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    1. GroupID: 77

      Case: 23Y0M, Sex Unknown, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: assumed VHL

      FamilyInfo: 1 of the 573 patients discussed in this paper were found to have this variant. This mutation (c.491A>G) was found in 1 VHL family with a single patient.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0009711; HP:0002666 (retinal capillary hemangioma; pheochromocytoma)

      CaseHPOFreeText: patient had pheochromocytoma diagnosed at 10Y, a retinal angioma at 23Y.

      CaseNotHPOs: HP:0005584; HP:0006880 (renal cell carcinoma; cerebellar hemangioblastoma)

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: Supplementary Table S1.

      Variant: p.Q164R (c.491A>G)

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      ClinVarID: 2238 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/2238/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant;transition

      CivicName: Q164R (c.491A>G)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. Patient 2 His eldest son presented to us at 10 years of age with severe hypertension. He was found to have bilateral pheochromocytoma. He underwent bilateral adrenalectomy in 1998. Subsequently he has remained asymptomatic.

      PatientID: III-3

      KindredID: 1

      Case: M, 25Y0M, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: Family in India but Ethnicity not explicitly confirmed. Father and sister with the same mutation. Sister presented at age 17 with palpitation, blurred vision, blurring vision, bilateral papilledema and bilateral pheochromocytoma. Father presented at age 14 with hypertension and a right adrenal pheochromocytoma. He had severe headache, recurrent seizures, abnormal heart sounds and recurring pheochromocytoma in the left hypochondrium at age 22. Mother and uncle were negative for the mutation.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0002666; HP:0002315 (Pheochromocytoma, Hypertension)

      CaseHPOFreeText: Presented at 10 years of age with severe hypertension. He was found to have bilateral pheochromocytoma. Asymptomatic at age 25.

      CaseNotHPOs: N/A

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: Figure 1

      Variant: p.R82L (c.245G>T)

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 526675, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/526675/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: Authors carried out analysis of VHL variant p.Arg82Leu with six different in silico tools namely SIFT, I-Mutant3, PhD-SNP, MutPred, PolyPhen2 and SNPs&GO in order to determine the pathogenic potential of the variant.

      MutationType: missense_variant;transversion

      CivicName: R82L (c.245G>T)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. Case 2This 10 year old girl presented with intermittent fever for the past one month. Her birth history was unremarkable. She was the fourth child of nonconsanguineous parents. Her family history was not significant for tumor occurrence. Physical examination revealed a blood pressure level of 160/100 mmHg (95p: 120/79 mmHg) and a heart rate of 110 beats per minute. Laboratory tests showed an elevated 24 h urinary VMA level of 83 mg/day. Abdominal MRI revealed a 44x33 mm, well circumscribed mass with a necrotic core in the left adrenal gland. Subtotal adrenalectomy was performed and histologic examination showed that the tumor was PCC. During two years of follow-up, a 20x19x12 mm mass was detected in the right adrenal gland on abdominal MRI. PET-computed tomography (CT) with 68Ga-DOTA‐DPhe1, Tyr3‐octreotate (68Ga- DOTATATE) showed increased uptake in the right adrenal gland and a 11x10 mm nodular lesion in the corpus of the pancreas (Figure 2). The tumoral masses in the adrenal gland and pancreas were removed. Histologic investigation of adrenal and pancreas specimens confirmed the diagnosis of PCC and PNET (World Health Organisation grade 3) respectively. One year later, an 8x7 mm lesion in the pancreas, compatible with recurrence, was observed on abdominal MRI and confirmed with 68 Ga-DOTATATE PET-CT. Splenectomy and subtotal pancreatectomy were performed for removal of the lesion. Histologic examination of the pancreatic lesion reported a neuroendocrine tumor. Bilateral PCC with PNET suggested the diagnosis of VHL disease. Molecular genetic analysis of the VHL gene revealed a heterozygous missense mutation c. 386 T>G (p.Leu129Pro) which has been previously described. No additional VHL tumor developed during three years follow up.

      PatientID: 2

      KindredID: 2

      Case: F, 13Y0M, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: Family history was not significant for tumor occurrence.

      CohortInfo: Two cases of VHL disease in children, who presented with PCC as the first manifestation.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0006748, HP:0030405 (Adrenal pheochromocytoma, pancreatic endocrine tumour)

      CaseHPOFreeText: At age 10, abdominal MRI revealed a 44x33 mm mass with a necrotic core in the left adrenal gland. Subtotal adrenalectomy was performed and histologic examination showed that the tumor was PCC. During two years of follow-up, a 20x19x12 mm mass was detected in the right adrenal gland and a 11x10 mm nodular lesion in the corpus of the pancreas which was found to be a pancreatic endocrine tumour. One year later, the pancreatic endocrine tumour reoccured.

      CaseNotHPOs: N/A

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.L129P (c.386T>C) *the cDNA change is misrecorded in the paper as 386T>G

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      ClinVarID: 625242 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/625242/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant; transition

      CivicName: L129P (c.386T>C)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. A 1 0-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital with complaints of headache and diplopia. On physical examination, he weighed 40 kg (7590p), with a height of 142 cm (50-75p). His brachial blood pressure was 150/120 mmHg (95th percentile 123/81 mmHg). His mother had been operated for bilateral pheochromocytoma at the age of 23 and had not been under medical follow-up since then. Laboratory tests showed elevated 24-hour (h) urinary vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) (40 mg/day; normal value 1-11) and normetanephrine (>2000 µg/day), but normal metanephrine levels (143 µg/day). Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) indicated the presence of multiple lesions in perivascular areas neighboring both adrenal glands. An iodine 123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scan revealed multiple focal areas of increased uptake near the adrenal glands. After the preparation for operation, bilateral subtotal adrenalectomy including removal of the masses was performed. The diagnosis of bilateral pheochromocytoma was confirmed histologically and immunohistochemically. The patient remained asymptomatic with no laboratory or radiologic abnormalities for six years of follow-up. At the age of 16, the patient was referred to our clinic with visual defect in the left eye. Ophthalmologic examination led to the diagnosis of bilateral retinal hemangiomas, and he underwent laser photocoagulation. Positive family history with bilateral pheochromocytoma and retinal hemangioma revealed the diagnosis of VHL disease. Cerebral, spinal MRI and abdominal computed tomography (CT) were normal.

      PatientID: Proband

      KindredID: 1

      Case: M, 10Y0M, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: Mother was found with the same VHL germline variant. His mother presented with bilateral pheochromocytoma.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0002315; HP:0000651; HP:0002666; HP:0009711; HP:0000822 (Headache, Diplopia, Pheochromocytoma, Retinal capillary hemangioma, Hypertension)

      CaseHPOFreeText: Admitted with complaints of headache and diplopia. MRI indicated the presence of multiple lesions in perivascular areas neighboring both adrenal glands. An iodine 123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scan revealed multiple focal areas of increased uptake near the adrenal glands. The diagnosis of bilateral pheochromocytoma was confirmed histologically and immunohistochemically. The patient remained asymptomatic with no laboratory or radiologic abnormalities for six years of follow-up. At the age of 16, the patient was referred to our clinic with a visual defect in the left eye. Ophthalmologic examination led to the diagnosis of bilateral retinal hemangiomas, and he underwent laser photocoagulation.

      CaseNotHPOs: HP:0009713; HP:0006880 (Spinal hemangioblastoma, Cerebellar hemangioblastoma)

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: Cerebral, spinal MRI and abdominal computed tomography (CT) were normal.

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.R161Q (c.482G>A)

      LegacyVariant: c.695G>A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 182983, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/182983/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: Variant was reported as “c.695G>A” which was mapped to p.Arg161Gln (c.482G>A) in accordance with reference sequence NM_000551.3.

      MutationType: missense_variant;transition

      CivicName: R161Q (c.482G>A)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. 271910Y10N—NNNNNc.371C>TExon 2p.Thr124IleMissense

      PatientID: 27

      KindredID: 19

      Case: M, 14Y0M, Brazilian (Latino/Admixed American)

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: They had a 47Y family member (ID:26), however their relation is unclear.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0002666 (pheochromocytoma)

      CaseHPOFreeText: The patient at 10Y was confirmed with VHL. He developed bilateral pheo at 10Y with recurrence 48M later.

      CaseNotHPOs: HP:0002668; HP:0001737; HP:0010797; HP:0005584; HP:0030405; HP:0009711; HP:0000107 (paraganglioma, pancreatic cyst, hemangioblastoma, renal cell carcinoma, pancreatic endocrine tumor, retinal capillary hemangioma, renal cyst)

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.T124I (c.371C>T)

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      ClinVarID: 36902 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/36902/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant; transition

      CivicName: T124I (c.371C>T)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. F8c.340+617C>G + c.340+648T>C†/WTX1 p.Leu128Val+ X1 p.Leu138Pro/WTNNNNVHL disease

      PatientID: II.7

      KindredID: F8

      Case: M, Age Unknown, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: 6/10 genetically tested family members across two generations were found to harbor the c.340+648T>C and c.340+617C>G germline mutations of the VHL gene. Patient I.2 presented with retinal capillary hemangioma, pheochromocytoma (pheo) and renal cell carcinoma. Patient I.3 presented with CNS hemangioblastoma and pheo. Patient II.1 presented with pheo. Patients II.2, II.6 and II.7 presented with retinal capillary hemangioma.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0009711 (Retinal capillary hemangioma)

      CaseHPOFreeText: Presented with retinal capillary hemangioma. Tumor detected at age 10.

