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Chelsea can thank Cech for Mendy arrival, and Rennes may pay the price
November 4, 2020 by SPORT INFORMERS 0 Comments
Rennes could be forgiven for thinking they had seen the last of Petr Cech. The legendary goalkeeper's announcement in January 2019 that he would retire at the end of that season turned Arsenal's deep Europa League run into a personal farewell tour that took him back to where it all began for a round-of-16 first-leg tie at Roazhon Park in March.
Cech had impressed in his native Czech Republic with Chmel Blsany and Sparta Prague early in his career, but it was his two years with Rennes between 2002 and 2004 that piqued the interest of Europe's top clubs — eventually earning him a £7 million move to Chelsea aged just 21.
While he became acknowledged as the best in the world during 494 appearances in an 11-year spell at Stamford Bridge — winning four Premier League titles, four FA Cups, one Champions League and one Europe League — before adding another FA Cup in a four-year spell at Arsenal, the goalkeeper's impact at Rennes in those formative years was relatively brief, yet profound.
On Cech's return to the club in 2019 with Arsenal, 14 years and 288 days after his last appearance there, French publication Ouest-France ran a piece with the headline: "Petr Cech, the return of a legend."
In the end it was a bittersweet night for the 36-year-old. Cech was warmly received on a bitterly cold evening in northwest France, but the Gunners were beaten 3-1 and left with a mountain to climb in the tie. Yet Arsenal managed to overcome Rennes 3-0 in the second leg back in London to seal a 4-3 aggregate win and, after seeing off Napoli and Valencia, set up a Europa League final against … Chelsea.
It was the perfect chance for the goalkeeper to bow out with a trophy in what everybody thought was his final game as a professional, but the Blues ran out easy 4-1 winners. Despite several offers to keep playing, within a month of his retirement, Cech was back at Stamford Bridge as technical and performance advisor and now, aged 38, he's even been registered for Chelsea's Premier League squad amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Wednesday evening, Rennes will renew their acquaintance with Cech, this time in the Champions League. He can't play, as he wasn't registered for Europe, but he'll be watching on with interest as Rennes come up against another of their former goalkeepers, Edouard Mendy, who was prised away this summer to help head coach Frank Lampard rectify Chelsea's goalkeeping issues.
Far from disappearing into the shadows, Cech's influence remains firmly pronounced and there is no clearer sign than the arrival of Mendy.
Petr Cech was instrumental in Chelsea's recruitment of Edouard Mendy. Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images
Five years ago, Mendy was 23 and unable to win himself a contract even in England's League One. In fact, he was on the verge of giving up on his dream of becoming a professional footballer. A three-year spell at Reims from 2016 to 2019 — where he helped them gain promotion to Ligue 1 — got him back on track and Rennes came calling with a €4m move last summer. But he was on Cech's radar long before that.
"I've been following him for three-and-a-half years, when he was at Reims," Cech told L'Equipe recently. "At the start, it was [Chelsea's head of goalkeeping] Christophe Lollichon who told me about him, because he had been unemployed."
Mendy has a long way to go to emulate Cech's impact at Chelsea given the latter won 13 trophies in 11 years. Yet the Senegal international could hardly have made a better start, keeping five successive clean sheets and becoming the first Chelsea goalkeeper since Cech to open his league career with three consecutive shutouts.
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Mendy has replaced the error-prone Kepa Arrizabalaga and brought about a calm that has contributed to a promising set of results at home and abroad, with two of his clean sheets helping Chelsea amass four points from their opening two Champions League games in Group E.
Rennes, who have earned just a solitary point after drawing with Krasnodar and losing to Sevilla, will aim to become only the second team after Tottenham in the Carabao Cup to find a way past Mendy since his £20m move at the end of September.
It was a deal that Cech had his fingerprints on almost from the outset, but it also owes plenty to the relationship he forged years ago at Rennes with Lollichon. Cech did not work with Lollichon straight away upon joining Rennes as a spiky-haired 20-year-old, but the pair quickly formed a close bond.
"We felt every time we saw each other that there was a connection," Lollichon was quoted as saying last year in the French media. "Quickly, he expressed the wish that I joined him to become his personal coach."
Cech had already set a Czech league record by not conceding a goal for 903 minutes during his time at Sparta Prague, but he knew there was plenty of improvement required to reach the heights he aspired to. He was impressed by Lollichon's innovative training methods, which included sessions with different-sized balls to encourage greater hand-eye coordination, and expanding peripheral vision by holding up a card as a ball is being thrown and asking the goalkeeper to shout the colour of the card as he makes a save.
Cech went on to keep 27 clean sheets in 78 matches for Rennes — no mean feat for a team battling to stay in Ligue 1, which they were at the time — attracting admirers including then-Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, who made a personal trip to watch him against Auxerre in March 2003 before Chelsea agreed a £7m deal a year later.
Sources told ESPN that Lollichon had been flagging Mendy's progress for months before Chelsea made formal contact. Lollichon continues to enjoy a close working relationship with Cech and, in his role as technical advisor, Cech recommended Mendy to Lampard as a signing to provide greater competition for Kepa, who has struggled for consistency since his £71.4m move from Athletic Bilbao in August 2018 — a fee that remains a world record for a goalkeeper.
Cech's off-field role is a busy one, but it has not prevented him from working on the training pitches at Cobham with the first-team goalkeepers and even continuing a high level of personal fitness despite hanging up his gloves. Sources at Chelsea's training base describe witnessing regular examples of Cech's enduring skills — one source told ESPN that they noticed how Cech's performance stats were still "ridiculous," which reinforced the idea of registering him — although it was still a major surprise when he was added to the club's 25-man Premier League squad last month as "emergency cover."
Ironically, Cech is almost eight months younger than 39-year-old Willy Caballero, Chelsea's other backup goalkeeper, and his domestic inclusion was a sign Lampard is convinced his former teammate is still capable of performing on the pitch.
"It's true that it would have been a professional error to do this if I wasn't at Premier League level, but that's not the way we work here," Cech told Telefoot on Monday. "I know I'm 100% ready to help if need be. I'm fit, and with the two months of training, I've seen I have the same quality.
"Furthermore, I rested for a year without playing football. It really gave me energy, my body recovered after playing 20 years as a professional. If the circumstances put me on the pitch, I'm ready."
Rennes won't have to beat Cech on the pitch on Wednesday, but his impact off it in helping to sign Mendy will ensure that the Blues have the upper hand as they look to build on their fine defensive turnaround.


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Biografia
Innamorati  nacque da una famiglia di proprietari terrieri dediti (sin dal 1600) anche alla produzione e lavorazione della carta. A diciassette anni militò tra i repubblicani-socialisti del circolo "L. Marini".

Negli anni finali del secolo (1895) aderì ardentemente al Partito Socialista Italiano e fu tra i fondatori della sezione di Foligno.

Nei primi del Novecento divenne Segretario della sezione socialista nata in Belfiore e poco dopo fu eletto membro del Comitato Direttivo della Federazione tra le varie sezioni ed i nuclei socialisti dei collegi elettorali di Gubbio e Foligno.
Nel 1906 fu delegato al Congresso di Roma ed aderì alla mozione integralista di O. Morgari.
Nello stesso anno venne affiliato alla Loggia massonica "Francesco Guardabassi" di Perugia, dove restò fin quasi al 1919, quando tornò a far parte della loggia folignate.

