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Caffeine boost in cancer battle.
British scientists have found that coffee and chocolate could form the basis of new drugs to treat cancer, heart disease and inflammation.
Caffeine boost in cancer battleCoffee and chocolate could form the basis of new drugs to treat cancer, heart disease and inflammation, British scientists say. As reported in CNN Online,Scientists at University College London have found that caffeine and a related molecule called theophylline can block an enzyme that is crucial for cell growth, Reuters reports.
Thus modified forms of caffeine could possibly be used in the future to stop uncontrolled cell growth in cancer or prevent blood clots which cause heart attack and strokes. Caffeine and theophylline are both found in coffee, tea, cola drinks and chocolate.
"Alongside possible advances in cancer treatment, this research suggests that caffeine type drugs could be used to treat heart disease and inflammatory illnesses," Professor Peter Shepherd and his colleagues said in a statement. But the researchers said chocolate and coffee were not cures for cancer and warned people against overdosing on caffeine. "The message to the general public is not to overdose on chocolate or coffee. Caffeine has well/known side effects that make it inappropriate for drug use," Shepherd said. "The study relied on using high concentrations of caffeine that would be unhealthy for human use," he added.
"The next stage of our research will be to develop compounds which mimic the structure of caffeine but without its negative effects." The researchers used genetically engineered insect cells to produce an enzyme called p110 delta, which is crucial for cell growth.
Their report in the Journal of Biological Chemistry said caffeine and theophylline blocked the enzyme's function. P110 delta is found mostly in white blood cells, so it could be particularly useful in treating cancers like leukaemia and for inhibiting white blood cells that cause inflammation, Shepherd told Reuters. Theophylline has been used for years as an asthma drug, but nobody really knew how it worked, he said.
The enzyme is one of a group of molecules known as PI 3/kinases, which has become a focus of interest for major pharmaceutical companies.
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We will be hosting a KitPvP Tournament on Saturday 7th July!
To enter you must sign up (more information below). Matches will be 1v1 and the setup that will be used will be the Soup++ kit. This will consist of a full set of diamond armor, a diamond sword [Sharpness I ], full inventory of soups, and Speed 2.
You must sign up for this tournament ahead of time, by listing your in-game name below in this thread. This so we can be sure that you are entered for this event and so there will be no mess ups on the bracket setup. I will be sending a PM on the forums 24 hours beforehand to be sure you are still able to make the day. The final day to sign up will be Thursday 5th July 23:59 PM EST and the brackets will be released on Friday after everyone has confirmed that they are able to make it or not.
Matches will be refereed by a staff member. Matches will be based on a one duel elimination style with the final game being a best of 3. If you are unable to make it please PM me on the forums or Discord.
How do I participate? After signups close, we will post a thread stating everyone's match times. Once that goes live, you will be expected to arrive within 20 minutes of your time. Please enter your name on this thread below so we know who to put down and set up the brackets!
Best of luck to all planning on entering!
Also just a question, what do I do if I'm unable to make the match time that I'm given (e.g 6est). Surely it would be a good idea to ask everyones favoured match times so you can work from there so that doesn't happen, only a suggestion though.
I will pm and see what times work best for everyone.


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WTF? Woman Dies Because She is Too Fat to Fly
by Dreux Dougall — Nov 28, 2012
What would you do if you were told you were too fat to fly?
Well this was the exact dilemma that 56-year-old Vilma Soltesz faced after trying to return back to New York after a trip overseas to her native hometown of Hungary. Vilma, who weighed 425-pounds, was also confined to a wheelchair because she only had one leg. Yet, she and her husband, Janos, made the trip to Hungary safely through Delta and KLM airways after a flight attendant booked two seats for Vilma to ensure that she had proper space.
But the problems really began when Vilma, who suffered from an onslaught of issues including obesity, diabetes, and kidney disease, was told by three different airlines that it was not "physically possible" for her to fly back home.
According to KLM spokesperson, Ellen van Ginkel, there was no solution.
"It appeared on the passenger's return that it was not physically possible for her to board the aircraft, despite every effort made by KLM to this end. A seat or belt extender did not offer a solution, either."
What? How or why they could seat her leaving the country, but not coming back in, makes no sense.
After another failed attempt, she and her husband tried a third time to board the Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to New York on October 22.
Again, they was rebuffed after claims that they could not get her into a seat belt.
Nils Haupt, a Lufthansa spokesman tried to explain, "We had 140 passengers on board, and they had connections and needed to travel. The question was never the seat belt. The question was the mobility of the passenger."
To make matters worse, while Vilma was dealing with all of this rigmarole within the airways, she had an appointment with her physician in New York. She and her husband were forced to return back to their home in Hungary, and in a sickening turn of events, since neither Vilma nor her husband trusted any doctors there, she could not get the treatment that she needed. Vilma's husband found her dead two days later. She suffered from kidney failure.
After 33 years together, her grieving husband had this to say, ""I'm lonely now. Wherever I am going, I am just going alone. I am missing her a lot."
How absolutely devastating.
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This doesn't make sense. You are right. If she could fly out, why couldn't arrangements be made to fly back in?
