsy was 50%, which is consistent with the literature data (3,4,13-17). There was no significant difference between CP and CP with epilepsy groups in terms of gender, parental consanguinity, family history of epilepsy and birth type (p>0.05). In the present study, there were no significant differences in terms of GA and prematurity between Group I and Group II. Although Zelnik et al. (15) reported that epilepsy frequency was higher in term infants with CP similar to our study, no correlation was found between GA and the risk of epilepsy in other studies (17). In addition, there was no significant difference in terms of BW for GA between the groups in our study (p=0.817). Similar results were previously reported in the literature (15). Also, there were no significant differences in the risk factors related to the development of CP between the groups (p>0.05). However, Carlsson et al. (5) reported that epilepsy was seen more frequently in patients with CNS infections, CNS malformation and gray matter injury. Similar to our results, Sellier et al. (18) found no significant association between the risk of epilepsy and the need for hospitalization and treatment with mechanical ventilation in the NICU. Review of the literature revealed several studies indicating that neonatal convulsion was a siginificant risk factor for epilepsy (15,17,19-21). In the present study, we also found a similar relationship. Compared to those without neonatal convulsions, focal clonic and generalized tonic neonatal seizures were found to increase the risk of epilepsy 6 and 12 times respectively. In the present study, we also found that the presence of abnormal background activity in the neonatal EEG increased the risk of epilepsy 6 times. However, there are no data on this subject in the literature. Our study showed that cases discharged from the NICU with antiepileptic medication was linked to an increased risk of epilepsy by 3.4 times. More interestingly, to the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to show this finding in the literature.
Spastic bilateral (tetraplegic) CP was the most common type in both groups, and its presence increased the risk of epilepsy by about three times compared to other CP types (p=0.001). In addition, tetraplegic CP has been shown to be a risk factor for epilepsy in previous studies (5,15,19). However, Singhi (14) reported that the rate of epilepsy was the highest in spastic hemiplegic patients. Although there was no significant difference in the background activity on EEG at six months between the two groups, we found a significant difference in terms of focal or generalized epileptic activity (p=0.000). In addition, the presence of epileptic activity on EEG increased the risk of epilepsy by 16.875 times in patients with CP (p=0.000). In epileptic cases, the median and mean age of seizure onset was 6 months and 21.4 months respectively. In most of the epileptic cases (62%), recurrent seizures first occurred within the first year of life. A similar rate was previously reported in the literature as 49 to 79% (14,15,19). However, seizure onset age may vary depending on the CP type. Carlsson et al. (5) reported a mean age of epilepsy onset in tetraplegic, diplegic and hemiplegic CP patients as 6 years, 1 year and 2.5 years respectively. In our study, the median epilepsy onset age was 3 months, 8.5 months, 24.5 months and 33 months in the patients with spastic bilateral (tetraplegic), spastic unilateral, spastic bilateral (diplegic) and dyskinetic type CP respectively. However, it did not reach statistical significance (p=0.069). In the present study, the most common seizure type was generalized seizure (46.6%), followed by focal and secondary generalized seizures (39%). Infantile spasms were observed in 7.6% of epileptic patients. However, Gururaj et al. (19) reported that partial seizures were the most frequent seizures in their patients (39.3%). Similar to our results, Singhi (14) found generalized tonic-clonic seizures (38.1%) to be the most frequent seizure type among their study population. In another study, Hadjipanayis et al. (22) reported typical and atypical absence seizures in their cases. West syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome were found in nine and two patients respectively. Kulak and Sobaniec (17) reported that Lennox-Gastaut syndrome developed in six patients with spastic tetraplegic and dyskinetic CP in their study. Furthermore, EEG recordings of the patients obtained in the final visit revealed a rate of epileptic activity of 79.7% in Group II. The most frequent finding was focal/multifocal epileptic activity (55.9%). This ratio varied