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Packers and Desmond Bishop have been discussing a new contract. I like it alot, Bishop has been averaging 9 tackles a game since becoming a starter and made several big plays already. With Barnett becoming more injury prone lately and Hawk's contract status, locking Bishop up will only benefit us in the long run.
I can't wait to see Bishop and Barnett on the field together. That will be a tough, physical duo. Plenty of opportunities to blow people up playing behind Raji taking double teams and offenses shifting over watching CM3.
Our defense could be ridiculously good next year. It's one of the best in the league right now, and then we'll get back all the injured guys plus get an upgrade at OLB and/or nickelback through the draft.
Our defense could be ridiculously good next year. It's one of the best in the league right now, and then we'll get back all the injured guys plus get an upgrade at OLB and/or nickelback through the draft.
Our rush offense hasn't been great but Marshawn Lynch has been downright brutal for the Seahawks so far.
Word. And Nance looked good today, very north-south runner who can make people miss and pound for yards. Much better in that aspect than Jackson who dances around back there without the speed to make it up. Always like Jackson outta the backfield as a WR and blocking, though.
Hopefully Starks is active next week and gets some action on ST at least. Get him up to speed to the NFL. Bjax/Nance/Starks should be fine down the stretch, especially in the cold
what I loved today was that 4th TD pass by Rodgers. It was 3rd and 1, and there was Kuhn, lined up in the backfield. I was thinking to myself "oh great, here comes the freakin FB run again" and to my surprise it was a PA and then a beautiful throw and catch for a TD to Jennings
Hopefully Starks is active next week and gets some action on ST at least. Get him up to speed to the NFL. Bjax/Nance/Starks should be fine down the stretch, especially in the cold
what I loved today was that 4th TD pass by Rodgers. It was 3rd and 1, and there was Kuhn, lined up in the backfield. I was thinking to myself "oh great, here comes the freakin FB run again" and to my surprise it was a PA and then a beautiful throw and catch for a TD to Jennings
This. That was the sexiest play of the season for us, I immediately texted my brother 3 times and then called him. Rub that **** in, **** you Vikings.
I find it disappointing we only had the one INT. Slackers back there in the secondary.
I find it amusing how often Favre was on his butt for the game and how scared he was of the blitz, throwing and ducking outta the way.
Also, what happened with not being able to get hit on a foot first slide? Seemed like Rodgers got hit a bit on a couple of them and I always remember the refs being super flaggy about that unless it was clearly incidental.
Bigby's Hamstring again?
I like Peprah better, but still, we want our depth good. What's his hamstring made of? Pasta?
COACH MIKE MCCARTHY
How satisfying is it to come in here and knock off the Vikings, ending any playoff hopes they might have had? Well we're not really concerned about their standings and where they are going with the playoffs. Our focus was clearly on getting this division win. Though building to play in. I can't give the players enough credit. You can see this building through the week, our work throughout the practice was outstanding. It was very important for us to play well. We knew coming into the game, if we were to take care of the football, zero giveaways, play disciplined football reflected in the zero penalties and we felt very confident that our defense was going to take the football away.
How good is your team right now? We're 7-3 and that's the facts. We're a good football team, we always knew we were a good football team. We have seven wins, three losses and we have an opportunity coming up here in seven days in Atlanta. It's important for us to take the things from today that we can do better. We'll do that oer the next two days, make sure we correct that.
Can you talk about the play of Greg Jennings, the plays he made, the catches he made? Greg is outstanding. A, the route running, B, the yards after the catch. We felt that if they were going to give us the one-on-ones in space that we were going to be able to take advantage of it. They played exclusive, a lot of two-deep early. We struggled there, i think, the first, maybe second series. Had one sack and we made a mistake on protection, but then after that I though our offense played well with a good rhythm. Aaron kept us in very good plays at the line of scrimmage. We managed the crowd noise excellent. I can't say enough about our fans. They were awesome. It was a great day for the Green Bay Packers.
Injuries? Anthony Smith had an ankle; X-rays were negative. He did not return. Patrick Lee had an ankle injury, he was re-taped and returned. Atari Bigby had a hamstring and did not return.
AARON RODGERS
What personally did you take from being sacked so many times last year to playing well today? Not very personally. I'm proud of the way we played today. I think our guys did a really nice job upfront. We had a couple sacks early on. In the second quarter, we just started getting things rolling.
You talked about getting things rolling, but it didn't happen till the second half? Well, we had a big momentum swing there. We were up 10-3 and Tramon had a big-time pick and we were in the 2-minute mode and we were able to put that thing 17-3 going into halftime. Got the ball after halftime and scored to make it a three-score game. From there it was just kind of, run some time off the clock and our defense played great.
Talk about making plays yourself. Yeah, i was joking with Jared Allen after the game that sometimes I just close my eyes and keep moving and make sure I have two hands on the ball. In that situation, I felt like there were some guys around me and i was able to get out of it. And once I got out I realized I was kind of clean and Greg made a great reactionary play to come back to the middle and we were able to get a touchdown.
GREG JENNINGS
That long one, what was that move you put on the defensive back? You know, that's kind of crazy because I watched film the first time we played them and someone had put a move on him, kind of got him turned around like that in the previous game they had and it was kind of like deja vu all over again except I was the one with the ball.
After an 8-yard first quarter, what happened with the offense then? Aaron ended up with 300 yards? We turned on who we were instead of playing into their hands and we started being more aggressive, trying to attack them vertically, which kind of opened things up for the running game and opened up the middle of the field a lot more. And guy just stepped up and started making plays.
Jackson - Bad running the ball, doesn't seem to get you need to go forward and not dance. Looked good catching and blocking; thought he would score on that one reception.
Nance - Deserves mention for looking like a workhorse out there. Considering Jackson's struggles and the Vikings expecting the run for a lot of his gains, very good performance.
OLine - Struggled early, settled down a bit after the 1st quarter.
Jones - Nice catch, no mistakes that I caught. Looks like a #1 when he doesn't screw up.
Jennings - The man. Really establishing chemistry with Rodgers.
Jenkins - Looked manly without the cast on.
Raji - Controlled the middle and looked good.
Matthews - Made some decent plays but mostly opened up for other guys.
Williams - Continues to look like a stud. That pick on the slant was a textbook example of how to play that. Also made some nice breakups and that one hit to jar out the ball was sexy for a corner.
Woodson - Dude plays the run and the ball as good as any corner out there. Loved the play he just grabbed the ball and wouldn't let go, even though he didn't get the strip there you get the ball 80% of the time on a play like that.
Best team effort of the year. I thought the punt return with Shield getting the reverse was too gimmicky, he's got ability but that slow developing, backwards play isn't going to work often in the NFL. Needs to just keep catching balls in practice and hopefully next year he can be a guy back there for us.
The past 2 years I've been wondering this myself, why do we always choose to receive when winning the coin toss? We always seem to go 3 and out anways so why not start on defense?
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WHAT IF . . .For the first time as the head coach in Green Bay, Mike McCarthy chose to defer and play defense after winning the coin toss. We'll never know whether the first half would have unfolded any differently had he elected to receive instead of kick off. But what we do know for certain is that after the Packers scored a touchdown with 5 seconds left in the first half to make it 17-3, they got the ball to start the third quarter and drove 73 yards for another touchdown that essentially put the game out of reach at 24-3. "We're playing outstanding adversity defense and that's why we wanted to start our defense," McCarthy said. The coach said he started thinking on Friday about deferring if the Packers won the toss, "and the more I thought about it, the more it made sense."
If you have an electric return man that's going to start you off with great field position then I like starting the game with the ball. Obviously we don't have that. Without that I'd chose to defer every single time.
Really made up some ground considering how bleh he looked earlier this year. And I'm sure I'll jynx it, but he has a lot of really juicy secondary matchups coming up. None of the teams we have left to play are really known for a great secondary.
Really made up some ground considering how bleh he looked earlier this year. And I'm sure I'll jynx it, but he has a lot of really juicy secondary matchups coming up. None of the teams we have left to play are really known for a great secondary.
True, but 3 or 4 of them have good pass rushes that present a challenge.
Check this out. Another stat that has us rated #1 in football.
Also, there are only 3 teams with more wins than us (8 to our 7). And we beat one of them, and we play the other 2 coming up.....
Check out the overall points scored/allowed:
Green Bay +106
Pittsburgh +70
New Orleans +65
Atlanta +64
NY Jets +61
Tennessee +59
Philly +58
Baltimore +55
Indianapolis +52
New England +47
Chicago +45
San Diego +42
Kansas City +36
NY Giants +33
Oakland +15
Tampa Bay +3
That's it for teams that have scored more than they've allowed on the season. |
Needling-revision of failed filtering blebs.
To investigate the efficacy and safety of needling-revision of failed blebs after trabeculectomy. A retrospective chart review of 28 eyes of 28 patients who underwent a trabeculectomy with subsequent needling-revision between January 2002 and December 2003. The mean follow-up was 15 months after the first needling-revision. All interventions were conducted by the same surgeon. Absolute success was defined as an IOP <18 mmHg without medication or as an IOP reduction > 20% without medication if the preoperative IOP was < or = 21 mmHg. Relative success was defined as meeting these criteria with or without medication. The mean interval between trabeculectomy and the first needling-revision was 5 months. Repeated needling-revision (up to 3 times) was performed as clinically necessary. In 90% of the needling-revisions 5-FU was used to prevent postoperative fibrosis. The mean +/- SD IOP before needling-revision and at the last follow-up was respectively 24.7 +/- 6 and 15.7 +/- 3 mmHg (p<0.001) Needling-revision was an absolute success in 39% (11/28) and a relative success in 68% (19/28). Minor complications attributed to needling-revision occurred in 32% including self reabsorbing subconjunctival bleeding (1), filamental (1) and punctate keratitis (1), transient choroidal effusion (3), wound leak (4) and hyphaema (2). Progression of cataract occurred in 1 patient. A serious complication occurred in 1 case (hypotony with persistent macular oedema). Bleb needling-revision can prevent more invasive intervention in a significant number of patients with failed trabeculectomy blebs. Complications are similar to those seen after trabeculectomy. |
Q:
How to fetch data from two different sql servers?
I have an inline query, in which I have one table1 in server1 and another table2 in server2.
I need to join these two tables, and fetch data.
I can do this like connect to one server, get data and connect to next server...fetch data.
and join them.
But is there any other better way. I have heard about Linked servers. Will that help here ?
Thanks in advance !!!
A:
Yes, set up a linked server on one server to the other. Then you can just do a normal query with a join. It would look something like this:
SELECT t1.Col1
, t2.ColA
FROM server1Table t1
INNER JOIN SERVER2.dbname.dbo.tableName t2 ON t1.TheId = t2.TheId
this assumes you're running the query on Server1. You can also have two linked servers and reference them both using [servername].[dbname].[schema].[table] and then use in SQL as normal.
Alternatively, you can use OPENROWSET (but linked server is easiest if you're able to set that up). OpenRowSets look like this:
SELECT t1.Col1
, t2.ColA
FROM server1Table t1
INNER JOIN OPENROWSET('SQLNCLI', 'Server=Server2;Trusted_Connection=yes;',
'SELECT t2.ColA, t2.TheId FROM dbname.dbo.tableName') AS t2
ON t1.TheId = t2.TheId
and then you can just join on 'a' as if it's a local table. Under the hood it's probably pulling all the data down to your local database, so you should consider adding WHERE to the inner query to restrict rows, and only get the columns you need.
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After Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in 2012, the Republican National Committee commissioned what came to be known as “the autopsy” report. “We need to campaign among Hispanic, black, Asian, and gay Americans and demonstrate we care about them, too,” the more formally titled Growth and Opportunity Project found. “We must recruit more candidates who come from minority communities.”
Seven years later, there is just one black Republican in the House, Rep. Will Hurd of Texas. And he announced last August that he would not seek re-election.
“I believe that if the Republican party in America doesn’t start looking like America and appealing to all Americans, there won’t be a Republican party in America,” Hurd said in an interview last month.
It’s a point he’s made repeatedly. You can find him reciting the line—or some Texas-themed variation on it—at least half a dozen times: in profiles and videos, interviews and speeches.
Hurd—a 42-year-old former CIA analyst who has served as the representative for Texas’ 23rd congressional district since 2015—has ample reason to worry.
“Donald Trump, in winning the election in 2016, sort of gave the impression, ‘Hey, Republicans can continue to not do great with voters who are African American, or Latino, but still get by by really doing quite well with white voters, particularly non-college-educated white voters,’” Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson told me. “And so I think for Republicans, some of the longer term demographic concerns that had existed before the 2016 election, those concerns haven’t gone away. But when you are winning, you are less introspective than when you are losing.”
According to exit polls, Obama won black, Hispanic, aged 18 to 29, and female voters in 2012 by 87, 44, 23, and 11 points, respectively. Four years later, Trump lost to a much weaker candidate in the same categories by 81, 38, 19, and 13 points. The trend continued, or worsened, for down-ballot Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections.
The Trump campaign, for its part, is working hard to improve these numbers in 2020—specifically among black voters. The president routinely touts record-low African-American unemployment numbers, and his recent Super Bowl ad and State of the Union address illustrate a far more potent pitch to black voters—one of economic growth, educational attainment, and criminal justice reform—than his 2016 “what the hell do you have to lose?”
South Carolina’s Sen. Tim Scott—the lone black Republican in the Senate—declared on Fox News that Trump’s black support will increase 50 percent in November, from 8 percent in 2016 to 12 percent in 2020. “And that is game over,” he added. “President Trump is not just talking a good game, he is walking a good game.”
“Every day Americans see the benefits of President Trump’s efforts to revitalize and invest in minority communities,” Trump campaign spokesman Ken Farnaso—who used to work for Scott—told me. “Whether it’s record low unemployment for Black, Latino, and Asian Americans, Opportunity Zones, historic HBCU funding, and criminal justice reform, voters are noticing our President’s incredible accomplishments.”
The message is strong, but the messenger is flawed. A candidate who took out a full-page ad calling for the death penalty in the Central Park Five case and played a central role in the dissemination of racist “birther” theories against Barack Obama could prove a tough sell to these voters.*
Only 14 percent of black voters approved of the the president’s job performance in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released last week, and just 7 percent said they’d be enthusiastic about or comfortable with a Trump second term. Depending on who emerges as his Democratic opponent, Trump could score between seven and 16 percent of the black vote, according to the survey.
Hurd didn’t try to sugarcoat this.
“The three largest growing groups of voters: communities of color, women with a college degree in the suburbs, and people under the age of 29. Those are three areas where our brand, the Republican brand, is not the greatest, right? … I would say that it’s not necessarily because of principles and theories, it’s because there’s this notion that we don’t care about them, right?”
“Unfortunately,” he said, “if you’re under the age of 40, in a lot of places, you have to whisper that you’re a Republican.”
Demographics are not destiny, of course, and a person’s various identities do not inherently lead to one political persuasion or another. But a party whose congressional delegation is about 96 percent white and 90 percent male might run into some issues convincing Americans who don’t belong to either of those groups that it cares about them.
The simplest explanation for this uniformity would be the aforementioned polling figures. Republican voters nowadays tend to be older, whiter, and more male than their Democratic counterparts—and the GOP’s slate of elected officials reflect that. But there are a few more factors at play.
“Part of it is that there hasn’t been a lot of turnover in the House Republican Conference,” National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Bob Salera said. (41 percent of the House Republican Conference has either left or announced their retirement from the Hill since Trump was inaugurated, but political winds have led many of those seats to be filled by Democrats.) “We have a lot of good members that have been here for a long time. Things are starting to change a little bit.”
Soltis Anderson floated a few additional theories. Gerrymandering at the state level has created—in many cases—districts consisting primarily of either white or non-white voters, and the primary process favors the politically connected. “If you have access to existing networks for donors, consultants, etc., you are more likely to be able to prevail in a hard-fought primary.”
“In the Republican party,” she added, those existing networks are “all too often white males.”
The party “can’t just continue to let the chips fall where they may and think this is an issue that’s going to solve itself.”
Out of government, but not out of sight.
It seems counterintuitive: Will Hurd has a strategy to reverse these imbalances, but he says he has to leave Congress to enact it.
“This is about taking a message to people that have not heard it before,” he said. “[Out of Congress] I'll have the bandwidth and the time to take a message to places that I haven’t had the bandwidth and the time to do that.
Hurd announced his retirement in early August, writing, “I will keep fighting to remind people why I love America: that we are neither Republican nor Democrat nor Independent; We are better than the sum of our parts.”
The news sent the institutional GOP into a bit of a frenzy. More than 20 Republicans have announced their retirements from the House this cycle, but Hurd’s is different. Demographic optics aside, Hurd was widely considered one of the party’s brightest young stars. And his district—a land mass about the size of Georgia along Texas’ southwestern border—is incredibly competitive. He was the rare politician in this era of polarization who could win over members of both parties.
“Obviously, he represented one of the most closely divided districts in the country,” Salera said. “Texas-23 is the consummate swing district … So it’s a place that’s going to be a fight, regardless of who the Democrat and Republican end up being.”
“The Will Hurd one hurts,” NRCC communications director Chris Pack told me while discussing GOP retirements last fall.
Hurd was first elected in 2014 by 2,422 votes. That margin grew to 3,051 in 2016, but plummeted to 926 two years later. Many Democrats blamed Beto O’rourke—then running against Sen. Ted Cruz—for Hurd’s final victory. The viral Democratic sensation frequently praised Hurd’s bipartisanship, and the pair even road-tripped to D.C. together after a snowstorm canceled their flights, streaming the trek on Facebook for all to see.
But when I asked Justin Hollis—Hurd’s longtime campaign manager—if he thought his boss would have won again in 2020, there wasn’t a moment’s hesitation: “100 percent.”
“Yeah, we would have been fine,” he continued. “I mean look, to say that we would have won by 10 points, like that’s not true … But we always had a great organization and a great team, and we knew what our focus was, and we knew what the path is.”
For Hurd, that path typically involved some ice cream. “I do town halls in Dairy Queens,” Hurd said of what his team coined “D.C. to D.Q.” trips. “Because every County has one, everybody knows where it is, right? Get a cool treat on a hot day. Love Dairy Queen.”
Hurd’s campaigns had an almost “militant” focus on hitting every part of the massive 23rd District, Hollis said. “And it was truly talking mainly to the middle, right? Getting folks who might lean Democrat or who are independent and really just running up the score there … So that was sort of like the recipe of our success. It’s talking to voters that most Republicans don’t traditionally talk to in communities in the district that are largely Hispanic.”
Hollis first linked up with Hurd in 2009, when he was a senior at Texas A&M and saw the future congressman giving a speech on TV commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Aggie Bonfire collapse. Hurd had been student body president a decade earlier, when 12 students died after being trapped under the pile of logs.
“I Googled his name and found out he’s running for Congress, and it was where I was from,” Hollis said, referencing Hurd’s first, failed bid for Congress in 2010. “The same day I graduated, I packed all my stuff up from my apartment, drove home, and the next week just kind of reached out.”
Hurd may not have any more campaigns that need managing (for now), but his partnership with Hollis isn’t over quite yet. On November 14, a video—featuring Hurd—announced the Future Leaders Fund, a super PAC led by Hollis “determined to create a diverse crop of future elected officials to be ambassadors to our party.”
“Future Leaders Fund will help good candidates have the resources to grow the party,” Hurd says in the spot. “In addition to running TV ads, it will also build field programs to grow grassroots support.”
Hurd’s role in the super PAC remains limited as long as he’s in office. And when he leaves his congressional perch in January 2021, he’ll be sacrificing some of his institutional power to drive a message, particularly with power brokers in D.C. that are too often focused on the immediate future. But he has big plans.
“People that run races, pollsters, the people that make all the money off of politics,” Hurd laments, “they come in 90 days before an election.”
“The thing that I've learned representing a 50-50 district, having to take a conservative message to communities that've never heard it, is you gotta show that you care, right? Start there,” Hurd said. “This isn’t rocket science. But it’s hard. It takes effort. It takes time. And it’s not just doing that 90 days before an election.”
To hammer this point home, he recounted a speech he gave at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics last fall. “Couple hundred students there. None of them showed up to hear the black Republican. They wanted to yell at the black Republican,” he remembered. “I said, ‘What’s up Harvard?’ Silence. Everybody sat stony-faced, right? And the moderator even joked, ‘Wow. Hard crowd.’”
“But over time, you get a little chuckle when they laugh at a joke, then they’d clap a few times, and then at the end there was a really great Q&A session and a true competition of ideas.”
“And so that’s what we’re going to do,” he said, snapping back to the present. “Having the bandwidth to do that, having the bandwidth to do that in media, having the bandwidth to do that and travel, and to be able to do that across the country.”
The Future Leaders Fund only had about $36,000 on hand as of its latest Federal Elections Commission filing, with a lot of that money being transferred from Hurd’s own campaign. But there are indications the GOP donor class recognizes the necessity.
“Any kind of effort that is about bringing more diversity to the table, to the voter box, on issues regarding, whether it’s free enterprise, strong national defense, you name it, I'm all for it,” Lisa Wagner, a Chicago-based political fundraiser who has experience and relationships with Republican donors across the country, said. “And I think many, many folks would be, because … elections are about a game of addition. And if Will’s super PAC can help us add more, awesome.”
I pressed Wagner on whether the Republican donor class shared Hurd’s concerns over the future viability of the party. “It’s a concern every election,” she said. “I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or Republican, there’s always an autopsy done after every election. Whether it’s running for mayor or running for president. Where, what could we have done better? What does the data say? And where do we need to improve going forward? And so is there a concern? As long as there are elections, and as long as we’re with human beings, there will always be a concern like that.”
Parts of the institutional GOP understand this too. “One of [NRCC Chairman Rep. Tom Emmer’s] stated goals, he’s said this over and over, is to make sure that the Republican conference better represents the diversity of our party,” Salera said. The campaign arm’s Young Guns program—a list of candidates that meet certain campaign benchmarks laid out by the NRCC—is the “most diverse” it’s ever been.
But “the difference between what [Hurd] is doing and what we can do,” Salera continued, “is that we don’t actually get involved in primaries. We don’t spend, we don’t endorse candidates. While we do have a hand in encouraging folks to run, we’re not the ones that are going to get behind them. Groups like Will’s are able to do that and his goals certainly align very well with what our overarching goal is. So we welcome him to join in that effort.”
“There are entities that have focused on this,” Soltis Anderson said, referencing the Republican State Leadership Committee’s Future Majority Project and Rep. Elise Stefanik’s E-PAC, among others.
But like Stefanik, Soltis Anderson thinks “Will Hurd, having lived through being a member, having been the person whose name was on the ballot, and who has seen what this is all about from the inside, is very uniquely positioned to be a great leader on this stuff.”
Hollis confirmed the group will dip into the primary process—and that it already has, cutting ads for House candidates Wesley Hunt in Texas and Ashley Hinson in Iowa, slamming their Democratic opponents for voting “with Nancy Pelosi and the socialist Squad more than 90 percent of the time” and being a “rubber stamp for a radical liberal agenda."
Future Leaders Fund has no plans to engage in candidate recruitment right now, Hollis said, and the group will not focus on primarying incumbent Republicans. “We’re here to make friends, and that’s why we’re mainly just focusing on opening seats to bring a little bit more life to the party.”
Were there any exceptions?
“Steve King is a different scenario,” Hollis said, responding to my question about the openly racist Republican representing Iowa’s 5th Congressional District. “There are a lot of folks who would love to see him out of Congress. I am one of those. So it would be a badge of honor to have a good candidate, a good Republican candidate take over that seat.”
“Folks like Steve King do not help the party. They don’t help our cause,” Hollis continued. “And every time they say something, we find ourselves having to regroup and address these issues. I mean, it’s not constructive every time someone says something racist or misogynistic and we have to go back and say, ‘well, that’s not really what we think or what we believe, that’s an outlier.’ Maybe it’s time to get rid of an outlier like Steve King.”
“You don’t sound like what we hear from the party.”
The TVs in Hurd’s office were tuned to C-SPAN, not Fox News, when I stopped by a few weeks ago.
“I think I'm fortunate to have come up in politics in the toughest district in the United States of America. Tough primaries, tough generals, right?” Hurd said. “And so a district like mine, you get rewarded by being a problem solver, not a bomb thrower, right? And so if more districts were like mine…”
Hurd has, for better or worse, carved out a role as a “moderate” Republican, one Democrats have come to view as “reasonable.”
“Even people who were hardcore Democrats—they said they were going to vote for Democrats—they still respected him and liked him,” Hollis told me, referencing some of their campaign polling and research over the years.
“You don’t sound like what we hear from the party,” the moderator of that Harvard event said to Hurd, according to The Crimson’s writeup of the panel. “That’s not the Republican talking points.”
Hurd has repeatedly flouted Republican talking points, and increasingly so in the past year. “The things I disagree with, I speak out about, right?”
He voted to fund the government without money for Trump’s border wall, and for background checks on gun sales. He opposed a ban on openly transgender people serving in the military, and wants to preserve DACA for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. He condemned Trump’s remarks against the Squad as “racist and xenophobic,” and he sharply criticized his withdrawal of troops from Syria. When the president sided with Russia’s Vladimir Putin’s story on election meddling over the United States intelligence community’s, Hurd spoke out in a New York Times op-ed. “Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the C.I.A., I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people,” he wrote. “I never thought I would see the day when an American president would be one of them.”
“The Republican leader is not my boss. The Speaker of the House is not my boss. The President of the United States is not my boss,” Hurd told me defiantly. “My bosses are the 800,000 people that I represent. And so those are the people that I reflect in my voting record up here.”
“I did this in the last administration, I do this under this administration,” he continued. “I agree when I agree, I disagree when I disagree. And I think this focus on, just because the person that wears your jersey has produced something doesn’t necessarily mean it’s intrinsically good or intrinsically bad.”
Soltis Anderson agreed. “Congressman Hurd, I think, has been uniquely successful at building out an identity for himself that is distinct from the president’s,” she said. “That allows him to support the president when he agrees with him, disagree with the president when he disagrees with him.”
But in perhaps one of the surest signs Hurd’s political career is far from over, he voted in December against both articles of impeachment facing Trump. The congressman from Texas approached the inquiry more thoughtfully than most of his Republican peers on the Intelligence Committee, using his televised speaking time primarily to ask substantive questions of witnesses rather than dismiss the proceedings as a witch hunt or wail about the Democrats’ “sham” process. But ultimately he concluded that, while the inquiry revealed a series of “bungling foreign policy decisions” by the president, it did not present “evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, of bribery or extortion.”
“You can vote against impeachment and still disagree with some of the policies, or some of the behavior,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “Using this process of impeachment is one of the most serious things the House of Representatives can do.”
Righting the ship.
I asked Hurd if there were policy positions Republicans are prioritizing right now that will hurt the party longer-term.
“That are going to hurt us longer term,” he repeated, pausing. “We ultimately have to get legal immigration right, right?”
Hurd was careful to emphasize exactly what he was talking about. “We should be able to streamline legal immigration. Because when you’re at 3.5 percent unemployment, guess what happens: Every industry needs workers. And one way to do that is by streamlining legal immigration. We can do that based on laws and our way of life. And we can secure the border in a smart way, right? We should have 100 percent operational control of our border, right? … So we can get these things right. And so I think that is an issue that has dominated a lot of the national conversation.”
“Most Republicans believe that there is something happening in our environment and man is having an impact on it,” Hurd continued. “But there are thoughtful ways that we can deal with this issue … What’s wild is, because a single Republican may say something about the environment, then that statement gets used to bludgeon all Republicans.”
When that single Republican is the president of the United States, it becomes harder to avoid the bludgeoning. But Hurd didn’t want to talk about Trump.
“There are already things that are going on,” he said, referencing Republican voter support for Dreamers and GOP backing of the Land Water Conservation Fund. “Again, let’s focus on these. Let’s champion, let’s talk about these things that are already being done. That’s how we do this.”
“If Republicans want to win back a younger generation,” Soltis Anderson told me, “they have to demonstrate that there are lots of different ways to be Republican, that there are lots of voices in the party that have different approaches to things. And while we have a core set of issues or principles that we may all tend to coalesce around, that if maybe you stylistically don’t love the way the President tweets, or you have some social or cultural issues with which you disagree with him, having someone who’s out there saying, ‘Look, I get it. A younger generation disagrees with the traditional conservative line on a handful of issues.’ We want to make outreach to them on why we think we’re right. And also let them know that there’s a welcome embrace if there are issues where we’re just going to agree to disagree. But we still want them to be able to come into the fold even if they don’t agree with us on everything.”
I asked Hurd to imagine a hypothetical 2036 world in which the Republican party has been locked out of the White House for 12 straight years. What would have gone wrong?
“If a Republican hasn’t won,” he started, “[it would be] because we did not take our principles and theories and articulate them. We did not demonstrate, we did not show a majority of the country that we cared about them, which prevented them from listening to our principles and theories that have been responsible for a lot of success in this country.”
“You don’t win hearts and minds 90 days before an election. You win hearts and minds two years before the election, right? That’s how you establish trust, and it’s over time. And so 40 years from now when they’re looking back, they would say that, ‘we wish that more people went to communities that had never seen a conservative and talked about these issues.’”
How involved will Hurd—whose name is already being floated for presidential consideration in 2024—be in preventing this worst-case outcome for Republicans? “Will Hurd’s not going anywhere,” Hollis said with a chuckle.
Photographs of Will Hurd, in order: Hurd giving a press conference by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images; Hurd meeting with someone in his district by Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images; Hurd at the impeachment hearings by Saul Loeb/Getty Images.
Correction, February 24: The piece originally referred to President Trump having trouble unequivocally denouncing white nationalists in Charlottesville. The phrase has been removed. |
Summary of Work: Molecular modeling comprised of molecular dynamics, conformational searching and superimpositions with crystal structures were used to propose a delta-opioid antagonist pharmacophore and to assess the tertiary structure of the delta opioid agonist deltorphin and the delta antagonist containing the Dmt-Tic pharmacophore. A study on [Leu]deltorphin C was undertaken in order to determined if a structural change occurred that could substantiate differences in activity. Conformational changes were examined by 1-H NMR (COSY, NOESY, HOHAHA, ROESY, DQF-COSY experiments)and CD under variying solvent and temperature conditions in Japan. The aromatic ring distance may be a singularly important characteristic of delta antagonists to provide a "receptor-bound conformation" in spite of the inherent flexibility of the peptide. The topographical features observed with the Dmt-Tic pharmacophore differentiate it from all other peptides, however, it coincides with that of cyclo(Dmt-Tic) and the X-ray diffraction data on N,N(Me)2-Dmt-Tic-OH, but not H-Dmt-Tic-NH-1-adamantane whose aromatic rings splay outward. The data suggest that the presumed receptor-bound conformation involves a sandwich arrangement betweent the Dmt and Tic aromatic rings. Thus, intraring distance of delta-opioid antagonists may portend biological differences. Small peptide analogues with dual receptor binding characteristics or selectivity for the mu opioid receptor equally assist in applying molecular modeling in a predictive mode. Thus, our delta- and mu-opioid antagonist and agonist pharmacophores will serve as scaffolds to assit in the design of new potent ligands. |
"Speaking of Asia — BlackBerry's plans for a China launch are still unclear. We asked about specifics at the launch event last week but were not given a clear answer on carrier or release dates. BlackBerry has not responded to our requests for more information on its Asia strategy moving forward."
Hi, what do you mean?
I think they don't even know what is the message in this case.
You have to under how the new BBRY (aka RIM) works. They have been releasing their devices to countries who carry the most volume first and slowly releasing them in countries that sell very few. I would recommend if you really want one buy one from Ebay or somewhere as I know one the reasons why BBRY doesn't even have their devices made in China is because they would end up like iSheep devices (aka Apple), people in China would be opening up knock off stores trying to selling fake BlackBerry devices. |
A comparison of effects of sulfasalazine and its metabolites on the metabolism of endogenous vs. exogenous arachidonic acid.
Sulfasalazine and, to a lesser extent, 5-aminosalicylic acid and N-acetyl-aminosalicylic acid, were found to block production of 5-hydroxy-6,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic acid, leukotriene B4 (LTB4), and LTB4 stereoisomers from both exogenous and endogenous [14C]arachidonic acid (14C-AA) in ionophore A23187 (1 microgram/ml)-stimulated human neutrophils. Lipids were assessed by thin-layer chromatography and reverse-phase high-pressure lipid chromatography. Sulfasalazine blocked the synthesis of these metabolites from both exogenous and endogenous AA, but was more effective in blocking the metabolism of exogenous than endogenous AA. The IC50 for sulfasalazine in blocking the synthesis of LTB4 was 0.8 mM when exogenous AA was the substrate and 2.8 mM when endogenous AA was the substrate. N-Acetyl-aminosalicylic acid showed a similar pattern, but was less effective than sulfasalazine (IC50 for exogenous AA was 5.4 mM, and for endogenous AA was 8.0 mM). 5-Aminosalicylic acid had similar effects with an IC50 of 6.0 and 6.4 mM respectively. Sulfasalazine but not 5-aminosalicylic acid inhibited the incorporation of arachidonic acid into phospholipids and triglycerides. Sulfasalazine, but not its metabolites, inhibited the release of 14C-AA from membrane phospholipids in a dose-dependent manner (46.0% inhibition with 4 mM sulfasalazine). Sulfasalazine also blocked the metabolism of exogenously added LTB4 to 20-OH LTB4 and 20-COOH LTB4 with an IC50 of 2 mM. Our findings suggest that under physiologic conditions, with endogenous AA as a substrate, sulfasalazine acts as an inhibitor of lipoxygenase, of phospholipase A2 and of LTB4 metabolism, whereas 5-aminosalicylic acid and N-acetyl-aminosalicylic acid inhibit only lipoxygenase. |
Q:
Is there a way to split sql results by year?
I currently have the following SQL statement:
SELECT
[Manager].[Name],
COUNT([Project].[ProjectId]) AS TotalProjects
FROM
([Project]
INNER JOIN
[Manager] ON [Project].[ManagerId] = [Manager].[ManagerId])
WHERE
[Project].[CurrentStatusId] = 5
GROUP BY
[Manager].[Name]
It currently spits out total projects by each manager. I would like to have it split the projects out by the years they were completed. So basically count the total projects for each manager for each year (2016, 2017, and so on), as well as the total projects all time. I can use the column [Project].[CurrentStatusDt] for the date.
A:
Just add the project year to the SELECT and GROUP BY clauses:
SELECT
[Manager].[Name],
YEAR([Project].[CurrentStatusDt]) PojectYear,
COUNT([Project].[ProjectId]) AS TotalProjects
FROM [Project]
INNER JOIN [Manager] ON [Project].[ManagerId] = [Manager].[ManagerId]
WHERE [Project].[CurrentStatusId] = 5
GROUP BY [Manager].[Name], YEAR([Project].[CurrentStatusDt])
Side note: you don't need parentheses around the joins in SQL Server (this is a MS Access limitation).
EDIT
If you want to spread the years over columns instead of rows, then one solution is to use conditional aggregation
SELECT
[Manager].[Name],
SUM(CASE
WHEN [Project].[CurrentStatusDt] < CAST('2019-01-01' AS DATE)
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END) TotalProjects2018,
SUM(CASE
WHEN [Project].[CurrentStatusDt] >= CAST('2019-01-01' AS DATE)
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END) TotalProjects2019
FROM [Project]
INNER JOIN [Manager] ON [Project].[ManagerId] = [Manager].[ManagerId]
WHERE
[Project].[CurrentStatusId] = 5
AND [Project].[CurrentStatusDt] >= CAST('2018-01-01' AS DATE)
AND [Project].[CurrentStatusDt] < CAST('2020-01-01' AS DATE)
GROUP BY [Manager].[Name]
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Q:
Function does not return a value actionscript guessing game
I am very new to programming in actionscript. I just recently learned about functions and my assignment was to create a guessing game where the user inputs a range and the computer will generate a random number within this range. The user then guesses what the number is.
