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Yesterday's trivia goes to Donnie of The Season Experience for knowing that Sean Lamont of Geargetown hit the first home run at Citi Field. That gives him a big lead.
Who is the only American League pitcher to hit a grand slam since the DH was added?
Yesterday's trivia goes to Canuck of The Watercooler for knowing that Manny Acta was the Nationals manager and he was the Mets 3rd base coach.
♠ I think this question will be hard so it is worth 8 points. If nobody gets it today then there will be the same question tomorrow but I will give some clues and lower the value of the question.


The US and China have raised, and continue to threaten to escalate, tariffs which could greatly impact US businesses. Join Scott Opincar on April 25 as he discusses this timely topic as a panelist at Tariffs and Their Impact on Business hosted by The Turnaround Management Association.
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ANT/Tax: Indonesia ranked as implementing international information standards
From: Antara News
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia is now ranked in the category of jurisdictions that have substantially implemented internationally agreed tax standards, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)`s report received by ANTARA here Wednesday.
The OECD pointed out that the rank for Indonesia along with Brazil was considered as a result of details provided to the recent Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.
The organization said it had updated its progress report, first issued in conjunction with the G20 London summit in April 2009, to take account of communications from Brazil and Indonesia on their legal and regulatory frameworks for exchange of information.
According to the information provided, Indonesia has 53 agreements that meet the standard while Brazil has more than 25 bilateral tax treaties that provide for exchange of information in tax matters to the internationally agreed standard.The two countries joined the Global Forum last September.
A full description of the two countries legal and regulatory frameworks will be included in the Global Forum`s ss2010 annual assessment to be published later this year, the OECD said.
As with all members of the Global Forum, both countries will undergo peer reviews of their exchange of information laws and practices, Brazil in 2011 and 2012 and Indonesia in 2011 and 2013, it said, adding that. Brazil is a member both of the Forum's Steering Group and of its Peer Review Group.
Jeffrey Owens, Director of the OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration, said: "We are very pleased to be able to include these two important members of the G20 within the scope of the progress report."
Since April 2009, more than 500 bilateral tax information exchange agreements have been signed worldwide, with 28 jurisdictions joining those ranked as having substantially implemented the internationally agreed standard.

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Prominent Afghan reporter attacked with acid
New York, January 19, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned about the acid attack on Afghan journalist and author Razaq Mamoon, which left him disfigured. Local and international media reports say Mamoon was attacked as he was walking outside his apartment in Kabul on Tuesday evening....
In Tunisia, one journalist still jailed, another killed
New York, January 18, 2011--Tunisia's transitional government should immediately release Fahem Boukadous, a television reporter imprisoned last year in reprisal for his work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ also offered condolences to the family and colleagues of French photographer Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, who died of head...
In Belarus, two more independent journalists jailed
New York, January 18, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the ongoing imprisonment of independent journalists in Belarus and urges authorities to cease their crackdown and release all jailed reporters and editors. On Monday, authorities in Minsk and the eastern city of Mogilev jailed two more independent reporters on politicized...
Ecuador must return property seized from newsmagazine
New York, January 18, 2011--Ecuadoran authorities have been holding computers and equipment belonging to the critical newsmagazine Vanguardia since a police raid on its offices a month ago. The Committee to Protect Journalists has concluded the seizure was reprisal for the magazine's editorial positions and calls on authorities to return...
As Ben Ali's regime falls, 3 Tunisian journalists freed
New York, January 14, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is heartened by news reports that three jailed Tunisian journalists have been freed as the repressive regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has fallen. CPJ calls on the new interim Tunisian government to release one other journalist believed to be...
Gambia bans only independent radio station airing news
New York, January 14, 2011--Gambian authorities on Thursday shut the only independent radio station in the nation that has continued to broadcast news, according to local journalists....
CPJ condemns Israeli security for humiliating screening
New York, January 14, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the humiliating treatment of several journalists by security personnel assigned to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. CPJ calls on the prime minister to ensure that similar episodes are avoided in the future. ...
Yemen should free two critical journalists
New York, January 14, 2011--Yemeni security forces should release Fuad Rashid, editor-in-chief of the independent news website Mukalla Press, who was detained Monday in Hadramout province, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Ugandan magazine questioned over Museveni cartoon
New York, January 13, 2011--Police in Kampala arrested the director and editor of the monthly newsmagazine Summit Business Review on Tuesday in connection with a caricature of President Yoweri Museveni that appeared on the cover of the October issue.Director Samuel Sejjaaka and Editor Mustapha Mugisha were released on bond...
Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar gunned down in Karachi
New York, January 13, 2011--Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar was shot and killed in Karachi this evening, shortly after covering gang violence in the city, according to several Pakistani journalists. At least two assailants intercepted Babar's car at 9:20 p.m., shooting him multiple times in the head and neck,...


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Installing Fluxbox on Ubuntu Linux
Lowell Heddings @lowellheddings
Updated March 13, 2017, 9:08pm EDT
Ubuntu by default uses the Gnome user interface. Fluxbox is an alternative window manager for Ubuntu that is extremely lightweight and customizable.
Installing fluxbox is really quite simple. First you will want to make sure that you've enabled the universe repository.
To install Fluxbox, open up a terminal window and type in the following command:
sudo apt-get install fluxbox
You will be prompted for your password, and the installation will continue. Once you are done installing, you will need to exit XWindows by using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or just rebooting the computer.
At the Ubuntu Login prompt, click the Options button in the bottom left hand corner:
You will be prompted to choose from a list of Window Managers that are installed on your system. Select Fluxbox and continue to login.
Fluxbox is really simple. The main menu can be seen by right-clicking on the desktop:
At the bottom of the screen, you will see a taskbar that shows you the running programs and lets you switch between workspaces:
The Fluxbox window style is a lot different than you may be used to. Here's a screenshot for your enjoyment:
Fluxbox is definitely not for everybody, but it's about as lightweight as you can get, so it's probably useful for low memory systems.
Lowell Heddings
Lowell is the founder and CEO of How-To Geek. He's been running the show since creating the site back in 2006. Over the last decade, Lowell has personally written more than 1000 articles which have been viewed by over 250 million people. Prior to starting How-To Geek, Lowell spent 15 years working in IT doing consulting, cybersecurity, database management, and programming work.


