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Anomalies of the Caudal Cell Mess
Sacrococcygeal Teratoma
Jeffrey S. Ross, MD
Sacral germ cell tumor (SGT), germ cell tumor of coccyx
Congenital sacral tumor containing elements of all 3 germ layers
Ultrasonographic Findings
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Shalaby MS et al: The long-term psychosocial outcomes following excision of sacrococcygeal teratoma: a national study. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 99(2):F149-52, 2014
Van Mieghem T et al: Minimally invasive therapy for fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma: case series and systematic review of the literature. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 43(6):611-9, 2014
Grammatikopoulou I et al: Immature malignant sacrococcygeal teratoma: case report and review of the literature. Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol. 40(3):437-9, 2013
Raigani S et al: Intra-abdominal (Type IV) sacrococcygeal teratoma presenting with buttock hemangioma. Pediatr Surg Int. 29(12):1341-4, 2013
Shue E et al: Tumor metrics and morphology predict poor prognosis in prenatally diagnosed sacrococcygeal teratoma: a 25-year experience at a single institution. J Pediatr Surg. 48(6):1225-31, 2013
Yoneda A et al: Impact of the histological type on the prognosis of patients with prenatally diagnosed sacrococcygeal teratomas: the results of a nationwide Japanese survey. Pediatr Surg Int. 29(11):1119-25, 2013
De Corti F et al: Prognosis of malignant sacrococcygeal germ cell tumours according to their natural history and surgical management. Surg Oncol. 21(2):e31-7, 2012
Usui N et al: Outcomes of prenatally diagnosed sacrococcygeal teratomas: the results of a Japanese nationwide survey. J Pediatr Surg. 47(3):441-7, 2012
Barksdale EM Jr et al: Teratomas in infants and children. Curr Opin Pediatr. 21(3):344-9, 2009
Draper H et al: Long-term functional results following resection of neonatal sacrococcygeal teratoma. Pediatr Surg Int. 25(3):243-6, 2009
Jelin E et al: Sacrococcygeal teratoma with spinal canal invasion prenatally diagnosed. J Pediatr Surg. 44(4):E9-11, 2009
Axt-Fliedner R et al: Prenatal diagnosis of sacrococcygeal teratoma: a review of cases between 1993 and 2000. Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol. 29(1):15-8, 2002
Monteiro M et al: Case report: sacrococcygeal teratoma with malignant transformation in an adult female: CT and MRI findings. Br J Radiol. 75(895):620-3, 2002
Perrelli L et al: Sacrococcygeal teratoma. Outcome and management. An analysis of 17 cases. J Perinat Med. 30(2):179-84, 2002
Paek BW et al: Radiofrequency ablation of human fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 184(3):503-7, 2001
Holterman AX et al: The natural history of sacrococcygeal teratomas diagnosed through routine obstetric sonogram: a single institution experience. J Pediatr Surg. 33(6):899-903, 1998
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In Year 4 we are hard-working and friendly children. We always try our best in everything we do, and we are not afraid to have a go even if we get something wrong because we know we can learn from our mistakes. We love to work together as a team and will always encourage and support our friends if they are stuck. We might not be able to do some things (yet), but we know if we work independently, use the three-before-me technique and persevere then eventually – after all our hard work – we will succeed. In Year 4 we take great pride in our work, we never give up and we ALWAYS have fun!
Throughout this term, Year 4 will be tested on the spellings from the statutory list.
The curriculum states that all children should be able to recall accurately their multiplication and division facts up to 12x12 by the end of year 4. Therefore daily times table practice is crucial. When it comes to times tables, speed AND accuracy are important – the more fluent they are with their facts the easier they will access other aspects of the curriculum.
Practise using these online games.
Everyone needs to read at least 3 times per week.
Lets aim to get 100%!
Here you can have a read of the most recent letters sent out to parents directly from the Year 4 teachers.
The person who wins this award shows extra dedication, incredible patience and perseverance and a drive to become a more independent learner.
To gain your pen licence you must work hard at your handwriting, showing correct joins, letter size and position on the line.
George, Chelsea, Jolin, Jack, Evie, Ollie, Pearl, Kayden, Lily, Oliver K, Miller, Oliver T, Grace, Nathan, Levi, Jaida, Skye, Max, Dylan and Ellsie.
Here are some useful links to supporting learning in Year 4.
In maths we are learning about multiplication and division.
Practise times tables online, using this link to our times table page.
Keep brushed up on your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills.
Check out our maths zone for more activities to support your learning.
In history, we are learning about trade and transport. We are going to explore fair trade chocolate and the canals in Leeds.


