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Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species. The findings are reported in the September 5th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.
Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are infectious neurodegenerative diseases affecting the brain of several species of mammals including humans. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is the most common prion disease in humans, along with scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, aka mad cow) in cattle, and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and other cervids.
Unlike conventional infectious microorganisms, the infectious agent in the case of prion diseases consists exclusively of a misfolded form of the prion protein, earlier studies showed.
The researchers now find that prion strains produced by combining normal hamster proteins with infectious mouse proteins can infect hamsters and vice versa. Although they are both rodents, prions from one of the two species normally don’t readily infect the other, a common phenomenon amongst prions known as a species barrier, the researchers explained.
The novel prions they produced not only look different, but they also produce symptoms in the animals that differ from any known strain found in nature, they report.
” We are forcing the system by putting everything together, but this suggests that the variety of possible prions is really very large,” said Claudio Soto of the University of Texas Medical Branch. “We shouldn’t be surprised if new barriers are crossed and new prions arise. There is the potential for a large variety of new infectious prions—some of which may have dramatic effects.”
“The infectous agent is nothing like what we’re used to,” Soto said. “It’s just a protein with a different shape from the normal protein we all have.” Those misfolded and misshapen proteins can spread by causing normal protein to change their shape. Those aberrant forms band together, forming fibrils.
Soto’s team recently reported the generation of infectious prions by amplification of prion misfolding in the test tube. In those experiments, they used a technology called protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) that mimics some of the fundamental steps involved in the replication of infectious prions in living animals, but at an accelerated rate. The method involves placing small quantities of infectious prions with large quantities of the normal protein from the same species together, allowing the infectious form to imprint on the normal form and thereby replicate itself.
Now, they show that the same method can generate new strains when infectious prions from one species are mixed with normal prion proteins from another species. The finding provides conclusive evidence that the imprinting of disease-causing prions on normal forms can overcome species barriers, and doesn’t require any other infectious agent.
This new insight has profound implications for public health, according to the researchers.
” One of the scariest medical problems of the last decades has been the emergence of a new and fatal human prion disease–variant CJD–originated by cross-species transmission of BSE from cattle,” the researchers said. BSE has also spread to other animals, including exotic cats, other primates and domestic cats, after they ate feed derived from diseased cows.
The new method might provide insight into the risk that other prion diseases could spread from one species to another, Soto said. For instance, scientists don’t know whether chronic wasting disease, a condition now on the rise amongst deer in some parts of the U.S., can be transmitted to humans or not.
Test tube studies like this one might help answer that question, and– in the case that the deer prions can make the leap—such studies may inform scientists about what those prions might look like, he said. By studying any new prion strains created in mice with the human prion protein, scientists might also gain insight into the potential symptoms associated with those diseases.
” The data demonstrate that PMCA is a valuable tool for the investigation of the strength of the barrier between diverse species, its molecular determinants, and the expected features of the new infectious material produced,” the researchers concluded. “Finally, our findings suggest that the universe of possible prions is not restricted to those currently known but that likely many unique infectious foldings of the prion protein may be produced and that one of the sources for this is cross-species transmission.”
This research makes it extremely clear that there is an inherent risk in feeding one species to another. As prions are believed to be able to cross the blood brain barrier, if you eat an animal that has infectious prions, even if those prions are not capable in and of themselves of infecting you, there is a risk that they will interact with your own prions to create a whole new variety of infectious prion protein that CAN harm us. Perhaps this is how Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease originated.
The sensible thing to do is to take great care in ensuring our food animals are free of prion disease, all the way down their food chain. Cattle feed is often surprisingly high in animal protein. Feeding animal protein to herbivores seems to me to be an entirely unnecessary risk factor in disease transmission. Equally, just because a prion disease is not known to be transferable in the traditional sense, does not mean that we should be eating infected deer or rabbits.
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture has a handy guide for removing all the parts of a deer that are especially high in prions.
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Generally, it is important for a driver to securely monitor side and rear surroundings of a vehicle when the driver tries to perform a lane change or backing of the vehicle in order to prevent a traffic accident.
For a lane change or backing of a vehicle, a driver generally conducts such operations after monitoring the side and rear surroundings of the vehicle using side and room mirrors and determining that there are no obstacles around the vehicle.
However, inexperienced drivers are not used to checking the side and rear surroundings using the side and room mirrors, thereby resulting in the risk of traffic accidents being caused.
To solve this problem, a related art discloses a camera unit which includes a camera provided on a rear side of a vehicle to take images of the side and rear surroundings of the vehicle, and a monitor provided on an interior of the vehicle to display the images for monitoring of the surroundings of the vehicle. However, when a vehicle is driven in muddy environment or rainy weather, for example, a camera lens may be contaminated with foreign substances, making it impossible for the camera unit to provide a clean display.
Further, particularly for a content management system (CMS) monitoring all of a front, sides, and rear surroundings of a vehicle, a separate driving unit has to be provided to remove foreign substances dirtying the camera lens, causing increased manufacturing cost and complex configuration of the CMS system.
The foregoing is intended merely to aid in the understanding of the background of the present disclosure, and is not intended to mean that the present disclosure falls within the purview of the related art that is already known to those skilled in the art. |
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/**
* Test math exceptions
*/
public class Main {
public static void math_014() {
int expectedThrows = 2;
int i;
long j;
float f = 0.0f;
double d = 0.0;
try { i = 10 / 0; }
catch (ArithmeticException ae) {
expectedThrows--;
}
try { j = 10L / 0L; }
catch (ArithmeticException ae) {
expectedThrows--;
}
/*
* Floating point divide by zero doesn't throw an exception -- the
* result is just NaN.
*/
try { f = 10.0f / f; }
catch (ArithmeticException ae) {
expectedThrows--;
}
try { d = 10.0 / d; }
catch (ArithmeticException ae) {
expectedThrows--;
}
if (expectedThrows != 0)
System.out.println("HEY: expected throws is " + expectedThrows);
else
System.out.println("testMath3 success");
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
math_014();
}
}
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On September 19, Phillip Colbert was driving down an Arizona highway when he noticed that a La Paz County sheriff’s deputy was following him, even though he was staying under the speed limit. As the officer continued to trail him, Colbert took out his cellphone and began recording before the officer finally pulled him over, the Phoenix New Times reports.
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According to the video recorded by Colbert, which has now been viewed thousands of times on YouTube, Deputy E. Max can be heard telling him that he was pulled over because of an air freshener that was dangling from his rear-view mirror.
The encounter became increasingly tense as Max began accusing Colbert of being “deceptive,” asking him up to eight times if he smokes marijuana, to which Colbert repeatedly replied no.
After asking Colbert what his father does for work, Max then asked if he has any cocaine or heroin and tried to get him to submit to a field sobriety test and vehicle search.
“I denied any of the sobriety tests,” Colbert told Phoenix New Times. “I denied him checking the car, because I felt as soon as he checked the car, he was going to try to put something in there.”
In the end, Colbert was not arrested and didn’t receive a ticket. An additional video shared with New Times shows Max walking up from his patrol vehicle and telling Colbert he was going to let him off with a warning. Colbert said the encounter took up about 40 minutes of his day, and that he has since filed two complaints with the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office, but hasn’t heard back. Colbert said he’s also been in touch with a lawyer in Phoenix regarding the incident.
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In a statement to the Times, Captain Curt Bagby from the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office said that the matter is currently under investigation.
“There are too many violations in the Arizona Revised Statutes for us to monitor everything Deputies pull people over for; I’m not sure specifically about air fresheners, [but] I know Officers will pull people over if their view is obstructed,” Bagby said. “We definitely don’t want to have a ‘knee jerk’ reaction to this, we want to make sure we do everything properly. I won’t be the one doing the investigation so I don’t know all of the specifics yet.”
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RESEARCH STRATEGY: The primary research objective of this proposal is to address how subtypes of enteroendocrine cells change their activity (secretion) or state of differentiation in response to injury signals. A better understanding of intestinal injury repair is critical to VA health priorities; the prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has more than doubled among VA patients since 1998 and at least half of patients won?t experience full mucosal healing with existing therapies. Hormones produced in intestinal enteroendocrine cells (EEC) are altered in patients with IBD and can promote epithelial healing, but there is little understanding of how EEC secretion is regulated during injury. The study of EECs has been limited because they are rare, heterogenous, and not amenable to long-term primary culture with existing methods. To address this gap, we have developed a new experimental system to culture EECs from primary colon samples in long-term monolayers that supports all known EEC subtypes. We have discovered that subtypes of EEC are dynamically altered with a simple experimental injury in vitro. The altered EECs increase the expression of factors that promote intestinal healing. The goal of this proposal is to determine the cellular and transcriptional basis of how subtypes of EEC respond to intestinal injury through altered activity or differentiation. Our Aims are to (1) test the hypothesis that subtypes of EECs are adaptively reprogrammed by injury induced endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, (2) test the hypothesis that microenvironmental injury signals reprogram EECs to increase hormone secretion, and (3) define the transcriptional mechanisms of EEC reprogramming during injury at single-cell resolution. The expected outcome of this work is to establish the new paradigm that EECs undergo adaptive reprogramming during injury which will serve as the foundation for future independent grant proposals. Additionally, we expect to discover novel secreted factors or altered states of differentiation in EEC that would lead to new potential treatments for veterans suffering from intestinal or metabolic disorders. CANDIDATE/ENVIRONMENT: Dr. Brian Muegge is a senior fellow in the Division of Endocrinology at Washington University in St. Louis and the St. Louis VA Medical Center. He completed his M.D., Ph.D. training at Washington University where he performed graduate studies in Dr. Jeffrey Gordon?s laboratory. Dr. Muegge completed his residency in internal medicine at UCSF. He is conducting his fellowship research in the lab of his primary mentor Dr. Thaddeus Stappenbeck and co-mentor Dr. Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi at Washington University. Dr. Muegge has gained experience in intestinal stem cell culture and computational analysis of transcriptional data. He has developed a novel culture system that allows him to model EEC development and injury using primary cells. He now seeks to expand his expertise in new areas including lineage tracing, cell- cell signaling, and single cell RNA sequencing prior to starting his independent research career. CAREER DEVELOPMENT: This award will ensure that Dr. Muegge is able to establish a career as an independent physician scientist in the VA health care system. He has developed a formal 5-year training plan that will expand his scientific skills in intestinal development, in vitro models, and single cell transcriptomics, as well as academic skills in scientific publishing, grant writing, and laboratory management. Dr. Muegge?s training will be accomplished with experimental research, didactics, seminars, and national conferences. He has assembled a scientific advisory committee with the requisite experience and expertise to monitor and support his progress towards achieving his career goals. At the completion of the CDA-2, Dr. Muegge will be equipped with skills in cutting edge technology (single cell transcriptomics, in vitro stem cell culture systems) working in a unique area that sets him apart from others in the field (intestinal endocrine function during bowel injury). He will be uniquely prepared to address fundamental questions that require knowledge of intestinal biology, endocrinology, and computational biology. |
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Q:
Call a function in a component from antoher file in react
I'm learning reactjs and I'm stuck calling a function in another component.
I did:
import moment from 'moment';
import WeatherLocation from './../components/WeatherLocation'
const transformForecast = datos =>(
datos.list.filter(item => (
moment.unix(item.dt).utc().hour() === 6 ||
moment.unix(item.dt).utc().hour() === 12 ||
moment.unix(item.dt).utc().hour() === 18
)).map(item => (
{
weekDay: moment.unix(item.dt).format('ddd'),
hour: moment.unix(item.dt).hour(),
data: WeatherLocation.getDatos(item)
}
))
);
export default transformForecast;
getDatos is a function in WeatherLocation, I exported WeatherLocation but I don't know what if that calling is correct.
WeatherLocation component:
const api_key = "bb7a92d73a27a97e54ba00fab9d32063";
class WeatherLocation extends Component{
constructor({ city }){
super();
this.state = {
city,
primero: null
}
}
getWeatherState = weather => {
const { id } = weather[0];
if (id < 300){
return THUNDER;
}else if (id < 400){
return DRIZZLE;
}else if (id < 600){
return RAIN;
}else if (id < 700){
return SNOW;
}else if (id >= 800){
return SUN;
}else{
return CLOUDY;
}
};
getTemp = kelvin =>{
return convert(kelvin).from('K').to('C').toFixed(2);
}
getDatos = (weather_data) =>{
const {weather} = weather_data;
const {humidity, temp} = weather_data.main;
const {speed} = weather_data.wind;
const weatherState = this.getWeatherState(weather);
const temperature = this.getTemp(temp);
const primero = {
humidity,
temperature,
weatherState,
wind: `${speed}`,
}
return primero;
};
componentWillMount() {
this.handleUpdateClick();
}
handleUpdateClick = () => {
const {city} = this.state;
const urlTiempo = `https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=${city}&appid=${api_key}`;
fetch(urlTiempo).then(primero => {
return primero.json();
}).then(weather_data => {
const primero = this.getDatos(weather_data);
this.setState({primero});
});
};
render = () => {
const {onWeatherLocationClick} = this.props;
const {city, primero} = this.state;
return (
<div className='weatherLocationCont' onClick = {onWeatherLocationClick}>
<Location city={city}/>
{primero ? <WeatherData datos = {primero}/> : <CircularProgress size={60} thickness={7} />}
</div>);
};
}
WeatherLocation.propTypes = {
city: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
onWeatherLocationClick: PropTypes.func
}
export default WeatherLocation;
As you can see I want to reuse getDatos because I'm going to need those variable in transformForecast.
I will appreciate your help, thanks.
A:
Object.Method() call is not allowed here. You need to create a React Stateful or Stateless component and pass props to it from the parent component. Let us say, WeatherLocation is your parent component and transformForecast is the child component. You can do something like this to call your method in WeatherLocation component.
Parent Component:
class WeatherLocation extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
datos: []
};
this.getDatos = this.getDatos.bind(this);
};
getDatos = (item) => {
console.log(item);
};
render() {
return (
<div>
<TransformForecast
getDatos={this.getDatos}
datos={this.state.datos}
/>
</div>
)
}
}
export default WeatherLocation;
Child Component:
const TransformForecast = (props) => {
return (
props.datos.list.filter(item => (
moment.unix(item.dt).utc().hour() === 6 ||
moment.unix(item.dt).utc().hour() === 12 ||
moment.unix(item.dt).utc().hour() === 18
)).map(item => (
{
weekDay: moment.unix(item.dt).format('ddd'),
hour: moment.unix(item.dt).hour(),
data: props.getDatos(item)
}
))
);
};
export default TransformForecast;
Note: This code might not be the right away working code as I'm not sure of the data and API's called. This is just to illustrate to solve your problem.
Hope this helps.
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package org.apache.nifi.web.api.dto;
import io.swagger.annotations.ApiModelProperty;
import org.apache.nifi.web.api.dto.util.TimeAdapter;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlJavaTypeAdapter;
import java.util.Date;
/**
* Details for the controller configuration.
*/
@XmlType(name = "flowConfiguration")
public class FlowConfigurationDTO {
private Boolean supportsManagedAuthorizer;
private Boolean supportsConfigurableAuthorizer;
private Boolean supportsConfigurableUsersAndGroups;
private Long autoRefreshIntervalSeconds;
private Date currentTime;
private Integer timeOffset;
private Long defaultBackPressureObjectThreshold;
private String defaultBackPressureDataSizeThreshold;
/**
* @return interval in seconds between the automatic NiFi refresh requests. This value is read only
*/
@ApiModelProperty(
value = "The interval in seconds between the automatic NiFi refresh requests.",
readOnly = true
)
public Long getAutoRefreshIntervalSeconds() {
return autoRefreshIntervalSeconds;
}
public void setAutoRefreshIntervalSeconds(Long autoRefreshIntervalSeconds) {
this.autoRefreshIntervalSeconds = autoRefreshIntervalSeconds;
}
/**
* @return whether this NiFi supports a managed authorizer. Managed authorizers can visualize users, groups,
* and policies in the UI. This value is read only
*/
@ApiModelProperty(
value = "Whether this NiFi supports a managed authorizer. Managed authorizers can visualize users, groups, and policies in the UI.",
readOnly = true
)
public Boolean getSupportsManagedAuthorizer() {
return supportsManagedAuthorizer;
}
public void setSupportsManagedAuthorizer(Boolean supportsManagedAuthorizer) {
this.supportsManagedAuthorizer = supportsManagedAuthorizer;
}
/**
* @return whether this NiFi supports configurable users and groups. This value is read only
*/
@ApiModelProperty(
value = "Whether this NiFi supports configurable users and groups.",
readOnly = true
)
public Boolean getSupportsConfigurableUsersAndGroups() {
return supportsConfigurableUsersAndGroups;
}
public void setSupportsConfigurableUsersAndGroups(Boolean supportsConfigurableUsersAndGroups) {
this.supportsConfigurableUsersAndGroups = supportsConfigurableUsersAndGroups;
}
/**
* @return whether this NiFi supports a configurable authorizer. This value is read only
*/
@ApiModelProperty(
value = "Whether this NiFi supports a configurable authorizer.",
readOnly = true
)
public Boolean getSupportsConfigurableAuthorizer() {
return supportsConfigurableAuthorizer;
}
public void setSupportsConfigurableAuthorizer(Boolean supportsConfigurableAuthorizer) {
this.supportsConfigurableAuthorizer = supportsConfigurableAuthorizer;
}
/**
* @return current time on the server
*/
@XmlJavaTypeAdapter(TimeAdapter.class)
@ApiModelProperty(
value = "The current time on the system.",
dataType = "string"
)
public Date getCurrentTime() {
return currentTime;
}
public void setCurrentTime(Date currentTime) {
this.currentTime = currentTime;
}
/**
* @return time offset of the server
*/
@ApiModelProperty(
value = "The time offset of the system."
)
public Integer getTimeOffset() {
return timeOffset;
}
public void setTimeOffset(Integer timeOffset) {
this.timeOffset = timeOffset;
}
/**
* @return the default back pressure object threshold
*/
@ApiModelProperty(
value = "The default back pressure object threshold."
)
public Long getDefaultBackPressureObjectThreshold() {
return defaultBackPressureObjectThreshold;
}
public void setDefaultBackPressureObjectThreshold(Long backPressureObjectThreshold) {
this.defaultBackPressureObjectThreshold = backPressureObjectThreshold;
}
/**
* @return the default back pressure data size threshold
*/
@ApiModelProperty(
value = "The default back pressure data size threshold."
)
public String getDefaultBackPressureDataSizeThreshold() {
return defaultBackPressureDataSizeThreshold;
}
public void setDefaultBackPressureDataSizeThreshold(String backPressureDataSizeThreshold) {
this.defaultBackPressureDataSizeThreshold = backPressureDataSizeThreshold;
}
}
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Tuesday Tutorial: Pleated Paper
Pleating paper has been such a fun technique! Here's a repost of my Thank You card, complete with the steps I used to make it. I started with a top-fold 4"x4" Tulip card base. I stamped the "thank you" phrase on the bottom, and then adhered a 1/2" piece of black cardstock above the stamped sentiment. (On yesterday's Mojo Monday Treasures card, I did not use the bottom strip and instead made my pleats flush against the bottom of the card.)
I used my Tombow tape runner for the adhesive strip.
The paper you're going to pleat should be about double the width of your project. Mine measures 1.25"x8".
The black cardstock strip across the top of the pleats (to hide my messiness) measures 3/4"x4". Here is my finished card again.
Give this fun (and easy) technique a try! It may help to practice first with some scrap paper, but it really isn't difficult. If you get creative, post a pleated paper project somewhere online, and leave a link in the comment section so that we can all "ooh and ahh" over your creation! |
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Rights groups urge Pakistan to reject controversial cybercrime bill
ISLAMABAD: International rights organisations including Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Pakistan´s parliament to reject a proposed cybercrime bill which they said threatened freedom of expression and privacy.
The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2015, which was approved last week by a committee and is set to go before a parliamentary vote, contains provisions that allows the government to censor content and criminalise net activity under what critics have described as overly broad criteria.
The bill also permits government authorities access to the data of Internet users without any form of judicial review process, according to the statement which was co-signed by Privacy International, Digital Rights Foundation, Article 19 and others.
The rights groups also expressed concern over a provision that allows the government to share intelligence with foreign spy agencies, such as the United States´ National Security Agency, and the mandating of service providers to retain telephone and email records for up to a year.
One of the most controversial sections authorises the blocking of content if the government considers it “necessary in the interest of the glory of Islam or the integrity, security or defence of Pakistan or any part thereof, friendly relations with foreign states, public order, decency or morality.”
Another section, entitled “spoofing”, appears to criminalise satire with a three year jail sentence.
Gul Bukhari, a Pakistani digital rights activist, said the wording of the bill in its present form was too vague.
“What is against the glory of Islam, what is against relations with foreign countries, what is obscene, what is immoral? It is all up to a designated agency, not a court,” she said.
“This literally gives the government a free hand to be able to censor anything as it wants to.”
She added the bill potentially criminalised the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) which many Pakistanis use to circumvent a ban on YouTube that has been in place since 2012, as well as any form of encryption software.
Free speech campaigners in Pakistan have long complained of creeping censorship in the name of protecting religion or preventing obscenity.
In November 2011, the telecommunications authority tried to ban nearly 1,700 “obscene” words from text messages, which included innocuous terms such as “lotion”, “athlete´s foot” and “idiot”.
In 2010, Pakistan shut down Facebook for nearly two weeks over its hosting of allegedly blasphemous pages. It continues to restrict thousands of online links. |
Overview
Airway or Lung Stents Market Introduction Airway or Lung Stents Market is estimated to value over USD 135 Million by 2029 end and register a CAGR of over 6.5% during the forecast period 2020 to 2029. Based on the type of product, the market is bifurcated into tracheobronchial stents and laryngeal stents. The tracheobronchial stents segment dominates the market owing to a rising number of patients suffering from lung cancer and other chronic respiratory diseases.
On the basis of the type of material, the market is categorised as metal stents, nitinol stents, stainless steel stents, silicone stents, hybrid stents and other stents. Metal stents segment dominated the market in 2018 owing to the advantages associated with them like thinner walls in comparison with silicone lung stents, ease of insertion, ability to adapt the twisted airway and a lower risk of migration or dislodgement.
Based on the end-user, the market is bifurcated into hospitals and ambulatory surgery centres. Airway or Lung Stents Market Regional Insight
The Asia Pacific region is experiencing an ascending development in healthcare industry owing to an increase in the prevalence of lung cancer and other chronic respiratory diseases, increased spending capability of the patient population and expansion of private sector hospitals. Airway or Lung Stents Market Segmentation:
By Product
• Tracheobronchial Stents
• Laryngeal Stents By Material Metal Stents
Nitinol Stents
Stainless Steel Stents
Silicone Stents
Hybrid Stents
Others Stents By End User
• Hospitals
• Ambulatory Surgery Centres By Region
• North America
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• Latin America
• Middle East & Africa Competitive Landscape:
• Tier 1 players- established companies in the market with a major market share
• Tier 2 players
• Emerging players which are growing rapidly
• New Entrants Key Markey Players: Boston Scientific Corp.
Taewoong Medical Co.
Novatech SA
Cook Group
Merit Medical Systems Inc.
Endo flex GmbH
EFER ENDOSCOPY
ENDO-FLEX GmbH
Standard Sci. Tech Inc
Stening SRL FutureWise Key Takeaways:
• Growth prospects
• SWOT analysis
• Key trends
• Key data-points affecting market growth Objectives of the Study:
• To provide with an exhaustive analysis on the global airway or lung stents market by region, by product, by material, by end user
• To cater comprehensive information on factors impacting market growth (drivers, restraints, opportunities, and industry-specific restraints)
• To evaluate and forecast micro-markets and the overall market
• To predict the market size, in key regions (along with countries)— North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East & Africa
• To record evaluate and competitive landscape mapping- product launches, technological advancements, mergers and expansions Flexible Delivery Model: We have a flexible delivery model and you can suggest changes in the scope/table of content as per your requirement
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Q:
Simple data processing
Let's say I got this set of data. After sorting the distribution can be drawn out like below.
M=[-99 -99 -44.5 -7.375 -5.5 -1.666666667 -1.333333333 -1.285714286 0.436363636 2.35 3.3 4.285714286 5.052631579 6.2 7.076923077 7.230769231 7.916666667 9.7 10.66666667 16.16666667 17.4 19.2 19.6 20.75 24.25 34.5 49.5]
My question is how do I find out those values that are among the middle range and record the indices. Using normal distribution or anything else? Appreciate your help!
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A:
Assuming your mid range is [-10 10] then the indices would be:
> find(-10< M & M< 10)
ans =
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Please note that you can acces the values also by logical indexing, like:
> M(-10< M & M< 10)
ans =
Columns 1 through 15:
-7.37500 -5.50000 -1.66667 -1.33333 and so on ...
And to get your mid range, just:
> q= quantile(M(:), [.25 .75])
q =
-1.3214
17.0917
> find(q(1)< M & M< q(2))
ans =
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Note also that M(:) is used here to ensure that quantile treats M as vector. You may adopt the convention that all vectors in your programs are column vectors, then most of the functions automatically treats them correctly.
Update:
Now, for a very short description of quantiles is that: they are points taken from the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of a random variable. (Now your M is assumed to be a kind of cdf, since its nondecreasing and can be normalized to sum up to 1). Now 'simply' a quantile .5 of your data 'means that 50% of the values are lower than this quantile'. More details on quantiles can be found for example here.
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The present invention relates to metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices and, more particularly, to a novel MOS-pilot structure for providing a pilot current which is an accurate representation of the total current then flowing in an insulated gate transistor (IGT).
The total current flowing in an operational IGT consists of two components' the MOS channel current and the bipolar current. The MOS channel current flows in response to a voltage being applied to the gate of the IGT, and the bipolar current is the current which is conducted by the bipolar transistor formed by the lower three semiconductor layers of the IGT when a voltage is also applied to the anode of the IGT.
A known prior art IGT pilot structure that allows sensing of the bipolar current has a base region contact connected to ground through a sense resistor This bipolar pilot is undesirably subject to inaccuracies because the bipolar current may not linearly track the main IGT current due to fluctuations in the gain of the bipolar transistor and because of the recombination of the electrons and holes in the drift region of the IGT substrate due to the lifetime of the majority and minority current carriers. Additionally, during turn-off the bipolar current can develop an undesirably large potential difference across the sense resistor between the IGT's base region and ground relative to the cathode of the main IGT cell and ground which can cause avalanche breakdown of the main IGT cell.
Another IGT pilot structure allows the combined MOS channel current and the bipolar current to be sensed. This MOS-pilot structure has a common contact electrical/ connected to both the emitter region and the base region of the IGT and also through a sense resistor to ground. This pilot structure will more accurately track the main IGT current but can also develop the undesirably large potential difference across the sense resistor during turn-off, which can cause avalanche breakdown of the IGT.
It is accordingly a primary object of the present invention to provide a novel IGT MOS-pilot structure which is not subject to the foregoing disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a novel MOS-pilot for an IGT which is simple in construction and inexpensive to manufacture.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a MOS-pilot for a multiplicity of IGT cell interconnected in a lattice structure by modifying the lattice structure.
These and other objects of the invention, together with the features and advantages thereof, will become apparent from the following detailed specification when read with the accompanying drawings in which like reference numerals refer to like elements. |
Q:
Why can't I upload a sketch while other components/devices are connected to my Uno?
I wanted to make a fairly simple circuit which would flash a series of LEDs in sequence, using my Arduino Uno (more specifically, a SainSmart clone). I wrote my sketch and it compiled fine. After that, I connected 8 LEDS+resistors to pins 0 through 7, and then connected the Uno to my computer via USB.
I've uploaded sketches successfully in the past, so I'm sure my settings and drivers etc. are correct. However, when I tried to upload my sketch this time, it didn't work.
I tried removing everything I'd connected to the Arduino's pins, and suddenly the upload worked again.
Why does this happen? Does it mean I have to disconnect everything from the board every time I upload a sketch?
A:
The problem is specifically pins 0 and 1. Although they can be used as regular digital IO pins, they also serve as the RX and TX pins for the Uno's serial port. The USB connection (for uploading sketches etc.) is routed to the same pins internally. Unfortunately that means anything connected on pins 0 and 1 can interfere with the serial connection, preventing communication via USB.
