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Below is an excerpt from my article on Gaia on how to develop and sustain an intimate home practice. You can read the full article here. When we commit to a devoted practice of yoga at home, we get to choose our own adventure with each new arrival on the mat. Simply going through the motions is no longer an option because when the practice isn't serving us on a particular day, we have the power to change it. This how we become energy alchemists. Alchemy is "a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation or combination" and as alchemists, it is up to us to combine different elements of the practice to yield our desired transformation. As Pranic beings, our energy levels may be affected by everything from the book we are reading to the weather. However, as you begin to enjoy yoga at home more regularly, you may begin to perceive the subtle underlying patterns in your body as they relate to different days and times. In my practice for example, Tuesdays are generally my courageous heart, nothing-can-stop-me, bring on the week, days. Conversely, Mondays are typically much quieter and it takes a lot more energy just to get my body moving. As a result, I typically start my week on Tuesdays, which happens to suit my fluid schedule. Similarly, when I know I have a busy day ahead, I try to wake up a little early and move through at least 5 Surya Namaskar A and 5 Surya Namaskar B to keep yoga alive in my body in the event that I'm unable to squeeze in a practice elsewhere. The idea is to let whatever rhythm you choose provide the energy alchemy that serves you best. We all have our favorite categories of asana and even if you're in the nascent stages of a yoga practice, yours will reveal themselves soon. As such, we organically gravitate toward the shapes that fit into these categories (backbends, twists, hip openers, etc.) because they feel good in our bodies. We must, however, also spend time with the asanas that we don't love. Those that we are re-kindling a relationship with or those we have yet to meet. Are you a lover of backbends? Try simmering in deep forward folds. Naturally flexible? Explore ways to develop muscular strength and endurance. We have as much to learn from pratikriyasana (reverse action) as we do from the fullest expression of any posture. Despite what poses we think we should practice, it is prudent also give adequate devotion to the shapes we shy away from and inside that devotion, ask the question: why? I will be the first to admit, I am a strong proponent of goal-setting, goal-chasing and overall goal-related enthusiasm. In most circumstances, I believe setting measurable goals and declaring them aloud is like saying to the Universe, "I mean it, I really want this". The mat, however, is one place that I prefer to keep metric-free. In my experience, a practice that is rooted in the desire to achieve an external pose or aim does not sustain me long-term and keep me coming back for more. If the aim is too challenging, I have a tendency to become discouraged. Too easy and I will likely become disinterested. Intentions, on the other hand are living, breathing forces of consciousness. Our relationship with them changes and evolves giving them the potential to surprise in new, wonderful ways all the time. Consider how inviting courage onto your mat might get your feet off the ground in crow pose one day and give you the permission to rest in child's pose the next. With their infinite forms, intentions are better equipped to support the purpose of ongoing sadhana. Continue reading the full article on Gaia - Yoga at Home: The Intimate Experience of Self-Practice.

Some chefs are worth following wherever they might lead us: We first met Justin Yap more than two years ago, and even then, his risk-taking resourcefulness was evident, when he served us everything from mee sua with Shaoxing-cooked prawns to squid ink pasta with crispy curried crickets (yep, the insects!). Barely in his mid-twenties, Justin is now the executive chef of Momentz Music Restaurant, revolutionising the menu at what might superficially seem like a typical Puchong watering hole. What makes Justin a chef to eat for is his inventive interplay of ingredients, delivering a delicate dance of flavours and textures that soothes and satisfies. His kitchen takes the familiar and transforms it afresh with skillful self-expression, while still respecting the roots of the recipe. That's the essence of soulful fare like the Namikaze Tonkotsu Ramen, showcasing noodles immersed in a broth that's made collagen-rich by being cooked with pig's trotters, given gently nutty nuances with tahini, toasted miso, roasted garlic and ginger. It's ultimately lighter and less robust than the typical tonkotsu ramen, evoking Chinese inflections as much as Japanese, but its strength rests in how it feels intimately personal, with the noodles being handmade and the broth taking 13 hours to prepare. It's a contemporary take on ramen that succeeds in tasting classically time-honoured. That sense of versatile confidence extends to salads, seafood and meat: A mesclun mix is enlivened with marinated crab meat, tobiko, jellyfish, wakame seaweed, Japanese cucumber and wasabi sesame dressing for a beautifully balanced medley of Western and Japanese sensibilities; Nordic king salmon fillets are seared to a suppleness reminiscent of a slow-cooked confit, their luscious flesh contrasting vivaciously with their crackly skin, punctuated with sparkling notes of lemon, thyme and soy butter (a certain should-order for salmon enthusiasts); and a Black Angus striploin is aged for 100 days in butter, boasting a clean depth of savouriness, char-grilled to the ideal tenderness, rounded out with an onion pepper gravy and portobello mushrooms with shaved bonito and truffle oil, brilliantly bringing together beefiness with brininess and aromatic earthiness. Any of those aforementioned offerings would make Momentz a memorable destination, but the most striking ensemble might be the charred iberico pork collar, marinated with juniper berries, plum sauce and sea salt, plated with an egg yolk, bacon-spiked mashed potatoes, herb-roasted vegetables and teriyaki sesame glaze - an effort that's both accessible and ambitious, purposeful in each of its flourishes, with each component well thought-out and well-tuned to serve the dish as a whole. Many thanks to the Momentz team for having us here. LOT 1, i31, Jalan PPU2A, Bandar Puchong Jaya, Taman Perindustrian Pusat Bandar Puchong, 47100 Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia.

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Home » Amazon, Ebay, eCommerce, flipkart1, News, Paytm, SME, Snapdeal SMEs in the spotlight as e-commerce players look for tie-ups to increase seller base Vivek Pai By Vivek Pai [email protected] September 5, 2014 Online e-commerce retailers like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon have recently started turning towards small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to find unique products for their marketplaces. These SMEs provide an assorted collection of products including clothing, handicrafts, accessories and jewellery among other things and in return get a platform for selling their products, plus training, infrastructure, logistical support, and technology from online retailers. Such agreements benefit both sides. Online retailers looking for niches to drive customer interest get to push unique products and offer small brands via their marketplaces while in return SMEs get to market their goods to a worldwide audience without the need for intermediary sellers or wholesalers, increasing their exposure to customers and driving sales. Having an association with established market players, also gives credibility to SME products, increasing consumer confidence when buying. Current tie-ups Flipkart: The latest of Facebook's SME tie-ups is its partnership with the National Institute of Fashion Technology, which would see the e-commerce major work with local weavers and artisans in Varanasi, especially to feature Banarasi saris to its website, reports afaqs. The partnership claims it will target about 40,000 weavers from Varanasi, 10,000 artisans from Barabanki and another 15,000 weavers in Sultanpur. – The company had also signed an MoU with the Development Commissioner for Handlooms, as a part of which Flipkart would list products from rural Indian handloom weavers and craftsmen on its platform. According to the deal, the company would set up collection centers to collect these products and the weavers would get to sell their products under their own brand name. – Flipkart has a similar tie-up with the FISME (Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and NCDPD (National Center for Design and Product Development) as well, which it signed in June this year. It had also signed an MoU with the Director General of Employment and Training to help Indian MSMEs scale their businesses via its platform, last month. Paytm: One97′s consumer brand Paytm partnered with the non-profit Digital Empowerment Foundation to help self-help groups and micro-enterprises across different verticals including textiles, handicrafts, weaving etc., to monetize via its digital platform. As a part of the partnership, Paytm is started selling products from Chanderi weavers of Madhya Pradesh, brought through Chanderi Weavers Resource Integrated Information Resource Centre's ecommerce venture, Chanderiyaan, on its website. Amazon: The e-commerce platform partnered with the government of Karnataka for setting up an SME marketplace although further details of this deal were not further elaborated. The company currently claims to have over 9000 sellers on its platform. Snapdeal: Also involved in the above mentioned Karnataka government partnership, Snapdeal currently runs an initiative called the Craft Collection, a platform for indigenous artisans to sell their products, in association with the NGO Ode to Earth eBay: Small trade association including Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council, Jaipur Jewellers Association, Gurgaon Chamber of Commerce, Engineering Export Promotion Council and District Industries Centre among others, agreed to sell via the e commerce platform, eBay India. Flipkart Marketplace partners Capital Float & Lendingkart to offer sellers easy access to loans Samsung forays into e-learning with Smart Learning solution Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal says Amazon's $1 billion promised investment not a "great favour" to India Paytm secures $1 billion investment from existing backers and T. Rowe Price CCI approves Amazon's 49% equity stake in Future Coupons, Amazon will now own 3.58% stake in Future Retail Amazon's Ring has contemplated adding facial recognition to its cameras Smartphone brands assure same prices and discounts on offline and online stores: Report Snapdeal warns customers about scams on fake websites, WhatsApp messages, Facebook posts and pages As net income reduces QoQ, Amazon to focus on AWS and One Day shipping in Q4 DPIIT asks Amazon and Flipkart to disclose top 5 sellers, business model: Report

The triangle formed by the lines whose combined equation is is A triangle is formed by the lines whose combined equation is given by The equation of its circumcircle is: The equation of the circumcircle of the triangle formed by the lines whose combined equation is given by (x+y-4) (xy-2x-y+2)=0, is Area of the triangle formed by the lines and is The three lines whose combined equation is form a triangle which is is formed by the lines and the line AB. The equation of line AB is .Find the equation of the median of the triangle drawn from the origin. Three sides of a triangle are represented by lines whose combined equation is , then the equation of its circumcircle will be : (A) (B) (C) (D) The area of triangle formed by two rays whose combined equation is and the line is If are roots of equation the the area of the triangle formed by lines is: The centroid of the triangle whose three sides are given by the combined equation , is Circum centre of the triangle formed by the lines is The combined equation of the bisectors of the angle between the lines represented by is Area of the triangle formed by the lines and any tangant to the hyperbola is The line forms an equilateral triangle with the lines The perimeter of the triangle is : Explain Pair of straight lines with examples. What is the General equation of second degree and condition for represent pair of lines ? What is Point of intersection of pair of straight line ? Pair of straight lines through origin Angle between pair of straight line Some special Cases of angle between Pair Of Straight Lines Bisector of angle between the pair of lines Combined equation of pair of lines joining origin and intersection of a curve and line Find the lines whose combined equation is Find the value of if represent a pair of straight lines.

According to one definition of the term "survey," this kind of course would "take a broad, general, or comprehensive view of" British literature. But to survey is also to "determine the form, extent, and situation of the parts of (a tract of ground, or any portion of the earth's surface) by linear and angular measurements, so as to construct a map." In this course, students will seek a comprehensive view of British literature by thinking about how major literary texts refer to geographical space. In our discussions, we will map the places of literature's origins and settings, tease out the narrative and geographic meanings of "plot," and consider both maps and literature as modes of representation. We will supplement our discussions of literary works with the study of maps in USC's Rare Books and Special Collections. Some of our meetings will be held in the Hollings Library, where Rare Books is located. Authors will include William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and others. Romantic poets are popularly thought to have an emotional, unscientific appreciation for nature based on direct personal experience. And yet these writers were heavily influenced by (and sometimes based their own poetry on) descriptions of the natural world written by scientists and travelers; some Romantic poetry includes, often in footnotes, scientific nomenclature from what was then the new system of Linnaean taxonomy. Connections between literary and scientific approaches to the natural world are the core of this survey course, which runs from the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century, from the Enlightenment through Romanticism and into the early Victorian period. We will enrich and complicate our understanding of literary representations of nature by studying works of natural history and botanical illustrations from the library's extensive collections of original materials. Our discussions will address the following issues: aesthetic response and scientific objectivity, taxonomy and empire, and scientific nomenclature and poetic language. Authors include John Clare, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Emily Brontë.

A bid for an Institute of Technology centre in East Anglia has been rejected. Dr Nikos Savvas (Principal West Suffolk College) chatting to a student. The New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and West Suffolk College in Bury St Edmunds, who were leading the project to open one of the country's first Institute of Technology (IoTs) centres, said they were "very disappointed" to miss out. The proposal to establish the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIoT) was launched in 2017, and the project was one of just 16 to be shortlisted for the second stage of bidding last summer. The government then received 15 applications in August last year, and 12 projects, including four in London and two in the west Midlands, have now been selected. It was proposed that the EIoT would run from the sites of the five supporting colleges – West Suffolk College, Suffolk New College, Easton and Otley College, the College of West Anglia and East Coast College. Dr Nikos Savvas, West Suffolk College principal and Suffolk Academy Trust chief executive, said: "We were very surprised and disappointed to learn that we didn't make it through as we believed we'd submitted a very strong bid. "However our resolve and commitment to offer local high level, industry partnered STEM and technology training that will reenergise and meet the skills needs of the region, is as strong as ever. A spokesman for the New Anglia LEP said: "We're very disappointed of course. Our technology expertise is world leading in areas such as ICT, agri-food and clean energy, and we want to stay ahead of the curve. "Only a couple of weeks ago, we announced multi-million investments in skills and innovation including £1.6m for a Digital and Technology Skills Hub at Suffolk New College. "Driving skills and high quality jobs are fundamental to our goals to create a more inclusive economy. The government's idea of introducing IoTs is to create a high-quality route to gain skills and technical qualifications, comparable to going to university. The successful applicants will now work with the Department of Education (DfE), and the first IoTs are expected to open in September this year. The DfE has been approached for further comment.

Center to Double in Size, Offer Options in Heart of Abortion Zone Written by Nancy Flanders Sacramento Life Center will have a new home in the spring of 2016, as the pregnancy help medical clinic seeks to serve more women than ever before. Currently operating out of a second-story office with no signage and no parking for their clients, the upcoming move will relocate the clinic to a more urban area, close to a high school and a nearby a large shopping mall, with plenty of parking and large signs visible from a major boulevard. A generous donation from a board member set the stage for Sacramento Life Center's imminent upgrade to the corner of Bell St. and Arden Way. "It's something that we're just so excited and thrilled about," Marie Leatherby, the clinic's director since 2011, said. "In spite of the culture and government that doesn't seem to like our work, to have the backing of people who know what we do is good and right and helpful to women." Leatherby has been an outspoken opponent to California's so-called "Reproductive FACT Act," which would force life-affirming pregnancy help centers and medical clinics throughout the state to post government-specified signage telling clients how and where to access a state-sponsored abortion. While multiple motions for injunctions to halt the Jan. 1 effective date of the legislation are in play, Leatherby and her team hope the move to an area where the abortion industry is a pregnant woman's only choice will have a more lasting effect in the community. Just a mile down the street from Sacramento Life Center's new digs stands Women's Health Specialists, an abortion facility that is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Choice Medical Group, another abortion provider, is 2.5 miles to the east, while Family Planning Associates—in business since 1969—is 2.5 miles to the west. "We're able to secure a building in a part of town that will be twice the size of what we have," Leatherby said. "It will have more street visibility, signage, and parking. It's in an area where there's three abortion clinics, so we're right in the heart of it." The relocation to an area previously dominated by abortion clinics is one of many within the pro-life pregnancy help community over the years, as life-affirming ministries compete with the abortion industry for clients. In July, Life Choices Women's Center in Alamonte Springs, Fla., began serving clients in a building that shares a parking lot with an abortion clinic, while another Florida pregnancy center, Heartbeat of Miami, has seen three abortion businesses shut their doors since they began serving clients in 2007. Two of those closed abortion clinics have since become locations for life-affirming help. At the southern end of California, Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center in San Diego currently shares a wall with an abortion clinic. Tweet This: California #prolife pregnancy ctr @SacLifeCenter moving to #abortion hotspot. "Many women that come to our clinic are out looking for abortion businesses," Jeanne Pernia, client services director at Heartbeat of Miami. "Even to the point where there's an abortion business down the street, a lot of women see our pregnancy help center, they think it's an abortion center, but we tell them that it's not, and they're open to hearing what an abortion really is, because [the conversation is] free. It gives them the opportunity so that they can get the information that they need." Leatherby and her team are working on a capital campaign to be able to pay off the mortgage on the new building within two to five years so they can operate mortgage-free, and put that money towards patient services. The clinic is hoping that their new location and large signage will allow them to double the amount of women they currently serve. "Last year we had 2,200 medical clinic appointments," Leatherby said. "We're hoping to get close to 4,000 medical appointments between our two mobile clinics and our new location." Operating on community support since 1972, Sacramento Life Center currently offers services including free pregnancy tests, well women exams, free STI testing, and was one of the first centers in the nation to add free ultrasounds in 1998. "The ultrasound is a mighty tool to help patients see what's going on," Pernia said. "Once they hear the truth of what abortion is and what their real options are in regards to parenting or adoption his gives them a whole different outlook. Then they get the opportunity to find out exactly what's happening." While they will continue to offer free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, and well-woman exams, Leatherby would also like to offer additional care for women during and after pregnancy. "I'd like to expand to prenatal care visits," Leatherby said. "And we'd like to do a full on big baby boutique, baby needs room and to definitely expand that for moms, and also a classroom so we can hold larger parenting classes. [We'd like to] expand our educational portion too, as well as teen education classes, a REAL Life program, teaching kids how to make great choices in their lives, abstinence programs on the kids' level, and a separate space for dads too. "Everything we do, we'll be able to enhance." Tweet This: @SacLifeCenter one of first #prolife pregnancy ctrs to add u/s services. The new building will also allow Sacramento Life Center to become only the second pregnancy center in California, after Alternative Women's Center in Escondido, to achieve a triple AHC federal accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Care, Inc., signifying the clinic meets or exceeds nationally-recognized high standards for patient care. Leatherby plans to have Sacrament Life Center's new licensure complete and the remodeling of the new facility finished by March 2016. local centers pregnancy center FlipThatClinic Nancy Flanders Nancy is a work at home mom who writes about parenting, special needs children, and the right to life. She is the lucky mother of three spirited little girls, one who has cystic fibrosis, and she spends any free moment she can find fundraising for a cure for CF. A writer at LiveActionNews, you can read Nancy's personal blog at www.ChronicAdmissions.com. Pro-abortion Governor Gavin Newsom faces recall election in California Yes, you should say something if someone you know is considering abortion REPORT: U.S. pro-life pregnancy centers assist nearly 2 million with essential services in 2019 How pro-life pregnancy centers can survive public attacks from abortion advocates

JAKARTA ~ Indonesia and Pakistan have agreed to work together to stamp out radical Islam as part of efforts to stop future deadly militant attacks, state media said. They have formed a joint working group amid concerns some Indonesians have attended Islamic schools in Pakistan and have later undergone training in extremist camps, said Indonesian senior anti-terror officer Ansyaad Mbai. "We will work together in a joint working group to find, among others, a new method to eradicate radicalism in Islam that often becomes the root of terrorism," Mbai was quoted as saying by the Antara news agency. He did not say whether Pakistani officials had visited the Southeast Asian nation recently to formalize the agreement, nor who would make up the group. Mbai said Indonesia had formed similar working groups with Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Dwelling Depot's warehouse-type stores provide home improvement and development merchandise at competitive prices for the do-it-your self shopper. And with the economic system (and maybe extra pertinently, the housing market) displaying signs of enchancment in recent years, both corporations have change into investors' favorites. Wanting by house transforming magazines and pamphlets from residence improvement shops may provide kitchen transforming ideas that won't have been thought about. Part of the popularity of American hardware stores is the range of companies they provide. Even if residence improvements aren't one thing you're aware of, some dwelling enchancment suggestions can show to be useful. We do not want to go away anybody in the Denver area out who gives contractors or owners with materials. Some house improvement stores can have paints to select from, however it may not be the proper or have what you should full the design of a room. With out good operations administration, retail stores do not final very long as a result of they may not be returning a revenue. The newly launched on-line retailer doubles as a testing floor for conceptual experiments. In contrast to other on-line hardware shops, you can choose to pick up your purchase or we are able to organize native supply for giant or bulkier items for a fee. Hardware shops tend to be extra welcoming to customers," says IBISWorld analyst Jocelyn Phillips. The Dallas retailer, scheduled to open in late spring, is a mannequin of what it appears like when TreeHouse flexes its muscle tissue. Armed with the nice residence enchancment recommendation above, it's now doable so that you can remodel your own home into the home you all the time needed.

The speculation was reported this morning in WWD. Ruffieux achieved renown this past year when he and Luci Meier were tapped to lead Dior's haute couture and women's ready-to-wear following Raf Simons' departure. He held the post for the luxury label between October 2015 and July 2016 when Maria Grazia Chiuri took over. Prior to Dior, Ruffieux's resume included the likes of Gérard Darel, Sonia Rykiel et Moschino.

The PIPC Blog PIPC Members Participate in PCORI Board Meeting WASHINGTON D.C. – Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) Chairman Tony Coelho today presented before the Board of Governors of the Patient Centered Outcomes and Research Institute (PCORI) in New York City, commending PCORI for its progress to date and recommending next steps to advance patient-centeredness in comparative effectiveness research (CER). ​ Noting PIPC's long-standing support for PCORI, Coelho said that the Institute "gives patients something they haven't had before: a voice and, more importantly, a vote." He added, "It's easy to say we're being 'patient-centered;' it's much harder to do it." Coelho outlined a number of steps he said PCORI could take to ensure that patient needs are considered throughout the research process, such as creating a strong definition of "patient-centered outcomes research" and fully engaging patients in the process of setting research priorities. In addition to Coelho, Angela Ostrom, Director of Federal Relations for the National Epilepsy Foundation and a member of PIPC's Steering Committee, spoke on behalf of PIPC. Ostrom described the importance of how individuals with epilepsy must work closely with their physician to optimize their treatment. "We understand that there are often obstacles and difficulties in achieving CER that recognizes unique patient needs and encourages individualized treatment, particularly for small sub-populations within chronic disease and disability populations. PCORI has an opportunity here to incorporate into its structure and mission a CER process that advances a research agenda responsive to these concerns. Doing so starts with the definition of 'patient centered outcomes research' and requires that patients, caregivers and providers can fully participate in the process." The Partnership to Improve Patient Care was formed in November 2008 to support proposals to expand the government's role in comparative effectiveness research that are centered on patient and provider needs; raise awareness about the value of well-designed CER; and promote the important role of continued medical innovation as part of the solution to cost and quality challenges in health care. Partnership members include a wide range of health care organizations representing patient, provider and industry advocacy groups. To learn more about PIPC, visit PIPCpatients.org. PIPC - NYC PCORI Board Meeting PIPC Patient Blog

*This is last year's first open workout. Burpees target height should be 6″ above max reach height. Rings, pull up rig or a wall can be used. Great job last week Battleground! I saw you guys putting in some serious work. Big week for those of you that signed up for the CrossFit Opens. This year I will be posting the workouts on Thursday night and we will be doing them on Friday as our class WOD. For those of you that have not signed up, DO IT! Like I've mentioned before, you'll be doing them anyway! The link to sign up is below. As mentioned, workouts will be done on Friday or during open gym BUT a judge MUST accompany you if you do it during open gym hours. It is up to you to coordinate a day/time with that person. If no judge can be present, video record yourself and submit it into the games site. No exceptions, sorry! REST 1 minute repeat a total of 5 rounds. 5 rounds for time. Rest 3 minutes between rounds. Post your total time minus 12 minutes of rest. 3 rounds for time. Rest 3 minutes between rounds. Post your total time minus 6 minutes of rest. For today's workout, only advanced athletes should attempt "Barbara". This workout is a CrossFit benchmark, an oldie but a goodie! For the ring rows, try to stay as parallel to the ground as possible. 1 Hang Power Clean into 3 Front Squats. Build Up to a heavy set. You can not hang squat clean the first rep. Another great week of work last week. Below is an article regarding the annual CrossFit Opens. If you haven't signed up already please do so…give it a shot! Be ready to work this week, and hopefully no snow! The 2014 CrossFit Games Open is quickly approaching. For some, this news will send you into a tailspin of panic. Freak out. Throw stuff. It's okay. We'll get through this. It's just exercise. Follow these simple guidelines and you'll be happier, healthier and far more sane than your misguided gymmates. You don't need to strategize these workouts to death, or forego the rest of your training for 5 weeks to get two extra reps. Whether this is your first year or your fourth of doing the Open, the main focus is to be level-headed throughout those 5 weeks. For 99% of us, there is no reason to do these workouts more than once. Just look at it as a friendly competition amongst your gymmates, the same as any other workout. The main reason to do the Open, and the main reason we do CrossFit in the first place, is for the community aspect. Getting fitter is great and all, but the people are what keeps us coming back. The Open is a carnival of fitness where each week your local box is transformed into a mini competition. You will judge your friends. Your friends will judge you. And at the end of the workout we'll all eat wings and drink adult beverages together. If you're lucky maybe someone will treat you to a bottle of Old Smuggler. Booze and wings? Who wouldn't want to do the Open? You don't need to strategize these workouts to death, or forego the rest of your training for 5 weeks to get two extra reps. What's the point? It's just one workout a week. It shouldn't disrupt the rest of your training or your life. Hey, I like to geek out over the Fitness as much as the next guy, but I'm not calculating the number of seconds it will take me to do 5 shoulder-to-overheads with 135 lbs. Let's pump the brakes here, people. If you go that route what will most likely happen is that you'll neglect your weekly strength and skill development and lose 5 weeks of training. It may not sound like much, but you can lose a good chunk of strength in 5 weeks, and if you're new to the Fitness that's the time when PRs are happening by the week. Take advantage of that time because it won't last forever. The main reason to do the Open, and the main reason we do CrossFit in the first place, is for the community aspect. I've written before about finding your 80% and cruising through a workout at that rate of exertion. If you want to kick things up a notch in a competition setting you can take an 80/80 approach. Go at 80% for the first 80% of the workout, and then go the full 100% effort for the last 20% of the workout. So, if the workout is a 10-minute AMRAP, for the first 8 minutes you would go at an 80% effort. Then, for the last 2 minutes you find that extra gear and go at a 100% of your abilities. This is a much more practical approach and it helps to alleviate the First Round Freak Out. Let's be honest with ourselves. If your first day of walking into a CrossFit gym didn't involve you destroying everyone in the workout, you're probably not going to make it to Regionals. Ever. That's not to say that you couldn't work really hard, get really strong and technically sound, be willing to suffer more than everyone else, and then maybe eventually earn a spot. But the deck is kind of stacked against you. Don't be sad if your dreams of making it to Regionals have just been crushed. That just means you had a normal childhood and your parents hugged you. Be happy about that. Enjoy the Open. Wings and booze for everyone!

