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Reasons for and functional results of repeated hip arthroscopy: A continuous prospective study of 17 revisions out of 295 primary hip arthroscopies at mean 28 months' follow-up - 18/08/17
The rate of iterative arthroscopy has been increasing over the last decade as the technique has grown. The results of and reasons for these revision procedures, however, are not exactly known. We therefore conducted a prospective study to shed light on: 1) functional results and patient satisfaction following repeated arthroscopy, and 2) the relevant indications.
Functional scores and patient satisfaction increase following repeated arthroscopy.
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A single-center continuous prospective study without control group included patients undergoing repeated hip arthroscopy between September 2010 and September 2014, with a mean 28months' follow-up (median, 23.3months; range, 12–62months). Preoperative and follow-up functional assessment used the modified Harris hip, WOMAC and Christensen (NHAS) questionnaires, and a satisfaction scale. On etiological analysis, repeated arthroscopy was indicated if a cause of recurrent or persistent pain accessible to arthroscopic treatment was identified.
Seventeen patients were included out of 295 primary arthroscopies (5.7%): 9 male, 8 female; median age, 29.6years (range, 16–48years). Indications for primary arthroscopy comprised 13 cases of femoroacetabular impingement, 3 labrum lesions with instability, 1 chondromatosis and 1 case of osteoarthritis. Eleven of the 17 primary lesions showed persistence, including 9 of the 13 cases of femoroacetabular impingement. There were 3 failures in 17 repeated arthroscopies. All functional scores improved, with a gain of 7 points (P<0.06) on modified Harris hip score, 25 points (P<0.0006) on WOMAC score, and 27 points (P<0.001) on NHAS score. Ten of the 17 patients were satisfied or very satisfied with the repeated arthroscopy (59%).
Although less good than on primary arthroscopy, functional results on repeated hip arthroscopy were satisfactory in the short term. The main reason for repeated arthroscopy was persistence of initial abnormality due to insufficient treatment.Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.
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Superior Domain is a place of uplifting, encouragement. And an eye-opener of African culture. I'm a mom, a mom-inlaw, and grandma. I love to encourage, and uplift others. Making somebody smile or their life better makes me fulfilled.
Life at times is full of challenges, that in turn can prevent us from enjoying the moment and the people we love. That can also deter us from thanking God for what we have. This blog is about that. Not giving up believing that good things can happen. Making priority on priorities. Enjoying day to day activities of life. Understand other people even though they are from another culture. Each one is # UNIQUE I'm intentional about enjoying the company of family, be good to them, and make a difference in their lives. For, God placed us in the family to uplift one another, and be there for each other.
I live in Southern California but I'm originally from Southern Africa, specifically Zimbabwe. Below, is the map of Africa, and the arrow is pointing on the map portion of Zimbabwe. Here on Superior Domain, I will be writing about my African heritage here and there.
My husband and I married in 1991, in Zimbabwe. We moved from Africa but not from God. That's the grace of God manifesting in our lives. It hasn't been our own doing. The Lord has sustained our faith, through lifestyle change and cultural shock. :).
We encourage each other in the things of God, like iron that sharpens another iron. The Lord has blessed us with two daughters. Beginning of 2018 God blessed us with a son in law, and beginning of 2019 He blessed us again with twin grandbabies. A boy & a girl. We are so overjoyed. Glory to God!
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- I love sharing the Shona Culture and Language. Besides the fact that I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, I have A Bachelor of Arts Degree and A Post Graduate Certificate in Education. I taught Shona as Course for 8 years till the time we moved to the U.S.Shona is one of the vernacular languages in Zimbabwe. Teaching Shona entail
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- Therefore, I know pretty well how difficult it can be, raising your children in a different culture from what you pretty much know. It's almost like you are speaking different languages. I have learned to appreciate the richness of every culture.
- People might be different in color, culture but all humans have the same needs. Above all everybody is important. And children are a blessing from the Lord
- Some of the posts on The Shona Culture, the people and language are Rich and colorful
- I'm also qualified to teach English as a Foreign language. ( TEFL). Being somebody I learned English as a Second Language helps me understand my students more. For me English was the language of instruction from 1st grade but, Shona is my mother tongue.
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As I mentioned earlier, I love children. Therefore, I want to see them thrive mentally, educationally and emotionally. Pretty much thriving in all aspects of life. I love the family unit. Thereby, comes the excitement when I encourage a mom, dad, aunt or anybody that contributes towards the family unit. Be careful what you say to your children. Words kill, words give life
As a young girl, I had challenges hence, I am passionate about helping these precious people. I try to encourage and give hope through these writings. .Lonely Girl, with the obsession of mother's astounding illness
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At times I write just to entertain, make you guys think on the lighter side of life.
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Tracy Morgan is not a very sublte person. He known for his brash humor and silly stunts. There was his recent Playboy interview where he revealed more than we needed to know about him. Well, Tracy recently did a comedy show NYC and it did not go well. People began leaving after he talked about sex (explicitly), homosexuality, drugs and porn. I'm surprised Tina hasn't fired him!
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From modest beginnings as a woolen fabric jobbing firm founded in Portland, Maine shortly following the Civil war, Milliken & Co., continually grew and prospered over the next hundred years, its steadily rising number of woolen, cotton and synthetic fabric mills eventually making the company one of the biggest textile manufacturers in America.