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Liverpool have signed Plymouth centre-half Lloyd Jones - just days after missing out on his namesake and fellow stopper Phil.
Reds manager Kenny Dalglish agreed a six-figure compensation fee with the cash-strapped Devon club and sorted out a three-year contract with the Wales youth international.
Jones (Lloyd, not Phil) impressed Liverpool during a trial at the end of the season and Dalglish took time out from chasing his big-money targets to talk the kid into signing.
Several other leading clubs, including Everton, had an interest in Jones but the lure of Anfield and Dalglish won the day.
Welcome to the club Phil Lloyd, all the best for the future kid.
Omg, I know Lloyd. Haven't seen him in a while but I will hunt for his phone number and send him a congratulations text. Well done to him.
I have never heard of him ... but best of luck.
No worries, I checked a Plymouth Argylle site and some of them didn't know him either.
He's on twitter. Mate knows him on twitter, he's a very sound lad.
Best of luck young lad.
Welcome young lad,all the best in the future.
Honestly? I find it hard to get over excited about the signing of a 15 year old I've never heard of but as he's now a Red - congratulations young fella, I hope you become a great.
Lloyd is very promising.He has signed a 3 year deal.
This may sound wierd but I have a mate who knows Lloyd. From what I've heard he is a tall lad who is a real talent.
Shouldn't this be a player thread?
Anyway, best of luck Lloyd, hope you work hard and earn a place in the starting XI in a few years.
Its the ind of player that Arsenal would sign. Potential yes, but matches for us? Probably not.
He's 15, I don't think he signed him with the idea of playing him this season.
It's the short term mentality that persists and persists, it's a hard perception for some to grasp, you can't just look at tomorrow, you need to look at all our tomorrows.
Welcome to LFC Lloyd, hope you flourish here!
What's with the England flag?! He's Welsh!
...According to The Daily Mirror, "Jones (Lloyd, not Phil) impressed Liverpool during a trial at the end of the season and Dalglish took time out from chasing his big-money targets to talk the kid into signing." Lloyd Jones is in fact, like Phil Jones, a centerback and he is in fact a Welshman that Liverpool managed to sign from Plymouth.
edit: @whyohwhy - in FM when real players in the game retire they are replaced by randomly regenerated players with fairly generic names, Roddenberry just so happened to get a Lloyd Jones who was also a CB. If you look up the top, you'll see the game year is 2043 and this particular Lloyd Jones (who is English instead of Welsh) is only 27yo. It's not actually him.
Can't have everything, thought the name was enough. He might just make it to the end of my FM10 career, planning to 'retire' at the end of this season or next. All depends on whether I have the chance to win my 10th PL in a row. Finally lost Steven Gerrard this season as well, retired aged 63.
On the bench today against Fulham, good on him.


The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) over the weekend in Gbarnga, Bong County, held the final in a series of two national validation workshops on the country's draft Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) strategy. The workshop was held in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), supported by the Integrated Public Financial Management Reform Program-II.
It brought together 100 participants from Bong, Nimba, Margibi, Lofa and Gbarpolu counties. Participants included local officials, members of the business community, representatives of civil society and non-governmental organizations.
The event was intended to gather stakeholders' input about strategic options proffered in the draft DRM strategy and basically aimed at building consensus at the local level on the way forward for domestic resource mobilization for Liberia.
At the Gbarnga DRM strategy review, the stakeholders recommended vital improvements in Liberia's trade and industry sector, so as to enhance revenue collection and facilitate national development.
They named the agricultural, fishery, tourism, financial, transport, and the telecommunications sectors, among others, as key areas needed to be prioritized by government in strengthening the country's economy.
"Our government needs to lead the effort in empowering local farmers by providing them loans, training, and supply of farming implements, to enable them increase productivity and become self-reliant," the participants observed in a statement issued following the close of the workshop.
The participants believe that government should also take the lead role in promoting the diversification of the economy through the formulation of proactive and sustainable programs, to stimulate production in order to increase the tax base.
They described diversification of the economy as a very important pillar which will bring about more trade and investment opportunities.
They specifically mentioned the introduction of mechanized farming and manufacturing, which they said will boost revenue collection and domestic resource mobilization.
The participants also suggested the need for government to install proper management mechanisms of the natural resource sector by putting in place vigorous monitoring and evaluation processes, to curtail under declaration and illicit financial flows.
They want the LRA intensify its awareness program, with the aim to inform and educate all Liberians and the business sector about the importance of tax payment and its benefits to Liberia.
"In order for the LRA to expand the tax base, more people must be educated about the various taxes, payment processes and other relevant details," the statement said.
In remarks, LRA's Senior Technical Advisor on Domestic Resource Mobilization Momodou Foom lauded the participants for making vital inputs during the DRM validation exercise, assuring them of support.


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The Springwood White White Oak Bed Framefeatures a bevelled edge head board and foot end that give it a clean, minimalist design. It's this sleek look that enables the Springwood to match and add style to any existing bedroom interior. Made from durable white oak and veneer, you won't see any daily use dent your frame or dings in your bedhead. The footend sits 55cms high with the square headboard 120cms high, and the frame has clear space of 21cms. For a stylish match, complement your bed frame with our range of matching suite options, outlined below.
Not the exact size, colour or style you're looking for? At Bedworks we specialise in delivering expert custom-made beds and bedroom furniture to accommodate your unique needs. If one of our imported designs is something you love but need modified, simply talk to us for a new quote. Contact our sales team today!


