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Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
Ricardo Cruciani, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center Hi, my name is Ricardo Cruciani, I'm an M.D. and Ph.D., a pain specialist and I'm the Vice Chairman and Director of the Research Division at the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center.
I'd like to take this opportunity to discuss with you some of the research projects that we are conducting in our department right now. As you can tell from the name of the department, we do mostly pain and palliative care. So those are the big areas where we are conducting all our research.
Pain, it can be acute pain or can be chronic pain. Within chronic pain, it can be cancer pain or non-cancer pain, for example, osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. The type of studies that we do, it could be with opioids or without opioids. In general, as a concept, all these medications can be used either in one disorder or the other. What we do is we look, what are the best doses, what are the best drug combinations, what are the side effects, how to work with the side effects.
We have at any given time about 15 studies going on. If you are interested in knowing more about the type of research that we are doing please contact us at Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care. Thank you. -- This embed didnt make it to copy for story id = 4593238.
Section 1: OverviewSection 2: Diagnosing PainSection 3: Treating PainSection 4: Common Pain Problems Related Topics: Body Aches And Pains, Arthritis, Opioids, Autoimmune Diseases, Rheumatism | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/7 | {"url": "http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/beth-israel-medical-center-ny/story?id=4593238", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "abcnews.go.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T09:24:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OXB3Q46FJCZUJ2QEEZGDP5A3YYRQVUZT"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1636, 1636.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1636, 5168.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1636, 6.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1636, 159.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1636, 0.92]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1636, 221.0]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1636, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1636, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1636, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1636, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1636, 0.40988372]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1636, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1636, 0.0988417]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1636, 0.13050193]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1636, 0.13050193]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1636, 0.13050193]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1636, 0.0988417]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1636, 0.0988417]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1636, 0.03088803]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1636, 0.05250965]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1636, 0.07104247]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1636, 0.02906977]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1636, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1636, 0.17732558]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1636, 0.50177936]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1636, 4.60854093]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1636, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1636, 4.62381807]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1636, 281.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 360, 1.0], [360, 653, 1.0], [653, 1141, 1.0], [1141, 1446, 1.0], [1446, 1636, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 360, 0.0], [360, 653, 0.0], [653, 1141, 0.0], [1141, 1446, 0.0], [1446, 1636, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 31, 5.0], [31, 360, 53.0], [360, 653, 54.0], [653, 1141, 90.0], [1141, 1446, 55.0], [1446, 1636, 24.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 360, 0.0], [360, 653, 0.0], [653, 1141, 0.0], [1141, 1446, 0.03061224], [1446, 1636, 0.02209945]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 360, 0.0], [360, 653, 0.0], [653, 1141, 0.0], [1141, 1446, 0.0], [1446, 1636, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 31, 0.19354839], [31, 360, 0.11550152], [360, 653, 0.01023891], [653, 1141, 0.0102459], [1141, 1446, 0.04262295], [1446, 1636, 0.12105263]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1636, 0.04826057]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1636, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1636, 0.00385725]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1636, -93.55768062]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1636, -15.81461188]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1636, -118.31897908]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1636, 22.0]], "is_duplicate": true} | abcnews.go.com |
How to Conquer Recession Depression
Oct. 7, 2008 By KATE BARRETT Listen in at a coffee shop, stop a stranger on the street or strike up a conversation at the bus stop and you'll likely hear a story like Marie Moore's.
Struggling to pay her bills and concerned about her husband's prolonged unemployment, the 31-year-old human resources assistant said the recession is taking an emotional toll.
"I stay up worrying and not being able to sleep very well, I'm constantly thinking," Moore told ABCNews.com. "He kind of tends to shut down a bit and sleep a lot."
The Moores' story is not unusual. The couple moved from Harrisburg, Pa., to Danville, Pa., during the summer for a job opportunity, but Moore's husband was laid off shortly thereafter when his employer restructured. Today, the former general manager of a banquet facility finds himself in a situation he's never faced before as he waits tables and looks for work.
"I try not to skip my credit card bills, but the electric right now is three months' late. The telephone is two months' late," Moore said.
When Mental Health Plummets With the Stock Market
With the stock market plunging and Americans losing their homes and jobs, it's no surprise that mental health can take a nose-dive as well. In tough economic times, hopelessness and depression can encroach on our energy and optimism.
"It isn't your normal kind of recession, which makes it more fearful and it paralyzes people," said Harvey Brenner, a public health professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, who has long studied the relationship between mental health and recession.
Brenner also said suicide rates can almost become economic indicators.
In Virginia, a suicide hot line said suicide-related calls in July and August were up 62 percent from the same time last year. Though the hot line's operators said the rise is not all due to the economy, call logs indicate that's part of what's going on.
Crisis hot lines around the country have reported recent increases of people concerned about their finances. ComPsych, the largest provider of employee assistance programs, said calls from people asking for help because of stress from financial problems jumped 21 percent in July 2008, from a year earlier. ValueOptions, which also runs employee assistance programs, said people calling to ask for help with financial problems have jumped 89 percent.
"I think the general tone is this sense of despondency," Marlene Zetzer, a psychiatrist from St. Simons Island, Ga., told ABCNews.com this week. "Most people are kind of feeling just a little discouraged and helpless, overwhelmed at what the next step is. They don't know what's going on."
Zetzer, who consults patients in the southwest Georgia health system, said that during the last six months, she's noticed an exponential increase in the number of people who immediately bring up their financial stress, even before they refer to the medical conditions that brought them to the hospital. She said the doctors and nurses she works with are also feeling the blues.
But for those whose finances and lack of job stability are the root of their concerns, it can be exceedingly difficult to pay for the health-care resources that could help them pull through.
In Atlanta, psychologist Erik Fisher said a lot of people who have money stress can't afford therapy. And other patients have had to cut back on their sessions to save money.
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Live PHOTOS: Tattoos in the military
Tale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body Ink
David, who asked that is face not be shown because he is with Special Operations, has his left arm almost entirely covered in tattoos. The designs include rays of light, angels and religious parables about the narrow and wide gates to heaven and hell.
Tale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkDavid, who asked that is face not be shown because he is with Special Operations, has his left arm almost entirely covered in tattoos. The designs include rays of light, angels and religious parables about the narrow and wide gates to heaven and hell.ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkDavid, 26, received his first tattoo when he was 18. He had it covered up with this large cross, which was created to look like it was carved in "old worn wood."ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkRob Laffery, 35, is a tattoo artist at Performance Tattoo in Fayetteville, N.C., and knows where the sensitive spots are for his needle. He had one spot marked on his own wrist. "Yeah, that was a painful spot," he deadpanned.
ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkJeffrey York, a veteran of the Afghan war who is currently assigned to Ft. Bragg, says he wears this statement from Theodore Roosevelt on his leg because it's about "people on the outside judging without being in the arena."
ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body Ink"As my travel and experiences grew, the tattoos grew with them," says Ray, another soldier who's in Special Operations. The burning sun represents life and the tree without leaves represents death. Ray said he saw this tree -- a "perfect tree in the middle of Baghdad" -- and the Kurdish writing below it translates to "I make my living by my weapons."ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkRob Laffery tattoos soldiers at Performance Tattoo in Fayetteville, N.C., which is close to Ft. Bragg. Trends come and go, and lately "zombies are big," he said. He's been tattooing tribal prints for 18 years.ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkAmy Smith, 29, is currently based at Ft. Bragg and has been in the Army for four years. "No place I've been [stationed] has winters so I'm bringing the snow with me," said the native of upstate New York referring to the large blue and black snowflakes tattooed across her back. Smith described the two colorful patterns on her arm as "two finials of fire and smoke--the ying and yang."
Karen Russo/ABCTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body Ink"I wanted my family tattooed on me, but I didn't want a list of names," saidChristina Dion, 33, public affairs specialist at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. So she tattooed the Chinese zodiac characters of her three children's birth years (the years of the snake, ox and goat) onto her back. "They're my everything. They're it. The hard work, determination, motivation and drive. The suck-it-up attitude because I don't want them to have to suck it up. I didn't have the easiest life. I don't want them to grow up like I did."Karen Russo/ABC Tale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkRob Laffery, 35, tattoos soldiers at Performance Tattoo in Fayetteville, N.C., which is close to Ft. Bragg. Trends come and go. Nowadays "zombies are big," he said. "Ouch" is tattooed on his inner wrist: "Yeah that was a painful spot," he deadpanned.
Karen Russo/ABCTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkA soldier who did not want his face shown or be identified beyond his first name of Zach because he is in a special operations had his daughter's feet photocopied from her birth certificate and tattooed onto his arm. "So if I'm not around my family I have a piece of them with me," the 23-year-old soldier from Ashville, N.C., said.