      CaseNotHPOs: N/A

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: c.340+648T>C

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 827583, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/827583/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: These variants segregated in 6 patients of this family who developed VHL disease and were absent in 4 healthy tested descendants, indicating their presence on a single disease-associated allele. Sequencing of tumor DNA did not display loss of heterozygosity, suggesting that a WT VHL deletion (as observed in classic VHL disease) may not be a prerequisite in cells of patients with this specific VHL genotype.

      MutationType: missense_variant;transition; splice_site_variant

      CivicName: c.340+617C>G and c.340+648T>C

      MultipleGeneVariants: Germline, VHL, c.340+617C>G

  2. Nov 2026
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    1. He didn't look at it-he didn't want to look at it. A terrible, closed look came over his face, as though he were keeping th e number on the bill a secret from him and me.

      I'm so surprisng about just a bill can cause such a strong feeling in the narrator's mind.

    1. In 1996, we described a 3 generation VHL 2A kindred with 11 mutation carriers. We aim to share our experience regarding the long-term follow-up of this family

      PatientID: 29

      KindredID: 1

      Case: M, 10Y0M, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: This patient was a member of family 1, where 14/32 total patients were diagnosed with VHL. One of which (I-32) was a mutational carrier with down syndrome. The other 13 patients had varying phenotypes, including adrenal pheochromocytoma, pancreatic endocrine tumors, liver and bone metastases, paraganglioma, cerebellar, spinal, and retinal hemangioblastomas, polycythemia, and chondrosarcoma. See Fig. 1 for family pedigree.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0006748 (adrenal pheochromocytoma)

      CaseHPOFreeText: Patient presented with his initial VHL-related clinical manifestations at 10Y0M. She had adrenal pheochromocytoma and diagnosed with VHL subtype 2A (see table 1).

      CaseNotHPOs: HP:0002668 (paraganglioma)

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: Patient does not have paraganglioma.

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.V166F (c.496G>T)

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 2224, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/2224/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant; transversion

      CivicName: V166F (c.496G>T)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. 1/F 16 Yes 68 45 Hypersensitive* Polyclonal† 376G>T/wt 

      PatientID: 1

      KindredID: 1

      Case: F, 16Y0M, Ukrainian

      DiseaseAssertion: Assumed VHL

      FamilyInfo: Her brother (patient 2) also had polycythemia and was heterozygeous for the mutation. Mutation inherited from father. The father was not polycythemic, but his BFU-Es were hypersensitive to Epo.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0001901, HP:0005954, HP:0000077, HP:0001028 (polycythemia, pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis, abnormality of the kidney, hemangioma )

      CaseHPOFreeText: Patient had a hematocrit of 68%, erythropoietin level of 45 mIU/mL, and had hypersensitivity of erythroid progenitors to Epo. She was diagnosed with polycythemia of unknown duration; at the age of 10 years, a pulmonary angioma was found and treated by a coil embolization. She continued to be polycythemic. At the age of 15 years, an abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a left renal mass, which on nephrectomy was determined to be a subcapsular hemangioma; there was no evidence of an angioma elsewhere. One year after surgery, she still remains polycythemic but has no evidence of a new or recurrent tumor.

      CaseNotHPOs: N/A

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.D126Y(c.376G>T)

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 2230 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/2230/

      CAID: CA020319 http://reg.clinicalgenome.org/redmine/projects/registry/genboree_registry/allele?hgvsOrDescriptor=NM_000551.3%3Ac.376G%3ET

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: Patient was heterozygous for the mutation.

      MutationType: missense_variant;transversion

      CivicName: D126Y(c.376G>T)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. I woot wel Abraham was an hooly man,                 I know well Abraham was a holy man, 56       And Jacob eek, as ferforth as I kan;                 And Jacob also, insofar as I know; 57       And ech of hem hadde wyves mo than two,                 And each of them had more than two wives,

      The speaker, by giving specific male figures, mentions the inequality of gender. Men can have many wives. However, why can women marry five times? The speaker wants to break the social inequality. In modern society, this kind of resistance to established social norms can be described as social disobedience.

  4. Oct 2026
    1. The second patient, an incidental finding, was practically asymptomatic and had a de novo germline point mutation in the VHL gene (Arg167Trp).

      PatientID: 2

      KindredID: 2

      Case: M, 10Y6M, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: adrenal pheochromocytoma

      FamilyInfo: de novo mutation found: his parents were said to have tested negative for the mutation (neither parent had this R167W mutation). All other family history was negative.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0006748 (adrenal pheochromocytoma)

      CaseHPOFreeText: this patient was described to be practically asymptomatic, with an incidental finding: Diagnosed with adrenal incidentaloma, he had intermittent abdominal pain for 6 months (beginning at age 10Y). CT scan showed a left adrenal solid tumor (3x3cm) with no calcifications; I-MIBG was normal; he underwent an adrenalectomy for this pheochromocytoma.

      CaseNotHPOs: N/A

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: brain and spinal cord MRI, ophthal-moscopy, whole body CT scan and ultrasonography of the testes, showed no abnormalities.

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.R167W (c.499C>T)

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 2218, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/2218/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: 0.000007954, https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/3-10191506-C-T?dataset=gnomad_r2_1

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant;transition

      CivicName: R167W (c.499C>T)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. c.482G>A [p.Arg161Gln]

      PatientID: 8

      KindredID: 8

      Case: 10Y0M, Sex unknown, Chinese

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: None

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0002666 (pheochromocytoma)

      CaseHPOFreeText: isolated bilateral pheochromocytoma first presenting at 10Y

      CaseNotHPOs: HP:0009715; HP:0005584; HP:0010797 (Papillary cystadenoma of the epididymis, renal cell carcinoma, hemangioblastoma)

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: SDHB/SDHD

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.R161Q (c.482G>A)

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 182983 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/182983/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant;transition

      CivicName: R161Q (c.482G>A)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. In this study, we analyzed the correlations between frequent mutations in the VHL gene and clinical phenotypes in the largest Chinese VHL cohort to date. In total, we screened 540 patients from 187 unrelated VHL families and identified 126 different VHL mutations. Furthermore, we identified 19 frequent mutations and four mutation hotspots and further investigated the genotype–phenotype correlations. Notably, patients or families with the VHL disease have a range of different phenotypes. A variety of factors may contribute to this diversity of phenotypes, including the type of VHL mutation, the site of the mutation, and ethnic background.

      GroupID: 14

      DiseaseAssertion: assumed VHL

      GroupSize: 11

      GroupNumberMales: N/A

      GroupNumberFemales: N/A

      GroupEthnicity: Chinese

      GroupAgeRange: 28.8Y +/- 19.6Y

      GroupInfo: Clinical characteristics of 258 patients from 80 unrelated Chinese families were reported in this study. Grouped by the 21 mutations found, 2 families with 11 members total were described, and phenotypic information was given for this group.

      GroupPresentingHPOs: HP:0010797; HP:0005584; HP:0001737; HP:0009715 (hemangioblastoma, renal cell carcinoma, pancreatic cysts, papillary cystadenoma of the epididymis)

      GroupHPOFreeText: 6 of the 11 members presented with CNS hemangioblastoma (with a mean age of 33.0Y), renal cell carcinoma in 4 members (at the mean age of 42.3Y), pancreatic cysts in 4 members (also at the mean age of 42.3Y), and a papillary cystadenoma of the epididymis genital system tumor (epididymis or broad ligament) in 1 member at the age of onset of 10Y

      GroupNotHPOs: HP:0009711; HP:0002666 (retinal capillary hemangioma, pheochromocytoma)

      GroupNotHPOFreeText: No patients presented with retinal capillary hemangioma or pheochromocytoma

      GroupPreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: see more information in 29330336 (2 families of 11 people total), and 28388566 (as family #52 (9 members), and #53 (2 members)).

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: c.464-1G>C

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 223220; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/223220/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: splice_site_variant

      CivicName: Splice Site (c.464-1G>C)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. Words are emptied of their concreteness and become a hollow, alien ated, and alienating verbosity.

      This reminds me of when I was learning the subjects I hate, like math or science. It indeed felt hollow since I couldn't understand anything the teacher was talking about and felt very lost.

    1. Proband presented at 10 years of age with a cerebellar haemangioblastoma and pancreatic lesions, detected by symptom. She was subsequently found to carry a c.408delT pathogenic variant of the VHL gene.

      PatientID: 1

      KindredID: 5

      Case: F, 13Y0M, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: Positive. The patient's mother (4) also carried this mutation and had a hemangioblastoma. The proband's aunt (5) was confirmed to have the mutation and had VHL presentations. The cousin (8) had the mutation but was asymptomatic. The grandfather (13) was inferred to have the mutation and had a hemangioblastoma. See Figure 2a for family pedigree.

      CohortInfo: 20 unrelated VHL families from an ethnically diverse cohort containing both affected and unaffected individuals.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0010797, HP:0001732 (hemangioblastoma, abnormality of the pancreas)

      CaseHPOFreeText: The patient presented with a hemangioblastoma and abnormality of the pancreas at age 10.

      CaseNotHPOs: HP:0009711, HP:0005584, HP:0002666, HP:0000077 (retinal capillary hemangioma, renal cell carcinoma, pheochromocytoma, abnormality of the kidney)

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: 31368132

      SupplementalData: Supplementary file 1.