My main problem is that I get the error "Function does not return a value" for the function guessCorrect(). I do not understand why this happens or how to fix it. Also, if you by chance happen to see any other errors please let me know. Your help is greatly appreciated.
I did try it with return but got the same outcome
Here is my code:
btnGuess.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, guessNumbers);
//Global Variables
var count = 0;
var myGuess:int;
var Answer:int;
var highNumber:int;
var lowNumber:int;
function guessNumbers(e:MouseEvent):void {
//Set Variables
highNumber = int(txtinHighValue.text)
lowNumber = int(txtinLowValue.text)
Answer = randomWholeNumber(highNumber, lowNumber);
myGuess = int(txtinGuess.text);
lblOutput.text = guessCorrect(myGuess, Answer, count);
}
function randomWholeNumber(highNumber:int,lowNumber:int):int
{
return Math.floor((highNumber - lowNumber + 1) * Math.random() + lowNumber);
}
**function guessCorrect(myGuess:int, Answer:int, count:int):String {
while (myGuess != Answer) {
if (myGuess < Answer) {
lblOutput.text = "Guess to low - try again!"
count ++
}
else if (myGuess > Answer) {
lblOutput.text = "Guess to high - try again!"
count ++
}
else if (myGuess == Answer){
lblOutput.text = "It's a match - you win!"
count ++
}
}
}**
lblGuesses.text = "Guessess: " += count
btnNewGame.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, guessNumbers); {
count = 0;
highNumber = 0;
lowNumber = 0;
}
A:
When a function ends in something other than :void such as your :int there needs to be a return line. Looks like:
function myFunction():int
{
var myVar: int = 5;
return myVar;
}
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 17-6280
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff – Appellee,
v.
GREGORY YOUNG BOWLES, a/k/a New York,
Defendant – Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Aiken.
Margaret B. Seymour, Senior District Judge. (1:04-cr-00170-MBS-1; 1:16-cv-00830-
MBS)
Submitted: April 12, 2018 Decided: May 16, 2018
Before DUNCAN and AGEE, Circuit Judges, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Emily Deck Harrill, Assistant Federal Public Defender, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL
PUBLIC DEFENDER, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant. Beth Drake, United
States Attorney, Brook Bowers Andrews, Assistant United States Attorney, OFFICE OF
THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Gregory Young Bowles pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition
by a convicted felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The district court determined
that Bowles was subject to a sentencing enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal
Act (the “ACCA”) because he had four previous convictions “for a violent felony or a
serious drug offense, or both.” See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). These convictions were:
(1) engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, 21 U.S.C. § 848; (2) New York third-
degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, N.Y. Penal Law § 220.39; (3) New York
second-degree robbery, N.Y. Penal Law § 160.10; and (4) New York third-degree
robbery, N.Y. Penal Law § 160.05. On appeal, Bowles concedes that the first two
convictions involved serious drug offenses. Nonetheless, he argues that his enhanced
sentence is unlawful because New York second- and third-degree robbery are not violent
felonies. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
I.
In 2007, Bowles pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition by a
convicted felon. At the time of his guilty plea, Bowles had prior convictions for:
(1) engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; (2) New York third-degree criminal sale
of a controlled substance; (3) New York second-degree robbery; and (4) New York third-
degree robbery. The district court determined that these convictions triggered a
sentencing enhancement under the ACCA, which applies to defendants who have at least
three previous convictions “for a violent felony or a serious drug offense, or both.” 18
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U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). After sentencing, Bowles appealed his conviction. We held that
Bowles waived his right to appeal his conviction by pleading guilty and dismissed the
case. See United States v. Bowles, 602 F.3d 581, 582–83 (2010).
In 2015, the Supreme Court invalidated part of the ACCA’s definition of violent
felony. See United States v. Johnson, 135 S. Ct. 2551, 2555–57 (2015) (holding that the
ACCA’s residual clause, which defined a violent felony as an offense that involves “a
serious potential risk of physical injury to another,” was unconstitutionally vague
(quoting 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii))). Bowles timely filed a motion for collateral
review of his sentence, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Bowles conceded that his
convictions for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise and criminal sale of a
controlled substance were serious drug offenses. But he argued that he was not subject to
the ACCA’s sentencing enhancement because his New York robbery convictions did not
qualify as violent felonies under the surviving definition.
The district court dismissed Bowles’s motion, holding that New York second- and
third-degree robbery are violent felonies under the ACCA’s “force clause,” which
Johnson did not invalidate. The force clause covers prior offenses that have “as an
element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of
another.” 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i). Bowles timely appealed.
II.
We review de novo whether a prior offense qualifies as a violent felony under the
ACCA. See United States v. Winston, 850 F.3d 677, 683 (4th Cir. 2017). To answer this
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question, we apply the “categorical approach,” which requires us to compare the statutory
definition of the prior offense (as opposed to the facts underlying a defendant’s
conviction for that offense) to the scope of conduct covered by the ACCA. Taylor v.
United States, 495 U.S. 575, 602 (1990). The prior offense qualifies as a violent felony if
it criminalizes substantially the same scope of conduct as, or defines the crime more
narrowly than, the ACCA. See Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254, 261 (2013).
However, if the prior offense is broader than the ACCA, it is not a violent felony. See id.
In this case, we hold that Bowles’s prior convictions for New York second- and third-
degree robbery categorically qualify as violent felonies under the ACCA’s force clause.
Bowles argues that New York second- and third-degree robbery criminalize a
broader scope of conduct than the force clause does. Specifically, he argues that the
relevant New York statutes criminalize thefts involving de minimis force, while the
ACCA requires the use or threatened use of force capable of causing physical pain or
injury. We reject this argument because it is premised on a misunderstanding of New
York law. Although the ACCA’s force clause requires more than de minimis force, so do
New York second- and third-degree robbery.
A prior offense is a violent felony under the ACCA’s force clause if it “has as an
element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of
another.” 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i). The Supreme Court has held that the term
“physical force” in this definition means something more than unwanted touching; it
means “force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another person.” Johnson v.
United States, 559 U.S. 133, 140 (2010). For example, “a slap in the face.” Id. at 143.
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Similarly, both New York second- and third-degree robbery require a defendant to
“forcibly steal[] property,” N.Y. Penal Law §§ 160.05, 160.10, which the New York
Penal Law defines as “us[ing] or threaten[ing] the immediate use of physical force upon
another person” during the commission of a larceny, id. § 160.00. The New York Court
of Appeals has not defined what constitutes “physical force” in this context. But New
York’s intermediate appellate courts have held that it “requires significantly more than
mere unwanted physical contact.” People v. Curet, 683 N.Y.S.2d 602, 603 (N.Y. App.
Div. 1998); 1 see also People v. Middleton, 623 N.Y.S.2d 298, 299–300 (N.Y. App. Div.
1995). For example, the prosecution might prove physical force by demonstrating that
the victim was “intimidated, knocked down, struck, or injured.” See Middleton, 623
N.Y.S.2d at 299. New York courts thus interpret second- and third-degree robbery to
require substantially the same type of physical force as the ACCA’s force clause.
Bowles attempts to avoid this conclusion by citing People v. Bennett, 631
N.Y.S.2d 834 (N.Y. App. Div. 1995), for the proposition that a New York robbery
conviction can rest on conduct that does not result in any unwanted touching, let alone
pain or injury. But his reliance on Bennett is misplaced. That case did not address the
type of physical force required to commit New York second- and third-degree robbery.
Bennett merely held that the threat of physical force could support a robbery conviction
1
Although Curet discussed the force required to commit first-degree robbery, its
holding applies to second- and third-degree robbery as well because New York’s Penal
Law provides the same definition of “forcible stealing” for all three robbery statutes.
N.Y. Penal Law § l60.00; see also People v. Gordon, 16 N.E.3d 1178, 1183 (N.Y. 2014).
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even if the victim was not actually injured. See id. at 834 (“[R]equirement that robbery
involve use, or threat of immediate use, of physical force does not mean that weapon
must be used or displayed or that victim must be physically injured or touched.”).
Because the ACCA’s force clause also includes the “threatened use of physical force,”
Bennett does not place New York second- or third-degree robbery out of the ACCA’s
reach.
Finally, Bowles cites several New York cases, which hold that a push or shove
meant to overcome a victim’s resistance is sufficient physical force to support a robbery
conviction. See, e.g., People v. Jones, 895 N.Y.S.2d 591, 593 (N.Y. App. Div. 2010); see
also People v. Lee, 602 N.Y.S.2d 138, 139 (N.Y. App. Div. 1993); People v. Safon, 560
N.Y.S.2d 552, 552 (N.Y. App. Div. 1990). Bowles argues that these cases do not involve
force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another person. This argument is
unavailing. If a slap in the face qualifies as force capable of causing physical pain, see
Johnson, 559 U.S. at 143, then so must a push or a shove meant to rip property from a
person who is resisting a theft.
III.
For these reasons, we hold that Bowles’s prior convictions for New York second-
and third-degree robbery qualify as violent felonies under the ACCA’s force clause. The
judgment of the district court is thus
AFFIRMED.
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4 Questions To Ask About Your Supplements
Choosing supplements and taking control of your health can be rewarding, even life-changing. A little effort and a few questions make getting there and reaping the rewards a lot easier.
Even though Canada regulates supplements more than the FDA does in America, you still have to stay diligent if you want to maximize effects and minimize side effects.
So instead of just shrugging and downing your daily pills, take a closer look at what supplements you’re putting into your body and whether it’s working for you.
It might save you time, money, and headaches.
1. What am I trying to fix?
If you watch too many pharmaceutical commercials and read enough scary stories in magazines, it can seem like you have countless ailments in dire need of treatment.
Here’s the problem: marketing materials want you to buy, and magazines want you to read. It makes much more sense to listen to your own body first. You might have trouble concentrating sometimes, but if it doesn’t impact your life – if you get your work done and can spend hours engrossed in a suspenseful novel – then you’re probably just fine.
On the other hand, sometimes we can’t tell ourselves if we’re not getting enough of a critical vitamin or mineral. People who are getting plenty of vitamin C load up on inert supplements, while those lacking in thevital and overlooked vitamin D never think to supplement.
Talk to your doctor or nutritionist about having your vitamin levels checked, and be honest about your dietary habits. It’s their job to advise without judgement. It’s also possible that your medications might be interfering with nutrient absorption, which might mean a higher dose or different method of supplementation.
2. What’s going into my body?
Now that you’ve decided what you want from your supplements, you have to choose where to get it. Here is where the research kicks in; it might take time, but it will help exercise your brain if nothing else.
What you’re looking for are double-blind studies, since they carry more weight than testimonials and are easier to test and replicate.
Properly conducted studies will:
Not make unrealistic claims based on their findings.
Have a reasonably large sample size.
Use a control group to ensure their research is accurate.
Ideally be funded by an outside organization. (This can be expensive to conduct, so don’t throw out a study if it fails this test – just look a little more closely.)
Research is essential even for seemingly straightforward supplementation. There are shelves full of vitamin C pills, for example, but from a wide range of sources and in a wide range of forms. Ignoring the health claims and diving deeper will help you choose which one works best for you.
If you don’t have the time to delve into the research yourself, don’t hesitate to get an expert opinion! Your doctor is a good first step, but a qualified dietician will be able to help you fine-tune both your diet and your supplementary routine.
3. Can I take this safely?
Some people believe that anything natural is safe by definition.
Poison ivy is natural, as are deadly mushrooms. Nature is not always safe, and it’s wise to speak to an expert before proceeding, especially if you’re taking medication.
Ubiquitous supplements like echinacea and St. John’s Wort can have dangerous effectswhen taken with many medications, either by either boosting or reducing the medication’s effectiveness.
The problem can also work both ways, as some medications can also have negative effects on the supplements you’re taking.
There are contraindication checkers online, but talking to your doctor or a pharmacist is always the best place to start.
4. How do I feel?
You can do all the research in the world and choose the best supplements available, but if they’re not working for you, then there’s no reason to continue.
Sometimes there may not be immediate or obvious effects, particularly with vitamin or mineral supplements. Sometimes the results take the form of a general sense of well-being and health, rather than sudden superpowers.
Noticing subtle changes takes a good understanding of your body, which is worth cultivating for its own sake. If you’re still in the early stages of listening to your body’s needs, consider keeping a daily wellness journal, as this can help in identifying any changes.
Side-effects are often far more noticeable and can negate any wellness you gain from supplementation. Lowering the dosage or trying another method of supplementation can help with mild side-effects, but anything out of the ordinary should put you on high alert.
Remember: your body is a unique piece of machinery, and even safe supplements might not be the right choice for you. This is the crucial question, and it governs all the others. |
Even though President Trump has already proposed a follow-up to his recent summit with Vladimir Putin, it would appear that the Russians aren’t interested in another meeting.
Reuters recently reached out to Kremlin diplomat Yuri Ushakov to see if Moscow had any response to the fallout from last week’s summit in Helsinki. Ushakov said that Trump and Putin could have a meeting at international events like the G20 summit later this year, but he declined to elaborate on why exactly his government hasn’t accepted Trump’s invitation to meet again sooner.
“After the summit you know what kind of atmosphere there is around its outcome,” said Ushakov. “I think it would be wise to let the dust settle and then we can discuss all these questions in a business-like way. But not now.”
Even though Trump mostly spoke favorably of Putin during their joint press conference and the days since then, Reuters suggests that the Russians were “taken aback” by the magnitude of the criticism Trump received for how he handled the summit. This might have factored into Ushakov’s comments to the media, since the report described him as “citing a desire not to inflame what he described as an already overheated U.S. political situation.”
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Augmented reality combines real world attributes, such as physical position or movement, with computer-generated, often graphical, data. Together, the attributes and data form a user experience occurring in a real world environment, while interacting with virtual objects, typically occurring in real time. In general, augmented realities are presented through graphical user interfaces, which can also be supplemented with auditory cues, tactile feedback, and other computer outputs. Thus, the user is able to view virtual objects positioned in the real world.
Recently, the capabilities of mobile platforms, such as portable media players, personal data assistants (PDA), and mobile telephones, have grown to enable on-the-go generation of augmented realities. Users are no longer tied to desktop environments and the physical constraints imposed by having to remain in a relatively stationary position. Moreover, these platforms are increasingly being equipped with input capabilities extending beyond the immediate user interface. For instance, mobile telephones often incorporate built-in cameras and global positioning system (GPS) receivers, the latter of which enables the device to determine the user's physical location. Similarly, portable media players are beginning to incorporate motion sensors that sense directional device orientation.
For the most part, the extended capabilities of these devices have been limited to providing abstract objects with a real world view for a single user, rather than collaboratively between multiple users. For instance, Pokemon Go by Niantic, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif., is a location based augmented reality game in which a user captures virtual Pokemon characters by moving around in the real world. A user can capture the characters by touching a virtual ball that appears on a screen of a mobile device and flinging the ball towards the virtual character positioned in the real world. However, catching the virtual characters are limited to a single user who is on a solo journey to catch and collect Pokemon characters.
In a recent update, raid battles were introduced in Pokemon Go, in which multiple players can join a raid to collaboratively attack a raid boss by independently fighting the raid boss at the same time. However, within the raid, a user is unable to interact with other users in the same battle or raid. For instance, the users are unable to communicate with one another and to coordinate moves to defeat the raid boss. Further, views of the users are not coordinated such that cooperative play can occur.
Therefore, a need remains for an approach to providing spatially accurate and oriented perspective views of virtual objects in the real world based on the location of each of a plurality of users. |
Q:
Finding Laurent's series of a function
I am trying express the function $$f(z)=\frac{z^3+2}{(z-1)(z-2)}$$ like a Laurent's series in each ring centering in $0$, but I do not now how could I express it, in first I said that $$f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[\frac{1}{z-2}-\frac{1}{z-1} \right] $$
Ok, now, I see two posibilities: $A\equiv open\ ring=A(C;r,R)$ where $$C\equiv center\\ r<R$$
so, I see:
$a)$ $A(0;1;2)$
$b)$ $D(0,1)\cup\{\mathbb{C}-\overline{D}(0,2)$
It is correct? Ok, then I suposse that $a)$ I think that I have to try express like series of potence with $\frac{1}{z}$, and in the second case, $b)$, in $\overline{D}(0,1)$ like potences of $z$ and in $\mathbb{C}-\overline{D}(0,2)$ like potences of $\frac{1}{z}$ but I can not, I need someone help, please.
All I know is that $\sum_{0}^{\infty} z^n=\frac{1}{1-z}$ when $|z|<1$
I do not know if it is so, I need someone clarify my doubts
A:
You have to find possible Laurent series expansion for each case !
Case I : $0<|z|<1$
Case II : $1<|z|<2$
Case III : $2<|z|$
Case I : $0<|z|<1$
$$f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[\frac{1}{z-2}-\frac{1}{z-1} \right] $$
$$\Rightarrow f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[\frac{1}{1-z} -\frac{1}{2}\cdot \frac{1}{1-\frac{z}{2}}\right] $$
For all $|z|<1$ , $$\displaystyle \frac{1}{1-z}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}z^n$$
And $\displaystyle |z|<1 \Rightarrow \frac{|z|}{2}<1$.
So $$\frac{1}{1-\frac{z}{2}}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{z^n}{2^n}$$
Therefore for each $|z|<1$ , $$f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}z^n-\frac{1}{2}\cdot\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{z^n}{2^n} \right]$$
$$f(z)=\left[ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}z^{n+3}-\frac{1}{2}\cdot\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{z^{n+3}}{2^n} +2\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}z^{n}-\cdot\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{z^{n}}{2^n}\right]$$
Case II : $1<|z|<2$
Now consider $1<|z|<2$ ,
Then $$f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[\frac{1}{1-z} -\frac{1}{2}\cdot \frac{1}{1-\frac{z}{2}}\right] $$
$$\Rightarrow f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[-\frac{1}{z}\cdot\frac{1}{1-\frac{1}{z}} -\frac{1}{2}\cdot \frac{1}{1-\frac{z}{2}}\right] $$
Observe that $1<|z| \Rightarrow \frac{1}{|z|}<1$
So $$\frac{1}{1-\frac{1}{z}}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{z^n}$$
And clearly for $|z|<2$ , $$\frac{1}{1-\frac{z}{2}}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{z^n}{2^n}$$
Thus for each $1<|z|<2$
$$f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[-\frac{1}{z}\cdot\frac{1}{1-\frac{1}{z}} -\frac{1}{2}\cdot \frac{1}{1-\frac{z}{2}}\right] $$
$$f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[-\frac{1}{z}\cdot\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{z^n} -\frac{1}{2}\cdot \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{z^n}{2^n}\right] $$
Case III : $2<|z|$
Now consider $2<|z|$.
Clearly $2<|z|\Rightarrow \frac{2}{|z|}<1 \Rightarrow \frac{1}{|z|}<1$
Now change $f(z)$ .
$$f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[\frac{1}{z-2}-\frac{1}{z-1} \right] $$
$$f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[\frac{1}{z}\cdot \frac{1}{1-\frac{2}{z}}-\frac{1}{z}\cdot \frac{1}{1-\frac{1}{z}} \right] $$
Clearly for each $2<|z|$ ,
$$\frac{1}{1-\frac{2}{z}}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{2^n}{z^n}$$
So
$$f(z)=(z^3+2)\left[\frac{1}{z}\cdot \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{2^n}{z^n}-\frac{1}{z}\cdot \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{z^n} \right] $$
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Q:
WinForms how to call a Double-Click Event on a Button?
Rather than making an event occur when a button is clicked once, I would like the event to occur only when the button is double-clicked. Sadly the double-click event doesn't appear in the list of Events in the IDE.
Anyone know a good solution to this problem? Thank you!
A:
No the standard button does not react to double clicks. See the documentation for the Button.DoubleClick event. It doesn't react to double clicks because in Windows buttons always react to clicks and never to double clicks.
Do you hate your users? Because you'll be creating a button that acts differently than any other button in the system and some users will never figure that out.
That said you have to create a separate control derived from Button to event to this (because SetStyle is a protected method)
public class DoubleClickButton : Button
{
public DoubleClickButton()
{
SetStyle(ControlStyles.StandardClick | ControlStyles.StandardDoubleClick, true);
}
}
Then you'll have to add the DoubleClick event hanlder manually in your code since it still won't show up in the IDE:
public partial class Form1 : Form {
public Form1() {
InitializeComponent();
doubleClickButton1.DoubleClick += new EventHandler(doubleClickButton1_DoubleClick);
}
void doubleClickButton1_DoubleClick(object sender, EventArgs e) {
}
}
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IMS Menopause Live
Langer's insights on the WHI study: unbiased evaluation and behind the scene facts
27 March, 2017:
I urge everyone carefully to read Robert Langer's article in the April issue of Climacteric [1]. Members can download the paper from the IMS website. Langer was one of the chief investigators of the WHI project, both clinician and epidemiologist, who was able to bring not only his unbiased view on the clinical data, but also some important anecdotes related to behind-the-scene administrative issues. Below are the main points that I found most significant, as quoted from the article.
1. 'The WHI set out to test whether (contemporary in 1993) HRT prevents CHD, fractures, and bowel cancer, in women well beyond menopause who are at greater risk of those diseases than the younger women represented in the prior studies. Enrollment was restricted within age groups so that no more than 10% of women would be 50–54 years old, and no more than 20% would be between 55 and 59 years old. Fully 70% of WHI women were to be 60–79 years old.'
2. 'The initial results paper was written by a small group from the coordinating center and program office and submitted to the journal without informing or consulting the clinical site principal investigators. . . . On June 27th, the entire investigator group consisting of the principal investigators for the 40 clinical sites, the coordinating center team, and the NIH program staff gathered for the semi-annual meeting in Chicago. After minor preliminaries, the investigator group was stunned by the announcement that the Data Safety and Monitoring Committee (DSMB) had recommended stopping the CEE + MPA trial and that the Director had accepted their recommendation. Minutes later the group was shocked by the distribution of a typeset copy of the primary results paper soon to be published in JAMA. This was the first time that the vast majority of principal investigators had seen the paper. . . . Concerns were raised about the propriety of producing a paper on behalf of the entire study group in this manner. More importantly, concerns were raised about the tone, the analyses conducted and reported, and the interpretation of the results in the paper. After some discussion, it was agreed that the concerned investigators could quickly provide edits addressing the tone and interpretation. . . . Edits were produced in the brief time remaining before lunch and taken to JAMA. The courier returned shortly with the message that the journal issue had already been printed.'
3. 'The NIH press release announcing the stopping of the study began with the headline "NHLBI Stops Trial of Estrogen Plus Progestin Due to Increased Breast Cancer Risk, Lack of Overall Benefit". The draft press release was distributed to the investigator group after lunch on June 27th, following on the news that the journal was already printed and the paper could not be edited. There was heated discussion about the wording of the press release. But, in the end, the wording favored by the program office prevailed. That headline, pandering to women's greatest fear – the fear of breast cancer – ensured that word of the study would spread like wildfire. And it ensured that the conversation would be driven much more by emotion and politics than by science.'
4. 'Contrary to the usual procedure in clinical trials . . . , no covariate adjusted analyses were reported. . . . The only significant findings in the 'adjusted' results were for a reduction in total fracture and an increase in VTE. The nominal results were significant for benefits in colorectal cancer, hip fracture and total fracture, and significant for adverse outcomes in CHD, stroke and VTE. Even the nominal results were not statistically significant for breast cancer; although the hazard ratio (HR) was 1.26, the 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.0–1.59) included 1.0. The 'adjusted' 95% confidence interval for breast cancer was 0.83–1.92. Nonetheless, incredibly, the paper included the statistically unsupported statement 'The WHI is the first randomized controlled trial to confirm that combined estrogen plus progestin does increase the risk of incident breast cancer and to quantify the degree of risk'.'
5. 'Another critical problem with the CEE + MPA paper was the failure to clearly acknowledge that the WHI was not designed to assess outcomes, particularly the stipulated primary outcome of CHD, in younger menopausal women who were the vast majority of 'real world' patients using HRT. It did not acknowledge that only 30% of participants were < 60 years old, with just 12% aged 50–54. Instead, it inappropriately generalized the findings in a predominantly older population that was not representative of typical users to the population of typical users.' . . . Another inappropriate generalization was 'embedded in the initial outcomes paper, the use of the term 'estrogen plus progestin' in describing the regimen tested in the WHI, rather than the more scientifically correct terminology naming the specific drugs used, CEE + MPA. This quickly led to generalizing the WHI findings, with all the caveats and distortions noted above, to all forms of HRT. Data that existed at the beginning of the WHI in 1993, and that had grown considerably by 2002, demonstrated clearly that that class assumption was inappropriate.'
6. 'Another key and reassuring fact regarding the breast cancer outcomes emerged relatively soon after the initial publications. It has been largely ignored in reporting and interpreting the study. This is the observation that the apparent increase in the breast cancer rate in the CEE – MPA group was due to an unexplained lower rate in the women randomized to placebo who had previously used HRT, NOT an increased rate in women randomized to CEE + MPA. Among women with no prior use of HRT before entering the WHI, there was no difference in breast cancer rates over time between the women assigned to placebo or CEE + MPA. This HRT-naive subgroup likely represents the best population for assessing HRT effects. The breast cancer trend in women with prior use of HRT who were assigned to active CEE + MPA was similar to that in the active and placebo HRT-naive groups. In contrast, the breast cancer rate in women assigned to placebo who had previously used HRT was much lower than the rates in all three other groups. That unexpected and unexplained low rate, different from the rate in the other placebo group, was the basis for the apparent increased hazard.' . . . In fact, the annualized breast cancer rate associated with CEE + MPA in women with prior HRT (0.46%) was essentially equal to the breast cancer rate in control women in the WHI DM [diabetes mellitus] trial (0.45%). . . . The outlier group was the women with prior HRT randomized to placebo in the CEE + MPA trial; the stunningly low annualized rate in that group was 0.25%.
7. 'Also, buried and downplayed in the paper stratifying on prior HRT use is an appropriately adjusted Cox model for breast cancer in the CEE + MPA trial. Specifically, the model was adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, body mass index, physical activity, smoking, alcohol use, parity, oral contraceptives use, family history of breast cancer, family history of fractures, mammography and presence of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms. The resulting non-significant HR was 1.20 with a 95% CI of 0.94–1.53. In the text, this key finding follows the marginally significant unadjusted result (HR 1.24;95% CI 1.02–1.50), but is said to "not substantially alter this [unadjusted] risk estimate".'
8. 'The CEE-alone trial testing CEE 0.625 mg daily versus placebo in women with prior hysterectomy was also stopped early. The decision was driven by an increase in stroke. However, the number of strokes in women 50–59 years old at enrollment was identical in the active and placebo groups, so that association was found only in women at or above 60 years old. There were striking contrasts between the results with CEE-alone and the results with CEE + MPA. There was a trend toward reduced breast cancer that was on the cusp of statistical significance with a HR of 0.77 and 95% CI of 0.59–1.01. There was also a trend toward reduced CHD (HR 0.91; 95% CI 0.75–1.12). Subsequent papers showed that CEE-alone was associated with statistically significant reduced rates in three key outcomes: breast cancer in adherent women; CHD in women aged 50–59 when revascularization was included; and a lower degree of coronary artery calcium in women aged 50–59.'
9. 'Where does that leave us in 2016? It is time to get past the misinformation and hysteria generated by the highly irregular circumstances of the WHI and stop denying potential benefits (control of vasomotor symptoms, prevention of fractures, prevention of CHD) to women who have indications and may be helped. HRT is appropriate for symptomatic women within 10 years of menopause who have no major contraindication. Good evidence from over 50 years of observational studies and clinical trials suggests that the benefits outweigh the risks for most women when started early. The International Menopause Society has recently published updated recommendations for HRT in a new format that highlights key messages and clinical pearls. It is a well documented and authoritative guide for contemporary clinical practice.' |
/*
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*
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* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy ofthe License at
*
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* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specificlanguage governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
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package service
import (
"fmt"
"net"
"strings"
)
// Address describes the service listening address and port
type Address struct {
Addr string
Port int
}
func (sa Address) String() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", sa.Addr, sa.Port)
}
// AddressFromString returns a service address from a string, could be IPv4 or IPv6
func AddressFromString(addressPort string) (Address, error) {
/* Backward compatibility for old format like : listen = 1234 */
if !strings.ContainsAny(addressPort, ".:") {
addressPort = "localhost:" + addressPort
} else if strings.HasPrefix(addressPort, ":") {
addressPort = "localhost" + addressPort
}
host, port, err := net.SplitHostPort(addressPort)
if err != nil {
return Address{}, err
}
portNum, err := net.LookupPort("", port)
if err != nil {
return Address{}, err
}
return Address{
Addr: host,
Port: portNum,
}, nil
}
// normalizeIPForURL returns a string normalized that can be used in URL. Brackets
// will be used for IPV6 addresses.
func normalizeIPForURL(ip net.IP) string {
if ip.To4() == nil {
return "[" + ip.String() + "]"
}
return ip.String()
}
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In a match which saw attacking action primarily against the woodwork, which was to be hit a surprising five times, Egemen Korkmaz's controversial late winner pushed the Turkish hosts that little bit closer to Amsterdam and a first-ever European final.
On a night of frustration for Benfica, substitute Nicolas Gaitan got closest with a shot against the post, with the visitors having it all to do at Estadio da Luz next week.
Aykut Kocaman made two changes from the side that dismantled Lazio in the quarter-final, with Moussa Sow returning to start alongside Pierre Webo and Dirk Kuyt. On the opposite side, Jorge Jesus deployed five changes to the starting eleven that beat Newcastle as captain Luisao missed out through a thigh injury.
Despite the typically raucous atmosphere inside the Istanbul venue, it proved to be a cautious opening to the semi-final, with both sides happy to bide their time as Eduardo Salvio and Maxi Pereira ensured Benfica enjoyed the better start.
But given Fenerbahce's tidal wave of support, it was not long before they rallied at the other end with chances coming in quick succession.
Firstly, Webo's neat pass into Sow flashed narrowly wide, before Kuyt's superb cross was met wonderfully by the Ivorian striker who easily beat Jardel in the aerial challenge, though was unlucky to see his bullet header cannon back off the crossbar.
Still, Kocaman's side threatened continously as the Eagles appeared in danger of falling behind. Egemen Korkmaz did well to find space and grind out a free header which was headed tamely at Artur, despite a good set-piece delivery from the hosts, who by now were in the ascendancy.
Nevertheless, the Portuguese visitors hit back at the other end, with surprise starter Pablo Aimar pulling the strings as Ezequiel Garay saw a decent chance wasted with Oscar Cardozo surprisingly quiet up front before the first-half drama began to ensue in additional time.
Ola John was adjudged to have fouled Gokhan Gonul approaching the penalty box, with Serbian referee Milorad Mazic immediately pointing to the spot. Up stepped Cristian Baroni, whose low penalty slammed against the post and away on the stroke of half-time, with the midfielder being dragged away in tears by team-mates to complete a high-tempo first half.
The second, however, started in the same way for the Turkish outfit who were once more unable to penetrate the defence. With Cristian once more bringing a fine save out of the goalkeeper, followed by Raul Meireles' stinging effort, Kuyt fired a third effort against the woodwork with a fine swivel and shot which Artur eventually got to.
The attacking intensity unrelenting, it was time for Benfica to test the vulnerable Volkan in the opposite goal, with Cardozo smashing a low effort towards the goalkeeper, before subsitute Nicolas Gaitan ensured the post was hit for the fourth time with a great effort from outside the box which left the keeper stranded.
The deadlock was finally broken in controversial circumstances as the game hurtled towards the final quarter of an hour. From a corner, Korkmaz rose highest to head the ball yet again off the post with Melgajero at fault as the ball crossed the line before celebrations got going after the fifth official awarded the goal.
Fenerbahce held on to take command of the semi-final tie, as they look to confirm their place in the Europa League final next week in the semi-final second leg at Estadio da Luz. |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 21, 2011) – ETSU and Kennesaw State both scored in the opening twenty minutes of the game; however, neither team could find the game-winner through regulation and both overtime periods as the ETSU women’s soccer team tied the Owls, 1-1, Friday night at Summers-Taylor Stadium.
Kennesaw State struck first when Katie Schwartz scored in the 14th minute, but senior Genna Petersen (Loveland, Ohio) netted the equalizer three minutes later to pull within one goal of tying former Lady Buc Erin Ashton for the program’s single-season goal scoring record.
“Both sides had a lot of chances out there,” said ETSU head coach Adam Sayers. “We wanted a good response after the [Florida] Gulf Coast game last week and we certainly got it from a performance standpoint… Give credit to Kennesaw State because they created a lot of chances as well.”
ETSU (11-4-1, 6-1-1 A-Sun) gained a point in the conference standings but now trail FGCU and Jacksonville by three points. The Lady Bucs can still earn the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye in the A-Sun Tournament with a win against Mercer on Sunday.
Kennesaw State (6-8-2, 2-5-1 A-Sun) moved from eighth place into a tie for seventh in the A-Sun standings, but played itself out of the conference tournament. The best KSU can do now is finish in a tie for sixth place with Mercer, but the Owls will have lost the head-to-head tiebreak having been defeated by the Bears, 1-0, last Friday.
Both ETSU and KSU had their chances to grab the lead, as ETSU finished with a 22-20 shot advantage, but senior goalkeeper Caitlin Gaughan (Indianapolis, Ind.) and KSU’s junior goalkeeper Melissa Hutto made incredible stops to keep the game at a draw. Gaughan finished with six saves, one ahead of Hutto’s five.
In the coldest weather the Lady Bucs have played in at Summers-Taylor Stadium this year, ETSU got off to a hot start with Petersen’s first of a team-high seven shots on the night. The senior’s early attempt was blocked over the line for a corner.
Sophomore Samantha Kron (Paradise Valley, Ariz.), the Lady Bucs’ biggest threat from the corner this year with three assists and a goal off corner kicks, stepped in for the set piece that eventually found freshman Jenna Caudle (Middletown, Md.). The team’s second-leading goal scorer fired her first of four shots in the match, but Hutto was there for one of her five stops on the night.
KSU got warmed up in the 12th minute when Sofia Blanco stepped in for the Owls’ first corner attempt. The cross was cleared, but KSU stayed on the attack with a shot which led to another corner.
Blanco’s second attempt of the night sailed into the box and created havoc. The Lady Bucs went up to clear the ball, but instead hit it off the crossbar as the ball bounced back into the field of play. With the ball loose in the box, Schwartz came up and fired in KSU’s first goal of the match to put the Owls ahead.
The lead did not last long, as Petersen pulled through with her conference-leading 11th goal of the season less than three minutes later. With ETSU in possession of the ball near midfield, the Lady Bucs’ leading goal scorer received a pass and dribbled the ball through KSU defenders and into the right side of the box. From just inside the penalty area, Petersen took a shot back towards the near post which beat the outstretched Hutto and went into the bottom-left corner of the net for the equalizer.
Only one shot came on goal for either side through the remainder of the half, as ETSU and KSU took the 1-1 score into the break. The Owls held an 8-6 shot and 3-1 corner advantage after the opening 45 minutes.
