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Lobbying, Lobbying and only Lobbying for Peace!
Diplomatic Mission Peace and Prosperity
A Prestigious Global Organization
Lobbying, Lobbying and only Lobbying for Peace, Education, Schooling and Cultivation of Modern Civilization! – This is the message of the mission…
Diplomatic Mission Peace and Prosperity (DMPP), is an international lobbying organization, accredited in UN, EU, USA, NATO, etc., in continuation of the projects of Former American President Dwight D. Eisenhower, ideated by the late American Ambassador Richard Holbrooke to operate in the Balkans and the countries under development, registered in Tirana, supported by a group of Albanian and foreign diplomats.
It is located in Tirana and operates in Balkans: The Republic of Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and in many major countries around the world.
This mission also operates in countries where Albanian communities are concentrated, such as in Greece, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Switzerland, etc.., and especially in the U.S.A as a friendly powerful country that, for more than a century has taken under protection the small Albania with its policies and diplomacy.
Education, Peace and Progress! – This is the mission's motto.
The members of this mission, under the example of Saint Mother Teresa, the great Albanian woman, who sacrificed her life in the service of humanity, are committed as missioners of peace, in the role of a group of Ambassadors of Peace, willing to represent the Democratic Albania to the international opinion as a country with sustainable development, which has education and peace culture in its citizens' genes and which fights for a better Balkans, a better Europe and a better World where God's Paradise dominates.
It is known that peace is rooted in true love, in love toward God and toward each other … For this reason the mission is addressed to each citizen of the world by calling: Lobbying, Lobbying and only Lobbying for Peace, Education and Modern Civilization! And this is exactly the axis of the message that DMPP transmits to the global social opinion.
DMPP, members, collaborators and partners of this mission work for the education of a new generation of peace missionaries who love, practice and enroot peace in all the pre-school, school, university, academic institutions and all the institutions of civil society which are directly or indirectly connected with the cultivation of citizen culture in the developing communities and countries.
DMPP lobbies to educate, improve and enroot the image of the developing countries according to the ten principles of UN and UNAI.
The mission members are prominent leaders from many different countries, from all fields of life and from all faiths, who have committed themselves to the issue of peace in Albania, in the Balkans and around the World. These peace leaders work for the training of a new generation of peace missionaries, devoted educators and warriors in the service of modern urban culture, the culture of inter-community, inter-ethnic and inter-religious peaceful coexistence, in all developing countries.
Peace requires continuous work, education, schooling, specialization and training to overcome the boundaries of race, religion, nationality and culture, which have historically divided humanity.
So, Peace and Development, Peace and Civilization! – Not only in the civilized countries like USA, but everywhere in the Balkans and all over the world, wherever there is ignorance, illiteracy, lack of information, economical and thought poorness, lack of free thought and free press.
The mission aims to bring in its ranks prominent personalities of World Politics, Culture, Art, Literature, Education, Science, etc.., especially Diplomacy personalities, with the objective to create a powerful lobby in support of education with peace culture and integration of developing countries beside the civilized countries which work in support of worldwide peace.
Administration of human values, coordination, consultation, negotiation, mediation and lobbying for Peace and Progress, for a global world where reason dominates and not violence, where the modern civilization and prosperity, this is the goal and the essence of this mission's activity.
Diplomatic Mission Peace and Prosperity, through its activity, aims to achieve these objectives:
– Re-dimensioning the image of the Balkans countries trampled by former communist dictatorships, re-dimensioning the education, cultural values and every human value in service of peace, harmony and inter-human love, which makes special the countries of Balkans and developing countries.
– DMPP takes care that every member plays the role of a model Ambassador in the eyes of international opinion and foreign diplomacy to exalt cultural values and national issues of Balkan countries and developing countries compared to the most democratic and civilized cultures of the world.
– DMPP lobbies in accordance with the legislation of developing countries, international legislation and the UN's principles to urge education, schooling, specialization, continuous training, assistance, help, care, legal consultation and defense of human rights especially for the social classes in difficulty.
-DMPP assists for free the individuals and families at economical and social difficulty, especially those whose life is at risk because of political crisis and natural disasters. This institution helps voluntarily with its own structures or lobbies beside state, public, governmental and non-governmental, national and international bodies, with which it has partnership to protect the most prominent human values. DMPP aims to assure the maximum possibilities for the protection of the individual according to the International Law that regulates the living in Peace and Prosperity in all communities all over the world.
– DMPP selects, publishes and propagates in Albania and Balkans, as a sign of gratitude, the rarest values of global civic culture, world personalities' works in the fields of politics, diplomacy, culture, etc.., who have contributed and are still contributing to the recognition of international opinion with the traditional values which inspire peace in the Balkan countries.
– DMPP selects, translates, publishes and propagates in the main foreign languages, the national masterpieces of the Balkan countries, putting them in service to the global civic culture.
– Realization of television documentaries on life and work of great personalities who contribute for the education of new generations with the peace spirit and modern civilization, this is another goal of DMPP.
– This institution works a lot to incite to the youth the desire to study in the best universities of the world, it encourages the specialization of new talents and intellectuals in the fields of philosophy, politics and diplomacy, international and intergovernmental relations, art, culture and sports in service of peace, with the aim of creating new generations that will lobby for continuous improvement of the image of peace missionaries.
– DMPP works to provide technical assistance to new talents and intellectuals so that they can be trained as peace missionaries, career diplomats and as members of the lobby of the future for peace and development. Only this way can be guaranteed the acquisition with talent, professionalism and mastery of the art the lobbyer in service of peace under the signature of great peacemakers such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mandela, etc. Only with continuous education and devotion can be reached the collaboration with the professionals of the western world and especially with the peacemaker specialist of Un, USA, etc.
-DMPP follows the strategy of education and employment of many talented boys and girls of peace-loving communities in the Albanian public administration, in Western countries' administrations and multinational companies, which determine the fate of world politics and economy, especially in foreign diplomatic representations with the aim to build bridges of inter-community, inter-ethnic and international friendship and collaboration. These generations of DMPP missionaries are model diplomats and ambassadors of the culture of the own countries and the global culture which inspires peace and civilization.
– DMPP aims the creation of more powerful lobbies with world personalities in support of the democratic developments of Balkans countries and developing countries, according to the UN's principles and American democracy.
The Peace missionaries that DMPP trains and educates, fights selflessly for international integrity of their countries, following with devotion the model of the most advanced antique and contemporary civilizations.
– DMPP lobbies for the movement of the capital assets of powerful countries in help of the countries under development, with the aim to increase the economic welfare and problematic societies. Where there is welfare, there is also education of the best global standards.
DMPP organizes conferences and donators' meetings for the financing of projects that bring peace and development. This institution organizes fairs in help of the countries under development.
Lobbying, Lobbying and only Lobbying for Peace and Civilization, this is the essence of the work of Diplomatic Mission Peace and Prosperity! …
Dr. Shefki Hysa
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Dr. Shefki Hysa and Dr. George Frendo
Dr. Shefki Hysa Dr. Madhu Krishan and Dr. George Frendo
Dr. Shefki Hysa, Dr. Dylbere Dika and Dr. Dom Ernest Simoni Troshani
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Dr. Madhu Krishan and Ms. Irisa Bilbilaj
Dr. Shefki Hysa, Ms. Irisa Bilbilaj and American Politician Patrick J. Kennedy
Dr. Shefki Hysa, Dr. Madhu Krishan, Dr. Leonard Beqiri honor the actor Luftar Paja, People's Artist with Golden Medal "Mother Teresa"
Dr. Shefki Hysa, Dr. Madhu Krishan, Dr. Sulejman Abazi, Mr. Koço Kokëdhima and Mrs. Brixhilda Kokëdhima
Dr. Shefki Hysa and Dr. Madhu Krishan honor former Minister Dritan Demiraj with the Golden Medal "General of Peace Dwight D. Eisenhower"
Dr. Shefki Hysa and Staff of DMPP honor Mrs. Zenepe Luka with the title Peace Missionary
US President Barack Obama honors Dr. Shefki Hysa with the President's Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Shefki Hysa receives the title Knight of Malta
DMPP and government personalities
Dr. Shefki Hysa and Dr. Jose A. P. Moreno
Ambassador Dr. Shefki Hysa with Mr. Ilirjan Celibashi, Minister for Relations with the Albanian Parliament
Mr. Baftjar Zeqaj, Mayor of Fier and Mr. Ervin Koçi, Albanian Deputy
Ms. Natasha Savage, Consul of DMPP and U.S Congressman Jim McDermott
Ms. Natasha Savage, Honorary Consul of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan and Mr. Emir Dalipi, Advisor of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan, Dr. Namik Dokle and Mr. Emir Dalipi
Dr. Madhu Krishan, Mr. Emir Dalipi and Mr. Dritan Myderizi
Dr. Madhu Krishan, Mr. Emir Dalipi and Dr. Namik Dokle, Albanian Deputy
Ambassador Dr. Shefki Hysa, Governor of DMPP and Enver Ferizaj, President of AAC
Mr. Nazmi Zendeli, Advisor of DMPP
Dr. Roberto Cohen, Consul of DMPP and Dr. Petro Koçi, Albanian Deputy, Advisor of DMPP
Dr. Roberto Cohen, Consul of DMPP
Ambassador Dr. Shefki Hysa, Governor of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan and Ms. Anisa Muca, Advisor of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan, Ambassador Paul Taylor and Mr. Fadil Ibrahimi
Dr. Madhu Krishan, Dr. Shefki Hysa and Mr. Fadil Ibrahimi
Dr. Madhu Krishan and Mr. Fadil Ibrahimi
Fadil Ibrahimi, Advisor of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan honors Missionary Shpetim Idrizi, Albanian Deputy
Dr. Madhu Krishan, Ambassador Paul Taylor and Albanian Deputy Shpetim Idrizi
Ambassador Paul Taylor and Albanian Deputy Shpetim Idrizi
Dr. Madhu Krishan and Albanian Deputy Shpetim Idrizi
Ambassador Paul Taylor with Ambassador Peter Steenbakkers
Dr. Madhu Krishan with Ambassador Peter Steenbakkers
Ambassador Peter Steenbakkers
Dr. Madhu Krishan honors the Missionary Peter Steenbakkers, Ambassador of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan honors the Missionary Fadil Ibrahimi, Advisor of DMPP
Dr. Paul Taylor, Honorary Ambassador of DMPP with Dr. Shefki Hysa, Governor of DMPP
Dr. Paul Taylor, Ambassador of DMPP
Dr. Paul Taylor, Honorary Ambassador of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan honors the Missionary Muharrem Berisha, Advisor of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan and Ms. Terezina Ndoj, Honorary Advisor of DMPP
Italian Ambassador Massimo Gaiani, Dr. Shefki Hysa, and Dr. Elio Ferri
Dr. Shefki Hysa with Ambassador William Weiss
Lazer Pepaj – Journalist and Missionary of the future
Ambassador William Weiss and Mr. Ismail Murtaj, Head of Commune Markat, Albania
Ambassador William Weiss and Mr. Stefan Çipa, Mayor of Saranda, Albania
Advisor Marco Pizzorno with Mr. Sokol Dervishaj
Ambassador William Weiss with Mr. Sokol Dervishaj
Ambassador William Weiss, Advisor Marco Pizzorno with Mr. Elez Gjoza
Ambassador William Weiss with Mr. Elez Gjoza
Ambassador William Weiss, Advisor Marco Pizzorno with Albanian Minister Vangjel Tavo
Ambassador William Weiss, Advisor Marco Pizzorno with Albanian Minister Edmond Panariti
Peter Steenbakkers – The model of welfare manager
Dr. Madhu Krishan, Honorary Chairman of DMPP and Mr. Endri Hysa, Advisor of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan and Mr. Erion Nikolli, Honorary Consul of DMPP
Erion Nikolli – eminent humanitarian and missionary of Peace
Mr. Philip Verges, Honorary Consul of DMPP with Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Dr. Ilir Meta, Chairman of LSI with Dr. Madhu Krishan, Founder & Chairman of AUGP
Academy of Universal Global Peace honors Dr. Ilir Meta
Mr. Nasip Naço, Albanian Minister of Economy and Energy with Dr. Madhu Krishan
Mr. Edmond Panariti, Vice-Chairman of Municipality of Tirana and Dr. Madhu Krishan, Founder & Chairman of AUGP
Mr. Saimir Ivziku, Director of QSUT "Mother Theresa" and Dr. Madhu Krishan
The Albanian Minister of Health, Mr. Vasili and Dr. Shefki Hysa
The Albanian Minister of Health, Mr. Vasili and Mr. Muharrem Berisha
The Albanian Minister of Health, Mr. Vasili and Dr. Madhu Krishan
The Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Haxhinasto and Dr. Shefki Hysa
Dr. Shefki Hysa and Ms. Loalda Duka, Advisor of DMPP
The Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Haxhinasto and Dr. Madhu Krishan
Dr. Shefki Hysa, Dr. Madhu Krishan and Mr. Muharrem Berisha
Dr. Madhu Krishan, Chairman of AUGP with Muharrem Berisha
Dr. Haim Reitan, Diplomat with Zhaneta Saliu, Advisor of DMPP
Zhaneta Saliu – Unbreakable warrior of Peace
The Albanian intellectual Gani Hoxha
Albanian Prime Minister, Sali Berisha with Abanian Deputy, Mr. Gani Hoxha
Ambassador William Weiss and Mr. Paulin Rranzi
How to become a diplomat
Ambassador William Weiss and Dr. Shefki Hysa, Governor of DMPP
Dr. Madhu Krishan, Honorary Chairman of DMPP
The Ambassador Lekë Mandreja with Prince Michael of Kent
Endri Hysa, Advisor of Diplomatic Mission
Lekë Mandreja, Ambassador of Diplomatic Mission Peace And Prosperity
Albert Arapi, Advisor of Diplomatic Mission
Kosova – The Example of Peace in Balkans
The Vice Prime Minister of Kosova and Dr. Shefki Hysa
The Ambassador of Kosova and Dr. Shefki Hysa
Dr. Shefki Hysa, Governor of Diplomatic Mission
Correspondence with Albanian People's Advocate
Albert Arapi with Gary Peters, U.S. Congressman
Albert Arapi with U.S. General Clark
AUGP honors the Governor of DMPP
Rodney D. Dir with Devin Nunes, US Congressman
Rodney D. Dir and US Senator Bob Dole
Rodney D. Dir, Advisor of DMPP
Meetings with leaders of Albanian state
Meetings in the U.S Congress
Dashamir Tahiri, Albanian Deputy
Albania like California
Collaboration with different Ambassadors all over the world
Correspondence with Albanian Minister of Justice
Paulin Rranzi, Ambassador of Diplomatic Mission Peace And Prosperity
A high standard mission
Meeting with Lulzim Basha, Mayor of Tirana
Meeting with Shpëtim Idrizi, Albanian Deputy
A new collaborating level Albania-Italy
Laura Molteni, Italian deputy
America and Albanians
Albanian Deputies
Peace and Prosperity with Eisenhower
Israeli Business in Albania
Diplomatic Mission Peace And Prosperity in Kosovo
Peace and Prosperity – The greatest dream of humanity
Albania, part of the worldwide dream
Opportunity of investment in Albania
From Albania to America
Shpëtim Idrizi, Albanian Deputy, President of the Party Righteousness Integration Unity
Richard Holbrooke, American Diplomat, Initiator of Diplomatic Mission Peace And Prosperity
Igor Rebernak, Advisor of Diplomatic Mission Peace And Prosperity
Dr. Haim Reitan, Honorary Chairman of Diplomatic Mission Peace And Prosperity
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BlueInGreen Expands Into Canada, Signs Representative Agreement with H2Flow Equipment Inc.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (September 16, 2014) - BlueInGreen®, a water quality company offering the world's most efficient method for delivering dissolved gases into liquids, announced the addition of H2Flow Equipment Inc.as a manufacturer's representative firm to its sales network. H2Flow will promote BlueInGreen's gas dissolution products for municipal water and wastewater applications in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
H2Flow was founded in 1992 and serves Quebec and Ontario markets for water, wastewater equipment, and industrial process. Their offices are located in Concord, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec.
The firm will represent the following BlueInGreen products: SDOX® – supersaturated dissolved oxygen, SDOX-CS® – supersaturated dissolved oxygen for sewer collection systems, CDOX® – supersaturated dissolved carbon dioxide for pH adjustment, and HyDOZ® – supersaturated dissolved ozone for water/wastewater disinfection.
BlueInGreen, LLC is a water treatment technology company established to develop and sell solutions for improving water quality. The Company's four main product lines leverage the same core gas dissolution technology to provide highly efficient solutions for delivering dissolved gases (oxygen, carbon dioxide, and ozone) into water. The products are utilized in a host of municipal, industrial, and ecological water treatment processes. Product applications range from biological oxygenation and reaeration (SDOX®), odor and corrosion control with oxygen (SDOX-CS®), recarbonation (CDOX®) to disinfection (HyDOZ®). BlueInGreen is actively addressing the global clean water supply and quality crisis by providing disruptive and innovative products for improving water quality at lower cost and higher efficiency. BlueInGreen® is a VIC Technology Venture Development™ portfolio company. For additional information, please visit http://www.blueingreen.com.