      Variant: p.F136Lfs*23 (c.408delT)

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      ClinVarID: 43601 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/43601/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: minus_1_frameshift_variant

      CivicName: F136Lfs*23 (c.408delT)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. A previously healthy 10-year-old girl presented with occasional routine blood pressure measurements by her pediatrician above the 99th percentile for her age, sex, and height. She had noted mild hand edema over the previous days and reported recent nocturia. She was taking no medications. Family history was unremarkable. The physical examination was without significant findings other than an elevated blood pressure of 139/113 mm Hg. Urine tests showed boderline moderate albuminuria (albumin-creatinine ratio of 50 mg/g). There was no hematuria.On ultrasound, kidney size and parenchyma were unremarkable but an increased flow rate of the left renal artery in color duplex sonography was detected (systolic flow rate: right, 100 cm/s; left, 300 cm/s [age-adjusted normal values range from 72 to 104 cm/s]) (Fig 1A and B). No additional finding was reported. Magnetic resonance (MR) angiography of the kidney vessels was performed (Fig 2A) and antihypertensive therapy was initiated.

      PatientID: N/A

      KindredID: 1

      Case: F, 10Y0M, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: Assumed VHL

      FamilyInfo: No family history, authors indicate that the variant occurred de novo.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0007514; HP:0000017; HP:0004421; HP:0012594; HP:0002666; HP:0001920 (Edema of the dorsum of hands; Nocturia; Elevated systolic blood pressure; Moderate albuminuria; Pheochromocytoma; Renal artery stenosis)

      CaseHPOFreeText: Patient presented with occasional high routine blood pressure at 10Y0M. She noted mild hand edema over the past days and reported recent nocturia. Physical examination appeared normal other than elevated blood pressure of 139/113 mm Hg. Urine tests showed moderate albuminuria (albumin-creatinine ratio of 50 mg/g), as well as high levels of noradrenaline and normetanephrine, suggestive of benign pheochromocytoma. Ultrasound showed normal kidney size and parenchyma, but color duplex sonography revealed increased flow rate of the left renal artery. This finding suggests renal artery stenosis. Magnetic Resonance Angiography of the kidney vessels showed a solid tumor that had cystic features. Tumor resection normalized blood pressure and pathologic examination of the removed tumor confirmed pheochromocytoma. Patient was diagnosed with secondary hypertension due to compression of renal vessels and catecholamine production by vHL-associated pheochromocytoma. Antihypertensive therapy with phenoxybenzamine as α blockade was initiated, along with subsequent expansion of the therapy with a β-blocker. Authors mention that the patient is in complete remission with no other manifestations of VHL disease and is receiving close follow-up.

      CaseNotHPOs: N/A

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.G104V (c.311G>T)

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 223183, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation//223183/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant; transversion

      CivicName: G104V (c.311G>T)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. 510, 17MbPCCLPNEYes (17 years/lung)NoVHLc.499C>T (de novo)bp.(Arg167Gln)No

      PatientID: 5

      KindredID: 7

      Case: M, 17Y0M, Spanish

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: No family history, assumed de-novo, but unclear if parents were tested to confirm de-novo assertion.

      CohortInfo: 36 pediatric patients with pheochromocytomas and/or parangangliomas.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0002666 (pheochromocytoma)

      CaseHPOFreeText: The patient had a benign bilateral pheochromocytoma that was secreting norepinephrine at age 10. At age 17, the pheochromocytoma reoccured but this time was malignant and metastasized to the lungs.

      CaseNotHPOs: N/A

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: RET, SDHA, SDHB, SDHC, SDHD, SDHAF2, TMEM127, MAX

      PreviouslyPublished: Yes source unknown.

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.R167W (c.499C>T) *The authors of this paper have seemingly called the wrong protein change for this variant.

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      ClinVarID: 2218 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/2218/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: 0.000007954 https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/3-10191506-C-T

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant; transition

      CivicName: R167W (c.499C>T)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. One year later, a 10-year-old sister of the proband (II-2) was referred to our service because of palpitations, weight loss, diaphoresis, and shooting pain attacks that had started about two weeks earlier. Based on this clinical picture and because of her family history, a pheochromocytoma was suspected immediately. Her urinary metanephrines were elevated to 12.2 mg/g creatinine (< 1 mg/g). A CT of the abdomen revealed a mass in the left adrenal; there were no lesions in the pancreas or the kidney. This mass was also positive on MIBG scintigraphy. As in her brother, there was no suggestion that the paraganglia would also be involved. Her MRI of the brain, and her echocardiogram were both normal. She was then treated with an alpha-blocker (prazosin) in preparation for an open adrenalectomy. Histology and immunohistochemistry confirmed diagnosis of a pheochromocytoma in the left adrenal gland.

      PatientID: II-2

      KindredID: 1

      Case: F, 10Y0M, Ethnicity Unknown

      DiseaseAssertion: Adrenal pheochromoyctoma

      FamilyInfo: The patient’s brother (II-1) was found to harbor the same germline mutation the patient harbored and had bilateral adrenal pheochromocytoma at 14Y. The same germline missense mutation was detected in another sister (II-4) with right adrenal pheochromocytoma and her asymptomatic daughter (III-1). The father was not available for genetic testing because he had died, apparently secondary to a hypertensive crisis. The five other family members which underwent genetic testing did not have the mutation.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0006748 (Adrenal pheochromocytoma)

      CaseHPOFreeText: At 10Y, the patient reported palpitations, weight loss, diaphoresis, and shooting pain attacks. Her urinary metanephrines were elevated to 12.2 mg/g creatinine. A CT of the abdomen revealed a mass in the left adrenal gland. Histology and immunohistochemistry confirmed diagnosis of left adrenal pheochromocytoma. Additional screening revealed no other tumours, so this fit the criteria of VHL type 2C.

      CaseNotHPOs: HP:0002668; HP:0012090; HP:0012210 (Paraganglioma, abnormal pancreas morphology, abnormal renal morphology)

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: There were no lesions in the pancreas or the kidney, there was also no suggestion that the paraganglia would also be involved. Her MRI of the brain, and her echocardiogram were both normal.

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.V166F (c.496G>T)

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      ClinVarID: 2224, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/2224/

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant;transversion

      CivicName: V166F(c.496G>T)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

    1. IV 10 21 2 pheo (12 years) 1 retinal hb (10 years) M c.278G > A (p.Gly93Asp)

      PatientID: IV

      KindredID: 3

      Case: Sex Unknown, 21Y0M, Danish

      DiseaseAssertion: VHL

      FamilyInfo: 3 other family members presented with his VHL mutation. Patient 3-I was asymptomatic. Patients 3-II and 3-III both presented with pheochromocytoma at 15Y.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0002666; HP:0009711 (Pheochromocytoma, Retinal capillary hemangioma)

      CaseHPOFreeText: Diagnosed with VHL at age 10Y. Presented with pheochromocytoma at 12Y and retinal hemangioblastoma at 10Y. Age at the end of study: 21Y.

      CaseNotHPOs: N/A

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      CasePreviousTesting: N/A

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

      Variant: p.G93D (c.278G>A)

      LegacyVariant: N/A

      CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A

      ClinVarID: 496054, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/496054/

      CAID: N/A

      gnomAD: N/A

      VariantEvidence: N/A

      MutationType: missense_variant;transition

      CivicName: G93D (c.278G>A)

      MultipleGeneVariants: N/A

  5. soochowmss.sharepoint.com soochowmss.sharepoint.com
    1. But now, abruptly, I hated him. I couldn't stand the way he looked at me, partly like a dog, partly like a cunning child. I wanted to ask him what the hell he was doing in the school courtyard

      While most people would describe a child's eyes as "innocent" he actually described them as "cunning."

    2. A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long, while I taught my classes algebra. It was a special kind of ice. It kept melting, sending trickles of ice water all up and down my veins, but it never got less. Sometimes it hardened and seemed to expand until I felt my guts were going to come spilling out or that I was going to choke or scream. This would always be at a moment when I was remembering some specific thing Sonny had once said or done. When he was about as old as the boys in my classes his face had been bright and open, there was a lot of copper in it; and he'd had wonderfully direct brown eyes, and great gentleness and privacy. I wondered what he looked like now.

      The narrator doesn't know what Sonny looks like now, which suggests that they haven't been in contact for a long time. However, the news of Sonny's arrest still affects him deeply.

    3. I didn't hate him any more. I felt that in another moment rd start crying like a child.

      I'm so interested why the narrator doesn't hate him anymore.Was it because the narrator felt pity for the man, or was there another reason why he let go of his resentment toward him so quickly?

    1. “I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane! And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”

      I think it is surprising because she has already merged the woman trapped in the wallpaper with herself, and finally gets rid of her husband, but also drives herself crazy.

    2. John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

      I feel troubling with this sentence because the narrator seems like she's used to be laughed by her husband, and even she already taken this for granted.

    3. There comes John, and I must put this away,—he hates to have me write a word.

      I find it interesting because she even needs to worry about her husband finding that she's writing something like diary. I think that she lacks autonomy in her marriage.

    4. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin

      I don't understand why sprawling patterns commit something sinful.On the contrary, I think such patterns ought to symbolize something beautiful.

  6. soochowmss.sharepoint.com soochowmss.sharepoint.com
    1. I had never spoken to her except for afew casual words and yet her name was like a summons to allmy foolish blood.

      The girl just spoked to the boy with few words,and the boy is deeply fell in love to her. I am surprised at the charm the girl made to the boy.

    2. . I hadhardl.y any patience with the serious work of life which, nowth at it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child'splay, ugly monotonous child 's play.

      The reason why I found this troubling is that I can't understand what kind of girl can made a boy so head over heels that he lost any patience with the daily serious of workof life.

    1. His heathenish spirit,

      Christian values often associate pagans with ignorance and evil. However, I wonder this creates unnecessary conflict between different beliefs. At the most fundamental level, I believe people should respect one another regardless of their religious beliefs.

