Like expected, Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (PBH) made some valuable gains, beefing up by 4.69%. Readers seem to have some problems to understand my special relationship with PBH. I had been invested in Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (PBH) since February 2010. It's not like I had invested $45 000 of my very own money in PBH 2 or 3 months ago. My PBH investment had grown over 400% since 2010. This baby has been in my portfolio for 7 years, and it's been exploding in the wood, making me a rich and very special investor. Is there any end to PBH grow? No end, but a slow down like the one experimented now is just really normal, just like its normal for the stock market to do down from time to time. A 16 000 points were too much of luck, I needed a little slowdown time to take my breath. And now the time has come to get rid of some stocks! And so did I.
Fact is, it's better to get rid of stocks who have chances to deal with trouble when you can sell at profit, rather than selling in a rush of pain AND losing money because of those hotties who don't behave and don't care much of my love.
Like it was planned yesterday, I sold out my Dollarama Inc. (DOL) shares. The money directly went on my margin. I am now using $94 422.78 out of my margin money. It's not going to be paid overnight, but I like to see that amount do down gradually. I also decided to sell off my Keg Royalties Income Fund (The) (KEG.UN) investment that I was holding until today inside my TFSA portfolio. Susan Brunner concerns regarding KEG.UN just got into me.
My non-registered portfolio closed today session at $178 886.06, my TFSA at $61 844.80 and my RRSP portfolio at $37 351.15. I estimate my net worth to be around $211 000, which is very fine. I own a big part of my richness to Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (PBH), but to many other stocks who are taking care of me like real soft lovers. I am a lady of many many stocks. And I love my stocks. Right now, the love is real for Savaria Corporation (SIS). SIS is doing very well. I own this jewel to Richard Dufour, a La Presse's journalist who wrote an article about SIS a little while back. I need to find new a new stock that is just like SIS, a leader in its niche that perform well, and that I can hold inside my non-registered without having to worry about anything. How comes a Quebec journalist could possibly know SIS? Its a mystery. However, Richard Dufour is like Jean-François Tardif, I have to admit that he knows his stuff.
SIS might be a Quebec company, but no matter what, SIS is my rock. Its my stock, its my love. PBH, SIS, and just so many others. I am such a so talented stock picker, it's amazing. And surprise surprise... I am about to have a new stock in my TFSA portfolio: Richelieu Hardware Ltd. (RCH).
If RCH is good enough for Susan Brunner, its good enough for me.
it's generally good advice to lower the weight of PBH, or any huge position, in your portfolio. If you indeed bought this long ago and it went up 400%, I would personally have sold half if the stocked doubled. yYu are then playing with the house's money and you can't lose, just profit less. But that "sell half" trick is essential for speculative stocks, which is probably not applicable to PBH. I think the risk here is a 20% drop in the market, but if you're up a lot more than that, it's fine. There is nothing to do. Except you could use the profit from a partial sale to stop the bleeding from the margin interest.
I am not blogging for nothing, and now get out of the way.


