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Transfiguration of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2020-02-23
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Transfiguration of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (978) 458-4321
  • Fax:
  • (978) 458-8726
  • Street Address:

  • 25 Fr. John Sarantos Way

  • Lowell, MA 01854
  • Mailing Address:

  • 25 Fr. John Sarantos Way

  • Lowell, MA 01854

Contact Information

Services Schedule

Sunday Schedule:

Orthros: 8:30 a.m.
Divine Liturgy: 9:30 a.m.

Bible Study:

Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Past Bulletins

We welcome everyone to join us for coffee fellowship following Liturgy.

On February 22nd, 29th and March 7th we will gather for the three Saturday of the Souls.  If you wish to have loved ones commemorated please use the forms that are in the narthex.

Thank you to all who volunteered to serve at the Lowell Transitional Center in 2019.  The 2020 volunteer list has been posted in the downstairs lobby.  Please consider volunteering.

The LTLC has an immediate need for large jars of jelly, large cans of coffee and sandwich bread.  If you are able to donate any of these items it would be greatly appreciated.  They can be placed in the basket in the front lobby.

The Transfiguration GOYA is spearheading an effort for our parish with the help of other local parishes to participate in the RISE AGAINST HUNGER program.

Help the effort with your donation.  They must raise $3500 in order to assemble 10,000 meal. If you wish to write a check, you can make it payable to Transfiguration Church and put GOYA meals in the memo.  You can also use your credit/debit card in the narthex.

This month the Community Kitchen takes place on Tuesday, February 25th.  Everyone is welcome to attend and to bring a friend or two.

The Literacy Program of the Philoptochos is in need of new or slightly used books suitable for grades 2-4.  You can bring books in and place them in the appropriate bin at the entrance.  We also welcome your financial donations.  Let us do the shopping for you.  In March baskets will be available for your donation.  Please make your check out to Transfiguration Philoptochos.

♥ Consider donating $10.00 Market Basket cards.  There is always a need for people who are food insecure.  We also welcome food donations.  Please put your donations in the green container in the lobby.

Save the Date!

Grecian Festival

May 29-30

Weekly Calendar

†Orthros, 8:30am
†Liturgy, 9:30am
1 Year Memorial for Mary Molivas
10 Year Memorial for Athena Kalabokis

Tuesday, February 25
Community Kitchen, 11:30am-12:30pm

Wednesday, February 26
Bible Study, 10:00am
Kafenion, 10:00am
Council of Churches Meeting, 6:30pm

Thursday, February 27
House of Hope, 5:00pm

Friday, February 28
Family Glendi, 7:00pm-10:00pm

Saturday, February 29
Second Saturday of the Souls – Liturgy, 9:30am

†Orthros, 8:30am
†Liturgy, 9:30am
Monthly Trisagion
Literacy Donation Basket

TODAY’S PARISH COUNCIL: Olivia Sintros, Chuck Nestor & Patricia Mahoney

TODAY’S GREETER: Christa Danisewicz

February 28
Family Glendi, 7:00pm-10:00pm

February 29
Second Saturday of the Souls – Liturgy, 9:30am

March 2
Compline, 6:30pm

March 4
Kafenion, 10:00am
Bible Study, 10:00am
Pre-Sanctified Liturgy and Lenten Dinner, 6:00pm

March 7
Third Saturday of the Souls – Liturgy, 9:30am
Lenten Camp, 9:30-2:00pm

March 8
Lenten Vespers at Transfiguration, 6:00pm

March 9
Compline, 6:30pm

March 10
Parish Council Meeting, 6:30pm

March 11
Kafenion, 10:00am
Bible Study, 10:00am

March 11
Grecian Festival Meeting, 4:00pm
Pre-Sanctified Liturgy and Lenten Dinner, 6:00pm

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 146.5;134.3.
Great is our Lord, and great is his power.
Verse: Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 8:8-13; 9:1-2.

Brethren, food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. Only take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if any one sees you, a man of knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, might he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother's falling, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Gospel Reading

Judgment Sunday (Meatfare Sunday)
The Reading is from Matthew 25:31-46

The Lord said, "When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.' Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?' And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.' Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' Then they also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then he will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.' And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Mode

Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad, for the Lord has shown the power of his reign. He has conquered death by death and become the first born of the dead. He has delivered us from the depths of Hades and has granted the world great mercy.

Seasonal Kontakion in the First Mode

O God, when You come upon the earth in glory, the whole world will tremble. A river of fire will bring all before Your Judgment Seat and the books will be opened, and everything in secret will become public. At that time, deliver me from the fire which never dies, and enable me to stand by Your right hand, O Judge most just.

Wisdom of the Fathers

He indicates the dispositions of each, calling the one kids, the other sheep, that He might indicate the unfruitfulness of the one, for no fruit will come from kids; and the great profit from the other, for indeed from sheep great is the profit, as well from the milk, as from the wool, and from the young, of all which things the kid is destitute.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily on Matt. XXV, 4th Century

For when one has pity on the poor, he lends to God; and he who gives to the least gives to God--sacrifices spiritually to God an odour of a sweet smell.
St. Cyprian of Carthage
The Lord's Prayer, 33. B#41, p.102, 3rd century

Saints and Feasts

February 23

Judgment Sunday (Meatfare Sunday)

The foregoing two parables -- especially that of the Prodigal Son -- have presented to us God's extreme goodness and love for man. But lest certain persons, putting their confidence in this alone, live carelessly, squandering upon sin the time given them to work out their salvation, and death suddenly snatch them away, the most divine Fathers have appointed this day's feast commemorating Christ's impartial Second Coming, through which we bring to mind that God is not only the Friend of man, but also the most righteous Judge, Who recompenses to each according to his deeds.

It is the aim of the holy Fathers, through bringing to mind that fearful day, to rouse us from the slumber of carelessness unto the work of virtue, and to move us to love and compassion for our brethren. Besides this, even as on the coming Sunday of Cheese-fare we commemorate Adam's exile from the Paradise of delight -- which exile is the beginning of life as we know it now -- it is clear that today's is reckoned the last of all feasts, because on the last day of judgment, truly, everything of this world will come to an end.

All foods, except meat and meat products, are allowed during the week that follows this Sunday.

February 23

Polycarp the Holy Martyr & Bishop of Smyrna

This apostolic and prophetic man, and model of faith and truth, was a disciple of John the Evangelist, successor of Bucolus (Feb. 6), and teacher of Irenaeus (Aug. 23). He was an old man and full of days when the fifth persecution was raised against the Christians under Marcus Aurelius. When his pursuers, sent by the ruler, found Polycarp, he commanded that they be given something to eat and drink, then asked them to give him an hour to pray; he stood and prayed, full of grace, for two hours, so that his captors repented that they had come against so venerable a man. He was brought by the Proconsul of Smyrna into the stadium and was commanded, "Swear by the fortune of Caesar; repent, and say, 'Away with the atheists.'" By atheists, the Proconsul meant the Christians. But Polycarp, gazing at the heathen in the stadium, waved his hand towards them and said, "Away with the atheists." When the Proconsul urged him to blaspheme against Christ, he said: "I have been serving Christ for eighty-six years, and He has wronged me in nothing; how can I blaspheme my King Who has saved me?" But the tyrant became enraged at these words and commanded that he be cast into the fire, and thus he gloriously expired about the year 163. As Eusebius says, "Polycarp everywhere taught what he had also learned from the Apostles, which also the Church has handed down; and this alone is true" (Eccl. Hist., Book IV, ch. 14,15).