Famous baseball curses include The Curse of the Bambino, (Red Sox) The Curse of the Billy Goat (Cubs) and The Curse of the Angels, whose stadium is built on old Indian burial grounds, a phenomena which turns out to be both palpable and well-documented.
The Angels' tragic history includes the January 2010 death of 54-year old Angels broadcaster Rory Markas, last year's death of 22-year old pitcher Nick Adenhart, killed in a drunk driving auto accident, the 2008 death of scout Preston Gomez, who was hit by a truck at a service station, the 1989 suicide death of pitcher Donnie Moore, who gave up the game-winning home run in the 1986 pennant game, the 1978 mistaken identity drive-by shooting death of Lyman Bostock, as well as earlier Angel players Minnie Rojas, Chico Ruiz, Bruce Heinbechner, and Mike Miley who were all killed in tragic car accidents.
More recently, a couple of Angel players witnessed a New York resident jumping to his death off the roof of Le Parker Meridien Hotel, where the Angels were staying for a series against the Yankees. And on 5/29, the Angels' Cuban star Kendry Morales fractured his leg after hitting a walk-off grand slam against Seattle. He jogged around the bases and celebrated the game-winning hit by jumping high on home plate. His teammates all tackled him at the same time.
Other stadiums built on ancient Indian burial grounds include Ralph Wilson Stadium, home of the seemingly cursed Buffalo Bills, Three Rivers Stadium, former home of the team with a 16 year losing streak, the Pittsburgh Pirates as well as persistent rumors about the new Citi Field, home of "the worst team money can buy," New York Mets, who saw their first-ever pitch in the ballpark sail over the fence for a home run against them.
Riddle: What's even better than hockey?
As you saw in my goon-afflicted Episode #7, The Brute, I've been playing street hockey since I was eight. When I was 23, I joined organized dek hockey leagues. I was mostly on very bad teams. I remember one Sunday morning, our last place team got pasted 33-0!
But there were enough successes (scoring is fun!) to keep going and after years of eating dirt, I finally lucked into getting on a championship team called "The Nutbags" at age 39. Then I quit and joined the rag-tag forty-somethings who play in pick-up (aka "Glue Factory") dek leagues because I simply got too old to keep up with the youngsters. But after awhile, each game my body felt like a train wreck, and there were fights and other types of BS going on, so I started to teach myself rollerblading. I struggled mightily, but I got my reps in as a basis and in July 2009, I met Coach Dennis Chighisola, a genuine old-school hockey coach from Boston who has taught hockey to people in the thousands, from mites to NHL players.
"Coach Chic," as he is called, took me on as a project to serve as a test case on his hockey website. He's been writing about my progress for his coaches and players as a learning tool and some of the awkward video clips he took of me are truly comical. But I've made great strides and now I'm playing in pick-up roller hockey leagues. There's still some BS going on but not as much as the dek leagues, and thanks to Coach Chic, I'm enjoying the game more than ever.
March 1 2010 marks the 200th birthday (*disputed) of Frederic Chopin, the greatest piano composer the world has ever known. Celebrations kicked off with a marathon 171-hour concert of Chopin's music in his native Poland on February 23. The featured video (above) is from that marathon… Polish pianist Marek Drewnowski plays Grande Valse Brillante op. 34 No. 2 at the Palace of Łancut, Poland.
The G Minor Ballade was reportedly Chopin's personal favorite.
The best Chopin interpreter is unclear. However, most mention Arthur Rubenstein first and then in no particular order: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Horowitz, Ivan Moravec, Krystan Zimerman, Alfred Cortot, Maurizio Pollini, and Guiomar Novaes.
And then there was Art Tatum. Horowitz once said that if Tatum ever seriously took up classical piano, he'd quit the next day.


168. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Sneak Attack. | Stop. Time. Project.
← 167. Monday, November 9, 2009. Triumph.
168. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Sneak Attack.
Pizza. Stephanie. Films. Screening. Elwood. Creep. Tired. Can't sleep.
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First man : the life of Neil A. Armstrong
by Hansen, James R.
Format: Print Book ©2005.
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On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment.Upon his return to Earth, Armstrong was honored and celebrated for his monumental achievement. He was also -- as James R. Hansen reveals in this fascinating and important authorized biography -- misunderstood. Armstrong's accomplishments as an engineer, a test pilot, and an astronaut have long been a matter of record, but Hansen's unprecedented access to private documents and unpublished sources and his interviews with more than 125 subjects (including more than fifty hours with Armstrong himself) yield this first in-depth analysis of an elusive American celebrity still renowned the world over.In a riveting narrative filled with revelations, Hansen vividly re-creates Armstrong's career in flying, from his seventy-eight combat missions as a naval aviator flying over North Korea to his formative transatmospheric flights in the rocket-powered X-15 to his piloting Gemini VIII to the first-ever docking in space. These milestones made it seem, as Armstrong's mother, Viola, memorably put it, "as if from the very moment he was born -- farther back still -- that our son was somehow destined for the Apollo 11 mission."For a pilot who cared more about flying to the Moon than he did about walking on it, Hansen asserts, Armstrong's storied vocation exacted a dear personal toll, paid in kind by his wife and children. For the thirty-six years since the Moon landing, rumors have swirled around Armstrong concerning his dreams of space travel, his religious beliefs, and his private life.In a penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and as an individual. InFirst Man,the personal, technological, epic, and iconic blend to form the portrait of a great but reluctant hero who will forever be known as history's most famous space traveler.
Booklist Review: "For the first time, the cool, precise, and c-elebrity-averse Neil Armstrong has authorized a biography. Its readers cannot expect any more access to his emotional interior than the first man to walk on the moon has ever allowed, but they will learn about everything he achieved in aerospace engineering. Deflecting aerospace historian Hansen's inquiries about personal crises, such as the death of an infant daughter or his divorce, Armstrong proves disarmingly more voluble about his involvement with airplanes and spacecraft. Quelling apocrypha circulated at the time of Apollo 11 about the all-American boy who dreamed of going to the moon, Hansen follows the empirical arc of Armstrong's interest in aviation, his engineering studies at Purdue University, and his qualification as an aircraft-carrier pilot. After the Korean War, Armstrong resumed his engineering career, wrote technical papers, flew hotshot planes like the X-15, and stepped irrevocably into history with Apollo 11. Dramatizing the mission in meticulous detail, Hansen capably captures both Armstrong's expertise and his Garbo-like demurral of fame. --Gilbert Taylor Copyright 2005 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review: "On July 20, 1969, a quiet, determined man from Wapakoneta, Ohio, stepped out of his fragile spacecraft and into history. Neil Armstrong--engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, astronaut and devoted family man--became the first man to walk on the moon. In this powerful, unrelenting biography of a man of no particularly spectacular talent yet who stands as a living testimony to everyday grit and determination, former NASA historian Hansen has achieved something quite remarkable. Like a rich pointillist painting, he has created a magnificent panorama of the second half of the American 20th century by assembling a multitude of luminescent moments in one man's life. From Armstrong's birth to a middle-class family in Ohio to the mind-boggling fame of the Apollo 11 triumph, and later his service on the commission investigating the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, Hansen details it all. He writes of the number of rounds of 20-millimeter ammunition loosed by Armstrong's fighter squadron in Korea in October 1951 (49,299), his heart rate on liftoff in Gemini VIII (146 beats per minute) and the price of a signed Armstrong letter at auction ($2,500). Rather than overwhelming, this accumulation of details gives flesh-and-blood reality to a man who is more icon than human. With the recent renewal of interest in manned space travel, this book is a must for astronaut buffs and history readers alike. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Subjects Armstrong, Neil, -- 1930-2012.
Project Apollo (U.S.)
Astronauts -- United States -- Biography.
Space flight to the moon.
Publisher New York :Simon & Schuster,©2005.
Description xi, 769 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 719-738) and index.

