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Surgical Device Spreads Cancer Inside Women
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The FDA knew of the risk. It's yet another medical device scandal from the FDA.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) details how the FDA tragically underestimated the risk of a device used to remove uterine tumors called fibroids.
The device, called a power morcellator, was approved in 1991; by 2013, it was being used on at least 50,000 women a year. The device consists of a spinning blade used to shred fibroids so they can be removed through tiny incisions in "minimally invasive" surgery.
But for women with fibroids and undiagnosed cancers, the morcellator can spray malignant cells from the uterus into the abdomen and pelvis, spreading the cancer and making it significantly more deadly.
The GAO report notes that, when the FDA approved the device, the agency was aware of this danger but thought the risk was "low." Hospitals and doctors did not submit adverse event reports to the FDA until 2013, when a high-profile case of morcellator-spread cancer was reported in Boston. After the bad PR, adverse event reports began pouring into the FDA: by 2016, there were 285, and some women had died.
How many thousands of other women were affected or killed by this device between 1991 and 2013? We may never know.
Since becoming aware of the increased danger, the FDA, rather than pull approval for the dangerous device, merely issued a warning about using the morcellator to remove uterine fibroids, with guidance to industry suggesting a similar warning on the box of the device.
New reports have described this scandal as evidence of a weak, passive adverse event reporting system—one that relies too much on doctors and hospitals to report such events to the FDA. As we saw in 2015 with our coverage of endoscopes spreading drug-resistant infections, the problem goes much deeper. The FDA apparently doesn't want you to have access to natural medicines that are demonstrably safe—but has no problem approving drugs and devices that kill people, so long as they are profitable for industry.
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8 responses to "Surgical Device Spreads Cancer Inside Women"
Donna Snyder says:
This morcellator should raise red flags. A spinning blade used internally to break down cancerous tissue? It's going to spread the cancer.
mamacalex says:
They wouldn't use it if they suspected cancer, this happened in someone that had cancer but it was undiagnosed. For most women, this would be a great option for minimally invasive surgery.
Stephanie Christian says:
obviously not….
Joe Rock says:
The FDA, CDC, EPA, and all the rest of our agencies suck. Their best interests are the corporations or should I say they are the corporations. End them all.
Centurion says:
Terminate the FDA (and also about 3 dozen other useless alphabet agencies) and remove the law the prevents the pharmaceuticals and device manufactures from being sued. That is pure cronyism on the part of congress. Threats of law suits used to keep these businesses in line forcing them to make sure what they are producing actually works (and with no side effects).
the FDA has never approved the use of vaccines in the pregnant – to date all vaccines given to pregnant women lack FDA approval; after speaking with the FDA extensively finally they admitted the tests are not something they want an answer to …. this sort of lack of science and ethics is exactly why we do not vaccinate — the science (minus conflict of interest) is totally undone.
I know a woman who had cancer released from one, finite point to racing throughout her body by this device. I hope she is alive and well in spite of the horrible injustice done to her! She had a team that had her on track. She was walking for five miles a day, still teaching part time and on a ketogenic diet. Her gynecologist apologized-wow, after doing this to her! Doctors seldom question the FDA, pharma drugs & devices, yet they escew diet, hormones, vitamins-those things which our bodies need to live. You cannot leave MDs out of this equation.
Tactical111 says:
Roto Rootering cancerous tissue inside a woman's abdomen. What could go wrong silly????
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Home Opinion Northern Polls To hold or not…
Northern Polls To hold or not…
With elections to the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) due in September, Minister Champika Ranawaka leapt into the limelight this week requesting the Government to postpone the polls because issues relating to the grant of police and land powers to Provincial Councils have not been resolved.
Ranawaka, who represents the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) in the government, is the Minister of Technology, Research and Atomic Energy. He, together with Minister Wimal Weerawansa represents the factions within the Government which oppose the creation of a NPC with police and land powers.
The Government is on record saying that polls will be held under existing laws and on schedule. Official Cabinet spokesman Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said so in what was seen as a move to appease India which is insisting on this. However protests against the NPC elections have continued.
The JHU presented a Private Member's Bill in Parliament to abolish Provincial Councils while Minister Wimal Weerawansa's Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (JNP) this week commenced a signature campaign against the 13th Amendment to the Constitution which created Provincial Councils.
Despite the government's assurances about the NPC elections, still there are doubts about it being held as planned. That is because the polls are being strongly opposed by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa who cites a threat to national security if land and police powers are granted to the NPC.
This stance may have emboldened Minister Ranawaka to persevere with his stance of objecting to elections to the NPC. This, though places Ranawaka in the unenviable position of contradicting government policy directly, raises questions about his political future as a Minister in the Cabinet.
Ranawaka Arachchige Patali Champika Ranawaka, now forty seven years of age hails from Bulathsinhala. A brilliant student at Thakshila Central College in Horana, he earned a degree in engineering from the Moratuwa University but was also a student activist in his undergraduate days.
Ranawaka spent eight years as an undergraduate, partly because of the student unrest in the late eighties and also because he was imprisoned for some time in 1989 as the authorities cracked down on all student activists in a bid to neutralise the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna led rebellion.