Le cariche istituzionali
Nel 1907 fu per la prima volta Consigliere comunale di Foligno e rimase in carica per circa vent'anni ininterrotti.

Negli anni seguenti divenne uno dei maggiori organizzatori di gruppi socialisti in Umbria, e operò anche per il rafforzamento delle organizzazioni socialiste (Federazione Giovanile Socialista).

Ferdinando Innamorati fu esponente di un socialismo umanitario molto attento alla "cultura popolare", e impregnato di temi e pensieri fortemente anticlericali.

Nel primo dopoguerra divenne personalità di primo piano e nel 1920 (oltre a collaborare con il nascente settimanale "Guardia Rossa") fu eletto Consigliere provinciale e, coi voti del PSI, sindaco di Foligno.

Nel 1921 si dimise perché la maggioranza consiliare del PSI aderì al PCI.

Divenne deputato, e aderì poi (1922) al Partito Socialista Unitario.

Nel 1924 prese il seggio alla Camera che era stato di Giacomo Matteotti.

L'adesione al movimento antifascista
Dopo le leggi eccezionali del 1926 venne dichiarato decaduto dal mandato parlamentare e confinato per 5 anni. Ne scontò tre, prima a Favignana e poi a Lipari.

Le continue misure restrittive limitarono la sua azione negli anni successivi al rilascio ed egli riuscì, grazie anche a vecchi amici di fede, ad organizzare un movimento antifascista in Umbria.

Nel 1944, dopo la liberazione di Foligno, divenne Sindaco di Foligno grazie all'aiuto del Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (CLN). co. Iniziò il compito il 7 settembre, ma il 19 novembre morì improvvisamente. I funerali risultarono imponenti per la partecipazione di organizzazioni, autorità, popolo. La commemorazione ufficiale fu tenuta in Piazza della Repubblica dall'On. Mario Cingolani, presente l'On. Pietro Nenni.

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Collegamenti esterni

Deputati della XXVI legislatura del Regno d'Italia
Deputati della XXVII legislatura del Regno d'Italia
Secessionisti dell'Aventino
Politici del Partito Socialista Italiano
Sindaci di Foligno
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Prior to joining National Healthcare, Mr. Needham was a principal with Triad Partners, Inc., a medical office developer based in Southern California. In that role, Mr. Needham lead the development of outpatient medical office buildings, which included surgery centers, dialysis centers, imaging, labs, urgent cares, physician offices and other healthcare uses.
Mr. Needham has also practiced law with two well respected law firms, the AmLaw Global 100 law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton and Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth. At Sheppard Mullin, he was a key member of their respected 135 attorney national healthcare practice, which was named by Law360 as the 2016 and 2014 U.S. Health Care Practice Group of the Year. Mr. Needham represented a broad range of healthcare clients including physician groups, hospitals, ancillary service providers, equity investors, lenders, senior living operators, and medical office building developers. He represented both for-profit and non-profit healthcare companies across the country in a wide range of transactions, including hospital/physician group affiliations and acquisitions; surgery center formations and acquisitions; hospital acquisitions and dispositions; medical device company formations and financing; management services agreements; and MOB, senior living, behavioral health and hospital development, financing, leasing, and purchase and sales.
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2Pe 3:4 - and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation.
2Pe 3:6 - through which waters the then world, deluged with water, perished.
2Pe 3:7 - But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
2Pe 3:8 - But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9 - The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
2Pe 3:12 - waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt?
2Pe 3:13 - But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
2Pe 3:16 - as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
2Pe 3:18 - but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.


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La désignation de Bayer Omicron Orionis (ο Ori / ο Orionis) est partagée par deux étoiles géantes de la constellation d'Orion :

 ο Orionis (4 Orionis), une étoile variable semi-régulière de type spectral M3S ;
 ο Orionis (9 Orionis), une étoile géante de type spectral K2III.

Constellation d'Orion
Homonymie stellaire
Orionis, Omicron


The Scientific Board of the RETI was established by the decision of the Governance Committee meeting in Orkney in June 2015.
Missions: It is responsible for the RETI's executive work in collaboration with the Permanent Operational Management Team, based at the University of Corsica. It develops the operational plan of the RETI for a period of two years and ensures its implementation following approval by the Governance Committee.
The current operational plan: Approved during the 7th RETI Governance Committee meeting in September 2016 for the period 2016-2018.
President : Pr. Godfrey BALDACCHINO, University of Malta, Malta.
Mathieu GRAZIANI, RETI Director, Università of Corsica Pasquale Paoli.
Dr Ioannis SPILANIS, University of the Aegean, Greece.
Dr James RANDALL, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Ms Linda STEWART, University of the Highlands & Islands, Scotland, UK.
Dr Maria DEL CARMEN RUBIO ARMENDARIZ - University of La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Q: Struggling to import JSON into excel where column includes records and lists I tried using the import via the Power Query for a JSON file, but I'm struggling to pull the customer data I need.
Customers are stored as records with an internal ID and name.  For each ticket (unique rows), I may also have multiple customers linked. Therefore, when I look at the customer column, I see it contains both records and lists .  Is there a way to use the Power Query editor to split those values out over a few columns or some other way so that I can see the customer names associated with each ticket row?

A: One approach might be to filter rows based on whether they contain a list or record, which should give you two tables (one table for lists, one table for records). Then handle/treat each table separately, before combining back into a single table.
For example:
let
    someTable = Table.FromColumns({
        List.Transform({1..3}, each [Customer = Text.NewGuid()]) & {List.Transform({1..2}, each [Customer = Text.NewGuid()])},
        List.Transform({1..4}, each [Contact = Text.NewGuid()])
    }, {"Value.Customers.Customer", "Value.Contacts"}),
    logicalMask = Table.AddColumn(someTable, "_hasMultipleCustomers", each Type.Is(Value.Type([#"Value.Customers.Customer"]), type list), type logical),
    rowsWithMultipleCustomers =
        let
            filtered = Table.SelectRows(logicalMask, each [_hasMultipleCustomers]),
            normalised = Table.ExpandListColumn(filtered, "Value.Customers.Customer")
        in normalised,
    combined = rowsWithMultipleCustomers & Table.SelectRows(logicalMask, each not [_hasMultipleCustomers])
in
    combined

*

*In someTable, I have a column containing records and lists, meaning I can't use Table.ExpandListColumn or Table.ExpandRecordColumn -- which I think is what you've shown in the image in your question.

*This approach changes the order of your rows. If preserving row order is important to you, you can add an index column (1, 2, 3, ...) before rowsWithMultipleCustomers and then after combined, sort by it to restore the original row order.

