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Spacious, modern villa on beautifully landscaped grounds just steps from the water's edge. Located on the prestigious West Coast of Barbados, this spacious, architecturally-designed villa sits on approximately 21,991 sq.ft. of beautifully landscaped grounds just steps from the water's edge. Recently renovated and fully upgraded, this contemporary-style, open-plan villa is beautifully appointed with high-end furnishings and finishes throughout. There are five luxurious en suite bedrooms featuring air conditioning, security safes, flat screen televisions, DVD players and iPod docking stations. Three of these are located on the ground floor while the magnificent master suite, an additional guest suite, and an intimate living area opening on to a wrap-around balcony, are located on the upper level where stunning, uninterrupted views of the Caribbean Sea can be enjoyed. The spacious reception rooms, formal and informal dining and living areas, well-equipped media room and state-of-the-art kitchen are positioned on the ground floor. The ample living space with bar extends out onto the covered terraces and sundeck surrounding the stylish 45' infinity-edge swimming pool. Beautifully landscaped grounds, manicured lawns, and exotic tropical foliage provide privacy to this elegant retreat. The Dream is ideally located within easy reach of fine dining restaurants and trendy boutiques, world-class duty-free shopping, and championship golf courses.

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Lots of people HAte him , some people THINK they know everything! well try this quiz to see if you do know everything about THE ONE AND ONLY JUSTIN DREW BIEBER! Are you a true JDB fan? A true BELIEBER? Do you think you have BIEBER FEVER? well take this quiz to find out ! Maybe you are what you think but maybe you don't have what it takes it be a True Fan! Has he ever had a Celebrity Girlfriend? What is hes Record Label? Who is he's Celebrity Crush? Where did he grow up in?" What are The justin bieber fans called? Quiz topic: How much do I know Justin Bieber?

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Adam Stephenson, foreground, of St. Charles Borromeo Parish near Gretna, discusses the Disciple Maker Index May 4 at St. Gerald Church in Omaha with fellow parishioners, including Phyllis Brunken, Diane Boni and Craig Vavak, and Father Jeffrey Loseke, pastor. Photo by Joe Ruff/Staff. That's how representatives of three parishes described their feelings after meeting May 4 about the results of a survey – the Disciple Maker Index – intended to gauge parishioners' spiritual growth and efforts by their pastor and others to promote that growth. Those parishes – St. Vincent de Paul in Omaha, St. Charles Borromeo near Gretna and St. Gerald in Ralston – were among 14 parishes meeting in groups of three or more May 2-4 for their first look at results of the survey parishioners were invited to take in February and March. More than 5,500 people participated in the surveys, about 23 percent of households in the 14 parishes, said Deacon Stephen Luna, director of pastoral planning. Crunching the data will take time, with pastors and other parish leaders who attended the recent meetings sifting through the information. But in the next few months, they will talk about the results with their parishes, he said. Generally, the survey developed by Pennsylvania-based Catholic Leadership Institute will help parishes understand strengths and challenges in their preaching, liturgies, faith development programs and other ways of encouraging people to understand and share their faith, Deacon Luna said. Parishes can compare and contrast results, sharing successes and finding new opportunities for growth, he said. At the May 4 meeting, which brought about 21 people together at St. Gerald Church in Omaha, Father Jeffrey Loseke, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo, said the survey will help him understand how the parish can help people grow and share in their faith. Father Daniel Kampschneider, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul, said one result of the survey could be inviting people to share their faith stories with the congregation. And that could lead to more open sharing in other settings, such as at work or in a grocery store, he said. "This is about being open about our experience of God," he said. "We assume people have these experiences, but we don't invite people to talk about them, to share them." Conducting the surveys was one of several recommendations from listening sessions and other efforts to begin coordinated planning for St. Charles Borromeo and nine other parishes in Omaha and areas south and west of the city. That plan's focus is forming disciples of Jesus Christ, and as need arises, creating schools, parishes and facilities to meet that goal. Five other parishes expressed interest in conducting the surveys, and they were added to the mix, Deacon Luna said. Fifteen parishes had been involved in the survey, but one of the parishes involved in the west Omaha and suburbs study, St. Matthew the Evangelist Parish in Bellevue, decided against conducting the survey at this time, he said. The survey also tracks well with the archdiocese's pastoral vision and planning, summarized in the phrase: "One church, encountering Jesus, equipping disciples, living mercy," Deacon Luna said. "People want to know their faith and how to defend their faith," Deacon Luna said. "There are opportunities for all of us." In addition to St. Charles Borromeo near Gretna and St. Vincent de Paul in Omaha, seven other parishes participating in the Disciple Maker Index were part of the west Omaha and suburbs study: St. Patrick, Elkhorn; St. Patrick, Gretna; St. Columbkille, Papillion; St. Joseph, Springfield; St. John the Evangelist, Valley; and St. Stephen the Martyr and St. Wenceslaus, both Omaha. Five other parishes were added to the survey: Sacred Heart, Norfolk; St. Gerald, Ralston; Our Lady of Lourdes-St. Adalbert, St. Leo the Great and St. Pius X, all Omaha.

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Before 1980, Georgia finished in the Top 3 of the final AP poll twice—No.2 in 1942 and No.3 in 1946. Those were also the only two years the Bulldogs had a consensus All-America running back—first Heisman winner Frank Sinkwich, then Heisman runner-up Charlie Trippi. Thirty-four years later, along came Herschel Walker and Georgia ran all the way to Number One. With Walker rushing for a NCAA freshman record 1,616 yards, the Dawgs went undefeated and untied and clinched their first national title ever in the Sugar Bowl with a 17–10 victory over Notre Dame. Important as Walker was, the play that saved Georgia's perfect season was a 93–yard TD pass from quarterback Buck Belue to split end Lindsay Scott in the last two minutes to beat Florida, 26–21. Pittsburgh, led by defensive end Hugh Green, was the nation's second-ranked team. The Panthers won 11 of 12, losing a regular season game to Florida State. FSU was undefeated everywhere but in the Orange Bowl where it lost two games by a point. The Seminoles were beaten 10–9 by Miami early in the season, then lost 18–17 to Oklahoma on New Year's. Alabama's attempt to win an unprecedented third straight national title fell short with two November losses to Mississippi State and Notre Dame. The Tide did, however, get Bear Bryant his 300th career victory. And Michigan finally won a Rose Bowl for Bo Schembechler, his first in six attempts.

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Class to hold codon to amino acid mapping, and vice versa. 64-character string containing NCBI representation. starting point for the codon sequence. If the length of code_sequence is different to 64 . * is used to denote termination as per the NCBI standard. Although the genetic code objects convert DNA to RNA and vice versa, lists of codons that they produce will be provided in DNA format. blocks Returns list of lists of codon blocks in the genetic code. __getitem__(item) Returns amino acid corresponding to codon, or codons for an aa. __eq__(other) Allows two GeneticCode objects to be compared to each other.

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I exhibited 40 storyboards and 3 pop-ups from Growing Up Linda – Fudgie's Death at the Eighth International Toy Theater Festival and Temporary Toy Theatre Museum presented by Great Small Works at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood. The Temporary Toy Theatre Museum was curated by Emmy Bean and on view between May 23rd June 1st, 2008. The storyboards and pop-ups I displayed were all from Fudgie's Death, a segment of Growing Up Linda that follows the troubled daughter of a famous ice cream mogul and her downward spiral into frosting, substance abuse, and Fudgie the Whale. The pop-ups were created in collaboration with Korean paper engineer, EuGean Seo, who redesigned my initial storyboards so they would work as theatrical pop-ups. In the performance of Fudgie's Death, I transformed her table-top pop-up books into full-screen cinema using live-feed from tiny security cameras and projectors. Toy Theater (also called Paper Theater) was the rage in parlors across Europe and the Americas in the 19th century, a popular means of staging dramatic spectacles at home. But just as revolutions in print technology had brought Toy Theater into 19th-century homes, 20th-century advances in electronic media and mass culture led to the virtual extinction of this inexpensive family entertainment. The small box used to stage sumptuous dances, battles and stories in the parlor was replaced by an all-too-familiar box in the modern living room. Fantastic in scope, easily affordable and open to any imaginable content, Toy Theater begs to be rescued from obscurity and re-invented in a wide variety of contemporary styles. Great Small Works is an OBIE Award-winning collective of theater artists who draw on folk, avant-garde and popular theater traditions to address contemporary issues. Its members are: John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, Roberto Rossi and Mark Sussman. As of 2008, the company produced seven Toy Theater festivals in NYC since 1993. For the 2008 Toy Theater Festival, Great Small Works completely transformed St. Ann's Warehouse, billing it as "a colossal event of miniature proportions". Great Small Works organized six different programs for adult audiences, a late-night cabaret for developing work, two symposia, two public workshops, and the Temporary Toy Theater Museum which featured an extensive exhibition of both historic and brand-new examples toy theater.

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Trump's Drug Pricing Scam: You continue to get robbed May 16, 2018 By Robert Reich Robert Reich's article is an important read. It details one aspect of the destruction the Trump administration is causing our healthcare system. GOP ACA Sabotage Effect is our new series that will continue to point out the damage the GOP tax cut scam along with other deliberate acts are doing to the healthcare and personal economies of every middle-class and poor American. Trump's Drug Pricing Scam by Robert Reich Trump promised to rein in drug prices. It was his only sensible campaign promise. But the plan he announced Friday does little but add another battering ram to his ongoing economic war against America's allies. He calls it "American patients first," and takes aim at what he calls "foreign freeloading." The plan will pressure foreign countries to relax their drug price controls. America's trading partners "need to pay more because they're using socialist price controls, market access controls, to get unfair pricing," said Alex Azar, Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, who, perhaps not incidentally, was a former top executive at the drug maker Eli Lilly and Company. By this tortured logic, if other nations allow drug companies to charge whatever they want, U.S. drug companies will then lower prices in the United States. This is nonsensical. It would just mean more profits for U.S. drug companies. (Revealingly, the stock prices of U.S. pharmaceutical companies rose after Trump announced his plan.) While it's true that Americans spend far more on medications per person than do citizens in any other rich country – even though Americans are no healthier – that's not because other nations freeload on American drug companies' research. Big Pharma in America spends more on advertising and marketing than it does on research – often tens of millions to promote a single drug. The U.S. government supplies much of the research Big Pharma relies on through the National Institutes of Health. This is a form of corporate welfare that no other industry receives. American drug companies also spend hundreds of millions lobbying the government. Last year alone, their lobbying tab came to $171.5 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That's more than oil and gas, insurance, or any other American industry. It's more than the formidable lobbying expenditures of America's military contractors. Big Pharma spends tens of millions more on campaign expenditures. They spend so much on politics in order to avoid price controls, as exist in most other nations, and other government attempts to constrain their formidable profits. For example, in 2003, Big Pharma got a U.S. law prohibiting the government from using its considerable bargaining clout under Medicare and Medicaid to negotiate lower drug prices. Other nations with big healthcare plans routinely negotiate lower drug prices. During his campaign Trump promised to reverse this law. But the plan he revealed Friday doesn't touch it. Trump's plan seeks only to make it easier for private health insurers to negotiate better deals for Medicare beneficiaries. In reality, private health insurers don't have anywhere near the clout of Medicare and Medicaid – which was the whole point of Big Pharma's getting Congress to ban such negotiations in the first place. In the last few years, U.S. drug companies have also blocked Americans from getting low-cost prescription drug from Canada, using the absurd argument that Americans can't rely on the safety of drugs coming from our northern neighbor – whose standards are at least as high as ours. Trump's new plan doesn't change this, either. To put all this another way, when Americans buy drugs in the United States, they really buy a package of advertising, marketing, and political influence-peddling. Consumers in other nations don't pay these costs. Which explains a big part of why drug prices are lower abroad. Trump's so-called plan to lower drug prices disregards this reality. Trump's plan nibbles at the monopoly power of U.S. pharmaceutical companies, but doesn't deal with the central fact that their patents are supposed to run only twenty years but they've developed a host of strategies to keep patents going beyond then. One is to make often insignificant changes in their patented drugs that are enough to trigger new patents and thereby prevent pharmacists from substituting cheaper generic versions. Before its patent expired on Namenda, its widely used drug to treat Alzheimer's, Forest Labs announced it would stop selling the existing tablet form of in favor of new extended-release capsules called Namenda XR. Even though Namenda XR was just a reformulated version of the tablet, the introduction prevented generic versions from being introduced. Other nations don't allow drug patents to be extended on such flimsy grounds. Trump's plan doesn't touch this ploy. Another tactic used by U.S. drug companies has been to sue generics to prevent them from selling their cheaper versions, then settle the cases by paying the generics to delay introducing those cheaper versions. Such "pay-for-delay" agreements are illegal in other nations, but antitrust enforcement hasn't laid a finger on them in America – and Trump doesn't mention them although they cost Americans an estimated $3.5 billion a year. Even after their patents have expired, U.S. drug companies continue to aggressively advertise their brands so patients will ask their doctors for them instead of the generic versions. Many doctors comply. Other nations don't allow direct advertising of prescription drugs – another reason why prices are lower there and higher here. Trump's plan is silent on this, too. (Trump suggests drug advertisers should be required to post the prices of their drugs, which they're already expert at obscuring.) If Trump were serious about lowering drug prices he'd have to take on the U.S. drug manufacturers. But Trump doesn't want to take on Big Pharma. As has been typical for him, rather than confronting the moneyed interests in America he chooses mainly to blame foreigners. Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Big Pharma, Donald Trump, Drugs, GOP ACA Sabotage Effect, Prices, Robert Reich About Robert Reich Robert Reich, one of the nation's leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Time Magazine has named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written thirteen books, including his latest best-seller, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future; The Work of Nations; Locked in the Cabinet; Supercapitalism; Beyond Outrage; and Saving Capitalism. His syndicated columns, television appearances, and public radio commentaries reach millions of people each week. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, and Chairman of the citizen's group Common Cause. His widely-read blog can be found at www.robertreich.org.

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Welcome to the International Rescue Instructors Alliance (IRIA). The IRIA is a membership based, non-profit trust, of committed professional instructors who are dedicated to their careers, their students and the public they serve. The IRIA was created for professional instructors who operate and teach others in the fields of occupational safety and rescue. Today the IRIA continues to develop and grow, and to be actively managed by its members. The quality of the service it provides is directly related to the energy we all commit and to the critical resonsibilities we all have as Professional Rescue Instructors. If IRIA's concepts and content ring true for you, commit to learn more and contact us.

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The night was busier than Gala night and that's saying something. Packed to capacity the rafters were heaving. Dancing on the seats as the audience joined in a few numbers. Wickers prove yet again they ain't shy. No wonder Wick Players wins the drama awards every year. Just take any some of these folk in Wick and you are sure to win.....something!!!! We missed the early act of David Morrison but caught him doing it again on Sunday evening.

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I was very excited as finally the day has come when me and my childhood friend Aanya are about to start our road trip we have been planning since quite a long time. Drape your little darling in this Maroon Dupion Dress from Faye. The body features an illusion neck with contrast piping. The waist is banded with a contrast sash and bow. The skirt is gathered and full. Get the latest collection of kids dresses at Faye.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Authorised by Andrew Bayly, 7 Wesley St, Pukekohe 2120 by Andrew Bayly, MP for Port Waikato DISCLAIMER: Any opinions expressed or statements made in this article are those of the contributors and/or advertisers, and do not necessarily represent the views of the publisher, staff or management of elocal Limited. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information presented, the publishers assume no responsibility for any errors or omissions, or for any consequences thereof. It's thought that it was Mark Twain who said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." It's become a commonplace phrase for describing the persuasive power of numbers, especially statistics, when used to strengthen someone's argument or point of view. As National's spokesperson for statistics, I can vouch for the important role that statistics play in our understanding of New Zealand's people, the economy and our environment. StatsNZ is the Government agency responsible for collecting data. It does so through the national Census, held every five years, plus additional surveys and questionnaires conducted by other Government agencies. After crunching the numbers, StatsNZ then provides feedback to the Government, the public and organisations on such issues as the supply and affordability of houses, our communities and mix of ethnicities, our rates of employment and unemployment, health and wellbeing, the supply of public infrastructure including schools and hospitals, economic growth, and the distribution of New Zealand's population. From this information, the Government can make decisions on how and where to spend money on health, education, infrastructure, welfare and so on. But it's how you present the data that is the issue. In early August, StatsNZ released its quarterly report on the labour market for the three months to June 30, which showed that the unemployment rate fell to 4 per cent in the June quarter (from 4.6 per cent in the March quarter), the lowest rate since December 2019. In the same period, wage rates increased 2.1 per cent, average weekly earnings (for full-time equivalent employees, or FTEs as they're termed) increased to $1,360.62, and average ordinary time hourly earnings rose to $34.76. "The Government's efforts to secure the recovery has seen more Kiwis in jobs and higher wages, with unemployment falling to pre-Covid levels and more people in work," Finance Minister Grant Robertson said at the time. But here's where the statistics come in. You only have to dig into another report from StatsNZ, the household living-costs price index, to find that inflation is rising faster than wages – at 3.3 per cent for the year to 30 June 2021. This is the highest it has been in just under a decade, and is a cause for concern for all Kiwis, who are seeing more and more of their pay packets being eaten up by basic day-to-day living costs. The spiralling costs of transport, namely fuel, and food are the main drivers, along with higher prices for housing, rent and household utilities. And the households most seriously affected? Low- to middle-income earners, superannuitants, and Māori. Renters are only too aware of the increase in rents – on average $100 or more a week since four years ago. This is in part due to the Government's inability to build affordable homes. Unfortunately, both Treasury and Inland Revenue are warning that the Government's new proposed tax on property owners is likely to see rents rise further still. By pushing 'mum and dad investors' out of the housing market, and with no supply-side measures coming any time soon, it is apparent that renters will continue to suffer. Fuel taxes have gone up 28c per litre in Auckland since Labour came into power in 2017, costing a typical family an extra $650 every year. We can expect this to get even worse when the car tax comes into force early next year. The cost of doing business has also soared, with the Government heaping costs onto business owners without realising this will eventually flow through to consumer prices. With our borders closed, businesses are unable to get the skilled workers they need from overseas, and with the Government pushing up costs – through unsustainable minimum wage hikes, extra employer-funded holidays, and unworkable regulations – business owners have little choice but to put their prices up. And there are other major price pressures on businesses that are less obvious to the average consumer. There has been a rapid escalation in wholesale energy prices, not helped by the Government putting an end to new offshore oil and gas exploration – cost pressures that manufacturers, importers, and other businesses have felt all too well. There are major supply constraints and bottlenecks for the delivery of products and materials, which are not expected to iron themselves out for another twelve months. The cost of transporting a 40 foot shipping container has increased from about US$1200 two years ago to almost US10,000 now. Companies are having to invest heavily in holding stock, where they can, rather than continuing to adopt the more efficient 'just in time' approach. All of this has meant businesses are faced with two options: either increase prices or lose money. So what's the answer? We need to take a serious look at what can be done to alleviate some of the skills shortages and regulatory constraints and costs that are holding our businesses back from making their own contribution to getting New Zealand moving again. We need a coherent energy strategy, and urgent reform of the Resource Management Act to open up land supply. And we shouldn't be hitting businesses with $2.8 billion of costs from additional holidays and sick leave that will be taken whether the employee is sick or not. The Government has been happy to fund a consumption-led recovery over the past 18 months since Covid first reared its ugly head. But there are going to be consequences when our Government is borrowing $110 million a day – every day – as we are currently doing. Ultimately, consumption-led recoveries leave low-income families and beneficiaries significantly worse off as a result. Andrew Bayly is the MP for Port Waikato, the Shadow Treasurer (Revenue) and the National Party spokesperson for Infrastructure and Statictics. The Diary of a Scientist in New Zealand. Today I reviewed my 2021 diary and correspondence and had an aha moment. Up until September most of my exchanges and the press articles I read involved discussion and interpretation of the relative merits of published scientific papers. After that the official dialogue reported in the media subtly changed and started to assert that 'science' was on the side of vaccination without… Jacinda Ardern and the Ghost of David Lange Opinion • Community Newsfeed • 5 Nov 2021 by Graham Adams David Lange is one of the most tragic figures of our modern political history. Highly articulate and entertaining, he was ushered into power in a landslide in 1984 during an economic and financial crisis. Feted as the youngest Prime Minister of the 20th century, he dazzled the nation with his wit and intellect. By the time he resigned in 1989, however, he was seen as a weak and… Speak Freely! Opinion • elocal Digital Edition • October 2021 by Jim Shaw Sex, politics, and religion. When I was growing up my families conversations were always economic, but there seemed to be an unspoken rule that these three topics, were a no-go zone. They may have been too awkward or perhaps they were just subjects to avoid when talking with neighbours. However, in the last fifty years I've found that sex, politics and religion contribute a quite… ARE WE REALLY AMONG THE WEALTHIEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET? Opinion • elocal Digital Edition • January 2022 by Dr Don Brash There are lots of ways of measuring how New Zealand is doing, and none of them is perfect. We stack up very well on measures like life expectancy, unemployment, infant mortality, and car ownership. Not so well on the quality of our education system – an area where we have been going backwards in recent years, at least in comparison to other developed countries and many of the… Is Government Debt Really Out of Control? Opinion • elocal Digital Edition • December 2021 I suspect that most New Zealanders don't give a lot of thought to the size of the government debt. But every now and then the media reports that the Government is spending vastly more than it takes in in revenue, with the result that the amount the Government has to borrow goes up by billions more. Surely this is mortgaging our future, and the future of our children and… More articles by Andrew Bayly More articles in 'Opinion'

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12 displaced in Wilmington Manor apartment fire; dogs rescued from blaze Isabel Hughes Jeff Neiburg Twelve residents of a Wilmington Manor apartment building were displaced Thursday after the building caught fire. Firefighters were called to the building, located in the 1600 block of New Jersey Ave., just before 2 p.m., the fire marshal's office said. Firefighters found flames and smoke coming from the building's attic. Flames pushed through the roof, the fire marshal's office said. Radio scanner traffic said one person was stuck on a balcony, though bystanders were able to rescue them. The fire marshal's office said two juveniles were examined for injuries at the scene but were not transported to a medical facility. Several dogs were also saved from the blaze. RELATED:6 displaced after fire tears through home near Bear Sunday afternoon The cause of the fire was accidental, sparked by an electrical malfunction inside the attic of the two-story, six-unit apartment building, the fire marshal's office said. The estimated damage is $200,000. The American Red Cross is assisting those displaced by the fire.

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published by b3tech on Wed, 03/14/2018 - 14:36 Dynamics 365 "Tenerife" has a new name Yesterday, Microsoft has announced that Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Business Edition will be re-branded as Dynamics 365 Business Central. The re-branded product is launching on April 2, 2018 bringing full Dynamics NAV capabilities to the cloud. In addition to the new product name, the release also adds application modules that so far were only available in the on premises version of the product, such as manufacturing, warehousing and service management. The official web site for the new version of the product can be found here: Dynamics 365 Business Central while the roadmap for the current and upcoming updates can be found here: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Roadmap. Two Price Points There will be two price points for the product: Essential and Premium. To quote Microsoft: Essential includes: Financial Management, including general ledger, workflows and audit trails, bank management, budgets, deferrals, bank reconciliation, dimensions, fixed assets, and currencies Customer Relational Management, including contacts, campaigns, opportunity management, and built-in integration with Dynamics 365 for Sales Supply Chain Management, including sales order management, basic receivables, purchase order management, locations, item transfers, and basic warehousing Human Resources, including employees and management of their expenses Project Management, including resources, estimates, jobs, and time sheets Other, including multiple languages, reason codes, extended text, Intrastat reporting, scheduled tasks, and integration with Outlook Premium includes following functionality, in addition to what's offered in Essential: Service Order Management, including service orders, service price management, service item management, service contract management, planning and dispatching Manufacturing, including production orders, version management, agile manufacturing, basic supply planning, demand forecasting, capacity planning, machine centers, and finite loading, bringing the full breadth of the popular Dynamics NAV application to the cloud. On Premises Version in 2018 Fall Somewhat shadowed by the upcoming release note was the fact that the on-premises version of the product which was so far known as Dynamics NAV 2018 R2 has been pushed out to fall of 2018. For further information you can refer to the original post on the Microsoft Blog.