During the first half of the 20th century, Milliken had seen its business boom and profits soar tremendously from the textile industry's wartime efforts in both the First and Second World Wars, supplying a wide range of products essential to the U.S. military. In the post-war years, the founder's grandson Roger Milliken, a man widely regarded as "one of the most forceful personalities in the history of U.S. industry," began a process of modernizing and consolidating the company's diverse holdings and by 1960 he had combined operations into a single corporation headquartered in Spartanburg, North Carolina.
For a number of years in the decade leading up to that point though, Milliken and other U.S. textile makers had increasingly begun to find themselves threatened by mounting competition from overseas. Not coincidentally, this period coincided with implementation of the first three rounds of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a multilateral international trade agreement whose purpose was the "substantial reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers and the elimination of preferences, on a reciprocal and mutually advantageous basis." Under terms of the trade liberalizing agreement, participating countries cut their tariff levels by 25% across the board, granting them "most favoured nation" (MFN) treatment, along with other advantages such as relatively high import quotas.
During the 1950s, U.S. textile imports had surged rapidly, accounting by 1959 for more than one-third of the American market in several important product categories. As a consequence, not wholly but certainly due in part to completion from lower cost foreign producers, over the course of the decade, close to 700 mills across America shut down and almost half a million textile workers were forced out of jobs, according to the Department of Commerce. The president of the National Textile Association at the time lamented that "one of the country's principal industries is drifting and loitering on a down grade" and a contemporary report by the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) described the troubled industry as being "deeply and chronically depressed."
The rising tide of imports prompted inflammatory statements against foreign exporters and the occasional congressional legislation imposing quotas or other restrictions to limit imports, but with the cautionary tale of protectionism's role as a contributing factor to the Great Depression still fresh within living memory and the government firmly committed to GATT, there was little chance such unilateral measures would gain approval. To the contrary, successive administrations viewed trade as an important instrument of foreign policy and sought to increase commerce with America's trading partners by promoting the interests of farm groups and other export-oriented sectors, sacrificing textiles it was contended by the industry in exchange for greater market access for those goods. "It is no exaggeration," Senator Herman Talmadge said in 1959, "to conclude that it is the actual, if not officially-expressed policy of the Government of the United States that the American textile industry is expendable and should be forced to help finance its own liquidation."
Even so, the industry's size gave it considerable lobbying power and beginning in the mid-50s, it launched a vigorous campaign to protect itself against increasing imports. Though repeated petitions by the American Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) calling for broader import quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act or under the national security provisions of the Trade Agreements Act had all been effectively thwarted by the Eisenhower administration, an opportunity presented itself when the Trade Expansion Act became an important part of the new Kennedy administration's economic agenda. Among other things, the legislation was aimed at strengthening the trade relationship between the U.S. and the burgeoning European Common Market, an early predecessor to the European Union.
Needing support from the powerful southern delegation in Congress to pass his trade expansion bill, Kennedy pledged to make the textile import problem a priority of his administration, bartering the promise of protections for textile and apparel industry (by far the largest providers of manufacturing jobs in the south) in exchange for the delegation's backing of the bill. One of the measures in the seven-point program he proposed to help the industry was to convene a conference of textile importing and exporting countries to develop a new international agreement governing textile trade. Negotiations arising out of this meeting eventually resulted in the Long Term Arrangement on Cotton Textiles (LTA), a multilateral deal signed in 1962 operating outside the GATT regulations, which provided for protection from imports deemed to be causing (or threatening to cause) "market disruption." That same year, acting under authority of the Agriculture Act, Kennedy also embargoed eight categories of cotton textile imports from Japan.
The protection measures appear to have had the desired staunching effect in terms of temporarily halting the industry's decline by limiting its exposure to foreign competition. Between 1960 and 1970, textile industry employment rose from 924,000 to slightly more than 1 million and in the apparel industry from 1.2 million to a peak of 1.4 million. By the end of the decade, imports as a share of the market was just 4.6% in textiles and 5.2% in apparel. Seeking to win support in the south during the 1968 presidential election campaign and keenly aware of the textile industry's political influence, Richard Nixon vowed to negotiate an international agreement similar to the LTA that would also include wool and man-made fiber products, a rapidly expanding segment of the market since the advent of new technology in synthetic fibers.
Following the election, with a combination of threats and cajoling, the Nixon administration pressured a number of LTA participating countries to expand the scope of goods covered. Several bilateral agreements to this effect were concluded, thereby allowing the U.S. to take unilateral action under LTA Section 204 authority against other exporters. The new agreement, called the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), replaced the LTA and extended protection to include both wool and synthetics. The new arrangement stated that it sought "to promote the expansion and progressive liberalization of trade in textile products while at the same time avoiding disruptive effects in individual markets and lines of production." Under the MFA, countries were allowed to restrict imports that caused or threatened market disruption. The import country was left to determine when "disruption" existed or might possibly be imminent.