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Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in neuromyelitis optica: a registry study of the EBMT Autoimmune Diseases Working Party
Mult Scler. 2015 Feb;21(2):189-97. doi: 10.1177/1352458514541978. Epub 2014 Jul 30.
Raffaella Greco 1 , Attilio Bondanza 2 , Maria Carolina Oliveira 3 , Manuela Badoglio 4 , Joachim Burman 5 , Fredrik Piehl 6 , Hans Hagglund 7 , Eva Krasulova 8 , Belinda Pinto Simões 3 , Kristina Carlson 9 , David Pohlreich 10 , Myriam Labopin 11 , Riccardo Saccardi 12 , Giancarlo Comi 13 , Gian Luigi Mancardi 14 , Andrea Bacigalupo 15 , Fabio Ciceri 16 , Dominique Farge 17
1 Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy greco.raffaella@hsr.it.
2 Leukemia Immunotherapy Unit, Division of Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells and Gene Therapy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy.
3 Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
4 European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) Study Office, Autoimmune Diseases Working Party (ADWP)-EBMT, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
5 Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden.
6 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institute Solna, Center for Molecular Medicine, Sweden.
7 Hematology Center, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Sweden; Division of Hematology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
8 Department of Neurology, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Czech Republic.
9 Division of Hematology, University Hospital, Sweden.
10 1st Department of Medicine, Department of Haematology, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic/1st Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Czech Republic.
11 EBMT Study Office, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, France.
12 Department of Haematology, Careggi University Hospital, Italy.
13 Neurology Department, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy.
14 Department of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Genetics, San Martino Hospital, University of Genoa, Italy.
15 Division of Hematology, San Martino Hospital, Italy.
16 Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy.
17 ADWP-EBMT Chair, Internal Medicine and Vascular Pathology Unit, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 7 University, INSERM 976, France.
Background: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system, hallmarked by pathogenic anti-aquaporin 4 antibodies. NMO prognosis is worse compared with multiple sclerosis.
Objective: The European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) Autoimmune Diseases Working Party (ADWP) conducted a retrospective survey to analyze disease outcome following autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT).
Methods: This retrospective multicenter study assessed the efficacy and safety of ASCT in 16 patients suffering from refractory NMO reported to the EBMT registry between 2001 and 2011.
Results: Fifteen patients were successfully mobilized with cyclophosphamide (Cy) and G-CSF, one with G-CSF alone. All patients received an unmanipulated autologous peripheral blood stem cell graft, after conditioning with BEAM plus anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG, n = 9 patients), thiotepa-Cy (n = 3) or Cy (200 mg/kg) plus ATG (n = 4). After a median follow-up of 47 months, three of 16 cases were progression and treatment free, while in the remaining 13 patients further treatments were administered for disability progression or relapse after ASCT. Altogether, relapse-free survival at three and five years was 31% and 10%, respectively, while progression-free survival remained 48% at three and five years.
Conclusions: In these NMO patients, highly resistant to conventional treatment, ASCT allows for temporary control of the disease, despite a tendency to progress or relapse in the long term.
Keywords: Neuromyelitis optica; autologous stem cell transplantation; disease outcome.
© The Author(s), 2014.
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / adverse effects
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / methods*
Neuromyelitis Optica / surgery*
Outcome Assessment, Health Care / methods*


This series of events looks at the precarious pact between people and planet Earth and how it's time to act while the future of the planet is still in our hands.
As a parallel to our Guest Selected strand of events on the oceans by Tania Kovats, this series of events looks at the precarious pact between people and planet Earth. On the one hand there are imaginative, inspiring studies celebrating our natural world and the wondrous origins of life. On the other, there are eye-opening accounts of industrialised farming methods, an alarming inventory of the world's depleting resources, and uncomfortable questions on energy usage, environmental politics and unfettered urbanisation. It's time to act while the future of the planet is still in our hands.
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The moorlands of Scotland and beyond fascinate art historian Robin Crawford and playwright-poet Donald S Murray. Crawford discusses what he found after evaluating the peat areas of the Outer Hebrides for a year, documented in Into the Peatlands, while Murray extends his reach from Lewis and the Highlands to the Netherlands and Australia in The Dark Stuff, unpicking why these landscapes have been represented unfairly in folklore.
Today, we're combining two things that we love at the Book Festival - creating stories and looking after the environment. Drop into Story Box to make one of your favourite story book characters from a range of recycled materials. Perhaps you will rework the Gruffalo from cardboard boxes or bring Supertato to life with old potato packaging - the possibilities are endless!
In Fallout, distinguished environmental writer Fred Pearce is unsparing in his analysis of the good, the bad and the ugly of our nuclear age. Names such as Hiroshima, Chernobyl and Fukushima spell calamity in the minds of nuclear sceptics, but have we really learned from the catastrophic lessons of the past? Pearce visits the physical and emotional landscapes of these disaster zones in his book and today he ponders our nuclear future.
It seems as if people have been trying to save the rainforests for a very long time. And while approximately half of their area has been effectively destroyed, it's not too late to do the right thing by the other 50%. After all, it's only the future of the planet that's at stake. Environmental campaigner and author of Rainforest Tony Juniper has some answers about what can still be done.
Novelist, science writer and former biology teacher Gill Arbuthnott and teacher Jennie Hargreaves explore how to use science books to bridge the gap between the classroom and the natural world. Using examples from the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, they demonstrate how complex environmental issues can be made accessible to all ages. Fun, informative and relevant.
Best known for creating two masterpieces of observational prose, The Running Sky and Four Fields, Tim Dee is also a radio producer at the BBC. He's used his experience to edit an anthology of contemporary nature writing that links human beings with the natural world. Ground Work includes texts by John Burnside, Helen Macdonald and Marina Warner among others. Today Dee discusses this thought-provoking book.
Lawyers might be on the end of relentless jokes and criticism, but some of them are fighting against the destruction of our planet. Martin Goodman and James Thornton discuss the efforts of ClientEarth, a not-for-profit environmental law group which encourages citizens to use public interest law to protect the planet. Thornton himself has been successful in taking corporations and governments to court for their negligence. Chaired by Rosemary Burnett.
James Aldred built forest shelters as a teenager and now hops around the treetops to film segments for David Attenborough's celebrated TV shows. In The Man Who Climbs Trees he recalls adventures from Borneo to Australia. Jonathan Drori keeps his feet firmly on the ground to analyse how trees play eye-opening roles in almost every part of human life in Around the World in 80 Trees. A perfect event for nature lovers.
The British Isles are made up of two large islands and several thousand that are very much smaller. Both Patrick Barkham and Paul Murton are fascinated by the latter. In his gorgeous travelogue Islander, Barkham explores areas where the past is vividly present. Presenter of the BBC's Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands, Murton's focus is firmly on the Hebrides as he uncovers their magic and beauty. Record-breaking long-distance British cyclist, adventurer, broadcaster, documentary maker and author Mark Beaumont joins Murton for a fascinating discussion about the joys and challenges of venturing into wild places.
We're still fascinated by the fate of dinosaurs. Now palaeontologist Dr Steve Brusatte shares the story of how new dino-hunters have used cutting edge technology to reframe the history of the beasts that ruled the Earth for millions of years. The ultimate warning from history, Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs teaches homo sapiens some valuable survival lessons.
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Q: js replaceChild preserve click listener or inline onclick method I have a div that's used to display a work area for the user, and content is loaded dynamically. When trying to implement a previous/back button, my content loads, but if that content contains an onclick listener it doesn't trigger.
My work area is an empty

