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Effective date: January 11, 2019
Brel-Home ("us", "we", or "our") operates the Brel-Home application (hereinafter referred to as the "Service").
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
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To develop our products and services, together with general and statistical information. We use statistical data that does not specifically identify you (non-personal data) to help in our operations and improve our products and services and provide a better user experience for you. Here are some of the non-personal data we may collect and how we use them:
When you opt-in to participate in our User Experience Improvement Program, we may gather statistics relating to your use of our products functions, on an anonymous basis. This may include information relating to your use of our products and services. If there is an abnormal shutdown or breakdown, we may collect information relating to your mobile device to diagnose the problem.
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When you first use and activate your Brel-Home device, the device's unique identification code and approximate geographical information may be collected.
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We recognize that privacy concerns differ from person to person. Therefore, we provide examples of ways we make available for you to choose to restrict the collection, use, disclosure or processing of your personal data and control your privacy settings, such as controlling the settings under the User Experience Improvement Program, Location Access functions, and your Brel-Home Account.
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For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that we are permitted by law to collect, use or disclose your personal data without your consent, such permission granted by the law shall continue to apply.
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Information safety is very important to us. We will take all practicable steps to safeguard your personal data. Through our protective measures above, especially encrypted storage and transmission, your data is as secure as it can be.
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We may share anonymised information and statistics in aggregate form with third parties for business purposes, for example with advertisers on our website, or we may tell our business partners the number of customers in certain demographic groups who purchased certain products or who carried out certain transactions.
For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that we are permitted by law to collect, use or disclose your personal data without your consent, such permission granted by the law shall continue to apply.
We are committed to ensuring that your personal data is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure or other similar risks, we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. We have put in place the following security procedures and technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal data.
Information safety is very important to us. We will take all practicable steps to safeguard your personal data. Through our protective measures above, especially encrypted storage and transmission, your data is as secure as it can be. Certain details of encrypted data cannot be accessed by anyone except by you.
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").
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The biological mechanisms involved in bone regeneration in osteoporotic bone and the effect of antiresorptive drugs in relation to surgically inserted biomaterials are not fully understood. Improved osseointegration of titanium implants but also adverse effects of antiresorptive therapies, such as osteonecrotic jaw have been described in the literature. The aims of this research project were, firstly, to investigate and to understand the biological events determining bone regeneration and implant integration, after administration of antiresorptive agents; secondly, to determine the cellular and molecular patterns of bone regeneration at implants and synthetic bone substitutes under osteoporotic conditions and, thirdly, to determine how different skeletal sites are affected. The present research included a study of jawbone morphology and gene expression in patients treated with systemic bisphosphonates. When compared to controls, higher gene expression levels of IL-1β was observed in bisphosphonate treated patients with osteonecrosis while bisphosphonate treated patients without necrosis showed lower expression levels of caspase 8, an apoptosis marker involved in the immune response. In ovariectomised rats, zoledronic acid resulted in site-specific differences in the rate of osseointegration and also of gene expression involved in bone healing and regeneration. Strontium-doped calcium phosphate inserted in the rat femur induced lower expression of osteoclastic markers compared to hydroxyapatite and higher bone formation in the periphery of the defects. Whereas major structural changes were demonstrated in the long bones of the ovariectomised rat, less structural alterations were shown in the mandible. However, ovariectomy resulted in lower expression of genes coding for bone formation and angiogenesis in the mandible. In conclusion, the present study shows that the mandible is differently affected by experimentally induced estrogen deficiency than the long bones. Bisphosphonates, administered systemically to estrogen deficient animals, impair osseointegration in the mandible, at least partly related to a downregulation of genes important for the osteogenic process. These observations may have implications for understanding the mechanisms involved in the deranged bone healing observed in the jawbone of bisphosphonate treated patients.
Bisphosphonates reverse the negative effects of ovariectomy on bone, but they have also been associated with adverse processes in human jawbone. The molecular events determining bone regeneration and implant integration in osteoporotic conditions, with and without bisphosphonate treatment, are unclear. In this study, ovariectomised rats, to which a single dose of saline (NaCl) or zoledronic acid (Zol) was administered, received titanium alloy implants in their tibiae and mandibles. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, gene expression analysis and histomorphometry were performed. The results show that ovariectomy, per se, upregulated the expression of genes denoting bone formation in the tibia, bone remodelling in the mandible and apoptosis in the tibia and mandible. Zoledronic acid administration resulted in lower levels of a remodelling marker in serum and downregulated gene expression for inflammation, bone formation, angiogenesis and apoptosis, mainly in the mandible, after 28 d of healing. Histomorphometry revealed improved bone-to-implant contact in the tibia, while the opposite was observed in the mandible. The present data show that a systemic single dose of zoledronic acid, in ovariectomised animals, results in site-specific differences in the regulation of genes involved in bone healing and regeneration in association with implant installation. These events occur in parallel with site-specific differences in the rate of osseointegration, indicating diverse tissue responses in the tibia and mandible after zoledronic acid treatment. The zoledronic acid effect on gene expression, during the late phase of healing in the mandible, suggests negative effects by the anti-resorptive agent on osseointegration at that particular site.
The healing of bone defects may be hindered by systemic conditions such as osteoporosis. Calcium phosphates, with or without ion substitutions, may provide advantages for bone augmentation. However, the mechanism of bone formation with these materials is unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the healing process in bone defects implanted with hydroxyapatite (HA) or strontium-doped calcium phosphate (SCP) granules, in non-ovariectomised (non-OVX) and ovariectomised (OVX) rats. After 0 (baseline), six and 28d, bone samples were harvested for gene expression analysis, histology and histomorphometry. Tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), at six days, was higher in the HA, in non-OVX and OVX, whereas interleukin-6 (IL-6), at six and 28d, was higher in SCP, but only in non-OVX. Both materials produced a similar expression of the receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (RANKL). Higher expression of osteoclastic markers, calcitonin receptor (CR) and cathepsin K (CatK), were detected in the HA group, irrespective of non-OVX or OVX. The overall bone formation was comparable between HA and SCP, but with topological differences. The bone area was higher in the defect centre of the HA group, mainly in the OVX, and in the defect periphery of the SCP group, in both non-OVX and OVX. It is concluded that HA and SCP granules result in comparable bone formation in trabecular bone defects. As judged by gene expression and histological analyses, the two materials induced different inflammatory and bone remodelling responses. The modulatory effects are associated with differences in the spatial distribution of the newly formed bone.
Aortic stenosis (AS) is one of the most prevalent valvular heart diseases in elderly people. According to the recommendations of both the American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology, severity assessment of AS is primarily based on echocardiographic findings. The experience of the investigator here play important roles in the accuracy of the assessment, and therefore in the disease management. However, access to the expert physicians could be limited, especially in rural health care centers of developing countries.
This thesis aims to develop processing algorithms tailored for phonocardiographic signal with the intension to obtain a noninvasive diagnostic tool for AS assessment and severity grading. The algorithms employ a phonocardiogram as input signal and perform analysis for screening and diagnostics. Such a decision support system, which we call "the intelligent phonocardiography", can be widely used in primary healthcare centers.
The main contribution of the thesis is to present innovative models for the phonocardiographic analysis by taking the segmental characteristics of the signal into consideration. Three novel methodologies are described, based on the presented models, to perform robust classification. In the first attempt, a novel pattern recognition framework is presented for screening of AS-related murmurs. The framework offers a hybrid model for classifying cyclic time series in general, but is tailored to detect the murmurs as a special case study. The time growing neural network is another method that we use to classify short time signals with abrupt frequency transition. The idea of the growing frames is extended to the cyclic signals with stochastic properties for the screening purposes. Finally, a combined statistical and artificial intelligent classifier is proposed for grading the severity of AS.
The study suggests comprehensive statistical validations not only for the evaluation and representation of systolic murmurs but also for setting the methodology design parameters, which can be considered as one of the significant features of the study. The resulting methodologies can be implemented by using web and mobile technologies to be utilized in distributed healthcare system.
