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End users have more electronic device choices than ever before. Hundreds of portable computing device designs such as laptops, tablets and smartphones are released every year. While the market continues to expand, current problems still exist with these technologies such as excessive power consumption and a sub-par user experience. A major problem with the portable device market today is a lack of a proper solution for power consumption, in particular display screen function, and the lack of acceptable user experience when the electronic device is operating in a reduced power consumption state.
The FIGURES of the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale, as their dimensions can be varied considerably without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. |
A serum-free medium for the Mishell-Dutton system.
A serum-free medium which provides high recoveries of plaque-forming cells in the primary immune response to sheep erythrocytes is described. In this medium the serum was replaced by heated fetuin and by excess of nonessential amino acids. Glycopeptides, obtained by excessive pronase treatment of fetuin were partially capable of replacing the nonhydrolyzed fetuin. |
Q:
Why the function name start with * in objective C?
I am learning Objective C, there is a function:
NSArray *desktops = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDesktopDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
When I press command and click function NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains, I see something looks like:
FOUNDATION_EXPORT NSArray<NSString *> *NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSSearchPathDirectory directory, NSSearchPathDomainMask domainMask, BOOL expandTilde);
I don't understand why there is a * before the function name while when I use the function in main.m I don't put * in function name?
A:
Let's pick a slightly simpler signature that will hopefully be clearer:
NSArray *GetArray()
You can move the space and write this way:
NSArray* GetArray()
This is a function that returns a pointer to an array. The "*" is part of the type, not part of the name.
It might also be clearer if you think of it this way:
(NSArray *) GetArray()
or
NSArray * GetArray()
It's generally a matter of style which you choose. In one case you're emphasizing that the return type is an array, and this function returns a pointer to it. In another, you're emphasizing that the return type is a pointer to an array.
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Danai Gurira who plays the bad-assed Michonne on the hit AMC series the Walking Dead is show in a very explicit sextap with English actress and model Abi Titmuss. In the video, Abi Titmuss has a threesome and has a super hot sex session with multiple women, including “Michonne” from AMC’s “Walking Dead”. The sex tape is so-so quality and would qualify as amature level porn. |
Alfvén limit in fast ignition.
Fast ignition inertial confinement fusion relies on rapidly heating the compressed fuel to ignition using a laser-generated electron beam. The current required far exceeds the Alfvén limit, so it can only propagate while the plasma provides a nearly coincident return current. The resistive decay of the return current is shown to be too rapid for the originally proposed scheme to work. Possible solutions to this problem are to increase the mean energy of the beam, to heat the fuel to a higher temperature by lowering the beam radius and duration, to use multiple beams, and to use an annular beam. Considering the laser wavelength required shows that increasing the mean energy and number of beams are the most practical solutions. |
A New Yorker On The West Coast
Visiting the Motorcyclist HQ, riding with Zack and Ari, lane splitting, and having my fill of kale salads |
How Not to Be Wrong : The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned In fact Jordan Ellenberg shows us maths touches on everything we do and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the world's messy and chaotic surface In How Not to be Wrong Ellenberg explores the mathematician's method of analyzing life from the everyday to the cosmic showing us which numbers to defend which ones to ignore and when to change the equation entirely Along the way he explains calculus in a single page describes Goedel's theorem using only one-syllable words and reveals how early you actually need to get to the airport
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Change and professional development: an adult education approach.
The purpose of this article is to explain the staff development approach as a means of enhancing the nurse manager's professional growth as well as the growth of employees. Staff development is growth-oriented, provides opportunity for self-direction, and integrates the needs of the learner and the facility while focusing on long-term goals. The author discusses integrating the goals of the adult learner and those of the health care organization as a means of meeting the needs of the institution and the individual employee. |
The present invention relates generally to a portable apparatus for blowing and vacuuming outdoor areas.
Portable blower-vacuum devices are generally used to clean outdoor areas of leaves, grass clippings, and other debris. Conventional blower-vacuum devices generally include a housing containing a motor, such as an electric motor or an internal combustion engine, and an impeller. The impeller is driven by the motor to generate an airflow from an inlet of the housing to an outlet of the housing. In a blower mode of operation, an elongated tube may be secured to the housing outlet for directional control of the airflow. In a vacuum mode of operation, an elongated tube may be secured to the housing inlet and a debris collection bag may be secured to the housing outlet.
Efforts have been made in the past to develop lightweight and relatively compact blower-vacuums that provide for easy transportation and manipulation of the blower-vacuums during use. Prior efforts have also focused on increasing the airflow of the blower-vacuum while maintaining a relatively light-weight and energy efficient power supply, reducing vibration of the blower-vacuum during use, and providing additional safety and functional features.
The present invention pertains to improvements to leaf blowers and blower-vacuums that addresses shortcomings and disadvantages associated with prior leaf blowers and blower-vacuums.
In accordance with an embodiment of one aspect of the present invention, an elongated air outlet structure of a convertible blower-vacuum, over which an elongated blower tube may be slid for attachment in a blower mode and removed in a vacuum mode, possesses a configuration that improves the ease with which the blower tube may be fitted to the air outlet. An edge of an opening in the housing defining the air outlet lies within a plane to which the axis of the outlet is not normal. The orientation of the opening assists with sliding a tube over the outlet.
In accordance with an embodiment of another aspect of the present invention, a portable blower-vacuum includes a housing of an impeller having an inlet and an outlet. A motor rotatably drives the impeller for generating an airflow from the inlet to the outlet of the housing. A cover that cooperates with the inlet in a blower mode includes a plurality of apertures disposed relative to the inlet to provide an airflow path directly into the inlet. The blower-vacuum also includes a skirt adapted to cooperate with the inlet and the cover to substantially reduce or eliminate a lateral airflow from entering the inlet by, for example, bypassing the apertures of the cover, thereby maintaining a substantially columnar airflow pattern to the inlet. A lateral or cross-directional airflow increases turbulence around the inlet. Reducing the cross-directional airflow improves performance of the blower-vacuum, resulting in an increased velocity of air at the outlet when in a blower mode.
According to an embodiment of another aspect of the present invention, a portable leaf blower includes a strain reliever adapted to substantially prevent inadvertent disengagement of an electrical power supply from an electric motor of the blower. The strain reliever includes an opening disposed near a rearward portion of the housing of the blower. A loop of an electrical cord is inserted through the opening to engage a cleat. A receptacle is located upwardly from the ring to receive a corresponding plug of the electrical cord. Forces that would otherwise disconnect the plug from the receptacle are absorbed by the ring and the cleat, thereby substantially preventing inadvertent disengagement of the electrical cord from the receptacle.
According to an embodiment of another aspect of the present invention, the cover is constructed to provide an object clearance zone to prevent damage to the cover when the blower-vacuum is seated on the ground or other supporting surface. For example, the cover includes an inverted face directed upwardly towards the inlet of the blower to form the object clearance zone. Thus, debris located on the ground is less likely to damage the cover when setting the blower upon the ground.
Other aspects and features of the invention will become apparent to those ordinarily skilled in the art upon review of the following description of specific embodiments of the invention in conjunction with the accompanying figures. |
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My State May Have just Passed A Very Restrictive Addition
As most of you know North Carolina is hours away from passing an amendment additive that may constrict Gay marriage. I am fully against the bill in every way, and I don't think it's the states or Federal jurisdiction to pass such an act.
To every gay couple out there I am sincerely sorry for any objection that may be made law by these silly elections.
What does this tell you? The majority of voters are AGAINST gay marriage. Respect their decision.
how about respect the rights gays should have?
Originally Posted by VigorousZX
In their unquenchable thirst for world domination, the aristocrats tax peoples time so as to keep its cattle viewed populations forever in servitude. They have gone as far as brainwashing and banning the western world that marrying your first cousin is forbidden and results in retardation... and thus have disturbed human evolutionary densities because broken families are easier to control and will better fall into debt slavery.
What does this tell you? The majority of voters are AGAINST gay marriage. Respect their decision.
No. It says that it was nearly a case of voter fraud. They put it on the primary ballot, specifically because most voters at the polls that day would be Republicans. If it had been on the fall ballot, it would not have passed.
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
- Doctor Who (Fourth Doctor) "Face of Evil"
If you can give me exact date and time that you made the conscious decision to be attracted to people of the opposite sex, rather than those of the same, then I'll consider that homosexuality is a choice.
Otherwise, face the fact that you were born, grew up, and found yourself attracted to people of the opposite sex, period. It's the exact same way for us. I never made this choice. I grew up being attracted to members of the same sex just as naturally as you did for the opposite. No difference.
If you can give me exact date and time that you made the conscious decision to be attracted to people of the opposite sex, rather than those of the same, then I'll consider that homosexuality is a choice.
Otherwise, face the fact that you were born, grew up, and found yourself attracted to people of the opposite sex, period. It's the exact same way for us. I never made this choice. I grew up being attracted to members of the same sex just as naturally as you did for the opposite. No difference.
This. It boggles my mind how heterosexual's debate this when they have not lived it! Stop telling me how I chose it when you have no idea. I did not chose my hair color, skin color nor my eye color. I can do my best to hide it but at the end of the day I was born this way. And to piss some more people off, GOD made me this way. Him and I are good, it's the zealots who have the problem. Stop focusing on others and worry about you.
If you can give me exact date and time that you made the conscious decision to be attracted to people of the opposite sex, rather than those of the same, then I'll consider that homosexuality is a choice.
Otherwise, face the fact that you were born, grew up, and found yourself attracted to people of the opposite sex, period. It's the exact same way for us. I never made this choice. I grew up being attracted to members of the same sex just as naturally as you did for the opposite. No difference.
The fact is that I don't know the answer, but neither do other psychologists or scientists. I have zero issues with homosexuals being able to do what you all wish to do, nor do I think it is abhorrent behavior or anything of the sort. To me, whether it is developmental or biological makes no difference, but I do get ill when folks try to state theory and/or conjecture as fact.
But as for the law, I am fine with it. It does not infringe on one's individual rights. |
Sparkly Santa Gift Set
Green, red and gold are the traditional colours of Christmas, so we thought we'd create a cute glitter set to match your Christmas jumpers, festive frocks and all the tinsel in your house! This set is made up of Gabriel, Holly and Elf Christmas mixes.
Includes:
Three 6g pots of chunky glitter
Organza gift bag
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Our chunky mixes are the perfect addition to any look, be it daytime or evening. The new Winter collection reflects the fun and sparkle of the festive season and the beauty of snow and ice! Glitters can be purchased separately or in a trio - complete with an organza gift bag.
All packing is reusable & recyclable - buy refill bags to top up your big pots! |
Chief Executive Professor University of Warsaw, Poland National Center for High Performance Computing National Supercomputing Centre Singapore Tokyo Institute of Technology National Applied Research Laboratories |
The general objective is to understand the detailed processes involved in cellular repair of DNA and their effects on the radiation response of cells. This includes the photoenzymatic repair of ultraviolet damage (the simplest mechanism and the most amenable to analysis), and its interaction with the other types of cellular repairs. The methodology utilizes the light-dependence of photoenzymatic repair to unravel individual steps in the enzyme reaction. The project deals with cloning the gene for photoreactivating enzyme of E. Coli and amplification of the gene products, with photo repair and with dark-repair-deficient (UV-sensitive) mutants in mammalian cells. |
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Custom brompton s-type bags
Any suggestions? I'd quite like to get a customised bag to fit my s, but can't fins any. I've tried the Ortlieb and Caradice bags but they don't fit. Allegedly Demano make a s bag, but I can't find one.