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With 18,000 products, Hama is one of the leading accessory companies, specializing in the field of Photo, Video, Audio, Computer and Telecommunications and employs about 2,500 people around the world. The company was founded by Hanke Martin in Dresden in 1923. After its destruction during the Second World War, it was rebuilt in Monheim in 1945.

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Home In The News Petoskey Plastics seeking employees for new operations Petoskey Plastics seeking employees for new operations Petoskey Plastics in Morristown is staffing its new expansion. The project, which took two years to complete, was funded with an infrastructure grant from the state of Tennessee. Petoskey Plastics, located in the Morristown Area Industrial District, is underway staffing its new expansion, ending a two-year, $30-million investment that will bring 70 jobs to the Lakeway Area. "With phases I, II and III complete, including a new parking lot, new silos and 150 new rail tracks with asphalt for containment of raw material, we are focusing on planning, delivery and installation of new equipment – and hiring and training our new associates," said Jim Blackwell, Morristown plant manager. "We look forward to adding jobs within the structure for several years to come," said Jason Keiswetter, Petoskey Plastics president. The third phase of the project, which was completed in November, was funded with assistance from a grant from an infrastructure grant from the state of Tennessee, and was used to stabilize the soil and refurbish the railroads surrounding the property. "Our 32,000-square foot building expansion, including rail refurbishment, is now complete," said Sue Maskaluk, Petoskey Plastics corporate treasurer. "Many thanks go to the city of Morristown, the Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce, our neighbors across the street, Colortech, for the use of their rail spur, Norfolk Southern Railroad, Railworks, the State of Tennessee and East Tennessee Development District combined with our general contractor, Burke-Ailey, the architects, George E. Amour and T. Clint Harrison, as well as our own engineering staff. What a team. "Everyone involved helped us every step of the way, overcoming many obstacles, and we are most grateful." Phase I of the expansion began in 2018, and was funded entirely by Petoskey. This section of the project included three loading docks with a 66-foot high bay for extruding equipment and improvements for site clearing, heavy duty asphalt and concrete driveways, associate parking on northwest side of property, high security fencing and gate around the property and soil cement stabilization. Phase II involved grading improvements to the south road entrance of the plant to accommodate increased truck and vehicle traffic from shipments and an additional 71 associates. The improvements also allowed for area drain installation, grading for soil stabilization and run-off water containment by rail area, grading and installation of a new underground waterline along the perimeter of Phase I and storm drainage installation by the rail area. Article by Citizens Tribune https://www.citizentribune.com/news/business/petoskey-plastics-seeking-employees-for-new-operations/article_c6d2e424-3a5a-11ea-a236-2b1ac7d81df3.html Come join our team! Apply today at petoskeyplastics.com/careers . building industryexpansionextrusionimprovementlocal communitymanufacturingwater containment

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Q: How to check/test whether application is not caching on browser? I have written a class CacheControlFilter implements javax.servlet.Filter to set header to make sure that the application is not caching. have done entry in the web.xml also <filter> <filter-name> Cache controller filter</filter-name> <filter-class>com.filter.CacheControlFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>Cache controller filter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> please suggest me how to check/test whether this is working or not? let me know if you want more information about the same. A: Use browsers inspection tools(F12) and then check the resource's HTTP status code it should be 200 OK instead of 304 Not Modified then the resource is not cached. The below screenshots are Google Chrome examples. Cached version of welcome.html Status Code is 304 Not Modified Non cached version of welcome.html Status Code is 200 OK

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Doctor Treats Homebound Patients, Often Unseen Even By Neighbors By Misha Friedman Published November 8, 2015 at 7:03 AM EST Home care physician Roberta Miller loads up her 2002 Honda Odyssey minivan, which has more than 250,000 miles, to prepare for a day of visiting patients at their homes. Dr. Roberta Miller hits the road at 8 a.m. to see her patients. Many are too old or sick to go to the doctor. So the doctor comes to them. She's put 250,000 miles on her Honda minivan going to their homes in upstate New York. Home visits make a different kind of care possible. "You can evaluate the person as a whole," says Miller, who has been a home care physician in Schenectady, N.Y., for more than 20 years. "You see everything that influences their health and well-being: the environment, the surrounding people, the support system, whether they had or didn't have food." Miller spends about an hour at each house call. Conversation with patients and their family members flows so naturally that it's easy to miss that she's also checking vital signs, gently stretching a hand, noting which pill bottles are empty. / Misha Friedman for NPR Miller (clockwise from upper left) checks what her patient Calla Osborne, 92, had to eat by reading notes kept by Osborne's daughter; Miller explains to John Toombs, 78, that canned soup can be high in sodium; Divina Gaskin, 71, tells Miller about the side effects of her pills; Miller checks in on Gordon Laymon, 76, who lives alone. Although Miller's practice may harken back to the country doctor of decades past, it could be the future of medicine. In 2013, about 2.6 million Medicare claims were filed for patient home visits and house calls. That's up from 2.3 million visits in 2009 and 1.4 million visits in 1999, according to Medicare statistics. The trend is expected to accelerate as baby boomers grow older. One in 20 people over the age of 65 is homebound in the U.S., according to a study published in July in JAMA Internal Medicine. "That's just the nature of the population we treat," Miller says. "They're extremely ill. Homebound patients often have up to 12 or 13 problems, not just one." And they're often invisible. These people could be living just down the block, and you'd never know it. Many of them never leave their homes. Patricia Gillihan, 71, lies in her home hospital bed while Miller checks her medical records. Miller in her 1971 Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing graduation photo. She worked as a nurse in New York City before going to Rutgers Medical School and becoming a doctor. (At right) Miller heads back to her van after visiting a patient in Troy, N.Y. Miller's patients include a 55-year-old woman with ALS who can communicate only with her eyes, a 27-year-old former quarterback left quadriplegic and in a coma after surgery on an Achilles tendon, a 92-year-old woman cared for by her daughter, and a severely depressed man who lives alone. Jahmel Tarver, 27, is quadriplegic and in a coma after complications from surgery for a torn Achilles tendon. Tarver is a former quarterback for the Troy Fighting Irish, a semipro football team. It's challenging to visit one patient after another, many of whom are at the end of the line, Miller says. What helps keep her going is the deep relationships that develop, where she acts as family, friend and physician. "Many times, like this gentleman, he's all alone. You are it — you are the contact. And in that sense, sometimes it's overwhelming," Miller says after visiting a patient who has no family nearby. "You have to set limits, and when you do that, you can have a really excellent working relationship with people." Being on-call for her patients 24/7 can be a challenge, but Miller feels responsible, knowing there are so few home care doctors out there. She and her husband, Dr. David Hornick, who's also a home care physician, have close to 300 patients right now. There's a long waiting list for care. There aren't enough home care doctors to go around. One reason is reimbursement. "Health care systems are attracting primary care providers to their networks by salary packages that can't currently be sustained in a home care practice," Miller explains. Miller listens to Budd and Terri Wyman. Terri, 55, can only communicate with her eyes using a speech-generating device. After a long day visiting patients, Miller takes a rare rest on a canopied hammock in her backyard. Her workday usually starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 1 in the morning. At right, Miller and her husband, Dr. David Hornick, also a home care physician, check incoming text messages from patients during dinner at their favorite Italian restaurant, Mario's. Home care skills are rarely taught in today's medical education system, Miller says, but that doesn't mean there's not a need. After the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014, Miller saw a spike in new patient requests. Low-income Medicaid patients had sought house calls in the past, but the government insurance wasn't enough to cover the cost of Miller's visits, including travel expenses. "Now we can afford to see them and take care of them. Because they haven't had medical care, they have multiple medical needs and psychosocial needs," she says. "It has given us access to a group of people, but more importantly, they have access to us." The Affordable Care Act affected Medicare patient coverage, too, Miller says. Medicare reimbursements increased in 2014 for people who are disabled or 65 and older. But reimbursements declined in 2015 because of sequestration. And now Medicaid reimbursements rates are starting to decrease as well. Miller believes the shortage of physicians who are willing to make home visits is directly attributable to this inadequate payment for service. "The big question is: Is there ever going to be a system where home health care providers can be reimbursed appropriately so that we can create a greater workforce of home care providers?" She sure hopes so. Photographer says he tries "looking beyond the facts, searching for causes, and asking complex and difficult questions." His work has been featured by many media organizations, including NPR,The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Der Spiegel and GQ. Freelance writer Nadia Whitehead contributed to this report. Misha Friedman

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using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations; namespace PaySharp.Unionpay.Domain { public class ScanPayModel : BasePayModel { public ScanPayModel() { BizType = "000000"; TxnType = "01"; TxnSubType = "07"; } /// <summary> /// 终端信息 /// </summary> [StringLength(300, ErrorMessage = "终端信息最大长度为300位")] public string TermInfo { get; set; } /// <summary> /// 终端号 /// </summary> public string TermId { get; set; } } }

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Q: How should one approach a beginner's programming task? I am very new to python and am struggling to create a program for a class. We are supposed to record the snowfall everyday for a week and round the input to one decimal place, which I did below: def main(): print "~*~*~*~*~*~ SNOWFALL LOG ~*~*~*~*~*~" snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 1: ")) print "Snowfall for Day 1: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 2: ")) print "Snowfall for Day 2: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 3: ")) print "Snowfall for Day 3: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 4: ")) print "Snowfall for Day 4: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 5: ")) print "Snowfall for Day 5: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 6: ")) print "Snowfall for Day 6: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 7: ")) print "Snowfall for Day 7: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) main() However, after that we are supposed to calculate the total snowfall and the average using a for loop. I know the command str(command) is also somehow involved, but I don't know how. How should I approach this problem? A: What I would suggest you do is put the values into a list, to store them. So before your printing put this in: snowFallTotal = [] Now you can put values into this list. After every raw_input put this: snowFallTotal.append(snowFall) What this does is 'append' snowFall to the list. Now after getting all the values, you can calculate the sum using a for loop and then dividing it by 7 to get the average. totalSum = 0 # variable to store the sum for i in snowFallTotal: # iterate through the value list totalSum += i # augmented addition; adds the value to the variable in place average = totalSum / 7.0 # floating point division to get accurate average Then you can print the result. print 'Average Snowfall for the week:', ('%.1f' % average) As a side note, you don't need the for loop. You can replace it with a simple sum function. totalSum = sum(snowFallTotal) This assigns totalSum to the sum of the elements in snowFallTotal, which is exactly what the for loop did as well. A: You could save a few lines of code if you used a loop: # An empty list to hold data snowfalls = [] # Loop through each daynumber, from 1 to 7 for daynumber in range(1,8): snowfall = float(raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day {}: ".format(daynumber))) snowfalls.append(snowfall) print "Snowfall for Day {}: {:.1f}".format(daynumber, snowFall) # For debugging, print the whole list print snowfalls # Calculate total total_snowfall = sum(snowfalls) print "Total snowfall: {:.1f}".format(total_snowfall) # Calculate average (= total / 7.0 ) # len() gets the length of the snowfall list average_snowfall = total_snowfall / len (snowfalls) print "Average snowfall: {:.1f}".format(average_snowfall) I've used format(), which is the new way to do string formatting - it's pretty nifty :) A: I recommend you read your assignment specification thoroughly, and with it your class notes. It is rare that an assignment is given without enough materials for the student to complete the task. There are lots of resources related to Python online, including official documentation which can help you with specific functions such as str(). If you have direct access to your teachers, ask them lots of questions. They can help you with any fundamental problems about how to approach programming tasks. A: I could write a function doing that, but I guess you are just starting doing this... so maybe this helps. It's not DRY (a good rule for programming is Don't Repeat Yourself), but this way might help you understand it better! total_snowfall=0.0 snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 1: ")) total_snowfall +=snowFall print "Snowfall for Day 1: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 2: ")) total_snowfall +=snowFall print "Snowfall for Day 2: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 3: ")) total_snowfall +=snowFall print "Snowfall for Day 3: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 4: ")) total_snowfall +=snowFall print "Snowfall for Day 4: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 5: ")) total_snowfall +=snowFall print "Snowfall for Day 5: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 6: ")) total_snowfall +=snowFall print "Snowfall for Day 6: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) snowFall = float (raw_input("Enter Snowfall for Day 7: ")) total_snowfall +=snowFall print "Snowfall for Day 7: ", ("%.1f" % snowFall) print "total snowfall is:" ,("%.1f" % total_snowfall) #you can do some calculations here

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Apricot Scones – Light, flaky, buttery scones layered with chopped apricots and iced with an almond flavored glaze. Light and buttery, flaky and soft, these are absolutely wonderful scones. It was love at first bite for me and I feel certain these will make any mom swoon over brunch. This Buttery Apricot Scone Recipe is so easy to make – even non-bakers can make this happen. Remember those flaky canned biscuits? These come apart in soft, lightly sweet layers just like the old canned biscuits, but taste so much better! Whisk together the flour and baking powder. In a 2 cup measure combine the granulated sugar, milk and salt, stir to dissolve. Cut in ice cold butter until pea-size pieces form then add the milk. Stir with a fork until the dough comes together. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured work surface and spread on 2 tablespoons softened butter. Sprinkle chopped dried apricots evenly over the dough. Fold the dough like an envelope, in thirds. Fold the dough in half crosswise, press together and gently flatten into an 8×4″ rectangle. Cut the dough into 8 equal pieces and bake! Brush the fresh baked scones with butter or drizzle with a simple icing flavored with almond extract. Layers and layers of sweet apricots and buttery goodness! This is a wonderful splurge and totally worth all the broccoli and salads I ate all week! I hope you'll make these apricot scones as part of your mother's day celebration. Don't forget our terrific Crustless Asparagus Cheese Pie to round out a wonderful brunch. A light, flaky, buttery scone layered with chopped apricots and iced with an almond flavored glaze. In a two cup measure combine the milk, sugar, and salt. Whisk until dissolved. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl whisk together the flour and baking powder. Cut 10 tablespoons of the cold butter into 1/2" pieces. Add the butter to the flour mixture and blend using a pastry cutter until pea size pieces remain. Add the milk and stir with a fork until the dough starts to come together. Lightly flour a clean work surface and gently roll the dough out into a 14x8" rectangle. Soften the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter in the microwave and using your fingers, spread the butter evenly over the surface of the dough. Sprinkle the chopped apricots over the dough and gently press so they stick. With the long side of the dough facing you, fold the top 1/3 of the dough over the center. Fold the remaining 1/3 over the top portion, like folding a letter. Fold the dough in half, then using the rolling pin, gently flatten to an 8x4" rectangle. Cut the dough in half lengthwise, and then into quarters crosswise to make 8 even squares. Bake on the parchment lined baking sheet for 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to a rack to cool slightly before icing. To prepare the glaze combine the confectioners sugar, almond extract and water in a small mixing bowl. Whisk until smooth. Drizzle over scones and serve. For all you moms out there – have a wonderful Mother's Day – whether it's with your mom, or your children, or that special woman in your life. Being a mom has to be the best job in the whole world. Thanks so much for stopping by! Tasted really good. I like that the dough baked up crunchy outside and soft inside. One cup of milk was not enough to get the dough to hold together. I added a bit more, but still hard to roll out. I think i would add the chopped apricots to the mixture before forming it. The almond glaze was really good with this. Thanks for the feedback Lori and for trying this recipe. Great tip about adding the apricots to the dough. Happy baking and thanks again. I found your recipe for these scones on Pinterest. I just had to make them immediately. But all I had was apricot preserves. So off I went and made them. They were awesone…I think the best scones I have made so far. I loved your technique for making these scones. Think I might try a different preserve next time…something on the thick side. Thanks again! P.S. My Shih Tzu loved them too! ???? How awesome Elaine! I love that you used preserves – that added sweetness must be great. Thanks for giving it a try and for the feedback! Ooo, Tricia, I love the way you fold them before baking – love that idea. Have printed your recipe and will have to invite friends over for tea soon. You have some interesting tea to serve your guests Mandy – hope you love the scones! Oh my Goodness, these look AMAZING! You know how sometimes, on Pinterest or on a blog or print magazine (how retro!), you see a food image that stops you in your tracks? Your top photo did that to me. Everything about this post made me say, "WOW!" ….the photos….the recipe….the works. 🙂 Thank you for sharing this! I know I will be making these scones over and over again. Oh Tricia, now I know what's on my wish list for Mother's Day . I must try these fantastic scones, they look truly irresistible. You too Daniela! Hope you are doing well. What a wonderful recipe for breakfast or brunch! Wish I'd seen them in time for today! Father's Day is coming up Beth – maybe a little cinnamon and sugar would do the trick! Hope you had a lovely Mother's Day! I think many of us will be trying this method, Tricia! They look absolutely irresistible and I'm in love with the folding technique. So many possibilities 🙂 Thank you for such a wonderful recipe! Happy Mother's Day to you. Thanks Susan – buttery layers are so hard to resist! Happy Mother's Day! Thanks Betty – What a wonderful brother to share his fresh asparagus with you. We just love it. Lingering is good 🙂 Hope you're having a fun "end of school" roundup! Happy Mother's Day! That first picture alone made my mouth start watering! I am making a Mother's Day brunch – these will be on the menu! They look fantastic! Thanks Chris – have a wonderful Mother's Day! Happy Mothers Day and thank you! Thanks Monique – they are tasty. Have a wonderful Mother's Day! Thanks so much Becky. Hope you are doing great. I also hope you have a fantastic Mother's Day! Take care and thanks so much for stopping by. These look perfect. I have not seen scones folded in this manner. Interesting! I will be giving this a try, maybe for Mother's Day Brunch. Can these be prepared in advance? I have not tried making them ahead, but the original recipe noted: "Rolled and cut scone dough can be frozen in an airtight container up to 2 days. Bake directly from the freezer, increasing baking time as needed. Scones can be made 6 hours ahead-let cool completely and store in an airtight container at room temperature." We refrigerated our left over scones (if you can believe there were any left over!) and reheated in the microwave for 30 seconds before eating. They kept well for 5 days and still tasted wonderful. Thanks! Have a happy Mother's Day! These look so flaky and delicious! I love that new technique..must try it next time when I make scones. Thanks Angie – anything with butter in the middle just has to be good! Happy Mother's Day! I can hardly stop myself from putting down my coffee and running to the kitchen to make these! I really love scones, and this new method is going to haunt me until I try it. Those layers! So sorry – don't you just hate that! I can't wait to see what you come up with! Happy Mother's Day Sue! Oh Tricia – these look fantastic! I love that fold-over technique…gotta try that! These flavors make me think of Italian rainbow cookies, which are one of my favorite things. The butteriness with apricot and that almond glaze are all so good together. A chocolate glaze could work for me, too! ; ) Hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day weekend! You will love them Monica – I was thinking about a little brown sugar cinnamon thing for the middle – they will be almost like cinnamon rolls without yeast – more like a cinnamon roll biscuit. Yummmmmmm Happy Mother's Day to you! Oooooooh! LOVE at first sight! Scones (or any biscuit-like creation) are my biggest weakness! And apricots. Tricia, I think you tempted me right off my diet – wagon. These are like the best biscuits ever Tanna! I really ate salads, asparagus and broccoli all week so this was a real treat! I'm a mom, I deserve that something special … somebody should tell that to my waistline!

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Upland bird hunting begins Sept. 1 and hunters along the Rocky Mountain Front, especially in riparian areas, need to be aware they are in bear country. In recent years, grizzlies have wandered out onto the prairie away from the Front, following streams and river bottoms. That means hunters moving through thick brush along streams from Sept. 1 into November during the big game season could encounter a grizzly. Fish, Wildlife and Parks recommends hunters carry bear spray in addition to their firearms. Statistically bear spray offers better personal protection than a sidearm in bear country. FWP has produced a brochure outlining some simple safety procedures for bird hunters in grizzly country. The brochures are available at FWP Region 4 in Great Falls and many license agents along the Front. For more information, call FWP in Great Falls at (406) 454-5840.

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Delta Airlines (NYSE:DAL) announced plans to ban the shipment of big-game trophies worldwide on all of their flights. The news comes after the death of Cecil the lion by an American dentist in Zimbabwe, which sparked outrage on social media and among animal rights activists. "Effectively immediately, Delta will officially ban shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide as freight," Delta said. Delta is the only U.S. airline to fly to Africa. Several foreign airlines announced similar plans last week including Air France, KLM, Iberia, IAG Cargo, Singapore Airlines and Qantas. The Humane Society of the United States is now calling on other airlines to follow suit. "Delta has set a great example, and no airline should provide a get-away vehicle for the theft of Africa's wildlife by these killers,"said President and CEO of The Humane Society Wayne Pacelle. "Lufthansa, Delta, and Emirates are the only airlines that do not ship trophies. All other airlines are assumed to ship. It is common to ship animals and their parts. This is legal," adds Teresa Telecky, Director of Wildlife at Humane Society International. Pacelle says much of the pay-to-slay killing around the world is conducted by wealthy trophy hunters who compete for awards.

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Over the past 17 years that I have been working with athletes and their families I have discovered three common characteristics that help athletes succeed. I will discuss these themes in this blog and subsequent posts. The inner game feels like a mystery a lot of the time doesn't it? We read books on the subject, all of the ideas sound great and really helpful, but why do athletes still struggle applying these lessons? Why do some athletes show great poise under pressure and others crumble. Yes, there are many variables. This is always the case but it doesn't mean we can't identify some key factors that would actually solve the riddle of the mental game. I believe athletes need to be able to develop the following attributes to succeed and thrive in sports: First, they need awareness. Athletes need to know where they are weak, recognize their strengths and be clear about how their mind gets in the way–even if it is just 5% of the time. Many athletes have blind spots and don't know how they are sabotaging their performances. Second, athletes need to find as much intrinsic motivation as possible. Athletes are overwhelmed by expectations and getting "there" and don't practice engaging in the process. They are fixated on short-term results and are not clear how to find a more sustaining connection to their sport. Coaches and parents can help with this. Third, athletes need to learn how to master their emotions. They need to let negative thoughts go, move on from mistakes, trust their game, stay focused on the task at hand and deal with disappointment. Emotional mastery requires both awareness and intrinsic motivation. Athletes must see that controlling their emotions is part of their development and an important skill in and of itself. This three-step approach (AIM) will help athletes develop the necessary skills to help them perform at their peak more consistently. I will go into great depth in subsequent posts on how all athletes–regardless of their sport–can do this over time. We work on our technical and tactical games, but how about a little more precise focus on the inner game that teaches athletes skills that will serve them well for a lifetime?

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I installed Xubuntu 12.04 on a Toshiba Tecra S1 + radeon driver (from the Software Center) + MythTv-frontend. If i exit MythTv-Frontend, a message in the upper right corner appears, saying "MythTv crashed unexpected, Error Code 134, Restarting" and mythtv restarts. Note: This only happens when i have watched recorded Shows or Live TV. If i start the frontend, do nothing else, and exit it again this error is not shown and mythtv not restarting. This Bug is not critical because all seems to work, its just annoying that i have to close it twice because of the restart. I tried the Solution mentioned here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1799026 in post #2 but then i couldn't start mythtv from the menu anymore (just nothing happend). If you need additional information, please give me a hint where i can find it (command line / Log Files) because i'm very new to linux. PS: System is up-to-date, i installed all updates just an hour ago.

