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Commonly called hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis includes a variety of conditions that cause artery walls to thicken and lose elasticity. The arteries carry blood from the heart to all parts of the body.
Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is a measure of the force used to circulate blood through the body. When the blood pressure is high, the heart has to work harder. The increased pressure can damage vessels to vital organs such as the heart, the brain, and the kidneys. Systolic blood pressure is a measure of the force when the heart contracts; diastolic blood pressure is a measure of the force used to move blood when the heart is at rest between beats. Blood pressure is reported as the "systolic pressure over the diastolic pressure."
High Blood PressureCholesterol
High blood pressure is a longterm increase in blood pressure above its normal range, currently defined by the National High Blood Pressure Education Program as systolic blood pressure at or above 140 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury) or diastolic blood pressure at or above 90 mm Hg. It is also known as hypertension.
High Blood CholesterolHealth Indicators
High blood cholesterol is currently defined as a total blood cholesterol over 240 mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter of blood) in adults and over 200 mg/dL in children. The borderline values are 200 to 240 mg/dL for adults and 170 to 200 mg/dL for children.
Health Outcomes
Health outcomes are used to examine the rate of death or illness (e.g., the number of lung cancer deaths per 100,000 people).
Mortality is a measure of deaths occurring in a given population, location, or other group of interest during an interval of time, usually a year.
Risk Factors
These factors are behavioral, genetic, socioeconomic, and environmental factors, that when present, increase the likelihood a person will experience disease or injury (e.g., the percentage of adults who smoke).
Years of Potential Life Lost
The number of years between the age at death and 65 years of age for individuals dying before age 65; that is, the total number of years which are "lost" by persons in the population who die prematurely of a stated cause. Age 65 is generally used as a "full, productive life span" because many people retire by this age.
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Gelatin or Jelly is a dessert item. Gelatin can come in different taste choices, or flavors, depending on what fruit or artificial flavor. Jelly is a cold and solid food that is normally made from hot water and powder.
Jelly can be added to foods like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Depending on where you live, gelatin may be called different things. In the United States and Canada, jelly is often called 'Jell-O'. Jell-O is a brand of gelatin that has become a generic, or typical, name for a lot of gelatin. Like the United States, in Canada Jell-O is a normal name for gelatin. In Commonwealth Nations like the United Kingdom and New Zealand, almost all gelatin is called jelly. Also, it is spelled gelatine.
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Sometimes, alcohol is added to jelly. You can make jello shots with almost any type of alcohol. Jello shots can be served in small glasses and can be any color depending on the other ingredients put into the Jell-O shot. The jello shot is also known as the poison rainbow.

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The upcoming e-books trial is starting to sound like the "trash talk" before a professional wrestling match. The Justice Department recently released email correspondence between Steve Jobs and James Murdoch. Although it does not definitively show coercion, the emails defame Steve Jobs. Apple recently released pre-trial documents, responding to the Justice Department's statements and release of these emails.
Apple's lawyers contend that the Justice Department edited the emails to fit their case. The e-books industry was already shifting to an agency pricing model before Apple was involved. Their lawyers contend that Jobs simply "…proposed an alternative business model to HarperCollins" and that "…Apple has no power to predict or influence other retailers."
The emails between Jobs and Murdoch are damning only to those uninitiated to the realities of corporate America. Steve Jobs does what any CEO would do — try to make his corporation more profitable. Indeed, the emails depict the former Apple CEO presenting Murdoch with strategic options. There is a viscera of heavy-handedness, but no overt coercion. This is business as usual in corporate America. Amazon was selling books below cost to keep other players out of the market and sell Kindles. They too were taking the rational course of action.
The crux of the email issue is whether it is illegal for one company to persuade another to pursue a given strategy. Within the emails, the Justice Department has no smoking gun that demonstrates coercion. The Justice Department has the burden of proof. They must demonstrate that Apple orchestrated price-fixing. Jobs' emails constantly use indeterminate pricing as an example — $12.99 or $14.99 as a maximum price.
The focal point of this trial may revolve around Random House. The Justice Department has evidence that Apple threatened to block the Random House app from the App Store unless they agreed to this pricing model. Eddie Cue, the Apple senior VP in charge of e-books, mentioned in an email to Jobs that Random House agreed to Apple's e-book strategy due to "…the fact that I prevented an app from Random House from going live in the app store". This puts the spotlight on Cue and demonstrates that Jobs did not initiate withholding app approval. Indeed, Eddie Cue may be implicated in this matter. It is unclear whether this was illegal or just hardball business tactics. Apple can reject apps for just about any reason, just like any retailer can reject merchandise. It is their marketplace. (continue…)


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Goodpatch Inc. is pleased to announce that the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. ("TSE") has approved the listing of its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Market of the high-growth and emerging stocks ("Mothers").
The company's shares are scheduled to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, June 30, 2020, and after that date, the company's shares will be available for trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
With this listing, we will continue to take on the challenge of advancing our business through the power of design and strive to achieve our mission "Prove the power of design".
For more information, please refer to the "New Listings" on Japan Exchange Group's website.
Japan Exchange Group "New Listings":https://www.jpx.co.jp/english/listing/stocks/new/index.html
This document has not been prepared for the purpose of soliciting investment or any other similar act. Investors are requested to make their own judgments after having read the "Prospectus for the Issuance of New Shares and Secondary Offering of Shares" (and any amendments thereto) prepared by the Company.The "Prospectus for the Issuance of New Shares and Secondary Offering of Shares" (and any amendments thereto) may be obtained from the underwriter.
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Export Compliance
Exported goods of U.S. origin may be stringently regulated and tightly controlled. Depending on the nature of the goods or the country of ultimate destination, a specific product may be regulated by multiple U.S. Government agencies.
Some of the U.S. Government departments and agencies with export control responsibilities:
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS):
The Bureau of Industry and Security promotes the Nation's economic development and technological advancement by ensuring an effective export control and treaty compliance system.
Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC):
Licenses defense services and defense (munitions) articles.
Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC):
OFAC administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States. The OFAC website provides information on these sanctions, the complete list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the "SDN List"), and other sanctions lists administered by OFAC.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of International Programs:
Licenses nuclear material and equipment.
Department of Energy, Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control:
Licenses nuclear technology and technical data for nuclear power and special nuclear material
Department of Energy, Office of Fuels Programs:
Licenses natural gas.
Defense Technology Security Administration:
The Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA) administers the development and implementation of Department of Defense (DoD) technology security policies on international transfers of defense-related goods, services and technologies.
Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:
Import and Export of wildlife and endangered and threatened species.
Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Diversion Control:
Oversees the export of controlled substances and the import and export of listed chemicals used in the production of control substances under the Controlled Substances Act.
Exporting Medical Devices
Export Certificates
Oversees patent filing data sent abroad.
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery:
Hazardous waste transportation


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I believe that students learn best when they are actively engaged and constructing their own learning. I see myself more as a learning guide than an "imparter of knowledge." I also believe that technology can greatly aid students in grasping concepts that can't be seen, such as protein synthesis or cellular respiration. To that end, I use many virtual experiences with my students, as well as utilizing an "in-class" flipped classroom, making my own videos as well as using those of other teachers. Demonstrations, hands-on activities, foldables ... all are useful and fun and help keep students engaged!
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Conflict drives a story. It's what makes the excitement. It provides the obstacles for character motivation. It's what makes a reader care. Without conflict, a book has nothing but dull words on a page. Who would want to read a story where everything was happy and good? Where everything went the main character's way? It might be nice to live, but not so entertaining to read about.
Ever read a story that should have been great, but it felt kind of flat? Possibly some of the types of conflict are missing.
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Chapter II. That it knows Nothing of a Change of Heart.
Our notions as to the necessity of "a change of heart" if men would be rightly religious, inevitably take color from our previous estimate of what "Nature" can and does accomplish for us.