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Matthew Geddie, Sally Schultz, Sandra Whisner; Content Validity of the Occupational Therapy Taxonomy of Rehabilitation Interventions (OT–TRI). Am J Occup Ther 2015;69(Supplement_1):6911500191p1. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2015.69S1-PO6087.
In this research study, we examined the content validity of a new taxonomy: the Occupational Therapy Taxonomy of Rehabilitation Interventions (OT–TRI). Results provide evidence that the OT–TRI expands on previously published taxonomies' characterization of the therapeutic process.


Guests at a wedding in Australia wore blindfolds to the event. They did this to support a 32-year-old bride who lost her sight five years ago. Guests at Stephanie Agnew and Robbie Campbell's wedding on Sunday wore the blackout masks in support of the bride. What a kind showing of love and support for their friend.


By all accounts they were happy to get him.
Neel Sheth had agreed to move to the village of Deshler to be the town doctor. For a decade, Deshler's leaders had been trying to attract doctors to their tiny spot on the Henry County map. Some came to stay for a year, some two, but they'd all leave.
"It's important to have a doctor in town you can call at any time of the day or night," said Donald Tussing, the longtime mayor of Deshler's 1,700 people.
So when Dr. Sheth appeared – a budding star, the state's family practice resident of the year, winner of rave reviews from patients – they thought they'd struck gold.
"We are very fortunate to have him," said Henry County Hospital CEO Bob Coholich in April. It was front page news in the local paper.
On June 2, Dr. Sheth made the papers again, this time only as Mr. Sheth. He had been discovered as a fraud, law enforcement officials said. He had no medical degree, no medical license, no right to practice medicine.
In the law's mind, he also had no right to prescribe medication, which is why on July 7 he will be arraigned on two felony drug-trafficking charges, with more charges possible.
Mr. Sheth declined to be interviewed for this article. His story is, like Dennis Roark's, a cautionary tale about how some fake doctors slip through the system.
How did a man whose last diploma was from a high school end up convincing people he is a doctor?
And, just as curious, how can he be, in the opinion of several people, one of the state's most promising physicians?
Neel Sheth was raised in Ann Arbor, Mich., the son of immigrants from India. His father had a good job as an engineer for Ford Motor Co., and young Neel started to dream of life as a doctor, a healer.
"He's wanted to be a doctor forever," said his wife, Julie, who has known him since they were children.
He was an excellent student, she said, getting mostly A's at Huron High School. He and Julie stayed local for college, starting at the University of Michigan in 1986. She studied nursing, and he got into the college of pharmacy. He enrolled in a bachelor of science program in pharmaceutical sciences, a sparsely populated major with only a handful of students. According to the college, the program does not train graduates sufficiently to be certified as pharmacists; it's most often used for students going on to PhD work.
His wife said Mr. Sheth was a fine student at U of M, averaging about a 3.8 grade-point average. But when his time at U of M came to an end at the end of 1990, despite his good grades, he didn't have a degree. University officials will say only that he did not complete the degree requirements for the college of pharmacy.
But he still wanted to be a doctor, and the lack of a college degree did not stop Mr. Sheth from applying to a medical school – the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo.
Many American medical schools, including MCO, do not require an undergraduate degree for admission as long as a student has completed the pre-med requirements – a lengthy list of classes in biology, chemistry, physics, and other fields that don't add up to any single major.
MCO accepted Mr. Sheth into its medical school in 1991. Officials knew he did not have an undergraduate degree, but "not every student has a degree when he or she arrives," said MCO associate dean Dr. Mary Smith.
Members of Mr. Sheth's class at MCO have mostly sketchy memories of him. Some remember seeing him in classes; some remember his name on the alphabetical list of students that MCO administrators used for dozens of purposes.
When asked why Mr. Sheth did not graduate from medical school, MCO spokesman Jim Winkler first said he had not passed part one of the National Board of Medical Examiners, a test of basic science and anatomy taken at the end of a student's second year. When asked later about it again, Mr. Winkler retracted the comment and said he was not allowed to discuss the specifics of Mr. Sheth's case.
Mrs. Sheth confirmed that her husband did not graduate because he failed to pass a board test. She said he had told her he had retaken the test and passed, something MCO's records do not reflect.
At MCO, but not at all medical schools, a student failing part one of the boards is allowed to continue taking classes with his fellow students. The only barrier is that the student must pass the board eventually in order to graduate.
