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Durham has a packed year-round calendar of events - so no matter when you choose to visit, there's certain to be something happening to enhance your visit.
Locomotion - Winter Steam Gala
The 'Winter Gala' takes place on 14 - 15 February and will be themed around Edith Nesbit's 'The Railway Children' with a selection of locomotives displayed together that have featured in the television and film adaptations of the story– including guest locomotive "Joem" and GWR No. 5775.
Bishop Auckland Food Festival
Bishop Auckland will burst into gastronomic life on the weekend of 18 - 19 April with the return of its annual food festival.
Magna Carta and the Changing Face of Revolt
Between 1 June - 31 August, see the only surviving 1216 issue of the Magna Carta in a fascinating exhibition at Durham University's Palace Green Library, in the heart of Durham City's UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Royal London ODI England Vs New Zealand
On Saturday 20 June, Emirates Durham ICG will be hosting the Fifth and Final Royal London One Day International between England and New Zealand.
YSL - Style is Eternal
The Bowes Museum and the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent are delighted to announce Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, the first exhibition in the UK to present a comprehensive display of the French designer's work and life. Taking place on 11 July - 25 October
Brass: Durham International Festival
International acts bring Durham to life summer with the sound of brass. Bands perform jazz, funk, classical, ska and traditional music during a packed programme of live entertainment running 16 - 19 July .
The Durham Streets Summer Festival
The streets of Durham burst into life 29 - 31 August Bank Holiday when the city plays host to some of the best musicians and street performers from around the world.
Durham Book Festival
This annual celebration of all things books takes place on 9-17 October. A host of household names take over the city with book-based discussions and interactive events.
Prepare to be amazed as this breathtaking city-wide celebration of light returns to sprinkle magic across Durham City for four dazzling winter evenings on 12 - 15 November
Durham Christmas Festival
This annual event takes place on 4 - 6 December - cobbled streets with entertainers, reindeer for the children, carols at Durham Cathedral, plus over 150 quality craft, gift and food stalls in a huge marquee on Palace Green.
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- Directed By I. Sparber.
- Animated By George Germanetti, David Tendlar.
- Written By Isadore Klein, Jack Ward.
- Music: Winston Sharples.
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Police looking for woman in armed robberyBy Josh OGorman
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DANBY Police are investigating the armed robbery of a convenience store Saturday night.
According to state police, at approximately 6:30 p.m., a woman entered Nichols Store on Main Street and handed a note to the clerk demanding money. The woman displayed a black revolver in the right pocket of her hooded sweatshirt, but never removed the pistol from her pocket, police said.
The robber made off with what police called a small amount of cash from the register and fled the immediate area on foot, although police believe she used a vehicle to leave the area.
There were no injuries.
Police described the suspect as a woman, between 5 feet, 2 inches tall and 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighing approximately 100 to 110 pounds. The woman wore a black hooded sweatshirt with a Peace sign on the front, blue jeans and a mask made from some sort of fabric.
Saturdays incident was the second armed robbery of a convenience store by a woman in the area in four days. Shortly before midnight Wednesday, a woman walked into the Stewarts shop at 232 Main St. in West Rutland and demanded money.
Much like Saturdays robbery, the woman in the West Rutland robbery handed the clerk a note and displayed a handgun, which was tucked into her waistband. Police said the weapon appeared to be a gray revolver.
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The Oklahoma City-based Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism is using two former local police officers to spearhead its national training efforts.
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Team Obama seeks volunteers to make phone calls urging people to tell Congress to raise taxes on the rich
**Written by Doug Powers
Operating under the assumption that Americans are far more likely to take up a cause if they're interrupted while trying to eat dinner, the Obama campaign is looking for a few good teleObamarketers:
Aiming to bring public pressure on Republicans to back higher taxes for the rich in the "fiscal cliff" fight, the Obama-Biden campaign today began urging supporters to join a local, online phone bank to help the president blast the GOP.
In an email, supporters are directed to a "Call Tool" where they are provided with somebody to call. Included is a telemarketing-style script to read.
A successful effort will then be tabulated on a "leaderboard" of callers.
"Today you will be calling fellow supporters with a message about extending middle-class tax cuts. Your job is to lay out the choice Congress is facing on keeping taxes low for the middle class, and encourage supporters to call their representative. You will be able to provide all the information," said the memo emblazoned with the Obama-Biden campaign emblem.
A script is provided. Just print it out and tape it to a hand-held mirror — it'll be like your own personal teleprompter! Here's a shorter version of the script: "Nice tax rates ya got there… shame if somethin' were to happen to them."
After making calls, Obama supporters are then supposed to go back to the website to let the campaign know how the calls went. At that point the supporters will be promptly… hit up for donations. Just the campaign's little way of saying "thanks for your time."
(h/t Mary Katharine Ham)
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So, Bionic Commando.
I played the bejeezus (all 'bejeezus' measured in rounded, approximate value) out of Bionic Commando for the NES when I was a child. I can tell you exactly why I played it as well. My brother was a staunch Mega Man enthusiast and could not wrap his mind around a game where one of the mechanics was to not jump. As such, I found it my duty as a younger sibling to take the mantle and try to show him the fuck up. The same essential thing happed with The Adventures of Link; the previous Zelda offering did not include jumping, and the follow up did - and I finished that game before anyone in my family.
Suffice it to say, I played Bionic Commando as a child, and then was rather attached to the inferior GBC version, I bought Bionic Commando: Rearmed when it came out, and of course, I picked up the PS3 remake the day it dropped.
