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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a lifting apparatus for use, for example, in constructing buildings, repairing highways, painting and the like at elevated locations in order to load operators or materials on a bucket attached thereto, and particularly to an operation control mechanism of the lifting apparatus capable of controlling the drive of a chassis of the lifting apparatus forward or backward in the same direction as the bucket is directed irrespective of the positional relationship between a turntable and the chassis.
2. Prior Art
There has been employed a lifting apparatus capable of raising or lowering an elevator or a bucket for assembling, painting and repairing at elevated locations such as a highway or building construction, wherein the operator or the material is loaded on or unloaded from the bucket or the elevator.
The lifting apparatus of this type is classified as a boom-type, scissors-type, X-type and the like. It is common to any type of such lifting apparatus that a control apparatus is installed in the bucket for controlling a chassis of the lifting apparatus. The operator on the bucket operates the control apparatus provided inside the bucket so that the lifting apparatus can perform various operations whereby the bucket can be raised to the height required for the working.
There have been employed in many cases a lever-type or joystick type mechanism in which the lever is pushed or pulled for turning on or off the switch so that a three-directional valve is switched for supplying oil under pressure. The three-directional valve is controlled to control the supply of oil under pressure to each part of the lifting apparatus and the adjustment of the amount of oil under pressure.
The lifting apparatus of this kind has an advantage that scaffolds can be omitted which enhances the convenient workability but a disadvantage that the operator is liable to involve unexpected accident at the time of operating the lifting apparatus.
Particularly, in the typically used boom-type lifiting apparatus, the turntable mounted on the chassis can be turned horizontally 360.degree. relative to the chassis. In view of such mechanism, the operator is liable to be involved in an accident at the time of driving the chassis forward or backward.
For instance, if the turntable is directed forward relative to the chassis, the chassis can move forward by pushing a lever forward. However, the lever to be pushed in forward direction or pulled in backward direction can be controlled with keeping the relation between the chassis and the turntable or the bucket but without any relation between the pushing or pulling direction of the lever and the direction of the turntable or the bucket. That is, the direction where the driving lever pushed or pulled is not at all related with the chassis direction where the turntable or the bucket is turned. Accordingly, when the chassis is traveled forward or backward while the turntable is turned 180.degree. relative to the chassis, i.e. in the rearward direction of the chassis and hence opposite to the normal forward direction, the operator feels a reverse driving feeling, i.e. as if he drove the chassis backward. That is, if the lever is pushed, i.e. in the forward direction of the bucket, the chassis travels forward while the turntable is directed to the rear side of the chassis. That is, the operator feels as if he drove the chassis backward. Accordingly, the operator must operate in a feeling reversed to the ordinary driving feeling.
Furthermore, in such a case, i.e. at the state where the turntable is turned 180.degree., an accident is more liable to occur. For example, if a beam or other building approaches the back of the operator in this case, a collision or the like is liable to occur which can be very dangerous. That is, there is a case that the operator pushes the lever forward for driving the turntable and the chassis forward in the normal driving mode in the direction of the boom. However, if the turntable on the chassis is turned backward relative to the chassis, then the chassis travels forward (i.e., opposite the direction of the boom). As a result, there may occur an accident in that the operator may be caught in the space between the bucket and a beam or building.
To minimize the chance of an accident resulting in injury or death, it is preferable to indicate the position of the turntable relative to the chassis on an indication panel of the control apparatus. However, the operator frequently overlooks the indication on the panel during the operation and realizes the mistake of the operation only when involved in an accident.
Although the structure having the turntable capable of turning through a full horizontal rotation relative to the chassis is very convenient in working operations such as repairing and painting at elevated locations, it is very dangerous to drive the chassis forward while the turntable is directed to the rear of the chassis since the operator feels as if he is driving the chassis backward. | Pile |
Attached is a list of property which we identified in our meeting this morning which might be relevant to NewCo. Much of this overlaps what was probably discussed, but as I missed the first part of the meeting, I am including everything. Please call if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Dave | Pile |
Oil spills due to ruptures in the side of a tanker are becoming more of a problem particularly to the environment. Over the years there have been numerous proposals made as to how temporary repairs may be made to the rupture in the side of the tanker. In 1899 U.S. Pat. No. 635,939 is disclosed a temporary patch held in place by electromagnets over the rupture in the sidewall. In 1991 U.S. Pat. No. 5,009,180 is disclosed an inflatable bladder to apply pressure to a seal over the rupture.
The pressure associated with a leak may be such that putting the repair apparatus in place and holding it there presents a difficult problem. It is believed that what is needed is a device for not necessarily repairing the hole in the side of the vessel but instead controlling the outflow of oil in such a manner that it is not allowed to escape into the ocean water. | Pile |
アズールレーン アズールレーン 配信元 Yostar
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アプリゲーム「アズールレーン」CMに林遣都さん、木下ほうかさんが登場！12月9日からのオンエア開始を記念して、Sレアキャラ「時雨」が期間限定でもらえるキャンペーンを実施中！
〜本日より開始。キャンペーンは2018年1月8日まで！〜
株式会社Yostar（本社：東京都千代田区、代表取締役：李衡達）は、大人気アプリゲーム「アズールレーン」のCMを、12月9日からオンエア開始予定です。新CMのキャラクターには、林遣都さん、木下ほうかさんを起用。木下さん扮するマネージャーが、林さんの「アズールレーン」CM起用を「ないない」と再三拒否する中、当の林さんは「アズールレーン」に夢中！というコミカルな内容になっています。CMのオンエアを記念して、Sレアキャラ「時雨」がログインユーザー全員に期間限定でもらえるキャンペーンを、2018年1月8日まで実施します。1990年12月6日生映画「バッテリー」の主演で2007年に俳優デビュー。2018年1月より館テレ・フジテレビ系全国ネット「FINAL CUT」出演予定1964年1月24日生映画・TVドラマ・バラエティと幅広く活躍中2018年公開の本木克英監督作品「空飛ぶタイヤ」に出演予定：12月9日〜1月8日までに「アズールレーン」にログイン：2018年1月8日（月）23時59分（予定）：時雨 | Pile |
Given several opportunities, President Donald Trump ignored questions about the passing of Sen. John McCain and the legacy he left behind. | Pile |
Q:
Continuous but not compact operator on $L^2(0,\infty)$
Define the following operator on $L^2(0,\infty)$:
$$Tf(x)=\frac{1}{x} \int_0^xf(y)dy,\quad f\in L^2(0\infty).$$
I would like to see that it is continuous but not compact.
So, this is an integral operator with kernel $k(x,y)=\frac{1}{x}\mathbf1_{(0,x)}(y)$. The problem is that $k$ is not even in $L^2(0,\infty)^2$. Thus, the usual bound $\|Tf\|_2\leq \|k\|_2\cdot \|f\|_2$ does not work. Hence I am not even sure why the operator is well-defined.
I.e. why is $Tf$ even in $L^2(0,\infty)$? And how might we show continuity/non-compactness?
A:
Let $\def\norm#1{\left\|#1\right\|_{L^2}}f \in L^2(0,\infty)$. We have
\begin{align*}
\norm{Tf}^2 &= \def\abs#1{\left|#1\right|}\int_0^\infty \frac 1{x^2} \abs{\int_0^x f(y)\, dy}^2 \, dx\\
&\le \int_0^\infty \frac 1{x^2}\left(\int_0^x y^{1/4}y^{-1/4}\abs{f(y)}\, dy\right)^2 \, dx \\
&\le \int_0^\infty \frac 1{x^2} \left[\left( \int_0^x y^{-1/2}\, dy\right)^{1/2}\left(\int_0^x y^{1/2}\abs{f(y)}^2 \, dy\right)^{1/2}\right]^2 \, dx\\
&= \int_0^\infty \frac {2x^{1/2}}{x^2} \int_0^x y^{1/2}\abs{f(y)}^2 \, dy\, dx\\
&= \int_0^\infty \int_y^\infty \frac 2{x^{3/2}} \, dx\cdot y^{1/2}\abs{f(y)}^2 \, dy\\
&= \int_0^\infty \frac 4{y^{1/2}} \cdot y^{1/2}\abs{f(y)}^2\, dy\\
&= 4 \norm f^2
\end{align*}
Hence, $\norm{Tf}\le 2\norm f$, proving the continuity of $T$.
To see that $T$ is not compact, let $f_n := n^{1/2} \chi_{[0,1/n]}$, then $\norm{f_n} = 1$ and
$$ \norm{Tf_n - Tf_m}^2 \ge \int_0^{1/m} (m^{1/2} - n^{1/2})^2\, dx = \left(1 - \left(\frac nm\right)^{1/2}\right)^2 $$
So $(Tf_n)$ does not have a convergent subsequence.
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SAN JOSE (KCBS) – A photographer snapping pictures for engineering company at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center wound up admitted to the hospital’s emergency room Thursday after she suffered a fall while working at a new wing under construction.
The photographer somehow lost her footing on the top floor of a 2-story building and fell down into a gap with an adjacent building, according to fire officials.
“The distance was somewhere between 12 feet and 15 feet,” said Capt. Mary Gutierrez, spokeswoman for the San Jose Fire Department.
The victim was conscious and alert when firefighters arrived. Gutierrez said the rescue involved loading her on a stretcher that had to be fed through a window.
The photographer arrived at the emergency room in stable condition
Cal-OSHA is investigating the accident.
(Copyright 2011 by CBS San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.) | Pile |
Shuffle, Geek and Pong: Copenhagen’s Bar Games
20 abr. 2017
Danes are a bit obsessed with playing games, especially when they’re drinking. We take a tour of the city’s light distractions.
Shuffleboard is all about exactitude and strategy - something that, while drinking in a bar, resonates with the Danish mentality. Go figure. The goal here is to score by sliding discs to precise points on the opposite side of the board - and to prevent your opponent from doing the same. The rules are simple and you can play in singles or doubles, making it a splendidly sociable activity. The biggest and best shuffleboard spot in Copenhagen is at the Generator Hostel. If you’re so inclined, you can follow up a session by tussling with the locals at the Petanque Bar and Terrace, which is right next door.
Generator Copenhagen’s shuffleboard is of epic proportions
The Pétanque Bar and Terrace
This is the first permanent Pétanque spot in the whole of Denmark. ‘Boules’, as the game is also known, is of course most often thought of as the sort of pursuit favoured by a more mature crowd - and usually of the French variety. But, like everything in this young, design savvy city CPH does Pétanque a little differently. Here the game is about drinking and socialising as much as it is competition. Spend an evening at the Generator rooftop knocking back a few drinks and you’ll guffaw at the many references to ‘messing about with balls’. The Danish not only love their beers and bar games - they also cherish their uniquely knockabout sense of humour.
Generator Copenhagen hosts one of the nicest lounges in town…
Ping-pong, drinking and dancing go together like strawberries, chocolate and cream
Dupong Klub & Bar
In Dupong you can sip, sweat and socialise, all while bonding over balls. Deep down, Danes love to mingle. The thing is... they won’t compromise their cool exteriors by cheerfully approaching random strangers apropos of nothing. That's why they are so good at creating bar games. They’re the perfect excuse to make contact. Dupong Klub & Bar is a great example. The joint opened in 2013 with a ping-pong table in the middle of the room. Socialising while working out - and at the same time enjoying a drink - is a concept that suits the Danish wonderfully well. Once you've had your fill of stunning serves and drop shots, you can chill in Dupong’s basement with some classy cocktails or go clubbing with the new buddies you’ve made across the table.
Games nights at the Bastard are more hygge than you would imagine
Bastard Café
You thought Danish people were nice, right? They are. Don’t be fooled by the name of this place. In fact, no spot in Copenhagen better embodies the Danish concept of hygge than Bastard Café. And it’s a nice bar, too. There are over 1,200 board games to choose from, with tables occupied by everyone from rank beginners to aficionados and even creators of the games themselves. In this self-confessed Mecca for boardgame geeks, resident ‘Game Gurus’ are on hand to help you choose the perfect board game while weekly event nights help keep things fresh. In ‘The Monday Match-Up’, for example, gurus select strangers to play together. ‘Serious Sunday’ is, meanwhile, reserved for the hardcore regulars. Get down to Bastard if the idea of travelling to worldwide game expos gets your geek juices flowing.
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The effectiveness of a pain and anxiety protocol to treat the acute pediatric burn patient.
This retrospective review of 286 acute pediatric burn survivors treated in 2001 evaluated the effectiveness of a pharmacotherapeutic protocol for pain, anxiety, and itching. Background pain, procedural pain, exercise pain, anxiety, incidence of acute stress disorder (ASD), and itch were measured with standardized instruments. When this review was compared to similar reviews done in 1993-1994 and 1998, a steady trend toward using more potent pain medications in this patient population is evident. While the use of acetaminophen alone decreased from 50.6% of patients in 1993-1994 and 26.3% in 1998 to 7.3% in 2001, the use of opiates increased from 44.8% in 1993-1994 and 66.9% in 1998 to 81.3% of patients in 2001. Likewise, the use of benzodiazepines for anxiety has increased from 59.8% in 1998 to 77.5% of patients in 2001. During that same period the incidence of ASD decreased from 12.1% in 1993-1994 to 8.7% of patients in 2001. For effective pain and anxiety management, the average administered dose of lorazepam and morphine also increased, providing impetus to revise the pharmacotherapeutic pain protocol. Having a standard pain protocol furnishes a framework for periodic review and facilitates updating of pain and anxiety treatment practices. | Pile |
Autosite
Autosite can mean:
the independent twin of a pair of conjoined twins where the other twin is a parasitic twin
a website about cars | Pile |
New Zealand to provide higher security
New Zealand will increase security at the grounds for the rest of India's tour after a bottle-throwing incident during the second Twenty20 international in Wellington.
Play was interrupted briefly twice during the final over of New Zealand's chase when a plastic bottle thrown from the crowd landed near a fielder.
"New Zealand Cricket [NZC] is fully committed to providing a high level of security, and I have given my assurance to the Indian team that increased security will be in place for the upcoming [ODI] series," NZC chief executive Justin Vaughan told AFP. "This type of incident is unfortunate, especially in such an exciting and close game as we saw last night. Fortunately it does not occur often."
The measures to step up security will include more staff, higher visibility of personnel in potential problem areas and closer monitoring of the crowd. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Indian captain, said he hoped such incidents would not happen in the one-dayers.
"When you're playing at the top level you don't really want bottles to be thrown at you," Dhoni told the Herald on Sunday. "A cricket ball is hard enough to hit you and hurt you so you don't want bottles flying all over. It happens - it's like a disease and it spreads. That's one area where they need to put in more of an effort, especially from the security point of view."
The New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori played down the incident. "Noisy crowds are part of the Twenty20 game and add to the excitement of the occasion. They don't usually distract the players, we're pretty focused on what's happening in the middle. Incidents like last night are disappointing but they do happen in grounds all around the world."
New Zealand won the second Twenty20 international off the final ball to win the series 2-0. The five-ODI series kicks off on March 3 in Napier. | Pile |
Could someone please tell me if traders, say in the London futures 'daytime trading' market, which opens at 3 AM Eastern Time have to post the full initial margin amount ($4375 USD) for each contract because it is after-hours with respect to the US futures market (9:30 AM to 4:15 PM)? In other words, is it only during US RFTH that reduced margin requirements (like $400/ES contract) can be in effect?
US RFTH (regular futures trading hours) are from 9:30 AM till 4:15 PM ET. As we all know, during that time one can daytrade futures and pay as little as $400/contract. Are you saying that as far as you know, anytime outside that time frame, all over the world, the full margin price per ES contract (currently $4375 USD) must be paid?
US RFTH (regular futures trading hours) are from 9:30 AM till 4:15 PM ET. As we all know, during that time one can daytrade futures and pay as little as $400/contract. Are you saying that as far as you know, anytime outside that time frame, all over the world, the full margin price per ES contract (currently $4375 USD) must be paid?
