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Made in Pakistan, Supported by China, but still Saudi Arabia’s nuclear weapon This week, a major Western media house discovered that the Saudi Arabia has already paid Pakistan for the bomb and can have it home-delivered pretty quickly. This is perhaps the first time that news of the Saudi-Pakistan nuclear arrangement is getting media coverage. This topic was something that Western mediapersons and analysts would determinedly avoid discussing in public. Even the most committed advocates of the nuclear non-proliferation regime still do not write or talk about the relationship, which makes their advocacy and intent a lot less credible than it otherwise might have been. Regular readers of this blog will recall analysis suggesting that Pakistan’s rapid stockpiling of fissile material is linked to Saudi Arabia’s needs in correlation with Iran’s nuclear advancements. China’s grandfatherly nuclear largesse makes Beijing an accomplice in this nuclear weapons manufacturing and transfer business. This is plain and simple nuclear proliferation, no matter if the self-appointed guardians of that term choose to ignore it. Given this background, the fact that BBC’s Newsnight is now revealing that the Pakistanis might transfer the bomb to Saudi Arabia on demand suggests that the Saudi Arabian government wants it to be revealed. This is understandable: with chances of a Iran’s rapprochement with the West increasing this year, the likelihood that the world will eventually accept a nuclear Iran is also rising. Letting it be known that Saudi Arabia also has nuclear capacity—albeit in an outsourced model—serves to reinforce Riyadh’s prestige, proto-deterrence and adds pressure on its Western allies to not cut deals with the Iranians. It also helps prepare the ground for an eventual coming out of the nuclear closet. What Western analysts of nuclear proliferation have to answer for is when exactly did the Saudi-Pakistan-China nuclear arrangement start? If it predates Tehran’s own decision to develop nuclear weapons capacity, then shouldn’t part of the responsibility for Iran’s move accrue to Riyadh, Islamabad and Beijing? Recriminations of the intellectual kind are futile in geopolitics, but to the extent that the United States recognises Iran’s security challenges, it might be able to negotiate for better outcomes with Iran, for the international community. The emerging problem in the Middle East is one of shaping a stable nuclear deterrence relationship primarily involving Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran, with the United States, Pakistan and China as actors in a supporting role. Getting facts out into the open is the good way to begin addressing it. | High | [
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//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure // // This file is dual licensed under the MIT and the University of Illinois Open // Source Licenses. See LICENSE.TXT for details. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // <ostream> // template <class charT, class traits = char_traits<charT> > // class basic_ostream; // basic_ostream<charT,traits>& operator<<(basic_ios<charT,traits>& // (*pf)(basic_ios<charT,traits>&)); #include <ostream> #include <cassert> template <class CharT> class testbuf : public std::basic_streambuf<CharT> { typedef std::basic_streambuf<CharT> base; std::basic_string<CharT> str_; public: testbuf() { } std::basic_string<CharT> str() const {return std::basic_string<CharT>(base::pbase(), base::pptr());} protected: virtual typename base::int_type overflow(typename base::int_type __c = base::traits_type::eof()) { if (__c != base::traits_type::eof()) { int n = str_.size(); str_.push_back(__c); str_.resize(str_.capacity()); base::setp(const_cast<CharT*>(str_.data()), const_cast<CharT*>(str_.data() + str_.size())); base::pbump(n+1); } return __c; } }; template <class CharT> std::basic_ios<CharT>& f(std::basic_ios<CharT>& os) { std::uppercase(os); return os; } int main() { { testbuf<char> sb; std::ostream os(&sb); assert(!(os.flags() & std::ios_base::uppercase)); os << f; assert( (os.flags() & std::ios_base::uppercase)); } } | Mid | [
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Ted Owens (basketball) Ted Owens is a former American college basketball coach. He was born July 16, 1929 in Hollis, Oklahoma. He is best-known as the coach of the University of Kansas men's basketball team from 1964 to 1983. He is the fourth-winningest coach in Jayhawks basketball history. Player and early coaching experience Owens attended college at Oklahoma University (OU), where he was a three-year letterman under head coach John MacLeod. He graduated with a BA degree in 1951. In 1956, he was hired to coach both baseball and basketball at Cameron Junior College (Lawton, Oklahoma), where he remained until 1960. His baseball team won the National JC Championship in 1958. The basketball team had a 93-24 record during his four years and appeared in three NJCAA Tournaments. Owens' overall Kansas record was 348–182 (.657), and his Big Eight Conference record was 170–96 (.639). In Owens' tenure at KU, he won six Big Eight Conference titles and advanced to the NCAA tournament seven times. His 1971 and 1974 teams made it to the Final Four, and in 1968 the Jayhawks lost to Dayton in the finals of the National Invitation Tournament. Owens was named Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year five times and was Named National Coach of the Year in 1978 by Basketball Weekly. He coached five All-Americans: Jo Jo White, Darnell Valentine, Dave Robisch, Bud Stallworth and Walt Wesley. He was fired following the 1982–83 season after the Jayhawks posted back-to-back losing seasons. He is the only coach in the programs history to be fired. Kansas has not suffered a losing season since, and has only missed the NCAA tournament once since then, in 1988–89 when the program was on probation for recruiting violations committed by Owens' successor, Larry Brown. A three-year letterman at the University of Oklahoma (1949–51), Owens honed his coaching skills as head coach at Cameron State Junior College in Lawton, Oklahoma. In four seasons his teams never won fewer than 20 games and three times advanced to the NJCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship semifinals. At Cameron, he amassed a 93–24 record and boasted four junior college All-Americans. Owens then accepted an assistant's position under Dick Harp in 1960, and was promoted to head coach when Harp resigned following the 1963–64 season. Other coaching activities Owens had a brief stint of coaching at Oral Roberts University (1985–87), and then in Israel with Maccabi Tel Aviv during the 1989–90 season, before being fired in February 1990. He then went on to be the development director and basketball coach at Metro Christian Academy (high school) in Tulsa, Oklahoma for five years where his teams won the district championship five times, and went to the state tournament three times. Subsequently, he moved on to be athletic director at St. Leo University in Florida for four years. Owens was inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame on August 3, 2009. He was inducted into the Kansas Hall of Fame in the same year. Retirement After leaving St. Leo, a friend invited him to return to Tulsa and work as an investment adviser for First Capital Management, where he spent the next ten years. After retiring from this position, he decided to continue living in Tulsa in retirement.Cherry, Don. "All roads kept coach Ted Owens coming back to Tulsa." Tulsa World. March 16, 2017. Accessed June 26, 2019.</ref> Head coaching record See also List of NCAA Division I Men's Final Four appearances by coach References External links Kansas Basketball Coaches Voices of Oklahoma interview. First person interview conducted on May 12, 2016, with Ted Owens. Category:1929 births Category:Living people Category:American expatriate basketball people in Israel Category:American men's basketball coaches Category:American men's basketball players Category:Basketball coaches from Oklahoma Category:Basketball players from Oklahoma Category:Cameron Aggies men's basketball coaches Category:College men's basketball head coaches in the United States Category:Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball coaches Category:Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. coaches Category:Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball players Category:Oral Roberts Golden Eagles men's basketball coaches Category:People from Hollis, Oklahoma Category:People from Lawrence, Kansas Category:People from Tulsa, Oklahoma | High | [
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is divided by b? 6 Suppose 2*p + 3*p = 270. Suppose 14*i - 28 - 770 = 0. Suppose 77 = 64*r - i*r. Calculate the remainder when p is divided by r. 10 Calculate the remainder when 2324 is divided by (-38 + (7 - -6))*-1*1. 24 Suppose 20 = -5*z, 10 + 64 = 3*k - 2*z. What is the remainder when 1208 is divided by k? 20 Suppose 63156 = 4*d - 4*u, 22351 = d + 5*u + 6514. What is the remainder when d is divided by 20? 17 Let l = -285 + 290. What is the remainder when ((-129)/6 + l)*-8 is divided by 7? 6 Suppose -5*p = -2*l + 27, 0 = -5*p - 5*l + l - 51. Calculate the remainder when 60*(-5 - (p + 1)) is divided by 38. 22 Let h = 324 + -308. Suppose -4*x + 234 = 2*x. What is the remainder when x is divided by h? 7 Let d = 73 - -99. Let b = 251 - d. What is the remainder when b is divided by 17? 11 Suppose 32*f = 34*f + y - 106, -3*y = -5*f + 276. Calculate the remainder when 413 is divided by f. 35 Calculate the remainder when (-1)/(((-2)/(-4))/(4*749/(-8))) is divided by (-302)/(-4) - 4*(-3)/(-24). 74 Suppose 98*d - 210*d = -95*d - 816. What is the remainder when 669 is divided by d? 45 Let v = -11580 + 14038. Calculate the remainder when v is divided by 123. 121 Suppose 14*o + 4*o = 0. Suppose 11*j + 29 - 315 = o. Calculate the remainder when 570 is divided by j. 24 Let u be 2 - (2 - 4) - 1 - -1. Suppose 2*v - 3*v = u*t - 91, 5*v = -t - 1. What is the remainder when 95 is divided by t? 23 Suppose -22*h + 3*g - 215 = -23*h, -585 = -3*h + g. Calculate the remainder when 2769 is divided by h. 11 Suppose 237*u = 232*u + 9*x + 227, u + 4*x = 28. Suppose -3*q + 2 + 7 = 0. Suppose -60 = -i - q*i. Calculate the remainder when u is divided by i. 10 Let r be (-10784)/48 + (-2)/6. Let m be (4/6)/(30/r). What is the remainder when 66 is divided by (m + -331)/8*1/(-3)? 10 Let t(k) = -k + 40. Let z be t(29). Suppose -8*l + n - 41 = -z*l, 0 = -5*l - 3*n + 75. What is the remainder when 26 is divided by l? 2 Let a(j) = j**3 - 10*j**2 + 3*j - 22. Let w be a(10). Suppose -5*k = -3*u - 91, -k - 7*u + 19 = -w*u. What is the remainder when 28 is divided by k? 11 Let j be (5 - 6)*-6 - (1 + -1). Calculate the remainder when 43 is divided by (126/189)/(1/j). 3 Suppose -432 = -4*m - 44. What is the remainder when m is divided by (-8)/(-10)*1925/70? 9 Let m be 12/((-3)/(-1))*2. Suppose -7 - m = -3*c. What is the remainder when 29 is divided by ((-1)/2)/((-2)/12) + c? 5 What is the remainder when (24/10)/(1/10) is divided by -2 + (-22)/55*-15 + -14 + 19? 6 Suppose 0 = 7*w + 27*w - 612. Calculate the remainder when 698 is divided by w. 14 Let g(j) = -77*j - 1119. What is the remainder when 776 is divided by g(-15)? 20 Suppose -25*x + 29*x = 21*x - 476. What is the remainder when 4927 is divided by x? 27 Suppose -201*q + 1383 = -198*q. Let k = q - 374. What is the remainder when k is divided by 23? 18 Suppose -6573*v + 6592*v = 627. Calculate the remainder when 636 is divided by v. 9 Let v = -4486 + 4934. Let w(c) = -101*c + 4. Let l be w(3). Let q = l + v. Calculate the remainder when q is divided by 38. 35 Let k be (22/(-4) - -5)*(-68)/2. Calculate the remainder when 72 is divided by (-264)/(-14) + 3/(k - -4). 15 Suppose -99 = 15*a - 669. Let v be (-39)/(-15) + 2/5. Suppose -j + 2*x + a = -x, v*x = -12. Calculate the remainder when 59 is divided by j. 7 Let n(t) = 2*t**2 + 167*t + 1854. What is the remainder when 6083 is divided by n(-13)? 14 Let y(n) = -35*n**3 + 352*n**2 - 14*n - 34. What is the remainder when 141 is divided by y(10)? 11 Let w = -21018 - -21045. What is the remainder when 2 + (1 - -98) - 1 is divided by w? 19 Let d(a) = a**2 - 9*a + 38. Let z = -18 + 21. Suppose 4*w + 280 = 4*v, -v + z*w - 342 = -6*v. Calculate the remainder when v is divided by d(7). 21 Let j = -17541 + 19230. What is the remainder when j is divided by 18? 15 Suppose -393 = -3*v - j, -4*v + 3*j = 83 - 581. Let z = 14 + -8. What is the remainder when v is divided by z? 3 Suppose 10407 + 4815 = 118*d. Calculate the remainder when 630 is divided by d. 114 Suppose 2*d = 12*t - 8*t - 48, 2*t - 3*d = 32. Suppose -2*n + 24 = -4*q, 4*q + 10 = -2. Suppose w - n*w = -175. What is the remainder when w is divided by t? 5 Let p(w) = 2*w**2 - 7*w + 1. Let z be p(3). Suppose 2*l + 3*v - 110 = -v, 3*v = -3*l + 171. What is the remainder when l is divided by 31/2 + 1/z? 14 Suppose 26*l - 17156 = -54*l - 36. What is the remainder when 11341 is divided by l? 213 Suppose 5*q = 3*w + 4, 2*q - 9 = -2*w - 1. Suppose -w*g = r + 2*g - 74, 2*g + 458 = 5*r. What is the remainder when r is divided by 30? 0 Suppose -6*k = k. Suppose k = 44*z - 47*z + 45. Let x(l) = 25*l**2 + 1. What is the remainder when x(-1) is divided by z? 11 Let v(t) = -15*t + 303. Suppose 0 = 58*f - 57*f - 17. Calculate the remainder when (-1)/(-3) - 716/(-3) is divided by v(f). 47 Let f = 3203 - 3166. Calculate the remainder when 1553 is divided by f. 36 Let m(y) be the first derivative of y**3/3 + 3*y**2/2 - 3*y + 27. Let c be m(-7). Suppose 24*d - c*d + 33 = 0. Calculate the remainder when d is divided by 12. 9 Let c = 2722 + -2646. Calculate the remainder when 114 is divided by c. 38 Suppose 230*t = 4453 + 4287. Calculate the remainder when 90 is divided by t. 14 Let z(y) = 482*y - 1218. What is the remainder when z(8) is divided by 30? 28 Let h(x) = -14*x + 47. Let j be h(3). Suppose 5*l - 205 = q, -4*l - 2*q = -j*l + 32. What is the remainder when 83 is divided by l? 41 Let p = -13716 + 14137. Calculate the remainder when p is divided by 202. 17 Suppose 50 = 4*u - 10. Calculate the remainder when u is divided by (4/18)/((-8)/(-12)*-15*(-6)/270). 0 Let t(z) = z**2 + 5*z**2 + 11*z - 5 - 2*z**2. Suppose j = 3*x + 13, 0*x - 5*j - 15 = x. What is the remainder when t(x) is divided by 15? 10 Let w(c) = c**3 + 32*c**2 - 141*c + 114. Calculate the remainder when w(-36) is divided by (-3 - (-4 - 1)) + 0. 0 Let x(i) = -2*i**3 - 138*i**2 - 3*i + 994. What is the remainder when 3606 is divided by x(-69)? 3 Let i(y) = -y**2 - 12*y + 26. What is the remainder when i(-8) is divided by (0 + 1/(-1))*(-38)/1? 20 Let q = -263 - -271. What is the remainder when -15 + 11 + (0 - -35) is divided by q? 7 Suppose -9*p - 6*p + 938 + 427 = 0. What is the remainder when 206 is divided by p? 24 Let j(y) = -y**3 + 31*y**2 - 198*y + 29. Calculate the remainder when 101 is divided by j(22). 14 Let h(c) = 4*c**3 - 2*c**2 + 2*c. Let s be h(1). Suppose 6*t - s*t + 3*f = 127, 0 = 5*f + 5. What is the remainder when t is divided by 14? 9 Let v = -7306 + 7379. Calculate the remainder when 276 is divided by v. 57 Suppose 3*c - 3*m = 4*c - 13, -5*c - m + 23 = 0. Suppose 0 = -0*o + c*o - 204. What is the remainder when o is divided by ((-12)/60)/((-3)/(-9)) - 68/(-5)? 12 Suppose 2*n = 3*n + 1. Let y(m) = -2*m**3 - 22*m**2 - 665*m - 7292. What is the remainder when y(-11) is divided by n/3 - 120/(-9)? 10 Suppose -56 = -7*r + 35 + 21. What is the remainder when 270 is divided by r? 14 Let i(k) = -k**2 - 8*k - 7. Let o be i(-7). Suppose -q - 2*w = o, -w = -4*q + w. Suppose -3*a + 38 + 31 = q. Calculate the remainder when a is divided by 13. 10 Let b be (-4320)/75 - 3/(-5). Let n = 63 + b. What is the remainder when (20*4/(-12))/((-2)/n) is divided by 7? 6 Let a = 12343 + -11058. What is the remainder when 3875 is divided by a? 20 Suppose -5*o = 0, -5*o = -4*n - 0*o - 24. Let j = -1 - n. Suppose 0 = 2*d + 5*w - 26, 20 = 5*d + j*w - 15. Calculate the remainder when 4 is divided by d. 1 Let f(c) = -9*c**2 - 51*c + 24. Suppose -2*a = -r + 59, 0*r + 3*a = -3*r + 168. What is the remainder when r is divided by f(-6)? 3 Let x(u) = u**2 + 7*u - 32. Let l be x(9). Suppose -l*i = -105*i - 70. What is the remainder when 16 is divided by i? 6 Let x = 6908 - 6499. Calculate the remainder when x is divided by 390. 19 Let v(u) = 3*u**2 - 1. Suppose 4*d + 72 = 2*c, -4*c = 5*d - 2*c + 90. What is the remainder when (-1 + -1)*387/d is divided by v(2)? 10 Suppose 4*x = 3*d - 2*d - 76, -5*d + 3*x = -465. Suppose d + 4 = 5*n. Let p = 191451 - 191372. Calculate the remainder when p is divided by n. 19 What is the remainder when 166 is divided by (130/(-15) + 10)/(4/336*1)? 54 Let k = 895 + -750. Calculate the remainder when k is divided by 47. 4 Let x be 621/115 - 6/(-10). Suppose 0 = 3*h - x, -3*p + | Low | [
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. -410459 - 2100*sqrt(19) Simplify (3*(sqrt(1800) - -5*sqrt(1800)*2))/((1*-2*sqrt(110))/(sqrt(1584)*1 + sqrt(1584))). -2376*sqrt(5) Simplify (-3*(-2*(sqrt(1900) - (0 + sqrt(1900) + sqrt(1900) + sqrt(1900))) + sqrt(1900)*-1 + 2) - (2 + -3*(-1 + sqrt(1900)) + 5))**2. 1920*sqrt(19) + 68656 Simplify 2 + (4*4*((sqrt(76) - (0 + sqrt(76))) + 3)*2)**2 + 3. 9221 Simplify (6*((-6*(sqrt(3) + 1 + -5) - (-2 + (sqrt(3) - sqrt(18)/sqrt(54)))) + -5)*2*3)**2. -362880*sqrt(3) + 744336 Simplify -2*(((sqrt(396) - (2*sqrt(396) - sqrt(396)))/sqrt(9))/(sqrt(576)*1) - (-3*sqrt(11)*5 - sqrt(33)/(-1*sqrt(3)))). -28*sqrt(11) Simplify ((sqrt(18)/sqrt(324) - sqrt(32)*-1) + 2 - (-3*sqrt(48) + sqrt(48) + sqrt(48))/(sqrt(24)*3))**2. 18*sqrt(2) + 89/2 Simplify 2 + (4 + -4*(sqrt(320)*-1 - sqrt(320)) - (5 + (sqrt(320) - (-1 + sqrt(320) + (sqrt(320) + 0 + sqrt(320) - sqrt(320)) + sqrt(320)))))**2 + 4. -320*sqrt(5) + 32010 Simplify (3*((2*sqrt(90))/sqrt(5) + sqrt(450)*5))/((sqrt(3402)*-2)/(sqrt(112)*-1)). 18*sqrt(3) Simplify -4 + ((2 + sqrt(176))*-2 + -3 - ((sqrt(176) + (sqrt(176) + -1)*2 - sqrt(176) - sqrt(176)) + sqrt(176) + sqrt(176) + 2))**2. 280*sqrt(11) + 4445 Simplify 1*(-1 + 2 + 4*-1*sqrt(512)*-4). 1 + 256*sqrt(2) Simplify ((sqrt(150) + 6*((sqrt(150) - -2*sqrt(150)) + sqrt(150) - sqrt(150)))/(-2*sqrt(5)*-5 - sqrt(5)))/((1*sqrt(324) - sqrt(324) - sqrt(36))/(4*sqrt(24))). -152*sqrt(5)/9 Simplify (((-2*2*sqrt(192) + 2)**2 - ((sqrt(192)*2)**2 + -4 - (sqrt(192)*-2 + -2))) + 0)*-5 + -1. -11551 + 720*sqrt(3) Simplify (6*sqrt(9072)*3*-3)/((sqrt(441) + sqrt(441) + (1*sqrt(441)*-1 - sqrt(441)) - sqrt(441))*1). 648*sqrt(7)/7 Simplify ((2*(sqrt(125) + 1*sqrt(125)) + -2)**2 - (sqrt(35)/(sqrt(448)*3 - sqrt(7)) + -2)**2)*-2. -2115990/529 + 3672*sqrt(5)/23 Simplify (2 + (-2 + sqrt(50)*-2 + -1 + -4)*-2)**2. 640*sqrt(2) + 1056 Simplify 2*(sqrt(931) + -5 + sqrt(931) + sqrt(931)*-1 + (sqrt(931) - ((sqrt(931) - (sqrt(931) + sqrt(931)*2 + sqrt(931))) + 2)**2) + 1*-1*(sqrt(931) + 1)). -16778 + 182*sqrt(19) Simplify ((-2 + (-2 + (-1 + sqrt(363) - sqrt(363))*-4)*3)**2 + 5)*3. 63 Simplify ((sqrt(176)/(2*sqrt(8)) - sqrt(66)/sqrt(3)*-3)*5)/(-6*2*sqrt(704)*-5). 7*sqrt(2)/192 Simplify (-1*(sqrt(17) + -2 + 4)*-5)**2 - (sqrt(153) + sqrt(153) + -3 + 5)*3. 82*sqrt(17) + 519 Simplify (2*((1*sqrt(187) - sqrt(187)) + sqrt(187)) + sqrt(187) + (sqrt(187) - sqrt(187)*-4*4))/((sqrt(132)/(sqrt(15)/sqrt(5)))/(-2*(sqrt(4) + -2*sqrt(4)))). 40*sqrt(17) Simplify (((sqrt(351) + (sqrt(351) - (sqrt(351) - 3*sqrt(351)) - sqrt(351)))/sqrt(9))/(3*sqrt(243)) + (-2 + -1*sqrt(468) - (1 + 1*sqrt(325))))**2. 196*sqrt(13)/3 + 125581/81 Simplify ((sqrt(80) - sqrt(80)*2)*-5*3)**2 + (sqrt(80) - 1*(sqrt(80) + -1) - sqrt(80) - (sqrt(80)*1 + -3 + sqrt(80)))**2 + 3 + 1. -96*sqrt(5) + 18740 Simplify ((1 + sqrt(68))*-5 + 0 + 5 - (5 + sqrt(68) + (2*(sqrt(68) + 1 - sqrt(68)))**2 + -5)) + 0. -12*sqrt(17) - 4 Simplify ((-5*(1 + sqrt(320))*4 + (-4*(sqrt(320) + -2) - (4 + 0 + sqrt(320) + sqrt(320))))*-6)**2. 239616*sqrt(5) + 7796736 Simplify (5 + (-4 + 2*sqrt(98) - 3*(sqrt(98) + -2) - -6*sqrt(98)*2*3))**2. 3430*sqrt(2) + 120099 Simplify ((sqrt(16)/sqrt(200) - (-4 + sqrt(72))) + (-2 + -1 + sqrt(2)*-1)*5)**2 + 4. 1188*sqrt(2)/5 + 8957/25 Simplify ((sqrt(224) - (sqrt(224) - 3*sqrt(224)))*-4 - sqrt(224))/(sqrt(8) + 6*sqrt(128) + (sqrt(96)/(sqrt(12)*2) - sqrt(8)))*3. -156*sqrt(7)/49 Simplify -5 + 1*sqrt(931)*5 + 4 + (-1 + sqrt(931) + sqrt(931))**2*1 + (sqrt(931) + 0 + sqrt(931) + -1)**2. -21*sqrt(19) + 7449 Simplify 1 + (5 + 1*(1*sqrt(75)*1 + sqrt(75) + -5 + (sqrt(75) + 1 - sqrt(75)) - -6*(sqrt(75) + -3 + (sqrt(75) - (sqrt(75)*-2 + sqrt(75))))))**2. -3400*sqrt(3) + 30290 Simplify 1*(sqrt(209)/(sqrt(132)/(sqrt(96)/sqrt(8))))**2 + 1*(-6*(sqrt(2736) - -3*sqrt(2736)))**2. 1575955 Simplify ((sqrt(605)*-1*-4)**2 + sqrt(605))*5 - (sqrt(360)/(sqrt(24)/sqrt(3)))/((sqrt(90)*-1)/sqrt(10)). 56*sqrt(5) + 48400 Simplify (2*sqrt(192)*3 + sqrt(192))**2 - (sqrt(192) - (3*sqrt(192) + 1))**2 - (sqrt(192) + ((sqrt(192) + 0)*-4 - sqrt(192)) + 4 + -4)**2. -32*sqrt(3) + 5567 Simplify (sqrt(128) + 1 - sqrt(10)/sqrt(80) - (5*sqrt(32) + sqrt(200) + -1))**2 + (sqrt(22) - 4*sqrt(198))/((sqrt(110)*-3 + sqrt(110) - sqrt(110))/sqrt(10)). -256*sqrt(2)/3 + 7953/8 Simplify (sqrt(77) + (sqrt(77) + -6*sqrt(77)*-2 - sqrt(77)))/(((sqrt(99) - (sqrt(99)*-1 + sqrt(99) + sqrt(99))) + sqrt(99))/sqrt(9)) - (3 + 5 + -2*sqrt(847)). -8 + 35*sqrt(7) Simplify (-6*((-5 + 2*sqrt(2800))*-5 + (sqrt(2800) + 0)*-4*-4))**2*2. 432000*sqrt(7) + 7302600 Simplify ((sqrt(117) - -4*-3*sqrt(117)) + sqrt(117) - (sqrt(117) + sqrt(117)*-1*-2))/(6*1*sqrt(9)*-3*2). 13*sqrt(13)/36 Simplify (4*(-1 + -4 + sqrt(208)) - (4 + sqrt(468) + sqrt(468) + sqrt(468) + -2 + 4))*-1. 2*sqrt(13) + 26 Simplify (sqrt(119) - (2*(sqrt(119) + sqrt(119)*-3) - sqrt(119)) - -4*2*sqrt(119))/(-2*sqrt(448)*-2 + sqrt(448) + -6*-2*sqrt(448)). 7*sqrt(17)/68 Simplify 1 + 2 + (4*5*sqrt(500) - sqrt(500)) + -2 + sqrt(500)*-1 + (4 + 0 + sqrt(500) + sqrt(500))**2. 340*sqrt(5) + 2017 Simplify (((sqrt(1920)*1 - sqrt(1920)) + sqrt(30) + sqrt(4320)*-1 + sqrt(4320))/((sqrt(360) + 3*sqrt(360) + sqrt(360) + sqrt(360) + sqrt(10))*3) + 3)*6. 2*sqrt(3)/37 + 18 Simplify ((2*sqrt(140)*-5 + sqrt(140))/(3*-2*sqrt(4)))/((sqrt(125)*2 + sqrt(125))*4*-3). -sqrt(7)/120 Simplify (5*sqrt(133)*-1 - 3*(-2*sqrt(133) - sqrt(133) - sqrt(133)))/((sqrt(504) - (sqrt(504)*1*4 + sqrt(504)))/sqrt(8)). -7*sqrt(19)/12 Simplify sqrt(1872) + (5*sqrt(1872)*2)**2 + 5 + -1 + -2 + 0 + sqrt(1872) + 4. 24*sqrt(13) + 187206 Simplify ((sqrt(160) + sqrt(160)*2)*-3 - sqrt(160) - (sqrt(160) + (sqrt(160) - -2*sqrt(160)*-6)))/(sqrt(45)*6*2). 0 Simplify (3*(sqrt(156) + (-1*sqrt(156)*-2 - sqrt(156)) + 2*sqrt(156)*1 + sqrt(156)))/(5*(sqrt(1200) + sqrt(1200)*-1*4)). -sqrt(13)/10 Simplify (-3*(-3*(2 + 5 + (sqrt(1088) + (sqrt(1088) - sqrt(1088)*-2 - sqrt(1088)) - sqrt(1088) - sqrt(1088)) + sqrt(1088))*6)**2 + 2)*-1. 217728*sqrt(17) + 4277770 Simplify (-2*-1*sqrt(297) + -6*(sqrt(297) + -1*sqrt(297)) + sqrt(297))/(sqrt(11) + (sqrt(11) - sqrt(3520)/sqrt(5)) + sqrt(11) - 2*sqrt(11)*3). -9*sqrt(3)/11 Simplify (sqrt(1053)*1 + 1 + sqrt(1053) + -6*2*sqrt(1053))**2 - 5*(sqrt(1300)*-1 + 1). -130*sqrt(13) + 105296 Simplify (5*-6*(-2*sqrt(252) + sqrt(252)))**2 + (sqrt(28) - (sqrt(28) + -1)*6)**2 + -4 + 5. -120*sqrt(7) + 227537 Simplify (-1*(sqrt(77) + 1*sqrt(77)) - 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FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION FEB 27 2012 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S . CO U RT OF AP PE A LS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT DAVID ALTMAN; BEVERLY No. 09-70936 ALTMAN, Tax Ct. No. 16356-06 Petitioners, v. MEMORANDUM * COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent. Appeal from a Decision of the United States Tax Court Argued and Submitted December 8, 2011 San Francisco, California Before: O'SCANNLAIN, COWEN **, and BERZON, Circuit Judges. Dr. David Altman and Beverly Altman appeal an order of the United States Tax Court holding them liable for negligently claiming a loss on their 1982 tax return. The Altmans had invested in a project of CAL-NEVA Partners, a Nevada * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. ** The Honorable Robert E. Cowen, Senior Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation. limited partnership involved in growing jojoba beans. The tax court found the Altmans negligent in claiming the tax loss. We reverse. The tax court clearly erred in concluding that Dr. Altman's own thorough investigation was insufficient to permit him to maµe a reasonable decision that the project had some fair prospect of profitability. And the tax court clearly erred in concluding that Dr. Altman's consultation with Mr. Mohler, and his related conduct in claiming the deduction, was inadequate. See Sacµs v. Commissioner, 82 F.3d 918, 920 (9th Cir. 1996). Because the tax court's determinations regarding the Altmans' negligence are not supported by the record, we reverse its holding that the Altmans were negligent within the meaning of former y 6653(a) of the Internal Revenue Code for claiming a loss relating to their investment in CAL-NEVA. The decision ordering additions to tax totaling ü32,596 is therefore REVERSED. 2 FILED Altman v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, No. 09-70936 FEB 27 2012 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK COWEN, Circuit Judge, dissenting: U.S . CO U RT OF AP PE A LS In reversing the tax court, the majority goes beyond the applicable standard of review for clear error that is limited to determining whether 'the [tax court's] account of the evidence is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety.' Wolf v. C.I.R., 4 F.3d 709, 712 (9th Cir. 1993) (emphasis added). Although the majority might disagree with how the tax court weighed the evidence before it, the Court of Appeals ''may not reverse [the tax court's decision] even though convinced that had it been sitting as the trier of fact, it would have weighed the evidence differently.'' Id. at 712-713 (citing Service Employee Int'l Union v. Fair Political Practices Comm'n, 955 F.2d 1312, 1317 n.7 (9th Cir. 1992)). Here, the majority substitutes its own weighing of the evidence for the tax court's. But the tax court's conclusion meets the minimum standard of 'plausibility in light of the record,' Id. at 712; the majority's imposition of its own conclusion is an inappropriate overreach of the Court of Appeals' jurisdiction. Consequently, I respectfully dissent from the majority's opinion; the tax court's order should be affirmed. Negligence in the claiming of a deduction 'depends on the legitimacy of the underlying investment, and due care in the claiming of the deduction.' Sacµs v. Commissioner, 82 F.3d 918, 920 (9th Cir. 1996). The determination of negligence is 'highly factual' and assesses 'the taxpayer's actions in light of the taxpayer's experience and the nature of the investment.' Bass v. C.I.R., T.C. Memo 2007-361 (Dec. 5, 2007). The tax court's determination is reviewed for clear error. Sµeen v. C.I.R., 864 F.2d 93, 96 (9th Cir. 1989). (A) The Legitimacy of the Underlying Investment The majority does not appear to taµe issue with the tax court's finding that the investment itself lacµed legitimacy. Rather, the majority bases their decision on their characterization of Dr. Altman's investigation as 'thorough' and not 'insufficient' so as permit him to maµe a 'reasonable decision that the project had some fair prospect of profitability.' This characterization of the investigation is no more 'plausib[le] in light of the record' than the tax court's assessment leading it to conclude that the investment lacµed legitimacy. Wolf, 4 F.3d at 712. And the reasonableness of Dr. Altman's decision on which the majority relies is undermined by the lacµ of evidence in the record that the project ever had a 'fair prospect of profitability'and the evidence, µnown to Dr. Altman, indicating the contrary. In considering Dr. Altman's own investigation into the investment, the tax court ultimately found that it was no substitute for the advice of an uninterested 2 third party, of which Dr. Altman did not seeµ before investing in CAL-NEVA. As the tax court highlighted, it weighed the evidence of Dr. Altman's experience and independent research against the fact that much of Dr. Altman's own analysis was based on the information gleaned from CAL-NEVA's private placement memorandum, which contained significant warnings about the propriety of the investment and reliance on its cash flow projections.1 Accord Hansen, 471 F.3d at 1032 ('a taxpayer cannot negate the negligence penalty through reliance on a 1 Appellants received and reviewed CAL-NEVA's Private Placement Memorandum ('Memorandum'). Under a heading entitled 'RISK FACTORS,' the Memorandum warns potential investors that they 'must be prepared for the possible loss of the entire investment' and that the interests 'should be considered highly speculative investments.' The section itemizes several factors that might influence the economic viability of CAL-NEVA, including energy shortages, agricultural risµs, and research and development risµs. Under the risµ factor titled 'Lacµ of Operating History of the General Partners,' the Memorandum warns that '[t]here can be no assurance that the General Partners will be considered as having substantial assets for the purpose of determining whether the Partnership will be treated as a Partnership for federal income tax purposes.' A significant portion of the 'RISK FACTORS' section is dedicated to Federal tax issues. The Memorandum cautions that 'most of the tax shelter benefits would be lost to the Limited Partners' if the Partnership was treated as an association taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. And the 'Partnership will not seeµ a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service (Service) as to its tax status as a partnership.' Further, in reference to the uncertainty as to what types of expenditures will qualify as research or experimental expenditures, the Memorandum states that '[n]o ruling by the Service has been or will be sought regarding deductibility of the proposed expenditures under Section 174 of the Code.' The Memorandum tells prospective investors to consult their own tax advisors regarding the investment in CAL-NEVA. 3 transaction's promoters or on other advisors who have a conflict of interest'). Just because the majority found Dr. Altman's own analysis 'thorough' and not 'insufficient,' does not mean that the tax court erred in finding Dr. Altman's investigation adequate in light of these warnings. To the contrary, it is plausible to infer that because Dr. Altman had experience in research and development, but no experience in agricultural research and development or agriculture, he should have µnown to seeµ independent advice. Other findings and evidence support the plausibility of the tax court's conclusion that Dr. Altman's investment was illegitimate. There are several examples in the record that indicate the inadequacy of Dr. Altman's investigation and the illegitimacy of the partnership. For instance, the library research Dr. Altman performed was about jojoba plants and the use of jojoba oil generally; there is no finding or evidence that Dr. Altman relied on uninterested sources in specific reference to CAL-NEVA, U.S. Agri, or any other component of the partnership. It would be plausible for the tax court to conclude that Dr. Altman's belief, however well-supported, of the viability of the jojoba bean's potential for profit in general does not constitute an adequate investigation for investing in a specific partnership. Additionally, Dr. Altman did not investigate whether CAL- NEVA was worµing on mechanical efforts to harvest jojoba beans, even though 4 mechanical harvest was necessary to attain commercial status. And he did not go to the site where the jojoba beans were going to be grown. Further, several factors µnown to Dr. Altman at the time, in addition to the warnings in the placement memorandum about the risµ factors and tax consequences, indicated an almost-certain illegitimacy of the partnership. Dr. Altman was aware that the partnership did not own any land or crops, there was no structured marµet or distribution system for jojoba beans, and no marµet analysis was conducted about jojoba beans. The general partner had no agricultural experience. Furthermore, the minimum capitalization and capital was reduced just before Dr. Altman's investment. The cash flows were not optimistic. In his testimony, Dr. Altman offers little to no explanation for how he justified the investment in light of these risµs. Upon the record viewed in its entirety, the tax court's conclusion that Dr. Altman's investment lacµed legitimacy is plausible, at the very least. There are sufficient examples of how Dr. Altman's investigation was inadequate, a plausible explanation for why his independent research and analysis, regardless of his experience, are insufficient to cure these inadequacies, and evidence, µnown by Dr. Altman at the time of investing, that clearly calls into question the legitimacy of the partnership. 5 (B) Due Care in Claiming the Deduction The tax court's conclusion that Dr. Altman did not exercise due care in claiming the deduction is also plausible in light of the record. On this point, the majority implies that Dr. Altman's consultation with his accountant was adequate to justify claiming the deduction. In light of the record, this sets a low standard on a taxpayer in claiming such a deduction. Beyond the fact that Dr. Altman had a conversation about the deduction with his accountant, there is no evidence that the accountant advised him to claim the deduction. Rather, the record implies that the accountant had doubts about the investment. On this record, it is just as plausible to conclude the accountant advised Dr. Altman to taµe the deduction as it is to conclude that he advised him not to, or that if Dr. Altman did he would be subject to a negligence penalty. Even assuming that the accountant advised Dr. Altman on this issue, there is no evidence of the specific information on which accountant based the advice. He certainly did not base any advice on a firsthand analysis of any document relating to the partnership. If the accountant gave advice at all, it was based on notes Dr. Altman made summarizing his understanding of 'various [unspecified] documents.' Since the advice could have been based on incomplete or inaccurate information created by Dr. Altman, it is plausible to conclude that Dr. Altman's 6 reliance on such advice was unreasonable. Sµeen v. C.I.R., 864 F.2d 93, 96 (9th Cir. 1989). Ultimately, the record is void of any evidence about the nature of any advice given, the basis for the advice, and the reasonableness of Dr. Altman's reliance on any advice. ''Where no reliable evidence exists in the record suggesting the nature of any advice given, a finding of negligence is not erroneous.'' Sacµs, 82 F.3d at 920 (quoting Howard v. C.I.R., 931 F.2d 578, 582 (9th Cir. 1991)). The facts that Dr. Altman consulted with his accountant on this issue and ultimately claimed the deduction--two facts considered by the tax court and ultimately determined unpersuasive in light of the lacµ of evidence about the nature of any advice--do not support the majority's finding of clear error. (C) Conclusion For the foregoing, and contrary to the majority's view, I find no clear error in the tax court's conclusion that Dr. Altman was negligent or that the conclusion is 'not supported by the record,' as the majority states. Dr. Altman is a sophisticated, accomplished, and poised individual who made a fine appearance at oral argument. But the majority seems to have been distracted by Dr. Altman's credentials and ignores our mandate to 'uphold the tax court's finding unless we are 'left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistaµe has been committed.'' 7 Hansen, 471 F. 3d at 1028. 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Since the invention of penicillin in 1928 by Alexander Flemming and their wider availability in the 1940s, further variants of existing and new antibiotics have been on the trial. Compared to the situation in 1954 when two million pounds of antibiotics were produced in the US, the present figure exceeds 50 million pounds. Antibiotics work either by killing bacteria (bacteriocidal) or by inhibiting growth (bacteriostatic) and their bioactivities have transformed human ability to treat many infectious diseases that previously were considered certain killers. It is estimated that globally humans consume above 250 million doses of antibiotics annually and 20%–50% of that use is unnecessary depending on the class of antibiotic. Further, widespread use of antibiotics promotes spread of antibiotic resistance many a times leading to multiple drug resistance. The total amount of antibiotic in the given dosage used for treatment of an infection generally is much higher than what is actually required to control a given population of parasite in the infected individual. This is so because all antibiotic given to the patient in a therapy does not reach the target site. This may be due to (i) lower absorption in the gut membrane when taken orally (ii) restrictive uptake by the target microbe or (iii) operation of efflux pump leading to indiscriminate extrusion of the antibiotics or therapeutic molecules. Thus, large portions of the drugs we apply are wasted and only a miniscule percentage is being targeted to the infective microbes. But even worse part is that the unutilized drug/antibiotic amount remains as a load in the body and environment. This then acts as a selection pressure, facilitating emergence of drug resistance in parasites leading to their predominance in the niche and ultimately resulting into failure of antibiotics against resistant infections. Additionally, such a situation leads to side effects, illness and reduction in life expectancy being more acute in the older population. One of the ways that has been feasible to reduce drug dosage is the occurrence of synergism between different therapeutic agents. However, even in such a situation if both the molecules have the antibiotic property, the problem of continued selection pressure on microbes is still likely to continue. Therefore, the need is for molecules, which by themselves are not microbicidal but when present with a drug or active molecule, enhance its activity and availability (bioenhancers). These molecules by their presence will not exert any selection pressure for the mutants to emerge resistant against them and on the other hand could reduce the dosage of antibiotics or drugs so that their ill effects are minimized. This way resistance development process will be substantially delayed ultimately leading to enhanced life-span of the novel and existing antibiotics. Such drug/molecule facilitators should have novel properties like non-toxic to humans, animals or plants, should be effective at a very low concentration in a combination, should be easy to formulate and most importantly enhance uptake/absorption and activity of the drug molecules. This can lead to development of judicious and strategic concentrations of antibiotics with specific bioenhancers to improve availability of the drug right up to the target for effectively controlling the infectious organisms. The present invention was the result of planned experiments to provide a novel method for improving activity and bioavailability of antibiotics, drugs and other molecules using a plant glycoside “Glycyrrhizin” in different formulations. The bioavailability of nutrients and enhancement of antibiotics/drugs effectivity is relevant to human, plant as well as animal health and thus the compositions and methods of the invention are also intended to be used in agriculture and veterinary practice. | High | [
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Q: Literal translation of Vulgate I am looking for the most literal translation possible of any Latin bible, either to English or Spanish. I want to use it to improve my Latin by reading both simultaneously. I know the Douay-Rheims Bible is a translation of the (Clementine) Vulgate, which has then been "updated" multiple times, like in the Challoner Revision, the Cofraternity Bible, the Knox Bible, and more recently the Catholic Public Domain Version. I have compared the last one with the Clementine Vulgate (using this smartphone app, which has interlinear bibles), and the match is "quite good". However, the translation is not always literal, since the English translation is also intended to be a useful bible in itself, and thus it accommodates phrases to the English usage, changing the order of sentences (not only of words, knowing that Latin is quite flexible on ordering), and sometimes even the verbal times. Some examples, with emphasis to signal the instance: Genesis 20:7 Vulgate: Nunc ergo redde viro suo uxorem, quia propheta est : et orabit pro te, et vives : si autem nolueris reddere, scito quod morte morieris tu, et omnia quæ tua sunt CPDV: Now therefore, return his wife to the man, for he is a prophet. And he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you are not willing to return her, know this: you shall die a death, you and all that is yours. The latter adds an extra you which is not in the original, but it helps the meaning. Genesis 20:9 Vulgate: Vocavit autem Abimelech etiam Abraham, et dixit ei : Quid fecisti nobis ? quid peccavimus in te, quia induxisti super me et super regnum meum peccatum grande ? quæ non debuisti facere, fecisti nobis. CPDV: Then Abimelech called also for Abraham, and he said to him: “What have you done to us? How have we sinned against you, so that you would bring so great a sin upon me and upon my kingdom? You have done to us what you ought not to have done.” The order of the sentences is changed. A more literal English translation would have been "what you should not [to] have done, you have done to us" (in Spanish is even closer to the original Latin (hidden pronoun), "lo que no has debido hacer, lo has hecho a nosotros"). This is surely less clear than the English translation, reflecting again the reasonable fact that in any translation literalism can be overrun by improved understanding, when necessary. Genesis 24:19: Vulgate: Cumque ille bibisset, adiecit: “Quin et camelis tuis hauriam aquam, donec cuncti bibant”. CPDV: And after he drank, she added, “In fact, I will draw water for your camels also, until they all drink.” But bibisset is the third-person singular pluperfect active subjunctive of to drink. So it is not "he drank" (which is bibit). Similarly, bibant is the third-person plural present active subjunctive of "to drink", but the translation seems not to be in subjuntive (looks more like indicative to me). I have spotted these and others given my current (limited) understanding of Latin, but I am surely missing many others. Hence my question, which I repeat: Which is "the most literal" translation of any Latin bible available? A: The Douay-Rheims and its progeny are well known for being literal translations of the Vulgate, and certainly fit the bill. Unfortunately, you seem to be adopting a very extreme notion of "literal" that includes identical sentence structure. In your first example, the "you" reflects the fact that Latin includes the pronoun tu instead of just having the second-person verb-ending in morieris. It would arguably be less literal to translate without the repetition. In the second example, such an order would simply be awkward (Yoda-like) English, only fitting in a poetic context. Consider a less controversial example of the same principle: "In the beginning, God created heaven and earth." Notice that Latin reverses the S-V order: "creavit Deus." There is nothing to be gained by being so slavishly literal to the text, and I am unaware of anyone who has made the effort to provide a translation that is so. | Low | [
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Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology The Medical Laboratory Technologist is an essential member of the allied health service industry. It is upon the laboratory tests and results of the Medical Laboratory Technologist that doctors and surgeons will base their prognosis on. This internationally-recognised diploma equips you with the knowledge and skills to effectively use the sophisticated laboratory instruments and perform a wide variety of tests. Nilai University’s special arrangement with Gribbles Pathology Malaysia, the largest private provider of diagnostics laboratory services in the region, guarantees you industrial attachment opportunities. You will be awarded an additional certificate of completion, jointly issued by Gribbles Malaysia and Nilai University. Besides Gribbles Pathology, arrangements are made for students to do their industrial placements at approved Pathology Laboratories in the Ministry of Health, Malaysia. You may also further progress to a degree level programme to specialise in the areas of Pharmacology, Physiology, Sports and Exercise Science and Biomedical Science with our reputable partners | High | [
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Tapered titanium porous plasma-sprayed femoral component in patients aged 40 years and younger. Total hip arthroplasty (THA) in patients aged 40 years and younger requires decades of increased activity demands. Between 1987 and 2000, 249 primary THAs in patients 40 years of age or younger were performed with the Mallory-Head component. The average age at THA was 34.7 years (range, 20-40 years). Follow-up averaged 91 months with 125 hips having minimum 5-year follow-up and 51 THAs having a minimum of 10 years. Four stems failed the 98.2% overall survivorship. Two stems were revised for loosening for a 99.2% (95% confidence interval, 96.4%-99.8%) survivorship with aseptic loosening as the end-point at 18 years. In young patients, this tapered titanium, proximally porous plasma-sprayed femoral component provides outstanding long-term fixation and function with significant pain relief into the second decade. Overall stem survivorship is 98.2% at up to 18 years. | Mid | [
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Pilot study of the polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans level in agricultural soil in Shanghai, China. Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) were analyzed in agricultural soil samples from Shanghai to determine levels and to identify possible dioxin sources. The dioxin level was measured by an enzyme immunoassay method, US EPA 4025 (modified), which provides results as 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) equivalents. The Method 4025m results obtained from 60 soil samples displayed a normal distribution, ranging from 2.8 to 23.4 pg/g 2378-TCDD-equvalents, with an average of 11.0 pg/g. The result also revealed a similar PCDD/Fs concentration among crop usage patterns, but differences by geographic region, low in the southwest of Shanghai and considerably higher in the northwest region. In contrast, the dioxin concentrations on Chongming Island were fairly homogeneous, with a range 10-15 pg/g. This immunoassay method is an effective high throughput screening tool which helps to minimize the need for more expensive analyses. | High | [
