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Last Updated: 16 September, 2016 by CRHE
2016 Statement Supporting New York Assembly Bill 3678 and Senate Bill 2175
For Immediate Release: Access to Public School Athletics Improves Homeschool Outcomes
Canton, Ma., 2/16/16—Last year, two bills before the state legislature would have opened public school athletics to participation by homeschooled students. These bills, Assembly Bill 3678 and Senate Bill 2175, which have been carried over into the 2016 legislative session, would prohibit school districts from barring homeschoolers from interscholastic sports and thus requiring the New York State Public High School Athletic Association to open the door to these students. "Our research is clear—access to public school extracurriculars offers tangible benefits to homeschooled students," said Rachel Coleman, executive director of the alumni-run Coalition for Responsible Home Education. "It's time to give New York's homeschooled students access to public school athletics."
Participation in public school athletics and other extracurriculars has been found to have pronounced benefits for children's socialization, self-esteem, and leadership skills across the board. A recent study of homeschool alumni in particular found that those who participated in public school athletics rated their homeschooling experience more highly than did other respondents. Further, researcher Joseph Richard Barno found that college admissions officers weighted extracurriculars more heavily for homeschool graduates than for traditionally-schooled graduates, suggesting that extracurricular participation is especially important for homeschooled students who are college-bound. "Excluding homeschooled children from this important aspect of physical and personal development puts them at a profound disadvantage with respect to their peers," Coleman said.
New York's Assembly Bill 3678 and Senate Bill 2175 are part of an ongoing trend toward increasing homeschooled students' access to extracurriculars in their local public schools. Over half of all states provide homeschooled students some form of participation in athletics or other extracurriculars through their local public schools, and that number is growing. Many states also allow homeschooled students to take individual courses at their local public schools. In fact, in 2007, the most recent year for which we have data, 16% of homeschooled students were enrolled in school part time. "Cooperation between homeschoolers and local school districts benefits homeschooled students," said Coleman. "When public schools provide homeschooled students with access to curricular and extracurricular activities, they foster a positive relationship between public schools and homeschool families."
Homeschoolers in New York, including LEAH, the largest statewide homeschool organization, supported Assembly Bill 3678 and Senate Bill 2175 during the 2015 legislative session. Gina Varrichio, a homeschooling mother, created a website, Let Homeschoolers Play, and launched a petition to bring the bills to the floor. "The overarching aim of our public school system should be to educate the minds, exercise the bodies, and open the hearts of our children and our communities," wrote Varrichio. "The goal should be one of supporting as many children as we can in this mission, not the fewest we're legally allowed."
Critics argue that granting homeschooled students access to public school athletics creates problems in fairness and access for other students. However, the Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers conducted a 2012 survey of state athletics associations which found that granting homeschooled students access to public school athletics has not caused problems in those states that have already done so. Critics also point to the variety of community athletic leagues available to younger children, but these options tend to narrow as children grow older, forcing parents to choose between homeschooling and athletic participation. "The evidence is clear that granting homeschooled children access to public school athletics improves homeschool outcomes," said Coleman. "It's time to let these children play."
Category: Legislation, Press Release Tags: athletics, New York
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724. Leigh Stein
Leigh Stein is the guest. Her new poetry collection, What to Miss When, is available from Soft Skull.
Stein is the author of five books including the novel Self Care and the poetry collection Dispatch from the Future. She has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Allure, ELLE, The Cut, Salon, and Slate. She is a recipient of an Amy Award from Poets & Writers and The Cut named her poet laureate of The Bachelor.
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Q: Beautifulsoup, grab text with link i'm making a web spider to automate some of my work.
I have a table with lots of drivers and different version for different operating systems.
So far everything works fine but i'm having a hard time separating the links for each operating system.
I'll post part of the html here, but i can't post the whole page.
The problem is i don't know can i grab each link and the text that's next to it, i can grab all of them but then i don't know what links if for what operating system.
This is the content of one cell in the table, all i need is to get the link along with the OS verstion (win8.1, win10, win7)

SfP/StP
    AHWFW0609P_WinB.zip
    Win8.1<o:p></o:p>

SfP/StP
    AHWFW0553P_WinT.zip Win10<o:p></o:p>

here is the code i use to grab the names and the links.
file = open(r"Path to HTML file", 'rb')
drivers = {}
rng_lst = [str(x) for x in range(5, 43)]

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(file)

table = soup.findAll('table')[0]
for row in table.findAll('tr'):
    cells = row.findAll('td')
    if len(cells) > 4:
        cell_num = cells[1].get_text(strip=True)
        if any(cell_num == n for n in rng_lst):
            drv_name = cells[2].get_text(strip=True)
            drivers[drv_name] = {'links': []}
            links = cells[4].findAll('a')
            for link in links:
                drivers[drv_name]['links'].append(link.get('href'))

A: Assuming that string contains the html content
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(string)

for pTag in soup.find_all('p'):
        anchorTag =  pTag.findNext('a')
        linkText =  pTag.find('span', {'class' : 'MsoHyperlink' } ).span.text
        print "LpTag.findNext('a')ink : ", anchorTag["href"]
        print "Text to Link ", linkText
        print

would give you an output
Link :  LINK_TO_FILE
Text to Link  Win8.1

Link :  LINK_TO_FILE
Text to Link   Win10

What it does?
By looking at the input string we can know that the anchors and text that we are interested in are present within the p tags.
And that the text comes within a span tag which inturn comes under another span tag which occurs next to the anchor tag.

*

*soup.find_all('p') The find_all will return the list of p tags.

*pTag.findNext('a') For each of the p tag, the findNext will find the next occurence of the anchor tag. This anchor tag contains the relevant link

*pTag.find('span', {'class' : 'MsoHyperlink' } ) The find will find the span within the current p tag with the attribute class set as MsoHyperlink

*

*.span returns the span within the span returned bye find

*.text returns the text of the corresponding span

A:  os_cell = cells[4]
 os_span = os_cell.find("span", class_="MsoHyperlink")
 os = os_span.string