Maybe… she gained a lot of weight in between?
@Renee: To my understanding she did gain weight. I think she gained 40lbs in one month.
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They didn't go to the hospital because they didn't trust the doctors?! Well you don't have much of a choice when you can't make your flight because you can't fit in the plane. They drove to Frankfurt, why not go to a doctor there? Last time I checked they had lots hospitals in Europe. This woman's death in not the fault of the airlines but rather her and her husband. In the full story, to get her on to the first plane they had to load her in with a forklift.FORKLIFT! And at one of the airports they didn't have the equipment needed to load her into the plane. She should have never been allowed to fly anyway.
She died because of her obesity and its associated diseases and because she denied herself of medical care due to her own bias. The airline has no liability.
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Personalized Treatment Is Paramount in Colorectal Cancer
Erica DiNapoli
Colorectal cancer (CRC) treatment has entered an era that is both exciting and challenging, according to Nilofer S. Azad, MD, who emphasized that as new strategies continue to be explored, treatment decisions should be informed by tumor location, the alterations present, and tolerability.
"In CRC, a number of emerging therapies are being explored in the third-line setting, which underscores the importance of referring patients to clinical trials early and often," said Azad. "Notably, when selecting for second- and third-line treatment, we must pay close attention to whether a patient's tumor is right- or left-sided."
Beyond tumor sidedness, the identification of actionable alterations is also important, said Azad, as several options are now available for use. For example, patients who have KRAS wild-type disease can be given EGFR inhibitors, while those with BRAF mutations, can be given BRAF/EGFR combinations. Regorafenib (Stivarga) and TAS-102 (trifluridine/tipiracil; Lonsurf) have also entered the treatment arsenal.
In an interview with Oncology Nursing News' sister publication, OncLive® during the 2020 Institutional Perspectives in Cancer webinar on Gastrointestinal Malignancies, Azad, an associate professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Developmental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Program at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, spotlighted recent advances made in CRC care, the significance of tumor sidedness in informing treatment decisions, and emerging efforts that seek to propel progress even further.
OncLive®: What are some of the recent advances that have been made in CRC?
Azad: CRC has entered a new era that is both exciting and challenging. We're starting to make some real inroads in bringing down the incidence of the disease through excellent screening [practices] and more awareness of these efforts. A couple of new drugs have also been approved in the past few years for patients with advanced disease; these were the first few approvals that we have seen after [utilizing] the same tools for over a decade.
[Despite this progress], we're seeing that in the vast majority of patients with advanced disease, our newer approvals are only modestly beneficial. We're happy that there is benefit [with these agents] and that patients are living longer, but we definitely have more [work to do] before we are able to turn this into a truly chronic illness. Those are some of the challenges that we are still [faced with] but we are [developing a much better] understanding of what CRC is and how we can target it better.
How is tumor sidedness being used to inform treatment decisions?
For many years, it has been clear that right-sided CRC is more aggressive and resistant; this has been shown in many large epidemiological studies that evaluated the difference [in outcomes] between [those with] right- versus left-sided tumors.
As such, we knew that there was something biologically different about these cancers; however, it was not translating back to the way we treated patients. It was just something that we considered prognostically, but we [used] the same treatment options for both sides.
About 5 years ago, a series of important trials came out that demonstrated that these tumors are not only biologically different; they should be treated differently, as well. As such, now, when a patient has right- versus left-sided CRC, some data suggest that they may benefit from more aggressive chemotherapy.
Additionally, if a patient does not have a KRAS, BRAF or NRAS alteration and they have left-sided CRC, they may benefit more from EGFR inhibitors in the first-line setting for metastatic disease. Meanwhile, for patients with right-sided disease, that is not the case.
Speaking of using the presence of alterations to inform decisions, could you speak to the significance of germline testing in CRC?
The most common hereditary cancer syndrome is Lynch syndrome or hereditary nonpolyposis CRC. This is present in 1% to 2% of patients but is still the most common. That is the syndrome that we now know, in advanced cancers, is extremely sensitive to immunotherapy. There are other cancer types and other hereditary syndromes that are even more uncommon but, if you go to a genetics counselor, they will test broadly for all of these. Patients with strong family histories of many cancers over many generations should be tested, along with those who are younger. Although they have a low chance of having a hereditary syndrome, people who are diagnosed under the age of 50 should be assessed.
Moving to the third-line setting, what are some of the options that have emerged?
We have multiple third-line options available for patients. Patients who have KRAS wild-type disease can receive agents that target EGFR. For patients who have a BRAF mutation, there are combinations therapies that actually target these mutations comprised of a BRAF inhibitor and an EGFR inhibitor. For garden-variety CRC that does not fall into one of those subsets, we have regorafenib and TAS-102. These agents are relatively new, but we continue to gain more experience with them.
In your own practice, how do you choose between regorafenib and TAS-102 in the third- and fourth-line settings?
I have found that this [decision] is very provider dependent. If you look at both of these drugs, they have overlapping survival curves. In terms of the clinical benefits they provide, they're very similar. On the other hand, everyone has a different sense of how easy it is to dose these drugs and how well patients tolerate them.