Alternatively recommend me a bag maker who'll run one up for me please. |
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Summary: Something I should say about Zeah, she's deathly afraid of storms and, yeah, it stormed today. It's also not the first time she's gotten "lost". As usual, somebody saw her wandering around. She's beautiful, so she always gets spoiled by strangers. The end of the story is that one of my neighbors harbored her. It was somebody upstairs, John & I heard a man open a door and tell Zeah to go outside. She came prancing down the steps as if nothing happened. Apparently he didn't want a confrontation because all the doors upstairs were closed when I went to investigate. So, to the shy neighbor above me: Thanks for saving me hours of walking around, posting signs, and calling animal shelters. :)…To answer the question asked in this post's title, Zeah's middle name is "Houdina". |
What role might cardioneuroablation strategy have in syncope guidelines?
Vasovagal syncope (VVS) is the most common type of syncope. Although it is not related to an increase in mortality, recurrent syncope episodes may be disabling and reduce the quality of life. There are no optimal treatment strategies currently available, especially for the cardioinhibitory type of VVS. Cardioneuroablation (CNA) is a relatively novel technique that aims to eliminate vagal efferent output during VVS. The objective of this review was to explore the potential role of CNA strategy in syncope guidelines. |
Prosthetic mesh used for inguinal and ventral hernia repair: normal appearance and complications in ultrasound and CT.
The use of prosthetic mesh has now become accepted practice in the treatment of patients with both inguinal and ventral hernias. This pictorial review illustrates the various radiological appearances of these meshes and also demonstrates the post-operative complications associated with their implantation. |
Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you. |
Strategic reserves.
New methodologies--particularly the combination of flow cytometry and the use of monoclonal antibodies--as adjuncts to existing techniques for the analysis of the various subpopulations of haemopoietic cells are becoming available. These enable a significant advance in understanding and monitoring haemopoietic mechanisms, both in normal and in abnormal states. With this help, a functional measurement of the proliferation and differentiating capacity of haemopoietic tissues is becoming possible. |
Why do things so often get grouped up into seven in this world? Have you ever noticed that? Not to say that the number actually occurs more than other numbers, but in the sense of the way we tend to see, group, and categorize things. When we think about our common use and grouping of things, seven seems to have a significance, dare I say, even something sacred about it. It happens with really big things too, like the seven continents of the world, the seven seas, seven openings or cavities in the human face, seven colors in the rainbow or visible spectrum of light that we can see, and almost all mammals have seven cervical vertebrae. These are things we cannot seem to change very much, but what is equally interesting is that there are also many things that we as human beings have intentionally perceived or classified as being seven in type or quality, when we could probably have divided them into other numbers if we wanted to.
Let me give some examples:
There are seven notes on the musical diatonic scale, but other ways of dividing the notes up have also been created. But this is a very popular one, probably the most popular.
We have this idea in folklore of many different cultures (including American/European and Indian) of seven years of bad luck coming to someone for various reasons.
There are said to be seven deadly sins.
There are seven wonders of the ancient world.
There are said to be seven heavens in Islam and many, many other philosophies as well as occult systems of knowledge.
Seven horizontal rows are in the periodic table.
According to the Baltimore classification, there are seven types of viruses.
Seven is the neutral ph value between acidity and alkalinity.
The Bible is overflowing with a sacramental implication of the number seven, the most commonly known being the beginning part wherein the Earth was created in seven days (it also clearly mentions the creation of the “heavenly bodies” for “Signs and seasons”, aka Astrology, by the way).
There are seven temples in the Book of Revelations (Which Edgar Cayce also revealed to each relate to a certain chakra and the sins most associated with that chakra/state of consciousness.)
Seven is the sum of any two opposite sides of dice.
In India there is the Sapta Rishis, or the Seven Sages.
There are also the Seven Sages of Greece.
There are seven main chakras in Yogic philosophy, also seven according to psychic Edgar Cayce.
We have seven days of the week, which is so ancient that we actually do not know where this originated. The Norse had a seven day week which is where our English names of Friday (Freya/Venus day) and Thursday (Thors/Jupiters day), and Wednesday (Odin/Mercury day). The ancient Indians also had a seven day week, which makes one wonder if any other cultures of antiquity also had this tradition.
There are probably many more classifications of seven in number that I am not recalling, but I feel this has made a strong enough case as these are big parts of our human life. Also you will notice that fiction writers love to use the number seven in their fiction works, simply google the number seven and you will see one after another fantasy book that has something to do with “Seven gemstones of power” or what have you. A modern example of this can be seen in the hugely popular Game of Thrones HBO series, which is based on fiction books. It takes place in a medieval Europe (Kali Yuga-style) fantasy realm and their is of course an emphasis put on the “Seven Kingdoms of Westeros”, which is where the majority of the story takes place. There are also many different faiths throughout the kingdoms but the most popular faith is the “Faith of the Seven”, interestingly enough. Obviously this is influenced from the actual medieval European times when the seven planets were worshipped as deities. It is also made very clear that “The Seven” is one deity, that manifests itself into seven aspects. This is identical with European and Indian style Astrology. { NOTE: Many people still think that Hinduism is polytheistic (believing in many Gods) but if they actually researched it they would learn quickly that it is monotheistic. Hindus acknowledge only one God, but with many different names, aspects, and forms. This is like how there is just one Sun that lights the world, but it can be seen to appear differently depending on where one is on the world, at sunrise, sunset, or midday. We don’t say that there is a different Sun at sunset, even though it may look different than the mid day Sun, with its bright red and orange shades. In the same way, Brahma is the same as Vishnu, and Vishnu is the same as Shiva. } Also even the seven different deities are pretty much the same in this fictional series as they actually are in Astrology, which may have been intentional or not on the part of the writer, but because these archetypes are so prominent in our consciousness, I would not be surprised if the Author of these stories just thought them up himself. (Read the descriptions of “The Seven” here and see for yourself)
Why is this the case? Why does the number seven keep coming up? Could it be that there is something within the human psychology and the way that we are designed that makes us see things in terms of seven? Well, the reason I am bringing all this up is because it is very peculiar in the light of the Jyotish philosophy of India. In Jyotish/Vedic Astrology philosophy, all things that exist on Earth are “produced” by the seven planets that we can see with the naked eye, and can, in a sense, see us. And so there are seven basic states of consciousness, that when mixed, produce all the varied forms and types of consciousness on Earth. Each of the visible planets relate to one of these states of consciousness, and each state is an aspect of the divine. Each planet is a “karaka”, which literally means a “producer” of various things in your life. Based on one’s past life karma, one will incarnate with these various producers in the proper harmony to produce or not produce the life that this soul needs to have for its own development and growth beyond just this one life.
So now we can see that this number seven coming up so much is really a reflection of the seven planets and how they mix and create life on Earth as it appears to be. It validates Astrology, that we have seven of most things, either uncontrollably, or by our own arbitrary intellectual divisions.
To see how this works, let us take the human body as an example:
The Sun produces the bones and the immune system, which are one system in the context of astrological truth, but not current medical books. This is because the immune system relies on the mineral supply stored within the bones to regulate the health of the body. So in a birth chart, a weak Sun in the rasi chart and the D30 (trimsamsa) chart can indicate that one does not have a lot of strength in the bones and may have low mineral density, or low mineral absorption, and should eat a mineral rich diet to balance this. A strong Sun person can eat a lot poorer quality food before there bones start to suffer, because they will tend to have better mineral reserves overall. Strong Sun/Leo people tend to eat a lot of meat and even though meat always leaves a toxic residue on the body, these people can handle that more efficiently than others, and they also have a stronger Agni to burn off these toxins as well.
The Moon produces the blood of the body, the ocean within the body. A weak or afflicted Moon means that one will need to be more mindful of foods that dirty the blood, because this will happen more easily for them if they eat poor foods. They may also have emotional issues as well as a result of having not the best blood quality. They may need to avoid table salt in favor of good quality sea salt, and add an extra amount of the healthy salty tastes like lettuce. A strong moon person will crave healthier foods for their blood naturally, and will have better blood flow and health overall as a result of having a strong “producer” of blood, a strong moon influence.
Mars produces the nervous system, and the nerve tissue within the body. A weak or afflicted Mars indicates that one has nerve problems. They may get nervous too easily, not what you want in a profession like surgery or war. A strong Mars person can hold the knife steady, and that is why a surgeon usually has a strong Mars “producer” in his chart, producing the healthy nerves needed to do such a job. This is also why someone who isn’t willing to stand up and fight is said to “not have the nerve”.
Mercury produces the cognitive/sense/integumentary system which is to say bluntly that Mercury produces our senses and cognitive ability. A bad mercury means one does not perceive and cognize things accurately. Now we can understand why Mercury is always involved in combinations for mental insanity in the old Indian Texts. A good mercury will be the opposite, and will contribute to rational thinking.
Jupiter produces the endocrine system, an incredibly important system for how one feels and for unfolding the spiritual capacities within us. An afflicted Jupiter means that one does not produce an ideal endocrine system health, and as a result may have hormonal imbalances or other chemical imbalances that interfere with their happiness and emotional health. A strong Jupiter indicates that one has produced a healthy endocrine system and feels good in their own body. It is also noteworthy to mention that in deep meditative states, the endocrine system secretes powerful hormones and antioxidants, that make you very happy, and Jupiter is also the karaka or “producer” of one’s happiness and contentment.
Venus produces the digestive system, and so a weak Venus means one does not absorb nutrients and digest well. This means the body loses its vitality more quickly because it requires more of its own vital energy (Virya, which Venus rules) to digest the food and assimilate it than it should. A strong Venus does the opposite, it helps one absorb and digest well, and leads to a healthy and well built body. This is also why Venus rules rejuvenation, as the health of the digestive system has a big say on whether one will rejuvenate easily or not.
Saturn produces the muscular system of the body. The part of the body that does all the labor, basically. Saturn also produces one’s laborers, servants, and lower level employees, which play the same role but in the context of a business. A weak Saturn shows weak muscles, and so one tends to feel lazier. A strong Saturn shows strong muscles and good lymph and so one will tend to not feel so lazy. A strong Saturn is also associated with accomplishing many deeds in life, and here we can see how that relates on a physical level, to the dignity and strength of the “producer” of the muscles, Saturn. Someone who feels lazy all the time is of course not going to accomplish as much as the opposite type of person.
In this way, the seven grahas mix and produce all things for us, and in accord with our karmas that we are meant to experience in this life. This same idea is the logic behind how we see the good or bad karmas connected to each area of life for a person, and is a fundamental concept for practicing Astrology, both western and eastern. Now we can reflect and see, that it is no surprise that in this world of seven colors, seven seas, and seven continents, that we also have seven visible lights in the sky, guiding us along the path of our Soul in this incarnation. |
lol..the wife is dead wrong for even letting that man leave the house w/ those burnt cookies..lol
a good wife would have been like... my bad... i can make more-- or you can just buy some.but seeing him pack up those cookies you failed at...lol...and not saying Stop. makes you just as ratchet as those cookies.
