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LINCOLN SQUARE — A restaurant fire broke out in a two-story building blocks away from Lincoln Center Thursday morning, sending up a massive column of smoke, witnesses and fire officials said.
The fire started about 9:45 a.m. inside of Ollie's Noodle Shop and Grille, at 1991 Broadway near West 68th Street, two blocks from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, an FDNY spokesman said.
"It was scary," said Nick Kercu, a porter at nearby 1995 Broadway who was on a seventh-floor patio when he saw the fire suddenly flare up.
"It was just like that," he added, snapping his fingers. "We saw the smoke. It was coming out of the ductwork near Ollie's."
The blaze quickly seeped into the restaurant's ductwork, shooting plumes of smoke out from the noodle shop, fire officials said.
Kercu, who called the Fire Department, said he and fellow workers helped evacuate scores of people from the 18-story building.
Firefighters arrived on the scene and quickly extinguished it about 45 minutes later.
No one was injured, fire officials said.
Dong Chen, Ollie's assistant manager, said he wasn't there when the blaze started and was blindsided when it sparked.
"I don't know what happened," Chen said.
The restaurant will be closed indefinitely, Chen added.
The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
Joe Parziale contributed to this story.


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- Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge [Dictionary edition]
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The first word of the Vulgate text of Psalm 1 (Hebrew, li). Two other Psalms (lv and lvi) begin with the same word, and all three continue with mei, Deus (Have mercy on me, O God). In alphabetical indexes to the (Latin) Psalms they are inter-distinguished by the fourth word, which in Ps. 1 is secundum, Ps. 1v, quoniam, in Ps. lvi, miserere: so that Ps. l will appear as "Miserere . . . secundum". So liturgically and musically pre-eminent is Ps. 1, however, that it is commonly referred to as the Miserere, without further qualification. The psalm has a title which is one of the best authenticated of all, as it is found in the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Latin, and which in the Vulgate reads: "In finem, Psalmus David, Cum venit ad eum Nathan propheta, quando intravit ad Bethsabee." This title forms vv. 1 and 2 of the psalm, and refers to the sin of David (II Kings, xi) and to the reproaches and warnings of the prophet Nathan (II Kings, xii). Some commentators think that the last two verses of the psalm were added in the time of the Captivity. Delitzsch nevertheless considers them quite admissible in the mouth of David, arguing that the Hebrew word for "build" means not only "to rebuild", but "to complete what is being built", and that Solomon's wall (III Kings, iii, 1) can be regarded as a fulfilment of David's prayer "that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up". (Cf. the appended bibliography, which gives the suffrages of some recent Catholic commentators to the traditional ascription, in addition to the opinions of several of the more recent non-Catholic commentators.)
The Miserere has a most prominent place in the Divine Office and in various ceremonies. It is the first psalm at Lauds in all the ferial (week-day) Offices throughout the year, outside of Paschal Time, and in the Sunday Offices from Septuagesima to Palm Sunday inclusive. It holds the same place in the Office of the Dead. It is the psalm chosen for the preces feriales at Vespers for all the weekdays in Lent with the exception of the triduum of Holy Week, for those in Advent, for the ember-days except those of the Pentecostal season, and for all vigils, except those of Christmas, Epiphany, the Ascension, and Pentecost. In addition it is said just before the oratio, or prayer, in all the Canonical Hours in the triduum of Holy Week, except the Vespers and Compline of Holy Saturday. As it is also the fourth in order of the seven penitential psalms (q.v.), its times of recitation will be governed by the appropriate rubric in the Breviary. It (or, as alternative, Ps. cxvi, "Laudate . . . omnes") is said daily in the prayers after dinner (post prandium), except on days when only one meal is taken (in which case the prayers are those styled post caenam, "after supper") and also except the times from Christmas to the Octave of the Epiphany, from Holy Saturday until Low Sunday exclusively, and from Ascension Thursday to the Octave of Pentecost exclusively. It is very prominent in the ceremony of the Asperges, during which the choir sings the antiphon "Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo", etc. (i.e. Ps. 1, verse 8; Vulg., 9), then the verse "Miserere mei, Deus", etc. (i.e. Ps. 1, 1; Vulg., 3), then the Gloria Patri, and finally the antiphon "Asperges me", the celebrant meanwhile reciting, either alone or alternately with the sacred ministers, the entire Miserere. On Passion and Palm Sundays the Gloria Patri is omitted, and during Paschal Time the antiphon and psalm are "Vidi aquam" and "Confitemini" (Ps. cxvii) respectively.
The Miserere is found in many other ceremonial functions; at the Burial of the Dead, with the antiphon "Exultabunt Domino ossa humiliata", taken from the 9th (Vulg., 10th) verse of the psalm; at the episcopal visitation of parishes, the blessing of a bell; the consecration of an altar-stone; the laying of the corner-stone of a church; the blessing of a church, of a cemetery, of a house, of congregations, and fields; the reconciliation of a profaned church (whether consecrated or merely blessed) or of a profaned cemetery. It is especially prominent in the consecration of a church, when it is first said like other psalms, and afterwards in a more solemn manner, with the antiphon "Asperges" repeated after each group of three verses, during the sprinkling of the altars with holy water. It is said by the penitent who is to be absolved from excommunication (in foro externo), and by the absolving priest in the case of a deceased excommunicate who had given some sign of contrition before death, the ceremony entitling to ecclesiastical burial. At the Visitation of the Sick the priest may say the Miserere or any other of the first three penitential psalms. While carrying the Blessed Sacrament to the sick, the priest is to say the Miserere ("which is the best suited for obtaining divine mercy for the sick" - de Herdt, "Praxis") and other psalms and prayers. In monasteries it is said during the customary "discipline". It figured prominently in the ancient ceremony of the Reconciliation of Penitents on Maundy Thursday, both as one of the seven penitential psalms recited by the bishop in the sanctuary, and as one of the three psalms commencing with Miserere during the prostration of clergy and laity (including the penitents). For an interesting description of this ancient function, cf. the volume entitled "Passiontide and Holy Week", of Gueranger's "Liturgical Year."