My first gripe with the title is that it took itself far too seriously, considering the name of the protagonist was Nathan 'Radd' Spencer. That'd be like if the main character in Heavy Rain carried the moniker James 'McFuckAwesome' Clark.
The second gripe was that Bionic Commando was a sequel to the NES game; I applaud you for wanting to continue the rich story left over from the original title (what with Hitler being exploded in a giant machine) but it couldn't have hurt to set everything in its own continuity.
The basic premise of the Bionic Commando sequel is that Nathan RADDDDDD Spencer has been imprisoned for war crimes. He had a bionic arm, and people with bionic limbs were considered dangerous, and after a failed black ops, wetwork assignment, he was imprisoned for failing to turn his appendage in. Then, a group of people who totally aren't Nazis set on resurrecting Hitler nuke New York to try and get to a plot item that totally won't resurrect Hitler.
That's not even getting to the dumbest part.
Nathan T-RexSkateboarder Spencer agrees to put a stop to these rogue bionics as a one man army (note: he is not a one armed man - they will give him his arm back for the mission) so long as Joe, our bionic commando's CO gives Nathan SKITCHIN'! Spencer information on his missing wife. Because Nathan's wife went missing a couple of years before Nathan's real arm was exploded and he had to go stop a clone of Hitler in the first game.
So you go through the game, whatever, the story isn't actually that stupid and carries a modicum of surprise and intrigue, until you reach the endgame.
Naturally, Joe betrays you and it turns out that he's trying to access an army of robotic birds built under New York City - I wish I was kidding - and then reveals to Nathan what happened to his wife.
In order for bionic limbs to interface with their hosts, there needs to be some kind of catalyst or else the host body refuses the part. In this case, the catalyst was Nathan's wife. That's right.
Nathan's wife was his bionic arm.
Nathan's wife.
Was his.
Bionic arm.
The entire emotional thrust of the game had been rendered moot by this revelation; everything I worked towards, the end of the conflict I tried to bring was for naught. The entire drive of the plot hinged on a reveal so earth-shatteringly stupid that it made all of my efforts throughout the title seem... fruitless. The game didn't ever begin to hint at this, nor did any of the supplemental material. It was a curveball thrown from home plate when I thought we were playing basketball, and I'm not even good at sports metaphors.
It was a twist for the simple sake of being a twist. Absolutely unjustifiable.
Had the game not been 20 minutes from the finish, I would have shut it down right then and there. You also find out that she agreed to be his catalyst - and the icing on the Stupid Cake comes in this quote:
"I told you I'd never leave your side, Nathan."
Get it?
Because she's his arm.
Normally I close with something that recaps the main point of my post, but I have nothing; the final twist in Bionic Commando was so stupidly done and so poorly implemented and terribly written that it kind of actually retroactively ruined the NES Bionic Commando. I can't look at that game without thinking, 'Man, Nathan sure is using his wife a lot.'
It actually frustrated me to write this; the game itself wasn't very good, but it carried atmosphere well and the mechanics that worked, worked. After viewing the game as a 2d platformer set in a 3d world, everything really began to click a little more. But then the end came; I thought I had made it through a relatively mediocre game unscathed, but I celebrated too soon. My submarine base was torpedoed minutes before I was to leave the armed forces, and I died bloody and alone with mere seconds left on the clock.


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Firewall: Call and SMS filter
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Firewall is an application to block incoming calls. It uses, like security firewall, a system of rules. This approach provides a much wider options than the commonly used system of blacklist or whitelist.
Filtering can be set to the number (known, unknown, hidden), a contact or group. Newly added the ability to filter incoming text messages.
Filtering can be set to the number (known, unknown, hidden), a contact or group. Newly added the ability to filter incoming text messages.
App has not been updated since 2011. Used to work great under Jellybean and earlier but with every OS update or new phone this app is failing to the point it just doesn't work any more with KitKat 4.4.2.
Great app. My only request is a mute on sms. So I don't get woke up by a UPS notification, but still get the sms.
An Excellent and Unique Call Blocker/Filter I have purchased 3-4 similar apps (including Extreme Call Blocker Droid, Sanity) and have finally concluded this Firewall app to be the best among these (for my usage). During call blocking/filtering, while a simple blacklist/whitelist app is sufficient, 'Firewall' brings a rule-based scheduled call blocking, which would satisfy even the most experienced user. I have 2 suggestions for future updates: - Option to delete and backup/restore rules - Option to 'exclude' a particular group in a rule
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Trimester 1 & 2: 3 hour seminar
Trimester 3: 3 x 3 hour seminar
Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin.
Professional experience: Students are also required to attend 10 and 25 day professional experience placements.
This unit is a capstone experience where students examine teachers' work and align these practices to the relevant professional standards. Using the skills of inquiry required by a teacher-researcher−to gather evidence, document, analyse and reflect on practice students will independently investigate and examine the role of the teacher and professional standards in early childhood settings/primary/secondary contexts.
Students will select key teaching, learning and assessment artefacts* and build their professional portfolio to evidence performances against student and child learning and show a focus on assessment. The unit requires critical reflection in and on the professional practice of teaching through critical engagement in teacher-research, professional learning and communication with members of the profession and the wider school community and/or early childhood setting. *Note Primary and primary dual strand students will focus specifically on English and Mathematics content areas (sequence of 4-5 lessons in each area) or integration of English and Mathematics across the curriculum (unit of inquiry - 8 lesson sequence - with substantive English and Mathematics content and assessment).