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UN Policy Brief: COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health 13 MAY 2020 The Trieste Mental Health Department, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health is honoured to forward the United Nations Document (Policy Brief) on Mental Health during the Pandemic implemented with WHO. UN Secretary General Policy Brief COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health - https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un_policy_brief-covid_and_mental_health_final.pdf We forward as well the launch videos addressed by the UN Secretary General and by the WHO Director General and the press release of these international bodies. Video address by UN Secretary General --https://youtu.be/XLJlqcFYfeM Video address by WHO Director General: https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1260898292105449472?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet UN press release - https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1063882 WHO press release - https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/14-05-2020-substantial-investment-needed-to-avert-mental-health-crisis We are pleased to share a short commentary addressed by Dr Roberto Mezzina :"We are very proud to find many of the words and inspirations contained in our appeals and our documents. Particular significance has the boost given to national plans, to deinstitutionalization, to the engagement of stakeholders in Mental Health policies as well as the "whole of society" approach. Now is Italy's time/opportunity. Dr Roberto Mezzina, Director International School Franca & Franco Basaglia - The Practice of Freedom - Executive Summary of Policy Brief Although the COVID-19 crisis is, in the first instance, a physical health crisis, it has the seeds of a major mental health crisis as well, if action is not taken. Good mental health is critical to the functioning of society at the best of times. It must be front and centre of every country's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The mental health and wellbeing of whole societies have been severely impacted by this crisis and are a priority to be addressed urgently. Psychological distress in populations is widespread. Many people are distressed dueto the immediate health impacts of the virus and the consequences of physical isolation. Many are afraid of infection, dying, and losing family members. Individuals have been physically distanced from loved ones and peers. Millions of people are facing economic turmoil having lost or being at risk of losing their income and livelihoods. Frequent mis- information and rumours about the virus and deep uncertainty about the future are common sources of distress. A long-term upsurge in the number and severity of mental health problems is likely. Moreover, specific populations groups are showing high degrees of COVID-19-related psy- chological distress. Frontline healthcare work- ers and first responders have been exposed to numerous stressors and ensuring the mental health of healthcare workers is a critical factor in sustaining COVID-19 preparedness, response and recovery. In every community, there are numerous older adults and people with pre-existing health conditions who are terrified and lonely. Emotional difficulties among children and adolescents are exacerbated by family stress, social isolation, with some facing increased abuse, disrupted education and uncertainty about their futures, occurring at critical points in their emotional development. Women are bearing a large brunt of the stress in the home as well as disproportionate impacts more generally. And people caught in fragile humanitarian and conflict settings risk having their mental health needs overlooked entirely. During the past few months, there have been efforts initiated to support people in distress and to ensure care for people with mental health conditions. Innovative ways of providing mental health services have been implemented, and initiatives to strengthen psychosocial support have sprung up. Yet, because of the size of the problem, the vast majority of mental health needs remain unaddressed. The response is hampered by the lack of investment in mental health promotion, prevention and care before the pandemic. This historic underinvestment in mental health needs to be redressed without delay to reduce immense suffering among hundreds of millions of people and mitigate long-term social and economic costs to society. MINIMIZING CONSEQUENCES To minimize the mental health consequences of the pandemic, it is important to consider urgently the following three recommended actions: APPLY A WHOLE-OF-SOCIETY APPROACH TO PROMOTE, PROTECT AND CARE FOR MENTAL HEALTH Mental health actions need to be considered essential components of the national response to COVID-19. A whole-of-society approach for mental health in COVID-19 means: • including mental health and psychosocial considerations in national response plans across relevant sectors, for example support- ing learning and nurturing environments for children and young people who are confined at home; • responding proactively to reducing pandem- ic-related adversities that are known to harm mental health, for example domestic violence and acute impoverishment; and • crafting all communications to be sensitive of their potential impact on people's mental health, for example by communicating empa- thy for people's distress and including advice for their emotional well-being. ENSURE WIDESPREAD AVAILABILITY OF EMERGENCY MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT Mental health and psychosocial support must be available in any emergency. Achieving this objective during the COVID-19 pandemic means: • supporting community actions that strengthen social cohesion and reduce loneliness, for example supporting activities that help isolated older adults stay connected; • investing in mental health interventions that can be delivered remotely, for example quality-assured tele-counselling for frontline health-care workers and people at home with depression and anxiety; • ensuring uninterrupted in-person care for severe mental health conditions by formally defining such care as essential services to be continued throughout the pandemic; and • protecting and promoting the human rights of people with severe mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities, for example, by monitoring whether they have equal access to care for COVID-19 SUPPORT RECOVERY FROM COVID-19 BY BUILDING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE All affected communities will need quality men- tal health services to support society's recovery from COVID-19, and this requires investment in the following: • using the current momentum of interest in mental health to catalyze mental health reforms, for example by developing and EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | UNITED NATIONS POLICY BRIEF: COVID-19 AND THE NEED FOR ACTION ON MENTAL HEALTH 3 • funding the implementation of national services re-organization strategies that shift care away from institutions to commu- nity services; making sure that mental health is part of universal health coverage, for example by including care for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in health care benefit packages and insurance schemes; building human resource capacity to deliver mental health and social care, for example among community workers so that they can provide support; and • organizing community-based services that protect and promote people's human rights, for example by involving people with lived experience in the design, implementation and monitoring of services. Rapid implementation of these recommended actions will be essential to ensure people and societies are better protected from the mental health impact of COVID-19. Appeal for National Plans for Mental Health during the Coronavirus Global Emergency COVID-19 mental-health responses neglect social realities

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"The conclusion, therefore, is, that any government, that can, for a day, enforce its own laws, without appealing to the people, (or to a tribunal fairly representing the people,) for their consent, is, in theory, an absolute government, irresponsible to the people, and can perpetuate its power at pleasure. "It will be asked, Of what use are the justices, if the jurors judge both of law and fact? "[The following objection will be made:] it is a maxim of the law, that the judges respond to the question of law, and juries only to the question of fact. "To secure this right of the people to judge of their own liberties against the government, the jurors are taken, (or must be, to make them lawful jurors,) from the body of the people, by lot, or by some process that precludes any previous knowledge, choice, or selection of them, on the part of the government. This is done to prevent the government's constituting a jury of its own partisans or friends; in other words, to prevent the government's packing a jury, with a view to maintain its own laws, and accomplish its own purposes. Legislative juries of the kind I propose, are well suited for putting laws on a basis of informed consent of the people through juries. If what Spooner says in the above passages is correct, it is hard to see how it does not follow that having such legislative juries is far better than leaving lawmaking to politicians. Trial juries and legislative juries are of course quite different. One difference is that legislative juries, as I propose them, are larger than the 12 member criminal trial juries that exist in the U.S. and certain other countries. This is necessary and desirable so that legislative juries will be a reasonably accurate cross-section/microcosm of the people, and as such a good stand-in for the people as a whole. Another is that the legislative juries I propose decide by majority vote, unlike U.S. criminal trial juries.[ii] There is of course nothing unusual about deciding laws and various other matters by majority vote. For centuries legislatures have decided by majority vote, in Classical Athens the legislative juries, jury courts, Council and Assembly decided by majority vote, and Scottish trial juries, both criminal and civil, have for centuries decided by majority vote. [i] Regarding my proposal for legislative juries see my articles published on April 18, 2016; Winter 1998/99; December 16, 1998; Summer 1998. [ii] See here and here regarding the voting requirements for U.S. trial juries. Great post – thanks! I was not aware of Spooner. The principle that juries should rule according to their conscious and their view of what is just and right is an essential part of a democratic system. The idea that jurists should rule "according to the law" against their own best judgement is the product of an oligarchical, authoritarian, elitist mindset that suits the existing legal system well but should be rejected outright in a democratic system. Not only should juries acquit those whom they see as being victimized by unjust laws, but they should also be willing to indict, convict and punish those who carry out nefarious activities even if legalized by corrupt legislation. Government, elected or allotted, and its associates (big business, lobbyists, secret agencies, etc.), should be aware that if they carry out nefarious activities (as judged by the population) they will not be protected from prosecution and punishment by merely legalizing those activities. Regrading Spooner's critique of elections: he is critiquing one of the two arguments for elections: the rewards-based argument. (The other argument is the virtue-based argument.) His critique is valid, but bears elaboration. I offered a somewhat more lengthy discussion here. Trial juries are not adequate for achieving the purposes that Spooner eloquently suggests. If juries are really to protect the public from laws the public have not consented to, we will also need legislative juries. What trial juries can do to subject laws to the consent of the people is important, but it is very limited and inadequate, even if we were to have the kind of trial juries envisaged by Spooner that know and robustly exercise their nullification rights, and are not obstructed from doing so by judges and prosecutors. For example, trial juries have never had the power to decide who is charged and prosecuted, so all kinds of government and private wrongdoing just never comes before a trial jury because the government does not charge the culprits (a grand jury only gets a chance to indict if the prosecutor brings charges before it, and the politicians have put in place some law under which the culprits in question can be charged). There are a whole range of government activities that while not necessarily criminal can nevertheless adversely affect members of the public, everything from undemocratic election rules to failures to protect the public from polluted air and water to huge tax breaks for the rich to failure to take effective steps to prevent police violence and perjury to failure to protect net neutrality to government spying on the online and telephone activities of public, and much else. Unjust laws often continue without a trial jury ever having a chance to veto them, and no trial jury can veto the absence of laws needed to protect the rights and interests of the public. Even in criminal law when a charge is laid, in the U.S. (and it is similar elsewhere) charges with maximum penalties of less than six months in jail are not tried by juries. No consent of a jury is ever needed for those laws to be enforced against the public. Spooner observes of electoral democracy that "Even if a change for the better actually comes, it comes too late, because it comes only after more or less injustice has been irreparably done." It is the same with jury trials. Even if the jury eventually acquits the accused after a trial, this may come only after the accused is arrested and locked up, has possibly spent months in pre-trial custody during which time they possibly lost their job, housing and children, or after the accused incurred a fortune in legal fees they could not afford, or had to beg friends or relatives to post bail, or was smeared and publicly disgraced as an accused criminal, and so on. It may be that a trial never comes because the accused opts for a plea bargain in order to avoid the risk of a long prison sentence, because they cannot afford the legal costs, or to end their pre-trial custody. It is also the case that getting a fair trial may only be possible for those who have a lot of money for lawyers and other costs, both regarding criminal defence, and also regarding civil litigation. John Kiriakou, a CIA torture whistleblower prosecuted under Obama after being cleared by investigators under Bush, never had a trial. No jury ever consented to the application of the Espionage Act to him. Instead he accepted a plea bargain and went to prison in order to avoid the risk of a 45 year prison sentence, and after his legal costs climbed over $1 million, an amount he could not afford. The risk of harsher sentences and high legal costs induce many to accept plea bargains, with no jury ever having a chance to nullify the law they are prosecuted under. Jury nullification only nullifies the application of a law to the case the jury decides. It does not veto or repeal the law itself. The government can still charge people under a law that a jury has nullified, and can even charge the same person who was acquitted with a new offense if they do it again, as happened to Canada's Dr. Henry Morgentaler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgentaler#Judicial_battles). Anyway, not to belabour the point too much, but if juries are to be the kind of effective check and balance on government that Spooner suggests, trial juries are not enough. We will also need legislative juries that can veto laws before they are used to lay charges and do mischief, that can veto all laws rather than only those that may come before a jury in a criminal trial, and that can proactively pass laws to protect the rights, liberties and interests of the people from government and private power. Trial juries cannot even protect their nullification power from judges and politicians. Trial juries are never given a chance to veto the practice of concealing from trial juries their power to nullify, nor to prevent judges from screening out jurors that are likely to nullify. By contrast, legislative juries could protect jury nullification by repealing laws aimed at stopping or limiting it, and by passing laws to protect it. One more thing: In the NYT op-ed linked to Scalia is quoted as having said "I'm a big fan of the jury." Really?! That's a pretty ridiculous statement from someone who has been occupying a patently oligarchical position of power for decades. And how, pray, are we to know which activities are judged nefarious by "the population", given that the activities have been legitimised by electorally-mandated public servants? Are you suggesting that 12 randomly-selected citizens are the population? Twelve is some two orders of magnitude short of a figure that would be considered statistically representative of the population. What if one group of 12 decided the activities were nefarious and another group didn't? Note also that in the classical precedent, the prosecution was always made by another citizen, the jury being merely the judge between the two warring parties. *** If I understand well, Yoram Gat's idea is the following : in a modern dêmokratia, repressive judiciary juries should be entitled to punish wrongdoers outside of any legal consideration, because the laws could be established by corrupt legislative juries (he writes "government, ellected or allotted"), and therefore legality could protect some kinds of wrongdoers. *** I doubt it would be easy, in a modern democracy-through-minipublics, to corrupt legislative juries ; and anyway, why repressive judiciary would be more protected from corruption ? why put judiciary repressive juries over legislative juries ? *** The principle of legality would not be unnecessary in a dêmokratia (ortho-democracy). Actually it would be specially useful because the democratic sovereignty, as any real sovereignty, is especially sensitive to emotional affects, and this potential defect is more easily balanced in legislative decisions, with good procedures as those of the Second Athenian Democracy, that in repressive trials following facts with high emotional effects. • it would give to the enemies of democracy a supply of spectacular examples of excessive decisions under emotional drive, useful to discredit the democratic sovereignty. Seeing the people's judgement as "repressive" and "arbitrary", "emotional" rather than rational, and reflecting a "principle of no-legality", is standard elitist dogma. We've been fed this dogma all our lives, and society has been bombarded with associated propaganda for thousands of years. It is thus not surprising to see this dogma thoroughly absorbed and defended even by people with democratic leanings. In fact, however, the opposite is true: a framework which is imposed on people despite it being contrary to their judgement of what is just and right is what is really repressive, arbitrary, and anti-legal. In a democracy, a legal system is used to achieve a commonly agreed set of rules of activity, not impose such a set of rules on a dissenting population. Thus the laws should provide guidelines for the citizens for what is acceptable activity – both when they go about their activities and when the serve on a jury. However, the laws do not set what is right but the other way around – they should reflect what is right. The notion that running a society according to unjust laws increases "citizen trust" is absurd – again, the opposite is true. >The principle of legality would not be unnecessary in a dêmokratia. . . good procedures as those of the Second Athenian Democracy. Agreed. Many historians view the second democracy as characterised by the rule of law, as opposed to the rule of the demos. To Sealey it was the Athenian republic, and Ostwald's book describes the transition from popular sovereignty to the sovereignty of law. It's interesting to hear from Yoram that even a radical freethinker like yourself is a victim of false consciousness on account of being brainwashed by thousands of years of propaganda. That is certainly not the impression that I have received from reading your thoughtful and challenging posts. *** I never said that the people's judgment was more "repressive", "arbitrary", or "emotional" than the judgment of a king or a ruling elite. Differences between their behaviors may come from different upbringings, but there is no general reason for such an assessment, which I never issued. I said that " the democratic sovereignty, as any real sovereignty, is especially sensitive to emotional affects" – "as any real sovereignty" compares with the sovereignty of an absolute king or a ruling aristocratic elite, it is a systemic point. *** I was specifically speaking of the situation of any true sovereign – whose power is clear and direct – who reacts to a behavior he sees as a wrongdoing with very bad consequences. The existing legislation will usually allow repressive action, but sometimes not as strong or swift as the sovereign will prefer. There is a temptation for the sovereign to think « I decide the laws. Therefore I am over the laws. Therefore in this specific case I will decide out of the laws ». That clearly opens the way to over-emotional repressive decisions – for an absolute king, for a ruling aristocratic elite, or for a sovereign people. And such decisions will be used in the discourses against the sovereignty. In systems without definite sovereign, over-emotional decisions may occur, but usually less often, and anyway they are less easily used against the political system. In polyarchies, political processes, including judiciary processes, are complex, long and obscure – which allows for the influence of the various lobbies ; but we must acknowledge that complex, long and obscure processes are often less sensitive to the risk of punctual over-emotionality ; and at least of its appearance. *** In polyarchies the principle of legality is used, together with "appropriately" devised laws, to cover the political processes. But (ortho-)democrats must not drop the legality principle; the aim is to change the legislation, to give the legislating power to the dêmos. *** I don't say we must copy the Athenian institutions in the time of Demosthenes – if only we must use the modern technology which will allow multiple choices decisions instead of only binary ones. But this ancient model shows us the way of a popular democracy through citizen juries and a strong assessment of the legality principle. *** I don't think it is a good way of describing the change of Athenian system during the 4th century. Yes, there was a strong assertion of the principle of legality – but with laws issued and reviewed by citizen juries (and enforced through judiciary citizen juries). It seems strange to describe such a system in other words that « popular sovereignty ». More generally, it is intellectually bad to speak about « sovereignty of the law » – « the law » is not a person, therefore cannot be a sovereign. Such wording is confusing. *** Yoram Gat did read too quickly my comment when he thought I was following what he calls a "dogma": « the people's judgment as "repressive" and "arbitrary", "emotional" rather than rational. » But he is right when he sees here a strong anti-democrat ideologeme, which, more than a clearly defined dogma, is the blending of different assertions, that we must consider separately. *** Assertion 1. The common citizens as more emotional and less rational than the elites ; without much evidence if we consider the 20th century European history. *** Assertion 2. Mass political behavior is specifically sensitive to emotional effects and less prone to rational discourses; that has some truth – but it is much more relevant to "electoral representative democracy" than to a "democracy-through minipublics". *** Assertion 3. Any democratic sovereignty is akin to mob phenomena – in the line of Gustave Le Bon; whereas a mob usually is not statistically representative, and mob mental phenomena are different from the mass mental phenomena, and quite different from the mental phenomena of a citizen jury. *** Assertion 4. The democratic sovereignty is especially sensitive to emotional affects. This is right for any real sovereignty, and a democratic system must be built to take into account this risk, as the Athenians did in the 4th century. We must only try to be better, taking advantage of the modern technology. *** Yoram Gat uses the word "dogma" for the inculcated antidemocrat ideologemes. But this wording has drawbacks. The religious orthodoxies wanted to inculcate their metaphysical assertions, but likewise wanted to define them as precisely than possible (even if the specific field did not allow it convincingly). Most of the polyarchic "dogmas" are actually confuse, and their supporters avoid usually any clarification. It's not just Sealey and Ostwald, Hansen insists that the aim of the fourth-century reforms was to restore the "ancestral constitution" under which hoi nomon have kyrios. The Athenians sought a period of stability and to obviate a return to the political crises and military catastrophes on the Peloponnesian Wars. Agree that that it is the jurors in the dikasteria who are ultimately kirioi panton, but the fourth-century reforms look like a way of making it as hard as possible to change the laws (a total of seven stages being involved). Demosthenes praised the Lokrians, who changed only one law in 200 years, so the ideal appeared to be that the existing law was sacrosanct (sic). >it is intellectually bad to speak about « sovereignty of the law » – « the law » is not a person, therefore cannot be a sovereign. Strictly speaking that's true, but you could view it as a conservative and Burkean attempt to establish a stable compact between the past, present and future. Remember that the Athenians liked to attribute all laws to Solon, rather than the random individuals selected by the lottery machine on a given day. I guess it took a hard-headed political scientist like Aristotle to see through the myth and that's why he categorised jury democracy as radical in nature. Keith Sutherland's points are at least partly different. *** The Athenian society, even if appeared specially dynamic to the other Greek societies, and even if it was actually more dynamic, was an ancient society, and belonged to the World of Tradition. This valuing of the past as reference helped to an amount of suspicion towards any new legislation. And when « Demosthenes praised the Lokrians, who changed only one law in 200 years » ( Against Timocrates §139-143), he was making the most of this feeling, for his specific aim. But such a mental bias against new legislation, which can be understood in the World of Tradition, which we can find in Rousseau, is something different from the political problem : if a new rule is needed, who will have the last word about it ? And never was the body of laws immune of proposal of changes. If the dêmos accepted a change, it could be completed. If Demosthenes needed long time before getting the change of the « theôrikon » law, it was basically because that this law was a basic element of the « welfare state » established by the Second Athenian Democracy. *** The ancient Greece had a mythical view of the past, much more than historical. Yes, the Athenians « liked to attribute all laws to Solon », because Solon was a mythical hero of the past (he got mythical status probably from the convergence of his historical action and his poetic legacy). And the basic democratic institutions, including sortition, could be said to have been set by Theseus in the heroic age ! Mythical references could be used in politically very different discourses. *** Probably, yes, there was in 4th century Athens a yearning for stability. But this yearning led to reforms which, rather than preventing the dêmos from new legislation, organized rational procedures and asserted the « principle of legality ». When Hyperides speaks about « kyrioi nomoi », in his speech « In defense of Euxenippus », §5, he is not saying that sacrosanct nomoi are over the popular sovereignty, he reminds the jurors of a repressive court that they have to follow the law. He was actually protesting against the intended use of the procedure of eisangelia, concerning high treason, for acts outside of its scope. Hyperides, a democrat, was asserting the principle of legality, not at all putting the legal code as immune to popular sovereignty. The law about eisangelia could be modified (and actually had been modified). *** Dêmokratia implies that, if a new rule is needed, or supposed to be needed, the last word will be the sovereign People's. Opposing « conservative sensitivity » and dêmokratia would imply that ordinary citizens are eager to change any rule and institution, whereas the wise elites prefer « a stable compact between the past, present and future ». As a general idea, it is very doubtful. I'm with Burke (and the Lokrians!), but I don't have any confidence in the "wise elites" who are, if anything, more inclined to meddle and interfere in people's lives — witness the popular revolt agains the EU. And I do agree with you earlier response to Yoram regarding the rule of law rather than the whim of a group of randomly-selected individuals. The 4th-century legislative process had seven stages and we need something similar.

Communication and Collaboration, IT Leadership, RingCentral Updates Connections, Communications: Big Element of Dreamforce Written by David Carr Beyond serving as the users conference for Salesforce.com, Dreamforce has grown into an annual festival celebration of the cloud computing era. With more than 170,000 people registered to attend, it's now the world's largest technology event. As part of a keynote address where he quoted projection that the worldwide marketing for cloud computing will soon reach $270 billion, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff crowed, "we've come a long way from where it was when we started and it was zero." Since it was founded in 1999 as a service delivering applications for salespeople over the internet, the company has expanded both its own footprint and its partner ecosystem. RingCentral is a Gold Sponsor of Dreamforce and this week announced an upgrade to its Salesforce integration including the ability to send SMS text directly from within a customer record. One of the things that's interesting from our point of view is how much of the new wave of computing revolves around connecting people in new ways and allowing them to communicate. Benioff makes a habit of recognizing customers and other industry innovators during these events, and he kicked off Wednesday's events with a "fireside chat" style conversation with Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber. A big part of the Uber business model is the ability for people to connect with transportation services through their mobile phone. Uber started with a limousine service and expanded compete with taxis on cost and convenience. Now it has started delivering meals as well as people, something Kalanick said was consistent with the basic value proposition of "being able to push a button and get what you want when you want it." As for Dreamforce, Kalanick called it "an annual event where our people don't sleep very much because you make the city very busy." Salesforce has been busy over the past year with a major revamp of the user interface of its core products, making it faster, more adaptable between desktop and mobile devices, and easier to customize. Salesforce is talking up the new Lightning edition of its user interface and Lightning components that can be added to a page or moved around in a visual builder, even by non-technical users. To show how it's different, Parker Harris, the Salesforce.com co-founder who leads the product development team turned up on stage in "lightning man" costume, carrying a plastic lightning bolt like a javelin. "It's the best thing we've done since we founded the company," he proclaimed. In addition to building new applications and extensions to Salesforce applications, the Lightning framework makes it possible for users to customize screens within the core product – for example, to change the number of columns on a dashboard or resize the widgets. Mike Micucci, SVP Products Community Cloud, leads demo community cloud keynote. Within the Community Cloud, it will now be possible to add a "buy button" component from any one of several e-commerce partners, making it appear within the context of a stream of conversation in a customer community. Employing the same sort of intelligence that would be used to target an advertisement, such an e-commerce offer can be made to appear in the context where it would be most relevant. For example, Avid, which makes audio and video editing tools used by both professionals and ambitious amateurs, is using this approach in a community where musicians can sell or swap music tracks, sound effects, and other audio. If the conversation hits on keywords associated with a given music genre or artist, the promoted items will match. While it has been several years since Salesforce.com made a big deal out of "the social enterprise" as the future of business, its Chatter software for social messaging is a pervasive component in these experiences. For example, Dreamforce was also the coming out party for the Health Cloud, Salesforce.com's entry into the world of healthcare IT. While it won't build the kind of electronic medical records software used to track patient data, Salesforce believes it can integrate with EMRs and bring its own expertise with software for managing relationships to the challenge of getting patients more engaged with managing their own care. Secure social messaging would then become a fundamental mode of communication for the whole care team, including doctors, nurses, and the patient's family. Behind the scenes, those messages then tie in to the Salesforce Service Cloud, treating patient engagement as another form of customer service, as well as the analytic capabilities of the Salesforce platform. Reference customers include Merck, which wants to do a better job of connecting with doctors and patients about health conditions its medicines treat, and Centura Health, a health system operating in Colorado and Western Kansas seeking to do a better job of working with patients on preventative care and follow up care. Neither is yet using the Health Cloud but both have been applying Salesforce technology to the sorts of problems it is intended to solve. If you will be at Dreamforce Thursday, be sure to stop by these two sessions featuring RingCentral speakers. Enable Sales & Delight Customers In The Brave New World of Cloud Communications: 11:30 – 12:10, Metreon AMC Theaters, Metreon Theater 6. Dave Nuss, senior vice president of information technology at Cresa will share how this commercial real estate services company with over 50 offices in North America benefits by using cloud communications solutions that are integrated into salesforce. He will be joined by Jose Pastor of RingCentral. How Data Science Drives the Future of Sales at Splunk, Nutanix & RingCentral: 12:30 – 1:10, Metreon AMC Theaters, Metreon Theater 8. Using data science to get ahead is more than a trend – it's driving high-performance sales organizations into the future. New insights and actionable recommendations are being surfaced to help sales consistently exceed goals. Learn how leaders like Splunk, Nutanix, and RingCentral use data to power forecasting, course correct with recommended paths to close each quarter, and engineer future growth. William Dolby, Sr. Director Sales Operations, will represent RingCentral.

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Here are four reasons behind the labor shortage Editor's Note: Karin Kimbrough is the chief economist at LinkedIn. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. As the latest jobs numbers continue to show a resurging labor market, women have seen an uneven and slower recovery. While men have already recouped their pandemic job losses, there are still about 1.1 million women missing from the labor force. Women of color, in particular, are still struggling — as about 31,000 Black women left the workforce entirely in February, and Black women were the only group who saw unemployment tick up slightly, from 5.8% in January to 6.1% in February. New research from LinkedIn suggests that there are strategies employers can consider adopting in the short term to make their workplaces better environments for women who are still out of a job and eager to get back in. De-stigmatize career breaks and resume "gaps" For the millions of women who were forced out of the workforce during the peak months of the pandemic, many now find themselves with a "gap" on their resume. Whether due to layoffs, needing to step back for caretaking responsibilities or home-schooling, or dealing with other unexpected commitments, many spent months out of work. A recent LinkedIn survey shows that 64% of women globally say they have taken a career break at some point over the course of their careers. At its peak in 2020, the length of career breaks for women increased by about 40% year-over-year, compared to a 27% increase for men. Women who leave work are more likely to be stranded between jobs for longer periods of time. While hiring managers are starting to acknowledge that career breaks are becoming more common, nearly 60% of people surveyed believe there is still a stigma attached to them. Employers can attract and retain more women who have taken career breaks by focusing their interview process on looking at the full set of skills a candidate has developed throughout their lived experiences, beyond just the most recent role. When companies hire based on skills and look beyond traditional requirements, they open access to employment to those who have historically been shut out of the labor market. Offer more flexible and remote work options Another consistent theme for women in the workplace is the desire for more flexible options when it comes to where and how they get their work done. Harun-Or-Rashid/Eyepix Group/Future Publishing/Getty Images Athleta CEO: Women are driving the economy. It's time for businesses to prioritize them We know that during the pandemic, women took on the brunt of the caregiving and home-schooling responsibilities. So it became more important to them than ever that employers move away from rigid 9-to-5 on-site workweeks to better accommodate their needs. In fact, women in 2020 were 26% more likely to apply to remote jobs on LinkedIn compared to men, and those numbers have remained high since. And in a recent global survey, 53% of women said they had either left their job or considered leaving their job due to lack of flexible working. The good news is that we have seen a huge increase in remote options on LinkedIn, with roughly one in six US job postings now offering remote work, up from one in 67 at the start of the pandemic. However, true flexibility for many women — and especially frontline workers who may not have the same option to work from home — extends beyond just remote work. Companies should offer flexible hours and give employees the ability to dictate their own work schedule. 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Kent Cricket is delighted to announce that Alex Blake has signed an extension to his contract, which will now run until the end of the 2020 season. The Kent Cricket Academy graduate, who was awarded a county cap in 2017, averaged 40.75 in the Royal London One Day Cup last season at a strike rate of 121.19, scoring 21 sixes in total. Blake featured in every 2018 Vitality Blast match for Kent, top-scoring with 57 against Middlesex at The County Ground, Beckenham and achieving a tournament strike rate of 161.00. The left-handed batsman has made a name for himself as an explosive hitter, capable of taking on bowlers aggressively. This showed in Kent's Royal London One Day Cup tie against Surrey at Beckenham this season, scoring 59 from just 26 deliveries, including three fours and six sixes. Speaking about his contract extension, Blake said: "I'm delighted to have committed my foreseeable future to my home county at this very exciting time for the club. "After a great white-ball season this summer and achieving promotion to Division One, I can't help but feel that big things are just around the corner at Kent Cricket. Kent Cricket's Director of Cricket, Paul Downton, commented, "Alex is a match winner and exactly the type of batsman every top team needs. He has the ability to take the game away from any opposition.