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Bamboo Flooring Hawaii is an American company based in Hawaii, specializing in the sales and distribution of bamboo flooring across the nation. We also have a very progressive eco-friendly line of other flooring products which include Napa Cork, Strand Woven Coconut/Bamboo flooring and Hawaiian Style LVT. Mark Elwell, owner operator of Bamboo Flooring Hawaii, has been a successful importer for over 30 years.
Mark has traveled to the far corners of Asia, to put together some of the most interesting and progressive line of high quality products to his extremely diverse customer base. He has imported an array of products ranging from handicrafts made in Indonesia to exotic birds from Singapore. His discovery of Bamboo flooring and other types of "green" flooring are by far the most innovative and exciting product line he has found to this day!
Sustainable bamboo is grown in various regions of Asia and the durable bamboo shoots are capable of complete regeneration within 4 to 5 years without the need to replant. Its beauty and durability makes bamboo a worthy flooring alternative to conventional hardwoods.
Napa cork flooring, strand woven coconut/bamboo flooring and Hawaiian Style LVT are some or the other sustainable flooring options that we offer. Hawaiian Style LVT is our newest product soon to arrive July 2014. We are constantly evolving to find the next great environmentally friendly flooring options to beautify your home or business, so stay tuned!
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Roma recorded a crushing 5-0 win over struggling Palermo to make it five successive Serie A victories as they moved up to fourth in the table.
Edin Dzeko recovered from a shocking miss to score the first and last goals in Roma's biggest win of the season.
Seydou Keita poked in Roma's second following a 52nd-minute corner.
And Mo Salah finished well twice in three minutes as Roma again coped without dropped club legend Francesco Totti, who watched from the stands.
Relive all the action as it happened here.
Totti was left out of Roma's squad by Luciano Spalletti following criticism of the coach in a television interview.
Dzeko's failure to side-foot into an open goal might have made life awkward for Spalletti.
But the home supporters were soon back on side when Dzeko drilled in his fifth Serie A goal of the season moments later.
Palermo offered little as their slide towards the relegation places continued with a fifth game without a win.
Roma totally dominated the second half with Keita getting his first goal of the season and Salah going into double figures.
The Egyptian international converted a Dzeko assist to slot home the third goal and then curled the ball in from the tightest of angles to make it 4-0.
Former Manchester City striker Dzeko added his third goal in three games when he powered home a header from Diego Perotti's cross a minute from time.
Roma are now just two points behind third-placed Fiorentina as they continue to push for a Champions League place and were further boosted by the return from injury of midfielder Kevin Strootman as a substitute following more than a year out with a knee injury.
Roma coach Luciano Spalletti: "Totti is the best player in the post-war era and deserves respect, but so do all the other lads.
"There are rules in place for managing the group and I had to deal with Totti's reaction.
"Totti had a moment of anger and that can happen in certain circumstances.
"The situation is in the past. He was at the stadium and in the changing room. He'll train with us on Monday."
Match ends, Roma 5, Palermo 0.
Second Half ends, Roma 5, Palermo 0.
Attempt blocked. Iago Falque (Roma) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Radja Nainggolan.
Iago Falque (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aleksandar Trajkovski (Palermo).
Goal! Roma 5, Palermo 0. Edin Dzeko (Roma) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Diego Perotti with a cross.
Substitution, Roma. Diego Perotti replaces Mohamed Salah.
Uros Djurdjevic (Palermo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Enzo Maresca (Palermo).
Substitution, Roma. Kevin Strootman replaces Maicon.
Attempt missed. Alessandro Florenzi (Roma) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.
Attempt missed. Radja Nainggolan (Roma) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Digne.
Aljaz Struna (Palermo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Seydou Keita (Roma) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aljaz Struna (Palermo).
Substitution, Roma. Iago Falque replaces Miralem Pjanic.
Substitution, Palermo. Uros Djurdjevic replaces Alberto Gilardino.
Offside, Roma. Miralem Pjanic tries a through ball, but Edin Dzeko is caught offside.
Substitution, Palermo. Enzo Maresca replaces Franco Vázquez.
Attempt missed. Radja Nainggolan (Roma) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Digne.
Attempt missed. Seydou Keita (Roma) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a cross following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Lucas Digne (Roma) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Edin Dzeko (Roma) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Radja Nainggolan.
Corner, Roma. Conceded by Sinisa Andjelkovic.
Offside, Palermo. Oscar Hiljemark tries a through ball, but Franco Vázquez is caught offside.
Goal! Roma 4, Palermo 0. Mohamed Salah (Roma) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Radja Nainggolan.
Corner, Palermo. Conceded by Seydou Keita.
Attempt blocked. Franco Vázquez (Palermo) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Roma 3, Palermo 0. Mohamed Salah (Roma) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Edin Dzeko.
Offside, Palermo. Franco Vázquez tries a through ball, but Aleksandar Trajkovski is caught offside.
Offside, Roma. Mohamed Salah tries a through ball, but Edin Dzeko is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Aljaz Struna (Palermo) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Aleksandar Trajkovski with a cross following a corner.