I'm using cloneNode() and replaceChild() like so:
const workArea = document.getElementById(`work-area`)
let backup = workArea.cloneNode(true)

closeWorkArea = () => {
    workArea.innerHTML = ``
    backup = workArea.cloneNode(true)
    workArea.parentNode.replaceChild(backup, workArea)
}
previous = () => {
    workArea.parentNode.replaceChild(backup, workArea)
}

and when I load a certain page, I create a backup and load a template:
openItem = (index) => {
    backup = workArea.cloneNode(true)
    workArea.innerHTML = ``
    ...
    const itemPageCard = document.getElementById(`item-page-card`).content.cloneNode(true)
    // NOTE : I've tried both of these assignments below, neither work
    itemPageCard.children[2].addEventListener(`click`, () => { promptDelete(index) })
    itemPageCard.children[2].setAttribute(`onclick`, `promptDelete(${index})`)
    ...
    workArea.appendChild(itemPageCard)
}

The promptDelete() function loads a template which contains a button that will delete the users data, as well as a button that calls previous()
promptDelete = (index) => {
    backup = workArea.cloneNode(true)
    workArea.innerHTML = ``
    const prompt = document.getElementById(`prompt-delete`).content.cloneNode(true)
    ...
    // NOTE : Clicking this does work, and loads the previous page data
    prompt.children[2].children[0].addEventListener(`click`, () => { previous() })
    prompt.children[2].children[1].addEventListener(`click`, () => { deleteItemByIndex(index) })
    workArea.appendChild(prompt)
}

Once the previous page is loaded, the click events from the initial openItem() call no longer occur. I suspect its the workArea.parentNode.replaceChild(backup, workArea), but don't know how to restore those listeners. Even if I use the inline method setAttribute('onclick', ..) I can see the onclick="promptDelete(0)" inside the html, confirming it's cloning correctly, however still nothing
Note : I can't just use openItem() with an index in lieu of previous() because I also load other types of content into the work area


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Рейнс (, ) — английская фамилия, также топоним.

Фамилия
 Рейнс, Габриель (1803—1881) — американский военный, изобретатель пехотных мин.
 Рейнс, Клод (1889—1967) — англо-американский актёр.
 Рейнс, Роман (род. 1985) — псевдоним американского рестлера Джо Аноа'й.
 Рейнс, Элла (1920—1988) — американская актриса.

Топоним
 Рейнс — округ штата Техас (США).

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Home Study Material For Civil Services History Modern History
Decline of Mughal Empire (Lecture -1)
in Modern History
The Great Mughal Empire declined and disintegrated during the first half of the 18th century.
The Mughal Emperors lost their power and glory and their empire shrank to a few square miles around Delhi.
In the end, in 1803, Delhi itself was occupied by the British army and the proud of Mughal Emperor was reduced to the status of a mere pensioner of a foreign power.
The decline of Mughal Empire reveals some of the defects and weaknesses of India's medieval social, economic, and political structure which were responsible for the eventual subjugation of the country by the English East India Company.
The unity and stability of the Empire had been shaken up during the long and strong reign of Aurangzeb; yet in spite of his many harmful policies, the Mughal administration was still quite efficient and the Mughal army quite strong at the time of his death in 1707.
Causes of Decline of Mughal Empire
Beginning of the decline of the Mughal Empire can be traced to the strong rule of Aurangzeb.
Aurangzeb inherited a large empire, yet he adopted a policy of extending it further to the farthest geographical limits in the south at the great expense of men and materials.
Political Cause
In reality, the existing means of communication and the economic and political structure of the country made it difficult to establish a stable centralized administration over all parts of the country.
Aurangzeb's objective of unifying the entire country under one central political authority was, though justifiable in theory, not easy in practice.
Aurangzeb's campaign against the Marathas extended over many years; it drained the resources of his Empire and ruined the trade and industry of the Deccan.
Aurangzeb's absence from the north for over 25 years and his failure to subdue the Marathas led to deterioration in administration; this undermined the prestige of the Empire and its army.
Alliance with the Rajput rajas with the consequent military support was one of the main pillars of Mughal strength in the past, but Aurangzeb's conflict with some of the Rajput states also had serious consequences.
Aurangzeb himself had in the beginning adhered to the Rajput alliance by raising Jaswant Singh of Kamer and Jai Singh of Amber to the highest of ranks. But his short-sighted attempt later to reduce the strength of the Rajput rajas and extend the imperials way over their lands led to the withdrawal of their loyalty from the Mughal throne.
The strength of Aurangzeb's administration was challenged at its very nerve center around Delhi by Satnam, the Jat, and the Sikh uprisings.
They showed that the peasantry was deeply dissatisfied with feudal oppression by Zamindars, nobles, and the state.
Religious Cause
Aurangzeb's religious orthodoxy and his policy towards the Hindu rulers seriously damaged the stability of the Mughal Empire.
The Mughal state in the days of Akbar, Jahangir, and Shahjahan was basically a secular state. Its stability was essentially founded on the policy of noninterference with the religious beliefs and customs of the people, fostering of friendly relations between Hindus and Muslims.
Aurangzeb made an attempt to reverse the secular policy by imposing the jizyah (tax imposed on non-Muslim people), destroying many of the Hindu temples in the north, and putting certain restrictions on the Hindus.
The jizyah was abolished within a few years of Aurangzeb's death. Amicable relations with the Rajput and other Hindu nobles and chiefs were soon restored.
Wars of Succession and Civil Wars
Aurangzeb left the Empire with many problems unsolved, the situation was further worsened by the ruinous wars of succession, which followed his death.
In the absence of any fixed rule of succession, the Mughal dynasty was always plagued after the death of a king by a civil war between the princes.
The wars of succession became extremely destructive during the 18th century and resulted in great loss of life and property. Thousands of trained soldiers and hundreds of capable military commanders and efficient and tried officials were killed. Moreover, these civil wars loosened the administrative fabric of the Empire.
The mutual quarrels exhausted the Empire, affected its cohesion, led to its dismemberment, and, in the end, made it an easy prey to foreign conquerors.
The condition of the Indian peasant gradually worsened during the 17th and 18th centuries. Nobles made heavy demands on the peasants and cruelly oppressed them, often in violation of official regulations.
Many ruined peasants formed roving bands of robbers and adventurers, often under the leadership of the zamindars, and thus undermined law and order and the efficiency of the Mughal administration.
During the 18th century, the Mughal army lacked discipline and fighting morale.
Lack of finance made it difficult to maintain a large number of army. Its soldiers and officers were not paid for many months.
The civil wars resulted in the death of many brilliant commanders and brave and experienced solders. Thus, the army, the ultimate sanction of an empire, and the pride of the Great Mughals, was so weakened that it could no longer curb the ambitious chiefs and nobles or defend the Empire from foreign aggression.
Foreign Invasion
A series of foreign invasions affected Mughal Empire very badly. Attacks by Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali, which were themselves the consequences of the weakness of the Empire, drained the Empire of its wealth, ruined its trade and industry in the North, and almost destroyed its military power.
The emergence of the British challenge took away the last hope of the revival of the crisis-ridden Empire.
For better understanding (of the decline of Mughal Empire), the subsequent lectures (kept under the following headings) describe feeble Mughal Emperors, their weaknesses, and faulty activities −
Bahadur Shah I
Jahandar Shah
Farrukh Siyar
Muhammad Shah
Nadir Shah's Outbreak
Ahmad Shah Abdali
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This Robotic Pollinator Is Like a Huge Bee With Wheels and an Arm
You like eating, yes? Apples, oranges, berries? For these foods we can thank bees and their extraordinary pollinating powers. Unfortunately, to show our appreciation, humans are killing off bees in staggering numbers—destroying their habitats and poisoning them with pesticides. And at the same time, our population is skyrocketing, which means if we can't get our act together, we have to somehow feed more people with fewer pollinators.
Well, living pollinators, that is. In a greenhouse at West Virginia University, a machine called the BrambleBee is learning to roll around pollinating blackberry bushes, knocking their flowers around (blackberry flowers self-pollinate, so bees or robots just have to jostle them to spread around the pollen). It's no replacement for bees, but in a world with too many humans and not enough pollinators, robots like this could help feed our kind.
The BrambleBee works not unlike a self-driving car. First it uses lidar, spraying lasers to build a 3-D map of the greenhouse so it can find its way around. For the moment, it looks for QR codes as a stand-in for flowers, but the researchers are close to getting it to snap photos of actual flowers. After traipsing through the rows, it then plans its next pass to reach as many flowers with its arm as possible. Next, once it's positioned itself in front of a plant, another camera on that arm will make an even higher-resolution 3-D map of the crop.
If BrambleBee determines a flower is ready for pollination, it will use a small 3-D printed brush of flexible polyurethane bristles on the end of its arm to gently stroke the blossom. This transfers pollen from the male reproductive organs, called anthers, to the pistils, where pollination commences. The robot will even remember what flowers it already hit, so it can make multiple runs as the plants mature in the greenhouse.
Is it more expensive than helping bees do their thing? Certainly. Does it get insects fed? Certainly not. But BrambleBee can provide something bees can't: data. "Imagine you recognize a blackberry from the stage of a bud all the way to a fruit, then you can tell how many blackberries to expect and what their quality is," says West Virginia University roboticist Yu Gu, who developed the system. And if BrambleBee can manage a manipulation as delicate as pollination, theoretically it could tend to the plants in other ways, like using a different instrument to cut away unhealthy flowers.
Yu Gu/West Virginia University
But, again, this machine is nowhere near a replacement for bees. Over 20,000 species of bees fly the Earth, with unique bodies and strategies for collecting pollen. "One human-engineered robot cannot improve on bees' almost 100 million years' worth of evolutionary ingenuity," says University of Minnesota entomologist Marla Spivak. "We need to figure out how to protect bees, not replace them."
Plus, BrambleBee's stature means it's no good for tree crops like almonds. And plants that don't self-pollinate are going to be trickier. Humanity still needs bees, and policy changes and research to try to save them.
And you'd have to put out a lot of pollinating robots to make a big impact. "I think it's very hard to imagine a future where robotic pollinators play a significant role in supporting food production to compensate for bee declines," says Harvard biologist James Crall, who studies colony dynamics by gluing QR codes to bees and tracking them with a camera. "In addition to honey bees, there are thousands of bee species across the globe that are crucial to supporting both crop yields and maintaining biodiversity."
But just as beekeepers rent out their hives to farmers to kickstart pollination, so too might robots like BrambleBee travel between farms to lend a hand, or labor full-time in greenhouses. Maybe BrambleBee could work alongside bees with less disruption compared to, say, tiny pollinating drones that might end up injuring bees.
So yes, humanity must save the bees. But to feed our species, perhaps the farm of the future could use a robotic hand or two.
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Upgrades and refits, including AIP capabilities very similar to Type 214, are so extensive that justify the S 118 boat as a new and separate class when compared to the rest of Type 209/1200 vessels. New dimensions are similar to Type 214 boats.
"Neptune II" upgrade including Air-Independent Propulsion (AIP) insert was cancelled for the other 3 units of this class.