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We depend upon the generosity of people like you to help us improve pediatric health and enhance the patient care experience. Because at Children’s, we don’t just care for children, we care for the most amazing people on earth. Infants with the flu also may seem fussy all of a sudden or just "not look right." How Long Does the Flu Last? After 5 days, fever and other symptoms have usually disappeared, but a cough and weakness may continue. All symptoms usually are gone within a week or two. But it's important to treat the flu seriously because it can lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening complications, particularly in babies, senior citizens, and people with long-term health problems. Is the Flu Contagious? Yes, the flu is contagious. It spreads when virus-infected droplets are coughed or sneezed into the air. People who are infected are contagious from a day before they feel sick until their symptoms are gone (about 1 week for adults, but this can be longer for young kids). The flu usually happens in small outbreaks, but epidemics — when the illness spreads rapidly and affects many people in an area at the same time — tend to happen every few years. Epidemics often peak within 2 or 3 weeks after the first cases are reported. When an epidemic spreads worldwide, it's called a pandemic. What Is the Flu Vaccine? Routine annual influenza vaccination is recommended for everyone 6 months of age and older. It's usually offered between September and mid-November, but may be given at other times of the year. The vaccine helps protect people from the flu viruses that experts think will be most common in the upcoming flu season. While the vaccine doesn't completely guarantee against getting sick, someone who's been vaccinated and still gets the flu will have fewer and milder symptoms. Flu vaccines are available as a shot. Given as an injection, the flu shot contains killed flu viruses that will not cause the flu, but will prepare the body to fight off infection from that particular type of live flu virus if someone comes into contact with it. The flu shot is safe and effective. Although the flu vaccine also came in a nasal spray (or mist) form in the past, the nasal spray is not currently recommended. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that it didn't prevent cases of the flu between 2013 and 2016. When & Where Can We Get the Flu Vaccine? People who got the vaccine one year aren't protected from getting the flu the next because the protection wears off and flu viruses constantly change. That's why the vaccine is updated each year to include the most current strains of the virus. So to have the best protection against the flu, it's important to get the vaccine every year. The seasonal flu vaccine becomes available each fall. It is given in places like hospitals, clinics, community centers, pharmacies, doctor's offices, and schools. Many kids receive the flu vaccine at school. Kids younger than 9 years old will receive two doses this flu season if they have received fewer than two doses of flu vaccine before July 2017. This includes kids who are getting the flu vaccine for the first time. Those under 9 who have received at least two doses of flu vaccine previously (in the same or different seasons) will only need one dose. Kids older than 9 only need one dose of the vaccine. It can take about 2 weeks after the vaccine for the body to build up protection to the flu. Getting the vaccine before the flu season is in full force gives the body a chance to build up immunity to (protection from) the virus. You can get a flu vaccine well into flu season, but it's best to try to get it as early as possible so the body has time to build up immunity. However, even in January there are still a few months left in the flu season, so it's still a good idea to get protection. If you are traveling outside the country, be sure to check with your doctor because the flu season may be different in other countries. If you are traveling to a place with flu activity, make sure you are vaccinated at least 2 weeks before travel. Possible Side Effects While very few people get side effects from the flu shot, those who do may have soreness or swelling at the site of the injection or mild side effects, such as headache or low-grade fever. Although these side effects might last for a day or so, flu viruses can potentially sicken someone for weeks and cause health problems that could require hospitalization, especially in young children or people with chronic diseases. So doctors believe that the benefits of getting the flu vaccine outweigh any potential risks. Who Is Considered High Risk? Although flu vaccine is recommended for everyone aged 6 months and older, it is especially important for people at higher risk of health problems from the flu to get vaccinated. They include: all kids 6 months through 4 years old (babies younger than 6 months are also considered high risk, but they cannot receive the flu vaccine) anyone 65 years and older all women who are pregnant, are considering pregnancy, have recently given birth, or are breastfeeding during flu season anyone whose immune system is weakened from medications or illnesses (like HIV infection) residents of long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes any adult or child with chronic medical conditions, such as asthma kids or teens who take aspirin regularly and are at risk for developing Reye syndrome if they get the flu caregivers or household contacts of anyone in a high-risk group (like children younger than 5 years old, especially those younger than 6 months, and those with high-risk conditions) Native Americans and Alaskan natives Certain things might prevent a person from getting the flu vaccine. Talk to your doctor to see if the vaccine is still recommended if your child: has ever had a severe reaction to a flu vaccination has Guillain-Barré syndrome (a rare condition that affects the immune system and nerves) In the past, it was recommended that anyone with an egg allergy talk to a doctor about whether receiving the flu vaccine was safe because it is grown inside eggs. But health experts now say that the amount of egg allergen in the vaccine is so tiny that it is safe even for kids with a severe egg allergy. This is especially important during a severe flu season. Still, a child with an egg allergy should get the flu shot in a doctor's office, not at a supermarket, drugstore, or other venue. If your child is sick and has a fever, talk to your doctor about rescheduling the flu shot. Can the Flu Be Prevented? There's no guaranteed way — including being vaccinated — to have 100% protection from the flu. But these practical steps make spreading the flu less likely: Wash your hands well and often with soap, especially after using the bathroom, after coughing or sneezing, and before eating or preparing food. Never pick up used tissues. Don't share cups and eating utensils. Stay home from work or school when you're sick with the flu. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, then put it in the trash. If a tissue isn't available, cough or sneeze into your upper arm, not into your hands. How Is the Flu Treated? Cases of the flu rarely require specific medical treatment. But some kids with chronic medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, or HIV infection) or children under 2 years old might become sicker with the flu and may have a greater risk of complications. Some kids with the flu need to be hospitalized. For a severely ill child or one who is at higher risk of developing health problems from the flu, a doctor may prescribe an antiviral medicine that can shorten the illness by 1–2 days and prevent potential problems of the flu. This medicine is only helpful if given within 48 hours of the start of the flu. Most healthy people who get the flu do not need to take an antiviral medicine. If an antiviral medicine is prescribed, be sure to discuss any possible side effects with your doctor. These at-home tips can help most otherwise healthy kids cope with the flu. Have them: take acetaminophen or ibuprofen to relieve fever and aches (do not give aspirin to children or teens because of its association with Reye syndrome) wear layers, since the flu often makes them cold one minute and hot the next (wearing layers — like a T-shirt, sweatshirt, and robe — makes it easy to add or remove clothes as needed) Kids who are sick should stay home from school and childcare until they feel better and have been fever-free for at least 24 hours without the use of a fever-reducing medicine. Some might need to stay home longer, depending on how they feel. If you have questions or concerns, talk to your doctor. When Should I Call the Doctor? Call the doctor if your child: has flu symptoms has a high fever, or fever with a rash has trouble breathing or rapid breathing has bluish skin color is not drinking enough fluids seems very sleepy or lethargic seems confused has flu symptoms that get better, but then get worse For the most part, though, the flu is usually gone in a week or two with a little rest and tender loving care. | Low | [
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Scott Hall 100 N. TuckerSt. Louis, MO63102United States Richard Duncan, J.D., the Welpton and Wise Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska’s College of Law, will discuss issues related to wedding vendors and free speech during his talk, “'Wedding Cake Artists, Photographers, Printers and Free Speech: Previewing the Masterpiece Cakeshop SCOTUS Case” at noon on Monday, Oct. 30, in Room 1122, Scott Hall. Duncan will discuss the issues presented by both sides in the pending Masterpiece Cakeshop litigation pending before the United States Supreme Court and the overarching constitutional issues of the case. SLU’s Andrers Walker, J.D., will provide commentary on these issues as well. | High | [
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Radial gap electric machines typically have stator windings which are in slots defined in the stator. The windings are provided in the stator directly by a winding machine, or pre-wound around a bobbin or mandrel and then transferred to the stator. Winding is time consuming and difficult to control repeatability from one machine to the next in mass marketing. While improvements in winding design therefore proliferate to address this problem, unfortunately most result in complex winding shapes and designs, and in multi-piece windings which still must be assembled, and which introduce new issues which challenge repeatability and reliability, etc. Therefore, there remains a need for an improved method of inexpensively and reliably providing a winding in a slotted stator of a radial gap electric machine. Referring to FIG. 1, a typical permanent magnet (PM) machine according to the prior art is shown at 100. Prior art PM machine 100 has a rotor 102, with permanent magnets 104 mounted thereto by a retaining ring 106, which is mounted on a rotatable shaft 108. Rotor 102 is adjacent a stator 110 having a plurality of windings 112 interspersed between a plurality of teeth 114 mounted to a back iron 116. (For ease of illustration, the adjacent elements of windings 112 in FIG. 1b are shown unconnected.) As is well understood, PM machine 100 may operate in a generator/alternator mode or a motor mode. [When operated in a generator/alternator mode, an external torque source forces rotation of the shaft (and thus the rotor and the magnets), and the interaction of the magnets and the windings causes a magnetic flux to loop the windings in the slots. As the rotor rotates, the magnetic flux in the stator structure changes, and this changing flux results in generation of voltage in the windings, which results in an output current that can be used to power electrical devices, or be stored for later use. When operated in a motor mode, a voltage from an external source is applied to the stator windings which causes current flow in the windings and results in a magnetic flux to be set up in the magnetic circuit formed by the teeth and back iron. When current is supplied in an appropriate manner to the windings, the rotor can be made to rotate and thus produce usable torque. The operation of such machines is thus well understood.] Such PM machines can have an “inside rotor” configuration as shown in FIGS. 1a and 1b, or an “outside rotor” configuration as shown in FIGS. 2a and 2b. The reference numerals in FIGS. 2a and 2b correspond to the corresponding features described with reference to FIGS. 1a and 1b. In the “outside rotor” configuration, however, rotor yoke 108′ replaces rotor shaft 108. For ease of illustration, the adjacent elements of the windings in FIG. 2b are also shown unconnected. Irrespective of whether operated in an alternator or motor mode, the magnetic flux path in these prior art PM machines is as partially and simply depicted in FIG. 3, the flux path as indicated by the arrows 118, and the poles and virtual poles denoted by an “N” or an “S”. It is this magnetic flux 118 which induces a voltage in the alternator winding 112 (or in the case of a motor, creates the magnetic attraction with the permanent magnet 106 to cause rotor rotation), as described above. | Mid | [
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Konstantīns Calko Konstantīns Calko (born 13 April 1994) is the first Latvian racing driver competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Racing career Konstantins began his career in 2001 in karting. Since then he became numerous Latvian champion in various karting categories. In 2011 he switched to the Baltic Touring Car Championship. Next year Calko raced in Radical European Masters and secured Champion title in Supersports category as well took World Vice-Champion title in DD2 category in Rotax Grand Finals held in Portimao In 2013 Calko made his World Touring Car Championship debut with Campos Racing driving a SEAT León WTCC in the last round in Macau. In February 2015 it was announced that he would make his European Le Mans Series debut with SVK by Speed Factory driving a Ginetta LMP3. Finished season on 3rd. In 2017 Calko fulfilled his life dream and competed in 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans race with ARC Bratislava. Though technical failures with the car prevented to reach high results. After few months later in Asian Le Mans Series 2017/2018 season together with the same team Calko finished 3rd in championship. In 2018 together with Red Camel Jordans team won Creventic 24H Silverstone overall and TCE class. Racing record Complete World Touring Car Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded just in first race; races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races; * signifies that driver led race for at least one lap – 1 point given all races) † Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. 24 Hours of Le Mans results References External links Category:1994 births Category:Living people Category:World Touring Car Championship drivers Category:Latvian racing drivers Category:Sportspeople from Daugavpils Category:24 Hours of Le Mans drivers Category:International GT Open drivers | High | [
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another labor day is about here on us once more 8 years now. in the 8 years we had 3 to pass on two t/o and one city and the ones that is left we see very little or talk to each other. time moves on but you never forget that day and i sure don't forget that other company. Worked for CF Bulk Commodities and Clark Farnsworth (mostly flatbeds and lo boys) out of Martinez, CA (SF Bay Area) from 67 through 71. Wonder if anybody remembers those divisions. I see on some pages of this CF forum that there was a CF Tankers. Incidentally there's an old CF bulk commodities wrapped semi moldering away here in Anchorage. Started at MLC on the docks as casual . Got my CDL on the back 40. Went fulltime and transferred to PAC . Nice post Dockworker , I think Hanks Tribute is the best. Click to expand... You're welcome. I have a bunch of old CF friends...some have moved on to other occupations. I still see a few of the trailers spotted at various customer locations, all being used as storage trailers. (still have the logo and trailer numbers on them) Sad but humbling. There are probably a lot of reasons for the demise of CF. (Incidentally, the Clark Farnsworth that I referred to in my prior post was the heavy haul/flatbed division of CF; it Clark Farnsworth was headquartered in China Basin in San Francisco but answered to Menlo Park -- our checks were standard CF payroll checks.) Several reasons come to mind: 1. The decline of union power 2. The end of regulation 3. The standard problem of most transportation modes, in general there is overcapacity (at least that's what I learned from a class from the American Society of Transportation and Logistics). I don't know if investors got hurt by the CF bankruptcy and demise. For sure a lot of working stiffs got hurt. When the bankruptcy occurred I wasn't a trucker so was not affected to any appreciable degree. It seems that wiser heads, especially driver-type wiser heads should analyze the CF problems and demise and contrast these things with the current problems in the industry, particularly in the LTL carriers, e.g. Yellow-Roadway. Whether or not there is an entity capable of analyzing these things and perhaps drawing lessons from them is beyond me. But should some group exist or be formed and I can add to its work product, count me in. the best way to find out about our demise is get you hands on the book never stand still. i just wish i had on to keep going back to sometimes. things that went on after 1982 will make you shake your head. and out great union leader at the 90s the late Ron Cary did help us any. all I can say is get your hand on that book and read read read. the best way to find out about our demise is get you hands on the book never stand still. i just wish i had on to keep going back to sometimes. things that went on after 1982 will make you shake your head. and out great union leader at the 90s the late Ron Cary did help us any. all I can say is get your hand on that book and read read read. Click to expand... Last time I checked, that book was impossible to find. You can probably snag it off Ebay for a primo price or from an unsuspecting seller who sells it dirt cheap. The book is on Amazon. For a new edition, it's $70 and for a used edition it's $50. Think I'll check the local library first. Not sure that the demise of CF is attributable to operations at lest for the tankers and flatbed/heavy haul operations. As I recall the tanker (more properly, Bulk Commodities) division was efficient as hell when I worked there. We ran teams mostly up and down the Pacific Coast out of our terminal in Martinez (originally it was in San Pablo or Richmond when CF bought Conyers (don't recall the spelling) tank outfit). Rarely did we run light and rarely did we lay over at any of the terminals in Long Beach, Portland, or Seattle. There were some CF tankers in or around Montana but I cannot recall working with them. Tankers were welcome in the freight terminals for fuel and like stuff but the nature of the operations were so different that we didn't know many of the LTL guys or management. I recall that CF sold its bulk commodities division to Matlack in the 1970s, several years after I quit and became a City of Richmond firefighter. CF relocated the Martinez tank operation to Richmond at the old P.I.E. tanker terminal (which might have been a CF terminal at one time). The Clark Farnsworth (i.e. CF flatbed and lowboy operation) did not appear to have been bought by Matlack as I used to go by the old place (even worked there briefly when the Richmond terminal was the P.I.E. terminal) when I was a firefighter. Better go and retrieve my Jeep from an old girlfriend (never did see her in 20 days -- she got sick and returned to FL) and then head to Big Lake and work on the cabin. Don't recall how it is down there in America. But, do wives encourage you guys to get a place out in the woods? I fell into that trap. We think the wives are the greatest gals on earth when they promote such a great idea -- think of all the fishing, hunting, beer drinking, etc. Of course the reality is that these places that are supposed to put us in touch with manly virtues and all that blab become projects -- never ending projects. The wives get rid of us but know that we don't have time to hunt, fish, drink beer, chase women, much less talk about those great activities. The "C" in "cabin" or "cottage" stands for "control" and little else. | Mid | [
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Mayoral candidates George Smitherman and Sarah Thomson asked for — and were denied — permission to march in Toronto’s annual Labour Day parade. The Toronto and York Region Labour Council says the only mayoral candidate welcome to walk with their members on Monday is Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone. “He’s our endorsed candidate and the one we invited … We’re really concentrating on showing people that Joe Pantalone would make a great mayor,” council president John Cartwright said in an interview Wednesday. “Some of the others have made inquiries and we’ve said, no, we’re only welcoming the candidates that we are endorsing.” Cartwright wouldn’t say who was turned down, but spokespeople for the Smitherman and Thomson campaigns confirmed their candidates sought an invitation and were told to stay away. The Rob Ford and Rocco Rossi camps didn’t return the Star’s calls. Pantalone, a close ally of Mayor David Miller, is alone among the five major candidates in ruling out the idea of contracting-out jobs now done by city workers, or asset sales beyond one small green-energy company. A Star-Angus Reid poll in April showed Torontonians have an appetite for contracting-out more services, particularly garbage collection. Last summer saw trash piling up and long lineups at temporary dumps during the five-week civic workers’ strike. Asked if it was fair to assume the labour council hasn’t invited Rob Ford — the frontrunning Etobicoke councillor who is vowing to contract-out city jobs to slash costs — Cartwright let out a long, low laugh. He said: “Yes, you can make that assumption.” Asked about the others, he said: “Rocco Rossi is talking about selling off everything, so why would we invite him? Sarah Thomson the same, I think. “The St. Patrick’s parade doesn’t have the Orange Lodge with King Billy on his horse to their parade. Why would we invite those candidates?” Stefan Baranski, a Smitherman spokesman, said in an email: “A number of individual locals are supportive of George’s campaign … George is committed to a new type of consensus politics at City Hall.” Kinga Surma, speaking for Thomson, said the Women’s Post publisher will find another Labour Day event to attend. The labour council has posted on its website, www.labourcouncil.ca, a list of endorsed councillors and candidates welcome at the parade. Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Last year it was Mayor David Miller who was told to stay away, with union leaders angry at him over his handling of the garbage strike. Asked if Miller is welcome this year, Cartwright said he hadn’t given it any thought, saying it’s a “non-issue” because Miller will soon leave office. | Mid | [
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Teaching and Assessing Professionalism in Radiology: Resources and Scholarly Opportunities to Contribute to Required Expectations. Teaching and assessing trainees' professionalism now represents an explicit expectation for Accreditation Council Graduate Medical Education-accredited radiology programs. Challenges to meeting this expectation include variability in defining the construct of professionalism; limits of traditional teaching and assessment methods, used for competencies historically more prominent in medical education, for professionalism; and emerging expectations for credible and feasible professionalism teaching and assessment practices in the current context of health-care training and practice. This article identifies promising teaching resources and methods that can be used strategically to augment traditional teaching of the cognitive basis for professionalism, including role modeling, case-based scenarios, debriefing, simulations, narrative medicine (storytelling), guided discussions, peer-assisted learning, and reflective practice. This article also summarizes assessment practices intended to promote learning, as well as to inform how and when to assess trainees as their professional identities develop over time, settings, and autonomous practice, particularly in terms of measurable behaviors. This includes assessment tools (including mini observations, critical incident reports, and appreciative inquiry) for authentic assessment in the workplace; engaging multiple sources (self-, peer, other health professionals, and patients) in assessment; and intentional practices for trainees to take responsibility for seeking our actionable feedback and reflection. This article examines the emerging evidence of the feasibility and value added of assessment of medical competency milestones, including professionalism, coordinated by the Accreditation Council Graduate Medical Education in radiology and other medical specialties. Radiology has a strategic opportunity to contribute to scholarship and inform policies in professionalism teaching and assessment practices. | High | [
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The GnATTERbox For discussion of the issues faced when building a model or layout - how to replicate wood, what glues to use, exactly how much weathering can a Gnat take, a good source of detailing accessories - you get the picture, I'm sure. But don´t expect me, to built a new layout, everytime some new figures come around Definitely caused a laugh Juergen! Juergen it seems to me that you create layouts all the time! I have never seen an overall plan of your layout in all the time I have watched your amazing collaborations of timely and specific productions of scenes. You are one very creative modeller!! Regards Michael If you believe you can make something, you can make it. I've been messing around with some Bachmann Big Haulers figures, to be exact the Engineer (Sitting) figure. From left to right - figure as bought, my modified figure, Schleich 4x4 driver (now discontinued?). The bachmann figures have a body/legs made of a hard plastic with a rubbery plastic used for the head and arms. Both plastics seem to stick alright with superglue though. Modifications to the figure are straightening him up, moving the arms and removing the hat and gauntlets. Scale wise, they come out as being just over 5 feet tall in 1:24 where the Schleich figure comes out as around 6 feet - not sure if the bachmann figures are under scale or the Schleich figure overscale or both. backwaterscotland wrote:Scale wise, they come out as being just over 5 feet tall in 1:24 where the Schleich figure comes out as around 6 feet - not sure if the bachmann figures are under scale or the Schleich figure overscale or both. Cant speak for the scale of the Bachmann figures, but they look close to 1:24. The Schleich ones though are intended to be 1:20, so yes they are overscale, but usable with care and can be chopped around as you have seen in other threads. Dave, certainly the stuff I use can ............... although where I have used it where for example the seam is less than perfect when 2 pieces are brought together then I have started to wipe the joint afterwards with a superglue debonder which just alleviates the need to sand at all Was going to post this on the Bottom Yard thread but its buried pretty deep now I needed some 1930's to 1950's "British" workmen in the proper scale so decided to play with some of the SLM figures in the spares box. The origonal is obviously the left hand figure , following a bit of surgery to reduce his height to a more realistic 5' 8" added a flat cap, a waistcoat ... the fleece of its day seems to be worn by about 90% of workmen in the photos I have looked at, and added some detail to his boots A bit of a paint job and he has ended up like this Of now to see what we can do with the right hand figure as well as sorting out their infamous seated driver ( just for you Mr Mott ) Now you either love this product or hate it ............. me I like it because you can roll it out into thin sheets as long as you dust your surfaces with some talc. Its water soluble so you can blend in with a damp brush & push /prod into folds etc ............. and if you gently heat with a hair dryer you can speed up its setting time. The waist coat was made of 3 separate parts, left & right front and a back cut roughly to shape following a paper pattern previously made up ..... dampen body and then apply letting each piece harden off a bit before moving onto the next bit .... with a bit of heat doesn't take long, all the work on this figure was completed in a couple of hours. One tip I would suggest is that if you purchase it cut the rolls of putty into smaller lengths and either place in sealed plastic bags or wrap in cling film .......... this just helps to stop it all drying out to quickly. I am about to have a go at building a model rat for my Acme layout ..... and after going to various craft and model shops finally finished up with a pack of Milliput. Everything else was out of stock. Nice to see that it is the same stuff that you use ..... so if the model doesn't come out right I know that its me, not the material Looks good Gordon maybe I'll try one once they're available. More resin figures from China have surfaced in Doll's House half scale. The new ones are up-market women that might suit any Heywood style layout. They can be found here. | Mid | [
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Simon says Tim Pawlenty and the rest of the GOP field lack the dynamism to beat Obama. | AP photo The Republican freak show Question: If Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney were on a sinking ship, who would be saved? Answer: America. Cruel. Very cruel. But it may set the tone for the 2012 race. The last time a Democratic president ran for reelection was Bill Clinton in 1996. And the press was careful to portray Bob Dole as a credible opponent. He was not. Though an often nice guy and a highly skilled legislator, he was a disaster on the stump, and Clinton crushed him in a three-way race. The media will be a little more savvy about campaign skills this time around. Tim Pawlenty, who announced for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday, has already said, “I’m not running for entertainer in chief.” It is not a new line. But it is an ominous one. Presidential candidates who don’t think they have to get and hold the attention of voters in a positive way — call it entertainment if you want — are probably doomed. No matter how much Pawlenty tailors his message to attract conservative and tea party Republicans, he may lack the dynamism to beat a fired-up-and-ready-to-go Barack Obama in the general election. It is said that Pawlenty once gave a fireside chat and the fire went out. While Pawlenty was announcing from Des Moines on Monday, CNN was running videotape of Obama drinking a Guinness in Ireland, MSNBC was running a piece on tattoo artists and even Fox cut away from Pawlenty after a short while. A few minutes later, all three cable networks gave live coverage to every minute of Obama’s rip-roaring speech from Dublin. That’s what being an incumbent president can do for you. Take a look at these two fields. The first is Republicans who are not running in 2012: Jeb Bush, Haley Barbour, Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, John Thune and Donald Trump. Now take a look at the Republicans who are running or getting ready to run: Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Buddy Roemer, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Which is the stronger field? I have not identified any of these guys by the offices they hold or have held, because if you have to ask yourself “Who is that guy?” then it shows you why the Republicans are at a disadvantage. Nobody has to ask who Obama is, and that is why he doesn’t have to spend a penny of his campaign funds on TV commercials introducing himself to the American people. Two other Republicans might still declare for the nomination: Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. If they ran as a ticket, they would be the most dynamic — and unpredictable — duo either party could offer. Forgive me if I would consider it a reporter’s dream ticket, but I would be the first in line for that campaign plane. The Republicans who have decided not to run in 2012 have done so for a variety of reasons: personal, strategic, financial. But some have done so for one reason: They doubt any Republican can beat Obama in 2012, and they would rather wait for an open seat in 2016. They may be wrong. At one point, George H.W. Bush looked unbeatable for reelection in 1992, but a dynamic, almost mesmerizing, campaigner, Clinton, beat him. Who is the dynamic, almost mesmerizing, campaigner among the Republicans this time? Well, that’s the problem. The Republicans often do not look for campaign skills when they choose a nominee. They are a party of hierarchy. “We typically look for the next person in line,” Tom Rath, a top Republican operative from New Hampshire, once told me. “We want to know: Whose turn is it?” And if you look at the list of recent Republican nominees, you realize he is right: John McCain in 2008, George W. Bush in 2000 and Bob Dole in 1996 were all the next guys in line. They had “earned” their place in the party hierarchy. (Or, in the case of George W. Bush, his father had earned it for him.) Even Ronald Reagan lost the nomination to Gerald Ford in 1976, because Reagan was not the next guy in line. By 1980, Reagan was. The reason the Republican race for the nomination appears chaotic is that there is no logical next guy (or woman) in line. Romney might come closest, but many question his conservative Republican bona fides. So it is a scramble. Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post described a recent Republican debate as being like the bar scene in “Star Wars.” To me, it resembled a freak show: There was the two-headed man over there and next to him was the guy who bites the heads off chickens. Is there a real nominee in this field? Someone who can win over the party in the primaries and the nation in the general? I know some believe that Obama is doomed because the economy is bad. And they believe the presidency, therefore, will be dumped in the Republicans’ lap in 2012. They are kidding themselves. The Republicans are up against a real campaigner, and if they want his job, they are going to have to step their game way up and take it from him. Roger Simon is POLITICO’s chief political columnist. | Low | [
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Q: Laravel - message: "Trying to get property 'first_name' of non-object", exception: "ErrorException" I am developing a Web Application using Laravel-5.8 as backend. I have a Post Request as shown below: public function storeClientQuote(Request $request) { $user = Auth::user(); $userFirstName = Auth::user()->first_name; $userLastName = Auth::user()->last_name; $userEmail = Auth::user()->email; $dashboardowner = Client::join("users","users.client_id","=","clients.client_id") ->select("clients.client_name", "users.id", "users.first_name", "clients.address1", "clients.address2") ->where('users.id', $user->id) ->get(); if(!Auth::user()->hasPermissionTo('Add Quote')) return response()->json([ "message" => 'User do not have permission'], 401); $request->validate([ 'phone' => 'required|max:14', // 'business_name' => 'string', 'truck_type' => 'required', 'truck_required' => 'required', 'quote_origin' => 'required', 'quote_destination' => 'required', 'commodity' => 'required', 'loading_date' => 'date|required' ]); $clientquote = new ClientQuote; $clientquote->first_name= $userFirstName; $clientquote->last_name=$userLastName; $clientquote->email=$userEmail; $clientquote->phone=$request->get('phone'); $clientquote->business_name= $dashboardowner[0]->client_name; $clientquote->address= $dashboardowner[0]->address1 . " " . $dashboardowner[0]->address2; $clientquote->truck_type=$request->get('truck_type'); $clientquote->truck_required=$request->get('truck_required'); $clientquote->quote_origin=$request->get('quote_origin'); $clientquote->quote_destination=$request->get('quote_destination'); $clientquote->commodity=$request->get('commodity'); $loading_date=date_create($request->get('loading_date')); $format = date_format($loading_date,"Y-m-d H:i:s"); $clientquote->loading_date = $format; $clientquote->save(); return response()->json([ 'message' => 'Quote Successfully Sent!' ], 201); } When I tried to debug, I found that the error started from: $userFirstName = Auth::user()->first_name; with the messages: message: "Trying to get property 'first_name' of non-object", exception: "ErrorException" How do I resolve it? A: The message means Auth::user() is returning null which usually occurs if there's no logged in user. First check if user is logged in with Auth::check() before trying to access properties of Auth::user() If that controller method is only meant or logged in user, you can set Auth Middleware on the route calling the controller method. And if the entire controller is supposed to be accessible to only logged in user, set the Auth Middleware in the controller construct method. That way, you're always sure the logged in user is accessible I.e Auth::user() will be an object | Mid | [
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Locomotor activity in spinal cord-injured persons. After a spinal cord injury (SCI) of the cat or rat, neuronal centers below the level of lesion exhibit plasticity that can be exploited by specific training paradigms. In individuals with complete or incomplete SCI, human spinal locomotor centers can be activated and modulated by locomotor training (facilitating stepping movements of the legs using body weight support on a treadmill to provide appropriate sensory cues). Individuals with incomplete SCI benefit from locomotor training such that they improve their ability to walk over ground. Load- or hip joint-related afferent input seems to be of crucial importance for both the generation of a locomotor pattern and the effectiveness of the training. However, it may be a critical combination of afferent signals that is needed to generate a locomotor pattern after severe SCI. Mobility of individuals after a SCI can be improved by taking advantage of the plasticity of the central nervous system and can be maintained with persistent locomotor activity. In the future, if regeneration approaches can successfully be applied in human SCI, even individuals with complete SCI may recover walking ability with locomotor training. | High | [
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Private-sector job growth picked up in August, recording the largest employment gain in five months, according to data released Thursday by payrolls processor Automatic Data Processing Inc. Private-sector payrolls rose by 201,000 in August, led by small businesses and the service-providing sector, beating Wall Street’s expectations. Clinton’s forceful defense of Obama ADP revised July’s level to an increase of 173,000 from a prior estimate of 163,000. “The gain in private employment in August is strong enough to suggest that the national unemployment rate may have declined,” said Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, which produces the report for ADP. Markets look to ADP’s report on private-sector payrolls to provide some guidance on the U.S. Labor Department’s jobs estimate, which will be released Friday and includes information on both private and public-sector payrolls. Stock futures extended gains Thursday after the ADP report’s release. Read more about the reaction in the stock market. Economists polled by MarketWatch expect the U.S. Labor Department to report Friday that the unemployment rate remained at 8.3% in August. Also, they forecast that nonfarm-payroll employment rose by 120,000 in August, compared with 163,000 in July. However, following ADP’s release, economists said there could be an upside surprise for payrolls on Friday, though there are often substantial differences between the ADP and government reports. See economic calendar. By establishment size, ADP reported that employment rose 99,000 at small businesses, 86,000 at medium businesses and 16,000 at large businesses. Employment increased 185,000 in the service-providing sector and 16,000 in the goods-producing sector. The Fed is watching Friday’s jobs report is an important factor for Federal Reserve officials, who have been considering whether to provide additional quantitative easing. The central bank’s next meeting is later this month, and a disappointing jobs report on Friday could increase the likelihood for QE3. “Although the ADP survey is rarely a perfect predictor of nonfarm payrolls which follow, today’s strong number may raise expectations for tomorrow’s figure,” said Andrew Grantham at CIBC World Markets. “And if this strength is repeated tomorrow, expectations for an early move to QE3 next week will be dampened,” Grantham noted. However, despite positive jobs news, the Fed may still want to act, said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics. “We wouldn’t expect this improvement to persuade the Fed to hold fire next week. Employment would need to grow by a lot more than 200,000 per month to bring the unemployment rate down at a pace more agreeable to the Fed,” Ashworth said. Jobs data details In addition to ADP, there were two other positive jobs reports Thursday morning. Outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that the number of announced layoffs fell to 32,000 in August — the lowest level since December 2010 — from 37,000 in July. Cuts announced in August were 37% lower than last year. “Job cuts slowed significantly over the summer, but it is too early to determine whether this is a trend,” said John Challenger, chief executive. “There is a chance workers might be spared from a renewal of large-scale job cuts, but the situation beyond our borders certainly will not inspire companies to start adding workers en masse.” Also Thursday, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that first-time claims for regular state unemployment-insurance benefits fell in the most recent weekly data. Read more about jobless claims. | Mid | [
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Dolores R. sent in a cartoon by rampaige. It seems unlikely that a man would randomly criticize a woman in a scoop neck t-shirt for the existence of her breasts, but it happens more often than you think. I’m a bit busty, and a girl, and strangers have occasionally given me “advice” about my breasts. Once I was told by a man I had just been introduced to that I shouldn’t wear sweaters. Stumped — and living in Wisconsin — I asked why. He explained that sweaters have “pile,” by which he meant that the fabric was thick. The thickness of the fabric, he said, made my boobs look even bigger. Since that was a bad thing, apparently, he advised me to avoid sweaters. Weird, I know. But I’m just saying, this stuff happens. | Low | [
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The proposed amendment amends the occasions upon which a licensee or applicant has to respond to the Board to match the language of the Board’s statute of limitations found in Va. Code § 4425, and allows the Board discretion in determining whether a delay or failure to respond is a violation. The proposed amendment also removes an out-of-date citation to the Code of Virginia. Chapters Affected Only affects this chapter. Exempt from APA No, this action is subject to the Administrative Process Act and the standard executive branch review process. | Mid | [
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This invention relates to tape dispensers, and particularly this invention relates to tape dispensers of the sort utilized to dispense tape which is typically employed for purposes of the sealing boxes and packages. Such tape typically has a width of two inches up to 3.5 inches; and typically such tape is wound on a core which has an inner diameter in the range of 1.5 to 3 inches. The present invention provides a tape dispenser from which a length of tape may be dispensed and cut from the roll of tape, where the hand of the person operating the tape dispenser is protected from contacting the edges of the roll of tape mounted in the dispenser. The type of tape for which dispensers in keeping with present invention are provided is typically referred to as xe2x80x9cmailing tapexe2x80x9d. As noted, mailing tape typically has a width of from two inches up to about 3.5 inches, and the tape is wound on cylindrical cores which have the same width as the tape and which have an inner diameter in the range of 1.5 to 3 inches. The tape is intended to be unwound or unreeled from the core when the core is mounted in a dispenser. Quite often, in mailing rooms which have large volumes, and packing rooms where cardboard boxes may be erected and taped using wide tape, the dispenser for the tape is large and/or automated. On the other hand, it may very often occur, especially in small mailing rooms or offices, and very often in household purposes, that a smaller roll of mailing tape is required to be used in such a manner that essentially the mailing tape is to be held in the hand. However, it is inconvenient to dispense or unreel tape directly from a roll without the use of the dispenser of some sort into which the roll of tape has been rotatably mounted. Moreover, such dispenser must be small enough to be held in the hand, and to be manipulated so as to permit a length of tape to be dispensed from the roll of tape, and then to be cut therefrom using a cutter member which is an integral part of the dispenser. On the other hand, such dispensers as are presently known for hand held dispensing of mailing tape, as discussed hereafter, are both awkward to use and are uncomfortable to use, especially by female persons who typically have smaller hands, the skin of which may be less callused than those of a male co-worker. The inventor herein has unexpectedly discovered that the provision of a pair of cover wing portions which extend over the edges of the roll of tape mounted in the tape dispenser not only provides structural rigidity when the dispenser is in use, but greater comfort to the hand of the user is afforded. On the other hand, the provision of the pair of cover wing portions does not significantly affect the flexibility of the side walls of the dispenser, so that a used core may be removed from the dispenser and a new roll of tape may be installed in the dispenser. U.S. Pat. No. 5,468,332 issued Nov. 21, 1995 to Dretzka et al, teaches a tape dispenser having a polymeric frame with a cutter mounted on one end and an arched portion in the upper region of the dispenser. The arched portion is resiliently flexible, having a generally cylindrically concave surface adjacent the periphery of the roll of tape, and is adapted to be received in the palm of the hand of a user to space the user""s hand away from the rotating roll of tape as it is being dispensed. However, as it happens, the edges of a roll of tape mounted in commercial embodiments of the tape dispenser remain exposed, and they are typically in contact with the hand of the user. The patent also teaches a pair of inwardly directed tab portions which are defined at their edges by cam surfaces, and which have arcuate retaining surfaces in the upper region of each tab portion. The purpose of the cam surfaces is to urge the tape into the region adjacent the cutter member, so that the tape may be cut upon appropriate manipulation of the dispenser. Another U.S. Pat. No. is 4,961,525 issued Oct. 9, 1990 to Corbo et al. That patent teaches a reusable tape dispenser where the edges of the roll of tape mounted in the dispenser are fully exposed. The dispenser has a pair of flexible side walls which are secured using releasable locking means. Also, a pair of opposed tabs are located beneath a base wall portion to provide guides for the tape as it is being dispensed, and to assure its proximity to the cutter member. The present invention provides a tape dispenser for dispensing a length of tape from a roll of tape which is rotatably mounted thereon, and for cutting the dispensed length of tape away from the roll of tape. The tape dispenser comprises a body which has a rear portion and a front portion, and a cutter member which is disposed at the front edge of the front portion. The body has a pair of substantially planar side walls, and a pair of inwardly directed hub portions which are located in the rear portion of the body. Each of the hub portions has at least an arcuate portion in the top region thereof, and the arcuate portion is adapted so as to rotatably support the core of a roll of tape when placed thereon. A cover portion extends between the side walls in the front portion of the body, behind the cutter member. A cover wing portion extends inwardly from each side wall in the upper region of the rear portion of the body, so as to cover the edges of a roll of tape in that upper region when the roll of tape is placed in the tape dispenser. The pair of side walls is sufficiently flexible so as to permit them to be spread apart in the rear portion thereof in order to remove or install a roll of tape over the hub portion. The pair of side walls have elastic memory so as to restore themselves to a normal unflexed condition whereby each of the side walls is substantially planar. Typically, the transition between each of the planar side walls and each of the cover wing portions is curved. The cover wing portions may typically extend inwardly from each of the side walls also in the rear region of the rear portion of the body. A pair of tabs may be provided, which extend inwardly from the pair of side walls in the front region of the rear portion of the body, below the cover portion. Each of the tabs includes an arcuate retaining surface which extends forwardly therefrom. Typically, there is at least one opening that is formed through the transition area between each of the cover wing portions and the respective one of the pair of side walls. There may be a pair of ribbed finger rests that are formed on the pair of side walls in the region between the front portion and the rear portion thereof. The arcuate hub portion of each of the side walls defines a horizontally disposed centre axis of rotation which extends sideways through the rear portion of the body, so as to rotatably mount a roll of tape in the tape dispenser. Typically, the body of the tape dispenser of the present invention is injection molded from a polymeric plastics material chosen from the group consisting of ABS, polystyrene, and combinations thereof. | Mid | [