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Investigational malaria vaccine protects healthy U.S. adults for more than one year
PfSPZ Vaccine is first to show durable, sterile protection in people with no prior infection.
An experimental malaria vaccine protected a small number of healthy, malaria-naïve adults in the United States from infection for more than one year after immunization, according to results from a Phase 1 trial described in the May 9th issue of Nature Medicine. The vaccine, known as the PfSPZ Vaccine, was developed and produced by Sanaria Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, with support from several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. NIAID researchers and collaborators at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, conducted the clinical evaluation of the vaccine, which involved immunization and exposing willing healthy adults to the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) in a controlled setting.
"This study is an encouraging step forward in our goal to control and ultimately eradicate malaria."
—Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.,Director, NIAID
The parasites that cause malaria are transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito. The PfSPZ Vaccine is composed of live, but weakened P. falciparum sporozoites — the early developmental form of the parasite. Previous research showed the PfSPZ Vaccine to be highly protective three weeks after immunization. In this trial, researchers assessed if protection could last for five months to a year.
"Malaria remains one of the most devastating diseases in the world, especially among young children in Africa," said NIAID director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "A malaria vaccine that provides long-term protection is urgently needed to reduce mortality and eliminate transmission. This study is an encouraging step forward in our goal to control and ultimately eradicate malaria."
The Phase 1 trial took place at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and at the University of Maryland Medical Center and enrolled 101 healthy adults aged 18 to 45 years who had never had malaria. Of these volunteers, 59 received the PfSPZ Vaccine; 32 participants served as controls and were not vaccinated. Vaccine recipients were divided into several groups to assess the roles of the route of administration, dose, and number of immunizations in conferring short- and long-term protection against malaria.
To determine if the number of immunizations influenced protection, vaccinated participants received either three (nine participants) or four (28 participants) intravenous (IV) immunizations of the PfSPZ Vaccine at a higher dose than tested in previous human studies. To compare the protective efficacy of different routes of administration, eight participants received four immunizations via intramuscular injection (IM) at a dose approximately 10-fold higher than the dose administered intravenously. This was done to help the research team assess if IV administration was necessary and more efficient based on the dose required.
To evaluate how well the PfSPZ Vaccine prevented malaria infection, all participants — including the control participants who were not vaccinated — were exposed at varying times to the bites of mosquitoes carrying the same P. falciparum strain from which the PfSPZ Vaccine was derived. The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, carried out this controlled human malaria infection procedure—a standard process in early phase malaria vaccine trials.
To assess short-term protection, participants were exposed to the bites of parasite-infected mosquitoes three weeks after receiving their final vaccination. Scientists then took blood samples from each participant to measure parasite levels for evidence of protection. For nine participants who received three IV doses, three were protected, or had no detectable parasites in their blood. For the nine participants who received four IV doses, seven were protected. Only three of the eight participants who received four IM doses were protected, indicating that IV administration afforded higher levels of protection at a lower dose.
To assess long-term protection, an additional group of 11 participants received four IV doses of the investigational vaccine and were exposed to the bites of malaria parasite-infected mosquitoes 21 weeks after their final vaccination. Scientists found that six of 11 participants (55 percent) had no detectable parasites in their blood after this exposure. Four of these six participants, plus one of the participants who received the same four doses via IV and had no parasites in the blood after exposures at three weeks and 21 weeks, were exposed to mosquito bites again at 59 weeks after their final vaccination. All five participants exposed at 59 weeks did not develop parasites in their blood, while all six unvaccinated control participants became infected with malaria parasites.
Collectively, the data showed that the PfSPZ Vaccine provided malaria protection for more than one year in 55 percent of people without prior malaria infection. In those individuals, the PfSPZ Vaccine appeared to confer sterile protection, meaning the individuals would be protected against disease and could not further transmit malaria. The vaccinations were also well-tolerated among participants, and there were no serious adverse events attributed to vaccination.
Additional results showed that antibodies may play a role in malaria protection early after the final immunization, but inducing T cells in the liver is likely necessary for durable protection.
"It is now clear that administering the PfSPZ Vaccine intravenously confers long-term, sterile protection in a small number of participants, which has not been achieved with other current vaccine approaches," said Robert A. Seder, M.D., chief of the Cellular Immunology Section of NIAID's Vaccine Research Center and principal investigator of the trial. "Based on the favorable safety profile, we're testing higher doses in larger trials to see if even greater protection can be achieved long-term against other P. falciparum strains different than the vaccine strain."
Long-term, reliable protection is important for people who are vaccinated but not exposed to malaria for months, such as travelers and military personnel. Durable protection is also important for mass vaccination campaigns in malaria-endemic regions aimed at interrupting transmission, according to the authors.
SBIR grant numbers: 5R44AI055229-11, 5R44AI058499-08 and 5R44AI058375
NIAID conducts and supports research — at NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwide — to study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.
AS Ishizuka et al. Protection against malaria at 1 year and immune correlates following PfSPZ vaccination. Nature Medicine. DOI: 10.1038/nm.4110 (2016).
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The new Instlux installation tool support installation from within a Windows session. The new one-click installation technology is an easy-to-use tool which will support program installation with a single click. The tool is integrated in Opensuse.org's reworked online build service. The major program and tool versions are: Kernel 2.6.22.5, Gnome 2.20, KDE 3.5.7, KDE 4.0 Beta 2, Firefox und Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, Open Office 2.3, Libzypp 3.24, Cups 1.2.12, Gimp 2.4rc3 (unstable), Xinelib 1.1.7, Compiz 0.5.4, Glibc 2.6.1, Qt 4.3.1, Wine 0.9.4.4, Gcc 4.2.1, Xen 3.1, VirtualBox 1.5, and Pidgin 2.1.1.
More new features: Open Suse 10.3 boots faster than its predecessors. Benchmark tests are available online. The GCC compiler now has a "-fstack-protector" option to help detected buffer overflows. Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is used by default for encrypted partitions, and Open Suse 10.3 supports the MP3 format in its standard media players, Banshee (v0.13.1) and Amarok (v1.4.7).
The Libzypp package management library replaces the Zenworks Management Daemon (ZMD) used previously. Libzypp is said to handle program dependencies better, and to support faster package download handling. To allow this to happen, standardized aliases are used for repositories. However, ZMD will remain available for Suse's enterprise products. Internally, Gnome has been moved from the optional software directory, "opt" to the system resource directory "/usr", which represents a status upgrade for the desktop.
… and the Compiz Annotate plugin, if you enjoy the idea of painting the screen.
Opensuse.org offers various CD, DVD and update versions, including mini distributions and Gnome or KDE only versions, along with language CDs and non-OSS CDs. Spoil yourself for choice on the download page .
The Opensuse project has just released the first beta version of the new 10.3 distribution.
The first Release Candidate of the free Suse distribution 10.3 has everything the final release will have, and it's stable says the Suse Team. Time for a trial run.
Smartphone support, added cloud support among improvements.