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Movement Rights coproduced a report, Rights of Nature: Rights-Based Law for Systemic Change with our allies Womens Earth and Climate Action Network and the Indigenous Environmental Network as part of our activities in Bonn, Germany for the UN Climate negotiations. The report is available for free download and has contributions from a dozen rights of nature global leaders.
Movement Rights' Shannon Biggs and WECAN's Osprey Orielle Lake introducing the report in Bonn at a WECAN event.
BONN, Germany – Concluding the first week of COP 23 climate negotiations, it is clear that many civil society groups, scientists and economists believe the general UNFCCC climate framework will only serve to exacerbate chaotic climate conditions. At the opening of the conference, COP 23 President and Prime Minister of Fiji Frank Bainimarama remarked, "The need for urgency is obvious. Our world is in distress from the extreme weather events caused by climate change – destructive hurricanes, fires, floods, droughts, melting ice, and changes to agriculture that threaten our food security." These civil society groups argue that while the rhetoric of the negotiators is good, the actions will not serve the needs of climate-impacted communities.
On 11 November, California Governor Jerry Brown took the stage at the America's Pledge event, themed 'We're Still In'. "When cities and states combine together and then join with powerful corporations, that's how we get stuff done," said Governor Brown before his speech was disrupted by protestors who came to confront his support of fossil fuels and big business.
"Humanity needs Nature to survive," said Ninawa Nuneshuni Kui, President of the Huni Kui People of Acre, Brazil following his participation of the protest.
The report explores not just the idea of a shift toward recognizing rights of ecosystems but includes global examples from around the world where these new laws are taking root. In the last year alone, New Zealand and India have recognized rivers as rights-bearing entities that now "own" themselves.
They join the fast-growing list of 7 countries and dozens of local U.S. communities that are finding the only way forward to protect human communities is to shift our legal frameworks to align with natural law.


Abstract: The present study aims to conduct a quantitative evaluation of evacuation route safety using the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm for risk management in central Tokyo. Firstly, the similarity in safety was focused on while taking into consideration road blockage probability. Then, by classifying roads by means of the hierarchical cluster analysis, the congestion rates of evacuation routes using ACO simulations were estimated. Based on these results, the multiple evacuation routes extracted were visualized on digital maps by means of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and their safety was evaluated. Furthermore, the selection of safe evacuation routes between evacuation sites for cases when the possibility of large-scale evacuation after an earthquake disaster is high is made possible. As the evaluation method is based on public information, by obtaining the same geographic information as the present study, it is effective in other areas, regardless of whether the information is from the past or future. Therefore, in addition to spatial reproducibility, the evaluation method also has high temporal reproducibility. Because safety evaluations are conducted on evacuation routes based on quantified data, the selected highly safe evacuation routes have been quantitatively evaluated, and thus serve as an effective indicator when selecting evacuation routes.