Karen Russo/ABCTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkZach also paid homage to his wife on his arm. "She has a classic beauty to me and I wanted to represent that in a pin-up... And she's so firey. That's why she's on the ammo and the big ol bomb. She's my bombshell," he said smiling. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/9 | {"url": "http://abcnews.go.com/International/Afghanistan/photos/photos-tattoos-military-9269824&page=18", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "abcnews.go.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T09:44:20Z", "digest": "sha1:B4KU5AT33TAD2OIJVRXGCET2732EL2FG"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 4016, 4016.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 4016, 4214.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 4016, 9.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 4016, 28.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 4016, 0.98]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 4016, 295.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 4016, 1.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 4016, 0.37366167]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 4016, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 4016, 0.18012223]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 4016, 0.3805082]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 4016, 0.35863622]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 4016, 0.34737858]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 4016, 0.3049212]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 4016, 0.24605983]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 4016, 0.02251528]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 4016, 0.0308781]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 4016, 0.03859762]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 4016, 0.05567452]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 4016, 0.20235546]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 4016, 0.40883191]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 4016, 4.42877493]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 4016, 0.00107066]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 4016, 5.13881968]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 4016, 702.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 77, 0.0], [77, 329, 1.0], [329, 1100, 1.0], [1100, 1372, 0.0], [1372, 2460, 0.0], [2460, 3344, 1.0], [3344, 3731, 1.0], [3731, 4016, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 77, 0.0], [77, 329, 0.0], [329, 1100, 0.0], [1100, 1372, 0.0], [1372, 2460, 0.0], [2460, 3344, 0.0], [3344, 3731, 0.0], [3731, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 37, 6.0], [37, 77, 8.0], [77, 329, 44.0], [329, 1100, 137.0], [1100, 1372, 47.0], [1372, 2460, 187.0], [2460, 3344, 149.0], [3344, 3731, 69.0], [3731, 4016, 55.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 77, 0.0], [77, 329, 0.0], [329, 1100, 0.00815217], [1100, 1372, 0.0], [1372, 2460, 0.00388727], [2460, 3344, 0.00485437], [3344, 3731, 0.00542005], [3731, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 77, 0.0], [77, 329, 0.0], [329, 1100, 0.0], [1100, 1372, 0.0], [1372, 2460, 0.0], [2460, 3344, 0.0], [3344, 3731, 0.0], [3731, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 37, 0.21621622], [37, 77, 0.175], [77, 329, 0.01587302], [329, 1100, 0.05706874], [1100, 1372, 0.06617647], [1372, 2460, 0.05882353], [2460, 3344, 0.06108597], [3344, 3731, 0.05167959], [3731, 4016, 0.06315789]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 4016, 0.72646588]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 4016, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 4016, 0.89668846]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 4016, 59.85731812]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 4016, 87.7666784]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 4016, -50.27878859]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 4016, 74.0]], "is_duplicate": false} | abcnews.go.com |
Protests in Turkey
Chaos in Istanbul
Erdem Gunduz stands in a silent protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul, June 18, 2013. Gunduz staged an eight-hour silent vigil in Taksim Square, scene of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in recent weeks, inspiring hundreds of others to follow his lead. Gunduz said he wanted to take a stand against police stopping demonstrations near the square. Marko Djurica/Reuters
Chaos in IstanbulErdem Gunduz stands in a silent protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul, June 18, 2013. Gunduz staged an eight-hour silent vigil in Taksim Square, scene of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in recent weeks, inspiring hundreds of others to follow his lead. Gunduz said he wanted to take a stand against police stopping demonstrations near the square. Marko Djurica/ReutersChaos in IstanbulTurkish choreographer Erdem Gunduz, center, stands in Taksim square, June 18, 2013. The man stood for several hours unnoticed before his presence on the flashpoint square went viral on the social network Twitter. He was then joined by hundreds of others who in solidarity decided to join his protest by also standing silently.Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/10 | {"url": "http://abcnews.go.com/International/photos/protestors-police-clash-istanbul-19381992?page=2", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "abcnews.go.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T09:30:46Z", "digest": "sha1:BE4FBQR4LBA3EJDKXNJ6V4F64K5LVZGE"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1220, 1220.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1220, 1456.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1220, 4.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1220, 24.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1220, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1220, 275.9]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1220, 0.31696429]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1220, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1220, 0.05964215]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1220, 0.02982107]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1220, 0.02982107]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1220, 0.00446429]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1220, 0.15625]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1220, 0.4516129]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1220, 5.40860215]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1220, 4.18905562]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1220, 186.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 19, 0.0], [19, 37, 0.0], [37, 434, 0.0], [434, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 19, 0.0], [19, 37, 0.0], [37, 434, 0.0], [434, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 19, 3.0], [19, 37, 3.0], [37, 434, 61.0], [434, 1220, 119.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 19, 0.0], [19, 37, 0.0], [37, 434, 0.01554404], [434, 1220, 0.01564537]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 19, 0.0], [19, 37, 0.0], [37, 434, 0.0], [434, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 19, 0.10526316], [19, 37, 0.11111111], [37, 434, 0.03274559], [434, 1220, 0.04071247]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1220, 0.98415017]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1220, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1220, 0.74245656]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1220, -50.93588305]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1220, 16.16356805]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1220, 32.5320797]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1220, 10.0]], "is_duplicate": true} | abcnews.go.com |
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Reporter's Notebook: One Face From Tahrir Square, Cairo
CAIRO, Feb. 3, 2011
By DAVID MUIR
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Sherief Gaberf shows his injuries after being struck in the face by pro-Mubarak forces in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Feb. 2, 2011. He left his studies at the University of Texas to travel to Egypt this week and check on his grandmother and join his friends in protest. Courtesy Sherief Gaber
As so many people tried to get out of Egypt this week, we traveled to Cairo Tuesday on a nearly empty flight.
In the back of the plane, there was a young man from Texas who'd told his university professors that he just had to get home.
"I have some family there, and I want to check on grandma," Sherief Gaber said.
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When our plane landed, Gaber asked us for a ride from the airport, explaining that he had tried to get word to his grandmother and wasn't even sure if she knew he was coming.
On the highway into town, we passed lone cars braving the streets well past curfew time. There were flashing lights, and then the stops -- checkpoints enforced by a citizen's army that had taken hold here.
Neighbors have armed themselves with guns and bats, stopping cars to check IDs and passports.
"I think everyone got afraid of the looting, and so they took to the streets themselves," Gaber said.
"You've never seen anything like this?" I asked him.
"Never, anywhere," he said.
In Climate of Fear, Citizens Set Up Checkpoints
We were stopped more than a dozen times before we finally reached Gaber's grandmother's home. We followed Gaber as he made his way through a familiar iron gate and pressed the buzzer.
"Nonna? It's Sherief," he said.
As we made our way up the stairs, frightened neighbors began shouting from their balconies: Who are you, and who are you here to see?
When we reached Gaber's grandmother's door, she saw her grandson and greeted him with a giant hug. She welcomed the crew from America into her house, too.
Just a short time later, our visit was interrupted by a man who barged in carrying a gun. It was a neighbor, checking up on the grandmother.
Gaber Involved in Clash in Cairo's Tahrir Square
"Has this been a difficult time for Egypt?" I asked the grandmother.
"Very, very," she said. "I can't open or anything. You can't open the door. You act like you're not here. You pretend like you're not home."
Her grandson's visit brought a smile, but he told her he wanted to meet up with friends who had marched in protest that day and were still together that night. Before leaving, Gaber gave his grandma a kiss goodbye.
Today, we heard from Gaber again. He'd e-mailed a photo of himself, his face battered and bloody, but still bearing an unmistakable smile. He told us that he had gone with his friends to Tahrir Square, the epicenter of clashes between anti-Mubarak protesters and crowds who support the embattled president, Tuesday night, .
Gaber told us that he was on the fringe of the square when he was attacked, struck in the face with a stone by a pro-Mubarak demonstrator.
The young man who'd come to Egypt to check on his grandmother was now being cared for by his family. He said he wouldn't go back out again tonight.
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April 09, 2014 - Many argue a large swath of Old West Baltimore –once one of the most vibrant Black communities in America – was dissected and diminished by the city’s attempts at urban renewal from the 1950’s to the early 1970’s. Now the State Center Project some say once the sight of failed public policy hopes to breathe new life into some West Baltimore neighborhoods.more Previous 30 Articles NEWS | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/16 | {"url": "http://afro.com/sections/news/Baltimore/index.htm/story.htm?storyid=80307", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "afro.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:29:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RFFS4WRGK5YR7FILIEZHF3TRWLBJQU3D"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 3248, 3248.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 3248, 5704.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 3248, 13.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 3248, 146.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 3248, 0.92]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 3248, 279.1]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 3248, 0.25310559]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 3248, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 3248, 0.01602442]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 3248, 0.02518123]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 3248, 0.01983976]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 3248, 0.03416149]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 3248, 0.2189441]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 3248, 0.57309942]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 3248, 5.10916179]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 3248, 5.28141805]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 3248, 513.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 35, 0.0], [35, 189, 0.0], [189, 355, 0.0], [355, 579, 0.0], [579, 592, 0.0], [592, 1006, 0.0], [1006, 1367, 0.0], [1367, 1828, 0.0], [1828, 2169, 0.0], [2169, 2396, 0.0], [2396, 2636, 0.0], [2636, 2845, 0.0], [2845, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 35, 0.0], [35, 189, 0.0], [189, 355, 0.0], [355, 579, 0.0], [579, 592, 0.0], [592, 1006, 0.0], [1006, 1367, 0.0], [1367, 1828, 0.0], [1828, 2169, 0.0], [2169, 2396, 0.0], [2396, 2636, 0.0], [2636, 2845, 0.0], [2845, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 35, 5.0], [35, 189, 22.0], [189, 355, 24.0], [355, 579, 40.0], [579, 592, 3.0], [592, 1006, 69.0], [1006, 1367, 53.0], [1367, 1828, 70.0], [1828, 2169, 53.0], [2169, 2396, 35.0], [2396, 2636, 39.0], [2636, 2845, 31.0], [2845, 3248, 69.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 35, 0.0], [35, 189, 0.0], [189, 355, 0.01234568], [355, 579, 0.03773585], [579, 592, 0.0], [592, 1006, 0.02255639], [1006, 1367, 0.02571429], [1367, 1828, 0.03644647], [1828, 2169, 0.02727273], [2169, 2396, 0.0361991], [2396, 2636, 0.03539823], [2636, 2845, 0.04040404], [2845, 3248, 0.04020101]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 35, 0.0], [35, 189, 0.0], [189, 355, 0.0], [355, 579, 0.0], [579, 592, 0.0], [592, 1006, 0.0], [1006, 1367, 0.0], [1367, 1828, 0.0], [1828, 2169, 0.0], [2169, 2396, 0.0], [2396, 2636, 0.0], [2636, 2845, 0.0], [2845, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 35, 0.14285714], [35, 189, 0.16883117], [189, 355, 0.11445783], [355, 579, 0.14285714], [579, 592, 0.15384615], [592, 1006, 0.07729469], [1006, 1367, 0.04709141], [1367, 1828, 0.06073753], [1828, 2169, 0.09677419], [2169, 2396, 0.07048458], [2396, 2636, 0.10833333], [2636, 2845, 0.09569378], [2845, 3248, 0.0471464]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 3248, 0.02983052]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 3248, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 3248, 0.90974164]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 3248, -218.70719814]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 3248, -10.84132737]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 3248, 0.28912356]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 3248, 24.0]], "is_duplicate": true} | afro.com |
Black Church ‘Keeper of the Flame’ Gala to Celebrate Obama Second Inauguration
by AFRO Staff African American Church Inaugural Ball (Courtesy Image)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The leaders of African American churches will, once again, convene in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Weekend to commemorate one of the most extraordinary events in American history – the second term and inauguration of President Obama, America’s first president of African descent.