    2. lofty hall-building

      I find the contrast between the lofty hall-building and Grendel’s dark, isolated habitat interesting. It makes me wonder whether a person’s environment can influence their personality and behavior. Perhaps Grendel’s isolated habitat reflects his separation from human society and contributes to his hostile nature.

    1. I reached to draw her robe back over her, and it was then that I glanced at the blind man. What the hell! I flipped the robe open again.

      This plot made me disgusted by the narrator's disrespectful behavior to both the blind man and his wife.

    2. I didn’t answer. She’d told me a little about the blind man’s wife. Her name was Beulah. Beulah! That’s a name for a colored woman.“Was his wife a Negro?” I asked.

      The reason why it is troubling for me is because of the very racist word.I could not stand any racist behavior even when I saw it on a article.

    3. I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t see the smoke they exhaled. I thought I knew that much and that much only about blind people. But this blind man smoked his cigarette down to the nubbin and then lit another one. This blind man filled his ashtray and my wife emptied it.

      The reason why it is interesting for me is that the fact the blind don't smoke because they can't see the smoke they exhaled really made me laugh for a while

    4. My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. !But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything.“It’s really something,” I said.

      After the man dropped his bias,he felt something was gone.His spirit was no longer trapped in an invisible building, but became free.

    5. Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one. A woman who could go on day after day and never receive the smallest compliment from her beloved. A woman whose husband could never read the expression on her face, be it misery or something better.

      The narrator had bias that he didn't think the blind man can feel his wife's feeling without the eye.But empathy isn't just about sight.

  7. Sep 2026
  8. Aug 2026
    1. The Gemini app has officially surpassed 1 billion monthly users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google's history

      Gemini成为Google历史上增长最快的产品,月活10亿——超越Gmail、YouTube、Search达到这个里程碑的速度。这验证了AI助手不是利基产品,而是主流基础设施。现在的竞争问题变成:谁能在10亿用户规模上保持质量差异化?

  9. Jun 2026
    1. deploy around 50,000 of these scanners around the world over the next 6 years and use this fleet of sensors to do a billion full-body scans every month

      全球50,000台扫描仪、每月10亿次全身扫描——这个数字大到需要放进上下文才能理解。目前全球MRI机器大约有5-6万台,那是几十年全球性基础设施建设的积累。Midjourney Medical声称在6年内复制这个规模。更野心勃勃的是「每月10亿次扫描」——这意味着每台机器每月要完成2万次扫描,即每天650次、每分钟不间断运转。这些数字要么意味着真正的技术突破(60秒/次加上高通量自动化),要么是为了叙事效果的数量级夸张。

  10. May 2026
    1. You might try slowly pressing a key. Does it reach the platen? Or do you need to strike it normally, as during typing, for it to hit the platen under its own momentum?

      The Royal 10 QX (aka Quiet Model) (1921-1923) has a special mechanism in the segment which allows the slugs to hit the platen when struck, but pressing the keys slowly doesn't allow them to reach.

      Via commentary by Brian Decker, Ted Muk, and James Grooms at https://typewriterdatabase.com/1927-royal-10.16643.typewriter

  11. Apr 2026
    1. We've consistently heard from portfolio companies that their best engineers' productivity levels have increased 10-20x with AI coding tools.

      10-20 倍的生产力提升——如果这个数字属实,这是人类历史上工具对知识工作者单项生产力的最大提升,没有之一。印刷术提升了知识传播效率,但没有提升单个作者的写作速度 10-20 倍。汽车让人移动速度提升了约 10 倍。AI 编程工具在三年内实现了历史上极少数工具曾经达到的生产力倍数——而且只针对最顶尖的工程师。

  12. Mar 2026
    1. Venoactive drugs (diosmin, hesperidin, horse chestnut seed extract) may be considered as adjuncts to compression for symptomatic relief in countries where available

    2. Endovenous Thermal Ablation (RFA/EVLA)

      Relative contraindications include inappropriate vein size, with veins <2 mm and >15 mm representing potential contraindications for RFA specifically. [1] A history of superficial thrombophlebitis resulting in a partially obstructed saphenous vein may preclude thermal ablation. [1] Significant tortuosity of the GSV on duplex examination can make catheter delivery difficult.

    1. Aortic dissection typically presents acutely with sudden, severe tearing chest or back pain, often described as lancinating in quality. [5-6] Approximately 50% of patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm may progress to dissection without timely intervention. [5] In contrast, thoracic aortic aneurysm is usually asymptomatic and discovered incidentally during physical examination or imaging for other indications. [5]

    2. Any patient with chest or back pain with a known or suspected thoracic aorta aneurysm must be brought to the hospital and undergo urgent imaging studies to rule out the aneurysm as a cause of the pain

      elective surgical repair is suggested at 5.5 cm in patients without underlying connective tissue disorders, with earlier intervention at 4.5-5.0 cm in patients with connective tissue disorders or bicuspid aortic valve

    1. reply to u/UsefulLength9143 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ruew5h/royal_p_this_isnt_pics_font_is_it/

      Looking closely at the slugs with letters, several clearly have a "P" foundry mark which was commonly used in this time period to identify Royal's "Royal Pica" face (see: https://typecast.munk.org/2011/04/24/1964-nomda-blue-book-royal-font-styles/) which was the generic name they gave in their catalogs to this particular pica (pitch) typeface. Similarly a foundry mark of "E" was often used to represent their 12 pitch "Royal Elite" typeface. Surely it's the case that the designer had some other name for this typeface, but I've never seen Royal documents which specify anything other than Royal Pica or Royal Elite.

      While it certainly helps to see the rulers on the carriage to doublecheck, one can guess the exact typeface in this instance solely by the foundry marks, though this is not always the case for a wide number of manufacturers.

      Generally people are right in asking to see the ruler as the difference in width of slug on a 10CPI and 12CPI machine is on the order of 1/64 of an inch which is incredibly hard to discern visually on photos like these without something to use for scale.

  13. drive.google.com drive.google.com
    1. Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand whatIthings in you are Chinese

      This is interesting because it shows identity as a messy mix, not a clean category. The question forces you to notice how culture and personal history can blur into each other.

    2. Their knives dripped with the blood of ouranimals.

      The sentence is troubling because it turns violence into a close physical detail. It makes the threat feel intimate and unavoidable inside the home. The image also suggests that cruelty is being displayed on purpose rather than hidden.

  14. Feb 2026
    1. § 506. Petition for enactment of ordinance; special meeting (a) Subject to the provisions of section 505 of this charter, voters of the City may at any time petition in the same manner as in section 505 of this charter for the enactment of any proposed lawful ordinance by filing such petition, including the text of such ordinance, with the City Clerk. The Council shall call a special City meeting to be held within 45 days of the date of such filing, unless prior to such meeting such ordinance shall be enacted by the Council. The warning for such meeting shall include a short, concise one-paragraph description of the effects of the proposed ordinance and shall provide for an aye and nay vote as to its enactment. The warning shall also include reference to a place within the City where copies of the entire text of the proposed ordinance may be examined. Such ordinance shall take effect on the 10th day after the conclusion of such meeting, provided that the electors as qualified in section 505 of this charter, constituting a majority of those voting thereon, shall have voted in the affirmative. (b) Any such proposed ordinance shall be examined by the City Attorney before being submitted to the special City meeting. The City Attorney is authorized subject to the approval of the Council, to correct such ordinance so as to avoid repetitions, illegalities, and unconstitutional provisions and to ensure accuracy in its text and references and clearness and preciseness in its phraseology, but he or she shall not materially change its meaning and effect. (c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any appointments of officers, members of commissions, or boards made by the Council, or to the appo

      South Burlington

      Initiatives threshold 10%

  15. Jan 2026
  16. Dec 2025
    1. In fact, by the time humans began the practice of cultivation of annual grains the total human population on Earth stood at around 6–10 million people. One might say that hunting and gathering is an energetically contained system and not an energetically expansionary system.

      for - comparison - hunter gatherer vs agricultural - energetically contained vs energetically expansionary - stats - hunter -gatherer humans - population before agriculture - 6 to 10 million people.

    1. Most of the time categorization process, discrimination process, dehumanization processes

      for - genocide - preceded by 10 preliminary stages - 1. classification - 2. symbolization - 3. discrmination - 4. dehumanization - 5. organization - 6. polarization - 7. preparation - 8. persecution - 9. extermination - 10. denial

  17. Nov 2025
  18. Oct 2025
    1. that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones.

      It is troubling that Montresor shows no hesitation or guilt while listening to Fortunato’s cries. His enjoyment of the sound of chains reveals his cruelty and the disturbing pleasure he takes in revenge.

    2. I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was not the cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of the chain. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones. When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. I again paused, and holding the flambeaux over the mason-work, threw a few feeble rays upon the figure within.

      It is surprising that Fortunato suddenly regains his awareness, but it is already too late for him to escape. Montresor’s calm reaction to his desperate struggle is unexpected and chilling.

    1. Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands

      It’s interesting how he begins so calmly, just describing a painting — but there’s already something unsettling underneath. It makes me curious about what really happened to the Duchess.

    2. Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

      I was shocked by how easily he admits giving “commands”, as if ordering his wife’s death was just another act of pride. He sounds more offended by his wife’s kindness.

    1. While there are many different roles on a college campus that could be included in this list,advisors deserve a special place because they are crucial to your success; they are also the first place to gowhen a student has an issue. Some advisors spend considerable time with students to help them choose amajor and create a schedule each semester that will enable them to graduate. Others serve as a soundingboard for students who are struggling in a class and deciding whether or not to drop. Developing arelationship with your advisor has obvious benefits: They get to know what your goals are and can helpyou refine them

      I used to think that the job of college advisors was only to help with class schedules, but now I see that they also give emotional support and guidance when students face problems. It’s interesting to know that building a relationship with an advisor can really make a big difference in college life.

