It's an excellent bet that few of the buskers encountered on the streets of Europe's major cities have Ph.D.s in mathematics. But on this day in London, the woman doing card tricks for passersby -- coaxing a teenage girl to encode her birthday into binary, for example, and then quickly doing the reverse conversion to announce the date -- was expatriate Portuguese mathematician Sara Santos, who in her daytime job coordinates the Royal Institution of Great Britain's Secondary Mathematics Masterclass Programme for talented 12- to 14-year-olds.
It's a simple trick, but it works. Busking is one of the ways Santos has found to increase interest in mathematics among "those audiences that you cannot reach in any other way," she says. It's the basis for a new organization, Maths Busking, which Santos co-founded last year to convey "the surprising and fascinating side of mathematics through the medium of street performance," as the organization's Web site puts it.
Whatever the medium, Santos has a passion for "communicating the power and joy of mathematics as widely as possible," as Sue Pope, professor of education at Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom, puts it in an e-mail to Science Careers. This passion has led Santos onto a unique career path.
While growing up in Portugal, Santos enjoyed drawing, but it wasn't the kind of drawing most kids do. "I enjoyed everything geometrical," she says. "I used to spend most of my spare time playing with paper and doing technical drawings." In high school, she picked the arts education track "because science didn't give me any art, but the arts package gave me some science," she says. She studied math, chemistry, and physics as well as technical drawing and descriptive geometry.
Santos decided to study math at university -- at the University of Porto -- intending to pursue a teaching career. But soon she set aside education training to focus on her growing interest in pure mathematics. Meanwhile, to sustain herself financially, she gave private classes and took a teaching assistant position at her university. "She was not exactly born in a cradle of gold, and had to face some real hardships," one of her former lecturers in Porto, António Machiavelo, writes in an e-mail. But Santos "knew how to make the best of all the opportunities that happen to cross her way."
Santos took part in an Erasmus exchange program, studying at the University of Manchester for one term and learning about hyperbolic geometry. She decided to continue for a Ph.D., with Charles Walkden, in Manchester, looking at an extension of the central limit theorem. When making observations of the world around us, the measurements we make are actually sums or means of absolute values that originate from random events, Santos explains. "As you take larger and larger sets of random variables, the means of the sets tend to the normal distribution" with a bell-shaped curve, also known as a Gaussian. "The central limit theorem gives conditions for when the means of random variables converge to the normal distribution." Santos looked at "an extension of that result in a context of dynamical systems and when things are not Gaussian-like."
Toward the end of her Ph.D., Santos was reminded of her passion for communicating the beauty of math. She answered a call from her university to volunteer in a math club at a school located in "a bit of a tough area" north of Manchester, she says. "That thought of becoming a math teacher that I had put aside came back." Soon, Santos says, she was "having more and more ideas about things I wanted do with education, or more on the wider side of communication."
Santos started volunteering with the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences's Widening Participation team. Upon finishing her Ph.D. at the end of 2005, she took a part-time job with the team, funded by the Ogden Trust. She provided support to Ph.D. students who were helping in physics classes in schools one day a week. She took part in outreach events at the University of Manchester like the Liverpool Fun Maths Roadshow and the Physics Tricks program. This is when Santos realized the need to devise new ways to make math more appealing. "Maths doesn't have explosions … and all these things that kids like that science teachers can do to attract kids to science," Santos says.
When, that same year, online retailer Amazon asked for "a formula for the perfect Christmas present," Santos proposed a method for wrapping presents so that the patterns on the wrapping paper line up nicely while using a minimal amount of paper. Her method made the newspapers and local and national television.
Through her broad involvement in education and outreach during this period, Santos got to know the community and how it worked. This knowledge, and those connections, led to the opportunities that followed, she says.
Santos delivered a surprising geometry show to an audience of 300 sixth-form students at the Royal Institution last month.
Upon graduating, Santos was offered a temporary position in Porto to work in an interactive math museum called Atractor. But "I was not ready to go back to Portugal," she says. So she taught a mathematics module at the University of Manchester and worked for a while as an e-learning consultant for the university's School of Mathematics. She also started training for a postgraduate certificate of education, but she didn't follow through. "What I really wanted to do was to develop engaging maths activities that both make you understand deep things about mathematics" and feel attracted to the subject, she says. She took a position teaching mathematics at Manchester Grammar School in 2006 and continued doing outreach on the side.
Santos took her current position, as a Clothworkers' Fellow in Mathematics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 2 years later. The Secondary Mathematics Masterclass Programme she coordinates takes talented students through a series of Saturday morning sessions, where they explore topics outside the standard curriculum. Students are encouraged to think deeply and critically about mathematics, Santos says. She manages the U.K.-wide network of volunteer masterclass organizers, creates new session material, and trains speakers. "It's extremely rewarding," she says.
But Santos aims to do more than just educate the best pupils. Mathematics "is a very delicate subject because it has such an abstract component, and people have had such painful experiences with maths in education," she says. Together with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker and consultant and columnist Steve Humble (a.k.a. Dr Maths), she launched Maths Busking, under the auspices of the University of Manchester, "to repackage maths that is already known in a way that attracts new audiences and [makes] people rethink their attitudes," she says. More people joined in to help develop math-trick performances or be trained as volunteer buskers. (You can watch a Maths Busking session on YouTube.) The work won Santos a national "Seeds of Science 2011" award in the communication category back in Portugal.
Santos and her colleagues have "gone against the grain," says Mike Abrahams, a brand designer in London who runs a series of events exploring how people from different backgrounds use creativity in their professional lives -- including one event that Santos participated in. Santos is "very affable. She's a good communicator" with a "deep knowledge that … she can call upon in order to spread the word."
Santos also works with schoolteachers. A couple of years ago, she took part in a project led by Pope, the Liverpool Hope University education professor, during which she helped teachers incorporate material from the Royal Institution's masterclasses into mainstream mathematics curricula. Santos's greatest reward so far came at the end of that project, when one of the teacher participants said, " 'You know, we thought you were crazy, that you had no idea what you were doing and what it is like to be in a classroom. But … now I feel that we have more confidence and that we can do this kind of stuff,' " Santos recalls. "Probably I have reached a lot more students by working with teachers."