In an inaugural ball to be held Jan. 20, the gala celebration will mark the historic event and honor the Keepers of the Flame recipients, individuals whose lifetime achievements and contributions to society and culture have contributed to the realization of this moment in time.
“For certain, the African American Church must mark this moment with great pride, honor and power. For today, we stand on the shoulders of so many who bled and died for this moment of witness, of which we consecrate with our joy and commitment to continue to fight for equality and justice for all,” according to the organizers’ mission statement on the African American Church Inaugural Ball website.
The ball, to be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington, is a sequel to the premiere event in 2009 and will feature leaders from the religious, civic, business, arts, and entertainment communities.
Themed, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the ball will honor those leaders with the “2013 Keepers of the Flame” Award. The recipients are individuals who have sustained an unshakable commitment to our future and who have earned an undeniable place in the African American book of history. Confirmed honorees include: Muhammad Ali; Bishop George E. Battle, Jr.; Bishop Philip R. Cousin, Sr.; Andraé Crouch; Ed Dwight; Joycelyn Elders, MD; Bishop William H. Graves, Sr.; Rev. Dr. Cynthia Hale; Hugh Masekela; Rev. Dr. Otis J. Moss, Jr.; Jessye Norman; Beny Primm, MD, and Cicely Tyson.
Other honorees to be confirmed include: The Honorable Andrew Young, Hon. William J. Clinton, Ruby Dee, Aretha Franklin, Rev. Dr. Cain Hope Felder, Rev. Dr. Katie Cannon, and Dr. Vernon J. Jordan, Sr.
In 2009, distinguished honorees included: Dr. Maya Angelou, Donna Brazile, Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Dr. Marian Wright Edelman, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Earl Graves, Sr., Rev. Dr. William H. Gray, III, Bishop Barbara Harris, Dr. Dorothy I. Height, The Honorable Alexis Herman, Rev. Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Congressman John Lewis, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Marc Morial, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Gardner Taylor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker Sr.
“This inauguration is an extraordinary mark in American history, punctuated by those who so gallantly served so we could see such a time,” said Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, II, Inaugural Ball Chair and pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Mt. Vernon, NY. “This is certainly a time when the African American church community can be proud of its contributions to this great country and honor the work that has been done and those who have made an indelible footprint in the sands of history.” The executive producer is Pernessa Seele, founder and CEO of The Balm In Gilead, Inc., the gala’s fundraising beneficiary. The Balm In Gilead, a nonprofit, international organization, is committed to a dynamic, community-driven approach, contributing a lasting response to health disparities and ensuring that African Americans will become fully knowledgeable about the Affordable Care Act. “This African American Church Inaugural Ball not only celebrates history and President Obama’s second term, it also honors the work that he has enacted, such as The Affordable Care Act, an essential tool for decreasing the rates of preventable diseases in African American communities,” Seele said in a statement.
For more information on the African American Church Inaugural Ball, visit www.AACIB.org. For more information on Pernessa Seele and The Balm In Gilead, visit www.balmingilead.org. The Media should contact UniWorld Group, Inc. – Teresa Lyles Holmes, (212) 219-7239, [email protected]; or Camille Gray, (212) 219-7121, [email protected]. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/17 | {"url": "http://afro.com/sections/news/washington/story.htm?storyid=77120", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "afro.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:27:22Z", "digest": "sha1:J4HFMPNJKPH6WZCO6PCHE24RK2ZQRV4N"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 4097, 4097.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 4097, 7206.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 4097, 11.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 4097, 155.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 4097, 0.91]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 4097, 234.3]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 4097, 0.24378698]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 4097, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 4097, 0.04455294]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 4097, 0.02380226]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 4097, 0.02380226]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 4097, 0.04119622]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 4097, 0.0384498]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 4097, 0.03661886]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 4097, 0.02721893]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 4097, 0.23550296]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 4097, 0.53125]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 4097, 5.1203125]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 4097, 5.32736286]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 4097, 640.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 79, 0.0], [79, 149, 0.0], [149, 453, 1.0], [453, 732, 1.0], [732, 1134, 1.0], [1134, 1327, 1.0], [1327, 1907, 1.0], [1907, 2107, 1.0], [2107, 2556, 1.0], [2556, 3751, 1.0], [3751, 4097, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 79, 0.0], [79, 149, 0.0], [149, 453, 0.0], [453, 732, 0.0], [732, 1134, 0.0], [1134, 1327, 0.0], [1327, 1907, 0.0], [1907, 2107, 0.0], [2107, 2556, 0.0], [2556, 3751, 0.0], [3751, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 79, 12.0], [79, 149, 10.0], [149, 453, 44.0], [453, 732, 45.0], [732, 1134, 68.0], [1134, 1327, 32.0], [1327, 1907, 94.0], [1907, 2107, 33.0], [2107, 2556, 69.0], [2556, 3751, 188.0], [3751, 4097, 45.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 79, 0.0], [79, 149, 0.0], [149, 453, 0.0], [453, 732, 0.00729927], [732, 1134, 0.0], [1134, 1327, 0.02162162], [1327, 1907, 0.00735294], [1907, 2107, 0.0], [2107, 2556, 0.00977995], [2556, 3751, 0.0], [3751, 4097, 0.06289308]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 79, 0.0], [79, 149, 0.0], [149, 453, 0.0], [453, 732, 0.0], [732, 1134, 0.0], [1134, 1327, 0.0], [1327, 1907, 0.0], [1907, 2107, 0.0], [2107, 2556, 0.0], [2556, 3751, 0.0], [3751, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 79, 0.11392405], [79, 149, 0.17142857], [149, 453, 0.08223684], [453, 732, 0.01433692], [732, 1134, 0.02487562], [1134, 1327, 0.02072539], [1327, 1907, 0.09827586], [1907, 2107, 0.135], [2107, 2556, 0.14699332], [2556, 3751, 0.04769874], [3751, 4097, 0.08959538]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 4097, 0.11022538]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 4097, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 4097, 0.65863073]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 4097, -196.55252342]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 4097, 10.95319504]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 4097, -44.92389651]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 4097, 74.0]], "is_duplicate": true} | afro.com |
Moretti Fine Art shows fine works by Italian masters in Shanghai for the first time
The Master of Memphis (Florence, active c.1500-1510), The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and two shepherds. Oil on panel, diameter: 112 cm.
SHANGHAI.- Exhibiting at the Shanghai Fine Jewellery and Art Fair (Stand G5) at the Shanghai Exhibition Center (SEC), China, from 3 to 11 November 2012 for the first time, Moretti Fine Art presents fine works by masters of the Italian Renaissance and other periods to this new and exciting market.
One of the highlights is a Florentine tondo, depicting The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and two shepherds by The Master of Memphis (active c.1500-1510). When this panel appeared at auction in 1961 it was catalogued as by Filippino Lippi (c.1457-1504), son and pupil of Fra Filippo Lippi (c.1406-1459), but scholars, including Everett Fahy, Jonathan Nelson and Patrizia Zambrano, have subsequently attributed this tender devotional image to the anonymous Master of Memphis. The latter, an unidentified assistant to Filippino, has been dubbed the Master of Memphis after a work in the collection of the Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee. His paintings can be identified by the characteristically long and slender fingers and toes of his figures, their rather abrupt gestures and voluminous drapery, with numerous folds and pleats, all of which are evident in this work. This tondo is similar to works attributed to Filippino himself, and thus also demonstrates the influence of Fra Filippo Lippi and Botticelli. There is a particular, obvious delight in the details of the landscape in the background, the tiny plants and grasses in the foreground as well as the hazy blue mountains and towers of the town in the distance that is typical of Filippino.
Astronomy was a science associated in antiquity with Urania, one of the nine Muses whose task it was to measure the heavens and consider the measurements of their movements. An Allegory of Astronomy by Giovanni Martinelli (1600-1659) is one of a series of four canvases, executed by the artist for the Rospigliosi family, dedicated to the arts of the Trivium and the Quadrivium (Architecture, Astronomy, Geometry and Painting). Martinelli was one of a number of artists of the Italian Seicento who painted allegorical works of rare elegance. Dating to the 1650s, this work was executed at a late stage in Martinellis career. Inexplicably ignored by contemporary biographers and other old sources, Martinelli finally received the acknowledgement he deserves last year, on the 500th anniversary of his birth, when he was the subject of a monograph with essays dedicated to various aspects of his brilliant canvases and frescoes, both sacred and profane, as well as a small exhibition in his native town of Arezzo. Today's News
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Grosvenor House Apartments by Jumeirah Living hosts acclaimed art collection from Mark Humphrey | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/43 | {"url": "http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=58744&int_modo=1", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "artdaily.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:49:43Z", "digest": "sha1:H7EJJTHCS4V5OSGZ5HNPZNKA352DPJLG"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 4495, 4495.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 4495, 6625.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 4495, 22.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 4495, 66.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 4495, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 4495, 283.6]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 4495, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 4495, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 4495, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 4495, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 4495, 0.35653236]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 4495, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 4495, 0.03250271]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 4495, 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Obituaries 10-25-2011
October 25, 2011By Beacon Hill Times Staff
Barbara Livingston Hally
Contributing writer for Beacon Hill Times
Barbara Livingston Hally of Boston died on October 18. She was 93 years old.