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The quickest way to bring your mind and body in balance is with the breath. When you're focusing on the breath, the conscious brain doesn't have much capability for other thought. Breathing does the obvious, opens up the lungs and sends more oxygen throughout the entire body. It has been said that we only use 10% of the lungs at resting. Although this is not completely true, most people breathe shallow and short. Mindful breathing brings the body into balance. If you're up or down, breathing brings your back to center. Before we go any further, STOP, close your eyes and take 10 deep breaths.
Feel better? I know what your answer is because I do.
A lot of anxiety starts as a physical response in the lungs. When the lungs and muscles surrounding them constrict, it sends a message to the brain. The brain then releases neurochemicals like cortisol and adrenaline. When this happens and we do not have a battle to fight or an emergency situation to run from, our body has the symptoms of anxiety. This can all be controlled with the breath. It may not work the first time but according to Thomas Richards, PhD., the body and brain need cognitive therapy and "without repetition, neural pathways and associations cannot change. To have a permanent solution for social anxiety, our neural pathways and associations MUST change" (www.socialanxietyinstitute.org). As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect and if we don't practice stress release, then guess what? Yep, we'll have symptoms of stress. Below you'll find a couple of breaths we practice in yoga that can help guide you into balance.
This is the first breath you'll typically learn in a yoga class. I like to call it the Darth Vader or if you're more of a Spaceballs fan, Dark Helmet, breath. Keep reading and you'll see why. Ujjayi breathing occurs in and out of the nostrils. Focus the air to move off the back of the throat, making a deep almost growling type sound (hence Darth Vader). Breathe slow and steady, like you're sucking the air through a straw. When you breathe in, expand the belly and pull the belly toward the spine as you expel air from the lungs. Your inhale and exhale should be at the same pace so count to ensure they are. Here is a quick, six minute video that explains it beautifully.
Imagine a hunting dog sniffing out the scent of its prey or your pup sniffing the air when you drop something delicious in a skillet. This is a breath that is used to bring focus and alertness to the mind. Do not use this breath when you are feeling anxiety or stress, as it could heighten the anxious responses in the body. The focus breath is short, quick sniffs from the nose. The belly moves in and out with the breath. I use it when I'm driving and need to wake up, followed by 10 Ujjayi breaths for more balance. I also use it when I'm sitting down to a project, like writing this article for instance. I start and end with an Ujjayi breath with about 15-20 seconds of focus breath in between.
The important thing is to JUST breath. When someone upsets you, breath. When something excites you, breath. When you need a break but can't take one, breath. For those of you that thought you'd never do yoga, you just did. Breathing is one of the main components of yoga.


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Twenty One Pilots Collaborate Amid Coronavirus on New Song 'Level of Concern'
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So how exactly do bands work in this era of the coronavirus pandemic and self-isolation? Twenty One Pilots have given a glimpse of that in their new song and video for "Level of Concern."
The video, directed by Reel Bear Media, finds the two principal members of the band, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, collaborating separately in their respective studios, sending audio and video files back and forth until the new song was ready.
"Always writing, but this one feels like it should just come out now," Joseph recently tweeted on social media, "I think it's simple but hopeful," noting that it's the first song he has ever written on electric guitar.
The poppier leaning track is the first new music from the band since the group's highly successful Trench album. As you can hear in the lyrics, the track is definitely influenced by the global pandemic, with Joseph trying to spread a little hope during these difficult times. Pick up the song via the platform of your choosing here.
Both Joseph and Dun intend to donate a portion of the proceeds from "Level of Concern" to Crew Nation, the global relief fund for live music crews that is helping to financially support them through this self isolation period. Learn more about Crew Nation here.
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L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa: First Fix the Budget, then Grab the Governorship
Call him The Deficinator.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa may be out to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger – but not before bailing out the City of Angels.
Interviewed Monday on BlogTalkRadio's USMayorTime, live from from the 77th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors, in Providence, R.I., Villaraigosa shared his thoughts on mounting a campaign for the California Governor's seat.
"I love what I do," Mayor Villaraigosa (above) tells us of his current job.
That seat is currently occupied, of course, by "Governator" Schwarzenegger. But the one-time action hero's second – and final – term ends in January 2011, meaning the race to Sacramento could get under way as soon as this fall.
"When you're mayor of a city like mine – with a budget deficit – you gotta keep your eye on the ball," Villaraigosa, 56, told host Tom Cochran.
"So my focus right now is on my job as mayor. I've said to people I'll look at the issue of running for [governor] down the line. But not until we've appropriately handled the challenges that we're facing here with this budget.
"So I'm hoping to get it behind us so we can look at the governorship."
One issue that could hinder a trajectory to the state capital is the mayor's relationship with Miss USA 1994, Lu Parker.
Parker: Hizzoner's current angel.
Still married to, though long separated from, wife Corina, Villaraigosa began getting cozy with Parker – now a news anchor with CW affiliate KTLA-TV in L.A. – three months ago.
"I don't think it's going to have any impact whatsoever," the mayor told reporters last week of his liaison with the 36-year-old former beauty queen.
Nonetheless, say plotical pundits, the voting public may still be smarting from the 2007 revelation that Villaraigosa was then dating another local TV news anchor, Mirthala Salinas.
"It reminds people of naughty behavior, if you like," Shawn Rosenberg, a political science professor at the University of California, recently told the L.A. Times.
"It would have less of an impact if it didn't remind of other things."
To hear Mayor Villaraigosa's full interview, click here.
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Everyone associated with the governing of the NHL game seems OK with the way gifted players have to battle through rule violations. Blame that on the ex-players.
Later that night, Connor McDavid took an elbow to the face from Los Angeles' Drew Doughty, who smirked all the way back to the bench after doing it. The night after that, McDavid was pushed into the boards from behind by Anaheim's Hampus Lindholm on a hit that was 10 feet from referee Kyle Rehman, who was looking directly at the play. No penalty, nor was there a peep from the NHL's department of player safety about supplemental discipline for Lindholm.
From time immemorial, it has been a given in the NHL that players who are bestowed with more gifts and work harder to exploit them will be rewarded by being the target of opponents stepping outside the bounds of the rulebook. Sometimes it's subtle, as was the case with Kotkaniemi on Pettersson. Other times it's blatant, as were the cases with Doughty and Lindholm on McDavid. And it's accepted by almost everyone, including the stars themselves.
Of course, it's ridiculous. It's tantamount to suggesting that when Tiger Woods lines up a putt, another player should be allowed to tap his shoe with the end of his putter or cross-check him with it. Or that when Mike Trout is up to the plate, the catcher should be able to flick Trout's ear or whack him in the knee with his mitt just as the pitcher releases the ball. No sport cares less about the well-being of its stars or does more to allow opponents to destroy their attempts to paint masterpieces. Quarterbacks in football are protected. LeBron James doesn't have to worry about someone putting a hand over his face as he tries for a three-pointer or a layup. But hockey goes along its merry way thinking it's perfectly fine to expect players such as Pettersson and McDavid to battle through these kinds of things in order to be successful.
And I have a theory about why this is. It is one I have espoused before, but it merits mentioning again. More so than in any other pro sport, the real power in the game is controlled by former players in the NHL. While other potential executives have as much, or more, to offer, former players find themselves on the fast track to management pretty much as soon as they peel off their equipment for the last time. One need look no further than the league's player safety department, which is headed by George Parros, who had 158 career fights and 1,092 penalty minutes.
But it's at the GM level where the real power exists when it comes to the on-ice product – and where the difference between the NHL and other sports comes into focus. Of the 31 GMs, 13 played in the NHL and another seven played some pro hockey. Compare that to the MLB, where just one GM, Jerry Dipoto of Seattle, played in the big leagues, and only four others played in the minors. Of the 32 teams in the NFL, only five football departments are run by former NFL players. Among the 30 teams in the NBA, seven GMs are former players and another three played pro ball overseas.
Why is this germane to how star players are treated in the NHL? The real power to affect change is at the GM level, where the seeds of most of the rule changes and application of them are planted before moving on to the competition committee and board of governors. And old habits die hard. Some of these guys had careers specifically because of the hockey culture in which they find themselves now working in off-ice jobs. And even if they didn't, some of them are so immersed in that culture that they're not going to extend their thinking beyond what they've experienced as players.
One executive without a pro hockey background once told me about an ex-player who had been given a management position and accompanied him to scout an AHL game. Midway through the game, the executive asked the former player what he thought of the AHL. "I don't know. This is the first AHL game I've ever seen," was the response.
There are those in hockey who believe the league is better for having former players involved. And some ex-players have a lot to give. But hockey will continue to be stuck in the past until fewer, not more, former players have access to the levers of power.