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Obama pardons turkeys Cobbler and Gobbler
Olivier Knox
The Ticket November 21, 2012
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Cobbler and Gobbler are now off President Barack Obama's "kill list." Obama officially "pardoned" Cobbler, the 2012 National Thanksgiving Turkey, at a public ceremony on Wednesday in the White House Rose Garden.
"They say that life is all about second chances. And this November I could not agree more," said the president, who is famously stingy with pardons for humans. Obama's daughters, Malia and Sasha, stood at his side, while Cobbler periodically interrupted the commander in chief's remarks with the distinctive call of his species.
"From here, these two lucky birds will be swept up in a whirlwind of fame and fortune that will ultimately lead them to Mount Vernon, where they will spend their twilight years," Obama said. (Twilight years? Maybe more like twilight months. Last year's honoree—named Peace—was put to death recently under what CNN describes as murky, even suspicious, circumstances.)
On what is surely an unrelated note, Obama acknowledged with a smile a question about the recently-agreed-upon Israel-Gaza cease-fire, but did not answer it.
The president, who planned a visit to a food bank later in the day, noted that this year's holiday comes after superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast, leaving ruin in its wake. "I'd like to ask every American to do what they can to help families that are in need of a real Thanksgiving this year," he said.
In Washington, the birds got the full big-donor treatment: a night in a suite at the swank W Hotel, a VIP visit to the White House and, finally, a presidential pardon that lets them live out their days at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens. (If history is any guide, both birds are doomed to die within the year.) They earned it, according to the very, very best part of the Wikipedia entry on this entirely trivial annual event: "The turkeys are raised in the same fashion as turkeys designated for slaughter, but are selected 'at birth' for pardoning and are trained to handle loud noises, flash photography and large crowds."
In a twist, the White House crowdsourced which turkey would get the formal title of "National Thanksgiving Turkey" with an entry on its official blog.
(That post read, in part, like some demented avian www.match.com entry: "Cobbler craves cranberries, is known for his strut, and enjoys the musical stylings of Carly Simon. Gobbler, a patient but proud bird, loves to nibble on corn and enjoys any music with a fiddle." #TeamCobbler? #TeamGobbler? Wait, which one is the vampire and which the werewolf?)
"The American people have spoken, and these birds are moving forward," the president said, before throwing in a reference to a favorite political prognosticator. "Once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy's amazing. He predicted these guys would win.
"I want to thank everyone who participated in this election. Because of your votes, the only cobbler anyone's eating this Thanksgiving will come with a side of ice cream," Obama quipped.
Cobbler and Gobbler were the lucky ones. Two of their unnamed brethren will end up at an area food bank, courtesy of the Jaindl Turkey Farms of Orefield, Penn.
Obama said he, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters would be taking the less lucky birds to a Washington food bank. "And, as always, if for some reason Cobbler cannot fulfill his duties as the official White House turkey, Gobbler will be waiting in the wings," the president said.
Not everyone thinks the annual ritual is trivial but harmless: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals denounced the "pardon" and linked America's vast appetite for turkey to the historic oppression of minorities.
"You understand so well that African-Americans, women, and members of the LGBT community have been poorly served throughout history, and now I am asking you to consider other living beings who are ridiculed, belittled, and treated as if their sentience, feelings, and very natures count for nothing," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk wrote in a Nov. 20 open letter to Obama.
Are you still reading? Um, OK, here's what the White House bills as "The Definitive History of the Presidential Turkey Pardon."
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What is most striking about the economics of bitcoin is the juxtaposition of the certainty of supply and the uncertainty of demand. The rate at which bitcoin is mined has been highly predictable and, unlike almost any other asset, currency or commodity, its ultimate supply is a known quantity, fixed in advance. There will never be more than 21 million coins. This feature makes bitcoin supply almost perfectly inelastic. No matter how high the price rises, miners will not ultimately produce any more than the prescribed amount. Moreover, price rises will not even necessarily incentivize a more rapid mining of bitcoin. Even if they did, it would mean miners create more bitcoin today at the expense of creating less of it in the future since the total supply will reach a hard, asymptotic limit of 21 million coins, expected to be reached by 2140 or so, based on the mining algorithms.
In this report we analyze the economics of the bitcoin marketplace by finding parallels in the world of commodities to understand what it means to have an inelastic supply. Then, we move to the relatively more difficult task of demand analysis to complete the bitcoin economics picture.
The supply inelasticity explains in large part why bitcoin is so volatile. Items with inelastic supply show a greater response to demand shifts than items with elastic supply. The same is true of demand: the more inelastic the demand, the greater the price changes in response to small fluctuations in either supply or demand. In the abstract example below, we show the relatively modest price response to an upward shift in demand for a market with flexible supply elasticity on the left and contrast it with the much bigger price response from the same demand shift in a constrained supply market on the right.
Figure 1: Elastic Supply (Left) is Less Price Volatile Than Inelastic Supply Markets (Right).
Take as an illustration the case of natural gas. Natural gas is a classic example of a market with highly inelastic supply and demand. If prices soar today, consumers will still need natural gas to generate electricity, heating and to fuel industrial processes; and they will be willing to pay up for it, at least in the short term. Natural gas demand is therefore highly inelastic.
Figure 2: Inelastic Expansion and the Slowing Growth of Bitcoin Supply.
The same is true of natural gas supply. If prices double, producers will likely not be able to supply a great deal more of it in the short term. Similar relationships hold for crude oil, although are less dramatic. What differentiates the analysis of commodities like natural gas and crude oil from bitcoin is that their long-term supply and demand shows a meaningful degree of elasticity, even if the short-term supply is more about inventory swings than production adjustments. If natural gas or crude oil prices experience a sustained rise, producers can and will find ways of producing more of them – or at least they have so far in history.
Meanwhile, consumers will find ways to use them more efficiently in response to higher prices. This is not the case for bitcoin directly, although rising prices might increase the probability of "forks" that split bitcoin into the original and a spinout currency such as Bitcoin Cash (August 1, 2017), Bitcoin Gold (October 24, 2017), and Bitcoin Private (February 28, 2018).
Bitcoin's limited and highly inelastic supply is also a major factor driving its price appreciation, a rise so spectacular that it can only be appreciated when seen on a log scale. In bitcoin's first four years, supply grew by roughly 2.5 million coins per year. Even then prices were rising as the user community grew. Since then supply has continued to grow but the pace has slowed substantially while demand has occasionally dipped, even on a year-on-year basis.
Bitcoin's limited supply and soaring price make it difficult to be used as a medium of exchange outside of the crypto currency space. Imagine one's regret if one uses bitcoin to purchase a mundane item such as a cup of coffee only to find that the bitcoin spent on a cup of coffee would have been worth millions of dollars a few years later. As such, investors treat bitcoin as a highly unreliable store of value – a bit like gold on steroids.
One often asked question is: will bitcoin replace fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar? We think that the answer is a resounding no. Bitcoin's price is too volatile to compete as a store of value; Bitcoin's transaction costs are too high and too variable for it to be used as a medium of exchange.
Most importantly, for an asset to function economically as a medium of exchange, it must depreciate slowly over time – something that is impossible with a fixed supply. That loss of value is precisely what makes them useful. Without the fear of inflation, holders of currency tend to hoard rather than spend it. This is why most major central banks, such as the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan, for example, have set modest inflation targets of 2%, as suggested back in the 1960s by Professor Milton Friedman. The inflation target creates a dis-incentive to hoard the currency, since hoarding a currency depresses economic growth and creates financial instability. The Japanese yen, the one fiat currency that has experienced deflation over the past few decades, is a case in point. Far from being a virtuous store of value, the Japanese deflation produced a depressed, underperforming economy that the Bank of Japan is desperately trying to turn around with a colossal quantitative easing program four times bigger than that undertaken by the Federal Reserve or European Central Bank, relative to the size of the Japanese economy.
Bitcoin is "mined" by computers solving cryptographic math problems. In exchange for solving the problems, miners receive bitcoin. Those math problems grow in difficulty over time, increasing the required computational power required to solve them. This in turn drives up the equipment and especially the electricity cost of producing bitcoins. One needs more and more computers and to make them run at peak speeds, they must be kept cool.
This makes the economic analysis of bitcoin a bit like energy and metals. For example, as of late 2017, the swing producers of crude oil in the U.S. were probably profitable at around $40 per barrel. Above that price, there are incentives to add to production. Below that price, the incentives are to curtail production. Also like bitcoin, the difficulty of extracting energy from the earth has increased substantially over time. For instance, humanity went through the easiest oil supplies located near the surface many decades ago. Now marginal supply increases come mostly from fracking deep under the ground, from offshore drilling or from oil in remote, difficult to access locations. In the second half of the 19th century, when oil was first produced in large quantities, one unit of energy invested in oil extraction produced around 150 units of energy. By the 1970s that was down to around 30 units of energy for each one invested and that ratio fell to around 15 by 2000 and is probably below 10 today. This has been a factor in driving oil prices higher. In the energy industry, it is widely assumed that the marginal producers have a cost of production near $40 per barrel. It bears mentioning that oil prices rarely traded at $40 until about 2005, when they rose above that level and have only occasionally looked back.
For metals like copper, gold and silver, there are two numbers to watch: the cash cost and all-in sustaining costs. Cash costs give one a sense of price levels at which producers will maintain current production. All-in sustaining costs give one a sense of what current and anticipated future price levels will be necessary to incentivize additional investment in future production. For example, for gold, cash-cost for mine operators averages around $700 per ounce while the all-in sustaining costs are around $1,250 per ounce (Figure 3).