Born to Mary Bolles Livingston and Harry Angus Livingston in Jamaica Plain, she was the loving widow of the late John R. Hally, Esquire.
Mrs. Hally was a graduate of Holyoke High School and received an associate’s degree from Becker College in Worcester. During World War II, Mrs. Hally was assigned to Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee as confidential secretary to the base commander. She was executive secretary to the late Erwin N. Griswold, former dean of the Harvard Law School, from 1946 to 1952. Mrs. Hally was an accomplished painter who exhibited her work at the Boston Athenæum and was a member of the Wellesley Artist Society in the town where she lived for 23 years. She was also a contributor to various charities and wrote about life on Beacon Hill, where she lived in her later years, for the Beacon Hill Times. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/57 | {"url": "http://beaconhilltimes.com/2011/10/25/obituaries-10-25-2011/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "beaconhilltimes.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:18:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GYBKGCMJ5MGM5UODFBKHOW7QHVHWXZ4H"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1037, 1037.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1037, 2295.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1037, 7.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1037, 75.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1037, 0.98]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1037, 164.1]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1037, 0.32352941]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1037, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1037, 0.0477327]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1037, 0.05369928]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1037, 0.01470588]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1037, 0.16176471]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1037, 0.58757062]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1037, 4.73446328]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1037, 4.37706316]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1037, 177.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 22, 0.0], [22, 65, 0.0], [65, 90, 0.0], [90, 132, 0.0], [132, 209, 1.0], [209, 346, 1.0], [346, 1037, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 22, 0.0], [22, 65, 0.0], [65, 90, 0.0], [90, 132, 0.0], [132, 209, 0.0], [209, 346, 0.0], [346, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 22, 2.0], [22, 65, 7.0], [65, 90, 3.0], [90, 132, 6.0], [132, 209, 14.0], [209, 346, 24.0], [346, 1037, 121.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 22, 0.42105263], [22, 65, 0.14634146], [65, 90, 0.0], [90, 132, 0.0], [132, 209, 0.05405405], [209, 346, 0.0], [346, 1037, 0.01477105]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 22, 0.0], [22, 65, 0.0], [65, 90, 0.0], [90, 132, 0.0], [132, 209, 0.0], [209, 346, 0.0], [346, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 22, 0.04545455], [22, 65, 0.13953488], [65, 90, 0.12], [90, 132, 0.0952381], [132, 209, 0.07792208], [209, 346, 0.09489051], [346, 1037, 0.05788712]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1037, 0.27705669]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1037, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1037, 0.91832972]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1037, -11.31934491]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1037, 5.28331181]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1037, 45.99320291]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1037, 13.0]], "is_duplicate": true} | beaconhilltimes.com |
Nothing "Is What It Is"
Question: Which will come first, the completion of the Second Avenue Subway or the next Mets World Series victory? Christine Quinn: Well I can’t actually answer that question honestly because my father is 84, and he remembers the day his mother sent him and his brother out of the apartment to go watch the men who were going to build them a new subway. And he has claimed he is not going to die until he gets to ride the Second Avenue Subway. So, I might, you know, I have a slightly skewed allegiance as it relates to the finishing of the Second Avenue Subway. Question: What idea has most inspired you? Christine Quinn: You know, when I was a kid, I read every biography in my school library about a political leader or a famous woman. And the idea in all of those books were that you could change things was that, you know, everyone uses this phrase nowadays, “it is what it is.” I hate that phrase. Nothing "is what it is." Things can always change to what we want them to be and to be better. And as a kid that’s the idea I got out of those books. That people can change things and people can make situations that aren’t good, better. And to me that is the only real idea that matters.
Question: Who is the greatest or most inspiring New Yorker of all time? Christine Quinn: Probably the greatest or most inspiring New Yorker of all time would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His wife a close second.
Recorded on October 28, 2010 Interviewed by Andrew Dermont
Directed & Produced by Jonathan Fowler
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Gordon Brown hails education as the best anti-poverty program
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This morning, 69 million children would not have gone to school around the world. And of those who did, many did not learn what they should have. It is a good thing that education has such energetic champions as Queen Rania of Jordan and Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister, both of whom made strong statements today in New York in support of universal access to good-quality education.
“I have one goal—to advocate that every child receives a quality education,” said Queen Rania, who is the co-founder and co-chair of 1Goal , a campaign that was founded with the objective of ensuring that education for all would be a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Gordon Brown spoke of education as the best anti-poverty and anti-deprivation program, speaking of successes he had seen recently in Africa. “In Kenya, I saw first-hand the benefit for free education for all,” he said, “There were 1 million children standing in queues waiting to be enrolled.”
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director at the World Bank noted that the International Development Association (IDA) had just pledged an additional $750 million for education over the next five years for countries off-track, especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
“These additional resources will be used to improve access to good quality schools, for girls’ scholarships, for conditional cash transfers, for grants to schools—these are proven interventions that are producing results,” she said. “We know what works and so we are scaling up.”
The current Secretary for International Development in the UK, Andrew Mitchell, emphasized that both “output and outcomes” were important in education, explaining that outputs are the number of schools built, and outcomes are the number of children receiving good quality education.
The message of the day on education was most neatly put by Nthabiseng Tshabalala, a 12-year-old from a Soweto school. She called on leaders gathered in New York to ensure that all 69 million out-of-school children also get their chance to be leaders some day. Tags: United KingdomSouth AfricaKenyaJordanSouth AsiaMiddle East and North AfricaLatin America & CaribbeanEurope and Central AsiaEast Asia and PacificAfricaPovertyEducationworld bankUNPovertyMDGs
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Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. – Application to review and vary Telecom Decision 2009-462 concerning the reimbursement of costs associated with relocating transmission facilities
File number: 8662-S9-201000802
In this decision, the Commission denies an application by Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. (Shaw) to modify the Commission’s determinations in Telecom Decision 2009-462 regarding the reimbursement by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of British Columbia of Shaw’s costs of relocating its transmission facilities, whether those facilities are attached to Shaw’s own support structures or to the support structures of third parties.
Introduction 1. The Commission received an application by Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. (Shaw), dated 22 January 2010, requesting that the Commission review and vary its determinations in Telecom Decision 2009-462. In that decision, the Commission, among other things, refrained from directing the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of British Columbia (the Ministry) to reimburse Shaw for the costs of relocating its transmission facilities that are attached to the support structures of third parties, on the basis of its finding that the dispute did not engage the Commission’s jurisdiction under subsection 43(4) of the Telecommunications Act (the Act).
2. Shaw submitted that there was substantial doubt as to the correctness of the decision, arguing that the Commission had erred in law and in fact in concluding that it does not have jurisdiction under subsection 43(4) of the Act to order the Ministry to reimburse Shaw for costs incurred as a result of Ministry-initiated relocation of transmission lines placed on third-party support structures.
3. Shaw further submitted that the Commission had failed to consider a basic principle from Order 2000-13 that had been raised in the proceeding leading to Telecom Decision 2009-462, namely that support structure licensees should pursue compensation for relocation expenses directly with the third party requesting the relocation.
4. As such, the company requested that the Commission vary its determination in Telecom Decision 2009-462 that the company’s original application did not engage the Commission’s jurisdiction under subsection 43(4) of the Act. Shaw also requested that the Commission vary that decision by directing the Ministry to reimburse the company for the costs of relocating its transmission facilities at the request of the Ministry, whether these facilities are located on Shaw’s own support structures or attached to the support structures of third parties, on terms and conditions that are consistent with Decision 2001-23.
5. The Commission received comments regarding Shaw’s application from the Ministry. The public record of this proceeding, which closed on 1 March 2010, is available on the Commission’s website at www.crtc.gc.ca under “Public Proceedings” or by using the file number provided above.
6. The Commission has identified the following issues to be addressed in this decision:
I. Did the Commission err in Telecom Decision 2009-462 when it concluded that Shaw’s application did not engage the Commission’s jurisdiction under subsection 43(4) of the Act?
II. Did the Commission err in Telecom Decision 2009-462 by not addressing the principle set out in Order 2000-13 that support structure licensees should pursue compensation for relocation expenses directly with the third party requesting relocation?
7. Shaw submitted that the Commission’s interpretation of its jurisdiction was unduly narrow and created uncertainty. Shaw argued that the Commission’s jurisdiction was engaged by the company’s application on the basis that its inability to obtain the Ministry’s consent to keep transmission lines in place on terms and conditions acceptable to Shaw was the type of situation captured by subsection 43(4) of the Act. In Shaw’s view, the terms and conditions for access to power poles by utilities set out in the Ministry’s public utility manual apply to it as it is a “utility” as defined therein. Shaw also argued that the suggestion that it is entitled under the Act to seek compensation from the Ministry for the relocation costs of only some of its transmission facilities, based on the ownership of the underlying support structure, is arbitrary.
8. The Commission notes that the Ministry does not require Shaw to obtain its consent in any form, whether by permit or otherwise, to install its facilities on support structures of third parties nor does the Ministry impose any terms or fees on Shaw as a condition of gaining access to the support structures of third parties.
9. In light of the above, the Commission considers that there is no issue of consent to engage subsection 43(4) of the Act. The Commission therefore finds that it did not err when it concluded in Telecom Decision 2009-462 that Shaw’s application did not engage the Commission’s jurisdiction under subsection 43(4) of the Act.
10. As noted above, Shaw submitted that the Commission had erred in Telecom Decision 2009-462 by not considering a basic principle set out in Order 2000-13, namely that support structure licensees should pursue compensation for relocation expenses directly with the third party requesting relocation. Shaw submitted that the Commission’s failure to address this principle in Telecom Decision 2009-462 raises substantial doubt as to the correctness of that decision.