February 24

First & Second Finding of the Venerable Head of John the Baptist

The first finding came to pass during the middle years of the fourth century, through a revelation of the holy Forerunner to two monks, who came to Jerusalem to worship our Saviour's Tomb. One of them took the venerable head in a clay jar to Emesa in Syria. After his death it went from the hands of one person to another, until it came into the possession of a certain priest-monk named Eustathius, an Arian. Because he ascribed to his own false belief the miracles wrought through the relic of the holy Baptist, he was driven from the cave in which he dwelt, and by dispensation forsook the holy head, which was again made known through a revelation of Saint John, and was found in a water jar, about the year 430, in the days of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger, when Uranius was Bishop of Emesa.

February 25

Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople

This Saint was the son of one of the foremost princes in Constantinople, and was originally a consul and first among the Emperor's private counselors. Then, in 784, he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople by the Sovereigns Irene and her son Constantine Porphyrogenitus. He convoked the Seventh Ecumenical Council that upheld the holy icons, and became the boast of the Church and a light to the clergy. He reposed in 806.

February 26

Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza

Saint Porphyrius had Thessalonica as his homeland. He became a monk in Scete of Egypt, where he lived for five years. He went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, after which he spent five years in much affliction in a cave near the Jordan. Stricken with a disease of the liver, he departed to Jerusalem, where he was ordained presbyter and appointed Keeper of the Cross at the age of 45. Three years later he was made Bishop of Gaza. He suffered much from the rulers and pagans of Gaza; but with the friendship of Saint John Chrysostom, and the patronage of the Empress Eudoxia, he razed the temple of the idol Marnas in Gaza and built a great church to the glory of God. He reposed in 450.

February 27

Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis

Saints Procopius and Basil, fellow ascetics, lived about the middle of the eighth century, during the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741), from whom they suffered many things for the sake of the veneration of the holy icons. They ended their lives in the ascetical discipline.

February 28

Righteous John Cassian the Confessor

Note: If it is not a leap year the hymns of Saint John are transferred to the 28th.

This Saint was born about the year 350, and was, according to some, from Rome, according to others, from Dacia Pontica (Dobrogea in present-day Romania). He was a learned man who had first served in the military. Later, he forsook this life and became a monk in Bethlehem with his friend and fellow-ascetic, Germanus of Dacia Pontica, whose memory is also celebrated today. Hearing the fame of the great Fathers of Scete, they went to Egypt about the year 390; their meetings with the famous monks of Scete are recorded in Saint John's Conferences. In the year 403 they went to Constantinople, where Cassian was ordained deacon by Saint John Chrysostom; after the exile of Saint Chrysostom, Saints Cassian and Germanus went to Rome with letters to Pope Innocent I in defence of the exiled Archbishop of Constantinople. There Saint Cassian was ordained priest, after which he went to Marseilles, where he established the famous monastery of Saint Victor. He reposed in peace about the year 433.

The last of his writings was On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius, written in 430 at the request of Leo, the Archdeacon of Pope Celestine. In this work he was the first to show the spiritual kinship between Pelagianism, which taught that Christ was a mere man who without the help of God had avoided sin, and that it was possible for man to overcome sin by his own efforts; and Nestorianism, which taught that Christ was a mere man used as an instrument by the Son of God, but was not God become man; and indeed, when Nestorius first became Patriarch of Constantinople in 428, he made much show of persecuting the heretics, with the exception only of the Pelagians, whom he received into communion and interceded for them to the Emperor and to Pope Celestine.

The error opposed to Pelagianism but equally ruinous was Augustine's teaching that after the fall, man was so corrupt that he could do nothing for his own salvation, and that God simply predestined some men to salvation and others to damnation. Saint John Cassian refuted this blasphemy in the thirteenth of his Conferences, with Abbot Chairemon, which eloquently sets forth, at length and with many citations from the Holy Scriptures, the Orthodox teaching of the balance between the grace of God on one hand, and man's efforts on the other, necessary for our salvation.

Saint Benedict of Nursia, in Chapter 73 of his Rule, ranks Saint Cassian's Institutes and Conferences first among the writings of the monastic fathers, and commands that they be read in his monasteries; indeed, the Rule of Saint Benedict is greatly indebted to the Institutes of Saint John Cassian. Saint John Climacus also praises him highly in section 105 of Step 4 of the Ladder of Divine Ascent, on Obedience.

February 29

Cheesefare Saturday

The God-bearing Fathers, after preparing us through the preceding feasts for the stadium of spiritual struggles, now set before us the men and women who have passed their lives in a manner pleasing to God, so that by their example they might make us more eager in the work of virtue and more courageous against the passions. And as experienced generals, when they prepare their soldiers for battle, urge their soldiers on by recalling for them the heroic exploits of excellent men, so that the soldiers take courage and charge wholeheartedly against the enemy; even so the God-bearing Fathers do for our sakes now, by appointing this day as a common memorial and feast of all those Saints who by many labours overcame the passions and became well-pleasing to God; so that we too, looking to the life of the righteous, might imitate them as far as possible in contending courageously against the passions and accomplishing the virtues, having it always in mind that the Saints were of the same nature and of like passions with us.


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Ischemic Stroke

Stroke is one of the most common diseases in our society. It has serious consequences for patients, their families, and for society in general. Stroke takes the form of sudden paralysis, with or without impairment of speech and / or vision.

What is a stroke?
A stroke may be caused by a sudden reduction in blood flow to certain areas of the brain as a result of blood vessel blockage. The consequence is an inadequate supply of oxygen and other nutrients. Brain cells whose blood supply is interrupted are likely to die after only a short period of time.
A stroke may also occur as the direct result of bleeding from ruptured vessels into the brain tissue. This happens in about 12% of all strokes.
How severe the damage will be depends on the location of the brain tissue which has been destroyed. In nature, the left half of the brain controls the right side of the body and speech. The right half of the brain is responsible for the left side of the body.
Not all cells of the tissue affected by stroke are destroyed immediately after the cerebral vessels become blocked. Their function can be preserved if treatment is started as early as possible. Moreover, if the risk factors which encourage circulatory disturbances can be corrected in time, stroke can very often be prevented.
  • Visual disturbances in one or both eyes, ranging from temporary blurred vision to short- term blindness.
  • Numbness or weakness in several fingers, a hand, a whole arm or leg or one entire half of the body, or paralysis down one side of the body.
  • Short-term speech impairment or abnormal comprehension difficulties.
  • Sudden feeling of dizziness, blurred vision, nausea/vomiting, weakness in both legs or double vision.
  • A seizure is a warning of temporary impairment of cerebral blood flow.
  • Abnormal mental confusion lasting up to several hours without loss of consciousness.
Narrowing or blockage of the cerebral vessels or of the carotid arteries leading to the brain are the most frequent causes. These changes occur as a result of arteriosclerosis, a chronic, progressive disease of the arteries which leads to damage of the vessel walls. As a result, the space within the vessel is considerably reduced.
  • High blood pressure
  • High level of blood lipids
  • Diabetes
  • Smoking
  • Obesity
  • Gout
  • Oral contraceptives
Today, most risk factors can be treated. Appropriate screening by a medical specialist is recommended for every patient over the age of 40. Arteriosclerosis is avoidable if patients think of it early enough and then seize the initiative to prevent or control it.
The following steps should be taken to prevent Arteriosclerosis:
  • Reduce body weight to ideal range.
  • Stop smoking.
  • Check blood pressure regularly. High blood pressure must be controlled under medical supervision.
  • Keep to a sensible diet; avoid fatty foods.
  • Exercise regularly, especially if you are in a sedentary occupation.
  • Women taking the contraceptive pill should not smoke at all.
  • Avoid long-term stress situations.
Stroke must be treated by a brain specialist, a neurologist. From the symptoms and diagnostic tests the neurologist can establish the areas of the brain that have been damaged.