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Not exactly.You must pay the full margin only to get over settlement hour which is at 3:45 pm est and to hold over days weeks etc.You can use intraday margin which is 400-500$ at ETH Globex starting from 4:15 pm est till 3:45 pm est next day- almost 24 hrs.
So then when one looks at the overseas/overnights and observes not infrequently, a volume increase at 3 AM ET, it may well be someone buying ES contracts at something less than $4375 USD/contract. Correct?
If we move Stateside, then if one is flat at the end of RFTH for Day 1, then, if your broker permits it, one can buy a contract for Day 2 (after 4:15 PM ET) at something less than $4375 USD/contract. Correct? | Pile |
FK-League
The FK-League () is the top league for futsal clubs in South Korea. It is organized by Korea Futsal League from 2010-11 season.
Clubs
Men
Busan Kappa FC
Chungbuk Jecheon FS
Daejeon IFC
Dream Hub Gunsan FS
Fantasia Bucheon FS
FITF
Jeonju MAG FC
FS Seoul
Seoul Eunpyeong FS
Seoul Gwangjin FC
Yes Gumi FS
Yongin FS
Former clubs
Gyeongju Soonwoo FC
Daegu Osung FC
Women
Busan Kappa WFC
Daejeon Blue-i
Yongin Ladies FS
FS Hornets
Jeonbuk Gimje Philos WFC
FS Seoul Ladies
List of champions
References
External links
Official Website
Facebook
Category:Futsal in South Korea
Category:Football leagues in South Korea
South Korea
Category:Sports leagues established in 2009
Category:2009 establishments in South Korea | Pile |
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a mat which is laid on the seat of a chair.
2. Description of the Prior Art
When a man is standing, the spinal column forms a gentle S-shaped curve to suspend the internal organs, and the pelvis has an appropriate angle to support the spinal column in its appropriately curved form. If he sits on a chair, therefore, the pelvis fails to maintain its appropriate angle and the spinal column also ceases to maintain its appropriately curved shape. As a result, he stoops forwards, as shown in FIG. 3.
If he keeps a stooping posture for a long time, he will have a number of problems, as will hereinafter be stated:
(1) He may suffer from loss of appetite, or indigestion, as pressure bears upon the internal organs; PA1 (2) He may lose concentration as a result of a reduction in the amount of blood carried to the brain and thereby the amount of nourishment and oxygen carried thereto; and PA1 (3) He may suffer from lumbago, since when he is seated, the lumbar region of his back receives nearly twice as heavy a load as when he is standing.
A special chair has, therefore, been proposed to overcome those problems. It is constructed as shown in FIG. 5, and comprises a forwardly and downwardly inclined seat and a knee rest which is positioned below and forwardly of the seat and is backwardly and downwardly inclined. Because of its special construction, however, this chair is expensive and is not necessarily suitable for common use in an office, or like place. | Pile |
// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.
#ifndef COMPONENTS_VIZ_TEST_FAKE_EXTERNAL_BEGIN_FRAME_SOURCE_H_
#define COMPONENTS_VIZ_TEST_FAKE_EXTERNAL_BEGIN_FRAME_SOURCE_H_
#include <set>
#include "base/cancelable_callback.h"
#include "base/memory/weak_ptr.h"
#include "base/sequence_checker.h"
#include "components/viz/common/frame_sinks/begin_frame_args.h"
#include "components/viz/common/frame_sinks/begin_frame_source.h"
namespace base {
class TickClock;
} // namespace base
namespace viz {
class FakeExternalBeginFrameSource : public BeginFrameSource {
public:
class Client {
public:
virtual void OnAddObserver(BeginFrameObserver* obs) = 0;
virtual void OnRemoveObserver(BeginFrameObserver* obs) = 0;
};
explicit FakeExternalBeginFrameSource(double refresh_rate,
bool tick_automatically);
~FakeExternalBeginFrameSource() override;
void SetClient(Client* client) { client_ = client; }
void SetPaused(bool paused);
// BeginFrameSource implementation.
void AddObserver(BeginFrameObserver* obs) override;
void RemoveObserver(BeginFrameObserver* obs) override;
void DidFinishFrame(BeginFrameObserver* obs) override;
bool IsThrottled() const override;
void OnGpuNoLongerBusy() override {}
BeginFrameArgs CreateBeginFrameArgs(
BeginFrameArgs::CreationLocation location);
BeginFrameArgs CreateBeginFrameArgs(BeginFrameArgs::CreationLocation location,
const base::TickClock* now_src);
uint64_t next_begin_frame_number() const { return next_begin_frame_number_; }
void TestOnBeginFrame(const BeginFrameArgs& args);
size_t num_observers() const { return observers_.size(); }
using BeginFrameSource::RequestCallbackOnGpuAvailable;
private:
void PostTestOnBeginFrame();
const bool tick_automatically_;
const double milliseconds_per_frame_;
Client* client_ = nullptr;
bool paused_ = false;
BeginFrameArgs current_args_;
uint64_t next_begin_frame_number_ = BeginFrameArgs::kStartingFrameNumber;
std::set<BeginFrameObserver*> observers_;
base::CancelableOnceClosure begin_frame_task_;
SEQUENCE_CHECKER(sequence_checker_);
base::WeakPtrFactory<FakeExternalBeginFrameSource> weak_ptr_factory_{this};
};
} // namespace viz
#endif // COMPONENTS_VIZ_TEST_FAKE_EXTERNAL_BEGIN_FRAME_SOURCE_H_
| Pile |
C93FM
C93FM was a New Zealand radio station based in Christchurch.
C93FM broadcast on 92.9 FM and, after it merged with Radio Avon, also broadcast on 1260 AM. C93FM has had several music formats during its time on the air. In 1989 the station was rebranded as 93FM Gold and in 1990 93FM Classic Hits. Then in 1991 the station reverted to C93FM with a new logo and playing classic rock and continued to play Classic Rock until 1999 when the station was changed to an Adult Contemporary music format.
Originally C93FM was an independent station operated by a company of the same name C93FM Limited, the company also operated a second station Easy Listening i94.5 until 1997. The Radio Network made two attempts to purchase C93FM Limited in March and May 1997; however both were rejected by the Commerce Commission on the basis that they would give the company a dominant position in the Christchurch Radio Market. Instead C93FM and Easy Listening i were sold to Radio Otago, Easy Listening i94 became Lite FM in 1998.
Following the sale of C93FM Limited to Radio Otago C93FM was started in Dunedin by rebranding local rock station 93Rox as C93FM. The Dunedin-based C93FM was then networked to Invercargill on 90.8FM and was originally branded as C91FM, on air the announcers simply called the station "Classic Rock." Later in 1998 C91FM in Invercargill became known as C93FM.
In 1999 Radio Otago was sold to the Radioworks and in Invercargill and Dunedin C93FM was replaced with network station The Rock. The Rock was also networked into Christchurch at the same time broadcasting on 93.7FM and as a result the format of C93FM was changed to an Adult Contemporary Format. Also the original 1260AM frequency used by C93 was replaced with Solid Gold as there were no other FM frequencies for Solid Gold to broadcast on at the time. The changes made to C93FM were not popular, and the station failed to attract new listeners as a result. C93FM went off the air in April 2001 and the 92.9FM frequency was taken over by Solid Gold, which later became The Sound in 2012, changing back to a classic rock format. Solid Gold also kept the 1260AM frequency until 2005 when it was used by Radio Pacific.
Sources
Decision No. 294 Commerce Commission, Wellington New Zealand, 1997.
Category:Radio stations in Christchurch
Category:Defunct radio stations in New Zealand | Pile |
With the bulk of broadcast pilots picked up, the networks and studios are already busy drawing up their casting wish lists and sending out offers to their top picks. As usual, there are a few names that keep cropping up. Showtime Raking in early offers this year are The Leftovers, Fargo and The Sinner alumna Carrie Coon, former Masters of Sex star Lizzy Caplan, Billions‘ Malin Akerman & Salvation lead Santiago Cabrera. Akerman co-stars on the Showtime drama series Billions as Lara, wife of Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis). The network confirmed to Deadline that her deal has been adjusted to enable her to pursue other series. She will no longer be a series regular but will continue to recur on Billions. CBC/SundanceTV Also fielding multiple offers are Morena Baccarin, who is wrapping the final season of Gotham, The Walking Dead and Colony alumna Sarah Wayne Callies, former Lost star Matthew Fox, veteran Jimmy Smits, The Good Wife’s Josh Charles and Daredevil/The Punisher‘s Deborah Ann Woll. It has now become regular practice for big-name actors to do sign one-year deals for broadcast series, making them available for pilots more frequently. That is currently the case with Sela Ward and Kelsey Grammer who both are fielding interest. They are one-season series regulars on freshman dramas FBI and Proven Innocent, respectively.
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Also getting early offers are David Duchovny, Orange Is the New Black standout Uzo Aduba, It’s Always Sunny and The Mick’s Kaitlin Olson, Andy Garcia, former Suburgatory star Jane Levy, Kerry Bishe (Halt and Catch Fire), Allison Tolman (Fargo), How To Get Away with Murder‘s Alfred Enoch, Rosemarie DeWitt, New Girl alum Jake Johnson, Ari Graynor (I’m Dying Up Here), Rose Byrne, Josh Gad, Ramon Rodriguez, Tron‘s Garrett Hedlund, Gotham’s Donal Logue, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Walton Goggins, Girls’ Allison Williams, Elementary star Lucy Liu and Topher Grace.
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The leading ladies of several successful shows that recently ended their runs are being courted to return to series TV, The Americans‘ Keri Russell, Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany, New Girl’s Zooey Deschanel and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt‘s Ellie Kemper.
With The Big Bang Theory coming to an end, co-star Melissa Rauch is being approached for pilots, with others, including Kaley Cuoco, also being talked about.
NBC
Meanwhile, three How I Met Your Mother alums are on pilot directors’ radar this year, Neil Patrick Harris, coming off Netflix’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Cobie Smulders and Cristin Milioti.
In another tradition, every pilot season, TV networks and studios go after movie stars, trying to lure them to do a broadcast series.
It usually is a long shot but here are some of the names getting attention this year: Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Kate Hudson, Crazy Rich Asians breakout Henry Golding, Hilary Swank perennial pilot casting directors’ favorite Kevin Kline, Anne Hathaway, Rooney Mara and Michael Keaton.
Additionally, mentioned as possibilities this season are Jon Hamm, Bobby Cannavale, Josh Duhamel, Kylie Bunbury, Rosa Salazar Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Boyd Holbrook. | Pile |
Had version 2.x (from GIMP 2.6.12) but it would crash, so I did a search and found that you updated for 2.7. Unfortunately your 2.7 version is not compatible with 2.8 (at least not the 64-bit version of GIMP). I get the error below. :)
Never got a response back unfortunately. Not gooat Script-fu, but might look at it to see where it's crashing and maybe fix it but more then likely I'll ask for help from the script-fu heavyweights here if Miran doesn't address the issue since it might have gotten abandoned. I like low frequency even and miss not having it (not for seamless texture but for HDR effects). :)
Runs further Saul, but still, as filsd indicated, still has issues. I did try to run Script-fu terminal to debug but it wouldn't open in terminal (just goes to show how novice I am to Script-fu; lol). :) | Pile |
Q:
Altium: can not remove or change black rectangle in panelization
I have a panelized pcb in altium. Opening it, a black rectangle shows in the background, as you can see in this picture:
The rectangle has no relation with the panelized pcb.
I want to remove it, or at least change its size, because if I print the pcb, it shows up, as you can see here:
I found this question and I tried to disable rooms, but it appears didn't help, so I guess it is not a room.
I also tried unchecking every item in the PCB printout properties dialog, and also tried hiding all the layers, but the rectangle is still there.
I didn't designed the pcb or its panelization, I just need to obtain a pdf for documentation and the rectangle makes the image unclear and ugly, so I'd like to remove it.
I appreciate any hint.
Thanks,
A:
I believe that is the default board set up by Altium. In order to change its size and/or shape, press the "1" key (to switch to board view) and go to Design-> Edit Board Shape as @brhans suggested. You should be able to change the shape from there. Make sure you leave some material around the outside--The manufacturer needs to be able to route out around your boards in order for them to be broken out of the panel. Generally I recommend leaving about 1/2 inch if you can. Check your manufacturer to see what board size they recommend and go from there.
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Time-frequency decomposition of click evoked otoacoustic emissions in children.
Determining the time-frequency distributions of click-evoked otoacoustic emissions (CEOAEs) are scientifically and clinically relevant because of their relationship with cochlear mechanisms. This study investigated the time-frequency properties of CEOAEs in 5-10 year old children. In the first part, we examined the feasibility of the S transform to characterize the time-frequency features of CEOAEs. A synthetic signal with known gammatones was analyzed using the S transform, as well as a wavelet transform with the basis function used traditionally for CEOAE analysis. The S and wavelet transforms provided similar representations of the gammatones of the synthetic signal in the mid and high frequencies. However, the S transform yielded a slightly more precise time-frequency representation at low frequencies (500 and 707 Hz). In the second part, we applied the S transform to compare the time-frequency distribution of CEOAEs between adults and children. Several confounding variables, such as spontaneous emissions and potential efferent effects from the use of higher click rates, were considered for obtaining reliable CEOAE recordings. The results revealed that the emission level, level versus frequency plot, latency, and latency versus frequency plot in 5-10 year old children are adult-like. The time-frequency characteristics of CEOAEs in 5-10 year old children are consistent with the maturation of various aspects of cochlear mechanics, including the basal to apical transition. In sum, the description of the time-frequency features in children and the use of the S transform to decompose CEOAEs, are novel aspects of this study. The S transform can be used as an alternative approach to characterize the time-frequency distribution of CEOAEs. | Pile |
Tag Archives: national family caregivers month
November is National Family Caregivers Month. The National PACE Association says this year’s theme is “Caregiving Around the Clock.” If you’ve been a caregiver, you wholeheartedly agree with that theme!
AlzAuthors has two exciting promotions going on to mark the special month. First, the group of Alzheimer’s authors has released an anthology, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregiving Stories, featuring the personal stories of 58 AlzAuthors contributors. I am honored to be one of the contributors. The book will be released Nov. 7.
AlzAuthors is recognizing and honor family caregivers of those with dementia across the country by hosting a book sale and giveaway. The eBook sale will run from Nov. 7-Nov. 13. Books will range in price from free to $2.99, to help those on limited budgets access worthy books that can help them on their own caregiving journeys.
My book, The Reluctant Caregiver, will be on sale for just 99 cents during the promotion. The award-winning collection of personal essays offers a nontraditional view of family caregiving, and includes several essays about the challenges of caring for those with dementia.
Before November slips away, I want to recognize that this is National Family Caregivers Month. I love this year’s theme: “Take Care to Give Care.” Supporting family caregivers is something I believe strongly in, and I am grateful I have the opportunity to give back.
My development of the Respite Care Share concept continues, and I’m working on the poster presentation that will take place at the 2017 Aging in America conference. Along the way, I’ve met many dedicated family caregiver advocates. We have a long ways to go, but as with most things, a grassroots-level, community-based approach will generate quicker results than waiting for government action.
The Caregiver Action Network offers good tips for family caregivers on managing their own health.
Stress: Family caregivers often face a tremendous amount of stress, yet ignore their own mental and physical health. I was certainly guilty of this when I was a caregiver. It’s important to take steps to minimize and manage stress, and promptly address any health issues that arise.
Healthy lifestyle: It’s easy to throw out healthy habits like a nutritious diet and regular exercise when you are overwhelmed with family caregiving duties. But a poor diet and sedentary lifestyle can make one feel sluggish, and more vulnerable to experiencing health consequences from stress. There was a walking trail adjacent to my mother’s condo, so I went almost daily for walks, which helped relieve stress.