11. The Commission notes that it was not necessary to address the applicability of the principle set out in Order 2000-13 in the context of Shaw’s access to third-parties’ support structures as the Commission found that it did not have jurisdiction to address Shaw’s reimbursement for the cost of relocating its transmission facilities on third‑parties’ support structures.
12. With respect to the reimbursement for the costs of relocating Shaw’s transmission facilities that are attached to the company’s own support structures, the Commission notes that it was not necessary to address explicitly the applicability of the principle set out in Order 2000-13, given that the Ministry had indicated it was willing to negotiate an agreement with Shaw.
13. In light of the above, the Commission finds that it did not err in Telecom Decision 2009-462 by not addressing the principle set out in Order 2000-13 that support structure licensees should pursue compensation for relocation expenses directly with the third party requesting relocation.
14. In light of the above, the Commission finds that it did not err in law or in fact, and finds that Shaw did not raise substantial doubt as to the correctness of the Commission’s determinations in Telecom Decision 2009-462. Accordingly, the Commission denies Shaw’s application.
Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. – Application seeking access to highways controlled by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of British Columbia on terms consistent with Decision 2001-23, Telecom Decision CRTC 2009-462, 30 July 2009
Ledcor/Vancouver – Construction, operation and maintenance of transmission lines in Vancouver, Decision CRTC 2001-23, 25 January 2001
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NASA Release: Suomi NPP Captures Night View of U.S. Before Hurricane Sandy’s Landfall
October 31st, 2012 by Mike Carlowicz
The following is a cross-post of a news release written by our colleagues Rob Gutro and Laura Betz in NASA public affairs and Suomi NPP outreach…
As Hurricane Sandy made a historic landfall on the New Jersey coast during the night of October 29, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NASA/NOAA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured this nighttime view of the storm. This image, provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a composite of several satellite passes over North America taken 18 hours before Sandy’s landfall.
The storm was captured by a special “day-night band,” which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as auroras, airglow, gas flares, city lights, fires and reflected moonlight. City lights in the south and mid-section of the United States are visible in the image.
William Straka, associate researcher at Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains that since there was a full moon there was the maximum illumination of the clouds.
“You can see that Sandy is pulling energy both from Canada as well as off in the eastern part of the Atlantic,” Straka said. “Typically forecasters use only the infrared bands at night to look at the structure of the storm. However, using images from the new day/night band sensor in addition to the thermal channels can provide a more complete and unique view of hurricanes at night.”
VIIRS is one of five instruments onboard Suomi NPP. The mission is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Department of Defense.
On Monday, Oct. 29, around 8 p.m. EDT, Hurricane Sandy made landfall 5 miles (10 km) south of Atlantic City, N.J., near 39 degrees 24 minutes north latitude and 74 degrees 30 minutes west longitude. At the time of landfall, Sandy’s maximum sustained winds were near 80 mph (130 kph) and it was moving to the west-northwest at 23 mph (37 kph). According to the National Hurricane Center, hurricane-force winds extended outward to 175 miles (280 km) from the center, and tropical-storm-force winds extended 485 miles (780 km). Sandy’s minimum central pressure at the time of landfall was 946 millibars or 27.93 inches.
Suomi NPP was launched on Oct. 28, 2011, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. One year later, the satellite has orbited Earth more than 5,000 times and returned images and data that provide critical weather and climate measurements of complex Earth systems. Suomi NPP observes nearly every location on Earth’s surface twice every 24 hours, once in daylight and once at night. NPP flies 512 miles (824 kilometers) above the surface in a polar orbit, circling the planet about 14 times a day. NPP sends its data once an orbit to the ground station in Svalbard, Norway, and continuously to local, direct-broadcast users.
For storm history, images, and video of Hurricane Sandy, please visit the following websites:
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2012/h2012_Sandy.html
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/event.php?id=79504
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A view of Sandy from the TRMM satellite
October 29th, 2012 by Adam Voiland
Check our Hurricane Sandy event page, our YouTube page, and NASA’s Hurricane Resource page for the latest storm images from NASA.
NASA hurricane researcher Owen Kelley prepared this image and caption. The day before Hurricane Sandy’s center was forecast to make landfall in New Jersey, the radar on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed the hurricane’s center.
At 2:20 EDT on Sunday October 28, Hurricane Sandy was a marginal category 1 hurricane and its eyewall was modest, as TRMM reveals, which gives us hints about its possible future strength.
The eyewall was somewhat compact with its 40 km diameter; the eyewall contained only relatively light precipitation; and none of Sandy’s eyewall storm cells managed to burst through, or even reach, the tropopause, which has about a 10 km height at mid-latitudes. Evidence of the weak updrafts in the eyewall comes from the fact that the TRMM radar’s reflectivity stayed under 40 dBZ, a commonly cited signal strength at which updrafts can be vigorous enough to form hail and to lift smaller ice particles up through the tropopause and into the stratosphere.
But placed in context, the TRMM-observed properties of Hurricane Sandy’s eyewall are evidence of remarkable vigor. Most hurricanes
only have well-formed and compact eyewalls at category 3 strength or higher. Sandy was not only barely a category 1 hurricane, but
Sandy was also experiencing strong wind shear, Sandy was going over ocean typically too cold to form hurricanes, and Sandy had been limping along as a marginal hurricane for several days.
With infrared satellite observations (as in the background of the images show), one can speculate about what the sort of convective storms are developing under the hurricane’s cloud tops, but Sandy was sneaking up the East Coast too far out at sea for land-based radars to provide definitive observations of the rain regions inside of the hurricane’s clouds. The radar on the TRMM satellite provided this missing information during this overflight of Hurricane Sandy.
The TRMM satellite also showed that the super-sized rainband that extended to the west and north of the center did contain vigorous
storm cells, as indicated by the red regions of radar reflectivity in excess of 40 dBZ. This rainband is expected to lash the coast well before the hurricane’s center make landfall. Even further west, at the upper left corner of the image, one can see two small storm cells. These storm cells are the southern-most tip of the independent weather system that is coming across the United States and that is expected to merge and possibly reinvigorate the remnants of Hurricane Sandy after Sandy makes landfall.
TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and JAXA, the Japan Space Exploration Agency. Some of the questions about hurricanes left unanswered by the TRMM satellite will be explored by the Global Precipitation Measuring (GPM) satellite scheduled for launch in 2014. For more information, visit http://pmm.gsfc.nasa.gov.
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Keeping track of changing landscapes
October 23rd, 2012 by Mike Carlowicz
When you look at a parcel of Earth’s surface at a moment in time, it can be hard to grasp the story behind the image. It’s a snapshot, a fleeting glimpse. Does it always look like that? Am I seeing this place on a normal day, an abnormal day, an everyday? Where’s the motion, the action, the dynamics?
For instance, take a look at this collection of lakes amidst the barren, salt-crusted landscape of central Asia.
The size of these freshwater lakes is compelling…tens to hundreds of kilometers long…oases of green and blue amidst the tans of the desert. These “inland seas” are impressive. That is, until you look at that same region a decade earlier (below)…or forty years earlier.
Through the lens of time, the planet comes to life. The color of the landscape changes, waters rise and fall, ice advances and retreats. The planet has vital signs. Earth Observatory’s World of Change series offers some visual vital signs for 23 different landscapes and locales on Earth, with images updated across seasons to decades, depending on the length of the satellite record.
Our newest updates include 2012 images for the Aral Sea (sampled above) and for the Hobet Mine, a mountaintop coal-mining operation in West Virginia.
What do you think we should show in future installments of World of Change? (Keep in mind that it has to be something we can see or measure via satellite.)
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Which do you prefer: active fires or burn scars?
October 22nd, 2012 by Adam Voiland
The Pole Creek fire is hardly breaking news. As of October 20, 2012, authorities announced that the blaze was 100 percent contained. In early October, when we first published this image that the Terra satellite acquired in September, the fire was still burning wildly and sending up smoke plumes that shrouded the Three Sisters and the surrounding communities in a heavy layer of smoke.
A few weeks later, on October 5, a different instrument on a different satellite—the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite—acquired a false-color view of the fire (below). Rather than smoke billowing from an actively burning fire, the image features the burn scar left behind.
In ideal circumstances, we publish images of a fire while it is actively burning and also after the fact. But, in some cases, either because the satellites don’t acquire usable images or because we simply don’t have time to post them, we end up showing one view or the other.
There’s no shortage of fires we could show. (To get a sense of this, take a look at this map of global fire activity to see the constant presence of wildfires on our planet.) If we wanted, we could show only active fires with smoke, only burn scars, or any combination of the two and still have far more images than we could possibly post.
But which view do you prefer? And how late is too late? If a fire has been under control for day or weeks are you still interested in seeing the event or the scars that it left behind?
And what about other types of natural disasters like storms or volcanic eruptions? If a storm has already broken up, if a volcanic ash plume has dissipated, if a hurricane has no chance of making landfall…are you still interested in seeing it, or does it just feel like old news?
Well…how did I get here?
October 16th, 2012 by Mike Carlowicz
As part of Earth Science Week, various NASA scientists and staff have been writing and talking about what it is like to work in science. One of those staff members is our colleague, Jefferson Beck, a documentary producer turned NASA science communicator…
So I’m flying at 1,500 feet above a giant crack in the Pine Island Glacier. By “giant” I mean up to 800 feet across, deeper than the Statue of Liberty, and 18 miles long. I’m in a NASA DC-8 aircraft with Operation IceBridge, the first airborne mission to take detailed measurements of such a massive calving event in progress. If this chunk of the Antarctic ice shelf splits off and floats away as one big piece, it will be the size of New York City. As the video producer assigned to this mission, I’m trying to make the most out of the few moments where the scenery isn’t just impressive, but truly stunning. My stomach is tight with excitement and worry that I’ll miss the best shots. I have one camera set up recording a time-lapse out one window, and I’m holding another camera against another window. I’m bracing myself with a ratty piece of foam against the fuselage and trying to find a clear spot among the window’s many scratches as the plane bounces along. The Crack looms large for a while, then quickly fades from sight and gets lost in the whiteness.
