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Report card: Cardinals' special teams earn A in season-ending loss
Kent Somers
Cardinals columnist Kent Somers offers his position-by-position grades on how the team performed on Sunday against the Seahawks:
Passing offense: D
Josh Rosen threw a touchdown pass for the first time since Nov. 25. Larry Fitzgerald caught that touchdown pass with one hand. Outside of those two items, there wasn't much positive about the passing game. Rosen was sacked six times and fumbled twice. He passed for only 149 yards and often missed high early in the game, continuing a trend for him.
Rushing offense: D
The Cardinals continued to try to pound the middle for yards and were continually thwarted. They rushed for 85 yards on 24 carries. David Johnson did gain 62 yards, however. Not much more could be expected given the team's injury problems on the offense line. Maybe the brightest spot was Johnson finishing the season healthy.
Pass defense: B
The Cardinals sacked Russell Wilson six times, with tackle Rodney Gunter getting two of them. Chandler Jones also had a sack, which means he will donate $20,000 to Phoenix Children's Hospital. Wilson passed for just 152 yards. He threw for a touchdown and did lead the Seahawks on the game-winning drive. Somehow, Tyler Lockett got behind the secondary for a 37-yard gain. That set up the game-winning field goal.
Rush defense: C
The Seahawks rushed for 182 yards and averaged 5.4 yards a carry. Oddly, though, the Cardinals did a solid job. A 61-yard run by Chris Carson skewed that statistic. The defense played well throughout almost the entire game. In one stretch, the Seahawks failed to gain a first down on seven of eight possessions. If the Cardinals weren't so bad on offense, they would have won.
Special teams: A
It was the best performance in years. Dennis Gardeck deflected a punt. Cameron Malveaux blocked one that Gardeck recovered for a touchdown. Pharoh Cooper had a punt return of 45 yards. Zane Gonzalez made field goals of 36, 50 and 55 yards. And punter Andy Lee had a net average of 45.4 yards. Special teams compensated for an offense that struggled to score.
Coaching: C
This team played hard and that's a testament to what players think of coach Steve Wilks. If the Cardinals had played this well in other games, they would have finished with three or four more victories this season. Wilks did make a questionable decision at the end of the first half by having Rosen pass the ball with 11 seconds and no timeouts left, rather than try a 48-yard field goal. Rosen was sacked, which cost the Cardinals three points.
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Josh Rosen – 2.5 stars
Yet again, Rosen managed the game well, but didn't set the Seahawks defense on fire by any means. He missed throws high early on, but settled down amid the crowd noise in Seattle. He completed 18 of 34 for 149 yards and one touchdown.
David Johnson – 2 stars
Johnson's inefficient rushing season came to a similar ending in the season finale. He ran for 62 yards on 17 carries and caught three passes for 6 yards. He did, however, run in a somewhat controversial two-point conversion that was upheld despite the appearance that his elbow was down short of the goal line.
Larry Fitzgerald – 4 stars
Late in the first half, Fitzgerald made a one-handed, over-the shoulder catch for a 15-yard touchdown. He finished with four receptions for 36 yards. But if Sunday's game was his last, it was a fitting ending, regardless of the final stats.
Cardinals special teams – 4 stars
This unit saved its best performance of the season for its last. Pharoh Cooper helped flip the field with a 45-yard punt return. The Cardinals blocked a punt and recovered it for a touchdown. And Zane Gonzalez hit 3 of 3 field goals, including a game-tying 55-yarder with 1:49 left.
Russell Wilson – 2 stars
The Cardinals defense did a great job of containing Wilson all game. He was sacked six times and finished with minus-2 yards on two rushes, and his only touchdown came on blown coverage. He finished the day 12-of-21 for 152 yards with the TD and an interception.
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Q: Why does \$ reduce to $ inside backquotes [though not inside $(...)]? Going over the POSIX standard, I came across another rather technical/pointless question. It states:

Within the backquoted style of command substitution, <backslash> shall retain its literal meaning, except when followed by: '$' , '`' , or <backslash>.

It's easy to see why '`' and '\' lose their literal meanings: nested command substitution demands a "different" backquote inside the command substitution, which in turn forces '\' to lose its literal meaning. So, for instance, the following different behavior seems reasonable:
$ echo $(echo \\\\)
\\
$ echo `echo \\\\`
\

But what about '$'? I.e., what's the point or, more concretely, a possible benefit of the following difference?
$ echo $(echo \$\$)
$$
$ echo `echo \$\$`
4735

As '$' by itself is not ruled out inside backquotes, it looks like you would use either '$' or '\\\$' all the time, but never the middle case '\$'.
To recap,
$ echo `echo $$` # PID, OK
4735
$ echo `echo \\\$\\\$` # literal "$$", OK
$$
$ echo `echo \$\$` # What's the point?
4735

PS: I know this question is rather technical... I myself go for the more modern $(...) substitution all the time, but I'm still curious.

