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The Firm's founding partner, Cindy began her legal career in the Litigation Department of the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in its New York office. After leaving Milbank, she spent more than a decade working at large New York and New Jersey law firms, where she was trained by some of the top legal minds in this country. In 2006, she founded The Salvo Law Firm.
Ms. Salvo is a dynamic, talented litigator who has appeared in the federal and state courts of New Jersey and New York. She is also admitted to practice in the District of Colorado, and recently represented her client in a jury trial in the Middle District of Florida. (The jury deliberated only 12 minutes before finding in favor of her client!) She has represented a wide range of clients – from major financial institutions in multi-million dollar litigations to small business owners in contract disputes, to individual clients injured as a result of employment discrimination or someone's negligence.
Cindy also has a very active practice defending the nation's debt collection agencies against individual and class actions brought pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA"). Ms. Salvo was selected by the New Jersey State Bar Association to be its "on camera instructor" for an FDCPA webinar. In addition, she will be updating the FDCPA section of the NJSBA's book, Collection Practice" for 2013. Ms. Salvo has also served as an instructor for the National Business Institute.
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Cindy has published the following articles: "The Doctrine of Inequitable Coercion Under Delaware Law," "Liability for Persons Signing SEC Disclosure Documents," and "Technological Dinosaur: Why It's Time To Update The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act" – all in the New York Law Journal. She also has published "Collection Efforts and the 30-Day Validation Period" in Collection Advisor Magazine. Ms. Salvo is a co-author of the book, "The Road to Independence: 101 Women's Journeys to Starting Their Own Law Firms," as well as "Untying the Knot: Your Guide to a Successful New Jersey Divorce."
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KNIFE CRISIS
Tragic picture of stabbed footballer, 26, lying in coffin that his mum wants you to see
'Selfless' Barty Brown was weeks away from donating a kidney to his sick aunt
By Sophie Jane Evans
IT IS a harrowing and upsetting image, but one that grieving mum Tammy Brown wants you to see as Britain's knife crime epidemic continues.
In every parent's worst nightmare, she watched her son Russell 'Barty' Brown - pictured here lying in his coffin - take his last breath after he was stabbed to death outside a flat in east London in 2016.
Barty's brave mum, Tammy, wants you to see this picture of her son lying in his coffinCredit: Supplied
As official figures released today show knife offences across England and Wales have hit record levels, mum Tammy, 53, exclusively tells Sun Online how she told her boy, "I love you" and "sorry I wasn't there when you needed me", as she watched his heart slowly beat to a stop.
Now, three years on, she is bravely sharing an image of 'selfless' Barty, 26, lying in his coffin, dressed in a striped shirt, to raise awareness of the devastating consequences of knife crime.
She hopes the image can persuade youths to not carry knives and save other parents from going through the horrific ordeal she and her husband, also called Russell, have had to.
The 'selfless' footballer smiles beside Tammy, Emma, Ruby, and his dad RussellCredit: Supplied
"Knife crime ruins lives," the school teaching assistant tearfully tells us.
"Not just the life that has been taken - it ruins the lives around them too. When youngsters pick up that knife they don't know the devastation they could cause."
'If you carry a knife, you should serve 10 years'
She adds: "I think if you have got a knife on you, you should have to serve 10 years. Life if you use it. It's the only way you're going to stop these youngsters."
Tammy, from Bow, east London, desperately wants justice for her sonCredit: Supplied
Barty, who would put himself out to help strangers, was stabbed on a housing estate in Bethnal Green on Saturday, September 10, 2016 - but no-one has so far been brought to justice.
Two brothers from the estate were acquitted of his murder at the Old Bailey in 2017.
Six-year-old niece still blows a kiss to the sky
Today, Tammy is so anguished by her loss that she admits she could 'quite easily' take her own life, but she couldn't leave Russell, also 53, and their daughter Emma, 32, behind.
She tells us Emma's six-year-old daughter, Ruby, has also been badly affected by her beloved uncle Barty's death - and refuses to go to bed without blowing a kiss to the sky.
"Every day she talks about him," says the gran. "She says, 'Uncle Barty comes to see me, he tells me you need not to cry."
Barty was adored by his niece - who now refuses to go to bed without blowing a kiss to the sky
Talented footballer Barty, who worked as a welder, was weeks away from donating one of his kidneys to his seriously ill aunt, Tracy Happe, when he died.
Tammy was with her son the day before the stabbing, when he was given a date for surgery to remove the kidney, which he hoped would transform Tracy's life.
'Barty was on top of the world to be an organ donor'
He had been overjoyed to be a match for his aunt, who has no working kidneys and has to undergo dialysis four or five times every week to stay alive.
"Barty would have given her a new lease of life," says Tammy.
"I'll never forget him coming out of the hospital on the Friday.
"He was on top of the world. He would give his left hand if someone needed it."
The operation was scheduled for the beginning of November - but Barty would never make it.
Hours later, he left his family's home in Bow in the middle of the night to visit a pal and didn't come back.
"Barty had promised Ruby a movie day, with popcorn and stuff [on the Saturday]," says Tammy, who was looking after her granddaughter that day.
"I kept leaving him messages saying 'Ruby is waiting for you, Ruby chose a film for you, it's Snow White, where are you?'"
Barty, who was just 26, is pictured with his sister Emma and niece RubyCredit: Supplied
Mum's anxious messages - then a knock at the door
But as the anxious mum waited to hear back, there was a loud bang on the door.
"That knock - I knew something was wrong," she recalls.
Police entered the property and a shocked Tammy and her husband were blue-lighted to hospital, reluctantly leaving Ruby, then four, behind with officers.
At the Royal London, the worried parents were ushered into a side room, where a doctor told them Barty had been stabbed and was fighting for his life.
"They were doing all they could but as they were putting blood into him it was coming out. They couldn't control the bleed," Tammy says.
Hours later, Tammy, Russell and Emma - who was heavily pregnant with her second child at the time - were called into intensive care by doctors.
'He looked like he had pink hair - I now know what it was'
"They were devastated, you could see the pain in their eyes. They tried so hard," says Tammy.
"They said we didn't have long."
She adds: "I remember saying, 'You have brought me here and that's not my son'. He was very swollen and he looked like he had pink hair. I now know what it was."
They would later learn desperate paramedics had performed open heart surgery at the scene of the stabbing. But sadly, their boy couldn't be saved.
Barty is pictured with his aunt Tracy, whom he was going to donate a kidney toCredit: Supplied
Despite their own agony, Barty's family courageously asked medics whether they could still donate his kidney to his aunt because 'that's what he would have wanted'.
"But his kidneys were the first organs to go," says Tammy. "Then his liver then his lungs then his brain. The heart was the last one to go. We watched it slowly beat to a stop."
'We'll never be the same again'
After Barty's death, his parents couldn't see his body for five-and-a-half weeks as police investigated the stabbing and two young brothers were arrested and charged with murder.
The pair, Grant and Lee Carpenter were later found not guilty following a three-week trial.
Barty's funeral was held in mid-October and attended by more than 1,000 people, with some mourners even having to stand outside the 700-seat church to pay their respects.
His coffin is pictured adorned with Manchester United tributes - his favourite football teamCredit: Supplied
Floral tributes are left to Barty, who had been just weeks away from donating his kidneyCredit: Supplied
Soon after the service, his nephew - Emma's son Billy - was born.
Emma tells us: "Unfortunately he never got to meet my baby boy."
She adds that the day she watched her brother die, 'half of me died too'.
"Although I go on each day it's all a front and I only do so for my children," she says.
Emma was heavily pregnant with her second child when her brother was stabbedCredit: Supplied
"My six-year old daughter sobs and questions why she cant see her Uncle Barty and my two-year-old son only knows his uncle by looking at photos."
As for Tammy, she says her family 'desperately need' justice.
"We'll never ever be the same," she says. "I'd quite easily take my own life but I look at Emma and I couldn't leave her on her own... and how do I leave my husband on his own?"