In some Jewish rituals the Miserere is recited on the Day of Atonement. It is also found in the Anglican Commination Service. In a fragmentary form it is also prominent, in the selection of some of its most searching verses, for the preces of Prime in the Divine Office; in the verse "Domine labia mea aperies", etc., with which the Office commonly opens at Matins and Prime; in the use of the antiphon "Asperges", and the verse "Miserere" in the Communion of the Sick, and of the antiphon alone at Extreme Unction (de Herdt, "Praxis"); in the selection of various verses for use as antiphons in the Office, and for an Offertory, a Communion, and an Alleluia-verse at Mass. The partial use made of it at Mass and Office has been minutely detailed in Bishop Marbach's exceedingly elaborate work, "Carmina Scripturarum" (Strasburg, 1907), 134-36.
As remarked above. the Miserere is not only the first psalm at Lauds in the ferial Office, but is also repeated just before the oratio at the end of Lauds in the triduum of Holy Week. The thought of giving to this second Miserere a musical treatment more elaborate than the ordinary plain-song used for the psalms in general, and of making it serve as a climax to the dramatic ceremonial of the Tenebrae, is probably due to Leo X. In 1514 the Miserere was sung to a falsobordone. The oldest example extant is that of Costanzo Festa (1517), which alternated verses in plain-song with verses in falsibordoni of four and five voices. This interestingly contrasted setting or method of treatment formed the type for imitation ever since.
The musical settings of the Miserere are very many. Three of them (Baini's on Wednesday, Bai's on Thursday, and Allegri's on Friday afternoons) are especially famous because of their yearly repetition in the pope's chapel during the Tenebrae. Among the numerous estimates recorded by musicians and travellers on these three settings, mention may be made of Mendelssohn's, Cardinal Wiseman's, Madame de Stael's (in "Corinne"), Mr. Rockstro's (in Grove, Dictionary of Music), and especially of the young Mozart's sincerest tribute in the famous copy of it made by him at one hearing of Allegri's Miserere (with corrections made at a subsequent hearing). In the second of his "Four Lectures on the Offices and Ceremonies of Holy Week", Cardinal Wiseman gives a comparative estimate of these settings and, in accord with all who have heard them, awards the palm of supremacy to Allegri's. His description is glowing and vivid; but that of Mr. Rockstro is equally appreciative and musically more precise and detailed in respect of Allegri's Miserere, of which he gives many illustrations, and which he defends against certain criticisms. (Cf. in the same dictionary articles on Bai, Baini.)
M'SWINEY, Translation of the Psalms and Canticles with Commentary
(St. Louis, 1901), 186-90, gives a bi-columnar translation from the
Vulgate and the Hebrew Massoretic text, 186-190: "With the exception of
the two last verses, probably added to the Psalm during the Babylonian
captivity, there is no valid reason for assigning this Psalm to a poet
of a later age, who undertook to set forth the thoughts and emotions of
David, on the occasion mentioned in the title". D'EYRAGUES, Les Psaumes
traduits de l'hebreu (Paris, 1904), 146-51, ascribes it to David:
"Verses 20-21 were doubtless added after the return from captivity in
the time of Esdras when he again raised the walls of the temple. The
congregation sing the verses." VIGOUROUX praises the work as one of
irreproachable learning.
Against the Davidic authorship: CHEYNE, The Book of Psalms (New
York, 1892), 144-149, BRIGGS, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on
the Book of Psalms (New York, 1907), II, 3-12: "Ps. 51 is a penitential
prayer of the congregation in the time of Nehemiah."
Neutral: KIRKPATRICK, The Book of Psalms (Cambridge, 1901), bks.
II, III. 284-95, briefly disposes of some objections to the Davidic
authorship and allows weighs to others: LESETRE, Le Livre de Psaumes
(Paris, 1883). a very extended commentary; KENRICK, The Psalms, etc.
(Baltimore, 1861), very condensed, but satisfactory; WOLTER, Psallite
Sapienter (Psallieret weise) (Freiburg im Br, 1905), II, 294-331, an
extensive account of the mystical and liturgical uses of the Miserere.
Metrical translations into English: BAGSHAWE, The Psalms and
Canticles in English Verse (St. Louis, 1903), proposes the use of
metrical versions of the Psalms by Catholics and gives (106) his
metrical version of Ps. 1; MILBOURNE, The Psalms of David in English
Metre (London, 1698), 105-08, gives two translations into English
verse; The Psalter, a revised Ed. of the Scottish Metrical Version of
the Psalms set to suitable music (Dublin,1880), 68.
Latin metrical versions: GEORGII BUCHANANI SCOTTI, Paraphrasis
Psalmorum Davidis Poetica (Edinburgh, 1737), 161-63, a version in
nineteen Sapphic stanzas; Poetarum Scotorum Musae Sacrae (Edinburgh,
1739), 44 a version into thirty-nine elegiac couplets.
MATHESON, The Psalmist and the Scientist (New York, 1894),
253-89, takes Ps. 1 to represent "the Psalmist's view of sin" as being
"infranatural", "a life of disorder existing in the midst of order".
TAYLOR, David, King of Israel (New York, 1894), 272-73, argues for the
sincerity of the Psalmist and includes the anecdote of Voltaire's
attempt to parody tile Miserere; SCHULTE, Consecranda, Benedicenda (New
York, 1907), two volumes giving in English all the ceremonial and
rubrical details of many functions in which the Miserere is used;
SINGENBERGER, Guide to Catholic Church Music (St. Francis, Wis., 1905),
gives (202) author, voices, and grade of twenty-four settings for
Burials of the Dead, and (200-01) of twenty-eight settings for Lauds of
Holy Week.
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"Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. `Come, there's half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!"Well, just like Alice we have been through a change in location and changed form from weekly to monthly, but the challenge chapters remain familiar despite all these puzzling changes!
-- Chapter 5, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Here is how the new monthly challenge will work:
- 1st Sunday of the month: The new challenge will be posted with the link tool, and a few of the design team samples will be posted.
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To reflect all these puzzling changes, the challenge is to make something that features a dress form, OR to make something that changes in form! While it is not required that your project include Alice in Wonderland, we do encourage it. If your project does feature Wonderland you will get two chances in the prize drawing instead of one!