Assessment 1 - Deakin Authentic Teacher Performance Assessment (ATA) 5400 words 90%
Assessment 2 - Professional Experience 600 word equivalent 10%
Hurdle Requirement: Satisfactory completion of the professional experience placement is required in order to pass this unit
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"It was a lot of fun, but it's disappointing when you don't win the Cup," said forward Teemu Hartikainen, who has played with the Barons the past three years but is expected to play all next season in Edmonton. "You feel bad that you're that close and didn't make it. But it was a great season."
The Barons were one of the AHL's hottest teams the final three months after dropping to 11th in the Western Conference standings two weeks after young Edmonton stars Jordan Eberle, Taylor Hall and Justin Schultz returned to the Oilers after playing three months with the Barons.
Team captain Josh Green, 35, played on a championship team in Austria but has never been on a Cup championship team.
"After we lost Game 7 it was one of the emptiest feelings I've ever had because of what could have been," Green said. "We were so close to moving to the finals. But having a day to reflect on it, we had a really great season considering all the adversity we went through. I'm so proud of all the guys."
Edmonton's Triple-A affiliate hasn't played for the AHL title in 20 years. Oklahoma City came close to ending the drought.
The Barons' first three seasons marks the first time in franchise history that Edmonton's Triple-A affiliate has recorded 40 or more wins three consecutive seasons.
"People talk about winning (versus) development at this level," Nelson said. "To us, winning is a form of development. It showed this year. Our guys played with a lot of heart and character, things that will help them as they advance through the system."
Nelson has been part of five championship teams. He was a player and assistant coach on two AHL Calder Cup teams. He also was part of three United Hockey League championships, including two as a head coach.
"It is so hard to win a cup," Nelson said. "But once you accomplish that goal you have a taste in your mouth that drives you that you want to do it again. Your goal is to win the Calder Cup. We're disappointed we fell just short, but we're very proud of what we've accomplished."


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Pier 55 is open to all individuals age 55 and over.The Center is handicapped accessible and no one shall be refused access to programs because of race, religion, sex, color, economic status, or disability.
Our mission as Red Wing Area Seniors, Inc. is to enhance, stimulate, accommodate and support ever-changing
and active lives.
Phone 651-327-2255
Mon - Frid. 9:00 to 4:00 Harrison Street, Suite 2
Red Wing, MN 55066
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President.................Tom Walsh
Vice-president......... Ralph Ryan
Secretary............... Jack Strobel
Treasurer............ Gary Johnson
Past President...Marcy Underwood
Sandy Giles Kathy Holthe
Dan Mjolsness Ben Stephani
Phil McNairy Teresa Miller
Nancy Swanson....Executive Director
Tonya Schmitt ......Program Coordinator
Shirley Perkins...............
Administrative Assistant
Sheryle Plank.....Annadee's Manager
John Simanski..... Annadees Janitor
Monday- Friday 9 am to 4 pm
Live Your Adventure
September 27-October 3 is Active Aging Week.
The theme is "'Live Your Adventure". On Friday, September 25, we hosted our Good Life Celebration. After the 25th, and throughout the month of October, we have a number of great "new" things for you partake. The options include (but are not limited to) Hay Creek Cabin, Meditation, Powerful Tools for Caregivers, Yoga Flow, Eat Smart, Live Strong, and "The Singing Cowgirl." Live your adventure with Red Wing Area Seniors, Inc.!
Our Annual Meeting
will be held Friday, November 13, 3-5pm.
This is an exciting time at Pier 55, as we continue to expand and grow our valuable services to the community.
It's election time for the RWAS Board! The nominating committee is seeking names for candidates. Do you have the time, energy and talents to help us thrive? Or connections to organizations/businesses to explore and expand collaboration? Or how about a huge pot of gold that you want to donate?
If one or more of these applies to you, please contact one of the stellar nominating committee members to learn more:
Sandy Giles 385-9305
Marcy Underwood 388-9394
Tom Walsh 388-3205
Submissions must be made by Friday, 10/16.
Come to the Annual Meeting on Friday, 11/13
from 3-5pm
to learn who your next board members will be.
Over the last year and a half, Red Wing Area Seniors has expanded its programs widely. The list of new programs includes additional fitness classes, meditation, writers workshop, nature hikes & trips, healthy eating,
more games, onsite dinner theater, Medicare planning, expanded technology help, caregiving classes, healthcare & future planning, and more.
We recognize that keeping up with our mission means that we need to
be continually exploring outside the box. In this spirit, Octobers Senior Forum is way outside the box! Your ideas and questions are needed!
Heres how it will work:
1. Submit your discussion item in an e-mail or a note to Tonya by
October 7.
2. Tonya will go through the submissions and choose 3-6 to be the
topics of the day. All submissions will be held for future reference, and possible program development.
3. Exactly how things go for the forum will be determined by YOU
and YOUR level of participation. Maybe well solve the worlds problems.
Maybe we wont. We will have time and space to speak and listen respectfully.
4. Come to the forum to find out if your topic was chosen, and what other topics were chosen! Ideas are not limited to RWAS, but any thoughts
regarding community, seniors, events, activities, resources, cooperative efforts, etc. are welcome! If youd like to share a story of something new you
tried that you really enjoy, thats welcome, too!
Please give your idea to Tonya, no later than 10/7.
Senior Forum
Pandoras Box
Thursday, October 15th at 10:00 a.m.
Facilitator: Tonya Schmitt
Here is your opportunity to voice your opinion as to what you would like to see presented at the Senior Forum. Please have your thoughts to Tonya no later than October 7th.