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Public Relations: Communicating More with Less Fast and accurate communication has become even more important throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Park and recreation professionals have needed to disseminate important health information, changes to programs, closures in parks and so much more. On top of having more to communicate, many agencies have been affected by furloughs and layoffs, leaving agencies to communicate more with less. In this webinar, we will explore the ways in which park and recreation professionals have been affected by the pandemic, and the tools, resources and partnerships they are using to continue communicating information that is vital to their mission. Knowledge of tools and resources to support public relations communication. Recognize partnerships to increase communication to the community. Jacqueline L. Gerling Director of Communications, Cleveland Metroparks As Cleveland Metroparks Director of Communications, Jacqueline Gerling directs the Park District's internal and external communications. From strategy through execution, Jacqueline manages Cleveland Metroparks owned and earned communications channels across 18 park reservations, eight golf courses and the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Jacqueline has strengthened Cleveland Metroparks media relations efforts, expanding coverage of special events and mission-based programming. In 2020, earned media coverage of the Park District reached approximately 900 million at an ad equivalency value of more than $7.7 million. Earned media coverage of the Zoo in 2020 reached more than 1.3 billion at an ad equivalency value of $12.3 million. In her role, Jacqueline has streamlined communications with both media and the general public. Jacqueline led the organization's communications during its centennial celebration in 2017 and the Park District's rebrand in 2018. She helped activate Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's 2017 rebrand, updating the visual identity and messaging to focus on its mission-based conservation work. The efforts drove national attention and led to a 2% increase in Zoo attendance, a 10% increase in positive earned media stories, a 50% increase in impressions and engagement on Facebook as well as a 25% increase in website visits. Jacqueline is a graduate of Denison University, former broadcast journalist and has experience leading public relations departments both in the private sector, as well as the public sector, under former Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. Jacqueline is an avid sports fan and enjoys staying active and spending time outdoors. She resides in Rocky River, Ohio with her husband, Sam and daughter, Avery. Roxanne Sutton Director of Communications, National Recreation and Park Association Roxanne Sutton is the Director of Communications at the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA). Her responsibilities include overseeing social media strategy and content development and promoting the award-winning work of our partnerships and business development team. She is also the host of NRPA's podcast, Open Space Radio. In her role, Roxanne is fortunate to communicate and work directly with many NRPA members to promote new opportunities and showcase the great work local parks and recreation are doing in their communities. Prior to her role at NRPA, she worked at a PR firm in D.C. on a multitude of accounts ranging from energy clients to non-profits. She graduated with honors and recognition from George Mason University with her bachelors in Communication specializing in Public Relations. She was a member of Lambda Pi Eta and recipient of the Excellence in Communication Award.

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An internship is an academic course offered to qualified students who want an experiential learning opportunity. The Criminology Department internship allows students to engage in either full-time (12 credits, 480 hours) or part-time (6 credits, 240 hours) study in an approved work environment. Students get to apply their knowledge of criminology/criminal justice to the actual daily activities of a professional criminal justice agency. Students are graded based upon their daily performance, the cooperating agency's evaluation, and successful completion of required academic assignments. A total of either 12 credits or 6 credits will be earned upon successful completion of the internship. Students who qualify for this opportunity must have a minimum of 60 college credits, with 12 of those credits from Criminology. Also, qualified students must have a minimum GPA of 2.5. How Do I Go About Getting an Internship?

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Jonathon A. B. Allison letter The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections The collection contains a letter, dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia, " to "Dear Uncle." It contains news of friends and of the war. A penciled annotation identifies Uncle John as John Allison. 1862 March 6 Allison, Jonathan A. B. (Person) Collection is open for research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Due to the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access to certain materials may require additional advance notice. In 1862, Jonathon A.B. Allison was in "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia." 0.05 Linear Feet (1 item) A letter dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia," to "Dear Uncle," with news of friends and the war. To provide faster access to our materials, this finding aid was published without formal and final review. Email us at [email protected] if you find mistakes or have suggestions to make this finding aid more useful for your research. S. Braden, 2008; updated by Martha Bace, 2013 Daily Life and Family United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 War and Military Guide to the Jonathan A.B. Allison letter Coll Lvl Complete Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/ Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0266 [email protected] Jonathon A. B. Allison letter, MSS-0068. The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections. http://archives.lib.ua.edu/repositories/3/resources/445 Accessed January 28, 2023.

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More Than 150,000 People Have Died From Coronavirus In The U.S. By Alana Wise & Bill Chappell • Jul 29, 2020 The United States crossed a grim milestone Wednesday, with more than 150,000 lives now lost as a result of the coronavirus. The tragic number includes around 33,000 people who have died in New York, nearly 16,000 in New Jersey and more than 8,700 in California. The U.S. death toll is the worst in the world, by a large measure. Despite having less than 5% of the global population, nearly a quarter of the 662,000 deaths reported during the pandemic worldwide have occurred in the United States. The next-worst toll is in Brazil, which is reporting around 89,000 deaths. Overall, the U.S. has confirmed nearly 4.4 million coronavirus cases – a figure that includes nearly 1.4 million patients who have recovered from COVID-19, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Despite the massive death toll and alarming spikes in new cases, President Trump continues to push for a national reopening, including a plan to tie federal funds to students' return to in-person classes when the new school year starts. The pandemic is taking a horrible toll on Americans and their economy, even as federal and local officials struggle to contain the coronavirus — and in many cases, to agree on a basic level about what preventive measures should be taken. As cases of the virus have surged in recent weeks, Trump has struck a more somber tone when discussing the pandemic. Last week, the president urged widespread mask usage after months of insisting the expert-recommended safety measure is merely a personal choice. After hitting a plateau in the spring, the rate of new coronavirus cases has risen to staggering heights in a number of states across the South and West this summer. Experts now warn that rising cases of the virus are traveling up the East Coast, and that the Northeast could see a new spike in cases as well. The current U.S. death rate is far below its height in April and early May when thousands of deaths were regularly reported. But the national fatality numbers have recently edged upward, topping the 1,000 mark on four consecutive days last week. Florida reported a record number of deaths Wednesday, with 216 fatalities. It's the second day in a row that the hard-hit state has set a new mark — after reporting 186 deaths on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, Arkansas logged its highest one-day death count from the coronavirus yet. The U.S. case fatality rate, which tallies deaths per 100 confirmed cases, stands at 3.4%, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard. That figure is far lower than the numbers reported in the U.K., Belgium and Mexico (15.2%, 14.8% and 11.1%, respectively), but it's roughly equal to Brazil's rate of 3.6%. In terms of overall population (both healthy people and those confirmed to have the coronavirus), the U.S. mortality rate is roughly equal to that in France. Both countries report more than 45 deaths per 100,000 residents. In the world of sports, Major League Baseball has been leading the way in resuming games. But at least 17 players and staff members of the Miami Marlins have contracted the virus as games resumed last week. The league has now put the Marlins' season on pause. On the political front, Republicans have rolled out their latest proposal for a fifth round of coronavirus relief — but the plan has already found opponents both with Democrats and within the Republican Party. Understanding COVID-19 Statistics By All Sides Staff • Jul 29, 2020 Justin Hicks / Indiana Public Broadcasting The plethora of statistics used to quantify the coronavirus pandemic can overwhelm anyone. Experts track cases, hospitalizations, deaths, positivity rates and R-naughts, but it is hard figure out which ones give us the best idea of how we're doing fighting the virus. At the same time, many experts say that we are undercounting the number of cases and number of deaths, removing what little certainty existed. Letters From Home: 'Hoping For The Best, Unprepared For The Worst' By Leticia Wiggins • Jul 29, 2020 Mary Rathke / WOSU Public Media WOSU's Letters from Home collects stories about day-to-day lives during the coronavirus pandemic. This week, we continue listening to Ohioans sharing their feelings about the upcoming school year, and the plans for reopening schools. Coronavirus In Ohio: Teachers Union Says Many Schools Should Be Online In The Fall By Jo Ingles • Jul 29, 2020 Andy Chow / Ohio Public Radio The state's largest teachers' union says schools in areas where coronavirus poses a threat should plan to start online this fall.

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Murder Fix: The Most Dangerous Trope in Fiction Posted on January 2, 2022, 9:55 pm By Joshua Ingle If only we could kill all the worst, most evil people in the world, would the world be a better place? If we ask the entertainment industry, the answer is a resounding yes. The ultimate fix for all of the world's problems, according to many of the most popular TV shows, movies, and books from the last half-century, is simply to kill the villain. This trope is so prevalent in fiction that we accept it at face value, but it's high time that we name it and hold it up to scrutiny. I call it the "Murder Fix." It's one of the most harmful false ideas we put in our entertainment. From The Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter to almost every animated Disney movie, the hero's goal is the same. In order to save their loved ones and protect the world as we know it, the villain must die. Nothing else needs to happen to fix the world—just the villain's death (or maybe the death of the villain's whole team). The economic and political systems the villain had created, and the downstream effects they had on the rest of society? Immediately forgotten upon the villain's death. The tremendous social influence the villain wielded while in power, and the social environment that propped them up? Gone immediately when the villain dies. In stories that end with a Murder Fix, it's like God's eraser descends on the world to wipe away any lasting effects of the villain's reign. True, a few heroes may have sacrificed themselves along the way, but all the bad things that happened are in the past. Murdering the villain fixed the world. The future will now be blissful and idyllic. No recent example of the Murder Fix is more barefaced than the Murder Fix at the end of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. After J. J. Abrams had set up Supreme Leader Snoke as the trilogy's main antagonist, Rian Johnson shocked audiences by killing Snoke off halfway through the second film. The original Star Wars trilogy ended with a Murder Fix: Emperor Palpatine's death led to the immediate collapse of the Galactic Empire—and presumably an end to all of the heroes' problems at the time. Audiences expected Snoke to fill the same role in the new trilogy, so when he suddenly died, Star Wars' story structure went deliciously off the rails into new, exciting territory. Who was the villain now? Surely not Kylo Ren, who was on track for a redemption arc. Could it be that we were about to see a more ethically complicated and challenging Star Wars, in which the primary villain had some good in him, yet still did awful things? A Star Wars that examined recovery from intergenerational family trauma and the lasting devastation of empire through an inquisitive rather than a vengeful lens? Sadly, we were not so lucky. The Rise of Skywalker's creators apparently could think of no way to drive their story forward without a villain to kill to make everything right again. They knew they couldn't bring Snoke back after such a memorable death scene, so at the very beginning of the third film, they inexplicably returned Emperor Palpatine from the dead. Palpatine had had nothing to do with the Star Wars story since Return of the Jedi, but featuring morally gray Kylo Ren as the villain, with the morally complicated story resolution that would surely follow, was too much of a risk for the film's creators. So they brought back Palpatine for no other reason than to have a villain for the heroes to kill at the end, to restore peace and justice to the galaxy. This is where the entertainment industry is at right now. We've been so conditioned to expect, accept, and even to want Murder Fixes at the end of our stories that we can't even think of other ways to resolve our plots. Even in my own writing, I find that my story outlines sometimes default to Murder Fix endings, and I need to work against my own bias to find more creative, meaningful resolutions. I sometimes need to rewrite scenes to ensure the defining trait of my heroes' heroism isn't their ability to persevere until they can murder someone who "deserves it." I say "murder," but the villains in most of these stories aren't usually murdered outright. Often the heroes kill them in self-defense, or the villain inadvertently causes their own demise. The key feature of the Murder Fix is the fix, not the murder. All problems in the story world suddenly vanish after the villain's death. Why is this idea harmful? For starters, it vastly oversimplifies a complex world by assuming that bad people are the cause of bad societies rather than a result of them. The real-life determinants of bad behavior are numerous and nuanced. In real life, bad people become bad due to a myriad of social influences, not due to some intrinsic "evil" quality they possess. Killing a bad person in real life solves none of the problems that caused them to become bad in the first place. Genetics is admittedly a factor in bad behavior, but since we have little control over our own genes, it's hardly just to hold a villain responsible for theirs. As evidence mounts that most criminals can be rehabilitated and as we learn that different societies define crime in different ways, some of which may be highly unethical, it seems increasingly inhumane to punish bad people as harshly as we do. It would be one thing if the Murder Fix was confined to the world of entertainment. But the idea that killing or punishing the right people will solve all of the world's problems is also pervasive in government policy. Most of the world's criminal justice systems focus on retribution, which inflicts pain, increases recidivism, and does nothing to tackle the root causes of crime to prevent future crime from occurring. The United States' approach to fighting terrorism has also been just as naïve as the screenplay for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: "Kill the terrorists, and there will be no more terrorism." It's unclear whether the entertainment industry is reflecting government policy, whether government policy is being influenced by generations of indoctrinating storytelling, or whether both are responding to a deeper cognitive bias embedded in our brains that urges us to label people as irredeemably evil and then destroy them. What is clear is that Murder Fixes distract us from the systemic problems that are the true sources of most of the world's suffering: systemic problems that are nowhere near as easy or sexy to solve. When we should be focusing our energies on how governments and corporations relate to each other, how election systems function, how to spot embedded structural biases, how diplomatic relations can succeed, and what the most important problems are in the first place, we instead focus on retribution. If we can just kill the right terrorist, if we can just lock the right people behind bars, if we can just get one person out of office, then the world's problems will supposedly, miraculously recede, and we'll then be able to return to our normal lives, ignoring the problems that don't affect us personally. Systemic problems can be extremely complex and difficult to solve, but a quick search of the internet reveals an army of researchers and policymakers who have written piercingly insightful think pieces about these problems and crafted ingenious solutions. For the entertainment industry's sake, I'd like to add a solution of my own: Let's stop writing and celebrating Murder Fixes, and start writing and celebrating stories that subvert them. Less Star Wars, more Star Trek. Plenty of great stories are able to resolve themselves without Murder Fixes. (Spoiler warning for some stellar stories.) Avatar: The Last Airbender directly confronts the Murder Fix trope by making the dilemma of whether or not to kill the bad guy central to the series' climax. It asks us to consider whether an eye-for-an-eye killing of even a very evil villain is ethical. Spider-Man: No Way Home goes even further, with Peter Parker fighting against his own ally to save the villains' lives and rehabilitate them. Other stories, such as Joker and The Wire, use bad people to turn a mirror on the society that created them. Sometimes, the hero triumphantly succeeds at a Murder Fix, only to realize that their own side has become just like the very villain they killed, and nothing has changed—like in The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones. Stories like The Martian, Interstellar, and Annihilation show that stories don't even need a villain in the first place: characters struggling against adverse circumstances can be just as engaging. When there is a villain, the heroes and villains can simply work out their differences or change their minds at the end, with no sacrifice of conflict or excitement, as happens in The Good Place, Serenity, and often in Lois McMaster Bujold's brilliant Vorkosigan Saga. Cloud Atlas portrays the harm to both individuals and society when we vilify and destroy each other. Even when that story's villains do get their comeuppance, it's only after the heroes have learned the hard way that retribution and destruction aren't the most productive paths forward. Sometimes we ourselves are revealed as the villain, as in Ex Machina and Dark. Society itself can also serve as a powerful villain that must be defeated through means other than violence. Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood are masters of this type of story. There are also entire genres, of course, that tell intensely engaging stories without the need for physical conflict at all. Romance and erotica are two of the highest selling fiction genres. And this is just the beginning. A plethora of other story endings besides the Murder Fix exist. It's time to end our reliance on this lazy and regressive trope. Let's stop telling stories that focus solely on having enough grit and determination to solve problems whose solution is already clear—kill the villain—and start telling stories about how else we can solve problems. The world desperately needs such stories right now. 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The Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) is a non-profit organization located near the town of Occidental in the western part of Sonoma County, California. Situated on an 80-acre ecological reserve near the Russian River, OAEC works with communities in the region to restore and build cultural and biological diversity. Community The OAEC was initially founded by a group of friends as a non-profit in conjunction with its original company The Sowing Circle. Resilient community design assists individuals or groups of people to adapt methodologies of permaculture design. OAEC uses this design as a way to teach and guide the surrounding communities to create their own sustainable and resilient system based on what their needs are. The OAEC does this throughout 2-week courses year-round on different permaculture subjects, including Greywater, erosion control and stormwater management. 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They set out to challenge policies associated with centralized water practices by creating goals to educate the public on beneficial localized water practices, apply best-management practices to private sectors, and work to move toward more advanced legislation and policy on sustainable localized water management. Russian River Coho Water Resources Partnership Funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and many other partnerships, the Russian River Coho Water Resources Partnership looks to bring and keep water reliability solutions to the Russian River Watershed, solutions that include improving the streamflow and supply of water to help the endangered Coho salmon. Within the rivers 110 miles there are five main tributaries that the partnership has made its priority due to low stream flows and need for urgent recovery paths for the salmon, these include Dutch Bill Creek, Green Valley Creek, Mark West Creek, Mill Creek, and Grape Creek. California receives a majority of rainfall in the winter and spring months and supplies the streams with enough water, but the challenge lies in the summer and fall months where water is being used for human use. The partnership looks at strategies where water can be stored during the rainy seasons and used for dry months so water is not being pulled during this time to supply human needs. The partnership will work with individuals to look at personal consumption and make conservation strategies that will benefit both people and the fish that rely on this water source. Bring back the Beaver Campaign The North American Beaver is a beneficial keystone species. Beavers create a habitat that benefits surrounding species as well as the environment around them. This ecosystem engineer helps improve habitat for fish, amphibians, mammals, and birds, including endangered species, ultimately increasing species diversity and richness. Their dams can help improve water quantity with increased water storage, and connectivity between water sources, help improve quality by reducing erosion and turbidity, increased nutrient cycling, carbon retention, purify water and retain pollutants. Bring Back the Beaver Campaign educates communities on these important benefits that the North American Beaver brings to water systems. The campaign also works to blend their knowledge into regulation and policy in California to create a more educated and friendly way in the management of local beavers. Caltrans Beaver project In 2015 Caltrans in the San Luis Obispo area decided to build a new roadway in Prunedale California next to a wetland area where Beaver, Western pond turtles and endangered Red-legged frog lived. The culverts near the newly built road fell victim to damming by the beavers and eventually started to flood causing transportation issues. Instead of Caltrans removing the beavers from the road area, they decided to team up with OAEC WATER Institute to help educate policy makers of San Luis Obispo and come up with a solution that will benefit both parties. The solution they came up with was a flow control device that helped keep the water level low, kept the dam from growing larger and did not affect the surrounding habitat. References Organizations based in Sonoma County, California Non-profit organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area Environmental organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Anna Panayotou, Giovanbattista Galdi (ed.), Ἑλληνικὲς διάλεκτοι στὸν ἀρχαῖο κόσμο: Actes du VIe colloque international sur les dialectes grecs anciens (Nicosie, université de Chypre, 26-29 septembre 2011). Bibliothèque des cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique de Louvain (BCILL), 137. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2017. Pp. xxvi, 391. ISBN 9789042931930. €87.00. The volume under review consists of the published proceedings of the sixth international conference on Greek dialectology, held in Nicosia on the 26th to 29th of September 2011. These international conferences on Ancient Greek dialectology have been regularly held every five years since the inaugural conference organised by Claude Brixhe in 1987. The previous conferences in this series have also been published with proceedings and have been important venues for dissemination of research in Ancient Greek dialect studies. The present volume continues this tradition and contains the majority of papers given at the conference, consisting of twenty contributions on a wide variety of topics pertaining to the linguistic study of the Ancient Greek dialects. The contributions are primarily in French and English, but also with two contributions in Spanish and one in Italian. In addition to being a proceedings volume, the book has also been conceived as a memorial volume to the late Professor António López Eire. A full list of authors and titles is given at the end of the review. The main contributions of the volume are organised into a basic structure of introductory material – including an historical overview of the five previous conferences on Ancient Greek dialectology 1986–2011 (Panayotou & Galdi) and an appreciation of the work on Ancient Greek dialectology by the dedicatee António López Eire (Lillo) – followed by papers dealing with the evidence of new documents and perspectives on the dialects, papers on the Achaean (i.e. Arcadian, Cypriot, and Pamphylian) dialects, Doric (West Greek) dialects, Ionian dialects, Aeolian dialects, and a final section of papers dealing with pan-dialectal matters. The contents of the volume are consequently heavily focused on the epichoric dialects attested through the epigraphic record. Only a single paper (Méndez Dosuna) specifically deals with dialect or the representation of dialect in literature. Finally, the editors of the volume are to be commended in creating very useful and extensive indices of cited inscriptions, Greek forms, ancient and Byzantine authors, place names, and a thematic index for all papers across the entire volume (pp.325-387). Due to the space constraints of this review I cannot go over every one of the twenty contributions in detail, but I will discuss a few notable papers and end with some general remarks on the volume as a whole. Barrio Vega "Some Problematic Forms from Byzantion" investigates some unexpected forms in the inscriptions of Byzantium which cannot be easily attributed to the colonial variety of Megarian Doric, neighbouring Ionic varieties, or the koiné. The main features include the presence of the modal particle κε (Doric κα), sigmatic aorists with geminate - σσ- (e.g. ἐδίκασσε), and s-stem genitives of the type Μενεκράτη. Through analysis of the distribution of these features among the Greek dialects and adducing historical parallels, Barrio Vega convincingly argues that the presence of these forms in Byzantium points to the existence of a community of speakers of Asiatic Aeolic in the colony's population. This study is an excellent demonstration of how close linguistic analysis of Greek dialectal inscriptions can make concrete contributions to historical reconstructions and underscores the complexity of dialect interactions that are all too often not apparent from the epigraphic record. While I may have been critical here regarding some of the papers in this volume, that should not detract from the quality of the whole as the scholarship within is generally of a high standard and fine tribute to the memory of the dedicatee. It can profitably be read by scholars interested in Ancient Greek linguistics and the interpretation of dialectal epigraphy. With a price of €87.00, this volume is unlikely to be a casual purchase for the non-specialist, but it should be acquired by all reference libraries that serve communities of researchers in Ancient Greek language, epigraphy, and historical linguistics. 1. For instance, Carlo Vessella's paper "Boeotian accentuation and the ancient editions of Boeotian lyric poetry" in the third conference session (p. xix) appears to have been published in Mnemosyne 69 (2016) 742-759. 2. Cf. A. Morpurgo Davies "A Note on Thessalian" Glotta 43 (1965) 235-251. 3. It is worth observing that since this paper was originally given J. Méndez Dosuna has recently argued that this is less convincing on the basis that the construction of the oblique imperfect is not a construction exclusive to Thessalian, and that oblique optative constructions are not so easily interchangeable. Additionally Méndez Dosuna points out that the oblique imperfect is not exclusive to Thessalian and the oblique optative construction is apparently not attested in Thessalian. This latter point, as Méndez Dosuna himself however admits, is less cogent since this could well be due to the scarcity of longer Thessalian dialect inscriptions with narrative content where one might expect to find such constructions. Cf. J. Méndez Dosuna "Thessalian Secondary 3pl. -(ι)εν and the Optative: Dangerous Liasons" In: Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects: From Central Greece to the Black Sea, ed. by G. Giannakis, K., E. Crespo & P. Filos. (Berlin 2018, pp. 398-401). 4. It is difficult to determine with certainty when the monophthongisation *ei̯ > *eː occurred due to the use of <E> to spell both primary and secondary front mid-long vowels in archaic alphabet inscriptions, but the sound change appears to have taken place at least by the 4th century, cf. M. Scarborough "On the Phonology and Orthography of the Thessalian Mid-Long Vowels" In: G. Kotzoglou et al. eds. 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (Rhodes, 26-29 September 2013): Selected Papers / Πρακτικά (Rhodes 2014, pp. 1535-1548). In any case, the creation of both variants the 3.pl. -(ι)εν ending must have been fairly early, as both variants are attested in archaic alphabet script texts already by ca. 500 BCE, e.g. -ιεν in SEG 23:416.1-2 [ἐ]δο̄́[κ]αιεν (Pherai); -εν in SEG 27:183.2 ὀνεθε̄́κ<α>εν (Atrax). 5. Cf. É. Lhôte, Les lamelles oraculaires de Dodone. (Geneva 2006), No. 144. 6. Elsewhere in this same volume A. Striano attempts to explain this same form via a phonological solution. 7. For discussion of these factors and an example of research in this area on contemporary languages, cf. Clopper & Pisoni "Free classification of regional dialects of American English" Journal of Phonetics 35 (2006) pp. 421-424, containing a study of monolingual American English speakers' perception of variation in American English dialects tested in a laboratory experimental context.