A: By adding a \, you make the inner subshell expand it instead of the outer shell.  A good example would be to actually force the starting of a new shell, like this:
$ echo $$
4988
$ echo `sh -c 'echo $$'`
4988
$ echo `sh -c 'echo \$\$'`
4990
$ echo `sh -c 'echo \\\$\\\$'`
$$

A: Basic Answer
Consider the following command, which finds the base directory where gcc was installed:
gcc_base=$(dirname $(dirname $(which gcc)))

With the $(...) notation, there is no problem with the parsing; it is trivial and is one of the primary reason why the notation is recommended.  The equivalent command using back-ticks is:
gcc_base=`dirname \`dirname \\\`which gcc\\\`\``

When the shell first parses this command, it encounters the first backtick, and has to find the matching close backtick.  That's when the quoted section comes into effect:

Within the backquoted style of command substitution,  shall retain its literal meaning, except when followed by: '$' , '`' , or .

gcc_base=`dirname \`dirname \\\`which gcc\\\`\``
                  ^         ^ ^          ^ ^ ^
                  1         2 3          4 5 6

*

*backslash-backtick - special rule

*backslash-backslash - special rule

*backslash-backtick - special rule

*backslash-backslash - special rule

*backslash-backtick - special rule

*backslash-backtick - special rule

So, the unescaped backtick at the end marks the end of the outermost backtick command.  The sub-shell that processes that command sees:
dirname `dirname \`which gcc\``

The backslash-back escapes are given the special treatment again, and the sub-sub-shell sees:
dirname `which gcc`

*

*The sub-sub-sub-shell gets to see which gcc and evaluates it (e.g. /usr/gcc/v4.6.1/bin/gcc).

*The sub-sub-shell evaluates dirname /usr/gcc/v4.6.1/bin/gcc and produces /usr/gcc/v4.6.1/bin.

*The sub-shell evaluates dirname /usr/gcc/v4.6.1/bin and produces /usr/gcc/v4.6.1.

*The shell assigns /usr/gcc/v4.6.1 to gcc_base.

In this example, the backslashes were only followed by the special characters - backslash, backtick, dollar.  A more complex example would have, for example, \" sequences in the command, and then the special rule would not apply; the \" would simply be copied through unchanged and passed to the relevant sub-shell(s).
Extraordinarily Complex Stuff
For example, suppose you had a command with a blank in its name (heaven forbid; and this shows why!) such as totally  amazing (two blanks; it is a more stringent test than a single blank).  Then you could write:
$ cmd="totally  amazing"
$ echo "$cmd"
totally  amazing
$ which "$cmd"
/Users/jleffler/bin/totally  amazing
$ dirname $(which "$cmd")
usage: dirname path
$ # Oops!
$ dirname "$(which \"\$cmd\")"
"$cmd": not found
.
$ # Oops!
$ dirname "$(which \"$cmd\")"
"totally: not found
amazing": not found
.
$ dirname "$(eval which \"$cmd\")"
totally amazing: not found
.
$ dirname "$(eval which \"\$cmd\")"
/Users/jleffler/bin
$ # Ouch, but at least that worked!
$ # But how to extend that to the next level?
$ dirname "$(eval dirname \"\$\(eval which \\\"\\\$cmd\\\"\)\")"
/Users/jleffler
$

OK - well, that's the "easy" one!  Do you need a better reason to avoid spaces in command names or path names?  I've also demonstrated to my own satisfaction that it works correctly with pathnames that contain spaces.
So, can we compress the learning cycle for backticks?  Yes...
$ cat x3.sh
cmd="totally  amazing"
which "$cmd"
dirname "`which \"$cmd\"`"
dirname "`dirname \"\`which \\"\$cmd\\\"\`\"`"
$ sh -x x3.sh
+ cmd='totally  amazing'
+ which 'totally  amazing'
/Users/jleffler/bin/totally  amazing
++ which 'totally  amazing'
+ dirname '/Users/jleffler/bin/totally  amazing'
/Users/jleffler/bin
+++ which 'totally  amazing'
++ dirname '/Users/jleffler/bin/totally  amazing'
+ dirname /Users/jleffler/bin
/Users/jleffler
$

That is still a ghastly, daunting, non-intuitive set of escape sequences.  It's actually shorter than the version for $(...) notation, and doesn't use any eval commands (which always complicate things).

A: This probably has to do with the strange way the Bourne shell parses substitutions (the real Korn shell is slightly similar but most other shells do not exhibit the strange behaviour at all).
Basically, the Bourne shell's parser does not interpret substitutions ($ and `) inside double-quotes, or parameter substitution ($) anywhere. This is only done at expansion time. Also, in many cases unmatched quotes (single-quotes, double-quotes or backquotes) are not an error; the closing quote is assumed at the end.
One consequence is that if a parameter substitution with a word containing spaces like ${v+a b} occurs outside double-quotes, it is not parsed correctly and will cause an expansion error when executed. The space needs to be quoted. Other shells do not have this problem.
Another consequence is that double-quotes inside backquotes inside double-quotes do not work reliably. For example,
v=0; echo "`v=1; echo " $v "`echo b"

will print
 1 echo b

in most shells (one command substitution), but
 0 b

in the Bourne shell and the real Korn shell (ksh93) (two command substitutions).
(Ways to avoid the above issue are to assign the substitution to a variable first, so double-quotes are not necessary, or to use new-style command substitution.)
The real Korn shell (ksh93) attempts to preserve much of the strange Bourne shell behaviour but does parse substitutions at parse time. Thus, ${v+a b} is accepted but the above example has "strange" behaviour. A further strange thing is that something like
echo "`${v+pwd"

is accepted (the result is like with the missing closing brace). And where does the opening brace in the error message from
echo "`${v+pwd`"

come from?
The below session shows an obscure case where $ and \$ differ in a non-obvious way:
$ echo ${.sh.version}
Version JM 93u 2011-02-08
$ v=0; echo "`v=1; echo "${v+p q}"`echo b"
p qecho b
$ v=0; echo "`v=1; echo "\${v+p q}"`echo b"
p{ q}b