Mr. Winkler confirmed that Mr. Sheth attended MCO for the four years standard for his class but did not graduate.
According to his wife, another important factor emerged on Aug. 11, 1994, when Mr. Sheth and two of his children were in a car accident near their home in Saline. It left one of the children critically injured and Mr. Sheth with serious ankle injuries that required several surgeries to repair.
It is standard practice for fourth-year med students to apply for entry into a residency program in the field of their interest. For Mr. Sheth, that was family practice, and one of the programs he applied to was at Flower Hospital in Sylvania. Flower's family practice residency program was the first in Ohio and one of the first 12 nationwide.
Flower's application process requires letters of recommendation, a medical school transcript, and a copy of a medical school diploma.
From Mr. Sheth, Flower officials got the letters, and they got the transcript. They never got the diploma and never asked MCO for a copy when one didn't arrive.
And so Neel Sheth, whose last diploma reads Huron High School and who had failed a basic anatomy test, was allowed to walk the halls of Flower Hospital, seeing patients, prescribing medications, and playing doctor.
What some might find most surprising about the story of Neel Sheth is that he was, by most accounts, a fine physician.
Most stirring are the words of one of his patients, a woman willing to call Mr. Sheth "my savior" and who did not want to be identified for this article.
She was throwing up blood when she met Mr. Sheth in the emergency room at Flower. He was a first-year resident fresh out of MCO.
A patient with a slew of chronic ailments who had problems confiding in physicians, she took a liking to the young resident.
She was admitted for treatment, and Mr. Sheth checked on her regularly throughout her stay. She said he seemed professional, bright, and sensitive.
The woman made him her regular doctor, sometimes seeing him several times a week for her many ailments. She stayed under his care throughout his residency, and her health improved.
Mr. Sheth prescribed his patient a host of drugs over the three years he treated her. Among them: Ultram, a pain pill; Lipitor, for cholesterol; Normadine, for blood pressure; Norphalex, a muscle relaxant, and Nasonex, for her sinuses.
"He always knew what to give me," she said. "He knew me medically very well, much better than any other doctor ever has. It helped me feel much, much better.
She said she was "stunned" and "numb" when it became public that her doctor was not a doctor. She said she told him things she would not tell her family members. He was the only person she fully trusted.
Henry County Hospital, in its attempts to start a clinic in Deshler, had hoped to bring in a different doctor, Dr. Eric Smith, but he is Canadian and there were immigration issues holding up the move.
So they turned to Mr. Sheth.
"Dr. Sheth saw the need and has made the commitment," Mr. Coholich wrote in his letter to all Henry County residents. Mr. Sheth is a signal of "the hospital's focus on physician recruitment," he wrote.
The hospital renovated part of a nursing home to make room for the new town doctor. Mr. Sheth was set to start his practice there in August.
Problems began to mount, though, in April, when he applied for privileges on the medical staff at Flower Hospital, where he had been for the last three years. With privileges, Mr. Sheth would have been able to treat his Deshler patients at Flower if equipment there was needed.
But Flower's policies require the hospital to check the backgrounds of anyone requesting privileges, including checking up on their education. The fact that Mr. Sheth had no medical school diploma became known, and he was thrown out of the residency program and his case turned over to law-enforcement authorities, officials at Flower said.
But after Flower learned Mr. Sheth was a fraud, they did not notify any other hospitals – even though the hospital knew he had been searching for other work and at least some of his patients and colleagues knew he had landed a job in Deshler.
"We did not notify anyone, no," Mr. Langhorst said. Henry County Hospital officials learned about Mr. Sheth's legal troubles through the physician rumor mill.
Mr. Coholich said Mr. Sheth would have had to undergo a similar credentialing process at Henry County Hospital and that the snag that caught him at Flower would have caught him there.
That doesn't answer the question why the hospital hired him and put his face on brochures sent to every household in the county before doing a background check.
"Our premise is that he was in a residency program, so we didn't check how he got into that residency program," Mr. Coholich said.
Even with the legal concerns hanging over Mr. Sheth's head, Mr. Coholich paused a few seconds before answering if he would consider hiring Mr. Sheth again.
Meanwhile, Mr. Sheth is preparing his legal defense and, according to his soon-to-be ex-wife, studying for the medical board tests and looking for another residency.