In short, it's not necessary to disconnect everything when uploading a sketch. It should only be necessary to disconnect anything from pins 0 and 1. Rather than going through that hassle every time a sketch is uploaded though, it may be best just to avoid using those pins unless necessary (e.g. you run out of other pins, or your project needs a serial connection to another device).
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Central venous catheters are frequently used with many patients for the delivery of medication, intravenous fluids, parenteral nutrition, hemodialysis, and the monitoring of hemodynamic variables. Despite its utility, the rate of mechanical complications, such as arterial puncture, pulmonary embolism, air embolism, nerve injury, hemothorax or pneumothorax, and dysrhythmia, is reported to be between 5 and 29% \[[@B1],[@B2]\]. Central venous cannulation is commonly performed using the Seldinger technique, which mandates the use of a guidewire \[[@B3],[@B4]\]. Complications associated with guidewire use include its kinking, looping, knotting and breakage \[[@B5],[@B6]\]. We present a case of kinking of a guidewire during attempted central venous catheterization, and its successful removal under fluoroscopic guidance.
Case Report
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A previously healthy 24-year-old, 67 kg, 164 cm woman, who had been diagnosed with olfactory groove meningioma, was scheduled to undergo craniotomy and tumor removal. Anesthesia was induced, with an effect site concentration of 4 µg/ml propofol and 2 ng/ml remifentanil, by target controlled infusion (TCI); 50 mg rocuronium was given to facilitate tracheal intubation.
While anesthesia was subsequently maintained by TCI of 3 µg/ml propofol and 2 ng/ml remifentanil, insertion of a central venous catheter through the right subclavian vein was attempted with two lumen indwelling catheter sets (ARROWguard Blue, Arrow International INC., USA). The introducer needle was advanced at the infraclavicular site, 1 cm inferior to distal third of the clavicle towards the suprasternal notch, until free aspiration of blood was obtained. A J-shaped guide wire was passed through the venipuncture needle 20 cm beyond the needle tip.
Following removal of the needle, tissue dilator was threaded over the wire. Slight resistance was felt, so the dilator was advanced by further application of force. The catheter was put into the skin after removal of the dilator, but it did not advance any further than 7 cm because of resistance; second and third attempts were unsuccessful. Therefore, it was decided that the wire should be removed. The catheter was removed, but the guide wire could not be retracted, despite firm traction.
Fluoroscopy showed the guidewire to be kinked near the periclavicular area ([Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}). Following discussion with thoracic surgeon, it was decided that removal of the wire, along with the dilator, under fluoroscopic guidance should be attempted. Under fluoroscopic guidance, tissue dilator was inserted to straighten the wire, and the wire was removed along with the dilator. Because significant force was required to withdraw the wire, the inner filament of the wire broke ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}). The gap between the divided ends was bridged by portion of coiled wire-cover that surrounded the inner filament ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}).
Right internal jugular vein catheterization and surgery was performed uneventfully. A postoperative chest X-ray, taken in the surgical intensive care unit revealed no signs of hemothorax or pneumothorax.
Discussion
==========
We present a case of kinking of a J-tipped guidewire during a subclavian vein cannulation attempt. A few cases of knotting, kinking, or entrapment of guidewires have been reported, and previous reports of this complication have performed a simple retraction without fluoroscopic guidance \[[@B7],[@B8]\]. In our case, the kinked guidewire was removed successfully with fluoroscopic guidance.
To establish the etiology of kinking or knotting of guidewire, it is necessary to have an understanding of the structure and physical characteristics of the wires. Guidewire consists of a single inner filament and a surrounding coiled wire. The latter is designed as a helix to form a tunnel for the inner wire, and provides elastic properties. J-shaped curvature is achieved by flattening the round core to a thickness of 0.1 mm approximately 2.5 cm from the tip, which provides flexibility at the J-shaped tip. However, it becomes an area of structural weakness at the junction of the rounded and flattened segments, which can lead to potential breakage \[[@B9]\]. According to testing of guidewires, the welded seams between the inner core and the outer covering at both ends are supposed to withstand tension of at least 17 N (1.73 kg force) before they detach; whereas in its middle section, the complete guide wire should withstand a stress of approximately 290 N (29.57 kg force) \[[@B6]\]. Guidewires are flexible structures, which means they are likely to become kinked or knotted if any force is applied repeatedly or excessively \[[@B6],[@B10]\]. Also, some maneuvers may damage the guide wire; for example, as occurred in this report, excessive pushing tension was required to insert the dilator. Furthermore, the dilator may have been forced to advance in a direction that diverged from the path of the wire, which led to kinking of the wire.
A kinked or knotted guide wire should be removed carefully, as it can induce vessel injury, hemorrhage or embolization of the fractured wire. In some publications, the guide wire was removed by retraction without confirming the condition of the guide wire with a radiologic device \[[@B7],[@B8]\]. There is one other report in which a tissue dilator was used to tighten the knot and straighten the kinking wire, allowing it to be withdrawn along with the dilator such; as was performed in our case \[[@B9]\]. However, such blind maneuvers may result in fatal consequences such as tissue injury, major hemorrhage, or embolization of fractured wire fragments \[[@B11],[@B12]\]. In our case, to avoid these severe complications, careful retraction during removal of the guidewire was carried out under fluoroscopic guidance. We used dilator to straighten the wire and remove it. The dilator was used to tighten and reduce the knot to its smallest diameter. Because the circumference of the knot was the knotted wire could be removed with dilator; i.e. the dilator and guide wire can be withdrawn as a unit. Slight resistance was felt on attempting to remove the guidewire, and considerable force was required to remove the wire. As a consequence, the inner filament of the guidewire was broken. However, with the help of fluoroscopy, it was possible to prevent complete breakage of guidewire. The use of fluoroscopy can allow for early diagnosis of kinking or knotting of the guidewire, and realtime monitoring its structure during removal. For these reasons, fluoroscopy potentially promotes safer retrieval of guidewire.
When breakage or embolization of the guidewire occurs, a basket retrieval catheter or loopsnare catheter can be used for removal of the fragments under fluoroscopic guidance. These percutaneous retrieval procedures have been reported to have success rate of 92% \[[@B12]\]. Surgical intervention is only considered if all of these methods fail to remove the wire \[[@B10],[@B13]\].
Kinking, knotting and any further damage to the structure of the guidewires can only occur because of physical tension during their handling. Therefore, we suggest that guidewires should not be advanced by application of force if any resistance is detected. Fluoroscopic control is recommended for safer removal of knotted or kinked guidewires.
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After years of fighting for the Affordable Care Act, Trump is threatening to cut-off access to comprehensive and affordable healthcare. The “alternative” plan Republicans have proposed would defund Planned Parenthood, prevent domestic violence survivors from gaining access to medical help, and force millions of women to lose health insurance coverage.
Republican John Shimkus did not seem to understand how health insurance worked, actually questioning: “What about men having to purchase prenatal care?” Seriously?
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Siege of Rennes (1356–57)
The Siege of Rennes was an episode in the War of the Breton Succession during 1356-1357.
It was the third siege of the town during that war: between April and mid-May 1341, Rennes was besieged by Jean of Montfort, who finally managed to capture it. The city was repaired the following year by Blesist troops after several days of siege. Between the two events, Rennes had kept itself apart from the conflicts, until after the battle of Poitiers, when Henry of Grosmont, duke of Lancaster, came to besiege Rennes in October 1356, hoping thus to precipitate the end of the War of Succession.
Unfolding
Rather than attempt to take the city by force, and despite its great numerical superiority, Lancaster preferred to establish a blockade to starve the inhabitants. At the time, the ramparts had not yet been extended to the suburbs that had developed outside the Gallo-Roman walls. It was the latter (renovated in the preceding century) that were besieged, the suburbs themselves ending up largely ruined.
After the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, in which Jean II the Good was taken prisoner, Guy XII de Laval hurled himself into Rennes with Viscount de Rohan and other lords, to defend the town which was besieged by Henry of Grosmont. This operation was doubtless carried out by Couanier de Launay at the request of his uncle Pierre de Laval, Archbishop of Rennes.
The defence of Rennes was undertaken by Guillaume de Penhoët, nicknamed the Twisted Lame One, who lived in the castle, helped by Bertrand de Saint-Pern, the commander of the town and godfather of Bertrand de Guesclin.
Because of the method used by the assailants, the siege dragged on, without glamorous military action. If it has remained famous, it is mostly thanks to the ruses deployed by the defenders.
The "miracle" of the St. Savior Church
In February 1357, some residents of Rennes heard underground sounds which made them understand that Lancaster had ordered the digging of a tunnel under the ramparts, hoping to make troops quietly emerge into the heart of the city. Informed, Penhoët ordered the residents of houses near the city walls to hang in their homes copper basins containing metal balls so as to determine the exact location of the gallery thanks to the vibrations caused by the mining work. Once the location had been established, a counter-mine was dug, and a troop of soldiers commanded by Saint-Pern massacred the sappers before setting on fire the beams that supported the gallery.
Alain Bouchart, in his Great Chronicles of Brittany, places the site of the counter-mine inside the church of Saint-Sauveur just under the crucifix. A later legend asserts that the statue of the Virgin and Child, situated in a chapel of the church, miraculously came to life and showed with its finger where they need to dig. A cult of this statue then developed, called Notre-Dame of the Miracles and Virtues.
The herd of pigs
An even more famous episode in this siege involved a herd of pigs (2000 to 4000 according to Michel de Mauny) which Lancaster, knowing the state of famine within the walls, made to feed in front of the Mordelais gates in order to lure the people of Rennes out of the town The captain of Penhoët again distinguished himself by having a sow suspended to a postern of the gate; its calls attracted the pigs, which ran into the town before the English could react. The townspeople, bursting with laughter from the ramparts, took advantage of the occasion to mock their besiegers, who were flabbergasted by the trick: 'You owe us wages, because we are now your pig-keepers'!
Du Guesclin enters the town
A little later, another reprovisioning was brought by Bertrand Du Guesclin, who entered the town with carts full of rations, distracting the attention of the English duke by this trick, making him think that this was the arrival of a troop of German mercenaries. His arrival galvanised the besieged people, and the following weeks saw a series of assaults and duels, Du Guesclin again distinguishing himself in one of these, against the English Bramborc.
Outcome
If according to Michel de Mauny the siege was raised in February or March 1357 by relief forces led by one Thibaud de Rochefort, the other sources agree that the city was held to ransom by Lancaster. However, they differ on the conclusion which should be drawn from this.
The history of Brittany by Henri Poisson and Jean-Pierre le Mat states that the siege was lifted following a treaty between France and England, but indicates neither the date, nor the amount taken by the Duke from the residents. Jean-Pierre Leguay for his part specifies both: on 5 July 1357, the siege was raised at the cost of a ransom of 100,000 ecus, of which 20,000 were paid immediately in cash. He also indicates that this was a compromise between Lancaster and the residents of Rennes. The History of Rennes published in 2006, on the other hand, sees this as straight capitulation, the city's honorable defense being the only thing that spared it from all-out plunder.
See also
List of Hundred Years' War battles
Notes
References
Sources
Category:Sieges involving France
Category:Conflicts in 1356
Category:Conflicts in 1357
Category:Rennes
Category:Sieges involving England
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Q:
What is meant by left most bound for generic type or a method and why was this policy chosen for type erasure?
From Angelika Langer's generic FAQ:
Eliding type parameters.
When the compiler finds the definition of a generic type or method, it
removes all occurrences of the type parameters and replaces them by
their leftmost bound, or type Object if no bound had been specified.
Edit: As I understood in this case leftmost bound means what it means literally i.e farthest to the left in the list of bounds. I want to understand why was this policy chosen?
A:
In this case "leftmost" is not technical terminology. It literally means "farthest to the left". It simply means that when the type parameter has several bounds (restrictions) like this:
T extends Callable<Long> & Runnable
the compiler replaces all occurances of the type parameter T with the bound that is farthest to the left (in this case that's Callable<Long>):
Meaning that, as in Angelika's example, this:
private T task1, task2;
is replaced with this:
private Callable task1, task2;
A:
There is no reason. They just need to pick one. The whole thing sucks. It's like asking which one of your children you want to save. You want to save all, duh. But they don't let you.
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Stephen Weiss scored the only goal in the 4th round of the shootout to give the Florida Panthers a 3-2 shootout win over the visiting Calgary Flames tonight. The shootout loss foiled Leland Irving’s attempt to get his first win in his first NHL start, but he shouldn’t be upset with how he played.
Sean Bergenheim opened the scoring for the Panthers just under 7 minutes into the game but Olli Jokinen answered for the Flames at 10:00. The game remained tied at 1-1 throughout a scoreless 2nd period, though the Flames dominated the play for much of the second frame.
Rene Bourque gave the Flames their first lead of the night with a powerplay goal from the side of the net at 3:55 of the third period. It was the Flames 2nd powerplay goal in as many nights, and hopefully a sign that their powerplay is improving.
The Panthers pressed late in the third period and Bergenheim was rewarded with his 2nd goal of the game as he stuffed a rebound around the pad of Leland Irving. They continued to mount pressure, but were unable to beat Irving again until the shootout.
In the shootout, Alex Tanguay scored for the Flames and after two Panthers missed, it looked like Irving might get his win. But Dimitry Kulikov scored one for Florida and Rene Bourque couldn’t answer. That set up Weiss for the winner and Jose Theodore stopped T.J. Brodie to seal the win.
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Alex de Waal advance against Luis Moreno Ocampo (“Case Closed,” Spring 2009), it helps to know that the authors’ real grievance is that leveling international charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is a mistake. The authors put forward Moreno Ocampo as the alleged incompetent, but their true disagreement is with a host of actors: the ICC Judges, who issued the warrant naming Bashir; the governments of the U.S., U.K., and France, who have firmly resisted calls to defer Bashir’s prosecution; the UN Security Council, which referred the Darfur case to the ICC back in 2005; and Darfuris themselves, who favor the view that peace in Darfur will not be attained absent justice. I can state that their portrayal of Moreno Ocampo’s ICC tenure rests on a base of misstated facts and material omissions. The authors also fail to disclose the interests and biases of their (unnamed) sources. The authors also fall well short of proving that Moreno Ocampo’s tenure has been incompetent or that he has acted “without borders.” Moreno Ocampo’s decision that his criminal investigators could not safely operate in Darfur was cautious and, in the end, correct. The Sudanese government indeed detained and tortured persons believed to be cooperating with the ICC and recently expelled aid groups based on the same pretext. Most have judged that this Prosecutor’s tenure has been characterized by extreme conservatism in executing the prosecutorial mandate: four investigations opened in the world’s worst conflicts and in each case following either self-referral by an involved State or referral by the Security Council. The Prosecutor’s strict observance of boundaries is what accounts, in no small part, for the Bush administration’s abandonment, over time, of its categorical opposition to support for the court’s work. The issue is not the man or the woman: it’s the mandate and, now, the institution. The view of Flint and de Waal””to propose no solution other than to let even the world’s worst atrocities continue””is becoming obsolete. Discussing policy might be more productive than engaging in character assassination.
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Christine Chung’s fuming response to Alex de Waal’s and Julie Flint’s carefully researched and rather moderate review of the confused years of Luis Moreno Ocampo’s years as ICC Prosecutor needs some background to be fully understood.
In the Prosecution Division of the ICC OTP (Office of the Prosecutor) Chung played the role of Moreno Ocampo’s special confidante and hit man. It was a well known fact in the OTP that Chung and Moreno Ocampo had a special and personal relationship. She had the right to bypass her own superior in the Prosecution Division, Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, and go directly to Moreno Ocampo, very often providing critical information regarding her colleagues or even her supervisor, the Deputy Prosecutor. Indeed, on one occasion, in 2006, Chung despatched a 500 word e-mail to Moreno Ocampo with accusations against Bensouda for being incompetent. The wording in this e-mail (which I have read, courtesy of Moreno Ocampo’s personal assistant Sofia Velasco), was such that in any normal organisation an employee who, while bypassing her own superior had sent a similar letter to a principal, would have been the subject of disciplinary proceedings, or even immediate dismissal. The problem of Chung’s short cut to Moreno Ocampo was widely discussed in the office and one (brave) colleague of Chung in the PD (Prosecution Division) even had the audacity to bring it up in a conference with all OTP managers present.
Chung was also known for aggresively hunting Moreno Ocampo dissenters in the office, often with e-mails that were copied to many staff members. These e-mails routinely were laced with highly abusive personal remarks. The Investigation Divison even had compiled a special file of these abusive e-mails. One staff member in the end found it necessary to invoke the internal rules against “sexual and other forms of harassment” in order to bring a halt to Chung’s abusive campaign.
Chung’s comments to World Affairs should hence not be seen as independent of Moreno Ocampo, but rather as a proxie or client acting on orders from Moreno Ocampo.
Christian Palme
former Public Information Adviser to the ICC prosecutor.
We had hoped for a more substantive reply than that contained in former trial attorney Christine Chung’s letter. Nonetheless, the issues demand a response.
First, what is the insinuation behind the “authors’ real grievance� It is no secret that we believe that the leveling of these charges at this time against President Bashir is an error.
We would have much preferred to cite former members of the ICC on the record. It is revealing that his critics prefer to remain anonymous, even in scholarly journals.
Third, while there are many Darfurians who support the ICC, there are many who oppose it, or would prefer a different approach to the question of justice. Many who welcomed the charges against Bashir expected his arrest to follow. They are already asking “Why isn’t he in jail?”
The OTP’s “conservatism†in restricting the number of individuals prosecuted should not be confused with conservatism in the charges leveled. The Prosecutor is anything but conservative in his charges of genocide.
It is ridiculous to allege that we propose “no solution other than to let even the world’s worst atrocities continue.†We do not oppose ICC justice in Darfur — only for the president, now — and have both been involved in a number of practical initiatives to help resolve problems in Darfur.
In the spirit of continuing the substantive discussion, rather than the character discussion (which is tawdry, no?) I would like to ask you to re-state your objections to the indictment (arrest warrant) against al-Bashir. You say, “We do not oppose ICC justice in Darfur — only for the president, now.” It would be nice also to leave aside in this discussion the issue of the genocide charges, since the consequences in terms of legal reasoning and precedent of having al-Bashir be tried for genocide for what happened in Darfur is I think not essential to what, as you have stated many times, are the quite significant enough crimes of war and crimes against humanity.
My understanding at the time (last March) was that you thought it would completely derail the peace process and possibly lead to enormous human suffering if al-Bashir “angrily” retaliated at the affront to his honor (I think that is how you characterized it). It seems neither has happened to the degree predicted. If anything, the peace processes (CPA and Darfur) are on better tracks than they were before the arrest warrant (we shall see tomorrow with Abyei), and even with the charade of expulsion and readmittance and non-readmittance of aid groups, the increase in suffering, while evidently quite real to those who suffer, has neither affected policymakers and media (chastened perhaps by the joint Mamdani-de Waal offensive) nor IDP community organizers (no large movements or protests seem to have emerged).
Since your objections to the arrest warrant were largely consequentialist, and those consequences have not emerged, have you rethought your position? I would be the first to say that the arrest warrant complicates the various processes, but a “non-arrest warrant” situation (help in reserve like a secret hammer?) would also have complicated things. So I am not sure there is much basis to make judgments on the action.
My own position is that the ICC as a quasi-independent judiciary once established has a logic that is certainly quirky, but not self-evidently negative, and hard to say how it could be improved upon given was the ICC actually is (a court established by a treaty, with lots of rules spelled out in the treaty), and the division among African countries (and I’ll stand with Botswana any day on this, rather than Zimbabwe and Libya and all the others!) over ICC suggests that many people value the steps being taken towards an end to impunity, as complements to local/national struggles for establishment of robust, genuine, rule of law/human rights/civil freedoms etc.
I am not sure that there is any basis to have a great objection to the arrest warrant against al-Bashir “now”. Sure one can object, but when objecting one should perhaps be clear that one is objecting because of a “gut” feeling rather than because one’s status as an expert means one has some secret knowledge or insight that others cannot access, and so one’s objection should have more standing than other’s “embrace” of the arrest warrant “now”.
Lastly, I take it that you think the arrest warrants against Ahmed Haroun and Ali Kushayb were good actions (otherwise do you mean something else when you say you “do not oppose ICC justice in Darfur”). When people ask you, “Why aren’t they in jail?” I presume you give the reasonable person’s explanation of the limits of the ICC, the power of the Khartoum regime to protect its own, the low likelihood of outside intervention, and hence the likelihood of delay, perhaps until after 2011… and the same reasoning applies to al-Bashir, no?
A public figure who attempts to make himself bigger than the institution he purportedly serves is fair game for any criticism. Terming it “character assassination” is a slur. I watched the PBS program “The Reckoning” with deepening dismay. The filmmaker’s draw dropped in awe at Luis Moreno-Ocampo the beginning and nary a critical note crept in. The best review was posted on “Wronging Rights” (http://wrongingrights.blogspot.com/2009/07/whos-down-with-otp.html) and concluded with reference to the husband of the co-blogger, “who initially found it ‘quite balanced, in that it wasn’t only good stuff about the court,’ but revised that assessment upon discovering that it was not actually an OTP recruitment video.”
That’s fine, maybe I shouldn’t say “character assassination” if it is really true assessment of his character (which I certainly have no way of assessing). But my question/comment was not about the character of Moreno-Ocampo, but rather about the changing assessment of the arrest warrant. Alex often urges his interlocutors (well, maybe just Reeves) to “change with the times”… so that is what prompted my comment. I’d like to update my own view too, if there is a good reason to!
I am going to defer a proper answer to your question until September. But in the meantime, it is worth noting that there was at least one ‘angry’ response, namely the expulsion of the NGOs. As it happens, the consequences of that were nowhere near as severe as was feared. It is also worth noting that several of the major players–notably the AU and the US–have not supported the ICC indictment, which has of course altered the dynamics.
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Unova's Survival Crisis! (Japanese: 霊獣フォルム総進撃！イッシュ最大の危機！！The Reijuu Formes Advance! Isshu's Greatest Crisis!!) is the 97th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 754th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 4, 2012, in the UK on December 31, 2012 and in the United States on January 26, 2013.
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Blurb
Team Rocket has captured Meloetta, brought it to the Undersea Temple, and used a recording of Meloetta's song to raise the temple to the surface. As Operation Tempest continues, Giovanni acquires the mysterious Reveal Glass and uses it to summon the three Legendary Pokémon Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus!
Meloetta's protector, Ridley, explains that whoever controls Meloetta also controls these three ancient powers. Team Rocket’s plan is just the latest attempt by evildoers over the years to take over the Unova region using the power of the Reveal Glass. Our heroes watch in horror as the three Legendary Pokémon change into Therian Forme and prepare to wreak havoc upon Unova! As Ash and Pikachu escape from their cage, an enormous Pokémon battle takes shape: Iris's Dragonite, Cilan's Pansage, Cynthia's Garchomp, Ridley's Golurk, and Ash's Unfezant join with Pikachu to stand against the fearsome Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus. A crackling attack from Thundurus almost strikes Iris down, but Pikachu flings itself into the bolt's path to protect her. Using the extra electricity it absorbed from that attack, Pikachu launches a massive Electro Ball to overpower Team Rocket and free Meloetta!
But Giovanni still holds the Reveal Glass, and without Meloetta's calming influence, he is completely overcome with evil ambitions: instead of conquering the Unova region, he now wants to destroy it! But Jessie, James, and Meowth intervene to sway their Boss from this disastrous path. As soon as he returns to his senses, Team Rocket reluctantly retreats.
Ridley uses the Reveal Glass to return the three Legendary Pokémon to their Incarnate Forme, and Meloetta soothes their rage with its song. With disaster averted, Ridley and Meloetta bid our heroes farewell and prepare to return to home. But Ash knows they will meet again someday, and all eyes once again turn toward the Unova League!
At sea, Cynthia, Ridley, and Ash's friends are racing to the temple on a boat. Ridley is in pain because he can feel Meloetta suffering. At the temple, the Reveal Glass hovers in the air and shoots a beam of light into the sky before disappearing into a portal that soon grows into dark foreboding clouds. Going back to Ridley, he reveals Team Rocket is planning to use Meloetta to control the three legendary Pokémon to take control nature to rule Unova. All of a sudden, the weather turns bad as the legendary Pokémon appear, creating swells and high winds. Landorus, Thundurus, and Tornadus appear and Giovanni uses the Reveal Glass to expose the legendary Pokémon's other forms. In the containment field, Ash urges Pikachu to try to escape again using Iron Tail on a single point, eventually freeing the two. They run out in an attempt to save Meloetta, but Jessie and James call out Woobat and Yamask. The two Pokémon use Air Slash and Shadow Ball to send Ash and Pikachu flying off the temple, but they are saved by Ridley's Golurk.
Golurk takes Ash and Pikachu to the bottom of the ruins where the others have just arrived. Determined to stop Team Rocket, the group calls out their Pokémon: Garchomp, Dragonite, Pansage, and Unfezant with Pikachu on her back. Without waiting for Iris's orders, Dragonite flies off to battle the three legendary Pokémon.
At the top of the temple, the Reveal Glass glows red, throwing the trainer's Pokémon back, and finally revealing the other forms of the legendary trio. As the red glow recedes, Giovanni can be seen having a red aura around him. Dragonite, as aggressive as ever, rushes into battle, though is clearly outmatched. Iris begs with Dragonite to not battle alone and instead work with the other Pokémon. Giovanni orders the three legendary Pokémon to battle. Using a combination of Air Cutter and Stone Edge, Tornadus and Landorus knock the Dragon Pokémon to the ground in front of the trainers and appears to be hurt. Thundurus then faces Dragonite and unleashes a powerful electric attack, but Iris steps in front of the attack to protect her Pokémon. Before the attack hits, Pikachu jumps in front of it and absorbs the electricity while Unfezant drives off Thundurus with Air Cutter. Seeing how much Iris cares for him, Dragonite finds new-found trust in his trainer and once again rushes off to battle with the others, although they are clearly at a disadvantage to the powerful trio.
Unhappy with the rate at which the battle is going, Giovanni orders the trio to unleash their true power. All attacking at once, the trio knock the trainers' Pokémon into the sea before covering it with ice that advances all the way to the city nearby. However, the Pokémon break through the ice and are ready to battle once more. Meanwhile, Ash and Pikachu finally reach the top of the temple. Ash demands that Meloetta be returned. When Team Rocket refuses, Ash has Pikachu use Electro Ball. Unlike Pikachu's normal Electro Balls though, this one has been enhanced with the electricity Pikachu absorbed from Thundurus's attack and enlarged. When it is released, it obliterates the top of the temple and frees Meloetta, but also causes the Reveal Glass to shoot a beam of light directly into Giovanni's face.
As the smoke clears, the temple is shown to be in rubble and Team Rocket is stunned. Out of the smoke comes Meloetta riding on Unfezant's back. Seeing that Meloetta has escaped, Team Rocket suggests they recapture it, but Giovanni says Meloetta is no longer necessary. As he gets up, he is shown to have a red circular symbol on his forehead and his eyes are glowing red. In addition, he has complete control over the legendary trio and has become drunk with power. Giovanni orders the trio to destroy Unova. Seeing that their boss has become insane, Jessie, James, and Meowth tackle Giovanni outside the boundary of the temple, thus freeing him from its influence. Outside the temple's influence, Giovanni doesn't remember what happened. Dr. Zager tells him they can no longer control the trio, so they retreat under the cover of Yamask's Haze. Unfezant uses Gust to blow away the smoke, revealing Team Rocket escaping in a jet.
Meanwhile, the trainers' Pokémon are still battling the legendary trio. Ridley replaces the Reveal Glass and asks it to calm down the trio. It does and the trio revert back to their original form.
Back on the boat, the group is heading back to land. In the distance, the temple is sinking back into the sea. Back on shore, the group says farewell to Ridley and Meloetta. Oshawott is crying that his crush Meloetta is leaving.
This episode aired December 31, 2012 in the UK, twenty six days before the US airdate.
This episode aired on January 3, 2013 in Italy (on K2), twenty-three days before the US airdate.
This episode aired on January 10, 2013 in Poland (on DisneyXD), sixteen days before the US airdate.
This episode aired on January 26, 2013 in Latin America, at the same time than the US airing.
It was supposed to air in English but it was erroneously broadcasted on Cartoon Network USA via the Secondary Audio Track on all U.S and U.S Territories using the dubbed Latin American Spanish track, which was scheduled to debut in 2014.