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List of obelisks in Rome
The city of Rome harbours the most obelisks in the world. There are eight ancient Egyptian and five ancient Roman obelisks in Rome, together with a number of more modern obelisks; there was also until 2005 an ancient Ethiopian obelisk in Rome.
Re-erection of the Vatican Obelisk by the Renaissance architect Domenico Fontana in 1586
The Romans used special heavy cargo carriers called obelisk ships to transport the monuments down the Nile to Alexandria and from there across the Mediterranean Sea to Rome. On site, large Roman cranes were employed to erect the monoliths.
Ancient Egyptian obelisksEdit
At least eight obelisks created in antiquity by the Egyptians were taken from Egypt after the Roman conquest and brought to Rome.
(with base)
(32.18 m
(45.70 m) Lateranense Tuthmosis III / Tuthmosis IV Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano
41°53′12.6″N 12°30′17.2″E / 41.886833°N 12.504778°E / 41.886833; 12.504778 (Lateranense) Tallest obelisk in Rome, and the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, originally weighing around 455 tons.[1] From the temple of Amun in Karnak,map and brought to Alexandria with another obelisk by Constantius II, and brought on its own from there to Rome in 357 to decorate the spina of the Circus Maximus.map Found in three pieces in 1587, restored approximately 4 m shorter by Pope Sixtus V, and erected near the Lateran Palace and basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano in 1588 in the place of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, which was moved to the Capitoline Hill. Current version weighs around 330 tons.[2]
(25.5 m
(41 m)[A 1] Vaticano Unknown St. Peter's Square
41°54′8.1″N 12°27′26.1″E / 41.902250°N 12.457250°E / 41.902250; 12.457250 (Vaticano)
Old St. Peter's Basilica with the obelisk at the left in its original place.
Originally raised in the Forum Iulium in Alexandriamap by the prefect Cornelius Gallus on Augustus' orders around 30–28 BC. No hieroglyphs. Brought to Rome by Caligula in 40 for the spina of the Vatican Circus.map Relocated by Pope Sixtus V in 1586 using a method devised by Domenico Fontana; the first monumental obelisk raised in the modern period, it is the only obelisk in Rome that has not toppled since Roman times. During the Middle Ages, the gilt ball on top of the obelisk was believed to contain the ashes of Julius Caesar.[3][4] Fontana later removed the ancient metal ball, now in a Rome museum, that stood atop the obelisk and found only dust. Pedro Tafur in his Andanças[4][5] (circa 1440) mentions that many passed between the ground and the "tower" base "thinking it a saintly thing".
(24 m
(36.50 m) Flaminio Seti I / Ramses II Piazza del Popolo
41°54′38.6″N 12°28′34.8″E / 41.910722°N 12.476333°E / 41.910722; 12.476333 (Flaminio) Originally from Heliopolis.map Brought to Rome by Augustus in 10 BC with the Solare obelisk and erected on the spina of the Circus Maximus.map Found with the Lateranense obelisk in 1587 in two pieces and erected by Pope Sixtus V in 1589. Sculptures with lion fountains were added to the base in 1818. Weighs around 235 tons.[2]
(33.97 m) Solare Psammetichus II Piazza di Montecitorio
41°54′2.5″N 12°28′43.2″E / 41.900694°N 12.478667°E / 41.900694; 12.478667 (Solare) Originally from Heliopolis.map Brought to Rome by Augustus in 10 BC with the Flaminio obelisk to form the gnomon of the Solarium Augusti in the Campus Martius.map Found in the 16th century but reburied. Rediscovered and erected by Pope Pius VI in front of the Palazzo Montecitorio in 1792.
(14.52 m) Macuteo Ramses II Piazza della Rotonda
41°53′57.6″N 12°28′36.3″E / 41.899333°N 12.476750°E / 41.899333; 12.476750 (Macuteo) Originally one of a pair at the Temple of Ra in Heliopolis, the other being the now much shorter Matteiano. Moved to the Temple of Isis near Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Found in 1373 near San Macuto and erected in Piazza Macuta. Moved to the front of the Pantheon by Pope Clement XI in 1711 over a fountain by Filippo Barigioni.
(12.69 m) Minerveo Apries Piazza della Minerva
41°53′52.7″N 12°28′39.2″E / 41.897972°N 12.477556°E / 41.897972; 12.477556 (Minerveo) Originally one of a pair from Sais. Brought to Rome by Diocletian for the nearby Temple of Isis. Found in 1655 and erected in 1667 by Pope Alexander VII on an Elephant base by Bernini, behind the Pantheon in Piazza della Minerva. The other of the pair is in Urbino.
This is the smallest obelisk in Rome, with a height of 5.47 meters[6].
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(6.34 m) Dogali Ramses II Baths of Diocletian
41°54′7.8″N 12°29′50.9″E / 41.902167°N 12.497472°E / 41.902167; 12.497472 (Dogali) Originally one of a pair from Heliopolis, the other now in the Boboli Gardens in Florence. Moved to the Temple of Isis in Rome. Found in 1883 by Rodolfo Lanciani near Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Now commemorates the Battle of Dogali, originally in front of Near Termini Station and moved to its present site in 1924.
(12.23 m) Matteiano Ramses II Villa Celimontana
41°53′0.2″N 12°29′43.2″E / 41.883389°N 12.495333°E / 41.883389; 12.495333 (Matteiano) Originally one of a pair at the Temple of Ra in Heliopolis, the other being the Macuteo which retains much more of its original height. Moved to the Temple of Isis near Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Found in the 14th century and erected east of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on the Capitoline. Moved to Villa Celimontana after Michelangelo redesigned the square in the late 16th century. Lost again; fragments rediscovered and re-erected in 1820. Smallest obelisk in Rome.
Ancient Roman obelisksEdit
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At least five obelisks were manufactured in Egypt in the Roman period at the request of the wealthy Romans, or made in Rome as copies of ancient Egyptian originals.
(30+ m) Agonalis
(Pamphilius)
41°53′56.3″N 12°28′23.1″E / 41.898972°N 12.473083°E / 41.898972; 12.473083 (Agonalis) A copy commissioned by Domitian and erected at the Temple of Serapis. Moved to the Circus of Maxentius by Maxentius. The Earl of Arundel paid a deposit and attempted to ship the four pieces to London in the late 1630s but Urban VIII disallowed its export.[7]
Erected on top of the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi by Bernini in 1651.
(28.94 m) Quirinale Piazza del Quirinale
41°53′56.7″N 12°29′11.9″E / 41.899083°N 12.486639°E / 41.899083; 12.486639 (Quirinale) Originally erected on the eastern flank of the Mausoleum of Augustus, paired with the Esquiline obelisk. Found in 1527. Erected by Pope Pius VI in 1786 on the Quirinal Hill next to statues of the Dioscuri (called the 'Horse Tamers') from the Baths of Constantine.
(25.53 m) Esquiline Piazza dell'Esquilino
41°53′53.4″N 12°29′51″E / 41.898167°N 12.49750°E / 41.898167; 12.49750 (Esquiline) Originally erected on the western flank of the Mausoleum of Augustus, paired with the Quirinale obelisk. Found in 1527 and erected in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V behind Santa Maria Maggiore.
(30.45 m) Sallustiano Trinità dei Monti
41°54′22.1″N 12°28′59.6″E / 41.906139°N 12.483222°E / 41.906139; 12.483222 (Sallustiano) Above the Spanish Steps. An Aurelian copy, although smaller, of the Flaminio obelisk of Ramses II in the Piazza del Popolo, for the Gardens of Sallust. Found by the Ludovisi and moved to the Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano in 1734, but kept horizontal. Erected in 1789 by Pope Pius VI.
(17.26 m) Pinciano Pincian Hill
41°54′38.9″N 12°28′47.1″E / 41.910806°N 12.479750°E / 41.910806; 12.479750 (Pinciano) Commissioned by Hadrian and erected in Tivoli for the tomb of Antinous. Moved to Rome by Elagabalus to decorate the spina of the Circus Varianus. Found in the 16th century near the Porta Maggiore. Moved to the Palazzo Barberini, then moved to the Vatican by Pope Clement XIV; finally erected on the Pincian by Pope Pius VII in 1822.
Obelisk of AxumEdit
The Obelisk of Axum in Rome in 2002
