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This innovative spectral sensor combines Viavi's 64-channel micro-patterned bandpass filter array and the high performance ESPROS hybrid CCD-CMOS imager, to make a miniature spectral sensor that is less than 2.7 x 2.7 x 1.1 mm in size. Two versions of the sensor will be offered – one for the visible range (385-900 nm) and one for the near infrared (NIR, 775-1065 nm). The size and projected cost of the sensor should bring sophisticated wavelength analysis and shortwave NIR spectroscopy within reach of consumer mobile devices such as smartphones. In the mobile space, the sensor has the potential to help consumers analyze the composition of food, beverages and medications. To build the market and enable customers to develop applications, Viavi and ESPROS are launching the SPM64 Developer Kit. The developer kit includes a prototype sensor mounted on a USB dongle-style circuit board with a microcontroller and several various light sources. The board, when connected via USB to a computer running the supplied software, sends pre-processed spectral information to the GUI and optionally a data file. A supplied API allows customers to write their own software to control the light sources and sensor, and to acquire and analyze data. Related Stories "We are very excited about our collaboration with ESPROS on this new offering that will dramatically change the game in miniature spectral sensing," said Sinclair Vass, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Viavi OSP. "We have built on our extensive experience in NIR spectroscopy with the MicroNIR Miniature Spectrometer, and our mastery of optical thin film technologies is clearly present. We have high expectations that this offering will lead the way toward the widely-predicted future world of ubiquitous spectral sensing." "ESPROS welcomes Viavi Solutions and the work both companies have accomplished thus far," said Beat De Coi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer for ESPROS. "In working with Viavi Solutions, we have forged an ideal partnership, combining our NIR sensitive silicon imagers with their excellent filter technology." Visitors to the Photonics West Exhibition will have the opportunity to attend a product demonstration of the Multispectral Sensor Developer Kit on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 12 p.m. in the Demo Area Hall D North. ESPROS and Viavi will both show the sensors and Developer Kit January 31 – February 2, 2017 at Photonics West (ESPROS booth number 5330; Viavi booth number 1917). By continuing to browse or by clicking "Accept All Cookies," you agree to the storing of first and third-party cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. Find out more.

Return to the preinjury level of competitive sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery: two-thirds of patients have not returned by 12 months after surgery. An athlete's desire to return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is a major indication for ACL reconstruction surgery. Typical clearance to return is 6 to 12 months postoperatively. To investigate the return-to-sport rate and participation level of a large cohort at 12 months after ACL reconstruction surgery. Case series; Level of evidence, 4. Data were analyzed for 503 patients who participated in competitive-level Australian football, basketball, netball, or soccer after ACL reconstruction surgery using a quadruple-strand hamstring autograft. Inclusion criteria included participation in competitive sport before the ACL injury and clearance from the orthopaedic surgeon to return to sport postoperatively. Patients completed a self-report questionnaire regarding preoperative and postoperative sports participation and the Cincinnati Sports Activity Scale. The International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) knee evaluation form and hop tests were used to evaluate knee function. Sixty-seven percent of patients attempted some form of sports activity by 12 months postoperatively; 33% attempted competitive sport. Of those who did not attempt any sports activity by 12 months, 47% indicated that they were planning to return. Men were significantly more likely than women to return. Patients who played sports with a seasonal competition, versus a year-round competition, were significantly more likely to return by 12 months. Patients with normal postoperative knee function (IKDC category A), versus those with nearly normal function (IKDC category B), were no more likely to return, but patients with good hop test results (≥85% limb symmetry index) were more likely to return than patients with poor results (<85%). People may require a longer postoperative rehabilitation period than that typically advocated to facilitate a successful return to competitive sport after ACL reconstruction surgery. The relationship between postoperative knee function and return-to-sport outcomes at 12 months after surgery was inconclusive.

Client configuration data can optionally be read from a local file if you'd like to keep your authentication data separated from your code. Place a file named tender__config.json in the root directory of your application to use it in place of runtime configuration. No special code is neccessary - the file will automatically be loaded if it exists. The configuration file should follow the following format. All fields are optional and will be overridden by runtime parameters if specified. The testData object is used by the automated tests and should be omitted unless you plan on running them. See below for detail. To run the test suite, invoke the following commands in the repository: $ npm install $ npm test Please note that the majority of the tests rely on a live Tender API account in order to execute. To set up the test data for your account, create a local configuration file as shown above and fill out the testData object as follows: queue - The name of a queue in your account. category - The name of a category in your account. categoryId - The id of a category in your account. user - The full name of a user belonging to your Tender account. userId - The id of a user belonging to your Tender account. discussionId - The id of any discussion belonging to your account pattern - A regexp pattern that will match the title of at least one Open discussion on your account. A single discussion will be created under the category specified above, replied to, and deleted as part of the tests. All other tests perform read operations only.

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Don Burnett Left to Right: Former Interim President Don Burnett, President Chuck Staben, UI Alumni Association Board member Ben Rae. Interim President from June 2013-March 2014, Don Burnett started his Idaho appointment as dean of the University of Idaho College of Law in 2002. During this period, the college added subject areas of curricular emphasis and interdisciplinary collaboration; raised the level of institutional support for faculty scholarship; enhanced diversity in the faculty and student body; and expanded the delivery of legal education in the capital city of Boise. During his deanship, Burnett chaired an Idaho Supreme Court’s task force on structure and resources for the state appellate courts in the next quarter-century; chaired the University of Idaho’s Ethical Guidance and Oversight Committee; served as a coordinating dean of university-wide interdisciplinary programs; and served on the Advisory Council for Operation Education, a scholarship program for disabled veterans. He chaired the University’s Steering Committee on Diversity and Human Rights as well as the Professionalism Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. He has received the Idaho State Bar’s Distinguished Lawyer, Outstanding Service, and Professionalism awards. Burnett served as dean for 11 years before being named interim president of the university. His previous careers encompassed service as an appellate judge, practicing lawyer, Army JAG officer, state bar president and law professor.

Carter is a former one-time WEW Tag Team Champion having previously held it with her older sister, Brooklyn. In June 2013 she put her in-ring career on hold for the time being and started managing her then on-screen and off-screen boyfriend Chris Dunn. Carter later returned to the ring in October 2013 and made her return to Adrenaline. Daniella made her Animosity debut on the July 8 episode when she accompanied Chris Dunn both her on-screen and off-screen boyfriend to the ring. Dunn however suffered a loss to Jetstream. Daniella continued to accompany, Dunn to the ring as well as interfere in his matches, including a match between Kevin Hunter and Dunn, where she helped him get a victory. Carter would accompany Dunn to the ring at Legacy Hawaii, however again Dunn would come up short. During this time, Daniella started a rivalry with her older sister, Brooklyn who had attacked her at Retribution. Daniella started to torment her sister including wrecking some of her clothes in her locker room on an episode of Adrenaline. In September Dunn began to distance himself from Daniella and was beginning to tease a face turn, before completing his turn the week before Crossroads. Daniella stopped accompanying him to the ring all together after this, later revealing that she was returning to active competition and that Chris had blinded her and that she couldn't believe that she had given up competing "for a guy". Daniella was later moved over to Adrenaline thus effectively ending their storyline without saying anything on-screen, this was done because they had actually ended their relationship off-screen as well. Carter previously was in a relationship with WEW Elitist, Chris Dunn from June 2013 to October 2013. Daniella used to be best friends with fellow WEW wrestler Calvin Harris. Carter has rekindled a relationship with Gavin Brooks after the two had been together before for five years.

Regulation of PDGF-stimulated SHIP2 tyrosine phosphorylation and association with Shc in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes. In 3T3-L1 and human preadipocytes, insulin results in the isolated rise in phosphatidylinositol (PI)-3,4,5-P3, whereas PDGF produces PI(3,4)P2 in addition to PI(3,4,5)P3. SH2 domain-containing inositol 5-phosphatase 2 (SHIP2) converts PI(3,4,5)P3 into PI(3,4)P2. PDGF, but not insulin, stimulates SHIP2 tyrosine phosphorylation and its association with Shc in human and 3T3-L1 preadipocytes. We now demonstrate that SHIP2 tyrosine phosphorylation and association with Shc in PDGF-treated 3T3-L1 preadipocytes was reduced by bisindolylmaleimide I (BisI), an inhibitor of conventional/novel protein kinase C (PKC). However, the production of PI(3,4)P2 and PI(3,4,5)P3 by PDGF was unaffected by BisI. Activation of PKC by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) was not sufficient to induce SHIP2 tyrosine phosphorylation. Furthermore, we identified threonine 958 (T958) as a novel PDGF-responsive SHIP2 phosphorylation site. Mutation of T958 to alanine reduced PDGF-stimulated SHIP2 tyrosine phosphorylation and association with Shc, but did not alter its anti-proliferative effect on preadipocytes. This study demonstrates that SHIP2 tyrosine phosphorylation and Shc association can be regulated by serine/threonine signaling pathways, either indirectly (via PKC), or directly (via T958). Interestingly, the anti-proliferative effect of SHIP2 T958A, as well as another SHIP2 mutant (Y986F, Y987F) that also displays defective tyrosine phosphorylation and Shc association, does not depend on these molecular events.

211 B.R. 173 (1997) In re James F. PUGLIESE, Debtor. SEARS, ROEBUCK & COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. James F. PUGLIESE, Defendant. Bankruptcy No. 5-95-01582, Adversary No. 5-95-00572A. United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre Division. July 15, 1997. *174 Raymond Ferrario, Scranton, PA, for debtor. Charles Phillips, Wyomissing, PA, for Sears. OPINION AND ORDER[1] JOHN J. THOMAS, Bankruptcy Judge. On December 29, 1995, Sears, Roebuck & Company, the Plaintiff, filed a Complaint to designate certain debts incurred by James F. Pugliese, the Debtor, as nondischargeable pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6). A trial regarding the dischargeability of the debt owed to Sears, Roebuck & Company was conducted on August 27, 1996. After reviewing the pleadings and the transcripts, the facts of this case are as follows. On two occasions, the Debtor executed credit applications with the Plaintiff, who in turn extended credit to the Debtor in the form of two revolving charge accounts. Debtor was granted use of these two accounts to charge purchases at Sears retail stores in exchange for his agreement to repay the purchase price plus finance charges. During the period of August 23, 1993 through February 22, 1995, the Debtor accumulated $7,073.30 in charges for the following hardline items: Revolving Charge Account # 1 10/24/94 Canon BU200E $ 431.85 11/30/94 Software $ 218.32 12/24/94 Camcorder $ 985.78 2/11/95 TV/Deep Cleaner $ 900.98 _________ TOTAL $2,532.93 Revolving Charge Account # 2 8/23/93 VCR $ 454.73 12/31/93 Hoover Vacuum $ 211.99 11/5/94 Computer Components $2,236.59 12/94 3 Phones, Canon Taple [sic] Top Stereo $1,031.27 2/22/95 TV, SNY, KFC800 $ 296.67 1/95 13"LXI TV, 2 Phones, TV $ 688.85 _________ TOTAL $4,536.37 With each purchase of merchandise, the Debtor had to sign a sales invoice stating: "Purchased under my Sears charge agreement incorporated by reference. I grant Sears a security interest in this merchandise until paid, unless prohibited by law." (Transcript of 8/27/96 at 11.) The Plaintiff claims the sales invoice constituted a valid security agreement granting Sears a security interest in the merchandise purchased by the Debtor. See In re Hance, 181 B.R. 184 (Bankr.M.D.Pa.1993). However, the Debtor testified he did not read the sales invoice prior to signing it nor did he have an understanding of any security agreement when he signed the receipt at the time of purchase. (Transcript of 8/27/96 at 12, 22.) After reading a portion of the sales invoice into the record, the Debtor agreed the language appeared to give Sears a lien in the merchandise he purchased. (Transcript of 8/27/96 at 12.) The Debtor continued to make monthly payments until May of 1995. During the period of 1992 through November 1994, the Debtor worked as a salesman earning approximately $28,000 per year at his father's Italian food brokerage, James Pugliese Company. In November of 1994, James Pugliese Company went out of business. The Debtor received unemployment compensation until May 1995. He resumed employment in October of 1995 working for Hadden Craftsman. On September 26, 1995, the Debtor filed for bankruptcy under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. Much of the merchandise purchased by the Debtor was sold at various times prior to the filing of the petition. The Plaintiff was not notified prior to the sale of the merchandise nor were any of the proceeds from the sale paid to Plaintiff to reduce the amount of indebtedness owed to it. The Debtor testified the money obtained from the sale of the merchandise was used to purchase drugs during a period of time when he was addicted to drugs. The only item the Debtor retained was the Hoover vacuum cleaner which is currently inoperable. The Plaintiff withdrew its claim for indebtedness owed on *175 the vacuum cleaner, but contends that 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6) precludes the Debtor from obtaining discharge on the remaining debt in this case. The purpose of the Bankruptcy Code is to provide the honest but unfortunate debtor with a fresh start by relieving the debtor from indebtedness. Section 523(a)(6) excepts from discharge a debt for "willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity." 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6). This exception to the general discharge provision was intended to safeguard the fresh start policy from abuse. In re McGuffey, 145 B.R. 582 (Bankr.N.D.Ill.1992). As enunciated by the United States Supreme Court and further embellished by the Third Circuit, when a creditor challenges the dischargeability of a debt, it is incumbent upon that creditor to prove by a preponderance of the evidence the debtor willfully and maliciously injured the creditor or his property. Grogan v. Garner, 498 U.S. 279, 288, 111 S.Ct. 654, 660, 112 L.Ed.2d 755 (1991); In re Braen, 900 F.2d 621 (3rd Cir.1990); In re Grubb (DeMarco v. Grubb), 1996 WL 230019, at *2 (E.D.Pa. May 3, 1996). In re Braen represents the Third Circuit's decree that when advocating to avoid discharge under § 523(a)(6) a creditor must prove the debtor intentionally inflicted the claimed injury. The issue was whether a New Jersey state court judgment against a debtor was excepted from discharge as a willful and malicious injury pursuant to § 523(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code. Several courts in the Third Circuit have set forth the legal principles that govern claims brought under § 523(a)(6). The hallmark of "willful" conduct is deliberate and intentional action which necessarily leads to injury. In re Maula, 166 B.R. 49, 52 (Bkrtcy.M.D.Pa.1994). Malicious conduct is signified by behavior employed with "conscious disregard of one's duties or without just cause or excuse." In re Galizia, 108 B.R. 63, 69 (Bankr.W.D.Pa.1989). The Third Circuit Court of Appeals conjoined these two principles and held a debtor's actions are willful and malicious if furnished with "the purpose of producing injury or substantial certainty of producing injury." In re Conte, 33 F.3d 303, 307 (3rd Cir.1994). Thus, to except the debt owed to the Plaintiff from discharge, the Plaintiff must show that the Debtor acted deliberately and with substantial certainty that his actions will produce injury. Id. at 307-309. In dicta, the Conte court assented to the legal affirmation of various bankruptcy courts which held § 523(a)(6) does not require a showing of specific malice. Id. at 308. However, this artful language does not relieve the creditor from the burden of establishing by a preponderance of the evidence a debtor acted with some degree of culpability. If this Court were to tender a ruling in favor of nondischargeability where the debtor acted in a careless manner, without the realization that his actions were injurious to the creditor, the relevancy of the word "malicious" in § 523(a)(6) would be frustrated. Plaintiff's post-trial brief includes citation to In re DeMarco, 1996 WL 230019, at *2 (E.D.Pa. May 3, 1996). This appellate court case supports our position. Christine DeMarco successfully obtained a $30,000 judgment against her former boss, Thomas Grubb, in an action alleging wrongful misrepresentation of the character of a check. Sometime afterward, Mr. Grubb filed a chapter 7 bankruptcy petition. Ms. DeMarco filed an adversary proceeding to except from discharge the debt owed to her by Mr. Grubb. The bankruptcy court used Conte as the controlling authority for this matter and quoted a state court jury finding to specifically illustrate § 523(a)(6) does not except discharges based upon recklessness. The jury finding read that Conte acted with "Knowledge of a high degree of probability of harm and reckless indifference to the consequences." Id. The United States District Court affirmed the bankruptcy court's decision holding, "Under Conte § 523(a)(6) does not except debts that are the product of reckless injury to the debtor." Id. at *3. The Plaintiff advocates Sears was willfully and maliciously injured by the Debtor. It asserts the Debtor disposed of assets in which Sears possessed a security interest, failed to remit proceeds from the sales of the *176 collateral to Sears, and utilized the proceeds to purchase drugs in support of Debtor's drug addiction. Further, the Plaintiff charges this was done without the knowledge or consent of Sears, in direct disregard for their security interest, absent justification or excuse from the Debtor, and certain to cause substantial injury to Sears. We disagree. Although the Debtor testified he disposed of certain items purchased with his Sears credit card to feed his drug addiction, this Court is not convinced the Debtor's actions constitute malicious injury. During cross examination, the Debtor correctly articulated the concept of mortgage foreclosure and security agreements. However, the Debtor's testimony reflects he did not read the security clause contained in the sales invoice prior to signing it. The mere conveyance of property encumbered by Plaintiff's purported security interest does not in itself constitute malicious injury. Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co., 293 U.S. 328, 332, 55 S.Ct. 151, 153, 79 L.Ed. 393, 396 (1934), In re Rooney, 121 B.R. 478, 479 (Bankr.W.D.Pa.1990), In re Horldt, 86 B.R. 823, 827 (Bankr.E.D.Pa.1988). Furthermore, Plaintiff contends the Debtor's actions were substantially certain to cause injury. The supplemental brief filed by Debtor's counsel highlights facts which nullify its contention. During the period from 1992 through November of 1994, the Debtor made purchases on his credit card while earning an average of $28,000 per year. The remaining purchases were made while the Debtor was receiving unemployment compensation. The Debtor continued to honor his monthly credit card bill from Sears until June of 1995. Debtor's unemployment compensation ended in May of 1995. The Debtor filed for bankruptcy four months later and procured employment the following month. The Debtor's testimony also indicates he kept a ledger of the amount of debt he owed to his creditors and intended to repay his debt. The Plaintiff has not established the Debtor sold the merchandise with the purpose of producing harm or the knowledge that he was substantially certain the sale of the merchandise would injure Sears. Furthermore, the Plaintiff has not demonstrated how the disposition of this collateral caused injury to Sears. Without further proof, this Court finds Debtor's actions did not result in willful and malicious injury to Sears. Accordingly, the Plaintiff's claim fails, § 523(a)(6) does not except the Debtor's debt from discharge. NOTES [1] Drafted with the assistance of Susan E. Battisti, Extern Law Clerk.

Fishing in the Bundaberg area is on the improve at last. Most of the rivers have stopped flowing and the fresh will eventually fade out. A few more big tides should see a lot more salt water push back up the rivers and the fish back on the chew. Unfortunately the wind has put a damper on the offshore fishing and it just won’t stop blowing! As a result, the local rivers and creeks have been the areas most anglers have been concentrating on. The upper reaches are still fresh but are improving, and the best fishing has been down around the mouths. Some big bream have been caught along the rock walls with some bream making the one kilo mark in weight. Bream now also have new size and bag limits in place. The minimum size if 25cm and the bag limit is 30 for a combined bag of all species of bream. Other species such as flathead, cod, jack and grunter have been caught. Some of the deeper holes and rock bars have produced some great fish, including some nice salmon, jew, jack, fingermark, and some good sized barra. Using live baits such as prawns, poddy mullet and sprats are the go. The coastal beaches are fishing really well at the moment as the recent fresh has pushed the whiting out onto the beaches and some good numbers have been caught. There is also some good sized dart mixed in there as well. The local dams are still a bit tough on the fishing and the fish, as most dams scored a well-needed top up. The bass are up in the shallows in the weeded areas looking for a fresh feed, so small poppers and spinner baits are the go. The barra are a bit tougher to work out with most being caught on the troll in the main basin of Lake Monduran using 15ft diving lures in bright colours. Till next time, Tim Mulhall

# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.10 2014/01/16 01:15:32 christos Exp $ TOP= ${.CURDIR}/.. WARNS=1 DBG= -Os .include "${TOP}/Makefile.inc" IMAGE= ramdisk.fs CBIN= ramdiskbin MOUNT_POINT?= /mnt # DEV/RDEV file system device, CDEV/RDEV vnconfig device VND?= vnd0 VND_DEV= /dev/${VND}a VND_RDEV= /dev/r${VND}a VND_CDEV= /dev/${VND}d VND_CRDEV= /dev/r${VND}d IMAGE?= xxx.fs MDEC= ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec DISKLABEL?= disklabel MOUNT?= mount NEWFS?= newfs UMOUNT?= umount VNCONFIG?= vnconfig LISTS= ${.CURDIR}/../ramdiskcommon/list CRUNCHCONF= ../ramdiskcommon/${CBIN}.conf MTREECONF= ../ramdiskcommon/mtree.conf RAMDISKSPC= 128 RAMDISKCYLS= 54 RAMDISKSIZE!= expr ${RAMDISKSPC} \* ${RAMDISKCYLS} realall: ${IMAGE} ${IMAGE}: ${CBIN} ${MTREECONF} ${LISTS} rm -f ${IMAGE}.tmp dd if=/dev/zero of=${IMAGE}.tmp count=${RAMDISKSIZE} ${VNCONFIG} -v -c ${VND_CDEV} ${IMAGE}.tmp \ 512/${RAMDISKSPC}/1/${RAMDISKCYLS} -${DISKLABEL} ${VND_CDEV} >tmplabel ${DISKLABEL} -r -R ${VND_CDEV} tmplabel ${NEWFS} -B be -m 0 -o space ${VND_RDEV} ${MOUNT} ${VND_DEV} ${MOUNT_POINT} ${TOOL_MTREE} -def ${.CURDIR}/${MTREECONF} -p ${MOUNT_POINT}/ -U TOPDIR=${TOP} CURDIR=${.CURDIR} OBJDIR=${.OBJDIR} \ KERNOBJDIR=${KERNOBJDIR} TARGDIR=${MOUNT_POINT} ${HOST_SH} \ ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/distrib/common/runlist.sh ${LISTS} @echo "" @df -i ${MOUNT_POINT} @echo "" ${UMOUNT} ${MOUNT_POINT} ${VNCONFIG} -u ${VND_CDEV} mv -f ${IMAGE}.tmp ${IMAGE} unconfig: -${UMOUNT} -f ${MOUNT_POINT} -${VNCONFIG} -u ${VND_DEV} -/bin/rm -f ${IMAGE}.tmp ${CBIN}.mk ${CBIN}.cache ${CBIN}.c: ${CRUNCHCONF} ${TOOL_CRUNCHGEN} -D ${TOP}/../../.. -L ${.CURDIR} ${.ALLSRC} ${CBIN}: ${CBIN}.mk ${CBIN}.cache ${CBIN}.c ${MAKE} -f ${CBIN}.mk all # Use stubs to eliminate some large stuff from libc HACKSRC= ${DISTRIBDIR}/utils/libhack HACKOBJS= gethost.o .include "${HACKSRC}/Makefile.inc" ${CBIN}: libhack.o mount: ${VNCONFIG} -v -c ${VND_CDEV} ${IMAGE} \ 512/${RAMDISKSPC}/1/${RAMDISKCYLS} ${MOUNT} ${VND_DEV} ${MOUNT_POINT} clean cleandir distclean: /bin/rm -f ${AUXCLEAN} *.core ${IMAGE} ${IMAGE}.tmp ${CBIN} \ ${CBIN}.mk ${CBIN}.cache *.o *.cro *.c tmplabel .include <bsd.own.mk> .include <bsd.obj.mk> .include <bsd.subdir.mk> .include <bsd.files.mk>

Intravenous infusion therapy is prescribed where it is desirable to administer medications and other fluids directly into the circulatory system of a patient. Infusion pumping systems are used to pump the prescribed infusates from a bag, bottle, or syringe to the patient. For example, the infusion system of Epstein, U.S. Pat. No. 4,696,671, provides a computer-controlled infusion system using a disposable cassette and able to pump plural fluids through plural input ports and at least one patient output port simultaneously or in time sequence. For many patients, an infusion pumping system is frequently used in conjunction with an electrocardiograph to monitor the heartbeats of the patient. The electrocardiogram (ECG) obtained comprises a number of leads, or records of potential differences, between electrodes positioned on the surface of the patient's body. Typically, a four-lead system is used to monitor the patient's condition. A twelve-lead system is used to obtain a more accurate ECG on which to base diagnoses and therapeutic prescriptions. The ECG is a record of the electrical signals of the patient's heartbeats. An artifact in this record is undesirable because, if not detected and identified as an artifact, it may cause a physician to misinterpret the ECG. The strongest portion of the ECG is known as QRS and is the most important portion of the signal for interpreting the patient's condition. All ECG monitors filter out artifacts to some extent, and ideally the artifact will be too low to be confused with QRS. The twelve lead ECG monitors have a better capacity for filtering out artifacts of all sorts than the four-lead monitors. However, the potential for artifact occurrence still exists in all ECG systems. Artifacts may be caused by a number of phenomena: room lights, patient movement, perspiration on the patient's skin. Artifacts have also been observed as associated with infusion pumping systems. Previously, it had been thought that pump-induced artifact was due to a piezoelectric effect of a changing strain rate in the plastic tubing inducing a miniscule electric current. It had been thought that all infusion pumps exhibited this effect, but little or no work on reducing or eliminating the effect had been accomplished.

Q: Figure out smallest needed rotation to target rotation from current rotation I have the current rotation (where the smartphone is looking at) and a target angle I want the user to look at. Both are in the range of 0 to 360. int current = 340; int target = 45; How can I figure out the smallest needed rotation either left or right to the target angle? Simply substracting the values makes for an inefficient rotation. A rotation to the right should be a positive value, a rotation to the left should be negative. A: Solved it with the following one-liner: int neededRotation = (int) (-1* ((currentDirection - calculateAngle(x, y) + 540) % 360 - 180));

UPDATE: Pearsall Family DNA Surname Project We have received a fourth DNA test result... a second match to I1b haplogroup. The Pearsall family project currently has two documented haplogroups (I1b - 3 individuals, and E3b - 1 individual). This is a very exciting start to the project. Summary can be found at:

Utilisation of fatty acid and triacylglycerol by rat macrophages: the effect of endotoxin. Plasma very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) concentrations are increased during sepsis/endotoxaemia and VLDL may be substrates for the activated immune system. Lipid substrate utilisation by quiescent and activated macrophages was therefore examined. Rat R2 macrophages were incubated with oleate or rat VLDL, with or without lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation. The metabolic fate of the lipids was examined. Macrophages utilised both oleate and (control) VLDL-triacylglycerol (TAG) to a similar extent. Most was deposited as cellular lipid; about 10% of oleate was oxidised compared to 25% of cVLDL-TAG. LPS significantly increased oleate oxidation and its deposition as cellular lipid (mostly as TAG) at 48hrs but abolished both oxidation and storage of VLDL-TAG. VLDL produced during endotoxaemia (eVLDL) was assimilated by the unstimulated macrophage to a greater extent than oleate or cVLDL-TAG and selectively stored as cellular lipids (no oxidation); LPS decreased eVLDL utilisation. VLDL-TAG utilisation was decreased by the lipoprotein lipase (LPL) inhibitor terahydrolipstatin. LPL activity was greater in oleate than in VLDL incubations, but was increased by incubation with eVLDL. LPS had no effect (oleate, cVLDL) or increased (eVLDL) LPL activity. VLDL represented an efficient substrate for the macrophage. However under conditions of sepsis/endotoxaemia eVLDL utilisation was limited and directed away from oxidation, suggesting that the increased plasma TAG (eVLDL) concentrations resulting from sepsis is not a respiratory fuel for the macrophage but may supply cellular lipid.

Fidelino Gómez remembers fondly the years he spent in Iowa, where his middle child was born. Standing outside his one-room wood home in his native Guatemala, Gómez, 34, thumbs through pictures he took of the Mississippi River, snowy Midwest winters and gatherings with family and friends. He recalls easier times. “We lived well,” Gómez says under the searing sun. “We could feed our children, pay our bills, and we still had money left over.” From 2004 to 2008, Gómez and his wife María earned roughly $7 an hour working at Agriprocessors Inc., a slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. The money was more than they ever imagined as subsistence farmers back home. But the family’s dream was cut short when United States immigration officials raided the plant in May 2008, arresting hundreds of undocumented Guatemalan workers and deporting them. Now, like more than 100 other families deported after the Postville raid, they struggle to eke out a living back in the economically depressed farming village San José Calderas, some 40 miles (64 km) west of Guatemala City. They grow corn and beans to feed their loved ones and do odd jobs, scraping by on the equivalent of between $15 and $30 per month. Alongside tens of thousands of his fellow countrymen and women, Gómez is part of a surge in deportations from the U.S. to Guatemala in recent years, with new expulsion records being set annually. Some 50,000 Guatemalans were deported from the U.S. in 2013, up from roughly 40,000 in 2012 and 30,000 in 2011, according to the Consejo Nacional de Atención al Migrante en Guatemala (National Council on Immigration—CONAMIGUA). Many face difficulties finding work when they return to Guatemala, and re-integration is challenging. While the Guatemalan government has created a patchwork of programs intended to re-orient returnees, and the private sector professes a need for their skills, Guatemalans are returning to find a country little changed from the one they left, rife with violence and devoid of opportunity. Worse, despite whatever skills many have gained in the U.S., the stigma of being deported and their low levels of education complicate their ability to get a job back home. You Can Go Home Again, Unfortunately The flood of returning nationals has forced the Guatemalan government to step up efforts to weave former migrants into the complex economic fabric of a country that is struggling to keep pace with a rising population in the face of endemic problems such as low wages and sluggish economic growth—the same factors that originally led many families to seek better lives abroad. According to the World Bank, Guatemala has one of the region’s highest fertility rates (four births per mother), accounting for an annual 2.5 percent growth in population over the past 10 years. That’s created one of the youngest countries in the region as well, with roughly two-thirds under the age of thirty. According to Guatemalan government data, the formal unemployment rate is a low 3 percent. But some 70 percent of the labor force form part of the informal market economy, the government says. Young people in particular have felt the impact of Guatemala’s job squeeze. Only 11.4 percent of people age 15 to 29 have had any formal job training, according to a 2011 government youth survey, and the Labor Ministry estimates that 20 percent of Guatemalans age 13 to 24 neither work nor study. Violence is also holding back Guatemala’s economic growth. Experts estimate that Guatemala’s GDP growth could reach as high as 4 percent were it not for low productivity and the costs of crime. The country’s murder rate of nearly 40 homicides per 100,000 people is one of the highest in the world, according to the United Nations. It’s no surprise that many Guatemalans have sought better opportunities outside their country’s borders. According to CONAMIGUA, violence and lack of opportunity force some 200,000 Guatemalans to the U.S. each year. Guatemala also suffers from one of the lowest tax takes in the Americas, forcing the public sector to underspend on education and health, and to neglect small, rural communities. Migrants’ homecomings are often less than joyful. “Even if they find work, they usually make the minimum wage and not a penny more,” says Alejandro Gordillo, head of CONAMIGUA. None of Guatemala’s 22 departments (states) claim an average salary that is above the country’s minimum wage of roughly $325 per month, Labor Minister Carlos Contreras told reporters in March. The Government Steps in In response to these challenges and the influx of returning migrants, CONAMIGUA and the Guatemalan Congress launched a new program in December 2013 called Bienvenidoa Casa, or Welcome Home. The program aims to enlist the private sector in finding employment for returnees. Under the new initiative, which has already placed dozens of returned migrants into jobs, volunteers from Guatemala’s Asociación de Apoyo Integral al Migrante (Association of Integral Support for Migrants) help returnees fill out surveys about their work experience in the United States. The information is plugged into a database available to companies searching for specific skills, such as call centers that need English speakers or banks looking to deal out small business loans to new entrepreneurs. Guatemala’s labor ministry has also beefed up its job listings webpage, hoping to attract returnees as well as potential migrants. Unfortunately, though, officials do not currently have data on how many return immigrants use the site. But integrating citizens who have been off the grid in Guatemala and the U.S. is not an easy task. Having spent years abroad, many migrants lack essential Guatemalan paperwork upon return, impeding job and school applications and restricting access to microcredit and small business loans from private banks. “They come back thinking, ‘I was undocumented in the United States and now I will be undocumented in my own country,’” says Fanny Molina, a rights activist working to fight human trafficking. To address the issue, Guatemala’s foreign ministry plans to open 11 new consulates this year in key U.S. cities, where migrants can request Guatemalan identification cards and birth certificates, thus easing their return home. There’s also the challenge of where returning migrants ultimately land. Guatemalan Congressman Jean Paul Briere, who helped design the new Bienvenido a Casa initiative, worries that the mounting dangers of crossing the border, along with heightened U.S. immigration enforcement that is turning away torrents of migrants, could spur a rush to Guatemala City—a migratory flow the capital is not built to handle. The population in the department of Guatemala, where Guatemala City is located, grew by 20 percent from 2001 to 2010, making it one of the fastest growing areas in the country. “Sadly, our government has never had a policy to directly deal with immigration […] and doesn’t have the capacity to generate jobs, development and everything we need so people don’t emigrate,” Briere said. “Rural people have moved to the city, but the city can’t offer any more. The best way to help the city is to develop the rural areas, or the city will collapse in 10 years.” Hoping to facilitate training for returnees, Guatemala’s Instituto Técnico de Capacitación y Productividad (Technical Institute for Training and Productivity), the nation’s principal trade school, has renewed an accord with CONAMIGUA in which the government pays for courses such as car mechanics and computer skills for deported immigrants. But the new initiatives have been met with skepticism by critics who say the programs are inadequate and that scant political will and red tape will drive returnees into the shadows. That lack of political will may be due to the fact that remittances from Guatemalans residing abroad are a central pillar of the country’s economy, accounting for 10 percent of the nation’s GDP. In 2013, remittances totaled a record $5.1 billion. “This country is built on remittances,” said attorney and immigration rights activist Marila de Prinz. “I think there are a lot of people here who prefer that Guatemalan migrants stay in the U.S. and keep sending money.” Returnees also distrust authority (for obvious reasons), further complicating efforts to constructively engage and orient them. The inability to collect data from agitated deportees has also hindered recent efforts to assist return migrants. A previous attempt by the Labor Ministry to gather work experience information from returnees never got off the ground, sources said. During a recent arrival in Guatemala City, 135 deportees filed off a white, unmarked plane and into an immigration room at the country’s air force base. Many shouted out grievances such as “we hate this country” and “there is no work here.” “The day they return is the worst moment to get information from them,” said Aracely García, a Guatemalan who is executive director of Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together, a binational advocacy group based in the U.S. and Mexico. “They are angry, but not with the United States. They are angry with their own country for forcing them to emigrate.” The Legacy of Why They Left and How They Returned Education levels are low in Guatemala, especially in the rural areas where most of the migrants come from. Many Guatemalan companies require the equivalent of one to two years of high school to qualify for a job, credentials that many immigrants don’t have before leaving the country. José Sica, who never enrolled in high school, is a poignant example. After turning 18, he migrated to the U.S. in 1996. He worked for years as a security guard in Georgia before moving to Los Angeles, where he learned English and opened a store selling and repairing cell phones. But when authorities found him without papers in 2010, he was sent back to Guatemala where he had few friends and no business contacts. Thinking his U.S. work experience gave him an edge over competing job-seekers, Sica applied to several security companies and cell phone operators in Guatemala, but was consistently turned away because of his low level of education. He believes that he was denied a business license by a number of municipalities where he proposed setting up cell phone shops, and certification as a tour guide, because of discrimination against deportees who, he said, are treated like ex-convicts. “There are a lot of roadblocks in this country,” Sica said. “When migrants return, we aren’t seen as useful pieces of society. We are seen as criminals.” Matching Labor Needs with Skills: Not So Easy Roughly half of Guatemalans residing in the U.S. work either in restaurants or in the service industry. Another 15 percent work in construction. The Guatemalan Construction Chamber hopes to launch an employment exchange later this year, helping construction companies find Guatemalans with building experience. As part of the program, the chamber has partnered with the International Organization for Migration to collect data from returning migrants, placing candidates with construction experience into jobs. The industry is still struggling to recover from the 2008 global recession, but hopes to see slight growth in 2014. Construction will account for 2.7 percent of Guatemala’s GDP in 2014, according to the Central Bank. But the connection between the needs of returnees and employees is not direct. While heavy equipment imports have risen as companies look to modernize, and there are classes for carpentry and bricklaying, no Guatemalan trade school offers training on heavy machinery such as bulldozers, said chamber director Paola Van Der Beek. Returning migrants with operating skills will be in high demand, she said, and could earn the equivalent of up to $4.20 an hour depending on their qualifications—almost double the average wage for construction workers. The Construction Chamber estimates that 2,000 operator jobs will open up in 2014. In another attempt to match supply with demand, the Guatemalan government hopes to boost the number of English speakers to support the country’s burgeoning call center industry, a sector that is creating around 6,000 jobs annually. Industry insiders say there would be a potential for 12,000 new posts per year if the country had enough English speakers. “There is always a need for people who speak English […] and we especially want to promote call centers,” said Minister of the Economy Sergio de la Torre. The country’s largest call center, Transactel, handles customer support for U.S. companies such as Sprint and TXU Energy. Almost 20 percent of the Transactel’s employees are return migrants, reckons founder Guillermo Montano, who attended military school in Indiana and college in California before returning voluntarily in the 1990s. “Returnees are very capable and not only do they speak English, they know American culture,” he said. “Clients love that.” Call centers have become a popular job choice for returnees who migrated north with their parents as young children and attended U.S. schools. Including bonuses, call center employees can earn almost double the country’s minimum wage income. Guatemala, like many countries that are receiving an unexpected and unprecendented flood of returnees, faces the issue of embedding them productively in the local economy. This is not just to dissuade them from attempting the risky return to El Norte, but also so that they can contribute to a competitive national economy. New initiatives such as Bienvenido a Casa are promising, and English proficiency always comes in handy. Large, cohesive support systems to reintegrate repatriated migrants are still young and untested. The fact is that the returnees—even assuming a humane, constructive immigration reform in the U.S.—will continue to flow back to their home countries, having gained skills sets and resources that should allow them to contribute to their local economies and societies. For now, though, neither the national nor local governments have developed the means to do that. Doing so will be key to seizing the advantage of a new reverse migration reality.

Q: Dynamically display posts by one author AND from one category on the same page? I'm trying to edit my author.php wordpress template so that it shows posts by any one author, but only from one particular category. So far, I've been trying the query_posts function which fetches the category okay, but not the author. Depending on which way I do it, so far the posts either don't display at all or all posts in that category appear regardless of the author. This is the appropriate code which I've seen quoted by a wordpress.org admin, but it doesn't work for me and I can't find any other examples. Any ideas why that doesn't work? Thanks for your help in advance. //Gets author info to display on page and for use in query <?php $curauth = (get_query_var('author_name')) ? get_user_by('slug', get_query_var('author_name')) : get_userdata(get_query_var('author')); ?> //Queries by category and author and starts the loop <?php query_posts('category_name=blog&author=$curauth->ID;'); if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> //HTML for each post <?php endwhile; else: ?> <?php echo "<p>". $curauth->display_name ."hasn't written any articles yet.</p>"; ?> <?php endif; ?> ============ ALSO TRIED ============ <?php new WP_Query( array( 'category_name' => 'blog', 'author' => $curauth->ID ) ); ?> This doesn't work either, however it does filter the posts by author, just not by category! What am I doing wrong? Thanks! A: This task can be done using pre_get_posts filter. By this way it's also possible to filter for author in addition than for category: // functions.php add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'wpcf_filter_author_posts' ); function wpcf_filter_author_posts( $query ){ // We're not on admin panel and this is the main query if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) { // We're displaying an author post lists // Here you can set also a specific author by id or slug if( $query->is_author() ){ // Here only the category ID or IDs from which retrieve the posts $query->set( 'category__in', array ( 2 ) ); } } }

Q: How to evaluate $\int\frac1{t^2}\exp(\int\frac1t\,\mathrm dt)\,\mathrm dt$? I want to evaluate the following integral:$$x(t)=\int\frac1{t^2}\exp\left(\int\frac1t\,\mathrm dt\right)\,\mathrm dt,$$ where $t$ is any value in $\mathbb{R}\backslash\{0\}$. The next step is $$x(t)=\int\frac1{t^2}\exp(\ln|t|)\,\mathrm dt=\int\frac{|t|}{t^2}\,\mathrm dt.$$ I am not sure how to continue from this step. The "correct solution" is $\ln(t)$, but no step is given. I do not see how to arrive at this solution. I am not given any additional information. Can I make some assumption? A: $\mathbb{R^*}=\mathbb{R}\setminus\{0\}$ $f:\mathbb{R^*}\to\mathbb{R}$ such that \begin{align} f(t)=\frac{\exp(\int\frac{1}{t}\ dt)}{t^2}=\frac{\exp(\ln(|t|)+c_0)}{t^2}=&\frac{c_1|t|}{t^2} \ & \mathbb{(c_0, c_1\in R).}\end{align} We will evaluate $\\[2ex]\int{f(t)}\,dt$. Remember: $t^2>0$ for all $t\in\mathbb{R} \setminus \{0\}$. Similarly, we know that $|t|=\sqrt{t^2} > 0$ for all $t\in\mathbb{R} \setminus \{0\}$. From those two characteristics, we will show that $0<\frac{|t|}{t^2}=\frac{1}{|t|}$ for all $t\in\mathbb{R} \setminus \{0\}$: \begin{align} \frac{|t|}{t^2}=\frac{\sqrt{t^2}}{t^2}=\frac{\sqrt{t^2}\times\sqrt{t^2}}{t^2\times\sqrt{t^2}}=\frac{t^2}{t^2\times|t|}=\frac{1}{|t|} \end{align} Note: $\frac{|t|}{t^2}=\frac{1}{t}$ only if we restrict our original domain to $\mathbb{R}_{>0}$, the set of positive real numbers. We will use the fact that for any given $t$ in our domain, $\\[2ex]\frac{t}{|t|},\frac{|t|}{t}\in\{-1,1\}$ and $\frac{t}{|t|}\times\frac{|t|}{t}=1$:\begin{align} \int{f(t)}\,dt= & \int{\frac{c_1|t|}{t^2}}\,dt \\ & =c_1\int{\frac{|t|}{t^2}}\,dt \\ & =c_1\int{\frac{1}{|t|}}\,dt \\ & =c_1 \frac{t}{|t|} \int{\frac{1}{|t|}\frac{|t|}{t}}\,dt \\ & =c_1 \frac{t}{|t|}\int{\frac{1}{t}}\,dt \\ & =c_1 \frac{t}{|t|} (\ln(|t|)+c_2)\end{align} If we assume $c_0=0$, then $c_1=1$ and we arrive at $\frac{t}{|t|}\ln(|t|)+C$.

Including all other things about Ta'Neisha K. Menu Tag Archive | young This year Team KEMP Academy decided to learn Greek with the help of a curriculum created by Karen Mohs of Greek ‘n’ Stuff. For approximately five weeks we have been learning this language via the Hey, Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek! – Level 3 Set which includes the Student Workbook, “Full Text” Answer Key, Flash Cards, and the Pronunciation CD. Going through this language as a family has definitely been fun, interesting, and full of adventure. The Greek language has often been associated with higher education, finer lifestyles, and biblical scholarship so one might find it initially intimidating. At first, I was a bit hesitant in attempting to learn Greek because my only familiarity of the language included a few mythology lessons in high school and several academic organizations in college. Growing up in the south I’ve also heard quite a few preachers break down scripture using Greek which was always a sign that they attended seminary. However, after a quick discussion with the family, Bear had convinced us all that we could handle the language and shouldn’t skip out on the opportunity to truly try something we’re not familiar with. A few weeks in and I’m so glad we all listened to the courageous Kemp. Even though we are newbies at this language, Level 3 is recommended because it starts with a review of the Greek alphabet as well as previously taught vocabulary from Level 1 and Level 2. Hey, Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek! – Level 3 Set is thirty-six lessons which include reviews, plenty of activities to practice reading and writing, and bible copy work. To complete the bible copy work a Greek interlinear version of the New Testament and blank journal/notebook must also be purchased. Bible copy work begins with the book of John and students are encouraged to start copying only one word each session and add more as they progress in the curriculum. This allowed practice of correctly placing accents, punctuation, and breathing marks. The provided schedule of lessons suggests students complete one lesson in the student workbook per day. Our homeschool will continue to complete a lesson daily, Monday through Thursday during the upcoming school year. The Flash Cards were located in the back of the Student Workbook and I just cut them out, affixed them to colored paper, laminated the set, and placed them in Ziploc bag for storage. The process didn’t take long but you can also purchase the Flash Cards on a Ring to avoid having to personalize your family’s set of flash cards. The Pronunciation CD is definitely a MUST HAVE because there were a few words that I have been mispronouncing. If it wasn’t for the CD, I would’ve never known and definitely could have passed my ill-informed Greek to my children. The alphabet song is easy to learn, teach to others, and would be a great way to introduce the language to young children. I even found myself singing it to the preschool class during Vacation Bible School. Overall I thing this will continue to be a good fit the Team KEMP Academy because it introduces the language in small doses and has plenty of repetition. Hey, Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek! – Level 3 Set breaks down the language all while including activities that challenge you to dig a bit deeper and increase knowledge daily. The courageous Kemp, Bear, has enjoyed using these items and never forgets to practice the flash cards everyday. Funny that I have to remind him to clean his room, but he reminds me to practice Greek ‘n’ Stuff. I wonder why…

The British government is attacking a Christian church because it enforces its doctrine. The government’s Charity Commission has ruled that the Plymouth Brethren Church, which does not permit outsiders to receive communion, is not eligible to be called a charity for tax purposes. Apparently, maintaining rules for who may partake in religious rituals is discrimination, and thus makes a church ineligible to be called charitable. The Irish approved an amendment to their national constitution on Saturday that will bring it into compliance with mandates of the United Nations that govern the state’s seizure of children. The margin was 57 percent to 43 percent. British Prime Minister David Cameron has just faced a humiliating defeat in a recent non-binding vote in the House of Commons. Enough members of his own Conservative Party voted against the government — demanding that he deliver substantial reductions in the European Union budget — so that even with the support of his coalition Liberal Party, the vote went against Cameron. In the past two years thousands of teenage girls across the United Kingdom — some as young as 13 — have been given contraceptive injections or implants without their parents’ knowledge or consent, according to National Health Service (NHS) data obtained by the Daily Telegraph. The newspaper obtained the data from NHS trusts (regional healthcare authorities) via Freedom of Information laws.

Flip jump The flip jump (also called the flip) is a figure skating jump. The International Skating Union (ISU) defines a flip jump as "a toe jump that takes off from a back inside edge and lands on the back outside edge of the opposite foot". It is executed with assistance from the toe of the free foot. Writer Ellyn Kestnbaum calls the jump "somewhat trickier than the loop for most skaters. considerably more so than the salchow or toe loop", because of its unstable inside edge and the precision required to align and time the jump's vault from the toepick. As a consequence, quadruple flip jumps are, as ESPN puts it, "rare". Kestnbaum also states that it is crucial that the skater's edge not be too deep, but instead almost forms a straight line. Variations of the flip jump include the half flip and the split flip. The half flip is often used as a simple transitional movement during a step sequence and as a takeoff for other half jumps. A split flip is a single flip jump with a split position at the peak of the skater's position in the air. In competitions, the base value of a single flip is 0.50; the base value of a double flip is 1.80; the base value of a triple flip is 5.50; and the base value of a quadruple flip is 11.00. The origins of the flip jump is unknown, although American professional figure skater Bruce Mapes might have created it. There is also no record of the first male skater to perform the flip. The first female skaters to execute it were Katarina Witt from East Germany and Manuela Ruben from West Germany, at the 1981 European Championships. The first quadruple flip jump was performed by Shoma Uno from Japan, at the 2016 Team Challenge Cup; the first woman to perform a quadruple flip was Alexandra Trusova during 2019–20 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final. References Works cited "ISU Figure Skating Media Guide 2018/19". International Skating Union. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2019. Kestnbaum, Ellyn (2003). Culture on Ice: Figure Skating and Cultural Meaning. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. . Category:Figure skating elements Category:Jumping sports

The Alpha Squad Krog Description: Krog is a member of the alien, Rythian race. He purpose here on Earth is presently unknown. There have been numerous news reports about his involvement in attacks on scientific and military facilities around the world. While various heroes have been able to stop some of these attacks, it appears to still be a mystery as to why they are taking place at all.