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A Giant Martian Cone Defies the Wind
March 25, 2016, 9:15 AM ET
By Phil Plait
Mars is seriously pretty.
That shot, taken by the HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a towering cone-shaped hill in a sand dune field.
First of all, just take a moment to think about that. This is a photo of a weird geological feature in the middle of a field of blowing dunes on another planet.
That never, ever gets old.
I love the feel of this photo. The wind blows from the left and flows around the unnamed dome. As it does, sand piles up on the windward side and wraps around both sides of the dome. Because the wind is focused by the shape of the hill, it blows with some force behind it, strong enough to clear the sand away and reveal the rocky surface below. The craters and other features look sharp compared with the dunes themselves, which are sculpted into fantastic flowing shapes by the aeolian forces.
So just what is that dome? My first thought is that it was volcanic. That's possible, but it's hard to say. I talked to Ross Beyer, a planetary scientist who also writes captions for HiRISE images, including this one. He mentioned that there are other features poking up nearby, and none exhibit the dome's striking circular symmetry.
Over time, hills poking up tend to be eroded by winds, and obviously winds are at work here. But the shape would be unusual; I'd expect it to be more teardrop-shaped, like a sandbar. That's more typical of erosion from winds that come persistently from one direction. If you look at the dome's flanks, you'll see lots of striations, which indicate "mass wasting": landslides. That makes it hard to say what the original shape of this hill was.
Beyer also said a lot of the features in this region are sedimentary sandstone. This is in a spot called Ganges Chasma, a deep canyon off one end of the monstrous Valles Marineris. Long ago, this whole area was under water—Ganges Chasma probably formed from catastrophic flooding—and the floor is deposited sandstone (where I live in Colorado has a similar but somewhat more gentle history). Then the water dried up, the winds picked up, and erosion began.
Beyer noted the dome seems to have a cap on it; that could be tougher rock that resists erosion, which may have helped shaped this feature. That reminds me of hoodoos, those weird cylindrical spires in Arizona you've seen pictures of a million times (think any background in a Road Runner cartoon).
Whatever it is, it's pretty old. It has craters on its flanks, which means it's been around long enough to get hit a few times by small asteroids. Tens of millions of years, I'd wager, at the very least. Probably a whole lot older than that.
This image has quickly become one of my favorites, just for its sheer beauty. I love the contrast of liquid softness and literally imposing rock. The theme of symmetry runs strong as well.
Oh, Mars. We may never know what this feature is until we go there and poke at it with a geologist's hammer. The list of Martian geologic formations that need such treatment is long indeed. I wonder if, generations hence, some young person will stand on the apex of this hill, look around, and wonder when this view was first discovered …
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Angelique "Angie" Ison McGuire, 48, of Olive Hill, KY, entered into rest Sunday, September 30, 2018 at University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington. She was born July 22, 1970 in Mansfield, OH, a daughter of Phillip Ison and the late Debbie Abrams Ison.
Mrs. McGuire was a homemaker and enjoyed attending various Apostolic churches in the area. She enjoyed fishing, scrapbooking, making crafts and playing video games.
In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by one brother, Lonnie Ison.
In addition to her father, Angie is survived by her husband, Herman McGuire; her step-mom, Linda Ison; three daughters, Leaann Haywood, Nickie Ison and Tracy Bond; one brother, Shane Ison (Brittany); two sisters, Phyllis Stafford (Danny) and Billie Jo Ison (James) Trepanier; and several grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1:00pm on Thursday, October 4, 2018 at the Duvall & Moore Funeral Home. Burial will follow at the Ison Cemetery in Olive Hill, KY.


after moving to new york in 2013… then shanghai… and then traveling through southeast asia, for 5 months, naturally my view on money, consumption, food, people…. the universe has changed. of course, everyone has opinions on the transformation i have made… not only on the outside (which is also a vital part of this blog).
i hear comments / questions on my jewelry, my new buzzcut (see how thaaaat came about here), my clothes ("buy yourself some new pants" is something i have heard multiple timesregarding my traveler-pants (the kind every traveler is proud of…. their deteriorating fabric is evidence of rocks i have climbed, busses i have slept in, and jungles i have trekked through…. and eeeequally serve me just as well in munich's poshest clubs). i listen to everyone's opinion (since there is no way of seeing yourself from the outside). i am also interested in other people's perception of me…. even criticism (coming from a genuine place) is valid and i (try to) take it in. aside from me knooooowing, i feel relief when i hear family / friends say "you are still the same".
don't be afraid to experience things that will shape you. your core will stay the same and people who love you, love you for exactly that…. your inside.


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Amazon announced today that they are going to start rolling out a new feature on Kindle 3G and Kindle WiFi with Special Offers that advertises coupon deals on the screensavers for local businesses using AmazonLocal.
Essentially, Kindle with Special Offers owners can view their city's deals and buy the deal directly using the Kindle, which uses your Amazon account to process the transaction so that you don't have to enter a bunch of information every time. Once purchased, a voucher for the deal appears on the Kindle's homescreen, and then you can simply show it to the merchant on your Kindle or print out a copy of the voucher instead by visiting the AmazonLocal website.
AmazonLocal on Kindle is launching in New York City first, and then will expand to include all AmazonLocal cities later in the year.
In order to receive these local deals, Amazon is going to issue a software update to all ad-supported Kindles in the coming weeks.
As noted last week, the ad-supported Kindles have been a huge success for Amazon thus far, and are even outselling non-ad Kindles. Adding local coupon deals to the mix is only going to make them more popular. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon drops the price of the Kindle WiFi with Special Offers to $99 in the next month or two with the added stream of advertisers.
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Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond Concepts, Actors, and Identity Narratives
Hennig Anja, Weiberg-Salzmann Mirjam
ISBN: PB: 9783593509976, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2021
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Despite the broadly assumed institutional separation of church and state in contemporary Western politics, there is a trend towards renewed alliances between illiberal interpretations of religion and right-wing populist politics that challenge libera...


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Q: Regexp.match.length returns NULL if not found I have a JS regexp.
var t1 = str.match(/\[h1\]/g).length;

If str contains the word [h1] it works fine else it shows an error!
How to solve the problem?

A: var t1 = (str.match(/\[h1\]/g)||[]).length;