U.S. textile import restraints under the MFA were administered by the Committee for Implementation of the Textile Agreements (CITA). Acting in response to complaints from the industry, the CITA, usually in conjunction with the Department of Commerce, would issue a statement based on the claim, thereafter following a comment period, by a determination or "call" in those cases where it eventually concluded market disruption was occurring, together with a preliminary quota that would be imposed on the goods in question. According to the terms of the MFA, a complex negotiating process would then be entered into with the exporting country in order to arrive at a final quota level. Industry groups such as the ATMI grumbled bitterly about there being only a "loose relation" between the initial and final quota level, which for an assortment of reasons, was often double CITA's preliminary figure. The result had the effect of significantly undermining the essential purpose of the quota, as demonstrated by quota utilization rates being, on average, well below 100%.
Moreover, the ATMI claimed that protection was porous, citing evidence showing that less than one-third of imports alleged to be causing market disruption were actually being "called" by CITA. But even taking the system's alleged shortcomings into consideration, the quota restraint system did provide substantial protection, the equivalent of a 28% tariff on textiles and a 53% tariff on apparel, according to the William R. Cline, Institute for International Economics. In spite of this however, textile imports still continued to capture an increasing share of the U.S. market, reaching almost 60% of the apparel market in 1987, according to the Fiber, Fabric and Apparel Coalition for Trade (FFACT), a joint industry-union group. In 1974, the first year of the MFA, the U.S. imported 4.4 billion square yards equivalent of cotton, wool, and man-made fiber textiles and apparel. Seven years later, that figure had increased to 5.8 billion, with imports in 1981 increasing by 18% over the preceding year.
Though it was subsequently renegotiated and ratified several times, both the textile industry and organized labour felt the haphazard enforcement of the MFA as it had been administered was inadequate. The research director for one garment workers' union denounced the MFA as "a vehicle to destroy the industry in the United States." Testifying before Congress, ATMI president James H. Martin, Jr., accused the government of having "caved in to pressure from foreign exporters," and was he snarled, "apparently willing to continue sacrificing American jobs on the altar of free trade."
Claiming that cheap imports were causing widespread unemployment, a loss of 440,000 jobs during the 1980s according to FFACT (a figure almost double that estimated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics), leading textile makers such as Milliken, Burlington and Cannon Mills renewed their demands for tighter restrictions. In lobbying Congress, FFACT stressed the industry's size, its vital importance to national defense efforts and its role in employing large numbers of unskilled workers that would otherwise be displaced if it went out of business, a contention many scholars contend to be lacking in factual or theoretical basis.
Nonetheless, using its clout as a $50 billion industry employing roughly 2 million workers and supporting that number again in various allied industries it claimed, the textile lobby pushed relentlessly for tougher protectionist trade legislation. From 1985 through 1990, five bills that sought to impose absolute limits on textile imports were put forward by the industry-union coalition. Each bill passed easily in Congress with strong bipartisan support (though predominantly from the more protectionist inclined Democrats), but all were subsequently vetoed by presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
As Timothy Minchin writes in his book Empty Mills: The Fight Against Imports and the Decline of the U.S. Textile Industry, "These efforts ultimately failed because absolute limits on textile imports contravened America's long standing economic policy of lowering global trade barriers. They aroused determined opposition from retailers, exporters and the Reagan and Bush administrations. As the industry declined, these forces gradually gained the upper hand and they consistently pushed polices that were detrimental to the textile and apparel industry."
In the third part of this post, we will look briefly at the phase-out of the MFA that began in 1995 and ended a decade ago and also examine some of the other factors besides imports that contributed to the economic troubles experienced by the textile and apparel industry in the last quarter-century.


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The value of shares pledged by promoters of BSE-listed firms stood at Rs 2.6 lakh crore at the end of September quarter, an increase of 3.5 per cent from the preceding three months, the bourse data showed.
In comparison, the figure stood at Rs 2.49 lakh crore at the end of June quarter.
Share pledging is typically done by promoters to raise funds either in the same company or for financing other projects.
High pledging levels are typically not considered a good sign by the investors as a downturn in the market price can lead to invocation and change in management.
Till September this year, pledging of shares was seen in as many as 3,060 of the 5,119 BSE-listed companies. The value of these shares pledged was Rs 2,57,972 crore, the data noted.
At the end of last month, value of shares pledged with non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) was Rs 67,211 crore.Besides, there were 452 firms in which 5-30 per cent stake of of the promoters was pledged, 143 companies in which 30-50 per cent holding of the promoters was under pledge and as many as 84 in which 50-75 per cent was pledged.


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Test rider of the best 5 year old Danish Warmblood horses qualified for the Young Horse Championship 2020 is 29 year old Blue Hors rider Daniel Bachmann Andersen.
The successful Danish stud, Atterupgaard, has a record number of offsprings qualified for Blue Hors Young Horse Championship at the Danish Warmblood Stallion in Herning in week 10/2020.
Danish Warmblood invites to international competitions, stallion licensing, gala shows and much more in MCH Herning from 5th March to 8th March 2020, and it will be attended by several of the world's best dressage riders. The event has been designated as part of the Danish selection for the Tokyo Olympics, and all riders in the elite group will therefore be at start.
Welcome to the new site presented by Danish Warmblood and Exhibition Centre Herning.The site is 100% dedicated to the DWB Stallion Show and Horse & Rider exhibition that unfolds in MCH on March 4 to 8, 2020. Here you will find information about the Horse & Rider exhibition, the stallion licensing, international competition classes, gala shows, special events and much, much more.