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This project will support the viability of telemedicine treatment for MAT, allowing Workit Health and other telehealth MAT services to expand their outreach. With increased use of telehealth, more individuals with opioid use disorder will be able to access the most effective known treatment. |
Q:
Mocha: get stacktrace when running mocha programmatically
I am running tests using mocha programmatically and able to run the tests, get full title using following code but I couldn't find any way to get complete stack trace that is being printed on the commandline. How do I get the complete stack trace using mocha as library.
mocha.run(function(failures){
if (failures) {
console.log('it failed');
} else {
console.log('it passed');
}
process.on('exit', function () {
process.exit(failures);
});
}).on('fail', function(test){
title = test.fullTitle();
}).on('pass', function(test){
title = test.fullTitle();
});
A:
I am able to get stacktrace with
var stackTrace = test.err.stack;
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Issues in pay for performance: the case of diabetes self-management.
Pay for performance is a concept recently on the agenda of many health care providers, administrators, insurers, and payors in their search for methods to provide the best care at the most efficient price. At the same time it promises to promote quality care by paying financial incentives to providers who perform well clinically. As the fields continue to debate this approach, the following article explores how the pay-for-performance concept may be applied to one of the most prevalent chronic illnesses: diabetes. It identifies some of the issues and problems that may be faced with diseases such as diabetes, in which outcomes rely greatly on the role of the patient in self-management. Such considerations must be taken into account in the event of the refinement and implementation of pay for performance. |
Investigate large animal model using anthrax shock model that permits invasive cardiopulmonary monitoring has hampered the study mechanism and treatment of anthrax associated shock. |
Social science and the public agenda: reflections on the relation of knowledge to policy in the United States and abroad.
It is tempting to oversell the practical value of applied research. A hard look at the effects of U.S. social science on public policy in areas such as active labor market policies (training, job creation, placement, etc.), crime prevention, fiscal policy, poverty reduction, and health care reform suggests an inverse relationship between social science consensus and policy and budgetary decisions. Fragmented and decentralized political economies (e.g., the United States) foster policy segmentation and isolated, short-run single-issue research--often politicized and misleading. More corporatist democracies (such as Sweden, Norway, Austria, and Germany) evidence a tighter relation between knowledge and power in which a wider range of issues is connected, longer-range effects are sometimes considered, and research is more often actually used for planning and implementation. Even in less hospitable societies, however, social science does make its way in the long run. Favorable conditions and examples are discussed. |
Modeling and programming all in one:reliable, simple and dynamicUML Lab offers software developers a complete and reliable adjustment of source code and diagrams. For the first time, software architects and developers can make use of the benefits of both worlds: fully flexible modeling and programming. The problem of changing from design to implementation – and back again – is solved by UML Lab smoothly and reliably. Our innovative Round-Trip-EngineeringNG reduces development time of implementation and maintenance and supports the documentation and quality assurance of complex software projects.
Comprehensive code generation templates offer cost-efficient expertise in the form of pattern and best practices. Complete reverse engineering enables an abstract overview and supports documentation of software projects with UML. Through Round-Trip-EngineeringNG software developers gain the greatest possible flexibility and speed in implementation and maintenance of software. Customization of templates implements business or project-specific guidelines in a target-oriented way and minimizes project risks. Labor-intensive manual adjustment of design diagrams and implementation is rendered unnecessary; design and implementation of software remain consistent at all times.
Customers’ benefit?Time, money and reliabilityThrough the innovative combination of modeling and programming UML Lab utilizes the full potential of model-based software development. Software development projects become simpler, faster and more cost-efficient. Project managers gain a higher value. The overview and flexible automation that are provided, save valuable development time, avoid error sources and support documentation for maintenance and care of software. |
Histamine (H2) receptor-adenylate cyclase system in pig skin (epidermis).
Histamine activated adenylate cyclase in pig skin (epidermal) slices, resulting in the accumulation of cyclic AMP. This effect was highly potentiated by the addition of cyclic AMP-phosphodiesterase inhibitors (theophylline, papaverine). A specific H2 receptor inhibitor (metiamide) inhibited the effect of histamine completely, while other antihistamines (diphenhydramine, acetophenazine, perphenazine, fluphenazine, promethazine) inhibited the effect of histamine to various lesser degrees. It has been shown that both epinephrine and prostaglandin E stimulate epidermal adenylate cyclase. Our data using specific blocking agents indicate that histamine, epinephrine and prostaglandin E2 act independently on the epidermal adenylate cyclase system. |
The idea of a government-provided income for all citizens is gaining currency. While today universal guaranteed income is mostly pressed by the left, Milton Friedman once argued for it as well. But the proposal is blind to the predictable costs of an unprecedented social engineering experiment that would separate citizens from one of the most important sources of human flourishing.
Work Isn't Just About Work
Freeing people from the necessity to work may sound like the last word in progressive altruism or in the efficient rationalization of social welfare, but it would undermine a pillar of our personal and social order. Work has benefits beyond earning income. It provides the satisfaction of achievement, the discipline of focusing on the desires of others, and the social bonds that our fellow workers provide.
The breadth of the human need for employment can be measured in the great unhappiness unemployment causes even in most generous European welfare states.
The left today often dismisses the virtues of work. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich is typical in saying that most jobs today do not provide “fulfillment or creativity.” But this claim just shows his impoverished imagination and empathy.
One does not need to write an article to exercise creativity. Any job with any discretion allows people the opportunity to think about how to serve strangers better. And even jobs without much discretion can give a sense of fulfillment by being done well. The breadth of the human need for employment can be measured in the great unhappiness unemployment causes even in most generous European welfare states.
Moreover, work promotes the self-discipline required by a society that is not disciplined by pervasive authority. Bourgeois virtues, like responsibility, accountability, and self-control that have long been acknowledged to spring from work help build the social norms that substitute for coercion. And habits of punctuality, thrift, and fair exchange do not stop at the workplace door but spill into personal life. There is more than a touch of Rousseauean romanticism in the de-valorization of work, as if paid labor forges chains that keep us from realizing our perfect natural state rather than provides guide ropes for better behavior.
People Need Other People
Our social welfare system should reinforce the norm that a good life is a productive one.
For many people, work also provides a crucial social network: colleagues on the job are sounding boards, role models, and advisers in times of need. At a time when loneliness has been called a social crisis, it is the height of folly to undertake a program that will make it easier for people to drop out into lives of social isolation.
One response might be that if work is so good, people will do it even if the incentives are reduced. Some surely will, but it is better to rely on work to provide the discipline to refine judgment rather than rely on unrefined judgment to appreciate the value of work. Young people in particular have been known to fritter away their lives until the need to earn a paycheck shocks them into responsibility. And of course, the huge cost of the program will drive up taxes, getting on the employment ladder less attractive.
Samuel Johnson declared that a decent provision for the poor is a hallmark of civilization but so is centrality of work. We would be much better off using any additional government subsidies for programs, like the earned income tax credit, that encourage work rather than create a new program that discourages it. Our social welfare system should reinforce the norm that a good life is a productive one.
Reprinted from Law and Liberty |
Aviary has slick HTML5 image editor. Add to your webapp now. Source code soon. - marcusEting
http://www.aviary.com/html5
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twidlit
We love their image editor widget but need something faster (it understandably
lags when sending images to their server). Aviary has promised to offer the
source code 'soon' but the problem is they said that last December.
Here is to hoping 'soon' has whittled down to a few weeks now. :)
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lem72
This is great. My company deals with custom made clothing and sometimes we
have to remake customers clothes. This will be awesome to have them upload a
photo and then point out exactly what is wrong with the items right on our
webpage.
Very cool!
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namslam
Hey lem,
I'm nam and I work @ aviary. Can you send an email to nam(at)aviary.com about
what you're interested in integrating? We have some new exciting features that
you might like (IE compliant + custom skins)
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nikcub
So this is a thin client that interfaces with processes that run on the
server? meaning the state of the image and what has been done with it has to
be kept in sync between the client and the server - this isn't pure client
'html5' using canvas et al
What language/env is the server-side portion of this?
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Mizza
This is close to what I've been looking for a long time, but still off the
mark. The closest thing I've find to a dead-simple embeddable drawing program
was an HTML5 MS Paint implementation..
does anybody have any recommendations for a good paint HTML5 widget with
load/save?
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marcusEting
can you describe more about why it is off the mark? you might also try asking
which would be a good program on one of the stack exchanges - possibly stack
overflow.
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Mizza
It's is largely photo based (sharpen, etc) - I'm looking for something more
drawing based - different brushes, a line and shape tool, etc.
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ideafreak
Would love to see examples of implementations when any of you guys make them
public.
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marcusEting
this is already being used on production sites like shopify (the admin
interface)
~~~
ideafreak
thx
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philipn
Probably worth noting that this editor calls their service for the image
transforms.
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patrickaljord
From trying the app, image transforms seem to happen locally.
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Skalman
Yeah, no network requests are made after the initial JavaScript and images
have loaded.
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raahh333
it's ok. i'm excited that they are going to open the source up.
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Q:
Check how many same items a list contains
I have a list that contains names of Unity gameobjects.
I would like to have a method that I can call with the one of the names in the list, and it to return how many of that name is in the list.
How could I make this?
A:
With Linq its ultra easy:
suppose you have a List of string named list and search for Name, so you could write:
using System.Linq;
:
private int Count(List<string> list, string NameSearch)
{
return list.Count(n => n == NameSearch);
}
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Q:
Are there any mathematics "problem websites" similar to Project Euler?
Are there any mathematics websites similar to Projet Euler, a website which hosts math-heavy programming questions, many of which can be solved with a pen and paper?
I've become almost addicted to Project Euler's progress tracking system, and I also absolutely love their solutions forums. I love reading about other solutions—about how much quicker they are, how much more intuitive or elegant they are.
All Project Euler problems directly involve math. Are there any mathematics websites which track progress, and have solution forums, that are similar to Project Euler?
I liked Khan Academy, but I've completed its most advanced classes in school already, so it isn't much fun anymore.
A:
The site Brilliant.org has many questions and various gamified ways of tracking progress. They've changed their system and format a few times, but it is always a source of math-heavy problems.
One of its founders is a frequent contributor and answerer on Math.SE as well.