    2. John sinks down in his seat, afraid she is going to ask him questions as well. He pulls out his phone and looksthrough social media to keep her from bothering him. As other students enter the class, some quiet andothers talkative, John wonders if he will have to interact with them. Even though he has not met many peopleyet–and certainly has not had any deep conversations with anyone–he feels anxious about having to get toknow strangers and feels most comfortable keeping to himself at least fo

      This situation shows how easily anxiety can keep someone from connecting with others. It’s sad that John feels the need to hide behind his phone instead of giving himself a chance to meet new people. It reminds me how difficult social situations can be when fear takes over, and how important it is to slowly build confidence to open up.

    3. When you are feeling calm and nourished, you are going to look forward to your day, and despite howbusy it is, you will prioritize time with friends and family. If you don’t take care of and learn to love yourself,you will never be able to bring your best self to any relationshi

      When we take care of ourselves, we have more energy and positivity to share with others. It made me realize that loving yourself is the first step to loving others. I used to think taking care of myself was less important than caring for others, but now I see how closely they are connected.

    1. I stroke the beam of my lamp slowly along the flank of something more permanent than fish or weed

      As the author stroke his beam of his lamp on the flank, what he was doing can be looking back the wounds and emotions he had. And it's something that comes and never goes, unlike fish or weed, which doesn't leave lasting impact to our brain.

    2. This is the place. And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black, the merman in his armored body.

      The speaker finally reached the wreck and become part of it. Calling herself both the mermaid and the merman could suggest that she feels connected to different sides of human experience, not limited by gender.

    3. I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps.

      This part might mean that the speaker’s goal is to truly explore and understand the wreck, not just read about it. The “words” could represent stories or explanations that guide her, like maps, but she still needs to see the truth for herself.

    4. I go down. My flippers cripple me, I crawl like an insect down the ladder and there is no one to tell me when the ocean will begin.

      This might describe how the she feels awkward and alone while going deeper into the sea. The image of crawling “like an insect” could suggest weakness or discomfort.

    5. I put on the body-armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask.

      I think it’s interesting how the ordinary diving equipment becomes symbolic, like “black rubber body armor” and “awkward mask,” suggesting emotional or psychological protection.

    6. And now: it is easy to forget what I came for among so many who have always lived here

      I think when she says it's easy to forget what she came for, it;s because there's so much to take in down there ; not just the wounds and broken things, but also strange , hauntingly beautiful details that make you want to stay and wander.Tat's why there seem to be people who have 'always lived here' - they've settles among the ruins, maybe trapped by it or maybe finding a kind of comfort in it.

    7. We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.

      I think this is powerful because it shows that we are all part of this search. Even if our names weren't written in the old stories, we can still go down there and see the wreck for ourselves. I think the wreck here might be our traumas or things we try to forgetting. this line is really deep

    8. the drowned face always staring toward the sun the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the disaster curving their assertion among the tentative haunters.

      I love how she describes the wreck so vividly that we can picture it. it makes me think of the dark times in our own lives when we wanted to reach the sunlight so badly. some things we believed would last forever ended up drifting into the 'ocean of lost memories' I especially like the part about the ribs, it feels like those old hurts we try to ignore, but every now and then they poke us again. we can't really erase them ;we just learn to move around them, like tentative haunters of our own past.

    9. There is a ladder. The ladder is always there hanging innocently close to the side of the schooner. We know what it is for, we who have used it

      the ladder is a symbol of a way into depths of history/memory, but here she wrote 'we who have used it' implying that not everybody chooses descend..Only the ones who choose to climb down can really start to face themselves and hidden truths.

  19. soochowmss.sharepoint.com soochowmss.sharepoint.com
    1. Andthank God she was there, for I was filled with that icy dreadagain. Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and every-thing I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning. I wastrying to remember everything I'd heard about dope addictionand I couldn't help watching Sonny for signs. I wasn't doing itout of malice. I was trying to find out something about mybrother. I was dying to hear him tell me he was safe.

      From this passage we can see the narrator keeps looking after his brother for fear of him being trapped by drugs again ;the theme of the obligation toward brotherly love.

    2. He mustwant to die, he 's killing himself, why does he want to die?"He looked at me in surprise. He licked his lips. "He don 'twant to die. He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die,ever.

      I thought Sonny was destroying himself because he wanted to die, but this line shows the opposite. It’s shocking that even through self-destruction, Sonny is still fighting to live.

    3. For, whilethe tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and howwe may triumph is never new, it always must be heard.

      It’s troubling because it reminds us that suffering never disappears; people keep reliving pain through their own stories. The line suggests a cycle that’s hard to break.

    4. Sonny's fingers filled the air with life, his life. But that lifecontained so many others.

      It’s surprising how the narrator realizes that Sonny’s music expresses not only his own pain but the shared suffering of others. This shows a moment of understanding and connection between the brothers.

    5. But now, abruptly, I hated him. I couldn't stand the way helooked at me, partly like a dog, partly like a cunning child. Iwanted to ask him what the hell he was doing in the schoolcourtyard.

      Interesting because the narrator’s sudden hatred isn’t really about the boy but his own fear and guilt about Sonny, showing how deeply conflicted he feels inside.

    6. Creolebegan to tell us what the blues were all about. They were notabout anything very new.

      When Creole says that ' blues weren't anything new' ,is it because the music they play all derived from their past feelings and emotions? or is it telling us that sonny's expressing his life? ( But I think both are things he wanted to tell us)

    7. And he was giving it back, as every-thing must be given back, so that, passing through death, itcan live forever. I saw my mother's face again, and felt, for thefirst time, how the stones of the road she had walked on musthave bruised her feet. I saw the moonlit road where my fa-ther's brother died. And it brought something else back to me,and carried me past it, I saw my little girl again and feltIsabel's tears again, and I felt my own tears begin to rise.

      the narrator's reaction to Sonny's music shows howdleeply it moves him. I think it's also a turning point where he finally begins to understand Sonny.

    8. '1 couldn't tell you when Mama died-but the reason I wantedto leave Harlem so bad was to get away from drugs. And then,when I ran away, that's what I was running from-really.When I came back, nothing had changed, I hadn't changed, Iwas just-older." And he stopped, drumming with his fingerson the windowpane. The sun had vanished, soon darknesswould fall. I watched his face. "It can come again," he said,almost as though speaking to himself. Then he turned to me."It can come again," he repeated. "I just want you to knowthat.""All right," I said, at last. "So it can come again, All right."He smiled, but the smile was sorrowful. "I had to try to tellyou," he said.

      It shows how trapped he felt by his environment. Harlem represents pain , poverty , and a cycle he wants to escape. This highlights a main theme of the story - how hard it is to break free from suffering.

    9. "Imean, I'll have a lot of studying to do, and I'll have to studyeverything, but, I mean, I want to play with-jazz musicians."He stopped. "I want to play jazz," he said.

      It's clear that Black people have a really deep connection with music, and jazz is a big part of Black culture. This idea plays a significant role in Sonny's Blues, highlights how music becomes a way to deal with pain and as a form of expression.

    10. "You got to hold on to your brother,"she said, and don't let him fall, no matter what it looks likeis happ~ning to him and no matter how evil you gets with him.You gomg to be evil with him many a time. But don't youforget what I told you, you hear?"

      The narrator's mother, by charging him watching over Sonny, is asking him to serve as his brother's keeper. Another passage about the obligation toward brotherly love.

    11. The way I always see her isthe way she used to be on a Sunday afternoon, say, when th eold folks were talking after the big Sunday dinner. I always seeher wearing pale blue. She'd be sitting on the sofa. And myfather would be sitting in the easy chair, not far from her. Andthe living room would be full of church folks and relative s.

      'Sunday dinner' and 'church' are strongly associate with the Black culture in the US, representing a traditional rooted in the resilience of African Americans during and after slavery.

    12. "why does he want to die? He mustwant to die, he 's killing himself, why does he want to die?"He looked at me in surprise. He licked his lips. "He don 'twant to die. He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die,ever."

      The speaker, as someone who has tried heroin before , must have a remarkably stable mind to avoid being controlled by the drug. I strongly agree with the line,'He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die, ever.' It reveals the underlying reason why many people become addicted; they long to escape a reality that they cannot bare living.

    13. A teacher passed through themevery now and again, quickly, as though he or she couldn'twait to get out of that courtyard, to get those boys out of theirsight and off their minds.

      I think ' a teacher ' might refer to the narrator himself; otherwise , why is it every ' now and again'?

    14. These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, theywere growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptlyagainst the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They werefilled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, thedarkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, andthe darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to thatother darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed,at once more together than they were at any other time, andmore alone.

      I don't think that only boys at that age would be on drugs. Girls might tool. Also, I quite like the way that the narrator describes addictive products as 'darkness' and something they 'dreamed' - it's truly a kind of lust.

    1. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both

      I think the two roads symbolize the choice we all face in life - one may be destiny and the other fate, but no matter which we choose , it leads us to a certain way of living and becoming ourselves.

    1. Whatever she planted grew as if by magic, and her fame as a grower of .flowers spread over three counties. Because of her creativity with her flow-ers, even my memories of poverty are seen through a screen of blooms-sun-flowers, petunias, roses, dahlias, forsythia, spirea, delphiniums, verbena ...and on and on.

      Her mother's garden symbolizes suppressed female creativity-beauty and art growing from struggle, like magic.

    2. For it needs little skill and psychology to be sure that a highlygifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been sothwarted and hindered by contrary instincts [add "chains, guns, the lash, theownership of one's body by someone else, submission to an alien religion"Lthat she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty."