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Hanezawa Garden
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Hanezawa Garden is an illicit trail through a walled garden in Tokyo, between thick foliage, slender bamboo and semi-inhabited outhouses, their plastic roofs heavy with leaves, as if reclaimed by the jealous trees. The protagonist, like a detective, catalogues the garden obsessively, registering strange and peripheral details: a sealed cardboard box, lingering on a sill, or the receding body of a workman.
Time is loose, and the seasons slip by. The sightlines through Hanezawa are multiple and mutable, and the assembled images grow in weight through repetition and proximity. The minor characters of this elusive narrative are ordinary objects: a shell, half buried in the soil, whose brief significance is acute and unreadable, before it slips back into entropy. The surfaces, too, are iridescent, ungovernable – garden huts with smeared panes that reflect sky or reveal the bulge of something, vegetating, behind. The windows, like the images themselves, always promise something – a revelation – just out of reach.
Hanezawa Garden was demolished by the real estate developer Mitsubishi Estate in 2012, despite countless attempts by local residence to preserve the house and gardens.
Anders Edström is a Swedish photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Stockholm. Previous monographs include Waiting some birds a bus a woman and spidernets places a crew (SteidlMACK, 2004) and Safari (Nieves, 2010).
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
New Media Medicine at BlogWorld
It was really great seeing the twitters and blog posts from my pals out there at Blog World Expo this past weekend. Big shout out to Emergiblog for the blog update and to Dr. Val for the twitter updates. That's a great pic above. According to Kim, here are the people above, "From left to right: Rob Halper, our friend from Johnson & Johnson, Beth (PixelRN), Me (when I'm not doubling as my Lego alter-ego), and Dr. Val. In the back, the one and only Shane and Dr. Val's friend John (Mr. Dr. Val was taking the picture!)."
Did you know that Dr. Val was interviewed by BlogTalkRadio while at the expo? And, that she is going to have her own BlogTalkRadio show soon? Yeesh, I fear that I will be blown away by the Dr. Val tsunami when she starts on BTR. Oh well. Thanks, though, for mentioning my show during your BTR interview. Want to listen? Click here and check it out.
Mark your calenders now - all of you who are friends of New Media Medicine. The dates for next year are October 15-17, 2009 for Blog World Expo. And, if you didn't already know, there will be an entire medblogger track - the first of its kind at a national new media convention. I'm very excited about that. I'll be curious about how the schedule is put together and the speakers that the organizers obtain for the convention.
I hope to read more experiences from 2008 Blog World from those who attended - especially the luncheon sponsored by Johnson & Johnson - the topic of which was supposed to be about new media medicine and medblogging. Let us know how that went. I'm curious about the reception to this topic by those who attended - particularly corporate America.
2 comments:
- Mary said...
Yea, that looked like it was tons of fun... And Val on BTR?? Awesome! You'd better hope she doesn't schedule her shows on thursday nights!! ;) You'd be in trouble then! j/k! But that's way awesome! And next year sounds like it'll be awesome! I think vijay said that if bongi would try to come, so would he. That'd be amazing, yah? How cool would that be if all of us could go?? That'd be amazing! We should try for 100% attendance next year.
- Monday, September 22, 2008 9:18:00 AM
Hi Dr. A - well, my BTR show is not imminent. After all, I'm currently homeless! (In fact, I asked to be interviewed so I could plug the Dr. A show, and the interviewer assumed I was going to create a BTR show though I hadn't actually said that. Now I feel pressured to do it so as not to let him down!) But for now, I'm happy to be a guest... :)
Your groupie, Val - Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:57:00 PM


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Countries around the world are reimposing restrictions to fight highly contagious new strains of the coronavirus. It's a bad omen for southern Europe, where countries depend on tourism. Portugal now has curfews just weeks after opening to international travel. Those who work in the travel sector are struggling to adapt to the uncertainty.
Joanna Kakissis reports.
JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE: Miguel Rodrigues co-manages two small hotels in Portugal's capital, Lisbon, as well as hundreds of vacation rentals around the country. He cannot stomach another summer with very few tourists.
MIGUEL RODRIGUES: Because last year - it's very hard, to be honest with you. I had to fire a lot of people.
KAKISSIS: Last year, Rodrigues had to fire a hundred people, most of his staff. This summer, he was hoping to rehire some of them.
RODRIGUES: I thought that from June, the things will open and start increasing.
KAKISSIS: Rodrigues is now giving his staff the bad news.
RODRIGUES: Because they were supposed to start now, and I had to contact them and say, OK, I don't know what will be the future, so we are going to put this process in standby.
KAKISSIS: Eduardo Miranda, who leads Portugal's national association of vacation rental owners, calls this the new normal.
EDUARDO MIRANDA: It's a little bit of a roller coaster, meaning ups and downs. So we have to get ready for everything.
KAKISSIS: Some rental owners, like Carlota Godinho have already prepared.
CARLOTA GODINHO: There's no point of, you know (sighing) - just going mad about it.
KAKISSIS: The pandemic forced her to close her rentals in Lisbon last year.
GODINHO: And, immediately, I started to plan. And I found out something very interesting. There's also a lot of people that are here working just for periods of time. So suddenly, I said, oh, hold on a minute. Let me adapt.
KAKISSIS: She tapped into a whole new market of travelers - remote workers, also known as digital nomads. Her rentals are now booked through next year.
KAKISSIS: Portugal's lush archipelago of Madeira opened its doors to digital nomads in February with the help of remote working consultant Goncalo Hall.
GONCALO HALL: While the rest of Portugal's occupancy rates were 0% or 10%, here, it went to 100% in one month.
KAKISSIS: Hundreds of digital nomads now rent homes on Madeira, including Marie Tuason, a 24-year-old biomedical engineer from the Philippines.
MARIE TUASON: Actually, right now, I'm in my hammock overlooking the ocean.
KAKISSIS: She often spends evenings and weekends surfing.
TUASON: My surf instructor - he was telling us that they were very thankful about this digital nomad community because these people are willing to pay for surf lessons, are willing to pay for tourist attractions.
KAKISSIS: The digital nomads live near the seaside village of Ponta do Sol. Jamal Kassim, a Canadian who works in sales for a German software company, spends evenings at the Old Pharmacy, a traditional restaurant with specialties like...