Errors
When Giovanni calls out to the Reveal Glass just before the Forces of Nature changes Forme, the yellow stripes on the sides of his uniform briefly disappear.
During one scene between Iris and her Dragonite, Dragonite's right pupil has its original look.
Just before Jessie, James and Meowth push Giovanni off the pedestal while he is possessed, his eyes are colored white when they should still be red.
Giovanni's uniform missing its stripes
Dragonite's tail error
Dragonite's pupil error
Giovanni's eyes incorrectly colored white
Dub edits
In the original version of the episode, Tornadus's voice changes to become much higher pitched when it changes into Therian Forme. This is not retained for the dub, in which all three of the Forces of Nature have the same voices in both Formes. |
Q:
Differences in using array in main program or in functions sub-routines
I'v got some question about using array pointers in program.
When I use some array name (which is a const pointer to first array element)
char charTab[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWXYZ"; /* Basic data buffer */
char *charPtr = charTab; /* Assign */
charPtr += 3; /* It's ok, now we point 4th element */
charTab += 3; /* No, the lvalue required for '+' operand */
But when I create let's say the following function:
void CharTabMove(char *tabToMove, int noToMove);
With definition
void CharTabMove(char *tabToMove, int noToMove)
{
printf("-------IN FUNCTION---------\n");
printf("It's pointing to %c\n", *tabToMove);
tabToMove += noToMove;
printf("Now it's pointing to %c\n", *tabToMove);
printf("-------LEAVING FUNCTION---------\n");
fflush(stdout);
}
The function is allow to move this pointer along the array with no problem. Sure, after leaving the function the pointer will be still pointing to first element of charTab, but why the function is allowed to move the constant pointer?
Thanks in advice for response, I'm trying to explain that to my 11 yo nephew :)
---EDIT after couple of years ---
Ok, time pass and now I see why my question was not formulated accurately. I misguided you by using term const pointer referring to array name before and after passing it function. To rephrase, question boils down to:
Why this is not allowed:
char charTab[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWXYZ"; /* Basic data buffer */
charTab += 3; /* No, the lvalue required for '+' operand */
While this is allowed:
char charTab[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWXYZ"; /* Basic data buffer */
void CharTabMove(char *tabToMove, int noToMove)
{
tabToMove += noToMove;
}
CharTabMove(charTab)
And the answer is as I gathered and refined all of your answers, charTab acts almost like constant pointer to first element of array, but essentially is not an lvalue or a pointer statement, so arthmetic operations are not allowed. When passing it to function, this almost like constant pointer to first array element will be casted and passed by value as regular pointer, so operations can be executed on it.
A:
There is one difference between an array name and a pointer that must be kept in mind. A pointer is a variable, so pa=a and pa++ are legal. But an array name is not a
variable; constructions like a=pa and a++ are illegal. here pa is pointer.
charPtr += 3; ==> this is allowed because this is pointer , pointer arithmetic is allowed and you can change the location of pointer.
charTab += 3; ==> here this is illegal.you should not change the position of array.
and
tabToMove ==> is character pointer.you can modify it.
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San Francisco
Lying on the Pacific, San Francisco is known for the mythical Golden Gate Bridge and its oceanic climate, its golden sun and wisps of mist. California's fourth most populous city, it is the West Coast's de facto cultural capital. It has the reputation of being one of America's most tolerant cities and an air of freedom lingers in the streets; its cosmopolitan atmosphere, its vertiginous hills tackled by cable cars, its elegant Victorian houses, the cultural patchwork of its neighbourhoods: visitors have their work cut out for them!
The stars are aligned in San Francisco this week, as Michael Tusk (Quince) shares his kitchen with David Barzelay (Lazy Bear), Stuart Brioza (State Bird Provisions/The Progress), David Kinch (Manresa), Matthew Kirkley (Coi), and Mourad Lahlou (Mourad). Below, Tusk, Kinch, and Lahlou dish on breakfast, shopping for ingredients, and how they spend their precious free time.
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The Valentines Edit
Personally I am not a huge fan of red, even at Valentines, so I prefer to wear pinks as it is more completing on my skin tone. This Valentines I will be spending it with family and then binge watching Pretty Little Liars with my boyfriend Mr Popcorn! Anyway, here is the makeup I would wear for a date or going out with my friends.
NATURAL AND FLUSHED// To achieve a natural base I have been using my L'Oreal True Match foundation as it is the perfect colour match for me and gives me a great coverage without looking like I have lots of foundation on. The best way to look like your have naturally flushed cheeks is to wear a cream blush as they can be really blended into your cheeks. My favourite cream blush is Topshops cream blush in Afternoon Tea. This looks quite bright in the pot but once blended out it looks nice and natural.
ROSY AND VIOLET// When it comes to eye shadow I am a big fan of bronze smoky eyes but recently I have found a nice alternative that is still neutral but a bit softer and more girly. My Naked 1 palette has got a lot of love over the past few weeks and the three shades I have pairing together are Sin, Toasted and Hustle. I start by applying Toasted, a rose toned taupe, all over my lid then taking a light amount of Hustle, a darker purple shimmer, on a fluffy brush and blending it into the crease of my eye to add definition. Finally I use my finger to apply Sin on the inner half of my eye which brightens up my eyes completely and ties the whole look together. Sometimes I will take Hustle on a small brush underneath my lash line to make the look more dramatic for an evening.
SOFT AND CURLED// On a regular basis I will wear black liquid liner but MACs eyeliner in brown is a softer alternative for complementing a rosy eye makeup look. It also avoids there being any really harsh lines of black on your face from the liquid liner. Sometimes I will do a really precise thin line but I like to wear this best smudged out on my upper lash line. My latest mascara love is the new Benefit Roller Lash, I did a first impressions post here the other day and I would urge you to and buy this months ELLE as this is the free gift and it is only £4! This mascara is very lengthening and can be worn naturally with one coat or dramatically with two coats.
PINK LIPS AND NAILS// If I had to pick between red lipstick and pink it would be pink all the way. I find it so much more comfortable to wear and I never feel like 'me' when wearing a red lipstick. My perfect pink nude at the moment is the L'Oreal Color Riche in Julianne's Nude. It is a pink toned nude that is very flattering for my pale skin tone as well as being moisturising and comfortable to wear. As for my nails I have had Nails Inc. Sloane Street on them for ages and I think it a great girly pink colour without verging on 'barbie' nails. Like all Nails Inc. polishes the formula is great and lasts for 3-4 days on my nails.
What are your plan for Valentines day? Will you be dressing up or staying in like me? |
Q:
Count references to own ID in MySQL with Grouping
I'm running a query on posts in a database. If the post is a response to another post, it has a parent_id greater than zero otherwise zero.
To generate a report on posts, I use the following in my SELECT and then group by user.
SELECT
SUM(IF(parent_id = 0, 1, 0)) as 'NewPosts',
SUM(IF(parent_id > 0, 1,0)) as 'Responses',
COUNT(parent_id) as 'TotalPosts',
FROM posts
GROUP BY user
Now I need to add a column that show's self responses by a user. Something like...
SUM(IF(parent_id IN id, 1, 0)) as 'SelfResponses'
Of course I know that is wrong but I hope it sends the idea across.
Edit: Data would look like :
User Id parent_id
Henry 12 0
Henry 24 12
Henry 32 16
Joseph 16 0
So in this case the output would be:
User NewPosts Responses TotalPosts SelfResponses
Henry 2 2 3 1
Joseph 1 0 1 0
A:
Assuming for response the parentId is the postId for the response then you can achieve this by the following way
Query 1:
SELECT
a.user,
SUM(IF(a.parent_id = 0, 1, 0)) as 'NewPosts',
SUM(IF(a.parent_id > 0, 1,0)) as 'Responses',
COUNT(a.parent_id) as 'TotalPosts',
SUM(IF(a.user = b.user, 1, 0)) as 'SelfResponses'
FROM
Table1 a
LEFT JOIN
Table1 b
ON
a.parent_id = b.id
GROUP BY
a.user
Results:
| USER | NEWPOSTS | RESPONSES | TOTALPOSTS | SELFRESPONSES |
--------------------------------------------------------------
| Henry | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Joseph | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
SQL FIDDLE
Hope this helps
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package com.examstack.portal.security;
import org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextHolder;
public class UserInfoUtil {
public static UserInfo getUserInfo(){
UserInfo userInfo=(UserInfo)SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getPrincipal();
return userInfo;
}
/*public static void main(String[] args){
List<Question> initList= new ArrayList<Question>();
List<Question> resultList= new ArrayList<Question>();
for(int i=0;i<20;i++){
initList.add(new Question(i));
}
System.out.println("未生成之前："+initList);
//resultList=getQuestionListByRandom(initList,10);
System.out.println("生成之后："+resultList);
}*/
}
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[
{
"mnemonic": "frndint",
"mnemonicPrecise": "frndint",
"opcode": 55804,
"opcodeHex": "D9FC",
"operands": [],
"operandEncoding": "rm",
"modes": [
"REAL",
"PROT",
"COMP",
"LEG",
"X32",
"X64"
]
}
] |
By Colton Coreschi | March 27, 2017 12:43 pm ET
The USL returns in 2017 as a Division 2 league seeking to impress, and it succeeded in Week 1 with some highly entertaining matches.
Louisville City and St. Louis FC battled to a scoreless draw in their Midwest match-up. (READ)
LA Galaxy II earned a 2-0 victory over Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2, in part thanks to an own goal. (READ)
LA- 6′ Sem de Wit (OG)
LA- 67′ Ethan Zubak
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds battled the defending USL champion New York Red Bulls II to an exciting, goal-filled 3-3 draw. (READ)
NY- 6′ Florian Valot
PGH- 9′ Corey Hertzog
NY- 16′ Vincent Bezecourt
PGH- 39′ Kevin Kerr
NY- 77′ Vincent Bezecourt
PGH- 81- Corey Hertzog
The Richmond Kickers opened their season by beating the Harrisburg City Islanders, 1-0. (READ)
RIC- 51′ Conor Shanosky
The Charleston Battery dispatched FC Cincinnati 2-1 in the team’s 25th home opener. (READ)
CHS- 38′ Forrest Lasso
CIN- 59′ Djiby Fall
CHS- 71′ Justin Portillo
The Tampa Bay Rowdies started their USL tenure with a 1-0 victory over local rival Orlando City B. (READ)
TBR- 57′ Georgi Hristov
The Tulsa Roughnecks dominated the Colorado Spring Switchbacks, 4-1, to open their year. (READ)
COS- 17′ Shane Malcom
TUL- 24′ Juan Caffa
TUL- 32′ Ian Svantesson
TUL- 52′ Ian Svantesson
TUL- 78′ Francisco Ugarte
The Swope Park Rangers, who are looking to get back to the USL Final, began the season with a 3-1 victory over the OKC Energy. (READ)
OKC- 24′ Coady Andrews
SPR- 42′ Kharlton Belmar
SPR- 62′ Latif Blessing
SPR- 71′ Daniel Salloi
Orange County SC spoiled Reno 1868’s home debut with a 2-0 victory on the road. (READ)
OC- 31′ Duke Lacroix
OC- 45′ Duke Lacroix
Toronto FC II knocked off newly-rebranded Phoenix Rising FC’s debut with a 1-0 victory. (READ)
TOR- 8′ Ryan Telfer
The Real Monarchs handed head coach Mike Petke his first win, a 2-1 road victory over the Portland Timbers 2. (READ)
SLC- 11′ James Moberg
SLC- 48′ Nick Besler
POR- 65′ Augustine Williams
The Sacramento Republic battled back to defeat the Seattle Sounders 2, 2-1. (READ)
SEA- 5′ Brian Nana-Sinkam
SAC- 65′ Sammy Ochoa
SAC- 83′ Emrah Klimenta
San Antonio FC spoiled Rio Grande Valley’s debut of H-E-B Park with a 1-0 road victory. (READ) |
Notre Bon Ami - Track Night's Greg Amy
If you’ve been to an SCCA® Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack event in New England, chances are you’ve met Greg Amy. A Track Night Lead since almost the program’s inception, Greg is always ready with a smile and words of encouragement for participants.Outside of TNiA events, you can find him acting as an SCCA Divisional Steward, a National Scrutineer, and trying his hand at historics racing in his Porsche 914.
When he’s not racing, Greg has a busy home life with his wife, Thea, managing “Thea and Greg's Wayward Home for Seriously Spoiled Dogs.” Hanna, a 14-year-old German Shepherd, and Schatzi, a 7-year-old German Shepherd/Chow mix, can often be seen in the paddock at Greg’s competitions. Rumor has it they’re quick with a wrench and ruthless with a Frisbee.
With over 35 years in motorsports experience, Greg’s just about seen and done it all, with a few exceptions of course. We gave him 10 questions to find out a little more about how he ticks:
1. What or who got you hooked on motorsports?
The father of a girl I was dating; he was SCCA F&C and figured I'd hurt myself eventually if I kept driving like that on the street. Got me into autocrossing and working F&C, and it took exactly zero seconds before I decided to drive on the track myself. We didn't have "track days" back then, so I converted my new Rabbit GTI street car into an Improved Touring A car and off to the races we went! Improved Touring, then Showroom Stock, and then the rest, as they say...
2. Favorite motorsports memory?
Many. But the most special was winning the 2006 ITA ARRC championship. My whole immediate family drove to Road Atlanta from Louisiana to be there and my wife flew in from Connecticut. Coupled to all the friends that had showed up with us (and who magically appeared in the car for the victory lap), winning that championship was something that will always be there. Same goes for my podium finish at the 1992 Runoffs: family and friends were there.
Highway/road trip? Strangely, I always remember the long road trips with buddies to go to races. Road America Runoffs with Dick Patullo, our 2018 Great Yankee Southern Tour Invasion (COTA, NOLA, VIR) with Dick and Ed Werry, trailering up to Watkins Glen with my wife, Thea, and the dogs...It's friends that make these memories and road trips special. I’d be bored out of my mind if I did one of these solo.
4. What’s at the top of your motorsports bucket list?
Would have loved to have earned a Rolex Daytona watch...but given that’s no longer realistic, I’ll settle for continuing to enjoy racing with friends, and try out tracks in this country I’ve yet to do (e.g., Barber, Indy, PittRace, a few others). I’m all about the experience.
5. What’s your favorite music to listen to while driving?
‘80s and ‘90s metal. Or economics or history podcasts. I'm strange that way...
It would be kinda fun to take the Porsche 914 on a trip along the Mother Road, Route 66. Just the stress from wondering if the car would make it would keep me awake! Can we install air conditioning somewhere around Ohio...?
8. What Track Night in America event do you most want to go to?
Daytona! Love that place. Actually, it would be fun to actually DRIVE in one sometime!
9. What’s your favorite Track Night memory?
Always "the last one." I make a new favorite TNIA memory seemingly every event. Just watching the smiles and enthusiasm from watching folks have #FunWithCars.
And I ain't BS'ing ya...
10. What do you wish someone would’ve told you when you were first starting out?
This is fun, dammit! Fun is why we do this! Stop trying to be all "srs bzns" and enjoy these opportunities. And remember what you learned from each one... because you will learn something. |
Residual metallic contamination of transferred chemical vapor deposited graphene.
Integration of graphene with Si microelectronics is very appealing by offering a potentially broad range of new functionalities. New materials to be integrated with the Si platform must conform to stringent purity standards. Here, we investigate graphene layers grown on copper foils by chemical vapor deposition and transferred to silicon wafers by wet etching and electrochemical delamination methods with respect to residual submonolayer metallic contaminations. Regardless of the transfer method and associated cleaning scheme, time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry and total reflection X-ray fluorescence measurements indicate that the graphene sheets are contaminated with residual metals (copper, iron) with a concentration exceeding 10(13) atoms/cm(2). These metal impurities appear to be partially mobile upon thermal treatment, as shown by depth profiling and reduction of the minority charge carrier diffusion length in the silicon substrate. As residual metallic impurities can significantly alter electronic and electrochemical properties of graphene and can severely impede the process of integration with silicon microelectronics, these results reveal that further progress in synthesis, handling, and cleaning of graphene is required to advance electronic and optoelectronic applications. |
The control system for controlling the speed of a turbine or other rotating member typically includes means for providing a setpoint or reference signal that represents the desired rotational speed. A servo circuit compares the setpoint signal with a feedback signal representing the actual speed to produce an error signal that is used to minimize the difference between the setpoint and actual speeds. Although for some applications a setpoint controller could simply comprise a potentiometer, there are many applications for which a more precise and versatile method of controlling the setpoint is required. For example, during testing of a propeller turbine drive, it may be required to rotate the propeller at a known rate for a prescribed time period, then accelerate the propeller to a second known rate at a prescribed ramping (i.e., acceleration) rate, etc. In carrying out such a program, the convenience and versatility of the setpoint controller can be a significant factor in minimizing testing time, an important consideration during wind tunnel testing in which the on-line testing time is limited and expensive. An even more demanding application for a setpoint controller is one in which the speed of two related elements must be controlled. An example of such an application is wind tunnel testing of a twin turbine counter-rotating propeller system for a jet aircraft engine. To test such a system, it is necessary to rapidly cycle between different speed levels for the different propellers, and to provide means for precisely establishing the relative speeds and relative acceleration or decelerations of the individual propellers. No prior setpoint controller or controller systems have been found adequate to efficiently test such a system. |
Oh, how quickly we forget. Just a few short months ago, every media outlet and social media platform was reporting on the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Harvey on Houston and surrounding areas. Before the residents of Texas could all be rescued, Hurricane Irma tore through Florida, Puerto Rico, and neighboring islands leaving record flooding and devastation in its wake. But Mother Nature’s tantrum was far from over. Wildfires ran rampant out west burning homes and destroying crops and ranches. Not to mention, the 7.1 earthquake that rocked Central Mexico.
But here we are, just a few short months from Harvey’s first landfall, and comparatively speaking, it is radio silence. In today’s times, media moves at the speed of light and has been given the power to shape what society sees, hears and subsequently devotes their attention to.
They’ve moved on, so we’ve moved on.
But take a moment and think back.
When images of elderly citizens sitting in their wheelchairs stranded waist-deep in water crossed your computer screen, were you horrified? When stories of teenagers using their fishing boat to rescue their neighbors made it in your Facebook feed, were you inspired? When you heard a gospel choir leader lift spirits at a Conroe Texas shelter with her angelic voice, did you too feel your hope renewed?
Did the actions of our fellow countrymen and women ignite a fire in you to be more? To do more? Did you hear a little voice in your head or have a tug in your heart that said you had something more to give?
Before we get caught up in the next political battle or Kardashian escapade, I challenge you to not let our high-speed news cycle and the latest Facebook algorithm put out that fire. Do not let it silence that voice.
Each and every one of you brings something special and unique to this world. There is no other person who has the exact same background, passions, and talents as you.
As those impacted by all this recent devastation begin the long road of rebuilding, it is our time to begin service to our community.
Were you inspired by the work of a particular volunteer organization? Contact them to see how you can join.
Did you envy the impact someone was able to make from their place of employment and have you been looking for a career change? Research what jobs are available.
Perhaps you realized that your prayers have been focused inward and you vowed to express more gratitude and consideration for others. Keep that pledge.
When you heard about the money raised to support victims, did you realize you have a higher capacity for giving? Donate to a group you believe in.
I don’t know what exactly inspired you or what calling you felt, but I am quite certain that during the course of our country’s recent struggles it happened, and probably not for the first time.
I implore you to make this time different. To make this time count. To make this time be the time you step up. So, the next time disaster strikes, you will not be sitting there wishing there was more you could do. You will have acted and prepared yourself and you will be ready to serve.
If the efforts of the Search & Rescue dogs and their dedicated handlers is what grabbed your heart, I invite you to learn more by following our blog and join Calvary Canine in our mission to provide these special dogs the training and equipment they need to perform their life-saving work.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make a difference that you have lived and lived well. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese companies are confident in securing overseas supplies of soybeans and soybean meal substitutes to counter the fall in imports of U.S. soybeans, according to industry insiders.
A survey of related firms points to widespread readiness and proactiveness in the industry as Chinese firms turn to more competitive suppliers from South America and other parts of the world.
During the May-August period, over 36 million tonnes of South American soybeans arrived in China, with more to come in November.
State-owned grains trader COFCO has made inquiries on canola, cottonseed and sunflower seed meals with countries including India, Canada, and Ukraine to fill in the gap left by reduced U.S. imports, said Zhao Changjiang, an official with the company.
Canadian canola meal could be an option for Chinese animal feed demands as it is cheaper, according to Liu Yueshu, deputy general manager of operations at Zhongken Guobang, a major soybean processing enterprise based in Tianjin.
"Canadian canola meal set to arrive in December is priced at about 2,300 yuan (about 334 U.S. dollars) per tonne, 150 yuan cheaper than that traded under the January 2019 futures contract at the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange," Liu said.
The industry is also adopting nutritionally equivalent soybean meal substitutes thanks to technological advances.
"Soybean meal is not the only source of protein in animal feed," said industry analyst Wang Changmei. "Meal from canola, cottonseed, sunflower seed, peanut and palm kernel can all be substitutes."
Peanut meal, for example, contains more crude protein than soybean meal, Wang said.
Current reserves of soybeans are also sufficient.
A price drop in pork has seen a dampened demand for soybean meal since May, with 400,000 tonnes less per month than expectations. China's reserves of imported soybeans are expected to increase by 3 million tonnes from the same period last year by the end of September.
The country's soybean processing firms will have relatively ample supply of raw materials before next January, industry estimates showed. |
Calcium absorption in Crohn's disease.
Calcium absorption and endogenous loss of calcium were measured in a group of patients with Crohn's disease, using a simultaneous metabolic balance and calcium isotope regimen. Calcium malabsorption resulting in negative calcium balance was found in only 4 of 31 patients with Crohn's disease. No elevation of endogenous fecal calcium or total secreted intestinal calcium was observed in 10 patients studied, regardless of the level of net or true calcium absorption. Correlation between calcium balance and serum protein loss was observed, but no association was noted with intestinal fat excretion, d-xylose absorption, bacterial colonization of the jejunum, or glucocorticosteroid therapy. The results indicate that in this group of patients with Crohn's disease involving different areas of the intestine, calcium malabsorption occurred infrequently and that the levels of calcium excretion correlated best with enteric protein loss. |
7. Let q(a) = 12*p(a) + 5*z(a). Determine j*d(s) + 4*q(s).
s + 1
Let h(w) = -w**2 - w - 1. Suppose -3*u = -1 + 16. Let k = -3 - -7. Let g(d) = -k*d - 2*d - 3*d**2 + 1 - 5. Give u*h(y) + g(y).
2*y**2 - y + 1
Let b(g) = 9*g - 11. Suppose -7*x + 0*x - 49 = 0. Let z(u) = 5*u - 6. Determine x*z(k) + 4*b(k).
k - 2
Let r(v) = v + 2. Let y(l) = 2*l + 3. Suppose 28 = -4*c - 4*i, 2*i = -4*c - 29 + 9. Give c*y(j) + 5*r(j).
-j + 1
Let l(z) = -2*z**2 + 2*z + 2. Suppose 0 = -2*b + 8, 3*b - 8*b = 5*n - 30. Let g(x) = 0*x**2 + x**2 - 2*x**n + 2*x**2. Determine -3*g(y) - l(y).
-y**2 - 2*y - 2
Let m(p) = 10*p**3 + 31*p**2. Let y(x) = -7*x**3 - 21*x**2. Determine -5*m(w) - 7*y(w).
-w**3 - 8*w**2
Let o be 0 - (-1 + 0 + -14). Suppose -5*y - 4*i - 15 = -7*i, o = -5*y - i. Let u = -5 - y. Let f(z) = 8*z - 5. Let j(k) = 2*k - 1. Calculate u*f(b) + 9*j(b).
2*b + 1
Let b(z) = 2*z**3 - 20*z**2 - 8*z + 21. Let w(o) = o**3 - 7*o**2 - 3*o + 7. Calculate -3*b(y) + 8*w(y).
2*y**3 + 4*y**2 - 7
Let p(l) = -4*l**3 + 3*l + 2. Let t be 3 + -3 - (0 + 6). Let o(x) = -6*x**3 + 2*x**3 + 4 - 3*x**3 + 7*x - 2*x**3. Calculate t*o(j) + 13*p(j).
2*j**3 - 3*j + 2
Let s(c) = 2*c**3 + c**2 + c + 1. Let a be s(-1). Let u(h) = h**2 - h. Let x(v) = -v**2 + 2*v. Determine a*x(g) - 3*u(g).
-2*g**2 + g
Let t(c) = 18*c**2. Let g(j) = 54*j**2. What is -3*g(i) + 10*t(i)?
18*i**2
Let x(q) = -2*q**2 + 3*q - 6. Let z(j) = -j - 14. Let l be z(-11). Let i(a) = 5*a**2 - 8*a + 17. Give l*i(f) - 8*x(f).
f**2 - 3
Let h(o) = -1. Let f(a) = 35*a + 1. What is -f(l) - 2*h(l)?
-35*l + 1
Let h(n) be the second derivative of -n**4/12 + n**3/3 - n**2 - 2*n. Let c(t) = -5*t**2 + 10*t - 10. Let v be (-4)/10 + (-212)/20. What is v*h(q) + 2*c(q)?
q**2 - 2*q + 2
Let i(d) = -d**2 + 4*d - 6. Let k(v) = -v**2 + 3*v - 5. Suppose 4 + 8 = -2*c. What is c*k(b) + 5*i(b)?
b**2 + 2*b
Let o(u) = -u + 5. Let a(q) = -q + 1. Give 2*a(v) - o(v).
-v - 3
Let x(s) = -6*s. Let j(y) = -y. What is 2*j(q) - x(q)?
4*q
Let s(m) = 7*m - 14. Let l(q) = 29*q - 56. What is -2*l(i) + 9*s(i)?
5*i - 14
Let n(u) = 11*u**2 - 6*u. Suppose 21*p = 10*p + 66. Let g(z) = 10*z**2 - 5*z. Calculate p*g(q) - 5*n(q).
5*q**2
Suppose -5*f + x - 7 = -0*f, -5*f - 3*x = -1. Let o(s) = 5*s**3 - 2*s - 6. Let v(g) = -g**3 + 1. Determine f*o(u) - 6*v(u).
u**3 + 2*u
Let j(n) = -17*n + 14. Let k(l) = 6*l - 5. Give 4*j(u) + 11*k(u).
-2*u + 1
Let g be ((-4)/(-12))/(5/30). Let h(a) = a**2 - 4*a + 1. Let t(r) = 2*r**2 - 5*r + 2. Calculate g*t(v) - 3*h(v).
v**2 + 2*v + 1
Let k(z) = -2*z**2 + 2*z - 7. Let f(t) = 5*t**2 - 2*t - 1. Let p be f(-1). Let m be (2/p)/((-3)/45). Let b(c) = -2*c**2 + 2*c - 6. Give m*k(a) + 6*b(a).
-2*a**2 + 2*a - 1
Let i(j) = -4*j - 7. Let u = 18 + -9. Let h = u + -15. Let b(y) = -5*y - 8. Give h*i(z) + 5*b(z).
-z + 2
Let b(q) = 2*q - 3. Let s(g) = g - 1. Let y(v) = -v**3 + 7*v**2 - 6*v - 1. Let t = 4 - -2. Let u be y(t). What is u*b(n) + 3*s(n)?
n
Let n = 15 + -6. Let w = n + -20. Let g(c) = 9*c**2 - 11. Let b(y) = 5*y**2 - 4 - 1 - 1. Calculate w*b(f) + 6*g(f).
-f**2
Let y(b) = 7*b + 20. Let m(l) = -6*l - 19. Calculate 5*m(p) + 4*y(p).
-2*p - 15
Let h be ((-1)/2)/((-3)/24). Let j be (-1 - -2)*(-3)/(-3). Let u(f) = j + h - 4. Let g(x) = -x + 4. What is -g(d) + 4*u(d)?
d
Let m(o) be the first derivative of 5/2*o**2 - o**4 + 5/3*o**3 - 1 + 0*o. Let g(a) = a**3 - a**2 - a. Determine -10*g(k) - 2*m(k).