Initially forming the 'Janatha Mithuro' organisation with like-minded colleagues, Ranawaka then joined the Sihala Urumaya which was campaigning on a platform of Sinhala nationalism to counter the threats posed by the then dominant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
" Despite a controversial career and nationalist views bordering on the radical, Minister Ranawaka is respected for not compromising his principles for personal gain "
The Sihala Urumaya evolved in to the JHU and Ranawaka, with his professional credentials and his articulate manner, emerged as a leading figure in the new party. The JHU supported President Mahinda Rajapaksa and became a partner in the United Peoples' Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
In return, President Rajapaksa offered a cabinet portfolio to the JHU. However, as all JHU parliamentarians at the time were Buddhist monks who, it was felt should not be ministers, the JHU's National List parliamentarian Omalpe Sobhitha thero resigned. Ranawaka replaced him.
Becoming a minister on his parliamentary debut, Ranawaka was entrusted with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. Once he called on terrorism to be crushed by whatever means possible 'if it is not possible legally'. He raised more eyebrows when he said Muslims were 'outsiders' in Sri Lanka. He has also expressed anti-American views. In recent years, Ranawaka has become more moderate in his public utterances.
At the 2010 general elections, Ranawaka contested elections for the first time from the Colombo district. He polled a creditable 120,000 preference votes and emerged third in a candidates' list laden with political heavyweights. He was appointed to the coveted Ministry of Power and Energy.
Being an engineer, Ranawaka was the best man for the job. Moreover, his integrity brought a breath of fresh air to a sector that was wreaking with corruption and inefficiency. However his tenure in this Ministry was brief: in a cabinet reshuffle in January this year, he was handed his current portfolio.
Many believed that Ranawaka was assigned the Ministry of Technology, Research and Atomic Energy because he was becoming too assertive and brooked no nonsense or interference in running the Ministry of Power and Energy.
This change of portfolios also became a bone of contention. When the recent electricity tariff hike was announced, incumbent Minister of Power and Energy Pavithra Wanniarachchi claimed the increase was authorised during Ranawaka's tenure. Ranawaka was quick to deny this and a public spate ensued.
Despite a controversial career and nationalist views bordering on the radical, Minister Ranawaka is respected for not compromising his principles for personal gain. In fact, this trait got him into much strife during his undergraduate days at the Moratuwa University.
This sets apart his campaign against the NPC elections from that of Minister Weerawansa. While many would not be surprised if Weerawansa remains in the Cabinet even if the NPC polls are held as planned and land and police powers are devolved, they would expect Ranawaka to react differently.
If indeed elections to the NPC are held in September and the council so elected was to enjoy land and police powers, Minister Ranawaka's position in the Cabinet-and the JHU's position as a partner of the ruling UPFA coalition-would be untenable, given his principled position on the matter.
The coming months will be crucial not only for a UPFA government that is seeking to re-establish its credibility in the eyes of the international community but also for Patali Champika Ranawaka who may be compelled to change the course of his political journey once again.
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I don't really have much experience with PoE yet other than blasting through it right now on hard with the default companions. I'm not too far into the game but so far it seems a tad too easy. I was thinking of starting an alternate playthrough with a solo character on POTD. I know there are builds out there but it kinda looks like most of them are outdated so I thought I'd ask you guys for some help / recommendations.
The classes I'm taking into account are rogue and chanter. Maybe ranger if you convince me but I'd really like the build to be melee. Not really a fan of wizards and such because of the ancient mechanic of rest that should die a long time ago but hey, a man's gotta be open-minded. I'm thinking both rogue and chanter should be more than doable and I could probably figure out some builds on my own but I'm very interested in what you guys think about this.
If you want the best class you are in luck it's also the least tedious and rest intensive class, but some call it boring: the chanter.
Defenses almost on paladin level, but much better damage before level 13.
Max your Int and you will even be better than the level 13 paladin as soon as you stack those dragon chants.
Rogue is more about avoiding fights while chanter can do the entire content without breaking much of a sweat.
Yes Chanter is the easyest char for finish game in solo. After some distance came wizard, druid, priest, monk, paladin( but take a long time) and barbarian not necessary in that order.
But Chanter is for sure the more comfortable way to go imho.
But beware: solo is much more difficult than the "team" game. If i was in you i will go normal difficulty for the First solo run, will be challanging enough.
Make use of all the charming or dominating items you can get. Like Munacra Arret and the Ring of Changing Heart. It makes soloing a lot easier because all the mobs will attack a charmed enemy and not you. THis is extremely helpful against enemies who come in great numbers and can disable - like Lagufaeth. It's like having additional summons. If Enigma's Charm was'nt so slow I would even recommend that. The build "Drakes Ambassador" combines said chanter with those items, although for soloing you might want to be a bit more defensive than he is. I mean he already is defensive, but maybe one can allocate the stats even better.
Edited by Boeroer, 09 October 2016 - 01:33 AM.
I think any class should work if you try to build them like a tank with moderate endurance, some classes are still interesting to play as tanks (Chanters, Rogues, Wizards) while some are a little less interesting (for me, Paladins).
...I would actually go against current wisdom and dump Int, have base Dex with item boosts (so you could go Dex 6, which would be 10 end game with Viettro's Formal Footware) and then prioritise Might, Con and Res with some Per (e.g. with Aedyran Wild Orlan Might 17, Con 18, Dex 6, Per 14, Int 3, Res 19). While this does crap on your strike durations, will is a wasted save for solo more or less and you could do with all the deflection you can get, and you can use Deep Wounds, Retaliation and Riposte to overcome your enemies while you sit pretty on your high defences. In terms of your abilities because of this, you can focus of stuff that increases your damage (Reckless Assault, Finishing Blow) as well as Adept Evasion for tanking.