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50 years after moon landing, Mission Control is painstakingly recreated
NASA's Apollo-era Mission Control has been restored to the way it looked when two men landed on the moon.
Flight controllers at NASA's Mission Operations Control Room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston celebrate the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission on July 24, 1969.
— NASA via AP
Now...
Original flight control consoles and binders at the newly restored Apollo Mission Control Room on June 28.
Project Apollo's Mission Operations Control Room has been meticulously recreated down to the tan carpeting, gray-green wallpaper, white ceiling panels, woven-cushion seats, amber glass ashtrays and retro coffee cups.
— Kacey Cherry / AFP - Getty Images
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A 1960s-era can of Royal Crown cola.
Intent on authenticity, restorers scoured eBay and vintage shops for ashtrays and cups and turned to 3D-laser printing to recreate lids for the back-of-the-seat ashtrays in the glassed-in visitors' section overlooking the control room. Old binders for reams of paper were collected. Seat cushions were handwoven. Ceiling tiles were hand stamped.
— Robert Markowitz / NASA
A television monitor at Mission Control on July 20, 1969 shows astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the surface of the moon.
— AP
The goal was "to capture the look and feel of July of '69," said NASA's restoration project manager, Jim Thornton.
Cigarette haze gone, cigarette packs remain
A crumpled pack of cigarettes lies in an ashtray at the restored Mission Control.
— Todd Spoth / The New York Times via Redux Pictures
Casual disarray
Modern LED lights and flat screens were installed to bring the consoles alive with images and flashing buttons.
Flight director Eugene F. Kranz sits at the flight director console during a simulation in April 1965 prior to the Gemini-Titan 4 mission. The mission was the first to be partially controlled from the Houston site.
— NASA
Gene Kranz on July 17, 2019 as he sits at the console where he worked as flight director during the Gemini and Apollo missions.
Kranz pointed out that the air vents used to be black from all the cigarette smoke, not sparkly clean like they are now.
With all the empty seats, the room reminds him of a shift change when flight controllers would hit the restroom.
"When I sit down here and I'm in the chair at the console ... I hear these words, 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed,'" Kranz said during a sneak preview of the restored control room at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
— Michael Wyke / AP
An audience views the recreation of the moon landing inside the newly restored Mission Control.
The room was last used for space shuttle flights in the 1990s, then abandoned and opened to tourists.
The restoration effort finally got traction in 2017. The room was closed, and construction began. More than $5 million was raised, most of it donations.
It reopened to the public on Monday, July 1.
Text by AP and NBC News.
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If you have been seeking information about how to get food stamps in Honolulu but you are uncertain of the process or some of the information that you may need in order to apply, here is everything that you may need to know in order to expedite the process.
Where Can I Register for the Snap Food Stamp Program in Honolulu, HA?
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Author: Joyce Lim
Wirecard Singapore has lost a third of its staff, two months after the authorities here forced the digital payments company to cease its core business activities amid an investigation, The Straits Times has learnt.
At its peak, the company employed more than 350 people at its office on the 14th floor of Mapletree Business City, where the call centre, sales deployment team, regional commercial team and project management office are located.
In October, Wirecard told The Straits Times it had 250 staff here - including 180 locals.
Industry sources told ST that those who left the company held roles in IT and relationship management. Singapore is home to Wirecard's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Pasir Panjang.
The remaining workforce is working from home and has been lending support to Wirecard's businesses in Malaysia and Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, ST understands the firm is looking for a buyer, with at least one party showing interest in acquiring part of Wirecard's business in Singapore.
A spokesman for Wirecard SG declined comment except to say it is complying with Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) directives, adding: "There have been no redundancies to date."
MAS also directed the firm to return all customers' funds within two weeks.
The shutdown of its payment services affected thousands of consumers, who were unable to make online or credit card payments with merchants on Wirecard SG platforms.
M1, which has more than two million customers in Singapore, had its monthly recurring payment option disrupted. Payment services for Safra and Starbucks were also disrupted.
Affected merchants were unable to accept credit card payments from consumers until they made arrangements with new service providers.
Parent company Wirecard AG filed for insolvency in Germany in June after admitting that €1.9 billion (S$3.1 billion) in cash was missing from its accounts.
The company's former chief executive Markus Braun and several other top executives have been arrested on fraud charges.
Braun, who faces fraud and embezzlement charges, was temporarily released from jail last month to attend an inquiry by lawmakers, but he declined to answer more than 50 questions and denied any wrongdoing.
German prosecutors also launched a probe into Ernst & Young's audit of Wirecard AG earlier this month, after an accounting watchdog filed a report accusing the firm of criminality in its work for the failed payments company.
Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department (CAD), which deals with white-collar crime, has been looking into Wirecard's operations here since February last year, after reports by the Financial Times raised allegations of fraud at its office in Singapore.
The CAD is also investigating a Singapore company, Citadelle Corporate Services, in relation to Wirecard's accounting scandal.
Citadelle director R. Shanmugaratnam is facing a total of 14 charges from the Singapore authorities, involving about €1.2 billion.
The charges include 11 counts of falsifying letters to various Wirecard-related entities for which Citadelle allegedly held millions of euros in escrow accounts, when the accounts either did not hold such sums or were not held by Citadelle.
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Remains found in wooded area identified as missing teenager
Woman found dead in Jacksonville's Woodstock neighborhood
Hunt for teen burglary suspects leads to home with unattended babies
Bicyclists identified in deadly St. Johns hit-and-run crash
Girlfriend: Teen 'screamed my name' when he was shot, killed in Palm Coast
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Second Parkland school shooting survivor commits suicide
'This is the aftermath of a massacre,' March for Our Lives organizer says
By Tim Swift - Local10.com Digital Editor
Posted: 12:03 PM, March 24, 2019 Updated: 1:50 PM, March 24, 2019
PARKLAND, Fla. - A student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School died of an apparent suicide Saturday, raising fresh concerns after a 19-year-old survivor of the 2018 mass shooting took her own life just days earlier.
The Coral Springs Police Department confirmed Sunday that a student had died, but officers did not identify the student.
Sydney Aiello, who was a student at Stoneman Douglas during the shooting, died last Sunday.
Her mother, Cara, told CNN that Aiello, a student at Florida Atlantic University, suffered from survivor's guilt and had recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Aiello was on campus on the day of the shooting, but was not in the building where the students were killed. She was a close friend of Meadow Pollack, one of the 17 people who were killed.
On social media, many survivors and parents of the victims referred to the Aiello and the student who died Saturday as the latest victims of the shooting.
"How many more kids have to be taken from us as a result of suicide for the government or school district to do anything? RIP 17+2," said David Hogg, an MSD graduate and political activist.
Stoneman Douglas Principal Parkland Ty Thompson and Parkland Mayor Christine Hunschofsky directed people to the Broward County Resiliency Center in Pine Trails Park. The center offers crisis and grief counseling.
Family members said Sydney Aiello suffered from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in recent months.
"This is the aftermath of a massacre. Mental health care treatment in schools is atrociously underfunded and under-resourced, even in Parkland," said Ryan Deitsch, who helped organize the March for Our Lives. "Now is beyond the time to invest in the well being of our students and our future."
If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. You will be connected to a certified crisis center near you.
This is a breaking news story. It will be updated.
Copyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.
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Q: measure temperature in a solenoid without sensot is possible to meassure the temperature change in solenoid , without using a sensor?
I know the resistance will change with temperature, but are other parameters affected also ? will my current waveform change ??