“Rest. Recharge. Respite.” I love this mantra from the Caregiver Action Network. My sleep was disrupted every day when I was caregiving for my mother, and there was no way to avoid that (leaking colostomy bags always seem to occur at 3 a.m. and will not wait!), but I tried to make sure I got a set amount of hours of sleep each day. I did take breaks when Mom was stable enough, and that really helped.
A big thank you to all of the family caregivers out there, who are facing another hectic holiday season. There are many people focused on providing greater support for family caregivers, so don’t give up hope. | Pile |
Africans and the myth of rural retirement in South Africa, ca 1900-1950.
The South African mining industry relied upon a massive African migrant workforce from the rural areas. Rural transformations in this migrant labor system form an important part of the story of developing capitalism in industrializing South Africa. Yet, recent historical studies on southern African migrant and rural wage labor have paid little attention to life adjustments made by the elderly and those 'burned out' by the mines and forced to leave formal wage employment in the urban areas. The South African segregationist state's rhetoric implied that 'retired' Africans could find economic security in their designated rural reserves. Indeed, legislation sought to prohibit Africans who were not employed from remaining in the 'white' urban areas. By the 1930s, however, the reserves were rapidly deteriorating. Many elderly Africans could not retire and were forced to seek wage labor. This raises significant questions about how retirement came to be defined and experienced by Africans in South Africa during a critical period of dramatic economic decline in the 1930s and 40s, and what the underlying material circumstances of African South Africans were with regard to adaptations to employment and ageing-related life changes. In many cases, elderly Africans were forced to forgo retirement, and find wage labor, usually in the most poorly paid, least sought-after or dangerous fields of employment. This article thus seeks to illuminate critical generational dimensions of the impact of segregation and racism in South Africa prior to the formal articulation of Apartheid. | Pile |
Steve Nash
The newest exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is more than 1,000 years in the making. The exhibit takes visitors on a journey through the ancient trade route from China to the Roman Empire.
Corey Brewer matched his career high with 27 points and the Denver Nuggets overcame a 40-point effort by Kobe Bryant to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 126-114 on Wednesday night for their seventh straight win at home.
The news everyone in the NBA is talking about this month is the Lakers’ acquisition of Dwight Howard, but it’s actually another Lakers offseason development Nuggets head coach George Karl just can’t seem to forget. | Pile |
Q:
How to translate token names in bison
I have a bison parser that works sufficiently well for my purpose. It even prints localized error messages. But the token names are not translated. Looking at the source code I found, that I can use define YY_ to my own gettext function and pass YY_ to gettext in order to provide my own translation of the error messages. But this does not work for token names.
Is there some switch or hidden feature that I could use to extract the token names from the parser and to translate them?
So far I found yytnamerr which could be overridden to format the token names. As it does more than just reformat names I don't like to touch this function, as I would have to sync it with the progress of Bison. On the other hand, I need also a way to extract the token names from the parser in order to add them to the language definition file.
How do you implement user friendly error reporting with Bison?
A:
If you specify %token-table, then bison will generate the yytname table. This table includes all bison symbols, including internal symbols ($end, $error and $undefined), terminals -- named, single-quoted characters and double-quoted strings -- and non-terminals, which include also the generated names for mid-rule actions.
With yytname visible, it's easy to extract the tokens in a format recognizable by the gettext package. For example, you could add to your .y file something like this:
#ifdef MAKE_TOKEN
int main(void) {
puts("#include <libintl.h>");
puts("#include <stdio.h>");
puts("int main() {");
for (const char* const* p = yytname; *p; ++p) {
// See Note 1 below
printf(" printf(\"%%s: %%s\\n\", \"%s\", gettext (\"%s\"));\n", *p, *p);
}
puts("}");
}
#endif
and then add a stanza to your Makefile (making appropriate substitutions for file names):
messages.pot: my_parser.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DMAKE_TOKEN -o token_lister $<
./token_lister > my_parser.tokens.c
# See Note 2 below
$(CC) -o my_parser.tokens my_parser.tokens.c
xgettext -o $@ my_parser.tokens.c
Once you have the translations, you still need to figure out how to use them, since bison does not offer an interface for inserting translated token names into its generated error messages. Probably the simplest way is to insert the translations directly into yytname by iterating through that array and substituting each token name with its translation (that would have to be done at parser startup). That presents the annoyance that yytname is declared const by the bison skeleton; however, a very simple sed or awk invocation can be used to remove the offending const. [Note 3]
Having said that, it's not at all clear to me that these automatically generated error messages are "user friendly", unless the user is surprisingly familiar with the language's formal grammar. And a user who is familiar with the grammar might well prefer the original token name, in order to find it in the grammar, rather than a non-expert translation which only coincidentally resembles the original concept. Not that I'm pointing fingers at anyone in particular.
You might enjoy this fascinating essay by Russ Cox, about how he implemented actually friendly error messages for Go.
NOTES:
The direct use of the token name in a C string won't work in the case of the tokens whose representation includes a " or a \. In particular, any keyword token ("and" or "<=") will fail, as will the single character tokens '"' and '\\'. These don't show up very often in grammars; if you're substituting internationalized keywords in your scanner, you're very unlikely to use bison's quoted string feature at all.
If you do want to use such tokens, you'll have to output code for the gettext generator which escapes " and \ characters in the token name.
Actually, it would be better to use several stanzas, but that one is enough to get you going, I think. You probably want to mark some or all of the intermediate results as .INTERMEDIATE. The generated executable my_parser.tokens can be used to verify the translations, but that's totally optional, so you might want to remove that line. On the other hand, it does verify that the strings are compilable.
See Russ Cox's gc (link provided above) for an example. His Makefile modifies the bison output to remove the const from yytname, so that the generated parser can substitute his preferred token names for error messages, so you can see the general idea at work.
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Is egghead.io down? - Philomath
https://egghead.io/courses
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Nevermind, they fixed it!
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Flat Roof Company Northvale NJ
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Gutter Systems Bergen County NJ
At Leaf Free Home Improvements we additionally supply expert installation if you’re looking for a leaffree gutter in Bergen County NJ. Never underestimate how essential your gutters are in terms of safeguarding your property from water damage. We offer residential and commercial services for installing gutters that won’t only be premium quality, but will be easy to maintain. There is no need to turn anywhere else when you’re in need of leaffree gutter guards in Northvale NJ. | Pile |
Another pipe dream crumbles for Toronto's crack-smoking mayor
Toronto's mayor Rob Ford, the world's most likely reality television star, is a star no longer.
Another pipe dream crumbles for Toronto's crack-smoking mayor
After just one painful episode onCanada's struggling Sun News Network, the station called it quits.The show, brought in approximately 155,000 viewers Monday evening - the highest amount that network had ever seen. It featured the mayor and his loyal brother repeating talking point after talking point and then taking some questions.The episode apparently took five hours to shoot, and another eight hours to edit, making it incredibly expensive to produce.There's also that whole problem of people getting tired of seeing ...
Missy Franklin, Jenny Simpson, Adeline Gray and three other Colorado women could be big players at the 2016 Rio OlympicsWhen people ask Missy Franklin for her thoughts about the Summer Olympics that will begin a year from Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, she hangs a warning label on her answer. | Pile |
Racked by scandal, can Japan's most traditional sport keep up with the times?
Apparently, gambling and organized crime have become as entrenched in sumo wrestling culture as topknots and obesity.
Police investigated allegations of match fixing in which 13 senior wrestlers have been implicated.
It follows another scandal over illegal gambling last year which saw live television coverage of the sport dropped by national broadcaster NHK.
Dozens of sumo wrestlers and their managers have admitted to betting on baseball games, mah jong, cards, and golf through gambling rings organized by the Japanese mafia. The Yakuza allegedly take a even more hands-on approach: sponsoring wrestlers and even positioning themselves in front-row seats at matches to communicate with their members in prison.
The scandals that periodically rip through the Japanese media are efforts to rectify outrageous excess within the sumo organization and indeed the Japanese bureaucracy, but they do nothing to address the structural corruption that is the normal state of affairs. It’s a genteel, smoothly organized, even institutionalized, form of corruption, so endemic as to be called “structural” and thus not usually seen as corruption as we ordinarily understand it.
Sumo has its origins in religious rites and wrestlers are expected to observe a strict code of behavior. | Pile |
Q:
Difference between two rows in MySQL Workbench, but LAG is not authorized
I have a dataset as in this example :
id | product_id | date | weight
1 | 454 |2019-06-26 16:08:45| 900
2 | 454 |2019-06-27 13:24:16| 900
3 | 454 |2019-06-28 10:53:42| 899
4 | 352 |2018-04-18 10:53:42| 124
5 | 352 |2018-04-19 15:26:51| 124
6 | 112 |2019-12-08 11:44:01| 065
7 | 375 |2020-03-15 08:23:43| 483
8 | 375 |2020-03-15 18:07:33| 496
9 | 375 |2020-03-16 14:32:24| 496
And I would like to get only the rows that have a weight different from the previous one or different from the next one. In the case of the example the expected output is :
id | product_id | date | weight
2 | 454 |2019-06-27 13:24:16| 900
3 | 454 |2019-06-28 10:53:42| 899
7 | 375 |2020-03-15 08:23:43| 483
8 | 375 |2020-03-15 18:07:33| 496
However, I have only reading permissions on this database, so the LAG() function does not work. What other options do I have?
A:
SELECT id
,product_id
,date
,weight
FROM
(
SELECT t.id
,t.product_id
,t.date
,t.weight
,(SELECT weight FROM table WHERE product_id = t.product_id AND date < t.date ORDER BY date LIMIT 1) AS prev_weight
,(SELECT weight FROM table WHERE product_id = t.product_id AND date > t.date ORDER BY date LIMIT 1) AS next_weight
FROM table AS t
) AS t1
WHERE weight <> prev_weight OR weight <> next_weight
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Interleukin-6 and soluble interleukin-6 receptor in peritoneal fluid and serum of patients with endometriosis.
Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and soluble Interleukin-6-receptor (sIL-6R) concentrations were investigated in patients with endometriosis and other benign gynecologic diseases. During laparoscopy or laparotomy peritoneal fluid and serum were collected from 29 patients with endometriosis, 31 patients with benign ovarian masses and 4 patients with chronic inflammation or adhesions. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) concentrations were determined by Elisa-technique. Patients with endometriosis stage IV revealed slightly higher IL-6 concentrations in peritoneal fluid when compared to patients with stage I to II disease and ovarian masses/ chronic inflammation. IL-6 serum concentrations were higher in case of stage I and II when compared to stage III and IV and ovarian masses/chronic inflammation. Patients with endometriosis revealed significantly higher sIL-6 receptor concentrations in peritoneal fluid and serum as compared to patients with ovarian cysts and chronic inflammation. IL-6 and soluble IL-6 receptor may be considered to be involved in endometriosis. However, the patho-physiologic mechanism must be the subject of further investigation. | Pile |
This is part one of a six-part series updating listeners on Year of Polygamy, a year after the final episode wrapped up.Links mentioned in this podcast: | Pile |
Latest Bitcoin News
Aside from Bakkt, the never-ending wait for US SEC to comment or even approve Bitcoin ETF, the crypto and Bitcoin sphere is bereft of market-moving news. True, there are essential updates from time to time and what dominates right now is Overstock plans of “paying” their commercial activity taxes (CAT) using Bitcoin in the US State of Ohio.
In a statement, the founder of Overstock, Patrick M. Byrne said:
“The Company is proud to partner with forward-thinking governments and officials like Ohio and Treasurer Mandel to help usher in an era of trust through technology for our nation’s essential financial systems.”
By working with a crypto payment processor, BitPay, Ohio became the first US state to embrace cryptocurrency allowing businesses to pay for 16 types of taxes by first liquidating their Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash stash at BitPay.
WHOA. The state of Ohio has decided to accept Bitcoin as a payment option for taxes. The virus is spreading ? — Pomp ? (@APompliano) November 25, 2018
Josh Mandel, the Treasurer at the State of Ohio and the chief agitator credited for making this possible applauded Overstock saying:
“Overstock is the first national brand in America to register to pay taxes via cryptocurrency. Their embrace of blockchain technology was ahead of its time, and we’re proud to have them join OhioCrypto.com.”
Payments are via the OhioCrypto.com, a platform that fast-tracks payment of state taxes. For clarity, the state doesn’t handle any crypto payments and BitPay like any third-party processor will sell the BTC for USD after charging a small fee.
Bitcoin (BTC) Price Analysis
At spot prices, BTC is up five percent against the USD but is struggling to edge higher in the daily chart. As mentioned in previous BTC/USD trade plans, we shall retain a bullish outlook in the near term but bearish when we take a top-down approach. It’s easy to see why BTC has been in a downtrend for the last 12 months.
Furthermore, the pair is trading within a bear breakout pattern with clear barriers at $6,000. Therefore, the level is of interest in our analysis and the only trigger for higher highs is if prices break above $4,500 in sync with our previous iterations.
Only then will there be trend continuation confirming higher highs of mid-late Dec 2018–when prices rallied from $3,220 to $4,400. If not and BTC prices drop below Dec 28 lows, then we might see further depreciation towards 2018 lows.
Our BTC/USD trade plan is as follows:
Buy: $4,100, $4,500
Stop: $3,700, $4,000
Target: $4,500, $6,000
All Charts Courtesy of Trading View
Disclaimer: Views and opinions expressed are those of the author and aren’t investment advice. Trading of any form involves risk and so do your due diligence before making a trading decision. | Pile |
Nativ is a home audio system that you control with a touchscreen. No, it's like taking the giant touchscreen control panel out of a Tesla and dropping it in your home. Actually, it's the kind of futuristic-looking thing we always thought we'd be using to control the entertainment in our homes. Wait, no, it's more like taking a tablet, stapling it to a box of PC components, and placing it in a wooden tray.
Of course, it looks nicer than that. But there are some clever ideas here! I'm practically salivating at the idea of a media box with 4TB sitting on my kitchen counter. (Take that, Alexa.) It has something like a dozen ports, supports a suite of high-resolution audio standards (DSD64, DSD128, DSD256, DXD, and PCM up to 32-bit/384kHz), and supposedly has the hardware to back this all up. It's basically an everything box, with support for services like YouTube, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify, and Tidal — all of which can be beamed to your TV via Google Cast. And it looks mercifully different from most current home audio solutions, which — let's face it — are just speakers that come in different shapes and colors.