For talents, you can take all the deflection based ones (Cautious Attack, Superior Deflection, Weapon and Shield Style, Deflecting Assault) as well as Bear's Fortitude, Deep Pockets, Shadowing Beyond and then I'd recommend Body Control for the last slot. Shadowing Beyond is supremely useful on solo as you can split fights however you want by disappearing then coming back to the group, and Snake's Reflexes isn't as important on this build due to how great Adept Evasion is. For weapons, Drawn in Spring will add a lot of endurance drain when combined with Deep Wounds, and Badgradr's Barricade gives you a nice extra means of attack (plus Thrust of the Tattered Veil is cool, as is the ranged reflection).
For other items, I'd go with Retaliation Garodh's Chorus, Cape of the Master Mystic, He Carries Many Scars (Resolve enchanted), Ring of Protection, the Iron Circle/Gywn's Band of Union, Looped Rope, Viettro's Formal Footware and whatever gloves you want - Gauntlet's of Accuracy maybe. I guarantee that this build will work, and I've always found the combo of Deep Wounds and Retaliation extremely satisfying for taking out your enemies.
For a Chanter, you will want high Int. Just build them tanky and let the Dragon Thrashed do all the work, it really is that simple.
I wouldn't recommend Finishing Blow (total crap in my opinion ). Note that with dumped INT Drawn in Spring works very well, because wounding gets better the more damage you do and the more MIG you have. Its damage isn't influenced by INT, so all the raw wounding damage will get applied in a very short time which makes it even more powerful.
For a shield I would use either use Sura's Supper Plate or Badgradr's Barricade like Jojobobo said. The first because it gives you stacked retaliation. This doesn't do anything for the Deep Wounds (other than giving you two seperate chances of hitting with it), but combined with riposte you'll do a lot of retaliation hits. This can be used with a Ring of Searing Flames: each time a foe hits you he gets two hits minimum in return, even three when riposte triggers. This will trigger 3 Combusting Wounds each time. It melts foes quickly. Besides Deep Wounds that's a nice way to make retaliation worthwhile.
Badgradr's Barricade's Thrust of Tattered Veils works with Deathblows by the way. If you do a riposte this will likely go off and do massive damage as long as you keep yaor. It's also great for your striking ablitites because of the Full Attack.
Fighter also works of course. They are really good with Disciplined Barrage + all kinds of spell bindings and scrolls - while their sturdyness is legend anyway. And once you get Clear Out and Charge (and combine that with Knockdown and maybe a diabling weapon like Cladhaliath, Godansthunyr or Starcaller or something like that) the whole gameplay gets a lot more interesting, too.
Edited by Boeroer, 09 October 2016 - 04:15 AM.
Are fighters a bad choice to do solo?
No I think their fine, their defences are good so they're capable at tanking what solo PotD has to offer them. I think on the whole they can play a little bit blandly however, a lot like a Paladin, so I'd have a look at the different builds in the archive at the top of this sub-forum and select one made with a particular interesting quirk you like the sound of.
THey can be boring, but if you also use a lot of spell binding items they play more like hybrid casters and that can make them more interesting until you get those abilites that make them a bit more interesting - like Clear Out and Charge. Also, the ring of searing flames is great on a fighter with dual (or triple with postion of Flame Shield) retaliation: together with Disciplined Barrage the Combusting Wounds spell will have a bonus of +35 ACC - you'll also hit dragons easily and the retaliation will add a lot of hits to the enemies surrounding you.
Also, items with mind controll spells like Munacra Arret work very well with Disciplined Barrage: often you'll crit with the charm (+30 ACC) which leads to some buddies who stay with you for over 20 secs if you also have high INT (which I recommend). I recently charmed the upscaled Alpine Dragon for more than 20 secs and it did all the work for me.
Edited by Boeroer, 11 October 2016 - 07:49 AM.
While the chanter has great AoE damage potential when he stacks his damage chant, he does it at the expense of his defenses which are just average. The chanter shines vs trash mobs however the only way he has to beat the hard encounters is to abuse summons/kite.
I disagree with kaylon. Chanter have 25 starting deflecion (average), vs the 30 of warriors and paladin, but for sure is not this +5 def that tranformed him in a non-tank... I have beaten the whole game potd with a Chanter, and was WAY easyer than with pala, wizard, druid, chiper, Priest. Dragon trashed is for sure awesome vs "trash mobs" but imho is even better against boss. Is much more reliable than your physical attacks, and do much more damage. For sure is much better than paladin fire aura. With a full defensive Chanter your defences is at max 10-15 minor than a paladin with maximized reputations.
And you don't even need much Summons for distractions, i have beaten llengrath and his dragons without using a single one, just dragon trashed and some + attribuite invocation for boost fortitude.
I agree with you I never found the chanter lacking in defense.
I have Kana right now and even he is at a certain level of tankiness with pretty trashy stats, a custom chanter is super tanky in Act 1 you don't even feel thze difference to paladin and due to summons you kill faster anyway.
Once you get to dragon slashed the chant is great not only vs trash but almost always when a paladin would need ages to finish a fight.
mmmm, I've found a chanter to be a better tank than a paladin to be honest. Just add some constitution and the saves are great. High deflection, saves and pulls some serious aggro. They make perfect tanks.
And they have some nasty summons with nasty immunities. Look at the animated weapons. They can really annoy the sky dragon.
With the Blackwarden's Breastplate and the best slaying chant (stacks) those summons are serious business for dragons. At level 16 you can even fit 2 Dragon Thrashed into the linger time of the beast chant - letting them hit very hard. And I have a special weapon, enchanted for dragons. Even my weapon attacks hurt them a lot.
So, even great in most boss fights.
Edited by Boeroer, 14 October 2016 - 05:48 AM.