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The invention relates to a method for testing elongated objects, optionally having a non-circular cross-section by means of at least one test coil through which passes a test object and having a predetermined coil plane passage cross-section, in particular an eddy current coil, as well as to a testing apparatus for performing the said method with at least one test coil having a predetermined coil plane passage cross-section and optionally a reception member for receiving the test coil. The invention more particularly relates to the problem of non-destructively and substantially uninterruptedly testing for surface defects metallic semifinished products having a non-circular cross-section. |
Antisera to human RNases were produced. These antisera were used to immunologically characterize human RNases. They were also used to study the effects of poly(A) on the antigenicity of human RNases. |
<?php
namespace BasicCasesHolder {
interface ParentInterface {}
interface ChildInterface extends ParentInterface {}
abstract class AbstractOne implements ParentInterface {}
abstract class AbstractTwo implements ParentInterface, ChildInterface {}
class ClassOne extends AbstractOne
implements
<warning descr="[EA] '\BasicCasesHolder\ParentInterface' is already announced in '\BasicCasesHolder\AbstractOne'.">ParentInterface</warning> {}
class ClassTwo extends AbstractTwo
implements
<warning descr="[EA] '\BasicCasesHolder\ParentInterface' is already announced in '\BasicCasesHolder\AbstractTwo'.">ParentInterface</warning>,
<warning descr="[EA] '\BasicCasesHolder\ChildInterface' is already announced in '\BasicCasesHolder\AbstractTwo'.">ChildInterface</warning> {}
}
namespace AliasingCasesHolder {
use \Traversable as ForeachSupport;
abstract class AbstractClass implements \Traversable {}
class RegularClass extends AbstractClass
implements
<warning descr="[EA] '\Traversable' is already announced in '\AliasingCasesHolder\AbstractClass'.">ForeachSupport</warning> {}
} |
{% extends "account/base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% load static project_tags %}
{% block title %}{% trans "Account Unavailble" %}{% endblock %}
{% block header %}{% trans "Account Unavailble" %}{% endblock %}
{% block inner %}
<p>{% trans 'Please contact ' %} {% admin_email %}</p>
<form method="post" action="{% url 'account_logout' %}">
{% csrf_token %}
{% if redirect_field_value %}
<input type="hidden" name="{{ redirect_field_name }}" value="{{ redirect_field_value }}"/>
{% endif %}
<button class="btn-u btn-sm" type="submit">{% trans 'Try Another Account' %}</button>
<button class="btn-u btn-sm btn-l cancel" type="submit" name="action">{% trans "Cancel" %}</button>
</form>
{% endblock %}
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Hasselbeck; more Branch
If Matt Hasselbeck’s sprained right wrist is bothering him, it’s difficult to tell.
The Seahawks quarterback injured the wrist on his passing arm last week in the regular-season finale at Atlanta. Hasselbeck started the week by wearing a glove on his right hand in practice. Today, he has a small strip of tape on the wrist, and is throwing the ball with velocity and accuracy in warm-ups.
The key, of course, will be what happens if he is sacked or hit and has to use the wrist to brace himself as a falls.
Branching out
Deion Branch, the Seahawks’ starting flanker, won’t play today. He was among the players named inactive.
But he’s already had “a moment” with the Redskins. As the Washington defensive backs were gathering prior to their warm-ups, Branch stuck his head in the huddle and starting woofin’. An official had to step in and separate the Redskins DBs and Branch.
Ah, playoff football. Even the inactive players are getting busy during warm-ups. |
does not even come close to showing what the Germans did in that war, I am pretty sure Spielberg knew no one wanted to see the "real" side of that war so he made it about a sympathetic character so people can walk away in a somewhat good mood |
Comprehensive analysis of patched domain-containing genes reveals a unique evolutionary pattern.
Patched domain-containing genes are members of a small family originally identified in Drosophila. A common feature of transmembrane patched domain-containing proteins is their function in the transport of sterols, sterol-modified proteins, and lipids. Recently, an expansion phenomenon of patched domain-containing genes was found in Caenorhabditis elegans; the major contributor to this higher number was patched-related (PTR) type genes. However, little is known about their expansion pattern and evolutionary origin. We performed a systematic genome-wide survey of patched domain-containing genes in species ranging from protozoa to vertebrates, as well as some plants. We found that patched domain-containing genes are conserved in plant and animal genomes and their expansion likely occurred in the early stages of nematode speciation. Based on analysis of phylogenetic and reconciled trees and calculation of synonymous substitutions, we discovered that the PTR genes appear to have experienced two expansions within a relatively short period after the speciation of nematodes. We also found that some patched domain-containing genes possessing a relatively recent evolutionary origin, such as PTR and PTCHD1, had fewer exons and shorter nucleotide coding sequence lengths compared with the older ones. It appears that the different types of patched domain-containing genes have different evolutionary patterns in different species. |
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Trump seeks 'Arab NATO' to tackle Iran
Posted
The Trump administration is quietly working to forge a new security and political alliance with Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, in part to counter Iran's expansion in the region, according to U.S. officials. |
Rattlesnake Key (Tampa Bay)
Rattlesnake Key is a key (island) in a part of Tampa Bay in Manatee County, Florida.
See also
Terra Ceia Bay
References
External links
YouTube video of kayaking around Rattlesnake Key
YouTube video with underwater and above water views off Rattlesnake Key
Category:Islands of Manatee County, Florida
Category:Islands of Tampa Bay
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Craving your next fast-paced action MMO fix? Netease is currently prepping Twilight Spirits for open beta, which is scheduled to arrive on June 29th.
Twilight Spirits is being developed over in China, but the interesting twist is that it is being made specifically for western sensibilities. In other words, it should feel more at home for western players trying it than eastern gamers. The MMO prides itself on its cinematic style and bullet-time mechanic during fights.
Check out the trailer and some gameplay footage after the break! |
Weight Watchers® Frozen Treats
No matter where you are in your journey, what counts are the little choices you make every day. That’s why Weight Watchers is proud to offer a delectable line of frozen treats that allow you to eat what you love and still help you meet your weight loss goals. From creamy and crunchy to fruity and frozen, Weight Watchers frozen treats satisfy with decadent taste and low POINTS® values. The best part? They’re from Weight Watchers! So you know you’re making a smart choice no matter which tasty treat you choose.
Look for Weight Watchers frozen treats in your grocer’s freezer case.
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Recipes with Weight Watchers
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If you haven’t tasted Weight Watchers® Smart Ones® lately, get ready for a real surprise.
We’re bringing you new flavors and gourmet ingredients as well as improving old favorites. All with POINTS® values that mean great-tasting food can be surprisingly smart, too. |
Alien: Isolation “Creating the Alien” dev diary comes to life
With Alien: Isolation, Sega, Creative Assembly and Twentieth Century Fox are taking a crack at releasing a new game based on the Alien franchise, and from we have seen thus far, it’s looking quite excellent.
Today we get a little behind-the-scenes action in the form of a new developer diary with the team responsible for creating the Alien in the game. |
We have developed a selection system for producing modifications of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase that affect turnover number, binding constants and subunit cooperativity. Allyl alcohol selection on petite cells results in a high proportion of structural gene mutations at the ADH-I locus affecting these properties. The source of the resistance to allyl alcohol is an enzyme-mediated change in the redox balance of the cell. Two of the amino acid substitutions responsible for this resistance have been identified. One of the exchanges is to an amino acid which is found at the corresponding position in the mammalian enzyme. Many mutants of this enzyme have been isolated, and other classes of conditional and unconditional mutants can be produced. Identification of the altered residues will be carried out in collaboration with Dr. Hans Jornvall. Pure isozyme I is being produced using genetically defined strains, and will be used in a large-scale attempt at crystallization and determination of the tertiary structure by Prof. C.-I. Branden. Other modes of selection, particularly through the use of inhibitors such as pyrazole, will be used to investigate the function of these molecules. Since the redox balance and the NADH binding are governing factors in mammalian cells in determining the rapidity with which the corresponding mammaian enzyme functions as a detoxifying agent in alcohol poisoning, our ability to change these factors in this model system is likely to lead to findings of clinical significance. A greater understanding of the mechanisms of enzyme inhibition and substrate specificity will enable more efficient and specific inhibitors of the reaction to be designed. |
Q:
How to deminify javascript
Possible Duplicate:
Online Tool to Unminify / Decompress JavaScript
Tool to reverse Javascript minify?
Is there a way to convert minified JavaScript code into normal?
A:
http://jsbeautifier.org/ works like a charm.
Most software distributed under the GPL license will also provide non-minified code.
A:
I use WebStorm by JetBrains for my Javascript IDE, it has auto-format which seems to do the trick pretty well.
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D8 Video: Steve Jobs on Google, Android and the iPhone
Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) used to work together. Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat on Apple’s board. Now they’re locked in a fierce battle. What happened? “They decided to compete with us and got more and more serious,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
More Coverage on the Steve Jobs D8 Speaker Page » |
Lohse Signing May Complete Cards’ Rotation
Today we have more on the Kyle Lohse signing from Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. After several weeks of negotiation, Lohse agreed to a backloaded four-year, $41MM deal with full no-trade protection (Rob Neyer calls this a "dreadful use of resources.") Scott Boras is certain Lohse could’ve gotten more money and years on the open market, but this doesn’t seem like much of a discount. It was Lohse who told Boras to initiate extension talks.
Strauss finds it unlikely the Cards will ink another starter to a long-term deal now, instead going after a swingman type. Chris Carpenter is expected to choose rehab over surgery; if that doesn’t work out the team’s plans could change. Strauss says the Cardinals have not talked to Braden Looper about a new contract. He seems likely to sign elsewhere.
Right now the Cardinals are situated with a rotation of Carpenter, Adam Wainwright, Lohse, Todd Wellemeyer, and Joel Pineiro. |
Q:
Can someone please explain me the code for the hashmap get(key) method?
Inside the get(Object key) method of Java , there is a piece of code which I am not able to understand.
I know how the get(key) method works even in case when hashcode is same for two object.
But the below piece of code I am unable to understand.
for (Entry<K,V> e = table[indexFor(hash, table.length)];
e != null;
e = e.next) {
Object k;
if (e.hash == hash && ((k = e.key) == key || key.equals(k)))
return e.value;
}
Can someone explain.
Thanks
A:
HashMap works with Hash bucket algorithm. And Hash buckets are arranged as array which the HashMap class calls as table. So the for loop starts with the first element of the hash bucket which holds the key
Entry<K,V> e = table[indexFor(hash, table.length)
here the hash represents the hash index of that bucket
for loop will run till there are elements in the bucket (e != null)
for loop will iterate like e = e.next , that is, moving to next element in the bucket until match is found
Now, once the hash bucket is found, the method should return the exact Entry whose key matches the passed key. Now this matching is done by either references matching ( == ) or equals matching (k = e.key) == key || key.equals(k)
if the matching happens then the key is returned else the method will return null
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Food processors, oftentimes referred to as blenders, are use to chop, blend or mix a wide variety of foods and beverages, including hot and cold liquids and solids such as ice, fruits, vegetables and the like. In a typical blender, a vessel is provided that removable locates on a base comprising an electric motor. A blade assembly having a plurality of blades is located near the bottom of the vessel and is driven by the motor via a coupling means when the vessel is located on the base.