After junior Morgan Thomas (Maryville, Tenn.) put two shots at Hutto in the 16th minute of the second half, Gaughan pulled through with the save of the night. Shelby Crosby received a through ball for KSU and got the senior keeper one-on-one. Mere feet from each other in the penalty area, Crosby fired to her right only to watch Gaughan react with a brilliant save.
Katrina Frost, KSU’s leading goal scorer, tried to put in the rebound, but her attempt went wide. The shot was one of a game-high eight for Frost, as the game remained deadlocked.
A back-and-forth second half saw ETSU take nine shots to Kennesaw’s eight, as KSU’s fifth corner of the night was cleared out with under a minute to go and the two team’s awaited the start of overtime.
Frost opened the extra session with a shot saved by Gaughan, before Kron stepped in for back-to-back ETSU corners. The first of the two corners found Thomas as the Maryville, Tenn. native took a chance which was blocked over the goal line for a second corner. Sophomore Ramey Kerns (Kings Mountain, N.C.) collected the second attempt from Kron, but blasted her shot wide.
ETSU’s best chance at a victory came in the second overtime period when freshman Tessa Johnson (Knoxville, Tenn.) nearly scored off another Kron corner. With just over six minutes remaining in the game, Johnson settled the cross as it came through to the opposite side of the box. With the ball at the far post, Johnson shot back towards the near post and beat Hutto, but an Owl defender standing at the goal line cleared away the shot before it went in.
Petersen and freshman Emilee Engelhaupt (Charlotte, N.C.) put two more shots at Hutto in the final minutes, but neither came as close to Johnson’s attempt as the match ended in a draw.
The Lady Bucs will now look to Sunday, when they close out the regular season at home with a chance to clinch a first-round bye in the A-Sun Tournament against Mercer at 1 p.m.
For more information on ETSU women’s soccer please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women’s soccer links. Fans can also visit the Lady Bucs on Facebook at ETSU Buccaneer Women's Soccer. |
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a fluid pipe having a relatively small diameter of less than 20 mm and mounted in a vehicle, ships and other machines or apparatus to supply lubricant or air, and a method for producing the same.
2. Description of the Prior Art
FIG. 5 illustrates a conventional pipe assembly for feeding lubricant and its production method. As shown, a joint 11 includes a rectangular block 12 formed by forging process. The block 12 has a rear wall in its width direction to define a mounting surface 13 attached to a base. A through hole 15 extends between side walls of the block 12. A bore 15' extends perpendicular to and communicated with the through hole 15. The bore 15' terminates at the mounting surface 13 of the block 12. A pipe P' has one end fit into the through hole 15 of the joint and the other end closed by a rod-like plug. When a plurality of joints 11 are arranged one after another, discrete pipes P' are fit into opposite ends of the through hole 15 of each joint. A tapered threaded plug 16 is threaded into the outer end of the bore 15'. At least one one of the pipes P' and/or the rod-like plug are brazed to the through hole 15.
However, since the joint 11 is formed by forging process, and the through hole 15 extends between opposite side walls, the joint is rather large and heavy. The use of the threaded plug 16 and the threaded bore 15' requires cumbersome cutting operation. The joint 11 is thick as it is formed by forging, and the pipe P' and the rod-like plug are thin. As such, when these components are brazed to the through hole 10, the thick joint 11 is heated less than it should be, whereas the thin pipe P' is heated more than it should be. This is due to the difference in thickness or mass (heat capacity). Fitting of a plurality of pipes P' into opposite ends of each through hole is cumbersome and ineffective. This may cause leakage at a region where brazing is effected. Also, this presents a problem that the pitch between adjacent joints is inaccurate. |
Q:
My iOS device not appearing in xcode device list, showing in organizer
I m having xcode 4.5,
I have connected my iTouch(registered in developer program) to Mac Machine. It is appearing in Organizer's Device list. But, it is not appearing in xcode's device list(where simulators are) in one of my project. It is also shown when i open my other proejects.
So, What may be the problem in my this project, in which device is not appearing. Is any settings should be changed??
A:
See the image below and change the settings.
A:
I tried everything and then found that my device was identified on a different Mac but not mine. Quit and Reopen XCode resolved it.
A:
You might need to "trust" the computer - a device will not show up in the organizer if the computer is not trusted.
Restart the iPad while it is connected to the computer. When it restarts, it will ask if you want to "Trust" the computer or not. Do so, then the device will show up in the Xcode Organizer.
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Q:
How can I add a Number and Decimal keyboard into my Custom Keyboard on iOS8?
I created a custom keyboard in Swift but it was rejected from the App Store because: "keyboard extension does not include Number and Decimal types".
How can I add these two keyboards easily?
I tried to rebuild the original view but it doesn't work properly. I'm sure there is a solution to create 2 or 3 different views and switch between them.
How can I switch between keyboard types when the keyboard type changes?
A:
You can detect changes to the keyboard type in textDidChange. You need to get the UITextDocumentProxy then detect the proxy's keyboardType, and then you can do whatever layout changes needed.
override func textDidChange(_ textInput: UITextInput?) {
// Called when the document context is changed - theme or keyboard type changes
let proxy = self.textDocumentProxy as UITextDocumentProxy
if proxy.keyboardType == UIKeyboardType.numberPad
|| proxy.keyboardType == UIKeyboardType.decimalPad {
//add code here to display number/decimal input keyboard
}
}
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opinion SAN DIEGO -- Did I ever tell you about the time that a police chief who organized an immigration sweep had his alibi unravel?
It was 1997, and I was a reporter at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. In the suburb of Chandler, hundreds of illegal immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics were indiscriminately...
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SAN DIEGO -- Did I ever tell you about the time that a police chief who organized an immigration sweep had his alibi unravel?
It was 1997, and I was a reporter at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. In the suburb of Chandler, hundreds of illegal immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics were indiscriminately detained and interrogated as to their immigration status by teams of police officers and Border Patrol agents. It was a half-baked idea that wound up costing that city a bundle in civil rights lawsuits and damaged community relations to this day.
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When I got the Chandler police chief on the phone, I asked him where his officers got the jurisdiction to play dress-up as immigration agents. He responded that there was a new federal program allowing local police to enforce immigration law. The chief was talking about the enforcement scheme known as the 287(g) program.
It's named for Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a provision that came into existence because of a failed piece of enforcement-only legislation known as the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. That law, authored by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, promised to end illegal immigration by building fences along the border and deploying more Border Patrol agents. And it did such a bang-up job of accomplishing its goal that here we are, 15 years later, still debating what to do about illegal immigration.
The problem with the chief's explanation was that, as I informed him, the program was at the time so new that the guidelines hadn't even been written yet. The Chandler Roundup was not the result of a formal agreement drawn up in Washington but rather a good ol' boy partnership between the Chandler police chief and the supervisor of the local Border Patrol office. In other words, the Chandler cops had gone rogue. Then the boss tried to cover it up by claiming they were participating in a federal program not yet off the ground.
Now, according to a new report by the Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute, it seems a lot of local and state law enforcement agencies are going rogue these days.
The report uncovered that the cooperative program is not working as intended. Under 287(g), only designated officers could participate in the program, and only after they received specialized training by sworn federal immigration agents. Once in the field, those officers would continue to receive supervision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to make sure they were properly using -- and not abusing -- their new power. All this was to be spelled out in a memorandum of agreement.
This isn't happening.
The program was supposed to operate under the auspices of ICE. However, in practice, local sheriffs and county officials have enormous discretion to decide whom to target and whether to detain only those immigrants who were wanted for specific offenses or to check the status of every immigrant with whom police come into contact. That's a recipe for racial profiling.
Also, ICE is supposed to set the priorities for the program. It decided that the enforcement priority should be arresting and deporting illegal immigrants who had -- in addition to the civil infraction of unlawfully entering the United States -- also committed serious crimes such as robbery, rape and assault. But the local and state law enforcement agencies didn't heed that directive. According to the report, about half of the immigrants who were detained for deportation under the program had committed only minor crimes or traffic violations.
No surprise there. Local and state enforcement officials probably don't care about the big picture of curbing crime by getting rid of criminal aliens. They're just as likely to want to get rid of all illegal immigrants.
Finally, while ICE is supposed to ensure that the 287(g) program is implemented uniformly around the country, the report found that there were many variations in what individual law enforcement agencies did and how they did it.
So basically, it's a free-for-all -- and an ironic one at that. As immigration restrictionists like to remind the rest of us, rules matter. We have a porous border because people don't follow the rules to come into this country legally. Is it too much to ask that law enforcement agencies follow the rules in removing them? |
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# 论坛
## A 岛匿名版
### 串
<Route author="zcx1218029121" example="/adnmb/20" path="/adnmb/:pid" :paramsDesc="['板块 id 或者板块名称，例如`/adnmb/20`等价于`/adnmb/欢乐恶搞`，现有板块请参考下表']" >
| 时间线 | 综合版 1 | 围炉 | 欢乐恶搞 | 速报 2 | 推理 | 跑团 | 技术宅 | 料理 | 猫版 | 音乐 | 考试 | 社畜 |
| ------ | -------- | ---- | -------- | ------ | ---- | ---- | ------ | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| -1 | 4 | 120 | 20 | 121 | 11 | 111 | 30 | 32 | 40 | 35 | 56 | 110 |
| 科学 | 文学 | 创意 | 姐妹 1 | 数码 | 女装 | 日记 | 圈内 | 都市怪谈 | 买买买 | 动画 | 漫画 | 美漫 | 国漫 | 小说 |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ------ | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | -------- | ------ | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| 15 | 103 | 17 | 98 | 75 | 97 | 89 | 96 | 81 | 106 | 14 | 12 | 90 | 99 | 19 |
| 轻小说 | GALGAME | 东方 Project | 舰娘 | 虚拟偶像 | VOCALOID | 游戏 | DNF | SE | 手游 |
| ------ | ------- | ------------ | ---- | -------- | -------- | ---- | --- | --- | ---- |
| 87 | 64 | 5 | 93 | 101 | 6 | 2 | 72 | 124 | 3 |
| Steam | 索尼 | LOL | DOTA | 口袋妖怪 | 战争雷霆 | WOT | Minecraft | 怪物猎人 | 3A 游戏 |
| ----- | ---- | --- | ---- | -------- | -------- | --- | --------- | -------- | ------- |
| 107 | 24 | 22 | 70 | 38 | 86 | 51 | 10 | 28 | 108 |
| 彩虹六号 | 暴雪游戏 | 卡牌桌游 | MUG | AC 大逃杀 | 任天堂 | AKB | SNH48 | COSPLAY | 声优 |
| -------- | -------- | -------- | --- | --------- | ------ | --- | ----- | ------- | ---- |
| 119 | 23 | 45 | 34 | 29 | 25 | 16 | 100 | 13 | 55 |
| 模型 | 影视 | 军武 | 体育 | 值班室 | 城墙 | 技术支持 | 询问 3 | 宠物 | 摄影 2 |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ------ | ---- | -------- | ------ | ---- | ------ |
| 39 | 31 | 37 | 33 | 18 | 112 | 117 | 114 | 118 | 115 |
| 主播 | 育儿 | 围炉 | 旅行 | 特摄 |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| 116 | 113 | 120 | 125 | 9 |
</Route>
## Chiphell
### 子版块
<Route author="tylinux" example="/chiphell/forum/80" path="/chiphell/forum/:forumId" :paramsDesc="['子版块 id，可在子版块 URL 找到']"/>
## Dcard
### 首頁帖子
<Route author="DIYgod" example="/dcard/posts/popular" path="/dcard/posts/:type?" :paramsDesc="['排序，popular 熱門；latest 最新，默認為 latest']" radar="1"/>
### 板塊帖子
<Route author="HenryQW" example="/dcard/funny/popular" path="/dcard/:section/:type?" :paramsDesc="['板塊名稱，URL 中獲得', '排序，popular 熱門；latest 最新，默認為 latest']" radar="1"/>
## Discuz
### 通用子版块 - 自动检测
<Route author="junfengP" example="/discuz/http%3a%2f%2fwww.u-share.cn%2fforum.php%3fmod%3dforumdisplay%26fid%3d56" path="/discuz/:link" :paramsDesc="['子版块链接， 需要手动Url编码']"/>
### 通用子版块 - 指定版本
<Route author="junfengP" example="/discuz/x/https%3a%2f%2fwww.52pojie.cn%2fforum-16-1.html" path="/discuz/:ver/:link" :paramsDesc="['discuz版本类型，见下表','子版块链接， 需要手动Url编码']" >
| Discuz X 系列 | Discuz 7.x 系列 |
| ------------- | --------------- |
| x | 7 |
</Route>
### 通用子版块 - 支持 Cookie
<Route author="junfengP" example="/discuz/x/00/https%3a%2f%2fbbs.zdfx.net%2fforum-2-1.html" path="/discuz/:ver/:cid/:link" :paramsDesc="['discuz版本类型，见下表', 'Cookie id，需自建并配置环境变量，详情见部署页面的配置模块','子版块链接， 需要手动Url编码']" >
| Discuz X 系列 | Discuz 7.x 系列 |
| ------------- | --------------- |
| x | 7 |
</Route>
## eTOLAND
### 主题贴
<Route author="mengx8" example="/etoland/star01" path="/etoland/:boardId" :paramsDesc="['板块 id，可在板块 URL 找到']" radar="1" />
## LearnKu
### 社区
<Route author="haokaiyang" example="/learnku/laravel/qa" path="/learnku/:community/:category?" :paramsDesc="['社区 标识，可在 <https://learnku.com/communities> 找到', '分类，如果不传 `category` 则获取全部分类']"/>
| 招聘 | 翻译 | 问答 | 链接 |
| ---- | ------------ | ---- | ----- |
| jobs | translations | qa | links |
## MCBBS
### 版块
<Route author="cssxsh" example="/mcbbs/forum/news" path="/mcbbs/forum/:type" :paramsDesc="['版块名称或者版块号']"/>
### 帖子
<Route author="cssxsh" example="/mcbbs/post/915861/3038" path="/mcbbs/post/:tid/:authorid?" :paramsDesc="['贴子id，可在帖子 URL 找到', '用户id，此参数不为空时，只看此作者']"/>
## NGA
### 分区帖子
<Route author="xyqfer" example="/nga/forum/489" path="/nga/forum/:fid/:recommend?" :paramsDesc="['分区 id, 可在分区主页 URL 找到, 没有 fid 时 stid 同样适用','是否只显示精华主题, 留空为否, 任意值为是']" radar="1"/>
### 帖子
<Route author="xyqfer" example="/nga/post/18449558" path="/nga/post/:tid" :paramsDesc="['帖子 id, 可在帖子 URL 找到']" radar="1"/>
## Quicker
### 讨论区
<Route author="Cesaryuan" example="/quicker/qa" path="/quicker/qa"/>
### 用户动作更新
<Route author="Cesaryuan" example="/quicker/user/action/18359/Cesaryuan" path="/quicker/user/action/:uid/:person" :paramsDesc="['用户ID，可在用户主页链接里找到', '用户昵称，可在用户主页链接里找到']" />
## RF 技术社区
### 文章
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/rf/article" path="/rf/article"/>
## Ruby China
> 未登录状态下抓取页面非实时更新
### 主题
<Route author="ahonn" example="/ruby-china/topics" path="/ruby-china/topics/:type" :paramsDesc="['主题类型，在 URL 可以找到']"/>
| 主题类型 | type |
| -------- | ---------- |
| 精华贴 | excellent |
| 优质帖子 | popular |
| 无人问津 | no_reply |
| 最新回复 | last_reply |
| 最新发布 | last |
### 招聘
<Route author="ahonn" example="/ruby-china/jobs" path="/ruby-china/jobs"/>
## Saraba1st
### 帖子
<Route author="zengxs" example="/saraba1st/thread/1789863" path="/saraba1st/thread/:tid" :paramsDesc="['帖子 id']">
帖子网址如果为 <https://bbs.saraba1st.com/2b/thread-1789863-1-1.html> 那么帖子 id 就是 `1789863`。
</Route>
## V2EX
### 最热 / 最新主题
<Route author="WhiteWorld" example="/v2ex/topics/latest" path="/v2ex/topics/:type" :paramsDesc="['hot 或 latest']"/>
### 帖子
<Route author="kt286" example="/v2ex/post/584403" path="/v2ex/post/:postid" :paramsDesc="['帖子ID，在 URL 可以找到']"/>
### 标签
<Route author="liyefox" example="/v2ex/tab/hot" path="/v2ex/tab/:tabid" :paramsDesc="['tab标签ID,在 URL 可以找到']"/>
## 才符
### 用户动态
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/91ddcc/user/2377095" path="/91ddcc/user/:user" :paramsDesc="['用户ID，在 URL 可以找到']"/>
### 驿站帖子
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/91ddcc/stage/206" path="/91ddcc/stage/:stage" :paramsDesc="['驿站ID，在 URL 可以找到']"/>
## 电鸭社区
### 工作机会
<Route author="sfyumi" example="/eleduck/jobs" path="/eleduck/jobs"/>
## 光谷社区
### 子论坛
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/guanggoo/index" path="/guanggoo/:caty" :paramsDesc="['子论坛']">
| 首页 | 你问我答 | 同城活动 | IT 技术 | 金融财经 | 创业创客 | 城市建设 |
| ----- | -------- | -------- | ------- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| index | qna | lowshine | it | finance | startup | city |
</Route>
## 虎扑
### 虎扑 BBS 论坛
<Route author="LogicJake" example="/hupu/bbs/bxj/2" path="/hupu/bbs/:id/:order?" :paramsDesc="['板块 id，可在板块 URL 找到', '排序方式，1最新回帖（默认），2最新发帖，3精华帖']"/>
### 分类
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/hupu/all/gambia" path="/hupu/all/:caty" :paramsDesc="['分类名，见下表']">
| 分类 | 名称 |
| ------------ | -------- |
| NBA 论坛 | nba |
| CBA 论坛 | cba |
| 运动和装备 | gear |
| 国际足球论坛 | soccer |
| 中国足球论坛 | csl |
| 综合体育 | sports |
| 步行街 | gambia |
| 彩票中心 | lottery |
| 自建版块 | boards |
| 虎扑社团 | group |
| 站务管理 | feedback |
更多参见 [虎扑社区版块目录](https://bbs.hupu.com/boards.php) 左侧导航栏各板块分类页
</Route>
### 子站
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/hupu/dept/nba" path="/hupu/dept/:dept" :paramsDesc="['名称，见下表']">
| 子站 | 名称 |
| -------- | ------------ |
| NBA | nba |
| 国际足球 | soccer |
| 中国足球 | soccer-china |
| CBA | cba |
| 电竞 | gg |
</Route>
## 看雪
### 论坛
<Route author="renzhexigua" example="/pediy/topic/android/digest" path="/pediy/topic/:category?/:type?" :paramsDesc="['版块, 缺省为`all`', '类型, 缺省为`latest`']"/>
| 版块 | category |
| ------------ | ---------- |
| 智能设备 | iot |
| 区块链安全 | blockchain |
| Android 安全 | android |
| iOS 安全 | ios |
| 软件逆向 | re |
| 编程技术 | coding |
| 加壳脱壳 | unpack |
| 密码算法 | crypto |
| 二进制漏洞 | vuln |
| CrackMe | crackme |
| Pwn | pwn |
| WEB 安全 | web |
| 全站 | all |
| 类型 | type |
| -------- | ------ |
| 最新主题 | latest |
| 精华主题 | digest |
## 龙空
### 分区
<Route author="ma6254" example="/lkong/forum/60" path="/lkong/forum/:id/:digest?" :paramsDesc="['分区 id, 可在分区的URL里找到','默认获取全部主题，任意值则只获取精华主题']"/>
### 帖子
<Route author="ma6254" example="/lkong/thread/2356933" path="/lkong/thread/:id?" :paramsDesc="['帖子 id, 可在帖子的URL里找到']"/>
## 龙腾网
### 转译网贴
<Route author="sgqy" example="/ltaaa" path="/ltaaa/:type?" :paramsDesc="['热门类型.']">
| 最新 | 每周 | 每月 | 全年 |
| ---- | ---- | ----- | ---- |
| (空) | week | month | year |
</Route>
## 牛客网
### 讨论区
<Route author="LogicJake" example="/nowcoder/discuss/2/4" path="/nowcoder/discuss/:type/:order" :paramsDesc="['讨论区分区id 在 URL 中可以找到', '排序方式']">
| 最新回复 | 最新发表 | 最新 | 精华 |
| -------- | -------- | ---- | ---- |
| 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
</Route>
### 校招日程
<Route author="junfengP" example="/nowcoder/schedule" path="nowcoder/schedule/:propertyId?/:typeId?" :paramsDesc="['行业, 在控制台中抓取接口，可获得行业id，默认0', '类别，同上']" />
### 求职推荐
<Route author="junfengP" example="/nowcoder/recommend" path="nowcoder/recommend"/>
### 实习广场 & 社招广场
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/nowcoder/jobcenter/1/北京/1/1/true" path="/nowcoder/jobcenter/:recruitType?/:city?/:type?/:order?/:latest?" :paramsDesc="['招聘分类，`1` 指 实习广场，`2` 指 社招广场，默认为 `1`', '所在城市，可选城市见下表，若空则为 `全国`', '职位类型，可选职位代码见下表，若空则为 `全部`', '排序参数，可选排序参数代码见下表，若空则为 `默认`', '是否仅查看最近一周，可选 `true` 和 `false`，默认为 `false`']">
可选城市有：北京、上海、广州、深圳、杭州、南京、成都、厦门、武汉、西安、长沙、哈尔滨、合肥、其他
职位类型代码见下表：
| 研发 | 测试 | 数据 | 算法 | 前端 | 产品 | 运营 | 其他 |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
排序参数见下表：
| 最新发布 | 最快处理 | 处理率最高 |
| -------- | -------- | ---------- |
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
</Route>
## 三星盖乐世社区
### 最新帖子
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/samsungmembers/latest" path="/samsungmembers/latest"/>
## 书友社区
### 导读
<Route author="AngUOI" example="/andyt/newthread" path="/andyt/:view?" :paramsDesc="['子版块 view, 为空默认最新发表']">
| 最新发表 | 最新热门 | 最新精华 | 最新回复 |
| --------- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| newthread | hot | digest | new |
</Route>
## 水木社区
### 分区文章
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/newsmth/section/university" path="/newsmth/section/:section" :paramsDesc="['分区名，见下表']">
| 社区管理 | 国内院校 | 休闲娱乐 | 五湖四海 | 游戏运动 | 社会信息 | 知性感性 | 文化人文 | 学术科学 | 电脑技术 |
| --------- | ---------- | ------------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | ---------- |
| community | university | entertainment | location | game | society | romance | culture | science | technology |
</Route>
### 用户文章
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/newsmth/account/fef705ec94819a5a87941759e33c0982" path="/newsmth/account/:id" :paramsDesc="['用户 id，可在用户页的 URL 中找到']"/>
## 天涯论坛
### 子版块
<Route author="a14907" example="/tianya/index/lookout" path="/tianya/index/:type" :paramsDesc="['板块类型 type，可在 URL 找到 例如，天涯杂谈板块的地址是http://bbs.tianya.cn/list-free-1.shtml， 这个板块的type就是free; 同理，我的大学板块地址为http://bbs.tianya.cn/list-university-1.shtml，类型是university']"/>
### 用户帖子
<Route author="a14907" example="/tianya/user/11488997" path="/tianya/user/:userid" :paramsDesc="['用户id userid，可在 URL 找到 例如，用户苕木匠的地址是http://www.tianya.cn/11488997/bbs， 苕木匠的userid就是11488997']"/>
### 用户的回帖
<Route author="a14907" example="/tianya/comments/11488997" path="/tianya/comments/:userid" :paramsDesc="['用户id userid，可在 URL 找到 例如，用户苕木匠的地址是http://www.tianya.cn/11488997/bbs， 苕木匠的userid就是11488997']"/>
## 贴吧
### 帖子列表
<Route author="u3u" example="/tieba/forum/女图" path="/tieba/forum/:kw" :paramsDesc="['吧名']"/>
### 精品帖子
<Route author="u3u" example="/tieba/forum/good/女图" path="/tieba/forum/good/:kw/:cid?" :paramsDesc="['吧名', '精品分类, 如果不传 `cid` 则获取全部分类']"/>
### 帖子动态
<Route author="u3u" example="/tieba/post/5853240586" path="/tieba/post/:id" :paramsDesc="['帖子 ID']"/>
### 楼主动态
<Route author="u3u" example="/tieba/post/lz/5853240586" path="/tieba/post/lz/:id" :paramsDesc="['帖子 ID']"/>
## 万维读者
### 焦点新闻
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/creaders/headline" path="/creaders/headline"/>
## 文学城
### 博客
<Route author="changlan" example="/wenxuecity/blog/43626" path="/wenxuecity/blog/:id" :paramsDesc="['博客 ID, 可在 URL 中找到']" radar="1" />
### 最热主题
<Route author="changlan" example="/wenxuecity/hot/9" path="/wenxuecity/hot/:cid" :paramsDesc="['版面 ID, 可在 URL 中找到']" radar="1" />
### 最新主题
<Route author="changlan" example="/wenxuecity/bbs/tzlc" path="/wenxuecity/bbs/:cat/:elite?" :paramsDesc="['版面名, 可在 URL 中找到', '是否精华区, 1 为精华区']" radar="1" />
## 小米社区
### 圈子
<Route author="DIYgod" example="/mi/bbs/board/18066617" path="/mi/bbs/board/:boardId" :paramsDesc="['圈子 id，可在圈子 URL 找到']" radar="1"/>
## 一亩三分地
### 主题帖
<Route author="Maecenas" example="/1point3acres/user/1/threads" path="/1point3acres/user/:id/threads" :paramsDesc="['用户 id，可在 Instant 版网站的个人主页 URL 找到']"/>
### 回帖
<Route author="Maecenas" example="/1point3acres/user/1/posts" path="/1point3acres/user/:id/posts" :paramsDesc="['用户 id，可在 Instant 版网站的个人主页 URL 找到']"/>
### 帖子 (手机端的最热与最新 Tab)
<Route author="NavePnow" example="/1point3acres/post/hot" path="/1point3acres/post/:category" :paramsDesc="['分类 category, 见下表']"/>
| 最热帖子 | 最新帖子 |
| -------- | -------- |
| hot | new |
### 录取结果
<Route author="NavePnow" example="/1point3acres/offer/12/null/CMU" path="/1point3acres/offer/:year?/:major?/:school?" :paramsDesc="['录取年份 id，空为null', '录取专业 id，空为null', '录取学校 id，空为null']">
::: warning 三个 id 获取方式
1. 打开 <https://offer.1point3acres.com>
2. 打开控制台
3. 切换到 Network 面板
4. 点击 搜索 按钮
5. 点击 results?ps=15&pg=1 POST 请求
6. 找到 Request Payload 请求参数，例如 filters: {planyr: "13", planmajor: "1", outname_w: "ACADIAU"} ，则三个 id 分别为: 13,1,ACADIAU
:::
</Route>
## 直播吧
### 子论坛
<Route author="LogicJake" example="/zhibo8/forum/8" path="/zhibo8/forum/:id" :paramsDesc="['子论坛 id，可在子论坛 URL 找到']"/>
### 回帖
<Route author="LogicJake" example="/zhibo8/post/2601615" path="/zhibo8/post/:id" :paramsDesc="['帖子 id，可在帖子 URL 找到']"/>
### 滚动新闻
<Route author="nczitzk" example="/zhibo8/more/nba" path="/zhibo8/more/:caty" :paramsDesc="['分类，可选 `nba` 指 NBA，或 `zuqiu` 指 足球']"/>
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a spring that is provided between a first member and a second member for inhibiting transmission of high-frequency vibration therebetween, and in particular relates to an improvement in a shape of the spring.
2. Related Art
In a variety of fields of such as automobiles, precision equipment, home electrical appliances and architectural industries, techniques for inhibiting transmission of vibrations are required. The techniques for inhibiting transmission of vibrations are applied to engines, motors rotating at high speed, dewatering bins of laundry machines and constructions, etc. As a technique for inhibiting transmission of vibration, a natural vibration frequency of a system composed of an object and a supporting portion is set at a sufficiently lower degree than a predetermined vibration frequency range. As a method for this setting, a constant of a spring in the supporting portion may be reduced. In this case, when the constant of the spring is reduced, the size of the spring must be increased for supporting a load thereat.
A method in which a disc spring is used between the object and the supporting portion is proposed (For example, see Japanese Patent Applications, First Publication No. 5-172171 and First Publication No. 2002-54685.). Loading characteristics of a disc spring are designed as a curve shown in FIG. 6, so that not only can the load be supported, but also an area A can be set on the curve, and the constant of the spring can be reduced when the loading characteristics thereof are within the area A.
When a disc spring is deformed in a substantially flat shape by an applied load, edge portions of an inner circumference and an outer circumference thereof slide with respect to counter members, whereby friction occurs. Therefore, when a range of use of the disc spring is set within the area A shown in FIG. 6, hysteresis shown in FIG. 7A occurs on the practical loading curve. As a result, the practical dynamic constant of the disc spring in the range of use thereof is determined according to an inclination of a diagonal line between points P and Q in FIG. 7. In this case, when a fluctuation of in the range of use is set at a small degree, as shown in FIG. 7B, the inclination of the diagonal line is increased, so that the dynamic constant of spring is increased. In a system in which such a disc spring is used, when a fine vibration such as a high-frequency vibration is provided, the dynamic constant of the spring is increased, so that the natural vibration frequency of the system is increased. As a result, transmission of the high-frequency vibrations cannot be inhibited. |
Aptitude of Lymnaea palustris and L. stagnalis to Fasciola hepatica larval development through the infection of several successive generations of 4-mm-high snails.
Bimiracidial infections of Lymnaea palustris and Lymnaea stagnalis (shell height at exposure, 4 mm) with Fasciola hepatica were carried out during six successive snail generations to determine if prevalence and intensity of snail infection increased over time through descendants issuing from eggs laid by parents already exposed to this digenean. Controls were constituted by a French population of Galba truncatula (a single generation) infected according to the same protocol. In a first experiment performed with the F1 to F5 generations of L. palustris, the prevalence and intensity of F. hepatica infection in snails progressively increased. Immature rediae and a few cercariae-containing rediae of the digenean were observed in L. stagnalis from the F3 generation, but no free cercaria was noted in the bodies of this lymnaeid from the F4 to F6 generations. In another experiment carried out with the F6 generation of L. palustris, the prevalence of F. hepatica infection and the number of shed cercariae were significantly lower in L. palustris than in G. truncatula. This mode of snail infection suggests an explanation for cases of human fasciolosis occurring in central France after the collection of wild watercress from beds where L. palustris was the sole lymnaeid. |
Q:
'TypeError: Object is not a function' when using tunnel-ssh
I'm running the basic example in the tutorial for the popular NPM package tunnel-ssh. Here is the code:
var tunnel = require('tunnel-ssh');
var config = {
username:'root',
password:'secret',
host:'remote.mysql.server.com',
port:3306
}
tunnel(config, function(e, sshTunnel){
//Now, you should be able to connect to the tunnel via localhost:3336.
});
I am running it with the credentials for my own database of course. However, I always get this error when I run it:
TypeError: object is not a function
Anybody know what's going on?
A:
var tunnel = require('tunnel-ssh');
var config = {username: 'vagrant',host: '192.168.33.2', port:3307, dstPort:3306 }
tunnel.tunnel(config, function(e, sshTunnel){});
I have my key added in 192.168.33.2 and forwarding the destination port 3306 to my local port 3307.
I am running this on RPEL node version v0.12.4. Its working.