A: how about u do it in 2 steps, you test it first before u get for the length.
var t1 = 0;
var string = str.match(/\[h1\]/g);
if (string){
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A: That's the way it's supposed to work.  You haven't identified the problem.
If you want to do something based on whether or not str contains "[h1]", try this:
var t1;
var strmatch = str.match((/\[h1\]/g);
if (strmatch !== null) {
    t1 = strmatch.length;
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Cite this: The Pan African Medical Journal. 2018;31:125. doi:10.11604/pamj.2018.31.125.15057
Key words: Breast cancer, lymphoma, therapy-related hematological malignancies
© Abdulkadir Karismaz et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/31/125/full
Corresponding author: Elif Suyani, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Department of Hematology, Istanbul, Turkey (elifsuyani@hotmail.com)
A diffuse large B cell lymphoma emerging with breast cancer relapse
Abdulkadir Karismaz1, Mehmet Hilmi Dogu1, Gülben Huq2, Sermin Altindal1, Osman Yokus1, Elif Suyani1,&
1University of Health Sciences, Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Department of Hematology, Istanbul, Turkey, 2University of Health Sciences, Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Department of Pathology, Istanbul, Turkey
Elif Suyani, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Department of Hematology, Istanbul, Turkey
The prevalence of secondary cancers associated with the breast cancer treatment has increased, which is due to the administration of cytotoxic/hormonal drugs as well as radiotherapy. A 54-year-old female patient with a history of breast cancer for 4 years and receiving tamoxifen the hematology clinic with fatigue and nosebleed. Laboratory parameters were revealed pancytopenia. The bone marrow biopsy finding was compatible with CD20 positive high-grade B cell lymphoma resembling diffuse large B cell lymphoma. The patient started to receive a chemotherapy. Her hemogram values displayed an improvement after the second cycle. However, interim PET-BT, performed after the fourth cycle, showed an incomplete response in cervical lymphatic nodes. Then, a tru-cut biopsy was performed resulting in breast cancer metastasis. This is an unusual case of secondary-DLBCL presenting with pancytopenia and occuring 4 years after the diagnosis of breast cancer. In conclusion, clinicians should carefully set the dosage of chemotherapy drugs to avoid the long-term side effects associated with such drugs.
Breast cancer is among the most common tumors occuring in women, and recently, survival rates of the patients have progressively improved owing to neoadjuvant, adjuvant, endocrine and targeted therapies. However, chemotherapy-associated long-term side effects have gradually been on the rise in these patients. Adjuvant chemotherapies comprising particularly alkylating agents and topoisomerase inhibitors may increase the risk of leukemia especially in patients with early-stage breast cancer [1-3]. Prophylactic or adjuvant chemotherapy administered due to early-stage breast cancer is demonstrated to increase 10-year hematological cancer risk by 0.5%, which is twice higher than those reported in previous studies [4]. While the most prevalent hematological cancers associated with the treatment are acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) [2, 3], treatment-associated lymphomas constitute quite a rare clinical picture [5, 6]. This report presents a secondary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma emerging with breast cancer relapse.
A 54-year-old female patient referred to the hematology clinic with fatigue and nosebleed. She had a history of type-2 diabetes mellitus and breast cancer. The patient was diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago and underwent a mastectomy followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and she has been receiving tamoxifen since that time. The chemotherapy protocol was inaccessible because the chemotherapy was administered in Syria. The physical examination revealed a swollen right arm, ecchymoses in arms, and fixed, firm, painless cervical lymphadenopathies, the largest of which was 2x2cm in size and located on the right. Laboratory parameters were as follows: white blood cell count: 3.62 x 109/L with 0.84x109/L neutrophils, hemoglobin: 11 g/dL, platelet count: 10x109/L. Biochemical, liver and renal function test results were normal. HBsAg, Anti-HBS, Anti-HCV and Anti-HIV test results were negative. Platelet count by peripheral smear was compatible with the hemogram count without any atypical cells. The lymph node biopsy could not be performed since the platelet count did not rise despite transfusion. Instead, bone marrow aspiration and biopsy were performed for diagnostic purposes. The biopsy finding was compatible with CD20 positive high-grade B cell lymphoma resembling diffuse large B cell lymphoma (Figure 1 (A, B)). Body 18Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) performed for staging revealed following lymphadenopathies: 1.3x0.8cm-sized at the right parotid gland inferior (SUVmax: 11.8), right inferior jugular area (SUVmax: 13.1), and 2x1.5 cm-sized (largest) (SUVmax: 6.8) in the right deep cervical location. The patient started to receive a chemotherapy protocol combining rituximab-cyclophosphamide-doxorubicin-vincristine-prednisolone (R-CHOP). Her hemogram values displayed an improvement after the second cycle. However, interim PET-BT, performed after the fourth cycle, showed an incomplete response in cervical lymphatic nodes. Then, a tru-cut biopsy was performed from the lymph node in the neck as blood values were better. The patient continued to receive R-CHOP until the biopsy result was obtained. R-CHOP was stopped at the sixth cycle. The lymph node biopsy result showed breast cancer metastasis (Figure 1 (C, D)). She underwent a bone marrow biopsy after six cycles of R-CHOP, which revealed that the lymphoma infiltration disappeared. The patient's breast cancer treatment continues.
Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths in women. Although the mortality rate related to breast cancer has decreased lately with the development of early diagnosis and treatment techniques, the prevalence of secondary cancers associated with the treatment has increased due to the administration of cytotoxic/hormonal drugs as well as radiotherapy [2, 3]. Regarding the hematological malignancies, lymphomas are encountered rarely compared to AML and MDS in those patients [2, 3]. Given the high prevalence of breast cancer, these findings indicate that the number of patients under the risk of secondary cancer triggered by treatment might be actually higher than expected. The secondary cancers associated with breast cancer chemotherapy are largely associated with alkylating agents and topoisomerase II inhibitors [7]. Alkylating agents cause gene mutations and deletions in the long arms of chromosomes 5 and 7 by cross linking with DNA. Those gene mutations affect IL-3, IL-4 and other genes which are active in cell proliferation. Deletions, in turn, may activate RAS and trigger tumor suppressing gene mutations, which cause excessive cell proliferation, differentiation, and eventually leukemia [8]. Topoisomerase II inhibitors create a complex with DNA and topoisomerase II enzyme, block the enzyme activity and result in broken DNA fibers. Those broken fibers cause a rearrangement mostly in the acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)-1 gene site and DNA damage, which may thus end in leukemia [9]. Similar events constitute the underlying mechanism of secondary lymphomas in patients who are applied breast cancer chemotherapy. And secondary lymphomas are usually expected to occur 5 years after the initial therapy [10]. This is an unusual case of secondary-DLBCL presenting with pancytopenia and occuring 4 years after the diagnosis of breast cancer. Since presence of pancytopenia in a breast cancer patient usually suggests the development of either leukemia or bone marrow metastases, a bone marrow biopsy showing lymphoma infiltration was astonishing. Also, the lymph nodes were involved with breast cancer unexpectedly. It was critically important to perform the sampling to distinguish it from lymphoma and make the treatment decision on this difference. An other important issue is the timing of the lymphoma diagnosis that is 4 years after the breast cancer diagnosis and probably less than 4 years after the treatment, leading to raise the doubt whether the patient's lymphoma was secondary or already existed at the time of diagnosis of the breast cancer.
Clinicians should carefully set the dosage of chemotherapy drugs, especially topoisomerase II inhibitors and alkylating agents, to avoid the long-term side effects associated with such drugs.
Figure 1: A) carcinoma infiltration in solid islands wiping the lymph node structure; B) diffuse and strong pankeratin positivity in carcinoma cells; C) extensive infiltration in the bone marrow, presenting a diffuse pattern, consisting of cells in large centroblastic morphology; D) extensive and strong CD20	expression in the bone marrow infiltration
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Cats in Film — Cat People (1942, Simone Simon)
September 12, 2014 By LA Vocelle
In the 1942 film Cat People, the duality of woman and cat plays a central role. Based on the 1930 short story, The Bagheeta written by Val Lewton and starring Simone Simon, the film tells the story of Irena, a Serbian, who believes that she is the descendant of a line of people who can turn into cats when emotionally provoked. Because of her jealousy, Irena turns into a black panther in order to kill her husband's colleague and new love Alice. At the beginning of the film, a statue of King John of Serbia with a cat impaled upon his sword foreshadows the ending of the film; the main character commits suicide at the end of the film by allowing herself to be attacked and killed by a black panther caged at the zoo. Her demise is brought about when her psychologist tries to molest her, and she turns into a vicious cat and kills him.
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Nick & Laura Armstrong, Glocal
Nick and Laura Armstrong worked in Indonesia for 23 years where Laura worked as a teacher and principal of a Christian international school in Central Java. Nick worked in the field of Relief and Community Development with World Relief International and World Renew. His work took him to places all over Indonesia and Southeast Asia and was took part in over 30 different disaster responses, most notably the earthquake and tsunami of 2004 off the coast of Aceh in Northern Sumatera. After returning to United States in August of 2013, Nick and Laura started an organization called Glocal Community Partners for the purpose of mobilizing, training and connecting volunteers with our New American friends and neighbors in the greater Boise area in a variety of different programs and events. Glocal is a ministry of Cole Community Church and partners with the resettlement agencies in Boise, a wide network of churches and other faith-based organizations, including the Islamic Center of Boise.
Isbelia Burnham, Owner and Founder,Interprelink
Isbelia has nearly thirty years of experience in managing language services following the guidelines and regulations established by law. Former Director of the Language and Cultural Services Department at SLHS, where she worked for 27 years. Isbelia is the owner and founder of InterpreLink, Inc., located in Boise, Idaho.
InterpreLink provides Professional Interpretation and Translation Services in all settings; medical, legal, mental health, etc.
Raymon Burton, Executive Director of Operations, One Refugee
Raymon serves as the Executive Director of One Refugee. He has been with One Refugee since 2017 and has been working with individuals from a refugee background in various capacities for the last six years. He recently worked for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in developing their refugee initiatives and spent half of 2016 embedded within the International Rescue Committee. Raymon holds an MPA from Brigham Young University.
Andrea Christopher, MD, MPH, FACP General internist at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC).
Andrea Christopher MD, MPH, FACP is a general internist at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC). She is also Clerkship Site Director and Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Her passion for health equity motivates her interests in medical education, health policy research and clinical practice. As an educator, Andrea supervises and teaches third year medical students on their internal medicine clerkship in Boise, Idaho. She tries to translate her interest in health disparities into teaching medical students and resident physicians how health policy and the social determinants of health impact clinical care of patients. As a health services researcher, Andrea's research focuses on disparities in access to healthcare for vulnerable populations. Recent research projects examine the financial burden of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures and the impact of being uninsured on chronic disease management. As a clinician, Andrea is honored to serve veterans as a primary care provider and supervises trainees on the inpatient wards at the Boise VAMC.
Andrea graduated from the University of Washington (UW) with a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology with College Honors. She then completed medical school at the UW School of Medicine, with a clinical focus on Global Health. She completed residency training at the UW Internal Medicine Residency, during which time she rotated as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Melbourne School of Medicine. Andrea then served as Chief Medical Resident for the newly formed UW Boise Internal Medicine Residency. She then completed General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, with a focus on health services and health policy research. During this time, she completed a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health before returning to Boise to work at the Boise VA.
Rachel Emenaker, Senior Curator and Director of Global Alliances, Idaho Museum of International Diaspora (IMID)