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Q: read from file, then telling pygame to play the sound just read I'm using pygame with python2.7, and I have a game I want to finish up but have a problem.
I don't want to distribute the .ogg files in a way that would be easy for the player to steel, because lets face facts, ssteel sounds is what cheap knockoff games do best.
Anyway, rant aside, all of the methods I have mentally come up with so far either involve:
1. Encrypt the files and make the game unencrypt them into a new file[bad, person can just copy unencrypted file while game running]
2: using a dictionary to store them in a sounds.dat file and then write sounds to file when needed [bad, still can delete, and sounds.dat with pickle is 3 times the size, say hwaa?]
So now I'm stuck. How can I either make it so all my sounds are stored in one dat file, and pygame can still play them without blowing my game to like 10 times its size, or, how can I ensure my files are encrypted.
In an ideal world, I am looking for an answer where the sounds are encrypted, and yet pygame can still play them.
Thank you


You have your coat handy? Good. You might want it as you head out the door after Monday night's cold, wet weather hit the region.
More than a foot of snow fell on portions of the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains overnight, leading to some road restrictions and school closures in the area. A winter weather warning was in place until noon Tuesday.
Mountain High resort recorded 18 to 20 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service, and Snow Summit in the Big Bear area recorded 12 to18 inches as of Tuesday morning.
One Sugarloaf resident in the Big Bear area said it took him an hour to dig out of his driveway Tuesday morning to get to work in Big Bear City where they reported 12.5 inches of snow overnight.
Chain restrictions were in effect Tuesday morning, March 12, for many of the roads in the Big Bear area and Caltrans warned to check conditions before heading out.
And since getting around on the mountain roads could be somewhat precarious, some districts canceled classes Tuesday. Bear Valley Unified School District called a snow day for all schools, except Fallsvale School, according to its website.
Rim of the World Unified also canceled classes Tuesday. "Due to snow accumulations at our higher elevations, current road conditions, and for the safety of our students and staff, (today) is a snow day," the message on its website reads.
But don't expect it to be too wet and chilly for too long, at least in the valleys. The National Weather Service says warmer temperatures are on the way.
Temperatures throughout Southern California will move into the mid-60s and hit the low to mid-70s by the weekend.
But the mountains will keep their wintry chill with high temperatures reaching the low 40s by week's end, according to NWS.
Which means there may be an opportunity this weekend for snow play in the mountains, before all the white stuff disappears for spring blooms.
Kimberly Guimarin is senior editor for The Press-Enterprise, The Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and Redlands Daily Facts.


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Martin J. Weber (March 7, 1905 – June 9, 2007) was the inventor of the graphic arts technique known as posterization.

Biography
He was born in 1905 in New York City. In 1962 he designed a 4-cent United States stamp commemorating Dag Hammarskjöld.

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Ellenville, New York. It's not even a town, it's a small village in the town of Wawarsing that lies in the heart of the Catskill mountains. As small communities go, it's a nice enough place with the usual library, bank, post office and family owned bakery. Many of the residents who were born there, still live there and raise their families there. Those who've retired have moved to the warmer climate of Florida or California, taking their businesses and memories with them. I never thought of Ellenville as much more than a tiny spot on the map, just like millions of other undistinguished specks that lead to the big cities of New York or Los Angeles.
As teenagers, growing up in Ellenville wasn't that much different from life in most other small towns. In the winter, we went to school. In the summer, we worked, usually at the local hotels or bungalow colonies where the "summer people" would flock to escape the heat and humidity of New York City. There was little to do if you were too young to drive, and at fifteen I became as bored as the rest of my friends as soon as the sun went down.
There was one weekend in particular I do remember when we heard about a little music festival happening not too far from Ellenville, but our parents wouldn't drive the twenty miles to Bethel because of the weather. Besides, they'd said, there would be other festivals, and Woodstock wasn't that big of a deal. History, as we well know, proved them wrong, but that's another story.
After college, I moved to California where I'd never have to buy another snow tire. I thought I'd left my small town behind me, but my small town had a habit of following me everywhere I went. California, like Florida was a Mecca for New Yorkers, and we all seemed to be drawn to one another, even 3,000 miles away. Call it the epitome of Neil Diamond's "I Am…I Said", we were in Los Angeles, but our roots were still firmly planted back east. Although this didn't surprise me, what did was the effect the mention of my home town had on the other displaced New Yorkers. The scenario was always the same. I'd hear the accent, still there sometimes decades after they'd left the state, as they told me they were from Queens, Brooklyn or Long Island. No hint of missing their old towns, glad to be in a warmer climate, no plans to return, and nothing to return to.
But the moment I told them I was from Ellenville, a strange transformation would take place. Their eyes would glaze over, a warm smile would appear on their face as a distant memory would suddenly surface. The mention of Ellenville was like a magical time machine, transporting them back to a moment in their past, and they would share whatever memory they recalled with this stranger who suddenly became family. They would ask if I knew certain people (I rarely did), and mention some of the familiar places, like the Shamrock or Pizza King, both long gone. In sharing the memory, we brought them back to life, if only for a brief moment.
This past summer, a play called "Grossingers" staged a one-night performance at the local theater here in Thousand Oaks, California. On the night of the performance, I wore a shirt with the "Ellenville" logo on the front and walked through the crowd, just to see what the reaction would be. I was not disappointed. People from every corner of the room began coming over to me the minute I entered the lobby, and almost every one reacted the same magical way. People I'd never met began to share intimate memories of their youth. Stories about the Nevele, the Fallsview, the Concord and of course, Grossingers, mixed with tales of friendship, families and relationships formed under a summer sky.
Ellenville to them was not just the name of a small town where I grew up, it was a mental photograph frozen in time. The name of my home town lit a spark that ignited a flame of memory and nostalgia. All because they saw the word "Ellenville" on my shirt. Was there ever a line that rang more true than the last one of our High School song: "As down life's road we travel, we will sure be heard about."? Many years after that song was written, we are most definitely heard about, talked about and remembered fondly from California to Florida. From Israel to Paris and just about anywhere else New Yorkers meet all over the world.
For those who still live there, Ellenville may be just another tiny spot on the map, just like millions of other undistinguished specks that lead to the big cities of New York or Los Angeles. But once you leave the boundaries of New York, you begin to realize the impact our little village has had on the rest of the world. No other town of its size can evoke such vivid memories of a simpler care-free time. No other village ignites the passion and nostalgia not only from former residents, but for hundreds of visitors who spent their youths and their summers in a "pleasant little town nestled in a valley." A town called Ellenville.