      Society once saw creative women as "mad", but their so-called madness is actually passion, vision and art.

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    1. her lastthought maybe this: that he never even knew what she lookedlike, and she on an express to the grave.

      It’s troubling that the narrator thought, I believe the woman didn’t care about whether the blind man knew what she looked like. She just knew her husband sincerely loved her.

    2. On her last day in the office, the blindman asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. Shetold me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, hernose---even her neck!

      I am surprised that the woman would allow the blind man to touch her face since it’s not a common request.

    1. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping aboutbehind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit. I wonder— I begin tothink— Iwish John would take me away from here!

      It’s quite scary if the pattern of my wall paper is like a woman stooping and creeping.

    2. But John says if I feel so I shall neglect proper self-control;so I take pains to control myself,— before him, at least,— andthat makes me very tired.

      I am surprised that a how come the wife should pretend she was fine but not in front of her physician husband.

  21. Aug 2025
    1. It depends in my opinion. Many variables with this company and what you seek as well as preferences. Do you want a three bank typewriter? I would go with an Erika 2 for a three bank typewriter. Do you want a more modern typewriter? Perhaps an Erika 10 is a good choice.  Do you want a certain font? Maybe Fraktur? (Good luck finding one for cheap however) Erika 5 would be a good choice for fonts maybe. Do you want a rare and collectable model? Go with an Erika 20. They have basket shift too. I would personally avoid the newer models, such as the Erika 50. They aren't great in my preference, but you decide! There are many different models for different people, but the main company that produced Erikas, which is Seidel & Naumann, also created the "Ideal" brand of typewriters. S&N is responsible for a lot of typewriters.

      https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mqcu0f/erika_typewriters_i_am_looking_to_potentially_get/<br /> via LeSwiss1886

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    1. America is something like 10% of global trade and 90% of foreign exchange transactions involve the dollar. So the dollar is being used in transactions that have nothing to do with U.S. goods being traded from one country to another.

      for - quote - US reserve currency - used for 10% of global trade - and 90% of foreign exchange - stats - US reserve currency - used for 10% of global trade - and 90% of foreign exchange

    1. From Inner Work to Global Impact

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - From Inner Work to Global Impact - Stop Reset Go Deep Humanity / cosmolocal - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Building Citizen-Led Movements - solution - watch one live and the other recorded

      meeting notes - see below

      ANNIKA: - inner work helps us stay sane dealing with the chaos in our work - healing is not fixing - hope is a muscle, go to the "hope gym" - not just personal but collective

      EDWIN: - inner WORK - constant, continuous work - how do you scale these things? Is it wrong term to use? Mechanistic? - how do we move to global impact? We don't know yet

      LOUISE - inner work saved my - orientate inside away from trauma architecture - colonized and colonizer energies - they longed to be in union - be with all parts of myself - allow alchemy on the outside to the inside - liberate myself from my trauma structures and unfold myself - we cannot be a restorer unless we do that inner work - systeming - verbalizing / articulating it - we are all actors in creating the system - question - where am i systeming from? - answer - I am an interbeing - Am i systeming from the interbeing space or the trauma architecture space? - Where am I seeding from? What energy do I put into my work? - system is not concrete and fixed but fluid - fielding - bringing different human fields together - I can work with hatred and rage on the inside and transmute it so that I don't add to it on the outside

      JOHN: - stuck systems and lens of trauma can help us get unstock - 70% of people have experienced trauma - trauma is part of the human experience - people make up systems - so traumatized people makes traumatized systems - fight, flight and freeze happens at both levels - at system level, its fractally similiar - disembodied from wisdom - in state of survival and fear - fixing things - until we deal with the trauma in the people, we will continue to have traumatized systems - More work won't help if it's coming from traumatized people

      EDWIN - incremental change - something holding us back - built upon these traumas - Economic metrics are out of touch with how the trauma affects systems - Journey - awareness first, then understanding and inner transformation and finally change - Discussion with funders - most are still stuck in old paradigm of metrics, audits, etc - this comes with trauma because we have no trust on who is on the other side - a big part of the system is built on mistrust, creates more gaps between us - need to become anti-fragile

      ANNIKA - Funders have lack of trust because inner work hasn't been done on both sides - As a funder, we really try to create a space of trust - Think of the language we use to be inclusive - How do we make inner work a part of the operating system of how we work? - We looked at 500 mental health organizations over the years - It's so urgent now that we align our work

      EDWIN - We have a lot of half-formed thoughts - It's very complex and nobody has cracked it - We have a phrase at Axum that we move at the speed of trust - To do something different, they need to trust you - When I think of the discussions I've had with heads of states and CEOs, these meaningful inner ideas are not often brought up

      LAURA - When there's no trust, even if there is no danger, the trauma is still brought up - We need to shift our lens on trauma and become aware of when trauma emerges - quote - inner condition of the intervener determines the success of intervention - Bill O'Brien

      LOUISE - I work a lot with nervous system and body system - We need small changes in our nervous system - If I try to do something big, I can re-traumatize myself - We also have a collective nervous system - Restore love to all parts of your system first - Make friends with trees to seed actions from union

      JOHN - Become aware of my own trauma triggers - When we see an outsized reaction, we can guess that person is undergoing personal trauma - A settled body settles bodies - If we are calm, it helps calm others

      LAURA - Feel where we don't feel grounded, where we shame ourselves, feel compassion there

      QUESTIONS - See below

      • mushrooms and ayuahuasca - is it helpful?

      • A lot of women forget the feminine energy to climb the ladder and get sick?

      • backlash - feels like white men were being pushed to do work they weren't ready to do so now reclaiming their comfortable traumatized space

      • how early do we start to teach this knowledge?

      • How do organizations hold space for the enormous trauma that the US govt is manufacturing. We need to build this practice into organizations to help deal with the onslaight

      • Youth are so hungry for being in the presence of others who are wise, compassionate. We can't move faster than the speed of trust but it needs to become accessible.

      ANSWERS - See below

      LOUISE - Organizations have a huge role to play at this time - We want to reconfigure and transform the trauma - Deep forming teams in organizations to help transform - Trauma fields want to come through human nervous systems to transform - We are both feminine and masculine and the masculine wounding is very important and needs to find the feminine - We cannot go away by ourselves to heal from patriarchy, colonialism energies

      ANNIKA - In terms of how we fund, can we fund differently? We need to fund these spaces

      EDWIN - I sit on board of Wellbeing project - changemakers go through burnout - how do we prevent this and create a container that can sustain them? - Weve brought 20,000 people in summits who have affected 3 million people. Please come to the Hurts summit in Czec and Wellbeing project - When pendulum swings back from individual space, we should be like a spiral

      JOHN - In systems change spaces, trauma is seldom spoken of. - Systems work will not work if we ignore trauma - This is critical

      LOUISE - Arundhati Roy - Another world is not only possible but is on its way. On a quiet day, I can hear it breathing.

  26. Mar 2025
    1. From Eco-Grief to Climate Action

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    2. Redefining Progress: New Frontiers for the Field of Social In

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Redefining Progress: New Frontiers for the Field of Social Innovation - Stop Reset Go - Progress traps - Cosmolocal production - commons - Deep Humanity - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Aligning Profit and Purpose - adjacency - progress trap - Deep Humanity - Cosmolocal production - social innovation

    3. Creative Tensions: Collaboration, Compromise, and Convict

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Creative Tension: Collaboration, Compromise and Conviction - Stop Reset Go - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Aligning Profit and Purpose

    4. Aligning Profit and Purpose

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Aligning Profit and Purpose - new portmanteau - greentruthing - opposite of greenwashing - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - TPF - LCE - Greentruthing vs greenwashing - relevant to

    5. Philanthropy at a Crossroads: Can We Fund

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Philanthropy at a Crossroads: Can we Fund at the Speed of Impacts? - Fellowship of the Sacred Commons - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Building Citizen-led Movements - solution - watch one live and the other recorded - funding the commons

    6. Building Citizen-Led Movements to Reshape Civic Life

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    1. KoponewtPelicram ❤️ Slug Goblin 3 points4 points5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)Do you know what's the serial number on that? Some manufacturers had special models mostly for export purposes with extra keys. For example Royal 11 is a 10 with extra keys, Underwood No. 46 is a 5/3/6 with extra keys. Remington No. 9 is an 8 with extra keys.

      via https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jgg4kh/royal_kmm_extra_column_of_keys/miyumvn/

  27. southtexascollege.blackboard.com southtexascollege.blackboard.com
    1. In der Libération ruft Romain Huret, Historiker und Präsident der Ècole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, dazu auf, Forschenden, die Opfer der antwisssenschaftlichen Hexenjagd der Trump-Administration werden, Arbeitsmöglichkeiten in Frankreich zu schaffen. 2017 gab es in Frankreich ein ähnliches Programm. Huret bezieht sich unter anderem auf eine Liste mit Wörtern, die nicht in Forschungsprojekten vorkommen dürfen, die von der National Science Foundation gefördert werden. https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/sciences-sociales-la-france-doit-accueillir-les-chercheurs-victimes-de-la-chasse-aux-sorcieres-de-donald-trump-20250210_OSMF5GQVHZEXXBSG6NZH6R34G4/

  28. Feb 2025
    1. Der IA-Gipfel in Frankreich war auch Anlass für Gegenaktionen, die in Frankreich inzwischen auch koordiniert werden. Ein Bündnis namens Hirtus veröffentlichte ein Manifest über das bei uns der Standard berichtete. In Paris selbst fand im Theater de la Concorde eine Gegenveranstaltung statt zu der vor allem der Philosoph, punkt, punkt, punkt, aufgerufen hatte. Über diese Veranstaltung berichtet die Liberation Repo-Tere veröffentlichte ein Interview mit dem Philosophen.