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Month is like 2015/12/01 meaning it's amount paid in December 2015.
Then there is table B with columns:
customer_id, plan_id, start_date, end_date

This is information on when a particular customer started and ended using a particular plan. The current plan will have end_date NULL. One customer could have used many different plans in the past.
I need to add plan_id column to table A by joining these 2 tables but I have no idea how to deal with the dates.
Note that for each customer one month should correspond to one plan only. So even if the start_date for a plan is 2015/11/02, it should only be applied for the next month (2015/12/01).

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Q: Why does getting a member expression member name differ between C# and VB.NET? I have the following C# method:
private static string GetMemberName<T>(Expression<Func<T>> expr)
{
    MemberExpression memberExpr = expr.Body as MemberExpression;

    if (memberExpr == null)
        throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("Wrong type of lambda...");

    return memberExpr.Member.Name;
}

And I can use it like this to print the name of a class-level field, method param, or local var (note this is pre-C# 6.0 nameof operator):
private static int _myFieldVar  = 62;

private static void DoStuff(int myMethodParam)
{
    int myLocalVar = 2;
    Debug.Print(GetMemberName(() => myMethodParam)); // prints "myMethodParam"
    Debug.Print(GetMemberName(() => myLocalVar)); // prints "myLocalVar"
    Debug.Print(GetMemberName(() => _myFieldVar)); // _myFieldVariable
}

Now I want to convert this code to VB.NET, so here is the GetMemberName method:
Private Function GetMemberName(Of T)(expr As Expression(Of Func(Of T))) As String
    Dim memberExpr As MemberExpression = TryCast(expr.Body, MemberExpression)

    If memberExpr Is Nothing Then _
        Throw New ArgumentOutOfRangeException("Wrong type of lambda...")

    Return memberExpr.Member.Name
End Function

However, I'm noticing different results when I get the method param and local variable names, i.e. they are both prefixed with "$VB$Local_":
Private _myFieldVar As Integer = 62

Private Sub DoThis(myMethodParam As Integer)
    Dim myLocalVar = 2
    Debug.Print(GetMemberName(Function() myMethodParam)) ' prints "$VB$Local_myMethodParam""
    Debug.Print(GetMemberName(Function() myLocalVar)) ' prints "$VB$Local_myLocalVar"
    Debug.Print(GetMemberName(Function() _myFieldVar)) ' prints "_myFieldVar()"
End Sub

I googled "$VB$Local_" and found this post which is very similar.  However, I think my question is different because I'm not getting this behavior with properties.  If I call this:
Debug.Print(GetMemberName(Function() MyProperty))

I get "MyProperty".  Moreover, my fundamental question is "why is the behavior different between C# and VB.NET, i.e. what is the meaning of "$VB$Local_" and why is it absent in C#", whereas that post is more concerned with how to avoid that behavior in VB.NET.

A: As mentioned by Hans Passant the 2 compilers use slightly different naming strategies for handling local variables within a Linq expression tree. Let's take a look at what both output's look like decompiled. I used ILSpy with all of the options unchecked in View => Options => decompiler tab. I also simplified the output expression tree a bit to keep the answer concise.
C#
    public static string Test()
    {
        int myLocalVar = 2;
        int myLocalVar2 = 2; // local varible never exported! note how it is not in the generated class
        myLocalVar2++;
        return GetMemberName(() => myLocalVar);
    }

output
    [CompilerGenerated]
    private sealed class <>c__DisplayClass1_0
    {
        public int myLocalVar;
    }

    public static string Test()
    {
        Class1.<>c__DisplayClass1_0 <>c__DisplayClass1_ = new Class1.<>c__DisplayClass1_0();
        <>c__DisplayClass1_.myLocalVar = 2;
        int num = 2;
        num++;
        return Class1.GetMemberName<int>(
            Expression.Lambda<Func<int>>(
                Expression.MakeMemberAccess(
                    Expression.Constant(<>c__DisplayClass1_, typeof(Class1.<>c__DisplayClass1_0)),
                    typeof(Class1.<>c__DisplayClass1_0).GetMember("myLocalVar")
                )
            )
        );
    }

VB
Public Shared Function Test() As String
    Dim myLocalVar As Integer = 2
    Dim myLocalVar2 As Integer = 2
    myLocalVar2 = myLocalVar2 + 1
    Return GetMemberName(Function() myLocalVar)
End Function

output
    [CompilerGenerated]
    internal sealed class _Closure$__2-0
    {
        public int $VB$Local_myLocalVar;
    }

    public static string Test()
    {
        Class1._Closure$__2-0 closure$__2- = new Class1._Closure$__2-0();
        closure$__2-.$VB$Local_myLocalVar = 2;
        int num = 2;
        num++;
        return Class1.GetMemberName<int>(
            Expression.Lambda<Func<int>>(
                Expression.MakeMemberAccess(
                    Expression.Constant(closure$__2-, typeof(Class1._Closure$__2-0)),
                    typeof(Class1._Closure$__2-0).GetMember("$VB$Local_myLocalVar")
                )
            )
        );
    }

Both compilers create a private sealed class for myLocalVar. This is done to satisfy the requirements of the Linq expression tree. The expression tree needs to capture a reference to the local variable. The below example shows why this is needed.
       int localVar = 1;
       Expression<Func<int>> express = () => localVar;
       var compiledExpression = express.Compile();
       Console.WriteLine(compiledExpression());//1
       localVar++;
       Console.WriteLine(compiledExpression());//2
       Console.ReadLine();

Back to the question- why is the behavior different between C# and VB.NET, i.e. what is the meaning of "$VB$Local_" and why is it absent in C#?
The compilers generate an unbelievable amount of code for us, C# and VB.NET both do it slightly diffrently. So I am only going to answer why does VB insert $VB$Local_. ** To avoid name collisions.** Both C#'s DisplayClass and VB.Net's Closure is used for more than one purpose. To keep from having a collision, the name is prefixed with a key that represents the source. It just works out that C#'s key is nothing, all other language features that contribute to DisplayClass prefix with something else. Try decompiling the folowing VB.net to see why the prefix key is needed.
Sub Main()
    Dim myLocalVar As Integer = 2
    Dim x1 As System.Action(Of Integer) = Sub(x)
                                              System.Console.WriteLine(x)
                                              GetMemberName(Function() myLocalVar)

                                          End Sub
    x1(2)
End Sub

The compiled closure will be the following.
    [CompilerGenerated]
    internal sealed class _Closure$__2-0
    {
        public int $VB$Local_myLocalVar;

        internal void _Lambda$__0(int x)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(x);
            Class1.GetMemberName<int>(Expression.Lambda<Func<int>>(Expression.Field(Expression.Constant(this, typeof(Class1._Closure$__2-0)), fieldof(Class1._Closure$__2-0.$VB$Local_myLocalVar)), new ParameterExpression[0]));
        }

async and await also use closures in this way, however they generate a lot of boilerplate code that I didn't want to paste in here.