-2*k**3
Let g(r) = 2*r**2 + 3*r + 4. Let y(f) = f**2 + 2*f + 3. Let w be 3*-1*(1 + 0). Let l(h) = -h**3 + 2. Let q be l(0). Determine q*g(n) + w*y(n).
n**2 - 1
Let o(n) = 17*n - 7. Let g(j) = j - 1. What is 14*g(k) - 2*o(k)?
-20*k
Let c(w) = 4*w**3 - 7*w + 5. Let x(h) = -h**3 + h - 1. Let b(i) = -i**2 - i + 1. Let a be b(-3). Give a*x(m) - c(m).
m**3 + 2*m
Let a(u) = -2*u**2 + 8*u - 6. Let w(y) = -y + 1. Calculate a(z) + 6*w(z).
-2*z**2 + 2*z
Let v(y) = -y. Let x(c) = 3*c**2 - c + 2. Determine -3*v(d) + x(d).
3*d**2 + 2*d + 2
Let m(p) = 6*p**3 - 6*p**2 - 2*p. Suppose 2*i + 4*t = 0, -3*i + 8 = -7*i - 4*t. Let r(o) = -11*o**2 + 11*o**3 + 838*o - 422*o - 419*o. What is i*r(y) + 7*m(y)?
-2*y**3 + 2*y**2 - 2*y
Let s(u) = 6*u**2 + 2*u - 22. Let w(y) = 7*y**2 + 3*y - 21. Calculate -5*s(v) + 4*w(v).
-2*v**2 + 2*v + 26
Let k(j) = -319*j**3 - 29*j**2 + 29*j. Let q(z) = 64*z**3 + 6*z**2 - 6*z. Give 6*k(x) + 29*q(x).
-58*x**3
Suppose -5*w + 236 = 221. Let p(d) = d. Let z(y) = 4*y. Give w*z(u) - 8*p(u).
4*u
Suppose 4*g = 13 - 1. Suppose -4*m = -12, -3*x - 4*m = -21 - g. Let l(r) = 2*r**3 + 4. Let h(j) = -1. Give x*h(b) + l(b).
2*b**3
Let p(m) = 2*m. Let v be p(-2). Let l(o) = -1. Let z(n) = 2*n - 3. Determine v*l(w) + z(w).
2*w + 1
Let l(m) = -2*m. Let f(b) = 15*b. What is -2*f(s) - 10*l(s)?
-10*s
Let o(x) = 3*x**3 - x**2 + 2. Let r(c) = c**3. Suppose 0 = -2*q + i - 15, q + 11 = -2*i - 9. Let b be ((-4)/q)/((-14)/(-35)). What is b*o(w) - 5*r(w)?
-2*w**3 - w**2 + 2
Let z(v) be the third derivative of -3*v**4/8 + 5*v**3/6 + v**2. Let p be (0 - 34/7) + (-220)/1540. Let o(u) = 14*u - 8. Determine p*o(m) - 8*z(m).
2*m
Let a(q) = -61*q**2 - 3*q + 9. Let j(f) = 30*f**2 + f - 4. Calculate -3*a(k) - 7*j(k).
-27*k**2 + 2*k + 1
Let x(h) be the second derivative of h**4/12 + h**3/6 - h**2/2 + 21*h - 4. Suppose 0 = -2*v + 8. Let p(j) = 3*j**3 + 4*j**2 + 4*j - 3. What is v*x(m) - p(m)?
-3*m**3 - 1
Let o(g) = g**2. Let q(l) = -12*l**3 + 12*l**2. Determine -12*o(u) + q(u).
-12*u**3
Let y(s) = -s**3 + 5*s**2 - 5*s + 9. Let z(v) = 2 - v**2 + 0*v**2 + 12*v - 13*v + 2*v**2. Determine 2*y(r) - 9*z(r).
-2*r**3 + r**2 - r
Let h(o) = -3*o**2 + 2*o - 2. Let v(c) be the second derivative of -c**4 + 3*c**3/2 - 9*c**2/2 + 27*c. Give 9*h(q) - 2*v(q).
-3*q**2
Let l(k) = 5 - 8*k**3 + 7*k**3 - 3*k - k**2 + 8*k. Let u(g) = -g**3 - g**2 + 6*g + 6. Give -6*l(i) + 5*u(i).
i**3 + i**2
Let r(p) = -23*p**3 + 3*p**2 + 5*p + 6. Let o(y) = -23*y**3 + 2*y**2 + 4*y + 5. Determine -5*o(m) + 4*r(m).
23*m**3 + 2*m**2 - 1
Let u(h) = h - 5. Let k(z) = -2*z + 11. Let t(y) = -4*y + 22. Suppose -3*i - 1 + 13 = 0. Let q(p) = i*t(p) - 9*k(p). Determine -3*q(d) + 7*u(d).
d - 2
Let a(t) = 9*t + 1. Let c(f) = -f - 1. Let n be c(-7). Let j(v) = -1 - v + 2*v - n*v. Suppose 4*o = -o - 25. Give o*j(u) - 3*a(u).
-2*u + 2
Let q(y) = -2*y**3 - 3*y**2 - 2*y. Let l(c) = 5*c**3 + 9*c**2 + 7*c. Determine 2*l(a) + 7*q(a).
-4*a**3 - 3*a**2
Let d(r) = 2*r**2 - 4. Let v(m) = 2*m**2 - 3. Let b = -9 + 8. Let k = 3 - b. Give k*v(q) - 3*d(q).
2*q**2
Let v(t) = 3*t - 4. Let y be 150/(-138) + -4 - (-4)/46. Let h = -5 + 7. Let o(j) = 7*j - 9. What is h*o(s) + y*v(s)?
-s + 2
Let y(b) = -b**3 + 5*b + 5. Let d(m) = m**3 - 6*m - 6. Give 5*d(w) + 6*y(w).
-w**3
Let u(j) = j**2 - j. Let d(g) = -4*g**2 + 7*g - 1. Determine -d(p) - 6*u(p).
-2*p**2 - p + 1
Let i(s) = -7*s - 17. Let j(k) = -2*k - 4. Calculate 6*i(n) - 22*j(n).
2*n - 14
Let l(t) = -20*t**2 + 3*t + 3. Let j(o) = -41*o**2 + 5*o + 5. Calculate 3*j(s) - 5*l(s).
-23*s**2
Let o(m) = m - 3. Let q(i) = 2*i - 4. What is -8*o(n) + 5*q(n)?
2*n + 4
Let m(g) = -2 + 0*g**3 + 14 - 6*g**3 - 1 + 11*g**2. Let d(y) = -y**2 + 1 + 1 + 2*y**2 - y**3 + y**2. Give -11*d(i) + 2*m(i).
-i**3
Let o(r) be the third derivative of r**5/20 + r**4/24 - r**3/6 - r**2 - 11*r. Let z(n) = n**2. Determine o(j) - 2*z(j).
j**2 + j - 1
Let n(l) = -4*l**3 - 5*l**2 - 5*l - 5. Let b be (-18)/9 + 1 + -3. Let y(f) = 3*f**3 + 4*f**2 + 4*f + 4. Calculate b*n(j) - 5*y(j).
j**3
Let f(m) = 19*m**3 - 3*m**2 - 3*m. Let g(c) = 18*c**3 - 4*c**2 - 4*c. Calculate -4*f(n) + 3*g(n).
-22*n**3
Let g(t) = t**2 - t. Let b(q) = q**2 - 6*q + 2. Give -b(w) + 4*g(w).
3*w**2 + 2*w - 2
Let t(k) = 2*k + 6. Let p(o) = -4*o - 13. Determine 3*p(v) + 5*t(v).
-2*v - 9
Let q(h) = -7*h**3 - 6*h**2 + 6*h + 5. Let l(p) = 6*p**3 + 5*p**2 - 5*p - 4. Let r = -3 + 8. Determine r*q(k) + 6*l(k).
k**3 + 1
Let b(x) = -9*x**3 - 6*x**2 - 6. Let n(q) be the second derivative of -2*q**5/5 - 5*q**4/12 - 5*q**2/2 + 4*q. What is -5*b(k) + 6*n(k)?
-3*k**3
Let g(q) = -4*q**2 + 3*q - 3. Let f(o) = o**3 - 5*o**2 + 4*o - 4. Give 3*f(w) - 4*g(w).
3*w**3 + w**2
Let g be 4/((-1)/(12/(-16))). Suppose 3 = -g*n + 12. Let w(m) = 3*m + 3. Let j(q) = 2*q + 5 + 1 - 4. What is n*w(d) - 5*j(d)?
-d - 1
Let g(z) be the first derivative of z + 18. Let b = 8 - 5. Let n(h) = -3*h + 2*h + b*h + 6. Calculate |
Ervine Kimpalu from London, who pleaded guilty to drug-dealing offences, must not use words such as trapping, connect and whipping
Rico Racks, a London drill rapper, has been jailed for three years for drug offences and issued with an order that forbids him from rapping certain words.
Racks, real name Ervine Kimpalu, of Kings Cross, pleaded guilty to supplying class A drugs and possessing criminal property in the form of cash. Police raids on addresses linked to Kimpalu uncovered thousands of pounds in cash, and drugs with a street value of £7,000.
Kimpalu’s rap tracks openly referenced his drug trade: one video features a shot of a pan on a stove being used to prepare drugs, with lines such as: “Now I’ve got to move all this food [drugs] … If I fuck up you know I’m screwed.”
As part of his sentence, he was given a criminal behaviour order for five years. It prevents him from rapping words such as bandoe (a house used for drug dealing and consumption), trapping (dealing), and connect (a drugs contact). He is also banned from saying whipping, a slang term used for driving that has also been used to refer to drug preparation.
'New stop and search': rappers condemn police over drill bans Read more
Bans that restrict rappers from using certain words, or entering certain areas, have become increasingly used by police. West London drill rappers 1011 were banned from mentioning rival groups in their music, while duo Skengdo x AM were given suspended prison sentences for performing one of their tracks, Attempted 1.0, at a live gig.
This kind of legislation has been criticised by free-speech groups. Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg told the Guardian following the Skengdo x AM case: “The law already prevents individuals from directly inciting violence, but such wide-ranging bans go well beyond this. They are not the way to handle ideas or opinions that are distasteful or disturbing, and do nothing to address the issues that lead to the creation of this kind of music.” |
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"data",
"data/{type}",
]
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Q:
Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException thrown when running Azure function(V2) locally
I created a queue trigger template of Azure function v2 in VS2017.
When I ran the project locally, the function runtime started successfully. But when I created a message in the queue, VS downloaded a JsonSerialization.cs file and pointed out the error.
Details of default Exception settings:
It's a template generated by VS, so there seems no code issue like what I have found in other posts.
What I have tried:
Publish the project to Azure, works.
Run the project with function core tool(Cli) installed by npm, also works.
I guess the problem is related to the function Cli used by VS. But its runtime version is 2.0.11651.0, same as the one installed by npm.
Have anyone met this before or got any idea? Thanks in advance.
A:
This exception is internal and should be caught by the runtime. Feel free to ignore it in exception settings, and then everything should just work.
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Newsom is scheduled to take part in a full-day clean-tech showcase on Israel’s industrial approach to alternative energy and bio-fuels. He’ll be the first San Francisco Mayor to visit San Francisco’s city’s sister city, Haifa, and he’ll meet with Haifa Mayor Yonah Yahav as well as Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai. He also expects to pay his respects at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, and at a memorial marking the site of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in Tel Aviv. And he’ll visit Umm el-Fahm, an Arab-Israeli town that is one of the sites for Echad – a Jewish Community Federation-funded program focused on early childhood education in the Arab-Israeli community.
And will this trip generate controversy? Hey, what do you think?
Barbara Lubin, head of the Berkeley-based Middle East Children’s Alliance, told KCBS radio it’s a cop-out for Newsom to go to Israel and not address its policies. ”People really don’t want to get into the real issues of Israel, because of course people don’t want to be called anti-Semitic. But it is really no more anti-Semitic to criticize the actions of Israel, than it is anti-American to criticize the actions of our government,” she said.
New to my inbox, an “official statement” e-mailed on behalf of the Rev. John Hagee, an evangelical pastor from whom Republican presumptive presidential nominee John McCain said he’s proud to have an endorsement.
“As a believing Christian, I see the hand of God in everything that happens here on earth, both the blessings and the curses. But ultimately neither I nor any other person can know the mind of God concerning Hurricane Katrina. I should not have suggested otherwise. No matter what the cause of the storm, my heart goes out to all who suffered in this terrible tragedy. There but for the grace of God go any one of us.”
This, of course, refers to Hagee’s contention that God punished New Orleans with the hurricane’s devestation, a claim I think he first made to National Public Radio’s Terry Gross back in September 2006. “Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans,” he said. “New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God,” because “there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came.”
It’s a claim he repeated again this week. “What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God… In time, if New Orleans recovers and becomes the pristine city it can become, it may in time be called a blessing. But at this time it’s called a curse… It was a city that was planning a sinful conduct.”
MoveOn organized a protest of McCain’s appearance in New Orleans yesterday, and today Hagee offers this statement.
And what, exactly, does this mean? “Well, I don’t actually know what God was thinking, but I believe He believes being gay warrants divine retribution that ravages an entire region, kills more than 1,800 people, leaves thousands homeless, causes about $86 billion in damages… But hey, I feel for ya.”
The Republican National Committee‘s Victory 2008 campaign rolled out its list of finance chairs who’ll lead the effort to raise money to put John McCain in the White House and down-ticket GOP candidates into office across the nation.
“I look forward to working with each of the 2008 Victory Finance Chairs and communicating Senator McCain’s vision for the country,” Victory 2008 chairwoman Carly Fiorina said in the news release. “McCain has demonstrated to all of us that he has the judgment, character, and integrity to lead our nation and each of these state chairs will help echo that message.”
I spent all day Wednesday in Contra Costa Television’s Martinez studio moderating — yep, one right after the other — a series of six, half-hour taped candidate and issue round-tables.
(CCTV staffers are busy finishing up the productions. As soon as they are finished, I’ll post airtime schedules and the on-line links to the debates for Assembly districts 14 and 15, county supervisor districts 3 and 5, and Propositions 98 and 99.)
People ask me every time we tape these segments, “How can you keep all those candidates straight?”
Hey, six segments in one day is nothing. My personal record is 22 round-tables in three days. We may break that figure this November depending on the numbers of contested local races. The Richmond City Council race alone had 14 candidates in 2006. (And no, they don’t teach you how to moderate candidate round-tables in journalism school. I inherited the job from my predecessor, Dan Borenstein.)
You never quite know what’s going to happen when you sit down in front of the television cameras.
Yesterday, Assembly District 14 candidate Phil Polakoff’s cell phone rang during the segment and then beeped again when the caller left him a voicemail. We forgave him because he’s a medical doctor, although for all we know, someone was telling him dry cleaning was ready for pick up.
AD14 candidate Tony Thurmond was late for the taping, which earned him a verbal rebuke from candidate Nancy Skinner. “I had a family emergency,” Thurmond snapped back. Ooookay.
We needed fur coats during a very chilly round-table between incumbent Contra Costa County Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho and her challenger, termed-out Assemblyman Guy Houston. He blasted her during his opening statements and the hostility between the two of them is obvious. Most of the angst is rooted in the fact that he encouraged Piepho, who worked in his Assembly office, to run for supervisor in 2004. In 2007, he tried to recruit her for his Assembly seat before he filed to run against her in the supervisor race.
In the five-way race in supervisorial District 5 against incumbent Federal Glover, challenger Mary Rocha waited until her closing statement to whip out from her purse an expensive glossy color brochure produced by challenger, Erik Nunn, and complain about the money being spent in the race. (Note to self: Ban purses allowed on the set.)
And in the Prop. 98 and 99 debate, we had a heck of time figuring out who was the proponent and opponent of what. You see, the proponent of Prop. 98 was also the opponent of Prop. 99, and the proponent of Prop. 99, well, you get the picture. Thank goodness, the two people who were debating the measures were patient and kind people.
Tune in and watch. The segments aren’t long enough to give you a total picture of each candidates’ views on a broad range of subjects. But they do allow you to see the candidates in the same room at the same time.
Veteran homeowners struggling under the weight of rising sub-prime mortgage payments could see a rise in the federally back refinance loan cap in legislation that passed out of a Congressional committee this week.
Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, authored an amendment to the Helping Our Veterans Keep Their Homes Act of 2008 that would hike the existing $144,000 loan cap to $729,750.
The lower figure is virtually useless in Northern California, especially in the Bay Area where housing prices are among the highest in the nation.
“I’ve heard from reservists who have been deployed multiple times, saw a big loss in pay and they get in trouble with their home loans,” McNerney said.
The underlying bill revamps the Veterans Administration Home Loan Guaranty Service, which provides home loans to military personnel. The bill passed out of a subcommittee on Veterans Affairs on Wednesday and is headed to the full committee.
McNerney said he sought in his amendment to include veterans who already own homes but have fallen victim to the sub-prime mortgage crisis. It would allow them to refinance with VA-backed loans at more affordable interest rates.
“We have heard complaints about the low, $144,00 figure in the past, but now, it’s a crisis,” McNerney said. “We had bipartisan support for the legislation in the sub-committee and I can’t imagine why anyone would oppose it.”
With only a few precincts outstanding at this hour, the Associated Press shows Hillary Clinton with 55 percent of Pennyslvania’s Democratic vote — it was a closed primary, no independents allowed — and Barack Obama with 45 percent; that’s 80 pledged delegates for Clinton, 66 for Obama, 12 more yet to be awarded.
So, the new delegate totals seem to be:
Obama — 1,481 pledged + 233 superdelegates = 1,714 total
Clinton — 1,331 pledged + 258 superdelegates = 1,589 total
CNN asks whether Clinton’s Pennsylvania victory came soon enough to save her candidacy: “Clinton told supporters in her victory speech that ‘the tide has turned.’ It’s more like she’s slowed the wave of momentum that appeared ready to carry Obama to the party’s nomination.”
The win certainly seemed to have given Clinton at least some degree of financial boost; Bloomberg reports her campaign claiming to have raised $2.5 million after the polls closed last night. In context, however, not much of that will be left after she pays her debts: Obama started the month with $42.5 million available while Clinton had about $8 million on hand but $10.3 million in unpaid bills.
Clinton’s campaign put out a bulletin today noting “more people have voted for Hillary than any other candidate… Estimates vary slightly, but according to Real Clear Politics, Hillary has received 15,095,663 votes to Sen. Obama’s 14,973,720, a margin of more than 120,000 votes… This count includes certified vote totals in Florida and Michigan.” That would be the two states where Democratic candidates agreed not to campaign because they bucked the party’s rules by setting their primaries too early; Obama’s name wasn’t even on the ballot in Michigan. Even counting Florida but not Michigan, Obama’s still in the popular-vote lead.
So now it’s on to the May 6 primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. Real Clear Politics’ averages of several polls shows Clinton with a slim lead in Indiana and Obama with a comfortable lead in North Carolina. Nationwide, it’s Obama by 10 percentage points. Watch for all those numbers to change somewhat as yesterday’s results sink in.
And Time magazine says “the real winner of the Democratic race in Pennsylvania is John McCain. The most significant number coming out of Tuesday night wasn’t Clinton’s 10 point margin of victory, but 43. That’s the percentage of Clinton voters who say they would stay home or vote for McCain if Obama is the party’s nominee in November.” But that doesn’t account for the more than a quarter of Republican voters in yesterday’s election who voted against McCain, picking Ron Paul or Mike Huckabee instead. True, there wasn’t a lot of impetus for McCain supporters to flock to the polls yesterday because he’s already the presumptive nominee; still, when 27 percent of those who did show up vote against the guy, you’ve gotta wonder how many of those people will vote against him or just stay home in November. |
// Copyright (c) 2018 Doyub Kim
//
// I am making my contributions/submissions to this project solely in my
// personal capacity and am not conveying any rights to any intellectual
// property of any third parties.
#ifndef INCLUDE_JET_ANIMATION_H_
#define INCLUDE_JET_ANIMATION_H_
#include <jet/macros.h>
#include <memory>
namespace jet {
//!
//! \brief Representation of an animation frame.
//!
//! This struct holds current animation frame index and frame interval in
//! seconds.
//!
struct Frame final {
//! Frame index.
int index = 0;
//! Time interval in seconds between two adjacent frames.
double timeIntervalInSeconds = 1.0 / 60.0;
//! Constructs Frame instance with 1/60 seconds time interval.
Frame();
//! Constructs Frame instance with given time interval.
Frame(int newIndex, double newTimeIntervalInSeconds);
//! Returns the elapsed time in seconds.
double timeInSeconds() const;
//! Advances single frame.
void advance();
//! Advances multiple frames.
//! \param delta Number of frames to advance.
void advance(int delta);
//! Advances single frame (prefix).
Frame& operator++();
//! Advances single frame (postfix).
Frame operator++(int);
};
//!
//! \brief Abstract base class for animation-related class.
//!
//! This class represents the animation logic in very abstract level.
//! Generally animation is a function of time and/or its previous state.
//! This base class provides a virtual function update() which can be
//! overriden by its sub-classes to implement their own state update logic.
//!
class Animation {
public:
Animation();
virtual ~Animation();
//!
//! \brief Updates animation state for given \p frame.
//!
//! This function updates animation state by calling Animation::onUpdate
//! function.
//!
void update(const Frame& frame);
protected:
//!
//! \brief The implementation of this function should update the animation
//! state for given Frame instance \p frame.
//!
//! This function is called from Animation::update when state of this class
//! instance needs to be updated. Thus, the inherited class should overrride
//! this function and implement its logic for updating the animation state.
//!
virtual void onUpdate(const Frame& frame) = 0;
};
//! Shared pointer for the Animation type.
typedef std::shared_ptr<Animation> AnimationPtr;
} // namespace jet
#endif // INCLUDE_JET_ANIMATION_H_
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NCF Nation: Keith Gray
The Cincinnati Enquirer's Bill Koch has an interesting look at how building a signature athletic hub on campus has both helped and hurt Cincinnati financially. The Bearcats are facing a budget shortfall and have had to cut three men's sports teams.
In addition to the debt from the facility that must be financed, Varsity Village costs approximately $1.1 million a year to operate -- $700,000 for utilities and $400,000 in maintenance and custodial costs, [athletic director Mike] Thomas said.
UC, compared with the seven other Division I football schools in the Big East, is ill-equipped to absorb that kind of debt year after year. According to Thomas, the average combined revenue produced by the men's basketball and football programs among the eight Big East football schools is $26 million per year. UC ranks last in that group at $14 million.
• Greg Paulus was in Syracuse this weekend and apparently met with Orange football coaches on Sunday night, Donnie Webb writes in the Syracuse Post-Standard.
In draft news ...
• Pat White was thrilled to be drafted by the Wildcat-running Miami Dolphins, Mike Casazza writes in the Charleston Daily Mail. Within this story, there is word that undrafted offensive linemen Greg Isdaner (Dallas Cowboys) and Ryan Stanchek (Atlanta Falcons) have signed free-agent deals.
• UConn's Julius Williams and Tyler Lorenzen signed with Jacksonville, while Dahna Deleston signed with the Bears and Keith Gray inked with Carolina, Desmond Conner writes in the Hartford Courant. |
343 U.S. 907
72 S.Ct. 580
96 L.Ed. 1325
William Walter REMINGTON, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES of America.
No. 387.
Supreme Court of the United States
March 24, 1952
Messrs. William C. Chanler and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., for petitioner.
Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General McInerney, Robert L. Stern and Beatrice Rosenberg, for the United States.
Mr. Justice BLACK, with whom Mr. Justice DOUGLAS concurs, dissenting.
A federal district court grand jury indicted petitioner for perjury. A petit jury convicted him. The Court of Appeals reversed but refused to order the indictment dismissed. 191 F.2d 246. Petitioner is now seeking certiorari, claiming that the indictment should have been dismissed. The majority now denies his petition. I think we should grant and consider two questions the petitioner presents. These questions challenge the fairness of the prosecutorial methods used to obtain and to sustain the indictment.
Dissenting memorandum filed by Mr. Justice BLACK, with whom Mr. Justice DOUGLAS concurs.
Mr. Justice CLARK took no part in the consideration or decision of this application.
The first challenge is:
1
'The Circuit Court of Appeals erred:
2
'In failing to dismiss the indictment on the ground that the foreman of the indicting grand jury, at the very time the indictment was returned, was the financial and literary collaborator of the chief prosecution witness in a book-publishing venture whose success depended upon the defendant's indictment.' The second challenge is:
3
'The United States Attorney deliberately withheld information concerning the collaboration of Bentley and Brunini from defendant's counsel and then sought to suppress the evidence when it became known to defendant's counsel from other sources.'
4
Governmental conduct here charged is abhorrent to a fair administration of justice. It approaches the type of practices unanimously condemned by this Court as a violation of due process of law in Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U.S. 103, 55 S.Ct. 340, 79 L.Ed. 791. For this reason I have felt constrained to depart from my custom and give reasons for my vote to grant certiorari in this case.
5
As to the legal significance of a denial of the petition for writ of certiorari, Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER refers to his memoranda in State of Maryland v. Baltimore Radio Show, Inc., 338 U.S. 912, 70 S.Ct. 252, 94 L.Ed. 562; and Agoston v. Com. of Pennsylvania, 340 U.S. 844, 71 S.Ct. 9, 95 L.Ed. 619.
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Q:
How to setup Django on XMPP on Windows XP
Greetings!
I'd like to investigate Django but I'm running Windows XP. I've installed XMPP and I currently have Python 2.6 installed (is it true that 2.5 is the only version that will work with XMPP?). What else do I need to get up and running? Any tips, recommended IDEs, etc?
A:
As Sam says, for development, use the dev server. Using a "real" server is actually more of a pain because you have to make sure it reloads your project when you make edits. You can also beat it into hosting all your media while in a development environment, if that's what you need (as most people do).
As far as IDE's go, Python is a hard language to provide auto-complete features for due to its dynamic typing. That said PyDev (an Eclipse plug-in) can make life easier for you but it's really down to personal choice.
Half of Django is writing HTML templates, so make sure you've got a good HTML editor to hand as well. Eclipse (IMO, naturally) is far too clunky for this (even with Aptana, et al plugins)
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Boeing facilities are seen in Los Angeles, California, U.S. April 22, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co BA.N and its largest union said on Friday they had agreed on a February date for a union vote at Boeing's jetliner factory in South Carolina, setting up what is likely to be a fresh battle between the union and the world's biggest plane maker.
International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers spokesman Mike Evans said in a statement that about 2,850 workers at the factory that builds 787 Dreamliners would be eligible to vote on union representation in the Feb. 15 ballot.
Boeing spokesman Doug Alder said the company is “strongly encouraging all eligible teammates, roughly 3,000, to be sure to vote.”
The machinists canceled an earlier vote set for April 2015 citing a “a toxic environment” and violations of workers’ rights to organize, in the strongly anti-union state.
At the time, union organizers described the decision as a tactical move, allowing time to build union support. Boeing called the union’s allegations of intimidation “frivolous.”
South Carolina is a state where employees are not required to join unions or pay dues. It has among the lowest rates of union membership in the United States.
Evans, in the statement, cited fresh “intimidation tactics” against organizing by Boeing.
Boeing said it has hired a lawyer it used when workers tried to unionize in 2015.
