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Yeaaah, it’s finally here, the long waited iPad version of Grimrock! To celebrate the event we have released a new trailer and sent out a press release. Below you can find the relevant blurb from the press release. Big hand to Juha Pinola for porting the Grimrock experience faithfully to iPad!
ESPOO, FINLAND – MAY 7, 2015. Indie game developer Almost Human Ltd. announced today the launch of the highly anticipated iPad version of Legend of Grimrock on the App Store. Over ten years in planning and 100% self-funded, Legend of Grimrock is a true labour of love by the game industry veterans at Almost Human. The PC version of the dungeon crawling game has received praise among players, high review scores, and several awards including Finnish Game of the Year 2012. In total the Grimrock series has sold more than 1 million copies on PC alone.
Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawling role playing game with an oldschool heart but a modern execution. A group of prisoners are sentenced to certain death by exiling them to the secluded Mount Grimrock, a place riddled with ancient tunnels, deadly traps, tricky puzzles and, of course, horrible creatures. If they ever wish to see daylight again, the ragtag group of prisoners must form a team and descend through the mountain, level by level.
The new iPad version has been carefully tailored to utilize the strengths of the touch interface and optimized to run blazingly fast without sacrificing the graphics quality of the PC version. Several gameplay aspects, like the user interface and tutorials have been enhanced from the PC version. Beta testers have reported that the iPad version may indeed be the best incarnation of Grimrock with the tile-based movement and combat mechanics feeling very natural on the iPad. | 2024-05-14T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/1415 |
Chippa United and Jomo Cosmos will meet in the Nedbank Cup for the first time when they battle for semifinal berth on 22 April 2017. The match is scheduled for the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, kick-off at 15h00.
Chippa earned their place in the last eight of the competition thanks to wins over National First Division side Witbank Spurs (1-0 at home) and fellow top flight club Polokwane City (2-0 at home). The Eastern Cape side has never won the Nedbank Cup, nor reached the final.
Cosmos provided the biggest upset of the previous round when they ousted Bidvest Wits on penalties (after the teams played to a 1-1 draw after extra time) at the Tsakane Stadium. Their first round result was a comfortable 3-0 win over lower league side United Rovers.
The Gauteng club are previous winners of the Nedbank Cup, defeating AmaZulu 1-0 in the 1990 final. They also appeared in the finals of the 1986, 1991, 1992 and 1996 editions.
The teams have never met in a cup match before and their head-to-head history in top flight terms is limited to two PSL matches played last season: Ezenkosi claimed a 4-3 home win in November 2015, while the return match in February 2016 was won 2-1 by the Chilli Boys. | 2024-05-16T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/1508 |
/*
* Copyright (c) 2012-2016 Zhang, Keguang <keguang.zhang@gmail.com>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
* Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
* option) any later version.
*/
#include <linux/clk-provider.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
struct clk_hw *__init clk_hw_register_pll(struct device *dev,
const char *name,
const char *parent_name,
const struct clk_ops *ops,
unsigned long flags)
{
int ret;
struct clk_hw *hw;
struct clk_init_data init;
/* allocate the divider */
hw = kzalloc(sizeof(*hw), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hw)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
init.name = name;
init.ops = ops;
init.flags = flags | CLK_IS_BASIC;
init.parent_names = (parent_name ? &parent_name : NULL);
init.num_parents = (parent_name ? 1 : 0);
hw->init = &init;
/* register the clock */
ret = clk_hw_register(dev, hw);
if (ret) {
kfree(hw);
hw = ERR_PTR(ret);
}
return hw;
}
| 2023-09-14T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5904 |
Now that baseball’s July 31 trade deadline has come and gone, it’s time to assess the aftermath. The flurry of activity up until the very end underscores just how many teams still feel they are in the hunt for postseason play, as well as some very shrewd moves (and non-moves) by both contenders and rebuilders.
Notable additions: RHP Zack GreinkeNotable losses: RHP John Hellweg, RHP Ariel Pena, IF Jean SeguraAnalysis: The Angels clearly won the trade deadline with the acquisition of former American League Cy Young Award winner Greinke. Segura was expendable because of the long-term deals shelled out to Howie Kendrick and Erick Aybar. The Angels now have the best top four starters in the American League.
Notable additions: 3B Hanley Ramirez, OF Shane Victorino, LHP Randy Choate, RHP Brandon LeagueNotable losses: RHPs Ethan Martin, Nathan Eovaldi, Josh LindblomAnalysis: The acquisition of Ramirez was a steal for the Dodgers, especially considering they will control him for two more years. Ramirez, 28, should benefit from the change of scenery and help protect Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier in the lineup. Victorino gives the Dodgers a table setter and a stolen base threat while improving their defense in left field. League and Choate improve their sixth- and seventh-inning relief corps.
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Bowden, who served as the senior vice president and GM for the Cincinnati Reds and the Washington Nationals, is an analyst for ESPN.com.
In 1992, Bowden became the youngest GM in MLB history when the Reds hired him at age 31. The Reds finished in first place twice during his 10 years as GM, and he was named MLB Executive of the Year by Baseball America in 1999.
After working for ESPN in 2004, Bowden became the first GM of the Washington Nationals when the franchise relocated from Montreal to Washington, D.C., in 2005, working in that role until the 2009 season. Bowden co-hosts the "Inside Pitch" radio show on Sirius XM satellite radio. Follow on Twitter: @JimBowden_ESPN. | 2024-07-01T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5367 |
NEW DELHI: Nearly 1,600 Metro passengers had a harrowing time as they were stranded in the middle of the track for over half an hour after an overhead cable snapped near Laxmi Nagar station on Wednesday evening. Adding to their woes was the complete lack of understanding that the Delhi Metro displayed in rescuing the passengers on train number 28, which was on the way to Yamuna Bank station. Ripple effects of the Metro snag were felt on roads as well with many of the distraught commuters rushing to catch buses to reach their destinations.
The incident occurred at 6.44pm when the train, going from Vaishali to Yamuna Bank, suddenly stopped 200m from the Laxmi Nagar station. It had already been standing for 10 minutes at Laxmi Nagar before it left the station, said commuters stuck on the train.
READ ALSO: Delhi Metro halts on tracks, ordeal for passengers
The airconditioning system stopped working soon after the halt. At 7.09pm, more than 25 minutes after the train had got stuck on the tracks, the emergency doors were opened by commuters as the situation inside the train got so bad that people started feeling faint, said K A Vijayan, one of the commuters. "Commuters got on the track and started walking towards the Laxmi Nagar station," said Anuj Dayal, spokesperson for the Delhi Metro.
However, around 50 passengers refused to get off, forcing the Delhi Metro to let the train remain standing on the track till they deboarded. Normal services could only be resumed at 8.06pm on the Yamuna Bank Vaishali section. DMRC's overhead electrification (OHE) system, which apparently had undergone a thorough insulation exercise recently, snapped-twice on Wednesday.
READ ALSO: Metro at ITO eased life, but disfigured BSZ Marg
Trains on the Vaishali Yamuna Bank section were already running on a short loop due to the snapping of an OHE cable near platform 4 of the Yamuna Bank station. Added Dayal, "A strand of OHE wire had snapped at the Yamuna Bank station at 6.15pm. This OHE was being repaired when the train, approaching from the Laxmi Nagar station towards Yamuna Bank also halted due to the shorting of the OHE at that location." Metro officials said that a crow was also found electrocuted at the OHE location on the Yamuna Bank.
Delhi Metro claims it had planned to move the train, and not let commuters deboard. "The train was to be moved to Laxmi Nagar when some commuters opened the emergency doors," said Dayal. According to the Delhi Metro, the driver made announcements about the plan to move the train but commuters had a different tale to tell. Those stuck inside say that they did not hear any announcement.
READ ALSO: Delhi Metro to procure more trains to check overcrowding
The hourlong ordeal led to chaos along the entire Dwarka sector 21-Vaishali corridor. Trains were delayed as commuters waited at stations along the corridor for as long as 45 minutes. Five trains had to be put on hold at platforms between Yamuna Bank and Vaishali. Even the Dwarka sector 21Noida section was affected as the incident led to bunching of trains. While Delhi Metro says that normalcy was restored after 8.06pm, commuters could feel the effect of the snag till late in the evening.
| 2024-05-15T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7156 |
The Rubber Hand Illusion in Healthy Younger and Older Adults.
Percepts about our body's position in space and about body ownership are informed by multisensory feedback from visual, proprioceptive, and tactile inputs. The Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) is a multisensory illusion that is induced when an observer sees a rubber hand being stroked while they feel their own, spatially displaced, and obstructed hand being stroked. When temporally synchronous, the visual-tactile interactions can create the illusion that the rubber hand belongs to the observer and that the observer's real hand is shifted in position towards the rubber hand. Importantly, little is understood about whether these multisensory perceptions of the body change with older age. Thus, in this study we implemented a classic RHI protocol (synchronous versus asynchronous stroking) with healthy younger (18-35) and older (65+) adults and measured the magnitude of proprioceptive drift and the subjective experience of body ownership. As an adjunctive objective measure, skin temperature was recorded to evaluate whether decreases in skin temperature were associated with illusory percepts, as has been shown previously. The RHI was observed for both age groups with respect to increased drift and higher ratings of ownership following synchronous compared to asynchronous stroking. Importantly, no effects of age and no interactions between age and condition were observed for either of these outcome measures. No effects were observed for skin temperature. Overall, these results contribute to an emerging field of research investigating the conditions under which age-related differences in multisensory integration are observed by providing insights into the role of visual, proprioceptive, and tactile inputs on bodily percepts. | 2023-10-28T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5984 |
(CNN) -- The Director of Hanwei Eggs was contrite. "We solemnly apologize to consumers," said Han Wei. "We apologize to the distributors. We solemnly declare that our company has never purchased melamine. We have never adopted melamine to the feeds or products." But somehow melamine got into eggs produced at the company's plant in Dailin in northeast China.
Chinese consumers were taking the news in stride. "Stop eating eggs?" asked one customer. "That's not doable."
Melamine is a chemical used in making plastics and fertilizer. But in recent times, it has become the badge of shame for the Chinese food industry after being illegally added to food products to suggest they contain a higher level of protein. U.N. officials are concerned that melamine has been introduced to animal feed and may turn up in chicken, pork, farmed fish and other products.
Tainted eggs from Hanwei were discovered in Hong Kong late last week; melamine was present at nearly double the maximum permissible level.
Health officials in Hong Kong say that there's little risk to human health -- and that a child would have to eat perhaps 20 eggs a day for the melamine to have an effect. Learn more about the chemical melamine »
But Wal-Mart is taking no chances. It has pulled Hanwei eggs from the shelves of its supermarkets across China. The U.S. superstore's step has not been followed by many other retailers in China, and CNN found eggs plentiful at Beijing markets on Tuesday. Watch more on the local reaction to melamine found in eggs »
Chinese consumers -- by now familiar with food safety alarms -- were taking the news in stride. "Stop eating eggs?" asked one woman. "That's not doable. If there's a problem with eggs it should be solved fundamentally. People can't live without eggs in their daily lives."
A younger woman had the same view: "We can't be too serious, if we think too much about the vegetable and meat we eat, we can't eat anything."
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The egg scare is unlikely to take on the dimensions of the tainted milk powder scandal, which has sickened more than 50,000 Chinese children and led to the deaths of four babies. Again, melamine was the culprit -- and the consequences could be long-lasting.
The World Health Organization says that crystals have been found in the kidneys of some children. WHO's regional food safety expert Anthony Hazzard told Reuters Tuesday: "We believe at this stage that it's really the complex of melamine and cyanuric acid forming what you call crystals ... they can form in the small tubules [in the kidneys] and they get bigger and can block the tubules."
Experts say melamine's health risks are not well known. According to Dr. Dan Blumenthal of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, "Something we don't know is whether there is a safe amount of melamine in food. I'd rather not eat any melamine at all. There is a limit that is not based on animal studies, but we can't be certain that even the small amount is safe in humans, especially if consumption of the chemical goes on for years."
In the meantime, Blumenthal recommends "the prudent thing to do is to stay away from foods that might be contaminated, and this especially means infant formula and other dairy products that are coming from China."
The Chinese leadership, long criticized by other governments for poor food safety standards, has promised action. A committee of the National People's Congress is reviewing a new draft law. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said last weekend, "Food is a continuous process that begins in the fields and ends on your dinner table. From production to transportation to refining to packaging to manufacture, every process needs to go through thorough and strict testing."
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That will be music to the ears of WHO. Earlier this year, the U.N. office in China produced a report on food regulations in China, criticizing the patchwork of regulatory agencies and lack of responsibility among food manufacturers. It pointed out that China had 350,000 food producers or processors with fewer than 10 employees, and oversight of them was the greatest challenge. Among the U.N.'s recommendations:
• A legal framework that is consistent nationwide;
• Food safety standards that are in harmony with international standards;
• And a unified and efficient food safety testing and inspection system.
The stakes are high for China's food industry and its consumers. Food exports from China were worth $27 billion in 2006 and Chinese food exports to the United States have risen fivefold since 1990. Recent scandals involving melamine have led governments around the world to ban the import of certain Chinese foods; and Beijing wants to restore credibility to the "Made in China" label.
All About China • Food Safety • Hong Kong | 2024-03-16T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4482 |
DVMVGE 'JUST' 3Way Apron
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'Damage' is a contemporary concept and lifestyle brand based off the modern realities of life in the 21st century and into the future. We draw satirical inspiration from technological omnipresence, geopolitics, and pop culture to make a street-inspired, avant garde clothing line created with sound quality standards and functionality.
Our current 'FTW' and 'WWiii' collections uses varied imagery and repurposed logos relating to globalization, modern military conflicts, and corporate consumerism to represent the way in which our lives are being changed through high-tech development and global interconnectivity. | 2024-05-23T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/3123 |
Original Word: τύπος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, MasculineTransliteration: tuposPhonetic Spelling: (too'-pos)Short Definition: a figure, model, typeDefinition: (originally: the mark of a blow, then a stamp struck by a die), (a) a figure; a copy, image, (b) a pattern, model, (c) a type, prefiguring something or somebody.
HELPS Word-studies
5179týpos (from 5180/týptō, "strike repeatedly") – properly, a model forged by repetition; (figuratively) the correct paradigm, based on reliable precedent for others to then follow, (i.e. the right example, a proper pattern).
[In the papyri, 5179 (týpos) means "pattern" (P Ryl II. 75.8). 5179 (týpos) is also used of a judicial proceeding, "Let an inquiry be made into his means; only there is a principle according to which I have often judged" (MM, 645).]
3.form: διδαχῆς, i. e. the teaching which embodies the sum and substance of religion and represents it to the mind, Romans 6:17; equivalent to manner of writing, the contents and form of a letter, Acts 23:25 (3Macc. 3:30).
4.an example; α. in the technical sense, viz. the pattern in conformity to which a thing must be made: Acts 7:44; Hebrews 8:5,(Exodus 25:40). β. in an ethical sense, a dissuasive example, pattern of warning: plural of ruinous events which serve as admonitions or warnings to others, 1 Corinthians 10:6, 11RG; an example to be imitated: of men worthy of imitation, Philippians 3:17; with a genitive of the person to whom the example is offered, 1 Timothy 4:12; 1 Peter 5:3; τύπονἑαυτόνδιδόναιτίνι, 2 Thessalonians 3:9; γενέσθαιτύπον (τύπους, RL marginal reading WH marginal reading; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 27, 1 note) τίνι, 1 Thessalonians 1:7; παρέχεσθαιἑαυτόντύπονκαλῶνἔργων, to show oneself an example of good works, Titus 2:7. γ. in a doctrinal sense, a type, i. e. a person or thing prefiguring a future (Messianic) person or thing: in this sense Adam is called τύποςτοῦμέλλοντος namely, Ἀδάμ, i. e. of Jesus Christ, each of the two having exercised a pre-eminent influence upon the human race (the former destructive, the latter saving), Romans 5:14.
1 Corinthians 10:11AdvGRK:ταῦτα δὲ τυπικῶς συνέβαινεν ἐκείνοιςNAS: happened to them as an example, and they were writtenKJV: unto them for ensamples: andINT: these things moreover [as] types happened to them | 2024-02-24T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5510 |
Madison Lintz
Madison Lintz began her acting career when she was only 6 years old.
Madison has been in a few commercials and did a commercial for a
national Golden Corral spot which aired all over the country. Madison's
first appearance came in February 2011 on the show "It's Supernatural" (2007). Madison's big acting break came when she auditioned for the role of Sophia Peletier on the hit show "The Walking Dead"
(2010). and got a part in the up coming film _After(II)(2011)_ playing
"Young Ana" 2011. Madison loves horses and panda bears and has hamsters.
Madison comes from an acting family including Mother Kelly Lintz two brothers Matthew Lintz and Macsen Lintz and a sister Mackenzie Lintz. | 2024-05-21T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6919 |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD
CAT PORTAL, DOCKET NUMBER
Appellant, DC-0752-14-0225-I-1
v.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, DATE: February 27, 2015
Agency.
THIS ORDER IS NO NPRECEDENTIAL 1
Cat Portal, Arlington, Virginia, pro se.
Katherine Brewer, Washington, D.C., for the agency.
BEFORE
Susan Tsui Grundmann, Chairman
Anne M. Wagner, Vice Chairman
Mark A. Robbins, Member
REMAND ORDER
¶1 The appellant has filed a petition for review of the initial decision, which
dismissed her removal appeal as untimely filed without good cause shown for the
delay. For the reasons discussed below, we GRANT the petition for review and
1
A nonprecedential order is one that the Board has determined does not add
sign ificantly to the body of MSPB case law. Parties may cite nonprecedential orders,
but such orders have no precedential value; the Board and administrative judges are not
required to follow or distinguish them in any future decisions. In contrast, a
precedential decision issued as an Opinion and Order has been identified by the Board
as significantly contributing to the Board's case law. See 5 C.F.R. § 1201.117(c).
2
REMAND the case to the regional office for further adjudication in accordance
with this Order.
BACKGROUND
¶2 Effective August 8, 2011, the agency removed the appellant from her
Computer Assistant position with the Bureau of Labor Statistics for failure to
follow leave requesting procedures and absence without leave. Initial Appeal File
(IAF), Tab 7 at 73-75. In its August 5, 2011 decision letter, the agency informed
the appellant that she had the right to appeal the decision to the Board or to grieve
the decision under the applicable collective bargaining agreement, but not both.
Id. at 74. The agency also notified the appellant of her right to file an equal
employment opportunity (EEO) complaint with the agency if she was claiming
discrimination. Id. at 75.
¶3 On November 3, 2011, the appellant’s union filed a grievance of the
removal action, which proceeded to arbitration. IAF, Tab 7 at 68-70. After
holding a hearing, the arbitrator issued a decision on December 10, 2012,
dismissing the grievance as untimely. Id. at 47-66.
¶4 On January 10, 2013, the appellant initiated the EEO process by contacting
the agency’s Civil Rights Center and filing an informal EEO complaint regarding
her removal, alleging that the agency removed her based on disability
discrimination and in reprisal for her prior EEO activity. See IAF, Tab 7 at 14,
43-45; Tab 15 at 18. She subsequently filed a formal EEO complaint, which the
agency received on March 1, 2013. IAF, Tab 7 at 41; Tab 15 at 18.
¶5 By letter dated May 7, 2013, the agency notified the appellant that it had
determined that her EEO complaint was timely and had accepted it for
investigation. IAF, Tab 15 at 12 n.1. In its letter, the agency explained that it
had deemed the appellant’s EEO complaint timely because the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has found that “when a grievance on the same
matter is found to be untimely[,] … the claim can be pursued within the Agency’s
3
EEO process and the timeframe for raising the claim begins anew when the
decision upon the grievance is received by the complainant.” Id. (citing Hoffman
v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, EEOC Appeal No. 01982239, 1999
WL 146642 at *2 (Mar. 3, 1999), citing Chai v. National Aeronautics & Space
Administration, EEOC Appeal No. 01953902, 1998 WL 422036 (July 10, 1998));
see IAF, Tab 15 at 20-28. The agency adjudicated the appellant’s EEO complaint
on the merits and issued a final decision (FAD) on October 25, 2013, finding no
discrimination and advising the appellant of her right to appeal the decision to the
Board. IAF, Tab 7 at 14-25.
¶6 The appellant filed an appeal with the Board by electronic submission on
November 22, 2013. IAF, Tabs 1, 8. By letter dated November 26, 2013, the
Board rejected the appellant’s November 22, 2013 filing because she did not
identify what action she was appealing or name the agency against which she was
filing the appeal. IAF, Tab 1. In its letter, the Board informed the appellant that
she could correct these deficiencies and refile her appeal within ten days of its
letter. Id. The appellant refiled her appeal on December 4, 2013. IAF, Tab 2.
¶7 The administrative judge issued a timeliness order in which she stated that
“[f]or the purposes of calculating timeliness the appellant filed her appeal
November 26, 2013.” IAF, Tab 5. The administrative judge ordered the
appellant to file evidence and argument showing that she filed her appeal on time
or that good cause existed for the filing delay. Id. In response, the appellant
submitted documentation showing that she filed an appeal with the Board on
November 22, 2013. IAF, Tab 8.
¶8 The administrative judge then conducted a telephonic status conference
with the parties. See IAF, Tab 13. In her written summary of the status
conference, the administrative judge stated that this appeal appeared to be timely
because it appeared that the appellant filed her appeal on November 22, 2013,
less than 30 days after the agency issued the FAD. See IAF, Tab 13 at 1. The
administrative judge noted, however, that the agency argued that the appellant’s
4
“appeal to the EEO office was untimely, as it was filed 17 months after the
effective date of her removal on August 8, 2011.” Id. The administrative judge
explained that she did not find that the Board would consider the appellant’s
Board appeal untimely in light of the fact that the agency in its FAD did not
dismiss the appellant’s EEO complaint as untimely, but, rather, adjudicated it on
the merits. Id. The administrative judge provided the agency an opportunity to
submit supporting legal authority and argument for its position. Id. at 2.
¶9 In response, the agency argued that the Board should not defer to its
determination that the appellant’s EEO complaint was timely for two reasons.
IAF, Tab 15 at 7-9. First, the agency argued, the EEOC precedent that guided the
agency in reaching that determination is “unsupportable” because it is based on
an incorrect interpretation of the forum election provisions of 5 U.S.C. § 7121(d)
and is contrary to 5 U.S.C. § 7702(f), the savings clause of the mixed case statute.
Id. at 7-8, 9. The agency further argued that, although the Board must defer to
the EEOC on matters of substantive discrimination law, it does not defer to the
EEOC on matters of civil service law, and the EEOC precedent on which the
agency relied in determining that the appellant’s EEO complaint was timely
concerns a matter of civil service law. Id. at 8.
¶10 Without holding the requested hearing, the administrative judge issued an
initial decision finding that the Board has jurisdiction over the appeal and
dismissing it as untimely filed. 2 IAF, Tab 28, Initial Decision (ID) at 1, 3, 8. The
administrative judge rejected the agency’s determination that the appellant’s EEO
complaint was timely, finding instead that her EEO complaint was untimely filed
because she did not contact the agency’s EEO counselor within 45 days of the
alleged discriminatory action (i.e., her removal), as required by 29 C.F.R.
2
The administrative judge properly found that the untimely filing of the grievance
precluded it from being considered a valid election under 5 U.S.C. § 7121(e)(1). ID
at 3. While it appears incongruous to give someone who has improperly invoked one
remedial scheme the benefit of another remedial scheme, we are constrained by the
relevant statutory language.
5
§ 1614.105. ID at 4-5. In making this finding, the administrative judge
acknowledged that the EEOC has held that, when a grievance is dismissed as
untimely, a complainant is not precluded from filing an EEO complaint that
would otherwise be barred by time. ID at 5 (citing Ball v. U.S. Postal Service,
EEOC Appeal No. 01924256, 1994 WL 1841135 (Jan. 31, 1994)); see IAF,
Tab 15 at 29-33. The administrative judge found, however, that the EEOC’s
position on this issue is not supported by any law, rule or regulation and, thus,
is not entitled to deference. ID at 5-6. In addition, the administrative judge
found that the Board need not defer to the EEOC on this issue because the time
limit for filing a mixed case or appeal is an issue of civil service law, not
discrimination law. ID at 5-6.
¶11 Having found that the appellant’s EEO complaint was untimely filed, the
administrative judge then considered whether the instant appeal is timely under
5 C.F.R. § 1201.22, which requires that an appeal be filed no later than 30 days
after the effective date, if any, of the action being appealed, or 30 days after the
date of receipt of the agency’s decision, whichever is later. ID at 6-8. The
administrative judge found that the appellant filed her appeal 807 days late, as she
was removed on August 8, 2011, but did not file her appeal until November 22,
2013. ID at 7 (citing IAF, Tab 1, Tab 7 at 73-75, Tab 8). The administrative
judge found that, even if the appellant did not receive the agency’s decision until
November 3, 2011, as she claimed on her grievance form, the appeal was
760 days late. ID at 7; see IAF, Tab 7 at 69-70. She also found that the appellant
failed to show good cause for the untimely filing of her appeal. ID at 7-8.
Accordingly, the administrative judge dismissed the appeal as untimely filed
without a showing of good cause for the delay. ID at 8.
¶12 The appellant has filed a petition for review of the initial decision. Petition
for Review (PFR) File, Tab 1. The agency has filed a response in opposition to
the petition for review. PFR File, Tab 3. The appellant has filed a reply to the
agency’s response. PFR File, Tab 5.
6
ANALYSIS
The administrative judge should have deferred to the agency’s determination that
the appellant’s EEO complaint was timely.
¶13 It is well settled that the Board defers to the employing agency’s and to the
EEOC’s determinations regarding the timeliness of discrimination complaints.
See Cloutier v. U.S. Postal Service, 89 M.S.P.R. 411, ¶ 6 (2011) (citing Black v.
Office of Housing and Urban Development, 66 M.S.P.R. 283, 287 (1995); Vess v.
Department of the Air Force, 54 M.S.P.R. 578, 580 (1992); and Nabors v. U.S.
Postal Service, 31 M.S.P.R. 656, 660 (1986), aff’d, 824 F.2d 978 (Fed. Cir. 1987)
(Table)). As noted above, the agency determined that the appellant’s EEO
complaint was timely and issued a FAD denying her complaint on the merits.
IAF, Tab 7 at 14-25; Tab 15 at 12-14. Accordingly, we find that the appellant’s
EEO complaint was timely filed.
The appellant’s Board appeal is timely.
¶14 When, as here, an appellant has timely filed a formal mixed case EEO
complaint with her agency prior to filing a Board appeal, the timeliness of the
Board appeal is analyzed under 5 C.F.R. § 1201.154. Augustine v. Department of
Justice, 100 M.S.P.R. 156, ¶ 7 (2005). Under 5 C.F.R. § 1201.154(b)(1), (2), if
an appellant first timely files a formal mixed case complaint with her agency, she
must then file a Board appeal within 30 days after she receives the agency
resolution or final decision on the discrimination issue, or, if the agency has not
resolved the matter or issued a final decision on the formal complaint within
120 days, she may appeal the matter directly to the Board at any time after the
expiration of 120 days. Id., ¶ 9.
¶15 As noted above, the agency issued the FAD finding no discrimination on
October 25, 2013, and the appellant filed this appeal on November 22, 2013.
IAF, Tab 1, Tab 7 at 25, Tab 8. Therefore, this appeal was timely filed under
5 C.F.R. § 1201.154(b)(1).
7
ORDER
¶16 For the reasons discussed above, we REMAND this case to the regional
office for further adjudication in accordance with this Remand Order.
FOR THE BOARD: ______________________________
William D. Spencer
Clerk of the Board
Washington, D.C.
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Q:
visual source safe is not comparing properly, it is showing some dots
One of my file is showing dots while comparing and some special character which is unreadable.(visual source safe 6.0 build 9848)
following is the extract
Orignal was
f f
fg
but it is showing
1 Change: ÿþf To: ÿþf
2 Ins:
3 Ins:
A:
I am going to suggest to skip using this visual source safe feature. and just do compare and merge manually using a third party application like winmerge. you will save yourself a lot of headache
http://winmerge.org/?lang=en
| 2024-02-15T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4020 |
Philosopher Roger Pol-Droit devises everyday adventures that tickle and illuminate.
Not every idiocy contains a philosophical pearl. But there exist ordinary situations, everyday gestures, actions we carry out continuously, which can each become the starting point for the astonishment that gives rise to philosophy. If we are ready to accept that philosophy is not a matter of pure theory, but that it originates in particular attitudes towards existence’in the unusual adventures philosophers have had in the realms of feelings, perceptions, images, beliefs, powers and ideas’then it should not be impossible to imagine experiments to be lived through that may incite further inquiry.
The idea is to provoke tiny moments of awareness. Invent things to do, to say, to dream, that produce astonishment or the unease generated by certain questions. It’s about fabricating microscopic starter devices, minimal impulses.
Each experiment is to be carried out properly. It is possible to compare them, to modify them and to invent others. But you must really apply yourself if you are to feel the unsettling of reality that they seek to produce. For that has always been the end in view, since philosophy began: a systematic discrepancy, a step to one side, a change of viewpoint – perhaps a very slight one to begin with – which can reveal the landscape under a quite different angle.
If the entertainment proves useful, it’s because it offers such points of departure. Deliberately strange. Even crazy, if need be. But intended always to shake a certainty we had taken for granted: our own identity, say, or the stability of the outside world, or even the meaning of words.
Obviously, these experiments are founded on certain hypotheses and convictions. They suggest in particular the possibility that “I” is always another, the world an illusion, time a lure, language a fragile veil laid across the unnamable, politeness a moratorium for cruelty, pleasure a form of morality and tenderness the sole horizon. No one is obliged to share these views. The only thing that counts is that we should be stung, or tickled, into exploring further.
Empty a word of its meaning
This can take place anywhere, and at any time. Simply make sure, once again, that no one can hear you. Best to avoid the fear of being ridiculed while you’re doing it. Speaking to oneself is nothing. But to be spied upon and teased would spoil the desired result.
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So, choose a place where no one will hear you. Take what comes to hand, the most ordinary object’a pen, a watch, a glass – or even a piece of your own clothing: a button, a belt, a pocket, a shoelace. Whatever. Just let it be ordinary. Its name is known, its presence familiar. You have always called this object by the same word. Consistent, natural, normal.
Now take this inoffensive, familiar, safe little object in your hand. Repeat its name, in a low voice, as you look at it. Stare at the watch in your hand and repeat: “watch,” “watch,” “watch,” “watch,” “watch,” “watch,” “watch.” You can keep going. It shouldn’t take long. In a few seconds the familiar word detaches itself, and hardens. You find yourself repeating a series of strange sounds. A series of absurd and meaningless noises that denote nothing, indicate nothing, and remain insensate, formless or harsh.
You probably experimented like this as a child. Nearly all of us have felt the extreme fragility of the link between words and things. As soon as it is twisted, or pulled, or distended, that link becomes problematic. It becomes contorted, or it breaks. The word dries out and crumbles, a scattered shell of sonorous inanity.
And what happens to the object is no less startling. It’s as though its substance becomes thicker, denser, cruder. The object is somehow more present, and differently so, the moment it escapes the fine net of recognizable syllables.
You should repeat this old game of dissociation. Try to observe the moment when meaning dissolves, and how a new, raw reality emerges outside of words. Glimpse the hard scale beneath the prose. Repeat the same word several times, for the same object, and dissipate all meaning. Is it not marvellous? Terrifying? Funny? Just a few seconds are enough to tear that fine film within which we make sense of things, smug with the power of giving things a name.
Drink while urinating
For hundreds of thousands of years the vast majority of humans have lived and died without trying the following experiment. It is, however, both extremely straightforward and extremely interesting.
Like everyone else, you urinate. And at other moments you drink. What you do not know is what it feels like to do both at the same time. This experiment will show you.
So, just have a large glass of water at hand. When you begin to urinate, start drinking. As far as possible, you should try to drink the water straight down, without pausing. You will feel quite bizarre sensations almost immediately. The water you evacuate seems to be synchronized with that entering your mouth. You will then visualize, and above all feel, your body to be organized in a way which until then you had never imagined possible. The water you are drinking seems to exit directly from your bladder. In a few seconds you will feel directly wired, from throat to urethra, from stomach to bladder – a physiology that is impossible but that you intuit, directly and unquestionably, to be real.
It has taken no more than a few moments for you to discover this wonderfully simple body, and you feel there can be no other. No more intestine, no kidneys, no filtration time, no waiting. Water pours through you vertically, a cool liquid washes through you in a peculiar and palpable way. Your system seems to have opened inside out, with the water flowing smoothly from inside to outside. It is like–take your pick–the cosmic flux or an automatic washing machine.
This experiment, which can be repeated indefinitely, that costs nothing and is likely to procure ever new sensations and surprises, had not hitherto been considered a thermal cure.
Look in vain for “I”
It’s one of the terms you employ most frequently. During the day, the word “I” crops up in nearly all your sentences. Since your most tender childhood you have ceased referring to yourself by your own first name. “I” has become the word by which you express your desires, disappointments, projects, hopes, acts of all kinds, physical sensations, illnesses, pleasures, plans, resentment, tenderness, your weakness for vanilla and your aversion to fennel. For a long, long time you have linked this tiny word to your multifarious mental states. It is intimately involved in your feelings and your memories. Apparently, nothing is possible without it. It is there in all your stories and all your judgements. Not a single decision, not the slightest rumination escapes it.
The curious thing is, everyone uses the same word. The most irreducible intimacy, the most singular existence, for each one of us, is linked to a word that we neither chose nor coined, and that everyone else employs in exactly the same way. A pronoun in the language. There’s nothing less personal than this “personal” pronoun. The particular existence it refers to remains, linguistically speaking, completely interchangeable. It could be anyone who says “I’m happy” or “I’m sad.” All of us, in all our difference, refer to ourselves by exactly the same word as everyone else. A most paradoxical situation. But you don’t think about it, and nor does anyone else, of course. You have enough to do without worrying your head about questions of that order.
And yet, try to pin down this “I.” Does it exist? How can you find it? What does it look like? If you apply yourself to asking these questions, and trying to resolve them, you’ll find that this “I” is neither simple to localize nor to authenticate.
This is not a brief experiment, whose limits are easy to circumscribe. It can come to seem, on the contrary, like a long pursuit. You need time, different occasions, a certain application, and stubbornness. So where is this blindingly obvious “I?” You will seek for a long time, in different places and under different aspects. And there is a strong chance that, at the end of it all, you’ll return somewhat at a loss. Which is where things start to get interesting.
Among the avenues of inquiry you might like to pursue, it’s worth remembering the existence of the body. Is not this “I,” which is both individual and yet assimilable to others, in fact identical with the body that houses it, with its habits, its weaknesses, its vulnerabilities and its particularities? But there’s no trace of an “I” in your body. Not one of your cells lives longer than ten years. No part of your body has persisted unchanged. So what will you address as “I?” The form? The ensemble? The general organization? There remains, famously, the phenomenon of thought. All may change, but not your memories, not your sense of remaining unchanged despite corporeal alterations. But even here, you cannot put your finger on an “I.” All you will ever discover are thoughts, sequences of thoughts, memories, associations of ideas, desires’all of them pressed into service by what you call your “I.”
To all these sensations, to all these mental events, the “I” seems to provide a common denominator. But it neither supports nor drives them. It merely imparts to them something like a family resemblance, a shared aspect to what are very diverse notions and feelings’something like a color or an odor. A way of seeming, a style. Nothing more. “I” is not a someone or a something. And yet neither is it just a word. It must be a refrain of the self, a secondary quality, at one remove.
If you manage to carry the experiment thus far, you will need to know what to do about this sensation. What impact will this impossible discovery about your “I” have upon your existence? How will you cope once your “I” has gone missing? That is another story.
Try on clothes
For thousands of years now clothes have done more than just protect us from the cold or the rain, or preserve some supposed modesty. It is hard to imagine that even the most primitive garments served a merely thermal function. No doubt they had a symbolic role. It’s worth noting in passing that not one of the societies revealed to us by anthropologists used clothes for a single, merely practical end. Clothing is always coded, involved in power games, norms and social role-playing.
We have multiplied a thousand-fold appearances and meanings. Clothes indicate the social and physical milieu we come from, the specific powers we exert or the domination we undergo; they signal class, character, age, job, sex life, transgression, submission. They can say, “I’m a youth from the suburbs seeking to escape humiliation by wearing the same brand names as the bourgeois kids my age, but I choose different colors and mix them up in a way that seems to them out of place, without realizing what I’ve done.” Or else, “I’m a rich bourgeois from the smart end of town, my children have grown up, my husband bores me, my lover likewise, but you can try your luck if you know the code and the right way of summoning the maître d – hôtel.”
You can experiment with trying on clothes, not to buy them, but to explore unlikely styles and looks. Instead of searching as you usually do for something that suits you, that matches your taste, your status, and your size, your morphology and your fantasy life, try on some incongruous apparel. Too young or too old for you, too smart or too vulgar, too loud or too sober. Rags that seem in any case inadequate, excessive, out of synch. And which make you smile each time you see yourself thus garbed.
Imagine you are one of those cardboard cut-outs in a children’s game, that are dressed in all sorts of different ways by means of those little paper tongues that fold back behind the shoulders. Dream of yourself as Barbie or Ken. Do your best to come on as a rocker, a diplomat, a salesman, a rapper, a peasant, a butcher, a designer, a duck stalker, an intellectual, a janitor, an athlete, a junior executive. And every time, compose in your head the life that goes with these fabrics: speech patterns, eating habits, house and home, leisure activities, holidays. Then put everything back on a hanger. Thank the salesperson.
Count to a thousand
Initially, nothing much new here. Counting to a thousand will take a certain time (around 15 minutes, or 900 seconds) and ought to be monotonous. It seems predictable and regular. What you expect is a flat, mechanical exercise.