I find TAS-102 to be far more tolerable, so I start with this agent. We now have data from a small study [showing the benefit of] the combination of TAS-102 with bevacizumab (Avastin), which is an approach that I use in my practice. This was not a large, randomized phase 3 trial, but it was a randomized trial nonetheless.
In the initial study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and led to the approval of the agent, investigators looked at how long patients were able to maintain their fitness and performance status; that was not done with regorafenib. Compared with those who received placebo, patients who were given TAS-102 felt better for a longer period of time. I find these data to be very convincing.
How do the safety profiles of TAS-102 and regorafenib differ?
TAS-102 is a more traditional chemotherapy agent in both the way it works and the adverse effects (AEs) that patients experience. Common AEs include fatigue and low blood counts.
Regorafenib is a multi-kinase TKI; thus, its safety profile is much broader. Some of the common AEs include fatigue, nausea, hepatitis, diarrhea, and rash. Although there are many AEs, patients will not experience all of them.
What ongoing research efforts are you most excited about?
There is a lot of exciting research being done in CRC. For example, several immunotherapy strategies are being utilized in an attempt to make [this approach] work for the vast majority of patients [with CRC]. There are also emerging targeted agents that are hitting molecular [alterations] that are found in CRC. Finally, several new chemotherapy agents are also being explored.
Some of these research efforts are going to pan out while others will not. Even so, all of this work is equally exciting and truly emphasizes the importance of enrolling patients onto clinical trials [to continue to move the needle].
This article was originally published on OncLive as, "CRC Treatment Enters New Era Where Personalized Care Is King."
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Aggies will not participate in TaxSlayer Gator Bowl
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Due to a combination of COVID-19 issues within the Texas A&M football program, as well as season-ending injuries, the Aggie football roster is not in a position to safely participate in the upcoming Dec. 31 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl against Wake Forest.
"It is unfortunate, but we just don't have enough scholarship players available to field a team," Aggie head football coach Jimbo Fisher said.
"It is heartbreaking for our players, coaches, staff and fans that we are not able to play in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl," Texas A&M Director of Athletics Ross Bjork said. "Post-season football is the pinnacle of the season and when the opportunity is lost, it hurts on many levels. As we have learned in the last 21 months of this health challenge, the well-being and safety of our student-athletes is paramount. Our players poured their heart and soul into this season and we appreciate their dedication as Aggies. Aggie football is on track for long-term success and we know that the best is yet to come."
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Arizona Audit Making History
Opinion: C-VINE Contributor
The Arizona audit is the first of its kind in the history of U.S. elections. Special equipment is being used to validate each and every ballot. The Deep State never saw this coming!
Everything is being audited by individuals not associated with the Government nor the voting maching companies.
The Democrats are trying stop the audit. Why? Will the media accurately report the findings?
We know to focus on the audit. This is where all eyes should be.
Arizona AG Rejects Secretary of State's Call for Probe of GOP-Led Maricopa County Vote Audit
Some of the 2.1 million ballots cast during the 2020 election, are brought in for recounting at a 2020 election ballot audit ordered by the Republican lead Arizona Senate at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, during a news conference Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Phoenix. The equipment used in the November election won by President Joe Biden and the 2.1 million ballots were moved to the site Thursday so Republicans in the state Senate who have expressed uncertainty that Biden's victory was legitimate can recount them and audit the results. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
BY TOM OZIMEK
April 27, 2021, Updated: April 27, 2021
Arizona's attorney general has rejected the state's top election official's call for an investigation into possible irregularities in a Republican-led audit of 2020 election results.
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, on Friday wrote a letter to Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich, citing media reports of security lapses at the audit site and calling for a probe into "potential violations of Arizona's elections laws in connection with the Senate's 'audit' of the Maricopa County election materials."
Brnovich responded in a letter Friday, saying Hobbs provided "no facts" to warrant a probe, calling her references to reports "speculation insufficient to support the request for an official investigation."
Arizona's GOP-led Senate has waged a legislative and legal battle to audit the 2020 election results in Maricopa County, the state's most populous county where Democrat votes anchored President Joe Biden's win in Arizona, which flipped blue in the presidential race for just the second time in 72 years.
While several reviews of election results have found no issues that would overturn Biden's narrow win in Arizona, questions about the legitimacy of the presidential election have swirled, with Senate Republicans insisting on their own audit to allay any doubts and restore confidence in the integrity of the vote.
A poll worker sorts ballots inside the Maricopa County Election Department in Phoenix, Ariz., on Nov. 5, 2020. (Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images)
To conduct the audit, Republicans who control the state Senate hired Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based cybersecurity firm that Hobbs took aim at in a Monday interview on The Choice, saying the company "has no auditing experience, no election experience, and they're clearly just making this up as they go along."
In a tweet, Hobbs also said that "Local reporting yesterday made it clear that @FannKfann and her Cyber Ninjas have not implemented sufficient security to protect the integrity of election equipment and ballots," referring to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican who has been at the forefront of the audit.