It's an everything box
Nativ has already blown past its $100,000 goal on Indiegogo, which is great for the company — but isn't necessarily great for potential customers. Crowdfunded startups often run into just as many delays and problems when they find themselves overfunded as they do when they simply match their goal. And even if demand doesn't cripple Nativ, the company has a long road ahead as it tries to please the audiophiles willing to shell out $1,000 or more on this idea. | Pile |
The overall goal of the current research is to develop a novel class of therapeutics that will mitigate mortality and morbidity caused by acute exposure to parathion, an organophosphate insecticide that is considered a high priority chemical threat. The toxicity of parathion is dependent on its metabolism by the cytochrome P450 system to an active metabolite, paraoxon. By inhibiting P450-mediated generation of paraoxon, progressive toxicity can be prevented or reversed. Ongoing research in our laboratory in the field of redox chemistry has led to the identification of a candidate therapeutic that is a highly effective inhibitor of the P450 system. This drug, which has very low toxicity, is currently undergoing advanced clinical trials for other diseases and has been approved by the FDA for other indications. Use of an FDA approved drug will greatly reduce the time required for regulatory approval should the proposed studies demonstrate that our candidate therapeutic is effective in counteracting parathion toxicity. Our studies represent a 'proof-of-principle' proposal designed to generate Preliminary Data on the efficacy of our drug; results from these studies will enable the development of a competitive application for more extensive support from the CounterACT program. Our specific aims are to identify the precise site of action of our drug in the cytochrome P450 system and to test its efficacy in mitigating parathion toxicity in a rodent model. Success of this proposal may lead to the rapid development of a new agent to treat human exposure to a high priority chemical threat. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: There is increasing concern that toxic chemicals could be released by a deliberate terrorist attack, or by accident or natural disaster. One readily obtainable toxic chemical that is considered of particular risk is parathion, an organophosphate insecticide. Parathion is a widely used agricultural chemical that becomes a toxic nerve agent once absorbed into the body where it is metabolized to a reactive metabolite called paraoxon. A major site of action for paraoxon is the enzyme acetylcholinesterase; proper functioning of this enzyme is crucial for normal nerve cell activity and its inhibition can be fatal. There are several treatments for organophosphate poisoning including atropine, a competitive antagonist of acetylcholine, and pralidoxime which binds to organophosphate-inactivated acetylcholinesterase and regenerates the enzyme. Both of these agents have limitations and there remains a pressing need to develop new more efficacious therapies for parathion poisoning. Success of this proposal will lead to the rapid development of a new agent to treat human exposure to a high priority chemical threat. | Pile |
The present disclosure relates to an image forming apparatus having a cover openably/closably provided in a case.
There is an image forming apparatus in which a cover is openably/closably provided in a case so as to become possible to carry out maintenance or the like of the inside of the case.
For example, there is a printer including a lock plate pulled to an initial position by a spring on a cover side, an unlock plate biased to a lock plate side by a torsion spring on a case side and a cover spring opening an unlocked cover. This printer has been configured so that when a release button is depressed, a lock is released and the cover is slightly opened by a resilient force of the cover spring. Thus, a user can easily recognize a cover opening direction.
However, in the above-mentioned printer, it is necessary to provide an exclusive cover spring opening the cover. The above-mentioned printer has a problem that the number of parts related to a cover opening/closing structure increases. | Pile |
Mechanical axis-derived femoral component rotation in extramedullary total knee arthroplasty: a comparison between femoral transverse axis and transepicondylar axis.
Correct rotational alignment of the femoral component is paramount to the success of total knee arthroplasty, but debate continues as to which method is the most reliable. The purpose of this study was to evaluate mechanical axis-derived rotational axis of the femoral component using an extramedullary femoral alignment guide system. Between 2009 and 2010, 60 patients (120 knees) underwent simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty. Postoperative CT scans were performed on all 120 knees. The mechanical axis-derived rotational axis of the femoral component was compared with the surgical transepicondylar axis on CT scans. The femoral component was externally rotated compared with the surgical transepicondylar axis (mean = 1.6°, SD = 2.2°, range: from 4.8° of internal rotation to 7.9° of external rotation). One hundred and nine of the 120 knees (90.8%) were rotated by less than 5° from the surgical transepicondylar axis. All inter-observer observations on CT scans were within a range of ±2.1° and showed no significant differences. Mechanical axis-derived rotational axis of the femoral component was found to be closely related to the surgical transepicondylar axis, to an extent which suggests that the mechanical axis-derived rotational axis could be a new alternative option in determining optimal rotational alignment of the femoral component during total knee arthroplasty. II. | Pile |
First, while Trump’s enthusiastic embrace of protectionism — “trade wars are good, and easy to win” — is a break with generations of U.S. policy, his domestic economic agenda has been pure, orthodox Republican voodoo. That is, it was all based on the belief that cutting taxes on rich people and corporations would have a magical effect on the economy.
But the magic failed, as it always does. The Trump administration repeatedly promised that the 2017 tax cut would produce a huge boom, with long-term growth above 3 percent; nothing like that is happening.
And to the extent that we are seeing growth, it’s being driven by consumer spending. Business investment, which the tax cut was supposed to promote — and which is a key source of demand for U.S. manufacturers — is actually falling.
What’s holding back investment? Many analysts blame Trump’s trade war. His tariffs have the direct effect of disrupting global supply chains on which U.S. producers have come to depend. What’s probably even more important, however, is the uncertainty created by Trump’s erratic actions, which gives both businesses that depend on imports and businesses that compete with imports a strong incentive to put any plans they might have for expansion on hold.
I’d add that Trump’s trade war isn’t the only source of destructive uncertainty. He’s a promoter of crony capitalism across the board, constantly threatening to punish businesses he sees as political enemies while rewarding businesses that do him political or personal favors. So even businesses that aren’t much affected by his trade actions have to wonder whether they’re going to get Christmas presents or a lump of coal, which has to discourage them from making investments that might be devalued by a presidential tweet.
Finally, in many cases Trump’s tariffs on China haven’t benefited U.S. producers; instead, they’ve just shifted the source of imports to other countries, like Vietnam.
Could Trump have been more successful at boosting manufacturing? Well, things might look very different if he had actually followed through on his campaign promises to make big investments in infrastructure, which would have created a lot of sales for U.S. manufacturing.
As it is, however, Trump is presiding over an economy that, despite low unemployment, doesn’t feel like a boom to most Americans. And he has utterly failed in his politically crucial promise to make manufacturing in key swing states great again.
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Q:
Simple division in Java - is this a bug or a feature?
I'm trying this simple calculation in a Java application:
System.out.println("b=" + (1 - 7 / 10));
Obviously I expect the output to be b=0.3, but I actually get b=1 instead.
What?! Why does this happen?
If I write:
System.out.println("b=" + (1 - 0.7));
I get the right result, which is b=0.3.
What's going wrong here?
A:
You're using integer division.
Try 7.0/10 instead.
A:
You've used integers in the expression 7/10, and integer 7 divided by integer 10 is zero.
What you're expecting is floating point division. Any of the following would evaluate the way you expected:
7.0 / 10
7 / 10.0
7.0 / 10.0
7 / (double) 10
A:
Please do not take this as an answer to the question. It is not, but an advice related to exploiting the difference of int and float. I would have put this under a comment except that the answer box allows me to format this comment.
This feature has been used in every respectable programming language since the days of fortran (or earlier) - I must confess I was once a Fortran and Cobol punch card programmer.
As an example, integer division of 10/3 yields integer value 3 since an integer has no facility to hold fractional residual .3333.. .
One of the ways we (old time ancient programmers) had been using this feature is loop control.
Let's say we wish to print an array of 1000 strings, but we wish to insert a line break after every 15th string, to insert some prettyfying chars at the end of the line and at the beginning of the next line. We exploit this, given that integer k is the position of a string in that array.
int(k/15)*15 == k
is true only when k is divisible by 15, an occurrence at a frequency of every 15th cell. Which is akin to what my friend said about his grandfather's dead watch being accurate twice a day.
int(1/15) = 0 -> int(1/15)*15 = 0
int(2/15) = 0 -> int(2/15)*15 = 0
...
int(14/15) = 0 -> int(14/15)*15 = 0
int(15/15) = 1 -> int(15/15)*15 = 15
int(16/15) = 1 -> int(16/15)*15 = 15
int(17/15) = 1 -> int(17/15)*15 = 15
...
int(29/15) = 1 -> int(29/15)*15 = 15
int(30/15) = 2 -> int(30/15)*15 = 30
Therefore, the loop,
leftPrettyfy();
for(int k=0; k<sa.length; k++){
print(sa[k]);
int z = k + 1;
if ((z/15)*15 == z){
rightPrettyfy();
leftPrettyfy();
}
}
By varying k in a fanciful way in the loop, we could print a triangular printout
1
2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
That is to demonstrate that, if you consider this a bug, this "bug" is a useful feature that we would not want to be removed from any of the various languages that we have used thus far.
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Q:
Expedia API book.api.ean.com blank
Im looking to book a hotel with expedia api
https://book.api.ean.com/
but the url is always blank,
details here using rest/json
http://developer.ean.com/docs/hotels/version_3/book_reservation/
I've seen a few people experiencing the same problem and wondered if anyone knew what it was
https://book.api.ean.com/ean-services/rs/hotel/v3/res?cid=55505
&apiKey=xxx
&locale=en_US
¤cyCode=USD
&customerUserAgent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.83 Safari/535.11
&customerIpAddress=127.0.0.1
&room1=1,3
&room1FirstName=TestBooking
&room1LastName=TestBooking
&room1BedTypeId=13
&room1SmokingPreference=NS
&room2=1,5
&room2FirstName=TestBooking
&room2LastName=TestBooking
&room2BedTypeId=13
&room2SmokingPreference=NS
&email=xxx
&firstName=TestBooking
&lastName=TestBooking
&homePhone=TestBooking
&workPhone=TestBooking
&creditCardType=CA
&creditCardNumber=5401999999999999
&creditCardIdentifier=123
&creditCardExpirationMonth=11
&creditCardExpirationYear=2012
&address1=travelnow
&city=Bellevue
&stateProvinceCode=WA
&countryCode=US
&postalCode=98004
&customerSessionId=0ABAA871-3127-A913-6642-A1F86D902E2B
&hotelId=211540
&arrivalDate=12/10/2012
&departureDate=12/12/2012
&supplierType=E
&rateKey=d03a8d29-1df2-4436-81d6-6b37eb4dcb78
&roomTypeCode=352749
&rateCode=1279169
&chargeableRate=803.04
including or excluding the minorrev doesn't seem to make much difference
A:
Try urlencoding each querystring parameter:
customerUserAgent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.83 Safari/535.11
arrivalDate=12/10/2012
The customerUserAgent url param should be url encoded:
customerUserAgent=Mozilla%2F5.0%20(Windows%20NT%206.1)%20AppleWebKit%2F535.11%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%20Chrome%2F17.0.963.83%20Safari%2F535.11
arrivalDate=12%2F10%2F2012
Take a look at PHP's urlencode for more information.
Also, be sure to remove the spaces between each querystring param, not sure if it was copy/paste issue or not.
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Nick Schwartz
For The Win
Alabama came to Baton Rouge Saturday preparing for its first true test of the season, but the undefeated Crimson Tide were unstoppable in Death Valley.
Tua Tagovailoa accounted for three touchdowns and the Alabama defense shut out the Tigers in front of more than 100,000 fans to extend their lead in the SEC West and take another step toward locking up a College Football Playoff spot.
With the Crimson Tide up 22-0, cameras caught one exasperated LSU fan making extended eye contact with the camera. She instantly became the college football meme of the season.
Alabama went on to win 29-0, and will return to Tuscaloosa to play Mississippi State next weekend.
MORE:
James Carville slams 'gutless ESPN' after it apologized for his SEC conspiracy theory
Oregon Duck wrecks children's basketball hoop in priceless game entrance
NFL picks against the spread, Week 9: Can Aaron Rodgers cover against the Patriots?
LSU's Breiden Fehoko, family perform incredible Haka dance before Alabama game
UFC 230: What time does the Daniel Cormier vs. Derrick Lewis fight start? | Pile |
The present invention relates to temperature sensitive electrical devices and, more particularly, to a temperature sensitive switch device which is normally open but which closes an electrical circuit when the device is raised to a predetermined temperature.
Thermally actuatable switch constructions are presently known in which an electrical circuit is broken or closed in response to the switch being heated to a predetermined temperature. In U.S. Pat. No. 3,875,546, issued Apr. 1, 1975, to Merrill, and U.S. Pat. No. 3,519,972, issued July 7, 1970, to Merrill, both assigned to the assignee of the present invention, temperature responsive electrical switches are disclosed in which a sliding electrical contact is held against a second electrical contact by a relatively stiff spring, which spring bears upon a normally solid, heat fusible pellet. When the switch is raised to the required temperature and the pellet melted, the stiff spring no longer opposes the force of a somewhat weaker spring which then moves the sliding contact away from the second contact, thus opening an electrical circuit.
A similar switch is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,180,958, issued Apr. 27, 1965, to Merrill, and assigned to the assignee of the present invention. One embodiment disclosed in the Merrill U.S. Pat. No. 3,180,958 patent includes a member of heat fusible material which holds a sliding contact away from a second contact until the fusion temperature is reached. While sliding contact, thermal switching devices of this type are extremely reliable in operation, there is always a possibility that the moving parts may bind. Additionally, thermal switches of this type require a significant number of small parts to be assembled and, therefore, the assembly costs are not insignificant.
Heat sensitive switching devices of the type used as a fuse in many electrical circuits include a heat fusible electrical conductor which conducts current between two electrodes. When the conductor is raised to its fusion temperature as a result of carrying an excessive current load, it melts and breaks the electrical circuit between the electrodes. Other fuse-like mechanisms are also known in which heat for melting an electrical conductor is supplied externally rather than by resistance heating of the conductor itself. A simple thermal switching device for closing an electrical circuit when heated to a predetermined temperature, regardless of the orientation of the switch, has not previously been available.
Thus a need exists for a temperature sensitive switching device which is simple in construction, reliable in operation, and is capable of closing an electrical circuit when raised to a predetermined temperature, regardless of the orientation of the device. | Pile |
A neonate with homozygous protein C deficiency with a homozygous Arg178Trp mutation.
Homozygous protein C deficiency affects approximately 1/400,000 to 1/1,000,000 live births. Homozygous protein C deficiency is associated with catastrophic and fatal purpura fulminans-like or thrombotic complications and disseminated intravascular coagulation. In the present patient, genetic study revealed Arg178Trp, a mutation found widely in European population; but this is the first case of homozygous Arg178Trp mutation who suffered from catastrophic purpura fulminans phenotype. | Pile |
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy findings as related to fatigue and cognitive performance in multiple sclerosis patients with mild disability.
The origin of fatigue in multiple sclerosis (MS) remains unclear. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) provides an insight into metabolic properties of the brain. The aim of the study was to evaluate brain MRS measurements in MS patients, with regard to fatigue and cognition. The study comprised 32 MS patients and 43 controls. Fatigue was assessed using the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) and the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS) and cognition - using the Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests (parts of BRBNT). MRS voxels were placed in the parietal white matter (PWM) and the posterior cingulate gyrus (PCG); N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA), choline (Cho) and myoinositol (mI) to creatine (Cr) ratios were determined. Relationships were searched between MRS measurements and fatigue as well as BRBNT results. MS patients in comparison with controls showed decreased NAA/Cr and increased mI/Cr ratios in PCG and PWM, respectively. No significant relationships between MRS parameters and fatigue measures, BRBNT results or MS-related variables were found. The decrease of NAA and increase of mI within white and gray matters in MS patients do not show a significant relationship with cognitive performance or fatigue. | Pile |
American Legion Field
American Legion Field may refer to:
American Legion Field (Danville), a baseball venue in Danville, Virginia, home of the Danville Braves of the rookie-level Appalachian League
American Legion Field (Florence), a baseball venue in Florence, South Carolina, home of the Florence Red Wolves of the collegiate summer ball Coastal Plain League | Pile |
Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun
"This is perhaps the first time that such a huge solar tornado is filmed by an imager. Previously much smaller solar tornadoes were found my SOHO satellite. But they were not filmed," says Dr. Xing Li, of Aberystwyth University.
Dr. Huw Morgan, co-discover of the solar tornado, adds, "This unique and spectacular tornado must play a role in triggering global solar storms."
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly saw superheated gases as hot as 50 000 – 2 000 000 Kelvin sucked from the root of a dense structure called prominence, and spiral up into the high atmosphere and travel about 200 000 kilometres along helical paths for a period of at least three hours. The tornadoes were observed on 25 September 2011.
The hot gases in the tornadoes have speeds as high as 300,000 km per hour. Gas speeds of terrestrial tornadoes can reach 150km per hour.
The tornadoes often occur at the root of huge coronal mass ejections. When heading toward the Earth, these coronal mass ejections can cause significant damage to the earth’s space environment, satellites, even knock out the electricity grid.