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Bill Clinton is an evil man, and his wife is worse. One event stands out in my mind when I think of the Clinton's: Waco. Remember April 19, 1993? That is the day that evil cowards of the American Secret Police murdered innocent children and adults in the most infamous act of State terrorism against American Citizens: the Waco Holocaust. As an exercise of State power, the FBI, the BATF, and other thugs with badges incinerated dozens of human beings, people who had committed no crime and asked only to be left alone to practice their own beliefs, which the great document, the Bill of Rights, guarantees. According to former White House aide Linda Tripp, Hillary Clinton pressured Vince Foster to resolve the 1993 Waco stand-off in a move that led to the deaths of the 86 men, women and children. Tripp said that Foster, at Mrs. Clinton's direction, transmitted the order to move on the Branch Davidian's Waco compound, which culminated in a military-style tear gas attack on the wooden structure. The compound burst into flames hours later as federal troops used a U.S. Army tank to ram the building and insert flammable gas. Tripp said she was with the former deputy White House counsel when the news of the Waco assault broke on television. "A special bulletin came on showing the atrocity at Waco, and the children. His whole body slumped, and his face turned white. He was absolutely crushed knowing the part he had played. And especially that he had played the part at Mrs. Clinton's direction," said Tripp. Tripp was stunned by the contrast between Foster's heartfelt emotion at the Waco tragedy and what she observed from Mrs. Clinton. "Her reaction, on the other hand, was heartless," Tripp recalled. Foster was found shot to death in a Virginia park three months later. Tripp's charge is corroborated by the 1999 documentary on the deadly confrontation, "Waco: A New Revelation." The Clinton's have bribed, extorted, threatened, killed, and God knows what else to achieve their ends. Two politicians that Machiavelli envisioned. And now these unbelievably depraved individuals want to return to power. SO HERE, PRESENTED TO YOU, IS A LIST OF PEOPLE, WHO FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, THE CLINTON'S MAY HAVE FELT A NEED TO SILENCE IN A RATHER PERMANENT WAY. Recent deaths involving Hillary's 2016 presidential run: Shawn Lucas – Aug. 2, 2016. On July 3, attorney Shawn Lucas, 38, helped serve the DNC with a lawsuit claiming then-DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz “rigged the primary for Hillary Clinton.” The complaint was served before Wasserman Schultz resigned amid the Wikileaks email scandal on July 24. Less than one month after he helped serve the lawsuit, Lucas’ girlfriend found him dead in his bathroom. Seth Rich – July 10, 2016. WND reported DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered near his affluent neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Rich was shot in the back at 4:15 a.m. while he walked home from his girlfriend’s apartment. In an interview, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange suggested that Rich, 27, was the source of the WikiLeaks-exposed DNC emails. “Our whistleblowers go to significant efforts to give us material, at often very significant risks,” Assange said. “There was a 27 year old, works for the DNC, who was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons other than that he was walking down the street in Washington.” The interviewer interjected, “That was just a robbery, I believe, wasn’t it?” Assange replied, “No, there’s no finding.” The interviewer asked, “What are you suggesting?” “I’m suggesting that our sources take risks and they become concerned to see things occurring like that,” Assange continued. “But was he one of your sources then?” asked the interviewer. “We don’t comment on who our sources are,” Assange said. “We have to understand how high the stakes are in the United States. Our sources face serious risks. That’s why they come to us, so we can protect their anonymity.” WikiLeaks is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Rich’s killer. Victor Thorn – Aug. 1, 2016.Victor Thorn authored four books on the Clintons: “Hillary (and Bill): The Sex Volume,” Hillary (and Bill): The Drugs Volume,” “Hillary (and Bill): The Murder Volume” and “Crowning Clinton: Why Hillary Shouldn’t Be in the White House.” Thorn reportedly committed suicide with a gun on his 54th birthday on a mountaintop in Pennsylvania. Inquisitr reported that Thorn made several appearances on “The Russell Scott Show” and told the host, “Russell, if I’m ever found dead, it was murder. I would never kill myself.” Joe Montano – July 25, 2016. Joe Montano, who served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee before Debbie Wasserman Schultz and was an aide to Hillary’s running-mate, Tim Kaine, reportedly died of a heart attack after the Wikileaks DNC email dump. Montano was only 47. John Ashe – June 22, 2016. Former United Nations General Assembly President John Ashe was found dead in His New York home, and the cause of death was reported as a heart attack, as WND reported. But the local Dobbs Ferry police said “his throat had been crushed, presumably by a barbell he dropped while pumping iron.” Ashe was scheduled to testify in just days with Chinese businessman and co-defendant Ng Lap Seng, who was accused of smuggling $4.5 million into the U.S. and lying that it was to buy casino chips and more. New York Post writer Richard Johnson said Ng earlier was identified in a 1998 Senate document “as the source of hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally funneled through an Arkansas restaurant owner, Charlie Trie, to the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton administration.” “One source told me,” Johnson wrote, “‘During the trial, the prosecutors would have linked Ashe to the Clinton bagman Ng. It would have been very embarrassing. His death was conveniently timed.” PREVIOUS DEATHS LISTED BY DATE: Susan Coleman: Had affair with Bill Clinton when he was attorney general of Arkansas. Died: February 15, 1977. Died of "suicide" with gunshot wound to the back of her head. No autopsy allowed. Was 7 months pregnant at time of her death. She had told friends it was Bill Clinton's child. She was 26 at the time of her death. Larry Guerrin: Was killed in February 1987 while investigating the INSLAW case. Kevin Ives & Don Henry: Initial cause of death was reported to be the result of falling asleep on a railroad track in Arkansas on August 23, 1987. This ruling was reported by the State medical examiner Fahmy Malak. Later it was determined that Kevin died from a crushed skull prior to being placed on the tracks. Don had been stabbed in the back. Rumors indicate that they might have stumbled upon the Mena drug operation. Keith Coney: Keith had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. Died in a motorcycle accident in July 1988 with unconfirmed reports of a high speed car chase. Keith McKaskle: McKaskle had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He was stabbed to death in November 1988. Gregory Collins: Greg had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He died from a gunshot wound to the face in January 1989. Jeff Rhodes: He had information on the deaths of Ives, Henry & McKaskle. His burned body was found in a trash dump in April 1989. He died of a gunshot wound to the head and there was some body mutilation, leading to the probably speculation that he was tortured prior to being killed. James Milam: Milam had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was decapitated. The state Medical examiner, Fahmy Malak, initially ruled death due to natural causes. Richard Winters: Winters was a suspect in the deaths of Ives & Henry. He was killed in a "robbery" in July 1989 which was subsequently proven to be a setup. Jordan Kettleson: Kettleson had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup in June 1990. Alan Standorf: An employee of the National Security Agency in electronic intelligence. Standorf was a source of information for Danny Casalaro who was investigating INSLAW, BCCI, etc. Standorf's body was found in the backseat of a car at Washington National Airport on Jan 31, 1991. Dennis Eisman: An attorney with information on INSLAW. Eisman was found shot to death on April 5, 1991. Danny Casalaro: Danny was a free-lance reporter and writer who was investigating the "October Surprise", INSLAW and BCCI. Danny was found dead in a bathtub in a Sheraton Hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Danny was staying at the hotel while keeping appointments in the DC area pertinent to his investigation. He was found with his wrists slashed. At least one, and possibly both of his wrists were cut 10 times. All of his research materials were missing and have never been recovered. Victor Raiser: The National Finance Co-Chair for "Clinton for President." He died in a airplane crash on July 30, 1992. R. Montgomery Raiser: Also involved in the Clinton presidential campaign. He died in the same plane crash as Victor. Ian Spiro: Spiro had supporting documentation for grand jury proceedings on the INSLAW case. His wife and 3 children were found murdered on November 1, 1992 in their home. They all died of gunshot wounds to the head. Ian's body was found several days later in a parked car in the Borego Desert. Cause of death? The ingestion of cyanide. FBI report indicated that Ian had murdered his family and then committed suicide. Paula Gober: A Clinton speech writer. She died in a car accident on December 9, 1992 with no known witnesses. Jim Wilhite: Wilhite was an associate of Mack McClarty's former firm. Wilhite died in a skiing accident on December 21, 1992. He also had extensive ties to Clinton with whom he visited by telephone just hours before his death. Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Todd McKeahan & Conway LeBleu: Died Feburary 28, 1993 by gunfire at Waco. All four were examined by a pathologist and died from identical wounds to the left temple. All four had been body guards for Bill Clinton, three while campaigning for President and when he was Governor of Arkansas. They also were the ONLY 4 BATF agents killed at Waco. The 86 Branch Davidians in Waco Texas: Who were tormented and harrased by FBI storm troopers for nearly 2 months. Under orders from the Clinton's, they were incinerated on April 19, 1993. John Wilson: Found dead from an apparent hanging suicide on May 18, 1993. He was a former Washington DC council member and claimed to have info on Whitewater. Sgt. Brian Haney, Sgt. Tim Sabel, Maj. William Barkley, Capt. Scott Reynolds: Died: May 19, 1993 - All four men died when their helicopter crashed in the woods near Quantico, Va. - Reporters were barred from the site, and the head of the fire department responding to the crash described it by saying, "Security was tight," with "lots of Marines with guns." A videotape made by a firefighter was seized by the Marines. All four men had escorted Clinton on his flight to the carrier Roosevelt shortly before their deaths. Paul Wilcher: A lawyer who was investigating drug running out of Mena, Arkansas and who also sought to expose the "October Surprise", BCCI and INSLAW. He was found in his Washington DC apartment dead of unknown causes on June 22, 1993. Vincent Foster: A White House deputy counsel and long-time personal friend of Bill and Hillary's. Found on July 20, 1993. Foster's body was found in a heavily wooded area near Washington D.C.. The official cause of death, touted from the outset as a suicide, was declared due to a gunshot fired into the mouth. The weapon, said to be a black 1913 Army Colt .38 Special six-shot revolver, was said to have been found in Foster's hand. It is significant, therefore, to note that x-rays of the initial autopsy of Vincent Foster's corpse are listed by Federal coroners as now being "missing", and that no one in the Foster family recalls there being a firearm of that model or appearance anywhere, ever, in their residence. Also, there was no blood found on the cuff, sleeve, or wrist of Foster, as would have been elicited naturally, from what they call "blowback", by a self-inflicted gunshot held close inside the soft-palate. The first witness to find the body insisted that there had been no gun near the body. The memory in Foster's pager had been erased. Foster's office at the White House was looted. Secret Service agent Henry O' Neill watched Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, carry boxes of papers out of Foster's office before the Police showed up to seal it. There were indications the body had been moved, and a Secret Service memo surfaced which reported that Foster's body had been found in his car! Jon Parnell Walker: An investigator for the RTC who was looking into the linkage between the Whitewater and Madison S&L bankruptcy. Walker "fell" from the top of the Lincoln Towers Building. Stanley Heard & Steven Dickson: They were members of the Clinton health care advisory committee. They died in a plane crash on September 10, 1993. Jerry Luther Parks: Parks was the Chief of Security for Clinton's national campaign headquarters in Little Rock. Gunned down in his car on September 26, 1993 near the intersection of Chenal Parkway and Highway 10 west of Little Rock. Parks was shot through the rear window of his car. The assailant pulled around to the driver's side of Park's car and shot him three more times with a 9mm pistol. His family reported that shortly before his death, they were being followed by unknown persons, and their home had been broken into (despite a top quality alarm system). Parks had been compiling a dossier on Clinton's illicit activities. The dossier was stolen. Ed Willey: A Clinton fundraiser. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on November 30, 1993. His death came the same day his wife, Kathleen, was sexually assaulted in the White House by Bill Clinton. Gandy Baugh: Baugh was Lasater's attorney and committed suicide on January 8, 1994. Baugh's partner committed suicide exactly one month later on February 8, 1994. Herschell Friday: A member of the presidential campaign finance committee. He died in an airplane explosion on March 1, 1994. Ronald Rogers: Rogers died on March 3, 1994 just prior to releasing sensitive information to a London newspaper. Cause of death? Undetermined. Kathy Furguson: A 38 year old hospital worker whose ex-husband is a co- defendant in the Paula Jones sexual harassment law suit. She had information supporting Paula Jones' allegations. She died of an apparent suicide on May 11, 1994 from a gunshot wound to the head Bill Shelton: Shelton was an Arkansas police officer and was found dead as an apparent suicide on kathy Ferguson's grave (Kathy was his girl friend), on June 12, 1994. This "suicide" was the result of a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Stanley Huggins: Huggins, 46, was a principal in a Memphis law firm which headed a 1987 investigation into the loan practices of Madison Guaranty S&L. Stanley died in Delaware in July 1994 -- reported cause of death was viral pneumonia. Paul Olson: A Federal witness in investigations to drug money corruption in Chicago politics, Paul had just finished 2 days of FBI interviews when his plane ride home crashed, killing Paul and 130 others on Sept 8 1994. The Sept. 15, 1994 Tempe Tribune newspaper reported that the FBI suspected that a bomb had brought down the airplane. Calvin Walraven: 24 year on Walraven was a key witness against Jocelyn Elder's son's drug case. Walraven was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Tim Hover, a Little Rock police spokesman says no foul play is suspected. Alan G. Whicher: Oversaw Clinton's Secret Service detail. In October 1994 Whicher was transferred to the Secret Service field office in the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Whatever warning was given to the BATF agents in that building did not reach Alan Whicher, who died in the bomb blast of April 19th 1995. Duane Garrett: Died July 26, 1995-A lawyer and a talk show host for KGO-AM in San Fransisco, Duane was the campaign finance chairman for Diane Fienstien's run for the senate, and was a friend and fundraiser for Al Gore. Garrett was under investigation for defrauding investors in Garrett's failed sports memorabilia venture. There was talk of a deal to evade prosecution. On July 26th, Garrett canceled an afternoon meeting with his lawyer because he had to meet some people at the San Fransisco airport. Three hours later he was found floating in the bay under the Golden Gate Bridge. Ron Brown:. The Commerce Secretary died on April 3, 1996, in an Air Force jet carrying Brown and 34 others, including 14 business executives on a trade mission to Croatia, crashed into a mountainside. The Air Force, in a 22 volume report issued in June of 1996, confirmed its initial judgment that the crash resulted from pilot errors and faulty navigation equipment At the time of Brown's death, Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson was seeking to determine whether Brown had engaged in several sham financial transactions with longtime business partner Nolanda Hill shortly before he became secretary of commerce. Charles Meissner: Following Ron Brown's death, John Huang was placed on a Commerce Department contract that allowed him to retain his security clearance by Charles Meissner. Shortly thereafter, Meissner died in the crash of a small plane. He was an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy William Colby: Retired CIA director was found dead on May 6,1996 after his wife reported him missing on April 27,1996. Apparently, Colby decided to go on a impromptu canoeing excursion and never returned. Colby who had just started writing for Strategic Investment newsletter, worried many in the intelligent community. Colby's past history of divulging CIA secrets in the past were well known. Strategic Investor had covered the Vince Foster suicide and had hired handwriting experts to review Foster's suicide note. Admiral Jeremy Boorda: Died on May 16,1996 after he went home for lunch and decided to shoot himself in the chest (by one report, twice) rather than be interviewed by Newsweek magazine that afternoon. Explanations for Boorda's suicide focused on a claim that he was embarrassed over two "Valor" pins he was not authorized to wear. Lance Herndon: Herndon a 41 year old computer specialist and a prominent entrepreneur who received a presidential appointment in 1995 died August 10, 1996 under suspicious circumstances. He appeared to have died from a blow to the head. Police said no weapons were found at his mansion, adding that Mr. Herndon had not been shot or stabbed and there was no evidence of forced entry or theft. Neil Moody: Died -August 25, 1996 Following Vincent Foster's murder, Lisa Foster married James Moody, a judge in Arkansas, on Jan 1, 1996. Near the time Susan McDougal first went to jail for contempt, Judge Moody's son, Neil died in a car crash. There were other reports that Neil Moody had discovered something very unsettling among his stepmother's private papers and was threatening to go public with it just prior to the beginning of the Democratic National Convention. He was alleged to have been talking to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post about a blockbuster story. Witnesses said they saw Neil Moody sitting in his car arguing with another person just prior to His car suddenly speeding off out of control and hitting a brick wall. Barbara Wise: Wise a 14-year Commerce Department employee found dead and partially naked in her office following a long weekend. She worked in the same section as John Huang. Officially, she is said to have died of natural causes. Doug Adams: Died January 7, 1997- A lawyer in Arkansas who got involved trying to help the people who were being swindled out of their life savings. Adams was found in his vehicle with a gunshot wound to his head in a Springfield Mo. hospital parking lot. Mary Caitrin Mahoney: 25, A U.S. Secret Service Agent assigned to checking doors at the White House, opened a door one night and found Hillary Clinton in a compromising sexual position with Ms. Mahoney, a known lesbian since her high school days. Hillary was furious and whacked him in the head with a metal ashtray. Ms. Mahoney was shot to death at a Starbucks Coffee Shop, right in the heart of Washington DC, a short time later. On July 7, 1997 Mahoney was in the Starbucks cafe cleaning up after closing time with co-workers Emory Evans and Aaron Goodrich. Sometime after 9pm, two gunmen got inside and shot all three to death. Mahoney was singled out for the most horrendous fate - as if she'd been the killers' prime target. Of the ten shots fired, she was hit five times at point blank range, including at least once in the face. The final bullet was delivered to the back of her head after she'd already fallen. In one hand, in a death grip, Mahoney clutched the keys to the store's safe, which held the weekend's receipts of more than $10,000. D.C. cops were mystified by the apparent lack of motive in the crime. The safe hadn't been opened. The cash registers were undisturbed. The store hadn't been ransacked. None of the victims' personal belongings had been touched. A high-powered Washington FBI agent, Special Agent Bradley J. Garrett, was brought in on the case. He is known as "The Fixer", because he is called in to find patsy's to take the blame for government murders. He made this out to be a routine robbery murder case, supposedly committed by a small time criminal, one Carl Derek Cooper. After 54 hours of questioning by Garrett and another agent, Cooper signed a confession that he immediately repudiated as soon as he got to court. During his 54 hours of interrogation, Cooper had consistently denied the crime and volunteered several times to take a lie detector test. Most of the testimony against him was by agent Garrett, and based on Garrett's representation of what Cooper had said during the interrogation. The questioning was not recorded or videotaped. Ronald Miller: Suddenly took ill on October 3rd,1997 and steadily worsened until his death 9 days later. (This pattern fits Ricin poisoning.) Owing to the strangeness of the illness, doctors at the Integris Baptist Medical Center referred the matter to the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office. The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office promptly ran tests on samples of Ron Miller's blood, but refused to release the results or even to confirm that the tests were ever completed. Had been investigated by authorities over the sale of his company, Gage Corp. to Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. was the man who tape recorded Gene and Nora Lum and turned those tapes (and other records) over to congressional oversight investigators. The Lums were sentenced to prison for campaign finance violations, using "straw donors" to conceal the size of their contributions to various candidates. Indeed, Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. had hired Ron Brown's son Michael solely for the purpose of funneling $60,000 through him to the Commerce Secretary, according to Nolanda Hill's testimony. Sandy Hume: On Sunday, February 22nd, 1998, Sandy Hume, the 28 year old son of journalist Britt Hume, was reportedly found dead in his Arlington, Virginia home. Aside from the statement that this was an "apparent" suicide, there was a total media blackout on this story, possibly out of concern that the actual facts would not withstand public scrutiny. Worked for Hill magazine, about Congress for Congress. Jim McDougal: Bill and Hillary Clinton friend, banker, and political ally, sent to prison for eighteen felony convictions. A key whitewater witness, dies suspiciously of a heart attack on March, 8 1998. Johnny Lawhon: 29, died March 29, 1998. The Arkansas transmission specialist who discovered a pile of Whitewater documents in the trunk of an abandoned car on his property and turned them over to Starr, was killed in a car wreck two weeks after the McDougal death. Details of the "accident" were sketchy -- even from the local Little Rock newspaper. Charles Wilbourne Miller: 63, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on November 17, 1998 in a shallow pit about 300 yards from his ranch house near Little Rock. Police found a .410 gauge shotgun near Miller's body and a Ruger .357-caliber revolver submerged in water. Investigators concluded the Ruger was the weapon used by Miller to kill himself. Yet, two rounds in the handgun's cylinder had been spent. He had long served as executive vice president and member of the board of directors for a company called Alltel and was deeply involved in his own software engineering company until the day he died. Alltel is the successor to Jackson Stephens' Systematics, the company that provided the software for the White House's "Big Brother" data base system and that was behind the administration's plan to develop the secret computer "Clipper" chip to bug every phone, fax and email transmission in America. Carlos Ghigliotti: 42, was found dead in his home just outside of Washington D.C. on April 28, 2000. There was no sign of a break-in or struggle at the firm of Infrared Technology where the badly decomposed body of Ghigliotti was found. Ghigliotti had not been seen for several weeks. Ghigliotti, a thermal imaging analyst hired by the House Government Reform Committee to review tape of the Waco siege, said he determined the FBI fired shots on April 19, 1993. The FBI had explained the light bursts on infrared footage as reflections of sun rays on shards of glass or other debris that littered the scene. "I conclude this based on the groundview videotapes taken from several different angles simultaneously and based on the overhead thermal tape," Ghigliotti told The Washington Post last October. "The gunfire from the ground is there, without a doubt." Mark Corallo, a spokesman for the congressional committee chaired by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., said that police found the business card of a committee investigator in Ghigliotti's office. Tony Moser: 41, was killed as he crossed a street in Pine Bluff, Ark on on June 10, 2000. Killed 10 days after being named a columnist for the Democrat-Gazette newspaper and two days after penning a stinging indictment of political corruption in Little Rock. Police filed no charges against the unnamed driver of the 1995 Chevrolet pickup, which hit Moser as he was allegedly walking alone in the middle of unlit Rhinehart Road about 10:10 p.m. Barbra Olson: Had just recently finished writing a tell all book about Clinton's last days in office. Barbra Olson's book "The Final Days" is one place to learn the truth about the Clinton's. Read it and you'll learn why Hillary tried so desperately to stop it from being published. Olson was, more than coincidentally(?), on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. |
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "ftrace.h"
#include "trinity.h"
static int trace_fd = -1;
// TODO: if passed a dir, generate filename with datestamp
static const char defaultdumpfilename[] = "/boot/trace.txt";
const char *ftracedumpname = defaultdumpfilename;
static void dump_trace(void)
{
int tracein, traceout;
ssize_t in = -1, out = -1;
char buffer[4096];
const char tracefile[] = "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace";
tracein = open(tracefile, O_RDONLY);
if (tracein == -1) {
if (errno != -EEXIST)
output(0, "Error opening %s : %s\n", tracefile, strerror(errno));
goto fail_tracein;
}
traceout = open(ftracedumpname, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0600);
if (traceout == -1) {
output(0, "Error opening %s : %s\n", ftracedumpname, strerror(errno));
goto fail_traceout;
}
while (in != 0) {
in = read(tracein, buffer, 4096);
if (in > 0) {
out = write(traceout, buffer, in);
if (out == -1) {
output(0, "Error writing trace to %s. %s\n", ftracedumpname, strerror(errno));
goto fail;
}
}
if (in == -1) {
output(0, "something went wrong reading from trace. %s\n", strerror(errno));
goto fail;
}
}
output(0, "Dumped trace to %s\n", ftracedumpname);
fail:
fsync(traceout);
close(traceout);
fail_traceout:
close(tracein);
fail_tracein:
if (ftracedumpname != defaultdumpfilename) {
free((void *)ftracedumpname);
ftracedumpname = NULL;
}
}
void setup_ftrace(void)
{
//todo: check for root
trace_fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on", O_WRONLY);
if (trace_fd == -1) {
if (errno != -EEXIST) {
output(0, "Error opening tracing_on : %s\n", strerror(errno));
return;
}
}
output(0, "Opened ftrace tracing_on as fd %d\n", trace_fd);
output(0, "Ftrace log will be dumped to %s\n", ftracedumpname);
}
void stop_ftrace(void)
{
if (trace_fd != -1) {
if (write(trace_fd, "0", 1) == -1) {
output(0, "Stopping ftrace failed! %s\n", strerror(errno));
return;
}
dump_trace();
return;
}
}
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“So often sleep is seen as a cost, instead of an investment.”
READ ON TO DISCOVER:
Why the CEO of Netflix takes such long vacations
Why organizations need to take care of their employees
Why using money for motivation is a bad idea
Tom Rath is a researcher, filmmaker, and #1 New York Times bestselling author who studies the role of human behavior in business, health, and well-being. He recently released the documentary Fully Charged, which reveals a variety of practical ways to energize work and life. Award-winning podcaster David Burkus recently hosted him on Radio Free Leader to discuss the danger of being motivated by money, and why getting a good night’s sleep is so important for both the battlefield and the boardroom.
David: One of the illuminating health-related insights from the documentary was when the Army Surgeon General talked about how even in the army, they’re recognizing how important sleep is. In a lot of macho cultures, like the military, but also law firms and consulting firms and other high-stress businesses, we tend to think, “Oh, sleep is the first thing we sacrifice.” And yet individuals, leaders, and parents really need to make it a priority. It’s not like, “Oh, that’s so surprising and counterintuitive.” What’s counterintuitive about it is just how much data there is, and yet we still sacrifice sleep for other things.
Tom: That was one of the more influential learnings for me from all of the background research we did around this documentary. When the book Eat Move Sleep first launched a couple of years ago, we had some notes from the Army Surgeon General, Patricia Horoho, who’s a three-star general and in charge of the health of more than five million troops around the globe.
She’d been trying to build a program around getting soldiers to eat and move and sleep better. Her biggest issue inside the Armed Forces was getting people to take sleep seriously, to your point. That’s the same culture that you see, like you talked about, in banks or health care. I saw it growing up in the midwest, where the last thing I’d ever do is admit I needed a full seven or eight hours of sleep, because that’s seen as a weakness. It’s a lot more valued in that culture to say, “I only had four hours sleep last night, and I still did X, Y, and Z.”
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[General Soroho] realized through the research that if you need to be your best, and you need to be sharp at 4 o’clock in the afternoon as a leader, as a soldier, or in any other occupation, you need to get a full seven or eight hours of sleep to be effective. Boy was that powerful when I heard General Horoho say, “We’ve got to view each hour of sleep as the ammunition our brains need on the battlefield, whether that’s at work, or on a real battlefield.” As leaders, we’ve got to start talking about that and prioritizing it.
“We’ve got to view each hour of sleep as the ammunition our brains need.”
Earlier today I was watching an interview with the CEO and Founder of Netflix, and he talked about how he takes six weeks of vacation so he can recharge. He talks about that openly with his people, so they do the same.
David: I love that analogy of ammunition for the brain. So often sleep is seen as a cost, instead of an investment, instead of ammunition. Ever since Eat Move Sleep, I have begun to not be ashamed about the fact that bedtime for my older boy is 8 o’clock, and my wife and I are probably in bed by 8:30. Because we know we’re going to wake up early, and have a way better day if we just sleep while they sleep.
Tom: I found the exact same thing in my own life. As you start to view it as an investment in having a good day tomorrow, it helps you to make different decisions throughout the day. It’s a part of the broader conversation we’ve all got to have so that our work can be sustainable over time, and not something that’s a burden or that burns us out after a few years.
David: There was another interview [in the documentary] around this idea that there’s a difference between a job and a calling, and it’s important to know which one you have. I think there’s a leadership implication there too.
Tom: That’s probably the piece of research that I’m most excited about. Amy Wrzesniewski and Barry Schwartz studied West Point cadets and followed them longitudinally over a span of 13 years. They were looking at, when these cadets come in, do they have more intrinsic motivators, do they have extrinsic motivators, in terms of wanting to be seen as successful and to make more money, or do they have both? I would’ve suspected that having both motivators is probably [the best] thing.
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When they followed up with these troops after 13 years, they found that having both motivators can work against you. If you have that real internal motivation, and you have the external piece pulling you forward as well, those cadets were less likely to achieve some of the right outcomes and to feel like they had that sense of satisfaction later on. We need to be very careful about how we let these external motivators, incentives and money in particular, drive what we do. Most leaders spend far too much time on the monetary incentives, assuming that that’s what’s driving people.
“We need to be very careful about how we let these external motivators, incentives and money in particular, drive what we do.”
David: Exactly. It was the pairing that really struck me. My first job out of college, I worked as a pharmaceutical rep, and my wife was a doctor. It seemed like the perfect thing to do, [but] that’s a really weird industry, because the rhetoric at sales meetings is this weird combination. You’d [start with] somebody talking about how your drug changed lives, and how you could derive meaning from the products that you were a part of. Then we’d switch to rewarding the top-compensated salesperson, and talking about these grand sales conferences where people were winning trips to Hawaii. It was just this weird contrast between talking about the altruistic effect, and then talking about the money. It seemed like they sort of canceled each other out, and we all left kind of confused.
Tom: That’s a great illustration of how those things muddle not only the messaging from a leadership standpoint, but also what’s going on inside each of our heads when we think about what’s motivating us. Of course there are some cases where incentives are helpful for very basic tasks, but when you get into more complex jobs, you’ve got to be careful about sending a consistent and cohesive message about the importance of the work that each of us does on a daily basis.
David: What do you believe that most people don’t?
Tom: I believe that people should leave work at the end of the day with better well-being than when they showed up in the morning. And I believe it’s an organization and a leader’s responsibility to ensure that’s happening.
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David: I love that answer. Because the traditional thinking around even well-intentioned organizations is, “Let people get refreshed, recharged, and healthy outside of work, so that when they’re here, we can drain them and not over-drain them.” But the idea that when they leave work they’re actually better than when they got there is hugely impactful.
This conversation has been edited and condensed. |
[The COMBELL project. Analysis of the medical clinical competence].
The most frequent tests for evaluate medical education in Spain, do not analyze clinical competence. The aims of this project was to introduce a method for the assessment of clinical skills using the simulation methodology with standardized patients. All 83 first-year medical residents were evaluated. Three evaluation exercises were used in all study. The first was 10 standardized patients encounters, the second was 100 multiple choice questions, and the third 60 clinical images. Sixty-four last year medical students were evaluated using the same 10 standardized patients. The global mean score for the residents was 56.7% for all the encounters, and was lower in physical examination and patients notes. The global mean score for the students was 57.1% and was also lower in physical examination. We did not find correlations between clinical competence assessment, multiple choice-questions, MIR exam and clinical images. Our results show that: this assessment method was successful; the clinical competence levels of our residents and students, and the lack of statistical correlation between this method and other methods, which, basically analyze cognitive capacities. |
Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma: a case report and literature review.
Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (SSEH) is a rare cause of spinal cord compression that requires emergency investigation and treatment. Prompt diagnosis is essential to prevent morbidity and mortality. Our goal was to report a case of SSEH, and to review the literature on the topic, looking particularly at the factors influencing post-operative outcome, and the symptoms and signs that would lead one to consider this rare diagnosis. A 36-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department with paraplegia and a sensory level at T4. There was no history of trauma and he was not taking any medications. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large non-enhancing posterior epidural mass lesion between C7 and upper T4, causing severe cord compression at T1-T3. Post contrast scans revealed no rim enhancement. Blood investigations were unremarkable, with an international normalized ratio of 1.1. He underwent urgent decompression laminectomy within 12 h of symptom onset. Intraoperatively, thick clotted blood and prominent epidural vessels were seen. Histology revealed engorged vessels with hemorrhage and clot in the extravascular tissues. Post-operatively, the impaired neurological status remained unchanged. SSEH is a rare cause of spinal cord compression that requires prompt diagnosis and surgical intervention to prevent morbidity. Neurological outcome after surgical decompression depends on the severity of preoperative neurological deficits as well as the time between symptom onset and surgery. |
Nonunion airport workers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport said they would strike on Nov. 29 as part of an effort to win the right to organize and to raise wages to $15 per hour, according to the Service Employees International Union.
The SEIU, which wants to organize more airplane cabin cleaners, airport janitors, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants who work for vendors to the airlines, said the strike will expand to demonstrations and protests—but no job actions—the same day at 18 other large U.S. airports... |
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Bathrooms with no natural light
When it concerns interior lighting, shower rooms are most likely offered the least factor to consider of all the areas in our home. The ordinary client I meet doesn’t believe to spend there– save it for the living-room or cooking area, they say. I see a bunch of bathrooms with inadequate lighting at the mirror. Typically there’s merely a solitary ceiling fixture that’s intended to do everything.
Yet as the washroom progressively comes to be an area to unwind as well as reenergize, complete with vapor shower and also health facility tub, the illumination requires added idea. And also when it’s done right, the payoff is fantastic. Nevertheless, this is the room where you begin and also end your day.
A good lights strategy is a series of layers– putting sufficient light where it is required for showers, cutting, or placing on make-up, for instance, while other lights enhance the total state of mind of the room.
Considering that these components work the hardest to light up the head as well as face for cleaning, Vanity lights acquires leading factor to consider. One of the most common mistake people make is placing recessed ceiling installations directly over the mirror. These cast shadows on the face, making day-to-day cleaning habits more difficult.
Vertical fixtures or sconces installed on either side of the mirror are most effectively for casting an also light throughout the face.
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But provided the size and positioning of some vanity mirrors, sidelights can be not practical (placing them straight to the mirror is consistently a choice, however at better preparation and expense). Simply then do I suggest a component for over the mirror. It should be positioned 75 to 80 inches above the floor and also, like all vanity lighting, have at least 150 watts– ideally topped a component that goes to least 24 inches long to make sure that the light will certainly clean uniformly over the hair and face.
The shower is a secondary area of job lights. In smaller sized washrooms, if the stall has a clear glass door, a committed installation might not be needed. Otherwise, I recommend a recessed light with a glass lens (plastic will certainly yellow). Comparable recessed components function more than a freestanding bathtub or the commode.
When it comes to indoor lights, restrooms are most likely offered the least factor to consider of all the spaces in the residence. I see a lot of bathtubs with insufficient lights at the mirror. Vanity lights gets leading consideration due to the fact that these components function the hardest to brighten the head as well as face for cleaning. It ought to be placed 75 to 80 inches over the flooring and also, like all vanity lighting, contain at the very least 150 watts– preferably spread over a fixture that’s at least 24 inches long so that the light will clean equally over the hair as well as face.
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Pumpkin Seeds: Benefits, Nutrition and Diet Tips
Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin seeds also known as pepitas are edible seeds of the pumpkin. These seeds are flat and symmetrically oval. They are encased in a white-colored outer husk and their inner seed is green in color. They are subtly sweet and have a nutty flavor. They are native to America Pumpkin seeds are loaded with numerous micro nutrients, they are rich in a healthy fat like oleic acid and linoleic acid.
Pumpkin seeds are widely used in Mexican cuisine, they are usually roasted and used as a snack. They are packed with energy and nutrition. They are the only seeds which are alkaline nature.
Following are the few Health Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds
• Anthelmintic Effect
Pumpkin seeds are widely used as a natural remedy for parasites in many cultures. Few Native American tribes use pumpkin seeds to get rid of tapeworms in the stomach.
• Rich in Magnesium
Magnesium – have a role in 300 – 500 functions in the human body, it is needed in trace amount but participate in many functions.
• Rich in Antioxidants
Pumpkin seeds are rich in diverse antioxidants, like- contain vitamin E, alpha-tocopherol, delta-tocopherol, alpha to comonoenol, and gamma-tocomonoenol, hydroxybenzoic, etc. hence pumpkin seeds helps in protecting our body from free radicals which are naturally generated in the body by stress, sun exposure and as part of the normal aging process.
Pumpkin seeds also help to heal of cancer like prostate cancer and bladder and colon and breast cancer.
• Anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial
Pumpkin seeds are one of the most recommended natural anti-inflammatory foods. Pumpkin seed oil is also recommended for its natural antimicrobial properties. The unique proteins in pumpkin play a major contribution in antimicrobial action of pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds are a natural source of protein which is almost 25 – 50 % of the total weight of the seeds.
• Maintains Blood pressure
Pumpkin seeds help in lowering blood pressure, they play a vital role in relaxing the blood vessels. High magnesium in pumpkin seeds is effective in reducing the risk of a heart attack. Omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids present in pumpkin seeds help in lowering cholesterol in the blood. They also decrease the risk of thrombosis and arrhythmia’s. Likewise, pumpkin seeds are also beneficial in reducing atherosclerosis.
Maintains Blood pressure
• Heart health
Studies have depicted that pumpkin seeds may help in reducing cholesterol. A substantial amount of research has been conducted which endorse the hypolipidaemic effect of pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds help in a significant decrease in lipid parameters.
• Healthy Bones
Pumpkin seeds a good source of minerals like calcium and magnesium, which plays a vital role in decreasing osteoporosis. Pumpkin seeds contain a considerable amount of zinc, which is important for bone health.
• Maintains blood Sugar Level
While Diabetes patients are advised not to consume pumpkin because of high carbohydrate content, the seeds are not barred from consumption.
• Male Infertility
Pumpkin seeds are rich in zinc, which is an essential mineral it helps in enhancing the Sperm quality of man. It helps in increasing the sperm counts and enhances the motility of sperm. Zinc is also vital for prostate gland function. It also helps in the growth of reproductive organs during development. Likewise, zinc is a vital fertility nutrient, it helps in improving the sexual health status of both male and female.
• Enhances sleep quality
Sleep is an important ingredient in health. Zinc is required for the production of tryptophan, it is an important amino acid which promotes sleep. It is converted into serotonin which converts into melatonin. Melatonin plays an important role in the regulation of sleep and human circadian rhythms. It is a sleep facilitator in human thus helps in the treatment of insomnia.
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Pumpkin seeds are also beneficial in decreasing the symptoms associated with Leg cramps, calf pains, and migraines. It is always better to eat soaked pumpkin seeds, about 1 to 2 tablespoon is sufficient for a day.
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Pumpkin Seeds: Benefits, Nutrition and Diet Tips
Pumpkin Seeds: Benefits, Nutrition and Diet Tips
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Volunteer Stories
Can you imagine what Revelstoke would be like if no one volunteered? Just think about it for a moment. Think about a community without all the volunteer-based clubs, teams, groups, organizations, non-profits, events, committees, and … the list goes on. One hesitates to even go there. Fortunately for all of us, Revelstoke (and area) has a history of volunteerism that is still going strong. In both 2007 and 2012 Community Surveys, 77% of respondents said they were members of “a group, club or organization in Revelstoke such as recreation/sports, artistic/craft/hobby, business/work-related, educational, community service, spiritual or cultural groups”. The Community Survey also asked “Do you volunteer?” In 2007, about 64% said yes, compared to 65% in 2012. After much research, we determined that this translates into about 145 community organizations and (by our best estimate) an astounding 4000 volunteers.
The personal benefits of volunteerism are numerous. It is a way to meet new people, network and gain connections, boost your resume, learn new skills, gain confidence and a sense of achievement. In fact, there’s even research that shows that people who volunteer are generally healthier, leading to the adage ‘feel good by doing good’. Often volunteering can be a bridge to employment. For new residents, it’s a great way to establish yourself in the community.
Inevitably, we think about the bigger picture. When we think about volunteers and all the work they do, things like the ‘hidden economy’ or the community benefits of strong social networks and diverse opportunities come to mind. But what it really boils down to is that volunteerism is the life-blood of a community. It can start with a group of friends with a common interest or a handful of parents and their kids. Then more people are recruited and the need for some sort of structure arises. Perhaps the club is given a name or a non-profit is formed. An idea or passion grows and becomes a reality.