Not so. Serious turbulence is inescapable. There are easy parts, downhills, long straights like the old main roads lined with poplars or plane trees, and then there are hills, escarpments, sudden right turns, especially when you come to the transversal ranges of the 500’s. You expect nothing but figures, and here you are back in your childhood, at primary school, among inkwells, work-smocks, sponges in satchels, the playground. You’re back in the Russian mountains, among the “scenic railways,” and the black marks for bad behavior. You’re counting in black and white.
What ought to be a routine mechanical operation has become an altogether more difficult and complicated affair. Have I missed out a ten? A one, or a hundred? Didn’t I just make a mistake, when I was thinking of something else? Rather than being easy, ordered and continuous, the distance from one to a thousand is rutted and potholed. There’s always a risk of you getting bogged down for good, or falling into a gap. Of hesitating, losing track and starting all over again. Will this go on forever?
No, you’ve reached the end. What have you learned? Just this: that one thousand is a big number. You can run through it, but it takes time’a good quarter of an hour – complete with ups and downs. You can’t consider such a number all at once, or survey it altogether. Now that you’ve finished counting, you can appreciate the magnitudes represented by a thousand years or a thousand souls. And that a thousand times a thousand is utterly outside your range of visualization, while a billion (a thousand times a thousand times a thousand) may be comprehensible to the reason, but it remains a blank to the emotions. It is unknowably many. And now, just for an instant, think of humankind today.
Dream of all the places in the world
You’re tired of being where you are. The place is limited, repetitive; it holds no more interest for you, let alone surprise. You are seriously fed up with this one place, forever identical with and closed in upon itself. And yet escape is close at hand. Just think of the infinite variety of places that exist, near or far, at this moment.
Famous sites: the Piazza San Marco in Venice, the ramparts of Jerusalem, the entrance to Central Park off Fifth Avenue, the Yamoussoukro Cathedral, the Pyramids, the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, the Coliseum in Rome, the Champs-Elysées, the Forbidden City, Beverly Hills, Red Square, the Parthenon, Trafalgar Square, the Red Fort in Delhi, the Topkapi… and endless, infinitely extendable list of styles, squares, buildings, cafes, statues, panoramic views of every kind.
There is more. Think also, until dizziness sets in, of the infinite multiplicity of humbler places. Anonymous, unpresuming spaces: backyards, little squares, impasses, narrow streets and alleyways. And even of these humble corners: storerooms, barns, larders, cellars, cupboards, garages. In the humidity of the tropics, the dryness of the deserts, the damp colds of the misty regions. With palm trees or birches, cacti or ancient pines, white sand, red rocks, mud, permafrost, the pure whiteness of the wave against the deep ocean blue.
And then there is the inexhaustible list of what people are doing, what everybody is doing, at this instant, in all the places of the world: making love, crying with pleasure or with pain, eating, dying, sleeping, sweating, toiling, enjoying themselves, amazing themselves, envying each other, traveling, cooking, reading, returning home, singing.
You can bathe in this multiplicity, be carried away by this infinity of alternatives. The place you are in isn’t simply one spot within an infinity of others. It contains all the others. And it’s all entirely within your head. Permanently available. To one and all.
Make the world last twenty minutes
The past clings on. It is present in the smallest actions. It coils itself around our thoughts, even in those that seem unconcerned with it. The future also ceaselessly sustains the smallest of our projects. It accompanies our slightest expectation.
What would happen if we tried to rid ourselves’in a spirit of illusion and of play – of these terrible constraints? Imagine, therefore, as far as it is possible to do so, that the past never happened and that the future does not exist. Let us believe that the world, this world, lasts only twenty minutes. It was created from nothing, just and instant ago, as it is, and us with it. One minute earlier, it did not exist. Everything the world currently contains by way of relics, ancient ruins, libraries, monuments, archives, distant or recent memories’the whole lot – has just materialized, at the same instant. The archives are there all right, as are the witnesses to a past, but the past they speak of never existed – until a moment ago.
This world – infinite, diverse, multiple – has a life expectancy of exactly twenty minutes. Beyond which time it will disappear completely and definitively. Not in some gigantic conflagration or cosmic explosion. Not in some terrific fire or furnace. Just a brusque extinction. Like a soap bubble bursting, or a light going out.
Make yourself at home in this twenty-minute world. Remark the extent to which it is, in a sense, identical to our own: same dimensions, same skies. No object is any different. The same people are doing the same things. And yet: it is not at all the same universe. A world that lacks the depth of a real past and the perspective of a viable future may certainly seem completely identical, but it still differs radically from our own, due to this time limit. Before this ephemeral universe has completely disappeared, try hard to understand – you who were under the illusion that another reality existed and will exist’to what extent your thought process is habitually different from this existence which is even now counting down. The more you experience this contrast and this distance, the more you will feel the importance, for us, of an immemorial past and a distant future.
As the fatal twenty minutes approaches its term, you should feel, furtively, the dumb terror that everything will, effectively, disappear.
Most likely this will not happen. You can then emerge, at the 21st minute, from this objectless terror. Now concentrate on savoring your relief that the world goes on.
Later you might feel, like an aftertaste, a secret disappointment that nothing was obliterated.
Walk in an imaginary forest
Preferably, it should be a real wood. Winter is best, or a season in which walking briskly and for a fairly long time does not make you too hot. Your breathing should be absolutely regular. So there you are, walking at a brisk pace, for a good spell, without attending to anything except the synchrony of your breathing and walking.
The first stage consists in generating, by means of repetition, a completely regular, almost somnambulistic rhythm. It is easy to verify if you’ve reached the right tempo: stop walking suddenly, and continue to breathe at the same rhythm. If the trees keep moving forward, then you’re on the right track. But if the landscape halts when you halt, keep walking – you haven’t yet reached the beginning of this business.
When you’ve got into the correct rhythm, keep going. You are about to enter a different country. You do not have to discourse with fairies or elves, gnomes or trolls. All you need is a bit of goodwill, and a certain perseverance. A pinch of enthusiasm.
Imagine now that the forest is your soul. You are walking like this within yourself. The tangle of tall trees, the white sentinel of the birches, the moss and the damp mulch, none of all this is outside you. Some obscure spell – which is none of your business – has turned everything inside out. You are strolling through the inside of your own thought. You have a niggling feeling that maybe we are never outside ourselves. Don’t ask why that might be so. Just take note that these semi-tones and half-lights are inside you. They belong to you, as intimate parts of yourself, along with the shadow in the undergrowth, the serenity of the clearings, the long-weathered tree trunks, the transparent lightness of the airy spaces.
You start to see the mind has nothing outside itself, or if it has, then we can know nothing of it.
Up to you to draw out the weighty consequences of this sylvan game. It may be enough to retain just one ground rule: the imaginary is never, and should not be, something added on to the real, and which opposes, contradicts or dissolves it. Reality itself must always be rendered imaginary.
Run in a graveyard
Graveyards: peaceful and pacifying enclosures. Spaces suitable for meditation, and any other kind of reverie as well. With flowers, and without people’a double attraction. A few mourners, a few gardeners. The odd tourist walking by, a graveyard enthusiast reading the inscriptions.
The idea of going for a long run in such a place may seem rather shocking. An inappropriate provocation, a silly prank. It may even be a misdemeanour, which will earn you a rebuke and a fine, payable to the municipal court. Or else it is an offense’to the grief of families, and to the memory of the dead, according to some unwritten but universal consensus. The idea may seem unacceptable for other reasons, perhaps more profound and less easily definable ones: it offends against the order of things, the way the living behave toward the dead. The watchful immobility of the living compared with the utter stasis of the dear departed. The former breathe, the latter don’t. It doesn’t do to accentuate the contrast. In the very spot where those who were once alive now repose, without words or motion, shouting and gesticulating has no place. The runner-between-graves lays himself open to summary justice.
Don’t let yourself be scared off. Negotiate the obstacle and overcome the shame. Meaning will come in time, as usual. Deal with the practicalities first of all: wear a tough pair of shoes (the alleys are frequently stony and uneven), and choose a graveyard that is big enough. Most country graveyards, while making pleasant places to walk among family tombs, are useless for long-distance running.
So here you are at last, embarked on this strange experiment. To begin with you’ll feel, naturally enough, some remnants of embarrassment, the feeling that you’re acting in an incongruous and unseemly fashion. You think of all the skeletons lying in their coffins, stacked on top of each other, piled up, shrunken, damp, dark, almost all of them forgotten. And you find that your fleetness of foot is out of place. Moving like that, in such a lively way, among the petrified’this is conduct unbecoming.
It may be helpful to concentrate on this discrepancy, and enjoy it. You, after all, are alive, able to run and rejoice in the power of movement. Not they. Well, too bad. And so much the better for you. A beating heart, hot blood in your veins. They know nothing of all that now, they have left life and time behind. But you, you are moving through the soft air, with your feet arching over the earth.
The experiment is interesting only if you can get beyond this first stage. Try now to dissolve this aloofness that sets you rejoicing apart from them. You start to feel that at the very heart of your progress you are motionless. That there’s no separation, in the end, between movement and stillness. Your strides may well be long and regular, your stamina considerable, immobility seeps into everything. What you come to feel now is the presence of stillness at the heart of movement, of repose at the heart of the race. And of respect within transgression. You are no disturber of the dead. Running between their graves, unmindful of their names as of the proprieties, you love them.
Practice make-believe everywhere
The moments when you feel crushed are also those when you end up believing that life is serious, the world real and words true. Countering this tiresome tendency is, luckily, not too complicated. It can be enough, at least when starting out, to transform each situation systematically, and turn it into a scene from a play. A metamorphosis of this kind affects not only your internal perception of events: it can change your voice, your gestures, your sentences and even what happens.
This morning, for instance, you are not going to the baker’s and then the post office merely to buy, respectively, bread and stamps. Start off by playing the triumphant customer, entering the bakery. Pay attention to how you thrust open the door (movement of the arm, full of energy, but not too brusque). Regulate your voice correctly and sing out “Good morning,” the greeting worthy of a customer who comes to buy a triumphant loaf. Ask, pay and collect your change, triumphant still, say goodbye and thank you, watching your every movement, from the confident step toward the door, to the little complicit smile addressed to the lady just coming in to buy – inevitably – her sliced white bread and a bar of chocolate.
You now have three and a half minutes to put on a different role, this time the anonymous purchaser of stamps, who enters a strange post office, full of timidity and apprehension; he doesn’t know how things are done, having lived too long abroad, or else he’s just out of the hospital, humbled in any case, with a guilty feeling, holding his loaf furtively in his hand like an encumbrance or an embarrassment, not knowing what to do with it, or how to hide it…
And so on. Have a nice day.
From the book Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger Pol-Droit, translated by Paul Romer. Published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. © Editions Odile Jacob, 2001. Translation © Stephen Romer, 2002.
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In vitro antimicrobial, antioxidant, and antispasmodic activities and the composition of the essential oil of Origanum acutidens (Hand.-Mazz.) Ietswaart.
The radical scavenging, antimicrobial, and antispasmodic activities and the composition of Origanum acutidens (Hand.-Mazz.) Ietswaart (Order Labiatte) essential oil were evaluated in vitro. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis of the oil resulted in the identification of 20 compounds, representing 93.61% of the oil; carvacrol (65%) was the main component. The sample was also subjected to a screening for antioxidant activity by using the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl and beta-carotene/linoleic acid assays. The essential oil exhibited strong antioxidant activity. Using the agar disk diffusion method, antimicrobial activities of the essential oils were determined for nine microorganisms; antimicrobial activity was shown against eight of them. O. acutidens oil exhibited spontaneous contractions in rat ileum at the 100% level at 0.1 mg/mL level. | 2024-01-25T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/9702 |
Mast cells in solitary glomus tumors: a possible algogenic role.
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Q:
How do i detect multiple languages on the same line?
There are a couple of api's in java as well as python and also tried some online demos but all the api's takes the sentence as a whole and give an overall probable language. In my case, i have multiple languages on the same line that needs to be detected and languages except English is to be eliminated while keeping in meaning of the sentences intact.
Examples:
Safe for septic tanks. / Sans danger pour les fosses septiques. Store in a cool, dry place. / Ranger dans un endroit frais et sec.
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A:
I believe the direction you have taken from reading the comments is the best solution : "i have tried -tokenizing the entire sentence into words and checking language for each words". However you should consider developing a bag of words algorithm.
simply put you would count occurrences of all words in the sentence and store them in a list with a index of which language they belong too.
However as you are detecting multiple languages in a single sentence which may share words you would require multiple lists, the list which has the most occurrences of the languages word(s) would determine the language of each part of the sentence.
This is an English sentence written in english,dans un endroit frais et sec
[english:english:2][this:english:1][is:english:1][an:english:1][sentence:english:1][written:english:1][in:english:1]
[dans:french:1][un:french:1][endroit:french:1][et:french:1][sec:french:1]
this->beginning->list index 0, sentence->end of english->list index 3
However this still may produce errors in your examples as the smaller the sample space is the more inaccurate the result:
Safe for septic tanks. / Sans danger pour les fosses septiques. Store in a cool, dry place. / Ranger dans un endroit frais et sec. (All words occur only once which wont help determine language by count of words, only by sum of which language they consecutively belong to)
Anyway hope this kind of makes sense and hope it helps in someway for you to find a solution. Feel free to comment and I will try to help you with your questions.
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EXAS
AUSTIN. TEXAS 78711
CRAWFORD c. MARTIN
AlTORNEY OENEEAI-
July 16, 1968
Honorable Howard B. Boswell Opinion No. M-259
Executive Director
Texas Water Development Board Re: Whether surety bond re-
P. 0. BOX 12386 quired by The Texas
Capitol Station Water Well Drillers Act,
Austin, Texas 78711 Article 762le, Section
16, V.C.S. covers faulty
workmanship, labor and
materials, and/or neg-
Dear Mr. Boswell: llgence.
In your recent request for opinion of this office,
you stated that a question has arisen as to the effect and
value of the bonding provisions contained in Article 762le,
Vernon's Civil Statutes, Section 16 ('IheTexas Water Well
Drillers Act) which requires the maintenance of a $2,000
surety bond as a condition for obtaining a Water Well Drlll-
ers certificate; and specifically you question whether, in
the absence of express statutory language, these provisions
may be relied upon by the Water Development Board to require
that the bond cover a Judgment obtained against the driller
for damages caused by 'faulty workmanship, labor and mater-
ials, and/or negligence".
You have also enclosed a copy of the bond form Sup-
plied by the Texas Water Development Board to each applicant
for registration, and you ask whether the bond does In fact
provide such coverage.
Said Section 16 of Article 762le provides, in part,
as follows:
11..,.before a registration certificate
shall be issued, a bond executed by
the applicant, as principal, and a
surety company authorized to do busi-
ness in this state as surety, shall
be furnished the Commission in the
principal sum of $2,000.00 for the
use and benefit of any injured party
-1253-
Hon. Howard B. B-well, page 2 (M-259)
and conditioned that the applicant will
pay any judgment recovered by any per-
son In any suit for damages or inJury
caused by a violation of the Act."
(Emphasis Added)
There are various prohibitlone contained in different
parts of Article 7621e, but at no place does such Article
provide, by outright prohibition or by necessary Inference,
that "faulty workmanship, labor and materials, and/or negll-
gence", as such, shall constitute a violation of the Act.
Section 7 of Article 7621e directs the Water Develop-
ment Board to promulgate and adopt substantive rules defin-
ing standards of conduct governing registered water well
drillers. In setting out grounds for revocation or suspen-
sion of a drillers certificate, Section 8(a) of Article 762le,
provides as follows:
'The certificate of registration of any
registered water well driller who vio-
lates any provision of this Act or any
substantive rule or regulation of the
Board promulgated under the authority
of this Act may be revoked or suspended
by the Board. Grounds for revocation or
suspension of a driller's certificate
shall include intentional misstatement
or misrepresentation of fact on an appli-
cation or well log; failure to keep and
transmit water well logs as provided
herein; failure to advise a person for
whom a well is being drilled that in-
jurious water has been encountered, is
a pollution hazard, and must be forth-
with plugged In an acceptable manner;
or being found to be an incompetent
water well driller."
We are advised that none of the rules and regulations
adopted by the Board specifically prohibit "faulty workman-
ship, labor and materials, and/or negligence".
The bond form furnished each applicant substantially
follows the language of Section 16, Article 7621e, but is
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Hon. Howard B. Ekoswell,page 3(M-259)
somewhat broader in scope in that it Includes the following
language:
....for the use and benefit of any in-
jured party who shall recover a judg-
ment for damages from violation by the
Principal herein of any provision of
Chapter 264 . . ..Art. 7621e, or the rules,
regulations, and modes of procedure
rescribed thereunder by the Water Well
illers Board." (Emphasis Added),
In Texas, a contract of suretyship is required to be
strictly construed so that only those burdens or obligations
that clearly come within the terms of the contract will be
imposed on the surety, and the contract will not be extended
by im licatlon or presumption. Cooley v. Cash, 207 S.W.2d
436~ i?T
ex.Civ.App. 1947, no writ‘) Great American Insurance
Co. v. Langdeau, 379 S.W.2d 62 (Tix. Sup. 1964).
It is our opinion that the bond as it is presently
written does not purport to cover all judgments for damages
caused by "faulty workmanship, labzand materials and/or
negligence". We refrain from expressing an opinion upon a
bond voluntarily undertaken which specifically covers such
acts inasmuch as such extra-statutory provisions are a matter
of personal interest only to the litigants and the bonding
company. Nothing herein contained Is intended to imply non-
coverage of judgments for damages caused by failure of the
driller to do acts required of them, or by their doing acts
prohibited by the Act, even though done or not done by rea-
son of "faulty workmanship, labor and materials, and/or
negligence". For example, the failure through negligence of
the driller to Inform the landowner or person having a well
drilled that the water is injurious to vegetation, as is re-
quired of the driller by Section l;iaof Article 762le, would
constitute ~!a violation of the Act'; and if this violation
werefound by the trier of facts to be the proximate cause of
the damage, recovery on the bond for such damage would be
possible.
At this point the question arises as to whether the
Board may by rule specifically prohibit acts of "faulty work-
manship, labor and materials and/or negligence" and thereby
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Ron. Howard B. Boswell, Page 4(M-259)
make each such malfeasance or nonfeasance aa violation of this
Act", thus requiring bond coverage of judgments for damages
occasioned by such acts. The Board has the power to make sub-
stantive rules and regulations and to enforce them by suspen-
sion or revocation of the certificate of registration, but it
has no authority to require coverage of that which the statute
does not require be covered. Under the statute, the Texas
Water Development Board may require such bond cover wany judg-
ment recovered by any person in any suit for damages or in-
jury caused by a violation of this Act" only, and it is with-
out authority to require such extra-statutory bond provisions
of the principal and surety. The board may exercise only the
authority conferred upon It by the law in clear and unmistak-
able terms and It will not be deemed to have authority given
only by implication or Inference, since its powers must-be
strictly construed. Commercial Standard Ins. Co. v. Board of
Ins. Commissioners, 34 S W.2d 343 (Tex.Civ.App. 1930, error
ref.) and authorities therein cited.
SUMMARY
In the absence of express statutory
authority a successful plaintiff
could not recover for faulty work-
manship, labor and materials, and/or
negligence under the surety bond re-
quired by Article 762le, Section 16,
Vernon's Civil Statutes (The Texas
Water Well Drillers Actj.
RD C. MARTIN
ey General of Texas
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Hon. Howard B. &swell, page 5(&259)
Prepared by Charles F. Aycock
Assistant Attorney General
APPROVED
OPINION COMMITTEE
Hawthorne Phillips, Chairman
Kerns Taylor, Co-Chairman
John Fainter
John Grace
Harold Kennedy
R. D. Green
A. J. CARUBBI, JR.
Executive Assistant
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Pike County leaders say teamwork brought new jobs
The Pike County community is responding with positive declarations after the announcement Wednesday that Jackson business and community leader Alan Stockmeister is bringing new industry and new jobs to Pike County.
The addition of Echo Environmental at the Zahn’s Corner Industrial Park, which will recycle electronics and metals, has been well received.
“Put it in perspective,” Pike County Commissioner Blaine Beekman said. “In 2010 Masco (Corporation) was completely closed down, now here we are two years later, and, with the help of a lot of people - some vision from the people who own these plants - Hadsell Chemical, and Geo Tech, and certainly Alan Stockmeister, now we’re well on our way to filling up three million square foot of empty space.”
One of the people Beekman credited with playing a major role in the process of making the project a reality is Waverly Mayor Greg Kempton.
“Greg has been doing a great job,” Beekman said. “What makes him so special is that he is such a specialist on IT that it’s just amazing. He’s the guy, that when we were talking to people about the Masco facility in Waverly, he’s the guy who knows how all of the IT and all of the electrical stuff works.”
Kempton, who is a former employee at the plant, was the one person who knew how to operate the equipment there. When the location was being considered for the location of the new plant, Kempton and operated plant equipment for company officials. Kempton said the creation of jobs for residents of Pike County is one of the important aspects of the operation.
“When I spoke to them (Stockmeister officials), they said, typically, it’s more people intensive rather than automation,” Kempton said. “So it should mean more jobs that way.”
Stockmeister official Mike Hyman said during the first year, 12 full-time positions will be created not including local security, and 10 to 20 local service providers such as electricians and mechanical fabricators. By 2015, the company will add 100 full-time jobs which Hyman says will cover the complete spectrum of positions within the industry, and in 10 years, possibly 500 jobs.
“Basically, for Waverly, and the surrounding areas, this is just huge for us,” Kempton said. “We’re trying to get both of those old Masco plants filled. And everything looks pretty positive right now for getting jobs into both of them. We were very happy to see that property sell. We were really worried early on because it was such a large facility. We weren’t sure if there was going to be a demand in the immediate area, and it’s nice to have someone that’s from a surrounding county coming into it.”
Kempton said Stockmeister has created industries and jobs in Jackson County, and now he will bring his expertise to do the same in Pike County.
“When the building here and everything shut down, we have been several years with something on our mind about who we could get to do this,” Pike County Commissioner Harry Ryder said. “And the Lord has blessed us with Alan Stockmeister and his business coming in here. Pike County is so tickled to be a part of that. So anything we can do to help start these businesses, we’re behind it.”
State Senator Bob Peterson was all smiles as the announcement was made.
“This is exciting that we’re going to grow jobs here,” Peterson said. “This company specifically, is creating well-paying jobs. It is part of the growth that we all hope is going to happen in a bigger way here in Pike County.”
Beekman said there is no secret as to how everyone was able to come together to make the project a success.
“It’s teamwork. Commissioners, your development director, the people in the city, and certainly we have gotten a lot of help out of our State Representative Cliff Rosenberger, and State Senator Bob Peterson,” Beekman said. “I think what it comes down to is that there’s a willingness to give the praise to the people who deserve it. It’s not somebody trying hog the praise or anything or trying to make themselves look good, it’s just a matter of trying to help the community. I think it’s just that spirit. If somebody comes in, we’re going to listen to them, and we’re going to try to help them if they want to come and they are going to be good for the community.”
Frank Lewis may be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 252, or at flewis@civitasmedia.com. For breaking news, follow Frank on Twitter @FrankLewisPDT.
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Safety Compromises: An Introduction
Because the characteristics, operating environments, duty cycles and dynamics of every public transportation mode differ, it follows each mode features different safety compromises. However, some are common to many modes or services: chief among them are responses to schedules that are much too tight.
When schedules are too tight, the driver is given the choice between (a) “complying with the schedule” (often resulting in no “recovery” or “layover” time at the end of each run — and no chance to catch his or her breath before immediately returning on, or otherwise starting another run) or (b) making safety compromises to a varying degree in order to have any recovery time at all – and, in some cases, to avoid falling increasingly behind schedule.
Often, drivers must commit safety compromises in order to create recovery time.
Needless to say, safety compromises are directly responsible for most incidents in the provision of public transportation service. The initial, and often superficial, examination of these incidents (e.g., police reports and operator-required incident reports) may reveal symptoms of the incident. But these are usually mere clues about the genuine, underlying causation of these occurrences.
In the liability arena, many of even the finest attorneys are just that: Fine attorneys. Many are brilliant and work hard on cases. But all must recognize the often subtle dynamics and nuances of public transportation modes to at least initially identify the genuine causation of incidents. They are simply not experts in the planning, design, policy-making, management and operation of public transportation services. Nor will they be familiar with all of the countless institutional and regulatory dynamics that permeate these services — often including a striking lack of regulatory control over countless aspects of these operations.
Causation and Expertise
Because, again, public transportation services are so vastly different in their many characteristics and goals, these differences make it even more difficult for industry outsiders — incident victims, advocacy groups, insurance carriers, family and friends of the victims and attorneys — to understand the genuine causation of incidents. Plus, most occur on what is known as the “operating side” of a particular mode or service, while some lie on its “automotive side.” Occasionally, there are errors on both sides, and they combine to create the incident. Few expert witnesses in the field have had experience on both sides of a mode’s operation. Plus, few experts have a depth of experience in more than one or two modes or services at all. This is unfortunate because there are important lessons in the successes and failures of every fellow mode.
Members of each mode’s community — even including their nominal leaders — are often openly hostile to ideas about or from fellow modes. In 1995, 37 of the 47 States represented at the quinquennial National Conference on School Transportation (now known as the National Congress) voted to forbid the Transit Use Committee from presenting its agenda at the Conference’s concluding plenary session. Not a word of its findings appeared in the Conference proceedings. The importance of this institutionalized intransigence is illustrated by the example that in many states, far more high school students attend school by transit than by schoolbus. The fact that both modes operate fixed route services, serve mostly designated stops, and deploy vehicles of roughly the same size is hardly a footnote either. This might seem incidental. But again, the root causes of many types of accidents — particularly in the area of safety compromises — are common to multiple modes. Their leaders’ and members’ deliberate isolation from one other simply increases the number, range and variety of their incidents.
There are important lessons for every mode in the successes and failures of every fellow mode.
For these reasons, the challenge of finding the right expert — and the genuine causation of an incident — can be daunting. This website is a contribution from one of the rare experts who bridges these divides. Apart from providing information that will hopefully provide valuable insights to management officials in various sectors of the public transportation community, this website, and sister websites treating the most common incident scenarios (like crossingaccidents.com, turningaccidents.com and wheelchairtipovers.com) are also designed and intended to provide attorneys with enough details about incident scenarios to understand the underlying causes of them, beyond the obvious symptoms. Whether you care about safety or merely care about liability exposure, there is something for you here. Incorporating snapshots from many of these other websites, this website is the cornerstone, since most incidents are the direct and proximate result of one or, far more often, multiple safety compromises.
Most incidents are the direct and proximate result of one or, far more often, multiple safety compromises.
Common and Unusual Safety Compromises
There are roughly a half-dozen major safety compromises, and a growing number of lesser ones. The most common safety compromises committed have become common because they reduce the most “running time,” and help create the most “recovery time,” at the end of each “run” of a route. These most common compromises are discussed in descending order of importance with respect to their ability to reduce the most running time, and create the most recovery time, in any given run or, for demand-responsive services, group of trips. On this site, Transportation Alternatives President Ned Einstein delves into these key individual types of safety compromises that relate to common types of personal injury cases.
Safety Compromises is an initiative of veteran expert witness and consultant Ned Einstein and Transportation Alternatives (http://www.transalt.com), part of a network of websites established to educate and inform members of the legal profession about critical safety issues in public transportation. Visit Transportation Alternatives' website to learn directly about Mr. Einstein's services and expertise in the field. | 2024-03-15T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5556 |
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Nobuyo Oyama is famous for voicing everyone's favorite earless robot cat from the future Doraemon and, well, looking like Doraemon.
From 1979 to 2005, Oyama voiced Doraemon. The 74-year-old was retired from the show and was replaced by a new Doraemon voice (not quite the same!) and a new Doraemon theme song (not as good as the previous one!).
Her lengthy resume is predominately the Doraemon television show, Doraemon movies and Doraemon video games. But this November, Oyama is voicing the menacing bear character "Mono-Bear" in PSP game Danga-Ronpa — a role she initially rejected.
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I think I mentioned previously that I’m now going to the gym. Well, I’m still going.
Today I saw the new fitness person for an update of my regimen. I’ve been told that weight-bearing exercise is good for the bones, so I wanted to add the treadmill to my regimen. Also, my left shoulder’s been acting up and I haven’t been able to do the arm exercises I was introduced to because of stiffness and pain, and I wanted to see if there were some other things I could do to exercise my arms while keeping from further injuring my arm.
Short answer, is that I was able to do both of these things.
Skylar, the new fitness person, took me around to some weight machines which aren’t like those I was working on before. Instead of levers and arms, these ones have pulleys and bars and handles for raising the weights. He showed me how to set them up so that I could use them (it’s going to be a bit of a challenge, to be honest), but the exercises he showed me enable me to immobilize my shoulder while still being able to exercise the target muscles. I figure I shouldn’t have too much trouble adjusting things for my use, especially if I make the effort to get assistance from the taller people around me because one of those pulleys can be adjusted and pretty far above my head, where I may not be able to reach, to accommodate taller people.
After showing me these new exercises, we reviewed my leg exercises. All we did with these was change the weights on a few of them “officially,” because I’d already been working at those new weights for a couple weeks. I told him I was looking for a little bit of burn, a feeling of resistance, but not so much that I felt pain, and he said that was good. He also went over my abdominal and lower back exercises and approved them.
Following that, we discussed me adding walking on the treadmill to my fitness regimen. Skylar was concerned because of my current level-1 knee pain, but I told him it’s pretty much constant and walking on cement, when I had to do a lot of it, doesn’t seem to hurt much more. So he took me to a treadmill and got me started on it, going at about 2.5mph, and had me walk it for about five minutes to determine whether I could handle it. I didn’t have any issues, so he assigned me ten minutes of that each day I go in, then 15 minutes on the recumbent bike to finish off my cardio exercise.
He didn’t change anything else. I’m still on a three-day cycle where I go in two days and don’t go in one. Skylar didn’t want to change too much at once and wanted to keep it so I wouldn’t lose track of things. He wants me to get some decent-length resistance bands and bring them in so he can show me some exercises I can do with my left arm and shoulder in addition to the physical therapy exercises to hopefully help improve its condition.
I’m a slow thinker. Though I can be witty, it takes a little time to happen. Frequently, I’ll come up with witty and clever comebacks to comments days after the conversations which inspired them. It takes me time to adjust enough to habitually include new things in my daily habits, even if I’m at a job. If there’s a typical pattern to things, it takes me a while to adjust to changes regardless of what that change might be.
This slowness of thought is evident in my learning process. It takes me seeing a movie several times before I catch the whole thing, even if I’m focused on it throughout the first viewing. Same goes for videos. For this reason, I prefer not to learn by video, especially if I’m in a class situation where I’m unable to stop it or watch it multiple times to make sure I’m picking up on things as I should.
Part of the reason I haven’t been opening GIMP is because most of the tutorials I’ve been referred to for things are video tutorials. The two or three I’ve actually tried to use have had instructions like “Click on this, then enter this number in this field here . . .” which are not helpful to me at all. Unfortunately, GIMP is not a very intuitive program; I need the tutorials. I’m not quick enough to follow the mouse around the screen and see what all is happening.
I work best with written instructions, and friends have been pointing me toward more of them. My experience with the video tutorials has turned me off of GIMP for the time being, however, though I do intend to open it up and try to learn. Just need to print out the instruction booklet that I found online and do the same with the tutorials my friends have pointed me to.
And, once I’m comfortable with it, I have the insane desire to go through whatever video tutorials I find I must use and transcribe them with better instructions than “click this here and enter this number in this field.” It’s a goal. LOL
In other real-life things, I put a lot of forethought into them. For instance, my fitness goals. Up until the first part of last month, I was in the process of contemplating how I could become more active in my lifestyle. But this was only in a general sense. I was working myself up for taking walks, not realizing part of my aversion to it was due to a mood swing which had made me incredibly antisocial (to the point of not even checking my snailmail daily—I was that afraid of encountering someone I’d be hooked into having a chat with).
I was discussing contemplation of fitness goals in Forward Motion for Writers chat with a friend who happens to be a Beachbody coach. I mentioned part of what was holding me back on anything besides walking was my knees, and she did a search of the Beachbody site and came up with a fitness program based on tai chi, which had been developed by a fitness expert who also is an expert in tai chi—it’s called Tai Cheng. I watched the little video she pointed me to, and I heard some things from people who’d used it which I liked, and ordered it the day I got paid in May.
Ever since then, I’ve been contemplating adding this fitness regimen to my daily habits, and I’m getting there. Buying the program was just what I needed to galvanize me into thinking of fitness more seriously, and I’ve already done the best I can with my current budget to change my diet according to the program’s suggestion.
On occasion, I make quick decisions like with the Tai Cheng fitness program, then put the thought necessary behind them. But, there’s always that thinking process I go through, whether it’s before or after the decision. It’s just the way I think. | 2024-07-21T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/8172 |
Penang undersea tunnel project: Probe to focus on RM305m fee
(File pix) On going sea reclamation work at Persiaran Gurney, Georgetown. Sources close to the investigation said another aspect being looked into was the feasibility studies and detailed design of the project worth a whopping RM305 million. Pix by Shahnaz Fazlie Shahrizal
KUALA LUMPUR: THE Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s investigation into the proposed Penang undersea tunnel project will focus on the RM305 million paid to the project’s consultant using two plots of land near Tanjung Tokong.
Sources close to the investigation informed Berita Harian (BH) this was because when the two plots of land, measuring 1.49ha and 0.8ha, are developed they could fetch up to RM15 billion.
The source also said another aspect being looked into was the feasibility studies and detailed design of the project worth a whopping RM305 million.
“Questions arise on the total cost to the state government for the studies and its method of payment,” the source added.
Queries about the mega project and payments made by the state government had previously been raised at the Penang state assembly sitting by PKR’s Kebun Bunga representative Cheah Kah Peng in November 2016.
Cheah had then queried the state government about the pros and cons, costs and details of the privatised mega reclamation and land swap projects.
He said the state assemblymen were then informed that the tunnel’s “feasibility report” and the required “environmental impact report” had not been completed, but yet the government had agreed to pay a large payment of RM138,971,572 for the feasibility report and design, and that the sum was approved by the relevant government departments years ago.
He said the whole feasibility report was worth RM305 million and was mainly to be paid with land swaps, which involved exchanges of two lots at Tanjung Pinang and Tanjung Tokong.
He later posted that questions had been raised by few state assemblymen on the land swaps and reclamations, and that they were unsure how the feasibility tests justified such a large payment and in exchange for the two lots of reclaimed land.
Another source told BH that the two plots were eventually going to be developed into luxury condominiums, and had already been transferred to the consultancy company based on a value of RM280 million.
It is learnt that the state government had also identified another lot worth RM25 million which is to be used as payment to the same company as full settlement of the RM305 million. | 2024-04-10T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7310 |
After opening this season with the Oklahoma City Thunder’s main roster, Semaj Christon has been assigned to the team’s NBA Development League affiliate, OKC Blue.
Christon’s spot on Oklahoma City’s roster was made expendable by the return of second-year guard Cameron Payne. Payne’s 16-17' debut for OKC came in a Nov. 7 win vs. Denver.
Since rejoining the Thunder, the 22-year-old Payne has averaged 3.3 ppg and 1.7 apg, while playing 13 minutes per night. Though Oklahoma City’s 2015 lottery pick fared well vs. the Nuggets, he floundered in reserve duty against both Chicago and Memphis.
The Thunder has assigned guard Semaj Christon to the @okcblue. — Erik Horne (@ErikHorneOK) January 12, 2017
Payne has made just one of his last nine attempts from the field. Even with Payne’s struggles, OKC brass has decided to assign the rookie Christon.
In 36 regular-season contests, Christon has posted averages of 3.2 ppg and 2.5 apg. Along with Payne’s re-emergence as backup point guard, Christon’s poor 34.5/17.9/47.4 shooting split factored heavily into his falling out of the back-court rotation.
The 24-year-old Christon was selected 55th overall in the 2014 Draft by the Miami Heat. Later that Summer, Christon joined Oklahoma City’s Summer League roster and played 44 games that season for the team’s Development League affiliate.
After spending 15-16 competing overseas, the 6’3 Christon was officially signed by OKC over the offseason. The former Xavier standout surprised many by making the Oklahoma City Thunder roster ahead of veteran Ronnie Price — as Cameron Payne convalesced from foot injury.
Just before his assignment, it was reported by Fred Katz of the Oklahoman that Christon’s contract had been picked up by OKC through the remainder of this season. | 2024-01-29T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/9785 |
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The first are generally silica-based, non-crystalline (amorphous) solids which exhibit a glass transition and are brittle and transparent. The properties of glass materials can be readily modified to alter their optical performance and other characteristics. This type is available through Goodfellow's Ceramic and Glass Division. Generally, these products are made to order for customers, so we do not list them in our Catalogue. Please contact us with your requirements.
The second type of glass product is commonly referred to as "metallic glasses" or "glassy metals". In contrast to crystalline metals and alloys with highly ordered atomic structures, these are non-crystalline (amorphous) metals or, more usually, alloys. Our website details those glassy metals which are available from stock; please contact us if you are unable to find the item you specifically require. | 2024-07-14T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/9460 |
The topic of psychology of religion is rich with research paper topics to explore for a religion or psychology class. The focus of the topic centers on the “study and interpretation of recognized faiths using contemporary methods of Western psychology,” according to Questia.com.
Find out more about psychology of religion. (Credit: apps.lib.whu.edu)
Particular areas of interest include why people are attracted to religion, the difference between being religious and being spiritual or what are the benefits of religion.
Being spiritual or being religious
It is common to hear people describe themselves as being spiritual rather than religious. But is there a difference? And if so are there benefits to feeling one-way or the other? Possible research paper topics could explore if this is a way of thinking found only in Western psychology or if the split between spirituality and religiosity is more universal.
In the post “Are You Spiritual or Religious? Does it Matter?” for psychologytoday.com’s Putting Psyche Back Into Psychotherapy blog, Josh Gressel delved into a possible answer. He described being spiritual as “(1) to be able to recognize and experience spirit in the everyday world, and (2) to value it and consider it more important than the material surface of life.” Gressel explained that for him the next step to being religious comes from committing to an organized path, i.e. adhering to an organized religion.