At the Ignite Conference, Microsoft made two big announcements: public previews for Azure File Sync and PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell.
The PowerShell experience adds an Azure drive (Azure:) to discover and navigate all Azure resources, like filesystem navigation. Azure drive also provides contextual capabilities, such as resource group scoping for Azure PowerShell cmdlets when within the context of a resource group path in the Azure drive.
It also enables interactions with virtual machines (VMs) using PowerShell remoting to enable management of guest VMs. PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell is available as a public preview to showcase these new capabilities.
With Azure File Sync, users can now keep Azure File shares in sync with their on-premises Window Servers. Files are tiered between the on-premises file server and Azure Files. As a result, users can have only the newest and most recently accessed files locally, without sacrificing the ability to see and access the entire namespace through seamless cloud recall. Azure File Sync is available immediately as a preview.
The deeplearn.js home page includes links to demos showing deeplearn.js at work on real-world machine learning tasks, such as classifying photos.
At the VMware World Conference, VMware announced the arrival of VMware cloud to AWS. VMware will be selling and supporting the service as an on-demand, elastically scalable cloud service. This announcement is the culmination of the strategic partnership that the two companies forged last October.
"VMware and AWS are empowering enterprise IT and operations teams to add value to their businesses through the combination of VMware enterprise capabilities and the breadth and depth of capabilities and scale of the AWS Cloud, providing them a platform for any application," said Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer, VMware.
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"Each SDDC (Software-Defined Data Center) consists of 4 to 16 instances, each with 36 cores, 512GB of memory, and 15.2TB of NVMe storage. Clusters currently run in a single AWS Availability Zone (AZ) with support in the works for clusters that span AZs. You can spin up an entire VMware SDDC in a couple of hours and scale host capacity up and down in minutes," said AWS in a blog post.
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Q: how to make php auto page number count? I'm currently using this code which will force me to keep adding page number line code.

Page:  <?php
if (strpos($so, "1")) echo $_SESSION['config']['page']==1 ? '[1] ' : '[1] ';

if (strpos($so, "2")) echo $_SESSION['config']['page']==2 ? '[2] ' : '[2] ';
?>

my question is if its possible to make a simple code to just count and add pages ?
thanks in advance

A:
Page:
<?php
for($i=1;$i<10;$i++) {
    if (strpos($so, $i)) echo $_SESSION['config']['page']==$i ? '['.$i.'] ' : '['.$i.'] ';
}
?>

Do you mean something like this?

A: Yes it is possible. What you need to know is how many pages you need to list, and which is selected. You could store these in a variable in a number of different ways (i've kept it simple below). Then you can just loop to display the page options:
$pages = 6;        // number of pages to show
$current_page = 3; // to highlight selected page

Now for actually outputting the values into HTML.