between 66 and 92.7% in previous studies (14,17). However, in these studies, generalized activity was found to be more common. In one study, epileptic activity was found to be a significant and independent risk factor affecting the prognosis of epilepsy (20). In Group II, antiepileptic therapy was discontinued in 7.6% of the cases and the remaining cases continued to use at least one antiepileptic drug. Seizure control with single or multiple antiepileptic drugs were 47.5% and 24.6%, respectively. The rate of drug-resistant epilepsy was 20.3%. Previous studies also reported a similar rate as 35.7-45% (17,19). In the present study, cranial MRI revealed abnormal findings in 86.3% and 93.5% in Group I and Group II, respectively. Gururaj et al. (19) found similar rates of 94% and 97%. The presence of cerebral atrophy, cerebral abnormality and hydrocephalus were significantly associated with the increased epilepsy development (p<0.01). In previous studies, abnormal cranial MRI findings, mainly cerebral atrophy, were more frequent in CP+ epilepsy group than in the CP group (15,19). In the current study, we found that microcephaly also increased the risk of epilepsy by 3.8 times in CP patients (p=0.000). In contrast, Zelnik et al. (15) found that the ratio of microcephaly did not differ among the CP and CP+ epilepsy patients. Similar to the present study, developmental delay and mental retardation were also found to be more frequent in patients with CP+ epilepsy, compared to those with CP (15,19,21). In one study, Mert et al. (20) reported that mental retardation was a risk factor for epilepsy in CP cases. Singhi (14) found no significant difference between the CP and CP+ epilepsy groups in terms of social quotient, although seizures were more frequent and difficult to manage in the patients with mental retardation. Finally, we found that visual problems significantly increased the risk of epilepsy in CP cases, although there are no data in the literature on the association between visual problems and increased risk of epilepsy.
This is a retrospective study. Information was obtained from families and medical records.
The presence of neonatal seizures in patients with CP, the use of antiepileptic drugs at discharge from the NICU, the presence of bilateral spastic (tetraplegic) CP, abnormal background activity on neonatal EEG, the presence of epileptic activity on the sixth-month EEG, the presence of cerebral atrophy, hydrocephalus and cerebral abnormality on cranial MRI, the presence of associated problems such as visual deficits, microcephaly and mental retardation are significant risk factors for the development of epilepsy in CP cases. Therefore, patients with these risk factors should be closely monitored in order to provide timely diagnosis and proper treatment.
We thank Timur Köse for the statistical analysis of the study.
Ethics Committee Approval: The study was approved by the Ege University Local Ethics Committee (approval number: 16-3/3).
Informed Consent: Consent form was filled out by parents of patient.
Concept: S.G., G.A. H.T, Design: S.G, F.G., Data Collection and Processing: F.G, H.M.S., Analysis and Interpretation: S.G. H.T. G.A, Literature Search: F.G. S.Y. H.M.S, Writing: F.G., S.Y. S.G.
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State Sen Kyle Loveless (R-Oklahoma City) recognizes that Oklahoma lacks adequate protections for innocent people whose property is seized by overzealous law enforcement. With the Oklahoma Legislature set to adjourn at the end of May, he decided to begin a conversation about civil asset forfeiture reform.
Last week, Loveless introduced SB 838, the Personal Asset Protection Act, that would offer protections for innocent people who are affected by the pernicious practice of civil asset forfeiture. It would require a criminal conviction before the government can begin forfeiture proceedings, and direct proceeds from forfeitures to the state's general fund. In short, the bill would restore the Fifth Amendment, which requires due process of law before the government can deprive someone of "life, liberty, or property," in Oklahoma.
"The issue with the current law is that the owner is presumed guilty until they can prove their innocence," Loveless said of Oklahoma's awful civil asset forfeiture laws, in the Norman Transcript. "In America, we are proud of our tradition of innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately, that's not the case with civil asset forfeiture. Under current law, the state simply needs to establish a mere suspicion that the property is involved in illegal activity and the owner doesn't have to be charged with a crime."