A: Yes, you can estimate the change in temperature of the copper windings of a solenoid, by measuring their resistance. The tempco of resistance for copper is about +10% for every 25C rise. You can get accurate values from a resource like Kaye and Laby online, here.
If your driving source is sensitive to the resistance, then yes, your waveform will change slightly. If it is a high output impedance current source, then no, the waveform will not change with changes in resistance.
Other parameters like the expansion due to temperature affecting the self inductance or capacitance will be pretty negligible, unless you make very sensitive measurements.

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Клаудио Родригес Гомес ( более известный, как Гуга ; родился 29 августа 1998 года в Рио-де-Жанейро, Бразилия) — бразильский футболист, защитник клуба «Атлетико Минейро».

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Гуга — воспитанник клубов «Ботафого» и «Аваи». 4 февраля 2018 года в матче против «Крисиумы» состоялся его дебют за основной состав последнего. 15 февраля в поединке против «Бруски» Гуга забил свой первый гол за «Аваи». 14 апреля в матче против «Вила-Нова» он дебютировал в бразильской Серии B. В начале 2019 года Гуга перешёл в «Атлетико Минейро». 28 апреля в матче против своего бывшего клуба «Аваи» он дебютировал в бразильской Серии А.

Летом 2020 года московский «Спартак» вёл переговоры о трансфере игрока, но в итоге «красно-белые» отказались от сделки.

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Игроки ФК «Аваи»
Игроки ФК «Атлетико Минейро»

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April futures for delivery of bullion advanced 0.49% to $1,308.1 per troy ounce as of 18:52 GMT on COMEX today. Silver for delivery in May gained 0.93% to $15.46 per ounce. Other metals fared worse, with spot price for platinum falling 0.08% to $861.91 per ounce and palladium staying little changed at $1,600.07. Contract for delivery of copper in May dropped 0.27% to $2.913 per pound.