Understood in one sense, "natural" is an epithet of praise; understood in another sense, it carries a suggestion of disparagement. As contrasted either with what is unnatural or with what is artificial, "the natural" seems praiseworthy; but as contrasted with what is "spiritual," we do not hesitate to call "the natural" inferior. For instance, we praise a person's manners because they are natural, not affected; we praise his literary style because it is natural, not stilted or overstrained; we say of a story that it is a good one because naturally told; and we commend an artist because his statue, or his picture, is true to nature. But then, on the other hand, when we see one of two men who have been put under equal provocation lose his temper, while the other keeps his, though we may charitably seek to excuse the first by saying of his lapse that it was at least natural; "natural" would be the very last epithet we should dream of applying to the other, for we should feel in our hearts that in his case there had been a manifestation of something better [17/18] and stronger than Nature. The man's act of self-control has brought us into the region of the spiritual, and what we are witnessing is a conquest over Nature. So then, while we see that there is plainly something beneath the natural, namely, the unnatural, there is also something above the natural, namely, the spiritual.
The teaching of the Bible is that we are born, here on earth, into the natural, and that, being here, we are given the opportunity of being born anew up wards or "from above" into the spiritual. Broadly speaking, two sorts of life are open to a man: the life in which there is a recognition of a duty towards God, together with an honest purpose to fulfil the same; and, again, the life from which it is attempted to leave out the thought of a God and of an hereafter altogether. We all know people of whom we should say that if there were no life beyond this one, and in this life no occasion for putting up with unpleasant realities and bearing unwelcome burdens, they would seem to be the very men and women for whom the universe had been especially established. They fit into Nature so admirably; their sensibilities are so excellently attuned to all the sights and sounds of earth; they are such adepts at using their faculties, so adroit, so ready, so quick to see what tact demands, so able to do it gracefully when seen, that although we may know them to be utterly selfish at heart, wholly incapable of costly sacrifice or high endeavor or generous devotion, it is impossible not to admire them and difficult not to envy them. These are the children of this world, we say; and if this world were all, what better could we wish than to be of their company while life lasts? But turn from such a picture as that, and look for a few moments at the [18/19] face of an aged woman who, in the school of Christ, has been learning these many years such lessons as He has to teach. Perhaps she is some kinswoman of yours and you know her well. Her beauty is gone, as David has it, because of trouble; her face is seamed and furrowed with the lines of care; sorrow has set its ineffaceable seal upon the brow, and the eye has lost the flash and gleam that once belonged to it; but in the placid smile you see a beauty wholly different in kind from anything that greets you elsewhere; her quiet cheerfulness seems to bear you up upon its wings, and from her very presence there breathes out the blessing of eternal peace. She has forgotten self, she is living for you and me. Is it to be supposed that the natural ever develops itself unaided into this? Never. This is the victory of the spiritual. This was not born of Nature, but has been added to it. For "that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy." Cultivate nature, say some, and then at your leisure you can refine it into spirit. But that is not what the Bible says. The doctrine of the Bible is that by the grace--that is to say, by the communicated help--of Him who made us, we pass from the lower range to the higher, from the rank of first among the animals to that other rank which springs from membership in the family of God, servants no longer, but children, and children who are at home in their Father's house.
To illustrate this change, the Bible writers use various figures of speech, parables of one sort and another, but the one that made the deepest impression on the mind of the early church was our Lord's similitude of [19/20] the new birth. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee," ran his words to Nicodemus, "except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." A new life, that is to say, befits the child who is to be heir of heaven. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. You cannot transmute the one into the other, but the other must be added to the one. It is not that nature is discarded as a thing that ought not to have been; rather it is that nature is made the basis, the ground-work, the foundation upon which the spiritual structure shall be built.
The butterfly flitting about in the sunshine is a far lovelier object than the worm crawling in the dust; but the regeneration, the new birth of the chrysalis never could have taken place had there been no worm; for it is just as essential, apparently, to man's perfection that he should have a nature as it is that his nature should be glorified by the touch and presence of the Spirit. I might multiply illustrations and dwell on them, but to do so would keep me from my main points, which are, first, to show that the Episcopal Church does really lay great stress upon the change of heart which is necessary before men can be pleasing to God; and secondly, to explain how it has come about that among Christian people in America the opposite is so generally believed.
For the thorough establishment of the first point--namely, the fact that the Episcopal Church does hold to the importance of a very real change--one single quotation from the Prayer-Book will suffice. In the opening exhortation of the service appointed for the Baptism of those of riper years, we read: "Dearly Beloved, forasmuch as all men are conceived and born [20/21] in sin (and that which is born of the flesh is flesh), and they who are in the flesh cannot please God, but live in sin, committing many actual transgressions; and our Saviour Christ saith none can enter into the Kingdom of God except he be regenerate and born anew of water and of the Holy Ghost: I beseech you to call upon God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ, that of his bounteous goodness He will grant to this person that which by nature be cannot have."
Nothing could well be plainer than this; here is abundant evidence that the Episcopal Church does teach with great emphasis the necessity of a change of some sort before man can be considered as having been, so to say, set right with his Maker.
The way, therefore, is clear for passing on to inquire why it is that this Church should have been so very widely misunderstood and misrepresented in the matter.
I believe the main reasons to be these:
First. The fact that the Church does not require, and never has required, of candidates for admission to its membership, that they fix the date of their "change of heart," by assigning it to a definite day, or week, or month, or year.
Secondly. The fact that no statement of his personal experience is demanded of the candidate either publicly or semi-publicly, the whole matter being left in the hands of the pastor as the people's spiritual guide, and the decision allowed to hinge largely upon the good faith and conscience of the individual himself.
Thirdly. The fact that in the ritual of the Church, "regeneration" seems to be bound up so intricately [21/22] with the sacrament of Baptism that the two would appear to be considered as substantially one and the same thing.
Fourthly. The fact that the communicants of the Church show no signs of being different in aims and modes of life after their Baptism, or their Confirmation, from what they were before.
Such I believe to be the popular reasons, certainly the most widely diffused popular reasons, for believing that the Episcopal Church does not maintain or teach the necessity of a change of heart. The consideration of the last of the four must be postponed until the general topic of "worldliness" shall have come up for consideration, but the other three may be taken in band at once.
And, first, as to the matter of assigning a date to the period of one's having become a Christian. The secret of the Church's reluctance so to fix a time lies partly in her reverence for that mystery with which it has pleased God to shroud the beginnings of all life; partly in her fear lest she tempt people into being hypocritical; and partly in the immense value which she attaches to Christian nurture.
"The wind," says our Lord, "bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit." But if we cannot tell whence it came, how can we possibly tell when it began? Or, to put a question still more to the point: If we feel it blowing, why do we need to know when it began? There is more in human nature than is included within the horizon of consciousness.
But waiving this point, look at the question of [22/23] Christian nurture. This is something in which the Episcopal Church believes with its whole heart. Whether rightly or wrongly, this Church insists that the true way to bring up children is to treat them as Christian children from the outset, and to try to make them realize from the earliest dawn of their intelligent life that the obligations of a Christian are resting on them. Of course, I do not mean by this that we would seek to make of them precocious religionists, premature saints. Much the contrary. Childhood has its own type of religion, just as youth, manhood, and old age have theirs. Childhood, if it is to be rightly religions, must be religious after its own sort; but the religion of the child, if genuine, will be just as beautiful, just as symmetrical, as the religion of the tempted and victorious saint. The little crocus of the early spring is as perfect in its measure as the stately lily. The Episcopal Church believes in this; it believes in the slow and gradual superadding of the spiritual to the natural, until we have as the result a mature Christian character, the stability of which can be depended upon in all weathers. Of course, it is little that the Church can do through its ministry and its public services to bring all this to pass, unless it have the hearty and patient cooperation of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sponsors and Sunday-school teachers. Hence results fall far, far short of what the theory might lead us to expect. But the results, meagre as they are as compared with what they might be, are enough to encourage all who give attention to them. Whatever is bright, whatever is cheerful, happy, or wholesome, children can easily be taught to love, and these are the things which this Church seeks to make [23/24] foremost in the religion of the children intrusted to her care.
As the graver and sadder aspects of life dawn on them, the children thus trained will have something to fall back upon, something to encourage them, something to save them from gloom, despondency, and shipwreck. Entertaining, as she does, these convictions about the spiritual growth of children from infancy to maturity, the Church naturally shrinks from any too great particularity as to the time when the change passed upon any given heart that made it a heart subject to God's grace. The important point is, Is it such a heart? If it be, the question when it became such is of far lesser moment. "Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual"--yes, afterward, but how long afterward? Who shall presume to say?
I think I am speaking the mind of most pastors of souls, whether they be in the orders of the Episcopal Church or not, when I affirm that those Christian characters are, as a rule, more to be depended upon for wear, which have been the fruit of gradual growth, than those are which have sprung from sudden conversion. Of course, there have been and are striking exceptions, but the rule holds.