After we finish our flight lines, we bank out over the razor-sharp edge where the ancient Antarctic ice meets the dark water. We start to gain altitude for the long flight back to Punta Arenas, Chile, a port city on the Strait of Magellan. As we climb, I think about how few people have gotten to see the frozen continent from this perspective. Then I look around at the amazingly talented group of people on board, and think: “how did I wind up here?”
You’d think that most people who work at NASA are numerical geniuses who spent their high school years building robots and answering math problems for fun. And we do have people like that. We also have people who could rebuild an engine when they were 14 and people who had their pilot’s license at 17.
But for me, high school was many things and the path was not always clear. High school was cross country and track, the school newspaper, reading lots of science fiction, smudging my way through art classes, dropping an essay-writing class to have double-lunch with my girlfriend, struggling a bit with math, and really enjoying most of my science courses.
My continuing issues with math — and, as it turned out, chemistry — didn’t stop me from becoming a biology major in college. There I focused on ecology and natural history. After that, my plan was to become a biologist, so for a while I ended up in Alaska standing in frozen streams and counting wild salmon. I loved being in the field and I loved the natural world, but slowly the idea of being a research scientist began to fade.
Not knowing what to do next, I went back home to Ohio. I couch-surfed for a while before landing a job as a reporter for a small-town newspaper. Then I helped build a local bike trail, did some reporting for radio, and then got involved with non-profit community-building work. For a while, I was a bouncer in a bar one night a week. Finally, I landed in filmmaking. I took some film classes, worked on a couple of indie features, and made some little films of my own.
It all kind of looks like a jumbled mess, doesn’t it? It doesn’t make you think, “well, here’s a guy who is destined for NASA.” It’s what career-minded people call “lateral moves,” jumping sideways from one career track to another without much advancement – the kinds of moves that make some parents scratch their heads and start to worry.
But all that experience led me to finally apply to a grad school program in science and nature filmmaking at Montana State University. I got accepted, and later got my job at NASA, because I was able to tell a story – a true story – using the skills I had gained from all those lateral moves. I could write, manage a project, understand scientists, recognize news, work in the field, dig deep and endure adversity [claiming this one from my 10 years running cross country and track], and make a video.
So my take home message is this: If you’re one of those focused people who know exactly what they want to do and head straight for it, fantastic. One day you’ll be flying the plane I’m riding in, designing one of our satellites, or sending us to Mars. And I’ll be grateful for your skills. But if your career path wanders, don’t worry. If you keep learning as you go, one day it will make for a very interesting true story.
This month I’m heading back to Chile, and back to flying at 1,500 feet over the Antarctic ice, and maybe even back to the Pine Island Glacier, which finally seems ready to give up its New York City-sized chunk of ice. Wherever we fly, it will be exciting. And difficult, and beautiful, and scientifically valuable. There will be a lot of true stories out there, and I’ll do my best to bring them home.
Watch Jefferson’s video: Flying through the Rift: An update on the crack in the Pine Island Glacier.
Learn more about other Earth Explorers like Jefferson on the NASA Earth Science Week website.
Earth Science Week 2012 at NASA
October 12th, 2012 by Michon Scott
October 14–20 is Earth Science Week. This annual celebration started in 1998, established by the American Geosciences Institute to help children, students, and the general public understand how geoscientists collect information about our planet.
In 2012, the theme is “Discovering Careers in the Earth Sciences” and involves activities by NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Park Service, and multiple professional associations. Online resources for Earth Science Week include tools for teachers, students, and the media. Highlights of Earth Science Week 2012 include National Fossil Day on October 17, Female Geoscientist Day on October 18, and Geologic Map Day on October 19.
From the Global Climate Change Earth Science Week Blog: Explorer Christy Hansen hugs the Russell glacier, part of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Image courtesy Christy Hansen, JPL
NASA plays an active role in the celebration, hosting activities and offering an ESW web site with a blog, an events page, a videos page, and explorer articles. These resources (including several in Spanish) introduce visitors to NASA’s Earth Explorers — scientists, engineers, educators, multimedia producers, and writers — who describe their work, their motivations for studying our planet, and the kinds of challenges they face on a daily basis.
The schedule of NASA-sponsored events includes:
– Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1-2 p.m. EDT – Twitter chat with polar scientist Thorsten Markus
– Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1-2 p.m. EDT – Univisión radio interview with scientists Erika Podest and Miguel Román (in Spanish)
– Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1-2 p.m. EDT – Google+ hangout with Operation IceBridge scientist Christy Hansen, on location near Antarctica
– Wednesday, Oct. 17, 4-5 p.m. EDT – Webinar with Aquarius engineers (in Spanish)
– Wednesday, Oct. 17, 6-7 p.m. EDT – Reddit interview with oceanographer Josh Willis
– Thursday, Oct. 18, noon-1 p.m. EDT – Twitter chat with atmospheric research scientist Erica Alston
In addition, on Oct. 18, the many contributions of women at NASA to Earth science will be highlighted on the Women@NASA Blog page: http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/newui/blog/viewpostlist.jsp?blogname=womenatnasa.
Follow the #NASAESW hashtag to keep up on Earth Science Week news from NASA.
October Puzzler Answer: Turkish Glaciers
Congratulations to Britton, Dakota Steve, Alev Akyildiz, and Eric Jeffrey for being the first readers to solve the October puzzler. We posted the image on Tuesday afternoon, and by Wednesday morning Britton had worked out that the location was Mount Uludoruk in the southeastern Taurus Mountains. Later on, Dakota Steve added that it must have been taken in the fall, Alex Akyildiz was the first to give the exact coordinates, and Eric Jeffrey added some interesting details about glacial recession.
Many thanks to Mehmet Akif Sarikaya of Fatih University for providing some of the information that went into the caption we published as our Image of the Day for October 13. Among other things, Sarikaya pointed us to a fascinating account that a British solider (Major F.R. Maunsell) read to members of the Royal Geographical Society after a trip to the region. The account was published in August 1901 by the Geographical Journal. In addition to Maunsell’s colorful writing, the article included the first known image of one of Uludoruk’s glaciers.
Here are a few excerpts from Maunsell’s description of the topography near the site of his photograph:
…A little south of the main ridge of Geliashin, and forming part of the group, are two masses of rock, one the Tura Dauil (David’s mountain), and facing it across a deep chasm-like valley, the other called Nakhira Shirka, both rising to about 11,000 feet. The north slopes of Geliashin and Suppa Durek are perhaps the grandest, as the ground falls away in a splendid succession of crags and precipices into the head of the valley of Des or Deezan, and the stream-level of the Great Zab, only 12 miles off, but 9270 feet lower. Below the crest a small glacier nestles under Geliashin on the north, giving rise to the Des stream, called in Turkish the Kar Su, or Snow water, and in Syriac, Mia Khwara, or White water…
…On all sides, except a narrow ridge on the south-east, are sheer precipices of several hundred feet, and after three attempts, in each of which I was brought up against lines of huge cliffs, I finally discovered that a steep path to the summit existed on the south-east side, but it was too late then to attempt it. The only guides procurable were very misleading, making any statement, if they thought it would please, and were very difficult to verify. The summit ridges swarm with ibex and moufflon, and many of the giant partridge were also seen. Judging from Galianu, the summit of Geliashin must be at least 1500 feet higher, or 13,500 feet above sea-level…
…From Geliashin a razor-edged ridge of limestone rock runs nearly due west for a few miles, and terminates in a very sharp-pointed peak known as the Suppa Durek, or Lady’s Finger (mentioned by Layard), a prominent landmark in the confused outline of crag and. pinnacle west of Geliashin. A col which gives access by a stair-like path from the Zab valley into Jelu district now intervenes to the west, beyond which runs a rugged watershed range of lesser elevation, but containing the sharp peak of Khisara, quite inaccessible except by the wild goats,and enclosing the rocky gorges of Kiyu and IUri draining to the Zab, and overlooking Jelu and Baz to the south.
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October Puzzler
October 8th, 2012 by Adam Voiland
Every month, NASA Earth Observatory will offer up a puzzling satellite image here on Earth Matters. The fifth puzzler is above. Your challenge is to use the comments section below to tell us what part of the world we’re looking at, when the image was acquired, and what’s happening in the scene. How to answer. Your answer can be a few words or several paragraphs. (Just try to keep it shorter than 300-400 words). You might simply tell us what part of the world an image shows. Or you can dig deeper and explain what satellite and instrument produced the image, what bands were used to create it, and what’s interesting about the geologic history of some obscure speck of color in the far corner of an image. If you think something is interesting or noteworthy about a scene, tell us about it.
The prize. We can’t offer prize money for being the first to respond or for digging up the most interesting kernels of information. But, we can promise you credit and glory (well, maybe just credit). Roughly one week after a “mystery image” appears on the blog, we will post an annotated and captioned version as our Image of the Day. In the credits, we’ll acknowledge the person who was first to correctly ID an image. We’ll also recognize people who offer the most interesting tidbits of information. Please include your preferred name or alias with your comment. If you work for an institution that you want us to recognize, please mention that as well.
Recent winners. If you’ve won the puzzler in the last few months, please sit on your hands for at least a few days to give others a chance to play.
You can read more about the origins of the satellite puzzler here. Good luck!
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September Puzzler Answer
Congratulations to Carl Schardt, Conan Witzel, and David Haycock for being some of our first readers to work out that the September puzzler showed part of Queensland’s Channel Country. Carl quickly recognized it was the Simpson Desert, but it took Conan and David a few days to pinpoint the exact area shown.