“Boeing is applying the appropriate resources to protect the competitive advantage created by the Boeing South Carolina (BSC) team,” the company said in a statement. |
/*
* cpufreq driver for the cell processor
*
* (C) Copyright IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH 2005-2007
*
* Author: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
* any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*/
#include <linux/cpufreq.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/of_platform.h>
#include <asm/machdep.h>
#include <asm/prom.h>
#include <asm/cell-regs.h>
#include "ppc_cbe_cpufreq.h"
static DEFINE_MUTEX(cbe_switch_mutex);
/* the CBE supports an 8 step frequency scaling */
static struct cpufreq_frequency_table cbe_freqs[] = {
{1, 0},
{2, 0},
{3, 0},
{4, 0},
{5, 0},
{6, 0},
{8, 0},
{10, 0},
{0, CPUFREQ_TABLE_END},
};
/*
* hardware specific functions
*/
static int set_pmode(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int slow_mode)
{
int rc;
if (cbe_cpufreq_has_pmi)
rc = cbe_cpufreq_set_pmode_pmi(cpu, slow_mode);
else
rc = cbe_cpufreq_set_pmode(cpu, slow_mode);
pr_debug("register contains slow mode %d\n", cbe_cpufreq_get_pmode(cpu));
return rc;
}
/*
* cpufreq functions
*/
static int cbe_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
{
const u32 *max_freqp;
u32 max_freq;
int i, cur_pmode;
struct device_node *cpu;
cpu = of_get_cpu_node(policy->cpu, NULL);
if (!cpu)
return -ENODEV;
pr_debug("init cpufreq on CPU %d\n", policy->cpu);
/*
* Let's check we can actually get to the CELL regs
*/
if (!cbe_get_cpu_pmd_regs(policy->cpu) ||
!cbe_get_cpu_mic_tm_regs(policy->cpu)) {
pr_info("invalid CBE regs pointers for cpufreq\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
max_freqp = of_get_property(cpu, "clock-frequency", NULL);
of_node_put(cpu);
if (!max_freqp)
return -EINVAL;
/* we need the freq in kHz */
max_freq = *max_freqp / 1000;
pr_debug("max clock-frequency is at %u kHz\n", max_freq);
pr_debug("initializing frequency table\n");
/* initialize frequency table */
for (i=0; cbe_freqs[i].frequency!=CPUFREQ_TABLE_END; i++) {
cbe_freqs[i].frequency = max_freq / cbe_freqs[i].index;
pr_debug("%d: %d\n", i, cbe_freqs[i].frequency);
}
/* if DEBUG is enabled set_pmode() measures the latency
* of a transition */
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = 25000;
cur_pmode = cbe_cpufreq_get_pmode(policy->cpu);
pr_debug("current pmode is at %d\n",cur_pmode);
policy->cur = cbe_freqs[cur_pmode].frequency;
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
cpumask_copy(policy->cpus, cpu_sibling_mask(policy->cpu));
#endif
cpufreq_frequency_table_get_attr(cbe_freqs, policy->cpu);
/* this ensures that policy->cpuinfo_min
* and policy->cpuinfo_max are set correctly */
return cpufreq_frequency_table_cpuinfo(policy, cbe_freqs);
}
static int cbe_cpufreq_cpu_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
{
cpufreq_frequency_table_put_attr(policy->cpu);
return 0;
}
static int cbe_cpufreq_verify(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
{
return cpufreq_frequency_table_verify(policy, cbe_freqs);
}
static int cbe_cpufreq_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
unsigned int target_freq,
unsigned int relation)
{
int rc;
struct cpufreq_freqs freqs;
unsigned int cbe_pmode_new;
cpufreq_frequency_table_target(policy,
cbe_freqs,
target_freq,
relation,
&cbe_pmode_new);
freqs.old = policy->cur;
freqs.new = cbe_freqs[cbe_pmode_new].frequency;
mutex_lock(&cbe_switch_mutex);
cpufreq_notify_transition(policy, &freqs, CPUFREQ_PRECHANGE);
pr_debug("setting frequency for cpu %d to %d kHz, " \
"1/%d of max frequency\n",
policy->cpu,
cbe_freqs[cbe_pmode_new].frequency,
cbe_freqs[cbe_pmode_new].index);
rc = set_pmode(policy->cpu, cbe_pmode_new);
cpufreq_notify_transition(policy, &freqs, CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE);
mutex_unlock(&cbe_switch_mutex);
return rc;
}
static struct cpufreq_driver cbe_cpufreq_driver = {
.verify = cbe_cpufreq_verify,
.target = cbe_cpufreq_target,
.init = cbe_cpufreq_cpu_init,
.exit = cbe_cpufreq_cpu_exit,
.name = "cbe-cpufreq",
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.flags = CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS,
};
/*
* module init and destoy
*/
static int __init cbe_cpufreq_init(void)
{
if (!machine_is(cell))
return -ENODEV;
return cpufreq_register_driver(&cbe_cpufreq_driver);
}
static void __exit cbe_cpufreq_exit(void)
{
cpufreq_unregister_driver(&cbe_cpufreq_driver);
}
module_init(cbe_cpufreq_init);
module_exit(cbe_cpufreq_exit);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>");
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Staying in tonight? Here are some suggestions to help you make the most of your evening at home. Our staff has come up with all sorts of options, including the best of what's on television, a DVD to watch, a book you might want to read, even a recipe to try - complete with shopping and pantry item lists - from our Chronicle Food and Wine staff. So kick back, hit the kitchen or the couch, and enjoy. Dinner tonight
Clams With White Beans & Tomatoes: Shellfish and fresh tomatoes make a great summer dish. This goes together in under 30 minutes.
What's on TV tonight
-- Frolicking frat-boy lawyers "Franklin & Bash" end their first season on TNT at 9 p.m. "Perry Mason," it ain't.
DVDs
This documentary adeptly follows the life and career of political folk singer Phil Ochs, who died tragically at 35 in 1976. Although his friend Bob Dylan didn't grant interviews for the film, the words of Ochs, whose lyrics stand the test of time, plus interviews with family members and other contemporaries, give exceptional insight into who Ochs was. Not rated. 96 minutes.
Books
"Bright's Passage," by Josh Ritter. The singer-songwriter stretches out in his debut novel, set during and after World War I.
Tonight's TV sports pick
Goooooooooooooal! At 7 p.m. there's some serious CONCACAF Champions soccer. On FSC, you can watch San Francisco at Seattle; on Channel 66, Santos Leguna is at Olimpia. Some locales may have different channels. Double-check your local listings.
Instructions: Place the clams in a bowl and cover with water while you prepare the other ingredients. This will help remove any remaining sand inside their shells.
Heat the olive oil in a heavy stock pot over medium heat, then add the garlic and shallots. Saute until just tender, stirring often, about 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and their juices and season with salt and pepper. Saute until juicy, stirring, about 3 minutes.
Stir in the beans and add herbs to taste. Simmer 2 more minutes to combine flavors.
Lift the clams from the water (avoid any sand at the bottom of the bowl) and add them to the beans, with the wine. Bring to a steady simmer, then lower heat slightly, cover and cook until the clams open, about 5 minutes.
Season to taste with salt and pepper, add dried herbs and fresh parsley, if using. Serve in shallow bowls with the bread. |
Bill Clark/Getty Images
Once again, Black women in America have proven to be both a political force and the moral backbone of America.
On Tuesday, Democrat Doug Jones squared off with Republican former judge Roy Moore in a special election for the senate seat left vacant by Jeff Sessions in Alabama.
The candidates were polar opposites, not only in terms of party, but history. Moore, who had twice been removed from the bench based on conduct, faced allegations of pedophilia and was generally venerated for comments concerning America being at its greatest during slavery. Jones was well known as the prosecutor who brought the murderers of the “four little girls” at the 16th Street Baptist Church to justice years after their crime. Jones garnered the support of many African Americans based on his record of fighting bigotry and racism in Alabama.
Trump and several in the party’s leadership endorsed Moore, despite the allegations of molestation, and encouraged voters to favor party over morality. Black women, however, turned out in record numbers to ensure that Moore would not be elected. In fact, 98 percent of the vote of Black women went to Jones, propelling him to be the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Alabama in 25 years. The Internet and media outlets placed Jones’ victory in the hands of the Black female electorate, thanking Black women for preserving the image of America and certainly that of Alabama.
The praise is more so deserved when considering the hurdles erected to prevent Black women from turning out in support of their candidate. In 2011, Alabama passed a strict voter identification law, making voting difficult for many of the poor Black women in rural areas. In fact, about 118,000 registered voters do not have the identification necessary to comply with the voter law.
While the Republican led legislature responsible for the law claimed it necessary to combat fraud, instances of fraud are rare. The discriminatory nature of the law was evident in the language of its sponsors, who were alleged to have referred to Blacks as “aborigines” and “illiterates.” Tuesday’s election also led to several complaints of long lines, limited poll workers, and intimidation at polling stations in Black communities.
Despite these hurdles, Black women turned out in large numbers and overall Black turnout was a record 29 percent.
When Black people turn out to the polls and particularly Black women, Republicans suffer. The media will continue to herald the efforts of Black women, praising them for saving everyone. White Alabama voters, the majority of whom cast their ballots for Moore, do not need saving. Black women can be counted on to vote their socio-economic interests to include rejection of racism and bigotry, the rights of women and young girls, and the overall right to vote. Because the interests of the Black woman reflect the interests of many American citizens, it is time for Black women to take the lead. |
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Whaling protesters remain captive in Southern Ocean
Two protesters from the marine conservation group Sea Shepherd are still being held on a Japanese whaling vessel. The captain of the Japanese ship has reportedly attached conditions to their release, which Sea Shepherd says it will not accept.
Haneef's visa battle comes to an end
The battle over the visa for the former terrorism suspect, Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef is over. He's now again free to work in Australia. The Federal Government has announced it won't appeal to the High Court against the Federal Court's decision to re-instate his visa. The Court last year dismissed the former Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews' appeal against the reinstatement. Doctor Haneef is understood to have been told the news, and is weighing up his future.
Local market slides despite healthy data
It's been another day of big losses on the Australian sharemarket - the eighth in a row. And it follows a slide on Wall Street that was led by the announcement of an $11-billion loss by the banking giant, Citigroup. It's prompting many people to wonder how much longer Australia can weather the economic storm clouds from the US.
Economic fears dominate US primary campaign
A growing fear that the United States is heading towards a recession is starting to play a more prominent role in the race for the White House. The struggling economy is seen as one reason behind today's win by Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary in Michigan. Mr Romney won 39 per cent of the vote, ahead of Senator John McCain. Meanwhile the Democratic candidates have been debating their credentials for handling the housing and credit crisis, as one of America's biggest banks posted its largest loss.
New MPs finding their feet in parliament
The Labor landslide at last year's federal election means that when the Parliament sits for the first time next month, there'll be a lot of new MPs trying to find their way around. Today and tomorrow, there's an official orientation seminar for the 42 new Members of the Parliament. That's about twice the number of new MPs installed at the last federal election. With them, the face of the Parliament will change: 11 of the new MPs are women and 12 are younger than 40. |
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WARNING: Spoilers for The Expanse Season 3, Episode 4: "Reload"
Welcome to Episode 304 of The Churn, our post-show podcast about The Expanse. Each week over the course of Season 3, The Expanse creators Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham (who you all know as James S.A. Corey) and SYFY WIRE's resident The Expanse superfans — FANGRRLS Managing Editor Cher Martinetti and Editor-in-Chief Adam Swiderski — take a deep dive into the latest episode.
This week, everyone's in a bit of a sticky situation. Anna's written her first speech for Esteban in the aftermath of the Martian missile strike, but struggles to keep him on script when Errinwright gets involved. Meanwhile, on the recently disguised Rocinante, the crew (including Avasarala and Bobbie) stop to assist a stranded group of Martian soldiers — but the growing tension between worlds leads to unforeseen consequences. And Jules-Pierre Mao might have put a halt on the protomolecule experiments, but Dr. Strickland may have other plans of his own.
We break down "Reload" with Ty Franck, Daniel Abraham, and special guest Cas Anvar.
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Q:
Using array elements as non-type template parameters?
In the follwing example code I use the object a0 as a non-type template-parameter, which works well, because it is an object with linkage (lvalue-ref). So I thought it must be possible to do so with an array element, but that fails:
constexpr uint8_t a[10] = {};
constexpr uint8_t a0 = {};
template<typename T, const T& V>
struct Test {};
using test = Test<uint8_t, a0>; // OK
using test = Test<uint8_t, a[0]>; //NOK
Is there a way to get this working?
A:
Binding a reference template parameter requires a name of an object with external linkage. Individual array elements have no name and no linkage in C++. This is why a reference template parameter cannot be bound to an array element. See 6.5 Program and linkage [basic.link] for full details.
You can make it compile if you drop the reference (if possible):
template<typename T, T V>
struct Test {};
Or access the element by index inside the template:
template<class T, T const& A, size_t Idx>
struct Test2 {
static constexpr decltype(A[Idx]) element = A[Idx];
static_assert(std::is_reference<decltype(element)>::value, "");
};
using test = Test2<decltype(a), a, 1>;
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Evaluation of an open-loop, computer-based infusion system designed to achieve a series of constant, targeted plasma procainamide concentrations in patients undergoing electrophysiologic testing.
To evaluate the performance of a computer-based procainamide infusion system in patients undergoing electrophysiologic testing. Prospective case series. Electrophysiology laboratory in a university hospital. Thirty-four patients with inducible sustained ventricular tachycardia. Intravenous infusion of procainamide to achieve and maintain targeted plasma concentrations. System performance was assessed by comparing targeted and observed plasma concentrations. The population median absolute performance error (size of typical miss) was 12.6% (95% CI 11.2-14.1%). The population median performance error (system bias) was not significantly different from zero. A small but statistically significant improvement in performance over time was observed (population absolute performance error divergence -0.125%/min). Population wobble (overall system stability) was 7.6% (95% CI 6.8-8.3%). Population-based estimates of central compartment volume and volume of distribution at steady state were significantly higher and lower, respectively, than estimates used by the infusion system. The computer-based infusion system is capable of achieving and maintaining a series of targeted procainamide concentrations in patients undergoing electrophysiologic testing. |
Input uncertainty and organizational coordination in hospital emergency units.
The relationships among input uncertainty, means of coordination, and criteria of the organizational effectiveness of hospital emergency units were explored using data from 30 emergency units in six midwestern states. Input uncertainty generally was not associated with the use of various means of coordination. However, input uncertainty affected relationships between the means of coordination and the effectiveness criteria. Specifically, programmed means of coordination made a greater contribution to organizational effectiveness under conditions of low uncertainty than under conditions of high uncertainty. Conversely, nonprogrammed means of coordination made a greater contribution to organizational effectiveness when uncertainty was high than when it was low. Findings were interpreted and suggestions were advanced as to how emergency units might best solve their coordination problems under varying conditions of uncertainty. |
NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of chickens have been destroyed at a Tennessee chicken farm due to a bird flu outbreak, and 30 other farms within a six-mile radius have been quarantined.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said 73,500 chickens were destroyed at the facility and will not enter the food system. The H7 avian influenza can be deadly to chickens and turkeys.
“Bird flu” is a catch-all phrase for a variety of influenza viruses that spread among poultry. They can be very contagious and deadly among birds, but rarely spread to humans. That said, deadly human flu pandemics have been sparked by viruses that first emerged in birds, and health officials closely track what’s killing poultry.
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The Tennessee breeder supplies the food company Tyson Foods (TSN). The company said that it doesn’t expect its chicken business to be disrupted, but the outbreak sent jitters through Wall Street.
Shares of Tyson, based in Springdale, Arkansas, fell and the news dragged down shares of other companies in the sectors as well.
“We’re responding aggressively, and are working with state and federal officials to contain the virus,” Tyson said in a company release.
The company said it tests all of its flocks for the virus before they leave the farm “out of an abundance of caution.” Results are known before the birds are processed, the company said, and animals are not used if bird flu is detected.
Tennessee’s Department of Agriculture is not identifying the farm where the chickens were destroyed, saying only that it is located in the state’s Lincoln County, which is just west of Chattanooga and boarders Alabama.
Only one commercial chicken farm in Alabama was within the six-mile radius, the state said, and all the birds there tested negative for the flu. That Alabama farm was also used by Tyson, according to the state. Alabama said it also began testing chickens in people’s backyards within in the affected area, and all the tests have come back negative so far.
There have been bird flu outbreaks in China and in Europe in recent months, though they are of differing strains.
The USDA said Monday that it does not yet know what type of H7 bird flu is affecting the chickens at Tennessee, but will know within 48 hours.
Shares of Tysons fell $1.50, or 2.4 percent, to $62.10 in afternoon trading. Shares of Sanderson Farms (SAFM), based in Laurel, Mississippi, dropped $2.23, or 2.4 percent, to $92.16, and shares of Greeley, Colorado-based Pilgrim’s Pride (PPC) dipped 30 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $20.66. |
Aneurysm of pericardial right ventricular outflow tract patches.
Among 1,022 patients who underwent repair of tetralogy of Fallot, 252 received a pericardial patch of the right ventricular outflow tract; of these, 10 subsequently developed an aneurysm of the right ventricular outflow tract. Cardiac catheterization and angiography revealed moderate pulmonary insufficiency in all patients, a residual pressure gradient in the right ventricular outflow tract in 7, and a residual ventricular septal defect in 2 patients. Reoperation was indicated in 8 patients because of progressive distention of the aneurysm, residual infundibular or pulmonary artery stenosis, and recurrent ventricular septal defect. Reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract was accomplished by resection of the aneurysm and insertion of a woven Dacron patch in 5 patients, primary suture of the pulmonary artery in 2, and implantation of a woven Dacron conduit containing a Björk-Shiley cardiac valve prosthesis in 1 patient. There were no early or late deaths. When reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract is necessary, we recommend a woven Dacron patch because pericardium may form an aneurysm. |
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Haircuts, oil change and a vacuum workout
The kids and I went today to get their hair cut. It was time. This was Ailey's first official cut. (I did trim her bangs a bit a month or two ago.) They all did a great job! Yay! No catastrophe this round. :)
Here are some captured moments:
After the haircuts, I decided to go ahead and go get the oil changed, too...since it was like, oh, 6000 miles overdue. Yeah. So, we went ahead with that. I must say that I really like the way the Valvoline place on Veteran's Memorial does it. We don't have to get out of our car at all. I even pay from the car. Nice.
Then, we came home and after lunch I couldn't stand the van being so gross anymore! I had already had the same issue with the kitchen carpet. So, my poor vacuum had quite a workout today. Ailey kept getting in the van with little pieces of leaves all over her socks (she just decides she doesn't want to wear her boots and she just takes them off wherever and I get to go on a scavenger hunt for them later...yay) and so when I was done wiping everything down, I had to vacuum AGAIN. Because the kids were out there "helping" me, I decided to go ahead and replace my windex and multi-purpose cleaners with vinegar and vinegar and water, respectively. I've been meaning to do that for a long while now, but just never got to it. Boy, that stuff works! I love vinegar, even though it makes my hands smell like old sweaty socks. :)
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Q:
R: If i is true then assign string to matrix
I can't get a for loop to assign the string 'NA' when none of the other conditions are met.
This is what I've tried...
Height <- c(1.6,3.4,0.42,n/a, 0.5,n/a,1.5,0,n/a,22.0)
Height <- matrix(Height)
h_cat <- matrix(, nrow = length(Height), ncol = 1)
for (i in 1:length(Height)){
if (Height[i]==0)
h_cat[i] <- 'NA'
if (Height[i]>0 & Height[i]<2)
print(Height[i])
h_cat[i] <- '0-2 m'
#print(h_cat[i])
if (Height[i]>=2 & Height[i]<5)
h_cat[i] <- '2-5 m'
if (Height[i]>=5 & Height[i]<10)
h_cat[i] <- '5-10 m'
if (Height[i]>=10)
h_cat[i] <- '>10 m'
else
h_cat[i] <- 'NA'
}
I had a go with is.na() but no luck either.
Update
Sorry that was rushed. Data added.
A:
There are two main problems with the current code.
First can be exemplified by NA == 0, which returns NA. Thus you can only use the if function on the non-NA entries: which(!is.na(Height)).
The logic of your if-else construction is not working as what seems to be the intention.
The below I believe achieves your intentions:
# Data needs to be numeric to check with ">"
Height[Height == "n/a", ] <- NA
Height <- as.numeric(Height)
h_cat <- matrix(, nrow = length(Height), ncol = 1)
# Can't have NA in logical tests
non_na_entries <- which(!is.na(Height))
for (i in non_na_entries) {
if (Height[i] == 0) {
h_cat[i] <- NA
} else if (Height[i] > 0 & Height[i] < 2) {
h_cat[i] <- '0-2 m'
} else if (Height[i] >= 2 & Height[i] < 5) {
h_cat[i] <- '2-5 m'
} else if (Height[i] >= 5 & Height[i] < 10) {
h_cat[i] <- '5-10 m'
} else if (Height[i] >= 10) {
h_cat[i] <- '>10 m'
} else
h_cat[i] <- NA
}
h_cat
[,1]
[1,] "0-2 m"
[2,] "2-5 m"
[3,] "0-2 m"
[4,] NA
[5,] "0-2 m"
[6,] NA
[7,] "0-2 m"
[8,] NA
[9,] NA
[10,] ">10 m"
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Did you hear that Roenick has an acting role on a television series? This is a clear indication that he is almost ready to hang up the skates and retire. Fact is, Roenick has enjoyed an extremely successful career with 500-plus career goals and nine All-Star appearances. In Chicago, he enjoyed a three-year stretch in which he posted 100+ pts. JR also enjoys hitting the game winning shot, evident from his 13-game winners in '07-08. Everything considered, he is only good for the occasional goal and low budget acting role at this stage in his career.
2007-08
Roenick will get his 500th goal this season. He managed to scrape together 28 points (11 goals and 17 assists) in 70 games playing with the Phoenix Coyotes. Playing with a much more talented team in San Jose he could end up in the mid-30 point range, and end his career on a high note. The Sharks brought in Roenick for his experience and leadership, and will not be relying on his scoring touch.
2006-07
Roenick's situation may remind fantasy owners of Teemu Selanne's situation over the last two seasons. Selanne came off a horid year in Colorado and went on to sign a one-year deal in Anaheim, where he burst out in a big way. Roenick was a bust in LA, and is now looking to recapture some of his magic from years past on a team he is familiar with. Coach Wayne Gretzky seems to believe in Roenick's ability and he may find some of his scoring touch, though fantasy owners will have to realize that he is on a team stacked with capable forwards. Draft accordingly.
2005-06
The outspoken Roenick looks to produce big things in Los Angeles this season and playing on a line with Alex Frolov will probably make that happen. He's going to be looked to as a leader on and off the ice. Which will mean good things for any fantasy team. |
In a thick fog, much like that the night of the U.S. Open Cup Qualifier in Peoria, the USMNT finally seemed to get the click here purchase viagra medication attacking style that was expected of a Jurgen Klinsman team. Lacking an attacker that can create and score by himself consistently, the USMNT was able to benefit from an extra attacker and was quickly able to push the ball forward scoring their first goal in just the 9th minute. After only scoring 2 goals in their first 6 games under Klinsman, the USMNT was able to double their goal tally in only the 41st minute on a goal from Clint Dempsey.
A few minutes later they added a 3rd goal behind a successfully finished penalty by Jozy Altidore, scoring his first goal under Klinsman. This ability to score has yet to be seen since Klinsman took over the team a few months ago.
Although finally finding their form in the attacking front, they let their defense fall behind. The USMNT poor defensive form led to many attacks from the Slovenian side especially in the second half. After giving up 2 goals, they were able to hold on for victory and put up the same score line that many believe should have resulted in South Africa, thanks to Koman Coulibaly. The USMNT is still lacking to find a consistent form that has both a good attack and a strong defense. As long as they keep improving going into World Cup Qualifiers they should be able to find a style of play that fits the team and is effective in winning games because in the end, it isn’t about how many goals you score or give up, but rather how many wins, losses, or ties that you have. If they can consistently score goals, like they did in the first half of the Slovenian game, they will be able to win games consistently, like was expected when Klinsman took over the team.
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Isolated vertical diplopia as the initial manifestation of presumed pretectal and anterior hypothalamic germinomas.
A 21-year-old man with a 5-month history of diplopia caused by isolated vertical ocular misalignment had normal laboratory studies, including brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Eight months after the onset of diplopia, he reported dry mouth, polydipsia, polyuria, and absent sweating. Examination now disclosed light-near dissociation of the pupillary responses, convergence-retraction nystagmus, and upgaze palsy. MRI revealed enhancing suprasellar and pretectal masses presumed to be germinomas. Two years after brain irradiation and systemic chemotherapy, no lesions are apparent on MRI and hypothalamic dysfunction has partially resolved. In a young patient with isolated vertical diplopia and normal brain imaging, one should consider an early pretectal syndrome and inquire after manifestations of hypothalamic dysfunction. |
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29 Jan sweet potato curry
It’s been a blustery, wet week for most of us in Ireland, meaning that last week’s salad optimism has been placed firmly back in the pantry until at least next month. This week, I’m back on the curry bandwagon.
I’ve been making a lot of curries this year, trying to get a solid base sauce perfected. In the past, I’ve struggled with consistency of sauce when I go for the coconut sauce base. I found that a tablespoon of tomato puree can help that. Though I’ve been experimenting with coconut milk sauces and have found them deliciously sweet, my personal preference is for the more thick and savoury influence of a tomato base.
What I’m starting to really love about a good curry is how adaptable a basic sauce can be. Once you’ve found the right combination of spices and sauce, whether it’s mustard seeds, chilli and chopped tomatoes or korma curry powder and coconut milk, you can play around with the main ingredient. Serve the sauce with chargrilled chicken or roasted cauliflower, with white fish or roasted aubergines. Almost all curries work with rice or naan on the side, or both.
This week, I’ve gone with sweet potato to bulk up my curry sauce, which I’ve roasted while the sauce is coming together. The rice method is a foolproof approach, and the addition of the turmeric and cinnamon make it a great addition to your platter of curry accompaniments. The turmeric-spiced rice adds a vibrant pop of yellow colour to your dinner table.
Ingredients
1 sweet potato
Vegetable oil
Pinch of salt and pepper
1 tablespoon brown or black mustard seeds
1 onion, finely chopped
1 teaspoon dried chilli flakes
2 teaspoons of curry powder
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon turmermic
1 x 400ml tin of tomatoes
1 x 400ml tin of chickpeas
For the rice
175g basmati rice
25g butter
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of turmeric
Cinnamon stick
250ml water
To serve
Dollop of natural yogurt
Lime wedges
Fresh coriander
Naan
Method
1. Pre-heat your oven to 200c/180c fan/Gas Mark 6. Peel and chop the sweet potato into 2cm cubes, and transfer to a roasting dish. Drizzle with two tablespoons of vegetable oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper before roasting for 25 minutes. Roast in tray with oil, salt and pepper for 25 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, heat 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a large deep frying pan over a medium to high heat. Fry the mustard seeds for 1 minute. Add the finely diced onion and cook over a gentle heat for 10 minutes, or until translucent but not browned.
3. Next, add the curry powder, coriander, turmeric spices plus two tablespoons of chopped tomatoes from the tin of chopped tomatoes. Mix to a paste and fry for a further 2 minutes. Add the rest of the tinned tomatoes and stir. Fill the empty tomato tin halfway with hot water and pour it into the sauce. Bring it to the boil and simmer for 20 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, make the rice by placing the rice, butter, sugar, turmeric and cinnamon stick in a saucepan with the 250ml of water. The water should be at room temperature. Bring to the boil and give everything a good mix before covering and simmering for 6 minutes. Remove from the heat, keep covered and leave to steam for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, fluff up with a fork and then leave covered in the warm saucepan until ready to serve.
5. Put the roasted sweet potatoes into the curry sauce. Drain the chickpeas before placing them into the curry sauce. Bubble for another five minutes, until the chickpeas are heated through and the sauce has thickened.
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Business acceleration program wrapping up
The first cohort of the Roanoke-Blacksburg Accelerator RAMP program is nearly complete - and business leaders involved in the program say it's already paying off.
Leaders of six up-and-coming businesses in the Roanoke and Blacksburg region were partnered with mentors and special resources to help them learn and grow during a six month program.
The CEO of Volatia Language Network told WFXR News that he's grateful for the advice - and he wishes he had sought out more input and feedback when he first launched his business.
"What I would change is really allow myself to be more vulnerable earlier on, instead of thinking I've got this, we'll do just fine. I'm fortunate and thankful that I've always, so far, had the ability to rely on mentors and actually really listen and allow myself to be coachable," said Baraka Kasango. "The ability to actually develop innovations that the clients are not asking for. So we're providing something new through a very well articulated message that they have given without even knowing that they were giving it."
RAMP Director Mary Miller said she's already working on ways to improve and advance courses and partnerships for the next cohort, and that she is proud of the success she is already seeing.
"Entrepneuers are often independent because they've gotten to where they are for their own shear guts and their independence, so getting them to a point where they want to be coached is alittle bit of a challenge, because they've been somewhat successful on their gut or their own knowledge," said Miller.
The first cohort of the RAMP program is set to wrap up in December, but Miller said the partnerships and mentoring will continue for years to come. |
Green Building Blog
How to Qualify for PACE Financing and Finally Implement the Energy Conservation Measures You’ve Been Dreaming About!