Fann, in a brief comment last week, said that the ballots are protected by bonded and certified 24-hour security forces, kept in locked cages and a public live stream is on 24 hours a day, reported The Associated Press.
Real-time camera footage of Maricopa County's large-scale audit of the 2020 election, Maricopa County, Ariz. (Screenshot/The Epoch Times)
Hobbs announced in a tweet on Monday that she had filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit filed by the Arizona Democrat Party against Fann, with the Secretary of State saying she "provided declarations from election experts regarding the audit's lack of security, procedure, and transparency."
The Arizona Democratic Party filed the lawsuit last week (pdf), seeking to stop the audit.
Kelli Ward, Chair of the Arizona Republican Party, questioned the Democrats' lawsuit in a statement on Thursday. "The Democrats are STILL trying to stop the Maricopa County audit and defy the AZ Senate subpoena. What are they hiding? Hearing tomorrow on this ridiculous temporary restraining order," she wrote on Twitter.
The Arizona Senate said that its "broad and detailed" audit "will validate every area of the voting process" and includes, but is not limited to, scanning all the ballots, a full hand recount, auditing the voter registration and votes cast, the vote counts, and the electronic voting system.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors had previously resisted Senate subpoenas to turn over election equipment for the audit and repeatedly maintained that there were no issues with the conduct of the 2020 election.
Mimi Nguyen-Ly contributed to this report.
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Mathematical sciences might offer eye care providers insight into better treatment options for dry eye as part of a study to model ocular tear fluid movement.
Until the day comes where we cure our patients, we don't stop research.
Research published in the May 6 edition of Physics of Fluids, titled "Tear Film Dynamics with Evaporation, Wetting and Time-Dependent Flux Boundary Condition on an Eye-Shaped Domain," presented a mathematical model to simulate the direction tear film travels when entering the eye from the lacrimal glands to better understand basic tear dynamics.
The model was incorporated into a computer program that was able to accurately recreate the flow of tears on the ocular surface across the open eye that were observed in the clinical setting. The next step for the research team is to simulate dynamics of tears in a blinking eye.
Kara Maki, assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT's) School of Mathematical Sciences and study contributor, stated in an RIT news release that studying basic tear fluid movements will help spur better understanding of what goes wrong in patients with dry eye, and could ultimately lead to potential cures.
"The nice thing about having a model is that you can make unrealistic things happen," Maki stated. "For example, we can flood the eye and see where the tears go. Or we can look at what happens when the drainage holes are plugged. Where does the fluid go? You can start to explore these things in a safe way."
The material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.
A common, often chronic condition, dry eye affects nearly 5 million people ages 50 and older in the United States, according to the National Eye Institute. Of those, nearly 3 million are women—a prevalence primarily due to the hormonal changes associated with menopause.
Still, millions more Americans suffer lesser symptoms of dry eye, such as irritating or burning sensations that prove more than simply bothersome. Advanced stages of dry eye can go as far as causing vision-impairing damage to the surface of the eye, and while current treatments aim to restore normal tear amounts to minimize discomfort and maintain ocular health, there remains no cure.
Andrew Morgenstern, O.D., AOA New Technology Committee member, says dry eye is one of the most common eye diseases that optometrists diagnose, and likewise, there's rarely much time elapsed before new dry eye research is published in an optometric journal.
The mathematical sciences research, whether it proves effective or not, stands out for the simple reason that it's taking a look at a common problem from a different perspective.
"Many successful projects have been created because they took an outside look at the status quo," Dr. Morgenstern says. "While [the research] may not prove successful, it is certainly a worthwhile evaluation of data because you never know what you will find."
And when it comes to research that can improve the visual health and quality of life for patients afflicted by dry eye, Dr. Morgenstern welcomes the work. After all, it matters little prescribing the best glasses or contact lenses if insufficient tear film keeps a patient from seeing clearly.
"The tear film is a major component of the happiness of the patient, and we haven't solved it yet, because there are still patients who suffer," Dr. Morgenstern says. "Until the day comes where we cure our patients, we don't stop research."
Find dry eye materials, such as fact sheets and other resources, in the AOA Marketplace. In the meantime, doctors can guide their patients to learn more about their condition at aoa.org/patients-and-public.


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Leinster House
Leo Varadkar
louise o'reilly
Mary-Lou McDonald
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'The Dáil is no Westminster - but it certainly is a boys' club'
We spoke to female TDs and ministers past and present about the issue.
By Christina Finn Tuesday 7 Nov 2017, 7:10 AM
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THE DÁIL IS no Westminster, but it certainly is a boys' club: that's the view of some current female TDs - and former Tánaiste Joan Burton.
Their comments came after Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was criticised for his response when he was asked if Leinster House was a safe place to work.
Varadkar managed to deflect the blame for macho-ism onto the political parties of the left.
"That is not to say there isn't macho behaviour on occasion, in the Oireachtas, there certainly is, but I have spoken myself in the past about how very often when you're trying to conduct normal business in the Dáil you're interrupted and shouted down constantly," he said, before adding:
But that is largely perpetrated by men and women of Sinn Féin and the left rather than men specifically.