The solar tornadoes drag winding magnetic field and electric currents into the high atmosphere. It is possible that the magnetic field and currents play a key role in driving the coronal mass ejections.
SDO was launched in February 2010. The satellite is orbiting the Earth in a circular, geosynchronous orbit at an altitude of 36,000 kilometres. It monitors constantly solar variations so scientists can understand the cause of the change and eventuallyhave a capability to predict the space weather
Thanks on your marvelous ptnsiog! I actually enjoyed reading it, you will be a great author.I will make sure to bookmark your blog and definitely will come back someday. I want to encourage continue your great posts, have a nice day!
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HIV/AIDS prevention through peer education and support in secondary schools in South Africa.
The implementation and evaluation of a peer education and support programme in secondary schools to prevent and reduce high-risk sexual behaviour amongst adolescents is discussed.The aims of the programme were to provide accurate information about HIV/AIDS, discuss and reconsider peer group norms, and establish support for learners. In the programme that was implemented in 13 secondary schools in Tshwane, South Africa, peer educators were identified, trained and supported to implement the programme in their schools with the assistance of a teacher and postgraduate students as facilitators. Peer educators organised HIV awareness activities, facilitated class discussions on risk behaviour and gender relationships, and supported learners in solving personal problems. Process evaluation included weekly reports and focus group discussions with peer educators and teachers. A quasiexperimental design involving an experimental and control group, as well as pre- and post-assessments, was used to evaluate the impact of the programme on psychological well-being, personal control, school climate and reported high-risk behaviour of learners aged between 13 and 20 years.The results showed that the percentage of learners in the experimental group who were sexually experienced remained unchanged over the time period of 18 months. In contrast, a significantly increased percentage of learners in the control group were sexually experienced after the same time period.The control group also perceived more of their friends to be sexually experienced. No differences were reported in condom use in either of the groups.The findings of this study suggest that peer education can contribute to a delayed onset of sexual activity, and can therefore contribute to the prevention of HIV/AIDS amongst adolescents. | Pile |
Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket on Wednesday for the ninth time in what the company said was a successful flight.
New Shepard — named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard — launched vertically from the company's facility near Van Horn, Texas. Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, wants to offer tourists a ride to space, bringing passengers in a capsule up past 350,000 feet, where they would spend about 10 minutes floating in zero gravity before returning back to Earth.
The flight was "a high altitude escape motor test," which the company said would push New Shepard "to its limits" to make sure that astronauts can get away from the rocket if there is any problem during flight, also known as an abort test. Inside the capsule, which sits on top of the rocket, was Blue Origin's test dummy named "Mannequin Skywalker" – as well as payloads for gathering data from NASA, companies and universities.
The abort test happened in the vacuum of space and pushed the capsule to nearly 390,000 feet, according to preliminary data from the flight. "Mannequin Skywalker" experienced about 10 times the force of gravity during the abort test, as the capsule flung itself away from the rocket. | Pile |
Q:
How to concatenate a string and the contents of a file in BASH?
I am trying to concatenate the contents (a block of code) of a file called query.sql in a README.md document, that already contains some text. However, I would also like this block of code to be preceded by a heading "Model answer".
In other words, if my README.md file was currently structured as
# Title
Some text here.
the new file should look like
# Title
Some text here.
## Model answer
```sql
Contents of query.sql
```
The subtitle ## Model answer is currently not in any file, so the process should involve something like
cat "## Model answer\n\n```sql\n" query.sql "\n```" >> README.md
but cat only works with sets of files, not files and strings. How could I achieve the desired result in BASH?
A:
First you can printf or echo -e the required text and then cat the file query.sql after that. You can use && or ; between the commands . If && is used then the second command will be executed only if the first command was successfull. ; is treated as a command separator
{ printf "## Model answer\n\n \`\`\`sql" && cat query.sql && printf "\n\`\`\`"; } >> README.md
or
{ echo -e "## Model answer\n\n '''" ; cat query.sql ; echo -e "''' /n"; } >> README.md
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Is the ancillary chemotherapy approach of any value in the treatment of infratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors with surgery and radiotherapy?
A retrospective historical analysis of patients under 18 years of age with the histopathological diagnosis of infratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) is presented. The survey embraced two different groups of children. Group 1 was defined as those patients treated from 1972 to 1984 with surgical resection plus neuraxis radiotherapy alone. Group 2 was made up of children treated from 1990 to 1996 with the same approach but with the addition of adjuvant chemotherapy: cisplatin (day 1) and etoposide (days 1-3) every 3 weeks for 6 months. Group 1 embraced 42 children with an age range of 1-16 years (mean 6 years, SD 4.4 years). In group 2 there were 34 children, their ages ranging from 1 to 18 years (mean 7.2, SD 4.6 years). The prevalence of stages T2M0 and T3M0 was similar in both groups, but in group 1 there were 4 patients (9.5%) whose spinal fluid was positive for tumor cells (M1), while in group 2 there were 7 children (20.5%) with positive spinal fluid. There was an unequivocal initial response to treatment in 86% of these children in group 1 and in 79% in group 2. The event-free survival (EFS) was 30% at 252 months in group 1, while for group 2 the EFS was 67.6% at 63 months (P 0.002). Mortality from tumor activity was noted in 26 patients (70%) in group 1, while in group 2 mortality attributable to tumor progression was documented in 11 children (32%). We conclude that the use of adjuvant chemotherapy in these patients improves survival without any significant morbidity. | Pile |
President Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto spoke on the phone for an hour Friday morning amid rising tensions over Mr. Trump’s proposal for a southern border wall, a White House official confirmed to CBS News.
Mr. Trump and Peña Nieto were supposed to meet in Washington next week, on Tuesday, but the Mexican president said Thursday that he was canceling the visit after Mr. Trump moved forward with plans to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and have Mexico pay for construction. After the president’s plans were announced, Peña Nieto said he regretted Mr. Trump’s decision and reiterated Mexico’s refusal to pay for the wall.
Following the cancellation, the president’s spokesman said the White House would seek to pay for the border wall by slapping a 20 percent tax on all imports from Mexico - as well as other countries with a trade deficit with the U.S. The White House later cast the proposal as just one option to pay for the wall.
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CBS News’ Arden Farhi contributed to this report | Pile |
In subsurface fluid distribution systems, such as water mains and supply pipes for fire control systems, it is often necessary to place manually operable control valves in locations that are remote from a manual access point. In other words, the valves often are buried below ground level or otherwise remotely located. In commercial buildings or other structures, the valve may be located below a concrete floor which is considered below "ground level" for purposes of this invention.
A typical fluid control valve, such as butterfly valves or the like, includes a rotatable valve member in the fluid line, with a valve stem projecting upwardly from the line. A valve actuator is fixed to the valve stem and often comprises a polygonal nut which is engageable by an appropriate wrench-like tool for rotating the valve. With buried valves, the wrench has an elongated shaft which terminates in a handle above ground level for rotating the subsurface valve.
It is highly desirable to provide some form of lockout or anti-tampering device for preventing unauthorized use of such buried valves. Unfortunately, most anti-tampering devices for valve stems have been designed for above ground applications because of the prevalence of tampering with such valves, such as common fire hydrants. There are few lockout or anti-tampering devices which are applicable for subsurface applications and those devices are relatively complicated and expensive.
There is a definite need for a simple lockout device for subsurface applications, and the present invention is directed to satisfying that need. | Pile |
A new strategy for total auricular reconstruction using prelamination of an extended retroauricular flap with tissue expansion.
To accomplish total ear reconstruction with aesthetic appearance is a great challenge for plastic surgeons worldwide due to insufficient skin coverage. A retroauricular fascial flap and skin graft technique are commonly used, but the results obtained are not satisfactory due to color mismatch, severe edema, and donor-site morbidity. Here, we describe a novel strategy for total ear reconstruction, utilizing an extended retroauricular flap prelaminated with tissue expansion to obtain enough skin for ear reconstruction. About 2 months before ear reconstruction, a kidney-shaped tissue expander was inserted at the mastoid region subcutaneously. The retroauricular skin became enlarged and thinner in 2 months after expansion. Next, the expander was removed and the retroauricular flap was extended by dissecting the surrounding scalp subcutaneously. By mobilizing the scalp-extended retroauricular flap, we could encapsulate the entire framework with thin and non-hair-bearing skin. From August 2014 to September 2015, 36 microtia patients had undergone ear reconstruction using the novel strategy. Satisfactory aesthetics along with fine structure, symmetry, and maintenance of the auriculocephalic angle was achieved in all patients. Using our novel strategy, we can obtain satisfactory aesthetic outcomes by fully mobilizing the expanded skin without additional morbidities of the donor sites. Patients are satisfied with the vivid ear contour and lack of groin scar. | Pile |
Super Bowl 50 Open Thread
Alright, well, this is the part of the day where we acknowledge the fact that the whole world is going to be taking a break from politics (and everything else) to watch the Super Bowl. If you’re tuning in to RedState, feel free to chime in to the comments! Open thread! | Pile |
Striking multiple synergies created by combining reduced graphene oxides and carbon nanotubes for polymer nanocomposites.
The extraordinary properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene stimulate the development of advanced composites. Recently, several studies have reported significant synergies in the mechanical, electrical and thermal conductivity properties of polymer nanocomposites by incorporating their nanohybrids. In this work, we created polypropylene nanocomposites with homogeneous dispersion of CNTs and reduced graphene oxides via a facile polymer-latex-coating plus melt-mixing strategy, and investigated their synergistic effects in their viscoelastic, gas barrier, and flammability properties. Interestingly, the results show remarkable synergies, enhancing their melt modulus and viscosity, O2 barrier, and flame retardancy properties and respectively exhibiting a synergy percentage of 15.9%, 45.3%, and 20.3%. As previously reported, we also observed remarkable synergistic effects in their tensile strength (14.3%) and Young's modulus (27.1%), electrical conductivity (32.3%) and thermal conductivity (34.6%). These impressive results clearly point towards a new strategy to create advanced materials by adding binary combinations of different types of nanofillers. | Pile |
Vandana
Vandana may refer to:
Vandana Gupte, Marathi actress
Vandana Jain, Indian ophthalmologist
Vandana Shanbagh (born 1963), Indian athlete
Vandana Shiva (born 1952), Indian environmental activist
Vandana Singh, Indian science fiction writer
Vandana (moth), a genus of moths of the family Erebidae
Vandana (film) | Pile |
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How many Double Entendres can you Stuff into a Game Trailer?
While the game Hairy Balls is already out, the accompanying trailer is just so full of face-palming innuendos that we had to post it here.
It definitly has a lot of character and a confident sense of humour (although your millage may very here). The app is free to download and if you're looking for a new puzzle game, why not give it a try. | Pile |
Group B streptococcal meningitis: a case of transverse myelitis with spinal cord and posterior fossa cysts.
Myelopathy is an infrequently reported complication of bacterial meningitis. We report the case of a preterm neonate with group B streptococcal meningitis who developed acute transverse myelopathy with subsequent spinal cord cavitation noted by MRI. The destruction of the cerebellum and obstructive hydrocephalus resulted in a posterior fossa cyst. | Pile |
To print 30 nanometer (nm) or sub-30 nm images utilizing photolithography, the resist thickness may be in the range of 50 nm or less. This may be due to the image collapsing during the developing stage. With such a comparatively thin resist, a bilayer or trilayer approach may be utilized. In the trilayer approach, there may be a comparatively thick organic underlayer and a thin Si containing interlayer, where the Si containing layer may either be a chemical vapor deposited silicon oxide layer or a spin coated silsesquioxane polymer film. The resist may be imaged and developed with optical exposure, electron beam (E-beam) or extreme ultraviolet (EUV) first, where the image may be transferred to the interlayer. The interlayer may then act as an etch mask for the underlayer. Since the resist may be comparatively thin to obtain high resolution images, etching through the silicon oxide layer may present a difficult challenge. Therefore, there is a need to develop a photolithographic resist having high etch resistance towards the etchant (such as CF4) of an oxide reactive ion etching (RIE) process, such as a resist suitable for radiation or particle beam exposures. | Pile |
Rachel Raxxx is a teen with some amazing ebony mega boobs. She also seems to have a thing for white guys. She's always fucking their white meat sticks whenever she gets the chance. In this video her pussy really gets served by this more mature white gentlemen. Her ebony mega boobs shake like crazy all over the place. She might be a teen girl but this ebony really knows what her pussy wants. | Pile |
Event-related potentials in clinical research: guidelines for eliciting, recording, and quantifying mismatch negativity, P300, and N400.
This paper describes recommended methods for the use of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in clinical research and reviews applications to a variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders. Techniques are presented for eliciting, recording, and quantifying three major cognitive components with confirmed clinical utility: mismatch negativity (MMN), P300, and N400. Also highlighted are applications of each of the components as methods of investigating central nervous system pathology. The guidelines are intended to assist investigators who use ERPs in clinical research, in an effort to provide clear and concise recommendations and thereby to standardize methodology and facilitate comparability of data across laboratories. | Pile |
The water insoluble hydrogel forming polymers are materials capable of absorbing large quantities of aqueous fluids, such as water, brines, and body fluids and wastes. Further, the superabsorbents are capable of retaining such absorbed fluids under moderate pressures. These materials are especially useful in absorbent articles, such as disposable diapers. These hydrogel forming absorbent materials normally are composed of polymers containing polymerizable unsaturated carboxylic acids or derivatives and salts thereof. These monomeric acids are represented by acrylic acid and/or acrylic acid salts, methacrylic acid and/or salts thereof, alkylacrylates, acrylamides, and the like. These polymers are rendered water insoluble by cross-linking using any number of cross-linking agents. These monomeric carboxylic acid monomers, and other such monomers useful in these superabsorbent polymers and the cross-linking agents which are useful agents have been described in the art, particularly by U.S. Pat. No. 4,654,039, Brandt, et. al., which patent is incorporated herein by reference. | Pile |
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Four University of Georgia students were killed and another critically injured in a car crash, officials said early Thursday.
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One of the cars was carrying five young women from the University of Georgia, Berry told NBC News. He said four died in the crash and another is in critical condition. It was not immediately clear if the driver of the second vehicle was injured.
The identities of the victims have not been released.
"I'm a parent of college students and right now my main priority is to notify these parents about their little girls," Berry explained to the University of Georgia's student newspaper.
Students at the school — which has around 27,500 undergraduates — held a vigil after midnight to pray for their peers, according to the school newspaper. The crowd held steady through the night, the paper reported, with scores of people crying.
The University of Georgia said it was "deeply saddened" over the "heartbreaking and tragic loss" of the four students and injuries to the fifth.
"We ask that you keep these students and their family and friends in your thoughts and prayers," the school said in a statement. | Pile |
Обвиняемый в поджоге двери в здании ФСБ художник Павленский пожаловался в Генпрокуратуру на действия сотрудников спецслужбы. По его словам, они могли повредить объект культурного наследия, самовольно заменив эту дверь
Художник Петр Павленский, обвиняемый в поджоге двери в здании ФСБ (Фото: Александр Щербак/ТАСС)
Защита художника Петра Павленского, которому 8 июня будет вынесен приговор по делу о поджоге двери здания ФСБ на Лубянке, обратилась к генеральному прокурору Юрию Чайке с просьбой проверить действия сотрудников спецслужбы. Жалоба, подготовленная адвокатом Ольгой Динзе, была подана через электронную канцелярию 7 июня, документ есть в распоряжении РБК.
Как говорится в жалобе, в 2007 году экспертная комиссия при комитете по культурному наследию Москвы пришла к выводу, что здание ФСБ на Лубянской площади является объектом культурного наследия. По закону работы на таких объектах могут проводиться только с разрешения Мосгорнаследия.