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The digital age is forcing a disruptive transformation based on effective use of technology: To provide information, speed up the process, and improve communication.
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Tacoma Dodge opened in 2011 and has quickly become one of the largest dealerships in Washington State. They are one of 407 FCA dealerships to earn the prestigious 2019 Customer First Award for Excellence certified by J.D. Power.
Ultimately, Big Data means little unless it's connected to a bright idea that helps customers find more value in their automotive experience.
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I'm taking time to read some crap about why libertarianism is wrong. It just doesn't work. Unfortunately, it sounds compelling and the alternatives are often uninspiring. Here's one article: http://www.zompist.com/libertos.html It's okay. A little dated. Objectivism, however, is far more foolish than libertarianism. Ooh, here's one about Austrian economics: http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm Austrian economics isn't "idiotic" (they had good ideas which are now mainstream), a lot of its followers are, but it is flawed, which is why real economists aren't Austrians these days.
For some reason, I was looking for that one website about trepanation. Perhaps because of these boat books. Can't find it anymore. Probably for the best.
The wifing unit was busy last night with some proofreading gig. That is good. She was also stressed out by making dinner, which is not good. Tonight is my night for dinner.
Grumble grumble conference thingy on Tuesday. Maybe I'll get out of the dinner after, looks like it's everybody rather than just our time. In which case, screw it, I'm out. Might even get to train afterward if the timing works out right.
Latest feedback on something I did: "This is brilliant. So brilliant we want a bunch of other crap." Sigh.
Making brussles sprouts tonight.
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The Westchester Family YMCA has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the William H. Hannon Foundation to support its PLAY (Physical Learning Activities for Youth) program in five local elementary schools.
The grant will allow students at Kentwood Elementary School, Loyola Village Elementary School, Paseo del Rey Natural Science Magnet School, Westport Elementary School and Cowan Elementary School to continue to reap the benefits of physical education through the program, Westchester YMCA officials said.
"We feel extremely fortunate to share a commitment to strengthening one of the most important foundations of our community, our children's health and fitness, with the William H. Hannon Foundation," said Westchester Family YMCA Executive Director Lisa D'Angelo.
Introduced at the beginning of the 2007-08 school year in response to budget cuts in education and growing rates of childhood obesity, the PLAY program provides an age-appropriate curriculum that teaches students in grades K-5 the fundamental skills necessary for them to realize the importance of physical activity and healthy eating, according to YMCA.
The program aims to increase physical fitness in youth by focusing on teamwork, fun, fellowship and skill building.—It also helps nurture peer support and family involvement, partners with teachers for training and classroom curriculum development, and contributes to a comprehensive school experience, YMCA officials say.
"This grant brings together two institutions my uncle cared deeply about — the Westchester Family YMCA and public schools in the community," said Kathleen Hannon Aikenhead, president of the William H. Hannon Foundation. "With budget cuts hampering our public schools, the YMCA's program brings a much needed resource at a critical time. We are proud to continue to be a supporter of the Westchester YMCA."
Information on the Westchester Family YMCA and its PLAY program, Kimberly Hoffman at (310) 670-4316.


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Trailer Of Interest…Stevenson: Lost And Found
Here's the official trailer for the highly anticipated documentary film on the late great New Yorker artist & writer, James Stevenson: Sally Williams' Stevenson: Lost and Found. Link here to the official trailer.
From the film's Facebook page:
James Stevenson Born, NYC, 1929. Died, February 17, 2017, Cos Cob, Connecticut. New Yorker work: March 10, 1956 –. Stevenson interned as an office boy at The New Yorker in the mid 1940s when he began supplying ideas for other New Yorker artists. Nine years later he was hired a full-time ideaman, given an office at the magazine and instructed not to tell anyone what he did. He eventually began publishing his own cartoons and covers as well as a ground-breaking Talk of the Town pieces (ground breaking in that the pieces were illustrated). His contributions to the magazine number over 2000. Key collections: Sorry Lady — This Beach is Private! ( MacMillan, 1963), Let's Boogie ( Dodd, Mead, 1978). Stevenson has long been a children's book author, with roughly one hundred titles to his credit. He is a frequent contributor to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, under the heading Lost and Found New York. Stevenson's recent book, published in 2013, The Life, Loves and Laughs of Frank Modell, is essential.
Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell & Peanuts
Here's an excerpt on Longreads from The Peanuts Papers (out October 22nd from Viking) featuring Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell's contribution. Ms. Campbell has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2017. Link here to her website.
More Dana Fradon
From David Pomerantz's Facebook post, October 14th (re-posted here with Mr. Pomerantz's permission):
R.I.P. Arthur Dana Fradon.