I spoke of the fact that this Church leaves the responsibility of admitting persons to its membership wholly to the good faith and conscience of the minister and the candidate himself, as furnishing another explanation of the popular error we have under review. Let us look at this. It is perfectly true that the Episcopal Church does not summon a man before [24/25] a committee of his neighbors in order to ascertain whether he be spiritually minded or no. But do we find that the Lord Jesus Christ ever required this of people, or anything like this, as a condition precedent of discipleship? Do we find that any one of the Apostles, in his administration of the affairs of the Church, ever did so? If we do, then certainly the practice ought to be kept up; but if we do not, then let us lay no heavier burdens on men's shoulders than Christ laid on them.
There were certain things which our Saviour and the disciples did require. What were they? Open acknowledgment of belief in Christ was one. "Whosoever shall confess me before men," said Jesus, "him will I also confess." The Episcopal Church requires this of all who seek her membership. Nothing could well be more open and public than her appointed modes of confessing Christ. If any one either makes or ratifies the solemn promises of Baptism insincerely, if he takes words upon his lips which in his heart he does not mean, the guilt is upon his own conscience, he sins against the light, he must bear the burden and reap the punishment known as the portion of the hypocrites. But if, on the other hand, a person does honestly say that he is desirous of making and keeping the vows of the Christian life; if he says this, moreover, after patient and careful instruction has been given him (and perhaps some of those who allow themselves to speak slightingly of Confirmation as an "empty form" are not aware of what pains-taking preparation is commonly made for it weeks in advance)--if, I say, we have before us a person who is willing, knowingly and deliberately, to answer for himself the [25/26] solemn questions: Dost thou repent? Dost thou believe? Wilt thou obey?--ought we not to consider the fact as evidence, in itself, that in this case "spirit" has begun to act on "nature" and the face been set right toward God?
St. Paul declares that no man can say (say honestly and understandingly, of course, he means) that Jesus is the Lord "but by the Holy Ghost." Well then, here in the case supposed is one who does say that ".Jesus is the Lord," who says it with every appearance of honestly meaning it, and who affirms, moreover, that it is in his heart to serve and follow this Lord, this Saviour, this Master, while life lasts. Is the Episcopal Church at fault that she says to this person, if he have never been sacramentally adopted into the congregation of Christ's flock: "Arise and be baptized, and wash away thy sins;" or if she pray for him in Confirmation: "Defend, O Lord, this thy child with thy heavenly grace; that he may continue thine for ever, and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit more and more, until he come unto thine everlasting kingdom"?
And this leads me naturally to speak of the intimate connection recognized in the Episcopal Church between Baptism and regeneration.
The two are associated together, not because it is believed that the sprinkling of a little water and the pronouncing of a few words are efficacious to bring about a "moral change" in the heart of the infant brought to the font. The whole House of Bishops has, by formal vote, repudiated that notion. [See "Journal of the House of Bishops," in the Report of the General Convention for 1871.] But just as the ceremony of marriage defines a point of time at [26/27] which there is public recognition taken of that mutual love of two persons which makes the real sacredness of marriage, so is the administration of Baptism the public recognition, in the case of any given candidate, be he child or man, that here is one who is entering on the new life. "What!" some one exclaims; "that little, unconscious infant entering on the new life?" "Yes," we answer, without fear; "even so. We mean to take it for granted, in bringing this child up, that he is the child of God, and not the child of hell. The Church is willing to incur the risk, and, if you please, to bear the blame. The child may turn out badly, but he shall not have it in his power to say bitterly in the hour of his ruin that it has come upon him because he was given a bad name at the start."
Yes, the Episcopal Church believes in a change of heart; I should be still nearer right if I said she believes in many changes of heart, repeated changes of heart, whenever there is call for them. Alas for any system of religion which supposes that a single change of heart will, in every case, suffice! Besides the one great change of attitude which is implied in turning to God, how often is there need that we turn again from following our own desires and seeking our own pleasures to find anew the way of life!
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5 Things You'll Never See at Mall Food Courts Again
After spending a few hours walking from store to store, there is nothing quite like finding your way to the mall food court. The mouth-watering scent of Auntie Anne's pretzels is wafting through the air and you're not sure which cluster of brightly colored plastic chairs you want to settle down in with all your bags. Sadly, there are some things that once malls reopen and you're able to head back to those beloved food courts that will be non-existent post-pandemic life.
It's pretty obvious that there are going to be safety measures put into place everywhere you dine moving forward to best protect customers. Here's a breakdown of all the things you'll ever see at a mall food court again.
Tables and seats close together.
Mall food courts are known for having many tables arranged close together. How many times have you scooted your seat back and might've accidentally bumped into the person eating behind you? Well, that is something that won't happen again, as most dining locations will keep implementing the six-feet apart social distancing practices.
Free samples.
There's nothing quite like taking a stroll through the food court, munching on some free samples while you decide where to order your meal from. But that will be a memory of the past, as free samples are a way for many germs to easily spread. If you want to stay informed with everything COVID-19 related, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to get the latest coronavirus foods news delivered straight to your inbox.
Trays for your food.
Most food court meals are served up to customers on a plastic tray. There's a good chance you won't dine on these anymore, as that is just another breeding ground for germs. Instead, you'll most likely be served up food, takeout style with your food wrapped up in a bag that is handed to you to eat from.
Self-service condiments and napkins.
Going up to grab some ketchup and napkins as you see fit is something else that will get the ax from mall food courts. Think about it—tons of people touch the handles and dispensers, so they would have to constantly be cleaned, after every use if we're being honest here. That is simply unrealistic, as employees will be focused on cooking up food and distributing it to shoppers in a safe manner.
Long lines packed with people.
Every mall food court features shoppers holding bags of their new clothes they just purchased, standing very close together, eyeing the menus of the fast-food restaurants they can choose from. Moving forward, you'll most likely see lines that are spread out, as customers will be standing six feet apart from each other. There's a good chance there will be markers on the floor of where to stand so no area ends up getting too crowded.
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Miskatonic High is a new, independently published, teen horror comic series by Mike Shea and Ryan Mendoza. For the uninitiated, the title is inspired by a fictional university (named after a fictional river) that frequently appears in the pieces of literature that make up H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
In the first issue, Shea and Mendoza introduce readers to a small group of mismatched teens who attend the prestigious private school Miskatonic High. Members of the school's community service club, the group takes a field trip to help clean an elderly woman's basement. Shortly thereafter, they find themselves transported to ancient Egypt, where an evil sorcerer is attempting to unleash tentacled demons upon the world.
In this second issue of Miskatonic High, the group once again find themselves confronting a supernatural horror. Furthermore, a deep connection is made between one of the students and the terrors lurking beneath the surface.
** Some Spoilers Below **
For Sarah Clarke, life at the affluent Miskatonic High had never been easy, being a poor, rural outcast. But when her friends come to help her on the family apple orchard, secrets better left unknown will be unearthed and she and her classmates will experience a terror in the dark.
It is apparent that writer Mike Shea was inspired by the hijinks of another group of supernatural mystery solvers when crafting Miskatonic High. The two published issues are episodic, with the stories more-or-less wrapped up by the final page. What Shea has done well thus far is slowly build upon the connection the group has with these Lovecraftian horrors coming to life, and the protectoral part that they will inevitably have to play. The most intriguing character is without a doubt Sarah, who is the social outcast among these misfits, and has a surprising link to the mole monsters the group encounters in the second issue.
Though the story draws inspiration from Lovecraft's literary universe, that world's air of dread and despair cannot be found in Miskatonic High. Instead, Shea opts for a fun and lighthearted tale. The characters are very upbeat, and deal with each situation with snark and a tongue-in-cheek attitude. Readers won't be bogged down with too much exposition. Rather, you'll be experiencing the scares and revelations alongside the "Mystery Incorporated" gang for the first time.
Ryan Mendoza does a great job in balancing the light and darker aspects of Miskatonic High. His colors are slightly toned down, and he uses a muted golden overlay to light each panel with an otherworldly glow, as if something off-kilter is looming. He also makes great use of shadows to amplify the tension and potential terrors hiding around a corner.
Mendoza's character designs are animated and expressive. He cuts into the tension created by the coloring with a style reminiscent of the wholesome, vintage Hanna-Barbera animation found in Scooby Doo and Super Friends.