There are many diagnostic tests that can detect the presence of risk factors, and vascular changes can now be made painlessly and non-invasively:
  • Venous blood sample for determination of laboratory values
  • Electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • Electroencephalogram (EEG)
  • Carotid Duplex Scan
  • Computed Tomography Scan (CT scan)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI & MRA)

Once neurological symptoms have occurred, treatment strategies must be implemented immediately. The patient should be admitted to a specially equipped hospital. Stroke is an emergency, no matter how mild it may seem.
  • If warning symptoms occur, get medical help immediately. Rapid evaluation and treatment are essential to prevent further damage.
  • For an acute stroke, whatever the cause, call immediately for emergency medical assistance. The patient may need to be treated with thrombolytic drugs within a few hours of the onset of stroke.
  • For the completed stroke, investigation treatment may be followed by thrombolytic drugs, which dissolve the blood clot to improve tissue perfusion in order to minimize tissue destruction. Sometimes professionals can reach unaffected parts of the brain to assume control of a lost function.
  • Complications occur mostly during the first week:
    • Recurrence of Arteriosclerosis in a blood vessel
    • Cerebral edema due to damaged brain tissue
    • Bleeding from ruptured vessels, hydrocephalus due to vascular blockage
  • Complications which may occur after the first week:
    • Pneumonia
    • Infection, such as urinary tract infection
    • Cardiac problems
    • Diabetic mellitus
    • Electrolyte imbalance
    • Pressure sores
Apart from the suitable treatment strategies already indicated, appropriate remedial physiotherapy is crucial and should be started early, to prevent permanent physical damage.
  • For the patient with mild stroke / transient ischemic attacks, one in three stroke victims may have permanent physical damage in the near future, and 50% of these strokes may present physical damage during the first year after the stroke the stroke.
  • The mortality rate of 15 -30% of paralysis patients is secondary to cerebral hemorrhage, massive brain infarction, infection and so on.
  • After receiving appropriate care the patient should be followed up with medical supervision to prevent further damage.
Prevention is the top priority in caring for the patient exposed to risk factors for stroke. Nowadays there are two types of substances which can prevent vascular occlusion:
  • Antiplatelet drugs, such as aspirin, Ticlopidine and Clopidogrel.
  • Anticoagulant drugs, such as Warfarin.
This treatment should be carried out under medical supervision, so that any side effects can be detected as early as possible.

Prevention of complications and minimizing further physical damage are of prime importance. Giving care to a stroke patient you may find:
  • Weakness or paralysis of one side of the patient's body; the patient may demonstrate inadequate self- care and need assistance to reposition every two hours to prevent pressure sores.Physiotherapy should be continued, with occupational therapy also included for the patient who experiences facial drop and difficulty in swallowing.
  • Joint and muscle contractions with inability to move may occur after paralysis. This condition also needs continuous physiotherapy.
  • Sensory loss: some patients may not be sensitive to hot, cold or pain on one side of the body and may injure themselves without realizing it. The patient needs instruction concerning the affected limb.
  • Emotional disturbance; some patients may experience confusion, memory loss, irrational thinking. It is very important for the family to understand and show concern and support, which will benefit the patient.
  • Aphasia is a speech disorder characterized by partial or total loss of understanding or ability to use words. Speech therapy may help the patient recover some communication skills in 6-12 months.
Avoiding stroke, that is, preventing stroke from ever occurring, is possible by minimizing risk factors. Nowadays most risk factors can be treated, and systematic treatment of risk factors has resulted in a decrease in the incidence of stroke. An annual physical examination by a physician is highly recommended. Early diagnosis and treatment of stroke will greatly benefit the patient.
We hope the information in this page will be useful, while at the same time pointing out that a stroke patient should be admitted to a hospital as a matter of urgency. We also hope this will encourage you, your family and the physician to form a partnership and work together towards the goal: many years of good health for you and your loved ones.

You can read more articles about Stroke treatment at our Neuroscience Center

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Engineering Director of Lothian Buses, Bill Devlin, said, ‘The refurbishment of these buses is part of our continual fleet improvement programme. We are expecting all 15 buses to be completed by the end of the year.’

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had dominating nights — and they're already looking ahead

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Fresh off strong across-the-board performances on the 2016 presidential primary's biggest night, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are pivoting to focus on a general-election matchup that is beginning to look more and more likely.

Both candidates won several primary and caucus contests Tuesday. Clinton has long been the presumed Democratic nominee for president, and Trump is the clear Republican frontrunner.

A little after midnight EST on Wednesday, both candidates had won seven states.

Clinton won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Trump won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia, with Alaska yet to be called on the GOP side.

In their victory speeches, the two sounded as if they were already preparing for the potential faceoff in the months ahead.

"Instead of building walls, we're going to break down barriers and build ladders of opportunity and empowerment so every American can live up to his or her potential," Clinton said, in an implicit attack on Trump's calls to build a wall on the southern border of the US to combat illegal immigration.

She also took a shot at Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."

"We know we've got work to do. It's not to make America great again," Clinton said. "America never stopped being great. We have to make America whole ... and fill in what's been hollowed out."

Trump responded with a direct attack. He charged that Clinton wasn't capable of fixing America's problems.

"I watched Hillary's speech and she's talking about, 'Wages have been poor, and everything's poor, and everything's doing badly, but we're going to make it.' She's been there for so long," Trump said, referring to Clinton's long career in government.

"I mean, if she hasn't straightened it out by now, she's not going to straighten it out in the next four years," he added. "It's just going to become worse and worse."

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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Trump then responded directly to Clinton's attack on his campaign slogan.

"She wants to make America whole again, and I'm trying to figure out what is that all about," Trump said. "'Make America Great Again' is going to be much better than making America whole again."

Trump dinged his Republican opponents, but he took particular aim at Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. He boasted about his chances against Clinton, suggesting that if he and Clinton were the presidential nominees for their respective parties, it would be an "easy race."

"Once we get all of this finished, I'm going to go after one person. That's Hillary Clinton," Trump said.

"And I think that's frankly going to be an easy race," he added. "You see the polls. I beat Hillary in many polls."

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas won two states on Tuesday — Oklahoma and Texas — and tried to position himself as the most viable Republican alternative to Trump, who still doesn't have much support from the party's establishment.