There was also an Ethiopian obelisk in Rome, the Obelisk of Axum, 24 m, placed in the Piazza di Porta Capena. It had been taken from Axum by the Italian Army during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1937. It was struck by lightning in May 2002. After being restored, it was cut into three pieces and returned to Ethiopia in April 2005.
Modern obelisksEdit
The Marconi obelisk, in the centre of the EUR district
There are five well-known modern obelisks in Rome:
Villa Medici, 19th century copy of the original, found in the gardens and taken to Florence.
Two obelisks in the Villa Torlonia, 1842, Baveno granite
Foro Italico, 1932, 17.5 m, Carrara marble, originally dedicated to Benito Mussolini, and inscribed Mussolini Dux
Marconi, 1959, 45 m, in the centre of the EUR district, dedicated to Guglielmo Marconi, built for the 1960 Summer Olympics. 92 panels in white marble contain illustrations of Marconi's career and allegorical scenes.
Former locations of some obelisksEdit
^ Lateranense at Karnak, Egypt: 25°43′7.46″N 32°39′26.64″E / 25.7187389°N 32.6574000°E / 25.7187389; 32.6574000 (Lateranense_Karnak)
^ Lateranense at Circus Maximus in Rome: 41°53′6.31″N 12°29′14.45″E / 41.8850861°N 12.4873472°E / 41.8850861; 12.4873472 (Lateranense_Circus_Maximus)
^ Vaticano at Forum Iulium in Alexandria, Egypt: 31°11′52.8″N 29°55′9.12″E / 31.198000°N 29.9192000°E / 31.198000; 29.9192000 (Vaticano_Alexandria)
^ Vaticano at Vatican Circus in Rome: 41°54′5.82″N 12°27′14.94″E / 41.9016167°N 12.4541500°E / 41.9016167; 12.4541500 (Vaticano_Circus_of_Nero)
^ Flaminio at Heliopolis, Egypt: 30°07′46.3″N 31°17′20″E / 30.129528°N 31.28889°E / 30.129528; 31.28889 (Flaminio_Heliopolis)
^ Flaminio at Circus Maximus in Rome: 41°53′12.73″N 12°29′3.4″E / 41.8868694°N 12.484278°E / 41.8868694; 12.484278 (Flaminio_Circus_Maximus)
^ Solare at Heliopolis, Egypt: 30°07′46.3″N 31°17′20″E / 30.129528°N 31.28889°E / 30.129528; 31.28889 (Solare_Heliopolis)
^ Solare at Campus Martius in Rome: 41°54′10″N 12°28′40″E / 41.902842°N 12.477733°E / 41.902842; 12.477733 (Solare_Campus_Martius)
List of obelisks
List of Roman monoliths
List of largest monoliths in the world
Roman triumphal monuments
List of Roman triumphal arches
List of Roman victory columns
^ Supported on bronze lions and surmounted by the Chigi arms in bronze, in all 41 m to the cross on its top
^ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/raising/rome.html
^ a b http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/menhirs.htm
^ Touring Club Italiano, Roma e Dintorni.
^ a b Travels and Adventures, Chapter 3, Pero Tafur, digitized from The Broadway Travellers series, edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power, translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts (New York, London: Harper & brothers 1926):
On the other side of it is a high tower made of one piece of stone, like a three-cornered diamond raised upon three brazen feet; and many, taking it for a holy thing, creep between the ground and the base of that tower. This was a work undertaken in honour of Julius Caesar and assigned for his burial, and on the top of it are three large gilt apples in which is the dust of the Emperor [sic] Julius Caesar, and certainly it is a noble edifice and marvellously ordered and very strange. It is called Caesar's needle, and in the middle and at the base, and even at the top, are a few ancient letters carved in the stone which now cannot well be read, but in fact they record that the body of Julius Caesar was buried there.
^ Pedro Tafur's Andanças (1874 edition) referenced in the Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, Joan Corominas, José Antonio Pascual, 1987, Editorial Gredos, Tome I, ISBN 84-249-1361-2, entry carnicol, page 880.
^ L'Italia. Roma (guida rossa), Touring Club Italiano, Milano 2004
^ Edward Chaney, "Roma Britannica and the Cultural Memory of Egypt: Lord Arundel and the Obelisk of Domitian", in Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Rome, eds. D. Marshall, K. Wolfe and S. Russell, British School at Rome, 2011, pp. 147-70.
D'Onofrio, Cesare (1967), Gli obelischi di Roma
Wirsching, Armin (2000), "How the Obelisks Reached Rome: Evidence of Roman Double-Ships", The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 29 (2): 273–283, doi:10.1111/j.1095-9270.2000.tb01456.x
Wirsching, Armin (2003), "Supplementary Remarks on the Roman Obelisk-Ships", The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 32 (1): 121–123, doi:10.1111/j.1095-9270.2003.tb01438.x
Wirsching, Armin (2013), Obelisken transportieren und aufrichten in Aegypten und in Rom (3rd ed.), ISBN 978-3-8334-8513-8
A Google map showing the location of the 13 ancient Egyptian obelisks in Rome
Obelisks in Rome (Andrea Pollett)
Obelisks of Rome (series of articles in Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome)
Obelischi di Roma
Obelisk of Psametik II and Augustus, erected by Pope Pius VI in Piazza Montecitorio
Romeartlover.it: Obeliks of Rome
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The aviator: Michael Mancuso takes flight at the Cleveland National Air Show this weekend.
From the comfort of the cockpit, Michael Mancuso can picture the stunned looks on the faces in the crowd below as he pilots his Klein Tools Extra 300.
In the 23-foot plane, he executes stunts he's rehearsed for two years with aerobatic partner Matt Chapman. There's the "mirror pass," in which Mancuso flies in parallel formation a mere three feet above his teammate's plane. Fans also applaud the "head-on pass," in which the planes fly at each other until it looks like they'll collide. At the last minute, Mancuso pulls up his craft for a near miss.
"The crowd wants it to look dangerous, wild, and exciting," says the 35-year-old Mancuso. "But they don't want to think you're going to die. It's a delicate balance between making it exciting and intense without [them] thinking they're going to see tragedy."
Scratch-free after more than two decades of flying, Mancuso brings his two-man performance to the Cleveland National Air Show this weekend, where other attractions include the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, the U.S. Navy's Super Hornets, and the U.S. Army's Golden Knights Precision Parachute Team.
Mancuso has been flying since he was a kid. When he was 11, his father let him co-pilot the family plane on flights from their Long Island home to his grandfather's Virginia farm. He'd even taxi the plane on Grandpa's horse track. But his first solo flight happened by mistake, when a then-13-year-old Mancuso accidentally accelerated. "My dad yelled, 'Close the throttle and let it land!' But when it lifted off, it blew off the runway," recalls Mancuso. "I had to add power to fly it back and land it. It scared the crap out of everyone."
The fluke only fueled Mancuso's enthusiasm. By 16, he'd earned his private pilot's license. At 18, he enrolled at Ohio State, graduating in 1993 with a degree in aviation management. Three years later, he performed at his first air show.
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Rosemont, PA—A federal lawsuit filed against the Lower Marion School District (LMSD) contends school-issued laptop computers were used to spy on a Harriton High School student. With anti-theft software programmed into the computers, school district officials can allegedly trigger the built-in camera to take photos of the person utilizing the laptop. The security system was reportedly installed as a means of tracking "lost, stolen, and missing laptops", though students and parents were never informed that the district had the ability to activate the laptop cameras at any given point, according to information provided by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, in U.S. District Court, deals with allegations of invaded privacy as well as violations of students' civil rights. A young teen, identified as Blake Robbins, 15, was allegedly called down to the assistant principal's office on November 11, 2009, where he was then subsequently accused of "improper behavior" in his home, based on a photo acquired by the school through anti-theft software in the students' laptops. The photo, which showed Robbins holding Mike & Ikes candy in his hands, somehow managed to convince the assistant principal that the gesture was drug-related. As a result, the teen's parents, Michael E. and Holly S. Robbins, filed the lawsuit.