This paper proposes a framework for binary classification of the time series with cyclic characteristics. The framework presents an iterative algorithm for learning the cyclic characteristics by introducing the discriminative frequency bands (DFBs) using the discriminant analysis along with k-means clustering method. The DFBs are employed by a hybrid model for learning dynamic characteristics of the time series within the cycles, using statistical and structural machine learning techniques. The framework offers a systematic procedure for finding the optimal design parameters associated with the hybrid model. The proposed model is optimized to detect the changes of the heart sound recordings (HSRs) related to aortic stenosis. Experimental results show that the proposed framework provides efficient tools for classification of the HSRs based on the heart murmurs. It is also evidenced that the hybrid model, proposed by the framework, substantially improves the classification performance when it comes to detection of the heart disease.
In this paper, we present a novel neural network for classification of short-duration heart sounds: the time growing neural network (TGNN). The input to the network is the spectral power in adjacent frequency bands as computed in time windows of growing length. Children with heart systolic ejection click (SEC) and normal children are the two groups subjected to analysis. The performance of the TGNN is compared to that of a time delay neural network (TDNN) and a multi-layer perceptron (MLP), using training and test datasets of similar sizes with a total of 614 normal and abnormal cardiac cycles. From the test dataset, the classification rate/sensitivity is found to be 97.0%/98.1% for the TGNN, 85.1%/76.4% for the TDNN, and 92.7%/85.7% for the MLP. The results show that the TGNN performs better than do TDNN and MLP when frequency band power is used as classifier input. The performance of TGNN is also found to exhibit better immunity to noise.
This paper presents a novel method for discrimination between innocent and pathological murmurs using the growing time support vector machine (GTSVM). The proposed method is tailored for characterizing innocent murmurs (IM) by putting more emphasis on the early parts of the signal as IMs are often heard in early systolic phase. Individuals with mild to severe aortic stenosis (AS) and IM are the two groups subjected to analysis, taking the normal individuals with no murmur (NM) as the control group. The AS is selected due to the similarity of its murmur to IM, particularly in mild cases. To investigate the effect of the growing time windows, the performance of the GTSVM is compared to that of a conventional support vector machine (SVM), using repeated random sub-sampling method. The mean value of the classification rate/sensitivity is found to be 88%/86% for the GTSVM and 84%/83% for the SVM. The statistical evaluations show that the GTSVM significantly improves performance of the classification as compared to the SVM.
At the time for thesis presentation publication was in status: Manuscript
In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for pediatric heart sound segmentation, incorporated into a graphical user interface. The algorithm employs both the Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals for an efficient segmentation under pathological circumstances.First, the ECG signal is invoked in order to determine the beginning and end points of each cardiac cycle by using wavelet transform technique. Then, first and second heart sounds within the cycles are identified over the PCG signal by paying attention to the spectral properties of the sounds. The algorithm is applied on 120 recordings of normal and pathological children, totally containing 1976 cardiac cycles. The accuracy of the segmentation algorithm is 97% for S1 and 94% for S2 identification while all the cardiac cycles are correctly determined.
Objectives: To study capabilities of the intelligent phonocardiography (IPCG) in automatic grading severity of the aortic stenosis (AS).
Methods: Phonocardiogram signals were recorded from the patients with AS, as diagnosed by echocardiography. The patient group is comprised of signals, recorded from 5 patients (2 recordings from each), mostly elderly referrals (>60 years) with mild to severe AS. An advanced processing algorithm, consisted of the wavelet transform and the stepwise regression analysis, characterizes the systolic murmur caused by the AS in order to predict the 5 indicators; mean pressure gradient over the aortic valve (MPG), maximum jet velocity (MJV), aortic valve area (AVA), velocity time integral and the ejection period. The automatic assessment is performed by an artificial neural network using the predicted values of the indicators as the input data. Reliability of the IPCG is validated by applying repeated random sub-sampling (RRSS) with 70%/30% of the training/testing data, and calculating the accuracy. The RRSS is also employed to validate reproducibility of the IPCG by using 70% of the signals for training and the second recording of the same individuals for testing.
Results: Accuracy of the IPCG is estimated to be and (95% confidence interval) for the reliability and the reproducibility, respectively. Linear correlation between the characterized systolic murmur and the MPG (r>0.81), the MJV (r>0.82) and the AVA (r>0.85) is observed.
Conclusions: The IPCG has the potential to objectively serve as a clinical tool for grading severity of the aortic stenosis.
In the human body, the main function of the healthy thyroid gland is the regulation of the metabolism and hormone production. Included in the thyroid are organized structured and uniformly shaped follicles ranging from 50-500 μm in diameter. Pathologies lead to morphological changes of these follicles, affecting the density and size, but can also lead to an absence. In this study optical coherence tomography (OCT) was used to examine pathological thyroid tissue by extracting structural information of the follicles from image segmentation. However, OCT images usually include a high amount of speckle noise which affects the segmentation outcome. Due to that, the OCT images need to be improved. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the appropriate filtering methods to enhance the images and thus improve the segmentation outcome.
The images of pathological thyroid tissues with a size of 0:5-1 cm where scanned by a spectral domain OCT system (Telesto II, Thorlabs GmbH, Germany) using a center wavelength of 1300nm. The obtained 2D and 3D images were saved as .oct file as well as implemented and visualized in a MATLAB graphical user interface (GUI) for further processing. For image improvement, four filtering enhancement methods were applied to the 2D images such as the enhanced resolution imaging (ERI), adaptive Wiener filter, discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and multi-frame wavelet transform (WT). The processed images were further converted to grayscale and binary images for intensity-based segmentation. The output of all methods were compared and evaluated using signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), enhanced number of looks (ENL), edge profiles and outcome of the segmented images.
It was demonstrated that the complex DWT (cDWT) with a higher threshold and the multi-frame WT using the haar wavelet showed enhanced results over the other filtering methods. The computed SNR could be increased up to 52% and the ENL value up to 4802%, applying the multi-frame WT, while the CNR could be increased up to 106% for cDWT. The lowest obtained gradient was equal to an intensity decrease of -61% and -68% for multi-frame WT and cDWT, respectively. The filtering method could increase the smoothness of the image while the edge sharpness could be kept. The segmentation could detect both small and large follicles. ERI did not show any improvement in the segmentation but could enhance the structural detail of the image. Larger neighbourhoods of the adaptive Wiener filter showed a highly blurred image and led to merged follicles in the image segmentation.
The wavelet filters DWT and multi-frame WT gave most satisfying results since high and low frequencies were divided into subbands, where individual information on vertical, horizontal and diagonal edges was stored. Applied cDWT had an even higher amount of subbands, so that more information on signal and speckle noise could be specified. Due to this fact, it was possible to achieve a decreased noise level while edge sharpness where maintained. Using a multi-frame image an increased SNR was obtained, as the intensity information stayed constant over the individual frames while the noise information changed.
Wavelet based filtering showed higher improved results in comparison to the adaptive Wiener filter or the ERI in the 2D domain. By applying filtering methods in higher dimensions such as 3D or even 4D, better results in noise reduction are expected. Improved settings for the individual filtering methods as well as enhancement in segmentation are part of the future work.
Cardiovascular disease is the most prevalent cause of death in the developed countries and most deaths are due to coronary atherosclerosis [1]. During the development of atherosclerosis, several stages can be distinguished including vulnerable plaque. This group of plaque has an inclination for erosion and rupture and is therefore of particular interest. Due to the inflammatory response of vulnerable plaque including an increased metabolism and thereby a locally increased temperature, it is possible to detect such warm cores by intracoronally temperature measurement under some prerequisitions. Temperature differences up to 2.2 K on the surface of carotid plaques have been measured [2], but the relation between plaque vulnerability, inflammatory response, temperature increase and possibility to detection by means of temperature measurement is far from fully perceived.