Caregiver Toolbox
Wednesdays, Oct. 14, Nov. 11 and Dec. 9
Facilitator: Tonya Schmitt
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
There are only four kinds of people in this worldthose who have been caregivers, those who currently are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who need caregivers. ~Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter
Time is precious, and especially so for caregivers. Thats why Caregiver Toolbox will hand you a tool for immediate use each time we meet. There will also be discussion of important topics, valuable activities and time for asking questions and sharing. An hour and half is allotted for each meeting, but we understand if you need to leave early. The atmosphere is one of mutual respect and empowerment.
Call 651-327-2255 to register no later than the Friday before each meeting.
The Singing Cowgirl
Friday, October 16 at 1:30pm
Cost: $5.00
Lisa Murphy is "The Singing Cowgirl"! Lisa delivers great songs of the 50s, 60s and 70s. She specializes in John Denver's hits, and she delivers them with flair and fun. Youll enjoy laughing and singing along! Coffee and treats following the show.
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Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa
|Rashid bin Khalifa al Khalifa
Portrait of Rashid al Khalifa
|Known for
|Impressionism, Realism, Abstract, Individualism
|Lulwa bint Khalifa Al Khalifa
|Official website
Sheikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa (born 1952) is a Bahraini painter, the first president and the current honorary president of the Bahrain Arts Society.[1] He has painted over a period of 40 years, painting artistic genres such as Realism developed to Impressionism, which gradually evolved to Individualism, a notable prelude to his recent work, a dual concept of Abstract and the colour field.[2] He is often considered to be one of the kingdom's most famous artists.[3]
Sheikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa was born in 1952 into Bahrain's ruling family. Traditionally, families such as his have demonstrated their appreciation of art through patronage and little in creativity. Exposed to literature, philosophy and music in high school, Rashid's interest in painting was encouraged by the late Amir, Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, followed and Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the Prime Minister of Bahrain, when both showed genuine interest in Rashid's works at a local art exhibition at his high school.[2]
As a young student, he actively participated in interscholastic painting activities and attended exhibitions of visiting artists. His first painting recorded was in 1966 when he was 14 years old when he had painted an oil painting of the Khamis mosque.[2] His favourite artworks were landscapes.[2]
When he came of age, he traveled to the United Kingdom where he studied extensively and gained a thorough knowledge of European masters.[4] Realism, impressionism and abstract all have a hand in Sheikh Rashid's early works.[4] But, it is also certain that he took liberties when producing such paintings. Upon his return in 1970, he had his first art exhibition at the Dilmun Hotel in Manama, then considered to be the prime location for Bahrain's recreational activities.[2] From pastoral landscapes to desert scenes, once again, he has shifted his subjects and expanded the scope of his reference from the simply theoretical to the geographical as well.[2]
He did much experimenting in the two decades between the 1970s and 1980s. His knowledge and comprehension of anatomy, perspective and composition were the foundations for his figurative and landscape paintings.[4] His works in this period exhibits characteristics of Romanticism, Abstract Expressionism and Impressionism as well as to Realism.[4]
In 1983, the Bahrain Arts Society was formed, and Sheikh Rashid was named its first president. The society is a non-profit organisation for Bahraini artists to gather and hold their painting exhibitions.[5] To date the Bahrain Art Society continues its active participation in art exhibitions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia with Sheikh Rashid as the honorary president.[1][5]
He also held a government post as the undersecretary for tourism for the Ministry of Culture of Bahrain until June 2011.[6] In the 90's, he started to merge the two subjects and came up with his Two-dimensional paintings, his period of Individualism.[4] After the first Gulf War, Sheikh Rashid was appointed undersecretary for immigration, passports and nationality.[2]
In his new millennium paintings, landscape and figurative morphed resulting in Abstract and Colour Field. He maintained his focus on the aesthetics of what post-modernism's adherents might identify as a re-contextualisation of an art genre, but his works were never created as exercises in post-modernist theory.
A book entitled Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, 40 years of painting, from himself, by himself, for himself (ISBN 978-99901-03-52-6) is a showcase of his 40-year œuvre. The 160 page book concentrates on Sheikh Rashid's art critical biography and artistic identity analysed by Iraqi-born Swede Modhir Ahmed.[3]
- 2012 Beirut art fair, Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, Lebanon.[4]
- 2012 REFLECTION: New Work by Rashid Al Khalifa, Bahrain Bahrain Financial Harbour Fine Arts Gallery[7]
- 2010 Convex: A New Perspective, Bahrain National Museum, Kingdom of Bahrain[4]
- 1997 Art Department, Shuman Arts Organization, Jordan
- 1996 De Caliet Gallery, Milan, Italy.
- 1996 El Kato Kayyel Gallery, Milan, Italy.
- 1982 Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., USA.
- 1982 Sheraton Hotel, Bahrain.