Do your tenants and customers complain about air quality and the physical work environment? It often sounds like this: “I’m too hot,” “I’m too cold.” Or worse, “There’s a funny smell and I think it’s making me sick.”
You fix and you fix and you fix - the vents, the windows, the HVAC. But the improvements are slight and they don’t last long.
And you’ve noticed that your energy bills have nearly doubled over the last few years.
Maybe you’ve heard that LED lighting is the wave (pun intended) of the future. You may have also heard that LED lighting is expensive. While upfront costs may be higher than what you’re using now, in the long run, LEDs come out ahead in several areas.
Here we’ll provide five solid reasons your facility should invest in LED lighting. Hopefully they will help you determine if making the switch is truly the best thing for your facility as well as gain management approval when approaching them about funding the upgrade.
How engineers can work better with the architect so they can design and build a more energy efficient building and better serve the client.
Energy efficiency has been the buzzword among building engineers, and many architects, for some time now. But if a new building is being constructed, added on to or renovated, energy efficiency may not be top-of-mind to the developer. Here’s why it should be, and some tips on how to incorporate energy efficiency measures that make everyone – especially the client – happy.
One of the best things you can do is start thinking about energy early on. The earlier the better! Why? Creating an energy efficient building that is also functional and aesthetically pleasing takes time. Whether or not you’re building for LEED® certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), you can build to USGBC’s guidelines for energy efficiency. Help your client understand that there are no “cookie-cutter” answers here. Each project is unique and will require its own unique solutions. It may cost a little more up front, but it will save the client money throughout the life of the building.
Here in the Midwest we are entering the summer season with hot and humid weather expected for the next few months. During this time, the cost of cooling buildings goes up considerably. High temperatures and high humidity combine to increase the energy used by cooling equipment.
Beyond typical and low or no-cost energy saving measures you should already be doing (see “HVAC Gains with No Budget Pains”), here are three ways to reduce the potential for wasting energy in commercial and industrial buildings. Most people don’t usually consider these, but they can make a huge difference.
... and More You Shouldn’t Have Missed at High Performance Buildings + Workplaces
I recently returned from the NFMT High-Performance Building and Workplaces (HBP+W) conference in Austin, Texas. If you know me, you know that over the years I have attended hundreds of these types of industry conferences, as an attendee, a business owner, an exhibitor, and more recently as a presenter, workshop leader and keynote speaker.
There is no better opportunity to network with your peers, find out what’s new, and learn industry best practices. The NFMT/HPB+W events always have speakers with timely messages and practical information. Many of the exhibitors offer hands-on opportunities to see how you can improve your operations, save money and get better results with the latest in products and technology.
Here are five reasons attending HPB+W was absolutely worth my time and my company’s money! |
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I Don't Hear You Talking: a silence on Silence Culture
A lot of ink has been spilt over trigger warnings lately. And I don't want to write about it because I feel like I don't have much to add to the conversation. But when I stop, that feeling nags at me. You can't think with your mouth open; and as someone who always had issues keeping her damn mouth shut, it took me a long time to learn that to listen you must be silent. ... And yet. ... And yet, when someone experiences strong emotions about her own marginalization, but feels compelled to self-silence: that's when you need to listen harder.
Because there are a lot of voices I know full well, and I don't hear them talking.
I know them because they're the voices of my friends, and among friends we talk about things we don't talk about. In the workaday world we put on our faces and never hint at the behemoths raging through our china cabinets. And when we let down our hair, those faces stay on, because you always know who might be listening. And behind closed doors, still, we keep them on because elsewise love would be too tragic. But in secret spaces, we talk. We are, every one of us, damaged. I may not know who hurt you yet, I may not know your story of pain, but I never assume there isn't one; because every single person I've known, when we get close enough, they tell me things we don't talk about. Sometimes it takes years before they feel safe enough, sometimes they never feel safe enough, but if they've ever lowered their guard to me, they've told me. Every. single. person.
We are born and raised and live in a world drenched in abuse. And that abuse doesn't leave scars, it leaves open wounds waiting to have dirt rubbed in them. The first rule of what doesn't happen is that it cannot be spoken of. So healing only happens in those secret spaces, one-on-one, in the dark of night, far far from friends and strangers alike. This privatization of healing only compounds the problem of abuse. When we cannot see past others' faces, when we cannot see the living wounds they bear, when we do not hear their daily resistance against reiterations of violence, we come to think that somehow maybe they haven't been hurt as badly as we. When we see our own people succeed, or see leaders of resistance and "survivors" and "healed" voices speaking up against the injustice of the world, we think that somehow maybe they must be stronger than us, more resilient than us, more determined than us. When we cannot witness their struggle, we think that somehow maybe when they go to bed at nights they need not take the time to scrub out that daily dirt from their wounds. And when we cannot bear that witness, we see ourselves as lesser, broken, impostors.
These are the voices I do not hear speaking out, or hear speaking in only roundabout whispers. These are the voices for whom trigger warnings are writ. As so precisely put by Aoife,
Here's something I need you to understand: the vast majority of students when 'triggered' don't write howlers to department heads or flip laptops over in crowded classrooms for YouTube counts.
On the contrary, they most often shut down and collapse into numbness.
That numbness, that collapse, is the last tool our minds have to keep our faces in place when some sudden shock reopens sore wounds. The second rule of what we do not talk about is that wounds never heal, not entirely. We —some of us— can manage not flinching when someone raises their hand. We —some of us— learn to laugh along when someone touches our back. We —some of us— learn to feel safe in a room alone with a man. We —some of us— learn to turn blind to the "tranny" jokes, to the blackface, to the jibes about trailer parks and country living, to the "sex" scene where she lay sleeping, the scene where he takes the other man 'round back, the man who slaps his wife, the mother who cuffs her child, being told to go pick a switch, to the child starving on the street, to the college kids playing "tricks" on the homeless. We —some of us— learn to live as stone. But stone don't heal, and we all have our rituals of self-care we won't talk about. But when everywhere all you ever see is stone, you know your flesh will never make it if the light still shines in your eyes.
And I too am guilty of this silence culture. Because the fact of the matter is, in this day and age, to speak is to jeopardize my career. I can talk about being trans or being a dyke, and I can at least pretend that the laws on the books will mean a damn. But if I talk about my childhood, I won't be seen as an adult. If I talk about my abuse, I won't be seen as stable. If I bring up my mental life, I won't be seen as professional. If I talk about spoons, I won't be seen as reliable. And so I stuff it down and self-silence and hide what it's like, that daily living with depression and PTSD, til some trigger sets it off and out comes that rage which grows on silence. Some full-force punch to the gut, some words like "I'm not sure suicide is ever the answer" and my eyes go black, and words come out, and they sound nice enough, but every one means "I hate you".
Not to be rude, but sometimes suicide is the answer. It may not be the best answer, but it is an answer. And, unfortunately, sometimes that is all that's required. Sometimes a terrible fucking answer is the only answer to be found.
I say this as someone who's spent more of her life being suicidal than not, as someone who's survived multiple attempts, as someone whose friends have almost invariably spent years being suicidal. Yes, it sucks. And no, it doesn't "solve" anything. But think of the suffering of the victim. It is incredibly difficult to overcome the self-preservation instinct. Profoundly difficult. Imagine the volume of suffering it takes, the depths and duration of misery required to actively overcome the single most powerful compulsion any living creature can experience. There comes a point, long after endurance has already given out, when the full weight of that volume cannot be borne.
Whenever this happens, my thoughts are always with the victim. I cannot help but empathize with that terrible terrible suffering
Because the fact of the matter is, I'm too scared to talk. We live in a culture where suicide is "the easy way" and you're supposed to "take it like a man", but the fact of the matter is noone can take it. We are, every one of us, damaged. We privatize our healing because the first rule of abuse is that it must never be mentioned, must never never be discussed. The learning of silence is the first abuse: it is how we are taught to abuse ourselves, to never never hear that we're not alone.
This isn't about suicide and depression. Isn't about rape and racism. Isn't about violence and neglect. This is about silence. About the words we don't use to not say what you can't talk about. This is about learning to speak using words. About how we must open our mouths in order to listen. |
2017 IRFU Women's Interprovincial Series
The 2017 IRFU Women's Interprovincial Series was won by Munster who clinched the title following an 11–5 win over Leinster on the final day of the competition. Munster and Leinster both finished the competition with two wins and ten points each. Munster were subsequently declared champions on points difference. Munster were coached by Laura Guest and captained by Siobhan Fleming.
Final table
Results
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
References
Category:2017–18 in Irish rugby union
Category:2017–18 in European women's rugby union
rugby union
Category:IRFU Women's Interprovincial Series
Category:December 2017 sports events in Europe |
<?php
/**
* JBZoo Application
*
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* For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
* file that was distributed with this source code.
*
* @package Application
* @license GPL-2.0
* @copyright Copyright (C) JBZoo.com, All rights reserved.
* @link https://github.com/JBZoo/JBZoo
* @author Denis Smetannikov <denis@jbzoo.com>
*/
// no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
// get menu
$jbmenu = $this->app->jbmenu;
// only if JBZoo inited
if (defined('JBZOO_DISPATCHED')) {
// create jbzoo order list tab
if ((int)JBModelConfig::model()->get('enable', 1, 'cart.config')) {
$tab = $jbmenu->addTab('jborders', 'jborder', 'jbzoo-orders', JText::_('JBZOO_ADMIN_ORDER_TAB'));
$jbmenu->addItem($tab, array('controller' => 'jborder'));
}
// create jbzoo tools tab
$tab = $jbmenu->addTab('jbtools', 'jbindex', 'jbzoo');
$jbmenu->addItem($tab, array('controller' => 'jbindex'));
$jbmenu->addItem($tab, array('controller' => 'jbcart'));
$jbmenu->addItem($tab, array('controller' => 'jbimport'));
$jbmenu->addItem($tab, array('controller' => 'jbexport'));
$jbmenu->addItem($tab, array('controller' => 'jbtools'));
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// render menu
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Fire detection systems in prisons often incorporate wall mounted smoke detectors in each cell. To prevent tampering with the smoke detectors by inmates, the smoke detectors are generally covered by enclosures known as detector guards which are mounted to the wall around the smoke detectors. The detector guard is generally a box-like enclosure made of a heavy-duty perforated metal sheet or mesh. When mounted to the wall, the detector guard projects out from the wall, creating a risk that an inmate could injure or kill himself/herself by hanging from a belt or piece of cloth looped over the top surface of the detector guard.
The present invention provides a shield for a wall mounted smoke detector guard, or enclosure, which prevents looped items from being hung on the shield and the enclosure. The enclosure has a top surface formed of screen material. The shield includes a mounting surface or portion for mounting to a wall. A downwardly sloping surface structure extends from the mounting surface for extending above the top surface of the enclosure. The downwardly sloping surface structure has sufficient slope and length for preventing items from being hung on the shield and the enclosure while at the same time providing a direct smoke flow path therepast to the top surface of the enclosure.
In preferred embodiments, the downwardly sloping surface structure includes two downwardly angled ribs extending from opposite ends of the mounting surface. The shield is preferably formed of sheet metal with the ribs being bent at right angles relative to the mounting surface. The mounting surface is sized for mounting above the top surface of the smoke detector enclosure and for positioning the ribs against opposite sides of the enclosure for preventing the insertion of items therebetween. The ribs are sized to extend at least as far as the front surface of the enclosure and have rear ends extending below the mounting surface that are separated from the mounting surface by slots. The slots enable the ribs to be bent during manufacturing such that the rear ends may extend close to the wall when mounted for preventing the insertion of items therebetween.
The present invention also provides an enclosure system for a wall mounted smoke detector which includes an enclosure for surrounding and protecting the smoke detector. The enclosure is mounted to a wall and has a top surface formed of screen material. A shield extends above the top surface of the enclosure. The shield has a downwardly sloping surface structure that has sufficient slope and length for preventing items from being hung on the shield and the enclosure while at the same time providing a direct smoke flow path therepast to the top surface of the enclosure.
The present invention shield provides a simple and effective solution for preventing looped items from being hung from a smoke detector guard that does not interfere with the flow of smoke to the smoke detector in the event of a fire. As a result, the present invention shield does not compromise the ability of the smoke detector to detect fires. |
Apple's Jobs urges Gore to run for President
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been trying to push former Vice President Al Gore to take another crack at the presidential race.
Jobs revealed his fruitless desires for his fellow Apple board member to don the cap of Commander in Chief within an expose of Gore in Time Magazine. However, one Academy Award and one Nobel Prize nomination after his unsuccessful attempt at the presidency, Gore has "fallen out of love with politics."
But even if — say — 96 per cent of Gore's heart has rebuffed politics, Jobs won't be foiled. After all, he's used to making a big fuss out of small percentages.
"We have dug ourselves into a 20-foot hole, and we need somebody who knows how to build a ladder. Al's the guy," Jobs toldTime Magazine. "Like many others, I have tried my best to convince him. So far, no luck."
Jobs is sure the kind of man who would lead a boardroom committee to clear him of any wrongdoing in the Apple backdating scandal has the je ne sais quoi necessary to get the American vote* this time around.
"If he ran, there's no question in my mind that he would be elected," Steve Jobs said. "But I think there's a question in his mind, perhaps because the pain of the last election runs a lot deeper than he lets most of us see."
Or it could be the pay cut. In addition to sitting on the board of directors at Apple, Gore is currently a senior adviser at Google. He's the co-founder of cable network Current TV and chairman of Generation Investment Management, an investment fund with assents near $1bn. ® |
Q:
What is the first recorded observation of Good Friday?
When was the first Good Friday commemoration observed, distinct from Pascha/Passover or Sunday Easter?
Related:
What is the origin of the Good Friday tradition?
However, I am not interested in when or where the idea of it being Friday came from, but simply what and when the first record of a "Good Friday" was.
A:
The Didascalia Apostolorum, dated to AD 230, prescribe activities during Holy Week, including a fast on Friday:
Therefore you shall fast in the days of the Pascha from the tenth, which is the second day of the week; and you shall sustain yourselves with bread and salt and water only, at the ninth hour, until the fifth day of the week. But on the Friday and on the Sabbath fast wholly, and taste nothing. [v. 19] You shall come together and watch and keep vigil all the night with prayers and intercessions, and with reading of the Prophets, and with the Gospel and with Psalms, with fear and trembling and with earnest supplication, until the third hour in the night after the Sabbath; and then break your fasts. (v18–19)
Something similar is related in the Apostolic Constitutions (dated to 375–380) for Friday, the sixth day of the week:
But He commanded us to fast on the fourth and sixth days of the week; the former on account of His being betrayed, and the latter on account of His passion. But He appointed us to break our fast on the seventh day at the cock-crowing, but to fast on the Sabbath-day. Not that the Sabbath-day is a day of fasting, being the rest from the creation, but because we ought to fast on this one Sabbath only, while on this day the Creator was under the earth. (5.3.15)
The Pilgrimage of Etheria (or Egeria), dated to a few years later, describes a more elaborate celebration, with five main stages:
Service at daybreak
"And when they arrive before the Cross the daylight is already growing bright."
Column of the flagellation
"they all go at once with fervour to Sion, to pray at the column at which the Lord was scourged."
Veneration of the cross
"The casket is opened and (the wood) is taken out, and both the wood of the Cross and the title1 are placed upon the table. Now, when it has been put upon the table, the bishop, as he sits, holds the extremities of the sacred wood firmly in his hands, while the deacons who stand around guard it."
Station before the cross
"Thus from the sixth to the ninth hours the lessons are so read and the hymns said, that it may be shown to all the people that whatsoever the prophets foretold of the Lord's Passion is proved from the Gospels and from the writings of the Apostles to have been fulfilled."
Evening offices
"And after the dismissal at the martyrium, they go to the Anastasis, where, when they arrive, the passage from the Gospel is read where Joseph begged the Body of the Lord from Pilate and laid it in a new sepulchre."
The excerpts above are taken from the full text of The Pilgrimage of Etheria, which is too lengthy to quote here in full. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity briefly summarizes:
Christians spent the time reflecting upon Jesus’ morning appearance before Pilate (Mk 15:2-15 and parallel texts) and the flagellation (Mk 15:16-20 and parallel texts). At noon, the wood of the cross found by Helena was shown to the faithful; then, for three hours, the people read the account of the passion, along with OT prophecies about Christ.
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/*
*
* Copyright (c) 2011-2016 The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This file is part of libprotoident.
*
* This code has been developed by the University of Waikato WAND
* research group. For further information please see http://www.wand.net.nz/
*
* libprotoident is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* libprotoident is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
*
*/
#include <string.h>
#include "libprotoident.h"
#include "proto_manager.h"
#include "proto_common.h"
static inline bool match_cisco_ipsec_payload(uint32_t payload, uint32_t len) {
if (len == 0)
return true;
if (len == 109)
return true;
if (len == 93)
return true;
return false;
}
static inline bool match_cisco_ipsec(lpi_data_t *data, lpi_module_t *mod UNUSED) {
/* Been seeing this on UDP port 10000, which I assume is the
* Cisco IPSec VPN */
if (data->server_port != 10000 && data->client_port != 10000)
return false;
if (!match_cisco_ipsec_payload(data->payload[0], data->payload_len[0]))
return false;
if (!match_cisco_ipsec_payload(data->payload[1], data->payload_len[1]))
return false;
return true;
}
static lpi_module_t lpi_cisco_ipsec = {
LPI_PROTO_UDP_CISCO_VPN,
LPI_CATEGORY_TUNNELLING,
"Cisco_VPN_UDP",
8,
match_cisco_ipsec
};
void register_cisco_ipsec(LPIModuleMap *mod_map) {
register_protocol(&lpi_cisco_ipsec, mod_map);
}
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Novel and efficient screening of PQQ high-yielding strains and subsequent cultivation optimization.
A novel and efficient screening method for pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) high-yielding methylotrophic strains was developed by using glucose dehydrogenase apoenzyme (GDHA) which depended on PQQ as the cofactor. Using this high-throughput method, PQQ high-yielding strains were rapidly screened out from thousands of methylotrophic colonies at a time. The comprehensive phylogenetic analysis revealed that the highest PQQ-producing strain zju323 (CCTCC M 2016079) could be assigned to a novel species in the genus Methylobacillus of the Betaproteobacteria. After systematic optimization of different medium components and cultivation conditions, about 33.4 mg/L of PQQ was obtained after 48 h of cultivation with Methylobacillus sp. zju323 at the shake flask scale. Further cultivations of Methylobacillus sp. zju323 were carried out to investigate the biosynthesis of PQQ in 10-L bench-top fermenters. In the batch operation, the PQQ accumulation reached 78 mg/L in the broth after 53 h of cultivation. By adopting methanol feeding strategy, the highest PQQ concentration was improved up to 162.2 mg/L after 75 h of cultivation. This work developed a high-throughput strategy of screening PQQ-producing strains from soil samples and also demonstrated one potential bioprocess for large-scale PQQ production with the isolated PQQ strain. |
Q:
find head tag from ajax response
I searched for this simple topic but i couldn't find anything, sorry. I need to ask you.
I'm getting the sucess response from ajax, only interested in ".someclass" part, as the following code says:
<code>
function TITO(){
$.ajax({
url: 'www.tito.com/index.html',
success:
function(response){
$divvy = $(response).find('.someclass');
$('#finaldiv').html($divvy);
},
});
};
</code>
But the thing is that .someclass is a table, and i get it totally unformatted (no styles), just it keeps its structure (table tbody tr th, etc).
What i want is to keeps the original format, and i know that those instructions are on the head tag in the ajaxed index.html (linked css file or specified just there).
How can get the head tag too in my response, and then append $divvy after that, so the table shows styled?
I know to get class (.class) or id (#id) but i don't know how to reach tags without ids or classes :)
Many thanks.
gretz,
Sergio.
A:
$(response).find('head');
the "find" method from jquery can get as a par a selector like you have you fint ('.someclass"). you used there a css selector for classes with the dot. you can use # for id as you mentioned before and you can use 'nothing' for tags. you can read more about the css selectors: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Getting_started/Selectors .
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Q:
Why is my DSLR taking pictures with the top darkened?
What's wrong with my D5100? Recently, I'm not getting full size pictures? Pictures taken shows top side with darkened layer. It started after I had a sports activities coverage, but as far as I can remember, it never fell or was hit by anything.
Here's a sample image:
A:
It's very possible that the shutter is sticking. I had this problem a lot of years ago with a Yashica 35mm film camera and lost a lot of shots to the shutter misbehaving, an expensive proposition with film. Anyways, the trigger seemed to have been a trip to a hot and fairly dusty location in Aruba, maybe the result of some sand or something getting caught in the mechanism, though that's speculation. Net effect, this is a mechanical part of the camera and can fail.
My initial reaction to your post was flash sync speed, but your first example as a 1/100 shutter speed and that's well below a flash sync problem with even the worse remote radio triggers and I doubt you're using them (yet). That rules the sync speed out, I think. The card suggestion above also doesn't make sense. It might, maybe, be the reason for one or two images, but that seems unlikely at best and not believable, at all, for any volume.
So, long story, short, I think you need to send it into Nikon. Hopefully it's a warranty repair.
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Russia
From the year 2000, as the Synod of ROCOR began officially to accept the canonicity of the MP and initiated union talks with it, the Church both inside and outside of Russia that remained faithful to the truth began to separate into so-called “splinters” (oskolki), small Synods not in communion with each other. Most of them claimed that their canonical existence, like that of ROCOR, was based on Patriarch Tikhon’s ukaz no. 362. However, as Igumen (now Bishop) Andrei (Erastov) argued earlier this year, strictly speaking, neither ROCOR in the 1920s nor, still less, the “splinters” of the early 2000s, ever corresponded to the conditions for the existence of the autonomous groups of bishops envisaged by the Patriarch’s ukaz, so that a canonical basis for the present-day True Orthodox Church of Russia must be sought elsewhere.
Let us examine Igumen Andrei’s argument, and his proposed solution to the problem of the “splinters”.
“It is completely obvious,” he writes, “that it is impossible now even to imagine a single administrative centre of the Russian Church. On the other hand, it is possible that its existence would not be useful. Church life, both in Russia and abroad, must be built on the basis of ukaz№362 as the basic guiding canonical document. In correspondence with this ukaz, church districts must be formed on voluntary principles; they must consist of several dioceses (no less than three or four). (A Church can be autocephalous only if can itself and install and judge its own bishops. For the election of a new bishop three diocesan bishops must participate and confirm a fourth as the metropolitan. (Fourth Canon of the First Ecumenical Council.)) These districts will be temporarily autonomous until the restoration of a lawful, canonical Higher Church Authority in the Russian Church.
“The hierarchs will have to elect from their midst a first-hierarch, in relation to whom they will carry out the obligations imposed by the 34th Apostolic canon. Such districts will maintain Eucharistic communion between themselves, together with close links expressed in fraternal communion and mutual support. At times they will gather together in common councils to resolve general church questions. However, from an administrative point of view each district will be independent. It is not difficult to see that such an organization of the Church will be a return to the canonical forms of the early Christians such an organization of the Church will be a return to the canonical forms of the early Christians.”[1]
This extract already displays considerable confusion of thought. First, the author questions whether an administrative centre of the Russian Church is imaginable or even desirable. But then he suggests returning to the application of ukaz№362 as the basic guiding canonical document. Fine; but this ukaz was issued by the administrative centre of the Russian Church and presupposes that such a centre is both imaginable and desirable… Then the author appears to concede that such a centre is indeed desirable; for he writes that the church districts “will be temporarily autonomous until the restoration of a lawful, canonical Higher Church Authority in the Russian Church”. But then he contradicts himself by declaring that “such an organization of the Church will be a return to the canonical forms of the early Christians” – when there were no Higher Church Administrations above the metropolitan level, no ukaz№362 and no national Churches such as the Russian. So which is it? Is Igumen Andrei proposing a reconstruction of the unity of the national Church of Russia, or the radical decentralization of the Church on the model of the Early Church? The latter is by no means an impossibility, but it runs up against the insuperable obstacle that it requires that all the Local True Orthodox Churches – the Russian, the Greek, the Serbian, etc. – should announce their dissolution as national Churches and their reformation as independent metropolitan districts having no national mark or obedience to any national Church. However, it seems that nobody – except, perhaps, the name-worshipping “Bishop” Gregory (Lurye) – is even contemplating such a thing…
He continues: “Church formations on the model of church districts – the so-called ‘splinters’ – have already been formed among us historically. Of course, these church formations have great faults, for example, the fact that they overlap each other territorially. But they have one important merit – they already exist. Church construction has in mind already existing building material. In fact, the problem of the ‘splinters’ does not lie in their splintering. – this splintering has its positive sides, and is completely canonical. That is how the Church looked in antiquity, and such a splintering is envisaged by ukaz №362. The main problem of the ‘splinters’ lies in the fact that there is no liturgical communion between them, and many of them have no conciliarity.
“At the basis of liturgical communion between the ‘splinters’, as in the early Church, there have to be: an Orthodox confession [of faith] and the lawfulness of the hierarchy. Eucharistic communion is impossible only with non-Orthodox, with those who do not have a correct ordination or with banned clergy. If these obstacles do not exist, then there is no reason to reject serving together. We must all reject the abnormality of the situation when Orthodox hierarchs have no Eucharistic communion with each other and do not care about that fact.”[2]
Here at last we come to the nub of the situation. Igumen Andrei correctly observes that ukaz№362 cannot be applied at the present time because conditions have changed radically since the 1920s: communications are better, but there is no central authority for the splinters to communicate with; the splinters overlap each other territorially; and, still more important, there is no agreement in faith and therefore Eucharistic communion between them. However, he still seems to think that, for lack of anything better, we must make do with ukaz №362 as a basis for church unity. But how can an ukaz that cannot be applied to the present situation because of the factors mentioned above form the basis for church unity?! Although the ukaz was undoubtedly inspired by the Holy Spirit and was important for preserving church unity in the Soviet period, it presupposed an already-existing unity in faith which no longer exists; so it cannot be used as a basis for recreating that unity which is the essential condition for any serious work in church building.
“The principle expressed in ROCOR’s Statute: ‘The Russian Church Abroad is an unbreakable part of the Local Russian Orthodox Church temporarily self-governing on conciliar principles’ remains in force. However, it must be applied not to any single part of the Church, but to all of them together.”[3]
All of them together? Even when they are not in communion with each other, and when they believe different things? This is “Catacomb Church ecumenism” and quite unacceptable!
“The ‘splinters’ dispute with each other over who has the right of succession from the pre-schism Church Abroad. However, it no longer exists. As was said before, the ROCOR Synod existed, not on the basis of any canonical acts, but in spite of them. The meaning of the existence of the Synod lay in the fact that it was the bearer of Church truth. But when the Synod later fell into the deception of Sergianism, it lost all significance. The canonical basis of the Synod lay in its lofty spiritual-moral authority and in considerations of what is profitable for the Church. (‘What is useful for the Church is canonical’ (V.V. Bolotov).)[4]
This again makes no sense. However great the authority of V.V. Bolotov, the expression “What is useful for the Church is canonical” is not sanctioned by Church tradition. For who is to say what is useful for the Church? Many ecumenists have considered following the canons about, for example, concelebration with heretics, to be not useful for the Church. Are they to be allowed to redefine what is not canonical as canonical simply because it is “useful” to them?! The MP is doing something similar now, issuing “canonical” rebukes to those who question the canonicity of the ecumenical movement… [5]
He continues: “Therefore, before the restoration of a Higher Church Administration, the Russian Local Church must be composed of church districts in liturgical communion with each other. The process of the ‘splinters’’ unification must not be seen in their merging together, into one structure or in the submission of all of them to one centre, but in the establishment of Eucharistic and fraternal communion, instead of the present rivalry, claims and mutual excommunications.
“The principle expressed in ROCOR’s Statute: ‘The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad is an unbreakable part of the Russian Orthodox Church temporarily self-governing on conciliar principles’ remains in force. However, it must be referred, not to any one part of the Church Abroad, but to all the parts together.”[6]
Again, we see a confusion between means and ends in Igumen Andrei’s argument. He says that “before the restoration of a Higher Church Administration, the Russian Local Church must be composed of church districts in liturgical communion with each other.” But they are not in communion with each other, so what are they, canonically speaking, and where is the Local Russian Church? Again, he scorns “the present rivalry, claims and mutual excommunications”, but offers no solution as to how to overcome that. He rejects the solution of “the submission of all of them to one centre” – probably because he himself has fled from “Metropolitan” Agathangel’s attempt to make himself such a centre, “not a part, but the remnant” (ne chast’, a ostatok) of the Church – but also scorns a “merging” of the splinters on any other basis.