Miskatonic High is a satisfying balance fun and frights, with snarky, nonplussed characters and exceptionally designed monsters. It's for anyone who is a fan of Scooby Doo, and even modern incarnations of Archie and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Come for the Lovecraftian horrors, stay for the fun characters and the dangerous mysteries to be solved.
The first issue of Miskatonic High is currently for sale on their official website. You can also support their already successful Kickstarter to get your hands on copies of the first two issues, as well as some other goodies.


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Teaching schedule
Course description
The course aims to provide the main concepts, models and tools of Operational Research that allow to solve a wide spectrum of complex decision problems.
Dublin descriptors.
Knowledge and understanding
The student must demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
a) the main aspects of optimization problems;
b) the methodologies and software tools for solving optimization problems
Applying knowledge and understanding
The student must demonstrate to be able:
a) to know a set of methods and understand their use in different contexts;
b) to formulate problems analytically;
c) to select the most suitable methods for solving the problems;
d) to use software tools to solve decision problems.
Making judgments
The student must be able:
a) to know how to evaluate the resolution methodologies in relation to the considered problem;
b) to implement the most suitable algorithms needed for solving the problems
Communication skills
The student must have the ability to explain in a simple way the main methods of linear programming and the network models .
Learning skills
The student must be able to:
a) elaborate, organize, summarize the acquired course contents;
b) continuously update his/her knowledge by consulting texts and publications to solve decision making problems that are typical of Management Engineering.
Basics of linear algebra.
Introduction to Operations Research (CFU 0.5 - 4 hours):
Decision problem solving, optimization and mathematical programming problems.
Continuous optimization problems (CFU 3 - 24 hours):
Main methods to solve one-dimensional and multidimensional nonlinear optimization problems (bisection method, Newton method and dichotomous research ). (2 CFU -16 hours)
Exercises in the classroom and in the computer lab (1 CFU -8 hours).
Continuous linear optimization (CFU 3 - 24 hours):
Basics of linear algebra and polyhedral geometry; formulation of linear problems; graphic representation of a linear optimization problem (1 CFU - 8 hours).
Standard simplex algorithm; sensitivity analysis and revised simplex algorithm; duality and post-optimal analysis. (1 CFU -8 hours)
Exercises in the classroom and in the computer lab. (1 CFU -8 hours)
Network models (2.5 CFU - 20 hours):
Basic definitions of graph theory; minimum cost flow model; the shortest-route problem; Dijkstra algorithm; the Critical Path Method, the Gantt diagram.
The contents of lessons include the main methodologies to solve typical optimization problems of Operations Research. Particular attention is paid to main models and algorithms that allows to address a wide range of complex decision problems. The topics covered are: the fundamental elements of linear programming; the simplex method; the graphical analysis and geometric interpretation of the simplex method; post-optimal analysis; the formulation and resolution of linear optimization problems in Matlab; the network models.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, exercises and laboratory sessions.
Hamdy A. Taha, Operations Research: An Introduction Prentice-Hall, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA 2006
Notes and slides provided by teacher available on website:
Learning assessment
The objective of the exam is to check the level of achievement of the objectives previously indicated.
The exam is divided into two parts:
a) a numerical test with the aim of assessing whether the student is able to apply the methodologies studied during the course. The numerical test requires to solve linear optimization problems, non linear optimization problems and network models The test must be completed in 90 minutes, and students pass the test if at least two problems are correctly solved. b) An oral test to verify the level of knowledge of the topics covered during the course. The oral test typically consists in two questions, one dealing with linear optimization methods and one dealing with the remaining arguments of course. The oral test is usually completed in 30 minutes. The final grade is the average value of the two grades achieved by the student in the numerical and oral tests.
More information
The professor is fluent in English and he is available to interact with students in English, also during the examination.
Information about the time table for student interaction are at the following link https://uniparthenope.esse3.cineca.it/Guide/PaginaDocente.do?docente_id=...


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There are over 70 mineral water brands on the Uganda market competing for the same market. This has resulted into increased competition which has taken the form of price wars. The unfortunate part is the consumer is not protected.
All this happens when the costs of production are increasing which raises the concerns about the quality of some of the mineral water brands on the market.
Market survey indicates Rwenzori Mineral water and Wavah Water remain the most expensive brands on the market. A carton (24 bottles) 500ml of Rwenzori goes for Ugx. 18,000. A carton of Rihamu 500ml is selling at Ugx. 15,600. While 24 bottles of Acqua Sipi 500ml go for Ugx. 12,000. Other brands sell below Ugx. 10,000 a carton.
Market reports further indicate Rwenzori commands the highest market share. The brand boosts of an effective distribution, making it readily available anywhere, anytime.
Besides the brands you see in town, there are several brands up-country whose distribution does not go beyond a district or region.
Good water depends on its source. Experts say good mineral water should be sourced from boreholes that go deep underground. The deeper you find it, the better it gets in terms of quality.
Unfortunately, it expensive to drill water from deep underground. Of the said 70 brands on the market, fewer than five companies get their water underground.
A good number of mineral water companies are found in residential areas surrounded by pit latrines. This means the water is contaminated.; This water must be thoroughly boiled, filtered and treated. That is where the problem starts.
To cut costs, many water companies' in Uganda tap water from springs/ streams while others tap from the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC).
Those who are have Uganda at heart boil this water, purify it and add nutrients before packing it. Some companies have no time for this. They simply pack the water no matter where they source it from.
Not all Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) marks on the water bottles on the market are indeed a mark of quality. The mark has no special features to make it unique and difficult for criminals to forge. Since we 'live in Uganda', you can as well easily get this mark and paste it on your bottled 'toilet' water.
The unfortunate part is the regulators seem not to protect the players who play fair in the market. The company that follows the standards competes in the same market with those who bend the quality standards.
Market reports indicate Vero Water, manufactured by Vero Foods in Namanve off Jinja Road was the best quality water. The water is produced to the global standards. Unfortunately, the brand was not given the respect it deserved.
The brand has since disappeared on the market. Ripples Mineral water, was yet another quality brand which could not stand the unfair competition. It had to go under. The factory in Najjera-Buwate has since closed down.
You can also blame it on Ugandans; many times Ugandans don't appreciate quality and standards. Majority Ugandans seem to be taken by price and quantity.
The shortcuts
Producing quality bottled water is an expensive venture. A cap of mineral water bottle costs Ugx. 30, a bottle itself costs Ugx 40, while sales and marketing accounts for more than six percent, distribution accounts for 25 percent, power bills and Salaries. And the cost of the water put into the bottle itself. Put together, you see the costs going the wrong way. Making it difficult to stay in the market with low prices.
With the average market price of Ugx. 12,000 per carton of bottled water, the numbers for some mineral brands don't seem to add up, unless there is foul play (using untreated water from streams and rivers, etc.) somewhere along the production chain or dodging taxes, stealing power etc.
If one is to survive in this competitive market with such low prices and low sales, they must sell more than 10,000 cartoons a month. Unfortunately, many of the players hardly dream of selling such numbers. There are about three companies which can afford to sell such numbers.
To survive in this market, sources who are familiar with the industry say, some players are said to be bending the quality control rules so as to survive at the cost of the customer's safety.
Other survival tactics
Rwenzori Mineral Water recently launched another variety of mineral water,-Premium Mineral water. A 300 ml bottle sells at Ugx. 2000. This water is said to go through 12 stages, while the ordinary Rwenzori mineral water goes through six stages and 300ml sells at Ugx. 1,000.
Analysts see this as a marketing strategy that seeks to segment the market. Already, there is a general feeling in the market that Rwenzori is the safest mineral water brand on the water.
Rihamu moves in the villages
Like they did to soda, Rihamu water manufactured by Hariss International, have opted for low price as a penetration strategy. The people who were initially buying 'boiled' water in Kavera are now taking Rihamu water, because it is cheap. Her distribution is said to be very effective and Rihamu Water is available across the country.
Rihamu seems to be on the mission of encircling the big players. Already, they have taken over the villages and the low end. Overall, the brand is slowly being accepted. It is highly anticipated that after the brand has been fully accepted, management will improve on quality, packaging and then take on the big boys head on.
Their strategy can be compared to cutting off the streams and small rivers that supply a major river. Over time, the river will reduce water levels and finally dry up. The big boys in Mineral water market must watch out.