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To support an environment where all Australians are engaged, motivated to learn and develop, and are proactive in managing their own wellbeing.
Wellbeing Australia is committed to champion the integration of wellbeing principles and practices into Families, Education networks and Workplaces in Australia.
Respect – we treat others with respect and value individual differences and the diversity of cultures, beliefs and views. We seek out and listen to the ideas and opinions of others.
Wellbeing Australia was founded by Dr Sue Roffey, FRSA. Sue is a passionate advocate for authentic wellbeing, especially for children, young people and their teachers. As a psychologist and academic she has published widely on issues related to school and student wellbeing. Sue is now Honorary Professor at the Universities of Exeter and Western Sydney and affiliated to the Wellbeing Institute at Cambridge University and University College, London.
Sue lived in Australia between 2000 and 2017 where she founded the Wellbeing Australia network and developed the Aboriginal Girls Circle. Sue is now back in the UK where she is the Director of Growing Great Schools Worldwide and a member of several Advisory Boards including the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools.
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Donné has spent over 25 years working as a clinician and at executive levels in the health sector. She is a dynamic business leader and social entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in general management, strategic leadership and marketing. She brings over 10 years experience as a Board Director on not-for-profit Boards, and currently sits on 5 Boards. Donné has a deep clinical understanding of brain physiology and functioning, and the impact of social and psychological stress. She's a strong supporter of positive psychology and the impact it has on the wellbeing of individuals and communities. Donné is a strategic thinker who is highly motivated to make a positive social impact through her work. She is a graduate and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Debra Mainwaring studied and practised Psychology and Education in both the UK and Singapore before arriving in Brisbane in 2003 and relocating to Sydney in 2014. After teaching across many age ranges from preschool to university Debra returned to practice psychology in the community as a specialist Educational & Developmental Psychologist in 2008 in the UK and 2009 in Brisbane, Ipswich and the Gold Coast. She was recently Education Officer, Student Wellbeing & Pastoral Care for Sydney Catholic Schools. Her private practice named Cared4 by DJM Psychological Services aims to empower and inspire the people who consult her in ways that promote their wellbeing.
Yasmine is a marketing communications professional, passionate about wellbeing. She has extensive experience in business development, establishing strong partnerships and creating and implementing on-brand content plans across entertainment media, social media, sport, wellbeing, and not for profit industries. A creative and strategic thinker, Yasmine works with SMEs and clients on their marketing strategies and brand development. With most of her marketing career in broadcast media, her most recent work has involved helping not for profits develop and deliver their marketing strategies and online brand presence.
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LA Galaxy's USL loans open door for New York Red Bulls and MLS
Sometimes we assume there will be restrictive rules.
By Lester Townsend and Jake_Evans Aug 6, 2015, 9:41am EDT
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You may have missed it, but the LA Galaxy kicked another door down and it's a pretty significant one.
For their match against the Houston Dynamo on July 25th, they loaned three players from their USL reserve squad, Los Dos, to their MLS squad: Dave Romney, Ariel Lassiter, and Daniel Steres. Lassiter and Romney both appeared during the match, with the latter recently signing a contract with the MLS squad.
Why is this a big deal? It shouldn't be. In most leagues, players from the reserve squad are called up to the senior squad and sent back down all the time. Nobody bats an eye because roster movement is fluid and less restrictive. However, this is MLS where parity is enforced in even the most absurd of circumstances.
It was previously believed that teams would not be allowed to freely loan players from the USL squad to the MLS squad. MLS to USL loans would be fine, but player movement in the opposite direction represents an unfair advantage to cheap owners who didn't form reserve squads.
Don't believe me?
I've been told that, prior to Romney/Lassiter being loaned by/to LA on 7/25, most non-LA teams had no idea such loans were possible.
— Jonathan Yardley (@jtyardley) August 5, 2015
Has Pandora's box been opened? Will the Galaxy be able to sign players to their USL squad, save cap space, and loan them to the MLS team at will? No, that's absurd.
What they have done is blast through perceived limitations by simply testing a rule that apparently didn't exist.
Now every team with a USL reserve squad can take advantage of these loans when they're short a few players or simply want to give a young player some MLS experience. Naturally -- because this is MLS -- there will probably be some rules written up during the off-season restricting and regulating movement to prevent teams from taking advantage of the arrangement.
However, considering there was talk that USL-to-MLS loans wouldn't be allowed at all, this is a progressive step forward for a league that is usually averse to realistic and pragmatic roster building.
What are the implications for the New York Red Bulls? The next time the team has an injury crisis, they don't have to make emergency signings, but can call up a few players from NYRB II. Young players with tons of potential like Tyler Adams or Daniel Bedoya who have been impressing in USL could be loaned up to MLS for a match to see if they can hang at the level.
Attracting talent is a zero-sum game and organizations now have another carrot to dangle in front of their Academy players. A club like the Red Bulls or the Galaxy can sign an Academy player to a USL contract and promise that he will be in the lineup for a few MLS matches. Regardless of whether the MLS matches are being used for development or recruitment purposes, teams with USL reserve squads have another weapon in their arsenal.
The Galaxy are the best organization in MLS because they're willing to push the boundaries. Every other team thought loan players on their USL reserve teams to the MLS squad was illegal. The Galaxy tested the nonexistent rule and the league is better for it. Now we get to wait and see if other teams will take advantage and to what extent the league will go to prevent such movement.


You should probably return the DVD and get another copy.
"Green Dot: a single choice in one moment that makes this community safer."
are you saying not all were double sided?
I think it depends on the company that made the DVDs. I borrowed some from the library here, and some were in a different case. The ones I borrowed that were in individual cases weren't double sided.
Have you tried an alternate program for playing the DVD?
How old is the computer in question?
Do they play fine on a television?
The problem could be your CD/DVD drive, my 5 year old Acer has trouble reading DVD discs as well. My Being Human US box sets last I tried were the only discs it would accept at all, and even then it takes a few tries. Others I attempted were not read at all.
Or possibly the program you are using is defective. When I attempted to play the same box set of Being Human on the widely praised program VLC, I could get it to the episode menu before it would freeze up so that I could not select an episode. They however play perfectly on Window's Media Center once I get it to read them.
So don't be so quick to rule the DVDs as the problem, though I can see this post is quite late. Thought I'd still add my two cents for future reference.


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Mission committee mail as of April 5, 2018
Midwest Mission Distribution Center:
Thank you notes for FUMC's donations of 12 computers and 22 hospital gowns and 5 newborn hats.
In February, MMDC reports it sent
72 school desks, 203 personal dignity kits, and 199 student school bags to Kenya.
4,190 birthing kits, 1,197 layette kits, 76 sewing machines, 24 bicycles, and ten tons of household cleaners, linens and medical equipment to Haiti.
Flood relief supplies to Watseka and Aroma Park: 144 cleaning bucket kits, 300 personal dignity kits, 48 student school bags, 20 layette kits and 100 storage totes.
The 911 system and post office have assigned MEDCO a new address for the unchanged location: 1001 Mission Drive, Pawnee, IL 62558
Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House:
Thank you notes for January's $100 donation and February's $500 donation.
Recycling Furniture for Families:
Thank you note for $500 donation in March.
RFF served about 1,000 men, women and children in 2017 who were in need of basic household items.
Habitat for Humanity of McLean County:
Thank you for $50 donation. Noel Lucero, Development Director, writes, "We work together to be a 'hand up' to families throughout McLean County."
Home Sweet Home Ministries:
Thank you for March donation of $50. "You are making a difference in the lives of your neighbors. Our newest resident at Home Sweet Home, Little Tasha, is just a few days old. You are making it possible for Tasha and her mother, Rhonda, to have a safe supporting place to live while Rhonda works toward the goal of saving for an apartment," writes Mary Ann Pullin, Chief Executive Officer.
SPERO Family Services:
Thank you for $200 donation in March which provides "…hope, health and healing," writes Sandy Sinnett, Director of Development and Public Relations.
Preachers' Aid Society and Benefit Fund:
Thank you for $500 donation in March. The Reverend Keith Anderson, Executive Director, writes "Your generosity enables PASBF to make a significant difference. One spouse wrote, 'PASBF is saving my life!'"
Illinois Church Action on Alcohol and Addiction:
Thank you for $200 donation which was "A blessing and an answer to prayer," writes Anita R. Bedell, Executive Director. FUMC has been designated as a "Century Church" by the ILCAAAP
UMCOR:
Thank you for February's donation of $60 which helps fund programs to "…fight hunger and poverty, assist the displaced and respond to disasters," writes Roland Fernandes, General Treasurer of the General Board of Global Ministries.
Cunningham Children's Home:
Thank you for February's $500 donation. "You are providing the day-to-day necessities as well as the extras that every child should enjoy. You are giving our kids healing and hope," writes Ginger McKee, Associate Director of Advancement who added, "Thank you for loving our kids – we are grateful!"
Mission committee mail as of June 12, 2018
Home Sweet Home Ministries
May 22: thank you from Home Sweet Home Ministries, for $50 contribution. In 2018, donations totaled $2,626 compared with $1,200 in 2017.
UMCOR
May 23: thank you from UMCOR for FUMC donations to the General Board of Global Ministries. $1,250 to support the missionary community in honor of Connie Wieck. $1,000 to support the missionary community in honor of Helen Roberts-Evans
Mid Central Community Action Agency
May 25: thank you from the Mid Central Community Action Agency for personal care items received in February for Neville House. "You are wonderful! Through your kindness, critical resources and support will be available for families to start their healing journey from domestic violence and abuse."