If you missed it, check out the caption we published about the area back in September as one of our Images of the Days. We’ve published a few other images of Channel Country in the past that are worth a look, including a false-color MODIS image of flooding in 2011 and a false-color Landsat image of the Burke and Hamilton Rivers in 2000.
If you want to find out more about the geography of Queensland, we highly recommend heading over to Queensland by Degrees, a “community geography” project organized by the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland (RGSQ). As part of the project, folks are heading to the bush to take photos and record basic information about specific locations all over Queensland.
Their Eyre Creek site (25.000°S 139.000°E) is quite close to the spot we showed in the puzzler (139.216 E, 24.601 S). Go here for a full map of the areas RGSQ has surveyed. The picture below offers a glimpse of what the landscape looks like from the ground. No dunes in sight, but the group did report the area featured “undifferentiated Cainozoic gravel and pebbles of silicifed rock (i.e. gibbers).”
Photo by Paul Feeney.
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1995 Detroit Tigers season
Major League affiliations
American League (since 1901)
East Division (since 1969)
Tiger Stadium (since 1912)
Detroit, Michigan (since 1901)
Manager(s)
Local television
WKBD
(George Kell, Al Kaline, Jim Price)
(Ernie Harwell, Jim Price, Fred McLeod)
(Frank Beckmann, Lary Sorensen)
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The 1995 Detroit Tigers finished in fourth place in the American League Eastern Division with a record of 60–84 (.417). They were outscored by their opponents 844 to 654. The Tigers drew 1,180,979 fans to Tiger Stadium in 1995, ranking 11th of the 14 teams in the American League.
1 Regular season
1.1 Season standings
1.2 Notable transactions
1.3 Roster
2 Player stats
2.1 Batting
2.1.1 Starters by position
2.1.2 Other batters
2.2 Pitching
2.2.1 Starting pitchers
2.2.2 Other pitchers
2.2.3 Relief pitchers
3 Farm system
Regular season[edit]
Season standings[edit]
New York Yankees *
Notable transactions[edit]
April 3, 1995: Kent Bottenfield was signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.[1]
April 7, 1995: Joe Boever was signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.[2]
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Attractor
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Visual representation of a strange attractor
In dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of physical properties toward which a system tends to evolve, regardless of the starting conditions of the system.[1] Property values that get close enough to the attractor values remain close even if slightly disturbed.
In finite-dimensional systems, the evolving variable may be represented algebraically as an n-dimensional vector. The attractor is a region in n-dimensional space. In physical systems, the n dimensions may be, for example, two or three positional coordinates for each of one or more physical entities; in economic systems, they may be separate variables such as the inflation rate and the unemployment rate.
If the evolving variable is two- or three-dimensional, the attractor of the dynamic process can be represented geometrically in two or three dimensions, (as for example in the three-dimensional case depicted to the right). An attractor can be a point, a finite set of points, a curve, a manifold, or even a complicated set with a fractal structure known as a strange attractor. If the variable is a scalar, the attractor is a subset of the real number line. Describing the attractors of chaotic dynamical systems has been one of the achievements of chaos theory.
A trajectory of the dynamical system in the attractor does not have to satisfy any special constraints except for remaining on the attractor, backward and forward in time. The trajectory may be periodic or chaotic. If a set of points is periodic or chaotic, but the flow in the neighborhood is away from the set, the set is not an attractor, but instead is called a repeller (or repellor).
1 Motivation
2 Mathematical definition
3 Types of attractors
3.1 Fixed point
3.2 Limit cycle
3.3 Limit torus
3.4 Strange attractor
4 Partial differential equations
5 Numerical localization (visualization) of attractors: self-excited and hidden attractors
Motivation[edit]
A dynamical system is generally described by one or more differential or difference equations. The equations of a given dynamical system specify its behavior over any given short period of time. To determine the system's behavior for a longer period, it is necessary to integrate the equations, either through analytical means or through iteration, often with the aid of computers.
Dynamical systems in the physical world tend to arise from dissipative systems: if it were not for some driving force, the motion would cease. (Dissipation may come from internal friction, thermodynamic losses, or loss of material, among many causes.) The dissipation and the driving force tend to balance, killing out initial transients and settle the system into its typical behavior. The subset of the phase space of the dynamical system corresponding to the typical behavior is the attractor, also known as the attracting section or attractee.
Invariant sets and limit sets are similar to the attractor concept. An invariant set is a set that evolves to itself under the dynamics. Attractors may contain invariant sets. A limit set is a set of points such that there exists some initial state that ends up arbitrarily close to the limit set (i.e. to each point of the set) as time goes to infinity. Attractors are limit sets, but not all limit sets are attractors: It is possible to have some points of a system converge to a limit set, but different points when perturbed slightly off the limit set may get knocked off and never return to the vicinity of the limit set.
For example, the damped pendulum has two invariant points: the point x0 of minimum height and the point x1 of maximum height. The point x0 is also a limit set, as trajectories converge to it; the point x1 is not a limit set. Because of the dissipation, the point x0 is also an attractor. If there were no dissipation, x0 would not be an attractor.
Mathematical definition[edit]
Let t represent time and let f(t, •) be a function which specifies the dynamics of the system. 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Cell culture in a special tissue culture dish
Epithelial cells in culture, stained for keratin (red) and DNA (green)
Cell culture is the complex process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside of their natural environment. In practice, the term "cell culture" now refers to the culturing of cells derived from multi-cellular eukaryotes, especially animal cells. However, there are also cultures of plants, fungi, insects and microbes, including viruses, bacteria and protists. The historical development and methods of cell culture are closely interrelated to those of tissue culture and organ culture.
Animal cell culture became a common laboratory technique in the mid-1900s,[1] but the concept of maintaining live cell lines (a population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup) separated from their original tissue source was discovered in the 19th century.[2]
2 Concepts in mammalian cell culture
2.1 Isolation of cells
2.2 Maintaining cells in culture
2.3 Cell line cross-contamination
2.4 Other technical issues
2.5 Manipulation of cultured cells
2.5.1 Media changes
2.5.2 Passaging cells
2.5.3 Transfection and transduction
2.6 Established human cell lines
2.7 Generation of hybridomas
2.8 Cell strains
3 Applications of cell culture
3.1 Cell culture in two dimensions
3.2 Cell culture in three dimensions
3.3 3D Cell Culturing by Magnetic Levitation
3.4 Tissue culture and engineering
3.5 Vaccines
4 Culture of non-mammalian cells
4.1 Plant cell culture methods
4.2 Insect cell culture
4.3 Bacterial and yeast culture methods
4.4 Viral culture methods
5 Common cell lines
6 List of cell lines
The 19th-century English physiologist Sydney Ringer developed salt solutions containing the chlorides of sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium suitable for maintaining the beating of an isolated animal heart outside of the body.[3] In 1885, Wilhelm Roux removed a portion of the medullary plate of an embryonic chicken and maintained it in a warm saline solution for several days, establishing the principle of tissue culture.[4] Ross Granville Harrison, working at Johns Hopkins Medical School and then at Yale University, published results of his experiments from 1907 to 1910, establishing the methodology of tissue culture.[5]
Cell culture techniques were advanced significantly in the 1940s and 1950s to support research in virology. Growing viruses in cell cultures allowed preparation of purified viruses for the manufacture of vaccines. The injectable polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was one of the first products mass-produced using cell culture techniques. This vaccine was made possible by the cell culture research of John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Frederick Chapman Robbins, who were awarded a Nobel Prize for their discovery of a method of growing the virus in monkey kidney cell cultures.
Concepts in mammalian cell culture[edit]
Isolation of cells[edit]
Cells can be isolated from tissues for ex vivo culture in several ways. Cells can be easily purified from blood; however, only the white cells are capable of growth in culture. Mononuclear cells can be released from soft tissues by enzymatic digestion with enzymes such as collagenase, trypsin, or pronase, which break down the extracellular matrix. Alternatively, pieces of tissue can be placed in growth media, and the cells that grow out are available for culture. This method is known as explant culture.
Cells that are cultured directly from a subject are known as primary cells. With the exception of some derived from tumors, most primary cell cultures have limited lifespan. After a certain number of population doublings (called the Hayflick limit), cells undergo the process of senescence and stop dividing, while generally retaining viability.
An established or immortalized cell line has acquired the ability to proliferate indefinitely either through random mutation or deliberate modification, such as artificial expression of the telomerase gene. Numerous cell lines are well established as representative of particular cell types.
Maintaining cells in culture[edit]
Cells are grown and maintained at an appropriate temperature and gas mixture (typically, 37 °C, 5% CO2 for mammalian cells) in a cell incubator. Culture conditions vary widely for each cell type, and variation of conditions for a particular cell type can result in different phenotypes.
Aside from temperature and gas mixture, the most commonly varied factor in culture systems is the cell growth medium. Recipes for growth media can vary in pH, glucose concentration, growth factors, and the presence of other nutrients. The growth factors used to supplement media are often derived from the serum of animal blood, such as fetal bovine serum (FBS), bovine calf serum, equine serum, and porcine serum. One complication of these blood-derived ingredients is the potential for contamination of the culture with viruses or prions, particularly in medical biotechnology applications. Current practice is to minimize or eliminate the use of these ingredients wherever possible and use human platelet lysate (hPL). This eliminates the worry of cross-species contamination when using FBS with human cells. hPL has emerged as a safe and reliable alternative as a direct replacement for FBS or other animal serum. In addition, chemically defined media can be used to eliminate any serum trace (human or animal), but this cannot always be accomplished with different cell types. Alternative strategies involve sourcing the animal blood from countries with minimum BSE/TSE risk, such as Australia and New Zealand, and using purified nutrient concentrates derived from serum in place of whole animal serum for cell culture.[6]
Plating density (number of cells per volume of culture medium) plays a critical role for some cell types. For example, a lower plating density makes granulosa cells exhibit estrogen production, while a higher plating density makes them appear as progesterone-producing theca lutein cells.[7]
Cells can be grown either in suspension or adherent cultures. Some cells naturally live in suspension, without being attached to a surface, such as cells that exist in the bloodstream. There are also cell lines that have been modified to be able to survive in suspension cultures so they can be grown to a higher density than adherent conditions would allow. Adherent cells require a surface, such as tissue culture plastic or microcarrier, which may be coated with extracellular matrix(such as collagen and laminin) components to increase adhesion properties and provide other signals needed for growth and differentiation. Most cells derived from solid tissues are adherent. Another type of adherent culture is organotypic culture, which involves growing cells in a three-dimensional (3-D) environment as opposed to two-dimensional culture dishes. This 3D culture system is biochemically and physiologically more similar to in vivo tissue, but is technically challenging to maintain because of many factors (e.g. diffusion).