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A valuable new book called “50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools” takes a stark look at some of the worst ideas being promoted by school reformers around the country as ways to improve the public education. The book — from which I am going to run a series of excerpts — looks at international tests, teachers, school funding, charter schools and a lot more, including sections on these myths: * International tests show that the United States has a second-rate education system. * Teachers are the most important influence in a child’s education. * Merit pay is a good way to increase the performance of teachers. * Subject matter knowledge is the most important asset a teacher can possess. * American K-12 education is being dumbed down. * The money available to school districts is spread equally across their schools. * Group projects waste children’s time and punish the most talented. * School uniforms improve achievement and attendance. * Schools can teach all students to the point of mastery. * Education will lift the poor out of poverty and materially enrich our entire nation. The book was written by educational psychologist David C. Berliner and education Professor Gene V. Glass. Berliner is professor of education emeritus at Arizona State University and former dean of the education school there, as well as a past president of the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association’s Division of Educational Psychology. Glass is a research professor at the University of Colorado Boulder’s School of Education and a senior researcher at the National Education Policy Center. Berliner and Glass were assisted in the book project by a group of young academics from their respective universities. Why did they write the book? The introduction says in part: The education of America’s children is one of its most important priorities. That message has been lost on many Americans. We cannot count the number of even our close acquaintances who recite warped opinions about our nation’s public schools: they are inferior to private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science; teachers should be fired if their students don’t score at the national average, and on and on. Many citizens’ conception of K–12 public education in the United States is more myth than reality. It is essential that the truth replace the fiction. The mythical failure of public education has been created and perpetuated in large part by political and economic interests that stand to gain from the destruction of the traditional system. There is an intentional misrepresentation of facts through a rapidly expanding variety of organizations and media that reach deep into the psyche of the nation’s citizenry. These myths must be debunked. Our method of debunking these myths and lies is to argue against their logic, or to criticize the data supporting the myth, or to present more credible contradictory data. Where we can, we shall name the promoters of the hoax and point out how their interests are served by encouraging false beliefs. On his Education in Two Worlds blog, Glass explains why one topic is not included in the book — the Common Core State Standards. Here’s why: When David Berliner and I and our young Associates pulled together the 50 myths and lies that threaten America’s public schools, we ignored the Common Core. We didn’t forget about it. Who could? It was just that a sense of ennui overtook us and we could not bear to revisit the same dreadful collection of misguided ideas that has tormented educators for decades. Here’s a short excerpt from the section about a myth entitled: “Private Schools are Better Than Public Schools.” Policymakers, parents, and the general public have long been told that students who attend private schools receive a better education than their peers in public schools. For many parents who seek to provide their children with a high-quality education, whether for religions or other reasons, private schools may seem worth the associated tuition costs. This is especially likely if the schools attract other high-performing students and presumably better teachers than nearby public schools. Often parents also assume that private schools possess greater autonomy in terms of curricular design and access to resources (OECD, 2011). These largely unchallenged assumptions have prompted policies intended to increase private school enrollment through vouchers, particularly for low-income, minority students in urban areas (Lubienski, Crane, & Lubienski, 2008). Yet little evidence exists suggesting that private school students are better prepared academically than their public school counterparts, particularly once other factors attributed to student achievement, such as demographics, family characteristics, and other nonschool factors, are considered (C. & S. T. Lubienski, 2013; S. T. & C. Lubienski, 2005). Despite the lack of evidence, many parents continue to choose private education for their children. About 5.5 million students are enrolled in private schools in grades prekindergarten through 12th grade. Private schools enroll approximately 10% of all elementary and secondary pupils in the United States, a rate that has been reasonably constant for years (Aud et al., 2013). In reality, private and public schools are serving different populations of students. When compared on characteristics such as race/ethnicity, parents’ level of education, need for special education services, and English language proficiency, private schools enroll fewer disadvantaged students than do public schools (Perie, Vanneman, & Goldstein, 2005). Researchers also compared the respective private and public school populations participating in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2000 to 2005. Private schools enrolled a higher percentage of White students and a lower percentage of Black and Hispanic students than did public schools in all grades (4th, 8th, and 12th) and subject areas (reading, writing, mathematics, and science). In addition, these researchers found that a greater percentage of 8th-grade students who attended private schools reported that at least one parent had postsecondary education, and there were fewer students with disabilities and limited English proficiency enrolled in the private schools. Not surprisingly, over the 5 years studied by these researchers, students in all three types of private schools examined scored, on average, higher on the NAEP than did public school students. The use of standardized assessment data such as the NAEP actually perpetuates the myth of the “private school effect” without considering other factors attributable to higher student achievement (Lubienski & Lubienski, 2005). Because students’ eligibility for free and reduced lunch typically is used as a proxy for ocioeconomic status (SES), Lubienski and Lubienski (2005) combined multiple variables (e.g., available reading material and computer access in students’ homes, Title I eligibility, parents’ education level, etc.) to more precisely measure the extent to which SES differences account for the private school achievement advantage among elementary students. Consistently higher overall achievement among students, in this case among 4th- and 8th- grade students on the 2000 NAEP mathematics assessment, seemed to validate claims of superior academic achievement among students enrolled in private schools. However, once having accounted for the enrollment of higher-SES students in private schools, and considering other variables such as race/ethnicity and disability status, C. Lubienski and S. T. Lubienski (2013) and S. T. Lubienski and C. Lubienski (2005) found that public school students on average outperformed their peers in private schools. The inability to measure student achievement over time poses another challenge when relying on NAEP data to compare public and private school student achievement. Using a nationally representative, longitudinal database of students and schools (the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988–2000, or NELS), Wenglinsky (2007) determined that students enrolled in independent (or secular) private high schools, most types of parochial schools, and public magnet or “choice” schools did not perform any better than students in traditional public high schools, when considering family background characteristics. Interestingly, it also was found that students who had attended private schools were no more likely to go to college, and did not report higher job satisfaction at age 26, than their public school peers. And in addition, private and public school graduates at the same age differed little in their engagement in civic activities. International assessment data also indicated little difference in achievement between private and public school students, again after SES factors were considered. Based on the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) reading scores in 26 OECD countries and other partner economies, the typical private school student outperformed the typical public school student at a rate equivalent to three-quarters of a year of schooling (OECD, 2011). Approximately one-tenth of this “private school advantage” can be attributed to competition between schools, curricular autonomy, and additional resources; however, the ability of private schools to attract and recruit more socioeconomically advantaged and often high-performing students accounts for more than three-quarters of the difference in achievement (OECD, 2011). Given that autonomy over curricula and resource allocation accounts for only a small portion of the difference in achievement that is not attributable to SES, it is not surprising that the “private school advantage” seen in PISA assessment results disappears in 13 out of 16 OECD countries when public schools are afforded comparable autonomy and resources (OECD, 2011). Given this evidence, critics suggest that some parents who chose private education for their children are perhaps unwittingly “selecting the greater probability that their child will attend classes with peers of similar or higher socio-economic status, [and] that the resources devoted to those classes, in the form of teachers and materials, will be of higher quality” (OECD, 2011, p. 4). Despite evidence that suggests private schools, on average, do not offer students a competitive edge in academic performance over their peers in public schools, some parents choose private education based on other perceptions. Charles (2011) found that parental perceptions of private school quality were statistically higher among parents of children in private schools than among parents whose children attended public schools in terms of quality of instruction, support for student learning, school climate, and parent–school relationships. While private school students do not academically outperform students of similar backgrounds in public schools, parents’ perceptions about these other areas of school life prompt advantaged families to choose private education, ultimately increasing racial/ethnic and socioeconomic segregation in public schools. This continuing trend does little to improve educational opportunities for the middle- and low-income students “left behind” in public schools. And it also separates the wealthier students from a more diverse peer group, defeating the goals of a democratic society, which prospers when there is integration across class, race, and ethnic lines. (Correction: An earlier version incorrectly quoted the book about teachers’ influence on children. It used the word “life” instead of “education.”) | High | [
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a combustion apparatus for use in a heating system, hot water supply system, air-conditioning system, portable heater and other equipment in which such gaseous fuel as natural gas and propane gas or liquid fuel such as kerosene and light oil are burnt for providing a heat source. 2. Related Art of the Invention Catalytic combustion is a method of burning a fuel-air mixture by using a catalyzer with a platinum alloy carried by such ceramic carrier as honeycomb and fiber. A catalyst used for combustion has a selective adsorption to oxygen and hydrocarbon, and allows them to react with each other on a surface of the catalyst. In such operation, because the catalyst is at a temperature lower than that obtained by flame combustion of an identical gas, almost no NOx is produced. It is a problem, however, that the temperature of a catalyzer is increased to 1,200.degree. C. or a higher temperature, if a combustion apparatus using a catalyst is operated at a combustion load (intensity of combustion in relation to a volume of combustion chamber) identical to that of a flame combustion apparatus, and a life of the catalyst in terms of heat resistance is significantly reduced. It is, therefore, required to use the catalyst at a temperature lower than a critical temperature of heat resistance thereof by using means for reducing the combustion load and increasing the size of a combustion chamber or employing means for increasing the excess air ratio in a fuel-air mixture and reducing the combustion temperature. Flame combustion is achieved at an excess air ratio of 1 to 2. On the other hand, catalytic combustion is achieved at an excess air ratio of 1 to 5, and it, therefore, allows use of a leaner fuel-air mixture. However, it is a problem that a thermal efficiency is considerably lowered, when a leaner fuel-air mixture is employed. It means that a difference in temperature between a heat exchanger and combustion exhaust is reduced, because a combustion temperature is lower at a lower concentration of fuel, and a rate of heat transfer is reduced. Thus, in order to obtain a higher heat efficiency, a heat exchanger of a larger size is required, and it has been difficult to provide a compact catalytic combustion apparatus having a high combustion capacity. Additionally, in catalytic combustion, although it is required to preliminarily mix the air with a fuel to cause a reaction, it is a problem, when a liquid fuel is employed, that a higher heat is required for vaporizing the fuel. In a conventional liquid fuel combustion apparatus of vaporization type using the flame combustion method, although a vaporizing unit is heated by an electric heater only at an initial stage of the combustion, consumption of an electric power is low, because it is heated by applying a flame to a part of the vaporizing unit during stationary burning. In the case of a conventional combustion apparatus using the catalytic combustion method, however, it is a problem that an electric power supply is required for vaporization heat even in a stationary state, as no flame is formed, resulting in an additional power consumption. | Mid | [
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It turns out there is no ban on cakes and other sugary treats at school celebrations, including spring flings, after all. Education Minister Ramona Jennex clarified the department’s food and nutrition policy Wednesday and said section 6.1 of the policy allows for less-nutritious food, such as cakes, alongside healthy options at special functions, including spring flings. “At spring flings, cakes are definitely allowed. There is no ban on any food items for special events," Jennex told reporters. There was an outcry from some parents when provincial government staff sent a memo to schools last month saying that activities “such as ‘cake walks’ (that include cakes of minimum nutrition)" are not allowed at events such as spring flings. Department spokesman Chad Lucas said the memo was sent out in error. “Essentially, staff made a mistake in interpreting the policy," he said. “Basically, this memo kind of went out, to be honest, without the minister’s final signoff. Staff had put this together and it didn’t quite get vetted the way it should have." The department doesn’t allow schools to fundraise by selling items like chocolate bars or other minimally nutritious foods. Chocolate bars, cakes and other non-nutritious foods also aren’t allowed to be served at schools under the food policy, but there’s a specific exception for special events like spring fairs. Jennex said she thinks the confusion resulted from mixing the food policy and fundraising policy. “Childhood obesity is a serious concern and it is crucial for us, as a society, to promote healthy living," she said in a news release Wednesday. “But I know spring flings traditionally have an important role in many communities, and I look to principals, parents and school advisory councils to use common sense and make good choices on what is appropriate at these events." Pamela Lovelace, a mother of two who objected to a ban on cakes at spring flings, said Wednesday that she is glad the department has clarified its position. “We all believe in healthy eating," said Lovelace, who is also president of the Hammonds Plains Consolidated Home and School Association. “We need to teach our kids healthy eating but we also need to teach moderation and we shouldn’t be making (children) feel bad or guilty about eating food." The opposition parties say it looks like government did a flip-flop because of all the backlash. “I think the minister has realized a little common sense will probably go a long ways on this one," said Progressive Conservative MLA Chris d’Entremont. He said parents and volunteers should be urged to use their discretion in interpreting the policy. “I still find it difficult to understand where cake can be used as a fundraiser. It sounds like spring flings are OK but maybe other things are not." “I applaud the schools that actually did go with their edict and switch to non-cake walk fundraisers but, really, I think parents can decide whether their kids (can) win a cake and bring it home," she said. | Mid | [
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Share Email 7 Shares April 1, 2014; National Public Radio “The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry but he thwarts the craving of the wicked” (Proverbs 10:3). So says scripture, but that isn’t quite borne out in modern society nor, sadly, in the tax-exempt sector. Last year, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) led a deep and thorough investigation of some of the nation’s most ostentatious televangelists in the nation, the so-called “prosperity” televangelists who seem to have become quite prosperous from their preaching over the airwaves. You know them—Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Benny Hinn, Creflo and Taffi Dollar, Eddie Long, and Randy and Paula White (only Meyer and Hinn appear to have cooperated much with Grassley’s review), all preaching the prosperity gospel, defined by Cathleen Falsani, the religion columnist of the Chicago Sun-Times, as an “insipid heresy…[that] teaches that God blesses those God favors most with material wealth.” In our evidence-based sector, the strongest evidence that the prosperity gospel works is in the Bentleys, Rolls-Royces, Gulfstreams, and Citations that they use under the guise of carrying out the work of their ministries. Prosperity as evidence of a life well lived, eh? Just about nothing happened with Grassley’s investigation, which he pursued with scant support from Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee and wrapped up with no legal action against any of these people, much less others who have picked up on their prosperity theology (or “prosperity lite”) with aplomb, such as Joel Osteen and T.D. Jakes. The message of inaction, accompanied by the supposition of self-regulation by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, which issued a very weak report on supposed changes in how to oversee the likes of Kenneth Copeland and Eddie Long, reached the IRS, which recognizes the Daystar television network, along with the Christian Broadcasting Network, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and others) as churches. That means they get all of the benefits of accepting tax-deductible charitable donations and avoiding taxation on their massive amounts of inflow but, unlike 501(c)(3) public charities, they get to avoid public disclosure of how and toward what they use the millions of dollars they rake in. Donors give about $35 million a year to Daystar Television, which has $233 million in assets. NPR figured this out not from any public revelations made by Daystar to the IRS, but from court records as part of an employee lawsuit in 2011. According to NPR, the records “show generous donations and loans that Daystar made to friends, and records of charitable giving that looked different from what Daystar describes on the air.” Daystar’s founder and CEO, Pentecostal minister Marcus Lamb and his wife Joni, refused to speak to NPR, but Lamb’s director of marketing responded to NPR in writing, equating NPR and Daystar as “nonprofit entities…[that] both enjoy all of the same benefits and obligations, other than the fact that Daystar does not have to file a form 990, due to its church status, for which it is fully compliant under the law.” It’s no surprise that, besides running its own lineup of preachers, Daystar sells television time to Jakes and Osteen for their on-air ministries. Here’s where the NPR review went off the rails: It cited former employees who said that Daystar isn’t a church, but a massive money-making television network, as though nonprofits don’t on occasion make money. The reality is that the IRS rarely ever enforces its “14-point test” for determining whether an applicant qualifies as a church (the criteria include regular services, Sunday school, and a regular congregation) and doesn’t seem much inclined to re-review “churches” like Daystar to determine if, perhaps, they might have been a church for a moment and somehow drifted. It’s obvious that the IRS has no desire to do battle over issues of government interference with religion, which may have been Grassley’s rationale for turning his review over to ECFA (or the reason his Democratic counterpart, Max Baucus, ducked the issue altogether). To be seen as attacking religion, even if it is the prosperity televangelists, could cost votes. The NPR examination also gave too much credence to the debate over whether Daystar actually delivers on its purported charitable activities. Like the televangelists reviewed by Grassley, Daystar announces lots of charitable donations, such as donations to a home for Holocaust survivors in Israel, a hospital in Calcutta, and a ministry supporting women in Moldova. According to NPR’s review of Daystar’s court-reviewed finances, only about five percent of its donor revenue goes to charitable giving. CharityWatch’s Daniel Borochoff told NPR that Daystar should tell donors that only about five percent of their giving goes out of Daystar to other charities. In reality, the percentage of of tax-deductible donations to churches in general that goes for other-than-sacerdotal activities is not much greater. The point is that the tax structure allows donations for religion to be treated the same as donations for charitable good. Maybe Daystar isn’t telling its donors accurately and fully what it’s doing with their generosity, but it isn’t all that different than overall giving to tax-exempt churches. Some of the examples of Daystar’s “charitable donations” are shocking and obnoxious (our favorite was the donation of $60,000 to Israeli lawyers who helped Daystar get a cable TV contract), but other expenditures are just as odious—a $2.3 million loan to one of Lamb’s golfing buddies and former assistants, buying copies of Joni’s autobiography at retail bookstores so that it would climb higher on bestseller lists, and over half a million to a NASCAR driver for his ministry. Matthew 6:24: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.” The likes of Daystar get to run without much more than an occasional negative article like this one. The IRS doesn’t audit churches much, if at all. Mammon doesn’t face any challenges in the prosperity theology as practiced by Daystar and the other “self-regulating” televangelists. It’s time to pull the plug on a theology that only makes the preachers prosperous and does so on the backs of American taxpayers’ approval of a tax exemption for their money-making and gift of a federal tax deduction for the donations they rake in—all without having to disclose much or anything to the taxpayers themselves. “Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you]” (James 5:1). Hopefully the howling will come, because these churches will have to, at a minimum, report and disclose just like their public charity peers, but it should really come from stripping the likes of Daystar of their tax-exempt church status.—Rick Cohen | Low | [
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"Rex shunt" for the treatment of portal vein thrombosis after pediatric liver transplantation: a case report. Late portal vein thrombosis (PVT) can be extremely well tolerated, although portal hypertension and other consequences of the long-term deprivation of portal inflow to the graft may be hazardous, especially in young children. Recently, the "Rex shunt" has been used successfully to treat these patients. We now report the initial experience with this novel technique. A 3-year-old girl with PVT at 7 months after whole organ cadaveric liver transplant displayed portal hypertension with an episode of gastrointestinal bleeding, requiring a mesenteric-portal surgical shunt ("Rex shunt") using a left internal jugular vein autograft. Upon current follow-up of 6 months, postoperative Doppler ultrasound confirmed shunt patency. Endoscopic status was significantly improved after surgery with resolution of portal hypertension. There was no recurrence of bleeding. The mesenteric-portal shunt ("Rex shunt"), using a left internal jugular vein autograft, should be considered for children with late PVT after liver transplantation. Although this is an initial experience, we may conclude that this technique is feasible, with great potential benefits and low risks for these patients. | High | [
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The man was seen dancing before the alleged assault Police are investigating claims a man in a gorilla suit was punched at a Vote Leave rally attended by Boris Johnson. The man, a Remain campaigner who had been heckling Mr Johnson, claims he was pushed down some steps at the event in Winchester. Hampshire Police are also looking into a separate claim that another Remain campaigner was assaulted at the event. A Vote Leave spokesman said "If it happened, it happened after Boris Johnson had left the area." He added: "We do not condone any violence. These people turned up at the event intent on causing disruption. "When our team left the area, the gorilla was still in good spirits and dancing around and didn't look like he had been punched." The man in the gorilla suit claims he was elbowed in the ribs and punched in the face by a man who was screaming at him. The other man, local Lib Dem candidate John Romero, described the attitude of Leave supporters as "an absolute disgrace, beyond belief". He claims he was pushed two metres down steps of the historic Buttercross as he tried to heckle Mr Johnson's speech. Police are appealing for witnesses and are examining photographic evidence of both assaults. | Low | [
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Arthrobacter viscosus DNA is modified at GATC sequence. Arthrobacter viscosus DNA was resistance to digestion by restriction enzymes that are sensitive to methylation of the cytosine residue (but not of adenine) within the GATC recognition sequence. Restriction enzymes sensitive to methylation of cytosine in other recognition sequences were not affected. A. viscosus DNA thus appeared to contain methylated cytosine specifically at the GATC sequence. | Mid | [
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1. Technical Field The present invention relates to a cleaning apparatus that cleans a print head of a printing apparatus, which performs printing by ejecting ink, and the printing apparatus, and more particularly, relates to control of a start timing of regular cleaning which is carried out automatically in the printing apparatus. 2. Related Art According to the related art, ink jet printers have been used as receipt printers of a POS system for convenience stores or the like. The ink jet printer performs predetermined printing by ejecting ink of an ink cartridge from a print head to receipt paper or the like. According to such an ink jet printer, in order to prevent the viscosity of ink remaining in nozzles of the print head from being increased and to prevent bubbles from penetrating into the inside of the print head from the nozzles, regular cleaning is automatically performed to clean the print head by absorbing the ink from the nozzles of the print head, so that printing is always performed in a proper state. Further, since a nozzle formation surface of the print head faces the paper while being spaced apart from the paper at a predetermined interval, paper dust, ink or the like may be easily attached to the nozzle formation surface. If the paper dust, ink or the like are attached to the nozzle formation surface, holes of the nozzles may be clogged or the paper may be contaminated due to the ink attached thereto. In order to solve these problems, the regular cleaning is performed to wipe impurities attached to the nozzle formation surface by using an elastic absorption plate, so that a printing operation can be always performed in a proper state. In general, the regular cleaning is automatically performed after a predetermined time lapses from the previous cleaning. Thus, in a receipt printer employing the ink jet printer, a start timing of the regular cleaning may be reached while a receipt to be provided to a product purchaser is being printed. In such a case, cleaning must be performed after the printing process is primarily performed, or the printing process must be temporarily stopped so that the cleaning can be primarily performed. However, if the cleaning is primarily performed and thus the purchaser has to wait for a predetermined time until the cleaning is completed, the reputation of the convenience store may be adversely affected in terms of service quality. In contrast, if the printing process is primarily performed so that the regular cleaning is delayed, since cleaning is not performed for a long time, the print quality of the receipt or the like may be degraded. Further, the start timing of the regular cleaning may be reached during the printing process in an ink jet printer serving as an image recording apparatus in which continuous printing is performed, as well as an ink jet printer used in an office and a household (see paragraphs 0002 to 0014 and 0033 to 0072, and FIGS. 4A to 7 of JP-A-2008-68438). According to patent document 1, in the ink jet printer serving as the image recording apparatus, if the start timing of the regular cleaning for the print head is reached during the printing process, the printing process is temporarily stopped at a proper timing in consideration of the remaining number of papers to be printed and then the cleaning is performed, so that the workability is improved and the print quality is prevented from being degraded. However, in such a case, the printing process is essentially stopped. In this regard, there has been proposed a scheme for calculating a low print time zone, in which the printing quantity is equal to or less than a predetermined value, from the previous history of a printing operation in such a printing apparatus which uses the ink jet printer such as the receipt printer, and regular cleaning is performed in the low print time zone, so that the regular cleaning is performed at a proper timing corresponding to the operational environment of the printing apparatus while preventing the printing process from overlapping the regular cleaning (see paragraphs 0013 to 0015 and 0042 to 0064, and FIGS. 4 to 10 of JP-A-2007-98706). However, although the regular cleaning is performed in the low print time zone calculated based on the previous history as disclosed in JP-A-2007-98706, a printing process for printing a receipt or the like may be necessarily performed in the low print time zone under an operational environment in which the printing process for printing the receipt or the like happens irregularly in a convenience store or the like. At this time, if the regular cleaning is performed, the purchaser or the like must wait until the cleaning is completed. Further, in the printing apparatus of a convenience store open 24 hours a day under the operational environment in which the printing process for printing the receipt or the like happens irregularly through the day, the above problem must be solved. | Mid | [
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One is Bird Jesus (left), the other is Just Brian (right). Both are Pidgeots, but as the fandom goes, Bird Jesus was born our savior, while Just Brian is trying to become his own entity without living in Bird Jesus's shadow. I haven't watched any of the show yet (been super busy with work and ABOs), bt this looks awesome! I like how you made all the different Pokémon into this beast column, and the slanted colors for each one really draws your eye to the face of each one. Very cool! Now if only we could get Nintendo to actually make Pokémon designs scarier...that would be a great day. Great job, Jack! Wow epic, love the attention to detail with it's presentation (the funky background colours) and the designs themselves are brilliant. Well done, this is some sexy-awesomeness right here, especially for 5-6 hours, that's some quick work We'll see. Things have moved incredibly quickly in my life recently, so I can't make any promises. I can say that I'll be at the least much less active. I never played Gen 3, so it lacks the immense nostalgia appeal Gen 2 had for me. But the community is awesome, and if the lore grabs me, I may not be able to resist. Definitely not doing daily speedpaints again, though. ahh okay I understand. Don't push yourself. I hope to see more Pokemon fanart though (whetherfrom the firstgenerationorthe other)Just wanna say that you did an incredible awesome job on your pictures!Keep it up! | Mid | [
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"""An implementation of B-Trees""" from utils import new_array, new_int_array from base import BaseSet class BlockStore(object): """This class simulates a block storage device like a file""" def __init__(self): self.blocks = list() self.free = list() def place_block(self, block): if len(self.free) > 0: i = self.free.pop() self.blocks[i] = block else: i = len(self.blocks) self.blocks.append(block) return i def free_block(self, i): self.blocks[i] = None self.free.append(i) def read_block(self, i): return self.blocks[i] def write_block(self, i, block): self.blocks[i] = block def find_it(a, x): lo, hi = 0, len(a) while hi != lo: m = (hi+lo)//2 if a[m] is None or x < a[m]: hi = m # look in first half elif x > a[m]: lo = m+1 # look in second half else: return -m-1 # found it return lo class DuplicateValueError(LookupError): pass class BTree(BaseSet): class Node(object): def __init__(self, btree): self.btree = btree self.keys = new_array(self.btree.b) self.children = new_int_array(self.btree.b+1, -1) self.id = self.btree.bs.place_block(self) def is_leaf(self): return self.children[0] < 0 def is_full(self): return self.keys[-1] is not None def size(self): lo, hi = 0, len(self.keys) while hi != lo: m = (hi+lo) // 2 if self.keys[m] is None: hi = m else: lo = m+1 return lo def add(self, x, ci): i = find_it(self.keys, x) if i < 0: return False self.keys[i+1:len(self.keys)] = self.keys[i:len(self.keys)-1] self.children[i+2:len(self.children)] \ = self.children[i+1:len(self.children)-1] self.children[i+1] = ci self.keys[i] = x def remove(self, i): y = self.keys[i] assert(y is not None) self.keys[i:len(self.keys)-1] = self.keys[i+1:len(self.keys)] self.keys[len(self.keys)-1] = None return y def split(self): w = BTree.Node(self.btree) j = len(self.keys) // 2 w.keys[0:len(self.keys)-j] = self.keys[j:len(self.keys)] self.keys[j:len(self.keys)] = None w.children[0:len(self.children)-j-1] \ = self.children[j+1:len(self.children)] self.children[j+1:len(self.children)] = -1 self.btree.bs.write_block(self.id, self) return w def __str__(self): pairs = zip(self.children, self.keys) return "".join(["%s<%s>" % x for x in pairs]) \ + "," + str(self.children[len(self.keys)]) def __init__(self, b): self._initialize(b) def _new_node(self): return BTree.Node(self) def _initialize(self, b): self.b = b | 1 self.B = self.b // 2 self.bs = BlockStore() self.ri = self.new_node().id self.n = 0 def add(self, x): w = None try: w = self.add_recursive(x, self.ri) except DuplicateValueError: return False if w is not None: newroot = BTree.Node(self) x = w.remove(0) self.bs.write_block(w.id, w) newroot.children[0] = self.ri newroot.keys[0] = x newroot.children[1] = w.id self.ri = newroot.id self.bs.write_block(self.ri, newroot) self.n += 1 return True def add_recursive(self, x, ui): u = self.bs.read_block(ui) i = find_it(u.keys, x) if i < 0: raise DuplicateValueError() if u.children[i] < 0: u.add(x, -1) self.bs.write_block(u.id, u) else: w = self.add_recursive(x, u.children[i]) if w is not None: x = w.remove(0) self.bs.write_block(w.id, w) u.add(x, w.id) self.bs.write_block(u.id, u) if u.is_full(): return u.split() return None def find(self, x): z = None ui = self.ri while ui >= 0: u = self.bs.read_block(ui) i = find_it(u.keys, x) if i < 0: return u.keys[-(i+1)] # found it if u.keys[i] is not None: z = u.keys[i] ui = u.children[i] return z def remove(self, x): if self.remove_recursive(x, self.ri): self.n -= 1 r = self.bs.read_block(self.ri) if r.size() == 0 and self.n > 0: ri = r.children[0] # root has only one child return True return False def remove_recursive(self, x, ui): if ui < 0: return False # didn't find it u = self.bs.read_block(ui) i = find_it(u.keys, x) if i < 0: # found it i = -(i+1) if u.is_leaf(): u.remove(i) else: u.keys[i] = self.remove_smallest(u.children[i+1]) self.check_underflow(u, i+1) return True elif self.remove_recursive(x, u.children[i]): self.check_underflow(u, i) return True return False def remove_smallest(self, ui): u = self.bs.read_block(ui) if u.is_leaf(): return u.remove(0) y = self.remove_smallest(u.children[0]) self.check_underflow(u, 0) return y def check_underflow(self, u, i): if u.children[i] < 0: return if i == 0: self.check_underflow_zero(u, i) else: self.check_underflow_nonzero(u, i) def merge(self, u, i, v, w): assert(v.id == u.children[i]) assert(w.id == u.children[i+1]) sv = v.size() sw = w.size() # 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underflow at w v = self.bs.read_block(u.children[i+1]) # v right of w if v.size() > self.B: self.shift_rl(u, i, v, w) else: self.merge(u, i, w, v) u.children[i] = w.id def shift_rl(self, u, i, v, w): sw = w.size() sv = v.size() shift = (sw+sv)//2 - sw # num. keys to shift from v to w # shift keys from v to w w.keys[sw] = u.keys[i] w.keys[sw+1:sw+shift] = v.keys[0:shift-1] w.children[sw+1:sw+shift+1] = v.children[0:shift] u.keys[i] = v.keys[shift-1] # delete keys and children from v v.keys[0:self.b-shift] = v.keys[shift:self.b] v.keys[sv-shift:self.b] = None v.children[0:self.b-shift+1] = v.children[shift:self.b+1] v.children[sv-shift+1:self.b+1] = -1 def __iter__(self): return self._traverse(self.ri) def _traverse(self, ui): """Helper function for the iterator""" if ui >= 0: u = self.bs.read_block(ui) i = 0 while i < len(u.keys) and u.keys[i] is not None: for x in self._traverse(u.children[i]): yield x yield u.keys[i] i += 1 for x in self._traverse(u.children[i]): yield x def _internal_repr(self): self._ir(self.ri) print def _ir(self, ui): if ui >= 0: u = self.bs.read_block(ui) i = 0 print '[', while i < len(u.keys) and u.keys[i] is not None: self._ir(u.children[i]) print u.keys[i], i += 1 self._ir(u.children[i]) print ']', if __name__ == "__main__": import random random.seed(0) b = 11 bt = BTree(b) # 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Tamalito The tamalito or "tamalitos" is a common dish prepared by the Mestizo people who are descendants of the Maya (Yucatec). The appearance of the "tamalitos" is of the tamales which is wrapped with leaves but without meat. Preparation Tamalitos is prepared by using fresh corn "maiz" preferably the ones which have been harvested one or two days ago. The fresher the corn the sweeter and softer the tamalito. Twenty fresh corns caters for fifteen tamalitos. The corn "maiz" is carefully peeled by setting aside the second, third and even fourth layer of leaves for future use. The peeled corn is then manually grated with a knife until the all the corn product is removed from the corn "bacal". The corn product is then ground to a fine and soft texture. After grinding the product, one cup of vegetable oil, five tea spoons of salt, one melted butter (4 ounces) and half cup of milk is added to the batter. All the ingredients will then be thoroughly mixed until ingredients and batter have fully blended together. Before the final preparation, 3 cups of water is placed to boil. Using the set aside leaves, 2 leaves will be placed together and opened in the form of a canoe. A spoon full of tamalito batter is added in the canoe leaves which will be wrapped and placed standing in a pot. This process is continued until the batter is finished. The boiling water is then poured on the side of the tamalito pot without making water enter the wrapped leaves. Steam the tamalitos for 30 minutes or until the water has evaporated. Open and serve tamalitos with some chicken soup "caldo de pollo" or melted butter. See also List of dumplings References Category:Peruvian cuisine Category:Culture of Amazonas Region Category:Dumplings | Mid | [
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Steven Hill, an Orthodox Jewish actor best known for playing a Jewish Manhattan district attorney on the hit TV series “Law & Order,” has died at 94. Hill, who sacrificed numerous career opportunities in order to observe Shabbat, died Tuesday in Monsey, New York, Hollywood Reporter said, citing Hill’s son, Rabbi Yehoshua Hill. The New York Times cited Hill’s daughter, Sarah Gobioff, in reporting that Hill lived in Monsey, a heavily Orthodox Jewish area in suburban Rockland County, but died in Manhattan. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up On NBC’s “Law & Order,” Hill played District Attorney Adam Schiff for more than 225 episodes from 1990 to 2000, earning two Emmy nominations for outstanding actor in a drama series. Schiff was loosely modeled on longtime Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, who also was Jewish. In a 1996 interview with The Washington Post cited in the Times obituary, “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf called Hill “the Talmudic influence on the entire zeitgeist of the series.” “Steven has more moral authority than anyone else on episodic TV,” Wolf said. In a statement made after Hill’s death, Wolf said, “Steven was not only one of the truly great actors of his generation, he was one of the most intelligent people I have ever met … He will be missed but fortunately he can be seen ubiquitously on Law & Order reruns.” Hill, born Solomon Krakovsky in Seattle, Washington, made his professional acting debut in the 1946 production of “A Flag Is Born,” a controversial Zionist play by Ben Hecht. In the 1960s, after having established himself in television and on Broadway, Hill became Orthodox. In a 1983 interview with The New York Times, Hill said he was inspired to explore Judaism after performing the role of Sigmund Freud in “A Far Country,” a play in which a character screamed “You’re a Jew!” at the founder of modern psychology. “When she would let loose this blast, I would take it. And in the pause that followed, I would think, ‘What about this?’ And I was provoked to explore my religion,” Hill told the Times. “I slowly became aware that there was something more profound going on in the world than just plays and movies and TV shows.” His newfound observance of Shabbat, which coincides with performances on Friday night and Saturday afternoon, effectively ended Hill’s stage career, according to Hollywood Reporter. However, Hill was still able to work in television. He appeared on several hit shows and was in the original cast of “Mission Impossible,” but was forced to leave after a year due to his unavailability for rehearsals on Friday night and Saturday. After a 10-year hiatus from acting in which he worked in real estate and writing, Hill returned to acting in 1977, appearing in several TV shows and films, including “Thirtysomething,” “Yentl” and “Brighton Beach Memoirs.” Hill is survived by his second wife, Rachel, nine children, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. | Mid | [
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Share 847 Shares Leave it to the Philippines, a country where one of the largest daily newspapers keeps a medium on the payroll, where psychic surgery is still a thing, and where, for a disturbingly large part of the population, dripping candle wax into a bowl of water is considered a legitimate diagnosis technique, to issue a license to practice actual medicine to a scientific train-wreck like Dr. Eleanor de Borja-Palabyab. “Dr.” (that will be in quotes for the remainder of this post, for reasons that will shortly become obvious) de Borja-Palabyab is the current President of Doctors for Life Philippines (DLPh), a Catholic Church-backed organization dedicated to encouraging the practice of medicine in accordance with the beliefs and edicts of the Pauline Cult. If “Dr.” de Borja-Palabyab’s opinions, expressed in a rambling lecture to a meeting of about 300 people (in a church, natch) in Gubat, Sorsogon on March 22, are any indication, that perspective represents a level of medical sophistication that hasn’t been seen since the era of the Black Death. Blithely citing conclusions that were soundly refuted nearly 10 years ago and later revealed to be not just mistakes but intentional fraud, “Dr.” de Borja-Palabyab warned her audience that vaccines not only contain harmful mercury and formalin, but are also a cause of autism, according to a report published by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) and absolutely no one else. Just in case all that wasn’t sufficiently horrifying for her audience, “Dr.” de Borja-Palabyab also “revealed” (citing a “Vatican paper” as her source) that aborted human fetuses are used to produce vaccines, casually adding that “They are also used in the preparation of food ingredients in countries where abortion is legal.” Interestingly enough, the “Doctor’s” “revelation” (which is not really news, having been SOP for, oh, only about the last 50 years or so) about the source of some vaccines was not completely over the horizon from the truth. Because viruses targeted by vaccines infect humans, human cells are the most effective medium in which to produce the deactivated viruses that are the main ingredients in vaccines; the original source of the cells used for this were two aborted fetuses in the early 1960s. Since then, however, the cells have been regenerated thousands of times in laboratories in different parts of the world, completely eliminating the need for any fresh tissue. While that still might make some people a little squeamish (one reason intense research has been going on for years to try to find effective alternative methods of creating vaccines), the “Doctor’s” implication that babies are being aborted for the purpose is, to put it kindly, a grossly malicious lie. The “Doctor’s” tangential assertion that babies are being aborted for food is just gross. Having done her part to contribute to a worldwide resurgence of preventable diseases like measles and pertussis, “Dr.” de Borja-Palabyab moved on to the topic of contraceptives, which, predictably, were described as evil and dangerous. The “Doctor’s” harangue was apparently the pretty standard fare – reproductive health as understood by repressed, elderly Italian men – except for this little value-added flair: Condoms, apparently, can give you HIV. According to de Borja-Palabyab, condoms have microscopic holes in them ranging in size from 5 to 70 microns; the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, on the other hand, has a diameter of only 0.1 micron. Here again, de Borja-Palabyab has apparently spent more time crafting lectures to enhance the public’s ignorance than in keeping her own medical knowledge even remotely current. A battery of tests conducted by several government and university research departments between 1992 and 1994 found that latex condoms provide an essentially impermeable barrier to particles the size of HIV as well as other sexually-transmitted pathogens, even in live-action tests involving infected and uninfected partners. Of course, the usual warnings that condoms must be used consistently and correctly are offered, and they are still are not (and will never be) as infallible as keeping one’s tingly bits away from everyone else’s, but the difference in risk factors for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases between having sex using a condom or not is enormous – a factor of about 10,000, according to a 1992 Food and Drug Administration study. For “Dr.” de Borja-Palabyab to abuse her position as an authority figure (she is supposedly trained as a gynecologist, as alarming as that may be) endorsed by the Catholic Church to sow misinformation and encourage potentially destructive behavior among an audience that is easily influenced by credentials and ecclesiastical oversight is maliciously reckless and a mockery of the medical profession. And at least a few intrepid members of the public are trying to stop her; a petition launched on change.org on Friday is calling for the Professional Regulation Commission to investigate “Dr.” de Borja-Palabyab. Unfortunately, the recent Supreme Court ruling which gutted the Reproductive Health Law may protect her right to be an ignorant ass on religious grounds, as it struck down a provision which would have prevented physicians from being “conscientious objectors” to providing RH services if they felt doing so would violate their religious beliefs. After all, encouraging people to have unprotected sex and then gamble with the health of the unwanted product thereof is probably not actually the worst thing anyone’s ever done in the name of their various gods. print Spread it! Tweet More Email WhatsApp | Low | [