Hyaluronic acid, a large glycosaminoglycan involved in proliferation, migration, and tissue repair, is suggested to play an important role in ideal scarless fetal wound healing. This study aimed to investigate the effect of exogenous hyaluronic acid intradermal during deep dermal wound healing. Study parameters were erythema, re-epithelialization, and protein expression examined by using a previously described, minimally invasive in vivo human wound model in combination with tissue viability imaging, histology, and proteomics.
Standardized deep dermal wounds were created in the ventral forearm in ten healthy volunteers using blood collection lancets. The wound sites were injected with hyaluronic acid or saline solution, prior to wounding, or were left untreated. To quantify changes in red blood cell concentration as a measurement of inflammation, the study sites were photographed daily for two weeks using a tissue viability imaging system. At 24 hours and after 14 days, biopsy specimens were taken for histology and proteomics analysis.
The inflammatory response was not affected by the injection of hyaluronic acid, as measured by tissue viability imaging. Hyaluronic acid significantly induced (p < 0.05) accelerated reepithelialization at 24 hours, and wounds treated with hyaluronic acid showed an altered protein expression.
The results from the present study are in concordance with previous in vitro findings and suggest that exogenous hyaluronic acid has a positive effect on the healing process of cutaneous wounds. We conclude that hyaluronic acid injected intradermally induces accelerated re-epithelialization and alters protein expression in vivo in human deep dermal skin wounds.
In recent years non-vitamin K dependent oral anticoagulants (NOACs) have started to replace warfarin for treatment and prevention of deep venous thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE) and stroke in patients with and without atrial fibrillation. There is a need for a simple and rapid method to detect the presence of these drugs in patient plasma. To meet these new demands, MediRox is developing a screening assay based on a novel prothrombin time (PT) method for rapid detection of NOACs in plasma. The assay is semi-quantitative and by dividing the International Normalised Index (INR) from a NOAC sensitive PT method with the INR from a NOAC insensitive PT method, NOAC containing samples be detected while plasma from normal donors and with warfarin are excluded.
The purpose of this project is to develop prototypes of assay quality controls for detection of NOACs in plasma.
The results show that the method used for the NOAC control prototypes is applicable and the PT ratio is comparable to patient samples for the low, medium and high concentrations of NOAC. The effect of lyophilisation indicates that the PT ratios for the NOAC control prototypes were nearly unaffected by the lyophilisation. The in-use stability at room temperature (20-25oC) for all NOAC control prototypes were at least 24 hours.
The methodology for production needs to be further optimised to increase the commutability to patient samples with very high concentrations of NOAC. The data indicates that the effect of lyophilisation is minimal and the stability of the NOAC control prototypes are satisfying, which is promising for future product development of NOAC controls.
We have developed a physiological signal platform where presently phonocardiographic (PCG) and electrocardiographic (ECG) signals can be acquired and on which our signal analysis techniques can be implemented. The platform can also be used to store patient data, to enable comparison over time and invoke distance consultation if necessary. Our studies so far indicate that with our signal analysis techniques of heart sounds we are able to separate normal subject from those with aortic stenosis and mitral insufficiency. Further we are able to identify the third heart sound. The platform is being tested in a primary health care setting.
When making computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based estimations of wall shear stress (WSS) in the human aorta, medical image converting processes to 3D geometries are important as the result is strongly dependent on the quality of the geometry [1]. The image interpretation process or segmentation can be more or less automated; however in clinical work today the gold standard is to manually interpret the medical image information. This combined magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CFD method aims to estimate WSS in human arteries in-vivo as WSS is strongly linked to atherosclerosis [2]. More or less automated segmentation has been used in previous studies but normally based on a stack of 2D individually segmented slices which is combined into a 3D model [3]. The aim of this work is to compare manual 2D and automatic 3D segmentations.
Liver biopsy is a very common, but invasive procedure for diagnosing liver disease. However, such a biopsy may result in severe complications and in some cases even death. Therefore, it would be highly desirable to develop a non-invasive method which would provide the same amount of information on staging of the disease and also the location of pathologies. This thesis describes the implementation of such a non-invasive method for visualizing and quantifying liver function by the combination of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), image reconstruction, and image analysis, and pharmacokinetic modeling. The first attempt involved automatic segmentation, functional clustering (k-means) and classification (kNN) of in-data (liver, spleen and blood vessel segments) in the pharmacokinetic model. However, after implementing and analyzing this method some important issues were identified and the image segmentation method was therefore revised. The segmentation method that was subsequently developed involved a semi-automatic procedure, based on a modified image forest transform (IFT). The data were then simulated and optimized using a pharmacokinetic model describing the pharmacokinetics of the liver specific contrast agent Gd-EOB-DTPA in the human body. The output from the modeling procedure was then further analyzed, using a least-squares method, in order to assess liver function by estimating the fractions of hepatocytes, extracellular extravascular space (EES) and blood plasma in each voxel of the image. The result were in fair agreement with literature values, although further analyses and developments will be required in order to validate and also to confirm the accuracy of the method.
Microdialysis ( MD) has been shown to be a promising technique for sampling of biomarkers. Implantation of MD probe causes an acute tissue trauma and provokes innate response cascades. In order to normalize tissue a two hours equilibration period for analysis of small molecules has been reported previously. However, how the proteome profile changes due to this acute trauma has yet to be fully understood. To characterize the early proteome events induced by this trauma we compared proteome in muscle dialysate collected during the equilibration period with two hours later in "post-trauma". Samples were collected from healthy females using a 100 kDa MW cut off membrane and analyzed by high sensitive liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Proteins involved in stress response, immune system processes, inflammatory responses and nociception from extracellular and intracellular fluid spaces were identified. Sixteen proteins were found to be differentially abundant in samples collected during first two hours in comparison to "post-trauma". Our data suggests that microdialysis in combination with mass spectrometry may provide potentially new insights into the interstitial proteome of trapezius muscle, yet should be further adjusted for biomarker discovery and diagnostics. Moreover, MD proteome alterations in response to catheter injury may reflect individual innate reactivity.
Materials based on novel Off-Stoichiometry Thiol-Ene polymers, abbreviated OSTE, show promising properties as materials forlow cost and scalable manufacturing of micro- and nanosystems such as lab-on-chip devices. The OSTE materials have tunablemechanical properties, offer possibility for low temperature bonding to many surfaces via tunable surface chemistry, and can beused in soft lithography. Unlike the commonly used elastomer poly(dimethylsiloxane), PDMS, the OSTE materials have lowpermeability for gasses, are resistant to common solvents and can be more permanently surface modified.In this master's thesis project, the OSTE materials have been evaluated with focus on compatibility with cells, possibility fornanostructuring using soft lithography and the use of OSTE as a flexible support for conducting polymers.Results from cell seeding studies with HEP G2 cells suggest that cells can proliferate on a low thiol off-stoichiometry OSTEmaterial for at least five days. The biocompatibility for this type of OSTE material may be similar to poly(styrene). However, highlevels of free thiol monomers in the material decrease cell viability considerably.By using soft lithography techniques it is possible to fabricate OSTE nanochannels with at least the dimensions of 400 nm x 15nm. Combined with the advantages of using the OSTE materials, such as low temperature bonding and possibility for stablesurface modifications, a candidate construction material for future development of systems for DNA analysis is at hand.OSTE can serve as a flexible support for an adsorbed film of a conducting polymer with the possibility for future applicationssuch as electronic interfaces in microsystems. In this project, a film of PEDOT:PSS with the electrical resistance of ~5 kΩ wascreated by adsorption to an flexible OSTE material. Furthermore, results suggest that it is possible to further optimize theconductivity and water resistance of PEDOT:PSS films on OSTE.
Surgical resection is the golden standard for treatment of both primary and metastatic liver tumors, and the method is associated with the highest long-time survival rates [1]. A large number of patients are however not candidates for tumor resection, for example due to un-sufficent hepatic reserve or tumor location relative to large blood vessels. In those cases, an alternative treatment strategy is to heat the tumor(s) to lethal temperatures by means of Radiofrequency (RF) current.