What is interesting for gold, silver and copper is that after their prices began to fall in 2011, it squeezed the profit margins of operators, who in turn found ways to streamline their businesses and cut their production costs. The same is true of the 2014-16 collapse in energy prices which may have lowered the marginal cost of production from $50 to $40 per barrel of crude. Like mining metals and extracting fossil fuels, mining bitcoin is also a competitive business. Not surprisingly we see a similar feedback loop between the bitcoin price and mining-supply difficulty – in this case difficulty is measured in terms of the number of calculations required to solve the crypto-algorithm to unlock a few more bitcoins in the mining process.
Glancing at Figure 4, it is obvious that as the required number of computations ("difficulty") has risen, producing bitcoin has become more expensive. It is not a stretch of the imagination to hypothesize that the exponential rise in the difficulty of mining bitcoin has contributed to the exponential rise in price. True, perhaps, but not the complete story. There is another side to this feedback loop. Notice what happened to "difficulty" after the first bitcoin bear market (a 93% drop) in 2010-11. Its inexorable rise came to a two-year long halt until prices recovered. It was only once when the next price bull market began in 2013 that "difficulty" began increasing again. A similar phenomenon occurred in the aftermath of the 2013-15 bitcoin bear market (an 84% decline). There too "difficulty" stagnated until prices began their next bull market. Curiously "difficulty" has not begun to stagnate yet despite a 50% drop in bitcoin prices from their recent highs. The relationship between "difficulty" and price trends suggest that bitcoin may remain in a congested pattern for some time to come.
Figure 4: Bitcoin Difficulty and Price.
Thus, bitcoin supply appears to have at least one similarity with that of energy and metals. When prices fall producers must take measures that cause production costs to stagnate or even fall. While "difficulty" never appears to decline, the cost of computing power has fallen over time by as much as 25% per year. As such, if "difficulty" goes sideways for a year, the actual cost of production probably falls as the amount of energy needed to perform the same number of calculations declines. Just as metals and energy producers find ways to reduce cost after bear markets, the bitcoin mining community appears to do the same.
One last comment on supply before we move on to demand: it has long been rumored that the founding community of bitcoin controls something in the order of 3-5 million coins. If this is true, in theory higher prices could (and probably would) encourage them to part with their coins in exchange for fiat currencies or other assets. When one takes this into account, bitcoin supply might not be perfectly inelastic in the very short term. A similar phenomenon exists in precious metals. When prices rise, we see an increase in the recycling of gold and silver (secondary supply). What is interesting, however, is that that recycling appears to respond to price but does not drive prices. For gold and silver, the only supply that appears to drive price is mining supply. Likewise, if an existing holder of bitcoin liquidates some or all of her holdings, this increases its short-term availability but does nothing to influence its total long-run supply, and in that sense, is more like a temporary inventory adjustment.
While bitcoin supply is extremely transparent, bitcoin demand is rather opaque. That said, there are a few quantifiable items that we do know about bitcoin demand. First, we have a pretty good idea of the number of bitcoin transactions performed each day. Secondly, and more importantly, it appears that fluctuations in bitcoin transaction costs play a major role in determining price corrections.
There appears to be a loose relationship between the growth rate of transactions and the rise/decline in price. For example, the number of transactions stopped growing in 2012, about one year before bitcoin's 2013 peak and bear market. It began to rise again in 2014 before bitcoin prices began to recover in earnest but has been stagnating since the end of 2016 (Figures 5 and 6), perhaps foreshadowing the recent correction. What is particularly striking about the most recent correction is that the number of transactions have not risen as prices have fallen as they did during the December 2013-January 2015 bear market. During the two previous bull markets, the number of transactions began rising well in advance of the actual rally in bitcoin prices. Towards the end of the two previous bull markets, prices soared as the number of transactions stopped rising.
Figure 5: Does Bitcoin Volume Drive Price?
The relationship between bitcoin prices and transaction costs is even more compelling. Trading costs spiked from $2 to around $30 per transaction in late 2010 just before bitcoin prices suffered a 93% collapse. As bitcoin transaction costs subsequently fell, another bull market developed. Transaction costs edged higher in 2012 and then soared to over $80 by early 2013 which coincided with another collapse in bitcoin prices. By 2015, transaction costs eased towards $8 and another bull market began. Starting in late 2016, they began to rise again and are now up towards $100-$150 per transaction (Figures 7 and 8). This third spike in transaction costs may be closely related to the recent correction in bitcoin prices as high transaction costs may play a role in causing demand for the cryptocurrency to wither.
Figure 7: What Level of Bitcoin Transaction Costs Can the Market Sustain?
We are not suggesting that bitcoin prices are a function of trading costs or vice versa; however, there is an association between the two with mutual feedback loops. When bitcoin prices rise, eventually transaction costs appear to rise as well. When transaction costs reach levels that market participants can no longer bear, the price of bitcoin often corrects. A decline in prices puts downward pressure on transaction costs which, at least in the past, allowed for another bitcoin bull market once they had corrected to lower levels.
If stagnating numbers of trades and rising transaction do in fact play a role in provoking bitcoin price corrections, then one might hypothesize that a given correction might last until transaction costs fall and the number of transactions begins to rise again. Given the spike in transaction costs in early 2018 and the sharp (more than 50%) decline in the number of transactions being recorded in bitcoin during the same period, if these variables are in fact drivers of bitcoin prices, the price of bitcoin may have not yet found its balancing point. Although bitcoin prices are down about 50% from their recent highs, do not forget that in bitcoin's two previous routs it fell by 84-93%. What happens to bitcoin prices going forward is, of course, unknowable at present. That said, we would keep any eye on these factors as proxies for the health of bitcoin demand.
When one thinks of incentives and reward structures, one might want to analyze some parallels with how shareholder value is created. This is tricky with bitcoin. Bitcoin certainly does not fit the definition of a company. It has no board of directors, no balance sheet, no income statement and no cash flow statement. That said, bitcoin does have a couple of features which need to be understood in the context of incentive structures. And, this adds a little more complexity to the supply analysis as well.
Miners and transaction validators receive rewards in bitcoin. One can see a corporation's shares as an internal currency used to compensate and motivate employees, aligning their interests with those of the organization. To that end, the number of bitcoins in existence is comparable to the "float" of a corporation – the number of shares issued to the public.
When bitcoin forks into a new currency, such as Bitcoin Cash, the move can be analyzed in a manner comparable to a corporate action such as a spin out. In a spin out, a corporation can give each of its shareholders new shares in a division of the firm that is being released to the public as separate and independent entity. Likewise, when bitcoin most recently forked, the owner of each bitcoin received one unit of Bitcoin Cash, a new and separate cryptocurrency.
In a sense, bitcoin could be viewed as a reference index on the crypto currency space more generally. Many new alt-coins, in addition to copying bitcoin's technology, are more easily purchased via bitcoin than they are by using fiat currencies. Bitcoin's central role in this ecosystem makes its price a bit like an index on the health of the entire ecosystem itself. Not surprisingly, the prices of other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Ripple are highly correlated with bitcoin when seen from a fiat currency perspective.
A quick diversion back to supply is useful here. The existence of forks in bitcoin serves to modify some of our intuitions on supply. That is, while bitcoin's supply is fixed, the supply of cryptocurrencies is not. Indeed, rising bitcoin prices incent bitcoin forks. This makes a lot of sense but it does complicate the analysis as it is a reminder that one should not look at bitcoin in isolation but as an anchor for the whole cryptocurrency space.
Even if bitcoin fails to replace fiat currencies, it will not necessarily be without long-term economic impact. One possible result of the development of cryptocurrencies is that central banks may one day decide to issue their own distributed ledger currencies as Venezuela is struggling to attempt to do today with the launch of the "petro." Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan once compared making monetary policy to driving a car guided only by a cracked rearview mirror. Even now, important policy decisions must be based upon imperfectly estimated economic numbers that are weeks or months old by the time they become available. In 2018, economic policy making is still a vestige of the 20th century.
Blockchain technology has the potential to allow policy makers to issue their own cryptocurrencies that will give them real time information on inflation, nominal and real GDP. It will not allow them to peer through the front windshield into the future but at least they can look into the rearview mirror with much greater clarity and see out the side windows of the monetary policy vehicle. This could allow them to create the amount of money and credit necessary to keep the economy growing at a smooth pace more easily than they do today. Switching off the gold standard vastly reduced economic volatility and improved per capita economic growth. Moving to blockchain-enhanced fiat currencies could further reduce economic volatility and, ironically, enable further leveraging of the already highly indebted global economy as people find ways to use capital more efficiently. More broadly, crypto-inspired investments could bring about new technologies that we cannot yet imagine.
Investors who are buying bitcoin are presumably hoping to find someone to sell to at a higher price. That said, there is more to bitcoin economically than just the theory of the greater fool. As more people bid up the price, the difficulty of solving bitcoin's cryptographic algorithms increases. This in turn is driving up investment in more powerful and faster computing technology of both a traditional integrated circuit and non-traditional variety. Indeed, solving cryptographic problems may be one of the first tests facing quantum computers.
The problem is that investors in bitcoin and its peers are mainly out to make profits and not to finance or subsidize the development of distributed ledgers nor more powerful computers.
Bitcoin supply is highly inelastic; and as with commodities, inelastic supply increases volatility.
"Difficulty" of mining bitcoin math problems and its price are in a feedback loop, where "difficulty" is a major driver of price, and price also influences "difficulty".
Transaction volume may influence price trends, and rising transaction costs are a risk indicator for bitcoin.
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The Windsor Kiwanis Club's 7th annual Holiday Home Tour will be held from 1-5 p.m. Dec. 6.
The Sunday event costs $10 per person, and proceeds from the event are used to benefit the youth of Windsor through scholarships and other programs.
– The House of Windsor, 430 Main St.
– Bank of Colorado, 1041 W. Main St.
– Simply Home Florals by Victoria, 616 Main St.
Tickets are also available the day of the event at any of the homes on the tour.