Challenges and recommendations for early identification of metastatic disease in prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is often associated with metastases to bone and/or soft tissue. The progression to metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer is a seminal event in disease progression affecting treatment decisions. A multidisciplinary group was convened to review the currently available imaging guidelines for metastatic disease in prostate cancer and found no consensus on eligibility criteria, type of imaging modality, and the frequency of scanning for detecting metastatic disease. The aim of this review was to present the recommendations from the group to identify optimal strategies for early identification of metastases in patients with prostate cancer.

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For instance, namespaces will be presented as packages, qualified # scopes will look different, etc. OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_JAVA = NO # Set the OPTIMIZE_FOR_FORTRAN tag to YES if your project consists of Fortran # sources only. Doxygen will then generate output that is more tailored for # Fortran. OPTIMIZE_FOR_FORTRAN = NO # Set the OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_VHDL tag to YES if your project consists of VHDL # sources. Doxygen will then generate output that is tailored for # VHDL. OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_VHDL = NO # Doxygen selects the parser to use depending on the extension of the files it # parses. With this tag you can assign which parser to use for a given extension. # Doxygen has a built-in mapping, but you can override or extend it using this # tag. The format is ext=language, where ext is a file extension, and language # is one of the parsers supported by doxygen: IDL, Java, Javascript, CSharp, C, # C++, D, PHP, Objective-C, Python, Fortran, VHDL, C, C++. For instance to make # doxygen treat .inc files as Fortran files (default is PHP), and .f files as C # (default is Fortran), use: inc=Fortran f=C. Note that for custom extensions # you also need to set FILE_PATTERNS otherwise the files are not read by doxygen. EXTENSION_MAPPING = # If you use STL classes (i.e. std::string, std::vector, etc.) but do not want # to include (a tag file for) the STL sources as input, then you should # set this tag to YES in order to let doxygen match functions declarations and # definitions whose arguments contain STL classes (e.g. func(std::string); v.s. # func(std::string) {}). This also makes the inheritance and collaboration # diagrams that involve STL classes more complete and accurate. BUILTIN_STL_SUPPORT = NO # If you use Microsoft's C++/CLI language, you should set this option to YES to # enable parsing support. CPP_CLI_SUPPORT = NO # Set the SIP_SUPPORT tag to YES if your project consists of sip sources only. # Doxygen will parse them like normal C++ but will assume all classes use public # instead of private inheritance when no explicit protection keyword is present. SIP_SUPPORT = NO # For Microsoft's IDL there are propget and propput attributes to indicate getter # and setter methods for a property. Setting this option to YES (the default) # will make doxygen replace the get and set methods by a property in the # documentation. This will only work if the methods are indeed getting or # setting a simple type. If this is not the case, or you want to show the # methods anyway, you should set this option to NO. IDL_PROPERTY_SUPPORT = YES # If member grouping is used in the documentation and the DISTRIBUTE_GROUP_DOC # tag is set to YES, then doxygen will reuse the documentation of the first # member in the group (if any) for the other members of the group. By default # all members of a group must be documented explicitly. DISTRIBUTE_GROUP_DOC = NO # Set the SUBGROUPING tag to YES (the default) to allow class member groups of # the same type (for instance a group of public functions) to be put as a # subgroup of that type (e.g. under the Public Functions section). Set it to # NO to prevent subgrouping. Alternatively, this can be done per class using # the \nosubgrouping command. SUBGROUPING = YES # When the INLINE_GROUPED_CLASSES tag is set to YES, classes, structs and # unions are shown inside the group in which they are included (e.g. using # @ingroup) instead of on a separate page (for HTML and Man pages) or # section (for LaTeX and RTF). INLINE_GROUPED_CLASSES = NO # When TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT is enabled, a typedef of a struct, union, or enum # is documented as struct, union, or enum with the name of the typedef. So # typedef struct TypeS {} TypeT, will appear in the documentation as a struct # with name TypeT. When disabled the typedef will appear as a member of a file, # namespace, or class. And the struct will be named TypeS. This can typically # be useful for C code in case the coding convention dictates that all compound # types are typedef'ed and only the typedef is referenced, never the tag name. TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT = NO # The SYMBOL_CACHE_SIZE determines the size of the internal cache use to # determine which symbols to keep in memory and which to flush to disk. # When the cache is full, less often used symbols will be written to disk. # For small to medium size projects (<1000 input files) the default value is # probably good enough. For larger projects a too small cache size can cause # doxygen to be busy swapping symbols to and from disk most of the time # causing a significant performance penalty. # If the system has enough physical memory increasing the cache will improve the # performance by keeping more symbols in memory. Note that the value works on # a logarithmic scale so increasing the size by one will roughly double the # memory usage. The cache size is given by this formula: # 2^(16+SYMBOL_CACHE_SIZE). The valid range is 0..9, the default is 0, # corresponding to a cache size of 2^16 = 65536 symbols SYMBOL_CACHE_SIZE = 0 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Build related configuration options #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the EXTRACT_ALL tag is set to YES doxygen will assume all entities in # documentation are documented, even if no documentation was available. # Private class members and static file members will be hidden unless # the EXTRACT_PRIVATE and EXTRACT_STATIC tags are set to YES EXTRACT_ALL = NO # If the EXTRACT_PRIVATE tag is set to YES all private members of a class # will be included in the documentation. EXTRACT_PRIVATE = NO # If the EXTRACT_STATIC tag is set to YES all static members of a file # will be included in the documentation. EXTRACT_STATIC = YES # If the EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES tag is set to YES classes (and structs) # defined locally in source files will be included in the documentation. # If set to NO only classes defined in header files are included. EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES = YES # This flag is only useful for Objective-C code. When set to YES local # methods, which are defined in the implementation section but not in # the interface are included in the documentation. # If set to NO (the default) only methods in the interface are included. EXTRACT_LOCAL_METHODS = NO # If this flag is set to YES, the members of anonymous namespaces will be # extracted and appear in the documentation as a namespace called # 'anonymous_namespace{file}', where file will be replaced with the base # name of the file that contains the anonymous namespace. By default # anonymous namespaces are hidden. EXTRACT_ANON_NSPACES = NO # If the HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS tag is set to YES, Doxygen will hide all # undocumented members of documented classes, files or namespaces. # If set to NO (the default) these members will be included in the # various overviews, but no documentation section is generated. # This option has no effect if EXTRACT_ALL is enabled. HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS = NO # If the HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES tag is set to YES, Doxygen will hide all # undocumented classes that are normally visible in the class hierarchy. # If set to NO (the default) these classes will be included in the various # overviews. This option has no effect if EXTRACT_ALL is enabled. HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES = NO # If the HIDE_FRIEND_COMPOUNDS tag is set to YES, Doxygen will hide all # friend (class|struct|union) declarations. # If set to NO (the default) these declarations will be included in the # documentation. HIDE_FRIEND_COMPOUNDS = NO # If the HIDE_IN_BODY_DOCS tag is set to YES, Doxygen will hide any # documentation blocks found inside the body of a function. # If set to NO (the default) these blocks will be appended to the # function's detailed documentation block. HIDE_IN_BODY_DOCS = NO # The INTERNAL_DOCS tag determines if documentation # that is typed after a \internal command is included. If the tag is set # to NO (the default) then the documentation will be excluded. # Set it to YES to include the internal documentation. INTERNAL_DOCS = NO # If the CASE_SENSE_NAMES tag is set to NO then Doxygen will only generate # file names in lower-case letters. If set to YES upper-case letters are also # allowed. This is useful if you have classes or files whose names only differ # in case and if your file system supports case sensitive file names. Windows # and Mac users are advised to set this option to NO. CASE_SENSE_NAMES = YES # If the HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES tag is set to NO (the default) then Doxygen # will show members with their full class and namespace scopes in the # documentation. If set to YES the scope will be hidden. HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES = NO # If the SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES tag is set to YES (the default) then Doxygen # will put a list of the files that are included by a file in the documentation # of that file. SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES = YES # If the FORCE_LOCAL_INCLUDES tag is set to YES then Doxygen # will list include files with double quotes in the documentation # rather than with sharp brackets. FORCE_LOCAL_INCLUDES = NO # If the INLINE_INFO tag is set to YES (the default) then a tag [inline] # is inserted in the documentation for inline members. INLINE_INFO = YES # If the SORT_MEMBER_DOCS tag is set to YES (the default) then doxygen # will sort the (detailed) documentation of file and class members # alphabetically by member name. If set to NO the members will appear in # declaration order. SORT_MEMBER_DOCS = YES # If the SORT_BRIEF_DOCS tag is set to YES then doxygen will sort the # brief documentation of file, namespace and class members alphabetically # by member name. If set to NO (the default) the members will appear in # declaration order. SORT_BRIEF_DOCS = NO # If the SORT_MEMBERS_CTORS_1ST tag is set to YES then doxygen # will sort the (brief and detailed) documentation of class members so that # constructors and destructors are listed first. If set to NO (the default) # the constructors will appear in the respective orders defined by # SORT_MEMBER_DOCS and SORT_BRIEF_DOCS. # This tag will be ignored for brief docs if SORT_BRIEF_DOCS is set to NO # and ignored for detailed docs if SORT_MEMBER_DOCS is set to NO. SORT_MEMBERS_CTORS_1ST = NO # If the SORT_GROUP_NAMES tag is set to YES then doxygen will sort the # hierarchy of group names into alphabetical order. If set to NO (the default) # the group names will appear in their defined order. SORT_GROUP_NAMES = NO # If the SORT_BY_SCOPE_NAME tag is set to YES, the class list will be # sorted by fully-qualified names, including namespaces. If set to # NO (the default), the class list will be sorted only by class name, # not including the namespace part. # Note: This option is not very useful if HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES is set to YES. # Note: This option applies only to the class list, not to the # alphabetical list. SORT_BY_SCOPE_NAME = NO # If the STRICT_PROTO_MATCHING option is enabled and doxygen fails to # do proper type resolution of all parameters of a function it will reject a # match between the prototype and the implementation of a member function even # if there is only one candidate or it is obvious which candidate to choose # by doing a simple string match. By disabling STRICT_PROTO_MATCHING doxygen # will still accept a match between prototype and implementation in such cases. STRICT_PROTO_MATCHING = NO # The GENERATE_TODOLIST tag can be used to enable (YES) or # disable (NO) the todo list. This list is created by putting \todo # commands in the documentation. GENERATE_TODOLIST = YES # The GENERATE_TESTLIST tag can be used to enable (YES) or # disable (NO) the test list. This list is created by putting \test # commands in the documentation. GENERATE_TESTLIST = YES # The GENERATE_BUGLIST tag can be used to enable (YES) or # disable (NO) the bug list. This list is created by putting \bug # commands in the documentation. GENERATE_BUGLIST = YES # The GENERATE_DEPRECATEDLIST tag can be used to enable (YES) or # disable (NO) the deprecated list. This list is created by putting # \deprecated commands in the documentation. GENERATE_DEPRECATEDLIST= YES # The ENABLED_SECTIONS tag can be used to enable conditional # documentation sections, marked by \if sectionname ... \endif. ENABLED_SECTIONS = # The MAX_INITIALIZER_LINES tag determines the maximum number of lines # the initial value of a variable or macro consists of for it to appear in # the documentation. If the initializer consists of more lines than specified # here it will be hidden. Use a value of 0 to hide initializers completely. # The appearance of the initializer of individual variables and macros in the # documentation can be controlled using \showinitializer or \hideinitializer # command in the documentation regardless of this setting. MAX_INITIALIZER_LINES = 30 # Set the SHOW_USED_FILES tag to NO to disable the list of files generated # at the bottom of the documentation of classes and structs. If set to YES the # list will mention the files that were used to generate the documentation. SHOW_USED_FILES = YES # If the sources in your project are distributed over multiple directories # then setting the SHOW_DIRECTORIES tag to YES will show the directory hierarchy # in the documentation. The default is NO. SHOW_DIRECTORIES = NO # Set the SHOW_FILES tag to NO to disable the generation of the Files page. # This will remove the Files entry from the Quick Index and from the # Folder Tree View (if specified). The default is YES. SHOW_FILES = YES # Set the SHOW_NAMESPACES tag to NO to disable the generation of the # Namespaces page. # This will remove the Namespaces entry from the Quick Index # and from the Folder Tree View (if specified). The default is YES. SHOW_NAMESPACES = YES # The FILE_VERSION_FILTER tag can be used to specify a program or script that # doxygen should invoke to get the current version for each file (typically from # the version control system). Doxygen will invoke the program by executing (via # popen()) the command <command> <input-file>, where <command> is the value of # the FILE_VERSION_FILTER tag, and <input-file> is the name of an input file # provided by doxygen. Whatever the program writes to standard output # is used as the file version. See the manual for examples. FILE_VERSION_FILTER = # The LAYOUT_FILE tag can be used to specify a layout file which will be parsed # by doxygen. The layout file controls the global structure of the generated # output files in an output format independent way. The create the layout file # that represents doxygen's defaults, run doxygen with the -l option. # You can optionally specify a file name after the option, if omitted # DoxygenLayout.xml will be used as the name of the layout file. LAYOUT_FILE = #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to warning and progress messages #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The QUIET tag can be used to turn on/off the messages that are generated # by doxygen. Possible values are YES and NO. If left blank NO is used. QUIET = NO # The WARNINGS tag can be used to turn on/off the warning messages that are # generated by doxygen. Possible values are YES and NO. If left blank # NO is used. WARNINGS = YES # If WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED is set to YES, then doxygen will generate warnings # for undocumented members. If EXTRACT_ALL is set to YES then this flag will # automatically be disabled. WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED = YES # If WARN_IF_DOC_ERROR is set to YES, doxygen will generate warnings for # potential errors in the documentation, such as not documenting some # parameters in a documented function, or documenting parameters that # don't exist or using markup commands wrongly. WARN_IF_DOC_ERROR = YES # The WARN_NO_PARAMDOC option can be enabled to get warnings for # functions that are documented, but have no documentation for their parameters # or return value. If set to NO (the default) doxygen will only warn about # wrong or incomplete parameter documentation, but not about the absence of # documentation. WARN_NO_PARAMDOC = NO # The WARN_FORMAT tag determines the format of the warning messages that # doxygen can produce. The string should contain the $file, $line, and $text # tags, which will be replaced by the file and line number from which the # warning originated and the warning text. Optionally the format may contain # $version, which will be replaced by the version of the file (if it could # be obtained via FILE_VERSION_FILTER) WARN_FORMAT = "$file:$line: $text" # The WARN_LOGFILE tag can be used to specify a file to which warning # and error messages should be written. If left blank the output is written # to stderr. WARN_LOGFILE = #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to the input files #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The INPUT tag can be used to specify the files and/or directories that contain # documented source files. You may enter file names like "myfile.cpp" or # directories like "/usr/src/myproject". Separate the files or directories # with spaces. INPUT = include/osmocom/gsm include/osmocom/gsm/protocol src/gsm # This tag can be used to specify the character encoding of the source files # that doxygen parses. Internally doxygen uses the UTF-8 encoding, which is # also the default input encoding. Doxygen uses libiconv (or the iconv built # into libc) for the transcoding. See http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv for # the list of possible encodings. INPUT_ENCODING = UTF-8 # If the value of the INPUT tag contains directories, you can use the # FILE_PATTERNS tag to specify one or more wildcard pattern (like *.cpp # and *.h) to filter out the source-files in the directories. If left # blank the following patterns are tested: # *.c *.cc *.cxx *.cpp *.c++ *.d *.java *.ii *.ixx *.ipp *.i++ *.inl *.h *.hh # *.hxx *.hpp *.h++ *.idl *.odl *.cs *.php *.php3 *.inc *.m *.mm *.dox *.py # *.f90 *.f *.for *.vhd *.vhdl FILE_PATTERNS = # The RECURSIVE tag can be used to turn specify whether or not subdirectories # should be searched for input files as well. Possible values are YES and NO. # If left blank NO is used. RECURSIVE = YES # The EXCLUDE tag can be used to specify files and/or directories that should # excluded from the INPUT source files. This way you can easily exclude a # subdirectory from a directory tree whose root is specified with the INPUT tag. EXCLUDE = # The EXCLUDE_SYMLINKS tag can be used select whether or not files or # directories that are symbolic links (a Unix file system feature) are excluded # from the input. EXCLUDE_SYMLINKS = NO # If the value of the INPUT tag contains directories, you can use the # EXCLUDE_PATTERNS tag to specify one or more wildcard patterns to exclude # certain files from those directories. Note that the wildcards are matched # against the file with absolute path, so to exclude all test directories # for example use the pattern */test/* EXCLUDE_PATTERNS = # The EXCLUDE_SYMBOLS tag can be used to specify one or more symbol names # (namespaces, classes, functions, etc.) that should be excluded from the # output. The symbol name can be a fully qualified name, a word, or if the # wildcard * is used, a substring. Examples: ANamespace, AClass, # AClass::ANamespace, ANamespace::*Test EXCLUDE_SYMBOLS = # The EXAMPLE_PATH tag can be used to specify one or more files or # directories that contain example code fragments that are included (see # the \include command). EXAMPLE_PATH = # If the value of the EXAMPLE_PATH tag contains directories, you can use the # EXAMPLE_PATTERNS tag to specify one or more wildcard pattern (like *.cpp # and *.h) to filter out the source-files in the directories. If left # blank all files are included. EXAMPLE_PATTERNS = # If the EXAMPLE_RECURSIVE tag is set to YES then subdirectories will be # searched for input files to be used with the \include or \dontinclude # commands irrespective of the value of the RECURSIVE tag. # Possible values are YES and NO. If left blank NO is used. EXAMPLE_RECURSIVE = NO # The IMAGE_PATH tag can be used to specify one or more files or # directories that contain image that are included in the documentation (see # the \image command). IMAGE_PATH = images/ # The INPUT_FILTER tag can be used to specify a program that doxygen should # invoke to filter for each input file. Doxygen will invoke the filter program # by executing (via popen()) the command <filter> <input-file>, where <filter> # is the value of the INPUT_FILTER tag, and <input-file> is the name of an # input file. Doxygen will then use the output that the filter program writes # to standard output. # If FILTER_PATTERNS is specified, this tag will be # ignored. INPUT_FILTER = # The FILTER_PATTERNS tag can be used to specify filters on a per file pattern # basis. # Doxygen will compare the file name with each pattern and apply the # filter if there is a match. # The filters are a list of the form: # pattern=filter (like *.cpp=my_cpp_filter). See INPUT_FILTER for further # info on how filters are used. If FILTER_PATTERNS is empty or if # non of the patterns match the file name, INPUT_FILTER is applied. FILTER_PATTERNS = # If the FILTER_SOURCE_FILES tag is set to YES, the input filter (if set using # INPUT_FILTER) will be used to filter the input files when producing source # files to browse (i.e. when SOURCE_BROWSER is set to YES). FILTER_SOURCE_FILES = NO # The FILTER_SOURCE_PATTERNS tag can be used to specify source filters per file # pattern. A pattern will override the setting for FILTER_PATTERN (if any) # and it is also possible to disable source filtering for a specific pattern # using *.ext= (so without naming a filter). This option only has effect when # FILTER_SOURCE_FILES is enabled. FILTER_SOURCE_PATTERNS = #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to source browsing #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the SOURCE_BROWSER tag is set to YES then a list of source files will # be generated. Documented entities will be cross-referenced with these sources. # Note: To get rid of all source code in the generated output, make sure also # VERBATIM_HEADERS is set to NO. SOURCE_BROWSER = NO # Setting the INLINE_SOURCES tag to YES will include the body # of functions and classes directly in the documentation. INLINE_SOURCES = NO # Setting the STRIP_CODE_COMMENTS tag to YES (the default) will instruct # doxygen to hide any special comment blocks from generated source code # fragments. Normal C and C++ comments will always remain visible. STRIP_CODE_COMMENTS = YES # If the REFERENCED_BY_RELATION tag is set to YES # then for each documented function all documented # functions referencing it will be listed. REFERENCED_BY_RELATION = YES # If the REFERENCES_RELATION tag is set to YES # then for each documented function all documented entities # called/used by that function will be listed. REFERENCES_RELATION = YES # If the REFERENCES_LINK_SOURCE tag is set to YES (the default) # and SOURCE_BROWSER tag is set to YES, then the hyperlinks from # functions in REFERENCES_RELATION and REFERENCED_BY_RELATION lists will # link to the source code. # Otherwise they will link to the documentation. REFERENCES_LINK_SOURCE = YES # If the USE_HTAGS tag is set to YES then the references to source code # will point to the HTML generated by the htags(1) tool instead of doxygen # built-in source browser. The htags tool is part of GNU's global source # tagging system (see http://www.gnu.org/software/global/global.html). You # will need version 4.8.6 or higher. USE_HTAGS = NO # If the VERBATIM_HEADERS tag is set to YES (the default) then Doxygen # will generate a verbatim copy of the header file for each class for # which an include is specified. Set to NO to disable this. VERBATIM_HEADERS = YES #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to the alphabetical class index #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the ALPHABETICAL_INDEX tag is set to YES, an alphabetical index # of all compounds will be generated. Enable this if the project # contains a lot of classes, structs, unions or interfaces. ALPHABETICAL_INDEX = NO # If the alphabetical index is enabled (see ALPHABETICAL_INDEX) then # the COLS_IN_ALPHA_INDEX tag can be used to specify the number of columns # in which this list will be split (can be a number in the range [1..20]) COLS_IN_ALPHA_INDEX = 5 # In case all classes in a project start with a common prefix, all # classes will be put under the same header in the alphabetical index. # The IGNORE_PREFIX tag can be used to specify one or more prefixes that # should be ignored while generating the index headers. IGNORE_PREFIX = #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to the HTML output #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the GENERATE_HTML tag is set to YES (the default) Doxygen will # generate HTML output. GENERATE_HTML = YES # The HTML_OUTPUT tag is used to specify where the HTML docs will be put. # If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY will be # put in front of it. If left blank `html' will be used as the default path. HTML_OUTPUT = html # The HTML_FILE_EXTENSION tag can be used to specify the file extension for # each generated HTML page (for example: .htm,.php,.asp). If it is left blank # doxygen will generate files with .html extension. HTML_FILE_EXTENSION = .html # The HTML_HEADER tag can be used to specify a personal HTML header for # each generated HTML page. If it is left blank doxygen will generate a # standard header. Note that when using a custom header you are responsible # for the proper inclusion of any scripts and style sheets that doxygen # needs, which is dependent on the configuration options used. # It is adviced to generate a default header using "doxygen -w html # header.html footer.html stylesheet.css YourConfigFile" and then modify # that header. Note that the header is subject to change so you typically # have to redo this when upgrading to a newer version of doxygen or when changing the value of configuration settings such as GENERATE_TREEVIEW! HTML_HEADER = # The HTML_FOOTER tag can be used to specify a personal HTML footer for # each generated HTML page. If it is left blank doxygen will generate a # standard footer. HTML_FOOTER = # The HTML_STYLESHEET tag can be used to specify a user-defined cascading # style sheet that is used by each HTML page. It can be used to # fine-tune the look of the HTML output. If the tag is left blank doxygen # will generate a default style sheet. Note that doxygen will try to copy # the style sheet file to the HTML output directory, so don't put your own # stylesheet in the HTML output directory as well, or it will be erased! HTML_STYLESHEET = # The HTML_EXTRA_FILES tag can be used to specify one or more extra images or # other source files which should be copied to the HTML output directory. Note # that these files will be copied to the base HTML output directory. Use the # $relpath$ marker in the HTML_HEADER and/or HTML_FOOTER files to load these # files. In the HTML_STYLESHEET file, use the file name only. Also note that # the files will be copied as-is; there are no commands or markers available. HTML_EXTRA_FILES = # The HTML_COLORSTYLE_HUE tag controls the color of the HTML output. # Doxygen will adjust the colors in the stylesheet and background images # according to this color. Hue is specified as an angle on a colorwheel, # see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue for more information. # For instance the value 0 represents red, 60 is yellow, 120 is green, # 180 is cyan, 240 is blue, 300 purple, and 360 is red again. # The allowed range is 0 to 359. HTML_COLORSTYLE_HUE = 220 # The HTML_COLORSTYLE_SAT tag controls the purity (or saturation) of # the colors in the HTML output. For a value of 0 the output will use # grayscales only. A value of 255 will produce the most vivid colors. HTML_COLORSTYLE_SAT = 100 # The HTML_COLORSTYLE_GAMMA tag controls the gamma correction applied to # the luminance component of the colors in the HTML output. Values below # 100 gradually make the output lighter, whereas values above 100 make # the output darker. The value divided by 100 is the actual gamma applied, # so 80 represents a gamma of 0.8, The value 220 represents a gamma of 2.2, # and 100 does not change the gamma. HTML_COLORSTYLE_GAMMA = 80 # If the HTML_TIMESTAMP tag is set to YES then the footer of each generated HTML # page will contain the date and time when the page was generated. Setting # this to NO can help when comparing the output of multiple runs. HTML_TIMESTAMP = YES # If the HTML_ALIGN_MEMBERS tag is set to YES, the members of classes, # files or namespaces will be aligned in HTML using tables. If set to # NO a bullet list will be used. HTML_ALIGN_MEMBERS = YES # If the HTML_DYNAMIC_SECTIONS tag is set to YES then the generated HTML # documentation will contain sections that can be hidden and shown after the # page has loaded. For this to work a browser that supports # JavaScript and DHTML is required (for instance Mozilla 1.0+, Firefox # Netscape 6.0+, Internet explorer 5.0+, Konqueror, or Safari). HTML_DYNAMIC_SECTIONS = NO # If the GENERATE_DOCSET tag is set to YES, additional index files # will be generated that can be used as input for Apple's Xcode 3 # integrated development environment, introduced with OSX 10.5 (Leopard). # To create a documentation set, doxygen will generate a Makefile in the # HTML output directory. Running make will produce the docset in that # directory and running "make install" will install the docset in # ~/Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets so that Xcode will find # it at startup. # See http://developer.apple.com/tools/creatingdocsetswithdoxygen.html # for more information. GENERATE_DOCSET = NO # When GENERATE_DOCSET tag is set to YES, this tag determines the name of the # feed. A documentation feed provides an umbrella under which multiple # documentation sets from a single provider (such as a company or product suite) # can be grouped. DOCSET_FEEDNAME = "Doxygen generated docs" # When GENERATE_DOCSET tag is set to YES, this tag specifies a string that # should uniquely identify the documentation set bundle. This should be a # reverse domain-name style string, e.g. com.mycompany.MyDocSet. Doxygen # will append .docset to the name. DOCSET_BUNDLE_ID = org.doxygen.Project # When GENERATE_PUBLISHER_ID tag specifies a string that should uniquely identify # the documentation publisher. This should be a reverse domain-name style # string, e.g. com.mycompany.MyDocSet.documentation. DOCSET_PUBLISHER_ID = org.doxygen.Publisher # The GENERATE_PUBLISHER_NAME tag identifies the documentation publisher. DOCSET_PUBLISHER_NAME = Publisher # If the GENERATE_HTMLHELP tag is set to YES, additional index files # will be generated that can be used as input for tools like the # Microsoft HTML help workshop to generate a compiled HTML help file (.chm) # of the generated HTML documentation. GENERATE_HTMLHELP = NO # If the GENERATE_HTMLHELP tag is set to YES, the CHM_FILE tag can # be used to specify the file name of the resulting .chm file. You # can add a path in front of the file if the result should not be # written to the html output directory. CHM_FILE = # If the GENERATE_HTMLHELP tag is set to YES, the HHC_LOCATION tag can # be used to specify the location (absolute path including file name) of # the HTML help compiler (hhc.exe). If non-empty doxygen will try to run # the HTML help compiler on the generated index.hhp. HHC_LOCATION = # If the GENERATE_HTMLHELP tag is set to YES, the GENERATE_CHI flag # controls if a separate .chi index file is generated (YES) or that # it should be included in the master .chm file (NO). GENERATE_CHI = NO # If the GENERATE_HTMLHELP tag is set to YES, the CHM_INDEX_ENCODING # is used to encode HtmlHelp index (hhk), content (hhc) and project file # content. CHM_INDEX_ENCODING = # If the GENERATE_HTMLHELP tag is set to YES, the BINARY_TOC flag # controls whether a binary table of contents is generated (YES) or a # normal table of contents (NO) in the .chm file. BINARY_TOC = NO # The TOC_EXPAND flag can be set to YES to add extra items for group members # to the contents of the HTML help documentation and to the tree view. TOC_EXPAND = NO # If the GENERATE_QHP tag is set to YES and both QHP_NAMESPACE and # QHP_VIRTUAL_FOLDER are set, an additional index file will be generated # that can be used as input for Qt's qhelpgenerator to generate a # Qt Compressed Help (.qch) of the generated HTML documentation. GENERATE_QHP = NO # If the QHG_LOCATION tag is specified, the QCH_FILE tag can # be used to specify the file name of the resulting .qch file. # The path specified is relative to the HTML output folder. QCH_FILE = # The QHP_NAMESPACE tag specifies the namespace to use when generating # Qt Help Project output. For more information please see # http://doc.trolltech.com/qthelpproject.html#namespace QHP_NAMESPACE = org.doxygen.Project # The QHP_VIRTUAL_FOLDER tag specifies the namespace to use when generating # Qt Help Project output. For more information please see # http://doc.trolltech.com/qthelpproject.html#virtual-folders QHP_VIRTUAL_FOLDER = doc # If QHP_CUST_FILTER_NAME is set, it specifies the name of a custom filter to # add. For more information please see # http://doc.trolltech.com/qthelpproject.html#custom-filters QHP_CUST_FILTER_NAME = # The QHP_CUST_FILT_ATTRS tag specifies the list of the attributes of the # custom filter to add. For more information please see # <a href="http://doc.trolltech.com/qthelpproject.html#custom-filters"> # Qt Help Project / Custom Filters</a>. QHP_CUST_FILTER_ATTRS = # The QHP_SECT_FILTER_ATTRS tag specifies the list of the attributes this # project's # filter section matches. # <a href="http://doc.trolltech.com/qthelpproject.html#filter-attributes"> # Qt Help Project / Filter Attributes</a>. QHP_SECT_FILTER_ATTRS = # If the GENERATE_QHP tag is set to YES, the QHG_LOCATION tag can # be used to specify the location of Qt's qhelpgenerator. # If non-empty doxygen will try to run qhelpgenerator on the generated # .qhp file. QHG_LOCATION = # If the GENERATE_ECLIPSEHELP tag is set to YES, additional index files # will be generated, which together with the HTML files, form an Eclipse help # plugin. To install this plugin and make it available under the help contents # menu in Eclipse, the contents of the directory containing the HTML and XML # files needs to be copied into the plugins directory of eclipse. The name of # the directory within the plugins directory should be the same as # the ECLIPSE_DOC_ID value. After copying Eclipse needs to be restarted before # the help appears. GENERATE_ECLIPSEHELP = NO # A unique identifier for the eclipse help plugin. When installing the plugin # the directory name containing the HTML and XML files should also have # this name. ECLIPSE_DOC_ID = org.doxygen.Project # The DISABLE_INDEX tag can be used to turn on/off the condensed index at # top of each HTML page. The value NO (the default) enables the index and # the value YES disables it. DISABLE_INDEX = NO # The ENUM_VALUES_PER_LINE tag can be used to set the number of enum values # (range [0,1..20]) that doxygen will group on one line in the generated HTML # documentation. Note that a value of 0 will completely suppress the enum # values from appearing in the overview section. ENUM_VALUES_PER_LINE = 4 # The GENERATE_TREEVIEW tag is used to specify whether a tree-like index # structure should be generated to display hierarchical information. # If the tag value is set to YES, a side panel will be generated # containing a tree-like index structure (just like the one that # is generated for HTML Help). For this to work a browser that supports # JavaScript, DHTML, CSS and frames is required (i.e. any modern browser). # Windows users are probably better off using the HTML help feature. GENERATE_TREEVIEW = YES # By enabling USE_INLINE_TREES, doxygen will generate the Groups, Directories, # and Class Hierarchy pages using a tree view instead of an ordered list. USE_INLINE_TREES = NO # If the treeview is enabled (see GENERATE_TREEVIEW) then this tag can be # used to set the initial width (in pixels) of the frame in which the tree # is shown. TREEVIEW_WIDTH = 250 # When the EXT_LINKS_IN_WINDOW option is set to YES doxygen will open # links to external symbols imported via tag files in a separate window. EXT_LINKS_IN_WINDOW = NO # Use this tag to change the font size of Latex formulas included # as images in the HTML documentation. The default is 10. Note that # when you change the font size after a successful doxygen run you need # to manually remove any form_*.png images from the HTML output directory # to force them to be regenerated. FORMULA_FONTSIZE = 10 # Use the FORMULA_TRANPARENT tag to determine whether or not the images # generated for formulas are transparent PNGs. Transparent PNGs are # not supported properly for IE 6.0, but are supported on all modern browsers. # Note that when changing this option you need to delete any form_*.png files # in the HTML output before the changes have effect. FORMULA_TRANSPARENT = YES # Enable the USE_MATHJAX option to render LaTeX formulas using MathJax # (see http://www.mathjax.org) which uses client side Javascript for the # rendering instead of using prerendered bitmaps. Use this if you do not # have LaTeX installed or if you want to formulas look prettier in the HTML # output. When enabled you also need to install MathJax separately and # configure the path to it using the MATHJAX_RELPATH option. USE_MATHJAX = NO # When MathJax is enabled you need to specify the location relative to the # HTML output directory using the MATHJAX_RELPATH option. The destination # directory should contain the MathJax.js script. For instance, if the mathjax # directory is located at the same level as the HTML output directory, then # MATHJAX_RELPATH should be ../mathjax. The default value points to the # mathjax.org site, so you can quickly see the result without installing # MathJax, but it is strongly recommended to install a local copy of MathJax # before deployment. MATHJAX_RELPATH = http://www.mathjax.org/mathjax # When the SEARCHENGINE tag is enabled doxygen will generate a search box # for the HTML output. The underlying search engine uses javascript # and DHTML and should work on any modern browser. Note that when using # HTML help (GENERATE_HTMLHELP), Qt help (GENERATE_QHP), or docsets # (GENERATE_DOCSET) there is already a search function so this one should # typically be disabled. For large projects the javascript based search engine # can be slow, then enabling SERVER_BASED_SEARCH may provide a better solution. SEARCHENGINE = NO # When the SERVER_BASED_SEARCH tag is enabled the search engine will be # implemented using a PHP enabled web server instead of at the web client # using Javascript. Doxygen will generate the search PHP script and index # file to put on the web server. The advantage of the server # based approach is that it scales better to large projects and allows # full text search. The disadvantages are that it is more difficult to setup # and does not have live searching capabilities. SERVER_BASED_SEARCH = NO #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to the LaTeX output #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the GENERATE_LATEX tag is set to YES (the default) Doxygen will # generate Latex output. GENERATE_LATEX = YES # The LATEX_OUTPUT tag is used to specify where the LaTeX docs will be put. # If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY will be # put in front of it. If left blank `latex' will be used as the default path. LATEX_OUTPUT = latex # The LATEX_CMD_NAME tag can be used to specify the LaTeX command name to be # invoked. If left blank `latex' will be used as the default command name. # Note that when enabling USE_PDFLATEX this option is only used for # generating bitmaps for formulas in the HTML output, but not in the # Makefile that is written to the output directory. LATEX_CMD_NAME = latex # The MAKEINDEX_CMD_NAME tag can be used to specify the command name to # generate index for LaTeX. If left blank `makeindex' will be used as the # default command name. MAKEINDEX_CMD_NAME = makeindex # If the COMPACT_LATEX tag is set to YES Doxygen generates more compact # LaTeX documents. This may be useful for small projects and may help to # save some trees in general. COMPACT_LATEX = NO # The PAPER_TYPE tag can be used to set the paper type that is used # by the printer. Possible values are: a4, letter, legal and # executive. If left blank a4wide will be used. PAPER_TYPE = a4wide # The EXTRA_PACKAGES tag can be to specify one or more names of LaTeX # packages that should be included in the LaTeX output. EXTRA_PACKAGES = # The LATEX_HEADER tag can be used to specify a personal LaTeX header for # the generated latex document. The header should contain everything until # the first chapter. If it is left blank doxygen will generate a # standard header. Notice: only use this tag if you know what you are doing! LATEX_HEADER = # The LATEX_FOOTER tag can be used to specify a personal LaTeX footer for # the generated latex document. The footer should contain everything after # the last chapter. If it is left blank doxygen will generate a # standard footer. Notice: only use this tag if you know what you are doing! LATEX_FOOTER = # If the PDF_HYPERLINKS tag is set to YES, the LaTeX that is generated # is prepared for conversion to pdf (using ps2pdf). The pdf file will # contain links (just like the HTML output) instead of page references # This makes the output suitable for online browsing using a pdf viewer. PDF_HYPERLINKS = NO # If the USE_PDFLATEX tag is set to YES, pdflatex will be used instead of # plain latex in the generated Makefile. Set this option to YES to get a # higher quality PDF documentation. USE_PDFLATEX = NO # If the LATEX_BATCHMODE tag is set to YES, doxygen will add the \\batchmode. # command to the generated LaTeX files. This will instruct LaTeX to keep # running if errors occur, instead of asking the user for help. # This option is also used when generating formulas in HTML. LATEX_BATCHMODE = NO # If LATEX_HIDE_INDICES is set to YES then doxygen will not # include the index chapters (such as File Index, Compound Index, etc.) # in the output. LATEX_HIDE_INDICES = NO # If LATEX_SOURCE_CODE is set to YES then doxygen will include # source code with syntax highlighting in the LaTeX output. # Note that which sources are shown also depends on other settings # such as SOURCE_BROWSER. LATEX_SOURCE_CODE = NO #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to the RTF output #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the GENERATE_RTF tag is set to YES Doxygen will generate RTF output # The RTF output is optimized for Word 97 and may not look very pretty with # other RTF readers or editors. GENERATE_RTF = NO # The RTF_OUTPUT tag is used to specify where the RTF docs will be put. # If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY will be # put in front of it. If left blank `rtf' will be used as the default path. RTF_OUTPUT = rtf # If the COMPACT_RTF tag is set to YES Doxygen generates more compact # RTF documents. This may be useful for small projects and may help to # save some trees in general. COMPACT_RTF = NO # If the RTF_HYPERLINKS tag is set to YES, the RTF that is generated # will contain hyperlink fields. The RTF file will # contain links (just like the HTML output) instead of page references. # This makes the output suitable for online browsing using WORD or other # programs which support those fields. # Note: wordpad (write) and others do not support links. RTF_HYPERLINKS = NO # Load stylesheet definitions from file. Syntax is similar to doxygen's # config file, i.e. a series of assignments. You only have to provide # replacements, missing definitions are set to their default value. RTF_STYLESHEET_FILE = # Set optional variables used in the generation of an rtf document. # Syntax is similar to doxygen's config file. RTF_EXTENSIONS_FILE = #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to the man page output #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the GENERATE_MAN tag is set to YES (the default) Doxygen will # generate man pages GENERATE_MAN = NO # The MAN_OUTPUT tag is used to specify where the man pages will be put. # If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY will be # put in front of it. If left blank `man' will be used as the default path. MAN_OUTPUT = man # The MAN_EXTENSION tag determines the extension that is added to # the generated man pages (default is the subroutine's section .3) MAN_EXTENSION = .3 # If the MAN_LINKS tag is set to YES and Doxygen generates man output, # then it will generate one additional man file for each entity # documented in the real man page(s). These additional files # only source the real man page, but without them the man command # would be unable to find the correct page. The default is NO. MAN_LINKS = NO #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to the XML output #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the GENERATE_XML tag is set to YES Doxygen will # generate an XML file that captures the structure of # the code including all documentation. GENERATE_XML = NO # The XML_OUTPUT tag is used to specify where the XML pages will be put. # If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY will be # put in front of it. If left blank `xml' will be used as the default path. XML_OUTPUT = xml # The XML_SCHEMA tag can be used to specify an XML schema, # which can be used by a validating XML parser to check the # syntax of the XML files. XML_SCHEMA = # The XML_DTD tag can be used to specify an XML DTD, # which can be used by a validating XML parser to check the # syntax of the XML files. XML_DTD = # If the XML_PROGRAMLISTING tag is set to YES Doxygen will # dump the program listings (including syntax highlighting # and cross-referencing information) to the XML output. Note that # enabling this will significantly increase the size of the XML output. XML_PROGRAMLISTING = YES #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options for the AutoGen Definitions output #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the GENERATE_AUTOGEN_DEF tag is set to YES Doxygen will # generate an AutoGen Definitions (see autogen.sf.net) file # that captures the structure of the code including all # documentation. Note that this feature is still experimental # and incomplete at the moment. GENERATE_AUTOGEN_DEF = NO #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration options related to the Perl module output #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the GENERATE_PERLMOD tag is set to YES Doxygen will # generate a Perl module file that captures the structure of # the code including all documentation. Note that this # feature is still experimental and incomplete at the # moment. GENERATE_PERLMOD = NO # If the PERLMOD_LATEX tag is set to YES Doxygen will generate # the necessary Makefile rules, Perl scripts and LaTeX code to be able # to generate PDF and DVI output from the Perl module output. PERLMOD_LATEX = NO # If the PERLMOD_PRETTY tag is set to YES the Perl module output will be # nicely formatted so it can be parsed by a human reader. # This is useful # if you want to understand what is going on. # On the other hand, if this # tag is set to NO the size of the Perl module output will be much smaller # and Perl will parse it just the same. PERLMOD_PRETTY = YES # The names of the make variables in the generated doxyrules.make file # are prefixed with the string contained in PERLMOD_MAKEVAR_PREFIX. # This is useful so different doxyrules.make files included by the same # Makefile don't overwrite each other's variables. PERLMOD_MAKEVAR_PREFIX = #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Configuration options related to the preprocessor #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the ENABLE_PREPROCESSING tag is set to YES (the default) Doxygen will # evaluate all C-preprocessor directives found in the sources and include # files. ENABLE_PREPROCESSING = NO # If the MACRO_EXPANSION tag is set to YES Doxygen will expand all macro # names in the source code. If set to NO (the default) only conditional # compilation will be performed. Macro expansion can be done in a controlled # way by setting EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF to YES. MACRO_EXPANSION = NO # If the EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF and MACRO_EXPANSION tags are both set to YES # then the macro expansion is limited to the macros specified with the # PREDEFINED and EXPAND_AS_DEFINED tags. EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF = NO # If the SEARCH_INCLUDES tag is set to YES (the default) the includes files # pointed to by INCLUDE_PATH will be searched when a #include is found. SEARCH_INCLUDES = YES # The INCLUDE_PATH tag can be used to specify one or more directories that # contain include files that are not input files but should be processed by # the preprocessor. INCLUDE_PATH = # You can use the INCLUDE_FILE_PATTERNS tag to specify one or more wildcard # patterns (like *.h and *.hpp) to filter out the header-files in the # directories. If left blank, the patterns specified with FILE_PATTERNS will # be used. INCLUDE_FILE_PATTERNS = # The PREDEFINED tag can be used to specify one or more macro names that # are defined before the preprocessor is started (similar to the -D option of # gcc). The argument of the tag is a list of macros of the form: name # or name=definition (no spaces). If the definition and the = are # omitted =1 is assumed. To prevent a macro definition from being # undefined via #undef or recursively expanded use the := operator # instead of the = operator. PREDEFINED = # If the MACRO_EXPANSION and EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF tags are set to YES then # this tag can be used to specify a list of macro names that should be expanded. # The macro definition that is found in the sources will be used. # Use the PREDEFINED tag if you want to use a different macro definition that # overrules the definition found in the source code. EXPAND_AS_DEFINED = # If the SKIP_FUNCTION_MACROS tag is set to YES (the default) then # doxygen's preprocessor will remove all references to function-like macros # that are alone on a line, have an all uppercase name, and do not end with a # semicolon, because these will confuse the parser if not removed. SKIP_FUNCTION_MACROS = YES #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Configuration::additions related to external references #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The TAGFILES option can be used to specify one or more tagfiles. # Optionally an initial location of the external documentation # can be added for each tagfile. The format of a tag file without # this location is as follows: # # TAGFILES = file1 file2 ... # Adding location for the tag files is done as follows: # # TAGFILES = file1=loc1 "file2 = loc2" ... # where "loc1" and "loc2" can be relative or absolute paths or # URLs. If a location is present for each tag, the installdox tool # does not have to be run to correct the links. # Note that each tag file must have a unique name # (where the name does NOT include the path) # If a tag file is not located in the directory in which doxygen # is run, you must also specify the path to the tagfile here. TAGFILES = # When a file name is specified after GENERATE_TAGFILE, doxygen will create # a tag file that is based on the input files it reads. GENERATE_TAGFILE = # If the ALLEXTERNALS tag is set to YES all external classes will be listed # in the class index. If set to NO only the inherited external classes # will be listed. ALLEXTERNALS = NO # If the EXTERNAL_GROUPS tag is set to YES all external groups will be listed # in the modules index. If set to NO, only the current project's groups will # be listed. EXTERNAL_GROUPS = YES # The PERL_PATH should be the absolute path and name of the perl script # interpreter (i.e. the result of `which perl'). PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Configuration options related to the dot tool #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # If the CLASS_DIAGRAMS tag is set to YES (the default) Doxygen will # generate a inheritance diagram (in HTML, RTF and LaTeX) for classes with base # or super classes. Setting the tag to NO turns the diagrams off. Note that # this option also works with HAVE_DOT disabled, but it is recommended to # install and use dot, since it yields more powerful graphs. CLASS_DIAGRAMS = YES # You can define message sequence charts within doxygen comments using the \msc # command. Doxygen will then run the mscgen tool (see # http://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/) to produce the chart and insert it in the # documentation. The MSCGEN_PATH tag allows you to specify the directory where # the mscgen tool resides. If left empty the tool is assumed to be found in the # default search path. MSCGEN_PATH = # If set to YES, the inheritance and collaboration graphs will hide # inheritance and usage relations if the target is undocumented # or is not a class. HIDE_UNDOC_RELATIONS = YES # If you set the HAVE_DOT tag to YES then doxygen will assume the dot tool is # available from the path. This tool is part of Graphviz, a graph visualization # toolkit from AT&T and Lucent Bell Labs. The other options in this section # have no effect if this option is set to NO (the default) HAVE_DOT = NO # The DOT_NUM_THREADS specifies the number of dot invocations doxygen is # allowed to run in parallel. When set to 0 (the default) doxygen will # base this on the number of processors available in the system. You can set it # explicitly to a value larger than 0 to get control over the balance # between CPU load and processing speed. DOT_NUM_THREADS = 0 # By default doxygen will write a font called Helvetica to the output # directory and reference it in all dot files that doxygen generates. # When you want a differently looking font you can specify the font name # using DOT_FONTNAME. You need to make sure dot is able to find the font, # which can be done by putting it in a standard location or by setting the # DOTFONTPATH environment variable or by setting DOT_FONTPATH to the directory # containing the font. DOT_FONTNAME = Helvetica # The DOT_FONTSIZE tag can be used to set the size of the font of dot graphs. # The default size is 10pt. DOT_FONTSIZE = 10 # By default doxygen will tell dot to use the output directory to look for the # FreeSans.ttf font (which doxygen will put there itself). If you specify a # different font using DOT_FONTNAME you can set the path where dot # can find it using this tag. DOT_FONTPATH = # If the CLASS_GRAPH and HAVE_DOT tags are set to YES then doxygen # will generate a graph for each documented class showing the direct and # indirect inheritance relations. Setting this tag to YES will force the # the CLASS_DIAGRAMS tag to NO. CLASS_GRAPH = YES # If the COLLABORATION_GRAPH and HAVE_DOT tags are set to YES then doxygen # will generate a graph for each documented class showing the direct and # indirect implementation dependencies (inheritance, containment, and # class references variables) of the class with other documented classes. COLLABORATION_GRAPH = YES # If the GROUP_GRAPHS and HAVE_DOT tags are set to YES then doxygen # will generate a graph for groups, showing the direct groups dependencies GROUP_GRAPHS = YES # If the UML_LOOK tag is set to YES doxygen will generate inheritance and # collaboration diagrams in a style similar to the OMG's Unified Modeling # Language. UML_LOOK = NO # If set to YES, the inheritance and collaboration graphs will show the # relations between templates and their instances. TEMPLATE_RELATIONS = NO # If the ENABLE_PREPROCESSING, SEARCH_INCLUDES, INCLUDE_GRAPH, and HAVE_DOT # tags are set to YES then doxygen will generate a graph for each documented # file showing the direct and indirect include dependencies of the file with # other documented files. INCLUDE_GRAPH = YES # If the ENABLE_PREPROCESSING, SEARCH_INCLUDES, INCLUDED_BY_GRAPH, and # HAVE_DOT tags are set to YES then doxygen will generate a graph for each # documented header file showing the documented files that directly or # indirectly include this file. INCLUDED_BY_GRAPH = YES # If the CALL_GRAPH and HAVE_DOT options are set to YES then # doxygen will generate a call dependency graph for every global function # or class method. Note that enabling this option will significantly increase # the time of a run. So in most cases it will be better to enable call graphs # for selected functions only using the \callgraph command. CALL_GRAPH = NO # If the CALLER_GRAPH and HAVE_DOT tags are set to YES then # doxygen will generate a caller dependency graph for every global function # or class method. Note that enabling this option will significantly increase # the time of a run. So in most cases it will be better to enable caller # graphs for selected functions only using the \callergraph command. CALLER_GRAPH = NO # If the GRAPHICAL_HIERARCHY and HAVE_DOT tags are set to YES then doxygen # will generate a graphical hierarchy of all classes instead of a textual one. GRAPHICAL_HIERARCHY = YES # If the DIRECTORY_GRAPH, SHOW_DIRECTORIES and HAVE_DOT tags are set to YES # then doxygen will show the dependencies a directory has on other directories # in a graphical way. The dependency relations are determined by the #include # relations between the files in the directories. DIRECTORY_GRAPH = YES # The DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT tag can be used to set the image format of the images # generated by dot. Possible values are svg, png, jpg, or gif. # If left blank png will be used. DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT = png # The tag DOT_PATH can be used to specify the path where the dot tool can be # found. If left blank, it is assumed the dot tool can be found in the path. DOT_PATH = /usr/bin/dot # The DOTFILE_DIRS tag can be used to specify one or more directories that # contain dot files that are included in the documentation (see the # \dotfile command). DOTFILE_DIRS = # The MSCFILE_DIRS tag can be used to specify one or more directories that # contain msc files that are included in the documentation (see the # \mscfile command). MSCFILE_DIRS = # The DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES tag can be used to set the maximum number of # nodes that will be shown in the graph. If the number of nodes in a graph # becomes larger than this value, doxygen will truncate the graph, which is # visualized by representing a node as a red box. Note that doxygen if the # number of direct children of the root node in a graph is already larger than # DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES then the graph will not be shown at all. Also note # that the size of a graph can be further restricted by MAX_DOT_GRAPH_DEPTH. DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES = 50 # The MAX_DOT_GRAPH_DEPTH tag can be used to set the maximum depth of the # graphs generated by dot. A depth value of 3 means that only nodes reachable # from the root by following a path via at most 3 edges will be shown. Nodes # that lay further from the root node will be omitted. Note that setting this # option to 1 or 2 may greatly reduce the computation time needed for large # code bases. Also note that the size of a graph can be further restricted by # DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES. Using a depth of 0 means no depth restriction. 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The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details. In resource-limited setting, concerns remain regarding the emergence of virologic failure and high-level drug resistance mutations (DRM) during WHO recommended first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) with non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI) based regimens for Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV1) infected patients. The study hypothesis is that a boosted-protease inhibitor regimen has a better outcome than a NNRTI-based regimen with a low genetic barrier to resistance. The study is a randomized, multicenter, factorial trial (conducted in Congo), in treatment- naïve adults receiving for 96 weeks ritonavir- boosted lopinavir(LPV/r) or nevirapine (NVP) each in combination with tenofovir (TDF) /emtricitabine (FTC) or zidovudine (ZDV)/lamivudine (3TC). The primary end point is the incidence of therapeutic (clinical and/or virologic)failure by study week 24. Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.