Property seized by law enforcement in Oklahoma can be subject to forfeiture after the government meets a very low standard of proof. As Loveless notes, the property owner must prove that the property is innocent. Law enforcement receives 100 percent of the proceeds of forfeiture, creating a perverse profit motive. Though law enforcement alleges that the property or cash seized is connected to a crime, the property owner is often never convicted of, or even charged with, a crime.
"If police and prosecutors believe someone committed a crime," says Trent England, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, "they have an obligation to prove that in a criminal prosecution in a court of law before any punishment—including the confiscation of property—is inflicted on the accused."
Seeing a threat to what they view as a revenue stream, some Oklahoma law enforcement officials have lashed out at Loveless. Canadian County Sheriff Randall Edwards, in particular, went into a tirade against SB 838. "This is without a doubt the single worst, most damning, most asinine and devastating bill I have ever seen for this state and local law enforcement," Edwards wrote in an email to the McCarville Report. "Words can't adequately express how this bill poses a serious and imminent threat to public safety and most directly the war on drugs in this state and nation. It's completely asinine."
Edwards also says that targeting the profit motive would hurt the Canadian County Sheriff's Department because it take away funds used to purchase "equipment, cars, radars, cameras and a multitude of other public safety equipment" and "jobs paid for and funded through these cash funds."
Edwards' hyperbole aside, law enforcement should be funded to meet the needs of the community, but those dollars should come from local governments and the state legislature, not civil asset forfeiture funds.
Civil asset forfeiture fundamentally changes how state and local law enforcement agencies operate. Rather than focusing solely on preventing and investigating crime, Oklahoma's civil asset forfeiture laws incentivize law enforcement to, essentially, collect revenue for themselves with little regard for innocent people who fall victim to abuse.
Loveless, the state senator behind SB 838, plans to study civil asset forfeiture while the legislature is in recess and he is encouraging anyone who may have been adversely affected by civil asset forfeiture to give him input. "This is something that is happening in states across the country, so it would be naïve to believe that it could not happen in Oklahoma."


As a kid, I bought the The DC Annual 1999 Adventures in the DC Universe just because it had so many superheroes on the cover. I never knew about the Justice League until I bought that book and read it. It was such an awesome thing to see so many superheroes together in one book, in one story. It was a dream team in the truest sense of the word. That was the beginning of my love affair with Justice League. And I have been fascinated by them ever since. It pips the Avengers anyday for me.
The DC relaunch of Justice League rekindled my love affair with Justice League. I can finally read it from the beginning. Well, sort of. Legends like Geoff Johns, Jim Lee and Scott Williams at the helm, I was sure this series was going to be the best of the lot in the relaunched universe. And they live upto my expectations.
The first issue of Justice League was quite something! I always thought that all the superheroes knew each other in the Justice League. I was surprised to find out on reading that this is not the case in this issue. Superman, Batman and Green Lantern are seen fighting and bickering each other. And that's not a bad thing. The verbal volleys between Green Lantern and Batman in the beginning and then at the end with Superman was such pure entertainment! Banter aside, the issue is full of action. You just cannot put it down. Right from the first page, to the last. It took me 20 minutes to finish the whole thing but that is because of the action. The story moves slow. 5 minutes were spent looking at the beautifully drawn panels by Jim Lee. He was made for this title.
The story is based 5 years in the past of the present DC Universe. When superheroes, like mafia bosses, operated in their own territories and did not know each other and did not trust each other. Jim Lee's style is doing things in large and wide panels. Plus, the expressions are top notch. I really love Superman's new look. Batman and Green Lantern look nice too. They touch up on Cyborg too.
All in all, a great book. Its fun to read this. And it certainly entertained me. It made me feel like a kid again. And just for that, I can guarantee you that new readers will truly love this.