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Fernando Laverde, Colombian Stop Motion Pioneer, Dies At 88
In 1983, he directed his second feature, Critóbal Colon, which won the Coral Prize at the International Festival of New Ibero-American Cinema in Havana, Cuba. In 1989, he directed his final feature Martín Fierro, based on the popular Argentine character of lore El Gaucho Martín Fierro, the protagonist of an epic poem by writer José Hernández.
Laverde graduated high school in 1953 and started studying agriculture at university before dropping out to work as a director of photography and documentary filmmaker for Televisora Nacional de Colombia. Eventually, he was promoted to producer and director.
Animation production in Colombia at that time was almost entirely regulated to advertisements and independent short films. When Laverde began developing his features, he did so mostly on his own and leaned heavily on skills and knowledge acquired during his time in Europe. With limited resources and few peers to lean on in Colombia, he made his films at an in-home studio, shooting them on a single lens Kingstone camera and using his daughter's toys for characters and props.
Laverde was born in Bogota on December 17, 1933, and died in the same city on May 18, 2022. However his work and influence reached far beyond Colombia's borders during his lifetime.
Pictured above: Fernando Laverde. Credit: Juan M Pedraza
He returned to Colombia in 1969, and directed Colombia's contribution to Niños del mundo. That same year, he was invited by UNESCO to represent Colombia at a screenwriters course hosted by the National Institute of Cinematography in Buenos Aires. All the while, he continued working in cinema and served as director of photography on 1971's Una tarde … un lunes, which won the Kodak Award for Best Photography.
Colombian animation pioneer Fernando Laverde has died. He was 88.
In 1975, he founded the Grupo de Cine Familiar where he later made the short film Rincones de Boyacá (1977). His feature debut came in 1978, with the stop motion film La pobre viejecita, which won the Colcultura award for best feature film. The following year, his animated short Un planeta llamado tierra won best short at the Festival of Colombian Cinema while another of his films, Pepitas Rojas, won best short at the first International Children's Film Festival.
In 1956, he moved to Madrid and got his first job working in animation as an assistant on Las Aventuras de Mumu (1967) for Televisión Española (TVE). Later, he directed La guitarrita española and was director of photography on La historia de música and the documentary Ernesto Bitetti. During his time in Europe, he became fascinated by stop motion films, particularly those of legendary Czech filmmakers Jiří Trnka and Jiří Barta.
In 1972, his first animated short El país de Bellaflor premiered at the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI), Colombia's largest film festival and the oldest in Latin America, where it won Best Film. He later directed shorts including Colorín colorado (1973), La maquinita (1973), La cosecha (1974), Fuegos de artificio, La promesa (1975), and La chamba (1975). During those years, he also worked on several documentary films.
A director, screenwriter, and director of photography, he's best recognized for directing a trio of animated features: La pobre viejecita (1977), Cristóbal Colón (1983), and Martín Fierro (1989).
Family was always paramount to Laverde, who considered his filmmaking a family business. His greatest support came from three sources. His wife Karina was a professional actress who helped design the costumes for his models, and more than just contributing their toys, his children also played key roles in Laverde's filmmaking as they got older. His daughter Ana María would eventually become his assistant director and design sets, while his son Fernando Enrique built those sets, was Laverde's director of photography, and operated the camera crane.
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Jay Village is a small quaint town 3 miles from Jay Peak Resort on VT RTE 242. All of Jay peak rental properties are within minutes to the village. In the village there is The Jay Country Store offering Groceries, a Deli, Gas , Gifts and more! Across the street is The Jay Village Inn & Restaurant, a great family restaurant with an outdoor pool open to the public in the summer and a great pit stop for snowmobilers in the winter. Also, in the village is the Town Clarks office, Jay Auto and The Snow Job, a shop for all your outdoor gear!
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The Airbus A320 family consists of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin-engine jet airliners manufactured by Airbus. The family includes the A318, A319, A320 and A321, as well as the ACJ business jet. The A320s are also named A320ceo (current engine option) after the introduction of the A320neo.[6] Final assembly of the family takes place in Toulouse, France, and Hamburg, Germany. A plant in Tianjin, China, has also been producing aircraft for Chinese airlines since 2009,[7] while a final assembly facility in Mobile, Alabama delivered its first A321 in April 2016.[8] The aircraft family can accommodate up to 220 passengers and has a range of 3,100 to 12,000 km (1,700 to 6,500 nmi), depending on model.
The first member of the A320 family—the A320—was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was first delivered in March 1988. The family was soon extended to include the A321 (first delivered 1994), the A319 (1996), and the A318 (2003). The A320 family pioneered the use of digital fly-by-wire flight control systems, as well as side-stick controls, in commercial aircraft. There has been a continuous improvement process since introduction.
As of 29 February 2016, a total of 6,932 Airbus A320-family aircraft have been delivered, of which 6,631 are in service. In addition, another 5,531 airliners are on firm order. It ranked as the world's fastest-selling jet airliner family according to records from 2005 to 2007, and as the best-selling single-generation aircraft programme.[9][10] The A320 family has proved popular with airlines including low-cost carriers such as EasyJet, which purchased A319s and A320s to replace its 737 fleet. As of 31 March 2016, American Airlines was the largest operator of the Airbus A320 family aircraft, operating 362 aircraft.[b][4] The aircraft family competes directly with the 737 and has competed with the 717, 757, and the MD-80/MD-90.
In December 2010, Airbus announced a new generation of the A320 family, the A320neo (new engine option).[11] The A320neo offers new, more efficient engines, combined with airframe improvements and the addition of winglets, named Sharklets by Airbus. The aircraft will deliver fuel savings of up to 15%. As of January 2016, a total of 4,508 A320neo family aircraft had been ordered by more than 70 airlines, making it the fastest ever selling commercial aircraft.[12] The first A320neo was delivered to Lufthansa on 20 January 2016 and it entered service on 25 January 2016.[13][14]
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Staff at S.F. Animal Hospital Walk Off Job Amid Ongoing Contract Negotiations
Kate Wolffe
Supervisor Hillary Ronen spoke in support of veterinarians and other employees of VCA San Francisco Veterinary Specialists, San Francisco's largest animal hospital, who walked off the job Thursday over allegedly unfair labor practices. (Kate Wolffe/KQED)
Employees of San Francisco's largest animal hospital walked off the job Thursday over allegations of unfair labor practices.
The action, which included technicians, assistants, coordinators and facilities personnel, but not veterinarians, marks the second walkout in three months at VCA San Francisco Veterinary Specialists, located in the Mission District. It comes amid increasingly tense contract negotiations between employees and management that have dragged on for roughly 18 months.
In August, the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against VCA, which owns some 750 animal hospitals nationwide, determining that it had violated labor laws by not engaging in good-faith bargaining. The agency also called for a federal court hearing in late September to further investigate the issue. In the meantime, bargaining sessions will continue on Friday with a federal mediator.
VCA was purchased in 2017 by Mars Inc. Known principally as a candy company, Mars has in recent years acquired roughly 2,000 veterinary clinics in the United States, in addition to about 400 more globally.
Soon after the acquisition, hospital staff voted to unionize, joining the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). Staff now claim that hospital management, in addition to prolonging negotiations, is also assigning union work to non-union staff.
Katie Bradley, who has been a veterinary assistant at the hospital for seven years, said hospital staff feel demoralized by stalled contract negotiations.
"We can't give as good care as we want to give because we're stretched so thin, and it's not fair to our patients and it's not fair to our clients," said Bradley. "A lot of us really love what we do and they're drowning us out."
The roughly 30 protesting workers were joined by several city officials, including Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Rafael Mandelman.
Ronen, who represents the district the hospital is in and attended a recent negotiating session, said VCA and its parent company, Mars, is eroding workers' rights, offering meager wages and short-staffing its hospitals.
"We've got to fight against this corporation that is eroding care not just here but all across the country," she said. "They are doing every sneaky tactic to stall the negotiation of the first contract," Ronen added. "It's disgusting, it's illegal and it needs to stop," she said.
A Mars spokeswoman said that the company remains committed to reaching a fair contract for employees and cooperating with the federal mediator.
Correction: The original headline of this article, which stated that veterinarians participated in the walkout, was inaccurate. No veterinarians were involved. The labor action included technicians, assistants, coordinators and facilities personnel.
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Sesame Street in Communities Features Free Webinar with Fatherhood Advocate and CEO of Fathers Incorporated just in time for Father's Day
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ATLANTA (June 16, 2020)— Father's Day is quickly approaching and what better way to celebrate fathers than to understand more about their unique strengths and unique needs. Research shows that an involved dad can make a big difference in the lives of his children. As part of its Sesame Street in Communities program, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, will host a free webinar for fatherhood practitioners featuring Kenneth Braswell, CEO of Fathers Incorporated. Kenneth shares insights and strategies from his many years helping fathers—and the providers who serve them—be the best they can be. Registration is available at https://sesamestreetincommunities.org/professional-development/webinars?training=supporting-fathers.
Kenneth Braswell is the author of several books, four of which are children's books, Daddy, There's A Noise Outside, Daddy Is Feeling Blue, Daddy's Family Tree, and Daddy, Can I Cry. The former has become a popular resource for talking to children about protesting and Black Lives Matter.
Kenneth Braswell has spent over 30 years in the service of family and community. Husband and father of 5, in 2004?,? he created Fathers Incorporated (FI) and has served as Chief Executive Officer since its inception?. With national and international missions; the agency has provided capacity building services to thousands of organizations working to ensure that fathers contribute to the healthy well-being of their children. Fathers Incorporated is currently the prime contractor for National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (Fatherhood.gov). Braswell is the author of "When The Tear Won't Fall: One Man's Journey Through The Intimate Struggles of Manhood and Fatherhood. In addition to writing books, Mr. Braswell is also the creator of three powerful documentaries: "Spit'in Anger", "Dark Hearts" and "A Queen's Discovery. He is a much sought after keynote speaker, presenter, trainer and media consultant in issues related to Faith, Family & Fatherhood; with an intentional focus on Black Men and Boys.
"As someone who grew up in Brooklyn and in the backdrop of Sesame Street, it is an honor to be able to contribute to the mission of serving parents and practitioners", says Braswell.
"We're excited to team up with Fathers Incorporated to help community providers across the country engage with fathers more intentionally—addressing their unique needs and celebrating their strengths," said Tara Wright, Professional Development Manager, Sesame Workshop. "At a time when so many families are facing unprecedented challenges, we're proud to mark Father's Day with our shared commitment to giving caregivers—particularly dads—the tools they need to foster resilience at home.
The webinar is part of Sesame Street in Communities, which provides free, bilingual resources for providers and caregivers to help children and families navigate challenges big and small. Using the power of the beloved Muppets of Sesame Street, the resources are designed to build coping skills and foster nurturing connections between children and the caring adults in their lives. All resources are available for free in English and Spanish at sesamestreetincommunities.org.
By the end of this webinar, you'll be equipped with a better understanding of how crucial fathers are to their children and families, and how you can empower them through your work
About Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, the pioneering television show that has been reaching and teaching children since 1969. Today, Sesame Workshop is an innovative force for change, with a mission to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. We're present in more than 150 countries, serving vulnerable children through a wide range of media, formal education, and philanthropically-funded social impact programs, each grounded in rigorous research and tailored to the needs and cultures of the communities we serve. For more information, please visit www.sesameworkshop.org.
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What the Impossible Burger Shortage Can Teach Restaurants About Inventory Management
By: Brian Shultz
It can come without warning.
But, in this case, it came with a clear warning.
Restaurants across the nation were recently shell-shocked when Impossible Foods, makers of the plant-based Impossible Burger, experienced product shortages. They informed distributors and restaurants that they would be unable to fulfill all pending orders for the time being. For many restaurants, the Impossible Burger serves as a plant-based meat alternative menu item. It can help to accommodate vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian diners. Interestingly enough, though, meat-eaters represent the largest group of patrons ordering plant-based meat alternatives.
At the 2019 National Restaurant Association Show, the 'plant-based boom' was the talk of the town. Between summer 2017 and summer 2018, sales in the plant-based alternative category – including both plant-based meat alternatives and plant-based milk alternatives – were up 9% year over year.
Read More: Check Out Toast's Live Coverage of The 2019 National Restaurant Association Show
The demand for plant-based meat substitutes that mimic the real thing in terms of taste and texture has grown exponentially in recent years. This has come in light of increasing societal and political concerns over animal welfare, the meat and dairy industries' detrimental effects on the environment, an increased demand for heart-healthy menu items, and food surplus management.
Impossible Foods has benefited from the plant-based boom via large-scale deals with quick-service chains and franchises like White Castle, Qdoba, and, most recently, Burger King, who will be rolling out a white-labeled Whopper version of the Impossible Burger nationwide in the coming months.
Obviously, these large-scale deals are great for Impossible Foods, as well as competitors like Beyond Meat (which launched a successful IPO in early May). However, without the proper systems in place to scale and successfully meet this overwhelming demand from their B2B channel, the many smaller, independent restaurants who rely on the Impossible Burger as a customer draw are left to suffer the consequences. Back in April, Impossible Foods sent a memo to its distributors that product shortages were imminent, with the company currently expanding labor force hours and a second production line to meet demand and rectify the situation.
So what can restaurants do when faced with the sudden challenge of managing a product they may not be able to restock anytime soon?
Read More: Meatless Monday Ideas for Restaurants: 5 Reasons Why It's a Cash Cow