- 1970 Dilmun Hotel, Bahrain.[2]
Selected International Exhibitions[edit]
- 2013 In Dialogue with Modhir Ahmed, Abdulrahim Sharif and Walid Siti - The Waterline Gallery, Bahrain
- 2013 Art International Zurich - Zurich, Switzerland
- 2013 Art Dubai - Dubai, UAE
- 2012 Abu Dhabi Art - Abu Dhabi, UAE
Rashid participated in the following exhibitions alongside the Bahrain Arts Society.[8]
- 2013 Bahrain Contemporary Art -Russian Academy, Moscow
- 2007 Bahrain Contemporary Art -Unesco Paris
- 2005 Modern Art Exhibition Organized by the Royal Ireland, College of Surgeons of Ireland in Dublin
- 2004 Duo show with Balqees Fakhro -Berlin Germany; Annual Art Exhibition 32- Bahrain National Museum Bahrain
- 2002 Bahraini Culture Week- Amman Jordan; Bahraini Culture Week -Peking China
- 1999 Taipei Art Exhibition Taiwan; Sharjah Intl. Art Biennial UAE; Bahrain – Delmun Exhibition Paris
- 1998 Bahrain Arts Society Exhibition, Gallery Alexander Leodoux France
- 1997 Art Expo Singapore; Art America Exhibition, Miami USA; Europe Art Festival, Geneva Switzerland; Bahrain Arts Society Exhibition, Cannes France
- 1996 Europe Art Festival, Geneva Switzerland; Bahrain Artists Exhibition Rome; Sharjah Biennial Exhibition UAE
- 1995 Joint Exhibition with Abbas Al-Mousawi, Hotel Du Switzerland, Rond, Geneva; Joint Exhibition at the UN Center, Lusanne Switzerland
- 1989 Bahrain art Society Exhibition Cairo
- 1988 Festival of Asian Artists Malaysia; New Art Center Iraq
- 1986 First GCC Art Exhibition Japan
- 1985 Cairo Biennial Exhibition Cairo; Alia Center Jordan
- 1984 Bahraini Artists, Leighton House England; Salon des Artists Francises, Grand Palais Paris
- 1981 Raffles Hotel Singapore
- 1978 Hilton Hotel Bahrain
- 1975 Gulf Hotel Bahrain
- 1973 Periodic GCC Youth Exhibition
- 1972 College of Arts Exhibition England
- 1969 First Art Exhibition held at the Gulf Hotel Bahrain
- 1991 GCC Golden Palm Award Doha
- 1989 GCC Dana Award Kuwait
- ^ a b "Bahrain Arts Society - Committee". Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Kietzman, Roy. "The evolution of master artist Sheikh Rashid". BahrainGuide. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Bahrain Art Society - One year at a glance" (PDF). Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g Amaya-Akkermans, Arie (22 July 2012). "Rashid Al Khalifa at Beirut Art Fair". 5pmBahrain. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Bahrain Art Society - History". Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ Bangs, Richard (30 March 2011). "Bahrain: Once Was Paradise". Huffington Post. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ "Artistic tribute to Manama". Gulf Daily News. 24 January 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ "Bahrain Arts Society - Archives". Retrieved 28 July 2012.


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The movie opens with a confession. Staring straight into a video camera, "Turk" (Robert De Niro), a 30-plus-year veteran of the NYPD, recounts eleven cold-blooded killings, none of which were committed in the line of duty. Instead, they were the work of an unbalanced rogue cop who, unbeknownst to everyone around him, has become a lethal vigilante, a "street sweeper" ridding the city of rapists, murderers, thugs and pedophiles the justice system has failed to keep off the streets. A flashback reveals the moment that triggered this spree of "righteous kills." Four years earlier, Turk and his partner (Al Pacino), a detective who also goes by his precinct nickname, "Rooster", watch helplessly as Charles Randall (Frank John Hughes), a man who they both know raped and killed his girlfriend's (Melissa Leo) 10-year-old daughter, is acquitted by a jury of his peers. Outraged at the injustice of it all, Turk decides to cross the line and plant a gun in Randall's apartment, thereby setting him up to take the fall for a crime he didn't actually commit. Rooster, who clearly loves and respects his partner, has his reservations but goes along with it. Not long after, a brutal, smalltime pimp is found shot in a back alley, followed soon after by a pedophile priest and a rapist who got off on a technicality. In each instance, a short poem recounting the victims' sins is found at the crime scene, leading Lieutenant Hingis (Brian Dennehy) to believe he has serial murderer on his hands. Unaware that the killer is one of his own, Hingis pressures Turk and Rooster to find the killer fast, and they're soon joined in their investigation by Detectives Perez (John Leguizamo) and Riley (Donnie Wahlberg) who've been working a similar killing. Perez, however, senses there's something not quite right about Turk, and soon realizes that all the victims are somehow connected to this veteran cop. Turk's girlfriend, Detective Karen Corelli (Carla Gugino), a detective on the NYPD crime scene unit with a taste for rough sex, also begins to suspect that the killer might be someone within the department, especially after she makes a connection between the gun found in Randall's home and the guns the so-called "Poetry Killer" has been leaving behind.
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This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 154,593 filed May 29, 1980, and now abandoned.
This invention relates to apparatus for diagnosing pathological disorders such as cancer of the breast.
About 7% of women contract cancer of the breast. Of the cases nowadays detected, 50% lead to the patient's death within ten years of establishment of cancer. The prognosis is decisively dependent on how early the diagnosis can be made.
For diagnosing cancer of the breast are employed: X-ray examination, thermography, and manual palpation. Most efficient among these is X-ray examination, but owing to the high depth of penetration of X-rays in soft tissue, diagnosis of cancer in its initial stage is difficult by X-rays. A further detriment of X-rays is the radiation dose received by the patient, whereby X-ray examination is hardly applicable in mass screening.
Thermography is based on recording the infrared radiation emitted by the human body. This procedure is completely free of risk to the patient, but its reliability is poor (only 50% of cases diagnosed with X-ray apparatus are detected). Thermography is therefore only appropriate as a procedure supplementing X-ray examinations. The unreliability of thermography is due to the fact that it records only changes in the surface temperature of the skin, and such changes ensue as a consequence of cancer only when the neoplasm is large or located quite close to the skin surface.