В 2008 году без согласования с городскими властями ФСБ заменила двухстворчатые двери в подъезде №1, следует из справки, предоставленной войсковой частью №55002. Официально структура ФСБ не раскрывается, но, как писала «Новая газета», эта часть является управлением материально-технического обеспечения ФСБ.
Войсковая часть располагается на Лубянке в здании ФСБ, она же охраняет его и является фактически распорядителем этого комплекса, поскольку здание ФСБ находится в хозяйственном ведении части, объяснила РБК Динзе.
«Дверной блок был заменен на новый, не имеющий признаков подлинной двери, созданной по чертежам архитектора Алексея Щусева», — говорится в жалобе. В документе указывается, что стоимость работ по замене двери составила чуть больше 63 тыс. руб. | Pile |
Disseminated histoplasmosis in AIDS: a report of three patients.
Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection caused by Histoplasma capsulatum. Although uncommon, it should be considered among the list of important opportunistic infections in severely immunocompromised patients. Patients living with AIDS are at particular risk of disseminated histoplasmosis. Diagnosis requires a high level of clinical suspicion. The infection is best confirmed by demonstration of the organism in tissue specimens or by culture. Amphotericin B is the most effective drug for severe disseminated histoplasmosis. Response is good but life-long maintenance is required to prevent relapse. | Pile |
Amino acid-linked porphyrin-nitroimidazole antibiotics targeting Porphyromonas gingivalis.
The periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis requires porphyrin supplementation for growth. Previously, in order to inhibit P. gingivalis growth, we synthesised very effective 'Trojan horse' ester and amide-linked deuterporphyrin-nitroimidazole (DPIX-Nim) adducts that exploited this requirement to transport metronidazole-derived antibiotics with excellent antimicrobial selectivity and recognition by the HA2 porphyrin binding site. Herein, in the context of developing topical agents to target P. gingivalis, l-amino acids are incorporated into adducts as linkers to improve uptake. Ten 13- and 17-propionic amide regioisomers of l-amino acid-linked deuterporphyrin-nitroimidazole adducts were synthesised using a peptide coupling approach. DPIX-Lys regioisomers without attached nitroimidazole were also synthesised as comparison compounds. All the porphyrin adducts bound (Kd50 7 to 20 nM) to a recombinant HA2 receptor with similar binding affinity to haem, except the lysine-proline linked DPIX-Lys(Boc)Pro-Nim adducts (Kd50 300 nM) and the DPIX-Lys(Nim)-Nim adducts (Kd50 200 nM), both of which have large appended groups. DPIX-Lys(Boc)-Nim, DPIX-Lys(OH)-Nim, and DPIX-Pro-Nim adducts were shown to be very effective against P. gingivalis. DPIX-Lys(Boc)Pro-Nim adducts and DPIX-Lys(Nim)-Nim adducts showed weak activity. Importantly, DPIX-Lys(Boc)-Nim adducts were selective for P. gingivalis and, unlike metronidazole, did not kill a range of other anaerobic bacteria isolated from the human gastrointestinal tract. | Pile |
Thailand's Chai Lai Orchid resort
CaptionChai Lai Orchid
Jeff Greenwald / For The Times
The Chai Lai Orchid is one of the more unusual resorts in this overgrown part of northern Thailand. Owner Alexa Pham and her high-spirited local partner, Puang, have created a small but welcoming retreat that feels more like a home stay than a hotel.
The Chai Lai Orchid is one of the more unusual resorts in this overgrown part of northern Thailand. Owner Alexa Pham and her high-spirited local partner, Puang, have created a small but welcoming retreat that feels more like a home stay than a hotel. (Jeff Greenwald / For The Times)
Elephants make their way on a path along the Mae Wang River. The Chai Lai features all the signature activities of this popular area: rafting, hiking to hill tribe villages, raft rides and bareback elephant trekking (a full-body tactile experience not to be missed).
Elephants make their way on a path along the Mae Wang River. The Chai Lai features all the signature activities of this popular area: rafting, hiking to hill tribe villages, raft rides and bareback elephant trekking (a full-body tactile experience not to be missed). (Jeff Greenwald / For The Times) | Pile |
Dermatological manifestations in onchocerciasis: A retrospective study of 400 imported cases.
Onchocerciasis is caused by Onchocerca volvulus and mainly leads to pruritus and skin and visual disorders, including blindness. Seventeen million people are infected in 38 countries; 31 of these are in sub-Saharan Africa, six in Latin America and one on the Arabian Peninsula. More than 99% of cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa where 120 million people are at risk of infection. Eye disorders have been well-documented; however, skin disorders have not been described accurately. The objective of our study was to describe the epidemiology, main skin manifestations and treatment of imported onchocerciasis. A retrospective study was thus conducted by analysing the main demographic, clinical and treatment data regarding a cohort of 400 patients attending a reference clinical unit over a 17-year period. Most patients were female (55%) with mean age 37.5±16.7 years. All the migrants came from sub-Saharan countries. The most frequently occurring dermatological symptom was pruritus. Ivermectin had been used as first-line therapy and adverse reactions had been described in 11 patients (3.2%). The results indicate the fact that there should be a clinical suspicion of onchocerciasis regarding immigrants from endemic areas having skin lesions compatible with the disease's profile or asymptomatic patients having eosinophilia or unexplained high IgE. Moreover, skin snips from the buttocks region were very fruitful and treatment with ivermectin was seen to be safe. This is the largest case series regarding imported onchocerciasis described up to the present time. | Pile |
Richard E. Grant has yet to reveal what character he'll be playing in Star Wars: Episode IX, though he recently teased that, upon learning the character's identity, his whole world changed.
The actor recalled his audition process to The Telegraph, detailing he was "surrounded by all this Star Wars memorabilia going back to 1977. And within about two seconds, [director J.J. Abrams] said, ‘Are you gonna do it or not?’ And I said, ‘Do what?’ Then he described the part, and I think he told me what my name was, at which point the room went upside down."
Grant's comments seem to imply that, merely by learning he would be joining the galaxy far, far away, it was cause for excitement, yet his specificity of "I think he told me what my name was" and his comments about the room going "upside down" could be interpreted to mean that the actor recognized the name of the character. With fans yet to learn a title or see a single image from the upcoming sequel, we'll just have to wait and see what Grant's role in the film will be and if it will cause us to similarly experience a room going upside down.
Earlier this month, Grant talked about Star Wars on The Graham Norton Show, claiming that he wasn't even allowed to tell his family the role he would be playing.
“Yes, I am in the last Star Wars. I have no idea [if I’ll be recognizable] because I’ve not even been allowed to tell my family what the name of my character is," Grant shared on the talk show [H/T Express]. “If I told you I would get fired. We’re not even allowed to take the script home. There is a lot of security.”
Based on these comments, it could be inferred that whatever Grant's character might be, he isn't aware if it's a famous character from a corner of the galaxy far, far away, as he is unable to ask people unfamiliar with the story if they know who his character is.
One of the earliest theories about Grant's role in the film was that he was playing Grand Admiral Thrawn, a character who debuted in a series of Star Wars novels and was incorporated into Star Wars Rebels. Grant's intimidating acting presence and the compelling nature of Thrawn seemed like a perfect fit for the character's debut, though the actor has refuted those theories.
During a podcast appearance last year, Grant's recollection of the casting process implied that he could be playing a member of the military.
"I got sent a 10-page generic sort of, I think, it was an interrogation scene clearly from a 1940s British B-picture because the references were not Star Wars and the language was something that my grandfather would have spoken in and I thought, you know, the three contrasting scenes that you were supposed to show as much versatility you could muster in a self-taping situation," the actor shared with the Happy Sad Confused podcast. "So I did that and sent it off and it goes into cyberspace and you don’t even think about it again because it’s what actors, you know, what you do all the time, you audition, send stuff out and never hear [back]."
Stay tuned for details on Star Wars: Episode IX, which lands in theaters this December.
Who do you think the actor could be playing? Let us know in the comments below or hit up @TheWolfman on Twitter to talk all things Star Wars and horror! | Pile |
Q:
Is a $C^1$ manifold closed?
This question is rather a question of convention. Consider the subset of $R^2$
$$A=\cup_{n=2}^{\infty}B((1/n,0),1/n^2)).$$
Around each of its point, $A$ is locally diffeomorphic to $R^2$, or to a half space of $R^2$. But $A$ is not closed, because $0\notin A$. Is $A$ considered to be a $C^1$ manifold (with boundary)? Is it a submanifold of $R^2$?
A:
Sure it is. In fact it's an embedded $C^\infty$ submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^2$.
A simpler situation to think about: $(0,1)$ is a manifold, even though it's not closed in $\mathbb{R}$. It's also a "manifold with boundary" (the boundary is just empty).
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died:
SELECT
seo.surls_param
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(seo.surls_param NOT LIKE '%products_id=%' OR seo.surls_param NOT LIKE '%product_id=%')
AND
seo.surls_name = '-1-14'
ORDER BY
seo.surls_id
DESC
LIMIT 1; | Pile |
The Welsh Labour Government's proposal to ban the use of e-cigarettes in public places has been based on the premise that they could act as a gateway to tobacco.In the world of evidence-free legislation this is a special case. With cigarettes there is evidenced harm caused by second hand smoke, that does not apply with e-cigarettes. And now newly published research has cast doubt on claims that e-cigarettes attract non-smokers. The Western Mail reports that the Welsh Health Survey asked regular users of vaping devices if they had previously been tobacco users, and almost every single respondent said yes:As Kirsty Williams says:Back to the drawing board for the Welsh Labour Government it seems. | Pile |
Q:
Why do I get nil when passing values through params in a form?
<% if current_user.blank? %>
<%tripowner=User.find_by_id(@trip.userid).id%>
<%=tripowner%>
<h3 class="text-center">Please sign up to provide recommendations.</h3>
<%= form_tag usersback_url, class: "form-signin", method: 'post' do %>
<h2 class="form-signin-heading">SIGN UP</h2>
<div>
<%= text_field_tag :first_name, nil, class: "input-block-level", placeholder: "First" %>
</div>
<div>
<%= text_field_tag :last_name, nil, class: "input-block-level", placeholder: "Last" %>
</div>
<div>
<%= email_field_tag :email, nil, class: "input-block-level", placeholder: "Email address" %>
</div>
<div>
<%= password_field_tag :password, nil, class: "input-block-level", placeholder: "Password" %>
</div>
<div>
<%= password_field_tag :password_confirmation, nil, class: "input-block-level", placeholder: "Confirm Password" %>
</div>
<%= hidden_field_tag :tripowner, value: tripowner %>
<div>
<%= submit_tag "SIGN UP", :class => 'btn btn-large btn-success' %>
</div>
<% end %>
<%end%>
:tripowner is not passing through the params correctly, but is returning nil. I am trying to do this with it in the action. I have confirmed that tripowner yields 1. Therefore, I want @friendship.f2 to be 1. Is there a reason why it's returning nil below?
def createback
@user = User.new
@user.first_name = params[:first_name]
@user.last_name = params[:last_name]
@user.email = params[:email]
@user.password = params[:password]
@user.password_confirmation = params[:password_confirmation]
@friendship = Friend.new
@friendship.f2 = params[:tripowner]
if @user.save
@friendship.f1 = @user.id
@friendship.confirmed = true
@friendship.save
reset_session
session[:user_id] = @user.id
redirect_to :back, notice: "Signed up successfully."
else
render 'new'
end
end
friend model
class Friend < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
end
params: Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"BkVY0/z0KeCQRg83wvumUKEmT67R4liMZr33u98mTBE=", "first_name"=>"rki", "last_name"=>"rki", "email"=>"test@k", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "password_confirmation"=>"[FILTERED]", "tripowner"=>"{:value=>1}", "commit"=>"SIGN UP"}
As you can see, the 1 is being passed properly in tripowner.
A:
You should set up associations so that you can access the trip owner via association, rather than having to run a separate query for it.
In this case a trip should belong to a user, and a user should have many trips...
Trip.rb # model
belongs_to :user
User.rb # model
has_many :trips
With this in place you can access the trip owner via:
@trip.user.id
Assuming your acting on a @trip, you shouldn't really even need to pass anything through a hidden field. Otherwise specifying something like this should work:
<%= hidden_field_tag :tripowner, @trip.user.id %>
== Update
With the new code you posted, you should be using form_for @user... This will correctly namespace all the attributes in the form with user: {attributes}. With this in place instead of individually assigning your model attributes you can do something like this in your controller action:
@user = User.new(params[:user])
It would also be helpful if you dig into your logs and paste the params hash thats being sent to your controller action. If your running this locally, it would be in log/development.log.
== Second Update
First check to make sure the params hash being sent to your controller looks correct. If it does, its likely an issue with your Friendship model.
Docs on hidden_field_tag:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormTagHelper.html#method-i-hidden_field_tag
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Q:
Facebook object debugger getting 500 response code but only on some pages?
I am trying to get facebook open graph action to work, however, the object debugger tells me it is getting response code 500 from the pages I want to use. When I try to paste the URL into Facebook to share, sometimes it says runtime error and sometimes it works, sometimes it just gets part of the image.
For example: http://www.literrater.com/book/10
This fails the debugger entirely with a 500 code
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.literrater.com%2Fbook%2F10
That same URL works when posting a status, sometimes.
Any suggestions about what I can do to fix this or at least diagnose the problem?
Edit: The site is hosted on windows azure as an asp.net web site. The blog at http://literrater.com/blog is php and the OG debugger seems to like it just fine.
A:
A partial view being called in a MOBILE only razor view was being accessed and throwing an error. So while it worked in a desktop browser it was likely crashing on mobile.
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Pigment dispersion syndrome associated with silicone posterior chamber intraocular lenses.
Two patients who received sulcus-implanted silicone intraocular lenses experienced iris pigment dispersion and intraocular pressure elevation after uneventful phacoemulsification and small incision implantation. | Pile |
config R8187SE
tristate "RealTek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN NIC driver"
depends on PCI && WLAN
select WIRELESS_EXT
select WEXT_PRIV
select EEPROM_93CX6
select CRYPTO
default N
---help---
If built as a module, it will be called r8187se.ko.
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Q:
Strange table update codeigniter $this->db->update
I'm having a problem with an update of one table in the db. I always use the same approach and I have no problem. Although in this case I have an issue...
The code:
the view:
<fieldset>
<legend>Modifica Dati Check-in Cliente</legend>
<?php
$passeggeri='placeholder="Passeggeri"';
$animali='placeholder="Animali"';
$note='placeholder="Note"';
echo form_open('site/esegui_modifica_record_check_in');
echo form_hidden('id',$id[0]->id);
echo form_hidden('rif_parcheggio',$id[0]->rif_parcheggio);
echo form_input('Passeggeri',set_value('passeggeri',$id[0]->passeggeri),$passeggeri);
echo form_input('Animali',set_value('animali',$id[0]->animali),$animali);
echo form_input('Note',set_value('note',$id[0]->note),$note);
?> <br/> <input type="datetime-local" name="data_in_inserita" value="<?php echo strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M', strtotime($id[0]->data_in));?>" /> <?php
echo form_submit('submit','Modifica');
echo form_close();
?>
</fieldset>
controller:
function esegui_modifica_record_check_in() {
$this->load->model('membership_model');
if($query = $this->membership_model->esegui_modifica_record_check_in())
{
$this->load->view('check_in_auto_succesful');
}
else
{
$this->load->view('admin');
}
}
model:
function esegui_modifica_record_check_in() {
$update_record_check2= array (
'passeggeri' => $this->input->post('passeggeri'),
'animali' => $this->input->post('animali'),
'note' => $this->input->post('note'),
'data_in' => $this->input->post('data_in_inserita')
);
$id=$this->input->post('id');
$this->db->where('id',$id);
$insert = $this->db->update('check2', $update_record_check2);
return $insert;
}
The query is executed but the values are updates as zero (0) character for the modified fields.