“A strange picture emerges: the ‘splinters’ are competing for possession of a non-existent heritage. The heritage of the Church Abroad does not consist in any special canonical right – that does not exist, but in the spirit of true churchliness, in the wisdom of the royal path, which unites a firm stand in the truth and the preservation of the tradition of the Church, but without deviating into the extremes of fanaticism and sectarian thinking. Unfortunately, our ‘splinters’ are not worrying at all about acquiring this spiritual heritage of the Church Abroad.
“It is to highest degree strange when some small ‘splinter’, not having the slightest moral authority behind it, lays claim to the highest authority over the whole of the Russian Church on the basis of some incomprehensible right of succession from the former ROCOR, as, for example, was said in the ‘Declaration of the Hierarchical Council of ROCOR’”.[7]
“The ‘splinters’ have nothing to share and no reason to compete with each other. All of them are temporarily self-administering parts of the Russian Church Abroad independently of where they are, in Russia or abroad, and no matter with what abbreviations they label themselves. However, they have to organize themselves on the principle of conciliarity in accordance with ukaz №362 so as to be transformed from ‘splinters’ into canonical Church Districts.”[8]
A strange picture indeed! The ‘splinters’, according to Igumen Andrei, are uncanonical, and yet they have “a moral-spiritual authority”. Their existence is based on ukaz №362, and yet the basic preconditions of that ukaz are nowhere fulfilled. Individually they are nothing, and yet taken together they constitute the whole of the Russian Church – so long as they can organize themselves and “be transformed from ‘splinters’ into canonical Church Districts.”[9] But how? That question is not answered…
“Let us examine separately the question of clergy bans to which several ‘splinters’ have been subjected. The hierarchy of the majority of the ‘splinters’ has undoubted apostolic succession, but their canonicity remains under question because these ‘splinters’ at their foundation were evaluated as schism and their episcopate was placed under ban.
“Clergy bans can be imposed with various aims and have different meanings. For example, a ban can be imposed for a time, as a punishment for some act. Also, a ban can be imposed on a clergyman under accusation before an ecclesiastical court has judged him. In our case, a ban without time limit was imposed on bishops who had removed themselves from obedience to a church authority and had created their own separate jurisdiction. Such a ban is laid the disobedient so as to return them to obedience. In the history of the Church this has happened many times. Almost every time a ‘daughter’ Church separated from its mother-Church, this was linked with a schism and bans. That was the case, for example, when the Bulgarian Church separated from Constantinople in a self-willed manner in 1872.
“There are only three possible ways of removing such a ban and restoring peace in the Church. 1. If the disobedient group of bishops repents and returns into obedience to church authority. 2. If the church authority itself becomes softer and removes the ban. 3. If the church authority is unbending, those under ban can appeal to a higher ecclesiastical instance. For example, in 1935 there was a reconciliation between the Synod of the Church Abroad and Metropolitan Evlogy and Metropolitan Theofil, who returned into obedience to the Synod, and their bans were removed. But in relation to the bans placed on the ‘splinters’ by the ROCOR Synod (for example, on the Suzdal group), the problem consists in the fact that the church authority that imposed the bans no longer exists (since it has fallen into Sergianism), and so it is impossible to be reconciled and freed from the ban. For the ban can be removed only by that Church which imposed it (Apostolic Canon 32; Canon 5 of the First Ecumenical Council) or by a Church Council that is significantly more authoritative. Nor is it possible to appeal to a high ecclesiastical instance, insofar as that also does not exist for us. Of course, many ‘splinters’ claim the right of succession from the ROCOR Synod, but as has already been said, such claims are groundless. Insofar as there is no possibility, according to the canons, of removing the bans imposed by the ROCOR Synod before 2007 or by the Synod Metropolitan Vitaly (2001-2007), it makes no sense to recognize these bans. We have to consider them to be non-existent. These bans could be removed by a common council of the hierarchs of the ‘splinters’.
“As regards the mutual bans imposed by the hierarchy of the ‘splinters’ on each other, these were sometimes imposed on the basis of incorrect canonical ideas. For that reason it would be possible simply to ignore them. As one contemporary church actor says, the process of ‘the gathering of the splinters’ must at the initial stage be more ‘theoretical’, and not organizational-administrative. It is time, finally, to compose a vivid and convincing ideology, or, expressing oneself in theological language, an ‘ecclesiology of the splinters’, which would gradually become more popular and influential than the old ‘administrative-synodal’ ecclesiology.” [10]
There is much we can sympathize with in these words. However, they suffer from the same lack of clarity and contradictoriness that we noted earlier. First, with regard to the bans placed on each other by the hierarchs of the “splinters”, Igumen Andrei sees the only solution in their being removed “by a common council of the hierarchs of the ‘splinters’”. Theoretically, that is possible – something similar happened in 1985 in the True Orthodox Church of Greece. But the True Orthodox Church of Greece remains as divided now as it was in 1985…
Moreover, how can he be confident that any kind of unanimity will be achieved in this “common council”? And what if the bans are fully deserved and should remain in force? To take just one example: both RTOC and ROAC and the new jurisdiction to which Igumen Andrei himself belongs have strong and justified grounds for refusing to accept “Metropolitan” Agathangel, the leader of the largest of the “splinters”.
On the other hand, he says, some of the bans were imposed, “on the basis of incorrect canonical ideas. For that reason it would be possible simply to ignore them.” True – but again, what chance is there of achieving unanimity on this?
As for the so-called “ecclesiology of the splinters”, Igumen Andrei writes: “In my opinion, such an ‘ecclesiology of the splinters’ was defined clearly enough by ukaz №362. As Protopriest Nikolai Artemov put it: ‘In essence, ukaz №362 sanctioned the reconstruction of the whole of the Russian Church on the principle of metropolitan or church districts preserving spiritual unity amongst themselves with the possibility of freely defining their common life on the level of the complete Russian Church.’”[11]
This definition contributes nothing. How can these “metropolias” overlapping each other and having no community of faith between each other – nor any unifying centre for the resolution of disputes – possibly constitute one Russian Church?
The truth is that, while it might be a comforting idea to think that all the “splinters”, however unstable in their beliefs or shaky in their apostolic succession some of them may be, are equally valid branches of the True Russian Church, this is in fact a fantasy – and a dangerous fantasy, for it might encourage the idea that we should be seeking some kind of “lowest common denominator” on the basis of which to unite the Russian Church, which would almost certainly lead to the falling into heresy of the main body of the “reunited” Church. Of course, if the “common Council” were really able to separate the wheat from the chaff, and truth from heresy, there might be some point in it. But questions of the faith and apostolic succession would have to be addressed squarely – and there is no sign that Igumen Andrei’s jurisdiction, for one, wishes to do that.
“In conclusion,” he says, “I cite the word of one of the confessors of the Russian Church: ‘From history we see that sometimes nothing has united the parts of the Universal Church other than communion in the One Bread – Christ, the one Head in the heavens… The Church will not perish when its external unity is destroyed. She does not value external organization, but cares for preserving her truth.’”[12]
Certainly, the Church’s unity is not constituted by any external organization, but by an inner commonality of faith – that is the main lesson of the Soviet period of Church history. But there remains a persistent demand that this inner unity should be shown, that it be declared. For “with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10.10).
So if Bishop Andrei really wishes the unity in truth of the Russian Church, he should show a good example by proclaiming his confession with his mouth. I would suggest that the following truths need to be part of his – and every other Russian bishop’s – confession:
The MP is a graceless organization created by Stalin, not by the Lord Jesus Christ. As a long-time collaborator with the Bolsheviks, it falls directly under the anathema of the Russian Council of 1918 against the Bolsheviks and their collaborators.
The MP and all the Orthodox members of the World Council of Churches fall under ROCOR’s anathema against ecumenism of 1983.
The subtler version of ecumenism known as Cyprianism because of Metropolitan Cyprian of sorry memory also falls under the 1983 anathema. Since it was also condemned as such by the True Orthodox Church of Greece in 1986, all ordinations of Russian bishops carried out by the Cyprianites in 2006 and later are invalid.
Of course, this is only a beginning – but it would be a good beginning, which would serve to separate many of the wolves from the sheep.
Beyond confessing the true faith, there is one other important thing we can do to attain unity: we can pray for the appearance of a True Orthodox Tsar who will sort out the mess created by the heretics and their collaborators among the True Orthodox; for historically speaking, the external, organizational unity of the Church has been restored only by Orthodox emperors and kings.
For example, as the fifth century wore on, and the chaos caused by the heretics increased, the emperors were called upon to take a more active role in Church affairs. Thus we see in the life of St. Hypatius of Rufinianus that the Emperor, as well as the hierarchs, was required to defend the faith at the time of the Third Ecumenical Council in 431: “When Nestorius had left for Ephesus, and the Council had assembled, on the day when he should be deposed, Saint Hypatius saw in a vision that an angel of the Lord took hold of Saint John the Apostle, and led him to the most pious Emperor [Theodosius II] and said to him, ‘Say to the Emperor: “Pronounce your sentence against Nestorius”.’ And he, having heard this, pronounced it. Saint Hypatius made note of this day, and it was verified that Nestorius was deposed on that very day…”[13]
Nor did the Church have any objection to this – so long as the Emperor was Orthodox. Some “interference” by them was even sanctioned by Canon 93 (96) of the Council of Carthage in the year 419: “It behoves the gracious clemency of their Majesties to take measures that the Catholic Church, which has begotten them as worshippers of Christ in her womb, and has nourished them with the strong meat of the faith, should by their forethought be defended, lest violent men, taking advantage of the times of religious excitement, should by fear overcome a weak people, whom by arguments they were not able to pervert”. As an ancient epitome of this canon puts it: “The Emperors who were born in the true religion and were educated in the faith, ought to stretch forth a helping hand to the Churches. For the military band overthrew the dire conspiracy which was threatening Paul.”[14]
Again, at the time of the Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon in 451, when the Emperors were the Holy Marcian and Pulcheria, St. Isidore of Pelusium believed that some interference by these emperors was needed in view of the sorry state of the priesthood: “The present hierarchs, by not acting in the same way as their predecessors, do not receive the same as they; but undertaking the opposite to them, they themselves experience the opposite. It would be surprising if, while doing nothing similar to their ancestors, they enjoyed the same honour as they. In those days, when the kings fell into sin they became chaste again, but now this does not happen even with laymen. In ancient times the priesthood corrected the royal power when it sinned, but now it awaits instructions from it; not because it has lost its own dignity, but because that dignity has been entrusted to those who are not similar to those who lived in the time of our ancestors. Formerly, when those who had lived an evangelical and apostolic life were crowned with the priesthood, the priesthood was fearful by right for the royal power; but now the royal power is fearful to the priesthood. However, it is better to say, not ‘priesthood’, but those who have the appearance of doing the priestly work, while by their actions they insult the priesthood. That is why it seems to me that the royal power is acting justly.”[15] It was acting justly, in Isidore’s view, because “although there is a very great difference between the priesthood and the kingdom (the former is the soul, the latter – the body), nevertheless they strive for one and the same goal, that is, the salvation of citizens”.[16]
This points to the main function of the Emperor or Tsar in the life of the Church. He is the focus of unity and even, to some extent, the restorer of unity at times of extreme impiety and organizational chaos. So let us pray:
O Lord, Thou Remitter of the all the debts of sin, grant the grace of forgiveness to the sinful land of Russia which Thou hast punished with bitter wounds. Yet not in Thy wrath, but according to the multitude of Thy compassions and Thine ineffable mercy cleanse the Orthodox land of the godless foe; raise up, O Compassionate One, thine anointed tsar, and hearken unto us; grant peace to the Church and salvation to Thy people, the Tsar and all the countless assembly of new martyrs entreat Thee, the one blessed God of our fathers.[17] |
Bilateral full thickness macular holes in association with serpiginous choroiditis.
To report serpiginous choroiditis associated with full thickness macular holes (FTMH). Interventional case report. A 58-year-old female with bilateral serpiginous choroiditis developed right-sided blurred vision and metamorphopsia. Ocular assessment, FFA, OCT, and right macular hole surgery were performed. Preoperative visual acuity was 6/36 right, 6/9 left. Fundus assessment found bilateral geographic chorioretinal scarring, epiretinal membranes, right FTMH, and mild vitritis. OCT revealed bilateral FTMHs. Pars plana vitrectomy, membrane peel, and gas tamponade resulted in right macular hole closure, visual acuity improvement (6/18) and resolution of metamorphopsia. Macular hole may be another posterior segment complication of serpiginous choroiditis. |
Facebook Inc (FB) Top Executives Exercise RSUs
Many Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) executives recently exercised their restricted stock units, according to their Form 4 filings with the Security & Exchange Commission. Among those were Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s chief financial officer David Ebersman, vice-president and general counsel Colin Stretch and chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer. Meanwhile, Schroepfer and Business & Marketing Partnerships head David Fisher offloaded some of their holdings.
Some Facebook executives offload shares
David Ebersman exercised 112,500 restricted stock units that were scheduled to expire on October 25, 2019, according to All Facebook. He got 53,797 class-A shares after Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) withheld 58,703 shares to meet the remittance and income tax withholding obligations. Now he owns 200,056 shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). Last week, Ebersman sold 500K class-A shares of the social networking giant at an average price of $50.019. The two other blocks of 11,700 shares were sold at $50.55 and $48.59 respectively.
Last month, David Fischer had exercised 117,950 RSUs, which were going to expire on May 19, 2020. He received 56,403 class-A shares after Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) withheld 61,547 shares to satisfy various obligations. Last week, he sold 36,000 class-A shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) in two blocks, one consisted of 18,000 shares sold at $50.55 each, and another 18,000 were sold at $51.03. After unloading those shares, Fischer owns 501,485 class-A shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). These executives, along with a few directors, had also moved on thousands of RSUs last month.
Author: Vikas ShuklaAlthough he has a background in finance and holds an MBA, Vikas Shukla is a technology reporter. He has a strong interest in gadgets, gizmos, and science. He writes regularly on these topics. - He can be contacted by email at vshukla@valuewalk.com |
by Brett Stevens on September 21, 2015
When the current Camp of the Saints scenario is over, socialist has gutted European capabilities and the Sino-Soviet Axis 2.0 decides to invade, what will be left? At least it will be politically correct. We can all rest in our graves with that assurance.
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308 Memphis cops call in sick in 'blue flu' protest
Move comes in protest to a recent City Council vote that will reduce health care subsidies for current and retired city employees
By Jody Callahan
The Commercial Appeal
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — More than 13 percent of the officers in the Memphis Police Department have called in sick since June 30, the so-called Blue Flu that officials acknowledged Sunday was a deliberate work action.
A total of 308 Memphis officers have called in sick over the last week, MPD Director Toney Armstrong said in a Sunday afternoon press conference outside City Hall. That's 13.5 percent of the estimated 2,280 officers in the department.
That's also a big jump from the 181 who had called in sick through Saturday, a number that led MPD to ask the Shelby County Sheriff's Department for help. About 50 deputies and reserve officers helped patrol Downtown Saturday night, and at least eight more were on loan Sunday.
The job action, which does not appear to have spread to the city's fire department, comes in protest to a recent City Council vote that will reduce health care subsidies for current and retired city employees to redirect that money to the city's troubled pension fund.
"It appears on the surface of it," Armstrong said Sunday, "that we do have a work action."
Armstrong acknowledged Sunday that some of the 308 officers have called in sick multiple times. Officials did not provide information on how many have called in sick more than once or how many total shifts have been missed.
In addition to asking the sheriff for help, MPD officials have also authorized overtime as well as brought in officers from specialized units like Organized Crime to fill in the gaps left by those who didn't show for work.
"It's going to cost us greatly in terms of overtime," said Mayor AC Wharton, who joined Armstrong at the press conference. He was flanked by several high-ranking members of his administration.
Both Armstrong and Wharton kept a civil tone Sunday, despite being given the opportunity to condemn the work action.
"It's my message to my officers that we have a duty to protect the city," Armstrong said. "I would still like to think that the majority of our officers will honor that obligation."
Wharton said the officers' actions were punishing the city's residents, not those at the council or in his administration who supported the cuts.
"Bottom line is, we had to do something," Wharton said, citing a recent state law mandating that cities fully fund their pension plans within the next five years. "In the past, we might have said, 'It's not a crisis yet. Nobody's missed a pension check.'"
Armstrong also reiterated that anyone found abusing the department's sick-leave policy will be punished. Any officer with six or more sick days in a 12-month period faces an oral reprimand or up to 10 days suspension. After eight sick days, they face a suspension of 10 to 30 days. After the 10th sick day, the officer could be suspended for 30 days or fired.
"We have a sick-leave policy in place. We will review these officers," Armstrong said.
Officials said Sunday that they don't know if the police union played any role in the work action. Union president Mike Williams didn't return a call Sunday.
Memphis Fire Director Alvin Benson said Sunday that his department appears unaffected by the work action. On Sunday, 37 Memphis firefighters called in sick, Battalion Chief Keith Staples said, up from the 28 the department expects on a daily basis.
Council Seeks Ideas
The City Council plans to hear from citizens who have suggestions on how that body could have found the money to restore the city's troubled pension fund without cutting health care benefits.
Beginning with the Council's Personnel Committee meeting on July 15, and at each meeting of that committee through the end of the year, council members will listen to the public's suggestions. The Personnel Committee meets every two weeks.
"This is a time for them to come in with specific ideas on how to come up with approximately $50- to $55-million to pay for the pension," Council chairman Jim Strickland said, adding that it was "specifically not to complain about what we did but to offer suggestions." |
A pedophile has admitted to sexually assaulting children while working at a pre-school in Stockholm county.
The man, in his 40s, is suspected of taking pictures of the children at the pre-school where he worked, and also having indecent images of minors at his home.
In 2014, the suspect sexually assaulted a child at the same pre-school. The man admitted to the crimes, however he was set on free foot by the court.
And it was then it happened.
After the pedophile had returned home, an angry parent showed up at his house. The pedophile thought it was the police, so he opened the door.
However, the person at the door was a dad who had a child that attended the pre-school.
The pedophile says that he was attacked, and that he was hit and kicked several times and was pushed to the floor.
“I got a knee in my left cheek so that I blacked out” he said during questioning.
He recognized the attacker as a parent. The parent grapped his throat and threatened to kill the pedophile if he had “touched” his child.
“I felt very threatened and also feared for my family because he mentioned my family” he said.
The parent admitted to police that he had been at the house, but said he didn’t remember much of what had happened.
“I just wanted to hear that he had not touched them, that is all I remember. That is the only thing I was thinking about” the parent said during questioning.
The parent said that his wife has had to go to a crisis centre after it was known that the pedophile had worked at the pre-school their child attended.
“This event has turned our lives upside down. I have been forced to take extra time off from work to help at home because my wife cannot manage to go to work and function normally” he said.
The parent is now being prosecuted for assault and threats, and is now risking prison after attacking the pedophile.
The prosecutor in the case against the pedophile did appeal the decision to set him on free foot. Shortly after being attacked in his home by the parent, the pedophile was again arrested after the court reversed the original decision. |
Q:
How to create a queue on multiple clicking event
I have one question regarding this very specific situation I'm facing right now in Angular 4 / Typescript. I have 2 buttons (eg: Increase: "+", and Decrease: "-"), booth have onClick events to change current number's value.
On every click I do an API call to update new number value on Backend. If user clicks multiple times very fast (eg. 14 times to increase from 0 to 14 in less than 1 second) I will send 14 calls to the API.
I want to store the number increased and send the call just after 300ms from last call. Table representation:
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Clicks | 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Time | 0ms ......... 300ms .............. 600ms ............ final|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Api call | ............ send(5) ........... send(10) ........ send(14)|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
I was searching on google about this but nothing found.
A:
You can try to combine debounceTime and distinctUntilChanged: https://www.learnrxjs.io/operators/filtering/distinctuntilchanged.html
Example below will only emit the value if it is different than the last, polling every 300ms. You can call the next() function on your buttons and make the API call inside the subscription.
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Subject } from 'rxjs/Subject';
import { debounceTime, distinctUntilChanged } from 'rxjs/operators';
@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
templateUrl: './app.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./app.component.scss']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
value$ = new Subject<string>();
constructor() {}
ngOnInit() {
this.value$
.pipe(debounceTime(300))
.pipe(distinctUntilChanged())
.subscribe(result => {
// call api
});
}
}
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Alejandra Bravo
María Alejandra Bravo de la Parra (born 29 April 1961) is a Mexican biochemist who was laureated with the 2010 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science – Latin America for her work on a bacterial toxin that acts as a powerful insecticide. Bravo has co-authored numerous papers with her husband Dr. Mario Soberon.
Bravo is a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Microbiology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in Basic Biomedical Research from the same university and she is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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10,000 Angels will swear you were wrong
I've watched the video of Sen. Durbin's apology and I think it was more than slimy. He apologised to "some" who thought his remarks were in poor taste. He invoked the words of Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, to indicate that, if his words turned out to be correct, he would be vindicated. I can think of several quotations from Lincoln and one from Mark Twain that he could have used with more effectiveness and would have been more apropos. First, these from Lincoln:
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
No, Sir, it is the politician who is the first to sound the alarm (which, by the way, is a false one.) It is he, who, by these unholy means, is endeavoring to blow up a storm that he may ride upon and direct.
Or possibly this one from Mark Twain:.
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. |
tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19623437.post5869704547616500865..comments2009-07-11T13:17:23.486+00:00Comments on December Quinn, Erotic Romance<br>Stacia Kane, Sexy Urban Fantasy: Agents = People. Not fish.Staciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07969399927758009095noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19623437.post-81615391865486861322009-05-22T20:35:20.118+00:002009-05-22T20:35:20.118+00:00I believe it relates to the 'Hook' we send out to ...I believe it relates to the 'Hook' we send out to attract their interest, D. :)BernardLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09722619048888613647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19623437.post-79813468928533256762009-05-22T17:25:43.301+00:002009-05-22T17:25:43.301+00:00Hum, my fishing skills seem very weak.Hum, my fishing skills seem very weak.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com |
This K07 award will provide Dr. Jessica Hwang with the experience and mentoring to reach her long-term goal of developing into an independent investigator conducting clinical epidemiology and health services research in internal medicine issues and supportive care of patients undergoing treatment for cancer, particularly in viral reactivation during chemotherapy. Immediate career goals include expanding expertise on reactivation of HBV infection;developing analytic skills, including skills in decision-analysis and cost-effectiveness studies;and gaining expertise in the interpretation of HBV serologic scenarios and the clinical management of patients at risk for reactivation. At present, oncologists in the U.S. perform prechemotherapy screening in only a small percentage of patients at risk for HBV reactivation during chemotherapy. The objective of this application is to determine the impact of systematic prechemotherapy screening for and treatment of HBV among cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy affects clinical outcomes. The specific aims of this application are to: 1) identify the rates and determinants of serologic screening for HBV among cancer patients receiving chemotherapy at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center;2) determine the rates and predictors of acute HBV infection among M. D. Anderson patients receiving chemotherapy under the current standard of care;3) assess the impact of systematic HBV screening of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy on the rates of acute HBV infection and related clinical outcomes as compared with a historical cohort;4) develop a decision-analysis model to examine the costs and benefits of preventing reactivation of HBV infection. This study will be the first to systematically examine the impact of HBV screening on outcomes in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Aims 1 and 2 will be achieved through a retrospective analysis of merged administrative and clinical databases as well as selected chart review;Aim 3 through a prospective clinical cohort;and Aim 4 through decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. The combination of Dr. Hwang's unique background in internal medicine and public health and the collective and impressive expertise of her mentoring team make her well suited for conducting this project. The proposed career development activities in cancer control, statistics, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis will provide Dr. Hwang with the skills necessary to establish herself as an independent researcher in her field. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Nearly 17 million people in the United States have evidence of HBV infection, and they are at high risk for reactivation of HBV infection if they receive immunosuppressive therapy such as chemotherapy. Recent guidelines recommend widespread HBV screening prior to immunosuppression but lack data-driven evidence. This K07 will compare the effectiveness of wide spread vs. targeted HBV screening, and the end result will produce evidence to support HBV screening recommendations for oncologists. These recommendations will inform policy changes and future educational efforts. |
Slack and Microsoft Teams only solve half of your teams’ productivity problems - ekpyrotic
https://medium.com/@ab.banerjee/slack-and-microsoft-teams-only-solve-half-of-your-teams-productivity-problems-a53e4b26228#.5eno00yrv
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Ascetik
The one problem I see in the tech industry, and I've been in it about 14 years
now, is that they try to answer a lot of immaterial problems with material
solutions... such as technology.
You can't force someone to be more productive. A company could facilitate all
possible means for the goal of productivity, but at the end of the day, some
people are just more productive than others.
Laziness is not something that can be measured, it is a spiritual problem.
Lethargy is not something that can be measured, it is a spiritual problem.
Stress cannot be measured, it is a spiritual problem. Same with depression and
anxiety. Some of these things can be helped with the use of pharmaceuticals,
but not always, and they don't always cure the root cause, they mask the
symptoms more often than not.
Tech companies need to stop focusing on trying to fix everything with
technology, because technology is not the answer to everything. Stop treating
people like they're mindless automatons and treat them with dignity and
respect. Accept the human element. Accept that people may actually want more
than 2 weeks paid vacation a year. Give dads paid paternity leave. Don't make
them use PTO for a dentist appointment.
There are so many factors that go into why productivity may go down. Giving
people an essentially sleeker chat room doesn't solve the issues.
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import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
import com.intuit.wasabi.repository.cassandra.pojo.index.PageExperimentByAppNamePage;
import java.util.UUID;
/**
* Interface for accessor
*/
@Accessor
public interface PageExperimentIndexAccessor {
/**
* Insert using attributes
*
* @param appName
* @param page
* @param experimentId
* @param assign
* @return Statement
*/
@Query("insert into page_experiment_index(app_name, page, exp_id, assign) " +
"values(?,?,?,?)")
Statement insertBy(String appName, String page, UUID experimentId, boolean assign);
/**
* Delete by using attributes
*
* @param appName
* @param page
* @param uuid
* @return Statement
*/
@Query("delete from page_experiment_index where app_name = ? and page = ? and exp_id = ?")
Statement deleteBy(String appName, String page, UUID uuid);
/**
* Get by attributes
*
* @param appName
* @param page
* @return result
*/
@Query("select * from page_experiment_index where app_name = ? and page = ?")
Result<PageExperimentByAppNamePage> selectBy(String appName, String page);
/**
* Asynchronously fetch experiments associated to given application and page.
*
* @param appName
* @param page
* @return result
*/
@Query("select * from page_experiment_index where app_name = ? and page = ?")
ListenableFuture<Result<PageExperimentByAppNamePage>> asyncSelectBy(String appName, String page);
}
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Q:
How to get data from a SQL database into storage blob for reference data
I have a azure SQL database and want to use the data from the database for Azure Stream Analytics - I know that I have to use a Blob Storage in order to use my data as reference data for my Stream Analytics Job.
Question
Now what would be the best way to get my SQL data into the Stream Analytics Job to enrich my incoming data?
A:
You need to use the 'Azure data factory'. The 'data factory' can be used to orchestrate and automate the movement and transformation of your reference data from other cloud or on-premise data stores.
Check this article for a nice example on how to pull in data from a SQL Azure database to the Blob storage - Refreshing reference data
Some links on 'Azure data factory' -
Introduction to Azure Data Factory
Moving data using Azure Data Factory
A:
Remarks to Previous Answer
Azure Data Factory is a whole new product and oversized, I think it's not appropriate for the relatively small size of what I want to do.
Answer
To get the SQL data into the Stream Analytics you have to save it in a Blob Storage (a simple WebApp is enough) and then it can be used to inside the Stream Analytics to enrich the data which is coming from the IoT Hub (e.g. appending a location to an object which is known to the front end but has no location in the front end due to data separation concerns).
In the Azure Blob Storage a snapshot from the current state of the SQL database is stored - this is okay for me because neither the amount nor the location of my objects changes very often, so updates to the Blob Storage are very infrequent.