Making a successful diagnosis by manual palpation implies that the neoplasm has already sufficient size, and it requires a certain experience on the side of the person making the diagnosis.
Also appearing on the scene nowadays are ultrasonic examinations, which are completely risk-free to the patient but are capable of diagnosis only if the neoplastic tissue is clearly encapsulated (that is, acoustically clearly differing from other tissues).
Summarizing the above, the observation may be made that nowadays no reliable procedure or apparatus is available which would be proper for earliest possible diagnosis of cancer of the breast, for instance with the aid of mass screening studies.
In the developing of the apparatus, that information served as starting point: that the breast tissue is comparatively homogeneous tissue resembling fat tissue, while cancerous tissue resembles muscle tissue in its electrical properties. On the basis hereof, microwaves are used for diagnosis in the apparatus of the invention.
In the following table (I) are presented the characteristics of tissues at the frequency of 10 GHz.
TABLE I______________________________________ Wave- Depth of length, Conductivity Dielectric penetration, cm s constant Er cm______________________________________Fat tissue 1.4 0.3-0.5 4.5 3.4Muscle tissue 0.5 10 40 0.5______________________________________
In the following table (Table II) are given the coefficients of reflection of the tissue interfaces at frequency 10 GHz.
TABLE II______________________________________ φ r (Coefficient of reflection) (Phase Shift)______________________________________Fat/muscle interface 0.5 +175Muscle/fat interface 0.5 -6______________________________________
As can be estimated from the values in the table, about 65% of the microwave radiation at 10 GHz frequency striking the cancerous tissue is reflected. As Table II reveals, reflection of microwaves takes place in the front and rear parts of the cancer growth, and each such reflection is also accompanied by a phase shift, of which the magnitude at different interfaces can be read in the table.
It is obvious on this basis that since the cancerous tissue is clearly different from normal breast tissue in its electric properties, microwaves can be used in diagnostics of cancer of the breast.
On the other hand, microwaves have been used in materials testing in various fields of industry. For instance, microwaves are used as aid in examinations of various coating layers for their thickness, materials for variations of porosity, for internal cracks, boards for knottiness, etc. But these types of apparatus of prior art are of such design that the idea of possibly constructing an apparatus, based on microwaves, for diagnosis of cancer of the breast is not at all suggested or obvious on their basis.
The apparatus of the invention for diagnosing cancer of the breast comprises, as components previously known in themselves, a microwave transmitter, a microwave wave antenna for the purpose of directing a microwave signal to the object under examination, a microwave receiver with amplitude and phase shift detectors, and a processor for processing the amplitude and phase information.
In order that these components known in prior art could be used in the apparatus of the invention for diagnosis of cancer of the breast and other pathological disorders and that the object of the invention, mentioned before, might be achieved, the apparatus is according to the teachings of the invention characterized in that the antenna has been arranged with the aid of a scanning mechanism to sweep over the surface of a matching plate, the breast under examination being pressable against the other side of this plate. The plate serves the purpose of matching the moving antenna with the tissue under examination, whereby the scanning mechanism may be comparatively simple because it has always to sweep over a plane. In order for the plate to accomplish this task in the best possible manner, the plate should have a dielectric constant substantially the same (Er about 5) as normal breast tissue.
It is possible with the apparatus of the invention to arrange for a microwave image consistent with the antenna scanning to be formed on a display.
The following invention shall be illustrated by reference to the attached drawing wherein:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic illustration of a microwave scanner for diagnosing cancer of the breast and includes a signal processing system shown in block diagram; and
FIG. 2 illustrates a preferred mechanical design of an antenna unit; and
FIG. 3 illustrates a suitable positioning apparatus for the scanner shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
As is well known, the shape, size and other characteristics of breast vary extensively. Since in microwave image forming it must be possible to match the transmitter and receiver with the skin and the subcutaneous fat with a view to avoiding unnecessary reflections, there has been provided, in the apparatus, a matching plate 3, which has been made of a material having a dielectric constant Er equal to the average dielectric constant of breast tissue (about 5). The breast to be examined, 1, is pressed against this matching plate 3. On the underside of the plate 3, the area to be examined is scanned with the microwave antenna system 4, governed by the scanning mechanism 6. The apparatus comprises, furthermore, a microwave transmitter 7 and a microwave receiver, with amplitude detector 8 and phase difference detector 9. The amplitude and phase information obtained from these is conveyed to the processor 10, which forms of the object under examination a microwave image, which is displayed with the display unit 11. In the case that there is a neoplasm 2, a conforming shadow 2' will be seen in the image in the display unit.
The contribution of the plate 3 to the image-forming is highly important: its effects matching of the moving antenna 4 with the tissue 1 under examination, and the scanning mechanism may be kept rather simple because the configuration to be scanned is always a plane. Moreover, the act of pressing the breast against the plate reduces the amount of venous blood during the image-forming process in the area under examination, thereby improving the sensitivity of diagnosis.
The mechanical design of an advantageous embodiment of the antenna 4 is described in the following with reference being made to FIG. 2. As scanning antenna is used a wave guide 12 open at one end and filled e.g. with the material 13 used in the matching plate. Material 13 may be a piece of the plate. The problem is then: to maintain the end of the wave guide in continuous contact with the matching plate 3 so that during scanning between the antenna 4 and the plate 3 no air gap is produced, which would give rise to objectionable reflections. The matching plate 3 of the invention renders possible a simple solution of this problem: the matching material or piece 13 within the wave guide antenna is disposed to be movable in such manner that it is pressed out under spring action of an elastic material 14, or under gravity action if disposed in a vertical free moving through the open end of the wave guide 12, and the expressed end face of this matching material piece 13 follows along the surface of the matching plate 3. Continuous contact is hereby gained between the matching piece 13 and the matching place 3, and no air gaps giving rise to reflections can be formed.