Conservancies Walking with the Bushmen Clive Horlock shares the ancient wisdom of the Kalahari Bushmen in one of the most unspoilt areas in Africa. Photo: © GetRealAfrica.com The Kalahari Bushmen are an indigenous people who have survived with their way of life for tens of thousands of years. Renowned for their intimate knowledge of the natural world and their profound connection with the land, they have maintained a delicate balance with the environment guided by ancient wisdom, that has ensured the continuity of their culture. The Kalahari Bushmen are primitive, hunter-gatherers that live in an egalitarian society with no hierarchical structures, no religion, no possessions and are nomadic. Guests interacting with the Xgau clan. © GetRealAfrica.com Clive Horlock was born and bred in the wilds of Southern Africa and has worked closely with indigenous people, more specifically the Kalahari Bushmen for the past few years. Beguiled by his experiences and the lessons learned in walking with the Bushmen, he believes there is a lot the modern world can learn from these remarkable people. He now offers this opportunity through his company Get Real Africa in Botswana. "The driving force behind my entire initiative is that both animals and wild places are disappearing at an alarming rate and urgent action is required," says Clive. Having spent extended periods of time camping and walking in the bush; Clive wanted to offer others a 'purists' experience, away from all the trappings of the modern world. In seeking the best possible guides for his company, he knew the Bushmen, whose tracking abilities and knowledge of the bush are unsurpassed, would be the ultimate guides. However, searching for the 'right' bushmen was no easy task as many have been removed from their ancestral land and suffered enormous cultural genocide or become disconnected from their cultural roots. "There are a few mavericks who still roam the wilderness, but they are not reliable enough to interact with guests," says Clive, "while others have become too commercial in their outlook." Photo: © Adobestock.com In 2016, Clive came across the Xgau clan, in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana, who still maintain their traditional values and who are enormously knowledgeable and willing to interact with guests. "It was not long into my first walk that I started to realise that there was more going on than I could have ever anticipated. I witnessed behaviour that I did not at first understand and other behaviour which has been described by experts as ground-breaking." One such story which Clive shares regularly is called the Seven Seeds. "Watching Bushmen unearth a tuber, which is used to quench thirsts in the semi-desert environment in which they live was special enough, but what transpired at the same time was for me even more profound,"says Clive. Bushmen unearth a tuber. Its pulp holds moisture used for drinking and a healthy stomach. Photo: © GetRealAfrica.Com "From the sickle bush above the tuber, Xigae 1 removed a seed pod containing six dandelion like seeds. Without any prompting Xigae 3 ( seven years old) came and took the seeds and then proceeded to plant them in suitable locations in the vicinity. I watched the process without speaking, but finally, when all signs of digging had been neatly cleaned up, I asked one of the elders 'Why did the little boy do this.' His answer was, 'to share with those that follow!'" "My understanding that original hunter-gatherers only took from the environment and just lived for the present was being tested. The seventh seed was the seed of doubt I had in my mind." Seed pod containing dandelion seeds. © GetRealAfrica.com "A later incident, where I saw the gatherers remove only three roots from a clump of approximately eight much sought after roots, before refilling the hole, further questioned my beliefs. (It also needs to be noted that this group of Bushmen were foraging in an area hundreds of kilometres away from their home and had no intention of ever returning to the area.) Their actions not only confirmed a culture built on sharing, but contrary to popular belief, provided evidence of forwarding planning and sustainable living." In interacting with the Bushmen over time, Clive discovered there was so much more to learn from these remarkable people. Walking with the bushman. © GetRealAfrica.com "Their tracking ability goes beyond understanding; they can employ all their senses and knowledge to read the signs that go beyond the visual. (18 animal typologies have been recorded which the Bushmen use when they hunt to predict the behaviour of their prey). Of the many lessons learned, Clive began to understand what it meant to be truly egalitarian; the benefits derived and the importance of teamwork and implementation of democracy in the Bushmen's survival. "I believe that the Bushmen have a significant contribution to make. This includes ways to ensure social cohesion, being human and suppressing ego so that love triumphs." What sets the Bushman apart from modern man is not only their connection to the natural world but to humanity and inner self. Drinking from an ostrich egg. © GetRealAfrica.com For the majority who will never be privileged enough to interact with these people, or experience what humans were supposed to be, Clive is adamant the message needs to be conveyed in every way possible. "What's most amazing are the secrets embedded in their culture which have enabled them to protect the environmental integrity of our planet for more than 40,000 years. Despite the present genocide of their culture, they still manage to achieve a level of contentment and happiness which would be the envy of most people living a life of abundance." 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I have spent a lot of time trying to contact people regarding my scripts to no avail so I hatched a plan to not send a script i have written but try something they call META. I decided to write a script that involved an interview with the person I was sending the script to. Sort of an interpretation of what Charlie Brooker would write. I even referenced Mr Brooker. As I was physically posting the script to two people to whom I respected there was a reference to them both within the same script. Sort of Meta within Meta. I enjoyed writing it and finally printed out the 10 pages ready to send to the production office but took a step back and thought 'maybe this is too weird'. If this was done a few years ago it would have probably been received with good humour (or chucked in the bin) but in the current climate if the person starts reading the script it would come across as if it was written by Travis Bickle. If I sat in an office and received this rather invasive script I would be rather freaked out hence having a last minute reality check. I can't throw the script away as i enjoyed the process of the surrealness so i have pasted it below for anyone that cares to read. I have even included the cover page EXPLICITLY stating this isn't a spec script but a fictional interview. Also the aspect that this was written in good humour and not in some creepy way (which it would have been if i did post it) I can better explain the thought process here. I have spent a lot of time trying to contact people regarding my scripts to no avail so I hatched a plan to not send a script I have written but try something they call META. I decided to write a script that involved an interview with the person I was sending the script to. Sort of an interpretation of what Charlie Brooker would write. I even referenced Mr Brooker. As i was sending the script to two people i respected, I referenced them both within the same script. Sort of like Meta within Meta. So i printed out the 10 pages ready to send to the production office but I took a step back and thought 'maybe this is weird'. If this was done a few years ago then it would have been received with good humour but in the current climate if the person starts reading the script it would come across as if it was written by Travis Bickle. If I sat in an office and received this rather invasive script I would be rather freaked out hence having a last minute reality check. I ripped the scripts up and threw them away. I enjoyed the process of the surrealness so i have pasted it below for anyone that cares to read. I have even included the cover page EXPLICITLY stating this isn't a spec script but a fictional interview and that i am of sound mind and body thinking of doing something different to try and get noticed. The Green Book won Best Picture at the Oscars so i decided to put it to the top of my watch list. To be honest I can see why Spike Lee got angry. It has a lot if clunky scenes which I have written below as i watched it. In fairness the performances were brilliant but from the guy who brought you Hair Sperm Cinema…. I think it should have been the last film to win considering what the competition was. Everyone has an opinion and this is mine. Clunky scene 1: Two black workers are in Tony's house and they are given a drink by the wife. Later on Tony takes the glasses and puts them in the bin. WE KNOW TONY IS A BIGOT. HE WON'T SHARE GLASSES WITH BLACK PEOPLE! Clunky scene 2: In one of the many driving scenes, Tony stops to take a piss. He grabs his wallet to show that HE THINKS ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE THIEVES. Clunky weird scene 3: After the first concert, Tony is playing dice with all the other black drivers. TONY RELATES TO OTHER WORKING CLASS PEOPLE. HE ISN'T RACIST, JUST CLASSIST. Clunky scene 4: Tony tries to steal a rock from a shop but Dr Shirley tells him to pay for it. TONY IS ON THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION. Also the rock makes an appearance later on. clunky scene 6: THEY BOND OVER FRIED CHICKEN/// FFS!!! FRIED CHICKEN!!!!! Clunky scene 8: Dr Shirley does his intellectual Shostakovich reference analogy to prove he is smarter. OSCAR PLAY. Clunky scene 9: Refused a suit fitting in a shop Dr. Shirley plays the piano aggressively in the next scene. Clunky scene 10: TONY IS BLACKER THAN DR SHIRLEY! and the PLOT TWIST IS PLAYED EVEN FURTHER TO WIN THE OSCAR. Clunky scene 11: The Russians (Germans) SCHOOL TONY ON DR. SHIRLEY'S MOTIVES TO PLAY IN THE SOUTH. Clunky scene 12: The BOSTONS story to not being allowed to eat in the restaurant while being black. Clunky scene 13: They go to a dive bar and BE WORKING CLASS. Clunky scene 14: Tony and Dr. Shirley bond over bar fried chicken. FRIED CHICKEN IS WHAT BRINGS AN ITALIAN AND BLACK MAN TOGETHER. Clunky scene 15: The Dr. brings class to a dive bar by playing cool music. BLACK PEOPLE LOVE IT! Clunky scene 16: THE CHEF COMES OUT OF THE KITCHEN TO LISTEN TO THIS COOL MUSIC. FRIED CHICKEN COOKING IS ON HOLD! Clunky scene 17: The Dr is down on the cool music and plays like it's def. Clunky scene 18: NON RACIST POLICEMAN! THERE ARE GOOD GUYS THAT HAVE THE BADGE! Clunky scene 19: OSCAR WIN FOR THE DR AND TONY SNOW DRIVE IN! SUCH POWER! Clunky Scene 21: TONY HAS CHANAGED!!!!! CINEMA IS COMPLETE! RACISM HAS ENDED. LAST Scene is so schhmaltzy and I may be cynical but i didn't buy it. Roma deserved the award. So let me get this right? People are only now truly outraged by how the Leave Team weaponised social media in the Brexit campaign because it was made into a drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch? It wasn't journalism that opened people's eyes to this mass manipulation, it was a (admittedly well made) drama. Brexit: An Uncivil War detailed how this all worked whereas the newspaper articles on the same subject caused a small smatter of anger here and there. The same small ripple that came to news stories about Edward Snowden and The Panama Papers. People were outraged for all of 10 mins. News of how they did all this shady work has been reported in the press and in Private Eye for a while but like everything else in middle England, the majority of the people mainly read The Sun and Daily Mail which have agenda led distorted views which are also designed to manipulate the readers. Irony right? Old school manipulation compares to new school. Read any Daily Mail headline and you get the idea of the Brexit Hysteria being peddled. Look at any Social Media post and ask yourself if it is true. By this summation middle America will only realise the terrible dumb things that Donald Trump is doing if it was made into a film starring George Clooney as Trump… sod it even if we had Rosemary Clooney played Trump the message would still get across and people will suddenly be outraged. And they say Print is dead…. depends on your age. i have noticed for a while you have been running a pop up ad campaign which essentially says "pay us what you think we're worth" and my guess is that you are probably not getting the numbers you were hoping. Ever since Alan Rubbisher made it his mission to make The Guardian Free you have been stuck in a funny position to keep the money rolling in as advertising alone isn't cutting it and circulation is going down as expected as people go digital. Here is an analogy on why people close the pop up window for the most part. There is website called EDLhacker which is used by the large archive television community (including me) and the chap running it relied on donatiopns to keep the site up to date but face it, hardly anybody in the community paid. We just used it for free. Then suddenly the site was archived off until he got some donations and this set the entire community into a panic. That is how vital this site is. Suddenly people including me put in donations and now the site has been updated. It took that kind of desperate threat to make people wake up to what they should rightly be paying for. Now i am not saying you should do anything drastic but people aren't going to donate as the purse stings have been tightened. I suggest and this is a BIG thing to attempt, Put all the news websites under a paywall… You, The Sun and even The Daily Mail should join the NYtimes and do it in unity. We know smaller sites like Huffington Post will stay free because of their chronic use of free labour but let's face it… it's rubbish, right? Donations won't bring in the big bucks… subscriptions will and I subscribe to Broadcastnow and Private Eye. It can be done. I just watched the clip of Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America? and (as of this writing) anticipating the series. It's interesting that this style was done by Chris Morris nearly 20 years ago in the notorious Brass Eye peodophoile episode. Getting dim celebrities/ people in authority to read the most outrageous things out loud not knowing the content should have been a red flag to these so called intelligent people but alas it isn't. Why? Because they are self promoting idiots who fall for the back story of the 'legitimate' production company that wants to put across the same agenda. Here it is, these gun nuts mention in pre written idiot boards Blink 182 and Rita Ora and in Brass Eye it was Phil Collins saying 'Nonce Sense'. The difference is that Mr Cohen did this subterfuge in America and NOBODY knew the ridiculous parody elements contained. The fact that he got away with it is astounding. I didn't know how people still fall for these things until I spoke to a director years ago who used to go undercover setting up meetings with politicians for Dispatches programmes and I asked him the same question. His simple answer was you get chummy with them, do small talk and start asking curious questions and lure them into talking about all sorts of less-than-honest things. It apparently is as simple as that. Politicians are less cautious than you think and here the gun lobby are the same. I bet the PR vetting people are either fired or dead. Either way they are SCREWED! These gun nuts in the US want to use any media to promote their agenda and this is their weakness much like the caught-out UK politicians. I can't wait to watch this and it is TERRIFYING. What got me was the nuances. The Gun Lobby rep is shooting cartoons of black people and arabs with no flinching of the political incorrectness. I do hope Chris Morris gets residuals from this. He did this kind of outrageousness (sort of) first.

List of Major League Baseball Players With A .500 Slugging Percentage This is a List of Major League Baseball players with a career .500 slugging percentage. Babe Ruth holds the Major League Baseball career slugging percentage record with .6898. Read more about List Of Major League Baseball Players With A .500 Slugging Percentage: List Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, major, league, baseball, players and/or percentage: "The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) "We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode." —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893) "In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces." —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) "We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me." —Dudley Nichols (1895–1960) "Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it." —Mary Kay Blakely (20th century) "Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live." —William Shakespeare (1564–1616) "Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. Contemplative and bookish men must of necessitie be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they goe towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way." —John Donne (c. 1572–1631) Copyright © 2021 • Contact Us • Privacy Policy

Mistletoe (Viscum album) is popular during the holidays, with people hanging up the plant and kissing under it. However, a study published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine indicates that the popular holiday ornament can do much more than make people come together, what with its ability to treat conditions like colic, hypertension, and diarrhea. In the study, researchers from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in Pakistan looked at the pharmacological potential of mistletoe extract; in particular, how it affects the smooth muscles of the gut and the blood vessels. Earlier studies have pointed to the ability of the plant to manage conditions such as a hyperactive gut, as well as cardiovascular diseases, but the mechanisms behind these biological actions have yet to be explored. In the study, researchers focused on the plant's antispasmodic – that is, its ability to relax smooth muscles in the gut – and vasorelaxant properties. In the study, the team obtained a crude extract (Va. Cr) and an ethyl acetate fraction (Va. EtAc) from the plant and studied it in vitro. To assess its antispasmodic activity, researchers used an isolated rabbit jejunum, while aortic rings were harvested from rabbit samples to measure the ability of both the extract and the fraction to relax blood vessels. In particular, researchers studied the calcium channel blocking (CCB) property of both. In conventional medicine, CCBs are used as a prescription for lowering blood pressure, relieving chest pain (angina), and relaxing blood vessels. The findings revealed that both the mistletoe extract and its ethyl acetate fraction exhibited antispasmodic properties, which the researchers attributed to their CCB properties. Va. Cr, in addition, was able to induce partial relaxation to isolated rabbit aorta rings, which indicated a potential to treat hypertension, among other cardiovascular conditions. The vasorelaxant properties demonstrated by the mistletoe plant were comparable to that of verapamil, a common medication used to treat conditions such as hypertension and angina, as well as cluster headaches. Fortunately, you don't need to wait for the holidays to get relief from gut spasms. Here are some easy, natural ways you can find relief in the comfort of your home: Some of these treatments will treat the underlying cause of the condition, while others will relax the muscles to put a stop to the spasms. If you're pregnant, however, consult with your healthcare professional before starting any treatment. Heat – If the spasm is caused by muscle strain or overuse, applying heat to the affected area makes quick work of the condition. Massage – Getting the painful body part massaged can help relax the affected area. Chamomile tea – Spasms caused by an upset stomach can be eased with chamomile tea. This type of tea also helps with gas. Electrolytes – Dehydration can also cause gut spasms, so it's best to have your electrolytes replenished. However, seek immediate medical attention if dehydration is severe. Rest – Cutting back on exercise and resting the stomach muscles can help stop spasms. Learn of more herbs that can help relieve sore muscles at Herbs.news.

"Chelcie is a tremendous player and more importantly a great person," Stetson coach Yang Dang said. "She was a late pickup for us last year, and she played well as a freshman. Chelcie gives us a great presence on defense and we count on her a great deal. We were fortunate to pick her up so late. She is very talented and she is getting better all the time. We loved what we saw of her on tape and we felt she was someone who could certainly play on this level." Spence is grateful for the opportunity that Dang and the university gave her. "All I wanted was a chance to play at the Division 1 level and coach Dang gave me a chance to join the program and it has worked out great," Spence said. "I've been given a great opportunity and I'm going to give it my best every day." Spence was a standout at Eastlake High School, where she helped lead the team to three district titles and three bidistrict titles. In her senior year, she had 548 digs. "Coming into college, I had confidence that I could play at this level," Spence said. "Throughout my career, I had always played on teams against older players in club volleyball and that allowed me to gain a lot of confidence. But I don't stop working, I want to get better all the time." Stetson competes in the Atlantic Sun Conference, and Spence said this year's team has worked hard for its 9-4 record, which includes a 1-0 record in league play. The Hatters play again on Friday, Sept. 28, at Kennesaw State. "We have great energy on this team and we've grown so much since last season," Spence said. "We have won some close, hard-fought matches this year and that's helped us from a confidence standpoint. If we keep working, keep getting better, we can do some great things this season. I'm so happy to be here. Stetson is a great school, a tough school. It's far away from El Paso, but I have great support from my family and I want to represent them as much as well as I can and do great things." Coronado to honor 1978 volleyball squad Coronado High School will honor the 1978 Thunderbirds volleyball team, which finished state runner-up in the Class 4A state tournament, prior to Tuesday's home match vs. Franklin. The varsity match is slated to begin at 6:30 p.m. Coronado beat Port Neches-Groves 15-10, 7-13, 18-16 in the state semifinals, then lost to San Antonio Churchill, 13-15, 15-8, 15-3 in the state championship match. More: Coronado volleyball team continues to shine on a statewide level Coronado finished the season with a 32-4 overall and won both district and regional championships. Members of the 1978 team were: Tana Beall, Lanetta Campbell, Nina Carter, Sindi Flores, Carolyn Hansen, Sandra Hernandez, Kellie Hopper, Norma Menchaca, Mary Ellen O'Brien, Rose Shires and Eillen Vaughan. The coach of he team was Lora McElligott. Beall was named to the All-Tournament team at state. Felix F. Chavez may be reached at 546-6167; [email protected]; @Fchavezeptimes on Twitter

Cancelled SEZs in Maharashtra will have to return govt land According to an official from Industries Department, more than 24,000 hectares were acquired for SEZs by industrial houses in the state. November 23, 2015, 08:42 IST The Development Commissioners have recommended to the Board of Approval to cancel these SEZ projects. The formal approval had been granted to these projects by BoA. MUMBAI: Cancelled Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Maharashtra will have to return the Revenue department land they have acquired, but they can keep the land bought from farmers, officials said. The previous Manmohan Singh government had approved 139 SEZs in Maharashtra during its 10-year rule at the Centre, he said. Land measuring 24,784 hectares, both public and private, was bought for the SEZs by various industrial houses in the state. These lands are still in their custody, though the licenses of 70 SEZs were either cancelled or their promoters quit the scheme, after a change in policy by the central government, he said. In the remaining 69 SEZs, the businesses have not yet been set up on the land acquired, the official said. Apurva Chandra, Principal Secretary (Industries), said, "If the land has been acquired from farmers, it will remain with the entrepreneur for whom the SEZ was approved. If the land is acquired from the Revenue department, the state will take it back in case the SEZ is cancelled." Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse admitted that most of the industrial houses have not returned huge tracts of land to the original owners or the government. "Once the UPA government changed its SEZ policy, several industrial houses expressed their unwillingness to continue in the SEZ scheme," he said. A rule framed by the Revenue Department states that the land acquired by industrialists from farmers should be returned to them in case they fail to start their ventures on it within 10 years. The state has given sops like exemption from paying stamp duty and local body taxes for setting up SEZs. Apurva Chandra Most Read in Commercial Smartworks lease out 80,000 sq ft space to IT firm in Noida K Raheja Corp inks pact for 0.5 million sq ft office joint development in Pune IQI India to acquire commercial and retail assets, to invest Rs 100 crore 315Work Avenue leases around 1,00,000 sq ft workspace in Bengaluru Bank of America leases 4 lakh sq ft office space in GIFT City for 15 years Net absorption of office spaces dips 44% in 2020: JLL India DLF's rental arm to buy Hines' stake in One Horizon Center for Rs 780 crore Ahmedabad: Work-from-home invites commercial property tax!

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It's been a strange ride these past few weeks developing the show. It's gone from this elaborate idea of servos, LEDs, fountains, and more Christmas-themed props to a very simple stage. With that, there's a feeling of the show being unsatisfactory… but I'm still satisfied anyway. From the original four pan and tilt contraptions I had built, it dwindled down to using just two… and then a big fat zero. The two constraints were the small stage size which was too small to fit four, and the FastLED library didn't seem to play nicely with the Servo library. I didn't do much testing to determine whether it was this or too much current draw for both at the same time, but each library behaved properly when the other was removed. Again with the small stage thing, there wasn't much space to fit in the fountains or any props. (The big workbench is out of service, for reasons.) There was also the mess I made with some experiments that didn't get my hopes up very much. It would have been nice to continue on with fountains for Christmas again… there's always next year. Despite all of the compromises and cuts, I can't honestly say that this wasn't a good project though. I've learned and will move on to something bigger and better. One of the highlights of this project for me was creating a Visual Basic program to control the show. I used to manually sync the music while I was programming the show by basically giving my best guess as to when to hit play. With the VB program, starting the show with synced up music was as simple as hitting play. There were a few problems I encountered. One was that I didn't know how to stop the show mid-way if I needed to. I thought about interrupts and all that but I felt like time wasn't on my side to figure that out. With my current setup, I could only stop the show from playing anything else after the sequence was done. Another problem, although not one cause by the VB program, was that the sketch size became to big for all of the shows to be in one single sketch. I think it may have to do with the size of the FastLED library but I'm not certain. Since I couldn't have all of the shows on one sketch, I couldn't play them back to back through the VB program. I'd like to experiment with programming the show in the Visual Basic program itself so that the lengthy show code is saved on my computer as opposed to the Arduino. Check out my GitHub for both the Arduino sketches and Visual Basic files! Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and best wishes for the new year!

In general, knowing the microarchitecture used inside a particular chip tells you a great deal about its guts, which makes this valuable knowledge. So for your convenience, we have compiled all of the post-486 microarchitectures employed by AMD, Intel, and VIA's various x86 products. These dates are representative of the earliest "introduction" dates of the various products (most of which come from Chris Hare). Below each microarchitecture is a short list of some of the major products that are based on that microarchitecture; server, value, and unusual (Core 2 Extreme and such) products have generally been excluded for simplicity. Lines between microarchitectures represent the inheritance of major features, and also the time period in which products of a certain family were available. The dotted line from one Intel "P6" to another is meant to represent that while the second group of P6 products (Pentium M and Core) is based heavily on the other, there was a period of time in which there were no P6 products on the market. Two groups of as-yet-unreleased products (scheduled for released later in 2008) are shown: VIA's Isaiah and Intel's Nehalem. These will be updated with more information when they are released. A huge version (10,000 x 4,807 px, 783 KB) of this image is also available. Other sizes available on request.

Eventually, every owner leaves their business. Few, however, properly plan for succession or exit on their own terms. It is never too early to start thinking about exiting your business. It is important to realise that exit planning is not a single event, but a tailored process. Even if you are not currently planning to exit your business, understanding the process will make it easier to maximise your financial return when you are ready to sell and/or retire. Operations – terms of trade, pricing policy, proper registration of patents/trademarks. Improving current and forecast profitability – remove non-essential costs. Enhancing company appearance – present the business in its best light. A "Balance Sheet manicure" – e.g. pay down debt, harden attitude to working capital management. Building a solid management team – groom successor / second tier management. Owners and advisors need to understand value in order to determine if financial objectives can be met. Value is largely determined by pre-tax 'sustainable' earnings, multiplied by a price earnings ratio/multiple, with an adjustment for excess assets. Companies with a blue chip client base and reputable brand name will generally attract higher multiples. Intangible benefits, e.g. intellectual property attract a premium. Entrepreneurs' Relief ("ER") allows individuals to claim relief on qualifying gains made on the disposal of a trading business. For those that qualify, up to £10m of lifetime capital gains (£20m in most husband and wife owned companies) will be taxed at 10%, as compared to 28% (for tax payers at the higher rates). be an officer or employee of the company. share transfers to a spouse who is not an employee or director of the company. ER relief is not always available, but advance planning may improve the position. How the sale is structured will also be key in deciding how much of your hard earned value is lost to the tax man. If you delay in developing an exit plan, to include associated tax planning, you may not maximise value. Selling a business is not dissimilar to selling a product or service. In all cases, an active strategy is required.

Testosterone is only one of many factors that influence aggression and the effects of previous experience and environmental stimuli have been found to correlate more strongly. A few studies indicate that the testosterone derivative estradiol (one form of estrogen) might play an important role in male aggression.[66][67][68][69] Studies have also found that testosterone facilitates aggression by modulating vasopressin receptors in the hypothalamus.[70] In comparison, 37% of men who had received external radiotherapy as their primary therapy reported the ability to attain functional erections suitable for intercourse, along with 43% of men who had received brachytherapy as primary treatment. Pretreatment sexual health-related quality of life score, age, serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, race or ethnicity, body mass index, and intended treatment details were associated with functional erections 2 years after treatment. [45] Erectile dysfunction is the inability to develop or maintain an erection that is rigid enough to allow penetration of the vagina, and therefore functional sexual intercourse. Generally, the term erectile dysfunction is applied if this occurs frequently (75% of the time) over a significant period if time (several weeks to months). If this is the case, the term impotence may also be used. Knowing about your history of ED will help your health provider learn if your problems are because of your desire for sex, erection function, ejaculation, or orgasm (climax). Some of these questions may seem private or even embarrassing. However, be assured that your doctor is a professional and your honest answers will help find the cause and best treatment for you. All devices that are currently approved by the FDA are considered safe for use in magnetic resonance imaging environments. However, 2 previously approved devices–the OmniPhase and the DuraPhase penile prostheses–are not considered safe in this environment. Other surgical procedures–including venous ligation to limit penile venous outflow and penile revascularization procedures–are rarely successful and are not recommended.19 These surgeries are only indicated when a patient demonstrates recent-onset ED and an occlusive lesion seen on angiogram or magnetic resonance angiography and should be performed only in centers of excellence for ED. Intramuscular testosterone injections were first used around fifty years ago. Commercially available preparations contain testosterone esters in an oily vehicle. Esterification is designed to retard the release of testosterone from the depot site into the blood because the half life of unmodified testosterone would be very short. For many years intramuscular preparations were the most commonly used testosterone therapy and this is still the case in some centers. Pain can occur at injection sites, but the injections are generally well tolerated and free of major side effects. Until recently, the available intramuscular injections were designed for use at a frequency of between weekly and once every four weeks. These preparations are the cheapest mode of testosterone treatment available, but often cause supraphysiological testosterone levels in the days immediately following injection and/or low trough levels prior to the next injection during which time the symptoms of hypogonadism may return (Nieschlag et al 1976). More recently, a commercial preparation of testosterone undecanoate for intramuscular injection has become available. This has a much longer half life and produces testosterone levels in the physiological range throughout each treatment cycle (Schubert et al 2004). The usual dose frequency is once every three months. This is much more convenient for patients but does not allow prompt cessation of treatment if a contraindication to testosterone develops. The most common example of this would be prostate cancer and it has therefore been suggested that shorter acting testosterone preparations should preferably used for treating older patients (Nieschlag et al 2005). Similar considerations apply to the use of subcutaneous implants which take the form of cylindrical pellets injected under the skin of the abdominal wall and steadily release testosterone to provide physiological testosterone levels for up to six months. Problems also include pellet extrusion and infection (Handelsman et al 1997). Oral/buccal (by mouth). The buccal dose comes in a patch that you place above your incisor (canine or "eyetooth"). The medication looks like a tablet but you should not chew or swallow it. The drug is released over 12 hours. This method has fewer harmful side effects on the liver than if the drug is swallowed, but it may cause headaches or cause irritation where you place it. Acupuncture may help treat psychological ED, though studies are limited and inconclusive. You'll likely need several appointments before you begin to notice any improvements. When choosing an acupuncturist, look for a certified practitioner who uses disposable needles and follows U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines for needle disposal and sterilization. Rest and recovery is just as important as exercise, if not more so. Every time you do an intense workout, give yourself a minimum of 2 days to recuperate afterward, if not more. And don't mix exercise with sleep hacking. If you're exercising, get at least 8 hours of sleep every night. Your body uses it to rebuild, and you can throw your hormones out of whack if you don't rest up properly. Here's a more in-depth guide to Bulletproof weight training, complete with sample workouts. Barbara Mintzes, at the University of British Columbia, said in a Skype interview, "Androgel was approved for a real condition—men who have a number of clinical or acquired conditions that affect testosterone, either through the testes or pituitary gland. So testosterone replacement therapy makes sense, and producing it in a gel makes sense. Where there is an actual need for the product, there's nothing wrong with that." But, she added, "When this gets marketed for what is essentially healthy aging, the antennas go up." "Bring back the younger inner you," says the Low T Center. According to its website, its president, Mr. (notably not "Dr.") Mike Sisk, "created these centers out of a need." They promise their testosterone injections "do not just help boost a low sex drive but can also boost energy, decrease body fat, irritability, and depression." They go so far as to claim that "research finds testosterone replacement can solve long-term health issues like Alzheimer's and heart disease." Penile erection is managed by two mechanisms: the reflex erection, which is achieved by directly touching the penile shaft, and the psychogenic erection, which is achieved by erotic or emotional stimuli. The former uses the peripheral nerves and the lower parts of the spinal cord, whereas the latter uses the limbic system of the brain. In both cases, an intact neural system is required for a successful and complete erection. Stimulation of the penile shaft by the nervous system leads to the secretion of nitric oxide (NO), which causes the relaxation of smooth muscles of corpora cavernosa (the main erectile tissue of penis), and subsequently penile erection. Additionally, adequate levels of testosterone (produced by the testes) and an intact pituitary gland are required for the development of a healthy erectile system. As can be understood from the mechanisms of a normal erection, impotence may develop due to hormonal deficiency, disorders of the neural system, lack of adequate penile blood supply or psychological problems.[18] Spinal cord injury causes sexual dysfunction including ED. Restriction of blood flow can arise from impaired endothelial function due to the usual causes associated with coronary artery disease, but can also be caused by prolonged exposure to bright light. Are there side effects to masturbation? Masturbation is a normal and healthy sexual activity enjoyed by a large proportion of people. But it is surrounded by mystery and false information about whether it is harmful or not. Learn some real facts about masturbation here, as well as information on the benefits and potential side effects in this article. Read now When females have a higher baseline level of testosterone, they have higher increases in sexual arousal levels but smaller increases in testosterone, indicating a ceiling effect on testosterone levels in females. Sexual thoughts also change the level of testosterone but not level of cortisol in the female body, and hormonal contraceptives may affect the variation in testosterone response to sexual thoughts.[51] Associated morbidity may include various other male sexual dysfunctions, such as premature (early) ejaculation and male hypoactive sexual desire disorder. The NHSLS found that 28.5% of men aged 18-59 years reported premature ejaculation, and 15.8% lacked sexual interest during the past year. An additional 17% reported anxiety about sexual performance, and 8.1% had a lack of pleasure in sex. [51] Once a complete sexual and medical history has been completed, appropriate laboratory studies should be conducted. In the initial evaluation of ED, sophisticated laboratory testing is rarely necessary. For example, serum testosterone (and sometimes prolactin) is typically only useful when the patient demonstrates hypogonadal features or testicular atrophy, or when clinical history is suggestive. Additional hormonal evaluation may include thyroid stimulating hormone in those with a clinical suspicion of hypothyroidism or appropriate diabetes screening in those presenting with a concern for impaired glucose metabolism. If the patient has not been evaluated with a lipid panel and hyperlipidemia is suspected, measurement and appropriate referral to internal medicine or cardiology is recommended. In most cases, a tentative diagnosis can be established with a complete sexual and medical history, physical examination, and limited or no laboratory testing. Erectile dysfunction (ED) affects 50% of men older than 40 years, [4] exerting substantial effects on quality of life. [5] This common problem is complex and involves multiple pathways. Penile erections are produced by an integration of physiologic processes involving the central nervous, peripheral nervous, hormonal, and vascular systems. Any abnormality in these systems, whether from medication or disease, has a significant impact on the ability to develop and sustain an erection, ejaculate, and experience orgasm. Abnormally high levels of testosterone could be the result of an adrenal gland disorder, or even cancer of the testes. High levels may also occur in less serious conditions. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which can affect males and females, is a rare but natural cause for elevated testosterone production. Your doctor may order other tests if your levels are exceedingly high. Dr. Wyne told me that although she has seen an increase in male patients asking about low testosterone, she hasn't seen an actual increase in the condition itself. "I do see an increase in guys who are fatter," she said. "The question is whether, if you lose 15 or 20 pounds, your testosterone would revert [to normal]. We know that even 15 pounds makes a huge difference to their level. Most of these guys actually have 50 pounds to lose." The laboratory results should be discussed with the patient and, if possible, with his sexual partner. This educational process allows a review of the basic aspects of the anatomy and physiology of the sexual response and an explanation of the possible etiology and associated risk factors (eg, smoking and the use of various medications). Treatment options and their benefits and risks should be discussed. This type of dialogue allows the patient and physician to cooperate in developing an optimal management strategy. An international consensus document was recently published and provides guidance on the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of late-onset hypogonadism (LOH) in men. The diagnosis of LOH requires biochemical and clinical components. Controversy in defining the clinical syndrome continues due to the high prevalence of hypogonadal symptoms in the aging male population and the non-specific nature of these symptoms. Further controversy surrounds setting a lower limit of normal testosterone, the limitations of the commonly available total testosterone result in assessing some patients and the unavailability of reliable measures of bioavailable or free testosterone for general clinical use. As with any clinical intervention testosterone treatment should be judged on a balance of risk versus benefit. The traditional benefits of testosterone on sexual function, mood, strength and quality of life remain the primary goals of treatment but possible beneficial effects on other parameters such as bone density, obesity, insulin resistance and angina are emerging and will be reviewed. Potential concerns regarding the effects of testosterone on prostate disease, aggression and polycythaemia will also be addressed. The options available for treatment have increased in recent years with the availability of a number of testosterone preparations which can reliably produce physiological serum concentrations. A larger national study, the National Health and Social Life Survey, looked at sexual function in men and women.4 This study surveyed 1,410 men aged 18 to 59 and also documented an increase in ED with age. Additionally, the study found a decrease in sexual desire with increasing age. Men in the oldest cohort (50 to 59) were more than 3 times as likely to experience erection problems and to report low sexual desire compared with men 18 to 29. Experience of sexual dysfunction was more likely among men in poor physical and emotional health. The study also concluded that sexual dysfunction is an important public health concern and that emotional issues are likely to contribute to the experience sexual dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction is defined as the persistent inability to achieve or maintain penile erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance. The Massachusetts Male Aging Study surveyed 1,709 men aged 40–70 years between 1987 and 1989 and found there was a total prevalence of erectile dysfunction of 52 percent. It was estimated that, in 1995, over 152 million men worldwide experienced ED. For 2025, the prevalence of ED is predicted to be approximately 322 million worldwide. Testosterone replacement therapy may improve energy, mood, and bone density, increase muscle mass and weight, and heighten sexual interest in older men who may have deficient levels of testosterone. Testosterone supplementation is not recommended for men who have normal testosterone levels for their age group due to the risk of prostate enlargement and other side effects. Testosterone replacement therapy is available as a cream or gel, topical solution, skin patch, injectable form and pellet form placed under the skin. Chronic stress dumps adrenaline in your system multiple times a day. And that can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Chronic stress is like red-lining your car all day long. When you drive 100 mph all the time, something is going to break down. A high-stress environment can actually change the way your brain sends messages to your body. Dumping too much adrenaline into your bloodstream can affect blood flow and severely limit your ability to achieve and maintain an erection. Both testosterone and 5α-DHT are metabolized mainly in the liver.[1][147] Approximately 50% of testosterone is metabolized via conjugation into testosterone glucuronide and to a lesser extent testosterone sulfate by glucuronosyltransferases and sulfotransferases, respectively.[1] An additional 40% of testosterone is metabolized in equal proportions into the 17-ketosteroids androsterone and etiocholanolone via the combined actions of 5α- and 5β-reductases, 3α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, and 17β-HSD, in that order.[1][147][148] Androsterone and etiocholanolone are then glucuronidated and to a lesser extent sulfated similarly to testosterone.[1][147] The conjugates of testosterone and its hepatic metabolites are released from the liver into circulation and excreted in the urine and bile.[1][147][148] Only a small fraction (2%) of testosterone is excreted unchanged in the urine.[147] Common side effects from testosterone medication include acne, swelling, and breast enlargement in males.[10] Serious side effects may include liver toxicity, heart disease, and behavioral changes.[10] Women and children who are exposed may develop virilization.[10] It is recommended that individuals with prostate cancer not use the medication.[10] It can cause harm if used during pregnancy or breastfeeding.[10] Hacking your testosterone influences everything from body composition to energy levels to mood. It's easy to eat more butter; it's hard to visit a doctor and get tested, but that's what I recommend: know your levels. If you're 25, you'll know what your target is when you're 35. By the time you've noticed symptoms of low testosterone, it's too late to get your "normal" measurements! 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Smoking, excessive drinking, and drug abuse may damage the blood vessels and reduce blood flow to the penis. Smoking makes men with atherosclerosis particularly vulnerable to ED. Being overweight and getting too little exercise also contribute to ED. Studies indicate that men who exercise regularly have a lower risk of ED. An analysis of 14 studies involving more than 90,000 patients with ED confirmed the relation between ED and an increased risk of cardiovascular events and mortality. [56] Compared with patients without ED, those with ED had a 44% increased risk of cardiovascular events, a 25% increased risk of all-cause mortality, a 62% increased risk of MI, and a 39% increased risk of cerebrovascular events. Treatment of ED, either through lifestyle interventions or by pharmacologic means, may improve prognosis and reduce risk. The sex hormone testosterone is far more than just the stuff of the alpha male's swagger. Though it plays a more significant role in the life of the biological male, it is actually present in both sexes to some degree. Despite popular perceptions that testosterone primarily controls aggression and sex drive—although it does play a role in both of those things—research has shown that individual levels of testosterone are also correlated with our language skills and cognitive abilities. Testosterone occurs in the body naturally, but can be administered as a medication, too: its most common uses are in the treatment of hypogonadism and breast cancer, as well as in hormone therapy for transgender men. Of the drugs used for depression, tricyclic antidepressants may be associated with erectile problems and other drugs may be substituted to prevent this complication. Currently available substitutes include bupropion, nefazodone, and trazodone. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (eg, fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine, citalopram) can also cause difficulties with ED, but they might also have other significant sexual side effects, including decreased libido and anorgasmia. "By expanding the boundaries of this disease to common symptoms in aging males, such as fatigue and reduced libido, drug companies seek to increase their markets and boost their sales," wrote Barbara Mintzes, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia School of Public Health, and Agnes Vitry, a senior research fellow at the University of South Australia, in a 2012 article in the Medical Journal of Australia . Organic ED involves abnormalities the penile arteries, veins, or both and is the most common cause of ED, especially in older men. When the problem is arterial, it is usually caused by arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, although trauma to the arteries may be the cause. The controllable risk factors for arteriosclerosis--being overweight, lack of exercise, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and cigarette smoking--can cause erectile failure often before progressing to affect the heart. Of particularly concern are antihypertensive medications for CVD (eg, digoxin, disopyramide [Norpace], gemfibrozil [Lopid]), anxiety, depression (eg, lithium, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, tricyclic antidepressants), or psychosis (eg, chlorpromazine, haloperidol, pimozide [Orap], thioridazine, thiothixene). Antihypertensive drugs, such as diuretics (eg, spironolactone, thiazides) and beta blockers, may be associated with ED. Discontinuation or switching to alternative drugs, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or calcium channel blockers (eg, diltiazem, nifedipine, amlodipine), may reduce ED. The newer angiotensin II receptor antagonists may be less problematic with respect to ED, but long-term data is needed to evaluate this. Conditions that may be associated with ED include diabetes, [25, 26, 27] hypertension, [28] , and CAD, as well as neurologic disorders, endocrinopathies, benign prostatic hyperplasia, [29] , sleep apnea [30] , COPD, [31] and depression (see Table 1 below). [32, 33, 34, 35] In fact, almost any disease may affect erectile function by altering the nervous, vascular, or hormonal systems. Various diseases may produce changes in the smooth muscle tissue of the corpora cavernosa or influence the patient's psychological mood and behavior. In one study, 9.6% reported 'occasional' erectile dysfunction, 8.9% reported erectile dysfunction occurring 'often', and 18.6% reported erectile dysfunction occurring 'all the time'. Of these, only 11.6% had received treatment.In another study, only 14.1% of men reported that they had received treatment, despite experiencing erectile dysfunction for longer than 12 months. Sexual stimulation causes the release of neurotransmitters from cavernosal nerve endings and relaxation factors from endothelial cells lining the sinusoids. NOS produces NO from L-arginine, and this, in turn, produces other muscle-relaxing chemicals, such as cGMP and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), which work via calcium channel and protein kinase mechanisms (see the image below). This results in the relaxation of smooth muscle in the arteries and arterioles that supply the erectile tissue, producing a dramatic increase in penile blood flow. It is essential to discuss erectile dysfunction with your doctor, so any serious underlying causes can be excluded and treatment options can be discussed. Many men are embarrassed discussing this issue with their doctor, or even their partner. Open communication with your doctor, and in your relationship, is important for effectively managing this common problem.