The benefits of religion
Why are people religious? And does being religious offer benefits? These questions offer more research paper topics on the subject of psychology of religion. The basic areas that could be discussed include do humans have an emotional predisposition to seek a higher power and is it even in human DNA to seek a higher power?
Jeff Grabmeier reported on new research about the psychology of religion in “The psychology behind religious belief” on October 5, 2015, for Ohio State University’s website. He quoted Steven Reiss, author of The 16 Strivings for God, who said, “Religion couldn’t achieve mass acceptance if it only fulfilled one or two basic desires.” The new book shared that there are 16 basic desires humans all share: acceptance, curiosity, eating, family, honor, idealism, independence, order, physical activity, power, romance, saving, social contact, status, tranquility and vengeance. Reiss and his fellow researchers theorized in the book that being religious provides believers with ways to satisfy many of those desires.
Western psychology of religion
The study of the psychology of religion is a relatively new area of interest. First explored around the turn of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung are two of the most well-known names in Western psychology to research the topic. Freud felt religion was something from humans past to be left behind, while Jung countered that religion could be transformative. All human cultures have a belief in souls living after death and higher, invisible powers that play a role in daily life. Examining the onset of the study of the psychology of religion or its evolution over the last 100-plus years are good research paper topics to consider.
“The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion” by Steven Pinker for the September-October 2006 issue of The Humanist theorized, “Taken as a whole, the universal propensity toward religious belief is a genuine scientific puzzle and many adaptationist explanations for religion don’t meet the criteria for adaptations. There is an alternative explanation, namely that religious psychology is a byproduct of many parts of the mind that evolved for other purposes.” This idea of the evolution of the mind as being the reason humans continue in being religious (or its newer variation, being spiritual) is another paper topic to explore. | 2024-01-04T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6625 |
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1. Introduction {#s0005}
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The global prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rising due to an aging population and the increasing prevalence of obesity and physical inactivity, the latter two being major risk factors of T2DM ([@bb0210]; [@bb0180]). Multiple randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of intensive interventions have shown that T2DM can be prevented by changes in lifestyle ([@bb0025]; [@bb0195]), which in people with T2DM, can prevent or delay the onset of macrovascular and microvascular complications ([@bb0200]; [@bb0020]). In addition, a recent study in people with T2DM, delivered in the primary care setting, showed that intensive weight management can achieve remission of T2DM ([@bb0110]). Indeed, more intensive programmes used in RCTs have great outcomes and therefore are highly relevant for both people with and at risk for T2DM, but translation into practical, affordable interventions delivered in a real-life setting has shown to be less effective ([@bb0015]; [@bb0035]) Besides, there does not seem to be an effective 'one size fits all' approach to engage people in lifestyle or self-management interventions.
We developed a low-cost, volunteer-based, intervention as an option to offer to people with multiple cardiovascular risk factors who were close to the top end of the full range of patient motivations and capacities. Previous meta-analyses that studied the impact of walking programmes noted that walking could improve glycaemic control, body mass index (BMI), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in people with T2DM ([@bb0150]). In sedentary but healthy adults, it also improved systolic blood pressure (SBP) ([@bb0120]). The length and the frequency of the walking sessions in included studies varied from 20 to 120 min and 2 to 7 times per week, respectively. Although intensive lifestyle interventions to prevent and control diabetes have shown to be cost-effective (≤\$50.000/quality-adjusted life year) ([@bb0085]; [@bb0115]), our programme likely reduces total costs due to the voluntary contribution of the healthcare providers.
Since 2015, two primary healthcare centres in Nijkerk, in the middle of the Netherlands, organise an annual supervised walking programme for highly motivated individuals with T2DM and those at risk for it, able to walk for 6 km once weekly as starting level. This six months walking programme called the Nijkerk challenge (NC), ends with a challenge week in which people walk six consecutive days. The present study aims to evaluate the effect of this challenge on bodyweight, BMI, waist circumference, blood pressure, HbA1c, well-being, health status and patient activation.
2. Methods {#s0010}
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2.1. Study design and participants {#s0015}
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This is an observational study with a pre-post study design with 28 weeks follow-up. Subjects were recruited from two primary healthcare centres in Nijkerk, providing care to about 1500 people with T2DM. People with a T2DM diagnosis confirmed by International Classification of Primary Care code T90.02 in the patient\'s electronic medical record (EMR), and those considered at risk for T2DM by their general practitioner (e.g. overweight, obesity, physical inactivity), were assessed for eligibility. People with exercise-limiting co-morbidities not able to walk 6 km at the start of the programme (e.g. old age, musculoskeletal impairment or vascular disease of the lower extremities, visual impairment) were excluded from participation. All eligible people were informed about the walking programme by letter and were invited for an information session. People highly motivated, wanting to do a significant walking challenge, and willing to participate in the NC received a second letter in which they were informed about and asked to participate in this particular study. Written informed consent was obtained prior to participation from each participant. Ethical approval was obtained by the Medical Ethical committee of the University Medical Center Utrecht.
2.2. Nijkerk challenge programme {#s0020}
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The Nijkerk challenge consists of a walking programme, in which participants walked in groups, once weekly, under the supervision of different volunteer healthcare professionals (physiotherapists, medical practice assistants, podiatrists, dietitians, general practitioners and sports coaches). Depending on their prior level of activity participants started walking 6, 8 or 10 km. During the NC, participants could increase their walking distance and intensity; and by the end of the study all participants walked 10 km during each walking session. The walking programme started on 18 February 2017. It ended with the challenge week from 21 to 26 August 2017, in which the participants walked approximately 15 km for six consecutive days. Participants walked for a total of 28 weeks.
Although participants were encouraged to do more physical activity outside of the one-time per week supervised walking, there were no expectations for the participants to attain certain levels.
Apart from the walking programme, participants were able to attend a diabetes education session and a cooking class. In addition, individuals with T2DM were offered blood glucose self-monitoring during one week at home two times, to obtain more insight into the effects of their food choices, physical activity, and medication use on glycaemic control.
2.3. Measurements {#s0025}
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Prior to the Nijkerk challenge, on 13 February 2017, a measurement session was organised for measuring bodyweight, length, waist circumference and blood pressure. Bodyweight, length and waist circumference were measured according to standardised procedures ([@bb0125]) using a digital balance, a standard stadiometer and a measuring tape, respectively. Blood pressure was measured using the Omron 6 comfort. After the Nijkerk challenge, on 29 August 2017, the same aforementioned measurements were taken. If a participant did not attend the measurement session, last available measurements before the start and the end of the NC (with a range of 2 months prior or after), were extracted from the EMR; see below.
Data extracted from the EMR were as followed: age, gender, diabetes duration, blood pressure, bodyweight, BMI, HbA1c, and prescribed antihypertensive and blood glucose-lowering medication. Blood pressure, BMI, HbA1c, and prescribed medication were extracted between two months before the start and two months after the NC. Measurements closest to the start and end of the NC were used. Each individual has his own HbA1c target value, based on the Dutch diabetes guidelines ([@bb0170]), which depends on age, medication use and diabetes duration.
2.4. Patient reported outcome measures {#s0030}
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Participants received online questionnaires before and after the NC. Three validated questionnaires were used to assess well-being, health status and patient activation. In addition, participants were asked for their estimated attendance rate at the walking sessions and for their attendance at the education session, cooking class and blood glucose monitoring.
Well-being was measured using the 5-item WHO questionnaire (WHO-5) covering items related to positive mood, vitality and general interests ([@bb0190]; [@bb0145]). Each item is rated on a 6-point Likert scale ranging from 0 'not present' to 5 'constantly present'. The total score was multiplied by four to give a final score ranging from 0 to 100, with lower scores indicating less well-being.
Health status was measured with the EuroQol-visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS) developed by The EuroQol Group ([@bb0185]; [@bb0205]). It measures self-rated health on a vertical, visual analogue scale, with 0 representing the worst health one can imagine and 100 representing the best imaginable health.
The level of patient activation was measured by the 13-item patient activation measure (PAM-13) ([@bb0080]; [@bb0155]). It assesses an individual\'s knowledge, skills, and confidence for managing one\'s health and healthcare. It uses a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 'strongly disagree' to 4 'strongly agree' and 0 'not applicable'. A total score ranging from 0 to 100 was calculated, with higher scores representing higher activation. Participants who answered four or more questions with 'not applicable', as well as those who answered all 13 questions with 'strongly disagree' or 'strongly agree', were excluded. Subsequently, all participants with a valid PAM-13 score were categorized into one of the four patient activation levels, based on the Insignia Health guidelines, with level 1 being least activated and level 4 being most activated ([@bb0080]).
2.5. Statistical analyses {#s0035}
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Descriptive statistics were used to describe the study population at baseline. Binary and categorical data are presented as frequencies and percentages. Continuous variables are presented as means with standard deviations (SD) or as medians with interquartile range (IQR) for skewed data. Paired *t*-tests were used to analyse pre-post challenge differences for each variable. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used for skewed paired data or small numbers. Analyses of weight, BMI, waist circumference, blood pressure, well-being, health status and patient activation were performed in all participants. In addition, those of weight, BMI, waist circumference, and blood pressure, were performed in each group separately (at risk and T2DM). Analyses of blood pressure and HbA1c were initially done for all participants. Subsequently, sensitivity analyses were performed after excluding participants whose antihypertensive medication or blood glucose-lowering medication were changed during the NC. Analyses of HbA1c were also performed after dividing participants in groups based on their HbA1c level at baseline (HbA1c ≤53 or \>53 mmol/mol). SPSS Analytical Software version 21.0 (SPSS INC, Chicago, IL, USA) was used. A *p*-value below 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
3. Results {#s0040}
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3.1. Participation and baseline characteristics {#s0045}
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Of all invited people, only 75 participated in the NC, of whom 63 gave informed consent to participate in this study. A total of 56 participants were included in this study, of whom 30 had T2DM and 26 were at risk for it. During the NC six participants dropped out; five in the T2DM group, one in the at-risk group ([Fig. 1](#f0005){ref-type="fig"}). The mean self-reported attendance rate for the walking sessions was 79.5%. Of all participants that filled in the questionnaires, 50% attended the cooking class, 55.6% attended the education session and 47.4% of the participants with T2DM monitored their glucose ([Table 1](#t0005){ref-type="table"}).Fig. 1Participant enrolment flow chart of the Nijkerk challenge (Nijkerk, the Netherlands, February to August 2017).Fig. 1Table 1Self-reported attendance rate for the walking sessions, education session, cooking class and blood glucose monitoring.Table 1All participants (*n* = 36)At risk\
(*n* = 17)T2DM\
(*n* = 19)Distance starting level, n (%) 6 km8 (22.2)6 (35.3)2 (10.5) 8 km9 (25.0)4 (23.5)5 (26.3) 10 km19 (52.8)7 (41.2)12 (63.2)Proportions of walking sessions attended, mean %79.579.179.9Education session, n (%)20 (55.6)8 (47.1)12 (63.2)Cooking class, n (%)18 (50.0)6 (35.3)12 (63.2)Glucose monitoring, n (%)N/AN/A9 (47.4)[^1]
Participants had a mean age of 60.6 (10.0) years and 60.7% were female. Those with T2DM were older and more often male. Overall, participants were typically obese and blood pressure was suboptimal at baseline, despite an overall use of antihypertensive medication in 55.4% of the participants. Compared to participants in the at-risk group, those with T2DM used antihypertensive medication more often. With respect to BMI, waist circumference and blood pressure, both groups were comparable at the start of the NC. Participants with T2DM had a median HbA1c of 50 ([@bb0190]) mmol/mol at baseline, but 33.3% had an HbA1c above their personal target value. The majority of the participants with T2DM was on metformin only (23.3%) or a combination of metformin and sulfonylurea (30.0%), and 26.7% received lifestyle advice only. At the start of the NC, participants with T2DM experienced more well-being and a slightly better health status compared to those at risk for it. About half of the participants had a patient activation level 3 pre-challenge ([Table 2](#t0010){ref-type="table"}).Table 2Baseline characteristics of people participating in the Nijkerk challenge (February 2017).Table 2All participants (*n* = 56)At risk\
(*n* = 26)T2DM\
(*n* = 30)Age, mean (SD), years60.6 (10.0)56.2 (9.2)64.3 (9.2)Women, n (%)34 (60.7)20 (76.9)14 (46.7)Anthropometric measures Weight, median (IQR), kg88.1 (20.3)88.8 (26.6)87.8 (18.4) BMI, median (IQR), kg/m^2^30.8 (5.4)31.9 (6.2)30.1 (5.0) Waist circumference, mean (SD), cm108.7 (10.2)[a](#tf0005){ref-type="table-fn"}108.8 (10.7)108.6 (9.9)[b](#tf0010){ref-type="table-fn"}Blood pressure, mean (SD), mm Hg Systolic146.9 (19.1)146.5 (21.0)147.2 (17.6) Diastolic89.9 (9.9)91.3 (7.2)88.8 (11.7)Antihypertensive medication use, n (%)31 (55.4)10 (38.5)21 (70.0)Diabetes factorsN/AN/A Duration of T2DM, mean (SD), years8.9 (5.4) HbA1c, median (IQR)50.0 (16)[b](#tf0010){ref-type="table-fn"} Blood glucose lowering medication use, n (%) Lifestyle advice only8 (26.7) Metformin only7 (23.3) Sulfonylurea only1 (3.3) Combination of metformin and sulfonylurea9 (30.0) Combination of metformin/sulfonylurea and other blood glucose lowering medication3 (10.0)Insulin ± oral blood glucose lowering medication2 (6.7)Questionnaires, median (IQR)*n* = 45*n* = 23*n* = 22 WHO-568.0 (22)64.0 (20)72.0 (21) EQ-VAS74.0 (21)74.0 (23)78.00 (18) PAM-1355.6 (14.2)[c](#tf0015){ref-type="table-fn"}55.6 (9.6)[d](#tf0020){ref-type="table-fn"}55.6 (19.1)Level of patient activation, n (%) Level 19 (22.0)3 (15.8)6 (27.3) Level 28 (19.5)6 (31.6)2 (9.1) Level 319 (46.3)9 (47.4)10 (45.5) Level 45 (12.2)1 (5.3)4 (18.2)[^2][^3][^4][^5][^6]
3.2. Pre-post challenge differences {#s0050}
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Pre- and post-challenge anthropometric measures and blood pressure in the overall study population and in both groups separately are presented in [Table 3](#t0015){ref-type="table"} and [Table 4](#t0020){ref-type="table"}, respectively. The overall study population showed significant improvements in body weight (median decrease from 88 to 84 kg), BMI (median decrease from 30.7 to 29.7 kg/m^2^), and waist circumference (mean difference 3.4 cm). Improvements were larger in the at-risk group. Both SBP and DBP decreased significantly (mean difference 6.5 mm Hg and 3.5 mm Hg, respectively), although decrease in DBP was more pronounced in the T2DM group. During the NC antihypertensive medication prescription was added in four participants in the at-risk group and reduced in one participant in the T2DM group. If these changes in antihypertensive medication were taken into account, decreases in SBP and DBP became less pronounced in the at-risk group (5.3 mm Hg (*p* = 0.10) and 1.8 mm Hg (*p* = 0.37), respectively). In the T2DM group differences became more pronounced, with a decrease of 7.4 mm Hg in SBP (*p* = 0.06) and 5.0 mm Hg in DBP (*p* = 0.01).Table 3Pre-challenge, post-challenge and changes in anthropometric measures and blood pressure in the overall study population of the Nijkerk challenge (February--August 2017).Table 3NPre-challengePost-challengeMean difference (95% CI)*p*-valueWeight, median, (IQR), kg5388.0 (20.0)84.0 (22.4)⎯\<0.01BMI, median (IQR), kg/m^2^5330.7 (5.2)29.7 (4.8)⎯\<0.01Waist circumference, mean (SD), cm44107.3 (9.5)103.9 (9.8)3.4 (2.1; 4.8)\<0.01Blood pressure, mean (SD), mm Hg Systolic54147.3 (19.3)140.9 (17.6)6.5 (1.6; 11.3)0.01 Diastolic5490.1 (9.9)86.6 (9.0)3.5 (1.0; 6.0)\<0.01[^7]Table 4Pre-challenge, post-challenge and changes in anthropometric measures and blood pressure in participants at risk for T2DM and participants with T2DM, separately.Table 4At riskT2DMNPre-challengePost-challengeMean difference (95% CI)*p*-valueNPre-challengePost-challengeMean difference (95% CI)*p*-valueWeight, median (IQR), kg2488.8 (24.6)83.5 (23.3)⎯\<0.012987.5 (17.3)85.0 (21.0)⎯0.10BMI, median (IQR), kg/m^2^2431.9 (5.8)30.5 (3.6)⎯\<0.012930.0 (4.7)28.7 (4.9)⎯0.15Waist circumference, mean (SD), cm24108.3 (10.9)104.4 (11.0)3.9\
(2.2; 5.6)\<0.0120106.1 (7.7)103.2 (8.4)2.9\
(0.5; 5.2)0.02Blood pressure, mean (SD), mm Hg Systolic25146.9 (21.3)140.4 (16.6)6.5\
(0.6; 12.4)0.0329147.7 (17.7)141.3 (18.6)6.4\
(−1.4; 14.2)0.10 Diastolic2591.2 (7.4)88.9 (9.0)2.3\
(−1.3; 5.8)0.202989.2 (11.7)84.7 (8.7)4.5\
(0.8; 8.2)0.02[^8]
Complete HbA1c data were available from 21 participants with T2DM. Overall, no significant differences in median HbA1c were observed. Subanalysis shows that those with an HbA1c ≤53 mmol/mol at the start of the NC (*n* = 13) did not improve, whereas those with an HbA1c above 53 mmol/mol (*n* = 8) improved from 64.0 ([@bb0205]) mmol/mol to 57.5 ([@bb0085]) mmol/mol post-challenge (*p* = 0.03). During the NC blood glucose-lowering medication prescription was diminished in three participants with an HbA1c ≤53 mmol/mol and added in one with an HbA1c above 53 mmol/mol. After excluding these participants, the decrease in median HbA1c in the group with a higher HbA1c remained significant (7.0 mmol/mol, *p* = 0.04).
Only 20 participants filled in questionnaires both at the start and post-challenge; 10 in each subgroup. Because of few data only results for the overall study population are shown ([Table 5](#t0025){ref-type="table"}). Participants experienced statistically significant more well-being.Table 5Pre-challenge, post-challenge and changes in questionnaire scores in the overall study population of the Nijkerk challenge.Table 5All participants (*n* = 20)Pre-challengePost-challenge*p*-valueWHO-572.0 (20.0)76.0 (12.0)0.01EQ-VAS74.0 (23.0)80.0 (15.8)0.07PAM-13[a](#tf0025){ref-type="table-fn"}55.6 (15.3)58.1 (18.9)0.37[^9][^10]
4. Discussion {#s0055}
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An easy to organise and low-cost 28-weeks supervised walking programme significantly improved BMI, waist circumference, SBP and DBP in a highly motivated study population that is able to walk for 6 km once weekly as a starting level and wanting to do a significant walking challenge. Furthermore, participants experienced significantly more well-being and a better health status (non-significant) post-challenge. Participants with T2DM whose HbA1c was \>53 mmol/mol, but not those below that level, had a significant decrease in HbA1c post-challenge.
With respect to body composition, our findings are in agreement with previous studies conducted in controlled settings in terms of direction of effect. [@bb0150] and [@bb0120] examined in their meta-analyses the effect of walking on cardiovascular risk factors in people with T2DM and sedentary but healthy participants, respectively. They found significant improvements in bodyweight and BMI, but with regard to the magnitude of the effect of a walking programme on body composition, improvements were larger in our study population. Although both meta-analyses included RCTs with a higher frequency of walks per week (ranging from 2 to 7 times a week), both supervised and non-supervised, our walking programme covered a significant volume (i.e. distance). In abovementioned meta-analyses duration of each walking session varied from 20 to 120 min; average duration is not given. Furthermore, we do not have any information about the amount of unsupervised physical activity outside of the walking programme, and neither about dietary outcomes, that both might have contributed to the favourable effect found. Differences in effect size may also be due to a lower BMI at baseline in the included studies and a shorter walking programme. Moreover, weight loss in our study population might be more since post-challenge measurements were taken three days after the challenge-week in which participants walked 15 km for six days consecutively. Maybe the highly selected sample (highly motivated and able to walk 6 km once weekly at the start) in our study population is the main trigger of our findings. If so, in our opinion this does not affect their relevance. One size does not fit all, but for those who want to walk in groups one day per week, the walking programme seems a good option.
When compared to other lifestyle interventions, achieved weight loss and decline in BMI were similar to results found in diabetes prevention programmes in highly controlled settings ([@bb0025]; [@bb0195]; [@bb0165]). Recently, Duijzer et al. ([@bb0030]) assessed the effectiveness of the SLIMMER combined dietary and physical activity lifestyle intervention in people at risk for T2DM in Dutch primary healthcare. After 12 months, the decrease in BMI was comparable to our findings in a real-life setting. On the contrary, a one-year nurse-led lifestyle program ([@bb0075]) and a cognitive behaviour programme ([@bb0105]), both performed in Dutch primary healthcare, resulted in smaller changes in body composition.
The NC had high clinical impact on both SBP and DBP, and the blood pressure decrease was larger than in the aforementioned meta-analyses ([@bb0150]; [@bb0120]). This may be due to the higher blood pressure at baseline in our study population. Moreover, since weight loss adds to the benefits of exercise alone ([@bb0130]; [@bb0005]; [@bb0050]), it is expected that the higher magnitude of weight loss in our study contributed to the observed effects. Other lifestyle intervention programmes in Dutch patients found larger decreases in DBP ranging from 2.8 mm Hg ([@bb0030]) to 5.9 mm Hg ([@bb0045]), but smaller decreases in SBP ranging from 2.8 mm Hg ([@bb0075]) to 4.7 mm Hg ([@bb0030]). Principally, the large decrease in SBP in our study is favourable.
In contrast to the results of a previous meta-analysis ([@bb0150]), where an overall decline in HbA1c level of 0.58% (95% CI -0.93 to −0.23%) in supervised walking programmes was found, we were not able to demonstrate such an improvement, most likely due to the fact that on average participants with T2DM were well-controlled at the start of the NC. This assumption is supported by the finding that glycaemic control did improve by 6.5 mmol/mol (\~0.6%) in participants with insufficient glycaemic control (HbA1c \>53 mmol/mol), which is in line with existing evidence that higher baseline HbA1c levels are associated with greater reductions in HbA1c levels ([@bb0050]; [@bb0160]; [@bb0055]; [@bb0095]). Presumably, the weight loss contributed to the observed decrease in HbA1c in participants with insufficient glycaemic control, but previous studies have also indicated that physical activity decreases the risk of diabetes through mechanisms beyond weight loss alone ([@bb0060]; [@bb0100]; [@bb0140]).
Recently, a cross-sectional study conducted in people with T2DM in Dutch general practices, found a statistically significant, but not clinically relevant, positive association between physical activity and well-being ([@bb0070]). Although the former study is a cross-sectional study, and therefore cause and effect cannot be determined, our results showed that the NC significantly improved participant\'s well-being, which is in line with other ([@bb0055]; [@bb0090]; [@bb0175]), but not all ([@bb0160]) studies that examined the effect of exercise programmes on well-being. Improvements in health status reached significance, to a post-challenge health status comparable to the overall Dutch population ([@bb0095]). Significant improvements in health status, measured by EQ-VAS, were reported of a 3-year lifestyle intervention programme performed in primary healthcare ([@bb0040]). When compared to studies that used the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) as measure of physical and mental health status, this concurs with the results of the IDES and SLIMMER interventions ([@bb0030]; [@bb0135]).
Well-being, physical health status and BMI are associated with patient activation and thereby influence diabetes control and self-management ([@bb0010]; [@bb0065]). In the current study, no significant increase in patient activation was found. Baseline patient activation score was similar to those reported in two cross-sectional studies in people with T2DM in the Netherlands ([@bb0010]; [@bb0065]). Many participants remained at patient activation level 3 post-challenge, suggesting that these individuals are taking actions to self-manage their health ([@bb0155]), although there is still room for improvement.
4.1. Study limitations and strengths {#s0060}
------------------------------------
An important strength of our study is that it is conducted in a real-life primary care setting. Besides, the walking programme is simple to implement and low-cost, on the condition that a sufficient number of volunteer health care professionals is available. Moreover, it evaluates the effectiveness of supervised walking on various important outcome measures. Despite the small number of people participating in this study and a dropout rate of \~10%, both significant and clinical relevant effects were found.
But, in interpreting our findings, several limitations need to be considered. Since only a small number of people from the invited individuals agreed to participate, included participants are likely to be more motivated for lifestyle interventions. The way of selecting participants at risk for T2DM may also have caused selection bias. Because of the highly selective group of motivated participants, generalizability of the findings can be questioned. Although the outcomes are great in magnitude, it is likely not 'high impact' as it may address only a small proportion of affected or at-risk individuals and therefore its reduction in community attributable risk is likely modest.
Potential confounders to the results of this study are the baseline physical activity, the amount of physical activity people attained outside the walking programme, and the dietary habits. Since changes in levels of physical activity outside the walking sessions and changes in diet have not been assessed during the NC, it is unsure whether the reported effects are only due to the walking programme itself. Since post-challenge measurements are only taken three days after the challenge-week, we cannot provide information about long-term effects on body composition.
5. Conclusion {#s0065}
=============
In conclusion, in motivated individuals with T2DM and those at risk for it, this study demonstrates that a once per week, intensive, supervised walking programme, has favourable effects on body composition, blood pressure, HbA1c and well-being, and has potential to improve health status. Such programme could hereby prevent T2DM, and prevent or delay the onset of complications or induce remission, although generalizability can be questioned because of the highly selective group of motivated participants.
Conflict of interest {#s0070}
====================
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Funding {#s0075}
=======
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
The authors would like to express their gratitude to the volunteer healthcare professionals from collaborating health centres Nijkerk (De Nije Veste and Corlaer) and participants involved in the Nijkerk challenge.
[^1]: Continuous variables presented as means, dichotomous variables presented as count (percentage). N, number of subjects. T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus. N/A, not applicable.
[^2]: Continuous variables presented as means (SD) or medians (IQR), dichotomous variables presented as count (percentage). N, number of subjects. SD, standard deviation. IQR, interquartile range. T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus. BMI, body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared). N/A, not applicable. HbA1c, glycosylated haemoglobin A1c. WHO-5, World Health Organization Five Well-Being Index. EQ-VAS, EuroQol Visual Analogue scale. PAM-13, 13-item Patient Activation Measure.
[^3]: *n* = 50.
[^4]: *n* = 24.
[^5]: *n* = 41.
[^6]: *n* = 19.
[^7]: Variables presented as means (SD) or medians (IQR). If values are reported in means, *p*-values are calculated using the paired *t*-test; if values are given in medians, *p*-values are calculated using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test. N, number of subjects. SD, standard deviation. IQR, interquartile range. BMI, body mass index. CI, confidence interval.
[^8]: Variables presented as means (SD) or medians (IQR). If values are reported in means, p-values are calculated using the paired t-test; if values are given in medians, p-values are calculated using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test. T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus. N, number of subjects. SD, standard deviation. IQR, interquartile range. BMI, body mass index. CI, confidence interval.
[^9]: Values are expressed in medians with interquartile range. P-value is calculated using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test. WHO-5, World Health Organization Five Well-Being Index. EQ-VAS, EuroQol Visual Analogue scale. PAM-13, 13-item Patient Activation Measure.
[^10]: *n* = 18.
| 2023-11-04T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7590 |
Gangster's Law
Gangster's Law () is a 1969 Italian thriller film directed by Siro Marcellini and starring Klaus Kinski.
Cast
Klaus Kinski as Quintero
Maurice Poli as Rino Quintero
Franco Citti as Bruno Esposito
Samy Pavel as Franco
Susy Andersen as Mayde
Hélène Chanel as Countess Elena Villani
Micaela Pignatelli as Renato's lover
Nello Pazzafini as the driver
Aurora Bautista as Rosi, Bruno's lover
Production
Gangster's Law was filmed on location Genoa.
Release
Gangster's Law was released in Italy on August 8, 1969 where it was distributed by Regional. It grossed a total of 140,995,000 Italian lire on its theatrical release.
References
External links
Category:1969 films
Category:Italian films
Category:Italian-language films
Category:1960s crime thriller films
Category:Films directed by Siro Marcellini
Category:Films scored by Piero Umiliani | 2023-08-09T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5788 |
Q:
Blade foreach loop throws error when empty
I can't understand why this isn't working.
I have a many-to-many relationship in Laravel between two models for Post and Tag.
When showing the post I have this code in my blade template:
@if(!empty($page->tags))
@foreach($page->tags as $tag)
@if($loop->last)
{{$tag->name}}
@else
{{$tag->name}},
@endif
@foreach
@endif
However when there are no tags on a post it throws this error:
Undefined offset: 1
Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions::handleError
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Compilers/Concerns/CompilesLoops.php:95
If I comment out the foreach loop all is fine. But because of the if statement the foreach loop shouldn't run but apparently tries to. I tried other expressions in my if statement too including
@if(count($page->tags) > 0)
and
@if(null !== $page->tags)
nothing seems to work. I am at a loss as how to gracefully handle the absence of tags.
if I dd($page->tags) it shows its just an empty array so I don't understand why this won't work.
A:
You are not closing your @foreach, you used a second one. But please take into account the information below!
@if(!empty($page->tags))
@foreach($page->tags as $tag)
@if($loop->last)
{{$tag->name}}
@else
{{$tag->name}},
@endif
@endforeach
@endif
*** Related and possibly useful for similar errors **
Your issue here is you are getting a Collection using $page->tags, and it does not interact with empty() the way you think it would.
In php:
$obj = (object) [];
empty($obj);
// returns false
And a laravel Collection is an object, so even if $page->tags, has no items in it, you are essentially doing:
empty(collect())
// returns false
If you can guarantee the $page->tags is always set then you can use the collection method:
@if($page->tags->isNotEmpty())
@endif
However if sometimes $page->tags is null (ie. tags is not loaded on page), then you can use:
@if(isset($page->tags))
@endif
All of that said, IF $page->tags is always present (loaded), then the @foreach syntax should not error, since Collection is iterable, and would be equivalent to doing foreach ([] as $item) {}.
| 2024-06-14T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/1755 |
The production of electric power in emergencies or in remote locations is a common problem. A portable electric generator may be used to produce electric power in emergencies or for delivering electric power to remote locations not served by the local electric utility.
One problem with portable electric generators relates to their capacity. In particular, while a single portable generator may be used to supply a load having a given demand, providing loads of higher demand with multiple portable generators can raise both technical and safety related problems.
A need therefore exists for an improved portable power system. Accordingly, a solution that addresses, at least in part, the above and other shortcomings is desired. | 2024-05-02T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6336 |
Q:
C# - Binding TextBox to an integer
How to bind a TextBox to an integer? For example, binding unit to textBox1.
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
int unit;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
textBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", unit, "???");
}
A:
It would need to be a public property of an instance; in this case, the "this" would suffice:
public int Unit {get;set;}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
textBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", this, "Unit");
}
For two-way notification, you'll need either UnitChanged or INotifyPropertyChanged:
private int unit;
public event EventHandler UnitChanged; // or via the "Events" list
public int Unit {
get {return unit;}
set {
if(value!=unit) {
unit = value;
EventHandler handler = UnitChanged;
if(handler!=null) handler(this,EventArgs.Empty);
}
}
}
If you don't want it on the public API, you could wrap it in a hidden type somewhere:
class UnitWrapper {
public int Unit {get;set;}
}
private UnitWrapper unit = new UnitWrapper();
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
textBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", unit, "Unit");
}
For info, the "events list" stuff goes something like:
private static readonly object UnitChangedKey = new object();
public event EventHandler UnitChanged
{
add {Events.AddHandler(UnitChangedKey, value);}
remove {Events.AddHandler(UnitChangedKey, value);}
}
...
EventHandler handler = (EventHandler)Events[UnitChangedKey];
if (handler != null) handler(this, EventArgs.Empty);
A:
You can use a binding source (see comment). The simplest change is:
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public int Unit { get; set; }
BindingSource form1BindingSource;
private void Form1_Load (...)
{
form1BindingSource.DataSource = this;
textBox1.DataBindings.Add ("Text", form1BindingSource, "Unit");
}
}
However, you'll gain some conceptual clarity if you separate out the data a bit:
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
class MyData {
public int Unit { get; set; }
}
MyData form1Data;
BindingSource form1BindingSource;
private void Form1_Load (...)
{
form1BindingSource.DataSource = form1Data;
textBox1.DataBindings.Add ("Text", form1BindingSource, "Unit");
}
}
HTH. Note access modifiers omitted.
A:
One of the things I like to do is to create "presentation" layer for the form. It is in this layer that I declare the properties that are bound to the controls on the form. In this case, the control is a text box.
In this example I have a form with a textbox to display an IP Address
We now create the binding source through the textbox properties. Select DataBindings->Text. Click the down arrow; select 'Add Project Data Source'.
This starts up that Data Source wizard. Select Object. Hit 'Next'.
Now select the class that has the property that will be bounded to the text box. In this example, I chose PNetworkOptions. Select Finish to end the wizard. The BindingSource will not be created.
The next step is to select the actual property from the bound class. From DataBindings->Text, select the downarrow and select the property name that will be bound to the textbox.
In the class that has your property, INotifyPropertyChanged must implemented for 2-way communication for IP Address field
public class PNetworkOptions : IBaseInterface, INotifyPropertyChanged
{
private string _IPAddress;
private void NotifyPropertyChanged(String info)
{
if (PropertyChanged != null)
{
PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(info));
}
}
public string IPAddress
{
get { return _IPAddress; }
set
{
if (value != null && value != _IPAddress)
{
_IPAddress = value;
NotifyPropertyChanged("IPAddress");
}
}
}
}
In the form constructor, we have to specifically define the binding
Binding IPAddressbinding = mskTxtIPAddress.DataBindings.Add("Text", _NetOptions, "IPAddress",true,DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged);
| 2023-08-18T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6519 |
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abstract: 'Medical endoscopy remains a challenging application for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) due to the sparsity of image features and size constraints that prevent direct depth-sensing. We present a SLAM approach that incorporates depth predictions made by an adversarially-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to monocular endoscopy images. The depth network is trained with synthetic images of a simple colon model, and then fine-tuned with domain-randomized, photorealistic images rendered from computed tomography measurements of human colons. Each image is paired with an error-free depth map for supervised adversarial learning. Monocular RGB images are then fused with corresponding depth predictions, enabling dense reconstruction and mosaicing as an endoscope is advanced through the gastrointestinal tract. Our preliminary results demonstrate that incorporating monocular depth estimation into a SLAM architecture can enable dense reconstruction of endoscopic scenes.'
author:
- 'Richard J. Chen'
- 'Taylor L. Bobrow'
- Thomas Athey
- Faisal Mahmood
- 'Nicholas J. Durr'
title: SLAM Endoscopy enhanced by adversarial depth prediction
---
<ccs2012> <concept> <concept\_id>10010405.10010444.10010446</concept\_id> <concept\_desc>Applied computing Consumer health</concept\_desc> <concept\_significance>500</concept\_significance> </concept> </ccs2012>
| 2023-10-25T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/1585 |
Will Whitman's spending backfire?
By tim
Created 04/05/2010 - 12:46pm
The political graveyards of California are littered with the bones of candidates who tried to get elected to statewide office on the basis of their own great wealth. Steve Westly, Al Checchi, Jane Harmon, Michael Huffington, Darrell Issa ... lots of people though they could buy the job of governor or senator. Most of them failed -- in part because they couldn't craft a message that appealed to the voters.
But I think they also failed because on some level, California voters don't like being bought. The idea that someone is so rich that he or she can spend around $50 million to get elected governor is kind of appaling, particularly in an era when people aren't so happy with the very rich.
Calbuzz had a little fun looking at all the things Meg Whitman could buy[1] with the $40 million she's already spent (Madonna's apartment, Conan O'Brien's silence, a Cape Cod wastewater plant), but really: You have to wonder what she could have done for society if she'd used that cash for something other than her vanity campaign.
I have no polling data on why mega-millionaires don't win; the current polls show Meg's ahead of Jerry Brown [2]. But I'm not sure her cash and her obscene spending won't become a negative at some point. | 2024-06-14T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/1728 |
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The order came a week after Supreme Court Justice John Bond found Mr Amos had no basis in which not to pay his rates and charges to the council.
Mr Amos had argued the council's rates notices were invalid because the due dates were "one day too early" due to his interpretation of the 1954 Acts Interpretation Act.
Mr Amos had argued the rates notices were invalid because they did not provide a due date that was at least 30 days after the issue date
That did not fly with Justice Bond, who found in the council's favour.
"The council alleged that it validly levied rates and charges which it had formulated in accordance with valid council resolutions, by valid written rates notices which it had given to the defendant (Mr Amos)," Justice Bond said. | 2024-04-13T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/1534 |
Gold prices make a vertical spread look attractive
Gold prices have come under pressure after better than expected economic data raised U.S. yields creating headwinds for the precious metals market making a vertical options spread look appealing.
The decline in riskier Japanese assets is also creating a deleveraging process where investors who are underwater on their Nikkei positions are selling assets such as gold to handle margin calls. Gold volatity remains elevated, allowing investors to benefit from further market volatility………………………………………..Full Article: Source | 2024-07-08T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7878 |
Because the new Gentoo profile defaults to building position-independent executables and this may lead to incompatibilities with non-pie libraries this is a complete rebuild of the Live-USB. If you are already running Bubbagen and like to migrate to profile 17 as well I suggest you take your configs and move them to this new release rather than rebuild your world yourself.