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Gnosis v4.60 07/20/2016
- minor modifications for Legion (patch 7.0.3)
Gnosis v4.51 07/22/2015
- not hidden spark fix for timer bars using the staticdur option
- fixed 'resource : altpower' related problem caused by a (yet) undocumented change to UnitAlternatePowerInfo()
Gnosis v4.50 06/25/2015
- toc bump for patch 6.2
- added spellid=id option to the aura command (buff/debuff) to allow scanning for a specific spell id only (and not the spellname)
- minor changes and fixes
Gnosis v4.49 05/11/2015
- added bcol="r,g,b,alpha" option (override border color)
- added time format string option 'a' for automatic time precision increase below 1s when using zero decimals (e.g. r<0a> for the remaining duration)
- added recharge [chargecnt] : spell(id) command to display the duration until the given spell gains a new charge, passing the option chargecnt will force Gnosis to display the current amount of charges (e.g. recharge chargecnt : Shield Block)
- added synonymns for options hideicon/hidespark => noicon/nospark (shorter is sometimes better)
- disabled automatic word wrapping and added option to (re)enable it
- added name format string keyword trunc<cnt> to truncate the spellname to cnt characters
- changes to how channeled spell tick extension are handled, changed default settings for soothing mist
Gnosis v4.46 02/26/2015
- fixed a problem that would cause the new twitter functionality to fail
Gnosis v4.45 02/25/2015
- toc bump for patch 6.1
- better multistrike handling for channeled spells ticks
- added resource : burningembers_decimals
Gnosis v4.44 01/21/2015
- added startcntcpy option (for counters)
- added internal tracking of cooldowns when a cooldown timer bar is active to prevent cooldowns ending early when a global cooldown is triggered
- minor internal tweaks
Gnosis v4.43 01/12/2015
- added runetype=x option for runecd timer configurations
- fixed global cooldown issues with some spells (Insanity)
- added additional documentation
Gnosis v4.42 01/09/2015
- timer bars: cast command will now show the non-interruptible status
- changes to documents
Gnosis v4.40 01/05/2015
- added documents regarding timer bars (howto timers, cheatsheet)
- new features
- added commands npc, exit, charspec, glyph, talent
- added feature to start a counter (command counter, optional keywords startcnt, stopcnt)
- new logical operators & (and), ? (relaxed and), * (or)
- changed and fixes
- changed combo point tracking due to WoD changes
- fixed text alignment when not using automatic text resizing
- newly created bars will have automatic text resizing disabled
- fixed a problem with spec=1|2 timer option in combination with logical operations
Gnosis v4.33 12/04/2014
- changed default amount of Mind Flay and Insanity ticks to four (Enhanced Mind Flay passive)
Gnosis v4.32 11/12/2014
- final pre WoD update
- added option to show/hide bars only while inside/outside (specific) instances
- minor tweaks and fixes
Gnosis v4.31 11/09/2014
- updated channeled spells settings for Drain Soul and Divine Hymn
- minor fixes and improvements
Gnosis v4.30 10/31/2014
- WoD related tweaks
- added a few sound files
Gnosis v4.25 10/15/2014
- toc bump and changes for patch 6.0.2
- added sub-commands aurastacks=# and auraeffect=# to show stack count/effect value instead of duration (with a maximum value of #)
- added sub-commands mcnt=# and msize=#.# : latency tick markers are used to break up the bar into mcnt pieces, e.g. to display combo points; the default value of msize is msize=1.0 (which is the maximum value); decreasing msize will decrease the tick marker size (valid values are 0.0 < msize <= 1.0); only works for multi-spell timers
Gnosis v4.20 10/27/2013
- added new import/export format (though, previously exported scripts can still be imported)
- added bar chat hyperlinks (to share castbar/timer bars ingame)
- shift clicking the 'new (icon-like) bar' button will create an icon-like bar
- added group/raid-wide buff/debuff tracking command
- groupdot/groupdebuff : debuffname/spellid
- grouphot/groupbuff : buffname/spellid
- groupaura : auraname/spellid
- added resource commands:
- resource : xp (shows player experience)
- resource : rested (shows rested experience left)
- added timer bar option to play sounds/music/files
- 'plays' for sounds, 'playm' for music and 'playf' for files (see Combattext/Cliptest tab to see available sounds/music)
- plays="3.0-MONEYFRAMEOPEN" will play the MONEYFRAMEOPEN sound at most every 3.0 seconds
- minor tweaks and changes
Gnosis v4.10 10/13/2013
- added timer bar commands
- gcd : spell(id)/any (shows general global cd or of specific spell)
- unitname : exact unitname/any (shows name of unit for any or if selected unit matches given unitname fully)
- spellknown : spell(id) (shows spell if currently known == in spellbook)
- icon="spell(id)" (overrides shown icon)
- portrait="unit" (overrides shown icon with portrait of given unit)
- shown="barname" (entry only valid if bar "barname" is currently active/shown)
- hidden="barname" (entry only valid if bar "barname" is currently not active/shown)
- added configuration interface improvements
- changed command "cast : all" to "cast : any"
- added default monk channel support: fists of fury and soothing mist (channeled spells can be manually changed or added)
- minor optimizations, changes and fixes
Gnosis v4.05 09/11/2013
- toc bump for patch 5.4
- minor changes
Gnosis v4.03 07/07/2013
- fixed a problem related to moving while casting
- minor changes and fixes
Gnosis v4.02 05/22/2013
- TOC bump for patch 5.3
- added and updated libraries for new potential goodies
Gnosis v4.01 03/19/2013
- "Release Spirit" fix
- added new GCD Indicator (for non casttime spells)
- added name and time format string options (new keyword effect == aura effect value, also txeff<>)
- added Boss 5 unit
- added mastery tick handling for channeled spells
- minor optimizations and bug fixes
Gnosis v4.00 03/06/2013
- toc bump for patch 5.2
- changed default look of newly created bars
- added new default castbar texture and font
- upped maximum spark width and height to 1500%
- internal changes for easier importing/exporting of bars
- added range check to timer bars (resource : range) using LibRangeCheck-2.0
- added support for Mind Flay (Insanity) channeled spell
- using LibDialog-1.0 to prevent possible tainting of static popups
Gnosis v3.26 11/28/2012
- fixed a bug when creating default GCD/swing timers
- toc bump for patch 5.1
Gnosis v3.25 11/02/2012
- IMPORTANT: exit your WOW client before updating. do not downgrade, otherwise you will lose your character specific settings.