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Lazy Sunday June 22, 2015 The last two Sundays have been Lazy Sundays. We have been busy every weekend for months, but now we are officially into summer, and it is TIME TO RELAX!! Last Lazy Sunday, I was up before anyone else. I made myself a bowl of cereal and some coffee and joined Simon on the loveseat (above – shh, he’s still asleep). I took advantage of the solitude, not to meditate or do yoga, but instead to watch whatever I wanted on Netflix. Since I am unable to run due to my injury, I selected the documentary “Desert Runners”. It’s about four ultramarathons across four different deserts, and what it is like for the competitors that run them. It was excellent, and I highly recommend it, especially if you are a runner! Five stars! This Lazy Sunday, I decided to keep with the running them, and watched “Prefontaine”, a movie about the extraordinary and tragically short running career of Steve Prefontaine. I enjoyed the film, though I would give it only three stars. There was, oddly, not enough running in the movie, considering that it was a movie about a runner. It also seemed that the screenwriter wanted every scene to be quotable, which led to some rather stilted and ponderous dialog. But none of that mattered, since that afternoon we decided to hit the matinee, a laAndy and Parnell. Check! Lots to enjoy about this one! It had plenty of action, lots of jumping in your seat, and of course, at the end the humans realize (again) that they shouldn’t try to control the dinosaurs. Nothing too deep, just dinosaurs running amok. Definitely a must see! | Mid | [
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I ran this recipe last summer, but I decided to post it again because it's simply delicious. There’s nothing more refreshing as a summer dessert than the combination of lemon and blueberry. This dessert is so easy, you won’t believe it. It’s so delicious, your family and friends will ask you to make it, again and again. I used a 7 inch by 11 inch clear glass dish in which to assemble my dessert because the graham crackers fit very nicely in the bottom. If you don’t have a dish this size, simply use whatever you have, snapping the graham crackers into pieces that will fit into the bottom for the “crust.” Summery Lemon Blueberry Dessert 2 boxes (2.9 oz) lemon “cook and serve” pudding 2/3 cup sugar 4 egg yolks 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel (optional) 4 cups water (divided) 1 (8 oz) tub Cool Whip, thawed 10 graham crackers 1 pint fresh blueberries, rinsed and dried 1.In a saucepan, stir together the dry lemon pudding mix, sugar, egg yolks, lemon peel, and 1/2 cup water until smooth. Make sure all of the pudding mix is well-incorporated. Add the additional 3 1/2 cups water and stir to combine. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until pudding comes to a boil and thickens. Set aside to cool. 2.Add Cool Whip to the cooled pudding mixture and stir until thoroughly combined. 3.Assemble your dessert: Line the bottom of a 7 inch x 11 inch oblong dish with 4 graham crackers. Top with half of the pudding, smoothing into an even layer. Top pudding with half of the blueberries. Add 4 more graham crackers, pressing down a bit so the crackers are in contact with the pudding. Layer on the remaining pudding and spread into an even layer. Top with remaining blueberries. Place remaining 2 graham crackers into a plastic baggie and crush into crumbs. Sprinkle crumbs evenly over the top of the pudding. 4.Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours to give the “crust” time to soften. The Ocean City Boardwalk Series isn't just fun in the sun—love is waiting on those sandy shores! Tawny McNealy is a driven, high-achiever who fully expects to someday take over and run the family accounting firm. But when an attempt is made to use her as a pawn, Tawny flees to the only place she’s ever felt truly free and happy—the beach. Jack Barclay spends his summer days creating romantic seaside weddings for lovers. His laid-back attitude has served him well over the years. He feels stressing out about work only causes a person to miss the best parts of life. Jack and Tawny are as different as sea and sky, but the fascination they find in each other’s company can’t be denied. Can they withstand the crazy twists that fate tosses their way? Have plain ol’ brownies ever made you yawn? Here’s a pick-me-up that is sure to make you smile. When the box of brownie mix sitting in my pantry made me say, “Meh,” I knew I needed a solution. Quick. So I concocted this fast and easy fix that will turn ordinary brownies into extraordinary! I’ll never look at brownies the same way again. I call these Double Chocolate English Toffee Brownies and my husband LOVES them. Bake a batch of brownies as directed on the box. As soon as you pull the pan out of the oven, sprinkle the brownies with 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate pieces (use more, if you like). I use Nestles Mini Morsels because they melt faster than the regular sized chocolate chips. Wait about five minutes and then use a butter knife to spread the chocolate evenly over the top of the brownies. While the chocolate is still lusciously melty, sprinkle about a cup of Heath English Toffee Bits over the top. Wait until the brownies cool and then cut into squares. Delicious! Do you have a quick and easy fix that changes a recipe from ordinary to extraordinary? Please share in the comment section below. While I have your attention, can I tell you about the newest book in my A Family Forever Series? A REASON TO BELIEVE is a cute little fairy tale that’s chockfull of Irish Folklore. It’s available in ebook and in paperback. I hope you’ll look for it! About the book: It seems like a grand idea, temporarily trading her pixie wings for a womanly form to help handsome widower Paul Roland with his baby girl. And the moment she holds the precious bairn in her arms, Fern knows true happiness for the first time. But Fern never anticipates the dizzying emotions she feels for the man who not only needs her as a nanny, but as a woman whose passion can heal his wounded heart. Suddenly the forbidden fairy rule she gently bends because of the baby is in danger of being irrevocably broken. | Low | [
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This proposal seeks continued funding for the Tetrahymena Stock Center in order to maintain its current operations, expand its capabilities and ensure its sustainability as a resource for the community at-large. A key model for eukaryotic cell and molecular biology, Tetrahymena thermophila has been instrumental to our understanding of a wide range of biological phenomena with direct relevance to human health and disease including cancer, infertility, aging, respiratory and neuroendocrine dysfunction. Tetrahymena has also shown great promise as a platform for the production of recombinant proteins, including vaccine antigens and difficult- to-express human ion channels, and serves as a useful teaching tool in K12 and undergraduate classrooms. Specifically, our aims for the Resource are to 1) continue to act as a strain repository accepting new strains and making live cultures of T. thermophila available to interested users at reasonable cost; 2) complete the annotation of archival strains currently housed at the Center and acquire next-generation cloning vectors for micro- and macronuclear genome-editing; 3) offer expanded services and develop innovative marketing approaches to increase revenues. Additionally, to ensure insure long-term stability of the resource we plan to 4) relocate the repository from Cornell University to Washington University in St. Louis; 5) migrate all data from the legacy Tetrahymena Genome Database (TGD) schema to CHADO and transfer its web-hosting functions from Bradley University to the NSF-funded National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) at Indiana University; and, 6) redesign the TGD website to display relevant data via the Tripal framework. Our additional Research aims are to: 7) develop genetic strains lacking a functional ribosomal DNA locus to enable selection-free creation of new cell lines; and, 8) develop CRISPR-mediated genome editing tools to enhance the overall utility of the Tetrahymena platform. | High | [
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Neural circuitry of the adult rat central nervous system after spinal cord injury: a study using fast blue and the Bartha strain of pseudorabies virus. The distribution of retrogradely and transneuronally labeled neurons in the adult rat brain and spinal cord after contusive mid-thoracic spinal cord injury (SCI) was studied using Fast Blue (FB) and the Bartha strain of pseudorabies virus (PRV), respectively. When FB was injected into the distal spinal cord at 2 days after graded SCI at the 10th vertebral level, labeled neurons were consistently found 7 days later in supraspinal areas that normally project to the spinal cord. The number of FB-labeled neurons decreased as the injury severity increased. An inverse correlation between the number of FB-labeled neurons and injury severity was seen in most investigated brain nuclei with coefficient of correlations (r) ranging from -0.84 in the red nucleus to -0.92 in the raphe nuclei. The coefficient of correlation was relatively poor in the motor cortex (r = -0.63), where a mild injury (6.25 g.cm) resulted in a 99% damage of the corticospinal tract. Such a prominent difference between the corticospinal tract and other descending pathways can be related to the difference in location of these pathways within the adult rat spinal cord. When PRV was injected into the right sciatic nerve one month after the injury, labeled cells were consistently identified 5 days later in the spinal cord rostral to the injury and in certain supraspinal regions that regulate autonomic outflow. In these nuclei, the distribution and number of PRV-labeled neurons markedly decreased after SCI as compared to the control group. In contrast, PRV-labeled neurons were inconsistently found in the supraspinal nuclei that contribute to somatic motor outflow in normal controls and no labeling was observed in these nuclei after injury. These results demonstrate that (1) a proportion of neural network across the injured spinal cord has been spared after acute contusive SCI, (2) the proportion of spared axons of a particular pathway is closely correlated to the injury severity and the position of that pathway, and (3) the transneuronal labeling method using PRV may provide a unique approach to investigate multi-synaptic neural circuitry of the central autonomic control after SCI, but its application to the somatic motor system is limited. | High | [
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Visit Orlando’s Magical Dining Month, sponsored by American Express, returns Aug. 25 – Oct. 1 with an unprecedented number of restaurants, each offering a three-course, prix fixe dinner menu for just $35 per person. Celebrating its 12th year, the popular dining promotion offers over 100 restaurants throughout the Orlando area for local foodies or visiting gourmands who are looking to try out a local favorite or one of the hottest new venues added to Orlando’s growing culinary scene. Paddlefish, a seafood-centric restaurant, is now open in The Landing at Disney Springs for your dining pleasure, and it’s definitely a don’t-miss place to eat. Formerly known as Fulton’s Crab House, the restaurant has been completely revamped inside and out, taking on a contemporary interpretation of an elegant steamboat. The new design includes a variety of comfortable seating, large windows to enjoy the view of Disney Springs, and three floors for guests to enjoy, including a new rooftop deck on the third floor. In this week’s Orlando dining news round-up: new openings, closings, and more. Are you hungry? Let’s dive in… The Florida Local Food Summit takes place September 9 at East End Market in Orlando. The event will be an educational gathering of local food producers, advocates, and community members, tailored to advance the knowledge of what we can do and be as a local food system. About CitySurfing Orlando CitySurfing Orlando is both for the locals and the visitors. Since 2010, we have covered the theme parks and all the other fun stuff to do in Central Florida, but we also cover events, dining, shopping, nightlife and news of interest to those who live in the Orlando area. I hope you enjoy CitySurfing Orlando and that it gets you out, about and exploring all the things that make this city so much fun to play and stay in. | Mid | [
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After choosing not to renew longtime television color analyst Drew Remenda's contract, the San Jose Sharks had some pretty huge shoes to fill in finding a replacement. Remenda was beloved by the fanbase and had been with the organization since its inception. So, in a lot of ways, it makes sense that Remenda's successor will be the man responsible for the greatest moment in the franchise's early history. Jamie Baker, whom the team announced today will serve as the new color analyst for games broadcast on CSN California, is a lot more than the player who scored what remains the most famous goal in Sharks history. He also has nearly a decade of experience as the color commentator on Sharks radio broadcasts alongside Dan Rusanowsky. Baker has also traditionally been the top choice to replace Remenda on TV broadcasts when Remenda was unavailable, so it isn't particularly surprising that he'll be replacing Remenda full time. Replacing Baker on the radio will be Bret Hedican, the former smooth-skating defenseman and Stanley Cup champion who has had various roles on the CSN California broadcast over the past four seasons. These both seem like terrific, if somewhat expected, picks to me. It's hard to imagine the Sharks doing better than Baker and Hedican, two guys with a demonstrated ability to break down and perceptively discuss Sharks hockey, by going outside the organization. In addition to his terrific work on radio, Baker did a great job analyzing video during his past stints in place of Remenda on the TV side while Hedican was one of the few in-studio analysts in any sport who didn't deserve the mute button. Hopefully the circumstances surrounding the end of Remenda's tenure with the team (who, by the way, is reportedly the frontrunner for the Edmonton Oilers TV color job) don't muzzle Baker and Hedican on the air as both (particularly the latter) are at their best when providing constructive criticism of the Sharks. | High | [
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In his description of the venal French courtiers of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens declared that "[t]he leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance[.]" In order to retain privilege, those grandees spun a web of deceit, in which they themselves were caught. They lost sight of reality. Many a head dropped into the guillotine's wicker basket in consequence. It was the cost they paid for sacrificing integrity to power. Obsession with power leads to a criminalized state, which splinters the perishable moral fabric of society. From those shards, like the dragon's teeth, grow national discord. Are we now faced with a startling exhibition of "leprous unreality"? As constitutional expert and author Mark Levin has affirmed, the Democrat speaker of the House has deposed constitutional tradition. With a tear in both eyes, she has tyrannized over presumption of innocence. She has flung the people's business (but not her own business) to the winds, and like Lady Macbeth, she is in hot (though prayerful) pursuit of an inquisition. The people's house has become the charnel house of counterfeit Democrat prerogative. Is it a last-ditch attempt to seclude suspected skullduggery from public notice? No votes were required before the Schiff "Star Chamber" demolition crew swung into action. A mincing strumpet on whose cloaked hearsay a president can be subpoenaed to death enjoys certification. New rules can be minted as needed to clinch the desired outcome: the slaughter of Donald Trump's presidency, together with the slaughter of the Constitution. These radicals, whose ideological cant and alleged criminal malfeasance outstrip each other in hypocrisy and mobster farce, are the entrenched officeholders. They are revolutionary grandees, defending their grubby beachhead deep in the bureaucracy through attributed racketeering and the asserted outsourcing of scandalous criminality, combined with a breathtaking denial of wrongdoing. One can only conclude they have convinced themselves that any crime is acceptable for the good of the nation. Whether, as Lord Acton asserts, all power corrupts, or whether there is an entitlement to depravity embedded in the Left's social justice dogma is of little matter to their quarry. They are determined to destroy him one way or another. He has already withstood numerous battering rams that would have felled a herd of stout bulls by now. Nor have many Republicans rallied to his defense. Like well -fed diners at an exclusive Washington club, they remove a golden toothpick (donation of George Soros) from between their professionally whitened teeth, limply wave it in the air for a few seconds of token protest as they admire the gilded ceiling above, then resume prying loose the residue of fine living. The rough-and-tumble of less privileged lives cannot penetrate the camaraderie, the fastidious scraping of silver on porcelain, and the clinking of crystal. Batting in the president's corner are the deplorables. These down-to-earth, commonsense patriots are libeled as rigid throwbacks, forever linked by the MSM with the rise of Nazi Germany. They are now fit to be tied, bursting with indignation. The scorn in which they are held is in essence the Left's disdain for the two-thousand-year conception of human nature, based on its close observation, by non-Marxist philosophers, theologians, scientists, and historians of the West. Dangerous for the Democrats are the farcical expectations they have implanted in every school child's mind for the last twenty to forty years. Although camouflaged in social justice rhetoric, nevertheless, the underlying assumptions and premises of their ideology fail to meet the test of reality. In fact, they have created an artificial, alternate existence, comparable to the game world our obsessed children play in on their electronic devices — full of superheroes (Democrats) and evil monsters (Trumpsters). Like Dickens's French courtiers, they are caught in the web of their own fantasy. Evidence of the splintering social fabric is already apparent. Rumors of crimes at the hands of the Democrat-controlled Deep State abound and undermine public trust. Snowflakes demand places safe from the real world. Children are recruited into the fairy tale of rescuing the planet from an imaginary dragon. Through childish games of dressing up as boys when they are women and wearing lipstick despite being men, our youths are indoctrinated into insanity. The maniacal Antifas have yet to comprehend that fascism was defeated in World War 2, therefore they must desist from bashing innocent citizens, whom they mistake for Hitler-supporters. These childlike adults are the true victims of the Left! Sense has been replaced by nonsense and gravity by sentimental gibberish. They have been robbed of analytical skills. They have been sold a withered, sickly notion of what it is to be a human being. The situation has deteriorated since Diana West's groundbreaking exposé, The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization, published in 2007. It is small wonder we have an epidemic of drug deaths, suicide, and despair among young adults. In her explanation of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, How the Soviet Union Disappeared, published in 1998, Wista Suraska speaks of the brainwashing of children in Stalinist society. Gorbachev's generation (who presided over the Soviet Union's demise) was the first generation of students to learn history from Stalinist teachers, the first to be indoctrinated in the rococo intricacies of Marx's Dialectical Materialism. It was not without influence on their loss of power. She states, "What was lacking, therefore, was not knowledge of the facts but the criteria on which to judge them and from which to draw moral as well as practical conclusions." The transmission of culture from parents to their children was broken by the communists — as it has been today in the Left's education mill. Many of the indoctrinated are already parents. Unreality perpetuates unreality, just as poverty perpetuates poverty across generations. Quoting again from Suraska, as early as the 1930s, Bertrand Russell saw the weakness of the gangster Soviet Union in the system of organized lying upon which the Soviets depended, which kept their followers out of touch with reality. The Democrats have made the same mistake, for the same reason: the error of assuming that society is a tabula rasa for human experiment and social engineering. Their ideological divorce from reality cannot be sustained unless, as in China or Islamic nations, by military force, draconian punishment, and surveillance. No one can predict the future. Yet, just as the trauma of the English Civil War prompted Thomas Hobbes to re-evaluate political life, beginning with the question "What is a human being?," there will be a critique. It will be not a revanche, but a re-evaluation and a movement forward. Values determine the moral fabric of society. The human being, with all his richness and relationship with the universe, needs to be resurrected. 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Murray Matthewson Murray Hugh Matthewson MB ChB (NZ) 1967, FRCS (Eng) 1973, MA (Cantab) 1985. (17 September 1944 – 3 August 2018) was an orthopaedic surgeon who specialised in the spine and hand. Recipient of The Gordon Taylor Prize, he was an examiner for The Royal College of Surgeons as well as a Life Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge and president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand 2003. He was Orthopaedic Surgeon to Cambridge University Rugby Club 1998-2005. References Category:1944 births Category:2018 deaths Category:New Zealand surgeons Category:Orthopedic surgeons Category:New Zealand emigrants to the United Kingdom Category:Fellows of Hughes Hall, Cambridge Category:University of Otago alumni Category:People from Wellington City | High | [
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Q: JavaScript delete object property gives error when it is not in quotes let person = { firstName : 'John', lastName : 'Doe', 123 : 'test' } delete person['lastName']; //deletes delete person[lastName]; // gives error delete person.lastname; // deletes delete person[123]; // deletes lastName and 123 are both Strings but why to delete person[lastName] gives me an error. Can you explain the delete command in detail? Thanks A: The error you get is "lastName is not defined", which should point you in the right direction already. If you use person[lastName] then you are referring to an index on your person object with the same value as the value of the variable lastName. That variable doesn't exist, hence the error. Add let lastName = 'lastName' before your 4 lines of delete in your code and you will see that it works as expected, and then try to understand why this works :) | High | [
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I wasn’t going to say anything about MTV’s “2017 Resolutions for White Guys” video since I was hoping all the fuss would die down and our cover wouldn’t be blown and we white guys could continue to enjoy this nice white privilege power structure we’ve built up for ourselves. And I was getting pretty upset by commenters pushing back against MTV’s video, refuting the assertions contained therein; all that they were doing is calling more attention to this good little thing we’ve got going for ourselves! “Shut up, you guys!” I’d yell at every YouTube response. “If you ignore the video it will go away, and we can go back to getting away with all this stuff we millions of white guys enjoy each and every day!” But then I realized that our white privilege is so strong, no two minute video can erode it. Here’s when you know you’re sitting pretty: when the only way something can be taken away from you is by voluntarily giving it up. That’s why they’re always telling us to check our white privilege, because those who don’t have it can’t check it. If white privilege could be lost due to some other group taking it away, it would have happened by now. White privilege is like Hulkamania: it runs wild all over non-whites. So, since white privilege is something that all white people enjoy and we can lose it only if we choose to give it up, I may as well flaunt it! There’s nothing I enjoy better than being a white cisgender male in America. I’ve got privilege dripping out of my pockets. I thank my lucky stars every morning when I wake up, since white privilege is like a cloaking device which allows me to break laws coloured people can only dream of flouting (one of my white privileges is writing phrases like “coloured people” rather than the PC-acceptable “people of colour” [I spell it with a ‘u’ because that’s the British style, which is super-white, just to rub it in the faces of those unprivileged people out there. The British flavour of privilege is the most delectable and elegant kind]). For instance, sometimes I go to department stores and steal items off the shelves since there is no security guard hot on my heels as I meander through the aisles. I’m not worried about being hassled by security, due to this alabaster epidermis, even when the metal detector sounds as I exit the store with my ill-gotten goods, since the guard is always white himself, and according to the Rules of White Privilege, he has to tip his hat to me and apologize for the malfunctioning metal detector. On the rare occasions I am actually arrested following the many times I rape women, I don’t even bother to engage counsel (one of my white privileges is saying things like “engage counsel” instead of “hire a lawyer”), since this white skin of mine is a more effective defense than any sort of alibi or cross-examination an attorney could come up with. At arraignment, the judge looks up from the docket and when he sees me standing before him, accused of a crime so heinous no man in a position as privileged as myself could commit, he says, “Oh, there must be some mistake. You are free to go.” It works every time. Usually the prosecutor complains, but she ceases her protestations when the judge reminds her, “Maybe you didn’t notice the skin color of the defendant? Do you want to be held in contempt?” I hail from a demographic that enjoys 0% unemployment and 0% poverty, because, you see, when you are born with privilege, jobs are just waiting for you. We own all the places of business, and all of our businesses are in all the good parts of town. The jobs are all six figures or higher, which allows my wife and I to live in a residential area surrounded by other white people of privilege. Everything that we enjoy was inherited, and it is protected by the white privilege power structure. *** Though the white privilege power structure is very strong, that doesn’t mean it is completely invulnerable. An MTV video can’t defeat us; the only way we can lose our white privilege is if we actually check it. Some of my white brothers and sisters out there reading this may be thinking that our privilege is impervious, but I warn you: do not ever, ever, check your white privilege, even as a joke. Just what, you may be wondering, keeps me up at night? The possibility of a coloured person winning an Academy Award. Let me explain: politics runs downstream from culture, and there is no battleground in the culture war that more effectively wins, or loses, the hearts and minds of Americans than Hollywood. It’s of vital importance that we recognize and understand what might happen if the Academy Awards gets too colourful. Halle Berry won her Oscar in 2002…six years later Barack Obama was elected president. See what I mean?! I can’t tell you how raging mad I was the last two years at that #OscarsSoWhite campaign! That’s why this Oscar season, due to the popularity and reverence of movies about coloureds, such as Moonlight and Fences, I’m starting the hashtag #OscarsNotWhiteEnough. Can any of you imagine what might happen to our beloved white privilege if the white people who run Hollywood gave too many Oscars to non-whites?! Why can’t these coloured actors and filmmakers check their under-privileged privilege? Two highly-praised movies that are front runners for Best Picture nominations are Manchester By The Sea and La La Land, which depict (thankfully!) white characters. A lot of mainstream white people loved these movies, but as a proud member of the alt-white, I must point out how these movies represent a threat to the white privilege power structure. Manchester By The Sea and La La Land may as well be science fiction since they are so removed from real life. These movies portray a white janitor forced to care for his newly orphaned nephew, and a white jazz musician and white actress who do not have an easy time bringing their artistic visions to fruition. This is not the white privilege world I live in, and I’m offended that the filmmakers (two white men!) would have the gall to depict such an unrealistic white world. I don’t know why these two self-loathing white directors desire to subvert their very own positions; perhaps mental illness is more prevalent among white men than was previously thought. *** Ms. Wells, below, shows another way in which our white privilege can be self-eroded. As of press time, Ms. Wells has not responded to my inquiries as to who this “poor white person” (a risible notion, certainly, but one that must still be taken seriously since we are only as strong as our weakest member) is, so that he may be provided employment, and unconditional debt forgiveness. *** The most significant current threat to the white privilege power structure? Just yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Ron DeSantis, two HISPANICS, proposed an amendment to the Constitution, a document written and ratified by WHITE CISGENDERED MALE Founding Fathers, which would impose term limits on members of Congress. How dare they! The Constitution is a perfect document, and all Amendments after the original Bill of Rights are illegitimate anyway. Cruz and DeSantis may be pale faces, but they are not the good kind of white, willingly foregoing their white privilege. What is a better representation of privilege than a lack of term limits?! I urge all of my readers to write to your white Congressmen and vote against this amendment proposal, before we lose the country to those invading from south of the border. Or north of the border, seeing as how Cruz is a Cuban-Canadian-American. *** And that’s the way it is, as far as you know. | Low | [
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A July United Nations report asserting that only 30 civilians died in targeted raids in Afghanistan during the first six months of 2011 reflected only a very small fraction of night raids in which civilians were killed, according to officials of the independent Afghan commission which had co-produced the 2010 report on civilian casualties with the U.N. Mission. U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Steven Armenta patrols through Qalat City, Afghanistan, on Aug. 9, 2011. (Credit:U.S. Defence Dept) The report on civilian casualties by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) attributed 80 percent of the 1,462 civilian deaths it counted during the six-month period to the Taliban – mostly from improvised explosive devices – and only 14 percent of them to “Pro-Government Forces”. The report credited the U.S.-NATO military command with reducing civilian casualties in night raids during the six-month period by 15 percent compared with the same period last year. But officials of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, which collaborated with UNAMA on its 2010 civilian casualties report, told IPS that the number of night raids that UNAMA investigated in some fashion could only have been a very small proportion of the total number of targeted raids with civilian casualties. | Mid | [
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@ New Orleans, LA Kickoff: Sunday, September 23rd 2012 @ 12pm Week 3, Game 3 Kansas City Season Stats KC currently holds a 0-2 record with a winning percentage of 0% KC currently holds a 0-1 conference record with a winning percentage of 0% KC is currently standing tied for 27th in the National Football League KC is currently standing tied for 12th in the American Football Conference KC is currently standing tied for 3rd in the AFC West Division New Orleans Season Stats New Orleans currently holds a 0-2 record with a winning percentage of 0% New Orleans is currently standing tied for 27th in the National Football League New Orleans is currently standing 16th in the National Football Conference New Orleans is currently standing 4th in the NFC South Division Current Kansas City Streaks 2 game losing streak 1 game losing streak in conference games 2 game losing streak in games played at Kansas City, MO 1 game losing streak in away games (games played outside of Kansas City, MO) 6 game losing streak in playoff games Kansas City Vs New Orleans Series Stats Sunday, September 23rd 2012 @ 12pm will mark the 10th time these two teams have meet KC currently holds a 4-5 all-time record (44% winning percentage) with New Orleans The first game between these two teams took place 40 years ago in 1972 KC won the first game 20 to 17 in 1972 in New Orleans The previous time KC defeated New Orleans while playing at New Orleans was 18 years ago in 1994 (30 to 17 final score) The previous time New Orleans defeated KC while playing at New Orleans was 8 years ago in 2004 (20 to 27 final score) KC has outscored New Orleans 206 to 202 in 9 games Kansas City Vs New Orleans Series Stats The previous time KC defeated New Orleans was 15 years ago in 1997 (25 to 13 final score in Kansas City) The previous time New Orleans defeated KC was 4 years ago in 2008 (20 to 30 final score in Kansas City) Kansas City Coaching Stats Romeo Crennel, is the 12th head coach in Kansas City history Head Coach of the Kansas City Chiefs (2011-Present) He has a 2-3 career record (40% winning percentage) as a head coach at Kansas City He is currently the 11th winningest coach in Kansas City history Crennel has won the same amount of games as Tom Bettis (Coached 1977 partial season, 2-7 record, 22.2% winning percentage) Crennel needs to coach 6 more winning games to tie Frank Gansz (Coached 1987-1988, 8-22-1 record, 25.8% winning percentage) Kansas City History The Kansas City Chiefs have competed in 808 games since their founding in 1960 as the Dallas Texans (moved to Kansas City in 1963) KC’s Combined All-Time record is 407-389-12 (50.37% winning percentage) 11 Division Championships – 1962, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, & 2010 2 Conference Championships – 1966 & 1969 1 League Championship – 1962 1 Super Bowl – 1969 | Mid | [
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Extract from paper I am writing on Jesus' historicity Here is an extract for comments... A skeptical argument I want now to show how our two principles - P1 and P2 - combine with certain plausible empirical claims to deliver a conclusion that very few Biblical scholars are willing to accept. Let me stress at the outset that I am not endorsing the following argument. I present it, not because I am convinced it is cogent, but because I believe it has some prima facie plausibility, and because it is an argument that any historian who believes the available evidence places Jesus’ existence beyond reasonable doubt needs to refute. 1. (P1) Where a claim’s justification derives solely from evidence, extraordinary claims (e.g. concerning supernatural miracles) require extraordinary evidence. In the absence of extraordinary evidence there is good reason to be skeptical about those claims. . 2. There is no extraordinary evidence for any of the extraordinary claims concerning supernatural miracles made in the New Testament documents. 3. Therefore (from 1 and 2), there's good reason to be skeptical about those extraordinary claims. 4. (P2) Where testimony/documents weave together a narrative about an individual that combines mundane claims with a large proportion of extraordinary claims, and there is good reason to be skeptical about those extraordinary claims, then there is good reason to be skeptical about the mundane claims, at least until we possess good independent evidence of their truth. 5. The New Testament documents weave together a narrative about Jesus that combines mundane claims with a large proportion of extraordinary claims. 6. There is no good independent evidence for even the mundane claims about Jesus (such as that he existed) 7. Therefore (from 3, 4, 5, and 6), there's good reason to be skeptical about whether Jesus existed. This argument combines our principles P1 and P2 with three further premises - 2, 5 and 6 - concerning the character of the available evidence. These are the premises on which historians and Biblical scholars are better qualified than I to comment upon. However, premise 5, is, I take it, uncontentious. Clearly, many historians also accept premise 2 (there is a significant number of Biblical historians who remain sceptical about the miracle claims made in the New Testament, and most will surely accept 2) . What of premise 6? Well, it is at least controversial among historians to what extent the evidence supplied by Josephus and Tacitus, etc. provides us good, independent evidence for the existence of an historical Jesus. Those texts provide us with some non-miracle-involving evidence for the existence of Jesus, of course, but whether it can rightly be considered good, genuinely independent evidence remains widely debated among the experts. So, our empirical premises – 2, 5 and 6, – have some prima facie plausibility. Premises 2 and 5 have a great deal of plausibility, I suggest, and 6 is at the very least debatable. I suspect a significant number of Biblical scholars and historians (though of course by no means all) would accept all three empirical premises. If that is so, it then raises an intriguing question: why, then, is there such a powerful consensus that those who take a sceptical attitude to Jesus’ existence are being unreasonable? The most obvious answer to this question is that while many Biblical historians probably would accept that our three empirical premises have at least a fair degree of plausibility, and most of them probably also accept something like P1, few of them accept P2. Indeed, as we shall see below, many of them do in fact reject P2. Assessing P2 Are there cogent objections to P2? Presumably, some sort of contamination principle is correct, for clearly, in the Ted and Sarah Case, the dubious character of the extraordinary, uncorroborated parts of their testimony about Bert does contaminate the non-extraordinary parts. However, perhaps, as an attempt to capture the extent to which testimony concerning the extraordinary parts of a narrative can end up undermining the credibility of the more mundane parts, P2 goes too far, laying down a condition that is too strong? After all, Alexander the Great was said to have been involved in miraculous events. Plutarch records, for example, that Alexander was miraculously guided across the desert day and night by flocks of ravens that waited for his army when it fell behind. Plutarch also suggests Alexander was divinely conceived. Should the presence of these extraordinary claims lead us to reject all of Plutarch’s claims concerning Alexander as untrustworthy? Of course not. As historian Michael Grant notes: That there was a growth of legend round Jesus cannot be denied, and it arose very quickly. But there had also been a rapid growth of legend around pagan figures like Alexander the Great; and yet nobody regards him as wholly mythical and fictitious (200) Indeed, no one of note is skeptical about Alexander’s existence. However, noe of this should lead us to abandon P2. For P2 does not require that we be sceptical about the existence of Alexander. To focus just on Plutarch’s history – the miraculous claims made by Plutarch constitute only a small proportion of his account of Alexander’s achievements. Moreover, regarding the miracle of the ravens, it is not even clear we are dealing with a supernatural miracle, rather than some honestly misinterpreted natural phenomenon. Further, there is good, independent evidence that Alexander existed and did many of the things Plutarch reports (including archeological evidence of the dynasties left in his wake). So the inclusion of a couple of miraculous elements in some of the evidence we have about Alexander is not much of a threat to our knowledge about him – and P2 does not suggest otherwise. The problem with the textual evidence for Jesus’ existence and crucifixion is that most of the details we have about him come solely from documents in which the miraculous constitutes a very large part of what is said about Jesus, where many of these miracles (walking on water, etc.) are unlikely to be merely misinterpreted natural phenomena, and where it is at least questionable whether we possess any good, independent non-miracle-involving evidence of his existence and crucifixion. Other reasons for rejecting P2 Even if P2 does not require we be sceptical about the existence of Alexander, perhaps it still sets the bar for reasonable belief too high? In a culture in which miracle claims are rife, perhaps the inclusion of even a significant number of miracle stories within an historical narrative should not necessarily require we adopt a sceptical attitude towards what remains, even if we possess no good independent evidence for its truth. I return to this concern about P2 below (in “Does the cultural difference matter?”). Historians may also reject P2 on other grounds. They may suggest there are particular features of textual evidence that can still rightly lead us to be confident about the truth of some of the non-miraculous parts, even if the evidence involves very many miracle claims, and even if there is no good independent evidence for the truth of the non-miraculous parts. Several criteria have been suggested for considering at least many of the non-miraculous claims made about Jesus in the New Testament documents to be accurate and indeed to be established beyond reasonable doubt. The three most popular criteria are the criterion of multiple attestation, the criterion of embarrassment, and the criterion of discontinuity. The criterion of multiple attestation Several historians (such as Michael Grant and John Meier) suggest that the fact that a number of different New Testament sources make similar claims in different literary forms gives us some reason, at least, to suppose these claims are true. C. Leslie Milton goes further - he argues that the New Testament gospels draw on three recognised primary sources (Mark, Q and L), and concludes that: If an item occurs in any one of these early sources, it has a presumptive right to be considered as probably historical in essence; if it occurs in two…that right is greatly strengthened, since it means it is supported by two early and independent witnesses. If it is supported by three, then its attestation is extremely strong.” REF P82. Milton cites a list of claims that pass this test of “multiple attestation”, insisting they have a “strong claim to historicity on the basis of this particular test, making a solid nucleus with which to begin.” REF P83. If we already know that Jesus existed and is likely to have said at least some of what he is alleged to have said, this criterion might provide us with a useful tool in attempting to determine which attributions are accurate and which are later fabrications. But what if we are unsure whether there was any such person as Jesus existed? How useful is Milton’s criterion then? How can we know we are dealing with reports tracing back to the testimony of handful of independent eye-witnesses to real events, rather than, say, a skilled band of myth-makers? Consistency between accounts can indicate the extent to which their transmission from an original source or sources has been reliable, but it cannot indicate whether the source itself is reliable. As Grant notes about the homogeneity of the Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus: one must not underestimate the possibility that this homogeneity is only achieved because of their employment of common sources, not necessarily authentic in themselves. REF p203 In fact, even if we are dealing with largely consistent reports from several alleged eye-witnesses themselves, the fact that their reports contain a large proportion of extraordinary claims will normally make us highly suspicious even about the non-miraculous parts of their testimony. If, in the Ted and Sarah case, we increase the number of alleged witnesses to Bert’s miraculous visitation from two to ten, we would still, rightly, remain rather sceptical about whether there was any such person as Bert. The criterion of embarrassment One of the most popular tests applied by historians in attempting to establish historical facts about Jesus is the criterion of embarrassment. The Jesus narrative involves several episodes which, from the point of view of early Christians, would seem to constitute an embarrassment. C. Leslie Milton asserts that those items which the early Church found embarrassing are not likely to be the invention of the early Church. Milton supposes that reports of Jesus’ attitude to the Sabbath, fasting and divorce (in contradiction to Moses’ authorization of it in certain conditions), his free-and-easy relationships with people not regarded as respectable all pass this test. Michael Grant also considers Jesus’ association with outcasts, his proclamation of the imminent fulfilment of the Kingdom of God (which did not materialize), and his rejection of his family “because he was beside himself” embarrassing to the early Church, and concludes these attributions are unlikely to be inventions of early evangelists. Meier too, considers the criterion of embarrassment a useful if not infallible criterion. Regarding the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist – which raises the puzzle of why the “superior sinless one submits to a baptism meant for sinners” (REF p 168) - Meier says, Quite plainly, the early Church was “stuck with” an event in Jesus’ life that it found increasingly embarrassing, that it tried to explain away by various means, and that John the Evangelist finally erased from his Gospel. It is highly unlikely that the Church went out of its way to create the cause of its own embarrassment” (p169) The criterion of embarrassment is related to a further criterion – that of discontinuity (they are related because discontinuity is sometimes a source of embarrassment). The criterion of discontinuity Many historians assert that if a teaching or saying attributed to Jesus places him at odds with the contemporary Judaism and early Christian communities, then we possess grounds for supposing the attribution is accurate. Again, Jesus’ rejection of voluntary fasting and his acceptance of divorce are claimed to pass this test. Historian Norman Perrin considers the criterion of discontinuity the fundamental criterion, giving us an assured minimum of material with which to begin . C. Leslie Milton concurs that this criterion gives historians an “unassailable nucleus” of material to work with (REF p 84). John Meier considers the criterion promising, though he notes that it may place undue emphasis on Jesus’ idiosyncracies, “highlighting what was striking but possible peripheral in his message” (p173). | Mid | [