The Prestonkirk Burial Ground Survey was completed in 1998 with 743 gravestones being recorded.
The Whittingehame Graveyard Survey was completed in 2003 with the recording of 173 gravestones.
The Stenton Graveyard Survey was completed in 2006 with the recording of 341 gravestones.
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France is a second prosperous country in Europe with the powerful economy & serene atmosphere. This world-class movement destination that is encompassed by interesting towns, shining common attractions, superb mansions on top of grandiose mountains, amazing perspectives draws all the more abroad nationals to stop their application for France migration. Close by its accessibility of assorted openings for work and eye-infectious scenes, this choice migration destination is likewise broadly its major modern divisions like pharmaceuticals, vehicle creation, information transfers and ship building.
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This Vibration Throat Mike fits the AUSCB 5W 80CH UHF CB Handheld.
Suitable for receiving and transmitting.
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ORAchk hilft eine Umgebung nach Oracle Best Practice Standards zu überprüfen.
Leider kann das Tool unter Windows nur mit Cygwin eingesetzt werden.
Das Script greift nicht in laufende Prozesse etc. ein und soll gefahrlos auch in produktiven Umgebungen einsetzbar sein.
Für den Lauf muss allerdings das Root Password hinterlegt werden.
Grade nach einer Neuinstallation kann die Umgebung mit "ORAchk" genau überprüft werden.
Vorbereitung als root auf jeden Knoten!
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Welcome on Fontys ACI´s V-Library. On this site we collect video's of all our events, seminars and information sessions.
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GLBV Sangha is led by four resident teachers who have exposure to both Asian and Western cultures. They live in Michigan year round and, as English speaking Asians, teach Buddhism in terms readily understood by Westerners, in a way that can be applied to the particular difficulties of our daily lives. Please see of website for biographies of venerable monks.
▸ Ven. Brahmanagama Muditha
Venerable Brahmanagama Muditha Maha thera, now 66, was conferred with the title "Uthuru Americawe Pradhana Sanghanayaka", the Chief Prelate of the Sangha Community of North America, since 2017 by the Kotte Sangha Sabha in Sri Lanka. He provided his spiritual services to North American Buddhist communities for nearly for 30 years.
Venerable Brahmanagama Muditha Thero is the founding abbot of the Great Lakes Buddhist Vihara. He is also the abbot of the Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Buddhist Monastery (HJMB), Ottawa since 2008. Venerable Thero is a distinguished scholar and a preacher in Theravada tradition. He is well-known as a skillful meditation instructor to many monks and lay people and has been serving in North America for nearly three decades. Bhante Muditha has been a pioneer in inaugurating many Theravada temples in both USA and Canada
▸ Ven. Yatinuwara Sankichcha Thero
Bhanthe Sankichcha was born in Kandy, Sri Lanka in 1976. He entered the monastic life at the age of 15 in 1991 at Sri Subodhārāma International Monks' Training Institute in Kandy. In 1996 he received his higher ordination (upasampadā). The same year he moved to Australia where he lived for four years conducting numerous mindfulness programs. In 2001 he was invited to the Great Lakes Buddhist Vihara in Michigan, USA to continue his Dhamma services.
Bhanthe Sankichcha received his BA degree in Psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is currently enrolled in a master's degree in counseling psychology at Oakland University in Michigan, USA. He also serves as the abbot of Great Lakes Buddhist Vihara.
He is engaged in many social and religious services both locally and internationally. As a meditation and a Dhamma teacher, Bhathe Sankichcha helps many people including young and adults providing with Buddhist spiritual counseling.
He has been invited to teach in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Canada, and USA.
▸ Ven. Darangala Kusalagnana
Bhante Kusala was born in Sri Lanka in 1987. He entered the monastic life at the age of 16 in 2004 at Sri Gangagiri Vihara in south Sri Lanka. In 2007, he received his higher ordination (upasampadā). He did his undergraduate and graduate studies in the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka majoring in Pali language. In 2012-13, he moved to Italy and studied cognitive science and engaged in mindfulness based research works at the University of Trento. In 2014, he moved to Cambridge in Massachusetts and pursued a Master's degree from the the Harvard University. In 2017-18, he served as a resident chaplain at the Brigham and Women's hospital, and at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Prior to that, he served as a Spiritual Care person at the Youville Assisted Living Center in Cambridge. He has lectured as a visiting lecturer at the University of Peradeniya, and served as a lecturer at the Sri Lanka International Buddhist Academy, and also served as a tutor in Asgiriya Mahā Vihāra Maha Pirivena, and in the Vision International School in Kandy. He spent two summers at the Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center in Missouri and travelled in Sri Lanka with Bhante Vimalaramsi, and venerable Sister Khema as their translator. Since 2011, he also has been serving as the translator for Ajahn Brahm, and Ajahn Brahmali. He has been invited to teach internationally. Bhante Kusala helps children, youth, and adults with their spiritual counseling needs. In 2018, he was invited to the Great Lakes Buddhist Vihara to continue his dhamma service.
▸ Ven. Kahalle Janananda
Rev. Kahalle Janananda was born in 1978 in Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka. He received his novice ordination at the age of 12 in 1991 and his higher ordination in 2000. He graduated with a Bachelors of Education Degree from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura in Sri Lanka in 2005. He has tutored at Sri Lanka Vidyalaya in Maradana for 11 years. Because of his excellent abilities in performing religious activities, he was invited to the Great Lakes Buddhist Vihara and has been serving to the community since 2012.
▸ Ven. Tampitiye Sarananda
Rev. Tempiritiye Sarananda was born in July 1989 in Ampara district in Sri Lanka. He was ordained as a novice monk in May 2001 at Tempitiya Rajamaha Viharaya in Ampara. Receiving his higher ordination in 2010, Rev. Sarananda joined the Saddhalankara Vidyayathana Monks' school in Monaragala for his monastic education and training. Moving into Sri Sanghikaramaya temple in Siddhamulla, in Sri Lanka, he was trained under Bhante Muditha for 5 years until he moved to Great Lakes Buddhist Vihara in July 2017.


76 Graded Studies for Flute Book 1 brings together in two books a broad selection of repertoire in a variety of styles, from Camus to Telemann. Also included are a number of specially composed studies by Paul Harris that introduce aspects of 20th-century style and considerably extend the scope of the selection. The studies in Book 1 are arranged in order of increasing difficulty, according to a carefully planned technical progression from Grades 1-5.