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Today, Science Wonders is going to take you to discover some of the biggest buildings ever built by man. We will climb aboard the biggest machine in the world and then, we'll go to Chili to see the mine which holds within its depths a quarter of the copper reserves of the planet. We will then visit the factory of all the records and will watch towers and giant bridges being built. And to conclude, we come to China to see the construction of one of the biggest works in the world: Three Gorges dam.

Q: How two arrays that look exactly the same can be different? Look at this JS code: var st, ary, ary1, ary2; ary = [["a","b","c"], ["d","e","f"]]; // 2D array ary1 = ary[1]; st = "d,e,f"; ary2 = st.split(','); st = typeof(ary1) + " " + ary1.length + " " + ary1 + '\n'; // I put all output into a string st += typeof(ary2) + " " + ary2.length + " " + ary2 + '\n'; // for a single display st += (ary1[0]==ary2[0])+'\n'; st += (ary1==ary2); console.log(st); .as-console-wrapper { max-height: 100% !important; top: 0; } Output: object 3 d,e,f object 3 d,e,f true false ... Same but different! Why's that? A: Because == checks if its actually the same object by checking the reference. It does not care about the content of the object. You could even deep clone the array to another array, it would still be different. Consider this: Person object1 = new Person("1", "Thomas", "Meier"); Person object2 = new Person("1", "Thomas", "Meier"); Person object3 = object1; System.out.println(object1 == object2); // Output: false System.out.println(object1 == object3); // Output: true A: Because they have different links. When you have created an array the var got a link. When you try to compare two arrays, js compares links.

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Home » Features » Top 10s Top ten things you might not have known about BSA... With BSA being confirmed as making a comeback, we thought we'd provide you with some pub trivia... for when the pubs actually open! By Phil West WITH the recently announced rebirth of historic British biking brand BSA, albeit now under Indian Mahindra ownership, we decided to take a trip down memory lane to unearth some trivia and interesting facts about what was once the biggest motorcycle manufacturer in the world. New Triumph Tiger 850 Sport 2021 | All you need to know about Triumph Tiger 850 Sport | Visordown Video of New Triumph Tiger 850 Sport 2021 | All you need to know about Triumph Tiger 850 Sport | Visordown Behold the ultimate man cave and stunning classic motorcycle collection Top Mountain Crosspoint Museum Burns Down - Over 200 historic motorcycles lost After all, we all know about bikes like the BSA Bantam and Rocket 3 and love historic names such as the Fury, Lightning and Spitfire. But what about lesser-known machines like the Beagle, stupid names like the Beaver and the Beckham-esque shenanigans of '50s BSA boss Lord and Lady Docker? And what's all this BSA 'gun' thing about, anyway? We decided to find out. So here, in no particular order are some of the things we think you REALLY should know about BSA… BSA guns Gun money Yes, let's get the most obvious one out of the way first. BSA's origins, as evident from its full name of 'Birmingham Small Arms', was originally all about weaponry. They were bloody good at it, too… BSA started out as a loose alliance of craftsmen in the Coventry area who teamed up to produce rifles for the British army during the Crimean War (1854-56) in the days when firearms were painstakingly handcrafted by artisans. By so doing they could invest in modern mechanised production techniques and benefit from the economies of scale they brought. Their initial success was quickly followed up in 1863 with an order for 20,000 Turkish infantry rifles and the rest, as they say, is history… LEGENDS FEATURE: Top ten most iconic BSAs of all time Why is BSA returning and what can we expect from the revived British brand? BSA cycles The move into bikes… Bicycles, that is. Although weapons were lucrative, demand was volatile so, to broaden its business base, BSA branched out into bicycle manufacture in 1880 after realizing that its factory and skills, largely tubular steel fabrication, proved very suitable for the manufacture of cycle parts. This in turn led to the first BSA motorcycle in 1905 and first BSA car in 1907. Unusually, however, BSA stuck with bicycles. Post-WW2 BSAs were among the world's best sports bicycles and its pro racing team won the Tour of Britain in 1952. In 1953 BSA Cycles Ltd. was separated from the motorcycle business and was sold to Raleigh in 1957. BSA Factory1 It built its own street In the early 1900s BSA was growing so fast it needed a new factory. Accordingly, it bought 25 acres of land in Small Heath, Birmingham, built a pioneering, three-storey factory in 1915-16 using the new 'Truscon' reinforced concrete technique and served it by a new road it named Armoury Road. In the 1950s it was the largest motorcycle factory in the world. Following BSA's collapse in the 1970s most of this has now been demolished although three blocks remain which are believed to be among the oldest of its type in the UK. Despite applications it has not been awarded listed building status and its future is uncertain. The remainder of Armoury Road is now a non-descript industrial estate. New BSA owners Mahindra has said it hopes to build its new assembly plant nearby. BSA factory Wartime numbers The scale of BSA as an arms manufacturer, particularly during the two world wars, cannot be overstated. In The Great War, not only did BSA sell lots of motorcycles to the British Army and others but by war's end, were producing 10,000 Lee-Enfield .303 rifles a week! It also built 145,000 Lewis guns. In WW2 it was the chief manufacturer of the Browning machine guns used in the likes of the Hurricane and Spitfire, producing 16,390 per month by March 1942. During the course of the conflict it also produced 1,250,000 Lee–Enfield .303 service rifles, 404,383 Sten sub-machine guns, 42,532 Hispano cannon… the list goes on… BSA factory bombed The Germans bombed it Unsurprisingly so, given BSA's wartime armaments production. The Small Heath factory was bomber by the Luftwaffe on 26 August 1940. While two further air raids took place on 19 and 22 November 1940. It was HUGE Although BSA motorcycles was already, by 1940, large, a series of purchases and mergers soon after quickly resulted in it becoming the biggest producer of motorcycles in the world. In 1943 BSA bought the Sunbeam motorcycles and bicycle business from Associated Motor Cycles Ltd then added Ariel in 1944. It bought New Hudson in 1950 and followed this up in 1951 with the purchase of Triumph. Docker Daimler Chairman controversy The managing director of BSA from the early 1940s up to his removal in 1956 was Sir Bernard Docker who, with second wife Lady Norah, became known as 'The Dazzling Dockers', infamously led a life so extravagant it would today shame the Beckhams and led directly to his removal. With BSA also owning Daimler he had the car company build a series of five ultra-luxurious cars with gold-plated brightwork and zebra-skin upholstery for his wife's personal use built at the company's expense. Lady Docker wore a £5000 mink and gold ensemble to the 1956 Paris Motor Show she then tried to claim as a business expense as she was 'acting as a model'. The couple built and restored a Welsh castle, again at the company's expense and had a luxury yacht built. And, most notoriously of all, and were banned from Monaco after insulting Prince Ranier. Not just Bond… A BSA A65 Lightning, complete with full fairing, gold paint and even rocket launchers, was famously featured in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, supposedly ridden by SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe (although in truth by racer Bill Ivy) in a sequence filmed at Silverstone – but it's not BSA's only celebrity connection. Another A65 (without the fairing and rocket launchers) starred in ITV's 'Boon' in the mid-'80s as the mount of star Michael Elphick (although Elphick couldn't ride, however sidekick Rocky/Neil Morrissey could, and did). While yet another Lightning was the bike gonzo journo Hunter S. Thompson chose over a Triumph Bonneville and Harley to ride when following the Hell's Angels. bsa beagle They did some great bikes… plus some shocking ones, too Yes, there were plenty of BSA 'great bikes' – the Gold Star, obviously, the Lightning, Rocket 3 and more, all usually with brilliantly evocative names, too. Then there was the BSA Beagle, a 75cc four-stroke commuter intended to compete with Japanese lightweights that was so flawed it ceased production in 1965 after barely a year. Or how about the BSA Dandy, an earlier commuter that faired a little better. Or the post-NVT collapse BSA Beaver, a 1979-81 trail bike powered by an Italian Morini two-stroke. None of these could be considered classic bikes today… Hailwood rode for them. Twice BSA aren't particularly renowned for their road racing exploits but their combined (with Triumph) assault on the 1970/71 Daytona 200 is the stuff of legend, featuring no expense-spared teams of up to 10 riders, specially-built racers based around the new Rocket 3/Trident triples and an overall bill BSA/Triumph could scarcely afford. The end result, of course, was the Dick Mann victory in the 1971 race aboard the Rob North-framed Rocket 3. Less well known is that the victory came only at the second time of asking. The first attempt, in 1970, came with riders Mike Hailwood (brought out of retirement) and American Jim Rice aboard BSAs (usual rider Mann being passed over) plus Gene Romero, Don Castro, Gary Nixon and Percy Tait aboard the Triumph version. It spectacularly backfired when Mann, instead riding Honda's new CB750, won. Second time round, Mann was rehired for BSA alongside Hailwood, Rice, Don Emde and Dave Aldana with Romero, Castro, Nixon and newcomers Paul Smart and Tim Rockwood aboard the Triumphs… Iconic nameplate BSA to return with British-built bikes! Whatever happened to... The motorcycle brands we want to revive (Part 1) Box-fresh Norton Commando 850 to be sold at auction Jawa 300CL European specs confirmed Jawa reported to be working on a new electric motorcycle

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Then, the red tape and bureaucratic etiquette which attaches to every governmental department, puts the secret service men of the Imperial police on a par with the lower ranks of the subordinates. Muller's official rank is scarcely much higher than that of a policeman, although kings and councillors consult him and the Police Department realises to the full what a treasure it has in him. But official red tape, and his early misfortune ... prevent the giving of any higher official standing to even such a genius. Born and bred to such conditions, Muller understands them, and his natural modesty of disposition asks for no outward honours, asks for nothing but an income sufficient for his simple needs, and for aid and opportunity to occupy himself in the way he most enjoys. This call of the trail is something that is stronger than anything else in Muller's mentality, and now and then it brings him into conflict with the department, ... or with his own better nature. Sometimes his unerring instinct discovers secrets in high places, secrets which the Police Department is bidden to hush up and leave untouched. Muller is then taken off the case, and left idle for a while if he persists in his opinion as to the true facts. And at other times, Muller's own warm heart gets him into trouble. He will track down his victim, driven by the power in his soul which is stronger than all volition; but when he has this victim in the net, he will sometimes discover him to be a much finer, better man than the other individual, whose wrong at this particular criminal's hand set in motion the machinery of justice. Several times that has happened to Muller, and each time his heart got the better of his professional instincts, of his practical common-sense, too, perhaps, ... at least as far as his own advancement was concerned, and he warned the victim, defeating his own work. This peculiarity of Muller's character caused his undoing at last, his official undoing that is, and compelled his retirement from the force. But his advice is often sought unofficially by the Department, and to those who know, Muller's hand can be seen in the unravelling of many a famous case.

The 17 Most Gloriously WTF Looks At The 2017 Met Gala This year honored Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo. NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Kylie Jenner attends the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images For US Weekly) Last night was the Met Gala, the annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. But more importantly, the event offers the most ogled red carpet this side of the Oscars. This year's gala honored Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo, at least giving the stars a designer to steer toward. Beyond that, all bets were off. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Rihanna attends the 'Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) We're not gonna shade anyone—what fun would the gala be if everyone played it safe? Instead we're sharing our picks for the most deliciously over-the-top looks. Some were visions of couture beauty—and others looked like they were snatched from the Drag Race main stage. We wish we could rock the painted-bald look so well. NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Jennifer Connelly attends "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala - O at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Madonna attends the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images For US Weekly) We're not sure why Madge went with a camouflage pattern—it's obvious she had no intention of hiding. Amy Fine Collins NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Amy Fine Collins attends "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) As Gay Star News pointed out, fashion writer Amy Fine Collins' Thom Browne ensemble is suspiciously similar to Violet Chachki's gender-bending runway look from Season 7. instagram/Logo TV NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Maggie Gyllenhaal attends "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala - O at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Grace Hartzel attends "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala - O at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) Julianne Moore and Ashton Sanders Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Julianne Moore and Ashton Sanders attend the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Nicki Minaj is seen departing the Carlyle Hotel to attend "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Rihanna is seen departing the Carlyle Hotel to attend "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Singer Katy Perry attends "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images) From California Gurl to the Bride of Dracula. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Celine Dion attends the 'Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) Someone looks like they're having fun with the whole thing—which is really the point, isn't it? NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Katie Holmes attends the 'Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) This, however, is not what having fun looks like. NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Kendall Jenner attends "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra attend the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly) Remi Malek Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Rami Malek attends the Marc Jacobs afterparty of the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between Costume Institute Gala at the Boom Boom Room on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images) Remi, you look dreadful in that suit. Take it off immediately—preferably in our bedroom. NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Bella Hadid attends the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) Did she leave part of the dress at home? Courtney Love and Francis Bean Cobain NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Frances Bean Cobain (L) and Courtney Love attend the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) No T, no shade: Best looking mother-daughter combo of the night.

Inexperienced tossed after NBA-leading 13th technical by Elias Mendoza Not only did the Thunder win on the road, but they man-handled the Warriors 125-105. Westbrook played a major role in the Thunder's big win Tuesday night by scoring 34 points with nine rebounds and nine assists. "The game had nothing to do with the officials", Kerr told The Mercury News. Durant scored 33 points but didn't get as much help from the cold-shooting Splash Brothers of Curry and Klay Thompson, who added 21 and 12 points, respectively. They didn't get off to a bad start against the Thunder with 30 points in the first quarter. On the other side, though, the Thunder should be amped up as they aim to snap their recent losing slump, so they don't expect them to concede to the champs, who they beat in OKC in November. Westbrook had half the field goals on just 11 shots in his 21-point explosion. Oklahoma City, which allowed 13 3-pointers in losing at home to the Lakers on Sunday, limited the Warriors to 8 for 28 from deep. Now, it could potentially send out a patchwork lineup against the Lakers, who have won seven of 10 games, including a win against the Thunder in Oklahoma City on Sunday. United Nations accuses North Korea of violating sanctions Pyongyang also appeared to have cooperated with Syria and Myanmar in ballistic missile development, according to monitors. Pyongyang is subject to sanctions from the US, UN and European Union over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. "We just gotta do a better job of coming ready to compete on a consistent basis against the teams under.500", Anthony said. And our defense has not been good either. Green was hit with the Warriors' third technical of the night at the end of the first half and had to be held back from officials. The Thunder converted Golden State's 25 turnovers into 38 points. 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Q: API Requests that need Authorization return CORS error Initial Problem I work on a web application (react) that accesses data via an API. The API runs for development reasons on a docker container on my local machine. Simple GET requests (via axios) got me CORS complications (...has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.). A bit of researching solved my problem by running a nginx reverse proxy in another container. I basically used this configuration for the nginx server. New Problem As I progress in building my application, I come to a point where I need to send the JWT to the API to access and alter some entries. Requests that need sending a JWT again get me CORS error messages. The API checks the JWT signature (RS256 generated). I just have to forward it to the API server. ALSO: simple curl requests with the JWT from the console are working. Configuration * *axios const axiosConfig = { responseType: "json", withCredentials: false, mode: "no-cors", headers: { 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': "*", 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials': true, 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods': 'GET,PUT,POST,DELETE,PATCH,OPTIONS', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Authorization': 'Bearer <JWT as string>', }, }; const apiGetRequest = async (route, callback) => { try { const apiUrl = URL + route; axios.get(apiUrl, { axiosConfig }) .then(res => { callback(res); }) .catch(function (error) { console.log(error); }); } catch (error) { console.log(error); } } * *nginx configuration *Docker Image for api version: "3.9" services: db: image: mariadb:latest container_name: db env_file: - ./mariadb/.env volumes: - ./mariadb/create-schema-docker.sh /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d - db-data:/var/lib/mysql ports: - 3306:3306 rest: image: mds4ul/station-registry:latest container_name: api environment: - DB_HOST=db - CONTEXT_PATH=api env_file: - ./rest/.env depends_on: - db ports: - 80:8080 volumes: db-data: Questions * *Why do I get CORS errors for requests where a jwt is needed and not for requests that do not require one? *Which part do I have to change to make this work? A: So answer another question to an embarrassing easy problem of mine. I switched to an express.js proxy server with the following configuration: const express = require('express') const app = express() const axios = require('axios') const cors = require('cors') var bodyParser = require('body-parser') app.use(cors({ origin: '*' })) app.use(bodyParser.json()) require('dotenv').config() const headers = { "X-Authorization": <token>, } app.get(':endpoint([\\/\\w\\.-]*)', function (req, res) { const endpoint = (process.env.API_BASE_URL).replace(/\/$/, "") + req.params.endpoint; axios.get(endpoint, { headers }).then(response => { res.json(response.data) }).catch(error => { res.json(error) }) }) app.listen(3001) I assume I just could not figure out my nginx configuration for this use case. So with express.js I can access now resources which need authorization.

Q: Email action not showing on my lightning layout I added my standard email action to my page layout as shown here : But it is not showing on my chatter component on my case lightning page : I know that for case, lightning component action or standard action do not show up among the button sections, but it should show up among the chatter actions, because i added both the chatter action and lightning action on my layout. Are there an email setting that control it's visibility? A: Go to setup and search for Deliverability. Set Access Level to All Email If it is set to System email only, or No access, it will hide the email actions on the pagelayout.

Q: How to find least group of students I have this tables: Student - Id, FirstName, LastName, Age Group - Id, Name Student_Group - Student_Id, Group_Id I need to find least group of student. I have tried many times. I would be so glad if somebody helped. A: --If you just need the group with the least members, --Group By and Count will work to find the Group with the least members --Then use select top 1 record and order by GroupCount Ascending SELECT TOP 1 Group_Id, COUNT(Group_Id) AS [GroupCount] FROM Student_Group GROUP BY Group_Id ORDER BY [GroupCount] A: Have you tried to do SELECT top 1 g.name FROM group g INNER JOIN Student_group sg ON g.id = sg.Group_Id WHERE count(sg.student_id) >0 ORDER BY count(sg.student_id) GROUP BY sg.group_id ? If you want also the groups with 0 students you should to do SELECT top 1 g.name FROM group g INNER JOIN Student_group sg ON g.id = sg.Group_Id ORDER BY count(sg.student_id) GROUP BY sg.group_id

Women's Hoops Drops 62-56 Decision to Monks Saint Joseph's (Maine) Lasell (5-13, 1-5 GNAC) 19 37 56 Saint Joseph's (Maine) (13-5, 5-1 GNAC) 29 33 62 Pts: Katie Stopera - 14 Reb: Katie Stopera - 7 Ast: Katie Stopera - 4 Reb: Abbie Eastman - 9 Ast: Sarah Assante - 11 STANDISH, Maine – Saint Joseph's College (13-5, 5-1 GNAC) outlasted Lasell College (5-13, 1-5 GNAC), 62-56, in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) women's basketball action at the Harold Alfond Center on Tuesday evening. Monks' Freshman forward Norma Waggett (Saugus, Mass.) tallied 13 points and six rebounds in the victory. For the Lasers, junior guard Katie Stopera (Hollis, N.H.) netted a game-high 14 points with seven rebounds, four assists and two steals, Breanna Cashman (Norwich, N.Y.) and Breeana Williams (Bloomfield, Conn.) scored 11 apiece, and Sherilyn Small (Springfield, Mass.) added eight points in a losing effort. For the Monks, junior center Morgan Cahill (Yarmouth, Maine) recorded 13 points, six rebounds and a pair of blocked shots, freshman guard Hayley Quirion (Augusta, Maine) scored 11 points off a 3-4 three-point shooting performance, sophomore guard Abbie Eastman (Norway, Maine) added eight points and nine caroms, and second-year Emily Kehoe (Perkinsville, Vt.) chipped in with eight points, four board and a pair of steals. Senior guard Sarah Assante (Standish, Maine) also dealt a career-high 11 assists with seven rebounds and three points in the victory. Saint Joseph's held the lead from wire to wire, but did not own a double-digit lead until Waggett made a layup at the end of the first half to push the hosts' lead to 29-19 going into the break. Lasell cut the Monks' cushion down to three points on the heels of a 7-0 run late in the second stanza, but the hosts made six of eight free-throw attempts down the stretch to hold off the Lasers and improve to 5-1 in GNAC play. The Monks held a 46-29 advantage on the glass and a 26-6 lead in bench points on the evening. With the victory, Saint Joseph's improves to 11-1 in the history of the series with Lasell College and has now defeated the Lasers in 10-consecutive meetings dating back to the 2005-06 campaign. Both teams return to the court Thursday, when Saint Joseph's plays at Rivier University at 7:00 p.m. and Lasell hosts Plymouth State University at 7:00 p.m.

Q: Any reason NOT to convert to a single projection when loading GIS data? I have been given the task of: * *Loading a list of properties with lat/long coordinates into a SQL Server 2008 database. *Loading points and areas (polygons) of interest from a variety of shapefiles from various local, state, and national sources. *Allowing the user to query the areas of interest within certain distances of a given property. *Allow another programmer to extract both the property and points/areas of interest to KML files for visualization in Google Earth. My problem is that each source of shapefiles uses their own projection and SQL Server cannot perform comparisons on geographical data using different projections, nor can it convert from one projection to another. I have determined that, using the pyproj library, I am able to convert a point from a given projection to lat / long. I tested this by converting a point location known to be in Pinellas Park, Florida and then displaying the corresponding lat / long in Google maps — and the displayed point is in Pinellas Park (although Google's estimate of the building number is off a little; 5551 XYZ Ave instead of 5541). My question (at last): is it a safe and reasonable strategy to convert all the points in the incoming shapefiles to lat / long and store them that way, using the SQL Server standard SRID of 4326? Is there any danger of loss of precision or shifting in the conversion? If the converted lat / long polygons are displayed in Google Earth will they be identical to a display produced from the original shape files? A: It is usually a good idea to have all layers in the same projection. It is common to store data in lat/long and give away and perform calculations on re-projected data. But in case when you are not able to perform on-fly (or in query) re-projection (and it seems that you are unable to do it) and have to calculate distances - unprojected 4326 is not suitable for the task. To measure distances you need projection with units in metres, not degrees. If your client software will be able to reproject data and measure distances on its own then it is possible to store data in 4326. You may loss some precision because of the transformation, but usually it is far too insignificant.