    <?php for ($i = 1; $i <= $pages; $i++): ?>
    <li <?php if ($i === $current_page): ?>class="selected"<?php endif; ?>>
        <a href="?page=<?php echo $i; ?>">[<?php echo $i; ?>]

    <?php endfor; ?>

I've separated the style from the HTML (you can add your font-size and whatever else here too):
#pagination .selected {
    color: red;
}

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For the poignant series Another Day in Paradise, Whitten Sabbatini captures quiet moments across the Hill Country of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana in his black and white landscapes and portraits.
Beyond the Levee
A Points South essay from the Summer 2019 issue
Much of what they'd tell me next was legend—tall tales, rumors, exaggerations. Perry Martin adopted an orphan girl he found on the riverside, raised her up as his own, paid her way through college. He killed nine people, or eleven, or a dozen. One of his alleged victims was his own stepson: the younger man had rocked a boat they shared too violently, which angered Martin. Apparently, despite his life along the river, this outlaw did not know how to swim.
It's Later Than You Think
The Jim Ridley line that I wrote about in a previous column, his beautiful notion that "you can find your voice by loving things"—that's absolutely true. What's also true is that you can build your history by loving things.
The Business of Dying
In his striking interior and exterior glimpses of the funeral industry in the rural South, Tim Hursley's photos feature shots of errantly parked hearses, casket showrooms, ranks of carved granite, and portraits of rusted silos and warehouses that look, too, by nature of their juxtaposition, like rows of planted headstones.
This Small Corner
I felt many days like I was no one and like nothing mattered and that I couldn't write myself out of it. I wanted to be someone or something that I couldn't be. Now I was a guy from Brooklyn in Mississippi. When I sat down to write Gravesend, all of that came into play. I thought of the way we bring the place we're from with us, no matter where we are. I could've called the book Gravesend and not had a single scene set in my neighborhood. I carried the streets with me.
You Can Find Your Voice by Loving Things
Even when Ridley pans a movie, he does it with heart. His takedown of Luc Besson's The Messenger is written as "a short story that imagines a film executive in purgatory summoning Carl Theodore Dreyer [director of the ethereal and perfect The Passion of Joan of Arc] to his office." Haruch says this is "a doff of the cap, of sorts, to Godard's notion that one should make a movie to criticize a movie."
It Would Be Easy
The photographs in Bryan Tarnowski's The Wishbone aim to excavate the "fertile current of optimism" beneath the more obvious portrait of poverty in the Delta.
Chewing on Toothpicks
For me, toothpicks—like Zippo lighters and typewriters and vinyl records—have always signified classic coolness. My grandfather, a Brooklyn car mechanic and TV fix-it guy, chewed them compulsively and I fell in love with toothpicks because of him.
Chart of Obsessions
For me, obsession with art is also about survival. I'm after the next thing, the next moment that will give shape or purpose to existence. It's always been important for me to fill my days like this, to give definition to who I am and who I will be by engulfing myself in what I'm watching and listening to and reading. Getting lost in art that moves me just makes things make sense.


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Michael Martoccio
Position title: Assistant Professor of History
Email: martoccio@wisc.edu
Office: 5126 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5009 Mosse Humanities
Office Hours: TBA
I am an economic and military historian of the early modern Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Italy. I am especially interested in how early modern economic practices – consumerism, market culture, and the commercialization of war – shaped notions of sovereignty, territoriality, and political geography.
My monograph, Leviathan for Sale, which is under contract with Oxford University Press, examines for the first time the market for city-states: the practice of Renaissance Italian cities buying and selling neighboring towns within Italy and across the Mediterranean. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources including promissory notes, diplomatic reports, treaties, public council debates, private letters, chronicles, funeral orations, civic rituals, poetry, prose, and manuscript illuminations from Italy and beyond, this book shows how all levels of Italian society made territorial conquest legible by means of the language, customs, and practices of commerce and the marketplace
In addition, I am currently at the beginning stages of my second book titled Theater of Mars: Building the Business of War in Genoa, 1684-1797. Merging urban history with military history, this book shows how the Genoese altered the city's docks, walls, gates, hospitals, hotels, warehouses, stables, and the Jewish ghetto to better structure, formalize, and routinize the business of war in the city. In this way, Theater of Mars offers a new urban military history that reveals the multi-dimensional effects of war on built environments.
My work has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Newberry Library, and has appeared in Past & Present, The English Historical Review, War in History, Business History, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History as well as collections by the University of Toronto Press, Cambridge University Press, Brepols, and Brill.
I teach courses on early modern economic culture, military history, Mediterranean society, and the Renaissance.
Ph.D., Northwestern University
B.A., Duke University.
"Provisions, Passports and the Problems of International Warfare in Early Eighteenth-Century Northern Italy: A Micro-Historical Study.' (with Prof. Aaron Graham). European History Quarterly. (Accepted and Forthcoming, Autumn 2022).
"The Peru of Italy: The Bank of Saint George in the English, French, and German Press, 1684-1797," in Enrico Zucchi and Alessandro Metlica, Questioning Republicanism in Early Modern Genoa. Under Contract with Brepols (Accepted and Forthcoming, 2022).
"City Leagues, Mercenary Companies, and Regional Recruitment in Renaissance Italy." The English Historical Review. (Accepted and Forthcoming, Spring 2022).
'Employment, Trade, and War Business in the Early Modern Mediterranean," in André Holenstein and Philippe Rogger, Military Entrepreneurs in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2022).
"The Art of Mercato: Buying City-States in Renaissance Tuscany." Past and Present 252 (August 2021): 53-99.*
* Winner: Best Article in Medieval and Early Modern Italian History from the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
"The Place for Such Business': The Business of War in the City of Genoa, 1701-1714." War in History 29 (June 2021).
"'A Man of Particular Ability:' A Jewish-Genoese Contractor in the Fiscal-Military System." Business History 64: Special Issue on Minorities and Grain Trade in Early Modern Europe (May 2021).
"Renaissance States of Mind," in John Brooke et. al., eds., State Formations: Global Histories and Cultures of Statehood (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
"Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Candle Making as State Making in Late Medieval Siena and Florence," in Mark Jurdjevic and Rolf Strom-Olsen, eds., Rethinking Early Modernity (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
"Ideal Types and Negotiated Identities: A Comparative Approach to the City-State." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45, 2 (2014): 187–200.
Selected Awards
Best Article in Medieval and Early Modern Italian History | The Society for Italian Historical Studies, 2021
Venetian Research Program for Individual Scholars | The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, 2018
Harold Perkins Prize for Best Dissertation in Department of History | Northwestern University, 2016
Short-Term Research Grant | Renaissance Society of America, 2015-2016
History Courses
History 201 – The Historians Craft: Mercenaries, Pirates, and Renegades in the Early Modern Mediterranean – Syllabus 2022 (pdf)
History 500 – The Trial of Joan of Arc


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Q: sorting a vector with class items in it lets say that i have a class that looks like this:
Class Items{
   private:
   float price;
   string name;
   float qunatity;
   public:
   getname(string nam){name=nam;}}

etc...
and i have a vector consisting of this class items, how would i then make it to sort the vector according to the users input like if the user wants to sort the items by name then it would sort by name etc.
EDIT::
ok so i have a class items and also have a class inventory:
Class Inventory{
      print();
      getdata();
      sort();
      static bool SORT_BY_NAME(const Item& i, const Item &j)}

then i have a function that Sang Geo wrote for the comparison
static bool Inventory::SORT_BY_NAME(const Item & i, const Item & j) {
  return i.name.compare(j.name) < 0;
}

and then i also have a sort function that will use different bool sort functions
void Inventory::sorting(){
  int x;
  cout<<"How do you want to sort it: 1.name 2.ID 3.month";
  cin>>x;
  // vector<Item>::iterator it;
  switch(x){
  case 1:
    std::sort(items.begin(), items.end(), Inventory::SORT_BY_NAME);
  }

but it says that Items::name is private

A: You simply need to write a comparison function for each field you want to sort on and depending on the user input select the right one.
See sort

A: To better illustrate how to use std::sort with your scenario, here's a complete example with three comparison functions defined for three fields in your class:
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>

class Item{
    public:
        float price;
        std::string name;
        float quantity;
        static bool SORT_BY_NAME(const Item & i, const Item & j) {
            return i.name.compare(j.name) < 0;
        }
        static bool SORT_BY_PRICE(const Item & i, const Item & j) {
            return i.price < j.price;
        }
        static bool SORT_BY_QUANTITY(const Item & i, const Item & j) {
            return i.quantity < j.quantity;
        }
        std::string ToString(){
            std::stringstream ss;
            ss << name << ": $" << price << "; " << quantity;
            return ss.str();
        }
};

int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
    std::vector<Item> items;
    Item item1, item2, item3;

    item1.name = "Name1";
    item1.price = 2;
    item1.quantity = 3;

    item2.name = "Name2";
    item2.price = 3;
    item2.quantity = 1;

    item3.name = "Name3";
    item3.price = 1;
    item3.quantity = 2;

    items.push_back(item1);
    items.push_back(item2);
    items.push_back(item3);

    std::sort(items.begin(), items.end(), Item::SORT_BY_NAME);
    std::cout<<std::endl<<"By name:"<<std::endl;
    for(std::vector<Item>::iterator i = items.begin(); i != items.end(); ++i)
        std::cout<<i->ToString()<<std::endl;

    std::sort(items.begin(), items.end(), Item::SORT_BY_PRICE);
    std::cout<<std::endl<<"By price:"<<std::endl;
    for(std::vector<Item>::iterator i = items.begin(); i != items.end(); ++i)
        std::cout<<i->ToString()<<std::endl;

    std::sort(items.begin(), items.end(), Item::SORT_BY_QUANTITY);
    std::cout<<std::endl<<"By quantity:"<<std::endl;
    for(std::vector<Item>::iterator i = items.begin(); i != items.end(); ++i)
        std::cout<<i->ToString()<<std::endl;

}

A: You'd use a custom comparator object that either sorts according to name, price or quantity.
This is part of std::sort's functionality.