It's very strange! this is my first problem with the update function of codeigniter
I don't have a clear idea. Could you please help me?
thanks a lot
by
A:
First thing to debug is to make sure that values are really being passed into your model method. Either debug first on the controller or inside you model:
Controller:
function esegui_modifica_record_check_in()
{
var_dump($this->input->post());
// rest of codes
}
OR
Model:
function esegui_modifica_record_check_in()
{
var_dump($this->input->post());
// rest of codes
}
Then, assuming you haven't fixed it yet. You have a case mismatch on the input name=""
echo form_input('Passeggeri',set_value('passeggeri',$id[0]->passeggeri),$passeggeri);
'passeggeri' => $this->input->post('passeggeri'),
// Passeggeri !== passeggeri
echo form_input('Animali',set_value('animali',$id[0]->animali),$animali);
'animali' => $this->input->post('animali'),
// Animali !== animali
echo form_input('Note',set_value('note',$id[0]->note),$note);
'note' => $this->input->post('note'),
// Animali !== animali
You should take that also into account. You need to follow the same case letters. Make them the same
Either:
echo form_input('Passeggeri',
$this->input->post('Passeggeri')
Or
echo form_input('passeggeri',
$this->input->post('passeggeri')
Sidenote:
As my suggestion above, I would just make it simple and use a normal form.
<form method="POST" action="<?php echo site_url('site/esegui_modifica_record_check_in'); ?>">
<input type="text" name="passeggeri" value="<?php echo $id[0]->passeggeri; ?>" placeholder="Passeggeri" />
<!-- and other text box inputs -->
</form>
| Pile |
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Chilblain / Pernio Advice
Hi all,
I haven't been posting a lot lately -- busy life, not feeling great -- but I do still check in daily! However, right now, I'm having a problem that I thought I could tap the collective WHL wisdom for advice about.
I have chilblains on my toes. They're basically red spots that are both itchy and painful, and living in the wintry north doesn't help them any. I know some of y'all have dealt with these, too, as they're more common in those of us with autoimmune disease and Raynaud's. No "normal" people seem to know what I'm talking about-- including my aunt, who is a doctor ("Never actually seen those in real life!").
So, tips for managing these? Standing and walking ranges from uncomfortable to painful. Sleeping is difficult because the itchiness keeps me up. They seem to be getting worse each day, not better.
I am so annoyed. I don't even know what I'm going to do next week when I actually need to wear my suit and pumps for work. My feet are not going to be happy...
Get a scrip for some Nitroglycerine Cream from your doc - one tube will last you the rest of your life, LOL...you only use a tiny bit and the tubes are huge. Rub it on there before you go to bed at night, and first thing in the morning - it's amazing. It opens up the capillaries or something wonderful, and just takes away so much of the itch/pain. It won't make them totally go away, or solve the Raynaud's, but it helps a lot - at least for me.
Just be sure to read the pamphlet that comes with it - you have ot be careful not to get too much of it on you or use it too often - if you get half a tube smeared around, or if you use it while on certain heart medications, it can cause heart rhythm problems - but if you're just using a little bit on the tips of your toes it's not a concern at all. I am just always careful to wash my hands after applying it.
AND if you travel by air, be sure to carry your prescription information with you, because nitroglycerine is one of the things dogs are trained to sniff for. In certain forms, as you probably know, it is an explosive. (I always make jokes about being careful not to stub my toes when I have it on there, or the toes might detonate....).
Pernio is actually how I was diagnosed with Lupus. The sore was actually cut off of my toe for a biopsy. So I'm not really positive what the procedure is to care for it. SleepyInSeattle seems to have given a great response though (thanks!)
The only thing that I can add is that I started taking Amlodipine for Raynaud's last year after I was diagnosed with pernio. Amlodipine has seriously changed my life. My Raynaud's was debilitating and with the meds I don't have any discoloration and more importantly I don't have any pain. It's unbelievable.
Be careful toughing out the pumps (the things we do haa) and I wish you only the best! | Pile |
[Extravesical openings of ectopic ureters: diagnostic problems (author's transl)].
The authors have reviewed 80 cases of ectopic ureter in 74 patients (62 women and 12 men). In most cases the abnormality involved the upper part of a double ureter system, and the extravesical openings were not only ectopic (located within or, most commonly, below the vesical sphincter in women), but also malformed with stenosis and/or reflux. The kidneys drained were damaged by dysplasia and/or interstitial nephritis. The presenting symptoms were fever, abdominal pain and disorders of micturition; incontinence, exclusively found in women, took only second rank. The purulent urine discharged could pass for leucorrhoea. Diagnosis was made by intravenous urography and by clinical or endoscopic finding of the ectopic opening. | Pile |
Порошенко підписав закон про заборону російських фільмів, знятих після 2014 року 21 квітня 2016, 10:33 Вы также можете прочесть этот материал на русском языке На українських телеекранах більше не буде російських фільмів, знятих після 2014 року (Фото: Фото: Прес-служба АП)
Президент України Петро Порошенко підписав закон про заборону трансляції фільмів, знятих з початку 2014 року в країні-агресорі
"20.04.2016 Повернуто з підписом від президента", - йдеться на сайті Ради.
Нагадаємо, 29 березня Верховна Рада України заборонила транслювати фільми країни-агресора, що були вироблені або вперше оприлюднені після 1 січня 2014 року. Раніше заборона стосувалася тільки фільмів, вироблених до цієї дати.
Необхідність змін автори законопроекту пояснили тим, що момент завершення виробництва фільму зафіксувати практично неможливо. У той же час, в титрах фільму вказано рік першого показу фільму. | Pile |
#ifndef BOOST_MPL_AUX_TEMPLATE_ARITY_FWD_HPP_INCLUDED
#define BOOST_MPL_AUX_TEMPLATE_ARITY_FWD_HPP_INCLUDED
// Copyright Aleksey Gurtovoy 2001-2004
//
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
// (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
//
// See http://www.boost.org/libs/mpl for documentation.
// $Id: template_arity_fwd.hpp 49267 2008-10-11 06:19:02Z agurtovoy $
// $Date: 2008-10-10 23:19:02 -0700 (Fri, 10 Oct 2008) $
// $Revision: 49267 $
namespace boost { namespace mpl { namespace aux {
template< typename F > struct template_arity;
}}}
#endif // BOOST_MPL_AUX_TEMPLATE_ARITY_FWD_HPP_INCLUDED
| Pile |
Look, nobody expects Fox News to host a good-faith debate on immigration issues in the wee morning hours, when a certain Very Important Viewer might be tuning in. There's only a couple of Fox anchors who will break with the Trumpian line on anything, and they're far away from Fox & Friends First.
But that show played host Monday morning to a genuine anti-Trump Democrat who excoriated the president's policy of family separation at the border—until the frantic hosts cut her off and the control room cut her feed.
Apparently, someone at Fox booked the wrong Democrat by mistake:
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This is incredible. @FoxFriendsFirst thought they booked pro-ICE Dem Ann Kirkpatrick on show, but accidentally booked Barbara L'Italien
(@teambarbara) instead.
L'Italien delivers personal message to Trump saying "we must stop abducting children... stop putting kids in cages." pic.twitter.com/OnVAdBVjJB — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2018
It's amazing to watch the hosts acknowledge fairly simply that their program, which purports to be a news service with the goal of making viewers more informed, would never purposefully invite on someone who criticizes the president this way.
Part of the Trump Era is watching some people abandon all the pretense and just get down to the real business, shamelessly and out in the open. We're here to reinforce your support for the president, these News Anchors essentially tell the audience. We just wanted to use this Democrat as a pro-ICE prop! And then the very temporary dissident disappeared, scrubbed from the Fox information matrix as the hosts threw to what was surely a MyPillow commercial.
Update (5:24 p.m.): Fox & Friends First Executive Producer Desiree Dunne addressed this morning's mishap in a statement, suggesting the production team was deceived in the lead-up to the segment:
This morning we invited Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick to appear on Fox & Friends First through her press contact on file Joe Katz, who accepted the invitation on Kirkpatrick’s behalf. Katz followed with an email confirming the segment, which also included background information and a campaign logo for Ann Kirkpatrick. During the actual segment, Barbara L’Italien, appeared on camera instead of Kirkpatrick. Despite speaking to producers prior to the interview, L’Italien did not identify herself as anything other than Kirkpatrick until she was live on air, at which point we ended the interview.
Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.
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A review of existing data confirmed that conceptions within six months of a miscarriage were less likely to result in a repeat miscarriage or preterm birth.
Rates of pre-eclampsia, or high blood pressure in pregnancy, as well as low birth weight and stillbirths were found to be no different in conceptions within half a year and those after six months.
"Contrary to WHO guidelines, recommending at least six months' wait after a miscarriage, our meta-analysis of all published studies on this subject to date shows definitively that less than six months is best,” said Dr Sohinee Bhattacharya, of the University of Aberdeen.
“One explanation might be that if somebody has had a miscarriage they might take particularly good care of themselves, be more motivated and may be more fertile, but that is just speculation at this point.”
The Miscarriage Association welcomed the review.
Its national director Ruth Bender Atik said: “It confirms that couples can choose to try again whenever they feel ready to do so.” | Pile |
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And finally, it comes to this. Another year passes, and another year sees me taking longer and longer to post my year end lists. I suspect this is some sort of cruel mental self-flagellation on my part, as in the … Continue reading → | Pile |
The Only True Freedom Is Freedom for All
Since its inception 21 years ago under the brilliant leadership of Lawrence W. Reed and others, the Mackinac Center has championed freedom and liberty for all law-abiding peoples. The Iranians' fight for freedom dominates current headlines, and the film "The Stoning of Soraya M.," released June 26, depicts the inherent horrors of a nation where a significant portion of society is treated as second-class citizens. The film's focus is on the repression of women, but the oppression of additional segments of Iran's population has been well-documented elsewhere.
Based on French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam's international bestseller of the same name, "The Stoning of Soraya M." tells the true story of an innocent woman stoned to death for adultery because she refuses to grant her husband the divorce he seeks so that he can marry a 14-year-old girl. The story's structure resembles director John Sturges' 1955 classic, "Bad Day at Black Rock," where an outsider chances upon a town with a murderous secret that culminates in a violent climax.
Like the Sturges film, "Soraya M." also presents a powerful social message.
"By dealing with the topic of the lack of liberties and freedom, particularly for women, we can accurately show what the world is like if you don't enjoy what we have here," said producer Stephen McEveety in a phone interview conducted June 10. McEveety added that the film is "a celebration of liberty and freedom - especially in America where we sometimes take them for granted. I believe that it makes you value what you have."
The movie's R-rating is for the brutality of the climactic scene. Potential viewers should be forewarned that the term "stoning" in the title is anything but metaphorical.
"The story that was presented to me blew me away," McEveety said. "You can't underplay what people who are stoned to death go through or else the audience will undervalue the suffering. We tried to depict the violence in a way that showed both our respect for the victim and for the audience. I think the result is a perfect balance, but yes, occasionally some people leave the theater."
McEveety, who also produced "The Passion of the Christ" — which drew critical rebukes for its violence — claimed that despite the stoning, the real cruelty in "Soraya M." is psychological.
"This film has far less violence than 'Passion of the Christ,'" he said. "However, there's psychological abuse in this film that's equally powerful. It's the type that we see and ignore every day in every city and every nation of the world."
This psychological abuse is concomitant with the abridgement of liberties. Despite many restrictions, the men in the small Iranian village enjoy far more freedom than their female counterparts, and the women live in fear for their lives if they draw the ire of their paternalistic mullahs, politicians, husbands and sons. Likewise, men who fall into disfavor are incentivized to perjure themselves or otherwise throw women under the bus to save themselves.
The film's point, however, isn't to depict in a cartoonish manner all men as evil and all women as victims. What it does portray very effectively is the high costs paid by any society arrogant and autocratic enough to abrogate what our founding fathers wisely categorized as an individual's inalienable rights.
For most of us at the Mackinac Center, Independence Day is the highest of secular holidays, a day commemorating our nation's independence from British rule and a celebration of the many freedoms we enjoy as U.S. citizens. It is also a day when we recognize that the struggle for freedom is perpetual, and that many nations yearn for relief from tyranny. Freedom is illusory if each and every person cannot exercise them in the same fashion. "The Stoning of Soraya M." helps viewers realize that the only true freedom is freedom for all.
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Bruce Edward Walker is communications manager for the Property Rights Network at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational institute headquartered in Midland, Mich. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided that the author and the Center are properly cited.
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a nonprofit institute that advances the principles of free markets and limited government. Through our research and education programs, we challenge government overreach and advocate for free-market approach to public policy that frees people to realize their potential and dreams.
Please consider contributing to our work to advance a freer and more prosperous state. | Pile |
New Hampshire Route 103
New Hampshire Route 103 (abbreviated NH 103) is a east–west highway in west-central New Hampshire, United States. The highway runs from Claremont, at the Vermont border on the Connecticut River, to Hopkinton, west of Concord.
The western terminus of NH 103 is in Claremont at the New Hampshire–Vermont state line on the Connecticut River, running concurrently with New Hampshire Route 12. After intersecting with New Hampshire Route 12A, the road continues eastward for into the center of Claremont, where NH 103 splits off from NH 12 and merges with New Hampshire Route 11. The highway then runs eastward merged with NH 11 for a distance of . The road splits off from NH 11 east of Newport. Northwest of Hopkinton, the road runs merged with New Hampshire Route 127 for a distance of . The eastern terminus of NH 103 is in Hopkinton at U.S. Route 202 and New Hampshire Route 9.
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New Hampshire Route 103A
New Hampshire Route 103A (abbreviated NH 103A) is a secondary north–south highway in Merrimack County, New Hampshire. NH 103A connects New London with Newbury. NH 103A runs down the entire length of the east side of Lake Sunapee and provides access to the local roads along the lakeshore. NH 103A is locally named Lakeside Road.
The southern terminus of NH 103A is at New Hampshire Route 103 at the south end of the lake. The northern terminus is at New Hampshire Route 11, Newport Road, at the north end of the lake near Interstate 89.
New Hampshire Route 103B
New Hampshire Route 103B (abbreviated NH 103B) is a secondary north–south highway located predominantly in Sullivan County (with a small segment in Merrimack County) in western New Hampshire. NH 103B connects Newbury with Sunapee. NH 103B runs along the western shore of Lake Sunapee and provides access to the local roads along the lakeshore. NH 103B is locally named Edgemont Road.
The southern terminus of NH 103B is at New Hampshire Route 103 on the southwest side of the lake. The road runs north into the village of Sunapee about midway up the west side of the lake. The northern terminus of NH 103B is at the junction with New Hampshire Route 11 in the village center.
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Category:Transportation in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
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Tufts University's overall goal is to create an organizational mechanism to more effectively manage the knowledge of the health sciences and to provide for a system of comprehensive information access for its academic health sciences center. The objective is to develop an integrated network of computer-based systems and services to include institutional clinical, scholarly and administrative data bases. The purpose of this request is for support to complete a strategic plan leading to the implementation of an Integrated Academic Information Management System (IAIMS). Considerable groundwork has been done toward this goal including the development of a needs analysis, development of an institution information policy, identification of staff and faculty leadership for IAIMS planning, involvement of all sectors of the academic medical center and establishment of a planning process which has already identified certain strategic outcomes. What remains to be done are development of certain technical policy issues, completion of an implementation plan and a detailed budget for implementation. Using a planning organization comprised of senior administrative leaders, faculty/staff user representatives and information services providers, the following specific areas are to be addressed. 1)To establish technical specifications, cost, funding sources and a time table for the Health Sciences campus network. 2)Develop plan for sharing information resources with the Tufts associated hospitals. 3)Further develop the application of information technology to the education of health science professionals, and, 4)Establish policy and procedures for access to institutional clinical and administrative data bases. | Pile |
Gov. John Bel Edwards says "in all likelihood" he would oppose any attempt to shift Louisiana from its unique "jungle primary" system to a closed primary system closer to what other states have.