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma February 28, 2016.   REUTERS/Nick Oxford
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But it will be difficult for any Republican challenger to stop Trump, who is well on his way to the delegates he needs to snag his party's nomination. Rubio faced questions amid Trump's romp about whether he was in "denial" about a potential path to the nomination.

Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who is still in the running for the Democratic nomination, also had a relatively strong night by winning four states. But he suffered a crushing symbolic loss in Massachusetts, which neighbors his home state of Vermont, and Clinton walked out of the night with a huge delegate lead.

Sanders argued that he could still win.

"Ten months ago, as you know ... we were at 3% in the polls. We have come a very long way in 10 months," he told supporters during an address in Vermont.

He added: "At the end of tonight, 15 states will have voted, 35 states remain. And let me assure you that we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for world of peace, to every one of those states."

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John Oliver says the anti-vaccine hysteria won't keep him from vaccinating his infant son 'fully and on-schedule'

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John Oliver summed up the problem with the anti-vaccine movement on "Last Week Tonight" in one line:

"Opportunistic quacks writing books that fan the flames of people's unfounded fears don't cause a legit public health hazard, except when they do."

Oliver was talking about Dr. Robert Sears, a pediatrician who promotes the idea that vaccines could be safely administered to children over a longer period of time, rather than all at once as is traditionally done.

Sears' approach has been portrayed as a sort of middle ground between anti-vaccination naysayers, who wrongly claim that vaccines are dangerous, and the medical community's consensus that vaccines are safe and necessary.

The problem is that Sears' method doesn't work. No scientific studies suggest there's a benefit to his technique, and a mountain of evidence supports the fact that vaccines are important and effective. There is no safe alternative to vaccination, and research has shown  that spacing out vaccines can have harmful results.

"Infants and young children who follow immunization schedules that spread out shots ... are at risk of developing diseases during the time that shots are delayed," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote in its vaccination guidelines.

The frightening consequences of spreading out, delaying, or avoiding vaccinations has already been seen in the recent measles outbreaks in the US.

Nevertheless, a growing number of parents have expressed worries about vaccines. That controversy, Oliver says, can likely be traced back to a 1998 press conference called by London's Royal Free Hospital, which publicized a research paper published in the medical journal The Lancet. That paper has since been withdrawn from the journal.

The paper's author, Andrew Wakefield, said during the conference that his research suggested a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and the onset of autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction.

Wakefield's results— which actually came from a small and poorly done study — were wrong.

Dozens of large-scale studies done since then, including a Danish study of close to half a million children, have sought to redo Wakefield's work in an attempt to replicate and essentially prove his results. So far, none have found an association of any kind between autism and the MMR vaccine.

The Lancet retracted Wakefield's paper in 2010, after an investigation revealed not only poor science but also financial conflicts of interest. Wakefield was stripped of his medical license a year later.

Nevertheless, what John Oliver calls "scary vaccine stories" continue to circulate. And this can translate into real challenges. There are now 11 states where the number of unvaccinated kids is on the rise, according to STAT News.

Oliver is determined to follow the science, however. At the end of the episode, he announced that he plans to vaccinate his 19-month-old son "fully and on schedule."

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1. Chinese manufacturing staged a surprise recovery — rallying to an 8-month high in November. A state survey returned its strongest reading since March, while a private poll signaled the sector expanded at its fastest rate in three years.

2. Warren Buffett said he bid about $5 billion for Tech Data, calling it 'our kind of business.' Berkshire Hathaway made an unsuccessful play for the technology distributor after an approach from Bank of America, a look at its finances, and a visit to its headquarters.

3. Huawei's CEO said his arrested daughter should be proud to be a bargaining chip in the US-China trade war. The Chinese smartphone giant's boss, Ren Zhengfei, said his daughter and CFO Meng Wanzhou should feel honored to be caught in the crossfire of the dispute.

4. The cryptocurrency community is up in arms after a US citizen gave a talk on blockchain in North Korea and was then arrested. Virgil Griffith, who works at the Ethereum Foundation, was accused by federal prosecutors on Friday of giving a talk at a cryptocurrency conference in Pyongyang and handing over technical information.

5. Google is facing another EU probe about how it collects and uses data, months after receiving a $1.7 billion antitrust fine. The search-and-advertising titan faces yet another antitrust investigation after being slapped with three multibillion dollar fines in as many years.

6. Retailers see biggest-ever Cyber Monday after record online Black Friday. US retailers launched a raft of deals earlier than usual over the weekend, as they tried to sustain the momentum of a record $11.6 billion in online sales on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

7. Renault is close to finalizing the shortlist for its new CEO. The French carmaker will shortly narrow the choices for its next leader to a handful of names, its chairman said on Monday.

8. Stock markets are mixed. The Dow (-0.4%), S&P 500 (-0.4%), and Nasdaq (-0.5%) are set to open lower. European markets are drifting lower with Germany's DAX (-0.2%), Britain's FTSE 100 (-0.1%), and the Euro Stoxx 50 (-0.3%) all down. Asian stocks rose with China's Shanghai Composite (+0.1%), Hong Kong's Hang Seng (+0.4%), and Japan's Nikkei (+1%) all up.

9. There are a few notable earnings out today. Mesa Air and Medley Capital are reporting results.

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Emirates has launched a new codeshare deal with LATAM Airlines Brazil, allowing customers to connect to and from 17 domestic Brazilian destinations via its routes to Rio and Sao Paulo.

The new codeshare destinations to and from Sao Paulo are Belem, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Campo Grande, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Foz do Iguaçu Falls, Londrina, Manaus,  Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador, São Luiz and Vitória.

Meanwhile the new codeshare routes to and from Rio de Janeiro are Belém, Brasília, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Iguassu Falls, Manaus, Natal and Vitoria.

The Gulf carrier currently operates daily A380 flights between Dubai and Sao Paulo, as well as daily services to Rio de Janeiro. From June 1 the Dubai-Rio route will be served with the carrier’s recently refurbished B777-200LR aircraft.

As previously reported, from the same date this service will continue onto Buenos Aires four times weekly, and to Santiago de Chile on three days per week.

Commenting on the news Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ Divisional Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, Revenue Optimization and Aeropolitical Affairs, said:

“We’re pleased to establish a partnership with LATAM Airlines Brazil providing our passengers with increased choice, flexibility and ease of connection to different cities within Brazil.

“We continuously invest in providing more benefits to our customers. With our award-winning product and strong partners in Brazil, we look forward to continue supporting the country’s growing inbound tourist numbers and business trade opportunities.”


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James Holzhauer Net Worth, Biography, Career, Achievements, Marriage, Wife, Children and More

If you’re a fan of game shows and gambling, then you probably may have come across the name James Holzhauer for at least once. James Holzhauer is famous as a game show contestant, and also as a professional sports gambler. James Holzhauer net worth is a befitting amount of money which serves as evidence of the famous gambler’s gambling and gameshows-contesting success.

James Holzhauer Net Worth

You have to give credit to this man for being a successful gambler, who has managed to accumulate an estimated net worth of $2 million, all from contesting in game shows and actively gambling.