1. Talk to Your Distributors Regularly
The Impossible Burger shortage highlights the importance of establishing a strong, communicative relationship with your restaurant's food distributor. In this particular case, Impossible Foods did tell its distributors that a shortage was imminent, though it's unclear whether these distributors properly communicated this message to their restaurant clients at all. If they did, it's unclear whether they gave their restaurants enough of a heads up to prepare a backup plan. It's worth noting that Impossible Foods also directly informed some of the restaurants that carry their burger about the impending shortage.
Maintaining a great rapport and frequent communication with the actual makers of your specialized food ingredients, though time consuming, can be hugely beneficial.
2. Buy in Bulk
Restaurateurs who knew of the imminent shortage beat their neighbors to the punch and ordered extra product right away. New York City vegan French café Delice & Sarrasin placed an order for three cases and were promptly informed by their distributor that they only had two cases left for all of New York City. Tim Sykes of Ruby's Café, also located in New York City, contacted an alternate distributor and ordered the last eleven cases they had in stock.
As previously mentioned, sales in all plant-based categories were up 9% between summer 2017 and 2018, and the market is expected to continue to grow exponentially in the next few years. If plant-based meat alternatives are one of the stars on your menu, consider buying in bulk from your distributor so you don't run out. While you're at it, it's worth shopping around to see what smaller players in the booming plant-based meat alternative space have to offer. Given that Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat have their sights set on the franchise and quick-service chain market, there may be competitors who specialize in the independent restaurant space and can provide you with a better inventory purchasing experience.
Read More: How to Set Up A Par Inventory Sheet
3. Be Creative
This might be an opportunity for restaurants to explore new menu options and items. Plant-based proteins aren't just attractive to vegetarian or flexitarian diners; omnivores are actually the largest buying group, as well as Millennial and Gen Z diners who are interested in trying the goods.
If you come to find that a particular food ingredient or product won't be available to reorder for some time (we're not just talking plant-based meat alternatives), it may be wise to suspend the usual menu item that bears it and swap in a seasonal replacement or limited-time offer (LTO) to stretch it out. For example, instead of serving a full plant-based meat alternative patty, half a patty could serve as the base for a plant-based pasta Bolognese or a taco salad. Aroogas Grill House & Sports Bar has incorporated ground plant-based patties into two limited time offers: nachos and chili.
4. Consider an Alternative
A restaurant in need can always consider a substitute ingredient or product; that being said, it may not go according to plan.
The aforementioned Ruby's Café replaced the Impossible Burger with a similar version from its competitor Beyond Meat, only to have a number of customers turn around and leave after being informed of the switch. Of course, it's still better to try and offer a comparable menu item than do nothing at all, in hopes of retaining some of that customer base expecting to dine on it that visit. It all depends on the particular tastes and loyalties of your usual guests.
5. Master Your Inventory
This is also an opportunity to stress the importance of looking over your food inventory across the board. Make sure there's someone on staff specifically tasked with overseeing and fortifying all food and ingredient quantities, as well as handling any challenges when it comes to low quantities or known and impending shortages. A restaurant with the business volume to warrant it might even benefit from a full-time inventory manager, someone with experience navigating such situations.
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6. Use The Inventory Shortage As a Marketing Opportunity
When a guest arrives expecting this particular menu option only to be let down, a staff member can engage their future business by promising to let them know when the product will be back in stock. This can be done a few ways:
Mentioning it in a pre-existing email blast or recurring newsletter that the restaurant sends out to a list of subscribers; it's a valid excuse to add an interested customer to the subscriber list
A "Grand return of the _____!" post on all social media outlets
A specific list of customers to contact personally via phone or email when the product is back in stock
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Prepare for The Impossible
Impossible Foods provides a veritable case study for how restaurants can handle inventory shortages. They developed a product and tested it heavily in restaurants, watched it explode in popularity, and then struggled to keep up with demand when they cashed in on it with big distribution deals. They'll certainly catch up soon, but it's left smaller restaurants scrambling to figure out how to manage a situation that, for some, draws in a largely specific crowd. Fortunately, there are a number of smart ways to cope and even possibly benefit from the situation, as illustrated above.
Impossible Foods has not yet promised a date for when normal supply would resume. However, some restaurants seem to be taking the current shortage in stride. Christhina Verna, manager at Brooklyn vegan cheese shop and café Riverdel, told Eater calmly, "We'll survive." Nonetheless, by applying these strategies and tactics, all restaurants should be well-equipped to weather the next storm when it's forecasted.
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Year : 2022 | Month : November | Volume : 16 | Issue : 11 | Page : TD01 - TD03 Full Version
Neck Dermoid Cyst with Rare Imaging Appearance on Ultrasound, Elastography, and Computed Tomography
Vadlamudi Nagendra, Suresh Vasant Phatak, Prerna Anup Patwa, Suhasini Pattabiraman, Ghanta Prashanti
1. Resident, Department of Radiology, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India. 2. Professor, Department of Radiology, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India. 3. Resident, Department of Radiology, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India. 4. Resident, Department of Radiology, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India. 5. Resident, Department of Radiology, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
Dr. Vadlamudi Nagendra,
Resident, Department of Radiology, JNMC, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
E-mail: nagvad@gmail.com
Dermoid cyst is a type of inclusion cyst and a benign cystic teratoma containing two or more germ cell layers. It can show variable appearance on ultrasound and Computed Tomography (CT) as it is derived from squamous cell epithelium (ectoderm) and contains dermal-derived elements such as skin appendages, hair follicles, sebaceous and sweat glands. It is uncommon for a dermoid cyst to occur in the neck region during old age. The present case report highlights a rare imaging appearance of a dermoid cyst, presenting in a 65-year-old elderly male as a midline neck swelling, displaying a rare "coin in sack" appearance on ultrasound, "sack of marbles sign" on Contrast-Enhanced CT (CECT). On strain elastography, it showed characteristics of a hard mass. Diagnosing this type of large dermoid cyst with its radiological appearance is challenging. Multimodality imaging is often needed for early intervention, to prevent its rupture and transformation into malignancy. The dermoid cyst was surgically excised, and the patient was symptomatically normal on follow-up.
Coin in sack, Inclusion cyst, Sack of marbles
A 65-year-old male presented with complaints of swelling in the anterior aspect of the neck in the midline for three years which was insidious in onset and progressive in nature. It did not cause any local mass effect like difficulty in swallowing, speaking, or breathing. No significant medical, surgical, or personal history was present.
On local examination, the swelling was round to oval, firm, not freely mobile, non tender with well-defined margins, and skin over the swelling was normal with no cervical lymphadenopathy. It was seen extending from the lower border of the mandible to the upper border of the thyroid cartilage (Table/Fig 1). The patient had no other systemic complaints or co-morbidities.
Ultrasonography showed a large well-defined complex cystic mass seen above the level of the thyroid gland, measuring 5.7×5.2 mm, with multiple echogenic varied-sized nodules (representing fat globules) and few echogenic linear strands (representing hairs), giving the typical "coin in sac" appearance. No calcification or vascularity was seen on the colour doppler. On strain elastography, the lesion predominantly showed dark blue colour with a strain ratio of 16.5 (Tsukuba score IV) (1) and Elasticity score 3 (stiff) (2) (Table/Fig 2).
The lesion picked a predominantly stiff colour (blue) and showed a high strain ratio which gave the appearance of a malignant cyst due to its highly organised fat content. On CECT, it appeared as a well-defined round to oval peripherally enhancing midline cystic lesion with multiple locules of hypodense fat nodules (-40 to -80 HU) in the subcutaneous plane above the level of the thyroid cartilage, giving typical "sack of marbles" sign (Table/Fig 3). The lesion had no invasion or mass effect on adjacent structures.
Surgical excision was performed. The postoperative histopathological specimen on the cut section revealed fibrofatty, chalky, yellowish-white tissue with hair. It was diagnosed as a dermoid cyst (Table/Fig 4)a,b with extensive chronic non specific inflammation. The patient was monthly followed-up for six months, during which he showed no postoperative complications or any new symptoms.
The dermoid cyst contains elements from all three germ cell layers (ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm). Congenital occurrence of dermoid is given by two theories: a-Due to failure of surface ectoderm to separate from underlying structures, sequestration of surface ectoderm and implantation of surface ectoderm, b-Due to abnormal sequestration and invagination of surface ectoderm along the embryologic sites of dermal fusion that form the eyes, ears, and face (3). Dermoid cysts are common in the second and third decades of life with no gender predilection. It is usually located in the midline of the body (4). It is most commonly congenital in origin.
The developmental dermoid cyst can occur secondary to trauma or iatrogenic cause (3). A dermoid cyst in the neck usually presents as a slow-growing, soft, mobile, midline mass free from overlying skin and showing no local symptoms (5). Rapid enlargement of a dermoid cyst is seen with an increase in desquamation, pregnancy, or an associated sinus tract. Squamous cell carcinoma develops in near 5% of dermoid cysts, the cause is unknown, but it is probably due to persistent chronic inflammation (4).
It presents as well-defined encapsulated unilocular cystic lesion with one or more dermal components-sebum, keratin, tooth, hair, cartilage, sweat or sebaceous glands. The size of the dermoid cyst is variable and depends on its location, duration, and presence of infection (6). Sebaceous secretions, rather than mesodermal (adipose) fat, provide the lipid content for the dermoid (3). Most commonly, it occurs in the midline area of the neck due to entrapment of epithelial elements in the thyroglossal duct during its development and is primarily located in submandibular and sublingual space (6).
On ultrasound, it is usually superficial, round to oval, well-defined unilocular, homogeneous hypoechoic mass with internal echoes and posterior acoustic enhancement. Colour doppler shows no vascularity (7). "Coin in sac appearance", as described above, is the classic sign of dermoid cyst on the ultrasound. Ultrasound imaging has a sensitivity and specificity of 80.0% in diagnosing dermoid cysts (8).
Strain elastography helps to know the stiffness of the lesion. Compared to benign lesions, malignant lesions are stiff to hard due to increased adherence, calcification, and tissue fibrosis. The benignity of the tissue is based on the colour it depicts on strain wave elastography -red (soft) to blue (hard) areas in the lesion and is graded based on the Tsukuba scoring system of (I to V) recommended by Itoh A et al., (1). Another elastography grading used for non nodal neck masses is elastography score 0 to 3 by Bhatia KS et al., (2), in which ES0 is softer than surrounding tissues, ES1 is soft as surrounding tissues, ES2 is mild stiffness, and ES3 is stiff lesion. The strain ratio is calculated using the average value between the lesion and the adjacent normal area. A higher strain ratio value suggests the malignant nature of the lesion (9). On CT, the dermoid cyst usually appears as a peripherally enhancing, unilocular, thin-walled cystic lesion, giving a varied heterogeneous appearance due to contents from multiple germ cell layers. It sometimes demonstrates a characteristic "sac of marbles" sign due to multiple varied-sized fat nodules (5). On MRI, the lesion shows hyperintensity on T1-WI, hypo to hyperintense signals on T2-WI and fat gets suppressed on STIR sequence (7).
To prevent a recurrence, complete surgical removal is the choice of treatment with a good prognosis (6). The most common differential diagnosis is an epidermoid cyst. It presents early in life, is less common in the head and neck region, and is predominantly cystic in nature with no dermal elements. Thyroglossal duct cysts can occasionally appear as cystic lesions with an ill-defined margin, an irregular shape, or variable internal echogenicity. They also frequently border the hyoid bone, exhibit multilocularity, show longitudinal extension towards the base of the tongue, and are intramuscularly situated (6). The next possibility of lipoma or lipomatous tumour is to be considered (4).
A case report by Chung BM et al., has described a rare subcutaneous dermoid cyst in the back, which on the ultrasound showed a hyperechoic mass with scattered hyperechoic linear foci and suspected nodularity at the proximal wall. The distal portion was slightly more heterogeneous echoic without internal vascularity. Chest CT revealed a fat density in the subcutaneous fat layer with a nodular component with soft tissue density (5 HU) at the peripheral portion of the lesion, mainly at the distal portion of the mass (7).
Another study by Bhatia KS et al., on dermoid cyst evaluation on grey scale ultrasound and strain elastography revealed that they show typical location, smooth, thin wall, heterogeneous contents with posterior enhancement and no flow on colour doppler. Elastography had a higher stiffness with a score 3, which may be explained by the fact that these comprise predominantly solid tissue (2).
Malignant transformation of a subcutaneous dermoid cyst is a rare complication of around 2% (10). The malignant change shows illdefined margins, heterogenous, solid in nature, with increased vascularity and enhancement (7).
Midline large dermoid cyst of the neck in an older adult with its rare and distinctive ultrasound and CT appearance, as described in the present case report helps in its diagnosis. There is less literature on elastography and strain ratio findings in a dermoid cyst, which also helps to distinguish, if it is either benign or malignant in nature.
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Q: Implementing Cross Validation for CNN model I have built my CNN model to classify images for 8 classes. The Training and testing steps have been done through randomly splitting 80% for training images and 20% for testing images, where Acuuracy and F-measure results have been calculated.
I have noticed that my training accuracy results are slightly less, compared to my testing results (where I believe that the training accuracy should be higher). After conducting a lot of search, I found two reasons:
1- The use of droput(0.5), which affects the training accuracy results
2-The testing dataset is simple to be classified.
I am planning to evaluate my CNN classifier by conducting 10-k cross validation. However, since I am still new in this area, most of the answers I found were for .csv files, where I have the image files.
How can I code to get the cross validation?
Can I get a confusion matrix for cross validation?
My code:
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers import Conv2D,Activation,MaxPooling2D,Dense,Flatten,Dropout
import numpy as np
from keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
from IPython.display import display
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from PIL import Image
from sklearn.metrics import classification_report, confusion_matrix
import keras
from keras.layers import BatchNormalization
from keras.optimizers import Adam