In response to allegations, the district allegedly stated, "Upon a report of a suspected lost, stolen, or missing laptop, the feature was activated by the District's security and technology departments. The tracking-security feature was limited to taking a still image of the operator and the operator's screen. This feature has only been used for the limited purpose of locating a lost, stolen or missing laptop. The District has not used the tracking feature or web cam for any other purpose or in any other manner whatsoever."
Though the suit also argues that federal and state wiretapping laws were violated, video and still images are not subject to the law. On the other hand, the school district also allegedly violated the computer intrusion law, which prohibits "unauthorized access to a computer with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or invade privacy". The case was to begin its trial on Monday, February 22, 2010.
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Management of Multiple Myeloma - Episode 12
Case 3: Treatment for Relapsed Myeloma with 17p Deletion
EP. 1: Case 1: Optimal Induction Therapy for Myeloma
EP. 2: Case 1: Ineligibility for Transplant in Myeloma
EP. 3: Case 1: Molecular Testing in Myeloma
EP. 4: Case 1: Consolidation Therapy in Myeloma
EP. 5: Case 1: Transplant Eligibility in Myeloma
EP. 6: Case 2: The Role of Maintenance Therapy in Myeloma
EP. 7: Case 2: Molecular Risk Stratification in Myeloma
EP. 8: Case 2: MRD Negativity in High-Risk Myeloma
EP. 9: Case 2: Evolution of Molecular Testing in Myeloma
EP. 10: Case 3: Aggressive Relapse of Multiple Myeloma
EP. 11: Case 3: Molecular Testing in Relapsed Myeloma
EP. 12: Case 3: Treatment for Relapsed Myeloma with 17p Deletion
EP. 13: Case 4: CAR T-Cell Therapy for Heavily Pretreated Myeloma
EP. 14: Case 4: Molecular Testing and CAR T-Cell Therapy in Myeloma
EP. 15: Case 4: CAR T-Cell Therapy in Myeloma
EP. 16: Case 4: BCMA-Targeted CAR T-Cell Therapy in Myeloma
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE VIRTUAL TUMOR BOARDAjai Chari, MD:I think that's a good segue into the clinical discussion. Give me 1 answer for your preferred regimen for the del(17p) hybrids. Is there such an answer?
Nina Shah, MD:For a newly diagnosed patient or in the relapsed setting?
Ajai Chari, MD:For relapsed disease. We have a relapsed patient. Is there 1 right answer?
Nina Shah, MD:I don't think so. In this case, I probably would have gone with carfilzomib/pomalidomide/dexamethasone—KPd—because that regimen includes drugs that the patient has not been exposed to. I don't think any patient should go through 1 million lines of therapy and not have seen carfilzomib at some point.
Ajai Chari, MD:So, just to clarify, at the point of progression, you would go to KPd?
Nina Shah, MD:Probably. That would have been on my list—or a clinical trial, of course. That is always a right answer. But she hadn't seen those 2 drugs, so I would consider that.
Ajai Chari, MD:Do you consider del(17p) in your decision making?
Nina Shah, MD:Yes and no. On the one hand, you have to be practical. You have to think of drugs that the patient hasn't had. On the other hand, you have to consider why this evolution happened—whether it's truly a new clone or a clonal expansion. One other possible explanation is that sometimes people have their marrows done at different places. This may lead to different techniques and different findings. But she's presenting in a sort of high-risk or aggressive way, so I'd probably believe it. Whether it affects the decision is difficult. We really don't know the true prognostic indication or prognostic significance of the high risk, in comparing the different salvage regimens. That's really not been looked at—not prospectively, for sure.
Ajai Chari, MD:What's your go-to regimen for a first relapse?
Nina Shah, MD:This is very interesting because she didn't have Revlimid [lenalidomide] maintenance, so I think that was a fair answer. Either daratumumab/Rd [lenalidomide/dexamethasone] or KRd [carfilzomib/lenalidomide/dexamethasone] would have been a good option for her. That's probably what I would have done—1 of those 2 options.
Ajai Chari, MD:If she had been on lenalidomide maintenance, Ola, what would you have done?
C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD:If she had been on lenalidomide maintenance and presented the way the presentation demonstrates right now, I would agree with Nina. I would choose carfilzomib/pomalidomide/dexamethasone. I just want to add a few details to help explain why I would do that. We see that the monoclonal protein went from 0.6 g/dL to 1.7 g/dL in just 6 months. We also know that there is evidence of multiple lytic lesions by imaging. So, there was a rapid progression of the protein. There are new bone destructions. And then, with the bone marrow, we don't know how many cells there are in the bone marrow, but we know that there is a new finding—del(17p)—in half of the detected cells. So, anything here, unfortunately, breathes a bit of an aggressive biology. For that reason, I would give a proteasome inhibitor. Carfilzomib is the more powerful of all of the ones that we have. Given that she has received, in your example now, Revlimid maintenance, I would pick pomalidomide.
Ajai Chari, MD:I agree with you. KPd is a good example. Interestingly, we just covered all of the phase III studies, of which KPd is not studied in any of them.
Nina Shah, MD:Correct.
Ajai Chari, MD:Do you practice evidence-based medicine? How important is it to have a phase III study? We're all at academic medical centers, but what would you tell the community doctor? Do you need a phase III study? How do you deal with insurance reimbursement? How does this all matter?
Nina Shah, MD:That's a really tough question, because there's not going to be a trial of carfilzomib/pomalidomide/dexamethasone versus daratumumab/pomalidomide/dexamethasone. These things are not going to happen, and so we have to take our best guess. When it comes to large phase III studies—which have a definitive patient population—with these first 1 to 3 prior lines of therapy or newly diagnosed cases, you can really point to it. But, as you get far off in the disease, looking at how many more lines people have had, each patient becomes more individual. I think it's hard to say that phase III data are the end-all and be-all of everything. Your patient is never going to be that average patient in that particular trial. So, I feel comfortable, based on phase II data, recommending things like carfilzomib/pomalidomide/dexamethasone and daratumumab/pomalidomide/dexamethasone. How do you feel?
C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD:Well, I think it's a reflection of the fact that the field is moving forward very fast. It takes a lot of time to generate phase III data. In oncology, including both solid tumors and hematologic malignancies, many of the drugs that are being prescribed are not backed up by phase III data. It happens every day, everywhere around the world. It happens all the time. If you look at myeloma—specifically, in the United States—90% to 95% of all patients diagnosed with myeloma are treated by a private practice doctor. Many times, I think the newly diagnosed patients, probably at first or second relapse, can be treated based on this data. After that, it gets more and more complicated. That's why we use the NCCN [National Comprehensive Cancer Network] guideline recommendations. That's also how we get reimbursement. Comprehensive cancer centers are not always using that because we have a lot of these patients. They are usually referred to us. So, I think that's kind of how that works.
Ajai Chari, MD:Yes. I think this is a great discussion on the complexity of dealing with relapsed disease. This was a very high-risk patient who had a very early relapse and a very short remission. It was less than a year, probably reflecting this high clonal burden of del(17p). There probably is no single right answer, right? At the end of the day, treatment always depends on patient factors, disease factors, and, in particular, in the relapsed setting, prior therapy. I thank all of you for this very interesting discussion. We hope this was very helpful.