Following up on Sakaki's kexec kernel starting method this release now also features a second stage bootloader to load the final kernel with a configurable command line. This second stage bootloader was in fact designed from the ground up, because Sakaki's kexec loader left my B3 (with the older U-Boot 2010.06-rc2-00064-gf41e8d8-dirty) without network. If you like it will allow you to use Sakaki's kernel package though, but you should note that Sakaki's kernel thus far does not support systemd init system so you can only do that with the OpenRC version of the Live USB. Please reference the directions in /boot/boot.ini on how to make the bootloader select a different kernel.
Tip:
Sakaki publishes a binhost that can help you keep your instance of Bubbagen up to date. The Live-USB is not subscribed to that binhost, but you can add it yourself by referencing this topic. To fetch binaries from that host run emerge with `-g` or `--getbinpkg` option. Do note that because the Bubba UI requires specific USE flags on some packages emerge may disregard some of the available binaries on that binhost.
Known issues:
When changing the time zone the web interface may show you an incorrect time on some pages (the extensible clock on the right is actually javascript and thus should show your client's time rather than the B3's). To align them all you should restart the B3 (or at least apache2 and bubba-adminphp services).
Changing the network profile may completely destroy networking on the B3 if you have wifi enabled or added custom interfaces and/or bridges. If you need to change the profile please do so before making any changes to the default network setup and then never touch it again.
The supplied kernel is the current Gentoo LTS version 4.14.52. All packages have been brought up to date as of Aug 10, 2018 ¹)
Enjoy,
Gordon
¹) Some packages withheld due to patent restrictions or because the newer versions are incompatible with core Bubba functionality.
This second stage bootloader was in fact designed from the ground up, because Sakaki's kexec loader left my B3 (with the older U-Boot 2010.06-rc2-00064-gf41e8d8-dirty) without network.
Hi Gordon - did you experience the above networking issue booting the gentoo-on-b3 image, or your own? I found that the Ethernet MACs that U-Boot sets often got zeroed by the kexec (leaving networking dead, in effect), so I put a "setethermac" service on the Gentoo and Arch images to read the appropriate variable from U-Boot's nvram and (re)set the MACs.
First my own kernel. I then tried kernels from both your arch and gentoo images with the same result. I saw it happen on the serial console as the kernel was loading. Figured it was something in kexec masking part of the device tree, but then I found that if I ran kexec from a live system it did have all the networking.
The trick is to initialize the NICs. And you must access them both or the one that you did not touch will still show mac 00:00:00:00:00:00
yes, without my setethermac userland service from the Arch or gentoo-on-b3 live-USBs running, that's what I'd expect to happen.
Setting a spoof IP address before kexec sounds like a nice trick to workaround this though, and I should be able to add this to the kexec.sh script the kexec bootloader sources, without building the initramfs.
I'll try it, and if it works, modify the gentoo-on-b3 image (and the arch one, if I do a respin) accordingly (the current approach works on my images, but not relying on a userland service to patch things up would be more robust). | 2023-10-02T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/2762 |
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Natalie Snodgrass (Eagan, Minn./Eastview High School) scored twice, including the game-tying and gold medal-clinching goals, as the U.S. Women’s National Under-18 Team battled back from a two-goal deficit to seal a 3-2 overtime victory against Canada in the 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Women’s World Championship.
"I’m so proud of how our team battled through adversity and stayed strong against a tough Canadian team," said Joel Johnson, head coach of the U.S. Women’s National Under-18 Team. "The way we came back from a two-goal deficit shows a lot about what this team is made of. This is an amazing group of young women and they earned this tremendous victory."
With 6:01 on the clock in the first period, the Canadians thought they found the back of the net, but the goal was disallowed after the referees determined the puck never crossed the goal line.
About four minutes later, however, Canada’s Jaime Bourbonnais converted on the rush to make it 1-0 heading into intermission.
In the opening minutes of the second period, Taylor Wente (Plymouth, Minn./Maple Grove High School) broke through on a near breakaway, but was tripped up to give the U.S. a power play. During the man advantage, Team USA had multiple chances, including a series of shots in front of the net, but couldn’t get one past goaltender Stephanie Neatby.
Canada took a 2-0 lead at 5:58 when Daryl Watts scored on the blocker side with a wrist shot.
Alex Woken (Fargo, N.D./Shattuck St. Mary’s) put the U.S. on the board with five minutes remaining in the period when she forced a turnover at the U.S. blue line, skated the puck into Canada’s zone and scored far side on a shot from the right circle.
Team USA had a chance to tie the game after Wente almost finished a feed from Cayla Barnes (Corona, Calif./East Coast Wizards) in the final minute of the period during a U.S. power play, but she was denied in front of Canada’s net.
At 8:03 of the third frame, Snodgrass picked up her own rebound and buried a wraparound attempt to knot the score 2-2.
In the final 30 seconds of the period, Alex Gulstene (Vancouver, Wash./Okanagen Hockey Academy) made a series of saves during a scramble in front of the net to send the game into overtime.
Just 1:47 into extra time, Snodgrass picked up a rebound at the left post and tapped it into the net for the game-winning goal.
NOTES: Natalie Snodgrass was named the U.S. Player of the Game … Alex Gulstene made 21 saves in the win. For complete game statistics, click here … Cayla Barnes, Rebecca Gilmore and Gulstene were named Team USA's top players of the tournament ... The Directorate Award was presented to Barnes for Best Defenseman in the tournament. She was tied for the tournament lead in assists (6) ... Team USA has outscored its opponent, 23-3, at this year’s tournament … The U.S. is back-to-back gold medalists at the 2015 International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Women's World Championship … Team USA and Canada have met every year in the gold-medal game since the tournament’s inception in 2008. The U.S. has won the event’s top prize five times (2008. 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016) … For more information on the 2016 U.S. Women’s National Under-18 Team, including a full roster, click here. | 2024-05-19T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/9303 |
I suggest a campaign about ...
Save Our Badgers!
The coalition's trial culls have been given the go-ahead, in the face of scientific evidence and public opinion.
Bovine TB is a terrible disease, but badgers are more likely to be its victims rather than its cause.
The Coalition's plans allow for "free shooting" of badgers, will result in 70% of badgers in a 150 sq km area being killed, will damage local ecosystems and - given those numbers - possibly make badgers extinct in these areas.
Even if the cull is "successful" it will only result in between a 12 and 16% reduction in Bovine TB (average scientific figures) or approx 27% (Government cherry-picked "best" scientific figure) - and there is the well-documented phenomena of perterbation, where infected badgers flee the killing grounds, thereby spreading TB to non-infected areas.
Badgers can easily catch TB from cattle. It's much harder for cattle to catch TB from badgers. So who is at fault?
the "few" badgers are posssibly to become tens of thousands - for a likely reduction of bTB by 16% - in time better biosecurity and strict testing will show a far greater bTB reduction regardless of what happens with badgers - Ireland is testing & culling where disease is present: Wales is vaccinating badgers - only England is about to launch a mass badger cull "on the cheap", regardless of age or condition (and I had heard there'd be a small "bounty" on each carcass!) Conservation? Let's not kid ourselves.
Saving the badgers is in the top 10 of most important things...just goes to show how many stupid people there are in the UK. There are far more important things to be worried about than a few badgers, yet this makes the top 10 most voted.
It's the farming methods that need addressing, not killing badgers to prevent this disease. Why has no-one thought of a homeopathic treatment?
I know, because the government is reactive and narrow minded thinking of profit only. This decision to encourage this brutal, senseless killing of these creatures by the government is as stupid as having a mastectomy (or other body parts lopped off) to 'prevent' cancer, it's nonsense and typical of the Conservative narrow mindedness which is frankly frightening and impacts on all our lives. I'm fed up with their nonsense and saddened that with such progression of human thought and spiritual enlightenment there are still people in this country whose thought processes are stuck in the realms of the neanderthal where misogyny and homophobia are still acceptable and promoted in the name of values and to be lauded. An online petition is needed to stop this, I know there have been others, but another is necessary to help limit this action. Sack the government and save the badgers as well as the planet from these self centred power and money mad bunch of hooligans!
The government has decided to go ahead with its plan to cull badgers. Even the government's own data shows its plan will be ineffective or counter productive. They are playing to their own supporters.
We can counter this by campaigning for the supermarkets to introduce a badger-friendly label for produce from farms that don't harm badgers. This will use our power as consumers to apply pressure on the supermarkets and farmers. If farmers want this label, they will have to act differently, and they are then almost certain to press their MP to seriously support the development of a vaccine.
I don't think that it has to be a question of 'badgers or people' if an expensive survey into the benefits of the cull has shown little effect will be made what is the point? The government has ignored evidence from experts who have studied badgers for years and has the foxhunting activities which had their part to play in spreading foot and mouth been looked into?
The increased movement of cattle and bad biosecurity have their part to blame in this issue. Modern dairy farming methods are so intense that cows are infested with diseases,male calves shot or sent int the veal industry abroad. Added to this inaccurate TB tests that allow transportation to facilities many miles away.
Before the 1950s badger TB was unheard of, so how can the basis of this disease be badgers fault?
I wonder if anyone here has worked on a farm affected by TB. Farming has the highest suicide rate of any industry. A lot of this is caused by farmers having their land shut down because of suspected cases of TB, the cattle still need tending and feeding, but the farm can not move any livestock and has no income for 6 months after the last case of suspected TB in the herd. This can go on for years until a family is forced out of the only home they have known (and in many cases have lived for generations), out of the only way of life they have ever known. Selective culling is the only proven way of reducing TB, cull the badgers know.
The killing of badgers in order to protect the farming industry is not acceptable.A sea change in the way we live is required ultimately. If we endorse cruelty we also endorse our own demise but for me that is not the ultimate concern. I love these creatures... no, they are NOT "cuddly" but they are part of the natural world that surrounds us and it is worth protecting.
Why can't DEFRA insist on all cattle being vaccinated against TB in the first place? This is the norm in many European countries. Badgers could also be trapped and vaccinated. Since all people now get vaccinated the problem of serious TB infection should not arise. I caught it from untreated milk after having my BCG but it didn't do any lasting harm, just gave me a nasty cough for a few weeks.
what a load of shit animals are far better than us humans and i work hard and i am in favour of goverment capping benifits actually i believe the cap is too high and before you say it im not rich im on basic wage but dont believe in someone sitting on the fat arse getting more money than the likes of me working hard and paying tax i hope the goverment campaign against the goverments weakening of enviroment laws george osbourne needs ousted
Badgers are not more important than human beings and what's being done to the poor, disabled, unemployed, students and everyone else in this country who are suffering from the policies of this disaster of a government. With a moribund and sclerotic political opposition, the con-dems are destroying this country with their absolute incompetence and heartlessness, and as much as I am against cruelty to animals, I think that it is a waste of 38degrees to use it for animal welfare when the government is destroying the welfare of the PEOPLE of this country. Sorry, but there it is.
Badger Trust still asking for signatures on 38degrees campaign petition site. I'ts growing slowly and still active for any one who reads the Badger Trust site and realises that the scientists did say badgers culling is not beneficial to controlling BTB and other methods must be used ie vaccination is a start not shooting in the head or worse still maiming and left to die if it runs off and goes to ground. This opens up all kinds of opportunities for bad practice in the dark.
MICHAEL EDDY, please address the points raised by Foxfire and Dave Spart.
As an animal lover, my knee-jerk reaction is to support your campaign, but as a practising conservationist, I understand that on occasions we must 'manage' species populations.
You must believe yourself well enough informed to initiate this campaign, so please disseminate that information (with references, of course). | 2024-07-28T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6205 |
Q:
How to make the user see his own data after registration?
For example, I've got MySQL table with all users data
How to make after user sign in, he sees his own username?
I've tried this:
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
stmt = con.createStatement();
rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);
while (rs.next()) {
String name = rs.getString(1);
System.out.println("username : " + name);
}
But it just shows all usernames in MySQL table.
A:
Your query does not filter the rows of the table.
Use a WHERE clause:
String query = "select username from users where username = ?";
stmt.setString(1, user);
rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);
if (rs.next()) {
String name = rs.getString(1);
System.out.println("username : " + name);
} else {
System.out.println("No user : " + user);
}
The ? placeholder will be replaced by the value of the variable user properly quoted.
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The Gazelles Cross Country 2018 Registration Form
Outside of Registration Coaching Fees, the following fees are the responsibility of the athlete and/or family:
Association membership fees (Athletics Ontario Fees could range in the amount of $40 to $65 approximately or Minor Track Association Fee $15). Payment due upon registration based on athlete category and applicable association). The purposed of these fees is for the Athletes to be able to compete in Provincial or National Meets.
Meet fees (payment due prior to meets and based on athlete category and events).
Travel expenses to meets.
Other equipment and clothing required for the Athlete.
The other policies related to The Gazelles Cross Country Club can be seen in our Vision Policy Statement.
For liability purposes, registration forms and all waivers must be completed and Registration Coaching Fees must be paid prior to commencement of training.
All meet fees must also be paid prior to commencement of the meet.
General Family Information:
Parent/Guardian Name:
Email:
Cell Phone:
Address:
City & Postal Code:
Athlete Information (Athlete 1):
First and Last Name:
Gender: (Male/Female)
Date of Birth
DAY
MONTH
YEAR
School Grade:
Cell Phone & Email (Optional):
Athlete Information (Athlete 2):
First and Last Name:
Gender: (Male/Female)
Date of Birth
DAY
MONTH
YEAR
School Grade:
Cell Phone & Email (Optional):
Client Health Questionnaire
All information received on this form will be treated as strictly confidential. Please fill out completely and accurately. This information is
essential to helping us develop a program that addresses your child’s goals and interests and is safe and effective.
General
(2) Does your child/ward have any other relevant medical condition that will require modification of the program? YesNo
If yes, please explain:
Should it become necessary for my child/ward to have medical care, I hereby give the coach permission to use her/his best judgment in obtaining the best of such service for my child/ward. I also understand that in the event of such illness or accident, I will be notified as
soon as possible.
Waiver Release and Indemnity
IN CONSIDERATION of the acceptance of my application and the permission to participate as an entrant of membership, practice, competition, or any other event as part of The Gazelles XC Club and Running For Your Life Inc., during the season for which I am registered, I, for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns HEREBY RELEASE, WAIVE AND FOREVER DISCHARGE The
Gazelles XC Club, Running For Your Life Inc., Athletics Ontario, Minor Track Association (MTA) and all other associations, sanctioning bodies and sponsoring companies, and all other agents, officials, servants, contractors, representatives, successors and assigns OF AND FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, demands, damages, costs, expenses, actions and causes of actions, where in law or equity, in respect of death, injury, loss or damage to my person or property, HOWEVER CAUSED arising or to arise by reason of my participation in said, whether as a spectator, participant, competitor or otherwise; whether prior to, during or subsequent to any such event and NOTHWITHSTANDING that some may have contributed to or occasioned by the negligence of any of the aforesaid. I FURTHER UNDERTAKE TO HOLD AND SAVE HARMLESS AND AGREE TO
INDEMNIFY all of the aforesaid from and against any and all liability incurred by any or all of them arising as a result of, or in any way connected with my participation in the said event. By submitting this entry, I acknowledge having read, understood and agreed to the above waiver, release and indemnity. I warrant that I am physically fit to participate as a member of The Gazelles Track and Field Club.
Release Form for Media Recording
I, the undersigned, do hereby consent and agree that Running for Your Life, its employees, or agents have the right to take photographs, videotape, or digital recordings of me while training with Running for Your Life and to use these in any and all media, now or hereafter known, and exclusively for the purpose of a video and/or picture displaying activities, training, coaching, mentoring and testimonials. I further consent that my name and identity may be revealed therein or by descriptive text or commentary.
I do hereby release to Running for Your Life Inc., its agents, and employees all rights to exhibit this work in print and electronic form publicly or privately and to market. I waive any rights, claims, or interest I may have to control the use of my identity or likeness in whatever media used.
I understand that there will be no financial or other remuneration for recording me, either for initial or subsequent transmission or playback.
I also understand that Running for Your Life Inc., is not responsible for any expense or liability incurred as a result of my participation in this recording, including medical expenses due to any sickness or injury incurred as a result.
POWER OF ATTORNEY for use in 2018:
(The Power of Attorney is used to allow you, the Donor (either athlete or parent/guardian of athlete), to appoint a representative to be your attorney and to sign Athletics Ontario & Minor Track Association entry forms, waivers etc. on your behalf)
I appoint all or any Staff and/or Gazelle Coach of Running For Your Life Sports Performance Group / The Gazelles, jointly and severally, to be my attorney(s) in accordance with the Powers of Attorney Act and to do on my behalf anything that I can lawfully do by an Attorney.
This power of attorney is subject to the following conditions and restrictions: This Power of Attorney shall only apply to enable my said attorney(s) to execute such entry forms, waivers and other documents as may be required to permit me or the Athlete named above to participate in any event sponsored or sanctioned by Athletics Ontario & Minor Track Association during the /2018 calendar years commencing January 1st 2018 ending on August 31st, 2018.
I hereby acknowledge that by signing such entry forms, waivers and other documents that my attorney(s) may WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS that I, the Athlete Named Above, my heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns may have against The Gazelles XC Club, Running For Your Life Inc., Athletics Ontario & Minor Track Association and its respective agents, officials, employees, contractors, representatives, successors and assigns with regard to ANY demands, damages, costs, expenses, actions and causes of action, whether in law or equity, in respect of death, injury, loss or damage to my person or property HOWSOEVER CAUSED arising or to arise by reason of my participation or the participation of the Athlete Named Above in any Gazelles Track & Field, Running For Your Life Inc., Athletics Ontario & Minor Track Association sponsored or sanctioned event in the said 2018 calendar year, whether prior to, during or subsequent to any such event and NOTWITHSTANDING that same may have been contributed to or occasioned by the NEGLIGENCE of any of the aforesaid.
I represent that I am at least 18 years of age, have read and understand the foregoing statements of Waiver, Media Releases and Power of Attorney above and am competent to execute this agreement.I am the parent and/or legal guardian of the child being filmed and understand the foregoing statements of Waiver, Media Releases and Power of Attorney above, and am competent to execute this agreement
The above fees do not include Indoor Venue Rental Fees for the Indoor Season. Indoor Fees are typically $25 a month/$125 Total for Grade 6 and under members, $35 a month/$175 Total for Grade 7 – 8 members and $40 a month/$200 Total for Grade 9 and above members based 5 months of indoor venue use. These estimates are subject to change based on venue costs. Fundraising initiatives will be used to help subsidize venue fees.
*Meet Fees will be handled separately from Registration Fees. Meet fees are the responsibility of the athlete and/or parent.
!Please keep in mind each Season (Indoor & Outdoor) have their own separate fee.
New Members will receive a Team Singlet and T-Shirt as part of the Registration fee as well as Track Suit.
There is a 10% discount if full year (Indoor + Outdoor Season) is paid at the beginning of season in September and if siblings join. Tax Receipts will be provided in January of the following year.
Membership Fees For Returning Members
Category
Age Group
Coaching Fee
Association Membership Fees
Track Suit
Total (HST Included)!
Minor
7 – 14
$435.05
$15
$0.00
$450.05
Midget
15
$463.30
$55
$0.00
$518.30
Youth
16-17
$463.30
$60
$0.00
$523.30
Junior
18-19
$463.30
$80
$0.00
$543.30
Senior
20-29
$576.30
$80
$0.00
$656.30
Master
30+
$452
$50
$0.00
$502
The above fees do not include Indoor Venue Rental Fees for the Indoor Season. Indoor Fees are typically $25 a month/$125 Total for Grade 6 and under members, $35 a month/$175 Total for Grade 7 – 8 members and $40 a month/$200 Total for Grade 9 and above members based on 5 months indoor venue use. These estimates are subject to change based on venue costs. Fundraising initiatives will be used to help subsidize venue fees.
*Meet Fees will be handled separately from Registration Fees. Meet fees are the responsibility of the athlete and/or parent.
!Please keep in mind each Season (Indoor & Outdoor) have their own separate fee.
It is assumed Returning Members already have the Track Suit and are members of their age related Track & Field Associated Governing Body. If not this additional association fee will be added from the chart above.
There is a 10% discount if full year (Indoor + Outdoor Season) is paid at the beginning of season in September and if siblings join.
Tax Receipts will be provided in January of the following year.
The Gazelles Vision Statement & Policies
The Gazelles Track & Field Club Vision Statement
From putting Athlete experience first, to coaching, to integrated support services, to ed- ucation – The Gazelles Track & Field Club strives to provide an environment in which all Track and Field athletes can grow, develop and flourish.
The Gazelles Track & Field Club Core Value
The Gazelles Track & Field Club is a club that is founded on key values and principals. It is our mission to raise and empower the young people amongst us to embrace these vir- tues in all they do. It is also our expectation that all of our Coaches, Members and Par- ents will also embrace these values and embody them in their support of our Athletes.
We value Integrity – Telling the truth to oneself and believing in doing what is right. We expect our members to be Honorable in all they do. To be Positive and Forthright. We expect our members to be Kind, Genuine and Empathetic. To be Compassionate, Accepting and Tolerant of one another. To have the Courage and Determination to take on the challenges that lay ahead. We expect our members to have Perseverance, Trust and Vision when times get challenging.
Our PURPOSE is to help to shape the talents of ALL of our athletes in the Gazelle Track & Field Club – building championship performers. As part of this overarching aim, we are committed to an education program which nurtures and develops both ath- letes and coaches within our sport, assuring professionalism and continued growth at all levels of athletic development.
Our sport is one of the very best sports around. It deserves a commitment on all levels to bring Track & Field back to it’s notoriety. The Gazelles Track & Field Program spe- cializes in maximizing the potential of its club members on and off the competition field. To accomplish this feat, it is our priority to put the needs of our Athletes and Members first. We believe in equal opportunity and equal treatment of all its members. We believe that the sport of Track & Field is a global phenomenon that originates in the cultivation of local talent. Not every member will win a gold medal but every member has the ability to perform at their very best through smart training and developing a passion for the sport.
We acknowledge the high importance of parents being involved in their children’s sport- ing lives and we welcome this involvement with open arms. With that being said the Vi- sion Statement and Principles outlined below are elements that we believe will help The Gazelles Track & Field Club Program become the very best program for each and every Athlete.
The Gazelles Track & Field Club Beliefs
We train our Athletes with very specific training elements that include biome- chanical assessment, endurance, speed and fitness training and last but not least, mental strategies.
We believe that our training style is the very best and will benefit in the develop- ment of each Gazelle Athlete. We aim for each and every Gazelle Athlete to thrive and grow within our Training Program. For these reasons, it is also very im- portant that each Athlete be surrounded and supported by like-minded experi- ences and teachings on and off the track.
We believe in the Student-Athlete Discipline. This is a relationship between aca- demics and athletics. It’s important that your Gazelle Athlete keep their grades at a level that will help them to be successful in the class room.
We believe that a Healthy Gazelle is a happy Gazelle. This means maintaining a healthy lifestyle that includes proper diet and avoiding physical injuries. Regu- larly scheduled maintenance therapy (Physiotherapy, Massage etc.) is paramount to achieving performance success.
We believe the Gazelles should all get along and be friends. No Gazelle Athlete should feel uncomfortable coming to practice.
We believe in a culture that nurtures hard work and training but also one where Athletes can have fun and be social. Too much Track & Field makes an unhappy Gazelle.The Gazelles Track & Field Club Training and Practice Expectations:The purpose of Track & Field Practice is to get better at your discipline. To achieve this, your Gazelle Athlete must have a level of maturity and independence to be responsible for their actions. These actions include respecting the Coaches and Staff of
RFYL and taking accountability for their own training.
Track & Field practice is MANDATORY. If your Gazelle Athlete consistently misses practice, they will not be allowed to compete and their membership maybe be revoked. Absence from practices should be communicated to coaching staff on an on-going basis.
Grade 6 and below are required to train 2X a week.
Grade 7 and Grade 8 are required to train 3X a week.
High School and above are required to train 3X a week as well as attend Strength and Weight Training. Some High School Athletes may be required to train an additional 4th day.
In order to improve your Athlete’s Performance, it is important to understand that Coaches and Athletes must work together in a partnership. It is our aim to work with your Athlete in our fullest capacity to achieve their maximized poten- tial. Both parent and Gazelle Athletes must understand this partnership.
• Athletes should come to practice with a good attitude and ready to work. Athletes should have all necessary clothing and shoes and be ready to start on time.
Athletes are responsible to show focus and perfect effort at all Gazelle Practices and Meets. Athletes will not be distracted or inattentive at Gazelle practices and will show the intensity and focus required during all Gazelle workouts. Athletes are also responsible to seek feedback from Head Coaches or associated coaches for continuous improvement and technical/mechanical improvements in regards to the Athlete’s form during the Gazelle practices.
The Athlete commits to working with Coaches and implement correction and me- chanical changes necessary for improvement.
The Athlete agrees to follow the direction of all Coaches as well as commit and perform the Warm Up, Workout, Warm Down and post-workout exercises with- out fault.
Athletes who skip warm-up/warm down drills or lack the necessary discipline and focus at practice will be warned once and then sent home. Should such be- havior continue, the athlete will be suspended from practice as deemed necessary by Coaches. NO REFUNDS will be issued for athletes suspended from practice.
It’s important that your Gazelle Athlete arrive on time to practice. Athletes should arrive 15 minutes prior to the start of practice dressed and ready to train. When your Athlete is late it disrupts the flow of practice. If there is an issue get- ting to practice on time we will try to assist with carpooling. Consistent unex- plained lateness may result in Athletes sitting out during practice.
Gazelle Athletes train as a group to promote friendly competition and form strong bonds. Athletes are expected to remain as a group during training prac- tices and meets and are not to go sit with their parents.
Cell phones are not allowed at practice or at competition. If an Athlete needs to contact their parents the staff will facilitate this.
The Gazelles Track & Field Club Meet Expectations:
It is expected that ALL Gazelles will compete at meets. Head Coaches along with input from other coaches will be the only ones to determine Gazelle meet eligibil- ity and races for your Athlete.
For your Athlete to be eligible to compete it’s mandatory that they are in full Ga- zelle uniform (Gazelle Shirt, Competition Singlet and Full Track & Field Suit).
It’s important to arrive to meet competitions on time. Having a proper warm up at competition correlates to better performance for your Gazelle.
If your Gazelle Athlete is registered to compete at a meet and decides not to com- pete other than reasons of an emergency nature, there will be a $20 administra- tive fee charged per event. There’s a lot of administration work that goes into competition registration. Parents will also be responsible for all missed meet fees.
Athletes should come to meets fully fueled and ready. They will need to bring wa- ter, snacks and/or lunch if required for long meets.
Athletes will be required to stay with their team during the meet and compete in the events they have been registered for. Athletes leaving a meet without talking to coaches may run the risk of not competing at the next meet.
Membership fees which include Coaching fees, Gazelle Uniform, Association Membership Fees and Venue fees* (Indoor Season only*). Fees are due in full at the beginning of the season. Membership fees include training/coaching of your Athlete for the duration of the season. New Members will receive a competition singlet and T-Shirt. VENUE FEES ARE NOT PART OF THE MEMBERSHIP FEES AND ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILTY OF THE MEMBERS.
Track & Field is the one of the most affordable sports. If a payment plan option is needed postdated cheques must be provided and a payment plan schedule will be provided by the Gazelle Administration.
If payments are not made on time in the option outlined above, we will not be able to train your Gazelle Athlete until the balance is settled.
DO NOT drop off your Athlete at practice and leave if payment or payment ar- rangements have not been made. Your Athlete will have to sit out from training and we will need to contact you to come pick up your Athlete.
Venue Fees for Indoor Season cover the use and rental of indoor training track facilities. Payment for these fees are not included in the Membership Registra- tion fee chart and are the responsibility of each members and must be paid in or- der for your Athlete to be able to have access to the indoor facility.
Meet Fees should be paid in advance of meets or on the day of meet. It is the par- ents’ and athletes’ responsibility to ensure payment is made or else your Athlete may not compete in the meet.
For out of town meets where hotels maybe required, it is the responsibility of par- ents to book and pay for their Athletes’ hotel. We will make efforts to block off and reserve rooms at one hotel for easier booking and communicate this to par- ents in order to allow for sharing of rooms should this be required to keep costs down.
The Gazelles Track & Field Club Gazelle Parents/Members Expectations:
It’s the parent(s) job to motivate your Gazelle Athlete off the track. We believe champions are built behind closed doors. This means ensuring and supporting your Athlete to do their training regimen instructed by the Coaches if required at home.
In the Gazelle Track and Field Program we want to establish good communica- tion and a positive environment for all. We will not accept any members speak- ing unfavorably, spreading gossip or trying to disparage or vilify ANY members of our club, including Athletes, Coaches and all members associated with the Ga- zelle Track & Field Program. If such offence has been found, the members in question will be spoken to and/or removed from the Club.
It is the strict responsibility of the Gazelle Coaches to coach your Athlete. We ex- pect parents to trust the process and be patient with Athlete development. Par- ents and members are strictly prohibited to add extra workouts and/or facilitate extra coaching of their athlete either by themselves or by other coaches. The Ga- zelle Coaching Staff will not entertain Parents/Members or Athletes questioning prescribed workouts or training. Parents are expected to be supportive of their Athlete in their quest for personal development.
It is imperative that parents/Athletes communicate with Gazelle Coaches on training/practice and meet absences. Consistently missed practices will result in your Athlete not being able to participate at meets and their membership may be revoked.
The Gazelles Track & Field Club Fundraising Expectations:
Fundraising participation is mandatory for The Gazelles Track and Field Program to continue to grow as we strive to raise funds through various fundraising means and methods that will aid the club members.
If parents do not wish to participate in Fundraising, they can opt out of the Fund- raising and pay a flat amount of $100 per Athlete at the beginning of the Gazelle training per season.
If parents/Athletes do not participate in Fundraising and do not opt out of the Fundraising by paying the above fee, their Gazelle Athlete fundraising benefit and training will be adjusted accordingly.
Performance Incentives for Exceptional Results & Other RFYL Programs
Gazelle Performance Incentive Program
Our Gazelle Performance Incentive Program is designed to reward exceptional Athletes who show outstanding results in their Track & Field performances.
It is our hope to reward these Athletes with financial incentives and promotional materials/clothing to support Athletes who strive for excellence and high performances.
This program is geared specifically towards Athletes who meet the following criteria:
Exceptional results and consistent performances at meets
Participation at High Level Provincial, National and International Competitions
We also aim to recognize Gazelle Athletes who conduct themselves in a professional leadership role, show outstanding character and competitive drive and exhibit extreme focus and discipline at all Gazelle practices and meets.
The Student – Athlete RFYL Scholarship Program
This program is designed to help parents and Student – Athletes walk thru the maze of information so that the path of Post High School Education and Athletic Competition is clear. The program puts the Student – Athletes in front of potential Schools so the the Student – Athletes have the highest chance of being discovered by potential schools. Our mission is to help parents and Student – Athletes make the best decision in choosing a school that fits their individual Athletic and Scholarly needs. | 2024-02-15T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/3471 |
Sihlcity
Sihlcity is a shopping mall located in Zürich which was built on the ground of a former paper mill near the Sihl river in the Wiedikon district and opened on March 22, 2007.
It comprises some 100,000 sq metres of rental space with a range of facilities, such as restaurants, a shopping center, a multiplex cinema, entertainment, health and fitness/wellness area, nightclub, a Four Points hotel and a chapel.
Transportation
Zürich Saalsporthalle-Sihlcity railway station is adjacent to Sihlcity and is a stop on line S4 of the Zürich S-Bahn. It is a 5-minute ride on that line from Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
The Zürich tram network also serves Sihlcity with routes 5, 13 and 17.
External links
Sihlcity
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Category:Tourist attractions in Zürich
Category:Entertainment in Switzerland
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
Do you remember how you felt when you watched William Wallace stir the troops to fight for their freedom. I recall his famous lines as he was pacing back and forth on horseback, in that green, green valley, face painted in blue, displaying bravado, speaking words, powerful last words to transform a bunch of ordinary, inexperienced men into an army of warriors. He was going to win...Scotland would be theirs.
I watched the movie when I was 18 but I'd never quite forgotten what I felt. For those 182 minutes I too was hopeful and brave.Brave.
These least few months though, I've been re-learning the meaning of the word. A different version of 'unafraid'. Being brave entailed procuring forty or so cardboard boxes and making a conscious decision to part with things that won't fit my baggage allowance - that summer dress i bought last year, an old jewelry box, dessert plates, night lamps and hoards of coffee mugs I didn't even know I owned, along with that air purifier I didn't know how to work. Thirty or so of those boxes made their way down three flights of stairs for the last time. Bubble wrap and heavy duty tape were the new must-haves. My tribe flocked from near and far to make sure that this singleton's suitcases would be meticulously packed and her apartment, promptly vacated.
I tussled with my heart and my baby sisters as I parted with things that I could ordinarily live without, but somehow in the light of this permanent departure I just had to take the icing spatula to newlands with me. My other wise rational self burst out into uncontrollable tears over worn out socks and faded scarfs, y'all. I was looking at old photographs and reminiscing bad hair days and dismal outfits. I wept over my "forever friends" both the ones I'd see in a few months and the ones I'd only be able to see in my minds eye.
In the end, it all got done, six over-filled suitcases and a very timid heart made her way to the temporal home in cold, cold country. Goodbye Texas - I will miss you dearly my fellow Houstonians. I will miss the warm weather and the blue bonnets. I will fondly remember the strawberry festival and the rodeo. I will cherish warm Texas hospitality and hearty cowboy breakfasts. But most of all I will miss your friendship. Thank you for the memories.
They said "You're moving closer to family so there's nothing to worry about". "Come home", said Gigi. "Its time to move" my heart added. This was where I was meant to be. And yet, I struggled with a feeling of loss, immense loss. It also didn't help that I've seen three snow-filled weeks out of four since I landed. While some people walk around in shorts and sandals, I am wearing fur lined boots and jackets to combat the freezing temperatures. Come on, Lord. Really? You can't do anything about this weather to make me feel like I belong here.
I left a secure job, sold my car and moved from Clear Lake where I knew three shortcuts to the nearest breakfast place.
Some days I feel like a coward. I'm taking long, deep breaths before an interview, waiting for public transportation and having to ask for directions to the nearest mall. Why am I so lost?
I'm home, sharing breakfast cereal with my people. The people I love spending time and food with. The benefits of this move afforded have impromptu girl time and family dinners. And yet, there are days where I'm silently mourning.
I could call my girls at odd hours of the day and complain about the big zit on my forehead, get an honest opinion on whether I looked fat in an outfit and lots of tender, loving care and home-made soup when experiencing a coughing war and near death sniffles.
Four weeks later, the feeling of loss has subsided. It subsided at the exact same moment I saw this picture .
(We'll have to trade stories about this pinata on another day).
Some days I have an emotional meltdown. I'm learning to take a humble stance, and lean more on my posse. The prayers are more frequent..especially on meltdown Mondays. Its alright if I have to wear fuzzy socks in May. I'm home with my family.
Today I feel brave. I may cry buckets tomorrow. But for now I have three teaspoons of confidence and..... this face mask from the far east.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
It all started when we were wee lasses, with our pink frocks and our tiny pig-tails.It started when we were handed our first bedtime story book illustration of Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel.It started the day my mother said that a dignified young lady is expected to maintain a soft but audible, decibel when speaking and keep her legs crossed with her fingers gently placed over her lap. Do not speak with your mouth full and comb your hair after a shower to undo the tangles.Yet there were other lessons that I gleaned from women-folk in my tribe. I learnt that a woman can carry pain and joy at the same time, that we're really inclined to buy a car for its colour, and everytime we open our underwear drawer we subconsciously hear our mothers saying "Wear matching clean, underwear always in case you are rushed to the hospital from an accident". By the time I was 21, I could cook atleast one decent meal and be a good host. I could manage money when times were tough, and do laundry the right way. I could make my living and contribute to society. I was prepared to take on the world.However, of all the lessons that I learnt in life's classroom, one important one was missed.Here's the chapter us young lasses, girls and soon to become women were not taught - How to be Single? Or, as I like to call it The Art of being a Singleton.You understand where I'm going with this chickadee. How could I know to be "one" when everything comes in pairs - socks, salt and pepper. Heck every egg in a cardboard crate has a pair. They never sells eggs by the odd numbers. The stockboy at the super-market would give me the "lady you trippin'" look if I ever asked for just one egg for my Saturday morning huevos rancheros (yes, I realize that I've used the word "egg" more times than an Eggland commercial). All our lives we are taught that two is a good number. We even have a set of boobs.How am I supposed to learn to cope in a world where people exchange woeful glances my way when I sit in a restaurant with a table for one. Why is it cheaper to book last-minute vacation packages for two people instead of one. And why of why do I have to throw away both my thigh high panty-hose even though only one has a mile long rip in it. I don't even have the option of buying a replacement hose for just the right leg (okay that last argument is a stretch but you get my gist, right?)Why is one a lonely number?In my community, ideally, a young twenty something year old woman is to find her mate and carefully plan the expansion of her brood by the time she embraces thirty. According to some women in my tribe, having all your kids by the age of 29 affords you the option of being more energetic (than someone who is older) when motherhood takes over your life. Who came up with that? Aren't tired mothers just tired mothers, no matter what their age.I won't lie but there are days when I've wondered what its like to have someone waiting for me at home with a hot-meal, there are weddings and children's birthday parties I've dreaded going to because I'm either going to be chaperoning the loud rambunctious four-year olds or be stuck in an odd place at the end of the dinner with the really low chair where you can't cross your legs because of the awkward table leg. A lady once told me that a woman's life is incomplete unless she has experienced motherhood; "Her life has no meaning until then", she said. I was in a particularly vulnerable stage in my life that her words stung my heart. The tears welled up and the voice in my head said "This woman thinks that I am worthless". We're so scared of being alone that we'll pursue and date the wrong men, wear labels or emulate the women who seem to have it all, and constantly immerse ourselves in toxic thoughts. It is exhausting y'all. That alone has made me age twenty years and given me three more laugh lines I did not need.Based on all the worldly education outside my classroom, I had no hopes of scoring the eye of a genteel man, much less any man if I preferred climbing trees or running barefoot like a wild gazelle in no particular direction.I have one of two options - let society scare me into couple-dom or stay unfazed and do life as a singleton.Poppet, if you're reading this and you have gone through the online-dating buzz, met boys that your parents thought would be a good match for you, mourned the loss of a relationship by having a relationship with Ben and Jerry, held a friend's baby and wondered about the day you'll be someone's mama and solitarily nursed yourself through a flu and prayed that chicken-soup would miraculously be dropped off at your door-step, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. You hear me. (Now, take a deep breath) We are not alone. Here's a big, big hug because I know you need it now. I am not going to sail into a diatribe about women's lib and how we're better off alone because in all honesty, I do believe that God created us to feel a sense of community and belonging. It took three decades into my to existence to figure out something about the journey as a lone ranger - having the single-hood chapter in a woman's life is one of great promise and discoveries. The first step - Accept that you are alone in this season of your life and it's okay to be single. We are not society's lepers or the bane of our mother's existence. We are taking the road less travelled, that few have braved to journey upon. You my dear, are a trail-blazer. Now, repeat that and believe that.I think you're ready to hear about The Art of Being a Singleton so here's what I've learned -
Being single is a season. Sometimes long, sometimes short. It's a good season though ( and believe me it's coveted by married women too).