In the Azure Stream Analytics a Blob Storage can be used to append information to a model, so here the model ids can be matched and a location can be appended, then the modified model can be saved again to a blob storage for a later data analysis.
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What to Do with Apartment Mold
Property owners often do their best to keep their units clean for tenants and prospective renters. Unfortunately, they are not able to control everything. If something goes wrong or a leak is not found mold can develop. Apartment mold is a difficult problem to remediate and a hassle for everyone involved. If you do find mold in your unit there are a few things you can do in order to help take care of the problem.
Take Pictures and Call Your Landlord
When you’re the tenant, proper documentation of any issues in your apartment is critical. That is why writing down issues and taking pictures is important. If you spot mold, the first thing you should do is contact the landlord. Be sure to email them even after you call them because this helps provide a paper trail. It is their responsibility to repair their property, but your rights will be protected as long as you have documentation and evidence.
Wait for an Air Quality Test
Before apartment mold can be removed it is important to discover what type of mold there is. This will help professionals be able to get rid of it properly. It can also help your doctor if you’re having issues with the mold. Your doctor can help with the temporary health problems while the mold problem is being taken care of.
Document Everything
Most likely, your landlord will want to take care of the problem immediately. It is just good business practice to handle it as soon as possible. Some landlords may push back, however. This is why it is important to document everything on your end. If you need to speak with a lawyer in order to protect your rights things will go much easier if you have everything documented on your end. Legal action might even push the landlord into taking action against the problem.
Worst Case: Move Out
Moving out is a last resort option, but your health is the most important factor here. If you’re having severe negative health effects from the mold and your landlord refuses to do anything about it even after the legal process begins then moving out may be your only recourse. You must notify the landlord that you are breaking your lease early and recruit that you get your full security deposit back. There is no guarantee the landlord will agree to these terms, but if you have filed a lawsuit against them you will at least have done all you can do. |
We are all the richer for the snippets we've received so far - so riveting to
listen to John speak of his unfolding discoveries.
I think only he can really appreciate the excitement of those encounters after
the time he's put in, but you can hear it in his voice and live it in your
mind's eye when he's relating the stories.
It felt like:
He holds him with his glittering eye----
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years' child:
The Mariner (birder) hath his will.
It's like those stories that came back from new worlds in the days of discovery
- of duck-billed egg-laying Platypus, of Birds of Paradise, Resplendent
Quetzals and such.
Long live the love of birds and all things wild and the folk who devote their
time to share them and conserve them........
Allan Richardson
Morisset NSW
On 05/07/2013, at 7:54 PM, Alastair Smith wrote:
> Whether birders think the call should be released is an irrelevance. I can
> assure you that John is not going to release the call and I don't think this
> discussion will make him change his mind.
>
> Regards
> Alastair
>
>
> On 05/07/2013, at 6:18 PM, Stewart Ford <> wrote:
>
> Hi Mick, Mike, Bruce and others in the yes camp
>
> John Young has produced the find of the century. His name is indelibly etched
> into Australia's ornithological history.
>
> He has discovered an immensely important tool for the conservation of this
> species. It will enable government and private conservation agencies,
> ornithologists, environmental consultants and other parties interested in
> saving the species to finally determine presence, monitor and, importantly,
> manage impacts to the parrot.
>
> In the absence of this, those impacts continue unabated.
>
> He should be lauded for the incredible personal investment he's made in
> achieving this.
>
>
>
> On 05/07/2013, at 15:19, Mick Roderick <> wrote:
>
>> I totally agree with Mick,
>>
>> Every birder knows that calls are the key to cryptic species, and it comes
>> as no surprise that this was the case with the Night Parrot. I just don't
>> know what people think is going to happen if/when the call is released.
>> Imagine it - you have the call of the Night Parrot on your phone, CD,
>> cassette, whatever - then what?? You're still basically back at square one
>> as far as locating birds is concerned.
>>
>> I challenge everyone who has the call of the Regent Honeyeater to go out and
>> find one!
>>
>> Mick
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Michael Todd <>
>> To:
>> Sent: Friday, 5 July 2013 2:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Why the Night Parrot call recording should not be
>> made freely available.
>>
>>
>> Hello Bob (and everyone else),
>>
>> I've read all the transcripts and I would say that there are good
>> conservation reasons for releasing the call publicly. As long as the
>> location of these particular parrots at the moment is kept under wraps, the
>> calls being played elsewhere won't harm them, especially given a low
>> likelihood of actual success. Maybe other locations can be located. So
>> little is known about Night Parrots that the more locations they can be
>> found at the better.
>>
>> Of course those calls have a high commercial value as well and as a
>> consultant, John may want to hold out to see what government is willing to
>> pay. I assume no one was paying for John's fuel costs while travelling all
>> those thousands of kilometres.
>>
>> It sounds as though they respond well to the calls so this would make it an
>> effective technique. One of the problems from a conservation perspective is
>> that we don't know how long the parrots will stay in this area. If they are
>> nomadic they could eventually leave- maybe never to return, when
>> environmental conditions change. It is essential that the biologists
>> involved (the Night Parrot network people I assume) collect as much
>> information as possible while they can. Others excited about Night Parrots
>> could look elsewhere armed with the call, and hopefully some basic habitat
>> information so that they know where to look. Australia is a big place-
>> there are plenty of places that could be searched.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to hearing and seeing more about the night parrot in
>> the future, like everyone else.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mick
>>
>> --
>> Michael Todd, PhD
>> Molesworth, Tasmania
>> http://wildlifing.smugmug.com/
>> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-todd/2b/425/605
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC), frequently referred as stress-induced cardiopathy, apical ballooning syndrome or 'broken heart' syndrome, is characterised by left ventricular ballooning and transient systolic dysfunction. The Japanese term 'takotsubo' means a trap to catch an octopus, and its shape resembles this condition's left ventricular systolic appearance.^[@R1]^
Clinically, TC can mimic an acute coronary syndrome (precordial pain, ST segment elevation or T-wave inversion in the electrocardiographic anterior precordial leads, elevation of cardiac biomarkers), but the segmental motility changes happen in the absence of coronary obstruction.^[@R2]^
TC is frequently associated with the occurrence of a stressful event, physical or emotional, however, the pathogenic mechanism is not fully understood. There is growing evidence of occurrence of TC in patients with thyrotoxicosis, pointing out that this may be a potential precipitating factor.^[@R3]^
Classically, TC has been mostly classified according to its ventricular involvement (uni- or biventricular), ballooning pattern (apical, basal, mid-ventricular and localised) and typical or atypical presentation.^[@R4],[@R5]^ A new classification has been proposed regarding potential triggers, stating that secondary forms of TC (including patients with thyrotoxicosis) are associated with a worse longterm prognosis compared with primary forms.^[@R6]^
Case report {#s1}
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Case 1 {#s1a}
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A 74-year-old female patient with history of auto-immune thyroiditis, dyslipidemia and rheumatoid arthritis, medicated with levothyroxine (2.27 μg/kg), calcium carbonate and cholecalciferol 1,250 mg plus 400 IU id, simvastatin 20 mg id, escitalopram 10 mg id and macrogol 10,000 mg id. She presented in the emergency room with chest pain with sensation of tightness, nausea and vomiting, occurring after physical effort and lasting for six hours. She reported increased anxiety levels and fatigue during the past two weeks, but denied other significant clinical complaints such as weight loss, tremor, anxiety, sweating, increased appetite or increased bowel movements.
The electrocardiogram (ECG) showed ST-segment elevation in the anterior precordial leads (see *[Figure 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}*) and in the echocardiogram there was significant hypokinesis of the anterior and inferior portions of the apex with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (left ventricular ejection fraction \[LVEF\] 43%). Blood tests showed a rise of cardiac biomarkers: troponin value of 7.43 ng/ml (0.00--0.07). Cardiac catheterisation (see *[Figure 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}*) was performed and no evidence of coronary disease was found.
{#F1}
The suppression of TSH was detected in the cardiac intensive care unit: 0.21 mIU/l (0.35--5.50), with a free T4 of 1.43 ng/dl (0.80--1.80). Levothyroxine dose was then reduced. The patient showed great recovery, with rapid decrease of cardiac biomarkers and good clinical outcome. She was asymptomatic on discharge. The echocardiographic re-evaluation after three months showed complete reversion of apical hypokinesis.
Case 2 {#s1b}
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A 47-year-old female patient with history of auto-immune thyroiditis, hypertension, dyslipidemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in complete remission, medicated with levothyroxine (1.85 μg/kg), acetylsalicylic acid 100 mg id, telmisartan/hydrochlorothiazide 40/12.5 mg id and pitavastatin 2 mg id.
She was admitted to the emergency room with palpitations and chest pain radiating to her left arm that started after emotional stress. She mentioned that she was experiencing effort-related retrosternal discomfort lately. She did not refer to other prior clinical complaints. The ECG showed sinus tachycardia (144 bpm), symmetrical T-wave inversion in the left ventricular leads, associated with prolonged QT interval (see *[Figure 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}*). The subsequent complementary workup showed a discrete rise in cardiac biomarkers (troponin levels of 0.28 ng/ml, 0.00--0.07) and apical hypokinesis without significant coronary obstruction on coronary angiography. She also had a TSH level inferior to the lower limit of the reference range: 0.07 mIU/l (0.35--5.50).
{#F2}
Similarly to what was previously described, her levothyroxine dose was adjusted and there was normalisation of cardiac biomarkers during inpatient care (troponin level of 0.09 ng/ml, 0.00--0.07 on the fourth day after admission).
Cardiac magnetic resonance was performed three weeks after discharge, it did not show any signs of late myocardial enhancement and already showed improvement of the morphological abnormalities previously described. Her echocardiographic re-evaluation after three months showed normal left ventricular contractile function.
Comment {#s2}
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Many clinical manifestations of thyrotoxicosis are due to thyroid hormone action on the myocardial tissue, peripheral circulation and sympathetic nervous system, leading to a hyperdynamic state. Thyroid hormones contribute, directly and indirectly, to an increase of myocardial contractility and heart rate, thus increasing cardiac output, myocardial oxygen consumption, systolic blood pressure and pulmonary pressure, while there is a decrease in peripheral vascular resistance and in diastolic pressure.^[@R7]^ The main cardiovascular complications of thyrotoxicosis are atrial fibrillation, heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.^[@R8]^ Thyrotoxicosis is also associated with an increased risk of angina and even acute coronary syndrome, which is thought to be explained by the increase of myocardial oxygen demand caused by thyroid hormones, potentiating the occurrence of ischaemic events.^[@R9]^ Therefore, it is important to include TSH evaluation in the initial assessment of patients with those conditions.
Several reports support the association between TC and thyrotoxicosis. Although the mechanism is not fully understood, it is generally considered to involve an abnormal myocardial response to the circulating levels of catecholamines.^[@R10]^ The fact that there is an increased sensibility to catecholamines in thyrotoxicosis would justify its potential association with TC. This increased sensibility may entail an over-expression of G protein, down-regulation of the catalytic subunit of cardiac-specific adenylyl cyclase or an increased density of beta-adrenergic receptors. These receptors are found more densely spaced in the ventricular apex, which substantiates this segment's vulnerability to hypokinesis in TC.^[@R11]^
There is no specific treatment for TC. This condition is managed with supportive therapy and usually results in rapid resolution of symptoms and reversion of the left ventricular dysfunction.^[@R12]^ It is recommended to solve potential underlying factors, when those can be identified: emotional or physical stress reduction and, as in the present cases, approach to thyrotoxicosis.
Both our patients presented with precordial pain, there was no strong clinical suspicion of pheochromocytoma or cerebrovascular disease and coronary artery disease was excluded. TC diagnosis was established in both and on the first case no drug or other precipitating factor was found other than excessive supplementation with levothyroxine, despite subclinical levels. The second patient referred to emotional stress, adding to the excessive supplementation with levothyroxine.
These case reports alert for the cardiovascular risks of sustained thyrotoxicosis, stressing the relevance of adequate dose-adjustment and regular clinical monitoring of patients on thyroid hormone replacement therapy, especially those with other cardiovascular risk factors.
[^1]: **Disclosure:** Ana Margarida Balsa, Ana Raquel Ferreira, Márcia Alves and Joana Guimarães have no relevant conflicts of interest to declare. No funding was received in the publication of this article.
[^2]: **Compliance with Ethics:** All procedures were followed in accordance with the responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 and subsequent revisions, and informed consent was received from the patients involved in this case study.
[^3]: **Authorship:** All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship of this manuscript, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given final approval to the version to be published.
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417 So.2d 755 (1982)
STATE of Florida, Appellant,
v.
Ronnie WILLIAMS, Appellee.
No. 81-1275.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
July 21, 1982.
Rehearing Denied August 3, 1982.
*756 Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Evelyn D. Golden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellant.
Gregory M. Wilson, of Taylor & Wilson, Orlando, for appellee.
SHARP, Judge.
The state appeals[1] the trial court's order, which suppressed the results of Williams' blood-alcohol level test, prior to the commencement of his trial for manslaughter by driving while intoxicated. We reverse.
A head-on collision between Williams in his pick-up truck and a woman in a small car resulted in her death. Williams had crossed the center line of State Road 15-A, and hit the small car in its lane. Trooper Harper who observed the scene of the accident shortly after it occurred, suspected Williams was intoxicated. His suspicions were based on observations of how the accident occurred. Harper also smelled alcohol on Williams' person, and noticed that Williams' eyes were unusually red. Harper told Williams he had begun a homicide investigation, and then read him a warning pursuant to the implied consent statute.[2]
Williams was not arrested at that time. It was the policy of the force Trooper Harper worked with not to arrest a suspect until a blood test had been taken. Harper asked Williams to take the blood test. Williams asked what would happen if he refused. Harper told him his driver's license would be suspended for three months. Williams then consented to the test because his job required him to drive. At the hospital he signed a written consent form. The blood test was administered at a hospital approximately three hours after the accident.
In determining whether or not the blood test evidence is admissible, like any other kind of evidence, if it is relevant (and this clearly is), the assumption should be that it is admissible unless barred by some privilege, constitutional right, statute, or rule. The only two possible bars in this case are the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the United States Constitution, and section 322.261, Florida Statutes (1979).
The Florida Supreme Court held in State v. Mitchell, 245 So.2d 618 (Fla. 1971) that, based on Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757, 86 S.Ct. 1826, 16 L.Ed.2d 908 (1966), the Fifth Amendment does not bar the use of physical as opposed to testimonial evidence. It also held that the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure did not bar the taking of blood for testing, where there was probable cause to believe the driver had been driving while intoxicated. Whether or not the driver had been arrested makes no difference for purposes of the Fourth Amendment if probable cause to arrest exists prior to the search.[3] In this case, the record shows such probable cause existed.
Other state courts have also reached the same conclusion.[4] The justification is that a search warrant is not needed where there is probable cause to arrest, and the evidence sought is likely to dissipate before a search warrant can be obtained so called "exigent circumstances." Clearly, such circumstances exist in these cases because the blood test must be taken close in time to the accident, or the alcohol will be eliminated by physiological processes from the driver's body in a matter of hours.
The test when properly administered, produces highly probative and accurate evidence. Its use should be encouraged, *757 where constitutionally allowed, as a means to stop the carnage on the highways caused by drunk drivers. The Florida Supreme Court in Mitchell quoted with approval Breithaupt v. Abram, 352 U.S. 432, 439, 77 S.Ct. 408, 412, 1 L.Ed.2d 448 (1957) which is relevant to this case:
The test upheld here is not attacked on the ground of any basic deficiency or of injudicious application, but admittedly is a scientifically accurate method of detecting alcohol content in the blood, thus furnishing an exact measure upon which to base a decision as to intoxication. Modern community living requires modern scientific methods of crime detection lest the public go unprotected. The increasing slaughter on our highways, most of which should be avoidable, now reaches the astounding figures only heard of on the battlefield. The States, through safety measures, modern scientific methods, and strict enforcement of traffic laws, are using all reasonable means to make automobile driving less dangerous.
The more difficult issue in this case is whether Williams' blood test is barred by section 322.261, Florida Statutes (1979).[5] The court in Mitchell held that the blood test was admissible under section 322.261(1)(c) because the driver-defendant was sufficiently incapacitated to put him in the category of being "incapable of refusal by reason of unconsciousness, or other mental or physical condition."
In Sambrine v. State, 386 So.2d 546 (Fla. 1980) the court had to determine whether section 322.261 barred the blood test results of a driver who was conscious and who refused to take both the breath test and the blood test, and had the blood test taken over his active protest. The court said that section 322.261 goes beyond the protection of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments in requiring consent and allowing drivers the right to refuse to take tests.
*758 Section 322.261 is an unfortunate example of poor drafting.[6] Subsection (1)(a) covers the situation where a driver is lawfully arrested, and put to the choice of taking the chemical breath test, or losing his license for three months. If the driver is not arrested, the chemical breath test may be taken, with the driver's consent, but the results of the test are not admissible. Subsection (1)(b)2 requires an officer to advise a driver who has not been arrested he can refuse to take the chemical breath test, and obtain his written consent. Subsection (1)(c) is the first place "blood tests" are mentioned. It provides that in lieu of the chemical breath test, a blood test may be taken from an unconscious person, and no consent is required (it is "deemed" to have been given) and it is not necessary to tell the person that refusal will result in suspension of his driver's license. Obviously the person who drafted subsection (1)(c) assumed consent and warnings in subsection (1)(b)2 were required for blood tests as well as breath tests.
The court in Sambrine construed section 322.261 as requiring consent of a conscious person to take a blood test, and allowing the imposition of sanctions (suspension of a driver's license) if the person refuses.
This court is not free to ignore plain statutory language and obvious legislative intent. Any careful reading of section 322.261 leads to the inescapable conclusion that a person is given the right to refuse testing. If this were not so, it is unclear why the legislature provided for a definite sanction and a detailed procedure for the enforcement of such sanction. Not once but twice the implied consent law provides for a three month suspension in the case of refusal.
386 So.2d at 548. In Sambrine, the driver refused to take the blood test. Hence, it was not admissible against him in his criminal trial.
In this case, the trooper Harper told Williams, as the Florida Supreme Court said he must in Sambrine, that he could refuse the blood test, and if he did, his license would be suspended. But unlike Sambrine, in this case Williams consented to take the test. Thus, it was admissible.
The question then arises whether subsection (1)(a) of section 322.261 applies to this case, because chemical breath tests are barred from being admissible in court if not taken in connection with a lawful arrest for driving while intoxicated. Sambrine does not discuss this point, and we decline to rewrite section 322.261 by inserting "blood test" every time "chemical breath test" appears. The rewritten statute effective July 1982 continues to treat blood tests differently than chemical breath tests for many purposes, one of which is not requiring an arrest for blood tests, but continuing to require it for breath tests, if the test is later to be admissible. See Ch. 82-155, §§ 3, 4, 5, Laws of Florida. This is indicative of prior legislative intent regarding section 322.261. See Watson v. Holland, 155 Fla. 342, 20 So.2d 388 (1944); Amos v. Conkling, 99 Fla. 206, 126 So. 283 (1930); Foremost Insurance Company v. Medders, 399 So.2d 128 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981); Stafford v. State, 380 So.2d 538 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980).
For the reasons stated in this opinion, the order appealed is
REVERSED.
ORFINGER, C.J., and COWART, J., concur.
NOTES
[1] Fla.R.App. 9.140(c)(1)(B).
[2] § 322.261, Fla. Stat. (1979).
[3] State v. Edge, 397 So.2d 939 (5th DCA), review denied, 407 So.2d 1103 (Fla. 1981).
[4] State v. Oevering, 268 N.W.2d 68 (Minn. 1978); State v. Heintz, 286 Or. 239, 594 P.2d 385 (1979); Van Order v. State, 600 P.2d 1056 (Wyo. 1979).
[5] The relevant portions of the statute provide:
(1)(a) Any person who shall accept the privilege extended by the laws of this state of operating a motor vehicle within this state shall by so operating such vehicle be deemed to have given his consent to submit to an approved chemical test of his breath for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content of his blood if he is lawfully arrested for any offense allegedly committed while the person was driving a motor vehicle under the influence of alcoholic beverages. The test shall be incidental to a lawful arrest and administered at the request of a peace officer having reasonable cause to believe such person was driving a motor vehicle within this state while under the influence of alcoholic beverages. Such person shall be told that his failure to submit to such a chemical test will result in the suspension of his privilege to operate a motor vehicle for a period of 3 months.
(1)(b)1. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, a law enforcement officer who has reason to believe that a person's ability to operate a motor vehicle is impaired by alcohol and that the person has been operating a motor vehicle during the period of such impairment may, with the person's consent, give, or the person may demand, a pre-arrest breath test for the purpose of determining if said person is in violation of section 316.193(1), but the taking of such pre-arrest breath test shall not be deemed a compliance with the provisions of paragraph (a). The results of any test administered under this section shall not be admissible into evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding... .
(1)(b)2. Prior to administering any pre-arrest breath test, a law enforcement officer shall advise the motor vehicle operator that he has the right to refuse to take such test, and, prior to administering such test, a law enforcement officer shall obtain the written consent of the motor vehicle operator.
(1)(c) Any such person who is incapable of refusal by reason of unconsciousness or other mental or physical condition shall be deemed not to have withdrawn his consent to such test. Any such person whose consent is implied as hereinabove provided, and who, during the period within which a test prescribed herein can be reasonably administered, or who, being admitted to a hospital as a result of his involvement as a driver in a motor vehicle accident, is so incapacitated as to render impractical or impossible the administration of the aforesaid test of his breath shall be deemed to have consented also to an approved blood test given as provided for herein and shall be deemed not to have withdrawn his consent therefor. Under the foregoing circumstances, a blood test may be administered whether or not such person is told that his failure to submit to such blood test will result in the suspension of his privilege to operate a motor vehicle upon the public highways of this state. (Emphasis added).
* * * * * *
[6] The more lengthy revised statute which goes into effect July 1, 1982 fails to remedy all of the defects of section 322.261, but at least under the circumstances of this case, a new "get tough" section provides that a driver such as Williams who has been involved in an accident which results in the death or serious injury of another human being has no right to refuse the blood test. It can be taken by force, and the results, plus the driver's resistance, may be used as evidence against him in a criminal or civil case. Ch. 82-155 §§ 4, 5, Laws of Fla. Clearly, this statute no longer will give greater protection than the Fourth Amendment.
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Q:
Label-disjoint paths in directed graphs
Checking if there are two edge-disjoint paths from $s$ to $t$
in a given undirected graph $G$ is in P via a standard solution based on maxflow.
I am interested in the complexity of the following edge-labeled version and
whether it is in P or not.
Input: An edge-labeled graph $G$ and two vertices $s$ and $t$ satisfying the following condition:
every label in $G$ occurs exactly twice.
Output: are there two label-disjoint paths in $G$ from $s$ to $t$?
Two paths are label disjoint iff
the labels appearing in the respective paths are disjoint.
Example:
suppose $G$ is given by $(s, a, v1)$, $(v1, b, t)$, $(s, b, v2)$, $(s, c, v2)$, $(v2, a, t)$, $(v2, c, t)$. Then $s-a-v1-b-t$ and $s-c-v2-c-t$ are two label-disjoint simple paths from $s$ to $t$.
A:
The problem becomes NP-complete ... this is a "graphical" :-) reduction from 3-SAT ... it should be self-explanatory (... if not let me know).
Two notes:
+X1a, -X1a, +X1b, -X1b,...,+X2a,-X2a, ...,dum1,...,dum4 are all distinct labels;
in the figure each label appears $\leq 2$ times; but it is straightforward to make each label appears exactly 2 times adding some dum nodes+edges+labels to pair them up.
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Today, in a press release entitled ” AG Shapiro, Gov. Wolf: 80% Receivers Are Firearms” Pennsylvania Attorney General issued an opinion letter regarding, putatively whether 80% lowers (which have no legal definition or meaning) are firearms for purposes of some, but not all, provisions of the Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act (“UFA”).
While acknowledging that “there is no controlling caselaw providing a definition or standard for applying the phrase ‘may readily be converted'” nor a definition for “designed,” in direct violation of Article 2, Section 1 (non-delegation provision), the preemption provided for by Article 1, Sections 21 and 25, and the rule of lenity, Attorney General Shapiro concludes that “a receiver is a ‘firearm’ if it can be converted to expel a projectile by [sic] individual with reasonable skill (expertise), basic tools (equipment) available to and understood by such an individual, and commonly available parts (availability) in a reasonable amount of time (time).” Thus, apparently under AG Shapiro’s opinion, a block of metal or plastic can now constitute a firearm. In fact, he goes on to hold:
A receiver does not need to be fully manufactured to be a firearm as defined in the Applicable Sections. A receiver if a firearm under the Applicable Sections it is is: 1) “designed” to expel or 2) “may readily be converted” to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive. Given the UFA does not provide a statutory definition of these terms, PSP shall utilize the legal framework set forth in this Opinion when enforcing or issuing interpretative guidance regarding the Applicable Sections of the UFA. Along with direct enforcement of the UFA< PSP has the ability to issue interpretative rules through internal documents, manuals, or policy statements; while not contorlling, these interpretations would be entitled to deference. Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134, 140 (1944). Additionally, PSP can further interpret the definitions through formal rulemaking. 18 Pa. C.S. 6111.5 Any regulation properly promulgated by PSP is entitled to deference, unless clearly erroneous. Harkness v. UCBR, 591 Pa. 543.
What appears lost on AG Shapiro is the fact that only the General Assembly can write the law and that the General Assembly cannot delegate its authority, in the absence of providing a coherent framework that can be equally and consistently applied. W. Phila. Achievement Charter Elem. Sch. v. Sch. Dist. of Phila., 635 Pa. 127 (2016); Mary Ann Protz v. W.C.A.B. (Derry Area School District), 639 Pa. 645 (2017). Furthermore, when dealing with criminal statutes, or statutes having both criminal and civil applications, the rule of lenity requires that any ambiguity be resolved to the Defendant’s /Challenger’s benefit. United States v. Thompson/Ctr. Arms Co., 504 U.S. 505, 518 (1992).
Perhaps most interesting to some is the misleading title of the press release, as it suggests that AG Shapiro and Gov. Wolf conclude that “80% lowers are firearms”; yet, “80% lower” is not mentioned in the opinion. Of course, perhaps that’s the way AG. Shapiro and Gov. Wolf are directing the PSP to conclude 80% lowers are firearms, without specifically addressing it in the opinion. Only time will tell, but if the PSP does take a position that “80% lowers are firearms,” it will surely be challenged in the courts and the outcome is not likely to be favorable to the Commonwealth.
If you or someone you know has had their rights violated by this opinion or the PSP’s interpretation of the UFA as it relates to “firearms”, contact Firearms Industry Consulting Group today to discuss YOUR rights and legal options.
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D-Penicillamine tripodal derivatives as efficient copper(I) chelators.
New tripodal metal-chelating agents derived from nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) and extended by three unnatural amino acids D-penicillamine (D-Pen) are presented. D-Pen is actually the drug most extensively used to treat copper (Cu) overload in Wilson's disease and as such is a very attractive building block for the design of chelating agents. D-Pen is also a bulkier analogue of cysteine, with the β-methylene hydrogen atoms replaced by larger methyl groups. The hindrance of the gem-dimethyl group close to the thiol functions is demonstrated to influence the speciation and stability of the metal complexes. The ligands L(4) (ester) and L(5) (amide) were obtained from NTA and commercial D-Pen synthons in four and five steps with overall yields of 14 and 24%, respectively. Their ability to bind Cu(I), thanks to their three thiolate functions, has been investigated using both spectroscopic and analytical methods. UV, CD, and NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry evidence the formation of two Cu(I) complexes with L(5): the mononuclear complex CuL(5) and one cluster (Cu2L(5))2. In contrast, the bulkier ethyl ester derivative L(4) cannot accommodate the mononuclear complex in solution and thus forms exclusively the cluster (Cu2L(4))2. Cu K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS and EXAFS) confirms that Cu(I) is bound in trigonal-planar sulfur-only environments in all of these complexes with Cu- - -S distances ranging from 2.22 to 2.23 Å. Such C3-symmetric CuS3 cores are coordination modes frequently adopted in Cu(I) proteins such as metallothioneins. These two ligands bind Cu(I) tightly and selectively, which makes them promising chelators for intracellular copper detoxification in vivo. |
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