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Missing Sailor Found Alive After Surviving 24 Days Lost At Sea
A sailor who was missing for 24 days was found alive after serving on ketchup, seasonings, and rainwater.
By Trista Sobeck | Published 5 days ago
Have you ever been so lost that you didn't think you'd make it out? Maybe without a cell phone, alone, scared, and running out of options? If you ever have, chances you are just happy to have gotten out of there alive. Such is the case of a missing sailor recently who was found at sea, abandoned and alone in his boat for 24 days.
According to NPR, a man was recently found in the middle of the ocean in his abandoned boat. He was lost for 24 days and was able to survive on ketchup packets and other seasonings. The missing sailor, Elvis Francois, was repairing a boat around the island of Saint-Maarten. He got swept out in a current and had written Help in English when he was rescued.
Francois was able to signal a plane using a mirror. The folks on the plane then contact the Navy, who were able to get to him and save him. He was found 120 miles north of La Guajira peninsula in Columbia. The navy took him to Cartagena where he is awaiting transport back to his home.
The reason Francois was swept into the ocean was because of violent ocean currents. This may be caused by extreme weather changes caused by climate change. And, it's only going to get worse. The missing sailor got extremely lucky that his boat wasn't carried out further than it did. He could've easily been washed out further.
The missing sailor was able to survive by learning how to sustain himself with little food and catching water from rain, and eating seasonings found in the boat. He got extremely lucky and thanked the navy for their assistance.
This is just one of the many tales of survival this year. Earlier this year, there was incredible turbulence on a plane trip to Hawaii that was so harsh that one person was thrown onto the ceiling. This plane trip may have made the missing sailor's lost-at-sea journey a pleasure cruise.
The plane to Hawaii was caused by an unexpected patch of turbulent air that was unforeseen. There were thunderstorms in the area, but the pilot did not know that type of air was around. Unfortunately, people got hurt, but they did survive, just like the missing sailor.
In another story, a plane was stuck in live powerlines when it attempted to land. Two adult passengers were rescued, and just like the missing sailor, they survived. Although the weather was foggy and the power lines were live with electricity, the two people were able to land on the ground safe and sound. However, rescuers had to wait until the lines were grounded so they wouldn't be electrocuted.
In another story, a person fell over a cruise liner and survived. He fell over and was able to stay alive in the Gulf of Mexico for 15 hours. He is being called a Thanksgiving miracle and got rescued to tell his tale, just like the missing sailor that was recently found. When the desire for survival is strong, anything is possible.
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The Loves of Jenn: It's going swimmingly!
We've come a long way in two weeks. This is a video I took at swim lessons today. They both went down the slide. I can't even believe it. Claire was crying through her whole lesson the first day and now just 3 lessons later, she's not crying at all and going down the slide. Julianne is so excited to go to swim lessons and would go every day. She wouldn't even go under water the last time she was in a pool. I'm so excited and so thankful for this teacher! Yay!
Yay Claire and Julianne! Swimming can be quite the lesson in courage for little people. Or big people! I really want to get my kids into lessons too. When life is a bit more calm, of course.


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A World War II aircraft carrier arrives on the River Tyne on this day 70 years ago
The Swan Hunter-built HMS Vindex arriving on the River Tyne and heading for Jarrow on October 4, 1947
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The aircraft carrier HMS Vindex arriving at the River Tyne from Rosyth on her way to her moorings at Jarrow. She was to be re-converted into a fast cargo liner and renamed 'Port Vindex' (Image: NCJ Archive)
Two years after the end of World War II and the number was up for this aircraft carrier.
It was a time when the River Tyne would have seen the daily, non-stop coming and going of ships and boats of all sizes.
This was HMS Vindex arriving on the Tyne from Rosyth on her way to her moorings at Jarrow exactly 70 years ago.
Having served in the war, the vessel was to be converted into a merchant cargo ship and renamed Port Vindex.
Built at Swan Hunter, the Vindex was launched in May 1943, and commissioned in December of that year.
With a crew of 700 men, the vessel weighed 13,500 tons and was 525ft long.
Carrying Swordfish aircraft, the ship saw action on the hazardous Atlantic and Arctic convoy routes, escorting ships and protecting them from attack by German aircraft and U-boats.
The Vindex was successful in sinking four U-boats during active service.
Long after the guns of war fell silent, the converted Port Vindex operated between the UK and Australia as a refrigerated cargo ship.
The end for the former carrier came in 1971 when the vessel was scrapped in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.


The former Kenton County District and Circuit Court Judge and Commonwealth's Attorney passed away at his home in Park Hills on Thursday, current Kenton County Commonwealth's Attorney Rob Sanders announced.
Trusty was elected Commonwealth's Attorney in Kenton County in 1977 and served until 1984. He then went on to serve as a judge in both the circuit and district courts.
Since 2012, Trusty has worked pro bono in the Commonwealth's Attorney office where he prosecuted the preliminary hearing docket.
"Frank was both beloved and notorious in the community," Sanders wrote in a Facebook post. "He was an outstanding litigator as both a prosecutor and defense attorney. As a judge, he was fair, efficient, and straight-forward. No one ever had to guess where he stood or what he meant. He did not mince words. We will miss Frank's wisdom, humor, friendship, and never-ending spirit."