Studio Pixel's Kero Blaster finally hops to it in May Goats are so last season and frogs are the new hotness: Kero Blaster, the long-delayed platformer from the maker of Cave Story, is coming to Windows PC and iOS on May 11. The game stars Kaeru, a bipdeal frog who looks a bit like Kermit, but unlike The Muppets star he's armed to the teeth* with some powerful-looking weaponry. More like Kermit, he's in interspecial love with his feline girlfriend, who he's running and gunning to rescue. Studio Pixel AKA Daisuke Amaya originally intended to bring the game to iPhone last May, back when it was known as Gero Blaster. He delayed it to add some improvements, and in the interim it seems Japan-friendly distributor of indie games Playism got involved, and now there's a PC version on the way too. If you're interested in an early look at Kero Blaster, Playism says it's showcasing the game at next week's PAX East conference in Boston.

Laura Brown Laura Brown may refer to: Laura Brown (1974–), Australian fashion journalist Laura Brown (1986–), Canadian cyclist Laura Brown, American chemist Laura Brown (1970–), American golfer

I just wanted to say it was good to see you the other day, though brief =) Let's get together soon for lunch or something. I'm missing my Bob time!

Tipula submarmorata Tipula submarmorata is a species of fly in the family Tipulidae. It is found in the Palearctic . References External links Images representing Tipula at BOLD Category:Tipulidae Category:Insects described in 1833 Category:Nematoceran flies of Europe

/* =========================================================================== Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory GPL Source Code Copyright (C) 1999-2010 id Software LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. This file is part of the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory GPL Source Code (“Wolf ET Source Code”). Wolf ET Source Code is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Wolf ET Source Code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Wolf ET Source Code. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. In addition, the Wolf: ET Source Code is also subject to certain additional terms. You should have received a copy of these additional terms immediately following the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License which accompanied the Wolf ET Source Code. If not, please request a copy in writing from id Software at the address below. If you have questions concerning this license or the applicable additional terms, you may contact in writing id Software LLC, c/o ZeniMax Media Inc., Suite 120, Rockville, Maryland 20850 USA. =========================================================================== */ //=========================================================================== // // Name: b_aas_bspc.c // Function: Area Awareness System // Programmer: Mr Elusive ([email protected]) // Last update: 1999-09-14 // Tab Size: 3 //=========================================================================== #include "../game/q_shared.h" #include "../bspc/l_log.h" #include "../bspc/l_qfiles.h" #include "../botlib/l_memory.h" #include "../botlib/l_script.h" #include "../botlib/l_precomp.h" #include "../botlib/l_struct.h" #include "../botlib/aasfile.h" #include "../game/botlib.h" #include "../game/be_aas.h" #include "../botlib/be_aas_def.h" #include "../qcommon/cm_public.h" //#define BSPC extern botlib_import_t botimport; extern qboolean capsule_collision; //#define AAS_MOVE_DEBUG botlib_import_t botimport; clipHandle_t worldmodel; void Error( char *error, ... ); //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void AAS_Error( char *fmt, ... ) { va_list argptr; char text[1024]; va_start( argptr, fmt ); Q_vsnprintf( text, sizeof( text ), fmt, argptr ); va_end( argptr ); Error( text ); } //end of the function AAS_Error //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== int Sys_MilliSeconds( void ) { return clock() * 1000 / CLOCKS_PER_SEC; } //end of the function Sys_MilliSeconds //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void AAS_DebugLine( vec3_t start, vec3_t end, int color ) { } //end of the function AAS_DebugLine //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void AAS_ClearShownDebugLines( void ) { } //end of the function AAS_ClearShownDebugLines //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== char *BotImport_BSPEntityData( void ) { return CM_EntityString(); } //end of the function AAS_GetEntityData //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void BotImport_Trace( bsp_trace_t *bsptrace, vec3_t start, vec3_t mins, vec3_t maxs, vec3_t end, int passent, int contentmask ) { trace_t result; CM_BoxTrace( &result, start, end, mins, maxs, worldmodel, contentmask, capsule_collision ); bsptrace->allsolid = result.allsolid; bsptrace->contents = result.contents; VectorCopy( result.endpos, bsptrace->endpos ); bsptrace->ent = result.entityNum; bsptrace->fraction = result.fraction; bsptrace->exp_dist = 0; bsptrace->plane.dist = result.plane.dist; VectorCopy( result.plane.normal, bsptrace->plane.normal ); bsptrace->plane.signbits = result.plane.signbits; bsptrace->plane.type = result.plane.type; bsptrace->sidenum = 0; bsptrace->startsolid = result.startsolid; bsptrace->surface.flags = result.surfaceFlags; } //end of the function BotImport_Trace //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== int BotImport_PointContents( vec3_t p ) { return CM_PointContents( p, worldmodel ); } //end of the function BotImport_PointContents //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void *BotImport_GetMemory( int size ) { return GetMemory( size ); } //end of the function BotImport_GetMemory //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void BotImport_Print( int type, char *fmt, ... ) { va_list argptr; char buf[1024]; va_start( argptr, fmt ); Q_vsnprintf( buf, sizeof( buf ), fmt, argptr ); printf( buf ); if ( buf[0] != '\r' ) { Log_Write( buf ); } va_end( argptr ); } //end of the function BotImport_Print //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void BotImport_BSPModelMinsMaxsOrigin( int modelnum, vec3_t angles, vec3_t outmins, vec3_t outmaxs, vec3_t origin ) { clipHandle_t h; vec3_t mins, maxs; float max; int i; h = CM_InlineModel( modelnum ); CM_ModelBounds( h, mins, maxs ); //if the model is rotated if ( ( angles[0] || angles[1] || angles[2] ) ) { // expand for rotation max = RadiusFromBounds( mins, maxs ); for ( i = 0; i < 3; i++ ) { mins[i] = ( mins[i] + maxs[i] ) * 0.5 - max; maxs[i] = ( mins[i] + maxs[i] ) * 0.5 + max; } //end for } //end if if ( outmins ) { VectorCopy( mins, outmins ); } if ( outmaxs ) { VectorCopy( maxs, outmaxs ); } if ( origin ) { VectorClear( origin ); } } //end of the function BotImport_BSPModelMinsMaxsOrigin //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void Com_DPrintf( char *fmt, ... ) { va_list argptr; char buf[1024]; va_start( argptr, fmt ); Q_vsnprintf( buf, sizeof( buf ), fmt, argptr ); printf( buf ); if ( buf[0] != '\r' ) { Log_Write( buf ); } va_end( argptr ); } //end of the function Com_DPrintf //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== int COM_Compress( char *data_p ) { return strlen( data_p ); } //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void Com_Memset( void* dest, const int val, const size_t count ) { memset( dest, val, count ); } //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void Com_Memcpy( void* dest, const void* src, const size_t count ) { memcpy( dest, src, count ); } //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void AAS_InitBotImport( void ) { botimport.BSPEntityData = BotImport_BSPEntityData; botimport.GetMemory = BotImport_GetMemory; botimport.FreeMemory = FreeMemory; botimport.Trace = BotImport_Trace; botimport.PointContents = BotImport_PointContents; botimport.Print = BotImport_Print; botimport.BSPModelMinsMaxsOrigin = BotImport_BSPModelMinsMaxsOrigin; } //end of the function AAS_InitBotImport //=========================================================================== // // Parameter: - // Returns: - // Changes Globals: - //=========================================================================== void AAS_SetViewPortalsAsClusterPortals( void ); void AAS_CalcReachAndClusters( struct quakefile_s *qf ) { float time; Log_Print( "loading collision map...\n" ); // if ( !qf->pakfile[0] ) { strcpy( qf->pakfile, qf->filename ); } //load the map CM_LoadMap( (char *) qf, qfalse, &( *aasworld ).bspchecksum ); //get a handle to the world model worldmodel = CM_InlineModel( 0 ); // 0 = world, 1 + are bmodels //initialize bot import structure AAS_InitBotImport(); //load the BSP entity string AAS_LoadBSPFile(); //init physics settings AAS_InitSettings(); //initialize AAS link heap AAS_InitAASLinkHeap(); //initialize the AAS linked entities for the new map AAS_InitAASLinkedEntities(); //reset all reachabilities and clusters ( *aasworld ).reachabilitysize = 0; ( *aasworld ).numclusters = 0; //set all view portals as cluster portals in case we re-calculate the reachabilities and clusters (with -reach) AAS_SetViewPortalsAsClusterPortals(); //calculate reachabilities AAS_InitReachability(); time = 0; while ( AAS_ContinueInitReachability( time ) ) time++; //calculate clusters AAS_InitClustering(); } //end of the function AAS_CalcReachAndClusters // Ridah void AAS_SetWorldPointer( aas_t *newaasworld ) { aasworld = newaasworld; } // done.

Benny Lennartsson Benny Lennartsson is a Swedish football coach, former football and bandy player. He has managed Örebro SK, Lyngby FC and Bristol City among others. Managerial career Viking In 1988, Lennartsson signed for Norwegian club Viking FK. He won promotion from the second tier in his first season at the club. The next season, Viking were the winners of the Norwegian Cup by beating Molde in the final. In 1991, he won the first tier of Norwegian football, before leaving the club the same season. In 2000, Lennartsson joined Viking for a second spell. It would prove to be a successful one, as the club finished in third place in his first two seasons in charge. Viking also got to the final of the Norwegian Cup in both 2000 and 2001, but only winning it in the latter. His last season as manager of Viking, was in 2002. The club finished in 4th place in the league and knocked Chelsea out of the UEFA Cup. Honours Viking First tier Winner (1): 1991 Third place (2): 2000, 2001 Second tier Winner (1): 1988 Norwegian Cup Winner (2): 1989, 2001 Runner-up (1): 2000 References Category:1943 births Category:Swedish football managers Category:Swedish footballers Category:Sportspeople from Örebro Category:Living people Category:Viborg FF managers Category:Kniksen Award winners Category:Viking FK managers Category:Örebro SK players Category:Fulham F.C. players Category:Örebro SK managers Category:IK Start managers Category:Bristol City F.C. managers Category:Lyngby Boldklub managers Category:Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Category:Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United Kingdom Category:Expatriate football managers in Denmark Category:Expatriate football managers in England Category:Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Category:expatriate football managers in Norway Category:Swedish expatriate football managers Category:Association football midfielders Category:Swedish bandy players Category:Örebro SK Bandy players

Topobo Hayes Solos Raffle and Amanda J. Parkes are the creators of Topobo, a building kit with kinetic memory. That means the creations remember and playback the way you push and pull them. Build a creature, teach it how to walk, it walks. Taking the ideas behind Legos and Capsela to a new level, Topobo is fun and subversively educational! Currently a project in Hiroshi Ishii's Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, hopefully one day Topobo will be commercialized.

It’s been a slow few weeks… Slllloooooowwwwwww so when an event pops up that looks cool, I’m jumping on it! I was chatting with Scotty The Music Man, and he told me that there was a Wargames anniversary screening and Q and A! Head spinning! I love

Introduction: This is an interdisciplinary bioengineering project to develop and evaluate dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques for the clinical management and surgical planning of pediatric patients suffering from deteriorating renal function. The long term goal is to replace the existing renal tests, which involve significant costs and risks to patients, with a comprehensive, cost-effective, noninvasive examination. Methods: 1) A model of the kidney developed to predict the velocity of the contrast media in the late proximal tubule and thin descending loop of Henle. Assuming that the initial velocity of the filtrate is directly related to the pressure (both osmotic and hydrostatic) gradients between the glomerulus and the initial proximal convoluted tubule, velocities in different parts of the nephron can be extrapolated, in principle, if the relevant spatially dependent pressures are known. Using lumped parameter element design theory, the goal would be to predict these relevant pressure gradients given a priori knowledge of glomerulus and collecting system pressures, fluid viscosity, diffusion constants, and tubule geometry (area and length). 2) A model of the kidney may be developed so that absolute Gd-DTPA concentrations can be ascertained. This would give a direct measure of regional concentrating ability similar to the nuclear medicine studies that are currently used. Since, for a given sequence (e.g., GRASS), the signal intensity is a complicated function T1, T2, T2* and Gd-DTPA concentration, many factors must be considered. Conclusions: During the next year we will compare interleaved spiral, short-TR GRE, single-shot EPI pulse sequences in terms of spatial resolution, temporal resolution, and sensitivity to inhomogeneities and motion. The ultimate choice of dynamic MRI pulse sequence will also be constrained by the minimum temporal and spatial resolution requirements needed to visualize renal pathology. The data analysis and image processing algorithms will focus on techniques such as correlation imaging that emphasize the detection and visualization of regional renal defects rather than absolute quantitation of kidney function.

It’s always and honor and fun to shoot other photographer’s engagement sessions and weddings and Kendal is no exception. This was my first time shooting in Joshua Tree National Park and I loved it! Definitely going back soon. If you’re wanting more details about the wardrobe or locations of this shoot, check out Kendal’s blog post.

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2013 TOML authors Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Stenomyti Stenomyti is an extinct genus of small aetosaur. It contains a single species, Stenomyti huangae, which is known from a skull, postcranial skeleton and other referred material from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Eagle Basin of Colorado, United States. Stenomyti is distinguished from other aetosaurs by eight autapomorphies (unique traits), however its osteoderms are nearly identical to those of Aetosaurus which suggests that osteoderms are not always reliable taxonomic indicators for aetosaurs. Based on its osteoderms, and other shared cranial characters with Aetosaurus, it was suggested that these taxa are closely related and lie outside the clade containing Typothoracisinae and Desmatosuchinae. References Category:Aetosaurs Category:Chinle fauna Category:Fossil taxa described in 2013

In this Facebook photo, Amber Mederos (right) with her 15-month-old daughter, Lily, who were among the four shooting victims inside a Gilbert home on Tuesday in which police believe were killed by outspoken illegal immigration vigilante J.T. Ready before turning the gun on himself. In a photo from a Facebook page, Jim Hiott (left), Amber Mederos (right) and her 15-month-old daughter Lily, who were among the four shooting victims who authorities believe were shot and killed by J.T. Ready inside a Gilbert residence on Wednesday. Police believe that Ready also shot and killed his girlfriend, Lisa Mederos before turning the gun on himself. Inset: AP file photo; Background: Tim Hacker/Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Mark J. Scarp is a contributing columnist for the Tribune. Reach him at [email protected]. spotlighttop story Scarp: Innocent victims of one ruled by hate Mark J. Scarp is a contributing columnist for the Tribune. Reach him at [email protected]. In this Facebook photo, Amber Mederos (right) with her 15-month-old daughter, Lily, who were among the four shooting victims inside a Gilbert home on Tuesday in which police believe were killed by outspoken illegal immigration vigilante J.T. Ready before turning the gun on himself. In a photo from a Facebook page, Jim Hiott (left), Amber Mederos (right) and her 15-month-old daughter Lily, who were among the four shooting victims who authorities believe were shot and killed by J.T. Ready inside a Gilbert residence on Wednesday. Police believe that Ready also shot and killed his girlfriend, Lisa Mederos before turning the gun on himself. Inset: AP file photo; Background: Tim Hacker/Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune Gilbert officers work the scene of a shooting of four adults and a child, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 near Cooper and Warner Roads in Gilbert. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune] Tim Hacker/ Tribune We’ve been reading the words “white supremacist” quite a bit these last several days. White supremacy by its nature is a creed of fear, paranoia and hatred that leads to all kinds of bizarre justifications. Once someone starts regarding members of a certain race or faith as inferior or subhuman, it’s possible for such a person to think of anyone else they believe is “not one of us” as suspect, too. These are people who are afraid. Some are quite volatile. So how did three adults find it safe to be in the same house as J.T. Ready, and to allow a 15-month-old child in it? We may never know. They are all dead. Five people died in Ready’s Gilbert home early Wednesday afternoon. Police say that a domestic dispute of some sort was taking place before Ready, 39, killed his girlfriend, her daughter, 15-month-old granddaughter, and her daughter’s fiancé before killing himself. News reports this week have told of military-grade weaponry, illegal for civilians to own, being found in the home. Amber Mederos, 23, had a 15-month-old girl, Lily. The Associated Press reported Friday that Heather Morton, a friend of Amber Mederos, said Ready had said that the child was 50 percent ugly because Lily was half Hispanic. The report quoted Morton as saying the couple and child moved out a few months ago. But on Wednesday, all three were in the home where Amber’s mother, Ready’s girlfriend, Lisa Lynn Mederos, 47, still lived with Ready. It proved to be a fatal decision to return. The Anti-Defamation League knows much about white supremacists. Bill Straus, ADL regional director, told me Friday that for several years his organization has been observing Ready and concluded early on that he was a white supremacist who advocated violence. Reasonable people, even unreasonable ones, can differ on the issue of illegal immigration without defining the people involved as inferior beings. But that was what Ready believed, as according to earlier statements by the ADL, in May 2010 Ready joined other white supremacists in handing out a flier that “was clearly directed at Hispanics, particularly Mexicans. ‘When Whites are outnumbered,’ the flier read, ‘history shows that they have always been raped, murdered and massacred by the non Whites. If you can provide one logical reason why this won’t occur here as well we want to hear from you,’” according to the ADL. Straus said Ready, who ran unsuccessfully for several offices, “loved the camera” and was able to spread the message of bigotry beyond the members of extremist groups. “People need to get the point also that we are constantly cautioning about people like J.T. because he put his arms around the rhetoric surrounding the immigration issue,” he said. “He was able to make that crossover from extreme to mainstream. And when that happens it’s really dangerous.” Straus and ADL regional board chair Miriam Weisman issued a statement Thursday saying that “while to our knowledge he (Ready) had no previous personal record of domestic violence, ADL has tracked many incidents of white supremacist violence against women in recent years, including domestic violence.” The statement further said that Ready “subscribed to an ideology that embraces hate and violence. It is a culture which sees violence as a solution to social, political and even personal problems.” In his conversation with me Friday, Straus said his organization’s investigative research director told him that violence against women is “way more prevalent in the white supremacist world than the general populace.” Those for whom violence is an acceptable part of life may have less hesitation about it, Straus said. “The more familiar you are with something the more comfortable you are. Whether it’s your creed or philosophy, the more comfortable you are with it,” he said. “Pick up a military grade weapon a few hundred times and you’re going to think less of holding up a military grade weapon.” And whatever keeps the rest of us from pointing a gun at those we love and pulling the trigger, it appears that such restraint wasn’t there in J.T. Ready. Watch this discussion.Stop watching this discussion. (0) comments Welcome to the discussion. Keep it Clean. 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[Expression of endothelin-1 mRNA, endothelin receptor-A and nitric oxide synthase mRNA in pulmonary artery and right ventriculus cordis of rats exposed to hypoxia]. Endothelins (ETs) are a family of novel regulatory peptides which can constrict the vascular and promote the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. Serum ET-1 was elevated, and nitric oxide (NO) levels were reduced in hypoxic pulmonary hypertension. However, the exact mechanism remains unclear, and no study has elucidated if hypoxia could stimulate directly overgrowth of right ventricle in patients with chronic cor pulmonale. To investigate the role of ET-1 and NO in hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular hypertrophy, we measured the levels of ET-1 mRNA, ET receptor-A (ETR-A) mRNA and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) mRNA in the pulmonary artery and right ventricle of rats exposed to hypoxia (FiO = 0.1, 8 hours daily for 1, 2 and 3 weeks) by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). ET-1 mRNA level of pulmonary artery raised after 1 week's hypoxia (P < 0.05), and after 2 weeks' hypoxia, it returned to near normal, but elevated significantly again after 3 weeks' hypoxia. Pulmonary artery ETR-A mRNA in 1 and 2 weeks hypoxic groups showed no significant change, but it raised significantly in 3 weeks' hypoxic group. After exposure to hypoxia for 1, 2 and 3 weeks, NOS mRNA in the pulmonary artery all reduced significantly (P < 0.05). The right ventriculus cordis showed a significant increase in weight after 3 and 2 weeks' hypoxia. ET-1 mRNA showed no significant change but ETR-A mRNA increased significantly after 2 weeks' hypoxia; both ET-1 mRNA and ETR-A mRNA showed significant increase in weight after 3 and 2 weeks' hypoxia. In the ventriculus cordis of rats exposed to hypoxia for 2 and 3 weeks, NOS mRNA had no significant change.

Q: Can we use requirejs in an angular application to manage/modularize only a part of the application? I have an existing angular web app which doesn't use require.js. I have to create a new business module in the existing application. Can I use require.js for the new module only? So that I don't have to touch the existing code? The existing index.html looks like this: <html> <head> ... </head> <body> ... <script src="http://cdn.gse.site/angular/1.2.9/angular.js"></script> <script src="js/angular-ui-router.js"></script> <script src="js/services/angDashboardService.js"></script> <script src="js/controllers/angDashboardController.js"></script> <--- More custom scripts here ---> </body> </html> I tried including require-main.js in the existing index.html file without removing any of the existing script tags. The require-main.js looks like this : require.config({ baseUrl: 'js', paths:{ 'angular' : '...' }, shim: { 'angular': {export: 'angular' }, 'new-module': { deps: ['angular'], export: 'new-module' } } }); require(['new-module'], function(){}); I am getting the error as following: Uncaught Error: [ng:btstrpd] App Already Bootstrapped with this Element '<body class="preload ng-scope" ng-app="angDashboard">' A: Can we use requirejs in an angular application to manage/modularize only a part of the application? Yes you can (but why...?). You will be hits by some serious headache if you are not ware of what are you doing Anyways to able to do this you must be fully understand the concept of angularJS and requireJS . <script src="http://cdn.gse.site/angular/1.2.9/angular.js"></script> <script src="js/angular-ui-router.js"></script> <script src="js/services/angDashboardService.js"></script> <script src="js/controllers/angDashboardController.js"></script> This mean you already had an angular app running. So you will not (should not) config or load angular anymore with requireJS require.config({ baseUrl: 'js', paths:{ 'async-module' : '...' }, // You won't use 'shim' with this structure // shim: {} }); async-module.js // assuming somewhere you have did this // var app = angular.module([...]); // // NOW you need to convert this 'app' to global variable. So you can use it it requirejs/define blocks // window.app = angular.module([...]); define(function(){ window.app.controller('asyncCtrl', function($scope){ // controller code goes here }); }); Then somewhere inside your app, when you want to load this async-module requirejs(['async-module'], function(){ console.log('asyncCtrl is loaded!'); }); SUMARY >> It is possible to do what you asked but it does not very effective. And will be like hell in code management. If this answer took you lesser than 5 mins to understand, you can give it a try. If it took you longer than 5 mins to understand. I am highly not recommending you to do this. Using requireJS with angularJS in common way (everything loaded by requireJS) is already complicated and tricky. And this use case even beyond that.

package com.example.appsqlitedemo1; import android.database.Cursor; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.BitmapFactory; //http://android-codes-examples.blogspot.com.br/2011/09/using-sqlite-to-populate-listview-in.html <<---------- //http://www.coderzheaven.com/2012/12/23/store-image-android-sqlite-retrieve-it/ <<--------------- //http://www.coderzheaven.com/2011/04/17/using-sqlite-in-android-a-really-simple-example/ //http://www.androidhive.info/2011/11/android-sqlite-database-tutorial/ //http://androidexample.com/SQLite_Database_Manipulation_Class_-_Android_Example/index.php?view=article_discription&aid=51 //http://javapapers.com/android/android-sqlite-database/ <<------------------- //http://chintankhetiya.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/sqlite-database-example/ //http://androidituts.com/android-sqlite-database-insert-example/ //http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/119293/Using-SQLite-Database-with-Android <<--------------- //http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5742101/how-using-sqliteopenhelper-with-database-on-sd-card /* * LAMW - LAZARUS ANDROID MODULE WIZARD * https://github.com/jmpessoa/lazandroidmodulewizard * Review by TR3E 2019/08/23 */ public class jSqliteCursor { private long PasObj = 0; // Pascal Obj private Controls controls = null; // Control Class for Event private int mCursorPos = -1; private int mCursorColumnCount = 0; private int mCursorRowCount = 0; public Cursor mCursor = null; public Bitmap bufBmp = null; //Constructor public jSqliteCursor(Controls ctrls, long pasobj ) { //Connect Pascal I/F PasObj = pasobj; controls = ctrls; mCursorColumnCount = 0; mCursorRowCount = 0; mCursorPos = -1; } public void SetCursor(Cursor curs) { mCursor = curs; if( mCursor != null ){ mCursorColumnCount = mCursor.getColumnCount(); mCursorRowCount = mCursor.getCount(); mCursorPos = mCursor.getPosition(); }else{ mCursorColumnCount = 0; mCursorRowCount = 0; mCursorPos = -1; } } public Cursor GetCursor() { return mCursor; } public int GetRowCount() { return mCursorRowCount; } public void MoveToFirst() { if (mCursor != null){ mCursor.moveToFirst(); mCursorPos = mCursor.getPosition(); } } public void MoveToNext() { if (mCursor != null){ mCursor.moveToNext(); mCursorPos = mCursor.getPosition(); } } public void MoveToPrev() { if (mCursor != null){ mCursor.moveToPrevious(); mCursorPos = mCursor.getPosition(); } } public void MoveToLast() { if (mCursor != null){ mCursor.moveToLast(); mCursorPos = mCursor.getPosition(); } } public void MoveToPosition(int position) { if ((mCursor == null) || (position < 0) || (position >= mCursorRowCount)) return; mCursor.moveToPosition(position); mCursorPos = mCursor.getPosition(); } public int GetPosition() { if (mCursor == null) return -1; return mCursor.getPosition(); } public int GetColumnIndex(String colName) { if (mCursor == null) return -1; return mCursor.getColumnIndex(colName); } public String GetValueAsString(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount) || (mCursorPos < 0) || (mCursorPos >= mCursorRowCount)) return ""; return mCursor.getString(columnIndex); } //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_BLOB; //4 //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_FLOAT//2 //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_INTEGER//1 //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_STRING//3 //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_NULL //0 public int GetColType(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount)) return Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_NULL; return mCursor.getType(columnIndex); } public byte[] GetValueAsBlod(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount) || (mCursorPos < 0) || (mCursorPos >= mCursorRowCount)) return null; return mCursor.getBlob(columnIndex); } public Bitmap GetValueAsBitmap(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount) || (mCursorPos < 0) || (mCursorPos >= mCursorRowCount)) return null; byte[] image = mCursor.getBlob(columnIndex); if( image == null ) return null; return BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(image, 0, image.length); } public int GetValueAsInteger(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount) || (mCursorPos < 0) || (mCursorPos >= mCursorRowCount)) return -1; return mCursor.getInt(columnIndex); } public short GetValueAsShort(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount) || (mCursorPos < 0) || (mCursorPos >= mCursorRowCount)) return -1; return mCursor.getShort(columnIndex); } public long GetValueAsLong(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount) || (mCursorPos < 0) || (mCursorPos >= mCursorRowCount)) return -1; return mCursor.getLong(columnIndex); } public float GetValueAsFloat(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount) || (mCursorPos < 0) || (mCursorPos >= mCursorRowCount)) return -1; return mCursor.getFloat(columnIndex); } public double GetValueAsDouble(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount) || (mCursorPos < 0) || (mCursorPos >= mCursorRowCount)) return -1; return mCursor.getDouble(columnIndex); } public int GetColumnCount() { return mCursorColumnCount; } public String GetColumName(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount)) return ""; return mCursor.getColumnName(columnIndex); } //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_BLOB; //4 //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_FLOAT//2 //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_INTEGER//1 //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_STRING//3 //Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_NULL //0 public String GetValueToString(int columnIndex) { if ((mCursor == null) || (columnIndex < 0) || (columnIndex >= mCursorColumnCount) || (mCursorPos < 0) || (mCursorPos >= mCursorRowCount)) return ""; String colValue = ""; switch (mCursor.getType(columnIndex)) { case Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_INTEGER: colValue = Integer.toString(mCursor.getInt(columnIndex)); break; case Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_STRING : colValue = mCursor.getString(columnIndex); break; case Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_FLOAT : colValue = String.format("%.2f", mCursor.getFloat(columnIndex)); break; case Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_BLOB : colValue = "BLOB"; break; case Cursor.FIELD_TYPE_NULL : colValue = "NULL"; break; default: colValue = "UNKNOW"; } return colValue; } public void Free() { mCursor = null; bufBmp = null; } }

Conventionally, as a dehumidification apparatus using a moisture absorbing material is known a desiccant dehumidification apparatus (see, for example, Patent Literatures 1 and 2). The desiccant dehumidification apparatus dehumidifies indoor air as follows. That is, (i) a moisture absorbing material, such as zeolite or silica gel, applied to a permeable rotor (e.g., a honeycomb rotor) is exposed to the indoor air so that the moisture absorbing material adsorbs moisture in the air, (ii) the moisture absorbing material, which has thus adsorbed the moisture is exposed to a warm wind heated by a heater so that the adsorbed moisture is released as water vapor, and (iii) a high-temperature air containing the water vapor is cooled by a heat exchanger to take out the moisture.

Q: Android, "more details" UI best practice? I need to show some data to my user, in my Android app, which fit on one page; and, I want to give her the possibility to show "more details", i.e. more data. In my situation I have some textviews inside a vertical scrollview inside a relative layout. Is there a "best practice", or a recommendation, or just something you like - to implement the "more details" user control? To show an icon, a button, some text, ...? A: Yes, a button saying "More Details" would be fine, then just hide the button and show more details where the button was, at the end of the scroll view.

Current and historical procedures for the treatment of colon and rectal cancer have been based, for staging purposes, upon the natural history of tumor spread, and thence, upon operative and non-operative options. Operative options generally have looked to the physical location and surgical resection of tumor. A variety of techniques have been brought to bear in the art with the purpose of aiding the surgeon in detecting and localizing neoplastic tissue as part of this surgical procedure. ("Neoplastic tissue", for present purposes, often is referred to as cancerous tissue, though malignant tumor and malignant tumor cells also are found in the terminology of the art. The term "neoplastic tissue" includes all of these.) A substantial amount of effort in aiding the surgeon in locating neoplastic tissue has been through the utilization of radiolabeled antibody for detection purposes For example, one technique includes the scintillation scanning of patients injected with relatively high energy, e.g. .sup.131 I labeled antibodies. Such photoscanning or scintillation scanning provides scintigrams difficult to interpret because of blood pool background radioactivity. Computer subtraction of radioactive blood pool agents and the use of two labeled antibodies (one specific for the tumor and one non-specific) have been attempted to enhance imaging. Nevertheless, such techniques have been found to provide little, if any, useful information to the surgeon, especially over and above CAT scans, magnetic resonance imagings, and like traditional techniques. Typically, large tumor is readily located by the surgeon by visualization at the operating theater and, in particular, through palpation, i.e. the feel of a tumor as opposed to that of normal tissue. To achieve operative success, however, it is necessary for the surgeon to somehow locate "occult" tumor, i.e. tumor which cannot be found by the conventional surgical procedures of sight and feel. Failure to locate and remove such occult tumor generally will result in the continued growth of cancer in the patient, a condition often referred to as "recurrent" cancer. In general, conventional diagnostic techniques as, for example, use of the classic gamma camera and the like, fail to find or locate occult tumor. As tumor sites become smaller, the radionucleide concentrations at given tumor site will tend to be lost, from an imaging standpoint, in the background where blood pool radiation necessarily is present in the patient. U.S. Pat. No. 4,782,840 by Martin, M.D. and Thurston, Ph.D., entitled "Method for Locating, Differentiating, and Removing Neoplasms", issued Nov. 8, 1988 (the disclosure of which is expressly incorporated herein by reference) reviews such scintillation scanning techniques and discloses a much improved method for locating, differentiating, and removing neoplasms. Such technique utilizes a radiolabeled antibody and a portable radiation detection probe which the surgeon may use intraoperatively in order to detect sites of radioactivity. Because of the proximity of the detection probe to the labeled antibody, the faint radiation emanating from occult sites becomes detectable, for example, in part because of the inherent application of the approximate inverse square law of radiation propagation. The procedure is known as the RIGS system (RIGS being a trademark of Neoprobe Corporation, Columbus, Ohio) and is successful additionally because of a recognition that tumor detection should be delayed until the blood pool background of circulating radiolabeled antibody has had an opportunity to be cleared from the body. As a consequence, the photon emissions or radiation emitted by minor tumors compared to surrounding tissue becomes detectable in view of the proximity of the probe device to it. Fortuitously, the '840 patent discloses the ability of the radiolabeled antibody to remain bound to or associated with neoplastic tissue for extended periods of time with the radio tag still bound thereto. Moreover, even though the accretion of radioactivity at the tumor site decreases over time, the blood pool background and surrounding tissue (relative to the tumor sites) decrease at a much greater rate so that the radioactive sites can be determined readily utilizing a hand held probe positioned in close proximity with the tissue under investigation. A highly important aspect of all procedures associated with colorectal and other cancers resides in the proper staging of the patient according to the extent and severity of the disease. Such staging aids in determining the appropriate post-surgical treatment for such patients. Stage I and II patients are believed to be curable by surgery alone, whereas Stage III patients, i.e. patients determined to have cancer spread to the lymph nodes, are treated with some form of post-operative therapy, such as chemotherapy. Stage IV patients, i.e. patients with metastisis to other organs, are treated with a variety of methods, including post-surgical therapy and/or surgical removal of the primary tumor. More severe metastisis typically is not deemed to be treatable by surgery and thus, surgery is not undertaken in order to spare the patients unnecessary trauma. Where the above-noted hidden or occult cancer is not found, residual disease is left behind and is not accounted for with respect to an evaluation of the extent of the disease to determine proper post-surgical therapy. Colorectal cancer may spread by local invasion, lymphatic extension, hematogenous spread, or implantation. After the initial mucosal growth, a tumor may progress locally in several directions, but usually it protrudes first into the lumen. Mural penetration may result in local failure or peritoneal seeding. Colorectal cancer first metastasizes to the perirectal nodes at the level of the primary tumor or immediately above it. Next, the chain accompanying the superior hemorrhoidal vessels is involved. In later stages of disease, when the hemorrhoidal lymphatics are blocked, there is lateral downward spread. In colon carcinoma, normal lymphatic flow is through the lymphatic channels along the major arteries, with three echelons of lymph nodes: pericolic, intermediate, and principal. If tumors lie between two major vascular pedicles, lymphatic flow may drain in either or both directions. If the central lymph nodes are blocked by tumor, lymphatic flow can become retrograde along the marginal arcades proximally and distally. The risk for lymph node metastases increases with increasing tumor grade, as does the number of lymph nodes affected. The liver is the primary site of hematogenous metastases, followed by the lung. Involvement of other sites in the absence of liver or lung involvement is rare. Implantation refers to the release of tumor cells from the primary tumor and their deposition on another surface. Implantation has been reported with tumor cells shed intraluminally, from the serosal surface through the peritoneum, and by surgical manipulation and resultant deposition on wound surfaces. The contribution of RIGS-based surgery to enhancing the vision-based and touch-based procedures of the surgeon has been substantial. The detection and location approach of this system has permitted the identification and removal of hidden or occult tumor under conditions where otherwise conventional procedures would not have found it. Additionally, the system has been employed in staging, particularly in evaluating lymph nodes and other metastatic disease for staging procedures. The system has been demonstrated in clinical studies to substantially improve the staging of primary colorectal cancer patients which, having been staged by traditional means, were restaged to State III disease based upon the RIGS system as confirmed by pathology findings. As a consequence of such findings, patients so re-evaluated are eligible for post-surgical therapy, such as chemotherapy, resulting in improved patient management. The importance of such staging has been established in view of the National Institute of Health (NIH) consensus report concerning the administration of adjuvant chemotherapy to appropriately stage patients. "NIH Consensus Conference: Adjuvant Therapy for Patients with Colon and Rectal Cancer", JAMA, 1990; 264:1444-50. The procedure carried out in the course of RIGS-based colorectal surgery involves, inter alia, a radionuclide survey of the lymph system and organs within the peritoneal cavity. Where a lymph node has been identified by the surgeon in the course of such survey by its association with a radiolabel in the course of surgery, it will be resected and immediately delivered to a tumor pathologist for intraoperative consultation. For this consultation, the pathologist typically carries out a somewhat standard technique which involves a sampling of the lymph node or tissue received, freezing, cutting of sections in a crystal, staining of those sections with hematoxylin-eosin or an equivalent stain, and examination under a microscope. Ideally, this procedure takes about five minutes per specimen, although extra time is allowed if multiple sections of specimens are to be examined. See in this regard, Cancer, Principles & Practice of Oncology, 4th Ed., vol. 1, p. 235, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Because of the high sensitivity of the RIGS system, lymph node involvement may be identified at very early stages of colorectal cancer metastisis. This sensitivity may be occasioned by a form of biological amplification occurring wherein the radiolabeling system serves to identify sialomucin, a substance secreted by cancer involved cells, as opposed to the cells themselves. As a consequence, involved lymph nodes found positive by a radionuclide survey in the course of surgery which are delivered to the tumor pathologist may contain only a limited number of cancerous cells. Severely constrained by the time limitations of interoperative consultation, the pathologist often will not section a sample at the correct position and thus reports the resultant negative analysis to the surgeon. As is apparent, a technique is called for to aid the tumor pathologist in determining the proper location upon the specimen for carrying out sectioning with the highest probability of locating cell involvement in cancer.

1. Introduction {#sec1} =============== Chagas\' disease is caused by the protozoan parasite *Trypanosoma cruzi*, which is transmitted to humans by contact with the feces of blood-sucking triatomine insects, transfusion of blood or blood derivatives, and organ transplantation. According to the WHO estimates, 16--18 million people were infected in the Americas in the 1980s \[[@B1]\]. Although transmission is controlled in some countries, the infection persists and each year a large number of patients in the chronic phase develop symptoms \[[@B2]\]. During the chronic phase, a long period of latency, called the indeterminate phase which lasts several years or throughout life, is observed in approximately 60% of patients with Chagas\' disease. Clinical manifestations that result in heart and/or digestive organ damage occur in the remaining 40% of patients at different intensities, alone or in association \[[@B2], [@B3]\]. During this phase, parasites are rarely detected in peripheral blood and the diagnosis is based on the presence of parasite-specific antibodies \[[@B4]\]. Heart complications are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in Chagas\' disease patients. Differences in the degree of damage to the conduction system are observed, and heart failure occurs among more severe cases \[[@B2]\]. Myocarditis can affect patients during the chronic phase, irrespective of clinical manifestations, although the degree of myocarditis and fibrosis that follows the inflammatory process is more intense in patients with heart failure \[[@B5], [@B6]\]. The inflammatory process observed in Chagas\' disease is mainly characterized by the presence of CD8 and CD4 T lymphocytes and macrophages \[[@B7]\]. The presence of activated CD8 T lymphocytes has been demonstrated \[[@B8]\]. The extent and nature of the inflammatory reaction contribute to tissue damage and reduce cardiac function. These events lead to heart failure which is observed in severe cases of chronic Chagas\' disease. The balance of the T helper cell subpopulation has been studied in experimental models of *T. cruzi* infection and the results show that the Th1 subpopulation plays a role in the mechanism of parasite control \[[@B9], [@B10]\]. In this respect, IFN-*γ* and TNF-*α* synergistically act on NOS2 transcription and on the production of high levels of nitric oxide, which exhibits strong antiparasitic effects \[[@B9], [@B11], [@B12]\]. These cytokines have been shown to play a role in parasite control and also contribute to tissue damage \[[@B13], [@B14]\]. On the other hand, IL-4, a prototype Th2 cytokine, is associated with an increase of parasitemia. In humans, most data regarding the T helper cell balance is limited to the analysis of PMBC immune responses \[[@B15]\] and CD4 and CD8 cell infiltration \[[@B16], [@B17]\]. To address the nature of inflammatory cells in heart tissue and possible implications in the pathogenesis of heart failure in Chagas\' disease, we investigated the number of cells expressing IFN-*γ*, TNF-*α*, IL-4, TGF-*β*, and NOS2 and the levels of FoxP3, STAT4, and STAT6 mRNA in heart tissues of subjects who had died during the chronic phase of the disease. To our knowledge, this is the first study investigating T helper cell subpopulation in heart tissue. The results demonstrated that the production of all mediators mentioned above and that the number of cells producing IFN-*γ* were higher than that producing IL-4. Moreover, large numbers of TNF-*α*-producing cells and high levels of STAT4 mRNA were associated with the occurrence of heart failure. 2. Materials and Methods {#sec2} ======================== 2.1. Patients {#sec2.1} ------------- Twenty-one specimens of the left ventricular wall were obtained at autopsy of subjects with Chagas\' disease who had died at the General Hospital of Triângulo Mineiro Federal University, Uberaba, MG, Brazil. The autopsies were performed within 2 to 6 hours after death, and two samples were collected from the midportion of the lateral wall of the left ventricle. One specimen was immediately fixed in buffered formalin, and the other was frozen in liquid nitrogen. After embedding in paraffin, serial 5 *μ*m sections were transferred to glass slides. Frozen samples were used in the low density array (LDA). All specimens were obtained from patients who had a positive reaction to anti-*T. cruzi* antibodies and who were considered to be in the chronic cardiac phase. Heart involvement affected only the electrical conduction system in 10 patients. In the remaining 11 subjects, the clinical records indicated heart failure, such as leg edema, and chest radiographs demonstrated global heart enlargement \[[@B2], [@B6]\]. Samples obtained from three healthy subjects who died in car accidents were used as controls in the LDA assays. The procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro. 2.2. Histopathology and Quantification of Fibrosis {#sec2.2} -------------------------------------------------- Fixed tissues were dehydrated and embedded in paraffin. Sections (5 *μ*m) were stained with hematoxylin-eosin (HE) and analyzed by light microscopy. Morphometric analysis of fibrosis was performed using the KS300 automatic image-analyzing system (Kotron Electronic, Munich, Germany). Fibrous connective tissues were evaluated by picrosirius red staining, and the results are expressed as percentage of fibrosis area \[[@B18]\]. For further analysis, patients were empirically divided according to fibrosis intensity into low-grade fibrosis (up to 4%) and high-grade fibrosis (\>4%). 2.3. Immunohistochemistry {#sec2.3} ------------------------- For immunohistochemistry, deparaffinized sections were treated with 3% hydrogen peroxide in methanol for 10 min and incubated for 30 min at 90°C for antigen detection. The sections were incubated in 2% bovine serum albumin for 30 min at room temperature to reduce nonspecific binding. Next, the sections were individually incubated with anti-cytokine monoclonal antibodies specific for human IL-4 (1 : 100) (R&D, Minneapolis, MN, USA), TNF-*α* (1:200) (R&D); TGF-*β* (1 : 100) (R&D), NOS2 (1 : 100) (Santa Cruz Biotech, Santa Cruz, CA, USA), and IFN-*γ* (1 : 200) (Genzyme, Cambridge, MA, USA). All antibodies were diluted in 2% bovine serum albumin prior to use and incubated with the samples for 2 hours at 37°C. For the secondary antibody, the sections were incubated with biotinylated anti-mouse Ig, anti-rabbit Ig, and anti-goat Ig from Link System 002488 (Dako, Carpinteria, CA, USA) for 30 min at 37°C. After washing, the sections were incubated with streptavidin-peroxidase conjugate (Dako) for 30 min. The reaction was developed with diaminobenzidine (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA). The sections were counterstained with hematoxylin. For histopathological analysis, the number of cells positive for each cytokine was counted in 20 fields at 400X magnification. The number of cells in each field and the area of each field (0.091575 mm^2^) were determined. The density of positive cells is expressed as the number of cells per mm^2^. 2.4. Low Density Array {#sec2.4} ---------------------- After cell harvest, RNA was extracted with the TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen, Grand Island, NY, USA) according to manufacturer instructions. RNA purity and integrity were assessed with the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer using the RNA 6000 Nano LabChip reagent set (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA). RNA was quantified spectrophotometrically and then stored at −80°C. cDNA was synthesized using the High-Capacity cDNA Archive Kit (Applied Biosystem, Carlsbad, CA, USA). The master mixture contained 1X reverse transcription buffer, 1X deoxynucleotide triphosphate mixture, 1 unit/*μ*L RNase inhibitor, 1 unit/*μ*L MultiScribe Reverse Transcriptase, and 1X random primers. One *μ*g of total RNA was diluted in sterile water to a final volume of 100 *μ*L. The reaction mixture was incubated at 25°C for 10 min, followed by heat inactivation of the enzyme at 37°C for 120 min cDNA was stored at −20°C. Next, 2 *μ*L single-stranded cDNA (corresponding to 100 ng total RNA) was diluted in 98 *μ*L nuclease-free water and 100 *μ*L TaqMan Universal PCR Master Mix, and 100 *μ*L of the sample-specific PCR mixture was loaded into the sample port of Micro Fluidic Cards. The cards were then centrifuged twice for 1 min at 1200 g and sealed to prevent well-to-well contamination. The cards were placed in the Micro Fluidic Card Sample Block of an ABI Prism 7900 HT Sequence Detection System (SDS Software 2.1, Applied Biosystems). The thermal cycling conditions were 2 min at 50°C and 10 min at 94.5°C, followed by 40 cycles at 97°C for 30 s and at 59.7°C for 1 min. Each Micro Fluidic Card has a unique barcode, and Sequence Detection System plate documents store information about plate type, detector, sample/target gene configurations, thermal cycling conditions, data collection, and raw fluorescence data during each cycle. Micro Fluidic Cards were analyzed with RQ documents and the RQ Manager Software for automated data analysis. Experiments for three different donor cells and one healthy control, carried out in duplicate, were analyzed together as 1 relative quantity (RQ) study. Expression values of the target genes were normalized to the concentration of 18S rRNA. Gene expression values were calculated by the comparative threshold cycle (Ct) method, in which RNA samples from the control subject were designated as calibrators. In short, the Ct data for all human genes tested and 18S rRNA in each sample were used to create ΔCt values (Ct~experimental~ − Ct~18S rRNA~). Thereafter, ΔΔCt values were calculated by subtracting the ΔCt of the calibrator from the Ct value of each target. RQ was calculated using the equation: RQ = 2^−ΔΔCt^. The Micro Fluidic Cards detect a two-fold difference in gene expression at a confidence level of 99.7%. 2.5. Statistical Analysis {#sec2.5} ------------------------- Statistical analysis (unpaired *t*-test and Mann-Whitney test) was performed using the StatView software. Correlations between the numbers of cells positive for each cytokine were analyzed using the Spearman (*rS*) and the Pearson (*r*) correlation coefficients. Differences found were considered to be significant at *P* \< 0.05. 3. Results {#sec3} ========== 3.1. Histopathology, Fibrosis Quantification, and Cytokine Expression {#sec3.1} --------------------------------------------------------------------- Myocardial samples from 21 chronic chagasic subjects were examined. Eleven patients had chronic heart failure, and 10 subjects did not present any previous clinical or anatomopathological signs of heart failure due to Chagas\' disease. These samples were also classified according to fibrosis intensity. An inflammatory mononuclear cell infiltrate was observed in most cases inside and around the fibrosis area. The intensity of the inflammatory reactions was higher in subjects with heart failure. The panels in [Figure 1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"} illustrate the inflammatory reaction and the immunohistochemical results. A significant association was observed between TNF-*α*-positive cells and the presence of heart failure (*P* = 0.040). TNF-*α*-positive cells were observed in 10 of the 11 cases with heart failure, with a median of 4 immunostained cells (range: 0 to 22 cells/mm^2^), and in 4 of the 10 cases without heart failure ([Figure 2(a)](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}). There was a positive association between IFN-*γ*-producing cells and heart failure (*P* = 0.032). IFN-*γ*-positive cells were present in 8 of the 11 cases with heart failure, with a median of 24 immunostained cells (range: 0 to 85 cells), and in 7 of the 10 cases without heart failure ([Figure 2(a)](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}). TNF-*α* and IFN-*γ* are cytokines involved in the induction of NOS2 and have been implicated in the control of intracellular parasite growth and tissue damage. Although TNF-*α* and IFN-*γ* were associated with heart failure, no significant correlation was observed between NOS2-positive cells and heart failure. Cells positive for NOS2 were present in 10 of the 11 cases with heart failure and in 6 of the 10 cases without heart failure ([Figure 2(a)](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}). Moreover, there was no significant association between the presence of cells positive for the anti-inflammatory cytokines, IL-4 and TGF*β*, and the occurrence of heart failure ([Figure 2(a)](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}). On the other hand, a positive correlation was observed between the number of IFN-*γ*-positive and NOS2-positive cells, irrespective of the occurrence of heart failure (*P* = 0.02) ([Figure 3(a)](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}). There was also a positive correlation between the number of cells positive for IFN-*γ*and TNF-*α* (*P* = 0.03) ([Figure 3(b)](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}). The intensity of fibrosis was also analyzed and was classified into low (up to 4% of total area) or high (\>4%). Interestingly, the occurrence of intense fibrosis was associated with small numbers of NOS2-positive cells, suggesting that nitric oxide may protect against the development of fibrosis ([Figure 2(b)](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}). Fibrosis was not associated with any of the other cytokines tested ([Figure 2(b)](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}). 3.2. Th1/Th2 Cytokine Balance {#sec3.2} ----------------------------- The numbers of IFN-*γ*- and IL-4-positive cells were compared for the evaluation of the balance between Th1 and Th2 cytokine patterns. The number of IFN-*γ*-positive cells was significantly higher than that of IL-4-positive cells (*P* = 0.02), irrespective of the occurrence of heart failure, indicating that *T. cruzi* induced myocarditis by eliciting a Th1-like response ([Figure 4](#fig4){ref-type="fig"}). Furthermore, LDA analysis revealed significantly higher STAT4 levels in patients with heart failure compared to those without heart failure. Moreover, STAT4 levels were significantly higher than STAT6 levels in the heart failure group ([Figure 5](#fig5){ref-type="fig"}). These data suggest that heart failure in Chagas\' disease is associated with a Th1 immune response. No significant differences between groups were observed for the other cytokine genes tested. 4. Discussion {#sec4} ============= In this study, we report the results of the expression of cytokines in heart tissue obtained from the left ventricular wall of subjects with Chagas\' disease. The autopsies were performed within 2 to 6 hours after death, and the specimens were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen or fixed in paraformaldehyde in phosphate buffer. Clinical involvement of the heart was analyzed considering previous clinical data and anatomopathological features observed during autopsy. TNF-*α* can induce collagen synthesis and fibrosis \[[@B19]\]. A previous study demonstrated that TNF-*α* gene polymorphisms and high expression of this cytokine were associated with human infection with *T. cruzi* \[[@B20]\]. In the present study, a positive association was observed between heart failure and fibrosis. In this respect, the loss of contractile cells and their replacement by fibrotic tissue contribute to heart failure. TNF-*α* may be part of this phenomenon, inducing tissue damage and fibrosis development. Other studies have shown TNF-producing cells in association with areas of tissue damage in acute models of *T. cruzi* infection \[[@B14]\]. In addition, the presence of this cytokine has been constantly observed in histopathological studies of hearts from subjects who had died of Chagas\' disease \[[@B8]\]. TNF-*α* may also contribute to the development of heart failure through apoptosis and the induction of NOS2, producing nitric oxide which exerts strong negative inotropic effects \[[@B21]--[@B25]\]. TNF-*α* and IFN-*γ* act synergistically on NOS2 expression and the subsequent induction of death of the parasite \[[@B9]\]. In the present study, IFN-*γ* was positively associated with heart failure. Considering that IFN-*γ* has antifibrotic properties and TNF-*α* is involved in fibrosis, the synergistic effect of the two cytokines on NOS2 expression may have contributed to the development of heart failure. These results suggest that cytokines involved in parasite control, such as TNF-*α* and IFN-*γ* and the major mediator of parasite death, nitric oxide, may persist and induce mechanisms of tissue damage that contribute to the development of heart failure. This study clearly demonstrated the predominance of a Th1 immune response in the inflammatory reaction seen in the heart of subjects with severe forms of Chagas\' disease. The local production of IFN-*γ* is functional, since STAT4 mRNA was overexpressed in subjects with heart failure. Furthermore, IFN-*γ*-induced genes are upregulated in heart samples from patients with Chagas\' disease \[[@B26]\]. Studies have shown a protective role of CD4+ T lymphocytes and IFN-*γ* responses in anti-*T. cruzi* immunity in murine models of Chagas\' disease \[[@B27]--[@B30]\]. Conversely, studying chronic human infection with *T. cruzi*, other investigators demonstrated the production of higher levels of IFN-*γ* by PBMC from cardiac patients when compared to asymptomatic subjects and associated this production with pathogenesis \[[@B31], [@B32]\]. In conclusion, the present results show that the heart infiltrating T cells in Chagas\' disease mainly have a Th1 phenotype. Severe heart involvement leading to heart failure seems to be multifactorial and associated with the presence of IFN-*γ*- and TNF-*α*-producing cells. Continuous antigen stimulation may help sustain the inflammatory response, with the intensity and pattern of this response promoting tissue damage and heart cell dysfunction that lead to heart failure. The authors declare no conflict of interests. This study was supported by grants from FAPEMIG and CNPq. {#fig1} {#fig2} {#fig3} {#fig4} {#fig5} [^1]: Academic Editor: Anderson Sá-Nunes