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Ambitious Saracens are given ground for optimism
John Westerby
Saturday March 05 2011, 12.01am, The Times
Borthwick, here tackling Andy Saull, his team-mate, and Leicester's Anthony Allen in last year's final, led Saracens' application for a new stadium
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In a rerun of last year's play-off final, Saracens travel to Leicester this afternoon with the sides again first and second in the Aviva Premiership.
There is nothing quite like a trip to Welford Road to concentrate the mind, but Saracens had one eye on the future yesterday when a group of players led by Steve Borthwick, the former England captain, submitted the club's planning application to Barnet Council for their project to turn Copthall Stadium into a 10,000-seat stadium with an artificial pitch.
Saracens are due to leave Vicarage Road, the home of Watford Football Club, at the end of the season and would like to make Copthall Stadium their new home. The aim is to transform the venue into a multisport arena that


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A: maybe you have solved it in the meantime yourself but i ran into the same issue with PnP and an ASP.NET Core 2.0 Webservice. You have to use an Application which uses the .NET Framework and not .NET Core. As far as i know is the PnP Framework built on the standard SharePoint CSOM and there are only Assemblies for the .NET Framework.
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Q: Place object at retina pixel location that standard resolution can't access? I am animating something's position on the screen in xcode.
Currently it moves at "1" pixel every .1 seconds.
This means it's not moving at 1 pixel every .1 seconds on a retina display but 2 pixels every .1 seconds.
I want it to move at true 1 pixel every .1 seconds on a retina display. Is there any way to do this?
Any way to set an objects location to be a retina location or something?