Volunteering and the community benefits can take many forms. Remember the Emergency Services Food Drive last fall where a group of volunteers came together and was able to generate 4.5 tonnes of food and over $6000 in donations? Do you realize that about 75 volunteers sit on City Committees, providing input and guidance on a regular basis to the City of Revelstoke on everything from heritage to economic development?
Further, have you ever thought about those who go above and beyond the call of duty at work? There is a fine line that blurs and ‘work’ becomes ‘volunteer’ because people love what they do, or they see a need and step in to fill it. Teachers are an excellent example. All the ‘little extras’ at school represent volunteerism – sports teams, including coaching, driving, coordinating tournaments; school trips, chaperoning dances, grad preparations, student council, science fairs, one on one tutoring before or after school and at lunch, after school band practices, math or literacy nights, and all clubs (chess, running, writing, etc). Yes, it’s all teachers (as well as some support staff) volunteering their time. Not to mention parents!
Community Futures has developed a couple of tools to help promote volunteerism in Revelstoke. At the Community Centre, there is a bulletin board where you can either post your need for volunteers or check out volunteer opportunities.
Check out the volunteer postings on our website and post a volunteer opportunity.
As well, Community Futures is once again accepting nominations for THE SPIRIT OF REVELSTOKE AWARD. Do you know someone who has made an outstanding volunteer contribution to our community? Eligible volunteers can be any age and their volunteer contribution must be significant (see related ad). I’m sure we can all think of someone who fits the bill. Awards will be given out at the Volunteer Fair this fall.
To me, volunteering means people supporting people – each a vital thread in the fabric of our community – on principle, donating time and energy for the benefit of the community as a whole rather than for any financial reward. Kind of warm and fuzzy, isn’t it? Happy National Volunteer Week Revelstoke! |
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
inhibit_all_warnings!
xcodeproj 'Dropper'
use_frameworks!
target 'Dropper_Example' do
pod "Dropper", :path => "../"
end
target 'Dropper_Tests' do
pod "Dropper", :path => "../"
end
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:32:44 +0200, Patrick Dengler <patd@microsoft.com>
wrote:
...
> The following test cases include SMIL, which either is not integral to
> the tests, or should be renamed/categorized as animate-
> paths-dom-02-f.svg
That test is not using smil, and is not complete/reviewed yet.
What's your suggested new naming scheme for the tests that depend on
declarative animation?
Here's my proposal:
pservers-grad-19-b.svg -> animate-pservers-grad-01-b.svg
The criteria being that any test where declarative animation is a required
part prefix the old name with 'animate-' and restart the numbering from 1.
The test that are up for renaming are listed below. There are a few more
in the filters section, a rough estimate of the total number of approved
tests that are likely to be affected: 10-20.
> struct-dom-08-f.svg
Animation isn't integral to this test. Would trying to use
window.setTimeout (if it exists) be ok? And if setTimeout is not found
fallback to using an animate element. This is one of the tests for SVG
1.1F2 spec changes.
> interact-events-203-t.svg
> interact-pevents-07-t.svg
For these tests I would like to see an equivalent test using script.
> interact-pevents-02-t.svg
No objections to renaming. There's an equivalent script-based test
already: interact-pevents-01-b.svg.
> interact-pevents-201-t.svg
No objections to renaming. There's an equivalent script-based test
already: interact-pevents-08-f.svg
> interact-pevents-202-t.svg
No objections to renaming. There's an equivalent script-based test
already: interact-pevents-09-f.svg
> script-elem-01-b.svg
> struct-dom-09-b.svg
> pservers-grad-19-b.svg
No objections to renaming.
Cheers
/Erik
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Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software
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Q:
Bootstrap Select with callback function
I have 2 Bootstrap Select dropdowns, one is a list of countries, and another is a list of states. The country list is static and is populated on page load. The list of states is only populated via the Bootstrap Change event and loads states based upon the country.
I need to be able to populate both these values at the same time. So the problem is I'm trying to set the state value when its undefined ,or hasn't loaded its options yet. I've tried doing a callback function within the ajax call, but that doesn't appear to work. I think another problem is that there is the initial change binding that is goofing it up.
I've written a fiddle for my foundation on where I'm experiencing the problem.
https://jsfiddle.net/jeffbeagley/DTcHh/37843/
The user is presented with a blank form that allows them to select the values, but the user can also load a saved form from the database ( hence the function labled as "select_data" ).
$(document).ready(function() {
$( "#country" ).on( 'changed.bs.select', function(e) {
change_country($( this ).val());
});
$( "#load" ).click(function() {
select_data();
});
});
This function is called anytime the user selects a country, the actual ajax call goes out to the database and returns all the appropriate states. I tried passing the state into this function and selecting it that way, but setting the country first would still fire the country change event and override it.
function change_country(country_id) {
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
cache: false,
url: '/echo/jsonp/',
success: function(response) {
$( "#state" ).empty();
if(country_id == 1) {
$( "#state" ).append( "<option value=1>Oklahoma</option" );
$( "#state" ).append( "<option value=2>Missouri</option" );
} else {
$( "#state" ).append( "<option value=1>Ontario</option" );
$( "#state" ).append( "<option value=2>Quebec</option" );
}
$( "#state" ).selectpicker( "refresh" );
}
});
}
This is the function that grabs the saved form from the database and populates the values. With the way that its set, the expected outcome would be to select the country Canada, and the state Quebec
function select_data() {
var country_id = 2
var state_id = 2
$( "#country" ).selectpicker('val', country_id);
$( "#state" ).selectpicker('val', state_id);
}
Thanks for any help!
A:
Might've figured it out.. sometimes you just need to strip out your code and simplify it to find an answer..
I replaced the code to populate the states outside of the event being called from the country being changed. Then I declared a callback function within this new function on success. I then moved the logic to select the country into the populate_state function ( this may not be appropriate )
You can see the updated fiddle here,
https://jsfiddle.net/jeffbeagley/DTcHh/37849/
So now the function select_data is as follows
function select_data() {
var country_id = 2
var state_id = 2
populate_states(country_id, function() {
$( "#state" ).selectpicker('val', state_id);
});
}
Edit ----
So with this, I ran into a call stack issue as it was still applying the original change event. So when the function select_data() is called, I unbind any events attached to the country selector, and rebind within the callback.
function select_data() {
var country_id = 2
var state_id = 2
$( "#country" ).off( 'changed.bs.select');
$( "#country" ).selectpicker('val', country_id);
populate_states(country_id, function() {
$( "#state" ).selectpicker('val', state_id);
$( "#country" ).on( 'changed.bs.select', function(e) {
change_country(e,$( this ).val());
});
});
}
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This invention relates to a method of operating a ticketing system. In particular but not exclusively the invention relates to a method of operating a ticketing system for a transport service.
Ticketing and check-in procedures of public transport providers are on the whole, implemented with paper documentation. Using the example of an airline journey, a passenger either through a travel agent or the airline books and pays for a journey and is issued with a paper ticket and/or boarding pass as proof of carriage. The ticket/boarding pass contains information identifying the passenger and the journey. The information on the ticket/boarding pass is verified at the airport by an airline employee before the passenger is allowed to board the flight. Commonly, an airline employee using a computer, which is connected to a database on which the passenger's reservation details are stored, manually verifies the information on the ticket/boarding pass. There are several problems with this process. For instance, manual verification can be slow and hence inconvenient to the passenger. Furthermore, the process relies on pre-printed paper tickets, which are tedious to deal with, and prone to being lost.
Some effort has been made to automate the check-in procedure at airports. For instance, some airlines now issue tickets or boarding passes, which have ticket information, stored on a magnetic swipe strip. This information is verified at the airport pre-boarding by swiping the card through a swipe reader, which automatically reads the information on the strip. Whereas, the use of swipe strips and swipe readers does speed up the check-in process it is not without its disadvantages. In particular, swipe card readers and also the printers needed to print the ticket/boarding pass with the necessary swipe stripe are expensive to install and cumbersome to use. |
Q:
static_cast between primitive references
Is using static_cast to convert from const unsigned char& to const unsigned long long& defined?
constexpr unsigned char arr[sizeof(unsigned long long)]{ 1 };
constexpr bool value = static_cast<const unsigned long long&>(arr[0]) == 1;
Throw in int main(){} and this compiles without error or warning on Coliru, Ideone, and VS2015. Is this actually safe, or is it unsafe but not required to give an error?
BONUS: I didn't expect that arr[0] would be a constant expression, but using value as a constant expression works without error. Is it because arr is an array?
A:
I think this is covered by [expr.static.cast]/4 in C++14:
An expression e can be explicitly converted to a type T using a static_cast of the form static_cast<T>(e) if the declaration T t(e); is well-formed, for some invented temporary variable t. The effect of such an
explicit conversion is the same as performing the declaration and initialization and then using the temporary variable as the result of the conversion.
This defines your code as being equivalent to:
constexpr unsigned char arr[sizeof(unsigned long long)]{ 1 };
const unsigned long long &t (arr[0]);
constexpr bool value = (t == 1);
The second line is familiar now: initialization of a const reference from a value of different (non-reference-related) type is permitted under [dcl.init.ref]/5:
If T1 is a non-class type, a temporary of type cv1 T1 is created and copy-initialized from the initializer expression. The reference is then bound to the temporary.
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Persistent motile sperm after ligation band vasectomy.
We evaluated the efficacy and mechanism of failure in a small case series of VasClip vasectomies. Between September 2003 and March 2004, 8 patients underwent elective vasectomy using the VasClip ligation band. Microscopic semen analysis was done a minimum of 4 weeks postoperatively and after at least 15 ejaculations. The number of sperm and motility were quantified in 15 or more high power fields. Successful vasectomy was defined as 2 consecutive postoperative unspun semen analyses containing no sperm. Patients with failed vasectomy underwent bilateral surgical removal of the vas deferens segments containing the ligation band for gross and histological analysis. Six of 8 patients (75%) were deemed azoospermic after 2 semen analyses at a mean followup of 7 and 11 weeks postoperatively, respectively. Two of 8 patients (25%) had semen analyses containing multiple motile sperm after vasectomy. In the 2 failed cases 1 side was patent, as demonstrated by vasal cannulation and irrigation with dilute methylene blue despite a well positioned, intact and secure ligation band. Histological analysis showed extravasation and sperm granuloma on the patent side. The VasClip was found to fail at an unexpectedly high rate. Pathological analysis suggests sperm extravasation and fistula tract formation as the mechanism. One failure resulted in an unwanted pregnancy, which demonstrates the need for patient counseling regarding postoperative followup. |
Q:
Standard name for method to check and set a variable
I am aware that the 'standard' name for methods to check and to change the value of a boolean variable X are getX(), isX() and setX().
Is there a standard name for a method which returns the value and changes it after returning it but only the first time (i.e. I cannot use toggleX() because it will only toggle the first time)? I want to have a method which returns true only the first time it is called, so something like:
public boolean isFirstExecution() {
if (mIsFirstExecution) {
mIsFirstExecution = false;
return true;
} else {
return mIsFirstExecution;
}
}
The problem is that I think it might be confusing to have a method called isX() changing the value of a variable.
A:
I do not think there's specific name for the function that you are intend to make.
Just specify the purpose of function when you name it. Not too long but specific enough so that others also can recognize when they see your code.
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Rio Olympics 2016: 5 high profile Indian names missing
Some of the big names from previous Olympics won't be going to Rio this summer.
Parupalli Kashyap won’t be in action at the Olympics, this time around
The Indian Olympic Association will be sending its biggest contingent ever for the Rio Olympics 2016. Around 100 athletes, 13 more than the previous record of 87 athletes in the 2012 Olympics will be participating in various events on the grandest stage of them all to give their best in their game and hope for a podium finish, and their main aim would be to put up a good show and make the country proud by winning medals in their respective sport.
While some athletes like Dutee Chand would be participating in the Olympics for the first time in events like 100m sprint, an event in which no Indian has qualified for the finals before, there would be quite a few high profile athletes from London Olympics 2012 who will be missed in the Rio Olympics 2016. Let us now take a look at 5 such athletes who represented India in the previous edition of the Olympics, but failed to qualify this time-
#5 Parupalli Kashyap, Badminton
Parupalli Kashyap created history in London 2012 by reaching the quarter-finals of the men’s singles badminton competition, a feat not achieved by any Indian male badminton player so far in Olympics. He also made the country proud by clinching the gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He had won the bronze medal in the previous edition of the Commonwealth Games.
However, his dreams of participating in the Rio Olympics came crashing down as he suffered a medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury. A top 16 finish in May would have ensured his qualification for the Olympics second time in a row, but he couldn’t recover in time to improve his world ranking of 17. He will be missed in Rio, as he was one of the frontrunners for a medal at the Olympics for India. |
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"A third of American adults say that they are trying to eliminate [gluten] from their diets," reports The New Yorker, in a long feature about our culture's weirdening relationship with this common protein composite. This is insane. Americans are insane.
Gluten, for the unaware, is found in grass-related grains like wheat, barley, and rye. When you knead dough made from a flour of one of those grains (usually wheat), gluten strands form and lengthen and link together, giving the dough elasticity; the more you knead, the stretchier the dough becomes. The development of long, stretchy, interwoven gluten is what enables, for example, pasta dough to be rolled flat and extremely thin without tearing. It's what gives bread and pizza crust their wonderful chewiness. This property of gluten makes it one of the cornerstones of cooking, pretty much all around the world.
Gluten also happens to be a staple nutrient of humankind; in all the thousands upon thousands of years since the advent of agriculture, it has been one of the primary protein sources in the human diet. It's cheap and abundant—and, crucially, it's completely harmless to the 99 percent of human beings who do not suffer from a congenital autoimmune disorder called celiac disease.
As you probably can deduce, that one-percent figure (celiac disease sufferers) doesn't quite match up with the 33-percent figure (Americans who say they're trying to eliminate gluten from their diets). This is the bizarre phenomenon Michael Specter interrogates in the New Yorker piece; what he finds is a soup of pseudoscience, conjecture, diet-fad stupidity, and the regular kind of stupidity.
"Gluten sensitivity"—a bullshit pseudoscientific term driving much of the gluten-free nonsense in our culture today—is largely self-(mis)diagnosed, by people who (conveniently) mistake the shitty feelings and physiological unwellness caused by a more broadly unhealthful lifestyle for a medical condition caused by wheat gluten. Most of the remaining "gluten sensitivity" diagnoses are made by unqualified quacks, as described in the piece by Peter H. R. Green, of Columbia University's celiac-disease center:
"I recently saw a retired executive of an international company. He got a life coach to help him, and one of the pieces of advice the coach gave him was to get on a gluten-free diet. A life coach is prescribing a gluten-free diet. So do podiatrists, chiropractors, even psychiatrists.'' He stopped, stood up, shook his head as if he were about to say something he shouldn't, then shrugged and sat down again. "A friend of mine told me his wife was seeing a psychiatrist for anxiety and depression. And one of the first things the psychiatrist did was to put her on a gluten-free diet. This is getting out of hand. We are seeing more and more cases of orthorexia nervosa"—people who progressively withdraw different foods in what they perceive as an attempt to improve their health. "First, they come off gluten. Then corn. Then soy. Then tomatoes. Then milk. After a while, they don't have anything left to eat—and they proselytize about it. Worse is what parents are doing to their children. It's cruel and unusual treatment to put a child on a gluten-free diet without its being indicated medically. Parental perception of a child's feeling better on a gluten-free diet is even weaker than self-perception."
When they're not just flat-out imaginary, the health benefits non-celiac "gluten sensitives" may get from switching to a gluten-free diet likely are incidental to the diet's lack of gluten: after all, a gluten-free diet often will contain fewer calories, fewer refined carbohydrates, and less alcohol (since beer contains gluten) than a normal one. Cutting back on refined carbohydrates, booze, and calories is smart; subsequently attributing your improved health to the elimination of wheat gluten from your diet is dumb. If adopting a no-throwing-yourself-off-of-tall-precipices lifestyle improves your health, it's because colliding with the earth at a high velocity is bad for you—not because you have a congenital sensitivity to wind.
(Not for nothing, given the considerable overlap between the gluten-free crowd and the anti-vax crowd, but: "Gluten sensitivity is the reason I felt better after I eliminated refined carbohydrates, beer, and excess calories from my diet" forms kind of a neat logical harmony to "I withheld preventative medicine from my child and he didn't develop autism, therefore it was the right choice." We Americans are not the smartest.)
Furthermore, gluten-free versions of popular foods often are worse for you—and more demonstrably worse—than the gluten-rich foods they imitate, since they replace gluten-rich wheat flour with ever more highly refined carbohydrates (potato starch, rice starch, tapioca starch, etc.) that throw your blood-sugar all out of whack. This dynamic is similar to what happened to yogurt during the dumb reactionary anti-fat craze of the '80s and '90s: Manufacturers removed fat from yogurt and replaced it with sugar and weirdo space chemicals, resulting in nominally health-minded products that, in actual fact, weren't so different from lancing your pancreas with a harpoon.
"Gluten-free" has become a kind of health-mindfulness merit badge, an artifact of our Puritanical conflation of self-deprivation and virtue—like how "anti-vax" is used to indicate a variety of take-no-prisoners parental vigilance, or "natural birth" is used to indicate empowered, anti-establishment toughness, or "gamer" is used to indicate virginity and loneliness. It is identity politics in the bread aisle—with a class-distinction edge, since gluten-free shit costs much more than the regular stuff and generally can only be found in the more exclusive parts of town. "Gluten-free" is a signifier—I have the time and money and grim determination to purchase my wellness—and, concomitantly, Therefore, I deserve it.
This is why attempts at educating the public about the harmlessness of gluten (for all but those with real-deal celiac disease) so far haven't done much to slow the spread of anti-gluten stupidity: Whether or not the physiological benefits of a gluten-free diet are imaginary or incidental, the optical benefits, for now anyway, are real.
In conclusion: Unless an actual doctor has diagnosed you with celiac disease, gluten almost certainly is doing you no harm whatsoever. If you should happen to be encountering it in foods that make you feel bad, that's probably because those foods have lots of other bad shit in them, like refined carbohydrates and space chemicals and nacho cheese. If you remove those foods from your diet, your health will improve; whether you continue eating gluten likely will not make a difference.
If you want to free your diet of something harmful, free it of stupidity.
[New Yorker]
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Carol Hampsey
Carol Hampsey started curling “too many years ago to remember,” she says – but when pressed, suggests it was probably in 1965 or 1966, at the Berwick Curling Club.
She began her competitive curling career throwing first stones for a team skipped by Betty Adams. “In later years,” she says, “I usually played the mate position, as I didn't really like skipping.” This, she points out, “was left to Elaine Prall or whoever else would have me on their team.”
While the Berwick teams Hampsey was a part of did well in Western Counties and provincial playdowns, many of the Berwick senior curlers didn't have the time she had to devote to the sport. When she got a call from Yvonne Martin of Coldbrook asking her to compete in the Nova Scotia senior championships, Hampsey agreed – and the rest, as they say, is history.
In 2002, Martin, Hampsey, Donna MacKinnon and Allison Weagle teamed up to win the Nova Scotia seniors, and competed at the Canadian championships in St. Thomas, ON. Team Martin, she recalls, “made a fair showing” at nationals – “big stuff for a little old curler from Berwick, NS” – but the truth was, she and Martin were just getting started. Hampsey continued to curl with Martin in competition, while also curling recreationally out of Berwick.
In 2003, Martin, Hampsey, Sandy Walker and Allison Weagle teamed up to win another provincial senior title, and again competed at nationals, this time in Lethbridge, AB. That same year, Martin also entered a team in the provincial Masters (60-and-over) competition, and with Carol Romkey, Hampsey and Donna MacKinnon, captured that championship as well - for Martin and Hampsey, two titles in the same year!
Advancing to nationals in Assiniboine, SK, Hampsey unfortunately fell on the ice during a game and broke her wrist, forcing her to miss the remainder of the competition.
In 2004, Martin, Hampsey, Gwen Merriam and Barb Marsland entered the provincial senior playdowns and won again - Hampsey's third straight provincial senior title. The 2004 nationals were in Kelowna, BC, “and though we didn't win, it was a great privilege to meet curlers from across Canada competing at all these championships.” Martin remembers Hampsey as the ultimate teammate. “She mated for me at many provincial tournaments and at four national championships,” she says. “She was always a 'skip's delight' to have on your team.”
Many curlers, she points out, “tend to blame the broom being in the wrong place when they miss, but Carol was the exception. “As soon as she released her rock, she would yell 'inside' or 'outside' to let the sweepers know whether to sweep or not, even if she was only off by an inch. This is a quality very seldom found in most curlers, and I appreciated it very much.
“She also had a deadly takeout, and got us out of plenty of touchy situations.” Hampsey, Martin points out, “was always the same, no matter where we travelled in this wonderful country. Her demeanour never changed, even when she broke her wrist and needed surgery two and a half hours away from where we were curling.”
Today, Hampsey continues to curl recreationally, but not competitively. As she points out, “we all get old far too quickly.”
The Berwick Sports Hall of Fame is pleased to induct, in the Athlete category, Carol Hampsey. |
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Emerge Virginia Seeks Executive Director
Aug 26, 2019
Rachel Feder
Julie Copeland, the longtime Executive Director of Emerge Virginia, has taken a new position as Vice President and Research Director at Chadderdon Lestingi Creative Strategies, a national political campaign consulting company located in Alexandria, Virginia. Emerge Virginia is seeking applicants for the Executive Director position. The job description follows and interested applicants should contact Alexsis Rodgers at contact@emergeva.org.
ORGANIZATION
Emerge Virginia is a highly effective candidate training program whose mission is to recruit, train and inspire Democratic women in Virginia to run for public office at the local, state and national levels. Emerge Virginia has been training women since 2013 and in six years has trained 209 Democratic women; 26 of whom serve in elected office. 67 are currently on the ballot in 2019.
Emerge Virginia is an affiliate of Emerge, a dynamic and growing national network of affiliates currently working in 25 states. 415 Emerge alumnae won their general election races in 2018, including five women in Congress and nine statewide offices across the country. The Executive Director will be an employee of Emerge.
For more information about Emerge Virginia and the entire Emerge network, please visit www.emergeva.org.
OPPORTUNITY
We are seeking a dedicated and skilled individual to serve as the full-time Executive Director. This position will report to the EmergeAffiliate Director and the Board Chair of Emerge Virginia. The primary responsibilities include but are not limited to: fundraising and development, training program promotion and implementation, class recruitment, board management, public relations, information management, support for program members and alumnae and execution of the Emerge Virginia training programs.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Executive Director oversees all aspects of the Emerge Virginia training program and is responsible for expanding and maintaining the organizational infrastructure and network. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Build and manage relationships with the Emerge Virginia Board of Directors and oversee all board governance, including scheduling and preparing for board meetings, participating in board recruitment, development and training; |
Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002 that Mr. Epstein was a “terrific guy” whom he had known for 15 years.
“He’s a lot of fun to be with,” the president said at the time. “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
What is he accused of?
The charges against Mr. Epstein predate Saturday’s arrest by more than a decade, and involve a sordid history that has infuriated victims and raised questions of preferential treatment by law enforcement.
In 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told the police in Palm Beach, Fla., that Mr. Epstein had molested their daughter at his home there. Before the police referred the case to the F.B.I. in 2006, they identified three dozen potential victims, who said that Mr. Epstein had paid them, while they were underage, for massages, oral sex and intercourse, according to a police report obtained by The Miami Herald.
The abuse dated back to 2001, according to The Herald. Most of the victims were between 13 and 16. Many came from low-income backgrounds and were told they could earn $200 or $300 for giving Mr. Epstein a massage , the Herald reported.
“We just wanted money for school clothes, for shoes,” one woman told The Herald.
Federal prosecutors in Miami initially drafted a 53-page indictment against Mr. Epstein. But in 2008, those prosecutors — led by Mr. Acosta, then the region’s United States attorney, and now Mr. Trump’s labor secretary — struck a deal with Mr. Epstein’s lawyers that allowed him to avoid federal charges. Instead, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Under the federal charges, Mr. Epstein could have faced life in prison. After the deal, he served 13 months in jail. He had work-release privileges for six days a week, 12 hours each day, during which a private driver picked him up and took him to a nearby office. |
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More from the Rural Affairs, Climate Change & Environment (RACCE) committee hearing last month, when a question about the extent of raptor persecution crimes in Scotland was posed to Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham of Police Scotland.
Here’s the transcript:
Graeme Dey MSP (Angus South) (SNP): I want to get a feel for where we are at with raptor persecution. There is a view in some quarters that the extent of raptor persecution is way beyond that which is suggested by the recorded figures. Given their experience in this area, I would like to hear from ACC Graham and DCS Scott whether that is a fair view. What is your feeling about the issue in a general sense and not just in relation to the recorded figures? Is raptor persecution increasing or decreasing?
Assistant Chief Constable Graham: Again, we touched on this last year. The scientific or expert evidence about the absence of certain species appears to be mixed. I am not an expert in that and I am happy to listen to experts when they offer a view. If the absence of a species that we would expect to see in a certain area strongly indicates that a crime is happening, I am very interested to look at that. We have been doing that in those areas and through the raptor group. It may well be that there is more work to be done in that respect.
Set against that is the relatively low level of reporting, in the context of all crime. I do not wish to dismiss the importance of every crime that is identified or every dead bird that is found but, given the level of focus, which includes the dedicated focus of interested groups with a specific role in bird conservation or preservation or specific raptor groups, the low level of information that comes to us as intelligence or reports only leaves me thinking that, with all that effort, we are not missing the vast majority of what is going on here.
At a previous meeting, we had a discussion about the perception that reporting levels were the tip of the iceberg. My view on that has not changed. More work needs to be done and there is, undoubtedly, a level of underreporting and therefore underrecording, but we are catching a significant amount of it. We are doing everything that we can to increase public awareness and to work with those who potentially would have a motivation to commit such crimes to dissuade them from doing so and to make it an unattractive option for them. It is increasingly likely that, if raptor crime is going on, we will hear about it. That leads me to think, in relation to your final point, that the problem is not increasing; rather, it is more likely to be the case that we are hearing about a greater proportion of cases and probably less crime is happening.
Graeme Dey MSP: It was useful to get that on the record. Thank you.
END
Can you believe that? We can, because he said something very similar when asked about the extent of raptor persecution back in 2014 (see here). At that time his opinion was based on a ‘feeling’. This time we’re not sure what it’s based on – maybe the content of a Xmas cracker?
ACC Graham recognises that under-reporting, and thus under-recording, takes place, so how can he possibly know that “we are catching a significant amount” of the crimes that take place? Sorry, but that’s just fabricated nonsense! Read any academic paper on problems with assessing the extent of wildlife crimes and they all say that under-reporting and under-recording is a significant barrier to tackling wildlife crime. What makes raptor persecution crimes in Scotland so different? Does ACC Graham have some sort of magical power that allows him to see every inch of every driven grouse moor at every minute of every day and every night throughout the year?
He says “the scientific or expert evidence about the absence of certain species appears to be mixed”. Mixed? Really? Which papers has he been reading? Clearly not the ever-growing pile of scientific papers that all point to criminal raptor persecution on driven grouse moors as the cause of widespread population decline for golden eagles, hen harriers, peregrines and red kites. What on earth is he talking about?
Scottish Environment LINK was just as gobsmacked as us at this piece of ACC Graham’s evidence to the RACCE committee. They address the issue in a letter they wrote to the committee shortly after the hearing:
“…..Firstly, we are concerned with ACC Graham’s response to a question asked by Graham Dey MSP about levels of raptor persecution. ACC Graham commented that “this isn’t an increasing problem, in fact it’s more likely to be the case that we’re hearing about a greater proportion and there’s probably less happening.” We consider this assertion to be anecdotal at best. We feel that it is important that the RACCE committee gets a wider picture of wildlife crime.
The Scottish Government has not yet published statistics for wildlife crimes occurring since 1st April 2014; indeed government reports only cover the period 1st January 2012 to 31st March 2014. We suggest that with only just over two years of data published by government, an unknown and varying percentage of incidents actually discovered from one year to the next, and a completely ad hoc search effort made by very few suitably trained individuals over a tiny proportion of Scotland’s countryside, such a statement by ACC Graham is, in our opinion, purely speculative. Raptor persecution is a crime that invariably occurs without witnesses, where offences occur in the remotest parts of our country, and where victims are found largely by luck. It is impossible to say what the number of actual incidents is, or what proportion of these were found and documented.
There is, however, a considerable weight of peer-reviewed scientific evidence, including research commissioned by SNH, coupled with population surveys, that clearly shows that raptor persecution continues to have a marked impact on peregrine, hen harrier, red kite and golden eagle populations in Scotland……..” Eddie Palmer, Scottish Environment LINK.
The full letter can be downloaded from the Scottish Parliament website here
Let’s hope that the next RACCE committee, which will be formed after the election in May, will invite LINK and some of its members along to a future hearing to provide a more accurate picture of the extent of wildlife crime in Scotland instead of having to rely upon this unsubstantiated tosh from a police force desperately trying to appear to be on top of things.
Hi Fiona. Thanks for that information. If you want my opinion, then please let me tell you that if that farcical report by Assistant Chief Constable Graham, was a typical response, then I don’t hold out much hope for our raptors.
We need a WCO who is dedicated and committed, and there’s no time to lose – we need that NOW.
Best wishes
Wendé
It’s fairly obvious that not only don’t Police Scotland have a clue what they’re talking about, they couldn’t care less anyway. When I start to see some positive action from them I may start to change my view of Police Scotland where wildlife crime is concerned, I won’t be holding my breath too long in anticipation however.
We desperately need the SSPCA / RSPCA to become more involved with raptor persecution crime.
With statements like that neither wonder there are relatively low levels of reporting. This gives out the entirely wrong message to an already sceptical public.
A man that clearly has very little knowledge on this subject but he does know all to well that if you put little or no resources into combatting a particular crime then the crime figures reflect this.
Hasnt it occured to him that once you desimate or kill off an entire species then crime levels go down. i.e. once you have killed all the hen harriers, goshawks, eagles, mountain hares, pine martens etc etc etc offences go down.
Funny that the police are not keen to ask for help in this particular area but are desperate in so many other areas. Its almost like someone somewhere is pulling their strings in an attempt to protect land owners and the sporting industry……….
Politicians lie…. they have laws which enable them to do so. At what pay grade do police officers become politicians… and when they achieve this status are they still able to give credible evidence in a quasi-judicial environment?
In my experience you stop the under recording of wildlife crime when you show you are being effective at doing something about it. Many of us on this blog have being witnessing the results of wildlife crime for decades…but there will be many who just dont bother reporting all but the most serious – viz poisoned eagle, shot harrier – why tell anyone about another empty nest or pile of raptor feathers with shotgun cartridge next to it…if nothing ever happens on the ground?
I agree 100 per cent with Dave Dick .. and strongly stress that this is not a new situation as my own experiences 12 years ago would testify too. We need wider publicity as to the extent of the problem and the authorities duplicity and inaction. I agree with Nirofo that pressure should be brought on both the RSPB and the RSPCA to engage with this issue. This pressure might be developed by creating, developing and distributing high impact leaflets/brochures to be distributed widely at places where those interested in all things natural frequent e.g. ski-ing centres, hill walking clubs, hiking car parks , mountain gear shops, libraries, pubs close to these types of facilities and anyplace else where parties who could be persuaded to take an interest gather.
A new initiative is to place satellite tags on harriers from Mull. This will show if a tourist industry is having its prize assets being removed once the birds winter away from the island. If birds are being removed then the government can see that one industry is trying to destroy another! |
A recent Pew study shows that religious restrictions have risen for over 1/3 of the world’s population between 2006-2009. More than 2.2 billion people – nearly a third (32%) of the world’s total population of 6.9 billion are facing greater religious restrictions. See Executive Summary for more details.
Among the five geographic regions covered in this report, the Middle East-North Africa had the highest government and social restrictions on religion, while the Americas were the least restrictive region on both measures. The Middle East-North Africa region also had the greatest number of countries where government restrictions on religion increased from mid-2006 to mid-2009, with about a third of the region’s countries (30%) imposing greater restrictions. In contrast, no country in the Americas registered a substantial increase on either index.
In China, there was no change in the level of government restrictions on religion, which remained very high. But social hostilities involving religion, which had been relatively low, increased substantially from mid-2006 to mid-2009.
…The world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Globally, the Muslim population is forecast to grow at about twice the rate of the non-Muslim population over the next two decades — an average annual growth rate of 1.5% for Muslims, compared with 0.7% for non-Muslims. If current trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4% of the world’s total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030, up from 23.4% of the estimated 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.
Sub-Saharan Africa
• The Muslim population in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to grow by nearly 60% in the next 20 years, from 242.5 million in 2010 to 385.9 million in 2030. Because the region’s non- Muslim population also is growing at a rapid pace, Muslims are expected to make up only a slightly larger share of the region’s population in 2030 (31.0%) than they do in 2010 (29.6%).
• Various surveys give differing figures for the size of religious groups in Nigeria, which appears to have roughly equal numbers of Muslims and Christians in 2010. By 2030, Nigeria is expected to have a slight Muslim majority (51.5%).
In little more than a century, the religious landscape of sub-Saharan Africa has changed dramatically. As of 1900, both Muslims and Christians were relatively small minorities in the region. The vast majority of people practiced traditional African religions, while adherents of Christianity and Islam combined made up less than a quarter of the population, according to historical estimates from the World Religion Database.
Since then, however, the number of Muslims living between the Sahara Desert and the Cape of Good Hope has increased more than 20-fold, rising from an estimated 11 million in 1900 to approximately 234 million in 2010. The number of Christians has grown even faster, soaring almost 70-fold from about 7 million to 470 million. Sub-Saharan Africa now is home to about one-in-five of all the Christians in the world (21%) and more than one-in-seven of the world’s Muslims (15%).1
….While sub-Saharan Africa has almost twice as many Christians as Muslims, on the African continent as a whole the two faiths are roughly balanced, with 400 million to 500 million followers each. Since northern Africa is heavily Muslim and southern Africa is heavily Christian, the great meeting place is in the middle, a 4,000-mile swath from Somalia in the east to Senegal in the west.
….Despite the dominance of Christianity and Islam, traditional African religious beliefs and practices have not disappeared. Rather, they coexist with Islam and Christianity. Whether or not this entails some theological tension, it is a reality in people’s lives: Large numbers of Africans actively participate in Christianity or Islam yet also believe in witchcraft, evil spirits, sacrifices to ancestors, traditional religious healers, reincarnation and other elements of traditional African religions.2
Other Findings
In addition, the 19-nation survey finds:
Africans generally rank unemployment, crime and corruption as bigger problems than religious conflict. However, substantial numbers of people (including nearly six-in-ten Nigerians and Rwandans) say religious conflict is a very big problem in their country.
The degree of concern about religious conflict varies from country to country but tracks closely with the degree of concern about ethnic conflict in many countries, suggesting that they are often related.
Many Africans are concerned about religious extremism, including within their own faith. Indeed, many Muslims say they are more concerned about Muslim extremism than about Christian extremism, and Christians in four countries say they are more concerned about Christian extremism than about Muslim extremism.
Neither Christianity nor Islam is growing significantly in sub-Saharan Africa at the expense of the other; there is virtually no net change in either direction through religious switching.
At least half of all Christians in every country surveyed expect that Jesus will return to earth in their lifetime, while roughly 30% or more of Muslims expect to live to see the re-establishment of the caliphate, the golden age of Islamic rule.
People who say violence against civilians in defense of one’s religion is rarely or never justified vastly outnumber those who say it is sometimes or often justified. But substantial minorities (20% or more) in many countries say violence against civilians in defense of one’s religion is sometimes or often justified.