Final remarks
Your passing in a local variable and parameter into a method named GetMemberName. It was only luck that under the hood the 2 compilers automatically generated types and members to satisfy linq expression trees in the first place. Fortunately the latest iteration of the compilers have the nameof operator, which is a much better way to handle this problem.


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"Playing for the National Team is a dream come true for me," said Evgeny, who allowed only 8 goals in 5 games and was viewed as brilliant.
Heading into the 1987 Canada Cup, the Soviets had expected Belosheikin to be their number one goalie. He starred in the Elite League, capturing the division championship. He also was named the outstanding goaltender in the Calgary Cup, just months before the Canada Cup.
However by the time the Canada Cup rolled around, the Soviets opted to go with Sergei Mylnikov as their starting goalie. Evgeny wasn't playing well, with an 0-2-1 record and 4.00 GAA. Mylnikov on the other hand appeared in 6 games, going 5-1-0 with a 2.96 GAA.
In one of the more curious moves in hockey history, the Russians switched goalies during the Cup finals. Mylnikov won the opening game of the best of three showdown, but then Viktor Tikhonov switched to Belosheikin in game 2. Evgeny played really well, but lost in double overtime 6-5. The loss forced a game 3.
You know the rest of the story. Mylnikov returned to the nets for game 3. Canada won the incredible game 3 with the famous Gretzky to Lemieux goal with just over a minute left.
Belosheikin, who would uniquely fall to his knees and "rest" when the puck was at the opposite end of the rink, lived a very tragic life. He had constant battles with alcohol and had many run-ins with Viktor Tikhonov. His father was killed when Evgeny was young, and he had trouble with his mother.
One of the most tragic happenings in Belosheikin's life happened just a couple months after the 1987 Canada Cup. Belosheikin and national team defenseman Alexei Gusarov had been on a heavy drinking party during a break from the Soviet league. The two met up with some attractive women and took them to Gusarov's apartment. The following day they were both found unconscious, with not a single thing of value was left in the apartment. It's assumed that the women slipped something into their drinks and then "cleaned" the apartment.
The drug left Belosheikin suffering from serious liver problems, as well as color vision problems. The incident cost Belosheikin his career, and eventually his life. Belosheikin, who had reported to the Edmonton Oilers training camp in 1991, committed suicide by hanging himself in the late 1990s.


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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift (1729)
It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes….
A Little Fable by Franz Kafka
"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid. I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."
History of Woman Suffrage: Preface and Chapter XXVII (1876-1885)
This heralds a turn in the tide of benevolence, when, instead of building churches and monuments to great men, and endowing colleges for boys, women will make the education and enfranchisement of their own sex the chief object of their lives.
Living on $1000 a Year in Paris by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway | Paris. Paris in the winter is rainy, cold, beautiful and cheap. It is also noisy, jostling, crowded and cheap.
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked….
Poker! by Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston | TUSH HAWG Come on here, Nunkie—and take a hand! You're holding up the game.
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
Original text by Italo Calvino and reading by Liev Schreiber | How well I know! — old Qfwfq cried,– the rest of you can't remember, but I can. We had her on top of us all the time, that enormous Moon: when she was full — nights as bright as day, but with a butter-colored light — it looked as if she were going to crush us; when she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind; and when she was waxing, she came forward with her horns so low she seemed about to stick into the peak of a promontory and get caught there. But the whole business of the Moon's phases worked in a different way then: because the distances from the Sun were different, and the orbits, and the angle of something or other, I forget what; as for eclipses, with Earth and Moon stuck together the way they were, why, we had eclipses every minute: naturally, those two big monsters managed to put each other in the shade constantly, first one, then the other.
The Great Frost (from Orlando) by Virginia Woolf
from Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has ever visited these islands. Birds froze in mid-air and fell like stones to the ground.
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
I: On 25 March an unusually strange event occurred in St. Petersburg. For that morning Barber Ivan Yakovlevitch, a dweller on the Vozkresensky Prospekt (his name is lost now—it no longer figures on a signboard bearing a portrait of a gentleman with a soaped cheek, and the words: "Also, Blood Let Here")—for that morning Barber Ivan Yakovlevitch awoke early, and caught the smell of newly baked bread. Raising himself a little, he perceived his wife (a most respectable dame, and one especially fond of coffee) to be just in the act of drawing newly baked rolls from the oven….
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, writing with an eye toward realism and sometimes magic realism. His works often satirized Russian society and government. "The Nose" and "The Overcoat" are two of his most well-known and acclaimed works.
Eckleburg thanks Project Gutenberg for their permission to reprint these classics.