Rachel Emenaker serves as the Senior Curator and Director of Global Alliances for the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora (IMID). She is an international artist with a unique multicultural and multinational upbringing, which comes as no surprise that her work focuses on ideas of globalization by combining Eastern and Western aesthetics and art practices. Rachel grew up in a Syrian-Armenian-American home, but lived between Paramaribo, Suriname and Moscow, Russia before moving to California to study at 19. As an artist, she has held exhibits in various parts of the world stretching from Los Angeles to Yerevan, Armenia. Her passion for social justice and art merged when she had the opportunity to work at a women's shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan teaching art and in Yerevan, Armenia teaching an art class for special needs Syrian refugees. Rachel designed the study abroad itinerary for the IMID's signature course – Cross-Border Voices of Diaspora, a partnership with Boise State Honors College and the Center for Global Education. She will be leading the international activities for the upcoming study abroad to Armenia in August 2020.
Tecle Gebremicheal, Boise State University
Six years back, a refugee from one of the smallest countries in Africa appeared in Idaho, a state never heard before. Tecle Gebremicheal, came here with couple pairs of shoes and an empty pocket hoping America might have everything a refugee would seek in life. As hoped America didn't fail him, but it took time and determination to accomplish certain level of success and to be regular person again. Refugee status has to end to start part of a community and self-supporting person again even though the name refugee sticks forever. He is currently studying to achieve a B.S (Political Science) at Boise State University, School of Public Service Department. His careers so far in the US consist of Service member, Petroleum supply specialist U.S Army Reserves, and Soccer coach, Nations United U19 head coach. In his spare time he enjoys running, hiking, reading books and poem writing.
Gary Hanes, Gary E. Hanes & Associates, LLC
Gary has years of broad-based public and private sector experience in community development. He has worked at the private nonprofit level, as well as, the federal, state and city levels. He is the managing member of Gary E. Hanes & Associates, LLC. His company focuses on language access planning in federally assisted activities and compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act with respect to limited English proficiency.
Kirsi Jarvis, Careers Manager, One Refugee
Kirsi operates as the Careers Manager for One Refugee. In her role, she oversees all student employer events, internship partnerships, and professional mentorship for senior students. Prior to joining One Refugee, Kirsi worked with Global Talent and UpwardlyGlobal supporting professional job seekers in Utah and D.C. She also worked with Meridian International Center, a large NGO implementing international exchange programs with U.S. embassies worldwide. Kirsi holds an MPA from Brigham Young University.
Chelsea Jordan
Chelsea Jordan has worked with refugees and multi-lingual students for the past 7 years. Her career started at the English Language Center as a service-learning volunteer and research assistant at Boise State before going to Northern Arizona University for her Master's in Teaching English as a Second Language. She then worked as a English instructor at a university in Ankara, Turkey for two years. She recently re-joined the ELC in the summer of 2019 and enjoys creating engaging lessons and developing the ELC's curriculum as part of her role as the Curriculum and Instruction Coordinator.
Reshma Kamal, Director of Humanitarian and Refugee, Islamic Center of Boise
Director of Humanitarian and Refugee at the Islamic Center of Boise, Reshma grew up working at the grass-root level with people of varying faith and co- existing together. She allies with Glocal Community Partners and Social Integration team, under Neighbors United, to support Boise Refugee community and bring about social changes in human interactions with local projects. As part of "Seek the Peace'' initiative, she works as a peace maker to bring about an understanding on issues impacting the Muslim community. He earned a Masters in English Literature.
Jessica Knarr, Refugee Liaison Officer, Boise Police Department
Officer Jessica Knarr currently serves as the Refugee Liaison Officer for the Boise Police Department. Officer Knarr joined the BPD in 2014 shortly after graduating from Boise State University with a B.A. in Criminal Justice. In her current position with the BPD she works closely with community stakeholders and the refugee community to lessen the severity and frequency of crime involving refugees (as victims or suspects) and strives to create and maintain a positive relationship with the refugee community and police in Boise through education and outreach.
Michelle Larson, Founding member, Glocal Community Partners
Michelle Larson is a founding member of the Glocal Community Partners team. Her leadership and administrative capabilities have allowed her to work closely with Nick and Laura Armstrong, co-directors and co-founders to serve those who have come as refugees. Her passion comes from years of working with people from across the globe in her professional career with HP. Now serving the multicultural population whom have settled in Boise, she uses many of those same skills. Within Glocal, Michelle leads the large Thanksgiving Peace Feast which brings Muslims, Christians and those who have come as refugees together to celebrate the holiday and build community. She also leads the Baby Shower Program serving those new moms from across the world in Boise.
Palina Louangketh, MHS RHIT, Founder & Executive Director/Adjunct Faculty, Idaho Museum of International Diaspora/Boise State University
Alexx Goeller is originally from Salt Lake City, UT. Ms. Goeller graduated Cum Laude from Westminster College with a degree in International Business and French in 2011. After graduating she served as a community economic development volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa (2012 – 2014). After returning to Utah, Ms. Goeller became employed as the Refugee Youth Program Coordinator for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) of Salt Lake City, UT. Her focus there was around aligning newly arrived refugee youth with educational opportunities in the community. After one year at the IRC, Ms. Goeller transitioned into a new role as a Federal Refugee Program Specialist with the Utah Department of Workforce Services - Refugee Services Office to be able to further facilitate partnership collaboration, program development and refugee community capacity building. Palina Louangketh is an alumna of Boise State University with both her bachelor of science and master of health science. She has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry in various leadership roles. She designed a master course on quality improvement for the health studies and public health programs in which she also teaches in the College of Health Sciences. Palina will be graduating with her Doctor of Strategic Leadership degree from Regent University in May 2020. Because she lives, breathes, and speaks strategy, Palina is comfortable in complex and changing environments. Her family's two-year journey as refugees from Laos into Idaho inspired her vision for an innovative multipurpose museum to honor the human journey on a global scale. As the founder and executive director of the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora (IMID), a 501c3 non-profit corporation, she is passionate about helping others find their inspiration. While health care is still her profession, Palina has transitioned over to also teaching multicultural studies. She designed a trilogy of courses under the IMID's Global Diaspora Curriculum and in partnership with Boise State Honors College, students have access to these course offerings.
Myja Maki
Myja earned her Master's Degree in Social Work from Northwest Nazarene University in October 2017. She has worked within refugee resettlement for many years and recognizes that each individual is unique and finds value in adapting each therapy session to the needs and goals of the client. Myja uses a variety of intervention techniques to help clients work towards their goals, including expressive art, play therapy techniques with children, mindfulness, culturally appropriate interpretation, and trauma informed care. She's influenced by Bessel van der Kolk's work and research in trauma and the body and places a large emphasis on person centered therapy in creating a positive and safe environment.
Rabiou Manzou, Immigration Services Supervisor, International Rescue Committee-Boise
Rabiou Manzo began working for IRC Boise in February 2006 when the International Rescue committee first opened in Boise Idaho. He spent 6 years working as a case manager and case manager supervisor for Reception and Placement and Matching Grant programs for newly arrived refugees. In April 2012, he obtained his BIA (Board of Immigration Appeals) accreditation and started working as an immigration services supervisor providing legal services and citizenship services to refugees, immigrants and asylees. In addition to his work at the IRC, Rabiou is currently a HROC (Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities) facilitator where he works with different communities in Boise providing trauma rehabilitation workshops. Since 2011 Rabiou is an Adjunct Professor, at Boise State University, teaching refugee case management and principles of refugee resettlement classes. Rabiou speaks French, Russian, Hausa and Djerma and has a M.S. from the University of Idaho.
Tessa Murdock-Bell, LCSW
Tessa Murdock-Bell, LCSW, received her Masters in Social Work from Boise State University. She has since studied at Shanti Yoga School and completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training. She advocates for the re-integration of the body-brain-spirit as the means toward healing and wholeness for ourselves and others with a particular interest in embodiment through breath and movement. Currently she is a clinical social worker at Saint Alphonsus Center for Global Health and Healing's International Clinic.
Elizabeth Rutten-Turner, LCSW
Elizabeth Rutten-Turner, LCSW, is a social worker/counselor at Saint Alphonsus Center for Global Health and Healing. She provides individual and family healing opportunities for survivors of war trauma and torture in an integrated medical setting that includes primary care providers, midwives, cultural liaisons, and social workers. Since earning her MSW she has sought trainings to aid her work in cross-cultural healing with families, such as the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Bringing the Body into Therapy and the Neurobiological Effects of Trauma. She is also a trained birth and post-partum doula, a childbirth educator, and an adjunct professor at BSU teaching Principles of USA Refugee Resettlement. Currently she serves on the Advisory Board for the National Capacity Building project for torture treatment centers across the US. Prior to becoming a social worker, Beth earned her BS in Education from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She worked with families affected by the immigration/refugee resettlement systems in various settings; public education, community centers, resettlement agencies, and nonprofits in Minnesota, Nebraska, and Georgia. She has also worked with community-based NGOs in Kenya, Uganda, and Nepal and attended cultural and linguistic immersion classes in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.
Issa Spatrisano, Program Director and State Refugee Coordinator, Catholic Social Service's Refugee Assistance and Immigration Services (RAIS)
Issa Spatrisano is the Program Director and State Refugee Coordinator at Catholic Social Service's Refugee Assistance and immigration Services (RAIS) program in Alaska. Issa has worked over 8 years in refugee resettlement and has served in a variety of roles including, case management, reception & placement, education, and employment services. Issa has assisted forced migrant communities in Alaska, Missouri, Oregon, and Kansas, allowing her to bring a broader perspective to refugee services in both a city and rural setting. Issa has a B.A. from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI and a M.Ed. in Teaching & Learning from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Through her teaching and resettlement experience, Issa has assisted clients from over 65 countries.
Kate Udall, Adult Education Manager, Idaho Office for Refugges
Kate Udall spent 12 years working with multi-lingual students at Boise State and CWI before beginning in her current position of Adult Education Manager at Idaho Office for Refugees. She enjoys her role building partners across Idaho to work with in developing and supporting English programming for new Americans. She has taught English in Portugal, Korea and Mexico and has worked in higher education partner development in Asia and Latin America.
Nate Walsh, Realtor, Property People
Nate Walsh is currently a Realtor® with Property People in Boise, a team of Silvercreek Realty Group. Nate moved to Boise in 2013 to obtain his Masters in Bilingual Education and immediately began working with language learners at the English Language Center, College of Western Idaho, Boise State's Intensive English Program and others. After working as a Job Training Manager at Create Common Good for three years, Nate saw the demand from renters who wanted to become homebuyers and decided to make a career change. In July of 2017 he shifted into the real estate industry to serve many of the same folks he worked with getting their first jobs to get their first home. He is passionate about creating an empowering experience for each of his clients, applying his teaching background towards his real estate services. With the team at LEAP Housing Solutions he started the Yes You Can first time homebuyer's program, which blends the essential elements of social services, nonprofit coordination, and education into the home purchase process.
He lives with his wife/best friend, Amanda, in Boise and was the pilot Yes You Can participant. He enjoys getting semi-lost in the foothills with Amanda above all else or urban hiking until his joints ache.