His response sparked a backlash from two female Sinn Féin TDs, who said the discussion of sexual harassment is not the time to be taking political "pot shots" at the opposition.
"These are very serious issues and it is disgraceful that the Taoiseach would view such matters through the prism of political advantage," said the party's deputy leader, Mary Lou McDonald.
"This is not the first time that the Taoiseach has sought to play to his gallery when matters of significance are raised with him. It happens daily. Women inside and outside the Dáil deserve more from the head of government."
'Boys' club'
While McDonald said Leinster House is very much a "boys' club", it does not appear to have the same dark undercurrent that has been revealed at Westminster, where there has been a raft of sexual harassment allegations.
"I don't feel it is very toxic in the Oireachtas in the same way that it is playing out in Westminster. That is not my sense of it," said McDonald.
"It is a boys' club. Sure how could it not be when you look at the numbers," she said, adding it is important to begin to ask questions and look at ourselves and the cultures that operate within workplaces.
"People know I am well able to handle the cut and thrust and the heckling. This isn't about women being 'cry babies' or 'why us?' This is about any woman who might have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace being able to speak out," she said.
"Outrageous" is how Louise O'Reilly dubbed the Taoiseach's response, adding that having worked in trade unions in the past she acknowledges there can be a level of sexism in all workplaces. However, she said strong leadership on the issue can stamp it out – leadership which she said that the Taoiseach is lacking on this topic.
'Slap in the face'
"That response feels like a slap in the face to any woman that raises the issue of sexual harassment… it is very unbecoming," she added.
The Taoiseach's remarks came on the same day in which Junior Minister Mary Mitchell O'Connor spoke out against sexism in our national parliament.
She was asked if she had ever experienced sexual harassment in the Oireachtas.
She said she had not.
But when asked about bullying, such as women being put down at meetings and their voices not being listened to as much as their male counterparts, she said:
I certainly have, I would believe there is sexism in the Dáil, I have said that before. I also believe there is a revolution happening, women want their voices heard in the arts, in industry, in education and in politics.
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Due to the serious allegations in the UK parliament, it was only a matter of time before similar questions were asked of Irish politicians.
The Houses of the Oireachtas moved swiftly, putting proposals on the table to introduce a new set of policies on dealing with sexual misconduct allegations by staff at Leinster House.
The issue is also due to be raised by the Houses of the Oireachtas commission in the coming weeks.
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Labour's Joan Burton agreed with McDonald last night, saying that the Dáil is the "archetypal male club".
"There is a culture problem – whereby men feel powerful and women do not feel empowered," she told TheJournal.ie.
In 2010, the former Taoiseach Brian Cowen came under fire when he told the then-Labour party leader Eamon Gilmore to "rein her (Joan Burton) in now and again".
When asked about it now, she said: "That was the culture at the time. It was a case of 'can you ever shut her up'. There is still a feeling of a boys' club, notwithstanding the fact there are more women in the Dáil, but it is not a situation of empowerment in women."
Burton said there are still a lot of "traditional" men in Leinster House, as she put it, who might think it is okay to "pat women on the head". She said there is still an element of "typecasting" women in some cases, but added that the vast majority of men in the Dáil see women as equal. However, "from time to time, they can fall bad of that".
What is required now is a code of respect for all – women and men, said Burton. While anger is part of politics, she said there should be robust debate where people can express themselves and not in a "derogatory way".
The Dublin TD said there are times when men are "less patient, have less regard and have less respect when women are speaking".
'The Dáil is no Westminster'
A number of female TDs have told TheJournal.ie they would be very surprised if allegations similar to those in Westminster emerged from Leinster House.
However, it was generally acceptable to most that certain "commentary" by male politicians around women's appearances or their intelligence can be commonplace.
"Commentary is made, but it is not done so maliciously. It is done more to infantalise women," said one TD.
"We live in a very sexist society," said another, who added that they had never been sexually harassed in the Dáil, but said passing comments had been made.
One said it was more a case of "man-splaining" to women in Leinster House, while another described it as very much a "golf club" mentality at play.
"I have never experienced anything like that," Fianna Fáil's Defence spokesperson, Lisa Chambers told TheJournal.ie.
She welcomed the fact that women are now speaking out across many industries. "I don't think it should be about vilifying all men," she added.
Solidarity-PBP TD Brid Smith said she has never been propositioned or harassed in Leinster House, but said she has suffered sexual harassment in other jobs she has held.
"I wouldn't say the Dáil is overtly sexist," she added.
'Lapgate'
It is not the first time that the words 'sexism' and 'Leinster House' have appeared together in the same headline.
One incident even got its own name: Lapgate.
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This was when, in 2013, Fine Gael TD Tom Barry grabbed his colleague Deputy Áine Collins onto his lap during a break in a debate on abortion legislation.
At the time, a Fine Gael spokesperson said:
It was a silly incident that probably shouldn't have happened, but the two of them are good friends and there was no malice involved.
This was followed by a separate incident in which Senator David Norris told Fine Gael's Regina Doherty TD she was "talking through her fanny".