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Now, Feral Dogs Attack 11-Year-Old in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki Wasif Jamshed said that the dogs are not the usual stray dogs, they might be the ones which were brought to protect mango orchards or farms and might have been let off by the owners for some reason or the other. Representative image Lucknow: An 11-year-old in Barabanki was attacked by a pack of feral dogs when he took out his goats for grazing on Sunday. The incident took place in Ambera village under Mohammadpur police station in Barabanki. The boy saved his life by rushing into a nearby house, but the dogs killed around seven goats. Speaking to News18, the 11-year-old victim said, “The dogs attacked me when I was grazing my goats, I ran to a nearby house to save myself. I had a stick in my hand which helped me in saving myself, still the dogs bit me badly on the hand. The dogs killed all my goats after attacking me.” The Gram Pradhan of Ambera village, Daulatram said, “The entire village is shocked by the incident and now people are scared. We don’t know from where these dogs have come here.” Interestingly, the Barabanki belt is also known for Mango orchards just like the Khairabad (Sitapur) area. The stray dog menace was till now limited to a particular area in Sitapur district, but it seems it has now reached Barabanki as well. Wasif Jamshed, a wildlife expert who is looking into the dog menace in Sitapur, said that the dogs who are attacking humans in Sitapur are not the usual stray dogs. He said the dogs might be the ones which were brought to protect mango orchards or farms and might have been let off by the owners for some reason or the other. Last week, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had instructed his administration to keep a tab on stray dogs. The Chief Minister visited the families of the deceased children in Sitapur and announced ex-gratia amount of Rs 2 lakh for the victims' kin. Catch the biggest newsmakers and the biggest newsbreaks on CNN-News18, the only news destination. Keep watching CNN-News18 at just 50 paise per month. Contact your cable/DTH operator now!

Q: Twig roles checking is redirect When I trying to check user roles in the Twig with is_granted() not return boolean just redirect to the login path. {% if is_granted('ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN') == true %} # without == true tested. <a href="{{ path('foo_bar') }}">Foo Bar Link</a> {% endif %} Symfony: 4.1 A: My problem solved when I change the Authenticator before change: $isPasswordValid = $this->encoder->isPasswordValid($user, $token->getCredentials()); if ($isPasswordValid) { return new UsernamePasswordToken($user, $user->getPassword(), $providerKey, $user->getRoles()); } and after change it to: $isPasswordValid = $this->encoder->isPasswordValid($user, $token->getCredentials()); if ($isPasswordValid or $token->getUser() instanceof User) { return new UsernamePasswordToken($user, $user->getPassword(), $providerKey, $user->getRoles()); } I append $token->getUser() instanceof User to the conditation.

This holiday, Disney Store will dazzle its guests with a wide range of exclusive Disney toys, seasonal décor, hand-crafted ornaments, and stocking stuffers for the entire family. Bargain-hunters and night owls can get a head start on holiday shopping this year as Disney Store prepares to open more than 130 stores nationwide at midnight on “Magical Friday” Nov. 26 (Black Friday). Guests who arrive between midnight and 10 a.m. can take advantage of 20 percent off all items and “Magical Friday” deals as low as $5. DisneyStore.com will continue the holiday cheer with one-day online-only prices on more than 1,000 gifts on Cyber Monday (Nov. 29). Guests can check DisneyStore.com daily for the day’s Top 10 selling items to inspire gift ideas to round out their holiday shopping list. From “Magical Friday” through “Cyber Monday,” more than 10 million guests will visit Disney Store to find the hottest toys and unique Disney-inspired products to delight everyone. “More than 95% of Disney Store product is exclusive to the store – items you can’t find anywhere else. Shoppers will get special deals on the hottest assortments–all inspired by hit Disney entertainment such as this year’s blockbuster Toy Story 3 and Tangled which releases Thanksgiving week,” said Jim Fielding, president of Disney Stores Worldwide. “At Disney Store we take great pride in the quality of our products, storytelling details, and the smiles we bring to children when they unwrap their gifts at home this holiday.” Pixar Animation Studios has sent us these new stills from Cars 2 which features Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen, Larry the Cable Guy as Tow Mater, Michael Caine as Finn McMissile, Joe Mantegna as Grem, Peter Jacobson as Acer, Jason Isaacs as Siddeley, Thomas Kretschmann as Professor Z and Emily Mortimer as Holley Shiftwell. no images were found Cars 2 features the originating voices of Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen and Larry the Cable Guy as Tow Mater and will race into theaters nationwide on June 24, 2011 in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D. For more information on Cars 2, follow this live bookmark. Disney Consumer Products (DCP) has commissioned Fabien Baron, Douglas Lloyd & Lee Swillingham with Stuart Spalding to design a stylistic interpretation of TRON: Legacy, the high-tech 3D adventure releasing in U.S. theaters Dec. 17, 2010 in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D. The resulting designs will appear on the TRON: Legacy Creative Director T-shirt Series, a limited edition line for him and her comprised of three designs (one from each artist collaboration) for a total of six shirts. The line will be available only at the official Disney TRON Pop Up Shop at Royal/T in Culver City, CA (Nov. 19 – Dec. 23, 2010) and will retail for under $50. From November 22 through December 19, Nintendo of America will be hosting a ‘Holiday Mall Experience’ at 23 shopping malls nationwide to promote new and upcoming titles for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DSi including Epic Mickey from Disney Interactive Studios and Junction Point Studios, offering many to get a hands-on first look at the game more than a week before its official release on November 30. Confirmed locations for the event are listed after the jump. For more information on Epic Mickey, follow this live bookmark. Work will soon begin on a completely re-imagined Pleasure Island and other one-of-a-kind experiences as Walt Disney World Resort continues to bring new stories to life at Downtown Disney. Combined, the projects are expected to create an estimated 1,200 new jobs over the next three years. “We have made great progress since first announcing our vision to bring new shopping, dining and entertainment experiences to Downtown Disney, many of which can’t be found anywhere else and have already become guest favorites,” said Keith Bradford, vice president of Downtown Disney. “We look forward to providing even more ways for our guests to enjoy Downtown Disney, while at the same time creating new jobs for Central Floridians.” Opening Ceremony has collaborated with Disney Consumer Products to create a special capsule collection inspired by the new Walt Disney Pictures’ film, TRON: Legacy. Opening Ceremony travels into the TRON universe where high-tech aesthetics and neon dominate to create a futuristic fashion collection.

Efficient muco-ciliary clearance is maintained by a multi-regulatory system complex. The prime objective of the proposed work is to elucidate the fundamental organization and behaviour characteristics of the regulatory system complex by a comprehensive approach. Further refinement of the model of muco-ciliary clearance and development of the basis for a rational approach to prevention and treatment of chronic lung diseases related to environmental noxious agents is our ultimate goal. Relying on a chemical and rheological joint approach, studies will be carried out to fully explore the molecular structure of respiratory mucus glycoproteins with a special focus on the nature of intermolecular crosslinks, and to elucidate the rheological and structural relationship. Based on the structural information, efficient and meaningful micromethods for chemical profile characterizations of major components of mucus secretions will then be developed. As such methods become available, the study will further be extended to elucidate various physological and environmental factors influencing the physicochemical states of mucus secretions and to evaluate the functional significance, in terms of efficiency of muco-ciliary clearance, of such influence.

[Experimental study of the allergenic activity of the pollen of Cyclachena xanthifolia]. Comparative studies of Cyclachena xantifolia and Ambrosia artemisifolia have been carried out by light, scanning and electron microscopy. Cyclachena xantifolia allergic properties have been examined in guinea-pigs. Senstization of animals has caused the increased number of immunocompetent cells in regional and distant lymph nodes, the appearance of high titers of reagin-like antibodies capable of fixing in the skin. Injection of the proper dose of allergen has resulted in the development of anaphylactic shock of different severity. The role of Cyclachena xantifolia in the etiology of pollinoses has been ascertained.

[Surgical treatment of fractures of the olecranon]. 56 patients with olecranon displaced fractures have been studied. The diastasis exceeding 1 cm and the failure of the closed reposition served as indications for surgical interventions. The olecranon fixation was performed by means of silk and wire sutures (11 cases), with a screw (8), with a rod (4), with a compression fixative, devised by the author (33). The check of the late results in 54 patients has shown the union of the fracture and good results in all the cases, but as to the terms of the functional and working capacity restoration--it was 2 to 3 times shorter with the osteosynthesis with the compression fixative than with the suture or rod osteosynthesis.

Ability of lactoferrin to promote the growth of Bifidobacterium spp. in vitro is independent of receptor binding capacity and iron saturation level. Lactoferrin (Lf) is an iron-binding protein which has been shown to inhibit the growth of various bacterial pathogens and promote the growth of anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bifidobacterium in vitro. The present study was designed to investigate whether the bifidobacteria growth promotion activity of Lf is correlated with either the binding of Lf to bifidobacterial cells or the iron saturation of Lf. Bovine Lf (bLf) from mature milk increased the growth of B. infantis and B. breve in vitro in a dose-dependent fashion, while much less growth promotion activity was found for B. bifidum. In contrast, human Lf (huLf) from mature milk promoted the growth of B. bifidum and was inactive for B. infantis and B. breve, while bLf from colostrum was devoid of bifidobacteria growth promotion activity. Changes in the iron content of Lf did not alter the bifidobacteria growth promotion activity of either bLf or huLf preparations. Competitive binding studies with biotinylated milk bLf showed that binding of bLf was inhibited by unlabelled bLf and huLf but not by beta-lactoglobulin, alpha-lactalbumin or transferrin. Binding of bLf to B. bifidum and B. breve was c. 40-fold higher than binding to Escherichia coli. Colostrum bLf was also found to bind to B. bifidum and B. breve, despite a lack of in-vitro growth promotion activity. Collectively, these results demonstrate that the ability of Lf to promote the growth of Bifidobacterium spp. in vitro is independent of the iron saturation level for Lf and suggest that binding of Lf to bifidobacteria cells may be involved but is not sufficient for stimulation of bifidobacterial growth.

With the advent of high speed xerographic copy reproduction machines wherein copies can be produced at a rate in excess of three thousand copies per hour, the need for a document handler to feed documents to the copy platen of the machine in a rapid, dependable matter was recognized to enable full utilization of the reproduction machines potential copy output. A number of document handlers are currently available to fill that need. These document handlers must operate flawlessly to virtually eliminate the risk of damaging the originals and generate minimum machine shutdowns due to uncorrectable misfeeds or document multifeeds. It is in the initial separation of the individual documents from the document stack where the greatest number of problems occur. Since the documents must be handled gently but positively to assure separation without damage through a number of cycles, a number of separators have been suggested such as friction rolls or belts used for fairly positive document feeding in conjunction with a retard belt, pad, or roll to prevent multifeeds. Vacuum separators such as sniffer tubes, rocker type vacuum rolls, or vacuum feed belts have also been utilized. While the friction roll-retard systems are very positive, the action of the retard member, if it acts upon the printed face can cause smearing or partial erasure of the printed material on the document. With single sided documents, this does not present a problem as the separator can be designed so that the retard mechanism acts upon the underside of the document. However, with documents printed on both sides, there is no way to avoid the problem. Additionally, the reliable operation of friction retard feeders are highly dependent on the relative frictional properties of the paper being handled. This cannot be controlled in a document feeder. It is therefore the object of this invention to provide an improved vacuum feeder which consistantly feeds sheets in a positive yet gentle manner without multifeeds.

Previewing Tonight’s Big Games Both these teams look pretty evenly matched. I’m going to have to go with the Cardinals on this one though, because they have an elite quarterback and they’re definitely going to be mad coming off of a triple overtime loss to Connecticut. Atlanta 10-1-0 Looking past the records both teams are looking great. New Orleans just came off a tough loss to San Francisco, but their offense is really clicking. So is Atlanta’s though. Call it a hunch, but I think going against a 10-1 team is a bad idea. My Pick: Atlanta Well I was 6-0 last week in college football so wahoo! Let’s start this week off well

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Intestinal brush-border membrane enzyme activities and transport functions during prenatal development of pigs. Enzyme activities and rates of leucine and glucose uptake were measured using brush-border membrane vesicles prepared from the small intestine of 7-, 8-, 10-, and 12-week fetal (43, 49, 61, and 74% of gestation) and unsuckled, neonatal pigs. Lactase was detected in 7-week fetuses, with a large increase in activity between 10 weeks of gestation and birth. gamma-Glutamyltranspeptidase activity was stable throughout gestation, whereas sucrase activity was not detected. Active L-leucine uptake was already present at 7 weeks of gestation, with an increasing distal-to-proximal gradient observed at birth. D-glucose uptake was low at 7 weeks, but by 8 weeks it exhibited a typical overshoot phenomenon and established a decreasing proximal-to-distal gradient by 12 weeks. D-glucose uptake at all ages was directly related to incubation temperature, but less so for 7- and 10-week fetuses. By 12 weeks strict Na(+)-dependency of D-glucose uptake was observed along the entire length of the small intestine. Kinetic analysis of Na(+)-D-glucose cotransport showed a shift from the presence of both high- and low-affinity systems at 8 weeks of gestation to a single high-affinity Michaelian component at birth. In light of similarities with human fetuses, the pig may be a valuable model for studying development of intestinal transport during gestation, particularly during the final trimester, when availability of human tissue is limited.

Alterations in brain microstructure in rats that develop abnormal aggression following peripubertal stress. Exposure to early adversity is implicated in the development of aggressive behaviour later in life in some but not all individuals. The reasons for the variability in response to such experiences are not clear but may relate to pre-existing individual differences that influence their downstream effects. Applying structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to a rat model of abnormal aggression induced by peripubertal stress, we examined whether individual differences in the development of an aggressive phenotype following stress exposure were underpinned by variation in the structure of aggression-associated, corticolimbic brain regions. We also assessed whether responsiveness of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to stress was associated with neurobehavioural outcome following adversity. A subset of the rats exposed to peripubertal stress developed an aggressive phenotype, while the remaining rats were affected in other behavioural domains, such as increased anxiety-like behaviours and reduced sociability. Peripubertal stress led to changes in tissue microstructure within prefrontal cortex, amygdala and hippocampal formation only in those individuals displaying an aggressive phenotype. Attenuated glucocorticoid response to stress during juvenility predicted the subsequent development of an aggressive phenotype in peripubertal stress-exposed rats. Our study establishes a link between peripubertal stress exposure in rats and structural deviations in brain regions linked to abnormal aggression and points towards low glucocorticoid responsiveness to stress as a potential underlying mechanism. We additionally highlight the importance of considering individual differences in behavioural response to stress when determining neurobiological correlates.

It’s an organization’s North Star that enables agility in times of change and transformation. We all know that in today’s business world it’s essential to stay flexible and be agile. Here is a portion of Jan Bruce’s take on the importance of a clear sense of purpose in enabling agility. Jan is the CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, the only human capital management platform based on the science of resilience, writing here for Forbes. No one ever became a great leader without first becoming a great communicator. Great leaders connect with people on an emotional level every time they speak. Their words inspire others to achieve more than they ever thought possible. Here is Travis Bradberry’s take on what makes a great communicator from Success.com. Quotes can be written off as cliches or old har yet here at Thought Patrol we hold them in high esteem. Often a quote is the pinnaxacal or concentrated wisdom of a successful life work; an expression of the ideals achievements and wisdom of an esteemed individual. Here’s a collection sourced from Inc, curated by John Eades, Author, podcaster, and CEO of LearnLoft. Here at Thought Patrol we are often looking at the big picture, the transformational leadership traits, sustainable culture change programs and agile strategic mapping. However often its the small things that matter most. Writing here for Inc, Chris Ronzio Founder and... Likability is one of the most important traits of any leader. But it doesn’t mean being a pushover. Often, the leaders who are the most likable produce the best results, and are driven and passionate. People respect the high standard that they set for themselves and their organizations. To be likeable, leaders need to be the kind of person that they would like themselves. Ken Goswell is the CEO of the CXP – CEO Experience. His mission is to provide resources to leaders who desire to learn fast to lead further. Here is is take on how leaders can be likeable from Forbes.com “To build and lead an agile organization, it’s crucial that senior leaders develop new mind-sets and capabilities to transform themselves, their teams, and the organization.” Self evident in our view but in this case articulated well by the denizens of consulting McKinsey. Here is there article complete with comprehensive downloadable pdfs that go into detail of just how important Agile Leadership has become. Don’t take our word for it, deep dive into the thought leaders’ analysis. But we do like it when the establishment are now realising what we have been saying for years! For many organizations, surviving and thriving in today’s environment depends on making a fundamental transformation to become more agile. Want to See a Toxic Boss in Action? They’ll Destroy the Workplace in Any of These 5 Ways, according to Marcel Schwantes, the Principal and founder, of Leadership From the Core. It makes you wonder why we continue to promote these people into leadership roles. Over the years, he’s delved into the leadership literature, interviewed countless employees, and collected hundreds of survey responses to answer one simple question: What are the top mistakes leaders in the workplace make more frequently than others? Here is Marcel’s article originally published in Inc. There’s no shortage of leadership content available. As you’re reading this article, millions of other people around the world are gaining knowledge on how to become better leaders via YouTube, blogs, audiobooks, and podcasts. But the alarming part is, the... Alessandro Di Fiore, writing here for HBR, has tackled the misnomer that agile is somehow lest robust, or that planning is obsolete in an agile strategic planning approach such as Stragile. She points out that many say, “Now, strategic planning has fallen out of favor. In the face of relentless technological change, disruptive forces in industry after industry, global competition”, and so on, planning seems like pointless wishful thinking. Alessandro argues the counter. Honoured to be interviewed by Asia Pacific Associate Editor, for Entrepreneur.com Aashika Jain. In this article I cover what makes a good leader and why culture is so important. Enjoy! Great Leaders Only Serve Their Teams says This Leadership Advisor You are only as good as the people around you, says Mark Bilton. Leading 40 countries as the Group Managing Director of one of the most popular coffee chains in the world is no cake walk. When it comes to culture, strategy and transformational change, Mark Bilton raises his hand as among the best in the world.

Challenges to the developmental study of coping. We summarize progress in the developmental study of coping, including specification of a multilevel framework, construction of definitions of coping that rely on regulation as a core concept, and identification of developmentally graded members of families of coping. We argue that these accomplishments are a prelude to the real tasks of a developmental agenda: (1) identifying age-graded shifts in how children and adolescents recognize, react to, and deal with the stressors they encounter in their daily lives; (2) determining the developmental processes that underlie these shifts; and (3) describing and explaining differential pathways for negotiating these normative transitions.

--- title: "SHOW TABLES in Riak TS" description: "Using the SHOW TABLES statement in Riak TS" menu: riak_ts-1.5.1: name: "SHOW TABLES" identifier: "show_tables_riakts" weight: 300 parent: "querying_data_riakts" project: "riak_ts" project_version: "1.5.1" toc: true aliases: - /riakts/1.5.1/using/querying/show-tables canonical_link: "https://docs.basho.com/riak/ts/latest/using/querying/show-tables" --- [riak shell]: /riak/ts/1.5.1/using/riakshell You can use the SHOW TABLES statement to enumerate the Riak TS tables you have set up. This document will show you how to execute `SHOW TABLES` in TS. The SHOW TABLES statement returns a list of tables you've created in a single column with one row per table name. For example: ```sql SHOW TABLES ``` Returns: ```sql +---------------+------------+ | Table | Status | +---------------+------------| | RandomTable | Active | | GeoCheckin | Active | | UpcomingTable | Not Active | |AnotherTable | Active | | FinalTable | Active | +---------------+------------+ ``` You can use `SHOW TABLES` in [riak shell]: ``` riak-shell>show tables; +---------------+------------+ | Table | Status | +---------------+------------| | RandomTable | Active | | GeoCheckin | Active | | UpcomingTable | Not Active | |AnotherTable | Active | | FinalTable | Active | +---------------+------------+ ``` Using TS's supported clients, a successful `SHOW TABLE` will return a regular successful query result: ``` +---------------+------------+ | Table | Status | +---------------+------------| | RandomTable | Active | | GeoCheckin | Active | | UpcomingTable | Not Active | |AnotherTable | Active | | FinalTable | Active | +---------------+------------+ ```

Implications of nitric oxide synthase isoforms in the pathophysiology of Peyronie's disease. Peyronie's disease is an idiopathic, localized connective tissue disorder of the penis which involves the tunica albuginea of the corpus cavernosum and the adjacent areolar space. Peyronie's disease is characterized by local changes in the collagen and elastic fiber composition of the tunica albuginea. The formation of fibrotic plaques alters penile anatomy and can cause different degrees of bending and narrowing, as well as penile pain and erectile dysfunction. Though long recognized as an important clinical entity of the male genitalia, the etiology of this disease has remained poorly understood. Until recently there have been no studies to examine the role nitric oxide (NO) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms may play in the onset and progression of Peyronie's disease. NO is a potent biological mediator with diverse physiological and pathophysiological roles. The purpose of this review is to describe each of the NOS isoforms and their potential roles in the pathophysiology of Peyronie's disease, with particular emphasis on the regulation of endothelial and inducible NOS isoforms.

Introduction to the Mill CPU Programming Model - luu http://ootbcomp.com/topic/introduction-to-the-mill-cpu-programming-model-2/ ====== TrainedMonkey Interesting, the architecture looks greatly simplified compared to even standard RISC (As opposed to lets say x86). Due to that simplification it will be power efficient while being inherently highly parallel. Would be interesting to find out: 1\. How high that degree of parallelism can be pushed, are we talking about tens or hundreds of pipelines? 2\. What frequency this will operate at? 3\. What is up with RAM? I saw nothing about memory, with lots of pipelines it is bound to be memory bound. ~~~ willvarfar Hi, I'm the author of that intro. The talks which Ivan has been giving - there are links in that intro - go into everything in much more detail. But here's a quick overview of your specific questions: 1: we manage to issue 33 operations / sec. This is easily a world record :) The way we do this is covered in the Instruction Encoding talk. We could conceivably push it further, but its diminishing returns. We can have lots of cores too. 2: its process agnostic; the dial goes all the way up to 11 3: the on-chip cache is much quicker than conventional architectures as the TLB is not on the critical path and we typically have ~25% fewer reads on general purpose code due to backless memory and implicit zero. The main memory is conventional memory, though; if your algorithm is zig zagging unpredictably through main memory we can't magic that away ~~~ sp332 33 ops/sec? :) ~~~ willvarfar Oooh, too late for me to correct that particular typo :) 33 ops / cycle, sustained. Last night we also published an example list of the FU mix on those pipelines here: [http://ootbcomp.com/topic/introduction-to- the-mill-cpu-progr...](http://ootbcomp.com/topic/introduction-to-the-mill-cpu- programming-model-2/#post-610) ------ JoeAltmaier Some kinds of code will benefit from this - long calculations and deep nested procedures. But lots of hangups on consumer applications are in synchronization, kernel calls, copying and event handling. I'd like to see an architecture address those somehow. E.g. virtualize hardware devices instead of writing kernel-mode drivers. Create instructions to synchronize hyperthreads instead of kernel calls (e.g. a large (128bit?) event register, a stall-on-event opcode). If interrupts were events then a thread could wait on an interrupt without entering the kernel. ~~~ willvarfar Actually, the Mill is designed to address this; it has TLS segment for cheap green threading, SAS for cheap syscall and microkernel arch, cheap calls and several details for IPC which are not public yet. ~~~ JoeAltmaier What about synchronization? Folks are terrified of threads because synchronizing is so hard. But a thread model can be the simplest especially in message models. ------ Mjolnir Very very interesting, thanks for sharing! What would the path be to using existing code/where would Mill appear logically first? Also, could something like Mill work well within the HSA/Fusion/hybrid GPGPU paradigm? E.g. from my very amateur reading of your documents, it looks like a much needed and very substantial improvement to single threaded code; how would a mixed case where we have heavy matrix multiplication in some parts of our code as part of a pipeline with sequential dependencies work? Would an ideal case be a cluster (or some fast interconnect fabric in a multi socket system) of multi core Mill chips be the future? Realistically, is this something that LLVM could relatively easily target? A simple add in card that could give something like Julia an order of magnitude improvement would be a very interesting proposition, especially in the HPC market. I come at this mainly from an interest how this will benefit compute intense machine learning/AI applications. Sorry for all the questions. ~~~ rcxdude The latest talk on their website mentions the LLVM status in passing at the end. Essentially they're moving their internal compiler over to use LLVM, but it requires fixing/removing some assumptions in LLVM because the architecture is so different, and the porting effort was interrupted by their emergence from stealth mode to file patents. ~~~ Mjolnir Thanks, I'll have a look at the talks. ------ fleitz Great idea, since it's all theoretical currently I'm wondering with the compiler offloading how well it will actually perform. Itanium was capable of doing some amazing things, but the compiler tech never quite worked out. ~~~ willvarfar Ah, but the Mill was primarily designed by a compiler writer ;) Here's Ivan's bio that is tagged on his talks: "Ivan Godard has designed, implemented or led the teams for 11 compilers for a variety of languages and targets, an operating system, an object-oriented database, and four instruction set architectures. He participated in the revision of Algol68 and is mentioned in its Report, was on the Green team that won the Ada language competition, designed the Mary family of system implementation languages, and was founding editor of the Machine Oriented Languages Bulletin. He is a Member Emeritus of IFIPS Working Group 2.4 (Implementation languages) and was a member of the committee that produced the IEEE and ISO floating-point standard 754-2011." So actually its been designed almost compiler-first :) ~~~ fleitz Still interested in how it works in practice. I'm pretty sure the Itanium team combined with Intel's compiler team have similar credentials. I'm not saying it can't work, not saying it won't work, but we know that most code pointer chases. While CPU and compiler design is above my paygrade I know that often a lot of fancy CPU/design and compiler tricks that make things twice as fast on some benchmark leads to 2 to 3% performance gains on pointer chasing code. Not sure how the Mill is going to make my ruby webapp go 8 times as fast by issuing 33 instructions instead of 4. ~~~ haberman > Not sure how the Mill is going to make my ruby webapp go 8 times as fast by > issuing 33 instructions instead of 4. 8x speed is not being claimed, 10x power/performance is. That could mean that the app runs at the same speed but the CPU uses 10% of the power. A lot of the power saving probably comes from eliminating many part of modern CPUs like out-of-order circuitry. ~~~ fleitz Ok, so now that it's 10x power/performance I buy 10 of these things and it still only delivers 5% more webpages. This kind of mealymouthed microbenchmark crap is exactly what the industry doesn't need, if I have a bunch of code that is pure in order mul/div/add/sub then I put it on a GPU that I already have and it goes gangbusters. The problem is most code chases pointers. Like I said, great idea, would love to see something that can actually serve webpages 10x as fast or 1/10th the power (and cost similar to today's systems) ~~~ sp332 I never thought of serving webpages as being CPU-bound. Anyway, to get a 10x speedup, you would have to buy enough of these to use as much power as whatever you're replacing. So if one Mill CPU uses 2% as much power as a Haswell, then you'd have to buy 50 of them to see a 10x performance improvement over the Haswell. ------ cpr Does anyone know how this compares with VLIW designs like the original Yale/Multiflow machines? Seems very familiar. (I ask as a survivor of Multiflow in the late 80's. ;-) ~~~ outside1234 Or more recently, how does this compare to the Itanic from Intel? ~~~ jmz92 Some of the memory ideas are similar--Itanium had some good ideas about "hoisting" loads [1] which I think are more flexible than the Mill's solution. In general, this is a larger departure from existing architectures than Itanium was. Comparing it with Itanium, I doubt it will be successful in the marketplace for these reasons: -Nobody could write a competitive compiler for Itanium, in large part because it was just different (VLIW-style scheduling is hard). The Mill is stranger still. -Itanium failed to get a foothold despite a huge marketing effort from the biggest player in the field. -Right now, everybody's needs are being met by the combination of x86 and ARM (with some POWER, MIPS, and SPARC on the fringes). These are doing well enough right now that very few people are going to want to go through the work to port to a wildly new architecture. [1] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_load_address_table](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_load_address_table) ~~~ jitl > -Right now, everybody's needs are being met by the > combination of x86 and ARM (with some POWER, MIPS, and > SPARC on the fringes). These are doing well enough > right now that very few people are going to want to go > through the work to port to a wildly new architecture. That's not true at all. The biggest high-performance compute is being done on special parallel architectures from Nvidia [1] (Tesla). Intel trying to bring X86 back into the race with its Xeon Phi co-processer boards [2]. [1] [http://www.top500.org/lists/2013/11/](http://www.top500.org/lists/2013/11/) [2] [http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-...](http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon- phi-detail.html) ~~~ Scaevolus The Mill aims to be good at general purpose computation. HPC is _not_ general purpose computation, and is a tiny fraction of the market. ------ solarexplorer > The Mill has a 10x single-thread power/performance gain over conventional > out-of-order (OoO) superscalar architectures It would be nice to know how they got that number. Because it seems to be too good to be true. ~~~ Guvante I am pretty sure they are talking about per-cycle performance. Since they can do 33 operations per cycle. IIRC the peak performance of an Intel chip at the moment is 6 FLOP per 2 cycles (or there abouts). Of course this is beyond ridiculous since a 780 TI can pull off 5 TFLOP/sec on a little under a GHz clock, 5,000 FLOP per cycle is a little more than 33. It seems like an interesting design, but comparing performance against what an x64 chip can do is a bit silly, you can't just pick numbers at random and call that the overall improvement. ~~~ pbsd A Haswell core can do 2 vector multiply-adds per cycle, which results in a peak of 32 single-precision FLOP per cycle per core or 16 double-precision FLOP per cycle per core. ~~~ willvarfar The instruction encoding talk starts with comparison between Mill, DSP and Haswell and tries to explain the basic math. The Mill is a DSP that can run normal, "general purpose" code better - 10x better - than an OoO superscalar. The Mill used in the comparison - one for your laptop - is able to issue 8 SIMD integer ops and 2 SIMD FP ops each cycle, plus other logic. ~~~ pbsd I was strictly replying to the Intel FLOPs claim of the parent comment. I have only a faint idea how the Mill CPU works, so I can't really compare against it. From the little I have read, the Mill CPU looks like a cool idea, but I'm skeptical about the claims. I'd rather see claims of efficiency on particular kernels (this can be cherry-picked too, but at least it will be useful to _somebody_ ) than pure instruction decoding/issuing numbers. Those are like peak FLOPs: depending on the rest of the architecture they can become effectively impossible to achieve in reality. In any case, I'm looking forward to hearing more about this. ~~~ willvarfar Apologies, I was replying to the thread in general and not your post in particular. Art has now published the 33 pipeline breakdown on the "Gold" Mill here: [http://ootbcomp.com/topic/introduction-to-the-mill-cpu- progr...](http://ootbcomp.com/topic/introduction-to-the-mill-cpu-programming- model-2/#post-610) A key thing generally is that vectorisation on the Mill is applicable to almost all while loops, so is about speeding up normal code (which is 80% loops with conditions and flow of control) as well as classic math. ------ sehugg For those that are mainly software-oriented, the Lighterra overview posted earlier is helpful background for understanding where VLIW fits into the zoo of CPU architectures: [http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/](http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/) ------ Symmetry This whole thing is just horribly exciting for a computer architecture geek like me. I am somewhat worried about the software side given the number of OS changes that would have to be made to support this. But then again, there are lots of places in the world where people are running simple RTOSes on high end chips and the Mill probably has a good chance there. The initial plan to use an older process and automated design means that the Mill can probably be profitable in relatively modest volumes. ------ adamnemecek This might be one of the most interesting things posted on HN. ------ petermonsson There is something that I can't get to add up here. The phasing claims that there are only 3 pipeline stages compared to 5 in the textbook RISC architecture or 14-16 in a conventional Intel processor, but this can't possibly add up with the 4 cycle division or the 5 cycle mis-predict penalty. What am I getting wrong? ~~~ willvarfar The phase says when the op issues. It takes some number of cycles before it retires. So an divide issues in the "op phase" in the second cycle, and if on the particular Mill model it takes 4 cycles then it retires on the fifth. If there is a mispredict, there is a stall while the correct instruction is fetched from the instruction L1 cache. If you are unlucky, it's not there and you need to wait longer. ~~~ petermonsson OK, so the phases aren't an apples to apples comparison to the traditional pipeline stage, but more in line with the TI C6x fetch, decode, execute pipeline which for TI covers something like 4 fetch stages, 2 decode stages and between 1and 5 execute stages. Thank you for the clarification ~~~ willvarfar We'll post the video of the Execution talk covering __phasing __to Mill forums today or tomorrow or so. ootbcomp.com /forum/the-mill/architecture/ ------ DiabloD3 I can't wait until designs like this become common. ------ the_mitsuhiko I still want to know how to implement fork for it. ~~~ kristianp There is some discussion of fork here: [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.arch/sICkAag4ga...](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.arch/sICkAag4gao) ------ chmike I'm skeptic of the belt efficiency. Memory storage will be wasted. What do we gain with it ? ~~~ Rusky From what I understand it would have very similar characteristics to current register renaming. You just get direct access to the whole register file rather than just a few ISA registers. I think it would require some instruction scheduling to make optimal use of it, but that means the silicon doesn't need that logic so cores can be smaller and more efficient. ------ snorkel Very interesting reading. Are such procs already being sold or is this still on the workbench? ~~~ szatkus No, it will available in few years :( ------ karavelov In my regards it seems that one of their sources of inspiration were Transmeta processors - VLIW core, software translator from some intermediate bytecode (x86 in case of transmeta). I hope they will get it better this time. ~~~ jlouis They don't translate. Rather, they compile code to their instruction set. ~~~ Symmetry Well, the plan is to distribute an intermediate representation and then specialize it to the particular mill pipeline the first time you load the binary. Probably a lot easier than translating something that wasn't designed for it. ~~~ mjn I believe IBM mainframes have traditionally used something like that: binary code is shipped for a general mainframe architecture, and on first execution is specialized to the hardware / performance characteristics of the particular model within that architecture that you're running. Also allows for transparent upgrades, since if you migrate to a new model, the binary will re- specialize itself on the next execution, (ideally) taking advantage of whatever fancy new hardware you bought. ------ cordite How well could LLVM be converted to the mill intermediate language? ~~~ willvarfar We are starting work on an LLVM back end now. The tool chain will be described in an upcoming talk, so subscribe to the mailing list if you want to be in the audience or watch any available live streams. I am also going to make a doc or presentation called "A Sufficiently Smart Compiler" to explain how easily the Mill can vectorise your normal code and so on :)

Q: please help me for loop c++ i don't to run it i can't to write a code to for loop c++ I want it to be 1 21 321 4321 But I do not write that way. #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int num; cin>>num; for(int i=1;i<=num;i++) { for(int j=1;j<=i;j++) { cout<<j; } cout<<endl; } cin.get(); } it outputs: 1 12 123 1234 12345 123456 1234567 12345678 123456789 A: Just change your second loop like this: for(int j=i; j>=1; j--) and it will work. DEMO

Q: Conditional probability. under which conditions $E$ and $F$ are independent? In a village where there are $M$ women and $H$ men, $m$ women smoke and $h$ men smoke. A person is chosen at random. Let $E$ be the event "The chosen person is female" and $F$ the event "the chosen person smokes" under which conditions $E$ and $F$ are independent? My work: We know two $E$ and $F$ are independent if $P(E|F)=\frac{P(E\cap F)}{P(F)}=P(E)$ We need calculate that probability $P(E\cap F)=\frac{m}{M}$ $P(F)=\frac{mh}{M+H}$ $P(E)=\frac{M}{M+H}$ then $P(E|F)=\frac{P(E\cap F)}{P(F)}=\frac{m(M+H)}{M(mh)}\not =\frac{M}{M+H}$ then the events are dependent. Here i'm stuck. can someone help me? A: The events are independent if and only if $P(E\cap F)=P(E)P(F)$. Thus it has to satisfy the following $$ \frac{m}{M+H}=\frac{M}{M+H}\frac{m+h}{M+H} \iff m=\frac{M(m+h)}{M+H} $$

Haddenham Runners By Haddenham Webteam - 3rd November 2013 6:30pm Looking for a means of keeping fit in a social group and in the company of good friends? Then Haddenham Runners may be the ideal choice. Haddenham Runners is a local running club that came into being in 1990. Members run in Haddenham and the surrounding villages on a Thursday evening during the summer months. The club's traditional season was from the first Thursday in May through to mid-September, when the lighter evenings allow safe running on the local roads. However, this has been extended recently, so that members now run all year round with the routes adapted for safer night time running. During the summer the club meets in Cuddington, at the Cricket club car park for 7pm. From there members run down to a local village and go through one of their scheduled routines. This is done for four weeks, on the fifth week they meet in Haddenham for the club handicap that is run around Haddenham. In September the final club handicap is run and the club shield competed for, with the first across the line taking the shield. Haddenham Runners is a friendly club. Members are encouraged to run at their own pace against themselves — there is no direct competing (unless you want to), and runs are varied each week. Haddenham Runners always welcome old and new faces. So if you fancy a run, come down to the Cricket club car park in Cuddington, for 7pm Thursdays. popular recent storiesAlso in the news Haddenham Youth FC Under-9s entered the Wycombe Futsal League back in June, which was played over three months of tournaments. Today Haddenham were crowned the winners!What makes this even more great is that the coach, Nick Cuthbert, didn't cherry pick the players, like most elite teams had. The players were selected based on attendance to Will's Futsal sessions on a Thursday. So... Local singer-songwriter and frequent contributor to The Vibe Acoustic Cafe, Jane Stovold, has recorded a song called 'Home to Haddenham'.With musical accompaniment from her partner Brian Fattorini and Maxine Macdonald, with additional voices from members of The Vibe, and technical support from Qunit Media, Jane has published a video featuring her song.The video includes a large... Rearranged after being rained-off in JulyIn association with the Buckinghamshire Cricket Board, Haddenham Cricket Club will be hosting a Women's Softball Cricket Tournament on Friday 31st August, from 5pm until sunset, on Woodways Recreation Ground.Why not get along and have a go? It's great fun and a game for absolutely everybody, no matter your skill level, fitness or age. The...

Grasso named D3baseball.com player of the year; four earn all-region honors May 23, 2017 SALISBURY, Md. – The organization D3baseball.com released its 2017 D3baseball.com All-South Region team Tuesday morning as four Salisbury University players earned recognition. Pete Grasso garnered top honors by the organization as he was named South Region Player of the Year. Grasso completed an outstanding senior season from both the plate and the mound. He played in 45 of 46 games, totaled team-highs in hits (72), batting average (.381), and at-bats (189). On the mound Grasso posted a 9-1 record with a team best 2.17 ERA while totaling 89 strikeouts and allowing only 22 earned runs. For his career Grasso will finish top-10 in multiple statistical categories for the maroon and gold including tied for fourth in games played (169); first in at-bats (690), hits (252), triples (13), and runs scored (198); second in RBI (177); tied for fifth in doubles (43); third in total bases (381); fourth in strikeouts (192); and third in saves with 10. This is the third postseason award for Grasso as he was named the Capital Athletic Conference Player of the Year and was also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team. Joining Grasso on the first team was fellow senior Tom LaBriola and sophomore Jack Barry. LaBriola completed a solid senior year campaign in which he started every game at catcher for the Gulls, totaled team-highs in RBI (50) and doubles (16), and finished with 348 putouts while catching 13 runners stealing. Barry turned in a solid second year in the maroon and gold leading the team in both home runs (12) and slugging percentage (.618) while finishing third on the team in doubles (11). He was the only player for Salisbury who tallied both double digit home runs and doubles this past season. Barry also finished one RBI away from tying for the team lead knocking 49 in 2017. Both LaBriola and Barry were also named All-CAC first-team selections earlier this month while LaBriola garnered CoSIDA Academic All-District honors as well. Jeff Oster rounded out the group being named to the second team. Oster completed his senior season with career-highs in starts (14), wins (10), complete games (2), and strikeouts (93) which was also a team-high. For the season he averaged 8.15 strikeouts per nine innings pitched while holding opponents to a team-low .225 batting average. This is Oster's second postseason accolade as he was an All-CAC first-team selection earlier this month. The 2017 season marks the sixth year that D3baseball.com has named All-Region teams, with 800 players nominated. The ballot was then made available to SIDs, who voted for a predetermined number of players in their region, as well as D3baseball.com staff and contributors. To view the D3baseball.com All-Region article in its entirety, click here.