Barbara Hensley, founder of Hope Chest for Breast Cancer. Photo by Sarah Whiting.
Buying those designer jeans and that leather couch never felt as good as it does at the new Hope Chest store in St. Paul. Well, almost never. That's because the upscale second-hand store donates a percentage from every purchase to organizations that help fight breast cancer.
The 6,000-square-foot store, located on Snelling Avenue, is the second for owner Barbara Hensley. She opened the first in Orono/Navarre in 2002 and Hope Chest has since raised more than $500,000 for breast cancer from store sales and fund-raising events.
Opening Hope Chest has been a great lesson in humanity, Hensley said. Shoppers often ask what they can do to help, she said. "I think if you can just provide an avenue to help breast cancer, [volunteers] will come," Hensley said. "Even just telling your friends to shop helps."
The Hope Chest store sells donated merchandise, both new and slightly used, including designer furniture, home furnishings and clothing for about a third of the original retail price. Hope Chest for Breast Cancer Foundation disperses a percentage of those sales to local agencies that provide care for breast cancer patients, early detection programs and research, including the University of Minnesota Breast Center, Angel Foundation and the Women's Cancer Resource Center.
Hensley's ultimate goal is to help eliminate breast cancer. Right now she is concentrating on finding franchisees to open stores nationwide. She hopes a chain of Hope Chest stores will one day raise as much as $10 million a year for breast cancer.
"With all that money, just think of the difference we could make," Hensley said, her eyes shining.
Hensley, 58, lost both of her sisters to breast cancer and has had a preventative bilateral mastectomy. She left her position as vice president of product management at Ceridian to help those affected by breast cancer. In 2001 she started the Hope Chest for Breast Cancer. So far, she says, the business has been going in the right direction, and the store has attracted sponsors and built community awareness around breast cancer.
The Hope Chest has also hosted several special events, including radio talk shows and support groups to educate immigrant women about the importance of early detection. Hensley hopes to do more language and culture-appropriate events.
"That way, it's not me or a Caucasian nurse just standing up talking. It's a Latino or Hmong woman talking to her peers," Hensley said.
Although she doesn't get the chance to meet many of the people the Hope Chest helps, she has heard stories about them. In one case, a woman was able to keep her children at home because the money raised by Hope Chest paid her utility bills; another woman kept her house because money donated by the foundation paid her rent.
"The real drive of the Hope Chest are the people; the families," Hensley said. "It's all about the people affected by breast cancer that can't afford to live otherwise."
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Zuma's performance agreements with government ministers are a toothless tiger. What's needed to drive performance and service delivery is bite.
Economist Mike Schüssler certainly didn't mince his words when he spoke at the 9th UASA South African Employment Report held in Johannesburg recently. His message was twofold.
1. The government has failed the country in the employment stakes.
2. Government is the biggest employer in South Africa and is being paid too much, to the detriment of growing employment.
The tragedy, as pointed out in Schüssler's talk, is the anomaly that South Africa is at once Africa's biggest economy and yet has the highest rate of unemployment with some 60% of the population jobless.
"If South Africa was just able to up its employment numbers to the average ratio in Africa of 64%, adult employment in the country would have grown with seven million jobs," Schüssler said.
But wait for the punch line. iAfrica reports that Schüssler said government employees are being paid a premium of 40% more than the private sector. This as government continues to fail the country on job creation — an issue vital to the creation of social and economic stability.
I've got two words to say to government in response to this and they're not "Schüssler's right", which of course he is. Those two words are: variable pay.
The concept is very simple. Variable pay is essentially a "pay for performance" system that has become increasingly popular in the corporate world where a recessionary environment has limited salary increases yet demanded that business increases performance without increasing resources.
Recent research by Hewitt Associates showed that as many as 80% of companies surveyed will use variable pay this year. The survey covered 6 000 organisations in 46 different countries.
The reason why variable pay is becoming increasingly popular is that it works to boost productivity and accountability. Blanket salaries hardly incentivise people to go that extra mile. Variable salaries linked to the achievement of clear goals encourage under-performers and non-performers to work harder and get things done.
Then there's the matter of self-determination. On a variable pay structure people feel they have some control over what they could get paid. As long as there is transparency in the measurement of goals and people see that performers are rewarded and non-performers are not rewarded, the variable pay system is both effective and credible.
To extend the accountability established by a variable pay system, politicians who err should be made to pay for their misdemeanours. For example Jacob Modise, CEO of the Road Accident Fund, would be forced to pay back the R693 000 he received for serving on the Blue IQ board because National Treasury forbids employees who work at one government job being paid for work done with another state entity.
Interestingly enough Jacob Zuma has signed performance agreements with all of his ministers that have stated outputs, but there are absolutely no penalties for defaulting. In fact, the person responsible for overseeing the "efficacy" of this toothless tiger — Collins Chabane — said that the performance agreements would not be used "as a stick".
If there's no incentive for performance or penalty for non-performance, what's the point?
It's about time government got to work for the people who voted them into power and the taxpayers who pay their salaries. Variable pay may just make them do that.