There was also the case in which Mary Mitchell O'Connor was dubbed "Ms Piggy" by some male colleagues.
Mick Wallace, Shane Ross and Luke Ming Flanagan came under fire after Wallace was recorded in conversation with the TDs during the order of business, unaware that a nearby microphone was recording what he was saying.
In 2010, an allegation of sexism came from the then-Tánaiste Mary Coughlan. Fine Gael's Charlie Flanagan asked her about legislation on reforming company law and when it would be complete.
Coughlan said the Bill was "huge legislation" and was being worked on.
Flanagan retorted: "It's too big for you."
"If the Deputy wishes to throw a condescending, sexist remark across the House, that is fine. It is very much the calibre of Deputy Flanagan but I would expect more from him after all these years in the House," she replied angrily.
A bemused Fine Gael TD Olivia Mitchell asked "where was it sexist?", while James Reilly said: "Talk about imagined slights."
Mary O'Rourke at Leinster House in 1999.
Rewinding a few more years, other utterances in the Dáil have also come under the spotlight, such as when Albert Reynolds said "that's women for you" when heckled by former Justice Minister Nora Owen.
Former Fianna Fáil Minister Mary O'Rourke has also written about her own experiences of sexism during her long career in politics.
When she was a Cabinet minister, the Taoiseach Charlie Haughey would ask if she had been shopping lately or bought any new dresses.
One can only hope that the behaviour of some Westminster MPs was during isolated incidents, and cases that will not be repeated here.
But just because there are no allegations on this side of the water, it does not mean we should stick our heads in the sand when it comes to examining those in powerful positions.
We need to ask those uncomfortable questions and shine a light on the issue that has been left in the dark for far too long.
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Breaking Down Twitter's Flurry Of Streaming Rights Deals
By Ben Rains / July 27, 2016
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Over the last few weeks Twitter has made an array of live steaming deals across a wide range of sports and leagues. The social media giant has secured streaming deals with all four major North American sports leagues – NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL – and the Pac-12 Conference. And they managed to do so in an extremely short amount of time.
We've covered Twitter's rapid entry into the world of live streaming but felt it necessary to fit all of their recent moves into one article.
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In early April Twitter secured a relatively cheep one-year, $10 million deal with the NFL. They will live stream ten Thursday Night Football games during the 2016 season. The live stream coverage will be available for free to a global audience. NBC, CBS and NFL Network will provide the game coverage, but Twitter users do not need to be subscribers in order to watch the games. The television networks will still broadcast and digitally stream all of the Thursday Night games themselves.
Twitter landed the deal after they won a bidding war for the live streaming rights. They have already reportedly secured a large amount of advertising revenue for their TNF streams.
In a purposefully under-sold fashion, Twitter live streamed Wimbledon matches at this year's recently-concluded Championships. With the help of ESPN, Twitter conducted their first ever live streams fora sporting event. The streams were rarely live, and the quality was not the best. But it was their first real test that provided the company a much needed tune-up before their massively important streaming deals begin this fall.
The Pac-12 is a colligate athletics powerhouse. Twitter recently partnered with the conference to live stream over 150 sporting events during the 2016-2017 academic year. The conference's broadcast partner, Pac-12 Plus will provide the broadcasts. The streaming rights do not include the biggest and most profitable colligate sport, football. However, the deal includes the rights to pretty much every other Division 1 sport the conference offers including volleyball, baseball, soccer and track & field.
Campus Insiders
They also just formed a partnership with Campus Insiders and the ACC Digital Network. Twitter will live stream over 300 sporting events from the Mountain West Conference, West Coast Conference and the Patriot League. The deal also includes streaming video, highlights and breaking news all of which will be provided by Campus Insiders and ACC Digital Network. This partnership is vital because it secures the streaming of college football on Twitter from the Mountain West Conference, the West Coast Conference and the Patriot League.
Twitter also recently landed a live streaming deal with the NBA. The biggest basketball league in the world is also the most popular sports league on Twitter. The deal starts in October, before the 2016-2017 season tips off. It does not included live streaming games. It centers on yet another first for the struggling social media platform, live original programming. The NBA will produce two new shoulder programs exclusively for Twitter. One will be a weekly pre-game show, the second hasn't been announced. The new deal also doubles the number of official NBA highlights that will appear on the app, as well as on Twitter-owned Vine and Periscope.
MLB and NHL
Twitter's deal with MLB and the NHL rounds out their foray into the live streaming sports market for now. They secured the rights to stream broadcasts of out-of-market games for both leagues beginning as early as this fall. The social media giant will stream one game from each league every week. The official schedule hasn't been determined, but it will not include any nationally televised or playoff games. The digital sports network, 120 Sports will also produce a Twitter-only highlight and analysis show called "The Rally" as part of the deal as well.
As of today, Twitter announced a deal with Sky Sports to stream Premier League highlights and goals for the upcoming 2016-17 season. Fans on Twitter and Sky Sports Ireland subscribers will additionally be allowed to view video content in real time for Saturday 3pm games, which are typically not televised.