- added support for malefic grasp and spinning crane kick
- changed the way character specific configurations are stored
- minor adjustments
Gnosis v3.23 10/05/2012
- added synonyms for icd command (innercd and proc)
- added norefresh option for innercd/proc command (disables duration refresh while timer is already active)
- added full icon support for innercd/proc command
Gnosis v3.22 09/27/2012
- fixed bug that could prevent bars from showing
Gnosis v3.21 09/24/2012
- fixed spark misalignment bug for vertical power/resource timers
- minor improvements and optimizations
Gnosis v3.20 09/05/2012
- fixed tainting of global variable '_' (fixing glyph insertion problem)
- added tracking of combo points (resource : combopoints)
- added tracking of multiple resources (resource : soulshards, eclipse, holypower, chi, shadoworbs, burningembers, demonicfury)
Gnosis v3.12 08/30/2012
- initial release for patch v5.04
Gnosis v3.11 12/27/2011
- fix: latency box size not changing correctly
Gnosis v3.10 12/22/2011 - Merry Christmas and a happy new year
- added command "icd" to track procs/inner cooldowns
- added option to treat channeled spells as normal casts
- made sure castbars start to fade as soon as the cast finishes
- /gnosis bar="bar name" text="..." time=10 allows to manually create a timer
Gnosis v3.03 11/30/2011
- toc update for 4.3
- minor optimizations
Gnosis v3.02 08/23/2011
- implemented Ace3 related band-aid
Gnosis v3.01 06/29/2011
- toc update for 4.2
- WoW API related change (CLEU)
- corrected default tick amount of Evocation (Mage)
Gnosis v3.00 06/03/2011
- timer changes
- removed nodur keyword (not required anymore)
- added logical and/or keywords
- added conditions <lower bound value, upper bound value, lower bound stacks, upper bound statcks>, e.g. resource:power<0,50> or resource:power<50%,100%> or buff unit=player:Shadow Orbs< , ,2>
- added resource:threat (amount of stacks: 3 tanking, 2 insecurely tanking, 1 higher threat than tank, 0 lower threat than tank)
- added commands to track weapon imbues and poisons (enchmh, enchoh), e.g. enchmh : Instant Poison
- replaced "harmful" and "helpful" commands with "harm" and "help" (both are supported, use the shorter ones in the future)
- added option for additional castbar border (not including icon)
Gnosis v2.80 05/08/2011
- added full support for patch 4.1 channeling
- redone clipping detection
- added options for top and bottom icons
- changed how bars display text/icon when "shown when not casting"
- multi-spell timers changes
- added hidespark command (hides castbar spark)
- added incoming heal tracking (resource:heal)
Gnosis v2.70 04/30/2011
- added tracking of totem durations (totemdur:1..4 command)
- timer related behavioral corrections
- minor optimizations
Gnosis v2.65 04/27/2011
- patch 4.1 related updates
- added sbcol="r,g,b,alpha" command to multi spell timer bars
Gnosis v2.61 04/08/2011
- removed default font selection (Desyrel, which is packaged with Gnosis)
- added cursor anchoring to timer bars
- time format string related fix
Gnosis v2.60 04/06/2011
- multiple minor additions/changes/fixes
- major performance optimizations
Gnosis v2.53 02/16/2011
- new timer bars commands
- zoom=x (zoom bar if less than x remaining)
- nodur (enables displaying of buffs/debuffs without duration)
- cast=all or spellname (shows casts)
- resource:health or power or altpower (= e.g. sound value for Atramedes encounter)
- optimizations
- removed Drain Mana (since removed from the game)
Gnosis v2.52 02/05/2011
- general bar changes
- added talent spec option
- timer bar changes
- added command staticdur (force minimum time displayed by timer)
- added rune cooldown tracking to timers (runecd command)
- added spec=# (1/2) option to timers
- cleaned up option mess
Gnosis v2.51 01/30/2011
- timer bar changes
- added name format string override (nfs command)
- added dot/hot recast advise (recast command)
- added option to enable shield icon around cast icon for non interruptible spells
- multiple optimizations
Gnosis v2.50 01/16/2011
- added Multi-Spell Timers (see addon description for more information)
Gnosis v2.10 01/10/2011
- added text rotation
Gnosis v2.08 12/23/2010 - Happy Christmas
- added Boss units (and targets thereof)
Gnosis v2.07 12/11/2010
- fixed bug (maximized amount of ticks shown when extremely hasted to 15)
Gnosis v2.06 12/06/2010
- added vehicle only castbar (pet/vehicle also shows pet casts)
- added combined outline & monochrome font modifiers
Gnosis v2.05 11/11/2010
- configuration system updates
- minor spell pushback changes
Gnosis v2.04 10/30/2010
- fixed castbar anchoring problem
- added option to hide/show castbar depending on group layout
- minor tradeskill merge & spell pushback code changes
Gnosis v2.03 10/19/2010
- fixed minor bug related to spell pushback of channeling spells
- reworked channeled spells list
- added warlock channels: health funnel and soul harvest
- removed hunter channels: volley
- slight change to default combat text output for aoe heal channels
Gnosis v2.02 10/16/2010
- support for additional ticks on channels from haste (for priest and warlock spells, more coming soon, if needed)
- multiple fixes
Gnosis v2.01 10/14/2010
- options will not be created on startup, thereby reducing memory footprint extremely
- added options to handle text shadow (offset and color)
Gnosis v2.00 10/12/2010
- toc update to 40000
- major performance optimizations
- option to color target name by its class color (col<class> and col<cpre>)
- correction to text alignments (especially CENTER)
- disabled resizing of long strings for freely aligned text
- removed rank commands from the default name format string
Gnosis v1.99 09/22/2010
- compatible with wotlk 3.3.5, the cataclysm beta and the 4.0.1 ptr
- added option to hide castbar while in/out of combat
- added code to make sure introduction frame will be shown on character creation
Gnosis v1.98 09/01/2010
- fixed bug with unlocked icons
Gnosis v1.97 08/31/2010
- fixed bug preventing successful default castbar set creation
Gnosis v1.95 08/31/2010
- reworked anchoring
- added options to anchor to frame and mouse cursor
- added overheal (oh) command to combat text output'
- fixed error with critical heals not recognized for combat text output
Gnosis v1.92 08/02/2010
- changed default cast interrupt color
- added cast success color
Gnosis v1.91 07/22/2010
- tracking of mouseover(target) added
- option to show/hide castbars for casts of enemy/friendly units added
- split up config gui for easier to find options
Gnosis v1.90 07/08/2010
- implemented combat text merge for healing channels (please delete channeled heals from the channeled spells tab to get new settings for those spells)
- corrected mirror bar fading behaviour
Gnosis v1.86 07/02/2010
- tradeskill merge fix when crafting a single item
Gnosis v1.85 07/02/2010
- tradeskill merge overhaul
- option to hide blizzard pet/vehicle castbar
- nolib creation added
Gnosis v1.80 06/12/2010
- major performance enhancements
- minor internal changes
- added "who" to name format string (displays casting unit name)
Gnosis v1.70 06/06/2010
- added support for any possible unit (...target), many of those are selectable as unit in the config gui
- those units require additional scanning, most features like channeling support, spell pushback detection and interruptible status are available, spell interrupted and spell failed are not
- renamed units in config gui
- removed gcd_reverse unit (bar direction inversion should be enough)
Gnosis v1.60 06/04/2010
- intro frame extensions
- added bar orientation options (horizontal/vertical)
- added invert bar direction option
- rotatable icon
- added newline (\n) command to name and time format strings
- c<x> as new option for time format string = (total-remaining) time
Gnosis v1.52 05/25/2010
- fixed bug removing unconverted castbar configurations after first logon with v1.50/v1.51
Gnosis v1.51 05/25/2010
- intro frame after logon (ui reload) if no castbars configured and Gnosis is enabled
- minor bug fixes
Gnosis v1.50 05/24/2010
- saving character configuration data char specific reducing memory usage tremendously when playing with multiple chars; every time you log into a char old configurations will be converted if those exist
- added function Gnosis:LoadConfig(name,bMainTab,bCastbars,bChanneledSpells,bClipTest) to allow for easier loading of configurations; might be useful for addon compilation authors or if you would like to be able to load configurations with macos; example: /script Gnosis:LoadConfig("DefaultConfig",false,true,false,false) to just load castbars from configuration "DefaultConfig"
- added following locales: zhCN (simplified) & zhTW (traditional Chinese), thanks to wowuicn * koKR (Korean), thanks to talkswind & yuk6196 * ruRU (Russian), thanks to StingerSoft * you can chose between all locales on the Gnosis config gui main tab
- right clicking unlocked castbars will open the castbars config gui
- moved Gnosis to curseforge svn, grab your alphas there if you like
Gnosis v1.40 05/18/2010
- german localization added (thanks to Xploder from Kil'Jaeden EU)
- added option (main config tab) to switch between locales
- new castbar spark options (color, width, height), slightly changed default spark look
- new layering of statusbar, latency tick boxes and castbar spark
no new feature releaes coming in the near future! only bugfixes and adding of localizations.