Cancerous tissue is often encircled by a liquid layer that has been formed by the body's defensive mechanisms and which like muscular tissue reflects microwave radiation. This causes the cancerous growth to appear larger than actual size in the microwave image. This circumstance causes the requisite requirement of resolution to be less.
Regarding the power of resolution of the apparatus the observation can be made that it is able to identify among normal tissue those cancerous tissue particles which have a size more than one quarter of the wavelength employed, that is tissue particles about 4 mm in size when the frequency is 10 GHz. Of this, at least 1 mm is liquid surrounding the neoplasm, and therefore the size of the neoplasm is about 3 mm.
The frequency of 10 GHz employed in the apparatus is, technologically, fairly easy to control, and microwave components for operation within that wavelength range are available at a reasonable price. It is conceivable, with a view to improving the resolution, to increase the frequency if need by even up to 20 GHz.
Although the structure as shown in the drawings and described above will provide the basis for those skilled in the art to readily carry out the present invention for purposes of cancer or other physiological diagnosis, the various practical design considerations which will be applied by such personnel are briefly discussed to further minimize such routine activity requirement.
The system may use either a continuous wave mode of operation or a pulsed mode of operation. The selection of the desired mode will be determined by the availability of the source and the like and does not affect the validity of the results which will be obtained with the present invention. This is particularly true with the preferred construction as shown and described with respect to FIGS. 1 and 2. For example, in certain treatment apparatus in the prior art, heating of the body tissue requires special consideration. In the present invention, the matching plate 3 which provides the close coupling between the antenna and the body tissue produces interengagement or contact which significantly minimizes any probability of heating in the boundary surfaces or layers. Thus, whether a continuous or pulsed mode of operation is selected, the heating effect will be insignificant as long as the proper and ordinary care, such as normally required in any medical diagnostic instrument is taken. Similarly, the power level selected will vary with the particular other parameters which the design personnel selects, all of which are within the normal design criteria. Thus, the particular power level selected will be effected by such factors as the speed of scan, the sensitivity of the receiver, the deepness of the pathological area for growth or disorder to be imaged and diagnosed and the like. For example, the power level, for a continuous wave mode of operation is below the usual limit of ten microwatts per centimeter squares 10 mW/cm2 over the usual operating frequency range. In a continuous mode of operation, a power level of 3 to 5 Mw/cm2 would be typical of an optimum power range. The level should of course be sufficient to provide necessary imaging information. Further, although the frequency may vary widely, a frequency most appropriate for diagnostic purposes will be selected in the range of 0.5 to 10 gigahertz (GHz) with 0.5 to 5 GHz preferred.
Because the present invention minimizes and essentially avoids heating of any characteristic, the coupling plate is preferably a solid plate member such as described above and shown in the drawings. There is no need to provide any forced cooling of the plate such as by the circulation of a coolant dielectric through the plate. This is significant in connection with the described embodiment of invention because the solid plate does not include disturbing interfaces and avoids the possibility of reflection and disturbance of the transmitted and received wave signals. This of course is particularly significant in connection with a scanning mechanism where the characteristic of the matching plate is not maintained essentially constant over the total area to be scanned may introduce error into the total analysis because of variations from one area or point to the next. Once again the plate may be formed of any suitable dielectric material which can readily be provided by those skilled in the art. A particularly suitable material for the scanning plate is a "STYCAST epoxy 2850/GT" which is manufactured and sold by Emerson and Cumings Inc. of Canton, Mass. Such material has a dielectric constant (Er is essentially 5) which is essentially the same as that of the breast tissue. A close correlation between the dielectric constant of the plate and the breast tissue is important because disturbance of the signal through the matching plate and the interface is related to the difference in the dielectric constant. An identical dielectric constant would have minimal disturbance, which will increase as the dielectric constant of the breast tissue. For practical purposes, it is desired that the dielectric constant of the plate will not vary significantly from that of the breast tissue. The material of the plate 3 is not otherwise critical. The plate of course should not have any adverse genetic properties and of course has a proper surface characteristic to permit the spring-loaded forced engagement of the transmitting element of piece, as well as transmit the signals without significant distortion.
Although any type of a scanning means might be employed, a simple, safe system is diagrammatically, illustrated in FIG. 3. In this embodiment of the invention, the transmitter/receiver assembly 6 and 7 includes a support structure 20 for movement over the dielectric plate 3. The support structure 20 is shown including tracks 21 and 22 located to the opposite sides of the dielectric plate 3. Carriage members 23 and 24 are mounted on the tracks for longitudinal movement along the tracks and over the dielectric plate 3. A lead screw 25 is rotatably mounted to the carriage members 23-24 and is coupled to a stepping motor 26 on the one carriage 23. The antenna 4 includes a follower 27 attached to the lead screw 25. The antenna 4 and the transmitter 6 and receiver 7 may be formed as a movable assembly mounted to the follower 27. Energization of the stepping motor 26 causes the antenna 4 to move across the dielectric plate 3. The stepping motor 23 is any suitable well known device adapted to provide timed movement of the antenna 4 across the dielectric plate 3. The carriage member 24 on the second track 22 is in turn mounted by a follower 24a on the second lead screw 28 extending perpendicular to the first for moving the lead screw 25 across dielectric plate 3. A second stepping motor 29 is mounted on the second track 22 and coupled to drive the lead screw 28 thereby causing the transport of the antenna across the dielectric plate 3, with a corresponding stepped movement of the assembly when energized.