A: You want to move in pixels. All coordinates in iOS are given in points. So you need to convert your points to pixels. This can be done by doing:
CGFloat screenScale = [UIScreen mainScreen].scale;
CGFloat ratio = 1.0 / screenScale;

Use ratio to increment your animation.
On a non-retina device, ratio will be 1 point. On current retina devices, ratio will be 0.5 point.
As you animate, move your x and y coordinates by ratio points and you will get one pixel of movement each time.

A: Starting in iOS 4, dimensions are measured in "points" instead of pixels. In non-Retina screens a point is one pixel, and in Retina screens a point is two pixels, draw a one-point line and it shows up two pixels wide.
Therefore, when on Retina screens you can move 0.5 points (which will equal 1 pixel).

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After spending thousands of dollars to develop, test, and approve a product, medtechs tend to focus their commercialization strategies on the whole patient pool, thinking it's the best bet for significant return on investment. While that approach seems logical, it rarely manifests in practice. The average medical technology takes 10-15 years to be broadly adopted — after being published as a standard of care in practice guidelines. Most technologies falter long before then.
So, what is the best path to market penetration? Ironically, it's usually a narrow one. Segmenting patients, providing physicians with guidance on which ones your technology suits best, and clearly stating expected outcomes helps to drive use, preference, and — eventually — increased adoption rates. It also helps you align your resources and investments realistically to foster adoption.
Consider this example: a startup originally estimated the market size for its breakthrough technology to treat uterine fibroids at 75 percent of all women. But, further research revealed that figure to be significantly inflated and vague, as it failed to consider several critical factors. In fact, the most compelling opportunity lay in the large pool of insured U.S. women who regularly sought preventive ob-gyn care — 24 percent of the addressable population, representing $428 million in annual revenue by 2028. This insight was based on patients' condition severity, desire for fertility, fibroid location, provider access, and payer coverage, as well as the company's modest sales infrastructure.
Had the manufacturer launched broadly, they risked weak clinical outcomes, reduced physician confidence in the technology, and failing investor expectations. Here's why.
Adoption follows a well-understood path to standard of care. Most technologies fail to get past the early adopters (about 15 percent) through the classic "chasm" to the early majority, which serves as the gate to the rest of the market.
The difference between each adoption group is its intrinsic beliefs about both the status quo and what the new technology offers. The innovators and early adopters are driven primarily by the idea and promise of the new technology. Therefore, they need little evidence or guidance on patient selection; they want to figure it out on their own, and often believe other clinicians think like they do. In contrast, the "early majority" needs hard evidence and a proven patient selection algorithm. And, importantly, the "late majority" and "laggards" share the early majority's needs, plus personal experiences that give them confidence in the new technology.
Consequently, convincing each subsequent stage of adopters requires more evidence and validation of a new technology's clinical and economic value proposition, along with a roadmap identifying the best patients. If no guidance is provided on best-use case scenarios (i.e., patient segments most likely to experience a positive outcome from the treatment option), physicians usually apply the therapy to patients as a last resort. As a result, outcomes will be questionable, at best, and often negative — which ultimately diminishes adoption rates.
However, if a pipeline of evidence and patient selection guidance is provided, then early stage adopters will gain confidence, share their experiences, and provide useful insights. These insights will help the manufacturer make relevant modifications to the product and/or resolve other adoption-related barriers, enabling the manufacturer to continue building confidence among physicians, and to roll the therapy up and over the adoption curve.
Once physicians are confident in a technology's value proposition for a certain segment, they will more readily expand to a fuller indication. Each positive step accelerates and deepens market penetration. Full adoption occurs when behavior change fully transitions.
The clearer the benefit and better the results, the faster the adoption.
The goal of patient segmentation is to gain granular insight into the differential technology benefit and adoption potential among distinct groups. By strategically organizing heterogenous patients into more homogenous groups, based on the benefit of the new technology vs. standard of care, you can more accurately estimate the true market potential of a technology, anticipate and create strategies to overcome potential barriers to adoption, and better manage expectations across stakeholders.
Economic — Ability of patients to pay for their share of the cost can be an important driver for technologies with a high upfront cost or ongoing payments over time.
"Actionable" segmentation identifies patients for whom therapy will provide lesser or greater benefit, and notes where patients will be in the healthcare system. Adoption rates will vary significantly across different patient segments. As such, it's important to identify "perfect patients" (i.e., those representing the group for whom a specific therapy option will offer the greatest consistent benefit). They are the beachhead target to drive to standard of care. Subsequent indications are based on logical sequencing of how clinicians would think about patients.
One startup's leadership team believed a vast U.S. market existed for its innovative migraine therapy, and planned to target the 11 million Americans who suffered from the condition. In this case, the 11 million Americans were trimmed to 8.5 million after evaluating exclusion factors, including condition severity, compliance, and income.
A market-leading device manufacturer with a novel technology platform instinctually believed its technology could be applied generally to obstetric and oncology patients. In this case, the most compelling opportunity lay in smaller patient segments within one major treatment segment: trauma.
A global medtech company hoped its new technology could be launched to treat obesity in 80 million U.S. patients, and millions more globally. In this case, the 80 million narrowed to only seven million. Exclusion factors included people aging out of obesity, fewer patients than anticipated feeling enough discomfort to be motivated to seek treatment, and limited reimbursement that resulted in a prohibitive cost barrier.
While each of these cases still proved to be fruitful endeavors and strong market opportunities, the original patient pool estimates were grossly misleading. Data-driven patient segmentation gave each company a patient segment to target, helping each company to prove its value and to carve out a place in the complex, existing clinical pathways that are extremely hard to disrupt.
Diluted results in clinical trials, which can dampen potential interest in the technology, and be detrimental to practical outcomes, soiling physicians' organic experiences.
Regulatory bodies narrow your indication because it's too broad as initially pitched, which can greatly limit your future ability to gain approval for broader indications.
Inadvertently giving your competitor the lead, because your competitor determined to narrow the indication for its technology, and thus appears to get better overall results.
However, if you take the time to identify and understand your technology's ideal patients, and implement strategies to motivate physicians to adopt your technology, you will know what to expect, and be better positioned to maximize your technology's realizable market opportunity.
The bottom line is, changing standard-of-care clinical practice is very difficult. A targeted and focused patient and commercial approach is required to achieve broad adoption with the lowest investment and the greatest return in the shortest time. While most venture-backed start-ups have no intention of following this road to its end, being on any other road rarely leads where they want to go.
The case studies referenced in this article can be accessed here.
Mike Fix is Director of Life Sciences at Navigant. He has more than 15 years of experience across the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, with additional experience in retail. His work focuses on leading engagements assessing market landscapes for startups, mid-size, and multinational medical device manufacturers. He also manages and develops the firm's market development software application. Most recently, he has worked on projects in therapeutic areas including chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), coronary artery disease, emphysema, heart failure, hospital acquired infection, migraine, and obesity.


Authorities are seeking the public's help in identifying two men who they say stole someone's credit cards and used them at an Encinitas Target store.
Authorities are offering a financial reward and seeking the public's help in locating two men wanted on suspicion of stealing credit cards and identity theft from an Encinitas gym.
Between noon and 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 12, a man broke into a locker at the LA Fitness located at 201 S. El Camino Real, according to a Sheriff's Department news release.
Then, at about 1:50 p.m., the victim's credit cards were fraudulently used at the Target store at 1010 N. El Camino Real in Encinitas, authorities said. The man was seen on video surveillance with an additional suspect at the store.
Authorities described the first suspect as a black man with a medium build and short hair. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.
The second suspect was described as a black man with a thin build who was last seen in a black jacket, black baseball cap with white print on the front, blue jeans with doughnuts printed on them and blue shoes.
Anyone with information about the suspects is asked to call the North Coastal Sheriff's Station at 760-966-3500 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at 888-580-8477.


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Seashore Trolley Museum, located in Kennebunkport, Maine, United States, is the world's first and largest museum of mass transit vehicles. While the main focus of the collection is trolley cars (trams), it also includes rapid transit trains, Interurban cars, trolley buses, and motor buses. The Seashore Trolley Museum is owned and operated by the New England Electric Railway Historical Society (NEERHS). Of the museum's collection of more than 350 vehicles, ten trolley, and railroad cars that historically operated in Maine were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, as Maine Trolley Cars.

History

Theodore F. Santarelli de Brasch and Osmond Richard Cummings were two of the founders of the museum, which was initially operated as the Seashore Electric Railway. Santarelli graduated from Harvard University and led the museum until he died in 1987; Cummings, a New England railroad historian, died in 2013.

The events that led to the formation of the museum started in 1939 when a group of railfans learned that the Biddeford and Saco Railroad were purchasing motor buses to replace its fleet of trolley cars.  More and more trolley companies were doing this as the technology of buses had developed to the point that they were reliable and economical.

The rail fans decided to find out if they could purchase a trolley to preserve it for posterity.  The railroad was willing to sell them a car (#31, a 12 bench open trolley) for $150.  However, it would have to be moved to another location due to local ordinances that prohibited retired trolleys from being used as houses, even though this was not the rail fans' intention.

A portion of farmland was rented on Log Cabin Road in Kennebunkport, adjacent to the right-of-way for the Atlantic Shore Line Railway's Kennebunk-Biddeford route, and the trolley was moved to it.

At about the same time, another group of rail fans purchased a trolley from the Manchester and Nashua Street Railway.  The two groups merged, and the Nashua trolley was brought to the Log Cabin Road site. The group of founders formally incorporated in 1941 as the New England Electric Railway Historical Society.