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At a basic level, call tracking generates a series of unique phone numbers, where each number can then have attributes attached to represent the source and journey of a particular call. Call tracking monitors the originating source of a phone call, while also updating and evaluating the result of a call using individual keywords attached to the uniquely displayed and tracked number. Call tracking is a necessary marketing tool for businesses looking to track and measure advertisement campaign success, obtain customer insights or route calls intelligently to a specified department. It is often deployed to keep track and organize campaign engagements by analyzing the source of call traffic and the callers intention, helps provide exceptional customer service and evaluate the final outcome of a call by confirming successful sales or engagements. Call tracking at its core helps businesses drive strategic and tactical change through data-backed results. 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Store your leads into a CRM and create a retarget list or a list of preferred clients. Use the data you've acquired to pre-qualify leads for certain offers, or to route them intelligently to the right department, making the sales process simpler and quicker for both your customer and sales agent. All the data you've gathered can create multiple positive opportunities for your business. Dont be left in the dark, start tracking your calls today and take your sales performance to the next level!

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Q: API call doesn't result in image loading I was trying to build a memesharing app with an meme Api call but when i launched the app on the emulator, the meme doesn't seem to load. I cant really understand where i'm going wrong. It would be really helpful if you could point out my mistake. private void loadMeme() { // Instantiate the RequestQueue. RequestQueue queue = Volley.newRequestQueue(this); String url ="https://meme-api.herokuapp.com/gimme"; // Request a string response from the provided URL. JsonObjectRequest JsonObjectRequest = new JsonObjectRequest(Request.Method.GET, url,null, new Response.Listener<JSONObject>() { @Override public void onResponse(JSONObject response) { ImageView memeImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.memeImageView); Glide.with(MainActivity.this).load(url).into(memeImageView); } }, new Response.ErrorListener() { @Override public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) { } }); // Access the RequestQueue through your singleton class. } A: You forgot fetch the image url from your API and also forgot to add request to the request queue in Volley. Add this code to your project it will work private void loadMeme() { // Instantiate the RequestQueue. RequestQueue queue = Volley.newRequestQueue(this); String url = "https://meme-api.herokuapp.com/gimme"; // Request a string response from the provided URL. JsonObjectRequest JsonObjectRequest = new JsonObjectRequest(Request.Method.GET, url, null, new Response.Listener<JSONObject>() { @Override public void onResponse(JSONObject response) { try { String imageUrl = response.getString("url"); ImageView memeImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.memeImageView); Glide.with(MainActivity.this).load(imageUrl).into(memeImageView); } catch (JSONException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }, new Response.ErrorListener() { @Override public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) { } }); queue.add(JsonObjectRequest); }

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Q: Applying a function to both sides of an equation doesn't change it? Why is it that applying a function to both sides of an equation doesn't change it? Can this be proven? Can you point to some material to read more about this? A: One definition of a function is, given an element $x$ of a set X, it is a rule that gives one element of another set, $Y$. So if you choose $p=x$ (of course $p \in X$), $f(p)=f(x)$. However, note that $f(p)=f(x)$ does not imply $p=x$, as multiple elements of the set $X$ may be mapped into the same element of $Y$. A: Applying a function to both sides of an equation does not change the equality because of the definitions of equality and a function. A function has a unique output for every input. That means that if you input $x$ to a function and get $a$ as the output, then $a$ will always be the output of the function with input $x$. You can't put $x$ into the same function later and get $b$ out. Or rather, the only way you get $b$ out of the same function with the same input is if $a$ and $b$ are equal. Since the two sides of your equation are equal, they are effectively the same thing, they just look different. So when you put them as inputs into a function, you should get the same thing out each time. A: $x=y$ means that the symbols $x$ and $y$ are somehow 'labels' of exactly the same mathematical object. Any expression (so not only functions) in wich these symbols are encountered will not be affected if these symbols are interchanged. If e.g. one of your beloved ones carries two names: Judy and Aphrodite, then the following statements are equivalent: * *I love Judy. *I love Aphrodite. A: I will expand on the answers to this important question, which give in my opinion, a rough draft to a more complete answer. I will also give examples to make sense of the first part of this answer, which will be the theory. To follow along, it will help to draw pictures of the sets described below just to organize the letters in your head. In the following definitions, I use the convention that the codomain is always the range of the function. $$ f: D \to R \\ g: U \to V $$ The equation $$ f(x) = g(x) \tag{1}$$ only makes sense if there exists elements $x \in D $ and $x \in U$. If solutions to this equation exist, the domains must overlap $C = D \cap U$, with $C$ a nonempty set. To be clear, even if $C$ is nonempty, $(1)$ may not have solutions. But to give us a fighting chance, $C$ better be nonempty (by the way, if you are following along with pictures, you should also draw the range sets overlapping). Lets call the solution set of $(1)$ $S$ and we know it must lie in the common domain $S \subseteq C$. Consider a function $h$ which we wish to compose with, or apply to, $(1)$ $$ \begin{align*} &h: K \to L \\[0.5em] &h(f(x)) = h(g(x)) \tag{2} \end{align*} $$ Before we think about applied functions $h$ that preserve solutions sets [does $(2)$ have the same solution set $S$ as $(1)$? ], we need to make sure that the composition makes sense in the first place. $h(f(x))$ only makes sense if the range of $f$ overlaps with the domain of $h$ so that $R \cap K$ is nonempty. That is, $h(f(x))$ only makes sense if there is some subset of $D$ such that the images under $f$ are in the domain of $h$. Let's call this subset of $D$, which is the domain of the composition, $D_h$. Likewise for the right hand side, $h(g(x))$ only makes sense if the range of $g$ overlaps with the domain of $h$ so that $V \cap K$ is nonempty. That is, $h(g(x))$ only makes sense if there is some subset of $U$ such that images under $g$ are in the domain of $h$. Let's call this subset of $U$, which is the domain of the composition, $U_h$. The common domain $D_h \cap U_h$ needs to be nonempty in order to apply $h$ in the first place. Otherwise, $(2)$ turns into an equation with no solutions. [If $(1)$ has a nonempty solution set, and our goal is producing an equation $(2)$ with the same solution set, then it better have some solutions. The common domain condition $D_h \cap U_h$ nonempty gives us a fighting change for some solutions]. In particular, the overlap $D_h \cap U_h$ lies entirely in the common domain $C$. All the solutions $S \subseteq C$ of $(1)$, are also solutions of $(2)$ if $S \subseteq (D_h \cap U_h) \subseteq C$, by definition of a function [ if $f(S) = g(S)$ is a true statement, so too is $h(f(S)) = h(g(S))$ ]. However, $S \subseteq (D_h \cap U_h)$ need not be satisfied. Sometimes $(D_h \cap U_h)$ will include some, but not all, of $S$. Therefore $(2)$ will definitely produce missing solutions. And sometimes the territory outside of $S$ but inside of $(D_h \cap U_h)$ has solutions to $h(f(x)) = h(g(x))$. These are extraneous solutions or extra solutions which aren't solutions to the original problem. For instance, $h(f(2)) = h(g(2))$, where $2$ is not in $S$ but in $(D_h \cap U_h)$, might produce $h(4) = h(7)$, which might be a true statement depending on the nature of $h$. I think you see where "injective" now comes into play. But first off, let me write down the first criteria of 2, both of which must be satisfied in order to preserve the solution set $S$: * *The common domain of the composition $(D_h \cap U_h)$ must contain the solution set $S \subseteq (D_h \cap U_h)$ of $(1)$ This is too abstract for me to remember (I'm writing a lot of words - this is not what goes on in my head when I'm solving problems). The examples below will make sense of this point. At the very least, you need to make sure that the composition is well defined in the first place (this should be obvious - this is what goes on in my head). Criteria 1. above will be satisfied if it's rewriting below (a weakening of the statement) is satisfied: * *The range of $f$ is fully contained in the domain of $h$ and the range of $g$ is fully contained in the domain of $h$. This guarantees we are safe in applying $h$. Furthermore, $D_h = D$ and $U_h = U$, making $D_h \cap U_h = C$, guaranteeing that the common domain of the composition contains the full solution set. Most functions that we apply have a domain that takes all possible inputs, and therefore we never have to worry about criteria 1 (a function with any range will always work because $h$'s domain is as large as can be). For instance "add 2 to each side of the equation" is represented as $h(x) = x + 2$, which has a domain of all real numbers. Or the cubing function $h(x) = x^3$, also has a domain of all real numbers. All we have to worry about now are the extraneous solutions! How do we get rid of those? Not every $x \in C$ is a solution to $(1)$, only those $x \in S \subseteq C$ are solutions to $(1)$. Therefore to prevent $(2)$ from having solutions such as $h(4) = h(7)$ coming from say $h(f(3)) = h(g(3))$ we need to make $h$ injective so that one output corresponds to only one input. But here is a very important question. Injective over what domain? Over $h$'s full domain? The answer is no. $h$ only needs to be injective over $(K \cap R) \cup (K \cap V)$. Or rewriting this by pulling out a $K$/undoing the distributiion, $h$ only needs to be injective over $K \cap (R \cup V)$. It only needs to be injective over part of it's domain - that part which intersects with the ranges. This is very important. $h(x) = x^2$ is not injective over it's full domain. But consider $\sqrt{x} = 7$. I can apply the squaring function to this equation. Why? $\sqrt{x}$ has a range of $0$ and the positive numbers. Over this, $h = x^2$ is injective! Therefore $\sqrt{x} ^2 = 7^2$ or $x = 49$. This is very important. Usually when you square an equation, you can sometimes produce extraneous solutions and therefore have to check your answers. I never want to do math where I have to check my answers. I want to minimize this as much as possible - and you do this by following the two criteria I that have written down (the 2nd one is coming). I don't have to check $x = 49$ in $\sqrt{x} = 7$, because I knew exactly what I was doing when I applied the squaring function. I never changed the solution set. *$h$ needs to be injective ideally over it's full domain. At the very least, it needs to be injective over all possible inputs it can receive. That is, $h$ needs to be injective over $K \cap (R \cup V)$ Examples: $$ x^2 = 100$$ Can I? $$ \begin{align} \sqrt{x^2} = \sqrt{100} \\ |x| = 10 \end{align} $$ Yes! The square root here has a domain which fully contains the range of $x^2$. It's injective over it's entire domain. Both criteria are satisfied. I don't need to check my answers. I never changed the solution set. $$ \sqrt{3 -x} = 10$$ Can I? $$ \begin{align} \sqrt{3 - x}^2 = 10^2 \\ 3 - x = 100\\ x = -97 \end{align} $$ Yes, and I don't need to check my solutions. The squaring function's domain encompasses the range of the square root. It's injective, over the range of the square root. $$ e^x = 15 $$ Can I? $$ \ln(e^x) = \ln(15)$$ Yes! The domain of the natural logarithm matches the range of the exponential function. The natural log is injective over it's full domain. $$ \sqrt{3-x} = x - 1 $$ Can I? $$\sqrt{3-x}^2 = (x-1)^2 $$ No, I can't (I will need to check for possible extraneous solutions - I already know, which I can explain if needed, that squaring doesn't create missing solutions). Although the squaring function's domain encompasses the range of the square root and the range of the function $x - 1$, the squaring function is injective over the range of the square root function, but not injective over the range of $(x-1)$, which is the reals. Criteria 2. is not satisfied $$ x^2 - 10 = 2 $$ Can I? $$ \begin{align} \sqrt{x^2 - 10} = \sqrt{2} \end{align} $$ No by what I've recently said. The domain of the square root is zero and the positives. Range of $x^2 - 10$ is everything $-10$ and bigger. The domain does not contain this range so (weak version) criteria 1. is not satisfied. In reality, this is a valid operation. I can tell by looking at the equation that, first, it will have solutions. This is important. Rewrite it as $x^2 = 12$ to see this. Next, because I know that solutions exist, they have to be in an interval which produces a positive image (the left hand side is set equal to $2$, a positive number). Therefore, while the domain of the square root does not include the full range of $x^2 -10$, we know that the solution set of the original equation has to be in an interval which produces a positive image. The solution set can't be in $-\sqrt{10} < x < \sqrt{10}$. We have no interest in this interval. Therefore, we only have interest in the range of $x^2 - 10$ which is $0$ or positive!!! The domain of the square root function contains this range of interest. (Strong version) criteria 1. is satisfied. The function is injective over the range it can receive. Criteria 2. is satisfied. We are good to go. (It's all about where the solution set is located and making sure that $D_h\cap U_h$ captures this entire solution set). $$ \sqrt{x - 3} = \sqrt{-x + 1}$$ Can I? $$ \sqrt{x-3}^2 = \sqrt{-x+1}^2$$ And proceed to get $x = 2$? No! I haven't touched on this yet, but the starting equation has no solution because it's junk. It' doesn't even have a common domain. $x$ cannot be both $x \geq 3$ and $x \leq 1$. I don't like to memorize things, and there are a lot of words here. I'm still getting used to this because I had to study this problem very recently due to another problem that called for it (I should have studied it all the way back in algebra!). But it's pretty easy, and with time, I think it will become second nature for me. When we have to check solutions and don't know why we have to check solutions, or if we don't need to check solutions (our goal) and don't know why, then we aren't in control of the math. I hope this helps A: Assuming $=$ denotes equivalence, if $x=y$, then $x$ and $y$ are the same object. Therefore, $f\left(x\right)=f\left(y\right)$ for any $f$ whose domain includes $x$ (or equivalently, $y$). That is, the function cannot distinguish between $x$ and $y$.

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If the mind pays more attention to the object, awareness is lost whenever the object changes. So, you should know the object through awareness; then, you can maintain your awareness. Otherwise, when the meditation object changes to a conceptual object, awareness is lost because concepts are objects of defilements. If you know the object through awareness – the awareness knowing this object and that object – then you won't lose the awareness.

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Q: Clone repo into existing directory with dependencies installed Right now, I'm working on a project that I've put on GitHub in order to manage code sharing with other people I'm working with. I'm completely new to GitHub, and so far all I've been doing is opening VSCode, selecting "Clone repository", cloning my repo, making edits, and finally pushing all changes to the master branch. The project I'm working on is an electron app, and after making edits I'd like to be able to run the app and test out any changes I've made. To do this, it seems like I'd have to reinstall electron in the newly created repository folder every time I clone the repo. Is there a way to either * *take the files from the repo and put them into a folder with electron already installed (without messing up VSCode's directory traversal/record of what's in the repo) or *include node_modules or something similar in the repo so that a full electron reinstall in the repo folder isn't necessary? A: The easiest way to solve this problem was to simply reinstall electron as a global dependency. The original global install seemed to not be working, and reinstalling as a global makes it available in every folder as opposed to just one. This removes the need to move files around from one folder to another.

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The Transient Designer provides the ability to increase or decrease the attack of a sound source and to extend or shorten its sustain. The box actually makes it possible to shape the dynamic path of a signal practically giving you the ability to change the microphone distance and position after the recording has been made. It accomplishes this using Differential Envelope Technology (DET) which offers a new way to provide the independent level shaping of the dynamic response of a sound. Contact: SPL USA/Network Pro Marketing at 805-241-5140, www.SPL-usa.com. Jeremy Ramsey from Rack & Roll Audio in Nashville turned me on to the SPL Transient Designer 4 Model 9842 ($1,349) a couple of years ago and I've been hooked ever since. I bought the four-channel version and I routinely compliment it with a second four-channel unit during tracking sessions. The Transient Designer provides the ability to increase or decrease the attack of a sound source and to extend or shorten its sustain. The box actually makes it possible to shape the dynamic path of a signal practically giving you the ability to change the microphone distance and position after the recording has been made. It accomplishes this using Differential Envelope Technology (DET) which offers a new way to provide the independent level shaping of the dynamic response of a sound. The 1U Transient Designer 4 measures 19 inches x 1.7 inches x 9.3 inches and weighs 7.5 pounds. The box has four female and four male XLR connectors for input and output. The input impedance is 22 kohm and the output impedance is less than 600 ohms. The unit's nominal input level is +6 dB with a maximum input level of +24 dBu and a maximum output level of +22.4 dBu. The box has a frequency response of 20 Hz-100 kHz with a maximum load of 600 ohms and a total harmonic distortion of 0.01% @ 1 kHz. The unit accepts a standard IEC power cable and is switchable between 115 and 230 volts. DET is the first analog solution for the level-independent shaping of envelopes allowing transients to be accelerated or slowed down and sustain prolonged or shortened. The Transient Designer has only two controls, Attack and Sustain, essentially deeming traditional dynamics controls such as threshold, ratio and gain unnecessary. The Transient Designer's internal processing is highly developed, so that while the processing going on inside the box may be very complex, the user only has to deal with these two intuitive controls. The degree of dynamic processing required to do this couldn't be duplicated even using a chain of several conventional compressors, yet only two controls per channel are required to allow the user to completely reshape the attack and sustain characteristics of a sound. Attack can be amplified or attenuated by up to 15 dB while Sustain can be amplified or attenuated by up to 24 dB. All of the necessary time constants (attack, decay and release) are set automatically in a musical fashion according to the input signal's characteristics providing quick and natural sounding results. For stereo operation the link function connects channel pairs in an odd/even configuration (Channels 1 and 2 and/or 3 and 4). The linked channels are controlled by the same side chain voltage so as to maintain a coherent and stable stereo image. When operating in link mode, the control elements of the odd channel (Channel 1 or 3) control the pair. To assure impeccable signal quality, SPL developed a hybrid-component balanced input/output stage using all laser-trimmed resistors with a tolerance of 0.01%. The result is a CCMR (common mode rejection) that is better than -80dB at 1 kHz. Although the Transient Designer is a particularly powerful device, I found it to be exceptionally intuitive to use. Turning the Attack knob increases or decreases the level of the signal's transient and turning the Sustain knob increases or decreases the sustained portion of the sound. That's pretty much all there is to it. Pressing the channel's On button activates the processor and illuminates a red status LED inset in the button. When the On button is switched out, a hard-bypass relay circuit is engaged. This circuit engages automatically if the unit loses power making the box perfectly suited for sound reinforcement situations. Each channel also has a "Sig" (signal present) LED that illuminates when the input signal exceeds -40 dBu. The Transient Designer's forte is no doubt drums and percussion. I have spent hours with the box effortlessly shortening or lengthening the attack of all kinds of percussive signals with no negative sonic artifacts whatsoever. It works well with kick drum, snare drum, toms, congas, bongos, etc. I found that it is almost like being able to change the amount of drum damping after the recording has taken place. I had good results emphasizing the attack of a loop to increase the energy and aggression of the loop in the mix. I found that using the box on snare and toms when mixing, is like being able to return to the tracking session and change the amount of drum damping. If the drums were recorded in a room that was too ambient, the Transient Designer can shorten the room's decay time in a very musical way or during tracking the snare, toms, or overheads can be shortened without being physically dampened. I was able to get the same results with practically every other instrument I used it on including acoustic guitar to get a mellower, rounder, more relaxed sound, on piano to decrease the ambience and on upright bass to add attack and in every case had positive results. I've found that by increasing the attack and decreasing the sustain, instruments can be moved more to the front of the mix without being turned up. This works exceptionally well for percussion sounds that need increased clarity but need to remain low in the mix. I've also had some good results using it on acoustic guitar with the same approach. Using the box to add attack to a bed of highly distorted electric guitars was amazingly able to bring out some clarity in the individual notes. While mixing a track that included a stereo choir (that was recorded in an overly ambient hall) I found that turning down the sustain provided an intelligibility that I wasn't able to attain through any other means. The Transient Designer Model 9842 has earned its place on the short list of modern day classics. The box provides the simple control of the attack and sustain of a signal in a very easy way. Unlike traditional compressors, the Transient Designer's processing is not governed by the signal level but rather by its dynamic characteristics, so all signals (loud and soft) are processed equally. Apple 2 GHz Dual Processor G5 w/2 GB RAM; Digidesign Pro Tools 7.1; Lucid Gen-X-96 clock; PMC AML-1 monitors.

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Nature's Finer Forces Rama Prasad A word of explanation is necessary with regard to the book now offered to the public. In the ninth and tenth volumes of The Theosophist I wrote certain essays on "Nature's Finer Forces". The subject of these essays interested the readers of The Theosophist so much, that I was asked to issue the series of essays in book form. On reading the essays for this purpose I found that in order to make a book they must be almost entirely re-arranged and perhaps re-written. However, not being equal to the task of rewriting what I had once written, I determined to publish a translation of the book in Sanskrit on the Science of breath and the Philosophy of the Tattvas. As, moreover, without these essays the book would have been quite unintelligible, I decided to add them to the book by way of an illustrative introduction. This accordingly has been done. The essays in the Theosophist have been reprinted with certain additions, modifications and corrections. Besides, I have written several more essays in order to make the explanations more complete and authoritative. I was confirmed in this course by one more consideration. The book contains a good deal more than the essays touched upon, and I thought it better to lay all of it before the public. The book is sure to throw a good deal of light upon the scientific researches of the ancient Aryans of India, and it will leave no doubt in a candid mind that the religion of ancient India had a scientific basis. It is chiefly for this reason that I have drawn my illustrations of the Tattvic Law from the Upanisads. There is a good deal in the book which can only be shown to be true by long and diligent experiment. Those who are devoted to the pursuit of truth without prejudice will no doubt be ready to wait before they form any opinion about such portions of the book. Others it is useless to reason with. To the former class of students I have to say one word more. From my own experience I can tell them that the more they study the book, the more wisdom they are sure to find in it, and let me hope that ere long I shall have a goodly number of colleagues, who will with me try their best to explain and illustrate the book still better and more thoroughly.

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Q: Cherry Py - Return output as XML in Python My intention is to deploy a web service in Google App Engine. I am using CherryPy as I found it very easy to understand. import sys sys.path.insert(0,'cherrypy.zip') import cherrypy from cherrypy import expose class Converter: @expose def index(self): return "Hello World!" @expose def fahr_to_celc(self, degrees): temp = (float(degrees) - 32) * 5 / 9 return "%.01f" % temp @expose def celc_to_fahr(self, degrees): temp = float(degrees) * 9 / 5 + 32 return "%.01f" % temp cherrypy.quickstart(Converter()) I would like to know, how to return the output in XML format, like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root> <answer>Hello World!</answer> </root> I am a beginner in Python. Kindly help me. Hariharan A: I had a similar issue. My solution was to use xml elementtree. It was something like .... #elementtree is stored in weird places... This catches most of em try: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET # in python >=2.5 except ImportError: try: import cElementTree as ET # effbot's C module except ImportError: try: import elementtree.ElementTree as ET # effbot's pure Python module except ImportError: try: import lxml.etree as ET # ElementTree API using libxml2 except ImportError: import warnings warnings.warn("could not import ElementTree " "(http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm)") def build_xml_tree(answer_txt=""): if not len(resources): return "" root = ET.Element("root") answer = ET.SubElement(root, "answer") answer.text = answer_txt xml_string = ET.tostring(root) return rxml_string Then call build_xml_tree from your function

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Q: Scheduling a function to be run every second with Akka's Scheduler I want to run this Scala function every second: object AuthTasker { def cleanTokens() { [...] } } Akka's Scheduler has the following function: schedule(initialDelay: FiniteDuration, interval: FiniteDuration)(f: ⇒ Unit) Can I use that function in order to call AuthTasker.cleanToken() every second? A: To answer your question: Yes, you can call AuthTasker.cleanToken() every second with the schedule method. I recommend the following (included the imports for you): import scala.concurrent.duration._ import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext import ExecutionContext.Implicits.global val system = akka.actor.ActorSystem("system") system.scheduler.schedule(0 seconds, 1 seconds)(AuthTasker.cleanTokens) Note: This updated code calls the scheduled method every one second rather than every 0 seconds. I caught the mistake when looking back at the code.