A: Basically, a backslash is an escape character. You put it before another character to represent something special. An 'n','t','$' and '\'are these special characters.
"\n" --> newline
"\t" --> tab (indent)
"\$" --> $ (because a $ before a word in shell denotes a variable)
"\\" --> \

The backslash before characters is only interpreted the above way when it is inside quotes.
If you want to find more info or other escape chars go here

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Mrs Samwell, supported by her husband's family, quietly wept as the verdict was delivered, and Gibbons puffed out his cheeks and glanced towards his family.
Mrs Samwell held her husband's hand, telling him she loved him as he lay dying from catastrophic crush injuries to his chest and heart after the burglary in April.
The couple were woken in the dead of night as Gibbons broke into their £450,000 house in Cranbourne Road, Chorlton, south Manchester, snatching the keys to Mr Samwell's Audi S3 sports car from the kitchen table.
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After many years of ruling, as their King, Naylamp passed away, and the Mochica priests made the people believe that he was immortal, as his eldest son, Cium, replaced him. Thus, this mythical origin gave rise to the Mochica Culture that flourished with important administrative and ceremonial centers, in the region, such as Túcume and Sipán. Then, the Mochicas´ decadence gave way to another culture called "Lambayeque" which developed between the 8th and 16th centuries.
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Q: CSS overlay image mask over a gradient background flashing on page load I have a problem I'd like to solve without JavaScript-preloading. The 'jumbotron' or banner at the top of the page consists of the background gradient overlaid with an alpha masked image.
When the page below loads, the gradient background is visible for a fraction of a second before the image loads (Chrome 23 on OS/X -- with empty browser cache):
http://criticue-staging.herokuapp.com
The image is pretty small; I've tried using :before to preload the image but it doesn't seem to work.
Here's the CSS for the jumbotron:
.jumbotron {
  background: #550074; /* Old browsers */
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Is there anything that can be done, preferably without JavaScript preloading?
Thank you so much in advance.
UPDATE: I also tried embedding the images but it doesn't do the trick:
Here's the full CSS:
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A team of biophysicists and engineers was able to create a natural-feeling prosthetic by taking a smarter approach to amputation. In this new approach, the scientists carefully rebuilt the relationship between opposing muscles (like how your bicep and tricep pull your forearm in opposite directions) and integrated a prosthetic limb with that muscular relationship. When they did so, patients felt a restored sense of proprioception – the ability to discern the location and movement of your limbs without looking at them.
Shriya Srinivasan, one of the researchers on the MIT team, realized that amputation techniques had barely progressed since the American Civil War. Thus, she was inspired to see if there was a better way to do things that might give rise to a better integration of person and machine, she explained to Popular Mechanics.
"It feels like… you put the bones back in my foot," said one patient who was able to wiggle a brain-controlled neuroprosthetic foot. This occurred without any noticeable delay between the time the brain sent out the signal for the foot to move, and when the bionic limb responded.
MIT's Tyler Clites, who led the research, and his team conducted tests on seven people who received the improved amputations. In those tests, the individuals were able to wiggle robotic feet, climb steps, and do other tasks that many take for granted – but pose challenges for people with prosthetic limbs – without any major delays as their bionic legs interpreted the brain's instructions.
Work like this marks a major step forward in prosthetics research, as it approaches its ultimate goal of restoring total autonomy to people's lives. This focus on the biological side of the interface of biology and engineering could lead to a future where amputation isn't necessarily a last-ditch medical effort, but one where people can walk away and still do many (if not all) of the things they could do with their original limbs.