The social media giant has run into a period of very slow growth in terms of new-user generation. Their stock price has suffered accordingly. Twitter is hoping to use the community aspect of the social media platform to its advantage. The fan engagement on Twitter is often an integral part of the conversation surrounding a particular sporting event these days. Now, the platform that generates and shapes so much of the live sports discussion has the rights to live stream a small portion of those same events.
All of these deals are not created equal. Some will prove to be much more valuable for Twitter in the long run. But, this small window of time in 2016 might one day mark the start of a paradigm shift in how live sports are consumed.
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Coins of the Roman relating to Britain. Described and Illustrated. London, 1844.
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The Whole Works of KIng Alfred the Great: with preliminary essays illustrative of the history, arts and manners of the ninth century. 1852.
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Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Coins. Glendining, April 15, 1946.
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English Medieval Coin Hoards: I. Cross and Crosslets, Short Cross and Long Cross Hoards.
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The Coins and Tokens of the Possessions and Colonies of the British Empire. London, 1889
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Prof. Avi Sagi: Developing New Interpretations of what it means to be Human…and Jewish
Can morality exist without God? What happens when a Jewish convert becomes non-observant? Can Judaism function without a clear definition of the divine? And what does Jewish tradition have to offer in the debate over military ethics? These are questions that occupy the ever-active mind – and many of the nearly 40 books written by – Prof. Avi Sagi, of BIU's Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies.
Sagi's answers may surprise and, in some cases, even shock you. The professor, who has spent his entire 35-year career at Bar-Ilan, including receiving his BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the university, consistently challenges traditional religious assumptions.
Take God and morality, for example. While many might argue that morality necessarily stems from the existence of a Creator, Sagi contends exactly the opposite: morality is entirely autonomous, he says; a precondition, in fact, to being in a covenant with God. Sagi's reasoning is complex – indeed, it's the basis for a book he wrote together with Prof. Daniel Statman – "Religion and Morality" – which has been translated into English. But, as he attempts to summarize it, "morality is on the first floor; Jewish law and ritual are only on the second." And you have to enter through the front door.
Sagi takes a similarly contrarian approach in his insistence that the desire to "define" God is inherently misguided. In his book "Prayer After the Death of God," Sagi claims that Judaism can be understood perfectly well without any theoretical construct of the supernatural. "The question is not whether God is there or not," he explains. "The question is whether the Jewish religion depends on having a developed theory about what is God. And I believe it does not. Faith should not be emphasized over practice."
Sagi's out-of-the-box thinking is academic, to be sure: he founded and heads up Bar-Ilan's Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, which he says aims to "give students the philosophical tools to work on new ways of understanding what it means it means to be human." But there are also numerous real world applications of his work.
The controversy of conversion in Israel is a prime example. Does one need to observe Jewish law in order to convert to Judaism? Sagi says yes, but not for the usually understood reasons. "Becoming a Jew means joining the Jewish nation, not the Jewish religion," he explains in "Conversion and Jewish Identity," a book co-authored with Bar-Ilan Faculty of Law Prof. Zvi Zohar. It's a small but important distinction: if a convert subsequently stops observing Jewish law, he or she cannot be thrown outside the Jewish "nation" as has happened in several high profile cases in recent years where "religion" was the underlying rationale.
Sagi's thoughtful approach reached its most tangible application through his role on the team that rewrote the IDF's Code of Ethics – "the Spirit of the IDF" – to replace the previous work by Tel Aviv University Prof. Asa Kasher. Starting in the mid-1990's, Sagi helped create guidelines that address moral questions in war: how to deal with terrorists who hide among a civilian population; what should be the relationship between men and women serving together.
His conclusion – once again surprising: "Leave the rabbis out of it. Jewish tradition really doesn't give good answers to the new kinds of situations we find ourselves in," he says. "We have the biblical tradition, yes, but I hope no one wants to live by this! Even the great rabbis of the Talmud didn't accept it." Sagi's formulations on morality and modernity play a clear role in his work for the IDF and in his role as academic director of the Military Ethics Research Project at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, another hat the busy 60-year-old wears.
At Bar-Ilan, Sagi teaches classes in both the philosophy department and the interdisciplinary program, which he founded. "Hermeneutics" traditionally referred to the interpretation of written texts, especially those in the areas of literature, religion and law. Its definition has since been expanded to encompass "cultural studies," such as those from Marx, who interprets society from an economic point of view, or Freud who uses psychoanalysis as the main prism.
"Human society is dependent on the creative act of interpretation itself. It's what we humans tell about ourselves," Sagi says. The holistic, interdisciplinary approach of the program, he adds, is the only one of its type in the world. "I receive questions from other universities all the time, who want to learn our model of teaching."
Sagi is nothing if not prolific. His many books cover an expansive philosophical range. Together with Bar-Ilan Prof. Yedidia Stern, the former head of the university's law faculty, Sagi also edits a journal called "Democratic Culture." Somewhere, he finds time to teach as well. This year, his classes include "Identity, Selfhood and Culture," and "Basic Ontological Concepts of Existence in the Existential Tradition."
Whether in the classroom or on the battlefield, Prof. Avi Sagi is undoubtedly working on his next creative interpretation melding Jewish tradition, hermeneutics, classic philosophy, and the challenges of modernity. We'll all come out more enriched because of it.