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Па́мятник Алекса́ндру II — ранее существовавшая достопримечательность Саратова. 4 января 1896 года Саратовская городская дума постановила «для увековечения памяти Великого Преобразователя России царя Освободителя Александра 2-го соорудить в Саратове памятник… за счет городских средств и добровольных пожертвований жителей Саратовской губернии».

Через два года было получено разрешение, был создан особый комитет по сбору пожертвований и постройке памятника. Всего было собрано около 35 000 рублей пожертвований. Остальную сумму (около 6500 рублей) выделил город. Был объявлен конкурс на проект памятника, на который поступило одиннадцать проектов, выставленных в 1901 году для обозрения и обсуждения. Жюри внимательно ознакомилось с представленными проектами течение 29 и 30 ноября 1901 года, и два из них удостоились премий: первой в 1500 рублей — скульптор Н. П. Волконский и второй в 500 рублей — скульптор В. О. Перельман. Городская Дума утвердила решение жюри. Однако строительный комитет принял решение соорудить памятник по моделям «Заря» — М. А. Чижов и «Правда» — С. М. Волнухина. Из первого проекта была взята модель статуи Александра II, а из второго — пьедестал в виде четырёхгранной пирамиды с четырьмя символическими фигурами:
 крестьянин с надетым на левое плечо лукошком, осеняющий себя крёстным знамением (олицетворял освобождение крестьян).
 учительница с девочкой, склонившиеся над книгой (должны были олицетворять развитие народного образования).
 богиня правосудия, держащая в одной руке книгу законов и в другой весы
 фигура коленопреклонённой болгарки, показывающей рядом стоящей с нею девочке на освободителя славян от турецкого ига.

Закладка памятника произошла 30 мая 1907 года. На ней присутствовали многие важные люди губернии. Памятник был отлит на заводе Э.Э. Виллера в Москве. Открыли монумент к 50-летию освобождения крестьян, в 1911 году.

22 сентября 1918 года памятник был снят с пьедестала. Постамент был использован для памятника Дзержинскому, одна из фигур, окружающих памятник, стала памятником первой учительнице, идея памятника была использована в памятнике Столыпину, а на месте памятника был возведён памятник Чернышевскому.

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Примечания

Литература
 Альманах «Памятники Отечества» № 1-2, 1998 г.
 Н. М. Чернышевская. Чернышевский и Саратов, — Саратов:,1978.
 Рассказы о старом Саратове. — Саратов, 1937.
 А. Н. Пыпин. Мои заметки. — М.:, 1910.
 Сокол К. Г. Монументальные памятники Российской империи: Каталог. — М.: Вагриус Плюс, 2006. — 432 с.: ил.