The Sociological Imaginationhttp://sociologicalimagination.org A daily dose of the Sociological ImaginationTue, 03 Mar 2015 08:00:40 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1What constitutes a civilisational collapse?http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16920 http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16920#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 08:00:40 +0000http://sociologicalimagination.org/?p=16920Read More ›]]>What constitutes collapse? This is the important question which Phil BC asks in response to my post on the sociology of civilisational collapse. If I mean the notion as anything other than a fleeting speculative thought* then conceptual clarification is essential. I said in the original post that I understand collapseto be the loss of an ability to change state, as opposed to any particular catastrophic change in the social order. By this I mean that the social order, as an emergent totality, ceases to possess the capacity to change its state. It’s these objective possibilities for change, known fallibly by situated actors through all manner of cultural constructions, through which collective agents seek social transformation. It’s the activation of these latent capacities for change which iswhat people are fighting over. But what change ensues comes about through the unintended consequences arising from their conflictual plans rather than as the result of any grand design. But latent in any project of social transformation is a set of claims, implicit or explicit, concerning the capacity of the social order to change state. These claims may be idiotic, deluded or incoherent but they nonetheless have an objective referent. Accepting the objective capacities for change within any social order (though not necessarily our ability to know them with any reliability) allow us think about collapse in a sociological way. All manner of epistemological obstacles impede our knowledge of collapse but I don’t see this as creating any difficulties for attempting to posit it as a possibility. If the social order is an emergent totality, collapse can be best understood as itsde-emergence (if anyone could suggest a less clumsy antonym than this, I’ll be forever in your debt). The social order loses its malleability as a totality. This doesn’t mean it dissolves but it does mean it begins to crumble. It loses its susceptibility to steering. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (etc). Most of the examples Phil cites are about dramatic social transformations and in this sense they’re not instances of collapse: it’s this very susceptibility to transformation, even if the actual changes elude the intentions of those groups fighting over them, which I’m suggesting is lost under conditions of civilisational collapse. This is not a matter of the ‘parts’ of the society (people, social relations, organisations, institutions) but rather a feature of the ‘whole': an emergentist ontology lends itself to quite a specific understanding of civilisational collapse but this is obviously neither an argument for that ontology nor the notion of collapse itself. The de-emergence of the social order in this sense does not mean that we see the collapse of social order as such. As Phil points out, the durability of social relations mitigates against this: Therefore theorising about collapse has to take into consideration is thedurability of social relations. At certain levels of abstraction, sociology assumes the durability of social relationships because they have proven to be just that. There is social change, but the – on paper – precariously balanced division of labour with its innumerable interdependencies has not just survived, but has thrived economic shocks and world wars, and has spread itself across the globe. The social substance is elastic and tough, I’d wager, because on the one hand capitalist societies are constituted in their production and reproduction by irreducibly antagonistic relationships, and on the other human beings cannot be anything but social, meaning-making beings in the Goffman mode who, in turn, constitute/reproduce social structures as per Giddens and Bourdieu. It’s also worth noting that crisis tendencies are organic to capitalism, that each of its myriad points of tension are pregnant with destruction and creation, of enculturation and barbarism. In other words, while there are precedents from history of civilisations coming and going, none have attained the level of social complexity and productive prowess as our own. Fundamentally speaking, the Romans, the Mayans, the Hittites, and the Babylonians were static societies. The advanced capitalist, industrial societies of today are dynamic and fluidic. They have momentum that might carry them through a huge disaster, or allow them to adapt to real and imagined threats posed by climate change, pandemics, artificial intelligence, and so on. While I’m far from clear in my own mind about these questions, it’s the characteristics of social orders as emergent totalities (for which I’m using ‘civilisation’ as a lazy shorthand) which interests me. I’m undecided whether I’m serious about the notion of the collapse or if I just see it as a thought experiment with which to consider the characteristics of social totalities with the widest possible lens. It offers an interesting way to consider what it means to talk of a social totality as ‘having momentum’ or attaining a certain level of ‘social complexity’ and ‘productive prowess’. *I’m still far from certain that I do. ]]>http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16920/feed011 reasons why we need a Chair for the Public Understanding of Sociologyhttp://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16897 http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16897#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 08:00:22 +0000http://sociologicalimagination.org/?p=16897Read More ›]]> It would provide a default point of contact for the media when looking for a sociological perspective. It would allow someone the time & support necessary to build up working relationships with a wide range of figures in the media. These relationships would be of use to the discipline more broadly by allowing the chair to refer journalists and broadcasters to specialists in particular areas It would increase sociology’s media profile through the prominence of a particular figure who intervened across a range of areas It would demonstrate that communicating sociological knowledge isvalued by the discipline The chair would be able to provide informal support and mentoring to other younger sociologists who try to be media active The chair could help establish a body of know how which could help other sociologists when engaging with the media I can think of a range of sociology professors in the UK who would be good at this. The specialised chair would free them up from teaching and administration in order to allow them to concentrate full time on public engagement. The philosophers have one So do pretty much all the natural sciences We can’t leave it all to Owen Jones (as Lisa Mckenzie wisely observed in a talk last year) Much of the debate occasioned by the development of ideas about reflexivity and morphogenesis has turned on the status of habit. Whilst recognising the importance of this debate, this seminar takes an alternative tack. Returning to Bhaskar’s formulation of ‘position-practices’, it reviews recent work on organizational routines. Developing a position which sees routines as a key emergent property of organizations, recent developments in information technology are seen to cement autonomous reflexivity. Accompanied by an increasing discourse of ‘strategizing’, this might limit the development of meta reflexivity. All welcome! E-mail [email protected] with any questions ]]>http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16954/feed0JG Ballard’s High-Rise recreated in legohttp://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16884 http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16884#commentsSat, 28 Feb 2015 08:00:59 +0000http://sociologicalimagination.org/?p=16884Read More ›]]>JG Ballard’s High-Rise is one of my favourite novels. It’s easy to see why sociologists would like it and it seems I’m not the only one this is true of. So I’m not sure what to make of High-Rise recreated in lego… it’s a homage but it feels like it also trivialises it somewhat. These haunting scenes that have stayed with me long after I read the book actually look twee when materialised in lego. This is how the author describes the project: I was in Covent Garden at the time, on one of my many trips to pillage London, and as I had been to the tavern the night before and imbibed enough alcohol to bring down a small Bilgesnipe, it is entirely possible that I only accepted the challenge because I was still slightly tipsy. I still believe it was an excellent choice, nevertheless. To adequately tell the story of High-Rise I decided to do one image per page of the book, which would be 166 photos according to my battered paperback copy of the novel. Due to budget constraints I could only afford to buy enough LEGO bricks to build one set at a time, so to save time and avoid having to rebuild the same set multiple times I began work on a shooting script. The Web Science conference welcomes participation from all disciplines including, but not limited to, art, computer and information sciences, communication, economics, humanities, informatics, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology, in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in bringing these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue. We particularly welcome contributions that seek to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci’09 in Athens, WebSci’10 in Raleigh, WebSci’11 in Koblenz, WebSci’12 in Evanston, WebSci’13 in Paris, and WebSci’14 in Bloomington, for the 2015 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. There is a separate call for colocated workshops. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: Theoretical, methodological and ethical approaches for Web Science Web practices – individual and/or collective and/or institutional Humanities on the Web The architecture and philosophy of the Web Web Science approaches to Data Science and the Web of Data Web Science and the Internet of Things Social machines, collective intelligence and collaborative production Social Media analytics for Web Science Web economics, social entrepreneurship and innovation Web Science and Cybersecurity Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons Personal data, trust, and privacy Web access, literacy, and development Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web Health and well-being online Arts and culture on the Web Data curation and stewardship in Web Science Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives Submission Web Science 2015 is a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different paper submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory. All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single track conference. There will be a reception for all accepted posters, which will all be displayed in a dedicated space during the conference. Full research papers (8-10 pages, ACM double column) Full research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. This should be original work that has not been previously published. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column) Short research papers may present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. This should be original work that has not been previously published. Posters (up to 2 pages, ACM double column, poster reception and presentation) Extended abstracts for posters may be up to 2 pages. Other types of creative submissions (flexible format) are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear the format and content and any special requirements they would need to successfully deliver this work (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) The Web Science Programme Committee covers all areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three Programme Committee members and one short meta review written by a Co-Programme Committee chair, to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2015 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can “opt out” of the proceedings). For WebSci15 the workshops will be integrated into the main conference programme, running in the afternoons of June 30 and July 1. The workshops offer organisers the opportunity to curate panels, or collaborative research and scholarship activities around a key Web Science theme and to explore this in depth. Workshops may be proposed on any theme that facilitates interdisciplinary discussion of the Web and approaches to Web Science research. We particularly welcome applications that are ambitious in scope and aim to address the pressing challenges of Web Science. This might include, but is not restricted to: Theorising the Web Data ownership, access and ethics Digital cultures Digital inequality, citizenship and governance The future of the Web Workshops can have a mixture of panel presentations and invited speakers, but presentations should reflect the diversity of approaches that characterise the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science. Workshop submission Workshop proposals should contain the following information: Title summarising the tutorial goals or workshop theme. Details of the organising committee, including names and institutional affiliations. Max two-page description about the relevance, motivation and goals of the tutorial or workshop. Schedule of sessions, panels, and talks (half day 14:00-17:00). Names of instructors and potential invited speakers. For workshops, selection criteria for papers to be presented. Workshop website URL (desirable). It is the prerogative of organisers to decide whether to have an open call for participants and papers, or arrange panels by invitation only. Proposals should include as many details as possible about sessions, speakers, and talks: they will be evaluated by their coherence and ability to address the stated goals. It is the responsibility of organisers to advertise their event, and constitute a program committee to review and select papers, manage the review process, and possibly arrange for selected papers to be published in a special issue of a to-be-identified journal. If successful, we advise proposals to have a website describing the event (within two weeks of acceptance) and, if applicable, information about similar events held in the past. Workshops will be linked from the main conference site. Proposals should be submitted in pdf format through Easychair to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2015ws. Workshop proposal review The Web Science programme chairs will review each submission and select those with the higher scores on originality, timeliness and relevance of the proposed topic, its interdisciplinarity, rigour of the review process, coherence with the conference aims, and potential to attract a large audience. CREATIVE SPACES FOR COLLECTIVE VOICES GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK We have for some time been looking into the effects of neoliberalism on culture, identity, and institutions – effects that have included ‘audit culture’ (Marilyn Strathern), self-branding, and the subsuming of any collective ‘voice’ into individualistic ‘consumer power’ (Nick Couldry). At the same time, we have struggled with the fading importance of structural inequalities in the minds of policymakers. There are developing answers, though, in many theoretical idioms. Stephen Ball has commented that “both structural and poststructural theories and analyses are necessary for ‘bearing witness’ and for an adequate critical understanding of educational realities”. We could add to this that other kinds of practice, developed in fields like art or drama, also contribute to the working out of critique and the embodying of alternatives. At DPR, these varied perspectives all find a home. Over the years, the conference has asked, how can we develop such creative theoretical approaches? And how would they look in practice? DPR 15 continues this line of work. Beyond critique, it asks how we can resist, subvert, and create spaces for multiple and collective voices, for change, and for social justice. The conference brings together a range of practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, learners and teachers, who are actively engaged in these kinds of challenge. Presentations at the conference will take the form of papers, workshops, performances, exhibitions, and posters. We hope that presenters will come with ideas to share about research and practice, through single or joint presentations or as a contribution to any of the symposia that will be taking shape. Please keep an eye on the DPR15 web page for further details. If you have suggestions, or ideas for a contribution you would like to discuss, please contact the conference organizer: ]]>http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16985/feed0Understanding academia through foodhttp://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16880 http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16880#commentsThu, 26 Feb 2015 08:00:59 +0000http://sociologicalimagination.org/?p=16880Read More ›]]>Is it a meme? Is it a research project? Does it matter? We aim to understand academia through food. Do you have a picture of an academic event or function where food is provided? Who was there and what was happening? ]]>http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16880/feed0Name-Dropping vs Name-Checking as Academic Viceshttp://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16974 http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16974#commentsWed, 25 Feb 2015 08:58:08 +0000http://sociologicalimagination.org/?p=16974Read More ›]]>When I was a student, teachers used to warn against ‘name-dropping’ as a scholarly faux pas. This is when you suddenly provide a string of names in place of a substantive argument. The implication is that if you read the guys behind the names, you would understand what the author is trying to say. However, this was seen as an unfair imposition on the reader, who should be able to judge an argument through direct presentation. In fact, name-dropping would be cited as a paradigm case of ‘argument from authority’, a fallacy of informal logic. It was seen as a very elitist – if not outright bullying – tactic. But I now believe that this attitude is an artefact of the context in which scholarly communication was conducted in the 20th century, an exponential growth in publications while ordinary human cognitive capacities remained largely the same – i.e. technologically unenhanced. I seem to see fewer complaints about name-dropping these days. A big reason no doubt is the widespread adoption of the so-called Harvard style of scholarly reference (i.e. author/date format embedded in the text), which basically allows you to drop names with impunity but in a superficially accountable way. Another reason, of course, is that search engines allow the reader easy access the identities behind the names, so that one can quickly discern the pattern of thought that the names trace. In fact, the burden of proof is beginning to shift, so that if someone complains that they didn’t know half the names mentioned in an article, they’re told, ‘Why didn’t you Google the names?’ However, name-dropping is not the same as name-checking. Name-checking is when you do more than simply say you’re relying on the authority of someone else’ work. Rather, a stronger bond is suggested, namely, that you’re somehow part of the same team, party or movement as the other person. Thus, a much stronger sense of identification is being asserted – in fact, so strong that the name-checking serves to pre-empt any criticism that the name-checked party might have of you. This is recognizable as part of the Mafia’s gift-giving modus operandi: I go out of my way to do something nice for you in order to put you in my debt, which you may repay simply by keeping quiet if I do something (to someone else) that you don’t happen to like. (I must confess that this influences my view of gift-giving more generally: in other words, I tend to regard it as a mildly aggressive act unless the gift-giver is clearly exposing themselves to risk.) I first associated name-checking and the Mafia mentality when I heard a distinguished feminist theorist periodically name-check people in the audience by referring to them as ‘my dear friend’, which I found (and still do) vaguely annoying. She spoke in the sort of raspy voice that I associated with Borscht Belt comedians, who also use the same mode of address. The Borscht Belt bred America’s edgiest comedy talent, but the resort hotels in which they operated were under the protective gaze of the Mafia. My view is that these comedians incorporated Mafia discourse protocols into their acts, so as to co-opt the audience into accepting things that they might not otherwise, were the audience not overtly made complicit in them by the comedian. The interesting thing, of course, is that comedians often refer to literal strangers in the audience as ‘my dear friend’, which is much braver than academics who cite as ‘friends’ people they already know – and perhaps whose behaviour they can then more easily control. ]]>http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16974/feed0Higher Education and The Temporal Conditions for Critiquehttp://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16873 http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16873#commentsWed, 25 Feb 2015 08:00:13 +0000http://sociologicalimagination.org/?p=16873Read More ›]]>I’m aware that I probably come across like I hate Slavoj Zizek but there are many aspects of his work which I really like. My favourite is his account ofneoliberal ideology which I understand to be an argument about how subjective disavowal goes hand-in-hand with objective complicity: we maintain a critical distance from a system while nonetheless behaving in a way conducive to its reproduction. Rather than labouring under illusions which, if absented, would lead to action, we see things as they are but in a way that engenders passivity. We expressively repudiate our conditions while nonetheless continuing to acquiesce to them. In fact the former reinforces the latter. We invest ourselves in having seen through the mystification of the system but the pleasure we take in this cynical distance leaves us able to pragmatically continue as if the mystification was still operative. It seems obvious to me that this cynicism is rife within higher education. Consider the REF: widely scorned yet near universally acquiesced to. My point is not to minimise the practical obstacles to resisting it but simply to suggest that the contrast between the vehemence with which it is discussed and the pragmatism with which it is adapted to is, to put it mildly, rather curious. However I think Zizek’s account helps illuminate the tension here but doesn’t entirely explain it. I’m curious about whether there’s a temporal dimension to critique that needs to be invoked in order to explain this tendency. For a while now, I’ve been trying to develop the notion of cognitive triage: coping strategies on the part of overburdened subjects in which they prioritise the most immediate and urgent demands upon them. The urgent things which we must attend to tend to be situational. The more time we spend triaging, the more situational factors occupy our decision making. Given our finite attentional resources, we can therefore talk about situational factors crowding out trans-situational considerations. Our decision making doesn’t cease but its temporal scope diminishes. Urgent requirements for next week, tomorrow or later today crowd out considerations of next month, next year or next decade. People adapt to this in all sorts of ways and I would argue that things like digital detoxes can be understood as a coping strategy under conditions where triaging is proving frequently necessary. These coping strategies in turn act back upon the subject when they are pursued habitually. If we are what we habitually do then when, say, one draws on life hacking techniques to cope with their burdens one eventually becomes a life hacker. I’m not sure this is a good thing but reasons I’ll do my best to explain. My suggestion is that many second-order coping strategies actually intensify the tendency towards triaging. One finds oneself in this state of cognitive triage (first-order) and begins to consult resources to develop techniques to avoid this overburdened fire fighting (second-order). But these techniques will usually involve cultivating a more refined process of self-management: deliberate triaging rather than desperate coping. These techniques involve greater scrutiny of first-order responses in order to better facilitate policing of reactions e.g. measuring and controlling a proclivity towards distraction. In doing so, the slide into situationalism is actually reinforced. The strategies we draw upon to help us cope with the intensity of situational demands leave us more embroiled in situationalism. We do it more gracefully and more efficiently but the tendency towards a narrowing of our temporal horizons is entrenched. The problem is that critique is necessarily trans-situational. Lay normativity rests on personal concerns which by their nature transcend particular situations. If we’re embroiled in coping with day-to-day demands then it’s very difficult to step back and reflect critically upon the conditions within which those demands occur. It’s more difficult still to consider potential courses of action through which we could individually, let alone collectively, work to change conditions that generate these ceaseless demands that leave us pushed and pulled by forces beyond our immediate control. Under such circumstances, it seems to me thatexpressive disavowal occupies an important psychological role as a safety valve. It lets us vent and moan. It lets us experience an ephemeral feeling of moral agency over circumstances that frustrate and impede our sense of what a good life could and should be. When we do it collectively, it has the feel of collective repudiation of that which we reject in common. But unfortunately it rarely, if ever, will lead to action. There’s a character in the John Lanchester novel Capital who continually fantasises about leaving his job: That didn’t mean he didn’t think about giving it up and doing something else. He did, almost every day. The thought was a safety valve; the idea that he could quit whenever he liked was one of the things which kept him in the job. The exit was always in his line of sight. The idea of it helped him to stay put and to cope with the rough parts of his job and his day. I’m suggesting inertia of this sort is a common phenomenon under conditions of social acceleration. As things get faster, as the demands upon us increase, we are left scrabbling to cope with immediate demands. We don’t lose the capacity to think about the longer term but we do it less and it becomes harder to sustain. The better we become at coping with these situational demands, the more we become locked in the immediate and urgent. The longer this continues, the more we recognise these conditions as ‘life’ and fail to imagine anything else. We don’t cease to be agents but the scope of that agency begins to change in a radical way. Critique and the action to which it leads increasingly gives way to cynicism and inertia. The fact this is occurring in institutional environments where those in charge are “heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest“ only makes it worse. ]]>http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16873/feed0The dogs of the Moscow metrohttp://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16877 http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/16877#commentsTue, 24 Feb 2015 08:00:04 +0000http://sociologicalimagination.org/?p=16877Read More ›]]>Can you think of a space more emblematic of urbanism than a metro? I can’t and perhaps that’s why I’m so preoccupied by Moscow’s metro dogs: it’s a reminder that cities are sites of ecological novelty, rather than human constructions that have constituted nature as ‘outside’. I love reading about the distinctive behaviours that have emerged amongst Moscow’s metro dogs: Rather than chasing the dogs away, metro workers fed them. Riders, too, were kind: if a tired dog fell asleep in the middle of a marble station, people walked around the animal to avoid waking him. The dogs have learned to recognize stations from the announcers’ voices—though Neuronov added that he doubts the oft-repeated assertion that, like humans, the commuting dogs occasionally fall asleep and miss their stops. “There are three models of metro dogs,” he explained: dogs who live in the subway but do not travel, dogs who use the subway to travel short distances instead of walking, and entrepreneurial dogs who spend the day riding back and forth, busking. This last type of dog takes long trips, working the crowd for treats and emotional contact. (On trains, dogs “seeking tenderness” are particularly inclined to approach women over forty who are carrying large shopping bags.) And, according to the results of a study Neuronov conducted of the Red Line, some dogs hop on the train for purely recreational reasons. “Like in human society,” he said, “there are dogs who are inclined to see new places.”

Directing mouse embryonic neurosphere differentiation toward an enriched neuronal population. Neural stem cells (NSC) are self-renewing multipotent cells that have emerged as a powerful tool to repair the injured brain. These cells can be cultured as neurospheres, which are floating aggregates of neural stem/progenitor cells (NSPCs). Despite their high clonal expansion capacity, it has been suggested that in neurospheres, only a small percentage of cells are capable of proliferation and that this system is not efficient in terms of neurogenic competence. Thus, our aim was to develop a neurosphere culture method with a highly proliferative stem/progenitor cell population and particularly with a prominent neurogenic potential, surpassing some of the claimed weaknesses of the neurosphere assay. In our model, mouse neurospheres were harvested from neural tissue at E15 and after only 4 days in vitro (DIV), we have achieved highly proliferative primary neurospheres (81% Sox2 and 76% Ki67 positive cells) and a rather low number of cells expressing glial and neuronal markers (∼10%). After inducing differentiation, we have attained an enriched neuronal population (45% β-III-tubulin positive cells at 15 DIV). Using a simple methodology, we have developed a NSPC model that can provide a valuable source of neuronal precursors, thus offering a potential starting point for cell replacement therapies following CNS injury.

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The state needs more workers to fill jobs, including at a display-screen plant that Foxconn Technology Group plans to build in Racine County, Walker said. He called on lawmakers to pass a $6.8 million package this spring to market the state. The ad and marketing campaign would target veterans by letting them know they can access generous state benefits and millennials by touting the state’s cost of living, he said. “We need more bodies,” Walker said. Oh? The ad campaign targeting millennials would build on a $1 million effort that is already budgeted and slated to launch in January. That campaign is aimed at getting recent alumni from University of Wisconsin institutions living in the Chicago area to return to Wisconsin. Mmm. Here’s one of those proposed ads: Advertisement Seems like a great pitch: “Hey Millennials: don’t you wish you were riding bikes in Wisconsin in January, instead of living in a city that has functional public transit? I bet you feel like a real dummy!!!” Democratic state Rep. Daniel Riemer pointed out that the move represents a change of mind within the Walker administration regarding the importance of alternative transit: Advertisement Wisconsin’s Millennial brain drain is a real problem. A University of Wisconsin business professor found that the state lost an average of 14,000 college graduates per year between 2008 and 2012. Most of those losses came from recent college graduates, who are opting to move to more progressive states like Minnesota and Illinois. This isn’t a coincidence. I grew up in the Milwaukee suburbs and went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (U rah rah!). I love my home state, and hope to move back to the Midwest sometime in the near future. And I am here to help the Walker administration in its quest to figure out why the state is struggling to lure and retain young workers. (Disclosure: I signed the petition to recall Scott Walker in 2011 and would do so again in a heartbeat!!!) Here are a few things college-educated Millennials like myself are looking to see in our home states, that might convince us to move back: Advertisement We want to live in a state that provides a check against the Trump administration, rather than handing the administration a blueprint for rolling back economic and social reforms. We want to live in a state whose government respects people regardless of their race, gender, religion, sexuality or economic status, rather than employing people who make racist jokes comparing welfare recipients to dogs. We want to live in a state that takes police misconduct seriously, rather than overlooking a sheriff who allows people to die of dehydration in his jail. We do not want to live in a state that jails more black men than any other state in the country, with nearly half of them locked up for low-level drug offenses. We want to live in a state that seeks to rehabilitate teenagers with behavior problems, rather than locking them in solitary confinement and pepper spraying them. We want to live in a state that ensures affordable health care for everyone, rather than sabotaging the gains made in the insurance marketplace. We want a state that values higher education, rather than one that cuts $250 million from the University of Wisconsin system while awarding $250 million in taxpayer money to build a new Milwaukee Bucks arena. We want a state that enshrines First Amendment protections, rather than one that threatens college students with suspension or expulsion for exercising their right to free speech. We want to live in a state that invests in public transportation, rather than eliminating the regional transit authority in the state’s largest city, thus cutting off (nonwhite) Milwaukee residents’ access to jobs in the city’s (overwhelmingly white) suburbs. We want to live in a state that prioritizes affordable housing and works to desegregate its cities, rather than trapping people of color in an economic desert from which they cannot escape. We want to live in a state that supports women’s health, rather than cutting off women’s access to family planning clinics. We want to live in a state that values young workers, rather than using them as pawns in a re-election stunt that will do nothing to help the state’s economy in the long term. We want to live in a state that makes meaningful investments in Wisconsin workers, rather than sinking nearly $3 billion in taxpayer money into a Taiwanese company that will almost assuredly not be able to return the investment, in a deal that sure sounds good on paper, and that’s all that matters between now and November 2018, right, Scott? We want to live in a state that isn’t the poster child of the modern conservative political project of using the levers of state power to punish the perceived enemies—higher education, cities, immigrants, black people, Muslims, organized labor, young people as a whole—of a furious and revanchist aging white suburban population. Mostly, we want to live in a state that we can be proud to call home, not a state whose government only promises to ratfuck us and our peers at every turn. Advertisement Instead of taunting Millennials for leaving Wisconsin, maybe Governor Walker and his administration could try investigating why they left in the first place. You just might find that the answer lies with you and your shitty administration.

The Ardee school environment is dedicated to nurturing a child's inherent curiosity and providing a prepared environment designed to stimulate the child's senses as well as to respond to the pre-school child's need for order within the world. The children work with didactic apparatus and build their personality as they increase their concentration skills, independence, will,imagination,problem solving skills and develop good work habits. Practical Life The Skills of Daily Living The practical life area of the curriculum is the bridge for young children between home and school. Practical life activities allow the young child to perform adult activities. The aims of the practical life materials are independence, a sense of order, concentration and coordination. Practical life lessons include care of the person (buttoning, zipping, tying); care of the environment (cleaning, polishing, food preparation); small and gross motor development (pouring, cutting, balancing); and social development (interpersonal skills, grace and courtesy, speaking, participating in a group). Sensorial Exploring the World through the Five Senses Dr. Maria Montessori identified the period from 2-6 years as the age of the "absorbent mind". Children come to know and understand the world they live in through their five senses. The Montessori sensorial materials, such as the pink tower, geometric solids, sound cylinders and color tablets help a child to understand and internalize the concepts of size, shape, color, taste, touch and sound. These materials build the foundation for developing skills in the areas of music, mathematics and language. Language The Spoken Word to the Written Word The Language curriculum progresses from oral language activities and pre-reading work to writing and ultimately to reading comprehension. The aims of the oral language activities include the development of listening skills, comprehension and vocabulary as well as the ability to express oneself with confidence. The materials for written language introduce the child to the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. The child then goes on to compose words and sentences using the moveable alphabet. All aspects of language development are occurring simultaneously and it is the teacher's role to observe readiness for each new lesson. MathJourneying from the Concrete to the Abstract The hands on math materials enable the naturally mathematical mind of the preschool child to journey from the concrete to the abstract through manipulation and experimentation. Children first explore the concept of quantity or "how many". The Montessori materials build on each other in a natural progression, encouraging the child to explore and discover. From there the child moves on to using symbols or written quantities and then begins to combine quantities for the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Cultural and Science ActivitiesBotany, Zoology, Geography Geography ,botony and Zoology make up the cultural component of the preschool program. The geography curriculum introduces the concepts of land and water forms, the study of cultures and customs, and the understanding of fundamental human needs through exploration of the seven continents. Environmental Projects Dr Montessori suggested that the first thing to be looked at is the “child” and his reaction to early environment itself, then at the environment itself, both natural and man made, before planning a series of activities which will help the child acquire basic knowledge about his environment. Special activities are designed within the Montessori principles where the child understands his surroundings, living and non living things and his interaction with the same. 1. Exercises on Practical LifeArt The art program compliments the Montessori philosophy encouraging children to express themselves through various materials. Art technique is introduced to the students through means of exploration and discovery, building a foundation for artistic expression and aesthetic awareness. Special art appreciation classess throughout the year expand the children's knowledge aesthetics.. Free expression modules provides children with a natural way to communicate thoughts, feelings and ideas as well as a way to develop an understa nding and appreciation of the artistic process. Music & Movement The music curriculum invites children to express and invent themselves through dance, movement and song. Students are introduced to the basic concepts of music through activities that help explain pitch, rhythm, and the dynamics of sound. Musical appreciation is developed with exposure to classical music, symphony of famous composers promoting both creative musical thinking and cultural awareness. Movement activities allow the children to explore the physical attributes of their bodies and experiment with a wide variety of physical abilities. Movement lessons within strive to enhance each child's physical growth and development. Children work to develop useful practical skills such as eye-hand coordination, eye-foot coordination, balance, strength and agility. Sports @Yoga Stretching exercises, running activities, Ball Handling Tapping, Trapping, Tackling, Dribbling, passing are all skills practiced by children to increase stamina, aim and coordination and prepare for more challenging sport in a non-competitive and healthy way.Basic yoga ashanas are introduced to increase memory, ability to focus and build greater self awareness. Field Trips Exploring your city- is enjoyed by the children each semester as they visit places of Interest in the capital. Group management and social skills accompanied with confidence and self esteem is promoted with this exercise.

Q: Symfony2 change default validator messages Is there a way to change the default messages of base constraints (NotBlank, MinLength, etc.) without translation? Thanks. A: No, this is done via the translator.

SEO helps improve your website’s visibility in unpaid search engine rankings (also called organic results). If your website is placed higher in search engine results, you are more likely to receive increased traffic to your website. Knowledge of SEO will increase your traffic, thus bringing in readers and the potential to earn money through those readers. IF something like that were to happen I surmise we can reasonably expect some sort of announcement/warning to the approved API partners (and probably even to the general public). I would say it’s almost impossible they’ll push through some sort of update that suppresses auto-pinned content without us knowing (at least a little) ahead of time, thus giving us time to adjust accordingly. You need to advertise on FB Will, and create targeted ads, they are not that expensive and will, if your content is appealing, drive traffic to your website, or FB page, or both… the targeted advertising on FB is absolutely fantastic, it might be a small number of people, but at least you know they are interested in what you have to offer. Forget about the free promotion on FB. It only works a little and it takes way too much time! Unless you have a FB page with 10.000 active followers or so… and even then, because FB is not showing your followers everything especially promotional links… they want you to pay… which I can understand. After all FB is free to use and the advertisers are the ones that help FB make a huge profit… Good luck! Anja The biggest thing to keep in mind is that making money blogging is not possible by putting your site up and letting it sit there. The “if you build it, they will come” mentality doesn’t work here, so be sure you’re willing to put in the time. Most bloggers don’t see a spike of income for several months (sometimes years) after starting their blog. Before you dive too deep into blogging, remember these little bits of advice: One of my biggest struggles lately has just been mental – I am having trouble getting myself to actually create content or really do anything with my blog. It could be so many things – overwhelm, too many ideas or goals, lack of results which feels discouraging, not making any money, even a feeling that maybe I’m not doing the right thing / have the wrong goals. It’s tough but I am sure many beginners go through these challenges. Of course this is just my own personal interest, you may be a keen amateur photographer, a budding cake decorator or want to write about travelling across Australia. So, carry out your research online by looking at different websites in Google and even on social media sites such as Facebook or Pinterest to see where the money making niches are, where the people are and if these niches are growing or shrinking. It will save a lot of heartache later down the line. As you build up your blog, expect to receive multiple sponsored post requests each day. These native ads can be a highly effective way for businesses to reach your audience in a non-threatening way - and they can be a highly effective way for you to make a lot of money. Just make sure the posts are actually interesting and relevant to your audience, and that you fully disclose the sponsored nature of the post. If you’ve spent a lot of time writing that week and just need a break from working on a post, it may be a productive way to spend an hour or two but I personally think your time could be better spent elsewhere. (This isn’t to say that you can’t find success utilizing this method, I just don’t see many/any people doing it and reporting back that it’s really helped them). Keep in mind that making money from your blog takes time. After all, there is a reason that learning how to make money from a blog is the last step in my guide. You need to make sure you have followed all the previous steps perfectly in order to give yourself the best chance of earning a substantial income from blogging. This will not happen overnight, but most bloggers find that the work itself is rewarding enough to continue on the journey. Thank you for sharing such a great post! I am new to blogging and I keep on searching for website like this. One of the hardship I encountered is content for my blog I am not very good at writing so I am planning to hire someone who could provide a very good content. Do you have any recommendation where to hire for someone who could write an article for me? Consider a free blogging service. Many people opt to create a free blog using popular services such as WordPress.com or Google Blogger. This is a good option for people who aren't familiar with web design, don't want to pay for their own hosting, or enjoy the ease and stability that comes with these services. These services do have limitations on how you can make money using them, however, so make sure your blog won't break the terms of service. Just wanted to check up and say hey. I’m following your lead of side hustle millionaire entrepreneurship. Building a million dollar online business is tough. People have to want to do this because there’s no guarantees. It’s certainly worth the risk because speaking from past experience in corporate America, I was miserable waking up everyday and going to work for someone else that got rich off of my work without me getting benefits. This is why I’m in the side hustle millionaire mindset like you. Thanks for keeping me inspired. If you’re passionate about something, it will show in your content. Readers will be able to see your genuineness and will be attracted to that. This is probably the most important thing you will learn about blogging. You can try everything in the world and use every tool known to man to be successful, but if you’re not genuine, people will see right through it. Allow readers to purchase your own products or donate to your cause through your blog. If you have an online store for selling arts and crafts, or you create T-shirt designs available through a clothing website, provide links to those sites. Including a PayPal button for quick, safe purchases or donations is a common way to monetize creative blogs, or blogs that provide free advice or assistance to those who can't afford it. In-depth tutorials are great for getting links and social shares. However, they can also be a great way to earn money on your blog. There are a number of ways you can make this happen - include affiliate links for the products you use in your tutorial; promote your own products in the tutorial; write a tutorial to promote an advertiser's product (just be clear that it's a sponsored post), etc. Facebook – Depending on your niche you can expect to pay about $1 per click to your blog, but there are many variables that can influence how much you will pay. Depending on the nature of your business this can provide some excellent ROI in terms of initial sales, but the main focus of this ad campaign is to get people to your blog. Wow them with your content and get them to opt-in to your email list for more updates. I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this one. I was blown away that you don’t have ads on your site. I have ads on my site and I’m reading along thinking your advice is to forget the ads and sell products. As a food blogger, my mind goes to e-cookbooks, actual hold-in-your-hand cookbooks, books on how to start a food blog and how to do food photography. But according to this post, those I should sell later…the cheaper products. I can’t think of what “services” I could offer, other than offering to come over and cook for them (not happening) and I’m not quite an expert at offering services of personally coaching someone’s food blog. Maybe I’m just too green for that 🙂 Am I missing the point? Indirect Income – later on in my blogging journey opportunity has come for ‘indirect’ income streams. As my blogs and profile grew as a result of my blogging I was able to sell my services as a speaker and consultant and was offered the opportunity to author a book with the publisher Wiley. Later I was able to start an event for bloggers which also made money. None of this income came directly from the blog – but rather it came ‘because’ of my blog. The answer is yes. However, I would caution against it. The reason is, when you use a free service, you don’t have as much control over your blog—the free service does. This can be risky, especially if you will rely on your blog for income. A self-hosted WordPress blog is my recommendation and can be started very inexpensively. See my step-by-step tutorial here. Some blogs are focused on getting paid to provide links to news articles, company stores, or other third party websites. The most financially successful of these range from the Drudge, a blog composed almost entirely of conservative-leaning news links, to Smashing Magazine, a site that provides advice and product reviews to help software developers.[5][6] Perhaps the most popular network for placing these types of ads is Google AdSense. With this program, you do not need to be in direct contact with advertisers; you simply place the banner on your site, Google chooses ads relevant to your content, and your viewers click on the ads. There are countless similar programs available if you find that AdSense doesn’t work for you, such as Chitika, Infolinks, and Media.net. Hey Isabel. I would definitely create your blog in your native language if that is the one that you write better in. If your English grammar isn’t impeccable, you will have a hard time getting a loyal audience of English speakers. A blog written in English has the potential for a larger audience, but a blog in your native language will have less competition and the potential for a far more LOYAL audience. I hope that helps! The answer is yes. However, I would caution against it. The reason is, when you use a free service, you don’t have as much control over your blog—the free service does. This can be risky, especially if you will rely on your blog for income. A self-hosted WordPress blog is my recommendation and can be started very inexpensively. See my step-by-step tutorial here. One of the great things about email marketing is that it is extremely cheap. Not only is it cheap, but if done the right way it is extremely effective. It allows you to reach your subscribers to provide them with information about your blog, and you can even choose how often you send an email. It is a great way to bring in customers and experience growth in revenue, whether it gets them to click through to your site, purchase a product or service or take interest in your blog. Warning: : When I say be sincere, I mean it. People can smell an insincere pitch a mile away. I was guilty of this when I first started blogging. If you start out becoming friends with other bloggers first, sometime in the future they will help you with your eBook launch, promoting your blog, your course, giving you an introduction to someone – whatever – because you’re friends. Salaries for bloggers vary widely. This report from Glassdoor shows ranges from $19K to $79K a year for the title "blogger," while other sources say the 14% of bloggers who earn a salary make, on average, $24K a year (or $33K for corporate bloggers). Likewise, freelance bloggers can make anything from under $10 a post to $100 or more for a relatively short post. I am getting everything in line for my blog. Hosting on blue host, child theme with studio press, fiverr logo made because that’s what my budget will allow at this point. I am now extremely focused on writing content. I am an expert in my niche, but my writing skills need to be developed. I am going to looking into freelancing.com but are there any books, blogs, or other materials you would suggest on becoming a better writer and learning how to put your voice in writing? I want you to have realistic expectations, though. Those results are not the norm. My first month of monetizing my blog I made several thousands of dollars. But that occurred after I had been blogging for eighteen months. But do the math – I’m estimating my business will earn six-figures in ** the second year**. And I’ve never monetized a blog before! Create a schedule for one month full of topics and the dates they will be published. I like to make sure I have a good variety of topics covered each week on Making Sense of Cents. For example, I don't usually like to have a week full of making money ideas. Instead, I like my posts to vary between making money, saving money, life improvement, and so on. Understand the difference between total revenue and net income. Most income reports tout total revenue. Net income or profit (what really matters) is often buried in the post. I came across an income report recently with a super impressive number in the title (and Pinterest image). It was total revenue. Not until I read the whole post did I learn this blogger spent well over half their total revenue on Facebook Ads alone. On top of that, they had an extensive list of expenses. By the end of the post I realized I had netted more than they did the previous month. Second job, anyone? In America, two-income families are the norm but think of the havoc it wreaks on your daily life. You’re so exhausted by the time you get home from work; you barely have enough time and energy to make dinner and help the kids out with their homework. Even that becomes difficult if you work at more than one place, whether evenings or on weekends. I’ve been through quite a lot with my days a blogger. I was making money, but it just wasn’t enough. You literally make pennies and dollars. That is not enough to support yourself. It wasn’t until I met Noah King. A mentor of mine who taught me how to make REAL MONEY online writing about what I love. I am now making $6000/month after a year of hard work and can do it all from the convenience of my home. Never give up or sell yourself short! Noah has his own website where he talks about how to achieve the same success he has. You can check him out here if you’re interested – http://www.deservingwriter.com/ Our friend Bobby realized that soon after he started his blog. His site wasn’t making any money at the time, so he needed to find another way to bring in some cash. That’s when he started reaching out to other businesses offering his services doing the things he’d learned from blogging (Facebook ads, writing online content, social media strategy, etc.). Sometimes I think we just need permission to do the things we love without having to make a living at it. So I'm giving you permission. I'm telling you it's fine for you to have a blog that gives you an outlet for your creativity, allows you to talk about things that are important to you and lets you stay connected to friends and family. You don't have to try to monetize your joy. Now, I had a question. I am just 14 years old and I am entering the blog-o-sphere as an intermediate. Now, you may check my blog “theartofvk(dot)com.” I write how to articles mostly and also try to do videos as I am not a native English speaker it get’s difficult for me. When I read post on BBT I find it really interesting but How To articles… umm.. are they nice enough? How To article probably don’t keep people engaging do they? I am recently also trying guest post and on my 5 attempt my article was accepted at Hongkiat. With a business account, you’ll have access to Pinterest Analytics, as well as the ability to create “Rich Pins.” You can also pay Pinterest to promote your pins with a business account, but that’s definitely not necessary. We experimented with about $50 worth of promoted pins before figuring out we could make our pins go viral on our own, without the help of ads. Salaries for bloggers vary widely. This report from Glassdoor shows ranges from $19K to $79K a year for the title "blogger," while other sources say the 14% of bloggers who earn a salary make, on average, $24K a year (or $33K for corporate bloggers). Likewise, freelance bloggers can make anything from under $10 a post to $100 or more for a relatively short post. Think of new article topic ideas. I have a long list of over 100 possible article topics that I keep on my laptop as well as on my phone. I think of the many, many topics that you'll find on Making Sense of Cents through life experiences, reader questions, research and articles that I've come across (like if I see a crazy statistic that I find interesting, I'll then turn it into a long article), and so on. Create and customize your blog. If you are using a free service, there should be a tutorial to guide you through the initial steps of setting up your blog, as well as a forum for people to ask questions. If you are hosting your own site, you will need someone with web design experience to customize your blog, or you can use software such as WordPress.org to use the same structures available at free services. really great article, thanks Jon. I particularly like #1 – it’s the mindset shift that we all need to step up and “play” at the level to generate substantial revenue. Reversing the sales funnel is also very smart and makes a lot of sense. It’s easier to make one $3,000 sale than making 300 $10 sale – although putting a $10 product out there is less scary than selling a $3000 service – again, it’s all about the mindset. With a business account, you’ll have access to Pinterest Analytics, as well as the ability to create “Rich Pins.” You can also pay Pinterest to promote your pins with a business account, but that’s definitely not necessary. We experimented with about $50 worth of promoted pins before figuring out we could make our pins go viral on our own, without the help of ads. One example is this: since our blog is a sub-domain for my wife and I’s boutique beach resort, nobody seems to want to touch me as a guest blogger. I get the same response every time “you’re commercial and so you’ve got to pay for a sponsored post”…and while yes, we are commercial and not a private blog per se, we’re a tiny family run business and 95% of private blogs are striving to be commercial, whether they’re associated with a company name or not. My name is Jamie Spencer and I have spent the past 5 years building money making blogs. After growing tired of the 9-5, commuting and never seeing my family I decided that I wanted to make some changes and launched my first blog. Since then I have launched lots of successful niche blogs and after selling my survivalist blog I decided to teach other people how to do the same.

107 F.3d 4 NOTICE: THIS SUMMARY ORDER MAY NOT BE CITED AS PRECEDENTIAL AUTHORITY, BUT MAY BE CALLED TO THE ATTENTION OF THE COURT IN A SUBSEQUENT STAGE OF THIS CASE, IN A RELATED CASE, OR IN ANY CASE FOR PURPOSES OF COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL OR RES JUDICATA. SEE SECOND CIRCUIT RULE 0.23.UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Matteo GAMBINO, Defendant-Appellant. No. 96-1269. United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Jan. 09, 1997. APPEARING FOR APPELLANT: Martin G. Goldberg, Franklin Square, N.Y. APPEARING FOR APPELLEE: Morris Panner, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York, N.Y. Present: NEWMAN, Chief Judge. FEINBERG, McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges. 1 This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of record from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and was argued by counsel. 2 ON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the judgment of the District Court is hereby AFFIRMED. 3 Matteo Gambino appeals from the District Court's judgment of conviction entered on May 1, 1996, following a jury verdict convicting him of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846, and of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 812, 841(a)(1) & 841(b)(1)(B). Gambino raises three arguments on this appeal: (i) he was denied the right to conflict-free counsel when the District Court permitted the lawyer representing co-defendant Troia to represent Gambino for the purpose of making a bail application; (ii) the District Court's failure to grant him a continuance effectively deprived him of a fair trial; and (iii) his trial counsel's decision to proceed with trial as originally scheduled constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. 4 1. At an April 1995 conference to discuss bail, attorney Bronson and his associate Marx appeared on behalf of Gambino and moved for his release on bail. The Government immediately alerted the District Judge to the fact that Gambino had been represented by someone else prior to this hearing, and that Bronson and Marx were also representing co-defendant Troia in this case. Having been advised of the potential conflict, the Court turned immediately to Bronson, who advised the Court that "there will be an appropriate waiver when and if representation is continued on behalf of Mr. Gambino." 5 Over the next month, Bronson and Marx continued to represent Gambino in connection with his effort to secure release on bail. The District Court denied bail in mid-May 1995. During a pre-trial conference held on May 22, 1995, for the purpose of hearing oral argument on defense motions, Marx appeared on behalf of Troia and stated that neither she nor Bronson would continue to represent Gambino because Troia refused to waive his right to conflict-free counsel. After admonishing Marx for not informing the Court of this circumstance more promptly, the District Judge went forward with the hearing on the motions filed by the other defendants, but treated Gambino as having joined these motions and afforded Gambino an opportunity to file supplemental motions once he obtained new counsel. New counsel was appointed for Gambino on that same day, approximately four months before the start of trial. 6 Both the Sixth Amendment and Fed.R.Crim.P. 44(c) require a district court to inquire into the possibility of conflict of interest when co-defendants are represented by the same counsel. See United States v. Levy, 25 F.3d 146, 153 n. 6 (2d Cir.1994). To fulfill this so-called "inquiry" obligation, the court must investigate the facts and details of the attorney's interests to determine whether the attorney in fact suffers from any conflict. Id. at 153. The trial court is generally entitled to rely on counsel's representations that no conflict exists, even if those representations later turn out to be incorrect, in fulfilling its inquiry obligation. See id. at 154. In this case, when the Government attorney alerted the District Court to the possibility of conflict, it immediately asked Bronson about this issue. Though Bronson's representation to the Court that the appropriate waivers would be forthcoming "when and if representation is continued" on Gambino's behalf subsequently proved to be erroneous, the District Court properly performed its inquiry obligation and was entitled to rely on counsel's assurance that any potential conflict issue would be considered, if necessary, at a later time. 7 Moreover, even assuming that Gambino was represented by an attorney with a potential conflict of interest for a short period of time several months before the start of trial, Gambino cannot demonstrate that this alleged impropriety resulted in any prejudice. See United States v. Pascarella, 84 F.3d 61, 67 (2d Cir.1996). The record shows that Bronson and Marx represented Gambino only with respect to his bail application, that this representation lasted for little more than a month, and that the District Court immediately appointed new, conflict-free counsel when it became apparent that Bronson and Marx would be unable to represent Gambino. New counsel was appointed for Gambino more than four months before trial. See id. at 67 ("Any conflict of interest that undermined [prior attorney's] ability properly to represent [defendant] disappeared once [prior attorney] no longer represented him."). Additionally, the District Court removed any possibility of prejudice to Gambino resulting from Bronson's month-long representation by treating Gambino as having joined in his co-defendants' pretrial motions and by permitting Gambino's subsequently appointed counsel to file supplemental motions on his behalf even though the Court's motion deadline had otherwise passed. 8 2. On the first day of trial, Gambino, in direct conflict with his new trial counsel's earlier representation to the Court that counsel was prepared for trial, stated to the District Judge that he needed additional time to listen to all 2,000 or so tapes provided by the Government--especially those containing secretly recorded conversations between him and the Government informant--in order to prepare his entrapment defense. The District Court denied Gambino's request and continued with the trial as scheduled, noting that defendant had ample time to listen to the relevant tapes and that he brought any potential problem upon himself by refusing to work with his previous court-appointed attorneys. 9 There was no obligation upon the District Court to grant a continuance in these circumstances. As the Supreme Court stated in a similar context, "In the face of the unequivocal and uncontradicted statement by a responsible officer of the court that he was fully prepared and 'ready' for trial, it was far from an abuse of discretion to deny a continuance" requested by the defendant himself. Morris v. Slappy, 461 U.S. 1, 12 (1983). Furthermore, as Morris held, "broad discretion must be granted trial courts on matters of continuances; only an unreasoning and arbitrary 'insistence upon expeditiousness in the face of a justifiable request for delay' violates the right to the assistance of counsel." Id. at 11-12; see United States v. Hurtado, 47 F.3d 577, 584 (2d Cir.1995). Here, the record shows that the Court acted well within its discretion because there was no justification for delay; the tapes were in Gambino's possession months before trial, Gambino's trial counsel had read the transcripts for all the tapes during the month preceding the trial, and the Government had identified two weeks before trial the thirty or so tapes that it would offer into evidence. Gambino's contention that he needed time to listen to all the tapes in order to prepare his entrapment defense is without merit. There were at most several tapes, beyond the thirty or so that the Government had earlier designated, containing material relevant to the entrapment defense. The great majority of the tapes were irrelevant to the entrapment issue because they concerned either other aspects of the Government investigation, other defendants, or events subsequent to Gambino's sales of heroin to the informant. Gambino and his trial counsel had more than sufficient time to prepare for trial. 10 3. Gambino alternatively argues that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by representing to the Court that he was prepared for trial on the originally scheduled date. We reject Gambino's claim because he has failed to show that he has suffered any prejudice resulting from the alleged deficiency. Although Gambino asserts that trial counsel should have allowed him time to review all the tapes and then consulted with him concerning their content, Gambino has not identified any passage in these tapes tending to support his entrapment defense. Moreover, the record reveals that trial counsel was fully prepared for trial on September 27, 1995, and provided Gambino with more than adequate representation throughout the proceedings. Gambino was in no way harmed by trial counsel's decision to proceed to trial on the scheduled date.