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My Pokémon Team In Pokémon Sun Upon First Completion + What Took Me So Long To Beat It Well, I finally beat Pokémon Sun today. Yes, I know, I keep taking forever with these, but I kinda have a reason for that this time, and I'll get to that at the end. For now, let's go over my Hall Of Fame team upon beating the game the first time, starting with, of course, my starter. Doctor Hoot the Decidueye Yeah, you're probably gonna notice one or two similarities to my X team, and one is that I chose the Grass-type Starter Pokémon. Doctor Hoot was Level 56 upon first completion of the game, carrying no items, and having the moves Leaf Blade, Spirit Shackle, Sucker Punch, and Acrobatics (hence the lack of items). He has a Relaxed nature, and characteristic is that he…likes to relax. lol While he didn't use them in the League, he frequently used the Z-Moves Bloom Doom, Breakneck Blitz, Never-Ending Nightmare, and Sinister Arrow Raid. The Arrow Quill Pokémon was instrumental to my victories over the Kahunas Hala, Olivia, Hapu, and the Totem Pokémon Wishiwashi, as well as being the first Pokémon out for the championship match. Lycanroc (Midday Form) Not necessarily a Pokémon I was expecting to use on my team going in, but one I'm glad I decided on. Lycanroc was Level 54 upon initial completion of the game, carrying the Rockium Z, and knowing the moves Stone Edge, Crunch, Brick Break, and Stealth Rock. She has a Rash nature, and her characteristic is that she has good perseverance. Thanks to her Rockium Z, she can use the Z-Move Continental Crush on the really tough foes, though she's also used All-Out Pummeling. The Wolf Pokémon mostly played support and backup in battles, but was a huge asset in battles against Guzma and Team Skull, once defeated a Lycanroc Midnight Form in one-on-one combat where both were at the same level, and was the one to score the final victory of the Alola League Championship match. Yup, once again, went with Raichu for my team. But, this time, with the reveal of the Alolan Raichu, more than a bit different from my X team's Raichu. Raichu was Level 56 when I first beat the game, carried the Aloraichium Z, and knew the moves Thunderbolt, Psychic, Brick Break, and Nasty Plot. He has a Brave nature, and his characteristic is that he loves to eat. Through the power of the Aloraichium Z, he can use Stoked Sparksurfer, though he's also used Z-Moves such as All-Out Pummeling, Gigavolt Havoc, Breakneck Blitz, and Catastropika during his time as a Pichu and then a Pikachu. The Mouse Pokémon was a major player on my team for battles against the likes of Olivia, Team Skull, Kahili, Hau, and Hala. And, once again, I had a Water-type Starter Pokémon from a previous game who could perform a new, powerful transformation. lol Greninja was Level 57 upon the first completion of the game, carried the Waterium Z, and had access to the moves Water Shuriken, Night Slash, Aerial Ace, and Extrasensory. He is Naughty by nature, and has the characteristic of being alert to sounds. The Waterium Z allows him to use the Z-Move Hydro Vortex, and he's also used Black Hole Eclipse on multiple occasions. Furthermore, Greninja has the Ability known as Battle Bond, allowing him to transform into Ash-Greninja. The Ninja Pokémon was a late addition to my team, but was instrumental in defeating many powerful foes, such as Nanu, Hapu, Acerola, and Olivia. Mimikyu Now HERE'S someone I knew I was going to add to my team from the first time I laid eyes on it. Mimikyu was Level 55 when I first became champion, was carrying the Fairium Z, and knew the moves Play Rough, Shadow Claw, X-Scissor, and Hone Claws. His nature is Sassy, and his characteristic is that he's capable of taking hits…no doubt due to his Disguise Ability. lol Thanks to Fairium Z, he can use the Z-Move Twinkle Tackle, but has also used Never-Ending Nightmare in the past. The Disguise Pokémon's unique typing made it one of my more useful team-mates, and he was a big help against all four members of the Elite Four and in the championship match. Salazzle Ah, the Pokémon who can only be female and runs its own reverse harem of male Salandit… … …I'm not even kidding. Look it up in the Sun version Pokédex. lol Salazzle was Level 53 when I first beat the game, carried the Firium Z, and knew the moves Flamethrower, Sludge Wave, Dragon Pulse, and Toxic, the last of which I made full use of due to her Corrosion Ability allowing her to inflict Poison status on ANY Pokémon, except those with Immunity. Her nature is Quirky, and her characteristic is that she has good perseverance. And, because she was carrying the Firium Z, she could use the Z-Move Inferno Overdrive, though I did occasionally have her use Acid Downpour. Despite being the lowest leveled Pokémon on my team most of the time, she was a big help against many foes thanks to her ability to poison almost any enemy, and was a major tide-turner against the Totem Pokémon Lurantis and in the final battle for the championship. …So, let's get to what I've been putting off saying for a while now. As I've alluded to a numbers of times, I'm a very old-school player of these games. My first Pokémon game was Pokémon Red, which I didn't even own a Gameboy to play on, so I got a Super Gameboy to play it on my Super Nintendo. I had no one to trade or battle with, meaning I had to miss out on a big part of what made the game so special. When I finally got to enjoy that part later on, upon getting the Gameboy Color so I could play Pokémon Silver, I realized what an amazing game-changer this series was, and I've enjoyed damned near every step of my near two decade long journey… … … …but this is my last stop. As I've revealed a while back on this blog, I'm currently on welfare and am unemployed. I can't afford a new system, and it's clear from playing this game that the Nintendo 3DS has been pushed to its fullest potential, meaning future Pokémon games in the main series won't be released on it. If that changes someday down the road, and I am hoping it does pretty soon, great. But for now, I'm looking at this as my last journey, at least when it comes to the new games. And I have to say, while there are things I would change, and things I hope are added with the rumoured Pokémon Stars port for the Nintendo Switch, I really enjoyed Pokémon Sun. I don't wanna spoil too much of the story, but I will say that a really gratifying part of it is watching the characters, one in particular, grow and change over the course of the game. And, you know, we've all grown and changed as we played along with these games, so it was a nice thing to see. And I hope that those who haven't played through the game yet enjoy that aspect as well. If nothing else, though, I feel at least like, if this is the end of my journey, then at least it was here, in the game that celebrated 20 years of Pokémon. And so, with that said, I wanna take this time to thank one person in particular for changing my life, as well as the lives of many others: Satoshi Tajiri, creator of the initial concepts that led to the creation of Pokémon, and the current CEO of Game Freak. I don't know how long you'll continue to do this, but I hope it remains a hell of a ride, and I hope that you continue to inspire people and shape the world. In the end, Pokémon is all about friendships. It's about people coming together and becoming something more by the experience, and I hope that never, ever changes. … … … … … …Shut up, I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying. lol Anyway, feel free to leave your own memories of this and other Pokémon games, as well as your own Hall of Fame teams for Sun and Moon in the comments. Ja né, and train on. Tags: Ash-Greninja, Decidueye, Greninja, Hall Of Fame, Lycanroc, Mimikyu, Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, Pokémon, Pokémon 20th Anniversary, Pokémon Sun, Pokémon Sun and Moon, Raichu, Salazzle, Satoshi Tajiri, Someday Why The Pokémon Anime And I Are STILL Divorced (WARNING – ANGRY RANT AND SPOILERS AHEAD WITH NO PROOFREADING) So, I was gonna say something about a lot of what I'm going to talk about here a while ago. However, because my proofreader, N. Harmonik, doesn't like spoilers and refuses to watch subtitled episodes of shows that have an official English dub, I opted not to. But now, because of something else that's come up that's related to it, which I will also address, I've decided to just go ahead and get my thoughts out for everyone to hear, and just not have it be proofread. I suppose I could've found someone else to tag in for this one article, but I opted not to on the grounds that it might be kinda funny to just let this go through as is. So, enjoy reading my rant without a grammar and spelling filter, and feel free to point out all the ways I messed up later. ^_^ Anyway, you'll recall that three years ago, almost to the DAY, I announced that I came to the realization that I hated the Pokémon anime and I was officially divorcing it. Now, here's the thing: While I don't actively watch it anymore, I AM aware of some of the stuff that happens on the show, and I DID watch a few of the new episodes, particularly the Kalos League Conference. In fact, I will go so far as to admit that I decided, if Ash had beaten Alain and won the Kalos League, regardless of what happened afterward, I would go back and rewatch everything I missed from when I stopped watching the show. I was very entertained by the Kalos League. And, as an aside, I really like the Japanese theme, XY&Z. I thought it was great… … …and then they fucked up. Which, let's be honest, isn't that just the story of this show for the past several years? So, obviously, the big way they fucked up was that Ash lost in the finals. Now, my thinking of why Ash should've won was because, as far as I can tell, there are no more Gyms in Sun & Moon, so this was pretty much his last chance to win a League Conference. Also, this would be a great year to do it. It's the 20th Anniversary of the original games, and the 19th Anniversary of the anime, meaning we could see a big change going into the 20th Anniversary of the show to shake things up. In addition, looking at what happened in hindsight, from a narrative perspective, it would make far more sense for Ash to win and then find himself facing off against Team Flare. But, to be frank, that's not the reason a lot of people wanted to see him win. They wanted to see him win because they were tired of 19 years of Ash LOSING. And what happened? He lost again. Now, with all of that said, when everyone else was reacting in sheer rage and anger, I have to admit to feeling a degree of desire to troll these people. Why? Because they were saying stuff like "The anime is officially dead" and "Gary was right all along, Ash really IS a loser", and so on. And I began to laugh my fat ass off, because these people are only JUST NOW reaching the same conclusions I did three years ago. The anime has been dead for a LONG time now, people. It only continues to exist as a means to advertise the games, and even then, it does a piss-poor job of it a lot of the time. And frankly, people are pissed about this loss, but I gotta level with you all: This is NOT the worst thing the anime has ever done. It FEELS like it because of the timing and just how long this has gone on, but it's not. Alain beating Ash? I don't agree with it, but they were close enough matched that I could see it happening, and I do actually care a smidgen about Alain as a character. Now, compare to Tobias, who had no real story or personality to speak of and existed specifically for the sole purpose of making sure Ash lost. In fact, not only did Tobias beat Ash, he then went on to defeat his last opponent in the finals with even less difficulty, meaning Ash surely would've won the Sinnoh League Conference had Tobias never shown up. So no, comparatively, Ash losing to Alain in a REALLY close, hard-fought match that pushed both to give their best is not even close to being as bad as what happened with Tobias. Also, as a side note, when it comes to the whole Gary thing, if Ash really IS a loser, Ash actually surpassed Gary YEARS ago, so what does that make him? So, I guess what I'm saying is that the Kalos League Conference didn't piss me off so much as it left me disappointed, because it was good and it could've been great. And I will admit that everything that happened with Team Flare afterward was pretty dire and gripping, even if you knew going in that Team Flare was going to lose. That said, it comes off as kind of dumb that Lysandre can take on both of the Kalos League finalists 2-on-1. It's like, why didn't HE enter the tournament in that case? But no, I wasn't pissed off by that… … …No, I was pissed off by what happened today in the anime. Before I get into that, though, I wanna explain my idea of what they could've done for Sun & Moon. My idea was, to shake up the status quo a bit, to have Pikachu get sick before Ash is about to go to Alola. It's not life threatening or anything like that, and he will recover, but Ash will need to postpone his trip if he wants to stay with his buddy while he recovers. However, Pikachu insists that Ash go and that he'll catch up to him as soon as he can, and until then, Greninja is volunteering to go with Ash to Alola. So Ash goes, and then, after a few Trials, he manages to obtain a Z-Ring with the Electrium Z inserted. Then Pikachu recovers, rejoins the team, and has his brand new Z-Move to boot. Now, spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen today's episode, that is most definitely not going to happen. Why? Because Greninja, who I consider to be the best Water-type Pokémon that Ash has ever had on his team, who possesses one of the best win-loss records of any Pokémon Ash has ever had, who has a special transformation technique exclusive to itself that makes the bond between it and Ash into a whole new kind of power, and who will likely go down in history as one of the all-time best main character Pokémon of the entire anime, was RELEASED. And what's astounding to me is that this is a move where the writers should've known going in that this was going to piss people off, because they've done it before and it's almost ALWAYS resulted in a negative reaction from the fans, but they did it anyway because they're FOOLS. So, let's get some arguments for this decision out of the way, because I know some people are gonna debate this. First off, Ash is not getting Greninja back, and if he is, it'll only be a short-term thing. Name a single time he's ever released (not put in training, not sent to Professor Oak's, but RELEASED) a Pokémon that he then got back full-time. The answer is ZERO. Speaking of, I probably SHOULD be pissed that Goodra went back to the wetlands, but I knew going into the Kalos League Conference that Goodra was only back short-term, so it doesn't really bother me as much. It's still dumb, but whatever. Secondly, I know the reason he left was to protect Kalos. It's still stupid. How come? Because its best technique in combat was its ability to become Ash-Greninja, and it CANNOT DO THAT ALONE. And third, with Ash going to Alola with just Pikachu, simply leaving Greninja at Professor Oak's would make zero sense, so they had to come up with a reason why Greninja physically could not come. I reply to such argument as follows: Not only is it still a stupid reason because of stuff I just said, but it's also inserted for the SPECIFIC INTENTION OF MAKING ASH WEAKER, when all we've wanted for 19 years was for Ash to finally WIN! And now I gotta address where we're going with the anime: Sun & Moon. A DRASTIC change to the anime style. Not a BAD one, I wanna make that clear, but a pretty drastic one. No more Gyms as far as I can tell, meaning no League to challenge, meaning this will make for a very different season. Ash going to SCHOOL, of all things. And, one positive I can give, Ash getting a Z-Ring. Honestly, I like that, since it was odd to me that Ash missed out on gaining a Mega Ring, especially he had a few different Pokémon who could Mega Evolve, one of which had JUST RETURNED TO HIS TEAM PREVIOUSLY. Now, there are people bashing on the premise and the art style and just how different the Sun & Moon arc looks. I wanna make something clear: None of those things bothers me all that much. A new art style? Hey, it helps give this season its own identity and furthers to distinguish it from the past few seasons. Same thing with the new premise. Hell, I don't even mind the school setting all that much. Sure, it seems like an odd thing to go with for the long-term when we've already seen the main characters going to schools as part of short-term story arcs, but it could world. Think of the potential world-building this could do by focusing on that. None of that bothers me. What bothers me, and what ultimately breaks this deal with me, is that the main protagonist is STILL ASH FUCKING KETCHUM! And what's worse, not only is he now going back to school after 19 years of losing, but now, with the new art style, he actually looks YOUNGER. So now, all these factors I just praised as being a help to this series now instead hinder it, all because of Ash's presence as the main character. For fuck's sake, writers, you didn't even have to outright get rid of him, either! You could've instead have him brought on as a teacher (or teacher's aide), and have him bestow some wisdom on young Trainers getting started with their new lives. You could've had him reflect on his life and his decisions throughout the anime while teaching these kids. You could've even justified his continued losses by having him explain that, even after losing the League Conferences over and over, it still helped to hone him as a person and a Trainer, and have him even realize that he's now exactly the type of person these kids can relate to. Give us some Goddamn character development! You realize that Ash is still basically the exact same little twit he's been for YEARS now?! It's at this point I have to address the simple truth of the matter: This show only exists because it has the Pokémon name attached to it. If this was any other property, I guarantee this show would not last 19 years. It's just not possible. And to everyone just now getting pissed off, I say this to you all: You are several years late to the party, but you are welcome nonetheless, because something has got to be done about this show. At this point, there is only one way to salvage Ash as a character, and that is to reboot him back to square one. Everything we've seen of him up until this point? Never happened. He's a brand new character and doesn't have any of the baggage of his previous journeys. This way, you can build him back up to where he can eventually achieve what he originally set out to do: To be the best like no one ever was. But unless enough people actually start voicing this opinions and explaining how and why the show needs to improve, nothing is ever going to change. Ash will continue to be the main protagonist, and will continue to be a Goddamn loser. And you wanna know what the saddest part of all of this is? When Ash lost the Kalos League, I asked myself "Why do I still care? Why am I STILL ranting about this fucking show? Why am I not just 100% apathetic towards it?" Well, the answer is simple: Because I want to watch a GOOD Pokémon show. I see what this show has done in the past, is doing in the present, and could do in the future, and I see how much potential it has. This show could be so much better and still work as an ad for the games with even the SLIGHTEST bit of effort. But that's not what we get. For years, it is consistently not what we get. When this show started, it had something the games at the time were lacking: Real story. Characters we care a lot about. Back then, the games didn't really have the best stories. Now, however, we've clearly hit the switch. The games now have better story and writing, whereas the anime, for all intents and purposes, is still in the same position it's been in for years. And no matter what you have to say about that position, my opinion remains that it could be better, and it honestly feels somedays like the writers of this show have gone out of their way to ensure it doesn't. Anyway, that's my thoughts on the product as of now. What do you all think of this, though? Lemme know in the comments below, and hey, remember that the main anime is not the only Pokémon related story out there. You don't HAVE to watch it. In fact, I think if everyone stopped watching it, watched the specials like Origins and Generations, played the games more, read the manga more, etc., it might even help move things along. Ja né! Tags: Alain, Alola, Angry Rant, Anime, Ash Ketchum, Ash-Greninja, Fanbase, Greninja, Kalos, Pokémon, Rant, Spoilers, Sun & Moon, XY&Z 6 Questions I Have Going Into Pokémon Sun & Moon's Release So, I know it's been a while since the last real article I've written. Naturally, first time I actually sit down and do so, it's Pokémon related. Thanks to a gift card I got last year for Christmas, I have ensured that I will be able to get Pokémon Sun. So thankfully, not getting left outta this one, which means I can allow myself to get as hyped as everybody else. Also, it means I can start racking up the questions about the game and what to expect from it. So, with that said, let's take a look at a few things I can't wait to learn about Pokémon Sun & Moon, starting with… #1 – Are the Alola Form Pokémon only from Generation I? I figured I'd start with this one, because it feels like I already know the answer. And in case you're wondering, right now in my head, I'm thinking the answer is yes, all the Alola Form Pokémon are Generation I Pokémon. Here's what makes me think that: It's the 20th Anniversary of the original games. Said original games have been re-released on Virtual Console, and the Pokémon from those games can even be transferred all the way up to Sun & Moon. I feel like this was done to give them something new. And frankly, I can't help but notice at least five Kanto Pokémon are now getting the Dark-type, and I've always kinda wondered why it didn't happen back in Gold & Silver. That said, there are plenty of other Pokémon from other regions that could've potentially gotten regional variants, and I hope that the concept isn't tossed out when it comes to future games. This is actually a really neat idea, one I'm surprised hasn't come up until now (not including the Orange Islands from the anime), and one that can be revisited later on. I also can't help but notice that all of the Pokémon announced to have Alola Forms do not have Mega Evolutions, nor do I think they're going to. Which leads me into the next question… #2 – Are there going to be new Mega Evolutions? The Mega Evolutions were a bit conspicuous by their absence from the trailers for a while. Then, just recently, we're told about how the new Z-Ring allows us to Mega Evolve Pokémon again. However, there were no new ones shown, only the ones revealed in Generation VI. This has led to the theory that there will not be any new Mega Evolutions in Sun & Moon. I'm personally inclined to believe it, though I'm a bit disappointed in that if it's true. I felt like there were still at least another handful of classic Pokémon, and maybe even some newer ones, who would've benefited from being able to Mega Evolve, and even some who honestly felt like they SHOULD have gotten them but didn't. So I'm hopeful that I'm either wrong or that Mega Evolution is expanded upon in later games. But speaking of carry-overs from Generation VI, that brings me to… #3 – Will there be a post-game episode? While Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire's main game kinda left me feeling a little disappointed, I LOVE the idea of a post-game episode. As for what they could do for one in Sun & Moon, I say use Zygarde. We've already confirmed that one thing you can do in the game is collect Zygarde Cells, and that the different forms shown off in the anime will be in the game. Also, there was no third version of X & Y, the rumoured Pokémon Z. So I say just go all out and have a special post-game episode for Zygarde. The Z Episode, if you will. Maybe even have it follow up on plot points from X & Y? And hey, we know Ash-Greninja is in the game via the demo, so involve it too. Oh, and just as a real quick side-question, are we getting any other Pokémon with Battle Bond, or is it just gonna be Greninja? 'Cuz I thought what they were gonna do is have all the fully evolved Kalos Starters be able to do it, and have them appear in Pokémon Z. But then, Pokémon Z never happened. But, like I said, if they do a Z Episode, they could follow up more on the Kalos Pokémon by doing just that. #4 – What are the Ultra Beasts really? Okay, strap yourselves in, folks, because I'm about to go all Game Theory on y'all for the next few ones. So, we've come to learn about new creatures called Ultra Beasts, who seemingly are neither Pokémon nor humans, meaning they're some kind of third race. And yet, not only do the Ultra Beasts have at least some characteristics to them that we could potentially see them as being Pokémon, they also have some characteristic in common with humans. A body builder, a beauty, a little girl. Then I remembered a book in the Canalave Library which spoke of a time when humans and Pokémon ate at the same table, with some translations apparently suggesting humans and Pokémon had interspecies marriages at one point. And yes, as an internet personality, I am DEEPLY horrified by the fact that this makes a lot of the Rule 34 fics about Pokémon and their Trainers debatable canon. XP Regardless, though, this could hint at a potential link between the two species. So, if that's the case, what's to stop someone from taking the DNA of humans and Pokémon, putting them in a test tube, and seeing what comes out? Is it possible that the Ultra Beasts are the offspring of humans and Pokémon? COULD. IT. BE??? Well, all things considered, I can think of one other thing that suggests that… #5 – What are the Aether Foundation's true motives? Let's unpack this one, shall we? How many times have we encountered scientists that went down the wrong road in these games, not necessarily for evil but for misguided reasons? And isn't there a Synthetic Pokémon in the new games that was created with the intent to be as strong as the Mythical Pokémon, and evolves to gain an Ability akin to Arceus, accepted by many to be the Pokémon World's GOD? And isn't it odd how the only person confirmed at this time to have a Type: Null is Gladion, the Team Skull enforcer, who is in a directly antagonistic relationship with the Aether Foundation? And isn't it interesting how he and the President of the Aether Foundation, Lusamine, have the same coloured hair and eyes? And isn't it a nice little turn of events where the Aether Foundation is allegedly conducting research on the Ultra Beasts, who look like they may or may not have been created in a lab? All of this is painting a very dark picture of the Aether Foundation. Not saying Lusamine or any of the current members are evil, just that the organization they all work for might have a dark past they don't want everyone to know about, and may very well be even trying to make up for. And frankly, I hope I'm right, because that would be a SWEET twist, and we haven't had a REALLY good plot twist in the games for a little while now. #6 – How many Trial Captains and Kahunas will there be? So GameXplain, the reason I don't do Evaluating Time anymore because…well, really, what's the point when they do a MUCH better job in my opinion, recently asked a simple question: How many Trial Captains and Kahunas would there be? And frankly, I'm kinda hoping it's their answer of 14 Trial Captains and 4 Kahunas. Why? Because then each one can specialize in each type of Pokémon and none get left out. You all remember how many times I complained about there being no Dark-type Gym in any of the past games, after all. The only thing that complicates that is that I have no idea how you divide 14 captains among 4 islands, but whatever. Anyway, let's hope we don't have to wait long for these answers. For now, lemme know what you are dying to know about the games in the comments below, and we'll see what happens next month when the game comes out. Ja né! Tags: Aether Foundation, Alola, Alola Form, Ash-Greninja, Delta Episode, Generation VII, Gladion, Greninja, Kahuna, Lusamine, Mega Evolution, Pokémon, Pokémon Moon, Pokémon Sun, Pokémon Sun and Moon, Trial Captains, Type: Null, Ultra Beasts, Zygarde

Q: OSX Maverick: Run anddroid SDK from an external hard drive (different from the default Machintosh HD) I want to run the Android from an external HardDrive on OSX Maverick because my Macbook Air doesn't have enough space on the Machintosh HD. My problem is, when I run the "android" command, the shell script doesn't find the basics system commands: $ android /Volumes/ValVMS/Adroid SDK/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools/android: line 30: dirname: command not found /Volumes/ValVMS/Adroid SDK/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools/android: line 33: basename: command not found /Volumes/ValVMS/Adroid SDK/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools/android: line 40: dirname: command not found /Volumes/ValVMS/Adroid SDK/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools/android: line 44: dirname: command not found /Volumes/ValVMS/Adroid SDK/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools/android: line 48: basename: command not found :can't find sdkmanager.jar Everything works fine when I use the default Machintosh HD. I'm looking for a way to relay the paths from the Machintosh HD to my external HD and run the commands from this one. Thanks for your help. A: The android file is just a shell script. Can you try sh android and let me know what happens? I just downloaded the Android ADT and extracted it to an external USB 2.0 disk. Unzip, open terminal (I use iTerm), cd to the folder and just run the command above. It worked perfectly for me. The Android SDK Manager opens up. This should have actually gone in as a comment but I don't have the rep to do so! Please feel free to delete the answer if it serves no value!

Biografia Nato nel 1944, a 31 anni ha partecipato ai Giochi olimpici di , nello slalom gigante, terminando al 51º posto con il tempo totale di 5'18"17. Note Collegamenti esterni

Pole dancing fitness -are you ready to try it? Ready to Try Pole Dancing Fitness? Pole dancing fitness offers benefits to your body that are hard to pass up. This fitness craze has spread quickly and you can see why when you see ladies' before-and-after photos. And these are just SOME of the benefits. Some claim that pole dance has changed their lives, their relationships, their careers...and it can! Strength building exercises. Although the moves on the pole are so fun, don't ever leave out your body weight exercises or weight training. Your class should include ab/core work as well as leg exercises such as lunges, squats, planks, et cetera. Pole work is mainly strength training but you can also have a good cardio session, depending on how it is arranged. Again, Susan Peach of pole-dancing-for-fitness is the only creator of a pole cardio workout that I have found. Check out my FREE download of "Cross Training for Pole Dancers" eBook that you can download here. Check out Susan's Complete Pole Workout DVD Series including stretching, cardio and strength building exercises! Susan is very thorough about showing you LOTS of functional strength building moves and exercises that are designed to get you up and flying on the pole faster. Instead of just showing you how the advanced inverts and tricks work, she starts you safely learning from the ground up, literally, and by safely I mean no injuries and muscles pops, pulls and tears and frustration from trying to learn something your body isn't ready for yet. Although pole dance is a way to workout, it is also a form of dance and a great way to meet other women like yourself who are also on a journey to get fitter, have fun and to take on new challenges. Even if you can't find a local studio or the nearest one is too far away, you can join an online pole forum and make lots of good friends to chat with, share videos, photos and experiences with as well as get valuable feedback from your training sessions and work.

In the light of social and economic challenges posed by rapid population ageing there is an increased need to understand ageism – how it is expressed and experienced, its consequences and the circumstances that contribute to more or less negative attitudes to age. Ageism is the most prevalent form of discrimination in the UK (Abrams et al., 2011a), estimated to cost the economy £31 billion per year (Citizens Advice, 2007). It restricts employment opportunities, and reduces workplace productivity and innovation (Swift et al., 2013). Ageism also results in inequality and social exclusion, reducing social cohesion and well-being (Abrams and Swift, 2012; Stuckelberger et al., 2012; Swift et al., 2012). Not only is ageism a barrier to the inclusion and full participation of older people in society, but it also affects everyone by obscuring our understanding of the ageing process. Moreover, by reinforcing negative stereotypes, ageism can even shape patterns of behaviour that are potentially detrimental to people's self-interest (Lamont et al., 2015). Here we review national and some international research from the last 25 years to reveal what our core attitudes to ageing are and how they result in discrimination and other damaging consequences. We outline the prevalence of perceived age-based discrimination and its consequences for individuals and society, and then explore the individual and societal factors that contribute to more positive or negative attitudes to age and their application to reducing experiences of ageism. We conclude by considering areas that are likely to be key for policy, research and practice.