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Obama and Boehner Head into Hot Weekend of Talks
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By Jennifer Depaul, The Fiscal Times
Disputing media reports, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio., told reporters Friday morning that he and President Obama remain far apart from an agreement on a deficit reduction deal that would stave off the first U.S. government default.
Debt Ceiling: Complete Coverage
"There was no agreement, publicly, privately, never an agreement and frankly not close to an agreement," Boehner said. "I would just suggest that it's going to be a hot weekend here in Washington, D.C." News organizations reported Thursday that Obama and Boehner were discussing $3 trillion in deficit reduction, relying almost exclusively on cuts in spending and entitlement programs and with no immediate revenue increase. At the same time, Boehner suggested that budget negotiations were still ongoing. "I've talked with the White House about keeping the line of communication open," he said.
Speaking at a town hall meeting at the University of Maryland, College Park Friday morning, Obama insisted deficit reduction plan must include new taxes as well as unpalatable spending cuts, and he urged Republicans to compromise on a deal. "The only people we have left to convince are some folks in the House of Representatives and we're going to keep working on that," he said.
House Republicans are adamant in opposing higher tax revenues as part of any deal, arguing that they would hurt the economy. Many Democrats in both chambers fear that Obama will bend to Republican demands and sign off on a plan with no short term tax increases – just the promise of long term tax code reforms that might generate increased revenue in the long term.
Obama met Thursday evening with top Democratic congressional leaders for two hours at the White House to discuss the status of the debt talks. There were no plans for Obama and Republican leaders to are no scheduled meetings with the president and Republicans leaders as of Friday afternoon.
Boehner's comments came shortly before the Senate rejected the House-passed "Cut, Cap and Balance" bill by a vote of 51 to 46. The measure, including a proposed constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment, was dismissed by Senate Democrts as a political statement more than serious legislation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-N.V., said the "Cut, Cap and Balance" bill is "over, it's done, it's dead."
The House measure would have raised the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion, while sharply cutting and capping government spending, but not raising taxes to help reduce the deficit. "When is Harry Reid going to put forward his ideas?" said House Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia.
The Senate was scheduled to meet in emergency session over the weekend, but Reid cancelled the session while on Obama, Boehner and other top leaders continued to try to hammer out deal.
There are 11 days remaining before the Treasury says it will exhaust its borrowing authority and the government will have insuffient funds to pay its creditors and cover all other government obligations. The administration, Federal Reserve, and many financial experts warn that a first ever government default could have catastrophic effects on the economy and markets, but many Republicans argue that the government could temporarily muddle through even if it has to prioritize spending and leave some bills unpaid for a while.
Obama and Boehner have reportedly discussed a deficit reduction deal totaling $3 trillion over the coming decade, with deep cuts in government agency and entitlement spending, but no immediate increases in revenues. About 90 House Republicans said they would oppose a fallback proposal originally floated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., which would authorize the president to raise the debt ceiling in three separate increments over 18 months, without congressional approval. The plan, refined by Reid, also calls for spending cuts of up to $1.5 trillion, as well as creation of a congressional committee responsible for recommending other major savings.
Meanwhile, negotiators are trying to incorporate pieces of the "Gang of Six" proposal into a final deal. That plan, introduced on Wednesday by six Republican and Democratic senators who have been meeting, off and on, for months, would reduce the deficit by $3.7 trillion over 10 years.
Even if Obama and Boehner reach agreement, they will have to sell it to the House and the Senate, and given deep divisions in both parties, that will be a tough sell. Any agreement will be taken up first by the House and then the Senate, according to Rep. Rob Andrews, D-N.J.. "I think what is likely is a deal that has a short-term and a long-term component, with the condition upon passage of a reconciliation," he told reporters. Congress will have to pass major budget legislation to reconcile all the provisions of any final deal, a complicated and time-consuming process. "We all know it's impossible to write a reconciliation bill between now and August 2."
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Tributes paid to shell collector Lightbourn
Published Nov 27, 2019 at 8:00 am (Updated Nov 27, 2019 at 2:56 pm)
Jack Lightbourn (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
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Tributes were paid last night to the late Jack Lightbourn with an informal ceremony at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.
The shell collector, diver and conservationist donated a major part of his world-renowned collection to the BUEI, where he was a trustee and served as vice-president.
Mr Lightbourn, a Second World War veteran and former top executive of the Bank of Bermuda, died in September aged 93.
Mr Lightbourn's family organised a gathering in his memory at the room in the BUEI where his collection is displayed instead of a funeral service.
Mr Lightbourn was part of a group in the early 1990s, including the late diving legend Teddy Tucker, who campaigned for a centre to showcase Bermuda's marine environment.
Plans for the BUEI drew concerns from conservationists, including the then Bermuda Maritime Museum, that it would compete with existing organisations.
The Bermuda National Trust objected to its construction at the waterside off East Broadway. but the institute overcame obstacles and opened in 1997.
Mr Lightbourn also served as president of the Bermuda Zoological Society in the 1990s, and as chairman of the Historic Wrecks Authority.
His career at the Bank of Bermuda started in 1941, when Mr Lightbourn was taken on as a messenger aged 15.
But his job was soon interrupted by service in the Second World War.
Mr Lightbourn spent a period in training before he started service with the Royal Navy in 1944 on Atlantic convoy duty.
The threat from German U-boats had receded — but the convoys still braved storms and icy weather in the open Atlantic.
Mr Lightbourn in 1946, after the war ended, served as an Able Seaman radar operator on a Royal Navy destroyer, HMS Chivalrous.
The ship was tasked with the interception of ships packed with Jewish refugees in the Mediterranean en route to Palestine as part of the Royal Navy's Palestine Patrol.
Palestine was still under British control and the Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe were considered illegal immigrants.
Mr Lightbourn told the Mid-Ocean News in 1999: "They were like slave ships. Many of the people had been in concentration camps. Most were not in the best of health.
"In a bunch of young fellows like we were, I was considered the old man. I was 20 years old."
He added: "The conditions we saw were awful."
He returned home in May 1947 and resumed his career at the Bank of Bermuda where he rose to general manager before he retired.
He served on the Bermuda War Veterans Association and became president in his later years.
Shells were a lifelong passion, and his collection held specimens from around the world, as well as Bermuda waters.
A keen diver, Mr Lightbourn sometimes used a submersible to bring back rare shells from the deep waters surrounding the island.
Mr Lightbourn and his late friend and fellow collector Arthur Guest added 300 species to the Bermuda listing which were not known to have existed in island waters, as well as ten new species.
Three of the previously unknown species were named in his honour — Conus lightbourni, Pterynotus lightbourni and Fusinus lightbourni.
He was given the Neptunea Award by The Conchologists of America in 2006 to recognise "outstanding and distinguished service".
Mr Lightbourn told The Royal Gazette at the time: "My interest in shells started at six years of age when I went collecting with my grandfather.
"In those days you could collect and sell shells, which is no longer permissible. When I was 11, I joined the Sea Scouts and a few of us became interested and started to collect. I just kept on going."


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This paper looks at how British political elites discuss the European public sphere and citizens' participation within it. Drawing on 41 in-depth interviews with political elites – including politicians at national and European levels, journalists, political activists, and think-tank professionals – the paper explores interviewees' understandings of the European public sphere, and their perceptions about its vitality. Our research reveals a great deal of scepticism about the idea of a European public sphere, in part rooted in conventional British Euro-sceptic approaches, and in part fostered by a perception of the remoteness and democratic defi cit of the European Union.