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Reducing postoperative venous thromboembolism complications with a standardized risk-stratified prophylaxis protocol and mobilization program. Data revealed that our urban, academic, safety net medical center was a high outlier for postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE). Our goal was to implement and determine the efficacy of a standardized intervention for reducing postoperative VTE complications. We developed a strategy to decrease VTE complications, based on standardized electronic physician orders that specify early postoperative mobilization and mandatory VTE risk stratification for every patient, using the "Caprini" grading system. The derived scores dictate the nature and duration of VTE prophylaxis, including on an outpatient basis. Electronic reminders about appropriate VTE prophylaxis are automatically generated before and after operations, and on discharge. Both mechanical (pneumatic compression boots) and pharmacologic prophylaxis (unfractionated or low molecular weight heparin) are used, as indicated by risk level. We conducted a before-and-after trial, comparing National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) VTE outcomes (deep vein thromboses and pulmonary emboli) before and after implementing the standardized risk-stratified protocol combined with a postoperative mobilization program. Measured outcomes included NSQIP-reported raw and risk-adjusted VTE outcomes during 2 years before and after implementing the VTE prevention program. The incidence of deep venous thromboses decreased by 84%, from 1.9% to 0.3% (p < 0.01), with implementation of VTE prevention efforts; the pulmonary emboli incidence fell by 55%, from 1.1% to 0.5% (p < 0.01). Risk-adjusted VTE outcomes steadily declined from an odds ratio of 3.41 to 0.94 (p < 0.05). A patient care program, emphasizing early postoperative mobilization along with mandatory VTE risk stratification and commensurate electronic prophylaxis recommendations, significantly reduced the likelihood of VTE complications among our patients. | High | [
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Hardware scanners for single lines of text or data. Reaching speeds of over 200 characters per second, OCR readers utilize state-of-the-art feature extraction and neural network-based recognition technologies to achieve accuracy rates over 99.9975%, or one character misread in 40,000. However, most customers use an automatic check digit validation to achieve error rates of fewer than one in 3,000,000 characters. Humans err one in 300! | High | [
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Econo-mix metaphors The Bank of England today cut its growth forecast for 2012 to almost zero, and its governor, Mervyn King, therefore made some comments about the UK economy. To pull together his quotes from the BBC article on this: The big picture is that output’s been flat for two years…. We are navigating rough waters and storm clouds continue to roll in from the euro area…. Unlike the Olympians who have thrilled us over the past fortnight, our economy has not yet reached full fitness…. It’s a saga that goes on, and on, and on…. There’s still a long way to go. It’s quite a surprise that Merv didn’t go on to say that ‘we’re sick as a parrot, and our timbers are shivering. The economy is like a tank with no wheels; even though the turret is loaded, we can’t get to the shop to buy strawberries.’ Thankfully, the asininities weren’t reserved only for arguably the most important economist in Britain. The BBC also explained that: He said that the future was unpredictable, since no-one could predict what would happen in the eurozone crisis, which would have an impact on the UK. I get it! Finally! Someone explains clearly that things are unpredictable because no-one can predict them! So, conversely, if someone can predict something, it’s probably no longer unpredictable. Is that right? For example, you could predict that economics news will forever be delivered as a slew of disconnected but reassuringly folksy analogy, but you couldn’t predict exactly the shape, size, origin, colour, or other arbitrary properties (dependent on the metaphor in question) of the storm clouds that will come over from the latest crisis, because weather economic forecasting is hard, especially when the jet stream is determined to ruin your economy. Summer. Chances of Olympic gold. Whatever. Back to the Beeb: The pound jumped in value to 1.27 euros on the money markets following Sir Mervyn’s comments. The temperature in Weymouth changed too, but reporters stopped short of noting everything else that happened shortly after King’s chat because correlation and causation aren’t the same thing. But, even suspending scepticism for a moment, is the narrative being entertained here that ‘the markets’ are now confident that at least Merv knows about the storm clouds—which he has been discussing for years in metaphors as forced as this attempt to add a simile into this parenthetical remark—even if he still doesn’t know what to do about them? Brilliant. At least we know where we are: inside the body of a healing athlete trying to predict when the unpredictable choppy waters will subside. Right? | Low | [
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Soon, the business of genetics could look a lot like the commodity-driven mobile industry, with providers selling hardware on the cheap and relying on software, apps and diagnostics to drive revenue. And, as with the app-filled smartphones we keep close to us 24/7, genomics could finally become a much more intimate part of our lives. “With smartphones it’s the data and apps where the high value has accrued over time. In the case of sequencing, it’s going to be something similar,” said Jorge Conde, CFO and co-founder of Knome, a genomic diagnostics company. The question, he says, then becomes whether the market looks like Apple’s walled garden, Microsoft’s more democratic model, or Google, where everything happens in the cloud. | Low | [
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Evolutionary games in wireless networks. We consider a noncooperative interaction among a large population of mobiles that interfere with each other through many local interactions. The first objective of this paper is to extend the evolutionary game framework to allow an arbitrary number of mobiles that are involved in a local interaction. We allow for interactions between mobiles that are not necessarily reciprocal. We study 1) multiple-access control in a slotted Aloha-based wireless network and 2) power control in wideband code-division multiple-access wireless networks. We define and characterize the equilibrium (called evolutionarily stable strategy) for these games and study the influence of wireless channels and pricing on the evolution of dynamics and the equilibrium. | High | [
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# OSPRay CMake Superbuild This CMake script will pull down OSPRay's dependencies and build OSPRay itself. The result is an install directory, with each dependency in its own directory. Run with: ```bash mkdir build cd build cmake [path/to/this/directory] cmake --build . ``` The resulting `install` directory (or the one set with `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX`) will have everything in it, with one subdirectory per dependency. CMake options to note (all have sensible defaults): - `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` will be the root directory where everything gets installed. - `BUILD_JOBS` sets the number given to `make -j` for parallel builds. - `BUILD_EMBREE_FROM_SOURCE` set to OFF will download a pre-built version of Embree. - `BUILD_OIDN_FROM_SOURCE` set to OFF will download a pre-built version of OpenImageDenoise. - `BUILD_OIDN_VERSION` determines which verison of OpenImageDenoise to pull down. | High | [
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Q: Convex analysis problem I have the following problem. Let $f:[a,b]\to \mathbb{R}$ be continuously convex. I have to prove that there exists $c\in (a,b)$ such that $$\frac{f(a)-f(b)}{b-a}\in \partial f(c)$$ Firstly, I'm being doubt with $\frac{f(a)-f(b)}{b-a}$ (don't ensure this one is correct, may be it is $\frac{f(b)-f(a)}{b-a}$). Secondly, I try to prove this problem by using the following proposition $$s\in \partial f(x_0) \Leftrightarrow \forall x\in \mathbb{R}, f(x)\ge f(x_0)+s(x-x_0)$$ That means for this problem, I need to find $c\in (a,b)$ such that $$f(x)\ge f(c)+\frac{f(b)-f(a)}{b-a}(x-c)$$ or $$f(x)\ge f(c)+\frac{f(a)-f(b)}{b-a}(x-c)$$ And then, I try to apply the following inequality to this one but cannot. $$f(x)\le \frac{b-x}{b-a}f(a)+\frac{x-a}{b-a}f(b)$$ So anybody can help me? A: What if we mimic the standard proof for the mean value theorem? Let $g:[a,b] \to \mathbb R$ such that \begin{equation} g(t) = f(t) - M(t - a) \end{equation} where $M$ is chosen so that $g(b) = f(a)$. Note that $g$ is convex and continuous and $g(a) = g(b)$. Hence $g$ has a minimizer $c \in (a,b)$. It follows that \begin{equation} 0 \in \partial g(c) = \partial f(c) - M \end{equation} or in other words \begin{equation} M \in \partial f(c). \end{equation} Now $g(b) = f(a)$ gives us \begin{align} &f(b) = f(a) + M(b-a) \\ \implies &\frac{f(b) - f(a)}{b-a} = M \in \partial f(c) \end{align} which is what we wanted. | High | [
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Three Executives of Safety-Kleen Are Suspended in Accounting Probe By Rick Brooks and Mark Heinzl Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal Updated March 6, 2000 10:48 p.m. ET Safety-Kleen Corp.'s chief executive officer and two other top officers were suspended as the company disclosed an internal investigation of its accounting practices that it said could affect financial results reported since fiscal 1998. The Columbia, S.C., waste-disposal company said in a written statement that the inquiry was launched after Safety-Kleen's board received "information alleging possible accounting... | Low | [
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The metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) have attracted considerable interest as novel therapeutic targets for multiple neurological and psychiatric conditions. Among the least studied of the eight subtypes of the mGluR family is mGluR3, where selective ligands have yet to be identified. In spite of this limitation, we have made significant progress in elucidating the roles and functions attributable to mGluR3, including a novel role for mGluR3 in regulating hippocampal function. Specifically, we have shown that group II mGluRs (mGluR2 and mGluR3) participate in a novel form of glial-neuronal communication in the hippocampus in which activation of mGluRs on astrocytes leads to release of adenosine and reduction of glutamate release from neighboring glutamate synapses. We postulate that this astrocytic response is mediated by the mGluR3 subtype and that activation of mGluR3 could impair hippocampal LTP. These results lead us to hypothesize that selective antagonists of mGluR3 could have cognition-enhancing effects. Prior studies with mGluR2/3 antagonists using both wild-type and mGluR2 knockout mice in the Morris water maze, a model of spatial learning that depends on normal hippocampal function, are consistent with mGluR3 functioning as the predominant group II mGluR subtype responsible for the cognition-enhancing effects seen with group II mGluR antagonists. Additionally, exciting new preclinical studies reveal that group II antagonists have robust efficacy in multiple animal models that predict antidepressant activity. Highly selective antagonists that are suitable for use in animal models are needed in order to better understand the respective roles of mGluR2 and mGluR3 in these studies. In addition to our multiple series of group II mGluR antagonists, we have recently discovered a series of compounds that are selective antagonists of mGluR3. Importantly, these new selective antagonists are from a chemotype that has previously delivered efficacious CNS tool compounds in the past. These selective compounds offer an unprecedented opportunity to systematically test the hypotheses presented above. In order to accomplish our goals we will optimize our compounds such that the resultant probe will possess the balance of properties required to make it a highly valuable tool to the research community. The optimization process will involve an iterative medicinal chemistry library approach focused not only on potency and selectivity, but a number of DMPK parameters associated with CNS exposure. Using our selective antagonists of mGluR3, along with mGluR3 knockout mice, we plan to rigorously test the hypothesis that blockade of mGluR3 inhibits group II mGluR-mediated astrocytic-neuronal communication in hippocampal area CA1. In addition, we will test the hypothesis that coactivation of mGluR3 and bARs leads to an impairment of hippocampal LTP. Finally, we will examine our optimized compounds in efficacy models where mGluR2/3 antagonists have been shown to have cognition-enhancing and antidepressant-like effects in order to elucidate the respective roles of each receptor. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Recent studies suggest that drugs that selectively block actions of a specific neurotransmitter receptor, termed mGluR3, may provide a novel approach for treatment of major depression and may improve memory formation in patients suffering from serious brain disorders. We have discovered new molecules within a chemotype proven to deliver efficacious CNS tool compounds that selectively inhibit this neurotransmitter receptor. Studies are proposed to optimize the properties of these molecules through iterative medicinal chemistry so that they can be used to test the hypothesis that mGluR3 inhibitors have actions that predict efficacy in treatment of depression and cognitive impairments. | High | [
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Q: setting 'classpath' in setenv.sh grails external configuration how can i declare a classpath location ? when i deploy my war... my external configuration not found by tomcat. this is my config.groovy grails.config.locations = [ "classpath:boladunia-config.groovy" ] how possible tomcat know "classpath" location? i found setenv.sh from other blog. like this.. #! /bin/sh # ================================================================== # ______ __ _____ # /_ __/___ ____ ___ _________ _/ /_ /__ / # / / / __ \/ __ `__ \/ ___/ __ `/ __/ / / # / / / /_/ / / / / / / /__/ /_/ / /_ / / #/_/ \____/_/ /_/ /_/\___/\__,_/\__/ /_/ # Multi-instance Apache Tomcat installation with a focus # on best-practices as defined by Apache, SpringSource, and MuleSoft # and enterprise use with large-scale deployments. # Credits: # Google -> Couldn't survive without it # Stackoverflow.com -> Community support # SpringSource -> Specifically best-practices and seminars (Expert Series) # Based On: # http://www.springsource.com/files/uploads/tomcat/tomcatx-performance-tuning.pdf # http://www.springsource.com/files/u1/PerformanceTuningApacheTomcat-Part2.pdf # http://www.springsource.com/files/uploads/tomcat/tomcatx-large-scale-deployments.pdf # Created By: Terrance A. Snyder # URL: http://www.terranceasnyder.com, http://shutupandcode.net # Best Practice Documentation: # http://terranceasnyder.com/2011/05/tomcat-best-practices/ # Looking for the latest version? # github @ https://github.com/terrancesnyder # ================================================================== # discourage address map swapping by setting Xms and Xmx to the same value # http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Garbage+Collector+Performance+Issues export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Xms64m" export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Xmx512m" # Increase maximum perm size for web base applications to 4x the default amount # http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Memoryhttp://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Memory export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:MaxPermSize=256m" # Reset the default stack size for threads to a lower value (by 1/10th original) # By default this can be anywhere between 512k -> 1024k depending on x32 or x64 # bit Java version. # http://www.springsource.com/files/uploads/tomcat/tomcatx-large-scale-deployments.pdf # http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/hotspotfaq-138619.html export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Xss192k" # Oracle Java as default, uses the serial garbage collector on the # Full Tenured heap. The Young space is collected in parallel, but the # Tenured is not. This means that at a time of load if a full collection # event occurs, since the event is a 'stop-the-world' serial event then # all application threads other than the garbage collector thread are # taken off the CPU. This can have severe consequences if requests continue # to accrue during these 'outage' periods. (specifically webservices, webapps) # [Also enables adaptive sizing automatically] export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:+UseParallelGC" # This is interpreted as a hint to the garbage collector that pause times # of <nnn> milliseconds or less are desired. The garbage collector will # adjust the Java heap size and other garbage collection related parameters # in an attempt to keep garbage collection pauses shorter than <nnn> milliseconds. # http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/ergo5.html export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=1500" # A hint to the virtual machine that it.s desirable that not more than: # 1 / (1 + GCTimeRation) of the application execution time be spent in # the garbage collector. # http://themindstorms.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/advanced-jvm-tuning-for-low-pause/ export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:GCTimeRatio=9" # The hotspot server JVM has specific code-path optimizations # which yield an approximate 10% gain over the client version. export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -server" # Disable remote (distributed) garbage collection by Java clients # and remove ability for applications to call explicit GC collection export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:+DisableExplicitGC" # Check for application specific parameters at startup if [ -r "$CATALINA_BASE/bin/appenv.sh" ]; then . "$CATALINA_BASE/bin/appenv.sh" fi echo "Using CATALINA_OPTS:" for arg in $CATALINA_OPTS do echo ">> " $arg done echo "" echo "Using JAVA_OPTS:" for arg in $JAVA_OPTS do echo ">> " $arg done echo "_______________________________________________" echo "" but how to configure classpath here? A: setenv.sh must be like this.. CATALINA_OPTS="-server -d32 -Xms512m -Xmx512M -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -XX:-PrintGCDetails -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" export CATALINA_OPTS CLASSPATH=/root/tomcat7/lib:/root/ryobest/config export CLASSPATH | Low | [
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Friday, January 8, 2010 Chili Turkey Burgers We love turkey burgers. That much should be clear by now. But turkey burgers aren't like beef burgers - where the heart of the burger is the flavor of the beef. Turkey burgers need... help, a boost. This recipe packs a wonderful smokey heat from the chipotle peppers, chili powder and cayenne. The cilantro, red onion, and cheddar cheese complement they smokey flavors quite well. So well, in fact, that I decided to skip any of the burger toppings suggested in the original recipe. These are definitely a favorite in our house and I can't wait to make them again! Mix all the ingredients together with your hands, in a bowl. Divide the meat mixture into 4 equal-sized patties. Heat the a large skillet over medium-high heat, spray with cooking spray or olive oil. Cook the burgers, turning once, until lightly browned and cooked through, about 7 minutes per side.(A instant-read thermometer inserted in the center of the thickest burger should read at least 165 degrees F.) Serve on whole wheat buns. 3 comments: Ooh, I love all the different flavors in this! Two types of pepper, cilantro, sharp cheddar, chipotle peppers, chili powder...this is going to be my next turkey burger. Did you have to do anything to keep it from being too dry? That's a problem I've had in the past with turkey burgers. | Mid | [
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Sag A momentary sag is a variation, which lasts for a period of 0.5 cycle to about 2 s usually the result of a short circuit somewhere in the power system. Instances of longer duration of low voltage are called sustained sags (see Figure 1). Figure 1 – Sag – momentary and sustained Swell Swell is the opposite of sag and refers to the increase of power frequency voltage. A momentary swell lasts from 0.5 cycles to 2 s. A sustained swell lasts for longer periods (see Figure 2). Figure 2 – Swell – momentary and sustained Surge Surge is a sub-cycle disturbance lasting for a duration of less than half a cycle and mostly less than a millisecond. The earlier terminology was transient or spikes. The decay is usually oscillatory. Surges generally occur due to atmospheric disturbances such as lightning or due to switching of large transformers, inductors or capacitors (see Figures 3a and b for examples). Interruption Interruption means the complete loss of voltage. A momentary interruption lasts from half-cycle period to less than 2 s. Longer interruptions are called sustained interruption. Momentary interruption is usually the result of a line outage with the supply being restored automatically from another source or by auto-reclosing operation. Refer Figure 4 for illustration. An interruption can be instantaneous or of slowly decaying type. Figure 4 – Examples of supply interruption In Figure 4, the one at the top shows the RMS voltage value during a momentary interruption. The figure on the lower left depicts the waveform of a sustained interruption where the voltage drops to zero almost instantaneously. The waveform on the lower right shows an interruption where the voltage decays slowly. Related EEP's content with sponsored links Premium Membership Electrical engineer, programmer and founder of EEP. Highly specialized for design of LV/MV switchgears and LV high power busbar trunking (<6300A) in power substations, commercial buildings and industry facilities. Professional in AutoCAD programming. 2 Comments chandra shekhar Aug 18, 2017 I am very thankful to you.Please send me all information about power quality THIS IS A GOOD ARTICLE ABOUT DIFFERENT VOLTAGE ABNORMALITIES IN THE ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEM OPERATIONS WHICH ARE CAUSED BY DISTURBANCES IN THE SYSTEM BY EITHER THE LOADS OR SWITCHING OPERATION. HOWEVER, EFFECTS OF FROM VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKER OR CONTACTORS OR SF6 CKT. BREAKER SWITCHING OPERATIONS SHOULD ALSO BEEN EMPHASIZED ON IMPACT TO THE VOLTAGE PROFILES AT THE SOURCE BUS AND AT LOAD SIDE ENDS WITH RESPECT TO SURGE EVENTS. THANK YOU. | Mid | [
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Part I: Carpe Revum – Seize the Revenue that Your Practice Deserves Changes in the health care insurance and regulatory environment are occurring at a much faster pace than changes in most medical practices. One of the greatest challenges facing your practice today is maintaining profitability in the face of declining reimbursement and increasing insurance challenges. Here are the first 5 of 10 easy ways to help ensure that you receive the revenue that your practice deserves! Most practices staff their front desks, and therefore their patient intake process, with entry-level personnel. In the past, these employees were less critical to your revenue cycle, but as more payers shift financial responsibility to their members (your patients), the job of collecting coinsurance and higher deductibles must become a priority. That job starts when the appointment is made and your front desk staff first greet your patients. The Fix: Place billing staff at the front desk or have your billing and front office staff partner with each other through training and support programs. Practices that do this have achieved significantly cleaner claims, lower A/R and significantly higher collections. #2 – The billing process, also known as the Revenue Cycle Management process (RCM), must be seen as a “team” or practice-wide process. Billing has traditionally been viewed as a “back office” function. Today, unless every member of the practice understands how he or she impacts the overall RCM process, revenue will not be maximized. The Fix: Bring your entire clinical and administrative staff together to review each step of the RCM process, show where revenue can be missed, and discuss what each person can do to improve the process. #3 – Update and formalize your financial policies. As a result of higher co-pays, deductibles and co-insurance, patients today are responsible for as much as 40% of a practice’s total revenue, compared to about 10% in 2007. At the same time, many practices have not reviewed their fees or updated their fee schedule in years. The Fix: Create clear, written financial policies that can be communicated to the patient, ideally before a service is rendered, at the time of service, or as soon as possible afterwards, to increase collections and to decrease patient dissatisfaction later. As more payers shift financial responsibility to their covered beneficiaries, the job of collecting coinsurance and unmet deductibles must become a priority for your practice. Provider education on proper documentation and coding must be an ongoing process. Providers often think that down-coding or under-coding their services will help to avoid an audit. It does not, and only causes substantial lost revenue to the practice. The Fix: Establish an internal audit process within your practice. Create an Audit Committee with representation from your providers, billing and administrative staff. Have an independent certified coder (CPC) conduct a baseline audit and then work with the Audit Committee to establish an ongoing internal audit process. #5 – Create clinical teams to maximize provider productivity When providers are doing the work that properly trained support staff can do, your practice is losing productivity – and revenue. The Fix: Evaluate provider workflow and determine where support staff can more effectively be used to increase productivity. Partner clinical support staff with specific providers rather than rotating staff among all providers to create a stronger clinical team. Increase the ratio of support staff to providers – studies have shown that better performing practices have higher support staff/physician ratios than their peers. Stay tuned for Part II – Coming in June! Nancy R. Smit is a Partner with RS&F Healthcare Advisors, LLC (RSFHA). She leads RSFHA’s strategy, operations, and quality services for physicians and healthcare service organizations. Nancy can be reached at [email protected]. John Pappas, her colleague in South Florida, can be reached at [email protected] or 561.860.6093. | High | [
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--- abstract: 'It has recently been suggested that chemical processing can shape the spatial distributions of complex molecules in the Orion-KL region and lead to the nitrogen-oxygen “chemical differentiation” seen in previous observations of this source. Orion-KL is a very dynamic region, and it is therefore also possible that physical conditions can shape the molecular distributions in this source. Only high spatial resolution observations can provide the information needed to disentangle these effects. Here we present millimeter imaging studies of Orion-KL at various beam sizes using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA). We compare molecular images with high spatial resolution images that trace the temperature, continuum column density, and kinematics of the source in order to investigate the effects of physical conditions on molecular distributions. These observations were conducted at $\lambda$ = 3 mm and included transitions of ethyl cyanide \[[C$_2$H$_5$CN]{}\], methyl formate \[[HCOOCH$_3$]{}\], formic acid \[[HCOOH]{}\], acetone \[[(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{}\], SiO, and methanol \[[CH$_3$OH]{}\]. We find differences in the molecular distributions as a function of each of these factors. These results indicate that acetone may be produced by chemical processing and is robust to large changes in physical conditions, while formic acid is readily destroyed by gas-phase processing in warm and dense regions. We also find that while the spatial distributions of ethyl cyanide and methyl formate are not distinct as is suggested by the concept of “chemical differentiation”, local physical conditions shape the small-scale emission structure for these species.' author: - 'D. N. Friedel and S. L. Widicus Weaver' title: 'COMPLEX ORGANIC MOLECULES AT HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION TOWARD ORION-KL II: KINEMATICS' --- Introduction ============ The Orion-KL region is a very dynamic system with complicated molecular distributions, complex velocity structure, and extreme temperature and density gradients. Orion-KL has traditionally been viewed as a source that displays a high degree of nitrogen-oxygen “chemical differentiation" where oxygen-bearing molecules like methyl formate \[[HCOOCH$_3$]{}\] and nitrogen-bearing molecules like ethyl cyanide \[[C$_2$H$_5$CN]{}\] are spatially distinct. It has been suggested that this “chemical differentiation" can be driven by the molecular processes at work in these regions [@neill11], with gas-phase reactions potentially accounting for the spatial separation of methyl formate and formic acid \[[HCOOH]{}\] emission peaks in this source. However, recent high-resolution observations of molecular emission in this region [@friedel08; @friedel11; @friedel11a] have called into question the traditional view of “chemical differentiation" in this source. The most recent set of high spatial-resolution images presented by @friedel11a (hereafter Paper I) indicate that while the emission peaks for O-bearing and N-bearing molecules are spatially-separated in Orion-KL, the bulk of the complex molecular emission is co-spatial; and that any spatial differences are limited to smaller, localized regions. It is unclear from these observations whether chemical or physical processes shape these molecular distributions. While gas-phase chemical processing is a likely factor, it is also possible that varying physical conditions, including temperature, density, and kinematics, could influence the molecular spatial distributions in these regions. However, only a limited amount of high spatial resolution information is available for this source, making definitive conclusions regarding the relative influence of these factors extremely difficult to determine. High resolution observations that probe the physical influence on the chemistry are necessary to disentangle and interpret these complicated processes. Here we extend the high spatial resolution observations of Orion-KL reported in Paper I to examine the physical conditions of this region. Using observations of methanol \[[CH$_3$OH]{}\], we probe the temperature and velocity structure of this region. We also use the velocity information gained from these observations to develop a kinematic model for Orion-KL, and examine the influence of these kinematics on the molecular distributions in this source. We then compare this information with the molecular emission images reported in Paper I. From these results, we draw conclusions as to the mechanisms that are shaping the spatial distributions for each molecule observed. The observations, results, and discussion are presented below. Observations ============ The observations were conducted with the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter wave Astronomy (CARMA), and the details of the observations are presented in Paper I. In addition to those observations, we conducted observations in the CARMA C configuration in 2010 April. These observations were comprised of three 4.5 hour tracks. The observations have a phase center of $\alpha$(J2000) = $05^h35^m14^s.35$ and $\delta$(J2000) = $-05{\degr}22{\arcmin}35{\arcsec}.0$ and have a synthesized beam of $\sim2.2\times2.0\arcsec$. The $u-v$ coverage of the observations gives projected baselines of 3.9-91.0 k$\lambda$ (13-304 m). The correlator was configured to have six 31 MHz windows and six 125 MHz windows, all with channel spacings $\sim$450 kHz. The antenna-based gain calibration was done by self-calibrating on the SiO maser in Source I at 86.243 GHz. The solution was then bootstrapped to the other windows. Phase offsets between each band and the SiO band were calculated and removed by using observations of 0423-013. Uranus was used to calibrate the absolute amplitudes of 0423-013 and these are accurate to within $\sim$20%. The internal noise source was used to correct the passbands of each 31 MHz window, and observations of 0423-013 were used to correct the passbands of the 125 MHz windows. The data were calibrated, continuum subtracted, and imaged using the MIRIAD software package [@sault95]. Note that the flux of the point source BN (see @friedel11) is similar across all array configurations, indicating that the accuracy of the absolute flux calibration between the different tracks is better than 95%. In order to characterize the temperature profile of this region, 13 methanol transitions corresponding to 11 separate spectral lines were observed simultaneously. Methanol is widespread throughout the Orion-KL region, and therefore is an ideal tracer for the physical properties of the region. These 13 transitions span 2.3 orders of magnitude in upper state energy, thus providing a broad range of samples. Calibration uncertainties between the lines were minimized by conducting all methanol observations simultaneously, leaving only the true emission differences as differentiating factors. Table \[tab:methanol\] lists the observed methanol transitions, and includes the rest frequencies, quantum numbers, symmetry label, upper state energy, and linestrength information for each transition. [lrrr]{} 19$_{-2,18}$ - 19$_{2,17}$ & 87,066.819 (10) & 467.7 & 0.20\ 18$_{10,8}$ - 18$_{11,7}$ & 87,094.825 (5300) & 1308.0 & 8.98\ 13$_{10,3}$ - 13$_{11,2}$ & 84,930.9460 (10) & 1123.3 & 4.01\ 2$_{-1,2}$ - 1$_{-1,1}$ & 96,739.363 (5) & 12.5 & 1.21\ 2$_{0,2}$ - 1$_{0,1}$ A+ & 96,741.377 (5) & 7.0 & 1.62\ 2$_{0,2}$ - 1$_{0,1}$ & 96,744.549 (5) & 20.1 & 1.62\ 2$_{1,1}$ - 1$_{1,0}$ & 96,755.507 (5) & 28.0 & 1.24\ 8$_{3,5}$ - 9$_{2,7}$ & 94,541.806 (5) & 131.3 & 2.24\ 2$_{1,2}$ - 1$_{1,1}$ A+ & 95,914.310 (5) & 21.4 & 1.21\ 19$_{7,13}$ - 20$_{6,14}$ A+ & 94,815.075 (50) & 684.8 & 4.55\ 19$_{7,12}$ - 20$_{6,15}$ & 94,815.075 (50) & 684.8 & 4.55\ 24$_{6,19}$ - 23$_{7,16}$ & 98,030.396 (118) & 888.5 & 6.44\ 24$_{6,18}$ - 23$_{7,17} A+$ & 98,030.396 (118) & 888.5 & 6.44\ \[tab:methanol\] Results and Discussion ====================== The results of these observations were used to determine the effects of temperature, continuum column density, and kinematics on the molecular emission in the Orion-KL region. A temperature map of the region was constructed based on the methanol observations. The molecular emission maps presented in Paper I were then compared to this temperature map. The velocity information from the methanol observations was also used to examine the kinematics of the region. The results for each of these aspects of the observations are presented below. Rotational Temperatures ----------------------- ![J=8$_{3,5}$-9$_{2,7}$ [CH$_3$OH]{} maps for [$v_{\rm LSR}$]{} of 2.5 - 13 [km s$^{-1}$]{}. Contours are $\pm3\sigma$, $\pm6\sigma$, $\pm9\sigma$,... ($\sigma$ = 194.5 m[Jy/beam]{}). The synthesized beam is in the lower left corner of panel (i).\[fig:mtoh-all\]](f1.eps) Maps of [CH$_3$OH]{} emission are shown in Figure \[fig:mtoh-all\] for the J=8$_{3,5}$-9$_{2,7}$ transition in [$v_{\rm LSR}$]{} increments of 2.5 - 13 [km s$^{-1}$]{}. Assuming that the lines are optically thin and that the methanol is in local thermodynamic equilibrium, the total column density of [CH$_3$OH]{} can be found from the relationships $$\frac{N_u}{g_u}=\frac{2.04WC_\tau}{B\theta_a\theta_bS\mu^2\nu^3}\frac{T_r}{T_r-T_b}\times10^{20}~{\rm cm}^{-2} \label{eqn:nta}$$ and $$\langle N_T\rangle=\frac{N_u}{g_u}Q_{rv}e^{E_u/T_{r}} \label{eqn:nunt}$$ where $W$ is the integrated line intensity in Jy/beam km/s, $Q_{rv}$ is the rotational-vibrational partition function, $E_u$ is the upper state energy of the transition in K, $T_r$ is the rotational temperature in K, $C_\tau$ is the opacity correction factor (see @goldsmith99), $B$ is the beam filling factor (see @ulich76), $\theta_a$ and $\theta_b$ are the FWHM Gaussian synthesized beam axes in arcseconds, $S\mu^2$ is the product of the line strength and the square of the relevant dipole moment in D$^2$, $\nu$ is the transition frequency in GHz, and $N_u$/$g_u$ is the upper state column density divided by its statistical weight (2$J$+1). A Boltzmann diagram was used to calculate the rotational temperature of the [CH$_3$OH]{} transitions. Using the above equations, a plot of the natural log of Equation (\[eqn:nta\]) versus $E_u$ was constructed. A weighted least squares fit to this plot yields the rotational temperature, which is equal to the negative inverse of the slope of the line. The use of this method does have some pitfalls which are described in detail by @snyder05. The most significant factor to consider when using this analysis method is that the $E_u$ values cover a sufficient range to ensure a reliable temperature determination; this is not a concern in this work because of the large sample of lines observed. Also, the results of a Boltzmann analysis are more robust with a larger sample set. Therefore, in this work, the rotational temperature was only calculated in regions where at least 6 of the 11 lines were detected above the 3$\sigma$ level. Figure \[fig:temperature\] shows the calculated rotational temperature for the Orion-KL region at rest velocities of 2.5 - 11.5 [km s$^{-1}$]{}. Figure \[fig:uncert\] shows the uncertainty associated with these results. ![Temperatures of the Orion-KL region measured from [CH$_3$OH]{} observations. The bar on the right denotes the temperature scale in K. Regions which are white (black in online edition) did not have enough emission to make an accurate temperature determination.\[fig:temperature\]](f2.eps) ![Uncertainties of the calculated temperatures.\[fig:uncert\]](f3.eps) From these figures it can be seen that the [CH$_3$OH]{} temperature measurements are not reliable toward the Hot Core, where the observational data were not of sufficient quality to enable a reliable temperature determination. This is because the lower $E_u$ transitions become highly self-absorbed in this dense region. Thus, while [CH$_3$OH]{} appears to be a good tracer for temperature in most regions, it fails in the regions with highest methanol column density. In order to get an overall temperature view of the region, the maps from this work were combined with the NH$_3$ temperature maps of @goddi11a. The maps were combined in image space using the MIRIAD MATHS task [@sault95], and the combined map is presented in Figure \[fig:comb-T\]. There is little spatial overlap between the two sets of images except in the hot core region; where there was spatial overlap, the results agree to within the uncertainties. The peak temperature value determined was 415 K. [@beuther05] also measured the temperature of the region with multiple [CH$_3$OH]{} transitions at higher frequencies. This work more successfully determined the temperature in the hot core region, but suffered from opacity and double emission peak issues in some of the more diffuse regions. The general temperature gradient observed by [@beuther05] and that found in this work are similar. The results presented here provide a more comprehensive overview of the temperature of Orion-KL. ![Temperatures of the Orion-KL region measured from [CH$_3$OH]{} and NH$_3$ observations \[NH$_3$ from @goddi11a\]. The bar on the right denotes the temperature scale in K. Regions which are white (dark blue in online edition) did not display enough emission intensity to make an accurate temperature determination.\[fig:comb-T\]](f4.eps) ### Methyl Formate As with Paper I, all conclusions regarding [HCOOCH$_3$]{} apply equally to dimethyl ether \[[(CH$_3$)$_2$O]{}\], as they are co-spatial on all observed scales. Figure \[fig:mef-T\] shows the naturally weighted [HCOOCH$_3$]{} moment map (contours from Paper I) overlayed on the temperature map from above. From this map we can see that most of the [HCOOCH$_3$]{} emission arises from cooler, less dense regions such as IRc5 and IRc6. There is some emission arising from the warmest regions (Hot Core and IRc7); however, the peaks of this emission are not coincident with the temperature peaks. There is no temperature information corresponding to the most extended parts of the [HCOOCH$_3$]{} emission near the Compact Ridge. This is likely due to these regions having low density, and the emission being extended and therefore resolved out in the [CH$_3$OH]{} observations. ![Methyl formate \[[HCOOCH$_3$]{}\] contours overlayed on the color scale temperature profile of Orion-KL. The contours are 3$\sigma$, 6$\sigma$, 9$\sigma$, ... ($\sigma$=4.1 m[Jy/beam]{} [km s$^{-1}$]{}). The moment spans the entirety of the [HCOOCH$_3$]{} emission in velocity space (1.9 - 11.8 [km s$^{-1}$]{}). The color bar on the right is the key for the temperature scale in K. \[fig:mef-T\]](f5.eps) ### Ethyl Cyanide As with Paper I, all conclusions regarding [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} apply equally to vinyl cyanide \[[C$_2$H$_3$CN]{}\] and methyl cyanide \[[CH$_3$CN]{}\], as they are all co-spatial on all observed scales. Figure \[fig:etcn-T\] shows the naturally weighted [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} moment map (contours from Paper I) overlayed on the temperature map. Unlike [HCOOCH$_3$]{}, [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} peaks in the warmest, densest regions (Hot Core, SMA 1, and IRc7). The [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} peak at $\sim$12 [km s$^{-1}$]{} (see Figure 10 of Paper I) is associated with the cooler region near IRc6. ![Ethyl cyanide \[[C$_2$H$_5$CN]{}\] contours overlayed on the color scale temperature profile of Orion-KL. The contours are 3$\sigma$, 6$\sigma$, 9$\sigma$, ... ($\sigma$=4.1 m[Jy/beam]{} [km s$^{-1}$]{}). The moment spans the entirety of the [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} emission in velocity space (-12.8 - 18.4 [km s$^{-1}$]{}). The color bar on the right is the key for the temperature scale in K.\[fig:etcn-T\]](f6.eps) ### Acetone Figure \[fig:ace-T\] shows the naturally weighted [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} moment map (contours from Paper I) overlayed on the temperature map. [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} appears to have some characteristics in common with both [HCOOCH$_3$]{} and [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{}, as it has strong peaks near the warmest regions, but also has some extended structure in the cooler regions. ![Acetone \[[(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{}\] contours overlayed on the color scale temperature profile of Orion-KL. The contours are 3$\sigma$, 6$\sigma$, 9$\sigma$, ... ($\sigma$=8.1 m[Jy/beam]{} [km s$^{-1}$]{}). The moment spans the entirety of the [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} emission in velocity space (2.4 - 8.7 [km s$^{-1}$]{}). The color bar on the right is the key for the temperature scale in K.\[fig:ace-T\]](f7.eps) ### Formic Acid Figure \[fig:fa-T\] shows the [HCOOH]{} moment map (contours, from Paper I) overlayed on the temperature map. [HCOOH]{} has a unique distribution with regard to the temperature map compared to the other complex molecules observed. It has one weak peak near the warmer regions, but the bulk of the emission is coming from the cooler, more extended regions. Full temperature measurements are not available for much of the [HCOOH]{} distribution because large structures were resolved out in the [CH$_3$OH]{} observations. ![Formic acid \[[HCOOH]{}\] contours overlayed on the color scale temperature profile of Orion-KL. The contours are 3$\sigma$, 6$\sigma$, 9$\sigma$, ... ($\sigma$=8.1 m[Jy/beam]{} [km s$^{-1}$]{}). The moment spans the entirety of the [HCOOH]{} emission in velocity space (0.2 - 8.1 [km s$^{-1}$]{}). The color bar on the right is the key for the temperature scale in K.\[fig:fa-T\]](f8.eps) ### SiO Figure \[fig:sio-T\] shows the moment map SiO contours overlayed on the temperature map. The SiO distribution peaks adjacent to, but not co-spatial with, the higher temperature and continuum column density regions. @goddi11a conclude that the main heating source in the Orion-KL region is shock heating. Thus it is quite likely that the SiO is tracing the shocks that heat the region as they interact with the dense ambient material. ![SiO contours overlayed on the color scale temperature profile of Orion-KL. The contours are logarithmically scaled in order to show all of the weaker details. The moment spans the entirety of the SiO emission in velocity space (-43.9 - 54.9 [km s$^{-1}$]{}). The color bar on the right is the key for the temperature scale in K.\[fig:sio-T\]](f9.eps) Kinematics ---------- These new observations enable discussion of the kinematics of the Orion-KL region. As SiO is a well-known shock tracer, we compare the distribution of each molecule with that of SiO to gain insight into the physical conditions for the regions where the different molecules are detected. ### Methyl Formate Figure \[fig:mef-sio\] shows the naturally weighted moment map of [HCOOCH$_3$]{} emission overlayed on the moment map of SiO emission. The [HCOOCH$_3$]{} emission appears to be coming from the edges of the dense SiO outflow. In these regions, the outflow is impacting the ambient dust and gas, and is likely releasing the [HCOOCH$_3$]{} molecules from icy grains and into the gas phase. ![Naturally weighted, methyl formate \[[HCOOCH$_3$]{}\] emission (black contours) overlayed on SiO emission (grey contours, red contours in online edition).\[fig:mef-sio\]](f10.eps) ### Ethyl Cyanide Figure \[fig:etcn-comb\] shows the [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} moment map overlayed with the SiO outflow moment map. From this map, it appears that the [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} emission is coming from the regions where the outflow is impacting the ambient dusty material to the northeast of Source I and near IRc7, releasing the [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} into the gas phase. The lack of detection of [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} to the west/northwest of the outflow (mirroring what is seen to the east/northeast) can be explained by a lack of dusty material in this direction (see Section \[sec:motion\]). This hypothesis is supported by the fact that IRc3 appears to be a reflection of IRc2, indicating little-to-no dust in the intervening regions [@simpson06]. ![Naturally weighted, ethyl cyanide \[[C$_2$H$_5$CN]{}\] emission (black contours) overlayed on SiO emission (grey contours, red contours in online edition).\[fig:etcn-comb\]](f11.eps) ### Acetone Figure \[fig:ace-comb\] shows the moment map of [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} emission overlayed on the SiO outflow moment map. Although the [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} image has a much lower spatial resolution than [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} and [HCOOCH$_3$]{}, it is still clear that it is coming from the regions in the center of the outflow, corresponding to the densest regions where nearly all of the molecular emission features observed in these studies overlap. However, [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} is not present in all of the dense regions, while [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} is present in all of these regions. [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} does not appear to have any significant emission to the northeast of Source I. ![Naturally weighted, acetone \[[(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{}\] emission (black contours) overlayed on SiO emission (grey contours, red contours in online edition).\[fig:ace-comb\]](f12.eps) ### Formic Acid Figure \[fig:fa-sio\] shows the [HCOOH]{} moment map overlayed on the SiO outflow moment map. While the [HCOOH]{} emission appears near the edges of the outflow, its emission is notably farther away from the center of the outflow than the emission regions corresponding to the other molecules. These regions traced by the [HCOOH]{} emission may still contain material from the outflow, but at a low enough density as to be undetected in these observations. This indicates that [HCOOH]{} may be easily liberated from grain surfaces by shocks, but is then quickly processed into other molecules, as indicated by the lack of [HCOOH]{} emission from behind the initial shock front. This is chemically consistent with the results of recent astrochemical models [@Garrod08; @Laas] and with recent observational studies [@neill11], which suggest that [HCOOH]{} is highly reactive in the gas phase. ![Formic acid \[[HCOOH]{}\] emission (black contours) overlayed on SiO emission (grey contours, red contours in online edition).