As a singleton, I have been able to put more time and effort into my friendships. I have a small but rich tapestry of relationships that feed well into my soul. The kind of friend-"ships" that won't toss and turn when the going gets tough. We've seen each other through job-losses, death of a parent, transitions from one country into another, birth of a child and new beginnings. This is a time for us to sow into those people especially into the ones we want to keep around us for a long, long time.
It has enabled me to build a trust in our Maker that comes from an increased dependency in His word and His provisions. I can tell you without a doubt that my prayer-life has increased exponentially. I may not have a beloved waiting for me at home, but I am the Lord's beloved. That's the truth for each one of us so don't listen to the lying words that try to tell you otherwise.
I have gained a few more ounces of bravery and worry less about venturing into life alone. There is no fear.
I may not be a child's mother today but that doesn't stop me from watching over those that are not my own. We need to feel a burden for the next generation and resolve to become a tribe of women that shapes the young ones in our community. There are many kiddos and teens that feel unloved and are dealing with the day-to-day crud. Wouldn't it be great to love on them in this season when we can give them our undivided attention.
I have been cooking, hosting, baking, feeding and serving more. I am emotionally and physically challenged and stretched, I love it! When the focus is on people around me, there's less time to worry about being part of a couple. Its brought on more bear hugs, peals of laughter, gut-wrenching tears, slices of chocolate cake, honest conversations and dinner table fellowships. I am forced to feel, to connect, to open up.
Spontaneity is real word now. More plunging, less cautiousness.
There it is, girlfriend. I'm no expert and make no claims into mastering the art of doing life in a singular tense with seven bullet points. I'm still discovering this journey but from a more honest place, today.Remember that you're not walking alone....and if it gets hard let me know. I promise you a listening ear and a slice of chocolate cake.
Monday, December 30, 2013
How goes the planning for thanksgiving. I sure did miss you today. I thought about you when I looked at the state of my unkept house which was nowhere near ready for guests. I remembered how much you love my au gratin tray and how content you were with a spoonful of herby, creamy potatoes than a slice of turkey meat.
Thanksgiving this year will be unlike any others from yesteryear. There won't be a turkey named Martha, or scores of ingredient lists to scribble and scratch over. We won't be standing in the produce line deliberating whether we could use apples instead of pears for that home-made pie. I won't silently curse when the store attendant comes back to tell me that they're all out of chicken broth. We also won't get into that usual argument about why I picked an apartment on the third floor, especially when I have twenty bags of groceries to carry up two flights of stairs (forty eight steps, to be exact).
Nope! That won't be us. This year will be about simplicity and spontaneity. It will be the year we fondly think about those that didn't make it around our table and over-feed the ones who did. We will swap turkey for chicken.
Whipped sweet potato pie for mashed sweet potatoes with a hint of cilantro and crumbly feta. The humble mushroom will become a star in the puff-pastry pinwheel accompanied with a side of homemade mango chutney. The store bought desserts will share a table with Cookie's Tarte Tatin. We won't discriminate there either.
We won't worry about perfection or colour coordinated flatware. We'll stop to kiss and make up after a silly argument and read (shout..) out instructions for the recipe whilst the blender runs in full steam. Lunch will further be stalled (because of a certain camera nazi) and picture after picture of our laden table will be taken until a famished someone finally grabs a plate to serve themselves because they can't wait to be fed anymore. Later, we'll lie prostrate on the carpet, clutching at over-filled bellies, mourning over our gluttonous ways. A scrabble board, baklava and tea will make their way into our thanksgiving tableau.
Someone will cheat, make-up words, challenge the owner of the made-up word and scores will finally be tabulated. One of us will shot 'Huzzah' and the other will knock over the tiles and board until the twenty six letters of the alphabet are strewn all over the place. We'll watch our favourite Christmas movie, load the dish-washer, huddle under blankets and sleep like babes with a content smile on our face.
All of the above have the makings of a wonderfully, unplanned, holiday..don't you think? It also poignantly bookmarks (perhaps the last) Thanksgiving in this singleton's home.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
I was standing in front of the community refrigerator at my workplace and wondering whether I should commit to the fruit melange (I had painstakingly cut and prepared for the week) or cheat and cozy up with a warm and fresh chocolate chip cookie from the cafeteria instead. Needless to say, the cookie won (and this is not when the panic attack occurred).
Just as I was smiling at how quickly that decision had been made (on to world peace, next), I overhear someone make a reference to the woes of prepping their kid's lunches when they go back to school in two weeks. (Still not panicking, yet)
My head voice interjects - Kids are going back to school in two weeks?
Still in my head voice (only louder) - You mean, summer is coming to a close?
Icy, cold lemonade and sandal days are coming to an end and I DID NOTHING?
(Yes its not your eyes. The font is getting larger for effect) And this is where the panicking commenced.
You see, I love Summer. I love the possibility of an impromptu picnic, reading under the shade of a beautiful tree, a well done-pedicure to go with the sandals, kababs and chicken tikka on the grill, copious amounts of mangoes and strawberries, lassi (yogurt drink) and the long stretch of daylight for walks or five minutes on the swing in the park.
Don't get me wrong, we've had our bad days. The 100 degree weather, followed by scathing sun-burns, many bottles of aloe and myths about the "healing power" of teabags, breaking down of the over-worked, air-conditioner, longer wait-times at the water-parks because kids are out of school and running out of my favourite, freshly churned ice cream at the shops because everyone decided to get that particular flavour. Despite the misgivings, Summer and I have always managed to kiss and make up.
So, the realization that I had wiled away my June, July and August hit me harder than a ton of day old scones. We didn't even exchange a proper "hello".
A list was promptly put together. A list, yes. It was definitely a vow-sort of thing and required some writing and some committing. All of the below had to be checked off by dusk, or till the last ray of daylight disappears on September 22 ( I have no idea why I picked that date).
Walk along the beach. A beach. Any beach.
Reading under the shade of the tree for a full hour (even if subject is attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes)
Grilling - Indian style
Outdoor concert or movie night
Give the pants a break and wear all of my summer dresses, for a week.
Home-made ice cream
Finish the book I'd picked up for light, summer reading.
Swinging (in the park) high, then higher.
Thankfully, hot sunny days don't just disappear where I live, so here goes.
Next time I see you, the list will be checked completely and Summer and I will be saying goodbye. "Summer...hey, wait up, I'm going with you."
Friday, July 26, 2013
I once made eye contact with the most, delectable and charming slice of raspberry pie. It was once of those head over heel moments. I wanted to hold it close and whisper how beautiful it looked. There was no doubt in my mind that in the future, when I sink my teeth into its luscious fruit, cream and crust that an imaginary host of angels would be belting 'Hallelujah' in multiple harmonys to commemorate our union.
The point I'm trying to make is - Sometimes we consciously fall in love. It's a heart thing. But other times we fall in love with the most unexpected plates of food, people and places.
And that's how I felt when I took one last look through the window of my plane. Sad that I was leaving some things I'd loved, behind.
Romania was not on my bucket list of places to visit but I'm so glad that we met.
I make no apologies for being a lover of good food. And you understand it because you too, chickadee, would take the first plane, train and automobile for a tiny morsel that will make your toes tickle. And tickle they did, indeed, as I relished seasonal offerings of the ripest farm-grown cherries. The tiny pits, red-stained fingers and teeth are momentarily forgotten when you're enjoying so much of a good thing.
Before we delve further I must tell you about Batman and Butterfly. Some friendships are birthed in the shortest gestation period and you recognize that its going to be a great one when your heart-person tugs with your head-person and your feet bolt down to the floor refusing to go longer than three feet away from them. They tell you about Foxy and their love of the theater. You love watching them smile and make jokes about them being cat-lovers. They drive all the way to your hotel to bring you the choicest raspberries from their mother's garden. You tell them how you'll never forget them. They share their favorite music compositions and take endearing pictures like this 'his-and-hers' one.
My favorite one, you ask? When we all promise to see each other again.
There are infinitely better reasons to explore this jewel in Eastern Europe, however, the following is my flash-ten persuasion for why you should pack your bags quickly:
To say that you ate bear
To see one of the most ornate modern-day palaces (Peles castle)
To drool at the sight and taste of fresh goat's cheese
To claim you'd been to Dracula's castle (where you will quickly realize it was a figment of someone's imagination)
To taste chunky doughnuts being served with jam and cream for dessert
To re-learn the meaning of the word 'hospitality'
To see real-life shepherds with their flock
To understand what contentment looks like
To enjoy plum brandy
To watch people celebrate their food...Okay one more
To appreciate something unexpected (like capturing this life moment, unbeknownst to the wedding party, ofcourse).
Monday, May 27, 2013
I’ve had this dream for a while. The kind of dream that does not wane with the passing of time. The kind of dream that gets rekindled every time I blow a birthday candle. The kind of dream that makes me : zip my suitcase and grab my list of conversational phrases.
Putting the finishing touches to my outfit with a hat (I feel French already), and finally taking two deep breaths to reassure my pounding heart that it’s just my dream coming alive and not an early cardiac arrest....I'm closing my front door.
A plane on the tarmac will be shortly departing to my city of dreams. Yes chickadee, I’m bound for Paris. Tonight.
I confess that the dream has been tweaked slightly. Instead of “Visiting Paris with or without a plus one before I hit 30”, we’re doing “Visiting Paris to celebrate my welcome into the big girl’s club”. None of it matters though. This rendezvous has been in the works for a while, you know. A date I made with Paris several years ago.
If I was still ten, Paris would be the cute-freckled boy who made my heart swoon and giggle uncontrollably.
About The Singleton
What can I say? Except that I'm an avid food lover and have had a love affair with deep, dark chocolate for as long as I can remember.
In some circles I'm also known as a purseaholic and an avid shoe-shopper.
Other passions include books and wanderlust.
Current Ambitions:
To spend one summer eating my way through Europe.
To stage a one-night performance in a jazz/piano bar.
To make a living writing songs whilst devouring chocolate croissants in quaint cafes.
To own a corner bake shop.
To visit Paris before I hit 30, with or without a plus one. | 2024-05-24T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6057 |
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Monday, January 26, 2015
Well, I haven't been able to post much because so much is happening in the world right now, and I can't even begin to keep up with the information that is coming my way. But I want to take a moment to brush up on some things, not necessarily on the I Ching right at the moment, but on the state of the World.
Before I get into it I want to say that I am greatly appreciative of the fact, that even though I haven't written for a while, the readership has gone up enormously, and some days are posting over a hundred readers throughout the world. This isn't anything to stroke my ego with, as it has little to do with me personally, or any superior writing ability, or superior knowledge, but things are simply happening the way they are SUPPOSED to happen. That being said, I never know from one day to the next whether anyone will ever read it again. But I do hope to put things up here that are meaningful to my readership, give them a great deal of new knowledge that will be useful in their lives, and hopefully make their lives more fruitful.
For now just to mention, as I did a few weeks ago, that the ramifications of the December 21, 2012 scenario are not yet over with. Events on the earth, especially in the political arena are speeding up with great intensity. Religious freedom in this country is for all practical purposes a thing of the past. That statement may be scoffed at by some because the forces of darkness, (yin in the I Ching, although yin is not by itself negative) really do operate in the dark. They do not come to the light of day until they have totally undermined the good, and overt power rests with them. (hexagram twenty three) They are not quite ready yet to show their hand openly to the world, but the foundations of freedom and democracy are being undermined quietly at a steady rate. For right now, anyway. But look to the middle of 2016 and afterwards. That is when as the saying goes, the crap hits the fan, or at least it should hit then. It may be delayed a little. But the more I look, the more I don't think so.
So, it is with great interest I listened to a show today on coasttocoastam.com about the Torah codes. Now a lot of people are aware of the Torah codes, although the vast majority of the public in any country are not. There are multiple variations on the Torah codes, and some of them have been used for centuries by the priests and rabbis who were in the know. The more sophisticated ones have not been able to be cracked until the use of computers. But even if you know how to use them, and few people do, you still have to have a frame of reference in order to gain anything from them. The irony of the Torah codes, and gematria, is that for centuries priests and rabbis have used them to prove their own point of few. Rabbis often use the Torah codes to prove that Jesus is not the Messiah, others use them to prove he is. So it is easy to say then, "what good are they?" Well, like anything, they have their place. Just let it be said for now that new things are coming to light.
I think as events come to pass, it becomes more and more clear that two books of the Bible, incidentally prophecy books, are EXTREMELY accurate. Those two books are the Book of Daniel in the Tanach, and the the Book of Revelations in the Christian scriptures. Enough said about that for now. That is not to negate the value of other books.
I once said somewhere else that I would not predict the stock market any more. And I won't specifically predict, but I would indicate there is a good likelihood of a major stock market correction along about September or October of 2015. This is based on economic laws encoded into the Torah, and prophecy, and timing including timing taught in the Torah codes. It can always be delayed, but most likely not. Another basis for it is the four blood moons (lunar eclipses) two of which happened last year, and we saw the consequences in the war between Israel and Hamas. (This is very likely to flair up again.) Two more will happen this year with a solar eclipse between them on March 20. What the effects of the solar eclipse will be this year I have no idea. Incidentally, all these blood moons happen on major Jewish holidays and feast days.
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Obama brawl with Congress looms as investors unalarmed
Fresh from a budget fight so raw that the Republican speaker of the U.S. House cursed the Democratic leader of the Senate outside the Oval Office, President Barack Obama and Congress are heading for an even bigger confrontation over raising the nation’s debt limit.
U.S. Treasury bond investors -- who most directly bear the risk of a government default -- aren’t alarmed. In a sign of the disconnect between Washington and Wall Street, investors remain confident the two sides will compromise rather than inflict what Obama called “catastrophic” consequences. Yields on long-term U.S. debt are near record lows.
“It’s ugly in Washington, and getting uglier,” said Matthew Duch, a fund manager in Bethesda, Maryland, for Calvert Investments, which oversees more than $12 billion in assets. “But that is just resulting in even lower rates as the market is much more concerned about growth than if the U.S. will be able to pay their bills.”
That hasn’t stopped Republicans and the president from moving toward a clash, with House leaders vowing to exact deep spending cuts in exchange for raising the borrowing ceiling and Obama saying he won’t negotiate on the debt. The U.S. Treasury is bumping up against its legal borrowing limit.
“Heretofore, they’ve been playing with a cherry bomb in economic terms,” said Steve Bell, a former Republican Senate budget aide. “When they start playing with the debt ceiling in February, they are starting to play with C-4,” he said, referring to the powerful plastic explosive material.
Investors Unrattled
When partisan gridlock last brought the government to the brink of default in August 2011, the stock market fell and Standard & Poor’s cut the nation’s credit rating. After House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, withdrew from negotiations on July 22, 2011, the S&P 500 Stock Index fell more than 16 percent in the next 11 trading days.
Bond investors were unrattled. Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes declined from 2.96 percent on July 22 to 2.56 percent on Aug. 5, 2011, the day of the S&P downgrade. Yields continued to drop, reaching 1.72 percent on Sept. 22 of that year.
Ten-year note yields rose two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 1.93 percent at 10:11 a.m. New York time, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader data, after the Labor Department reported the U.S. added 155,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate held at 7.8 percent.
“The market is not worried about default,” said Zach Pandl, an interest-rate strategist in Minneapolis at Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, which oversees $340 billion.
“In the U.S., the debt level is lower than comparable countries, growth is higher and we have a unblemished track record in the U.S. of debt repayment, all of which has helped calm investor concerns,” he said. “The process is messy, but the outcome is always acceptable.” | 2023-10-23T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/9963 |
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aaron-lebo
This makes the mistake of correlating monetary success with wisdom.
Those are all salesmen. Go read Hatching Twitter. Jack Dorsey doesn't come off
well. Ed Catmull was extolling the virtues of the creative environment at
Pixar in Creativity, Inc. while John was regularly harassing women there. I
like Paul but he's one for big claims and the other end of that is where you
have to beg on HN to get Coinbase to give you your own money.
These guys are all impressive in their own right, but they should be taken
with a huge grain of salt. Too much recency bias. I'd suggest that none of
them belong in the same thought process as Marcus Aurelius, and they are put
on the same level here. If they do belong there, you'll know an about 500
years. As it is, I'm not sure how much more to trust them than John McArthur,
Creflo Dollar, or a random HN commentator. Hero worship is dangerous.
This is one of the Catmull quotes presented in full:
_The takeaway here is worth repeating: Getting the team right is the
necessary precursor to getting the ideas right. It is easy to say you want
talented people, and you do, but the way those people interact with one
another is the real key. Even the smartest people can form an ineffective team
if they are mismatched. That means it is better to focus on how a team is
performing, not on the talents of the individuals within it. A good team is
made up of people who complement each other. There is an important principle
here that may seem obvious, yet — in my experience — is not obvious at all.
Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than
getting the right idea._
How that could be written while sexual harassment was going on is boggling.
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dwaltrip
Paul Graham, Jeff Bezos, Charlie Munger, Naval Ravikant, Sherlock Holmes,
Richard Feynman, Edwid Catmull, and so on... the majority of the people on the
list are most certainly _not_ salespeople, and many of them are world leaders
in their respective fields.
Sure, it's unlikely any of them will be remembered as Marcus Arelius (Feynman
has a decent shot, though). But that is an incredibly high bar that leaves
behind much potential insight. It's also definitionally not attainable by
someone who is still alive today, so we have to keep that in mind.
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aaron-lebo
Holmes is fictional. Graham and Bezos are salesmen in every sense of the word.
See my post for Catsmull.
It's not so much about having an incredibly high bar (though I'll admit it's
unfair), but just being aware that what they are selling you as insight might
not be as insightful as you think it is. Most people don't have the experience
to know whether they are wrong (I don't), this is the inherent danger. We also
tend to gloss over when they are wrong.
Skepticism is warranted, though maybe not the cynicism.
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dwaltrip
You can make the argument that Bezos is a salesmen. But that is not certainly
NOT his primary role... so it's a misleading statement and it doesn't support
your main point.
I would argue that this collection of content has a fairly high signal to
noise, for someone who is sifting through it critically.
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dfee
You believe selling is not his primary role? You used a double negative in
your comment so I’m unclear.
Anyway, as his duty to Amazon is selling equity and debt to drive growth - and
has been for the last 2 decades, if not 3 - I’d conclude that sales best
defines his primary duty.
Sure, he manages and directionally pushes the organization, but he’s doing
that to improve his ability to raise capital, increase shareholder confidence,
and build a tappable revenue pipeline.
How would you argue he’s not primarily a salesman?
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dwaltrip
Sorry, sloppy typing on my phone.
He drives the vision and values of the company, makes major strategic
decisions, and so on. He decided to reinvest all profits into the growth of
the company for more than a decade, despite immense whining from investors.
And he drove the internal systems to be so well decoupled that AWS could
spring out from internal infrastructure as an amazingly successful secondary
business. And countless other things.
It sounds like you are describing the generic, money-manager CEO that is
brought in to run an existing stable business. I don't think Bezos fits that
mold.
Even in your own description, you said:
> build a tappable revenue pipeline.
which is much beyond the capabilities of a pure salesperson.
I totally agree that great CEOs need to be great salespeople (the good kind...
not the slimy kind). But that is only one aspect of what they need to do --
especially for complex, changing domains like where Amazon operates.
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You can watch TV Show and Movies instantly in over 190 countries But Netflix is not yet available in China, though the company continues to explore options for providing the service. It also is not available in Crimea, North Korea and Syria (but you can watch it if you connect through a VPN ) | 2024-06-22T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4721 |
Humoral and mucosal defense molecules rhythmically oscillate during a light-dark cycle in permit, Trachinotus falcatus.
Circadian rhythm provides organisms with an internal system to maintain temporal order in a dynamic environment. This is typified by a 24-h cycle for a number of physiological processes, including immunity. The present study characterized the humoral and mucosal defense molecules and their dynamics during a light-dark (LD) cycle in juvenile permit, Trachinotus falcatus. All studied defense molecules were constitutively identified in serum and skin mucus. Serum generally exhibited higher levels of these defenses than skin mucus, with the exception of anti-protease (ANTIPRO). The difference in ANTIPRO, lysozyme (LYZ), esterase (ESA) and catalase (CAT) levels between serum and skin mucus was not affected by the phase of the daily cycle. However, a clear phase-dependent difference was observed in protease (PRO), globulin (GLOB), myeloperoxidase (MPO), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) levels. Activities of ALP and GPX displayed significant daily rhythmicity in both serum and skin mucus. Circadian profile of ALP was identical in both biofluids, but an antiphasic feature was exhibited by GPX. GLOB and MPO levels also exhibited significant daily oscillation but only in serum with acrophases registered at ZT 14.5 and 6.15, respectively. Mucus PRO and serum ANTIPRO demonstrated significant temporal variations during a daily cycle albeit not rhythmic. Cluster analysis of the defense molecules in serum and skin mucus revealed two different daily profiles suggesting a possibility of distinct circadian control between humoral and mucosal immunity. These observations indicate that LD cycle had a remarkable impact in the defense molecules characterizing the humoral and mucosal immunity in permit. Daily rhythmic patterns of these defense molecules contribute to our understanding of the barely explored interplay of immunity and circadian rhythm in teleost fish. Lastly, the results could be useful in developing aquaculture practices aiming at modifying the immune functions of permit for improved health. | 2024-03-25T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4015 |
How a Potato Saved Shopify's Internet - Wisqnet
http://www.shopify.com/technology/3754222-how-a-potato-saved-shopifys-internet
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hannibalhorn
Sounds like the time invested would have easily justified the cost of a
fractional T3 or similar, at least in the states?
And you still have the issue of different connections from the same machine
will show up from different IP addresses, which could certainly cause issues
with some of the more paranoid sites.
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Wisqnet
The problem was that all cabling had to be done underground at our place, and
phone lines were the only thing we had in abundance. Coax, fibre, anything
else basically meant busting up a path to the road in a major urban area. Plus
it was the middle of winter which makes road work even harder.
Not every internet provider realised this immediately. We started down the
path to better internet a lot of times with companies that said "no problem,
we can get a wire to your building just fine" -- and then backed down weeks
later when they saw our situation.
After one or two of these delays, we applied the shotgun approach, asking
every single internet provider to give us an estimate all at once, to make the
delays concurrent rather than successive. Every last one came back negative,
or just stopped returning our calls(!). So Potato was my response to our
complete lack of options.
The multiple IPs thing was an issue for some sites, but it turned out to work
fine in general. If there was a site that really had a problem with it, it was
also typically a low volume site, and didn't need heavy load balancing. So we
had one of our proxies set up to not be balanced and just pick a single
working link, and used that for those sites.
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nwmcsween
How did Linux bonding not work? Did you try balance-xor and did you set miimon
and arp_interval to something besides the default 0?
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Wisqnet
The problem is that DSL around here is PPP over Ethernet, rather than just
plain Ethernet. So there's no MII, no ARP, no regular ethernet link bonding.
It's hard to escape PPPoE for DSL around here due to phone company politics.
The type of bonding I talked about in the article was all PPP link bonding,
which apparently still has a lot of issues to work out in Linux. Our two-line
bond was pretty unreliable, and our attempts at a three-line bond ended up
with a lot of return packets going nowhere. Didn't matter which lines we
picked, either.
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ssoroka
Brilliant, very impressed. Though I'm not sure I understand it even after
reading how he did it. ;)
| 2024-02-14T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/3865 |
I can't afford to upgrade often, or if I can I can only afford little bits, so I drive my hardware into the ground.
I used a 68030 Macintosh paired with a 486DX2 PC until 1999, I used a 450 mhz Pentium II, 320 MB RAM, with Windows 98 until 2005. Then I got an Athlon 64 2.2ghz and 1GB RAM, and I'm still using it now. I've only upgraded with an extra 512 MB of RAM and a very cheap video card to get off the onboard graphics, as well as a second hard drive (200GB) that I didn't pay for because I pulled it from a dead P4 I received. It looks like I'll be using this thing until at least 2011 due to my financial situation, when I'd like to finally plunge and get something nice. Lucky for me that it still works kinda well for its age due to decent upkeep, although it's starting to fall behind for anything that needs decent performance, like games.
I named my first external hard drive "Flying Toaster" due to its portability and my love of the old After Dark screensavers... it died of severe overheating, what a coincidence.
I named its replacement "Not A Toaster"... so far so good.
As for my computers, I have a couple random names but no common theme and definitely no effect on their performance. My main one is called Kefka after the Final Fantasy VI character. I have an old Gateway named Moo and a Dell from 2003 that is named Powerhouse because it is somehow STILL able to play new games on reasonable settings. My old 486 is named Senior Citizen and my equally old Mac is named Crapple because it is very slow and useless.
I used to name ALL my hard drives, but then I stopped. I had on my old Pentium 2 setup a 12 gig named Dust Bunny and a 40 gig named Death Star.
I should get back into naming!
cHALiTO writes: "From the site: The guys over at 24C3 just demoed a Wii hack that is set to provide native Wii
homebrew in the near future (not running in GC mode, and with full access to all the Wii hardware!)
They were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory
dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. Using these keys, they were
able to create a Wii 'game' that ran their own code (their demo happened to show live sensor/Wiimote information, amongst a few other things).
Read here and watch video here."
the_humeister writes: According to the AP, New Jersey has just enacted a new law restricting internet access to sex offenders. Now this wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing save for the fact that "sex offender" now covers such a wide range of actions such that getting caught urinating in public can get you such a label.
bryanlb writes: Many users woke up this morning to find their Google Accounts "disabled" for some unknown reason (http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-ABCs/topics). This includes all Google services such as: Gmail, Talk, and Reader among many other services. It is currently unknown what Google is going to do to resolve this issue. Meanwhile, thousands of users are without email over the Christmas Holiday. Merry Christmas.
An anonymous reader writes: Barack Obama, in a speech at Google (youtube link), said that he would "take a back seat to no one" in his support of network neutrality, and said he intends to double Federal funding for science and to make the R&D tax credit permanent. Could Obama be the first mainstream candidate to start understanding geek issues?
Teen Bainwolf writes: Big Four record label EMI is reportedly considering a big cut in its funding for the IFPI and RIAA. Each of the labels reportedly contributed over $130 million per year to fund industry trade groups, and EMI apparently believes that money could be better spent elsewhere. 'One of the chief activities of the RIAA is coordinating the Big Four labels' legal campaign, and those thousands of lawsuits have done nothing but generate ill will from record fans, while costing the labels millions of dollars and doing little (if anything) to actually reduce the amount of file-sharing going on. In fact, the RIAA freely admits that the legal campaign is a real money pit, and EMI's new ownership may be very leery of continuing to pour money down that particular rat hole.
duh P3rf3ss3r writes: Popular bittorrent site Demonoid.com, still smarting from a recent agreement with the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) to block all traffic from Canadians, appears to have been forced entirely offline. Attempts to contact the main or the secondary server result in the message: "The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding." Is this the end for the demonoid folks?
jBubba writes: Windows XP SP3 build 3205 is the first official & authorized release of the next Windows XP service pack; and has been made available to testers as a part of the Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP1 beta program. NeoSmart Technologies has the run-down on the included 1,073 patches/hotfixes including security updates. Contrary to popular belief, Windows XP SP3 does ship with new features/components, most of which have been backported from Windows Vista. | 2024-02-10T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/9392 |
Pennsylvania: Mother of seven dies while jailed for unpaid fines
By Samuel Davidson
16 June 2014
The death last Saturday of a 55-year-old mother of seven in a Pennsylvania jail is a tragic demonstration once again of the brutalization of the working class and the poor in the American justice system.
Eileen DiNino, 55, the impoverished mother of seven children, was found dead in her cell on Saturday, June 7, less than 24 hours after being placed in jail for being unable to pay mounting truancy fines imposed upon her when several of her children had missed too many days from school.
According to the politicians of both the Democrat and Republican parties, the answer to every social problem in America is more police, more prisons and more repression.
In 1995, the Pennsylvania legislature amended the Pennsylvania Truancy Act to hold parents responsible if their children fail to attend school by imposing fines and possible jail time. The law states that a parent can be fined up to $300 per violation and sent to jail for five days. The act was signed into law by then governor Tom Ridge, who went on to become the first US secretary of Homeland Security under the G.W. Bush administration.
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 required school districts to report truancy rates, which forced districts to become more aggressive in pursuing truancy violations or risk losing federal and state funds. Pennsylvania also ties state funding to attendance rates and budget cuts are forcing cash-strapped school districts to become more pernicious in imposing fines on parents.
While debtors’ prison was supposedly abolished in the United States in 1830, tens of thousands of poor people are routinely placed in jail for failing to pay fines and other court costs.
Ms. DiNino had no income. She was living in a home owned by another family member in Reading, Pennsylvania, on the eastern end of the state, about 65 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Her three older children had already moved out of the home, but she was still raising the four younger ones.
The county coroner has performed an autopsy but has not yet released a cause of death, saying that he is awaiting a toxicology report. Ms. DiNino suffered from high blood pressure and was taking medication for it and other health problems, but prison officials reported that they had not given her any medication.
When Ms. DiNino presented herself to the Berks County judge who sent her to jail for the weekend, she had over $2,000 in fines that she could not pay. Not all of the money was a result of truancy violations. Once in the legal system, court costs and other fees are quickly added on. An Associated Press examination of Ms. DiNino’s fines shows that for one truancy violation $10.00 was added for postage, $60.00 for the county constables and $8.00 for a “computer project.”
Expressing the real contempt and hostility showed for the poor, and mothers in particular, according to the AP, District Judge Dean R. Patton, who sent Ms. DiNino to prison, said that while he had lost sleep over her death he felt “that a short jail stint can sometimes ‘break the habit’ of parents who’d rather party into the night than take their children to school the next day.”
It is likely that the “short jail stint” would not have been the end of her dilemma. More than likely, had she lived she would have soon been visited by the county youth service agency, which may have tried to take her remaining children away from her and place them in foster care on the claim that she wasn’t caring for them.
Ms. DiNino’s plight is not an isolated one. The Reading Eagle reported that since the year 2000 more than 1,600 parents have been jailed in Berks county alone for truancy violations or the fines associated with them. More than two thirds of them are women and most are single parents living in poverty.
In 2011, the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania NAACP filed a lawsuit against the Lebanon School District, which in the 2008-2009 school year alone fined parents over $500,000, more than 10 times per parent than neighboring Lancaster School District.
The tragic death of Ms. DiNino underscores one of the thousands of brutal indignities that the working class and the poor are subjected to in American society every day.
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Across China: AI robots newest recruits in China's kindergartens
XIAMEN, July 17 (Xinhua) -- "Good morning everyone! I am Keeko. Nice to meet you!" In the classroom, an artificial intelligence (AI) robot introduces itself before putting forward a question: "Why are there four different colored garbage bins in our kindergarten?"
Keeko, a humanoid robot standing 45 cm tall and weighing 4.5 kg, has become the newest recruit at Xingguo Kindergarten in Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province.
With help of the robot, teacher Yang Huizhen is teaching children about garbage sorting. Before the class started, she worked for several days collecting information and uploading it into Keeko's "brain."
"I once thought AI robots would steal the jobs of teachers, but my worry turned out to be unnecessary. They will be good teaching assistants as children are curious about them," said Yang.
Keeko, which is programed to interact with children aged below seven, can interact with them by playing games, singing, dancing, reading stories, having conversations and even doing mathematics.
In China, robots are not just being used in factories or logistic companies. Now they are being recruited by more kindergartens to help out in school classrooms. Robots like Keeko have been used in four classes at Xingguo Kindergarten.
At He & She Angel Kindergarten in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, a robot frequently reminds children of developing good habits. "We should wash our hands before we have dessert," it says, as well as "in scorching heat, don't forget to drink more water."
"With cute voice and appearance, the robot is easily accepted by children," teacher Peng Liangjiao said. "Our workload has been reduced a lot."
In order to better serve kindergarten teachers and children, robot-developing companies are trying to improve their products.
"Our engineers are cooperating with kindergarten teachers who know what the children really need and how to teach," said Guo Changchen, CEO of Keeko Robot (Xiamen) Technology Co. Ltd., creator of Keeko.
"Teachers can prepare the lessons and upload the content to the robots. As more data is accumulated, the robots will become smarter and more helpful," he added.
So far, the robots developed by Guo's company have been used in 672 kindergartens across the country, he said.
Zheng Qinhua, an associate professor of education at Beijing Normal University, is happy to see the trend of robots entering into classrooms.
"Using technology such as image recognition and language interaction, AI robots can precisely record and analyze children's behaviors, interact with and accompany them," said Zheng.
Zheng believes that AI robots are, to some extent, one of the solutions for the lack of qualified teachers.
In response to a rapidly aging population, China ended its decades-long one-child policy in 2016.
A study conducted by the Center for Education Policy of Southwest University showed that the shortfall of kindergarten teachers and child-care workers in China will likely surpass three million by 2021 due to a growing number of children.
"However, while AI technology is a tool for teachers, it cannot replace teachers," Zheng added.
"Teaching requires love, patience, and kindness. At least now, robots cannot give children these things," Zheng said. "But I believe in future, AI robots, like the teachers, will accompany and help children grow." | 2024-02-20T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7897 |
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Anita Hassdandani : Draupadi of Ekta's Mahabharat
Anita Hassdandani is all set to play the role of Draupadi in Ekta Kapoor's "Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki". She's very serious about the role and said that she wouldn't do any other role and want to concentrate on Draupadi's character only. Well, we hope she'll prove to be a fantastic Draupdi.
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The show is slated to be a daily and will be aired on prime time from Monday to Thursday.This change of schedule has taken place because Balaji Telefilms are way ahead of their deadline and have already built up a huge bank of episodes. | 2024-04-24T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4870 |
Set the tone
Levels & Curves panel Access this powerful colour-editing panel in the Edit section at the right of the workspace. Here we’ve undocked the Levels & Curves and the LCH panels and used Window>Edit to hide docked editing panels for a cleaner workspace. RGB This drop-down menu defaults to viewing and editing points on all three RGB Curves at once, changing tone rather than colour. Adjusting points on each individual colour channel can produce creative colour changes (see the walkthrough below, and our accompanying video). Colour channels Here the highlights in the red channel have been pushed up and its shadows darkened, creating a classic S-curve. The blue Curve’s highlights feature a more severe dip, which helps add a cyan hue to lighter patches of sky. Gamma You can adjust a range of colours in a channel by placing an anchor point on a Curve and dragging it up or down (see point 7). Alternatively, select a Curve anchor point and drag the Gamma slider right to make the point dip, or left to raise it up. These adjustments to the initially diagonal Curve change the way that the RGB colours mix together, producing creative changes in colour. Rese t channels Tinkering with Curves can dramatically shift colours and tones. Click here if you need to reset the RGB channels. LCH Panel The Lightness, Chroma and Hue panel enables you to use Curves to change a range of image properties. We’ve set the drop-down to adjust Color Lightness. Add anchor point By clicking on this icon you can then sample a specific colour by clicking an eyedropper on the image. Here we clicked on the sky to add an anchor point to the blue section of the Color Lightness Curve. We then dragged the anchor point downwards to darken the sampled colour. Width Once you’ve sampled a specific colour, increase the spread of the adjustment to include similar colours by increasing the Width value here. Doing this enabled us to darken a range of blues in the sky. Reg ister adjus tment Once you’ve adjusted a shot’s colour Curves to produce a distinctive look, click on this drop-down menu, then Register Adjustments. Type in a label to help you identify your filter and click Rename. Click OK. You can now access and apply your custom filter to other photos from the Levels & Curves panel’s drop-down menu. | 2024-07-19T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/3227 |
Q:
Spine003 keeps stretching book in undesirable way
I'm trying to fix this rig so that it all bends together, but for some reason the vertices selected below keep stretching in undesirable ways. I've tried a couple different things to no avail. Can anyone help?
If you grab the spine.003 and rotate it in any direction, you will see what I mean.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1neePPk9PlKjhpp8AIbUOF94m1KHws7hX/view?usp=sharing
A:
If you look at it in edit mode and show the item properties, you'll see that the vertices are linked to several groups and two of them corresponds to two bones.
Depending on what you want to do, you may remove the unwanted bones influences from all the vertices of the book.
If the book is not supposed to be bent maybe you should keep only one bone influence for it (all its vertices).
| 2024-05-22T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/8189 |
Sauteed Pears with Vanilla Yogurt and Honey Peanuts
Sauteed Pears with Vanilla Yogurt and Honey Peanuts
Sautéed pears are swirled into vanilla yogurt dabbed with peanut butter for a breakfast that's full of fiber and protein.
INGREDIENTS
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
4 large USA Pears, such as Bosc, Concorde, or Anjou, peeled, cored, and sliced
1 tablespoon sugar
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Pinch of fine salt
¼ cup smooth peanut butter
1 tablespoon honey
1 cup low fat vanilla or plain yogurt
¼ cup honey roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped
DIRECTIONS
Melt butter in large heavy-bottomed sauté pan over medium high heat. Add pears and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes, or until softened. Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, ginger and lemon juice. Season with a pinch of fine salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 5 to 7 minutes. Keep warm.