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Human Exploitation: How the Dionne Quintuplets Were Abused
Ms. Inglish has 30 years experience in medicine, psychology, STEM instruction, history, and aerospace education for USAF Civil Air Patrol.
Exploitation of Children
The rights of individuals or groups of human beings have been denied through exploitation by other groups of humans throughout time.
People have been enslaved by others that wished to profit from their talents or from a uniqueness that drew attention. This attention has often translated to dollars in the minds of their oppressors, leading to different varieties of slavery --
Elvis Presley, in my opinion, was a slave to Colonel Tom Parker, who exploited the singer through second-rate film vehicles and other performances that did not tap his potential.
In the book Call Me Anna, Patty Duke describes her childhood as a star and the story shows exploitation to me as well.
In 2008, a documentary showed medically suffering individuals in Indonesia and other regions, performing in "freak shows" in order to earn a living with which to support their children. Their tumors and birth defects are exploited by entertainment venue owners.
Exploitation makes money.
These women are completely destroyed psychologically.
— Denise Bombardier, Interviewer of the remaining Quints in 1995
The Dionne Quintuplets and How They Grew
The First Identical Female Quintuplets
Born in May of 1934, only two of the five Dionne Quintuplets are alive in 2008. The five were, to Western Knowldege, the first identical female infants in a multiple of five anywhere in the world. They were exploited for this characteristic and further, they were sexually and financially abused.
Back in February of 1998, three of the women were still living and they turned down an offer from the Onatrio Provincial Government to pay them monthly pensions as a token repayment for government exploitation (over $50 million and in 2008 dollars. $250 million/year) of the five girls. The women were reportedly offered $1400 CAN/month each at the time but chose to remain in Montreal, Quebec, all three living on just $490 CAN per month total. They had demanded restitution of ten million dollars for that which had been stolen from them by the government and hangers-on but were offered only a small pension, so they declined.
As a tourist attraction, the five girls had been called by some journalists "the freak show of the Depression."
Locations on the Dionne Timeline in Ontario Province
Miracle Quints Capture World Attention
May 28, 1934: Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie, and Yvonne were born to poor farmers in rural Ontario near Callendar in Corbeil and survived. They were reportedly the first quints that had ever survived in North America or anywhere else. They were birthed by two midwives. The physician, a Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, arrived after all of the girls were born. Their combined weight was only 13lb 5oz or a little over 2 pounds each as premature infants by two months.
Dr. Dafoe became famous for traveling and speaking about the Dionne Quintuplets. His office from 1914 - 1943 is now part of the Callendar Bay Heritage Museum.
1934 - 1943: Daddy Dionne placed a Birth Announcement in the nearby local North Bay Newspaper and in the 21st century, North Bay Public Library is completing an online collection of information about the sisters. The Dionnes received a lot of attention, an incubator, and some free goods from the publicity.
The destitute farming parents of around age 25, Oliva and Elzire Dionne, already had five other children and had lost another one early on to death. Local rural women came to the farm at the birth of the quints and donated their breast milk in order to help the babies survive.
Declaring that the parents were unable to take care of the five new infants, the provincial government took the children under their official guardianship and placed the sisters in the care of Dr. Dafoe and Louise de Kirline as well as two other nurses.
All this could be accomplished, because the parents were poor, not well educated, and had no advocate. The government simply took control in a manner made to look legal to the parents, whose complaints were ignored. Dr. Dafoe supported the government in this, seeing his bid for fame and fortune in the quints. Nurse Kirline later stated that the doctor changed as he entered the limelight; he had proposed to her as his long-time companion (he was widowed), but she declined. He became greedy and controlling.
A hospital was constructed for them across the road from the Dionnes and was named Quintland in anticipation of the tourist trade that might result from the news that the historic premature quints were surviving. Large amounts of money were made that the girls and their families never received from 1936 - 1943. This includes at least $1,000,000 directly and over $50 million in tourist trade for Ontario. The girls became a larger tourist attraction, pulling in more money, than Nigara Falls until after 1943. Meanwhile, they were raised and educated by three nurses in charge of their care, while over 6,000 visitors daily viewed them through observation windows at their hospital.
The girls were also used as the logo for Karo Corn Syrup and Quaker Oats.
1936 - 1938: The quints appeared in several films as well: The Country Doctor, Reunion, Going on Two, Quintupland, Five Times Five, and Five of a Kind, which increased their earning power as tourist attractions. Walt Disney did a cartoon takeoff of the quints as an animated feature as well.
Million Dollar Babies
Product Endorsements by the Quints: Note the Ad's Caption
Elementary and Teen Years
1943: In 1943 when Dr. Dafoe died, the five sisters were moved back across the road to a mansion that had been built for them and their parents. However, millions of dollars had been earned by the quints through endorsements for Karo Syrup, Quaker Oats, Palmolive Soap, Colgate Dental Cream, beauty products, and other advertisers. These funds were deposted into an account about which they were not informed. The doctor and one or more of the nurses became famous and wealthy and as adults, most of the quints died young or descended into poverty until 1998.
As teenagers, the girls were described as "shy" -- They finally reported sexual abuse as adults. During the Depression and WWII, the public viewed their lives as a fantasy into which they could escape, but as the girls aged, their lives were anything by fanciful.
1954: At age 20, Emilie died in a convent from an epileptic seizure. While studying to be a nun, she developed seizures and asked not to be left alone, even in her sleep. The nun that was sitting with her one night decided to leave for a short while; Emilie seized, rolled over, and suffocated in a pillow. The Dionne sisters were no longer quintuplets and began to lose popularity.
One of the nurses that cared for the five sisters was Yvonne Leroux. She also traveled the lecture circuit, as did Dr. Dafoe, and received her own radio show in New York City for a time. it is unclear how many people profited personally from the quints, while they were abused.
Colgate Toothpaste Ad
Dionne Quints Museum
Annette, Yvonne and Cecile
A Short Adulthood For Most Of The Quints
1954: Emile died of a seizure while studying to become a nun.
Annette married in 1957 around age 23 and had one son, then divorced Germain Allard.
1965: The remaining sisters wrote a bitter autobiography called We Were Five. They were bitter with their exploitative upbringing.
Marie married and had two daughters in 1960 and 1963, but left her husband in 1964 and never filed for divorce. She died in 1970 at age 36 of a blood clot to the brain.
Cecile had 5 children, two of them being twins; and then divorced.
1998: CBC aired the documentary about the sisters' lives, entitled Full Circle - The Untold Story of the Dionne Quintuplets. In a series of candid interviews, the three surviving sisters told of their dysfunctional upbringing in the limelight that did not prepare them for adulthood. They described failed marriages and dark family secrets.
2001: Yvonne died of cancer. She never married.
As of November 2008, Annette and Cecile are still living, presumably in Quebec.
The Dionne Quints Museum is located in the sisters' childhood home at what is now the juncture of Highways 11 and 17 at Seymour St. in North Bay, Ontario. In 1988, the surviving sisters visited North Bay in order to raise funds for the museum. It had changed hands two or three times and was finally moved to its present site in 1985.
It was used in the late 1980s to depict the plight of the exploited sisters and to gain them a settlement from the Ontario government. After declining the original offer in 1998, Annette and Cecile finally received a $4,000,000 settlement.
Undercurrents of Abuse
Jean-Yves Soucy reported that Annette Dionne has long blamed the Ontario Government and the Catholic Church for the sisters' exploitation as a product from which to gain notoriety and money.
In 1995, the quint survivors alleged that their father, Oliva Dionne, had sexually abused them all for many years after they left the over-controlling influence of Dr. Dafoe. Moreover, their priest gave them no practical advise or help when they asked him for aid in this matter.
The outlined situations above were clearly abusive in different ways and Jean-Yves Soucy reveals the truth in his biography Family Secrets.
Evidence accumulated shows that the Dionne Quintuplets were controlled, exploited, and sexually and financially abused for profit, as shown in Family Secrets and the New York Times in 1995 (Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/26/world/three-dionne-quintuplets-say-father-sexually-abused-them.html)
I hope that Annette and Cecile enjoy the rest of their lives very much and can gain some peace of mind in Quebec. At this writing, they are 74 years old and special celebrations are planned for them at the Dionne Quints Museum for their 75th birthday in 2009.
Bless their remaining years.