James Holzhauer made a huge part of his wealth by contesting in the trivia game show Jeopardy! in 2019, participating in 33 episodes of the show, making a total of $2,464,216 in prize money. His earning makes him the fourth highest-earning American game show participant of all time. He is the third highest-earner on Jeopardy!.

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James Holzhauer Net Worth

Now that you have read about James Holzhauer net worth and how he made his wealth, let’s take you through a ride of various other interesting aspects of James Holzhauer’s life, early life, education history, Marriage, family, children, and his ultimate rise to stardom.

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James Holzhauer Biography

James Holzhauer was born in Naperville, Illinois, United States, in July 1984 to a German father, Juergen Holzhauer and his mother Nachiko Ide Holzhauer. His father was an immigrant who worked at a chemical company as an engineer for 32 years. His elder brother is Ian Holzhauer, an attorney. According to his brother Ian, as a child, James Holzhauer never needed a calculator.

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James Holzhauer Net Worth

As a child, James regularly watched Jeopardy! with his Japanese grandma, who had moved to the United States to help raise her grandchildren. While she couldn’t follow the show as she barely understood English, he promised her that he would be on the show one day. He dedicated his biggest win of $131,127 on the show to his late grandma.

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Early Life & Gambling

When he was four years old, James Holzhauer surprised his teacher with his arithmetic skills, prompting his teacher to engage him in an advanced coursework. At seven, James skipped second grade following his mother’s urging, and moved up to a fìfth-grade math class. While he got straight A’s in maths and competed on the Napervílle North High School maths team, the rest of his overall grade remained C’s as he often missed classes to engage in other things like playing online poker. In fact, James spent so much time memorizing statistics about games like professional wrestling and baseball that his parents had to rebuke him for “wasting his life”. However, as a part of the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering Team, he took first place in physics and came second in math to help his team win the state competition at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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James Holzhauer Net Worth

James Holzhauer appeared in a game show for the first time when he made his appearance on the quiz show The Chase on September 2, 2014, and immediately made a 12-answer record on the 1-minute segment Cash Builder, which stayed unbeaten till the end of the show. He also answered nineteen questions for his team in Final Chase round to create a record that remained unbeaten.

On April 4 2019, James Holzhauer appeared for the very first time on the trivia game show Jeopardy!. He was outstanding on this show, having a phenomenal run for the next sixty days during which he consecutively won 32 games, earning over $2.46 million in prize money.

Rise to Fame

Within two months as an active participant of the trivia game Jeopardy!, James Holzhauer created several records on the show which remain unbeaten even when his winning streak was broken. On his first appearance, James won the highest single-game total of $43,680 for the season till then.

On April 9, 2019, he not only surpassed his former earning, but also broke the all-time single-game winning record of $77,000 by Roger Craig with his $110,914 win. He repeated this feat 15 more times in the next few months, and set the new highest single-game win record of $131,127 on April 17, 2019. He is also the only contestant to win over $100,000 in one episode, a feat which he achieved for a record six times. He became particularly famed for going after high-value clues firstly and for waging aggressively when he hit a Daily Double. Quite interestingly, his 32-win streak was broken by his challenger Emma Boettcher, who employed a similar strategy. While James had surprised many viewers by waging a meager $1,399 against her $20,201 in the Final Jeopardy of the July 3, 2019 episode, his opponent later revealed in an interview that she wasn’t surprised as that was a predictable option by the books.

James Holzhauer Net Worth
James Holzhauer Net Worth

James Holzhauer answered the final clue correctly, but he was stopped from retaining the title by his low wager.

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Is James Holzhauer Married?

James Holzhauer is a married man. He got married to Melissa Sassin in 2012.

Melissa Sassin is a fellow trivia champion. She is a tutor from Seattle, Washington. She won $28,800 as a participant on the trivia show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2014.

Together, they reside in Las Vegas, Nevada with their daughter named Natasha, who was born in 2014.

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Thursday 23 January 2020, 7.30pm

Şevên Kilamên Kurdî (Nights of Kurdish Songs) presents: THE POLITICAL LAMENTS OF DERSIM w/ MAVIS GUNESER & KEMAL KAHRAMAN – DAY ONE

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Maviş GÜNEŞER / vocal
Kemal KAHRAMAN / tembur
Ahmet TİRGİL / violin
Güneş DEMİR / guitar

An album launch for Mavis Güneşer’s debut album AX DE VAJI released in March 2019 which contains political laments in Zazaki language from the province of Dersim in Kurdish region of Turkey. All the songs included in the album compiled by Metin & Kemal Kahraman Brothers during their over 2 decades long field research in Dersim region. This album is based on oral history collection project which explores the last 100 years of the history of Dersim through laments related with painful and bloody political events taken place in the region.

Maviş Güneşer was born in district of Varto in Kurdish region of Turkey. She started her musical career with the band called Agirê Jiyan in İstanbul in 1994. She worked with Agirê Jiyan for about 3 years and participated in many performances. Maviş’s first self produced solo album called Keje released in 1998 and only composed Zazaki songs. Both thematic content and musical production of this album was like the start of search for her to find her own musical authenticity. Maviş Güneşer had to leave Turkey for political reasons in the late 90s. In the early years of her exile, she met Metin & Kemal Kahraman Brothers in Berlin and this encounter became an important turning point in her musical life. The journey with Metin & Kemal Kahraman Brothers continued and became alike a school for her where she learned and discovered both the more of Zazaki language, culture and history of the Dersim region. She took part as the soloist in Metin&Kemal Kahraman Brother’s albums entitled Meyman (2002), Çeveré Hazaru (2006), Masalların Şahı Saé Moru (2010) and Oğul (2012) and shared the stage with the duo in Europe and Turkey.

Maviş also worked with a Germany based band called Lilith from 2002 to 2006. Lilith was a women only member band who composes and sang laments in German, French, Kurmanci and Zazaki dialects of Kurdish, Yiddish and Turkish. She also produced soundtracks for many fiction and documentaries.

In her first UK appearance at Cafe OTO she will accompanied by Kemal Kahraman on Tembur (long lute fretted string instrument), Ahmet Tirgil on Violin and Güneş Demir on Guitar. Performance will be companied by slide projection of the people & local leaders mentioned in their songs of repertoire. CD + Book of the project will be available for purchase while stories and lyrics in english for each songs included in the project will be available in hard copy.

Dersim is a province in Kurdish region of Turkey populated by Zazaki and Kurmanji speaking Kurdish Alevi population. The Turkish government military operations in 1937 and 1938 resulted with massacre of over 80.000 of the region’s habitants.


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Over 100 attend CAGC’s Triangle Executive luncheon with N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper

June 8, 2016

Over 100 people were in attendance for CAGC’s Triangle Executive luncheon yesterday with Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democratic candidate for NC Governor. The quarterly luncheons typically feature prominent state political leaders and in the past have included Governor Pat McCrory, NC Commerce Secretary John Skvarla, and NC Secretary of Labor Cherie Berry to name a few.

Attorney General Cooper, a native North Carolinian born in Rocky Mount, spoke of growing up in eastern North Carolina working on the summer farm. After receiving his law degree at UNC Chapel Hill, he opened a small law practice in his hometown but was quickly drawn to public service. He has served in both the NC House and Senate and is in his fourth term as Attorney General.