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Solstice – the day with the least physical light. Darkness holding untold gifts that we have yet to unwrap.
Using this time of diminished light to explore the passages where breath moves. Reflecting our unique expression and offering to the world.
This darkness is a reminder of so often holding on to our fullness of Being, hiding it where no one can see. Yet serving as a gestational womb where it is the hand maiden of possibilities to birth.
Rest here and breathe as the inhale is brought forth from outside light submerging itself into the dark passages within….. and held for a moment on the sacred altar of a pause, until the exhale is birthed from the dark in ultimate surrender.
Aware there is no guarantee that breath will once again be taken in from the light we offer our life from the darkness….
"Too sacred, too sacred," by the Beloved, to ever end!
The strands of our DNA, the cornea of our eye, snow flakes, pine cones, fower petals, diamond crystals, the branching of trees, water crystals, a nautilus shell, the star we spin around, the galaxy we spiral within, the air we breathe, and life forms as we know them emerge out of timeless geometric codes or geometrical archetypes.
Spending an entire afternoon exploring sacred geometry one day, I was lead to what seemed like spirals of understanding as I delved deeper into the patterns of life. It makes sense that even our breath is moving in patterns that support sacred design and breathing space to thrive in.
If this is so, then I wonder if we place ourselves in architecture built upon the patterns of sacred geometry and immerse ourselves in visionary art.
Create gardens that reflect back to us the fabric of our Being.
And seek out practices that open and align us with our deepest knowing and awareness of these geometric archetypes.
That the mystery of life will reveal more to us.
Illuminating the fullness and resonance of who we are.


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For example, the simple cold filling process can be used for short-life dairy products with acid PH. Alternatively, the hot filling and product pasteurisation process for the filled product, allows processing of long-life fruit and vegetable-based products.
The specialised filling technology, which reduces the presence of small oxygen quantities in the packaging, together with the careful design of the pasteurisation equipment, make this technology both safe and reliable, with complete control over the process parameters.
The machine's design, the Clean In Place (CIP) efficiency and the packaging quality ensure a high level of reliability.
The evolution of this process is the new Ultra Clean (UC) technology, which adds specific elements - filling with laminar flow and UC filling valve - and offers a higher safety standard for sensitive products, as far as prevention and product contamination are concerned.
Thanks to the ongoing research regarding the packaging materials, a retortable pouch technology is now available.
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Mike Krzyzewski gives emotional, impromptu speech to Duke fans after North Carolina loss
Duke suffered a stunning 94-81 loss to North Carolina on Saturday evening, spoiling Mike Krzyzewski's final home game as the Blue Devils' head coach.
A ceremony honoring Krzyzewski's legacy was planned for shortly after the game. Prior to its start, Krzyzewski decided to address the crowd — and the disappointing result vs. the Tar Heels.
"This isn't part of the program, this is impromptu by me. I'm sorry about this afternoon," he said, before asking the crowd to quiet down. "It's unacceptable. Today was unacceptable. But the season has been very acceptable … and I'll tell you, the season isn't over."
Here's a clip:
"I'm sorry about this afternoon. … Today was unacceptable."#CoachK was as raw as it comes addressing the crowd postgame. pic.twitter.com/kia6tqbcmn
— ESPN (@espn) March 6, 2022
This is a tough loss for Duke, but mostly for sentimental reason. The Blue Devils have still captured the ACC regular season title and will still be the No. 1 seed at the ACC Tournament next week.
Duke also still has a chance to at being a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament if it wins the conference. The Blue Devils had won seven straight games before tonight's loss.
Krzyzewski is now 50-45 all-time against North Carolina.
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Ted Cruz to San Antonio audience: "After two months in Washington, It's great to be back in America."….
People are so sick and tired of cowards who pretend to be "fighting" for basic valueslife life, liberty, and property… but hwo continue to cave almost immediately when they actually go to DC.
Ted Cruz's strategy of defunding Obamacare didn't fully make it — the rest of the Senate stabbed him in the back, and John Boehner didn't have the "credibility" of not caving to actually use his threats as leverage.
Still, Ted Cruz is exploding in popularity because actually fighting back is half the battle, and the Tea Party and even many in the liberty movement want to see at least a little guts from those who are trying to acquire our votes. And that's exactly what Ted Cruz shows us — guts.
When he went back to Texas after two months in DC, Ted Cruz even joked that it was great to be back in America.
Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, returned home to a rousing welcome in Texas on Saturday after his attempt to derail Obamacare with a shutdown of the federal government led to sharp criticism of his tactics as reckless and futile.
"After two months in Washington, it's great to be back in America," Cruz joked in speaking to a crowd of about 750 people in a packed downtown San Antoniohotel ballroom.
Half of the battle of getting people to support a candidate is for them to realize that he has passionate followers. For example, Obama's biggest asset was that people believed he was popular… so they assumed that he was right.
That's why it's important to rally around those who actually fight back. Creating momentum is part of what HAS to happen to win political victories. Help out andspread this story on Facebook and Twitter — people need to know that the people want liberty.