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Licenses are Required
Any person engaged in fishing, hunting, trapping or taking any wild animals must be properly licensed, except as listed below under exceptions. Wild animals are defined by law as ALL animals, including birds, amphibians, and reptiles, other than domestic animals.
Exceptions to License Requirements
A resident owner of land in Vermont, his or her spouse, and minor children may hunt within the boundary of that land and take fish from a private pond within the boundary of that land without a license within season (except if their right to obtain a license is under suspension, or for seasons requiring a special tag such as moose, antlerless muzzleloader, and waterfowl seasons). A nonresident owner of land has equal privilege if his or her land is NOT posted (except if their right to obtain a license is under suspension). "Posted" means any signage that would lead a reasonable person to believe that hunting is prohibited on the land, except for "Safety Zone" signs.
My License Covers What?
Basic Hunting Licenses include a late season bear tag, and a November season legal buck tag. They also cover small game hunting. Combination licenses include a late season bear tag, November buck tag, small game hunting, and fishing. Add-on licenses are required for early season bear, archery deer season, muzzleloader deer season, and turkey seasons (each with their own tags).
Any resident of Vermont who is serving on active duty in the armed forces of the United States or is performing, or is under orders to perform, a homeland defense or state-side contingency operation for a period of 120 or more consecutive days may obtain at no cost a hunting or fishing license or combination hunting and fishing license.
A person who obtains a license under this provision may keep the license until it expires, whether or not the person continues to serve in the armed forces.
If requesting a hunting or combination license, you also need to submit a copy of your hunter education certification, a previous hunting license, or complete an affidavit stating you have held a hunting license.
A nonresident member of the armed forces of the United States who is on active duty and stationed at a military, air or naval post, station or base within Vermont may buy a license to hunt or fish at the resident fee.
These licenses are available from Vermont Fish & Wildlife offices, license agents and our website.
Any questions on eligibility for military licenses should be directed to 802-828-1190 or [email protected] or sent to:
Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department
Attn: Licensing
1 National Life Drive, Dewey Building
Montpelier, VT 05620-3208
Resident Status
In order to obtain resident licenses, a person must have lived in Vermont for the six months immediately prior to applying for a license and NOT claimed residence elsewhere for any other reason.
An applicant for a resident lifetime license must have been a resident for at least 12 months or must be a dependent of a resident.
A nonresident student who is enrolled in a high school, college or university within the state is entitled to a resident fishing, hunting or combination license.
To qualify, the student must have successfully completed two successive semesters at his or her Vermont secondary school, college or university, must present an admission card, and must pay the resident fee.
Mentored Hunting License
Mentored Hunting licenses are available everywhere licenses are sold.
A mentored hunting license is available to a resident or nonresident who:
Has never successfully completed a hunter safety course.
Has never held a hunting license in Vermont or any other state or province.
A person issued a mentored hunting license may hunt when:
Accompanied by an adult 21 years of age or older who holds a valid Vermont hunting license. In these circumstances, the term "accompanied" means the mentored hunter is in the direct control and supervision of the fully licensed adult hunter and is within 15 feet of the fully licensed adult hunter.
A parent or legal guardian has also signed the license if the applicant is 15 years old or younger.
The licensed adult hunter may take hunting only one person with a mentored hunting license. The licensed adult must have purchased all tags and stamps appropriate for the type of hunting they are participating in (for example, a turkey tag for mentored turkey hunting).
A person holding a mentored hunting license is subject to the bag limit of the fully licensed adult accompanying hunter.
When game is taken by a person holding a mentored hunting license, it shall be deemed taken by the fully licensed adult accompanying hunter.
After tagging and reporting game, if required, a person who holds a mentored hunting license may, unaccompanied by the fully licensed adult hunter, transport game he or she has taken.
There are limitations on a person who holds a mentored hunting license:
A person who holds a mentored hunting license is not eligible to hold a moose permit or accompany moose hunters, or participate in youth and novice turkey and deer hunting weekends.
A person who holds a mentored hunting license who is 16 or older is required to purchase and carry a federal duck stamp in order to hunt waterfowl.
A mentored hunting license shall only be issued twice to any one individual.
Penalties for violations
Fines for a violation of this section or any fish and wildlife law are doubled and assessed against the fully licensed adult hunter accompanying the mentored license hunter. Points for the violation(s) will be assessed against the fully licensed adult hunter.
Permanent Licenses
Any Vermont resident who is 66 or older may apply for a permanent license on our website, at an authorized license agent, at our district offices or through the mail to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife office. Permanent licenses have a one-time fee of $60.
If a permanent license holder wishes to hunt for more than one archery deer, he/she must purchase additional archery licenses. If waterfowl hunting, he/she must also purchase state and federal duck stamps and register with H.I.P. each year.
Permanent licenses do not include duck stamps or entries into the moose and antlerless lotteries or permits.
Permanent licenses must be renewed each year. Renewal is free , but if you choose to go to a license agent, they may charge up to $1.50.
Permanent Disability Licenses
A legally blind person who is a Vermont resident may apply for a free permanent fishing license. Information is available from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife office or our website.
A Vermont resident who is paraplegic or who is certified by a physician to have permanent severe physical mobility disability, may receive a free permanent fishing, hunting or combination license, if qualified, with the proper proof of disability.
"Paraplegic" is a person with permanent paralysis of the lower half of the body with involvement or loss of both legs. A Statement of Disability form is available from the office or our website.
A Vermont resident who is a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, and who is 60% or more disabled due to a service connected disability, may receive a free permanent fishing or combination license, if qualified, upon presentation of a letter from the Veterans Administration specifically indicating the service connected disability rating.
To see if you qualify for this license, call the Licensing office at 802-828-1190. If you meet the requirements, you will need to present a copy of your VA documentation listing your service-connected disability rating. You can obtain a copy of this documentation from benefits.va.gov/benefits. If you qualify for a combination license, you will also receive turkey and muzzleloader deer licenses. If you qualify for an archery license, you will receive one.
Lifetime Licenses
A resident or nonresident lifetime fishing, hunting, or combination fishing and hunting license may be obtained from Vermont Fish & Wildlife. Applications are available on our website or from the main office in Montpelier. Fees are as follows:
for children < 1 year old = 8x current adult license price.
for children 1–15 years old = 16x current adult license price.
for adults 16–24 years old = 31x current adult license price.
Lifetime and Permanent License Renewal
If you intend to hunt, fish, or trap this year, you must update by reprinting your lifetime, permanent disability, or permanent license regardless of whether or not you used your tags. This statutory requirement has been put in place to allow the department to collect accurate harvest and licensing information for lifetime licenses.
This updated license will include current year tags. You may update your license at no cost on-line at our website www.vtfishandwildlife.com. If you are unable to go online you may go to any authorized license agent or Vermont Fish & Wildlife office and request to have your license updated. You can also call us at 802-828-1190 to be updated. A license agent may charge you up to $1.50 for a reprint.
Requirements for Hunting, Combination Hunting and Fishing, Archery & Trapping Licenses
An applicant for a hunting, combination hunting and fishing, archery, or trapping license must present either:
A previous or current hunting, combination, archery or trapping license from Vermont or any state or Canadian province; or
A certificate or a letter of proof showing satisfactory completion of an approved hunter safety, archery, or trapping education course from Vermont or any other state or province; or
Completed affidavit attesting to having a prior hunting, combination, archery, or trapping license from Vermont or any other state or province.
A person under age 16 must have his or her parent or guardian sign to obtain a hunting license.
NOTE—State firearms laws, found at 13 V.S.A. Sect. 4017, prohibit certain individuals, including those convicted of felonies or any domestic violence offense, those subject to a final relief from abuse order and unlawful users of controlled substances from possessing centerfire and rimfire firearms , including muzzleloaders with #209 primers. For a complete list of prohibitions, contact the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at 802-865-4020.
Hunter Education Courses
A list of upcoming hunter education courses is available at www.vtfishandwildlife.com or by calling 802-828-1193.
License Possession
Appropriate licenses must be carried while hunting, fishing, trapping or transporting fish, game or furbearers. The licenses must be exhibited on demand of a State Game Warden or other enforcement officer, or the owner of the land on which such person is hunting, fishing or trapping. See 10 V.S.A. Sect. 4266. An electronic or digital copy of the license is acceptable. Tags are required to be carried while big game hunting. Minor children who are hunting must still carry a paper license signed by their parent.
License Revocation
10 V.S.A. Sect. 4502—the "Uniform Point System"—provides that hunting, fishing and trapping licenses will be revoked based on the number of points received when a person is convicted of violating a fish or wildlife law.
For 10 to 14 points accumulated in 5 years: 1 year suspension
For 20 points or more accumulated in 5 years: 3 year suspension
Conviction of carelessly or negligently wounding a person by gunshot, or manslaughter by the careless and negligent use of firearms, will, by statute, revoke the hunting license privilege or the right to obtain such license for five years.
It is illegal to hunt, fish or trap while a license or right to obtain a license is under suspension in Vermont or any other state that is a member of the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact.
Landowners may not hunt, fish or trap on their land if their license is suspended.
Up to $4,000 and additional suspension period and up to 60 days in jail.
Remedial Course
A person whose license is revoked with 15 or more points accumulated in five years must successfully complete a remedial course designed to teach hunters, trappers and anglers correct legal and ethical behavior while hunting, trapping and fishing.
Suspension Per Family Court Orders
Vermont hunting, fishing and trapping licenses and permits may be suspended for failure to comply with child support orders of the Family Court. (15 V.S.A. Sect. 798(b)).
Buying Your License
We offer three easy ways to purchase your license:
1. Online at www.vtfishandwildlife.com
The online license buying process is easy. You will need:
Acrobat Reader on your computer. You can download the free Acrobat Reader software from our website.
A credit card. We accept Visa, MasterCard , or Discover for payment.
Have your Conservation Identification Number or CID # ready. You can look up your Conservation ID on the website or find it on your previous license.
Be sure to check that your personal information, such as your address, is up to date every time you buy a license.
To purchase a hunting, combination, archery or trapping license:
You must have held a previous hunting, combination, archery or trapping license in Vermont, any other state or Canada or have passed a state-approved safety course. You may complete the license affidavit form certifying that you have held this type of license previously or passed a state-approved safety course.
Important things to remember:
Type your information as you wish it to appear on your license. Your license and a photo ID should be carried whenever you go fishing, hunting or trapping.
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Zadečku, vrať se je 21. díl 7. řady amerického animovaného seriálu Futurama. Ve Spojených státech měl premiéru 31. července 2013 na stanici Comedy Central a v Česku byl poprvé vysílán 8. ledna 2015 na Prima Cool.