This one especially hurts as I got to know Arthur a bit, spoke at length with him on the phone (he was sharp, funny and had some terrific stories), had many online exchanges with him (it was a big day if I could make him laugh with one of my little jests), and I hoped that I could make the trip to visit him in Woodstock or Connecticut with a few cartoonist friends. He was the very last contract artist that Harold Ross signed to The New Yorker, a few years after Arthur sold his first cartoon to the magazine in 1948. He was one of the most prolific of artists, selling about 1400 drawings over six decades until he finally retired to work on a novel. (He had some, uh, opinions about new Editor Tina Brown.) He was also a terrific satirical writer, the caption perfectly complementing his drawing. This was in a time (late 40s-mid-60s) when many of the contract cartoonists like Arno, Addams and Darrow, Jr. still worked with other writers' captions, which eventually faded out when Lee Lorenz succeeded Jim Geraghty as Art Editor in 1973.
Arthur played baseball into his eighties and told Peter Arno biographer Michael Maslin, "I'm not really a cartoonist. I'm a misplaced baseball player or something like that." I loved his work from when I first saw it in one of The New Yorker collections (he was quite proud of the fact that he had the most cartoons in one of the magazine's retrospective books); when I mentioned to him how much I liked his "Good morning, beheaded" cartoon, he said that seemed to be the most popular of his cartoon prints sold by the magazine. Condolences to Ramona Fradon and their daughter Amy.
— Cartoon above by Dana Fradon, from The New Yorker issue of June 3, 1991
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Stewart Lane Heritage House For Rent (Unavailable)
A partly renovated heritage house for rent at RM3500 on Stewart Lane, about 1800sf. Ideal for cafe where this place is very welcomed by tourists. Not for sale.
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Our original colleague name was Tomislav or Miroslav, I believe.
Time passed since he started receiving daily *slav names upon arrival in the office… Why? Noone remembers exactly, but after a few days, it was obvious that the process needed to be automated.
Good friend of mine created music "artist" name generator and shared it with the world as a legendary Polumenta generator. He open-sourced it, so shameless code stealing was obviously the way to go.
Script was Python-ized with minor adjustment of adding another ponderized last character, before necessary "слав" ending, based on distribution of actual names of it's kind. Base64 from indexed 1-bit palette image was supplied along – all ready for FaaS.
AWS Lambda (colleague name generator)
Creating a λ function is trivial – from given hello-world example, without initial trigger, apply code gently –
Based on above
lambda_handler function name – and the fact we're using Python – here is the overview of configuration options –
In order to verify that function returns correct JSON with name and UTF-8 chars, use empty curly brackets for Input test event and validate output –
AWS API Gateway
In order to have an URL to invoke the function from, GET request method integration is needed. By default API Gateway returns JSON, so making it present HTML requires a bit of extra work.
Three out of four pillars of non-intuitive method execution setup (Method Re{quest,sponse}, Integration Re{quest,sponse}) need to be tweaked in order to achieve that.
Changes on the Integration Request are basic –
Integration Response, however, demands more alteration. Within HTTP 200 response set Content-Type and define body mapping so that function return is parsed as part of HTML –
Content-Type is entered with single quotes and all JSON fields from lambda are accessed via
Last step before hitting Actions / Deploy API is adding "Content-Type" within Method Response and modifying response body for HTTP 200 –
Entry point for the function can now be found under Invoke URL on the Stages editor, after API has been succesfully deployed. All that's left is to enjoy fresh FaaS Shift-O-Slav name generator.
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Six months after this exit from Dior, new speculations that Raf Simons is set to take reins over at Calvin Klein arise with the recent announcement of creative directors Francisco Costa and Italo Zucchelli bidding the label farewell.
A statement was released by the label: "A new brand direction will ultimately follow one creative vision across all categories of the business. An announcement will be made in due course."
BOF reports that the departure of the two creative directors pave way for this new global strategy, which aims to bring together all of its brands under one creative vision. But as far as the appointment of a new creative head goes, no further announcement has been made.
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Atlanta – Digital Signage Expo (DSE), the world's largest international trade show and educational conference dedicated to digital displays, interactive technology and digital communications networks, is the one place to go see the newest cutting-edge technologies available today. Among the more than 250 vendors that will be exhibiting on the show floor, many of them will be introducing new products at DSE 2019, including:
- ABCOM's 32" portable Swedx 4K Sandwich Board revolutionizes the standard print signage, with a vibrant 4K commercial display allowing for content to be shown in any file format, can loop videos or rotate images through a built-in media player or PC secured in the base. Custom options available – battery operated, outdoor-rated, back-to-back. Booth 1834
- AOPEN Chromebox Commercial 2,is the world's first commercial-grade 4K Chromebox. It is sleek, rugged, and ultra-secure. It is perfect for 24/7 kiosks, digital signage, machine vision, industrial and commercial applications. It supports 2UHD 4K displays, is fanless, has dual WiFi antennas and the secure Google ChromeOS. Booth 2138
- NEC ALP is a powerful business intelligence analytics platform for retailers, which delivers real-time content and data measurement. Its back-end architecture uses edge and cloud computing to provide analytics and insights, helping retailers create personalized customer experiences through real-time, relevant content triggered by non-identifying demographic data sourced through multiple sensors.
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- Philips Signage Solutions' 55" 55BDL3010Q is designed to inform and enthrall with breathtaking 4K images from your external media player or even a USB stick – without all the internal complications that you don't need. This newest addition to our Q-Line now includes Failover to ensure your screen is never blank! Booths 3243/3245
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New courses released onto the DT schedule & virtual learning environment!