Hydrogen atoms are naturally abundant in people and other biological organisms, particularly in water and fat. For this reason, most MRI scans essentially map the location of water and fat in the body. Pulses of radio waves excite the nuclear spin energy transition, and magnetic field gradients localize the signal in space. By varying the parameters of the pulse sequence, different contrasts may be generated between tissues based on the relaxation properties of the hydrogen atoms therein. Since its development in the 1970s and 1980s, MRI has proven to be a highly versatile imaging technique. While MRI is most prominently used in diagnostic medicine and biomedical research, it also may be used to form images of non-living objects. MRI scans are capable of producing a variety of chemical and physical data, in addition to detailed spatial images. The sustained increase in demand for MRI within health systems has led to concerns about cost effectiveness and overdiagnosis.
Schematic of construction of a cylindrical superconducting MR scanner.
Patient being positioned for MR study of the head and abdomen.
MRI sequence is a particular setting of radiofrequency pulses and gradients, resulting in a particular image appearance. The T1 and T2 weighting can also be described as MRI sequences. Overview table edit This table does not include uncommon and experimental sequences.
Standard foundation and comparison for other sequences.
T2 weighted T2 Measuring spin–spin relaxation by using long TR and TE times.
Higher signal for more water content. Low signal for fat. Low signal for paramagnetic substances.
Gradient echo Steady-state free precession SSFP Maintenance of a steady, residual transverse magnetisation over successive cycles. Creation of cardiac MRI videos (pictured).
Fluid attenuated inversion recovery FLAIR Fluid suppression by setting an inversion time that nulls fluids. High signal in lacunar infarction, multiple sclerosis (MS) plaques, subarachnoid haemorrhage and meningitis (pictured).
Double inversion recovery DIR Simultaneous suppression of cerebrospinal fluid and white matter by two inversion times. High signal of multiple sclerosis plaques (pictured).
Brownian motion of water molecules. High signal within minutes of cerebral infarction (pictured).
Apparent diffusion coefficient ADC Reduced T2 weighting by taking multiple conventional DWI images with different DWI weighting, and the change corresponds to diffusion. Low signal minutes after cerebral infarction (pictured).
Diffusion tensor DTI Mainly tractography (pictured) by an overall greater Brownian motion of water molecules in the directions of nerve fibers.
Gadolinium contrast is injected, and rapid repeated imaging (generally gradient-echo echo-planar T2 weighted) quantifies susceptibility-induced signal loss. In cerebral infarction, the infarcted core and the penumbra have decreased perfusion (pictured).
Dynamic contrast enhanced DCE Measuring shortening of the spin–lattice relaxation (T1) induced by a gadolinium contrast bolus.
Arterial spin labelling ASL Magnetic labeling of arterial blood below the imaging slab, which subsequently enters the region of interest. It does not need gadolinium contrast.
Blood-oxygen-level dependent imaging BOLD Changes in oxygen saturation-dependent magnetism of hemoglobin reflects tissue activity. Localizing highly active brain areas before surgery.
Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and venography Time-of-flight TOF Blood entering the imaged area is not yet magnetically saturated, giving it a much higher signal when using short echo time and flow compensation. Detection of aneurysm, stenosis or dissection.
Phase-contrast MRA PC-MRA Two gradients with equal magnitude but opposite direction are used to encode a phase shift, which is proportional to the velocity of spins. Detection of aneurysm, stenosis or dissection (pictured).
Susceptibility weighted SWI Sensitive for blood and calcium, by a fully flow compensated, long echo, gradient recalled echo (GRE) pulse sequence to exploit magnetic susceptibility differences between tissues. Detecting small amounts of hemorrhage (diffuse axonal injury pictured) or calcium.
Molecular imaging by MRI Main article: Molecular imaging MRI has the advantages of having very high spatial resolution and is very adept at morphological imaging and functional imaging. MRI does have several disadvantages though. First, MRI has a sensitivity of around 10−3 mol/L to 10−5 mol/L, which, compared to other types of imaging, can be very limiting. This problem stems from the fact that the population difference between the nuclear spin states is very small at room temperature. For example, at 1.5 teslas, a typical field strength for clinical MRI, the difference between high and low energy states is approximately 9 molecules per 2 million. Improvements to increase MR sensitivity include increasing magnetic field strength, and hyperpolarization via optical pumping or dynamic nuclear polarization. There are also a variety of signal amplification schemes based on chemical exchange that increase sensitivity. To achieve molecular imaging of disease biomarkers using MRI, targeted MRI contrast agents with high specificity and high relaxivity (sensitivity) are required. To date, many studies have been devoted to developing targeted-MRI contrast agents to achieve molecular imaging by MRI. Commonly, peptides, antibodies, or small ligands, and small protein domains, such as HER-2 affibodies, have been applied to achieve targeting. To enhance the sensitivity of the contrast agents, these targeting moieties are usually linked to high payload MRI contrast agents or MRI contrast agents with high relaxivities. A new class of gene targeting MR contrast agents (CA) has been introduced to show gene action of unique mRNA and gene transcription factor proteins. This new CA can trace cells with unique mRNA, microRNA and virus; tissue response to inflammation in living brains. The MR reports change in gene expression with positive correlation to TaqMan analysis, optical and electron microscopy. Economics In the UK, the price of a clinical 1.5-tesla MRI scanner is around £920,000/US$1.4 million, with the lifetime maintenance cost broadly similar to the purchase cost. In the Netherlands, the average MRI scanner costs around €1 million, with a 7-T MRI having been taken in use by the UMC Utrecht in December 2007, costing €7 million. Construction of MRI suites could cost up to US$500,000/€370.000 or more, depending on project scope. Pre-polarizing MRI (PMRI) systems using resistive electromagnets have shown promise as a low-cost alternative and have specific advantages for joint imaging near metal implants, however they are likely unsuitable for routine whole-body or neuroimaging applications.
A 3 tesla clinical MRI scanner.
Motion artifact (T1 coronal study of cervical vertebrae).
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Resonance in Food Science: From Molecules to Man. Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 9780854043408.
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Resonance Safety, Education, and Research (IMRSER) Royal Institution Lecture – MRI: A Window on the Human Body A SHORT HISTORY OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FROM A EUROPEAN POINT OF VIEW Animal Imaging Database (AIDB) How MRI works explained simply using diagrams Real-time MRI videos: Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH.


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'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' bringing back Carnegie Deli pop-up
By Page Six Team
May 13, 2019 | 9:21am
The Carnegie Deli pop-up in 2018 AFP/Getty Images
"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" is bringing back its Carnegie Deli pop-up this week.
"We're delighted to bring the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Carnegie Deli back to NYC, but this time, on wheels," Amazon Prime Video's marketing head Mike Benson said.
Carnegie Deli pop-up has waitlist of 6,000 people
There are 6,000 people on the waitlist to get into...
The hit show resurrected the iconic eatery in December with a pop-up space downtown. The restaurant officially shuttered in 2016.
Benson added that a Carnegie Deli food truck will travel throughout the city "serving up sandwiches and cookies direct from the classic New York deli" during the upcoming advertising upfronts, where networks tout their shows.
Tool of North America was the agency to create the activation.
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No, Naomi Campbell didn't adopt a baby


Ex-Premier League striker Chris Sutton believes Jose Mourinho is not the right man to take Manchester United forward.
For some realistic football experts, celebrating Manchester United comeback victory over Newcastle at the weekend should not last more than the moment it happened.
Man-U fans should never imagine that their problems are over as those 15 minutes should not cover the cracks in the team and Jose Mourinho's behaviors all season.
And for this, ex-Premier League striker Chris Sutton believes Jose Mourinho is not the right man to take Manchester United forward.
"It's been a disastrous season for United," Sutton told BBC Radio 5 live's Monday Night Club.
Sutton said: "What is Mourinho doing to help the situation? All he does is play the victim. All the nonsense after the game - the Brexit, he gets blamed for everything - I don't get it.
"Every press conference he goes in and is negative, negative, negative - obstinate, awkward. He should have drawn a line under things."
Sutton says they have "been rotten all season" and "got away" with a result on Saturday by scoring three times in the final 20 minutes to beat Newcastle.
"There has to come a time where there is a line drawn in the sand and he has to stand up and say 'enough is enough'," added the former England international, who won the Premier League with Blackburn.
"All this 'I'm being persecuted' all the time - he's not doing himself any favours.
"Mourinho isn't the right man to take United forward and 15 minutes shouldn't paper over the cracks and the way he has behaved this season.