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Products tagged with 'helmets' We are excited to kick off a new project: Tips From the Canopy! We have a lot of great ideas for this blog: safety and educational topics, new product reviews and insight, videos, climber interviews, techniques, event announcements and more. Choose charity: Fallen Families Fund The Fallen Families Fund provides direct financial assistance to families and individuals who have been impacted by death or injury associated with tree care and working at height. 100% of all donations raised and received go to benefit families in need. For more information, visit www.fallenfamiliesfund.org.

Localized pemphigoid shares the same target antigen as bullous pemphigoid. A case of localized pemphigoid is described in which the lesions were only on the lower legs. Immunoblotting of the patients' serum reacted with a 240-kDa polypeptide identical to one of the bullous pemphigoid antigens. IgG1 was detected in the lesional skin and IgG1 and IgG4 in the patient's serum. These observations suggest that the immunopathological mechanisms in the blister formation in localized pemphigoid are similar to those found in more widespread bullous pemphigoid.

[Poll] What would you learn, and how much would you pay? - gmaster1440 http://iwanttolearn.heroku.com/ ====== sebg You should raise the price or multiply everything by a factor of at least 10 to 100. <http://teamtreehouse.com/> just raise 4.75million dollars around the sandbox you are playing in and they have 10k + paying members. Which means you are playing in a great sandbox - congrats, though it also means that if your competitors are charging your rates per month, then you should at least charge what they are charging right now per month or more. ------ sejje Was hoping this wasn't just a poll. I'd sign up. In case this post comes to much, I'm a hobbyist pythonista looking to elevate myself to "employable," most likely to do contract work and advance my own projects. I'm willing to pay. Anybody know anybody? ~~~ gmaster1440 It may be just a poll for now, but there are definite plans for providing such lessons.

High-level expression, purification and characterization of a recombinant medium-temperature alpha-amylase from Bacillus subtilis. Alpha-amylases are important industrial enzymes with a wide range of applications. Although medium-temperature alpha amylase (AmyE) has some practical advantages, its low yield has limited its applications. When an amyE gene from Bacillus subtilis BF768 was cloned into vector pWB980 and over-expressed in B. subtilis WB600, high activities (723 U ml(-1)) of secreted AmyE were produced. Recombinant AmyE was purified to a specific activity of 36 U mg(-1) having optimal activity at pH 6.0 and 60 degrees C.

Q: Turning on wifi tethering programmatically Is it possible to turn on the wifi hotspot programmatically, to enable tethering? I've tried the code here and here. Both examples execute without exception, but when I look in the "Tethering & portable hotspot" section in the wifi settings, the tethering is still disabled. Is this only possible for internal Google apps? EDIT: I'm using Android 5.1 and I'm trying to do this without having to root the phone. A: Try below code, to turning on wifi tethering programmatically. I have tested and it's working in my application. public class WifiAccessManager { private static final String SSID = "1234567890abcdef"; public static boolean setWifiApState(Context context, boolean enabled) { //config = Preconditions.checkNotNull(config); try { WifiManager mWifiManager = (WifiManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE); if (enabled) { mWifiManager.setWifiEnabled(false); } WifiConfiguration conf = getWifiApConfiguration(); mWifiManager.addNetwork(conf); return (Boolean) mWifiManager.getClass().getMethod("setWifiApEnabled", WifiConfiguration.class, boolean.class).invoke(mWifiManager, conf, enabled); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); return false; } } public static WifiConfiguration getWifiApConfiguration() { WifiConfiguration conf = new WifiConfiguration(); conf.SSID = SSID; conf.allowedKeyManagement.set(WifiConfiguration.KeyMgmt.NONE); return conf; } } Usage: WifiAccessManager.setWifiApState(context, true); Permission Require: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE" />

Gene expression profile of pulmonary tissues in different phases of lung ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. In order to provide us new clues to induce some endogenous protective molecular mechanisms, the changes in gene expression profile induced by ischemia-reperfusion in pulmonary tissues of rats were investigated and the dynamic mechanism of pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury was elucidated. Thirty male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 6 groups: 5 ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) groups (I/R 0-h, I/R 1-h, I/R 3-h, I/R 6-h, I/R 24-h) and control group (n=5 in each). An in situ ischemia-reperfusion lung injury rat model was established by occluded hilus of lung. The RatRef-12 Expression Beadchip (22 226 gene probes per array) was used to analyze the pattern of gene expression in all groups. The results showed that 648, 340, 711, 1279 and 641 genes were differentially expressed in I/R 0-, 1-, 3-, 6-and 24-h groups respectively. The differentially expressed genes were classified as following 7 functional categories: cytokine, adhesion molecule, growth factor and apoptosis-related factor, oxidation and antioxidation molecule, metabolic enzyme, ion channel and aquaporin, signal transduction molecule. It was suggested that gene chip technology was an effective and quick method for screening differentially expressed genes. Many differentially expressed genes with different functions interacted each other to result in pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Early and persistent expression of phosphorylated α-synuclein in the enteric nervous system of A53T mutant human α-synuclein transgenic mice. Alpha-synuclein is a key protein in Parkinson disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies. It is found in Lewy bodies in the brains of PD patients and has been reported in the peripheral nervous system in postmortem tissues from PD patients and in biopsies from patients in the preclinical phase of PD. Here, we used a transgenic mouse model of human synucleinopathies expressing the A53T mutant α-synuclein (TgM83) in which a neurodegenerative process associated with α-synuclein occurs spontaneously and increases with age. In particular, α-synuclein protein phosphorylated at serine 129 (pSer129 α-synuclein) naturally and progressively increases in diseased brains. We examined the time course of pSer129 α-synuclein presence in the gut of these mice between 1.5 and 22 months of age using immunohistochemistry and paraffin-embedded tissue blots. The pSer129 α-synuclein accumulated early (before the onset of motor signs) and persistently in the enteric nervous system and was concomitantly found in the brain. These results suggest that the accumulation of phosphorylated α-synuclein in the enteric and central nervous systems may result from parallel pathologic processes when the disease is linked to a mutation of α-synuclein.

127 N.J. Super. 496 (1973) 317 A.2d 779 LOUIS ESPIN, PLAINTIFF, v. ALLERGAN PHARMACEUTICAL, INC., DR. VINCENT CARTER, JR. AND ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS PHARMACY, INC., DEFENDANTS. Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division. Decided December 14, 1973. *497 Mr. Harry H. Chandless, Jr., for plaintiff. Mr. Neil Reiseman, for defendant, Englewood Cliffs Pharmacy, Inc. (Messrs. Conway, Reiseman & Michals, attorneys), and also argued case for other defendants. PETRELLA, J.C.C., Temporarily Assigned. By order of the Assignment Judge of October 11, 1973, this matter was put on the inactive list because of plaintiff's inability or unwillingness to submit to an eye examination. Defendants on this motion now seek to dismiss the complaint or in the alternative toll the running of prejudgment interest allowed by Rule 4:42-11(b). The Court denies the motions to dismiss on the ground that R. 1:13-7 allowed a six month period on the inactive list and the Order of October 11, 1973 did not require an eye examination on a specific date but allowed placing the case on the inactive list until the plaintiff submitted to the examination, or, implicitly, such period allowed by the rules expired. The Court rules do not expressly provide for the tolling of interest during the period plaintiff is unable or unwilling to prosecute his case. The purpose of the allowing of prejudgment interest is to discourage defendants from deferring payments of awards or settlements to injured plaintiffs. Busik v. Levine, 63 N.J. 351 (1973). Since the rule is for the benefit of plaintiffs it is only fair and equitable that where a plaintiff is unable or unwilling to proceed with his case, the court may exercise its inherent power to suspend the running of such interest where defendant is not at fault. See R. 1:1-2. Application of the prejudgment interest rule in its literal form would neither promote fairness in administration nor prevent an injustice under the circumstances. *498 Accordingly, the motion to suspend the running of prejudgment interest for the period the case remains on the inactive list pursuant to the aforementioned order is granted.

Q: Calculating upload speed issue in Delphi I use delphi 2010 and clever internet suite component i upload a file and want to calculate the upload speed.. i tried this code but it gives me "INF" in the label + the wrong speed ! whats wrong in that code? private FBytesProceed : Int64; FTimeStamp : TDateTime; FSpeed : double; end; procedure TForm2.clHttp1SendProgress(Sender: TObject; ABytesProceed, ATotalBytes: Int64); var LTimeStamp : TDateTime; begin LTimeStamp := Now; if FBytesProceed < ABytesProceed then begin // calculating bytes per second FSpeed := ( ABytesProceed - FBytesProceed ) {bytes} / ( ( LTimeStamp - FTimeStamp ) {days} * 24 {hours} * 60 {minutes} * 60 {seconds} ); end; FBytesProceed := ABytesProceed; FTimeStamp := LTimeStamp; label1.Caption := Format(' speed %n Kbps',[FSpeed / 1024]); end; A: As you encountered, the resolution of the system timer isnt very good. I seem to recall that it can be as low as 50ms. Here's two ways to get around this, some of it depends on how your program is structured. One, you can use a regular TTimer set to 2 second or whatever interval you'd like. Each time that fires you get the byte count, compare it to the last time the timing event fired, and set the caption with the upload rate. This would obviously only work if you're dealing with non-blocking uploads. If you dont want to use a TTimer, you can also do this in a separate thread, and have that check the upload every couple of seconds. Another way is to keep doing what you are doing, but only update the upload rate after a second. What I'd recommend is using GetTickCount() instead of Now() (since you dont actually need the date, just a counter). GetTickCount() brings back an integer representing milliseconds, not a floating point value. Start a byte count at 0. For every chunk that gets uploaded, add that amount to the byte count. Then check the tick count. If a second has passed since the last caption update, update the caption and set the byte count back to zero and record what the tick count was for the next time a chunk is uploaded. (just some pseudo-code to illustrate what I'm talking about in the 2nd option) t := GetTickCount(); n := t - LastTick; if (n > 2000) then //2 seconds begin rate := ByteCount / n; caption := format(....); LastTick := t; ByteCount := 0; end;

Click to viewThe whole time we're watching Star Wars: Clone Wars in theaters and on television, we'll be knowing that Anakin Skywalker is destined for a horrendous end. But the true tragedy of Anakin is that he's kind of a pale reflection of the truly great tragic heroes of science fiction. Seriously, here are like a hundred tragic heroes who are more awesome or terrible than Anakin. Okay, not a hundred. But a lot. Spoilers for old books and movies ahead. Before we launch into our awesome list, let's just cop to something: We're not doing the Aristotelian definition of tragedy. We're just not. Aristotle is for wusses. We're going more with the basic definition: the person who has everything, and then loses it all, or just gets horribly fucked over. In a poetic or meaningful way. Okay? Every scifi hero Charlton Heston played, ever.The Charlton Heston science fiction oeuvre is splendid in its variety. But there are a few things you can count on in pretty much all of them. Heston will know better than everybody else around him. He'll be the last bastion of civilization, surrounded by dirty hippies or grandiloquent mutants in whiteface or apes or whatever. And in the end, he'll die because nobody ever listens to him when he's telling them how stupid they are. Why? Why won't they listen? Soylent green is people, you damn dirty whiteface cultists! (Okay, so he doesn't die in Planet Of The Apes, but then he does in the sequel.) Sam Lowry In Brazil, the fatal flaw that destroys Sam Lowry is his secret desire to escape the repressive system he's a cog in. (Yeah, okay, we're getting Aristotelean for a sec.) He dreams and fantasizes about being a flying hero in shining armor who fights monsters and soars away, but when he finally gets a chance to escape with the woman (literally) of his dreams, it all goes bad. And he winds up being tortured to death by his former best friend. Dr. FrankensteinHe's obsessed with the idea of bringing inanimate matter to life, to the point where he drops out of school and spends years digging up corpses and sticking them together. But once he's created his monsterpiece (sorry), he rejects it and drives it away. His cruelty to his creation leads to the deaths of several of his friends, so Frankenstein vows to hunt it down. But Frankenstein doesn't even manage to die at the hands of his creation - instead, in the original novel, pneumonia claims his life after he pursues it to the Arctic. He doesn't even manage to die properly! Henry JekyllAnother guy who messes with science and gets messed with in return. Jekyll wants to separate his good side from his dark side, so he drinks a potion which turns him into the embodiment of his bad side, Edward Hyde. At first, it's all fun and games, until Hyde starts going buck wild and Jekyll is turning into him at night, even without the potion. But when Jekyll tries to repress Hyde, the monstrous side of him only comes back worse than ever, killing an old man. Finally, he becomes Hyde permanently, and decides to kill himself instead of paying for his crimes. Winston Smith He's another cog in the machine, helping to rewrite history in a future totalitarian state where everybody is watched. Because of his doubts about the machine, he gets lured into joining a resistance group - which turns out to be a set-up. He winds up tortured, and gives up his lover and accomplice. In the end, he doesn't die, but he does get utterly broken by the Party. Jeff Brundle in The Fly Annnd another hero who suffers due to his curiosity. Brundle invents the perfect teleportation machine, but a fly gets stuck in there with him. He and his little travel buddy get merged genetically, and they wind up as a half-human, half fly monster. So he decides the answer is to merge his body with his pregnant girlfriend, to add more human DNA to the mix. Sadly, the selfish girlfriend escapes and he ends up being merged with a machine instead, becoming a mangled heap. Chet Kinsman in Ben Bova's Kinsman series. It's the far-off year of 1999, and the Americans and Russians are sharing a base deep under the surface of the moon. Chet Kinsman is the chief of the American side, and he's got a plan to avert the war back on Earth. And it almost works, except that his best friend, Frank Colt, betrays him and he winds up dying as a result. Mad Max Poor old Max - he just wants to pursue justice as a police officer, but his uprightness gets him in the sights of an evil biker gang. And after they torch his best friend Goose, he becomes embittered and quits being a cop. Only to find that there's no safety in being a civilian, in the crumbling post-apocalyptic Australia. The thugs take out his family, leaving him a bitter loner who has no choice but to kill punks of all sizes, occasionally chaining them to their soon-to-explode bikes and giving them saws. He doesn't die, but he does end up getting smacked around by Tina Turner with really bad hair, and then suffers the indignity of getting rescued by a bunch of kids. Londo MollariLometa at Everything2 has a very passionate argument about why Londo Mollari is the ultimate tragic hero of Babylon 5: Londo as a tragic hero went through more twists than a bag of pretzels. Born into a noble family Mollari had a good heart, but he was condemned at every turn by his own bad choices. His ascension to the throne as Emperor was bittersweet and in the end he surrendered himself to his greatest fear, death at the hands of a Narn. Wolverine We were arguing earlier about whether Wolverine is a tragic hero. He does lose his family and his memory, and then his girlfriend gets killed. He struggles with his berzerker nature and his bestial killing instinct, and people are always trying to make him wear a yellow leotard. Plus, if you believe Wolverine: The End, he's destined to end up a bitter, lonely old man in Canada, before dying in a fight with his evil mutant brother, whom he thought dead. Hal JordanIt's all been undone now, but the greatest Green Lantern had a tragic hero arc in the 1990s. Hal Jordan just couldn't stand to fail, so after the evil Mongul destroyed his home town, Hal went nuts and used his power ring to recreate the wrecked Coast City. Then he went berzerk and attacked the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians. Finally, he renounced his prized Green Lantern-hood and became the villain Parallax. (Later, this was all revealed to be some form of alien possession, but that's a retcon.) Finally, he died, sacrificing himself to save the sun from being eaten. Dr. Edward Morbius from Forbidden Planet His curiosity is his downfall - he's determined to study the artifacts of the long-dead Krell race, so he uses the Krells' "Plastic Educator," not realizing that it shapes items from your mind into reality. The Krell wiped themselves out by unleashing monsters from their own ids, and Morbius wipes out his own expedition the same way, except for his daughter. His id-monster is born of his fatal desire to stay and explore the Krell remains, even after the rest of his expedition votes to go home. Finally, he learns the truth and lets the monster kill him, sparing his daughter's life. Rick Deckard He's a retired Blade Runner who has to come out of retirement to take up, once again, a job which he no longer really believes in, killing the artificial Replicants. (And if you believe director Ridley Scott, Deckard himself is one of the Replicants he's killing.) In the end, he's with Rachael, another Replicant, but their time together is going to be short and probably not all that pleasant. Harvey Dent: Spoilers for the Dark Knight ahead... So stop reading now if you really haven't seen it yet. (Really?) Harvey is another guy there's some debate over. But it's true that in The Dark Knight, he's pretty much one of the good guys, and his insistence on seeing the world in black and white is part of what helps the Joker break him. Even more than losing his fiancee and half his face, it's the realization that the Joker's right and everything is just random chaos that drives him over the edge and leads to his horrible (maybe) demise. Additional reporting by Lauren Davis.

The holiday season is all about get-togethers and potlucks. Traditional dishes are always comforting, but I think it’s time for a flavor upgrade. I’m looking at you, mashed potatoes! There are tons of ways to get creative and mix up your mash. Instead of the traditional butter, sour cream, or milk – stir in a healthy dollop of Greek yogurt for a tangy kick. You could fold in some caramelized onions with blue cheese. Or how about adding a little wasabi, ginger, edamame and a dash of soy to your mashed potatoes to transform them into an Asian-inspired, d’lish dish – my Wasabi Mashed Potatoes will blow you away! But if you’re a mushroom lover like me, then I have the perfect spin on mashed ‘taters for you…my Wild Mushroom Mashed Potatoes. Packed with a variety of ‘shrooms – the earthy flavor pairs perfectly with the creamy richness of the mash. Russet potatoes are the most popular choice for making a fluffy mash, but Yukon Golds also have a creamy richness to them. But no matter what potato you use, be sure to always whip your spuds when they are piping hot to avoid the dreaded gluey potato syndrome! -Kathy Wasabi Mashed Potatoes If after you make the potatoes you would like them a bit hotter, just mix a little more wasabi powder with some water to make a loose paste and then stir into potatoes. You can also use wasabi paste that comes in a tube as well – just add about 2-3 teaspoons, or to taste. If you’re watching the calories loose the butter and add in some fat free sour cream or Greek yogurt instead. In a very small bowl mix together the wasabi powder, water and salt and set aside. Place potatoes in a very large pot and cover with water at least 3 inches above potatoes. Add a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and cook on a low boil till fork tender, about 20 – 30 minutes. Test potatoes to be sure they’re tender all the way through. Meanwhile, combine in a small pan over low heat the milk or half-and-half, butter and soy sauce. Heat till the butter is melted and the milk is warm. Remove from heat and stir in the wasabi mixture. When potatoes are cooked, drain them well in a large colander, then return them to the pot. Shake pot over low heat about 30 seconds to dry out any remaining water. Remove from the heat and add half the hot liquid mixture. (Both the potatoes and the liquid must be hot.) With a heavy-duty whisk or masher, mash the potatoes. Then add remaining liquid and whip/mash up the potatoes till they are fluffy. Mound potatoes in a large warm bowl. Sprinkle with chopped cilantro or parsley. Place potatoes in a very large pot and cover with water at least 3 inches above potatoes. Add a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil then reduce heat and cook on a low boil till fork tender, about 20-30 minutes. Test potatoes to be sure they’re tender all the way through. Meanwhile, combine in a small pan over low heat the milk, white pepper, 6 tablespoons butter and 1 teaspoon salt. Heat till the butter is melted and the milk is warm. Do not boil. Keep warm. In a large non-stick skillet, heat the 2 teaspoons butter over medium-high heat. Add garlic and mushrooms and saute for about 3 minutes until thoroughly cooked and all moisture has evaporated. Add sherry and saute 1-1 1/2 minutes more. Remove from heat. When potatoes are cooked, drain them well in a large colander, then return them to the pot. Shake pot over low heat about 30 seconds to dry out any remaining water. Remove from the heat and add half the hot liquid mixture. (Both the potatoes and the liquid must be hot.) With a heavy duty whisk or masher, mash the potatoes. Then add remaining liquid and whip/mash up the potatoes till they are fluffy. Mix in the mushrooms and mound potatoes in a large warm bowl. Sprinkle with minced chives or parsley. Chef’s Notes: Wild mushrooms, such as morels, chanterelles and fresh porcini, are preferable. Or use domestic mushrooms such as button and shiitake or a mixture of domestic and wild mushrooms. If fresh wild mushrooms are not available, then substitute rehydrated, dry ones such as morels and porcini. To rehydrate them, pour boiling water over to just cover and let steep till softened. Drain before using. (Soaking liquid can be used in sauces or soups.) This recipe is extra-delicious made with the half-and-half. However, you can make it with low-fat milk and skimp on or omit the butter if you’re really “watching it.”

The full dataset is available from the corresponding author. Consent was not obtained for data sharing, but personal identifiable data was not collected, and the risk of identification is low. The statistical code is available in the Supporting Information files. Background {#sec008} ========== Takeaway food consumption is common in developed countries. Around one-fifth of adults and children in the UK eat takeaway food at home at least once per week.\[[@pone.0163093.ref001]\] Eating takeaway food at home is more common in children, but not adults, living in more deprived areas.\[[@pone.0163093.ref001]\] Consumption of takeaway food may be even higher in other countries.\[[@pone.0163093.ref002], [@pone.0163093.ref003]\] Although population data is unavailable, when takeaway food eaten in other locations than home is taken into account, takeaway food is likely to represent a substantial element of the UK diet. One study of UK adolescents living in a deprived urban area found that almost 75% of them consumed any food or drink from fast-food outlets at least once per week.\[[@pone.0163093.ref004]\] Food prepared out-of-home is, overall, less healthful than food prepared at home\[[@pone.0163093.ref005]\] and the diets of those who eat more out-of-home food tend to be of poorer nutritional quality.\[[@pone.0163093.ref005], [@pone.0163093.ref006]\] In England, the takeaway 'foodscape' is diverse, but independent outlets tend to be much more common than chain or franchise outlets.\[[@pone.0163093.ref007]\] Traditional British 'Fish & Chip Shops', serving battered and fried white fish with chipped and fried potatoes as their core offering, account for up to one-third of independent takeaways.\[[@pone.0163093.ref008]\] Aside from other nutrients, food from independent English takeaways is high in salt.\[[@pone.0163093.ref009]--[@pone.0163093.ref011]\] One study found that the median salt content of one standard portion of fish & chips, before addition of discretionary salt, was 3.0g (IQR: 2.4--4.8)\[[@pone.0163093.ref010]\]--equivalent to half of the recommended maximum daily intake for adults of 6g.\[[@pone.0163093.ref012]\] The salt content of other typical dishes served by independent takeaways ranged from 2.2--12.9g.\[[@pone.0163093.ref010]\] The salt content of fast and takeaway foods in other countries has also been reported to be high.\[[@pone.0163093.ref013]--[@pone.0163093.ref015]\] Discretionary salt added by servers as they serve and package food, as well as by consumers, would further increase salt content. Reducing salt intake has been associated with reduced blood pressure and incidence of stroke in systematic reviews.\[[@pone.0163093.ref016], [@pone.0163093.ref017]\] Local government officials in some parts of England are taking action to improve the nutritional quality of food from independent takeaways.\[[@pone.0163093.ref018]\] One method that aims to reduce the salt content of takeaway food is replacing standard, 17-holed, salt shakers (17HSS) with equivalents with only 5 holes (see **[Fig 1](#pone.0163093.g001){ref-type="fig"}**).\[[@pone.0163093.ref019]\] The five-holed salt shaker (5HSS) attempts to reduce discretionary salt added by servers and--if provided for customer use--consumers. They build on observational findings that discretionary salt use is related more to the size and number of holes in salt shakers, than demographic characteristics.\[[@pone.0163093.ref020]\] {#pone.0163093.g001} Five-holed salt shakers were first developed and introduced in Gateshead, in the North East of England, where they were offered, free of charge, to all independent Fish & Chip shops in the area in around 2006. Since then, they have been used in a number of local government initiatives across the country.\[[@pone.0163093.ref019]\] Whilst 5HSS have been particularly associated with Fish & Chip shops, in some areas their use has been encouraged across the takeaway sector.\[[@pone.0163093.ref018]\] Although we are not aware of 5HSS being used outside of the UK, they may be useful and appropriate in other settings. Some evidence suggests that 5HSS tend to be acceptable to takeaway owners.\[[@pone.0163093.ref019]\] High acceptability is likely to facilitate widespread implementation. Anecdotal, but no formal, evidence suggests that the 5HSS deliver less salt than 17HSS.\[[@pone.0163093.ref019]\] We conducted four experiments to determine the salt delivered by 5HSS and 17HSS in controlled conditions; and whether any differences were robust to variations in: the amount of salt in the shaker, the length of time spent shaking, and the person serving. Methods {#sec009} ======= Throughout, the dependent variable was the amount of salt delivered. Independent variables were: type of shaker used (5HSS or 17HSS), amount of salt in the shaker before shaking commences (shaker full, half full or nearly empty), time spent shaking (3s, 5s or 10s), and the individual serving. Materials {#sec010} --------- One 5HSS and one 17HSS produced by Drywite Limited were used and filled with Q Table Salt--supplied by a large regional takeaway supplier and commonly used across the sector. The amount of salt used in each trial was determined by weighing shakers before and after each trial using scales (MyWeigh i2600) accurate to 0.1g. Experiment 1: does the amount of salt delivered vary between shakers? {#sec011} --------------------------------------------------------------------- The only independent variable that varied in experiment 1 was type of shaker used (5HSS or 17HSS). Amount of salt in the shaker, and time spent shaking were set to the 'mid-values': half full (salt plus shaker weighed 240g) and 5s. One participant was asked to shake each salt shaker for 5s. A count-down timer was used with an audible 3-2-1 lead-in so that the participant knew when to start shaking. An audible tone also indicated when the participant should stop shaking. No further instructions were given for how shaking should be conducted. Salt shakers were refilled between trials. Salt shakers were trialled alternatively. There were ten trials per condition and two conditions: 5HSS and 17HSS. Thus, the 5HSS was shaken, followed by the 17HSS, then the 5HSS, then the 17HSS until ten trials of each shaker had been completed. The participant was not informed of how much salt was delivered on each trial, but they were given limited information on the purpose of the study. Specifically, the information sheet they were provided with stated "We are inviting you to take part in the Salt Shaker research study that is exploring the amount of salt delivered by two different shakers." Experiment 2: is the difference in salt delivered robust to changes in the amount of salt in the shaker? {#sec012} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this experiment the salt shaker used and the amount of salt in the shaker before shaking commenced varied; time spent shaking was held constant at 5s. The procedure in experiment 1 was repeated twice: firstly using nearly empty salt shakers (salt plus shaker weighed 100g); and secondly using nearly full salt shakers (salt plus shaker weighed 380g). There were ten trials per condition and four conditions: 5HSS nearly empty, 5HSS nearly full, 17HSS nearly empty, and 17HSS nearly full. Nearly empty 5HSS and 17HSS were trialled alternatively and then nearly full 5HSS and 17HSS were trialled alternatively. The same participant who conducted experiment 1 performed all trials. Experiment 3: is the difference in salt delivered robust to changes in time spent shaking? {#sec013} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this experiment the salt shaker used and time spent shaking per trial varied; amount of salt in the shaker before shaking commenced was held constant at half full. The procedure used in experiment 1 was repeated twice: with the participant shaking for 3s and 10s per trial. There were ten trials per condition and four conditions: 5HSS for 3s, 5HSS for 10s, 17HSS for 3s and 17HSS for 10s. The 5HSS was trialled alternatively for 3s and 10s, followed by the 17HSS alternatively for 3s and 10s. The same participant (who conducted experiments 1 and 2) performed all trials and was not informed of how much salt was delivered on each trial. Experiment 4: is the difference in salt delivered robust to changes in the person shaking? {#sec014} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this experiment the salt shaker used and the participant varied; time spent shaking and amount of salt in the shaker before shaking commenced were held constant at 5s and half full. A convenience sample of ten participants, aged 18 years or older was recruited. Quota sampling was used to ensure at least one male and one female participant in each of the following age ranges: 18--29 years, 30--39 years, 40--49 years and 50--59 years. Each participant performed the procedure used in experiment 1. Data analysis {#sec015} ------------- Differences in the amount of salt delivered between the two shakers were compared using repeated measures ANOVA tests. One-way tests were used with data from experiments 1--3, and a two-way test with data from experiment 4. All analyses were conducted in Stata SE v13.0 (see **[S1 Appendix](#pone.0163093.s001){ref-type="supplementary-material"}**). Procedure and ethics {#sec016} -------------------- Ethical permission was granted by Newcastle University's ethics committee. Participants were provided with a written information sheet and completed a written informed consent form before any trials began. Participants were not misled in any way. Experiments took place in May-July 2015. Data sharing {#sec017} ------------ The full dataset is available from the corresponding author. The statistical code is provided in [S1 Appendix](#pone.0163093.s001){ref-type="supplementary-material"}. Consent was not obtained for data sharing, but personal identifiable data was not collected, and the risk of identification is low. Results {#sec018} ======= **[Table 1](#pone.0163093.t001){ref-type="table"}** shows the results of all four experiments. Across all trials, the 17HSS delivered a mean (SD) of 7.86g (4.54) per trial, whilst the 5HSS delivered 2.65g (1.22). The 5HSS delivered a mean of 33.7% of the salt of the 17HSS. 10.1371/journal.pone.0163093.t001 ###### difference in salt delivered by five versus 17 holed salt shakers. {#pone.0163093.t001g} Start weight (g) Time shaking (s) Participants (n) Trials per participant per shaker (n) Salt delivered (g), mean (SD) 5HSS as % of 17HSS[\*](#t001fn002){ref-type="table-fn"} ANOVA F(df), p-value -------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ --------------------------------------- ------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------------- Exp. 1 240 5 1 10 1.12 (0.32) 2.29 (0.65) 48.9 F(1,9) = 30.79, p \< 0.001 Exp. 2 100 5 1 10 1.92 (0.32) 5.81 (0.68) 32.9 F(1,9) = 475.31, p \< 0.001 380 5 1 10 2.13 (0.31) 5.43 (1.12) 39.2 F(1,9) = 132.80, p \< 0.001 Exp. 3 240 3 1 10 1.58 (0.39) 3.84 (0.70) 41.1 F(1,9) = 224.89, p \< 0.001 240 5 1 10 2.63 (0.31) 6.75 (1.15) 39.0 F(1,9) = 165.05, p \< 0.001 240 10 1 10 4.45 (0.45) 11.17 (1.20) 39.8 F(1,9) = 313.21, p \< 0.001 Exp. 4 240 5 10 10 2.94 (1.29) 9.01 (4.81) 32.6 F(1,156) = 14.93, p = 0.001 All --- --- 10 2.65 (1.22) 7.86 (4.54) 33.7 --- *Note*. 5HSS: five holed salt shaker; 17HSS: 17 holed salt shaker; \*Mean salt delivered by 5HSS as % of mean delivered by 17HSS. There was a significant difference in salt delivered between the 5HSS and 17HSS in experiment 1 when time spent shaking, amount of salt in the shaker and participant were all kept constant. This difference was robust to variations in the starting weight of shakers, as well as time spent shaking and participant shaking explored in experiments 2--4. Discussion {#sec019} ========== Summary of results {#sec020} ------------------ This is the first documented study we are aware of exploring differences in salt delivered by salt shakers commonly encouraged in independent takeaways in England. We compared the standard 17HSS to the newer 5HSS. Across all experiments, the 5HSS delivered around 34% of the salt delivered by the 17HSS. This difference was robust to changes in the starting fullness of shakers, the length of time spent shaking and the person serving. Strengths and limitations of methods {#sec021} ------------------------------------ We considered a number of variables that may influence how much salt is delivered by salt shakers: starting fullness of shaker, length of time spent shaking, and person shaking. We focused on length of time spent shaking, rather than number of shakes, as our observations of real-life practice suggest that shaking a salt shaker is a continuous action, rather than a series of discrete actions. Our anecdotal observations in Fish & Chip Shops also suggest that median time spent shaking is around 4-5s, ranging from around 1-10s, indicating that the range of times we chose are largely reflective of practice. We conducted 10 trials of each condition, and recruited a range of different individuals for experiment 4 to increase the reliability of our results. Participants were only semi-blinded to the purpose of the experiment. They were aware that we were investigating how much salt different shakers delivered. But they were not aware which was the 'new' shaker or which was proposed to deliver less salt. Given that participants could also see how much salt was being delivered (although they were not informed of how much salt was actually delivered), this may have had some influence on their shaking behaviour. Experiments 1--3 were all conducted by the same individual and in series. It is possible that this subject was more careful in their shaking, and less tired, during experiment 1 than in later experiments. However, there remained clear differences between salt shakers in all experiments, suggesting this did not impact substantially on the results. Salt shakers were trialed alternatively in all experiments--that is the 5HSS was trialed, then the 17HSS, then the 5HSS, then the 17HSS until 10 repeats of each had been conducted. If subjects tired during testing, this may have differentially effected the different shakers. However, by alternating shakers throughout, this is likely to have a small effect, if any. We were not able to take account of all variables that may influence how much salt is delivered in practice. These include: customer preference, humidity leading to potential clogging of shakers, and any shop-specific special procedures. Our results represent controlled conditions and may not be generalizable to salt shaker use in practice. The sample size in all experiments may appear 'low'. The main risk of a small sample size is of type 2 error--that is, failing to identify a difference where one exists. As we identified a difference in all comparisons, there is no risk of type 2 error. However, it is possible that our results are subject to type 1 error--that is, identifying a difference where one does not exist. The main method for reducing type 1 error is to reduce the threshold p-value taken to indicate statistical significance. All of our p-values were ≤0.001 --indicating that type 1 error will occur in 0.1%, or fewer, tests. Given we have conducted 7 tests, the overall chance of type 1 error is less than 0.7%. As such, our results are very unlikely to be subject to type 1 error. Interpretation of results and implications for policy, practice and research {#sec022} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our results are encouraging for the increasing number of English local government areas and independent takeaways who promote, or use, the 5HSS to reduce the salt content of takeaway food. They may also be a useful prompt for those working to reduce the salt content of takeaway food in other countries to consider how 5HSS could work in other settings. Although our intention was not to determine under what conditions the least amount of salt is delivered, our results do suggest that less salt is delivered when shakers are half full, compared to nearly empty or nearly full. It is not clear how practical this finding could be in practice. Unsurprisingly, shaking for less time also resulted in less salt delivered. We cannot conclude from our results that the 5HSS will necessarily be associated with less salt consumed with takeaway food. For example, in real-life settings, servers may shake for longer with the 5HSS,\[[@pone.0163093.ref021]\] or customers may ask for, or add their own, additional salt. There is some anecdotal evidence to suggest these, unintended, consequences do occur.\[[@pone.0163093.ref018]\] Further research is required to confirm that the 5HSS is associated with less salt added to takeaway food, less salt consumed with takeaway food, and to explore any impact on customers' total diets. The results of experiment 4 showed substantial between-person variation in the amount of salt delivered by the 5HSS and 17HSS. Indeed, between-subjects variance was 1.57 for the 5HSS and 23.04 for the 17HSS, whilst within-subjects variance was 0.26 for the 5HSS and 1.87 for the 17HSS. Whilst, overall, the 5HSS delivered less salt than the 17HSS in experiment 4, the salt delivered by some individuals using the 5HSS was more than that delivered by others using the 17HSS. Between-person variation should, therefore, also be expected in practice. Substantial variation in salt content of takeaway food has been previously documented\[[@pone.0163093.ref010]\] and this may reflect both variations in recipes and serving practice. The variance figures reported above give variance ratios (between-subjects variance/within-subjects variance) of 6.04 for the 5HSS and 12.32 for the 17HSS--indicating proportionally greater between-subjects than within-subjects variance for the 17HSS than the 5HSS. The 5HSS may help standardise, as well as reduce, the amount of salt added to food. The 5HSS only addresses discretionary salt added by servers, and possibly customers, to takeaway food. The 5HSS does not address the relatively high levels of salt added to these foods in preparation.\[[@pone.0163093.ref010], [@pone.0163093.ref012]\] Further interventions may be required to help takeaways reformulate recipes to reduce salt added during preparation. Reformulation to reduce salt content has been successful in the wider UK food industry.\[[@pone.0163093.ref022]\] Other, wider, initiatives are also be required to tackle salt consumption holistically. Conclusion {#sec023} ========== Five holed salt shakers delivered around 34% of the salt of 17HSS in controlled conditions. This difference was robust to variations in: the amount of salt in the shaker, the length of time spent shaking, and the person serving. This confirms the potential of the 5HSS as a method to reduce the salt content of takeaway food, and particularly food from Fish & Chip shops, where these shakers are particularly used. Further research will be required to determine the effects of this intervention on customers' salt intake from takeaway food and total dietary salt intake. Supporting Information {#sec024} ====================== ###### Statistical code. (DOCX) ###### Click here for additional data file. Julia Lough, Bill Scott and Chris Hawthorne at Gateshead Council originally developed and introduced the five holed salt shaker studied in this work. Aoife Doherty, student on the Food & Human Nutrition BSc at Newcastle University, helped with data collection. [^1]: **Competing Interests:**The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. [^2]: **Conceptualization:** JA.**Data curation:** LG WW.**Formal analysis:** JA.**Funding acquisition:** AJA MW CS.**Investigation:** LG WW.**Methodology:** LG WW LP FHB AAL VAS CS MW AJA JA.**Project administration:** AJA.**Supervision:** AJA.**Visualization:** JA.**Writing -- original draft:** JA.**Writing -- review & editing:** LG WW LP FHB AAL VAS CS MW AJA JA.

2017 San Diego Padres season The 2017 San Diego Padres season was the 49th season of the San Diego Padres franchise in Major League Baseball and the Padres' 14th season at Petco Park. The Padres began the season on April 3 at the Los Angeles Dodgers. They ended the season on October 1 at the San Francisco Giants. They finished the season 71–91 to finish in fourth place in the National League West Division, 33 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. They missed the playoffs for the 11th straight year. Regular season Game log Season standings National League West National League Wildcard Record vs. opponents Roster Player statistics Both tables are sortable. Batting Players in bold are on the active roster. Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases; BB = Walks; K = Strikeouts; Avg. = Batting average; OBP = On Base Percentage; SLG = Slugging Percentage; Pitching Players in bold are on the active roster. Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts Farm system Updated as of September 24, 2016 References External links San Diego Padres official site 2017 San Diego Padres at baseball-reference.com Category:San Diego Padres seasons San Diego Padres San Diego Padres

Frederick Buechner, celebrating 90th birthday, publishes new book to reach new generation of readers As the widely-admired and critically-acclaimed writer Frederick Buechner approaches his 90th birthday on July 11, the new book Buechner 101 seeks to highlight his legacy for a new generation of readers, many of whom already know him from widely shared quotes on social media. Published by The Frederick Buechner Center, and curated by Anne Lamott, the volume samples his essays, sermons, and excerpts from memoirs and novels. The book also features tributes by admirers such as Lamott, Barbara Brown Taylor, and Brian McLaren. Lamott considers Buechner “America’s most important living theologian,” and says she has been “foisting” his books on friends for thirty years. “I think I can be a pest in my insistence that anyone interested in God, grace, meaning, and truth needs to immerse his or herself in his memoirs, essays, novels and sermons.” As Buechner turns 90, he has a strong presence on social media. More than 1.6 million people follow his Facebook page, and more than 282,000 people follow Buechner’s Twitter feed, both managed by The Frederick Buechner Center. His famous definition of vocation is one of his most frequently quoted lines, on social media and elsewhere: “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” One of the most important writer-theologians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Buechner is an ordained Presbyterian minister and a Pulitzer-nominated writers’ writer. His first novel, A Long Day’s Dying, published not long after his graduation from Princeton University, received enthusiastic reviews. He then surprised all who knew him by entering Union Theological Seminary, where he studied under Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich. A prolific writer for six decades, Buecher has published more than thirty books in a variety of genres: fiction, autobiography, theology, essays, and sermons. Among his most beloved works are The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981; Secrets in the Dark, a collection of sermons; four volumes of memoir, The Sacred Journey, Now and Then, Telling Secrets, and The Eyes of the Heart; and his best-selling book, Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner. Running through Buechner’s rich body of work is a timeless call to pay attention to what it means to be human, a message that continues to resonate with readers living amidst the dehumanizing tendencies of the modern world. As Barbara Brown Taylor writes, “From [Buechner] I have learned that it is only when I give my full attention to what it means to be human that I am granted a glimpse of what it means to be divine.” Other Buechner themes include listening to your life, faith despite doubt, hope through grace, the search for meaning, our shared human story, sinners as saints, and what it means to follow Christ. Writers influenced by Buechner include his former student, John Irving, who thanked him in the acknowledgements to A Prayer for Owen Meany: “I acknowledge….how much I owe to the writing of my former teacher Frederick Buechner…[His] correspondence, his criticism of the manuscript, and the constancy of his encouragement have meant a great deal….” Reviews have lauded his work as “entrancing…poetically rich…a singularly graceful synthesis of memoir and theological [perspective]” (Washington Post); and “elegant, understated and elegiac…” (Publishers Weekly). The New York Times described Buechner’s nonfiction work as “detective autobiography” for its depiction of the author’s journey toward (in Buechner’s own words) “the continuing dim spectacle of the subterranean presence of grace in the world.” Anne Lamott captures the essence of Buechner’s ability as a writer, confessing herself blown away by how he manages to be “both plain and majestic at the same time.” “Frederick Buechner continues to touch the lives of millions with his compassionate insight into the human condition, and his explorations of faith, grace, and hope,” says Brian Allain of The Frederick Buechner Center. “Buechner 101 celebrates his legacy by offering new readers the opportunity to dip into the deep well of his wisdom, experiencing a taste of his work in several genres. Anne Lamott and other reliable guides offer context for those who may be encountering Buechner for the first time.” The Frederick Buechner Center is in the midst of compiling video interviews with a range of writers, thinkers, clergy, and journalists speaking about Buechner’s legacy and influence on their work. Those videos will be available on the Center’s website, frederickbuechner.com, a rich resource for all things Buechner. The Center maintains Buechner’s social media presence on:

Q: Docker-compose does not work in docker-machine I have a cookiecutter-django application with docker that works fine if I run it locally with docker compose -f local.yml up. Now I am trying to deploy it so first I created a docker-machine in my computer (using macOS Catalina) and activated it. Now, inside the docker-machine, the docker-compose build works fine, but when I run it, the application crashes. Any idea what can be happening? I have been trying to solve this for almost a week now... This are my logs when I do docker-compose up in the docker-machine: Creating network "innovacion_innsai_default" with the default driver Creating innovacion_innsai_postgres_1 ... done Creating innovacion_innsai_django_1 ... done Creating innovacion_innsai_node_1 ... done Attaching to innovacion_innsai_postgres_1, innovacion_innsai_django_1, innovacion_innsai_node_1 postgres_1 | 2020-03-16 08:41:12.472 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432 postgres_1 | 2020-03-16 08:41:12.472 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432 postgres_1 | 2020-03-16 08:41:12.473 UTC [1] LOG: listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" postgres_1 | 2020-03-16 08:41:12.494 UTC [21] LOG: database system was shut down at 2020-03-16 08:31:09 UTC postgres_1 | 2020-03-16 08:41:12.511 UTC [1] LOG: database system is ready to accept connections django_1 | PostgreSQL is available django_1 | Traceback (most recent call last): django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 84, in _execute django_1 | return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) django_1 | psycopg2.errors.UndefinedTable: relation "innovation_sector" does not exist django_1 | LINE 1: ...n_sector"."id", "innovation_sector"."sector" FROM "innovatio... django_1 | ^ django_1 | django_1 | django_1 | The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: django_1 | django_1 | Traceback (most recent call last): django_1 | File "manage.py", line 30, in <module> django_1 | execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 381, in execute_from_command_line django_1 | utility.execute() django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 375, in execute django_1 | self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 323, in run_from_argv django_1 | self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 361, in execute django_1 | self.check() django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 390, in check django_1 | include_deployment_checks=include_deployment_checks, django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 65, in _run_checks django_1 | issues.extend(super()._run_checks(**kwargs)) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 377, in _run_checks django_1 | return checks.run_checks(**kwargs) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/checks/registry.py", line 72, in run_checks django_1 | new_errors = check(app_configs=app_configs) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/checks/urls.py", line 40, in check_url_namespaces_unique django_1 | all_namespaces = _load_all_namespaces(resolver) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/checks/urls.py", line 57, in _load_all_namespaces django_1 | url_patterns = getattr(resolver, 'url_patterns', []) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 80, in __get__ django_1 | res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/urls/resolvers.py", line 584, in url_patterns django_1 | patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 80, in __get__ django_1 | res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/urls/resolvers.py", line 577, in urlconf_module django_1 | return import_module(self.urlconf_name) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module django_1 | return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed django_1 | File "/app/config/urls.py", line 18, in <module> django_1 | path("", include("innovacion_innsai.innovation.urls", namespace="innovation")), django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/urls/conf.py", line 34, in include django_1 | urlconf_module = import_module(urlconf_module) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module django_1 | return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module django_1 | File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed django_1 | File "/app/innovacion_innsai/innovation/urls.py", line 2, in <module> django_1 | from innovacion_innsai.innovation import views django_1 | File "/app/innovacion_innsai/innovation/views.py", line 9, in <module> django_1 | from .analytics import alimentacion_cases, agro_cases, turismo_cases, movilidad_cases django_1 | File "/app/innovacion_innsai/innovation/analytics.py", line 17, in <module> django_1 | for case in Case.objects.filter(sector__sector=sectors[0]): django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 308, in __getitem__ django_1 | qs._fetch_all() django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 1242, in _fetch_all django_1 | self._result_cache = list(self._iterable_class(self)) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 55, in __iter__ django_1 | results = compiler.execute_sql(chunked_fetch=self.chunked_fetch, chunk_size=self.chunk_size) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 1133, in execute_sql django_1 | cursor.execute(sql, params) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 99, in execute django_1 | return super().execute(sql, params) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 67, in execute django_1 | return self._execute_with_wrappers(sql, params, many=False, executor=self._execute) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 76, in _execute_with_wrappers django_1 | return executor(sql, params, many, context) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 84, in _execute django_1 | return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 89, in __exit__ django_1 | raise dj_exc_value.with_traceback(traceback) from exc_value django_1 | File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 84, in _execute django_1 | return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) django_1 | django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation "innovation_sector" does not exist django_1 | LINE 1: ...n_sector"."id", "innovation_sector"."sector" FROM "innovatio... django_1 | ^ django_1 | innovacion_innsai_django_1 exited with code 1 node_1 | node_1 | > [email protected] dev /app node_1 | > gulp node_1 | node_1 | [08:41:22] Using gulpfile /app/gulpfile.js node_1 | [08:41:22] Starting 'default'... node_1 | [08:41:22] Starting 'styles'... node_1 | [08:41:22] Starting 'scripts'... node_1 | [08:41:22] Starting 'imgCompression'... node_1 | [08:41:22] gulp-imagemin: Minified 0 images This is my local.yml: version: '3' volumes: local_postgres_data: {} local_postgres_data_backups: {} services: django: build: context: . dockerfile: ./compose/local/django/Dockerfile image: innovacion_innsai_local_django depends_on: - postgres volumes: - .:/app env_file: - ./.envs/.local/.django - ./.envs/.local/.postgres ports: - "8000:8000" command: /start postgres: build: context: . dockerfile: ./compose/production/postgres/Dockerfile image: innovacion_innsai_production_postgres volumes: - local_postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data - local_postgres_data_backups:/backups env_file: - ./.envs/.local/.postgres #Estas dos siguientes lineas las he añadido yo luego ports: - "5432:5432" node: build: context: . dockerfile: ./compose/local/node/Dockerfile image: innovacion_innsai_local_node depends_on: - django volumes: - .:/app # http://jdlm.info/articles/2016/03/06/lessons-building-node-app-docker.html - /app/node_modules command: npm run dev ports: - "3000:3000" # Expose browsersync UI: https://www.browsersync.io/docs/options/#option-ui - "3001:3001" And this is my .postgres file inside the .envs/local folder: # PostgreSQL # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ POSTGRES_HOST=postgres POSTGRES_PORT=5432 POSTGRES_DB=innovacion_innsai POSTGRES_USER=debug POSTGRES_PASSWORD=debug A: File "/app/innovacion_innsai/innovation/analytics.py", line 17, in <module> django_1 | for case in Case.objects.filter(sector__sector=sectors[0]): It means that when django is initializing (the moment it loads the modules) it's doing DB queries on database that has no migrations applied. You need to transform whatever your code is doing on line 17 to run it lazy.