\[fig:fa-sio\]](f13.eps) Continuum --------- Comparison of molecular distributions with continuum sources can also give insight into the physical conditions of the different regions. In this section we compare the molecular distributions of the observed species with that of the $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum. The continuum maps are from @friedel11. ### Methyl Formate Figure \[fig:mef-contin\] shows the naturally weighted [HCOOCH$_3$]{} contours overlayed on the gray scale $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum. This map shows that the [HCOOCH$_3$]{} emission peaks are closely associated with the weaker continuum peaks, but not the strongest ones. ![Naturally weighted [HCOOCH$_3$]{} contours overlayed on the naturally weighted $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum gray scale.\[fig:mef-contin\]](f14.eps) ### Ethyl Cyanide Figure \[fig:etcn-contin\] shows the naturally weighted [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} contours overlayed on the gray scale $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum. This maps shows that the [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} peaks are nearby to strong continuum sources. ![Naturally weighted [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} contours overlayed on the naturally weighted $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum gray scale.\[fig:etcn-contin\]](f15.eps) ### Acetone Figure \[fig:ace-contin\] shows the naturally weighted [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} contours overlayed on the gray scale $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum. This map shows that [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} peaks near the continuum, but not with the continuum peak. ![Naturally weighted [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} contours overlayed on the naturally weighted $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum gray scale.\[fig:ace-contin\]](f16.eps) ### Formic Acid Figure \[fig:fa-contin\] shows the [HCOOH]{} contours overlayed on the grayscale $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum. The map shows that there are a few weak [HCOOH]{} peaks associated with the more extended continuum, southwest of Source I and near IRc3. However the bulk of the [HCOOH]{} emission is not associated with any detected continuum emission. This is not an issue of resolution, as some of the continuum data were obtained at the same time as the [HCOOH]{} data. ![Naturally weighted [HCOOH]{} contours overlayed on the naturally weighted $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum gray scale.\[fig:fa-contin\]](f17.eps) ### Global Kinematics {#sec:motion} It is apparent from previous observations that the Source I and BN sources within the Orion-KL region had some type of dynamic interaction $\sim$500 years ago and are moving apart at $\sim$0.02 ($\sim$50 [km s$^{-1}$]{}) per year [@plambeck95; @goddi11]. There are also two known outflows in the Orion-KL complex, both centered near Source I. The first, the “high velocity" (30-200 [km s$^{-1}$]{}) outflow, is traced by CO, and possibly SiO, and has a very large opening angle ($\sim$1 rad) in the northwest/southeast directions [@chernin96; @zapata09; @plambeck09]. The second, the “low velocity" outflow, is perpendicular to the high velocity outflow and is traced by SiO [@greenhill98]. The actual velocity of the low velocity outflow is not well-constrained. @greenhill04 concluded the outflow velocity was $\sim$18 [km s$^{-1}$]{}, however @plambeck09 concluded that the outflow velocity must be much larger else there would be a “trail" from the SiO outflow tracing the proper motion of Source I. @plambeck09 also suggested that the two outflows may be related as the SiO outflow may be precessing rather quickly, and the high velocity outflow may be from an era when the SiO outflow was oriented nearly perpendicular to its current position. We hypothesize that there is yet another interpretation of these high velocity clumps. These clumps might have had close encounters with regions of higher density/mass that may have altered their trajectory, both within the plane of the sky and in/out of the plane of the sky. Figures \[fig:kin\] and \[fig:kin-cont\] show a potential view of the general kinematics of the Orion-KL region. The gray scale is a moment map of the SiO outflow \[from Figure 3 of @plambeck09\], and the black contours are a combined moment map of the [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} and [HCOOCH$_3$]{} naturally weighted data (Figure \[fig:kin\]) and the $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum (Figure \[fig:kin-cont\]). The letters (A – E) indicate strong molecular peaks while the letters ($\alpha$ – $\epsilon$) indicate strong continuum peaks (excluding Source I and BN). The blue arrow and dashed lines indicate the most probable path of Source I after its interaction with BN (see @goddi11), and the blue star indicates the most probable location of this interaction. The solid red lines indicate potential paths taken by the SiO outflow. The broken red line indicates a potential path for a high velocity clump of gas after leaving Source I. Labels 1-4 indicate high velocity clumps (HVC). The outflowing gas in the HVC may encounter temperature/density enhancements as it interacts with the denser ambient clumps. This may be evident in our temperature map of the region (see Figure \[fig:comb-T\]). We see no evidence of an enhancement for HVC 1-3, however the temperature maps do not cover most of the path covered by these HVC. For HVC 4, we do see a temperature enhancement leading from the hot core region southwest to the edge of the temperature map. The “bend" in this enhancement may be due to the transverse motion of Source I over time and may be tracing the history of travel for HVC 4. In Figure \[fig:kin\] the northeast lobe of the SiO outflow seems to be impeded by the material near clump A, while much of the material seems to be “escaping" to the east of clump A. Additionally, HVC1 appears to have broken through the region between clumps A & B. Clump C appears to be an impediment to the outflow in the southwest while HVC4 seems to have passed the clump to the west. From Figure \[fig:kin-cont\] we can see that the mass/density of clump $\gamma$ may be impeding the outflow while HVC4 passes to the west. ![The gray scale is a moment map of the SiO outflow (from Figure 3 of @plambeck09) and the black contours are a combined moment map of the [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} and [HCOOCH$_3$]{} naturally weighted data. The letters (A - E) indicate the main molecular peaks. The thin black (blue in online edition) arrow and dashed lines indicate the most probable path of Source I after its interaction with BN (see @goddi11), and the star indicates the most probable location of this interaction. The solid black (red in online edition) lines indicate potential paths taken by the SiO outflow, and labels 1-4 indicated high velocity clumps for reference in the text. The broken black (red in online edition) line indicates a potential path for a high velocity clump of gas after leaving Source I.\[fig:kin\]](f18.eps) ![The gray scale is a moment map of the SiO outflow (from Figure 3 of @plambeck09) and the black contours are the naturally weighted map of the $\lambda$ = 3 mm continuum from @friedel11. The Greek letters ($\alpha$ – $\epsilon$) indicate the stronger continuum peaks (excluding Source I and BN). The thin black (blue in online edition) arrow and dashed lines indicate the most probable path of Source I after its interaction with BN (see @goddi11), and the star indicates the most probable location of this interaction. The solid black (red in online edition) lines indicate paths were the SiO outflow appears to have broken through the surrounding material, and labels 1-4 indicate high velocity clumps for reference in the text. The broken black (red in online edition) line indicates a potential path for a high velocity clump of gas after leaving Source I.\[fig:kin-cont\]](f19.eps) Putting it All Together ----------------------- From these results, it is clear that the dynamics and chemistry of the Orion-KL region are very complex. Comparison of the molecular emission features with the kinematic tracers allows conclusions to be drawn about the effects of physical conditions on the chemistry of this region. Here we overview the major conclusions for each molecule studied. ### Ethyl Cyanide [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} is present at highest abundance in the regions of highest temperature, along the denser edges of shocks, and near the higher column density dusty regions. The shocks are the most likely mechanism for releasing the [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} from grain surfaces, as they provide more thermal and kinetic energy than any other source in the region. These results also indicate that [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} must also forming through gas-phase processing of grain mantle material in the warmer regions of the source. Otherwise, [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} would be destroyed in these warmer regions after being liberated from icy grains by shocks. In contrast is the emission from the high velocity component near IRc3/6/20. Here the temperature is lower, and this region is on the outermost shock region in an area of lower continuum column density. There is also little continuum emission here. These results suggest that there are several conditions under which [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} can form and be released into the gas phase. This area may be indirectly heated by IR radiation from IRc2 [@simpson06]. Thus, it seems that [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} can be present at a range of physical conditions, including very dense and hot regions and less dense and cooler regions. Regardless, a heating source seems to be required for its formation or liberation. ### Methyl Formate The [HCOOCH$_3$]{} emission appears to be coming from two distinct regions. The first is quite extended, near the location of the Compact Ridge. This region is not associated with any strong continuum emission. This region is on the extreme leading edge of the outflow from Source I, indicating that the [HCOOCH$_3$]{} is being liberated from grain surfaces. This emission region is likely the primary contributor of flux in single dish observations, as it would be least affected by beam dilution. By comparing the compact [HCOOCH$_3$]{} emission with the different tracers, it appears that the vast majority of this emission comes from regions on the outer, lower column density portions of the SiO outflow; lower temperature ($<$150 K) areas; and areas of lower dust concentration. There is some notable emission from the hottest/densest parts of Orion-KL, but these regions coincide with the edge of the [HCOOCH$_3$]{} emission. It appears that [HCOOCH$_3$]{} is released into the gas phase by the initial expanding shock from the outflow, and is destroyed by the arrival of the higher density, higher temperature components of the outflow. [HCOOCH$_3$]{} is likely processed through additional gas-phase reactions once it is liberated from the grain mantle material. Unlike the case of [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} emission peaking in the warmer regions, there are no signs of [HCOOCH$_3$]{} being formed in the warmer regions of the source, as its emission peaks are offset from these warmer regions and instead coincide with the leading edges of the shocks. ### Acetone While there are no corresponding high-resolution images for [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{}, the existing images reveal that it does not have a distribution that matches either [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} or [HCOOCH$_3$]{}. Instead, acetone appears to peak in the region of most significant overlap between [HCOOCH$_3$]{} and [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} (as was originally reported by @friedel08). The primary peak is located in the warm transition region between the hot and dense part of the outflow, and the cooler outer edges. However, there is notable emission from both the hottest and densest parts of the cloud, as well as the cooler and less dense regions. This indicates that [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} is present in a wide variety of physical conditions, and its emission may therefore be shaped primarily by chemical processes rather than the physical conditions of the cloud. ### Formic Acid [HCOOH]{} has a unique distribution relative to the physical tracers when compared to the other molecules in this study. Its strongest emission peak is located on the extreme outer edge of the SiO outflow, where there is no detectable continuum emission. There are a few, weaker [HCOOH]{} peaks in the warmer denser regions, but overall it appears that [HCOOH]{} is easily released by the shocks from the outflow, and then easily destroyed in the higher density and warmer regions. This is consistent with chemical models that predict that formic acid is readily processed through gas-phase reactions [@Garrod08; @Laas]. Conclusions =========== We have presented CARMA observations of several molecular species, including ethyl cyanide, methyl formate, acetone, and formic acid, toward Orion-KL. These observations cover over an order of magnitude in spatial resolution, yielding excellent sensitivity to both small- and large-scale structures. We have compared these results with tracers of physical conditions (temperature, continuum column density, and dynamics). Overall, the results presented here indicate that the distributions of complex molecules trace the dynamics of the region, and that in some cases varying physical conditions can affect the morphology of molecular emission. These results indicate that all of the observed species can exist in a range of temperature and density conditions; [HCOOH]{} appears to have the narrowest range of stability in terms of temperature and density, while [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} can exist in the widest range of conditions. Furthermore, it appears that chemical processing may produce [(CH$_3$)$_2$CO]{} under a variety of physical conditions, while [HCOOH]{} is readily destroyed by gas-phase processing in warmer, dense regions. Lastly, it appears that the traditional view of nitrogen-oxygen “chemical differentiation" in Orion-KL, where different chemistries lead to spatially-distinct emission regions for these two classes of molecules, does not give the complete picture of this region. [HCOOCH$_3$]{} and [C$_2$H$_5$CN]{} are found to be primarily co-spatial in this source. Instead of being shaped by chemical processing, local physical conditions like temperature and density most dramatically shape the relative distributions of these particular molecules. These results reveal that astrochemical modeling of sources must include the effects of physical conditions and differing spatial distributions before the observations of a given source can be compared directly to the model. Sophisticated hydrodynamic models will be required to fully interpret the results presented here. We thank an anonymous referee for helpful comments. We thank C. Goddi for supplying an ammonia temperature map of Orion-KL. This work was partially funded by NSF grant AST-0540459 and the University of Illinois. S.L.W.W. acknowledges start-up research support from Emory University. Support for CARMA construction was derived from the states of Illinois, California, and Maryland, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, the Associates of the California Institute of Technology, and the National Science Foundation. Ongoing CARMA development and operations are supported by the National Science Foundation under a cooperative agreement, and by the CARMA partner universities. Beuther, H., Zhang, Q., Greenhill, L. J., et al. 2005, , 632, 355 Blake, G. A., Sutton, E. C., Masson, C. R., & Phillips, T. G. 1987, , 315, 621 Chernin, L. M., & Wright, M. C. H. 1996, , 467, 676 Friedel, D. N. & Snyder, L. E. 2008, , 672, 962 Friedel, D. N., & Widicus Weaver, S. L. 2011, , 742, 64 Garrod, R. T., Widicus Weaver, S. L., & Herbst, E. 2008, , 682, 283 Goddi, C., Humphreys, E. M. L., Greenhill, L. J., Chandler, C. J., & Matthews, L. D. 2011a, , 728, 15 Goddi, C., Greenhill, L. J., Humphreys, E. M. L., Chandler, C. J., & Matthews, L. 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Temporal trends, lake-to-lake variation, and climate effects on Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) mercury concentrations from six High Arctic lakes in Nunavut, Canada. Climate warming and mercury (Hg) are concurrently influencing Arctic ecosystems, altering their functioning and threatening food security. Non-anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) in small lakes were used to biomonitor these two anthropogenic stressors, because this iconic Arctic species is a long-lived top predator in relatively simple food webs, and yet population characteristics vary greatly, reflecting differences between lake systems. Mercury concentrations in six landlocked Arctic char populations on Cornwallis Island, Nunavut have been monitored as early as 1989, providing a novel dataset to examine differences in muscle [Hg] among char populations, temporal trends, and the relationship between climate patterns and Arctic char [Hg]. We found significant lake-to-lake differences in length-adjusted Arctic char muscle [Hg], which varied by up to 9-fold. Arctic char muscle [Hg] was significantly correlated to dissolved and particulate organic carbon concentrations in water; neither watershed area or vegetation cover explained differences. Three lakes exhibited significant temporal declines in length-adjusted [Hg] in Arctic char; the other three lakes had no significant trends. Though precipitation, temperature, wind speed, and sea ice duration were tested, no single climate variable was significantly correlated to length-adjusted [Hg] across populations. However, Arctic char Hg in Resolute Lake exhibited a significant correlation with sea ice duration, which is likely closely linked to lake ice duration, and which may impact Hg processing in lakes. Additionally, Arctic char [Hg] in Amituk Lake was significantly correlated to snow fall, which may be linked to Hg deposition. The lack of consistent temporal trends in neighboring char populations indicates that currently, within lake processes are the strongest drivers of [Hg] in char in the study lakes and potentially in other Arctic lakes, and that the influence of climate change will likely vary from lake to lake. | High | [
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Monday, August 26, 2013 Acrylic Flowers and Cystals! Since school has started I figured I needed to do a nail design that is a bit flashy and noticeable. So I went with a shiny hot pink and light nudish pink polish that I alternated on each hand. Instead of doing my usual crystal nails I decided Id try my hand at doing acrylic flowers. I will say for my first try they turned out really well and to add my bling I used some swarovski crystals on the other fingers. It is simple yet has some flare. Well, I hope you guys like because I absolutely love!!!!!!!!! -----------------peaceout, c.lette | Mid | [
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Yet another horrific example of the culture of impunity that allows violence against women to flourish: According to a report from the Inter Press Service, in the last 7 years there have been nearly 140,000 domestic violence complaints in Guatemala. “In that period, there have also been 6,025 reported cases of rape and 3,281 women have been murdered, according to official statistics in Guatemala, which has one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America and is the focus of concern from human rights groups because of the large number of women killed in a climate of impunity.” “Unfortunately, in Guatemala, killing a woman is like killing a fly; no importance is assigned to it,” complained local activist Hilda Morales, who argued that “the perpetrators are encouraged to continue beating, abusing and killing because they know that nothing will happen, that they won’t be punished.” A report by the Coordinadora 25 de Noviembre, an umbrella group made up of nearly 30 local women’s organisations, said that in the last seven years, only two percent of crimes against women have been solved. In 2006, judges handed down a total of 12 sentences, one for 60 years and the rest for 50 years. And of the few cases that are actually brought to justice, some take up to three years to make it to court.” “Although this impoverished Central American country has laws aimed at protecting women from violence and has signed international conventions on the issue, there is a “continuing lack of will to recognise and respect human rights, which translates into silence in the face of a scourge that should be classified as a crime against humanity,” says the study by the Coordinadora 25 de Noviembre. Morales, an activist with the Network of Non-Violence Against Women, which forms part of the umbrella group, complained that in Guatemala, “domestic violence and sexual harassment, the forerunners of the current wave of murders of women, are not even classified as crimes.” She pointed out that until last year, a law was on the books that allowed a rapist to escape charges if he married his victim, even if she was only 12 years old.” | High | [
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Q: Java - Count Difference in minutes I have to count the difference in Minutes between these two Dates, but the Dates are overlapping. I have two date ranges: EventStart, EventEnd I've written a SQL Query before (see below) and it's working perfectly but its really slow, so I want to handle it in Java (resultSet) Here is the JSON that I'm getting from SQL Server: https://pastebin.com/raw/xhCnXynA Here is my SQL script that is working: DECLARE @T TABLE(ID INT,FromDate DATETIME, ToDate DATETIME) INSERT INTO @T(ID,FromDate,ToDate) SELECT 1,'20090801','20090803' UNION ALL SELECT 2,'20090802','20090809' UNION ALL SELECT 3,'20090805','20090806' UNION ALL SELECT 4,'20090812','20090813' UNION ALL SELECT 5,'20090811','20090812' UNION ALL SELECT 6,'20090802','20090802' SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY s1.FromDate) AS ID, s1.FromDate, MIN(t1.ToDate) AS ToDate FROM @T s1 INNER JOIN @T t1 ON s1.FromDate <= t1.ToDate AND NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM @T t2 WHERE t1.ToDate >= t2.FromDate AND t1.ToDate < t2.ToDate) WHERE NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM @T s2 WHERE s1.FromDate > s2.FromDate AND s1.FromDate <= s2.ToDate) GROUP BY s1.FromDate ORDER BY s1.FromDate Result: My Java code: //Date Format DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); Integer downTime; while (rs.next()) { //Parse to Date eventStart = formatter.parse(rs.getString("EventStart")); eventEnd = formatter.parse(rs.getString("EventEnd")); if (eventStart.after(eventEnd)){ //How should I do this? } else{ //How should I do this? } //I have to count here the difference between the dates in minutes } A: Counting a difference in minutes between 2 dates Better to use java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter and java.time.LocalDateTime from a New Java Date/Time API instead of SimpleDateFormat and Date: DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S"); LocalDateTime eventStart = LocalDateTime.parse("2019-10-09 01:24:05.0", formatter); LocalDateTime eventEnd = LocalDateTime.parse("2019-10-09 01:35:14.0", formatter); Duration duration; if (eventStart.isBefore(eventEnd)) { duration = Duration.between(eventStart, eventEnd); } else { duration = Duration.between(eventEnd, eventStart); } long minutes = duration.toMinutes(); System.out.println("" + minutes + " minute(s)"); The result is: 11 minute(s). Merging all overlapping date ranges To merge all overlapping date ranges consider the following approach. Create a class to represent a date range with methods isOverlappingWith, mergeWith, toMinutes and override equals and hashCode. private static class DateRange { private final LocalDateTime startDate; private final LocalDateTime endDate; public DateRange(LocalDateTime startDate, LocalDateTime endDate) { this.startDate = startDate; this.endDate = endDate; } public boolean isOverlappingWith(DateRange other) { return !startDate.isAfter(other.endDate) && !endDate.isBefore(other.startDate); } public DateRange mergeWith(DateRange other) { return new DateRange( startDate.isBefore(other.startDate) ? startDate : other.startDate, endDate.isAfter(other.endDate) ? endDate : other.endDate); } public long toMinutes() { return Duration.between(startDate, endDate).toMinutes(); } @Override public boolean equals(Object o) { if (this == o) { return true; } if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) { return false; } DateRange dateRange = (DateRange) o; return Objects.equals(startDate, dateRange.startDate) && Objects.equals(endDate, dateRange.endDate); } @Override public int hashCode() { return Objects.hash(startDate, endDate); } @Override public String toString() { return "DateRange{" + "startDate=" + startDate + ", endDate=" + endDate + '}'; } } Iterate through all date ranges and try to merge them. To keep track of the duplicates additional HashSet is required. The idea is to try to merge each date range with next ranges in the list. If there were at least one merge then remove the original date range. If the list doesn't contain the resulting merged date range then append it to the list. DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S"); List<List<String>> rawDateRanges = List.of( List.of("2009-08-01 00:00:00.0", "2009-08-03 00:00:00.0"), List.of("2009-08-05 00:00:00.0", "2009-08-06 00:00:00.0"), List.of("2009-08-02 00:00:00.0", "2009-08-09 00:00:00.0"), List.of("2009-08-12 00:00:00.0", "2009-08-13 00:00:00.0"), List.of("2009-08-11 00:00:00.0", "2009-08-12 00:00:00.0"), List.of("2009-08-02 00:00:00.0", "2009-08-02 00:00:00.0")); List<DateRange> dateRanges = new ArrayList<>(); for (List<String> rawDateRange : rawDateRanges) { //Replace with while (rs.next()) { ... } LocalDateTime fromDate = LocalDateTime.parse(rawDateRange.get(0), formatter); LocalDateTime toDate = LocalDateTime.parse(rawDateRange.get(1), formatter); dateRanges.add(new DateRange(fromDate, toDate)); } Set<DateRange> mergedDateRanges = new HashSet<>(); for (int i = 0; i < dateRanges.size(); i++) { DateRange dateRange = dateRanges.get(i); boolean merged = false; for (int j = i + 1; j < dateRanges.size(); j++) { DateRange otherDateRange = dateRanges.get(j); if (dateRange.isOverlappingWith(otherDateRange)) { dateRange = dateRange.mergeWith(otherDateRange); merged = true; } } if (merged) { dateRanges.remove(i--); if (mergedDateRanges.add(dateRange)) { dateRanges.add(dateRange); } } } List<Long> minutes = dateRanges.stream() .peek(System.out::println) .map(DateRange::toMinutes) //Convert to minutes .collect(toList()); System.out.println(minutes); Output: DateRange{startDate=2009-08-01T00:00, endDate=2009-08-09T00:00} DateRange{startDate=2009-08-11T00:00, endDate=2009-08-13T00:00} [11520, 2880] | Mid | [
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Lentz RJ, Colt H. Summarizing societal guidelines regarding bronchoscopy during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Respirology. 2020;25:574--577. 10.1111/resp.13824 32277733 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), the virus responsible for pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), is predominantly transmitted via large droplets and fomites. However, healthcare workers (HCW) participating in aerosol‐generating procedures such as bronchoscopy, endotracheal intubation, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, otolaryngological procedures involving the upper airway and tracheotomy are also at risk for aerosol‐transmitted infection. Given the well‐documented asymptomatic SARS‐CoV‐2 infection with viral shedding, infectious aerosol might also be generated from asymptomatic patients as community prevalence rises. Several bronchology societies have issued guidelines regarding bronchoscopy during the COVID‐19 pandemic.[1](#resp13824-bib-0001){ref-type="ref"}, [2](#resp13824-bib-0002){ref-type="ref"}, [3](#resp13824-bib-0003){ref-type="ref"}, [4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}, [5](#resp13824-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"} However, none are comprehensive and significant uncertainty remains regarding in whom to perform bronchoscopy and how to perform it safely in this rapidly changing clinical environment. No data specific to bronchoscopy in COVID‐19 are yet available, so most recommendations are expert opinion derived from observations made during prior respiratory viral outbreaks including SARS, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and influenza. Tables [1](#resp13824-tbl-0001){ref-type="table"} and [2](#resp13824-tbl-0002){ref-type="table"} summarize existing guidelines regarding bronchoscopy in patients not suspected of harbouring SARS‐CoV‐2 and in those known or suspected to be suffering from COVID‐19, respectively. All societies reviewed recommend postponing elective procedures and limiting the number of staff participating in any procedure to minimize the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and reduce known or occult exposure to infectious aerosol. All considered known or suspected COVID‐19 to be a relative contraindication to bronchoscopy, given the uncertainty of its benefit and clear risks to participating staff. Table [3](#resp13824-tbl-0003){ref-type="table"} represents a consolidation of existing guidelines regarding bronchoscopy in patients with and without COVID‐19. ###### Bronchoscopy in patients *without* known or suspected COVID‐19 Organization CMA AABIP DGP SEPAR AABE ------------------ ------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Triage Acuity Postpone elective Postpone elective[†](#resp13824-note-0001){ref-type="fn"} Postpone elective Postpone elective Postpone elective Screening Temperature, symptoms Travel, symptoms --- Temperature, symptoms, contacts Symptoms, travel, sick contacts Procedure Ideal setting --- Negative pressure room[‡](#resp13824-note-0002){ref-type="fn"} --- Negative pressure room --- Staff Limit personnel Limit personnel Limit personnel Limit personnel --- Mask for patient Yes --- Yes --- --- PPE Mask Surgical; N95 if sick contact N95[‡](#resp13824-note-0002){ref-type="fn"} Re‐used N95[§](#resp13824-note-0003){ref-type="fn"} FFP2 or FFP3 depending on risk (e.g. sick contacts) --- Eyes Glasses or eye mask Face shield Eye protection Eye protection --- Other Gown, gloves, cap Gown, gloves Gown, gloves Gown, gloves --- Anaesthesia No atomized lidocaine --- --- --- --- Approach --- --- Flexible better than rigid --- --- Ventilation --- --- Avoid jet ventilation --- --- Specific indications considered elective by AABIP: mild airway stenosis, mucus clearance, suspect sarcoidosis but no indication for treatment, chronic ILD, suspect MAI, chronic cough, tracheobronchomalacia evaluation, bronchial thermoplasty and bronchoscopic lung volume reduction. If community prevalence is high. If community prevalence is high and supplies are low. AABE, Argentinean Association for Bronchology; AABIP, American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology; CMA, Respiratory Branch, Chinese Medical Association; COVID‐19, coronavirus disease 2019; DGP, German Respiratory Society; ILD, interstitial lung disease; MAI, *Mycobacterium avium*‐intracellulare; PPE, personal protective equipment; SEPAR, Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery. ###### Bronchoscopy in patients *with* known or suspected COVID‐19 Organization CMA AABIP DGP SEPAR AABE ------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Triage Indications Not specified See footnote[†](#resp13824-note-0006){ref-type="fn"} See footnote[†](#resp13824-note-0006){ref-type="fn"} See footnote[†](#resp13824-note-0006){ref-type="fn"} See footnote[†](#resp13824-note-0006){ref-type="fn"} Procedure Ideal setting Negative pressure room Negative pressure room --- Negative pressure room Negative pressure room Staff Limit personnel Essential personnel only Limit personnel Minimum necessary Essential personnel only Mask for patient (if not intubated) Yes --- Yes (slotted to allow transnasal access) Yes. Consider suction catheter in mouth --- PPE Mask PAPR or N95 PAPR or N95 FFP3 FFP3 N95 Eyes Eye protection Face shield Safety glasses Full face mask Eye protection Other Gown, gloves, cap Gown, gloves Gown, gloves Gown, gloves, cap, shoe cover Anaesthesia No atomized lidocaine --- --- Sedation: reduce cough --- Equipment Disposable if available Disposable if available Disposable if available Disposable if available Approach Avoid rigid bronchoscopy[‡](#resp13824-note-0007){ref-type="fn"}. Advanced airway. Minimize scope in/out --- Avoid rigid bronchoscopy[‡](#resp13824-note-0007){ref-type="fn"}. Transnasal preferred Transnasal preferred --- Ventilation Avoid jet; closed circuit --- Avoid jet; closed circuit --- --- Post‐procedure Scope disinfection Standard high level Standard high level Standard high level Standard high level Standard high level Room disinfection \>30 m Air purification time, terminal clean Standard disinfection of monitors --- Sterilize surfaces in contact with patient or secretions --- All guidelines suggest bronchoscopy is relatively contraindicated in COVID‐19 or should play a limited role in diagnosis and management. Possible indications: inconclusive non‐invasive COVID‐19 testing[2](#resp13824-bib-0002){ref-type="ref"}, [3](#resp13824-bib-0003){ref-type="ref"}, [4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}, [5](#resp13824-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"}; concern for an alternate aetiology of respiratory disease which would change management[2](#resp13824-bib-0002){ref-type="ref"}, [3](#resp13824-bib-0003){ref-type="ref"}, [4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}, [5](#resp13824-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"} (especially in immunocompromised[4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}); suspicion of superinfection[4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}, [5](#resp13824-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"}; and lobar or entire lung atelectasis concerning for mucus plugging,[4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"} facilitate tracheostomy,[4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"} life‐saving or emergent intervention (significant haemoptysis, severe central airway obstruction or stenosis, foreign body).[2](#resp13824-bib-0002){ref-type="ref"}, [3](#resp13824-bib-0003){ref-type="ref"}, [4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}, [5](#resp13824-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"} Unless unavoidable in the clinical circumstance. AABE, Argentinean Association for Bronchology; AABIP, American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology; CMA, Respiratory Branch, Chinese Medical Association; COVID‐19, coronavirus disease 2019; DGP, German Respiratory Society; PAPR, powered air‐purifying respirator; PPE, personal protective equipment; SEPAR, Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery. ###### Summary considerations +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Non‐COVID patient | COVID patient (known or suspected) | +:======================+:==============================================================================================================================+:=================================================================================================+ | Triage | | | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Acuity or indications | Postpone elective[†](#resp13824-note-0009){ref-type="fn"} | See footnote[‡](#resp13824-note-0010){ref-type="fn"} | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Screening | Symptoms[§](#resp13824-note-0011){ref-type="fn"}, sick contacts[§](#resp13824-note-0011){ref-type="fn"}, pre‐procedure vitals | Not applicable | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Procedure | | | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ideal setting | Negative pressure room | Negative pressure room | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Staff | Limit personnel | Essential personnel only | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mask for patient | Slotted mask if transnasal or transoral approach without advanced airway | Yes (if not intubated) | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | PPE | | | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mask | N95 or FFP3 if significant community prevalence | PAPR (superior protection), N95 or FFP3 | | | | | | | Consider daily re‐used N95 or FFP3 if low supply | | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Eyes | Eye protection; full face shield if re‐using N95/FFP3 | Full face shield | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Other | Gown, gloves, cap | Gown, gloves, cap | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Anaesthesia | Avoid atomized or nebulized lidocaine | Avoid atomized or nebulized lidocaine | | | | | | | Sedation to minimize cough | Sedation to minimize cough | | | | | | | Consider paralysis to minimize cough in general anaesthesia | Consider paralysis to minimize cough in general anaesthesia | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Equipment | No consensus/recommendations | Disposable if available | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Approach | Avoid rigid bronchoscopy[¶](#resp13824-note-0012){ref-type="fn"} | Avoid rigid bronchoscopy[¶](#resp13824-note-0012){ref-type="fn"}; minimize flexible scope in/out | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ventilation | Closed‐circuit ventilation if advanced airway; avoid jet | Closed‐circuit ventilation if advanced airway; avoid jet | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Post‐procedure | | | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Scope disinfection | No consensus/recommendations | Standard high level | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Room disinfection | No consensus/recommendations | Consider air circulation time per local air controls | | | | | | | | Consider sterilizing surfaces | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Specific indications considered elective by AABIP: mild airway stenosis, mucus clearance, suspected sarcoidosis without indication for immediate treatment, chronic interstitial lung disease, suspected *Mycobacterium avium*‐intracellulare, chronic cough, tracheobronchomalacia evaluation, bronchial thermoplasty and bronchoscopic lung volume reduction. Possible indications: inconclusive non‐invasive COVID‐19 testing[2](#resp13824-bib-0002){ref-type="ref"}, [3](#resp13824-bib-0003){ref-type="ref"}, [4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}, [5](#resp13824-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"}; concern for an alternate aetiology of respiratory disease which would change management[2](#resp13824-bib-0002){ref-type="ref"}, [3](#resp13824-bib-0003){ref-type="ref"}, [4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}, [5](#resp13824-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"} (especially in immunocompromised[4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}); suspicion of superinfection[4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}, [5](#resp13824-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"}; lobar or entire lung atelectasis concerning for mucus plugging,[4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"} facilitate tracheostomy,[4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"} life‐saving or emergent intervention (significant haemoptysis, severe central airway obstruction or stenosis, foreign body).[2](#resp13824-bib-0002){ref-type="ref"}, [3](#resp13824-bib-0003){ref-type="ref"}, [4](#resp13824-bib-0004){ref-type="ref"}, [5](#resp13824-bib-0005){ref-type="ref"} Consider phone screening 1--2 days in advance. Unless unavoidable in the clinical circumstance. AABIP, American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology; COVID‐19, coronavirus disease 2019; PAPR, powered air‐purifying respirator; PPE, personal protective equipment. In procedures which cannot be deferred, infection of HCW may occur from any of the three transmission modes discussed above. Protective measures against infectious aerosols include use of respirator‐level respiratory protection, negative pressure rooms where feasible and avoidance of devices that purposefully produce aerosols including nebulizers or atomizers which can be contaminated with virus after a cough or sneeze with subsequent aerosolization. Recommendations to avoid open tube rigid bronchoscopy, jet ventilation and interruption of an otherwise closed ventilation circuit by repeatedly removing and re‐introducing the bronchoscope are intended to reduce high‐flow and high‐shear conditions which generate aerosol droplets. Measures protecting against droplet transmission include covering the patient\'s nose and mouth with a simple medical mask (which can be slotted to permit transmask, transnasal or transoral flexible bronchoscopy), minimizing cough pharmacologically, and a full complement of barrier PPE (gown, gloves, cap and wrap‐around eye protection). Fomite transmission may be reduced by using disposable bronchoscopes in known COVID‐19 patients, sterilizing surfaces which might have been contaminated by respiratory secretions or droplets, proper removal of PPE and meticulous hand hygiene. There appears to be a particular dearth of information regarding optimal post‐procedure decontamination procedures. Data specific to bronchoscopy in the COVID‐19 era are urgently needed. National and international bronchology societies should work together to rapidly develop pertinent research endeavours and strive to provide their members with the most comprehensive and up‐to‐date recommendations possible. More than a few lives depend on them. Disclosure statement {#resp13824-sec-0003} ==================== No authors report any financial or non‐financial conflicts of interest pertinent to this work. No aspect of this work has been previously published nor is under consideration by any other journals. Early drafts of included tables were previously shared among a small group of airway professionals via non‐public social media. We would like to acknowledge contributors to the COVIDBronch Initiative, an international network of airway specialists created to foster research and the rapid acquisition and dissemination of knowledge regarding the performance of airway procedures during the COVID‐19 pandemic. | High | [
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Kroos withdrawn yet again LaLiga Santander - Real Madrid Substituted eight times since Club World Cup Watching Toni Kroos be substituted for Real Madrid is becoming something of a habit for Los Blancos' supporters. The German signed for Madrid in 2014 and was a key part of the side that won three successive Champions Leagues between 2015 and 2018. There has been a lot of debate around the player's performances this season and the latest talking point is his substitution at Mestalla on Wednesday night during Madrid's 2-1 defeat to Valencia. After 64 minutes of action, Zinedine Zidane brought off Kroos for the more attack-minded Isco in the hope of rejuvenating his side. This season has seen a lot of changes at Los Blancos, both on the bench and on the pitch. Kroos has been heavily involved in substitutions, getting taken off on 10 occasions so far this season. Two of those changes came before the FIFA Club World Cup, and the first substitution of the campaign came in the UEFA Super Cup defeat to Atletico Madrid. In Tallinn against Atletico, Kroos was taken off after 101 minutes of play, with the score at 2-2 as Madrid went on to lose 4-2 to Diego Simeone's side. The 5-0 win over Viktoria Plzen saw Madrid take Kroos off after 73 minutes of play with the game all but over at that stage. Since the Club World Cup, the 29-year-old has been substituted eight times - five of those against Villarreal, Real Sociedad, Levante, Barcelona and Valencia - where either Santiago Solari or Zidane were looking for a more attacking option to change the outcome of the game. It has only been in the matches versus Al-Ain, Atletico and Real Valladolid that he was taken off to be rested. The change made in Levante's stadium on 69 minutes with the game wide open at 1-1 didn't go down well with the German, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with his frequent substitutions. In total, he has been taken off on 50 occasions since his arrival in the summer of 2014. In his first season he was withdrawn 12 times but nine of those games were effectively over as a contest. Last season, Zidane replaced Kroos 10 times, the same number as this season, however the notable difference being that last season the games were effectively over as a contest or he was withdrawn with just a few minutes to go. This season seven of the 10 changes came with more than a quarter of an hour to go. | Mid | [