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The Wisdom of Winter By: Annie Seyler Publisher: Atmosphere Press Reviewed by: Diane Lunsford Review Date: December 1, 2022 Annie Seyler treats her audience to a superb novel, The Wisdom of Winter, that portrays a bittersweet journey of life and its full circle experiences. Beatrice has a good life. Her mother is lovely, "...Mom wears a sleeveless dress with a tight bodice and a skirt that fans wide. She's like the marigolds in our garden, bright and bold in color that can't be ignored..." Dad is a good provider. He's a professor at the University, "...Most mornings he's here, hovered over his students' homework, wearing a grownup shirt with sleeves and a collar, khaki pants, and a belt..." As for Beatrice, she's six and fashion isn't too important. She wears overalls, has a head of unruly curls, prefers to wear goggles when she collects the eggs from the hen house and a visit with the occasional ladybug is fine by her. Ginny is mom's best friend. She's more of a city girl and Beatrice loves it when she comes to visit each year. Ginny has a way of bringing out the true lovely and fun in her mom. But there's something more percolating just below this happy façade. Things changed that summer when Beatrice was eleven and her brother Oliver, five. The years marched forward and fleeting memories of happier times had a way of fading away the further Beatrice navigated along her road to adulthood. It's easy to recognize the plight of privilege and at the same time embrace the opportunities it presents. Beatrice tries to understand the benefits of being shipped off to the private school in Vermont, but it's still lonely. The girls are mean and social skills aren't her strong suit. She resents her grandfather because his money is what put her here. It is a painful day-to-day existence to navigate when you don't feel like you belong. It's lunchtime again and nobody offers Beatrice a seat to join them. There is a teacher, Mr. Whitaker, who is Beatrice's American history teacher, and his random act of kindness gives her hope. "…He slides his tray and empty dishes out of the way and leans forward with his elbows on the table. Up close like this, I marvel at the smoothness of his skin and the absence of a freckle or a blemish. Although his gaze is a bit intimidating, it's his smile lines that I am most aware of. Even now, with his neutral expression, wispy threads at the corners of his mouth and eyes expose his nature; on him a smile is ever ready, ever eager to show itself..." There are many moments in Beatrice's journey ahead that will challenge what is real and what was kept from her… reckonings that will take her far away from the people she thought she loved most in order to heal and eventually return to what matters in her life. Annie Seyler writes beautiful prose with tender and artistic emotion. Her writing skills are akin to an accomplished painter who has perfected pristine beauty for the beholder to relish. Seyler breathes life into the perils of a young girl coming of age and the baggage she collects and carries into adulthood. She then redirects her audience in the next passage with a sublime nuance that time will heal all wounds. She has exceptional skill with word placement that enables the reader to embrace and behold the magic. There are wonderful layers that enhance the complexities and contrasts of each of the characters in her story, yet together, they work as a superb unit. This is a beautifully written story and a memory the reader will carry well beyond the proverbial 'the end'. Well done Ms. Seyler! Quill says: The Wisdom of Winter is a gift box filled with the essence of forgiveness and healing. For more information on The Wisdom of Winter, please visit the author's website at: annieseyler.com

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15th Tokyo-Beijing Forum ends with calls for closer Sino-Japanese ties to address bilateral and global issues Japanese and Chinese government officials and experts agreed at a two-day annual forum in Beijing on Oct. 26 to 27 that both countries should collaborate more closely to address bilateral and global issues in a new era of Sino-Japanese ties. They also shared the expectation that the Tokyo-Beijing Forum, an annual private-sector high-level dialogue, should evolve from a venue for discussions to a launchpad for action to solve problems. Co-organized by Japan's non-profit think tank The Genron NPO and China International Publishing Group (CIPG), the 15th Tokyo-Beijing Forum focused on the theme of "New Era, New Hope: Responsibilities China and Japan Shoulder to Maintain the Peace and Prosperity of Asia, and the World." During the two-day event, more than 90 leading figures from political, diplomatic, business, academic and media circles of the two countries got together at a Beijing hotel, and held discussions on bilateral relations, political and diplomatic issues, security affairs, economic cooperation and other major issues of mutual interest before an audience of some 500 people. At the outset of the plenary session on Oct. 26, China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivered an opening address in which he said that relations between China and Japan have undergone important and positive changes. "The two countries share more and more common interests and concerns, and shoulder more and more common responsibilities and missions. The new era calls on us to forge a more mature and stable China-Japan relationship and write a new chapter of win-win cooperation," Wang said. It was his first official attendance at the Tokyo-Beijing Forum since 2006 when he had delivered a keynote speech at the second forum in his capacity of then Chinese ambassador to Tokyo, along with then Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, now prime minister of Japan. Wang said that China and Japan should build a higher level of political mutual trust. "The more we do to usher in a new era, the more we need to consolidate our foundation, abide by the principles enshrined in the four political documents between China and Japan, and honor our commitments on issues related to history and Taiwan." He did not forget to add that there is "no room for vagueness, slacking, or even backsliding." China and Japan should promote more "colorful" people-to-people and cultural exchanges, while accelerating negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and China-Japan-ROK (Republic of Korea) free-trade area, and become leaders of the process of regional cooperation and integration in Asia, he added. Wang said Chinese President Xi Jinping's planned official visit to Japan next spring will serve as an important milestone for a new era of China-Japan relations, adding that the two nations should work together to create a suitable environment for such an occasion. Representing the Japanese government, Japanese Ambassador to China Yutaka Yokoi used his speech to praise the contribution the Beijing-Tokyo Forum has made to the betterment of bilateral relations. He said it proved that extensive and in-depth people-to-people dialogue and exchanges were the foundation of the friendship between the two countries. Before ending his address, Yokoi read a congratulatory message on behalf of Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, in which he said Japan and China share the great indispensable responsibility for the peace and prosperity of Asia, and the world. "With Chinese President Xi's state visit to Japan in sight, I would like to elevate the Japan-China relationship to a new height and usher in a new era of Japan-China relations by continuously increasing exchanges of high-level figures, disposing of pending issues appropriately, and developing exchanges and cooperation in all fields," the message read. On behalf of the Chinese organizers, CIPG President Du Zhanyuan, told the audience that the forum is aiming to provide a non-governmental exchange platform, and improve China-Japan ties through public opinion polls and high-level dialogue. It had become a model for a public diplomatic communication channel between the two countries, and was attracting attention and support in China, he said. Du Zhanyuan was followed by Yasushi Akashi, a former United Nations undersecretary-general, who said in an address that it is necessary for both countries to talk to each other quietly, to narrow gaps in thinking and mind-set between the two peoples, and thereby move to a higher level of reconciliation and cooperation. He said he is pinning high hopes on the forum to encourage both countries to address global issues in a creative manner by overcoming the unilateralism and chauvinism that is rampant in Asia, and the rest of the world. Then, Xu Lin, minister of the State Council Information Office, delivered a keynote speech, in which he said that this year was the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, while Japan had also entered the new Reiwa imperial era. At such a historic juncture, he urged both countries to aim at building a "win-win" bilateral relationship as they share a common destiny. In a special lecture concluding the plenary session of the day, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda praised China's great achievements in the last 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic, years that have seen the fastest and largest economic development in the history of humankind. As a result of the remarkable economic development, China is now being urged to pursue a new form of cooperation and collaboration with the international community, Fukuda acknowledged. "Like Japan, China is exposed to new problems and challenges resulting from the economic development, such as a decline in population, an aging society and the frequent occurrence of natural disasters, and has been thrown into a difficult phase," he warned. In such circumstances, the Tokyo-Beijing Forum is evolving from "a venue for discussions to a venue for action" to resolve issues of common concern for both countries," Fukuda said. "I hope the forum will serve as a trigger to advance bilateral relations, and make contributions to the world by forwarding proactive and constructive proposals for the betterment of Japan-China relations," he concluded. The "Beijing Consensus" adopted After concluding the two-day Tokyo-Beijing Forum, the participants adopted on Oct. 27 a joint statement, dubbed the "Beijing Consensus," which calls on the two countries as global economic powers to oppose trade protectionism, and promote a more open and rule-based free-trade system. "Promotion of international cooperation based on multilateralism is our goal to achieve as global governance," it said. The document proposed setting up a private-sector multilateral framework for discussions as the first step toward the realization of sustainable peace in this region. It also calls for more exchanges of young people and media personnel between Japan and China in order to advance a new phase of bilateral cooperation. The Japan-China Joint Opinion Survey 2019 Why do the Japanese have negative views of China? Agreement on positive cooperation between Japan and China on trade, opening of financial markets, and more Security in Northeast Asia and Japan and China's responsibility to build a peaceful order

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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided to indefinitely extend the Atal Pension Scheme, which lapsed in August, while doubling the accident insurance and relaxing the age criteria by five years to further incentivise the scheme. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told the media after the cabinet meeting that the scheme in its new avatar will expand its focus to target individuals, instead of households. According to government data, over 1 crore people have benefited from the government's flagship scheme. "The scheme, which was earlier for four years, lapsed in August 2018. But seeing the mass participation in this runaway-success scheme, the cabinet has decided to extend it and keep it open-ended," Jaitley said. To further incentivize people's participation in the scheme, Jaitley said the government had decided to relax the age criteria for participation in the scheme. "Earlier, people of age 18 to 60 years were entitled to enrol in the scheme. But looking at the rise in average age-expectancy, now we have relaxed it further to 65 years," he said. Jaitley added that all accounts opened after August 28 will have an accident insurance limit of Rs 2 lakh, double the earlier Rs 1 lakh limit. "We have also increased the overdraft facility of the scheme from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000," he said. He said the Prime Minister's Jan Dhan Yojana is "the largest financial inclusion initiatives in the world". The scheme had in the last four years changed lives of millions of Indians, he added. "Those who were left out of financial system must be brought within it for realising the dream of New India. The NDA government is committed to make life of every Indian better than before. The benefits of the scheme speak loudly about the same," he said. He added that out of the 32.41 crore accounts have been opened under the scheme, 53 per cent account holders are women, 59 per cent accounts belong to rural and semi-urban areas, and 83 per cent accounts are Aadhar seeded with 24.4 crore having RuPay debit cards. "The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana has been a boon to rural households, especially women, as they are the largest beneficiaries of this scheme, which has not only given them financial independence but has led to empowerment," Jaitley said.

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I was wondering if any one ever got monorails to work right. and or trucks. Trucks work. You just don't see anything when you use them. They make they're pickups and deliverys on time and you can see the resources change appropriately, but there is no graphic of the truck displayed on screen. You also deploy them using the trucking menus when you right click as opposed to the tile picker like you do for the dozers and diggers. I've heard mixed results of the monorail but I mostly hear it doesn't work. I suspect most of the problems people have are with the configuration needed to run the monorail. However, I can't really back that up since I built one once a long time ago but I honestly can't recall if it worked or not. I do know it can be built, I don't remember how well it works. What is the "flyers" think you're talking about? Is that a regional word for monorail? Hurm will have to poke around and see what monorails can do. As for the flyers. there is a tech to reasurch and animation for them. I have the 1.0 outpost cd so it may have been removed in the 1.5. iirc it was somthing about prepairing for moving to a 2nd map section on the planet and or scouting the map you were on. i think it was supposed to be autonimous. There are "Explorers" you can build which will uncover any remaining mining locations (They work automatically when built and also do not have on map animations). But I've never heard of switching to another map. Also, the version of OP1 I have (1.5), you don't have to scout any terrain on the map you colonize. NEVER use ImageShack. It's extremely slow. Try PhotoBucket or some other site instead. Yeah, I've seen the flying robots tech. It seems like it was meant to do something at some point but it never got implemented. This leads to the terraforming thing ... In many games I managed to do every single research, while maintaining a good level of life. I ended up with a huge terraforming plant farm (more than a hundred). When you completed the terraforming, with the correct dosage or mixture of gases, you could see a videoclip showing a drone or a small aircraft flying over the base. But then again I was never able to see the planet change of color or anything like that.

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Washington is a different kind of place in an election year, as politics begins to color every event and activity. That's certainly true of government economic reports. Jobs and prices capture heightened attention. And then there's GDP, the overall measure of how things are going. Not in an election year, though. The folks at Commerce today said that GDP in the fourth quarter of 2007 didn't increase 0.6% as previously reported. It shrank 0.2%. Economists willl shrug off that change. The economy has been weak. It doesn't signal an official recession. That's done by an independent panel. But look for the politicians to jump right in. It's proof, some Democrats will say, that President Bush is leading the economy into the ground. They'll also highlight symmetry: the last time GDP contracted in a quarter was the third quarter of 2001, the first year of the Bush presidency. How about that, they'll say, Bush is going out the way he came in. Democrats also will renew their push for another round of fiscal stimulus. Republicans will reply that a stimulus won't do much to help and will make the deficit worse. Of course, that will only serve to remind voters that the budget deficit will swell beyond $450 billion in the coming fiscal year. The Democrats are being dealt the right cards, it seems. Even GDP revisions are playing into their hands.

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What can I say about Pizzeria Mozza that hasn't already been said? Not much, that's for sure! Yes, they serve up some of the city's best pizzas, fired in a wood-burning oven. Yes, the antipasti and insalate are to die for. Yes, the olive oil gelato garnished with sea salt must be tasted to be believed. Yes, everything is great here. While Pizzeria Mozza is a fun spot for dinner, I much prefer if for a lazy late afternoon lunch, like the one that I had with my in-laws a few weeks ago. We noshed on everything from the Asparagus with Speck & Parmigiano Reggiano; to the Mozza Caprese (my favorite incarnation of this dish) with thick rustic slices of fresh bread slathered with olive oil; to a multitude of pizzas. We tried a smaller pizette laden with ricotta, fresh peas, leeks, and guanciale, as well as two classics: the Squash Blossoms, Tomato & Burrata pizza and the Egg, Bacon, Yukon Gold Potato pizza (literally, breakfast on a pizza). This is truly one of the great restaurants in Los Angeles, and one of the reasons that the food in this second largest city has improved by leaps and bounds over the last many years. Bravo to Nancy and Mario for crafting up such a bright light in the city of angels. If you haven't eaten here yet, now is the time! I agree! This is probably my favorite LA restaurant..I could eat there once a week! Have you ever tried one of thier cooking classes at Scuola di Mozza? That's a ton of fun as well. I'd love to try one of their cooking classes! My Babbo cookbook is one of my favorites.

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Expert Q&As Hidden Common Ground Suzette Hackney Columns & Letters Rebuilding America: Nation needs to retrain workers on massive scale in wake of COVID-19 The nation faces an enormous risk of losing a substantial part of the workforce, leaving many Americans on the sidelines because of a lack of skills Ray Mabus Opinion contributor The future of our workforce is at a crossroads. More than 22 million people have lost jobs or have been furloughed during the pandemic. Millions of them will need to be "re-skilled" because their jobs have significantly changed or were eliminated entirely. This need is especially urgent for service workers, who have been hit the hardest by the pandemic. New jobs created during the COVID-19 pandemic will require data science, artificial intelligence, analytics, cybersecurity and leadership skills given the new methods companies have implemented to survive this once-in-a-lifetime economic shift. Millions of people will need to be simultaneously retrained. Think about that for a moment. The scale of such an undertaking may be beyond anything our generation has seen, perhaps even larger than the re-training of millions of servicemen and women returning to the workforce after World War II. At that time, the president and Congress, appreciating the scale of the response needed, created the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the "G.I. Bill." The bill provided a means by which millions of veterans received college educations. As a result, in 1947, almost 50% of college admissions were veterans. In turn, this massive re-skilling of America fueled the post-war boom and the longer-term growth of the American economy. The sharp increase in productivity that was a consequence of the investment in education still characterizes America today. Nation faces unprecedented challenge However, the current challenge is different. It is greater in scale, and the skills and occupations needed in today's economy and the economy of the future are far more diverse. And the need is urgent. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average length of unemployment today is more than 23 weeks. At nine weeks, most job hunters' energy and engagement wane, and they begin to lose hope. The nation faces an enormous risk of losing a substantial part of the workforce, leaving many Americans on the sidelines because of a lack of skills and little of the support and direction needed to acquire them. Having served as both governor of Mississippi and Secretary of the Navy, I know the importance of workers having the right skills, in the right place, at the right time. I also saw how improving skills could be done at scale while consistently meeting the high levels of productivity and performance we demanded. This is the kind of scale we need today. Based on that experience, I was honored and excited to take on the role of board chair at InStride. InStride has brought high-quality institutions into an academic network that includes Arizona State University, City University of New York, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington, Harvard Business School Online as well as other global universities. ASU has had success in providing the opportunity for thousands of Starbucks employees to earn degrees, more than 5,000 to date, with 100% tuition coverage. InStride also has built an online learning platform with the best of content, calibrated to effectively and efficiently meet workers' training needs. The content can be customized to ensure a range of appropriate job training options is available for any corporate partner or organization that wants to emulate this success. U.S. needs comprehensive approach Today, when it is needed most, the nation's workforce is overwhelmed. In 2019, government leaders provided job assistance to 2 million individuals across the country. In March 2020 alone, they received 30 million requests for assistance. The capacity is simply not there to provide guidance, training and support for such large numbers of workers who are unable to return to their previous jobs. Our experience at InStride and my own government experience suggest that our nation needs a comprehensive Re-Skilling of America Act; a long-term commitment that would provide not only money, as vital as that is, but resources for guidance, counseling and support for the unemployed, especially those who are at the lower-skilled end of the service sector. There is already significant support for initiatives such as the Upskilling and Retraining Assistance Act, which raises the corporate tax exclusion for workforce education from $5,250 to $12,000. Since this amount hasn't changed in 30 years, this initiative could be made even more robust. A Re-Skilling of America Act would best be done by placing a priority on workers who need the most skills and matching them with visionary employers. A guiding set of metrics would ensure the best use of the time and investment spent on training and education for the future. The best news is that it can be done and we know how to do it. Our academic institutions have the education and training capacity. What we need is the will behind a disciplined national plan, customized to the needs of each individual job sector, to bring to bear all the talents of the American workforce to the emerging economy. Ray Mabus served as secretary of the U.S. Navy and as governor of Mississippi. He chairs the Board of Directors at InStride.

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extreme, realize that we can stop before then. attack the problem of most clearly delineating the type and the state. that's a major feature of the DeltaV specification. > of types and/or states. > Now, tell me how is this different to DAV:supported-*-set? depending on what the server chooses to implement. FOO, doesn't mean they have the same behaviour when you tell them to FOO. Next message: Jim Amsden: "Re: What is a supported property?" Previous message: Lisa Dusseault: "RE: Removing the DAV:activity and DAV:version-history and DAV:baseline resource type values" In reply to: Tim Ellison: "Re: DAV:resourcetype" Next in thread: Tim Ellison: "RE: DAV:resourcetype" Reply: Tim Ellison: "RE: DAV:resourcetype"

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May your home be filled with as many luscious smells as it is gorgeous decor. Sea Breeze 2-Wick Jar Candle allows you to retreat into the fresh fragrance of sea breeze. Place this lovely candle on a tabletop, counter, desk, and so much more!

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Q: cfftp - error during the FTP getFile operation I am trying to get a file from a remote server and getting an error: An error occurred during the FTP getFile operation. The code that I have: <cfsetting requesttimeout = "3600"> <h1>FTP Connect</h1> <!--- O P E N ---> <cfftp action = "open" server = "#application.server#" username="#application.username#" password="#application.password#" connection = "#application.connection#" passive = "#application.passive#"> Did it open connection? <cfoutput>#cfftp.succeeded#</cfoutput><br /> <cfif cfftp.succeeded> <cfftp action = "LISTDIR" stopOnError = "Yes" name = "ListFiles" directory = "/www/rentproFeed/" connection = "#application.connection#" passive = "Yes"> <cfquery dbtype="query" name="GetSomeContents"> SELECT MAX(name) AS latestFeed FROM ListFiles </cfquery> <cfoutput query="GetSomeContents"> <cfset variables.latestProperties = #latestFeed# > #variables.latestProperties# </cfoutput> <cfftp action="getFile" connection= "#application.connection#" remotefile="/www/rentproFeed/#GetSomeContents.latestFeed#" localfile="#expandpath("../properties-feed/")#properties-feed.BLM" failIfExists="no"> Did it downloaded the latest feed file? <cfoutput>#cfftp.succeeded#</cfoutput><br /> <!--- <cfdump var="#ListFiles#" > ---> <cfftp action="getFile" connection="#application.connection#" remoteFile="/www/rentproFeed/01014.zip" localFile="#ExpandPath('../properties-feed/latestImages.zip')#" failifexists="no" <!--- retrycount="10" ---> > <cfoutput> FTP Operation Return Value: #cfftp.returnValue# <br/> FTP Operation Successful: #cfftp.succeeded# <br/> FTFP Operation Error Code: #cfftp.errorCode# <br/> FTP Operation Error Message: #cfftp.errorCode#<br/> FTP Operation Error Message: #cfftp.errorText# <br/> </cfoutput> </cfif> <cfftp action="close" connection="#application.connection#" stopOnError="yes"> Did it closed connection? <cfoutput>#cfftp.succeeded#</cfoutput> <cfabort> The error occurs when I want to get the "01014.zip" file. The previous getFile action works fine. Can anyone see some problem with my code? Any help would be appreciated. A: I found the solution to my problem: The .zip file has 15MB and by default the cfftp timeout is 30 seconds. I increased the timeout and it solved it.

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Located on the city's historic North Bridge, the Scotsman was converted from the Scotsman Newspaper's baronial offices into one of the most stylish four-star luxury boutique hotels in Edinburgh. Positioned just off the Royal Mile, it is the only luxury hotel in Edinburgh with views of Edinburgh Castle, the Firth of Forth, Leith, Princes Street and Calton Hill, all of which are within walking distance. Featuring a private cinema and award winning restaurant, this boutique hotel has been voted one of the best hotels in Scotland.

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Next week marks a major milestone in the New Beginnings household: Our daughter turns five-and-three-quarter years old. You read that correctly - not five years old (been there and done that) - not five-and-a-half years old (checked that box too) - but five-and-three-quarter years old. And there will be a celebration! Now before you roll your eyes and bemoan the way modern parents are raising snowflake babies who need constant adulation, let me scale back your vision of excessive indulgence. We are not hosting a party. She will not receive gifts. There will not be a cake (though a candle may find its way into something on the plate...). This tradition simply provides an opportunity to come together in the midst of an otherwise unremarkable day to reflect on the passing of time, share smiles, and enjoy each other's company. I think we need more of this in our world right now. Yes, we are in the midst of the "most wonderful time of the year" - full of festivities, family gatherings, and faith traditions. Celebration is never on more prominent display than during this five-and-a-half week stretch. But for many, the holiday season generates far more anxiety than joy - perhaps highlighting physical and emotional distance from family and friends, triggering painful memories of a lost loved one, or drawing attention to a lack of material resources enjoyed by seemingly everyone else. But even these very real and deeply felt challenges do not preclude the ability to find and appreciate small, simple pleasures. It could be the release of a new book you have been eagerly anticipating. Tiny signs of improvement during a long and slow recovery from an injury. Eggnog appearing in the grocery store cooler (or is that just me?). The magnitude of the occasion and how you choose to commemorate it are less important than the simple act of celebration - making way for the holistic shift that occurs when you intentionally reorient your mind to the good that surrounds you.