Děj
Posádka Planet Expressu dostane za úkol doručit zásilku na planetu gangů, kde dominují dva hlavní gangy – Traloci a Žryskáči, kteří se rozlišují podle rozmístění barev na oblečení – modrá vlevo a červená vpravo a naopak. Obsah zásilky měl zůstat posádce utajen, ale Leela se po cestě rozhodne bednu otevřít a zjistí, že v ní jsou střelné zbraně a Bender jim ohne hlavně. Po přistání jdou Fry a Leela předat úmyslně poškozenou zásilku a Bender dostane za úkol pohlídat loď. Leela a Fry uvidí odraz Traloků v zrcadle a myslí si proto, že jsou to Žryskáči a obrátí si tričko. Na místo následně přijdou oba gangy a vysvětlí se, že ta bedna je dárkem od Žryskáčů pro Traloky jako symbol míru. Situace se ale vyhrotí a kvůli ohnutým hlavním se každý zastřelí.

Když se Leela a Fry vrátí k lodi, zjistí že někdo Bendera okradl o jeho tělo, zbyly mu jen oči a hlava. Hermes zkusí použít čip, který má na sobě Bender, aby jeho tělo lokalizoval. U nelegálního prodejce robodílů se jim podaří nalézt Benderovu hlavu, ale zbytek se již rozprodal. Podaří se jim získat seznam zákazníků a díky němu postupně získávají Benderovy součástky – anténu, trup, ruce a nohy. Zbývá už jen jeho "zadek", který údajně odplul na vesmírné lodi, která ztroskotala. Fry, Leela a Bender se vydají na místo ztroskotání, ale narazí do majáku, v němž bydlí Tarquin, který jim pomůže v troskách najít Benderovu chybějící součástku. Večer na majáku Bender poprosí Frye, aby ho vyfotil, jak "líbá svůj naleštěný zadek". To vytvoří záblesky, které jsou daleko silnější než maják a zachrání blížící se loď před srážkou. Tarquin požádá Bendera, jestli by mu nemohl nechat svůj zadek jako zrcadlo do jeho majáku. S těžkým srdcem na to Bender přistoupí. Tarquin ale začne předčítat z Bible, což Benderův zadek nesnese a uletí zpět k Benderovi.