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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – Biblical reflections Day 3 January 20, 2021
We bring you the third in a series of Biblical reflections for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which has been jointly prepared by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.
A Conversation on Anti-Human Trafficking January 20, 2021
Sr Gabriella Bottani and Sr Jean Schafer in conversation together remind us that human trafficking is real and happens in every corner of the globe.
Catholic News Diocesan Events Katy Beedle Rice
Jake Coffman, 23, a World Youth Day pilgrim from Juneau, Alaska, checks his electronic device during a lecture at the Rio Vivo Welcome Center in Rio de Janeiro July 24. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
Youth minister Jacob Coffman goes the extra mile
By Katy Beedle Rice
Jacob Coffman, youth minister for the Diocese of Juneau is tired. Last week he returned from the trip of a lifetime where he shared Mass with 3 million Catholics and stood 15 feet away from Pope Francis. Since coming home from World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro he's spent his time helping out with Vacation Bible School at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, revving local teens up for a September diocesan-wide retreat (the first in over 5 years), moving to a new apartment, and trying to recover from jet lag.
Talking with Jacob about his past 10 months though, one realizes this is just par for the course. On September 14th, Jacob left his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina to drive 3000 miles and then take a 3 ½ day ferry ride to finally arrive in Juneau, Alaska, his new home, just in time for the annual Diocesan Full-Time Ministers meeting. Jacob recalls, "I drove off the ferry and then two hours later I got on a plane and went to Wrangell."
Jacob found out about the job opening in Juneau while browsing on the website catholicjobs.com. Jacob recalls, "I sent my resume in and the bishop called me two days later. At first I had thought, 'there's no way I'm going to get a job in Alaska.' But then when the bishop called me about it, I thought 'This is real!'"
Along with being a resource for the Juneau Diocese, Jacob also coordinates the youth group for teens in Juneau from both St. Paul the Apostle and the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary parishes. After returning from the Wrangell meeting, Jacob got to work reviving the Life Teen Ministry in Juneau, coordinating fundraising events for World Youth Day Rio, and planning a road-trip to the Alaska Catholic Youth Conference (ACYC) in Anchorage.
Jacob's roots in youth ministry go back to his own high school experience when he acted as a peer minister at retreats. He reflects, "None of this would have happened if it hadn't been for the director of youth ministries in my diocese, Jerry White. He kind of turned everything around. He provided me with an opportunity to step up in my faith and help minister to others." Another figure who still mentors Jacob in ministry is his former high school youth minister. A high point of the World Youth Day experience came when Jacob realized that the pilgrims from Juneau were on the same flight back to the United States from Rio with his South Carolina youth group: "I was able to introduce [my youth minister] to the three teens who went from the Juneau Diocese and to my pastor." Jacob counts on his former youth minister for support and ideas: "I'll call him and ask him about retreats and how he does them and stuff like that."
For the World Youth Day experience, the number of participants from Southeast might have been small, but Jacob knows the impact was anything but. "These are memories they are really going to cherish. They dove all in." As for himself Jacob reflects, "For me especially what I really found moving, was the moment during Adoration when they took 5 to 10 minutes of silence. You had 3 million people on the beach and not a sound was going on. We were 50 feet from the water and you could hear the waves crashing against the beach. It was just completely silent and you knew that 3 million people recognized that that was the true presence of God right there in front of us."
For the past ten months, much of Jacob's time has been spent making sure that young people from Southeast Alaska had the experience of traveling to World Youth Day and ACYC—even going so far as to shave his head and beard in a fundraising event. "I'm willing to do whatever I can to get teens to a retreat," Jacob says, though he admits that next time, "the beard stays."
For the ACYC trip, Jacob led a group of ten teens and a few adult chaperones on an epic road trip from Haines, through Canada to Anchorage. The drive took two days with the group stopping in Tok for a night. Jacob said with the 4 hour ferry ride and 16 hours of driving, the group easily won the honor of longest travel time to get to ACYC. When Bishop Burns met them at the conference he told the teens, "You took a pilgrimage." Jacob added, "My kids keep asking me if we can do that again. They loved it."
For next year's conference, however, Jacob said the group might need to rent a bus or two if his plans for the future come to fruition. "I challenged Bob [the youth minister of St. Benedict's parish in Anchorage] that Southeast Alaska would have more teens attend than his parish. [This past year] his parish had 54."
As a youth minister, Jacob strives to show teens a lived example of discipleship. "It has to be real to them," he shares, "You have to tell them, this is how I experience it in my own life." Sharing faith experiences from his own personal faith journey has become a touchstone of his ministry, "I'm not going to tell you anything I haven't seen or experienced myself." Although Jacob feels comfortable sharing his personal experiences with teens, he's not always sure it gets through. "I always wonder about my talks, like if I talk too much, and sometimes I feel like they're not listening. Then at the Teen ACTS retreat a teen came up and said, 'You know when you said this . . .' and I was like, wow, they are listening."
As Jacob looks ahead to another year of ministry in Southeast Alaska he has some big plans. First is a Diocesan Youth Retreat, the first in several years, which Jacob is coordinating. He's bringing up a group, "5 Thousand," from South Carolina with whom he's done retreats before. Now that the Juneau youth group is up and running, Jacob would also like to spend time traveling to the other parishes and missions around Southeast Alaska offering assistance and ideas as the Diocesan Youth Minister.
Jacob's plans for growth and enthusiasm for his ministry might give the youth minister from Anchorage pause about their bet for the next ACYC. His passion for bringing teens to Christ through retreats, ministry and pilgrimages knows no bounds. As Jacob says with a laugh, "I already lost all my hair for it."
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What Program did you choose and why?
Medical Program because as an art student science + health isn't a subject I get to witness very often and I was curious to what I might learn.
The local coordinator and his family were very very kind. We had everything we needed to feel at home and guided us through navigating our daily routine as well as other adventures. Sudhir is a very good map drawer. When we were getting eaten alive by mosquitoes he bought us a bug zapping tennis racket which turned into quite the mosquito zapping game.
May be not the most surprising but the most inspiring the people here in Nepal are the most cheerful, kind trusting people I have ever met. Everyone is so eager to help you find your way if your lost or help you over puddles of mud.
As an art student I didn't anticipate the gnarly things I would see, I didn't think I was squeamish around blood. Apparently, I was at first. I had to give myself a few pep talks but after a while you get used to it.
The thing that I've found is on many blog posts on the internet they'll tell you to bring loose fitting cotton pants and t-shirts but really wear what you wear at manager as long as you're covering your knees and somewhat of your shoulders.
If you are in the medical program we wore scrubs but it would have been easier just to wear what you want and just put a white medical coat over that.
Close to the community hospital where you'll be working if you were in the medical program. There's a large stupa you can walk around shop, eat. Its most off the crazy main road of Kathmandu but this place is peaceful and a nice escape.
Witnessed many surgeries one of which was woman that had a gangrenious toe and I got a front and center view of its amputation as well as her follow ups with the doctors.
How would you describe your accommodation, meals, security?
Accommodations, meals and security was excellent. I was more than comfortable. The meals are delicious and as far as security, I never felt unsafe.
I wished I could have signed up for a longer stay. I am not ready to leave the friends I have made and there is so much to see in Nepal and I feel I have only experiences a pinch of it.
How was the information you received from ABV prior to traveling? (Emails, website, support) was there anything missing or should be included to prepare other volunteers?
The ABV staff was very responsible but a few things to note * Hospital Uniform * Bring masks protecting you from TB, most Americans are not immunized.
Are you willing to speak to other potential ABV volunteers about your volunteer experience?
Yes! I am more than willing to answer any questions anyone has.