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Saturn is the most distant of the five planets known to ancient stargazers. In 1610, Italian Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to gaze at Saturn through a telescope. To his surprise, he saw a pair of objects on either side of the planet, which he later drew as "cup handles" attached to the planet on each side. In 1659, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens announced that this was a ring encircling the planet.
In 1675, Italian-born astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini discovered a gap between what are now called the A and B rings.
Like Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, Saturn is a gas giant. It is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Its volume is 755 times greater than Earth's. Winds in the upper atmosphere reach 500 meters per second in the equatorial region. (In contrast, the strongest hurricane-force winds on Earth top out at about 110 meters per second.) These superfast winds, combined with heat rising from within the planet's interior, cause the yellow and gold bands visible in its atmosphere.
Saturn's ring system is the most extensive and complex in our solar system; it extends hundreds of thousands of kilometers from the planet. In fact, Saturn and its rings would just fit in the distance between Earth and the Moon. In the early 1980s, NASA's two Voyager spacecraft revealed that Saturn's rings are made mostly of water ice, and they found "braided" rings, ringlets, and "spokes" - dark features in the rings that seem to circle the planet at a different rate from that of the surrounding ring material. Some of the small moons orbit within the ring system as well. Material in the rings ranges in size from a few micrometers to several tens of meters.
Saturn has 34 known natural satellites (moons) and there are probably many more waiting to be discovered. The largest, Titan, is a bit bigger than the planet Mercury. Titan is shrouded in a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere that might be similar to what Earth's was like long ago.
Further study of this moon promises to reveal much about planetary formation and, perhaps, about the early days of Earth as well.
In addition to Titan, Saturn has many smaller icy satellites. From Enceladus, which shows evidence of surface changes, to Iapetus, with one hemisphere darker than asphalt and the other as bright as snow, each of Saturn's satellites is unique.
Saturn, the rings, and many of the satellites lie totally within Saturn's enormous magnetosphere, the region of space in which the behavior of electrically charged particles is influenced more by Saturn's magnetic field than by the solar wind. Images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show that Saturn's polar regions have aurorae similar to Earth's Northern and Southern Lights. Aurorae occur when charged particles spiral into a planet's atmosphere along magnetic field lines.
Saturn: Facts & Figures
Discovered By: Known by the Ancients
Date of Discovery: Unknown
Average Distance from the Sun
Metric: 1,426,725,400 km
English: 885,904,700 miles
Scientific Notation: 1.4267254 x 109 km (9.53707 A.U.)
By Comparison: 9.53707 x Earth
Perihelion (closest)
Scientific Notation: 1.349467 x 109 km (9.021 A.U.)
By Comparison: 9.177 x Earth
Aphelion (farthest)
Scientific Notation: 1.503983 x 109 km (10.054 A.U.)
Equatorial Radius
Metric: 60,268 km
English: 37,449 miles
Scientific Notation: 6.0268 x 104 km
Equatorial Circumference
Metric: 378,675 km
English: 235,298 miles
Scientific Notation: 3.78675 x 105 km
Metric: 827,130,000,000,000 km3
Scientific Notation: 8.2713 x 1014 km3
By Comparison: 763.6 x Earth
Metric: 568,510,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
Scientific Notation: 5.6851 x 1026 kg
By Comparison: 95.16 x Earth
Metric: 0.70 g/cm3
Metric: 43,466,000,000 km2
English: 16,782,000,000 square miles
Equatorial Surface Gravity
Metric: 7.207 m/s2
English: 23.64 ft/s2
By Comparison: If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 74 pounds on Saturn.
Metric: 127,760 km/h
English: 79,390 mph
Scientific Notation: 35,490 m/s
By Comparison: Escape velocity of Earth is 25,022 mph.
Sidereal Rotation Period (Length of Day)
0.44401 Earth days
10.656 hours
By Comparison: .0445 x Earth
Sidereal Orbit Period (Length of Year)
29.4 Earth years
10755.7 Earth days
Mean Orbit Velocity
Metric: 34,821 km/h
Scientific Notation: 9,672.4 m/s
Orbital Eccentricity
.0541506
By Comparison: 3.24 x Earth
Orbital Inclination to Ecliptic
2.484 degrees
Equatorial Inclination to Orbit
26.73 degrees
Orbital Circumference
English: 5,421,000,000 miles
Scientific Notation: 8.725 x 109 km
Effective Temperature
Metric: -178 °C
English: -288 °F
Scientific Notation: 95 K
Atmospheric Constituents
Hydrogen, Helium
Scientific Notation: H2, He
By Comparison: Earth's atmosphere consists mostly of N2 and O2.
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In sought after Yeerongpilly, this is a truly delightful family home which features beautiful art deco detailing and contemporary finishes. It sits on the high side of the street with a northerly aspect and while highset at the front, its spacious rear deck is only a step or two down to the fenced back garden. This set up is perfect for families with young children or relaxed weekend entertaining.
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I was born in April of 1977 and I am originally from a small town in Piedmont, a region in the northwest of Italy.
My earliest recollection of something related to space has to be the image of cosmonaut Alexey Leonov on Voshkhod 2 and his EVA in March of 1965. It was the cover of a space book that I had as a kid. I was so fascinated by it that I drew it too. That's how I got interested in space exploration.
My cousin and I regularly spoke about American and Soviet missions of the 60s and 70s. We use to enjoy exchanging information about astronauts, particularly about the ones that flew for the Mercury, the Gemini and the Apollo projects. The astronauts have always been an inspiration for me since I was a kid. I always had a great respect for them and I memorized all of their names and their missions. I looked at them as models of inspiration, bravery and courage. I have always been mesmerized by their accomplishments. My cousin earned a BS in aerospace engineering. I earned an AS in computer science from GCC, a BS in computer engineering from CSUN and a MS in electrical engineering from SJSU.
I was not lucky enough to be born to see the Apollo missions but I was lucky enough to see the Space Shuttle go into orbit many times on television and I lived through that era as well as seeing the International Space Station being built.
I am a big fan of the space race era, particularly from 1957 to 1975. I enjoy reading and watching material related to manned missions from 1961 to 1972, in particular about the Apollo missions. In August of 1996 I visited the KSC for the first time and saw the Mercury-Redstone, the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle. I returned to KSC in March of 2000 where I saw Rick Searfoss give a speech. In April of 2014 I had a chance to visit the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia where I saw and saluted many of my Apollo heroes from Grissom to Conrad and Roosa. In July of 2014 I had a chance to watch and listen Buzz Aldrin give a speech on the USS Hornet (CV-12) in California.
I have lived and worked in Piedmont, Michigan, California and Scotland. I currently live in Silicon Valley. I am an electrical engineer. My field is analog, hardware and power electronics. I speak 5 languages and some of my interests are music, electronics, photography, reading, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek mythology, beekeeping, baseball, history of space exploration, traveling, medieval castles and cooking.
Meeting an astronaut must be a cool experience. Being able to talk to any of them would be exciting. If I had to fly on a mission with an astronaut I would probably pick John Young because he is the most experienced and decorated of the bunch. I feel somewhat intimidated by his position in the pantheon of astronauts but I also felt he always had everything under control. If I could have a beer with an astronaut, I would like to have it with David Scott, Charles Duke or Eugen Cernan because they transpire as kind and genuine folks. However, if I could spend a day with a specific astronaut, I would have liked to spend it with Charles "Pete" Conrad because he was amazing at his job but he could also be funny.