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Good news: Alex Wood is about to start throwing. Bad news: He's a long way from pitching.
As a starting pitcher, Alex Wood will probably need six weeks to build up his pitch count.
Good news: Alex Wood is about to start throwing. Bad news: He's a long way from pitching. As a starting pitcher, Alex Wood will probably need six weeks to build up his pitch count. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb/reds/2019/05/15/alex-wood-injury-lefty-long-way-pitching-cincinnati-reds/3685798002/
John Fay, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 5:37 p.m. ET May 15, 2019
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Alex Wood (40) delivers during a bullpen session, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Arizona. (Photo: Kareem Elgazzar)
Reds left-hander Alex Wood is about to resume throwing.
That's the good news. The bad? He's starting from scratch. Wood has been out since spring training with a lower back strain.
"There's a pretty good chance he's going to start a throwing program next week, it's not 100 percent," Reds manager David Bell said. "We'll see how he does between now and Monday. If everything goes well, then he'll begin a throwing program early next week."
As a starting pitcher, Wood needs time to build innings. Spring training is six weeks, so that's a good barometer of how long it takes a starter to get ready. Six weeks takes Wood to late June. He'll also likely throw some rehab starts. Around the All-Star Break is probably a reasonable target date.
"I've tried not to look at that," Bell said. "Maybe once he starts his throwing program, there will be time to look at that. Yeah. I want him to feel better and take – it's kind of back to step one. I don't have a timetable, even a guess, really."
Wood, 28, came to the Reds in the seven-player trade with the Los Angles Dodgers. He was 9-7 with a 3.68 ERA last year and 16-3 with a 2.72 ERA in 2017.
He is a free agent after this season. His health status makes it difficult for the Reds to move him at or before the July 31 trade deadline.
SET LINEUP? Bell ran out this lineup Wednesday night:
Nick Senzel CF
Joey Votto 1B
Eugenio Suárez 3B
Jesse Winker LF
Yasiel Puig RF
Derek Dietrich 2b
José Iglesias SS
Sonny Gray P
Tucker Barnhart C
That's become the standard against right-handed starting pitchers.
"It's been, with this group, mostly," Bell said. "There's been a little variance on the lineup, but it's been this group. Of course, José Peraza is not in this lineup, but we've talked about it, Kyle (Farmer ) and José and Josh (Van Meter), it's really important to get all of them in the lineup. José is a guy who is going to play – he's going to play a lot.
"Here for about the last week, Dietrich's been in the lineup against right-handers, but good teams at different points, guys pick each other up. José's time is going to come. We talked about this a few days ago, but he's staying ready, and he's going to play. But for right now, this has been the lineup, for the most part, against right-handers.'
ONE-RUN FUN: The Reds entered Wednesday 8-13 in one-run games.
"You always wonder how to look at that," Bell said. "I think it's a positive in that we're playing really good games. Our pitching's been outstanding. Our defense has been good, we've played good games. Also, it's motivation to find little ways to get better. You have to win those games. You can look at that record and say that's the difference. It's good, but it's motivational because we've got to find ways to continue to get better."
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Businesses warned about new law agreed before Brexit
UK airport immigration
Published: 15:12 Monday 27 June 2016
As hysteria continues over Brexit, a leading law firm has warned businesses about hefty penalties they will face for employing illegal migrants when new legislation begins next month.
The Immigration Act 2016 – agreed by parliament before the referendum - comes into force on 12 July 2016.
It will not only increase the penalties for employers who employ illegal migrants, but also make it a criminal offence to employ a person if there is "reasonable cause" to believe they are an illegal worker.
Paula Bailey, Employment Law Partner with Howes Percival said: "This new law will make it harder for people to live and work illegally in the UK. The regulations will also impose tougher penalties and sanctions on employers who exploit illegal migrants for their own gain."
Immigration Enforcement issued 1,974 civil penalties to businesses employing illegal workers In the financial year 2014/2015
Paula said: "In light of the increased penalties employers should ensure that extra care is taken to ensure that the proper right to work due diligence checks are carried out prior to engaging workers."
The Act will create a new offence of illegal working and enable the earnings of illegal workers to be seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
It also requires public authorities to ensure that public workers in customer-facing roles speak fluent English, say Howes Percival.
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Which School Districts Struggle Most With Chronically Absent Students?
The vast majority of the nation's school districts struggle with students who are chronically absent, but the problem is especially concentrated in school systems that serve large numbers of poor students, a new analysis of federal data has found.
While nine out of 10 school districts experience some level of chronic absenteeism, around half of the 6.5 million students who were chronically absent in the 2013-14 school year are enrolled in just 4 percent of the nation's districts, according to researchers Robert Balfanz and Hedy N. Chang.
Their analysis—Preventing Missed Opportunity—builds on nationwide chronic absenteeism data that was released in June by the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights, which found that about 13 percent of all U.S. students missed three or more weeks of school in 2013-14.
At least 89 percent of public schools reported some degree of chronic absenteeism—students who missed three or more weeks of school. But among the 4 percent of districts where the problem was most severe, Balfanz and Chang identified some that are more affluent and suburban. They singled out Montgomery County, Md., and Fairfax County, Va., two large, suburban Washington districts with high overall academic achievement that have experienced a significant influx of low-income students in recent years. Both districts ranked among the top 15 in the nation in the total number of chronically absent students, though their percentages of chronically absent students are near the national average, according to the analysis.
"What's clear from our analysis is that chronic absenteeism follows poverty wherever it is found in significant concentrations," said Balfanz, a Johns Hopkins University researcher who leads the Everyone Graduates Center, in a press release.
Chronic absence, Chang explained in a phone call with reporters, was defined by the researchers as when students miss so many days of school, for any reason—excused or unexcused—that it directly results in poor student outcomes. Until recently, many districts only measured unexcused absences and average daily attendance.
"All the best instruction in schools does not make a difference if students are not there to benefit from it," said Chang, the director of Attendance Works who has extensively studied how missing school impacts students.
Chronic absenteeism is an early indicator of all sorts of academic risks, starting as early as preschool and kindergarten, Chang said. In the early grades, students who are chronically absent have lower reading and math achievement. By middle and high school, chronic absence can be used as a clear warning sign for potential dropouts.
Balfanz said that his arm of the research team is most interested in the characteristics of the locations that result in the highest number of instances and percentages of chronic absences. He stresses that the phenomenon of chronic absence is both widespread and highly concentrated.