A: std::sort algorithm has three parameters — first, last and comparator.

Comparison function object that, taking two values of the same type
  than those contained in the range, returns true if the first argument
  goes before the second argument in the specific strict weak ordering
  it defines, and false otherwise.


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Purpose The impact of thrombus length on recanalization in IV thrombolysis for acute intracranial artery occlusion has been well studied. Here we analyzed the influence of thrombus length on the number of thrombectomy maneuvers needed for recanalization, intraprocedural complications, recanalization success, and clinical outcome after mechanical thrombectomy.
Methods We retrospectively analyzed angiographic and clinical data from 72 consecutive patients with acute occlusion of the M1 segment of the middle cerebral artery who were treated with mechanical thrombectomy using stent retrievers. Successful recanalization was defined as a Thrombolysis in Cerebral Infarction score of 2b or 3. Good neurological outcome was defined as a modified Rankin Scale score of ≤2 at 90 days after stroke onset.
Results Mean thrombus length was 13.4±5.2 mm. Univariate binary logistic regression did not show an association of thrombus length with the probability of a good clinical outcome (OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.84 to 1.03, p=0.176) or successful recanalization (OR 0.92, 95% CI 0.81 to 1.05, p=0.225). There was no significant correlation between thrombus length and the number of thrombectomy maneuvers needed for recanalization (p=0.112). Furthermore, thrombus length was not correlated with the probability of intraprocedural complications (p=0.813), including embolization in a new territory (n=3).
Conclusions In this study, thrombus length had no relevant impact on recanalization, neurological outcome, or intraprocedural complications following mechanical thrombectomy of middle cerebral artery occlusions. Therefore, mechanical thrombectomy with stent retrievers can be attempted with large clots.
The impact of thrombus length on recanalization in IV thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke has been well studied. In 2011, Riedel et al1 found that recanalization with IV thrombolysis in anterior circulation stroke was unlikely if thrombus length exceeded 8 mm. It has also been reported that thrombus length is a predictor of recanalization rates after bridging thrombolysis before mechanical thrombectomy.2 However, data on the impact of thrombus length on successful mechanical recanalization are sparse.3 ,4 Here we analyzed the influence of thrombus length on the number of thrombectomy maneuvers needed for recanalization, recanalization success, intraprocedural complications, and clinical outcome after mechanical thrombectomy for acute occlusion of the middle cerebral artery.
Between January 2012 and October 2015, all consecutive patients undergoing mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke were collected in a prospective database and analyzed retrospectively. Inclusion criteria for the study were acute occlusion of the M1 segment of the middle cerebral artery, premorbid modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score of ≤2, and primary usage of the Solitaire FR (Medtronic, Dublin, Ireland) or the Trevo device (Stryker Neurovascular, Fremont, California, USA) as a stent retriever. Patients who underwent additional stenting of intracranial or extracranial vessels were excluded. The study was approved by our local ethics committee.
Baseline demographic data, initial National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score, and mRS score at 90 days after stroke onset were regularly documented by a neurologist. Good neurological outcome was defined as an mRS score of ≤2 at 90 days. Thrombectomy maneuver counts using a stent retriever were regularly reported by the performing interventional neuroradiologist. The recorded information included usage of any secondary stent retriever during thrombectomy which was not limited to the Solitaire or Trevo. Sole aspiration attempts of the thrombus using a distal access catheter were not evaluated as a thrombectomy maneuver and were excluded.
Image analysis was performed blinded to the clinical information. Maximum thrombus length was assessed on pre-interventional MRI or CT scans. Thrombus length was evaluated from measurements on at least two perpendicular planes on multiplanar reformatted MR angiography or CT angiography images by determining the point of contrast truncation and the distal point of vascular refilling (figure 1). When there was doubt about the distal extent of the thrombus, susceptibility weighted MR sequences or non-enhanced CT scans were additionally used to estimate thrombus length.3 ,4 If a thrombus extended into several branches of the middle cerebral artery, only the maximal thrombus length was evaluated rather than all of the branches involved. Thrombolysis in Cerebral Infarction (TICI) scores were assessed on final angiographic series. A TICI score of 2b or 3 (subtotal or complete perfusion) was regarded as successful recanalization.
Coronal reformation of contrast enhanced CT angiography. White arrows indicate a thrombus in the right middle cerebral artery.
All statistical analyses were performed using RStudio V.0.99. The Shapiro–Wilk test was used to test for normality. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to examine the influence of thrombus length on recanalization, clinical outcome, and intraprocedural complications. The Mann–Whitney U test was used for non-parametric univariate analyses. The correlation between thrombus length and maneuver count was evaluated using Pearson's correlation. Statistical significance was set at p<0.05.
Of the 474 patient records reviewed, 72 patients met the inclusion criteria for this retrospective study. The demographic characteristics of the patients are shown in table 1.
Thrombus length was distributed normally (p=0.211) (figure 2). Mean thrombus length was 13.4±5.2 mm. Median number of thrombectomy maneuvers needed for recanalization was 2 (IQR 1–4). There was no significant correlation between thrombus length and maneuver count (r=0.19, p=0.111).
Histogram of thrombus length. Thrombus length was normally distributed, ranging from 1 to 30 mm.
Mean thrombus length was 14.1±5.0 mm in patients with atrial fibrillation and 13.2±5.2 mm in patients without atrial fibrillation. There was no association between atrial fibrillation and thrombus length (p=0.472). Also, IV thrombolysis had no influence on thrombus length (p=0.732).
All patients had a TICI score of 0 prior to thrombectomy. Successful recanalization was achieved in 86.1% (n=62) and a good clinical outcome was achieved in 36.1% (n=26). Thrombus length was slightly, but not significantly, lower in patients with successful recanalization (12 vs 15.5 mm, p=0.163) and good neurological outcome (12 vs 14 mm, p=0.288) (figure 3). In binary logistic regression, there was no significant association between thrombus length and the probability of successful recanalization (OR 0.92, 95% CI 0.81 to 1.05, p=0.225) and good clinical outcome (OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.84 to 1.03, p=0.176).
Box and whisker plots showing that thrombus length was slightly, but not significantly, lower in patients with (A) successful recanalization (p=0.225) and (B) good neurological outcome (p=0.176).
The total rate of intraprocedural complications was 14%, resulting from asymptomatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (n=2), mild reversible vasospasm of the cerebral arteries (n=6), vessel dissection without hemodynamic impairment of cerebral perfusion (n=2), and embolization in a new territory (n=3). No symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage during thrombectomy was observed. No association was found between thrombus length and intraprocedural complications (OR 1.02, 95% CI 0.89 to 1.15, p=0.813).
In recent prospective controlled thrombectomy trials, failure of vessel recanalization has been reported in 12–41.3% of stroke patients (13% in the present study).5–10 Here we analyzed the impact of thrombus length not only on recanalization, but also on intraprocedural complications and neurological outcome after mechanical thrombectomy for acute middle cerebral artery occlusion.
In 2011, Riedel et al1 noted that recanalization with IV thrombolysis in anterior circulation stroke was unlikely if thrombus length exceeded 8 mm. According to our results, modern stent retrievers, such as the Solitaire and Trevo devices, were able to remove long thrombi effectively. Thrombus length measured on MR angiography and CT angiography was not correlated with recanalization (p=0.225) or neurological outcome (p=0.176) in mechanical thrombectomy. Also, thrombus length did not correlate with the number of thrombectomy maneuvers required for recanalization (p=0.111). Likewise, the complication rate, in particular embolization into new territories, was not correlated with thrombus length (p=0.813). Therefore, we believe that large clots should not be regarded as a predictor of futile recanalization.
Weisstanner et al,3 who compared thrombus location in MR angiography with susceptibility weighted imaging, did not find a correlation between thrombus length estimated in susceptibility weighted images and recanalization. In contrast, Soize et al4 reported that thrombus length measured on susceptibility weighted images on MRI had an impact on recanalization and neurological outcome after thrombectomy. In their study, however, occlusions of the anterior and posterior circulation and also tandem occlusions of the internal carotid artery and the middle cerebral artery were included, which may have influenced the results.
Our study has several limitations. Our analyses were performed retrospectively but the data were collected in a prospective database. The methods used for thrombus length evaluation were the same used as those used in previous clinical studies.2–4 ,11 Bifurcation of thrombi was not evaluated. Use of the Solitaire or Trevo as a primary thrombectomy device was an inclusion criterion. The reported maneuver counts, however, included use of any additional stent retriever during thrombectomy and cannot be attributed to a specific stent retriever. Also, patients with complete recanalization on the initial cerebral angiogram were excluded, which might have had an influence on our results. More likely reasons for failure of mechanical thrombectomy include clot composition, density, and diameter, which we did not address in our study.12 ,13 Further experimental and clinical studies are needed to determine their importance in mechanical thrombectomy.
Thrombus length had no significant impact on recanalization success, neurological outcome, or intraprocedural complications in mechanical thrombectomy for middle cerebral artery occlusions. Therefore, mechanical thrombectomy with stent retrievers can be attempted for large clots. Perhaps other factors, such as clot composition, density, and diameter are more relevant for successful mechanical recanalization and outcome.
The abstract of this manuscript has been published in the abstract book of the 2016 Annual Conference of the German Society of Neuroradiology.
Contributors FS, MP, MB, and MAM conceived the study and initiated the study design. JP, MW, CH, SN, and SS contributed to acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of the data for this work. All authors contributed to refinement of the study protocol, and reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
Competing interests JP has received travel expenses from Siemens and Stryker. CH has received travel expenses from Covidien. SN has received consulting honoraria, speaker honoraria, and travel support from Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bayer, Pfizer, and Brainomix Ltd. MP has received speaker honoraria and travel reimbursement from Penumbra and Covidien. MB has received consulting honoraria and speaker honoraria from Codman, Guerbet, Novartis, Roche, Bayer, Teva, and Vascular Dynamics. MAM has received consulting honoraria, speaker honoraria, and travel support outside this work from Acandis, Codman, Covidien, MicroVention, Phenox, and Stryker.
Ethics approval The study was approved by the institutional review board of Heidelberg University.