In small bowl combine peanut butter, honey, and yogurt; stir until smooth. Set aside.
To serve, place pears in a shallow bowl. Top with yogurt mixture. Sprinkle peanuts on top. Serve immediately. | 2023-09-29T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6801 |
Eight years after its maiden voyage followed by February claims of a Syrian deployment, Russia's single-seat, twin-engine SU-57s fighter jet is finally ready for its close-up.
The planes, which flew a total of ten sorties, were pushed to the limit as the military wanted to see how they would perform during a real-life mission. The jets’ aerodynamics, avionics, fire control, and weapons systems were all put to test amid high temperatures and complicated terrain, the ministry said on Facebook. -RT
The Russian Defense Ministry, which has ordered 12 of the supersonic stealth jets to be delivered in 2019, has released footage of an Su-57 taking off from an undisclosed location presumed to be Khmeimim air base in north eastern Syria. The official release comes nine months after unverified photos and video footage emerged in February purporting to show the new fighter jet landing at Khmeimim.
The new footage shows two Su-57s taking off, traversing the skies over Syria and then simultaneously landing on the runway "with or without the parachute brakes," according to Russian state-owned news network RT.
Though little is verifiably known about the Su-57’s features and capabilities, the jet has given a bit of publicity in recent weeks. Recently, Russian TV was allowed to film the low-visibility fighter flying in formation during mid-air refueling. The jet approached close enough so that the flying tanker would be able to extend the refueling cable and far enough to avoid a collision. The multirole, single-seat, twin-engine Su-57 jet, referred to as PAK FA and T-50 during research and development, is designed to give the Russian Air Force an unhinged superiority in aerial warfare. -RT
The Kremlin ordered its first dozen production-standard Su-57s in August 2018 according to The National Interest, and is expected to form the first regular squadron in 2019. According to Russian news agency Tass
"By the end of the summer, I think probably at the Patriot Park (in Moscow’s region, the venue for the 2018 Army forum on August 21-26 - TASS), we will sign contracts for the first batch with the defense ministry. Regular supplies will start next year," said Yuri Slyusar, president of Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) in August.
"You know that today the Su-57 is considered to be one of the best aircraft produced in the world," said Russia's deputy defense minister, Yuri Borisov in August.
According to RT, the Su-57 is coated in "special radio-absorbent paint," and its "guided and unguided weapons are also hidden in domestic bays to ensure low radar signature." | 2024-06-27T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6248 |
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Synthesis and characterization of new chitosan-based Schiff base compounds.
Chitin (Cn) was extracted from the armors of crustaceans Astacus leptodactylus (Lake Sevan, Armenia) and then converted to chitosan (Cs), its deacetylated derivative. Novel Schiff bases (CsSB) were synthesized by interaction of Cs with 4-(2-chloroethyl)benzaldehyde (aldehyde-1) and 4-(2-bromoethyl)benzaldehyde (aldehyde-2), and underwent dehydrohalogenation, under basic conditions (10°C), to yield respective vinyl derivatives. All newly synthesized compounds were structurally characterized by solubility tests, elemental analysis, infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetry (TGA), proton nuclear magnetic resonance ((1)H NMR), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). | 2024-04-10T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/9230 |
IT’S HARD to overstate the importance of football in the Arab world; it is undoubtedly the number one sport and matter of national pride. Arab leaders have historically taken a keen interest in the game — a keen interest, particularly, in qualifying for the World Cup. To this end, leaders from Libya to Qatar have adopted management styles that would be considered intrusive in other parts of the world. And, though they shared the same goal, their approaches have been very different. Every autocrat is a peerless philosopher. And so, over the last half-century, football fans throughout the Arab world have witnessed some rather extravagant social experiments. In what follows, we offer you a short survey of this grandiose and neglected history.
Iraq
Saddam Hussein is the prototype of the Arab dictator as football philosopher. He set a template that would become industry standard, appointing his son head of the national football body and promising players huge rewards in case they qualified for the World Cup.
Saddam’s other tactics were more unorthodox. He once fielded an entire team of players named Saddam in a crucial World Cup qualifier against Oman, earning him the admiration of his entire cabinet. While these strategies didn’t always ensure success, they showed Saddam’s visionary and experimental attitude to the beautiful game.
Saddam had a dream a few days before Iraq’s friendly match against Azerbaijan. He dreamt of Iraq winning the World Cup. Unfortunately, the only practical detail he managed to retain was that the players were dressed in full Assyrian attire; Saddam ordered his tailors to make Assyrian costumes for the whole Iraqi team. Predictably, the imperialists at FIFA intervened against this expression of native pride, declaring the costume and its accessories contrary to international standards. Saddam accepted his mistake and remedied it by ordering all of his tailors shot.
After that, Saddam decided to take a more elevated approach. The problem, it seemed to him, was not that the Iraqi team was losing, but that irresponsible commentators were reporting the results in an unpatriotic way. With the help of Baghdad-based French thinker Michel Passepartout, Saddam arrived at the philosophy that the score doesn’t actually reflect the game objectively. Iraqi football commentators were advised to report Iraq’s losses as wins. (Passepartout wrote several essays legitimizing this practice as an anti-imperialist tactic.) Saddam called this Saddamiyah — or, in English, “the most exalted reality.”
To this day, Iraq’s 7-0 drubbing of Brazil remains the pinnacle of this policy, a result that was celebrated around the country. People that insisted they saw Brazil score three goals and missed all of Iraq’s were convinced otherwise.
Syria
Syria’s Hafez al-Assad was a long-time opponent of Saddam Hussein and the rivalry influenced not only his political decisions but also his approach to football. Al-Assad cultivated the image of a reasonable pragmatic leader, helped in no small measures by Saddam’s excesses, which made him look like a suburban librarian by comparison.
This restraint manifested in his policy on football, which was restricted to subtle gestures such as naming every single football stadium in Syria “The Hafez al-Assad Stadium,” like every school, university, hospital, airport, and dam. While this made life hard for Syria’s taxi drivers, it filled the Assad family with pride and humility.
In the 1980s, though, al-Assad began to feel threatened by the success of the Iraqi football team and decided to pressure the Syrian team to qualify for the World Cup. His philosophy of steadfastness and confrontation, though, urging coaches and players to “assume heroic postures” and wait for the opponents to crumble under the weight of their internal contradictions, proved to be less successful in football than it was in politics. Al-Assad then lost interest in football and dedicated his spare time to his new hobby, acquiring Lebanon.
Lebanon
George Orwell described international football as “war without the guns.” Clearly he hasn’t been to Lebanon. The Lebanese differ from other Arabs in many respects. For one, they don’t have individual autocrats who rule the country, but a more egalitarian system based on a committee of autocrats, formed from feudal chieftains and warlords. The Lebanese are also quite astute and pragmatic.
Rather than supporting the national team, the Lebanese pick strong teams like Brazil and Germany through which to channel their passion for football. This combines two of the favorite Lebanese pastimes: football and proxy wars. Ideally, this would involve a game between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which would allow the Lebanese to split their support neatly along sectarian lines.
Foreign embassies in Lebanon understand the importance of these proxy football wars and support their local fans, both morally and financially. Established football nations like Brazil, Germany, Italy and Argentina spend vast amounts of money to win these football proxy wars. This, incidentally, is quite similar to the way politics works in Lebanon.
Qatar
In 1996, former Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani came up with a daring plan to acquire the World Cup — that is, he offered to buy the trophy directly from then-holders Brazil. Regrettably, the Brazilian Football Federation declined his offer. The Emir was disappointed and ordered a 30-foot replica of the World Cup to be built in Doha. If you stand far enough from the statue you can take one of those endearing pictures of yourself pretending to hold the World Cup — a popular pastime in Doha. The Qatari love affair with football would have a happy ending, though, as Al Thani later succeeded in buying the World Cup directly from FIFA.
Egypt
No piece about Arab football teams can be complete without mentioning Egypt, the epicenter of the game in the Arab world and a place where passion for the game runs very high. Despite Egypt’s successful clubs and the achievements of its national team in the Africa Cup, it doesn’t have a good record in the World Cup, qualifying only twice and not managing a single win. In the 1970s, former president Anwar Sadat took an interest in this problem, hoping to prop up his popularity among the Egyptian population. Translating the tactical nous that he had honed in politics, Sadat suggested offering a series of strategic concessions to the other team, hoping that this would shame them into similar concessions, achieving draws that could be then repackaged as strategic victories. The plan was abandoned following several harsh defeats for Egypt by teams that didn’t have the aesthetic sensibility to appreciate Sadat’s complicated philosophy.
In 2009, Egypt was involved in a volatile diplomatic dispute with Algeria over two matches with them in the World Cup qualifications. The war of words between the two escalated sharply, almost producing an actual war. Responding to perceived insults by the Algerian media, Alaa Mubarak, the son of then President Hosni Mubarak, phoned in to a talk show, saying, “We are Egyptian and we hold our head high, and whoever insults us should be smacked on his head.” Incidentally, Alaa’s defensive talk show performance was one of the reasons his father deemed him an inadequate successor.
Saudi Arabia
In 1978, Saudi King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud decided that it was time for the national football team to go the World Cup, so he summoned his advisors for a brainstorming session. After much deliberation, the advisors decided that Saudi Arabia would qualify to the next World Cup, Inshallah (God willing.) Against all odds, the plan didn’t work. The King lost interest and decided to instead fund the mujahedeen in Afghanistan.
Libya
Like Saddam, Muammar Gaddafi channeled his football philosophy to the masses through his offspring. He named his son Saadi Gaddafi head of the Libyan football association and the captain and star of the Libyan national team. He was the only player that announcers were allowed to mention by name; all others were referred to only by their numbers. The Libyan game revolved around Saadi. Indeed, during the qualification campaign for USA 1994, he averaged more shots on goal than any other player in the world. Unfortunately, he wasn’t very good at shooting, and Libya failed to qualify after a disastrous 10-0 shellacking by Ghana. His father refused to accept the loss, arguing that it was a Western conspiracy to make his family look stupid and “divide Africa’s children from one another.” Luckily, his son lost interest in the sport, and Muammar spent his life’s autumn focusing on his true passion, female mixed martial arts.
Tunisia and Algeria
Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was such an ordinary and uninspiring dictator that one would struggle to even make up a story about his football excesses that would fit in a guide like this. Perhaps as a result of this, Tunisia has a decent football record, qualifying to the World Cup several times and winning the Africa Cup in 2004.
Algeria’s excellent campaign in the 1982 World Cup, which included a historic win against West Germany, happened under the reign of Chadli Bendjedid, a reasonable president who didn’t interfere in football. But it would be mad to expect other Arab autocrats to learn from his example.
Disclaimer: The survey above is a mixture of fact and fiction. The author trusts his readers to distinguish between the two. Dedicated to the memory of Ammo Baba, the greatest Iraqi football manager.
¤
Karl Sharro is an architect, writer, satirist and commentator living in London. | 2023-10-06T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/1982 |
Finding Church Records at home?
Archivist Leanne Templeton
By Leanne TempletonWhile some of you may be baking bread, others may be tackling paper piles in an overfilled filing cabinet or the neglected boxes in the basement. Should you come across records about the life and journey of your Community of Faith, please start a folder or box to set them aside for the Archives.
Perhaps you’ve decided to pull out an old album and sort your photos? Now’s a great time to label the back of the images with a pencil to indicate who is in the photo, where and when it was taken. Or for those who like to put words to paper, take a moment to write down memories about your family’s roles within the United Church. What activities they engaged in, big and small. Camp cook? Choir singer? Committee member? Journaling can be therapeutic, but also, your stories of special events, music, picnics, mentors and spiritual leaders come and gone add flavour to the records that describe your Community story. Please consider sharing your reminiscences and records with the Archives. If you have any questions about how to organize your papers or prepare them for deposit, email Chinook Winds/Northern Spirit Regional Council Archivist, Leanne Templeton | 2024-01-12T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/3880 |
For Nearly Two Decades the Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000 - iand
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/nearly-two-decades-nuclear-launch-code-minuteman-silos-united-states-00000000/
======
fennecfoxen
What's really more likely? A Soviet spy gains physical access to your nuclear
weapons and launches or detonates one (or several), possibly starting a global
thermonuclear war (which the Kremlin could honestly start at any time if it
were interested anyway) with a modest advantage on the Soviet side. (A
possible advantage - it depends how quickly the Soviets are able/willing to
follow up with additional nukes.)
or...
You lock yourself out of your own nukes during a crisis because you have a big
fancy launch-code-management system and it falls apart because key people are
confused and/or dead.
In related news, handguns with fingerprint sensors and other electronic locks
will protect you in case a criminal breaks in and steals your gun from you -
and yet they're not very popular among gun owners.
~~~
fennecfoxen
AND WHILE I'M HERE TALKING ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS SYSTEMS and understandings
thereof, allow me to rant about one of the most misunderstood videos of all
time, Bert the Turtle ("duck and cover") --
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60)
\-- Witness the crowds of people saying "lol but nuclear bomb! you're already
dead!" Well, maybe you're right and you're already dead, but IF YOU'RE NOT
DEAD YET then there's going to be a BIG BLAST WAVE OF DEBRIS heading your way
IN A MATTER OF SECONDS, so you'd better look for some shelter, pronto. And get
away from any windows, too, or you'll end up like those poor people watching
the Chelyabinsk meteor, getting LACERATED by flying glass.
~~~
pjscott
Some juicy details here:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_Cover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_Cover)
The short versions is this: in most of the area where a nuclear blast _can_
kill you, there are simple things you can do to reduce its effects and
survive. A building will protect from much of the blast wave, and even a
blanket can greatly reduce the amount of skin burning. Nukes are not
unstoppable bringers of universal instadeath.
~~~
empthought
But then you have to live in a world where people are nuking each other.
~~~
pjscott
We already live in a world where people have nuked each other.
~~~
empthought
Those devices were quite small compared to the cold war arsenals. There were
also only two of them, as compared to the 15,000+ today.
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rdtsc
However note that the reason for the all zero code can be complex.
Especially if it was known. The idea behind the nuclear deterrent is that a
response can and will be launched immediately, after a threat is detected.
That is key. If someone out there knows that something prevents US from
launching quickly they now have an advantage so to speak. So it is absolutely
imperative for others to know that launch response will be total and prompt.
So making the system safe and secure from unauthorized launches has to be
balanced by not making it harder to launch if needed (and of course letting
the adversary know about this). Thinking of this, they could have actually had
secure codes set BUT broadcast to the world that somehow a mistake was made
and all codes are 0000000.
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hercynium
"That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind
of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"
/obligatory
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rch
I just loaded up that page in Chrome and there is a horribly obnoxious add
that covers the left 15 percent or so of the article text. My preference will
be to never again see _any_ content from that domain under any circumstances.
Thanks for the article headline though; that's a mildly interesting bit of
trivia.
~~~
xroche
I got redirected to a malware/scam page claiming that "Java needed to be
updated". Definitely a site to be avoided...
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TobbenTM
This reminds me of this scene from the movie Spaceballs;
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k)
It's how I imagine the commanders get the code.
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analyst74
What's worse?
1) Being the party/person who started another world war; 2) Being nuked
without ability to retaliate (in case the executive branch is wiped out)
Most incredibly stupid decisions were made rationally, under extreme
perception of the reality.
~~~
kken
Your primal senses probably tell you that 1) is the best option, but
objectively seen it's 2).
~~~
6d0debc071
How so? If we're nuked, we're nuked. The thing is that the other side
_believes_ we can nuke them back so they don't do it in the first place. If
it's all in the air, I don't see what we stand to gain.
~~~
nickff
You are assuming there is no possibility of a third-strike, which may or may
not be the case.
~~~
6d0debc071
If they were prepared to launch a third strike, why would they wait for your
second strike to do it, rather than just going all in at the outset? I can't
think of anything sufficiently valuable that you could offer them in surrender
to offset the probability of your launching a second strike and the resultant
loss on their part.
If they thought they could deliver a knock-out blow to the majority of your
arsenal, they'd do it. The real question, I feel, is more to do with what the
window for that blow would be:
Can they achieve sufficient synchronism across their various platforms that
the bombs will all arrive at more or less the same time - preventing the
destruction of some components of the system from warning others?
Can they avoid your long range systems picking up their launches several
minutes out?
Is the window, from detection to response, in other words, small enough that
they can hit you fast enough that you don't have time to respond?
In that arena I don't think a few seconds one way or the other, to input a
more complex launch code, would make much difference. It seems to me like if
they can get close enough not to be picked up at long range, if they can
launch with synchronous on target timing, then they should overshoot your
response time by a long way. And if they can't, then they shouldn't come
anywhere near it.
~~~
nickff
1) Not all weapons systems are kept on 15 minute alert, so those cannot be
launched immediately, including some sheltered bombers and mobile missile
launchers. Other weapons systems, such as the Soviet (NATO reporting name)
"typhoon" class submarines are purposely built to ensure that the enemy will
not be able to rebuild.
2) A first strike may be intended to decapitate the leadership, decimate the
enemy nuclear capabilities, destroy the entire army, or obliterate the whole
country; the same goes for a second or third strike. It should also be noted
that the Soviets implemented the "dead-hand" system so that any surviving
installations would automatically retaliate even in the event of a successful
first strike.
3) There are a variety of first strike scenarios, mostly involving SSBNs near
the enemy coast, and stealth bombers since late in the cold war, as they give
the shortest response window. Synchronizing a first strike would likely only
be between one type of platform (i.e. all stealth bombers or SSBNs launching
simultaneously); which is not too challenging.
4) First strike requires less than 15 minutes of notice, though even this may
be too much. Soviets feared that the stealth bombers or a missile shield would
encourage an American first strike exactly because the first would provide no
response window, and the second would make any response futile.
5) Above.
6) Maybe.
This all misses the basic point, which is that MAD made nuclear strikes even
more pointless than they had previously been. Simply put, what is the point of
destroying the enemy, and irradiating their territory (especially their most
valuable assets) with a strike? Why would you put yourself at risk to achieve
a goal of no benefit to you, except relieving paranoia, under MAD?
------
Totient
This story kind of reminds me of this:
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/...](http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/11_november/15/newsnight.shtml)
For most of the Cold War, the RAF's nuclear bombs were armed by turning a
bicycle lock key.
"The Royal Navy argued that its officers could be trusted and: 'It would be
invidious to suggest... that senior Service officers may, in difficult
circumstances, act in defiance of their clear orders.'"
~~~
kephra
imho, a trelock is a much better protection than a 00000000 code.
------
jasonkostempski
Did that code ever actually get used to launch a nuke? Maybe it was just false
information and really just triggered an alert if entered.
~~~
moocowduckquack
_Did that code ever actually get used to launch a nuke?_
I suspect not. I think someone would have noticed the mess.
------
froo
This article actually gives me a little faith in humanity. Despite the fact
that SO MANY people had access to launch a nuke nobody actually did...
presumably they knew what the resulting shitstorm would be.
------
eterm
Why "for nearly 2 decades"? It doesn't explain how this stopped being the
case, did I miss the paragraph where it explained that the codes are no longer
00000000?
~~~
goodcanadian
Apparently, you did. Near the end (second or third last paragraph):
"Dr. Blair . . . decided to outline it for the public in this 1977 article
where he described how just four people acting in tandem could easily activate
a nuclear launch in the silos he had worked in. Further, amongst other things,
the PAL system McNamara had touted was barely in operation and thus launches
could be authorised by anyone without Presidential authority . . . It is,
perhaps, not coincidence that the PAL systems were all activated and the codes
changed the same year this article was published."
------
joering2
> There was particularly a concern that the nuclear missiles the United States
> had stationed in other countries, some of which with somewhat unstable
> leadership, could potentially be seized by those governments and launched.
> With the PAL system, this became much less of a problem.
Is this for real? Its like putting a lock on your car steering wheel, while
all wheels and radio has been stolen overnight.
~~~
thrill
The concern was the _seizure and launch_ by illegitimate parties. A bypass of
the PAL system was nontrivial, giving the needed time to handle that issue
(recapture, destruction, ...) without worrying about your own nuclear weapons
being used against you or your allies anytime quickly.
------
tehwalrus
Using nuclear weapons in any situation is morally unjustifiable, and frankly
nearly always a war crime (since they are too large to avoid civilians).
This was utterly irresponsible, and from the sounds of it in direct violation
of presidential orders. Isn't disobeying orders in the military quite a big
thing?
~~~
3pt14159
It is morally justifiable to use nuclear weapons. If a country decides to be
peaceful and not have an active army, airforce, and navy; but retains a
stockpile of nuclear weapons, is it morally unjustifiable to strike an
invading fleet with atomic bombs?
The whole point behind MAD is to show that you refuse to play the game of "I
have the bigger army" and to literally level the playing field by making the
game lose-lose.
~~~
tehwalrus
Using nukes to bomb entire civilian cities when the other side can't respond
(US, 1945) is completely wrong. Using nukes against a conventional army is
dubious - it is disproportionate in the extreme. The _threat_ of using them
may not be wrong (but I'm still not convinced on that point.)
Then (as sister comment says) neither side was playing the game right in the
cold war.
I object to the way the game is set up in international relations - If we
actually had a system to enforce international law it would be much much
harder to justify having unilateral armies at all! My views on this are
somewhat unconventional, though, so don't worry if I sound crazy; I may well
be.
------
doug1001
about once a month, i see a HN post that, at first glance, seems to be from
TheOnion. This is certainly one of those. (Indeed, it's a well-explored theme
on TheOnion, see e.g., [http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-announces-plan-
to-brin...](http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-announces-plan-to-bring-
wifi-to-its-headquart,2299/))
------
antonius
Reverse psychology against hackers/spies. Let them think that it was a super
obscure, difficult code to crack.
~~~
Amadou
_Reverse psychology against hackers /spies. Let them think that it was a super
obscure, difficult code to crack._
Nope, according to the article it was listed in the instructions handed out to
the soldiers who manned the silos. If there had been post-it notes back then,
they probably would have stuck one right on the console with the code.
------
eitland
If site owner visits this discussion:
Interesting story, crazy popup ads (mobile device).
~~~
BenderV
I couldn't believe it. It pushed pop up even when I wasn't on the navigator...
~~~
hrkristian
Yeah. I had to manually kill the app to escape those damned things. Quite
persistent.
------
ShadowyOrdeal
Null pointer bugs, anyone?
------
stefantalpalaru
>(...) the PAL systems were all activated and the codes changed the same year
this article was published
They changed them to 12345678 didn't they?
| 2024-03-21T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4345 |
Fading Coalition hopes of passing the union-taming legislation used as trigger bills to force the July 2 double dissolution election were given a boost on Tuesday but the numbers still look tight even if both houses are counted as one in a special joint sitting.
In a surprise result at the end of counting in South Australia's Senate race, the anti-union Family First senator Bob Day has emerged as the 12th senator from the central state, displacing Labor's fourth spot and thus ending the career of Anne McEwen.
The final result in South Australia is: Liberal 4, Labor 3, NXT 3, Greens 1 (Sarah Hanson-Young), Family First 1.
A former housing industry entrepreneur, the conservative Senator Day secured his term with just 0.37 of a quota of first preferences. His return on favourable preference flows, adds to the numbers in favour of the government's Australian Building and Construction Commission and its Registered Organisations bills. | 2024-01-13T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/9706 |
Q:
problem with GetIpForwardTable Implementation in Delphi 7
I have put together this code for viewing Routing Table in My delphi App.
PMIB_IPFORWARDROW = ^TMibIpForwardRow;
TMibIpForwardRow=packed record
dwForwardDest:DWORD;
dwForwardMask:DWORD;
dwForwardPolicy:DWORD;
dwForwardNextHop:DWORD;
dwForwardIfIndex:DWORD;
dwForwardType:DWORD;
dwForwardProto:DWORD;
dwForwardAge:DWORD;
dwForwardNextHopAS:DWORD;
dwForwardMetric1:DWORD;
dwForwardMetric2:DWORD;
dwForwardMetric3:DWORD;
dwForwardMetric4:DWORD;
dwForwardMetric5:DWORD;
end;
PMIB_IPFORWARDTABLE=^TMibIpForwardTable ;
TMibIpForwardTable=packed record
dwNumEntries:DWORD;
table:array [0..ANY_SIZE-1] of TMibIpForwardRow;
end;
The Declaration of the Function is :
getIpForwardTable: function (pIpForwardTable:PMIB_IPFORWARDTABLE; pdwSize:PULONG; bOrder:BOOL):DWORD; stdcall;
And the Function for Implementation is:
procedure GetRouteTable;
var
Error:DWORD;
pRouteTable:PMIB_IPFORWARDTABLE ;
dwSize:ULONG;
//dwSize:ULONG;
TableSize:Integer;
begin
try
dwSize:=0;
GetMem(pRouteTable,SizeOf(TMibIpForwardTable));
Error:=GetIpForwardTable(pRouteTable,@dwSize,FALSE);// Error at this line
if Error=NO_ERROR then
begin
ShowMessage(IntToStr(Error));
end
else
ShowMessage(IntToStr(Error));
except
on E:Exception do
ShowMessage(E.ClassName+':'+E.Message);
end;
end;
I am getting Error code=122. Please help in correcting this Error.
Thanks in Advance
edit
I have tried this combo too but it didnt work
Error:=GetIpForwardTable(nil,@dwSize,FALSE);
if Error=ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER then
ShowMessage(IntToStr(Error))
else
begin
GetMem(pRouteTable,dwSize);
Error:=getIpForwardTable(pRouteTable,@dwSize,False);
if Error=NO_ERROR then
begin
ShowMessage(IntToStr(Error));
end
else
ShowMessage(IntToStr(Error));
A:
Error code 122 is ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER. The documentation for GetIpForwardTable states that this error code is returned when the following occurs.
The buffer pointed to by the pIpForwardTable parameter is not large enough. The required size is returned in the DWORD variable pointed to by the pdwSize parameter.
The solution is to read the value of dwSize that is returned, and call again with a buffer of that size.
The other problem with your code is that you do not pass in a valid buffer. Notice that the variable pRouteTable is never assigned to. In your edit, you do call GetMem to allocate it, but in the wrong place. You need something like this:
Error := GetIpForwardTable(nil, @dwSize, False);
if Error<>ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER then
RaiseLastOSError(Error);
GetMem(pRouteTable,dwSize);
Error := GetIpForwardTable(pRouteTable, @dwSize, False);
if Error<>ERROR_SUCCESS then
RaiseLastOSError(Error);
| 2024-07-25T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/2137 |
Environmental and dietary risk factors in Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects millions in the aging population worldwide and will affect millions more in the next 20 years. Over 90% of all cases are sporadic, with genetics playing a minor role in the etiology of AD. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the environment and diet as primary risk factors in AD pathology. This review considers epidemiologic case control studies, and in vitro and in vivo research to investigate the potential of environmental exposure to metals, air pollution and pesticides as well as diet as risk factors for AD. In some cases, the role of genetic mutations and environmental risk is discussed. The evidence examined in this review provides a brief overview of the current literature on selected, significant risk factors in promoting amyloid-beta accumulation and aggregation, thus contributing to neurodegeneration. | 2024-06-06T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/9276 |
Kamalini Mukherji
Kamalini Mukherji (born 17 October 1979) is an Indian vocalist, primarily known for her Rabindra Sangeet performances.
Mukherji has released 12 music albums with HMV Saregama, one of the leading music labels in India. As of 2018, she has performed concerts in India, the USA, Canada, and Bangladesh. She has also performed for film and television. Mukherji currently lives in and works out of San Francisco, USA and Kolkata, India.
Early life
Born into a Bengali family, Mukherji grew up in Kolkata, India where she studied at South Point School. She received her musical training at Dakshinee, a prominent Rabindra Sangeet academy in Kolkata, and obtained a degree in English Literature from Jadavpur University, where she also won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She pursued post graduate studies in English Literature from St. John’s College in the UK and Collegio Ghislieri, at the University of Pavia, Italy.
Career
Mukherji performed her debut solo concert in Kolkata in September, 2009. She has since performed extensively in India and abroad, including at the North American Bengali Conferences on three occasions – in 2012 (Las Vegas), 2013 (Toronto), and 2016 (New York City).
Mukherji has attempted to introduce innovation to her Rabindra Sangeet performances. In 2011, she performed a concert titled Nutan Juger Bhore (English:The Dawning of a New Era), accompanied by an 11-piece orchestra, which is unusual for the genre.
In 2012 Mukherji sang for a music album Romancing Tagore, that was a collaborative effort between Indian and Pakistani artists, Shubha Mudgal, Najam Sheraz, Debojyoti Mishra, and Indira Varma to present Tagore’s songs in Urdu. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released the album in February 2012.
In April 2012, Mukherji visited Mauritius as part of a joint initiative between UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mauritius on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary. The purpose of the trip was to introduce the musical work of Tagore to school children in that country.
In 2015, Mukherji presented a solo concert for the President of India, to celebrate the 154th Birth Anniversary of Tagore, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
Film and Television
Mukherji was a regular guest on a weekly music show Chirantani (), that aired on Tara Muzik from 2008 to 2011. She also hosted her own show Café Thé Live, a live music program and talk show, on the same channel.
She also performed as a playback singer for the 2005 movie Nishijapon (), directed by Sandip Ray.
Discography
Mukherji’s first individual Rabindra Sangeet music album, Eshechho Prem () was released by HMV Saregama in 2010, which was followed by 7 more albums with the same label. In 2016 HMV Saregama released a compilation album Best of Kamalini Mukherjee.
Reviews
Mukherji has been critically appreciated both for her rendition of traditional Rabindra Sangeet as well as for her more interpretative work in the genre.
Reviewing one of her earliest concerts, organized by Dakshinee in May 2006, The Telegraph wrote:Recital of the day came from Kamalini Mukhopadhyay. Here is one young soprano who has lived up to the great expectations of early years. Her Ki ragini bajale () came at the end of the Prem segment. Soaked in the ambiguous melancholy of Kanada, she embellished the number with undulating glides alternating with brisk melodic phrases.In September 2007, The Telegraph praised her performance at another Dakshinee concert, writing "Yet a musical and humane understanding of the whole life and shape of a song came unmistakably through in the controlled devastation of Kamalini Mukherjee’s Tori amar hothat dubey jai ()".
Mukherji’s 2009 debut solo concert was also positively reviewed. The Telegraph wrote: [T]he most remarkable element of her gayaki is the precise and powerful scansion — never an inadvertent splitting of a word, or a breather in the wrong place —- that puts her in the tiny club of cerebral Rabindrasangeet singers.Reviewing the same concert, The Statesman wrote "Kamalini Mukherji holds in her singing a promise to succeed in popularizing Rabindranath Tagore’s song among the present generation", while Anandabazar Patrika praised her arrangement of Tagore’s Devotional Songs and Love Songs, and the way that she was able to draw out diverse moods such as happiness, wonderment, separation, and earnestness.
In November 2010, The Telegraph reviewed her experimental concert Nutan juger bhore (নূতন যুগের ভোরে), Thanks to Mukherji’s powerful singing that never allowed a note to waver or an emotional resonance to overstep its suggestion, the music remained as embellishment and never took an iota away from her performance.However, The Statesman was critical of the "excess of external support", and commented:[T]he passion that went into her singing may have raised questions on whether there was any need to think about external aids to support the musical tastes of the band era.
References
External links
Official website
Facebook Profile
Interview with Kamalini Mukherjee in Femina Bangla magazine (in Bengali)
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Category:Singers from Kolkata
Category:Rabindra Sangeet exponents
Category:Bengali singers | 2024-01-02T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5427 |
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| 2024-04-27T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6723 |
By Pat Brennan,
NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program
A newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable, according to a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile, along with other telescopes around the world.
The exoplanet is at a distance from its star that allows temperatures mild enough for liquid water to pool on its surface.
Proxima Centauri A visualization of the nearest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima b. Only 4 light-years away, this world orbits its cool red star every 11 days. Click and drag to move the planet. Click the corner to see full-screen.
"NASA congratulates ESO on the discovery of this intriguing planet that has captured the hopes and the imagination of the world," says Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division Director at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "We look forward to learning more about the planet, whether it holds ingredients that could make it suitable for life."
The new planet circles Proxima Centauri, the smallest member of a triple star system known to science fiction fans everywhere as Alpha Centauri. Just over 4 light-years away, Proxima is the closest star to Earth, besides our own sun.
"This is really a game-changer in our field," said Olivier Guyon, a planet-hunting affiliate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and associate professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson. "The closest star to us has a possible rocky planet in the habitable zone. That's a huge deal. It also boosts the already existing, mounting body of evidence that such planets are near, and that several of them are probably sitting quite close to us. This is extremely exciting."
"This is really a game-changer in our field." - Astronomer Olivier Guyon
The science team that made the discovery, led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé of Queen Mary University of London, will publish its findings Aug. 25 in the journal Nature. The team traced subtle wobbles in the star revealing the presence of a star-tugging planet.
They determined that the new planet, dubbed Proxima b, is at least 1.3 times the mass of Earth. It orbits its star far more closely than Mercury orbits our sun, taking only 11 days to complete a single orbit -- a "year" on Proxima b.
This infographic compares the orbit of the planet around Proxima Centauri (Proxima b) with the same region of the Solar System. Proxima Centauri is smaller and cooler than the Sun and the planet orbits much closer to its star than Mercury. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/G. Coleman
Long list of unknowns
The stunning announcement comes with plenty of caveats. While the new planet lies within its star's "habitable zone" -- a distance at which temperatures are right for liquid water -- scientists do not yet know if the planet has an atmosphere.
It also orbits a red-dwarf star, far smaller and cooler than our sun. The planet likely presents only one face to its star, as the moon does to Earth, instead of rotating through our familiar days and nights. And Proxima b could be subject to potentially life-extinguishing stellar flares.
See more: NASA's Hubble Telescope makes first atmospheric study of Earth-sized exoplanets
"That's the worry in terms of habitability," said Scott Gaudi, an astronomy professor at Ohio State University, Columbus, and JPL affiliate credited with numerous exoplanet discoveries. "This thing is being bombarded by a fair amount of high-energy radiation. It's not obvious if it's going to have a magnetic field strong enough to prevent its whole atmosphere from getting blown away. But those are really hard calculations, and I certainly wouldn't put my money either way on that."
Despite the unknowns, the discovery was hailed by NASA exoplanet hunters as a major milestone on the road to finding other possible life-bearing worlds within our stellar neighborhood.
"It helps buoy our confidence that planets are everywhere." - Sara Seager, MIT
"It definitely gives us something to be excited about," said Sara Seager, a planetary science and physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and an exoplanet-hunting pioneer. "I think it will definitely motivate people to get moving."
'Not completely unexpected'
Statistical surveys of exoplanets -- planets orbiting other stars -- by NASA's Kepler space telescope have revealed a large proportion of small planets around small stars, she said.
The Kepler data suggest we should expect at least one potentially habitable, Earth-size planet orbiting M-type stars, like Proxima, within 10 light-years of our solar system.
So the latest discovery was "not completely unexpected. We're more lucky than surprised," Seager said. But it "helps buoy our confidence that planets are everywhere."
It's especially encouraging for upcoming space telescopes, which can contribute to the study of the new planet. The James Webb Space Telescope, launching in 2018, may be able to follow-up on this planet with spectroscopy to determine the contents of its atmosphere. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find similar planets in the habitable zone in the stellar backyard of our solar system in 2018.
One of TESS's goals is to find planets orbiting nearby M-dwarf stars like Proxima Centauri.
See more: NASA's next planet hunter will look closer to home
"It's great news just to know that M-dwarf planets could be as common as we think they are," Seager said.
Another possible inspiration Proxima b could reignite: the admittedly far-off goal of sending a probe to another solar system.
The relative sizes of a number of stars, including the three (known) members of Alpha Centauri triple system. The sun and planet Jupiter are also shown for comparison. Credit: ESO
Bill Borucki, an exoplanet pioneer, said the new discovery might inspire more interstellar research, especially if Proxima b proves to have an atmosphere.
Coming generations of space and ground-based telescopes, including large ground telescopes now under construction, could yield more information about the planet, perhaps inspiring ideas on how to pay it a visit.
See more: Inventing the Future
"It may be that the first time we get really good information is from the newer telescopes that may be coming online in a decade or two," said Borucki, now retired, a former principal investigator for Kepler which has discovered the bulk of the more than 3,300 exoplanets found so far.
"Maybe people will talk about sending a probe to that star system," Borucki said. "I think it does provide some inspiration for an interstellar mission, because now we know there is a planet in the habitable zone, probably around the mass of Earth, around the closest star. I think it does inspire a future effort to go there and check it out."
To read the ESO press release, visit:
www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/?lang
To learn more about NASA's Exoplanet Program, visit:
http://exoplanets.nasa.gov
To read the paper, visit:
A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri | 2023-09-01T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7710 |
Q:
Load JS scripts asynchronously in order (waiting the previous one is complete)
I am trying to use GoogleMaps.InfoBox on my project, but before load this script, the GoogleMaps API has to be loaded.
Right now I have this code to load everything:
/**
* Load scripts asynchronously
*/
function loadScript() {
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.type = "text/javascript";
script.src = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=-MY-KEY-&sensor=true&callback=initialize";
document.body.appendChild(script);
var scriptInfoBox = document.createElement("script");
scriptInfoBox.type = "text/javascript";
scriptInfoBox.src = "http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/infobox/src/infobox_packed.js";
document.body.appendChild(scriptInfoBox);
}
But not always the GoogleMaps API is loaded before than GoogleMaps.InfoBox one.
How can I load JS sorted, waiting for complete the previous one?
A:
You can use the load event of the scripts:
function loadScript(callback) {
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.type = "text/javascript";
script.src = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=-MY-KEY-&sensor=true&callback=initialize";
document.body.appendChild(script);
script.onload = function() {
var scriptInfoBox = document.createElement("script");
scriptInfoBox.type = "text/javascript";
scriptInfoBox.src = "http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/infobox/src/infobox_packed.js";
document.body.appendChild(scriptInfoBox);
scriptInfoBox.onload = callback;
};
}
However, you will need to adapt the code a bit to make it crossbrowser-safe like this.
| 2023-09-13T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7635 |
Fire's Grazzini takes leave, Pappa could be gone next
Dressed in street clothes while his teammates practiced on Friday in advance of their Sunday match against the LA Galaxy (3 pm ET, ESPN, LIVE CHAT on MLSsoccer.com), the Fire’s creative playmaker explained that he’s heading back to Argentina to sort out personal issues this weekend.