In most countries, at least half of Muslims say that women should not have the right to decide whether to wear a veil, saying instead that the decision should be up to society as a whole.
Circumcision of girls (female genital cutting) is highest in the predominantly Muslim countries of Mali and Djibouti but is more common among Christians than among Muslims in Uganda.
Majorities in almost every country say that Western music, movies and television have harmed morality in their nation. Yet majorities in most countries also say they personally like Western entertainment.
In most countries, more than half of Christians believe in the prosperity gospel – that God will grant wealth and good health to people who have enough faith.
By comparison with people in many other regions of the world, sub-Saharan Africans are much more optimistic that their lives will change for the better.
About the Report
These and other findings are discussed in more detail in the remainder of this report, which is divided into five main sections:
If you haven’t already seen or heard Obama’s nearly one-hour speech in Cairo, read the Full Transcript. (Or maybe I’ve been out of the media loop for too long and you are already sick of it.)
I admit that when I first heard he was going to give this speech, I cringed. There are too many ways that it could totally flop. I never should have underestimated him.
Saturday night, Christi and I sat in bed and read the whole transcript together. When we got to the end, the first thing she said was, “I sure am glad we elected that man as our president!!” Like everyone else, we have strong disagreements with some of his views, but here he was truly impressive (kudos to his speech team too). He said things in ways that few human being are capable or qualified to say. . . he gave me a glimmer of hopefulness on issues that have weighed heavily on my heart for a long time—things I have felt totally hopeless about. Granted, the realist in me knows that the political leaders that need to make this peace, prosperity, and freedom happen won’t (see Chomsky’s response); and the hatred is so deeply seated; but if we can even begin to set a different tone . . . for those of us in cross-cultural settings tone is critical. (I’m sure the media and spin meisters have already given this a totally different feel by now, and I know certain people can’t stand anything Obama says, but I thought the speech was a great step in the right direction. I appreciated that the speech sounded more like a conversation with Moslems (with courteous connections) than an ethnocentric discussion about them. If you haven’t already, read the full transcript for yourself and draw your own conclusions.
Of course, I’m reading this as an American Christian who has interacted with some Moslems in the past; I’ll be interested to see how more Moslem feel about it.
“I like that Obama is here talking and listening. At least, I hope he is listening and not only talking,” . . .
“He is a beautiful speaker. He is eloquent. But the truth is we have heard this before. Can he really change America’s policies? Actions speak louder than words. And can Obama lead America to really take on those actions. We’ll see.”
On a somewhat different note, I couldn’t help thinking of some of the internal Christian conflicts when I read this.
Some are eager to stoke the flames of division, and to stand in the way of progress. Some suggest that it isn’t worth the effort – that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations [or theological perspectives] are doomed to clash. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur. There is so much fear, so much mistrust. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country – you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world.
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort – a sustained effort – to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
It is easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.
In CT has an interview with Dalia Mogahed about the book , Who Speaks For Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think (Gallup Press, 2008). The idea for the book was born shortly after 9/11, when Donald Rumsfeld was asked how Muslims felt about the attacks on the U.S. He replied, “I don’t know; it’s not like you can take a Gallup poll.” The survey covered 90 percent of the global Muslim population on, among other things, Muslims’ views of democracy, extremism, jihad, and women’s rights, and Americans’ views of Islam.
What surprised you most in your findings?
It was how much Americans and residents of majority-Muslim countries have in common. This flies in the face of conventional wisdom that paints a picture of an inherently conflict-ridden relationship. Americans are as likely, for example, as Iranians to say religious leaders should have no part in crafting a constitution. We found that 57 percent of Americans think the Bible should have at least some role in legislation. (Nine percent think it should be the sole source.) This is similar to many majority-Muslim countries where people don’t want theocracy and don’t favor religious leaders being in control, but they do want legislation informed by religious values.
Other questions:
What do Muslim women say about Shari’ah [Islamic law]?
What stereotypes does your book challenge?
“Extremists” and “radicals”
What do most Muslims think about apostates?
Don’t all four schools of Sunni Islamic law suggest that a Muslim who leaves Islam and embraces Christianity, for example, should be executed?
We have to look at modern interpretations, because Islamic law is a vibrant, ever-changing set of interpretations. Fiqh, or human interpretation of Shari’ah, maps changes with time and place. Look, for example, at Sheikh Ali Jumu’a, grand mufti of Egypt, whose interpretation of apostasy laws is not to take drastic measures. In the past, apostasy was seen as treason because citizenship in one group was defined by faith, and when people left one faith, they had to work against their community. One’s faith today is no longer seen in the same context, because the nation-state has been completely transformed.
How do you respond to conventional wisdom that says the Qur’an espouses violence?
. . . Violence is usually politically, not religiously, motivated. Third, terrorist sympathizers or the “cheering section”—the 7 percent who are politically radicalized—are no more religious than mainstream Muslims who abhor violence and say it is morally unjustified. Muslims are as likely as Americans to denounce attacks on civilians. Finally, people defending their position on 9/11—the 7 percent who think it’s completely justified—do so because of political and geopolitical perceptions, not theology. Not one referred to the Qur’an. . .
In Who Speaks for Islam? you suggest that the domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh was a Christian. Why?
How should evangelicals respond to what seems to be the spread of extremist Islam globally?
Evangelicals should respond the way everyone should respond. Understanding the cause of the problem is important. The data clearly show it is driven not by religious extremism but by extreme political ideology. Second, as a human family, look at the extremists as an outside group, rather than as an outgrowth of religion. This builds bridges between people of different faiths all fighting a common enemy. Let’s not forget that Muslims are the primary victims of violent extremism. . . Third . . . Finally, evangelicals should vocally and unequivocally denounce anti-Muslim hate speech. . . . Hateful statements against what Muslims hold most dear are a gift to bin Laden and a slap to mainstream Muslims who. . .
I’m comfortable in a lot of different cultural settings, but I confess that I’m still a little uneasy in Moslem contexts. I’m not at all afraid for my safety; it’s just that I haven’t been in any Islamic contexts long enough to feel totally at ease about how not to be offensive. All the interactions I have had with followers of Quran have been very good, there just haven’t been that many. (I spent a week – mostly as a tourist – in Tunisia, but I recall longer conversations with with Moslem traders when I was in high school in West Africa)
On the flight from Nairobi to Dubai (back in August), I sat next to a delightful family man named Muhammad. Despite our very different religious beliefs, he and I share generally similar family orientations and geographical life histories. He was born in Uganda, did all his primary schooling in Kenya before moving to Canada for University. He also lived for a few years in the Washington, DC area (then Orlando, FL) before moving back to Mombassa (Kenya) where most of his family lives. He was talking to his kids on the phone about the way I would talk to mine. Even our accents are similar. Currently he works on documentaries aimed primarily at Americans to educate people about Islam and try to dispel some of the misconceptions it. Here is a website of his posters – Discover Islam.
Anyway, Mohammed seemed like such a nice guy that I took advantage of the time to ply him with all the difficult questions – Islam as a violent religion, jihad, view towards apostates, etc. One of the things that struck me about this his responses is that he encourages the same kind of hermeneutic that we often do with the Bible: “e.g., you have to carefully read the texts in their original context.” (Eventually, we tapped out all my questions and settled into the newly-released Caspian movie.)
On the flight back from London, I sat next to a Pakistani businessman (pharmaceuticals). As soon as he found out I was doing “research in religion,” he said, “the problem with Pakistan is that people don’t truly follow the Koran.” My mind immediately saw that meaning two completely opposite things, so I asked him what he meant. “Take for example alms,” he replied. “If we only followed the charge to give [I forget the percentage of income] as the Quran commands, there would be more money in circulation and our economies would be doing so much better. . .[Later] It’s those militants from Afghanistan who keep stirring up violence and killing people in our country.”
His English wasn’t that great, and I could hardly hold my eyes open (redeye flight; 3 hours sleep the previous night) so we didn’t talk that long, but I couldn’t help smiling to myself. How many times have I said, “If only Christians truly followed the Bible and Jesus . . . it’s those extremists that really spoil the name of Christians . . .” |
Targeted delivery into motor nerve terminals of inhibitors for SNARE-cleaving proteases via liposomes coupled to an atoxic botulinum neurotoxin.
A targeted drug carrier (TDC) is described for transferring functional proteins or peptides into motor nerve terminals, a pivotal locus for therapeutics to treat neuromuscular disorders. It exploits the pronounced selectivity of botulinum neurotoxin type B (BoNT/B) for interacting with acceptors on these cholinergic nerve endings and becoming internalized. The gene encoding an innocuous BoNT/B protease-inactive mutant (BoTIM) was fused to that for core streptavidin, expressed in Escherichia coli and the purified protein was conjugated to surface-biotinylated liposomes. Such decorated liposomes, loaded with fluorescein as traceable cargo, acquired pronounced specificity for motor nerve terminals in isolated mouse hemidiaphragms and facilitated the intraneuronal transfer of the fluor, as revealed by confocal microscopy. Delivery of the protease light chain of botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A) via this TDC accelerated the onset of neuromuscular paralysis, indicative of improved translocation of this enzyme into the presynaptic cytosol with subsequent proteolytic inactivation of synaptosomal-associated protein of molecular mass 25 kDa (SNAP-25), an exocytotic soluble N-ethyl-maleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) essential for neurotransmitter release. BoTIM-coupled liposomes, loaded with peptide inhibitors of proteases, yielded considerable attenuation of the neuroparalytic effects of BoNT/A or BoNT/F as a result of their cytosolic transfer, the first in situ demonstration of the ability of designer antiproteases to suppress the symptoms of botulism ex vivo. Delivery of the BoNT/A inhibitor by liposomes targeted with the full-length BoTIM proved more effective than that mediated by its C-terminal neuroacceptor-binding domain. This demonstrated versatility of TDC for nonviral cargo transfer into cholinergic nerve endings has unveiled its potential for direct delivery of functional targets into motor nerve endings. |
Welcome!
If you're looking for offbeat fiction, fantasy, scifi, essay, or even rare bits of poetry, you've come to the right place. Enjoy!
Shadow and Shade
"I stayed up all night finishing Shadow and Shade, a fascinating fantasy world of magic, family, and what happens when the two collide. A tough and enchanting tale that will have you listening to the forest and talking to the wolves. I can't wait to see what Gerrard writes next!" Rebecca Cantrell, New York Times bestselling author of The World Beneath
The Problem with Immortality, Part 5: Letting Go
50% happy held pretty steady through the end of the first year. Trying to be human made me feel sadder. I kept running into the ways that I wasn’t. Spontaneity. Vices. Chaos. Flaws. Change. My body was the product of the best efforts of 300 engineers and scientists, the best value bidder we’d selected, standing on the shoulders of two hundred years of research. A human body was built by eight million years of natural selection, and that was if you only went as far back as the apes. Naturally, there were things we’d missed.
I was happiest in my work. Tweaking the programs and making them run better made me feel better. It felt good to add shades of feeling that we had missed the first time around. I read case studies on people with brain injuries who had lost touch certain emotions, to understand psychologically what had happened to me. Unlike a human, understanding didn’t bring comfort. Information came in. Information was processed. There was no learning curve, no ache of discovery. I knew something or I didn’t. I wrote a new program so that I would feel the pleasure of discovery.
A year to the day after my transplant, I made the decision to let go.
When I told Emmy, her chin trembled. I rubbed her back to comfort her. Most people had to fight not to recoil from my mechanical touch. Emmy was used to it. “Are you sure?” she asked.
“Yeah. It’s been a good experiment, but I don’t want to live like this. It isn’t living.”
“You… um… overrode the self-preservation programming.”
“I have administrative privileges.”
“Jesus Christ,” Emmy choked.
I hugged her. “And that is exactly what I’m doing it. I miss that. I miss the tears and the rages and all the weird stuff. I miss bad habits like Dr. Isaacs’ smoking. Someone had a cold last week. I wanted to sit next to them and write an infection simulation.”
“You think you’ll find that in heaven?”
“Yeah. That’s one thing I figured out. Machines don’t have heavens. People do.”
“I get that.”
“Will you help me?”
She nodded. “What do you need me to do?”
I handed her a note. “Read this to me. It’s a code. It’ll launch a program that wipes my hard drive.”
“Why don’t you let Andrews and Isaacs do that?”
“I don’t trust them. I think some of them want to make copies of my brain to run experiments.”
Emmy grimaced. “You think they would?”
“I would.”
“Fine, fine. I don’t want to hear any more. I’ll do it.”
“Okay.” Normally I would have taken a nervous breath. “Read it. Goodbye, Em.”
The cyborg moved from Johnny’s standing posture to a default, standing-straight posture. The motors whined to a halt. Its eyelids shut. Its mouth closed. The cooling system shut down last, and the breath left its body. |
Myanmar
Myanmar, a
southeast Asian country known under many names, was the land of human
origin. It is also recognized by the world as the Golden Land. You have
to find out why. Myanmar, officially Union Of Myanmar, formerly called
Burma, Burmah, Bermah, Birmanie, Birma, Birmania, Burmese, and so on, is
a country lying along the eastern coasts of the Bay of Bengal and the
Andaman Sea in southeast Asia. |
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# TCP clients
All the clients available in this folder communicate directly with the [TCP server](..) of the Niryo One.
<br>**Notes:** New TCP client available may arrived in the future
## Available TCP clients
* [Python client](python). Works for Python 2 & 3
**Notes:**
<br> If you need a specific language client that is not currently proposed, please send an email to c.ducatez@niryo.com, explaining :
* Which language / platform you would like
* In which context you want this specific client (professional / own usage, application, ...)
* When would you need it / what is your deadline ?
## Bug
If you encounter a bug or you have suggestion(s) over one of the client, please send an email to c.ducatez@niryo.com explaining:
* Which client you talk about (language / platform)
* In which situation you encounter this bug. (For handling your request as best as we could, be precise as much as possible)
* If possible, takes a screen shot / copy-paste the error printed. |
1. At the very outset, it is my great pleasure and honor to deliver an opening speech at this inception and implementation on meeting on ASEAN Institute of Green Economy. Taking this privilege, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and on my own behalf, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you and my gratitude for your significant presence here which reflects your deep appreciation on our regional cooperation and pride to host this significant event.
2. ASEAN with a population of over 630 millions is one of the world’s largest economies and of the most dynamic and fastest growing region. Interregional trade is expected to increase significantly and ASEAN is well situated and poised to be a major hub for global trade. Consequently, demand for natural resources will increase in tandem.
3. The majority of ASEAN population still depends on the natural resources for their livelihood. It is, therefore, vitally important that these resources are managed and used in a sustainable manner. However, the region has experienced severe environmental challenges including droughts, natural disasters, loss of biodiversity and depletion of natural resources and climate change as well as the devastation of historical and cultural resources due to increase of population, poverty and climate change impacts among our ASEAN countries.
4. Realizing that economic development cannot be sustained without protecting the environment, ASEAN countries have committed themselves to protect and promote the environment. With this concept in mind, “A clean and green ASEAN with fully established mechanism for sustainable development by 2020” is set as our common goal.
5. With inspired spirit to overcome regional and global environmental problems, collaborative efforts are also crucial at the regional and national level in order to realize the goal of achieving green and clean environment in the entire region. It is our conviction that environmental issues are best tackled collectively, in cooperation with our AMS countries and international organizations.
6. In this regards, AIGE is an innovative foundation to share information and experiences, ways and means and promote dialogue among member countries and Development Partners towards the vision of clean and green environment of our ASEAN region. Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
7. It is my honor to be here today to see the launching of this event at such an important time of Myanmar’s development as well as our entire ASEAN community. More than ever do we need research, knowledge sharing and collaboration to support new policy solutions and ideas that can drive a green economy in ASEAN countries.
8. As of the Terms of Reference of the AIGE which was approved in September 2017, I do believe that the institute will work to “enhance awareness of programs on green technologies and management practices and assist ASEAN Member States through joint research, education and training.”
9. While ASEAN continues to promote the sustainable economic growth agenda, I believe AIGE can support ASEAN countries in identifying opportunities and solutions that can help us address environmental, climate and economic issues to ensure that our natural wealth is protected and that current as well as future generations can continue to enjoy the many opportunities that ASEAN countries provide.
Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
10. Myanmar’s people and economy depend on healthy and functioning ecosystems to provide enough food, clean water, protection against natural disasters, and energy – essential for the survival, wellbeing and socio-economic development of our societies. Therefore, it is critical that we all properly value nature and the essential benefits it provides.
11. We are building an economy that creates jobs, improves human wellbeing and conserves Myanmar’s natural wealth. While our country has suffered from the impact of climate change and environmental degradation, we are laying down new policies and strategies that will change our pathway towards a more sustainable future.
12. In this regard, the development of National Environmental Policy, Strategy and Master Plan, National Climate Change Policy, Strategy and Action Plan, National Waste Management Strategy and Green Economy Policy Framework have been completed in Myanmar. The Green Economy Policy Framework identifies and implements priority areas to be promoted for sustainable and green investments. We need investments that can support our economic development, while improving the wellbeing of our people and protecting our natural wealth.
13. With the aim of environmental mainstreaming in Myanmar, we are incorporating green development and climate change considerations into national, sectoral and local development plans. Moreover, Myanmar is committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Paris Agreement.
Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
14. I do believe that this three-day Meeting will be a platform and great opportunity to discuss among experts and delegates for building an economy by investments that are low-carbon and based on green technologies in our ASEAN region.
15. In conclusion, I would like to urge all of the participants here today to contribute and collaborate for the establishment of a strong, innovative and forward-thinking AIGE. In doing so, I do expect that AIGE can become the center for shaping a green and sustainable ASEAN community.
16. Thank you for your participation and contribution. I wish this important event great success!
Technologies and funds are needed for green economy initiatives while shaping the scheme of poverty alleviation and Countries, President U Thein Sein said at an opening of the 3rd Green Economy Green Growth Forum held at MICC, here, this morning. |
Coronary angioplasty to relieve a kinked venous bypass conduit.
An unusual case of kinking of a freshly placed venous bypass conduit was treated by PTCA and catheter traction. This provided translational movement of the conduit with loss of angulation, relief of kinking, and resumption of normal flow. |
# Locale for workingProgressPerTaskReport.jrxml
title = Zpráva o postupu
subtitle = Postup práce za úkol
order = Projekt\:
reference = Referen\u010dní datum\:
criteria = Kritéria \:
labels = \u0160títky \:
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headers.column2.column2 = Zadaný
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#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <sstream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cassert>
#include <climits>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <string>
#include <cstdio>
#include <vector>
#include <cmath>
#include <queue>
#include <deque>
#include <stack>
#include <list>
#include <map>
#include <set>
using namespace std;
template <class T> string toStr(const T &x){
stringstream s; s << x; return s.str();
}
template <class T> int toInt(const T &x){
stringstream s; s << x; int r; s >> r; return r;
}
#define For(i, a, b) for (int i=(a); i<(b); ++i)
#define foreach(x, v) for (typeof (v).begin() x = (v).begin(); x != (v).end(); ++x)
#define D(x) cout << #x " = " << (x) << endl
class EqualizeStrings {
public:
string getEq(string s, string t) {
string ans = "";
for (int i = 0; i < s.size(); ++i){
int x = s[i] - 'a', y = t[i] - 'a';
if (x > y) swap(x, y);
assert(x <= y);
char add;
if (y - x < 26 - (y - x)){
add = x;
}else{
add = 0;
}
add += 'a';
ans += add;
}
return ans;
}
// BEGIN CUT HERE
public:
void run_test(int Case) { if ((Case == -1) || (Case == 0)) test_case_0(); if ((Case == -1) || (Case == 1)) test_case_1(); if ((Case == -1) || (Case == 2)) test_case_2(); if ((Case == -1) || (Case == 3)) test_case_3(); }
private:
template <typename T> string print_array(const vector<T> &V) { ostringstream os; os << "{ "; for (typename vector<T>::const_iterator iter = V.begin(); iter != V.end(); ++iter) os << '\"' << *iter << "\","; os << " }"; return os.str(); }
void verify_case(int Case, const string &Expected, const string &Received) { cerr << "Test Case #" << Case << "..."; if (Expected == Received) cerr << "PASSED" << endl; else { cerr << "FAILED" << endl; cerr << "\tExpected: \"" << Expected << '\"' << endl; cerr << "\tReceived: \"" << Received << '\"' << endl; } }
void test_case_0() { string Arg0 = "cat"; string Arg1 = "dog"; string Arg2 = "caa"; verify_case(0, Arg2, getEq(Arg0, Arg1)); }
void test_case_1() { string Arg0 = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; string Arg1 = "bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza"; string Arg2 = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxya"; verify_case(1, Arg2, getEq(Arg0, Arg1)); }
void test_case_2() { string Arg0 = "programmingcompetitionsrule"; string Arg1 = "programmingcompetitionsrule"; string Arg2 = "programmingcompetitionsrule"; verify_case(2, Arg2, getEq(Arg0, Arg1)); }
void test_case_3() { string Arg0 = "topcoderopen"; string Arg1 = "onlinerounds"; string Arg2 = "onlcndaoondn"; verify_case(3, Arg2, getEq(Arg0, Arg1)); }
// END CUT HERE
};
// BEGIN CUT HERE
int main(){
EqualizeStrings ___test;
___test.run_test(-1);
return 0;
}
// END CUT HERE
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Q:
How do you call a setup method into a test to stop re-writing the same code
I'm using java and Im trying to call a method into my tests to clean up the code. What is the best way to do this. Will it be to call the method or use the @Before on the setup method I've created. As you will see from the code below there are several repetitions. What will be the best way forward?
import com.pubnub.api.PubnubException;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import service.PubnubService;
/**
* Created by peterki on 07/09/2016.
*/
public class PublisherTest {
private PubnubService service = new PubnubService();
@Before
public void setupConnection() throws PubnubException {
// Setup Subscriber
service.subscribe("my_channel");
// Do nothing until the subscriber has connected.
do{} while (!service.isConnected());
}
@Test
public void testPublisher() throws PubnubException {
// Setup Subscriber
service.subscribe("my_channel");
// Do nothing until the subscriber has connected.
do{} while (!service.isConnected());
// Send 10 messages
for(int i = 0; i <= 10; i++){
service.publish("my_channel", "Message: " + i);
}
// Wait until we have recieved the 10 messages
do{}while(service.count() <= 10);
// For each message print out the details
service.getMessages().forEach(System.out::println);
}
@Test
public void testSportMessageType() throws PubnubException {
// Setup Subscriber
service.subscribe("my_channel");
// Wait for Connection
do{} while (!service.isConnected());
// Publish to External Service
//Wait till we receive the message
// Assert the message is what we want
}
}
A:
@Before is called before each @Test. In other words it is a perfect place to do stuff that has to be prepared before the tests run.
I would say that service.subscribe("my_channel"); is perfect to have in @Before.
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Hello!
I have a problems with Ofono while working with my 3G modem *ZTE MF190S*.
I can't connect to GPRS network.
I'm getting an error when I run *enable-gprs* test script.
Log files are attached.
As you can see there are messages like
*GPRS not supported on this device*
and
*Unable to initialize Network Registration*
in ofono.log and ofono-at.log.
--
Best regards,
Yevhen
Byte 4 of the EFAD structure, which specifies the MNC length, is optional.
If this byte is not present, then there is no way to determine the length
of the MNC. As the, by far, most common length is 2, we might as well
default to this value.
This patch changes the ofono_error to a warning as it's not really an
error that we're encountering, but the user should nonetheless be given
a heads-up that something might not work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas(a)southpole.se>
---
src/sim.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/sim.c b/src/sim.c
index 4384eb0..f6109c6 100644
--- a/src/sim.c
+++ b/src/sim.c
@@ -1760,7 +1760,9 @@ static void sim_ad_read_cb(int ok, int length, int record,
return;
if (length < 4) {
- ofono_error("EFad should contain at least four bytes");
+ ofono_warn("EFad does not specify (optional) MNC length"
+ ", defaulting to 2");
+ sim->mnc_length = 2;
return;
}
--
1.7.9.5
Hi Sir/Mam,
I want to get information on ofono and its dbus api. How to build it.
So I can write some application by using ofono.
I am doing this because of interste in telephony.
so please help in it.
Thanks & Regards,
Rohit
Hello @all,
I'm new here and I'm in the process of developing a Embedded Linux datalogger
appliance. At the moment I'm evaluating the modem part of it, and we are
looking forward to use the Telit GC864-QUAD V2 serial port GSM/GPRS modem with
oFono.
Unfortunately I couldn't find much "getting started" information for oFono, but
by reading throughout the old posts on this list I gathered at least some.
Please correct me if I get things wrong:
1. The one-and-only way to tell oFono to use a modem is by udev rules like
this:
KERNEL=="ttyUSB0", ENV{OFONO_DRIVER}="calypso"
2. Serial port GPRS modems like the Telit GC864 are not supported
out-of-the-box, so one has to write a special modem driver for it.
3. Since this modem supports CMUX multiplexing with the 3GPP 27.010 standard,
I can use 'GAtMux' like it's done in 'plugins/calypso.c'.
4. There is a telit modem driver, but this is only for the UC864 UMTS modem
which is connected via USB.
So in order to write a driver to support the GC864, what would be a good
starting point? Add support for serial port CMUX to the telit driver?
Looking forward for some advice ...
Cheers, Markus
Hi,
I'm experiencing a strange behavior with ofono (1.10) and the Huawei
EM770W modem on Pegatron Lucid (WeTab) hardware. The same used to work
well with ofono 1.8.
As soon as I get notified about the availability of
org.ofono.NetworkRegistration, I'm calling
org.ofono.NetworkRegistration.Register on that modem. However, this
shows no effect.
See http://pastebin.com/CAVEvsA2 for a trace of ofonod.
But when using the test-network-registration test script from ofono to
connect to the default network, it works, even though the script also
only uses org.ofono.NetworkRegistration.Register to register.
See http://pastebin.com/9RQbd8QU for a trace of ofonod.
The code I'm using for registration is here:
http://pastebin.com/fkVVVc1a
Regards,
Martin |
Salvage abdominoperineal resection for anal cancer following chemoradiation: a proposed scoring system for predicting postoperative survival.
Anal carcinoma is treated primarily by chemoradiation. Failure of this treatment requires salvage surgery. The aims of this retrospective study were to assess the survival probability after rescue surgery and design a pathological risk score (PRS) to predict postoperative outcome. From 1982 to 2011, the clinical and pathological data of 111 patients treated with chemoradiation or radiation alone and abdominoperineal resection were reviewed. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to assess overall survival and parametric modeling was applied to determine prognostic factors and design a PRS. The 2- and 5-year overall survival rates were 60% and 24.5%, respectively. The multivariate analysis showed that nodal disease (P < 0.03), resection margin (P < 0.001), and perineural and/or lymphovascular invasion (P < 0.0001) were significantly associated with survival. Patients who presented negative values for these three variables were estimated to show a 5-year survival rate of 55% compared with 0.03% for patients who presented positive values. Positive surgical margin, the presence of perineural and/or lymphovascular invasion and positive nodal involvement were identified as significant independent predictors of mortality. The PRS was shown to be highly predictive of postoperative outcome. |
Oshinkoshin Falls
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Designated as one of Japan's top 100 waterfalls, Oshinkoshin Falls (Oshinkoshin no taki) is a spectacular waterfall just next to the coastal main road from Shari to Utoro. The waterfall is also known as the "Twin Beauties Waterfall" because of how the waterfall splits into two midway down. A free parking lot and public toilets are available. |
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abstract: 'We present an estimate of the X-ray background (XRB) spectrum from the warm-hot intergalactic medium (IGM) associated with groups and clusters of galaxies, using purely the observationally determined X-ray luminosity function (XLF) and X-ray luminosity ($L_{\rm x}$) - temperature ($T$) relations for groups and clusters. As compared with previous semi-analytic models based on the Press-Schechter mass function, our approach provides a much simpler and more realistic way to evaluate the XRB from groups and clusters in the sense that we make no assumption about the dynamical and heating properties of the IGM, and the intrinsic dispersion in the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations due to different physical mechanisms among different groups and clusters can be also included. It shows that the resulting 0.1-10 keV XRB spectrum by summing up the X-ray emission from all groups and clusters is consistent with current upper limits placed on the contribution from diffuse gas to the XRB. This may have profound implications for our understanding of the missing baryons in the universe.'
author:
- 'Xiang-Ping Wu and Yan-Jie Xue'
title: 'The X-ray background from groups and clusters of galaxies'
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Introduction
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The missing baryon problem still has no resolution in sight at present. It is commonly believed that most of the baryons in the universe exist in the form of diffuse warm-hot intergalactic medium (IGM) at temperatures of $T\sim10^5$–$10^7$ K (Cen & Ostriker 1999), which may contribute a non-negligible fraction of the soft X-ray background (XRB) as a result of thermal bremsstrahlung emission. Therefore, the measurement of the soft XRB constitutes a critical test for the presence of the warm-hot IGM and also for the models of structure formation. Important progress in the issue has been made over the past few years (e.g. Pen 1999; Phillips, Ostriker & Cen 2000; Wu, Fabian & Nulsen 2001; Davé et al. 2001; Voit, Evrard & Bryan 2001). Essentially, most of the warm-hot IGM associated with the gravitational potentials of less massive dark halos must reside outside of the systems characterized by their virial radii. Otherwise, the XRB produced by the gravitationally heated and bound IGM in groups and poor clusters will greatly exceed the upper limits set by current X-ray observations. This implies that the preheating of IGM either by non-gravitational processes such as supernovae, AGNs and galactic winds or by purely gravitational processes due to large-scale density perturbations must play a potentially important role in the early phase of structure formation, which raises the IGM entropy and makes the IGM harder to compress. Such a scenario is supported by both the discovery of the entropy excess in groups relative to that can be achieved in the pure accretion shock heating (Ponman, Cannon & Navarro 1999) and the remarkable departure of the observed X-ray luminosity ($L_{\rm x}$) - temperature ($T$) relations for groups and clusters ($L_{\rm x}\propto T^{3-5}$) (Xue & Wu 2000 and references therein) from the simple gravitational scaling law ($L_{\rm x}\propto T^2$) (Kaiser 1986).
While a sophisticated estimate of the XRB produced by the warm-hot IGM must rely upon cosmological hydrodynamic simulations (e.g. Phillips et al. 2000), semi-analytic models, which emphasize the essential physics behind the problem, provide a simple approach to understanding quantitatively the issue, in a complementary manner to hydrodynamic simulations. Indeed, the pioneering work of Pen (1999) based on the cosmic virial theorem and the standard Press-Schechter (PS) mass function has already revealed the properties of the expected XRB from the gravitationally bound IGM within the virialized systems, in gross consistency with subsequent numerical results. In particular, the employment of the observed X-ray luminosity - temperature relations for groups and clusters in the prediction of the XRB spectra permits the inclusion of other heating effects on the IGM, regardless of the details of heating mechanisms and processes (Kitayama, Sasaki & Suto 1998; Wu et al. 2001). In this paper, we conduct an alternative, semi-analytic approach to the estimate of the XRB, using purely the observationally determined quantities such as the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of groups and clusters and their X-ray luminosity - temperature relations. The advantages of this method are as follows: First, it provides a much simpler and also more realistic way to estimate the contribution of the warm-hot IGM contained in groups and clusters to XRB, in the sense that the influence of non-gravitational heating on the IGM can be naturally included; Second, it allows one to correctly remove the component from known population of groups and especially clusters in the measurement of XRB, which will be of potential importance in search for the missing baryons residing in large-scale structures; Finally, it will be interesting to compare the XRB expected from the XLF and $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations of groups and clusters with other independent observational constraints such as the current XRB surveys by [*ROSAT*]{}, [*ASCA*]{}, [*Chandra*]{} and [*XMM*]{}. Of course, the accuracy and reliability of this semi-analytic method depend on our knowledge of X-ray groups and clusters revealed by current X-ray observations. We have recently applied the same method to the study of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts, and found a noticeable difference between the prediction by the PS mass function and that by the XLF of clusters (Xue & Wu 2001). Throughout this paper we assume a flat cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM) of $\Omega_{\rm M}=0.3$, $\Omega_{\Lambda}=0.7$ and $h=0.68$.
$L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relation
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The X-ray luminosity - temperature relation is a good indicator of the dynamical and heating properties of the IGM associated with the underlying gravitational potentials of dark halos. It follows that the bolometric X-ray luminosity of groups and clusters should obey the simple gravitational scaling law $L_{\rm x}^{\rm bol}\propto T^2$, if there is no other heating mechanism (Kaiser 1986). However, it has been well known that the observationally determined $L_{\rm x}^{\rm bol}$-$T$ relations on group and cluster scales deviate significantly from this simple scaling, with $L_{\rm x}^{\rm bol}\propto T^{3-5}$ (e.g. Edge & Stewart 1991; David et al. 1993; Wu, Xue & Fang 1999; Xue & Wu 2000 and references therein). This is often interpreted as being due to the preheating of IGM by supernova explosions and/or AGNs before the IGM falls into the dark matter potential of groups and clusters (e.g. Kaiser 1991; Cavaliere, Menci & Tozzi 1997; Balogh, Babul & Patton 1999; but see Bryan 2000). Consequently, the employment of the observed $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations in the estimate of the XRB from the IGM in groups and clusters may allow us to include the non-gravitational heating effect.
We determine the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations for groups and clusters using the non-exhausted catalog of X-ray groups and clusters compiled by Wu et al. (1999) and Xue & Wu (2000). The updated catalog contains 55 groups and 191 clusters whose X-ray temperature and luminosity are both available, and the corresponding $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relation in the 0.5-2.0 keV band is shown in the upper panel of Figure 1. In order to properly take the intrinsic dispersion of the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ distribution into account in our estimate of XRB below, we smooth the observed data points in the following way: For any given X-ray luminosity $L_{\rm x}$, we construct a subsample of ten neighbor groups/clusters that have the minimum value of $|L_{\rm x,i}-L_{\rm x}|$. The average temperature of the ten groups/clusters weighted by their measurement uncertainties ($\Delta T_i$) is used as the central temperature $T$ at $L_{\rm x}$: $T=\sum (T_i/\Delta T_i^2)/\sum (1/\Delta T_i^2)$. The temperature scatter around the central temperature $T$ is described by the standard deviation of the ten data points $(T_i,i=1,\cdot\cdot\cdot,10)$ from $T$. The reconstructed $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relation over a broad X-ray luminosity range of $4.5\times10^{40}<L_x<6.8\times10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the 0.5-2.0 keV band is displayed in the lower panel of Figure 1. Nevertheless, at the lower and higher X-ray luminosity ends beyond the above range the best fit $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations for groups and clusters will be used, which read $$\begin{aligned}
kT=10^{0.41\pm0.13}L_{\rm x}^{0.19\pm0.06}\, & {\rm groups};\\
kT=10^{0.73\pm0.05}L_{\rm x}^{0.41\pm0.01}\, & {\rm clusters},\end{aligned}$$ where $L_{\rm x}$ and $kT$ are in units of $10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$ (in the 0.5-2.0 keV band) and keV, respectively. The two relations intersect at $L_{\rm x}=3.5\times10^{42}$ erg s$^{-1}$, and show no apparent evolution at least out to $z\approx0.8$ (e.g. Mushotzky & Scharf 1997; Della Ceca et al. 2000).