Policy Insights 2019 « California Federation of Teacher's 2019 Convention Briefing on the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) » Policy Insights, the Budget Center's annual conference, is the premier event for advocates, policymakers, researchers, funders, service providers, and other leaders working to improve the lives of low- and middle-income Californians. The conference fosters a discussion on expanding economic opportunity for all Californians. The following is the agenda and schedule for Policy Insights 2019, which was held on March 27 at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel and attended by over 400 people from around the state. This page includes links to presentations and handouts from the conference sessions as noted, as well as a video recording of all three plenary sessions. 8:30-8:50 Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:15 Welcome and Overview Pathways to Shared Prosperity: The Budget Center's Perspective Chris Hoene, Executive Director, California Budget & Policy Center | View Slides View Video 9:15-10:30 Morning Plenary Pathways to Shared Prosperity: The Administration's Perspective A conversation with Governor Gavin Newsom's Cabinet Secretary about the Administration's proposed 2019-20 budget, "California For All" policies, and priorities for California in 2019-20 and beyond. Ana J. Matosantos, Cabinet Secretary, Office of Governor Gavin Newsom Moderator: Priska Neely, Senior Reporter, Early Childhood, 89.3 KPCC, Southern California Public Radio 10:45-12:00 Morning Workshops (see "Workshops" below) 12:15-1:45 Luncheon Plenary Frank J. Mecca, Executive Director, County Welfare Directors Association of California and, Vice Chair, California Budget & Policy Center Board of Directors Pathways to Shared Prosperity: Legislative Leadership Perspective The Senate Pro Tem, Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, and California's new Legislative Analyst discuss current state budget and policy proposals and opportunities for progress in this year's budget deliberations. Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins Senator Holly J. Mitchell, Chair, Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee Gabriel Petek, Legislative Analyst, Legislative Analyst's Office Moderator: Judy Lin, Reporter, CALmatters 2:00-3:15 Afternoon Workshops (see "Workshops" below) 3:30-4:30 Afternoon Plenary Pathways to Shared Prosperity: A Local Leader's Perspective One of California's, and the nation's, most innovative leaders discusses his efforts to redefine the role of his city in creating broadly shared economic opportunity for the people of his community. Mayor Michael D. Tubbs, City of Stockton Moderator: Natalie Foster, California Budget & Policy Center Board Member and Co-Chair, Economic Security Project 4:30-6:00 Reception 10:45-12:00 Morning Workshops Repairing the Road to Redemption: How "Clean Slate" Policies Are Reshaping California's Criminal Justice Reform Landscape In recent years, California has substantially reformed its criminal justice policies to reduce incarceration and promote more effective pathways to rehabilitation. Yet, even with these advances, Californians who have completed their sentences continue to face systemic barriers – such as restrictions on access to jobs and housing – that hinder their ability to rebuild their lives. While some people can clear or change their records, this process is cumbersome – and, in California, old convictions can never truly be erased. This workshop will review recent efforts to reduce the collateral consequences of old criminal convictions as well as highlight additional policies that can remove the legal roadblocks that prevent millions of Californians from realizing their full potential even after they have paid their debt to society. Assemblymember Rob Bonta, Assistant Majority Leader Cristine Soto DeBerry, Chief of Staff, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon | View Slides Evonne Silva, Senior Program Director, Criminal Justice and Workforce Development, Code for America | View Slides Jael Myrick, Program Coordinator, Clean Slate Practice, East Bay Community Law Center Addressing Racial Equity Through the State Tax Code Many state tax policies currently have the effect of exacerbating racial income and wealth inequality, making it harder for people of color to share in California's prosperity. The state tax code can also be used as a tool to reduce economic and racial disparities while raising revenue to support services and investments that provide more opportunities for communities of color to achieve economic security and build wealth. This workshop will explore the many ways in which tax policy contributes to the widening of the racial wealth divide as well as policies California can pursue to make the tax code more equitable. Christopher M. Brown, Director, PolicyLink | View Handout Jennifer Ito, USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity | View Slides Michael Leachman, Senior Director of State Fiscal Research, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | View Slides | View Handout Kayla Kitson, Tax Policy Analyst, California Budget & Policy Center | View Handout Intentional Communications: How to Advance Racial and Gender Equity Through Organizational Narrative In order to drive powerful progress toward policies that advance racial and gender equity, we must take intentional steps ─ starting with how we communicate and talk about these issues. In this workshop, you will learn strategies from key leaders in some of the most exciting and important movements in California. Veronica Carrizales, Policy and Campaign Development Director, California Calls Noreen Farrell, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates | View Handout John Kim, Co-Director, Advancement Project Bilen Mesfin Packwood, Founder and Principal, Change Consulting, LLC Pathways to Shared Prosperity: New State Legislators' Perspective The 2018 elections saw a record number of women candidates in California elected to the state legislature, statewide office, and the US Congress. Across California and the nation, women were energized and activated to run for elected office, many of them for the first time. We are delighted and honored to be joined at this year's conference by several of California's newly elected state legislators who will share their motivations for running for office, their experiences so far, and their policy aspirations for California and their communities. Senator María Elena Durazo Assemblymember Buffy Wicks Moderator: Surina Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Women's Foundation of California Housing, Health, and Opportunity: How Housing and Housing Policies Affect Life Outcomes Housing is the largest expense in most families' budgets for basic needs, and unaffordable housing costs are a critical driver of California's high poverty rate under the Supplemental Poverty Measure. But housing also matters beyond its role as a major household expense. Housing quality, stability, and location can all significantly influence an individual's health, well-being, and educational and economic opportunities. This workshop will explore the many ways that housing affects life outcomes, over the short term and long term. We will also discuss how housing policies can be used as tools to promote well-being and increase equity in opportunity for all Californians. Melissa Jones, Executive Director, BARHII (Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative) | View Slides | View Handout 1 | View Handout 2 Dan Rinzler, Senior Policy Analyst, California Housing Partnership Corporation | View Slides Sara Kimberlin, Senior Policy Analyst, California Budget & Policy Center | View Slides | View Handout 2:00-3:15 Afternoon Workshops Leveling the Playing Field: How California Can Advance Health Equity While California has succeeded in expanding access to affordable health coverage in recent years, our state has made much less progress in addressing the persistent and costly health inequities – based on race, ethnicity, geography, and other factors – that continue to afflict our society as well as our health care system. For example, black and Latinx Californians are still substantially more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes compared to other residents. In addition, Vietnamese-American women have the highest incidence of and death rates from cervical cancer – several times higher than the rates for white women. In this workshop, experts representing a diverse array of communities will discuss the range of environmental and societal conditions that contribute to wide disparities in health outcomes among our state's nearly 40 million residents. Panelists will also highlight opportunities to reduce health disparities through both community empowerment and new policies at the state level – policies that could gain traction under the administration of Governor Gavin Newsom. | View Slides Lee Lo, California Policy Advocate, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) Jeffrey Reynoso, Executive Director, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California Angelo Williams, Deputy Director, California Black Health Network Linda Tenerowicz, Policy Advocate, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network Moving the Needle to Help Kids Thrive: Connections Between Policies That Address Child Poverty, Child Health and Development, and the Geography of Opportunity One in five children in California lived in poverty in 2017, and one in 20 lived in deep poverty, when accounting for the cost of living using the Supplemental Poverty Measure. What policies are needed to reduce California's high child poverty rate and meet the needs of children growing up with economic insecurity? This question has been an important recent focus for many state policy stakeholders, with proposals developed by a child poverty task force, a Blue Ribbon Commission on early care and education, and Governor Newsom's new administration, among others, that aim to tackle this challenge from many sides. This workshop will explore the connections between policies that aim to address family incomes, child health and development, early care and education, housing affordability, and other approaches to helping families afford basic needs and helping children build resilience to overcome the challenges of growing up with economic insecurity. | View Handout 1 | View Handout 2 | View Handout 3 Kim Pattillo Brownson, Vice President, Policy & Strategy, First 5 LA Anya Lawler, Policy Advocate, Western Center On Law and Poverty Frank J. Mecca, Executive Director, County Welfare Directors Association of California and Vice Chair, California Budget & Policy Center Board of Directors Alissa Anderson, Senior Policy Analyst, California Budget & Policy Center Examining Racial and Gender Wealth Inequity: How Public Policy Promotes and Prevents Shared Prosperity in Our Communities Wealth is central to economic security and mobility. It allows families to weather financial setbacks, save for a rainy day or retirement, invest in a home or a business, or even to boost the financial security of their children. However, people of color and women face persistent barriers to building wealth. This workshop illuminates the pressing racial and gender wealth gap, discusses how public policy has helped create these inequities, and lays out a better set of policies that could put California and the nation as a whole on a better path to building wealth for millions of families. Graciela Aponte-Diaz, Director of California Policy, Center for Responsible Lending | View Slides | View Handout Jhumpa Bhattacharya, Director of Racial Equity and Strategy, Insight Center for Community Economic Development | View Slides 1 | View Slides 2 | View Handout Heather McCulloch, Founder and Executive Director, Closing the Women's Wealth Gap Initiative | View Slides | View Handout Esi Hutchful, State Policy Fellow, California Budget & Policy Center | View Handout Transforming Student Financial Aid and Increasing College Access Students pursuing a college degree face two main costs: tuition and fees charged by the institution and student-related living expenses such as housing, food, transportation, and books and supplies. While tuition and living costs have increased significantly in recent years, state support has not kept pace, making college unaffordable for low- and middle-income students and pushing many into debt. This workshop features experts from the state's three public higher education sectors (the California State University, the University of California, and the California Community Colleges), the state's student aid commission, and The Education Trust—West. This panel will explore why and how to reform the state's financial aid system to better serve the needs of all Californians. | View Handout 1 | View Handout 2 | View Handout 3 Tyler Aguilar, Legislative Director, Academic Programs and Student Affairs, University of California Office of the President Laura Metune, Vice Chancellor for External Relations, California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Christopher Nellum, Senior Director of Higher Education Research and Policy, The Education Trust—West David O'Brien, Director, Government Affairs, California Student Aid Commission From Cradle to Career: How a Longitudinal Data System Can Support Children's Educational Success in California Education data is a powerful tool that can help policymakers, educators, parents, and other stakeholders make informed decisions, but California lacks an integrated data system found in other states across the country. Sixteen states currently have a data system that track students from preschool through a college degree and into the workforce. Could Governor Newsom's proposal to support a statewide longitudinal data system add California to this list? This panel will explore the benefits of, and some of the obstacles to, bringing a transparent "cradle to career" data system to fruition in a large and diverse state. Ben Chida, Senior Policy Advisor for Cradle to Career, Office of Governor Gavin Newsom Carlise King, Early Childhood Data Collaborative, Child Trends | View Slides Anita Larson, Research, Planning & Eval Dir., MN Dept of Education | View Slides | View Handout 1 | View Handout 2 Marcy Lauck, Senior Director of Data Governance Strategies, Santa Clara County Office of Education | View Slides Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Associate Professor and Director, University of Southern California Children's Data Network http://bit.ly/PolicyInsights2019 Sheraton Grand Hotel Sacramento Hotel http://www.sheratonsacramento.com/

Agate Jewel Restores a small number of MPs. Sold in Barrow for 3200 kims, in Helwig for 3780 kims, and in Swaffham for 4120 kims. Alarm Clock Wakes the doctor on the second floor of the inn in Keltwick. Sold in Keltwick for 2000 kims. Banshee Powder Kills you instantly bringing back to the priest of the last town you visited but you will not lose half your gold. Sold in Barrow for 2200 kims and in Hastings for 3750 kims. Candle Illuminates caves for a short period of time. Sold in Wyclif for 10 kims and in Parma for 15 kims. Danegeld Water Drinking this will lower your maximum HPs and increase your maximum MPs. Way be left behind by Wizards. Gnome Stone Instantly exit a cave. Sold in Parma for 300 kims, in Deepdale for 350 kims, in Stow for 375 kims, in Barrow for 400 kims, and in Helwig for 420 kims. Griffin Wing Instantly teleport to the last town you visited. Sold in Stow for 820 kims, in Keltwick for 910 kims, in Barrow for 990 kims, in Helwig for 1020 kims, and in Swaffham for 1050 kims. Herbs Restores a small number of HPs. Sold in Wyclif for 20 kims, in Parma for 25 kims, in Deepdale for 30 kims, and in Stow for 30 kims. Joke Book None. Sold by the item shop owner in Malaga who will take your sword as payment. Lantern Illuminates caves for as long as you're inside. Sold in Parma for 65 kims, in Deepdale for 70 kims, in Stow for 70 kims, in Keltwick for 75 kims, in Barrow for 80 kims, in Helwig for 92 kims, in Swaffham for 102 kims, and in Hastings for 115 kims. Medicine Restores a medium number of HPs. Sold in Deepdale for 120 kims, in Stow for 125 kims, in Keltwick for 130 kims, in Barrow for 142 kims, in Helwig for 155 kims, in Swaffham for 171 kims, and in Hastings for 190 kims. Poison Balm Cures poison. Sold in Parma for 40 kims, in Deepdale for 60 kims, in Stow for 65 kims, in Keltwick for 70 kims, in Helwig for 90 kims, in Swaffham for 108 kims, and in Hastings for 122 kims. Ruby Brooch Helps you to avoid random enemies for a period of time. Found in a chest in the forest between Stow and Keltwick. Small Bomb None. Sold by the item shop owner in Malaga who will take your sword as payment. Topaz Jewel Restores a medium number of MPs. Sold in Hastings for 9100 kims. Vase None. Sold by the item shop owner in Malaga who will take your sword as payment. Blue Crystal One of three crystals the king of Swaffham wants before he'll give you his ring. Defeat the Gray Demon on the second floor of the Sapphire Cave. Blue Key Used to unlock the gate at the entrance of the Sapphire Cave. Given to you by the king of Swaffham after you give him the Red Crystal. Bronze Key Unlocks the gate blocking the Ring of Earth on the top level of Thule Cave. Held by the Red Dragon on the top level of Thule Cave. Crown Show this to Bruno on the first level of Harmony Cave to receive the Ring of Water. Found in the lower right side of the first level of Harmony Cave. Digot Plant Cures the poison of the Cartahena spy in Hastings. Found in a chest on the first level of Whisby Cave east of Hastings. Dungeon Key Unlocks the gate in the Cave to Malaga. Given to you by Bearwulf in his house in Keltwick after you retrieve the Poison Shield from Blazon's Cave. Gold Key Unlocks the gate blocking the Ring of the Power on the top level of Thule Cave. Held by Luther who has become the Red Cyclops on the top level of Thule Cave. Mirror of Atlas Gives you maps of the entire world and all the dungeons. Found in a chest on the third level of Thule Cave. Old Man's Sketch Give this to the old woman in Helwig to receive the Dragon Shield. Give the Old Woman's Sketch to the old man behind the church in Keltwick. Old Woman's Sketch Give this to the lonely old man in Keltwick to receive the Old Man's Sketch. Given to you by the old woman in the northeast corner of Helwig after rescuing the men from Methuen's Cave. Pass to Cartahena The guard to Cartahena will allow you to pass. Buy from the old man on the east side of Barrow for 50000 after you have visited Hastings. Rafael's Stick Removes curses. Search the east side of the ruins of the weapon in Swaffham after it has been destroyed. Red Crystal One of three crystals the king of Swaffham wants before he'll give you his ring. Defeat the Blood Demon on the second floor of the Ruby Cave. Red Key Used to unlock the gate at the entrance of the Ruby Cave. Given to you by the king of Swaffham after you give him the White Crystal. Silver Key Unlocks the gate blocking the Ring of Sun on the top level of Thule Cave. Held by Thar who has become the Red Demon on the top level of Thule Cave. Sixteen Rings Use them on the throne in the castle of Cartahena to bring peace to the world. You will finally have collected all sixteen rings after defeating Tsarkon in Thule Cave. Titania's Mirror Displays a map of your current area. Search the left side of the tree in the ruins of Excalabria. Thule Key Unlocks the gate at the entrance of Thule Cave. Given to you by the man in the southeast building of Cartahena after you slay the Gold Dragon. Treasure of Troy Give this to the King of Parma. Found on the second level of the Cave of Troy. Truffles Give this to the King of Deepdale who is discuised as a commoner in the house by the entrance to Deepdale for the Ring of Wind. Found on the second level of Bremen's Cave. White Crystal One of three crystals the king of Swaffham wants before he'll give you his ring. Defeat the Dark Demon in the northwest corner of the Ivory Cave. White Key Used to unlock the gate at the entrance of the Ivory Cave. Given to you by the king of Swaffham.

I trained for 6 years as a classical pianist, played bass drum and xylophone in my high school marching band, and I was in an amateur dance troupe that got hired in a few music videos. Additionally, I played Willy Wonka in my middles school's production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. All of these experiences encouraged me to step out of my comfort zone and acquire new experiences. With my own daughter, I've also emphasized the importance of arts education and enrichment. Art, for me, is about full engagement of the human mind and body. As an anthropology student, art is a species-defining trait for humankind – on par with speech, sophisticated composite material tools, and religion that sets our species apart from most others. To deny the creative impulse is to deny our collective and individual humanity. I led monthly bicycle tours to art galleries in North East Los Angeles for nearly a decade as through a program I co-founded called Figueroa for All. The central goal, for me, was to bring people to a fully engaged mental state. The rides did this through the physical activity of riding, mixed with the diverse experiences within art galleries and constructed spaces, and the social environment of traveling in a group (between 20 and 150 people). I organized and led these rides because of the deep need I saw in my community to be engaged in this way – a need that exists while our neighborhood is swimming in talented artists and mind blowing work. As a councilman, I see part of my job as being very similar to what I did as an organizer of those tours. I am running for City Council to promote safe streets and strong neighborhoods. Too often issues of blight, graffiti, broken sidewalks and unclean restrooms contribute to our citizens feeling small and unsupported by city infrastructure. The good news is that many of these issues have direct fixes that will require attention and resources from a responsive and connected council office, which I will deliver to Council District 1. When local artists are commissioned to paint murals celebrating our culture we enhance our interaction with public spaces and one another. Further, as a Friend of the Southwest Museum, I strongly support keeping that community resource open and independently operated so it can continue to educate young and old on the history of our indigenous people. Finally, many of our parks currently exist as cultural enrichment points by providing art classes and instruction to young adults – I intend to expand these offerings because I believe they are critical deterrents youth gang activity. I ardently wish to build on the immense cultural and creative capital of Los Angeles – specifically in Council District 1 – as we grow our local creative economy. Los Angeles's artistic community is a point of local pride and the envy of the world — but we need to strive for making that creative economy more inclusive to class, race, and gender underrepresented in mainstream Hollywood creative work. Council District 1 is home to many community art programs and non-profits that deserve support when providing a civic good. For instance, CD1 is home to the Bow Tie Parcel and frequently hosts community events produced by Clockshop — I would like to see more cultural programming in our parks and open spaces, and to see promotion for these events translated into Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and other languages in our area to broaden community participation in cultural programming. Finally, I will strive to ensure persons of color, women, and our LGBTQ artists are considered first for producing local artist work for community presentation.

KY Local Counsel M. Stanley Goeing Matthew S. Goeing Explosion Accidents Side-Impact Collisions Uninsured & Underinsured Motorists Car And Train Collisions Remain A Serious Problem In Kentucky By Goeing Goeing & McQuinn PLLC It may be hard to believe that there are still serious accidents between cars and trains in an age where safety mechanisms, sensors, and mechanics have come so far, but horrific collisions occur on an all too regular basis. It is true that there has been a ninety-six percent (96%) decrease in accidents involving trains and cars since 1985, there still is a collision between a train and a car or person every two hours. The majority of these accidents occur at railroad crossings and are attributable to malfunctioning or nonexistent safety mechanisms. Between 2005 and 2010, there were almost 5,000 deaths, according to the United States Board of Transportation. In that same time period there were more than 30,000 train accidents, which include train derailments, train and pedestrian accidents, and train and car collisions. The causes of these accidents include driver error, where the car crossed the tracks into the path of an ongoing train. However, there also were many incidents involving dangerous train crossings, defective roadways or railroad tracks, and conductor error. If you or a loved one has been involved in a collision between a car and a train, there are many considerations. It is important to have a thorough investigation into the accident site as there may be evidence of safety failures, including: Crossing gate malfunction - Crossing gates are the physical barrier between the tracks and vehicles waiting to cross. If they do not work properly, a vehicle is more likely to attempt to cross in front of a train. Property maintenance negligence - An area around the tracks that has not been cleared of shrubs, trees, debris, and man-made objects will block a driver's view down the tracks. Cars are less likely to try to beat a train if the driver has a clear view of the approach. Missed or delayed inspections - There are many dangers that could have been corrected if the track crossing was regularly inspected by whomever is responsible for the specific track and road intersection. Once an accident has occurred, there are a number of steps to take as quickly as possible: Get medical care as soon as possible. Immediate attention is necessary even an injury is not apparent at the time of the accident. Soft tissue injuries often occur as a result of a collision between a train and a car because of the serious weight differential and the impact force. Have the accident scene investigated. A timely analysis of the accident site is critical as there can be significant modifications to the tracks, the roadway, the surrounding area, and the safety mechanisms through the impact of the elements and human intervention. It is important to document the scene and collect evidence as close to the time of the accident as possible. Reach out to the investigating officer. The law enforcement officer in charge will be responsible for diagramming the scene and reconstructing the accident, processing evidence, and collecting statements and information. The assistance of this individual is very important for a successful case. Train and car collisions are unique because the train always has the right of way at a crossing and the burden is on the driver of a passenger vehicle must take affirmative measures to avoid putting the occupants of the car in harm's way. This does not mean that the train operator, owner, or the party responsible for crossing maintenance is never partially or completely responsible for an accident. If you have been involved in an accident with a train, it is important to contact an experienced personal injury attorney to learn about your right to recovery. The skilled attorneys at Goeing Goeing and McQuinn PLLC are available to answer your questions. Please call us, or feel free to contact us through our website. Your Road to Justice Starts Here Contact Us Today for Your Free Case Review Location 300 East Main Street s Suite 150, Lexington, KY 40507 Map & Directions [+]

from .service_partition_info import ServicePartitionInfo class StatefulServicePartitionInfo(ServicePartitionInfo): """Information about a partition of a stateful Service Fabric service.. :param health_state: Possible values include: 'Invalid', 'Ok', 'Warning', 'Error', 'Unknown' :type health_state: str or :class:`enum <azure.servicefabric.models.enum>` :param partition_status: Possible values include: 'Invalid', 'Ready', 'NotReady', 'InQuorumLoss', 'Reconfiguring', 'Deleting' :type partition_status: str or :class:`enum <azure.servicefabric.models.enum>` :param partition_information: :type partition_information: :class:`PartitionInformation <azure.servicefabric.models.PartitionInformation>` :param service_kind: Polymorphic Discriminator :type service_kind: str :param target_replica_set_size: The target replica set size as a number. :type target_replica_set_size: long :param min_replica_set_size: The minimum replica set size as a number. :type min_replica_set_size: long :param last_quorum_loss_duration: The duration for which this partition was in quorum loss. If the partition is currently in quorum loss, it returns the duration since it has been in that state. This field is using ISO8601 format for specifying the duration. :type last_quorum_loss_duration: timedelta :param current_configuration_epoch: :type current_configuration_epoch: :class:`Epoch <azure.servicefabric.models.Epoch>` """ _validation = { 'service_kind': {'required': True}, } _attribute_map = { 'health_state': {'key': 'HealthState', 'type': 'str'}, 'partition_status': {'key': 'PartitionStatus', 'type': 'str'}, 'partition_information': {'key': 'PartitionInformation', 'type': 'PartitionInformation'}, 'service_kind': {'key': 'ServiceKind', 'type': 'str'}, 'target_replica_set_size': {'key': 'TargetReplicaSetSize', 'type': 'long'}, 'min_replica_set_size': {'key': 'MinReplicaSetSize', 'type': 'long'}, 'last_quorum_loss_duration': {'key': 'LastQuorumLossDuration', 'type': 'duration'}, 'current_configuration_epoch': {'key': 'CurrentConfigurationEpoch', 'type': 'Epoch'}, } def __init__(self, health_state=None, partition_status=None, partition_information=None, target_replica_set_size=None, min_replica_set_size=None, last_quorum_loss_duration=None, current_configuration_epoch=None): super(StatefulServicePartitionInfo, self).__init__(health_state=health_state, partition_status=partition_status, partition_information=partition_information) self.target_replica_set_size = target_replica_set_size self.min_replica_set_size = min_replica_set_size self.last_quorum_loss_duration = last_quorum_loss_duration self.current_configuration_epoch = current_configuration_epoch self.service_kind = 'Stateful'

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"Romeo", a song by Mr Big Romeo, a South Korean boy band Romeo (1976 film), a 1976 Malayalam film directed by SS Nair Romeo (1990 film), a Dutch drama film by Rita Horst Romeo (2011 film), a Bengali film Romeo (2012 film), a Kannada-language film This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Romeo_(disambiguation) Romeo is a 2012 Kannada romantic comedy film written and directed by P.C. Shekhar, starring Ganesh and Bhavana in the lead roles. Naveen and Ramesh Kumar are the producers of this romantic love story film.Arjun Janya composed the music and Vaidhi handled the camera work. The film released across Karnataka state on 6 July 2014. Ganesh (Ganesh) comes to the world by peeing on his father Kashinath's (Rangayana Raghu) face. Despite being mischievous, he manages to reach the graduation level but with poor English speaking skills. However, he gets a job in a bank where he meets Shruti (Bhavana) and Sadhu Kokila. As expected, their love blossoms after witnessing a series of comic scenes. Ganesh, a slum dweller and street smart, impresses her by telling a pack of lies where he went on to claim that he is born with a silver spoon and he is the son of crorepati but living an ordinary life to learn the basic lessons of life. The couple ties the knot in a hush-hush manner when her father played by Avinash opposes their marriage and fixes a secret marriage with a rich man. However, soon Shruti realises that she was lied and cheated, she leaves Ganesh and applies for divorce. Though Ganesh is not ready to divorce her under circumstance he requests for divorce in court after 6 months of court fight. After divorce he realised the importance of life, love of his parents he suddenly rises in life like a phoenix. He works hard, earns some money, changes his home. After a year of divorce he meets Shruti again and he wants to get her back. As she was in training period of one week in Ganesh's friend's office, she is on her way back to the US, where she was residing since the divorce. Ganesh came to know this and fakes an accident, which lures Shruti to return from airport to hospital to see Ganesh. Then she comes to know the plan of Kashinath who was trying for patch up of Ganesh and Shruti . Film ends with the reunion of these two. This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Romeo_(2012_film) Miami is a train station in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on the border of Miami and Hialeah. It serves Amtrak, the national passenger rail service of the United States, and is the southern end of the Silver Meteor and Silver Star trains. It is scheduled to be replaced by Miami Central Station in summer 2016. The Miami station was built on the site of the former Seaboard Air Line Railroad southern coach yards, to which Amtrak moved in 1977 when it abandoned the original Seaboard station at 2210 NW 7th Avenue in Allapattah, two miles north of downtown. Constructed in 1978, the building is one of many built under Amtrak's Standard Stations Program, an attempt to create a unified brand and identity for the company's passenger facilities in its early years. It is considered a Type 300A station, meaning it was designed to accommodate at least 300 passengers at the busiest hour of the day. Within the Amtrak system, it is similar to the station in Minneapolis-St. Paul, also built in 1978. This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Miami_station_(Amtrak) The Miami soil series is the state soil of Indiana. The less sloping Miami soils are used mainly for corn, soybeans, or winter wheat. The steeper areas are used as pasture, hayland, or woodland. 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Bigg Boss 14: Eijaz Khan के शॉकिंग इविक्शन पर फैंस के पैरों तले खिसकी जमीन, ट्रेंड करवाया #NoEijazNoBB14 'बिग बॉस 14' (Bigg Boss) के घर से एजाज खान (Eijaz Khan) के बाहर होने के बाद फैंस में खासा गुस्सा और गम है। फैंस इस बात पर यकीन नहीं कर पा रहे हैं। वे ट्विटर पर मेकर्स को चैलेंज कर रहे हैं।. By Ravi Pareek Published. January 18, 2021 11.24 AM IST ... Today's Ep will be special for us ?? ... 100% Confirmed, n yes don't believe in any Khabri news about Eijaz!! Stat Calm n united ... Dude... ❤ ... I don't there's something about this pic...i jus❤ this ... .... एक सप्ताह में रिकार्ड 534 किमी राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग का हुआ निर्माण MSME के बकाया के मुद्दे पर सरकार नयी योजना, कानून पर कर रही है विचार.गडकरी ... MoRTH has created a record by constructing 534 km of National Highways in the last week commencing 8 January. The Ministry has constructed 8,169 km of NHs from April 2020 to 15 January 2021 in the current financial year 2020-21, i.e. with a speed of about 28.16 km per day.— MORTHINDIA (@MORTHIndia) January 17, 2021 .... 'बिग बॉस 14' (Bigg Boss 14) के घर से एजाज खान (Eijaz Khan) की विदाई हो गई है। अब शो में उनकी जगह देवोलीना भट्टाचार्जी (Devoleena Bhattacharjee ) लेंगी। खबरें हैं कि वे शो में डायरेक्ट नहीं बल्कि सीक्रेट रूम के जरिए आएंगी।. By Ravi Pareek Published. January 18, 2021 10.27 AM IST ... Rakhi Sawant की शादी निकली झूठी !! ऐसे उठा झूठ से पर्दा ... Thank you alot, Love!❤ ... NO EIJAZ NO BB14 ... Now I want to see who pati and patni will talk about? ... .... Hardik Pandya और Krunal Pandya के पिता का निधन, शनिवार सुबह आया हार्ट अटैक Hardik And Krunal Pandya Father Passes Away. हार्दिक (Hardik Pandya) और क्रुणाल पांड्या (Krunal Pandya) के पिता हिमांशु पांड्या (Himashu Pandya) का निधन हो गया। शनिवार सुबह उन्हें दिल का दौरा पड़ा और उनकी निधन हो गया।. By Ravi Pareek Published. January 16, 2021 2.20 PM IST. Hardik And Krunal Pandya Father Passes Away ... Heartbroken to hear about the demise of Hardik and Krunal's dad ... May his soul rest in peace. Stay strong you two ... .... निधि राजदान ऑनलाइन धोखाधड़ी की हुईं शिकार, हार्वर्ड ने नहीं की थी नौकरी की पेशकश युवती के फेसबुक फ्रेंड ने धोखाधड़ी कर ठगे लाखों रुपए के जेवर और नगदी ... वेल्डिंग प्लांट के नाम पर 16 लाख की धोखाधड़ी करने वाले आरोपी पिता-पुत्र गिरफ्तार ... I have been the victim of a very serious phishing attack. I'm putting this statement out to set the record straight about what I've been through. I will not be addressing this issue any further on social media. pic.twitter.com/bttnnlLjuh— Nidhi Razdan (@Nidhi) January 15, 2021 .... पत्रकार निधि राजदान साइबर फिशिंग की शिकार, नौकरी भी गई, जानिए क्या है मामला... Last Updated. शनिवार, 16 जनवरी 2021 (14.20 IST). नई दिल्ली। वरिष्‍ठ पत्रकार और एनडीटीवी की पूर्व एंकर निधि राजदान साइबर फीशिंग की शिकार हो गई। हार्वर्ड यूनिवर्सिटी से एसोसिएट प्रोफेसर की जॉब का ऑफर मिलने पर उन्होंने अपनी नौकरी छोड़ दी। बाद में पता चला कि हॉर्वर्ड ने उन्हें कोई ऑफर ही नहीं दिया है। ... I'm putting this statement out to set the record straight about what I've been through ... ---- .... Bigg Boss 14: रद्द हुआ कैप्टेंसी टास्क तो Kamya Punjabi का चढ़ा पारा, घरवालों पर ताना मारकर कहा, 'टास्क की बर्बादी...' Kamya Punjabi slams housemates for not completing the task. बिग बॉस 14 (Bigg Boss 14) में एक बार फिर घरवालों ने कैप्टेंसी टास्क रद्द करवा दिया। इसके बाद इस टीवी रियल्टी शो की डाई-हार्ड फॉलोअर काम्या पंजाबी ने घरवालों की क्लास लगाई है।. By Shivani Bansal Published. January 15, 2021 11.55 AM IST. Kamya Punjabi slams housemates for not completing the task ... Task is not only about winning or loosing its about making it entertaining too... .... राजीव मसंद को करण जौहर की कंपनी में मिला ये बड़ा पद, कंगना रनौत ने ... कंपनी विराट कोहली, विनेश फोगाट, के एल राहुल, सानिया मिर्जा तथा युवराज सिंह जैसे खिलाड़ियों का कामकाज देखती है। मसंद (41) दो दशक से अधिक समय तक पत्रकार तथा मनोरंजन उद्योग के समीक्षक के तौर पर काम कर चुके हैं।इसे भी पढ़ें ... Rajeev wrote the most poisonous blind items about Shushant and me, he openly licked mediocre star kids and gave negative reviews to genuinely good films, even as a journalist he was always KJO minion....

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Klagons. Funny Video & Pictures Home » News » The Beginning Of Convention People's Party (CPP) Under Dr. Kwame Nkrumah The Beginning Of Convention People's Party (CPP) Under Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Beginning in April 1949, there was considerable pressure on Nkrumah from his supporters to leave the UGCC and form his own party. On 12 June 1949, he announced the formation of the Convention People's Party (CPP), with the word "convention" chosen, according to Nkrumah, "to carry the masses with us". There were attempts to heal the breach with the UGCC; at one July meeting, it was agreed to reinstate Nkrumah as secretary and disband the CPP. But Nkrumah's supporters would not have it, and persuaded him to refuse the offer and remain at their head. The CPP adopted the red cockerel as its symbol – a familiar icon for local ethnic groups, and a symbol of leadership, alertness, and masculinity. Party symbols and colors (red, white, and green) appeared on clothing, flags, vehicles, and houses. CPP operatives drove red-white-and-green vans across the country, playing music and rallying public support for the party and especially for Nkrumah. These efforts were wildly successful, especially because previous political efforts in the Gold Coast had focused exclusively on the urban intelligentsia. The British convened a selected commission of middle-class Africans, including all of the Big Six except Nkrumah, to draft a new constitution that would give Ghana more self-government. Nkrumah saw, even before the commission reported, that its recommendations would fall short of full dominion status, and began to organize a Positive Action campaign. Nkrumah demanded a constituent assembly to write a constitution. When the governor, Charles Arden-Clarke, would not commit to this, Nkrumah called for Positive Action, with the unions beginning a general strike to begin on 8 January 1950. The strike quickly led to violence, and Nkrumah and other CPP leaders were arrested on 22 January, and the Evening News was banned. Nkrumah was sentenced to a total of three years in prison, and he was incarcerated with common criminals in Accra's Fort James. Nkrumah's assistant, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, ran the CPP in his absence; the imprisoned leader was able to influence events through smuggled notes written on toilet paper. The British prepared for an election for the Gold Coast under their new constitution, and Nkrumah insisted that the CPP contest all seats. The situation had become calmer once Nkrumah was arrested, and the CPP and the British worked together to prepare electoral rolls. Nkrumah stood, from prison, for a directly elected Accra seat. Gbedemah worked to set up a nationwide campaign organization, using vans with loudspeakers to blare the party's message. The UGCC failed to set up a nationwide structure, and proved unable to take advantage of the fact that many of its opponents were in prison. In the February 1951 legislative election, the first general election to be held under universal franchise in colonial Africa, the CPP was elected in a landslide. The CPP secured 34 of the 38 seats contested on a party basis, with Nkrumah elected for his Accra constituency. The UGCC won three seats, and one was taken by an independent. Arden-Clarke saw that the only alternative to Nkrumah's freedom was the end of the constitutional experiment. Nkrumah was released from prison on 12 February, receiving a rapturous reception from his followers. The following day, Arden-Clarke sent for him and asked him to form a government. Nkrumah had stolen Arden-Clarke's secretary Erica Powell after she was dismissed and sent home for getting too close to Nkrumah. Powell returned to Ghana in January 1955 to be Nkrumah's private secretary, a position she held for ten years. Powell was very close to him and during their time together time Powell largely wrote Nkrumah's (auto)biography, although this was not admitted until much later. Tags: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah BirthdayHappy Birthday Dr. Kwame NkrumahThe Beginning Of Convention People's Party (CPP) Under Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Watch Video: The Ten Luxurious Cars Owned By Emmanuel Adebayor Inside His Plush Mansion Watch Video Of An Angry Goat Tearing Down Nana Akufo Addo's Campaign Poster Get Ghanaians Talking Join over 12.000+ subscribers & be the first to get our latest news. Klagons.com, is a Ghanaian entertainment, media and news website owned and managed by Klagons GH LTD. We seek to keep readers entertained through entertaining and mostly interesting publications from Ghana and across the globe.