With no small amount of effort we have managed to bring forward the release of the phase 2 online training courses available via the Dunstan Thomas virtual learning environment.
The list of options now available is;
- An Introduction to UML
- Reporting with Enterprise Architect
- SysML 1.3 Made Practical with Enterprise Architect
- Putting TOGAF into Practice with Enterprise Architect
- Business Process Modelling using BPMN and Enterprise Architect
- Enterprise Architect; The Practicalities
- An Introduction to ArchiMate
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Modelling Applications for Mobile Devices using Enterprise Architect
This two day training course for Sparx Systems UML modelling tool, Enterprise Architect. It is designed to provide Business Analysts and Solution Architects with the necessary practical skills to create, using Enterprise Architect, design solution models for applications that will be running on mobile devices.
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EA User Group Conference; London - The agenda takes shape...
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We're still in the draft stages and so timings and presentations are still subject to change.
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It is a unique proprietary approach to integrating the four key modeling languages UML, SysML, BPMN and SoaML, into one compact and simplified hands-on course using EA, designed specifically for enterprise modelers, business & systems analysts, software developers and technical managers.
Why QUAD-ML? Why Now?
This course was designed based on inquiries and questions from our customers regarding best practices in mixed-language environments. We also learned that competent hands-on knowledge of these four key languages is becoming a standard in many corporate environments.
QUAD-ML was carefully designed to provide you with a quick and affordable way to gain practical knowledge rapidly with these four languages. It is the best way we know of (so far) to help you come up to speed and compete effectively in the current fast-paced business and high technology environment.
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- The 10 most important modeling practices you should be applying today
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- How all four languages "integrate" in the same model-based environment
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- Key fundamentals of UML and SysML enterprise modeling
- The BPMN and SoaML languages
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Mobility - Global Change Agent
According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in 2013, there are almost as many mobile-cellular subscriptions as people in the world and in 2014 the number of mobile phones in use will exceed the number of people on the planet.
The mobile revolution is providing equity of access to education, health, government, banking, environment and business for many sectors of the global community while challenging enterprise business models in every sector. It is a platform that is here to stay and a disruptive influence on business that cannot be ignored.
Mobile devices form the platform that will deliver work models that are very different from the past and facilitate social networking. This force will inform the enterprise architecture that will deliver strategic support for mobile devices owned by employees and provide open, secure environments to allow these devices to connect to enterprise systems including the cloud.
By defining an envisioned future state that can be shared and discussed, enterprise architecture will assist organizations to navigate change in an agile manner while enabling milestones to be achieved within agreed time-frames. A key standard for enterprise architecture is the use of UML for creating design models: http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/platforms/soa.html
Enterprise architecture is about ensuring that an organization has the right integration/alignment between IT and the business (including people, processes, investments, information and technology) in order to better support the business's capabilities and to enable the business to evolve toward a future state, according to Gartner - "It is not just about technology. Enterprise Architecture is the key to driving digital strategy": http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2586115
Using Visual Styles in Enterprise Architect to Improve Diagram Appearance
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is a great tool to produce and organise your models using UML, SysML, BPMN or other modelling languages or notations.
In some cases, the default rendering of elements on certain types of diagrams lacks a suitable colour scheme and font.
This article deals with two topics :
- Highlight the strengths of Enterprise Architect as a modelling tool versus that of a drawing tool,
- Applying visual styles to improve the look and feel of your diagrams.
A vital switch from a drawing tool to a comprehensive modelling tool
Initial context : A colleague and I discovered a set of BPMN diagrams maintained by a team using a BPM modelling tool, Bizagi BPMN Business Process Modeler. Being a freeware must have helped to quickly try and adopt this tool for the project. I have to say that the rendering of the diagrams looked rather attractive and modern. As a UML and BPMN expert, my colleague was the first one to get involved in this task. He started to model new business processes, and update existing ones as requested. He noticed a number of mistakes (e.g. broken sequence flow, missing end event) that he promptly fixed.
As things went on, we had a chat and I asked what he thought about this tool compared with Sparx Enterprise Architect. His feedback was interesting ; Bizagi was more or less a drawing tool like Ms Visio, that can be used to create a couple of UML diagrams. A project browser was missing from Bizagi i.e. when you create a BPMN node like an activity or gateway, you have no access to this element so that it can be reused into several diagrams. Not to mention all the other powerful advantages from Enterprise Architect including traceability with other model elements from the same project, e.g. to link an activity with a requirement it fulfils, or with a use case to establish links between the business and system analysis models.
The need for a real modelling project quickly lead to a move from Bizagi modelling tool to Enterprise Architect, as agreed by the client.
Applying visual styles to improve BPMN diagrams rendering
As I started to create and maintain BPMN diagrams in Enterprise Architect, I looked at simple ways to reproduce a similar look and feel from the original tool (Bizagi). The aim was to improve the default rendering of Elements in Enterprise Architect. Below, I managed to reproduce a similar visual style using the following colour schemes:
- BPMN2 start event : light green background + dark green line
- BPMN2 end event : light red background + dark red line
- BPMN2 activities and gateways : light blue background + dark blue line
The procedure to create those visual styles is quite easy:
- 1- I first defined the visual settings on a selected element using the diagram toolbar by setting the background colour, line colour and width, and the font.