Gnosis v1.34 05/16/2010
- fixed bug hiding latency box if channeled tick displaying was disabled while channeling
- added button on main config tab to create standard castbar set (player, target, focus, pet and mirror) for a quick start for new players -> just move bars and lock them if you don't want to configure the bars
- minor performance improvements
Gnosis v1.33 05/15/2010
- added time format string
- ready for localization, if anyone wants to provide a full set of localized strings I'd be happy to add those and your name to the Gnosis description page
Gnosis v1.32 05/11/2010
- fixed bug preventing loading from multiple stored configurations
- added option to change border size of unlocked icon
Gnosis v1.31 05/09/2010
- option to unlock, move and scale castbar icon
- cleaned up small parts of the code
Gnosis v1.30 05/08/2010
- new default bar look (including font)
- additional options for castname/casttime/latency text alignments
- easier bar- & textcolor editing options
- minor internal tweaks & fixes
Gnosis v1.27 02/28/2010
- added option to hide Gnosis text output
- castbars/channeled spells/config sorted by name
- added option to name format string to show remaining item count when tradeskill merging
- added option to control minimum gap between castname and casttime (with enabled option to automatically reduce size of long strings)
- main tab settings and combattext/cliptest settings can be stored in configurations as well
Gnosis v1.26 02/23/2010
- added missing channeled spells (Evocation, Drain Life, Drain Mana, Hurricane, Volley)
Gnosis v1.25 02/09/2010
- slight change to clipping detection and tick combining to fix problems with arcane missiles and similar spells (do not use clipping detection for spells like AM!)
- drain soul (and similar spells) clipping detection and tick combining now correctly supported
Gnosis v1.24 02/08/2010
- fixed melee swing for druids while shapeshifted
Gnosis v1.23 02/06/2010
- changes to unintentional clipping detection to minimize false positives
- same applies to combined tick output of channeled spells via combattext addons
Gnosis v1.22 02/02/2010
- added parry haste to swing timer
- fixed bug that could prevent color entries (name format string, combat text output string) from working correctly
Gnosis v1.21 01/30/2010
- added tradeskill merge option (player castbar)
- added option to display time in minutes (if > 60s)
- added color option for spell pushback text
Gnosis v1.20 01/29/2010
- added support for melee & range swing timers (no black-/whitelisting)
- added option to copy existing bar to new bar
- added full name/rank/icon support for global cd and swing timer bars
Gnosis v1.19 01/26/2010
- fixed bug locking client up when using abbr<> with strings containing hyphens
Gnosis v1.18 01/24/2010
- added option to name format string
- tar<text>: show text if target information is available (player castbar only)
- target: show target name (player castbar only)
Gnosis v1.17 01/23/2010
- changed behaviour of mirror bars
- most recent mirror timer will be shown
- bar will change from one mirror timer to another if timer expires
- if you want to see more than one mirror timer at once create more mirror bars and use white- or blacklisting to filter unwanted effects
- added mirror timer icons for exhaustion, breath and feign death
Gnosis v1.16 01/23/2010
- enabled white-/blacklisting for mirror and global cooldown bars
- enabled format string for mirror bar
Gnosis v1.15 01/16/2010
- fixed bug when castbar changing to interruptible during cast
- added x&y-coordinate textboxes for castbars
Gnosis v1.14 01/11/2010
- fix: debug output removed
Gnosis v1.13 01/11/2010
- added additional font size options
- added abbr<cnt> command for font strings
- enabled name font string on default to make users aware name string is configurable (for newly created bars)
Gnosis v1.12 01/05/2010
- added color options for castbar timer/latency text
Gnosis v1.11 01/05/2010
- added player castbar option for textual latency information
Gnosis v1.10 01/05/2010
- global cd bar added
- castbar options added
- reduce text size for long strings
- hide cast timers
- format options for castbar name/rank
- arabic & roman castrank numerals
- change color for parts of text
Gnosis v1.00 12/21/2009
- mirror bar added
- black&whitelisting added
- bugfixes and minor changes
Gnosis v0.52 09/25/2009
- fixed waterline texture bug
Gnosis v0.51 08/30/2009
- added option to disable blizzard castbar
Gnosis v0.50 08/30/2009
- initial release
- castbars with advanced latency support for channeled ticks
- configurable (player/target/focus/party/raid/arena) via config gui
- channeled spell support
- unintentional clipping detection (play sound)
- combining channeled spell data (highly configurable output string)
- combat text support (MSBT/SCT/Parrot) for output
- add channeled spells/remove/deactivate/configure via config gui
- castbars with advanced latency support for channeled ticks


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MMC Hosts Kings and Princesses for Ball
April 4, 2019
On April 12, 2019, Mount Marty College (MMC) is excited to play host to dozens of area girls and the "Kings" in their lives as they gather in Roncalli's Main Dining Room to enjoy River City Gymnastics and Cheer's third annual "King and Princess Ball." This is the second year MMC has hosted the event which is designed to celebrate positive male role models.
Justin Olson, the organizer for the event, says that while it is a great time for the girls, the dance serves a higher purpose. "Everyone has a great time at the King and Princess Ball. There's a meal, and we hire a DJ that plays all the popular dance songs and music that young ladies listen to," says Olson. "But this is more than a night of dancing — for the girls, it's a block of focused quality time with their dad, brother, uncle, grandpa, guardian or family friend that promotes positive connections with the male role models in their lives."
Olson says he is looking forward to hosting the event at MMC for a second year. "We really enjoy holding the event at MMC because their values align so well with ours; at River City, we're able to promote Christian values and being "Family Strong" which leads to raising young ladies with strong character, and I think that MMC shares that vision." Olson adds that MMC is a great place to host any event, "The dining room provides plenty of space so we have room to spread out and MMC also has a great food service led by Josh Kramer and great hospitality from Mary Abbott and her staff."
Tickets for the King and Princess Ball, which is sponsored in part by Vision Realty, are $30 for a King and Princess and $7 for each additional Princess. This price includes a meal, drinks, and snacks. Participants can pre-register on the River City Gymnastics and Cheer's Facebook page or at the door the night of the event.
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As you all are well aware, we have been talking about the upcoming Criterion Collection release of Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 film, House (Hausu), for over a year on the podcast and here on the site. Over the summer we brought decals to Comic Con, and have been giving them out to listeners and readers and Twitter friends since. Those lucky enough to have attended Fantastic Fest in Austin this past week will have received decals in their gift bags as well.
Now that you all should be reasonably equipped to decorate the world with the infamous orange cat face from the film, and the beautiful poster from Sam's Myth, we can begin one of the biggest contests we've been involved with.
We're going to be giving away 5 copies of the release, either on DVD or Blu-ray (the winners choose their format), to 5 lucky readers/listeners who use their decals in the most creative way.
What we want from you is to put your House decal on something, and take a picture of it. Pretty simple, right? Well, we only have 5 copies of the film to give away, so you'll have to get fairly crafty in what you choose to put it on, and where. Also, we need photographic proof.
Remember that on the back of the decals, the instructions clearly state:
"… Place them prominently, but be nice and don't deface public property."
So don't go putting them anywhere where you, or anyone else, would get in trouble.
Now, let's say you're one of the many people who wasn't able to acquire a physical copy of the decal, what are your options? Well, to be extra nice, I've included an extra large copy of the decal below, that you can digitally place where ever you want. The advantage to this option, is that you could theoretically place it anywhere you want, on anything you want. Want to give the Statue of Liberty a nice orange cat face? No problem! Want to give the Mona Lisa a real smile? You now have the chance!
While we need you to send us the image to be entered in the contest, we are encouraging everyone to decorate your websites, Facebook and Twitter pages with your images. So let the rest of the world how infectious this movie is.
Alright, let's give you one more piece of information, before this contest begins. The contest begins at 12:01am on Thursday, September 30th, and ends at 11:59pm on Tuesday, October 19th.
Read the rules below carefully, so your entry is accepted. We'll post the winning entries after the contest is over, along with a gallery of our favorite submissions. As with the Criterion Collection in general, the criteria with which we'll judge the winners will be vague, and certainly based on how much effort went into the entry.
- We'll be giving away a copy of the upcoming Criterion Collection edition of HOUSE (Hausu) on either DVD or Blu-ray (the winners choose)
- E-mail [email protected] with a photograph of your entry.
- You must include HOUSE CONTEST in the subject line of your e-mail. If you don't include this, you will be disqualified.
- You must include your full mailing address.