JAMAL KASSIM: Prego, which is steak with the egg on top and fries. And I think everyone just reinvests their salary in the Old Pharmacy.
KAKISSIS: But digital nomads, who are young, mobile and highly educated, by themselves will not restore the tourism industry, which accounts for about a fifth of Portugal's GDP.
Luis Araujo, president of the National Tourism Authority, sees the pandemic as a wake-up call for sustainability.
LUIS ARAUJO: We have to be very concrete with this. We have been working to reduce the pressure from our main destinations, spreading tourism through the entire territory, focusing in the entire year and not just on high season. That's for sure.
KAKISSIS: Miranda, who's with the rental owners' association, welcomes a future of more resilient tourism. But, right now, he and many other travel professionals are scrambling just to stay afloat.
MIRANDA: There's no business in the world that can cope with two years in a row without income.
KAKISSIS: And for southern European tourism, the summer is the whole year.
For NPR News, I'm Joanna Kakissis.
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Read more: "LHC sees hint of lightweight Higgs boson"
As the world awaits news of the possible discovery of the Higgs boson, there remains a lot of confusion about what it is, why we have had to work hard to find it – and why we should care. Here's why.
First, the short answer:
If the Higgs is discovered, it will represent perhaps one of the greatest triumphs of the human intellect in recent memory, vindicating the construction of one of science's greatest theories and the most complicated machine ever built. That's the good news.
But if the Higgs is all that is found at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a huge amount will remain to be discovered. Crucial experimental guidance that physicists need to understand fundamental questions about our existence – from whether all four forces in nature are unified in some grand theory to determining what may have caused the big bang – will still be absent. Answering these questions may be beyond our technical and financial capabilities in this generation.
Now for the long answer:
If our ideas about the Higgs boson turn out to be correct, then everything we see is a kind of window dressing based on an underlying fabric of reality in which we shouldn't exist. The particles that make us up – which bind together to form protons, neutrons, nuclei and ultimately atoms – have mass. Without the Higgs, these particles would be massless, like photons.
We all know from our own experience that how heavy something feels depends on where it is located. For example, objects that are heavy on land appear lighter in water. Similarly, if you try to push a spoon through treacle it appears heavier than if you push it through air.
The standard model of particle physics implies that there is a "Higgs field" that permeates all space. This field interacts with particles, and does so with varying strengths. Particles that interact more strongly experience more resistance to their motion and appear heavier. Some particles, such as photons, do not interact with the field at all and remain massless.
In this way, the mass of everything is determined by the existence of the field, and mass is an accident of our circumstances because we exist in a universe in which such a background field happens to have arisen.
Playing subatomic catch
But why a Higgs particle? Relativity tells us that no signal can travel faster than light. Incorporating this into quantum mechanics tells us that forces which we think of as being due to fields are actually transmitted between objects by the exchange of particles. The way particles transmit forces is a bit like a game of catch: if I throw a ball and you catch it, I will be pushed backwards by the act of throwing and you will be pushed backwards by the act of catching. Thus we act as if we repel each other.
So if there is a Higgs field, it turns out that there has to be a particle associated with this field, and this is the Higgs particle.
This seems a fanciful framework, rather like imagining angels on the head of a pin. What would drive scientists to imagine such a scenario? One of the greatest successes of the past 50 years was the unification of two of the forces of nature: electromagnetism and the weak interaction. In this "electroweak" theory, electromagnetic forces arise by the long-range exchange of massless photons, and the short-range weak force is due to the exchange of massive particles called W and Z particles, predicted in the 1960s and discovered in the 1980s at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, which is now the home of the LHC.
In order for this theoretical unification to make mathematical sense, all three particles have to be massless in the underlying theory, and therefore the forces they mediate would be almost identical. Only if the W and Z particles obtain a mass by interacting with a background field – the Higgs field – will the underlying unified theory explain why the two forces appear different at the scales we measure them today, while remaining mathematically consistent.
High mass
Theory suggests that the mass of a Higgs particle should be about 100 times the mass of the proton; however, the exact mass is not predicted.
For over 25 years since the discovery of the W and Z particles, experimental physicists have been trying to build particle accelerators with the energy necessary to produce a Higgs particle, if it exists. The Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, was able to reach up to about 120 times the mass of the proton (about 120 gigaelectronvolts) but did not find the Higgs.
The LHC was designed to probe for Higgs masses heavier than this. If the Higgs particle is announced with a mass of 125 GeV, as the rumours suggest, it will be the crown jewel of our theoretical understanding of the electroweak unified theory, our own origins and the origin of almost all mass we measure in the universe.
Not just the Higgs, please
All is not that rosy, however. The standard model gives no explanation of the masses of the Higgs, the W and Z. Indeed, other arguments suggest that we need new physics to explain why quantum mechanical effects should not make this scale of masses is not much higher.
One of the most exciting ways in which this behaviour might be kept in check involves a theory called supersymmetry. If supersymmetry is real, the number of elementary particles would double, and we would need not one Higgs particle but two. This is what many physicists have expected to find. The rumours from CERN suggest a second particle at about 140 GeV.
Since supersymmetry is an essential ingredient of the more speculative string-theory models that attempt to unify gravity and quantum mechanics, there is even more reason for some theorists to hope that either two Higgs particles, or even unsuspected particles, might be discovered.
If a single Higgs and nothing else is discovered at the LHC it will therefore be a mixed blessing – perhaps the worst possibility we theorists can imagine. We will have discovered the origin of mass, as advertised, but there will be no new experimental guidance on how to take the next step.
Lawrence Krauss is foundation professor and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University in Tempe. His newest book, A Universe from Nothing, will appear on 10 January


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HAIR of the ALIEN - DNA paradigm, teleportation & "Elle-maids"?
HAIR of the ALIEN - DNA paradigm, teleportation & "Elle-maids"?