XLF
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Essentially, we follow an approach similar to our recent application of the XLF of clusters for the expectation of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts (Xue & Wu 2001). We model the differential XLF of groups/clusters by the Schechter function (e.g. Ebeling et al. 1997; Collins et al. 1997; Rosati et al. 1998; 2000; Burke et al. 1997; De Grandi et al. 1999): $$\frac{dn}{dL_{\rm x}}=A\exp(L_{\rm x}/L^*_{\rm x})L_{\rm x}^{-\alpha},$$ We consider both the non-evolving and evolving XLFs of groups and clusters, which can be characterized by $A=A_0(1+z)^{\bar{A}}$ and $L_{\rm x}^*=L_{\rm x0}^*(1+z)^{\bar{B}}$. For the non-evolving XLF ($\bar{A}=0$ and $\bar{B}=0$), we adopt the local XLF constructed by Ebeling et al. (1997) in the 0.5-2 keV band: $A_0=3.32_{-0.36}^{+0.33}\times10^{-7}$ Mpc$^{-3}$ ($10^{44}$ ergs s$^{-1}$)$^{\alpha-1}$, $L_{\rm x0}^*=5.70^{+1.29}_{-0.93}\times10^{44}$ ergs s$^{-1}$ and $\alpha=1.85^{+0.09}_{-0.09}$, where the Hubble constant is $h=0.5$. For the evolving XLF, we use the evolution parameters given by Rosati et al. (2000) for an Einstein-de-Sitter universe: $\bar{A}\approx0$ and $\bar{B}=-3$. We also adopt a combined model or partially evolving XLF suggested recently by Gioia et al. (2001), in which the non-evolving XLF given by Ebeling et al. (1997) is applied to all groups and clusters except for the luminous clusters beyond $z=0.3$ and with $L_{\rm x}\geq1.8\times10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the 0.5-2 keV band. For the latter we choose $\bar{A}\approx0$ and $\bar{B}=-3$. We convert the above XLFs and X-ray luminosity $L_{\rm x,0}$ in the Einstein-de-Sitter universe into the ones in the $\Lambda$CDM model by demanding that the observed number of groups/clusters in a given redshift interval ($z,z+dz$) be conserved and by utilizing the relation $$L_{\rm x}=\left[\frac{D_L}{D_{L,0}}\right]^2 L_{\rm x,0},$$ where $D_L$ and $D_{L,0}$ are the corresponding luminosity distances. Note that the current XLFs are only valid down to $L_{\rm x}\approx1\times10^{42}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the 0.5-2 keV band. Nevertheless, in order to test how significant the X-ray emission from the warm gas associated with elliptical galaxies and small groups affects the soft XRB, we will make an attempt to extrapolate the current XLFs to $L_{\rm x,min}=1\times10^{40}$ erg s$^{-1}$.
XRB: expectation
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Integrating the X-ray emission of all the groups and clusters with X-ray luminosity above the threshold $L_{\rm x,min}$ and over redshift space yields the total XRB intensity at a given frequency $\nu$: $$J(\nu)=\int\int \left(\frac{dL_{\rm x}/d\nu}{4\pi D_{\rm L}^2(z)}\right)
\left(\frac{dn(L_{\rm x},z)}{dL_{\rm x}}\right)
\left(\frac{dV}{d\Omega dz}\right) dL_{\rm x}dz,$$ where $dV$ is the comoving volume element: $$\frac{dV}{d\Omega}=\frac{c}{H_0}\frac{(1+z)^2}{E(z)}D_{\rm A}^2 dz,$$ $D_{\rm L}(z)$ and $D_{\rm A}(z)$ are the luminosity and angular diameter distances to groups/clusters at $z$, respectively. Since the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relation and XLFs of groups/clusters are both given in the 0.5-2 keV band, we adopt the optically thin and isothermal plasma emission model with a metallicity of $Z=0.3Z_{\odot}$ by Raymond & Smith (1977) to convert the X-ray luminosity in the 0.5-2 keV band into the X-ray luminosity per unit frequency, $dL_{\rm x}/d\nu$, in which line emission is also included.
We numerically integrate equation (5) for the three different evolutionary scenarios of XLF. It turns out that the difference in the expected XRB between the non-evolving and evolving XLFs of groups/clusters is only minor especially when the scatter of the observationally determined $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations is included (see Figure 3). Essentially, the non-evolving XLF only leads to a slightly larger XRB flux than the evolving or partially evolving models. Note that the current evolutionary models only admit the pure luminosity evolution of clusters. In Figure 2 we display the resulting 0.1-10 keV XRB spectra for the partially evolving XLF, in which the total XRB is also decomposed into the contributions of groups and clusters separated at $L_{\rm x}=3.5\times10^{42}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the 0.5-2 keV band and at different redshift ranges. It is apparent that the predicted hard XRB above $\sim1$ keV is dominated by clusters at intermediate reshifts $0.1<z<1$, while most of the soft XRB is produced by groups, as was naturally expected. In particular, nearby groups within $z=0.1$ make little contribution to the soft XRB, in contrast to the distant groups beyond $z=1$ which can give arise to a large fraction of the soft XRB below $\sim0.4$ keV.
XRB: observational constraints
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We now compare our predicted XRB flux from the IGM in groups and clusters with the upper limits set by current observations.
A considerably large fraction of the hard (2-10 keV) XRB has been resolved into discrete sources, which contribute a total sky brightness of $(1.3-1.75)\times10^{-11}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$ for flux down to $1.4-2\times10^{-15}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ (Mushotzky et al. 2000; Giacconi et al. 2001; Hasinger et al. 2001). The new result from 300 ks exposure of the [*Chandra*]{} Deep Field South gives a value of $(1.46\pm0.20)\times10^{-11}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$ (Tozzi et al. 2001). Combined with the 2-10 keV background of $1.6-2.3 \times10^{-11}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$ (Gendreau et al. 1995; Marshall et al. 1980; Vecchi et al. 1999), the maximum admitted range of the unresolved flux is $(0-1.0) \times10^{-11}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$.
In the soft (1-2 keV) band, the total contribution of the resolved sources for flux greater than $2\times10^{-16}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ amounts to $3.38-3.55 \times10^{-12}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$ (M$^{\rm c}$Hardy et al. 1998; Hasinger et al. 1998; Mushotzky et al. 2000; Giacconi et al. 2001; Tozzi et al. 2001). The percentage contribution from the discrete and other sources to the soft XRB depends upon the uncertainty on the evaluation of the total soft XRB which varies from the lowest value $3.7 \times10^{-12}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$ (Gendreau et al. 1995), the mid-range value $4.2 \times10^{-12}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$ (Miyaji et al. 1998), to the largest value $4.4 \times10^{-12}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$ (Chen, Fabian & Gendreau 1997). We adopt two additional upper limits to the soft XRB from diffuse IGM given by Bryan & Voit (2001): $1.8 \times10^{-12}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$ and $6.8 \times10^{-13}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$ deg$^{-2}$ for the 0.5-2 keV and 0.1-0.4 keV bands, respectively. These values are derived by combining the XRB intensity measurements (Gendreau et al. 1995; Barcons, Mateos & Ceballos 2000) and the deep surveys with [*ROSAT*]{} and [*Chandra*]{} (Hasinger et al. 1998; Giacconi et al. 2001), along with a proper modeling of the spectral slope. Finally, the “remaining” fluxes recently discovered by Kuntz, Snowden & Mushotzky (2001) from the [*ROSAT*]{} All-Sky Survey after peeling off various known X-ray foreground and background components can also be used as useful constraints on the XRB from the IGM in groups and clusters, although these remainders may be contaminated by the Galactic halo emission. It should be pointed out that the faint, diffuse X-ray emission from groups and small clusters may also be included in the current resolved 1-2 keV XRB. This arises from the difficulty of clearly separating X-ray emission between nuclear and extended sources at very faint flux level. Moreover, X-ray emission from normal galaxies has become detectable in the recent deep exposure by [*Chandra*]{} and [*XMM*]{} (Mushotzky et al. 2000; Giacconi et al. 2001; Hasinger et al. 2001; Tozzi et al. 2001). Therefore, the current residual soft XRB after the resolved sources are removed may not strictly be used as an upper limit on the X-ray emission from diffuse IGM associated with elliptical galaxies, groups and clusters.
We first perform an integration of the total XRB in terms of equation (5) over four different energy bands, using again the partially evolving XLF, and compare our predictions with the existing limits (Table 1). Note that in the 0.5-2 keV band, we can obtain the total XRB flux simply by integrating equation (5) without the employment of the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations. Essentially, our predicted results in all the four bands are well within the upper limits placed on the contribution from diffuse gas to the XRB. We then compare our expected XRB spectrum from the IGM in groups and clusters with the observational constraints (Figure 3). For the latter, we use the mean strength of the upper limits over different energy bands except for the data of Kuntz et al. (2001). In order to demonstrate how the scatter in the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ distribution (see Figure 1) affects our predictions, we employ the Monte Carlo technique to determine the uncertainty ($68\%$ confidence limits) in the resulting XRB. It appears that the overall XRB produced by the IGM associated with groups and clusters is roughly consistent with the current upper limits. Namely, the X-ray emission from groups and clusters may account for the remaining XRB flux reported by the advanced X-ray detectors ([*ROSAT*]{}, [*ASCA*]{}, [*Chandra*]{}) after the discrete sources are removed. Note that the upper limits given by Kuntz et al. (2001) at $\sim0.2$ keV significantly exceed our predictions, which can be attributable to the contribution from the Galactic halo emission.
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[ccc]{} Energy range & Upper limit$^a$ & Prediction$^a$\
2 - 10 keV & 0 - 21 & 1.1 - 1.9\
1 - 2 keV & 0.31 - 2.1 & 0.8 - 1.1\
0.5 - 2 keV & 3.7 & 2.4\
0.1 - 0.4 keV & 1.4 & 1.4 - 5.2\
We have also compared our predictions with the simulated XRB by Phillips et al. (2000) (Figure 3). For the latter, the contributions from nearby, massive clusters ($z\leq0.2$ and $M\geq5.5\times10^{14}h^{-1}M_{\odot}$) were removed. This last restriction will not significantly alter our predictions because the effect of the nearby, massive clusters on the total XRB is rather small. It appears that there is good agreement between our analytical results, based on the XLF and $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations of groups and clusters, and their numerical simulations over the entire energy band.
Discussion and conclusions
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We have provided an alternative, semi-analytic model to the estimate of the contribution from the warm-hot IGM associated with groups and clusters to the XRB, based purely on the observationally determined $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations and XLF of groups and clusters. This has enabled us to naturally include both gravitational and non-gravitational heating influence without detailed knowledge of the heating processes. The resulting 0.1-10 keV XRB spectrum is roughly consistent with the upper limits set by current X-ray observations on the contribution from diffuse gas to the XRB (e.g. Hasinger et al. 1998; 2001; Mushotzky et al. 2000; Giacconi et al. 2001; Tozzi et al. 2001). It is thus possible that the residual flux, after the discrete sources are removed from the total XRB, is (at least partially) due to the X-ray emission from the warm-hot IGM associated with groups and clusters. If confirmed, this would have profound implications for our understanding of the missing baryons and their distributions.
As compared with previous semi-analytic models which essentially employ the PS mass function and the mass - temperature relation in terms of virial theorem, combined with either an oversimplified scenario for the IGM distribution in dark halos (e.g. Pen 1999) or the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relation for clusters (Kitayama et al. 1998; Wu et al. 2001), our semi-analytic approach provides a more straightforward and realistic way to calculate the XRB from the warm-hot IGM associated with groups and clusters. Indeed, we have made no assumption about the dynamical and heating properties of the IGM, and included the intrinsic dispersion, if any, in the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relations due to different physical mechanisms among different groups and clusters. The uncertainty in our predictions, aside from the dispersion of the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ distribution, thus arises mainly from the XLF of groups and clusters: Firstly, we have extrapolated the current XLF and its evolutionary model to $z>1$ where the XLF evolution of clusters is poorly constrained. Our main prediction would remain unchanged only if the evolutionary scenario shown by current observations (e.g. Rosati et al. 2000; Gioia et al. 2001; references therein) is correct, i.e., the bulk of clusters exhibit no significant evolution out to $z\sim1$ and the evolution only commences for the most luminous clusters, and if such a scenario should also be applicable to groups. On the other hand, we have shown that the major uncertainty in the predicted XRB arises from the scatter of the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relation rather than from the current available evolutionary models of XLF. At this point, it is unlikely that the XBR can be used for the purpose of testing the evolution of XLF for groups and clusters. Second, we have extrapolated the current XLF to less massive systems with X-ray luminosity down to $L_{\rm x}\approx1\times10^{40}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the 0.5-2 keV band. This limit even allows us to include the contribution from the X-ray emission of elliptical galaxies, which would affect the estimate of the 0.1-1 keV XRB. Unfortunately, there has been no observational justification for such an extrapolation, except for the consistency between our prediction and the numerical result by Phillips et al. (2000). Third, we have adopted a less vigorous approach to converting the XLF in an Einstein-de-Sitter universe to that in $\Lambda$CDM model. A sophisticated treatment of the problem is to reconstruct the XLF of groups and clusters and its evolutionary model in the $\Lambda$CDM model from real data, and then proceed to the computation of the XRB from the IGM in groups and clusters, as we have done for the $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relation.
Overall, the XRB spectrum in the 0.1-10 keV band estimated from the available $L_{\rm x}$-$T$ relation and XLF of groups and clusters is consistent with the residual XRB reported by current observations after the source contributions are removed. This would be of great significance for future detection of the missing baryons which are believed to exist in the form of the warm-hot IGM associated with poor clusters and groups that are further embedded in large-scale structures.
We gratefully acknowledge the constructive suggestions by an anonymous referee that greatly improved the presentation of this work. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China, under Grant No. 19725311 and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, under Grant No. NKBRSF G19990754.
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Optimization of a Precolumn OPA Derivatization HPLC Assay for Monitoring of l-Asparagine Depletion in Serum during l-Asparaginase Therapy.
A method for monitoring l-asparagine (ASN) depletion in patients' serum using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with precolumn o-phthalaldehyde and ethanethiol (ET) derivatization is described. In order to improve the signal and stability of analytes, several important factors including precipitant reagent, derivatization conditions and detection wavelengths were optimized. The recovery of the analytes in biological matrix was the highest when 4% sulfosalicylic acid (1:1, v/v) was used as a precipitant reagent. Optimal fluorescence detection parameters were determined as λex = 340 nm and λem = 444 nm for maximal signal. The signal of analytes was the highest when the reagent ET and borate buffer of pH 9.9 were used in the derivatization solution. And the corresponding derivative products were stable up to 19 h. The validated method had been successfully applied to monitor ASN depletion and l-aspartic acid, l-glutamine, l-glutamic acid levels in pediatric patients during l-asparaginase therapy. |
Increasing life is called Fortune
Mind controlling energy is called Power
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 55
The physical body is just a moment of thought.
Master Nan Huai-Chin
Introduction:
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This book is in part a kit- a combination of a book to read, a series of videos to watch and follow, audios to listen to, and a workbook to record your own impressions, history and thoughts. I hope that the entire kit will be comprehensive and easy to understand. If it isn’t I’m sure you will let me know.
First of all, let me describe the intention of this project. It is to help you to attain maximum health so you can live out your complete life span (barring accidents). I do not claim that the ideas and practices on offer will extend your life span, only that they can help you to live out the life span that is allocated to you.
There are many ways to reduce life span, and most of us do things that do take years off our potential life. The most obvious of these are smoking, excessive drinking and taking drugs, and enduring stress. Added to these are not taking enough rest, eating poorly and so on. No surprises there. We can also reduce life span by living dangerously, taking unnecessary risks. We may decide that life would have little fun unless we indulged in all or some of these activities. That’s the trade-off that each of us needs to make. Do we value life by its extent, by how long we have it, or by its quality, how exciting or fulfilling it is. This is also an equation each of us must make for ourselves. No one can tell us how we should live. All that I can do is to tell you what I have learned about life and health. What you do with that information is your concern.
There is an emphasis in the guided meditation to getting the breath down as deep as possible into the belly. This is because one third of all people breathe only into their chest and consequently their breathing is shallow, and the amount of oxygen taken into the body is reduced. It also means that when we are under stress, and the breath is affected, even held, it becomes even shorter and shallower, which can easily lead to hyperventilation.
The body can utilise much more oxygen than most people inhale, and more oxygen is better for the body’s functioning, since the oxygen molecules make their way into every cell of the body. There they are integral to the creation of energy.
Even I , who was an athlete when young, and have been doing meditation and yoga for 20 years, found that my breath was restricted at the diaphragm once I started doing some concentrated belly breathing. Since the diaphragm is the second most important muscle in the body after the heart, it’s wise to try to make it as healthy and free-flowing as possible.
I am currently researching a book on health, well-being and longevity and one of the objects of the book is to be very practical, by giving exercises on DVD that people can follow. I wanted to have a series of yoga asanas that readers could do in order to discover where their body was stiff or in pain so that the work could be targeted at those places. I asked my wife, a yoga teacher, to help me devise these exercises, but she said that it’s better to start with breathing, since that is primary, and the asanas an be looked at later.
This led me to consider my own practise. Although I have been doing yoga, tai chi and meditation for many years I have never actually concentrated on belly breathing and testing my own breath patterns. I knew that I breathed into the belly, but I was also aware that for many years I felt a restriction or obstruction around the middle of my body just where the diaphragm is. I had worked on trying to loosen this tension, but had I actually eliminated it?
My wife had started learning Transformational Breathing, a training co-devised by Judith Kravitz in the US. She had Judith’s book Breathe Deep Laugh Loudly and an audio CD, so I decided to read the book and do the exercises, without a teacher (having a teacher would have been preferable). Transformational Breathing exercises ask you to breath into the belly through the mouth and not the nose, and I found that after a short time doing the exercise my head felt light-headed. According to the book, this may have been due to the balance in my body between oxygen and nitrogen. When you breathe through the mouth and try to fill the belly with breath, you are deliberately taking into the body a great deal more oxygen than you normally would. This changes the balance between the nitrogen and oxygen in the body and could be the reason for my light-headedness.
I also realised that although the exercise called for 100 continuous breaths like this on a daily basis, that I got too light-headed to do that many. Clearly more work was needed on my belly breating. |
Ridley Scott’s new series “Strange Angel,” the fourth season of Dwayne Johnson’s “Ballers,” and nine other TV projects have been selected for a total of $69 million in California production tax credits.
The projects were announced Monday by the state film commission in the latest round of its Film & TV Tax Credit Program 2.0. The 11 projects are expected to spend an estimated $339 million in qualified expenditures (defined as wages paid to below-the-line workers and payments to in-state vendors) and will employ nearly 1,500 cast members and more than 2,200 crew.
“Television drives much of the industry’s long-term employment and economic activity, so we’re gratified to see the tax credit program help keep so much TV production here at home,” said California Film Commission executive director Amy Lemisch. “Tens of thousands of cast and crew members, as well as support service vendors, are working in California on TV projects thanks to the expanded tax credit program.”
Lemisch also pointed to data released Nov. 30 by FilmL.A., which showed that soundstages in its jurisdiction have an average occupancy rate of 96% with nearly 75% of utilization attributed to scripted TV series. Other conditionally approved projects in the current TV allocation round include three pilots (“Euphoria,” “Harmony,” and “Less Than Zero”), and three other recurring series (“S.W.A.T.,” “Shooter,” and “The Orville”) that are already in the tax credit program and have been renewed for another season of in-state production.
The commission said Monday that a total of 52 TV projects have been accepted into Program 2.0 since it launched in 2015. The 2015-16 fiscal year marked a major expansion for the tax credit program, aimed at halting the erosion of California-based production to states with bigger incentives, such as Georgia and New York. The annual allocation rose from $100 million to $330 million, and applications are ranked on how many jobs they will produce, rather than being selected by lottery.
The program expansion, enacted in 2014 by California lawmakers, covers five years and $1.55 billion in tax credits. The credit is set at 20%, but producers are eligible for an additional 5% “uplift” if they shoot outside the L.A. zone, commit to music scoring or music track recording in the state, or to do visual effects in California.
NBC’s drama “Timeless” announced in June that it was shifting production for its second season from Vancouver to California — the 12th TV series to relocate to California in order to receive the state’s production tax credit. “Timeless” joined three other TV series (“Lucifer,” “Legion,” and “Mistresses”) to relocate from Canada to California under the commission’s Program 2.0.
The expansion of the program also included a provision for big-budget studio movies to apply for the credit. Disney’s “Wrinkle in Time” was the first title to receive the allocation. The California Film Commission, which administers the program, selected “Call of the Wild” and Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Charles Manson movie as recipients of the state’s production tax credit on Nov. 20. They join other big-budget projects for California, including “Captain Marvel,” “Island Plaza,” “Midway,” “Ad Astra,” and “Bumblebee.” |
You are invited to attend the ***FREE*** alternative fueled vehicle roadshow event in Miami.
A statewide vehicle showcase tour and series of presentations on the economics and practicality of implementing alternative fuel transportation solutions for industry and government, using natural gas, propane, biofuels, and electric vehicles.
Registration is required for this free event:
You are invited to attend the ***FREE*** alternative fueled vehicle roadshow event in Miami.
A statewide vehicle showcase tour and series of presentations on the economics and practicality of implementing alternative fuel transportation solutions for industry and government, using natural gas, propane, biofuels, and electric vehicles.
Opposition building to South Dade expressway. Our question is, can it build soon enough? (Miami Herald) Signs to alert Broward drivers to conditions, travel times on six major roads. $9M to know the existing conditions seems steep considering the advent of crowdsourced alternatives such as Waze or [...]
Opposition building to South Dade expressway. Our question is, can it build soon enough? (Miami Herald)
Signs to alert Broward drivers to conditions, travel times on six major roads. $9M to know the existing conditions seems steep considering the advent of crowdsourced alternatives such as Waze or Roadify. To us, the notion that more information to drivers provides the “opportunity to choose alternate routes instead of finding yourself stuck in traffic jams” is downright delusional. (Sun-Sentinel)
Miami Beach Mayor Bower comments on sea level rise. It’s easy to talk the talk but Miami Beach has a nasty history of anti-climate change planning under its belt. We think Baylink, enhanced cycling facilities, and reduced parking minimums would go a long way in showing that Miami Beach is ready to do it’s part in this global system. (South Florida Business Journal)
TRI-Rail From FLL Makes for a Long Morning. Matt Meltzer’s harrowing 3 hour journey from FLL to MIA via public transit. Bottom line: “…in Miami, and especially in Ft. Lauderdale, if you don’t have a car public transport is just not an option.” Ouch. We can do better South Florida. (Miami Beach 411)
Miami Metrorail | New Vehicle Replacement. This seems to be flying under the radar a bit, though ExMiami reports that the vendor (AnsaldoBreda) has a bit of a problem history with clients in meeting delivery and vehicle specs. This should be interesting. (ExMiami)
An SFDB Call To South Florida Bloggers. SFDB is looking for editors. (SFDB)
Elsewhere:
Bloomberg: NYC Bike Share Delayed Until Spring. The much awaited phase 1 launch of NYC’s Bike share program which is set to include 7,000 bikes at 420 stations has be delayed until March 2013 due to software issues. (Transportation Nation)
Times Poll Confirms: 66 Percent of New Yorkers Like Bike Lanes. Bikes as transportation: Good Policy. Good for cities. Good for your health. Good for local business. Now, good for NYC. (Streetsblog NYC)
Beginning January 1 2010 the EPA will begin to collect greenhouse gas (GHG) data from large emitters of heat-trapping emissions under a new reporting system. The new program will cover approximately 85 percent of the nation’s GHG emissions and apply to roughly 10,000 facilities. (EPA) The 2009 Global Energy Outlook from the International [...]
Beginning January 1 2010 the EPA will begin to collect greenhouse gas (GHG) data from large emitters of heat-trapping emissions under a new reporting system. The new program will cover approximately 85 percent of the nation’s GHG emissions and apply to roughly 10,000 facilities. (EPA)
The 2009 Global Energy Outlook from the International Energy Agency has announced a drop in the amount of atmospheric carbon:
In the first big study of the impact of the recession on climate change, the IEA found that CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels had undergone “a significant decline” this year – further than in any year in the past 40. The fall will exceed the drop in the 1981 recession that followed the oil crisis.For the first time, government policies to cut emissions have also had a significant impact. The IEA estimates that about a quarter of the reduction is the result of regulation, an “unprecedented” proportion. Three initiatives had a particular effect: Europe’s target to cut emissions by 20 per cent by 2020; US car emission standards; and China’s energy efficiency policies.
Meanwhile down at the rig: oil companies are hyping recent discoveries of oil in a lame attempt to offset the upcoming release of the Global Energy Outlook 2009. The report will provide a sobering assessment of dwindling supply and its effects on future prices. (NY Times)
…MINOR COASTAL FLOODING EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ALONG PORTIONS OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COAST NEAR TIMES OF HIGH TIDE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS… TIDES ALONG BOTH THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COAST HAVE BEEN RUNNING BETWEEN A HALF A FOOT TO A FOOT ABOVE NORMAL. THIS IS DUE TO AN APPROACHING NEW MOON…AND [...]
From NOAA:
...MINOR COASTAL FLOODING EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ALONG PORTIONS OF
THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COAST NEAR TIMES OF HIGH TIDE OVER THE NEXT
FEW DAYS...
TIDES ALONG BOTH THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COAST HAVE BEEN RUNNING
BETWEEN A HALF A FOOT TO A FOOT ABOVE NORMAL. THIS IS DUE TO AN
APPROACHING NEW MOON...AND THE LUNAR PERIGEE...OR WHEN THE MOON
MOVES CLOSER TO THE EARTH.
MINOR COASTAL FLOODING WAS REPORTED THIS MORNING IN PORTIONS OF
MIAMI BEACH AS WELL AS MARCO ISLAND. WATER COVERED PORTIONS OF
ROADWAYS...BUT NO ROADS WERE REPORTED AS IMPASSABLE.
IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH RAIN TO RESULT IN THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE
SERIOUS FLOODING ALONG THE COAST...ESPECIALLY IN MIAMI BEACH. THE
BEST CHANCE OF RAIN AT MIAMI BEACH IS ON FRIDAY...WHEN A TROUGH
IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA FROM THE EAST.
Lunar Perigee? Sounds fishy. Even if the flooding is related to a lunar phenomenon, it still brings to light the fact that Miami Beach is within half a foot of serious flooding that can cause problems, and disrupt daily life. What is Miami Beach’s plan to deal with the flooding? The picture below (again from Transit Miami reader Justin Falango) was taken this morning on West End Ave. Justin has been in the market for an apartment for a while now, and the flooding (now and back in June) worried him enough that he is deciding against buying on the beach. Too bad the beach has repeatedly killed Bay Link – that would go a long way to convince people like Justin who have to commute everyday from the beach that even if flooding becomes a fact of life on Miami Beach that they have a safe (and dry) way of getting to the mainland.
This wasn’t caused by a huge rainstorm or hurricane, just a normal high tide in September. Our watertable reaches its highest level in October (due to the rainy season). Now this wouldn’t be a problem except that the Miami Beach storm drainage system is already at or below the high water level (and it is a gravity based system). It is very telling that on days like today, when it hasn’t rained, water creeps comes backward through the drain at high tide. Consider what will happen when it does rain. It won’t take a huge rainstorm (like the one this past June) to see the streets of Miami Beach completely under water. Welcome to the future present Miami Beach.
This is the future map of Dade County with a 4′ rise in sea level. It could happen in 30 years, it could happen in 80 years, but make no mistake, it is coming. Pretty sobering. It’s time to start shoring up our waterfront edges (bayside and riverside) [...]
This is the future map of Dade County with a 4′ rise in sea level. It could happen in 30 years, it could happen in 80 years, but make no mistake, it is coming. Pretty sobering. It’s time to start shoring up our waterfront edges (bayside and riverside) and abandon those areas that simply cannot be saved (like the Northwest ‘lake district’, areas surrounding Homestead Airforce base, parts of the Redlands…etc.). Luckily these areas are not heavily populated. As you can see, the area of highest elevation is on the Miami Rock Ridge, which runs through our population centers, and contains most of our mass transit infrastructure. This is where we need to concentrate our development efforts moving forward. No more westward expansion. To foes of height and density in Miami 21: look at the map. The areas being considered for three story height limits are precisely those that need to accommodate our density.
Adapting to the changes that are coming to our region is the second step in the Climate Change battle. Step 1 is mitigating our contribution to the greenhouse gas problem. This is where transit plays a pivotal role. We cannot sit idly by and let the rest of the world make grand plans to limit ghg’s while we are one of the places most at risk. We need to make some serious changes to the way we move people and goods around Dade County. It is embarrassing how behind the ball we are, and we are all to blame. We need transit alternatives, and we needed them yesterday. Wake up Dade county, this is your future.
PS. I didn’t cut out Miami Beach intentionally (just the way the map is formatted). Unfortunately, its future does not look dry.
Miami-Dade County: where is your climate change adaptation plan?? Seems that New York City is aggressively pursuing a plan to protect its infrastructure from the threat of rising seas.
World-wide, cities in 40 countries depend on dikes or seawalls. The seaside of the Netherlands is protected by storm surge barriers [...]
Miami-Dade County: where is your climate change adaptation plan?? Seems that New York City is aggressively pursuing a plan to protect its infrastructure from the threat of rising seas.
World-wide, cities in 40 countries depend on dikes or seawalls. The seaside of the Netherlands is protected by storm surge barriers big enough to be seen from space. In Venice, Italy, engineers are completing a $7 billion barrier to block high tides that flood the city 100 times a year. In New Orleans, construction crews have started a $700 million barrier to help prevent hurricane floods. In California, it could cost $14 billion to protect 1,100 miles of vulnerable urban coastline with reinforced sea walls and $1.4 billion a year to maintain them, the Pacific Institute reported in March.
To be sure, the city that never sleeps is rarely dry even now. Every day, transit crews pump 14 million gallons of water from city subways. Authorities recently installed $400 million of more powerful pumps. Last year, they started installing higher sidewalk grates — disguised as street art, bike racks and benches — to help keep storm water away from subway rails. (WSJ)
Meanwhile, down here on the farm, in arguably one of the places most at risk of catastrophic damage from climate change, we still don’t even have a mitigation strategy, much less an adaptation plan. I attend the Miami-Dade Climate Change task force meetings, and some opinions are still mixed as to what the plan should say. Some are afraid that being honest about how in danger we really are will further exacerbate our real estate woes, and send people flocking away from the Magic City. I say, it is what it is. We are going to have to live with it, might as well let people know the truth. Our climate change map is much more sobering than New York’s, I can tell you that. At a 1 foot sea level rise, you can say goodbye to parts of South Miami Dade, Key Biscayne, and yes, Virginia Key.
A new report from the National Research Council shows that compact development, if done correctly, can result in reductions of VMT’s of up to 25% – over the next 40 years.
Requested by Congress and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Special Report 298: Driving and the Built Environment: The Effects of Compact Development [...]
A new report from the National Research Council shows that compact development, if done correctly, can result in reductions of VMT’s of up to 25% – over the next 40 years.
Requested by Congress and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Special Report 298: Driving and the Built Environment: The Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions examines the relationship between land development patterns and motor vehicle travel in the United States.
According to the committee that wrote the report, the most reliable research studies estimate that doubling residential density in a metropolitan area might lower household driving between 5 percent and 12 percent. If higher density were paired with more concentrated employment and commercial locations, and combined with improvements to public transit and other strategies to reduce automobile travel, household driving could be lowered by as much as 25 percent. By reducing vehicle use, petroleum use and CO2 emissions would also be lessened.
You can read the full report here. The long time horizon means that while compact development will play an important role in mitigating our carbon footprint in the long term, it will not be enough to slow the brunt of climate change in the short term.
There are several reasons why widening highways is usually a futile strategy to combat traffic congestion. For one, highway widening projects are costly and time consuming. It has also been well documented that adding new capacity to highways creates induced demand, which essentially means it [...]
There are several reasons why widening highways is usually a futile strategy to combat traffic congestion. For one, highway widening projects are costly and time consuming. It has also been well documented that adding new capacity to highways creates induced demand, which essentially means it will generate more traffic on the road. Consequently, over time the widened highway gradually fills up with additional traffic until it reaches a threshold, and is congested again. Of course, just the principle of widening highways is flawed because it encourages driving, it’s unsustainable, and it raids funds for other major transportation projects that are much more sustainable, such as transit. However, research from the Sightline Institute points out that widening highways also leads to substantial increases in GHG emissions in the mid-to-long term.
Conventional dogma preached by road-widening enthusiasts claims that additional capacity will decrease GHG emissions by easing traffic congestion. According to Sightline, this limited benefit only holds true in the short term, if at all. In the medium-to-long term, however, adding one mile of new highway lane will result in an increase in CO2 emission by more then 100,000 tons over 50 years. To quantify that, at current rates of emissions, 100,000 tons of CO2 equals the 50-year climate footprint of about 100 typical U.S. residents.
I was up in Brevard County yesterday on business when I got caught in the middle of pure pandemonium on my way home. On my back country drive (I-95 and US-1 were closed, so I was seeking an alternate route) I witnessed people watering their homes/businesses, school evacuations, and extreme congestion.
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I was up in Brevard County yesterday on business when I got caught in the middle of pure pandemonium on my way home. On my back country drive (I-95 and US-1 were closed, so I was seeking an alternate route) I witnessed people watering their homes/businesses, school evacuations, and extreme congestion.
Effective April 18, 2008
In response to improved regional water resource conditions, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) modified emergency water restrictions across most of the agency’s 16-county region, transitioning from one-day-week landscape irrigation restrictions to two-day-a-week watering.
Guess not! What’s the deal with having a green lawn anyway?
Update: Well apparently the fires were deliberately set and not a direct cause of the lack of rain, but still, whose bright Idea was it to ease the water restrictions when we are still well below our normal rain levels?
The following article below is a reprint from NPR.org on April 1, 2008:
Atlanta Family Slashes Carbon Footprint
Atlanta resident Malaika Taylor used to live the typical suburban life — the kind that helps make America the world’s top contributor to climate change. But four years ago, fed up with [...]
The following article below is a reprint from NPR.org on April 1, 2008:
Atlanta Family Slashes Carbon Footprint
Atlanta resident Malaika Taylor used to live the typical suburban life — the kind that helps make America the world’s top contributor to climate change. But four years ago, fed up with commuting, Taylor and her 11-year old daughter, Maya, moved from the suburbs to the city.
And their “carbon footprint” shrank.
“There are some weekends when I don’t even use my car,” says Taylor.
The Taylors live in Atlantic Station, a new community in mid-town Atlanta designed to put jobs, homes and shopping all in one place, close to public transportation. Developments like Atlantic Station are springing up around the country, and proponents say they help cut car pollution, including the carbon dioxide that contributes to climate change.
Atlantic Station: A Climate Change Model
On a typical morning, Taylor walks her daughter to the bus stop and then keeps going 10 minutes to her job as a property manager at an apartment complex.
“I have to admit, if it’s raining or really cold, I drive,” she says.
Her mile-long commute is unusual in Atlanta, where the federal government estimates the average resident drives 32 miles each day. Early surveys show the people who live and work in Atlantic Station drive about a third that much, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
“We don’t often think of a development as a way to solve environmental problems. But this is really a unique example of kind of growing your way into better environmental quality,” says Geoff Anderson, who helped steer the Atlantic Station project through the regulatory process for the EPA. Anderson now heads Smart Growth America, an environmentally friendly development advocate.
At first, the EPA supported Atlantic Station as a way to help Atlanta fight its unhealthy smog problem. Anderson says now the agency sees the community as a model of how America can fight climate change.