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Projected job growth in occupations with large shares of older workers
Elka Torpey | May 2019
Do people today stop working when they turn 55? Some do—but not all.
In March 2019, about 40 percent of people ages 55 and older were working or actively looking for work, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Those who were working were employed in a variety of occupations. BLS data show which of those occupations are expected to add jobs in the coming years.
The chart shows selected occupations that have more than one-third of workers ages 55 and older in which BLS projects average to much faster than average employment growth over the decade for workers of all ages. Workers ages 55 and older made up 48 percent of clergy—the largest share among the occupations shown.
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Selected occupations with projected employment growth, 2016–26, that had large shares of workers ages 55 and older in 2018
Employment growth, projected 2016–26 (percent)
Percent of workers ages 55 and older, 2018
Median annual wage, 2018
Appraisers and assessors of real estate
14 39% $54,980
Technical writers
11 45% 71,850
Property, real estate, and community association managers
Construction and building inspectors
9 44% 28,960
Note: Employment growth and median annual wages are for workers of all ages, not just those ages 55 and older. Wage data exclude self-employed workers.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections (employment growth and wages) and Current Population Survey (percentage of workers ages 55 and older.)
Nearly all of the occupations shown in the chart had a median wage above the $38,640 median for all occupations in 2018. Technical writers had the highest wage, $71,850, of the occupations shown.
Wage data exclude the self-employed, and self-employment is common in several of these occupations. For example, about 42 percent of all property, real estate, and community association managers were self-employed in 2016. Of the occupations shown in the chart, this occupation is projected to add the most jobs over the decade, about 32,600.
Data on shares of older workers are from the BLS Current Population Survey. Employment projections data, as well as wage and self-employment data, are for workers of all ages. For more information, see the BLS Occupational Projections Data. Read about hundreds of occupations, including those in the chart, in the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
Elka Torpey is an economist in the Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections, BLS. She can be reached at torpey.elka@bls.gov.
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Being referred for radiation treatment is an unfamiliar experience to most cancer patients. On these pages, we will explain radiation oncology to you and answer questions that most often exist for our patients. And we will also explain why you should feel remarkably confident in coming to URMC, the region's leader in radiation oncology.
Radiation oncology is one of the three major cancer specialties in oncologic medicine. It uses energy from radiation beams, radio isotopes, or charged particles to target tumors and to eradicate cancer cells.
Radiation beams are usually generated in treatment machines, such as linear accelerators or high-energy CT scanners. Another type of radiation treatment uses radioisotopes, or radioactive materials. These are utilized in radiation implants and radioisotope-labeled molecules in the treatment of various cancers.
In addition to getting rid of cancer, radiation treatment is highly effective in reducing symptoms such as cancer-related pain. Radiation has also been used in the treatment of many benign (non-cancerous) conditions in both adults and children.
At the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, the Department of Radiation Oncology is an essential part of multidisciplinary care. In other words, a team of experts from surgery, medical oncology, radiation oncology, and many other disciplines will come together to evaluate and manage your cancer treatment. This is a unique approach to care and is considered the ideal model of cancer care.
The Department of Radiation Oncology provides state-of-the-art treatment technology to increase the curability of cancer while reducing side effects. Our comprehensive cancer care team includes physician radiation oncologists, radiation physicists, radiation therapists, dosimetrists, nurses, social workers, and nutritionists.
Your treatment will involve a team of healthcare providers from the Department of Radiation Oncology. Typically, a radiation oncologist will direct the radiation treatment process and plans. Your team will also include a secretary, a nurse, a nurse practitioner, a resident physician in training, radiation therapists who operate the treatment machines, and a radiation dosimetrist or physicist specializing in radiation treatment physical plans.
The department also offers assistance from social workers and nutritionists. Support groups for cancer patients are also available. These include disease-specific groups, age-specific groups, and many others.
A typical radiation treatment process begins with an initial consultation with your radiation oncologist. The treatment recommendation, indication, rationale, benefits, side effects, and potential risks will be explained to you. This is followed by a radiation simulation session, which takes approximately one hour. This simulation process ensures the accuracy of your treatment plan.
Your actual treatment will begin 7-14 days later. However, patients with cancer-related emergencies can begin their treatments sooner. Daily treatment visits may take 15 -30 minutes and generally last 1 to 8 weeks, depending on the diagnosis and the treatment plan. The stereotactic brain radiosurgery is generally completed in one session. The stereotactic body radiosurgery is generally completed in less than 10 sessions.
Your radiation oncologist, therapists, and the team nurse will be there for you every step of the way. They will help you assess treatment-related side effects, your progress, and tolerance.
What Technology Do You Offer?
We offer state-of-the-art equipment for external beam radiation at all four of our treatment sites: Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH), Highland Hospital (HH), Cancer Center at Park Ridge (PR), and Sands Cancer Center.
How Can I Learn More about My Disease or Condition?
Your cancer treatment team in the Department of Radiation Oncology will be your very best resource for learning more.
A radiation oncologist will evaluate your treatment process during your treatment course at a one-on-one session with you at least once a week. The nurse, nurse practitioner, physician's assistant, and resident physician on your team will also be valuable resources regarding education about your disease or condition.
In addition, the Wilmot Cancer Center has a patient and family resource center for those seeking additional information about specific cancers as well as information concerning radiation therapy. The center is located on the 1st floor of the Cancer Center.
If you are a patient and you need to speak to us right away, please call our Clinic Coordinator at (585) 275-4958.