In order to properly chop, blend or mix foods and beverages they must properly circulate around the vessel and through the blade assemble during operation of the processor. Liquids for example are drawn down the centre of the vessel through the blades and expelled upwardly along the sides of the vessel. However, solids or liquids of a thick consistency or large volume are sometimes unable to circulate properly around the vessel. These solids and thick liquids form a arch around the blades rather than moving through the blades. |
Q:
Delete a row from sqlite database inside a recyclerview
I have a notepad app that stores the notes in sqlite database and displays them in recyclerview. I have a drawable in my recycler view and I want to delete database row by clicking on it. with the code I wrote, when I click on the image the recycleview item disappears but when I open the app again the note is still there. I dont know how to delete it. here's my code :
public class ModelRs {
private String title;
private String content;
int id ;
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public int getId() {
return id;
}
here's my Databasehelper class and the insert and delete methods
public void insert(ModelRs modelRs) {
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put(c_title, modelRs.getTitle());
values.put(c_content, modelRs.getContent());
values.put(c_id,modelRs.getId());
try {
this.getWritableDatabase().insert(t_name, null, values);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public List<ModelRs> list() {
List<ModelRs> list = new ArrayList<>();
Cursor c = this.getWritableDatabase().query(t_name, new String[]{c_id, c_title, c_content}, null, null, null, null, null);
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
do {
ModelRs modelRs = new ModelRs();
modelRs.setTitle(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(c_title)));
modelRs.setContent(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(c_content)));
list.add(modelRs);
} while (c.moveToNext());
}
return list;
}
public void delete(int id) {
SQLiteDatabase sqLiteDatabase = getWritableDatabase();
sqLiteDatabase.delete(t_name, c_id + "=" + id, null) ;
}
}
here's my recyclerview adapter. the image on click listener method is in the view holder class
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(AdapterRs.ViewHolderMain holder, final int position) {
final ModelRs model = modelRs.get(position);
holder.TextView_title.setText(model.getTitle());
holder.TextView_content.setText(model.getContent());
}
class ViewHolderMain extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder{
private TextView TextView_title;
private TextView TextView_content;
private ImageView ImageDelete ;
int id;
public ViewHolderMain(View itemView) {
super(itemView);
TextView_title=itemView.findViewById(R.id.TextView_title);
TextView_content=itemView.findViewById(R.id.TextView_content);
ImageDelete = itemView.findViewById(R.id.deleteicon) ;
itemView.setClickable(true);
ImageDelete.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
id = getAdapterPosition() ;
mydatabase = new DataBaseHelper(context) ;
mydatabase.delete(id);
modelRs.remove(id) ;
notifyItemRemoved(id);
notifyDataSetChanged();
}
});
}
}
I'm new to SQLite database. Please help me if you can
A:
You have to write onClick event on viewholder class. In your case "ViewHolderMain". you have to put
itemView.setClickable(true);
on ViewHolderMain constructor. then you can simply write the on click event.
ImageDelete.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//Your delete method
}
});
After deleting item from sqlite u must add
notifyDataSetChanged();
to delete the item from view as well ..
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Nintendo DS hacking
This is done with an R4 chip:
buy one: http://www.ts-shops.eu/nintendo-dsi-xl/flash-cards
There’s a difference between the r4 and r4i
You then put a kernel on the chip:
http://www.r4i-sdhc.com/downloade.asp
Instructions for formatting your r4 card
http://www.r4dscards.com/R4i-DS-Card/
Download games to put on:
http://www.dgemu.com/ |
Before entering Apache Incubator, Sqoop was hosted and managed as an open-source project by Cloudera. Since incubation, the code and other project artifacts have transitioned over to Apache infrastructure.
Mailing Lists
The Cloudera Mailing lists used for Sqoop project are deprecated in favor of Apache Mailing Lists.
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To subscribe send mail to
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sqoop-user@incubator.apache.org
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Jira Migration
Cloudera hosted Jira for Sqoop will continue to operate in limited read-write mode going forward. This allows existing issues to be edited but attaching files to issues or creation of new issues is not allowed. |
Before Clark Gregg was the mighty S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, he cultivated his snappy banter as Special Agent Casper on The West Wing. And even though Gregg only appeared in eight episodes of Aaron Sorkin's series, Agent Casper is remembered for his ability to quip with the best of the White House staff. The resemblance between Coulson and Casper is striking, so we cobbled together the very best of early Coulson, before he was hanging with Marvel's heroes. (Fan fiction writers, start your engines.)
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A superior metric compared to FFO when evaluating a REIT’s performance. AFFO is used in order to account for any additional expenses the landlord is expected to incur over the life of the asset (such as TIs, CAPEX, leasing commissions etc.). The measure is calculated as follows: |
Intellectual property rights protection has long been a sore point in Sino-U.S. relations. Photo: VCG
* China will begin by implementing items where consensus has been reached between Beijing and Washington, official says
* Thirty-eight state agencies have announced that they will soon begin a coordinated campaign against IPR infringement
China has started a campaign to crack down on infringements of intellectual property rights (IPR) as the government promised to act quickly on agreements reached between President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump over the weekend that brought a truce to their trade war. |
A sheet processing system may be provided with a post-processing apparatus which carries out a post processing on a sheet on which an image is formed. The post-processing apparatus carries out, for example, a processing for punching a hole on a sheet, or a processing for binding sheets with a stapler. In the post processing apparatus, there is a device, like the stapler, which carries out a processing on a plurality of sheets. In order to carry out such a post processing on the plurality of sheets, a standby tray temporarily keeps the plurality of the sheets at a standby position.
A size (for example, A size, B size and the like) of the waiting sheet is provided to the standby tray. The standby tray adjusts positions of supports for supporting the sheet from sides based on the size provided.
In this manner, the standby tray adjusts the positions of the supports according to the size. However, when the sheet is conveyed the standby tray, a skew may be generated. Further, there are times when an incorrect size is detected, and the incorrect size is provided to the standby tray.
In a case in which the skew is generated or the size is incorrectly detected, a paper jam may occur. |
Arterial gas embolism during pressure tolerance testing in a hyperbaric chamber: a report of two cases.
This is a report of two cases of arterial gas embolism (AGE) occurring during the course of routine pressure tolerance testing (PTT) of Canadian Forces divers in a dry hyperbaric chamber. PTT is used by many military organizations as a means to determine whether divers can sustain a hyperbaric challenge similar to that to which they will be exposed during their diving duties. Problems arising from such testing are usually limited to issues of equalization and minor otic barotraumas. Incidents of AGE resulting from hyperbaric chamber exposures in general are very unusual. The incidents reported here are the first such cases arising in military divers during PTT to be reported in the extant literature. In one case a potential precipitating pulmonary lesion was identified during post-event chest imaging. In the other case, while presenting with all the usual hallmarks of an AGE, no predisposing pulmonary lesion was identified. Ascent rates were within the limits considered acceptable by the Canadian Forces for PTT. The cases are useful in examining the pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying pulmonary barotrauma and AGE, and raise questions as to the appropriate screening procedures for military divers in this regard. |
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Welcome to Yogalution! Yoga is a way of living. It's a practical way to develop your confidence and your physical and emotional strength. When life throws you curve balls and exciting chances, yoga helps you to go with the flow.
Yoga helps me to be the person I want to be: a calm, more measured version of myself. It can help you to be the person you wish to be too.
Go with the flow
Imagine a small, shallow, crystal blue stream. On the base of this stream there are large pebbles and small ones. The small ones are our every day problems and challenges. We, like the stream, flow easily over these. The larger pebbles are the bigger challenges we face. Sometimes we must change course to find a way to flow around these problems. But, just like the stream, we always do find a way and we keep on flowing. Yoga reminds us that we are more resilient than we think: we are all stronger than we realise.
New to yoga?
If you are new to yoga, then in the first three months you can expect to find your physical strength and flexibility begins to improve as will your posture. Within six months you will be better able to focus on breathing practices and to relax during ‘yoga sleepy time’. Within a year you will find you breathe better; think and focus more clearly; relax more fully and respond to the people around you more cheerfully. In stressful situations yoga techniques to calm body and mind will come to you naturally.
Yogalution
Welcome to Yogalution! Let’s face it…life has its challenges..and it has its opportunities. Yoga is a way of living. It is a practical tool that develops our confidence, courage and emotional and physical strength…so when life throws its curveballs and exciting life chances…we are able to just go with the flow. |
Pregnancy hypertension, or Pre-eclampsia, is a complex disorder of pregnancy. Treatment of elevated blood pressure can manage the condition in the mother, but in severe cases delivery is needed, which can present a major problem to the baby if it is born prematurely.
Now, research from the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at University College Cork (UCC), the INFANT Centre at UCC and the University of Liverpool, as well as The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU Biosustain) at Technical University of Denmark, have shown in a rat model that a natural diet?derived antioxidant L-ergothioneine can relieve some of the clinical symptoms of Pre-eclampsia. The hope is that the same will be in evidence in humans.
"Our research shows that treating rats with pre-eclampsia with the natural antioxidant L-ergothioneine reduced blood pressure, prevented fetal growth restriction and dampened production of the damaging substances released from the placenta during pre-eclampsia," says Dr. Cathal McCarthy, leader of this research in a press release from the INFANT Centre at UCC.
In order to be able to make enough L-ergothioneine to eventually treat patients, the scientists are looking into ways of producing this compound efficiently in high amounts using yeast cell factories. Ergothioneine can be found in a wide variety of foods, but in particular in mushrooms, where amounts are relatively high compared to other foods.
"Today, ergothioneine is either made chemically or extracted from mushrooms, but at DTU Biosustain we are developing a method to make it biologically. This should lead to its much wider availability at competitive prices," says Douglas Kell, Associated Scientific Director at DTU Biosustain and Research Chair in Systems Biology Department of Biochemistry, University of Liverpool. At DTU Biosustain, Douglas Kell and his team work closely together with the group of Senior Researcher Irina Borodina to produce L-ergothioneine biologically using advanced genomic engineering.
Much evidence exists for L-ergothioneine's benefits in a variety of neurological and vascular disorders as well. Thus, L-ergothioneine appears to be a safe, natural diet?derived antioxidant whose therapeutic potential looks promising but remains to be validated in human clinical trials. |
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Pele urges AC Milan's Pato to reject Chelsea
Pele has told AC Milan striker Alexandre Pato not to consider a move to Chelsea.
The legend said: "Pato is a great player for the future. But if I were him, I'd never leave Italy for England. In those parts, it would be more difficult for a player with his technique." |
Can addressing family relationships improve outcomes in chronic disease? Report of the National Working Group on Family-Based Interventions in Chronic Disease.
The management of patients with chronic disease constitutes the largest single cost to the health care system in the United States. New approaches and methods are needed to reduce preventable complications and to enhance the health and well-being of patients with chronic disease and their families. Interventions that target the family setting in which disease management takes place have emerged as an alternative to traditional strategies that focus only on the individual patient or that consider the family only as a peripheral source of positive or negative social support. In this approach, the educational, relational, and personal needs of all family members are emphasized. Data reviewed by the National Working Group on Family-Based Interventions in Chronic Disease identified potential mechanisms by which the relational context of the family affects disease management and how characteristics of family relationships serve as risk or protective factors. In this paper we describe the major forms of family-based interventions, review the results of selected clinical trials, and present applications for clinical practice. The data suggest that approaches to the management of chronic disease should be expanded to include the broader relational context in which disease management takes place. Although it adds complexity to clinical intervention, this approach increases clinical flexibility, addresses the important players in disease management, and accounts for a significant number of risk and protective factors that affect outcome. |
Feature: Create a new master collection
As a developer I need to be able to create the CRUDSS operations for a master collection
I want to specify its name and the fields specifications of the collection
So that I have a fully manageable new collection, ready to associate with a slave collection
Scenario:
Given I am logged in as "admin" with uid "admin@meteoris.me" and password "admin"
And I am on the CRUDSS generator page : "mugen"
When I create a "jobs" collection with attributes :
| Name | Type | Required | Label | isOf | FK |
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| posted | Date | required | Date | null | null |
And I create a "jobs" roles collection
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| Name | Password | RoleGroup | Email |
| Bob | bob123 | HR_Manager | bob@meteoris.me |
And I give the "HR_Manager" "index" authority over the "jobs" collection
Then logged in as "Bob" with uid "bob@meteoris.me" and password "bob123" I can open the "jobs" management page
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This mom is going 'sassy' in a pink velour dress for the holidays
It’s holiday season, and we all know what that means: parties, and lots of ’em. Of course, with that fact comes the annual dilemma of what to wear, taking into account both style and occasion — like saving that lace LBD for your friend’s weekend get-together and finding a suitable alternative for your weeknight office soiree.