“The two biggest things we do from a carbon perspective are, we heat our houses or cool them, or we drive. And when you combine that, that’s going to add up to a big chunk of your personal carbon footprint,” Anderson says.
A Smaller Impact
Reducing her carbon footprint was not Taylor’s intent when she moved. She just wanted her life back.
But living in the city has cut the small family’s impact on global warming to about half the national average for a family of two.
When they lived in the suburbs, Taylor filled up her gas tank three or four times every two weeks. Now she fills up once in two weeks.
Her other energy bills shrank, too.
In the winter, her gas bill to heat her suburban house was almost $200. Now she uses electricity to heat and cool their compact, two-bedroom loft. That bill tops out around $80, about 20 percent less than the average bill for an Atlanta household.
Apartments often have lower energy costs because of shared walls and smaller spaces. Americans send more than 1 trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air, or about a fifth of the nation’s total emissions. If lots of Americans lived like the Taylors, then the nation’s greenhouse-gas pollution could drop by hundreds of millions of tons.
Of course, the move didn’t come without tradeoffs.
“I can’t afford to buy a house in the city. It took me four garage sales to get rid of enough stuff to fit into my apartment. I thought I purged, and it still wasn’t enough, and I had to purge again,” says Taylor.
Gaining a Life
On one recent rainy afternoon, Taylor drives to pick up Maya at the bus stop. It takes them almost no time and hardly any gas or greenhouse gas emissions.
What’s more, when it’s time to take a trip to the grocery store, it takes only two minutes to get there, and she’s is back home within 15 minutes.
“That’s hands down one of the biggest perks about living here. The convenience, convenience, convenience,” Taylor says.
It’s only 4:20 p.m. Maya has already made a big dent in her homework. And Malaika has a few hours to kill.
“Maybe I’ll work out. Maybe we’ll play a game. It makes a huge difference just in the quality of our life,” Taylor says. “We get to spend a lot more time together. I think she’s happier. I’m happier. It makes life a lot better.”
The Herald is reporting that the county commission overturned Mayor Alvarez’s veto in favor of moving the Urban Development Boundary for a Lowe’s at 8th St and 137th Ave and a retail center at Kendall Drive and (gulp), 167th Avenue (i.e. the Everglades). More sprawl, more self-interests, more incompetence. We’ll have lots [...]
The Herald is reporting that the county commission overturned Mayor Alvarez’s veto in favor of moving the Urban Development Boundary for a Lowe’s at 8th St and 137th Ave and a retail center at Kendall Drive and (gulp), 167th Avenue (i.e. the Everglades). More sprawl, more self-interests, more incompetence. We’ll have lots more on this later. |
tych - we are not below bbb
-----Original Message-----
From: Tycholiz, Barry
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:18 AM
To: Bradford, William S.
Cc: Miller, Stephanie; Grigsby, Mike; Lavorato, John
Subject: PGT Pipeline L/C Request
Bill, FYI, I have received a formal request from PGT asking Enron to provide security on their pipeline. The request is for approx $ 11MM. They are referencing a provision in their tariff that says that if a co. goes below BBB by S&P, then they have the right to ask for security.
I have discussed this request with them and they assure me we are not being singled out. I told them we will review the letter with credit and management and get back to them prior to the deadline imposed on their request( Nov. 20).
A copy of this request will be on your desk first thing this a.m.
regards, BT |
Weekly Review
Former senator John Edwards was indicted for soliciting contributions to his 2008 presidential campaign that were intended for covering up his affair with Rielle Hunter and Hunter’s subsequent pregnancy. Edwards reportedly turned down a plea bargain that included up to six months of prison time. “We will not permit candidates for high office … to circumvent our election laws,” said Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general for the Justice Departmentâ??s Criminal Division. “Itâ??s not illegal to be a pig,” said campaign-finance expert Brett Kappel. Washington PostAn Australian politician apologized for “meowing” at a female cabinet member during a senate debate; Representative Anthony Weiner (D., N.Y.) told reporters he couldn’t say “with certitude” that a close-up photograph of a man in underwear sent from his Twitter account to a female college student wasn’t of him, then later admitted it was; and scientists reported the discovery of a worm that lives close to a mile below the Earth’s surface. They named the creature, which is the deepest-living multicelled organism discovered to date, Halicephalobus mephisto, in honor of Mephistopheles. “We tried to get the title of the paper to be ‘Worms from Hell,’” said one of the scientists. “But Nature didn’t go for that.”Raleigh News-ObserverThe TelegraphCBS NewsNew York TimesChristian Science Monitor
Embattled Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh left for Saudi Arabia so he could be treated for injuries sustained during an attack on the presidential palace, raising hopes that he would agree to transfer power after more than three decades of autocratic rule. Antigovernment protesters celebrated in Sanaâ??a by setting off fireworks and slaughtering cows.New York TimesBritish intelligence announced that its operatives had sabotaged the launch of Inspire, an English-language magazine published by Al Qaeda supporters, by inserting cupcake recipes into an article on bomb-making.The GuardianHackers in China gained access to hundreds of email accounts, including the personal accounts of high-ranking U.S. government officials and military personnel, while U.S. hackers planted a story on PBS’s website claiming Tupac Shakur was alive and well and living in New Zealand. Washington PostThe TelegraphRussian prime minister Vladimir Putin released a report suggesting that sex-crime charges against former I.M.F. chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn were the result of a CIA conspiracy following Strauss-Kahn’s discovery that U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox were “missing and/or unaccounted” for. “I cannot believe that it looks the way it was initially introduced,” said Putin. “It doesnâ??t sit right in my head.”EU TimesFourteen-year-old Sukanya Roy of South Abington Township, Pennsylvania, won the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling the word “cymotrichous,” which means having wavy hair. ESPN
Thirty-two pregnant teenagers and a doctor were arrested on baby-trafficking charges after a raid on a clinic in Nigeria. The doctor is accused of taking in the pregnant teens, buying their babies for hundreds of dollars, and selling them to childless couples for thousands.ReutersA police detective in Zimbabwe was sentenced to ten days in jail for using President Robert Mugabe’s personal toilet, and Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi Arabian woman arrested for posting a video of herself driving a car on YouTube, was released after pledging not to get behind the wheel again or participate in further protests aimed at earning Saudi women the right to drive.GuardianThe GuardianJack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian, who participated in more than 130 assisted suicides before a 2000 murder conviction, died of natural causes at 83, and Queenie, the world’s only waterskiing elephant, was euthanized at 59. McKnight’sThe Guardian
“He could be one of a million beach-bound, black-socked Florida retirees, not the man who, by some odd happenstance of life, possesses the brain of Albert Einstein — literally cut it out of the dead scientist's head.” |
Recognition and Disclosure of Medical Errors Among Residents in Surgical Specialties in a Tertiary Hospital in Ibadan.
Medical error (ME) remains central to discussions regarding patient's safety and its frequency appears high in surgical specialties because of some peculiarities. We set out to study the perception of surgical residents about medical errors, their ability to recognize them and predisposition to disclosing their errors. This was a cross-sectional study among surgical residents at the University College Hospital, Nigeria. Data about their knowledge, perception and recognition of medical errors were obtained. Knowledge and practice of medical error disclosure was also examined. Each of these was scored on Likert scale and scores categorized. Chi-square test and logistic regression were used for analysis with p at <0.05. 92 residents participated and 11(12.0%) were females. 32.6% of the respondents had less knowledge about medical errors and these were significantly junior residents. Residents with poor perception about ME were 43.5% and recent involvement with ME was significantly associated with good perception about ME. Delay in obtaining consultation and delay in diagnosis were identified respectively as MEs by only 40(43.5%) and 31(33.7) of the participants. While 82(89.1%) agreed that all errors should be reported to the consultant, only 20(21.7%) believed patients/relatives should be informed of all errors, while 49(53.3%) were well disposed to disclosing ME. Only 4(4.3%) residents had a formal training on ME. Knowledge of ME was low among junior residents and residents are less likely to disclose error to patients/relatives. A formal training on ME will impact on their recognition, practice, and disclosure of ME. |
Q:
pandas aggregated data to a numpy array : data structure conversion
I have aggregated data using pandas data frame. Below is some actual data shown and how I aggregated it.
fdf.groupby(['row',col'])['percent'].sum()
http://pastebin.com/R8XWpgtU
What I would like to do is create a 2d numpy array of this (rows = row, columns = col). Any slick way to do this ?
Another way I did something similar was create a pivot table
pivot_table(fdf,values='percent',rows='row',cols='col', aggfunc=np.sum)
In this case I want to convert this pivot table to 2d numpy array. Is there a way for me to index into each cell of this table. If so then I probably will be Ok with the table itself.
A:
Try:
result = fdf.groupby(['row',col'])['percent'].sum()
result.unstack('col').values
Alternately:
fdf.pivot_table('percent', rows='row', cols='col', aggfunc='sum').values
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height: 10px;
background: red;
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--TEST--
Test array_map() function : error conditions
--FILE--
<?php
/* Prototype : array array_map ( callback $callback , array $arr1 [, array $... ] )
* Description: Applies the callback to the elements of the given arrays
* Source code: ext/standard/array.c
*/
echo "*** Testing array_map() : error conditions ***\n";
// Zero arguments
echo "\n-- Testing array_map() function with Zero arguments --\n";
var_dump( array_map() );
// Testing array_map with one less than the expected number of arguments
echo "\n-- Testing array_map() function with one less than expected no. of arguments --\n";
function callback1() {
return 1;
}
var_dump( array_map('callback1') );
echo "\n-- Testing array_map() function with less no. of arrays than callback function arguments --\n";
$arr1 = array(1, 2);
function callback2($p, $q) {
return $p * $q;
}
var_dump( array_map('callback2', $arr1) );
echo "\n-- Testing array_map() function with more no. of arrays than callback function arguments --\n";
$arr2 = array(3, 4);
$arr3 = array(5, 6);
var_dump( array_map('callback2', $arr1, $arr2, $arr3) );
echo "Done";
?>
--EXPECTF--
*** Testing array_map() : error conditions ***
-- Testing array_map() function with Zero arguments --
Warning: array_map() expects at least 2 parameters, 0 given in %s on line %d%d
NULL
-- Testing array_map() function with one less than expected no. of arguments --
Warning: array_map() expects at least 2 parameters, 1 given in %s on line %d%d
NULL
-- Testing array_map() function with less no. of arrays than callback function arguments --
Warning: Missing argument 2 for callback2() in %s on line %d%d
Notice: Undefined variable: q in %s on line %d%d
Warning: Missing argument 2 for callback2() in %s on line %d%d
Notice: Undefined variable: q in %s on line %d%d
array(2) {
[0]=>
int(0)
[1]=>
int(0)
}
-- Testing array_map() function with more no. of arrays than callback function arguments --
array(2) {
[0]=>
int(3)
[1]=>
int(8)
}
Done
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Jânio Quadros
Jânio da Silva Quadros (; January 25, 1917 – February 16, 1992) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as 22nd President of Brazil from January 31 to August 25, 1961, when he resigned from office. He also served as the 24th and 36th mayor of São Paulo, and the 18th governor of the state of São Paulo. Quadros was known for his populist style of government, honesty, and his eccentric behavior. As president, he focused on economic reform and attempted to root out corruption. He also pursued an independent foreign policy, trying to balance relations between the United States and the Eastern Bloc. Although he was elected by a huge margin, his term was marked by uncertainty and political instability culminating in his resignation. This unexpected move caused national chaos, with the presidency being assumed by João Goulart.
Early life
Quadros was born in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul on January 25, 1917, to Gabriel Quadros and Leonor da Silva Quadros. He attended the University of São Paulo, funding his education by teaching geography and Portuguese, and graduated in 1939 with a degree in Law. He subsequently practiced law and taught at the Dante Alighieri Institute until 1945, when he became involved in politics.
Political career
In 1947, Quadros was elected to the city council of São Paulo, of which he was a member until 1950. He was very active in this role, introducing more legislation than any other member. Quadros ran for mayor of the city of São Paulo in 1953. He defeated the well-funded establishment candidate Francisco Cardoso and served as mayor until 1955. During his time as mayor he gained a reputation for honesty and innovation. He frequently visited the poor neighborhoods of São Paulo and listened to the complaints of the residents, which made him popular with the working class. He also succeeded in balancing the city's budget in under a year, adding to his formidable reputation.
In 1955, Quadros resigned in order to run for governor of the state of São Paulo. He defeated the experienced politician Adhemar de Barros, his longtime rival, by a margin of 1 percent. He served as governor until 1959, when he resigned in order to run for president. Quadros' meteoric career can be attributed to his widespread use of populist rhetoric and his extravagant behavior. He appealed to popular frustration with the government by making his campaign symbol a broom, symbolic of his pledge to "sweep away corruption". He was also a very charismatic leader who proved adept at gaining the trust of the public.
Election of 1960
Prior to the 1960 election, Quadros was nominated by several opposition parties, forming a coalition of his National Labor Party (PTN), the Christian Democratic Party and the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Union (UDN). Although he was not an enthusiastic supporter of the UDN, the party supported his candidacy because they lacked a viable alternative. Throughout the campaign, Quadros' clashed with the UDN. His trip to communist Cuba in March 1960 demonstrated a clear disregard for the party's preferred foreign policy. Despite this, Quadros enjoyed widespread popularity with the Brazilian electorate. The ruling coalition, composed of the PSD and PTB, nominated Henrique Lott, who was Marshal of the Brazilian Army. However, Lott was a flawed candidate, whose stubbornness and bluntness cost him potential supporters. Quadros easily won, and his 15.6 percent margin of victory would be the largest margin for a presidential election held by popular vote until Fernando Henrique Cardoso won by 27 points in 1994. Quadros' share of the popular vote was 48%, larger than any previous president. Despite this success, the separate race for vice president was won by João Goulart, Lott's running mate. The election marked a historic moment in Brazilian history. When Quadros took office on January 31, 1961; it was the first time since Brazil became a republic in 1889 that an incumbent government peacefully transferred power to an elected member of the opposition. It was also the first time in 31 years that the presidency was not held by an heir to the legacy of Getúlio Vargas.
Presidency
After his victory in the 1960 election, Quadros spent the three months before his inauguration traveling in Europe and refrained from discussing what he would do as president. His absence was criticized by many of his allies, who wanted him to take a more active role in preparing the administration to govern. Quadros took office on January 31, 1961. In his inaugural speech, he emphasized the issues of government inefficiency, inflation, and debt. Quadros laid the blame for the country's high rate of inflation on his predecessor, Juscelino Kubitschek, and also berated the former president for nepotism and corruption. He quickly replaced most incumbent ministers with members of the UDN and other parties that had supported him. However, the Movimento Popular Jânio Quadros was denied influence in the new government despite its support for Quadros and its prominent role in the campaign. Despite his political skills, Quadros' ability to govern effectively was hampered throughout his presidency by his inexperience with party politics and his small staff.
Domestic policy
At the beginning of Quadros presidency, Brazil was faced with high inflation and large debts to foreign countries. His government announced an anti-inflation program in March which simplified exchange rates and cut public spending. These reforms gained the approval of the IMF, allowing Quadros to successfully renegotiate debts with the United States and Europe. Brazil received a total of 1.64 billion dollars of new loans, greatly mitigating the debt crisis that it had been facing. This represented a major breakthrough for the Quadros administration, as several previous Brazilian presidents had failed to renegotiate the debt. In addition to his campaign against inflation, Quadros attempted to reduce bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption. He launched an anti-corruption campaign and largely bypassed the bureaucracy by issuing Presidential decrees. Unfortunately, these policies undermined morale within the government and alienated many members of Congress. This was exacerbated by his failure to cooperate with his allies, as he rarely consulted the UDN on important decisions and held only two cabinet meetings in his first month in office. As president, Quadros also dissipated his energy on relatively unimportant issues, exerting significant effort to outlaw gambling and ban women from wearing bikinis on the beach.
Foreign policy
Quadros pursued an independent foreign policy, outlining "freedom, independence, and non-interference as his guiding principals. He also tried to pursue closer relationships with African countries, hoping to gain influence in the non-aligned movement. He attempted to show solidarity with newly independent African countries by promoting decolonization and opposing racism. He also tried to promote trade and cultural exchanges with these countries. However, Quadros' government often supported states ruled by white minority governments, such as South Africa, which undermined these efforts. Quadros attempted to follow a neutral foreign policy instead of the Pro-American policies of his predecessors, hoping to play the major powers against each other. However, his willingness to embrace the communist governments of Cuba, China and the Soviet Union alienated many of his supporters, particularly the UND. His decision to award the Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil's highest medal for foreigners, to Che Guevara was particularly controversial, leading many to suspect that he was a communist sympathizer. Quadros' foreign policy was one of the most controversial aspects of his presidency and was a major factor in the decline of his support in congress.
Resignation
In the summer of 1961, Quadros had faced increasing opposition from congress and had alienated many former allies. On August 25, 1961, Quadros unexpectedly resigned, citing foreign and "terrible occult forces" in his cryptic resignation letter. His resignation is commonly thought to have been a move to increase his power, expecting to return to the presidency by the acclamation of the Brazilian people or by the request of the National Congress of Brazil and the military. Based on Goulart's unpopularity with the military and other conservative elements, he likely expected that his resignation would not be accepted. This maneuver, however, was immediately rejected by the Brazilian legislature, which accepted his resignation and called on the president of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, to take office until the vice president, João Goulart, could come back from his trip to the People's Republic of China. Quadros' resignation created a serious political crisis, setting the stage for the 1964 coup. The military, which feared Goulart's leftist tendencies, seemed poised to forcibly oppose his inauguration. The United States was also concerned by the prospect of a Goulart presidency, and considered supporting anti-Goulart forces. Goulart finally took the oath as president on September 7, 1961, although his power was restricted by an amendment to the Constitution passed on September 2, that created a parliamentary system of Government. He was not of the same party as Quadros; at the time, Brazilians could vote for a ticket that had candidates for president and vice president from different parties.
Exile and return to politics
Shortly after his resignation, Quadros left the capital and traveled to Europe, promising to return to Brazil. The political crisis initiated by his resignation culminated in a military coup in 1964. While the military did not allow him to participate in politics, by the 1980s Quadros had made a comeback. He joined the Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, and was candidate for governor of São Paulo in 1982, only to be defeated by André Franco Montoro. Nevertheless, he was elected mayor of São Paulo city in 1985, for the second time, defeating the favored candidate, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, later president of Brazil. Quadros served as mayor until 1988.
Personal life
He married Eloa do Valle in 1939. His daughter, Dirce, was a member of the Brazilian National Congress.
He died of kidney and lung failure and a hemorrhage on February 16, 1992 at the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo after being hospitalized for 12 days.
See also
List of Presidents of Brazil
1964 Brazilian coup d'état
Janismo
References
External links
TIME cover featuring Quadros (June 20, 1961)
Textbook chapter describing Quadros career
Article in Foreign Affairs magazine written by Quadros
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Category:Brazilian Democratic Movement Party politicians
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The Machine Learning Canvas – template and handbook (free download) - louisdorard
https://medium.com/louis-dorard/new-book-the-machine-learning-canvas-45bb860307f5
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louisdorard
I created the Machine Learning Canvas to make it easier to ask the right
questions at the beginning of an ML project, and to save people from wasting
time and money due to a poor design of their ML system. I’m now releasing the
first draft of a book that contains everything there is to know about this
framework, in a 1-hour read.
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Q:
.current_user not working when using scopes?
I'm using Devise and has_scope gem for filtering options and only want show a current users links only.
This works
@links = current_user.links.all
This does not. Can someone explain what i need to do to make this work?
@links = apply_scopes(Link).current_user.all
A:
One solution is to create a scope in the link that takes an argument user_id and in your controller has_scope with no arguments, and just pass a hash to apply_scopes method to override the supplied values of your scope.
Link Model
scope :of_user,->(user_id){ where(user_id: user_id)}
Link Controller
has_scope :of_user
Just call apply_scopes(Link, of_user: current_user.id).all where of_user is just the applied params for the named scope.
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Q:
Redux action creator getting "TypeError: dispatch(...) is not a function" (code attached)?
Any ideas why I am getting the following this "dispatch is not a function" error in my listEventsActionCreator function when it calls "dispatch(listEventsRequestedAction())" ???
If I comment out the lines in this method after the dispatch it actually then works which is strange.
Using react-create-app, with redux, typescript, thunk.
ERROR:
TypeError: dispatch(...) is not a function
CODE:
export function listEventsRequestedAction() {
return {
type: PlannerEventTypes.LIST_EVENTS_REQUESTED
}
}
export const listEventsReceivedAction = (events:PlannerEvent[]) => {
return {
type: PlannerEventTypes.LIST_EVENTS_RECEIVED,
events
}
}
export const listEventsErrorAction = (err:any) => {
return {
type: PlannerEventTypes.LIST_EVENTS_ERROR,
error: err
}
}
export const listEventsActionCreator = () => {
return (dispatch: any) => {
dispatch(listEventsRequestedAction()) // <== ERROR: TypeError: dispatch(...) is not a function
(API.graphql(graphqlOperation(listEvents)) as Promise<any>).then((results:any) => {
const events = results.data.listEvents.items
dispatch(listEventsReceivedAction(events))
}).catch((err:any) => {
// console.log("ERROR")
dispatch(listEventsErrorAction(err))
})
}
}
package.json
{
"name": "planner",
"version": "0.1.0",
"private": true,
"dependencies": {
"@types/graphql": "^14.0.7",
"@types/react-redux": "^6.0.10",
"aws-amplify": "^1.1.19",
"aws-amplify-react": "^2.3.0",
"date-fns": "^1.30.1",
"eslint": "^5.9.0",
"konva": "^2.5.1",
"moment": "^2.22.2",
"moment-timezone": "^0.5.23",
"react": "^16.6.3",
"react-dom": "^16.6.3",
"react-draggable": "^3.0.5",
"react-konva": "^16.6.31",
"react-moment": "^0.8.4",
"react-redux": "^5.1.1",
"react-scripts-ts": "3.1.0",
"redux": "^4.0.1",
"redux-logger": "^3.0.6",
"redux-thunk": "^2.3.0"
},
"scripts": {
"start": "react-scripts-ts start",
"build": "react-scripts-ts build",
"test": "react-scripts-ts test --env=jsdom",
"eject": "react-scripts-ts eject"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@types/jest": "^23.3.10",
"@types/node": "^10.12.10",
"@types/react": "^16.7.10",
"@types/react-dom": "^16.0.11",
"@types/redux-logger": "^3.0.7",
"typescript": "^3.2.1"
}
}
index.tsx
import * as React from 'react'
import { render } from 'react-dom'
import { Provider } from 'react-redux'
import { applyMiddleware, createStore } from 'redux'
import App from './App'
import './index.css'
import rootReducer from './reducers/index'
import registerServiceWorker from './registerServiceWorker'
import { createLogger } from 'redux-logger'
import thunkMiddleware from 'redux-thunk'
const loggerMiddleware = createLogger()
const store = createStore (
rootReducer,
applyMiddleware(
thunkMiddleware, // lets us dispatch() functions
loggerMiddleware // neat middleware that logs actions
)
)
render(
<Provider store={store}>
<App testStr='test' />
</Provider>
,document.getElementById('root') as HTMLElement
);
registerServiceWorker();
A:
The problem is because of the syntax that you followed. You don't have a semicolon after dispatch(listEventsRequestedAction()) and since you follow it up with (API.graphql(graphqlOperation(listEvents) as Promise<any>) while compiling it is evaluted as dispatch(listEventsRequestedAction())(API.graphql(graphqlOperation(listEvents) as Promise<any>) and hence it gives you the error.
Adding a semicolon after dispatch(listEventsRequestedAction()) would work
export const listEventsActionCreator = () => {
return (dispatch: any) => {
dispatch(listEventsRequestedAction());
(API.graphql(graphqlOperation(listEvents)) as Promise<any>).then((results:any) => {
const events = results.data.listEvents.items
dispatch(listEventsReceivedAction(events))
}).catch((err:any) => {
// console.log("ERROR")
dispatch(listEventsErrorAction(err))
})
}
}
P.S. The semicolon is not required in Javascript and would not cause a
js error on its own. It could however cause an error if concatenating
with other scripts.
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Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis as a component of massive fibrosis in cases of chronic pneumoconiosis. An autopsy study of 79 cases.
Histopathological analysis of massive fibrosis (MF) in lungs obtained from 79 patients with chronic pneumoconiosis revealed evidence of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (AP) in a surprisingly high proportion of the cases (73%), suggesting that AP may be a usual constituent of MF in chronic pneumoconiosis. AP is not a specific morphological counterpart responsible for acute silicosis. In order to explain the occurrence of AP in MF, several hypothetical mechanisms are proposed and discussed. |
For centuries, we as a race have been migrating to different lands, exchanging goods, services and ideas to improve our lives. "With globalization our interconnectedness and interdependence have grown."
Does it really matter if you recycle that plastic bottle? Does it matter where you buy your clothes or where they are made? Does taking public transit really make a difference? If you believe that our choices affect our lives and the lives of others, it does.
The compact between U.S. corporations and U.S. labor is over. Especially in light of all that has transpired since 2008, why should anyone believe that catering to the interests of U.S. corporations located in or returning from China will make American workers any better off?
Whether the American Jobs Act ultimately passes or is killed in Congress by the GOP, simply having the debate about the role government should play in the economy is critically important on the eve of the 2012 elections.
Fostering a nation of creative thinkers will serve the U.S. well in an increasingly global and technological economy. After all, one of the most successful and profitable companies in the world is Apple.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change. |
#include <isofs-modules>
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---
abstract: 'Modern distributed systems often rely on so called weakly consistent databases, which achieve scalability by weakening consistency guarantees of distributed transaction processing. The semantics of such databases have been formalised in two different styles, one based on abstract executions and the other based on dependency graphs. The choice between these styles has been made according to intended applications. The former has been used for specifying and verifying the implementation of the databases, while the latter for proving properties of client programs of the databases. In this paper, we present a set of novel algebraic laws (inequalities) that connect these two styles of specifications. The laws relate binary relations used in a specification based on abstract executions to those used in a specification based on dependency graphs. We then show that this algebraic connection gives rise to so called robustness criteria: conditions which ensure that a client program of a weakly consistent database does not exhibit anomalous behaviours due to weak consistency. These criteria make it easy to reason about these client programs, and may become a basis for dynamic or static program analyses. For a certain class of consistency models specifications, we prove a full abstraction result that connects the two styles of specifications.'
author:
- Andrea Cerone
- Alexey Gotsman
- Hongseok Yang
- Andrea Cerone
- Alexey Gotsman
- Hongseok Yang
bibliography:
- 'bibliography2.bib'
title:
- 'Algebraic Laws for Weak Consistency (Extended Version)'
- Algebraic Laws for Weak Consistency
---
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Q:
Making a PUT request through Robot Framework using Requests Library
Background:
New to Robot Framework but attempting at using the RequestsLibrary together with OperatingSystem and XML to automate some REST testing on RIDE.
Requirement:
Sending file with XML body and validate after receiving the XML response from the server.
Problems:
Current setup leading to 500 internal server error.
Is it possible to send the content of the XML file to the server instead of the XML file itself?
Is it possible to return the content of the response from the server instead of the response code?
Have spent a while searching already for pointers but not found anything overly helpful with most requests and response dealing with JSON instead of XML.
Ideal flow:
1)extract XML file content from file in directory
2)send as POST request to server URL
3)wait for response
4)return this XML response and validate it is correct
CODE:
*** Settings ***
Library Collections
Library RequestsLibrary
Library XML
Library Selenium2Library
Library OperatingSystem
*** Test Cases ***
Example 1
Create Session Gateway https://GatewayURL.asmx
${file_data}= Get Binary File ${CURDIR}${/}data.xml
${files}= Create Dictionary ${file_data}
${response}= Post Request Gateway /post files=${files}
I've added to code using the helpful suggestions.
Post request data in dictionary SAMPLE
Create Session Gateway URL HERE debug=3
${file_data}= Get Binary File ${CURDIR}${/}data.xml
&{data}= Create Dictionary name=${file_data.strip()}
&{headers}= Create Dictionary Content-Type=text/xml
${resp}= Post Request Gateway /post data=${data} headers=${headers}
Should Be Equal As Strings ${resp.status_code} 200
N.B URL HERE used as unfortunately not able to share this URL.
Failure is as follows. Not sure why data is text/xml when this has been used for the header. This is causing a server 500 error.
Post Request using : alias=Gateway, uri=/post, data=<text/xml>, headers={u'Content-Type': u'text/xml'}, files=None, allow_redirects=True
500 != 200
I want to send the content of the XML file not the XML file itself as the server 'wont know how to handle' the file but will be able to 'handle' the actual content of the XML file.
Have you encountered this problem before where RF is not accepting the data argument for the Post Request Keyword? It's always using the Header argument for Data for some reason...
A:
The return of Put Request (and the other request types in the lib) is a Response object, from the python's requests library. As such, you have full access to its attributes and methods, described in the link above.
For example, if you want the payload of the response:
Log To Console ${response.text}
${payload}= Set Variable ${response.text}
# process/verify the server's responose, it's now in the ${payload} variable
(if the server's response is not Unicode, you might want to check the doc for text and explicitly set the correct one)
Another example - if you need a particular header:
Log To Console ${response.headers['content-encoding']}
# or, this will print them all:
Log To Console ${response.headers}
Final example, the response's status code:
Should Be Equal As Strings ${response.status_code} 200
RE: the updated question, how to actually send a file with a PUT request. In the code you've shown, there's this error - you're reading the file here:
...
${file_data}= Get Binary File ${CURDIR}${/}data.xml
Then, storing its contents as a value in a dictionary:
&{data}= Create Dictionary name=${file_data.strip()}
And sending the dictionary as payload:
${resp}= Post Request Gateway /post data=${data} headers=${headers}
I am highly suspicious this is in the receiving service's specs - most likely it expects the contents of the file in the payload; also, it probably expects the filename as name header (but I'm guessing here, adapt to the actual reqs). So the flow is probably:
Create Session Gateway URL HERE debug=3
${file_data}= Get Binary File ${CURDIR}${/}data.xml
&{headers}= Create Dictionary Content-Type=text/xml name=data.xml
${resp}= Post Request Gateway /post data=${file_data} headers=${headers}
Should Be Equal As Strings ${resp.status_code} 200
Anyways, it's a guessing game w/o knowing the service; if that ^ doesn't help, check its logs and talk with the developers - what is the correct format of the request.
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Q:
Replace and increment a line in bash
How can I read, increment and replace a value in a file?
foo="val"
ver="1.2.0001"
...
Now I would like to increment the "0001" to 0002".
A:
Assuming that the patch level is always going to be a string of four digits:
$ ver=1.2.0001
$ printf '%s\n' "$ver" | awk -F '.' '{ printf("%s.%s.%04d\n", $1, $2, $3 + 1) }'
1.2.0002
This uses awk and treats the version as three fields delimited by dots. It prints the first two fields as they are, but adds 1 to the third field and formats the result using %04d (a zero-filled, four digit, decimal number).
This would generate 1.2.10000 if $ver was 1.2.9999.
To store the value back into ver, use ver=$( printf ... | awk ... ).
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At the Campbell County Mayors Meeting in Newport on Tuesday, Greg Fischer of Fischer Homes and son of home builder Henry Fischer presented a pitch for an alternative to the proposed Brent Spence Bridge project called the Eastern Regional Bypass.
The proposal is a 68-mile stretch, including a bridge over the Ohio River, that spans from Franklin, Ohio to Wilder. The group Citizens for the Eastern Bypass has pulled together multiple studies and research to develop a detailed plan for the proposal.
“As a group, we are in support of immediately planning and constructing the Eastern Bypass. It should be built now regardless of the final conclusions of the Brent Spence Bridge project,” Fischer said.
One of the main points of the Bypass proposal is that it aims to alleviate tractor trailer traffic on Interstate 75 through the region's urban center. The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) projects that truck traffic will grow four times as fast as cars by 2040.
OKI supports the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project, not the Bypass.
“The way the OKI, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and the Ohio Department of Transportation tried to solve the solution is expand the existing corridor. In 2007, ODOT decided to expand 75 by one lane. They chose to stick with one and favor mass transit in the event more was needed. I-275 to Dayton is already complete and is already having capacity problems with a lot of growth in Butler and Warren County,” Fischer said. “Whether I-75 gets dealt with and they add an additional lane, it’s going to continue to be an issue.”
According to Fischer’s numbers, adding one lane from Dayton to Walton would cost $4.8 billion. In Kentucky alone, from the Ohio River to Walton, it would cost $2.6 billion, he said.
“In the Florence area, all the interchanges that were built within the last 15-20 years, there is no place to add a lane there without going to the outside and they would have to tear out all of those ramps. All of that would have to be replaced and would be very costly,” he said. “A simple lane addition does not solve the capacity problem. It does nothing for I-71, I-275, or any other major highways including I-471. It offers no opportunity for future job growth and turns I-75 in this case in Northern Kentucky into a parking lot.”
In Citizens for the Eastern Bypass, supporters believe that circumventing traffic east away from the Brent Spence Bridge would allow traffic to flow easier across the entire region.
“What is a better solution if one lane isn’t enough?,” Fischer asked. “It starts with the idea of bypassing regional through traffic. 23 percent of our bridge traffic is regional through traffic, meaning it doesn’t stop in our region—that’s about one lane of traffic on the bridge. Half of that traffic is trucks. This route was selected to make sure that it saves time. On a normal day with no congestion, it saves an average of four minutes for a truck driver and 44 minutes with typical rush hour congestion.”
In the proposal there would be no elevation grade steeper than 3.5 percent on the route.
“It’s much safer for drivers at 70 miles per hour. It maximizes regional transportation and job growth value. The big advantage of this is economic and job growth, especially in Campbell and Clermont Counties.”
Henry Fischer is already developing preliminary grading and engineering plans for the project including the measurements of all overpasses and how much acreage needs to be acquired. The cost for the 68 miles would at $15 million a mile, plus $100 million for the Ohio River bridge which comes out to $1.1 billion for the entire route, according to the presentation.
Analysis by the transportation departments of Kentucky and Ohio dispute that cost.
“There has been some debate about how well we know our costs. The way we went about identifying our costs, was to compare it to other recently built interstate-class projects and adjust for inflation and design differences. We used newly built comparables. Tennessee 840 is a bypass that goes from the south of Nashville as bypass for interstate 40. We also used the Butler County regional highway that was finished around 2000. Our total costs has all the same costs as OKI, KTC and ODOT would have.”
Like his son, Henry Fischer is a civil engineer who built express ways before he built houses. He built over 20,000 homes in multiple communities. The Fischers are working with Richard Crist who is a registered engineer of over 50 years and worked for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.Crist built more than 300 miles of express way throughout Kentucky including rebuilding the Cut-in-the-Hill. These are the experts that have nailed down the cost estimates for the Eastern Bypass.
“We really know our numbers but if there was a chance that we were off 50 percent, it’s still a compelling value,” Greg Fischer said at the meeting. “The head of KTC and ODOT jointly penned a letter stating that this project would cost $5 billion. It just doesn’t make sense. They didn’t spend any time viewing this, they didn’t look at the project. Why would it cost five times as much for us to build our project. They’re not using real numbers.”
In the Eastern Bypass proposal a $100 million dollars would be designated for the Brent Spence Bridge to improve entrance and exit ramps, lighting, and signage.
Campbell County Commissioners Charlie Coleman and Brian Painter each expressed their support for the Eastern Bypass Corridor. No one else at the meeting shared their feelings on the matter.
Written by Bryan Burke, associate editor |
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