classifier = Sequential()
classifier.add(Conv2D(32,(3,3),input_shape=(200,200,3)))
classifier.add(Activation('relu'))
classifier.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size =(2,2)))
classifier.add(Flatten())
classifier.add(Dense(128))
classifier.add(Activation('relu'))
classifier.add(Dropout(0.5))
classifier.add(Dense(8))
classifier.add(Activation('softmax'))
classifier.summary()
classifier.compile(optimizer =keras.optimizers.Adam(lr=0.001),
                   loss ='categorical_crossentropy',
                   metrics =['accuracy'])
train_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale =1./255,
                                   shear_range =0.2,
                                   zoom_range = 0.2,
                                   horizontal_flip =True)
test_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale = 1./255)

batchsize=10
training_set = train_datagen.flow_from_directory('/home/osboxes/Downloads/Downloads/Journal_Paper/Train/',
                                                target_size=(200,200),
                                                batch_size= batchsize,
                                                class_mode='categorical')

test_set = test_datagen.flow_from_directory('/home/osboxes/Downloads/Downloads/Journal_Paper/Test/',
                                           target_size = (200,200),
                                           batch_size = batchsize,
                       shuffle=False,
                                           class_mode ='categorical')
history=classifier.fit_generator(training_set,
                        steps_per_epoch = 3067 // batchsize,
                        epochs = 50,
                        validation_data =test_set,
                        validation_steps = 769 // batchsize)