Issue 2 continues the banter and this time its Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash and Batman all together. The team is coming together but one at a time. And since they don't trust each other, its all the more fun. Splashes, double page spreads, Tall and wide panels, its all here and its all done beautifully yet again by Jim Lee. Geoff Johns made sure that the story moves a bit faster than the 1st book. The banter between our heroes is cocky and all have massive egos. All this makes it thoroughly enjoyable. I think that the story will slowly unfold and it will take time for it to reach the peak level where we see the good vs bad battles between the Justice League and the villains. Lets hope it happens soon because the wait between the issues is just too damn long!


Yaftali said the victims sustained wounds in mortar strikes.
Noorullah, a resident of Qasani area of Kunduz City, told Pajhwok that one mortar hit the Qasani mosque , injuring the prayer leader.
Deputy provincial police chief Col Safiullah Mehzon said 10 mortars were fired from different directions into Kunduz City from morning to noon. He said casualties caused by the mortar strikes were being investigated.
Independent Election Commission head for Kunduz Rassoul Omar said the Taliban attacked a polling enter in Kunduz City, killing one election worker and injuring another.


Years ago I was living in a house share, eight of us, living on the top floor above offices. Plenty of room, never a problem with loud music or coming in at any hour of the day from our neighbours.
– one of the cohabitants we never saw – were they alive, is there really someone living in there, sure I heard something the other day, was it them?
– one that were much older than the rest us, a bit weird too, heck it would not be a house share if there wasn't the weird one.
– one that was constantly stoned and studied something, never really figure out what or where, man.
– one that partied hard and did some odd job here and there, didn't they work in X? No, that was last week.
– one that never cleaned up and nicked your food.
There was always the room that changed owner every month, either because they just needed it as a stop-gap or they just didn't get one with us "lifers".
I never figured out why she chose that album for this ritual. It is a very good one, I truly enjoy it and play it often. Though, now I can't stop thinking about my neighbour – faffing, hair drying, dancing about, singing out loud to this – when it is on.
Because, it is not really the "get into the mood" album, I think.
I'm talking about the fantastic 1988 album by Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman. You know that one were "Fast Car" is on.


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Lancaster County Parks and Recreation will hold an open house at the center from 3 to 5 p.m. Aug. 17. The center is located at 4073 Hurley Walters Road.
MAR Construction is the contractor for the project. County Council awarded the firm the bid last September.
The cost of the center is about $1.4 million. It's built on a 25-acre site, which includes ballfields.
The gym of the new center is the same size as the Springdale Recreation Center.


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Q: Concrete Mathematics Prerequisite Question I've been very interested in the book Concrete Mathematics (Graham,Knuth,Patashnik) and I've been reading it for the past few weeks.
I'm at the chapter about Sums (Chapter 2), specificaly, the lesson about Finite and Infinite Calculus. My question is if any serious calculus or advanced math background will be needed from this point on?
I'm going into 10th grade and the highest math I can take as a 10th grader is Precalculus   (in my school at least), so anything I would want to do with calculus at school would have to wait until I'm in 11th grade.
I know a few topics about Calculus due to my own interest in the topic, but they've been entirely self-taught and no formal lecturing about them ( maybe this will hold me back?).  I seem to understand this part of the book without too much difficulty, but should I first complete a Calculus course before moving on with the book and gather a firm background, or is it not needed?
Thanks!

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the local pen paying homage to the region
"I'm not a talented artist who draws in an elaborate way or a prolific writer who writes poetically, but with the right pen or the right pencil I can feel – for a moment – like one or the other. ", explains the founder under the radar. from Elaa, who prefers to simply be called MZ.
Born in Abu Dhabi, Elaa produces "conceptual pens" and her first design, the Touine, is a manifestation of MZ's long-standing love for writing instruments. In the 1990s, his first major purchases were a fountain pen and a mechanical pencil, he recalls.
"Both were significantly more expensive than my monthly allowance of Dh50 at age 11 and required savings to purchase them. I admired the craft, the writing performance, the drama of its packaging and, of course, the prestige and privilege I felt using them.