“I have personal problems, so this weekend, I’m returning to my country,” Grazzini said through a translator on Friday. “I have to see whether I can resolve the problem or not. … I just want to put it on record that I have no problem with the club, but I have to leave right now.”
Grazzini missed the last two games after the Fire picked up his contract option to keep him in Chicago for the rest of the 2012 season.
Although Grazzini is still under contract and on the Fire's roster, head coach Frank Klopas indicated that he doesn’t know when he’s coming back.
“He’s got family issues. I don’t know,” Klopas said. “When matters like that come, I think the most important thing is to take care of that situation. I think that’s the most important thing.”
When asked whether he expects to return from his trip home, Grazzini didn’t give a clear response.
“I want to tend to my problems,” he said.
Pappa staying or going
WATCH: Marco Pappa's golazo vs. Columbus
Reports out of the Netherlands have revealed that Dutch side Heerenveen are negotiating a transfer fee with the Fire for midfielder Marco Pappa.
The Guatemalan said on Friday that he could leave at any time or stay until the end of the season, when his MLS contract expires.
“To be honest, it could be next week and it could be at the end of the year,” Pappa said. “The window is still open in Europe, and I’m not sure what’s going on. I hope everything goes through soon.”
The 24-year-old has scored five goals this season, tied for the team lead.
“My mind is still here, working for the team,” he said. “For sure, I’m working for the future, but my mind is still here.”
MacDonald may be coming
Dutch forward Sherjill MacDonald tweeted on Wednesday that he’ll be in Chicago next week.
“I’m very glad that I go to Chicago,” he tweeted.
Klopas, though, said nothing is finalized.
“That’s great for him,” Klopas said of MacDonald’s tweets. “When something is finalized, we will let everybody know.” | 2024-06-21T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/2428 |
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), mainly comprised of the two entities Crohn\'s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are a world-wide health-care problem with increasing incidence[@b1][@b2]. While CD and UC have distinct clinical features, both disorders are characterized by relapsing inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract. Even though the etiology remains largely unknown, the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms are thought to involve genetic susceptibility, environmental factors, gut microbial composition and altered immune response patterns.
The trefoil factor family (TFF) is a group of peptides abundantly secreted onto the surface of the gastrointestinal tract by goblet cells. These 7--12 kDa small, protease-resistant proteins play an important role in maintaining epithelial integrity of the gastrointestinal tract through regulation of restitution and regeneration of the intestinal epithelium[@b3]. While the complexity of their biological functions and the molecular mechanisms involved remain to be fully understood, TFF proteins have been shown to play key roles following mucosal injury through inhibition of apoptosis and anti-inflammatory signaling[@b4]. Similar to TFF\'s, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and mucins are also involved in healing processes following intestinal epithelial damage. HGF modulates intestinal epithelial cell proliferation and migration, thus accelerating intestinal mucosal repair processes[@b5]. Mucins are epithelial glycoproteins important for the protection of mucosal integrity through preservation of the epithelial barrier function[@b6].
Currently only little information is available on the potential roles and regulations of mucins and HGF in the intestinal mucosa of adult IBD patients and there is a complete lack of data in pediatric IBD. As TFFs, mucins and HGF play important roles in mucosal protection, regeneration and restitution processes following inflammatory damage, we hypothesized that their expression may be altered in pediatric patients with IBD when compared to healthy children.
Results
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Patient characteristics and IL8 mRNA levels are shown in [Table 1](#t1){ref-type="table"}. PCDAI and SES-CD differed significantly between the inflamed and the non-inflamed CD patient group with p-values of 0.04 and 0.02, respectively. Similarly, the MAYO clinical disease index differed significantly between inflamed and non-inflamed UC patients (p = 0.03, [Table 1](#t1){ref-type="table"}). In patients with acutely inflamed CD we observed significantly lower mRNA levels of TFF2, TFF3 and MUC2 in the mucosa of the terminal ileum (TI) when compared to healthy controls. These genes were shown to have significantly higher mRNA levels in non-inflamed IBD tissue when compared to healthy controls ([Fig. 1](#f1){ref-type="fig"}). Furthermore, mRNA expression levels of TFF1 and Muc1 and HGF were significantly higher in CD during clinical remission ([Fig. 1](#f1){ref-type="fig"}). Interestingly, in duodenal mucosa of CD patients TFF2 levels were lower in active disease and higher in clinical remission, whereas MUC1 levels were significantly higher regardless of disease activity state when compared to healthy controls ([Fig. 1](#f1){ref-type="fig"}). When we compared CD with UC patients we found higher mRNA levels for TFF2, MUC1, MUC2 and HGF in the non-inflamed TI, whereas in the ascending colon only HGF mRNA levels differed significantly ([Fig. 1](#f1){ref-type="fig"}). Since mucins and trefoil factors are primarily produced by goblet cells (GC), we determined GC densities and analyzed GC adjusted mRNA levels. While this revealed lower numbers of GCs and less marked gene expression changes in inflamed tissues, differences in genetic expression still remained clear ([Fig. 2](#f2){ref-type="fig"}). This is also reflected by immunohistochemistry showing lower GC density as well as different intensities of protein expression, which correlate well with the observed mRNA levels ([Fig. 3](#f3){ref-type="fig"}). Subsequently, we investigated the potential correlation between expression of TFFs and mucins and inflammatory status as measured by expression of IL8 and the PCDAI. Interestingly, these analyses revealed TFF2 and MUC2 in the TI to inversely correlate with the expression of interleukin-8 in CD (r^2^ = 0.53 (p = 0.03) and 0.61 (p = 0.017), respectively). Moreover TFF2 and MUC2 in the TI were correlated to PCDAI. The best fitting model was found to be a plateau followed by a one phase exponential decay with increasing PCDAI (r^2^ = 0.60 (p = 0.03) and 0.56 (p = 0.0005), respectively).
Discussion
==========
This is the first study to analyze TFFs and their role of GI healing processes in pediatric IBD. It is also the only study to sub-divide CD and UC specimens into groups of acutely inflamed and non-inflamed tissues which helps to gain valuable insight into the dynamics of genetic expression in the course of IBD.
Comparing GI genetic expression of TFF peptides in healthy children and IBD patients, we found the most distinct degree of dysregulation in the terminal ileum (TFF 1 and 2) and duodenum (TFF2) rather than in the colon. The consistently high levels of TFFs seen in IBD patients with clinical remission is supported by both *in vitro* and *in vivo* findings promoting their role in mucosal healing processes and by clinical data suggesting TFF up-regulation both in GI tissue biopsies and sera of patients with IBD[@b7][@b8][@b9]. Moreover, our finding of low small intestinal mRNA levels of TFF2 in patients with active CD is consistent with data from an experimental rat model in which TFF2-deficient rats showed increased susceptibility to GI mucosal injury from environmental stimuli[@b10].
In addition, we observed strong inverse correlations of MUC2 and TFF2, respectively, with the degree of inflammation (IL-8). This may qualify TFF2 and MUC2 as biomarkers for mucosal healing and regeneration processes. We also observed stunningly parallel expression profiles for TFF2 and MUC2 which can most probably be explained by co-localization of TFF2 and MUC2 in goblet cell vesicles[@b11]. As a reduced mucosal goblet cell density is a known phenomenon in IBD, we normalized mRNA expression levels to it. On the one hand, we found that differences in gene expression patterns can be partly explained by a decline in goblet cells. On the other hand, the overall differential regulation still remained significant after normalization which indicates that functional differences underlie the observed expression patterns besides the decreased absolute amount of goblet cells. This raises the suspicion that the altered expression pattern is rather the consequence of ongoing inflammatory cell damage rather than the cause of the inflammation itself. Overall, the complexity and heterogeneity of both trefoil peptides and mucin glycoproteins make it difficult to decipher their various roles in pathophysiological processes as cause for or consequence of IBD. Further studies are needed to identify their immunological functions and possible interacting partners.
We observed significantly higher levels of TFF1 in the TI in CD when compared to healthy controls and patients with active UC. This TFF1 neo-expression in IBD was also observed before in both adult patients with severe CD and in an experimental dog model[@b12][@b13] and is probably a compensatory repair mechanism to counteract the decreasing mucosal barrier function due to inflammatory tissue damage. This potentially qualifies TFF1 as a marker to discriminate between CD and UC in ambiguous cases of acute IBD with TI involvement. Finally, we observed high levels of HGF in CD when compared to UC and healthy controls which is in accordance with the concept that CD is a process affecting the entire intestinal wall whereas UC only affects the mucosa.
Methods
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Over a period of 18 months 21 pediatric subjects were recruited from three centers in Germany (Wuppertal) and the UK (London and Cambridge). Diagnosis of CD and UC was based on clinical, radiological, endoscopic, and histopathological findings in accordance with the Porto criteria and Montreal classification. Lower and upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy was performed by experienced pediatric gastroenterologists and biopsies were collected from the mucosa of duodenum, terminal ileum and ascending colon. Patients with CD and UC were sub-divided into groups of patients with active inflammation and without active inflammation. This differentiation was based on histological findings and mRNA expression levels of the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-8 (IL-8). Patients without macroscopic or histopathologic abnormalities and with no evidence for underlying GI pathology served as controls.
Biopsy samples were immediately placed in RNAlater (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and stored at −80°C until processing. RNA was extracted using the RNeasy extraction kit (Qiagen) and RNA integrity was verified with agarose gel electrophoresis. Next, 500 ng of RNA was reverse-transcribed and DNAse-treated utilizing the QuantiFast kit (Qiagen). Real-time PCR (rt-PCR) was performed on a Rotor Gene 600 real-time rotary cycler (Corbett Life Science, Qiagen) using SYBR-green methodology. GAPDH, b-actin and RPL19 served as reference housekeeping genes. All samples were analysed in technical triplicates. Results are presented as boxplots with median, interquartile range, minimum and maximum.
Immunohistochemistry was performed on formalin/PFA-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections using commercially available antibodies for TFF1 (rabbit monoclonal antibody \[EPR3972\] to Estrogen Inducible Protein pS2/TFF1, *ab92377*, Abcam, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Muc2 (rabbit monoclonal antibody \[EPR6145\] anti-MUC2, *ab134119*, Abcam, Cambridge, United Kingdom). Goblet cell density was counted in PAS stained tissue sections in relation to total numbers of enterocytes.
Calculation of statistical significance was performed with GraphPad Prism, version 5.0 (GraphPad Software, San Diego,CA, USA), using the Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Dunn\'s Test. Spearman\'s rank coefficient and Pearson regression analysis was used for correlation analyses. P-values \< 0.05 were considered statistically significant. The study was performed under consideration of the declaration of Helsinki with amendments from Tokyo 1975, Edinburgh 2000 and Seoul 2008, in accordance with the responsible privacy authorities and carried out in accordance with the approved guidelines. Ethical approval for this study was obtained by the Witten/Herdecke University Ethics Committee and by all other participating hospitals. Written informed consents were obtained from children and/or legal guardians where appropriate.
Author Contributions
====================
K.H. and V.B. have performed gene expression experiments and analyzed the data. K.H. wrote the manuscript. M.Z. and R.H. had helped recruiting patients and collecting tissue specimens. S.W. and M.Z. critically reviewed the manuscript. S.V. and D.G. performed immunohistochemistry. A.J. and J.P. took part in the main study design, data analyses and supervision of the study.
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###### Clinical characteristics of the study population \[median ± standard deviation (sd)\]
crohn\'s disease ulcerative colitis
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- ------------ -------------------- ---------------------- ------------- ------------- -----------
**number (n)** 21 5 5 5 3 3
**gender**
male 13 2 4 3 2 2
female 8 3 1 2 1 1
**age (years)** 12.6 ± 3.7 10.4 ± 6.1 13.6 ± 2.2 12.4 ± 3.6 13.7 ± 2.1 13.7 ± 2.1
**PCDAI** 55,5 ± 7,9 37 ± 14,3
**SES-CD**[\#](#t1-fn1){ref-type="fn"} 20.4 ± 14.4 5.6 ± 4.1
**MAYO endoscopic index**[\*](#t1-fn2){ref-type="fn"} 1,7 ± 0,6 0,3 ± 0,6
**CU disease extent (None/Proctitis/left sided colitis/extensive colitis)** 0/0/0/3 2/0/1/0
**CRP (mg/dl)** 2,6 ± 0,3 \<0,5 5,6 ± 2,2 \<0,5
**IL8 mRNA copy numbers** duodenum \- 46 ± 128.3 145 ± 82.8 22 ± 17.3 \- \-
terminal ileum \- 102 ± 99.5 12365 ± 56679 1698 ± 1458 659 ± 552.7 83 ± 56.4
ascending colon \- 51 ± 121.5 13869 ± 26640 1815 ± 6297 1273 ± 3625 56 ± 32.5
^\#^SES-CD = Simple Endoscopic Score;
\*MAYO endoscopic index: 0 = Normal or inactive disease, 1 = Mild disease (erythema, decreased vascular pattern, mild friability), 2 = Moderate disease (marked erythema, absent vascular pattern, friability, erosions), 3 = Severe disease (spontaneous bleeding, ulceration).
| 2023-09-27T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4436 |
Q:
Python's most efficient way to choose longest string in list?
I have a list of variable length and am trying to find a way to test if the list item currently being evaluated is the longest string contained in the list. And I am using Python 2.6.1
For example:
mylist = ['abc','abcdef','abcd']
for each in mylist:
if condition1:
do_something()
elif ___________________: #else if each is the longest string contained in mylist:
do_something_else()
Surely there's a simple list comprehension that's short and elegant that I'm overlooking?
A:
From the Python documentation itself, you can use max:
>>> mylist = ['123','123456','1234']
>>> print max(mylist, key=len)
123456
A:
What should happen if there are more than 1 longest string (think '12', and '01')?
Try that to get the longest element
max_length,longest_element = max([(len(x),x) for x in ('a','b','aa')])
And then regular foreach
for st in mylist:
if len(st)==max_length:...
A:
def longestWord(some_list):
count = 0 #You set the count to 0
for i in some_list: # Go through the whole list
if len(i) > count: #Checking for the longest word(string)
count = len(i)
word = i
return ("the longest string is " + word)
or much easier:
max(some_list , key = len)
| 2024-03-16T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6621 |
This Study Guide consists of approximately 39 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more -
everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Conduct of Life Summary and Analysis
"Man was born to be rich," proclaims Emerson in this love letter to capitalism. He proceeds to identify the sources, types, maintenance and dissolution of material wealth. Its source is "applications of the mind to nature," whether it be farming or the performing arts. "Puff now, O steam!" he proclaims in an overabundance of enthusiasm. "He is born to be rich," Emerson repeats optimistically. The essential goodness of wealth derives from the fact that "poverty demoralizes," while the accumulation of wealth is a virtue because it secures a man his independence, according to Emerson. The truly clever man makes his wealth on a large scale by enlisting the support and enthusiasm of the masses and their leaders, as in the case of the railroads and all the other conveniences such as the telegraph that appear regularly from... | 2024-06-25T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6666 |
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What Really Excites Me About Mission Investing
At the Florida Philanthropic Network's recent conference in Orlando -- a great mid-winter destination! -- I was asked to describe some really exciting mission investments. It’s hard to pick just one, because there’s such a variety of ways that foundations are directing their funds, but I'm partial to any and all that are aimed at building community wealth and tackling climate change.
For a catalog of community-building examples, take a look through the Democracy Coalition's publication, A New Anchor Mission for a New Century. I love how the Cleveland Foundation helped launch the worker-owned Evergreen Cooperatives; how the Greater Cincinnati Foundation invested in the Minority Business Accelerator; and how Incourage Community Foundation in Wisconsin financed business start-ups as part of its effort to invest 100% of its resources for mission. These efforts are creating jobs and building assets -- and by doing so, addressing the larger issue of income inequality.
Many more examples of groundbreaking work can be found among more than 500 transactions. totaling nearly $1 billion, documented in our Mission Investment Database. Each reflects a foundation’s uniqueinterests and capacity; seeing all the ways these foundations are deploying their assets is truly exciting.
But in truth, what’s even more compelling than any one specific investment is that so many people in philanthropy are embracing new ways of doing business. Mission investing means going beyond the comfort zone of making grants. For some, it still feels like leaping off the high dive platform. But what better way to get the adrenaline flowing? | 2023-10-19T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4925 |
Q:
How to read a single column CSV file in bash?
I am relatively new to bash/programming in general.
I have a single column CSV that looks like this:
domain1.com
domain2.com
domain3.com
domain4.com
I want to run through each entry and do something with it. Here is my code:
foo(){
i=0
while read -a line;
do
echo ${line[i]}
((i++))
done < myfile.csv
}
And nothing happens. I have figured out that if I change the file I'm pointing at to:
done< <(grep '' myfile.csv)
it will work, but only spit out the very last line of the CSV, like this:
domain4.com
Again, I am a beginner and teaching myself this stuff, so any explanations you want to give with your answers would be GREATLY appreciated!
EDIT So it appears that my new problem is removing the ^M character from my CSV file. Once I figure out how to do this, I will mark the answer here that works for me.
A:
If you want to store your lines on an array you'd simply do:
readarray -t lines < file
And, if you want to try processing those lines you can have something like
for line in "${lines[@]}"; do
echo "$line"
done
Or by index (mind !):
for i in "${!lines[@]}"; do
echo "${lines[i]}"
done
Indices start with 0.
A:
Looks like you have 2 issues:
Your lines are all ending with \r
There is no new line or \r at the end of last line
To fix this issue use this script:
echo >> file.csv
while read -r line; do echo "$line"; done < <(tr '\r' '\n' < file.csv)
| 2024-03-13T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/2006 |
Cougar Football Lets One Slip by Against Cerritos
The Cougars look to remain undefeated in conference play when they take on the Cerritos Falcons at Cougar Stadium. Brian Lewis has the highlights. Shot by Tyler Rubin, edited by Brian Lewis.
VALENCIA – A 3-0 start and going undefeated in conference wasn’t meant to be for the College of the Canyons football team. Penalties and late turnovers did the Cougars in, in a 31-24 loss to Cerritos on Saturday night.
With just over a minute left, COC was driving deep into Falcon territory when quarterback Justin Arias found receiver Alex Fagerstrom who proceeded to fumble the ball on the Falcon 16-yard line while trying to fight for extra yardage. Cerritos recovered the fumble and ran the clock out to end the game.
The first half was promising for the Cougars (5-3, 2-1), as Arias led the offense and the defense was stout in holding Cerritos (6-2, 2-1) to just 5 points at the half.
After a safety on a bad snap during a punt gave the Falcons an early 2-0 lead, kicker Everett Goldberg gave the Cougars a 3-2 lead on a 49-yard field goal. His longest of the season.
With 4 minutes left in the first half Arias scrambled for a 10-yard touchdown run. Cougars regained the lead at 9-5 after Goldberg had the point after attempt blocked. Arias led the team in rushing with 64 yards on 13 carries and a touchdown. Arias also had a stand out game in the air completing 23 of his 36 passes for 200 yards and two touchdowns and an interception.
One of his two touchdowns in the air came with just 36 seconds left in the first half as he hooked up with receiver Rickeem Jackson for a 14-yard touchdown. Jackson followed his breakout game with 3 catches for 31 yards and a score. Jackson has a combined 4 touchdowns in 2 weeks.
“He’s changed his attitude,” said Arias. “He comes out and works hard and we’ve started to throw to him more.”
COC went into the locker room at the half with a 16-5 lead, but it was downhill from there. The Cougars came out undisciplined in the second half committing 14 penalties for a 137 yards after having only 5 for 44 yards in the first half.
The Falcons opening drive of the second half was kept alive by three costly penalties; two personal fouls and a pass interference penalty. Cerritos finished that drive with a 1-yard touchdown run by Daveon Barner. Cutting the Cougars lead to just 5 at 16-11. Barner had 68 yards on 21 carries and two touchdowns.
“Their first drive after half had 45 yards in penalties and you can’t do that,” said head coach Garett Tujague. “You can’t be selfish.”
COC started slow offensively in the second half with a few three and outs and an Arias interception. The Falcons found themselves with a 17-16 lead after a 3-yard touchdown Jaron Hytche. Hytche led the Falcons in rushing with 70 yards on 16 carries and a touchdown.
“They didn’t give us a chance to get on the field offensively in the third quarter,” said the disappointed coach. “They did a good job of holding on to the ball and they dinked and dunked and were able to get first downs.”
Cerritos added a 25-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Kane Wilson to receiver Lindse Anderson to give the Falcons a 24-16 lead at the end of the third quarter.
After allowing only 122 yards in the first half the Cougar defense gave up 235 yards in the second half for a total of 357 yards. Offensively the Cougars gained 168 yards in the first half to just 93 in the second half for a total of 261 yards.
The Cougars weren’t done yet. With 12:21 remaining in the game Arias hit Ryan Zirbel for a 22-yard touchdown. COC was successful on the two point conversion to tie the game at 24 all. Zirbel gained 45 yards receiving on 4 catches and a touchdown while only rushing for 13 yards on 6 carries.
After the late Falcon touchdown on the 1-yard run by Barner. The Cougars could not hold on to the ball on Fagerstrom’s fumble with just over a minute left.
The Cougars have their final home game of the season this Saturday at 7 pm against Ventura College. | 2023-12-22T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5361 |
Scott Brooks has a vision. He has seen the scenarios play out in his head.
Dwight Howard rips the rebound from above the rim and hits John Wall with a crisp outlet pass. Wall zooms up the floor with world-class speed. Bradley Beal, Otto Porter, Jr. and Markieff Morris trail, seeking their hot spots around the perimeter.
Whomever on the opposing team gets back in time has to pick their poison, as one of the fastest and most gifted transition passers in the NBA goes to work. That is if Wall feels like passing because he is also a threat to finish at the rim, perhaps with a trademark left-handed slam.
The Wizards have worked towards becoming one of the best fastbreak teams in the NBA ever since Wall was drafted in 2010 with varying levels of success. But with Howard in the mix, Brooks hopes some nitrous can be injected into their already-potent scoring attack.
The Wizards haven't had a rebounder as gifted as Howard since, what, the 1980s? Moses Malone back in those days could certainly stack up to Howard, but not many in NBA history can.
Howard is already 15th all-time in total rebounds. Last season, he surpassed Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal. He has long since eclipsed Dennis Rodman, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson and Ben Wallace.
Howard is objectively one of the best rebounders of all-time and he hasn't slowed down much, if at all, from his younger days. Last season, he grabbed 12.5 rebounds per game, good for third in the NBA.
If Howard can keep that up with the Wizards and get Wall out in the open court a second or two quicker than in the past, the Wizards could be uniquely dangerous.
"He's the best rebounder in the league. It creates offense for our guys that can play fast and can shoot," Brooks said. "We want to play fast. How do you play fast? You don't play fast by getting the ball out from the net. You've gotta get it off the rim and get it out and run."
Brooks has talked about playing faster ever since he took over the job as head coach of the Wizards, but the numbers suggest they have trended in the other direction. Their pace factor - measured as possessions per 48 minutes by Basketball Reference - was 96.6 last season, down from 97.4 the year before and 98.5 in 2015-16, the last year with Randy Wittman in charge. Their pace relative to the rest of the NBA has gone from +2.7 to -0.7 in the last two years.
The Wizards' pace was surely hurt last season by Wall missing 41 games, but the trend began with the 2016-17 campaign. One result has been fewer shots being attempted and fewer shots going in. Both the Wizards' field goals attempted and made went down by 1.4 per game last year from 2016-17. That's part of why they scored 2.6 fewer points per contest.
Fastbreak points have also taken a nosedive under Brooks. In 2015-16, the Wizards ranked second in the NBA behind only the Warriors with 18.6 fastbreak points per game. In the past two years, they have finished fifth (15.9/g in 2016-17) and 15th (11.6/g in 2017-18), respectively. That's a difference of seven points in just two years.
One fair question amid all of this is how Howard can help beyond getting the fastbreak started. At 32 years old (he turns 33 in December), can Howard be a factor in the open court? If he can also trail Wall, the potential is there for some easy buckets.
"I know I've gotta be able to keep up with John and Bradley and the rest of the younger guys. I'm looking forward to it. I'm in the best shape of my life. This is the healthiest I've been," Howard said. "My dad was a track coach, so my whole life all I did was run. That's what I've been doing all summer."
Brooks has been saying for a few years now he wants the Wizards to play faster. Perhaps Howard can help that goal become reality.
Tyler Byrum contributed to this report
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[Cysticercus tenuicollis infection in a goat farm].
An outbreak of acute cysticercosis occurred in six female goats 2-4 years old and three 50 days old kids from a goat farm in northern Italy. Goats were usually recovered in stable with an outdoor paddock. Post-mortem examination showed a massive infection of Taenia hydatigena larvae in the liver, lungs and on the peritoneum. All recovered Cysticercus tenuicollis were at immature stage. | 2023-08-10T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5415 |
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A method to assess the functional impact of cerebral connections on target populations of neurons.
We describe an innovative and tested approach combining two individually potent techniques to visualize simultaneously the functional impact of multiple projections on target populations of neurons in the brain. The rationale is simple: silence a defined set of efferent projections from one cortical region using cooling deactivation and then measure the impact of the deactivation on activities in multiple target regions using 2-deoxyglucose (2DG). This is a straightforward and sound approach because 2DG uptake by neurons reflects levels of underlying neural activity. All distant modifications evoked by the silencing of the set of efferent projections are examined in anatomical tissue and simultaneously for the multiple target sites to provide a global view of the functional impacts of the set of projections on the targets. With this method, downward adjustments of 2DG uptake levels identify removals of net excitatory signals, whereas upward adjustments identify net removals of suppressive influences. Future possible uses and modifications of the technique, including optical imaging, are discussed. Overall, the technique has the potential to provide fundamental, new measures on cerebral network interactions that both complement and extend current static models of cerebral networks and electrophysiological measures of functional impacts on individual neurons. | 2024-03-22T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/1284 |
McMeel says that to him, the Irish pantry is a treasure trove of wholesomeness and tasty delights. He has shared them with American readers who can use his recipes to keep themselves and their guests well-nourished.
Irish Lace Biscuits are a traditional teatime snack. Bakers differ as to whether you should roll them into tubes or leave them flat. Either way, they sound like a lovely afternoon treat.
His jar mixes for cookies, scones and even bread, will leave the pantry ready to go or make nice gifts under the tree.
The recipe here for the Old-Fashioned Rum Pot needs to be made today if you’d like to serve it for Christmas, as it takes two weeks to “cook.”
“One Bowl Baking: Simple, from Scratch Recipes for Delicious Desserts” also says all the right things. Simple and from scratch are two favorite concepts. It’s written by Yvonne Ruperti (Running Press, $22). She was on “America’s Test Kitchen” for three seasons and was recipe developer and writer for Cook’s Illustrated magazine. Those are sources for expert recipes so this is a book you can trust.
But she had me at Sweet and Salty Pretzel Crunch Cupcakes. In one bowl? Really?
This book is all about simplifying baking, not by using shortcuts of ingredients, but by eliminating appliances. No electric mixers, food processors or extra bowls needed here. Most are mixed in a bowl, some in the pan in which they are made. Most take 15 minutes.
Shared here is a recipe for Sour Cherry Almond Clafouti. The French dessert clafouti, which means to fill, is a thick pancake flan like custard that’s filled with fruit and baked in a shallow dish. In the oven it puffs up and browns as it bakes. It’s also a great beginner dessert.
Old-Fashioned Rum Pot
2 large apples, cored and cut into chunks
2 large pears, cored and cut into chunks
4 plums, cored and cut into chunks
10 black peppercorns
10 whole cloves
5 cinnamon sticks
1 quart light or golden rum
If you have a large jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the apples, pears, plums, peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon sticks and rum in that. If not, combine in a stockpot with a lid. Make sure that all the ingredients are covered with the spirits, as the alcohol is a preservative.
Allow the ingredients to infuse for two weeks in the refrigerator. After two weeks, strain the mixture through a colander and discard the solids.
Strain again through a colander lined with cheesecloth to remove any fine sediment and decant it into a clean glass jar. Store in a cool, dark place and use within six months for peak flavor.
Serve straight up or splashed with cola. You can double or triple the batch to give as a gift.
Makes 1 quart.
From “Irish Pantry: Traditional Breads, Preserves and Goodies to Feed the Ones You Love” by Noel McMeel with Lynn Marie Hulsman, Running Press
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease two baking sheets with vegetable oil or line with parchment paper, then set in the oven while it is heating up.
Using an electric mixer on high speed, cream the butter and brown sugar together until smooth. Beat in the flour, milk, and vanilla. Fold in the oats. Place teaspoonfuls of dough 3 inches apart on the hot pans. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, keeping a close eye on them so you can remove them from the oven as soon as they are fully spread and turn light golden brown.
When the cookies are done, let them cool on the pans for 1 minute, or until they are just firm enough to be moved with a metal spatula. (If you like them rolled into tubes, turn the cookies upside down on the pans and, working quickly with your hands, roll them into cylinders on the pans. If the cookies become too firm to roll, return them to the oven for a few seconds and allow them to soften.)
Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack and let them cool completely, then serve at room temperature or store in an airtight container for up to a month.
Makes about 3 dozen biscuits.
From “Irish Pantry: Traditional Breads, Preserves and Goodies to Feed the Ones You Love” by Noel McMeel with Lynn Marie Hulsman, Running Press
Sweet and Salty Pretzel Crunch Cupcakes
For the batter:
10 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
2/3 cup whole milk, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup crushed pretzels
For the frosting:
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1/4 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup crushed pretzels, plus more for garnish
Place an oven rack in the middle position. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners.
To make the cupcakes: In a a large bowl, stir the butter, sugar and salt until combined. Whisk in the egg, then the milk and vanilla. Add the flour, baking powder and baking soda to the bowl; stir until combined. Stir in the pretzels.
Scoop the batter into the cups and bake until just firm, 17-19 minutes.
Let the cupcakes cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting.
To make the frosting: In a large bowl, stir the butter, salt and vanilla until combined. Add the sugar and stir until the mixture is moistened. Add the cream and whisk until creamy. Stir in the pretzels. If too soft to frost, chill briefly until it’s spreadable.
Spoon about 2 tablespoons of frosting onto each cupcake. Sprinkle with pretzels. | 2024-06-22T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6588 |
Acharya Balkrishna of Patanjali has emerged as the latest addition to the list of the top ten richest people in India, which is still headed by Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries.
Haridwar-based Acharya Balkrishna, age 45, rose to 8th position from 25th last year after seeing his wealth grow by 173%.
He is now worth Rs 70,000 Cr. Patanjali, with a turnover of INR 10,561 crore in 2016-2017 has been a close competition to major international brands.
Balkrishna was born to Sumitra Devi and Jay Vallabh on July 25, 1972 in Haridwar. His parents are natives of Baglung, Nepal, but his father was working in Haridwar when Balkrishna was born.
He joined Kalwa Gurukul, Haryana in 1988, where he met Baba Ramdev. After Balkrishna completed his post-graduation from Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Varanasi, he traveled across India to study plants and their medicinal value.
In the year 1993 he and Ramdev were living in the Himalayan caves of the Hindu pilgrim town of Gangotri, a popular haunt among holy men and ascetic near the source of India’s holiest river, the Ganges. Because of his knowledge of herbs, Balkrishna started getting frequent requests from visitors for medicines for common ailments. Together, they founded Divya Pharmacy in Haridwar in 1995.
RICH LIST
According to numbers from Hurun Report, the wealth of India’s top 100 people increased by 11% this year compared to the same period last year. For comparison, the BSE Sensex was up by 16.1% as on July 31 compared to a year earlier.
Business magnate, Mukesh Ambani, with net worth of INR 257,900 crore is ranked first in the list for the sixth consecutive year.
“Mukesh Ambani’s wealth shot up by a staggering 58% to INR 257,900 crores and retains the richest Indian title for the 6th year running. Mukesh Ambani also climbed to top 15 in the Hurun Global Rich List for the first time,” pointed out the London-based firm.
Share price of Reliance industries hit nine year high in July 2017. Over the last one year, Reliance Industries shares have gained over 1% every seven days, rising by 56% in 52 weeks.
His wealth is 50% more than the GDP of the country of his birth – Yemen, pointed out the firm.
“It is rare to find a country with such a dominant richest person (Mukesh Ambani) whose wealth is thrice more than that of the no.2 in the list. We have never seen such a wide margin between the richest and the second richest in big countries that include USA, China, UK, Russia and so on”, said Rupert Hoogewerf, Chairman and Chief Researcher, Hurun Report Global
Hurun Report is a leading luxury publishing and events group established in 1998.
According to its India Rich List for 2017, Radhakishan Damani of Dmart supermarkets was the biggest gainer with wealth increase of 320% during the year, while 34-year-old Divyank Turakhia of Media.net was the youngest self-made billionaire.
42-year-old Bengaluru based Ambiga Subramanian of Mu-Sigma is the youngest self-made woman in the list. She sold her shares in Mu-Sigma, the data analytics unicorn that she co-founded.
51 of the 1,000 people in this year’s list are women. 100 individuals saw their wealth decline during the year.
Mumbai registered an increase of 78 individuals in the rich list and Delhi added 52. With 182 individuals, Mumbai is the capital for India’s super-rich, followed by New Delhi (117) and Bengaluru (51). With 26 new entrants, Ahmedabad breaks into top 5.
There are 18 new cities in this year’s list compared to last year. Chennai and Kanpur have performed well this year with a 35% and 27% increase in number of India Rich Listers respectively and have reserved spot amongst the Top 10 cities this year. Interestingly, Udaipur has 3 Indian Rich Listers, Vadodara has 2, and Kanchipuram and Faridabad has 1 Indian Rich Lister in Hurun India Rich List 2017.
Cut off to be in the Top 100 has more than doubled to INR 8,400 crores since 2013. There are 136 Billionaires in the list this year, a record number since the inception of Hurun Rich List In 2012
Pharma and FMCG had a stellar year in the Hurun India Rich List by doubling the number of entrants to 79 and 63 respectively
At least, 16 people saw their wealth double year on year, while the number of dollar billionaires has increased to 136 from 126 last year.
“Demonetization, GST implementation and so on have not impacted wealth creation in organized sector. In fact, going by the trend in the list, these factors seem to have positively impacted the mega rich and their companies. Despite a solid performance of the corporates, a declining trend in national GDP growth points to impact of such schemes on the unorganized sectors”, said Anas Rahman Junaid, MD and Chief Researcher, Hurun Report India.
“The market capitalization of all listed companies is now equivalent to 84% of India’s nominal GDP which is the highest in emerging markets. This year, we have expanded the list to highlight the success stories of some of the emerging entrepreneurs” he adds.
The biggest gain registered was a 321% increase by Radhakishan Damani (62), Chairman of Avenue Supermarts followed by Anurang Jain (55) & family, the Managing Director of Endurance Technologies with a wealth increase of 286%.
The top three in the biggest gainers list are backed by the IPO performance of their companies.
Radhakishan Damani’s wealth increase was backed by the IPO of Avenue Supermarts, which runs the D-Mart brand of stores in the supermarket chain. The shares of Avenue Supermarts were listed at a premium of 102% and rallied further 43% as on 31 July 2017.
Another notable performer was Kishore Biyani of Future Retail who registered a 259% wealth increase.
Merger of Future Retail and Bharti Retail created the biggest supermarket chain with a turnover of INR 15,000 crore and its subsequent relisting resulted in significant wealth creation for Biyani.
Eklavya Juneja (24) of Mankind Pharma is the youngest person in the list. He owns 12% of Mankind Pharma which was founded by father Rajeev Juneja.
All the under 40 entrepreneurs in Hurun India Rich List 2017 derive their wealth from innovative technological ventures.
Divyank Turakhia bootstrapped his company media.net without external funding. Rest of the entrepreneurs raised money from some of the top international funds.
Kushal Pal Singh (86) of DLF is the richest real estate billionaire in the list with a wealth of INR 27,400 crore. Mangal Prabhat Lodha (61), founder of Lodha Group is the richest private real estate developer in the list with a wealth of INR 15,700 crore followed by Jithendra Virwani (51) of Embassy Property Developments with INR 8,800 crore. | 2024-05-18T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/8142 |
The ongoing partial government shutdown could derail the Boston Red Sox’s plans to visit the White House next month.
“It’s hit people hard in the New England area. I’m not sure it’s appropriate to be celebrating in such a public way while there’s people who are struggling right now,” Red Sox president Sam Kennedy said over the weekend, according to the Boston Globe. “That’s been the internal conversation.”
At the 2018 World Series champions’ Winter Weekend event, Kennedy said he’d have a decision on whether they will make the February 15 trip to Washington, D.C. “pretty soon.”
"I’m not sure it’s appropriate to be celebrating in such a public way while there’s people who are struggling right now." — Red Sox president Sam Kennedy
The government partially shuttered shortly before Christmas with President Trump and Democrats at an impasse over funding for a border wall. The shutdown has left some 800,000 federal employees off the job or working without pay.
CURT SCHILLING ‘DESERVES TO BE IN THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME,’ TRUMP TWEETS
Kennedy also said he knows of a “few players” who have already said they do not want to visit the White House. Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers has already reportedly said he plans to skip the upcoming trip, saying he would rather focus on spring training instead.
“The opportunity was presented, and I just wasn’t compelled to go,” Devers, the 22-year-old from the Dominican Republic, reportedly said.
There has been some speculation that Alex Cora, the team’s manager who became the first manager from Puerto Rico to win a title and fifth manager to do it in his first year, could skip the White House visit as well. He’s been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s handling of the response to hurricane devastation in Puerto Rico.