Kritika
The AV Club dal tomuto dílu známku C+. Max Nicholson z IGN udělil dílu hodnocení "dobré" se  7,5 body z 10 a uvedl: "Benderův zadek se tento týden ve Futuramě stal středem pozornosti a ve skutečnosti to docela fungovalo." Kritici Cinema Blend naopak řekli, že "na rozdíl od jiných dílů, tento postrádá vlastnosti, díky nimž je Futurama výjimečná".

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Name: Karisma Kapoor
Birthday: 25th June, 1974
Marital Status: Married to Sanjay Kapur
Awards: National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, 2 Filmfare Best Actress Awards, Critics Award Best Performance.
Trivia: Karisma Kapoor is the fourth generation of the legendary Kapoor family. She is also known by her nickname Lolo. She is the daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita, and elder sister to Kareena Kapoor. She was engaged to Abhishek Bachchan, but they split. She then married, industrialist Sanjay Kapur, CEO of Sixt India.
Biography: Karisma Kapoor made her debut in Prem Qaidi (1991) which as a average hit. After that she starred in a number of movies like Jigar (1992), Anari (1993), Raja Babu (1994), Coolie No. 1 (1995), Saajan Chale Sasural (1996) and Jeet (1996).
Raja Hindustani (1996) was the highest grossing film of the year. This was followed by the super hit Dil Toh Pagal Hai (1997). After which she starred in hit David Dhawan comedies, Biwi No. 1, Haseena Maan Jaayegi. Rajshri Productions, Hum Saath-Saath Hain was another hit.
Her performance in Fiza (2000) was much appreciated and criticalliy acclaimed. Zubeidaa (2001) also won her critical accolades. So was the portrayal of her role in Shakti: The Power. She then starred in Baaz: A Bird In Danger (2003) which failed at the box-office. After this she took a sabbatical from acting. She returned back to act in negative role in Mere Jeevan Saathi (2006) which flopped at the box-office.
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Q: "PUSH" "POP" Or "MOVE"? When it comes to temporarily storage for an existing value in a register, all modern compilers(at least the ones I experienced) do PUSH and POP instructions. But why not store the data in another register if it's available?
So, where should the temporarily storage for an existing value goes? Stack Or Register?
Consider the following 1st Code:
MOV ECX,16
LOOP:
PUSH ECX    ;Value saved to stack
...     ;Assume that here's some code that must uses ECX register
POP ECX     ;Value released from stack
SUB ECX,1
JNZ LOOP

Now consider the 2st Code:
MOV ECX,16
LOOP:
MOV ESI,ECX ;Value saved to ESI register
...     ;Assume that here's some code that must uses ECX register
MOV ECX,ESI ;Value returned to ECX register
SUB ECX,1
JNZ LOOP

After all, which one of the above code is better and why?
Personally I think the first code is better on size since PUSH and POP only takes 1 bytes while MOV takes 2; and second code is better on speed because data moving between registers is faster than memory access.

A: It does make a lot of sense to do that.  But I think the simplest answer is all the other registers are being used.  In order to use some other register you would need to push it on the stack.
Compilers are smart enough.  Keeping track of what is in a register for a compiler is somewhat trivial, that is not a problem.  Speaking generically not necessarily x86 specific, esp when you have more registers (than an x86), you are going to have some registers that are used for input (in your calling convention), some you can trash, that may be the same as the input ones  or not, some you cant trash you have to preserve them first.  Some instruction sets have special registers, must use this one for auto increment, that one for register indirect, etc.
You will most definitely if not trivial to get the compiler to produce code for an arm for example where the input and the trashable registers are the same set, but that means that if you call another function and create the calling function right it needs to save something to use after the return:
unsigned int more_fun ( unsigned int );
unsigned int fun ( unsigned int x )
{
    return(more_fun(x)+x);
}
00000000 <fun>:
   0:   e92d4010    push    {r4, lr}
   4:   e1a04000    mov r4, r0
   8:   ebfffffe    bl  0 <more_fun>
   c:   e0840000    add r0, r4, r0
  10:   e8bd4010    pop {r4, lr}
  14:   e12fff1e    bx  lr

I told you it was trivial.  Now to use your argument backward, why didnt they just push r0 on the stack and pop it off later, why push r4?  Not r0-r3 are used for input and are volatile, r0 is the return register when it fits, r4 almost all the way up you have to preserve (one exception I think).
So r4 is assumed to be used by the caller or some caller up the line, the calling convention dictates you cannot trash it you must preserve it so you have to assume it is used.  You can trash r0-r3, but you cant use one of those as the callee can trash them too, so in this case we need to take the incoming value x and both use it (pass it on) and preserve it for after the return so they did both, the "used another register with a move" but in order to do that they preserved that other register.
Why save r4 to the stack in this case is very obvious, you can save it up front with the return address, in particular arm wants you to always use the stack in 64 bit chunks so two registers at a time ideally or at least keep it aligned on a 64 bit boundary, so you have to save lr anyway, so they are going to push something else too even if they dont have, to in this case the saving of r4 is a freebie, and since they need to save r0 and at the same time use it.  r4 or r5 or something above is a good choice.
BTW looks like an x86 compiler did with above.
0000000000000000 <fun>:
   0:   53                      push   %rbx
   1:   89 fb                   mov    %edi,%ebx
   3:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  8 <fun+0x8>
   8:   01 d8                   add    %ebx,%eax
   a:   5b                      pop    %rbx
   b:   c3                      retq

demonstration of them pushing something that they dont need to preserve:
unsigned int more_fun ( unsigned int );
unsigned int fun ( unsigned int x )
{
    return(more_fun(x)+1);
}
00000000 <fun>:
   0:   e92d4010    push    {r4, lr}
   4:   ebfffffe    bl  0 <more_fun>
   8:   e8bd4010    pop {r4, lr}
   c:   e2800001    add r0, r0, #1
  10:   e12fff1e    bx  lr