Ep. 201 America Will Be Energy Independent in 20 Years Male: S&A Investor Radio looks beyond the regular headlines heard on mainstream financial media. To bring you unscripted interviews and breaking commentary, direct from Wall Street, right to you on Main Street. Frank Curzio: How’s it going out there? It’s Wednesday, September 18th and I’m Frank Curzio, host of the S&A Investor podcast where I break down the headlines and tell you what’s really moving these markets. You know, I’m really getting sick of this Florida thing. Went to go get an oil change the other day. By the way, my wife is in Vegas celebrating her mom’s birthday for a week. I’m working hard, have the kids, take them school, feed them, doing homework, changing diapers, entertaining, all that fun stuff, working hard with you as well. I did squeeze in time to get an oil change which I needed. So I went to a place called Express Lube, no it’s not a porno site, but it’s a real place to get oil, owned by Texaco. So I had to take my two year old with me. She kind of has a mind of her own right now, can’t sit around. Just running all over the place and there’s like a waiting room with a TV. She’s running there changing the channels, change the channel with six people watching the Today show and they are all like getting ticked off, you know, total chaos. So, they finally finish my oil change. And they say, hey, Frank, come on up. It’s $66 because I have a new car and they have to use synthetic oil. I’m like fine you got the $22 oil change sign outside display, I’ll pay the $66 no problem, didn’t complain at all. So today, this morning, my light comes on, the oil light, it says I have 15 percent oil life. So I’m like great. Now I have to go back there, with my kids again, and doing a little daddy daycare thing right now. So I know something’s not right because it should say 100 percent after the oil change. So I asked the guy, I get there and I said, listen, let me talk to your manager. And he says sure. Some country guy comes, I won’t even use, that’s all I’m going to say, some country guy comes out. And he might have had like four or five teeth. And I said, look, I just got the oil changed. It says I have 15 percent oil life, you know what gives. He says, all right, let me check the oil and see what’s going on. He goes, you know what, I guess we forgot to put in the oil. So I said, unfortunately in front of my kids. I said, let me get this straight, I came here for an oil change only, you charge me $66 and forgot to put oil in my car. So I said, look, either you hire the biggest idiots on the planet, or you are robbing me, that’s the only case. The only thing I went in there for is for you to give me oil. That’s what you do. You change oil. It’s not a services firm. They change, that’s all they do, they change oil. And they forgot to put oil in my car. So he’s like sir, you know what, it’s probably a mistake. I said, okay, I guess you have idiots working for you then because I’m really upset because I’m dragging my kids around and I don’t have a lot of time these days. So I said, that’s fine, please fill up my oil tank, not a problem. So, I don’t lose it often. I try not to curse and lose my temper, especially in front of the kids, but I’m from New York and I believe the guys definitely tried to scam me. I Mean, the only reason is because I had five percent oil life and it said 15 percent oil in there, so you put a little oil in there, probably get the light shut off, but since it’s a new car, it actually shows me the gauge of percentage and life and stuff like that. Because, there is no way that people could be that dumb, actually, I live in Florida. There might be a way. But it’s just amazing, a simple oil change, an oil change I can’t even get done here. It’s amazing, I’m telling you. If you want a job, come to Florida, you’ll make a ton of money. Anyway, I don’t want to start off on a rant. Just frustrated, a guy had one job, give me an oil change and you forgot to put oil in my car. Anyway, moving on. Have a great podcast for you today. Today’s guest is the one and only Dr. Kent Moors. Editor of the Energy Investor Newsletter for Money Map Press, energy expert. Advises the largest oil companies, even L&G facilities. One of the smartest guys, by far, in the industry. Last time I had him on I received about 100 emails saying how great he was, from you. He’s not an arrogant guy, just a facts guy. Told us oil was going much higher, when, at a time, when if you remember, a lot of people were predicting oil prices to go lower, $70. All right, they were about $80 at the time now they are over $100. You have Syria going on and everything, but they were well over $95 before that even happened. So that call was so good and the facts he presented behind that argument was so good, it challenged my perspective on oil and completely changed my mind on a lot of different things. And this was right before I started visiting all the shell areas around the US, explaining stuff like this to Cactus and Cactus is like, yeah, oil prices might come down. Those of you that read my newsletter know exactly what Cactus is. You know, oil driller, wildcatter from like 40 years, you know, I was explaining to him about reserve ratios are going down tremendously, everyplace else, even though we are producing a lot of oil in the US. But Dr. Kent Moor is here and he’s going to tell us that oil prices can keep heading higher. He’s also going to break down the natural gas industry. Another L&G terminal just got approved in the US, exporting facility. So it’s a time to buy natural gas producing stocks. Interesting question. I know it’s early on. Also, he told us six months ago, I just mentioned. Most of the large cap oil companies around the world having trouble replacing their reserve replacement ratios, that means they are having trouble finding oil. I’m going to ask him if it’s still the case based on his recent visits outside America. And finally, Moors will give us his favorite pics in the oil patch, a trend that nobody is talking about. Guys, great, great, interview, don’t want to miss it. Later on, going to break down the markets, tell you why the markets should not be rising, stocks should not be rising because Summers withdrew his bid to become fed chief. We’ll also talk about my adventures of being on TV. Have a lot of producers calling and I have to say, I think I am going to change my mind about being on TV. Anyway, now I know why I gave it up back in New York. And, instead of an educational segment this week, I’m definitely going to take some of your questions. I didn’t do that last week. I have a lot of great ones including feedback, how to control my tempers. Elliot Gue, which was the interview last week. A ton of positive feedback. I thought Elliot was awesome, also an energy expert. Defense companies evaluations, so I’ll tell you why you should sell the small, mid cap names in this. I’m going to bring that up and how to get a job in the ___so I’m getting a lot of questions on that and I’m going to take a few, but first, let’s start with this amazing interview with Dr. Kent Moors. And I start by asking him, are triple digit oil prices here to stay. Dr. Kent Moors: By and large, I think we are going to see that for some time. We’ll see a range in the trading, but we’re looking a base right now as of this morning, um, would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $107 to $110 for WTI and probably closer to $115 for Brent over the next several weeks. We are of course working the Syrian premium through the system and then the lessening of tension there, which has been bringing the prices down the last couple days, but the dynamics in the market are still going up. Frank Curzio: You know, you had an interesting article about the Syrian premium and you know, after this whole Syrian thing that oil prices have obviously gone a lot higher, but you also say why it may not be temporary, why is that? Dr. Kent Moors: Well, there are several things that are occurring quite apart from the instability of the Middle East, quite apart from Syria, and that is, that we were beginning to see some supply and demand dynamics that are kicking in. There will be some supply constrictions on various parts, various regions of the world as we move over the next six to twelve months. And we are also seeing some spikes in demand. Now, once again, both of these are not either North American or Western European in origin, because the oil market for some time now has had both its demand and its price levels determined by what’s occurring in other parts of the world. And that’s going to continue, which means that even though in the United States we are talking about this large S of new unconventional oil discoveries and how we may be energy independent within a couple of decades, but that’s not noticeable declining the international price levels. And what that means is that crude is going to be in excess of $100 a barrel for some time. Frank Curzio: And it’s interesting you say a lot of people are talking about the shale boom in the US, massive boom taking place in places like the Permesian Basis, Eagle Ford, also __and these are all places that me and my research team visited in the past few months. Yes, we seem to have so much untapped oil potential in areas like the Three Forks, which is under the ___. And you have the Kline, which is under the Wolf Camp of the Permesian Basin. Also the Utica under the Marseilles. And you mentioned energy independence. Is there a chance that we could become energy independent if we had places like Florida, New York, California, open up their boarders to fracking? Dr. Kent Moors: It’s a bit more than that. It is true that there is a considerable amount of potential reserves available, but you also have to understand that even though the supply is now available, that doesn’t mean that the price is going to be cut. Just as an example, moving to the Utica, below the Marseilles, which there is apparently, a considerable amount of reserves to be tapped. It is far more expensive to drill that deep. The average Marseilles well is coming in and $2 to $2 ½ million per well. The average Utica is going to come in at $8 million or more. So even though the supply is there, that doesn’t automatically mean that the prices are going to be going down. I mean, the prices are going to still remain somewhat high. I have a greater confidence however that if we look at within the next 20 years, we are for example going to be producing more oil in the United States this year than we have at any point since the early 1990s and that scale is going to be going up. I do think that within 20 years or so, we are going to be dependent upon imports for only about maybe about 30 percent of what we need on a daily basis and virtually all of that is going to be coming from Canada. So that self-sufficiency idea is really not as outlandish as it may appear. Frank Curzio: So you are saying in 30 years, we are not going to need anything from OPEC, it’s going to be imported from Canada and we’re going to have enough production the US to basically serve our demand needs? Dr. Kent Moors: Yeah, absolutely, and at that point, the energy balance is going to be more diversified than it is now. We will have more hydrocarbon alternative sources contributing greater percentages of the overall daily need than we have currently, but to put things in perspective, OPEC doesn’t think it’s going to be selling us oil. It’s interesting, you can take a look at the latest OPEC planning document, which was revised some two years ago now. OPEC itself assumes that by the time you get to 2050, not a single member of OPEC will be selling a single barrel of oil to the United States, so this is something that’s the market itself has been recognizing for a while. Frank Curzio: Now, a lot of people getting their name in the paper with using the word depletion. They say there is not as much oil as people thing in these areas. What do you have to say about that where maybe we are just jumping the gun here. We are seeing a lot of production now, but it’s definitely going to tail off say in 10, 20 years from now. Dr. Kent Moors: That’s always an issue. We really don’t know the longevity of the basin until you have actually spud a large number of wells, you know where the sweet spots are. You have been doing a number of fill in and step out operations. And all of these things, and several of these basins still have to come. There are a couple of things, however that we have to keep in mind. Even though the depletion rate is a great unknown out there and people tend to play games with the debate upon occasion, there are two other things that we really ought to recognize. Number one, we are recognizing multiple horizons. As we drill deeper, as we get better and more efficient with the horizontal drilling, so we have multiple fracking stages, we are coming to recognize that there are more horizons for development than we originally had anticipated. And that’s occurring not meanly with the new finds, it’s also occurring at much more mature fields. And secondly, the technology factor is always improving. If we take a look at, for example, at the multidirectional or horizontal drilling operations that exist today and compare them with those that existed only three years ago, the difference is significant. Efficiency is increasing the amount of reserves we actually can tap and bring up whole. It’s also allowing us to keep wells open longer. To increase the amount of secondary recovery techniques that can be used efficiently. And even dealing with things like water cuts, to make wells where the water cut is becoming a prohibitively expensive proposition. Allowing those wells to remain open profitably longer. Recalled and until very recently, and by that I mean, on average within the last couple of years, it was not unusual for 50 percent to the known reserves at a well to be left in the ground because it was simply not economically feasible to pull the oil out. The overall increase price in crude oil has assisted in additional recovery, but the technological improvements have dramatically improved our ability of being able to take up greater amounts of reserves than we know are there. Frank Curzio: You said US as an exporter as natural gas. I mean, this is a trend that had you excited a few months ago when we talked. This week, the fourth L&G exporting terminal has been approved in the US. Why is it such a big deal for America and how come this isn’t getting more publicity and I have to see it basically on a fifth or sixth story, where, you know, is this like a big deal for America? Dr. Kent Moors: It is a very big deal for America. I had to use the term “game changer” but this is one of them. We have such a large known reserve of unconventional gas in the United States that we could literally increase the overall production of natural gas 25 percent each year into the foreseeable future. Now if we did that, of course, we’d destroy a market. So one of the problems always is, we know we have got a great deal of supply that we can bring on market, if companies actually do that they depress the price and they shoot themselves in the foot. Well, the way out of that is to be able to have increasing demand site needs for the natural gas. And in addition from moving from coal to gas as they fuel of choice and generation of electricity which is now underway. The export of L&G from the United States is a major ingredient in increasing that demand and thereby allowing additional American expansion in production. We currently provide zero percent in the L&G in the international market. Even Russian gas ___is not admitting that the United States is likely to be providing anywhere between 8 and as much as 12 percent of the L&G in international market as early as the early 2020, 2020, 2022, somewhere around there. This is going to be a major way of exporting additional, already known natural gas reserves in the United States and it’s not going to affect the domestic prices at all. It is going to generate a significant amount of development. There is going to be injections of tax revenues of local economies. There is going to be employment. We are also going to have some problems which we are going to have to overcome. Everything from an inability to develop the infrastructure necessary to support this quick enough to environmental concerns. But my belief is that you take the problem, you put it on the table and then you solve it. You don’t try to avoid it. L&G is going to be a major component of the American energy picture and exporting it from the United States into the world community is going to be a decisive change in the energy trades we see in this country. Frank Curzio: Now, this is an important question, you are a newsletter writer as well. What are some of the plays on this, because, what I notice and I read this back in February and I was wondering why this was happening, you had Chevron come into the Marseilles and they increased their well count from 94 to 219, natural gas. You have Chesapeake Ridge Well count from 30 to 62. You have Consul Energy, EQT Pointers, XTO and I’m looking at this, I’m looking at natural gas prices and saying, why are they doing this? This fourth L&G terminal just got approved right next door off the east coast, so it seems like they are getting ready for this. Is it time to start biting at the natural gas producers off of this trend? Dr. Kent Moors: Well, I mean, there are a couple of factors here, there is not going to be any exports until well into next year. But everyone recognizes in anticipation that this is coming. The exporting of L&G will be a major way in which excess production will be removed from the American market and therefore will not be depressing price. The exports themselves are going to be accelerating and they are going to be accelerating to both Europe and to Asia. And the reason why it’s not profitable by next year to start exporting of Asia is that we will have the completion of the widening and the deepening of the Panama Canal and for the first time, the canal will be able to service L&G tankers. So you are now going to be able to move L&G from Gulf of Mexico US, to Asia profitably. All of this is known by everybody in the industry. And so as a result, there has been a jockeying of position. There have been complaints of course that the Department of Energy has not be approving the terminals quickly enough, but that simply is a symptom of a broader problem, that is that we really need an overall multier-national policy for this export and we don’t have that yet. So some of that delay is simply to be expected given the fact that policy has to catch up with where the market already is. Lots of people are getting on this bandwagon and there are a couple things that you can see. Obviously, the trendsetter for some time has been LNG Energy and LNG Energy is still one of the darlings of the LNG stock category despite the fact that it won’t be exporting a single pound of LNG for over a year. We also have companies like Golar that are positioning themselves to be the main go to companies when it comes time to providing the tankers to move the LNG out of the United States into the national market. So there are plenty of things going on here. LNG is fundamentally going to alter how energy looks worldwide over the next 20 years and for those areas of the world such as Western Europe that have been dependent on high price take or pay multiyear based on crude oil pricing systems, for pipeline gas, may not for the first time, have a genuine option with the importing of L&G to reduce their overall gas expense in the European market and that’s going to have a residual major advantage in terms of offsetting other problems in economic and industrial development. But when you go to Asia, that’s the real big area. Asia is so thirsty for LNG that there is a huge premium that will be paid over other parts of the world for the foreseeable future. And as a result, you have situations like when I was advising on the Gorgon project, Chevron’s project in Northwestern Australia, we had a genuine concern that that was going to generate too much LNG for the Asian market to be able to absorb, especially given the fact that Exxon had its own project in Papua, New Guinea and that was also going to Asia. Well, every single drop of the LNG that will be produced for the next 20 years from both of those projects has already been committed. Chinese announced one morning that they are building five costal terminals at the same time. Asia sees LNG as one of the major ways of breaking the hold, of having to use inferior coal for it’s electricity generation. So you look forward, and the entire world is going to be getting on the L&G bandwagon and we just happen to be sitting on some of the major raw material supplies that are going to provide it. Frank Curzio: Once again, we are talking to Dr. Kent Moors, energy expert, political science professor. Also, editor of Energy Advantage and Energy Inner Circle Newsletters, Money Map Press, let’s stay with the international front. Last time I spoke to you, you said something that actually changed my thinking the way I look at the oil industry in terms of prices. And you said, many of the largest oil companies in the world, most that are state run are having problems keeping their reserve ratios, replacement ratios above 100 percent. Is this still true today? Dr. Kent Moors: Yes, it is, and of course, we have to remember some of this information is more anecdotal, than it is, to give you the clearest example, once Saudi Arabia took over Aramco, we haven’t had a realistic reserve figure. So we really don’t know what Saudi Arabia has since 1979. What concerns me about what’s occurring elsewhere in the world, is that to keep pace with additional demand requirements, some of these national oil companies are doing what I think is substantial damage to their geological reservoirs. Just to give you an example, it is a regular condition in Saudi Arabia now, when they open a new field from the very beginning of that field, you have significant secondary recovery being introduced. It is not unusual in a new field to have as many injection wells as you have production wells. From the very beginning of the fields development. Now, what this does, of course, is that it pushes a lot of oil out up front. But it does damage to the reservoir to the extent that you are reducing the overall recoverable reserves as you extend that overtime. Now the Saudis would respond by saying they have so much untapped reserves that these kinds of potential text book difficulties are of little concern to them. The problem is we don’t know how many new fields are actually exploitable at which levels. In other parts of the world, we have national oil companies which once again are attempting to get as much out of the ground as quickly, triple digit cruise prices, tend to do that, but at the expense of putting in jeopardy overall long term supply. Let me add here, one of the offsets to this that we are seeing worldwide is we now have come to recognize that there is more type oil or unconventional oil world wide than we ever thought there was. And that was indicated for the first time this past summer when the energy information administration did the first revision of its shale gas survey, which first came out in 2011. And for the first time, put in initial figures on unconventional or tight oil. And they had to conclude that there was 40 to 60 percent more unconventional oil world wide than they had originally anticipated. So we have to expect more horizontal drilling and more fracking for oil worldwide, not simply for gas. Frank Curzio: Now, with this horizontal drilling, where do you see, what inning are we in? I mean, very early stages when you are looking international. But the people that I talked to in the industry say that they are least a decade behind because a lot of these companies don’t like working with each other. Halliburton will work with Exxon and you’ll have GE for Lufkin, for the pumps and everything, they all work together, seismic data companies to get the well done where it seems like overseas they are having that problem where everybody working together, I mean, when is this going to take place. I mean, in 20 years, are we looking three years. How long before we really see this development overseas of shale gas? Dr. Kent Moors: Oh, well, it’s already beginning, but it is quite true that the way in which one does business abroad is often more frustrating than what it is that you would find, say in North America. Currently, we are about, in the United States, we are about eight years ahead of most of the rest of the world in shale gas development, and that doesn’t seem like much, but in the industry, that’s light years. So what I have suggested repeatedly is that the next wave of profitability for American companies, and I’m talking about smaller companies. I’m not just talking about the Haliburtons and the ___and the giants of the world. But next real opportunity for smaller American companies is abroad and it’s moving its technology and its expertise and its experience abroad. Because what you don’t have in foreign fields is coordination, as you have mentioned. And it’s not simply coordination between and among the supply providers. It’s an ability to provide an efficient overall pad structure and pad organization. Now that takes years to develop and throughout much of the world, this was done by either a national company, or a consortium of state controlled entities and that merely increases the inefficiency. What the rest of the world doesn’t want is a Halliburton coming in and essentially controlling their domestic field. What they don’t have, however yet, is the development of their own domestic equivalent. They have set up much larger holding companies of oil field services for example. But that hasn’t translated this to any increased efficiency. It doesn’t normally help for you to bring together a whole bunch of outmoded equipment and provide it as one centralized location if that equipment doesn’t do the job. So the next stage actually, is being able to inject into international product and international projects the kind of almost seamless efficiencies we have developed in North America and that, I think is a real opportunity for North American companies. Frank Curzio: Last topic here, can you talk a little bit about the offshore industry? Barkley’s predicts energy companies are going to spend $640 billion this year to find oil, $640 billion this year alone and in conference calls I listen to which includes most of the majors, seem to be making a massive push into offshore. Are you hearing the same thing out there? Dr. Kent Moors: Oh sure, and there is a basic reason for it. If we move back to the conventional side here to the normal kind of oil and gas that were used too. There are multiple surveys that the vast majority of as yet, undiscovered large oil and gas fields, are located off shore and most of these are actually in deep water. It is far more expensive to drill out there. The infrastructure is more complicated. But you tend to have a larger field. You have larger initial flow rates, and you have actually reduced recovery of investment plan. And so that makes it a no brainier and this is also occurring in areas that are exceptionally mature. If you take a look at certain areas of the Gulf of Mexico, but the point the area that I’ve been dealing with over the last month or so, which is truly exciting, take a look at eth new horizons being discovered off shore in Cook Inlet, Australia, Cook Inlet, Alaska. This is an area that’s been under development for decades. But the amount of oil and gas that’s being discovered there now that the drilling platforms are in place and the jack ups are finally moved out and so on, is quite above what people had been anticipating. And so as a result, as you go offshore into new fields, we also have older fields where advanced newer technology is allowing us to recover reserves in some cases, we didn’t even know where there. Frank Curzio: Well, let me finish up with this last question here, one more, I promise it will be the last one. Do you have any ideas to share with the listeners and I don’t want you to give away anything particular that people are paying for in your newsletters, but any large cap, small cap ideas on some of the trends that we talked about today? Dr. Kent Moors: Absolutely, the trend that I’m seeing that is increasing much more quickly than even I anticipated is something that I call a production threshold. The threshold below which major companies no longer can run projects at significant profitability is expanding. It means that the larger traditional international majors, what’s left of the VIOCs, the vertically integrated oil companies or you know, the big guys, the Exxon Mobiles, and the Conoco Phillips, and the Shells of the world, the Chevrons of the world. The threshold at which they must operate is getting larger. Now what that means is there is a whole new area of medium to smaller field plays that are beyond the ability of the large companies to operate. This is creating an environment for well-focused, well managed efficiently run companies to make what are actually greater profit returns on medium to smaller fields than even the big boys can run. There is a whole new generation here of profit that’s being developed with a whole range of smaller companies that tend to focus on basins they know well. They tend to operate with clearly defined objectives. They tend to do it far more efficiently and they tend to product greater profit margins than the larger companies. And I think that’s one really intriguing and profitable place that retail investors are going to be moving. Frank Curzio: All right, Dr. Moors, we’ll leave it there. I usually, I say this a lot to my listeners. I usually try to keep these podcasts under usually 20 minutes. We just had so many good things to talk about and it went a little bit long, but I really appreciate you coming on the podcast. I know a lot of people they always email saying how much they like, I really appreciate you taking the time. Dr. Kent Moors: Thank you. I enjoyed it. Frank Curzio: All right, take care. Dr. Kent Moors: Bye, bye. Frank Curzio: Bye. Okay, guys, awesome stuff from Dr. Kent Moors. Give me a shout, fcurziostansberryresearch.com that’s fcurziostansberryresearch.com. I got a lot of feedback from the Elliot Gue interview. Let me know what you thought about Dr. Kent Moors, again, feel free, debate his opinions. He is someone I listen too. Who has been dead right since I have been talking to him for over a year, fantastic, so again, it’s just my opinion, this podcast is about you. Let me know what you think. Fcurziostansberryresearch.com. Now, let’s get to the markets. Dow S&P jumped earlier in the week after Larry Sermons withdrew his name from consideration to become the next fed chief, big deal, right? I mean, he was sure win, definitely going to be next fed chief. He sees someone who may hike raise in the short term and Obama’s top man for the job. So once this news broke, some of the markets go a lot higher, at least the premarkets on Monday. On anticipation that rates will stay low forever and we will continue to drink from the punch bowl. Look, I don’t know if this is such a big deal or who becomes the next fed chief. I mean, actually I think you know, Sermons is really smart for removing his name. He blew up Harvard’s endowment and many consider him one of the people responsible for financial crisis. I mean, he was put in place during the Clinton administration when he was treasury secretary, also, this guy hates women in power. I mean he was actually quoted as saying, the underrepresentation of female scientists at top universities maybe in part due to the natural differences between men and women. I mean, his confirmation here would have been awesome to watch, that was the only reason I wanted this guy to become fed chief. I was hoping, that would have been broadcasted everywhere. It would have been fantastic. They would have torn that guy apart. Plus, with social media, I am sure there is definitely dirt on this guy. I mean, there is dirt on everybody. I think we all have dirt, right? A bit of a bachelor party at a strip bar. A bachelorette party at Chip and Dales when you were younger. Had a major argument with your wife, imagine have somebody taping that and some of the things that are said. Getting so drunk that you don’t know your name, with your buddies and stuff like that. Stuff like this happens all the time when you are a politician you can’t have any of that happen ever. Your life is an open book. Everybody taping you every minute of every day. I mean, why would anyone in the world want the top job at the fed anyway? Why? It’s the worse position. I mean, Bernanke saved the world and people hate this guy. They rather we let all the banks fail. Have 30 percent unemployment right now. Most major cities go into bankrupt, I mean, that was the alternative, I mean, people losing their life savings, is that really what you wanted? And Bernanke, people trash the guy all the time. I mean, look where we are now. I mean, it’s not that bad out there, right? We are sitting there, record profits. We are doing okay. It’s not great, but man, people forget how bad it was in 2008. I don’t know if there is another solution to get us where we are today. It’s debatable, what’s not debatable is sitting and doing nothing, come on, use your head. Really, you want to sit there and do nothing? But anyway, Bernanke gets no credit at all. I mean, it’s the worse job on the planet, so I’m not surprised he removed his name. Anyway, I think we need to start raising our rates. We have to get out of QE programs. These programs were intended our economy from falling into deep recession and they worked. The housing market is much better footing, profits at all-time highs and we are hiring, so unemployment is at its lowest levels since the credit crisis. Employees don’t email me labor partisan paste and rate, it’s nonsense. I tell you plenty of jobs. If you want jobs, I’ll answer it in my questions later. There is plenty of jobs out there guys, if you are willing to move and relocate, where it means, if it’s that bad where I am going to sleep on a park bench and I can’t feed my family, there is jobs out there, you got to be able to pick up and move. And if you are making, you used to make on Wall Street $400,000, and you got fired, guys, you are not going to make anywhere close to that. So if you don’t have a job and you drop out of the labor force and people want to site that because you want $400,000 again, sorry, you are not going to get a job, give me a break. But really, Sermons withdrew his name and the markets moved higher because we really want more stimulus. I mean, I wouldn’t be that rally is sustainable. Sure, interest rates have remained low for a long time, but tapering is on the way and we have to stop giving money to almost everyone who asks for it. Again, I don’t know if it’s reason why we should be going up so much, whoever the fed chief is, but man, it’s just pretty crazy that we are dying for more stimulus. We want people in there who are going to keep interest rates low forever and ever and ever and keep giving money away. I don’t know. Not such a good idea. Now that things are better, again, we have to start giving back a little bit, have to get those rates a little higher, little by little, at least start Moving on, Twitter announced it’s in the early stage of becoming a publicly traded company. According to E-Marketer, the social media generated less than $600 million in sales over the past year. Early valuations place the company at around $10 billion. I am bringing this up because I got a lot of questions on it. Now, this suggest twitter is trading at over 17 times sales, I mean, crazy, crazy evaluation, super expensive, but it’s comparable to Facebook. Facebook is trading about 16 times sales. However, Facebook has figured out how to generate revenue through the mobile. And we don’t know if Twitter will have the same success. It’s a huge deal guys, huge. And Facebook is cut in half to under $19 a share. The social media giant found a new way to generate sales through mobile. And today’s stocks trading at what, 43, 44, well, well off its lows. But if Twitter trades above 16 times above sales. And here is the big deal, why I want to mention this to people. I have so many questions with Facebook coming out. Even my mom emailed me, one of my best friends who never bought stocks in his life emailed me. I mean, when this stock comes out, you have to be careful here. I mean, it’s trading at 16 times, I’m sure there are going to be a lot of early institutional investors looking to dump shares. These investors include a who is who of hedge funds and private equity funds, will likely get a six month lock up period. And some may get a three-month lock up period, which happened to Facebook. They got a three-month lock up period. I mean, what would you do if you owned Twitter early on and it comes out trading at 16 times sales, and by the way, it’s going to come out much more expensive than that. They say it’s $10 billion now, it’s probably going to come out more like a $15 billion evaluation, like a $12 billion evaluation. We’ll see. It’s gonna be higher. It’s not going to be lower. I can tell you that. But what would you do? I mean, I would look to dump-, why do you think they are changing their lock ups from six months to three months, why do you think all the insiders, if I am an insider, I would do anything I can do dump those shares on the market. What does that say for the people who are emailing me right now saying, Frank, should I buy Twitter, I like to Tweet. It’s much more than that. It’s your money. Look at the people at Facebook. You know the people that bought Facebook? Rode it down to 19s, rode it down to 20’s and then sold it? And got burned? So you know, I would look to dump shares right aways, especially with stocks near all-time highs, and market sentiment is great, selling to the massive height taking place right now and take my gains. That’s what I would do. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with that, with the hedge funds and the private equity funds that have been invested in Twitter, good for them. But just think about it, I’m talking about the individual investors out there. They didn’t want to listen, so you are going to buy Twitter because you like to Tweet every day, understand, there are plenty of institutions that are willing to sell you those shares in a heartbeat, so be a head of the streak not behind it, plus on these big IPOs think about it. I mean, it’s better to wait before buying. Don’t buy into the hype. Don’t buy into the hype. I mean, you could have bought Facebook at a 50 percent discount than its IPO price, if you would just waited. You look at Google, when I say big IPOs, I’m not talking about big name IPOs, I’m talking about the amount of money raised, these hug, $10, $20, $30 billion IPOs sometimes. You look at Google traded at 80. They couldn’t give enough shares. I mean, nobody wanted Facebook. Everybody had a Facebook when it came out of $80. It’s $880 today. Master Card, you had a full year to buy Master Card under $100. It’s $675. Their IPO was in 2006. So just be careful, I know there is a lot of hype. I know tweeting is the thing, it’s awesome. Something I don’t do, but I am on Facebook and I understand. There is no need to buy Twitter right away, there is no need. It’s not going to suddenly go up like 5,000 percent, maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t and you can based on these large IPOs that come up just be patient and just remember for those that want to buy it, there is a lot of people looking to sell it to you. Let’s move on to some of your questions and by the way, any questions/comments fcurziostansberryresearch.com. Getting a lot of feedback. I try to answer these at least every other week, if not every third week so keep sending them in. I read them all. I read all your emails. Fcurziostansberryresearch.com. Let’s start with Eric. And he says, “Elliot Gue, guy you interviewed was insane. I’m actually going to print the transcript. Where do you find these guys?” And he has in parenthesis, “Not on CNBC.” I have gotten so many emails about Elliot and I am really happy about that. It was the first time he was one. I thought he was fantastic. And it’s funny you say, not on CNBC, because a lot of my guests, I mean, Dr. Kent Moors go on CNBC and everything, but they are not on CNBC all the time and it’s important because I’m getting called by producers now. You know, we met with a couple of these from CNBC and Fox business and everything and it’s funny what they are calling me for because they are calling me for things like Twitter and stuff things I’m not really interested in, but it’s the topic of the day and they need to talk about that. And you have to think about that before going on CNBC, where you know, you are listening to people talk about current events and they are not necessarily invested, or going to be invested in twitter. They are not really, know too much about Syria and the oil premium, but that’s the flavor of the day. That’s what’s going to be talked about on Fast Money. What I want to know about is what they own and everything. I would like to have them call me and talk about small cap stocks. And that’s not the case. They are calling to talk to me about general knowledge about so many different things and I’m like you know what, I have so many small cap ideas I would like to share with the world right now. So I forgot why, I used to be on Fox business news almost on a daily basis at one point and I kind of just got sick of it because I had to talk about a lot of stuff that I didn’t really care too much about, I mean, the Twitter thing, I care al little bit about, get a lot of questions on it. But you know what, I would rather go on TV and talk about these small cap ideas, these dividend plays that I have, small cap dividend plays why I think there is so much better plays than buying McDonalds and Coca Cola because these are much better plays raising their dividends just as long and they are cheaper and have higher yields and been in business for 100 years. And people don’t know about these companies, I think it’s great. It’s like buying McDonalds and Coca Cola just from years ago, so from 20, 30 years ago, or you know the Eagle Deal trend I call it, natural gas as a transportation fuel. And all these stocks and all the places I visit. That’s what I would rather talk about on TV, so yeah, it’s interesting that you said, no on CNBC, you these guys are on CNBC sometimes, but a lot of times you got to be careful what you listen to on TV because they just talk about het flavor of the month and sometimes that person that is talking isn’t really suitable for the subject they are talking about. I mean, he may be a large cap manager and he’s talking about Syria and oil, he might not even have an oil companies portfolio, but he has to talk about it because that’s what everybody wants to know about it and that’s what’s going to attract viewers on TV. Moving on, it’s from Mike. It says, uh, “I listen to your brief discussion of defense sector, let’s not discuss the big three defenses stocks. They will all survive the down turn, probably do well with consolidations. Let’s talk about DOD contractor services. You might be aware that DOD wants to cut services back to 2001 levels by 2019, starting now so coal piece dividend. There is about 15 percent per year decrease approximate revenue decrease of 50 percent to 75 percent in five years. So how about BAE, CSC, Camber, SAIC, they should be rolling over soon, watch it defense contractor services, just starting to lay off people now for 2014, we’ll be a lot of blood. Should be some great shorts to watch, revenue can only go down.” Mike, you have done your homework on this. I am aware of all this and I definitely agree, do not short the defense companies. In fact, I think it was a podcast ago I told you to take profits, you are up 40 or 50 percent on that trade. I didn’t want it to be a trade, I just said that all of this that you explain has been on the table for a long time and the only reason why you I say this Mike, but I made the mistake with pharmaceutical companies saying like wow, the patents are going to expire and it’s like $3 to $600 billion in revenue, but you know what, when you see that time line ahead of you are able to adjust, so now you are seeing these service companies and revenues is going to be cut. But not all services are going to be cut, because I did some research on this for the defense companies and they will put more money into sectors that actually the government is putting more money into. They’ll increase their dividend. They’ll become more shareholder friendly and buy back shares. That’s what the pharmaceutical companies did, and then they invested in biotech and add partnerships for the next big drug and look what happened, all this patent expiration turned out to be bogus, a big buying opportunity and there are 52 week highs. So just be careful. I understand this news, but this news is on the table and these companies know exactly that this news is on the table. And you just mentioned too, they are starting to cut jobs, again, ways to save money. I don’t like to see people lose jobs, but just be careful shorting companies on news that already exists and everybody knows about, you may be right, but just be careful. Good email, Mike. The next one is from Sam. Sam is pretty cool. It says, “First I really enjoy listening to your podcasts. I am a 21-year-old college student studying mathematics North Dakota State University, your podcast about the oil boom out west was fascinating to me. What you had to say about GE being out there is interesting. My father is giving me some money, not a lot, to invest for him in his retirement. I study General Electric's financial statements and wanted your take on if GE would be a solid place to invest my dad’s dollars. Thanks. Driving back to Minnesota today, be catching up on your podcasts. And Sam is Samantha.” So Samantha, a lot of good questions. First, I can’t give personal advice, I can’t tell you yes, buy GE. I know GE is a good company. If you can read the financial statements, you are better than me. They have hundreds of different divisions. Very difficult. I mean, you can read PE ratios and stuff like that, but going really into the financial statements and digging deep, I didn’t know that they had I want to say 40 or 50 different oil related companies, I mean, huge and GE is just a monster company, good dividend, you know, I don’t think you can go wrong. Again, I’m not giving you personal advice on this. I wouldn’t tell you to buy one stock for your father’s retirement either, depending on how old he is, you want to diversify. As far as getting jobs in this industry, I also have a lot of people sending me resumes saying, Hey Frank, these are some of the jobs I applied too and they had like 20 different jobs. My advice is go down to the Baken. Go visit the Baken because there is for hire signs, I’m not kidding 300 we saw. Just in Williston and Waford City. And I think if you go into these places you have a much better chance than someone just looking at your resume and you sending it along with 100 other resumes. I know this personally. I look at these resumes sometimes when we hire at the Street, and you know, you can’t really separate anyone from anyone else, so it’s all generic. So, it’s not fun. You basically have to know somebody, basically, you get to the top of that pile, but if you just sending your resume just blindly to something, a lot of times it doesn’t work. I would go down there and say, you know, I am willing to work tomorrow, what do I need to do? And you would get hired. I would do that even in Eagle Ford as well and the Permian Basin. You are going to see massive amounts of oil service companies. The four majors are there, all over the place, again, a lot of for hire signs and these guys are paying well right now because they are pulling oil out of the ground like crazy. You just heard from Dr. Kent Moors, this trend, very, very early in its infancy, it’s gonna be around for a long, long time and for Samantha, you are studying mathematics, also, if you could, study engineering, and I can tell you probably within five years, you’ll probably be making $300,000 a year. They are dying for engineers and the whole industry is turning to mathematics. And I am actually writing about that right now for my small stocks specialist’s newsletters, so Samantha, thanks a lot for that email. Last one here, this is Ken, he goes, “Just learned of the podcast with Sugarood, listened for the second time to the podcast with Batty Allie.” These are S&A editors. “You have a lot of good guest interviews. The ones from the S&As are the most interesting. Batty Allie has a helpful way of explaining the industry, he really does. Batty Allie is great at breaking stuff down which is really cool and he’s using the analogies of pictures and kitchens with respect to shale and explaining that the oil industry doesn’t take hole in places like Poland because they don’t have the oil culture that places that US and Australia have, really good stuff. SO he says, “Question, you didn’t want to name the dufus that you interviewed recently, but you were willing to call out Tobin Smith and Peter Shift, what’s the difference? Keep up the good work.” That’s from Ken. It is an interesting question. I called out a couple people that I interviewed, I actually, they interviewed me on their radio shows and they were absolutely horrible, atrocious. It was a horrible experience and I’ll never do it again and I said, I don’t want to mention their names but yet, I did tear apart Tobin Smith because I think that, I don’t know, it’s sad what he does. I think, it’s all legal what he does. I know exactly what he does. If you are getting some of those things in the mail, and it’s hard because I have to separate myself from guys like this. Because we don’t do this. We don’t get paid by our companies to recommend them. And we don’t even buy the companies we write about in the newsletter, that is why there is absolutely no bias. I would love to buy the companies I write in my newsletter, but I’m not allowed too. So what Tobin does is he discloses it. With the SCC, if you-, I mean, with the SCC you can basically say, I am going to shoot you and if you shoot them you are like hey, I wrote it down. And they are like okay. As long as you disclose it, it’s okay with the SCC. So, you know, he discloses that this company is paying me $50,000 and I own shares and I can sell them any time, so he recommends stocks that are penny stock garbage stocks and ads they are sending out, all this information you are receiving in the mail, make sure you read that fine print because as he is sending them out and these people who don’t know better are buying the stock, he’s selling his shares and he’s getting paid by the company. Again, 100 percent legal and you’ll be a millionaire doing that and I can make probably $20 million doing that, but I don’t because my integrity is in place. As a Peter Shift, Peter Shift is a really smart guy, I just think that he has selective memory. I mean, you can go on You Tube and see, he did call the crash, but he’s been calling even a further crash from 2010 on I just think, which is perfectly fine being wrong, but going on TV every single day telling people how right I am just ticks me off a little bit. So a little humility would be in place with that. But you know, I’m not calling out everybody because I’m trying to control my temper a little bit, so I don’t want to call out everybody, plus it’s not really good business. But when people really hurt individual investors, then I call them out. Especially, when they don’t admit it. Everybody gets things wrong from time to time. We all do, that’s fine, you have to be right more times than wrong, but for you not to acknowledge that you are wrong, or be very shady in recommending penny stocks and getting paid for it and stuff like that, it’s just not part of the S& culture, the reason why I work here. The reason why, when people subscribe to our newsletters they stay around forever. That’s why we have the largest subscriber base of any newsletter publisher, I want to say in the world, definitely in America right now. So, because we write good products and we have integrity and we do, we work really, really hard. As you can see, I travel everywhere to get the story right. And it’s not always right, it’s wrong, but we come out here and we write about why we are wrong. So it’s very important. I’m trying not to call out as many people and it’s working. A little anger management. Well, that’s it for me. Man, Chip Kelly’s offense for the Eagles, definitely a game changers, but I don’t think he’s going to be a head coach much longer since he has no clue about managing time. I noticed that in Oregon. I also noticed that with the Eagles. Got the ball with what, 2 minutes left and you basically rush down the field and kick a field goal and gave it to the Chargers, by the way, didn’t punt once. I watched the defense. That was like a high school defense for the Eagles, which was kind of sad, but you don’t want to give it to their offense. You snap the ball on 25 seconds on the play clock, run it down to nothing. That’s why you kick the field goal, you got a shot to get the ball back. You can win the game in overtime. Anyway, it’s going to be interesting to see the Eagles and how they develop this year. Also, the Seahawks, Broncos look amazing, two top teams for now with KC again looking to turn some heads. I do like KC as a sleeper, although they are no longer a sleeper 2 and 0 and I think that they are definitely going to make the playoffs. So glad football is back. Much better than watch the Red Socks smoke the Yankees every time they play them, anyway. 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/* * MaplyBasicClusterGenerator.java * WhirlyGlobeLib * * Created by jmnavarro * Copyright 2011-2014 mousebird consulting * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ package com.mousebird.maply; import android.app.Activity; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.Canvas; import android.graphics.Color; import android.graphics.Paint; import android.graphics.Rect; import android.text.TextPaint; import java.awt.font.TextAttribute; import java.util.HashMap; /** * The basic cluster generator installed by default. * <p> * This cluster generator will make images for grouped clusters of markers/labels. * */ public class BasicClusterGenerator extends ClusterGenerator { /** * The ID number corresponding to the cluster. Every marker/label with this cluster ID will be grouped together. */ private int clusterNumber; /** * The size of the cluster that will be created. * <p> * This is the biggest cluster you're likely to create. We use it to figure overlaps between clusters. */ private Point2d clusterLayoutSize; /** * Set this if you want cluster to be user selectable. On by default. */ private boolean selectable; /** * How long to animate markers the join and leave a cluster */ private double markerAnimationTime; /** * The shader to use when moving objects around * <p> * When warping objects to their new locations we use a motion shader. Set this if you want to override the default. */ // private Shader motionShader; private int[] colors; private Bitmap bitmap; private Point2d size; //TODO Font still not supported private TextAttribute font; private float scale; private float textSize = 0.f; private HashMap<Integer, MaplyTexture> texByNumber; private MaplyBaseController viewC; private boolean correct = false; private Activity activity; /** * Initialize with a list of colors. * <p> * Each order of magnitude will use another color. Must provide at least 1. */ public BasicClusterGenerator(int[] colors, int clusterNumber, Point2d markerSize, MaplyBaseController viewC, Activity activity) { correct = (colors.length > 0); if (!correct) { return; } this.colors = colors; this.size = markerSize; this.clusterNumber = clusterNumber; this.scale = 1; this.activity = activity; this.clusterLayoutSize = markerSize; this.selectable = true; this.markerAnimationTime = 0.2; this.viewC = viewC; } public BasicClusterGenerator(Bitmap bitmap,int clusterNumber, Point2d markerSize,float textSize, MaplyBaseController viewC, Activity activity) { correct = true; this.bitmap = bitmap; this.size = markerSize; this.textSize = textSize; this.clusterNumber = clusterNumber; this.scale = 1; this.activity = activity; this.clusterLayoutSize = markerSize; this.selectable = true; this.markerAnimationTime = 0.2; this.viewC = viewC; } public void shutdown() { viewC = null; activity = null; } @Override public void startClusterGroup() { super.startClusterGroup(); this.texByNumber = new HashMap<Integer, MaplyTexture>(); } MaplyBaseController.TextureSettings texSettings = new MaplyBaseController.TextureSettings(); @Override public ClusterGroup makeClusterGroup(ClusterInfo clusterInfo) { if (!correct) return null; ClusterGroup group = new ClusterGroup(); MaplyTexture tex = this.texByNumber.get(clusterInfo.numObjects); if (tex == null) { //Note: Pick the color based on number of markers //Create the Bitmap Bitmap image = Bitmap.createBitmap((int) this.size.getX(), (int) this.size.getY(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888); Canvas c = new Canvas(image); //Configure Background Paint background = new Paint(); if (this.colors != null) { background.setColor(this.colors[0]); background.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL); } //Configure Stroke Paint stroke = new Paint(); stroke.setColor(Color.WHITE); stroke.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE); //Configure Text TextPaint text = new TextPaint(); text.setColor(Color.WHITE); if (textSize != 0.0) text.setTextSize(textSize); else text.setTextSize((float) (size.getX()/2)); text.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER); if (this.colors != null) { // Compute Circle Position float x = (c.getWidth() / 2); float y = (c.getHeight() / 2); float radius = c.getWidth() / 2; //Draw Circle and Stroke c.drawCircle(x, y, radius, background); c.drawCircle(x, y, radius, stroke); } else { c.drawBitmap(this.bitmap,new Rect(0,0,this.bitmap.getWidth(),this.bitmap.getHeight()), new Rect(0,0,(int)this.size.getX(),(int)this.size.getY()),stroke); } // Compute Text Position int xPos = (c.getWidth() / 2); int yPos = (int) ((c.getHeight() / 2) - ((text.descent() + text.ascent()) / 2)); //Draw Text c.drawText(Integer.toString(clusterInfo.numObjects), xPos, yPos, text); tex = baseController.addTexture(image, texSettings, MaplyBaseController.ThreadMode.ThreadCurrent); texByNumber.put(clusterInfo.numObjects, tex); } group.tex = tex; group.size = this.size; return group; } @Override public void endClusterGroup() { super.endClusterGroup(); this.texByNumber.clear(); this.texByNumber = null; } @Override public int clusterNumber() { return this.clusterNumber; } @Override public Point2d clusterLayoutSize() { return this.clusterLayoutSize; } @Override public boolean selectable() { return this.selectable; } @Override public double markerAnimationTime() { return this.markerAnimationTime; } // @Override // public Shader motionShader() { // return this.motionShader; // } }

New clothes for amyloid enhancing factor (AEF): silk as AEF. Amyloid enhancing factor (AEF) is an activity that appears naturally during the course of persistent inflammation and precedes, by 24-48 h, AA amyloid deposition in appropriate murine models. AEF is defined by its biological properties, namely, when administered intravenously or intraperitoneally to a mouse, it primes the recipient for the rapid induction of AA amyloid when they are given an inflammatory stimulus. Available evidence indicates that AEF is protein in nature, but a specific molecular species (if a singular species exits) has not been identified. Past work (Ganowiak et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 199:306-312, 1994) has shown that AEF activity may be imparted to two different proteins (IAPP and beta-protein) provided each is organized in the form of an amyloid fibril. Since a characteristic property of proteins in amyloid fibrils is their beta-sheet organization, one possibility is that AEF activity, in part, depends on such organization, and other proteins with such properties may also have AEF activity. To investigate this possibility, silk, a protein which contains substantial beta-sheet content, was denatured in LiSCN and allowed to renature slowly under reducing conditions to form a gel. The denatured silk preparation was then sonicated thoroughly to permit intravenous injection and assessed for AEF activity. The modified silk, presented as small fibrils in a beta-sheet conformation as assessed by electron microscopy and circular dichroism, respectively. This silk at 0-50 micrograms/animal was administered intravenously as "AEF" followed immediately by subcutaneous AgNO3 as the inflammatory stimulus. Six days later the spleens were examined for the presence of AA amyloid and following Congo red staining, the amount of amyloid quantified by image analysis. Modified silk without an inflammatory stimulus, and non-sonicated modified silk, failed to induce AA amyloid. Sonicated modified silk followed by AgNO3 induced large quantities of splenic AA amyloid in a dose dependent fashion. Modified silk in quantities as small as 1-5 micrograms/animal can function as AEF. The AEF properties of the modified silk were stable at 4 degrees C for at least 4 weeks (the longest period tested). This procedure may provide a means of standardizing AEF preparations.