      Die Opposition gegen die sogenannte künstliche Intelligenz hat unterschiedliche Motive. Eine große Rolle spielt eine ehrtraditionellinke Kritik an der Ersetzung von Menschen durch Maschinen, ohne dass die sozialen Konsequenzen überlegt oder gar reguliert würden. Eine zweite Stoßrichtung ergibt sich durch die Gefahren der künstlichen Intelligenz für die Demokratie. Hier geht es vor allem über die bürokratische Nutzung künstlicher Intelligenz zur Kontrolle der Bevölkerung. Eine dritte Stoßrichtung ergibt sich durch den hohe enormen Ressourcenverbrauch der künstlichen Intelligenz. Alle drei Argumentationsdienien sind auf der einen Seite mit dem grundsätzlichen Verdacht verbunden. Menschen könnten hier durch intelligente Maschinen überflüssig werden. Und andererseits betonen diese Argumentation unterschiedlich stark die Entstehung eines neuen politischen Regimes. eines so bezeichneten weichen Faschismus.

      So oder so ist künstliche Intelligenz eine enorme Gefahr für die demokratische Öffentlichkeit. Sie wird gerade ohne demokratische Kontrolle durchgesetzt. Sie führt dazu, dass künstlich produzierte Inhalte die öffentliche Diskussion ersticken. und sie bedroht Plattform für die öffentliche Diskussion ökonomisch.

      Mein Daffaler Ding ist, dass Besondere der künstlichen Intelligenz nicht einfach durch das relativieren, was sie mit anderen Bedrohungen teilt. Die künstliche Intelligenz verändert tatsächlich das gesellschaftliche Handeln und deswegen muss man die elektrische Antworten auf Sie geben. Man muss sie zwar als Infrastruktur bekämpfen, aber man muss sie auch in ihren Besonderheiten ernst nehmen.

      In Frankreich gibt es anlässlich des AI-Summits, so etwas wie eine Mobilisierung gegen die massive und subventionierte Einführung von sogenannter künstlicher Intelligenz. Der Standard berichtet über die Hiatus-Initiative, die ein Manifest publiziert hat. Zu dieser Initiative gehören unter anderem Attac, la quadrature du net, die französische Liga für Menschenrechte und Scientist Rebellion Frankreich.

      Diese Forderung entspringen nicht einfach Technikfeindlichkeit. Kritisiert wird die Illusion eines rein technischen von anderen Gesichtspunkten abtrennbaren Fortschritts. Bei KI geht es ja gar nicht vor allem um neue Technologie, sondern um Akkumulation, eine ungeheuren Rechen- und damit auch Hardware Power. Diese Macht wird zur Steuerung der Gesellschaft verwendet und stärkt vor allem die Machtgruppen hinter der sogenannten künstlichen Intelligenz.

      Bei der intensiven Akkumulation geht es darum, dass der Kapitalismus von sich selbst lebt, also seine eigene Infrastruktur umbaut und auf diesem Wege Wachstum generiert. Genau das findet jetzt gerade statt. Es wird enorm viel Kapital und es wird auch menschlicher Arbeit entwertet, um aber noch mehr Kapital zu generieren. Sehr vieles, was in den letzten Jahren aufgebaut wurde, wird zerstört. Und gleichzeitig ist sehr viel mehr Fixeskapital notwendig. An die Stelle in weitesten Sinne menschlicher Arbeitskraft, Drittenmaschinen Und diese Maschinen setzen ein extrem gesteigertes Maß an Extraktionen voraus und zwar sowohl in Bezug auf die Romaterialien, die für sie notwendig sind, wie in Bezug auf Energie.

      Der Start spielt dabei eine entscheidende Rolle. Er investiert selbst und erschafft die Voraussetzungen für andere Investitionen. Dabei stellt er auch sicher, dass nicht zu viele Investitionen entwertet werden. Deshalb ist der AI-Ekt in Europa, wo nicht zu sehr ein Instrument der Begrenzung künstlicher Intelligenz, sondern eher eine Erleichterung bei ihrer Einschörung.

      Ein Aspekt dabei ist, dass die vorallenigten arabischen Emirate in die künstliche Intelligenz in Europa investieren. Damit verbindet man sich mit einem besonders autoritären und auf Extration aufbauen den Regime.

      In den hier Tussmanifest wird auch darauf hingewiesen, dass möglicherweise Europa den Wertlauf im Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz gerade mehr gewinnen kann. Das ist für mich eigentlich der interessantes Aspekt. Damit verbunden stellt sich die Frage, ob nicht in Europa ein Umdenken auf einer anderen Ebene als der von ein paar die Großkritikern erfolgen muss. you

      https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000256811/hiatus-will-widerstand-gegen-den-ki-vormarsch-leisten

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      Earlier today, in a now-deleted post, someone had posted a question about identifying one of Helen Keller's typewriters based on this video in her archive.

      Having done some initial digging, I thought I'd share some of the details I've found for those who may find it interesting.

      According to researcher Richard Polt, Helen Keller was known to use both a Hammond and an L.C. Smith no. 5.

      As for the Remington Noiseless, it definitely appears to be a mid-century Noiseless Standard with a tabulator. To know the year, you'd need either the specific serial number (to cross check https://typewriterdatabase.com/remington.42.typewriter-serial-number-database) or you'd need many more examples than the Typewriter Database currently has listed under the generic Remington Noiseless.

      If you're careful at looking at the design choices and changes in some of the Remington Portables from that time period which would have likely tracked the design changes of their desktop standards, you might be able to extrapolate a closer dating based on the styling, but this will still only give you a dating within a year or so.

      The tabulator was at the top of the keyboard by 1937, so you can probably presume it was a model from that point or thereafter until 1954. Most American typewriter manufacturers didn't make machines from '41-45 due to WWII, so you can discard those dates. Remington had moved into thicker/taller plastic keys by the early 1950s, so I would guess her machine was more likely from the late 1940s.

      Looking more closely at the Remington Noiseless 10, I'd suggest that this is the most likely set of candidates, particularly in the timeframe of 1946-1947. Hers obviously had the openings in the rear and had the metal covers on the sides (as opposed to glass found on some models). Comparing hers in the film to some of these individual galleries may help to narrow things down with respect to dating.

      Perhaps others with more Remington Standard experience, may be able to narrow things down here.

      The appraisal of her Remington Noiseless in 1957 was $135.00.

      One might find some close noiseless models in the $20-40 range + shipping (these are about 30 pounds and will cost about $35 for shipping) via ShopGoodwill.com. Here are some recent sales for comparison. Based on the video you'll want the bigger, heavier ones (25+ pounds) rather than the smaller portables with cases (usually under 20 pounds). Generally machines purchased this way are reasonably functional, but usually need some cleaning and work to be restored to full functionality.

      Unless you're sure they're being sold by repair shops and have been cleaned and are fully functional, don't overspend on potential exemplars on sites like Etsy or eBay which are likely to be only marginally better (aka dusted off) than ShopGoodwill machines, but at 5-10x the price.

      Hellen Keller's brailler: https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK08-B049-183&e=-------en-20--1--txt--typewriter------3-7-6-5-3--------------0-1

      She apparently owned a \~1938 or 1939 Corona Silent as well: https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK08-B045-184.1.1&srpos=19&e=-------en-20--1--txt--typewriter------3-7-6-5-3--------------0-1

      One might have some luck trying to find a Corona Silent typewriter from that era, but the unique color is going to put a machine like it into the $100-200 range (at a minimum and potentially going up from there depending on the condition) unless you get lucky at a garage sale somewhere.

    1. One of the biggest lessons of the Occupy movement was that you can't only have a demonstration. Demonstrations are great. Demonstrations are important to bring attention to certain critical issues. But if you lack mobilization and organization and a political strategy, then you're just basically engaging in a performative act. You're indulging in a performance. You aren't really changing the course of history.

      for - key insight - occupy movement - occupy wallstreet - key insight - Robert Reich - 10 year anniversary

  29. Jan 2025
    1. system reflexivity

      for - definition - system reflexivity (Moore et al., 2018) - the capacity to see the complexity and mobilize the agency in a system, while deeply engaging with diversity across multiple scales - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

    2. individual reflexivity is rarely traced through to a collective influence on the broader transdisciplinary research process

      for - adjacency - individual reflexivity is rarely traced to a collective influence - Indyweb provenance - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

      adjacency - between - individual reflexivity is rarely traced to a collective influence - Indyweb provenance - adjacency relationship - Indyweb provenance can allow granular tracing of individual contributions to collective knowledge work - so can assist in the use of reflexivity in transdisciplinary work

    3. Reflexivity has been explored on a collective societal level, for example through Ulrich Beck's work on reflexive modernization wherein the unintended consequences of simple modernity motivate a reflexive turn across society, including to science itself: ‘science itself is deconstructed by means of science’

      for - further research - Ulrich Beck's research on unintended consequences of simple modernity - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

    4. In the context of transformative transdisciplinary research, such reflexive processes are meant to open-up epistemic and solution spaces that elevate marginalized perspectives and challenge the status quo.

      for - adjacency - reflexive processes elevate marginalized perspectives and challenge status quo - diversity of Indyweb perspectival knowing - mitigates progress traps that emerge from myopism - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

    5. avigating the diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives of researchers and participants in transdisciplinary processes raises challenges

      for - adjacency - challenges of harmonizing multiple perspectives - SRG complexity mapping - Deep Humanity - embedded in Indyweb - intrinsic perspectival knowing - facilitates high resolution perspectival complementarity - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