When the institution's building fell, leaders were quick to respond.
President Antonio Pérez was on his way to the office at Borough of Manhattan Community College, when he was stopped by "a great ball of fire" — what he soon realized to be the aftermath of a second plane hitting the World Trade Center. After rushing to campus just a few blocks away from the event and executing with his staff a swift evacuation process, looking from his window, he witnessed the tragedy extend onto his campus. As the towers fell, debris rained onto and pummeled the institution's Fiterman hall.
In that moment, Pérez says he "wasn't sure how it happened," but as a leader, his reaction was natural. He knew that if he let the building out of his control, there would be a possibility it would taken over by federal agencies, and he might not able to reopen it. So, he stayed.
"I believe that a leader at times, when he is put in a situation where he has a responsibility, it's no longer about his own personal safety," said Pérez. "It's about what their responsibilities are and how to carry those out. And my responsibility was to stay with the building."
Pérez and his trusted staff members, among which include vice president of student affairs Dr. Marva Craig and vice president of administration and planning Scott Anderson, worked as pieces of a puzzle to make sure students, faculty, and campus assets would be taken care of.
They detail some of their experiences, as well as measures they took while the events unfolded — all answering the question, "What should leaders do to maintain their business when tragedy strikes?"
Fiterman Hall was pummeled from debris as the towers fell.
"Everything happened very quickly, very cataclysmically," recalls Anderson. As the campus operations manager, he and other leaders had already evacuated students from the main campus and from the building in question. But, "when the second strike hit, there was no doubt about it — we had to clear everyone out of the entire area."
Anderson was one of the few core figures that stayed on site, along with the president, other senior managers, a few engineers and some security guards. He recalls his personnel looking like ghosts, as they were completely covered in concrete dust — but also how forward thinking and trust-worthy they were as the events transpired.
"Without any prompting whatsoever, when the planes hit and the fire started, my engineers shut down all of the vents in the main building. That's an important thing to note; in fact, it's become standard operating procedure when any similar incident happens to prevent fumes from getting into the building," said Anderson.
"That became a very critical element for BMCC's survival and our ability to get up and running three weeks later. Now the other schools ... unfortunately they abandoned their properties and had to be completely decontaminated," he said. "Most of the schools couldn't re-open until February of 2002; we were able to open in three weeks."
Putting trust in his staff, says Anderson, is what helped the institution stay alive and open sooner than any other institution that was impacted. Similarly, President Pérez placed his trust in Anderson. While he was in his office every day calling colleagues and running the business, he entrusted his staff to take care of the on-site issues.
"He entrusted me to manage the staff and protect the facility. He never interfered with judgment calls, with resource allocation. He had tremendous trust in his staff — and that's extremely important," said Anderson. "Many times, people try to micromanage in an emergency. He did not."
"These are the things upper management needs to know. They have to value the people that are on the ground, running their plants. And unfortunately those people are behind the wall. But, they are extremely important when you are trying to get your operation in recovery mode after a disaster."
BMCC President Pérez recalls his experience with 9/11. Source: CUNYBMCC, Youtube.
The morning after the incident, President Pérez was told the college needed to close for a year. In that moment he said he was ready to fight for the institution and for his students to be able to come back to school, because as a role model on campus, he needed to "find a solution to the problem and remedy that would be advantageous to people that we are trying to serve."
"We kept our relationship with the fire fighters and the news people there. I remember approaching someone from CBS and offering them a better vantage point for filming," said Pérez. "He asked me what would it cost? I said no, all you need to do is communicate on behalf of our students that we are reopening. We needed a way of reaching the public."
Pérez says that he was concerned, both as a manager operating the business, and as students' point of information, that there would be an impression the institution wouldn't be reopening. So he crafted tactics to ensure that people were aware they would do everything they could to get things up and running.
At the time BMCC had about 17,000 students; Pérez said his faculty made more than ten thousand phone calls of encouragement to these students and brought in trailers to try to get classes going as soon as possible. After convincing the mayor at the time, Rudy Giuliani, to let the campus reopen, the institution welcomed back all students and only had to extend the semester a little into Christmas holiday.
Campus administrators begin the rebuilding process, with students back in school.
"There isn't much difference between an educational institution and a business, because in essence we all depend upon our customers to operate. So, not reopening would have been devastating," said Pérez. "But I wasn't looking at it from a profit and loss. I was looking at it more from the standpoint of, 'how do we gauge success.'"
"And our success is success for our students. They are our customers; if we had closed the doors, then the consequences are societal. We have individuals that made sacrifices to get an education, and we need to be able to provide that for them [...] I believe that has a greater impact than profit or loss, because you're impacting peoples' lives, whose futures depended upon our building reopening."
And in terms of advice for others in his position, Pérez says that anticipation is the key quality of a good campus and business leader. He began to look at all of the potential scenarios and how he might better prepare, crafting exit strategies for each response. He said the administration is now more cognizant, after 9/11, of how quickly to initiate disaster management. And as a result, they were ready when Sandy hit — for instance, moving major computer systems from basements and bottom floors to higher floor levels so they wouldn't get flooded. This type of anticipation is key in business, he explains, when meeting the needs of customers.
Dr. Marva Craig remembers meeting her colleagues back on campus and immediately coming to a consensus that administrators would continue to operate and work to communicate with students, faculty and staff. She said students were so happy to receive phone calls, and that "the college was thinking about them even though it was closed."
And our success is success for our students. If we close the doors, the consequences are societal.
"When the students came back we did T-shirts, and we did our brochures. We even went to the subways!" Craig said she realized that students weren't very familiar with the complicated downtown public transportation lines, especially as a lot of pathways were closed in the aftermath. "We had people wearing T-shirts and holding signs up on sticks at the different subways, letting people know that 'we are BMCC.' As the students approached, we'd give them brochures tell them where to go," said Craig.
"It was a confusing time, because the directions we usually gave were 'Walk toward the World Trade Center.' And, there was no WTC to walk towards."
New beginnings for Fiterman Hall and the campus.
Overall, she says, the students were happy that administrators were organized in welcoming them coming back and they had a good experience with BMCC and the planning. Beyond offering ample information on where to go and how to get to class, she said campus managers made sure that we there was counseling for students, talks on understanding and valuing diversity, sessions on healing and grieving. They also made sure that as they had memorials for victims, as well as the eight students who perished in the attacks, that all religions were represented, so that students could sense that the college really cared about them.
"We were certainly very sensitive to students who were of the Muslim faith, because at the time, many people thought it was about the religion and not about the people who did the attacks," said Craig. "Our international students and undocumented students were also going through a hard time; one of the things we know is that they felt very comfortable here, and the college became somewhat of a safe space for them."
At the same time, Craig says the institution wanted to make sure it was giving students options. So if they didn't want to come back to the college, they could change their registration and get a full refund. Some people went back to their countries and wanted to get far away from the college, so they extended the cancelation policy for a long time. They allowed students figure out how they wanted to transition or return to campus.
But in reality, says Anderson, not that many students were steered away from the institution. In fact, they were so satisfied with the administrations' efforts at reaching out and reopening, that enrollment increased.
"The following semester in January of 2002, our enrollment went up to around 17,100 students. Before it was around 16,600. In fact, it was the first time our spring enrollment was higher than our fall," says Anderson. "I think it was a powerful message BMCC was sending out: "We're here and we're not going anywhere."
Craig said this came from students believing we "rebuilt an institution for me that wasn't here before, because you care about my learning and me wanting to be here."