985 So.2d 578 (2008) Gustave BENYA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. No. 4D06-4636. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. April 23, 2008. Rehearing Denied July 29, 2008. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Ellen Griffin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melynda L. Melear, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee. FARMER, J. We affirm the revocation of probation, and in so doing uphold the trial court's determination that the search by police was not improper. The probation order here provided for warrantless searches of the probationer's residence without probable cause. Police received information from a confidential informant that the probationer was in possession of illegal drugs and a firearm. Because they had a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, they communicated with his probation officer, who agreed to set up a search of his residence with the participation of the police. They were conducting surveillance at his residence *579 immediately before the search. When the probation officer and investigating police arrived at his residence, he was already outside speaking to other police officers involved in the surveillance. The officers on surveillance had seen him back his vehicle out of his driveway and park it on the street. As he walked back toward his house, the surveillance team saw the van begin rolling backwards until it rolled into an auto parked behind it. The surveillance team thereupon approached and began talking to him. The probation officer and investigating officer arrived on the scene just in time to observe these events. The police officer investigating the matter then informed defendant that they were there to conduct a search of his residence. Which they then did and found enough drugs to charge and convict for trafficking and a firearm to charge and convict for possession by a convicted felon. Defendant's argument to the trial court and here is that all of this was a pretense for police officers to do an improper search of his residence without probable cause. But in Soca v. State, 673 So.2d 24 (Fla. 1996), the Florida Supreme Court held that the evidence obtained in a warrantless search of a probationer's residence by a probation supervisor, although tipped-off and accompanied by a police investigator, was admissible in a probation revocation hearing, even though it would not be admissible in the criminal case unless that search met all the usual constitutional search and seizure requirements. 673 So.2d at 25. In United States v. Knights, 534 U.S. 112, 122 S.Ct. 587, 151 L.Ed.2d 497 (2001), the United States Supreme Court has since held that warrantless searches of a probationer's residence, supported by a reasonable suspicion but not probable cause, are reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. Thus evidence found in such a search may be admitted even in resulting criminal prosecutions. When Soca was decided by the Florida Supreme Court there had been no such construction of the Fourth Amendment by the United States Supreme Court. The Soca court was therefore able to allow greater search protection than required by the Fourth Amendment because then there was nothing to which Florida courts were required to conform by the Conformity Clause to the Florida Constitution.[1] With Knights, however, conformity to the Fourth Amendment would seem to make Florida law identical to federal law. Surely, at a minimum, it means that a warrantless search of a probationer's residence supported, as here, by a reasonable suspicion, would allow the evidence thus seized to be used to support a revocation of probation. See Bamberg v. State, 953 So.2d 649 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007) (holding that under Knights, where probation order provided for warrantless searches of probationer's residence, evidence seized in police search supported by reasonable suspicion is admissible in probation revocation proceedings in spite of investigatory motive for search), rev. denied, 966 So.2d 965 (Fla.2007). In light of Knights, it is no longer necessary for police armed with a reasonable suspicion to go through the subterfuge of having the probation officer perform a routine, "administrative" search of the residence under the warrantless search provision in the probation order. Affirmed. WARNER, J., and CONNER, BURTON C., Associate Judge, concur. NOTES [1] Art. I, § 12, Fla. Const. (1982).

[The role of asymmetric dimethylarginine in the regulation of nitric oxide level in rats with acute renal injury]. Nitric oxide (NO) is synthesized from arginine (ARG) by NO synthase (NOS). Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), a competitive inhibitor of NOS, participates in the endogenous regulation of NO synthesis. The main amount of ADMA is enzymatically degraded by dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase (DDAH) widely expressed in renal tissue. The aim of our study was to compare the changes in DDAH activity and ARG synthesis in kidneys, ADMA and ARG concentration in plasma and their urinary excretion under physiological conditions and in acute renal injury (ARI) induced by glycerol in rats. Urinary nitrite/nitrate excretion (NOx) was estimated as an indicator of whole-body NO synthesis. DDAH activity was decreased, ADMA excretion was increased and plasma ADMA did not change in ARI. Plasma ARG concentration, renal ARG synthesis and urinary NOx excretion were decreased. In conclusion, the diminished enzymatic hydrolysis of the NOS inhibitor ADMA and the reduced synthesis of the NOS substrate ARG might affect NO production in ARI.

Q: mailing list code for site that allows sign up and sign off I've set up a website, but I don't know a lot of HTML or PHP. I have managed to get a mailing list sign up function into it, but I would like people to be able to remove themselves too. Is this possible? There's only one mailing list so all it need do is accept an email address, for sign up or sign off. A: I'm assuming you're using a file system to save. In that case you may need to loop through every line to find matching string and delete it. Fortunately, since you're using PHP, it's probably easier to use a database like MySQL. Search for "PHP MySQL CRUD" or "PHP MySQL Tutorial" and you should find more help than you'll need. After then it's just something like this: $db = (MySQL Connection from the tutorials, usually PDO or mysqli); function saveEmail($db, $name, $email){ // Simple email validation, you will probably want to validate or sanitize other fields too if(!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){ return 'Email is not valid'; } // Straight query, you may want to look into prepared statements too // You may also wish to check for duplicate emails or to set the field as UNIQUE $sql = "INSERT INTO table (name, email) VALUES ('$name', '$email')"; if($db->query($sql)){ return true; }else{ return 'DB Insert Failed'; } } function deleteEmail($db, $email){ $sql = "DELETE FROM table WHERE email = '$email'"; if($db->query($sql)){ return true; }else{ return 'DB Delete Failed'; } }

Tribunal Upholds Ihedioha’s Election As Imo Governor The Imo State Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the petition of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and its governorship candidate Senator Ifeanyi Araraume for lacking in merit. The tribunal in its sitting today, Saturday, September 21, 2019 also dismissed the petition of the candidate of the Action Alliance Party, Mr. Uche Nwosu, for incompetence. The Judges unanimously struck out the petition of the All Progressive Congress, APC, candidate, Senator Hope Uzodinma for been based on hearsay evidence. Tribunal finds that the petitioners did not prove the unlawful exclusion of results as they are contending. Three petitions were filed by the governorship candidates of the Action Alliance (AA), All Progressives Congress (APC) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), asking the tribunal to nullify the election of Mr Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on the ground that he was unlawfully declared as the governor of the state by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). However, the three petitions have now been dismissed as lacking in merit and election of the PDP candidate, Emeka Ihedioha upheld by the 2019 Imo Governorship election petition tribunal. 'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline. The New Diplomat is Nigeria’s premier publication of choice for News, Business, Politics, and leadership, with an unrivaled global and diplomatic appeal. It is a unique platform for global decision-makers in the public and private sectors. With a team of dedicated professionals, The New Diplomat has become a major platform for effective interaction between innovation, leadership, diplomacy, business and public policy. Our rich insights, awesome knowledge of the intersection between journalistic practice, polling research, data collation, outcome, and insightful investigations, have become reference points across key segments. Continue Reading here... POPULAR CATEGORY We stand for ethical journalism, press freedom, accountable Republic, and gender-equity. That is why at The New Diplomat, we are committed to speaking truth to power, fostering a robust community of responsible journalism, and using high quality polls, data, and surveys to engage the public with compelling narratives about political, business, socio-economic, environmental, and situational dynamics in Nigeria, Africa, and globally. From our insightful reports of political issues to our riveting investigations and analyses of business, socio-economic, and cross-cutting sectors, The New Diplomat remains ever committed to investigative reporting and ethical journalism. Support and partner with The New Diplomat today, to guarantee a positive future for all under an atmosphere of free press!

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I think the highlight of my day today was when Paul began to explain how the bumble bee was responsible for the invention of Velcro! And that it was NASA that did the study! This all stemmed from a story on the radio (live radio, I might add – during the Trading Post segment. The Trading Post which died away everywhere else at least 30 years ago is alive and well in Arkansas). We don’t miss it when we’re here. Anyhow…when one guy explained to the other that the bumble bee was actually covered with hair. Not just his legs, but his “rear end” – as the polite Arkansan stated on the radio. I looked at Paul and said,”Ah, the unknown virtues of the hairy butted bumble bee”. If you know Paul, this is all it took as the blossoming and weaving of the story of the discovery and invention of Velcro by NASA using the bumble bee grew to enormous proportions. I looked over at my husband of 31 years to declare “bulls**t magnifique” and he could hardly contain his laughter. I told him he got an A+ for effort as it has been a long while since he had taken the time and effort to create the total bs explanation! This is one reason life has been so interesting for 31 years and absolutely why I will go to Oshkosh, WI for s 7th time and spend an entire week sleeping on the ground in a tent beside our airplane for a week. It’s because after that long, we still sincerely enjoy each others’ company and enjoy the same things in life in the same manner. I truly would wish this part of my life on everyone I know! It’s been a wild and wonderful ride and I can’t wait to see what’s around the next bend!! “LIKE US”…if you have not done so yet, please go to our Facebook page and click “LIKE” – THANKS! See Spot Run… or better yet, see Paul & Beth fly! We have had our Spot Satellite Messenger in the plane since our first flight almost two years ago. While we rarely use the tracking feature, it is nice to have the peace of mind that we could get a message through to the authorities from a remote location if needed. This handy little device keeps up with where you are and has the ability to transmit your location automatically for tracking purposes or in the case of an emergency, we can push the red help button and the unit will contact search and rescue, giving them your exact coordinates for a speedy rescue. Spot’s website boasts almost 2,000 rescues initiated by the device with 314 rescues in 2012 alone. I hope we don’t need it, but like insurance, it is a good thing to have, especially since our trip will take us over “The Badlands” – not a place I want to spend much time in. New “TRACK US” Link… If you’ll notice at the top of the page, I have put a “TRACK US” tab. This will take you directly to our Spot Messenger publicly shared page. I will “try” to remember to turn the unit on when we take off (yes, it is on the checklist) so that those interested can see where we are and where we have been. Just a note… if you see it just stop tracking in mid-air, don’t be alarmed, it runs on 3 little AAA lithium batteries that will die without warning and I do have a handful of replacements. I had hoped to embed the linked page into our site, but apparently WordPress does not allow embedded links due to web security concerns, so for now you will just have to hit the “TRACK US” link and be routed to Spot’s shared site. The plane is packed… the GPS databases are updated, the oil has been changed and we are ready to go! Plans now are to leave after work on Thursday, weather permitting and fly to Flippin, AR and stay in the camper Thursday night. Friday morning, we will head to Rapid City, SD with probably one stop around Grand Island, NE for fuel and a potty break. After a few days tent camping in the Black Hills near Mt. Rushmore, we will head on over to Oshkosh to enjoy the rest of the week at AIRVENTURE! – can’t wait… So after a second day of instruction with Ron and a very successful one too, I might add, Paul and I decided to strike out on our own since it was time to “test drive” our new “schoolin”. We drove a short way from our camper and ended up at Roundhouse Shoals. This is another beautiful view of the White River and one we had noticed before. (Frankly, I don’t believe there are any “unattractive” views of the White River). Roundhouse is just across the road from where we pick up our free firewood from the truss company. Hey – it’s free and it burns, don’t laugh. We’ve actually grilled steaks over a “truss wood fire” when the electric fire starter for our Big Green Egg sputtered out and died one evening leaving us with a “cold egg”. Anyhow, we found a place to park Jane (our beloved airport junker – she’s another story all by herself) and got out of the car. I knew it was a long way down to the river from there but had no idea how steep the descent actually was until I stood above and peered down. It reminded me of the Mountain Slide I had gone on at Camp DeSoto as a girl – the only requirements for it were that you be a Senior Camper and that you wear a “nearly destroyed” pair of blue jeans because they’d surely be, once you tore the seat out of them sliding down the rocky, muddy mountainside. The only thing I had in common with this view and that slide was the fact that now I’m really a Senior! As we were looking over the situation and considering tying a rope off to Jane and letting ourselves over the edge, mountain-climber style, we spied another person just a few yards up from us. Paul suggested we go ask them where the best spot to get down to the water’s edge was located. When we came up on the vehicle, a person was standing behind it obviously getting ready to fish. As we walked around the side, Paul said “Good Morning” to which a lady turned around and said, “Well Good Morning!” I have to admit, even I was taken aback when she greeted us. Not just by the fact that she totally looked the part of a very well practiced fly fisher-person, but that she also was strikingly beautiful – complete with perfect makeup, hair, hat, waders, etc. I didn’t exactly notice Paul’s reaction to her stunning good looks, but I’m certain he did notice, although he didn’t act that way. Kudos to him for not gawking and hollering, “DA-YAM”! Thankfully, he most always manages quite a bit of self-control when necessary; that’s one reason I married him. He asked her if she knew of a good way to get down to the river’s edge and she simply replied, ”Well, there just isn’t a good one” and sorta laughed. She sincerely meant that. Then, glancing at our brand-spanking-new wading boots, she asked us if we had studs on our boots. Our answer was, “No” and probably should have been followed up by, “well, not just yet…” Thankfully, she was very kind and gave us the benefit of the doubt by not just saying, “How green are you at this? Or better yet, “Should you two be out alone?” We continued our conversation and divulged the obvious by telling her we had just had a couple lessons with Ron (whom she knew) and that we were truly “newbies” at this new sport. We introduced ourselves and we found out that her name was T-Bird. Don’t know what her “given” name is, but I have to believe that her nickname does truly fit her well. She began to show us the flies in her fly box and it was quite an impressive collection. Lots of things we had seen before, even more we had not. What were even more impressive were her fingernails! When I say this gal had fingernails, I DO MEAN NAILS! They were really, really long and looked incredibly strong. And these were definitely homegrown, no sculptured ones for her! WOW! I began thinking that maybe these must be her secret of how she scaled her way down to the river and back up again. Anyhow, as she began to talk with us, we quickly found out that she was the real deal – she absolutely knew her stuff. She pointed out to us that the bottom of the river where we were planning our “trout attack” was very slick rock and dangerous to navigate especially without studs or a wading staff. Ron had already warned us about the slick blue rock. We had looked quickly at the river’s bottom when we first got there, but not well enough to have noticed the infamous blue green rock we had been warned about. Note to self, make sure you take a better “look-see” next time. Hmmm… so after about two seconds consideration, we decided maybe this area was a bit more advanced than we were just yet and might be better saved for a day fishing with Ron. We continued our chat and she gave us more advice and helpful hints and was truly a fine ambassador for the sport of fly-fishing. She told us she had been fly-fishing for 12 years and tying flies for 5 years. Once again, I sneaked another look at her nails and thought, I couldn’t even tie my shoes with those things! Growing nails is just one of those things I’ve never been able to do and frankly, I just haven’t let that bother me that much. T-Bird then gave us some safer suggestions as to where we might try fishing on our own. One of her suggestions was to try the public access at the State Park below Bull Shoals. She also made several suggestions of flies to try there, too. So we thanked her for the wealth of information she had shared with us and for steering us “newbies” away from Roundhouse. Regardless of whether she told us all this to shoo us off her favorite fishin’ hole or just because she didn’t want to practice advanced lifesaving skills today, we were thrilled to learn all we did and happy to try out a safer option for fishing. So off we headed to Dally’s Fly Shop to pick up some of the newly suggested ammo for our “trout attack”. We had a great drive to the Bull Shoals White River State Park. This place was packed with people who had decided to camp or visit for the day – remember this WAS Memorial Day weekend! We found the public access area and hopped out of the car. Right away we found a great, safe way to get down to the river and fantastic benches to sit on & “suit up” and something else that didn’t delight us all that much – this place was also everyone else’s idea of a favorite fishing spot. The number of other fly-fishing enthusiasts submerged “bootie deep” in the river numbered about twenty (that we could see at first glance)! GOSH! Did EVERYBODY have to show up here today? This sight reminded me of the deep sea fishing “party” boats you go on when you can’t afford a real charter boat trip. The “ding-ding” of the boat’s bell that signified you to fling your line overboard as you stand elbow to elbow with massive numbers of stinky, sweaty “city folk fishermen” who know nothing about fishing to the “ding ding” of the bell that signified you to pull in your line which then began a frenzy of tangled lines, crying children and endless streams of obscenities. This was NOT what we were looking for, but we kept looking at the anglers who stood fairly close to each other and they were successfully casting their fly rods, not tangling up with each other and actually exhibiting some semblance of etiquette toward each other. Hmmm..as we stood there a little longer, we noticed one catch a trout, then another one, and then another one. Well, maybe it’s worth a try, we decided and so we donned our waders and boots and trudged into the water. Fearing we might blow our coverof “newbie fly fisherpersons”, we carefully trudged in and stayed back from the massive line of fishermen, not wanting to disturb them and began to cast. After a few casts, we managed to remember how to do this new skill and got more comfortable. After about fifteen minutes, one of the guys in front of us, turned around and said he was going to have to leave and told us to move up to his spot, he had definitely had some luck there. We thanked him profusely and began to move. Paul, being my sweet husband that he is, encouraged me to move ahead and take the newly freed spot and said he would move up on my left. I trudged forward several more feet to where the former fisherman had been and began to cast. Although the person closest to me on my right had looked way too close at first, he now didn’t seem to crowd me as much. He may have noticed my real skill level and taken a couple of serious steps to the right in self-preservation, but regardless, I had some room now. One of the first things I had noticed right away about this area was that the water was considerably colder than where we had been earlier. This was because we were closer to the dam and the water hadn’t had traveled far enough yet to warm up much. Regardless, the 90-degree sunshine actually felt good and with the cold water cooling off the rest of us, the temp was just about as perfect as it could be. I was the first one lucky enough to have my fly bitten by a trout that day. It absolutely made my day! I worked with the fish and played him down well. Since I still didn’t have a fly-fishing vest yet and all the necessary (or unnecessary) accoutrements, I hollered over to get Paul to come net the fish for me, which he cheerily did. I said, “It’s a nice one, wanna keep it?” to which my husband replied, “No, I don’t want to just keep one fish to clean, so throw it back.” I’m sure my face looked like the little girl who’d just dropped her lollipop in the sand pile. “Oh, well, okay,” so I let my newly prized possession down into the water and he happily swam away. So I casted out again and was just getting ready to recast when another trout took my line. “Woo Hoot! This is really getting to be fun!” I said. I wasn’t quite clear on what Paul said, but it didn’t matter, I was having a ball! So I worked this fish down also and Paul netted this one for me too. I said, “Well, since it does appear that we are going to catch fish today and the freezer is officially out of trout, let’s keep this one.” Paul obliged, so we tied him off to the stringer. I did offer to have MY FISH tied off to MY SELF, but Paul dutifully tied the stringer off to himself and walked back over to his spot. I began casting again and caught another one – it seemed as though I had a fabulous fish magnet on the end of my tippet. In fact, it was one of the suggestions that T-Bird had given us that morning that we had just purchased at Dally’s. “Ms Nails” really did know her stuff! Paul was not fishing with the same fly as I was, but was sure luck would find him soon, especially with the look of determination (or was that consternation) on his face. With each fish I pulled in, it seemed it took Paul a wee bit longer to make it over to me and net my fish. I did thank him kindly every time he came over and less and less was said by him (that I could understand anyway) to me. On about the fifth fish, I thought, maybe I should just play this one down for a little while and not say anything right away since he had not even made it back to his spot yet. As I glanced over at Paul, I noticed he was not casting, but attempting to fix or cut away a wad of knotted line of indeterminate proportion. The day was not going like he had planned, but it was going. As I began to look away from that sad sight, he looked up & saw that I had another fish on the line. I grinned and his shoulders just sort of fell, but he didn’t say another word; he just made his way over to me and quietly put this one on the stringer too. After that fish, things began to settle down a little bit and Paul did manage to get the chance to cast unbothered for a little while – but only a little while. From his left, I could see about 5 or 6 children, ranging in age from about 4 to 14. A few of them had rods in hands and the others were making their way around to the river’s edge in front of us. The next thing I know, one of the boys casted a lure the size of a bowling ball into the water landing about 2 feet from where Paul’s fly lay. I couldn’t help but laugh at the endless circus of antics going on. Children were screaming and thrashing about in the water, some were throwing mud and everyone was having a good ole time. Everyone except Paul! There couldn’t have been a fish left anywhere close to that area even if it had been blind and deaf as Helen Keller! Paul just looked at me and it was hard to contain myself. At this point, God intervened and two of the fishermen to my right decided to leave so I graciously moseyed over to the right to allow him room to move away from the growing water fracas. After changing over to the same fly I was using and managing to catch 3 himself, Paul mentioned that we should be fishing “barbless” so that we could let some of the smaller fish go without hurting them. I said, “Well okay, that’s good, we’ll do that.” Before I knew it, Paul had grabbed my fly and had “bent down the barbs” so I was now appropriately fishing “barblessly”. For some reason, I lost the next four fish I caught. I’m not sure but I’m thinking instead of bending the barbs, he simply clipped the end off my hook. For what it’s worth, I now have my own vest, but payback’s gonna be Hell! (PLD) Watch the short video below… doesn’t she look better in her new waders! You can subscribe to our blog by entering your e-mail address in the box to the right or “LIKE” our Face book page at https://www.facebook.com/2FlyAmerica. Windy Ride… The wind always seems to blow in the Ozarks and rarely down the runway, but we decided to wait until late in the afternoon to fly up, thinking if we get there about dark the winds will have died down a bit. This time our thinking was right, the afternoon winds had been gusting to over 25 knots and mostly a crosswind at KFLP, but had now calmed down to 8 to 14 or so. The ride to Flippin was uneventful and when we got there, the car cranked and we were on our way to the camper, waders & fly rods in hand! Low Water!… After years of high water and flooding conditions on the White River, things appear to have returned to normal. Several weeks of low or no power generation has made the river safely wadable again and now we have nice new breathable waders (see old wader post!) and are ready to put them to the test. I had called our fly fishing instructor, Ron McQuay before we left, to check his schedule for the weekend and was able to arrange an outing with him on Saturday morning, but tomorrow was Friday and we were going fishing! We started at a familiar location just up from the camper, Wildcat Shoals. Wow, we have never seen it this way, we waded completely to the other side of the river and never got in over 2 feet of water. After fly fishing for hours without any bites, we had our usual picnic lunch next to the river. We decided to pull out out spin fishing equipment when we returned to the water and still had no luck. We could see dozens of fish just under the surface, but could not get them to bite. I even saw a very large brown trout and was able to get so close to him that I took a picture of him with my waterproof camera. We fished for a couple of more hours and gave into the hope of catching fish with Ron in the morning. Beth’s Second Baptism… We met Ron for breakfast and discussed the water conditions and decided to start our fishing for the day down at Rim Shoals. The outfitter down there offers a water taxi service so we went up the river to where a creek enters the river. As we prepared to enter the water, Ron pulls out this jointed “stick-like” device and starts putting it together. “Hmmm, what is that?” I said, Ron’s reply was “a wading staff, they are nice to have…”. I’m thinking yea, well we waded all around yesterday without incident, so that should not be a problem. We moved into the water, fly rods in hand and just as we got above knee deep, I hear Kuplush… I turned around to see Beth, my lovely bride of 30+ years, with her fly rod held high in her right hand and her whole left arm, up to her neck in the frigid water. I’m thinking, good girl, don’t drop that new L.L. Bean rod & reel into the water… only GOD knows what she was thinking. The good news is that the new, properly fitted, waders didn’t let a drop of water in and that fancy new fishing shirt she had on would dry out in a flash and we now have matching wading staffs on order… First Trout… I had caught my first trout on a fly the last time we were on the White River with Ron (story here). Ron did not totally like the look of the water where we were, but we started casting, stripping & mending (cool fly fishing words, huh – only one of those words had anything to do with fishing before we met Ron). Soon, the fight was on… Beth had her first trout on a fly and it was a good one! After a few minutes of wearing him down, Ron netted the rainbow, pictures were taken & the fish was released. Just as I had been hooked by this sport a few weeks ago, Beth too, was being taken in by trout fever. We continued to fish Rim Shoals and Beth & I both caught another fish, but we left the island with Beth up two fish to my one. Let’s Go, The Water is Coming!… Since the water at Rim Shoals was not exactly like Ron wanted, we decided to drive down to the Norfork River below the dam. The generators were shut down and the only water flowing was from dam and generator leakage. Wading in this area was simple, but Ron warned us of the very little notice we would get if/when they turned on the generators. So we waded upstream several hundred yards in mostly ankle deep water to find some nice looking pools that had fish that we could see. Ok… there she goes again, catching fish. Beth quickly caught a couple of rainbows in the pool of slow moving water while I was just casting away. We had been fishing for an hour & a half or so when something changed. I noticed the slightest change in the sound of the rapids just above us, so I picked out a rock to watch just to see if the water was coming up, then I heard Ron yell, “It’s a BROWN!” Beth had her first brown trout ever and it was on a fly rod! So, I moved down to where they were to take some pictures. About the time I got to them, one of the fellows fishing down stream from us yelled, “Let’s go, the water is rising”. As Beth and Ron took care of releasing the brown trout, I started the trek back to the access point. I was amazed at how fast the water rises when they turn on the generators. What had been a gravel bar when we walked upstream was now under a foot of water in just a few minutes, a great lesson to learn for future outings to the Norfork… at the first sign of changing water – get moving! When we got ready to leave the parking area, Ron invited us to a pot luck fish fry up at Copper Johns Lodge on Sunday night. That sounded like a good idea, especially since all of the fish Beth had caught had been in the catch & release areas and we had no fish to eat. So, we took the beautiful drive back to Cotter with more great memories in our rearview mirror and another day of fishing ahead. Watch Video Below… Beth’s turn to talk… Part 2 will come in the next few days and will be written by Beth about our fist successful day, fly fishing by ourselves… You can subscribe to our blog by entering your e-mail address in the box to the right or “LIKE” our Face book page at https://www.facebook.com/2FlyAmerica. Once again, I would like to thank Ron McQuay for taking an interest in us. Ron is a very patient teacher and is very knowledgable of the White River fishery. Ron’s website is ronsflyfishingforbeginners.com. SORTA KINDA LIKE SPAGHETTI, BUT NOT EXACTLY… I wish I had paid more attention to exactly how this gastronomic extravaganza came into being, but, being children and HUNGRY children at that, Mark and I had been given a snack and were sent out of the cottage to go find something to do until dinner was ready. We went outside and caught lightning bugs and played on the shuffleboard court until that got old and we got really tired of each other (again) and we went back in the cottage. When we hit the door, the smell hit us in our faces. What IS that smell? It smelled sorta kinda like spaghetti, but not exactly. Weren’t we having some of the fish we had just caught? “You know there’s nothing better than fresh fish that was just swimming this afternoon” If I had heard that said once, I’d heard it a thousand times”. Of course, I don’t know how I actually thought my mother would fix the fish. If you know my mother, you KNOW she doesn’t FRY anything – that just didn’t work its way into her genes, heck, it wasn’t even in her vocabulary! About that time, I remember my father walking in and saying, “Oh Betsy, that smells good!” I was thinking, well maybe it does to him… It was time to sit down for dinner and we got served (and I mean that in the exact sense it was said). My mother was so proud of herself – she had concocted a delicious meal for her family after having spent all day long out on the water herself. We looked down at the plates and gasped! It was our fish that we had worked so hard to catch, but somebody forgot to cut off the heads AND THE TAILS! Did they forget to scale ‘em too? The fish were decorated in a mountain of creole delights – tomatoes, onions, okra, squash, maybe even eggplant – YUCK!!! We looked at her with the “You don’t REALLY expect us to eat this, do you??” look. The look in her eyes clearly gave us our answer – “Yes – every single bite!” Thankfully, the Good Lord has removed whatever happened next from my memory but I’m sure it wasn’t a pretty sight. I will, however, venture a guess that it was the last time my mother fixed “Creole Trout” for her unappreciative children. Still Loving it 35 Years Later! IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER… The next day was another perfectly sunny day and this time, I paid more attention to the surrounding area than to that strange man who was our guide – this time he wasn’t so strange, he was my old friend Austin from yesterday. We set out from Gaston’s and I began to notice all the wildlife along the side of the river. There were lots of birds – herons and cranes and maybe even an eagle or two. There were deer – I used to have deer as pets growing up in the country. You just assume the responsibility of “mothering” unusual critters as pets when you grow up in the country. It’s understood and especially if you have the “Elly May” gene which I definitely do. I thought these deer were just as beautiful as mine. A mama deer and her fawns – they didn’t even run when our boat passed by them. The shoreline sure was different from the fishing lakes I was familiar with from my “flatlander Mississippi home”. The river was flanked by mountains that seemed to shoot skyward and were punctuated by trees and the occasional bare rock spot. Bare spots where a rock had lost its once tightly held grip and fallen face first into the river and was now hidden or partially hidden from view. A rock that now changed the course of the river forevermore. This was my first encounter with the mountains and I thought they were the most awesome and beautiful pieces of God’s handiwork I had ever witnessed and I still do to this day; mesmerizing me to the point I just couldn’t and still can’t quench my gaze. The mountains along with the river made a permanent impression on my young mind – a mind that had never seen dirt piled any higher than what the dog had unearthed while digging a giant hole in the front yard looking for shade. Mountains that commanded you to hold onto your hat if you dared to peer all the way up to the top. Mountains that made and make me feel like “shrunken Alice” from Alice In Wonderland to this day. Some of my friends disagree with me that these mountains don’t qualify as “real mountains” because they aren’t tall enough or “west” enough, but I disagree. It’s not all about height or location, it’s way more than that – it’s all about how you perceive yourself and your place in the world once you’ve been taken in by them. It changes the way you look at everything from that moment on. But, I digress… AS IF I NEEDED ANOTHER REASON… The sun beat down on us that day but it wasn’t like the sun of the beach because of the cool breeze of relief that always seemed to accompany the river. I never liked the beach very much – okay, I downright hated and still hate it today. I have very fair skin that burns beet red, hurts, itches, peels, looks gross and repeats the process if you’re dumb enough to expose yourself to the sun again. I had tried to like the beach – all my friends were always going there with their families and were always gabbing excessively about what a great time they would have there. They would run around and build sandcastles, play badminton, make ice cream, play in the gulf all day long, and end the day by squiggling their toes in the sand around a bonfire and making plans to enjoy the whole silly routine again the next day. Frankly, not one bit of that appealed to me – other than the ice cream and the bonfire (fires belong in fireplaces or fire rings, not on the beach). Beside the heat, and oppressive sun, there was the salty, sticky, smelly water, the sand that got into places that sand shouldn’t be in, sharp shells on the blazing beach and finally, my hair! My hair! The kind of hair that frizzes and stands out if it comes in contact with the least amount of humidity. Impossible to tame on a beach vacation so you wear a hat – a HOT hat – on a hot sticky sandy beach! The river and the mountains had offered the antithesis of the beach. How wonderful it was with its cool morning fog and the sun that peeked in over the mountains but never seemed to heat my body past it’s boiling point. The beautiful birds tending to their young in their nests and silently gliding by us just inches over the water’s surface. The deer on the shore munching on grasses and tree leaves and their fawns leaping and jumping at each other without a care in the world. Sometimes they would stop to watch us pass by, but not always, then back to mischief. This beautiful green peaceful world with its majestic boundaries and tranquil liquid situated ‘neath our seemingly endless sky. It was paradise indeed. TEMPORARY HOME… We had had another wonderful day of fishing and laughing and enjoying our time on the river. My mother was able to finish reading her book and no dogs ventured to join us in the boat that last day. On our way back to our temporary “pink” home, I once again tried to take in all that I could so that I would have these wonderful memories to enjoy once I was back in the flatlands. The herons and cranes and deer seemed to say, “Come back any time, dear, we’ll be right here waiting for you.” I closed my eyes and tried to remember each and every inch of the river and its green slathered mountains as the hum of the little motor on the boat tried to lull me to sleep. I opened my eyes and I was surprised and a little disappointed to see the welcome of the little pink cottages this time, for my slideshow of memories had come to an end. This would be my last time on the river before we headed home. We gathered up our belongings and said our fond farewells to our new friends, Austin and Preston. We trudged back up to the little pink cottage and I decided to take one last walk around before coming in for dinner. THAT PERCEPTION THING AGAIN… The peacocks that had greeted me with their shrill screeching voices when we’d first arrived had now become a welcome sound and the sight of them was as magnificent as the mountains themselves. Not only the beautiful blue ones, but a white one or two also. They roamed pretty much where they wished and sometime would sit atop the Gaston’s sign, a building or stand in the middle of the road daring you not to stop. The shuffleboard court had become our afternoon playground and lost its definition as an old person’s sport. The little pink cottages became more like home than any fancy hotel with its elevators and fountains and it was like leaving home to leave them. The big mowed yard I had once envisioned with plans to play kickball on had been transformed into an airstrip and was the magic rainbow on which airplanes came and went out of this little piece of Heaven. That is indeed another (LONG) story and another love of mine as well, flying – save that story for another time. As for other kids, well, there did end up being other children there which we made friends of and with whom we enjoyed much fun. Although many did not share my disdain for the beach, they all had great fun while there in the mountains too. AND SO… Over the course of the years, my parents took my brother and myself and eventually some “very well behaved friends” of ours back to the White River vacation spot where we had first had fun and where we had fun again. Each and every time, the river and mountains spoke a little more to my soul and created such an impression upon me that I really felt like a bigger part of me stayed there each time I left. One afternoon while my husband and I were sitting around talking with my parents, the subject of the White River trips came up. It was like opening a 2-liter coke bottle that had been dropped on the floor! I began to talk about it and talk about it and talk to the point that I think I might have exploded the very next second if I hadn’t gotten to gush all about my good times there and why it was my favorite place on earth. I don’t know why I had never thought of it before, but it was my husband’s suggestion that maybe we should go there sometime. Perhaps he saw that my sanity would vanish completely if a trip wasn’t scheduled and scheduled quickly! It was such a grand idea and yes, one visit was all it took to make an addict out of my husband too. And that, my friends, is how we have ended up spending every free moment we possibly can on the White River in North Arkansas. WHY NORTH ARKANSAS?… You might wonder what ever made Paul and me decide to visit North Arkansas and the White River area in the first place. Most people would assume it was my husband’s sincere love for the great outdoors and fishing and that he dragged along his somewhat unwilling and unsuspecting wife on that first trip. But that is far indeed from the truth! Let me tell you the story and in the process, let you in on a little bit about myself. FIRST SIGHT… My first recollection of that beautiful area would have been from a trip my parents took my brother and me on many, many years ago. I’m guessing that I was about 12 or 13 and my brother was about 4 or 5. Getting there was NOT half the fun, but rather twice the battle! I was imprisoned in the backseat of my parents’ Pontiac Bonneville along with my little brother – that was already bad enough. Neither of us loved long trips in the car OR in the backseat OR with each other. To boot, I remember both of us turning as green as could be since neither of us were tall enough to see outside as Daddy drove up and down and all around those winding mountainous roads enjoying the dickens out of how his new Bonneville hugged the road and handled the curves! Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the New World could not have taken any longer or been more arduous than this interminably long trip! Mama and Daddy chatted away up front thoroughly enjoying the scenery as if the forgotten children in the backseat were on another planet. At long last, (approximately 8+ hours after bathroom breaks and coke stops), the car finally turned in and came to a halt. Upon arriving at Gaston’s White River Resort, I remember scrambling out of the car and thinking – WHAT? Where’s the nice hotel, big playground and swing-sets, WHERE ARE THE OTHER KIDS??? Instead, what unfolded before me were a bunch of little pink-cabin-looking-things, a shuffleboard court, a big LONG mowed yard that looked like we might could play kickball on it if we could scrounge up some other kids (that turned out to be the airstrip) and a bunch of screeching peacocks! HOME SWEET HOME, FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS… So we got checked in, ate whatever we had brought since we were staying in one of the pink cottages with a kitchenette (I found out I had mis-identified the little pink-cabin-like-things and that they were correctly called “cottages”) and settled in for the night. The next morning came oh, so early. I had always enjoyed fishing with my father, but that was lake fishing at home and we always went at some decent hour of the day – like about 4:00 in the afternoon or so. My mother, who has never enjoyed fishing, has always loved my father, so being the dutiful wife, she shoveled the children out of bed, fed us something for breakfast and herded us down to the dock. Daddy was already there and oh so ready to get out on the river. I remember it being cold and foggy and wishing I could go crawl back in bed. There were two boats and guides all set up for us – Daddy and Mark would go in one boat and my mother and I would go in the other. Our guide’s name was Austin and he was nice and funny, Daddy and Mark went with Preston and I believe he was Austin’s brother. I remember Austin being short and round and Preston being as tall and skinny as Austin was short and round. I kept wondering how in the world those two men could be brothers, but they were. Regardless, we geared up for a day on the river. ME AND MY ZEBCO 33… I was allowed to carry my very own rod and reel combination as it was MINE and I was so proud of it. Daddy had given it to me not too long ago and had finally taught me to somewhat successfully cast with my Zebco 33. Its only experiences with me up until that morning was casting lures at “where the bass should be” and coming up empty, but I loved it nevertheless. My father “somehow” always had all the luck catching fish casting with those lures and I sure wished I could catch a fish on one like him. On occasion, I had done a fantastic job of snagging a “limb bream”, but no fish had ever been harmed due to my Zebco 33 & me. AND WE’RE OFF…We all finally got seated in our appointed boats after I made one last mad dash to the bathroom since my mother reminded me, “There’s nowhere to go out there for a girl, so you’d better go good now.” I remember us getting to the first spot in the river that it was deemed we should fish and the boat came to a stop. Austin baited my hook with corn and pink salmon eggs. I can tell you right now that I thought our guide was CRAZY! Everybody knows fish don’t eat CORN! But I was willing to go along with this crazy man – he seemed to think he knew what he was doing. And besides, it looked like he forgot to bring the worms or the crickets. Just wait till I get back home and tell my friends that this idiot was putting corn on a hook to fish! And then he put these pink things on there too – kinda looked like my Barbie’s new earrings. HA! So, all baited up and so excited I could hardly sit still, I managed to eek out a meager cast (at best) and that was when I first noticed something quite different about this area. I could see clean down to the bottom and know what was even better??? I could see…yes, I think it is….A FISH…wow, not just one, but BUNCHES of ‘EM! I got so excited I nearly fell out of the boat – screaming, “I see one, I see one!” THE “DE-FLOWERING OF MY ZEBCO 33”… Austin got me calmed down and told me just to wait and see what happened. In no time at all, I felt that wonderful jerk, jerk, jerk of “something” on the other end. I had a fish! I had a fish! Despite the fact that I nearly capsized the boat with all my excitement, I reeled and reeled as if I were winching in Moby Dick and we did manage to land that fish (he must have swallowed that hook clean down to his tail, thank heavens) and we got to keep him! WOW, that was just great – give me some more of that corn and some of those pink things – let’s get another one!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING??… As the day wound on, I was just as excited every time I reeled in a fish as I had been with the first one. Then it got to the point that Austin was quietly throwing my fish back. I caught on and couldn’t imagine what was wrong with this man! WHY ARE YOU THROWING ‘EM BACK? He told me we could only keep a certain number of the fish and that we had to leave enough for somebody else to catch, but that we could come back again tomorrow and catch some more. As disappointing as all that was, I understood and then it hit me and I grinned a big ole grin — I GET TO COME BACK AGAIN TOMORROW! I truly cannot tell you what my mother was doing all this time – in fact, I pretty much forgot she was even in the boat! (Kinda the same way she & daddy had forgotten my brother and I had been in the backseat of the car). She may have felt honor bound to wet a hook for a little while, but I never saw it. Most likely she was just as content to read the good murder/mystery she had brought along under her new groovy blue flowered hat. During the day, we had worked our way up and down the river and by afternoon, it was time to head back to Gaston’s with our catch. I was just as pleased and proud as I could possibly be – grinning like the Cheshire Cat. Not only had I gotten to catch my limit of fish, but I got to SEE the trout swimming in that crystal clear icy water too. They looked so big and happy and graceful swimming against that current so close to the bottom of the river. At home, the lakes were always too muddy or cloudy to see the fish, so seeing them in their natural state BEFORE they were in the boat was a big treat for me! THE EXCITEMENT’S NOT OVER… On our route back, Austin had slowed down to navigate a shallow, gravelly area in the river and when he cut back the throttle on the boat motor, I could hear a dog barking. I looked up and a white and brown dog had started to bark at us from the shoreline and was wagging his tail. I thought he looked like a happy dog so I yelled, “Hey puppy!” to him. Apparently that was the only invitation he needed! Before anyone knew it, that dog had shot off the shoreline, swum his way out to the boat and was clawing at the sides to get in! Next thing I knew, the dog was in the boat and Austin was not real happy about it. The dog was thrashing about like the deliriously happy animal he was, knocking over the tackle box, clamoring over rods, licking me in the face and doing his best impression of the “wet dog shake”. Austin stood up and calmly took the dog, picking him up by his rear end and his collar, and launched him overboard. Thankfully for him, the dog decided he had done what he had set out to do – to say howdy to the boaters with all the gusto and enthusiasm of a newly appointed Wal-Mart Greeter. Thank Heavens he happily opted to swim back to his shoreline and stretch out in the noonday sunshine for a much-needed recuperative nap. When we got back that afternoon, we were all as tired as we could be. The cold fried chicken lunches that had been brought by our guides had been delicious, but that meal was gone and we were beginning to get really hungry. So off we children went to get bathed and my mother set up shop in the kitchen, doing one of the many things she does best – COOK! White River Campgrounds… After the weather cleared, we left Blanchard Springs and drove back to the camper. We moved our camper to Cotter, AR on Memorial Day weekend in 2011 to leave it there indefinitely. We fell in love with the area after having visited it several times over the last 7 years. In fact, our first outing in this camper was a 4th of July trip to the White River Campgroundin about 2005. John and his mom Judy are very friendly and more than Beth - Before the Waders! accommodating to campers and seem to make friends with everyone that comes in. Beautiful Week Ahead… Monday morning’s weather was beautiful, the winds were calm and the temps all week were to be in the mid 70’s. We had arranged with John to have a boat for the week, but weren’t sure if we would fish the whole time. We had thought about going to Branson for a night or two if we “got tired of fishing”, oh well, that didn’t happen. Dragging Lead… Our normal method of trout fishing when the water is high, like it has been, is to run up the river for a few miles and float down with the current dragging a lead sinker with a 3 foot or so tail line attached to various baits, this is what most of the guide services do and is very productive. Today, it was challenging, Bull Shoals was running 6 units and the water was moving fast, plus, it was the day after a cold front and the fish just didn’t seem to want to feed much. We managed to catch enough for dinner, but not much more. The water remained high, but we were able to get the fish count up some the next few days and like the old saying goes…”a bad day fishing, is better than a good day at work”, I do agree! Our Newest BFF… On Saturday, when we arrived, we were out picking up supplies for the week and I decided to stop by a local fly fishing shop just up the road from the camp to look around. I had an old Walmart fly rod that I had tangled around with for years, but had never caught a trout with it – only a few bream. I was interested in “really” learning how to cast a fly… Beth, was skeptical at best. I asked the fellow at the shop if they could recommend someone who could give a fly fishing lesson to a beginner. “Yep, call Ron… he can teach anybody, here’s his card.” I sat on the card for a few days, trying to decide if I really wanted to do this. I went to his website: www.ronsflyfishingforbeginners.com and looked around and finally decided to give him a call. “Sure… meet me at the fly shop Thursday morning at 9:00 and plan on a full day of learning”, Ron said. “Great!”, I said. The Legend… Thursday morning, we rolled in to Dally’s Ozark Fly Fisher (Web – Blog) at 9 am and met Ron McQuay. He started with one of the most important tools of fly fishing… how to tie knots. We stripped the line off of one of his nice reels and he proceeded to show us how to tie the backing to the reel, the fly line to the backing and all of the knots that go out to the fly. While in the shop, he introduced us to Chad Johnson, one of his students from way back that is now a professional guide. We later found out that Chad was from just down the road from us here in Mississippi – Crystal Springs. After going over all of the equipment bases at the shop, we loaded up and went to the park in Cotter to start casting. The Cast… Ron, put a water bottle down and stepped off about 35 feet and placed his hat on the ground. “Thats our target”, he said, and then he proceeded to make perfect casts to the hat, showing us the proper form of a cast. His ability to explain the mechanics of the cast showed his 40+ years of experience. Beth and I took turns casting at the hat and adjusting our form with Ron’s gentle critique. After we got the basics of the cast down, we had a nice lunch under the gazebo at the park next to the river. During that time we learned a lot about Ron, his favorite spots, river flow, trout feeding patterns, entomology and even some local politics. Learning from the Master Wading 101… After a short drive up to the Wildcat Shoals Public Access Area, it was time to get in the water. Bull Shoals Dam was still running 4 or 5 units so there was not much safe wadable water around. I watched Ron pull up his breathable stocking foot waders that weighed all of about 8 oz… Hmmm, then I pulled out my 30 year old canvas and rubber booted waders that weighed more than the picnic table we were sitting on and were several sizes too big for me! We decided that I would get in first and Beth would take some pictures from the bank. I followed Ron into the water as he talked about safe wading techniques. Luckily, my 30 year old “bucket butt” waders did not let in any of the 56 degree water. For an hour or so, we practiced casting, mending and stripping line while tying on numerous fly patterns, but had no luck with the fish. “Next”, it was Beth’s turn at the waders, this is gonna be fun! “Honey, do these waders make my BUTT look big?”… Wow, I can’t believe I went there! So we went back to the picnic table and proceeded to swap out the waders. While we were putting the waders on Beth, I looked over and Ron had a fish on the line! Once we “put Beth” in the waders and she started waddling back to the river, well, you know me and cameras, I had to get this shot. I’m not sure what possessed me to put the picture on Facebook, but thats another story. Beth did make it to the water with Ron and was doing very well with her fishing skills, but the sun was beginning to set over the Ozark hills. “Boy, I wish we could catch some low water while you guys are here”, Ron said before we left, “I know I can get you on some fish, when are you leaving?”. I told him we planned to leave Sunday and he said he would check the generation forecasts everyday and if we get some “good water” he would meet back up with us at no charge to try to get us on some fish. He also offered to meet us at Dally’s one day to help us get some basic equipment and steer us away from the “eye candy” products, which we did. Over the next few days, I would check the power generation forecast, but it did not look too promising until we got a call late Saturday afternoon… “Paul, It looks like we may have some wadable water in the morning, what is the latest you can leave the airport headed for home?… Could you get 2 or 3 hours in if we start early?” “Caddis Amongus”… sounds like a horrible desease and I just may have it! The answer to Ron’s question was obviously, “Yes, where do we meet?”. Ron suggested we get together by phone early Sunday morning and look at the actual generation report. The Sunday morning power generation was not as low as we had hoped, but was much better than the rest of the week, so we decided to meet up at Copper Johns Resort office / fly shop. We knew right where that was, since we had been up there a few days earlier looking around. The folks there were friendly like all of the places we had been that week and we also had the pleasure to meet their boxer named “Booger”. When we got there, Ron had secured permission for us to access the river from their pier, so off we went. Hooked… I suited up in the “bucket butt” waders and down the hill we went. Ron would get me started wading in the current and he put Beth on a point with another fly rod. The water was a little higher than he would like and slowly rising, so we carefully watched individual rocks or grass patches to gauge the rise. As we fished numerous patterns and methods the wind picked up dramatically, making it very hard to get a good cast. It’s like practicing cross-wind landings, the more you do it the better you get. Finally, I felt it… while stripping in an olive “Wooly Booger”, I felt a tap, then another tap and the rainbow was hooked and so was I! I struggled with trying to let Ron & Beth know I had a fish without yelling it to the world. Ron came over with his net and helped me net it and release it. What a feeling, I had caught hundreds of much bigger trout on the White River over the last several years, but none were more memorable than this one. As the sun climbed higher in the sky and the winds and current increased in strength, we were forced to move off of the river banks. I was getting concerned about the winds for the flight home so we met Ron back up at Copper Johns shop for a quick cup of Libby’s great coffee and to buy a few more flies before we left. As we were saying our good-bye’s, Ron said, “ya’ll give me a call on my cell when you get back on the ground in Mississippi, with this wind and all I just worry about you guys up there.” Wow, what a nice caring guy, I could see why everywhere we went, everyone LOVED “Mr. Ron” and now we do too. So, now we’re shopping for waders and planning our next visit to the White River and “hooking” up with Ron. Shake, Rattle & Roll… The flight back to KJVW would prove to be a little challenging. With a 19 to 27 kt cross-wind at Flippin, the takeoff looked like something off the TV show, Flying Wild Alaska. About 50 feet in the air, the plane turned to the right about 30 degrees on climb-out and the bumps began. Once we got through the clouds on our IFR flight plan and level at niner-thousand we picked up a great tail wind. 60 knots on the tail, for some of the trip, got us home in less than an hour and a half, with ground speeds of over 235 mph! The cruise phase at 9K was smooth as glass, but once we started our decent, it was punishing below 6000 feet. Winds at Raymond were 20 to 25 straight down the runway… with a hot approach and plenty of runway we were on the ground safely with a brain full of wonderful memories.