This week, our Instagram influencers across America submitted their #OOTD, Holiday Party edition, with plenty of inspiration — including the top choice from Ana, a mom and boutique owner in Illinois. Being a mom, Ana usually goes casual for her holiday parties, but this year she’s “going sassy” in a pink velour dress.
Watch the latest episode of #MyStyle to see how Ana recommends styling her holiday party outfit. Then tell us which ideas you like best, as well as what occasions you’d like to see our influencers try next. Please comment below! |
She ran outside and found Hart-Browne leaning over her boyfriend laying in a pool of blood.
After an ambulance arrived, Hart-Browne was found in a distressed state, barefoot and wearing only one earring.
Asked what happened, she allegedly told a police officer she stabbed him, saying: "I didn't mean to do it, I'm so sorry."
After she was arrested and taken to Acton police station, the defendant was examined and found to have some minor scratches and red skin.
The court heard she was distressed on being told Mr Rayner was dead and told police: "I have just killed the man I love."
In interview, she told how she had drunk champagne and wine that night but denied being drunk.
On arriving home, she said she got into bed fully clothed but became upset at Mr Rayner again.
She got up to have a cigarette and Mr Rayner began hitting her and holding her by the throat, she said.
Hart-Browne said she waved a knife at him and pushed her partner as he held on to her neck and hair.
According to her account, she hit him with the knife unintentionally.
As neighbours ran to his aid outside, Hart-Browne said she panicked and went back to clean the knife and clear up blood around the television.
Hart-Browne, who sat in the dock wearing blue jeans and a pale blue sweater with her long blonde hair in a ponytail, denies murder.
Ms Cottage said: "The defendant says that she picked up a knife from the living room table to defend herself while she was being violently attacked and that during the struggle they stumbled and Stephen Rayner was accidentally injured.
"The prosecution say that she is lying and that she deliberately armed herself with a knife from the kitchen and just as deliberately stabbed Stephen Rayner with it intending at least to cause him serious harm, if not to kill him."
Defending, James Scobie QC said the couple's relationship was both "golden" and "grim".
He read out a WhatsApp message she had sent him which he said summed up their relationship.
She wrote that "all I want from you is for you to love me" and not think that "hitting, abusing me is okay, like telling people I beg for you to sleep with me, calling me fat and ugly".
Mr Scobie told jurors: ""You are going to be hearing about the golden parts of their relationship...and you are going to be hearing the grim parts."
But he told jurors it would be made abundantly "loud and clear" in the trial why she stayed with him.
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Ball in general, life on the road… on this blog, either you do or you don't.
Furcal out with “mild strain” of left knee
The Cardinals’ trip to PNC Park has turned quite painful. Less than a day after Matt Holliday suffered a right hand injury, Rafael Furcal was removed from Wednesday’s game against the Pirates due to a left knee injury.
Furcal slid awkwardly into second base on a stolen base attempt in the fifth inning. The Pirates had a pitchout called on the play, helping catcher Michael McKenry to throw out the speedy Furcal. The Cardinals announced later in the game that Furcal suffered a “mild strain of his left knee” and that removing him from the game was precautionary.
However, the out was the least of the Cards’ worries, as Furcal did not return to the game in the next half-inning.
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Am I a Candidate for Kybella in Norfolk County?
With good reason, there is a lot of hype in Norfolk County and elsewhere surrounding Kybella®. It is an amazing product that is designed to get rid of the submental fat under the chin, better known as a double chin. It is non-surgical, so there are no incisions and less downtime or other side effects that are all too common with surgical procedures designed to remove fat under the chin.
If you live in Norfolk County or the surrounding area, you may be wondering if you are a good candidate for Kybella®. Here at Dermatology Associates, P.C. we offer complimentary consultations in Norwood, Foxboro, and Franklin to help determine if Kybella® is right for you. At times, individuals have a double chin because of extra skin. If this is your case, we can speak with you about other treatments that are available to help individuals in your circumstance.
Consultations are a great way for all individuals who are interested in Kybella® to really understand what the treatment is going to involve. Although it is a relatively quick procedure that requires several injections under the chin, most individuals will need more than one treatment session for optimal results. We will make sure to give you instructions on how you can care for your skin in the hours and days following your treatment.
One of the things that we have found is that many of our patients in Norfolk County who are interested in Kybella® are at a relatively healthy weight, but they have not been able to get rid of the fat under their chin by just using diet and exercise. That is the interesting thing about fat that collects underneath the chin. There are no exercises that you can do to target this fat. And there are no diets that you can go on that will help you with a double chin.
You must live an overall healthy lifestyle and enjoy overall good health in order to qualify for the treatment. At this time, Kybella® is only designed to be used for submental fat, which is fat under the chin.
Make an appointment at Dermatology Associates, with offices in Norwood, Franklin, and Foxboro, to get all the facts about Kybella®. We would be happy to help you determine if Kybella® is right for you. Contact us today to schedule a consultation! |
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Course participants will discuss basic body MRI technique methods to improve the routine use of pediatric body MRI in terms of quality. There will also be discussions regarding the present and future roles of body MRI in pediatric oncology. Course participants will be able to understand basic and advanced techniques in body MRI techniques, and recognize and apply the techniques for advanced diagnosis and improved management. CME and SAM credits are available. |
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Surface treatment installations of this type, such as are known through use in the background art, are used to treat surfaces of articles in different ways, for example by applying paint and other coatings. Such installations often contain a plurality of individual treatment stations for different treatment steps, for example preparation, painting and drying. The articles to be treated, which may be for example plastic parts or sheet-metal parts such as for example vehicle bodies, are conveyed for this purpose from treatment station to treatment station with the aid of a conveying system.
The present invention is directed to resolving these and other matters. |
Find the Nearest Mississippi McAlister’s Deli
We’re proud to support neighborhoods in Mississippi. We love welcoming our guests with delicious sandwiches, salads, soups, spuds and of course a glass of our fresh brewed iced tea. Wherever you’re from, North or South, East or West, we can’t wait to get to know you. |
She gets hit by a train then refuses medical treatment. So what did we learn here today, children? Suck it up nancy and quit yer bitchin'! |
Q:
set-theory (anti-symmetric)
in relation, anti-symmetric -> if xRy and yRx, then x=y.
Today, my lecturer said that relation $<$, which represents $(\le \bigwedge\ne)$, satisfies anti-symmetric. He did not prove it and He left it for us to exercise. I have no idea why anti-symmetric is satisfied when the relation is $<$.
Can anyone please explain? thanks
A:
I will assume that by $<$ you mean the "less than" relation on some totally ordered set such as the real numbers.
Is there ever a situation where you have $x<y$ AND $y<x$ at the same time?
No.
The statement then is an example of a Vacuous Truth since the premise is always false, there is no possible way that there is a contradiction.
A statement is only false if the premise is true while the conclusion is false.
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Due to the large size of digital video data some form of compression is typically performed on digital video before it is transmitted across a network. One video compression technique that may be used is motion compensation-based compression which only transmits the difference between the video frame being encoded and a reference frame. Motion compensation compression exploits inter-frame redundancy. In particular, often, the only difference between sequential frames is a result of the camera moving or an object moving within the frame. This means that most of the information that describes one frame is the same as the information that describes the following frame.
However, network errors may mean that the receiver is unable to decode certain parts of an encoded video frame (i.e. because there is an error in the received information or because the receiver did not receive part of the encoded video) resulting in missing data which manifests itself as a visual artifact in the video. Since subsequent frames are dependent on previous frames any error or visual artifact in a particular frame propagates to subsequent frames. This has a cascading effect which causes a growing visual artifact in the video.
One way to mitigate the propagation of such errors or artifacts has been to introduce an intra-coded frame (i.e. a frame encoded using information contained only within the frame being encoded) upon determining an error has occurred. However, this technique does not achieve as high a compression ratio as inter-coding techniques (i.e. coding techniques, such as motion compensation-based compression techniques, that use information from another frame to code a frame) since such intra-coded frames use up a large amount of bandwidth in a non-uniform manner.
Another way to mitigate the propagation of such errors or artifacts has been to intra-code a portion (e.g. one or more blocks) of each frame. Different portions (e.g. blocks) of the frame are cyclically chosen over a sequence of frames. This technique more evenly distributes the additional data over time. However, since the intra-coded blocks may be derived spatially from neighboring inter-coded blocks of the same frame the effectiveness of this technique decreases due to the existing propagated error.
Accordingly, known techniques for mitigating error propagation increase the data transmitted between the encoder and decoder in either a uniform or non-uniform manner.
The embodiments described below are not limited to implementations which solve any or all of the disadvantages of known video compression techniques. |
The complex epidemiology of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Kenya and Uganda. III. The epidemiology in the endemic areas along the lake shore between the Nile and the Yala swamp.
The endemic Rhodesian sleeping sickness belt along the shore of Lake Victoria between the Nile and the Yala swamp consists of two ecologically different areas: the Busoga belt and the Samia belt. The Busoga belt is a country of forest and forest relics, full of game, with a high density of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes but also inhabited by G. pallidipes, and with a people encroaching on the northern border who pass the forest on their way to the lake to catch and buy fish, but who seldom penetrate deep in the forest to hunt. The Samia belt is a country of dense bush in savanna, with less and smaller game, with forest, but with a relatively high density of G. pallidipes, and with a people who will not only pass the bush on their way to catch and buy fish at the lake, bur who also like hunting in bush and forest. From sex-, age-, seasonal and tribal incidence, from the incidence among different professions such as fishermen, fishmongers and cultivators, and from the differences in incidence encountered between the Busoga belt and the Samia belt, it is concluded: that nearly all women and children, most cultivators and part of the fishermen who contract sleeping sickness in these areas, become infected near their homes by G. pallidipes: this occurs mainly in the dense bush area. that most fishmongers, some cultivators and some fishermen become infected on their way to the lake shore, mainly by G. pallidipes; this occurs not only in the dense bush area, but also in the forest area. that fishermen, who become infected during trips, mainly contract their infection some distance away from the lake shore where they meet G.pallidipes. that transmission at the lake shore itself is rare and that G. fuscipes fuscipes only plays a minor role in the transmission of the disease in the areas under consideration. that man is not a good reservoir for Rhodesian sleeping sickness and that man-fly-man transmission is a rare occurrence. that game animals, particularly bushbuck and duiker, are the main source of infection for the flies which transmit the disease to man. that the sleeping incidence in man might merely be a reflexion of the incidence in the natural reservoir and that the factors influencing the latter will have to be studied to understand the former. |
Protesting Socialism in Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga. – A crowd of freedom-loving Conservatives organized a gathering to counter the National Convention of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), hosted in the heart of the south, Atlanta! Today, the Make America Great Again (MAGA) marchers started on the sidewalk in front of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in downtown Atlanta, wearing MAGA and Keep America Great (KAG) hats and Trump shirts while carrying signs and banners.