President Ronald Reagan, ever the optimist, was distraught. He was pacing the living room at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Sunday, Oct. 12, 1986, just minutes after failing to reach an agreement with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. James Kuhn, the president's aide, recalled that he had never seen Reagan look this way. The president was standing alone, his face forlorn.
Reagan later described the Reykjavik summit as a great success, and in some important ways it was. But in those first hours after it ended, Reagan seemed to have let slip from his grasp a chance to end the nuclear arms race. Everyone was grim. The failure seemed large.
The summit was one of the most dramatic and spontaneous moments of the Cold War, and historians, memoirists, archivists and playwrights have since returned to the scene, peering through the curtains of Hofdi House in hopes of gaining a better understanding of how Reagan and Gorbachev came so close to eliminating nuclear weapons and then walked away. The allure of the story has been deepened in recent years by the release of official notes taken by each side.
Adelman, who was at the summit as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, recounts the weekend's roller coaster of expectations and emotions. Reagan went to the summit clueless about what to expect. Gorbachev came prepared with tempting and detailed concessions on reducing strategic and intermediate-range nuclear weapons. Reagan jumped at the offers, having long harbored an aspiration to abolish nuclear weapons. At a key moment on the second day, he let loose with words that had never been spoken at such a summit, proposing to eliminate all nuclear weapons. Gorbachev said yes. "Then let's do it," declared Secretary of State George Shultz. But later that day, Gorbachev sprang a trap, saying all his proposals were a package deal and the package included a limit on research for Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a proposed missile defense system that was just at the early research phase. Gorbachev wanted to restrict testing to the laboratory for a decade. Reagan refused, and they had no deal. It fell apart over one word, "laboratory." But the summit paved the way for later arms-control agreements.
During the summit, Adelman wasn't in the room with Reagan and Gorbachev, but upstairs with the U.S. and Soviet delegations, and he took part in the long, overnight, expert-level negotiations. He depicts confusion and uncertainty. Were they talking about eliminating ballistic missiles, or offensive missiles, or nuclear missiles? Reagan spoke interchangeably about all three. Gorbachev used "nuclear forces" and "offensive weapons" without distinction. Reykjavik was history being not only made, but improvised.
But Adelman then resurrects the unpersuasive argument that SDI led the Soviet Union to collapse. "SDI became the straw that broke the Communist camel's back," he claims. This is an old chestnut that gives Reagan too much credit. The threat of SDI and superior American technology certainly worried the Kremlin. But the Soviet Union collapsed because of profound internal weaknesses — fault lines that were systemic and that Gorbachev widened in his valiant efforts at reform. That narrative does not console those who want to put Reagan on an ever-higher pedestal, but it is closer to the truth.
David E. Hoffman is a contributing editor to The Washington Post and the author of "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy," which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2010.


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Q: Is it possible to create a SQL table on iSeries with record level checking turned off by default? I'm trying to convert DDS defined tables to DDL without impacting the existing legacy RPG code.
I can do it if I recreate the table in SQL, and then manually turn off the record level checking.
Wondering if the record level check can be turned off somehow as part of the create statement, or another SQL command.

A: No.
Besides you shouldn't need to.  If you're not getting the same record format ID with the SQL created table that you did with the DDS defined one then you probably doing something wrong.
I say probably because there were a couple bugs years ago where the record format ID wasn't created properly.
Now if you want to add columns along with redefining in DDL, then what you need to do is:

*

*Extract the DDL from the DDS table (MYPF)

*Add whatever is needed to the DDL, while changing the name of the table (MYPF_T)

*Copy data from MYPF to MYPF_T

*Repoint existing logicals/views/indexes from MYPF to MYPF_T; without including any new columns.

*Recreate MYPF as a logical with the same name; leaving out any new columns.