The extraordinary encounter Peter Khoury had with two strange female entities in his Sydney Australia home back in July 1992 provided my APEG team with a strange hair sample which ultimately yielded striking DNA results suggestive of advanced cloning & DNA techniques. This incredible case is a potent touchstone for the primary focus of my new book "HAIR of the ALIEN - DNA and other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction". The nature of the DNA evidence in this case supports the claims of Peter Khoury that he had a confronting encounter with a blonde female being, which seemed to involve bizarre behavioural elements. In an attempt to stop the claustrophobic and overpowering nature of the entity's actions - forcing him to her breast - Khoury bit her! He began to cough in apparent reaction. The strange pair are suddenly gone, in just as mysterious circumstances as their arrival in side what was thought to be a secure house. "There is important evidence of the women's presence to be recovered and a story to be told."
The hair sample and the intriguing DNA data that emerged from it anchor Peter Khoury's experience in reality. It is not the stuff of hoaxing, delusion, hallucination or other prosaic factors.
How did these strange women arrive and leave so suddenly? - a phenomenon often reported in UFO abduction experiences. The initial strange perception of the women by Peter Khoury (like he was seeing himself through a transparent version of himself) was rapidly replaced by the certainty for Peter Khoury that these women were really present. The hair sample recovered and the DNA results attest to that reality. Without that evidence it would have been tempting to view the encounter in rather more non-concrete terms - a vision, an apparition or a hallucination? Given the evidence perhaps the visitors arrival was facilitated by some phenomena such as what we might speculate as being "teleportation".
During an open line segment on a ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) radio programme on March 24 1975 a caller identifying himself as Mr. Campbell described a "teleportation" (Star Trek style "beam up") experience he claimed he witnessed at his home not far from the US base in north western Australia at North West Cape. After observing a UFO passing low over the sea, Campbell claimed that later that evening at his home, while trying to recall details of the event, he felt "a telepathic presence in the room." Campbell said he felt this presence seemed to move closer as if engaged in watching him. He looked around and saw nothing, but somehow got the impression that the "presence" was about 5 feet 6 inches tall. Campbell claimed he tired of this situation and turned around and looked at the invisible "presence" at what would have been eye level and said, "Good day, mate." Campbell professed to not be prepared for what happened next, neither it seemed was the "presence". Campbell said he could see the shimmer of a form taking place. A feeling of coldness pervaded the room as a figure formed by striated horizontal bands of blue and yellow light began to appear. Even Campbell likened it to the TV show Star Trek "beam up" effect. Then just as quickly as it had appeared this manifestation started to reverse itself and then there was nothing, save a seemingly mental "telepathic concept" communicated to Campbell, to the effect of "clever" or "smart". Campbell surmised that when he turned around and said "hello", the "presence" must have thought it was visible, and began a process to rectify the apparent situation. Immediately realising it was becoming visible, Campbell thought, the "presence" reversed the process again, projecting the thought to Campbell that he was being "clever" or "smart". Two further "presences" appeared in his bedroom, one apparently amid the wooden bed structure. Campbell's wife began to wake up. He "suggested" to the "presences" they leave. With that, they apparently did and Campbell claimed there was an associated loud clicking noise as though some reforming process was occuring in the wooden bed structure in the wake of the "presences" departure. While the account is antecdotal it still captures some of the realities claimed by others who report encounters with "teleporting" UFO entities.
Dr. David Darling (author of "The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia", "The Universal Book of Mathematics" and "Life Everywhere - the Maverick Science of Astrobiology") has just had a book published entitled "Teleportation - the Impossible Leap". He was quoted at www.space.com saying, "Any strange comings and goings are candidates for teleportation, although you would obviously have to eliminate all mundane explanations first... According to reports, some UFOs do appear and disappear quite abruptly, which would fit in with the basic idea of teleportation. " The same can be suggested for many accounts of alleged encounters with aliens here on Earth. Darling speculated, "We might expect advanced aliens to be occassionally beaming in to check on our progress as a species."
While aspects of the 1992 encounter (such as the recovered hair sample and its intriguing DNA, and the unknown nature of the arrival and departure of the strange women) resonate powerfully with the idea that we might be dealing with some bizarre form of interaction with an advanced alien presence intruding into our world, the events also resonate with other strange, but perhaps rather more nebulous aspects of our past.
Sydney researcher Steve Walters drew my attention to the following strange tale from Scandanavian folklore which is striking in its similarities with Peter Khoury's encounter with the "Nordic" blonde female entity. Thomas Keightley records the story of the "Elle-maid" in his classic 1880 study "The Fairy mythology" (republished as "The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and other Little People").
"A farmer's boy was keeping cows not far from Ebeltoft (a village in North Jutland, current Denmark). There came to him a very fair and pretty girl, and she asked him if he was hungry or thirsty. But when he perceived that she guarded with the greatest solicitude against his getting a sight of her back, he immediately suspected that she must be an Elle-maid, for the Elle-people (Elf people) are hollow behind. He accordingly would give no heed to her, and endeavoured to get away from her; but when she perceived this, she offered him her breast that he should suck her. And so great was the enchantment that accompanied this action, that he was unable to resist it. But when he had done as she desired him, he had no longer any command of himself, so that she had now no difficulty in enticing him with her. He was three days away .... (Upon his return) He slept for many days as the enchantment had lasted ..."
While the Khoury sample DNA evidence invited some strange speculations that nudged the often discussed similiarities between alien abduction experiences and the fairy lore tradition, it is fair to say that there are more differences between fairy lore accounts and alien abduction accounts than there are similarities. Therein lies the quandary - a connection or a damaging distraction?


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Title: Blurred Lines
Author: Lauren Layne
Publisher: Loveswept
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Date: August 25, 2015
In a novel that's perfect for fans of Abbi Glines and Jessica Sorensen, USA Today bestselling author Lauren Layne delivers a sexy take on the timeless question: Can a guy and a girl really be "just friends"?
When Parker Blanton meets Ben Olsen during her freshman year of college, the connection is immediate—and platonic. Six years later, they're still best friends, sharing an apartment in Portland's trendy Northwest District as they happily settle into adult life. But when Parker's boyfriend dumps her out of the blue, she starts to wonder about Ben's no-strings-attached approach to dating. The trouble is, even with Ben as her wingman, Parker can't seem to get the hang of casual sex—until she tries it with him.