After addressing a number of initiatives he championed as Attorney General, Cooper outlined his vision for the State. He believes the state needs strong leadership to create an environment that attracts business and encourages expansion.   He stressed that business is most concerned about access to a trained workforce and specifically mentioned the construction industry’s labor shortage. “We need to work with high school students and let them know these good paying (construction) jobs are there and that it’s o.k. not to have a four year degree. I want to work with you (CAGC) on this effort,” Cooper said.

Cooper also emphasized the need for more infrastructure investment and commended CAGC for its part in helping pass the Connect NC bond referendum and lobbying for additional funding for transportation. “The gas tax alone won’t get us there,” he said. “We need to think about transportation bonds. There’s never been a better time”.
Several in the audience asked the Attorney General how he would work with the majority Republican legislature as well as with the business community. While Cooper conceded that the two sides (Republicans and Democrats) have never been more polarized, he believes he can effectively work across party lines. “I’ve done this before when I was Senate Majority leader and the House was Republican. It just requires willingness to compromise”.
Carolinas AGC also recognized the top Civil, Construction and Environmental senior student from NC State University.  Dr. Alex Albert, engineering faculty, presented the award to Joe Weaver. Mr. Weaver was selected by the faculty for his leadership, involvement, and academic performance and was instrumental in NC State being recognized nationally for several student initiatives. Joe is joining the construction industry as an employee with long -time Carolinas AGC member Crowder Construction Company of Charlotte. This annual award has been sponsored for many years by Carolinas AGC.


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Massachusetts Collecting Data on Possible Vaping Illnesses

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Last month, the agency sent an alert to 25,000 Massachusetts health care providers asking them to voluntarily report pulmonary-related disease associated with vaping.

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'Pretty Little Liars' Writer, I. Marlene King, Leaked BIG (And DEADLY) Plot Spoilers About The New Series!

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These spoilers have just changed EVERYTHING. Help!!!

Okay, is Toby actually dead?! And Spencer - tell us what has happened after that car crash. PLEASE! There's only one person who really knows what's going on - the Pretty Little Liars writer, I. Marlene King... But she wouldn't let slip all of the juicy details about the upcoming season, would she?

Would she?!

> WOAH, HANG ON. Is Pretty Little Liars' Alison Pregnant With EMILY'S Baby?!

Ms King has always played it as cool-as-a-cucumber when it comes to Spencer's fate, but when we last left them, both Toby and Spencer's lives were at risk. Luckily, we've got this to keep you a little bit calmer. Not much calmer until the next episode, but a bit.

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Firstly, you can expect to see all of the Liars together and safe-ish!

You may think we're crazy for even questioning their fate, but if I. Marlene King who knows what's going through the author's mind when it comes to the PLL's? Let's just breathe a sigh of relief together and move on. 'Kay?

TOBY IS ALIVE! We repeat... He's alive!

Unless they're doing some terrifying ghost-like flashback stuff here, Toby has dialogue. Not that he's our fave our anything, but... YAY!

Someone is getting married. (Not that we have a Scooby who!)

Well, thanks for not showing us who said that, King. We didn't want to know anyway. By which we mean 'we're fuming because all we wanted to know was who's getting married'.

And then someone might be getting murdered. (Not that we have a Scooby who!)

Well, what d'ya know? There's going to be some serious drama in 'Pretty Little Liars'. WHY CAN'T EVERYONE JUST LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER AND STOP DOING THIS TO OUR HEARTS?!

Finally, you WILL cry. I. Marlene King will make sure of that.

It seems *sniffs* that the writer *sobs* is adamant that... Oh, who are we trying to kid?! We can't even get through this sentence without bawling.

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 Croatian Conservation Institute Apoxyomenos scanFig. 1: Statue of Apoxyomenos lying 40m beneath the surface of the Adriatic Sea

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Digitizing of the ancient bronze sculpture of Apoxyomenos

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Apoxyomenos, an ancient bronze statue of an athlete scraping off oil and dust from his body after a competition, was found in 1999 in the sea close to Lošinj, a Croatian island (Fig. 1). Investigations suggest that it might be an original Greek statue dated back to the 4th century BC, or a Roman copy of this statue. Since only a few original Greek bronze statues remained, Apoxyomenos is an extraordinary example of the world cultural heritage, therefore restoration and determination of its origin is of great importance. Despite structural damages, erosion and fused sediments caused by centuries of underwater stay, specialists in the Croatian Conservation Institute in Zagreb already succeeded in bringing the shine of the statue to light.

In January 2002, the company "Topomatika" d.o.o., from Zagreb conducted full 3D-digitizing and measurements of the statue in the Croatian Conservatory Institute. The sculpture of Apoxyomenos is full of very fine and realistic details which cannot be captured by measuring its length, width, height, diameter, angle, etc. The beauty of the shape and the richness of details can be recorded by photo documentation and sketches but the result is only a two-dimensional outline of the sculpture, failing to give enough information about its shape and measures. Only digitization provides for an accurate recording of the sculpture's shape by gathering accurate and dense measuring points on its surface. This task was successfully carried out using the ATOS and TRITOP systems from GOM.

The statue of Apoxyomenos was digitized in individual measurements using the ATOS II system, with a typical measuring area of 350 x 280 millimeters. During each of these measurements, multiple fringe patterns were projected on the object and the resulting images of the object area were recorded by two high resolution cameras. The data gathering for one area typically takes a few seconds and typically leads to millions of data points, defining the shape of the measured area very accurately. Then, the individual measurements were registered in a global coordinate system based on reference points (markers), applied on the fixtures and a few on flat areas on the object. The exact position in space (3D coordinates) of these reference points was determined before scanning using the photogrammetric system TRITOP (Fig. 2).

art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-3Fig. 2: Reference points and camera positions used to define the reference points' exact position with TRITOP art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-4Fig. 3: Three-dimensional digitizing of the statue of Apoxyomenos with the ATOS II systemSince the complete restoration of the statue of Apoxyomenos is still in process, scanning had to be made in the actual position of the sculpture. First, the front side was scanned (Fig 3), then the sculpture was turned upside-down in its holder for scanning the backside. As the head of the statue is separated from the body, it was scanned separately (Fig. 4). The results of all three scanning sessions were combined in a global coordinate system using common reference points, giving the complete shape of the sculpture.

The bronze surface of the sculpture was very dark and reflective. For standard engineering work the objects and tools can usually be treated (sprayed or painted) to show a uniform dull surface, ideal for optical scanning. Here a surface treatment was not acceptable. The ATOS II system can be set to gather data with different exposure times in one measurement to capture data on dark and bright areas. For glossy areas, the shape data can be calculated based on the images from one camera only.  art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-5Fig. 4: Digitizing of the Apoxyomenos head with ATOS II - the projected fringe pattern and the reference markers are visible

 Using these parameter settings, the statue could be successfully scanned with ATOS II, capturing very accurate and dense data, thus proving its great potential for scanning of shiny and dark surfaces. To digitize the complete statue 114 scans for the body and 57 scans for the head were needed, some of these scans were needed only for small areas, to define the complete shape of detailed parts such as hair or fingers.

art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-6Fig. 5: Scanned data of the head art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-7Fig. 6: Scanned data of ApoxyomenosThe result of the complete digitization is a file with more than ten million data points connected to a polygonal mesh (STL data) as shown in Fig. 5-7.