Done correctly, none of the record format IDs for existing objects will change; thus no existing RPG programs will need to be recompiled.
Step 4 and 5 are the key.  Many existing logicals probably share the existing PF record format like so:
A          R MYPFR                     PFILE(MYPF)
A          K ALTKEY

You want to change this to explicitly include the original columns in the PF:
A          R MYPFR                     PFILE(MYPF_T)
A            MYKEY     R
A            ALTKEY    R
A            FLD3      R
A            FLD4      R
A            <...>
A          K ALTKEY

Note that the File level identifier will be different.
Data Base File Attributes
  Externally described file . . . . . . . . . :            Yes
  SQL file type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :            TABLE
  File level identifier . . . . . . . . . . . :            1121222233155

That's fine, level checks are caused by differences in Record Format's Format Level Identifier
Record Format List
                       Record  Format Level
 Format       Fields   Length  Identifier
 IORITEM1        114      541  2FED88D05AB32

A: I call it Cruikshanking when you replace dds files with sql tables because Dan Cruikshank wrote a paper on it.
Summary:  create a ddl table.  List out the columns in your logical files and point them to your new ddl table.  Make a logical file that lists out all of the physical file columns and point it at your new ddl table.
Watch out for code that does crtdupobj and anything with a member like clrpfm or addpfm.
Detailed Cruikshank Method paper


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Sports » Cricket
PCB reunites Sir Vivian Richards with Javed Miandad
Both legends will be part of the Pakistan Junior League
Samaa Web Desk Aug 24, 2022
Photo: AFP
Cricket greats Sir Vivian Richards and Javed Miandad, will reunite at October's Pakistan Junior League after King Viv was named as one of the team mentors by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
They will join Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Daren Sammy, Colin Munro and Imran Tahir as league mentors.
The inaugural edition of the tournament will be played from 6-21 October at the headquarters of Pakistan cricket, the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.
The duo dominated world cricket with their breath taking talent and match-winning performances in the 1970s and 80s.
They last played against each other in the Nehru Cup final in Kolkata on 1 November 1989 when Pakistan won by four wickets with one ball remaining.
Richards has also been associated with the Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Quetta Gladiators and also helped them win the title in 2019.
Richards, a two-time World Cup winner, averaged over 50 in Tests following his 8,540 runs in 121 matches, while he scored 6,721 runs at 47 in 187 ODIs. The Antiguan was also handy with the ball, taking 32 Test and 118 ODI wickets.
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PCB allows Pakistani players to play BPL till 8 February


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With the notable exception of Otto, I've never found anything good to eat on West 8th Street. (Nor have I ever purchased any shoes, boots, or water pipes there, for that matter.) So I was pleasantly surprised by 8St Kitchen, a newish spot on this Village strip that bills itself as a small plate dining bar.
Yook hoe moo chim ($8), or wagyu tartare, is daintier than its K-town counterparts. The puck of premium beef rests atop chopped kket nip, or wild sesame leaves. After mixing the whole lot up, I found the combination of meltingly tender ribbons of wagyu and piquant wild sesame quite delicious.
Hae mool pa jon ($8), or scallion pancake with shellfish and squid, was tasty and lacked the sodden greasiness that often plagues this dish.
Bi bim gook soo ($8), a noodle-based version of bibimbap, was new to me, and quite spicy. Your waiter will do the honors and mix it up before you dig in. It has the kind of heat that comes on quick and fast, leaving one coming back for more.
Bo ssam ($20), or pork belly with pickled cabbage, spicy daikon, and seasoned oyster, is something I haven't had since I used to hang out in K-town. Seasoned oyster is an understatement—the oysters sit in some sort of kimchi marinade and are incredibly funky, but nevertheless tasty when wrapped up in a bit of cabbage with some belly and spicy daikon.
My only complaint about the bo ssam here is that the cabbage leaves are far too small to contain a nice hunk of fatty belly, an oyster, and some spicy daikon. My dining companion suggested they make the pieces of pork smaller. That is, of course, not the solution—the answer is bigger pieces of cabbage!


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Lech Krzyżaniak (ur. 8 lutego 1940 w Wilkowie k. Szamotuł, zm. 10 lipca 2004 w Poznaniu) – polski archeolog, wieloletni dyrektor Muzeum Archeologicznego w Poznaniu (1982-2004), uczestnik oraz organizator wielu wypraw archeologicznych na tereny Sudanu, Egiptu oraz Algierii.

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Urodził się w rodzinie nauczyciela miejscowej szkoły. Uczęszczał do liceum ogólnokształcącego w Szamotułach, gdzie w 1957 roku zdał egzamin maturalny. Następnie podjął studia archeologiczne na Uniwersytecie im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Jego nauczycielami byli między innymi Wojciech Kóčka oraz Józef Kostrzewski. Studia ukończył w 1962 roku, broniąc pracę magisterską poświęconą cmentarzysku kultury łużyckiej z przełomu epoki brązu i żelaza w Biernatach k. Śremu. Jeszcze podczas studiów podjął pracę w Muzeum Archeologicznym w Poznaniu, gdzie od 1982 roku do końca swojego życia pełnił funkcję dyrektora. Doktoryzował się w 1968 roku, pisząc pracę dotyczącą obrządku pogrzebowego kultury pomorskiej. W 1975 roku został doktorem habilitowanym, a w 1992 roku otrzymał tytuł profesora.