"You have to hold these two concepts in your mind," he said.
In June, when the Education Department first released the civil rights data collection, it included the first-ever analysis of attendance in nearly every public school nationwide. It found that for black, Latino, American Indian, and multiracial high school students, roughly 20 percent or more were chronically missing from class. For Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander high school students, 25 percent or more missed at least 15 days of school.
At the high school level, 18 percent of all students and 20 percent of English-language learners are chronically absent, the data showed.
Tackling the problem will take a multi-pronged, tailored approach, Balfanz said.
More affluent school systems could be poised to better combat the issue right away than districts with fewer resources, the researchers suggested.
In more isolated rural areas, as well as in districts serving disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, intergenerational poverty and a web of challenges that are impediments to students getting to school consistently pose a more daunting challenge for policymakers and education leaders.
"We need a very different set of strategies for these districts," Balfanz said.
Regardless, knowing where this is happening allows policymakers to formulate more individualized community-based, multi-sector approaches, Chang said.
The researchers hope to take advantage of the new federal K-12 law—the Every Student Succeeds Act—as a way to help individual states come up with smaller-scale solutions and ultimately employ chronic absence as a measure of school quality.
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It is really important that your smartphone is secure for many reasons. You may keep data on it and if your phone was lost or stolen, this would be lost. Or perhaps your personal information may be hacked from internet pages you have visited or from the smartphone itself. We've put together some tips to help keep your device as secure as possible.
Many new phones offer a "pattern lock" – a personalised shape or pattern that is drawn on the screen to grant access. However, ensure that the screen is cleaned regularly. If your phone is stolen or lost any finger traces can sometimes be seen and accessed on the screen. Alternatively a PIN code offers an alternative and can also save time. Make your password difficult to crack but memorable for you. The best advice on creating secure passwords is to take the initial letters of a line in a song, play or book, and to make a password from those letters.
You can use remote tracking if you loose your phone. On Android it is called 'Find my Device' and on Apple iPhone it is called 'Find my iPhone'. From here, you can remotely disable your phone if needed.
A screen lock is helpful but won't stop someone removing the SIM card from your phone and using it on another phone. To prevent this from happening, set up a SIM card lock in the form of a PIN number that will need to be entered when a phone is turned on in order to connect to a network.
While PIN entry and password locks are helpful, a smartphone is effectively a miniature computer with often easily removable storage. It's far too easy to retrieve data by simply plugging it into a computer or removing a microSD card.
It's important to protect sensitive data saved to internal storage. Software is available that can encrypt files or folders so that a code must be entered before a file can be viewed or copied. A lot of this software is free to download and use and can work effectively with your phone to provide automated protection, so there's little hassle involved once it's up and running. An example of such software is AutoKrypt but do 'shop around' to find the right solution for your set-up.
Always back up your data, for iPhone you will need to back up your data on iCloud. You can also store data on Dropbox or OneDrive.
Any device that's can send data across the airwaves is a concern for security.
Always switch off your wireless connection when it's not in use. It ensures that people can't connect to a device without your knowledge. It's also worth checking your phone's network security settings as it might be configured to automatically connect to a network when in range without you knowing.
Ensure that your home accessed wireless router is protected by a pass code.
If using mobile wireless or a hotspot, be careful of malicious connections that looks very much like a legitimate hotspot from a large company.
Bluetooth isn't generally seen as a risk as it has a relative shot range (10 metres approx). However, hackers have been known to remotely access a phone if they are in range.
Ensure that bluetooth is turned off when not in use. Set the bluetooth configuration to 'non discoverable', so that people searching for nearby devices can't see yours.
Any unknown requests that pop up through a bluetooth connection, such as an offer to 'pair with a device' should be ignored or declined. A hacker in range could make use of your device through bluetooth if it is not secured.
Unfortunately the increase in malware relating to smartphones has increased the need to be cautious when downloading applications, and to pay attention to the requirements that any software requires when you install. It can be very easy not to read anything in an effort to get the app up and running, but be careful of any demands to access various features of your phone, particularly if the app isn't well known.
Be careful when accessing a web browser on your smartphone as it can be easy to accept messages that pop up. For example agreeing to save user details and passwords might make it easy to remember for later, but unfortunately others can do the same if they gain access to your phone.
If any security warning pop up when looking at a website, take note of it and leave the website if needed. Also, ensure any banking or shopping sites where you put in secure information have a padlock in the address bar to ensure that the site is encrypted. For more on shopping safely online, see our guide.
Make sure you always look at the URL and make sure the 'http' has an 's' at the end. This ensures that the URL you are about to click on is secure. We also recommend that you check for any spelling mistakes in the URL.
Many smartphone social networking apps automatically upload photos to the Internet. The problem with this is that many phones embed location tags, also called "geotags," right into the photo files themselves.
Anyone with the right software can look at your Facebook or Flickr pictures and find out where you have been and where you are right at that very moment.
The geotagging feature can be turned off on most phones which gives you privacy and ensures that you can't be found by someone you might not wish to be found by.
The capabilities of smartphones are approaching those of a PC, but most people have no form of protection, although they can face similar threats.
Spam containing malware attachments or links to attack sites or infected apps that exploit weaknesses in the operating system are all starting to appear.
Many antivirus companies now offer free versions of their commercial mobile products and also protection for multiple PCs and a phone, for a yearly subscription.
Unfortunately, fake antivirus software, designed to infect your device or make you think it's protected when it's not, has also now made its way to smartphones so do be vigilant.
If the worst happens and your phone is lost or stolen, you may want to protect your data by wiping data quickly and remotely.
Many operating systems have a range of third-party, dedicated remote wipe applications to choose from. These tend to be subscription services, but prices are usually less than £5 a month.
Alternatively, there are other features offered by antivirus packages. Free versions, like AVG's Mobilation Free, offer local wipe facilities. However, it's not always clear if remote wipe is included or just a local wipe facility, so check with the software vendor before you pay out.