Y_pred = classifier.predict_generator(test_set, steps= 769 // batchsize + 1)
y_pred = np.argmax(Y_pred, axis=1)
print('Confusion Matrix')
print(confusion_matrix(test_set.classes, y_pred))
print('Classification Report')
target_names = test_set.classes
class_labels = list(test_set.class_indices.keys())
target_names = ['coinhive','emotent','fareit', 'flystudio', 'gafgyt','gamarue', 'mirai','razy']
report = classification_report(test_set.classes, y_pred, target_names=class_labels)
print(report)

# summarize history for accuracy
plt.plot(history.history['accuracy'])
plt.plot(history.history['val_accuracy'])
plt.title('model accuracy')
plt.ylabel('accuracy')
plt.xlabel('epoch')
plt.legend(['train', 'test'], loc='upper left')
plt.show()
# summarize history for loss
plt.plot(history.history['loss'])
plt.plot(history.history['val_loss'])
plt.title('model loss')
plt.ylabel('loss')
plt.xlabel('epoch')
plt.legend(['train', 'test'], loc='upper left')
plt.show()

A: According to Wikipedia
In k-fold cross-validation, the original sample is randomly partitioned into k equal sized subsamples. Of the k subsamples, a single subsample is retained as the validation data for testing the model, and the remaining k − 1 subsamples are used as training data.
For example, like you want to do 10-fold cross validation, you will

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*Partition the data into ten random, equal parts

*Train ten separate models with nine subsets of the data,

*Validate on a different subset of data for each model

*Find the confusion matrix on each model separately

The code for training and testing will remain the same, just the data input can be taken via either custom generators, or by using SKLearn's KFold.

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SP Dawar: The cop who stared terror in the face
SP Dawar had seven children, including two sons and five daughters
By Riaz Ahmad
'It's is hoped that Afghan authorities will offer full cooperation in ascertaining circumstances of the murder'. PHOTO COURTESY: TWITTER
PESHAWER: Superintendent of Police (SP) Tahir Khan Dawar was a polite gentleman, a Pashto poet and an efficient and courageous officer.
Born in 1968 in the Khadia Village of North Waziristan, Dawar was recently promoted to the rank of SP, Peshawar (Rural). He had several encounters with terrorists and attempts on his life. He served in Bannu during the years when the entire province and erstwhile Fata was under frequent attacks by the militants.
Dawar completed his matriculation in 1982 and Faculty of Arts (FA) in 1984. He joined the police force as an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) after passing his public service commission exam.
For his outstanding performance in 2011, he was decorated with the Quaid-e-Azam Police Medal—the highest honour for a police officer in the country.
Ahmed Dawar, the brother of SP Dawar, described the gallant police officer as an outstanding man.
"In 2005, he was badly injured during an encounter with terrorists," Ahmed Dawar told The Express Tribune. "He suffered gunshot wounds to his arm and leg.
"In 2008, a suicide bomber attacked his residence in Bannu, which he survived, but his guard didn't."
Pakistan demands Dawar's murder probe as body being returned to country
Ahmed said SP Dawar had once volunteered to supply arms and ammunition to Hawed police station in Bannu. "However, the control room made a mistake and the information was not passed on to the police station. The police fired at him. He suffered a gunshot wound to his right arm due to the confusion."
Ahmed further said, "Every time Tahir recovered from an injury and rejoined the force, his passion doubled."
It is learnt that Dawar spent a year in Morocco on a United Nations mission in 2003 and later in Sudan in 2005.
"He was sent to Australia and Romania during his posting in the Federal Investigation Agency," said Ahmad.
Despite multiple threats from militants, SP Dawar had always been pro-active in performing his duty to establish the rule of law.
"On receiving threats, he exercised great caution by going out of the country for a brief period," a police official told The Express Tribune. "It was because of these threats to his life that he was transferred to Peshawar where he served as DSP Faqirabad for nearly two years and served in Central Police Office (CPO) before his appointment as SP rural."
The manner in which Dawar was abducted and then found dead in Dur Baba area of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan shocked the police investigation teams as most of them had not expected him to be kidnapped by militants as he practiced extra caution, added the official.
The police official shared that the SP's family life was not smooth as his brother's wife and his brother had been killed by a neighbour over a dispute in Islamabad, but he forgave the murderer.
SP Dawar had seven children, including two sons and five daughters. He was very fond of his two youngest daughters.
Read more: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa , Latest , Tahir Khan Dawar
Police presence to be ramped up in KP tribal districts
100 police stations to be established, thousands of new personnel to be recruited
Slain police officer's body handed over to Pakistani authorities at Torkham
PM Imran ordered an inquiry into Dawar's abduction and killing
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May Allah rest his soul in eternal peace and grant courage to his family to bear this immense loss. May Allah SWT keep them all protected and they too become soldiers of Pakistan like father.
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Europe Tutor
Is Dumpster Diving Legal in Portugal? [Updated: 2023]
Published January 2, 2023 Categorized as Portugal
Dumpster diving is legal and totally allowed in Portugal. However, people may not like it when you dive into their personal dumpster. Be aware of that.
For those of you who don't know, Dumpster diving is a way of searching the dumpster or skip or a bin for items that could be useful for you which are discarded by their owners.
I have done dumpster diving quite a few times in Portugal. I have found a couple of furniture items, electronics items, and some utensils like plates and cups from the dumpsters.
I don't keep the items for myself. I donate the items to the poor and needy.
I know a guy who usually goes to Lidl (Supermarket) at around 5 pm in the evening and dives in their dumpsters. He always finds some vegetables like onion, tomato, carrot, radish, and spinach. The veggies are a bit wasted, but you can clean them and cook them.
Should you go dumpster diving in Portugal during the day?
The best time of day to go dumpster diving is usually late at night or in the early morning hours when the store/place is closed and there is minimal foot traffic. If I were you, I would hit supermarkets, department stores, and restaurants first as they often have a larger volume of discarded items.
Should you ask before dumpster diving in Portugal?
It is the best way to ask the owner of any dumpster for permission to enter if you see something you want. This way, you avoid any trespassing issues. A simple way to do this is to find out who owns the dumpster and ask.
Do grocery stores lock their dumpsters in Portugal?
Some of them do, and some of them don't. The majority of grocery stores in Portugal don't lock their dumpsters. Some of them lock their dumpsters and even put them behind fences which makes it difficult to access it.
Can you make money dumpster diving in Portugal?
In fact, yes. You can make money dumpster diving in Portugal. The most consistent find in any dumpster is sellable scrap. Those who know what they're doing can make hundreds of Euros per month just dumpster diving for scrap and selling it.
What kinds of things can you sell from Dumpsters?
Where can you sell your dumpster finds in Portugal?
You can sell your findings from a dumpster in a lot of places. The first place is to sell it in a local shop.
If you want to avoid shipping your finds, focus on things that you can sell locally. The main advantage to selling things locally is that it opens up the possibility of selling larger items (furniture, for example) that wouldn't be practical to ship.
You can sell them on Facebook Marketplace, Craiglist, OLX, eBay, or nearby flea markets.
Can you get sick from Dumpster diving in Portugal?
There is always a possibility of getting sick from Dumpster diving in Portugal, especially in the summer. Dumpsters can contain rotten things, used toilet paper, used sanitary pads, and a lot of other items which aren't healthy for the human body.
If you have any questions regarding dumpster diving in Portugal, please let me know in the comment section below.
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Published January 2, 2023 By Aashish Poudel Genuine
Categorized as Portugal
Look, I worked in a supermarket and it was only there that I found out that they threw things in good condition away (after all, I thought it was only the United States that did that).
I took the opportunity to save what I could and found in the trash, especially food. Yes, food. The food was good and in good condition. They throw (I speak in the present tense, because despite not working there anymore I know that things go to the trash every day) food away with the expiry date, because 1 or 2 days have passed. I get irritated and upset to see so much food go to waste, food that despite the deadline LAST!
In addition to the food, I also saved some toys for the animals (since it was broken, but they play), a decoration object, a pâté… There were more things, but I can't remember right now.
I will say what I saved from food. Chicken (it was delicious), rice, fried corn, yoghurts, cakes, pies, pies, berlin balls, mushrooms, donuts, a can of condensed milk, pâté (it had a little mouth that was open, but that exposed part was removed and the my dog ate it), bacon…
And there were also things that I couldn't save unfortunately. Flowers, 2 cans of sausages (both closed, just a little crushed), chicken breast, hamburgers, beans, among other things. There was a lot in the trash.
There was a day when I saved 8 packages of chicken! All in the same day! And about 5 packs of rice. I was happy, but also amazed at how much stuff they throw away.
That time I was working there, I made the most of it to save everything I could. Without anyone knowing, of course. I did everything without anyone finding out because I don't know what they could do. And I spent virtually no money on account of saving so much food, because there was so much food that I had food for days, weeks and months!
Well, I honestly thought it was illegal to do this in Portugal, but what I would really like to know is if it is illegal to do this in store containers.
I wanted so badly to go there and save the food they throw away. Just for passing 1/2 days of the deadline they already throw it away! It's such a waste! I would donate part of the food, as there is so much that neither my family nor I can eat it all.
People spend money at the supermarket when so much goes to waste! It's a waste of money!
Well that's. I just want to know if it's illegal to go into store containers. The ones I wanted to go to are in a separate part where the containers are. I even called a garbage company to ask if I could go. They said no. 😥
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At this point, it's no secret that Disney is closing in on a landmark deal to acquire several of 21st Century Fox's most beloved properties. Chief among these are X-Men and Fantastic Four, which could consolidate Fox's superhero films into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the foreseeable future. Some fans have voiced concerns about the possibility of this happening, as it will inherently lead to less Marvel-inspired movies debuting per year, but that could be a good thing for the comic book movie genre as a whole. Specifically, if Disney eventually produces the bulk of the Marvel movies that debut in a given year, then it could provide non-Marvel IP a fighting chance at the box office.
The reason for this is simple: putting most of the Marvel movies under one roof inherently limits the number of Marvel movies that can conceivably get made in a given year. Disney seemingly has all of the money in the world, but it also has other properties like Star Wars, the live-action remakes like The Lion King and its animation houses to consider. Bringing in the FOX-owned properties like X-Men and Fantastic Four will give Marvel Studios more storytelling options, but the odds of Disney investing in more than the 2-3 MCU movies that it releases in a given year seems slim, particularly in such a producer-oriented environment in which Kevin Feige is so heavily involved in each project.
If that turns out to be the case, then we could presumably take Fox's highly-coveted superhero movie release dates off of the schedule. Using 2018 as an example, this means New Mutants' April 13 release date would open up, Deadpool 2's June 1 release date would become available and another franchise could swoop in for X-Men: Dark Phoenix's November 2 slot -- again, those movies are still coming, but this is just a model. With coveted dates like those up for grabs, smaller studios could grab smaller (and likely cheaper) superhero properties and plug those into those great release dates. For example, Lionsgate's Hellboy reboot wouldn't need to take a January release date because Marvel properties wouldn't have a vice grip on spring, summer, and fall anymore.
The possibilities here are only as limited as the imaginations of smaller studios willing to get in on the action. Disney and Warner Bros would likely continue to reign with Marvel and DC, respectively. However, studios like Paramount or Universal could use the more open calendar to invest in smaller properties that have a better chance of debuting in spring or summer with Fox's properties off of the table.
It is worth mentioning that Disney absorbing the Fox Marvel properties does likely mean that the hard-R Marvel films in the vein of Deadpool and Logan could be in jeopardy, and that would be unfortunate for fans. However, the consolidation of Marvel properties under the Disney banner would allow other dark, gritty and all-around R-worthy comic book properties like American Vampire, Invincible or Scud: The Disposable Assassin the moment that they never would've received in a Marvel-saturated landscape.
The aforementioned Hellboy reboot is taking this route, and it seems safe to assume that Sony's reboot of The Crow will do the same. With this deal potentially about to create a void for edgy material, other studios could easily step in and fill it with less mainstream IP.
Don't get me wrong; we absolutely love Marvel and Marvel-based movies. Having said that, we have to consider the ever-present possibility of superhero fatigue. The comic book movie world needs to stay fresh if it wants to survive, and decentralizing the genre to focus less on Marvel characters feels like one of the best ways to get that done.
As with anything in life, there are pros and cons to the possibility of Disney acquiring so many beloved Fox properties. That said, if you're a fan of slightly off-kilter comic book films that don't entirely fall under the Marvel or DC banner, then this deal has the potential to lead to some great projects down the line. We will just have to wait and see if this deal goes through to know for sure.
Do you think this Marvel-Fox deal could be a good thing for other superhero properties?
Yes! It can help get more franchises off of the ground!
No! It will just limited the number of Marvel movies we get!