In actual operation of course the antenna 4 is located to an initial starting position and then caused to traverse the dielectric plate 3. In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the first stepping motor 26 is operated to cause the antenna 4 to move across the dielectric plate 3 in a horizontal direction by a series of individual steps. At each step, a signal is generated providing corresponding image information. When antenna 4 reaches the opposite side of dielectric plate 3, the first stepping motor 26 is deenergized and the second stepping motor 29 is energized to move the antenna 4 along the length of the plate 3 one step. The stepping motor 26 is reversely operated to cause the opposite rotation of the lead screw 25 and a corresponding reverse scan movement of the antenna 4 to the left edge, as shown in FIG. 3. Upon the reaching of the left edge, the second stepping motor 29 is again energized to move the antenna 4 down another step. The above sequence of operation of the stepping motors 26 and 29 results in a traverse of the dielectric plate 3 as shown diagrammatically by line 29a (shown in expanded illustration), with data readings developed at each location to produce a sequence of individual bytes of information generated for each scanning of the dielectric plate. This, of course, provides a typical digital information matrix defining the image. The information may of course be suitably stored, processed and the like by any suitable means. With present technology, computer processor devices are readily available to control the stepping motors and to receive and process the data in well known manner.
For example, the limit positions of the antenna 4 may be monitored by four suitable microswitches 30, 31, 32 and 33 located, one each at the respective end limit positions of the antenna 4 on the lead screw 25 and lead screw 28, as shown in FIG. 3. Thus, switch 30 provides a signal indicating that the antenna 4 is in the initial start position and is conditioned to move to the right. When the assembly engages microswitch 31, a signal indicates that the antenna 4 has moved to the rightmost position and is to move downwardly one step and then return to the left. Microswitch 32 of course indicates the uppermost position for returning the antenna to the first line position. The microswitch 33 senses the final line position and defines a return signal which conjointly with the signal from the other switches causes the antenna 4 to return to its initial starting position.
The microswitches 30-33 thus provide all the information necessary to move the scanner. For example, the information can be supplied to a suitable computer which in turn provides appropriate signals to drive the motors 26 and 29. A typical computer system is shown in block diagram in FIGS. 1 and 3. As such systems are well known and will be readily understood by those skilled in the art, the computer is shown in simplified block diagram. The control may use any simple sequence programming system and can be readily provided by any one having basic skill in the art, a detailed description and program is therefore not given.
The processor of course includes a basic processor unit wherein suitable memories, decoders, addressing means, I/O means and the like are provided for manipulation of the analog data signals, conversion to digital format, appropriate processing and storage thereof in a RAM memory. The processor is programmed to continuously monitor the state of the microswitches 30-33 and thereby the position of the antenna 4 and to appropriately actuate the stepping motors 26 and 29. The processor 10 also receives and processes the image information. Such a system would basically include a RAM memory unit or section 35 within which a fixed program is provided for controlling the logical and sequential inputting of data, processing of such data, storing such data, and outputting such data. The RAM memory section 36 is provided for appropriate processing and storage of the data. The data is introduced and output through a suitable I/O unit connected to the external system by a common bus. The microprocessor of course operates in accordance with specific instructions which are contained within the control unit and the routing is controlled by appropriate addressing and decoding means, all under control from the basic program control unit. The operation and connection of the microprocessor will be readily understood by those skilled in the art, and the program listing of the reading, processing sequence and outputting of data based on the switch signals and data received and processed will be provided in a routine manner by those skilled in the art. This provides precise scanning of the dielectric plate 3 and therefore of the aligned patient's body. At each step, the processor actuates the transmitter/receiver assembly 6-7 to transmit a signal and record the reflected signal generated thereby. The signals are suitably processed by the processor 10 and stored directly in the RAM memory 36. The signals are typically analog signal generated by the transmitter/receiver assembly. Such analog signals as read are of course processed by a suitable digitizing unit for converting the signal into an appropriate form for processing and storage in a digital computer and particularly in the RAM memory. The location of the signal on the dielectric plate 3 and in the RAM memory 36 is of course interelated and provides the necessary matrixed information for subsequent processing and display.
The stored information can then of course be directly displayed through any suitable video display system in accordance with well known systems. Thus, shown in FIG. 3, a video controller unit 37 is coupled to the RAM memory 36 for reading of the memory locations in proper sequence and operates to drive the video display unit 11, reproducing the body image and thereby any physiological disorder which is detected by the last scan. The video controller 37 may of course be controlled by the processor 10 to maintain proper system operation for presentation and removal of information with respect to the RAM memory 36.
As such application of computer systems for capture and processing of signals is well developed art, no further detailed description thereof is deemed necessary or given herein.
In summary, during any diagnostic sequence, the processor 10 executes its program to actuate the stepping motors 26 and 29 in accordance with the sensed condition of the microswitches 30-33. This provides for a complete line-by-line scan of selected portion or the complete dielectric plate 3. The result of the scan of course is a corresponding matrix of image data words which are stored in the RAM memory, and which precisely defines the image. The image can therefore by reproduced on the video display unit or transmitted to other direct diagnostic analysis instrumentation, to a hard copy print-out system or the like. Of course any other control system may be used to properly move the antenna 4 and to receive the signals generated.
Various modes of carrying out the invention are contemplated as being within the scope of the following claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which is regarded as the invention.
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