World War II caused the museum to be put on hold, as many members served in the armed forces for the duration. This also brought about a temporary revival of trolley services in many cities, as rubber and gasoline were rationed for the war effort.

After the war, conversion of trolley lines to buses resumed, and created a period of rapid growth for the museum's collection.

In the 1950s, a diesel-powered electric generator was used to allow the cars to move under their own power. Car 31 was moved into a small building so that it could be repaired and restored. The first major expansion occurred in late 1955 and early 1956, when the Society purchased land near the Biddeford city line along U.S. Route 1. In the summer of 1956, the Seashore Electric Railway began passenger operations on weekends over its  of track.

In 1980, ten of the museum's trolley and railroad cars were listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as "Maine Trolley Cars").  These include trolley #31 and other vehicles either built or operated in Maine.  Two cars of the Aroostook Valley Railroad, and two built by the York Utilities Company of Sanford are included in this collection.

As of 2010, the museum had over 260 vehicles.  While most are from New England and other areas of the United States, trolleys from Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany, Hungary, England, Scotland, Italy, and several other countries are also in the collection. One of the motor buses the museum owns is Biddeford and Saco #31, the bus that replaced trolley #31 in 1939.  The bus was donated to the museum by the bus company. The Seashore Trolley Museum continues to acquire new vehicles for the collection.

Exhibits and features

The main building at the museum, the Visitors Center, includes a ticket booth, a museum store with an extensive collection of rare and out-of-print books and DVDs as well as many toys and souvenirs, a snack bar, and an exhibit room with trolley and transit-related artifacts.

The trolleys that have been restored to operating condition are shown on display in three car barns.  A restoration shop with an elevated observation gallery shows visitors how the vehicles are maintained and restored. Additional storage barns and tracks, which are not accessible to the general public, contain vehicles that are awaiting restoration. A few of the restored trolleys are operating on the demonstration line at one time.Restored trolleys are used on the museum's demonstration railway, which follows the route of the Atlantic Shore Line, a trolley line that ran on the current museum property and connected Kennebunkport to York Beach.  Since the line was abandoned in the 1920s, museum volunteers have rebuilt  from scratch. Seashore owns the right of way to Biddeford, which is about  from the Visitor Center. A demonstration route leads  to Talbott Park (which is a loop to turn around the trolleys) and back to the Visitor Center.

The collection of trolley buses includes vehicles from all over the country, and the world, of which about twenty are in operating condition.  Restoration on as many as six to seven cars is underway at all times. Discussions are under way to extend the trolley bus line and to rehabilitate the existing line.

The museum holds many themed events throughout the operating season (May–December) including Pumpkin Patch Trolley, Daniel Tiger Visits Seashore, appreciation days for several operating fleet trolleys in its collection, free children's story time for guests and the community, and special holiday rides in November and December.  The exhibit room may be rented for parties, gatherings, meetings or family reunions.

See also

 Boston Street Railway Association
 Heritage railway
 List of heritage railways
 National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Maine
 Shore Line Trolley Museum
 State of the Art Car

References

External links

 The Seashore Trolley Museum website

Railroad museums in Maine
Heritage railroads in Maine
Museums in York County, Maine
Street railway museums in the United States
Buildings and structures in Kennebunkport, Maine
Transportation buildings and structures in York County, Maine


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Payday loans: Why is usury permitted?
Choice should do an expose on payday loans. They currently claim they don't charge interest. Instead they charge an establishment fee (20%) and a monthly service fee (4%).
That means per year you'd be paying around 68% interest. This is a usurious rate of interest.
Why isn't someone doing something about it?
Payday lender Nimble will refund $1.5 million to more than 7,000 customers after an ASIC investigation.
Google will ban ads from payday lenders from its search results, in a move that will help stifle predatory lending online.
This is an exceedingly brief comment on the industry.
Did Choice write anything a bit more significant on the issue?
Hi @mc1, thanks for the comments. We've done a few articles over the years on 'payday' lending, including giving the entire industry a Shonky in 2015 and calling out Cash Converters for its lending practices. There's more to do, and we appreciate the suggestions. If you have an experience or a story you're willing to share, please feel free to leave a comment here.
The problem seems to have increased and got worst in recent years.
The article I linked back to mentioned the Shonky award in 2015.
From memory the law prohibits lending at over 25% interest… but leaves a loophole for amounts under $3000.
These payday lenders are trading in this area.
Lenders are also calling costs everything except "interest" in an effort to get around the legal definition of interest.
While this may be within the letter of the law surely it was never intended to permit such practises?
Usurous lending is unethical. We know it's impacting the poorest hardest. Why don't we do something to clean it up?
Whether we realise it or not?
What happend to the "Common" in Commonwealth? Wasn't it meant to include us all?
Payday lenders are asking applicants to share their myGov login details, as well as their internet banking password — posing a security risk, according to some experts.
The privacy risks raised by payday lenders affects some of Australia's most vulnerable.
One for a Shonky. There are Instant Cash Loan machines being placed in areas of NSW. You provide ID and Bank details and very quickly can be approved. Value of the loans are from $50 to $1,000 and users can increase their limits the more they access the machines. Users have between 1 to 3 months to pay the debt back. Ok my take on it is it is just Bad Bad Bad and Really Bad.
There are concerns instant cash loan machines are targeting people in disadvantaged parts of NSW.
Thanks @grahroll, pretty Shonky stuff if you ask me!
I just saw this company advertising on TV last night and out of interest I googled them. I was horrified to learn of the fees they charge and the misleading way they state that they don't charge interest…just fees of 4% per month though!!!
It was very hard to find an online loan repayment calculator, but I finally found the appropriate Payday loan calculator on the MoneySmart site. …so $1000 loan over 12 months costs $680 in fees and interest.
Surely these loan sites should have some sort of loan repayment calculator link on them…I couldn't see one on this Sunshine one.
your account remains in default". So that default fee quickly adds up to $150 month.
I get nervous just being on the site…scared I might accidentally apply for a loan !!
However it's exactly the same model being used in Australia. If it's illegal there… why isn't it illegal here too?
A couple of articles regarding payday lenders.
As mainstream lenders pull back on new finance and tighten credit after the Hayne Royal Commission, households are being pushed into riskier forms of credit.
What's all the fuss about payday loans?
What would you say if someone told you that you could have $2,000 in your bank account within half an hour, *without* having to get out of your pyjamas?
I found the comment by NCPA chairman, Rob Bryant that they are sick of being treated as pariahs most amusing and it reminded me of the joke.
"What is the difference between a catfish and a payday lender?
Great articles… glad someone is making some noise about it.
The Federal Government has delayed reform on pay-day lending for over three years.
Our friends over at Consumer Action Law Centre have been advocating for much stronger consumer protections.
Almost three years ago, on 7 August 2015, then Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced there would be a review of the small amount credit contract (SACC) laws.
Sadly, still no laws have been passed.
I think part of this issue is the political power these large financial businesses have. Similar in many ways to the inactivity that was taken re Banks, Superannuation until the Royal Commission. But just like the RC I think if any legislation was forthcoming it would be weak in it's effects on poor behaviour while pretending to have really good outcomes for the public.
ASIC is investigating share trading in Afterpay and Zip after their shares fell ahead of the public release tomorrow of the report regarding possible regulatory changes.
Ok. Move along folks. Nothing to see here. They just have ESP.
An article regarding the dilemma Townsville flood victims are findind themselves in.
An alarming number of natural disaster victims turn to high-cost, short-finance — or pay day loans — to avoid going broke, financial counsellors say.
Surely Governments should be providing more assistance instead of leaving the most disadvantaged to the "mercy" of the payday lending grubs.
A Senate committee has recommended changes to regulate the payday lenders and appliabce rental sharks.
A Senate inquiry has found serious problems within the payday lending and goods rentals sectors affecting vulnerable Australians.
Long term goods rentals should be considered a financial service imo. Agencies should be legally required to ensure the repayments are manageable for the client and that they are not encouraging them to take out something they can't afford.
Agencies should be legally required to ensure the repayments are manageable for the client and that they are not encouraging them to take out something they can't afford.
Lets assume all long term rental contracts can be cancelled without fees after some minimal period, so if the cost becomes unmanageable the goods can be returned and the rental contract terminated. <- not always the case today, but for the discussion assume that is a potential solution.
If that was mandated at what point are people absolved from taking responsibility for their own actions as well as understanding their financial situation, and at what point might a business be expected to take responsibility for unforeseen problems in their customers' lives?
A difference between a rental and a loan is who owns the merchandise and at what point during the contracted term. I submit they are not the same. A number of rental companies have been found to have conducted themselves poorly, but not because of manageable payments, because of unfair terms or obscene 'interest equivalents' whereby the actual cost to own has been multiples of the original value, often including a balloon payment at the end for the customer to have ownership.
How would 'encouragement' be established as a point of law if the customer had a hard row and decided what he thought was a helpful salesman might have 'encouraged' him to over-extend?
Tipping all responsibility from customer to vendor is a slippery one, although holding businesses to standards of honesty and integrity in their dealings should be a given.