Questions & Answers
Question: Was there any attempt or plan to bring the quints to Chicago and the Century of Progress World's Fair?
Answer: Plans had been made by the sisters' father to display the youngsters at the Chicago Century of Progress World's Fair, but the Canadian government took over guardianship of the sisters and the plans to display them at the fair did not materialize.
© 2008 Patty Inglish MS
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on July 14, 2013:
Yes, the girls seemed to be their own traveling sideshow since the day of their birth.
Michele Travis from U.S.A. Ohio on July 14, 2013:
Thank you for sharing their story with us. It is very sad, how they were abused. Their doctor treated them like animals, he simply used them like an attraction in a traveling show.
Voted up.
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on May 31, 2013:
I agree that this is one of the saddest stories I've ever read. I wonder if the remaining women have any peace now.
Dawn De Poorter on May 31, 2013:
This is very sad story.. especially with Emilie. who has very little help from her long time illness. Oliva Dionne kept secret from her illness for way too long. I felt sorry for Yvonne and Cecile put lot of their energy to keeping Emilie alive for years . that's not right. its the parents responsible to take her to Dr and tell them the truth. I read the book and one of the priest told Mrs. Dionne that she was blamed for Emilie s death that was caused no care no medication.. nothing.. how sad is that??
L M Reid from Ireland on July 25, 2012:
A very sad story for these five girls and their family.
Shared on Twitter and voted up and interesting
Sunshine on February 19, 2012:
yes it is sad
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on February 13, 2012:
That is sad, isn't it?
Sunshine on February 13, 2012:
if i were rich then they would never have handled my family this way
and this is a fact
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on February 13, 2012:
I hope readers can learn from your sentiments. Abuse is horrid and needs to stop.
Sunshine on February 13, 2012:
thank you Patty Inglish
I have become numb to it for the most part, that is the only way i could survive
that kind of pain is far more than any one person can ever endure and my heart goes out to Mrs Dionne
one mother heart to another :'(
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on February 12, 2012:
I am sorry for your pain, and for their's.
Sunshine on February 12, 2012:
My heart breaks for them
I know what they went thru
and it saddens me even more to say that these injustices from the government still go on
they happened to me and my 6 siblings
and they happened to me and my 5 children
an ex social worker was a witness to the parent abuse i received from the government
but as long as ppl are to afraid to take on the system this will never change
it will only get worse
you will never know the many many nights i cry myself to sleep
but God does and i take comfort in the fact that i know that he has counted every tear
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on December 07, 2011:
I am sorry that this caused you such pain, but please accept thanks for sharing your experience with the Quints, Leapeabea.
Leapeabea on December 07, 2011:
Ugh! What a huge surprise to learn about the upbringing of the "Dionne Quintuplets". As a child myself, back then, my mother told me that indeed the nurse - Yvonne Leroux - was her cousin, my great-cousin. We used to visit them in Callendar quite often, as a family.
I remember us visiting their large new "home" all surrounded by wrought iron railings - it sure didn't look like anything else but a prison, and I remember thinking how sad it must be to live there. Just seeing long lineups of cars w/tons of curious Sunday-tourists made me hate going by their place .... tsk-tsk!
As a matter of fact, back in mid-70s, I happened to work with one of their sisters who was a teacher - she was not part of the quints. I found it a tad odd that, when I asked her about that fact which another person had casually brought up in a conversation, she seemed almost shy and ill at ease to even acknowledge it to me. So, I immediately refrained from pressing onwards for more info on her family.
Well, it's by shear coincidence that I landed on this web site - I wish I hadn't now. :( I feel really sorry for the Quints now, no child should have to go through what they did. God bless those who survived, and may the remaining Quints at least find some joy and happiness in their remaining years.
Terri on December 03, 2011:
I think if anything is sold of the Dionne's merchandise the proceeds should go to them.. why should anyone else seek monetary compensation for their suffering?
I, as a new mother could not imagine having my child taken from me.. And I know that their mother, seeing them being exploited as they were, must have been devastated..
I know if it were me, and my child was being abused.. I'd kill whoever did it. period.
BUT, times were different. Catholics are against divorce, and the times were against divorce as well..
It's one of those things that I want to believe that there was a good intention for them.. but people got greedy and selfish and stopped thinking about the girl's good.. convinced themselves that it was for them, but really the best thing would have been to live a normal life.
Had they not been taken from their family, I dare say their own father would have done much the same.. had them on display for profit, and the sexual abuse may have started earlier.. the effect is just as shattering regardless, and hopefully we as people learn a lesson from all of this and no children (people in general) are exploited like this ever again. It never should have happened to begin with. But society has an innate curiosity for something or someone with any difference or oddity and unfortunately people are treated differently based on those oddities.
Our children are our future. They will do what we teach to do. They will know what we teach them to know. They will live as we teach them to live.
Patty D. on November 15, 2011:
Yes Sharon you too can make money off the girls.
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on May 29, 2011:
I would contact some local antique dealers in your area and ask threir advice. Alternatively, there may be museums that would purchse the scrapbook for display of contents.
Sharon on May 29, 2011:
I have my grandmother's scrapbook that is thick w/newspaper articles that she collected. The articles were published in a Great Falls, MT newspaper. Any suggestions for selling this scrapbook and other Dionne items?
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on February 22, 2011:
Thank you all so much for reading this Hub and sharing your exsperiences and comments. It's a riveting story and I hope the lids of today's "Octomom" fare better in life.
Jackie on February 22, 2011:
I was born in 1935, a year after the quints. My mother was an identical twin and had a very close bond with her sister all their lives. I was given a little basket with five identical baby dolls as a gift. I also had a picture book of the quints and their daily life. I especially loved that they had furniture, closets, sinks just their size. That impressed me greatly, and I loved hearing about them. But I thought they were in their own home. Now that I know the whole story I am greatly saddened for them. Thank you for filling in the picture.
Brenda Bentley on February 21, 2011:
Hi I am a mother of one chil, I bear to imagine how there mother felt. I see all these dolls and other items to promote these girls stories, and now I know they were never given the money from all the memorbelia that should have had them set for life. I am so sorry to have heard the greed of the doctor, shame on all who took advantage of those beautiful babies ad to rob them of a life which would have had love from they're parents, They should have been treated as human beings and not the gong show to prosper from there beautiful experience of life . I am a mother myself and I can assure you they're mother suffered and cryied for her daughters with no support, how sad for her to have had to buy a commonors ticket to see her girls. I hope no other family will be taken advantage of such a loss to ther family and now these girls are retired still in modest pensions. They should have been millionairs and to have been able to have a happy ending to the precious life they have left. We need to learn from the quints misfortunes and never allow this to happen to another human being, God BLESS these weoman and live a strong and happy healthy life, your storie has meant so much to me. I always wanted a set of the quints dolls made by madame alexandra, I dont know anymore ,I wanted to honor there lives and celebrate there strength to stay together and to say NO MORE! i LOVE THESE GIRLS ALL OF THEM THROUGH THICK AND THIN. i WISH THEM PEACE AND COMFORT IN THERE LATER YEARS OF THERE LIVES, GOD BE WITH THEM and lead them to find strength to carry on a proud weoman and an example to the greedy world to be more compasionate these were babies and its not something that can be resolved for them its not excuseable. Go ladies, go girls today is the first day of the rest of your life, from here on in the clouds are blue and shining just for you and your sisters. Iam so proud of these ladies and what they endured was for others to reap and everyone forgot about them and how they would be . Im sorry for them and wish them so much love and to have the freedom to be themselves is now there own.Life hands us a few rocks and we need so much more like the love of our brothers ,mother ,father ,family and of coarse the sisters. I hope they can forgive this ugly tarnish from there minds and go on to live a life of happiness,joy and love, they should have the next generations lov and support to keep them going, all my love and thoughts are with me and I wish the BEST FOR THE LAST OF THESE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS.Be proud and the rest is yours for the takings.yours truelly B.Bentley
JoAnn York on January 14, 2011:
Several years ago I wrote a paper in college about the Dionne quints. The story is very tragic. I just read additional information today. In my report I stated that they were actually placed on the oven door in one basket to
stay warm. Later Dr. Dafoe brought a used coke case and
converted it to an incubator for the babies. It is my hope that the remaining girls are at peace.