The arrangement works perfectly . . . at first. The sex is mind-blowing, and their friendship remains as solid as ever, without any of the usual messy romantic entanglements. But when Parker's ex decides he wants her back, Ben is shocked by a fierce stab of possessiveness. And when Ben starts seeing a girl from work, Parker finds herself plagued by unfamiliar jealousy. With their friendship on the rocks for the first time, Parker and Ben face an alarming truth: Maybe they can't go back. And maybe, deep down, they never want to.
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My sophomore year of high school, I had a short-lived friendship with this girl named Korie Hamilton.
She was nice enough.
A little too much purple eyeliner, a few too many likes sprinkled throughout her constant chatter, but we had every class together our first semester, so we kind of became friends by default.
Anyway, Korie was forever yammering on and on about how her best friend on the entire planet was Stephen Daniels, a boy she'd known for all of four weeks before promoting him to BFF status.
Apparently it was, like, ohmigod, like, the best thing ever to have a guy she could talk to without complicating things with romantic entanglements.
Real best friends can generally go more than a couple hours without mentioning each other's name, but Korie found a way to fit Stephen's name into every other sentence.
Just friends my ass.
I guess technically they were platonic for a while. Stephen had a girlfriend named Libby Tittles, or something unfortunate like that, and Korie had this on-again-off-again thing with her junior high boyfriend.
But anyone who's ever seen a movie, or watched TV, or just had basic awareness of human interaction saw exactly where Korie and Stephen were heading: Humpville.
Even though Korie swore up and down that she didn't like him like that, both of their significant others were long gone by Thanksgiving of sophomore year.
By Christmas vacation, Korie wasn't uttering quite so many likes. Why? Because Stephen's tongue was in her mouth before school, after school, and every freaking weekend.
But we all know how this ends, right? Just a few short months later, not only were Korie and Stephen no longer dating, they sure as hell weren't best friends.
Their short-lived romance and ensuing breakup barely even registered a blip on the gossip chain, but I'd like to think it taught some of us high school girls a valuable lesson:
Guys and girls can't be just friends. Or not best friends, anyway.
Shit gets too complicated.
But let's fast-forward a few years, shall we?
I'm now twenty-four, and I have a public service announcement to make: I was wrong.
Guys and girls really can be best friends.
It is possible to have a platonic relationship with a guy where there are no romantic inklings, no sexual fantasies, and no naïve proclamations of I don't like him like that in a torturous attempt to hide an agonizing unrequited love.
How do I know this? How do I know that a guy and a girl can be best friends without romantic entanglements?
Well, let's see, I've been on the female end of one such platonic relationship for six years now.
Six. Years.
True story:
Ben Olsen and I met the summer before our first year at University of Oregon during freshman orientation. We were assigned to the same group in one of those terrible ice-breaking activities where you have to put a sticky note on your head and guess what kind of safari animal you are, or something, and we just . . .
I don't know why we clicked in the Hey, you're cool but I have no interest in boning you kind of way, but we did.
Maybe it was because I was in stupid insta-love with another guy in our group. Or maybe because my ovaries were hyperaware that Ben's ridiculous good looks would lead to heartbreak. But whatever the reason, we did the implausible.
We became best friends.
And, yes, every single one of my female friends has given me the exact same warnings I gave Korie Hamilton way back when: It won't work.
My friends are split down the middle on how it will actually go down, but they're all convinced that it will go down.
Half think that Ben and I are soulmates who are just biding our time until marriage and babies.
The other half think that we're going to have too much to drink one night, have awful sex, and never speak again.
Ben and I proved them wrong when freshman year ended and our friendship was still intact. Sophomore year? Repeat.
Junior year, we really upped our game. Not only were we closer than ever, but we became roommates. It happened sort of by accident when one of his housemates backed out at the last minute, and I belatedly realized I couldn't bear one more year of dorm food, so I moved in. And it worked. So we did it again senior year.
Here we are, two years after graduation, still living together, although we've upgraded from crappy off-campus housing in Eugene to a slightly less crappy two-bedroom house in the Northwest neighborhood of Portland.
And yes. Still platonic as ever, with not so much as a hint of change in the air. I'm crazy in love with Lance Myers, my boyfriend of five years, and Ben . . .
Well, Ben's on a rather awe-inspiring mission to seduce the entire female population in western Oregon.
Author Bio
Lauren Layne is the USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance.
Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in e-commerce and web-marketing. In 2011, she and her husband moved from Seattle to New York City, where Lauren decided to pursue a full-time writing career. It took six months to get her first book deal (despite ardent assurances to her husband that it would only take three). Since then, Lauren's gone on to publish ten books, including the bestselling Stiletto series, with several more on the way in 2015.
Lauren currently lives in Chicago with her husband and spoiled Pomeranian. When not writing, you'll find her at happy hour, running at a doggedly slow pace, or trying to straighten her naturally curly hair.