"I think it's served us pretty well," Edwards said during his monthly call-in radio show on Wednesday. "I have no reason right now to support a move back to closed primaries."
Louisiana Republican leaders have increasingly suggested that the state revert back to a closed primary system, and Democrats have suggested privately that they also are mulling the idea and could be open to a shift.
Under the current "jungle" primary system, Louisiana races are decided by putting all candidates — regardless of party — onto one ballot. If no one gets more than 50 percent of the vote, then the top two vote-getters — again, regardless of party — face each other in a runoff a month later.
That means elections can be decided in head-to-head matchups between two Republicans or two Democrats.
A change to primaries that pit Republicans against each other for one nomination and Democrats against each other for an opposing nomination would require legislative action. The Legislature's next session begins in April, so it's unlikely that any change could happen before next year's statewide elections for governor, lieutenant governor and other offices, as well as elections to the state House and Senate.
With Jeff Landry not running for Louisiana governor, here's how race is shaping up Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has ended speculation that he might mount a run for governor next year by announcing Wednesday that he …
Whoever the governor is in office -- Edwards faces challenges from Republicans Eddie Rispone and Ralph Abraham in the coming year and more could enter the race -- if legislation is successful would have an opportunity to veto the legislation.
Edwards, who had not publicly staked out a position on the topic, said he hasn't had deeper discussions with those advocating for the change and suggested he'd be open to debate, but Edwards said he worries closed primaries would shift the state more toward partisanship seen on the national level.
"There's less bipartisanship and much more rigid ideological partisanship," he said. "I believe the open primary has served our state well." | Pile |
지금까지 모듈을 설치하고 `npm ls`를 실행하면 무슨 일이 일어나는지 확인했습니다.
그런데 package.json 을 확인해보면 다음과 같은 기묘한 코드가 있는걸 확인할 수 있습니다.
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
npm은 이 "scripts" 속성을 이용해서 태스크 러너로도 활용할 수 있습니다.
대부분 모듈이나 프로젝트는 동작 확인을 위한 테스트 스크립트가 있습니다.
테스트를 잊어버리지 않도록 npm은 디폴트로 항상 실패하는 테스트 스크립트를 설정합니다.
먼저 `test.js` 파일을 작성해봅시다. 이 워크숍의 과제로는 빈 파일이어도 괜찮습니다.
이제 어디에 테스트를 작성하면 되는지 알게 되셨을 겁니다.
(이 파일은 npm 클래스이며, 테스트용의 특별한 클래스가 아닙니다)
테스트는 에러 없이 종료되어야 합니다. 그렇지 않으면 실패로 간주합니다.
이제 직접 `package.json`을 다음과 같이 편집해봅시다.
"scripts": {
"test": "node test.js"
},
완료했다면 `$ADVENTURE_COMMAND verify`를 실행해주세요.
추가 정보: `package.json` 내의 "test" 속성의 `test.js`를 직접 실행하고 싶다면,
`npm test`를 실행하세요.
package.json의 "scripts"에 관한 상세한 정보는 다음 링크에서 확인할 수 있습니다.
https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts
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Ask HN: Turning 40. 50+, what would you tell a 40+ you? - maheshs
Want to know what 50+ would advise to 40 to stay relevant and beat autism and grow further.<p>You can suggest Books, ritual, habit, mindset, skills etc<p>My little background - I am turning 40 and working as engineering manager in Indian IT company. I also code in python and .NET.
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zapperdapper
I could probably write a book on this subject!
In interest of keeping things short though I would just say this:
1) You are young, so young. You are much younger than you think you are. When
you hit 56 like me you'll realize that.
2) Keep a positive, problem-solver mindset. In the words (roughly) of Henry
Ford "If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you can't".
3) Go for a walk daily (30 to 60 minutes) and get 8 hours sleep a night - not
negotiable.
4) Keep reading, keep learning.
5) Travel. Pick somewhere that will surprise you and try and live there for a
while. I lived in Thailand in 2003 and it changed my life.
6) Worry less. You won't get out alive anyway.
7) Stay frugal (read Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki
Robin).
8) Watch "The Sunscreen Song - 10 Year Tribute (Everybody's Free)" on YouTube!
Great advice!
In many respects my 40s were the best years of my life. Good luck!
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rman666
You are young and your best years lie ahead of you! (I’m 55 and I know this is
true!)
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zoggenhoff
My free advice is : Pack your parachute before you need it - at least two
years income saved to call yourself "financially secure".
Contentment is important. Figure it out.
Learn at least weekly. Better daily. Not just monthly or yearly.
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a0-prw
Do it now.
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Nokia CEO Feels Google is Stifling its Open Ecosystem, Making it More Closed
During Nokia’s Q4 earnings conference, CEO Stephen Elop had some choice words about Android. Mainly, that Android has become a closed ecosystem “quite recently.”
“The situation that Android is facing, where the amount of fragmentation that you’re seeing is increasing as people take it in different directions, is of course offset by Google’s efforts to turn an open ecosystem into something that’s quite a bit more closed as you’ve seen quite recently,” Elop said.
Elop doesn’t go into detail about what he’s referring to when he says closed, but he could be talking about Google’s decision to ditch Exchange ActiveSync support, TheVerge noted. Additionally, Elop’s remark could be read into him talking about Google’s reluctance to support the Windows Phone 8 platform, which is a big blow for Microsoft and its users.
So is Google becoming a closed system? Not while it’s still making excellent apps for iOS—Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, etc. | Pile |
(1) Field of the Invention:
This invention relates to blow molding devices in which thermoplastic materials such as resins are shaped into various hollow articles.
(2) Description of the Prior Arts:
Typical patents illustrating the prior art comprise U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,325,860; 3,640,672; 3,806,587; 3,899,279; 3,910,746 and 3,969,060. Each of these several prior art patents discloses a blow molding device and each is directed to some specific improvement.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,325,860 the improvement related to providing the mold sections with suction nozzles for applying suction to the outside of the upper end of the parison within the mold.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,640,672 the improvement provides the formation of the blow pin with openings arranged so that air blown through one of the openings blows the container body and the air directed through the other opening blows the handle of the particular article disclosed in the patent.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,806,587 a principal point of novelty relates to the arrangement of the apparatus for stretching a pinched portion of the parison while the latter is in a closed mold prior to or during the inflation of the pinched parison portion which has been chilled to partially reduce the temperature thereof.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,899,279 the novelty comprises the formation of a blow mold with neck forming jaws with spaced apart choke rings which restrict the movement of the thermoplastic material from the neck area of the container during the formation of the same.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,910,746; a blow molding apparatus is disclosed which includes an improved cooling system to rapidly reduce the temperature of the thermoplastic material by introducing a coolant directly into the blown article.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,969,060 blow molding apparatus is disclosed in which the parison of thermoplastic material is preheated and then gripped so as to reduce the cross section of the gripped portion which results in the deformation of the gripped portion to provide a desired profile formation.
None of the prior art of the aforesaid patents disclose blow molding devices wherein blow molds and more particularly the neck ring or shear insert thereof is provided with notches in the engaging portions thereof which define the pinch-off of the thermoplastic material on the so called pinch-off line of the article being formed so that additional quantities of the thermoplastic material are present in indicated critical areas which can then be smoothed by the withdrawing blow pin and mandrel to form a smooth inner annular surface completely eliminating the pinch off groove heretofore formed on the inner surface of a hollow article formed in accordance with the prior art techniques. | Pile |
Gerald,
I know that you have been busy with the Mexicana transaction, but I wanted to
see how things were going on your review of the Questar and Sonoran open
season docs. The Questar open season ends tomorrow, May 31 at 5p. The
Sonoran open season closes the following day.
Let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks,
Phil | Pile |
2018 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic
The 2018 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic was held in September 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was part of the 2018–19 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
Entries
The International Skating Union published the list of entries on August 17, 2018.
Changes to preliminary assignments
Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
References
External links
2018 U.S. International Figure Skating Classic at the International Skating Union
2018
Category:2018 in figure skating
Category:2018 in sports in Utah
Category:Sports in Salt Lake City
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The clinical manipulation of angiogenesis: pathology, side-effects, surprises, and opportunities with novel human therapies.
The first phase of angiogenesis research has provided knowledge of the basic pathobiology of angiogenesis and its manipulation in models, mouse, and man. The first line of therapeutic substances has been devised and is now in clinical trials. New lessons are being learned from clinical observations. Unexpected side-effects are being noted, particularly affecting the nervous system. Other side-effects may be anticipated from a sound knowledge of clinical pathology and recognition of the commonality of angiogenesis to multiple disease mechanisms, but these may be tolerable or avoidable. Angiogenesis researchers await further feedback and ideas from the clinic to stimulate the next phase of basic and applied research. | Pile |
/*
*
* Copyright 2017 gRPC authors.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*
*/
// Package connectivity defines connectivity semantics.
// For details, see https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/connectivity-semantics-and-api.md.
// All APIs in this package are experimental.
package connectivity
import (
"golang.org/x/net/context"
"google.golang.org/grpc/grpclog"
)
// State indicates the state of connectivity.
// It can be the state of a ClientConn or SubConn.
type State int
func (s State) String() string {
switch s {
case Idle:
return "IDLE"
case Connecting:
return "CONNECTING"
case Ready:
return "READY"
case TransientFailure:
return "TRANSIENT_FAILURE"
case Shutdown:
return "SHUTDOWN"
default:
grpclog.Errorf("unknown connectivity state: %d", s)
return "Invalid-State"
}
}
const (
// Idle indicates the ClientConn is idle.
Idle State = iota
// Connecting indicates the ClienConn is connecting.
Connecting
// Ready indicates the ClientConn is ready for work.
Ready
// TransientFailure indicates the ClientConn has seen a failure but expects to recover.
TransientFailure
// Shutdown indicates the ClientConn has started shutting down.
Shutdown
)
// Reporter reports the connectivity states.
type Reporter interface {
// CurrentState returns the current state of the reporter.
CurrentState() State
// WaitForStateChange blocks until the reporter's state is different from the given state,
// and returns true.
// It returns false if <-ctx.Done() can proceed (ctx got timeout or got canceled).
WaitForStateChange(context.Context, State) bool
}
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MINI Falcon By NoddyBomb Watch
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YT-800S MINI Falcon from the Correllian Engineering Corporation.
This took me way too long! Would have liked to have done a lot more detail but just had to call it a day in the end.
*Astromech not included!
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Description: First film from director James Glickenhaus who would go on to make the classic vigilante film “The Exterminator” , “Slaughter of the Innocents” , the Jackie Chan flick “The Protector” and “The Soldier” among others.
He also was producer/executive producer on several of Frank Hennenlottor’s films including the Basket Case sequels and “Brain Damage”
Review: I saw this film at my local videostore. The package looked awsome, it had an obscure name, and I’d never ever heard of it before, so naturally we rented it! Well, it’s true when they state don’t judge a movie by the address! This movie, directed by James Glickenhaus of ‘Slaughter of the Innocence’ fame, is slow, muddled, and difficult to catogorize film about a super-intelligent astrologer called “Alexi” whom is on the verge of a medical breakthrough. He believes he has discovered a means to merge astrology and advanced computers into a sophisticated science to gain mankind. Just how a subplot about a strange cult frontrunner with hypnotic powers whom has one thing to do with the “Second Coming” fits into this plot is beyond any casual audience!
As you probally can inform the plot is strange to say the minimum but it is REALLY intriguing. If you find this film, rent information technology simply to have your mind baffled for 82 moments! | Pile |
Imaging Functional Recovery Following Ischemic Stroke: Clinical and Preclinical fMRI Studies.
Disability and effectiveness of physical therapy are highly variable following ischemic stroke due to different brain regions being affected. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of patients in the months and years following stroke have given some insight into how the brain recovers lost functions. Initially, new pathways are recruited to compensate for the lost region, showing as a brighter blood oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal over a larger area during a task than in healthy controls. Subsequently, activity is reduced to baseline levels as pathways become more efficient, mimicking the process of learning typically seen during development. Preclinical models of ischemic stroke aim to enhance understanding of the biology underlying recovery following stroke. However, the pattern of recruitment and focusing seen in humans has not been observed in preclinical fMRI studies that are highly variable methodologically. Resting-state fMRI studies show more consistency; however, there are still confounding factors to address. Anesthesia and method of stroke induction are the two main sources of variability in preclinical studies; improvements here can reduce variability and increase the intensity and reproducibility of the BOLD response detected by fMRI. Differences in task or stimulus and differences in analysis method also present a source of variability. This review compares clinical and preclinical fMRI studies of recovery following stroke and focuses on how refinement of preclinical models and MRI methods may obtain more representative fMRI data in relation to human studies. | Pile |
KARACHI: The second death anniversary of legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi is being observed today.
Edhi, who built a network of humanitarian centers across the country to provide life-saving services to the people, died on July 8, 2016 at the age of 89.
He was born to a family of Muslim traders in Gujarat in British India and migrated to Pakistan after its creation in 1947. He began his humanitarian work soon after migration.
The state’s failure to help his struggling family care for his mother — paralysed and suffering from mental health issues — was his painful and decisive turning point which spurred him onto philanthropy.
In the sticky streets in the heart of Karachi, Edhi, full of idealism and hope, opened his first clinic in 1951. “Social welfare was my vocation, I had to free it,” he says in his autobiography, “A Mirror To The Blind”.
Motivated by a spiritual quest for justice, over the years Edhi and his team have created maternity wards, morgues, orphanages, shelters, and homes for the elderly aimed at helping those in society who cannot help themselves.
He was also mentioned in the Guinness Book of world records for the largest fleet of ambulances, offering help to poor communities failed by inadequate public health and welfare services.These 1500 ambulances are the most prominent symbols of the foundation deployed to the scene in case of an emergency or extremist attack.
The foundation’s adoption service sees unwanted children — many of them girls — left in cradles placed in front of every centre, where they can be safely cared for.
Mr Edhi discovered that many women were killing their babies at birth often because they were born outside marriage. One newborn child was stoned to death outside a mosque on the orders of religious leaders. Edhi was furious and responded: “Who can declare an infant guilty when there is no concept of punishing the innocent?”
He placed a little cradle outside every Edhi centre, beneath a placard saying: “Do not commit another sin: leave your baby in our care.” Edhi has so far saved 35,000 babies and and also found families to cherish them.
Edhi‘s response has been hard work and an obstinate asceticism, a bid to leave his enemies with no ammunition.
Abdul Sattar Edhi received several prestigious awards in his lifelong service of mankind. Edhi received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in Manila, Philippines also known as the Asian Noble. He was also the recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize in Italy.
In 2006, Institute of Business Administration Pakistan (IBA) conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Social Service Management for his services. In September 2010, Edhi was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire. In 1989, he received the Nishan-e-Imtiaz from the Government of Pakistan.
The annual budget of 1.5 billion rupees ($15 million), mainly from donations by middle- and working-class Pakistanis, continues to grow, according to Faisal. The Edhi foundation was also at the forefront of the response last year when a devastating heatwave struck Karachi last year.
He built up his charity solely through donations focusing on addicts, battered women, orphans and the disabled. Renowned for an ascetic lifestyle and recognized by his long white beard and traditional black cap, Edhi was a hero to the poor but infuriated some religious leaders for his refusal to give preferential treatment to Muslims above minorities.
During his last days and as his condition worsened, he refused offers to get medical treatment from abroad. Edhi leaves behind his wife Bilquis and six children.
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