No reason to save r4, they just needed some register to make the stack aligned, so in this case r4 was chosen, some versions of this compiler you will see r3 or some other register used.
Remember humans (still) write compilers and the optimizers, etc.  So they why this and why that is really a question for that human or those humans, and we cant really tell you what they were thinking.  It is not a simple task for sure, but it is not hard to take a reasonable sized function and/or project and find opportunities to hand tune compiler output, to improve it.  Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, one definition of improve is another's definition of make worse.  One instruction mix might use less total instruction bytes, so that is "better" by program size standards, another may or may not use more instructions or bytes, but execute faster, one might have less memory accesses at the cost of instructions to ideally execute faster, etc.
There are architectures with hundreds of general purpose registers, but most of the ones we touch products with daily dont have that many, so you can generally make a function or some code that has so many variables in flight in a function that you have to start saving off to the stack mid function.  So you cant always just save a few registers at the beginning and the end of the function to give you more working registers mid function, if the number of working registers you need mid function is more registers than you have.  It actually takes some practice to be able to write code that doesnt optimize to the point of not needing too many registers, but once you start to see how the compilers work by examining their output, you can write trivial functions like the ones above to prevent optimizations or force preservation of registers mid function, etc.
At the end of the day for the compiler to be somewhat sane it needs a calling convention, it keeps the authors from going crazy and the compiler from being a nightmare to code and manage.  And the calling convention is very clearly going to define the input and output register(s) any volatile registers, and the ones that have to be preserved.
unsigned int fun ( unsigned int x, unsigned int y, unsigned int z )
{
    unsigned int a;

    a=x<<y;
    a+=(y<<z);
    a+=x+y+z;
    return(a);
}
00000000 <fun>:
   0:   e0813002    add r3, r1, r2
   4:   e0833000    add r3, r3, r0
   8:   e0832211    add r2, r3, r1, lsl r2
   c:   e0820110    add r0, r2, r0, lsl r1
  10:   e12fff1e    bx  lr

Only spent a few seconds on that but could have worked harder on it.  I didnt push past four registers total, granted I had four variables.  And I didnt call any functions so the compiler was free to just trash r0-r3 as needed as the dependencies worked out.  So I didnt have to save r4 in order to create a temporary storage, it didnt have to use the stack it just optimized the order of execution to for example free up r2, the z variable so that later it could use r2 as an intermediate variable, one of the instances of a equals something.  Keeping it down to four registers instead of burning a fifth one.
If I was more creative with my code and I added in calls to functions, I could get it to burn a lot more registers, you would see as even in this last case, the compiler has no problem whatsoever keeping track of what is where, and you will see when you play with the compilers there is no reason that they have to keep your high level language variables intact in the same register throughout much less execute in the same order you wrote your code (so long as it is legal), but they are still at the mercy of the calling convention, if any only some of the registers are considered volatile, and if you call a function from your function at a certain time in the code, then you have to preserve that content so you cant use them as long term storage, and the ones that are not volatile are already considered to be consumed so they have to be preserved to use them, then it becomes in part a performance question, does it cost more (size, speed, etc) to save to the stack on the fly or can I preserve up front in a way that possibly reduces instructions or can be invisible and/or consume less clocks with a larger transfer rather than separate, less efficient transfers mid function?
I have said this seven times now but the bottom line is the calling convention for that compiler (version) and target (and command line options/defaults).  If you have volatile registers (arbitrary calling convention thing for general purpose registers, not a hardware/ISA thing) and you are not calling any other functions, then they are easy to use and save you expensive stack (memory) transactions.  If you are calling someone then they can be trashed by them so they may no longer be free, depends on your code.  The non-volatile registers are considered consumed by callers so you have to burn stack operations in order to use them, they are not free to use.  And then it becomes performance as to when and where to use the stack, pushes and pops and movs.  No two compilers are expected to generate the same code even if they use the same convention, but you can see above it is somewhat trivial to make test functions, compile them and examine the output, tweak here and there to navigate through and around that (compiler, version and target and convention and command line options) optimizer.

A: Using a register is a bit faster, but requires you to keep track of which registers are available, and you can run out of registers.  Also, this method cannot be use recursively.  In addition, some registers will get trashed if you use INT or CALL to invoke a subroutine.
Use of the stack (POP and PUSH) can be used as many times as needed (so long as you don't run out of stack space), and in addition it supports recursive logic.  You can use the stack safely with INT or CALL because by convention any subroutine should reserve its own portion of the stack, and must restore it to its previous state (or else the RET instruction would fail).

A: Do trust the work of the optimizing compiler, based on the work of decades of code generation specialists.
They fill as much registers as available and extend to the stack when needed, comparing different options. And they also care about tradeoffs between storing a value for later reuse vs. recomputation of the value.
There is no single rule "register vs. stack", it's a matter of global optimization, taking into account the processor's peculiarities. And in general, there is no single "best solution" as it will depend on your "bestness" criteria.
Except when very creative workarounds can be found (or when exploiting data properties known of you only), you can't beat a compiler.

A: When thinking about speed, you always have to keep in mind a sense of proportion.
If the function being compiled calls other functions,
those push and pop instructions may be insignificant,
compared to the number of instructions executed in between them.
Compiler writers know, in that kind of case, which is very common, one shouldn't be penny-wise and pound-foolish.

A: By using PUSH and POP, you can save at least one registers. This will be significant if you working with limited available registers. On the other hand, yes, sometimes using MOV is better in speed, but you also have to keep in mind which register is used as a temporary storage. This will be hard if you want to store several values that needed to be processed later

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Moto3: Kent runs away with victory at #ArgentinaGP
Danny Kent becomes the first British rider to take back-to-back wins in the lightweight-class since Barry Sheene in 1971.
Circuit conditions had changed from qualifying at the Termas de Rio Hondo, with grey clouds replacing the sunshine and a much lower track temp of 30 degrees, but not even this could stop Kent from claiming his second win of the season.
Leopard Racing's British rider disappeared off into the distance after taking the lead on the 3rd lap, lapping almost a second faster than the rest of the pack to take the race win by over 11 seconds, in a repeat of his dominant performance from Austin.
This meant that everyone else was battling it out for the remaining two podium places, with Kent's teammate Efren Vazquez making it a Leopard Racing 1-2 in Argentina, after an excellent final lap scrap with the Husqvarna Factory Laglisse of Isaac Viñales.
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By Nick Waddell Published on June 27, 2019 Last Updated on April 16, 2020 Filed under: All posts, Analysts, Life Sciences Stock: mdna
Medicenna Therapeutics has a 110 per cent upside, says Mackie Research
Investors should be thinking about clinical-stage biotech company Medicenna Therapeutics (Medicenna Therapeutics Stock Quote, Chart TSX:MDNA), according to Mackie Research analyst André Uddin, who in an update to clients on Wednesday said the market is currently undervaluing the stock.
On Tuesday, Medicenna announced its fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31, 2019, financials, coming in with revenue of $0.0 million and a net loss of $1.0 million. Although he says that the company's financials are less important at this stage in its development, Uddin was expecting revenue of $0.0 million and a net loss of $4.0 million. The smaller net loss Uddin chalks up to lower-than-expected R&D expenses, while the analyst notes that MDNA's total cash resources of $4.8 million and zero debt should be sufficient to fund the company's operations until the completion of the ongoing Phase IIb trial of its lead orphan drug candidate MDNA55 for glioblastoma.
"On June 18th, the company reported promising interim top-line results, which not only demonstrated decent dose-dependent responses by MDNA55 but suggested this candidate should have a high probability of meeting the primary endpoint (objective response rates) of this trial," writes Uddin.
"Of equal importance, MDNA55 demonstrated superior response and survival benefits relative to other approved rGBM drugs – which should bode well for future commercialization of this candidate," he said.
As for upcoming milestones, Uddin points to survival results of high-does MDNA55 in the on-going Phase IIb trial, expected by the end of 2019, and the expected launch of a Phase II trial by the end of 2019to investigate efficacy and safety of MDNA55 in treating newly-diagnosed glioblastoma patients.
Uddin notes that MDNA has traded up 131 per cent since Mackie's coverage initiation but that the stock is still undervalued.
"With a late-stage cancer candidate (MDNA55), the company only has an enterprise value of $39 million – it's undervalued. Additionally, we believe the market has not considered the monetization potential of MDNA's pre-clinical candidates," he says.
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import com.github.mateuszrasinski.primaries.domain.Candidate;
import java.util.List;
import lombok.Data;
import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;