Due to the high resolution scanner (typically 13 measuring points per square millimeter), all details of the sculpture including damages are visible.

Based on the digitized data, parallel sections can be easily computed as shown in Fig. 8.

After the complete restoration was finished in 2004, the statue was digitized again in order to document the restoration work and to create a digital copy of the current shape.

Figure 9 shows the current digitized data of the entire statue and figure 10 shows the head. art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-9Fig. 8: Complete scanned data of Apoxyomenos (parallel sections)art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-8Fig. 7: Complete scanned data of Apoxyomenos (polygonal mesh)

Based on the largely smoothed and thinned STL mesh data, mathematical surface data were generated by reverse engineering (fig. 11). These CAD data describe geometrical elements and slightly curved areas in a compact data format. However, CAD data cannot optimally describe complex details like the shape of the hair or irregularities on the surface.

art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-10Fig. 9: Current digitized data of the entire statue art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-11Fig. 10: Current digitized data of the head art-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-12Fig. 11: Front view of the statue's CAD dataart-croatian-conservation-institute-apoxyomenos-13Fig. 12: Rear view of the statue's CAD dataThree-dimensional digitizing in this quality is a digital copy of the real part in the actual moment. It enables to document the restoration process, enables shape analyses, computer presentations and monitoring the shape of the statue during time. But also highly accurate copies of the statue or optimal holders for its transportation can be produced based on these data. This highly accurate computer model rich in detail was obtained by non-contact measurement and without any treatment of the bronze surface of Apoxyomenos, so, at no time during the scanning process the sculpture's safety was endangered.

The measuring systems ATOS II and TRITOP once again proved as a valuable asset in three-dimensional digitizing of complex and delicate parts.

We would like to thank the Croatian Conservation Institute for their trust in Topomatika d.o.o and the GOM system and the permission to show this report to the public.


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Whether you’re 5 or 35, Halloween is one of the most exciting ‘holiday’s’ of the year. When else is it acceptable to dress up as someone else and waltz into the office, and stuff your face with inexcusable amounts of sweets and chocolate? It’s also a good opportunity for co-workers to have some fun and mingle in the workplace. Celebrations of any kind are said to increase employee morale - they will feel more valued and motivated to work harder.

If you’re in charge of arranging this year’s celebrations, you can choose from the fun but tame options below:

1. Spooky Breakfast

Themed breakfasts are always exciting; whether you are getting catering or making a team-effort and creating delicious treats, this can be an excellent way for your office to spend the morning socialising. Your fried eggs can mimic a spooky eyeball, using ketchup as veins and a black olive as a pupil, and pancakes in the shape of a ghost.

2. Pumpkin Carving Contest

Pumpkin carving can be fun for those that are talented creatively; however, some colleagues will be more of a hazard when it comes to a carving contest. A good idea is to split the office into teams and have different faces in a hat that each team will draw - this could include: a bat, a puking pumpkin, etc. Have your employees work in a team to make the best version in 30 mins and offer the winning team a prize; maybe a paid lunch?

3. Who’s the Best Dressed?

Kudos to the workers who get on the tube dressed in bizarre outfits all for their love of Halloween. To encourage employees to wear their costumes to work for the day, host a costume parade and offer prizes for the following categories: best costume, funniest costume, most sophisticated costume, costume that took the most work to make, scariest costume and most creative costume. Advertise the awards in advance to entice your co-workers. Prizes could include a Starbucks gift-card, paid lunch or an afternoon off.

4. Cubicle Decoration Contest

To spark everyone’s imaginative streak, give each team member an allowance to decorate their cubicle. Whoever has the most creative cubicle gets to win a prize. Think synthetic cobwebs, plastic spiders, and craft pumpkins. For DIY Halloween decoration ideas look on Pinterest.

5. Horror Movie Marathon

What’s more of a treat than taking a few hours away from your desk to watch a movie? This doesn’t have to be compulsory, but you can set up a movie screen on a projector and decorate that area with cob-webs and ghosts and put on a Halloween classic like Hocus Pocus or the Adams Family. Ensure there is plenty of popcorn, sweets, and chocolate to go around.

6. Potluck Lunch

To get everyone into the Halloween spirit, host a potluck lunch and ask all employees to partake. If making your own dish doesn’t go down well, you can opt for pizza and finger food and encourage employees to socialise for an extra-long lunch.

7. Themed Games

Bobbing for apples is a tradition many of your employees will decide to skip, but for those that decide to partake, offer an enticing winning prize. It's also heaps of fun for those who are just watching. Other games include candy counting (counting how many sweets are in the jar).

8. Trick or Treat

Who said that trick or treating is just for children? You can make this exciting in the office. Instead of allowing employees to think of their own tricks, give everyone a list of ‘tame’ tricks that they are allowed to dish out. Everyone must have a surprise treat station on their desk too. It’ll get colleagues walking around and mingling throughout the day.

9. Philanthropic Activities

The importance of a holiday is about giving to someone that needs your help; you can arrange to go to a children’s hospital dressed in costumes offering treats, face-painting and other fun activities. You can also have employees volunteer to work at an animal shelter or a soup kitchen for the day.

10. Cake Sale

In every office, there is bound to be someone who bakes just as well as Mary Berry. Host a cake sale and give all the donations to the companies chosen charity. A little really does go a long way.

11. Themed Music

You can bend the rules a little for the spooktacular holiday and have an hour or two where someone’s Halloween playlist can be played. This can be during the party hours where you host the adventurous games listed above.

12. Pie Baking Contest

Pumpkin pies are traditional to the Halloween season, but can your co-workers get more creative than that? Host a pie baking contest for people that are interested and again offer a desirable prize!

13. Photo-Booth

A good photo-booth will go down a treat. If you don’t have the budget to splurge on a professional one for the day, you can opt for a make-shift photo-booth; ensure you have lots of props including masks, wigs, face-paints and have a designated photographer. Encourage your employees to post on social media with your company hash-tag.

14. Ice-Cream Delivery

Although it’s October, it’s never too cold for ice-cream. Have an ice-cream van turn up at your workplace and let employees choose a desert of their choice.

15. Early Leave

It’s safe to say that all employees would be happy to leave the office early for the day. Whether they have children that want to go trick or treating or want to go and get ready for their own Halloween party, it will go down a storm. If everyone’s workload allows it get them to shut down a few hours early. You’ll be surprised at how productive they will be in the morning.

Halloween celebrations at work are a popular way to mark the occasion and will encourage employee morale and motivation. According to a survey held by Glassdoor: “49% of employees also see work events as a chance to connect with employees in different departments and 43% say it helps connect people across various levels. And of course, most employees (61%) also say that they appreciate the chance to take a break from work.”

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MGM Grand Atlantic City is Coming in 2012

Atlantic City is getting the MGM Mirage.

Plans have been announced to build a $5 billion dollar complex in 2012 which is currently nicknamed City Center East. This place is going to be HUGE. It’s going to have the biggest casino in the state, restaurants, spa, convention center, 1,500 seat theater and a 3,000 room hotel.  The casino project will be constructed on a 72 acre property near the Borgata, which is jointly owned by MGM and Boyd Gaming.