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Necrosis (from Ancient Greek νέκρωσης (nékrōsis) 'death') is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis.[1] The term "necrosis" came about in the mid-19th century and is commonly attributed to German pathologist Rudolf Virchow, who is often regarded as one of the founders of modern pathology.[2] Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, or trauma which result in the unregulated digestion of cell components. In contrast, apoptosis is a naturally occurring programmed and targeted cause of cellular death. While apoptosis often provides beneficial effects to the organism, necrosis is almost always detrimental and can be fatal.[3]
Cellular death due to necrosis does not follow the apoptotic signal transduction pathway, but rather various receptors are activated and result in the loss of cell membrane integrity[4] and an uncontrolled release of products of cell death into the extracellular space.[1] This initiates an inflammatory response in the surrounding tissue, which attracts leukocytes and nearby phagocytes which eliminate the dead cells by phagocytosis. However, microbial damaging substances released by leukocytes would create collateral damage to surrounding tissues.[5] This excess collateral damage inhibits the healing process. Thus, untreated necrosis results in a build-up of decomposing dead tissue and cell debris at or near the site of the cell death. A classic example is gangrene. For this reason, it is often necessary to remove necrotic tissue surgically, a procedure known as debridement.[citation needed]
editStructural signs that indicate irreversible cell injury and the progression of necrosis include dense clumping and progressive disruption of genetic material, and disruption to membranes of cells and organelles.[6]
Morphological patterns
editThere are six distinctive morphological patterns of necrosis:[7]
- Coagulative necrosis is characterized by the formation of a gelatinous (gel-like) substance in dead tissues in which the architecture of the tissue is maintained,[7] and can be observed by light microscopy. Coagulation occurs as a result of protein denaturation, causing albumin to transform into a firm and opaque state.[6] This pattern of necrosis is typically seen in hypoxic (low-oxygen) environments, such as infarction. Coagulative necrosis occurs primarily in tissues such as the kidney, heart and adrenal glands.[6] Severe ischemia most commonly causes necrosis of this form.[8]
- Liquefactive necrosis (or colliquative necrosis), in contrast to coagulative necrosis, is characterized by the digestion of dead cells to form a viscous liquid mass.[7] This is typical of bacterial, or sometimes fungal, infections because of their ability to stimulate an inflammatory response. The necrotic liquid mass is frequently creamy yellow due to the presence of dead leukocytes and is commonly known as pus.[7] Hypoxic infarcts in the brain presents as this type of necrosis, because the brain contains little connective tissue but high amounts of digestive enzymes and lipids, and cells therefore can be readily digested by their own enzymes.[6]
- Gangrenous necrosis can be considered a type of coagulative necrosis that resembles mummified tissue. It is characteristic of ischemia of lower limb and the gastrointestinal tracts. Both dry gangrene and gas gangrene can lead to this type of necrosis. If superimposed infection of dead tissues occurs, then liquefactive necrosis ensues (wet gangrene).[9]
- Caseous necrosis can be considered a combination of coagulative and liquefactive necrosis,[6] typically caused by mycobacteria (e.g. tuberculosis), fungi and some foreign substances. The necrotic tissue appears as white and friable, like clumped cheese. Dead cells disintegrate but are not completely digested, leaving granular particles.[6] Microscopic examination shows amorphous granular debris enclosed within a distinctive inflammatory border.[7] Some granulomas contain this pattern of necrosis.[10]
- Fat necrosis is specialized necrosis of fat tissue,[10] resulting from the action of activated lipases on fatty tissues such as the pancreas. In the pancreas it leads to acute pancreatitis, a condition where the pancreatic enzymes leak out into the peritoneal cavity, and liquefy the membrane by splitting the triglyceride esters into fatty acids through fat saponification.[7] Calcium, magnesium or sodium may bind to these lesions to produce a chalky-white substance.[6] The calcium deposits are microscopically distinctive and may be large enough to be visible on radiographic examinations.[8] To the naked eye, calcium deposits appear as gritty white flecks.[8]
- Fibrinoid necrosis is a special form of necrosis usually caused by immune-mediated vascular damage. It is marked by complexes of antigen and antibodies, referred to as immune complexes deposited within arterial walls[7] together with fibrin.[7]
Other clinical classifications of necrosis
edit- There are also very specific forms of necrosis such as gangrene (term used in clinical practices for limbs which have had severe hypoxia), gummatous necrosis (due to spirochaetal infections) and hemorrhagic necrosis (due to the blockage of venous drainage of an organ or tissue).[citation needed]
- Myonecrosis is the death of individual muscle fibres due to injury, hypoxia, or infection. Common causes include spontaneous diabetic myonecrosis (a.k.a diabetic muscle infarction) and clostridial myonecrosis (a.k.a gas gangrene).[11]
- Some spider bites may lead to necrosis. In the United States, only spider bites from the brown recluse spider (genus Loxosceles) reliably progress to necrosis. In other countries, spiders of the same genus, such as the Chilean recluse in South America, are also known to cause necrosis. Claims that yellow sac spiders and hobo spiders possess necrotic venom have not been substantiated.[citation needed]
- In blind mole rats (genus Spalax), the process of necrosis replaces the role of the systematic apoptosis normally used in many organisms. Low oxygen conditions, such as those common in blind mole rats' burrows, usually cause cells to undergo apoptosis. In adaptation to higher tendency of cell death, blind mole rats evolved a mutation in the tumor suppressor protein p53 (which is also used in humans) to prevent cells from undergoing apoptosis. Human cancer patients have similar mutations, and blind mole rats were thought to be more susceptible to cancer because their cells cannot undergo apoptosis. However, after a specific amount of time (within 3 days according to a study conducted at the University of Rochester), the cells in blind mole rats release interferon-beta (which the immune system normally uses to counter viruses) in response to over-proliferation of cells caused by the suppression of apoptosis. In this case, the interferon-beta triggers cells to undergo necrosis, and this mechanism also kills cancer cells in blind mole rats. Because of tumor suppression mechanisms such as this, blind mole rats and other spalacids are resistant to cancer.[12][13]
editNecrosis may occur due to external or internal factors.