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Is your intestinal bacteria normal ? –
(or been wiped out by medications & unhealthy eating) ?
Great short video on insights to Probiotics. Choosing doesn't have to be confusing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ae2jZrCYM
An Introduction to Probiotics –
National Center for Complimentary &
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/probiotics/
Probiotics are live microorganisms (in most cases, bacteria) that are similar to beneficial microorganisms found in the human gut. They are also called "friendly bacteria" or "good bacteria." Probiotics are available to consumers mainly in the form of dietary supplements and foods. They can be used as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
• People use probiotic products as CAM to prevent and treat certain illnesses and support general wellness.
• There is limited evidence supporting some uses of probiotics. Much more scientific knowledge is needed about probiotics, including about their safety and appropriate use.
• Effects found from one species or strain of probiotics do not necessarily hold true
for others, or even for different preparations of the same species or strain.
What Probiotics Are
Experts have debated how to define probiotics. One widely used definition, developed by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
is that probiotics are "live microorganisms, which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host." (Microorganisms are tiny living organisms—
such as bacteria, viruses, and yeasts—that can be seen only under a microscope.)
Probiotics are not the same thing as prebiotics —nondigestible food ingredients that selectively stimulate the growth and/or activity of beneficial microorganisms already
in people's colons. When probiotics and prebiotics are mixed together, they form a synbiotic.
Probiotics are available in foods and dietary supplements (for example, capsules, tablets, and powders) and in some other forms as well. Examples of foods containing probiotics are yogurt, fermented and unfermented milk, miso, tempeh, and some juices and soy beverages. In probiotic foods and supplements, the bacteria may have been present originally or added during preparation.
Most probiotics are bacteria similar to those naturally found in people's guts, especially in those of breastfed infants (who have natural protection against many diseases).
Most often, the bacteria come from two groups, Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium. Within each group, there are different species (for example, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidus), and within each species, different strains (or varieties). A few common probiotics, such as Saccharomyces boulardii, are yeasts, which are different from bacteria.
Some probiotic foods date back to ancient times, such as fermented foods and cultured milk products. Interest in probiotics in general has been growing; Americans' spending on probiotic supplements, for example, nearly tripled from 1994 to 2003.
(Dairy) Sources of probiotics include:
Vegan sources of probiotics include:
Miso, tempeh
Non-dairy yogurt, made with legumes and nuts
Fermented vegetables, such as pickled relish, horseradish and tomato salsas,
or kimchi (made from fermented cabbage) and sauerkraut
Kombucha (fermented tea) or water kefir (similar to Kombucha and ginger beer)
Raw coconut yogurt
Coconut kefir (probiotic beverage prepared from young coconut water and a starter culture)
Uses for Health Purposes
There are several reasons that people are interested in probiotics for health purposes.
First, the world is full of microorganisms (including bacteria), and so are people's bodies— in and on the skin, in the gut, and in other orifices. Friendly bacteria are vital to proper development of the immune system, to protection against microorganisms that could cause disease, and to the digestion and absorption of food and nutrients. Each person's mix of bacteria varies. Interactions between a person and the microorganisms in his body, and among the microorganisms themselves, can be crucial to the person's health and well-being.
This bacterial "balancing act" can be thrown off in two major ways:
1. By antibiotics, when they kill friendly bacteria in the gut along with unfriendly bacteria. Some people use probiotics to try to offset side effects from antibiotics like gas, cramping, or diarrhea. Similarly, some use them to ease symptoms of lactose intolerance— a condition in which the gut lacks the enzyme needed to digest significant amounts of the major sugar in milk, and which also causes gastrointestinal symptoms.
2. "Unfriendly" microorganisms such as disease-causing bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and parasites can also upset the balance. Researchers are exploring whether probiotics could halt these unfriendly agents in the first place and/or suppress their growth and activity in conditions like:
• Infectious diarrhea
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease)
• Infection with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a bacterium that causes most ulcers and many types of chronic stomach inflammation
• Tooth decay and periodontal disease
• Vaginal infections
• Stomach and respiratory infections that children acquire in daycare
• Skin infections
Another part of the interest in probiotics stems from the fact there are cells in the digestive tract connected with the immune system. One theory is that if you alter the microorganisms in a person's intestinal tract (as by introducing probiotic bacteria), you can affect the immune system's defenses.
What the Science Says
Scientific understanding of probiotics and their potential for preventing and treating health conditions is at an early stage, but moving ahead. In November 2005, a conference that was cofunded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and convened by the American Society for Microbiology explored this topic.
According to the conference report, some uses of probiotics for which there is some encouraging evidence from the study of specific probiotic formulations are as follows:
• To treat diarrhea (this is the strongest area of evidence, especially for diarrhea from
rotavirus)
• To prevent and treat infections of the urinary tract or female genital tract
• To treat irritable bowel syndrome
• To reduce recurrence of bladder cancer
• To shorten how long an intestinal infection lasts that is caused by a bacterium called
• To prevent and treat pouchitis (a condition that can follow surgery to remove the colon)
• To prevent and manage atopic dermatitis (eczema) in children
The conference panel also noted that in studies of probiotics as cures, any beneficial effect
was usually low; a strong placebo effect often occurs; and more research (especially in the form of large, carefully designed clinical trials) is needed in order to draw firmer conclusions.
Some other areas of interest to researchers on probiotics are:
• What is going on at the molecular level with the bacteria themselves and how they may interact with the body (such as the gut and its bacteria) to prevent and treat diseases. Advances in technology and medicine are making it possible to study these areas much better than in the past.
• Issues of quality. For example, what happens when probiotic bacteria are treated or are added to foods—is their ability to survive, grow, and have a therapeutic effect altered?
• The best ways to administer probiotics for therapeutic purposes, as well as the best doses and schedules.
• Probiotics' potential to help with the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the gut.
• Whether they can prevent unfriendly bacteria from getting through the skin or mucous membranes and traveling through the body (e.g., which can happen with burns, shock, trauma, or suppressed immunity).
Some live microorganisms have a long history of use as probiotics without causing illness in people. Probiotics' safety has not been thoroughly studied scientifically, however. More information is especially needed on how safe they are for young children, elderly people, and people with compromised immune systems.
Probiotics' side effects, if they occur, tend to be mild and digestive (such as gas or bloating). More serious effects have been seen in some people. Probiotics might theoretically cause infections that need to be treated with antibiotics, especially in people with underlying health conditions. They could also cause unhealthy metabolic activities, too much stimulation of the immune system, or gene transfer (insertion of genetic material into a cell).
Probiotic products taken by mouth as a dietary supplement are manufactured and regulated as foods, not drugs.
Some Other Points To Consider
• If you are thinking about using a probiotic product as CAM, consult your health care provider first. No CAM therapy should be used in place of conventional medical care or to delay seeking that care.
• Effects from one species or strain of probiotics do not necessarily hold true for others, or even for different preparations of the same species or strain.
• If you use a probiotic product and experience an effect that concerns you, contact your health care provider.
• You can locate research reports in peer-reviewed journals on probiotics' effectiveness and safety through the resources PubMed and CAM on PubMed®.
NCCAM-Sponsored Research on Probiotics
Among recent NCCAM-sponsored research are the following projects:
• Investigators at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine are studying the effectiveness of selected probiotic agents to treat diarrhea in undernourished children in a developing country.
• At the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, researchers have been examining probiotics for possibly decreasing the levels of certain substances in the urine that can cause problems such as kidney stones.
• A team at Tufts-New England Medical Center is studying probiotics for treating an antibiotic-resistant type of bacteria that causes severe infections in people who are hospitalized, live in nursing homes, or have weakened immune systems.
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Q: Find the name of the employees, whose names are same but salary are different I have an 'employee' table with
create table employee
(
  e_number int,
  e_name varchar(20),
  salary money,
  hire_date date
)

Now I want to display only the name of the employees who have the same name but different salary.
I tried select e_name,count(*) from employee  group by e_name having count(*)>1;
but cannot combine it with "the same salary" section. Any help?

A: This assumes that you want the names of both of the people listed:
SELECT e1.e_name
FROM employee e1, employee e2
WHERE e1.e_name = e2.e_name
AND e1.salary <> e2.salary;

If you only want each name listed once, you would use a SELECT DISTINCT instead of the SELECT.