@Data
@NoArgsConstructor
public class VoteForm {
    private List<Candidate> candidates;
    private String votedCandidateId;

    public VoteForm(List<Candidate> candidates) {
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Q: How to use PDFBox to extract all text on a page that is NOT behind an image? I need to extract all text on a page that is not behind an image, OCR style.
So far, I use PrintImageLocations to get image locations.  I do a translation from image coordinates to character coordinates.  Then I use a modified version of PDFTextStripperByArea to get the text not behind any image location.
It works but... is there a simpler, one pass, way to get the text that is not behind an image?
Here is my modified version of PDFTextStripperByArea for retrieving text excluded from the areas entered:
package tester;

import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
import org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper;
import org.apache.pdfbox.text.TextPosition;
/**
 * This will extract text from a specified region in the PDF.
 *
 * @author Ben Litchfield
 */
public class PDFTextStripperByAreaAndExcluded_original extends PDFTextStripper
{
    private final ArrayList<List<TextPosition>> excludedCharacterList = new ArrayList<List<TextPosition>>();
    private StringWriter excludedText = new StringWriter();
    private final List<String> regions = new ArrayList<String>();
    private final Map<String, Rectangle2D> regionArea = new HashMap<String, Rectangle2D>();
    private final Map<String, ArrayList<List<TextPosition>>> regionCharacterList
            = new HashMap<String, ArrayList<List<TextPosition>>>();
    private final Map<String, StringWriter> regionText = new HashMap<String, StringWriter>();
    /**
     * Constructor.
     * @throws IOException If there is an error loading properties.
     */
    public PDFTextStripperByAreaAndExcluded_original() throws IOException
    {
        super.setShouldSeparateByBeads(false);
    }
    /**
     * This method does nothing in this derived class, because beads and regions are incompatible. Beads are
     * ignored when stripping by area.
     *
     * @param aShouldSeparateByBeads The new grouping of beads.
     */
    @Override
    public final void setShouldSeparateByBeads(boolean aShouldSeparateByBeads)
    {
    }
   /**
     * Add a new region to group text by.
     *
     * @param regionName The name of the region.
     * @param rect The rectangle area to retrieve the text from. The y-coordinates are java
     * coordinates (y == 0 is top), not PDF coordinates (y == 0 is bottom).
     */
    public void addRegion( String regionName, Rectangle2D rect )
    {
        regions.add( regionName );
        regionArea.put( regionName, rect );
    }
    /**
     * Delete a region to group text by. If the region does not exist, this method does nothing.
     *
     * @param regionName The name of the region to delete.
     */
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The latest in cannabis legalization including laws and policies, legislators' views, election coverage, and more. SEE ALL
Federal Bill Would End Postal Service's Cannabis Ad Ban
A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday would allow written marijuana advertisements in states where cannabis is legal. Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley joined with Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici to introduce the Marijuana Advertising in Legal States (MAILS) Act, aimed at overturning a U.S. Postal Service ban on newspapers containing cannabis ads.
The ban came to light last December when the Postal Service sent out a memo to newspaper offices in legal states, warning them that printing paid advertisements for cannabis could be a violation of federal law.
The bill would amend the Controlled Substances Act so that restrictions on advertising would not apply to cannabis-related activities that are in compliance with laws at the state level.
Wyden introduced the bill to protect "law-abiding Oregonians and small business owners," and to address concerns from local and federal officials from legal states.
"Our bill updates the federal approach to marijuana, ending the threat to news publications that choose to accept advertising from legal marijuana businesses in Oregon and other states where voters also have freely decided to legalize marijuana," he said.
Merkley also spoke out against federal regulations that limit the capabilities of legitimate cannabis companies:
"Oregon voters have made it clear that they support marijuana legalization, but in area after area, federal regulation makes it difficult for legitimate marijuana businesses to operate. It's time the federal government starts updating its rules and regulations in states where marijuana is now legal."
The bill came swiftly on the heels of a letter sent to the Postal Service by the same group of lawmakers asking the agency to identify the statute that gives the USPS the authority to restrict advertisements for businesses that are legal at a state level.
In addition to the Oregon Congress members, the bill is being cosponsored by a pair of bipartisan cannabis supporters from California, Reps. Jared Huffman, Democrat, and Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican.
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This change is eminent in the transition from traditional, centralized control applications to an interconencted, cooperative "Internet of Things" model. Strong hierarchies are broken in favor of meshed, networks and formerly passive devices are replaced with "smart objects" that are network enabled and can perform compute operations.
The software side has to match and leverage the changes in the hardware. Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are a well known concept from business computing to deal with flexibility and reconfiguration requirements in a loosely coupled manner. However, the common concepts of SOAs cannot be directly mapped to embedded networks and industrial control applications, because of the hard boundary conditions, such as limited resources and real-time requirements.
The rtSOA project brings both worlds together. Aimed at the lower layers of the automation pyramid, it focuses on the hard real time data streams encountered in control applications while briding the gap to event based communication in higher layers. A primary research goal thereby is the development of concepts for (semi-)automatic service composition to support flexibility in re-tooling and quick adaptation to failures in the automation chain. Smart but resource constrained sensors and actuators are directly integrated as first-class members in the SOA instead of being accessed through gateway or mediator.
During the course of the rtSOA-project we generated a dataset with over 1.2 million solvable scheduling problems (c.f. the evaluation in our paper). This dataset can be downloaded here ca. 17 GB) and may be imported in PostgreSQL > 9.5. The download contains an importing script for Linux systems.