- You must live in the United States or Canada
- You must have your entries e-mailed to us by 11:59pm on October 19th, so we have enough time to choose the winners, and mail the DVDs/Blu-rays.
- You must clearly state whether you would prefer the DVD OR the Blu-ray of House.


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With Republicans having the majority in the U.S. Senate, it appears that Democrats will have a very hard time stopping any future federal judicial appointments.
Republicans hold a slight majority now, but when the class of 2018 is sworn into office, the GOP will have increased and solidified their majority.
President Trump's latest judicial nominee to the U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina is
Trending: Trump Signs Historic $2 Trillion Economic Stimulus Bill
Thomas Farr, and employment attorney who is accused of supporting voter suppression laws against African-Americans.
Democrats, who almost defeated SCOTUS Justice Brett Kavanaugh, are accusing Farr of supporting "the most restrictive voting law North Carolina has seen since the era of Jim Crow."
All 49 Democratic senators have said they would vote against Farr, as has Republican Jeff Flake, who is still holding out until his special counsel bill is addressed.
Flake said he would not vote for any of Trump's judicial nominees until his measure is voted on.
Potential Democratic presidential candidates, Sens. Kamala Harris and Corey Booker, and Elizabeth Warren, have come out swinging against Farr's nomination.
A vote for Thomas Farr this week is a vote in support of voter suppression. His confirmation for a life-long judgeship would be a travesty for American democracy. That is not an exaggeration. https://t.co/SvUb4I4WYU
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) November 27, 2018
"A vote for Thomas Farr this week is a vote in support of voter suppression. His confirmation for a life-long judgeship would be a travesty for American democracy."-Sen. Corey Booker (D)


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Betfair is one of the most respected bookmakers in the UK, boasting a huge customer base and a sportsbook to match anything else on the market. Below, we will take a look at the welcome offers they provide customers with, as well as how they maintain interest through the existing players that have already signed up to play with them.
Betfair New Customer Offer – Up to £100 in Free Bets
Betfair's main focus is its sportsbook, as is reflected in the strength of its new customer offer which is sure to perk the interest of most. New customers with Betfair can be greeted with a tantalizing free bet sign up offer of earning up to £100 in free bets, from which they can also use on the sportsbook. With this, customers must first open an account before registering with the Betfair Promo Code 'ZBBC01', after which they can then begin to redeem the new customer free bets.
With every five single £10 free bets placed, Betfair will reward customers with a £20 free bet, a process which can be repeated a maximum of five times to then give the customer the £100 in free bets they are eligible for. The terms of this bet require the customer to place their five £10 single bets on selections with odds of at least 1/2 (1.5). Any £10 bets placed on selections with lower odds won't count towards qualifying for the £20 free bet.
Betfair Bonus – Up to £100 in Bonus Bets
If you want to earn a further £20 free bet, refer a friend to Betfair. Again, this process can be repeated five times, giving punters the chance to earn up to £100 in free bets off of getting their friends to sign up and make an account with Betfair. When going down this road, you will get a Betfair promo code that you pass onto your friend, which they, in turn, must use when creating their account to activate you getting your free bet. The bet must be used within seven days of it being credited to your account, while there are also no wagering requirements or no minimum odds.
Betfair Customer Offers
Betfair provides its existing customers with a number of different offers to keep them betting with Betfair and are successful in doing so. Below, we have listed the current offers they are currently pushing, as well as a number of features that have helped make their sportsbook so successful in recent years.
Earn a £25 Free Bet on Racing
Betfair have linked up with ITV racing to give punters the chance to earn a free bet of up to £25. With this offer, customers can win a free bet to the same value of their stake on a selected live ITV race, should their horse win at odds of 3/1 or greater. The decision of the price will be determined by the Racing Post. At the time of writing, punters had the opportunity to win up to nine £25 free bets if they could pick winners at a price of 3/1 or greater from the following meetings:
- Beverley 13:25, 14:00, 15:15
- Haydock 13:45, 14:25, 15:00, 15:35
- Newmarket 14:10, 14:45.
Win and each-way bets both qualify for the free bet on this offer from Betfair, with the latter seeing just the win half of their bet count towards the subsequent free bet.
Betfair Rewards
Betfair players can also get access to a number of rewards, due to their partnership with Rewards4Racing. With this, punters will earn points on every horse racing bet they place, which in turn can then lead to great rewards and benefits. For every £1 staked on the Betfair Sportsbook, you will earn one point, highlighting another one of the ways that Betfair rewards its customers for their loyalty.
Best Odds on the Premier League
As one of the most-watched sporting competitions in the world, the Premier League is inevitably one of the most bet-on competitions on sportsbooks. To keep themselves competitive, Betfair offer the best odds on Premier League betting, as shown in data provided from UK market share. With football being such a huge market for punters to bet on, having good value for punters on the Premier League is an important trait for many bookmakers to have, and Betfair ultimately have the best when it comes to value.
Best Odds on Cricket
Likewise, cricket punters can get the best possible value when making their selections pre-match with Betfair. It is another Betfair bonus, with punters again having access to some of the best odds on the market within cricket by using their sportsbook.


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This privacy policy establishes the way in which personal data will be managed on this website www.ustaxconsultants.net, property of NEW MEDIA LAB, SL (NML Consultores) with CIF B85709384, registered in the Mercantile Registry of Madrid, Volume 26,709, Folio 125, Page M-481284
It is essential that you read and accept it before continuing to navigate.
Among the values with which we identify is transparency, so we want you to know from the beginning, that the privacy of your data is important to us and for that we maintain a very high degree of security, based on relocation, communication and independence.
In this privacy statement, it explains what personal information we collect from our users and how we use them. On this website, the personal data of the users are respected and taken care of. As a user you should know that your rights are guaranteed. We have strived to create a safe space and that is why we want to share our principles regarding your privacy:
- We do not request personal information from users, unless it is necessary.
- We do not share personal information of users, except to comply with the law or in case we have express authorization.
- We do not use personal data for a purpose other than that expressed in this privacy policy.
It is noted that this Privacy Policy may vary depending on legislative requirements or self-regulation, so users are advised to visit it periodically. It will be applicable if users decide to fill out the contact form where personal data is collected: Name, email and contact telephone number.
NML Consultores has adapted this website to the requirements of the Organic Law 15/1999, of December 13, of Protection of Personal Data (LOPD), to Royal Decree 1720/2007, of December 21, known as the Regulation of development of the LOPD and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons (RGPD), as well as Law 34/2002, of July 11 , of Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE or LSSI).
Information about data protection in NML. Responsible for the processing of your personal data:
Identity: NEW MEDIA LAB, SL (NML Consultores)
Postal address: Calle Caballero de Gracia, 24 4Dcha – 28013 Madrid
Phone: 915194392
Email: email@example.com
Responsible for Data Protection: Antonio Rodriguez
DPD contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
At NML Consultores we use the information provided by interested persons in order to inform you of the EVENTS, NEWS, NOVELTIES, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES of our company.
The personal data provided will be kept as long as deletion is not requested by the interested party.
- Anyone has the right to obtain confirmation about whether NML is processing personal data concerning them or not.
- The interested persons have the right to access their personal data, as well as to request the rectification of the inaccurate data or, where appropriate, request its deletion.
- In certain circumstances, interested parties may request the limitation of the processing of their data, in which case we will only keep them for the exercise or defense of claims.
- In certain circumstances and for reasons related to their particular situation, the interested parties may object to the processing of their data. NML Consultores will stop processing the data, except for compelling legitimate reasons, or the exercise or defense of possible claims.
Interested parties will also have the right to effective judicial protection and submit a claim to the supervisory authority, in this case, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, if they consider that the processing of personal data that concerns them violates the Regulation.
The legal basis for the treatment of your data is the execution of the Inequivocal Consent of the interested party to offer you our services or advise on your present or future fiscal situation.
The prospective information of the EVENTS, NEWS, NOVELTIES, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES is based on the consent that is requested, without in any case the withdrawal of this consent conditions the execution of the Inequivocal Consent of subscription with this entity.