A: If your goal is to express this in the having clause:
Select name
 from employee
 group by name
 having
   count(*) > 1
   and min(salary) != max(salary)
 order by name

A: SELECT employee1.e_name, employee1.Salary, Employee2.Salary
FROM Employee employee1
JOIN Employee employee2
  on employee1.name = employee2.name
 AND Employee1.Salary <> Employee2.Salary
 AND Employee1.E_Number <> employee2.E_Number

Basically get every employee, join it to every other employee via name, where the employee number is different (so don't join to yourself) and salary is different.
You probably don't need to check that employee number is different because 1 employee can only have 1 salary in your table design

A: Use a join, but importantly use a greater-than comparison, rather than a not-equals, to avoid duplicates:
SELECT e1.e_name as name1, e2.e_name as name2
FROM employee e1
JOIN employee e2 ON e1.e_name = e2.e_name
    AND e1.salary > e2.salary;

Note also that the ON condition contains the salary comparison. It is a common misconception that the join on condition may only contain key-related comparisons. Doing this can have significant performance benefits, especially when further joins are made, because the ON condition is executed as the rows are joined - which discards non-matches immediately, whereas WHERE conditions are executed as a filter on the entire result set of the joins.

A: You just want the count of distinct salaries, not the count of all records.
select e_name,count(distinct salary)
from employee
group by e_name
having count(distinct salary)>1

(Drop the count in the select if unneeded - included since it was in your example)

A: First filter salary not double (not in), then grouping by e_name having count > 1
SELECT A.e_name
FROM employee A
WHERE A.salary NOT IN (SELECT salary FROM employee  WHERE id != A.id)
GROUP BY A.e_name
HAVING COUNT(A.e_name) > 1


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Ohio Bishop Warns Against Fr. James Martin Talk
by Christine Niles • ChurchMilitant.com • March 11, 2018
Abp Schnurr: 'The event is in no way sponsored by, sanctioned by or associated with the Catholic Church'
CINCINNATI, Ohio (ChurchMilitant.com) - An Ohio prelate is warning the faithful about a talk offered by pro-gay priest Fr. James Martin, SJ.
On Friday, Abp. Dennis Schnurr of Cincinatti published a statement making clear Martin's talk, scheduled for March 24 at the University of Cincinnati, "is in no way sponsored by, sanctioned by, or associated with the Catholic Church." Other speakers include censured religious Sr. Jeannine Gramick and self-professed lesbian Jamie Manson.
Abp. Dennis Schnurr
The archbishop's statement came after a number of Catholics flooded his office with calls and emails last week urging him to issue a public warning against the Jesuit priest, who is best known for his attempts to normalize homosexuality and transgenderism.
Schnurr's statement reads:
Dear Fathers and Deacons,
You may hear from some parishioners about an upcoming event at the University of Cincinnati subtitled, "A Dialogue on Faith, Catholicism, and the LGBTQ Community." To be very clear, despite its billing, the event is in no way sponsored by, sanctioned by, or associated with the Catholic Church. In fact, one of the scheduled speakers has been ordered to not speak on behalf of the Catholic Church in the United States due to the grave error of her teaching. The Code of Canon Law (Can. 216) states in part that "no undertaking shall assume the name Catholic unless the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority is given." My permission was not sought in this case, nor would it have been given.
The speaker to whom the letter refers as being "ordered to not speak on behalf of the Catholic Church" is Gramick, founder of New Ways Ministry, condemned by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as well as by the U.S. bishops' conference for rejecting Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Father Martin once said if he had a choice, he would "canonize" Gramick.
"I'm going to canonize Sr. Jeannine Gramick, who was the co-founder of New Ways Ministry," said Martin during a June 16 podcast, as reported by Deacon Jim Russell. "You know in the '80s, they were really under a microscope, and then in the '90s, Cdl. George in Chicago said they couldn't call themselves Catholic; it was really severe, and, you know, she persisted."
"Here's this woman who has really struggled, and has really fought, and has really advocated, at great cost, you know, within her own Church," Martin continued. "I'd put her up for canonization, and at least, servant of God, or beatification."
Read our Fr. James Martin FAQ
Gramick was formally censured by the Vatican in 1999 and ordered to stop ministering to homosexuals because she was promoting views contrary to Church teaching. She defied the order and continues her dissent to this day with her group New Ways Ministry, which has a long history of defiance toward the Church:
Cdl. James Hickey of Washington, D.C. kicked out the organization from his archdiocese in 1984 for refusing to comply with Church teaching
The Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life ordered founders Sr. Jeanine Gramick and Fr. Robert Nugent to "separate themselves totally and completely from New Ways Ministry," forbidding them from exercising "any apostolate without faithfully presenting the Church's teaching regarding the intrinsic evil of homosexual acts" — an order Gramick and Nugent defied
In 1988, the Holy See established a commission under Detroit's Cdl. Adam Maida to investigate New Ways Ministry, which recommended disciplinary measures for Gramick and Nugent for their defiance of Church teaching
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith took over the investigation in 1995, issuing a declaration that the teachings presented by New Ways Ministry were "erroneous and dangerous"
The CDF issued a formal declaration in 1999, approved by Pope St. John Paul II, that the founders' positions on homosexuality "are doctrinally unacceptable because they do not faithfully convey the clear and constant teaching of the Catholic Church in this area"
The CDF concluded: "For these reasons, Sister Jeannine Gramick, SSND, and Father Robert Nugent, SDS, are permanently prohibited from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons and are ineligible, for an undetermined period, for any office in their respective religious institutes"
This censure has never been lifted.
Jamie Manson refers to herself as a lesbian, and is a member of the national board of the Women's Ordination Conference. She once wrote:
As a woman and lesbian, I have no voice in this institution, and I am denied the ability to make a substantive contribution to it. Rather than speaking about leaving the church, I believe is time to call the institutional church to accountability for how many people it has left behind.
Father James Martin supports gay marriage, in contradiction to Church teaching, and has insinuated that the Church would one day "change" Her teaching on this. He has also complained that the language in the Catechism on homosexuality is "hurtful" and should be changed.
Paragraph 2357 of the Catholic Catechism states:
Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
In February 2017, Michael Voris aired a Vortex asking Martin a straightforward question: "Are you homosexual? Yes or no?" The priest has never answered.
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Rachel to star in Season 2 of 'Imposters'
'Imposters': Rachel Skarsten Set To Recur In Season 2 Of Bravo Series
Former Reign star Rachel Skarsten is set for a major recurring role in the second season of Bravo's Imposters, from Universal Cable Productions.
Imposters follows a persona-shifting con artist, as beautiful as she is dangerous, and her three most recent victims. Robbed of both their money and their hearts, the trio teams up to chase the woman who has left them questioning everything they believed to be true. Along the way, they learn the art of the con themselves, becoming embroiled in a thrilling game of cat and mouse that includes the beautiful grifter, her mysterious boss and his deliciously psychotic henchman… as well as the FBI. Inbar Lavi, Rob Heaps, Parker Young, Marianne Rendón, Brian Benben and Stephen Bishop star. Uma Thurman also is set to return for Season 2 in a guest role as Lenny.
Skarsten will play Poppy Langmore sister to Jules (Rendón) but completely different in almost every way. She is a private school educated elitist.
Skarsten recently wrapped playing Queen Elizabeth I in the CW series Reign and will next be seen in Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game. She's repped by Primary Wave Entertainment and Creative Drive Artists
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