Przedmiot zainteresowań i działalność naukowa
Początkowo interesował się archeologią Wielkopolski, jednak z czasem jego zainteresowania przeniosły się na tereny bardziej odległe. Opublikował kilka artykułów poświęconych tematyce Ameryki Środkowej i Południowej. Nie udało się jednak zorganizować żadnej wyprawy na tamtejsze tereny, co stanowiło dla zwolennika archeologii eksploracyjnej problem w pogłębianiu zainteresowań. W 1965 roku pod przewodnictwem profesora Kazimierza Michałowskiego rozpoczął prace wykopaliskowe w Kom el-Dikka w Aleksandrii. Wyprawa do Afryki zapoczątkowała jego zainteresowanie tematyką archeologii śródziemnomorskiej i dziejami starożytnego Egiptu. W 1966 r. m.in. z Stefanem Jakobielskim rozpoczął wieloletnie prace wykopaliskowe na terenach Sudanu. W 2002 roku wraz z Jakobielskim zostali uhonorowani przez ministra kultury Sudanu najwyższym oznaczeniem przyznawanym obcokrajowcom – Gwiazdą Dwóch Nilów II klasy. Podczas wykopalisk w Sudanie kluczowym stało się dla niego zrozumienie dziejów tamtejszej cywilizacji w epoce neolitu. W 1972 r. zaczął prowadzić wykopaliska w Kadero, nieopodal Chartumu. W wyniku prowadzonych prac zostało odkryte cmentarzysko z okresu neolitu chartumskiego. Innym przedmiotem zainteresowania stały się tamtejsze ryty naskalne. Od 1986 zaczął badania sztuki naskalnej w rejonie egipskich oaz Dachla. W 1980 i 1981 prowadził również krótkie rekonesanse badawcze w Algierii, głównie badając ryty naskalne masywu Tassili. Od 1978 do 1990 roku brał także udział w kierowanych przez profesora Dietricha Wildunga wykopaliskach w Minszat Abu Omar w delcie Nilu, a w latach 1984-1988 był uczestnikiem prac w Kom el-Hisn w Egipcie.

W dorobku Krzyżaniaka znajduje się prawie 220 artykułów naukowych i popularnonaukowych. Znany jest także jako autor wielu książek archeologicznych, przede wszystkim traktujących o archeologii śródziemnomorskiej. Redagował także katalogi wystaw odbywających się w Muzeum Archeologicznym w Poznaniu. Był przewodniczącym jednej z komisji Międzynarodowej Unii Nauk Pre- i Protohistorycznych oraz Rady Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Prehistorycznego. Z ramienia UNESCO był ekspertem ds. Muzeum Nubijskiego w Asuanie i Muzeum Cywilizacji Egipskiej w Kairze. Ponadto udzielał się jako członek wielu towarzystw naukowych oraz archeologicznych.

Wykładał na wielu światowych uniwersytetach, m.in. w St John's College w Cambridge, University of Calgary czy na Uniwersytecie Humboldtów w Berlinie. Od 1995 roku prowadził wykłady z prehistorii północnej Afryki na Uniwersytecie im. Adama Mickiewicza. Brał także udział w wielu konferencjach naukowych w Polsce oraz za granicą.

Od 3 czerwca 2005 do likwidacji był patronem Gimnazjum w Grzebienisku.

Działalność muzealna
Jako pracownik, a później dyrektor Muzeum Archeologicznego w Poznaniu uczestniczył w przygotowaniu ponad 20 ekspozycji muzealnych. Wśród nich były zarówno niewielkie wystawy czasowe, jak również wystawy poświęcone archeologii śródziemnomorskiej, która stanowiła główny przedmiot jego późniejszych zainteresowań. Do najbardziej spektakularnych osiągnięć w dziedzinie muzealnictwa należy zaliczyć wystawy związane z problematyką starożytnego Egiptu. Dzięki znajomości z profesorem Wildungiem udało się sprowadzić do Poznania wiele zabytków z muzeów w Berlinie oraz Monachium. W ostatnich latach działalności, została otwarta wystawa poświęcona archeologii Sudanu. Dzięki wielu kontaktom nawiązanym podczas wypraw archeologicznych udało się sprowadzić wiele zabytków z Muzeum Narodowego w Sudanie..

Został pochowany na cmentarzu Miłostowo w Poznaniu.

Odznaczenia

 Order Dwóch Nilów (2002, za wybitne osiągnięcia w zakresie badań archeologicznych w Sudanie)
 Srebrny Krzyż Zasługi (1977)

Ważniejsze publikacje
 Early Farming Cultures on the Lower Nile. The Predynastic Period in Egypt (1977)
 Egipt przed piramidami (1980)
 Schyłek pradziejów w środkowym Sudanie (1992)

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Absolwenci Wydziału Historycznego Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Dyrektorzy Muzeum Archeologicznego w Poznaniu
Pochowani na cmentarzu Miłostowo w Poznaniu
Polscy archeolodzy
Urodzeni w 1940
Zmarli w 2004

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Female Filmmaker Friday: Jennifer Kent, Director of "The Nightingale"
Features 08/02/2019 in Features by Maureen McGuirk
"Jen is an incredibly empathetic director, and we just really wanted to be committed to the truth of what living through something like that is like."
Jennifer Kent is an Australian director, writer, and actress who graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1991.
Kent began her career as an actress, working mostly on Australian television before her interest shifted toward directing. Not wishing to attend film school, Kent wrote to director Lars von Trier and asked to study under him. He gave her a job on his film Dogville.
Kent's first directing job came with her short film Monster, screening it at many film festivals all over the world. Her feature debut happened in 2014 with the film The Babadook, starring actress Essie Davis. The film, of the horror genre, debuted at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It received critical and audience acclaim around the world, thus proving women could direct and write horror when given the opportunity.
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