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Boys win U18 National Cup for the first time By earlthep on January 29, 2019 U18 lads do the business in a cracking game at the Arena!!!!! U18 National Cup Final Photos By moycullenbasketball on January 28, 2019 First batch of photos from the U18 National Cup Final played on Sunday 27th January 2019. Many thanks to John O'Reilly for the photos. Super performance from the lads beating Belfast Star 68 – 59 to secure the U18 National… Read More › U18 National Cup winning team returns home U18 National Cup Champions arrive home!!!!!! Moycullen players great success in School Cup Finals Moycullen Girls help St. Enda's to U16A Cup win Moycullen girls Aideen Heffrenan, Ellen Power, Lucy Hynes, Ilena Davoren, Eva Hackett, Katie Dooley, Caoimhe O'Sullivan and Jane Roche with the U16A Schools Cup after their great win against Pobalscoil Inbhear Sceine,… Read More › 2019 U18 National Cup Final All roads lead to the Arena on Sunday morning!!!!!! National Cup Final here we come……. Home Sweet home; great win for the SuperLeague team Great win for the SuperLeague team at home in the Kingfisher!!!! Supporters Bus to U18 National Cup Final The U18 boys are up against Belfast Star on Sunday week, January 27th in the National Basketball Arena, tip off @ 10:00 am. We hope to run a bus for all those who can make it to Tallaght to support… Read More › SuperLeague Season Ticket Offer With 8 Home games remaining in the SuperLeague season we've a very special offer for our few remaining Season Tickets.. Get yours today!!!!!! SuperLeague back home on Saturday SuperLeague home game this Saturday at 7:30pm when we welcome Killorglin. It's going to be a cracker so let's pack the gym!!!!! U18 Boys through to National Cup Final A tough, gritty performance from our U18 boys sees them through to the National Cup Final. Well done lads!!!!!!!

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Learn visual tools for non-artists! Liana Stupples connects people and nature. She is an experienced strategic facilitator, outdoor instructor, song leader and artist who works with businesses, organisations, communities and individuals to help them thrive.

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What will be the size of the mobile and online ticketing market in 2023? How will new areas in ticketing, such as Virtual Reality, blockchain and chatbots alter the landscape in the future? What impact will Mobility-as-a-Service have on the ticketing landscape? Who are the key innovators and disruptors changing the digital ticketing market landscape? What are the key regional differences in ticketing deployment and how will this evolve over the next 5 years? Mentioned: Abellio Greater Anglia, Access IS, ADCET, Adidas, Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing, AEG, AF Payments, AFSCM (French Association of Contactless Mobile), Air France, ALSTOM, American Express, Anchorage People Mover, Anheuser-Busch, Apple, AT&T, ATG Tickets, Australian Football League, Aventus, AWS, AXS, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), Blockparty, Blocktix, BMW Bosch, Boston Consulting Group, Braintree, Bundesliga, Caltrain, Calypso Networks Association, CAN, Canadian Ice Hockey, Chalo, Chase Paymentech, Chicago Transit Authority, Citibank, Citizen Ticket, City of Atlanta Streetcar, Cityzi, Cloudchain, Cohda Wireless, ComfortDelGro, Consumer Council of Hong Kong, Continental, CRTM Madrid, Ctrip, Daimler, DB (Deutsche Bahn), Dejamobile, Delhi Metro Rail, Delphi, Denver RTD, Discover, eBay, Elavon, English Premier League, Euroleague Basketball, EventBox Tickets, Facebook, FastBar, Ferrocarriles Suburbanos, FIDO Alliance, First Data, First Group, FitBit, Future Cities Catapult, Galois, Glasgow Smartzone, Glasgow Subway, GlobalPlatform, Google, Greyhound, GSMA, GUTS, HaCon Mobility, Highways England, Hochbahn, Houston Metro, HRT (Hampton Roads Transit), Huawei, HVV (Hamburger Verkehrsverbund), IATA, iGo, Ile-de-France Mobilités, Inbenta Technologies, INIT, Intific, Java Card Forum, JCB, JetBlue, JWT (J Walter Thompson), Keolis, Kisio, KLM, KVV (Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund), Las Vegas RTC, Lignes d'Azur, London Theatre Direct, Los Angeles DOT, Lothian Buses, Lyft, MaaS Alliance, Manly Ferries, Mastercard, MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority), McGill's, MDOT/MTA (Maryland Transit Administration), Megabus, Metra, Metro Transit (Minneapolis), MLB, MLS, Montargis, Moovit, Moscow Department of Transport, Movietickets.com, MTS, MusicToday, MVV, Nacion Servicios, National Express, NBA, NCAA, NETS, New York MTA, Nextbike, NFC Forum, NFL, NGAGE, NHL, NorisBike, Norwegian Air, O2, OCTA (Orange County Transportation Authority), OneTwoTrip, Orange, Pace, PayPal, Paytm, PBOC (Popular Bank of China), Pegasus, Pepsi, Pivotal Payments, Ponominalu, Portland Streetcar, Portland TriMet, PouchNATION, Presto, Public Transport Victoria, QinetiQ, Qualcomm, Radisson Blu, RDG (the Rail Delivery Group), redBus, Road and Transport Authority, UAE, Ryanair, Samsung, San Antonio VIA, San Diego MTS & NCTD (North County Transit District), Santa Clara VTA, Scheidt & Bachmann, Schneider Electric, ScotRail, Secure Technology Alliance, Securitymetrics, SeeTickets, SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency), SFR (Société Française du Radiotéléphone), Siemens, Singapore LTA (Land Transport Authority), SITA, Skiddle, SMS-C Forum, Snapchat, SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français), Spectra Ticketing & Fan Engagement, SPT (Strathclyde Partnership for Transport), SPTrans, SquadUP, Square, SSB (Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen AG), ST Microelectronics, Stagecoach, Strasbourg Transport Authority, STWAB (Stadtwerke Aschaffenburg), Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company, TAO, Tencent, TfL (Transport for London), Thales, Thames Clippers, The Hague HTM, Ticketbis, Ticketbox, Ticketland, Ticketmaster, TicketNew, Timepad, Toronto Transit Commission, Trainline, Transdev, Transit App, Transport for Greater Manchester, Transport for New South Wales, Transport Scotland, Uber, UbiGo, UK Rail and Safety Standards Board, Ulysse, Unilever, UnionPay, VenueNext, Vesta, VIA Rail, Visa, VRE (Virginia Railway Express), VVS (Verkehrsverbund Stuttgart), WeChat, WeEn Semiconductors, WienMobil. Interactive Scenario Tool allowing user the ability to manipulate Juniper's data for 42 different metrics. Mobile & Online Ticketing Deep Dive Strategy & Competition PDF Report. Mobile & Online Ticketing Executive Summary PDF Report. Research into key topic areas, including analysis & data. Ideal for those in need of specific research on a single market segment. Delivered as PDF. Metro & Bus Ticketing PDF Report. Contactless Mobile Ticketing PDF Report.

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Use this page to add evidence of how your charity was able to help a key beneficiary. You might want to add a video or a slide-show of photos to communicate the many ways your charity was able to assist. We helped Joe find a safe home. Find out how by watching our video and then click through the slide-show to see the change in Joe's life.

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"Laboratories of democracy" or "machinery of death"? The story of lethal injection secrecy and a call to the Supreme Court for intervention. Document Cited authorities 15 Cited in Related Author: Blyth, Harrison "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce, or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both." (1) CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE STORY BEHIND LETHAL INJECTION SECRECY LAWS II. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERNS WITH LETHAL INJECTION SECRECY LAWS A. In re Lombardi B. Owens v. Hill III. A BRIEF ARGUMENT FOR SUPREME COURT INTERVENTION INTRODUCTION Lethal injection is by far the most common method of capital punishment in the United States today. Over the course of the last three decades, roughly 85 percent of all executions have been by lethal injection. (2) Many states still have other methods of execution available by law, but in practice only five prisoners have been executed using one of these alternative methods since the turn of the century. (3) In 1982, Texas became the first state to execute a prisoner by injecting drugs intravenously. (4) While Texas has this landmark to its name, Oklahoma might have made the more influential contribution to the current condition of capital punishment when it became the first state to create lethal injection protocols. (5) The story of how Oklahoma made those first lethal injection protocols serves as a metaphor for the newest evolution of capital punishment protocols and the subject of this Comment: Lethal Injection Secrecy Laws. Before lethal injection, most states used electrocution as their primary means of capital punishment. Electric chairs, it turns out, are quite expensive. (6) The Oklahoma legislature was struggling with the financial implications of a broken "chair" in the late 1970s when some legislators began to look outside the box, mulling alternative methods of execution that would be cheaper and, hopefully, more humane. (7) Two men, a politician and a doctor, spearheaded the movement to find a way to execute prisoners by injecting deadly drugs. Assembly Member Bill Wiseman, the politician, first approached the state medical board with the idea but was rebuffed over concerns of public perception. (8) Wiseman then sought the help of Dr. Jay Chapman, the state medical examiner at the time. (9) Despite the fact that Chapman admitted to having "no experience" with creating lethal drug concoctions, Chapman and Wiseman sat down together one day to crank out a lethal injection protocol. (10) Chapman's protocol, as dictated to Wiseman, went as follows: "An intravenous saline drip shall be started in the prisoner's arm, into which shall be introduced a lethal injection consisting of an ultra-short-acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic." (11) Another Oklahoma legislator, State Senator Bill Dawson, was also looking into the possibility of a lethal injection protocol. Dawson met with a friend, Dr. Stanley Deutsch, who was the head of the anesthesiology department at Oklahoma Medical School. In a letter that would influence the state legislature's eventual bill, Dr. Deutsch suggested that prisoners be given a heavy dose of an anesthetic. (12) Thus, a three-drug protocol was born: the first drug anesthetized, the second drug paralyzed and ceased breathing, and the third drug stopped the heart. (13) Each drug alone would produce death in the amounts called for by the protocols. (14) When asked why he chose to use three drugs, Chapman responded by saying, "You just wanted to make sure the prisoner was dead at the end, so why not just add a third lethal drug?" (15) Perhaps the most startling aspect of this story, the story of the birth of lethal injection in the United States as the modern method of capital punishment, (16) is the utter lack of medical or scientific expertise supporting it. Dr. Chapman later described how he came up with the idea of the multiple drug protocol: "I didn't do any research. I just knew from having been placed under anesthesia myself ... what we needed. I wanted to have at least two drugs in doses that would each kill the prisoner, to make sure if one didn't kill him, the other would." (17) The three-drug protocol was an answer to the political question, "How can the state continue executing prisoners in the wake of Oklahoma's broken electric chair?" Oklahoma and Texas then served as the laboratories for developing and implementing these first lethal injection procedures. Other states fell in line soon after the first years of lethal injection, usually by simply copying the procedures that Oklahoma and Texas had used. (18) These protocols remained in place in most states for about three decades. (19) The old protocols are now changing in response to a new political impediment to lethal injection: pharmaceutical manufacturers are refusing to provide states with the drugs needed to execute prisoners. (20) At its essence, the problem is lethal injection's version of the broken electric chair. Just like Oklahoma's broken electric chair in the late 1970s, this impediment has state legislatures haphazardly throwing ideas at the wall to see what sticks. As Fordham law professor and noted death penalty scholar Deborah W. Denno puts it, "states are just scrambling for drugs, and they're changing their protocols rapidly and carelessly." (21) While the new protocols vary among states and are still in their infancy, certain trends are emerging as states try to right the ship as quickly as possible. One common thread connecting nine states, all of which are dealing with similar problems, is the emergence of laws that make confidential certain information concerning the processes involved in creating, distributing, and administering the lethal injection drugs. (22) These laws, Lethal Injection Secrecy Laws, have generated a lot of criticism. (23) Important to this Comment, these laws have also given rise to a number of constitutional challenges brought by prisoners on death row seeking to delay or terminate their executions. (24) At the heart of each constitutional challenge is a claim that the state's secrecy law violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause by depriving the challenger of information needed to show that the execution will be "cruel and unusual." Reviewing courts have generally upheld the laws, but the majority opinions tend to leave some doubt about the constitutional questions. (25) This Comment is divided into three sections. Part I tells the story of Lethal Injection Secrecy Laws and further explains what the laws do. Part II examines a sampling of the constitutional challenges to state secrecy laws. Part III posits that the Supreme Court standards used by lower courts to uphold the laws are incompatible with the constitutional questions raised by the challenges. Part III ultimately concludes that the Supreme Court should intervene, both to slow the haphazard spread of the secrecy laws and to give lower courts (and states) guidance on the unique constitutional issues the laws present. THE STORY BEHIND LETHAL INJECTION SECRECY LAWS This Part is intended to provide the backstory of Lethal Injection Secrecy Laws while highlighting an analogy to Oklahoma's process in creating the original protocols over thirty years ago. It also hints at a theory driving the focus of this Comment: when it comes to the death penalty, the states do not function as the "laboratories of democracy" that is the genius of our federal system. (26) Instead, states act more like mechanics tasked with keeping the "machinery of death" operational. (27) In the face of mounting political pressure, pharmaceutical manufacturers have been refusing to provide states with some of the most common drugs used in lethal injection protocols. For example, in 2009, Hospira, Inc. ceased domestic production of sodium thiopental due to a material supply problem. (28) For years, Hospira had been the sole supplier of the anesthetic, the first drug injected in multiple states' three-drug protocol. (29) The company originally planned to continue production at a plant in Italy but faced pressure from increasingly tough export laws in Europe and threat of prosecution from Italian authorities. (30) Consequently, Hospira announced that it would no longer produce sodium thiopental. (31) Although it was not necessarily identified as such at the time, this became a watershed moment for lethal injection protocols; it was the first sign that the thirty-year-old protocols might be failing. (32) As mentioned above, the European Union has implemented measures that regulate the export of drugs commonly associated with lethal injections, such as sodium thiopental and pentobarbital. (33) These regulations are important to the story because some of the major producers of those drugs are based in Europe. Perhaps the most important of these producers is a Danish pharmaceutical company, Lundbeck, Inc. Lundbeck has been a particularly critical cog in the states' "machinery of death" because it is the only producer of injectable pentobarbital in the world. (34) Pentobarbital is the most common drug in state lethal injection protocols; " [fourteen states have used pentobarbital in executions"; five states have added pentobarbital to their protocols; and one state, Colorado, lists pentobarbital as a backup anesthetic. (35) In January (2011), Lundbeck announced that it would no longer sell pentobarbital to states for use in executions and that it would forbid buyers from reselling it to states that would use it for lethal injection. (36) States subsequently scrambled to keep scheduled executions going. Ohio switched to a two-drug cocktail of midazolam (a sedative and anti-seizure drug) and hydromorphone (a painkiller derived from morphine) in time to execute Dennis McGuire in January 2014. (37) Despite receiving a warning from at least one prominent anesthesiologist that the drugs would produce gasping for air and "a terrible, arduous, tormenting execution," Ohio proceeded with McGuire's execution. (38) The execution lasted about twenty-five minutes, and McGuire "struggled, gasped, and choked for several minutes" before...

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Mr. Majcher joined Robert Darvas Associates in 2003. He began his career as an intern after receiving his Bachelors of Science degree in Architecture from The University of Michigan and continued to work while pursuing a Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering at the university. His passion for knowledge lead him to pursue welding and fabrication at Washtenaw Community College. In 2007, Mr. Majcher returned to The University of Michigan to pursue a graduate certificate in Real Estate Development and in 2015, he received his Masters of Science degree in Architecture. Mr. Majcher's concentrated education in design, construction and development, coupled with his abilities in 3-D modeling and technical drafting has allowed him to excel as a designer. He is able to understand and meet the range of requirements intrinsic in today's professional environment. He has successfully designed and managed a number of projects, including the Ann Arbor Pittsfield and Traverwood Branch Libraries, the thirty-story EnV tower in downtown Chicago, and the 201 Depot Street Office Building in Ann Arbor. In 2009, he became a partner and is now the Managing Director.

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Nestled at the end of a quiet street in historic Old Town's coveted Meadows neighborhood, this beautifully renovated fisherman's cottage skillfully blends contemporary design with Key West character. The charming two bedroom and two bath home features high ceilings, travertine and wood floors, gorgeous kitchen and baths, and abundant windows and doors. The light-filled living room showcases a vaulted ceiling and island-inspired stained glass windows. Lushly landscaped, the corner lot sports a spacious deck for outdoor entertaining, grill station, irrigation system, landscape lighting, and unforgettable outdoor shower.

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Q: terraform kubernetes provider: namespace destination I'm creating an ingress using terraform kubernetes_ingress resource: resource "kubernetes_ingress" "this" { metadata { name = "mongodb-ingress" } spec { backend { service_name = "mongodb" service_port = 9092 } rule { http { path { path = "/mongodb/*" backend { service_name = "mongodb" service_port = 9092 } } } } } } It's not clear to me which namespace will be assigned this ingress rule on. I've tried to get if there's any namespace property, but I don't quite figure out where is it. Any ideas? A: There is a namespace property in terraform kubernetes provider. Please take a loot at here. If you don't specify a namespace then it'll be created in default namespace. resource "kubernetes_ingress" "this" { metadata { name = "mongodb-ingress" namespace = "dev" } spec { backend { service_name = "mongodb" service_port = 9092 } rule { http { path { path = "/mongodb/*" backend { service_name = "mongodb" service_port = 9092 } } } } } } kubectl get ing -n dev NAME CLASS HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS AGE mongodb-ingress <none> * 80 7s

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I decided to spend some time thinking about my story. I got some productive thinking done on it, letting it wander around my mind in random directions. The general mood of things produced a poem. Poems are a lot easier for me to write than stories. I don't know how much of that is due to length. Also, I think I feel less like I have to be precise in what I'm conveying with a poem. With a story, I feel so much pressure to have a plot, to have it make sense, to have it be interesting. Since I have mostly used poems just for emotional outlet, it's much easier for me to forget all of that and just write. So, I have a poem. I'll likely read it on Monday. Unless I come up with a story before then, in which case I'll read the story.

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Mentoring techniques are best used with colleagues who evidence clear commitment to their roles and a desire to improve. when it is suggested the team member has ownership of the mentoring process. Effective mentoring sets SMART targets that are goal focused. The benefits of an effective mentoring relationship are mutual. Although the focus of this article is on how to be an effective mentor, it is important to understand a little about leadership theory, because mentoring might not be suitable for everyone. The Dictator: Tells others what to do and does not seek their opinions. The Mentor: Shares a breadth of professional and personal experience so that others might learn and gain independence. The Coach: Assumes that colleagues know what to do, uses questioning to check understanding and then monitors progress to ensure task completion. The Delegator: Knows colleagues possess skills and understanding and that they can be trusted to complete tasks without leadership interference. Sandra is an experienced member of the team who possess a wide range of skills, knowledge and experience. She completes any task asked of her to the best of her ability and on time. Sandra is highly capable and has high commitment. Bob is also an experienced member of the team. While he has a wide range of skills, knowledge and experience, he is a bit disengaged and can't always be counted on to meet deadlines or produce high-quality work. Bob is highly capable but has low commitment. Safia is a new member of the team. She is eager to do a good job and, with support and guidance, completes all tasks to the best of her ability. She doesn't have a breadth of skills, knowledge or experience yet, but she is eager to learn. Safia has low capability but has high commitment. Sean is on placement with the team and, unfortunately, things are not going well. He has very limited experience and doesn't appear to care. Sean has low capability and has low commitment. Each of our four team members needs to be led in a way that will enable them to flourish since, if they are led in the wrong way, at best we will stifle their ability to succeed and, at worst, we will set them up to fail. The table below ('Pairing leadership style with capability and commitment') shows the management style most suitable for each team member. Mentoring is not appropriate for everyone but, for team members who are committed to their role and eager to learn, it can be a highly effective staff development tool. Sandra H H Delegate Sandra will benefit from the trust that delegation provides and will flourish when given independence and responsiblity. Bob H L Coach Bob will benefit from a leader who trusts his abilities but keeps a close eye on him to ensure that work is completed well and on time. Safia L H Mentor Safia will benefit from a mentor, learning alongside a leader so that she can begin to tackle tasks with growing confidence and independence. Sean L L Dictate Sean will benefit from strong leadership that sets out what needs to be done, how it should be done and by when; then monitors every step of Sean's progress to ensure that the task is completed well and on time. Too often, mentoring is seen as something that is done to colleagues to improve or develop them. This is seldom effective. Effective mentoring is provided when a colleague identifies a development need, sets clear goals and has ownership of the process. Motivation is what drives all of us to do anything: to get out of bed in the morning, go on a diet, ask someone out on a date or walk the dog. Motivation is most effective when it is intrinsic (when it comes from within) and less effective when it is extrinsic (imposed upon us). Motivation can also be seen on a continuum – it is seldom totally intrinsic or extrinsic. However, for mentoring to be an effective development tool, colleagues must want to be mentored. Step 1: Create a vision of your ideal future – write out your dream and be specific. Step 2: Create goals from your vision – what are all the steps you will need to complete to achieve your goals? Step 3: Set SMART goals – these are goals that help you understand exactly what you need to do. Step 4: When setting goals, also identify obstacles. Step 5: Create plans to counter each obstacle. This goal is specific, describing the end result in terms of what is expected and when it is expected. This goal is measurable, describing the end result in terms of quality, quantity, deadline or cost. This goal is achievable, setting a challenge, but one that can be fulfilled with the right amount of effort. This goal is realistic, with practical and relevant conditions. This goal is timely, as it is appropriate in terms of current needs and has a time frame making it clear how long the activity will last. Mentoring a colleague using this fivestep process will enable them to identify a development need, set personal development goals, outline the steps needed to fulfil their potential and identify and overcome potential barriers. What's in it for the team leader? If you are a busy team leader, can you afford the time and effort required to mentor when you already have plenty of other demands to cope with? Mentoring is not a case of 'giving up' your time and energy to helping others achieve their goals and solve their problems – it will also benefit you in a variety of ways, as outlined below. A more committed team: When you make a genuine effort to include people in setting their own goals, making decisions and implementing their own ideas, they are likely to become more committed and focused. Better team performance: Because of its dual functions of managing performance and developing people, mentoring leads to better individual and collective performance. Better working relationships: Good mentoring promotes trust and collaboration, and leads to better working relationships. Better ideas: When you get into the habit of giving ownership to colleagues, you may be pleasantly surprised at the quality of ideas people come up with. Better information: If you are genuinely mentoring people in a collaborative, open spirit, they will feel more confident in coming to you with vital information, including telling you the 'bad news' while there is still time to do something about it. Investing time to gain time: There is no doubt that in the short term it's often quicker to 'take charge' and give orders instead of mentoring. That's fine for 'firefighting', but in the long term, the more you direct, the more people will rely on you for directions, and the more of your time will be swallowed up by it. If you invest time in mentoring, however, over time your team will require less and less direction, and you will be confident in delegating more and more to them, freeing up your time for the tasks only you can accomplish. The role of a mentor can be richly rewarding for any team leader. As well as developing a highly effective, innovative team who set their sights on their own professional development, agree clear goals and make a positive and valued contribution to your team. Being a mentor can also make a significant contribution to your own professional development and the satisfaction you receive from your role. What does a good mentoring relationship look like? Owning the process and taking responsibility for the outcomes. What to do when things don't go to plan.