The contrast could not have been starker on the streets on Atlanta outside the Democratic Socialists of America convention between the diverse multi-racial group of MAGA hat-wearing Trump Supporters and the mostly hipster DSA delegates to Georgia.
While the Antifa-Left attacks citizens and journalists, the conservative-minded Southerners set out to show how it’s possible to disagree politically while being friendly at the same time. After all, “The United States will NEVER be a socialist country!” said President Donald Trump at his latest State of the Union address.
James Dutton, one of the march organizers said, “We wanted to show that Southerners can be friendly even when we strongly disagree politically.”
Strength in Numbers
Some initial attempts at bullying the MAGA marchers were quickly dispersed as more and more Trump supporters arrived. “They don’t want to pick a fight when they are outnumbered. Once we had the numbers, they left us alone,” said Dutton.
James Dutton (left) and Brant Frost (right)
Politeness and good-natured discourse was the rule throughout the morning. Brant Frost, Vice Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, said, “In a world where it seems that a Conservative takes their life in their hands whenever they get within a block of a leftist group, it gives me hope for our country to be able to have a peaceful and friendly conversations with our socialist visitors, deluded though they may be, without anyone getting hurt or angry.”
Congressional candidate Kenneth Brown was also in attendance. Brown said: “Conservatives and Republicans must stop the DSA. We are not a Socialist country. We believe in freedom, liberty, opportunity, free enterprise, self-reliance, and personal responsibility. These are principles that made our country strong and proud!”
Frost also endorsed Senator Ted Cruz’s resolution to Name Antifa Domestic Terrorist Organization. “It’s time for the Justice Department to follow Senator Cruz’s advice and open a RICO investigation into Antifa. This is still America and will not stand for Communist tactics. We beat the Communists in the Cold War and we will beat them again with all the legal force we can muster, rooted in justice, backed up by moral courage.” |
You’ll view serging in a whole new light after using the Eclipse DX. This easy-to-use serger includes adjustable manual tensions, allowing for perfect stitches on any type of fabric. Plus, the Eclipse DX includes Jet-Air Threading™, a patented feature that threads your machine with the touch of a lever. |
Suicide in the Byzantine Empire.
Studying the suicide in the Byzantine Empire is difficult due to the limited number of references to it. Their number is greater in the early years of the Empire, mainly because of the persecution of Christians and gradually decreases. The attitude of the Church also gradually hardens, as well as the law. The law was strictly followed to the West, but as far as the Eastern Empire is concerned there are no references of punishment, confiscation of property or vandalism of dead bodies mentioned. Avoiding public humiliation after a public crime or a military defeat, religious redemption, emotional disturbance and debts, are the main cause of suicide. There are some references of mass suicides, while women suicides are relatively fewer, if the early Christian years are excluded. Suicide is more acceptable to the pagans because of their lifestyle. The therapeutic approach comes mainly through the treatment of depression. Aretaeus and Galen cite some ways to deal with the disturbance in the internal balance of black bile. Their view echoes through the centuries and the subsequent doctors embrace it. At least after the 9th century, more importance is given to the patient's bliss. Gemistus Pletho tried to revive the Platonic view of suicide shortly before the end of the Empire. The Church forbids Christian burial and troubled soul hovers in an intangible journey. |
Male orientation to trail sex pheromones in parasitoid wasps: does the spatial distribution of virgin females matter?
We studied male locomotory response to trails and patches of sex pheromone (left respectively by free-ranging females and females constrained to stay on a small area) in the two parasitoids Aphelinus asychis (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) and Trichogramma brassicae (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). Under the hypothesis that the spatial distribution of virgin females differs between these species (scattered among host plants in A. asychis, gregarious at emergence sites in T. brassicae), we predicted that male locomotory response to their sex pheromones should also differ: A. asychis males should follow pheromone trails on plants in order to encounter the females along these trails, whereas T. brassicae males should stay on pheromone patches, at emergence sites, and mate the females on these patches. Using an improved video-tracking system, we found that males of both species respond to conspecific sex pheromone trails and patches, but that the response does not differ much between species. Males released on marked substrates walked in a more convoluted pattern (i.e. higher path fractal dimension and higher number of crossings within tracks) than males released on unmarked substrates. On pheromone patches, males turned persistently in the same direction when leaving the patch, which explains a higher number of visits on marked patches than on unmarked patches, and possibly, higher track convolution on pheromone trails. Contrary to our hypothesis, male A. asychis did not follow female trails more accurately than male T. brassicae, and male T. brassicae did not stay longer on pheromone patches than male A. asychis. We argue that these discrepancies between our predictions and the observed responses originates from discrepancies between the assumed spatial distribution of virgin females and their actual distribution in the wild. |
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Much like it did after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, the French financial services community has been slow to offer support to the victims of Friday night’s attacks, some of whom worked in the industry
The big French banks were among those posting messages on their internet sites. “In light of the dramatic events that unfolded Friday night in the Paris area, Societe Generale would like to express its support to the victims, the injured and their families,” says SocGen, adding that its management team has set up a, “crisis cell to implement the security measures decided by the French government.”
“We have learned with great sadness that one of our BNP Paribas colleagues was among those killed during the attack at the Bataclan concert hall,” says BNP Paribas CEO Jean-Laurent Bonnafé in a separate message on BNP’s website. Bonnafé says two other BNP staff were wounded and that the bank has ‘mobilised teams’ to improve security.
Under the hashtag #NousSommesParis, the French finance community is also expressing its support on social media. BPI Finance, the French public investment fund, has been among those tweeting messages of support. So too has Caisse Des Depots, the French commercial bank. Marc Fiorentino, a former derivatives trader at Citi and BAML who now heads up Euroland corporate, a body promoting financial services in France, has been among those tweeting condolences. Alban Jarry, director of the Solvency II program at insurance firm La Mutuelle Générale, has also been tweeting his support. |
For a number of reasons, inkjet print heads regularly expel ink into a dedicated area inside the printer called the service station. Expelling the ink repeatedly over a long enough period of time can cause the ink particles to build a tower, or ink drop stalagmite, in the service station. This ink drop stalagmite can eventually grow tall enough to contact the print head and have the undesirable effects of blocking nozzles, contaminating the moving print head, and interfering with the operation of the print head, all of which may degrade the print quality. |
Fomer Duke QB Thaddeus Lewis talks DFB and the NFL
Former Duke Quarterback, Thaddeus Lewis is no stranger to the Duke Football sidelines in that he often returns to Durham to check out the program. Lewis has complimented Duke Head Football Coach David Cutcliffe in the past for helping him round out his game and that has translated to an NFL career. Lewis took in the Spring Game this past weekend and he took time to chat up Blue Devil Nation about the team and his exploits - |
The Girl Who Looked Into The Mirror
‘Perhaps we can never truly love another until we fall in love with ourselves.‘
A film about nature of love, self acceptance and the collision of soul mates.
This was made in my very early days of making films, before I knew quite how to use a camera and record audio.
One / ‘Perhaps we can never truly love another until we fall in love with ourselves’
Two / ‘Might you be exhausted?’
Three / ‘What is it when you see when you look into the mirror?’
Four / ‘If you don’t show up, who is it that someone would fall in love with?’
Five / ‘Perhaps the very same person has always stood in front of the mirror. Perhaps it’s just that you couldn’t see them.’
Six / ‘What is it that you might see when you next look into the mirror?’
SCROLLING TEXT ONE / What happens in a relationship based on need? A need to feel significant, a need to feel part of something and a need to feel loved. Might those around us have to become someone else to satisfy such needs? Might they find it difficult to be themselves?
SCROLLING TEXT TWO / Do you need someone else in order to be complete? Or might that responsibility lie with you? Might a relationship be the perfect place in which to share your completeness? A place without need & without the requirement to compromise who you are. |
Catholic Cruelty: Pope Francis argues transgender teens must stop complaining, deny their lived experience, and “accept their own body as it was created.”
In his new letter on marriage and the family, Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”), Francis claims that teaching kids about safe sex “promotes narcissism,” that transgender teens should just stop complaining and “accept their own body as it was created,” and that same-sex couples are not “legitimate families.”
Claiming that transgender teens are “self-centered” and “self-absorbed,” Francis writes:
The young need to be helped to accept their own body as it was created, for thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation. An appreciation of our body as male or female is also necessary for our own self-awareness in an encounter with others different from ourselves. In this way we can joyfully accept the specific gifts of another man or woman, the work of God the Creator, and find mutual enrichment.
On sex education, Francis opines:
Frequently, sex education deals primarily with ‘protection’ through the practice of ‘safe sex’ Such expressions convey a negative attitude towards the natural procreative finality of sexuality, as if an eventual child were an enemy to be protected against. This way of thinking promotes narcissism and aggressively in place of acceptance. It is always irresponsible to invite adolescents to toy with their bodies and their desires, as if they possessed the maturity, values, mutual commitment and goals proper to marriage.
In addition, Francis says that gay people should receive “assistance” to bring them back to “normality,” and affirms there are “absolutely no grounds” for considering recognition of “homosexual unions,” noting:
In discussing the dignity and mission of the family, the Synod Fathers observed that, as for proposals to place unions between homosexual persons on the same level as marriage, there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family.
Bottom line: Francis is a religious bigot, promoting obnoxious, unreasonable, and morally indefensible positions. However, he has a nice smile, and much better public relations than the conservative Christians currently ruling the Republican party; and so some progressives, and the mainstream media, continue to give this moral monster a pass.
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Designed for Disparity?
“It’s time we provided some critical scrutiny and stopped parroting the gospel of medical progress at all costs,” writes former molecular biologist Dr. David King in a recent Guardian editorial. “…we must stop this race for the first GM baby.”
King wrote in response to the announcement earlier this month that doctors had successfully altered the genomes of single-cell human embryos. Using CRISPR, the doctors removed a gene for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a common heart disease that can cause sudden cardiac arrest and death. Their results are described in Nature.
King is the founder of Human Genetics Alert, an independent watchdog group opposed to certain outcomes of genetic engineering. He argues that genome editing of the type in Nature is not a justified use of medical research dollars, given the ability to avoid the birth of children with such conditions through testing.
“In fact, the medical justification for spending millions of dollars on such research is extremely thin: it would be much better spent on developing cures for people living with those conditions,” King says. He argues that inevitably, even if pioneered for medical reasons, market forces will inevitably push genome editing towards creating “designer babies,” allowing the very wealthy to program desired traits into their unborn children.
King, and others, see this application as unethical and akin to eugenics.
“Once you start creating a society in which rich people’s children get biological advantages over other children, basic notions of human equality go out the window,” King writes. “Instead, what you get is social inequality written into DNA.”
Weighing the Risks
The advent of CRISPR technology has drastically accelerated the field of genetic engineering, and with it the fears of ethicists like King. Yet many say that these worries are overblown.