The Appraisal Section of this handbook will provide you with the legal and regulatory requirements as well as information on the performance planning process, monitoring employee performance, relationships between other personnel actions and deficient performance. Appendix B Performance Management Feedback section identifies the two types of feedback informal and formal and gives some helpful hints on how to give constructive feedback. If you have any questions on the contents of this Handbook, contact your servicing human resources office.

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Nothing But Nets Text below is taken from the official Nothin But Nets website: "Nothing But Nets is a global grassroots campaign to raise awareness and funding to fight malaria, a leading cause of death among children in Africa. Nothing But Nets allows everyone from students to CEOs, bishops to basketball players to join the fight against malaria by giving $10 to send a net and save a life. IMAGE: PAULA BRONSTEIN/GETTY IMAGES While the United Nations Foundation has been working with the UN to fight malaria for years, it was Rick Reilly's column about malaria in Sports Illustrated challenging each of his readers to donate at least $10 to send insecticide-treated bed nets, that led to the creation of the Nothing But Nets campaign in 2006. Over the years, the campaign has engaged hundreds of thousands of individuals to help achieve the UN goal of ending malaria deaths in this generation. We work with a diverse group of partners, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Basketball Association's NBA Cares, The People of The United Methodist Church, Major League Soccer's MLS WORKS, the Union for Reform Judaism and Junior Chamber International, among others. The success of Nothing But Nets is a testament to the power of passionate people coming together to make the world a better, healthier place. You can save a family. Your church, school, or sports team can save a community. Together, we can cover Africa with life-saving bed nets. Nothing But Nets is powered by your passion; it works because you do! Grab your family, friends, and classmates and work together to spread the word, raise funds, and share stories. Your $10 contribution goes towards the cost of purchasing a long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed net, distributing it, and educating communities on its use. Nothing But Nets works with UN partners like UNICEF, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Health Organization to purchase nets and distribute them to countries in Africa. Net distributions are typically part of a wider public health effort within a country coordinated by the Ministry of Health, the UN and other local and international organizations. Get started today! Send a net. Save a life. Together we can cover a continent."

A teenager driving over the limit after a night out with friends crashed his car when one of them threw a kebab box at him, a court heard. Mason Emery, 18, lost control of his red Citreon vehicle on Royal Oak Road in Gloucester and it collided with a light. Police attended and he failed a roadside breath test after the accident at around 3.10am- recording a reading of 59 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 milliletres of breath. The drink drive limit is 35 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Emery, of Lysons Avenue, Gloucester, pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle when alcohol is above the limit at Cheltenham Magistrates Court today. Mark Anderson, defending, said his client had committed a "matter of foolishness" as him and his friends didn't have enough money to get home. He added that he is a student hoping to gain an apprenticeship and that he is sorry for letting people down by his actions. Emery was fined £120 and has to pay the usual court costs, adding up to £235 altogether. He was disqualified from driving for 16 months.

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Today the exhibition "Man and the Sea – Fishing in Antiquity Through the Collection of the Archaeological Museum in Zadar" by Dušanka Romanović opened in the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka. Fishing began to develop in the Eastern Adriatic already in prehistory, and it constituted a vital component of life in every community, which is demonstrated by numerous and frequent archaeological finds at still insufficiently examined seaside sites. The exhibition highlights the fishing implements and techniques used during Antiquity, which have essentially not changed very much up to the modern day (a pole with a hook and line, harpoons and tridents, nets, weights and floats, traps, etc.).

Daniel Sutherland, PhD Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions [email protected] Daniel Sutherland is an Associate Professor. He received his PhD from U.C.L.A. in 1998, was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science Department of Indiana University from 1998-99, and came to UIC in 1999. His primary interests include the relationship between philosophy, mathematics and science in the work of Immanuel Kant, and mathematical cognition more generally. He was a visiting professor at Harvard University in Spring 2006, and taught at the University of Chicago in Fall 2008. He has been awarded grants by the NSF (2006-7) and the American Philosophical Society (2010-11). Some of his publications are "Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics and the Greek Mathematical Tradition," Philosophical Review (2004), "The Role of Magnitude in Kant's Critical Philosophy," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2005), "Kant on Arithmetic Algebra, and the Theory of Proportions," Journal of the History of Philosophy (2006), "From Kant to Frege: Numbers, Pure Units, and the Limits of Conceptual Representation," Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement (2008), and "Philosophy and Geometrical Practice in Leibniz, Wolff, and the Early Kant," in Discourse on a new Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science (2010).

Home • Girl Boner • What's Your Erotic Blueprint? with Jessie Fresh What's Your Erotic Blueprint? with Jessie Fresh Jessie Fresh was in her early 20s when she realized that silence had been her main sex educator. After a mid-coital wakeup call and two relationships—one with sexual chemistry, one with only emotional sparks—she sought ways to cultivate the richer relationships and sexual experiences she desired. Discovering the Erotic Blueprints changed everything for her. And they may do the same for you, too! Learn much more in this week's Girl Boner Radio episode. Stream it on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Spotify or below. Or read on for a lightly edited transcript. (SPECIAL OFFER!) So I gave up on energy drinks years ago. They never did what they promised for me, and often contained super iffy ingredients. Well, I recently tried Magic Mind and I have to say, I was happily surprised. Magic Mind is designed for productivity, to help you do more and stress less. 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Jessie: Yeah, that's why this information is so empowering, because it gives you the communication to say, here are some of my needs that I recognize, and how can we meet each other's needs more easily without thinking that it's just never going to work, or there's ways to meet each other's needs. And that's truly what sexual compatibility is. But we are taught that – we're not taught a whole lot actually. I thought sexual compatibility meant that if what I like is what you like, then that means that we're sexually compatible. But once you learn the blueprints, you're able to meet the other person's needs, they're able to then meet yours and then compatibility can just continue throughout your lifetime. Sex and intimacy coach, Jessie Fresh, told me that silence was her main sex educator growing up. There wasn't a lot of talk about it. There wasn't shame around it or any kind of religious background. For me, it's just that it was not talked about at all. So it was a job learned in experience. And that experience, I think, created a lot of scary moments for me of navigating something extremely vulnerable, without any training or any skills at all. Yeah, yeah. Do you remember the first time that you noticed that sort of disconnect that this isn't something you talk about? Oh, yeah. That is a moment that has been, I think, etched in, in my brain as a heightened experience, because I was in my early 20s, and I was giving a partner oral sex. And that had gone on for about 45 minutes. And leading up to the length of time, my thought process was like, what's going on? Like, is everything okay? I hope I'm doing this right. Is this a good experience for them? I can't read what's going on. Therefore, I'm having all of this tension built as I'm giving to my partner. And there's just complete silence between the both of us. [soft laugh] And that awkward tension built and built and built until the point that my body was uncomfortable because of my job being completely exhausted. I mean, giving for 45 minutes, when you're totally into it is a whole different experience. So we kind of had this eruption happen. And this eruption was a tense moment of us, basically being like, what is going on, and that partner then said, 'What you're doing is never going to work. The style of what you're doing is never going to work. You're doing it too soft, or you're not doing it enough." And that was a moment that I just was like, "Why didn't you say anything 45 minutes ago?" And I just recognize that both of us were expecting to read each other's minds, and that silence was probably the teacher for both of us. So we just navigated in the dark. And from then on, it was like, there has to be other ways of doing this. Jessie and that partner stayed together for a while. They shared undeniable chemistry, she said, and it was the first time in her young adult life that she felt truly in love. But the relationship also had its problems. Looking back, it was a very toxic chemistry of highs and lows together. And I felt completely committed and in love, even if it was really unhealthy for me. And actually, what I know now about sexual compatibility and chemistry, what was really bonding us was this feeling of not ever knowing if you're truly secure with that person, and therefore having so much anticipation built up around this anxiety of like, what are we doing? Are we together and then having these validating moments of heightened sexual experiences, that kind of were in that moment, reminding me like, Oh, yes, of course, like this is love. This is passion, when really it was instability, and insecure attachment. But that chemistry is what I now know as the energetic blueprint. The energetic blueprint. That's one of the five Erotic Blueprints, developed by somatic sexologist Jaiya from her 20 years of clinical research and study about sex and pleasure. Jaiya noticed particular patterns in arousal and desire—so she conceptualized them into five sexual archetypes to enhance folks' sex lives. Discovering these "blueprints" changed everything for Jessie—in her sex life and her career. That all started when the relationship we talked about ended. Sex and intimacy coach, Jessie Fresh I knew that I wanted the hot sex. And I wanted, in my next partnership, to be a healthy relationship where we were committed to growing and we were communicative, and really intentional. And in some ways, Jessie got that. She and her next partner shared great emotional chemistry. But then the actual physical chemistry, the sexual chemistry, was lost. It was not there all the time. I kind of say that it is like taking a magic eight ball. And when we wanted to get sexy, I'd metaphorically bounce around the Magic Eight Ball and be like, 'please tell me we're going to we're going to have hot sex,' and it would likely say "not tonight." It felt like I was rolling the dice that I couldn't have reliable hot sex with this person. And that was extremely frustrating because I had had that in the past but with the toxic past partner. So I really was stuck in my head. I was redecorating the bedroom as I was trying to feel turned on, which completely did not work. And therefore I would get stuck in my head. I would then think, what's wrong with this partnership? We're so great together, but something is wrong. I'm not getting turned on. I'm completely distracted. It must be them or it must be me. And we fought a lot and those fights would be explosive because we were so vulnerable, you know? Naked together, trying to bond in this way. And it just was not working. Jessie knew that the emotional chemistry could sustain a lifelong partnership, but she longed for that sexual spark. So she started doing research, reading all she could about sexuality. That's when she was introduced to the Erotic Blueprints, which she now helps others discover and embrace. The archetypes provided the roadmap she needed. And I love how she described them: They are an arousal typing system to understand how you experience pleasure, what your specific type of route is to experience pleasure. And you can identify yourself in these five types. And by understanding what your type is, you get to know what turns you on, what are things that you could try, maybe that you've never even thought of, the things that kind of get in the way. I asked Jessie to walk us through the five blueprints – the basics of what they are and what an ideal versus not-so-great start to sex with a partner might be for each one—starting with the energetic. [sultry saxophone music] The Energetic Blueprint The energetic blueprint is not energetic in the sense of high energy. It is more so that they have an awareness of subtlety, they can feel other people's energy. When you walk in a room an energetic blueprint can sense if you're upset, if you're happy, they just have this reading of energy. Because of being able to perceive everyone's state of being, they are queued into subtlety, and subtlety, slowness, space, spacious touch, and safety are the things that they need to feel turned on. Safety for them is this primal sense that everything is okay. And you can sense that with eye contact with full deep breaths. And with being completely present. And if that's not there, there's a slight little red flag that goes off, where their body and their mind says something's wrong. So they cannot feel turned on unless they feel like everything is in the moment. That safety is fully unlocked. This might be you if sex starting out lke this sounds pretty great: You both start by first looking into each other's eyes, and really just connecting in that moment, taking some deep breaths together, maybe holding each other. Maybe doing some grounding, kind of touch of like heavy weighted, snuggling. And then beginning to do some type of light, teasing, touch. Touch that is exploratory, that has no agenda that is just to awaken that person's skin. Starting out with a distracted partner, on the other hand, would probably not go down so well. Yeah, so if an energetic person were to have partnered sexy time and say that one of them is thinking about how maybe the oven is still left on from dinner, or that the trash cans didn't get brought up from trash day, or they are thinking, I really just need to get off and get an orgasm in and want that immediately—that would completely throw off the energetic person, because they could sense that their partner is not in the room, that their partner is either caught up in expectations or in an agenda. And that alone would make them feel like we're not connected, therefore, my body doesn't feel safe enough to open up. Then there's the sensual erotic blueprint—the type Jessie identified with when she first found this information. The Sensual Blueprint A very delicious scenario for my sensual self, when I first found this information was lighting candles, setting up the space to have beautiful music playing to have the the lights dimmed to like a romantic hue, having luxurious textures on the bed, maybe having warmed up massage oil, and having kind of a conversation of like we have all the time that we want. And we're going to explore each other's bodies from head to toe, and then playing with sensation of like massage, and then maybe some head massage, and then maybe some kind of like scratching or nibbling, maybe playing with essential oils or some kind of scent in the massage oil that would kind of activate your senses, all of that would be enough for me to relax and sense the central blueprint has to relax. And the sensual blueprint has to relax, Jessie said, before they can get aroused. Feeling rushed, on the other hand, can be a major buzzkill. Like we have 10, 15 minutes to do this. Just feeling rushed is going to set them off to feel not relaxed. Say that also, one song in the playlist is rubbing them the wrong way, or that they can feel cat hair on their body, or the sheets smell and aren't clean, or their body isn't pampered in a way like a fresh shower or a fresh shave. Whatever it is that makes them feel really good in their body. If that is off, that is really hard to navigate for them because their senses are taking in so much information that if one little thing is off, it's the alarm system that is going like wait, change this change this, this is the thing that's wrong. And so if they don't change that they are just alerted and kind of can really have tunnel vision of just seeing that. August (narration) The third blueprint, is known as the sexual blueprint on the "ins and outs" of sex—often literally. Sex may be all about penetration, or all about the orgasm. And being passionate, Jessie said, is the best way to start getting busy for this type. [seductive R&B music] The Sexual Blueprint They would really enjoy like making out and getting juicy tongue swirling, maybe there but being grabbed and it feeling very heightened sexual from the very beginning. So that means touching erogenous zones on their body like the primary erogenous zones, their nipples, their genitals, their butt. Maybe even seeing nudity or speaking dirty talk to them, because they can drop into arousal really quickly. So those are the things that captivate them. So I'm guessing that maybe the energetic slow beginning might be more challenging for the sexual type. Yeah. A lot of my clients are pairings of energetic people with a sexual partner, and then just feeling like they're missing each other. With some awareness and strategizing, though, they can start turning that around. Before that, though, an energetic blueprint paired with a sexual blueprint, can feel wonky from the start. Say the sexual is like, oh, my gosh, I've been turned on all day because I've been thinking about this moment. Therefore I'm at full turn-on as soon as we start making out. If they're paired with someone that's energetic, and the energetic wants lots of time and space, they can get agitated, because they feel like every second that passes, why aren't we doing the heightened, passionate sexual thing? Because I'm already there, I am bubbling over. And therefore, they can experience what I call horny rage where some anger comes out, because they feel that they're having to be very patient. And they really want to experience passion and heightened arousal, because that's what makes them able to relax, is the thing that makes life okay. They want an orgasm. And if you're like, "we really need to go slower," that they're like, 'but that's gonna take me longer to actually feel relaxed!' So they need that orgasm to feel completely validated in life and to feel completely calm in life. So the longer it takes to get there, the more agitated that they become. Yeah, and I could see also feeling a little bit entitled, especially if you are female presenting, or you were raised as a girl, and you learned that women go slow, and they're the sensual ones. And then say, you're with a cis-man who's very sensual and taking their time. And you're like, "I came here for my orgasm!" [Jessie laughs] I could see that being a challenge. But once you learn the blueprints, you're able to meet the other person's needs, they're able to then meet yours and then compatibility can just continue throughout your lifetime because your blueprint will likely shift and change throughout your lifetime and throughout your partnership as well. Next up, the kinky erotic blueprint, which does not necessarily mean you're into whips, chains and spankings. [sexy techno dance music] The Kinky Blueprint Being kinky is such a huge range of possibilities. So I'll give you the most—I want to say version of kinky because some people go to the extremes of BDSM when kinky can mean BDSM or it can mean anything that feels taboo for you. So, for instance, I totally did not think that I was kinky. And what I learned is that actually a lot of things that arouse me were quite taboo. Your definition of taboo is whatever is taboo for you, not just taboo for our society or for your place of living. So for me, giving oral sex in the car is very taboo, very edgy, exciting. And that is the part of kink that felt exciting to me. Also, maybe getting caught in a movie theater, or even having housemates and having sex on the couch and knowing that the housemates could potentially come home at any time. It's that risk that is involved in the sex that makes it feel so exciting and enthralling. It's also playing with, what I just mentioned is that psychological component of like, Oh, my brain is so turned on because the taboo is there. There's also sensation based kink, where maybe your hair is massaged, and then tugged at which just feels a little submissive. Or your butt is grabbed in a really like aggressive way that that sensation makes you go hmm, this feels so like edgy. Or like someone took their nails and dragged them down your back to the point that you can't help but gasp because of that feeling so tingly. Those are sensations in kink that make you feel like, 'Oh, that's so hot. Why do I like that?' What isn't so hot for kinky blueprint is the same ol' same 'ol. A sex routine, no matter the specifics. Sex that is like routine sex that feels like, Oh, this is the same flavor that we've had for the last month or the last year. If it's always and a routine of this means this means this and then we're done. That repetition is so boring to them, and so predictable that they will completely become resentful. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, he's me. Yeah. So the, the sexual script as they say like the same thing over and over, even if it was like, with whips and chains and whatever, like it's just it's always the same, whereas the novelty wears like, the taboo-ness of it. Okay, yeah, that's what they really enjoy. They enjoy what their specific groove of taboo is, but keeping it creative, they really thrive from being creative from opening new doors of possibility from continuous exploration. Last, there is the shapeshifter erotic blueprint. Which sounds so magical, right? [experimental house music] The Shapeshifter Blueprint Yeah, I joke that the shapeshifter is the favorite at the orgy that the shapeshifter is the person that can speak all of the different languages so they can adapt and meet you in whatever blueprint you're in. They also can shift, that's the shapeshifting quality is that they enjoy novelty and adventure and spontaneity. And sometimes what they want shifts every 30 seconds. When I first became a shapeshifter, I realized that every 30 seconds, I wanted to change into something else. I wanted from hair tagging, to light kissing, to teasing to buck grabbing to spanking, and it was a wild ride, it makes it really fun. And the reason I joke that they can go to the origin and be the favorite is that they're very adaptable. And that's also something that can sometimes hinder them, because they can have so many different things that they enjoy that it might feel complicated to understand their own desires. So therefore, it's easier to focus outward, and on someone else. Ah, okay, I can be this people pleasing part of like, I'm a Rubik's cube. So I know that you just have like a couple of needs, and therefore we're going to focus on you. And hopefully, your arousal will inspire my arousal. But what that does over time, is it produces like a disowning, or a disregard for your own needs, and therefore, leaves them feeling pretty empty. If you have a partner in the shapeshifter realm, one thing you definitely do not want to do is keep your mouth shut about your own wants—while making it all about theirs. A not great experience for the shapeshifter would be that their partner is focusing on them. And they're really enjoying what they're experiencing in that moment. And then they notice that something shifts, and they don't know how to talk about it, or they notice that they're now stuck in their head of like, why am I not turned on now? What do I want? If they don't stay curious about what they want, it can become really difficult to navigate, because shapeshifters don't always know what they desire. But they definitely want to try things to see if that's the winning arousal experience in that moment. So if they're not curious and easily flexible in terms of trying things out, then they can feel extremely stuck. Your erotic blueprint can change for a variety of reasons, like the environment you're in, experiences you've had — whether positive or hurtful — and whether you're single or with a new partner. Tosh Patterson, another certified Erotic Blueprint Coach, told Mind Body Green that our blueprints can change with different life stages, too. Jessie has identified with all of them at some point. And she said her shifts have been very circumstantial. So when I had a really intense time, because of a traumatic bodily injury, it turned me into an energetic blueprint because my sense of safety was expanded and needed to be met before I could feel turned on because of my body not being well. Or you could have a primary blueprint that stays pretty consistent. Regardless, enhancing your sex life with your own starts with self awareness. Taking an online quiz could be a good starting point—but they're not foolproof. When I first found out about this information, I thought, Oh, I'm for sure sensual, that is completely me. Of course, like I love I love beauty. I love decorating a space. So therefore that's me. Also, that was my main educator, I think in our society of like, what, what cis-female sexuality is like seduction, it is romance. It is putting Barry White on and putting on some silk sheets and taking a bubble bath. So I adopted that as my script for what I needed. Now, when I would actually receive the things that the central blueprint wanted, I was not turned on. It wasn't until I started experiencing more of the heightened sensation of the central blueprint that almost verged on the kinky side of like deep scratches and heavy hair tugging and nibbling to biting that I was like, Oh my gosh, my body was so lit up. That's when I learned that actually, the kinky blueprint was just the thing that lit up my whole body like it was on fire in the hottest way. If you would like to get lit up in the hottest way through a similar path, you can take the Erotic Blueprint Quiz or sign up for Jessie's Pleasure Mastery workshop at jessiefresh.com. She also offers free guides for discovering your desires and communicating about sex. Communication and pleasure are also the biggest benefits Jessie has gleaned from this work, both in her life and with clients. This work has, for one, made me feel very confident in understanding exactly what's going on, exactly how to communicate what's on my mind or what I need. It's allowed me to have my needs met to understand my needs to be in discovery about my needs. And this work always calls me to be practicing. I did not realize in entering this as a profession that I would continuously have to show up to exploration and recommitting to my pleasure. And that has been the best unexpected, unexpected blessing because it's pleasure is what resources us and it's what makes me feel alive. So being able to feel committed to that because half is really wonderful. Here is to showing up for our own pleasure. I think we can all learn from that. Previous Post: « Incredible Orgasm Stories – updated replay! Next Post: "Pure" Christian to Empowered Cam Girl: Reina del Mundo's Story »

This is my first bankruptcy and i've been paying $200 a month. Having had excess income i went from 9 months too 21 months. I'm now at the end of my 21 months and i've been told that i owe $2500 because i had excess income in that period. It doesn't show that i've failed any obligations but i don't understand why i have too pay another $200 a month for another year? Your talkng about two different things. (1) based on your income the period that you are responsible to pay surplus income is 21 months. This is a mathematical calculation that your trustee should be able to show you. (2) the amount you still have to pay at the end of the 21 months is determined by subtracting what you have already paid from the amoutn determined in point (1). Most trustees set your payments such that at the end of the 21 months you've paid in full – I have no idea why your trustee didn't, but until you've paid the amoutn due under point (1) you will remain bankrupt. Sorry, but that's how it works.

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Vacationing Americans rediscover the automobile By Paul Van Slambrouck Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Americans appear eager to "hit the road" during the 1981 travel season. For many, it will mean dusting off suitcases that have not been used in two years. Rapidly rising gasoline prices and concerns about the availability of motor fuel have made homebodies out of many would-be automobile travelers since 1979. But travel industry analysts say that all seems to be changing this year. Whether it is a trip to a national park, a weekend at a resort, or a drive to see relatives, they say, Americans in growing numbers are getting back into the habit of driving to their vacation spots. The most visible cause of the change appears to be good news at the gasoline pump. Prices are stable and motor fuel is in ample supply. Indeed, the average retail price of gasoline in the US, as reported May 21 by the American Automobiles Association (AAA), was $1.38 a gallon. That is a penny cheaper than a month ago and the same price reported in early March. Many travel analysts, looking at the downturn in vacation traffic the past two years, have concluded the decline was primarily a function of motorists being concerned that they might not find open gas stations while traveling. Uncertainty about gasoline prices, which seemed to rise almost weekly, was also a factor. A considerable number of travelers began flying to vacation destinations, and renting a car instead of making the full trip by automobile. However, rapidly rising air fares and reliable gasoline supplies have pretty well stalled that trend. "People seem to have gotten used to higher gasoline prices," an AAA spokesman says. Several barometers indicate the trend to more automobile travel this year. The AAA reports that travel routings requested by individual members were 11 percent higher in the first quarter of 1981 over last year's January-to-March period. The US Travel Data Center, a nonprofit research group, says travel in general in the United States is at a level higher than in 1980, with the upswing in the use of the automobile particularly strong. The same group says its surveys show more Americans planning to take trips this year. "We are returning to more normal patterns, and there is a definite resurgence in automobile vacation travel," says Douglas C. Frechtling, director of the US Travel Data Center. A not-so-favorable implication of this trend may be an end to the gains the US has made in conserving gasoline over the past two years.Vacation driving is discretionary and cutbacks are believed to have been a strong contributor to the overall reduction in vehicle miles driven in the US in 1979 and 1980. However, the travel industry is quick to assert that fuel savings can be sustained with improved automobile efficiency in the future, even if there is more driving. The summer travel season does not really begin until the middle of June. And while the indicators point to a good season, vacation traffic may not be uniformly higher. This spring, for example, some national parks have bounced back from a poor 1980 while others show no sign yet of resurgence. Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas so far is having a slow season, following a downturn in 1980. By contrast, Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky is drawing more crowds this year than last. Garner Hanson, president of National Park Concessions Inc., which operates concessions in both those parks, figures the disparate experiences are due to today's higher priced gasoline. Mammoth Cave is relatively close to some large metropolitan areas, and so is a relatively inexpensive automobile trip for many. Big Bend, on the other hand, is isolated and a long ride for most visitors. Memorial Day weekend: (almost) no sticker shock on gas prices Traveling this Memorial Day weekend? You'll have company. Americans waste $2.1 billion a year on premium gas, says AAA

In this image from the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab, the Loop Current in the center of the Gulf of Mexico is large and warm, while winter-chilled water draining the Mississippi River watershed envelop the bayous and bays of Louisiana. Image courtesy of the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab. Download larger version (jpg, 277 KB). But why would a strong Loop Current affect our ability to deploy remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Deep Discoverer on some expeditions and not others? The quick answer is that, on this expedition, the Loop Current has pinched off an eddy which brought weaker currents to the escarpment region. I'll explain more below. Currents are cohesive streams of seawater that circulate through the ocean. Some are short-lived and small, while others are vast flows that take centuries to complete a circuit of the globe. There are two distinct current systems in the ocean—surface circulation, which stirs a relatively thin upper layer of the sea, and deep circulation, which sweeps along the deep-sea floor. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. Download larger version (jpg, 103 KB). But first, consider the basic difficulty of controlling two undersea vehicles (Deep Discoverer and Sirios), a ship, and the thousands of meters of heavy cable tying all three together. Each component of the system must be kept in just the right place. Working against the needed coordination are winds on the surface and currents at depths, many of which can flow in different directions at different depths. Unfavorable winds and currents can make coordination impossible. The ocean above the West Florida Escarpment is a place where unfavorable currents in the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current are often present. ROV Deep Discoverer, working in conjunction with Seirios and NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer's dynamic positioning system, is able to get in close to the seafloor to image large rock outcrops on Dive 14 of the expedition. Currents had prevented previous attempts to dive in this location. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2018. Download larger version (jpg, 573 KB). The Loop Current is the westernmost segment of a clockwise surface circulation known as the North Atlantic Gyre, which fills the entire North Atlantic Ocean. Winds, blowing across the ocean surface, power the circulation. The winds are driven by heat differences between the Equator and the North Pole. The Earth's rotation causes the flow to be intensified and relatively narrow along and the continental margins of North America. As the Loop Current flows east out of the Gulf of Mexico, the name changes to the Florida Current, and then to the Gulf Stream. The behavior of the loop as it flows into and out of the Gulf can be quite complex. Sometimes the Loop Current takes the shortest route in and out, flowing close to the north shore of Cuba and leaving the escarpment relatively free of intense currents. Other times, it extends the full north-south extent of the Gulf, sweeping across the northeastern shore before flowing south again near the Florida coast—and making ROV operations near impossible! When fully extended, the northward and southward flow can become linked creating an eddy that can persist for months. The Gulf of Mexico Loop Current on April 20, 2016, as shown by the Coast Watch GOES-POES Global Sea Surface Temperature Project. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 183 KB). Reliable predictions have not yet been made as to how big the loop will be at a given time – and when eddies will pinch off – in spite of decades of study by oceanographers. The U.S. National Academies of Sciences is preparing now for a new strategy to attack this long-studied problem. Proposed explanations of why eddies pinch off invoke complex physics and the interaction of multiple factors. A simple way of thinking of it is that sometimes, so much water flows into the Gulf from the Caribbean that water within the loop simply cannot move fast enough to get out of the way. The loop bulges, becomes unstable, and its deformed boundaries join to form a ring, which becomes detached as the loop takes the shortcut around Cuba. The strong flow of the loop and its eddies pose problems in the Gulf of Mexico to more than just explorers and scientists. Offshore oil platforms and shipping must all adjust their activities to accommodate sudden current changes. Because of this importance, the Loop Current is closely monitored by satellites, and scientists are working hard to be able to predict its future behavior. As NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer moves up the U.S. East Coast during the next few months, we will have to see how the Florida Current and Gulf Stream challenge the crew.