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The Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments were a series of experiments conducted between 1953 and 1975 to determine the extent to which a single ship or aircraft could dispense biological warfare agents over the United Kingdom. The tests between 1971–1975 were known as the DICE trials. The tests were conducted by scientists from Porton Down, initially using zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCds) as a simulated agent. Early results clearly showed that one aircraft flying along the coast while spraying its agent could contaminate a target over 100 miles away, over an area of 10,000 square miles. This method of biological warfare attack and the test program to study it was known as the Large Area Coverage (LAC) concept. In the early 1960s, Porton Down was asked to expand the scope of their tests to determine if using a live bacteria instead of ZnCds would significantly alter the results. Scientists from Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton Down selected South Dorset as the site for this next phase of testing, with Bacillus subtilis (also known as Bacillus globigii or BG) selected as the test agent. This bacteria was sprayed across South Dorset without the knowledge or consent of the inhabitants. Similar tests In Operation Sea-Spray, unsuspecting inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area were sprayed with Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii, pathogens that were then implicated in some unusual outbreaks of illness, including pneumonia, and urinary tract infections, and even some deaths. In Senate subcommittee hearings in 1977, the US Army revealed: Between 1949 and 1969 open-air tests of biological agents were conducted 239 times. In 80 of those experiments, the Army said it used live bacteria that its researchers at the time thought were harmless. In the others, it used inert chemicals to simulate bacteria. In the 1950s army researchers dispersed Serratia on Panama City and Key West Florida with no known illnesses resulting. In the 1950s army researchers dispersed zinc cadmium sulfide (now a known cancer-causing agent) over Minnesota and other Midwestern states to see how far they would spread in the atmosphere. The particles were detected more than 1,000 miles away in New York state. Bacillus globigii, never shown to be harmful to people, was released in San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., and along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, among other places. In New York, military researchers in 1966 spread Bacillus subtilis variant Niger, also believed to be harmless, in the subway system by dropping lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto tracks in stations in midtown Manhattan. The bacteria were carried for miles throughout the subway system. Army officials concluded in a January 1968 report that: "Similar covert attacks with a pathogenic disease-causing agent during peak traffic periods could be expected to expose large numbers of people to infection and subsequent illness or death." In a May 1965 secret release of Bacillus globigii at Washington's National Airport and its Greyhound Lines bus terminal more than 130 passengers were exposed to the bacteria traveling to 39 cities in seven states in the two weeks following the mock attack. See also Unethical human experimentation in the United States Project SHAD Operation Dew Suffield Experimental Station Dugway Proving Ground References Biological warfare Science and technology in Dorset United Kingdom biological weapons program

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The upcoming adaption of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli has cast none other than Nick Robinson as it's Simon! The story follows Simon, a homosexual teenager who has not yet come out. When he accidentally sends an e-mail to the wrong person his secret, as well as the secret of the guy he has been e-mailing, threaten to emerge. Simon must find a way to navigate his way through coming out before someone pushes him out. This is a brilliant coming of age LGBT story! The adaption is to be directed by Greg Berlanti who is known for the romantic comedy Life as We Know It as well as the tv series' Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and the upcoming Archie comic adaption, Riverdale. It is to be produced by Temple Hill Entertainment known for The Maze Runner, The Twilight Saga and the upcoming Power Rangers movie. Nick Robinson is no stranger to book to movie adaptions after portraying Ben in The 5th Wave earlier this year. Robinson is also to star opposite Amandla Stenberg in the upcoming adaption of Nichola Yoon's Everything, Everything, set to hit theatres in August 2017. With so much adaption experience there is no doubt that Robinson will rock the big screen as Simon! What do you think of this new casting development?

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That our babies matter AND deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. That a strong network of friends and family is crucial to the grieving process AND in order to be good support they need to be supported too. That the mother's care provide holds a sacred role in the grieving process AND should take that responsibility very seriously. That we are strong and we will make it through this season – even though some days we may feel like the world is crumbling around us. This entry was posted in Our Mission. Bookmark the permalink.

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We are proud to have released ecoinvent version 3.0, the third major release in our long history, in May 2013. The third version of the database offers several exciting new features as well as new and updated datasets. Changes from ecoinvent version 2.2 to ecoinvent version 3.0 have been documented in detail in form of change reports and correspondence files. We document the known data issues in ecoinvent 3.01 openly to make our users aware of these problems and to help them understand the errors so they may work around them while we work on the update and error fix.

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Composer/longtime Steven Soderbergh collaborator Cliff Martinez says the director threw him a "big curveball" when it came time to score his Cinemax series. "As he was editing, he was using my music from Drive, Contagion, and Spring Breakers," Martinez explains, "which was a surprise because it didn't acknowledge the [show's 1900] period whatsoever. It also proves a theory that as long as the music serves the dramatic functions of the film or TV show, it'll work." Martinez, an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame from his days drumming for The Red Hot Chili Peppers, says of the score's electronic roots: "I had seen Kraftwerk at Disney Hall, and I kind of went, 'A-ha, that's it!' I realized I wanted to do something that sounded like the early pioneering stages of electronic music. They were one of the first main artists that I heard that made pop electronic music, so they were kind of an inspiration." Martinez also used guitars and an unusual favorite instrument, the Cristal Baschet, which "always makes an interesting contrast when you place it up against something that's overtly electronic and synthetic." The Knick (Original Series Soundtrack) Cliff Martinez Son of Placenta Previa I'm In the Pink Placental Repair Finish Your Breakfast Thus Speak Thack the Wise Never Read Him Aortic Aneurysm junior Goodnight Nurse Elkins Drizzled Him Good Not Leaving This Circus Falling Off a Bicycle Plus Call Me Dad Fire It Up Again Pretty Silver Stitches Douse This New Standard Hernia Procedure Sail To Europe Will It Hurt ℗ 2014 Home Box Office, Inc. Under Exclusive License to Milan Entertainment, Inc. JCStahley , 09/11/2014 Very cool, very contemporary. Cliff Martinez is a very specific choice for a period series: this score works in a way that an instrumental or orchestral or classical score just wouldn't work. I can't explain it exactly, but I would just say that it totally works and once you hear it with the show itself, you can't picture the music being anything other than this. I also like that it's very minimal and sparse but still very effective. The score is definitely part of the vibe of this show. fernstyle , 11/09/2015 Eleven stars Ethereal and visceral, and a perfect anachronistic accompaniment to Cinemax's The Knick. This is the only tv soundtrack I have ever purchased, and I listen to it multiple times a week - it is an interesting meditation choice if you're into that, and it makes for wonderful background music for creative writing or any other endeavors. Everyone who heard this ends up buying it, whether they watch the show or not! SirRHP , 10/17/2014 Exquisite, Haunting… Rarely do I write reviews on iTunes for anything. I think this only the second time I've done so actually. But I feel compelled to praise Cliff Martinez's peerless work on The Knick. It's a true testament to his work as an artist that he was able to create a modern sonic landscape for a television series that takes place 114 years ago but still completely fits. It's rather breathtaking. I'll wrap this up by saying this is the best music I have heard (and I am including all albums here, not just soundtracks) in all of 2014. More By Cliff Martinez Solaris - Original Motion Picture Score Contagion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) The Neon Demon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Arbitrage (Music from the Motion Picture) Far Cry 4 (Original Game Soundtrack) The Lincoln Lawyer (Original Motion Picture Score) Upstream Color (Original Motion Picture Score) Take Shelter (Music from the Motion Picture) David Wingo Gone Girl (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) It Follows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Disasterpeace Inception (Music from the Motion Picture) Under the Skin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Established in 2008, the Bonsall Education Foundation (BEF) is committed to encouraging a positive sense of community, collaboration among all district organizations and awareness of the need for private funds for public education. We are a small foundation that serves only the Bonsall Unified School District. With under 2,500 students in our district we offer big programs that cater to each school's needs for educational enrichment. We are an organization that is comprised entirely of unpaid volunteers. The BEF Board of Directors, Advisory Board and Enrichment Sub-Committees volunteer their time and talents to facilitate the programs BEF offers. We encourage the community to participate with BEF in any way possible to ensure the success of our students. BEF's primary focus is fundraising for district educational programs that would otherwise be unavailable to students. We produce several large fundraising campaigns/events throughout the year, however patron donations can be made at any time. BEF accepts donations for any of our programs , at any time throughout the year!

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This is the largest of the A&E PlayTop Cages. This cage is ideal for medium and large birds, including African Greys, Amazons, Large Macaws, Large Cockatoos. This cage is ideal for African Greys, Amazons, Large Macaws, Large Cockatoos and other large and medium sized birds. If you have a bird that doesn't "flee" whenever given the opportunity, this cage allows you to leave the door open so your bird can play whenever it wants. If your bird is an escape artist, this cage also comes equipped with front door safety latch and door locks to keep your bird safe and secure.

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We hiked to a familiar location in East Zion today. The sun had come out after the freezing rain and snow storm the previous day. Strange weather indeed, but the perfect blue skies helped make this a striking photograph. After she took a few pictures near the river, Karen disappeared further down the canyon. I found her crouched over a small pond taking pictures of a frog. The symmetry of the scene with her reflection in the water was crystal clear, so I spent a few minutes taking pictures of her taking pictures.

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Unusually I'm going out this evening to a work-related event in London – I don't get out much. The event is being run by the Bloomberg Institute as a celebration of this year's BAT test, which I believe is a new(ish) product looking to secure itself a place in the very competitive psychometric testing market for university students. The reason I mention this isn't to commemorate my trip into the City, or to publicise the product, but because I think that the event is potentially a really interesting piece of marketing. For a product like this to fly then it needs 3 players on side – students willing to take the test, employer's willing to value the results and universities happy to host and promote the testing sessions. This evening's event brings together all 3 groups in a soiree (their word) that addresses careers in finance through a speaker & a panel session, with networking before and after. I don't know anything about how employers are being approached, but I think the organisers have been very canny in how they have invited the students – they have invited representatives of the University Finance and Business Societies. This is much more likely to resonate with recruiters than random students, as nearly all recruiters think that running a Society implies employability skills, and these Societies also show interest in the industry – meaning that the students there tonight are prime targets for all of the firms. It also has stickability with the student community, because whilst students are at Uni for 1 to 4 years the Societies continue year after year. Bloomberg is effectively partnering with all of them. Observing the networking should be really interesting as both the students and the recruiters will want to talk to each other. Us Careers Advisers can expect to be a bit like wallflowers though as I doubt that either of the other parties will be targetting us! Next Post He shoots……. he misses.

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New Bedford, Mass. - Kathleen Saville, author of Rowing for My Life: Two Oceans, Two Lives, One Journey will speak about her rows across the Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans, at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Wednesday, July 12 from 6 pm to 8 pm. In the 1980s, Saville rowed in stormy weather along the Moroccan coast, over 3,600 miles across the Atlantic from Callao, Peru to the Galapagos Islands, and to the Marquesas Islands, American Samoa, Vanuatu, and through Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The lecture is free and open to the public. Go to www.whalingmuseum.org to RSVP or call 508-997-0046. Saville's lecture will evoke the extraordinary beauty of solitary life on the open oceans. The talk will include a discussion about how Saville used a sextant and compass to navigate, as well as how she used Morse code to communicate through a TR7 transceiver radio powered with energy from solar panels on the bow cabin. Viewers will learn about the unforeseen challenges that she faced over the course of her journey, such as losing the sextant and being forced to navigate by only the stars, being rolled over in the Coral Sea, and nearly being run down by a freighter on the Atlantic.

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We clearly do not have a "free" market economic system. Properly defined, our economic system is a "government directed" market system with a business cycle predominantly determined by government policies and actions. The government has been the predominant factor in the business cycle since WW-I. China provides the primary example of a state capitalist market system where the government owns or controls most "commanding heights" economic entities, and France provides an example of an industrial policy market system where the government picks winners and loser in important sectors. When the government shifts from facilitating markets to influencing markets, that's when things go awry. Through the intended and, especially, the unintended consequences of government policies and activities, the government has been the predominant factor in the business cycle since WW-I. As FUTURECASTS has frequently stated, there are indeed some very capable people in government, and indeed our market system is created by and dependent on an impressive array of good governance practices developed over several centuries. Indeed, the U.S. government is head and shoulders superior to that of any of the other major nations. Indeed, it is indubitably the lack of good governance practices and appropriate government institutions that explains the continued impoverishment within third world undeveloped nations. The superiority of the U.S. system of government is the good news. That's also the bad news. It just can't get much better than this. Because of the nature of the institution, because of powerful political and bureaucratic imperatives and the nature of government decision-making processes, government management is INHERENTLY inept. For the good, the bad and the ugly of our government directed market system and the need to broaden economic analysis to cover the pertinent government policies and practices - to broaden the study of "economics" to cover the vast complexity of "political economy" - see Scott, "The Concept of Capitalism," See, also, Government Futurecast. China provides the primary example of a state capitalist market system where the government owns or controls most "commanding heights" economic entities, and France provides an example of an industrial policy market system where the government picks winners and loser in important sectors. Although the U.S. government does some of these things, it predominantly confines itself to efforts to influence markets, not their participants. When the government shifts from facilitating markets to influencing markets, that's when things go awry. disables essential market disciplinary mechanisms with moral hazard policies that turn credit market vigilantes into credit market enablers, resource allocations that alter basic supply and demand relationships, chronic inflation that alters economic incentives, and the elimination of the right to fail. Undoubtedly, there is much more that can be added to this list. When governments provide good governance that facilitates profit driven market directed commerce, and when governments submit to the "golden straightjacket" of market mechanisms, sound currency and limits on sovereign debts, nations prosper. Government constraints on market mechanisms and government policies that disable market disciplinary mechanisms have played the predominant role in every major business cycle contraction in the U.S. since WW-I. It was the removal of market constraints and the facilitation of market mechanisms that played the predominant role in achieving prosperity after WW-II and in the economic and financial recovery from the Keynesian inflationary morass of the 1970s. It was the removal of market constraints and the facilitation of market mechanisms that played the predominant role in the two decades of prosperous growth and stability during the 1980s and 1990s. Government alternatives to market mechanisms and government efforts to influence the markets have been the driving forces in the business cycle since the Federal Reserve refused to play by gold standard rules during WW-I and continued to substitute its administered alternatives for gold standard rules during the 1920s. The gold standard did not fail. The rules of the gold standard were just heedlessly abandoned in favor of political expediency and the foolish belief that human administered alternatives could achieve superior results. See, Meltzer, History of Federal Reserve, v. 1, Part I, "The Search for Monetary Stability (1913-1923)," and Part II, "The Engine of Deflation (1923-1933)" Political expediency and ideological predilections, of course, chronically afflict Congress. To a greater or lesser extent, narrow political and ideological interests persistently trump the national interest and heedlessly subject the nation to a plethora of unintended consequences. The trade war was heedlessly instigated and maintained with the 1922 Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act and the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The trade war destroyed the international markets that were vital to the vast agricultural sector of the economy during the 1930s, took a 10% chunk out of the automotive market as early as the spring of 1929 and broadly undermined the value of industrial commodities. By February, 1930, 15% of the wheat market had disappeared and another 10% was gone by 1932. In the nature of economic markets, the impacts extended far beyond just the losses from the closing of international markets. For the major cash crops - wheat, cotton, corn - the loss of market value for the domestic crop was more than three times the loss from the decline in export sales. The loss of export demand resulted in a 50% loss of value for the entire North American wheat crop between the summer of 1929 and the end of 1930, with further losses continuing thereafter. Similar results were experienced in the cotton market and, by 1931, in the corn market as well, and also in industrial commodity markets, destroying the economy of the entire midsection of the nation. Keynesian and monetarist economists determinedly ignore these basic market impacts when denigrating the importance of the trade war. They stupidly pretend that the impact was limited just to the loss of exports without considering the vast impact on the value of all the nation's cash crops and industrial commodities. The price curve for these commodities is very steep. European governments had already undermined international commerce with WW-I. The Versailles Treaty that wound up that atrocious conflict Balkanized the Balkans and totally ignored impacts on international commerce, but the U.S. government played an increasing role thereafter in the vast international tragedy that became the Great Depression. Free markets didn't fail during the Great Depression, left wing claims to the contrary notwithstanding. The Great Depression was clearly the result of government activities and policies that imposed massive burdens and impenetrable constraints on market mechanisms. The draining of the vast financial strength of the U.S. after WW-II, the Great Inflation of the 1970s, and the recent Credit Crunch recession clearly reveal the economic policy madness that periodically afflicts the government directed U.S. market system. The Keynesians brought in by the Kennedy administration were full of conceit and hubris, and some even claimed almost scientific certitude. They promised to accelerate economic growth and "obsolete" the business cycle. Republican governance repeatedly favors the narrow political interests of unprincipled political hacks. Democratic governance repeatedly demonstrates not only their own vulnerability to political expediency but also a powerful susceptibility towards ideological and Keynesian madness. A plague of Keynesian economists transmitting the Keynesian madness periodically descends on Washington. The Keynesians brought in by the Kennedy administration were full of conceit and hubris, and some even claimed almost scientific certitude. They promised to accelerate economic growth and "obsolete" the business cycle. With such attitudes, they were capable of enormous mistakes. The publisher of FUTURECASTS online magazine responded to the first plague by publishing "Dollar Devaluation" (1967) accurately forecasting the devaluation of the dollar in the 1972-1974 period and the inflationary morass that would destroy 60% of the dollar's purchasing power in the decade thereafter. A financial column was provided for some business newspapers accurately explaining and forecasting the volatile twists and turns of the 1970s. At a time when establishment economists were achieving an astounding record of almost 100% failure in forecasting economic developments, the publisher's published forecasting record was almost perfect. See, Futurecasting Record 1, Futurecasting Record 2, and Futurecasting Record 3. His readers were thus forewarned in time to protect themselves - and even to profit from - that Keynesian debacle. The demonstrated forecasting ineptness of establishment economists is readily explained. They simply cannot forecast the failure of the policies that they are busy justifying for their politician masters and political causes. To the extent that their brains are addled by the Keynesian madness, their economic concepts are risible and the policies they support are certain to fail. Forecasting skill thus requires only a recognition of the inevitable failure of Keynesian policies and the modest talent to draw a reasonable time line to the period of failure. Now, a second plague of Keynesian economists has been loosed from the nation's foremost academic institution where the virus has been incubated since being eliminated from Washington in the 1980s. Why the faculties of arts and sciences in these institutions hate their country that much is a question that remains to be answered. FUTURECASTS in its earliest issues had foreseen and explained this re-infection. See, Economic Futurecast, at segment on "The conundrum of American monetary policy" republished from the 11/1/99 prototype issue. Indeed, FUTURECASTS online magazine was established to be ready to explain and forecast the inevitable failures of Keynesian policies for a new generation of readers so they too would be able to protect themselves - and even to profit from - this second Keynesian debacle. FUTURECASTS has for many years now averaged well over 30,000 hits per month. However, as one commentator aptly put it, history doesn't repeat, it rhymes. There have in fact been differences in this 21st century outbreak. Floating dollar exchange rates eliminate sudden devaluation crises, but sudden or smooth, dollar devaluation proceeds just the same. Monetarist concepts and expectations theory are among the improvements accepted for Keynesian theory, but these just improve matters at the margins and have some problems of their own. Keynesian theory remains rotten to the core and the disease produces the same economic maladies. The burdens of entitlements that lack cost constraints are reaching massive proportions. The Bush (II) Republicans surrendered to political expedience and abandoned the successful policies of the 1980s and 1990s. They couldn't resist the temptation to loot the public treasury and undermine market disciplinary constraints as favors for their supporters. The Bush (II) administration and its three Republican Congresses inherited an economy that had regained its position of world leadership and financial strength - much to Keynesian astonishment. There was no secret about the economic policies that had enabled the U.S. to recover from the Keynesian inflationary morass of the 1970s. There was no secret about the economic policies that maintained two decades of increasing prosperity interrupted by only two short and shallow recessions. These policies were referred to as the "golden straightjacket," since they produced prosperity broadly over time but imposed discipline on politicians that the politicians hate. However, the Bush (II) Republicans surrendered to political expedience and abandoned these successful policies. They couldn't resist the temptation to loot the public treasury and undermine market disciplinary constraints as favors for their supporters. They began digging the nation into an economic hole the ultimate results of which were easy to see. This deplorable turn of events was repeatedly covered by FUTURECASTS. See, Heedless Government, Government by Crisis and Congress: The Engine of Inflation. The Republicans did not have the excuse of Keynesian influence. This was the same old fashioned heedless irresponsibility of unprincipled political hacks that created the disastrous trade war of the 1920s. The electorate responded in the only way it could - by kicking the bastards out. Unfortunately, the new bastards were even worse. The Democrats have continued and intensified Republican policies and have in addition exposed Washington to a second plague of Keynesian economists. They have thus proceeded to accelerate the disease process in much the same way as during the 1930s New Deal period. FUTURECASTS had provided its readers with accurate forewarning of the inevitable results of this conduct. The onset of a serious recession, now called the "Credit Crunch," probably before the 2008 election, was clearly forecast. Such factors as the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bubbles, the bank lending bubbles, debt leverage bubbles, the housing bubbles and the constraints in the energy markets and much more had been clearly explained as early as February, 2003. Further explanations and warnings followed. See, Eleventh Annual Review of FUTURECASTS Issues. By February, 2009, while the blood was flowing on Wall Street and establishment economists and talking heads were demonstrating their incompetence by speculating about a return of the Great Depression, FUTURECASTS told its readers to "buy now." FUTURECASTS correctly assured its readers that despite continuing volatility, the market would be substantially higher by the end of 2010. "In any event, now while the blood is still running on Wall Street and idiot talking heads on television are comparing this significant recession to the Great Depression, this would definitely be the time to buy." However, recovery will be troubled, disappointing and short. By trying to protect us from the impacts of bursting bubbles, the government in its usual ham handed way has prevented the markets from liquidating the mess. Banks still struggle with toxic assets and unperforming mortgages and other debts. The surplus housing inventory has still not cleared. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, now under explicit government direction, cost the taxpayer tens of billions of dollars each quarter. They insanely load up on low interest mortgages that will decline in value by hundreds of billions of dollars when mortgage rates return closer to market levels. The Federal Reserve also now has in excess of a trillion dollars in low value mortgages. However, corporations and other businesses have improved their competitiveness and their balance sheets, and a decade of high prices has restored the supply side of the energy market and removed the constraints on oil supplies. Oil will now fluctuate in line with commodity inflation, albeit with an extraordinary risk of supply disruptions that is made considerably worse by artificially low interest rates. Low interest rates and rising oil price inflation mean that oil in the ground is worth more than oil produced. FUTURECAST has thus fulfilled its primary obligation to its readers. It is now up to the electorate to keep kicking the bastards out - churning their elected officials - until the Keynesians are again sent packing so some sanity can be restored in Washington and those willing to make the hard decisions that will be needed to restore economic and financial health, stability and strength are able to guide government economic policy. Government policy must restore and facilitate market mechanisms, instead of constraining markets and disabling their disciplinary mechanisms. In addition, substantial cost constraints MUST be imposed on the nation's vast entitlements. The economic policies of the 1980s and 1990s must be restored, no matter what the short term cost. Entitlement madness must be confronted and robust cost constraints must be imposed. Keynesians excel at the production of excuses for policy failures. Reality always perversely refuses to conform to Keynesian expectations. Keynesian are heroically unconcerned about the additional trillions of dollars of sovereign debts that they now assert is necessary to make their stimulatory efforts succeed. Keynesian policies always send the nation into financial decline. Its adversaries and potential adversaries always prosper and expand their influence during periods of Keynesian madness. The nation's problems always ultimately reach "ungovernable" levels. Gold always rises. Suddenly there are discussions about a minimum unemployment level consistent with non-inflationary growth that has inexplicably risen above 6%. This comes straight out of the Keynesians 1970s playbook. Why does this always seem to happen when Keynesian policies are pursued? Budgetary deficits are simply never enough to do the job of stimulating the economy, and monetary inflation ultimately always fails to fulfill Keynesian expectations of reduced unemployment and restored prosperity. The current economic contraction is always different in unexpected ways that prevents realization of the benefits expected from Keynesian policies. Government policy makers are never skilled enough to properly execute Keynesian policies. It's all the fault of evil speculators! It's all the fault of the markets! The markets inexplicably fail to respond properly to Keynesian policies. Reality always perversely refuses to conform to Keynesian expectations. In the 1970s, scapegoats were sought for Keynesian failures as the economy descended into the morass of chronic inflation and business cycle volatility. Business was blamed for abusing market power and generating "cost-push" inflation, and unions were blamed for "wage push" inflation. OPEC and the oil companies are still stupidly blamed for much of the price inflation of the 1970s. Somehow, in the absence of monetary inflation and artificially low interest rates, there was no OPEC oil embargo or oil price shock during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s. That chronic inflation is impossible in the absence of monetary inflation, and indeed is inevitable in the presence of substantial rates of monetary inflation, was amazingly rejected until the Keynesians themselves were rejected by the electorate and kicked out of Washington. Today, the Keynesians blame insurance companies for the health care price inflation caused by government policies. They blame "speculators" for recognizing and acting upon the inevitable failure of Keynesian policies. They blame consumers for refusing to respond with confidence to the Keynesian stimulatory efforts that have failed to stimulate the economy. Their policies have established a volatile and vicious business cycle, but they blame banks for not lending and businesses for not hiring in that environment. They are heroically unconcerned about the additional trillions of dollars of sovereign debt that they now assert is necessary to make their stimulatory efforts succeed. Meanwhile, the domestic economy has leaked a trillion dollars out through its balance of payments deficit in just two years. Substantial adverse impacts on the international trade and payments balances are always an unintended consequence of Keynesian policies. See, Blatt, "Dollar Devaluation" (1967). If $2 trillion in budgetary deficits is insufficient, there should be $4 trillion. And trillions more during the next recession and the one after that. Nobody but a Keynesian can be stupid enough to expect that political leaders will ever pay down any substantial amount of this debt in between recessions. However, Keynesian stabilization efforts inevitably increase economic instability as debt loads and monetary inflation increase. Keynesians refuse to even contemplate the subsequent recessions that will inevitably follow one after the other in quick succession as a result of Keynesian efforts to prevent their occurrence. They view with astonishment the troubled and unsatisfactory nature of the intervening recoveries. Keynesians are suddenly quiet about their 1960s claims that they can accelerate growth and "obsolete" the business cycle. Instead, they begin generating excuses for failure. Suddenly there are discussions about a minimum unemployment level consistent with non-inflationary growth that has inexplicably risen above 6%. This comes straight out of the Keynesian's 1970s playbook. Why does this always seem to happen when Keynesian policies are pursued? The Keynesians now set the bar for success at an extraordinarily low level. The Keynesians brag that there has not been another Great Depression. They thus set the bar for success at an extraordinarily low level. Like fundamentalist clerics warning of brimstone and damnation, Keynesians use threats of a return of the Great Depression to frighten people into acceptance of their concepts and policies regardless of disappointing results. That a return of the Great Depression is impossible without the government policies that caused the Great Depression is something they don't even want to think about. See, Blatt, "Understanding the Great Depression and the Modern Business Cycle," (2009) See, also, Summaries of Great Depression Controversies and Facts and seven Great Depression Chronology articles beginning with "The Crash of '29." To get another Great Depression, you need another WW-I that uses up the world's wealth and disrupts established courses of commerce. The war has to be followed by a Treaty of Versailles that imposes heavy reparations obligations on the losers and Balkanizes them into constituent ethnic or sectarian parts that are not economically viable. Then the major creditor nation must initiate a trade war that blocks entry to its markets and prevents debtors from earning the wherewithal to service their debts and prevents the new little Balkanized states from accessing international markets. It must adopt a mercantilist monetary policy that it rigidly maintains as the world falls apart around it. NOTE: All these factors are aspects of WW-I and post WW-I government policy. None are natural features of market mechanisms. Indeed, they all are constraints on markets. They are each immensely burdensome and stupid, but no single one of them would suffice to cause a Great Depression. The Great Depression was the result of a whole series of immensely burdensome government activities and constraints on the markets. Keynesians are rightly embarrassed by the undeniable failures of their policies during the 1970s and so strive to direct attention elsewhere. Today, some pieces of the Great Depression puzzle are actually in place, but thankfully not the primary pieces. Sovereign debt loads have increased massively, and China pursues mercantilist policies that weaken the finances of its debtor nations. However, there has been no great war since the 1940s, and the "naïve" U.S. somehow managed to preside over a far more enlightened peace process after WW-II than the more "sophisticated" European great powers at Versailles. Most important, globalization gives debtor nations the opportunity to earn the wherewithal to service their debts and small nations the opportunity to flourish within the broad global market. Although the analogy is far from perfect, the dangers of the modern business cycle are more in line with the Great Inflation of the 1970s than the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, Keynesians are rightly embarrassed by the undeniable failures of their policies during the 1970s and so strive to direct attention elsewhere. Ignored is the failure of Keynesian-type policies during the New Deal. There was, after all, still almost 19% unemployment in 1938, after six years of New Deal budget deficits, monetary inflation and industrial policy experiments. The New Deal not only retained all the worst of the economic policies of the previous Republican administrations, but they added new constraints on the economy, even attempting to subject the whole economy to a system of cartels against the public interest. They insanely adopted inflation as a "cure" for economic problems, and in several ways massively reduced the efficiency of the economy. Ominously, inflation as a remedy is again part of the economic madness in Washington. The Keynesian response, as usual, is that the budgetary deficits and monetary inflation were simply not big enough to get the job done, They never are! This is not rocket science. The bottom line is obvious. Not until some principled adult supervision is provided for the Republican party and the Keynesians are kicked out of Washington will the United States restore financial and economic stability and strength.