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The Death and Legacy of Hugo Chávez
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died Tuesday at the age of 58, after a battle with cancer. We'll discuss the controversial leader's career and look at what lies ahead for Venezuela, the fourth-largest oil supplier to the United States and, under Chávez, a U.S. adversary. We will also consider the likely successor to Chávez and discuss whether his socialist and revolutionary agendas will continue after his death.
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Home On the Rise Recent Graduates SEAS alumnus: Eric Prokop
SEAS alumnus: Eric Prokop
Eric Prokop took an indirect route to graduating with an engineering degree. After beginning college as an undeclared major, he selected geography as his major and enjoyed it greatly. But as he began thinking about his career prospects, he considered engineering and decided that civil engineering would be a good fit for him.
"I thought it would be cool to be a part of the team that designs the built environments that we live in," he said.
Switching into engineering at the end of his sophomore year meant that Eric had a number of requirements to make up, and it meant delaying graduation by a year. But that didn't dissuade him.
"I feel great about my decision," Eric announced. "If I could do it all over again, I might even do it the same way, because I got more of a diverse education, with two years of liberal arts, than the typical engineering student."
And the extra work didn't prove too much for him either. In fact, Eric did so well academically and integrated so well into the SEAS community that he was selected at the end of his senior year as the SEAS Distinguished Scholar.
At SEAS, Eric was able to explore many of the same interests he previously wanted to explore, such as travel and Spanish. One of the highlights for him was being able to participate in an Engineers Without Borders service trip to El Salvador his junior year and to lead the trip his senior year. "It was the perfect mix of the opportunity to travel, work on engineering, and improve my Spanish," he claims.
After Eric earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from SEAS, he was admitted to Stanford University's master's program in structural engineering.


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Orlando Brown Loses Movie Gig After Arrest, Friend Says He Has Mental Health Issue
Orlando Brown is losing a movie role because of his domestic violence arrest … a role the alleged victim actually got him.
TMZ broke the story … the former Disney star was arrested Thursday for misdemeanor domestic violence after cops in Ohio responded to a call about a fight in progress between two men.
Matthew Sanders, the alleged victim, tells TMZ … he's directing and producing a movie called "Up The Score" and wanted Orlando to be part of it, because he considers OB not only a friend but extremely talented.
Orlando's legal issues have been well documented over the years, and Matthew says Orlando had been living at his home in Ohio since November during preproduction for the movie. We're told there were no major issues until Thursday's incident.
Matthew, who told cops Orlando came at him with a broken-off knife blade and a hammer, believes OB is struggling with a mental illness. He thinks Orlando is at times out of touch with reality, and he's bummed he wasn't able to help Orlando make a movie comeback.
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Orlando was supposed to have a secondary role in the movie … a dramedy about a military man who meets someone on social media and leaves his family for this person only to find out they are not who they said they were … but that's no more.
Matthew tells us Orlando is no longer allowed to live at his house at this point in time and is currently removed from the film.
What's more, Matthew hopes Orlando seeks mental health help and only then would he consider bringing him back on. With filming for the project beginning in January, we're told it's likely not possible for Orlando to be involved.
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La malaltia de Cacchi-Ricci (MCR), nefroespongiosi, èctasi precalicilar difusa o espongiosi medul·lar renal, és un trastorn congènit rar dels ronyons caracteritzat per la dilatació quística dels túbuls col·lectors en un o tots dos ronyons, generalment acompanyada de nefrocalcinosi, acidosi tubular renal distal i hipocitratúria (baixa concentració de citrat a l'orina).

Epidemiologia
La seva prevalença és d'aproximadament 1 cas/5000 individus. Es detecta molt poques vegades durant l'edat pediàtrica. En un 70% dels casos la condició és bilateral. Les dones amb MCR experimenten més pedres, ITU i complicacions que els homes.

Patogènia
Les persones amb la MCR tenen més risc de patir càlculs renals (pedres al ronyó), predominantment de fosfat de calci i/o d'oxalat de calci, i infecció del tracte urinari (ITU). Els pacients amb la MCR solen tenir el doble de pedres a l'any que altres malalts formadors de pedra sense la MCR, diagnosticant-se aquesta afecció en més d'un 20% dels individus que pateixen nefrolitiasis recurrents. Tot i que es descriu com un trastorn "benigne" amb una baixa taxa de morbiditat, fins a un 10% dels pacients que sofreixen MCR tenen un increment del risc de morbiditat associada a pedres freqüents i ITU. Si bé alguns d'ells presenten un augment de dolor renal crònic, la font del dolor, quan no hi ha una ITU o un bloqueig de la sortida de l'orina, encara no està clara en aquest moment. En algun cas, és difícil diferenciar la MCR d'una neoplàsia renal. El còlic renal (mal d'esquena degut a una obstrucció) està present en el 55% dels pacients. Abans es creia que la MCR no era hereditària, però avui dia hi ha proves que indiquen el contrari, sent un trastorn genètic de transmissió autosòmica dominant, penetrància incompleta i expressió variable. S'han identificat diverses variacions en la seqüència del gen GDNF en malalts amb MRC. Pot formar part de les manifestacions renals de la síndrome de Rabson-Mendenhall greu. Rares vegades, es presenta associada a cistinúria, hipopotassèmia sintomàtica, hemihiperplàsia corporal congènita aïllada, ronyó en ferradura, disgenèsia testicular, fibrosi hepàtica congènita, hiperparatiroïdisme, displàsia fibromuscular multifocal (un rar trastorn vascular no inflamatori que provoca un creixement anòmal de la paret de les artèries i de vegades la formació d'aneurismes), malaltia de Caroli o a la síndrome de Beckwith–Wiedemann (una forma infreqüent de resistència a la insulina). Ocasionalment, es desenvolupa una hipertensió secundària derivada de la baixa perfusió renal que causa la malaltia.

Diagnosi
El diagnòstic de la MCR s'aconsegueix emprant diverses proves d'imatge mèdica, incloent l'ecografia, o bé amb la pràctica d'una biòpsia renal.

Tractament
En casos lleus, el tractament bàsic de la MCR consisteix en el control de la formació de càlculs estabilitzant el pH urinari per mitjà d'una dieta adequada, consum abundant d'aigua, administració de diürètics tiazídics per disminuir la hipercalciúria i ús de compostos amb citrat de potassi. Si la nefrolitiasi és ja important i simptomàtica està indicada la litotrícia o inclús una cirurgia renal directa.

Referències

Bibliografia

Enllaços externs
 Cirugia Intrarenal Retrograda en Enfermedad de Cacchi Ricci Ibarluzea G, Gamarra M. Urología Clínica; 2014, Mar 19
 Medullary Sponge Kidney National Kidney Foundation Inc. New York; 2017, Feb 3
 Medullary Sponge Kidney Purohit, MP. DoveMed; 2018, Mar 26
 Endourologic Management of Medullary Sponge Kidney UBC Urology Rounds; 2018, Ag 8
 Medullary sponge disease Creative Medicine; 2018, Oct 21
 Kidneys - medullary sponge kidney Better Health Channel: Services and suport. Victorian Government; 2019, Jul 11
 Paintbrush sign of medullary sponge kidney on IVP Hacking, C. Radiopaedia; 2019, Des 23
 Medullary sponge kidney Gambaro, G. Orphanet; 2021, Oct 25

Malalties i trastorns congènits
Malalties renals