- 2- Then I clicked on Save as New Style icon from the toolbar, and entered the style name as prompted by Enterprise Architect, e.g. start event.
- Alternatively, having an element with its visual settings already done, a new style can be created using the Get Style icon from the toolbar, followed by Save as New Style.
- 3- Having repeated this process for each new visual style, I ended up with a list styles ready to apply onto my diagram's elements.
Note : Visual styles are stored within your Enterprise Architect project (e.g. the EAP file) but I haven't found them yet from the Reference Data to export them and share with others.
Once all visual styles have been defined, the following list can be opened from the diagram toolbar :
Here is an illustration of what I came up with, having applied the new styles :
The Well Dressed Model
Seven ways to organise your EA models so that other people can understand them
Ian Mitchell, email@example.com
- If you have spent many hours creating a great EA Model, hopefully you want the rest of your organisation to use it as well. But how can you make it readable?
- Or maybe have you just picked-up a model which you created a few years back, only to be baffled by your own work. What exactly was this model all about, and where has all that great stuff gone ?
- Or perhaps you've inherited a model from someone else who isn't available to tell you what's in it. How are you supposed to sort out what's complete and useful, from the 'other stuff'?
Over the years, we've come across all of these several times, and have developed a few tricks to avoid them.
If you have more techniques for helping other people to understand your models, please email Ian at eaDocX dot com.
1 A Package is not a Bucket
The most important 'thing' in Enterprise Architect is definitely the Package. It's also the simplest. Just a folder with stuff in it, right?
The Package or rather the family of Packages which you create, say more about your model than anything else. If you just use them as a bucket to put things, then you're missing-out on a critical way to communicate the intent of your model.
Some rules for Packages:
- Sensible names. It may seem amusing to call a package 'new stuff', but nobody else will ever look there to find anything. If it's 'new stuff which was invented in the meeting..' then call it that.
- Descriptions. A Package without a description isn't just half-dressed, it's practically naked. There is always something you can say about what's in the package, where it came from, whether it's finished or not.
I suggest that anyone who creates a package in a shared model and doesn't add a description should buy the coffees for all of next week.
- Authors. Enterprise Architect will make the Author of the Package the person who created it. But go further, and make the Author the Owner of the information in it. So, even if someone is totally confused at what's in the package, they can always email the author…
2 Notes, notes, notes
I've been teaching UML and other modelling techniques for more than 15 years, so apologies to all former students for repeating this. If you're in that select group, can you remember the most important UML (or BPMN, or SysML..) modelling construct ?
The Note.
The humble note.
They don't cost anything, they never run out, and they can communicate more about whyyour diagrams look the way they do than anything else.
Add them to elements, to links, to anywhere you can think of. But make sure to keep them up-to-date: a diagram with misleading notes is worse than one with no notes at all.
3 Single-purpose Packages
If you're going to follow the rules above, and describe what's inside each package, then having one, or a small number, of different types of 'thing' in a folder is sensible: it's easier to find things, and easier to write a quick description.
This also becomes important if you are going to document your model using a document generator – either RTF or eaDocX.
A Package with one type of thing in it can be documented as a simple table, with the Package name becoming a title for the table.
4 Different things get different stereotypes
The idea of the Stereotype is one of the key ideas of UML, which EA has extended to cover all the other model types it supports. So whether you're creating SysML diagrams, BPMN business processes or Use Cases, you can use stereotypes.
So use them.
A stereotype is just a 'special kind of' thing. So if you have use cases which are sometimes complete (all scenarios filled-in) then make them <<fully dressed>>Use Cases, or if not <<partially dressed>> . So a reader finding one of these will know whether it will be completed or not: they know what to expect.
The same can be true of any other element. Using a stereotype can tell your readers what they are looking at.
Stereotyping also makes it easier for documentation tools like eaDocX to change how they format their outputs. For example, a <<fully dressed>> Use Case should print its scenarios, and highlight where they are missing – that's an error. But <<partially dressed>>Use Cases don't need to.
5 Status is everything, or Somewhere to Play
When you read a model, probably the most common problem is that you don't know what the status of something is: a diagram, an element, or a whole package of the model.
Is this completed, signed-off and implemented, or just some ideas I had over coffee one day?
So using the EA 'Status' fields (with some sensible values) is really, really useful to readers.
Why not have an area of the model which is just a sandpit? Somewhere where modellers can try things out, and to which no standards apply. Readers are not encouraged to look in these packages. Everything is work-in-progress or incomplete.
Equally, the areas which are for 'real' content DO obey all the local rules: packages must have descriptions, only the approved stereotypes are used etc.
6 Public and Private diagrams
The great power of EA is that it allows us to create links between all kinds of elements, depending on what kind of problem we're trying to solve.
There are several ways to create these links: the Relationship Matrix is a quick way, but diagrams are also very common. And this creates a problem for the reader.
Are they looking a 'proper' diagram, which they are supposed to understand, or is this a diagram which you just created to establish some relationships, and isn't really for public use?
So get used to naming diagrams so that this is obvious, and to prevent accidental printing of these diagrams in documents.