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A Memorial Tribute to David J. Powell, PhD
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As many of you in the treatment and recovery community may know, Dr. David Powell passed away suddenly on November 1, 2013. Central Recovery Press (CRP) would like to extend our deepest condolences to Dr. Powell's family, friends, and colleagues around the world. Dr. Powell devoted much of his career to training and mentoring addiction professionals, and had a special passion for training, credentialing, systems development, and facilitating recovery support internationally. In recent years, he had done extensive work in China, Turkey, Singapore, and Vietnam.
Bob Gray, Central Recovery Press Publisher, said, "We were excited to have the opportunity to work with someone of Dr. Powell's caliber and are deeply saddened by his death. It was an honor to be associated with him." CRP published Game Plan A Man's Guide to Achieving Emotional Fitness in November of 2012. Game Plan was written for men to provide them with life lessons about living life to the fullest, free from addiction and other self-destructive behaviors. His co-author Alan Lyme, LCSW had this to say, "David was a dear friend and mentor. He helped guide my life personally and professionally for the last ten years, and I will miss him dearly."
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David J. Powell, Ph.D., was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry within the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine.
As President of the International Center for Health Concerns, Inc., he trained on a variety of topics in fifty states and eighty-seven countries worldwide.
He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of ETP, Inc. from 1974–1999, providing employee assistance program services to 200 corporations. ETP also established and managed the Clinical Preceptorship Program, a comprehensive clinical supervision system, for the US Navy and Marine Corps, at 100 military bases worldwide.
From 1976–1999, David served on the editorial boards of four professional journals, including The Clinical Supervisor.
He was the author of ten professional books, including Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling, which is the major text on the subject for the substance abuse field. He was chair of Treatment Improvement Protocol #52, published in 2009 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. He authored two books specific to men's issues, Playing Life's Second Half: A Man's Guide for Turning Success to Significance, and the 2012 co-authored Game Plan: A Man's Guide to Achieving Emotional Fitness.
He served on advisory boards at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins University.
He assisted in establishing clinical supervision systems for most of the major substance abuse treatment centers in the US.
A memorial service for Powell was held on Saturday, Nov. 23 at South Congregational Church in Granby, Conn.
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Australian metalcore band Make The Suffer is back with a brand new music video that got released today via Rise Records, 7th of June. After their huge succes with the album 'Old Souls' they are finally back. Today they announced their upcoming album 'Worlds Apart' which will get released on the 28th of July. Not only did they make this massive announcement they also gave us a song named "Fireworks". I have been an enormous fan of this band since their album 'Neverbloom' which is just full of raw emotions and this song is just as good. If you haven't checked it out yet I highly recomment you to! After their demo and EP 'Lord Of Woe' they started to gain more and more attention from metal lovers all of over world. I haven't heard of a single bad Australian band yet and this one won't break that cycle. Make Them Suffer is with ease the best metalcore act from Australia!
After just a second you already know that you are in for a good one. You are always in for a positive suprise with Make Them Suffer and today will just be added to that. This time they really surpassed themselves. The music video is beautiful and the storyline is touching. This is just what we all need after a long day of stress caused by school, work or something else. Recently their has been a lot of song and album releases but this one I am without a doubt looking looking forward to the most. Let's not waste any more time! Check the just released song "Fireworks" out right below!
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Q: Monte Carlo Simulation In Python instead of HSPICE Suppose I have a resistor and I want to simulate process variation on it.
When I was reading online, I noticed that Monte Carlo simulation is used for this purpose. I also noticed that HSPICE has this option.
However, I like to use Python for this purpose. I wanted to generated different resistance using Python random number generator (such as Gaussian distribution). I was wondering if these two methods (HSPICE or Python) are conceptually the same procedure.

A: As long as you can accurately simulate the effects of the resistance variation in Python, yes.
Monte Carlo simulation isn't a SPICE thing -- its a general simulation thing that tends to get used a lot in SPICE because it happens to be a good way of predicting whether a circuit board design will work in practice.

A: Simulating one resistor is easy, but you're typically looking for the effect that variation has on a functional circuit. If you can describe the transfer function of the parameters you want to look at relative to the parameter(s) you want to vary, you can do it in any programming language. For something simple like this divider, it's not difficult to work out, but it's far easier to let the software work that out on a more complex circuit. (This one is in LTSpice, with Gaussian distributions used rather than the mc function that uses a flat distribution)

A: Yes you can. No they are not the same.
a) You have to model your circuit in python, using transfer function rules (e.g. for voltage dividers, opamps etc...), and vary the components (randomly) to update the transfer function.
OR
b) generate a spice netlist with selected (random) component values and run it in spice. This is not efficient, as you generate a new netlist for each case, but gives you most control through Python and the easiest circuit analysis through spice.
Using the transfer function approach is not the same as performing circuit analysis. Although both will arrive at the same outcome for linear circuits, any non-linearity (e.g. semiconductors, inductor core saturation) is not captured in the transfer function approach.

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