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Introduction {#s0001} ============ South Africa has one of the highest burdens of Tuberculosis (TB) globally.^[@CIT0001],[@CIT0002]^ In 2017, the estimated incidence of drug-susceptible TB (DS-TB) was 567 per 100 000 persons, and there were approximately 78 000 deaths from TB-related causes.^[@CIT0003],[@CIT0004]^ The close relationship between TB and HIV (\> 60% of TB patients are also living with HIV) further complicates TB management and treatment outcomes.^[@CIT0002],[@CIT0005],[@CIT0006]^ Growing evidence suggests that integrating the TB and HIV programmes will improve overall outcomes and reduce mortality.^[@CIT0001],[@CIT0006],[@CIT0007],[@CIT0008]^ Background {#s0002} ========== In South Africa, TB and HIV programmes and health information systems are implemented as vertical and siloed systems and have largely retained this separation.^[@CIT0001],[@CIT0002],[@CIT0005]^ Since 1995, the National TB Programme has been supported by a central standardised recording system to monitor TB case rates and treatment outcomes. This system comprises paper-based registers at facility level. An Electronic TB Register (ETR.Net) for DS-TB at sub-district, district, provincial and national levels was added in 2005.^[@CIT0001],[@CIT0009],[@CIT0010],[@CIT0011]^ In 2014, the National Department of Health of South Africa took a decision to integrate the TB and HIV information systems at facility level into a single non-networked electronic system called TIER.Net.^[@CIT0012]^ Since 2010, TIER.Net has been serving as the primary monitoring platform for the national antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme^[@CIT0013]^ and was incrementally expanded to include HIV testing and pre-ART data modules. TIER.Net is used to capture patient-level HIV information at facility level and is integrated with the district health information system (DHIS) for reporting various programme data from sub-district to national levels. In contrast, TB programme data remained separate from other health programmes, where TB nurses capture patient information into facility level paper-based TB registers ([Figure 1](#F0001){ref-type="fig"}). Pages from the paper-based registers are sent to the sub-district administrative level where they are captured into ETR.Net. TB coordinators validate the captured data and refer queries back to the facilities. They also provide quarterly feedback to facilities and TB managers, and submit a dispatch of the data to the district level, from where it is sent to province, and finally to national level to generate annual reports. With the integration of TB and HIV programme data, a specially developed TB module for TIER.Net would supplant the paper-based TB register at facility level. In theory, this would allow TB programme staff at facility level immediate and easy access to individual and aggregated TB data. The introduction of the TB module is also the first step in decentralising TB programme data. Specifically, introduction of the TB module would shift the programme from one that performs surveillance only to one that uses real-time data for patient management and is integrated with the DHIS used for overall health programme reporting. ![The data flow of TB and HIV programme data before and after the implementation of the TB module in TIER.Net.^[@CIT0012]^ Prior to implementation, the TB and HIV programme comprised two separate systems (TIER, ETR), each maintained on separate hardware with its own support structure; co-infected patients were tracked separately. The TB system emphasises data reporting with the use of paper registers, and facility level staff depend on sub-district TB coordinators for programme feedback; the HIV system (TIER.Net) combines immediate, real-time access to individual and aggregated HIV data for patient management and programme reporting, and is integrated with the DHIS. After implementation, TB and HIV programme data flow up through TIER.Net and are consolidated into one database. TB and HIV programme data are available at all levels of the health system for querying and reporting (national through to facilities) and is integrated with the WebDHIS system.](HIVMED-21-1025-g001){#F0001} In this qualitative study, we retrospectively describe how TB programme staff working at various levels of the South African health system responded to the transition from a paper-based to an electronic TB data system at facility level prior to its widespread adoption and implementation. We consider the need to prioritise change management in health services implementation and the unique challenges posed by the history of the TB programme for data and service integration. Methods {#s0003} ======= Study design and setting {#s20004} ------------------------ The Department of Health identified three primary health service facilities in the Cape Winelands district in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, to serve as pilot sites for implementing electronic TB data at facility level. The sites were each located in different sub-districts and differed with respect to TB caseload, TB staff component and programmatic services offered. This qualitative evaluation was conducted independently from the implementation process. Sampling and data collection {#s20005} ---------------------------- Data were collected between July and September 2016, one year after implementation had started. Participants were purposively selected as key informants at facility, sub-district, district and provincial levels of the provincial health system based on their involvement in the implementation process of the TB module in TIER.Net in a decision-making, managerial and/or implementation capacity. Participants included: - managers at facility, sub-district, district and provincial levels of the health system (*n* = 12) who were involved in the TB programme and health information in a managerial and decision-making capacity - administrative staff at facility level (*n* = 2) who were responsible for electronically capturing health information for various health programmes, including the TB programme - clinical TB staff or nurses at facility level (*n* = 6) who had experience using the paper TB registers and implementing the TB module in TIER.Net in each facility, including capturing TB data into the electronic register - an implementing partner from the Anova Health Institute (*n* = 1) who provided extensive support to facility and sub-district level staff during implementation in all three pilot sites. To maintain their anonymity all manager-participants are referred to as TB managers in the results regardless of their position in the health system. Discussions were conducted in participants' preferred language by two bilingual (Afrikaans and English) researchers using a semi-structured discussion guide. Interviews were audio recorded and ranged from 20 min to 90 min. Interview questions were about participants' recollections of their experiences of TB programme data with the paper-based system, the transition to an electronic system and their current experiences with the electronic system. The evaluation of the pilot project was funded by the Anova Health Institute, which was the implementing partner at the time of the study. To mediate potential desirability bias in participants' responses during interviews, the researchers conducting the interviews were external to the organisation. Data analysis {#s20006} ------------- Audio recordings were summarised and transcribed by the researchers. An objective-driven thematic frame was used to explore the data -- namely aspects of the health information system that *could be influenced by* transition from a paper-based to an electronic TB patient register (e.g. resources, data flows, decision-making and accountability)^[@CIT0014],[@CIT0015]^, as well as contextual health systems factors that *could influence* transition to the electronic TB register. Key ideas from the data were grouped into: - contextual factors - process-related changes during the transition - recommendations for facilitating efficiency and effectiveness. These findings were discussed amongst the authors, who drew on their experiences of implementing the TB programme and health information systems to interpret the data. Ethical onsiderations {#s20007} --------------------- Ethical clearance for this study was obtained from the University of Stellenbosch's Health Research Ethics Committee, and an informed consent process was followed with each participant (Ethical Clearance No. N16/02/024). Results {#s0008} ======= Participants shared conflicting feelings about the transition to an electronic in-facility TB register, describing not only their anxieties around the transition but also acknowledging its benefits. Specifically, participants expressed fears over reduction in data quality, uncertainty over changes to the status quo and, for some facility level staff, insecurity regarding their ability to use an unfamiliar and electronic system. Participants referred to such challenges while describing positive experiences, such as significantly reduced workloads, speed of accessing patient-level data and click-of-a-button reporting. Our results report on three key contextual factors emerging from our interviews that gave rise to the conflicting sentiments that influenced the ease of adopting the facility level electronic TB register: (1) the position of TB programme and programme data, (2) perceptions about the new and old systems and (3) how acceptance of the new system was facilitated. Position of the tuberculosis programme and tuberculosis programme data at the facility {#s20009} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The historically siloed nature of the TB programme and data flow in South Africa enabled TB clinicians and managers careful control of programme data for surveillance purposes using paper-based registers. TB programme staff positioned themselves as 'TB champions', that is, as custodians of TB data, which they entered, tallied and then appropriated, and this led to them having a vested interest in the status quo of 'their' paper-based system. The transition to an electronic in-facility register signalled a shift in how the TB programme would be controlled, allowing more involvement of facility level staff in data entry and maintenance, and signalling a loss of control as the data would be available to a much broader audience. Excerpts from interviews illustrate the shift in power with introduction of the register: > 'There is one person in the clinic who completes the \[*paper*\] register; there is one person in the clinic who understands TB data. And all of a sudden \[*with introduction of the electronic TB register*\], the clerk must become involved, and more than one clerk, and more than one staff member.' (Participant 19, female, TB manager, 13 September 2016) > > 'In the olden days you felt like those old Sisters lording over everything -- they can ask you anything, you know everything, you understand everything. And \[*with the electronic TB register*\] I don't know it.' (Participant 7, female, nurse, 09 September 2016) The electronic register would allow facilities to query and clean their own data before submission in upward data flow, with sub-district TB coordinators taking on a less hands-on oversight role than they had before. This role change and the perceived effects of the transition on data quality raised anxieties: > 'Eighty percent of \[*TB coordinators*'\] work was ETR, was TB data. Data, data analysis, and data validation. Now we come and say that there is a possibility that we'll take the ETR away because we want to do better patient management. That's the anxiety -- what about us now? What is our role? They don't understand, they'll still have a role in data. The role just needs to be clarified.' (Participant 20, male, TB manager, 15 September 2016) > > 'I kicked against the \[*electronic*\] system...because I felt that I was ... a safety net \[*for data quality*\].' (Participant 11, female, TB manager, 05 August 2016) In one instance, fears over reduction in data quality caused a manager to undermine the register's implementation: > '\[*The TB manager*\] didn't want us to spend time on the computer \[*and implement the register*\], just wanted the paper. We decided that we're going to continue \[*to implement*\], we're going to show them it works. Show them how we print reports, how quick it is.' (Participant 1, female, clerk, 01 July 2016) To allay fears over TB case registration and maintenance of data quality, all three facilities kept parallel paper-based and electronic registers at the start of implementation and monthly data audits were conducted throughout. While some TB managers continued to hold apprehensions over data quality, they also saw the potential of the electronic register to increase ownership of TB data at facility level: > 'I hope and trust that ownership \[*of the data*\] will be better because the data is not going far away to someone who captures it, the data is here in my clinic and I capture it myself.' (Participant 13, male, TB manager, 25 August 2016) Prior to the transition to the electronic register, using TB data for patient management required manual interrogation of patient folders to identify patients who missed sputum collection or who were experiencing treatment interruptions. This was labour and time-intensive and could not be regularly conducted by the three facilities without support. Yet, the notion that the electronic TB register offered click-of-a-button in-facility access to data for patient management and improved reporting was not realised at initial introduction: > '\[*The implementing partner*\] told us everything that we see now: "You will easily see that patients are late." We said "We won't, we'll still have to go through the folders." Everything he said is \[*true/we were wrong*\].' (Participant 6, female, nurse, 19 August 2016) Perceptions about the 'new' electronic and 'old' paper-based register {#s20010} --------------------------------------------------------------------- Participants across all levels of the health system expressed familiarity with and confidence in the ETR.Net surveillance system and the paper-based registers that support it: > 'You can go to anyone in the Department of Health in the Western Cape and they will tell you that the only reliable data is TB data. With all the mistakes in the systems \[*of other health programmes*\] the only reliable data is TB data.' (Participant 19, female, TB manager, 13 September 2016) > > 'It was difficult for \[*the nurses*\] to let go of those papers. They were clinging to their register, "Don't take my register away!"' (Participant 9, female, TB manager, 23 August 2016) Accordingly, when the electronic in-facility TB register was introduced, some participants felt that it was an unnecessary change as it replaced a working system. Despite their apprehensions, managers in the TB programme recognised the transition to an electronic in-facility register as a logical progression in management of TB data. This related to the integration of TB programme data with general health information management, and to the broader notion that the TB programme should move with the time: > 'Anyone looking for TB data in the country must get data from the TB programme (and not from Health Information Management like with all other programmes). Integrated systems is the answer.' (Participant 19, female, TB manager, 13 September 2016) > > 'All other \[*programmes*\] are on \[*electronic*\] systems. That's why TB must move away from paper-based. It might get resistance from some of the clinics, but usually it's because people don't understand.' (Participant 13, male, TB manager, 25 August 2016) Some participants expressed serious concerns about the integration of TB data with the existing HIV data infrastructure, TIER.Net. For some, their siloed work had given them little to no experience with the TIER.Net software, while others' concerns were informed by the gaps they perceived in TIER.Net's HIV and ART modules, which negatively influenced confidence in the new system's ability to effectively maintain TB data: > 'We have a lot of work to do on the quality of capturing \[*HIV programme data*\] on TIER.Net, now we add the additional burden of TB ... How can you go from point A to point B if your point A things aren't correct yet?' (Participant 11, female, TB manager, 05 August 2016) This first pilot implementation of the electronic in-facility TB register highlighted some flaws in the software, producing erroneous reports on key TB indicators. This caused some participants to question the integrity of the new programme, and TB coordinators felt that they were responsible for resolving technical issues despite first and foremost being clinicians. Despite these challenges, regular meetings of TB programme stakeholders during implementation and training of in-facility staff (clerks and clinicians) on the electronic TB register kept momentum for implementation. How acceptance of the 'new' system was facilitated {#s20011} -------------------------------------------------- In preparing facilities as implementation sites, efforts focussed largely on coalface implementers. Managers were primarily involved to follow due consultative process rather than as advisors and decision-makers in the implementation process. Department of Health implementers and implementing partners supported the transition by training clerks and TB clinicians on the electronic register and completion of clinical stationery, resource allocation (computers and additional staff during back-capturing active TB clients) and continuous feedback meetings during implementation. While some participants felt that these processes were sufficient, others expressed anxieties about how the decision to pilot the electronic facility level TB register was taken, discussions on how this change would be implemented and the broader implications for the TB programme and their roles: > 'It's a paradigm shift, how we used to work in the past, and now we don't work like that anymore. It's tough, because many colleagues don't trust the process; they're used to a different process. It is our responsibility as senior managers to turn those heads.' (Participant 20, male, TB manager, 15 September 2016) Given the breadth of the proposed change that some participants felt the electronic facility level TB register ushered in, participants at sub-district and district management levels spoke about the need for change management: > 'When introducing something, come with change management to enable the people to grasp it and to internalise it. You get it today, and tomorrow must implement it. And that's why people put up these walls. Resistance, resistance.' (Participant 14, female, TB manager, 05 August 2016) For staff at facility level, one of the most challenging aspects of implementation was related to their historic use of paper-based registers and subsequent underexposure and distrust of technology. Some participants also voiced concerns over the safety of electronic data during power outages, in case of computer theft and possible system failures. As such, computer literacy at facility level was a consistent concern of participants at all levels of the health system: > 'I think one of the shortcomings \[*in rolling out further*\] will be that colleagues aren't excited about technology or that they are not ready to embrace computers.' (Participant 12, male, TB manager, 23 August 2016) The question 'Who is best-placed to capture TB data?' divided TB stakeholders into two camps: those advocating for TB clinicians to continue to capture data and those advocating for the responsibility to be handed over to clerks as is the practice in the HIV programme. In the two facilities with smaller patient numbers, the TB clinicians had quickly become adept at capturing TB data into the electronic register and drawing reports. At the time of the evaluation, clinicians in all three facilities were either responsible for or assisting with capturing TB data and were regularly accessing reports on the system. Discussion {#s0012} ========== There are numerous factors that influence transition from paper to electronic records and information systems in health services.^[@CIT0013],[@CIT0016],[@CIT0017]^ These include organisational culture, for instance, readiness of the organisation and its end users to adopt a new technology,^[@CIT0018],[@CIT0019]^ the ability of the innovation to integrate with existing, conventional workflows or to require changes to it,^[@CIT0019],[@CIT0020],[@CIT0021]^ and more practical aspects such as computer literacy of staff which may influence how confident they feel to successfully implement the innovation.^[@CIT0015]^ As such, even a seemingly simple replacement of a paper-based register with an electronic one may bring about important shifts in power for different users by requiring adapted skillsets, resulting in complex changes to the status quo. These factors ultimately shape the response of those affected by the proposed change.^[@CIT0022]^ While the introduction and potential of electronic TB data at facility level can be considered an important step forward for the TB programme, many of the participants recounted strong initial reactions and resistance towards the proposed change that affected the efficiency and effectiveness of implementation. These anxieties and resistances were concerned with: firstly, the vertical position of the TB programme and TB programme data which ushered in changes to staff's conventional, familiar roles and responsibilities; secondly, with perceptions about the 'new' electronic register as deleterious and unnecessary and the 'old' paper-based register as functional and reliable; and thirdly how adoption of the new register would be facilitated, which participants felt lacked a process whereby they could internalise the proposed change. We make three recommendations for facilitating the transition to an electronic TB register at facility level in South Africa and for moving to integrated electronic systems in general. Firstly, implementers must invest in a process of change management alongside the transition to electronic facility level TB data in South Africa. Kuhn and Giuse define change management as 'the process of assisting individuals and organizations in passing from an old way of doing things to a new way of doing things'.^[@CIT0023]^ To be successful, a change management process should involve the management of the practical aspects of the change (e.g. resources and training), and should address how the change might challenge the sense of security, confidence and identity that individuals associate with the conventional or old way of doing things.^[@CIT0024],[@CIT0025]^ In the South African example, such a change management process must endeavour to achieve buy-in across all levels of the healthcare system by identifying the individuals or groups who will be affected by the change, and creating a space in which their anxieties can be voiced, acknowledged and addressed. This process could be facilitated by showcasing experiences and outcomes from pilot sites and providing practical examples of how challenges can be mediated and resolved. In other TB treatment contexts, such a change management process should involve prior formative research, which can include desk research, to establish the health and political context within which the TB programme is required to transition. In particular, this involves establishing how existing TB programmes and systems function, the relational nuances between people and programmes that might affect implementation (as is the case between the HIV and TB programmes in South Africa) and people's loyalties to particular ways of operating within the TB programme. Secondly, individuals driving implementation should include individuals from within the TB programme in order to bring expert knowledge of the existing system and to lend credibility to the proposed change. Implementers should directly address the potential challenges of transitioning, work with staff to set realistic expectations of individuals' roles and responsibilities and how these may change with implementation, and ensure that they are communicated effectively. At each facility, staff should be allowed to tailor some elements of implementation to their local contexts, for instance, the decision about who is best placed to capture TB data, and provide support to develop sustainable plans for maintaining the data. The following aspects of implementation should be addressed: the rationale for the transition, in particular, the limitations of maintaining separate programme data and the possibilities opened up for improving TB patient management and programme outcomes with decentralisation and integration of TB data with those of other health programmes; anticipate implementers' potential distrust and discomfort with the introduction of the electronic TB register, potential fears about losing data quality, and their familiarity with and trust in the functionality of the paper-based register and the ETR.Net system. Also pre-emption and discussion of the process of identifying and reporting flaws and compatibility issues in the software, and detailing of the support that is available if such issues were to arise. Thirdly, it must be recognised that data use and analysis by facility managers and TB nurses will take time to cultivate; it is necessary to understand that the electronic register frees up the hands of sub-district level TB coordinators to provide health systems strengthening support to facilities by, for instance, using data in real-time to check progress against targets. Through highlighting key issues to address during implementation, our study contributes to informing wide-scale implementation of electronic TB data in South African health facilities, and can inform the implementation of electronic health information systems in favour of paper-based systems globally. There are two limitations to the study. Firstly, the study uses interviews with participants a year after the pilot project began to report on implementation, thus asking participants to recall their experiences rather than documenting their experiences in real-time. Secondly, this study was also limited by its focus on pilot sites in one health district in the Western Cape Province which is not necessarily representative of other settings within and outside of South Africa. Conclusion {#s0013} ========== South Africa is one of the first countries to pilot electronic TB data at facility level for programme monitoring. In order to facilitate the efficiency and effectiveness with which the register is implemented, it is critical that a process of change management occur alongside its continued rollout. This process must address the shift from a vertical to integrated health information system for the TB programme on one level, and on another, its particular integration with TIER.Net, the health information system used for monitoring and evaluating the South African HIV programme. While our findings in this study are largely context-specific, there are significant similarities across TB programmes as vertical or siloed surveillance programmes that could extend our findings' relevance beyond South Africa, particularly to contexts with comparatively high HIV and TB burdens. The authors thank the study participants for availing their time in helping to provide information for this research. Competing interests {#s20014} =================== The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Authors' contributions {#s20015} ====================== H.M., R.P.H.P., T.H. and G.H. conceived and designed the analysis. H.M. collected the data, synthesised findings and produced the first draft of this article. R.P.H.P., T.H., C.J.G. and G.H. provided analytic support, expert insights into interpreting data and multiple revisions of the manuscript. Funding information {#s20016} =================== This study is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under Cooperative Agreement number AID-674-A-12-00015, entitled Systems Strengthening for Better HIV/TB Patient Outcomes, and Cooperative Agreement number 72067418CA00023 for the Accelerating Program Achievements to Control the Epidemic (APACE) Activity in South Africa to the Anova Health Institute. Data availability statement {#s20017} =========================== Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study. Disclaimer {#s20018} ========== The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any affiliated agency of the authors. **How to cite this article:** Myburgh H, Peters RPH, Hurter T, Grobbelaar CJ, Hoddinott G. Transition to an in-facility electronic Tuberculosis register: Lessons from a South African pilot project. S Afr J HIV Med. 2020;21(1), a1025. <https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v21i1.1025> | Mid | [
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WASHINGTON — Three key Republican senators lambasted President Donald Trump on Wednesday for mocking a woman who has claimed Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, underscoring the risks of assailing Kavanaugh's three accusers as Senate support teeters for the Supreme Court nominee. The blowback to Trump's scoffing at Christine Blasey Ford came as lawmakers awaited results of a revived FBI background check, expected imminently, on accusations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh in high school and college. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said the chamber will vote on Kavanaugh later this week, and the conservative jurist's fate is in the hands of a handful of undecided GOP and Democratic senators. At a political rally in Mississippi Tuesday night, Trump mimicked Ford's responses at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week at which she recounted Kavanaugh's alleged attack on her when both were in high school. The audience laughed as Trump, at times inaccurately, recounted what he described as holes in her testimony. "I had one beer — that's the only thing I remember," Trump said. On NBC's "Today" show Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said that ridiculing "something this sensitive at a political rally is just not right." Flake added, "I wish he hadn't done it. It's kind of appalling." Separately, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters, "The president's comments were just plain wrong." A third Republican senator wavering on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is criticizing President Donald Trump's mocking of a woman who accuses Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says Trump's remarks about Ford were "wholly inappropriate" and "unacceptable." Trump's comments about Ford reflected a growing frustration among some in the White House, and by the president, that her story has not received the same level of scrutiny as Kavanaugh's, said a person close to the process who was not authorized to speak publicly. As he flew aboard Air Force One to the Mississippi rally, Trump was also enraged by stories in The New York Times about Kavanaugh's high school and college years and alleging tax avoidance efforts by the president and his family, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday echoed the president's newly aggressive approach. She said Ford has "been treated like a Fabergé egg by all of us, beginning with me and the president." She said Trump was merely "pointing out factual inconsistencies." "Have a vote on the man," Conway said of Kavanaugh. "Vote him up or down." Trump's criticism of Ford seems to reflect the sentiments of some of his conservative supporters. But it raises questions about how such words will affect five senators — all moderates — whose votes on Kavanaugh will be decisive. Besides Flake and Collins, Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota have yet to declare their positions on Kavanaugh. Flake has clashed repeatedly with Trump over his behavior and is retiring at year's end. Collins has criticized Trump at times as well but not as often as Flake. McConnell told reporters Tuesday that "I can tell you with certainty" that the FBI report will be finished and the Senate will vote this week, though he didn't specify when. Senators are preparing to vote on Kavanaugh as soon as this weekend — and prepared for it to be a close. Vice President Mike Pence, who would be brought in to break a tie, is due to campaign Monday in Texas for both Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Pete Sessions, but officials with both campaigns braced for changes. Democrats contend the investigation has not been expanded to sufficient potential witnesses. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said he wants senators to receive an FBI briefing on its findings at least 24 hours before the chamber takes its first procedural vote on Kavanaugh, but Republicans have given no sign of assenting to that. The FBI has finished an interview with Chris Garrett, a high school friend of Kavanaugh. Ford said she "went out with" Garrett for a few months in high school. Garrett's lawyer, William Sullivan, said Garrett has voluntarily cooperated with the FBI's reopened background check, but he declined to comment further. Garrett is at the least fifth person known to have been interviewed since last Friday, when the White House directed the FBI to look again into the allegations. Others interviewed include Mark Judge, who Ford has said was in the bedroom where, she says, a drunken Kavanaugh sexually attacked her at a 1982 high school gathering. Also interviewed were two other people Ford said were present but in a different room: Patrick "P.J." Smyth and Leland Keyser. Judge, Smyth and Keyser say they don't recall the incident described by Ford. Kavanaugh has denied the accusations by Ford, by Deborah Ramirez, who says he exposed himself to her during a college party, and by Julie Swetnick, who has alleged she was victimized at a party attended by Kavanaugh and his friends. Besides Trump, Senate Republicans also began to aim credibility questions at Ford. In a letter Tuesday night, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee pressed Ford to turn over more information to support her claim and accused her lawyers of "withholding material evidence." Sen. Chuck Grassley repeated his request for notes from Ford's therapy sessions, details of her communications with The Washington Post and any recordings of her taking a lie detector test. The senator said he was requesting the recordings because the committee has obtained a letter that "raises specific concerns" about the reliability of Ford's polygraph test. In the statement, a man who says he is Ford's former boyfriend says he saw Ford, a psychology professor, coach a friend on how to be less nervous during a polygraph examination. If true, the claim could contradict testimony Ford gave last week, when she told senators she had never given tips or advice to anyone taking a lie detector test. A representative of Ford's legal team had no immediate comment. -- The Associated Press | Mid | [
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Q: Find missing numbers in a range, with duplicate numbers in a sorted array Suggestions for cleanup and optimization request. This question is a follow-up question on this post. Lets assume the range of 1, 2, 3, 4. This function takes in an array of repeated elements, [1,1,4,4] and the output is [2, 3]. The question marked as duplicate takes an input of [1, 4] and output is [2, 3]. While output is same, the input differs. Please make a note of this difference between two questions causing confusion. final class Variables { private final int x; private final int y; Variables(int x2, int y2) { this.x = x2; this.y = y2; } public int getX() { return x; } public int getY() { return y; } @Override public String toString() { return "x = " + x + " y = " + y; } } public final class FindMissingRepeating { /** * Takes an input a sorted array with only two variables that repeat once. in the * range. and returns two variables that are missing. * * If any of the above condition does not hold true at input the results are unpredictable. * * Example of input: * range: 1, 2, 3, 4 * input array [1, 1, 4, 4] * the variables should contain 2 missing elements ie 2 and 3 * * @param a : the sorted array. */ public static Variables sortedConsecutiveTwoRepeating (int[] a, int startOfRange) { if (a == null) throw new NullPointerException("a1 cannot be null. "); int low = startOfRange; int high = low + (a.length - 1); int x = 0; int i = 0; boolean foundX = false; while (i < a.length) { if (a[i] < low) { i++; } else { if (a[i] > low) { if (foundX) { return new Variables(x, low); } else { x = low; foundX = true; } } low++; i++; } } int val = foundX ? x : high - 1; return new Variables(val, high); } public static void main(String[] args) { int[] ar1 = {1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5}; Variables v1 = FindMissingRepeating.sortedConsecutiveTwoRepeating (ar1, 1); System.out.println("Expected x = 6, y = 7 " + v1); int[] ar2 = {2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7}; Variables v2 = FindMissingRepeating.sortedConsecutiveTwoRepeating (ar2, 1); System.out.println("Expected x = 1, y = 3 " + v2); int[] ar3 = {3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7}; Variables v3 = FindMissingRepeating.sortedConsecutiveTwoRepeating (ar3, 1); System.out.println("Expected x = 1, y = 2 " + v3); int[] ar4 = {1, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 7}; Variables v4 = FindMissingRepeating.sortedConsecutiveTwoRepeating (ar4, 1); System.out.println("Expected x = 2, y = 5 " + v4); } } A: Firstly there are 2 classes so don't show them as a single code when showing your code. Place a heading with the class name then your code then second class name then your second class's code. That makes it easier to copy paste it into Eclipse when seeing the code. Why have you named the parameters as x2 and y2 and still using the this keyword? Why are you making the variable names different in the first place? It just adds confusion. Name them as x and y and then use the this keyword. Period. You are throwing a null pointer exception when a is null and the message is a1 is null. That will become confusing... Also you don't need to throw that explicitly. The assignment to high will throw the exception and give you a proper stacktrace already without any extra code. The while loop can be made a for loop very easily and will limit the scope and extra variable (i in this case). Note that you are doing i++ in both if as well as else. That shows you didn't take the time to look at your own code. You passed startOfRange to the function and forgot that it is a variable also. If you have any intention of not changing it then make it explicit and declare the parameter as final in the method's signature. Also If I am correct then you have used x = 0 only to make it one less than the startRange so that your algorithm works. That means your function will break the moment you decide the startRange to be anything other than 1. Also using such magic numbers and such variable names as x is a bad idea. Really bad idea. Take some time to refactor the code yourself. It pays if your code is easy to understand by other programmers. Your code can be changed to this and I think now it is much easier to understand the flow of execution of the current program. public static ExVariables sortedConsecutiveTwoRepeating(int[] a, final int startOfRange) { int low = startOfRange; int high = low + (a.length - 1); int x = low - 1; boolean foundX = false; for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { if (a[i] > low) { if (foundX) { return new ExVariables(x, low); } x = low; foundX = true; } if (a[i] >= low) { low++; } } if (foundX) { return new ExVariables(x, high); } else { return new ExVariables(high - 1, high); } } I think it should be possible to refactor it more so that the return comes only inside the for loop but I didn't take the time to do that. Hope this helps. | Mid | [
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2013 Year in Review A rise in coal production to the east could mean a big increase in mile-long coal trains traveling through Monroe and the Sky Valley in the next few years.Photo by Callum Black By Polly Keary, Editor As 2013 comes to an end, we review the stories that marked each month. The year seemed to be distinguished by a large number of community efforts to assist neighbors. In Sultan, the community rallied to help longtime volunteer Susie Hollenbeck pull through cancer treatments. In Monroe, people set up support structures for a single uninsured mom injured in a hit and run, a 31-year-old man who had to have a heart transplant, the family of a boy who needed a long series of surgeries to correct a stunted leg that otherwise would need to be amputated, and the family of Calvin Bradham, 41, who died after a year-long bout with an aggressive cancer. Relay for Life raised a record amount in the Sky Valley, and the family of a boy with epilepsy organized a walk to raise money to support families affected by epilepsy and to research treatments. Monroe High School students established a theme of inclusiveness as well as charity for third world schools. Former team mates of the girls basketball program played an alumni game to support their cancer-stricken former coach Alan Dickson. And a coffee stand on Main Street and US 2 pledged to start donating a percentage of all sales to local and international charities. But the year was marked with less pleasant events as well. Hardly a month passed without a house fire, and one bad week had two of them. Property crime rose over the summer, a summer that was marred by the murder of a domestic violence victim by her estranged husband. And gun violence broke out on Easter Sunday when the occupants of a car and a house exchanged fire. Several long-running political and court matters were resolved after years. Walmart won a court victory that cleared he way for construction. The cable park at Lake Tye was granted a final needed permit. A piece of property on the east edge of Monroe was approved for rezone to commercial designation after more than a decade of controversy. And Monroe prison inmate Byron Scherf was sentenced to death for the murder of correctional officer Jayme Biendl in 2011. Health care options increased in the valley when Providence Medical Center opened a $22 million medical office building, and voters loosened their purse strings, approving levies for both Valley General Hospital and the Monroe Police Department. January Debbrah Marie Schweitzer Pesce, 53, of Monroe, was remembered over the course of the week in a series of services mourning her. She was the victim of a hit-and-run while riding a bicycle Dec. 26.Photos courtesy of Pesce’s family A Kent man made the statewide morning news when he apparently drove a truck through the wall of his ex-wife’s Kent home, shot and wounded her, then fled to the Lake Serene trailhead near Index, where he committed suicide. Debbrah Marie Pesce, 53, was riding a bicycle near Old Owen Road and US 2 when she was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver. She had been struggling with personal problems for some time, and had been homeless for a while, but had been rebuilding her life. She was living at the Brookside Motel and had a housecleaning business, and did a lot of volunteer work around the city. Update: There still has not been an arrest in the case. Valley General Hospital got a new CEO. Eric Jensen, who previously ran the Regional Hospital for Respiratory and Complex Care in south Seattle, Forks Community Hospital and Kittitas Valley Community Hospital in Ellensburg, took over for Mike Liepman, who left to run a hospital in Mount Vernon. Local activists joined others in the region to raise concerns about a potential increase in coal train traffic through the area in coming years, as increasing coal production in the midwest led to more delivery to ships bound for Asia from Washington ports. It was likely to be several years before the traffic increase began, as coal producers still needed to get export permits and Washington ports needed to expand before they could start handling coal exports. Update: Amtrak this month canceled five of its western routes on BNSF tracks, which were bought by billionaire Warren Buffet in 2009, citing increased congestion due to coal and oil trains carrying fuel from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin and the Bakken region of North Dakota. The Cherry Point refinery in Anacortes expects to have a crude oil train terminal running within a month, which will add a train a day. So far, there has been an increase of 85 trains per day coming from the Bakken boom. BNSF also cites an increase in grain trains from 60 to 122 per day. The train company plans to invest $125 million on rail improvements in Washington. Valley General Hospital got a new Chief Nursing Officer. Debbie Brown came over from EvergreenHealth, VGH’s affiliate hospital. Renovation of a building on Main Street revealed a bit of history when an old sign was exposed.Photo by Jim Scolman A renovation of a building on Main Street revealed a bit of history when the old siding was removed and exposed an older wall. E-Man Data Recovery was moving into the building vacated by M&M Antiques on the corner of Blakeley and Main and during renovation exposed a wall mural sign of a stare called Lon’s. The owner of the new business hoped to protect the sign and leave it exposed or remove it, protect it, and mount it on the new wall, but the old sign was too fragile. So he made a time capsule, put it in the wall with next to the old sign, and covered it over again, to reopen in 50 years. The Monroe Monitor ran a three-part series on the struggles of the downtown business region. The year began with 14 storefronts empty in just three blocks of Main Street. Business owners cited low traffic, high rents, parking issues, a suboptimal business mix, the lingering recession, rising utility costs and taxes. Christine Kies, 40, died January 21, a shock to many parents and students at the Sky Valley Education Center, where she’d been a very popular teacher for about a decade. February A man who robbed Monroe’s Union Bank was captured after bragging of his exploit to a woman he met at the Tulalip Casino.Photo courtesy of the Monroe Police Department Union Bank was robbed by a man who passed a note to a teller, demanding money, then fled on foot. He got away, but got careless at the Tulalip Casino, bragging to a woman of the heist. The woman later went to police, and the man, 53, an Idaho resident, was arrested. Monroe High School’s Hi-Q team not only saved the high school’s program, the saved the entire regional program, by taking over the management of it from Everett Community College and figuring out how to administrate it much less expensively. Best friends Sean Peters, 23, and Ryan Kenyon, 25, died in an early morning car crash that shocked and grieved the racing community, of which Peters had been a member since he was a boy. Peters and his father had a racing team called Battlewagon. The two friend had just become roommates in a home in Sultan. Park Board chairman Jeff Rasmussen had to leave the board when the mayor refused to reappoint him. The mayor citied differences in vision between Rasmussen and the city. A new Spanish-English kindergarten program proved to be very popular with the parents of the children enrolled. Business boomed at Monroe’s gun show at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds. Crowds grew to record size, as many worried that gun laws could change in such a way as to curtail gun sales. March Monroe city government celebrated a legal victory when an appeals court ruled an anti-traffic camera initiative invalid. It was an expensive victory; the city spent about $86,000 on legal costs, but the camera program easily covered the cost, generating more than $100,000 in revenue per year. The camera program ends at the end of this year. Volunteers held a huge work party to finish the work on six transitional housing units that self-help housing company Housing Hope put in place on Fremont Street. The buildings brought the low-cost housing units at Woods Creek Village to 14. Monroe High School student Taylor Gese, who had been able to get into New York University with support from the Monroe business community, established a scholarship called the Dream Scholarship, in order to pay it forward. A year after the murder of Jacque Rothenbuhler in Monroe, a suspect still had not been arrested, although the police department continued to work on the case every day. Former city councilman Geoffrey Thomas announced his intention to run for mayor of Monroe. Steve Jensen of Monroe created a winning design for a Washington state Lotto ticket. His Martian-themed ticket went on sale in March. Two houses burned down in the same week. Once was a chimney fire, the other started in a garage, where paint cans and ammunition set off small explosions. April Stormy Keffeler, 19, is no stranger to the stage, having won more than 100 titles in a lifetime of pageants. Spring, however, found her competing on another stage; that of the football field with the all-women team the Seattle Mist. The Monroe School district settled a long-running legal dispute with a former landlord over the early termination of a lease. The district had a lease on a Fryelands building that housed the Sky Valley Education Center. There was $2 million remaining on the lease when the district moved SVEC into an old middle school building, citing changing in school funding, which the contract stated was a legitimate reason to break the lease. The landlord sued, and the district ultimately settled for $900,000, half of which it had been going to pay anyway, for building improvements that had been made. A farmers market that had been planned for the downtown was postponed for a year, as the organizers hadn’t had enough time to create a good plan. Krishna Raven-Johnson, who had experience with large festivals in Arizona, took the project on, and hopes to produce a large market in 2014. Isabella Hankins, 8, of Issaquah, enjoyed the zip line, a new attraction, at the new Evergreen State Spring Festival. Cool temperatures and showers didn’t keep people from enjoying carnival rides, live music, a beer garden, barbecue and fair food at the first-ever event.Photo by Jim Scolman Monroe High School student Savannah Fordham, 17, was accepted to the extremely exclusive Coast Guard Academy. She received a $325,000 scholarship, and plans to be a helicopter pilot. A gun fight erupted at an Esther Avenue house on Easter Sunday, when occupants of a car fired on the home, whereupon two men ran from the home and returned fire. The car involved was recovered, and bullet holes were found in it. The incident was thought to be gang-related. Two Monroe men were arrested later in the month after turning themselves in. With a $127,000 grant, the city of Monroe funded the completion of the Rotary Club’s Miracle Field, a $1.5 million project that created a ball field for disabled kids. The field is a regional destination for the teams of Miracle League, in which volunteers assist the young people to play softball. The Monroe fairgrounds was host to a new spring festival that brought live music, a root beer garden, a BBQ competition and a carnival to the fairgrounds. Valley General Hospital had a bad audit, in which the state found many problems with the financial management of the hospital in recent years. New CEO Eric Jensen said that the hospital’s new management team was working to improve financial practices. Monroe pageant queen Stormy Keffeler, 19, took on a new sort of competition when she started playing football for the Seattle Mist. After a long and focused campaign, Valley General Hospital supporters celebrated the passage of a tax levy that will bring in as much as $2.2 million in revenue to the struggling hospital each year. In combination with an affiliation with EvergreenHealth of Kirkland, management believed that the levy could stabilize the hospital on a long-term basis. The long-empty Cyrk building, a large manufacturing building on Fryelands Avenue, became home of vitamin manufacturing giant Natural Factors Group. The Canada-based company makes products for Costco, among other things, and plans to grow some of the ingredients in its preparations on land nearby. May Loch Carswell, 3, posed like a superhero with the assistance of a lift that compensates for the difference in length between his left and his right leg. Supporters held a fundraiser 5K walk and run to help pay for a series of surgeries that would lengthen the boy’s leg.Photo courtesy of Cheri Carswell The city of Monroe won a final legal victory over opponents of a Walmart design plan that the city had approved, although opponents argued that it was inconsistent with the city’s own design guidelines for the area. The legal victory cleared the way for construction. Currently earth movers are preparing the land near the intersection of North Kelsey and Chain Lake Road for a new Walmart Supercenter. Jacoba Ramirez-Rodriguez was murdered by her husband Oscar Garcia Pacheco on the sidewalk on Lewis Street near Main in the early evening. He made accusations against her, then when