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Press Releases • Scotland's Economy Poll finds huge support (96%) for living wage amongst SMEs by Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp Written by Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp A poll carried out by Business for Scotland has found huge levels of support amongst SME business owners for paying the living wage. The survey generated 200 responses from employers within the Business for Scotland membership (nearly 4,000) and found overwhelming support for paying the living wage; 96% or 191 respondents. Many employers that support the living wage have not registered as Living Wage employers, with several asking in the survey comments section: "How do we become an accredited Living Wage employer?" 132 or 75% of the employers currently pay the Living Wage or higher. Many respondents supplied details suggesting they paid young people and apprentices in particular above the Living Wage, with more than one company setting their own minimum wage at 20% above the Living Wage. The most common reason given for paying the minimum wage was to motivate employees and show that the company values them, which is mutually beneficial as it increases motivation, loyalty and productivity. The second most popular reason given was that it makes economic sense and if all companies were to do this it would actually grow the economy and cut welfare costs. For example, one respondent stated: "If you cannot afford to pay at least the Living Wage you are relying on the taxpayer to subsidise your employees through tax credits and you really are not running a sustainable business". Cutting back taxes, business rates and perhaps giving direct grants for taking on and training new staff (paid a Living Wage) would be better ways of supporting business." The economics argument is backed up by research published last week by Citizens UK, which found that low wages were generating welfare claims meaning that the taxpayer has to top up wages to the tune of £11bn a year across the UK. The four largest supermarkets (Asda, Morrison's, Sainsbury's and Tesco) between them are costing just under £1bn a year in tax credits and additional benefits payments. This is a direct subsidy from the rest of society to some of the largest PLCs. It is worth noting that benefit fraud (which must be reduced) generates headlines for costing the UK £1bn, however, the fact that subsidising major PLCs who pay such low wages they have to be subsidised by the taxpayer to the tune of £11bn per year, generates almost no media criticism. A total of 34 companies stated that they did not currently pay at least the Living Wage to all employees, some citing that Local Government contracts bound them to lower wages and others that their margins are so low they cannot afford to pay the level of wages they would like to. For example, the owner of a care home commented: "I've just heard that the settlement is for Care Staff only to be paid £7 per hour. It's not great but it's better than previous years and hopefully a move to a Living Wage. I believe the Living Wage would attract /retain better staff and provide better outcomes for residents." A total of 55 of the 77 respondents that do not currently pay the living wage stated they would be interested in doing so. One employer commented that his business had 150 employees and the survey made him look into the wages of trainees; having found that they were not paid the Living Wage he arranged for this to be corrected. This combined with the larger number of companies who pay the Living Wage but have not sought accreditation has led Business for Scotland to set a target of 100 of our members becoming accredited Living Wage employers in 2015. We challenge other major business networks to generate a similar percentage of their networks to make this commitment. This will mean that the Scottish Government's 500 target will be significantly surpassed. Gillian O'Neil of 29 Studios Gillian O'Neil, of 29 Studios, said: "At 29studios and 29steps we pay even our youngest trainees well above the Living Wage and the commitment we show to our team is matched by the amazing commitment we receive from them. "When you treat your employees with respect, in both the remuneration and the working environment you provide, you create a happy workforce who feel valued, and thus the business benefits are huge. "I would urge other business owners to stop and think; try renting a house or paying a mortgage on the minimum wage. Try covering your childcare costs and your living costs on the minimum wage. Try loving your job when you don't feel valued. It's impossible, so why expect your employees to do it?" The national Living Wage (£7.85 per hour versus £6.50 minimum wage) can be a key tool in addressing inequality. There is a growing weight of evidence that low wages are not just a drag on the economy but also a drag on the growth of businesses that pay low wages. Barclays committed to paying its cleaning staff 10 per cent over the London Living Wage and retention rates dramatically increased (for catering staff this is now 77 per cent compared to an industry norm of 54 per cent, and cleaning staff retention rates are 92 per cent compared to the industry norm of 35 per cent), meaning that the company spends substantially less on recruitment and training. Employers need to do the maths – it is worth £1.35 an hour per employee to reduce absenteeism, raise staff retention rates, improve productivity, staff motivation and morale, increase loyalty, attract better staff and save on training costs. All that whilst lessening the money worries of your staff, contributing to the economy and significantly reducing the welfare bill that supports the hardworking poor. Let's bring the Living Wage in through a staged approach with incentives such as raising the threshold in employers' National Insurance contributions. Yes, prices may increase, but we are experiencing a prolonged period of almost negative inflation so if not now, then when? Business for Scotland – Prosperity for Scotland – Join us now Leading economist attacks austerity, praising Greens and SNP Business for Scotland criticises CBI Scotland's call for more austerity Economics of Independence • Scotland's Economy • Scotland's Energy Resources • Wind power What does the £700million off-shore wind auction mean... Believe in Scotland • opinion • Scotland's Economy Britain is Broken • Scotland's Economy • Westminster Mismanagement Transport review finally ditches Boris'... Brexit • Scotland's Economy • ScotRef UK government's 'bitter blow' to... News • Scotland's Economy Universal basic income: six things you need to know How Westminster short changed Scotland's city... Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp is the Founder and Chief Executive of Business for Scotland. Before becoming CEO of Business for Scotland Gordon ran a business strategy and social media, sales & marketing consultancy. With a degree in business, marketing and economics, Gordon has worked as an economic development planning professional, and in marketing roles specialising in pricing modelling and promotional evaluation for global companies (including P&G). Gordon benefits (not suffers) from dyslexia, and is a proponent of the emerging New Economics School. Gordon contributes articles to Business for Scotland, The National and Believe in Scotland. Colin Dawson says: John Major used to refer to the "bastards" (his word not mine) in his back benches that made his time as prime minister very difficult. Cameron has far more "bastards" in his ranks than Major did, as Paddy Ashdown explains in this video from April. https://youtu.be/AR-aBAIyaFI

Mergers may enhance the legitimacy of community health organisations in neoliberal environments Veronique Roussy, Grant Russell, Charles Livingstone, Therese Riley School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Alfred Hospital Department of General Practice Purpose: Comprehensive primary health care (PHC) models are seldom implemented in high income countries, in part due to their contested legitimacy in neoliberal policy environments. This article explores how merging affected the perceived legitimacy of independent community health organisations in Victoria, Australia, in providing comprehensive PHC services. Design/methodology/approach: A longitudinal follow-up study (2–3 years post-merger) of two amalgamations among independent community health organisations from the state of Victoria, Australia, was conducted. This article explores the perceived effects of merging on (1) the pragmatic, normative and cognitive legitimacy of studied organisations and (2) the collective legitimacy of these organisations in Victoria's health care system. Data were collected through 19 semi-structured interviews with key informants and subjected to template and thematic analyses. Findings: Merging enabled individual organisations to gain greater overall legitimacy as regional providers of comprehensive PHC services and thus retain some capacity to operationalise a social model of health. Normative legitimacy was most enhanced by merging, through acquisition of a large organisational size and adoption of business practices favoured by neoliberal norms. However, mergers may have destabilised the already contested cognitive legitimacy of community health services as a group of organisations and as a comprehensible state-wide platform of service delivery. Practical implications: Over-reliance on individual organisational behaviour to maintain the legitimacy of comprehensive PHC as a model of organising health and social care could lead to inequities in access to such models across communities. Originality/value: This study shows that organisations can manage their perceived legitimacy in order to ensure the survival of their preferred model of service delivery. Journal of Health Organisation and Management https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-04-2020-0160 Comprehensive primary health care Institutional theory 10.1108/JHOM-04-2020-0160 Roussy, V., Russell, G., Livingstone, C., & Riley, T. (2021). Mergers may enhance the legitimacy of community health organisations in neoliberal environments. Journal of Health Organisation and Management, 35(6), 717-732. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-04-2020-0160 Roussy, Veronique ; Russell, Grant ; Livingstone, Charles et al. / Mergers may enhance the legitimacy of community health organisations in neoliberal environments. In: Journal of Health Organisation and Management. 2021 ; Vol. 35, No. 6. pp. 717-732. @article{40552bf7e6424200aacca4008d794b6f, title = "Mergers may enhance the legitimacy of community health organisations in neoliberal environments", abstract = "Purpose: Comprehensive primary health care (PHC) models are seldom implemented in high income countries, in part due to their contested legitimacy in neoliberal policy environments. This article explores how merging affected the perceived legitimacy of independent community health organisations in Victoria, Australia, in providing comprehensive PHC services. 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However, mergers may have destabilised the already contested cognitive legitimacy of community health services as a group of organisations and as a comprehensible state-wide platform of service delivery. Practical implications: Over-reliance on individual organisational behaviour to maintain the legitimacy of comprehensive PHC as a model of organising health and social care could lead to inequities in access to such models across communities. 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In: Journal of Health Organisation and Management, Vol. 35, No. 6, 08.10.2021, p. 717-732. T1 - Mergers may enhance the legitimacy of community health organisations in neoliberal environments AU - Roussy, Veronique AU - Russell, Grant AU - Livingstone, Charles AU - Riley, Therese N2 - Purpose: Comprehensive primary health care (PHC) models are seldom implemented in high income countries, in part due to their contested legitimacy in neoliberal policy environments. This article explores how merging affected the perceived legitimacy of independent community health organisations in Victoria, Australia, in providing comprehensive PHC services. Design/methodology/approach: A longitudinal follow-up study (2–3 years post-merger) of two amalgamations among independent community health organisations from the state of Victoria, Australia, was conducted. This article explores the perceived effects of merging on (1) the pragmatic, normative and cognitive legitimacy of studied organisations and (2) the collective legitimacy of these organisations in Victoria's health care system. Data were collected through 19 semi-structured interviews with key informants and subjected to template and thematic analyses. Findings: Merging enabled individual organisations to gain greater overall legitimacy as regional providers of comprehensive PHC services and thus retain some capacity to operationalise a social model of health. Normative legitimacy was most enhanced by merging, through acquisition of a large organisational size and adoption of business practices favoured by neoliberal norms. However, mergers may have destabilised the already contested cognitive legitimacy of community health services as a group of organisations and as a comprehensible state-wide platform of service delivery. Practical implications: Over-reliance on individual organisational behaviour to maintain the legitimacy of comprehensive PHC as a model of organising health and social care could lead to inequities in access to such models across communities. Originality/value: This study shows that organisations can manage their perceived legitimacy in order to ensure the survival of their preferred model of service delivery. AB - Purpose: Comprehensive primary health care (PHC) models are seldom implemented in high income countries, in part due to their contested legitimacy in neoliberal policy environments. This article explores how merging affected the perceived legitimacy of independent community health organisations in Victoria, Australia, in providing comprehensive PHC services. Design/methodology/approach: A longitudinal follow-up study (2–3 years post-merger) of two amalgamations among independent community health organisations from the state of Victoria, Australia, was conducted. This article explores the perceived effects of merging on (1) the pragmatic, normative and cognitive legitimacy of studied organisations and (2) the collective legitimacy of these organisations in Victoria's health care system. Data were collected through 19 semi-structured interviews with key informants and subjected to template and thematic analyses. Findings: Merging enabled individual organisations to gain greater overall legitimacy as regional providers of comprehensive PHC services and thus retain some capacity to operationalise a social model of health. Normative legitimacy was most enhanced by merging, through acquisition of a large organisational size and adoption of business practices favoured by neoliberal norms. However, mergers may have destabilised the already contested cognitive legitimacy of community health services as a group of organisations and as a comprehensible state-wide platform of service delivery. Practical implications: Over-reliance on individual organisational behaviour to maintain the legitimacy of comprehensive PHC as a model of organising health and social care could lead to inequities in access to such models across communities. Originality/value: This study shows that organisations can manage their perceived legitimacy in order to ensure the survival of their preferred model of service delivery. KW - Australia KW - Comprehensive primary health care KW - Institutional theory KW - Legitimacy KW - Mergers U2 - 10.1108/JHOM-04-2020-0160 DO - 10.1108/JHOM-04-2020-0160 JO - Journal of Health Organisation and Management JF - Journal of Health Organisation and Management Roussy V, Russell G, Livingstone C, Riley T. Mergers may enhance the legitimacy of community health organisations in neoliberal environments. Journal of Health Organisation and Management. 2021 Oct 8;35(6):717-732. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-04-2020-0160

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Browse · Search Bloggers & Personal JFK Assassination: The Tell-Tale Brain Who What Why ^ | 4/25/18 | Milicent Cranor Posted on 04/26/2018 8:37:18 AM PDT by Sopater Keeps on Telling — What Is It Saying? Photo credit: US Government Printing Office / Wikimedia and The White House / JFK Library Researchers are now analyzing newly released documents concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but many extraordinary facts have been in plain sight for decades — and yet unseen. This report concerns one of those facts, and how, to this day, the story around it is being concealed. The Tell-Tale Brain Within minutes of Kennedy's murder, witnesses were pointing at areas where they said they heard shots — and many pointed to a place in front of Kennedy. But, according to the official version of events, there was only one shooter, and he fired from behind. What did the body show? What did the autopsy report say? More interesting is what it did not say. Autopsy reports are supposed to contain all information relevant to the cause of an individual's death — as well as those details that are not related to the death. As Dr. Alan R. Moritz put it in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology in 1956: In the protocol of a medicolegal autopsy, it is better to describe 10 findings that prove to be of no significance than to omit one that might be critical. An autopsy report should contain all findings visible to the naked eye and measurable. Kennedy's autopsy report includes various details, both relevant and irrelevant. You will find in it meticulous notes on a variety of things: the width of each pupil … the circumference of each heart valve … the condition of the teeth … the location of each tear into the scalp … the length and location of fracture lines in the skull … And an extensive description of damage to one part of the brain. Note: only one part. But since Kennedy died of a bullet (or bullets) to his head, you might expect that all parts of his head would be described. Then how strange it is that Navy Commander James Humes, MD — the lead pathologist who performed the autopsy and wrote the report — left out any mention of what has become one of the most hotly debated subjects in the medical evidence, one that relates directly to the still-unsettled question of where the shots came from. You will not find one word about it in the report, nor in Humes's detailed testimony before the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination in 1964. This omitted part of the brain is the cerebellum — the pink shape in the otherwise blue picture below. Some consider it a separate organ. Above, the cerebellum is shown in pink. Photo credit: DrugAbuse.gov The omission of any gross description of the cerebellum in an autopsy report on a victim shot in the head is most irregular. To understand its significance, we ask you to please endure a short anatomy lesson: Cerebellum. Rhymes with antebellum. Not to be confused with the larger part of the brain above it, the cerebrum. The former ends in "bellum" and the latter ends in "brum." Both cerebellum and cerebrum were greatly damaged according to the Dallas doctors who examined Kennedy. But Humes et al. reported only damage to the cerebrum (the blue part in the above picture). The significance of cerebellar damage is what it says about specific skull damage — and what that damage could mean about the direction of the shot. According to the official narrative, only one bullet hit Kennedy in the head, a bullet that came from above and behind the president. But this is inconsistent with the damage observed, as will be explained below. The Tell-Tale Bones Humes said something else in the autopsy report that does not make sense. He explained that three bone fragments were brought to the autopsy room late in the evening which, he said, "in aggregate roughly approximate the dimensions of the large defect described above." Meaning all major bone fragments were accounted for. Meaning none were missing. Meaning the only great hole in the skull was the one on top. The problem is, another fairly large fragment was found later and turned in to the FBI on November 25, 1963, after the autopsy. It was 7 by 5.5 centimeters (almost 3 by 2 inches). (Called the "Harper fragment," named after Billy Harper, who found it.) Where would this good-sized piece of the puzzle go if the hole on top could already be filled with the bone fragments brought earlier? By the time Humes testified before the Warren Commission in March 1964, it seems reasonable to suppose that he had been made aware of the Harper fragment — yet he said nothing about it. On the other hand, he did revise what he said in his autopsy report: "The three pieces could be put together roughly to account for a portion of this defect." [Emphasis added.] Asked about how much remained unaccounted for, Humes estimated it to be one-quarter. Did this revision come about because of the Harper fragment? The Harper fragment was about the same size as the hole in the back of the head reported by the Dallas doctors. (The chief pathologist at Methodist Hospital in Dallas, who examined it before it was turned over to the FBI, said the fragment came from the lower part of the back of the skull.) Where the Harper fragment came from is still being debated, but what is not debatable is this: In his autopsy report, Humes did not acknowledge any good sized piece of still-missing bone, not until after the Harper fragment was found. The Parkland doctors, including the hospital's chief of neurosurgery, William Kemp Clark, MD, told the Warren Commission that they did not examine Kennedy's entire head, but they did look into a large hole in the back, a place where both scalp and bone were missing. They saw destruction of the right cerebrum (blue part in the picture) — and the cerebellum (pink part of the picture). Unfortunately, Clark was not asked about the lower border of the hole he saw — but if damaged cerebellum was visible inside the skull and leaking from it, then the skull damage had to extend to the lower part of the right rear of the head. Clark, who had the closest look (and let's remember that the skull and brain were his specialty) described "a large, gaping wound in the right posterior part, with cerebral and cerebellar tissue being damaged and exposed." In his hospital notes, he reported "considerable loss of scalp and bone tissue. Both cerebral and cerebellar tissue were extruding from the wound." [Emphasis added.] Perhaps the most illuminating part of his testimony came in response to the question of whether this large wound in the back of the head was an entrance or an exit. Clark said, "It could be an exit wound, but I felt it was a tangential wound." (By "tangential" he said he meant "striking an object obliquely" from the side.) If it was an exit wound, this would of course indicate a shooter somewhere in front. If tangential, it would place the shooter off to the side. (Films show JFK facing the front, leaning forward, with his head turned slightly to his left.) But the government story is that the shooter was above and behind Kennedy, on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository Building. (The Supplementary Autopsy Report, which describes microscopic findings, does mention that a slice of cerebellum was studied along with several other specimens, and that all of them reflected damage due to a bullet. But this provides no indication of the extent of the damage.) Big Hole Versus Small Hole The cerebellum wouldn't even have been visible, let alone free to leak out, as reported by the Dallas doctors, were it not for the great fist-sized hole (one doctor said it was between 5 and 7 centimeters in diameter) where both bone and scalp were actually missing — in the back of the head. But the autopsists reported only a small hole (6 x 15 millimeters) back there. Photo credit: Warren Commission / History-Matters As you can see, Commission Exhibit 386, above, shows no "large gaping wound" in the back of the head. (The autopsy doctors and official photographers say they took pictures of the hole in the bone, but those and other photographs are missing.) The Mysterious Migrating Hole Apparently in response to public skepticism, more official investigations followed. And "blue ribbon" panels of distinguished doctors were formed — the Clark Panel in 1968 and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1979. They revised the reported evidence. Allegedly basing their conclusions on X-rays and photographs, they said the small hole was four inches higher than the last reported location. Four inches higher? This is difficult to understand since Humes et al. located the small wound in relation to a specific, fixed landmark: a bump low in the back of the skull. They said the entry wound was just above this hard-to-miss bump. But, as if to nail down this new location, they said an X-ray showed a round slice of a bullet fragment embedded in the skull at this new location, with a diameter of 6.5 millimeters. This bullet fragment — not seen earlier — happens to be the exact diameter of the kind of bullet allegedly used by Lee Harvey Oswald. How did that happen? The chief radiologist and others, who presumably reviewed the same skull X-rays three years earlier, did not see any such large round fragment, and yet it now shows up as clearly as a candle in a pumpkin. According to Humes, the largest fragment seen on X-ray was a slender, stick-like 7 x 2 millimeters, which he extracted. This does not seem to be a case of different interpretations of the same features. It is more a matter of actually seeing different features altogether. Below are two diagrams side by side that show the two versions of the entry wound's location — one low in the skull, no higher than the ears, and the other near the top of the head. (Note: because of all of the revisions, including those by the autopsists, we cannot assume a wound was actually where the autopsists placed it; we only know they were fairly precise in describing where the alleged entrance wound was.) Location of the bullet entrance into the head, according to the autopsy (left). HSCA revised bullet hole's location — four inches higher (right). Photo credit: US House of Representatives / History-Matters and Warren Commission / History-Matters Here is another complication with the original location: Army experiments on skulls performed in 1964 showed that if a bullet entered that low on the skull, it would have exited from Kennedy's face. Yet no bullet exited his face. In his book, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (2007), the late Vincent Bugliosi said that the Parkland doctors could not possibly have seen any large hole in the back of the head — and that they could not possibly have seen any cerebellum either. In his words, from page 404: Indeed, with the entry wound to the President's head being as high up as it was, it would have been virtually impossible for the cerebellum, in the lower part of the brain, to have been damaged, at least by a bullet. In other words, small hole in upper skull = higher bullet path into and out of head = no small or large hole in lower skull = no cerebellar damage = shooter from above and behind, which was the official story. Bugliosi repeatedly tried to give the false impression of an undamaged cerebellum, on pages 404 and 405: There isn't one word in the report indicating that any part of the cerebellum was missing or even lacerated. It bears repeating that the autopsy report only mentioned damage to the cerebrum, not the cerebellum. A false impression because Bugliosi failed to tell the reader that the condition of the cerebellum wasn't described — at all. (Or that the Supplementary Report, which did mention it, reported that a slice examined under the microscope revealed bullet-related damage.) Physicians in Dallas say they saw — with their own eyes — badly damaged cerebellum oozing from a hole in visible bone in the lower part of the skull. Those who promote the official narrative say the cerebellum was just fine. Who are we to believe? An Insight From Cyril Wecht, MD, JD The distinguished forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, who was also a member of the HSCA Medical Panel, apparently did not notice the missing cerebellum in the autopsy report. A critical essay he wrote does refer to two omissions — the adrenal glands and the left cerebrum, omissions which, to me, are not as significant as the cerebellum. But, at the end, Dr. Wecht wrote something very interesting which may explain all of the omissions: "If they [the autopsy doctors] were told by their military superiors to make the omissions and obeyed that order … it becomes comprehensible why civilian medico-legal experts were excluded from the autopsy — [because] they could not have been controlled in this way." "A Critique of President Kennedy's Autopsy." Excerpt The official autopsy report contains two omissions which cast a shadow over the whole proceeding. First the failure to mention the adrenal glands, either grossly or microscopically … I should stress that these glands played no role whatsoever in President Kennedy's death and from that standpoint have no significance … Another deficiency in the overall report (and one directly associated with the murder) concerns the examination of the president's brain. A reading of the supplementary autopsy report on the brain examination discloses that the entire brain was not cut into coronal sections (16H987). Although one small section was excised from the front on the left side, the description indicates that no examination of the brain's left side was performed. This is appalling. We cannot know what injuries were present in the left cerebral hemisphere if no examination was made. No competent forensic pathologist would examine only half a brain, particularly in a case where it had been injured by one of more bullets. Either way we consider these deficiencies, the picture is not reassuring. If the military pathologists on their own decided not to examine the adrenal glands and the left cerebral hemisphere, then they are to be soundly condemned … If they were told by their military superiors to make the omissions and obeyed that order, then two things follow: (1) The pathologists and their report are totally discredited, and (2) it becomes comprehensible why civilian medico-legal experts were excluded from the autopsy — they could not have been controlled in this way. [Appendix D, Six Seconds in Dallas (Bernard Geis Associates, 1976, paperback version) pp.364-365] [Cyril H. Wecht, MD, LLB, is chairman of the advisory board of the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law, Duquesne University School of Law; Coroner for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.] In a follow-up article, we will show how the stories of the Dallas doctors were changed in ways no more convincing than the contrived narrative of the ever-moving small hole. TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; History; Science KEYWORDS: dallas; jfk; jfkassassination; oswald Interesting read... 1 posted on 04/26/2018 8:37:19 AM PDT by Sopater To: Sopater Everybody loves a conspiracy. 2 posted on 04/26/2018 8:38:35 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!) We can thank Arlen Specter and the magic bullet for lingering doubts about the lone gun theory. 3 posted on 04/26/2018 8:41:06 AM PDT by Fhios (Mr. Magoo, where are you?) To: Jim 0216 Right, what's not to love? 4 posted on 04/26/2018 8:41:08 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a) Worst thing that came of his assassination was an endless parade of fools from the Kennedy clan being fawned over by the media and idiot voters in liberal New England, NY, and other liberal hell-holes. Not to mention everything being renamed after the Jackass. 5 posted on 04/26/2018 8:43:23 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.) The documentary on the shooting deduced from the ballistics was consistent with this report., i.e. a 5.56 round entered the back of the skull. 6 posted on 04/26/2018 8:46:40 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.) The laws of physics as derived from the video tell me he was shot from behind first...slumped forward, then was hit from the front and was forced backward...as if the second shooter took the report of the first shot as a cue. 7 posted on 04/26/2018 8:47:29 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.) My dream is that Trump has uncovered evidence that the Deep State (CIA) arranged the assassination and has also uncovered evidence that the Democrats have known this and hidden this for 50 years. I want Trump to be the one who brings justice to this matter. All of the Leftists who worship JFK as some sort of god — how will they feel when Trump does what no one else has been willing to do? 8 posted on 04/26/2018 8:47:51 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy To: PhiloBedo JFK was shot by a 5.56 round? 9 posted on 04/26/2018 8:49:38 AM PDT by crosdaddy I always find it fascinating that the back of his head was blown away, normally the result of a front entry. By always, I mean since I was in public school back in the 60's. 10 posted on 04/26/2018 8:51:53 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.) JFK is making the news quite a bit recently. The spooks should have sweaty palms. Light is permeating the closet holding this skeleton. May the truth finally be set free for all to hear. The sooner the better. 11 posted on 04/26/2018 8:52:24 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.") I interviewed with W Clark Kemp for a neurosurgery residency position years ago. Obviously we didn't talk about that but i have paid attention when he is mentioned over the years. I remember reading in his medical note he commented that "the cerebellum was easily visible in the wound...". But as I recall the autopsy directly contradicts this. The brain was at the Smithsonian for years IIRC but then "disappeared" as did most of the autopsy photos. 12 posted on 04/26/2018 8:55:23 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.) IIRC there was also a bullet hole in the windshield and the windshield was replaced in days. Which is curious. If the Warren report is to be believed there were only three shots fired from above and behind and all three hit JFK. So which one went through the windshield of the vehicle? None according to the Warren Report. In fact the Warren Report goes to great lengths to explain how one bullet traversed JFK's body and also Connaly's left wrist and right thigh IIRC. So which bullet of the three went through the windshield? A year after the assassination, my high school band went to the Cotton Bowl parade. They changed the parade route, which usually went down the same path as the motorcade. But I was able to visit the area and spend some time there. Even in high school I was an avid hunter and quite a good shot with both a rifle and a pistol. It always puzzled me why Oswald would pass up a shot from the other window facing the street that the motorcade passed and made a sharp turn. Hell, Oswald could have shot Kennedy with a pistol from that distance. It just made no sense whatsoever. Of course, neither shot was all that difficult from either window and the distance as seen on TV is illusory. Then again, Oswald's first shot should have been his best... and he missed: again, makes no sense. There is also the lie that Oswald was a Marine sniper: no, he barely qualified with open sights. So, then again, how did his rapid shots get more accurate when they should have gotten progressively worse. My guess is that there was a second shooter, just not from the grassy knoll. (It still doesn't add up right.) 14 posted on 04/26/2018 9:01:54 AM PDT by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22) To: wastoute Sandy Berger was 21 when Kennedy's brain "disappeared".... 15 posted on 04/26/2018 9:02:36 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs According to the official report, one bullet entered Kennedy's shoulder went through Kennedy and Connelly and was discovered later in almost prisine condition. A second bullet, supposedly from the same gun and identical to the first, entered Kennedy's head and immediately exploded. 16 posted on 04/26/2018 9:03:57 AM PDT by detective To: crosdaddy Nope, 6.5mm Carcano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5IWK9sRYTs 17 posted on 04/26/2018 9:04:24 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?) To: treetopsandroofs Did he work at the Smithsonian? Many curious things. I remember seeing some collector now owns the car and proudly states "it is all original except the windshield..." To: Lagmeister It always puzzled me why Oswald would pass up a shot from the other window facing the street that the motorcade passed and made a sharp turn. Perhaps to better his chances of escaping undetected? 19 posted on 04/26/2018 9:04:42 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a) A month or so ago CNN did a series on JFK. I did not see too much of it, but what I did see they seemed to tarnish the 'Camelot' image he and Jackie had all these years. Things like coming clean on his extra marital affairs, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and even saying JFK was so distraught at times he would be crying. Yes, CNN said he cried. Those are not the things a liberal anti-American news outlet would do for no reason. Question is: why? And why now? They (CNN) must know something if afoot and are trying to nip it in the bud and control the narrative I bet. 20 posted on 04/26/2018 9:06:53 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)

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Sign In/ Sign Up TENS for pain management of Aspiration Abortion up to 83 days of gestation Aug 10, 2021311 views Expanding pain management options can improve the quality of and access to abortion. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation could be a standalone or adjunct approach for abortion pain management for those without access to or are ineligible to receive IV sedation due to the lack of sedation practitioner, designated driver, or local restrictions. The objective was to evaluate high-frequency, high-intensity transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) as an inexpensive, non-invasive pain management approach for first-trimester aspiration abortion. Researchers conducted a noninferiority, single-blind, randomized controlled trial of patients seeking aspiration abortion at up to 83 days of gestation. Participants received TENS or IV sedation (fentanyl, midazolam). The primary outcome was pain with aspiration, as self-reported by visual analog scale (VAS, 100 mm). Investigators enrolled 109 participants. Participant median gestation was 53 days in the TENS group and 58 days in the IV group. - The intention-to-treat analysis yielded noninferior results for the primary outcome. In the per-protocol analysis, 9 in the TENS group were excluded after receiving IV sedation; 100 participants were included. - Median reported VAS for aspiration was 73 mm and 66 mm in the TENS and IV groups, respectively. - With a mean difference of 4.4 mm, they found TENS to be noninferior to IV. Physicians underestimated participant pain, perceiving pain to be 34 mm in the TENS group and 25 mm in the IV group. In particular, researchers found TENS to be a noninferior alternative to IV sedation for aspiration pain during the first-trimester abortion. Source: https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/9900/Transcutaneous_Electrical_Nerve_Stimulation_for.261.aspx © Plexus Professional Network Private Limited 2022

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Q: Computation of convex conjugate I am learning convex analysis by myself and I need help. How to show that if $X=U=\mathbb{R}$ and $f\left(x\right)=\frac{|x|^{p}}{p}$ then the convex conjugate $f^{*}\left(u\right)=\frac{|u|^{q}}{q}$ when $\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}=1$? There exists a particular technique that I have to apply in order to compute the convex conjugate? A: For practical computation I would use the fact that $\nabla f^*$ is the inverse of $\nabla f$ (see here). By the chain rule, $$\nabla f(x) =|x|^{p-1} \nabla |x| = |x|^{p-1} \frac{x}{|x|}$$ which means the direction of $x$ stays the same but its length is raised to power $p-1$. The inverse of this map is $$u\mapsto |u|^{1/(p-1)} \frac{u}{|u|} = |u|^{q-1} \frac{u}{|u|}$$ Observing the similarity of two formulas, we arrive at $f^*(u)=|u|^q/q$. A: Another nice way to show it is by using Young's inequality: For $x, \xi \in \mathbb R^n$, we have $$\langle\xi, x \rangle \le \frac{|\xi|^p}{p} + \frac{|x|^q}{q},$$ with equality if $|\xi|^p = |x|^q$. Therefore, $$f^*(\xi) = \sup_{x \in \mathbb R^n}\left(\langle\xi, x \rangle - \frac{|x|^q}{q}\right) = \frac{|\xi|^p}{p}.$$

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