    6. Transdisciplinary sustainability science is increasingly applied to study transformative change. Yet, transdisciplinary research involves diverse actors who hold contrasting and sometimes conflicting perspectives and worldviews. Reflexivity is cited as a crucial capacity for navigating the resulting challenges

      for - adjacency - reflexivity - tool for transdisciplinary research - indyweb - people-centered interpersonal information architecture - mindplex - concept spaces - perspectival knowing - life situatedness - SRG transdisciplinary complexity mapping tool - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

      adjacency - between - reflexivity - tool for transdisciplinary research - indyweb - people-centered, interpersonal information architecture - mindplex - concept space - perspectival knowing - life situatedness - SRG transdisciplinary complexity mapping tool - adjacency relationship - This paper is interesting from the perspective of development of the Indyweb because there, - the people-centered, interpersonal information architecture intrinsically explicates perspectival knowing and life-situatedness - Indyweb can embed an affordance that is a meta function applied to an indyvidual's mindplex that - surfaces and aspectualizes the perspective and worldview salient to the research - The granular information that embeds an indyvidual's perspectives and worldviews is already there in the indyvidual's rich mindplex

    7. as crucial dimensions are left unacknowledged

      for - in other words - remain implicit instead of made explicit - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

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    1. global coding class, which is about 34 million digital nomads right now and maybe 10 million with a crypto wallet. Again, they're not rooted. They're rootless, and they should be root-full.

      for - stats - 2025 - digital nomads - 34 million - with crypto - 10 million - rootless - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2

    2. A shared car association, every shared car replaces 9 to 13 private cars for the same amount of travel freedom, point to point. You don't lose any freedom like you would in public transport. It's just like a neighborhood shares a dozen cars. 95% of the cars are in the garage at any time.

      for - example - efficacy of mutualisation - transportation - cars - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2 - stats - mutualisation - transportation - cars - 1 car can replace 13 - car is parked most of the time - 10% of existing cars doubles our requirement - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2

    1. in the deserts the Southern California coastal region reaches some of its highest annual temperatures in Autumn rather than summer when these winds are going on frigid dry Arctic air from Canada tends to create the most intense Santa Ana winds

      for - globally interconnected climate system - frigid dry Arctic air from Canada - Santa Ana winds - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

    2. relative humidity decreases as the temperature increases and uh it often Falls below 10%

      for - stats - Santa Ana winds dries to less than 10% relative humidity - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

    3. the air warms adiabatically which means that it depends on the lapse rate as you as you go to lower and lower altitudes um the temperature increases so the lapse rate is actually the drop of temperature as you get further from the surface of the Earth in dry air the adiabatic lapse rate is n about 10° CS per kilometer or about a degree celsius per uh 100 MERS okay so the as the air is coming down it's warming about 1° cels for each 100 meters of desent

      for - physics - adiabatic warming - lapse rate - Santa Ana winds - venturi effect through canyons increases wind speed - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10 - stats - Santa Ana winds warms 1 Deg C every 100 meter of descent due to adiabatic warming lapse rate - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

    4. these winds um get compressed they increase in speed uh to often to near gale force winds or above and du to this Venturi effect where the winds get compressed into a smaller area so be for constant flow rate the velocity has to be much higher in this region than in this region just because there's less space for the air to be so it goes into these canyons and gets compressed and gets accelerated to very high speeds

      for - physics - Santa Ana winds - venturi effect through canyons increases wind speed - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

    5. a five-fold increase in summer burned area during 1996 to 2021 relative to 1971 to 1995

      for - stats - 2025 Los Angeles fires - 5x increase in summer burned area - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

    6. lots of homes right along the ocean completely torched so the question is why didn't they have hoses that they could put in the ocean and pump seawat onto the roofs and structures to keep the Cinders from uh setting the place light and burning It To The Ground just a thought

      for - climate crisis - forest fires - home protection - outside rooftop sprinkler systems - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

      // - COMMENT - Paul brings up a very good point. There is an existing low cost innovation that was pioneered and successfully deployed in Canada that could have prevented the destruction of many of the buildings that were destroyed, namely - rooftop sprinkler systems - There are many rooftop sprinker systems available now. They should actually be mandated into law to have one in high risk fire areas. - https://search.brave.com/search?q=canada+forest+fire+prevention+rooftop+sprinkler+system&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=375a9992d731deff34143a

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      // - comment - Paul provides a climate analysis of the overarching climate conditions that enabled the 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Santa Ana winds are a natural occurrence in this area but the climate change induced abnormalities have brought about alternating cycles of heavy rain and drought conditions - The preceding heavy rain period resulted in enormous growth of vegetation - The last two months of extreme drought conditions dried up all this additional growth creating enormous amounts of fuel for a fire - It was interesting to learn that cold air from the arctic plays a critical role in the Santa Ana winds, but Paul did not provide an explanation - This is one example of how the earth system is so interconnected

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    1. Die Angehörigen des reichsten Prozents der Weltbevölkerung haben bereits in den ersten zehn Tagen dieses Jahrs so viel Emissionen verursacht wie es jedem Menschen 2025 zustehen würde, wenn das 1,5°-Ziel erreicht werden soll. Menachen mit einem Gehalt von über 140.000 USD emittieren in 10 Tagen durchschnittlich 2,1 Tonnen CO2. Die Zahlen ergeben sich aus einer Untersuchung zur Carbon Inequality aus dem Jahr 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/10/worlds-richest-use-up-their-fair-share-of-2025-carbon-budget-in-10-days

    1. Ein neuer Bericht der europäischen Kommission sagt aus, dass die EU dreimal so schnell dekarbonisieren muss wie bisher, um das Ziel zu erreichen, die Emissionen bis 2030 um 55% zu reduzieren. Den Zahlen der European Environment Agency zufolge reicht der gegenwärtige Kurs nur für eine Reduzierung um 43%. Ein Haupthindernis sind die enorm hohen fossilen Subventionen. Die Selbstverpflichtungen von EU-Staaten vor der COP28 treffen z.T. verspätet ein, und die vorliegenden sind einem Bericht des Climate Action Network zufolge sehr unzureichend. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/eu-must-cut-emissions-three-times-more-quickly-report-says

      State of the Energy Union: https://energy.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2023-10/COM_2023_650_1_EN_ACT_part1_v10.pdf CAN-Bericht: https://caneurope.org/content/uploads/2023/10/NECPs_Assessment-Report_October2023.pdf

    1. Es wird erwartet, dass der britische Premierminister Sunak in seiner nächsten Regierungserklärung eine Ausdehnung der Öl- und Gasförderung in der Nordsee und Maßnahmen zum Schutz von Autofahren, z.B. vor Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen in Städten, ankündigt. Durch seine anti-Umweltpolitik will sich Sunak von der Labour-Opposition absetzen, die im Augenblick in Großbritannien in Meinungsumfragen weit vor den Tories liegt. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/28/rishi-sunak-to-double-down-on-anti-green-policies-in-kings-speech

  30. Dec 2024
      • Prekäre Verbindung von Anthropozän-Geschichte und Politik.
      • Geschichte der Freiheit ist zugleich Geschichte ökologischen Krisen.
      • Spezies als negatives Universale
      • Zufälligkeit des Kapitalismus

      Chakrabarty formuliert sehr klar, worin die Neuartigkeit und Einzigartigkeit der historischen Situation des Anthropozän besteht, und damit auch, was die Herausforderung dieser Situation für Politik und Geschichtsschreibung ausmacht. Politik ist ohne die Dimension der Spezies Geschichte nicht mehr zu verstehen, und umgekehrt lässt sich diese Geschichte aber nur als auch politische Geschichte, und damit als Geschichte von Machtverhältnissen begreifen. Diese Dimension der Geschichte wird in der aktuellen westlichen Politik so gut wie nicht begriffen oder gar berücksichtigt.

      Chakrabarty spricht in diesem Text immer nur von der einen Spezies Mensch. Möglicherweise kann man die Besonderheit dieser Spezies als einer historischen Entität besser verstehen, wenn man ihre Beziehungen zu anderen Spezies mitdenkt. Diese Beziehungen sind immer auch räumlich und lassen sich in der kritischen Zone der Erde lokalisieren. So lässt sich vielleicht auch Geschichte der Spezies und Geschichte der Globalisierung leichter in Verbindung bringen.

      Die Globalisierung geht von der Möglichkeit eines positiven Universale "Menschheit" Ist. Die Geschichte der Spezies ist dagegen die Geschichte unterschiedlicher lokale Beziehungen zu anderen Spezies. Die Globalisierung als ein Prozess, durch den die als Einheit unsinnige Menschheit den Planeten überall in der gleichen Weise ausbeutet, ist nur als Fiktion zuende zuführen.

      Am Anfang schreibt Chakrabarti über die Nachvollziehbarkeit der Geschichte durch Verständnis und Rekonstruktion der Intentionen von Akteuren, die damit als nicht natürlich begriffen werden,. Als Naturwesen sind sie nicht Gegenstand der Geschichte. Diese Überlegung erinnern mich an den von Chakrabarty nicht erwähnten Max Weber, der vom subjektiven Sinn als Voraussetzung der verstehenden Wissenschaften ausgegangen ist. Ihre Geschichte im anthropozän ist dagegen eine ganz andere als die von ihnen intendierte und nachvollziehbare. Natur würde vielleicht sagen, dass ich die Akteure vervielfachen und das Geschichten mit diesen vervielfachten Akteuren geschrieben werden müssen. Ein Beispiel wäre die Geschichte der Nutzung der fossilen Brennstoffe, wie sie Timothy Mitchell geschrieben hat.