Pick a naming convention for 'do not print' documents: we add 'hidden' in front of the document name. We'd like to use a diagram stereotype, but that doesn't appear in the Project Browser. So 'My untidy diagram' becomes: 'Hidden – my untidy diagram'. We also tick the box in the diagram properties to "Exclude image from RTF Documents". Both the EA RTF generator and eaDocX will take this to mean 'don't print in any document'.
So now you're free to create as many untidy diagrams as you like, and readers will know to ignore them.
7 Pick a meta-model, write it down, and stick to it
This final piece of advice is really a summary of all the others.
Each idea we've discussed above contributes to your meta-model.
If that sounds like a scary, super-technical idea, it isn't.
All of your EA models already have a meta-model, whether you know it or not. The meta-model just says what kinds of 'stuff' is in your model.
- What kinds of elements have you used? e.g Requirements and Use Cases, but not internal requirements,
- How have you linked them together?
- What stereotypes have you used, and what does each one mean?
- How have you used things like Element Tests, the Glossary, or Project Tasks?
..so not really complicated. The meta-model is just your local modelling standards.
If you want to find out what your meta-model is, use the eaDocX Model Expert. It will draw a diagram of all the element types, stereotypes and links in your model. Be prepared for a surprise! Big models can be complicated!
This is a good reason to make your meta-model clear and simple. Pick a small number of elements, stereotypes and links, and use them consistently.
Communicating the meta-model is critical: one which only you understand is no use. It MUST be written down, preferably in the model itself, and taught to all of your team.
AND kept up-to-date, as your modelling style evolves, as it will certainly do.
UML and BPMN with Enterprise Architect Training in Johannesburg
CRaG Systems has scheduled a number of public courses in Johannesburg, South Africa teaching model-driven development with UML, BPMN and Enterprise Architect. The courses take place over the five days of one full working week on a regular basis at the CRaG Systems Training Centre in the heart of the central business district of Sandton in the north of Johannesburg.
Over the 5 days students will learn the use of Enterprise Architect for business analysis, requirements definition and system analysis using the most appropriate syntax for the job in hand. Students can choose which of the three sections they would like to attend enrolling for one, two or all three sections in any one week.
Industry best practice is taught for business process modelling, system use case modelling and system analysis at every appropriate level of abstraction based on the Business Process Modelling Notation v2.0 for business process modelling and on the Unified Modelling Language v2.4 for systems modelling. The techniques are taught within the context of a business process management (BPM), improvement or re-engineering strategy and a model-driven development process in a way that satisfies the needs of both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Enterprise Architect is used for the exercises throughout the course and the relevant details of the use of Enterprise Architect for modelling, reporting, traceability and change management are taught.
Currently scheduled dates:
- August 19th - 23rd 2013
- October 7th - 11th 2013
- November 18th - 22nd 2013
- January 27th - 31st 2014
- March 10th - 14th 2014
- May 5th - 9th 2014
For more information see the CRaG Systems BPMN and UML using Enterprise Architect Training Courses in Johannesburg page.
CRaG Systems' Johannesburg Training Centre
Model Organization with Packages and the Package Diagram
It is no coincidence that the package element in UML is represented by a folder icon, similar to directories in a file system Graphical User Interface (GUI). Packages are used to organize the elements of a model just as folders are used to organize files. The contents of a package are any kind of element that is part of a model, including other packages. Beyond that description there's not much more information on how to use packages in the UML specification. Since they are a general grouping thing, it is up to usage scenarios to suggest what the best practices are for using packages. There are some practices that apply in most situations, and more that depend upon the modeling methodology or the purpose of the model.
First and foremost, use packages to organize your model, regardless of the model purpose. Even the most trivial model quickly becomes unmanageable without some kind of organization. There is no single correct way to organize a model. A modeler may choose to organize around process or product or some combination of the two. Second, use the package diagram to provide visualizations of that organization. The model browser view below illustrates how even a simple model can begin to be confusing with no organization of the model elements.
In addition to being able to gather like items together to allow modelers to focus their attention on relevant elements and make those elements easier to find in the browser, packages provide a namespace for the elements they contain. Namespaces allow modelers to create unambiguous named references to each of the elements in a model. This is useful in situations such as when a modeler is evolving a system and creating an as-is and a to-be system model. It is natural to have elements named the same in each model. In order to disambiguate elements with the same name, they can be placed in different packages so that the fully-qualified names are different.
Packages can be placed on a UML package diagram. The modeler might choose to do this to present a high-level view of a model or to show relationships among the packages of elements. Three different package diagrams representing the model organization shown above are presented here. Each of these diagrams uses the optional diagram frame, showing the diagram type (pkg) and diagram name (Use Case View). Note that although the diagram and the package have the same name (Use Case View) this is not required. In the first diagram, the two high-level packages are shown. As with many other modeling situations, only the details we need are presented, and the details of the package contents are elided.
In the second diagram, the packages contained in the Actors package are shown. The labels on the Human and Non-Human package describe the namespace of the containing package. The containment relationship also serves to describe the namespace. In this example, the fully qualified name of the Actor Operator is Use Case View::Actors::Human::Operator.
In the third diagram, the contents of the packages are shown embedded in the package elements. This representation is the third presentation option found in the UML specification.
Your package diagrams will in all likelihood be some combination of each of these styles, as will your choice of organizing principles. Choose the one that is appropriate for its intended use.