The personal data saved will be used to:
- To be able to offer the services that appear on our website and the related services that users request.
- For its virtual infrastructure according to a "cloud computing" model through Microsoft's One Cloud and under the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement. Information available in: EU US Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework. (see certification).
- Google Analytics: a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose head office is at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files located on your computer, to help NML analyze the use made by users of the website. The information generated by the cookie about its use (including your IP address) will be directly transmitted and archived by Google.
The hosting of the website and the data it manages are hosted through Microsoft, that has received the backing of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), which recognizes the solvency and guarantees of Microsoft's corporate services in the cloud in relation to international data transfers. In this regard, the AEPD states that Microsoft contracts offer adequate guarantees for customers to entrust their personal data to the company in the framework of the corporate services of Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Azure.
The personal data that we treat in NML Consultores, come from the adapted forms of data collection of the web, of the previous appointments or of the direct contribution of the user through some communication system.
- The data categories that are treated are:
– Identification data
– Postal or electronic addresses
– Financial information of the users that contribute voluntarily to offer our services.
- In order to support and improve the services offered by this website, other non-identifying information is also collected, which is obtained through some cookies that are downloaded to the user's computer when browsing this website, which is detailed in the cookie policy.
NML Consultores does not sell, rent or lease personal data that can identify the user, nor will it in the future, to third parties without prior consent. However, in some cases, collaborations can be made with other professionals. In those cases, consent will be required from users informing about the identity of the collaborator and the purpose of the collaboration. It will always be done with the strictest safety standards.
NML Consultores is committed to the use and processing of users personal data included through the forms, to respect their confidentiality and to use them in accordance with the purpose of this, as well as to comply with their obligation to save and adapt all the measures to avoid alteration, loss, treatment or unauthorized access, in accordance with the provisions of current data protection regulations.
NML Consultores cannot guarantee the absolute impregnability of the Internet network and therefore the violation of data through fraudulent access to them by third parties.
Users guarantee and respond, in any case, the accuracy, validity and authenticity of the personal data provided, and undertake to keep them properly updated. The user agrees to provide complete and correct information in the contact form.
The user declares to have been informed of the conditions on protection of personal data, accepting and consenting to the treatment thereof by NML Consultores in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this privacy policy.
The consent given, both for the treatment and for the transfer of the data of the interested parties, is revocable at any time by contacting NML Consultores by means of a written communication to the PO Box 29035 – 28080 Madrid or by email to the address email@example.com. This revocation does not be retroactive in any case.
NML Consultores reserves the right to modify this policy to adapt it to legislative or jurisprudential changes. In such cases, the changes introduced will be announced on this page reasonably in advance of their implementation.
Users are only authorized to use this WebSite upon acceptance and compliance with the conditions set forth herein, and must leave the site otherwise.


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– One ripe Avocado.
– Juice of half a lime
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Step 1 – Slice the avocado and flesh out the fruit in a bowl. Mash lightly with the back of a fork.
Step 2 – Squeeze on the lime juice.
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Giants not alone in preseason misery
The Giants lost a potential breakout player in Terrell Thomas to a torn ACL, but they're hardly the only team to have a tough offseason. (AP)
The consensus heading into the NFL preseason was that the injury tally would be higher due to the lockout. What we didn't know is that all of those injuries would befall the Giants' defense.
New York lost Terrell Thomas, Brian Witherspoon and Marvin Austin for the season after the trio suffered injuries during Monday's preseason game against the Bears. That's on the heels of first-round pick Prince Amukamara breaking his foot and backup cornerback Bruce Johnson tearing his Achilles.
Concern about the Giants was already high in the Big Apple as August rolled in, because they more or less stood pat this offseason while the Eagles dominated the free agent market (N.Y. losing Steve Smith to those Eagles, and Kevin Boss to the Raiders, didn't help). The Giants missed the playoffs last season after finishing 10-6 but didn't make any major upgrades beyond keeping in-house talent around.
Now, just two weeks before the regular season, they're scrambling to piece together a healthy defense.
They're not alone in their frustration, though. Here's a look at six other teams suffering through the worst offseasons so far:
• Minnesota Vikings:If you want to play the glass-half-full card with Minnesota, go right ahead. Adrian Peterson's still there, the defensive front four can still get after it like few groups in the league and Donovan McNabb's arrival could lend some stability to a QB situation that saw Brett Favre and Tarvaris Jackson make a mess of things last year.
But the Vikings finished 6-10 last season and lost Jackson, Sidney Rice, Ray Edwards, Ben Leber, Frank Walker, Madieu Williams and even overweight Bryant McKinnie to other teams. Making matters worse? Minnesota has to deal with a division that hosts the defending Super Bowl champion Packers, a sturdy Bears group and the upward-trending Lions.
Plus, there are injuries already -- potential starting right guard Scott Kooistra was placed on injured reserve with a neck injury, and big DT Kevin Williams had to visit a foot specialist.
There are always high hopes in Minnesota, but it'll be hard to reach them this year.
• Tennessee Titans: No matter what happened, this was going to be a trying transition period for the Titans, given the departure of head coach Jeff Fisher after 17 years.
The issue still looming here is Chris Johnson's status. The superstar running back has been holding out in search of a more lucrative contract. He's scheduled to meet with the Titans' brass Wednesday, but if no progress is made there, Tennessee faces the possibility of entering the season without its best player.
The Titans also played it close to the vest in free agency, nibbling here and there but not taking any big bites, aside from handing fading veteran Matt Hasselbeck a three-year, $20-million deal to start while rookie Jake Locker matures. Hasselbeck's a great locker room presence and a battler, but neither he nor any of the Titans' other acquisitions look like game-changers in a tough division.
Speaking of which ...
• Indianapolis Colts:Look, the Colts are going to be in the postseason (and possibly Super Bowl) mix if Peyton Manning can come back 100 percent from offseason neck surgery.
There are growing concerns that will happen by Week 1 -- the Colts signing Kerry Collins Wednesday could be a bad sign -- and this preseason has just further proven that this team isn't all that good without Manning. Sure, preseason results are meaningless, but the Colts have been outscored by a combined 49-13 in two games and looked totally impotent on offense.
The regular season may still be a great one for the Colts, but they must be seeing their lives flash before their eyes with Manning on the sideline.
• Oakland Raiders: Taking Terrelle Pryor in the supplemental draft could either be a stroke of genius or the icing on the cake of a disappointing offseason in Raider Nation.
The Raiders are coming off an 8-8 season -- their first at .500 or better since going 11-5 in 2002. This should have been an offseason to load up to try to keep that momentum going forward.
Instead, they got rid of controversial head coach Tom Cable, then watched all-world cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha and leading receiver Zach Miller depart via free agency. Oh, and they can't play the 49ers in the preseason anymore, because the two franchises' fans turned last week's game into a bloody, violence-marred debacle.
• Cincinnati Bengals:Carson Palmer told the Bengals he'd retire if they didn't trade him. Cincinnati refused to budge and Palmer, while not officially retired, has shown no signs of giving in.
The good news is that the Bengals drafted Andy Dalton and can start him at QB. Right? Not so fast -- in two preseason games, Dalton's thrown no touchdowns and three interceptions, and generally looked like he'll need some time before he's ready to produce at the NFL level.
Unfortunately for the Bengals, their other QB options are Bruce Gradkowski and Jordan Palmer, Carson's less-talented brother. It's no wonder, then, that free-agent CB Johnathan Joseph bailed in free agency.
Cincinnati went 4-12 last year. It looks even worse on paper this season.
• Miami Dolphins: The Dolphins tried and tried and tried to wriggle Kyle Orton out of Denver via trade. Just as training camp opened, all those efforts fell apart -- Orton's since been named the No. 1 QB in Denver.
Meanwhile, back in Miami, the onus fell on highly criticized quarterback Chad Henne, who saw pretty clearly what his franchise thought of him. He was greeted at camp by booing fans and chants of "We Want Orton," which led coach Tony Sparano to chastise the Dolphins faithful.
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