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On this day in 1995, the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins combined for a record 1,038 yards in a 37-22 Buffalo win.
On this day in 1997, David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs moved into eighth place on the all-time blocks list, passing George T. Johnson (2,082).
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First publis hed as part of Leigh Kendall's 'Life After' series, posted on her wonderful site – Headspace Perspective: Celebrating Hugo, Surviving Baby Loss, Creating #HugosLegacy.
My waters had broken at home and I had calmly taken a taxi to the hospital. I was in a state of shock, perhaps also in denial – this couldn't really be happening, could it? When the midwife told me my baby would be born very soon I still remember my words – 'But I don't have anything to dress him in'. My first instinct was to care and provide for him. I reached out to him when he was born, but he was whisked away to neonatal intensive care where a machine would breathe for him and an incubator would shield him from the outside world into which he was born so early.
This entry was posted in NICU, Premature Baby and tagged Life After..., neonatal care, NICU, Preemie, Premature Baby, PTSD, SCBU on June 1, 2015 by Catriona Ogilvy.
A – Z of NICU!
A – Amazing: All premature babies are quite amazing, as are their parents and the staff who care for them 24/7.
B – Breast Feeding: Establishing breast feeding in the neonatal environment can be tough; but putting a baby born too soon to the breast is also a big moment for many NICU mums who wait days or weeks for the opportunity.
C – Corrected Age: A baby's age calculated according to their due date rather than their birth date, the date at which milestones and weight should be measured against.
D – Dates: Birth date, due date, leaving hospital date – dates can be significant for parents of children born prematurely. A birthday will always signify the day your baby arrived early and the lead up to celebrations can be a reflective time for parents.
E – Expressing: The three hourly cycle of pumping to produce breast milk for your baby in neonatal care.
F – Family & Friends: There to help and support you, but friends and family may feel helpless or left out. Ask them to help with practical things, such as buying micro-nappies, cooking a meal or helping with childcare. Take advantage of offers of help, but allow time for yourself.
G – Going Home: Sadly not all babies leave hospital, with some born too small or poorly to survive. They are always remembered. For parents who do bring their babies home from NICU we know they face a host of mixed and often conflicting emotions…. relief, joy, anxious, scared. The journey rarely ever ends at dischage.
H – How old is your Baby? The question every parent of a baby born too soon dreads. "They're six months… but they were born early…so really they are only 3 months", you hurriedly explain.
I – Incubator: Your baby's home, keeping them warm and safe from the outside world. A place where you will find a parent sitting, watching and waiting.
J – Jealousy: Suddenly there are heavily pregnant women everywhere you look. Proud fathers carefully carrying car seats are around every corner and your Facebook timeline is seemingly full of mums cuddling their newborns whilst you wait anxiously for your first hold.
K – Kangaroo Care: The act of skin-to-skin care beneficial for both baby and mother.
L – Loss: Loss of pregnancy; that final trimester, the lost time to prepare. Loss of that first hold or touch as your baby is taken away to NICU. Loss of a baby to take home, the emptiness that fills you as you leave hospital without them. Lost maternity leave as the weeks are spent beside an incubator. And the loss of a child, for the babies born too soon or too small, who do not come home from NICU.
M – Milk: Those first 'golden drops' proudly presented to the NICU nurse in a syringe. Followed by an obsession with numbers – how many mls, how many minutes, how many hours between feeds and expresses.
N – NICU: An acronym you probably hadn't heard of before, but now you know every aspect of what the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit means.
O – Overwhelming: Nothing can quite prepare you for parenthood, but for parents of premature babies the planning and expectation of a new arrival is dramatically interrupted. You are thrown into a world of micro-nappies, beeping machines, breathing tubes, feeding tubes, expressing pumps, portholes, picc lines and rigorous hand washing. It is quite simply – overwhelming.
P – Preemie Club: A lifelong membership to a club you would never have wanted to join. Once a preemie parent, always a preemie parent, sharing experiences and feelings only other preemie parents will know.
Q – Quiet: The neonatal unit is one long continuous wave of sound; bells and buzzers, alarms and machines. Take time outside the unit and outside the hospital to find a quiet space each day.
R – Reason: In 40% of cases there is no known reason for premature labour.
T – Trauma: The trauma associated with an abrupt end to pregnancy and admission to neonatal intensive care can not be underestimated. Thrown into a medical world of uncertainty and all that it entails has a lasting affect, with many parents desribing symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder after the event.
U – Universal Care: 15 million babies worldwide are born prematurely.
V – Ventilation: To give oxygen to your babies lungs, helping them to breath or taking over their breathing completely.
X – Xtra Special – Whatever your child goes onto do, it will always be that little bit more special.
Y – You – Look after yourself.
Z – Z zzzzz: "At least you can go home and get a good nights sleep"… one of the worst things to say to a preemie mum!
This entry was posted in Baby Loss, Friends & Family, maternity leave, NICU, Premature Baby and tagged A-Z, NICU, Preemie, preemie club, Premature Baby, premature birth, PTSD, SCBU on April 21, 2015 by Catriona Ogilvy.


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Deplorable teachers welfare blamed for bad performance
FILE PICTURE: Maun Senior Secondary School students
Acute shortage of teacher accommodation in North West District has been identified as one of the contributing factors to poor academic performance of students in the region.
Speaking at an Education Pitso in Maun on Tuesday this week, school heads decried shortage of teachers' accommodation, which they said was a cause of depression among teachers, leading to and low performance.
Moeti junior secondary school, Albert Mathabathi noted that in his school a total of 50 teachers do not have accommodation.
"Three teachers have to share a three- bedroom house because of the shortage of houses. Personally I had to move out from the house that was specifically built and allocated to the school head so that other teachers could occupy it," explained Mathabathi who is fortunate enough to own a house in Maun.
His main concern was that sharing of houses often results in fights between families.
"Everyday housemates are crying and we have to comfort them. We have to deal with reports and complaints arising from these shared homes, instead of focusing our attention on our core mandate of education and improving performance, we have to play the role of social workers and mediators and this is really affecting our work," said Mathabathi.
For many years, shortage of teachers' houses has been the main complaint in the region and of late the situation has been worsened by the increase of classrooms, which was necessitated by the need for social distancing due to COVID-19. Classes were divided and more teachers were hired and yet accommodation has not been increased.
WORRIED: Mathabathi
The meeting where the above issues were raised was called by the regional education office to discuss how best to improve exam results performance in this area that falls under what has since been termed the failure belt, that runs from Ngamiland through to Gantsi and Kgalagadi areas.
In the region the primary leaving examinations has for the past five years been far below the regional target of 80 percent pass rate and only improving to 64.60 percent last year.
For junior secondary school rate has been ranging between 22 and 26 percent, with a gradual performance improvement in 2018 and 2019 and 24.60 and 26.72 percent respectfully.
The worst performance was recorded at senior secondary schools, which have been scoring less than 20 percent pass rate for the last four years with an improvement of just one percent last year.
According to the report from the regional education office, Shakawe senior secondary school has been improving for the past 5 years with insignificant percentages whilst its partner Maun senior secondary school has been stagnant for the entire performance period.
In this article:Deplorable teachers welfare blamed for bad performance, Okavango Voice