“We are still a long way from serious consideration of using gene editing to enhance traits in babies,” Janet Rossant, co-author of a report on human genome editing for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), told the Guardian. “We don’t understand the genetic basis of many of the human traits that might be targets for enhancement.”
If this changes in the future, King argues that it will be impossible to keep the influence of money from directing how that knowledge is used. He bases this prediction of market-based inequality on existing practices — such as the high price tag of ova donated by “tall, beautiful Ivy League students” and the popularity of the international surrogacy market among those with the means to travel for a baby.
Yet existing regulatory systems may be enough to prevent the future King predicts.
In their report for NAS, Rossant and her co-authors emphasized that while caution and ethical oversight are necessary, the US Food and Drug Administration’s system for evaluating medical products could, too, assess potential uses of genome editing. The authors predict that editing for purposes of enhancement — as they put it, “not clearly intended to cure or combat disease and disability” — would not pass muster.
Additionally, King’s argument largely overlooks the potential of gene editing to help children whose conditions are unlikely to have a cure, or whose parents are unwilling to reject a pregnancy.
Take, for example, the first baby born of three-parent intravenous fertilization, referenced by King as an early form of baby-designing. The parents chose this technique to avoid passing on the mother’s rare genetic disease. Three of their previous children had already died from that disease.
“It’s easy for those unaffected by genetic diseases to dismiss scientific progress as a step towards a future … [with] a design-your-own-baby catalogue,” said writer Alex Lee, who suffers from a rare mitochondrial disease that caused her to go blind, in a contrasting Guardian editorial. Lee’s disease is rare enough that it is very unlikely research dollars will go towards finding a cure, as King suggested they should.
“For people like me…scientific advancements into gene editing and mitochondrial replacement therapy offer nothing but hope.”
For Lee and many others suffering from genetic disease, even a selective regulatory establishment may spell collateral damage for the rest of their lives. But the fact stands: caution and oversight will be paramount when playing with the very means nature gave us for life. |
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She’d been warned, told that his silence
hides a myriad of lies capable of affecting her career and relationships with
loved ones. Only she can't help herself. Testing Keenan's defenses is an
addiction she can't deny.
Falling in lust is easy. Learning his secrets
comes with a price. The cost? Her broken heart.
This is an excerptfrom Inarticulate (a standalone contemporary romance) when the two protagonistsfirst meet.
Sheswung around to the house to hide her smile and bounced up the three stairs
toward the front door. Movement nudged her periphery and she slowed, taking in
the sight of a man standing in the shadows at the far end of the porch. His hip
was cocked against the bannister, his eyes hooded.
Herconcentration latched on to him, unmoving as the world around her dulled to a
faint hum in her mind. She wasn’t sure what intrigued her. It could be his
narrowed stare, the way he didn’t greet her with warmth or kindness. Only
sterile appraisal. Or maybe it was the package his arrogance came in—the tense
expression, stubbled jaw, and lush lips pressed in a tight line.
Hertongue tingled. Mouth salivated. She would’ve liked to think it was due to the
heavenly aroma of her aunt’s cooking drifting in the air. Would’ve liked to…but
that was a load of bull.
“Hi.”
She gave him a friendly finger wave as Dominic came up behind her.
Theman continued to stare, his face still unwelcoming in the shadows.
“Keenan,don’t be a prick.” Dominic tugged on her arm, stealing her attention. “Come on.
I’ll introduce you later.”
Shekept her focus on the stranger, their gazes entwined, hers soft and
inquisitive, his harsh and fierce, as her cousin dragged her inside, the door
slamming shut behind them. “Who was—”
“Oh,my sweet Savannah!” Aunt Michelle hustled up the hall, wiping her hands on an
old apron tied around her waist. “It’s so good to see you.”
Thefamiliar face held more wrinkles than Savannah remembered, her aunt’s long
blonde hair now gray and thinning. But the beautiful blue eyes were still the
same—loving and gentle.
“It’sgood to see you, too.” She ignored the strangers poking their heads into the
hall from different doorways and fell into a comforting embrace. “Thank you for
the dinner invitation.”
“Oh,please,” her aunt chastised. “You don’t need an invitation. Come around any
time.”
Therewas a whirlwind of introductions. Her aunt took position on her right, gushing
with affection and compliments, while Dominic remained on her left, muttering
snide comments that threatened to make her laugh.
Atimer dinged from the kitchen, a welcome reprieve as her aunt excused herself
and left Savannah to take a breath. There had to be twenty people crammed into
the small house. All of them smiling and friendly, unlike the man outside who
still lingered in her thoughts.
“Youwant a drink?” Dominic nudged her elbow.
Hell yes. “Please.”
She followed him to the back of the house, into the laundry, and toward afridge stocked full of beer, wine, and pre-mixed drinks.
“Helpyourself.”
Heheld the door open while she grabbed a small bottle of something red and no
doubt comatosingly sweet. “Thanks.”
“I’mgonna hit the bathroom.” He closed the fridge door and looked at her inconcern. “Can you survive for a few minutes without me?”
“Iguess I’ll have to. I’m not going to follow you to the toilet.”
“Obviously,”he drawled. “You gave up that opportunity when we were eight.”
“Twelve.”
“Ten.”
He chuckled and walked from the room, leaving her alone with the hoveringthreat of chatter from the other end of the house.
Itwas time to go incognito. She didn’t have the energy to smile at strangers.
Alcohol would help, but for now, she needed cool fresh air…and maybe another
glimpse at the menacing eyes of the man she’d met on the porch.
Sheshoved the bottle into her coat pocket and sauntered down the hall, measuring
her steps to lessen the clap of her heels. She reached the front door withoutnotice and pulled it open, slipping into the darkness of twilight without aword.
Theman was still at the end of the porch, a beer bottle now visible in his hand ashe leaned over, resting his elbows on the bannister. He didn’t acknowledge herpresence. She supposed a man with arrogance ebbing off him in waves didn’t haveto. His dismissal gave her the opportunity to appreciate his ass stretched inwell-worn jeans and the perfection of how his black jacket rested at his hipsto give her an unhindered view.
“Hi,”she offered for a second time.
Hedidn’t move, didn’t even spare her a glance as she approached the bannister. He
continued staring straight ahead as he lifted the beer bottle to his lips and
took a long pull.
“It’sa lovely night for a family dinner.” Was he a distant relative? God, she hoped
not, otherwise Dominic’s inbred tendencies were rubbing off on her.
Hereplied with a jut of his chin. A jut of his God. Damn. Chin.
Whatan asshole. And wasn’t she just the stupidest set of ovaries to walk the earth,because it only made her itch to push his blatant need for solitude, to poke athim with questions until he acknowledged her with the respect she deserved. Therespect any human deserved.
“So…you like beer…” she drawled, glib as hell.
Thecorner of his mouth twitched as he continued to focus on the street. But still,
no answer.
Shecould smell him, could practically taste his delicious aftershave on her tonguewith each inhalation. He was a taunt to all her senses…well, except her earsbecause the pretentious ass wouldn’t say a word.
Hetook another swig from his bottle and straightened to face her. She could see
his eyes now, the steely silver, almost blue, that made her shiver with theirferocity. He was tall, too. At least an inch above her even with her heels.
Shepulled the pre-mix bottle from her jacket pocket and twisted the lid to keep
her hands busy. She could see two outcomes eventuating. Either he would smile,knocking her off her feet with the brilliance of his appeal. Or he was going topull a gun from the inside of his jacket and blow her brains out.
Playeror gangster. He could totally pull off both.
“I’musually a wine drinker myself.” She raised the bottle of bubbly red liquid inher hand, slowly tilting it to her mouth. She took a sip, licked the alcoholfrom her lips in a deliberately seductive provocation, then lowered the bottleagain.
Still,he gave her nothing. Nothing. He was the most accomplished jerk she’d ever come
across, and yet she still couldn’t ditch the intrigue and walk away. Without aword, he had her tied around his little finger, begging for attention.
“Ilike your jeans.” She ogled his crotch, wanting to return the discomfort of how
humiliating this one-sided conversation was becoming. “They’re snug.”
Hislips quirked, giving her a glimpse of straight white teeth. Asshole. Asshole.
Ass-hole! He was gorgeous, the faintest hint of humor turning his dangerous
eyes playful. She lifted the bottle to her mouth again, this time ignoring any
pretense of seduction as she gulped at the liquid.
“Areyou always this charm—”
Thefront door creaked open and she turned to find Dominic eying them both
skeptically. “What’s going on?”
Shesmiled, the biggest, fakest smile she had in her arsenal. “I’m having an
in-depth conversation with this lovely gentleman.”
“Really?”Dominic frowned, his brows pulling deeper with every passing second.
“Yep.”There was gushing amounts of sarcasm in her tone. “First we conversed about our
drinking habits, then fashion. I was about to bring up the topic of politics
and world peace when you rudely interrupted.”
Sheglanced at the man in the corner, an arrogant smirk now curving those sensuous
lips. He wasn’t the only one capable of being a jerk.
Eden Summers is a bestselling author
of contemporary romance with a side of sizzle and sarcasm.
She lives in Australia with a young family who are well aware she's circling
the drain of insanity. Eden can't resist alpha dominance, dark features and sarcasm in her fictional
heroes and loves a strong heroine who knows when to bite her tongue but also
serves retribution with a feminine smile on her face. |
Welcome Noa Smith to RPS's video team
RPS is expanding so much that we’re introducing three new people this week. Here’s the first: Noa Smith is joining RPS to further bolster our YouTube channel. Please join us in welcoming Noa to the team.
For the past few years, Noa’s been running her own gaming channel, Critique Quest, in which she produced video essays that spotlighted games for their stories, soundtracks, systems and more. She’ll be continuing that work for us while joining Matthew for more co-op sessions and conversational videos.
If you’ve been watching the channel so far, thank you for all your feedback. It’s heartening to see the mostly positive response, but it’s still early days. We’ve got a lot more planning and in the works for the months ahead, including actually sorting out some camera equipment.
Say hello to Noa in the comments below, and remember to swallow those like and subscribe buttons whole. |
Guardians of the Galaxy: Telltale Series (Season Pass Disc)
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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series delivers a brand new story of the universe's unlikeliest heroes, the rag-tag band of outlaws who go by the names Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot. In the wake of an epic battle, the Guardians discover an artifact of unspeakable power. Each of the Guardians has a reason to desire this relic, as does a ruthless enemy who is the last of her kind, and who will stop at nothing to tear it from their hands. From Earth to the Milano to Knowhere and beyond, and set to the beat of awesome music, this five-part episodic series puts you in the rocket-powered boots of Star-Lord in an original Guardians adventure, told in the unique and award-winning Telltale style, where your decisions and actions will drive the path of the story you experience. The Season Pass Disc includes episode one of the series, and grants access to download the remaining four episodes as they become available. |
Escaped Prisoner Captured
Matthew Kidd, who escaped from the Barnes County Jail on Thursday, has been captured and is back in jail facing new charges for fleeing. Kidd was found near Fingal with the help of tips and outside law enforcement agencies. For more information on Matthew Kidd, read Wednesday's Times-Record. |
A cobalt oxide confined nanolithia cathode allows charge and discharge without generating any gas molecules. This new material is also self-protected from overcharging by the cycling reaction of self-generated radical species. |
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