TRUMP SAYS PHILADELPHIA EAGLES WON’T ATTEND WHITE HOUSE CEREMONY AMID NATIONAL ANTHEM DISPUTE
“If I go, I’ll represent Puerto Rico the right way. I don’t know what kind of platform I’ll have if I go … but we’ll see what happens,” Cora recently told reporters.
Trump’s controversial presidency has led many sports champions to forgo a celebratory visit to the White House during his tenure. Trump famously nixed a visit from the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the 2018 Super Bowl, amid controversy over the national anthem. He also withdrew an invitation to the Golden State Warriors who won the NBA championship title last year.
“My attitude is if they want to be here, it’s the greatest place on earth, I’m here. If they don’t want to be here, I don’t want them,” Trump previously said.
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The Red Sox won its first title since 2013 and ninth championship in franchise history in October with a defeat over the Los Angeles Dodgers in October.
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report. | 2023-12-21T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/5575 |
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Jeremy Burroughes
Jeremy Henley Burroughes (born August 1960) is a British physicist and engineer, known for his contributions to the development of organic electronics through his work on the science of semiconducting polymers and molecules and their application. He is the Chief Technology Officer of Cambridge Display Technology, a company specialising in the development of technologies based on polymer light-emitting diodes.
Education
Burroughes earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1989. His thesis was entitled The physical processes in organic semiconducting polymer devices.
Work
Early in his career, Burroughes discovered that certain conjugated polymers were capable of emitting light when an electric current passed through them. The discovery of this previously unknown form of electroluminescence led to the foundation of Cambridge Display Technology where Burroughes has been responsible for a number of technology innovations, including the direct printing of full-colour OLED displays.
Awards and honours
Burroughes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2012. His certificate of election reads:
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Society | 2024-06-23T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4286 |
We’ve Been Working – Actress Reacts To Being Dormant At Zylofon
Actress Benedicta Gafah, has refuted criticisms that actors and actresses signed by Zylofon Media have been dormant since they were signed to the media company.
According to her, the five actors signed by the company have been very busy contrary to perceptions that they have been idle.
Zylofon Films, a wing of Zylofon Media, in July 2017, made known its intentions of venturing into movie productions.
In line with this intention, the company unveiled five actors they said will spearhead and help them achieve that dream.
The five actors are James Gardiner, Bibi Bright, Toosweet Annan, Zynnell Zuh and Benedicta Gafah.
Since their signing, not much had been heard of the actors until recently when Zylofon Media announced plans to premiere its first movie, ‘The New Adabraka’ directed by Eddie Nartey.
Benedicta Gaffah, speaking in an interview on Hitz FM, explained that they have been busy reading scripts and doing a couple of jobs. “We were reading other scripts. He [Eddie Nettey] wanted us to come out with the best one and I was also shooting a couple of jobs and at the same time I’m schooling at AUCC [Africa University College of Communications],” she explained.
“I don’t know the reason why they thought that we [are] sitting down doing nothing,” the actress added.
Asked if she is permitted to work with other film houses, she responded, “Yes I am.”
Eddie Nartey, Head of Zylofon Films, explained further that the signed actors “are permitted to work with everybody that wants to work with you. We are basically doing the management of the artistes. It’s like we’ve taken them and say we are only shooting with them…” | 2024-02-27T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7732 |
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Q:
Getting error message Module build failed (from ./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js) when running npm serve
I'm working on a Vue/Vuetify project for quite some time now. It all worked fine until yesterday. I had problems with using the <v-simple-table> vuetify component, so I decided to run npm install and re-install vuetify: bad idea.
The problem is that I get the following error multiple times when running npm run serve:
Module build failed (from ./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js):
ValidationError: Invalid options object. Sass Loader has been initialised using an options object that does not match the API schema.
- options has an unknown property 'indentedSyntax'. These properties are valid:
object { implementation?, sassOptions?, prependData?, sourceMap?, webpackImporter? }
at validate (C:\Users\Jeroen\Documents\favourite_xi\node_modules\sass-loader\node_modules\schema-utils\dist\validate.js:49:11)
at Object.loader (C:\Users\Jeroen\Documents\favourite_xi\node_modules\sass-loader\dist\index.js:36:28)
@ ./node_modules/vuetify/src/components/VCalendar/mixins/calendar-with-events.sass 4:14-225 14:3-18:5 15:22-233
@ ./node_modules/vuetify/lib/components/VCalendar/mixins/calendar-with-events.js
@ ./node_modules/vuetify/lib/components/VCalendar/VCalendar.js
@ ./node_modules/vuetify/lib/components/VCalendar/index.js
@ ./node_modules/vuetify/lib/components/index.js
@ ./node_modules/vuetify/lib/index.js
@ ./src/main.js
@ multi (webpack)-dev-server/client?http://192.168.178.115:8080/sockjs-node ./node_modules/@vue/cli-service/node_modules/webpack/hot/dev-server.js ./src/main.js
My main.js file:
import Vue from 'vue'
import App from './App.vue'
import router from './router'
import store from './store'
import Vuetify from 'vuetify/lib'
import 'vuetify/dist/vuetify.min.css'
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css'
import 'bootstrap-vue/dist/bootstrap-vue.css'
Vue.use(BootstrapVue)
Vue.use(Vuetify, {
theme: {
"primary": "#FFCA28",
"secondary": "#1976D2",
"accent": "#82B1FF",
"error": "#FF5252",
"info": "#2196F3",
"success": "#4CAF50",
"warning": "#FB8C00"
}
})
Vue.config.productionTip = false
new Vue({
router,
store,
render: h => h(App)
}).$mount('#app')
I've already looked at multiple posts and they all advise to run npm rebuild node-sass (both regularly as in admin-mode), delete the node-modules folder, re-install sass-loader, but nothing worked so far.
Is there something wrong in my main.js maybe?
Thanks in advance! Let me know if I need to post more of my code or additional information.
Edit: added package.json
{
"name": "favourite_xi",
"version": "0.1.0",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"serve": "vue-cli-service serve",
"build": "vue-cli-service build",
"lint": "vue-cli-service lint"
},
"dependencies": {
"bootstrap": "^4.3.1",
"bootstrap-vue": "^2.0.0-rc.22",
"core-js": "^2.6.5",
"node-sass": "^4.12.0",
"stylus": "^0.54.7",
"stylus-loader": "^3.0.2",
"uuid": "^3.3.3",
"vue": "^2.6.10",
"vue-cool-select": "^2.10.2",
"vue-flip": "^0.3.0",
"vue-responsive-text": "^0.1.4",
"vue-router": "^3.0.3",
"vuetify": "^2.0.16",
"vuex": "^3.1.1"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@fortawesome/fontawesome-free": "^5.10.1",
"@vue/cli-plugin-babel": "^3.8.0",
"@vue/cli-plugin-eslint": "^3.8.0",
"@vue/cli-service": "^3.8.0",
"@vue/eslint-config-standard": "^4.0.0",
"babel-eslint": "^10.0.1",
"eslint": "^5.16.0",
"eslint-plugin-vue": "^5.0.0",
"sass-loader": "^8.0.0",
"vue-template-compiler": "^2.6.10",
"webpack": "^4.39.3"
},
"eslintConfig": {
"root": true,
"env": {
"node": true
},
"extends": [
"plugin:vue/essential",
"@vue/standard"
],
"rules": {},
"parserOptions": {
"parser": "babel-eslint"
}
},
"postcss": {
"plugins": {
"autoprefixer": {}
}
},
"browserslist": [
"> 1%",
"last 2 versions"
]
}
A:
This could be result of upgrading sass-loader from v7.x to v8.x
As stated in release notes, they'v made significant changes to configuration
Check your vue.config.js - if you find something like this:
module.exports = {
css: {
loaderOptions: {
sass: {
....some options here...
}
}
}
}
change it to:
module.exports = {
css: {
loaderOptions: {
sass: {
sassOptions: {
....some options here...
}
}
}
}
}
| 2023-11-17T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/6570 |
This proposal describes a research program which extends our previous work on pain in the human newborn infant by studying pain reactivity to varied stimuli in a developmentally and clinically diverse sample of infants within and beyond the neonatal period. To study pain, we will systematically measure physiologic, behavioral and acoustic parameters of newborn infants in response to invasive, clinically-required beside procedures or parentally-requested circumcision surgery during their hospitalizations. The 250 subjects will include premature and full term, healthy and sick infants, with and without brain injury, with and without assisted mechanical ventilation, who have been recruited for study shortly after admission to a Level I, II or III nursery. Our primary measures include mean heart rate, blood pressure, vagal tone, oxygen saturation, cry fundamental frequency and the presence of a "cry face" expression. Studies will be conducted for all infants in response to a clinically-required heel stick procedure shortly after admission and, subsequently, in response to at least two additional procedures to include a lumbar puncture, intravenous line placement or circumcision surgery and a physical exam. Subjects will be studied during additional clinically-required invasive procedures during hospitalization. To assess the acute and more prolonged effects of pain, we will conduct a randomized controlled trial in healthy, full term infants to examine how anesthesia for circumcision surgery alters response to a post- circumcision heel stick. At six months, a subsample of 100 infants will be studied during a laboratory temperament assessment and a physical exam. Together, these studies will allow us to 1) quantify the influence of neonatal characteristics, perinatal events and stimulus invasiveness on neonatal pain reactivity; 2) construct a stimulus-response gradient of infant pain which can be compared with adult-based models and perceptions of pain; 3) determine whether early reactions to pain predict subsequent reactivity; and 4) quantify the relation between physiologic reactivity and infant temperament. The proposed studies respond directly to the public health need for special pain expertise to be developed for the care of newborn and, especially, premature infants. Special attention is focused on the development of an accurate, multidisciplinary assessment of infant pain and on patient outcome. These studies will generate research data which are directly translatable into clinical decisions at the bedside. The proposed research provides an opportunity to make major advances in our understanding of pain in newborn infants and how best to manage it. | 2023-12-11T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7371 |
Reducing the reliance of private motor vehicles through development assessment process
Hi all,
I am working on an assignment for Uni which asks me to:
evaluate a component of the development assessment process offering possible improvements and potential alternatives and/or outcomes
.
My chosen topic/component was reducing reliance of private motor vehicles (primarily cars). We have been asked to look at our local development assessment process and compare this to other systems in Australia and internationally, essentially benchmarking our system here in Perth, critiquing it and highlighting the weak points where changes could be made (and what changes they would be).
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of any relevant publications, case studies or examples that are relevant to this topic that I can further study and analyse. Any help appreciated.
Thanks for the suggestions, however I am looking for working examples of how the development assessment process has been improved to provide those outcomes.
E.g.
A.) In one place the parking requirements may be a minimum of 1 parking bay per 100m2 of Gross Leasable Area (GLA) office space (fictional figure). This is the typical model style here in Perth.
B.) Another place the parking may be instead allow reductions in parking bays if the development is within a TOD walkable catchment to a minimum of 0 per 100m2 GLA, have a minimum amount of 1 per 100m2 of cycle parking, requirements for end of trip facilities for any commercial office development over 500m2 GLA, and maybe even have a maximum number of parking bays such as 1 per 200m2.
Obviously option B is going to be more effective at reducing and discouraging vehicle use than the typical, prescriptive first option. This is done by encouraging development to be located within TOD areas through incentives of not having to build as much parking, requiring more cycle facilities and capping car parking.
What is a development assessment. Many of us may not be familiar with the term.
Assessing development.
E.g. as a planning officer for a local government/authority we are often in charge for assessing a proposed development against a criteria to make sure that it is suitable for the area's context, land use zone and desired outcomes for the area/zone.
A local authority might want to create more TOD development, so they might subsequently create a new planning policy that encourages public transport, walking and cycling (as exemplified previously) and also discourages car use.
I don't know how the planning system works outside of Australia, but surely it isn't too different. How is development being controlled to meet desired outcomes in other countries, where are they doing well with it, are there any outstanding policies/documents that deal with vehicle use/reliance?
There are others on this site that may know more but in general, land use regulation in the United States is much less free form. A city or county planning or building department would look at a proposed development and determine if it complies with the zoning code including any special district or overlays. If it does it can proceed pretty much as a right. If not, the developer would have to apply for a varience. Perhaps you are suggesting large-scale rezoning of cities?
There are others on this site that may know more but in general, land use regulation in the United States is much less free form. A city or county planning or building department would look at a proposed development and determine if it complies with the zoning code including any special district or overlays. If it does it can proceed pretty much as a right. If not, the developer would have to apply for a varience. Perhaps you are suggesting large-scale rezoning of cities?
So through that process where are there opportunities to change the criteria and methods that planners use to promote a reduction in vehicle dependence?
So through that process where are there opportunities to change the criteria and methods that planners use to promote a reduction in vehicle dependence?
Yes, when the master plan as adopted by the governing body has vehicle dependence reduction as an objective and the development regulations/design criteria as adopted by the governing body specify such actions. I am working on such now as are many others: it is in our master plan and I am drafting the regulatory codes to implement the plan.
Yes, when the master plan as adopted by the governing body has vehicle dependence reduction as an objective and the development regulations/design criteria as adopted by the governing body specify such actions. I am working on such now as are many others: it is in our master plan and I am drafting the regulatory codes to implement the plan.
So what would the regulations/design criteria be?
I am looking for 'nuts and bolts' effectively of how planning can reduce vehicle reliance through the development assessment process.
How can you 'force' developers to build developments that are cycle, pedestrian and public transport friendly and complimentary, while discouraging private vehicle use?
So what would the regulations/design criteria be?
I am looking for 'nuts and bolts' effectively of how planning can reduce vehicle reliance through the development assessment process.
How can you 'force' developers to build developments that are cycle, pedestrian and public transport friendly and complimentary, while discouraging private vehicle use?
Most of my work came from the "sustainable community development code and reform initiative" by the Rocky Mountain Land Institute. For some reason my link to their site is broken at the moment. I took all of their ideas, culled them down to what might work in my community. My list still runs to several pages and would not be that applicable to a place as large as Perth.
How do you force developers? Never. Adopted regulations with significant community buy-in do.
I am looking for 'nuts and bolts' effectively of how planning can reduce vehicle reliance through the development assessment process.
How can you 'force' developers to build developments that are cycle, pedestrian and public transport friendly and complimentary, while discouraging private vehicle use?
You require road widths that allow bike lanes, reduce min parking standards, require space for bus stops, allow mixed-use (altho around here mixed-use office has very high vacancy rate so there needs to be incentives too), install sidewalks that support mid-block crossings. Here we like to incent things such as allowing an extra floor on height if they provide parking decks, that sort of thing.
Most of my work came from the "sustainable community development code and reform initiative" by the Rocky Mountain Land Institute. For some reason my link to their site is broken at the moment.
That's pretty good. I attended several of the presentations/workshops & I'd say that goes pretty far toward an actual reality that is sustainable. I'd say most of that content is for early adopters, though and can't see widespread adoption for quite a while. My 2¢
Most of my work came from the "sustainable community development code and reform initiative" by the Rocky Mountain Land Institute. For some reason my link to their site is broken at the moment. I took all of their ideas, culled them down to what might work in my community. My list still runs to several pages and would not be that applicable to a place as large as Perth.
How do you force developers? Never. Adopted regulations with significant community buy-in do.
Thanks for the info. I'll try and find out more about the RMLA tomorrow.
I am looking to do a couple of case studies of international examples of how development is being controlled by planners to attain reduce vehicle dependence, so an actual 'nuts and bolt' code and reform document will be needed to analyse and compare to our systems here in Perth.
Btw- 'force' was only for lack of a better word.
Originally posted by ColoGI
You require road widths that allow bike lanes, reduce min parking standards, require space for bus stops, allow mixed-use (altho around here mixed-use office has very high vacancy rate so there needs to be incentives too), install sidewalks that support mid-block crossings. Here we like to incent things such as allowing an extra floor on height if they provide parking decks, that sort of thing.
Exactly, as well as other comments. Do you know of any successful planning policies/documents that deliver the outcomes and enforce these requirements for development?
Exactly, as well as other comments. Do you know of any successful planning policies/documents that deliver the outcomes and enforce these requirements for development?
First, it is RMLUI, all I find is linkrot at the moment.
You may want to check out any of the "complete streets" work being done here. Plenty of cities trying to do something, you might start with Seattle, altho their drivers for change are sustainability and salmon. The ITE is doing quite a lot as well, and contribute case studies to help cities.
You may want to check out any of the "complete streets" work being done here. Plenty of cities trying to do something, you might start with Seattle, altho their drivers for change are sustainability and salmon. The ITE is doing quite a lot as well, and contribute case studies to help cities.
Michigan has just adopted a Statewide complete streets policy. Its going to be interesting to see how this will change things at not only the State level, but local as well. | 2024-05-25T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/8312 |
Chad Wilson – Editor Gridiron Studs Blog
Twitter: @GridironStuds
The hot seat, the hot seat, ohhh the hot seat. Before the season they want to tell you who’s on it. As the season starts they wait for the loss and here come the stories about must win situations and possible replacements. The media riles up the fans and the fans incite the media. It’s a formed alliance by the two parties acting against the program, team, coaches and ultimately the season.
We live in an impatient world. Even microwaves are too slow these days. It’s too much to read more than 140 characters which is less than a paragraph. We want our food fast, our feedback on the double and our results overnight. We are not interested in building anything because quite frankly, that takes too much time. We celebrate coaches that win right away and curse their name when they bolt for the next job the moment they reach that success.
Brady Hoke, Will Muschamp and Al Golden were part of several coaches entering into the 2014 season on the preverbal “hot seat”. All have provided media members with delight by losing games as 99% of coaches will do during the season. Fans of these schools have taken to social media to express their disgust, disappointment and displeasure. They do it proudly feeling they are fulfilling their duties as a die hard fan. In actuality, they are contributing to the demise of a season and in some cases, a program.
For any coach to reach the level of head coach, they have to maintain a certain amount of confidence and arrogance. You don’t enjoy success and rise through the ranks by not holding true to some principles and philosophy. A coach quick to change his mind is one that fails to establish himself. So when a successful coach has been granted the ultimate honor of being named head coach, it only makes sense that he sticks to what got him there. What got him there were his philosophies, perseverance and confidence. The layman (aka the fan / media) will see it as stubbornness.
History has shown us that a coach needs five years to build a program. Why is that you ask? Well, upon taking a job, most successful coaches construct a plan much like an army general will do when heading into battle. Also like an army general, a coach can expect some difficult times which are dealt with using all the skills you obtained to get the job in the first place. Most plans are constructed for a 5 year time frame. Coincidentally, most contracts are given for 5 years to start. Five years allows a coach to take his first recruiting class from signing day to graduation. A new coach is dealing with players recruited by the previous coach. He’s dealing with individuals with a different mind set that must be changed. In most cases, he’s changing an offensive or defensive system or both. He’s also working through assistants that are new to his way of doing things. Maturing all these elements into the final product take time and unfortunately for the impatient masses that’s longer than two or three years. Typically after four years, a coach takes a hardcore assessment of everything they are doing and decide what part of the plan they need to stick with and what part they need to abandon.
Brady Hoke, Al Golden and Will Muschamp did not forget how to coach when they landed at their current destination. All three are in their fourth year with their programs and all three are facing calls from their fans to be relieved of their duties. They are not the first to experience such unfortunate circumstances. The mighty Nick Saban was a struggling coach in his fourth season at Michigan St. and fifth overall as a college football head coach. After three seasons of complete mediocrity, (6-5, 6-6 and 7-5) Saban was sitting at 3-4 in 1998 after a loss to Minnesota. He had open the season 0-2 with one of the losses being to Colorado St. The Michigan St. fans wanted that “bum” Saban out of there. They were disgusted that the athletic director thought a man who had been a head coach for all of one season at Toledo was the one to replace the beloved George Perles. Saban would go on to save his job by defeating then #1 ranked Ohio St. only to give back that good will with a loss to Purdue the following week. When he ended the season with an embarrassing 51-28 loss to Penn St. and no bowl appearance, Spartan fans demanded his removal. Somehow, some way Saban kept his job and that off season he had the 4th year assessment where he remained solid on some things and changed his mind on a few others. Year five at Michigan St. saw Saban go 9-2 and set up a Citrus Bowl appearance for the Spartans. However, by then, the damage had been done and Saban excepted an offer to coach LSU. For his time at Michigan St., Saban worked his plan, stayed steadfast through the dark times and built a program. He didn’t quickly change his mind in year three or four when things were going swell. He stuck to his guns and made sure that before he made any changes, he was sure what he was doing wasn’t working.
At LSU, Saban again began building a program. After showing steady improvement the first two seasons (8-4 and 10-3), LSU took a significant step back in year three. Not only did Saban’s LSU Tigers go 8-5 but they suffered God awful losses to rivals Alabama (31-7) and Auburn (31-0). Questions began to be asked about this Nick Saban that struggled at Michigan St. Yes, that Nick Saban that we recognize as the God of college football in 2014. If Nick Saban’s 2003 season at LSU would have occurred in 2014, we would have never have known his greatness. Fans would have successfully campaigned through social media and allied with the media to have Saban run out of town. Saban persevered and in year four, the Louisiana State Tigers were crowned college football champions after going 13-1 and defeating Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. How about that?
The University of Miami faithful have made calls for the return of Butch Davis to take over a Miami program that has been glued to disappointment for the better part of a decade. Fans sure do have a short memory. Butch Davis was almost run out of town by Hurricanes fans. After going 8-3 and 9-4 in his first two seasons, Davis captained an astonishing 5-6 season for the Hurricanes in year 3. Yes, Miami was feeling the pains of NCAA sanctions but no one expected a sub .500 season or a 47-0 loss to rival Florida St. Davis would battle back to a winning season in year four but when the Canes were destroyed 66-13 by Syracuse, Miami fans had enough. They were calling for the return of Jimmy Johnson who was teasing Hurricanes fans by coaching down the street for the Miami Dolphins. Somehow, Davis survived and went 20-5 over the next two seasons thus setting up what would be widely regarded as the best college football team in history in 2001. Had that 66-13 loss for Davis and the Hurricanes occurred in 2014, more than likely that great 2001 team may never have happened. Why? Because in 2014 we love to fire coaches.
The history of college football is littered with examples in which coaches had a bad couple of seasons right before launching a program into greatness. Things worth having take time achieving. Along the way there is darkness and it usually comes before the brightest light. Coaches and athletic directors that understand that usually reap the benefits. There isn’t always steady progress in terms of wins and losses. The path will at times be uneven and ragged but when you hire a coach you have to believe in why he is there in the first place. Sure sometimes you make a bad hire but you don’t know what you have until five years have been completed.
Larry Coker replaced Butch Davis at Miami in 2001 and no man in college football history could have had a better start. The Canes won the title in 2001 in grand fashion. In 2002, they were once again undefeated before losing a heartbreaker in the Fiesta Bowl to Ohio St. After just two seasons coaching at the University of Miami, Larry Coker was 24-1. This new era of fan would have issued a Coker a lifetime contract or at least a 1o year deal. Fans nowadays think two years is enough to put a label on a guy. Coker would go 11-2 in year three but the decline of performance would ensue over the next three seasons. Eventually, Coker would be let go after his sixth season in which Miami went a disappointing 7-6.
Fans will want to point out examples like Jim Tressel and Pete Carroll as guys that came in and won right away and kept on winning. I say to those people, do a little research. Jim Tressel coached at Youngstown St. before Ohio St. and it wasn’t always pretty. Tressel’s first year was 2-9 at Youngstown St. and after going 8-4 in his second year, Tressel fell back to 4-8 in year three. How would have stuck up fans at some of these programs have dealt with that one? Tressel would eventually get it together and go 11-1 in year 5 before winning the first of four titles in year six. For those old enough to remember, Pete Carroll was widely consider to be a joke after failed head coaching stints in the NFL for the New England Patriots and New York Jets. Carroll had learned his lessons as Tressel did and was a well constructed coaching mind by the time he landed on USC’s campus.
For those that will mention Urban Meyer, I will say this. Meyer has an amazing skill known as picking the great job. He is the Leonardo DiCaprio of college football, he knows what role is best for him. You also won’t see Meyer in any one place for long. He will come in use the resources, coach hard and hit the road. He is one of a kind and not someone for a program to point to like every coach will achieve this. For those who wish they had Saban, remember Saban was a bum in Michigan St. and someone LSU fans had questions about early on in his tenure. As long as the players are still playing hard for the coach, you should be supporting the head man. Perhaps your Nick Saban is coaching your program right now going through the same tough time Saban was going through in year four at Michigan St. Maybe if you shut your mouth and supported your team, your coach can become the next Nick Saban while he’s still at your program. | 2024-06-02T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7675 |
An Imperial Presidency In The Making?
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal carried a story entitled “Obama Steps Up Confrontation.” It said in part, “On Thursday, the president challenged Republicans who planned to campaign on repealing his health-care bill with, ‘Go for it.’ Two days later, he made 15 senior appointments without Senate consent, including a union lawyer whose nomination had been blocked by a filibuster.
“At a bill-signing event Tuesday, he is set to laud passage of higher-education legislation that was approved despite Republican objections through a parliamentary maneuver that neutralized the party’s filibuster threat.”
If history teaches us anything, it teaches us that power always craves more power. And there are only 2 ways to check power: internally, through self-discipline and humility; or externally, through equally determined and equipped counterforces.
Americans should thank God that George Washington was our first President, because no one exemplified self-discipline and humility more than he did. After having led the colonies to perhaps the most miraculous revolution in world history, Washington was universally adored and even idolized. There were many that even attempted to make Washington America’s king. He flatly refused this proposal, of course. (Compare Washington’s character and humility to former President G.W. Bush, who, on this subject, said, “If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”)
The concept of an American monarch may seem foreign to us today, but remember that a monarchy was the only form of government the colonists had ever known. And there can be no doubt that a monarchy (or some form of it) has been the single most popular form of central government that the nations of the world have utilized. But remember, too, the theme of America’s War for Independence was “No King But Jesus.” And no one believed that more than General George Washington did.
Like most of America’s founders, Washington distrusted government in general and despised big government in particular–even though people were willing to make him government’s imperial ruler. Listen to the Father of our Country:
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a man of George Washington’s caliber in the White House for many a moon. Instead of distrusting and limiting the central government, the vast majority of modern Presidents have completely ignored the constitutional role of the Presidency, and have sought to expand the authority of the executive branch of the federal government to proportions never allowed in the Constitution or envisioned by its creators. And Barack Obama is following the example of his predecessors by continuing this malevolent model (with increased rapidity, I might add). The above-mentioned stories are just the latest examples of what is fast becoming an imperial Presidency. It seems that every day another example of executive arrogance and usurpation of power takes place.
Given the lack of genuine humility and character of America’s President–and the unwillingness of Congress and the Supreme Court to restrain his unconstitutional propensities–it is left to the states and the People to hold this would-be king in check.
And here is another reason to be thankful for America’s founders: they recognized the ultimate role of the states in safeguarding and protecting liberty. As James Madison said in Federalist 45, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”
In Federalist 39 Madison said, “Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.” (Emphasis in the original.)
If America’s founders desired that a national–or monarchal–government be established in the United States, what was the purpose of the original 13 colonies retaining individual statehood? Why would each State retain its authority as “a sovereign body,” if not to serve as a vanguard against the encroachment upon liberty by the central government?
And never has liberty been more vulnerable to oppression and tyranny than right now! Why? Because ever since 9/11, both political parties in Washington, D.C., have placed America in a state of perpetual war. This fact alone puts the federal government in a position to become America’s oppressor.
In the first place, the Congress of the United States (then controlled by Republicans) abdicated its constitutional obligation to be the sole determiner regarding America’s entrance into war by providing then-President Bush with virtually unlimited and unchecked ability to determine and wage war clearly outside the perimeter of constitutional authority. And since taking over the federal government last year, Democrats in Washington, D.C., have followed suit.
But listen to Madison: “The executive [President] has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
Furthermore, the condition of unending, perpetual war only serves the purpose of lessening liberty. To quote Madison again: “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” Madison also declared, “If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” And one more from Madison: “The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
One needs to only look around to observe that Madison’s warnings are quickly becoming a reality in these United States.
What all this means is that the American people cannot rely on Washington, D.C., to control itself. We cannot trust Washington politicians and bureaucrats to have the character and self-discipline to honor the Constitution and defend our liberties. If we are to preserve our freedom in this country, it will be up to the body politic in each State to do it. If the Congress and Court in Washington, D.C., will not rein in this burgeoning monarchy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then the states and People must.
At this point, I do not believe there is any way to avoid it: a showdown between freedom-loving states and the federal government is inevitable. But not only is it inevitable, it is absolutely necessary! The central government in Washington, D.C., is quickly morphing into a monarchy–or at the very least an oligarchy. And neither the Donkeys nor the Elephants inside the Beltway are willing to do anything to stop it. Either the states determine to defend the rights and liberties of the American people now, or we are destined to be governed by DC’s despots. Furthermore, we cannot cede to the US Supreme Court–or to any other federal authority–our independence, and most certainly, those fundamental elements necessary to our very survival. Only the states and the People, respectively, can maintain these bulwarks.
The question is, Will my State raise the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag and sincerely defend my liberties? And the follow-up question is, If my State will not do it, which states will, and what will I do? We have little choice. Either we join with a State that will fight for our liberties and help procure freedom for our posterity, or we follow radical unionists (and globalists) into a modern-day monarchy that is marching America toward oppression and servitude.
*If you appreciate this column and want to help me distribute these editorial opinions to an ever-growing audience, donations may now be made by credit card, check, or Money Order. Donate using this link. | 2023-11-21T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4547 |
Q:
Java applet or JavaScript for making an online form?
I don't know what I'm talking about. Please tell me what I need to know. ^_^"
I would like to create an online test that sends the results to a certain email address, but I'm not sure how to begin. I think it's possible to make textboxes and stuff with both Java and applets, or JavaScript, right? Which should I try working on?
I also want the test to change each time it's ran, most likely based on a .txt or something that tells how to change the questions and answers. I'm not really sure how to make that work yet, either... I guess, using functions to say how to change things based on variables I use in a different file. Can javascript even read stuff from other places? So maybe it needs to be the applet thingy?
A:
Here's a quick example using HTML + PHP (forgoing javascript for simplicity)
HTML Page (index.html):
<html>
<head>
<title>My Cool Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Set the action to the page that will handle the form data -->
<form action = "thanks.php" method="post">
<!-- The name attribute will be used by thanks.php later -->
E-Mail: <input name="email" type="text"></input>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"></input>
</form>
</html>
thanks.php:
<?php
$to = "me@example.com"
$from = "From: form-results@example.com";
$subject = "Got a result from the form!";
// Get the e-mail from the form
$email = $_POST['email'];
$body = "The persons e-mail is" . $email;
// Send an e-mail to me@example.com
mail($to, $subject, $body, $from);
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Thank you :)</title>
</head>
<body>
Thanks for your submition. We have added
<?php
echo $email;
?>
to our mailing list!.
</body></html>
HTML is a markup language used to define your document and forms. This is used by your browser to create the webpage seen by your user.
PHP is a server-sided language which runs on your server, not the users, that accesses data such as information from forms, databases, rss feeds, etc and then processes the data (for example mailing the form results to you) before sending the user a HTML document (like one that says thank you for you submition, latest blog posts from a database, etc).
Find a nice free host and upload these files to see them in action.
| 2023-09-06T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/4356 |
On a mission to reduce our energy intake and environmental impact, not to mention our electric bill, we installed two new energy-efficient chillers below the Turbine Hall earlier this summer. What’s a chiller you ask? These are large machines that do most of the work controlling temperature throughout the museum. This is no small task in a building that accommodates over a thousand people a day!
It was anyone’s game by the time B Watch was stood-down that night. Noah Citron (the low-baller at 1,987 pieces) was close but not quite out. I was secretly rooting for Mike Gil (2,300 pieces). Mike was the only A Watcher in the pool, and the idea of him walking away with the entire bin of B Watch’s midnight snacks plus one vegan cupcake was more than a little entertaining. Being the only vegan in the pool, I wouldn’t be able to savor the victory snacks myself. I was, however, curious about the ship’s going-rate between baked goods and shower-day trades.
Clever Together opened this weekend in OMSI’s Earth Science Hall! When I first saw it, I thought “I need to bring every visiting friend to come see this!” The exhibit highlights so many sustainable practices and opportunities that are supported here in Portland. I realized when walking through the exhibit that these are all things that make me proud to live in this city.
The Pacific Northwest leads the nation in sustainable decision-making, the development of renewable technologies, and research into next-generation green materials. In order to reflect our region’s ongoing leadership in this important sector, OMSI has embarked on a long-term Energy & the Environment Initiative. | 2024-07-09T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/2459 |
This is what the car manufacturers DON’T want you to see. Since overproduction peaked in 2009, thousands of cars have been left in lots to waste away. Many of these photos go back to just post-recession, yet the problem of surplus still exists today!
Shiny, pretty, and new…and rapidly rusting, unused. This photograph is a lot of surplus cars in Port of Sheerness in Kent, England. There are hundreds of places exactly like this in the world full of cars that automobile manufacturers were unable to sell.
That’s right. You’re looking at just one of the world’s many unsold car stockpiles. People are not buying new cars at the rate they were pre-recession. How many families do you know who boast a new car every year? Thus, millions of brand-new are left to die in parking lots.
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Just off of Broening Highway in Baltimore, over 57,000 cars sit in a massive parking lot. At first I wondered why they weren’t simply put on sale, but the car industry won’t reduce their prices drastically for one simple reason: You can’t sell a car for $500 and expect someone to purchase a new one for $15,000.
Cars must be moved out of dealership lots to make room for new automobile production. What’s left is kind of sad…rows upon rows of perfectly good cars. Dormant.
The car industry can’t simply stop making new cars. That would mean closing factories and lay off tens of thousands of employees, further adding to the recession. Also, the domino effect would be catastrophic to the steel industry.
The plague isn’t specific only to the United States automobile industry…it’s a problem around the world. Pictured above, tens of thousands of cars sunbathe all day in Spain.
When supply exceeds demand, you’re left with a surplus. Post-recession, families aren’t running out and purchasing a new car each year.
St. Petersburg, Russia Imported European cars fail to sell and wind up left to rust in an airport.
The cycle of buying, using, buying using has been broken. People are likely to USE for much longer once they buy.
Open lots everywhere have been converted into makeshift graveyards for cars that just won’t sell.
Avonmouth, UK Every gray space you see is filled with unused cars.
Corby, UK Here’s another lot of surplus cars. It begs the question: why aren’t these being recycled or at least given to people in need?
Italy’s Port of Civitavecchia You would think car manufacturers would be able to SOMEHOW use at least some of the parts. Are they holding onto hope that the cars will sell?
Port of Valencia, Spain These pictures are particularly frustrating if you’ve been driving an old clunker around!
Cars, when subjected to the elements, don’t last long. Many pictured have been standing for a year or more.
When a car is left standing idle, all the oil sinks to the bottom of the sump, and then corrosion begins to set in on all the internal engine parts where the oil has drained away.
Overproduction isn’t merely a flaw of the system in the United States or at one car factory, it’s a worldwide problem. If we don’t figure out a way to repurpose cars or price them according to new economic standards, yards of abandoned cars will continue to fill. | 2024-02-03T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/3230 |
Early diagnosis of septicaemia in infants with respiratory distress in the tropics.
A prospective study of buffy coat microscopy of 108 infants with respiratory distress during the first 48 h of life was undertaken. Thirty-two infants (29.6%)had positive blood cultures. The buffy coat was stained with methylene blue and with Gram's stain. Using methylene blue staining, 94% shared organisms in the buffy coat. Whereas using Gram's stain only 50% were positive--all of which were also positive with methylene blue. Twenty-four infants with negative blood cultures had radiological signs of pneumonia. Of these, 83% showed organisms in the buffy coat with both methylene blue and Gram staining. We conclude that buffy coat microscopy provides a simple and reliable guide in the early diagnosis of neonatal septicaemia or lung infection in infants with respiratory distress. | 2023-08-21T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/7837 |
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"Exfiltrate"
],
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"Unknown"
],
"variety": [
"Phishing"
],
"vector": [
"Email"
]
}
},
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"external": {
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],
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"Financial"
],
"region": [
"000000"
],
"variety": [
"Unaffiliated"
]
}
},
"asset": {
"assets": [
{
"amount": 1,
"variety": "U - Desktop"
},
{
"variety": "P - Unknown"
},
{
"variety": "U - Desktop or laptop"
}
],
"cloud": [
"Unknown"
],
"total_amount": 1
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"confidentiality": {
"data": [
{
"variety": "Personal"
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"Employee"
],
"state": [
"Stored"
]
},
"integrity": {
"variety": [
"Alter behavior"
]
}
},
"confidence": "High",
"discovery_method": {
"internal": {
"variety": [
"Other"
]
}
},
"discovery_notes": "CMH says its employees found out it was a scam when the encrypted information was accessed by a third party. ",
"incident_id": "23310270-e376-11e7-bf7a-0771e1cc9602",
"plus": {
"analysis_status": "Validated",
"analyst": "swidup",
"attribute": {
"confidentiality": {
"data_abuse": "Yes"
}
},
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"dbir_year": 2018,
"github": "9227",
"master_id": "e62111ac-93da-4b32-85bf-1dc658dbb6db",
"modified": "2017-12-18T06:08:50.071Z",
"sub_source": "phidbr"
},
"reference": "http://www.ky3.com/content/news/413747713.html; http://www.kspr.com/content/news/Citizens-Memorial-Hospital-investigating-breach-of-employee-information-413741283.html",
"schema_version": "1.3.4",
"security_incident": "Confirmed",
"source_id": "vcdb",
"summary": "Personal and financial information was stolen from Citizens Memorial Hospital. Officials say W2 tax forms were mistakenly given to a scammer, and now all employees are at risk.",
"targeted": "Opportunistic",
"timeline": {
"incident": {
"month": 2,
"year": 2017
}
},
"victim": {
"country": [
"US"
],
"employee_count": "1001 to 10000",
"industry": "622110",
"region": [
"019021"
],
"state": "MO",
"victim_id": "Citizens Memorial Hospital"
}
} | 2024-04-16T01:26:58.646260 | https://example.com/article/1848 |
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