Norma Ricks on January 07, 2011:
I heard about the Dionne Quintuplets when a young child, probably because my birth was in 1938. I was given a small box containing five little dolls with porcelain heads and with cloth nightgowns attached. After recently acquiring a newspaper picture of the Dionne family, I have been interested in information about the girls.
sligobay from east of the equator on October 19, 2010:
Great Hub Patty. Awful story.
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on September 15, 2010:
fastfreda - Probably new books will be coming forth; it's an interesting and riveting topics. Thnaks for commenting.
PaperNotes - Indeed. It makes me wonder how many families have hidden abuse - or been falsely accused. Both are frightful.
PaperNotes on September 14, 2010:
Sad story but very interesting. In this world we live in, sometimes what we think would happen just in movies and drama series do really happen in real life. Just like the hardships the quintuplets experienced even from their own father.
Alfreta Sailor from Southern California on January 31, 2010:
After reading this hub, I want to read more about these unfortunate ladies. Thank you Patty, for this peek into their lives.
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on November 07, 2008:
It's a horrible story, Chef Jeff, and the doctor should have been de-licensed.
According to Annette, Cecile (both age 74) and the newspapers, the dad won custody of them again when they were 9 years old and additional abuse began shortly thereafter.
I lost touch with a friend in Montreal last year that was English-speaking originally, married to a Frenchman. She said the French neighborhood would not speak to her and the kids were ostracized. They put their house up for sale, but waited over 2 years for a sale. They were going to move to Ontario, if I recall correctly.
Chef Jeff from Universe, Milky Way, Outer Arm, Sol, Earth, Western Hemisphere, North America, Illinois, Chicago. on November 07, 2008:
Unfortunately most of the quints have died. One reason for their terrible treatment was the poverty of the birth family. Also, there was (and still is) a current of racism against French Canadians, and also against Catholics in some areas of Canada.
The Dionnes had the bad fortune of being French, Catholic and poor. The doctor who took the quints away tricked them (they didn't read English very well) and isolated the five babies from their birth mother.
Later amends were attempted by the Canadian government after the girls frew up to be rather helpless women tossed out into a society they did not understand at all. the doctor was vilified in the press and in public opinion once the truth got out. I seriously believe he wanted to conduct a scientific experiment in raising them as he did. What he did was neother scientific nor ethical, and I believe he quickly cheated and took as much money as he get his hands on.
I'm glad you wrote this hub because this has been a story that has bothered me for several decades. I knew of the quints when I was a child, but until I grew up I never knew them as anything but a tourist attraction my parents' friends had gone to just about once every year for a decade. I remember the wife of the couple my parents knew saying she wished she had the quints, because their parents must be making a fortune off them. In truth, the parents never wanted money from their children and had little contact with them over the years.
So sad.
Chef Jeff
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on November 07, 2008:
Someone at Harvard University wrote biographies of all five and posted them on the web, but they have been removed.
I think there are only a couple of ways to send greetings to Annette and Cecile in Montreal. First, I think one could address a card to "Annette and Cecile Dionne of the Dionne Quintuplets; Montreal Quebec Canada" and it would arrive. Second, one could contact the publisher, Berkley, and ask about sending greetings to the three authors: Yves Soucy, Yvonne Dionne, and Cecile Dionne; publishers have puiblicists that stay in contact with authors.
Berkley Books, part of the Penguin Group firstname.lastname@example.com
SirDent on November 07, 2008:
I can't believe I had never heard of them before reading this. Most of us can only imagine the horrible life they lived especially their eary years. SUch a sad thing for them to go through. I also hope the final two enjoy the rest of their lives.
Sidenote. In the section
Undercurrents of Abuse I saw a few typos.
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on November 07, 2008:
Veronica -- I just saw the John and Kate Plus 8 show for the second time the other night. TV cameras around all the time must be strange and I wonder how they will grow up - will they be homeschooled or the cameras follow them to school? Or will the show be cancelled and the kids all react to that with anger or some such? The parents look tired and seem irritable to me.
washingtonson - I think it is unforgiveable to harm the life of a child and I agree with you. Thanks for commenting. The more people that know about this, the better for our future.
washingtonson from Walhalla on November 07, 2008:
so sad...such beautiful little girls deserve beautiful lives
Veronica Bright from Nebraska on November 06, 2008:
Excellent Hub. Unfortunately, those things are still happening. John and Kate plus 8 is a prime example.
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on November 06, 2008:
I want to find their address in Montreal and send them a card. If I find it, I will let you know, Chef Jeff, RGraf and everyone else. If no address, I'll get their book agent's address and send on to them through that venue. At least we can give them good thoughts.
Rebecca Graf from Wisconsin on November 06, 2008:
The sad fact that any human can do this to another is always shocking. I agree with you in hoping that they live out their lives happily.
Chef Jeff from Universe, Milky Way, Outer Arm, Sol, Earth, Western Hemisphere, North America, Illinois, Chicago. on November 06, 2008:
Some people I knew when I was young adored the Dionne Quints and had every newspaper, cereal box ad, maagazine article as well as trivia - plates, cups, spoons, souveniers, bumper stickers, etc.
These 5 poor women were indeed exploited and kept apart from their other brothers and sisters, who were left to live on the very fringes of the quints' lives. In order to see the quints their own mother had to buy a ticket and join the crowds of oogling tourists! How shameful and embarassing!
We should be ashamed when we exploit innocents of all kinds, and the things done to women - using them as sushi tables? - how horrific!
Sad but excellent hub!
Sadly, Chef Jeff
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on November 06, 2008:
Vicarously Yours - Canada has an excellent program in place now, called Bully B'Ware, that teaches children in school and adults across the nation about bullying and abuse. Prevention can start with education about what abuse is and encouragement to report it, because kids often think they deserve it, especially from an adult. We can't go into people's homes to see what is really happening, though, although perhaps some of us wish we could. Thanks for reading - tell everyone you can think of about this tragedy.
Netters - this may be the first time an outline of the whole story has been presented so that the public can "get it." I am going to read the survivor's newest book and then do a review of it.
Eric - I've read about the Dionnes for years, but felt that there were huge gaps in the story, which made me dig until I found them. When I read their book in future, I'll have even more to add. I'm glad you like what I've written so far. Thanks for making this request, which spurred me to dig!
Eric Graudins from Australia on November 05, 2008:
It's horrific what was done to those girls. And the amount that was given to them as settlement for their ruined lives is a joke - not that any amount of money could have been adequate compensation.
I never cease to be amazed how things get twisted and corrupted when bureaucrats get involved into situations and try to "help".
Thanks for putting in the time to research and write this excellent , disturbing Hub Patty. It's much more than I expected.
Netters from Land of Enchantment - NM on November 05, 2008:
What a sad, sad, story. More people should read this.
Vicariously Yours from Fort Collins, CO on November 05, 2008:
Boy, Patty, you're getting good at ferreting out these stories. But how do you prevent something like this from happening? So much of it is behind closed doors (the worst abuses usually are, aren't they--in the dark?).
Another incidence of wishing I didn't know something, but glad I learned it nonetheless.
Thanks for sharing. Now if I can just learn to love my fellow man, despite his frailties.
Bill Campbell
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on November 05, 2008:
I hope they have more control, but it's hard to say. Two multiple births is hard on a family alone, and with TLC adding attention, etc. I might expect problems as the kids mature and more and more exploiters approach them. It depends on how solid the parents really are in their confidence and values and how they communicate them to the kids, I think.
ProfoundPuns from Maryland, USA on November 05, 2008:
Wow, I had no idea that they were exploited in that way. Of course, the height of their fame was long before my time, but the name still is famous today. Patty, what do you think about the family of current TLC fame, "Jon and Kate Plus 8"? I assume you've heard of them, the family who had in-vitro fertilization and bore twins followed by sextuplets. Do you believe they are exploited, too, or do they have much more control than the Dionnes?