Ссылки
 Памятник Александру II
 Большая Саратовская Энциклопедия: Памятник императору-освободителю Александру II

Саратов
Памятники Саратова
Разрушенные памятники
Утраченные здания и сооружения Саратова
Здания и сооружения, построенные в 1911 году в России
1911 год в Саратовской области
Скульптуры 1911 года
Здания и сооружения, утраченные в 1918 году

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Complete with a jolly Santa Claus to signal the start of the holiday season, giant Thanksgiving Day parades in the USA have a legacy of nearly 100 years. The nation's leading parades are in New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, and Houston. If you can't attend one in person, gather around the television to catch the action featuring giant helium balloons, floats, and more.
Now in its 91st year, the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has long been recognized as the nation's official kickoff for the holiday season. Enjoyed by more than three million spectators and another 50 million via NBC's national television broadcast, this 8,000-person strong parade is a favorite for its giant character balloons, elaborate floats, celebrity appearances, and a waving Santa Claus with his reindeer bringing up the tail end.
Oldest one of its kind in the nation, Philadelphia hosts a Thanksgiving Day Parade that's been a tradition in the City of Brotherly Love since 1920. Kicking off at 8:30 a.m., Channel 6 ABC and Dunkin' Donuts are the title sponsors for the 98th annual event along a 1.4-mile route. It fills the city streets with marching bands, dance groups, show performers, professional singers, big balloons, festive floats, and a jolly Santa, too.
The three-mile, three-hour spectacle shares its 1924 founding year with New York City's parade. Equestrian units supplement the marchers, dancers, clowns, sky-high helium-filled balloons, larger-than-life floats and more in Detroit's traditional Thanksgiving Day parade. Historic Woodward Avenue is the place to be when the action begins at 10 a.m. Otherwise, stay warm and cozy at home watching the pizzazz that's broadcast to 75 million viewers via WDIV-TV, Local 4 and its syndicate stations.
Chicago loves a parade. Not to be outdone, Chicago introduced its annual Thanksgiving Day parade back in 1934 for a bit of light-hearted fun as the nation suffered the Great Depression. Today's Honorary Grand Marshal is fictional character Ronald McDonald, who is joined by Teddy Turkey, Miss Illinois, celebrity guests, the nation's best marching bands, thousands of performers, giant inflatable balloons and naturally, Santa Claus. From 8 a.m., live from downtown Chicago, WGN-TV America streams and broadcasts the parade coast-to-coast to millions of households.
One of Houston's signature civic events takes place along the streets of downtown and is free for all. The Apache Bells high-kicking team are among the talented troupes that literally kick off at 9 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning starting at Smith and Lamar and ending at Smith and Dallas. Since Santa made his first appearance in the lineup in 1949, Houston has grown to be the nation's fourth largest city, and the mayor's office is behind this event all the way. Did you know? It takes 42,000 standard cubic feet of helium gas to get all the balloons filled and flying so the entire community can enjoy a family-friendly spectacle.


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Q: Continuous wavelet transform in matlab I'am trying to compute CWT(continuous wavelet transform) of a 1-D signal using the command cwt it takes 3 input arguments

*

*x- the input 1-D dignal.

*scales- scales is a 1-D vector with positive elements.

*wavename- it is the wavelet name which are inbuilt in matlab.

it returns a matrix having no. of rows equal to the length of scale vector. No. of columns equal to the length of input vector x.
now, I want a plot of log scale versus the coefficient plot bur while taking log scale I'am ending up getting a zero. and hence the cwt command is not responding(i.e.) it is giving an error message following is the small code.
clc;clear all
load vonkoch
vonkoch=vonkoch(1:510);
len = length(vonkoch);
scale=0.01:0.01:1;logscale=log(scale);
cw1 = cwt(vonkoch,scale,'mexh','plot');
title('Continuous Transform, absolute coefficients.')
ylabel('Scale')
[cw1,sc] = cwt(vonkoch,scale,'mexh','scal');
title('Scalogram')
ylabel('Scale')

and the error message is
Error using cwt (line 74)

Invalid Value for Scales !

Error in exmp1 (line 6)

cw1 = cwt(vonkoch,logscale,'mexh','plot');

Kindly suggest what I can do to avoid such a problem or is there any other command that can do the trick?

A: If I understand you correctly, what you want to do is this:
[cw1,sc] = cwt(vonkoch,scale,'mexh','scal');
ph = pcolor(1:len,scale,sc);
ph.EdgeColor = 'none';
set(gca, 'YScale', 'log');


I am Joe the Plumber. It hit me, as I finished my tax return last week and wrote a check to Uncle Sam.
Joe (really Sam Wurzelbacher ) was the guy candidate Obama patted on the shoulder and suggested that taxes should be increased on the rich. Joe surprised Obama, said he owned his own business and would pay more taxes under the Obama plan.
Mine is the proverbial small business, one of those companies known as a partnership, sub-S corporation, or LLC which combines the business income with the owner's income on the same tax return.
When my company income is added to my salary, I look rich, even by my own standards. Not rich like Warren Buffett or Mitt Romney. To them, my income isn't pocket change. But to me, the income on my tax return shocks me.
The problem is that small businesses don't get to keep or spend the income on their tax returns. Most of it stays in the company to buy new buildings (we built a new one last year), to buy more inventory (did that, too) and to support growth (that, too).
Like many small businesses, my company's profit doesn't feel like a profit. Last year, our inventory went up by more than our profit. We had to spend our entire profit, plus more, to replace goods on the shelf for tomorrow's customers. As a drug store, most of our customers have insurance so that they take their drugs today and we get paid next month.
When the ink dried on my tax return last week, we reported a nice profit. Which landed on my tax return. But, because of our growth, we had no cash. So, I had to borrow money to pay my income taxes. In fact, combining my company's profits and my salary put me in the Democrat's "rich" tax bracket. My tax rate is higher than Warren Buffet's secretary, and more than double Buffet's and Mitt Romney's tax rate.
For decades, Republicans have argued that lower tax rates encourage job creators (like me) to hire more employees, and that really low, or zero, capital gain taxes encourage the rich to invest more, thus creating even more jobs. President Bush did that, but no jobs were created during his eight-year presidency. Oh, well. Maybe it will work this time.
President Reagan is looking pretty good to me right now. He installed a 28-percent maximum tax rate on all income, regardless of source, by lowering normal rates from 50 percent and increasing capital gain rates from 15 percent.
Operating businesses that generate jobs, like mine, don't have capital gains. They pay the full freight. Almost half the income in the economy is from finance, earned by investors who pay lower tax rates. The idea is lower rates reward the risk they take. Of course, investors like the Buffets and Romneys can sell their stock and get out any time.
My house is the collateral for my company's loans. That's real risk and normal for small businesses. We have to hang in there or lose our homes. Would one candidate explain how small businesses have less risk and pay twice the tax rate as super rich investors?
Both parties agree that the tax system needs to be reformed and made more "fair" by "broadening the base" and lowering tax rates. That means paying a lower rate on more income. Over the past 50 years, history has shown that when rates are lowered and the amount taxed is increased, normal people pay almost same amount while the rich pay less.
Apparently, my problem is that I'm not rich enough to pay less. Maybe President Obama will drop by my store, rest his hand on my shoulder, as he did to Joe the Plumber, and assure me that I should pay less tax. Maybe Mitt Romney will invest in my company and help it grow into a company with 90,000 employees as he did for Staples. Then, I'd be really rich, he'd be richer, and both of us would pay lower tax rates.
And what about the real Joe the Plumber? He's running for Congress.