text: A HIGH ENERGY RIDE Matt Burroughs Takes His Monster Energy Can-Am X3 To A Pro UTV FI Win By Dan Sanchez Photos Provided By Matt Burroughs With the level of competition so high in SCORE's Pro UTV FI class, one mistake or a broken part can cost you the win. At this year's 52nd BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 500 Presented by 4 Wheel Parts, Matthew Burroughs in the Monster Energy Can-Am X3 had everything go well for him to pull off a well-deserved class win. Burroughs is not only a racer but also a Senior VP at Monster Energy and has his share of racing experience. At this race, he started seventh in class, but with former class winners and champions behind him, he knew it wouldn't be an easy task to win. Burroughs overcame lots of obstacles, even before the race, just to get there. " I had COVID-19 in late June and July and was very sick for a whole month," said Burroughs. "We weren't even sure if we were even going to race at the SCORE Baja 500, especially with the heat and with a smaller crew." Despite the difficulties, Burroughs decided to race and came down with Bradley Howe and Mitchell Alsup as co-drivers. Once they got into San Felipe and began pre-running, it was evident the heat would be a factor. "We didn't pre-run like we would normally do because it was too hot," said Burroughs. "So we wanted to preserve the car. When we started the race, we had made a mistake in prepping the clutch. We could only do 20-30 mph, so we jumped out at the end of the pavement and quickly changed it over to our secondary clutch. That took us about 15-20 minutes." After getting back on the course, the team pushed hard, moving up to the pack leaders and keeping the competition behind them. "By mile 350, we were fifth physically and starting to catch other racers," said Burroughs. "Two had mechanical problems, and we got around two others around the last 120 miles. At that point, we didn't want to give up and kept our pace until the finish." Dealing with the heat and the very rough terrain, Burroughs says the most difficult parts were on the fastest areas of the course. "The clutch temperatures get high on the lakebed, but we managed the car and kept our speed without overheating," he said. "We planned to get to the last 150 miles and push hard to the finish, but on the dry lake, we weren't sure how hard to push because of the heat. Fortunately, we weren't so far back and did well." In the past, Burroughs has come up short in winning his share of SCORE races, and this win was vindication. "We started racing Pro UTV FI in 2017 where we came in fourth at the SCORE Baja 500 that year," said Burroughs. "Last year at the SCORE Baja 500, we were first on corrected time with 50-miles to the finish, and we tore the right side of the car off. Our bad luck continued at the SCORE Baja 1000 last year when we tore the right side of the car off in the first 80 miles of that race. We needed better luck, and in this race, it all came together." The win also comes as a great victory for Can-Am. "There hasn't been a Can-Am win in this class for a long time," said Burroughs. "The X3 has a very solid motor and drivetrain coupled with a 3-cylinder motor that's very fast, and I love the ergonomics of the vehicle." Although Burroughs will start first at the 53rd BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 500, he knows well enough that starting position means nothing in a long and grueling race such as that. "Starting first with so many miles, you don't know what's going to happen," he says. "It's not as important at longer races, especially ones that are also rough. For the SCORE Baja 1000, we're expecting a lot of desert side racing or more. Our strategy is to cruise the first two-thirds of the race at a fast pace and get a fresh car to push to the finish." If their luck holds out, Burroughs and his team have the driving skills and a fast vehicle to make it once again first across the finish line and take home a Class Championship for their well-deserved efforts. SJ