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Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures
Long-Term Study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Deep-Water Fish Species in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Reveals Exposure to Deepwater Horizon Oil
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The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) was the largest spill in US history, with ~668x106 kg of oil released at depth (1,500 m). The deep-pelagic habitat was affected not only by oil transported vertically to the surface, but also by the formation and sink of an unprecedented oil-associated marine snow event. The diel vertical migration of deep-living fishes in the same region increased the probability of their exposure to the weathered oil. Understanding the impact to the deep-pelagic habitat is important due to their large abundance and role in the marine food web (as prey for shallow-living fish and marine mammal species). We conducted a time-series analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in deep-water fishes to asses exposure to DWH oil and potential long-term impacts in the pelagic ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Early samples collected in 2007 contain mostly 2-3 ring PAHs, with a range in concentration of 0.3-1.3 μg/g dry wt. These early samples define the baseline levels of PAH content in muscle samples in deep-water fish species. Samples collected in 2010 and 2011 indicate an increased up to 10-fold in PAH concentration, with average concentrations higher than the established threshold PAH level for adverse biological effects (4.0 μg/g dry wt). In 2015-2016, a decline in the concentration of PAHs was observed reaching values close to baseline levels. Mechanisms explaining elevated PAH concentrations and composition in eggs and other tissues will be discussed to better understand the impacts to deep-water species in the GoM.
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NSUWorks Citation
Romero, Isabel C.; Sutton, Tracey; Quintana-Rizzo, Q. C.; Ross, S.; Torres, Joseph J.; and Hollander, D., "Long-Term Study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Deep-Water Fish Species in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Reveals Exposure to Deepwater Horizon Oil" (2017). Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures. 443.


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OpenACC (for open accelerators) is a programming standard for parallel computing developed by Cray, CAPS, Nvidia and PGI. The standard is designed to simplify parallel programming of heterogeneous CPU/GPU systems.[1]
|Stable release
2.7 / November 2018
|Written in
|C, C++, and Fortran
|Operating system
As in OpenMP, the programmer can annotate C, C++ and Fortran source code to identify the areas that should be accelerated using compiler directives and additional functions.[2] Like OpenMP 4.0 and newer, OpenACC can target both the CPU and GPU architectures and launch computational code on them.
OpenACC members have worked as members of the OpenMP standard group to merge into OpenMP specification to create a common specification which extends OpenMP to support accelerators in a future release of OpenMP.[3][4] These efforts resulted in a technical report[5] for comment and discussion timed to include the annual Supercomputing Conference (November 2012, Salt Lake City) and to address non-Nvidia accelerator support with input from hardware vendors who participate in OpenMP.[6]
At ISC'12 OpenACC was demonstrated to work on Nvidia, AMD and Intel accelerators, without performance data.[7]
In November 12, 2012, at the SC12 conference, a draft of the OpenACC version 2.0 specification was presented.[8] New suggested capabilities include new controls over data movement (such as better handling of unstructured data and improvements in support for non-contiguous memory), and support for explicit function calls and separate compilation (allowing the creation and reuse of libraries of accelerated code). OpenACC 2.0 was officially released in June 2013.[9]
Version 2.5 of the specification was released on October 2015,[10] while version 2.6 was released on November 2017.[11] The latest version of specification, version 2.7, was released on November 2018.[12]
On April 3, 2019 John Levesque (the director of Cray Supercomputing Center of Excellence at Cray) announced that Cray are ending support for OpenACC in CCE/9.0.[13]
Compiler support
Support of OpenACC is available in commercial compilers from PGI (from version 12.6), and (for Cray hardware only) Cray.[7][14]
OpenUH[15] is an Open64 based open source OpenACC compiler supporting C and FORTRAN, developed by HPCTools group from University of Houston.
OpenARC[16] is an open source C compiler developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to support all features in the OpenACC 1.0 specification. An experimental[17] open source compiler, accULL, is developed by the University of La Laguna (C language only).[18]
Omni Compiler[19][20] is an open source compiler developed at HPCS Laboratory. of University of Tsukuba and Programming Environment Research Team of RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan, supported OpenACC, XcalableMP and XcalableACC combining XcalableMP and OpenACC.
IPMACC[21] is an open source C compiler developed by University of Victoria that translates OpenACC to CUDA, OpenCL, and ISPC. Currently, only following directives are supported: data, kernels, loop, and cache.
GCC support for OpenACC was slow in coming.[22] A GPU-targeting implementation from Samsung was announced in September 2013; this translated OpenACC 1.1-annotated code to OpenCL.[17] The announcement of a "real" implementation followed two months later, this time from NVIDIA and based on OpenACC 2.0.[23] This sparked some controversy, as the implementation would only target NVIDIA's own PTX assembly language, for which no open source assembler or runtime was available.[24][25] Experimental support for OpenACC/PTX did end up in GCC as of version 5.1. GCC6 and GCC7 release series include a much improved implementation of the OpenACC 2.0a specification.[26][27] GCC 9.1 offers nearly complete OpenACC 2.5 support.[28]
In a way similar to OpenMP 3.x on homogeneous system or the earlier OpenHMPP, the primary mode of programming in OpenACC is directives.[29] The specifications also include a runtime library defining several support functions. To exploit them, user should include "openacc.h" in C or "openacc_lib.h" in Fortran;[30] and then call acc_init() function.
OpenACC defines an extensive list of pragmas (directives),[31] for example:
#pragma acc parallel
#pragma acc kernels
Both are used to define parallel computation kernels to be executed on the accelerator, using distinct semantics[32][33]
#pragma acc data
Is the main directive to define and copy data to and from the accelerator.
#pragma acc loop
Is used to define the type of parallelism in a
parallel or
kernels region.
#pragma acc cache
#pragma acc update
#pragma acc declare
#pragma acc wait
Runtime API
There are some runtime API functions defined too:
OpenACC generally takes care of work organisation for the target device however this can be overridden through the use of gangs and workers. A gang consists of workers and operates over a number of processing elements (as with a workgroup in OpenCL).
- "Nvidia, Cray, PGI, and CAPS launch 'OpenACC' programming standard for parallel computing". The Inquirer. 4 November 2011.
- "OpenACC standard version 2.5" (PDF). OpenACC.org. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- "How does the OpenACC API relate to the OpenMP API?". OpenACC.org. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- "How did the OpenACC specifications originate?". OpenACC.org. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- "The OpenMP Consortium Releases First Technical Report". OpenMP.org. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- "OpenMP at SC12". OpenMP.org. 29 August 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- "OpenACC Group Reports Expanding Support for Accelerator Programming Standard". HPCwire. 20 June 2012. Archived from the original on 23 June 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- "OpenACC Version 2.0 Posted for Comment". OpenACC.org. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- "OpenACC 2.0 Spec | www.openacc.org". www.openacc.org. Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- "OpenACC Standards Group Announces Release of the 2.5 Specification; Member Vendors Add Support for ARM & x86 as Parallel Devices | www.openacc.org". www.openacc.org. Archived from the original on 2016-07-26. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
- "What's new in OpenACC 2.6? | OpenACC". www.openacc.org. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
- "What's new in OpenACC 2.7! | OpenACC". www.openacc.org. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- "Cray's views on #OpenACC vs #OpenMP". Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- "OpenACC Standard to Help Developers to Take Advantage of GPU Compute Accelerators". Xbit laboratories. 16 November 2011. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- "OpenUH Compiler". Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
- "OpenARC Compiler". Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- Larabel, Michael (30 September 2013). "GCC Support Published For OpenACC On The GPU". Phoronix.
- "accULL The OpenACC research implementation". Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- "Omni Compiler". omni-compiler.org. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- Omni Compiler for C and Fortran programs with XcalableMP and OpenACC directives: omni-compiler/omni-compiler, omni-compiler, 2019-10-17, retrieved 2019-11-17
- "IPMACC Compiler". Retrieved 31 January 2017.
- Larabel, Michael (4 December 2012). "OpenACC Still Not Loved By Open Compilers". Phoronix.
- Larabel, Michael (14 November 2013). "OpenACC 2.0 With GPU Support Coming To GCC". Phoronix.
- Larabel, Michael (15 November 2013). "NVIDIA, Mentor Graphics May Harm GCC". Phoronix.
- Larabel, Michael (21 November 2013). "In-Fighting Continues Over OpenACC In GCC". Phoronix.
- https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OpenACC
- Schwinge, Thomas (15 January 2015). "Merge current set of OpenACC changes from gomp-4_0-branch". gcc (Mailing list). gcc.gnu.org. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- Jelinek, Jakub (3 May 2019). "GCC 9.1 Released". LWN.net.
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- "OpenACC API QuickReference Card, version 1.0" (PDF). NVidia. November 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- "OpenACC standard version 2.0" (PDF). OpenACC.org. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
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External links
- https://www.openacc.org/
- Usage example from Nvidia: part 1, part 2


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