External factors
editExternal factors may involve mechanical trauma (physical damage to the body which causes cellular breakdown), electric shock,[14] damage to blood vessels (which may disrupt blood supply to associated tissue), and ischemia.[15] Thermal effects (extremely high or low temperature) can often result in necrosis due to the disruption of cells, especially in bone cells.[16]
In frostbite, crystals form, increasing the pressure of remaining tissue and fluid causing the cells to burst.[17] Under extreme conditions tissues and cells may die through an unregulated process of membrane and cytosol destruction.[18]
Internal factors
editInternal factors causing necrosis include: trophoneurotic disorders (diseases that occur due to defective nerve action in a part of an organ which results in failure of nutrition); injury and paralysis of nerve cells. Pancreatic enzymes (lipases) are the major cause of fat necrosis.[15]
Necrosis can be activated by components of the immune system, such as the complement system; bacterial toxins; activated natural killer cells; and peritoneal macrophages.[1] Pathogen-induced necrosis programs in cells with immunological barriers (intestinal mucosa) may alleviate invasion of pathogens through surfaces affected by inflammation.[1] Toxins and pathogens may cause necrosis; toxins such as snake venoms may inhibit enzymes and cause cell death.[15] Necrotic wounds have also resulted from the stings of Vespa mandarinia.[19]
Pathological conditions are characterized by inadequate secretion of cytokines. Nitric oxide (NO) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) are also accompanied by intense necrotic death of cells.[15] A classic example of a necrotic condition is ischemia which leads to a drastic depletion of oxygen, glucose, and other trophic factors[20] and induces massive necrotic death of endothelial cells and non-proliferating cells of surrounding tissues (neurons, cardiomyocytes, renal cells, etc.).[1] Recent cytological data indicates that necrotic death occurs not only during pathological events but it is also a component of some physiological process.[15]
Activation-induced death of primary T lymphocytes and other important constituents of the immune response are caspase-independent and necrotic by morphology; hence, current researchers have demonstrated that necrotic cell death can occur not only during pathological processes, but also during normal processes such as tissue renewal, embryogenesis, and immune response.[15]
editUntil recently, necrosis was thought to be an unregulated process.[21] However, there are two broad pathways in which necrosis may occur in an organism.[21]
The first of these two pathways initially involves oncosis, where swelling of the cells occurs.[21] Affected cells then proceed to blebbing, and this is followed by pyknosis, in which nuclear shrinkage transpires.[21] In the final step of this pathway cell nuclei are dissolved into the cytoplasm, which is referred to as karyolysis.[21]
The second pathway is a secondary form of necrosis that is shown to occur after apoptosis and budding.[21] In these cellular changes of necrosis, the nucleus breaks into fragments (known as karyorrhexis).[21]
Histopathological changes
The nucleus changes in necrosis and characteristics of this change are determined by the manner in which its DNA breaks down:
- Karyolysis: the chromatin of the nucleus fades due to the loss of the DNA by degradation.[7]
- Karyorrhexis: the shrunken nucleus fragments to complete dispersal.[7]
- Pyknosis: the nucleus shrinks, and the chromatin condenses.[7]
Other typical cellular changes in necrosis include:
- Cytoplasmic hypereosinophilia on samples with H&E stain.[22] It is seen as a darker stain of the cytoplasm.
- The cell membrane appears discontinuous when viewed with an electron microscope. This discontinuous membrane is caused by cell blebbing and the loss of microvilli.[7]
On a larger histologic scale, pseudopalisades (false palisades) are hypercellular zones that typically surround necrotic tissue. Pseudopalisading necrosis indicates an aggressive tumor.[23]
Pyknosis in a bile infarct
Cytoplasmic hypereosinophilia (seen in left half of image)
Pseudopalisading seen around necrosis in glioblastoma
editThere are many causes of necrosis, and as such treatment is based upon how the necrosis came about. Treatment of necrosis typically involves two distinct processes: Usually, the underlying cause of the necrosis must be treated before the dead tissue itself can be dealt with.[citation needed]
- Debridement, referring to the removal of dead tissue by surgical or non-surgical means, is the standard therapy for necrosis. Depending on the severity of the necrosis, this may range from removal of small patches of skin to complete amputation of affected limbs or organs. Chemical removal of necrotic tissue is another option in which enzymatic debriding agents, categorised as proteolytic, fibrinolytic or collagenases, are used to target the various components of dead tissue.[24] In select cases, special maggot therapy using Lucilia sericata larvae has been employed to remove necrotic tissue and infection.[25]
- In the case of ischemia, which includes myocardial infarction, the restriction of blood supply to tissues causes hypoxia and the creation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that react with, and damage proteins and membranes. Antioxidant treatments can be applied to scavenge the ROS.[26]
- Wounds caused by physical agents, including physical trauma and chemical burns, can be treated with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs to prevent bacterial infection and inflammation. Keeping the wound clean from infection also prevents necrosis.
- Chemical and toxic agents (e.g. pharmaceutical drugs, acids, bases) react with the skin leading to skin loss and eventually necrosis. Treatment involves identification and discontinuation of the harmful agent, followed by treatment of the wound, including prevention of infection and possibly the use of immunosuppressive therapies such as anti-inflammatory drugs or immunosuppressants.[27] In the example of a snake bite, the use of anti-venom halts the spread of toxins whilst receiving antibiotics to impede infection.[28]
Even after the initial cause of the necrosis has been halted, the necrotic tissue will remain in the body. The body's immune response to apoptosis, which involves the automatic breaking down and recycling of cellular material, is not triggered by necrotic cell death due to the apoptotic pathway being disabled.[29]
In plants
editIf calcium is deficient, pectin cannot be synthesized, and therefore the cell walls cannot be bonded and thus an impediment of the meristems. This will lead to necrosis of stem and root tips and leaf edges.[30] For example, necrosis of tissue can occur in Arabidopsis thaliana due to plant pathogens.[31]
Cacti such as the Saguaro and Cardon in the Sonoran Desert experience necrotic patch formation regularly; a species of Dipterans called Drosophila mettleri has developed a p450 detoxification system to enable it to use the exudates released in these patches to both nest and feed larvae.[32]
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External links
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- Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. "Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections". Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
- Secondary necrosis of a neutrophil


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Disgraced former Australian vice-captain David Warner will start his road to redemption by playing club cricket with Sydney's Randwick Petersham, officials said.
The opener is serving a year-long ban from state and international cricket for his part in a plan to use sandpaper to tamper with the ball during the third Test in South Africa in March.
But he is free to play at club level and is set to make a return to the field in September.
Randwick Petersham club president Mike Whitney, a former Test fast bowler, said Warner will play in at least three of the first four matches of the season.
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While former skipper Steve Smith was charged with knowledge of the plot, Warner was charged with developing it and instructing Cameron Bancroft to carry it out.
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OSGI Tasklet Service for IBM Lotus Domino
The Notes/Domino C Api toolkit allows you to extends the server by writing applications called server addin tasks to perform various jobs like archiving, billing, logging, etc... Although very powerful, using the C Api to write your tasks presents many challenges: - Must be written in C/C++ which requires a high cost of entry. - Low productivity - Can be hard to debug - Must be compiled for every platform. This prototype proposes a new way of writing server addin tasks by using the Java OSGi programming model. This would solve all of the problems described above, but also add new benefits like: - Declarative task scheduling - Built-in mechanism to access server task user arguments. - List of tell commands to query the OSGi framework. - Extensibility - Easy deployment. - Better tooling with Eclipse IDE and its first class Java and plugins editors and Java debugger. - Leverage existing OSGi assets (within the company or open source). - ... See the documentation for more details: see here
This project replaces an earlier project JAVADDIN.
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