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Discussion in 'Denied' started by CasualNuker, Sep 29, 2018.
How old are you? I'm currently fifteen years old.
Location: I'm currently living in Central Standard Time in Texas.
When did you join Meepcraft? I joined MeepCraft on December 19,2014.
Why should you be Helper? I'm going to list some of my benefits if you choose to have me as a helper. I'm able to be online when a lot of other staff cant be online. I have a lot of experience in the field of moderating servers as I've owned several of them now. I always strive to give fairness to everyone even if I don't like that player at all. I've always been trying to be kind and back off when I realize the argument isn't gonna help anyone in the server.
I think I've gone over a couple of my good qualities if i become a staff member now I'll be explaining why I should be chosen as a helper. I'll be explaining the paragraph above in these next few sentences. When I log in after school or Saturday mornings I notice there's around ten-twenty players online with no staff. If I'm accepted I could be online when those ten-twenty people are moderating them. Since I've owned two or three servers over the years i understand how a staff should function and what my role as a helper is. When your a helper you are trying to keep the server together while moderating hand out most of the punishments with the helpers alerting the moderators of the troublemaker who is breaking rules.I fully understand my role in the meepcraft staff system if accepted and I'm prepared to make any changes needed to myself. This part may be hard to believe but I'm really trying to be better about arguing with other players on meepcraft. While I'm playing I try to keep mostly keep quiet if someone insults me or my town which is very hard at times. Now this one is extremely hard to believe but yes I'm working on it, I'm really trying to be fair and see everyone's point of view when I'm talking to them which i feel like is a very big role in being a staff member to see everyone's point they are trying to make. I'll quickly summarize what you just read here. I'll give fair judgement to everyone. I'm trying to be kind and nice and not argue. I'm online when a lot of other staff aren't online. I think that brings to a close of why I think I'm the perfect candidate for helper. I hope you consider letting me serve you as a staff member of meep.
What are your weaknesses? I believe my weakness' are the following which the community has told me and what I've seen in myself. I tend to be very immature in forum posts. I tend to not go through on my promises in my town or in global chat. I also tend to argue too much on the debate threads when someone has a different view than I do. I'm also a very defensive person over my town and friends sometimes where I get in trouble with it. I've listed the weakness' the community sees in me and what issues I see in myself. I'll start explaining how I'll fix these issues. In my forum posts I will not go on the posts that may make me upset or start to argue with people on the thread. In my promises I promise to do many awesome things like subways and towers but in the end I never fulfill those promises. I'll start by not promising things that I realize I can't do in my own time. Example, Subways in the city of Aurora or updating my housing for residents. I'll also mention that I don't like people who insult my town or friends. I'll start to insult them by calling them rude and offensive to my city and eventually staff interfere. I'm really trying hard to not get in fights over stupid things like that. I feel I can fix all these issues by just trying to ignore people I don't like on meep. I'll also try to stay away from the debate threads. I will avoid any type of argument I can even if they insult me.
Please give any other information you might think is useful for us to know: I'll let everyone know I do have a MC server which is for friends and family I also use it for builds and world exploring. I have no intention to grow it over 10 players. So I hope that ends this really long application and I'll quickly summarize everything here on the application. I'm going to strive to be fair and mature if I'm accepted as staff of meep. I hope y'all will give me the chance to be a helper for you guys here on meepcraft. I cant exactly think of where to put this part of my app so I'll put it here since it's info I want you guys to know. Of course as most of you know in my first 2-3 years I got banned a lot I believe four perms and ten temporary bans. I realize a lot of you may take into consideration those bans which I understand. Thanks for reading this application!
I've posted my opinion on Discord already and I'll post it here again.
Long story short; you are self-centered and wanting of the position just for the sake of recognition.
FYI: The moment I looked at your application, I instantly noticed the absurd amount of times you used the word "I"... so, just to entertain myself, I decided to put your app into a text analyzer.
You used the word "I" 115 times and the word "my" 25 times. Not that it proves anything, but it's a really strange coincidence considering my first point.
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You don't 'tend to be immature in forum posts.' You just ARE immature. I honestly thought you were like 11 until you posted the thread about getting your permit. You tend to do things for the glory of having giant super cool ideas and projects, and every single one falls though.
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As Munkee said, you're not staff material.
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you are self-centered and wanting of the position just for the sake of recognition.
Before I say this, I want you to know I'm not doubting your opinion.
Nuker's personality makes that blatantly obvious. Even ignoring the past few years completely, he has quite the reputation for saying "I'm gonna start this huge project and it's gonna be amazing," trying to gain clout or whatever, and then never doing anything. He strikes virtually everyone as desperate for staff.
As for the application itself, absolutely not. Not that we're in an English class, but your English is atrocious (and you should at least be able to relay yourself in a moderately professional manner, you don't have to be Alfred the butler because this is MC, but be conscious of your grammar), you have proven yourself time and time again to be one of the most immature people on the server, and you have a clear tendency to want to do things for power, as I mentioned earlier.
I have to say, for all the years I've known Nuker - beginning with the "NukeLuke2" days, I think - he's gotta be the only person on the server who remains just the same way as he was three or more years ago. His grammar, immaturity, terrible behaviour, and even signature "all talk, no action" record hold just as true as they did on the day he joined, and that's simply remarkable. Sorry to be blunt, but I don't think you'll ever be accepted for staff, seeing as you just don't change.
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I don't want to go too much in depth here, but I'll say this.
It is not uncommon to have qualified psychologists present during a selection process/interview/promotion for important positions (be it the military, aviation, etc.). This has a very good reason.
How is a company manager/recruiter/interviewer supposed to decide on the viability of an applicant purely on their CV and a relatively short interview session? They usually do a pretty good job, but you can fake a personality to a certain extent. A trained psychologist is supposed to catch this.
Now... what does this have to do with this poor guys application?
If I haven't had seen anything from him in-game or on the forums before... I'd still probably vote no on his application, because it honestly is just poorly written. But let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's an actually nice person fit for the 'job'.
The thing is, I've seen his behavior around here and I don't need to be a psychologist to be able to subjectively say that he is not fit to be a helper. You also don't only want to 'just' accept applicants as helpers, you are looking for potential moderators, smods and eventually admins. I don't even see him getting to the first step, never mind the rest.
So to answer your question; if you want to promote people, you better make sure to know them well. Get peoples' opinions (like we do here, on this thread). If it's an interview... well, you better trust your gut damn well.
I said I would be a reference, but that was being on the fact that I told you to apply later, I said that now would not be the right time and I was willing to help you make people have a better mindset about you, the fact that you didn't take my advice and just apply just shows how power hungry you are, I said to you that your application was great, just tweak it here and there, but I said specifically not to apply because I know tons of people that would deny you if they had the chance, and you agreed and said you knew that too, I said to work on your reputation before applying, because honestly, your reputation currently is truly shocking, you have been banned, warned, kicked and you know that you're not the most liked person in the server, that's not to say that can't be changed, sure you can never be the most liked person in the server, as that's always changing (waits for @Kling to say that my opinion bs and that he is) You can always work towards it, But let me say this, you Didn't put the work in, and you Didn't Change your ways so people would see your potential, so, you've gone against what I've said and I don't think I would like to be a reference anymore. Knowing towny commands doesn't mean you're a good town owner (not targeting you, talking generally), why would that kind of idea change for being a staff?
Talk to me if you have a change of heart.
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Please remember to keep all comments relevant to the application. Posts simply making fun of someone or something will be deleted.
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Alright, have it your way.
I feel like a broken record because I've given you genuine advice that I feel like hasn't been clearly fixed.
My opinion hasn't changed since the "tips for applying" thread, and I highly suggest you look over my comment there again. I made that comment directly on issues I've seen/had in the past.
You have to mature. And I'll try to go into what I mean by "mature", because I care enough about you because you care enough about the server.
You need to take the image people had when they originally think of Nuker or NukeLuke, and kill that image. In the past there have been instances where people in the community have baited you into making a fool of yourself, then laughing at the reaction while you go on and make it worse.
First step to at least appearing mature is being able to handle trolls. You have to be able to keep you cool. You have to be able to manage others. You have to be the resolver of problems, not the cause. Learning how to manipulate situations into compromise and agreement instead of widening gaps between cooperation and friendship.
Next is learning to see from others perspectives, and being accepting of others opinions/wants/needs. You mentioned this in your weakness section how you get into heated disagreements easily if people hold an opposing view. While it's really cool and makes you feel good to make that amazing comment that utterly destroys another person's view, that isn't how you want to treat others. Back to managing people, learn how to keep situations from escalating. Transparently analyze situations from someone else's perspective. Find out why they think their opinion is the best, then use the same thought process, and if you still believe differently; then, explain your view.
I may come back and edit more into this comment later, but this is the last time I'm offering help with any of your future applications. You have to start taking advice that anyone gives you; I'm not going to waste more time trying to give you advice when you are not going through with any of it.
-1 for now. Good luck!
SuperDyl, iKitten, riri30 and 3 others like this.
Dude, you have your own server and it's not some private server that you play on with just your amigos.
I'm 100% sure that it would be very unprofessional of you to try to be a helper on Meepcraft and try to grow your own server at the same time. Either get rid of your server or don't apply for helper. I don't really appreciate your attitude either.
Toastie, SuperDyl, OneBreadSlice and 6 others like this.
I understand you'd like to give back to the server but you're most fit to being a player. Assist people without the rank and don't be a part of most negative situations that happen on the server.
You said it for me, cheers love.
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+1, even though you might be controversial (like me), you were a good mayor in Aurora while it lasted.
And not trying to get off topic or ruin the server's reputation, but its (Meep's) current user population is visibly starting to decline.
What is that latter point intended to accomplish? This server has 17 staff members in total. Though some are inactive, that means there are basically more staff members total than there are players on the server at any given time, statistically. Doesn't that mean we should want less staff members rather than more? Nuker isn't one of those rare cases of an exceptionally mature or well-suited candidate - literally the opposite - so why would we need him as yet another helper? Seems to me like you're just voting yes because of perceived similarities between you and him.
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Hello Nuker. Unfortunately we have decided to deny this application. If you would like information regarding the reasons for this denial and tips for the future, please message me on any platform, and I will respond as soon as possible, thanks!


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