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Q: Using getChildHtml to display product attributes not working I have added a  to my catalog.xml file, created a specifications.phtml file to be used as the template, and I'm calling echo $this->getChildHtml('specifications'); in my view.phtml file.
However it's not displaying anything at all. I've basically mirrored everything after the same type of thing for the product description (which works) but I'm not having any luck.
The content that I'm trying to pull in is under the product page and I think a custom section that is labeled "Specifications Tab". Not sure if the space in the field name is causing issues or what.
Here is what I have in my view.phtml file:

<?php echo $this->__('Description'); ?>

        <?php
        $specificationsTabContent = $_product->getSpecificationsTab();
        $videoTabContent = $_product->getVideoTab();
        $faqTabContent = $_product->getFaqTab();
        $howitworksTabContent = $_product->getHowitworksTab();
        $awardsTabContent = $_product->getAwardsTab();

        ?>

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        <?php endif; ?>

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            <?php echo $specificationsTabContent; ?>

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<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('snippet_product_view_tab_2') ?>

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This is the XML I added to my catalog.xml:

            <block type="catalog/product_view_specifications" name="product.specifications.tab" as="specifications" template="catalog/product/view/specifications.phtml"/>

And this is the template file specifications.phtml:
<?php $_specifications = $this->getProduct()->getSpecificationsTab(); ?>

<?php if ($_specifications): ?>

<?php echo $this->__('Specifications') ?>

        <?php echo $this->helper('catalog/output')->productAttribute($this->getProduct(), $_specifications, 'specifications') ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm not overly familiar with Magento or PHP.
Thanks,

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We have always tried to live life to the fullest, in our own modest bikecentric way, and sooner or later we knew certain life-experience events would catch up with us. Well, it has! A few weeks ago we pulled a hamstring muscle and discovered that the (unhappy) right side of the body was not quite the same as the (much happier) left side of our body.
So entering into our life is weekly physiotherapy, and stern advice to not hammer! Luckily bikes can be ridden slower (which is not, we point out, the same as slow), and we continue to explore and experience the full joys of life on two wheels.
So life has become a smidge more moderate, and we are looking forward to regaining 100% of our hamstring muscle again, because we got a new mtn bike this year, and we want (heck, we need) to hammer!
We don't want pity, but we do want to stretch properly after rides for a change. And we learned to do the "wiper."


We had an amazing day with Robyn and Robby at their wedding this past summer. The entire day was spent on Vancouver's North Shore, with the guys getting ready at Deep Cove and the girls at home at Dundarave Village. I had such a good time with Robyn and Robby at their engagement session earlier in the year that it was a wedding I was really looking forward to. The day itself was beautiful – warm and sunny all day long. After a first look at Robyn's home, we took photos along the sea wall, then drove to their outdoor park ceremony in Deep Cove. Afterwards, it was a short ride to the Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier, which has to be one of the top wedding venues in the North Shore. The hotel is definitely the newest, and offers a massive, but elegant ballroom suitable for very large weddings. The wedding decor and flowers were magnificently put together by Jayme of Unique Boutique, Brent Sheppard was the officiant, and Man About Town provided DJ and audio/visual services that evening.


I'm not going to clean my room anymore.
I'm not going to clean the house.
when tomorrow they'll just be soiled again.
calicos that tolerate none of the above.
is an art not lost on me.
and pursue the life I was born to live.
too many accomplishments to list.


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Q: How to find the index of one array and using that index value to select value from another array const COUNTY = ["DELHI","GUJARAT","GOA","ANDHRA"]

const COUNTY_CODE = ["001","002","003","004"]

We have 2 arrays. First array, we are showing in dropdown. We need to pass the county code from 2nd array based on the county selected in 1st array.
How to do it from using angular JS and javascript and typescript ??

A: You can use indexOf function to find the index of the county and then use it to find the code in the second array.

const COUNTY = ["DELHI","GUJARAT","GOA","ANDHRA"]

const COUNTY_CODE = ["001","002","003","004"]

const selected = "DELHI";

const selectedIndex = COUNTY.indexOf(selected);

const code = COUNTY_CODE[selectedIndex];

console.log(code);