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Choosing the right school for their child is one of the most important decisions parents can make. It can also be one of the hardest. Often, the choice will be based on multiple factors, some of them intangible.
Surveys by Independent Schools Victoria, in which parents are asked their reasons for choosing a school, shed interesting light on some of those factors – and on parental preferences.
Importantly, and perhaps surprisingly, the surveys consistently undermine the view that a school's academic results are the first priority for parents when they agonise over which school is best for their child.
In the most recent survey, parents with children at an independent school last year were asked why they chose the school.
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Q: Windows Form Appbar Desktop Resizing Okay. Just when you think you've figured it all out, you haven't.
I have coded and tested a functional appbar class.  When I use a simple Windows Form to extend and test the class, it works without issue in both XP (SP 3, 32 bit) and Windows 7 (64 bit).  Other windows are accessible, and they all maximize appropriately.  However, when I take my "complex" Windows Form (i.e. it is an application) and derive it from the appbar class, the desktop seems to "kick" it out.  By this I mean that everything sizes appropriately initially, but then the desktop resizes itself back to its former size.  Sometimes this happens rather quickly after putting the form into appbar mode, other times it happens when I click outside the form (to open a browser, for instance), and other times it happens when the form calls a MessageBox.  I have put all of the Forms functions in a background worker thinking that may be the issue, but the result is the same.  I've posted three images below. The first one shows the application as its initial WinForm. The second shows the appbar "functioning." The last shows the appbar not "functioning."  If you're having issues seeing the problem, pay attention to the Recycle Bin. Any ideas?

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I found these calls via logging.  They appear to fire off each time the desktop resizes to "normal."  Now I'm trying to see if there is or is not a similar pattern in the "simple" version.

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*msg=0x1c (WM_ACTIVATEAPP) hwnd=0x1e03ea wparam=0x0 lparam=0x1a90 result=0x0

*msg=0x1a (WM_WININICHANGE) hwnd=0x1e03ea wparam=0x2f lparam=0x9fe048 result=0x0

*msg=0x1a (WM_WININICHANGE) hwnd=0x1e03ea wparam=0x18 lparam=0x9fe038 result=0x0

A: So this was one wild goose chase.  In the event my last comment sounded absurd, it was.  While I am still not 100% certain as to this theory (someone please prove/disprove at your leisure), the two different handles came from (1) instantiation of the Form and (2) the actual handle when the Form is loaded.  I presume the API follows the same concept of QUERY_POS and SET_POS, that being it initially checks for and assigns a valid handle.  Then, prior to the Form being shown, it double checks the handle value.
Long story short, one line of code to verify the handle value in the Load event solved the entire problem.
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Better yet, the HandleCreated event is irreplaceable.


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Q: Can't Open MongoDB | I CONTROL [initandlisten] shutting down with code:48 I just install mongodb, after fail over time, i can't see that it's was installed in my computer, but the problem it can't open
I CONTROL  [initandlisten] shutting down with code:48

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Onalaska is a town in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 5,623 at the 2010 census. The City of Onalaska borders the town, as does the village of Holmen. The CDP of Brice Prairie is located in the western part of the Town of Onalaska. The unincorporated community of Midway is also located in the town. Onalaska (town), Wisconsin is part of the La Crosse, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History
In June 2013 the Onalaska Town Board voted to incorporate as a village and to name the new village Midway. The unincorporated community of Midway, Wisconsin is located in the town and the town hall is located there. The proposed village is seeking to prevent the village of Holmen and city of Onalaska from taking any more property from within its boundaries. Holmen is expected to object to the incorporation.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 44.9 square miles (116.3 km2), of which, 37.0 square miles (95.8 km2) of it is land and 7.9 square miles (20.5 km2) of it (17.59%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 5,210 people, 1,777 households, and 1,503 families residing in the town. The population density was 140.8 people per square mile (54.4/km2). There were 1,834 housing units at an average density of 49.6 per square mile (19.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 97.02% White, 0.23% Black or African American, 0.61% Native American, 1.29% Asian, 0.12% from other races, and 0.73% from two or more races. 0.60% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are about 1,777 households, out of which 43.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.7% were married couples living together, 5.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.4% were non-families. 11.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.93 and the average family size was 3.17.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 30.0% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 5.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 104.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.3 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $54,075, and the median income for a family was $57,268. Males had a median income of $37,310 versus $24,236 for females. The per capita income for the town was $19,887. About 2.7% of families and 3.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.0% of those under age 18 and 6.4% of those age 65 or over.

References

External links
Town of Onalaska

Towns in La Crosse County, Wisconsin
Towns in Wisconsin