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Crohn's Disease: David's Story
David, 32, has lived with Crohn's disease for half his life. He never let the condition get in the way of his education or social life growing up, and it doesn't slow him down today as a teacher. His breakthrough at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) inspired David's parents, Nancy and Jeffrey, to co-chair the Family Research Council, which funds research at the IBD Center.
When David was a young child, he often had stomach aches and digestive problems. He also wasn't growing at the expected rate. The issues continued into his mid-teens, and the stomach aches grew worse. David's pediatrician believed that kidney stones or gall stones were the cause of his problems.
One day, David was in so much pain that his parents took him to the emergency room at their local community hospital in Bucks County. Doctors thought he had a ruptured appendix and rushed him into surgery. But when they opened him up, they found that his appendix was healthy.
Finding a diagnosis
Given his symptoms, the doctors suspected that he had Crohn's disease, a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
About Crohn's Disease
Learn about Crohn's Disease in children, including medical and surgical treatment options offered at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Because David was so sick and in pain, his parents, Nancy and Jeffrey Fine, asked the doctors at the community hospital to give him a few days to recover before sharing the news. They were shocked and upset when the GI doctor came into David's room the same day and bluntly gave him the diagnosis.
"I still remember the way the doctor said it," says Nancy: "'David, I'm very sorry to tell you that you have Crohn's disease. It's a very bad disease and I don't have much to offer. Good luck.'"
David was released on an anti-inflammatory medicine with a minimal care plan and no other treatment options. He was devastated and left the hospital thinking that the disease would define his life.
"We're in this together."
David's parents refused to give up hope. They researched Crohn's disease and learned about the industry-leading work of Robert Baldassano, MD, the Director of the Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD Center) at CHOP. The Fines immediately made an appointment with Dr. Baldassano. That visit was a turning point for David, replacing his despair with hope.
"The contrast was like night and day," remembers Jeffrey. "At CHOP, everything was about hope – the way the research was advancing, the ways they could treat the symptoms, and the progress being made toward finding a cure."
"When we went to chop, they welcomed us with open arms. they told us what they could do, not what they couldn't do. dr. Baldassano told David, 'we're in this together.' "
David left CHOP that day knowing the disease wouldn't define his life. He had confidence that the specialists at CHOP would find ways to help him manage the symptoms so he could move forward.
Crohn's disease does not yet have a definitive cure, but symptoms can be managed. Crohn's affects patients in various ways, and it can take time to discover the best treatment for each individual patient. Dr. Baldassano's goal was to find the most effective way to manage David's debilitating stomach pains and impaired digestion.
Dr. Baldassano prescribed a combination of immunosuppressant and anti-inflammatory drugs to minimize the inflammation in David's lower intestine. Dr. Baldassano also recommended a carefully managed diet to eliminate foods that would cause further irritation.
Doctors also discovered that the lower section of David's small intestine, the terminal ileum, had been damaged by the inflammation. Scarring had narrowed a foot-long section to the size of a drinking straw. Dr. Baldassano explained that surgery could correct this narrowing (stricture), but he recommended putting that off, as advances were being made in the techniques for performing the operation.
Throughout high school, David managed the disease with medication and a very strict diet. In fact, he was able to play varsity tennis. Despite having his physical symptoms under control, David initially had difficulty sharing his emotions about coping with Crohn's disease.
"The toughest part – I was in denial that anything was wrong with me," recalls David. "I didn't want to accept that I had a disease." David didn't tell his friends that he had a problem, and did his best to hide it.
David's breakthrough surgery
When David started college, his restricted diet became too difficult to manage. Away from home, he didn't have the time or the facilities to prepare the kinds of food he needed. Over winter break, he returned to CHOP for surgery to remove the damaged portion of his terminal ileum. He was one of the first patients anywhere to have that procedure done laparoscopically, meaning with just a small incision at the spot where he already had a scar from his appendix operation.
David experienced an immediate improvement with the surgery. He still needed to be careful about his diet, but he didn't have to be nearly as restrictive as before. "The first thing after surgery – I went straight to Wawa for a hoagie," he remembers.
When his digestive system began working more effectively, David's growth resumed. His bone density had been impacted, requiring physical and nutrition therapy to strengthen his bone structure and promote his growth. David was soon back to the activities he loved, like tennis and playing the drums.
After graduating from Northwestern University, David became a teacher. Today, he teaches middle school in the New York City public school system, where he is also Dean of students.
David's job is demanding – he typically works 11-hour days, balancing a teaching load with responsibility for discipline issues at the school. "I'm very conscious of my energy level," he says. A key element in that is his diet. He has found that his stamina is highest with a menu of fresh, unprocessed food.
As an adult, David sees a gastroenterologist in New York, but he still keeps in touch with Dr. Baldassano, who shares information with him on research developments in the field.
Supporting research toward a cure for IBD
When David was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, his parents were affected too. "There's nothing a parent won't do when they have a child with an incurable disease," says Nancy. "We told David that someday there would be a cure, and that Jeffrey and I would do everything to help make that possible."
It's a promise they have kept.
The Fines co-chair the IBD Family Research Council (FRC), which supports research at CHOP's IBD Center. Each year, the incidence of IBD increases, and today it is one of the most significant chronic diseases affecting children. The FRC, a volunteer organization of families, raises research dollars to help the IBD Center find better treatments and, ultimately, a cure.
Formed in 2006, the FRC has raised close to $2 million for IBD research at CHOP. One of the Council's key fundraising events is the annual Walk for Hope, held each spring. This year, the 8th Annual Walk for Hope will take place on April 23, 2017, at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia.
"We are persistent. we need to do this for our kids. nearly every dollar that we raise goes directly to research at chop's ibd center."
Both Nancy and Jeffrey are tremendously impressed with the medical team at the IBD Center. "Every doctor there is so brilliant, incredibly dedicated, and driven" says Jeffrey. "Dr. Baldassano has said that he goes to work every single day feeling an urgency to find better treatments and to ultimately find cures. We saw that in their care for David, and we see that in the advances they are making in their research."
The funds raised by the IBD Family Research Council are well invested. The IBD Center at CHOP is the largest facility in the United States dedicated to the treatment and study of IBD in a pediatric population, more than twice the size of the next leading center. By a vast margin, the IBD Center receives more referrals and publishes more studies than any other comparable program in the world.
Research at the IBD Center has already led to significant improvements in treatment, including medications, diet, nutrition and unique approaches for specific types of IBD based on symptoms and genetic markers.
"We were just so lucky that the number one, cutting-edge pediatric IBD research and treatment center happened to be in our backyard," says Nancy. "Jeffrey and I really believe that one day the cure will come, and when it does, it will come from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. That's what drives us."
Ty's Story
Ty spent two years on a mostly liquid diet because of IBD. Two days after surgery at CHOP, he ate a cheeseburger.
Lucy Bounces Back
Lucy, 16, was very sick with Crohn's disease. Now she's eating, playing lacrosse, and enjoying life, thanks to CHOP.
A Big Eater
Matthew, 3, loves to eat. But for a long time, he got most of his nutrition through a feeding tube.