she went to her car to retrieve a protection order to serve on him, he stabbed her to death with a knife he had bought earlier in the day. He was badly injured in the ensuing arrest. The community rallied and held a vigil against domestic violence in her honor in October in observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and police worked to raise awareness of the issue, especially in the Hispanic community. The fortunes of Main Street seemed to improve over the spring, as eight new businesses came to the downtown. Among them were E-Man Data Recovery, Gumby’s Emporium, Kung Fu Kwoon, SOS Bookkeeping, RD Sportwear, The Paradise Tavern, Camp 1928, and Player’s Music Mart. Some were slower than others to open their doors; Camp 1928, an antiques store, was set back when the owner suffered a broken foot. That business opened this month. Byron Scherf, 54, a Monroe prison inmate, was found guilty of the 2011 murder of correctional officer Jayme Biendl, after a week-long trial. Scherf admitted to attacking and strangling the woman that evening in the prison chapel, but it was the job of the jury to determine whether Scherf has premeditated the crime. The jury found that he did, paving the way for the death penalty. A week later, the jury handed down a sentence of death. He has been transferred to death row at Walla Walla. Alumni of the Monroe High School girls basketball program returned to Monroe to play a game to raise funds to support the family of long-time coach Alan Dickson, who was stricken with terminal cancer. The game was also held in the man’s honor. He lead the team to seven state championships in 13 years at Monroe, but more than that, he offered guidance and support, his former team members said. Supporters of Monroe’s Carswell family held a walk to raise funds to send their son Loch, 3, to Florida for a long series of surgeries to correct a congenital issue in which one leg grew at a normal rate and the other not at all. The surgeries will eventually result in a normal leg and full ability for the young boy. The alternative to the treatment was amputation of the shortened leg. A house fire on Kelsey Street that fire inspectors initially called suspicious was found to be accidental, the result of a heater placed too closely to combustible materials. June Gabby, 10, and Maddie, 6, with Gabby’s dad, Peter Horvath of Monroe, enjoyed the first-ever Father’s Day Festival, which included sunshine, hot rods, and the Monroe Main Street Car Show.Photo by Jim Scolman Monroe High School senior Nicota Stevenson was accepted to Yale. The Native American youth credited a third grade teacher for initiating his interest in academic excellence. Eugene Williams, 83, of Monroe, bowled a perfect 300. He’d been bowling for 50 years, but his last 10 years have been his best. The class of 2013 graduated with a record amount of scholarship money, earning $5.6 million toward college. Three firefighters were injured in a Tualco Valley house fire. One had in injured hand that required surgery, another had heat exhaustion, and a third suffered a concussion. Injuries are rare, and the three injuries happened in unrelated instances, making it a very unusual fire. Monroe’s Relay for Life broke records, raising $124,000 to fight cancer. That was $6,000 more than the previous year. However, ti wasn’t quite enough to make the mayor shave his head: Mayor Robert Zimmerman vowed to shave off his hair if Monroe could raise $200,000. Twelve players from the Monroe Bearcats flew to Chicago to represent the Seattle Seahawks in a national tournament. The event is part of the High School Player Development Program, and also included a curriculum on life skills and football fundamentals. Monroe held it’s first-ever Fathers’ Day festival, including a classic car show, an Elvis impersonator, a classic rock band and a 1950s pageant. Dino Rossi, former senate and gubernatorial candidate, was one of a group of investors that bought Monroe’s Morning Run apartments. They said they believe Monroe has a bright economic future. The family of Johntiago Arellano, 2, organized a walk to raise money for epilepsy research, as well as to raise awareness of the disorder. Johntiago suffered as many as 30 seizures a day. Dexter Taylor, a Monroe historian, published a book on Monroe history. The book, published by hyperlocal history press Arcadia, was two years in the making, with Taylor sifting through hundreds of old photos and pieces of ephemera. A Monroe hiker survived a 50-foot fall over the lower part of Wallace Falls. The man, 23, had only minor injuries, and was rescued after he climbed onto some rocks in the river below the falls. July Wendy McDowell, (left) and Stacie Ballweg stand in front of the mural of a train that they commissioned local artist David Hose to paint for them right before they opened Eddie’s Trackside in 2006. The club is closing in two weeks, due to a sudden doubling of their rent following a bank seizure of their landlord’s property. Popular restaurant and night club Eddie’s Trackside was forced to close after the landlord went into foreclosure. The live music venue, opened by close friends Wendy McDowell and Stacie Ballweg in 2006, closed after the bank doubled the rent. Former D.A.R.E. officer Carlos Martinez was charged in connection with a decade-long sexual relationship he allegedly began with a Monroe student when she was just 14. Martinez, at the time a very popular Monroe police officer and school board member, lost his job after an internal investigation in which his wife alleged domestic violence. He moved to Texas with the young woman, then of age, but the relationship soured, and the young woman went to police, alleging that Martinez had exploited her since she was a minor. Martinez was formally charged with six counts of sexual misconduct with a minor in August. Students at Sky Valley Education Center made quilts and donated them to DSHS in honor of 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre. Each quilt was made for one of the victims, and reflected his or her favorite colors and things. Two occupants of a small airplane suffered only minor injuries when their plane flipped on approach to the runway at Monroe’s airport and landed upside-down. A Puget Sound Energy worker was startled to see a bear cub strolling through a residential park at the corner of Rainier View Road and Chain Lake Road. The little bear ambled through the children’s play area, then climbed over a chain link fence and disappeared into the woods. A High Rock Road couple captured images of a truck smashing their garbage cans. The High Rock Road area had been targeted by a great deal of vandalism in recent months, the couple said. Haight Carpet closed its long-time Lewis Street location, but a pho restaurant and a frozen yogurt restaurant came to Lenton Place. A Monroe firefighter was trying to put out a fire in a tree when he was struck in the head by an errant firework and had to go tot he hospital for stitches. A clothes dryer may have caused a fire that consumed a house on 154th Street S.E. and 175th Avenue S.E. A young woman at the home noticed smoke coming from the dryer, opened it only to be greeted by a blast of flames, and fled the house, which was engulfed within 10 minutes. Four prison officers who lost their jobs over issues related to the night that correctional officer Jayme Biendl was killed in the line of duty at the Monroe Correctional Center all got their jobs back and a monetary settlement, too. An arbitrator found that in most cases, the men had erred to some degree, but not so much that they deserved to lose their positions. A series of four free Thursday evening summer concerts kicked off at Lake Tye. The Snohomish Artists Guild hopes to produce the series annually. Well-known police dog Taylor, a yellow lab who served with the Monroe Police Department for nine years, died. Taylor’s long career included helping located 149 kilos of cocaine in a vehicle on Main Street and finding $700,000 in cash in a sophisticated car compartment on another occasion. Taylor retired in April of 2012 to the home of her handler, and died at the age of 12. Bulldozers began moving earth to clear the way for a possible new apartment building on the shores of an artificial lake created by larger-than-life real estate broker Pete Woods, who built an event venue on the lake called “Pete’s Party Pit.” As many as 200 apartments could come to the site on Blueberry Lane, so long as permits can be obtained. About 70 people turned out to Merrill Gardens to celebrate the 100th birthday of Rosella Roff. She had been a teacher and a real estate investor, and had gotten her drivers license renewed at the age of 97. Roff died shortly after the party. August Joshua Hawken, 14, qualified for the Boy Scouts’ highest honor, the Silver Hornaday Award, for building a 58-foot, 8,000 bridge to be placed in a Granite Falls park. It was the fifth bridge the young man had built. His service history also included removing invasive English ivy from a Whidbey Island park, and making 104 emergency preparedness kits for the families of deployed soldiers, at the age of 9. The Monroe Police Department passed a levy that put in place a tenth-of-a-penny sales tax in Monroe. The levy is expected to generate about $225,000 per year, to fund additional officers and reinstate the three-beat system, which guaranteed that there was a police presence in the city’s three main sections at all times. The levy passed with 62.2 percent of the vote. A man was arrested for viewing child porn on Monroe Library computers. He later was allegedly found to have photos on his phone of himself molesting the child of a friend. National Night Out had a record turnout, with about 3,000 turning out for hot dogs, popcorn, pizza, bouncy houses and many educational booths. City Hall got a new roof after the old one had been leaking for 35 years. The roof was original to the building, which was built in the 1950s as a car dealership. The project cost about $45,000, and the new roof is expected to last about 50 years. September Friends sought help and regional media covered the story when an SUV driven by Michelle Orr was struck and flipped by a hit-and-run driver. Orr was injured. The single mother of two had just started at her waitressing job in Kirkland and hadn’t been eligible for the company’s insurance yet, so she wasn’t covered. The hit and run driver was never caught. The Monroe School District had a budget increase for the first time in years. The increase from the state was only slight, but it was in response to a lawsuit last year in which a judge ruled that the state wasn’t meeting it’s obligation to education. The school district added two Montessori grades in Maltby, increased pool time at the YMCA for the swim team, expanded the popular Spanish-English kindergarten program and brought back a school counselor, among other things. Grocery workers picketed at Fred Meyer, Alberston’s and Safeway, protesting a proposal to take away some holiday pay and stripping part-time workers of access to health insurance, among other things. The union and the store management finally hammered out a deal later in the autumn that averted an imminent strike. Monroe got a new city clerk in the person of Elizabeth Smoot. The clerk’s position had been vacant for years, due to budget cutbacks. The Monroe Arts Council held a raffle to help restore the historic Wagner Performing Arts Center. The 1939 theater had fallen into a state of disrepair, but the MAC wants it to once again be an important community theater, and to that end is repairing plaster, modernizing the bathrooms, replacing torn upholstery and more. October Providence Medical Group opened a $22 million facility on Tjerne Place in Monroe. The no-frills building consists mainly of 58 small but efficient exam rooms with a fair amount of cutting edge technology. It also houses rooms for tests as MRIs, X-rays and ultrasounds. A months-long survey of Monroe School District parents and staff revealed that parents tend to feel good about the staff at the district’s schools, but that they feel the technology isn’t sufficient. Also, staff and community members said that communication between the district, staff and community needed to improve. A list of suggestions generated by the survey results included more professional development for staff, updating older technology, improving student access to computer labs, more educational options for high school students, increased communication and more volunteer opportunities. The planned cable-towed water sports park at Lake Tye cleared a final hurdle with a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. The ownership hopes to open the park as early as April. An inmate was found dead of a heart attack in a cell at the Monroe Correctional Complex, and may have been dead for more than a day before it was discovered. The man had the cell to himself, and wasn’t scheduled for work for two days. Monroe police warned of a rise in vehicle prowls, mostly in the downtown and in the Fryelands area. Officers urged residents to lock their cars and homes, and to remove all valuables from vehicles, even in store parking lots when making a quick trip into the store. Almost all the car prowls in which valuables were taken happened to unlocked cars. A vandalism spree downtown resulted in windows in more than a dozen cars shot out with BB pellets. Chain Lake and Salem Woods elementary schools were closed for a day when water service was interrupted by a water main with a 10-foot crack. Water flooded the area near Ingram and Brown roads, including the basement of one home. About 75 homes lost water service that day. The Monroe Correctional Complex debuted a pilot program to offer group mental health services to people locked up in the prison’s maximum security unit, where some people spend years locked in their cells 23 hours a day. The program is designed to help them reintegrate into the prison’s main population, and in most cases, eventually the outside world again. About half of the people in “supermax” are mentally ill, prison administrators believe. The Monroe School District announced an intention to run a school levy in February. The levy currently in place is set to expire next year. The sudden death of Monroe writer Alex “Stott” Peabody left friends, members of his family, and his writing community shocked and grieving. The writer had moved to Monroe from Los Angeles where he had been involved in entertainment in order to help his sister’s family open the children’s bouncy house business Jump, Rattle and Roll. Peabody and been a member of Monroe’s Wednesday Writers group, and the facilitator of the group called him the most talented writers she’d seen. He was also remembered for being funny and gentle. He died of kidney failure at 47. The Monroe Senior Center asked for an increase in a city grant that helps pay for the senior bus program. The city had been giving $9,000 a year; director Marc Avni asked if the city might help the program accommodate a 59 percent increase in ridership by increasing the grant to $12,000. The council decided to grant $15,000. A History Channel reality show called “American Daredevils,” featuring a Monroe stunt performer known as Mr. Dizzy, debuted. The 16-episode series follows the careers of three such stunt performers as they traverse the country performing at race tracks and county fairs. There were two fatal crashes on US 2 within one week. The first occurred when a 55-year-old man with a history of DUI convictions tried to outrun police and ended up in a high-speed head-on collision with another car near Gold Bar. The other driver was injured; the speeding driver was killed. The second collision occurred when a 22-year-old Federal Way man attempted to pass another vehicle on a curve and struck another vehicle. The young man was killed; his pregnant passenger went into labor and delivered a baby at Providence in Everett. The Monroe High School ASB established a theme for this school year, called Under One Roof. The theme has two meanings; the first is to promote inclusiveness in the student body, and the second to encourage participation in a project to raise money to help fund schools in third world countries. November A group of high school students teamed up with the Monroe Historical Society to complete an unfinished veterans’ memorial plaque that was installed at an athletic field on Kelsey Street in 1951. The plaque was eventually supposed to carry all the names of veterans from Monroe killed in the line of duty. The names, however, were never added. Now a group of teachers and eighth grade students are working with the Monroe Historical Society to collect the names and add them to the small monument. Calvin Bradham, a dad and the son-in-law of former food bank director Julie Morris, died of cancer. The friends of the family set up a fundraising effort called “Bradham’s Heroes” to help the family through Bradham’s difficult medical treatments. Bradham’s was embarking on a new, experimental course of therapy when he died after more than a year fighting a very aggressive cancer. After the November elections, winners included Geoffrey Thomas for the mayor’s seat and Jeff Rasmussen, Kurt Goering and Kevin Hanford for council seats. Dave Somers won reelection to the Snohomish County Council. During the King 5 Best of Western Washington contest 13 Sky Valley businesses and service providers were named among the top five in their respective categories. First place winners included the Maltby Cafe for best breakfast, Chaplain Dale for best wedding officiant and Sultan music teacher Jill Sumpter for best teacher. Fryelands Elementary teacher Randy Brown was awarded the prestigious Stanley O. McNaughton Award for exceptional educators for his innovative use of technology to give kids prerecorded lessons on one side of the room while giving them individual instruction on the other. World champion senior athlete Al Erickson died at the age of 84. The Monroe farmer and former University of Washington professor and Marine took up decathlon at 74, winning the gold at the World Masters Athletic Championships in Sacramento at the age of 82. Valley General Hospital cut 8.5 positions, mostly in management, in order to pull the hospital through a lean year that included a financial setback inherited from earlier administrations. The state demanded repayment of $1.7 million that had been overpaid to the hospital, and VGH is playing it off over the course of two years. However, the passage of a levy earlier in the year as well as a new detox for pregnant women are expected to increase revenue in 2014. A group of Monroe neighbors, concerned about property crimes, gathered at the Monroe Police Department to discuss setting up neighborhood watch programs. People in the Old Owen and Van Brocklin area reported a high number of incidents. The citizens agreed to hold community meetings and get some Neighborhood Watch signs. Members of the Morningstar Lutheran Church’s youth group gathered on a cold November evening outside the church and constructed a tent city out of large cardboard boxes and spent the night to gain insight on the plight of the homeless. They were inspired to the action when some realized that classmates were among those appearing for free Tuesday night dinners and learned that there are a number of homeless teens in Monroe. Historian and long-time Monroe Monitor writer and lifestyle editor Nellie Robertson died of cancer at the age of 86. At the time of her death, she was working on her seventh novel. She had also written two history books on Monroe. December After 21 years on the Planning Commission, Dave Demarest attended his last meeting in December. He was ready to step away, he said, but wouldn’t have been able to get reappointed anyway, due to new laws requiring commissioners to live with in the city limits and serve a maximum of two consecutive terms. Monroe Attorney Ken Berger, 59, a mountain climber and pilot, constructed a plane out of a kit. It took him three years to make the amphibious plane, which so far has flown trouble-free for about 40 hours. Friends of Monroe’s Bailey family worked to raise money to help the family after Bailey, 31, required a complete heart transplant. The transplant was so successful that within a day Bailey felt better than he had in years, but the family is on the hook for about half a million dollars in medical bills. Popular Monroe police officer Derrel Johnson retired after 28 years of service. He was instrumental in setting up the chaplain program and trained all but one of Monroe’s police officers. He loved the job, he said. Eleven businesses sought licenses to grow or sell marijuana in the Sky Valley area. Monroe passed an emergency ordinance banning the retail store that the Washington Liquor Control Board had okayed for the city. The council will discuss a more permanent resolution in 2014. Barking dogs awoke the residents of a Monroe home in time to escape the flames that started as the result of a Christmas tree catching fire. A group of female military veterans met at the Worksource building in Monroe to visit and make craft projects. They hope to make the meetings monthly, and are seeking more female veterans to join in. The Monroe City Council decided to start reducing the amount developers pay to schools to offset the cost of the increased school population associated with housing developments in 2015. The council also voted to approve a rezone of a piece of East Monroe land to commercial after many years of controversy and debate over the proposal. | Low | [
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Q: CREATE EVENT, Insert multple row in same time for example, on the same day, in Loan table have more than 2 rows are expired, and i want insert 2 fines in Fine table. I did: CREATE EVENT test_event_insert_fine ON SCHEDULE every 1 day ON COMPLETION PRESERVE DO IF (NOW()>=DATE_ADD(select date from loan, interval 3 day)) then insert into fine(price,date) values(100,NOW()); END IF; How can I insert multiple rows with only one "insert" according condition of "IF"? Thanks. A: One option that may be helpful: DELIMITER $$ CREATE EVENT `test_event_insert_fine` ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 DAY ON COMPLETION PRESERVE DO BEGIN DECLARE `_NOW` DATETIME DEFAULT NOW(); INSERT INTO `fine` (`price`, `date`) SELECT 100, `_NOW` FROM `loan` WHERE `_NOW` >= DATE_ADD(`date`, INTERVAL 3 DAY); END$$ DELIMITER ; | Mid | [
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Design of a randomized controlled trial comparing a mobile phone-based hypertension health coaching application to home blood pressure monitoring alone: The Smart Hypertension Control Study. Hypertension is a major cause of morbidity and mortality but frequently remains uncontrolled. A smartphone application that provides coaching regarding home blood pressure monitoring and other aspects of hypertension self-care and related behavior change may be a scalable way to help manage hypertension. The Smart Hypertension Control Study is a prospective, randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of a hypertension personal control program (HPCP), which consists of an automated artificial intelligence smartphone application that provides individualized support and coaching to promote home monitoring and healthy behavior changes related to hypertension self-management. Enrolled adults with uncontrolled hypertension will be randomized in a 1:1 fashion to the HPCP with home blood pressure monitoring or to home monitoring alone. We plan to enroll 350 participants, with a target of 300 participants with complete six-month follow-up data. The primary study outcome will be systolic blood pressure at six months. Additional outcomes include measures of antihypertensive medication adherence, home blood pressure monitoring practices, self-management practices, weight, and self-reported health behaviors. The Smart Hypertension Control Study will evaluate blood pressure and hypertension self-management behavior outcomes in participants with uncontrolled hypertension exposed to a smartphone-based hypertension health coaching application in addition to home blood pressure monitoring compared to those exposed to home blood pressure monitoring alone. | High | [
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22 - How to boot PCLINUX (and most other 'difficult' linux versions) without using a 'flat-file' structure Unique hits Some linux distributions just refuse to boot from an ISO file on a USB drive. The most common method to get around this is to extract the contents of the ISO file onto the USB pen and then use grub4dos to boot from the initrd file (see the Ophcrack tutorial as an example here). However, in some cases you may have more than one ISO file which needs to use this 'flat file' method - and then you have a problem! There is a way however to get around the problem of non-working linux ISO files without having to use a 'flat-file' structure. basically you create multiple partitions on a USB drive and then extract the binary contents of the ISO file data to a 'spare' partition, so that it looks like an ISO-mountable volume to grub4dos. RMPrepUSB cannot create multiple partition USB drives, however it can create a 2 partition drive by using the Boot as HDD (2PTNS) option. The second partition is however hidden and also very small. This tutorial shows how you can create a 2-partition USB drive with a large 2nd partition and place the PCLinux ISO file on that 2nd partition. The following instructions will not alter or harm your Windows Hard Disk drive, it will only affect your USB drive (if carried out correctly!). I use as an example the PCLinux Enlightenment E-17 Desktop Lite ISO version from here. It is almost 500MB in size. (Note: it is also possible to boot PCLinux directly from an ISO file too - see the Addendum at the bottom of the page!) 1. Prepare a USB stick as follows - 1. SIZE - set the size of the partition to at least 500MB lessthan the size of your USB flash drive (you need to leave room for the ISO file that you will add later) (e.g. if you have a 2GB USB drive, set the size to 1000MB). If you use a different ISO, you must subtract the size of the ISO file from the total size of the USB drive in this step).- 2. VOL LABEL = PCLINUX (for instance)- 3. BOOT OPTIONS - MSDOS (actually anything will do!)- 4. FILESYSTEM and OVERRIDES - FAT32 only (do not tick any overrides, do not tick Boot as HDD 2PTNs)- 5. untick the Copy Files box as we will copy file(s) over later- 6. Click on Prepare Drive to format your USB drive 2. Now install grub4dos using the Install grub4dos button in RMPrepUSB - choose Yes when prompted and copy over grldr file when prompted. 3. Now exit from RMPrepUSB and make a menu.lst file on the USB drive - my contents for menu.lst for PCLinux is: WARNING: The following instructions could damage your Hard Disk if not correctly followed - make sure you choose the correct drive (i.e. your USB drive)! 4. Now we need to make a 2nd hidden partition on the USB drive for the ISO file to be copied to. Run the free version of EaSeus All-in-One Partition Manager Home Edition , right-click on the empty space on your USB drive (Drive 2 in the screenshot below) and select Create then create a PRIMARY ext2 partition (do not create a Logical partition as this is not supported by RMPrepUSB) to fill the remaining portion of the disk (which should be at least as large as the ISO file - e.g. 500K). Now click on the Apply button (top left - tick icon) to create the partition and commit the changes. The USB drive should now be bootable and should boot to PCLinux. You should be able to use this method with any linux distro. If you require more USB partitions, you can create up to 2 more partitions using EaSeus and then use P3 or P4 in step 5 as appropriate (note: RMPrepUSB FIle-->USB does not support logical partitions so you can only have ISO files in P2, P3 and P4). For a discussion about this method of booting see the Boot-Land forum here. | Mid | [
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This season we couldn't get a team together but since there has been so many guys recently mention on this thread that they would like to play in the fall we will have the club running full speed next season. I graduate in December but I am going to make sure and help who ever wants to play get the club back into action with the University. So, I'm a senior this year also at UK and am starting to get into paintball. I've been to band of brothers a few times. Does anyone know whats going on as of this fall with the paintball team? Someone shoot me an email at [email protected] and let me know whats up. I think it would be loads of fun to get the club up and going with loads of people playing. Let me know what you all are planning for this fall semester. Ill be a sophomore this year I went to Campbellsville University last year I am thinking about transferring somewhere with a PB program. Been out of the sport for a little while love speedball though used to play lots of tournaments. Shoot me an email at [email protected] Thanks! I'm graduating in December and unfortunately will not be able to play any at UK. But I do have a list together of everyone who has showed interest in playing and will email all of you so we can meet at the beginning of the semester. When we meet I will give you all the details about the club and how to get the club back in full speed with the University. It's not complicated but there is a set of rules you have to follow to be a Club at the University and to be able to compete in the NCPA. EKU is a great school to work with and competes in the same division as UK and is always good with helping out and teaming up for traveling and scrimmaging. | Mid | [
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#!/usr/bin/env python # coding: utf-8 """ Main script for freebase quepy. Usage: main.py [options] <question> ... Options: -r --request Queries the online database and prints the results """ import json import quepy import urllib from docopt import docopt service_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread' freebase = quepy.install("freebase") def request(query): params = {'query': query} url = service_url + '?' + urllib.urlencode(params) responses = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(url).read()) return responses def result_from_responses(responses, target): if responses: to_explore = responses["result"] for key in target: _to_explore = [] for elem in to_explore: for response in elem[key]: _to_explore.append(response) to_explore = _to_explore result = [] for elem in to_explore: if isinstance(elem, dict): if "lang" in elem: if elem["lang"] == "/lang/en": result.append(elem.get("value", elem)) else: result.append(elem.get("value", elem)) else: result.append(elem) return result if __name__ == "__main__": args = docopt(__doc__) question = " ".join(args["<question>"]) target, query, metadata = freebase.get_query(question) print query if args["--request"]: print responses = request(query) if "error" in responses: print responses exit() else: for response in result_from_responses(responses, target): print response | Mid | [
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Q: ASP.NET MVC Model Design I have 6 pages, each with their own form, and a model associated with that form. What I would like to be able to do is store all the information on all 6 forms so that the user can go between any of the 6 pages and still have their previous work saved. The idea is that the user should be able to fill out the forms on the pages in any order and return to their work at any time. What is the best way to maintain all of this information? Should I create a super model that has all of the other models and only pass this model around to the other pages? thank you! A: Fetch (from a data source) what data is relevant to the current page and show it.If you want to show all the data in a page (Ex : A summary page of all the pages, Create a view model which holds all the data). You can fetch data from a variety of source like DB tables/Web Service/XML file/Cached data /Session etc.. Each of views can bind to individual view models. public class AddressVM { //properties for address page } public class BillingInfo { //properties for Billing Info page } public class OrderSummaryVM { public AddressVM ShippingAddress {set;get;} public BillingInfo BillingDetails {set;get;} } The summary page can be binded to the OrderSummaryVM class while the individual pages can be binded to AddressVM and BillingInfoVM classes | High | [
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Q: Example on when to use didUpdateWidget I think I understand all other StatefulWidget lifecycle callbacks, but didUpdateWidget is one that I naver had to use, neither can think of a specific use case, as I just get information about the Widget using the widget getter at build. So on which cases didUpdateWidget is useful and desired to be used? A: didUpdateWidget exists for when you want to trigger side-effects when one of the parameters of your stateful widget change. A typical use-case is implicitly animated widgets. These are implemented using didUpateWidget like so: @override void didUpdateWidget(MyWidget oldWidget) { super.didUpdateWidget(oldWidget); if (widget.value != oldWidget.value) { // TODO: start a transition between the previous and new value } } | High | [
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We are using version 11.2.0.4 of oracle. We have a query running in ~30 seconds in one database(DB1) and the same query is taking ~5minutes in another database(DB2) with data volume and all other configuration remain same in both the databases. i have captured the sql monitor and the session stats for both the databases. I was checking the table/column/index stats and i see from the statistics of the table from both the databases there exists non zero chain_count in one of the databases(DB2), wondering if that is the reason which is causing this query running slow, btw i don't see significant different in "table fetch continued row" value of the both the session stats, so wanted to understand the actual cause of slowness? We are using version 11.2.0.4 of oracle. We have a query running in ~30 seconds in one database(DB1) and the same query is taking ~5minutes in another database(DB2) with data volume and all other configuration remain same in both the databases. i have captured the sql monitor and the session stats for both the databases. I was checking the table/column/index stats and i see from the statistics of the table from both the databases there exists non zero chain_count in one of the databases(DB2), wondering if that is the reason which is causing this query running slow, btw i don't see significant different in "table fetch continued row" value of the both the session stats, so wanted to understand the actual cause of slowness? Looks like a classic case of goodish clustering of data in one DB - you “only” had to do 33K read requests against the table to look at all 118k rows (before cutting it down to one!), compared to the 109K read requests against the table blocks to look at 118K rows (again, cutting it down to one!). Otherwise, this could be a case of the table blocks being highly cached in the first DB but not so much in the second. We can see the difference in cost between the two DBs does suggest the clustering factor is playing a role. How does DB2 have the same data as DB1? Was logical replication used (e.g. expdp impdp)? This would cause rows to be stored in different orders on both DBs so your clustering factors will be different. This is a prime example of why you shouldn't use logically replicated DBs to test performance. The effect of row chaining here is going to be pretty small, only an extra 1K or so rows are chained/migrated but you've got a difference of 70K IOs. Rebuilding the index could save you about 300 IOs, it's a tiny drop in a massive ocean, definitely not worth the effort (and risk). The rownum=1 filter obviously means that there's a degree of luck involved in the execution, it's going to stop as soon as it finds a row that matches the other two conditions (after identifying rows that match the indexed column condition). However, both DBs stop after looking at 118K rows, so I don't think this is playing a part - although it would suggest that the position of the first matching row is similar in the two DBs which could hint at similar clustering - but we can see with the stats that they don't have the same clustering factors and just because these rows are similarly positioned, the rows coming up to them may not be. Of course, the obvious suggestion is to just use a different index - if you only want one row then the index should be able to do a lot of work for you. You will have to bear in mind the golden rule of indexing as you have two non-equalities (https://ctandrewsayer.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/the-golden-rule-of-indexing/ ), but a quick guess would suggest that the sysdate filter will not do a lot of work - so something like create index test_index_1 on tab1 (sts, cnt) Might do the trick. Hopefully, you'll still have the inlist iterator for the sts filter. If you need the other column in the index then consider where it should come - although you'll be doing a lot less work just by being able to filter down before hitting the table. Since the huge majority of the time is spent in touching the table blocks rather than the index (as shown in the live monitor reports), we can see that rebuilding the index will have no effect on the bulk of the execution. Here we use "Streams replication" to replicate data between these two database, so isn't it true that in this case, the rows should be applied in traget database in same way/order as source, so in both the databases the clustering factor should not differ much? I need to see if both/two way replication is used and that is any way causing this, btw I do see that the difference in clustering factor is 21.9 million vs 22.2 million, not sure if that will have such drastic impact in query timing? And i agree that sql monitor showing plan_line_id- 3 i.e "TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID" has consumed ~97% of the time, so thinking of index rebuild as may be fragmented may not add much benefit to us. Another doubt i had, is my understanding is correct regarding the point that ,may be someone did run the ANALYZE table command due to which this column-"chain_count", in dba_tables gets populated, but may be this has been done in long back, so we may need to do that again to see the percentage of chained row at current moment? But again as the session statistics shows the "table fetch continued row" stats as 3660 vs 2423 for both executions, so does it mean, this has not impacted the execution time much, so we should not waste effort looking in this(row chaining) direction? Some of the team mates suggesting to do table reorg, so not sure if that will help us anyway here? This table is having ~172GB in size holding ~79million rows, it has ~3BLOB columns too(and we are selecting two of the blob columns, however commenting those two columns does not make any difference in elapsed time).And there exists two indexes, one on the primary key(on different columns altogether) and other one-TAB1_STS_IDX on column STS, but as i mentioned t he stats , this column is very less distinct in nature. And also the other colmn used in filter i.e. CNT is very less distinct in nature, so would it be advisable to go for new index on (STS,CNT) considering may not benefit other queries much and impact on DML? table_name, column_name, num_distinct,num_nulls,density, avg_col_len TAB1 DT 43433984 0 2.30234463410034E-8 8 TAB1 CNT 7 866 6.20717225848154E-9 2 finally, I tried executing the same query multiple times and seeing the execution time for the second run has been in few seconds in both the databases. the consistent gets were 102k vs 110k , but the physical reads was '1' in both the databases for each subsequent execution and the query was too giving result in seconds for the subsequent execution in both the databases, i was not seeing much difference. So now wondering if its simply due to the caching effect? is this caching anyway related to the presence of blob columns in the table and if this can be improved? Your initial copy before you turned on the streams replication could have reoordered the rows unless you used physical copies of the data files. Is the performance difference consistent? eg can you get it down to less than 30 seconds in DB2 just by rerunning the query? That would suggest caching, perhaps also your cache sizes are different so you can’t fit in the magic number of blocks required for this query in DB2. There is certainly a difference due to clustering but it seems to be only 10%. Blobs won’t really be touched until the row is projected out, this only happens for one row so I think it’s fine to ignore them. Although, be aware that lobs make everything different, including streams replication - it might have to do additional lookups on the source DB table which would increase the caching of blocks in this table. num_distinct isn’t so important when your filter is a range ( < ), what matters more is the range of values that your column goes over (the low and high values, or the histogram). For this SQL you will certainly eliminate about 100K buffers just by being able to filter on cnt and the date column in that index - as I said, you may only need one of those columns. It’s up to you how important the query is, but as this seems to be the target of an async replication: it‘s probably not too important that the DML time is minimized - the users won’t experience it and it’s extremely unlikely to really contribute to an unacceptable lag in your replication (but obviously test it) I did run the sql query in both the databases three times each to test the caching effect. And i have published the sql monitor and trace output for each of them. The subsequent execution in each of the database does finishes within few seconds. So it hopefully justify the caching is the main reason behind such a large difference in elapsed time of the first execution of the query and it must be due to the fact the DB1 is heavily used so the table blocks are readily available in the cache so making the initial execution faster on DB1 as compared to DB2. And it may be happening sometimes to reach out to the first matching row(rownum=1) would be taking bit longer and the only possibility to further improve the query performance would be, as you suggested , to create composite index on STS,CNT, based on the importance of the query. Please correct me if my understanding is wrong here. I confirmed the sga_max_size is set as 24gb in both the databases. sga_target set as 0, so it ASMM enabled and i don't see many resize operation in gv$sga_resize_ops. And max db_cache_size in gv$sga_dynamic_components noted as ~6gb and shared_pool as ~4gb. As i see even the first execution on db-1 also took ~20 seconds(with ~8k physical reads) as compared to seconds(with ~2 physical reads) in subsequent execution. So my thought was , if the caching of this table blocks is depends on how the blob gets stored in that table? if it gets stored along with the row then chances are there it would flush out of the cache quickly due to the larger size of the row as compared to the scenario when its stored outside the row and is there any workaround possible to make this better? I did run the sql query in both the databases three times each to test the caching effect. Sorry - but no, that does NOT test 'the caching effect'. At least not the one Andrew was referring to. Maybe you misunderstood what Andrew has tried to tell you? Because you keep wandering off into other things like LOBs, etc. This is what you posted; 38573 physical reads -db1 109818 physical reads -db2 And this is what Andrew said you “only” had to do 33K read requests against the table to look at all 118k rows (before cutting it down to one!), compared to the 109K read requests against the table blocks to look at 118K rows (again, cutting it down to one!). Andrew mentioned clustering. Your response was to do three executions on each DB. That tests the WRONG thing - it isn't important how well things work if you cache a lot of the data in memory. That has NOTHING to do with clustering factor. What matters is how important it works when there is NOTHING in memory. Then the clustering factor will affect how many blocks need to be PHYSICALLY read to get the data needed. Those 'physical' reads above already give you an indication. The test you need to run is to FLUSH the buffer cache so that NONE of the blocks are in memory and then see how many blocks get read on each DB. That will give you an indication of the clustering factor. Before you do anything I suggest you read Richard Foote's articles about clustering factor - both how to calculate it and how it can affect things. Then please follow the guidelines in the FAQ about how to post a tuning request and the info you need to provide. That info includes: 1. the DDL for the tables and indexes 2. row counts for the tables AND query predicates 3. info about stats - are they current and how they were collected And, for your use case, info about what Andrew ask about - how was the INITIAL table data populated on DB2 from DB1. "Is the performance difference consistent? eg can you get it down to less than 30 seconds in DB2 just by rerunning the query? That would suggest caching, perhaps also your cache sizes are different so you can’t fit in the magic number of blocks required for this query in DB2." "is certainly a difference due to clustering but it seems to be only 10%." Sorry if i misunderstood but above were two of Andrew's points, so i have made the query rerun to evaluate caching effect and i have confirmed there was no difference in sga sizes fr the two databases. And i think even the initial execution of query on DB2 is slower as compared to DB1 as because of the DB1 is active/used by the external users and so the table blocks are more cached as compared to DB2(which is not exposed to external users and maintained as kind of standby). And i was going into the LOB side, as because i was wondering of those anyway impact the caching of rows/blocks due to larger size or anything? And it may be because we may not have full control on improving the clustering factor, and as per Andrew's suggestion creating composite index on column (STS,CNT) should make the performance better i.e. by making the index to do maximum work for us rather relying on the post filter criteria. As this issue is on production, so I will see if i can test/reproduce these on lower environment again by flushing buffer cache and post them. Actually i was thinking the first execution which i posted for DB1 vs DB2 should give the real impact/difference of clustering factor. I have published the table/column/index stats in previous post and stats are updated. I will post the DDL for table/index. And i think even the initial execution of query on DB2 is slower as compared to DB1 as because of the DB1 is active/used by the external users and so the table blocks are more cached as compared to DB2(which is not exposed to external users and maintained as kind of standby). Sorry - but you STILL seem to have it backwards - not sure why. 1. there is only so much memory 2. the buffer cache is only so big 3. if DB1 is used by other users then table blocks are LESS cached compared to DB2. ALL USERS will use buffer cache. So if DB1 is used by other users they will use some of the buffer cache for the work they are doing. That means there will be LESS CACHE available for the user you are testing - not more. That means that 'caching' would be LESS PRONOUNCED between the two machines. In normal operations you can NOT flush the buffer cache. In normal operations you can NOT run things multiple times. You need to test/tune so that things run properly and meet their SLA (service level agreement) in the NORMAL scheme of operations. Flushing the cache is just a better way to see the difference in PHYSICAL reads between the two DBs. That is it. The effort you've made to supply relevant information, and the description of your thought processes to date is something that many users of this forum could learn from. There are several features of the information you've supplied that suggest your ideas about "recent use" are correct. If I were sitting in your seat with your access to the data I'd be checking the frequency histogram that almost certainly exists on the STS column to confirm the hypothesis, but everything about the figures says there's a tiny fraction of the data that has values A or B and that's the interesting fraction of the data that the users are accessing most frequently, which is why it's fairly well cached on the primary system but very poorly cached on the secondary system. I'll be writing up some notes later on today or tomorrow about interpreting the plan and the statistics you've reported, with a couple of comments on how some of the stats might be misleading and need corroboration, and how some of the stats have to be describing exactly what's happening, and how some of them need to be cross-referenced to make sure that you have a consistent understanding of the data. | Low | [
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