“Our company has carefully considered the possibilities for our landholdings in Atlantic City. We believe the success at Borgata demonstrates the eagerness for further evolution of the nation’s second-largest gaming market,” says Terry Lannie, executive for MGM Mirage.

MGM MirageBig and tall casino

Not only is the project the biggest in Atlantic City, it’s also the tallest. There’s going to be three separate towers, each giving guests a different experience. For those shopping aficionados out there, it’s going to have a 500,000 square foot retail area. For us casino aficionados, it’s going to be the largest casino floor in New Jersey, with an enormous poker room, 200 table games, and 5,000 slot machines. There’s also going to be 12 acres that they’re setting aside for future development, like a residential tower.

The Atlantic City casino market

With this announcement, it really makes you think how this will affect the overall casino market in Atlantic City.

Like everything, unless things move and update with the times, you’re liable to be left behind. The newer casinos in Atlantic City have put tons of pressure on the older casinos to keep up, and not all have been able to.

Donald Trump has definitely got the money and cash to update though. He’s spent $225 million so far to upgrade the rooms in his 3 Atlantic City casinos and he’s going to spend another $250 million of his cash to add another tower to the Taj Mahal Casino Resort. The Sands Casino Hotel is getting demolished and will be replaced with a $2 billion casino resort.

But what about the smaller casino joints in the area? Can they survive?

It reminds me of what happened when the big box retailers like Best Buy and Walmart started infiltrating the small towns. They totally dominate the local market and destroyed the mom-and-pop stores. Nowadays, the name of game is specialization. A small place cannot compete successfully with these enormous companies with unlimited budgets. If we continue the analogy with the mom-and-pop stores, the only ones that have been able to prosper and stay alive are those that have specialized in a certain thing (like car rims and customizations) and service industries (janitorial, contractors, legal).

How can small casinos compete then?

It’s not an easy question, but it’s got to do with doing your own thing. Don’t be another MGM Mirage. Be the best at one thing. Or be the only one doing that one thing. That’s what gets the word going. That’s whats going to keep you afloat. And don’t rest on your laurels. Keep innovating.


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The legislation Alabama senators passed would make performing an abortion at any stage of pregnancy a felony punishable by 10 to 99 years or life in prison for the provider. The only exception would be when the woman's health is at serious risk. Women seeking or undergoing abortions wouldn't be punished.

The measure may be unenforceable in the short term. Even supporters have said they expect it to be blocked by lower courts as they fight toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

Pro-choice advocates said the passage of the legislation in Alabama, along with a series of other laws restricting abortion in a total of 15 other states, are part of a sweeping nationwide strategy to put Roe vs Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court in a move to get it overturned.

Cita Walsh with Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest said that even if Roe vs Wade is overturned, it will not keep women from seeking unsafe abortions.

“This is a throwback to 50 years ago that makes no sense whatsoever. This will have tragic outcomes,” she said.

In California, however, a woman’s right choose is protected in the state constitution.

“We have the ability to have safe and legal abortions here [in California] even if Roe vs Wade is overturned back to the states,” said Walsh.

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However, Walsh does warn that if the federal law were to be overturned, the effects would be felt in California as well because “California and other states that are very supportive of women’s rights will have to carry the load of those other states that are banning abortions at various degrees.”

Walsh said Planned Parenthood will put up a fight.

“We will double down to make sure that we stand up for reproductive rights of women,” said Walsh.

Abortion rights advocates vowed swift legal action.
Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio and Georgia recently have approved bans on abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can occur in about the sixth week of pregnancy. The Alabama bill goes further by seeking to ban abortion outright.

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Care Partners: Understanding Patient Participation in Complex Pediatric Care

What barriers do adolescents face in their care, and how can technology help them overcome such barriers? In addressing these questions, my formative work surfaces nuanced tensions and perspectives among adolescent, parent and clinicians regarding patient access to data and their participation in care.

  • Project Date: Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
  • Affiliations:  Georgia Institute of Technology and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
  • Funding: IPaT seed grant, NSF #1464214
  • Collaborators:  Daniel Machado, Clayton Feustel, Karen Wasileski-Masker, Thomas Olson, Stephen Simoneaux, and Lauren Wilcox

Personal Health Records (PHRs) show promising opportunities to inform patients about their care and support patient-provider communication through secure means. Some states, including Georgia, began offering patient portal enrollment to teens ages 12 and up, with proxy access available to their parental caregivers or legal guardians. I partnered with CHOA's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center to conduct a two year investigation of chronically ill adolescent patients and family caregiver's health information management practices before and after they have used MyChart, a tethered PHR released by CHOA in Summer 2014.

The goal of this research is to understand challenges that chronically ill adolescent patients' face in their care and identify opportunities for technology to support their increased participation and independence in care.

  • Field Observations
  • Semi-structured interviews with 15 families
  • Patient portal usage analysis (19 month observation period)
  • Surveys

I was able to uncover conflicting tensions between patients and their parental caregivers by conducting simultaneous, yet private interviews (with the help of a research assistant).

I combined log analyses of the MyChart health record system at CHOA with surveys and interviews to contextualize user behavior from usage logs.

Key Findings

Adolescents' faced challenges participating in clinical conversations, communicating emotionally sensitive information, and managing physical and emotional responses. In particular, while patients downplayed their symptoms not to worry their parents, symptom reporting was often assumed by parental caregivers, even if the reported data may not adequately represent the patient's true felt experience.

MyChart was seen as being most useful during stages of diagnosis and treatment when patients and their parents were scheduled to visit the hospital. However, its contents were not tailored for young patients to review their data. For patients going through routine treatment, this means that there is opportunity for technology to proactively support their health management needs during active treatment cycles.

These studies informed my decision to focus on the goal of accommodating patient and parent perspectives in symptom reporting by supporting their gradually evolving partnership through the design of a patient-friendly and engaging technology.

Adolescent and Caregiver Use of a Tethered Personal Health Record System.
Matthew K. Hong, Lauren Wilcox, Clayton Feustel, Karen Wasilewski-Masker, Thomas A. Olson, and Stephen F. Simoneaux. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA 2016), Chicago, IL, USA, 2016.
ACM DL Author-ize service Care Partnerships: Toward Technology to Support Teens' Participation in Their Health Care.
Matthew K. Hong, Lauren Wilcox, Daniel Machado, Thomas A. Olson, and Stephen F. Simoneaux. Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016), San Jose, CA, USA, 2016 (23.4% acceptance rate).


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Cooper 70th Anniversary at Prescott Hill with John Rhodes & Paddy Hopkirk

Had a great day Saturday at Prescott Hill for the 70th Anniversary of Cooper Car Company. The sun was out for the huge collection of Cooper racing cars from all formulas including Formula Junior, F3, F2, F1 and the old 500’s. Plenty of action on the hill too with most of the 500cc cars running along with a selection of others including a handful of Minis, Cooper’s T23, T39, T43, T59, T82 and a monstrous Cooper Daimler V8. John Rhodes, Paddy Hopkirk and Mike Cooper were present and all on good form. For display we took with us the Jim Russell Cooper MkX and the Mini Cooper S ‘GPH 1C’.

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