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Students identify and analyze how writers vary their writing depending on the audience. First they identify formal and informal register. Then they evaluate how authors choose register, tone, and voice for the audience. Next they examine word choice by analyzing passages to determine the intended audience. Finally they write a book review for two different audiences. In this experience, students identify and analyze how writers vary their writing depending on the audience. First they identify formal and informal register. Then they evaluate how authors choose register, tone, and voice for the audience. Next they examine word choice by analyzing passages to determine the intended audience. Finally they write a book review for two different audiences. In scene 5, students write a brief book review, where the emphasis is on the audience of the text. You may assign a book for the review or let students self-select a book. Analyze how a writer's audience impacts register, tone, voice, and word choice. Write a passage for a given audience. When you write, you are communicating a message to your readers. You adjust your message and style, what you say and how you say it, depending on who your audience is. In this experience, you will identify how to write for different audiences. Imagine your sister has asked you to go to the store and buy the "perfect" gift. What questions would you need to ask your sister before going to buy the gift? Discuss student questions. They should be questions that help identify the recipient of the gift: age, gender, relation to the sister, etc. Then ask students to reflect on how knowing the recipient of the gift is similar to knowing one's audience when writing.

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The cover of the latest James Bond novel titled 'Solo' written by William Boyd has been revealed, which features die-cut bullet holes hinting at 'espionage and danger'. Suzanne Dean, creative director of Random House, who has designed the new cover, said that she was inspired by Ian Fleming's 007 series, BBC reported. She further added that as the book features Bond on an unauthorized 'solo' mission in Africa, she was keen to link the two o's in Solo with the zeroes in 007. An audiobook edition of the novel, which is set to be published in September, is narrated by actor Dominic West.

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From farm to fridge? Making cling wrap from canola straw August 12, 2019 Canola Film about farming women shows how times have changed — and how old stereotypes still linger August 12, 2019 News Student-managed farms at Lakeland College work to reflect the industries they serve August 9, 2019 Heartland Wild pigs a growing problem not many seem to care about August 9, 2019 Hogs Government aid may be needed for canola growers, says analyst August 8, 2019 Canola University of Alberta researchers have found a way to make a food wrap that's biodegradable By Alexis Kienlen Canola, News Marleny Saldaña, an associate professor of food and bioengineering processing at the University of Alberta, is part of a team that has created a cling wrap made from canola. Photo: Alexis Kienlen As people try to reduce their use of plastic products, there is a need for items created from environmentally friendly products. Researchers at the University of Alberta may have come up with part of the solution — cling wrap made from canola straw. The product is the only one of its kind in the world, said Marleny Saldaña, an expert in "bioengineering processing" and an associate professor at the university's faculty of agriculture, life and environmental sciences. "The aim is to move towards biodegradable, decomposable plastics," said Saldaña. "We can come up with something that is biodegradable and can replace plastics using biopolymers." And that's something that needs to happen, she said. "We know that plastic is a big industry. We put plastic in many, many things. It's not sustainable. We know that these plastics will take so many years to decompose." Straw makes up about two-fifths of the biomass in a canola crop, but it's a waste product and is typically left on the field as a residue. "People don't take advantage of the value that it has," she said. Before being processed into a cling wrap, canola straw is ground into a meal. photo: Alexis Kienlen To make the cling wrap, members of Saldaña's research group take the canola straw and turn it into meal. This breaks the straw into cellulose and lignins. Both have strong binding properties, and that make them valuable components. "Cellulose is a big commodity," said Saldaña. "The price for cellulose is very good." The researchers use a process that breaks the straw into tiny cellulose nanofibres using "very green" technological processes, she said. They began researching canola cling wrap back in 2017, after successfully making cling wrap from potato peels and culled potatoes in 2014. And while process for making potato peel wrap was promising enough to patent, it was expensive. "There is possibly some application for it. But we were thinking we wanted to have something with antimicrobial activity," she said. Feds back $108-million push to automate farming Event offers chance to get up close to leading-edge ag tech The group also investigated cling wrap from starch extracted from cassava (a root vegetable widely consumed in tropical countries), but it lacked the necessary strength. They then took the cellulose nanofibres from canola, and added it to cassava starch to produce a product that was 12 times stronger. There are a number of different applications for the cling wrap, including an alternative to plastic bags, said Saldaña. They see the possibility for the canola cling wrap or products like it to be used for pharmaceutical consumption or biomedical use. "Most applications are food grade," she said. "We have some other ideas, but are exploring food." All of these uses could spur the creation of a canola straw-processing sector on the Prairies, Saldaña told the university's online magazine. "We have the capacity here for processing canola in Canada to create more industry and high-value products like cellulose nanofibres from canola straw," she said. And there would be no shortage of supply. "We have a lot of straw for us to process and make this nice value-added product," she said. Her research group, which receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, is currently testing the biodegradability of the canola cling wrap. The product has also made Saldaña an in-demand speaker, and she will soon be heading to conferences in Brazil, Australia and Mexico. Alexis Kienlen Alexis Kienlen lives in Edmonton and has been writing for Alberta Farmer since 2008. Originally from Saskatoon, she has also published two collections of poetry and a biography about a Sikh civil rights activist. Her freelance work has appeared in numerous publications across Canada. Alexis Kienlen's recent articles Cooking up a successful recipe for improved soil health 1 day ago Making environmental stewardship pay in many different ways 4 days ago Working on the railroad — and getting grain moving January 14, 2020 News, University of Alberta Are you willing to share animal traits info? It came from outer space, but now resides near Camrose Hands-on plant breeding: Farmers help select new plant lines Better than bitcoin? Students (sort of) make millions from farming Beef Industry Conference returns to Calgary in 2019 A big scholarship and a helping hand

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From Genes to Epilepsies Some epilepsies have clear genetic connections. They can either run in the family or can be traced to de novo (suddenly occurring) mutations of single genes. Others are less clear. Sometimes multiple genes are mutated, and sometimes there are simply no specific genetic mutations. Even more frustrating is that the same mutated gene that has little effect in one person can cause severe epilepsy in another. How do we understand the effects of genes on epilepsy? Is there such a thing as "the gene(s) for epilepsy"? In this two-part article, we will first look into how genetic mutations can lead to either monogenic or polygenic epilepsies. In Part 2, we will discuss other genetic and nongenetic causes of epilepsies. Genetic Mutations (Part 1) Monogenic Epilepsies Many epilepsies involve genetic mutations. However, some genes have more critical roles than others since the proteins they code for can directly affect brain activities. One such gene is KCNQ2. It is the gene for a potassium ion channel. It acts like a tiny gate on the brain cell surface that lets potassium ions escape when the cell is getting too active. As each potassium ion leaves, it carries away a positive electrical charge, discharging the hyperactive brain cells. It is the brain's version of pressing on the brakes when it's going too fast. Having a mutated KCNQ2 is as dangerous as having a tampered brake. It can result in unchecked brain activity, which is the hallmark of epilepsies. The same critical gene can sometimes contain multiple mutations. But having more places broken doesn't always mean more severe symptoms. What affects severity is how much the function of the gene is disrupted, or, as an example, how poorly the brake works with KCNQ2 mutations. "Monogenic epilepsies" involve the mutation of critical genes like KCNQ2, where a single mutated gene is enough to predict epilepsy. Some examples of KCNQ2 mutation are Dravet Syndrome and Benign Familial Neonatal Convulsions (BFNC). In most of these cases, genetic testing will identify the mutated gene. It's uncommon to see monogenic epilepsies run in families. De novo mutations, mutations that arise spontaneously during cell division are responsible for most monogenic epilepsies. Polygenic Epilepsies "Polygenic epilepsies," such as Doose Syndrome, involve multiple genetic mutations. Compared to monogenic epilepsies, we understand much less about how polygenic epilepsies start from genetic mutations. To call an epilepsy syndrome polygenic means more than one mutation is associated with the disease. Ongoing research proposes that some of these genes may modify the functions of critical genes like KCNQ2, and thus indirectly affect brain activities. A single mutation of these modifiers won't have a strong effect. But when several mutations combine, their interactions sometimes build up a multiplied consequence. Because of the weak effects of an individual genetic mutation, genetic testing often fails to find clear genetic causes for polygenic epilepsies. It becomes more complicated when multiple weak mutations interact with environmental effects and genetic backgrounds to generate epilepsies. Other Genetic and Non-genetic Causes (Part 2) Genetic mutations can never fully account for many common epilepsy syndromes, including Genetic Generalized Epilepsy (GGE) (see Terms & Definitions). GGE describes one-third of all epilepsies. In these syndromes, the genetic backgrounds of individuals and environmental factors are thought to play huge roles. Our genetic background represents all the genes in our bodies. It varies between families, races and geographical regions. It defines the color of our eyes and the curves in our hair. It also governs how our bodies respond to mutations and environmental stress. Some genetic backgrounds appear to be more resilient to mutations. The underlying principles are not known yet. Thanks to the recent progress in genetic sequencing techniques, researchers are gathering an unprecedented amount of genetic information and actively looking at the data for clues. One hint is that in some genetic backgrounds the epilepsy-relevant network of genes has a more nuanced (or subtle) architecture. Mutating or removing certain blocks of genes won't collapse the whole genetic "Jenga" tower. Other genetic backgrounds have their genetic tower balanced differently and would suffer more from the same mutations. Similarly, unstable weather conditions and other environmental stress can result in epilepsies in some genetic backgrounds but not others. Our genetic backgrounds control the architectures that handle these factors. A better way to understand how genes affect epilepsies perhaps requires us to arrange all epilepsy syndromes on a spectrum of causes. Monogenic epilepsies are at one extreme, where single gene mutation can contribute 75% and genetic background and environmental effects contribute less. At the other extreme, the balance is reversed with genetic mutation contributing only 20% and mutations act more like genetic risk factors. Polygenic epilepsies sit in the middle with contributions coming from genetic mutation, genetic background, and environmental factors. There is thought to be a genetic component in all epilepsies. Some epilepsies are more related to genetic mutations and can be classified into monogenic (single mutation) or polygenic (multiple mutations) epilepsies based on the number of mutated genes. Genetic mutation is less significant for the more common epilepsies, which depends largely on genetic backgrounds and environmental factors. Epilepsy, just like many neurological diseases, has a spectrum of causes. Demarest ST, Brooks-Kayal A. From molecules to medicines: the dawn of targeted therapies for genetic epilepsies. Nat Rev Neurol. 2018 Dec;14(12):735–745. Gallentine WB, Mikati MA. Genetic Generalized Epilepsies. J Clinical Neurophysiol. 2012 Oct;29(5):408-19. Kelley SA, Kossoff EH. Doose syndrome (myoclonic–astatic epilepsy): 40 years of progress. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2010 Nov;52(11):988-93. Koeleman BPC. What do genetic studies tell us about the heritable basis of common epilepsy? Polygenic or complex epilepsy? Neurosci Lett. 2018 Feb;667:10-16. Motta E, Gołba A, Bal A, Kazibutowska Z, Strzała-Orzeł M. Seizure frequency and bioelectric brain activity in epileptic patients in stable and unstable atmospheric pressure and temperature in different seasons of the year--a preliminary report. Neurol Neurochir Pol. 2011 Nov-Dec;45(6):561-566. Authored by: Huayi Wei, Doctoral candidate on 12/2019 Reviewed by: Sloka Iyengar PhD | Andres M. Kanner MD | Elaine Wirrell MD on 12/2019 Mutations: a permanent change in the DNA sequence. De novo mutation: a mutation that occurs spontaneously when mistakes are made as DNA copies itself during cell division. If the mutation happens in sperms or eggs, then it can be passed to offspring. If it occurs anywhere else, it stays in our body cells, possibly causing cancer. Sometimes, it causes no harm. Hereditary mutation: a mutation inherited from a parent. It affects every cell in the offspring's body. Monogenic: caused by single or multiple mutations of a single gene. Polygenic: caused by mutations of multiple genes. Genetic risk factors: factors that increase the likelihood of developing epilepsy, such as genetic background and environmental stress. Genetic Generalized Epilepsy (GGE) includes: juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE), epilepsy with myoclonic-atonic seizures, epilepsy with myoclonic absences, epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS) alone, febrile seizures (FS), febrile seizures plus (FS+), severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), and childhood absence epilepsy (CAE). More Basic Science News

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Four Lottery Winners Turned Entrepreneurs December 21st, 2013 · Add Your Comment Now... While there are many lottery winners who blow through their windfalls in a heartbeat, there are those who boldly use their winnings wisely. These four winners have found success in business after their wins. 19-year-old Jay Vargas, won a $17 million Powerball jackpot in 2008 and founded Wrestlicious, a production and live events company that features scantily-clad female wrestlers in comedy sketches. Then MIT student named James Harvey not only won, he manipulated a Massachusetts State Lottery game called Cash WinFall to earn $3.5 million for his company Random Strategies Investments. The game has since shut down, but Harvey and lottery partner Yuran Lu have turned their attention to opening a startup for making and managing mailing lists, called ZeroMailer. Cynthia Stafford of LA, who won a $112 milllion Mega Millions jackpot on Mother's Day 2007 has started Queen Nefertiti Productions LLC, and plans to make three or four movies per year. Gold's Gym employee Brad Duke wants to grow the $84 million he won from the Idaho State Lottery in 2005 to $1 billion in 15 years. He has investments in a health club consulting business, real estate, oil & gas and bonds. He has also started a foundation to take care of family members. While he has not reached his goal of a billion dollars yet, his net worth has already increased to about $128 million. Read more in http://upstart.bizjournals.com/entrepreneurs/hot-shots/2013/12/17/four-lucky-lotto-winner-entrepreneurs.html?page=all Avid Golfer Scoops £136,000 On Euromillions Category: News Tags: Comment - Lottery Winners by Mark

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Objective/Background Several plaque and lesion characteristics have been associated with an increased risk for procedural stroke during or shortly after carotid artery stenting (CAS). While technical advancements in stent design and cerebral protection devices (CPD) may help reduce the procedural stroke risk, and anatomy remains important, tailoring stenting procedures according to plaque and lesion characteristics might be a useful strategy in reducing stroke associated with CAS. In this descriptive report of the ongoing Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial-2 (ACST-2), it was assessed whether choice for stent and use or type of CPD was influenced by plaque and lesion characteristics. Methods Trial patients who underwent CAS between 2008 and 2015 were included in this study. Chi-square statistics were used to study the effects of plaque echolucency, ipsilateral preocclusive disease (90–99%), and contralateral high-grade stenosis (>50%) or occlusion of the carotid artery on interventionalists' choice for stent and CPD. Differences in treatment preference between specialties were also analysed. Results In this study, 831 patients from 88 ACST-2 centres were included. Almost all procedures were performed by either interventional radiologists (50%) or vascular surgeons (45%). Plaque echolucency, ipsilateral preocclusive disease (90–99%), and significant contralateral stenosis (>50%) or occlusion did not affect the choice of stent or either the use of cerebral protection and type of CPD employed (i.e., filter/flow reversal). Vascular surgeons used a CPD significantly more often than interventional radiologists (98.6% vs. 76.3%; p < .001), but this choice did not appear to be dependent on patient characteristics. Conclusion In ACST-2, plaque characteristics and severity of stenosis did not primarily determine interventionalists' choice of stent or use or type of CPD, suggesting that other factors, such as vascular anatomy or personal and centre preference, may be more important. Stent and CPD use was highly heterogeneous among participating European centres. Choices of Stent and Cerebral Protection in the Ongoing ACST-2 Trial : A Descriptive Study. / de Waard, D. D.; Halliday, A.; de Borst, G. J.; Bulbulia, R.; Huibers, A.; Casana, R.; Bonati, L. H.; Tolva, V.; ACST-2 Collaborative Group. In: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 53, No. 5, 01.05.2017, p. 617-625. de Waard, D. D. ; Halliday, A. ; de Borst, G. J. ; Bulbulia, R. ; Huibers, A. ; Casana, R. ; Bonati, L. H. ; Tolva, V. ; ACST-2 Collaborative Group. / Choices of Stent and Cerebral Protection in the Ongoing ACST-2 Trial : A Descriptive Study. In: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 2017 ; Vol. 53, No. 5. pp. 617-625. AU - de Waard, D. D. AU - de Borst, G. J. AU - Bonati, L. H. N2 - Objective/Background Several plaque and lesion characteristics have been associated with an increased risk for procedural stroke during or shortly after carotid artery stenting (CAS). While technical advancements in stent design and cerebral protection devices (CPD) may help reduce the procedural stroke risk, and anatomy remains important, tailoring stenting procedures according to plaque and lesion characteristics might be a useful strategy in reducing stroke associated with CAS. In this descriptive report of the ongoing Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial-2 (ACST-2), it was assessed whether choice for stent and use or type of CPD was influenced by plaque and lesion characteristics. Methods Trial patients who underwent CAS between 2008 and 2015 were included in this study. Chi-square statistics were used to study the effects of plaque echolucency, ipsilateral preocclusive disease (90–99%), and contralateral high-grade stenosis (>50%) or occlusion of the carotid artery on interventionalists' choice for stent and CPD. Differences in treatment preference between specialties were also analysed. Results In this study, 831 patients from 88 ACST-2 centres were included. Almost all procedures were performed by either interventional radiologists (50%) or vascular surgeons (45%). Plaque echolucency, ipsilateral preocclusive disease (90–99%), and significant contralateral stenosis (>50%) or occlusion did not affect the choice of stent or either the use of cerebral protection and type of CPD employed (i.e., filter/flow reversal). Vascular surgeons used a CPD significantly more often than interventional radiologists (98.6% vs. 76.3%; p < .001), but this choice did not appear to be dependent on patient characteristics. Conclusion In ACST-2, plaque characteristics and severity of stenosis did not primarily determine interventionalists' choice of stent or use or type of CPD, suggesting that other factors, such as vascular anatomy or personal and centre preference, may be more important. Stent and CPD use was highly heterogeneous among participating European centres. AB - Objective/Background Several plaque and lesion characteristics have been associated with an increased risk for procedural stroke during or shortly after carotid artery stenting (CAS). While technical advancements in stent design and cerebral protection devices (CPD) may help reduce the procedural stroke risk, and anatomy remains important, tailoring stenting procedures according to plaque and lesion characteristics might be a useful strategy in reducing stroke associated with CAS. In this descriptive report of the ongoing Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial-2 (ACST-2), it was assessed whether choice for stent and use or type of CPD was influenced by plaque and lesion characteristics. Methods Trial patients who underwent CAS between 2008 and 2015 were included in this study. Chi-square statistics were used to study the effects of plaque echolucency, ipsilateral preocclusive disease (90–99%), and contralateral high-grade stenosis (>50%) or occlusion of the carotid artery on interventionalists' choice for stent and CPD. Differences in treatment preference between specialties were also analysed. Results In this study, 831 patients from 88 ACST-2 centres were included. Almost all procedures were performed by either interventional radiologists (50%) or vascular surgeons (45%). Plaque echolucency, ipsilateral preocclusive disease (90–99%), and significant contralateral stenosis (>50%) or occlusion did not affect the choice of stent or either the use of cerebral protection and type of CPD employed (i.e., filter/flow reversal). Vascular surgeons used a CPD significantly more often than interventional radiologists (98.6% vs. 76.3%; p < .001), but this choice did not appear to be dependent on patient characteristics. Conclusion In ACST-2, plaque characteristics and severity of stenosis did not primarily determine interventionalists' choice of stent or use or type of CPD, suggesting that other factors, such as vascular anatomy or personal and centre preference, may be more important. Stent and CPD use was highly heterogeneous among participating European centres.

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