Cell line cross-contamination[edit]
Cell line cross-contamination can be a problem for scientists working with cultured cells. Studies suggest anywhere from 15–20% of the time, cells used in experiments have been misidentified or contaminated with another cell line.[8][9][10] Problems with cell line cross-contamination have even been detected in lines from the NCI-60 panel, which are used routinely for drug-screening studies.[11][12] Major cell line repositories, including the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), the European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC) and the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ), have received cell line submissions from researchers that were misidentified by them.[11][13] Such contamination poses a problem for the quality of research produced using cell culture lines, and the major repositories are now authenticating all cell line submissions.[14] ATCC uses short tandem repeat (STR) DNA fingerprinting to authenticate its cell lines.[15]
To address this problem of cell line cross-contamination, researchers are encouraged to authenticate their cell lines at an early passage to establish the identity of the cell line. Authentication should be repeated before freezing cell line stocks, every two months during active culturing and before any publication of research data generated using the cell lines. Many methods are used to identify cell lines, including isoenzyme analysis, human lymphocyte antigen (HLA) typing, chromosomal analysis, karyotyping, morphology and STR analysis.[15]
One significant cell-line cross contaminant is the immortal HeLa cell line.
Other technical issues[edit]
As cells generally continue to divide in culture, they generally grow to fill the available area or volume. This can generate several issues:
Nutrient depletion in the growth media
Changes in pH of the growth media
Accumulation of apoptotic/necrotic (dead) cells
Cell-to-cell contact can stimulate cell cycle arrest, causing cells to stop dividing, known as contact inhibition.
Cell-to-cell contact can stimulate cellular differentiation.
Genetic and epigenetic alterations, with a natural selection of the altered cells potentially leading to overgrowth of abnormal, culture-adapted cells with decreased differentiation and increased proliferative capacity.[16]
Manipulation of cultured cells[edit]
Among the common manipulations carried out on culture cells are media changes, passaging cells, and transfecting cells. These are generally performed using tissue culture methods that rely on aseptic technique. Aseptic technique aims to avoid contamination with bacteria, yeast, or other cell lines. Manipulations are typically carried out in a biosafety hood or laminar flow cabinet to exclude contaminating micro-organisms. Antibiotics (e.g. penicillin and streptomycin) and antifungals (e.g.amphotericin B) can also be added to the growth media.
As cells undergo metabolic processes, acid is produced and the pH decreases. Often, a pH indicator is added to the medium to measure nutrient depletion.
Media changes[edit]
In the case of adherent cultures, the media can be removed directly by aspiration, and then is replaced. Media changes in non-adherent cultures involve centrifuging the culture and resuspending the cells in fresh media.
Passaging cells[edit]
Main article: Passaging
Passaging (also known as subculture or splitting cells) involves transferring a small number of cells into a new vessel. Cells can be cultured for a longer time if they are split regularly, as it avoids the senescence associated with prolonged high cell density. Suspension cultures are easily passaged with a small amount of culture containing a few cells diluted in a larger volume of fresh media. For adherent cultures, cells first need to be detached; this is commonly done with a mixture of trypsin-EDTA; however, other enzyme mixes are now available for this purpose. A small number of detached cells can then be used to seed a new culture. Some cell cultures, such as RAW cells are mechanically scraped from the surface of their vessel with rubber scrapers.
Transfection and transduction[edit]
Main articles: Transfection and Transformation (genetics)
Another common method for manipulating cells involves the introduction of foreign DNA by transfection. This is often performed to cause cells to express a protein of interest. More recently, the transfection of RNAi constructs have been realized as a convenient mechanism for suppressing the expression of a particular gene/protein. DNA can also be inserted into cells using viruses, in methods referred to as transduction, infection or transformation. Viruses, as parasitic agents, are well suited to introducing DNA into cells, as this is a part of their normal course of reproduction.
Established human cell lines[edit]
Cultured HeLa cells have been stained with Hoechst turning their nuclei blue, and are one of the earliest human cell lines descended from Henrietta Lacks, who died of cervical cancer from which these cells originated.
Cell lines that originate with humans have been somewhat controversial in bioethics, as they may outlive their parent organism and later be used in the discovery of lucrative medical treatments. In the pioneering decision in this area, the Supreme Court of California held in Moore v. Regents of the University of California that human patients have no property rights in cell lines derived from organs removed with their consent.[17]
Generation of hybridomas[edit]
For more details on this topic, see Hybridoma.
It is possible to fuse normal cells with an immortalised cell line. This method is used to produce monoclonal antibodies. In brief, lymphocytes isolated from the spleen (or possibly blood) of an immunised animal are combined with an immortal myeloma cell line (B cell lineage) to produce a hybridoma which has the antibody specificity of the primary lymphocyte and the immortality of the myeloma. Selective growth medium (HA or HAT) is used to select against unfused myeloma cells; primary lymphoctyes die quickly in culture and only the fused cells survive. These are screened for production of the required antibody, generally in pools to start with and then after single cloning.
Cell strains[edit]
A cell strain is derived either from a primary culture or a cell line by the selection or cloning of cells having specific properties or characteristics which must be defined. Cell strains are cells that have been adapted to culture but, unlike cell lines, have a finite division potential. Non-immortalized cells stop dividing after 40 to 60 population doublings[18] and, after this, they lose their ability to proliferate (a genetically determined event known as senescence).[19]
Applications of cell culture[edit]
Mass culture of animal cell lines is fundamental to the manufacture of viral vaccines and other products of biotechnology
Biological products produced by recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology in animal cell cultures include enzymes, synthetic hormones, immunobiologicals (monoclonal antibodies, interleukins, lymphokines), and anticancer agents. Although many simpler proteins can be produced using rDNA in bacterial cultures, more complex proteins that are glycosylated (carbohydrate-modified) currently must be made in animal cells. An important example of such a complex protein is the hormone erythropoietin. The cost of growing mammalian cell cultures is high, so research is underway to produce such complex proteins in insect cells or in higher plants, use of single embryonic cell and somatic embryos as a source for direct gene transfer via particle bombardment, transit gene expression and confocal microscopy observation is one of its applications. It also offers to confirm single cell origin of somatic embryos and the asymmetry of the first cell division, which starts the process.
Cell culture in two dimensions[edit]
Research in tissue engineering, stem cells and molecular biology primarily involves cultures of cells on flat plastic dishes. This technique is known as two-dimensional (2D) cell culture, and was first developed by Wilhelm Roux who, in 1885, removed a portion of the medullary plate of an embryonic chicken and maintained it in warm saline for several days on a flat glass plate. From the advance of polymer technology arose today's standard plastic dish for 2D cell culture, commonly known as the Petri dish. Julius Richard Petri, a German bacteriologist, is generally credited with this invention while working as an assistant to Robert Koch. Various researchers today also utilize culturing laboratory flasks, conicals, and even disposable bags like those used in single-use bioreactors.
Aside from Petri dishes, scientists have long been growing cells within biologically derived matrices such as collagen or fibrin, and more recently, on synthetic hydrogels such as polyacrylamide or PEG. They do this in order to elicit phenotypes that are not expressed on conventionally rigid substrates. There is growing interest in controlling matrix stiffness,[20] a concept that has led to discoveries in fields such as:
Stem cell self-renewal[21][22]
Lineage specification[23]
Cancer cell phenotype[24][25][26]
Fibrosis[27][28]
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Counsellor of State
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For Counsellor of State in France, see Conseiller d'État.
In the United Kingdom, Counsellors of State are senior members of the British royal family to whom the monarch, as of 2014[update] Elizabeth II, delegates certain state functions and powers when not in the United Kingdom or unavailable for other reasons (such as short-term incapacity or sickness). Any two Counsellors of State may preside over Privy Council meetings, sign state documents or receive the credentials of new ambassadors to the United Kingdom.
While the establishment of a regency carries with it the suspension of the monarch from the personal discharge of the royal functions, when Counsellors of State are appointed, both the Sovereign and the Counsellors can—the Counsellors within the limits of their delegation of authority—discharge the royal functions; so the monarch can give instructions to the Counsellors of State, or even personally discharge a certain royal prerogative, when the Counsellors are in place. The Counsellors of State and Regents always act in the name and on behalf of the Sovereign.
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The first Counsellors of State were created in 1911 by an Order in Council of George V, and this process was repeated on each occasion of the King's absence or incapacity. The Regency Act 1937 established in law those individuals that could serve as Counsellors of State. The Counsellors of State are the consort of the monarch and the first four people in the line of succession who meet the qualifications. These qualifications are the same as those for a regent: they must be at least 21 years old (except the heir-apparent or presumptive, who need only be 18 years old), they must be domiciled in the United Kingdom, and they must be a British subject. One exception was made for Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (see below).
Since the passage of the Regency Act 1937, the only person to have been a Counsellor of State while not a queen consort, prince or princess was George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (although Princess Maud of Fife, who served as a Counsellor of State between 1942 and 1945, styled herself simply Lady Southesk); prior to that the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury had been appointed to the position by George V.
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