Elaa's first creation, La Touine. Photos: Elaa
Young MZ also lived next to a stationery store and spent his afternoons browsing his shelves. "I always feel like I'm in a toy store when I'm in a stationery store, and in every country I travel I have to visit their stationery and pen stores."
His interest in pens is reflected in philosophical reflections on the act of writing and the pen as a symbol of communication and culture; but also as an in-depth knowledge of the history and geographic differences between writing instruments around the world, from disposable Japanese gel ink pens to the rare German fountain pens.
The trinity of pen, person and paper brings the three to life, and the result is a permanent expression of this vitality.
MZ, founder, Elaa
After graduating with a design management degree from the American University of Sharjah, MZ focused on filmmaking and continues to direct and produce films, TV shows and branded content. But, in his essence, he calls himself a "designer / creator, in the most abstract sense", which led him to make his own writing instruments.
The Arabic word elaa translates to "to" or "to", and is a way of addressing someone in a letter or package. But also, significantly, it is the Finnish word for "to live" or "to be alive," notes MZ.
"By that I mean that the pen is only alive when the ink passes through it. This pen, person and paper trinity brings the three to life and the result is a permanent expression of this vitality.
Sculptural, tactile and organic, the Touine feels like a living being. It is made primarily from the leaves of the date palm, a material that intrigued MZ for many reasons. "People here would know that every part of a slingshot was used for crafting or construction not so long ago. Before concrete, siding or plastic, it was part of the rare desert reality that nothing goes to waste.
The pen's brass cap mimics the shape of the qalam, an ancient reed pen used in Arabic calligraphy
"Today, these slingshots are thrown away or even worse, burned, because they are no longer useful. With a huge and growing date industry, I find the environmental implications of this quite disturbing.
"As a material, it has some really interesting properties; it has a very high weight-to-strength ratio when dry, which is why it was used as a building material. However, after a certain length, it becomes flexible. The leaves of the frond, the khose, have been used for centuries to weave baskets and other household items, "he says.
Limited to just 71 pieces and priced at Dh7,121 ($ 1,940) each, the Touine comes with limited edition artwork by local artists Mariam Abbas and Khalid Mezaina, a box organizer made with the safeefah weaving technique and a PlyPalm mastaba base with a camel leather surface.
Touine's roots in this region added resonance, as the writing evolved in two separate places, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, in this part of the world. This sense of history is evoked in the pen's brass cap, which mimics the shape of the qalam, an ancient reed pen used in Arabic calligraphy.
But that doesn't mean Elaa is married to the past tense. "As someone who believes that the quality writing instrument industry is mostly rooted in a 20th century tradition, with big brands desperately looking for inspiration in their archives, I want Elaa to be a brand of 'writing instruments born in our time, and not in the past,' says MZ.
"I have the impression that Elaa answered a question I was asking myself before I even started: what is it to be an artisanal / luxury product in the 21st century? And what would that imply creatively, environmentally and economically? "
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Originally from Wisconsin, Mike has lived in Central Florida for 18 years. He earned a Bachelor's of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Mike has a 10-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter, and sees the green building movement as a way to provide them with a bright environmental future.


Established over 30 years ago, the dynamic Progetti brand is based in Carate Brianza, Italy. Boasting high-quality, form, function and innovation in every one of their home and office objects, Progetti take great care when designing their items down to the smallest detail.
With every item made in Italy, the brand works with some of the top designers in the country to bring you luxury products made of the finest materials. Their eye-catching and unusual designs are instant focal points in any room and perfectly combine originality and functionality. One of the first Italian brands to update the traditional cuckoo clock, Progetti are recognised as a front runner of contemporary design with many of their products featuring in exhibitions the world over including the New York and San Francisco MoMa.
Their innovative time keeping designs and home accessories are art forms for your interior and will instantly refresh any and every setting.